The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-15
THOSE who have been worrying

THOSE who have been worrying
about what TO do with ex-vice
presidents and wage earners over fif-
ty should take heart from one Ct Mr..
Davis's latest announcements. The
mechanization of industry has pro-
vided the solution. OF course, our
cx-vice presidents will be provided
with employment more congenial than
steering an automatic coal-cutting
machine. Lots of oil companies need
vice-presidents, particularly if the
vice-presidents are clever doodle bugs.
And then there are always new brands
of cigars and shaving soaps to be
baptised:
PUT the slave who has passed his
- fiftieth birthday. What about
him ? Let M. Davis speak:
"The mechanization of industry
has furnished positions for old fell
lows who would have difficulty
finding work otherwise. Employ
ers are learning that the old fell
lows are better at running ma
chimes than the young. Realizing
that it is the only thing they can
do for livelihood, they are more
satisfied. They are steady and not
easily startled. The old fellow may
not have an elastic step but he has
a trained brain and trained hand.
Hard work has already largely
been done away with through ma
chimes, and accidents are being re-
duced. Under the condition there
is no reason why men should not
work until they are 65 or 20 years
old"
60 the rnillenium for the aged is
" here! Theirs is a bright prospect.
Work until seventy! No more will
men of advanced years long for the
Gays of their youth. Instead, youth
will pine for the days when the blood
begins to thin and the spirit begins
to falter. A youths place will be
N the home until he is fit for the
machine. Unless he chooses to join
the marines and shoot up Nicaragua.
THE lead in the consolidation of the
coal industry is taken by the Sum-
day school saint John D. Rockefeller,
Jr. John has already shut down sew
eral of his high cost mines and is
concentrating on the low cost ones.
This means more money for John
and nothing at all for hundreds of his
former slaves. Operators in the
Monongahela Valley are following the
Sunday school teachers example.
Andrew Mellon's Pittsburgh Coal
Company has adopted the Rockefel-
Ter plan. Indeed Andy may be justly
entitled to the credit fol- the innova-
ton but, not having Ivy Lee for a
press agent, not he but John D. got
the publicity.
THE frame-up system is working
overtime in the mining strike
area. The latest victim of this sys-
tenn is Frank Brobb, striking miner
of Northern West Virginia. Brobb is
accused of dynamiting the homes Of
three scabs at Triadelphia. Accord
ing to reliable information the dyna-
mite was exploded by company stool
pigeons, after Brobb was inveigled
to the spot. If the operators sue
coed in convicting Brobb a twenty
year penitentiary term faces him.
1T would be we'll worth the troubie
= and the expense to comb the peni-
tentiaries of the United States, part
iclilarly those located in the feudal
areas dominated by coal and steel
with view to ascertaining how many
workers are buried in them for their
activities in the class struggle, with
out the knowledge of the labor move
ment,, outside of a small circle Of
their friends. Letters come quite
w ttiC ClOIldl OlllCG Ol
the international Labor Defense at
799 Broadway, New York, from
workers who are buried alive In CAPT.
talist dungeons, whose fate has thus
been learned for the first time. No
doubt there are hundreds Of such
cases.
THE appearance of group Of Ger
! man Communist seaman at the
New York state nominating conven-
ton of the Workers Communist,
Party and the message Of greeting
delivered by their leader was rous-
ing and encouraging incident. It was
a graphic illustration of the inter-
rational character of the Communist
movement and the strong ties that
bind all sections of it together. Here
is a movement that has its roots in
every industry and network of or
ganization all over the world, on sea