The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 6

F : \ Page Six "TORKER THE DAILY THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., i640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. January 13, 1924 EM aR UNO ENE CAMARO MERON «Janet March’”’ Suppressed|| 7), Party Caucus Secretary of Agriculture Wallace Joab Banton, district attorney of New York, read a copy of Floyd Dell’s latest novel, Janet TO POWER! aCe ———— | March, and was inexpressibly shocked. His] defeateq Magnus Johnson in a milk-! shag oer | moral hair stood on end and he immediately Light ag aie S went to see the publisher, Alfred Knopf. Mr. ter the photographers were} . : 3.50. .6 th $2.00. .3 © hes ; Ares , " r he ut fay, Ber age Pig on caus hoe : months | nopf, after confering with the pious Banton, | through, the contestants—for the | benefit of the reporters—left the cow! | and after another conference with his attor-| to throw the bull, | s 7 $4.50. .6 ths $2.50. .8 months 7 Peeper year if eee : ech ney, decided to discontinue the sale of the book By carrier: and withdraw it from circulation. _We learn from a news item the $10.00 per year $1.00 per month Mr. Dell, while defending the tone of the | directors of the Rockfeller Founda- ‘Address all mail and make out checks to novel, which is, in delicate language, ‘the | io" at their December meeting ap-) propriated $2,725,000 for the medical | schools of four universities. John D, must surely be a real angel to the medical schools. Not ‘only does his money go to them, but his industries can furnish the human wreckage for the medical schools to} practice on. story of a girl’s experience,” stated that he appreciated the attitude of Mr. Knopf and would rather have the book suppressed than have it pushed into a big sale by the sensa- tional publicity that a lawsuit would entail. So it stands. If you are a worker, your morals are guaranteed. If you happen to be a fat lady with lots of money and a lap dog, Sai ee or a tired business man, you will soon get a a ne see fighting | chance to buy the book from a literary book- SeeACC aePI i legger for the juicy price of ‘$20. The Ohio .State Journal says:| But let us hope that you are only a common | “Henry Ford’s declaration for Presi-| worker. Then you will be able to go down on ep ye is of greaspolitical sig:| your knees and thank the gods that there exist Quite right. It is necessary to district attorneys and societies for the suppres- | have'an oil can with a Ford. H sion of vice who take upon themselves the THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street Chicago, Ilinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL..... 665-0 seer eens Editor MORITZ J. LOEB... .Business Manager Page Mr. Hughes! An advertisement published in the “Eco- nomic Review” (a London business paper) for Dec. 15, 1923, reads as follows: State Bank of the Russian Federated Soviet Republic. Ekka Nomics. Created by Decree of the Soviet Government of October 12, 1921. Chervonetz 5 00 ! ¢ ; ne Sd aed aT notes i Shes weighty burden of protecting your delicate Epshign Seto cr oreo! sued on Dee. 1, 1923....26,776,000 morals from corruption by the terrible books atin tis Crates eee —— of Issue aia des which are written nowadays for no other pur-| the fashion aencke of THE PARTY pose, so we are told, than to inveigle the peo- ple of this glorious country into an orgy of rape, murder—and thought. CAUCUS gives the following hints:— Men’s waist lines. will be consider- ably narrower and pants will be worn | jg much longer. But there will be no} change in the pockets. ig The women will be pleased to hear} silk underwear will be much worn. Dresses will again be kept long and the women will get the usual trim- ming. Men who do theix wife's shopping will find there is much sup- port to keep hosiery quite high. Note: 1 chervonetz is canal to ten gold roubles. Office: Neglinni Proesd, 12, Moscow. The bank is represented by over 200 Branches and Agencies in all the principal towns of European and Asiatic Russia; the Bank accepts deposits and opens current accounts in foreign gold and Russian currency; remittances to all parts of European and Asiatic Russia, payable both in Russian and foreign currency effected; documentary credits opened; bills discounted; documents payable in Russia col- lected; banking business of every description trans- acted. Gunboat Diplomacy The flag follows the dollar. When workers strike at home against low wages and intoler- able conditions of employment, the flow of dividends into the coffers of the employers are menaced and the flag soon follows the dollar. With very little diplomatic ado and a dose of hypocritical cant about the interests of the dear public the various Governors or the Presi- dent forthwith dispatch troops to safeguard ‘he interests of the capitalists and to crush the strikers. This strikebreaking policy at home is trans- lated into an iron heel policy abroad when the class interests of our capitalists are in danger. The United States pursues as vigorous a strike- breaking policy abroad as at home. It is hap- pening right now in the Far East. America is at present committed to the “open door” pol- icy in China. In practice this means the tightly closed fist policy. The other day an interna- tional force of nearly a score of cruisers and gunboats, armed with soldiers, landed at Sha- We Will—And We'll Wire Charlie Dawes in Europe! In 16 days in congress, 50 resolu- tions were offered to amend the Con- stitution. Won’t you print this lack of faith on the part of congress for the bene- fit of the Minute Men of the Consti- tution? - Lenin and the Working Class People By GEORGE HALONEN, Editor, Finnish Daily, Tyomies. About 23 years ago the Russian Labor movement faced a situation which in many respects can be com- pared to the present turning point of the American Labor movement. There was to be seen, especially among the industrial proletariat, an awakening toward the political struggle. The workers political party, however, was weak, decentralized. and the reyolu- tionary work: were compelled to work either underground or in exile, The big question arose, how to build a party to answer the new needs. The organization question was not London Agents: Lloyds Bank Limited, Barclays Bank Limited, Westminster Bank Limited, J. Henry Schroder & Co. Arcos Banking Corporation Ltd. And this paper must be national, not is ripe for Communist propaganda local.” and agitation. This work, ‘nowever, “The essential point of the whole| cannot be done and our party made question”, wrote Com. Lenin, “lies|@ strong political organization with- therein, that strong political organi-|0ut “The Daily Worker”. Lenin's zations cannot be developed other-| @dvice of the importance of a work- wise than thru the help of an Atl-| ing class newspaper, given more than Russian organ. . . . The cstablish-| 4 Score of years ago, is today, more ment of an All-Russian organ must] than ever, fit for the American move- be the principal guide which enables ment as an incentive to lead us for- us unflinchingly to develop, widen and ward. Our Daily Worker will direct extend the revolutionary organiza-| our activities, show us the general * tion, and which organ is always ready | lines, the scope and nature of our to support every protest and expres- work, and unite the local activities, sion of. dissatisfaction against the| the local organs into a strong organi- present political system. ‘Thé news- zation. paper shows at once the general lines, | __In our present stiuggle, “The Daily the extent and nature of the work and; Worker” must be that fermert which This completes the advertisement, with the exception of one phrase. Here is the Russian Soviet Government, advertising a full-fledged banking business in the heart of the London financial district, having as its agents some of the strongest and best established of British banks, and having, in addition to the five al- ready listed, “(Guarantee Trust Company of Wew York, 32 Lombard St.,”—the London Brick Layer. The Standard Oil Company Indiana announces a_ two-cent crease in the price of gasoline. By a strange (and unintentional?) coincidence the Sinclair and White Eagle companies announce the same increase in the same territory. To modernize. Franklin's of in- wise k: A United Front in “competi-| without controversies. Much was] calls attenti h + faults| enables the American workers and ‘anch of one of the most powerfully connected ag ‘i “ en e ‘ calls attention to the greatest faults . rkers a € 0 owerlulls i is the life of America’s busi-| written on +! ubject, the fight be- ‘ vi-| farmers to rise from th ine! .£ all American banking institutions. men, the foreign section of Canton, to help caer ‘Accnatiatl ripen subject, the fight be-| and defections in our national activi TO} e instinctive, ing led by Nikolai Lenin. Lenin, first of all, emphasized the importance of a workers’ organ, of a paper, which the bought-and-paid-for Peking government of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. The latter has steadfastly refused to sell out to the foreign imperialist Should Mr. Burns investigate the Guarantee ty, shows in which localities the pro- Trust? Should Mr. Hughes write another es- paganda work is not property done, which parts of our movement are not weak struggle to the level of a class conscious movement. “The Daily Working daily—for the DAILY? Worker” must be the beacon which ay on the connection between the Russian nd to be, not local, but national in| satisfactorily connected with the Seat light upon the darkened under- e kh 7 2: th hole Russi: i indi if-| Standings. even of the por d h ‘ owers who An engineer asymounces the White| order to unite ie whole Russian} working masses, indicates $o the dif. ig e orest an Nae inked il Bin hid TONSA AID “Ow Ee 5 have done their utmost to keep the | 4,200, enor wofe M4. ate@t! — A| Lalor moyement, to snide the com- 4 rs i ferent party organs their right vlaces ‘humblest, giving them knowledge of their rights. ® Every class conscious worker must work for “The Daily Worker”, find should the ‘American Government wake up to the fact that the Soviet Government of Russia has become an integral part of the economic couutry torn vy Clvit War witn tne wope ot) get- ting a better hold on the wonderful resources of China. good many wotkers knew it long ago. rades in their work Wherever they|in ow big common machinery and R. B. be working. teaches them the best way to fulfill “Where to begin ?”, asked the tit-| their duties as parts of this machin- ~ i 7 Sometimes we are foreed to take) tio sheet “Iskra”, edited by Lenin and| °Y - ways and means that it can be dis- life of post-war Europe? An sr naval commander led the | back what we say about Capital. | other exiled revolutionaries, and The American Communist move- vies bitte Wereetrlal ea apes hey’ og oO — and peg baiagrs sin bis tare often. tnt oe ty answered, “In our opinion, as the| ment has now, on its part, taken the \ under the guise o elping the wea inese | not a pial al districts like leaves on the four winds of heaven. If we succeed in the distribution of “The Daily Worker”, and sueceed we must, then sur dreams of a great, class ¢cuscious prorking class movement in America starting point and the first step for the party organization, as well as the guiding prineiple to help us to de- ; velop, to deepen and to extend our organization, we must make the first fundamental step. “The Daily Worker” is established. And at the same time we find in America tne first steps of an awakening of the great working masses, True, this The peasants and poor farmers of every country in the world have continued in de- gradation as long as they left political and economic power in the hands of the capitalist that was worth a nickel, And now| they come out in favor of beer. people maintain their national integrity. Not a Word was said by the American naval com- mander about the need of protecting Yankee investments in China. Machine gun democracy The Department of Justices-thanks | to Capital—has the constitutional ‘ uarantee of “freedom in the pursuit Seer, Kioboe widhed C puiniall emuasiomnen. ie hike Sateen ne class. In only one country in the world have } at home| is always coated with the palatable | §°0nir liteety. snd Seentanad— Suan, Sians aad jeaay ued wteueels Or A better, mani-| thousands upon thousands who hold the poor farmers taken the political and eco-]| talk of “public interest.” Gunboat diplomacy | radicals, t apitadon and propaganda work ecan-| festing itself vaguely sometimes in| themselves aloof from our movement nomic power out of the hands of the exploit-| abroad is usually given the same treatment. OFFICE BEANE. | not be done. ' This work, which,| some kind of a “Third Party” move-|.and transform them into zealous, ing class. That country is Soviet Russia. Only | Stripped of their dishonest verbiage capitalist eI especially at the Seige ome when ote Acie angie d Hai aur oot active partisans of the order of in the Workers and Farmers Republic of Rus- | democracy and employi i 7 Yes, Brother! Fighting daily there is an awakening interest in| son-Farmer-Labor-partyism an i i i i sia are the poor rl * op tL y improving | stand ata “a8 “ she gh ig bar ye pent for. the workers—is the fighting p cs and socialism among the wide | more or less in a class Farmer-Labor- things that is to be. This requires al has Ah ers steadily proving | s rps oh lp vices to enslave the work- | natty worKsR! masses, is the most important, and| partyism. All. this, however, indi-| the most energetic work of all. To elr CO 0. * ers Of all ¢ es. AGITATOR. continuous task for our organization. cates clearly that the peor time | work for THE DAILY WORKER! The German Working Class Cannot Be Cheated of Its Victory the Siberi iss s 5. revolutionaries | jand menshe' , call Admiral Kolt- | Heads World’s 'Workers |) chak to power, who then as was only | Kolchakist in Germany | to be expected, turned upon the re- volutionary democrats and rent “The Dictatorship of Seeckt.” Similarly it would be just as in- correct to assume that a fundamental rantagonism of interests exists be- tween General Seeckt on the one By GEORGE ZINOVIEV, President, Communist International. A figure is emerging from the en- veloping mists--a strong man destin- ocratic workers yegarded the oceupa- tion of Thuringe by the Republican Reichswehr almost as a victory for the German proletariat. If the ed to save bourgeois Germany, a sole dictator who will embody the ‘will of | the nation—in a word, 2 German} Supreme Ruler. A German Koltchak | has appeared on the scene. His name is General Seeckt. Of all the pretend- ers to the claim, and they are many, he is the one who stands most chance. | Many are called, but few are chosen. Seeckt apparently is the chosen one. It must be admitted that the pro-| bability of Seeckt hecoming tue uic- tati ti f 1 matters, i.e., the victory of the bour- jbeds of German social-democracy. —_- tator in the very near future i representatives” consisting of social- geoisie over the proletarian revolu- A serious one. Hitler and Co. pe Ger- democrats and independent social- ‘tion in Germany and the consolida- Will this go on for long? It, is man Purishkeviches (*). They have democrats. Five years have elapsed a certain backing among the national- ist petty-bourgeoisie; but thar pro- gram will not bear examination, and they themselves are more uke buf- foons than serious active counter- revolutionaries. But General Seeckt is another pro- them? Something similar is now taking place in Germany. What we are maw } observing amounts to this: the Gér- man November democrats are hand- ing over power by instalments to the German Koltchak, General Seeckt, With the first German revolution (November 1918), power passed en- tirely into the hands of the social-! democrats, who set up the first “re-| volutionary” government of “national since that period. During these five years the German social-democrats and independents have been employed in handing power over by instalments, first to the bourgeoisie and then to the reactionary militarists. German social-democracy “begat” the Novem- j hand and German. fascism on the other. It is is true that General Seeckt and the official organizations | are not one and the same. But even Admiral Koltchak, in the first period of hig activity, was in favor of the Constitutional Assembly and not of | a “united and indivisable Russia,” and certainly not in favor of ‘auto- cracy, orthodoxy and _ nationalism.” If we talk not of trifles but of serious ) tion of the bourgeois dictatorship, ‘then the fascisti, Seeckt, and Ebert are engaged in one and the same business, in which a certain amount of division of lahor has been ar- ranged. Seeckt, Ebert and Noske ! te merely different forms of fas- cism. GEN. VON LUDENDORFF Reichswehr did not occupy Thur- ingia, they said, the fascisti would. While the right social-democratic leaders are terrifying the workers with the spectre of Hitler fascism, they are in fact setting Seeckt on the | fascist throne.In short, the heroes of the November Republic, the German | social-democrats, are handing over . jpower to Seeckt by instalments. | The thistles of German Koltchak'sm | are springing up thickly in the flower- hardly possible. There can be now little doubt that Germany will have to pass through a period of White Terror. There is also litt'e doubt ‘ that the path of the German pro- letariat wiil be a difficult one and ‘that many and heavy sacrifices will ber d November di Militarist Ally of Stinnes. Forapcareer biped pb eile oh y, i nts 6 secre’ er democracy. ovember democracy tains Chat the pacha a Geen «gave ana je te oa ga “begat” the German Koltchak, | Instead of encouraging the Ger- {letariat revolution wil be much secure the backing of both the pru- | Seeckt, dent section of the German Sowa democrats and of the big bourgeoisie headed by Stinnes, His policy is to consolidate the big bourgeoisie de t hout the country and to create made that fascism November Republic GREGORY ZINOVIEV President, Communist International. German Koltchakism, like Russian | Kolcchaki. m in its time, is the logical | develpoment and consummation .of the idea of revolutionary democracy, or, adapted to Germany, of the idea has defeated the in Germany and HUGO STINNES Germany’s Ruler Today. man workers with talk of differences between General Seeckt end fascism, far better to study the facts careful-| centration was proval of the social-democratic Pres- ident Ebert, was concentrating 60,000 instead of basing our calculations | troops of the White Re’ chswehr in! upon such differences, it would be | Saxony, it was given out that the con-| more painful than we at first be- lieved. But the fundamental fae- tors. which are dragging Ge »any to the edge of the abyss, and which are leading to a revolutionary ecrisis— directed against : inievs ly. Let us recall recent happenings. | White Bavaria, But when the con- | Vi internation»! polities, the fnan- t ’ ti > of the November Republic. One can-| ment lead inevitably to the dictator. | 7 inl crisis, the f ‘sis, ete. —ari bilby si > hayehet Ria 3a gel bees ag Bit cau ype rd neg not therefore assert that any distinc-|ship of General Seeckt. General i ollraghaadt seat pyr eee iO eet <iihe White Ska (a Drecste By Petiapty fo ! t nm - lars re ” els n 2 | os on lertbegie menace to the| ‘These assertions are, to say the or pleats exists between |Seeckt has not defeated Ebert. As GhA Che eheidl-demaoraité What is the relation between Ger- gar rope van Koltchakism (Seeckt)' and the For the sak» of analogy, let us re- call how Koltchakism developed Republic and the dictatorship of Seeckt. Seeckt is the child, the legul heir, of the November Ebert. a matter of fact, Ebert needs General Seeckt much more than Seeckt needs It is very possible that when ; President Ebert co? They took advantage of the fact in order to declare a stuve ‘threw the workers’ govern- | coming more acute, | The German working class will - Tak in Thuringia, ‘The fas | have’ t heavy price for its November Kepublic”? R i Republic, as Koltchak was the legal | Seeckt finally established his dictator- of siege Aan the whole ane pie pe dR 4 their well- ieietaty, put Holbing bat cheat it of The November Republic is person- pe in Russia was begot-| heir of the revolutionary democracy | ship, he may think it advisable to Germany.. This was done so skill) chmed forces’.on the frontier of | ied by President Ebert, the social- mmocrats and the more “freedom-| ,ojf, ten by “revolutionary democracy” it- The revolutionary democrats, of Kerensky. The revolutionary democrats are make the social-democrat Ebert his president. fully that considerable sections of the social-democratie workers were at Thuringia, where that victory, Koltchakism will be a no More permanent phenomenon on élso # workers’ gov- Why not? In a big ernment wes in power. The whole German soil than it wes on Ri % H first deceived by the manoeuvres of # 1 i be: ving” ured bn Brcko fe forced to the wall by the revolution- vob pred Wace Rea affair like that, a social-democratic Seeckt. ard -Ehert, and: serfourly social-democratic and demoeratic ‘soil, The German workers a ary proletaria*, General Seeckt, who for some ie has been playing a prominent, i a decisive role in every a demuoceatic government. again seats, the naaaxtion military reaction himself, the famous tionary di jexeicy? themselves handed power over by instalments to the Did not Kerensky mocracy, hand over power first to Géneral Kornilov and then to Did not the revo- a Seeckt inevitably comes to bridle revolutionary democracy. That is the logic of things. The German proletariat having shown that it is as set. leader of revolu- public” without the ind on the president wonld be a very useful as- But Ebert, on the other hand, could not remain president for a day support of General Seeckt. Seeckt and Ebert are the yet unable to, exercise its dictator-| two sides of the coin, ship immediatély, the November Re-lare the words “The Ni emocrats, in the person of ‘volution’ must i its icons develop- On the front lieved that the state of siege was de: clared, not as a measure directed against the revolutionary proletariat, but in order to deal with the coup detat of the Bav: fascisti. cisti press raised the alarm that the fas- were about to oe ing tested in the fire of painful ex- perience, and are acquiring the eeckt, in|ties it needs most for ‘ae end with |nemely, a ha ihe tempe: _ sent his ere the soieal: spot f pia, tary preparednes , tion y Thur-