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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12
Capitalist Antagonisms Aid Russia

Not the least important enabling the Soviet Union to
survive capitalist brgands the irreconcabe
f between the great impea powers the United States
and England.
exoabe economic forces compel these two nations to struggle
supremacy the world Each tries to gain adj
other In the struggle for oil the American trust
forced sign pact with the head of the
government oil order its mortal COM
petor the British Royal She'll obtaining the advantage
signed in Paris the other day provides that the
company subsidiary of Standard OIL shall become
kerosene abroad The American
agrees purchase from sixty thousand to hundred thou
price several dollars below the
This very significant 1t enables the Soviet
Union its kerosene which is distinct ad
repudates the American state departments policy
refusing the recognize Russia At the time it is terrific
against the British oil and in the face of the tory
persisteny endeavored to stimulate anti
Soviet conspiracies in Europe
this instance a number of others, in the three
fight Russia England and the United
United and Russia following identical
policies that challenge the interests of England of
identical policies pursued with different motives Russia
the instance strengthen its economic structure with
risk itself the Standard Oil the
other hand the Standard Oil
gaining advantage the British
gain its competitors in Britain the stupid
Kellogg Hoover and the rest of the
ldge spoils politicians fall fiat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12
Frances Emergency Cabinet

de BRAND deposed premier last Saturday after losing
vote of confidence in the chamber of deputies has for the
ninth time in his career organized cabinet But SO stormy
the political Europe that he dare not venture before the
chamber until the special extraordinary assembly
Of the league of where the question OF enng
league threatens quidate the conspiracy OF Ne
and destroy the work of the Locarno conference
The new cabinet finance minister Raou Peret an un
known quantity succeeding Paul Doume Who like his edec
sors failed to solve financial problem The new cabinet the
same as the old with exception of three other changes which
eliminated members "e BRAND rushed off to Geneva in
order to defend the of French imperialism built
upon the intrigue of Versailles.
The internal France will force BRAND to consent
10 any patchwork in the league in order to bridge over
the acute crisis tho Germany will be admitted
alone and that the question further enlargement of the league
Meanwhile France faces the increasing financial crisis
workers by heavy will the bitter resentment
against the mperas colonial in Syria and Morocco and
furnish fuel Communists tanning beneath the
structure of capitalist impose heavier taxation upon
the middle them toward the left The repudaed
poy wipe the internal debt thru imitation OF cur
1ency resulted many French capitalists Withdrawing their bank
ing power other capitals of the financial world
No cabinet long this mieu The confused econ
reflex in French political life There is no
party majority in the chamber hence government can
thing of sreds and patches Each party except
Party elections because of the
taist parties before the assaults of the work.
Communist Party The French situation
exposes again complete debace of paramenasm in Europe
today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12

York City yellow tabloid sheets make much of the
ferocy of the police thugs of Paac Clifton and other points in
Jersey they utterly incapable of per-
ceyng thing under their very their city,
Mirror MacFaddens Graphic and the Chicago Trb
tabloid called the Nes carry heads about
the Pasaac mill strike effort to increase their crulatons
incidentally political interests Of Governor A. Har
Y the political puppe of the Frank Hague machine Jersey
Ciys Tammany a by alternately appealing to him try
call the militia but when similar
perpeaed by manufacturers against their
strikers in New York they remain silent
When the other day 9th street between 9Th and 9TH
frghtfuy beat Of the eight thou
strikers there pictures the front these
magazines appeals AL Smith to his pigmy
mayor, Jimmy Walker, hebuerhy Of Broadway Only
spracy of silence!
Assaulted by police thugs held prisoners in Railways for hours
arragnd the Jefferson street Kangaroo court and
picket the shops in New York these work
defended only by the working class the Communist
Passaic this remember that
its the reptile gives them favorable pub
LEFTY today tomorrow it will stab them in the back.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12
Slavery in Chicago Post Office
Mexico City.

Going to work or ~ lunch the clock
is punched; returning involves the
same procedure. In addition working
numbers are checked going and com
ing from work. This does not include
numerous checks-ups at work to de-
termine II anyone is paying an arbi-
trary visit to the wash room. Fifteen
minutes per four hours of work time
is allowed for the latter purpose, same
being checked in and out on the book
and by the clock. If nature should
make an intermediate demand the
manner in which it would be salts
fed may better be left to the imagina-
ton.
Unless clerk is working on weight
he dare not speak to his co-worker.
Under this system, he is expected to
handle certain weight of mail per hour
or take his money and get" If the
detail is switched to. one on which it
isn't possible to keep precise mathe-
NAUTICAL record of work done, the spy
system is brought into play.
The observer" watches a group
frcm hidden position and grades
them according to the one who is
going at the highest speed, and the
paymaster is, in all probability, wait
ing to accommodate the ones who APP
pear to be conserving their energies.
A supervisor is at liberty to walk
up to a clerk and halMss him or write
aim up for some trivial error, but to
speak back to him by way of defense
economic suicide,a
Although there are two. so-called,
MONS in the office asgreat part of the
force continues unorganized The AS
sociation of Chicago Postal Clerks"
consists of the strawbosses, super
visors, stoolpigeons. and others who
are perfectly sure that they will some
day be president of the United States.
The other dds Organization the ma
tional Union OF Postal Clerks" is
made up Of those who are not so sure
that they will yet occupy the White
House but think their chances are
good
Strike! No indeed. We are dis
ciplined force. Furthermore. a clause
In our bylaws specifies such un.
American and sordid procedure as be-
ing the method of common overalled
trash.
Going TO the Shiny politicians with
their hats in their hands and tears in
their eyes not only Is their method
but accounts for thfl plight
When It is realized that fully so per
cent Of appointees give up the strug.
gle err the sixth year and the pros.
pective forty-two dollars and fifty
cents per week Is won, It can be seen
that only those oftsuperior constitu.
ton can endure. The duty is nerve
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12

wrecking and physically devastating.
Ventilation is Anticipated and the
lighting arrangement coupled with the
strain very soon develops impaired
vision.
The only humorous angle is the So
called pension arrangement. This is,
of course, but deferred pay, pure and
simple; although it is looked upon ia
vorably by those who can't detect the
ruse. If at the age of sixty-fve a
clerk hasn't entirely disintegrated
from hard usage he is allowed a PEN
sion. This pittance-not more than
fifty dollars per month"; judiciously
handled might cover the rent on a
hall room in Hogan's alley-and it
might not.
The travesty called a pension rep
resents the accumulation of deduc-
tons from the employees pay at the
rate of two and one-half cents from
every dollar that accrued to him as
wages over his entire life as postal
worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12

TIME organ of the German basic in
L dustry, Bergwerkszeitung head
lines its programme article: 1.-THE
Will to Action"-meaning thereby the
will for the erection of the open die
tatorship of the bourgeoisie.
One of the most important features
of the entire German situation is this
constantly strengthening tendency to-
wards the establishment of the bour-
geoisie's confessed rule by force. The
cabinet building is proceeding very
laboriously. The bourgeois parties
dare not form a government within
the present parliamentary system
without the Social-Democrats, be-
cause they fear the crisis-inspired en-
bitterment of the proletariat. But
the Social Democracy for the same
reason, dare not enter the big coali-
ton with the bourgeoisie. 1t realizes
full we'll that its entrance into bour-
'geois government at this time would
ALLEVIATE from it the great masses of
workers. ae
N4NOAO<A 4 AOANkON adAC muAllply 4ll6 That
the bourgeoisier are seeking to
force the Social Democracy into the
coalition government, that they are
ever more frequently; threatening that
unless the bourgeois-Social Demo
cratic coalition is effected they will
destroy all remnants of parliament
tarism. The chairman of the Demo
cratic Party, DR.. Koch, directs pub
lie appeal to the Social Democracy:
I'm this hour we address the final ap-
peal to the big Social Democratic
Party not to desert US, and if, despite
this, it refuses to cooperate, a deep
wound will be delivered to parlia-
mentarism."
The clerical "Germania" declares
that now parliamentarism' decisive
hour" has struck, and that the pres
ent parliamentary combination will
forfeit its right to existence if, in the
present critical situation, it shows it.
self incapable Of serving the interests
of the people.
Even the otherwise so strictly re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12
BY MANUEL GOMEZ, Secretary All
America Ant-lmperiallst League.

BY MANUEL GOMEZ, Secretary ALI
America Antl-lmperiaIist League.
10y subtle trickery and distortion Of
ID news, thru the complete domina-
ton of Wall Street and Washington
over all the avenues of publicity, one
Of the most fragrant acts in the re-
cent history of American foreign pol
icy has been allowed to go unmarked.
This was the wanton wrecking by the
u. S. representative few days ago
of a special U. S.-Mexican claims
commission,
The commission consisted Of the
Mexican and U. S. representatives
and neutral chairman, DR.. Rodrigo
Octavio Of Brazil. 1t was created to
settle the question of responsibility
for the murder of fifteen American
mining engineers by the followers Of
the notorious "Pancho Villa some
years ago, during the regime of Car
rama. The U. S. government has
maintained that the present admins
tration of Mexico must make finan-
cial amends for the massacre. Presi-
dent Gales, on the other hand, has
insisted that Villa was bandit and
outside the law.
Last Saturdays newspapers came
out with mysterious report that the
special claims commission had
failed" that it had broken down" "
The truth about the failure" did
not appear in a single headline. Not
an editorial writer referred to it. 1t
was buried away in an obscure para
graph at the tail end of the Associ-
ated Press dispatch. The paragraph
is as follows:
"Dr. Rodrigo Octavio, of Brazil, the
neutral member of the commission,
upheld the Mexican contention with
the result that the body decided to
disband after a violent controversy.
Octavio has left for Havana and
Judge Earnest D. Perry, the Ameri-
can member, is on his way home to
report to President Coolidge.
Thus we see that the commission
did not "fail' in the sense of failure
to come to decision. A decision was
plainly reached, for the neutral chair.
man supported the position of the
Mexican government. However, the
U. S. representative refused to accept
the decision, notwithstanding the
fact that the personnel of the com
mission had been approved by the
state department. Obviously there
was nothing left to do but disband
DR.. Rodrigo left for Havana in dis
gust, declaring that the attempt to
arbitrate had failed"
One does not have to go deeply
into the merits of the case itself
Anyone who has been following Mex
lean events at all closely knows that
Villa was common bandit at the
time of the murders, and that, more
over he was receiving arms and sup
plies from the United States in order
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12
BY "oBscuRus.p

THERE is probably nowhere in this
4 happy hunting ground for capital
ism known as the United States of
America where workers are more sys-
tematically and scientifically exploited
than in the gloomy bastile-like build
ing at Dearborn and Adams streets in
the city of Chicago. What is true in
this Office is, of course, true of the
entire postal system, with here and
there minor concession.
In order to become a clerk here an
incredible ordeal must be undergone
The sheep are separated from the
goats in long-drawn-out mental ex-
animation; a test that is ludicrously
out of proportion to the mental re-
quirements Of prospective clerkship.
If the applicant can show that he
has participated in the recent Euro
pean blood bath he is allowed five
points. And if he can prove that he
was sufficiently jealous in defense of
his masters foreign investments to
have personally stopped German
shell directed thereat, he is allowed
ten points.
In the physical examination the doc
tor determines whether or not the APP
phcants anatomy is worth the 65
cents per hour that a clerk draws. At
this point victims of physiological I'M
pairments incurred in the services of
previous masters are dumped on the
social scrap heap, and the cream t.
retained for the extraction Of what
exploitable elements it may yet con
tain.
Before a clerk has made his debut.
an initial expense Of S12 is unavoid.
able. This consists of the price Of his
photograph that must be filed with his
fngerprints, notary fee, and purchase
of thousand dollar bond. In add
ton TO the foregoing there is an elab.
crate conglomeration of accessories IN
conjunction with the study in intricate
postal routing. The latter not only
constitutes a formidable personal ex-
pense, but will require upwards OF
two years study. References must
be submitted which must not only be
from business men but are accepted
only on letterheads.
A year is required to get from the
substitute into the regular class with
it's coveted seventeen hundred dollars
per year. During this time sub
may get three hours work per twenty
four or he may get none, but he must
report Sunday night whether he wants
to or not He may have upwards OF
dollar transportation on Sunday
night and return of one dollar thirty
cents for probable four hours, going
and coming, plus work and time. !
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12
NOTES oFeAN INTERNATIONALLY.
The Will to Action and The Will to Poverty
d gB JOHN
BY JOHN PEPPER.

publican "Berliner Tageblatt" terror
ICES that "a renewed refusal Of the
Social Democracy would mean in fact
severe blow for German parliament
tarism and, after everything that has
gone before, it would represent the
final attempt of the new government
to form parliamentary regime"
IETILDER and wilder rings the chorus
w of the bourgeois parties: unless
the Social Democracy enters the bour-
geois government that will be the open
dictatorship of the bourgeoisie! The
clerical "Germania" puts the ques-
ton with cynical frankness: "The
Social Democracy is compelled to
choose between two evils; between the
(crassly expressed)) temporary dis
crediting of it's own party in the eyes
of it's followers and the dangerous dis
credlting of the republic, democracy
and parliament, the results of which
are difficult to predict"
Hence the bourgeoisie demands that
the Social Democracy sacrifice itself
/ for the preservation Of bourgeois So
ciety, that even though it must alien
ate it's mass support it shall come to
the salvation of the rule of the bour-
geoisie, The Social Democracy re-
mains reluctant-but sooner or later
it will form the coalition government
with the bourgeoisie and seek to beat
down every advance of the proleta-
riat" The programme article in the
"Bergwerszeitung" recommends a
"Will of Poverty" to the German peo-
pie, in other words, the quiet resigna-
ton to misery, to mass unemploy-
ment, to pauperisation. And if the
people become discontinued, if the
workers demand a reckoning, the
bourgeoisie threatens with the "Will
to Action" The honorable capitalists
forget only one thing-that there ex-
lists Communist Party that in place
of a "Will to Poverty there will
arise in the proletariat a viii to
Power" and that not only in the bour-
goisie but in the working class as well
there will arise will to action"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12
Forcing the Miners Into Starvation

the people instead of in the interests
of the private few that own or control
them now.
Conventions Demand Naturalization.
The United Mine Workers have at
many conventions in the past in
dorsed naturalization of the coal
mines and at a late convention, APP
pointed a committee to investigate,
and supply data, as basis for the
fight for naturalization. But the
miners leaders have lined up with
the miners enemies. and ditched the
report of the committee, and goneK5ut
of their way to repudiate Nationalist
ton, and insult those who have con
sistently fought for the miners pro-
gressive policies.
Fusion of Wall Street Tools.
We are well aware of the fact that
naturalization is political question,
and necessitates political action.
hence the miners demand at their
conventions the formation of a
political party of the working class.
This labor party program of the
miners has also been repudiated by
the miners leaders, and we again find
them lined up solidly with our
enemies.
John L. Lewis graced the republican
party in 1924, as one of the campaign
committeeman of the Wall Street
ticket of candidate Cal Coolidge. This
is the same Wall Street that is now
crushing the anthracite miners, while
Frank Harrington is lined up with
Gov. Small of Illinois, who stole the
value of the Illinois state house, and
has been ordered by the court to put
it back.
Not only the miners are demanding
labor party to look after their de-
mand for naturalization Of the coal
mines, but thruout the whole of Am
erica, the workers are struggling for
the formation of labor party, and
be it noticed, that the keenest opposi-
ton we have, is that coming from the
Wall Street crowd, thru their agents
in /, the labor movement, the fake Ia
Dor leaders themselves. The workers
will have labor party in the near
future, in spite of all the Greens,
Lewises and Farringtons in America.
and naturalization of the mines will
follow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12
Federal Employees
Seek Minimum Wage
of $500 Per Year

WASHINGTON, March 10.--A min
imum wage of S1,50O a year for all
full-time adult employees in the fed
eral service is the object of avcam-
paign which the National Federation
of Federal Employees are nov launch
ing. .p 81
In the low-paid group Of employees
of the government are charwomen,
men and women cleaners, watehmen,
guards, elevator operators and others
engaged in the maintenance Of pub
lie buildings. Charwomen are now
paid so cents an hour except that
the head charwoman gets S. cents.
This measure does not change the
rate Of pay of men and women in the
professional service and other high
er grades.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12

that he might make as much trouble
for Carranza as possible. The impor
tant thing is that special claims
commission has met and rendered
decision, and that the United States
government refuses to abide by that
decision.
By its deliberately provocative ac-
tion in the special claims case, the U.
S. government has taken stand
which bellies all it's pretenses that it
is striving to reach an amicable solu-
ton Of the U. S.-Mexican crisis, that
the U. S. state department is patient
ard reasonable but that Mexico in
sists upon trouble. The action makes
a mock of arbitration ton the Ameri-
can continent. 1t strips the rulers
of the United States Of their hypo-
critical ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS phrase
ology and reveals their cynical deter
mination to make American imperial
ism the absolute arbiter of the west
ern world.
There is reason why such great care
was used to distort the story in the
reports of the capitalist press. Wall
Street and Washington are moving
toward definite break with Mexico
over the anti-imperialst oil and land
laws which that country has adopted
as measure of self-pfeservation. 1t
IS necessary to fool The unsuspecting
workers with news Of the failure" OF
Negotiations of all ktnds-but in this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12
The Failure" Of the Mexican
Claims Commission

news the good intentions Of the U, S.
government must be always insisted
upon, or at least implied.
That an open rupture with Mexico
IS being planned is no longer open to
doubt. The wrecking of the special
claims commission means that the at
titude of Wall Street and Washington
is about as follows:
Our plans are made up: we know
that a break is coming soon anyway.
Why should we let an impartial com
mission decide our right to collect
damages when we shall soon be in a
position to collect them by forcible
means?
The attitute of the U. s. represen-
tative on the special claims commits
sion have only that meaning.
"a new strain has been thrown on
the already none too firm tie that
unites automatically the United States
and Mexico" editoralizes the Chicago
Tribune. 1.-THE sudden desertion by
Or. Rodrigo octavio Of Brazil of his
post as neutral chairman of the com
mission called to adjudicate American
losses in Mexican revolutions comes
at an inauspicious moment"
No one can deny that the episode
Of the claims commission constitutes
a new strain on U. S.-Mexican rela-
tons. But it also constitutes a very
severe strain upon the credulity of the
American workers.