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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-28
The New Wave Of Struggle in the |. |. G. W.U.

workers. These are the signs of the
new times. 1t is but natural that
the left wing gave expression to this
new development by getting the work.
ers together once more, as the first
expression in the campaign to recon-
struct the union.
There is new hope glimmering
amongst the workers. There must be
union! There will be one-and it
will not be with the left wing on the
outside, because in this industry such
q thing is impossible. Inside the A..
F. of L. if possible, outside if nee
essary. But the most important les
son is that the Madison Square Gar
den meeting, brought out the masses
even to the extent of $4,000, which
shows that after 10 months of fight
ing the left wing is still as strong as
ever and preparing for a fresh strug-
gle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-28
Whats WhotiaW ashin8ton
FASCIST CIRCLES RAVINC BECAUSE OF TROUBLE
OVER NATURALIZIEG NUSSOLINPS FOLLOWERS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (FP. -
Fascist circles are astonished and an
CRY because the issue as to whether
absolute" loyalty to Mussolini is con-
sistent with an oath of allegiance to
the United States has been raised by
a federal official in the case of some
Italians who were contemplating their
naturalization in a federal court in
Baltimore
True, the questions were asked by
minor official-Jesse M. Thomas,
director of naturalization for the Bal
timore district But when an attempt
was made to have the naturalization
bureau at Washington repudiate his
action, it was discovered that Com
missioner Crist saw no harm in find
irg out what the Italians understand
by the Fascist bond.
Blood Oath"
The terms of the Fascist oath of
obedience and loyalty to Benito Mus
solini were recently published in a
newspaper at the capital, and SO came
TO the attention of the commissioner.
While he says that his bureau has
no legal authority to interfere with
the gaining Of citizenship-since this
is matter for the court--the bureau
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-28

to build its strength has been disor-
ganized to such an extent that at this
time it is not the major factor it used
to be.
Employers Want A Suitable" Union.
Quite few of the employers eff
fected would like to see the union
back on its feet, but under safe di-
rection, for with all the support Sig
man got from the employers he could
not subjugate the workers. Thus the
bosses are disappointed. Schlessinger
is spoken of as the possible new Mes
siah by the employers and this has
it's effects amongst the bureaucracy.
Sigman is a failure, let's get Schles-
singer as peace-maker and presi-
dent with the good safe old clique of
MISUNDERSTANDING etc. But
who wants them? The workers are
beginning to talk reconstruction Of
the union. There is unity talk even
amongst the right wing registered
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-28
BY JOSEPH JACK.

IN September 10th, $4,000 ladies'
v garment workers responded to a
call of the New York Joint Board
for a mass meeting in Madison Square
Garden, New York's largest indoor
meeting place.
This happened 10 months after the
Sigman gang thru it's expulsion policy
and the resulting internal war had
annihilated the conditions in the shops
won thru years of struggle.
Breakdown of the Union.
The conditions in the ladies' gar
ment shops at present are Of a kind
that can only be compared with what
prevailed about is years ago and in
some respects they are worse. A great
number Of operators who made $55
per week as a minimum scale now
make $50 to $3G per week. AS to
hours of work there is practically no
limit-50 go, 20 hours per week
Piece-work, standard of production,
no overtime pay, arbitrary discharge
this is the way things are going.
Some shops that have moved out OF
Manhattan for cheaper production are
now giving up business out-of-town
as the exploitation in New York is
such that they cannot stand the com
petition. Thus it seems that one dream
Of the bureaucracy is coming true.
The industry is returning to New
York;
Chaos In Industry.
The breakdown of the union Gre
ated a condition of break-neck compe-
ton amongst the employers in which
the dozen or so jobbers that control
the ladies' garment market are the
chief beneficiaries. There is a dog-eat-
dog competition amongst the contrac-
tors. The inside manufacturers are
being driven to the wall more than
ever. Amongst the jobbers things are
not hunky-dory, either. All around,
its case of big dog eats small
dog.
The union, which could have fully
utilized this division amongst the en-
ployers in an industry which is still
in highly competitive stage was I'M
able to do so because of the corrupt
class collaboration policy of the
Schlessinger- Sigman- Forward bureau
cracy. As result the standards were
breaking down and the jobbing capi-
talists were becoming the oyer-lords
Of the industry. Now with the union
broken down completely by Sigman,
the union which could have been like
steel-rod in the situation and util-
lied the weaknesses Of the employers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-28
Young Sculptor Begins to
Express the Aspirations
Of Revolution in Marble
By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

THE Bolshevik Revolution has placed its stamp of
change upon practically every activity turnout the
Union of Soviet Republics. There is nothing sacred If
it can be improved
Thus, for instance the buildings that are going
up in Moscow follow peculiar type of architecture that
give maximum allowance of window space as one Of
its chief characteristics.
It is if supreme effort was being made to let in
all the daylight and sunshine possible
This is by way of introduction to writing something
about the pleasant meeting that had with the young
sculptor, 1Itofun RukevitchuGov at the Marx-Enges
Institute, the spacious halls and stair landings of which
are decorated with Of his work
It is felt that sculpture, up to the present tme has
not been able follow, fully respond to the nfu-
ence Of the Bolshevi Revolution The works of scup
tue have occupied the squares of Moscow since the
revolution have failed to show any considerable strength
They have had therefore, very little influence the
But there has been change here 1t is felt that
period of renaissance for sculpture is opening within
the Soviet Union Recent works beginning to show
a healthy state of sculpture, which is enrchng
itself with a revolutionary content.
One of the scuptors therefore, who is coming to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-28
THE REVOLUTION in MARBLE
Continued from column u

Continued from column u
the Second World Congress of the Communist Interns-
tional
In the days ahead the sculptors of the new regime
under the Soviet Union will hew in marble the herosm
of labors martyrs in days past inspiration to gen.
erations yet unborn who will come to complete the
building of the social order the beginnings of which
being laid.
Instead of the statue Of a car the sculptor in the
Soviet Union moulds the likeness of Babeuf who
first raised the banners of proetarian revolt in the
French Revolution of 1890 Thus the new life shakes
off the old, with all its mould and dust, and cobwebs
The scuptors in the Soviet Union join in bringing the
so-caled cline arts to useful and higher pur-
pose than they have served under the social systems
that have gone before.
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does question the applicants in court
in order that they and the judge shall
understand each other before the ap-
plicants swear allegiance to the
United States.
The only conditions under which the
alien must be refused citizenship, af-
ter other tests are met, are deliberate
intention to violate the oath of mem
bership in an anarchist group or be-
lief in the use Of assassination as q
political weapon here or abroad In
the questions asked at Baltimore-as
to whether the applicants were Ease
SITS or Intended to become Fascists-
there was just a hint that one Oh
both of these clauses might be in
voked.
Frazier on Indian Committee.
Senator Frazier of North Dakota
expelled by the Old Guard from the
Republican organization three years
ago as La Toilette Progressive, now
occupies the spacious quarters OF
chairman of the Senate Committee on
Indian Affairs. The Old Guard needs
his vote in organizing the new Sen
ate, and it has restored him to full
rights as a Republican.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-28
Morrow = A Friend in Need

of Bankers. 1t was Lamont who die
tated the terms under which the
Harding administration recognized
Obregon's government in Mexico.
Under the agreements negotiated
by Lamont, covering the national
debt and the Mexican National Rail
ways debt, the Mexican government
was obliged to pay the bankers to-
tai of $13050,OO0 during 1926. Now
that Mexican finances are weakened,
due to the drains upon them owing
to the reactionary catholic rebellion,
the U. S. government again puts for
ward it's face as implacable interest
collector for the House of Morgan.
If pressure is required it will be ap-
piled.
The very appointment of Morrow
is in itself a threat. Lamont acted as
'private citizen" Morrow is to be
official representative of the United
States government.
interpretations of the Morrow APP
pointment must take into account the
fact that Mexico is now in the midst
of presidential election campaign,
and Wall Street has always played
an important and sinister role in
Mexican politics. Former President
Oregon is again a candidate. Re
Numbering that he was obliged to
satisfy Lamont before his first gov
eminent was even recognized by
Washington, Oregon will have a
wholesome respect for the power of
Dwight Morrow and the demands he
may put forward. That there will be
demands" and that they are likely
to play their part in the influences
marshalled to determine the outcome
of Mexico's election campaign, no
one familiar with the past policy of
Wall Street and Washington in Mex
leo can doubt.
1t may be thought in some quarters
that if President Coolidge wished to
follow an aggressive policy toward
Mexico he would have appointed not
Morgan man but someone more
closely associated with the oil and
mining interests. However, James R.
Sheffield, Morrow's predecessor, who
was also appointed by Coolidge, was
relentless defender of oil and min
ing interests. Coolidge's attitude in
this respect is therefore clearly
enough established.
Differences in policy do exist be-
tween the bankers on the one hand
and some of the oil and mining in
terests on the other but it is mis-
take to assume that the bankers pol
icy in Mexico is a conciliatory one
while that of the oil and mining men
is belligerent. Nor is it wise to for
get that the bankers involved are not
simply bankers but finance-capital-
lists, and that Wall Street is essen
TALLY unit.
| Coolidge's appointment of Nor
row, representative of the "finan-
cial" interests, has undoubtedly been
approved by Secretary Mellon, repre-
sentative of the industrial" interests
! (altho himself a banker).
1t is a powerful and ruthless COM
bination that American workers and
Latin America as whole must face
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-28
By MANUEL GOMEZ.

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The appointment of Dwight Nor
row, partner in the firm of J. P. Nor
gan & Co., to be U. S. ambassador
to Mexico, sets the seal of the House
of Morgan upon the foreign policy of
the United States government in such
unmistakable fashion as to leave the
innocents gasping.
Morrow's appointment, we are
told, had nothing to do with business.
During all these years when the dip
lomat-to-be was a Morgan partner he
has also been on extraordinarily
friendly terms with Mr.. Calvin Cool
idge, and it is because he is a friend
Of the president that he has been
made ambassador. President Cool
idge should be given due honor, Rare
indeed is the statesman who knows
how to cultivate such friendships!
1t is characteristic of our epoch
that the appointment comes at a time
when everybody is talking about the
big Morgan Dupont Steel General
Motors merger on the industrial field.
AS American classification makes new
Roadway its control of government
becomes simpler and even more di-
rect. The appointment of Andrew
Mellon to the cabinet was part Of the
same process-which will not end
with the selection of the presidents
friend Morrow, as ambassador to
Mexico.
President Coolidge himself flaunts
the phrase: "a Businessmen's Admin
istration" at this stage of
American imperialist capitalism "a
bpsinessmen's administration" can
mean only the administration of big
business, or finance-capital.
Nevertheless, altho there is moth
ing new in the general course indi-
Gated by the fact that Wall Street
now expresses need, and an ability
TO secure, its direct ambassador to
Mexico armed with governmental
functions, the Morrow appointment is
reckless and bold step. In add
ton to its immediate practical pur-
poses, it constitutes a demonstration
Of might and scornful defiance which
the working class in this country
face to face with the swollen trust
government power in every labor
struggle-can no more afford to ig-
more than can the people of Mexico,
or of Latin-America in general.
AS far as Latin America is con-
cerned, it will understand the action
only too well. In the Monroe Doc
trine Zone below the Rio Grande
everybody knows that U. S. foreign
policy is imperialist policy, with in
vestment profits as one of the basic
detectives. And now, while the U. S.
State Department continues to ex-
plain hypocritically that U. S. policy
is based exclusively on humanitarian
motives, a member of the greatest in
vestment- banking firm in America is
appointed as ambassador to Mexico!
Mexico is still stunned by the blow
Few of the newspapers know what
to say about it.
However, here is the far-from-rev-
dictionary point of view of the Mex
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leo City Financial and Mining Bulle-
tin;
"Mr. Morrow is banker and q
member of the Morgan firm, which
is the soul of the committee of bank
ers interested in Mexico and which
has arranged most Of the Mexican
loans, That is a salient fact of the
new ambassadors biography.
at is well known that the United
States, contrary to the custom in
Europe, chooses diplomats not from
the service, but men prominent in
private life. But that does not do
away with the significance of the
fact that President Coolidge has pick
cd precisely a banker interested in
the service of MexicO's foreign debt
For some time it was rumored that
the White House would leave the post
untitled until after the next American
election but the falling away in Mex
ico's income directly affecting the
foreign service became accentuated
and President Gales in his recent
message to congress stated the execu-
tive's intention to pay such service
as long as the country's economic
situation did not indicate a necessity
for other action
Immediately thereupon the White
House changed its opinion and is
sending here an ambassador who is a
specialist on financial questions and
likewise a specialist on the matter OF
foreign indebtedness. Is it not logi-
cal to conclude that the new envoy
principal mission will be to watch
over the foreign debt and that fl
nancial expert has been chosen with
the most probability of being able tc
conclude negotiations to that end sue
cessfully?"
American workers who still believe
that the U. S. governments foreign
policy has something to do with their
interests instead of those of imperial
list finance-capital, can learn some
thing from this incomplete but ade-
quate statement.
Workers will remember that the
conflicts that have ragged intermit-
tently for years between the United
States government and Mexico have
not been unconnected with the debt
question, linked up as it is with the
question of investment as a whole
Numerous crises have been created
by headlong assaults upon the Mexi.
can government and the Mexican rev.
olution. The persistent drive behind
these separate assaults takes momen-
tum from the general expanding
movement of American Imperialism
but in practice the points at issue il
each case have been connected with
questions either of the Mexican gov.
eminent debt or of oil and mining in
terests.
Hitherto, as the Federated Pres.
points out in it's news story on the
Morrow appointment, the Morgan or
ders to Mexico have been delivered BY
Thomas Lamont, another member o.
the firm. 1t was Lamont who signed
the present debt service agreement
with the Mexican government, on be
half of the international COMMITTEES
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-28

This is reproduction from photograph of the bust
of Jean Paul Marat the French revOlutionist done by
the young Russian sculptor RukevtchukOv whose work
is creating considerable attention in the Soviet
Union The original is to be found in the Marx Engels
Institute in Moscow.
front is Rukevitchukov He impresses deeply with
his youth and sincerity.
He is 81 years old, born at Mini Novgorod, which is
looked upon Maxim Gorl's town, the River VOga.
He Rome to study the fine arts but returned
to Russia with the beginning of the in 1914 One of
his first successful efforts "a Longshoreman of the
Voga" Since the Russian Revolution he has devoted
himself almost entirely the making of busts of the
outstanding figures of the French Revolution, in add
ton to one Of Karl Marx.
In these works the young Russian sculptor reveals
himself realist The maximum of reality is doubt
displayed in the bust of Marx. Without model the
young sculptor carefully studied the biography and all
available details of the life of Marx He has sought to
give in the face Of Marx impression of the whole
revolutionary epoch in which this philosopher of the
working class lived.
The bust of Louis Blanqui shows this French revo-
lutonst ascetc, thoroughly devoted to his
ideals One reads into the face the suferings of many
years Imprisonment. The bust of Marat reveals the
theatrical in his nature. Danton is shown in passive
mood
The difficulties of the Russian scuptors revealed
IN the fact that they not enabled to work in marble
this material being still too expensive. The bust of
Marx alone, of those produced by Rukevitchukov is
hewn from a solid block of marble.
While sculptors are just beginning to into their
own in the Soviet Unon it may be pointed out that
newspaper cartoonng and carcaturing have reached
high stage of development with the work of such artists
as Den and Moor Their work. from Pravda and Is
vsta the two great Soviet daies is being reproduced
by the capitalist press in all parts of the world espe
cialy in Great Britain and the United States. This is
particularly true of the political cartoons by Moor and
the caricatures by Deni
But while sculpture and painting have responded
slowly to the revolution than poetry the drama, fiction
drawing and music there is doubt that they
quickly taking their important places under the
regime of the workers and peasants.
For while the cold regime commemorated in sculp-
ture its its mperalist statesmen and its grand
dukes, the rule of the workers has much
memorate
At the Museum of the Revolution the guides carefully
and conscientousy repeat day in and day out to
hrongs of interested visitors the story Of the centuries
old upward struggle of the downtrodden Russian
Much of this has already been done in pictures
that hang upon the museums walls One of the most
popular pictures in the Soviet Union today is that of
Continued III column 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-28
NEWS FROM THE U. S. S, R.
LABOR CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVING.

The position of the workers in the u S. S. R. is
tinuously improving. The average monthly wage per
worker was, in 1924 81 roubles 80 kopeks in 1926 A
roubles IT kopek in 1926 55 roubes So kopeks and in
1927 81 roubes II kopeks Out of every thousand work
ers the number receiving
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-28


In 1917 the supply of ore was 2410oOO tons for
growth in procuring iron ore which up to 1921 was
continuously declining is expressed in the following fig
in 1922 about 1874, 900 tons procured in
1929, 454000; in 1923-24 948000; in 1924-25, g.,
figure will be about 4828900 tons and in 1929, g.
$4,000 tons. In 1925-26, 2206800 tons of iron
smelted. This year. the figure will be 2923,500
and in 1929 3416000 TONS In 1925-26, 2895000
tons of steel Produced in 192627, 346600 tons
and in 1928 the output will be about $685. 700 tons
NATURALIZATION OF PRODUCTION.
An investigation of the naturalization of industry has
been made in the largest Moscow factories and greas
achievements have been recorded. Thus the "Metao-
Lamp has introduced during the first half of 192627
% tme-saving appliances The "Krasny Proetary"
has installed 20 appliances. AS result of these
projections from 20 to 500 of time is saved The "Kras
noholm Factory has raised its productivity 259o
result of naturalization The productivity of the
"Krasny Fakel" has increased 1870 Naturalization
tories which have been rationazed show higher wages.
Wages of the "Krasny Proletary have increased 1880,
in the "Krasny Fakel" 1850, etc.
TURKISTAN- SIBERIAN RAILWAY.
The Kazakstan population gives every assistance in
building the railway line. Cases have been observed
where the organized poor peasants of Kazakstan built
and repaired bridges their initiative and with
their own material the southern district where work
is in progress order to facilitate the transportation
of building supplies.
TEA PLANTATIONS IN GEORGIA -
The tea business has extensively developed during the
last few years in Georgia. Under the Menshevik gov
eminent the tea plantations reduced by third
tions embrace 1000 hectares
The "Chai-Gruza" Company has tea factories with
capacity of 100000 pounds of green tea 1t is
planned to build another "a tea factories.