The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1924, Page 6

the Ludlow tradition is still alive. It is not the Page Six THE DAILY WORKER way a6, 1924 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 $2.00. .8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50..6 months $2.50. .8 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...... $8.00 per year Chicago, Illinois .Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. I< Rockefeller Welfare Work )Wide publicity is given to the philanthropic enterprises of John D. Rockefeller and the wel- fare work carried on in the Standard Oil con- cerns is heralded by the publicists of capitalism as the solution for the capital-labor probem. When, as in the plant of the Corn Products Refining Co., in Pekin, llI., 25 or 40 workers are killed and as many more horribly injured, through criminal neglect on the part of the company of the most elementary safety pre- cautions, the capitalist press suppresses the, fact that the Corn Products Refining Co. is a Rockefeller enterprise. A few years ago this fact would have been the feature of the story carried by the daily press. Why the change? The explanation is found in an article by a former newspaper man of national reputation recently published by one of the leading li- beral magazines. In this article he shows how several years ago the Standard Oil Co. entered upon a nation-wide advertising campaign fea- turing the dozens of by-products it secures from the refining of crude oil. Laxatives, hair tonics, soaps, toilet articles and special brands of gasoline are a few of the sidelines boosted by this campaign, and, needless to say, these advertising contracts are, in the parlance of the trade, “juicy.” No longer are caricatures of “John D.” used to frighten recalcitrant children.* The horrors of Ludlow have been forgotten and with one eye on the business office, editors now write of Rockefeller charities instead of Rockefeller eorruption and cruelty. Arthur Brisbane} chants the praises of this American plutocratic | dynasty every other day, young John D. gets his picture taken at a Baptist Sunday school convention and the murder and plundering of | workers is carried on under the most pleasant &-4d profitable conditions imaginable. 1¢ Pekin disaster is proof, however, that. Advertising rates on application. Rockefeller policy that has changed, but only | that on the books of Standard Oil concerns is | carried now a charge for “advertising.” | We submit this question for our readers to! ponder over: Has the Standard Oil ever made | a better investment? Another question: Can the workers make an investment that will pay bigger dividends than the money spent in support of a fighting paper that already has the distinction in one day of existence of being the only Chicago daily which connects the Pekin disaster with company unions and “welfare work” under Standard Oil control? The Real Reason Now that the smoke of Senator Lodge’s 30,000 word barrage against the Soviet Gov- ernment has disappeared, it is daily becoming clearer that the United States Government has a totally different objection to recognizing the Soviet Republic than it has ever admitted pub- licly. Well-informed observers in Washington have never taken seriously the Hughes-Daugh- erty ‘‘red” scares. The real reason for the re- fusal of the Administration to resume commer- cial and diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia was recently given to the writer by a Senator who visited Russia last summer. This Senator who is far from being a progressive said in part: ‘ When our State Department refuses to en- ter into amicable relations with the Soviet Government, it does so for one reason only; and that reason is that the government fears the effect of Russian recognition on our labor movement. ‘Thy Senator hit the nail on the head. One of the most powerful influences against the re- storation of normal relations between the Soviet Republic and the United States is Sam- uel Gompers and his American Federation of Labor machine [f Russia were recognized, thus giving the American workers and farmers first hand evidence of the constructive charac- ter of the Russian revolution, Mr. Gompers would be deprived of his principal issue. The bureaucratic officialdom in the American Fed- ‘eration of Labor has, in the past fovseurs, not thrown out a single slogan, a single call to action against the employing class. It has busied itself with fighting “reds” and disrupt- ing the various attempts on the part of militant workers to make our unions effective fighting organizations in the struggle against the ex- ploiters. We are sorry for Mr. Gompers. Russian rec- ognition is drawing near. Nothing has helped Russian recognition more than the last asinine sally of Messrs. Hughes and Daugherty sup- ported by Mr. Gompers. It is high time that the “Grand Old Man” of the American labor movement get himself and his ruling clique a new “issue.” t Another Coolidge Among the many Christmas gifts handed out by the Strikebreaker-President Coolidge, the outstanding one is the loan of the Strikebreak- er-Brigadier General Smedley D, Butler, of the Marine Corps, to the business men’s Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia. The strong-armed new Director of Public Safety in the Quaker City has been given a leave of absence for one year to clean up Phil- adelphia, to drive out all gamblers and undesir- ables. When a wave of employing class morality sweeps any section of the country, even th Quaker Philadelphia, we usually don’t take it seriously and dismiss it as a joke. However, this time the situation is really serious. We are indebted to General Butler for frank talk. As. a matter of fact General Butler was so frank in his talk the first few days that he has already been called down sharply by some newspapers. Addressing the Bureau Chiefs, the military Di- rector of Public Safety let the cat out of the bag and told what sort of a clean-up Philadgl- phia would really be subjected to. Said Gen- eral Butler: : “T hear there is a union in the police. That must be wiped out, too. The federation of fire- men, which, I understand, exists in the fire- bureau, also must go.” The Brigadier General went on to put his case over with a bang and indicated that he would enforce this phase of his clean-up policy by forming a special secret squad of 300 men to check up on the doings of the policemen. Here we have a strikebreaking campaign with a vengeance. Union-smashing is not a new profession to the government of Pennsyl- vania at the head of which is the liberal, pro- gressive, moral Governor Gifford Pinchot. In Pittsburgh, the Director of Public Safety, Mc- Candless, and Judge Macfarlane broke up the Firemen’s Protective Association. But this Philadelphia incident illustrates our contention that the government is today a strikebreaking agency in the hands of the employing class in a rather picturesque fashion. Coolidge became the President thru his breaking the Boston Police Strike and by grace of the accidental death of Harding. Now the Strikebreaker- President who kept the Puritan City of Boston straight by smashing the policemen’s union is helping the Quaker town, Philadelphia, to keep straight and clean up by lending the Pennsylvanians a Brigadier General to act as a strikebreaker and smasher of the Philadel- phia policemen’s organization. Diversified Hardships The wealthy bankers and big manufacturers have been vieing with each other in the lavish- ss of their generosity towards the poor far- ers. One of their best bets for getting the farmer out of the hole in which they have put him_is “diversified” farmi. ® Gallons of ink have spilled advising the wheat farmer to milk'cows when he loses on his wheat. Acres of newsprint paper have been stuffed with propaganda to encourage the farmer to engage in diversified produc- tion. A dirt farmer writing in the Nebraska Daily Press has blasted this propaganda in the most effective manner that has yet come to our at- tention. Every farmer and worker should clip his answer which we reproduce, paste this item in his hat and throw it into the teeth of the first advocate of the panacea of diversified farming that meets him. Everybody’s advising the farmer to raise dairy cows—to engage in diversified farming. Evidently the Town Farmers, as the press sometimes calls them, think a cow, manicures and massages herself, milks herself and deli- vers the product to the creamery without pro- fane urging. I wonder if any of these Town Farmers tho are trying to tell us how to conduct a cow hotel have ever arisen at four a m., groped their way through a littered farm yard to a cow stable, played the reveille to a flock of bovines and milked ten or twelve of them when the thermometer stood at 15 below zero. Perhaps Messrs. Coolidge and Hoover and their agents in the Farm Bureau Federation would do well to get a glimpse, in practice, of this great remedy of theirs—diversified farm- The Daily Herald The Daily Worker is glad to note that the attempts made by reactionary influences in the British labor movement to ‘strangle the Daily Herald have failed. A resolution adopted at a joint meeting of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress and the National Exec- utive of the Labor Party, tion and declares: “The Joint Meeting learns with the greatest satisfaction that the present position of the paper is such ay to inspire con- fidence in its future and permanent contin- uance,” The resolution also urges the rank and file to give their hearty support to the labov daily. When the announcement was made last fall that the Daily Herald stood in danger of sus- pension at the end of that year, the Communist Party of Great Britain realizing the value of even a moderate labor paper to the working class of that country carried on an intense pro- paganda among the rank and file of org: labor to save the Daily Herald. This campaign had its effect and the British workers are now assured that they will not have to depend oy the capitalist press for their news. Tho the Daily Herald is not a Communist paper, The Daily Worker, the only Communist paper in the English language, greets the daily organ of the British working class. We await the day when there will be an English-language Communist Daily in London, the metropolis of British imperialism, ' By JOHN PEPPER. The Labor Party in Great Britain is on the threshold of government. The capitalist class in Great Britain and in many other countries as well is discussing with fear the possibility of a labor government. Ramsay MacDonald the leader of the British Labor Party is trying to pacify the capitalists. In his Royal Albert Hall speech he made the de- claration “We are not going to jump to our goal, we are on a pilgrimage.” True, the capitalists are pleased with his promises, but they don’t exactly have faith in him, The Evening News compares MacDonald to Kerensky and says: “He might be surprised, if he were to divide his party into pil- grims and jumpers, at the strength of the latter, and numbers apart, it is the jumpers who have the punch.” The New York Times reports from London, that the English capitalist press is greatly pleased with Mac- Donald’s policy of moderation, but the British Dail; ‘ail says, it is all ry , MacDonald 1s “sincere and} earnest”, but the ‘big trouble with him i& that “he serves only as a mask behind which actual revolutionaries are preparing their campaign to take possession of this great country.” We see the English bourgeoisie hesitating between fear and love at . situation, but will not have the cour- age to tear up the infamous Treaty of Versailles. The Labor Party will utter a few pious and_ sentimental phrases to the colonies in Egypt and India, but it will not have the reyo- lutionary courage to burst the British empire. The Labor Party will receive the power from the hands of the king, and will not abolish the House of Lords and will rule with the old bureaucracy of the capitalist state power. The coming to power of the British Labor Party “will not mean the rule of the British proletariat, but merely the illusion of the rule of the work- ing class. But exactly for this very reason, the coming to power by the British Labor Party will start a tremendous revolutionary process in England. Capitalist papers have likened Mac-4 Donald to Kerensky. The comparison is partly right, but partly wrong. It is incorrect, because the petty bour- geois Kerensky revolution in | the wor tery after the defeated, een destroyed. Kerensky went down before the on- slaught of the Russian proletariat which. always wanted more and more the possibility of the Labor Party’s power. But MacDonald will be a ame time were the givin, Sankt acquired mas-| strike of railway Wie apestatos of jorw-| oct: MreaiGul ihe ine ie apparatus of pow-| elect Mae! er of old Ralea had. tye taking over the government. The Kerensky who must reckon with two capitalists of Great Britain would| factors: the unbroken might of the prefer Baldwin or Asquith or Lloyd | capitalist class and the ever stronger George as the guardians of the rul-| will of the working class. Kerensky ing economic system; but as they are| meant the survival of the last demo- congratulates the paper on its splendid services in the recent elec- realists, if there is no help for it, they will be content with MacDonald just as well. The capitalists are aware of what George Bernard Shaw the “enfant terrible’ of the British Labor Party has said with his usual sharpness and frankness: “The ad- vantage of the Labor Party in such troubled times as these is that it stands between the country and the possibility of revolution.” What is the rea] significance of the acquisition of power by the British Labor Party? It is a tremendous event of uni- versal significance, It means the breaking of the old English two-party system. It will be the proof of the gigantic growth of the political pow- er of the British working class, It will prove that the English capital- ists can no longer master the great problems of decaying British indus- try, increasing unemployment and politeal world crisis. . But it would be foolish to think for a moment that the rule of the British Labor Party means the rule of the British wotdall class.. Mac- Donald and the Labor Party do not desire the rule of the working class at all, and they have betrayed even the immediate demands of the work- ing class already before they have come into power. MacDonald: re- ceives the power from the hands of the king, and not from the hands of the victorious revolution. The Labor Party was the Opposition of His Majesty, and it will be the Govern- ment of His Majesty. Zhe Labor Party will take over power as a minority in Fprliament, but in such a way that it Will not have at its dis- posal even the resources ant gage of a parliamentary majority. Labor Party can en go as far as the libe- ral parties will suffer it to go. Mac- Donald will be nothing more than the rubber stamp of Asquith and Lloyd George. The Liberal Party will be in a position to drive him out of abd er by combining its votes with those of the Conservatives, the very firs moment ‘that MacDonald shows the slightest inclination to turn from a “Pilgrim” into a “Jumper”, In his last speech Donald al- ready forgot two measures of the Labor Party, the ca Jevy and nationalization of mines and rail- roads, And the Labor Party will be- tray its program on the solution of the tremendous unemp! ent and of the terrible housing situation, . The Labor Party will bring about the re- cognition of Soviet Russia; but it will not have the revol courage to inaugurate a new fore! policy in Europe. The Labor “ bring some relief in the i? \ A \ cratic illusions of the working class in a society in which the capitalists were disarmed while the workers and poor farmers had not only weapons, but also Soviets. MacDonald will mean the sway of the parliamentary democratic illusions of the working class in a society in which the capi- Introducing the BY JAY, LOVESTONE Unless all the rules of the game of politics as it is played today are thrown overboard, we will soon be treated to a rousing celebration of the great. “progressive” victory in the Senate, Many a so-called pro- gressive’ journal, “Battling Bob” LaFollette’s Magazine in Wis- consin to the dreary organs of the staid old organ of Gompers and ! Brothers, the American Federativr- ist, will soon greet with acclamation the election of the Democratic Sen- ator, Ellison D, Smith of South Car- olina to the Chairmanship of the In- terstate . Commerce Committee. Who is this gentleman, Smith? What has he ever done to win the distinguished service cros3 from the capitalist class? Senator Smith hails from the tex- tile-baron ridden South Carolina, where thousands of children are ex- ploited’ and denied tne opportunity to receive even the most elementary education, i Senator Smith is a native son of a State where thousands of women employed in the textile mills are subject to the most despicable work- ing conditions, starvation wages, “0 per cent getting lees than week, and long hours destroying their vitality, Smith Reactionary Nonentity. This representative of the power- ful textile interests of South Caro- $12 a | Employm The British “Pilgrims and Jumpers” talists have the majority in Parlia- ment, where they have the king, the House of Lords, the whole apparatus while the working nor of state power, class has neither weapons Soviets. ‘ But in one respect MacDonald will resemble Kerensky completely. Whether he wishes or not, he will contribute greatly to the radicaliza- tion of the English working class. The workers will ‘have only the illu- sion of power, but this very illusion will impel them to demand more and still more power, MacDonald will be forced either to yield and help the workers to real power—in that case the capitalist majority of Parliament will drive him out immediately. Or on the other hand, and that is much more likely, he will protect the capi- talists against. the onslaughts of the workers—and he will thereby give rise to a mighty left wing in his own party. It is no accident, but rather pro- symbolic, that at the very the £ a workers is threaten- The railway workers helped to protect their interests against capi- talism; and to their great surprise, they will find against them Ramsay MacDonald the prime minister, the protector of the capitalist state. The capitalist press of Great Britain is right, MacDonald is harmless; but behind him stands the revolution. The workers will not follow Mac- Donald long on his “pilgrimage”, but will go over to the “Jumpers”, to the Communists. After Kerensky came—Lenin, After MacDonald— the conditions of Great Britain of 1924 are not as ripe as those of Rus- sia of 1917—there will come at least the basic prerequisite of the revolu- tion, a Communist mass party. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. The Prince of Wales paid a visit to Paris recently and~indulged in much fox trotting. Perhaps the royal parasite is aiming to proficiency m the terpsichorean art, fearing lest the growing power of the British labor movement may send him scur- rying in search of a meal ticket. It is also significant that one of his most appreciated Parisian treasures was a collection of Jazz Music which was given to him by a colored American orchestra. What a hit the prince would make as orchestra leader in the Drake Hotel? The Count Von Hoogstraten would take a back seat. * * Senator Hiram Johnson will tell the people of Chicago what he thinks of the political gum shoe artist, Cal- vin Coolidge, when he speaks here on Friday night. Hiram is a great friend of the “common people.” He is out for clean polities. He con- demns Coolidge for his manipulation of the Southern vote, but “Cal” will have a delegation of Washington ne- groes on hand to prove to the “peo- ple” that Hiram is prejudiced against the negro, hence his anger. In order to prove that he has no objection to getting the negro vote, Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge visited an old colored butler in Washington last Sunday. It is an interesting game and no doubt will intrigue the Henry Dubbs. Meanwhile the Federated Farmer- Labor Party is crystallizing the sen- timent for a great nation-wide Farm- er-Labor Party. * * * The Egyptian nationalists won a tremendous victory in the recent elections held in that country. With- out the full returns being in, it is announeed that the Zaghloulists. have 190 seats, leaving 24 to the combined opposition parties. * * * The capitalist newspapers are again gorging themselves with the details of the latest murder mystery. An Aurora horticulturist confessed to having killed his wife after she had killed her brother. The revolting de- tails of this horrible crime are spread over the pages of ‘the capitalist dailies. | Sex perversion, murder, crime is served up to the publie by the journalistic profit-gluttons who profess to be so much concerned about public decency. The readers of the capitalist press have gotten the “crime habit.” They are trained to.look for sensational slush, and they get plenty of it. * 8 8 Frank B. Ketlog, American ambas- sador to the Court of St. James, pre- sented his credentials to King George at Buckingham Palace a few days ago. The ambassador and the em- bassy staff, drove to the palace and returned in the gorgeous, gilded royal coaches for occasions of state. was as palatial mansion donated by J. P. Morgan is yet unfinished. President Frank L. Carey of the Chicago Board of Trade, does not like “blocs.” They are the cause of most political evils in his opinion. Oh, this confounded class struggle! “We find,” says Carey, “our legisla- ture divided into cliques and blocs and our national congress split into definite groupings to further class interest. We find new political move- ments developing from class feeling with the leaders noisily claiming pub- lie attention, but failing to do a sin- gle constructive thing in behalf of the nation. Keep the bloc system out of the grain exchange,” he pero- rated. Carey wants only one bloc, the capitalist bloc. Gentleman from South Carolina When the final passage of the Eight Hour Law for railway work- ers was before the Senate, Mr. Smith likewise found it convenient to avoid voting. In the Sixty-Third Congress Sen- ator Smith joined with the reaction- aries to pass the vicious Bacon amendment to the Seaman’s Act pro- posed by Mr. LaFollette, who has now thrust greatness upon hin: by making him chairman of the most important Senatorial committee. When the Clayton anti-trust act was before the Senate for final disposi- tion, Mr. Smith made it his busi- ness to abstain from voting, The gentleman from South Carolina did not even have the courage of his reactionary convictions. For Child Labor, But in the Sixty-Fourth Congress Senator Smith picked up sufficient courage to come out openly as an enemy of the working masses, On August 8, 1916, the South Carolina solon, speaking on hehalf of the textile magnates whom he served in brag a, ba spoke and voved against the Federal Child Labor Biil. ‘ at ie ae Cor SS toes njeres ‘ought against a ing for an appropriation to hel run the ent Bureau of Depart- ment of Labor, Wien the war was cigs A and a motion was the Senate to strike out Fight” amendment from the draft bill, Mr. Smith did not take a position. And even on the railroad ques- tion Senator Smith’s record is punc- tuated with the same straddling weakness, and an occasional open fight against progressive or near- progressive measures, It is trae Senator Smith has not ~roted for the Esch-Cummins Railway Act. But he waged no real fight against its en- actment.. What is more, he has on other occasions shown — distinct friendship for the railroad interests. When a motion was made in the Sen- ate on Dec, 20,1919 to extend the period of Federal control of rail- roads for two years, Senator Smith fought against the measue in order to hasten the government’s granting a bonus of hundreds of millions of dollars to the railway co: tions for their having allowed coun- try to use the roads while at war. Safe and jar. The new chairman of the Inter- state Commerce Committee which will handle the railway question, one of the most important problems be- fore Congress, is safe and ‘s Senator Smith has proved himself a tried and true war horse in the service of the capitalists of t country. When LaFollette and squad of insurgents voted for Smith they did not pale by, an iota to repeal the vicious us to the mul- timillionaire railway owners. After it was announced that Smith was elected to this key position in the Senate the railway stocks in the Wall Street market reacted very bankers ee sina in the United States iss reac-} At the close of 1918 a bill wes| favorably, The big and tionary nonentity. He has now been} presented to the Senate to tax those} manufac controlling the arte- in the Senate for about fourteen} products in interstate commerce! ries of the na\ the railroads, years, During this period he has| which were by chid labor.| heaved a sigh of relief. LaFollette’s not put over a single measure that! The Hon le Smith aia came up paign of attrition had ended. smacks even of the pales: pzogres-|to the scratch ag a loyal servant could now down to busi- sivism, His record in the Senate] of the Southern textile interests and ness and for, Bont is distinctly bad, It is marked by| made a vigorous it against the! interference with thair many hostile votes to the working-| enactment even of this half-hearted! The men and farmers on the sues confronting the country. is- re ca at Hmiting? the employment