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Page Four THE DAILY WORKER THE Pigy^OTM Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Many Opportunities for Building the Movement 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111. Phone Monroe 4712 world. American has have profited thru the crumbs which ers hare stood firm during a bitter mast be the signal the party for SUBSCRIPTION RATES to By C. E. RUTHENBERG enormously strengthened itself thru American imperialism grants them. struggle of nearly ten months indi- more careful, developed program and By (In Chicago): mail Chicago only): By mail (outside of General Secretary, the favorable position It won as a There remain beside these 5,000,000 cates the unbearable conditions which more persistent work to find the per year per year $3.50 six months SB.OO $4.50 six months $6.00 Workers (Communist) Party result of the war. The forces of dis- workers some 20,000,000 unorganized, exist among these workers. There Issues upon which $2.50 three months $2.00 three months i these workers can Editor’s Note: This Is the fIW of integration and decay which are at semi-skilled and unskilled workers are a thousand Passaics in existence be won away from the class collabora- Address all mall and make out cheeks to a series of articles by Comrade work In the capitalist system in the employed in the great machine In- in the . There are tion programs of their official leaders Ruthenberg dustry twenty THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111. on the resolutions and European countries have left Amer- of this country who In place million workers, receiving and drawn into the class struggle with discussions of the recent meeting of ican capitalism untouched, except In- of sharing in the profits of American wages which give them a bear exist- the mass of unorganized, unskilled j. louis engdahl . Edltorß the central committee of the Work- sofar as the general weakness of Imperialism, are highly exploited and ence, suppressed, oppressed and. ex- workers. WILLIAM F. DUNNE f ers (Communist) Party. world capitalism Is a potential danger oppressed by American capitalism. ploited under the whip of American As the next article In the discussion BERT MILLER Business Manager /* * * to American capitalism. The figures In regard to production, capitalists. and resolutions of the central commit- meeting power wage Entered September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- rpHE main discussion of the While the of production of movements and the cost of liv- It is toward these workers that our tee will show, In spite of the conces- as second-class mail J- party cago, 111., under the act o£ March 3, 1579. of tt>e central committee of the European capitalism has been weak- ing in this country paint a graphic must turn Its face. It is these sions which the skilled, organized Workers (Communist) Party held ened. American capitalism has greatly picture of the lot of these workers. workers to which it must give hope workers have gained from American rates on application. 290 Advertising November 10tli, 11th and 12th was on increased Its productive capacity. The According to the figures of the Na by giving leadership and organization Imperialism, the party has made pro- the question of the opportunities for enormous profits which tfie American tional Industrial Council the produc- to their struggles. It must do for gress in its work among these work- developing the revolutionary workers’ capitalists made during the period of tivity per worker in American indus- them what it hag done for the work- ers. Its achievement in this field can Two Opium Joints movement and building the Workers the war and since have created a re- tries has increased 43 per cent In the ers at Passaic—give them aid in or- be Increased by more work. The in- (Communist) Party years 1919 to 1925. ganizing their strength, a program Thirtv-one years ago a child of American wealth was sold to a in the present servoir of new capital which it Is from On the for tensification of the party work among period of American Imperialist domi- infesting throughout world thus average the American capitalists are their fights and leadership in thoir British duke and the sale was solemnized by a marriage ritual in an the these workers remains a central point nation of the world. drawing Imperialist profits from every securing 43 per cent more of products struggles. In its program. episcopalian church. The central committee squarely quarter of the globe. from every worker employed In our It is these proletarian workers in Forward in the Struggle. Marlborough. She faced question whether was great the great industry The girl was a Vanderbilt and the duke was a the there The profits of American Im- Industries. / machine who will conclusion drawn by the cen- any in for the backbone was rich but titleless. He was poor but honorable. basis the existing situation perialism have enabled the American For the same period statistics of the be of the revolutionary THEtral committee after a day and a pessimism in regard to the possibili- In the department of labor show a decrease movement It is among these work- Years passed and ardor cooled. The duke was growing old faster capitalists to make concessions half of discussion in which the situa- ties of progress in drawing the Amer- form of higher -wages to sections of of 9 per cent in the wages of the ers that the party must intrench itself. tion In this country was realistically the Vanderbilt. The latter covetous eyes on a person with Today, in the heydey than cast ican workers into a militant class the working class. The skilled, organ- workers as a whole and a decrease of American im- examined from the standpoint of the a name like cough medicine. He was a catholic. She married him struggle against the capitalists and In ized workers have obtained these con- of 11 per cent In she cost of living. perialism, it can mobilize these work- work of developing the revolutionary process against after going thru formalities not recognized by the pope, but necessary the of that struggle building cessions, giving them a higher stand- Thus the workers as a whole made a ers for action the capitalist movement was, that not only is there the revolutionary movement and our wages. class, develop the spirit of militant if one does not care to get pinched. ard of life. It Is these workers who slight gain In their real There no basis for pessimism in regard to as the leader of that movement. comprise organized is Included In this, however, the gains class struggle among them, strength- growth Hankering for respectability, the Vanderbilt girl wanted to haVe the bulk of the the of the movement, but that labor movement and who furnish of the skilled, organized workers, and en the revolutionary movement of the the party stands before opportunities, pessimism her history fumigated so she sought papal sanction for her burst with has manifested it- the leadership of the organized labor if this is eliminated this period shews workers and in the process build and which, if it mobilizes it strength to Marlborough, and the pope in a fit of generosity did the right thing SOMEself in the ranks of our party, re- movement In this country. It Is be- an actual reduction in wages for the strengthen the workers (Communist) take full advantage of them, will en- Party. by the little Vanderbilt. flecting a similar state of mind In the cause these skilled, organized workers great mass, of unorganized workers in able us to make great strides for- ranks of workers. The question which great machine industry of this No Desertion of the Struggle Among Hence the uproar. Episcopalian bishops are howling. What are sharing to a degree In the Imper- the ward in our work. the central committee set itself to ialist profits of American capitalism country. These unorganized workers the Organized. The task before the party is not right lias the pope to step in on their territory? In Chicago, when answer was, whether there is an that we find a steady movement to In the great machine industry are not emphasizing the opportuni- to find opportunities for revolutionary • one bootlegger invades another’s preserves the rattle of machine-gun actual basis for this pessimism In the the right, toward collaboration with sharing in the profits of American im- WJILBties for revolutionary work among work thru which we can build the tire is heard and dead bodies litter the highways. But churchmen are developments of American capitalism and support of capitalism and away perialism. these unorganized workers in the party, but to mobilize the strength of process great a little less deadly in their technique. They simply page the devil and the reaction of the workers to from a militant class struggle among The levelling between the machine Industries, the central the party to take full advantage of the this development. thpm. wages of the skilled, organized work- committee emphatically warns against opportunities. advise him his toasting irons ready. • and to get The answer which the central com- * • ers and the unskilled, unorganized abandoning the work among the or- The central committee has laid An episcopal clergyman married a Vanderbilt to a Marlborough. mittee gave to this question in its re- The Mass of Proletarian Workers workers, which developed during the ganized, skilled workers. Not all of down the policies which must guide What a nerve the pope must have to undo it, on the ground that solution was an emphatic "No." thus, In Us estimate of the war has been reversed. The gulf be- these workers even are sharing in the our work. It has formulated a pro- methods not sanctioned by the declaration of independence were used In giving this answer It did not hide WHILEsituation, the central committee tween these two groups of workers is profits of American imperialism. The gram of work which, if transformed party widening. highly exploited demand of the anthracite strength in the transaction? from itself or from the the frankly admitted that a section of*the again The miners and into life with the of the actual conditions which exist. It American workers were moving away unskilled and semi-skilled workers, the six month strike to enforce them, party behind it, will enable it to ex- It seems to us that the Vatican is not acting regularly. Business frankly acknowledged the fact that from the militant class struggle who are not sharing in the; conces- the movement among the railroad tend its influence, carry forward' the is business. The pope should have consulted the episcopal church the organized labor movement in this against capitalism, these workers com- sions of American Imperialism are workers for higher wages, show the work of developing a revolutionary prior to the annullment decision and suggest that whatever commis- country has been steadily moving to prise only a small section of the work- not content. They are not moving to possibilities in this field of developing movement and build a more powerful the right during the last yestrs right away from class strug- fights against the capitalists. Communist Party—the leader In the sion was drawn out of the proceedings could be shared between the four ing class. If we accept the estimate the the and considered the developments of of 25,000,000 workers as composing gle. The movement toward the right in revolutionary movement against leaders of the two opium joints. • * • the capitalist system which Is the the workers employed In the indus- the official, organized labor movement, American capitalism. basis of this movement.. tries of this country, we have at best stands as a striking ex- American imperialism is today the approximately 5,000,000 organized PASSAICample of the lot of these workers. , It Was a Nice Meal dominant factor in the capitalist workers, and not all of these even The fact that the 16,000 Passaic work- If there is nothing wrong with the digestive organs of the Kuhn, Loeb and company banking firm, the gobbling of the Chicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul Railroad by this aggregation of money sharks for one-fifth the value of the road should prove to be the cheapest Workers (Communist) Party meal those boys ever parked in their innards. What a jolly old squeezing the “little fellows” got? Is it sur- Workers Invited to prising that Mr. Kuhn could afford to patronize art when he can District No. 4 Organizer Tells How grab a few thousand hardy Americans by the throat, and shake Daily Worker Campaign Is Conducted Dance of Detroit several hundred million dollars out of their jeans? Y. W. Sport Alliance By (Won If Federal Wilkerson approves Siwtfair Judge the steal, the skids will Following is a letter from Comrade the every hard work of member of DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 26. All be greased for another killing. Vow stock will be issued Herbert Benjamin, organizer of Dist. the party individually and collectively. and a new workers invited the dance of crop of suckers rounded up, only No. 4, who tells how he is conducting Hoping this will answered are to to be cleaned later on when Kuhn have the Young Workers’ Sport Alliance to the drive to Keep The DAILY WORK- your question satisfactorily and with XI takes it into his head to either finance a little war or put a couple be given Saturday evening, 8 o’clock, ER. The letter will undoubtedly con- wishes you of divas on his payroll. best to in the new work Nov. 27, Lanstorm Temple, Leland The matter was handled as Dad ordered; the lawyer's clerk tain suggestions for other districts. which you have undertaken, I am, at It’s a great fellow The suggestions and Moran. went to court, and came back and reported that the prisoners system, workers, for those who have learned are valuable for Fraternally yours, to live on the labor of who other districts: Music will be furnished by the had appeared, but Chaim Menzies had not been among them. others and have learned the knack of Herbert Benjamin Snappy Society Syncopators. This Dear yours His had been taken over by the Federal authorities, because robbing those who are vainly trying to producing. It Comrade:—l have of District Organizer. case live without is recent will be a peppy affair and a good time had been that he was and date inquiring as to the man- —— if 1 it discovered born in Russian Poland, perfectly moral and not wicked or unethical like socialism, under is assured. ner in which we have conducted The P. S. You may put it down that it was proposed to cancel his naturalization papers and deport which such highwaymen would be stood up DAILY WORKER against the nearest wall campaign, in this the caption of the next report of the