Official Western Organ

Indus! Worker IodBtriil Workers of the World

SEATTLE, WASH, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1930.

Fakers of the T. U. U. L. Who At-tempt t faBelkt le the Principles For Which He Has Sacrificed His Lib-erty, Get Well Merited Rebuke

Mexico.

VOL. x n . NO. 30—(WHOLE NO. 710>

PLAIN WORDS OF BRITT SMITH ON THECOMMONISTS

* From Staunch/ Industrial Unionist.

kVALLA WALLA, Wash., July 19.—The

in this bastile were honored (or should I say d;-honored-?) by«.a visit from fow the so-called communist' bird* of ] They had been attending some kind

They ftht the same old line of bolof

1 "capitalism would ha\

'Well, the six-hour day can be had w the wage slaves will organise into thi W. W. and take it. The fakers were sti in the T. U. U. b.—one of their foi brats. It should have been named th< U. U. L. I have read the history of "gang of reactionary, double-crossing, rupting politicians, and if the wage-sl would do the same, they would nevei fooled by.them. They have nothing to

Sloughing Off From Political Rot MONTANA RANGERS AND STOCKMEN ' MEET AND ORGANIZE TO FIX LOW

SCALE OF WAGES IN HARVEST FIELD Big Hole Stockgrowers Association Is the Employers Form Of

Industrial Unionism. Scale of $2.50 For Mowers and Hay Hands and $3.50 For Stackers Is Fixed. Now Let the Har« vest Workers Get Together In the I. >V. W. to Fix Their Scale

* DILLON,-Mont , July 15.—Haying is jus t s ta r t ing in the Big Hole \ alley; Big Hole Valley Is one of the largest wild hay oroducing valleys in western Montana. Big Hole Valley is an inland valley located about o0 miles f rom the main line of the O. S. L. Dillon is the closest town to get to Big Hole. Then ranchers of the Big Hole come to Dillon or But te to hire their haying crews. Haying in the Big Hole usuallv lasts f rom 30 to 40 days.

the wages of the r . „ . , , these *o-called communist birds of disrup-j tion have done everything possible to slow I up organization work of the I. W. W.—in' cthe r words the y have been playing the

The I. W. W. ha* a great and glorious I ri-cord and is built up on the bedrock of

.tconomic truth—nbt on the shifting sands t cf politics as are the communists.

These birds tried to belittle that staunch j old wifhorse. J. P. Thompson, who has been j «xpounding Revolutionary Industrial | Ur|ioni

Prison Made Twine To Bind Wheat AGRICDLTDRAL WORKERS ONION

PROTESTS ITS USE IN HARVEST

haying started Big Hole the stockmen and ranchers held!" i meeting to decide what they were going o pay their htying crews. The ranchers !«nd the output per hay hand about one-nd stockmen are organized in the Big third or more than before, what are you

Hole Stockgrowers Association. The meet- hay-diggers going to do about it? Are you ;ng passed a resolution calling on all the goinfT to take the cut with a whimper or

rs in the Big Hole to pay their hay- j squawk? Or, are you going to organize only $2.50 for men on mowers, bull- tnd fight the wage reduction and the"|*

racks, hay-ra<£s, hay-boats and derricks j speed-up system? The ranchers and stock-ond $3.50 for hay-stackers. This wage i men are organized in the Big Hole Stock-rcale is from 60c to a $1 less than the wages' growers Association and they have the or-paid for haying last year. The wages last j Ranked power to cut tho wages in the hay-year were from $3 and $3.50 to $4 and $4.50 I fields. Are you hay-diggers organized in a day and chuck. Furthermore, the Stock-j the Agricultural Workers Union I. U. 110 growers Association of Big Hole have sont of the I. W. W. Delegates can be found ^ notices to the various employment sharks: In the field ready to fix you up with a (agencies) informing them about the wagejeard. If no delegate is at hand you can scale that was handed down by them and | ret a card by writing to the Butte'Hall

i, to act according- &t 3J8 y f . Wyoming Street.

Little Red Tag That Labels the Bundles Of Twine Symbolizes the Blood of Our Class and Will Taint the Bread Made From Wheat Bound With Such Products.

SEWARD, Nebr., July 18.—In quite a number of places in the har-before these b i r d s | v e s t f i e , d s t h e f a r m e r s are using penitentiary twine. Wherever possible Now the so-called t h ? A K r i c u , t u r a I Workers Industrial Union No. 110 takes action against jrcsent me in any r*"8* T h e W ' s tands for f ree organized labor products. The twine

' bundles with a little red tag Uttached upon which appears in t gangs of poli

right to use my name to collect funds Moreover, I consider it an insult for t to com1 over here apd tr>; to belittle < rganizution that I am a member of or of its members: and I would appreciat greatly if they would never call me

JOHN MACDONALD COMES BACK TO

TELL HIS STORY

I prison.

• MINNESOTA STANDARD

, Average length per lb., 500 feet MANUFACTURED AT STATE PRISON

TAKE FROM THIS END The use of this twine made by the ' un fo r tuna te workers ... ,, ..,

most of.whom are merely victims of the capitalist system, in competition with the products of f ree labor is an at tack upon f ree institutions. It is resented by every liberty loving

The harvest drive of A. W. I. U. 1 steadily pressing forward.' So far man timers as well as a multitude of new faces are appearing in the ranks of the organiz-ation. The constantly growing inl and enthusiasm of the harvest workers In this drive is remarkable. AH ai and thinking about the I. W. W.

ew line-ups immediately give aid and co-operation in helping to put the dri

Billings Renews His Application For a c r o s s -f a rdon . and Requests That Re- There are workers from every state turned Witness Be Questioned By the U. S. A., and several other secti the Court. ' of the world, in this drive. There arc b

, ' from Texas with' big hats; there are min SAN FRANCISCO. Calif., July Colorado and Illinois; mechanics fr

With John .\farDonald on his way to San Detroit and Chicago. They are all here Francisco accompanied by lawyers to give a s s , s t *; U U 0 , n '*? propaganda and

, ganization drive in the harvest fields

• and t h e . t h ^ Supreme Court is awaited with interest. Billings hes asked the Supreme Court to

e buildin harvest fields of Nej tense the last several scissorbills working in

Mti'on • j some district for as low as $2.50 per day, tribunal to summon i n the killing heat. Wherever the members

imony from Jack Ma.-Donald. ^ ^ ^ f ^ u p e d together j n sufficient

of time left yet to meet the drive coming up the country. In addition , buy all the-110 drive stamps you can affe ird, especially those of you who are not oth 1 X 1

Ing in the drive.

So far the comical fakers Y lave given us no trouble, and it is well for them to stay out of our road. We are out to give labor a form of organization that will make it invincible and we will brook no opposition from any source whatsoever.

The auto tramps are not as plentiful

ADTO MECHANICS AND TEAMSTERS

STRIKE IN BUTTE General Lock-Out of Employees of

Business Houses Follows Vote of Clerks To Walk Out in Sympathy. Business at Standstill.

the present introduction of modem try in the hay fields the hay is put !* of the time that it used to re-hen the hay was put up u;ith the

hay-boats and hay-nets. Now the hay is with stackers railed the "Beaver-In the last few year* the trac-

its a day. The auto mechanii ieduced from $9 to $8 a day. Much dif-ficulty was experienced in filling the placi of the strikers with scabs and thosy ol

led proved incompetent. Confusion b te so great that business came to etical standstill.

July 6th the. clerks' union, one of the largest in Butte, voted three to one to go >ut in bympathy with the strikers if store Upplici were delivered by non-union driv-ers. There were some clashes between the «abs and the union members in the down-own streets. On Saturday following the rote of the clerks in favor of a sympathy valk-out, the employers declared a lock-out tnd over 800 clerks, bookkeepers, steno^ :raphe** and even sub-managers and others tot affiliated with the union were laid off.

Business has been at a standstill, t —CARD X242678.

of -his pardon a| Billings asked

and take a state s witness who twice viction of Billings and Thomas J. Mooney has made statements saying his testimony was perjured.

Mac Donald is on'his way here from timore. where he appeared recently and repudiated his testimony.

Appointment of a commission by the court to completely review the case and subsequent developments was suggested and Billings asked the high tribunal to consid-er things outside the trial record.

The testimony of most of the prosecut-ing witnesses was attacked in the rehearing tequest. It also discussed the previous Su-preme Court decision, which inferred if Billings and Mooney were not actually guilty cf having placed the bombs which

SAN FRANCISCO. Friday. July li:— iv. C. C Young said last night he had

not decided where he will question John MacDonald relative to his testimony given

the Mooney-Billings trials in San Fran-cisco in 191(5.

BUY A. W. I. U. 110 DRIVE STAMPS Every class conscious member of the I. W. W. should buy a t least

one, more if possible, of the 110 drive s tamps. The revenue coming frony these s tamps is to be used to carry on the I. W. W. brganization and educational campaign among the harvest workers during 1930.

The stamp, beautifully designed, represents a fellow worker with his hands raised in a dignified gesture looking across the harvest fields towards the rising sun of Industr ial Unionism.

The harvest drive is now on full swing and we who are here a t the bat t lef ront are giving our best t ime and e f fo r t s to carry the drive onward to the Dominion of Canada. So buy till it hur ts , fellow workers ! . Show solidarity in a material way. A. W. I. U. has always been a cheerful giver towards the e f fo r t s of an industrial unions of the I. W. W. So altogether, let 's go!—GUY B. ASKEW.

| During the years 1918 and 1919 the member of the I. W. W. had improved the

j working conditions and raised the wages in •he Big Hole Valley. In spite of the de-portation of the I. W. W. members the I. W. W. succeeded in organizing the hay-diggers in the Big Hole Valley. Those

of the big v e r y and stockmen who had met hrying was t o f U t ' h e hay-digger's wages recently had wer When n l < 0 m c t i n t h e y e a r s o f 1 9 1 8 a n d 1 9 1 9 t o

lorse-wranir d r i v e o u t the I. W. W. members from the md rounded B i * H o ! e V a l l ey- W hen t h * h*y hands were -•ought them o r K a n , M > d i n t h e L W" W ' the .wages were k stock was I t h* highest and the conditions were im-

since the hay hands* neglected

>nly from 30 to 90days; then they i"] e l r " f ! 1 " " the range till the next ^ ® _ c o n d ^ r

their ( getting from had

This goes to prove t if you hay-diggers don't organize in I. W. W. your wages will be cut still

•e and your living conditions will be low-1. You either have to organize or take consequences in form of leas wages,

•e tpeeding up with a greater output lower living standard, and finally with lengthening of the working day.

J. Parnack.

COMICAL METHODS AT MOCLIPS GET QN THE NERVESOTSHINGLE WEAVERS

Pickets Imported From Skid Road Prove To Be Like the Swarm of Locusts That Fell On Pharaoh's Kingdom. ABERDEEN, Wash., July 18.—The shingle weavers s t r ike has been

going on at Smith ' s shingle mill a t Moclips since June 1. Some of the Communist T. U. U. L. gang who injected themselves into the bucket s t r ike in South Aberdeen in May, 1929, are now at Moclips. They tried to pull the same tactics a t Moclips tha t they did in the bucket s tr ike. They brought over a lot of skid road bums from Seatt le to eat up the s t r ike funds in the bucket s tr ike. They tried to do the same th ing -a t Moclips, but the shingle weavers laid down t h e law to then} and it didn't work th is t ime. The 18-year old girl f rom California who was seeking the limelight was told f rankly to ei ther go and buy her own chuck or go back to Seattle. " F a t t y " went back to Seattle. "Fatty" was feeding the skidroad bums?

nported from Seattle ham and eggs, tee- u n i o n : He was told to go to hell, sne steaks and pork chops. The doughnut-1 T h e Daily Worker, organ of the com-rians were rolling in luxury and another! m u n i s t <. published a statement that the eek «.r two would have sent them to a shingle weavers and lumberajck? were pick-

physical culture sanitarium for "reducing." J e t i n * i n m a s s - There are no lumberji Fatty" likes the fat ones and was t r y i n g a t Moclips except

s roly-poly as herself

from the Seattle skidroad

I. W. W. Moclips that was furn-

logs for the mill took a wage cut i per cer.t. They were peeved be-the shingle weavers refused to take ime cut so that they could stay at

When the shingle weavers struck 1 the wage cut the logging camp was

weavers don't like 'em. They prefer trou- c losc<1 d o w n bles to "cooties." They expressed their opinion of the T. U. U. L. leadership and T h e workers.on the Job are beginning to the skid road bums in their meeting on Julyi84* ^ '°My °* permitting politicians^ and

1. They have made up their mind to | non-woi-ker. to inject themselves into a la-in their own strike. |bor struggle. An industrial struggle must One T. X5. U. L. man went to the lon«- • be fought out by the men at the point of

shoremen's union hall to ask for financial production. p e t ty bourgeois philosophers support for the strike. The longshoremen a n d tin-horn politicians are poor leaders flatly refused to have anything to do with f o r » struggle on the job. The technique the strike as long as Holloway was connect-1of t h e »k id road philosopher and slogan ed with It. One picket is reported to have >'e, ,er i a n o t "datable to strike strategy, approached a longshoreman and asked him, ^ takes how he would like a job as undercover mai\j wot**™ for the T. U. U. Iv in the longshoremen's»

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One Enemy

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and Warren K. Billir therefore, should be

Well, everybody kr guilty of the bomb c

(pressing himself. Reference

the efforts of

(utility )are the only it their product at 15

Labor power is sold at cut-rate prices. The cost to produce labor power for one •lay is the cost of "3 squares," plus inci-dentals, all told, say, $3.00.

Fiftetn times $3 equals *45.00. Forty-five doflars, then, is a days pay for* a workinpman if he cares to charge like th«< power companies do.

Power companies are able to charge 15 times the cost of a volt or 'wat t of power; plus extra perambulations of well-oiled meters—because they are organized—ff company.

Labor must sell its power at cut rates —sometimes below cost—because it is dis-organized as individuals: is not known as labor but as labor'ers—notice the split.

produce earth, they If the friends t when they(the hophead, ass there

AMONG US HUMANS

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r nations, one year—$2.50

THE INTELLECTUAL SQUID? The squid is a queer fish. When attacked or alarmed it gives forth

an ink-like fluid which murks up the water in its vicinity and makes its get-away in the obscuration thus created. It has a counterpart in the intellectual squid—the social quack who proposes'remedies for patching up the capitalist system. His principal function is to give off a muddy line of prattle that murks up the waters of enlightenment.

We ran jicross this in the American Federationist—it was among the Words of Wisdom compiled by "The Observer:"

"Unemployment, if it is preventable, should be prevented. If it is •not preventable, it must be assumed by industiy as one of *he inevitable overhead costs of doing business. Industry already sets aside in pros-perous times reserves to be used for paying interest and dividends in times, i. e., for carrying its capital overhead. The overhead of labor sists in the fact that wage-earners' families live by the year* though they work by the day, and that the labor supply must be nourished in periods of idleness, like the capital supply, so that it may be available when needed."

The error in this line of reasoning is that the source of capitalist pro-"fk is considered as a part of the "overhead". To adequately provide for labor thru periods of unemployment as a part of the costs of doing business is to destroy the profits. The profit of capital is the unpaid-for part of

flabor's product. The fundamental source of profit and dividends lies in the power to use labor at the level of subsistence in producing commodities and absorb the surplus produced. When the market is glutted with the surplus the workers are laid off and, as the "Observer" observes, "industry sets aside in prosperous times reserves for paying interest and dividends in dull times." If capital were to carry labor thru the periods of unemploy-ment, the reserves set up for this purpose would largely absorb the un-divided profits and reserves set up for payment of dividends in slack times.

Running thru all the suggestions for the relief of unemployment is this fundamental misconception of capitalism as a system. It is not due to ignorance. The amateur economists know better, but, unlike the pirati-cal masters of industiy. who are "practical" men, the intellectual squids of the liberal cults haven't the guts to say it frankly. They analyze the •problem quite clearly but when they come to the answer, they shy at the radical conclusion indicated. Then comes as a substitute, some impracti-cal suggestion that confuses the issue and reminds one of the inky thrown off by a squid fish in making his escape from a threatening reality.

Let these intellectual squids understand that capital already sets up its reserves for the purpose of insuring that "the labor supply shall be nourished in periods of idleness, like the capital supply, so that it may be available when needed." This reserve, or rather overhead expenr- :-c.-illed charity. It is a legitimate charge which is deductible in incom .returns. It provides for community chests, Salvation Army, mission flops, nread lines, shimmers, social work, religious contributions and the like. Of course, it is an inadequate provision. Its only purpose is to insure that a sufficient supply of labor power may be, "available when needed." It is not the purpose of the capitalist master, any more than it was t the chattel slave master, that his slaves shall perish. It is not his purpo: that too many of them shall sink below the level of a certain required ef-ficiency during periods of slack times. They must be preserved for futur u'se and further exploitation.

But there is no sentiment in this. Charity in business is a "busines proposition." The practical purpose is to maintain a sufficient supply of available labor power without burdening industry with -too great a charge. To, insure -this, the birth Yate is stimulated among the slaves by making birth-control information unavailable ^o them. The fountains of supply of slave life are not to be dried up. The slaves must be allowed to breed redundantly in order that children may swarm and at least feach the stage of youth—that profitable cream of their existence so prized by capi-tal for the purpose *of exploitation. Charity takes care of this in a meager way with sufficient nourishment to permit the vigorous to survive the cycle of unemployment: while religious consolat'op eases the'aged and dis-carded into oblivion with promises of an elysium of bliss to compensate for the fullness of life robbed from them here.

Prof. Nystrom in "Economic Principles of Consumption" shows that 86 per cent of persons gainfully employed receive less than S2.000 per annum. It has l>een determined by investigators that $2,300 is necessary to "provide the minimum requirements and allow a very narrow margin for emergencies, such as illness, unemployment, old age or savings." The same authority shows that 11,000,000 persons are living below the poverty line; another 62,000,000 are/between the bare subsistence level and the minimum of comfort in lifer20,000,000 are in comfort; 15,000,000 are •moderately well-to-do; 10,000,000 are well to do; and some 2,000,000 live

. on a 'liberal standard with an income above $10,000 a year. Thd profit system is continually concentrating, merging and mechan-

izing industry with a view to narrowing the limits of those who live above the subsistence level and increasing the numbers of those who live below it. At the same time, the intellctual sqdids scatter false reports to cover the process. They point out the fact that 410,000 corporations in the United States are "owned" by 20,000,000 stockholders and that the numbers of these stockholders has increased in recent years. Prof. Nystrom demolishes this fiction of the intellectual squids by pointing out that most of these stockholder^ are the same persons counted over and over as stockholders holding investments in the different corporations. When these are counted down to actual individuals, the number of stock-holdersilwindles to 2,358,000 in 1924. Of this number. 1,269,000 did not make out afi income tax return; 20O.OOO received an income of less than $2,500 from all sources. "The remaining 689,000 individuals evidently received the remainder of the income from corporate stocks." This anal-ysis effectually disposes of the myth of employee stockholding.

A predatory system cannot be reformed or "stabilized." It is nol based upon-the will or disposition of individuals; it is a mechanism that has grown up out of the chaos of the struggle for existence. It works like any other machine. It consumes fuel. 'The fuel in this case is the bodies of exploited slaves. The purpose of the machine is to grind out profits. The only requirement of the mechanism is that an adequate supply of good fuel be available at the cheapest possible'price compatible with ef-ficiency. It is necessary that this fuel, be consumed in the production of commodities sold for profit. To raise the cost of the fuel is to defeat the purpose of the machine. To divert the profits back to the workers is to reverse the purpose of the machine which is to transfer the lite' energies of slaves to the product. , _ x .

It is thus apparent that capitalism cannot be reformed without de-feating its mechanical puipose and destroying its functions. To obscure this fact is to interfere with the logical evolutionary remedy. Capitalism grew out of a system rendered obsolete by evolution and progress. It will go the way of its predecessor. There is no compromise possible between an exploited slave class and their exploiters. , i.

There is no reason, however, for withholding effort to lessen the profit of the master class. The working day must be shortened, not with the object of stabilizing capitalism as these intellectual squids imagine or assert, but as a logical and inevitable step in its overthrow. To build the structure of the new society within the shell of thewd requires a con-

The Unemployed ' CALGARY; Alta., July 19—When I saw 1400 men lining op for

meal tickets in this little cow town, the thought came to me that the life of a worker is hell, unemployed or working, and that it is time for a change. So I wrote the enclosed lines. With the political parties playing footbaD with the unemployment question, a fellow realizes the necessity of unity and solidarity of the workers to achieve anything, realizes that no high tariff or low tariff moves will guide them fnto the commonwealth of toil.

They knock upon the factory gate, The unemployed. Condemned to idleness their fate, The unemployed! "No men are wanted" reads a sign; .Starvation, hunger, means this line

* 4 To men who're unemployed.

Inside the gates the whirling wheels Sing songs of greed, Ahd curses shout the men, who feel The whip of greed! The priests of profit grin and smile, Drunk and debauched, debased and vile, Doped by the wine of greed!

Will misery always be your fate, Oh. working class? Will slavery always be your state, # Oh working class? Remember, might is always right! Unite, oh workers, oh unite— To free, to free your class.

—HERBERT KERSTEN.

i. j That capitalistic justice is fraught __>t j crude burlesque and clownish antics

but they are, I revealed recently in the Mdjpney case, when guilty of attempting | Governor Young of California unintenl lize the working class j ionally dropped his mask and called upo »nd for that offense ' the friends of Mooncy to produce one John ley are spending their! McDonald, a hophead, whom the Califor,

People wh<i :apitalism put u

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According to last sabbath's Topeka Daily Capital, a prize for singing of "Star Spang-led Banner" was offered, but found

Here's the hew: "Emporia, Kan., June 21.—(Special) —

Even the 1). A. R. has a skeleton in it) closet. At a D. A. R. breakfast here thii week, a prize was offered to anyone whi could fing correctly three verses of 'Th< Star Spangled Banner'.

otic chorus boomed loudly on th«

to fly the) is, in truth, jupt al^j

Then ore woman started singing the t \erse, thinking it was the second." (A

jthematical blunder). ' I "She sang it thru, could think of no i 'Iverses and the prize wasn't awarded. ") Shucks! That's nothing. The girls

d be improved , h a J a n o f f d a y ! j rcmember once ' •girl- f ° r " H i w a s to sir

~>nlidge and t r ( 0 0 0 0 > j n u i

! the split.

; hell; but right, too damned much

Hays. Kan,—At this

it of an audience of drafted — lirtuwu, I quite iurK«i the ballad, title and'acquaH ind child-ia„ n j d j 5 t a n < J t h e r e cquirminjr, helpless-;stake. Not by a jufffu,,!

i "The Lords Pray R. girls could ha'

of the

substitution leaving all joki R. one dollar i

tny bunch of "reds" in thi ling that song, front end lurring a single note—are

dontcha gamble? Me thinks ill put ii) a miserable sumr

a goat orations of California, i e other hand, | f r a m e d Moonev and Hillings in the first is. own divine ( p) a c e t 9till rule California with an absolutely no h a m l , a n d Wni do so as long as capit

vidence. ^ | Justice and capitalism can Governor Young exemplifies .the warped become compatible, ah< every man «

mil perverted brain of the monstrosity this diabolic social system has his produced by an unnatural social system, ] So the only justice that will ever be ob-ind the sooner the workers organize scien-' tained by the working class will be ifically on the industrial field and abol- [ the workers organize as a class an

ish the system that produces these mon- (quire sufficient power to demand ju ities, the better it will be for the Wishing for justice unde^ capitalism in'race. Don't blame Governor Young fatuous as wishing for everlasting bliss inally; he is simply the product of . when you are dead.

stant struggle to increase the power of the increasing 'numbers of the proletariat, those who have nothing to sell but labor power. Shorteningr

the working day by organized effort is a step in that direction. Union strength should be built up with this .end in view. Nothing is gained by obscuring the ultimate purpose, which is to take over the means of production and cease production for profit. Profit is unpaid wages. It is made by withholding from labor the product of its hands. To attempt to assign a portion of this exploited gain to sustain the unemployed and (fell it "overhead" is intellectual obscurantism. It will be fought as strenuously as the effort to take the whole. The object of labor is to take all. The purpose of organization is to build power toward this end. The six-hour day is a step in this direction. Let us work for it with the one purpose in view, the ultimate elimination of a useless class of para-sites—the idlef investing capitalist who gambles in human lives as a profligate slave master formerly gambled away the bodies of his slave chattels. The technique of industry is/here and just as available for pro-duction for use as it is for producing the stakes for which capitalists gamble. Put it in the hands of the workers and their chosen technicians. It is the rightfult heritage of the human race—not the few.

is a hitch to the program, rages offered look as if they imported here from my old

ground, Conway Springs. Kan. in the farmers are casting sheep's

. jeves at the harvest hand's dollar, instead. ide: 111 bet the j t c n < l i n R t o t h c i r business of selling their

cooky tha | w h ( a t | n ( J brursels-sprouts. Indications are ountry c a n ; t h p w a g e g w i ] j be six dollars up—the boys

firls could have done the; >ut anybody getting h e P j T j

| have

„ . T , : A . P , - T k , | i : W. W. PUBLICATIONS nty State Bank was robbed of j wo unmasked men at the noonjXssued by The General Executive

Board.

the I W. . $2 i rear; single cop t 555 W. Lake J

Few years back I said, "if Babe Rul s worth $50,000, Bob Shawkey is worth .lillion"—which goes to show I know som hing else besides Industrial Unionisr

My knowledge is multi-various or mutili eral, however you please.

Yesterday a granger brought 100 "friei chickens) into town and sold them foi 13—an unlucky number; 13 cents a piec -another unlucky number—the man mus

be hoodooed. That *13 is what is knowi farm-relief.

i relief! Butter f a t 23 per Corn-willy (packed Bhort lb. Watson, ;

The federal farm board wheat stabiliia-on corporation is on a larger scale what community cheat is on smaller—and just

about as charitable. ™ If community chest functions in aity other

capacity than a "sel f-devouri ng-stall." then great things* circumscribed, may be ex-pected from the "board"—limited because of the unwieldinesa of its sire—but, if the "chest" does not function helpfully, then

published t I Chicago, III. » I INDUSTRIAL WORKER, weekly newsra-I per in English, $2 a jwar: single copies

a | 5 cents, published at Seattle, Wash. Ad-*"1 dress Box 1857. l* SOLIDARIDAD, bi-weekly newspaper in l* Spanish, $1 a year; single copies 5 cents.

Published at New York City, N. Y. Ad-dress Box 32. Station D.

>"lTIE VAPAUTEEN, Finnish monthly ma-gazine. 32 pages, *1.75 a year; single copies 15 cents, May and December 48 pages, 25 cents. .Published at 24 Lake Avenue North, Duluth, Minn.

INDUSTRIALIST!, Finnish daily news paper, *4.75 a year, *2.75 •be months, *1.75 three months. Single copies 5c. Published at Duluth, |IinjiyAddress Box 464. P*

BERMUNKAS, Hungarian weekly news-paper, *2 a year; single copies 6 cents. Published at 565 W. Lake Street, Chica-go, EL

XL PROLETAIUO, Italian weekly newspa-per, *2 a year; single copies 5 cents. Published at Brooklyn, N. Y. Address Box 24, Station T.

JEDNA VELKA UNIE, Cxecho-SlovakLan weekly newspaper, *2 a year; single copies 5 cents. Published i

JULY 26, 1930.

MEDICAL FEES COLLECTED FROM WORKERS USED

TO FIGHT CLAIMS Alaska Railroad Repair Lags

OLYilPIA, Wash., July 15.—Salt to re-cover 510,492 from Claire Bowman, state director of labor and industries, for alleged illegal expenditures from the medical aid fund, was filed in Thurston^ county superior court July 11 by Attorney General John H. Dunbar.

Funds collected "from workmen to Insure their proper treatment when they are in-jured, the complaint said, were used to pay court costs in fighting the appeals of'the same workmen.

PASCO, Wash., July 17.—This is a great country. I have a job for two days at 30c per hour and board yourself. That means you eat in town, paying from 3?c up to 76c a meal, and 50c for a room.

I was working on a farm—say, some I farm! You see nothing but women and girls working there. It was the first time in my life I worked with a woman. I thought that was a good one. I asked her where her man was.

"At hotne, taking care of the Home and habies,' 'she said.

I thought to myself, isn't that nice. "Is he a union mln?" I asked.

"No," she answered. "Why?** Well, it would take too much time and paper to write it all down. "Anyway," I said, "Why' not join the Industrial Workers o/ the World?" /

"Oh, the I. W. W.?" she said. "Well, I would like to see the I. W. W. come and take the darn country."

"You better join," I told her, "and help things along. We are sure going to pet what we are going after."

DEL. 14-GO.

pontaneous Walk-Out of Fisher Body Works Workers of Flint; Mich. Is Occasion For Cossack Rule and Usual Gunman Brutality.

By CLAUDE ERWIN.

THINGS SEEN AND HEARD ON THESHDROAD

rkcr is/cheated What a mockery! What a Crime! criminals we should reckon with at behind prison bars. They are tho« foster a state of affairs that deniei end women—yea, children—the very pities of life or compels them to h

(l>eg for just enough to sustain life, j in the bread-line are of the working c jthe cr)btors of all wealth.

ship an elected Whitin; July 5

,f the Flint pi# 1 demands. The plant urging all the worke

A general walk-out follox strik* from 80 to' W pei There are no accurate fi] actual number who struck.

. At this time the Commur ers Union" wh»ch had son

and attempted to organize al haphazard fashion. Thi I'.-aArrs took the helm. U

Takes Bundle of Industrial Worker . and Membership Card of Member; From Him and Say* "No Union . Men Can Ride Jim Hill's Lines."

WENATCHEE, Wash., July 16.—There s a long, thin space wearing open shop jant^r nnd an American Legion button with i railroad badge and deputy sheriff's star •atrollir.g the yards in this town. Last •ight 'ie stopped a worker in the yard who vas carrying •» bundle of papers.

"Whatcha got there?" he bellowed, flash-

Whirl won three highly elated. . A

I>izxy Whirl, by the way, is shilling for the- "LOGGER," a combination rummy

[joint, physic parlor, and employment den. , Rummy is the most modern manifestation cf Scissorbillitcs. "A Shiller" as everyone

| should know is a shady character who plays ifor the house, lies for the house, and steals

s. No di«

clubbed a ingr were

DETROIT, Mich, me in Detroit. V

have returned his faithful subjects v two weeks vacation WITH PAY. The vacation was to begin July 12. It came. But WITHOUT PAY. 20,000 cf Ford's employes haw been laid cff. The vacation is to be extended inde-_ finitely. 08 per cent of the men who were, turned off had their badges—the insignia of the Order of inlizzeana—taken from them as they passed the gate for the last time. That means permanent disconnection with the pay-roll. -King Henry promised some of them that they would be re-attached to the umbilical cord that feeds them "if he needed them again."

The laying off process bepan July 7th. Since then about 20 per cent of the total number of employes of the Ford plant have keen discharged.

THE "UNION LOAN OFFICE" is va-cating (on installment plan) its present rbode. Its second-hand, moth-eaten, dis-ease-bearing garments are being moved by hand to the "CENTRAL LOAN OFFICE" on Washington Street. y

The shark owners have ever been unfair to organized workers, especially loggers. A boycott placed on their place years ago has never been lifted.

John Farmer Won't Wager Four Bits On The Day's Wage Against a

Rise In Wheat. * < ontrolled daily

frbr., July 10.—A farmer, af-pr my pood points in Oxford,

ras looking for work. r the trouble started.) • be a mind reader," I sug-

rin>r news which tlfey knew the would be prompt in making.

On July 2nd. the t strikers, the silence of the city press, a rj-ing banners boycotting the F a General Motors organ. Th( responded in the usual manne

A pedestrian traffic jam on BUG HOUSE CENTER, (the immediate vicinity of O'Hanrahinski's second-hand snuse stand). Cause? "Grease Bal|," dressed in a rescued suit, a 25c straw lid and his neck washed. "Mike and Ike" had to clear the congestion. "Grease Ball" voted for Al last election day. He yeses Commicalism every other day.

legitimate property as his iK. The man who takes it fetter in the act than any he card also is private pro-worker remarked, "These the legal right, but they Good! Organize and gain

hen you'll be "right." —X 231621. '

irritated byj appeared car-,j

ias announced ige of compul-14 to 15 years, h objective of and reducing

sory school attendance from effective April 1, 1931, wit curbing supply of .workers unemployment.

NEW SEATTLE SECRETARY imported employers

Charles Harmon has succeeded Harry J . . Clark as secretary of the Seattle Joint' Branches upon the expiration of Clark's term of office. All communications for the Seattle Joint Branches should be addressed to the new' recretary, Charles Harmon, Box 36i», Seattle, Wash.

Papers in Spokane I. W. W. papers can be bought from

the newsboy at all times during the day at the corner of Washington Street and Trent Avenue. Also at the I. W. W. hall it 223 N. Benard Street They are also for sale at the news stand on the corner of Trent Ave. and Stevens Street

the ideal bolshevick Many Volumes in One « . • . m I i / - I • r : _ L 4 . . D n n o o C i ' n m

THE DETROIT BAZAAR farmer, isn't tha all pay for a full the way from 1

"Thompson's knowledge of the labor move-ment was far superior to that of any man in the audicnce including himself." Then he proceeded to tear it asunder! His lojfic took the form of slander, distortion, and lie* that we arc glad to say did not make a hit. HE then introduced Dizzy Whirl as os "one of the best informed men in the labor movement." Even I can learn much from him. Some nut, no doubt, recalling what Cincinnati Fat said about the poor, "God help the labor movement"

More and more patrons are flocking the Buzzards of America's bread line. Th fed over four hundred at today's me Supper hours are from 4:30 to 6:00 P. Place—^craich Beach, Cor. of Washingt Street and Railroad Avenue.

Pacers For Sale In Sacramento Any fellow worker passing through Ca-

lifornia who want* to do organization work and buy the papers can do so by getting in touch with Ira Pope in Sacramento, Ca-lifornia. The Worker and Solidarity are for sale at the News Stand at 204 I. St , Sacramento, Calif.

fRA POPE. Sta. Del.

VANCOUVER, B. C. SECRETARY All mail intended for the Vancouver, B.

C. Branch of the I. W. W. should in future be addressed to the incoming secretary, Alex Nelson, 60 Cordova St W., Vancouver, B. C.

L W. W. Papers in Calgary

^Delegate 40-A-0, At T. Harbaugh is sel-ling papers in Calgary and can be found at 630 4th Ave. W. Anyone wanting pa-pers or wishing to stamp up can do so.

J U L Y 26; 1980.

An Analysis of Graft The History, Practice and Psychology of the Most Characteristic

Institution of Capitalism Is Treated From a t Proletarian Point of View.

* By HUBERT LANGEROCK This monograph on " G r a f t " will run in a scries of instalments in the

Industrial Worker. The author is one of the ablest Marxists living today. But aside from his proletarian views, L a n g e r o c k l s also an economic scholar and analyst of remarkable ability. I t is long since a proletarian work of current interest and power has appeared. The irruption of the Russian upheaval has so obsessed the minds of our ablest wr i ters tha t the mere passing events in the vast panorama of activity have diverted them and biased their judgment for the moment. In this series, the s t ream of proletarian thought again runs clear and strong with the s t rength of realism and clear vision. We t rus t our readers will keep the files con-taining this monograph, a t least until it is published in book form. It is well worth the s tudy of the proletarian s tudent and the Industrial Worker is for tunate, indeed, in being able to present it to i ts readers.

GRAFT IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRA- c i t i r c n c a n best p r o v e h i s Americanism by TION J buying a home'or the zite of one at once.

hole class in Americanism n squad formation to an recently placed upon the

SEWARD^ Neb.—Every day some of the farmers come in looking for slaves to -do 11 and 12 hours work a day at S5c an hourfa As the harvest stiffs are fairly well organized here and are holding out for 40p per hour, John has little success.

The town bull immediately puts in hi* appearance, ordering the harvest workers to go to work or get out of town. This proves that American law and order com-mittees are the chief scab herders of the world.—Guy B. Askew.

pic ted, deals for the right of way are be-^ ing closed, and actual construction work-will begin with the opening of% the camp '* at Merritt—GO-15. t \

ABERDEEN, Wash.—Papa Poison ha started up two camps. He opened up a the old wage scale, but in figuring on hav :ng • meeting of his docile slaves—Fou 1 's—on the 15»h, when they will vote fe i cut in wages.—X104103.

countries *and largely i/i they maj^ be called pon-graft_ in*public admini-

m accomplished fact. The cracy, in its initial ctom-n loath to deal with the As technological and fi-

ip of productive

GRAFT AND CIVIC RIGHTS

ARIEL, Wash.—Work has started on! the Glory Hole for the dam site. Low is! 56\*c an hour, working 8 and 9 .hours,.! mostly 9. Board is rotten at $1.40 a day. I Bunkhouses are dirty and there is damn | little hot water to wash with. There are! about 500 men on the job.—GO-48. |

of a political democracy of is type are the vote and the

lg up their pri-jpri< :ertain sum for .hav rse. ' When the ' coy of CzsechoSlo-i jcotr ch proceeds along the

ery phase of publi yet, Czccho-Sloval

remark publicly he could only j houi

Perhaps one of the reasons alenc.' of petty graft is the lany branches of the publi ay is ridiculously small. In the C. S. the pay is

r»ite of this, there may be better but, ,in j immoral by-pi found an fn-! imitative re;

the creation of j While it is g One of the utility corpor

ated through the

social nature but privately controlled, and willing to sell out and sometimes anxi-ie voluntary social worker as well as his ously on the look-out for an occasion to ore professionalized colleague are just asjbe bought out. During the competitive per-nal as the policeman from the very-mo-' iod of American industry, before the great pnt that they feel themselves vested with j merger-era, the calling of a strike in the me form of authority. Church members, plant ,of a competitor was an habitual Khly moral puritan of the conventional, method of competition and it benefitted the ittern have, when they had been appoint- [walking delegate just as much as the un-

to boards of censorship for moving pic- scrupulous employer himself. With the res, allowed their decisions to be influ- j»eriod t-f trustification, the methods of the ced l»y bribery in collusion with both pro- labor leader's graft had to be changed but icers and exhibitors. jits /intimate nature and fundamental mech-

anism lemained intact. If the present day THE GRAFT OF THE LABOR labor leader has not the same opportunities

LEADER to sell out for a price as his predecessor

Many years ago. an American delegate through his conduct in o f f S ' to create the caking before the International Socialist proper atmosphere that will lead to his la-ingr»ss at Stuttgart, in Germany, made ter employment "by the industrial capitalists e assertion that graft had permeated the with whom he contacts in the capacity of lole -taff. of American craft unionism, an adviser on matters of personnel or in lis assertion is truer today than, ever any kind of a capacity wherein he can fore. The radically Inclined workers market for use against the union the knowl-iticizc the A. F. of L. on the strength edge ana experience which' he has acquired at it is structurally inefficient and un- while in the pay and service of the union.

lecture he will deliver at our usual open forum to be held at 84 Embarcadero, San Francisco, Sunday July 27th, at 2:00 p. M.

The capitalist press nas advised us that: "President Hoover is America's greatest individualist." M. Prizant will bring the subject of - individualism under the scruti-ny of his keen analytic mind; especially: Hoover's individualism.

The part individualism has played in the past, its place in the machine age, will be illuminated in no uncertain man-ner. False philosophies, vestigial surviv-als, superstitions, traditions and other re-lics of the past, which weigh'like an alp |>n the mind of the present, will bo han- j died with an adroitness, a dexterity,# that • will not be misunderstood. «,

Comrade M. Prizant is a sincere and I conscientious student, has a fluent and easy delivery, is exceedingly entertaining and is highly instructive.

All members of the working-class are invited. Questions and discussion.

The admission is free. Come! Let us lean) more, that we may make this a bet-

' resent Indications Point To No Im-provement In Business Conditions Before September or October.

NEW YORB, July 18.—The Annalist, fi-nancial publication, and considered one of the best authorities on economic conditions rays that in general there is nothing in the business situation to indicate a change, announcing that according to its index ac-tivity in. June had declined ta approximate-ly the lowest level in six years, and that cn the basis of the movement of commerc-

ial paper rates the expected upturn might come "almost any tjme in the last half of

11930 or the first quarter of 1931." "In business itself," added the publica>

tion, "there are not many indications of | an immediate upturn. Construction con-tracts showed marked improvement in June, but the gain was largely the result of exceptional items which may or may not

that expectations of an upturn prior to September or October are likely to be -dis-appointed."

illy complete disregard

NATURALIZATION GRAFT

OPEN FORUM Every Sunday a t 2:00 P. M.

84 Embarcadero

San Francisco

Open Air Meetings Wednesday and Saturday Eves., Third & Minna

Auspices Industrial Workers of the World.

We put up a good lunch. PUBLICITY COMMITTEE.

"Always something doing at 84'

nderson is requested to cotn-itli Chas -Harmon, Box 365,