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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
French Government PERSECUTES
SPANISH IMMIGRANT WORKERS

tempts to get "El Proletario" shut
down by the French government met
with sympathy from Sarraut, the pres
ent Minister for home affairs in
France, and were crowned with sue
cess in the Summer of this year. By a
decree of the 18th of June, Sarraut,
fulfilling the instructions Of the Span
ish imperialists, shut down Gel Probe
ttrio", and, not content with this, for
babe the publication of any sort of
Spanish organ ''cf a similar tendency
in the whole Seine department.
The Press Re-appears.
The Spanish immigration however,
did not lose heart, but embarked upon
intensive collections and began to pub
ish a new "Bi-monthly organ for
Spanish workers in France"-''V Vida
Obrera" workers Life) in Charities,
the first number of which came out
on the 31st of July last. Primo de
Rivnra's government, however, now
celebrating its victory over the prole-
tariat with cynical derision, achieved
the prohibition by the French govern
ment of this organ also in the begin
ming of September last.
Illegal Press Necessary.
Only one course remains open to
Spanish immigration-the illegal pub
LEGATION of its organ. It will insist
upon its rights to expound it's political
views freely and will never cease from
the struggle with the illegal dictator
ship strangling the Spanish people and
inhaling the incense of self-praise. 1t
will not be dismayed by those illegal
repressions practiced against it by the
French democratic" government,
which, at the bidding of the Spanish
despots, refuse to Spanish immigration
freedom of speech and the press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
AID WORKERS PARTY CAMP AICN FUND

What have done help Workers Communist Party
campaign?
What has your organization supply the funds with
which to carry campaign?
What have done to raise money amongst YOUR shon
mates? F
The Workers (Communs) Party your help at once
there are just few weeks Much must be done
10 print literature arrange indoor rallies get special
of The DAILY WORKER and Freheit. etc.
Don't wait-dO it at once.
Fill out the blank below with your contribution and forward
TO the Workers Party District Office E. 18th ST. Civ
William W. WeinstOne, Street City,
Enclosed please find for the election
campaign My ........................
Make all checks payable to VIM W. Weinstone
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Broadway Briefs

The Civic Repertory Theatre will
open their season this evening at
their playhouse on Fourteenth Street
with 'The Good Hope" The Heller
mans play will be repeated on
Wednesday matinee, Thursday and
Saturday evenings. Two other plays
will be given this week, "The Cradle
Song" Wednesday night and Satur-
day matinee and LA Locandiera" on
Friday night.
The A ctn1,s En1litu nn11al Rail will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Women Discover PAN
American League Is
Agent Of Finance

WASHINGTON. Oct. 17.-When
the Washington representative of the
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom called upon DR..
Leo S. Rowe, director Of the Pan
American Union, to promote a plan
for neutral supervision of the com
ing election in Nicaragua, Rowe
lodged the issue. He said that the
union deals only with constructive
things"
Kellogg To Pick Man.
Nicaragua, whose liberal govern
ment was overthrow by a military
coup, and whose liberal attempt to
restore constitutional government
was repressed last winter and spring
by an American fleet and land force,
has been promised presidential cleo
ton in 1928. Secretary Of State Kel-
logg is considering plans for running
chat election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

EDITORS NOTE:-This ar
ticle by RaIberto Roschez, one of
the ablest members of the Central
Committee of the Communist
Party of Mexico was received by
mail, which accounts for the delay
in publication. 1t is valuable in
asmuch as it explains the class
forces involved in the Mexican
struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
~ ''DRAMA IN
The Golf-Bug's Meat
Frank Craven in "The 10Th Hole" at Cohan's
Pleases the the Pill Chasers

THIS is a story of a perfectly nor
NAL professor who strayed from
the path of domestic fidelity when
he joined country club after taking
a chance on two high balls, in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

company of several
golf bugs who golfed
in order to drink
and drank in order
to golf.
When Mr.. Verno
Chase Crank Cra-
ven) rented a sub
urban home his time
was occupied writ
ing articles for the
magazines and stu
H. IL - 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
be held at the Hotel Astor, Saturday
evening, November II.

be held at the Hotel Astor, Saturday
evening, November II.
Gilbert Miller definitely announces
that Max Reinhardt had signed the
final contracts for the New York
Reinhardt season which is scheduled
for next month.
The 400th performance of "The
Squat" was celebrated at the 48th
Street Theatre on last Thursday
night.
Walter Hampden, who is playing in
can Enemy of the People," at the
Hampden Theatre, tells US that the
Ibsen play is doing very well, and the
crowds are enthusiastic.
Cables Irish Rose" will close it's
engagement at last, and the Republic
Theatre, where that perennial comedy
has been making history for more than
five years, will have another occu-
pant. The successor is Edward Knob
locks comedy, "The Mulberry Bush"
which A. II. Woods will present in
association with Charles Dillingham;,
on Oct. 25. The last play to occupy
the Republic Theatre before "Abie"
moved in in May, 1922 was also
Woods production, Lawful Larceny"
by Samuel Shipman.
! Betty Linley has joined the Garrick
Players for the modern dress pro-
duction of "The Tanning of the
Shrew," which opens at the Garrick
Theatre, October "a.
Laurette Taylor is to be starred in
new play by J. Hartley Manners.
The plays present title is Delicate
Justice"
The Acting Company Of the Amer
lean Laboratory Theatre has COM
menced rehearsal on CDR. Knock" by
Jules Romans, and much Ado About
Nothing" under the direction of
Richard Boleslavsky.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
WHAT THE DAILY WORKER MEANS TO The WORKERS
More Eneouraging Contributions Emergency Fund
nrle. fcollected) Chicago,

Jos. Hamrle, (collected) chicago,
James Kanter, Chicago, III. 900
Louis Berman, Baltimore, Nd. 200
The Siegel Family, Ontario,
California .........,.......I.O U
NJ. Martinsen, (collectedD Long
Cove Maine .............'l.t0
N. Gardenberg, Boston, Mass, 200
Ernest Wefnduson, Brooklyn,
N. Y. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .l.OO
Mrs. F. Miller, Bozeman, Mont. 100
S. S. 3E-4s, New York City 5000
A.L.W.L. Assn. Br. No. 4, Port
land, Ore .,...............9.0O
Samuel Kass, New York City 200
Thomas Culhone, Kelly Lake,
MINI. ...................5.OO
Martin Saline, Minneapolis, MINI. 200
E. W, Denver, Colo. ........,.1.00
D. K. Georgieff, Chico, Idaho 800
J. K. Georgieff, Chico, Idaho ... 800
S. N. Kieldgieff, Chico, Idaho 800
Anthony Madeira, (collected)
Camden, N. J. ............ $50
Miss E. Fox, Chicago. Ill. .....,3.00
Mike Slovich, collected Chicago,
M
III. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Pete Oechoff, Milwaukee, Wis. 1900
J. Maximovich, Detroit, Mich. 800
C. F. WI, Madison, Wis. ......$.50
James Vellos, Brockton, Mass. loo
Peter Dessi, Brockton, Mass. 100
Kris Arnoson, Los Angeles, Calf. 200
Irene Losmind, (collected) Chi
cage, III. ...............3.5
Charles Meyers, Toledo, Ohio 100
Cora P Wilson, San Jose, Calf. 100
Collection at City Park meet, San
Jose, Calf. MISREPRESENTATION
Carl Christofferson, Kahlotus,
Washington .............5.00
En-. Lanere, Kahlotus, Wash. 100
N. Racanell, Kahlotus, Wash. ZOO
L. Minton, Kahlotus, Wash 100
Nick Gobis, Kahlotus, Wash. loo
Thomas Flores, Kahlotus, Wash. LOO
Sam Nikitich, Kahlotus, Wash. LOO
John Arthofer, Kahlotus, Wash. 100
Edward Gebson, KahIotus, Wash. 100
Reno Dam, Kahlotus, Wash. 100
Fred Kick, Butte, Montana .....1.0O
Henry Lepisto, Astoria, Ore. 800
F, Helmreich, San Francisco,
CANT. Observation-Disclosures. 200
Chas. P. Fletcher, Catham, N. J. 100
D. Rosenkrantz, Brooklyn, N. Y 200
Cleveland Lettish Workers Ed.
Club, Cleveland, Ohio. ....12.5O
VIM. Mollard, Furtleford, Canada 200
John Sonik, Furtleford, Canada 200
Sam johnson, Cleveland, Ohio 200
c. buds, Cleveland, Ohio ......1.OO
Anna Johnson, Cleveland, Ohio. 100
W. Behrse, Cleveland, Ohio LOO
P. Hack, Edmonton Alberta, Can
Paul Kriskow, Anaconda, Mon
tana ...................1.OO
G. Peso, Anaconda, Montana 100
NJ. Horn, Anaconda, Montana 100
+. Gregurich, Anaconda, Montana so
N. Trkla, Anaconda, Montana LOO
e, Tampfer, Los Angeles, Calf. 500
Bakery & Confectionery Local
201, Philadelphia, Pa. 1000
Geo. Bloxam, (collected) Spo-
kane, Wash. recommendation
NJ. Skomorowski, Chicago, III. $40.
c. Tosheff Herman, (collected)
Detroit, Mich. 500.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

Laurette Taylor is to be starred in
a new play by J. Hartley Manners.
The plays present title is Delicate
Justice"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

Betty Linley has joined the Garrick
Players for the modern dress pro-
duction of "The Tanning of the
Shrew," which opens at the Garrick
Theatre, October "a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

The Actors Equity Annual Ball will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

3. Tampfer, Los Angeles, Calf. 500
Bakery & Confectionery Local
2O1, Philadelphia, Pa. 1000
Geo. Bloxam, (collected) Spo-
kane, Wash. 1000
NJ. Skomorowski, Chicago, III. $40
c. Tosbeff Herman, (collected)
Detroit, Mich. 500
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

Walter Hampden, who is playing in
Gan Enemy of the People," at the
Hampden Theatre, tells us that the
Ibsen play is doing very well, and the
crowds are enthusiastic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Suppression.

The military bourgeois dictatorship
however, expressing the Spanish
3cople, could not be Indifferent to this
abor organ 50 courageously exposing
is black and illegal actions. It's at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

The 400th performance of "The
Squall" was celebrated at the 48th
Street Theatre on last Thursday
night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

Gilbert Miller definitely announces
that Max Reinhardt had signed the
final contracts for the New York
Reinhardt season which is scheduled
for next month.
The producers news., 1927-06-10

Tolls exacted by the country's
banker overlords reached a record IN
the year ended June 80, 1926, accord
ing to the annual report of the feder-
al reserve board on the earnings and
expenses of member banks. The re-
port shows these member banks with
1926 profits totaling S434, 100000, a
gain of $56,O05,O0O (about 1870 over
1925.
These profits represent a return OF
1870 on the capital funds of these
banks which total $4,842,687 900. The
capital funds include surpluses and
undivided profits as we'll as the 81
203, ,447,0 900 outstanding capital stock
On the capital stock alone the aver
age return was 1870 compared with
1870 on the outstanding stock in 1925
The reserve board says:
This is thhe highest rate of re-
turn that has been received in any
year since 1920. The actual dollar
amount of net profits for the past
year was larger than for any other
fiscal year on record, but the rate
of return expressed as a percentage
of total capital funds was consider
ably below the record figures for
the fiscal years of 1919 and 1920
owing to some growth in the vol
The producers news., 1927-06-10
ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL EDU-
CATION
Continued from last week.

II. WHAT THEN is FINANCE CAPITAL?
On the basis of all the foregoing it is not hard
now to give definition of the conception of fin
ance capital, which forms the motive power and
the essence of modern capitalism.
Finance Capital is the Banking Capital of
few of the biggest mOnOpOIist banks, which has
become welded together with the capital of the
monopostic alliances of industrial capitalists in
the form of trusts, syndicates, cartels and great
modern corporations
Finance capital is thus modern product of
capitalism and presupposes a very high stage of
concentration both of banking as well of in
dustrial capital, which must first develop within
themselves monopolistic organizations which have
freed themselves from competition and are undiv-
ided rules of the markets which they have seized.
The native lands and typical countries of fin
ance capital are America and Germany.
In these countries came first of ALL and stronger
than anywhere, the development of the various
monopolstic unions of industrial capitalists the
one hand, and on the other hand the mification
of the banks and their merging with industry took
place completely than anywhere else.
In France, where banking capital is strongly
developed and predominant, but where industry
has reached development insufficient in compar-
ison, such high stage of finance capital as IN
the United States of America has not yet been
reached. France before the war was the banker
of the whole world, and now banking capitals plays
predominant role there but industrial capital
has not yet developed to such degree that bank
ing capital should find in it its most advantage
Gus investment.
England in regard to development of finance
capital occupies position nearer to America thar
does France.
Finance capital is often identified with banking
capital the distinguishing feature of finance cap
ital is seen in the subordination of industry b.
banking capital, and the development of the lat
ter is taken as the original source of the phe
nomena which are to be observed in modern cap
italism
This conception of finance capital is incorrect
Under finance capital there takes place not
subordination, but merger of industrial capita
with banking capital; and furthermore, this mer
ger is realized only when banking capital is con
centrated in the bands of one or very few banks
and industrial capital has reached high stag
of concentration in the form of great trusts, syr
dicates, and big corporations which are monopf
: lists in industry and on the market.
9 Furthermore although the concentration OF cal
ital and monopoies develop both in industry an
), IN banking, the first cause and motive power
nevertheless not the banks, but industry.
/ (To be continued next Week)
The producers news., 1927-06-10
Speedup Gobbles Jobs

'The index numbers as to wage
earners are computed from census
reports which are complete and
comparable. The census method of
estimating population is considered
exact, hence the number of wage
earners per 1000 of population must
be- close to correct. There are many
industries not included in the index
of manufacturing production, but
the industries included are so broad
in scope that there is no reason to
question the representative charac-
ter of the figures"
The change in the number Of wage
earners has varied widely. In 1872!
blast furnaces employed only 7O1%
as many workers as in 1919. Fo,
slaughtering and meat packing th'
figure was 1880, for tobacco pro
ducts 84.1%6, rail equipment shop
$3.50, and glass factories $3.50. o.
the other hand the number Of baker
workers has increased to 1880 o
1919, clay products to 1890 an
planning mills to 1890. The hug
growth of the automobile industr
has lifted employment in that indus
try to a level 323% above 1919 i
spite of great increases in the pre-
ductivity of labor. But to the eXteT
that sales rest on partial paymeT
plans they render the situation MOI
precarious.
The producers news., 1927-06-10

Again the spectre of population
largely parasitic, bearing down on
the shoulders of remaining productive
workers, looms as the elimination Of
American capitalist development. This
time it is raised by a U. S. depart
ment of labor analysis of recent CEN
sus date showing the extraordinary
trend of industry since 1910. Popula-
ton has steadily grown but greatly in
creased productivity of the individual
worker has cut down the number of
wage earners. The proportion of
wage earners to the total population
has gone down so sharply as to
threaten a crisis.
Between 1919 and 1926" says
the labor department, ''the number
of wage earners decreased 6.7@o yet
population increased $3.50. Wage
earners per 1000 population in 1925
were 1910 fewer than in 1919.
However while the number of wage
earners decreased between 1919 and
1925, there was an increase of 25%o
in the quantity of goods produced.
The great increase in the output o.
goods per wage Garner has come re
| Gently. The gain from 1923 to 1872!
amounts to 1880. Productivity pc
wage Garner in 1925 was 1870 great
er than in 1919
The department stresses the accur
acy of these figures. 1t says:
The producers news., 1927-06-10
America Suffers Golden Enlarge.
ment Of the Banking Heart

The leadership of the United
States in the development of world
capitalist empire is symbolized by
the mounting pile of gold which
serves as the basis Of all capitalist
transactions. On May l this coun-
try's gold stock reached the record
level of 4,6O9 ,305,OOO while additions
during May were expected to bring
the total up to S4,700,000,000 by June
1.
There has been general recognition
golden treasure hitherto unequaled in
that the world war brought America
the history of the worlds great en-
pires. But that the country's treas
ure pile has continued to grow, in
spite of warning that we already had
too much, has not been generally
known. The last years have seer
nearly S1,OO0,OO0,0OO in gold brought
from foreign lands.
Deducting the gold in circulation
the gold reserve held by the U. S
treasury and the federal reserve
banks is S4,O79, ,531, 900. This stock oi
gold held by federal institution does
not belong to the government but tt
the financial oligarchy centered a
round Wall Street. Using this fig
ure the gold holding of leading coun
tries at the end of 1913 and 1872
were:
The producers news., 1927-06-10

she could in the German war-she must have
help from the United States.
Optimistic people have been saying that another
war cannot be successfully promoted IN this
generation-we hoped they were true.
But already, the sword is rafting. Already
press and pulpit and bar tanning the flames OF
passion and hatred. Already the reds and pacl-
fists are being played down-because they are the
implacable enemies of the plunderbund. Soon
there will be wholesale arrests, soon the prison
will house those who are not mObbed or legally
murdered: then the war drums will beat the boys
of the working class will march into the trenches
liberty bonds or other kinds of bonds will be sod
and hell will break loose again and everyone VIII
be for it
Those that are not will be shot and the work
ing class boys will say they got what they de-
served. And the pockets of the exploiters VIII be
refilled, and the burdens of the workers increased
The producers news., 1927-06-10

The 1926 gold holdings of 40 cOun-
tries listed in the federal reserve ta-
BILE totaled S9,182,OOO,OOO. Of this
amount about 4496 was held in the
United States, 379o in 25 European
countries combined and 1870 in IA
other countries
The Wall Street Journal feels that
far from having too much gold, the
United States will have to acquire
still more in order to support the in
dustrial expansion it foresees. 1t
says:
"Greater volumes of gold are
likely to come to the United States
rather than to go elsewhere for the
simple reason that in no place else
! in the world can gold more safely
and prOfitably be employed in in
dustrial development. Viewed in
the light of the present state of
world industrial progress the Unit
ed States is by far the most highly
developed country. But in cOmpar-
isOn with our pOtentialities we are
as yet living in an undevelOped will
derness. Our soils and natural re-
sources have been hardly tapped"
Gold stocks are simply indicator
of the wealth that is created by la
Dor working on natural resources
Great gold stocks. accumulate wher
the worlds most successful exploiter
make their headquarters. They ar
the gold heart of predatory empire:
The producers news., 1927-06-10
EDITORIALS
BY LELAND OLDS
Federal Reserve Sweats Record
\1dln

ume of capital funds during the IN
tervening period"
The gross earnings of these banks
totaled 81, ,989, ,2S7,0O0, a gain of about
$40. 100000 over 1925. Of the total,
81 .679, 1927, 900 was collected as inter-
est by the banks on loans and invest
ments. The gross earnings OF mem
ber banks has increased more than
$685., 100000 since 1919.
By districts the net profits and
rates of return on capital stock OF
federal reserve member banks In the
wear ended June 80, 1926 were:
The producers news., 1927-06-10
= = s
WILLIAM FINCKE DIES

$ New York = CFP) = William Jam
3 Mann Fincke, devoted ~ 4
= speech defender. and memeei .Se
= the national committee OF ;on. On
. American Civil Liberties UniVia =
is dead. Fincke was arresIeu a'ane 4
a free speech test at Duesq"b gu he
in the 1919 steel strike. La,sn . ansook.
was one of the founders OF =, DiV Ma.
wood Labor College and the 7.
numit School in Paving, sngi.
He began life as a mining
neer.
The producers news., 1927-06-10

the Coolidge regime, is in full o..
with fascist tyranny abroad a. 0'Ofd
unspoken threat to the Anoos; an
workingman at home. If CooliJnoiNC y
reelected next year, the world Is
witness a thinly-veiled alliance may Y
world politics between America pli n
tain and Fascist Italy. D'l'
The producers news., 1927-06-10
A Joke on Conservative Labor

A Joke on Conservative Labor
A joke on American labor cOnserv-
atives and the Labor Party members
Of the Australian Industrial Delega-
tion now studying industrial condi-
tions and wages in this country was
perpetrated by the section Of Orga-
nized labor in Australia which sent
to this country a protest against the
manner in which these spokesmen for
labor had been chosen by the govern
ment. The impression was given that
the labor members of the delegation
we're too t"safe and sane"
When they came to Washington
after long two months of beng
shown nonunion factories and rail-
road shops, and being banqueted VITA
the rest of their party by chambers
of commerce, these labor spOkesnen
began to speak. 1t seemed that tney
were enthusiastic Labor Party mem,
bers, keen for discussion of vha'
Australian labor has done through So
cial legislation, government owner
ship, elimination of private prol9
and no end of heretical things. miss
May Matthews took the first Occa.
sion when she was invited to max
a speech before working women, Y
declare that the United States neeu3
militant working class party anu
! industrial unionism. j..
John Valentine, of the LOcomOu'
Enginemen of the State of Queens,
land, told of how the Labor Party y
his state had ruled with brilliant Sug y.
cess for the past II years, stli, steall,
improving the economic conallgIl u,
and the legislative safeguards OF y y,
workers while the general prospen.ji \
of the community forged ahead J., \
that of any other state in the TuI y, /,
monwealth. He was ready to talA '
any labor audience.
Few American Workers Interest," ),
: But these Australians found y, y,
interested auditors in the Anlsi|dl Il
2 capital. There was no genera q
t mand from trade union offlclals ,,rt i
i descriptions of the triumphs OF "O'
n ing class effort abroad.