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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-12
More Packing Trust Tyranny

Besides mantanig unions conference boards
enghen the hours and cut the of labor the yards
the packing house introducing bonus sysem
departments of the industry and preparing extend it all
branches possible .g sro.s
This hoax to defeat the workers old long in vogue
industries and intelligent trade unon fights
against the thing For above the average nd
vidual worker receives premium the
few dollars according the work Those
workers suffering from the slave psychology that mels them
believe they by their individual efforts raise themselves above
their fellow workers. obtain
The result that all workers speed the limit thereby in
creasng production the shortening time
produce certain commodities For this work. instead
paying all the the employer only pays te able
o speed than the
The inevitable result of such process Unemployment of
workers the that
before the speedup system introduced When high mark
production established the
introduced still higher Of production further
speed the workers The bonus
few workers today but the for unemployment reduction
and greater expenditure of human energy days work
Workers should be fooled by such fakes
bonus schemes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-12

In the banquet of the Palmer House of Chicago
Mr. William Green president the Federation of Labor
delivered his reoped collaboration harrangue 800 local
labor officials and members.
Green handles alleged statistics regarding with admirable
since 1900 the efficiency the American wage all lines
Of industrial pursuit has increased cent? declared Green
Like the capitalist apoogs he is he neglected to state the
facts regarding the tremendous increase profits to the capitalists
He ignored the rise in the living which tremendous that
tho nominal did increase the real of labor
creased Wages have kept pace with the rising living
with the result that the living the working class
the country has decreased since 1900
Equally his regarding the relative
strength of the American Federation Labor compared with the
wage the country
about 2000000 in the nation and that of these
100000 oneourh organized into the American Federation
of Labor.
Statistics of the f. of L. itself prove this false
Never time in its history has the A of L. had five million
members Its peak of OrganzatOna 1920 with slightly
than million Unable resist the open shop
lowing the fell 2S6599 1924
small gain of 249S membrsan insignificant number compared
with the yearly drop in the period from 1920 1924
Furthermore the number of wage than
2O000O00 and much closer to 3OO00,O00
Instead of facing regarding the pathetic condition
organized labor movement in the country and proposing policy
that will strengthen the existing unions and organize the millions
Of unorganzed workers. Green INDUCES the shameful M
caon and sOphsy effort u the organized
false of security his eaconary and treacherous
ship will not be challenged. gaes
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tended by tens of thousands, and that
in these meetings the Communist
speakers who propose confiscating the
profits of the great magnates of CAPT.
tai are decidedly popular. 1t seems
to me that these diseases alone are
enuf to ruin the strongest country;
two wars, financial crisis and fermen-
tation among the peasantry and the
petty rgeoisie,-France, be it re-
marked, being a country of petty bour-
geoisie and peasants.
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that they are on the edge of preci-
pice. The disputes between England
and France are having their effect on
Poland. The English imperialists who
are trying to entice Poland from the
influence of France, have now turned
their benevolent" attention to Pc
land and have undermined the Polish
currency by a whole number of finan-
cial measures. The English imperial
lists are turning the French authori-
ties out of the Polish government and
replacing them by their own. Pilsud-
ski is again beginning to give signs
of life; he poses as a Polish national
hero but is in fact a commissioner
of England. The undercurrent Of all
these phenomena is a fermentation
among the Polish peasantry. The
peasant deputies who were elected to
the Polish sejm a few years ago on
the basis of the most reactionary
franchise law, are beginning to veer
towards the left.
A s regards Germany, have already
=
:. told you how she is being dragged
into the league of nations by ropes.
Thanks to the Dawes plan, the eco
nomic situation in Germany has i'm
proved a little during the past year.
Bourgeois Germany has stabilized her.
self more or less. Now however, a
year after the acceptance OF the
Dawes plan, Germany has to face the
first repayment OF the loan which she
received under such difficult condi-
tons. In Germany such gigantic firms
as the SHINES concern are now going
bankrupt In Germany there are evil
dences of a fresh increase in the cost
Of living and further increase In I'M
employment.
Italy is in a peculiar situation. Mus
solini was compelled to prohibit the
organs not only of the Communist biit
also of the menshevist party. The
case Of the menshevist deputy Zani-
boni, who is said TO have been making
preparations for an attempt on the
life Of Mussolini, is matter OF COM
mon knowledge. III II Is true that the
idea Of shooting Mussolini can enter
the heads Of the Italian mensheviki. IL
the same idea as entered the head OF
Fritz Adler during the war could oc-
our to these parliamentary jobbers
who believe In nothing but parliament
and franchise--if things have gone so
far 1t is evident that the Italy Of to-
day has finally arrived at a deadlock.
ITO be continued)
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throw of capitalism and that the only
peace 1t would make with the robber
system would be the peace of death
with The DAILY WORKER dancing
a jig on capitalism's grave. Capital
ism is not yet dead, but neither is
The DAILY WORKER. Capitalism, in
America is strong but The DAILY
WORKER is growing stronger year
by year. Whatever its enemies may
say about The DAILY WORKER,
whatever shortcomings 1t may have,
one charge cannot be leyelled against
1t. II cannot be. charged with ever
saying a good word for capitalism or
for the agents of capitalism, where
ever they be found.
Loyalty OF the Workers.
TINE DAILY WORKER passed thru
L some tight corners during the past
two years. Its trials are not over by
any means. But the self-sacrificing
loyalty that supported It during the
past two years will help 1t overcome
the difficulties OF the future.
The class conscious workers sup
port The DAILY WORKER because
they know It rings true; that It is
the champion Of their cause; that 1t
is partial-partial TO the workers.
They know that in every struggle be-
tween the workers and their masters
The DAILY WORKER is out in front,
giving their side of the case 10 the
world and cheering them on. They
know that besides being a revolution
airy newspaper The DAILY WORKER
is the organ OF the Workers (Com-
munist) Party, section OF the world
party, the Communist International,
the only party that is capable OF lead
ing the. workers OF the world out Of
the he'll q capitalism into the social
ist commonwealth.
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Starting the New Year Right

horde of liberal doctors the patient
died, unhonored and unsung. This was
considered a bad omen by even some
Communists. 'If the workers can
not keep a mild thing like the New
York Leader alive" they said, how
can they dig up cash for Communist
paper?"
Went Over the Precipce.
DUT there was the pea in the pod.
- The workers let the Leader die
because it had betrayed their inter-
ests. It endeavored to swim with the
tide and was carried over the falls.
The New York Leader swallowed
up 100000 in two months and yet it
died unfed. It takes more than money
to make paper go. II must have a
mission, even tho that mission may
be catering to the neurotics who feed
on the salaciousness OF the Hearst
press. The New York Leader could
not compete with the capitalist press
in catering to the popular taste, even
with the expert" guidance Of the
Greenwich Village journalists who
were going to show the Communists
how the cooperative commonwealth
sould be ushered in profitably and
painlessly-. Sport pages bourgeois
sport--advice to the lovelorn, recipes
for cooking mushrooms, comic strips
and buffoonery posing as humor-all
those stunts were tried at the expense
Of the Garland Fund. but without
avail. The Leader had lost its kick
when II deserted the class struggle
and the workers who formerly sup
ported It no longer had any use for
the harlot. 49,
The DAILY WORKER started its
mission on January 10, 1924. It boldly
stated that its mission was to help
organize the workers for the over
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-12

French bourgeoisie rs Illuminating and
cannot make up its mind to anything.
The third crisis is that the petty bour-
geois strata of the population is be-
ginning to kick. The pressure of tax
alton is increasing and consequently
the peasantry and petty bourgeoisie
of the towns are rising and the discon-
tent is growing among these strata of
the population. 1t is reported from
Paris that in the last fortnight large
meetings of the petty bourgeoisie have
repeatedly been held and have been at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-12
By H. M. Wicks

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, female
politician prominent in Tammany
Hall circles who tries to debauch
the labor movement thru actiyi-
ties in the New York branch OF
the Woman's Trade Union League
and who uses as her aid in this
work another Tammany politician
known as Nancy Cook.
Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice-president
New York Tribune, prominent
Coolidge supporter.
Mrs. Frank A. Vanderbilt, society
parasite
Tasker II. Bliss, major general
United States army.
John f. Organ, major general
United States army.
Brand Whtlock, prominent demo-
rcrat politician and Morgans min
lister to Belgium during Wilson's
administration. .
William Allen White, clownish edi-
tor of Emporia, Kansas. chairman
of Roosevelt's Bull Moose public
city committee in 1912.
William H. Johnston, president OF
athe International Association Of
Machinists.
The personnel of this one organiza-
ton certainly could not stand the
light of publicity, 1t is this aggrega-
ton that has endeavored to influence
every newspaper in the United States,
has spent thousands of dollars for
postage alone to send out its propa-
ganda, and after a veritible deluge Of
pamphlets, leaflets, and other forms
of propaganda, compiled a list of
newspapers purporting to show that
so per cent favor the court, IL per
cent oppose it and per cent have
taken no stand.
Mr. Box has carefully chosen his
committees from prominent republi-
cans and democrats in order to give
the movement a non-partisan charac-
ter and in order to assure sufficient
support in the senate to prevent an in
vestigation of the reprehensible char
acter of the American Foundation
and those individuals affiliated with
it.
While this propaganda of the world
court proceeds the working class
seems to remain Indifferent to the
fact that the sum total of all the man
euvers in the arena Of politics mean
just one thing and that is war, grim
and CHASTITY, where the workers will
again be slaughtered in the interest
of their masters The world court,
the league of nations, Versailles, Lo-
carno, and all the grandoise confer
ences that have been and are to be
held do not mean peace. They are
only instruments for new alignments,
preparatory to new wars.
To shed the light of publicity upon
the source of the slush fund Of the
advocates of the world court would
reveal the agents of the House of
Morgan preparing for a new blood
bath for the workers. The fight of
Borah, Reed and the other irrecon-
cilables against this court is a parlia-
mentary struggle to save the class
they serve fro meconomic extinction.
The workers have far more at stake.
We must fight against it to save our
very lives.
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every walk of life. Many powerful
organizations have been created es-
pecially to forward the propaganda
OF the league and the world court. \
Take the most prominent combine,
known as The American Foundation
which maintains the American. Peace
Award, with offices at SOS Fifth ave-
nue., New York City as one example.
The committee Of this foundation is
headed by a naturalized Dutchman
named Edward w. Box. This man
Box modified the most formidable
of the forces striving to get the Unit
ed States into the league. He came
to this country from Heider, Neither
lands, at six years of age with his
parents. He dabbled in journalism of
a sort, finally married the daughter
of the notorious Cyrus H. X. Curtis,
proprietor of the scab Curtis Publish
ing company, became editor of the
Ladies Home Journal Ga special mag
azine created to pollute the minds of
the wives and daughters of the work
ers). With the wealth obtained from
scab publications while vice-president
of the Curtis Publishing company, he
began his league,of nations propagan-
da at the close of the world war. He
established the Box peace award.
which was ! merely a propaganda
scheme to popularize the league of
nations. In this he is assisted by Col
onel Edward NJ. House of the House
of MNroop ,s,ho ran~aear+o5 J1Too5~.,,,
Wilson during the period of this coun-
try's participation in the war at the
supreme war council at Versailles,
and who acted for the United States
in arranging the terms of the armis-
tice that ended the fighting in 1918.
Colonel House and Mr.. Box have
an able associate who is chairman of
the committee of award in the per-
son of Elihu Root. noted Morgan poll
tician, who on the invitation of the
league of nations assisted European
jurists create plans for the perman-
ent court of international justice
! world COURT in 1921.
Who can be so preposterous as to
demand that Morgan's senators per-
NIT committee to investigate where
one come from funds that these emin-
ent patriots use to force this country
into the world court and the league?
Lesser Lights.
ON the American Foundation itself
" we find asgalaxy of eminences, be-
] ginning with aspacifist with the heav-
emily name or James R. Angel, who
is president of Yale University.
Others Of prominence on the COM
mittee are: &~-s5s
John w. Davis. Morgan's candi-
date for president of the United
States if''1y24.
Haley Fiske, president of the Me-
tropolitari Fife Insurance Co.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
! of Columbia, University
Charles w. Eliot, president emeri-
tus of Harvard University
Charles Harry Brent. bishop of the
diocese fof.0western New York,
who came here from Canada, and
has sinces grovelled at the shrine
of American capitalism; chief
of chaplain service in the Ameri-
can army lin France which was
fighting Morgan's war in 1878.
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A very interesting situation has now
arisen in Poland. choose this coun-
try as an example. because its posi-
tion is closely connected with the
French crisis. Bourgeois Poland,
which calls herself independent" has
lived hitherto in many respects upon
the reflection Of the French bour-
geoisie. Poland. for her part, is pass
ing thru still more serious crisis
than France. The Polish manufactur-
ers and industrialists are besieging
their government and pointing out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-12
BIZ eREeoRY zINovIEv.
Continued from previous issue.)
The Situation in the Individual
Capitalist Countries.

Capitalist Countries.
T OCARNO alone however does not
- exhaust the Characterization of
the International situation. The i'm
perialists met at Locarno with the OBJ
ject of reconciling each and everyone.
Nevertheless, two government crises
arose at the same time Immediately
after Locarno, the first in Germany,
the other in France. These crises
throw fairly clear light on the situa-
tion in the most important countries
of Europe.
What is happening in England ?
Everyone knows that English indus
try is on the down grade, that the mo-
nopolist position held by English cap
italism in the European markets is
being destroyed. The revolutionizing
of the English working class, its fra
termination with our trade unions is,
at bottom, closely connected with the
crisis in English capitalism. This
could be illustrated by a number of
facts and figures.
T EFT us take the second most power
- full country in Europe, France.
She is passing thru period Of very
serious crisis. Bourgeois France is
suffering from the following severe
complaints: firstly. she is carrying on
two wars, in Morocco and Syria, two
real wars in which a quarter Of a mil.
lion of French soldiers are engaged
which are costing few millards OF
francs and the end of which is not yet
in sight In these two wars, the re.
volt Of the colonial people against
bourgeois France finds expression at
the same time. Secondly, France is
passing thru an extremely severe f.
nancial crisis. This Is the most fash,
ionable disease thru which most gov
ernments nowadays come a cropper
There is no unemployment in France,
on the contrary, France Is at present
employing 2.250,00O foreign workers
The basis of this industrial boom
however, is so unstable that II is com.
patible with the most alarming finan
cial crisis and the fact the country is
in the grip of severe financial fever
which places the French government
before the alternative of either carry
ing out serious conhscations of the
profits Of the largest financial mag
mates, or OF enduring an interminable
permanent financial crisis. The
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III viii Not Stand Investigation

House Of Morgan 1t would be foolish
to expect it to commit suicide.
We favor such an investigation only
because it would help to bring the
government into contempt thruout
the land. Teapot Dome would pale in
to insignificance in comparison with
such scandal
Economic Foundations of Fight.
THE basis for the fight to get the
United States into the world court
is not to be sought in sentimental
yearnings for peace as the pacifist
crew would have us believe, but in
the sordid material interests of Wall
Street. AS foreign investments in
volve this country more and more
in every crisis affecting any part of
the capitalist world, it becomes nee
essary to create political power suffi-
cient to protect financial interests.
The United States government can
not stand aside from the various at
tempts of the European nations to
utilize the machinery of the league of
nations and the world court for their
own imperialist aims and expect to
overawe these institutions. The House
of Morgan is confident it's great finan-
cial power will soon dominate the
court and the league and hopes to
make them agencies thru which Wall
Street may dominate the world. 1t is
preposterous to expect Morgan to re-
frain from forcing his government
into league and court that has as
members all the debtor nations of
1 Europe.
Echoes of Locarno.
| DROPAGANDA in this country hail
4 ing Locarno as the achievement
of the ages is designed to create a
more sympathetic attitude toward Eu-
rope and it's problems. Furthermore,
the conference at Locarno displayed
tendencies that make it imperative
that Morgan strive to get the United
States into the world court and the
league. Besides the effort of England
TO create a European alliance against
the Soviet Union, and the desire of
the nations of continental Europe to
stabilize their economic life so that
Wall Street will grant them loans,
there ran thru the whole proceedings
! a resentment at the dominant role
of the United States as the banker of
the world. This tendency was plainly
indicated by bitter comments in the
leading London and Paris papers.
1 Since the last (sixth) assembly of
the league of nations held last Sep
TENDER, the great imperialist rival of
the United States, England has dom
mated the councils of that body. The
world court is used to formulate lie.
/ gal bases for the imperialist depreda.
lions of the league. The recent deci-
sion of the court granting the league
the right to determine the Turkish
boundary in Irak and the decision OF
the league in favor of that territory
which is under British mandate, in.
dicates to what uses the court may
be put in protecting and extending
the power of the nation that gains
domination of the council of the
! league
Those to Be Investigated.
! OUCH an investigation as the one
~ proposed by recalcitrant senators
] would involve leaders in practically
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DACIFIST supporters of the propo-
= sition that the United States en-
ter the world court should ponder
over the action of the senate We'd
nesday when that august body turned
down a proposition to create com
mittee to investigate the source of
funds used to propaganda the idea.
People resent an investigation when
they have something they must con-
ceal
Even the most superficial consider
alton reveals the possibilities of a
probe that would go to the very root
of the corruption involved in this
affair The swarms of lobbyists, pa
cifists, political con.men, preachers,
jurists, milhonaires, vegetarians, for
eign and domestic grafters and crooks
that infest the capitol seem to have
inexhaustable funds at their disposal.
Cynical observers at Washington
say members of the senate and house
who are present at the sixty-ninth
congress have only themselves to
blame if they do not take advantage
Of the opportunity to boone "indepen-
dent" financially for life.
With the farm crisis haunting the
Coolidge supporters who whooped it
up for prosperity in the last campaign
many of them feel that they may
not have another chance to get in on
the graft in congress so they are out
to get theirs while the getting is
good
Naturally, they consider it sheer inn
pudence that irresponsible senators
should so far forget their party allie
glance as to propose turning the light
of publicity into the recesses where
rest the millions of gold that WILL il
left to fulfill its purposes, eventually
! find its way into the pockets of the
/ faithful.
Billions for Brides.
/ WHILE the business of getting the
w United States into the world
court cannot be described as an indus
try, it is certainly the greatest com
mercial venture in this country at
! the present time. To trace the rami-
/ fications of the millions and probably
billions of the slush fund would re
quire months, possibly years. There
is not any vulnerable place that has
not been debauched by Morgan's
/ agents in this campaign. Defunct
| peace societies have been resurrected
| thru formerly disinterested parties
donating huge sums of money; strug
Cling newspapers have been rescued
from bankruptcy that they might
take up the task of creating public
sentiment" for the world court
churches have had their mortgages
| paid off and are now on the road tC
affluence-even tho their pews may
be empty-simply because the minis
ters suddenly see a great light Of
peace and universal brotherhood shin
ing from the vaults of gold in the 10
cal banks, which are a part of the Nor
gan system; labor leaders are sent tC
sanitariums where they can recuper
ate from their strenuous labors OF
betraying the workers into B. & o
| plans and other schemes of class col
| laboration.