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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15

!, therefore the budget must provide
more for agriculture. Such way of
putting the matter is incorrect. We
must do everything possible in order
to secure the growth OF our entire ma
tional economy. At the beginning Of
our New Economic Policy agriculture
was the weak point, and we did our
utmost in order to raise it. At the
present time the weak point Is indus
try, as IL not only cannot satisfy the
personal, but also the productive re-
quirements of the agricultural popu-
lation. Therefore, the further develop
ment of agriculture depends, to very
great extent, upon industry.
Our most important task, therefore.
is the industrializing of the country.
OF course, that does not mean that
only industry is to be developed and
agriculture shall remain stationary. 1t
must also develop, and we must pro-
vide it with considerable help in the
near future. But in this joint advance
of agriculture and industry the latter
must develop at pace which will Sc
cure the overcoming Of the shortage
Of goods and create the basis for in
dustrializing the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15
Continued from yesterdays issue.)
Economic Demand Increases.

THE rapid growth of effective de-
mand in the towns is due to vari-
Gus causes; the level of income of the
urban population and the wages of
the workers and employees have in
creased; along with this there is to
be observed in recent times a GER
tain retardation in the increase of the
productivity of labor. In the increased
shortage of goods the rapid pace of
the development of heavy industry
and the Inauguration of a comprehen-
sive program of new buildings plays
considerable role. It must be re-
membered that the investment of CAPT
tai does not mean the immediate in
flow of new goods on to the market;
on the other hand the demand for
finished products is increased by this.
II new factory is built or a new pit
is opened in the Donez basin, the
work takes some years, and during
this time the workers who are engag-
ed in the new construction require
bread and finished products. There.
fore, the industrial investment of CAPT
tai which finally leads TO the abolition
Of the shortage of goods, increase the
demand so long as the new factory is
not set going.
All these facts which | have men
toned have greatly increased the
growth of the effective demand IN
town and country; and this demand
our industry was unable to satisfy, in
spite of the fact that It increased its
production by Ga per cent in the past
year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15
Weaknesses of the British Strike

strength the British general strike from the standpoint
Of the mancy and solidarity discipline Of
marvellous
The leadership however something
that to point weakness was in
the lack Of political direction understanding courage
lowed the government assa strike revolutionary
ment while the strike leadership itself with
any intention Of challenging the state power.
general could be nothing
else than clash with the capitalist government
that the the instrument the capitalist
for the crushing Of just such revots of the
This role of capitalist government shown palmer
than in the strike just the Trades
Union Congress supporting the miners
union the coal owners faded into the background and the British
with all its apparatus of police special consabuary
army navy and special legislation appeared the foe
which the trade unions had fight
The quarrel owners its own
ruling class
When millions fighting they must know who the
enemy Generalization will result To strike the
the trades unions had first defeat the government
That the government had abandon its unqualified support
the coal capitalists and make concessions to the trade unions
tribute to the fundamental soundness of the British labor
and also that under Of the
Of interests developed inside the British capitalist organization
The reomist leaders of the Labor Party
neither conscious enough of this inevitable development
enough to take advantage of it, Neither did thew
have after display
of solidarity that has frightened the capitalist inspired
every honest worker 2ee4a
accept the Russian workers
the most outstanding of number of cOwardy inanites
featured the conduct of the strike
This supposed evidence OF nonrevoutonary tendencies
rewarded promptly by the in the form
to prevent the trade unions receiving financial aid
workers of any other country +~74
Right from the beginning the keynote the strike
been the defeat of the the primary necessity
ming the struggle. s
1t should be noted also that the strike has
The official leadership of the labor wide
from this side of the correctly wdened the
already existing schism. |
The left wing strong and conscious enough rally
labor behind the miners eight days was not
strong and conscious enough force the adoption
tionary set of detectives for the strike itself.
But the lessons of the strike will sink deep into
the and the left wing leaders will either
closer to the Communist program make way
ship which will.
As for the MacDonads and Thomas they
for abe period but their paphs the movement
written by the good right hands of 100000
backed the miners against the greatest
struggles of labor of all time
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15
The Soviet Economy Has Won
The Most Important Features of the Economic Situation
in the Soviet Union.
BY A. RYKoV

omy is gradually decaying and will de
cay the more rapidly, the more speed
lily industry is restored, its products
cheapened and it's connection with ag
riculture consolidated. This decay OF
the elements of national economy will
still further increase the demand for
industrial products.
That is not dangerous. The rapid
pace Of the transference of agricul
ture on to the basis of goods economy
will stimulate the development of our
industry, promote technical progress
and improve its organization. Only
such an increase of the shortage OF
goods would be dangerous which con.
stituted hindrance to the develop
ment of economy itself.
The general economic difficulties
which are result of the shortage OF
goods, have been rendered more acute
by some "miscalculations" and by
some mistakes in carrying out the
most important economic plans.
AS result of theses difficulties we
had to adapt our export and import
plan, the plan Of our capital invest
ments, etc, to the means at the dis
posal Of our state. But even according
to this reduced plan, industry will in
crease It's production this year by 3S
to 40 per cent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15
Wool Workers Strike Shows
Up Company Union Bunk

efficiency of the machinery which we
have developed to deal with exactly
such problems"
THE workers. with the exception OF
l. the sucker representatives who
receive 81 meeting when in confer.
ence, are completely ,disillusioned
with the Representative assembly
One worker when asked why the EN-.
ployes generally made no use Of the
company union machinery to correct
grievances before the strike, said !:
ANY worker who tried to get real
grievance corrected would get a
double envelope in two weeks" Which
means he would be dropped at the
next pay day.
Another worker tells how when last
December one Representative" was
so bold as to ask the company to
grant them a little Christmas bonus
the assembly laughed at him and told
him his proposition was preposterous
and revolutionary. Some workers who
have run for office" in the company
union have promised their constit-
uents that If elected they would get
them certain improved sanitary con,
ditions. Once elected. the represent
atives soon forgot their election
pledges and sneered at the workers
who reminded them.
A Suckers Club
m A TTTIEUy DIT TTIIAp Iaoda- In fba
Au 1919 strike in Passaic and former
general treasurer of the Amalgamated
Textile Workers of America, says the
company union was aimed at the
Amalgamated which had Passaic
local in 192O-22. is made up OF
company dupes and workers who have
been bribed or terrorized into con
formity with the company's will
Albert Weisbord, leader. OF the present
strike, calls the company association
suckers club, designed to under
mine all trade union organization.
The r. & II. policy on trade unionism
is clear in the recent statement OF
Personnel Manager, when asked
Would you object to an organization
recognized by the A. +. of LIZ" He
evaded by saying. There is no use
discussing that since that is a hypo
thetlcal question"
The f. & II. workers are on strike
The office workers and foremen have
had to soil their fingers getting out
the fall line samples. Though the
thousands OF workers are at their
homes and attending the strike meet
ings daily the mill officials still try to
fool the public by saying the mill IA
not on strike. The Office force and the
few company men, at work can
parade thru three or four different
gates each morning 70 give the strik.
ers the impression that large numbers
are going back to work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15
Accumulation Without Capitalists.

THE greatest difficulty consists in
the fact that the development of
industry, which has almost complete
~ worn out the plant and equipment
left over from the old time, requires
great investments of capital. From
where are we to obtain these means {?
The general prerequisites for accumu-
latlon have been created by the Oc-
tober revolution, which did away with
the sdowners and capitalists, can
celled the debts and concentrated in
dustry, transport. the banks. ETC., In
the hands Of the proletarian state.
This renders possible an accumula-
ton and a productive employment OF
our means.
In the expenditure OF our accumu-
lated means we must take into con
sideratton two factors: first, a strict,
planned-economice discipline is neces-
sary. Our practice hitherto In this
respect leaves very much to be de-
sired. Secondly, the greatest thrift
must be observed from top to bottom.
These elm main outline, the most
important features OF our economic
situation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15
1.-THE Whole World Is Relieved"

I social-democratic lieutenants will be
able to mislead and betray the work.
ers away from the road OF social re-
volution as they did when Kaiserism
was chased out for the first time
Compromise flag" or what not-ex-
tinguish one tiareup or another-Ger-
many continues to be for capitalist
Europe a magazine loaded with the
most Internal explosives.
Scarcely have the echoes Of the call
ing off of the British general strike
died down when right outside of War
saw-the redoubtable outpost of Anglo
French capitalist reaction-several of
the most reliable regiments of the
Polish army went on strike against
the Witos government. What Wall
Street seer will now volunteer to
serve as the trumpet thru which the
imperialists will announce that Polish
capitalism has succeeded in exter-
minating all possibilities for the de-
velopment of a revolutionary move
ment in Poland? ~,
Europe MOI IN Goouf ondpes
We hope Messrs. Gary and Hoover
will forgive and not forget us when we
ask them how delighted and glad they
are at such prospects of peace and
stability in Germany and Poland? In
deed, while basking in the sunlight of
Washington's profound satisfaction
and relief at the British strike truce
as the harbinger of peace and prosper
ity for all Europe and United States,
We are reminded of the following pic
ture of Europe just made public by the
! National City Bank.
"Altho there is good reason to
believe that on the whole Europe
makes some progress in recovering
each year, the process is slow and
the year from the spring of 1925 to
the spring of 1926 has been gener-
ally disappointing. With three or
four exceptions, European countries
have not made the advance hoped
for"
Yes-the whole world of the Coo
lidges, the Garys and the Hoovers
may be relieved at the conclusion of
the British general strike-but even
the short period which the strike has
lasted is a deadly blow at capitalist
stability and darkens the already dark
industrial situation in Europe.
Results Of the General Strike.
1t is yet too early to draw up the
balance sheet of the effects of the
British general strike on the inter
national class struggle. Al. present we
may thus briefly summarize the situa-
ton resulting from the general strike
1. The proudest and most powerful
Of bourgeois governments has been
forced to retreat to some extent TEN
porarily at least before the organized
British workers. 5Ht
2. The general strik8l came not be
cause of but despite of the reactionary
leadership of the ThoRas and Mac
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15
BY ROBERT DUNN,

Federated Press staff Correspondent
This company union study was made
before the big wooden strike beean.)
THE Forstmann and Huffman Co.
l. of Passaic, Clifton and Garfield,
N. j., whose 1000 workers are now
on strike for a living wage, introduced
the company union-known as the
representative assembly-after the
1919 strike. The object was to elimin-
ate all semblance of real unionism
from the mills. At that time the
Amalgamated Textile Workers of
America was actively in the field
The company unions representa-
tive assembly" was composed of SO
delegates from management and SO,
supposedly representing the workers.
Four meetings year were the total
Legislative" sessions Of the assembly.
One of these meetings is the annual
banquet where the worker" delegates
get a free feed and listen to the man
agement representatives praising
their pet machinery for industrial
democracy"
THE advertised purpose of the COM
4 pany union is ito promote" the
best interests Of the f. & H. Co.. and
its employees thru mutual understand.
ing, cooperation and goodwill. The
sincerity of this purpose may be
judged when one remembers that a
wide-sweeping industrial blacklist and
labor spy system is operated by the
+. & II. Co. The creation of "co-opera-
ton and goodwill" may also be the
aim of the labor espionage system
but the company will not admit pub
licly the existence Of this spy system,
tho openly charged by Justine Wise,
who got her evidence right in the
mill, and with Alice Barrows of the
Federal Bureau OF Education, and
others, with employing undercover
men.
Seab Machine.
THE workers have shown in the
l. present strike what they think Of
the company unions and the company
suckers and stoolpigeons who com
pose IL. The dummy organization has
served the bosses only as a means to
fight the real union of the strikers.
On the basis OF afiidavits by company
union leaders the present injunction
against the strike leaders and speak
ers has been granted. Again, julius
Forstmann, on returning, from a
pleasure trip around the world, has
his trained seal union white him a let
ter asking for protection for the scabs
who want to work. julius then re-
plies: Il am glad that you have come
to me. This latest action on the part
Of the assembly (to break the strike.
Ed confirms my confidence in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15
By Jay LOUestOne

strike. Among many other things the
bourgeoisie have learned to be more
careful before locking horns with the
workers on such long fronts, and also
how to set up more effective national
strikebreaking apparatus. The workers
have been given excellent lessons in
the role played by their reactionary
leaders in the need for and value Of
class solidarity, in the fraud hypocrisy
and deadly menace of capitalist con
stitutionalism.
Let the world of Coolidge, Gary and
Hoover Co. be relieved at the condi-
ton of Europe and the results of the
British general strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15

IRON every avenue and alley OF
capitalist politics and finance a
sigh of relief come as result OF
the end of the British general strike.
Coolidge is grateful Washington is
breathing easier Hoover, who keeps
his hands on the pulse of the flow of
blood-dollars from all corners Of the
world, to Wall Street, says: "The
whole world is relieved and glad that
a settlement has been reached" Gary
exelaims: Il am delighted that the
general strike in Great Britain has
been called Off"
And when Hoover is glad and Gary
delighted, what more proof do we
want that that "the whole world is
relieved?"
But the memorable laws of capitalist
development seem to be playing very
unpleasant and menacing pranks with
the gentlemen at the throttle of the
imperialist engine driving towards a
smashup, towards what they call "the
dismal abyss of social revolution"
More Serious Difficulties Arise.
No sooner did the international
f1nanciers and industrialists heave a
sigh of relief at the temporary slow
ing up of dangerously and swiftly
developing crisis in one country, than
like the Hydra in the days of old
new forces arise to let hellish devasta.
ton loose in other countries where
the current of revolution was long age
supposed to have been dead
1t is instructive rather than surpris
ing that on the very day Gary was
delighted at British capitalism getting
a new breath of life, the Luther (Lo-
carno) cabinet fell in Germany, a
deeply-rooted, vast monarchist plot
sharply anti-Dawes plan in character,
was uncovered. Only the most pur.
blind can see a German crisis in the
farce for a Compromise flag" The
collapse of Luther, the issue over the
colors of the German fag-by them.
selves-are relatively unimportant
These incidents are only symptoms
and symbols of the deepening of a
gigantic crisis in Germany. The forces
of capitalist reaction are feverishly
at work for a restoration of the Ger.
man monarchy.
What more arrant arrogance, what
more invidious insolence, what more
brazen boldness-short of the actual
re-establishment of the Hohenzollern
dynasty-could the imperialist Junker
clique show then their move for the
restoration of the monarchical colors
in the national flag?
Who is there who does not know
that the German working class will
fight to the last drop of blood against
any and all attempts of MULTIPLICATION
Of Germany? And what guarantee
have the international bourgeoisie,
when once the German proletariat
again takes up arms, that their trusted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15

workers of the Soviet union, will have
an invigorating effect on the labor
movement of all countries.
5. The British coal and general
economic crisis has not been settled
in the least. The economic basis of
the general strike and the coal miners
sad plight exists today as intact as it
was before The ugly mood of the
British miners at the terms of the
settlement" are only signs of the
more bitter class struggles that are
in the making in Great Britain.
6. The capitalist class and the
proletariat the world over have learn
ed much from the historic general
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15
Fight Against High Prices.

ME- must now devote our chief at
w tention to that danger which threat
ems us from the side of a too great
increase OF retail prices. A number
of supplementary measures are al
present being worked out which are in
tended, in the course Of the summer,
to Increase the quantity Of goods in
circulation and to reduce prices. A
further means towards the reduction
OF retail prices must be the improve.
ment of the apparatus Of our state and
cooperative trading and the reduction
OF their overhead charges.
Whittier and how shall our economy
further develop after the removal OF
the difficulties?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15

Donald type. 1t was only the over
whelming mass. pressure of the rank
and file of the British working class
that forced the hands of Thomas and
company.
8. The splendid solidarity shown by
the British workers coupled with the
partial success the strike brot, despite
the objectionable behavior of some
of the leaders, will inspire the British
workers with more confidence, with
greater class pride, and will cause the
proletarian movement on the whole to
go leftward.
4. The magnificent display of inter-
national solidarity, particularly by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15
Natural Economy.

THESE are the causes OF that short
age Of goods which we feel so
keenly in the present year and which
existed in weaker form in the past
do not wish to create the illusion
that this shortage Of goods can be
abolished in the near future. The ele-
ments OF natural economy still play a
very great role IN the economic sys-
tenn OF our country. Even today. con-
siderable portion OF the peasant under
takings satisfy their own require
ments. The element Of natural econ.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15
The SGccO-Vanzetti Verdict

After six fight during which time their
charge of murder proved to be ameup
Barhoomeo Vanz have lost their last appeal
state of Massachusetts thru the decision of the deny
ing them trial.
They only await the sentence which under the Massachu
sets law only be death in the electric chair
1t is evident that the state of the textile determined
wreak upon these fought
organize their fellow slaves
There is but chance for them and that is
Only the of the state of Massachusetts between
them and death.
Organized labor not only the United States turnout
the world has rallied the defense of these far
prevented their being murdered the mill owners
government
In face OF this decision it imperative that every
be concentrated again in their behalf everywhere
should demand OF the that state that he intervene
the lives of these victims of the frameup.
If Massachusetts burn the lives Vanze
because their activity class any other state NAV
do the same thing The fight in their behalf fight against legal
lied murder OF workers whose labor activity challenges the profits
Of the master class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15
Some Faulty Notions.

TN discussing the budget question
l. one often encounters the following
view: our agricultural population is
much larger than the Industrial, aud
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15

Those readers Of THE DAILY to know the
real character of the arous leaders participating the titanic
conflict in England best by reading
"Whither England" by Leon Trotsky.