The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1924, Page 6

Page Six ————— THE DAILY WORKER January 15, 1924 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 $2.00. .8 months | By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50..6 months $2.50. .3 months By carrier: $10.00 per year $1.00 per month $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street ” J, LOUIS ENGDAHL..... MORITZ J. LOEB.. Chicago, Ilinois Editor . Business Manager Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 8, 1879. Se Advertising rates on application. | { A Vicious Proposal Secretary of Labor Davis, the imported Welshmen and ex-puddler, who by diligence} as a capitalist lackey worked his way up from a steel mill slave, and later on a hawker of mem- bership cards in a fraternal organization, to his present position in the Coolidge administra- tion, has proposed a'selective immigration law under which workers will be examined in Eu- ropean countries as to their fitness to enter the United States. Under the terms of Mr. Davis’ proposed law European labor would be brought here under contract to work for cer- tain industries and foreign-born workers’ fingerprints registered and photographed like criminals. Mr. Davis spent several weeks in Europe last year gathering information that would as- sist him in putting the scheme across. Among the important personages whose views he con- sidered of value was that of Dictator Musso- | lini, the Italian Fascist chief. Mr. Davis had the backing of the big American manufactur- ers. President Coolidge, the famous strike- breaker of Massachusetts, in his message to Congress, gave his approval to this plan. For over half a century the employing classes of this country have encouraged mass immigration. Europe was overrun with glib agents picturing in the rosiest colors the con- ditions under which the workers of America lived. Moving pictures were introduced show- ing laborers receiving fat pay checks from their employers. Industrial organizations needed a large supply of cheap labor and for- eign-born workers had not yet learned to make a common cause with the native workers and fight for a higher standard of living. So long as the noonday menu of the foreign- } i -|Rock of Gibraltar for the sacredness of a con- A Tan Leader's Faneial When tthe body of Thomas S. Kearney, for- mer president of the Chicago Building Trades Council was laid to rest, five judges, some 26 professional capitalist politicians, half a dozen capitalists, several reactionary labor leaders and at least one priest accompanied ‘the last remains of the man “who never double-crossed a friend” to his last resting place. Thomas S. Kearney was a “typical” labor leader. He was as “bonafide” as could be. If two ideas ever fought for supremacy in his brain at the same time it is a safe bet that their goal was nothing higher than how to get more of this world’s wealth for Tom Kearney. The capitalists liked him. He stood like the tract between master and slave. He supported the Landis Award which was the entering wedge of the open shoppers in the building in- dustry of Chicago. So in spite of the number of indictments he figured in and the many murder cases in which his name was mention- ed, despite his association with “Big Tim’! Murphy, Fred Mader and the other leeches; who prey on the organized workers of Chicago} and at the same tame, act as agents for the | capitalists, Kearney was held in high esteem} by’ the capitalist press. He was a loyal hench-j| man of capitalism in general and of capitalists in particular. Therefore it is not surprising that when he died, not alone were “Umbrella Mike” Boyle and Fred Mader, notorious labor grafters, among the prominent mourners but also capitalists and their judges and political lackeys. How these political ‘harpies show their hypocrisy! They rend the heavens with denunciations of “force and violence” and yet they support in life and honor in death that type of labor gang- ster who holds his position with a gat and uses the labor movement for his own material inter- ests. Capitalists, capitalist judges, capitalist poli- ticians and capitalist labor leaders were there when Kearney’s body was lowered into the grave. He was their own and they recognized him as such. So did the servant of God who offidiated. And there was nothing strikingly spiritual in the words tthat Father John Mc- Carthy uttered. “Tom Kearney ... always stood by his principles and was a man of stout heart. If more of the disputes between labor and capital were settled on priciple, the results would be fairer and the world needs more men of stout hearts.” Thus the rear was brought up by a representative of the air forces of capitalism. The Kearney type of labor leader in Europe is as extinct as the dodo. Here he still flourishes. The organized workers of America have a duty to perform in ridding their ranks of this men- | born wage slave was a pail of water, a loaf of bread and a raw onion he was a model worker ‘and virtue oozed from his every pore. But when he began to request the addition of a pork chop or two and an occasional visit to the movies, he lost all his purity in the eyes of the capitalists and he became a menace to our “institutions.” The present attack on the foreign-born workers is a serious threat aimed at the entire American labor movement. Many of our larg- est unions are composed of foreign-born work- ers. With the great majority of the members of the United Mine Workers of America sub- jected to finger printing, registration and con- stant surveilance and with the threat of depor- tation hanging over their heads, should they participate actively in strikes, it is quite obvi- ous that the existence of the union would be seriously threatened and its effectiveness re- duced to zero. If the bosses can bring in workers from for- eign countries under the protection of the United States Army to break strikes, any ef- fort on the part of the American workers to raise their living standards will be defeated before it starts. This law must not pass. The time for action is now. This vicious la- bor hating proposal may come up for consider- ation in congress at any moment. The Work- ers Party of America has proposed the forma- tion of Councils for the protection of the for- eign-born workers. This selective immigration law presents a serious danger to all American workers, native and foreign. Join hands and defeat it. Crush the effort of the capitalists to finger-print, photograph and register work- ers. Crush the attempt of the industrial bosses to revive the slave trade through the importa- tion of contract labor. Count Ludwig Salm Van Hoogstraten had nothing left but a name at the end of which dangled a rusty title when he met Millicent Rogers, Standard Oil heiress, to the tune of $40,000,000. He succeeded in selling his title ‘to Miss Rogers. Among those who envy the count his good fortune are the former Mrs. Hoogstraten and the many other applicants for the $40,000,000 via Miss Rogers. Of course the slaves who rolled up the Standard Oil mil- lions are not thinking much about it. “Their’s not to reason why; their’s but to do and die.” ee Harry K. Thaw’s family recently settled a suit brought against the murderer of Stan- ford White by a Kansas City boy for . whip- ping inflicted on him in a New York hotel in 1917. The settlement involved a sum in the vicinity of $100,000. Mr. Thaw’s ability to pay such a lange sum is a tribute to the ease with which lunatics can prosper under this capitalist system while sane men cannot make ends meet. Sibententaliicbiodaleans The Fiume question has been settled by the heaviest battalion. Italy gets it. So, D’An- nunzio has not fumed in vain. ace. There is only one way of doing it and that is to educate the rank and file of the| warlare -” Capitalist Flunkey Rebuked John L. Lewis and Gompers are working over- time trying to secure the indictment of radicals who endeavor to cleanse the labor movement of the grafters and capitalist agents who mainly lead it. They are the chief aids of Mr. Hughes in resisting public opinion in favor of the re- cognition of Soviet Russia. The labor lickspit- tles of the Gompers type have for their stock argument the’ fact that revolutionary Russia used force in crushing the enemies of the work- ers. But they do not say that this force was used legally by. the Russian government. It was legalized by the revolution which establish- ed the government that used it. Senator Borah delivered a well merited re- buke to the labor faker who heads the United Mine Workers of America, when the senator delivered his speech in reply to Lodge’s attack on Russia. Borah said, “In the offices of many senators may still be found a basketful of printed matter, signed by able lawyers for business clients in which the United Mine Workers are charged with every class of offense against life and property rights which the Mine Worker leader has charged against Zinoviev.” The American labor fakers are not -only crooked, but cowardly. They fight the capital- | ists with their mouths but they are actually on the best of terms with them. The ranting lot the labor leaders and the capitalists against Communists on the ground that the latter advocate “force and violence” is the ‘sheerest hypocrisy. Lewis uses gunmen to keep himself in power, the capitalists use gunmen to break strikes, prevent the formation of unions and assist the reactionaries in keeping the progress- ives out of office. The Communists do not be- lieve in individual ects of violence or terrorism and have never advocated it, They believe in the exercise of the mass power of the workers, (the majority of the people, for the purpose of establishing the rule of the useful elements of society and abolighing the system of robbery and terrorism which now prevails. That is the’ kind of force that the Russian workers used. Not tye exaployment of degener- ate sex perverts and burglars who are engage by the capitalists to. crush the unions end kill the radicals, not the paroled convicts who are the banks, today. It is to be hoped that the “Daily Worker” facts regularly in regard to banking in the United States, especially in its relation to the farmer, because this will _make very interesting and instruc- tive reading. are the following: the American farmer today is at least fifteen billion dollars. The First Issue off the Press ‘ He Surely Finds It Interesting. The Farmers and the Banks By ALFRED KNUTSON. The capitalist press does not’ say much about the present conditions of the farmers’ debts and the operation of the mortgage system will endeavor to get the A few outstanding, significant facts Hanover National Bank-of New York 1, The total debt on the backs of 2. The net value, to the farmers, of all the crops now raised in the entire country, is not sufficient to pay the interest they owe on all their debts. 3. The farmers at the present time are making very little on their farm- ing operations. During 1923 I have talked to thousands of farmers in Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana, and not a sin- gle one of them has told me that he was earning any money on his farm- ing operations. Here is a concrete story from South Dakota, of how capitalism soaks the farmer: The First National. Bank of Wessington Springs, Jerauld county, has closed its doors because the farm- er is no longer able to keep up his interest payments. The bank owes the Federal Reserve Bank $426,000, City $100,000 and from the Indian Allotments it has received $80,000. Unsecured debts amount to $100,000, The total deposits, checking and sav- % ing, is $320,000. (Now comes ‘the interesting and significant part of it. The $426,000 received from the Federal Reserve Bank, represents loans to the farm- ers in , the vicinity of Wessington Springs, and these loans are now be- ing foreclosed on, and the farmers find themselves without farms. Be- tween now and March ist, 1924, there will be one foreclosure eyery day, on one of these farmers, and so far twenty-five of them have been fore- closed on and lost their land. ‘ There are many such graphic tales of how the capitalist system “gets” the farmer, and the result of it is that the farmers are gradually begin- ning to rid themselves of the illusion that the capitalist system is the best in the-world, and that they are liv- ing in the greatest democracy under the sun, _ Samuel Gompers is considered a is supposed to convey the idea of a masses in their struggle. r masses and their needs. laboring masses and accordingly, the reins of power in the “old” democ- racy of the new continent, Sam Gompers is at the top. He possesses the gold pen presented to him by Wilson. The halls of all the “big men’ connected with ‘political machinery are open to him. The American politicians are not orators with fine phraseology. They are men of deeds. They would not open their halls and would not, with- out reckoning, present anyone with their pens, ‘They demand compensa- tion. A “labor leader” is.of value to them only in the event of his fool- ing the laboring masses and doing that dirty work which the politicians jthemselves consider not behooved, or unfit to do in their own name, Sam Gompers has been doing his work, struggling against immigra- tion, at the direction of the American barons of coal and iron, ‘The leader ‘of laborers, whose entire stre is ithin the intecnational solidarity of jun, has turned into a the entrance of employed by the millionaire rorize their members into ting for them. When Senator Wheeler of Montana stated at the meeting of the Conference for Progressive Political Action in Cleveland that many western bankers were more progressive than some eastern labor leaders he stated an undoubted truth,’ The labor reactionaries who now dom- inate the American labor movement are now the chief enemies of the workers and must be mercilessly exposed until they are driven into open alliance wilth the capitalists whom they now serve secretly. or fakers to ter-| ; ‘countries who have been driven © poverty and are, in vain, knock- ing at the doors of America, At pres: Sam Gompers is at the head jee which is carrying on a bitter campeiga against the only Republic of Labor. { This “leeder” is trying everything to pleass his “chiefs” and, in of a “subservient waiter’, ig rende ing at times the. “services of a bear” (services of an opposite nature) to his bosses, who have by sind and are fully aware of ry great ited ~ ie { Old Man Gompers At Work By_D. PETROVSKY, (Head of Soviet Military Schools.) “Labor Leader”. The word “leader” man uniting and directing the labor e s The American “labor leaders”, however, are not of this type. Itis only in the first days of their career that they participate in the struggle of the proletarians and, even ‘then, est in the trade union officials of higher rank than they display more inter- in the sympathies of the The higher the rank of a trade union official, the farther he is from the| this shot. “To the Ladies”—A Seventh Wonder. When a regular big-company film tells as many unpleasant truths about the capitalist system in such a pleas- ant fashion as does “To the Ladies” the workers should begin to make the box-office talk in favor of more of the same kind. on a big Broadway stage success, is not intended for labor propaganda, “public” pictured in many guises, but never as a millionaire. — poor fellow for “the third party” or but is it? Iba boss can see him put it out. MENTIONING THE MOVIES By PROJECTOR. The picture, based Listen— é Three Poor white-collar slaves cast duugiug YES al We beccuuy vacaveu office of manager of a two by four piano company in a small American town. They are as polite and as super-efficient as the small boy three days before Christmas. They are just about ready to cut each others throats and to eat crow to get it. And the lucky one gets his start setting the plant os Said bap Sa reward for this unheard of heroism the boss and his wife arrange to make their first social call upon C. Bebe, the candidate. To properly re- ceive the boss, Mrs. Beebe must run over to borrow a clean collar from a rival candidate for the job. She comes back with the collar—and the rival. Then comes the installment man to grab the piano, hocked to buy a fake “Florida Orange Grove”. Both would-be managers can sera) up only $3.22 between them, so the boss pays. There follows a salesman’s banquet, two candidates who learn the same after-dinner speech out of the same book—and then an honest- to-goodness clever wife who turns the trick for her swell-headed boob of a husband. The only fault you can find with the picture is that they did not make the wife manager. The story is true to life and the types are 100% human beings. James e, who made “The Covered Wagon”, has hit the bulls-eye again A reasonably intelligent nearer to the politicians holding the be can make a decent picture of a ye-gone age but to do it with his and will exist, despite of their will]}own day and time—hats off to the to the contrary. _ ' man who can kid the picture moguls As regards America, a new era is|ito letting him do it. also approaching there and is mark- ed by th “4 " This picture is pie to the whole e ever and ever-growing and| family but especially to’the growing strengthening of that uniting serving for the protection of of the laboring masses, To the organ of this party—the|in six months party—the| boy who is sure that all Workers Party—which is heading and|do to get he has to ahead in the world is to laporers not with a view of| work hard and open the office door the interests of capital but|for the boss’ wife. Don’t let on you the interests|want him to see it—just tell him the truth, that it’s the funniest comedy and let nature take its Daily Worker—our warm welcome, | course. The “Daily Worker” will find means to dethrone the leaders—servants of ————_______ The’ northward migration of south- capital, irrespective of their rank|ern Negroes is given as the and reas age. The “Daily Worker” will|for the decrease in the number of assist the labor movement to choose | lynchings during 1928 as compared honest leaders and the Gompers system. William English Walling, of Samuel’s hirelings regrets that the British Labor Party is led by intel- lectuals who do not or cannot under- stand the labor movement. What the devil is Walling. doing as a trade union guide? We admit of course that he qualifies as a dumbell but where are his overalls? to do away with| with 1922. Negroes were another | along a country hed for reasons ranging from “| in an automobile accident” to Ba ening white children by walking road,” and »“mis- taken identity,” according to Tus- kegee Institute. Watch the “D; Worker” for the first installment “A Week,” the tt epic of the Russian rgvolutio fy the brilliant young Rusiine ates lury Libedinsky, It will start soon, _Sidelights on American History “The Federal Government was not by intention a democratic government, In plan and in structure it had been meant the sweep and of i y I the initiative, and primarily in the gether with a vengeance, balmy breezes of Florida, President Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America and the coal operators will meet to settle the differences between the miners, workers and employers. Meanwhile the miners will d explosions, fire and water in derground caves, informs us that the snapper jup the $10,000,000 block of stock offered by the Brotherhood Invest- ment Company, which is controlled by the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers. H. Kahn, Frank A, Vanderlip, Fred Ecker, Edward D. Duffield, General Geothals, Irving T. Bush, Arthur L. Humpreys, S, M. Brown, James Spey- er and several presidents of railroad corporations. It , Id be all AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY The Chicago Newsboys’ Union, Lo- cal 17679, slipped one over on Abe Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward when-it forced the purveyor of yellow socialism and anti-Soviet lies to eat his intention of forcing the newsboys to pay a higher price for the paper than they had been hitherto paying Cahan is a typical “Abie the agent” when it comes to paying out money. He is quite generous with his attacks on Soviet Russia and liberal with his standardized anti- communist falsehoods. Cahan pub- lished lying stories recently about ‘communist attacks on the unions, But Cahan is now exposed as a practical strikebreaker on the same footing with the capitalist publishers, * * * The, Chinese are threatening to come ‘here and clean us up. The threat was contained in a tue re- ceived by the General Defense Come mittee of San Francisco. The “back- ward” Chinese are surprised that men are held in California jails for bei members of a labor union. “We the Chinese Seamens’ Union,” say the letter “have always looked upon the United States as a free and desirable country and we are very sorry to hear it alleged that our fellow work- ingmen in the United States are sub- jected to such persecution unpar- alelled even in the history of China.” And that is saying a mouthful. sos *£ #* “What is a bad egg?” That all de- pends on your olfactory organ ac- cording to the Hilmer Co., of San Francisco which is charged with sell- ing eggs to the that city that could’ be smelled before they could be seen. From now on the city purchaser will try his luck in the open market rather than trust to the elastic judgement of the commission merchants, * * & Capital and labor are coming to- In the gas, their un- ; -_ kk & A headline in the New York Times publie d Among the public are, Otto We have seen the We took the “Lhe immocent bystander’ put ner, shows himself as a bloated capitalis . while we were shedding tears of in his behalf. By the way ca and labor are sure making up. Our labor leaders may yet solve the social problem by emancipating the work- ers, peacefully and bloodlessly, one at a time. ee @ Samuel Gompers is now on a mid- winter inspection tour of Panama. He took time from his strenuous du- ties to denounce the British Labor Party for their impudence in repudi- ating his “reward and punish” policy and insisting on independent political action. According to Sam they are al- most as bad as the communists. They have the dreadful intention, he de- clares in a statement to the capitalist press of aiming to coerce France, re- legate America to second rank and ignore the League of Nations. One offtimes wonders whether after all, Gompers is not a fossil dug out of King Tut’s tomb and not the president of a labor organization. * ae * A United Press correspondent in- quired of Attorney General Daugh- erty recently whether he was going to prosecute those communists against whom he claimed to have “abundant evidence” to substantiate the Hughes charge of engaging in illegal activi- ties against the government. Daugh- erty was peeved that anybody should ask such a foolish question. If he prosecuted them, a lot of silly people would begin to stage free speech par- ades and demonstrations. He sud- denly eyed the reporter and said, “If you are in sympathy with these people you are a nut. That is the of department of justice opinion of yon ‘ Which is about what we expec! from a man with the attorney gen- eral’s physiognomy. The Pose Pisa thinks iT if ‘ }