The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER January i7, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill, (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $8.50..6 months $2.00..3 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, Illinois Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. 1 Advertising rates on application. The Franc Flops Victorious imperialist France is sitting on a financial voleano. The frane has, in the last week, fallen to almost 25 for a dollar. One is naturally tempted to ask why has this wretched ’ fate befallen victorious France, the France that is now the military ruler of central and western Europe. The cause for the collapse of the franc and the serious depression that is sure to follow in its wake, lies in the very military overlordship that imperialist France is no swaying over its puppet republics and conquered territories. The internal French debt has increased by 19,000,- 000,000 francs during the year. Actual expen- ditures in the last fiscal year were 15,000,000,- 000 francs above the estimates. The outlook for limiting the militarist expenses is slim in view of the low franc rates and the imperialist polcies. In the last four years, according to the De- partment of Commerce, the total French debt rose from 227 billion francs to 430 billions. In- terest on the debt now consumes more than half the government revenues, though no interest has been paid on the foreign debt which amounts to about 126 billion francs, It is only the huge amounts borrowed to pay pensions and to continue the reconstruction of ‘the war devasted areas that have kept industry running in France. It is only through this artificial policy which must inevitably collapse of its own weight, that has kept unemployment down. As soon as these expensive policies of inflation are dropped, serious’ depression will overcome the country. When France will be hit by waves of economic difficulties which will prove insurmountable to its incompetent mili- tarist clique. There will be serious political and industrial repercussions in Poland, Czecho- elovakic and the Ralkans. Thus. despite all out- ward appearances, France, the citadel of capi- talist reaction in Europe is a veritable powder magazine of revolutionary explosives. When tH® French subsidy ends kingdoms and repub- lics will fall with it. The reactionary chain which has been forged around Germany will then break of its own weight. The German workers will be in a better position to strike at their political oppressors when they will be able to count on allies rather than enemies in their neighboring states. The present financial situation in Franc? bears serious watching. It will soon be the pivotal point in the European political maelstrom. SRE” CR Another emperor has fallen by the wayside. William Joseph Simmons, founder of the Ku Klux Klan, is the latest victim of militant dem- ocracy to bite the dust. The edict of banish- ment from the invisible empire also hit Edward of their Washington representatives. Magnus Johnson was sent to the Senate by the workers and farmers to “chop” off reactionary heads and not to enter into wood-chopping contests with his friends. Magnus Johnson was elected by the enemies of the big interests for whom Wallace speaks and works in Washington. The Minnesota Senator should spend his time in fighting for the farmers and workers, in expos- ing Wallace and his ilk and not in friendly milking contests. All of which simply goes to prove that no? until the workers and farmers have their own political party controlling their elected repre- sentatives and making them responsible serv- ants of the poor farmers and city workers, will such intolerable conditions come to an end. Multiplication and Poverty The Strensrude family increased and multi- plied until Strensrude was at his wits end to find ways and means to satisfy 22 appetites, +20 children with his wife and himself. His proficiency in the art of multiplication may bring him his reward in heaven but the result to date is that he is now cooling his heels in prison. This is how it happened. His son aged ten years possessed himself of a dime, with the aid of which he entered a moving picture em- porium where he probably saw Theda Bara vamp the sultan of Swat, or witnessed the am- bitious messenger boy, Cicero Sapp, become manager of ithe factory in which he worked, marry the boss’ daughter leaving her father free to devote himself to art and moonshine. Whatever he saw did not make much of an impression on his father, The latter saw stars. The rascal that spent a whole dime on enter- tainment would not enter his house. The boy’s mother bid ‘the boy enter and had the father detained by the Juvenile Court, To the average reader who saw this wan- faced mother’s picture with four of her twenty children on the pictorial page of the Herald- Examiner, this is only an isolated case. They may revile the father as a brute for his treat- ment of his little son, But that father is the product of a system which looks on him only as a beast of burden and on his wife only as a breeder of profit fodder for the slave market. How can he feed twenty-two mouths on a meager wage and be a human being? How can he be a human being anyhow and bring twenty children into the world without means of pro- viding for them? But it is a crime to inform parents of birth limitation methods. The law says so and we are told that God is in agree- ment. Our moralists will sing the praises of large families and the blessings of poverty and curse the victims of the twin evils: exploita- tion and ignorance. Dress Rehearsals A few days ago confidential orders were is- sued to all units of the fleet to leaye their home ports in the Pacific and’ Atlantic coasts and make for tropical waters. Now we are in the midst of joint army and navy maneuvers hav- of the strength and value of the Panama Canal Zone in the whole plan of national defense. Until the middle of March the War and Navy Departments will be busy with the numerous problems arising out of the maneuvers as though the country were actually at war with a first class power. will command this mightiest armada ever mobi- lized by the United States navy. The principal units of the battleship force now stationed in the Pacific, 15 battleships, 87 aircrafts, 63 destroyers, 33 train vessels, 11 submarines, five mine force, four light cruisers, four destroyer tenders, three submarine tenders, one airplane ing among their many objectives the testing) Admiral Robert E. Coontz) Young Clarke, at one time wizard of the Klux.| carrier, and one plane tender will participate. The whip hand an the moron aggregation is] At the same time there is a plan afoot to hold now held by H. W. Evans. vit is another case} the first military mobilization on a national of “when Kiux fall out, etc. scale under the National Defense Act of 1920 0 immediately after the coming November _elec- ? i tions. y The Farmers Friends and Secretary of the Navy Denby are both The last few months have witnessed a re |clamoring for millions for the army and navy. markable increase in the number of “friends”| The workers and farmers, who are having ser aed foines have a. ‘ de La ~ of poe g ponies Pigg — are enator Capper’s propaganda has won the | naturally promp 0 ask: y al is pom- farmers many banker-friends. Secretary of|pous military rehearsal? Are we to have an- Agriculture Wallace’s speeches have won the| other preparedness campaign? Is another world farmers the “friendship” of the packing inter-| slaughter brewing? ests. The farmers are in dire need of friends.| We do not know the precise, official answers Their conditions shows no signs of improve-|to these pertinent questions. However, we are ment. The countless remedies offered them by | aware of the fact that while our army and navy many of their self-advertised friends are only] leaders will be maneuvering around the Pana- smoke sereens of misrepresentation to mislead | ma,Canal, our Banker-Generals Dawes, Robin- and prevent them from taking effective relief | son and Young will be maneuvering in the Paris measures. Reparations sessions/in the interests of Wall While all this noise is being made about Aram 4 byporane ed paid fleet gh gan: farm relief and farm friendship, no one can| Steaming ahead and rehearsing to belch fo fail to view with disgust the conduct of some of| destruction, the Filipinos will be anxiously the so-called farm representatives in Washing- | @Waiting their first opportunity to strike for ton. The day that the Federal Trade Com- freedom from American capitalist-imperialist mission issued its report damning the practices | domination; the Cubans will be resisting the of the grain gamblers of the Minneapolis | Plessings of dollar bs goa and an American Chamber. of Commerce was the very day on naval commander will lead the other imperialist r : owers in an attack on China. which Magnus Johnson, the self-proclaimed Pp ‘. Ri “dirt farmer” of Minnesota, was in a milking Some may call us down for being too suspici- contest with the beef trust’s agent, Mr. Wal-|°U% Pd may contend coe these military and lace, now directing the Department of Agri-|"#Va! maneuvers.are merely, a strange coinci- it On th da thak the stand dence with these political events. But we culture. On the very same cay that the stanc-! know that the distance between the dollar and pat senators defeated an attempt to make this} 4p. flag is not big enough even for the angels report public, Senators Frazier and Ladd are 3 ; is of peace to pass through. Experience has ahi to have jumped on the Coolidge band-| taught the working masses that the prepared- = . . ness drives and military and naval maneuvers The crowning point of this utter lack of| today are only the dress rehearsals for the im- achievement on the part of the so-called farm| perialist wars of tomorrow. Senators was the wood-chopping contest be- tween Frazier of North Dakota and Magnus of Minnesota. The poor farmers have been long enough in trouble to develop a sense of humor. Yet, one to wonder how long they are going to for this disgraceful conduct on the part The first duty of every militant toiler is to subscribe for The Daily Worker. His second duty is to get some other worker to subscribe. Join the Workers Party! What is more, Secretary.of War Weeks} AN UNQUENCHABLE THIRST AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY,. Tra Nelson Morris, formetly minis- ter to Sweden, showed the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association a Ger- man bank note which before the war was worth $280,000,000. It is . now worth about one-fourteenth of: a cent. In spite of the efforts of the capitalist system to get back on its feet since the end of the war, its condition is growing worse daily. The demoralization of the currency of most European coun- tries is an indication of the bink~- ruptey which confronts the capits list system. 2. * # The King of England was cheered on his way to the House of Com- mons. But the masses ate fickle. They would cheer him just as enthu- siastically tomorrow on his way to the gallows, If the king has any brains he must have thought se- viously that he is very much alon in Europe, Monarchy has received’ hard knocks since his cousin, Wil- helm, unleashed the dogs of war in*v 1914. George could hear the angry murmur of the unemployed who pa- raded with placards on their backs, As the wheels of his gilded carriage rolled on, he may have thought of the French aristocrats, as the death or—The Thirst That Will Finish Him Thou Shalt Not Kill Anyone But Communists In a booklet by Dr. E. S. Gum- bel entitled “Three Years of Mur- der,” we find the following contrast between the political murders from the Right (murders committed by re- actionaries) and those from the Left (radicals), and their consequences} auring une years IY2S-1yZ0 in Ger- many: Total number of political from the Right ......... Total punishment: Imprisonment....31 yeazs 3 months and one sentence for life, Total number of political murders from the Lefties. <ccsovieus.s csosse oA murders almost on every second day, there occurred an unpunished murder from the Right. Professor Nicolai writes in the in- troduttion to this booklet, “With regard to the dead themselves, near- . ti ty all the leaders | of 4 = mnie During the years 1919 and | “| left have been put out of the way 4|in this manner; however, not a sin- gle leader of the extreme Right has been killed, In general, the murders committed by the Left are very few, and those from the Right very nu- merous, Yet the Social Democracy pretends to consider the Commun- ist “atrocities” as the reason for the White Terror. Professor Nicolai continues, “With regard to the punishments meted out. the relatively few attempts against reactionaries are almost all punishéd by very heavy sentences; however, for the numerous attempts made against men of the Left, no one is punished, When for instance as in the case of the murderer of Landauer, the criminal is punished for stealing the murdered man’s watch, this is certainly no punish- ment for the murder.” The big tax plan of Mr. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, is now before the Senate. The plan is a very good one for the rich, and it is a miserable one for workers and poor farmers. _'The kept press is conducting the most extensive propa- ganda for Mellon’s plan, trying to make the, workers, small business- men and farniers believe that they on secure some advantage from the plan. The truth is that the Mellon tax plan is favorable only for the rich, or rather for the richest of the rich (Mellon himself is in the highest stratum of the multi-millionaires). It is not only we Communists who say that but conservative and respectable Democrats who are in the opposition algo say it. Senator Ashurst (Arizona) said in the Senate debate: “About the time the Mellon plan was proposed, Henry Ford suddenly announced that he had come to the conclusion he ought to support the present Administration, There was a remarkable synchronization be- tween the promulgation of the Mel- lon plan and Mr. Ford’s conversion. As soon as the Mellon plan is an- nounced Mr, Ford announces himself for the plan, which brings him in $1,000,000 a year, “In politics, lately, beginning with Senator Hanna, we have adopted from the nomenclature of the poker table such phrases, as of course, Sen- ators understand, ‘stand pat’ and ‘full hand.’ Mr. Ford was very progressive until Mr. Mellon dealt ¢paganda that I have ever k him a ‘full hand,’ Mr, Ford was ay progressive until Mr. Mellon dealt him a full hand of $1,000,000 a year, and then he did, as all poker players do, ‘stood pat.’ He said, ‘I will stand pat for the $1,000,000 a year reduction in my taxes.’ h “Now, since we have learned from a reliable authority that Mr. Mel- lon’s taxes will be reduced by Mr. Mellons bill by $500,000 a year or more, and Mr, Ford’s taxes will be reduced by Mr. Mellon’s bill, which Mr. Ford now champions, $1,000,000 a year, it will be interesting to speculate how much every year Mr. ‘ohn D. Rockefeller's taxes would be reduced. 1 realize that when I use the name of Rockefeller visions of bald heads and oil tanks fly Wl around in the. air.” Then in a second speech Ashurst pated out ever more sharply that ellon’s famous tax Bit is only in the class interests of big : “I am utterly astounded it the Secretary should be ‘a drive by the most insidious and most engaging and the most pro- since I entered public life, for a re- duction in the taxes of men of great wealth while at the same time he urges a disappropriate reduction in the taxes of men of modest means. His proposition is one-sided. It in- jures his own benefit and the bene- fit of those in his own class. I do not speak of him with envy or with ill feeling, but it ill becomes a man to conduct a furious propa- ganda when it means $500,000 a year in his own pocket and $45,000,000 additional revenues to be pocketed by others of large fortune.” Ashurst (Arizona), Jones (New Mexico), Simmons (North Carolina) and the other Democratic senators who attack the Mellon tax plan so bitterly as being the biggest gift for the biggest capitalists, the richest bankers and wealthiest manufactur- ers, are of course, no advocates of the common people. They hate the workers and poor farmers just as much, if not more so, than do Cool- idge, Mellon, Ford or Rockefeller. The solution of the mystery is that these three senators are representa- Mellon Reduces the Taxes of Mellon tives of Southern big landowners. The big landdwners in many respects have. interests opposed to those of banking capital or industrial capital. Especially is it ve much to the interest of the big landowners that not they but the Eastern capitalists shall pay taxes, This fact explains why the La- Follette group forms an alliance now with these Sothern Democratic sen- ators. The LaFollette group rep- resents the interests of the well-to- do farmers and small business men, especially in the West, so that the alliance of the Democratic’ Party, with the LaFollette group is the alli- ance of the big landowners of the South with the well-to-do farmers of the Middle West against the big bankers and manufacturers of the East, Every class has its representatives in Congress; but the cause of the worker and poor farmers hasn’t a single representative. Work Daily for “The Daily!” Millionaires Escape Taxation The country has been flooded with propaganda in behalf of the Mellon plan to save the millionaire bankers and bosses millions of dollars. A very large portion of the 8’ associations indo It is rather s with perhaps a half note that lionaire criminal tax dodgers, Over seven billion dollars were years of age and over of the gai 19; trialists have robbed the lection fell 19 per cent. Congressional Record to date is filled with greetings, nials, and demands of various Chambers of Commerce and Manufac- g the Mellon proposals. while all congressmen and senators— ceptions at the most—tave been very indus- trious in letting the country hear their masters’ voice from the congres- sional rostrum, very little effort has been made to put a check to the vicious | practice pursued by the big capitalists to rob the United States Treasury of hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid taxes. According to the latest report of the National Association of Real Estate Boards at least $54,000,000,000 was beyond the reach of the tax collector last year . Thirty-five billion dollars of this gigantic empt securities. William Rockefeller, for example, cent of his wealth in Federal, State, and Municipal securities so issued as to make it impossible for the tax collector to reach it. The amount of wealth escaping taxation thru various bookkeeping and clever accounting and legal manipulations represents almost one-fifth of the total national wealth. In view of the growing burden of taxation it is very important to the workers and farmers that the Government discontinue protecting the mil- In the last decade the total national tax has increased 217 per cent. in taxes in 1922. Every person ten ainfully. employed paid at least 170 dollars in meet taxes. But the rate at which the mighty bankers and indus- Treasury of hundreds of millions of dollars has kept pace with this increase. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue reports that in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, the income and profits tax col- One might ask: Why is it that the Government is so swift and vigorous in its persecution and trifli there prosecution of people wi and yet does not do anything at all in the way of | Watch the “Dail Worker” ionaire thieves? is it that the severest possible, : Hoth pong te, bite erest poss| Re maxinium Petco tonared i fyi eet yore ‘Resin are guilty of stealing a might be dollars annually?) it away about 60 per carts rambled on to the guillotine during the French revolution, Not exactly pleasant thoughts, Ot ee Magnus Johnson, Minnesota farm- er-senator, has an alibi for his de- feat by Secretary Wallace in the now famous milking contest. “They gave me a dry cow,” declared Magnus. This is taking an unfair advantage of a “dirt” farmer who has not soiled his hands with farm labor for the benefit of the farmers quite a long time. If the secretary of labor offered Magnus a goat and represented it as a cow perhay the Minnesotan would not know difference. The Senator’s dry hw mor will not appeal very much to the matter of fact farmers who sent him to Washington to bring relief from the exactions under which they suffer. They may say to Magnus, “We asked for bread and you gave us a cow story.” se e Arthur Brooks, colored, is a Me- gro valet who lives m Washington. He is ill, President Coolidge is a valet who lives in the same city. He is a candidate for re- election. Last Sunday he thrilled the colored voters of America by visit- ing his fellow valet, thereby win- ning for himself many votes which might have been cast for some other capitalist lackey. “Cal” may sue ceed himself if he continues te use his feet as well as his head, * . * rm. pe Sia, 2ue WEAKLY 1vca. UrZaR UL Ke ve time Socialist Party of Cook County, carries a box notice on the front oceney fuking in parts the county which are not yet organized, should pay their dues in the County Office.” A secretary of a socialist le- cal here in Chicago was notified re- cently that his branch was dissolved but he could pay his dues to the Cook County office. He is a member-at- large in Chicago. What a political prairie. An editorial in the s me paper criticises the Workers Party for vigorously discussing the issue confronting it at its annual conven- tion. This is of course, unseemly! The S. P. did things better than that. When a difference of opinion existed the minority called in the police and expelled the majority, as was done in 1919. Ce ek The religious civil war is still rag- ing in the protestant church. The virgin birth entrenchment is under heavy fire with considerable casual- ties among the attacking party, Gen- erals Percy Stickney Grant, John Haynes Holmes and Dr. Frances Pot- ter declare that the enemy cannot hold out much longer, but the be- sieged managed to make a sortie and brought in an important prisoner from the rebel army, in the person of the Rev. Leighton Parks, who re- nounced the rebel cause and declared that the Virgin theory was as sound as a bell. General Stratton, one of the bitter enders among the old- fashioned religionists, insists on fighting it out on these lines if it takes until doomsday. Mean Led communists hope that they both win. fhe Poor Fish says: Now that t Communists have a daily paper t job of our hardworking rtme of justice should be. m casi: They will give us each day our da plot for three cents. It