The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1924, Page 6

Page Six ‘ a THE DAILY W /ORKER January 22, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER. |Ditectives and Degenerates Published by the DAILY WORKER PUB. 1 LISHING CO, 1640 N, Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. ee The An organization that recruits its members (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) from the lowest stratum of the human race and By JOHN PEPF 1 ane:.B f i i ‘4 I a y JOHN PEPF wR },, The. Bank o: France raises the|20%,. But that means the hardest) the dd SUBSCRIPTION RATES which a mass of evidence proves to have as its|_, Never before since p¥ tapas the | CiMepant rate ‘to; 5%; 674 %,,and then blow. at the French peasant, Every- a Pigs poy quitoda: e rte r principal object the capitalizing of human French franc droppeie » >was now. | Van to 87: body who knows the French peas-| French people. We quote again the By mail: wenknees oi zg ¢ u The Bank of Fraras \ ied the dis- But all these measures against} ant knows that the question of tax-} Paris correspondent of the Chicago $6.00 per year $8.50. .6 months $2.00..8 months -kne: or purposes 0 blackmail and ex-|count rate first fie rai to 544% the panic only increase the panic. | ation is the most revolutionary fac-| Tribune: “Th t's | decial By mail (in Chi : tortion today is entrusted with the duty of pre-jand then to 6%<ém_ 6% The French government of the cap-| tor in France. When the Poincare itiat thonsands oft pols $8.00: ter your roid one only): serving the republic, of maintaining intact Capital is He 5% seats italist goes still further. cabinet signed this taxation bill it gar cheetah Ms Lcalfyst -50..6 months —_§2,50..8 months] American institutions and protecting public {7% about fed abou ssness of snateial’ peoee re! needa Akpan: shee0 Ne Pn Reni PS emma tront wil continie indefinitely $10.00 Bs Pages officials who are charged with the duty of fleeing from/Ahe,_hopele Prited see eater abs. ailseaattag tuea | Tie" 20% inecenne, (ot All tanea | Cunt Geesate toate old tren- Lodo dada bias $1.00 per month hunting down just such human menaces to life] States and cbLycigmared as etal tion, including customs, income|means a rapid and tremendous rise pails bet olan ad Det x wand Pood Address all mail and make out checks to and property as compose this organization, French finer oth ‘ ‘ts with beng sebastien geal ret figs hes ited t aig a6 | enterprises under construction will be , wer ang pened, ) : ; al elements. e Paris cor- THE DAILY WORKER We refer to the bureau 6f investigation of Sivek ty pitalism vai wovern-) But even that is not enough. ‘The| respondent. of the Chicago ‘Tribune | “bandoned.” 1640 N. Halsted Street Chicago, Ilinois} *8®, department of justice, presided over by | this labor 5 a ts that) government proposes Draconian| writes with admirable naivete and The population of. the devastated | . William J. Burns, head of the Burns Detective | lations with Britain. i measures to prevent fraud in the| frankness: - regions was up to now the greatest | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL... ‘ Agency, two of whose f ognize Sovi ernment \ it rec-| payment of taxes. “The cabinet admits frankly that| Support of French nationalism. These MORITZ J. LOEB.... .Businéss Manager A a se former employees have ly overturshzances the ‘iend-| But that is still not enough, The|the cost of living certainly will in-| Masses lived upon the hope of Ger- ails on just been arrested by the Chicago police and} ° France Russia and _ |eabinet wants to have the parlia-| crease, but declines to admit that|™man reparations. Now Poincare is Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post-| Who. have confessed to an apparently endless » Pgphhltpae 3 risis.| ment adopt measures to cut expenses! wages must be advanced 20 per cent forced to expose his own frand, t@ | in a deep fi WE leading ca edi- Liberte,” 1} bi Ning with the fi. in- word ‘Panic!’ Bi isis of France is % ates from the wo. be as treated as a secre. x Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. Se series of violent crimes such as torturing wom- en to force a disclusure of the hiding-place of jewelry. Nor is this an isolated instance. William J. Burns himself has admitted that he has “fixed” B juries and,the police records are filled with | Advertising rates on application. The Bok Bunk Edward W. Bok, formerly editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal, beli lists of crimes com‘hitted b budgehe real figures of the Fr. 4 A eves that the best itted by agents of the jrulin i Meas ha ready) Ser. wanda to. ueabate for Burns and other agencies. From data in the Ca Se ree Ot on ab possession of The Daily Worker there is every reason to believe that a criminal record is al- most an indispensable qualification for secur-|of ing employment with a detective agency. i Into the central office of the Burns detective |¢*. agency flows a stream of filth that is carefully | By classified and indexed. Let anyone in public |e» life stray ever so little from the straight and|') inspired writing let loose by the Bok ‘money 7 he Nar apie tak eee) rome te t bags cleared, people begin to rub) their eyes| powerful inglustrial a vA te pi oe 4 and wonder if what was transpiring behind the} whom the Burn ie pean eres smokescreen of a peace move was not the most Sees i eae : a camel peta propaganda ever con been intimidated, has had his private paper, rifled, has been shadowed and in other wats The jury awarded the prize to a proposal A to join the the League of Nations, an organiza- re ths Raul OF Ane Pee Ta Suenos ys tion with a reputation as unsavory as a boot- se jis Boats carion Not only this, but in every strike, in alm! os a ; or : every union, in every organization of wast . e favored plan there i8 no word|earners, political or industrial, are to be for, : about disarmament, the outlawry of war orjthe stool-pigeons who may be picking wu "i any of the other shiboleths that even our libe-|formation merely, cataloging the active cli ae in- ‘prease the taxes any furth« dreaded the revolt of the far: d workers. The state alway iced its budget with the illusion peace. This has been the result of his $100,- 000 contest for the most practicable plan by which the United States might co-operate with other nations to achieve world peace. Bok’s million dollars brought more intellectual weak- lings out of their beds than Coue’s visit. But it brought more than that. ;When the mental fog caused’ by the flood of ers sought to keep the secret dis concealed as long as possible. it the financial crisis exsted, it sts now, and is breaking out open- in the form of a great panic. The financial question is the cen- al question of French policy. The ommunist International analyzed the French situation more correctly than all the French politicians, and had already foretold the sharpening of the financial crisis in a resolution of September, 1923: “The political life of France depends on the ques- tion of the budget. The capitalist class has been able to delay the col- lapse through skillful political and financial maneuvres. But the crisis is proving more ahd more to be un-}_— avoidable. All the problems of| of French international policy and to a} tio we More than one congressman and senator har the state, to mak n of civil servan' rals like to talk about.” i ‘ great extent also the problems of| hav six months. PAK echeme of the soi Ma earn bie the bie or using every means to disrupt and }-.| foreign policy hang tupathes with the Lt at all this is still} not enough. ‘i di tag 's most sighted finan-|stroy working-class organizations. Dep:fje.|imminent financial crisis. | The po-) BE 2 government decide@, and the par- ciers and its principal weakness was the ab-|ment of Justice agents and private employ litical struggle at present consists | Th. ment will adopt me: Ba Seni z ruction 0: actually of strong efforts on the part | liar of every class of capitalist society to | Fr: 9 |load the financial burden upoh the | the next lower class.” cor The French workers and farmers | pa) did not see it so clearly, but the panic q speaks a very clear language, and | the will make of the next parliamentary | the elections a political event of prime | off importance, Fra The ruling French capitalist class | mes js now attempting in the last moment | re sence of the United States from its councils.|of the Burns agenc indistingui teat ee could ‘aly the financial club |close is the Samnentiads ‘ante at cou’ used by the capitalist pirates of} It is tob i tacts the world to compel the rebellious sections of | will rahe ig boss brent eg the capitalist class to stay with the machine or these breeding places of crime and pes es : else suffer annihilation. The League would be}made by Senator Wheeler of Monten agg the International of capitalism. It would seek In a series of articles to b blish ci to hold back the tide of evolution with the/}The Daily Worker will give pei ed air Canute broom of American dollars. é refutable evidence of the unholy aikdnes Ao It was a sensible plan for the capitalists. tween law enforcing and law breaking a: Sac to make every effort to avoid the|cq But they cannot agree among themselves.|cies. (We intend to carry on this saaipnign of| mancial crash or at least to post witalists were to cut off Unity comes hard to thieves. Butgheir profes- publicity until every man, woman and child eee r m h pte hydra heads Of the anc i-ialantwnl watainare ha’ never given|Who can read will know to what depths the frath Femi soucege es: fois many new heads would gro o aes s rj . RE Be atone aT be: Ane QOverument reices a vorm~ ~7 other a ance to hold up ree: . devasted areas cn istruction work until | 73 reparations. %, che French capitalists a1 most strenuous effort : financial crisis in orde the hydra heads of the ance is beginning to i ssorted to only in the vuntries, in Germany, Aus iungary. But it is too late. If the e. French government fort. SOMS AUU sliveiicevuas 2 wewssew ne =~ ; he export Of gold. | up the idea of building a capitalist interna- tional like the League of Nations and the Bok ‘Peace Plan is another such effort. It will fail, not because of its obvious dishonesty, but be- cause no plan can harmonize the contradic- tions in capitalist society. Society can only be harmonized by the abolition of capitalism and that will not be done by doting millionaires and edy capitalists but by the working- class Who have an interest in getting rid of the robber system which breeds the wars they are ealled upon to fight. Plus and Minus The capitalist clique that exploits and op- presses the city workers is the same capitalist clique that is driving the farming population of the country into bankruptcy. This truth is timely and cannot be over- emphasized, especially at this moment when the big employers and bankers are making a desperate attempt to line up the farmers for the coming election campaign. rulers of this nation have stooped in thetr ef- forts to frighten and debauch the labor move- ment of this nation. \ THE HEARST out Wall Street organs. He is wrong: of course when he calls Henderson, Webb and Snowden “reyolutionists”. They are nothing of the sort and the Federation of British Industries—the organization of British imperialists— knows it. They are humanitarian liberals, mild reformists; they dis+ trust the mass of British Jabor just’ as much as do the employers and the bankers; they have a mania for re- spectability and most of their time for the last six months, during which the swing towards the labor party was unmistakable, has been devoted to a sincere effort to convince the British businessman that his .inter-| ests are theirs. Concessions must of) course be made to the workingclass elements who supported the party but this is a matter of party politics, and the masses are just as certain) and no more of getting something) substantial from the British Labor) Party politicians as they are from the Conservatives and Liberals. Nevertheless they are not of the traditional British rulingelass and only the dire straits in which the empire finds itself are responsible for their rise. , The True Hearst. The Creature Schwartz That a renegade radical can sink to depths of depravity unequalled by any other type of human being has been amply demonstrated in this country since the victory of the Russian begs: bevy struck fear into the hearts of the capitalists to the extent that they opened | b¢ their money bags to any political sewer rat eae cbs Igri Pom tre who would unload his filth on thé Soviet Re- Be “aes public for cash. One particularly loathsome specimen of that type spread himself in the Chicago Tribune, of Jan. 20. His name is Alexander Schwartz. Physically he is a big chunk of animated proto- plasm who wears a 22-inch collar and 614-inch hat. The brain capacity of a moron, with the neck of a gorilla. ; tr py — he went to Russia and parti- cipated at the meeting of the second congress Time and again the farmers have protested | of the Third International that he was a sg against the tribute of seventy millions of dol-} per of the Socialist Party of America, travelled Jars‘levied on them annually by the vastour tara Russia, interviewed the peasants and ad- system of “Pittsburgh plus.” The steel barons, tvised Lenin how to manage the revolution. who are overworking and underpaying the) Because of his independence of mind, hundreds of thousands of workers in their} schwartz declared, the Bolsheviks feared him plants, are pocketing these $70,000,000 by! and put him im prison. This moron finally es- By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. The Hearst aioe have the largest circulation of any one group of, Soapapesh in the United States. They are read by millions of wage- earners not only because of their comic strips and special features but because in some manner the impres- an.” ‘No better proof could be had of the undiscriminating manner in which the great American public takes its mental nourishment, Hearst has built up the enormous circulation of his sheets by playing up some issue in which the ordinary individual is interested but which does not affect! by one jot or tittle the iron-clad con- trol of the means of life of millions by a few powerful and unscrupulous individuals. Nor does Hearst take any chances of mistaking some major issue for something of little import- tance but Pe populatity. For every line of type written to arouse the indignation of the unthinking there are two lines of antidote. The slippery liberalism of a Bris- bane is offset by the absolute reac- tion of a Hinman and the humani- Savindintn af 2 or Hat is American capitalist class; it is not so much what the-British Labor part; » Franc Totters a new reduc- , altho 50,000 e already been di&charged in the Germany making ito check to cut panic. ijntroduce vasures which hitherto ha\ve been xe he the export 68 0 PRESS--LABOR’S ing the British workingclass, f | ists Hinman voices the fears of the’ adding to the price of steel manufactured out-}caned to Ameri i i side the Pittsburgh district the cost that would his piffle on the fade yr beeansangs = © ag be entailed in shipping this product as freight years he has appeared before ghambers of from Pittsburgh to the destination of the con-|ommerce and othey capitalist organizations - gre ina Poaset naw Connie braying about the terrors of Bolshevism. Now comes the ederal Trade The fact is that Schwartz was never a mem- with its story of how the grain gamblers of the) er of the Socialist Party, never cocnied ereden- Northwest, centered in the Minneapolis Cham-| ‘jajs grom the Socialist Party to represent it in ber of Commerce, are holding the wheat farm-| Moscow, never was a member of the Third ers at their mercy and forcing these farmers t0) international and never spoke to Lenin in his receive the lowest possible prices for their) \ife as the latter had plenty of more useful cabled aes 2 eager sd ¢ work than interviewing a mental defective. which the wealthy grain gamblers are ready (Bon Bo ace eg gc gre ee : to go to rob the farmers. in this instance the ay into ai eden of big parte , + nds its Equity Co-operative Exchange of St. Paul was \enng +f that way to poison the workers with ihe germs o. countered by the cold “best policy for business” of a Forbes. Brisbane may—and does—egpress ‘a quiet satisfaction at the rise 6f the British Labor party from the place of His Majesty’s Opposition to His Majesty’s government but Hinman, in the same paper and paid by the same man denounces the British Labor party and its leaders as the enemy of all America and American- ism stands for; this being, of course, the right of the businessman—a Hin- manism meaning everyone who is “on his own’—to plunder when where he please without any re- straint whatsoever, A. Barry or Hapgood may express carefully worded doubts as to some of! most vaunted benefits of unrestricted may’ do as the possibility that wit labor in the mother country holding the position formerly in the hands of capitalism’s elect, strange notions may enter the head of the American workers. Hinman quoys Sydney Webb as saying: “The big problem that faces the people who are Fein to govern is the blem of forcing the wealthy to disgorge their wealth.” . the target of the capitalist attacks. ft ; : i ? Gis aaa the same disease f-2m which capitelist enterprise but = Morhes— The circulation of false rumors, instituting | Schwartz and his tribe are suffering. The capi- . Mee oo, pene a ne by be unfounded litigation to hurt the standing of \ the co-operative grain exchanges, preventing telegraph companies from furnishing price quotations on grain to the co-operatives, ‘“‘com- pelling shippers of grain to Minneapolis from country points or from St. Paul” to pay certain commissions are some of the practices of this Chamber of Commerce which is one of the most aggressive sections of the National Cham- ber, ge the biggest bankers and in- dustrialists. These methods have been pursued by the grain gamblers for ten years. The plight of the farmers and the sufferings _ of the workers arise from the same source, the ‘alists are hard put for anti-Soviet lies when a ‘American capitalism and assures the they must fall back on this degenerate. ‘American workers that if they will concentrate on the thought that the} 7 | most humble toiler is gs Formerly it was the custom of Machiavelian ink ful the world wil he s statesmen, when a political Samson appeared, SFieht And pleasant pice, J with sword and shield, ready for battle, to No better expression of in throw temptation in the form of woman in Toryism has been plished that, his way. It usually worked. Delilah sheared contained in the. Gane Samson of his locks. We could cite other ex- Sethe isth of hae month’ iar geld amples: However, when Magnus Johnson more studied and deliberate exalta- went into the enemy’s camp in Washington no , fair Delilah crossed his path. He was cooly tion of American capitalism’ red than the, feature . C. Forbes in the same t led to the pyre and under the shadow of a on the same date. plist domination of government and indus-| Jersey cow lid he fall. | Hinman goes farther inf his _de- poere “Pittsburgh Plus” and ‘Minneapolis SPP PONE RRL THT i tai lenders and ta than ngs wmside * are symptoms of one disease. Joip the (Workers Party! ~ even the out and On Whose Side Are -You? and France With It himself fabricated, of the financial crisis. deadly question: “How about increased cost of living?” debate? of the situation?” This plan is shattered. Now French workers and farmer $1605 in 1923. ey. The government against the The workers and farmers, French thrift and economy will by making sacrifices the crisis. Te- than ever.” government will resist. of troops, 7 secs hei ae ahi bn ENEMY Right here Mr. Hinman throws a couple of fits. Remember that Hearst, his employer, is looked upon as @ libemal and his papers as friendly to| the wage-earners. The “disgorging) of wealth” proposed by Sydney Webb: jis a rhetorical phrase and nothing more, It is to be a long slow pro- cess covering a period of time during’ which the British capitalists will de- vise more efficient means of Cia oa x pansion of the unemployment insur- ance scheme, inheritance taxes, en-! largement of sick and old age pen-! sions—these will be the means by! iw he Webbs will get the capital-| “disgorge”. : To these measures no one but a supporter of the most hidebound sec- tion of the American capitalist class would object. Hearst's liberalism and his friendship for the wage-earners is of the same character. Hinman and not Brisbane speaks for Hearst. _ , Forbes’ Function The job of B. C. Forbes is to keep the white-collar slaves docile and at the same time imbue them with the “go-getter” spirit that makes them efficient and allows them no time to think. Only incidentally does Forbes mention the toiling masses—the wage slaves who make the things that executives and salesmen sell. Typical ef the all-for-one and one- for-all philosophy which Forbes as the mouthpiece of the Hearst inter- ests desires to have the workers adopt as their guide is ihe following paragraph: The street cleaner can feel that he is contributing invaluably to the health of his community, The clerk in the store can feel that he or she is playing an indis- . pensable part in supplying the peo+ ple with the necessaries or the comforts or the luxuries of life. The iron worker in the foundry or factory cain feel that the prog- ress of the world hag been made possible by the sweat of his brow, one in ‘supplying mankind with si i. gg ny a ne Fg rw weaver, 8 we the woolen mill worker, each and all can and should feel that the world could not spin around very comfortably Without their labors in clothing mankind. And, of course, all salesmen en- gaged in honorable work can and should fet the vision which the salesman got at that con- he erraes ay wai al work, filling the he and his ar -salesmen get drum med up. “Here we are, says apostle of Hearst liberaljsm, “all of us doing the same great work and all of us of equal importance. Think “of your noble work, Aula cidentally is a source my boss and Een! other drawers, All lm hi Tol end the lash. of ct| ‘The Land forthe Used also, insisting that the plroverbial mit the vast majority to get along with perhaps minor raises in wages and denying themselves until France has passed t It ig realized that if it is necessary to raise wages any ap- preciable amount the government must inflate the currency thru print- ing additional billions of francs which will depreciate the exchange lower The French capitalists, and their government want the workers and} phenomenon of the world revolu farmers to pay the costs of the fi- nancial crisis, The cost of living of the workers will rise, and the work- ers will be forced to demand higher wages. But the capitalists and their In. other words, a greater sharpening of the class. struggle, strikes, and lockouts, offensive of capital and intervention this | and per- test against the new burdens the European hegemony of imperialism, Heine’s inmortal poem, dyin; European hegemony of The financial crisis in France form of an industrial crisis. United States, agricultural crisis. in the form of a financial c Send in Your News The Daily Worker urges all” members of the party to send in the news of their various sec- tions. Every Party Branch should appoint its own correspondent and make him responsible for the news that ought to be sent in to The Daily Worker. The Party Page should be the livest page in The Daily Worker. Help make it so. ‘Address all mail to the Editor, The Daily Worker, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. for labor is rot. To think such things lowers your efficiency and interferes with the job which those above us have been kind enough to let us have.” No more deadly doctrine was ever purveyed under the guise of liberal- ism and friendship for the workers. It is far more serviceable for the ma%ntenance of capitalism with all jts miseries and inequalities than the outright denunciations and unrelent- ing enmity of every activity of labor published by open and avowed sup- porters of the system. To keep the workers thinking only of their jobs, to preserve the fiction of eu i to get them to look upon their exploiters as their kind and loving friends, to preserve the ideo- logical basis of American cal italism among the manual and ‘white-collar workers while driving a wedge be- tween the two groups; to betray and aoe pa So erat all ey gain strength and at times wage war upon the Communist ele- ments of the American workingclass is the function of the Hearst pres It debauches the minds of workers by its continual a their worst passions in colums—its policy of pn ing. every sex 8c’ i—and them with dts editorial policy of tacking individual capitalists never wavering in its support of the ig) Alea ae! as a whole. ne, Hinman, Barry, Hapgood and Forbes—liberalism and —-the smile of the seducer and the sardonic grin of the betrayer, Likes Motion Picture Column To THE DAILY WORKER:—I am writing you a suggestion that I be- lieve will greatly Re the pearance of THE DAILY WORKER... After the name of the city at the be- ginning of every news item, place the date. By not doing so, it gives the paper an kon pha y, ives new readers the impression that it is not a real dail; The motion picture column is I would also like to see a column de- voted to drama.—Sylvan A, nx English int ; destroy these illusions which he had | The workers and farmers, the poor population of the devastated regions, the discharged civil servants of the | state will have to pay the burdens | Marcel Cach- | in, leader 6f the French Communists, | hurled at Poincare in parliament the | And an- | other deputy, Jean Molini, threw the | bomb of the other question into the | “Can we make the poor | pensioners! suffer the consequences The French capitalists wanted to, have the costs of the war and the Versailles Peace paid by Moniare'e want to have these costs paid by ae the French farmers do not want to pay higher taxes. The national debt of France has already increased as it is, from $160 per capita in 1913 to The workers will de- mand higher wages and will strike. The higher wages will inevitably lead to an inflation of the French curren- remedies of the Poincare financial vanic in the last instance mean noth- ing but greater and deeper panic. the di charged civil servants, the poor pen- sioners of the state, the needy popu- lation of the devastated regions pro- they are crying that they cannot bear jt. But the French cabinet, dying for gives them the same answer as the French Grenadier in for the apoleon’s empire gives about his family: “Let them go begging if they are hungry.” mn. The world revolution is not dogmatic. In Great Britain it appeats in the In the in the form of an And in France, Th world revolution has many forms, but at bottom it is a single uniform pro- cess, the process of the dissolution of capitalism which has turned into Tho ctonnine af reconstruction of | imvert”” m - .