The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1924, Page 6

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Imperialism’s Opportunity Are the Mexican workers and peasants, after years of struggle oftentimes bloody, to surrender their hard-won liberties to an out- right dictatorship of American capital en- forced by Mexican mercenaries commended by Yankee officers? : There can be little doubt that American capital, altho its government tentatively sup- ports the Obregon regime, welcomes the pres- ent revolt of a faction more to the right than Obregon. American and naval forces, once anchored in the ports or encamped on the soil of “back- ward” nations possessing rich natural re- sources, have a habit of remaining for an in- definite period as witness Haiti, Santo Do- mingo and the Phillipines, to say nothing of Cuba, which without an army of ocdupation in recent years, has become merely the pri- vate property of the sugar trust and kes Na- tional City Bank. Today a fleet of cruisers and PREP nes off Tampico, the port of the richest oil region in Mexico and one of the richest in the world. De la Huerta, the chosen leader of the Mex- ican capitalists and landlords, controls this section with his counter-revolutionary forces. {What will the government of Wall Street in the White House do? Will it work to increase he dissension in Mexico? A two year old child can answer the question. The recognition of the Obregon government was a bitter pill for Wall Street to swallow and the counter-revolution was as welcome as a heavy rain to a Kansas farmer. It will not be allowed to die as long as one chance remains of its being a good excuse for pushing our rn boundary .southward.. to use the happy phraseology of “Black Jack” Pershing. Great Britain is too busy at home right now to make an effective protest in case our ma- rines should protect her oil interests in the Tampico sector so efficiently that we mizht forget who owned them, but international com- plications spring up rather easily when any great power embarks on one of these grab- bing expeditions. The American workers, if they want peace for themselves and an opportunity for the Mexican workers and peasants to work out their own salvation, must demand the with- drawal of the fleet and a renewal of the hands- off policy in Mexico that the state department has abandoned at the request of powerful oil interests. Finally Hits Home While the Reverend William Sunday did battle with the.devil and traveled far and wide in quest of grace and dollars Satan was raising hell with “Billy’s” hqme. There he reigned supreme. Sunday knocked the devil around numerous tabernacles in every part of the United States and when he thought he “had ‘im goin’” there was the evil one holding], hands with Billy’s two sons in Los Anieles. One of them patronized bootleggers, of course ‘under old Nick’s influence, until finally in an effort to put the Reverend William Sun- day out of business with a broken heart, the devil induced the youngest of Billy’s brood to attempt suicide. George, another scion of the Sunday family, is a real estate agent. Now, if there is any profession in which diabolical ingenuity is used to a greater degree than in the business of fastening land plots on unsuspecting citi- zens, the writer of this article/has to be shown. The devil had it all his own way for a long time but perseverence can even move moun- tains, and Billy persevered. The result is that George Sunday, real estate shark, has decided to drop some of his vices and throw a little sawdust in his path. Ac- customed to selling lots on Sunday he has changed his schedule and from now on will allow his employees to spend their Sundays as they please. The devil is reported to be as dejected as a politician defeated for office. The cautious manner in which, in today’s Washinzton dispatches, President Coolidge expresses the opinion that everything may not be quite honest and above-board in the Teapot Dome affair, shows that he is not the cold and peas aR ‘MacDodeld Lenin, the clear-sighted leader of the work- ers, the founder of the Third International, the enemy of world capitalism, who saw that the attempt to use the parliamentary machinery of capitalism for the overthrow of its inventors must end in disillusionment and defeat of the workers, is dead. The capitalist press of the world gloats over the good fortune that is their masters. Ramsay MacDonald, the advocate of a futile parliamentarianism, adherent of the bankrupt Second Internationa! and foe of Communism, takes his place as the head of the British Em- pire on the same day that Lenin dies. In the capitalist press of the world are expressions only of a benevolent neutrality for the Mac- Donald government. Sir Arthur Balfour, chairman of the associa- tion of British Chambers of Commerce, Eng- land’s real rulers, speaking yesterday, said: “1 am not frightened by the Labor government and so long as it is not dominated by Communists I am willing to give every support in my power.” On business matters, he said the chamber's services were always at the disposal of the government. Here is a mighty contrast. The Soviet gov- ernment of Russia, headed by Lenin, has been in power for seven years, yet every capitalist government in the world is its enemy. It has had to fight for its existence since the day it was born of the struggles of the Russian work- ers and peasants and hundreds and thousands of these same workers and peasants gave their lives on a dozen fronts in the struggle against the armies of world ¢apitalism. No sooner had the Soviets—the form of gov- ernment in which the power of the masses crystallizes in revolutionary periods—led by Communists, taken over Russia then every embassy of foreign 'yovernments became a center of counter-revolution plotting. In Lon- don, the daughter of Ramsay MacDonald is welcomed to Number 10, Downing street, by the wife of Stanley Baldwin, whom MacDonald replaces. The British press is almost unanimous in ex- pressions of approval of McDonald’s cabinet. Even the Tory papers say “‘it might easily have been worse.” The opportunists and the advocates of class collaboration have a ready explanation for these striking contrasts. They say that they are due to the difference in the Russian and the English method, that the English have had a long training in democracy. Like most ready explanations this one is superficial where it is not consciously hypocritical. The capitalist class is not composed of fools. Even tho it were, it could hire servants with brains to warn it of danger. The almost fatherly attitude of world capitalism toward the reformistic MacDonald government is ex- plained only by the fact that it endangers not even an outpost of British and world capi- talism. The capitalist class and its advisors know better than do the non-Communist workers and their leaders that, no matter what pretensions it may make, no party presuming to express the interests of the workers can do anything other than destroy itself and endanger the working-class by attempting to overthrow capitalism with parliamentary ‘rovernment— built by the capitalists themselves—as their only instrument. The capitalist class of Great Britain knows that while some embarrassment for their more brazen exploitation enterprises may result from the labor party government the founda- tions of their system and the basis of their control—their ownership of natural resources, machinery, press and financial institutions— will not be seriously threatened. The parliamentary process is a slow one; the capitalist class itself scraps it when an emergency arises; should any measure to which British capitalism has. strong objection be proposed it will sabotage by tightening up on credit, by closing of factories, by campaigns in the capitalist press, by disaffection and bribery, by the thousand and one means pos- sessed by a class still in control of the nation’s wealth of defeating any attack on their an- cient privilege of robbing the masses. The MacDonalds believe, or profess to be- lieve, that capitalism can be tricked and ca- joled into surrender. This is the basis of the position of the parties of social reform. Lenin believed, and the events of the last seven years have proven his contention to the hilt, that capitalism will never surrender; that it will fight to the death and see civilization destroyed rather than allow the workers to come into power. The Communist parties of the world, the parties of world revolution, organized in the Third (Communist International) alone recog- nize the truth of Lenin’s teachings—and the words of Sir Arthur Balfour are the expression of world capitalism. The present ruling class will tolerate any government that is not Communist; which means that they fear no attempts to establish a real government of workers and farmers what revolutionary phraseology is juggled by the tongues of its spokesmen. Lenin lived and died a revolutionist. calculating creature his enemies have pictured him. It is the tender care for the feelingg of men after his own heart, such as Senator Fall, that shows the real man. (The granite of New England has been soft- by the oil of Oklahoma—and other MacDonald lives—but not as a revolutionist. The Rev. Carl D, Case, alleged love pirate, was never more popular than he is now. from any other working class party no matter Why THERE’LL BE NO INVESTIGATION HERE | This Is a Case of Blind-folding. Sink That Peace Ship! The President then ar- ranges a cruise down the Potomac. The “insurgent” Senator gets an in- vitation from the President himself. If necessary even. Mrs. Coolidge does the inviting. The “insurgent” is tamed. The “progressive” is flatt- ered. After all, what is the Senator for if not to receive honors and be taken into “decent” company. The royal Mayflower goes down the Po- tomac—quite often they say even beyond the three mile limit. And down forevér go the faintest pro- gressive pretentions! Ladd is Thru. This is the story of the fake prog- ressive Senator Ladd. His younger colleague Frazier has become some- what frightened at the furor that his maiden trip on the Mayflower has brought en amongst his bank- rupt farmer constituents in North Dakota. So Frazier is, for a while at least, thru with exhilarating Poto- mac air. BY Robert Minor ready, with the aid of hiestak'e power to destroy the independence of our country.” That is the main charge against us. And the social-demo- cratic leaders are testifying it. But how could they do otherwise without severing their friendly relations with the government, which pays high salaries to many of them. In the Sosialidemokraati of August 17th, appears an appeal to the workers of this country. It bears as a heading “Leave the Communist Party.” The appeal declares: “If you don’t want to yield up the independence of ‘Fin- land, if you don’t want te be defeated in the struggle against the bour- geoisie of this country, there is at least time to denounce communist principles, to leave that (communist) party, and to return to the old Social- Democratic Party...” These few quotations shows the game being played by the social democratic lead- ers in the suppression of our party. We felt somewhat encouraged when reading in the papers that com- rades in Norway have boycotted a Finnish bourgeois choir on its visit to Christiania and that the Com-, munist youth of Norway are heading are poplar, per cent in the last decade, are helped by your Saturday afternoon cruises with Coolidge who has told the farmers to go shuffling for them- selves? Do you think that your peace treaty with the Wall Street Admin- istration will be of any aid to the thousands of farmers who have de- serted their farms because they could not raise enough money to pay even taxes to help finance your pleasant Mayflower trips down the Potomac on Saturday afternoons? What business have you whom we have sent to Washington to fight for us against the big railroad interests of making merry with the reaction- ary Senator Hale who has voted for the Esch-Cummins __railroad-bonus Act that is responsible for so much of our misery today? What business have you dining and wining Senator Oddie who boasts of being one of the most powerful cat- tle ei in the land while we are By JAY LOVESTONE, ‘If every worker and farmer would only get the chance to read the “So- cial Activities” page of. the Wash- ington newspapers! What splendid propaganda these gayety columns contain against the enemies of the city and country workers! What hell and damnation these columns pour into the camp of the “friends of labor”! What damaging evidence these columns array against the “dirt-farm Senators and Congressmen! Here is a typical gem culled from the “Society Page” of the Wash- ington Post, regarded by many as the official mouthpiece of the royal family on Capitol Hill: “The President and Mrs. Coolidge entertained aboard the Mayflower yesterday afternoon, their guests being for the most part recruited from the Senatorial contingent. The party included Senator and Mrs. January 24, 1924 ; But Professor Ladd, oh well, he ing millions in ransom to the i Tasker L. Odi Senator and Mrs. t ” s éeveutet 2 the boycott-campaign against. tha. Frank B. Willis, Senator and Mrs.| sciterent! He ts wi ex professor of Beet i bourgeoisie of Finland. It is a fine agriculture something about husbhanding and rap- ing virgin soil. Apparently the Profesor Senator Ladd is convinced that his political Puritanism has been waped by his maiden Mayflower trip. Apparently he has become convinced that his constituents have already seen thru him much more than he had ever dreamt of in his worst nightmares. It would seem that Ladd knows he stands. no more chance with the poor farmers whom he has fooled and betrayed. Ladd is now bent,on building up new po- litical fences with his new angels. For the poor farmers and the. ex- ploited workers the story of the com- plete disgraceful collapse of Senator Ladd teaches many a lesson. Some Pertinent Questions. Let the farmers of North Dakota ask some questions from the ex- Arthur Capper, Senator Frederick Hale, Senator and Mrs, Edwin F. Ladd, Mrs. Mae E. Nolan, member of Congress from California; the Commisioner of Indian Affairs and Mrs, Charles H. Burke, Mr, and Mrs. David S. Barry, Mr. and Mrs, Frank Stearns, the Rev. and Mrs. Jason (Noble Pierce and Mr. and Mrs. Fred- eric William Wile.” Coolidge’s Flagship. So here we have it! President Coolidge has learned something from Henry Ford. The strikebreaking Chief Executive has organized a peace ship, as it were—a ship where he signs peace with his political foes on his own terms, The Mayflower, the country’s royal yacht, has become the peace ship of the Administration. On this boat the over-advertised “dirt-farmer” Senator Frazier from North Dakota has been entertained. example of international class soli- darity. We in the prisons of barbaric Fin- land want to-proclaim to the workers of the world, that altho we are in chains behind iron bars,, we are not defeated. The struggle will be car- ried on by those outside, whatever form it will take. In Comrade Ralph Chaplin’s words: ‘(We make a vow no tryant might shall make us bend a knee.” Jailed or-free we will fight for the common cause of the prole- tariat. When Glory Comes Do you a these cruises down the Potomac with Coolidge and his boss Frank W. Stearns, the millionaire textile operator and Boston banker, service to us who are in desperate want here in North Dakota? Is that what we sent you to Wash- ington for? No, Senator Ladd. Perhaps you think that the blessings and the benign influence of the Reverend Jason Noble Pierce aboard the May- flower may wipe away your sins. We who are facing disaster and ruin and hunger in North Dakota don’t think so. We know you by this time. We are thru with you and thru with you for good. We will never send you again to Washington to enjoy pleasant cruises on the Potomac with our worst enemy, President Coolidge. We By J. O. BENTALL New York and the rest of the world has been aroused by a not? The world admires a good lover. With- out some spice in the pulpit who would care to Jabor in the Lord’s vineyard ?, piece of startling news such as comes cnt after the death of some maple genius, The news, however, is not of the genius and his work, but of the ex- citing fact that a rich woman res- ove his dead body from the potters’ eld, insurgent Senator Ladd. Let Senator Ladd answer them and explain if he can, Otherwise let North Dakota farmers kick him into the alley. Now, Senator Ladd, do you think that associating and hobnobbing with the worst enemies of the farmers helps the bankrupt farming masses in_ any way at all? aspirations of you Mr. Ladd and Do you think that the farmers who| your kind, that “friend of labor” voted for you, the farmers whose|from California, Congresswoman debt increased more than a hundred| Mae Nolan, Finnish Socialists Betray Communists. lowed to organize their party as The Social-Democratic members of |early as in 1918.) The workers re- the Finnish Riksdag have threatened | plied to the action of the chief of a parliament strike if the Finnish | police of Helsingfors (the instrument government does not call the mew of reaction) by establishing the “So- elections, The new elections are cialist Labor Party of Finland” in necessary because al] 27 Communist June, 1920. From that date our;writing of the arrested communis deputies and hundreds of leading Pe has been continually under|demanded: ‘“—*most of them must] body removed to a respectable grave Communists are in prison. ire, bourgeois have charged us |’be hanged as a punishment for their} where services were held and flowers But the Social-Democracy is not|with Me dotoliag gold from the Russian | crimes and as a bine (3 to others. | left the art women who needed the defender of the imprisoned .Com-|government. Their newspay fell i are enough telephone-posts| a and a headline in the met- ‘munists. It wishes the new elections | hair-raising stories of our alleged un- the highways.” Fine proof of | ropolitan newspapers. _ only te nd it thinks it can capture und work. From the very |th arbaric instincts of our bour-| Sculptors are vi useful mem- the Communist seats. The Finnish oe of our party they have warned| geoisie! They are out to uproot| bers of society. © Communists 'Social-Democrats are just as rey the ruling class of our treasonable ac-|communism. But they will see that| of Russia give them a free hand to sible for the persecution of the tivities. These knights of the de-|the of the triumph of commun-| work out the best that is in pig |munists. As a proof we print a lef-|fense-guard of bourgeois law and or-| ism come. r rain comes| Feed the children and the a: ter by a Finnish comrade who writes|der have pointed us out to the state | sunshine. fi from prison: “byes a8 eee aca plotters,| One will | ask, what are the social- WKerod Be aay Prada ged en 2 Se , with thi of the aA red bese ah iy cae field is working ¢ ni beagle © Ing to conv in-|cleared for them y, of course, is well known to all land into a oes colony. And their to change their tactics in order|out of their graves after workers in every land, It ig equally ate have not been in vain, Their well known how the bourgeoisie|labors have born fruit. came out of it victorious, ing a most savage white terror, dur- fing the riod of which, $0,000 workers of both sexes were driven to concentration camps, where about|to the cause of 15,000 were starved to death, and|fury of the ‘some 16,000 executed. All the labor organizations were s course, And in this manner the ¢ mands of “civilization” were satis- But the defeated Pee? | rallied again. And in May, 1920, the have tried you, Mr, Ladd. You have been found sadly wanting—crimin- ally negligent of our interests. The President’s political peace ship has become the ship bearing your dead political hopes. The farmers will sink that ship and with it will go down forever the political hopes and On this boat the senior Senator Ladd from North Dakota has been twice entertained. These tactics are pretty simple. A Senator’s constituents get rest- less. There is danger of the Senator pretending to listen to the com- plaints. He soon threatens to be- come an insurgent. But in the eyes of the Administration pretensions are dangerous nowadays when they Johannes Sophus bored in obscurity till he was tired of life. He had produced master- pieces of art that had made him famous as a sculptor on two conti- nents, but his fame had brought him no reward that could be translated into bread, so that between hunger d cold he-had sought death, un- cessfully. The next worse co oe that he hankered after was the house which he entered, successfu Also he died there, successfully, and was buried in the potters’ field, suc- cessfully, It was when the rich lady found this out that she opened her heart and the sculptor’s grave and had his are to be charged with “high-trea- son.” And ‘the sentences will be as heavy as the law allows. Newspa- pers are agitating for that end ee ready. A paper published in the Swedish language, entitled’ “Nyla: t capitalists first, is in of free America, and let die and the artists be oo reuik On saderkek Go anaes dead, On one hand they condemn the ernment by ing evidence a us, tho it in false, On the 4th of Lage ay terior panpeieay askin, eocy ‘ i harsh action had een Salen perc P \ ons and penitentiaries for being true But the oisie reached its state. the Democratic Party, Vaino ‘Tanner mala Leen rs Be to the La egw ye of the revoluti workers gathered together to official hear of the saaee baat Ot on lide- lish the ‘ Bocialist Party of mokraati of At “In Sweden By breaking up that congress Jie) Reman ty confiscated. |and England th ertaaansiew are al- "esp demonstrated that number a Pi sor amounts to|lowed to Fangs steals a0 sec Pinal they a wo P antine te to hourgeols gapera, we|are different, for some of thém are take to put oil in slogan of the Bi ™ ve