Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. FRIDAY. IWTEIimgK 1, 192* A NEW BURDEN By Fred Ellis Misleaders in jOuilyiiSiJftxrfcer the American Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Labor Unions

Published by National Daily Worker Publishing SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Ass’n., Inc., Daily, Except Sunday, at 26-28 By Mail (in New York only): Following “Skinny" Madden came as 80,- Union New York, N. Y. Telephone, Simon O’Donnell head of the Square, $8 a year s+.so six mos. $2.50 three mos. organized Chicago Building Address • 000 Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable “Daitvork” By Mail (outside of New York): Trades Workers. O’Donnell was a $6 a year $3.50 six mos. $2.00 three mos. pupil of the master faker, Madden. ROBERT MINOR Editor While a policeman in 1901 he be- Address and mail all cheeks to The Daily Worker , agent Plumb- Assistant EJitor 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. came business of the \VM. F. DUNNE ers’ Union. For several months he drew salaries from both jobs. A bold and unscrupulous type, O’Don- Strike In Rhode Island he was defending were those of a past era. nell soon forced his way to the front. The Textile ' The policies enunciated by Jefferson were so He became president of the Building 350 workers in the strange to the ears of Hibben’s vicious and Trades Council, where he remained The strike of the textile 1920, resigned a ignorant prosecutors till when he after Parker Mills in the Pawtucket Valley in that they could not tell defeat by 4 to 1 in his own union. the difference between them and Bolshevism. Rhode Island should be the signal for a He died in Feb., 1927, and was The past few years of Captain Hibben’s given a spectacular funeral. ILs general strike throughout both the Black- life were spent in literary pursuits, which he j coffin alone cost SIO,OOO. valleys. For many stone and Pawtucket put aside during the Sacco and Vanzetti cam- O’Donnell’s regime was the golden era of graft in the Chicago building months there have been wage cuts following paign to go to Boston and participate in the mill where trr.des. The various unions were in upon wage cuts. In the Parker demonstrations against Fuller and his asso- j the hands of a clique of gaum *n wages are so low that the bosses feared an- ciated murderers. ! and crooks, who freely roboed work- ers and employers and ruled their other cut would evoke a strike, a vicious blow Captain Hibben’s death removes from one the up- unions bja sheer terrorism. It was was struck at the workers by the announce- American political life of few a period of labor shootings and labor holders of the old traditions of this country. immediate inauguration of the trials for graft, such as has never ment of the He aided in exposing the malignant character been equalled in the American la- week, 53-hour week in place of the 48-hour j of the agents of imperialism today without, bor movement. without any change in wages. however, realizing that the course of history Ordinarily the Chicago employ- Island the is not back to the declaration of independence ers tolerated and encouraged the In these mill valleys of Rhode j building but forward a higher form of society and trades grafters, because officials of the United Textile Workers to they helped them maintain their Union, affiliated with the A. F. of L. have that it is the revolutionary working class monopoly control of the industry and been busy in their familiar role of aiding the ! whose historic mission it is to deliver the they stood guard against too radical millbarons put through wage cuts, the speed- 1 death blow to the tyrannies of today. demands from the workers. But often, either in a period of unrest in up and lengthening of hours of labor. the industry, when strikes threaten- At this moment, when the mills are be- ed, or when the graft demands be- ginning work on spring goods, the workers in Hooverizing the Newspapers came too exorbitant, the employers the mills should seize the opportunity to protested vigorously. Then would all Announcement was made yesterday of the follow strike for the purpose of resisting the arro- exposures in the newspapers perfection of a process by which type can be and jailings of labor leaders for gant drive of the bosses and establishing grafting. Many set in unlimited number of printing of- such exposures took their union. The workers in every mill should an place. 11,us in 1916, to cite only instantly go out in sympathy with the fices in response to the operation of a type- one, 14 local building.trades officials Parker mills strikers. To fail to aid these writer keyboard by one person. This in- were convicted of extortion. Os these strikers and permit them to be defeated Achievements of the Cultural Relations C were sentenced to jail for from vention, when in general operation, willmake 1 to 3 years and 8 were assessed only be an invitation to every textile would it possible for an agency to write news in By A. LUNACHARSKY. ferent elements, and our schools fines of from SSOO to $2,000. As slash wages further and in- mill owner to | The slogan of a “Cultural have been brought nearer to the usual these grafters were played up only result in further New York and have it transmitted almost Rev-! as martyrs in the unions crease hours, which will olution” was most emphatically New Type of Education; Proletarian Theater ideal of a uniform, technical, work- and their unemployment. simultaneously to typesetting machines in proclaimed at the XV Party Con- ing school. It is not possible to trial was made, the occasion for col- enumerate the achievements effect- lecting huge defense funds, a large First and foremost, in entering the strug- Chicago or San Francisco, thus doing away gress of the Communist Party of and Literature the Soviet Union, but it is no novelty ed in this direction in a short article. share of which found its way into should avoid any con- with news editing as well as operators of the the pockets gle the textile workers j for the Communist mentality. Celebrated foreign pedagogues who of these same grafters typesetting machines. Any number of type- have visited us have delineated them and thair pals. tact with the treacherous United Textile year budgets country 104,000 schools; now j setting machines can be operated from the Lenin on Culture in U. S. S. R. In the present the there in Workers Union, which is merely a company of the municipalities can provide are 150,000. But our success lies full. The nation-wide post-war attack typewriter pro- Lenin frequently expressed his Creative in the schools is against the union for the employers. There is but one one keyboard. The finished but little for cultural purposes, see- not so much in the number of the work building trades unions ideas on the subject and declared! being increasing brought exposure fights duct can be in any size type or any width of : ing that the present year is an extra- schools as in the number of children continued. The about an of O’Don- union in the textile industry that in j in his famous theses that the chief | of nell’s line desired. ! ordinary difficult one. But it cannot frequenting them. In this respect means and the growing attention grafting and produced a whole the interest of the working class and that is and only obstacle in the way of j young jbe denied that the local organiza- we can record an increase of 45 per the Party, of the generation, j series of extortion trials in 1921- Union, This particular invention the achieve- Socialism in the territory of ourj 22. the National Textile Workers born is tions, too, have done to put cent, for current year 10,500,- and of the entire Soviet publicity, This discrediting of the union i Soviet Union lies in the low cultural much in the of the struggle of textile workers in Pas- ment of Walter J. Morey of East Orange, N. principles announced children are being taught as together with the growing care of leaders was a prelude to the great out level of the masses. If this level is through the 000 Bedford and other places. J., and was yesterday put to a practical test by the Party. against 7,200,000 before the war. the economists for the enlightenment j building trades strikes of 1922, in saic, Paterson. New sufficiently raised, so Lenin as- pos- percentage taught of the population, provide the which the unions, attacked through workers! Make the in Rochester, N. Y., by the Frank E. Gan- sumes, nothing more stand Illiteracy Being Reduced. The of children Rhode Island textile would in the elementary schools has in- sibility of making big strides for- the infamous Landis Arbitration nett string of newspapers. in the way of the realization of our A second presumption for the next I strike general! by or per ward in the course of the few Award, fought to preserve their Socialist aims. realization of the slogan of a cul- creased at least 20 25 The mechanics of the new invention are cent. years. existence. The most important Join the National Textile Workers Union! True, Lenin immediately went on tural revolution should be a wide- quite generally The government has worked out In regard to schools, increased at- the many labor trials in this pe- lengthening of familiar to all engaged in the to declare that culture itself costs, spread and general movement in the i>ry Defeat the wage cuts and j I plan general compulsory tention is being paid to the seven- ,-d, which altogether totalled 218 production of newspapers. The typesetting money and provision : circles of the Party, of the , young a for edu- that the of: elementary grade working schools. In the defendants in the state courts and hours! generation, cation in the four-grade machines are operated on the same principle sufficient means for the cultural of JJie trade-union or- school-year 1932-33, simultaneously 297 in the federal courts (including Establish the union in the two valleys and ganizations, various cultural or- schools, which will affect the first | of electrical control used to operate the tele- work in the country can—in view \ ] the eight with the introduction of compulsory many employers charged with con- conditions! of the ganizations, and among the popula- grade, i. e. the children of fight for union wages and great demands made by the | ] education, especially as regards the | spiracy), was that of O’Donnell, type machines used in all newspaper offices revolution—only be attained by j tion in general. years of age, in the course of the j school-year 1932-33. At Moscow, rural districts, all the municipalities Green Artery, and others. receiving service from news gathering agen- further achievements of our economy Recently such a movement has Leningrad, Ivano-Vosnessensk, in thickly inhabited by the proletariat In this trial the employers for cies—the machine that took the places of and a further growth of our budget. been clearly apparent. Thus of late the Crimea, in Georgia, and iri the will be provided with such seven- days poured out stories of graft At times we encounter the fortu- ] years the attention paid to the liqui- Captain Paxton Hibben the telegraph operators that used to be in j per cent grade schools. These schools will paid to O’Donnell and his clique, nately not very widely-spread opinion dation of illiteracy among adults Kama district, almost 100 every daily newspaper office. i of all children are comprised in the have a decidedly industrialized char- for insurance against strikes, for Hibben, Wednes- that these reflections on the part j has fallen off regrettably. Now we Captain Paxton who died educational In other regions acter and will approach that type calling off strikers, as fines for us- Such an invention a half a century ago of Lenin are not a direct proof that ; j can again see ah increase of atten- system. age of was prominently known lie situation is less favorable; in of proletarian school which was ing non-union material, and for day at the 48 by he considered the construction of j tion to this task; the trade unions would no means have had the effect that the Republic of Dagestan, g., only \ roughly outlined by the hand of violating union rules and jurisdic- friends of Soviet Russia Socialism possible in a country and j and cooperatives have set aside sub- e. to Communists and it has today. In fact it would hardly be j per Marx. tions, etc. In these shady wished to underline the immense ] jstantial sums out of their cultural 26 cent of the children are in- deals the of his many years of effective work cluded. It must be pointe dout that workers were used mere pawns. because worth manufacturing for the simple reason importance of the fundamental pre- tunds for this purpose and a whole Colleges and Universities. as i no effort being spared They were often on for recognition of the government of work- that newspapers then were organs of opin- sumption therefor, in the shape of number of organizations in the pro- is to widen called strike the educational system and to com- Colossal changes have also been without knowing what the griev- ers and peasants. ion. No two great papers in any part of the a high cultural level; on the con- vinces and in the Moscow district brought by prise the children of such republics about the revolution in i ance was, and ordered back to work trary, the relative passage is inter- h.ve set themselves the task of a to Captain Hibben, despite the opinions of the country were alike. Articles appearing in as are inhabited by undeveloped na- I regard the colleges. The social ; without an inkling of the settlement, preted as follows: Seeing that we j rapid and complete liquidation of composition of the staff jingoes and imperialists to the contrary, was Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune would tionalities. student has One member of the are culturally backward and that ] illiteracy. Finally, the young gen- completely changed, now consisting j Wrecking In the early years of his be of no use to Henry Watterson’s Louisville Secondary Schools. Contractors’ Association stated that not a Communist. our economy is backward and does eration recently started and carried to 70 per cent of workers and peas- Courier-Journal. his firm always added 20 per cent life he was successful as diplomat, author and Each newspaper spoke for not provide sufficient means for cul- ij through a big compaign, known as With regard to the secondary ants. A new type of colleges has | 1 to their contracts to cover labor soldier. His diplomatic career began as secre- some particular social or economic grouf), ture, we should harbor no illusions, ]t e “campaign of culture” and is schools we may witness the same been established which did not exist J j graft. He declared they embassies in Petrograd each one of them represented some shade of regarding the construction of So- | prepariflh; Sunday work throughout development. Before the war there before the war and which enables that main- tary to the American f j tained a “Christmas box” cialism. It is hard to imagine a the country on behalf o the schools. were 1780 such higher schools for the workers to acquire the most es- where (now Leningrad). Later he served in a simi- political opinion. | money was placed for business cruder distortion of the leading Education 'Trowing. g.-neral education (high schools sno sential knowledge in four years, suf- Mexico City. He also served in agents, in the shape of donations to lar capacity in But today, under Hooverism, such an in- ideas of Lenin. The grow ing attention paid tc cul- academies,. V/e now have 1811 sues ficient to qualify them for a college sick and death funds, Christmas a diplomatic capacity in other Latin Ameri- vention is useful. At a time when imperial- Meanwhile, however, practice has tural work is everywhere decidedly schools, no very great numLer, espe- training. These are the so-called I is presents, etc. Other firms alleged can countries, besides serving at Hague n adc clear the real sense of this no’iceable. ‘ Contribute to education” c ally if it remembered that un er workers’ faculties, a peculiar crea- the ! ism has produced the nation-wide chains of that they paid as high as 35 per cent I idea even to such circles of economy is now one of the daily demands the of the firs', g'tat rev- tion of our popular educational tribunal. During the war he was a lieutenant newspapers, all publishing identically the of their contracts for graft. as allow immediate economic needs whenever the workers come into im- olutionary enthusiasm in 1920 we system. The in the field artillery, later being promoted to same material, all serving the same preda- to to the tv e of Lubliner and Trinz people claimed | blind them requirements mediate touch with the government. increased numbir these schools In the whole Soviet Union there of “third front,” e. to i 163, a figure our they had paid $250,000 graft to a captaincy. tory interests, when no class that stands be- the so-called i. The uige towards knowledge, which exceeded are 129 colleges as against 91 before I the cultural struggle. capabilities, as regards both O'Donnell and others. Charges were At the conclusion of the war he was en- j tween the imperialists and the working class which has at all time 3 been strong, the the war. A growth of more than At the XV Party Congress financial means required and the also made that the following items, the Near East and in has sufficient vitality to lead an all the is more and more enhanced. The 40 per cent. The number of students gaged in relief work in independent leaders of Party qualified we ; among others, had been paid as the with the full indepndent initiative of the popula- teachers. If transfer has meanwhile advanced by more the Soviet Union. It was during his activity political existence, an invention such as the support of the C< ngross our attention to such jgraft to the O’Donnell clique: State- itself, de- tion in this connection cannot be figures ns than 25 per cent, from 124,000 to the former czars that he be- “teletypesetter,” fills a definite demand. It clared what was subsequently ir.crjase jLake Theatre, $40,000; Roosevelt in the land of re- doubted for a moment. In the circles reflect the in the number 157,000. In this connection it must is sign flected in the corresponding resolu- People’s o' pupils, we can record a more Theatre, $15,000; Woods Theatre, came an advocate of recognition of and trade a of the times. connected with the Com- be remarked that the 124,000 stu- $40,000 tions, viz. that, in comparison, let satisfactory result. Before wai Brighton Theatre, $39,000; the Soviet government. On his missariat for Education laudable th dents of pre-war times were re- relations with Its immediate effect upon the labor move- say, Somerset Hotel, $20,000; Union us with the growth of our in- idea has arisen, that large funds be these higher schools compris’d cruited exclusively from the privil- return to the United States he engaged pub- ment can be seen when we consider the fact dustry, our development 564,000 pupils. Station, SIO,OOO, etc. The sums al- cultural is provided next year in support 0/ At the time of the eged classes of society, including at for relief. roving leged to have been paid labor licly in the campaign famine that it will displace thousands of skilled I backward and that it is cultural work, funds which would great enthusiasm just af*er the "tv- most to the poor intelligentsia. At pre- during the recog- necessary that lost ground should among o ution the number rose only t> leaders previous five Captain Ilibben’s work in behalf of linotype operators. One machinist can take fnd their basis in collections sent our students derive mainly from years be caught up with on this front and ! 569,000. Now we have a total of ran to several million dol- .mion of the Soviet Union was not prompted care of five machines operated mechanically. Ihe population. worker and peasant families. It is lars. that our culture must be deve'oped j Naturally far too shor a time ha? 869,000, that is to say, an increase obvious that such a change called by motives that by any stretch of the That means that one man can do the work “revolutionary” rate if I per The graft took many forms. In at a an un-1 eit pi ed since the XV Party Congress of more than 50 cent. for the provision of great sums general formerly done by six in the interrupted development for one case the labor fakers imagination could be considered as a composing rooms. of the in- ] 1 for the achievements of the cultural It must be added that very great the support of our students. collected dustry of our country and an im- progress from SI.OO to $5.00 per theatre seat defense of the class struggle. His actions When the printing trades unions, even today, 1revolution to be available in detail, has b‘en made in 'he di- Great interest to certain f iovement of our agriculture r.nd rection of vocational schools. pre- types of j from the employers as a penalty were predicated upon reverence for old are faced with serious unemployment prob- jwith referenfce to last year. I intent In schools, such as the itr transformation into a collective 1 war Russ ; schools of the j for installing non-union-made seats. the literal acceptance of lems, and under a that is ] rather to give a general character- a there w-re same 3000 young peasants (of which American traditions; leadership more igriculture are to be ensured. such establishments. current there are |ln another, the Painters’ Union ; ization of the achievement of liic In the now more than the declaration of independence, and the concerned about the interests of the pub- year the 500), training the agents fined the theatre owners 25 Cultural Budget Increasing. iiil’iiralrevolution during all the ten R. S. F. S. R. alone com- peasants, in particular papers of Thomas regarding lishers than the workers, it can readily be prises almost 6000 for the co- | cents per seat for having painted state Jefferson The budget of popular education ! years, for the XV Party Congress schools of this operatives and for the collectiviza- type, so that the total may be said the seats before they were installed. the recognition by the young republic of seen that revolutionary changes must take increased in the course of this year merely represented an accentuation tion of agriculture, working to have doubled. regard to and the Large sums were also collected “to of the revolutionary republic of place or the organization of labor will be tl speak of basic figures, as the of the class character apparent in With the schools for apprentices, America pupils which have j fight Bolshevism in the unions.” In details are not yet known) by 40 our cultural development, but not number of the result is still become (and will, it France, which held that a government estab- destroyed. More than ever will it be es- better. ten is hoped, re- ! these and dozens of other ways per cent as regards its central, gov- the beginning of our cultural crea- In the years since the main) the most vast by revolutionary action sential important institu- | amounts of money were lished the of the as a prerequisite for existence that ernmental section. It j tion itself. revolution the number of pupils in tions for collected. must, however,! the training of the main Much of it was supposed people was entitled to recognition by the the unions be consolidated into a powerful be pointed out Oi the contrary, I was alre idy ir. the vocational schools has advanced to go into at once that this in-1 cadres of the working class and the union treasuries, but it United States. In his many speeches and industrial union and that militant leadership crease in the budget was j a position to speak of our achieve- from 266,000 to 638 000. which approaches found made to a Less the Marxian type its way instead to the bank considerable extent for rhe sake of ments in this dir.ction or. the oc- satisfactory conditions obtain of a proletarian accounts f writings, Captain Hibben emphasized those replace the present reactionary and traitor- regards school. of the grafters. A typical sample higher technical institutions and in- jeasion of my rppirt at the lestwe as the remuneration of the ¦ early traditions and heaped ridicule upon the ous bureaucrats. j To Be of corruption was where an em- ( ciustrial high schools. If this sort ! session of the Central Executive teachers and the available funds for Continued as the requirements of the schools. ployer was told that if he wanted utterances of such special pleaders of growth of the budget appears Committee of the Soviet Union on Our budget poor, to avoid labor troubles on his Charles Evans Hughes, Frank B. Kellogg and cie-sided at first sight, seeing that the tenth anniversary of the revolu- is still but we expect ice it to increase rapidly plant job he would have to give the the other branches of s he tion. The said session then expressed during the 3 Workers Play Into others who perverted the policies of the revo- cultural next years. contract to the Refrigerating Correction campaign make relatively smaller in a special resolution how far we few Ma- lutionary founders of the republic into apolo- New Open-Shoppers’ chinery Co., in which Chas. Rau, propro «, thb first impression must still are from our objective, and Type of Education. Hands an gies for imperialist aggression. It was this O’Donnell henchman, was In one of the editorials in yesterday’s edition it engender the opinion our from the satisfaction of the require- Mere figures, however, not give interested. his, defended, rot that do in Anti-Trust Case He did so and had no attitude of the fact that he still was stated that Hoover that day visited Chile, when development is actually one-sided. ments of the population, but how a proper conception of the actual strikes. in this period of imperialist frightfulness, the as a matter of fact he visited Peru and stopped at For surely the tasks of industrial- far we have nevertheless progressed irowth of our schools, whether pri- CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—Playing into along certain lines of cultural de- ideals of the infancy of the republic, that day. Throughout ization are our foremost tnsks. The mary, secondary, or vocational. The the hands of the capitalist courts on labor unions on ground Chile the next the editorial the velopmert. the of Hibben into conflict misproportion between the training. j aims and objects of our schools arc and the open-shoppers, three mem- “restraint of trade” it is pointed brought Captain open name Chile was substituted for Peru. But the eco- Elementary Schools. out of the specialists needed for industry directly opposed to those of the bers of the Glaziers Union, which is by militants. Already the with the military authorities and prevented facts, e., to copper bosses nomic i. the reference and nitrates and the general growth of economy] In respect to elementary education schools under the czarist regime. A dominated by reactionaries, entered have won two such victories promotion in the ranks the pleas in the his of reserve •and to the struggle between American and English was quite obvious. There can be no which is effected in this country by great deal has been done in the di- of guilty to charges of vio- Bedford Stone-Cut case and lating the in- forces of the United States army. He was capital were correct as applied to Chile. This error doubt but that in the near future— |j lha four-grade primary school* at- rection of the complete methodical, the Sherman Anti-Trust Law junction handed down by Judge in the next few budgets, at any tended by ages pedagogic in federal court today. attacked by the 100 percenters in the im- ! was due to the fact that the editorial writer, because children between the transformation of the Schoonover against the United Mine perialist army of the United States as a rate—agricultural education, fol- |of eight, and twelve, we may com- schools, their social composition has The action of the three workers j Workers preventing it from striking j of other duties requiring that he be absent from the lowed by other pare following figures: changed, up although real principles forms of education, the Before been the former material thus sets a precedent which | against the Pittsburgh Coal Com- Holshevik, his which office did not tci. Cits see the printer's proof. will receive due attention. the war there were in the whole has been replaced by altogether dis- paves the way for future attacks pany. * I _ I