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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-10

between the German workers and the
workers of Great Britain and the U.
S. S. r. There are no fiercer enemies
of unity than the German trade I'M
ions. And yet from the viewpoint OF
the most elementary everyday inter-
ests of the working class Of Germany,
agreement between the German, the
British and Soviet unions could be
Of gigantic Importance. II the leaders
of the German trade union movement
had the least notion of these simple
elementary things, they would per-
force follow a different path. In the
meantime we see that the German
trade unions offer categorical resis-
lance to the least attempt to arrive
at an agreement with the Soviet un-
ions ON the question of unity. They
carry proudly their yellow patriotic
banner. One can truly say that there
are no greater enemies of the father
land than the socalled patriots. This
also applies to the social-democrats.
Much was said In Breslau about
real politik, economic democracy and
immediate achievements. But the
German social-democrats and trade
union bureaucrats show that there was
nothing real in all the talk about real
politik. We have already seen whence
real" politik of the German social
democrats has led the working class Oh
Germany. Just one more example. It
is well-known that Germany is at
present republic. But the ex-emperor
Wilhelm demands that the German
state should return all his property
Castles, land, valuables, etc. After
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-10

A BILLY SUNDAY edition Of Henry
n Ford, minus that evangelist's cuss
words and withdrawing arms, this
is the celebrated Arthur Nash, of the
Golden Rule" clothing company OF
Cincinnati, alias the Nash Clothing
company, as he appeared last Sunday
afternoon at the open forum at the
Apollo Theater. Smooth in method OF
speech as the white locks of hair
which adorn his brow, this mild-man-
nered old hypocrite consumed a whole
hour in telling how he and God had
conceived the idea of clothing fac
tory conducted on the principles of
hrotherly love, and how, with the
Diety's assistance, he had harangued
chambers of commerce and manufac-
turers' associations all over America
trying to convert these hard-boiled
businessmen to a similar cody alli-
ance.
1t seems that Nash's career in solv-
ing all the questions arising from the
class struggle in modern society arose
from his falling from grace as a Sew
enth Day Adventist. Having surren-
dered all hope of the second coming of
Christ, he decided to get rich and so
after wandering around for some
years as a tramp, he finally took over
a contract clothing shop in Cincinnati
in the year 1919. This shop had been
paying the old women and crippled
girls who composed its force the NUM-
ficent sum of 81 to Sc week. 1t con-
tinued to lose money and so in order
to avert bankruptcy Nash and his wife
prayed one night: God, If there is a
god, show me the way, and l will walk
in it." This was easy for god who
apparently told him to raise the wag-
es, for Nash continued with the state
ment that by increasing the pay to
S12 a week the shop commenced to
make money and the workers became
exceedingly happy. Prior to this in
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trade union bureaucrats, together with
their party, are all the time saving
the fatherland, but their manner Of
salvation plunges the workers of Ger
many and Germany herself deeper
and deeper into the abyss.
We will only take four examples
from the brilliant, wise and patriotic
activity of these loyal subjects of
their kaiser and their Hindenburg.
1. The German social-democracy
and trade unions came out strong for
the war In 1914. Owing to this policy
the war was protracted for several
years. This resulted in hundreds of
thousands of killed and millions of
invalids for the German people. Even
from the viewpoint of national in
terests, opposition to the war by the
German socialdemocrats would have
been more advantageous for their
fatherland. This would have saved
Germany from the famous Versailles
treaty.
2. During the Brest-Litovsk nego-
tiations, the German social.democrats
and trade union bureaucrats supported
their kaiser II these leaders of the
labor movement had even twopenny-
worth of political acumen they would
have vigorously opposed the Brest-
Litovsk treaty; they would have in
sisted on the conclusion of a demo-
cratic peace with the Russian revolu-
ton. This would have led to the disin-
tegration of the allied front and
would have thereby made the Yer
sailles treaty impossible.
3. After the Versailles treaty the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-10
new YORK FUR
WORKERS TAKE
STRIKE VOTE
Prepare for Struggle
Against Bosses

NEW YORK, Feb. S.-(FP)-By a
10 to one vote union of fur workers
of New York are ready to strike when
the joint board sets the hour. The
referendum recorded the largest num-
Der of votes known in the union for
years: 1856 total, 6,702 for strike,
629 against, 35 void A strike com
mittee has been chosen and will as
sumo full charge as soon as the strike
is called.
Greek fur manufacturers are con-
ferring with the union on the same
demands presented other employers.
Whether the Greek employers will
take the stand of the other employers
against the union and force the strike
to be general in the New York market
remains to be seen.
A special pamphlet issued by the
joint board gives union demands with
explanations. Chief demands are: 40
hour week, 32-hour week in slow sea-
son, equal division of work all year
instead of the three months now pro-
yided, unemployment insurance to
which every manufacturer contributes
go of total wages paid, punishment
of employers breaking agreement, ESQ
increase over minimum wages, no sec
ton contracting, no corporation shops
or retailers to be given contracting,
no foreman to work at the trade,
manufacturers must use only skins
prepared in union shops with union
labels, first of May holiday, and shop
inspection by business agents.
The union offered to compromise
on equal lewiston of work, extending
the three months period but not
necessarily for the full two years
Manufacturers publicly denied that
such a proposal was made and are
virtually forcing the strike. The de
mand limits freedom Of employers to
hire and fire. Manufacturers have
Disseminated against active unionist;
by discharging them under the ex
cuse business requirement" allowed
by the old agreement. Enforcement
of the union contract was made yer!
difficult with this loop-hole allowing
employers to discharge any worke1
who complained of abuses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-10
By James H. DoIsen
Nash.HiIIman-ood.

Nash-Hil lman-God.
THIS is the same Nash who in 1919
i fought bitterly all efforts to union
ize his shop and who paid his work
ers the starvation wage of $12 and
S14 a week at that time. Then he was
also a member of the Manufacturers
Association Of Cincinnati, which was
trying to make the city an open shop.
After Nash's sudden conversation
with God in 1919, he states that he
went around the country trying to con-
vert his fellow-exploiter to the belief
in the Brotherhood of Man, bus the
latter refused to give up their wol
ship Of the Golden Calf. So enrapt
is Nash now in the application of the
Golden Rule via A. Nash Clothing
company that he has become a bosom
friend and right-hand advisor of Sid
ney Hillman, president of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers. Indeed,
next to Jesus Christ stands Hillman,
according to Nash. Hillman must
have somewhat the feeling which the
German Kaiser had when he referred
to himself and God.
Nash is going to Louisville, the
Waterloo for so many years of the
Amalgamated, to help organize that
city, according to his speech. 1t ought
to be some organization when Gods
right hand man, Sidney Hillman, and
the latters earthly associate, Golden
Rule Nash, get to work among the
clothing workers of that southern city.
aboration-religiou evangel-
ism-how has the mighty Amalgamat-
ed fallen to resort to such claptrap in
meeting the class struggle in America.
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Nash-H illman-God

crease, however, Nash said his wife
had commented on the fact that after
all 81 a week was something for Grip
pied girls and old ladies to thank God
for"
Profits Pile Up.
WITH the wage scale increase to
w $12 week, everything went love-
ly. The deficit of $4,000 a year was
wiped out, for now the old ladies and
the cripples turned out three times
as much work as before. In that very
first year business totaled the sum Of
s500,00O. Two years later, in 1921, it
had grown to S2,577,000, increasing
yearly by over million a year until
1924 when it jumped $3,500000 to 49,
245,000. Last year, 1925, it reached
S12, 2S4,000. ae
Now here is where the Golden Rule
comes in. Out of the profits of the
business last year, Nash said there
was distributed to his 5000 employees
the huge sum Of $4,000. This is an
average of So each. The foxy old
fellow did not say, however, whether
the distribution was equal to all or
whether some got a good deal and
the most, nothing.
Another indication Of the slippery
methods Of this old hypocrite was IN
his statements concerning the distri'
button Of stock to employees. In his
talk he had declared that over so per
cent of the company's stock was in
the hands of the workers. In the ques-
tioning he stated that 500 Of the en-
ployes held this majority of the stock,
and that they had elected him as their
proxy in voting the shares at the an
nual stockholders meetings. And not
a worker in the audience, comprising
many tailors, got the significance OF
his statements. Nash is the absolute
dictator of the concern, the stock held
by the workers only giving them the
Illusion of ownership and binding
them the more thoroly to the job OF
grinding out profits for their boss.
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To wake Henry Dubb--
Send in that subj


the dream of the German trade union
congresses, but up to the present
nothing has come of it.
Already at the Congress Of German
trade unions in Nuremburg in 1919
an attempt was made to define this
famous economic democracy. At that
time it was a question of workers
participation in the administration Of
the economic life of the country on
a parity basis, with the retention of
the entire capitalist system with its
banks, trusts. etc. The whole matter
resolved itself into the system of So
called business, namely the class
truce. These real politicians INDUCED
in utopian plans as shown by the
further trend Of events in Germany.
In circles where socialism only exists
in name one is prone to speak POM
pously of the equality of rights in in
dustry. OF economic democracy, etc.
Such pompous advocates of economic
democracy can also be found in Bel
GUM, France, Great Britain and other
countries. But nothing has come OF
these pompous declarations for tho
simple reason that the problem OF
administering industry is not solved
by legislative, parliamentary means
or by voluntary agreement OF both
sides. The problem Of administering
industry is solved by means OF strug-
gle; Il is only as result Of victory
over the bourgeoisie that the proleta-
riat win get an opportunity to ad.
minister industry and only after that
will one be able to speak about eco.
monte democracy.
Ito Be Continued Tonrorrow.l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-10
Machines Clean New
York's Streets; Many
Workers Are Displaced

NEW YORK. Feb. 8.-FP)-Altho
$4,000 men are busy shovelling snow
from New York streets now, next
years storms will see more machines
and fewer men on the job. The
snowloading machines which fill a
five ton truck in three minutes by
endless chain is proving such a success
in its first tryout that the present
% used will be increased TO 100 or
more by next season. Crosswalk
cleaners and snow plows are other
mechanical devices which take more
hand shovelling jobs from the many
unemployed workers.
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Translated into totals this means
that 619,6O4 American miners in a
single shift would produce nearly
half again as much coal as 2,1S5,459
miners in the other regions shown
in the table. If we take all regions
in Europe for which figures are avail
able we get 2,32S,S97 miners with a
daily capacity of 2,O95,1S0 tons. Com
pare this with 619,6O4 American min
ers having a daily capacity of $685.
900 tons.
Forced to Produce More.
The productivity of the American
miner has increased from 1851 tons
per shift in 1913 to 4.56 tons per shift
in 1924, an increase of more than ESQ.
This increase has come in spite of
some reduction in the average length
of the working shift
Reasons assigned by the bureau for
this decline in the productivity of the
European miner include "the diff
Guilty of resuming systematic, we'll
regulated work after years of military
service; exhaustion of nervous energy,
irritation over nonfullfilment of too
liberal promises made to ex-soldiers;
resentment against the war profiteers
with their ill-gotten riches; and gen.
eral labor unrest"
Regular working shifts were reduc-
ed turnout Europe during the war
years, from S15 to hours in Ger
many, from 81 to ~ hours in Eng
land and from 8 to hours in most
other regions. The shorter hours are
still in effect except in Germany
where pressure to meet reparations
payments has forced an increase to
hours day.
The chief effort in the industry
thruout Europe, according to the bu-
reau, is to lower production costs in
order to cut the price of COAL 1t says:
1.-THE measures taken so far have,
however, not been successful. Mine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-10
TEXTILE BARONS
OPEN factories
I'M The SOUTH
Bosses Shut Down Mills
III North
BY ART SHIELD
Federated Press)

NEW YORK, Feb. S-While New
England mills limp along the South
ern textile industry expanded last
year by another 100000 capital in
vestment. The new plant capacity,
built or contracted for, in 1925, will
mean another S76,352 spindles.
This information is conveyed in a
survey report by G. L. Miller and
company, investment bankers. 1t is
intended for business eyes only but it
has a meaning for the labor unions.
Power in the industry depends on con-
troll of the South.
Northern Capital Goes South.
Northern capital is behind this
southern expansion. The bankers re-
port lists some of the big northern
companies who put up new mills in
the south last year. We see the Pep
perelI Mills, whose $500 employees at
Biddeford, Maine, are on strike, be-
ginning a $1,000, 900 plant in Opelika
Alabama, wither they announce they
will move $4,000 spindles and SOS
looms. The Borden Mills, of Fal
River, Mass have moved their ma
chinery to a new plant at Kingsport
Tenn, where $4,000 spindles viii
soon be busy. The West Boylestor
Manufacturing company of Easthamp
ton, Mass, has purchased the Crow
Mills of Dalton, Ca, where it is alst
erecting afnew $1,OOO,OO0 mill. TIL,
Appleton company of Lowell, Mass
purchased THE sBrogan Mills of Ander
son, S. c. and is planning 100000
extension! Other cases are given an,
the bankers add that the list can b
expanded Indefinitely.
Open Rayon Mills.
Eighteen, millions of the fifty mil
lion dollar expansion went into thu
Rayon artificial plants of du Point
Viscose and American Bemberg inter
ests and later additions will bring tn
sum to $4O,0OO,O0O.
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several years OF legal proceedings the
supreme court of the German republic
has irrevocably decided to return to
Wilhelm II all that belonged" to
him. And do you know at what this
property is estimated? At 800 million
gold marks. Thus the ex-kaiser will
receive for his services to the father
land 800 million gold marks. Such are
the results of the real politik Of the
German sociaLdemocrats and of the
trade unions under their control with
respect to saving Germany from Boil
shevism. But the trade union bureau
Gratis could not rest content with real
politik alone. One had after all to say
something about the future, about
ideals. With this object in view the
item economic democracy was
placed on the agenda of the congress.
But no one gave clear explanation
OF what this really means.
Economic democracy was presented
to the congress in order to provide
the disillusioned workers with an
ideal. as stated by Tarnov, one of the
most reactionary leaders of the Ger
man trade union movement. But what
is in fact this economic democracy?
The meaning OF the resolutions adopt
ed with respect TO 1t is that the con-
gress demands, or rather aspires to,
the establishment locally in the dis
tricts and in the centre Of economic
councils on which employers and
workers are TO be equally represented.
This reformist utopia is for some
reason or other called real politik.
This has been already q long time
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Santa Barbara carpenters local union.
1t would seem that men, listening
to the long, traitorous letter being
read, who, on taking the obligation
requisite to becoming members, have
been assured that this will in no
way interfere with your religious be-
liefs, political opinions" etc., could
not help but feel a deep resentment
towards Hutcheson and his machine,
regardless of their opinions of the or
CARNATIONS attacked.
Whatever The DAILY WORKER
may have said of Hutcheson and his
lackeys is mild compared to what
members of his organization are think
ing and expressing privately. Certain
ly If any carpenter ever doubted that
Hutcheson and his gang are hirelings
Of the powers that be" this latest
crack ought to remove the last vestige
Of doubt from their minds.
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left WING is SHOWING RENEWED
ACTIVITY IN PENNSYLVANIA

PITTSBURGH SThe of the labor movement in
life activity There
pointing darkest
willing let the bosses have things their
Union
American trade
to
workers union also endorsed the plan
The
funds to the striking anthracite
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-10

workers wages, which form the larg-
est item in the costs of production,
are already very low and the miners
organizations have so far successfully
opposed all wage cuts. The mine
owners therefore demand that the
duration of the shift be Increased. But
it is very hard to make an increase
in the hours of labor plausible to
miners when they know that there
is an overproduction of coal and that
thousands of miners are out of work"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-10
Article II.
BY A. LosoVSKY,

Secretary Of the Red international Of
Labor Unions.
IF the reactionaries Of French trade
i unionism found it necessary to
carry on their calss-truce policy under
cover OF revolutionary phraseology,
the German Amsterdamers did not
consider. it necessary to make use OF
fg-leaves. 1t may be truly said that
the Breslau (German) congress was
the most reactionary of all congresses
ever held on German territory. Almost
seven years have passed since the
German revolution, when power was
in the hands of socialdemocracy and
of the trade unions. During these
seven years the German socialdemo-
Gratis and trade union bureaucrats
have maneuvred so skilfully that the
German republic is as indistinguish.
able from monarchy as two peas
from one another and the German
proletariat has become the European
coolie. / remember the conversation
which had in 1920 with Legien In
capacity OF delegate OF the All-Russian
Central Trade Union council. Legien
said: "The trade unions could assume
power at any moment, but we don't
want IT," In answer to my question
"Why?" he replied that the proleta-
riat must make use OF everything
that Is healthy and progressive in
the present social order He said:
THE German proletariat is not yet
capable OF controlling the economy
OF the country-threfore we are not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-10
AMERICAN MINERS PRODUCE MORE
COAL PER MAN THAN EUROPEAN
WORKERS; UNEMPLOYMENT GROWS
By LELAND oLDs, Federated Press.

productivity American coal miners compared with
world emphasized reported
monthly
main
by the Workers.
production Amer
daily
times production the
French mines nearly times that in
showing
countries
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assuming power but are compelling
the state to serve the working class"
These tactics have produced brilliant
results in the last few years. What
has become of all the talk about So
cialization which filed the pages of
the social-democratic and trade union
press during the first years of the
revolution? What has become of the
boasting statements with respect to
the organization of he economy Of the
country? And finally what has become
of the eight-hour day which seemed
to be the inalienable possession of
the German proletariat? All this has
vanished and on the surface there has
remained the most prosaic linden
burg rule to which the German social
democrats and trade union bureau
Gratis are adapting themselves exceed
ingly we'll.
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That worker next door to you
may not have anything to do to.
night. Hand him this copy Of the
DAILY WORKER.
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SANTA BARBARA CARPENTERS UNION
FILE HUTCHESONS DRIVEL ON REDS

SANTA lengthy recently
sent out by Hutcheson general president and Duffy
United Brotherhood
the activities of the Workers Educational
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Reiohstag Committee for League.
BERLIN, Feb. S.-The reichstag
committee on foreign affairs has voted
an approval Of the entrance Of Ger
many into the league Of nations.
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THE congress was held under the
4 slogan of real polite and the
abandonment Of all utopia and sense
less hopes and dreams. With an out
spokenness, for which we can only be
grateful, one of the leaders OF the
German trade union movement, Her
man Mueller, declared:
I'VE trade unionists always recog.
nize our responsibility to society. 1t
is we who erected the dam against
the Bolshevik food. It Is we who
saved Germany from Bolshevism"
Has the German proletariat profited
by this? This is what Herman Mueller
and his colleagues forgot to tell the
congress. On the whole the German
Evening star., 1926-02-01
ELEANOR A. SMALL
| EXPIRES IN HOSPITAL
Daughter of Newspaper Writer
Dies After Operation-Had
Planned Stage Career,

Miss Eleanor Arnold Small II years
old, daughter of Robert Il. Small, spe-
cial writer for the Consolidated Press
Association, died at the Episcopal
Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital yester-
day after an illness OF one month fol-
lowing an operation on her tonsils.
Two additional operations We're resort
ed to without success.
Miss Small was the granddaughter
of the late Rear Admiral Charles ID.
Sigsbee, commander of the Maine, and
Of Rev. Samuel W. Small. noted South
ern evangelist and editor. She had
come to Washington from New York.
where she was preparing for q stage
career, to spend the holiday with her
parents, and had expected to return
to her work early in January follow
ing the operation.
Since making her professional debut
last Summer at the harvest maverick
festival given by New York artists
and musicians from the Summer
colony at Woodstock, y. Y, Miss
Small had been giving dancing recitals
and preparing for q stage career.
Surviving her are her father. her
mother. Mrs. Ethel Sigsbee Small
niece of Rear Admiral kittelle of the
| Navy. and three sisters. Miss Eliza
beth Sigsbee Small. Miss Marjorie
Sigsbee Small and Miss Jean Arnold
| Small.
Funeral services will be conducted
| At the home of the parents, 300 tathe
draI avenue, tomorrow afternoon at
O'Clock Rev Paul Sperry OF the
! Church of the Holy City, viii ofhclate