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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25
TROTSKY'S::'"WHITHER RUSSIA"
A Review by H. M. WlcKs.

MO longer can there be any excuse
IN for lack of knowledge regarding
the factors in the Soviet Union that
are moving in the direction of social
ism. Leon Trotsky's latest book, just
issued from the press of the Interna.
tional Publishers in NewgciY York, as
clearly points the way which Russia is
travelling under Bolshevik rule as did
his WHITTIER England" reveal the
forces operating to bring about the
disintegration of that great imperialist
power.
"Whither Russia" annihilates the
sophistries of the Kautskyans and
others who argue that the Soviet
Union is travelling in the direction of
capitalism instead of socialism and
proves not merely that the movement
is definitely in the direction OF social
ism, but that the velocity of that
movement guarantees the early
triumph of the socialist economy over
capitalist tendencies.
TROTSK narrative of the
4 achievements in the specialization
Of industry is told in such a fashion
that 1t holds the attention of the
reader thruout it's $50 pages. Instead
of dry figures, the pages contain the
story OF the conquest over capitalist
tendencies on the economic field. A
short appendix containing four tables,
compiled in admirable form, contain
all the statistical data required.
The recovery OF industry from 1920
EDWARDS gives some idea of the tempo
of the movement. Six years ago pro-
duction was one-flfth or one-sixth Of
normal capacity of industries, based
upon the high production year of 1913
the year before the outbreak of the
world war. For 1926 production will
be not less than 95 per cent Of normal.
In the field of heavy industry pro-
duction has exceeded pre-war figures.
More than SO per cent of the means of
reproduction in industry are socialized;
together with railroad transportation,
the figures for socialized industry are
81 per cent; in heavy industry alone
the percentage is SO. Hence state, or
socialized industries. show the most
pronounced gains, and that particular
branch of industry that is most COM
pletely socialized shows the greatest
gain, while those operated by private
capital lag behind.
THESE figures are certainly a COM
l. plete refutation of the claims OF
those who held that the New Eco
nomic Policy IN. Il. P.) adopted in
1921 would lead directly to capitalism
and the collapse OF the revolution.
Trotsky's analysis Of the agricult-
ural situation is also reassuring. He
handles without gloves the question
of cheapening industrial commodities
to sell to the peasants and the neces.
sity for further and rapid development
OF perfected farming implements and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25
BY ROBERT DUNN.

The Science" of company union
ism has developed rapidly in recent
years. The National Industrial Con-
ference Board, the American Manage
ment Association, the Russell Sage
Foundation, as we'll as the National
Association of Manufacturers and the
League for Industrial Rights have
given It attention and several books
have dwelt on cmopany union expert
ence in particular plants and COM
panies.
Now comes e. R. Burton, a mem
Der Of the bureau of personnel admin
istration, with book C'Employe Rep
Presentation" by E. r. Burton, 2S3
pages, $780, Williams and Wilkins
Company, Baltimore,) covering the
whole field and dealing with the minor
technique, as we'll as the higher STRAIT
egg of company unionism The tone
Of the work may be judged from the
| first paragraph of the foreword:
"Employe representation is max
ing at least three significant contri-
buttons to American Industrial life.
It is converting industry from a
purely productive process : into
an educational experience for all
engaged in it's absorbing activities,
! 1t is facilitating the realization of
more truly scientific method of man
agement. Thru its operation as
means of orderly, industrial govern
ment, it is injecting new meaning
and value into that much maligned
concept, democracy" tFsy
1.-THE New Era" esN
Burton considers the company
union as the lofty and enlightened
way toward 'the new era ih industry"
Hard boiled employers reading the
book should be inspired to give up
their gangsters and strikebreakers.
blacklists and spy systems, and devote
themselves to the cooperative and
philosophical spirit in industry about
which Burton is so cautiously Tyr
ical.
Anti-Strlke.
But the chief detectives of company
unionism come out in the book, 1t is
seen as "the talisman likely to ward
off strikes" and intended to facilitate
wage and personnel readjustments."
The so or so employers with whom
the author conferred indicated they
favored ''employe representation for
exchange Of opinions and informa-
ton with the workers, procedure for
prompt adjustment of grievances" and
/ "for collective negotiations (unhamp-
cred by external influences. or irrele-
want issues making for fruitless con-
troversy) regarding wages, hours and
other terms of the employment con-
tract" There is also the usual OBJ.
jective of educating the.-employe,"
not thru the Workers Education Blu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25

but Pilsudski militarized the railroads
during the strike of 1921? Who but
Pilsudski permitted the land workers
to be defeated in their own blood in
their strike? Who but Pilsudski has
shown himself to be a tool of foreign
imperialists, aiding the anti-Russian
plans Of England?
Polish Soviet Republic.
Never in the last seven years have
the toiling masses found themselves
in so critical a situation. It is not
merely a fight with the old or the new
government, this or that lackey of the
bourgeoisie like Pilsudski. 1t is now a
straight-out struggle for the Polish
Republic"
When this was written the situation
was already such that it was possible
to see what. was coming. The Com
munist Party issued a call to the sol
diers to stand by the workers and
peasants and to refuse to be the tools
of the bourgeoisie.
Left Swing Of Masses.
In the official organ Of the c. P.
The Red Flag, It is stated that in
Cracow, Lublin, Silesia and other sec
tons there is growing up in the P. P.
IS. itself a strong opposition. The
leaders who are really in touch with
the masses are going to the left.
Altho the press censorship makes it
hard to come to any definite conclu-
sions, we are sure that the masses are
travelling to the left at a rapid pace
and are preparing for a fight that will
end in the Polish Soviet Republic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25

trade unions of the. other capitalist
countries?
The first task was, of course, abso-
lutte solidarity with the fighting Eng
lish proletariat, /, e., prevention of any
export Of goods to England and to the
English markets by the employers in
the other countries. In addition to
this, there is necessary: strict control
OF shipping and railway transport in
all the continental industrial centers,
no dock worker, no seaman, no rail
way worker and transport worker in
the whole of Europe shall handle coal
destined for England or to the English
markets. Everywhere there must be
set up control committees by the trade
unions, which shall keep a sharp eye
on all transport activity. Tho the
general strike is over, the miners are
still fighting and need support.
A LII overtime work must be imme-
"A diately stopped in the continental
mining areas, no matter whether the
overtime agreements are still in force
or not.
The trade union executives in the
various countries must issue an appeal
to the whole working. class calling
upon them to refuse to perform any
kind of strike-breaking work, while at
the same time they pledge themselves
to stand with their whole power be-
hind every worker, employee and Off
cial who is victimized for refusing to
perform strike-breaking work against
the miners.
Learning from England.
TT is also the task OF the trade unions
to draw the lessons and conclusions
from the English example for the fight
Of the working class in the remaining
countries of Europe; the fight against
reduction of wages and frightening of
working time, against closing down of
factories, unemployment, ETC., which
up to now has either not been con-
Quoted at all OF has been quite unsuc-
cessful owing to false tactics, must
everywhere be organized and conduct
ed according to the English model.
This means the immediate setting
up of fighting alliances and the COM
mon struggle of the most important
groups Of workers for the complete
realization of the eight-hour day, for
the seven-hour shift for mine workers,
for increase of wages and for the re-
storation Of the rights of the workers
which have been lost as a result of the
employers offensive. Only the organ
ization of an aggressive counter-attack
by the working class offers the guar
antee for victory, creates the condi-
lions for beating back the capitalist
offensive and for the victory of the
workers in all Europe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25
Cradle Lcses His Job

Cradle good faithful Of the railroads
and the capitalist government is out Of job When Presi
Coolidge signed the WatsonParker bill it automatically
abolished the railroad labor board Of which Cradle member
Mr. Cradle has been forgotten by labor remind
of the fact that he the president Of the Maintenance
Way organization 1922 who betrayed the 100000 members of that
union strike sanction spite of the fact that
they had voted almost unanimously for such action convention
his union unseated him. but the bosses took of him
wardng him with soft job the governments rail board
that he is thru the soad labor" representative
the labor board he try repeat the performance of other dis
carded labor politicians back into the labor movement he
again knife the 1t well remember the records
and that he his Livelihood exclusively
from the he instead Of the workers he contempby
betrayed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25
BY 3. x. eEeERT.

In the writer's last article in The
DAILY WORKER, it was pointed out
that in Poland 1--WE have now a repe-
tition of 191S-the socialists joining
hands with Pilsudski against workers
rule" This statement has been doubly
confirmed by the latest news from
Warsaw. Pilsudskis political repre-
sentative, Colonel Wieniawa-Dlugis-
zewski, declared, 1.-THE object OF
Marshal Pilsudski's coup was to
prevent a BIGGER REVOLUTION
that would have swallowed the whole
of Poland"
Pilsudski armed thousands of volun'
teers who aided him in his insured
ton against the Witos government
Now that he has accomplished his pur,
pose Pilsudski is disarming them
To achieve this, rumors were spread
in Warsaw saying that volunteers who
engaged in the instruction were to
report to barracks to receive sum
of money. When they reported, Off.
GERS took away their guns and said
they knew nothing about money for
volunteers. But a number of thou
sands did not go to the barracks.
They still have their arms. They have
put them away with the chance that
they may soon have to be used against
the bourgeoisie. 1t is plain that Pill
sudski fears the armed workers.
wilma Revolt.
Pilsudski crushed a revolt of work
ers in Wilma where one hundred work
ers were put in Jail following a
demonstration that resulted in an
armed clash between troops and
workers. While Pilsudski thus car
ries on a veritable war against the
workers, he permits the extreme reac-
tionaries to mobilize in Posen. In the
city of Posen, under the flag of work
ers' butcher General Halter, the big
bourgeoisie and rich landlords are
setting up a government in western
Poland with the double intention Of
either overthrowing Pilsudski or fail.
ing that OF establishing a separate
government. In this they are look.
ing to France for aid.
PiIsudski Seeks Compromise.
Pilsudski is looking for com.
promise with General Halter and his
extreme reactionaries. This is a sign
that he is weaker than they, Pilsudski
knows enough about insurrection to
understand that 1t is dangerous to
allow opposition forces TO mobilize
to begin with. But Pilsudski does
nothing about the gathering of the
landlord army In Posen. why? Phi.
sudski sees in General Halter and his
followers an element much closer to
him than workers and peasants. In
other words, Pilsudski is fighting the
workers and peasants while allowing
the extreme reaction to make the
ground ready for setting up a fascist
Dictatorship. Pllsudsh. in this. a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25
DEFENDER OFqCOMPANY UNIONS
GIVES AWAY THE BOSSES GAME

reau, but thru contacts with man
ayers, capitalist economists, and 9th
ers saturated with Rabbit theories on
the industrial order.
Big Companies For It.
1t is ironical that among companies
listed as providing these great "edu-
cational possibilities" in their com
pany union plans are the Wheeling
Steel Corporation, the Standard Oil
Company, the Youngstown Sheet and
Tube Company, and others whose
names are synonyms for open shop o.
preston in the trade union world, all
Of whom have successfully crushed
trade unions in the process Of intro
ducing the company union.
Discrimination.
On the all-important issue of no-dis-
elimination for employee representa-
tives who may fired for too ardent
work on behalf of the employees and
against the management, Burton feels
there is ample protection in the ar
rangement of the Bethlehem Steel
Company to permit any worker who
considers himself Disseminated
against, to appeal to Secretary Of La
Dor James B. Davis-Davis, who re-
Gently distinguished himself by try
ing to break the textile strike in Pas
sale.
Relations.
Workers who read this book-and 1t
is worth perusal by all workers faced
with the company union problem
should pay particular attention to the
section pertaining to Relation Of
EmpIoye Representation to Union, in
which the author admits that:
There can be no doubt that one
of the motives inducing some en-
ployers to inaugurate employee rep
resentation has been hope that Il
would provide method for collec-
tive dealings with their employees,
which would be superior to that af-
forded by the unions. In some in
stances, moreover, this purpose was
conceived of in negative terms,
simply to counteract the baneful
and destructive effects, both in NOR
ale and production, of constant ag-
tation outside the employees them
selves, such agitation being almost
wholly of imported union incep-
ton"
To Break Unions.
Which sounds very much like Mr..
Forstmann and his fellow textile mag,
mates Of Passaic. Many employee rep
resentation plans are introduced TO
break and to beat the unions. All the
pretty phrases of Burton and his per
sonnet administration associates can
not hide this dominant purpose of the
company union-to liquidate trade
unionism and create the 100 per cent
non-union open shop
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25
Chicago Bricklayers
Sign $50 Contract;
Bosses Encouraged

The Bricklayers' and Masons' Union
Of Chicago has signed up an agree
ment with the contractors for one year
with the old wage of $3.50 an hour.
This affects between 5000 and 5000
men. The contractors are reported as
encouraged" by this agreement as in
dicating that they will have no trouble
with the other unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25
Automobile Accident.

BUFFALO, N. Y, May 2S.-Three
persons are dead, one is dying and
three othres suffering from severe
burns as the result of an automobile
accident In which the car overturned
In ditch eight miles outside Of Lock
port.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25
More building Laborers, Strike.

HARTFORD, Conn. May 23.-More
than 500 building laborors of the Hold
Carriers and Building Laborers' I'm
ion are striking for an increase in
wages Of eighty cents a day The
Structural and Building Trades AL,
lance is understood TO be taking no
steps to support the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25
Building Laborers
Strike for Raise

ROCHESTER,, N. Y. May 23.-- A
strike OF building trade laborers for
recognition OF the union and a raise
Of wages is on after the contractors
refused to meet the demands. Re-
ports are current of general walkout
OF building workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-25
Pilsudski Wars on Polish Labor

rendering the reaction great service
"Klng Joseph"
Pilsudski is not alone in doing this.
Attached to his tail are the leaders of
the P. P. S. (the POLISH Socialist Par
ty), the N. P. R. (the National Work
ers' Party and the peasant parties,
"Wyzwolenie" and "Radykalne Stron-
nictwo Chlopskie" These parties are
performing the task of making way for
fascism. These Leaders it was who
came to the support of Pilsudski's
flag. They demanded that he make
himself president, dictator or even
king. Do not laugh. .,PiIsudski sup
porters in wilma arranged a demonstra-
ton under the slogan, Long Live
King Joseph I-Pilsudski."
This is no accident. The above
quoted political representative said to
correspondent: "The Polish army
will not betray loyalty to the king
| should have said chief" A slip Of
the tongue, but significant.
The Communists.
While the leaders of the P. P. s.
and the other above mentioned par
ties gave their full support to Pill
sudski as against the movement Of the
revolutionary workers and peasants,
these latter have by, no means been
eliminated from the picture. A recent
press report stated, "Pilsudski is very
much afraid of the growing Commun-
list movement in Poland, seeing in this
Poland's greatest danger. More rad
ical factions are joining with the Com
munists under the lpslogan, Form
Workers and Peasan1ss Councils" as
happened in Russia before the revolu-
ton. slea
There is also news'bf peasants de-
manding division of!tsthe rich land
owners land without Compensation.
Pilsudski's coup lids also FASTENED
the collapse Of Polish. Industry. The
Polish zloty goes lower and lower.
This of itself, with les unemployment
and starvation and misery is teaching
the workers that thelE liberation will
not come thru Pilsudski-but in spite
of him.
Fascist Danger.
There is genuine danger of fascism in
Poland. The Communist Party knows
this and has warned the Polish work
ers. Monarchist organizations, landlord
and bourgeois parties are openly adj
vocating fascist regime. There is
only one object in this: to crush the
trade unions and further enslave the
Polish workers, taking from them
even their simple political rights. For
the peasants 1t means terrorist rule
Of landlords. For the national min
national groups. And Pilsudski, who
may be characterized as a cleft" fas-
critics II means complete abolition as
cist is helping to bring this situa-
ton about. a..
The Communist Party Of Poland
said in It's May Day Manifesto
who but Pilsudski is a symbol OF
war against the Soviet Union? Who
The Coconino sun., 1926-04-16
MISSING, so ARE
HANDCUFFS, SAY PROHIS

The fish that got away has nothing
on the pair of prisoners who eloped
over the hill few nights ago from
the federal officers and, to make the
matter worse, took the handouts Of
their captors along with them.
The escape occurred while NJ. P.
Cosby and two others were making a
raid on still in the region of Tan
que Verde, near Tucson, where two
men were arrested.
While third officer was away
from the post getting his car, The two
federal officers and the handcuffed
prisoners remained. Then the officers
began to excavate the still, which was
partially buried in the ground. When
they looked up from their work, they
found the prisoners had accepted the
dictum that discretion is the better
part of valor, and decamped, hand
cuffs and all.
One of the federal men admits that
he would like to see the prisoners
again, if only to give them the key
to the cuffs. He made no promises,
however, as to what his other action
would be in case he can arrange the
meeting.
The Coconino sun., 1926-04-16
BOY SCOUTS
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An interesting meeting Of the
scoutmasters and assistants, with a
few men Of the executive board and
some troop committeeman, was held
last Tuesday night in the office OF
Scout Executive Waldravcn.
Among the different things dis
cussed were the reorganization Of the
different troops and the installation
Of a new patrol system.
This system is recognized as the
latest and most effective used IN
scouting and has been adopted
throughout the United States as the
correct method of teaching scouting.
1t was decided to again start up
the high school troop, the Knights OF
Columbus troop, and the college troop.
These troops and the Rotary and
Elks troops, will give Flagstaff five
good, lively troops to start with, but
it is the aim of Executive Waldraven
to have enough troops in Flagstaff to
give every boy of scout age chance
to become a scout, so there will be as
many more troops organized as Will
he needed to take care Of every boy
who wants to join the organization,
and who is twelve years of age or
older.
Waldraven has promised to put
scouting over in Flagstaff, and with
in the next few weeks, there will be
seen some big changes and interest
ing events in the activities of Flag
staff scouting, so he is advising
everyone to be on the lookout for
something new and interesting from
the scouts.
Those at the meeting were G. q.
Wittorff, Rev. Ed. Albouy, w. D.
Bennett, Jack Fuss, DR.. G. n. Plous-
sard, w. H. Preston, c. T. Deaver, r.
G. Miller, j. @. Thomas and W. II.
Switzer
Every man was determined that
scouting succeed in Flagstaff, and is
going to do his best to Put the job
over big, for the boys Of Flagstaff
are surely worthy Of the scout pro-
gram, and it is up to every man be-
hind the organization to give them
every chance t. benefit from the
training offered. So here's TO j big
ger and better boyhood and Boy
Scout organization in Flagstaff
Troop No 8 will meet in the base
ment of Emerson school Monday eve
ming under the leadership Of Jack
Fuss. Every member present without
fail, as ar interesting time IS prom
ised
The Coconino sun., 1926-04-16
CAMP FIRE NOTES
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Miss Ruby baltimore of the voca-
tional education department, Phoenix,
in charge Of Camp Fire work in this
state, arrived April IL for visit of
two weeks. She is offering course
to college students and Camp Fire
guardians, to continue throughout her
stay. These lectures are at the col
lege from seven to eight evenings,
and visitors are welcome.
The local Camp Fire organization
hopes to be able to use Miss Latti-
more to great advantage while she is
here. A grand council fire is plan
ned, to take place out of doors. We
also hope to have an outdoor picnic
during the two weeks.
Camp Fire in Flagstaff has come
to the front with boom since the
organization of the board of sponsors,
and since it has been brought before
the people by the picture show and
program on March rs. 1t will con-
tinue to grow in such prosperous
community, because it is the greatest
of program activities for the young
women and girls in community, and
because it does much toward better
ing the future citizenship and COM
munity life.
The Coconino sun., 1926-04-16
FULCHERS ARE HELD
GUILTY OF MAIL HAUL

Tucson.-C Convicted of mail robbery
on the night of May IL, 1922, near
Guthrie, Ariz., Tom Fulcher, gray
haired veteran of the World war, is
in the same cell with his son, Sidney
Fulcher, also a veteran, in the Pima
county jail facing a sentence Of rs
years in the government prison of
Leavenworth, Kan. Both men were
convicted Of the robbery by d jury
after hearing a long chain Of circum-
stantial evidence during the last ten
days.
The conviction came after an hour
and So minutes of deliberation by the
jury which has listened to 80 wit
nesses called by the government in
the trial, nine witnesses called by the
defense and Il witnesses called in re-
buttal
The robbery for which the Fulchers
were convicted, occurred on the El
Paso and Southwestern railroad. Fin
ger prints alleged to have been found
on a bottle in a mail package picked
up near the scene of the robbery, were
identified by experts as those of Sid
ney Fulcher O. f. Spaw, brakeman
on the train on the night of the rob-
berry testified that he recognized Tom
Fulcher as one of the robbers by the
sound Of his voice.
John L. Buslirk, attorney for the
Fulchers. announced that he will ask
a new trial. The Fulchers will be
sentenced April 10, providing a new
trial is not granted.