The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year _—‘$3.50..6 months By mail (in Chicago only $4.50..6 months $2.00..3 months $8.00 per year 0..3 months By carrier: $10.00 per year $1.00 per month Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street J. LOUIS ENGDAHL MORITZ J. LOEB Chicago, Minois Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. >_™ Advertisiig rates on application. <4 To the Many Greetings! Many greetings have come to The Daily Worker. They have come all parts of the United States, from all parts of the world. They have come from the isolated comrades, in the lone places, carrying on the struggle against capitalism. They have come frem the Commun- igt Parties in many lands. They have come from the Communist International itself. All greet- igs of encouragement. All Lg ora a great hope for the future of the English-language Communist press. To all of these The Daily Worker sends back its Communist greetings. The Daily Worker and its staff sends greetings to all Communists everywhere. It will strive to the utmost of its strength to carry out its true Communist mis- sion by struggling for the whole working class. In this ric struggle it will march on to with the whole world,wide Communist with the unist movement every- ere. The Gangsters and the Press Elections are either being held or are just ever in Chicago unioyis and the seasonal Activi- ty of the gunmen and sluggers is at its height. There is a fine show if indignation in the local capitalist press and’the usual moral rela- tive to the criminal character of the trade union movement is being drawn. No group of American workingclass is more epposed to the activities of the criminal element that has fastened itself on the labor movement than the Workers Party of America; we consider that the degenerates who serve the most reactionary and corrupt section of the trade union movement as gunmen and sluggers THE DAILY WORKER — - owt. a January 14, 1924 Forward--But Backward | An historical event. of paramount importance has just transpired in the Senate. When the half dozen insurgent republican senators under the leadership of LaFollette went over to the Democrats and voted for their candidate Smith, of South Carolina, as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, another page in the breaking up of present party lines was written. The action of LaFollette will tend to precipi- tate the growing tendency towards an organiza- tional rift in the republican party. Tho from the point of view of disrupting the reactionary republican machine this vote is a step forward, yet from the angle of the funda- nental political, class conflicts, the acceptance of the democrat, Smith, by the “progressive” LaFollette is two steps backward. The insurgents threw away two splendid opportunities in voting for Smith and not act- ing thruout tthe proceedings as a distinct, inde- pendent group, separate and apart from the democrats and republicans. First of all, in vot- ing for Smith the progressives actually assum- ed responsibility for him before the very mass of voters in whose eyes they did not want to appear as responsible for Cummins, the reac- tionary republican. Senator Smith is a “regular” democrat of the rankest sort. LaFollette very well knows that the film between ‘the democrats and republicans has long ago disappeared and that the two will undoubtedly get together against the insurgents in a pinch. The pre- servation of the Esch-Cummins Act guarantee- ing a bonus of hundreds of millions of dollars to the railway corporations is a matter of first- rate import to the capitalists and they will not permit any tampering with it. On the eve of a national election, the democrats will not be fools to endanger campaign funds by antago- nizing the railway interests or to throw away one of their best campaign issues by taking off the statute books a law publicly proclaimed by them as objectionable at a time when their political opponents, the republi¢dans, are in control of the government. Thus the election of Smith, as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, does not enhance the chances of repealing the EschCummins Act and does not save the progressives from responsibility for its continuance. Secondly, by voting for Smith, the LaFollette forces threw away the chance that comes once in a political lifetime to a minority insurgent group to establish itself as an independent, | vigorous force for action. Had the .LaFollette forces continued to vote independently they would have foreed the democrats and republic- ans to unite on Cummins, or some other reac- tionary and thus would have exposed the two parties before the masses as really one gang | serving the interests of the powerful bankers and manufacturers. Such independent action would have gone a long way towards making the progressives a real force in American polit- constitute a cancerous exerescence of which the Boe wn ne nh erent etd fherlfs in that toot! ical life. Thus, by voting against the reaction- Sa a 2 ESE ES is in process between town and country that resembles i the peasant revolts of the later feudal period. The hatre, tax-gatherers of the kings and barons is today the portio tural machinery agents, steader. so the savin) A FIGHTER FROM THE STAR Our Cartoonist’s Conception of the Birth of “The Daily.” How the Farmers Fight By. W. F. DUNNE. ' The meek and lowly farmer of fiction and vaudeville is passing. In North and South Dakota, in Idaho and 7gontana, the chattel mortgage At best the lot of the farmer in the West is @inac hate the mawnenan act # a fierce struggle in many respects d aroused by the m of the agricul- sharks and the local bankers. a precarious one; a home- AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O}FLAHERTY Ireland is growing greener. even the Free State can stop the Not grass from growing there. Accord- ing to a capitalist report, the climate is so moist that the corn will not ma- ture, and because of the small amount of wheat grown, 90 per cent of the bread used is made of foreign ‘ain. Ninety-three per cent of the rish agricultural exports are meat and dairy products for the English market. The bullock is taking the place of the agricultural worker in “free” Ireland, * ® Charles Evans Hughes denounces the Soviet Government for alleged-in- terference in American affairs. But Henry Morgenthau, New York bank- er, requested M, Venizelos, president of the Greek assembly to hold a plebiscite on the form of government Greece wants in March instead of April. Altho’he favored-a later date Venizelos agreed. He that pays the piper . should eall the’ tune. ‘The American bankers will not loan any money to save the Greek refugees who are dying like flies until a stable government is established there. “Profits first” is the slogan of capi- | talism, * <> * * The anti-Ku Klux Klan societies of Louisiana have amalgamated ‘and are preparing for war on the Kluxers. Among the organizations that, have joined tegether are the » Wildcats, Chevaliers, Common-Citizens and American Caucasian League. * * s The strike breaking president of the United States has a good friend in Robert Haberman, yellow Socialist of Mexico, now in Washington. “I shall tell the masses of Mexico. that President Coolidge is the friend of the worker and of the peasant,” is “Comrade” Haberman’s way of signi- fying his united front with Coolidge, a * * i 3 i A young Bosten lad who at the age of eleven astonished the hard- boiled professors at Harvard Univer- sity with a lecture on the fourth dimension is now trying to live on $23.00 a week Penchiny, an adding machine in New York City. If the boy had in his early boyhood dis- covered a new hootch recipe or a bet- ter method of fleecing the workers the capitalist class would no doubt have something better for him than puneh- ing an automatic machine. Brains do not always bring a high material re- ward, neither does a willingness to serve society. Our readers may re- member reading in the bible that Jesus at the age of twelve confounded the doctors of his day and yet they hanged him on a cross for his pains. The Ku Klux Klan was launch in Australia by the Orange Lodges. No Catholics or Jews will be admit- 9 MENTIONING THE MOVIES By PROJECTOR. “Germany Today” Misnamed. Two hours of beautiful but lifeless scenics are strung together under the title “Germany Today”, by W. J. Adams at a one-night stand at Orchestra Hall. ‘The film gives the impression <!. 9 ‘kliehtly animated Pid weenie iets nee ae naan ' ee eee . _ FMLA ALU CWACIY AEUDE 2a AU—ESA» 241 Lae women) BLY PEPUVNCM, WUIIIS, UE AMSULKELLS WOK years awthe aot tiiosen ARS acheter suaiand tonaahianadceci bok se si ralbu:a of picture post card: akest airitt of the Risers. WALL, Lasesit however the left wing ot the labor movement! one step forward. But by voting for the reac-| oy jater he either gives up the strug-|fatmers near Plentywood, Montana—|ines, parks, statues, am will seek no aid from the eapitalist press. The Communists know that the same gun- i : men—and their employers—whom the capital- This weak conduct and wavering policy are ist press berates when it sees an opportunity characteristic of the vascillating, unclear, pro- of discrediting the labor movement, are used) gramiess center group in all class struggles. without compunction when - poser ort RE PH corrupt officialdom of the unions unite in a holy war against the Communists = ~ beb-wieg MacDonaid Is Safe \ nt—of which they are the} é ole onpementy ag es | American capitalists are worrying over the | rise to power of the British Labor Party. Many | mest active —, i sates i The only reason that the capitalist press, a the instance of its owners who live by the of them fear—actually fear—that on the bag Ihe dw; forced to explott-hie own, wile .sles the banker dase ‘not get eaough violent suppression of the workers, attacks the day J. Ramsay MacDonald becomes Premier 01) and family to manage a bare exist- to pay the sheriff’s fees. gangsters of the labor movement, is the purely| Great Britain and The Irish Free State he will | ence. ; ; ° When it is machinery that is to be ist tacti d by employers’ organi-|order all capitalists deported to St. Helena: | 1 have driven; during the dry sea- sold, kindly neighbors take the good rtunist tactics use if = y | i F a luto- |S") 260 miles in one day without see- machinery to their own home: id lations. Rotten as the administrations of many| The wise heads among the American plu O- ing a blade.of grasa Ue md¥0p Of Wa Betag stor. the carsone ok tte aac icago unions are, there is still some measure | cracy do not fear any immediate revolution in| ter fit to drink. “In this great desert old and outworn machinery that could of resistance to the enroachments of the em-| Britain. They know the present leaders’ of|—it was nothing else—were the not be sold even for junk. Upon this ployers. To break this resistance by casting] British labor. They know that a labor gov- Saidines ee frame the bank is allowed to. foreclose, In ae r Puke Py ars $ au » , Wi sy uapicion upon all forms of union activity Seon ype gt yaa i strange shapes. The farmers gnd their sheriffs elected iw the: Sagauers, the motive behind the denunciations of violence provi o v ey pe Bays ba + gag Moboid femies, seemed to pave had e%etY berks have never heen ahle to, so~- ) vement on the part of the capi-| detrimental to the capitalists occured. rop of moisture in their bodies papers at all and the farmer is still’ vole a ee . P''|how or other under the rule of such labor Jon svaporaied by ti. ae ith heated at in possession of his land. ; Outside of this diversity of interests there is| ~ the Sg rege erg to get by. With Sold take tare conaaane: Sull '» The rerult of this widening of the ie i en the capitalists, the; Communists it 1s different, more bitter struggle. each PELWEEN tie CXRiGiies farts. oe ian byt d roti ek thugger: But even the wise heads are not entirely| These people have been victimised 24 the parasitic professional and capitalist press and the devotees o. ggery; « : i $a aa ante, sailf ‘roads business elements of the small towns in the labor movement. satisfied with developments in England. It. is, by he Dare tag ii go Re eas cranted: a. aivantion aeittiodt pare No more illuminating instance of this offen-| true they do not fear Ramsay as a leader but os eseaeg a “comput: solely of allel in American history. It is in these sive and defensive alliance of labor crooks and| they are not so sure of some of his followers. | grasping hands and hard eyes. Dur- hard-hit rural districts that is being loy d politicians has| The rebels from the Clyde who are rather close| ing the Non-Partisan League activity |!aid the ground work of a nation-wide grafters and the employers and politicia’ Co: ish fon that ! They sup-|in the war days, in many districts the | Peiltical upheaval of the formerly been seen !ately than the gathering at the {to the Communists for ~< gi ae ne aetive leaders of the farmers were |mild and inoffensive tiller of the soil. funeral of Thomas Kearney former president! port MacDonald just now but ht lara ‘thie hunted and hounded like wild animals| He is no longer the butt of cheap of the Building Trades Council. This crowd of themselves and plan a course of action within) hy the small-town chambers of com-|vaudevillians—at least not to the rasites to which the capitalist press gave the Labor Party parliamentary group which| merce, commercial clubs, rotary clubs country banker and merchant in paras: is proof aplenty that to rid the may not be to tthe liking of MacDonald or the|and other middle-class organizations. | whom he personifies the Wall Street much space is proof aplenty British capitalists, The viciousness of the campaign |octopus. To those who have lived labor movement of crooks and gangsters is the, }ritisa cap i 4 fi in|Showed concluusively that this ele-|on him for years he seems to be a age | Lord Beaverbrook, a prominent figure in| ment had interpretated the farmers’ baat last thing in the world the employers want to’ ™° we y new individual—one whose new do. | British politics and the ang Ben! a number of prada pierre ao bpd oF militancy puzzles them ahd of whom 5 i i his influential newspapers thinks there is no reason | the hitherto docile and explo ral /they are more than a little afraid. pe the left-wing bloc who will be responsible| man, declared the Lord, and then went on to for the needed change. They will, however, do| tell the following squib by Carlyle which may the job in their own time and in their own way, | ogee to pee atl oa why Ramsay is i i italist press, 12 such ungodly com} unger dg on “Ae oon fr» nae Hs the, A man was astonished to see some one he capitalist system. \ tionary democrat, Smith, they took two steps backward. + © # Leland Olds, Federated Press In- dustrial Editor, predicts an 18% reduction in the amount spent for building activity during the year 1924. This is spite of the fact that there is a shortage of homes and a surplus of werkers. Capitalists are never so happy as when they have a plentiful supply of workers competing for jobs on the labor market. * Magnus Johnson may not be able to outmilk his political opponents but he certainly can outroar them. Though Secretary of Agriculture Wallace beat him in a milking con- test, Magnus came off first in a hiss- ing contest with a battalion of bank- ers in Pennsylvania. | WON AGAINST OBSTACLES | streets make up most of the picture. Photography is universally good, the camera man shows himself a genius in picking artistie settings and sur- rounding them with the proper atmo- spheric frame. But the titles! To be effective they must be read as they were written—with a strong German accent. ‘ Not a trace of social understanding is displayed in the entire picture. The only- glimmer of life is found in the unique Wendish setting of the Spree- wald and in the “Meistertrunk” cele- bration at Rothenburg on the Tauber —both distinctly medieval survivals. The only industrial. touch is a short picture showing the making of Dres- den china, A part of the audience had a chance to show its political leanin; by applauding every reference in t! titles to the former rulers, and its opportunities were very numerous. The statues of Frederick the Great and of Bismarck got the biggest hand, while the Hohenzollern stables got a better reception than the Reichstag. The picture should be named “Ger- many Yesterday” and the musical motif should be changed to “Sie kommt nicht mehr, nicht mehr”, *. * *# * “Man from Brodneys”—Chiefly Bromide. Bromide story, bromide direction, and bromide star. Add a touch of Hace and you have itagraph’s new thriller, ‘he Man from Brodneys”. J. Warren Kerrigan is +the are handsome dress suited matinee idol of a hero who ought to be passed by this time. the book call for him? Well, the book has been dust for a long, long time. A_ young American diplomat (the handsome Kerrigan) loses his job for waloping a ince with a cane. So he is sent to an Indian island to keep the natives from hand- ing out “foree and violence” to a couple of rapscallion heirs who covet eg aed and sapphire loaded isle, ¢ will prevides they must live on six months and get mar- gle or is forced to negotiate a/and described with a great deal of |mortgage on which he pays interest} @Pproving laughter—was te refuse to jfor the rest of his life. If he is a} bid on a neighbors’ goods at a forced | settler brought to the land of promise | Sale. To those who know the love of by the rosy prospectus of the railway the farmer a shrewd bargain this land agent, he purchases his land at |™eans that the world is coming to an an exorbitant figure and pays the | end. ruinous freight rates that prevail in| I heard of a crowd of farmers who all newly settled districts. One crop | deliberately refused to bid more than failure gives him a handicap that he $5 a head at a mortgage sale of heavy rarely overcomes. Living in isola-' work horses and latter cut their bids tion, without any of the conveniences down to $2.50 per head when they of the city-dweller, living a life in found that their bids would purchase which the simplest pleasure is a rarity, the stock. From most of these forced * ¢ t all the wealth of Japat— as again of Japa: so there is a native uprising. Of course the natives are wrong. always » in the movi tives are subdued by th from Brodney’s and torpedo boat. r stops a bullet, an extra wife is too high a price to even for Japat, so the natives, = 3 ae and pene ence. off vide up rubies every- body is havpy. They even: furnish a who renounces her When the bottom dropped out of the wheat market two years ago, thousands of farmers gave up the at. | knew following a riotous mob, and when the ' | latter was asked how on earth he am gag Nes eer to whoever cared to take . Fee TAM i h people, he replie at | them. That capital is fleeing from France in dread | "Unning after such’ peop ma Others decided to stay and fight of the falling currency was the warning hurled | bone of American individualism and that lead and do not merely keep at the head) the ve of the procession. of @ necessary step toward restoring Europe to| what the late president of the U. S. would call “normalcy.” In more than one county in Mon- tempt to wrest a living from jand; thousands left their crops sta ing in the fields, hitched up loaded a few household goods and le: the country, leaving the of their else can I do? I’m their jeader.” foreclosure by the banks and among Payne ter The capitalists need not worry about J. Ram-|this group has developed a sense of at the French government by a Socialist in the .2¥ MacDonald and his lieutenants. But some|solidarity that is an entirely new chamber of deputies. Another deputy declared) gay MacDonald’s present followers will give|‘e ence, Oy | sence that the occupation of the Ruhr is costing) them cause to worry, when they have leaders| pone o France $98,000,000 annually. M. Herriott urged a restimption of relations with Russia as ——0 ——— + F The display of capitalist brute force in {tans there is now a quiet but wel China, in the Philippines, or in gprs sabotage, inst the holders of farm BDvhies eis SRAAEER is only another form of the display of military | *#nd chatte brutality in strikebreaking in the coal fields of | When * farmer knows that the agent In the race between the soldiers bonus and This attractive young comrade is Bessie Coleman, the only cowwrec apilealipvlbsnsneiartlagh ween for Dg mo’ The official slogan for the Coolidge campaign | her! iP ie a ection will be “Keep Coolidge.” Many a good thing Anat happens by accident, } Mier s * ae of the bank is about to foreclose on aviatrix in the i ills the latter is likely to be first) Pennsylvania, the railway strike in Missouri, | pis livestock he drives the horses and a livbly: eettow in’ the mob ‘ he called ‘The soldlert il done the| and the textile strike in Rhode Island. cattle into the hills where een seks j Otherwise bunk. blah. _|seenes. | And ist. anyhow. They have shown a good imperil Fropaga patience and can be depended on to re- Daily | trom getting rough until the next war ”