The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER February 11, 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..8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50..6 months $2.50. .3 months $8.00 per year Address all mail-and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. -_ vii nccsinsmeerecremtnnememenmantoestale The Daily Worker Greets All-Race Negro Congress The DAILY WORKER, as the official organ of the Workers Party of America, extends its greetings to the great conference of American | Negroes—The All-Race Assembly—that meets} today in Chicago. The overwhelming majority of the American Negroes are workers and no section of the) ‘American working class has so many urgent reasons for unity, so many grievances to pro- test, is so bitterly persecuted and exploited. Other nations oppress subject races in their colonial possessions. The American ruling class brought the Negroes to America so that the ‘oppression could be more effipient and profitable. The wrongs of 12,000,000 Amer- ican Negroes give mass testimony to the brutal and callous character of American capitalism. All over the world, since the Russian revolu- tion with its working-class interpretation of the policy of self-determination for races and nationalities brought new hope to the subject peoples, their voices have been heard with in- creasing clearness. In the Philippines, in Cuba and in Haiti, the ‘American imperialists see the native peoples preparing to throw off their yoke. Great Britain finds India and Egypt restive under her rule. Arbitrary restrictions of the franchise have not prevented the returning of anti-imperialist majorities in the colonial par- liaments, nor have the machine-guns and the airplane bombs prevented great mass-uprisings that bring the people of these ancient nations # little closer to national independence. The path of the American Negroes is beset with dangers and difficulties. As workers their problems will be solved only as part of the problem that the working class as a whole has to solve. Chicago, Illinois Editor ... Labor Editor Business Manager Advertising rates on application. ———-We-hope-that-the All-Race Congress of the American Negroes will recognize this, organ- ize with the left wing of the American labor movement and give added strength to the revo- lutionary forces, which are striving to unite the workers of America, regardless of color or creed, into one gigantic and closely-knit organ- ization for the overthrow of American capital- ism—the common enemy of white and colored workers. We join with the All-Race Congress of American Negroes in sending fraternal 'zreet- ings to the oppressed races and nationalities the world over. In the Light of Facts Dr. C. H. Levermore has been declared the winner of the Bok Peace Prize Contest. This declaration and the incidental handing-over of $50,000 as a reward of services rendered to the League of Nations have created some- what of a stir on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Were it not for the fact that the Teapot af- fair has not yet been liquidated the country would undoubtedly been treated to another regular congressional investigation of the “in- terests” behind the peace plan. Of course, this investigation would be simply an attempt on the part of the Old Guard and last-ditchers in the Republican machine to strike a blow at the League of Nation advocates. Primarily, the workers are not interested in mud-slinging contests amongst the capitalist politicians who inhabit the congressional cess- pools. But the workingmen are interested in getting at the bottom of the real character of this newly-proclaimed “inventor” (Mr. Lever- more has made no discovery) of a new univer- sal “peace” panacea. The facts of the story weave a rather inter- esting tale about Dr. Levermore. It may be the irony of history, but it is the truth all the; same, that Dr. Levermore, while president of ‘Adelphi College of Brooklyn, was conducting a campaign of vigorous persecution of students, who held anti-militarist opinions. While presi- dent of this college, Dr. Levermore fought all ‘orts to prevent this country from being hurled into the world war. The students who were opposed to the American workers and farmers fighting for “dollar democracy” were faced with expulsion from the institution. (This apparently contradictory phase of the eace contest should not stir anyone to sinister loubts, It is perfectly normal for capitalists to pick as their peace prize winners men who have been steadfast servants of militarism. As long as the employing class maintains its hold on the system of production and exchange the best peace that can be obtained will be the truce between wars. Under these conditio: |—-which has all the earmarks of being, forced it is evident that the most efficient peacemakers of capitalism are those who can chocolate- cover best the bitter pill of militarism with the Sontag Bes Capliee phrases of capitalist this game Dr. Levermore, who is 4 under his skin a thoro-going militarist, is an expert. Like almost all experts under capital- ism he has his price. One might even ask Dr. Levermore whether his next step will be to invest his $50,000 in Victory Bonds. Wouldn’t that be an effective step to help the League of Nations today? What is more, weren’t these very Victory Bonds issued in order to plunge America into the League of Nations? The whole affair would be too ludicrous to deserve serious attention were it not for the fact that this choice of a militarist as peace prize winner brings home to the workers very painfully the menace of wars and rips the cloak of hypocrisy off the capitalist peace- makers. Loyalties Lloyd George has not added any luster to the Wilsonian halo by his reluctant admission from him—that Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson fixed up the matter of the Rhineland occupation while he was unavoidably absent. In our comment on the Lloyd George dis- closure we said that we were not interested in anything but the admitted fact that both Wilson and Loyd George had agreed to the military program of the French imperialists while posing as friends of the German and all other peoples. We are not astonished at the repudiation of the interview by Lloyd George in which he accused Clemenceau and Wilson of having made a secret agreement on the Rhineland occupation; it serves only to confirm his reputa- tion for slipperiness but does not alter the fact that an agreement was made between these two capitalist statesmen concerning possibil- ities which later became actualities in the shape of a French army of occupation and un- told misery for millions of workers and their families. Listen to the smug manner in which Lloyd George makes peace with the Wilson and Cle- menceau admirers who had been shocked by the possibility that the arrangements for brin'z- ing terror and death to the masses had not been made “honorably”: “Mr. Wilson, I need hardly say, acted in perfect loyalty,” and it cannot be im- puted as blame of either Wilson or Cle- menceau that I was called to England when these grave matters were under dis- cussion. The fact that Wilson and Cle- menceau had to come to an agreement during my absence was communicated to me on my return.” It will be a sourée of immense consolation to the families who were driven from their homes, who had their belongings confiscated, to the workers who were imprisoned, to the families of those who were bayonetted and shot in the name of the Versailles peace, to know that the feelings of Lloyd George were not hurt and that only pressing business prevented his presence when this glorious plan was outlined. “The Big Three” were loyal to one another and after all that is what matters to the capi- talists of the world and their lackeys. The Venality of the Press Tomes could be written and libraries filled with evidence of the role played by the kept press in keeping the workers in capitalist sub- jection. There is at hand a shocking disclosure of the venality of the employers’ press that re- veals a situation which, if brought home to the laboring and farming masses, will go a long way towards disillusioning and enlight- ening the working class. The noted French Communist, Boris Sou- varine, has made an analysis of Czarist-Ker- lusky documents that fell into the hands of the Soviet Government showing how the French and some leading British newspapers and journalists were bought outright by the im-| perialist governments of Czar Nicholas and Kerensky. Souvarine has examined the documents proving that for thirteen years the Russian governments spent close to fifteen billion francs lining up about twenty of the leading French papers and such British papers as the London Times and the Daily Telegraph for counter-revolutionary, imperialist policies. In 1905 alone the Czar spent nearly four billion francs to help it float a loan of billions of francs for the purpose of financing the forces of reaction in strangling the revolution. It is especially significant that Kerensky con- tinued this costly banality of prostituting the French press in the interests of the Russian imperialists. It was only the victory of the Communists, the organization of the Soviet Government, that ended this abominable curse. This affair bristles with painful lessons for our workers. Corruption and graft, a “Brass Check” press, social imperialist lackeys, are not the peculiar affliction of any one govern- ment. These diseases are as international in scope as capitalism itself and are inherent in the capitalist organism. Spetial conditions may only color the appearance of these evils in one country differently from another. _ In this French edition of Teapot politics we have another very powerful argument for the need of a strong Communist party with a mighty fighting Communist press, speaking solely for the interests of the workers and farmers against the capitalist class. TRIBUTE TO LENINE AT MEETINGS HERE Nearly 500 Police Keep Order in Garden, but Disturbance Fails ’ to Materialize. SMALL U. S. FLAGS ON STAND Quick Removal of Heckler When He Denounces Soviet Chief Prevents Any Clash. ‘With. a fervor that strikingly recalls; the cabled descriptions of the great | Russian tribute to Nikolai Lenine at jthe funeral of the Soviet leader in i Moscow, fifteen thousand Communists, ‘ Socialists, and in between admirers of the Soviet system filled Madison ; Square Gargen last night at the me- morial meeting of the Workers Party of America, The crowd overflowed the Garden and filled a second meet- ing at the Central Opera House. It was notable for the intensity of its admiration for the dead leader and the orderly conduct of the meeting, despite the evident emotion of the throng. Four hundred patrolmen, fifty ser- geants and five captains of police under Inspector William Coleman were gath- ered In and around the Garden, keeping order and prepared for any emergency. Despite the fact that an admilssion charge ranging from twenty-five cents to a dollar was made and that a col- lection was taken, @ crowd from all quarters of the city pressed forward and tried to get in. Women in Red Shirts, Red flags and bunting were barred for decorative scheme by a city ordi- hance, but many yofing women wore flaming red shirts, and the ushers wore red brassards, Professional Revolutioni: (N. Y. Times Editorial, Fe! 6) The Workers Party of America may be against capital, but it has no objection to capitalizing. pertness in that was again shown when it sought to capitalize for its own purposes the Lenin memorial meeting on Monday night. Being a workers’ party, it naturally spent most of its oratory in denouncing workers. like Abraham Cahan in this country and Kautsky and Scheidemann in Ger- many, for refusing to identify them- selves with the Communists. It also esseiled-Mr. Gompers and the Federa- tion of Labor, which numbers in its ranks at least a thousand times more actual workers than the American Communists can muster. but a feeble folk, but as each one of Chileans Send Russia Message It attacked “renegades” Its ex- They are Capitalist Press Is Frightened at Our Tremendous Memorial Demonstration for Lenin in New York City 15,000 REDS CHEER | REDS Fill GARDEN, | CHEER SOVIET, AT LENIN MEMORIAL flow Meeting After Being Chased Away by the Police, Madison Square Garden glowed red last night, Packed to the limit of the fire laws with persons gathered’ under the auspices of the Workers’ Party to honor the memory of Nico- lal Lenin, Soviet leader, it echoea the shouts of thousands who drose to thelr feet to cheer Chairman Benja- min Gitlow’s: “Lenin is dead—long live Lenin- ismt’* Outside other thousands, unable to enter, talked of “crashing” in, but Perfect police arrangements kept them moving, and they were soon en route to an overflow meeting in Cen-~ tral Opera House in East 67th Street, which also overflowed. At Madison Square Garden 460 policemen were on duty aided by 100 detectiyes and twenty Secret Service men, | \ them is a sort of professional revolu- tionist, they can make a great déal of noise and sometimes frighten timid people. They apparently have learned some- thing from experience, and took pains to avoid anything like the open ad- vocacy of violence or sedition. At least, nothing of the kind was re- ported, and the police authorities had | detectives present to take note of any violation of the law. Jack Lon- don used to sign his letters “Yours for the revolution,” and there is noth- ing criminal in that, so long as there is no specification of the ways and means by which the revolution is to be made. The word has, in fact, come to be in the mouths of many merely a mystic thing, empty of con- crete meaning. » Communists who can speak English roll it fwem their lips with all the unction of that other “blessed word,” Mesopotamia, Their demonstration Monday night was little more than a sort of self- \glorification, more annoying than harmful. Not to this little group of sworn upsetters need the country look for the danger of a political up- heaval in the United States. What is going on in Washington is much more significant, and may become much of Sorrow for Death of Lenin; Steel Trust Stops Meeting in U. S- (Special to The Daily Worker) SANTIAGO, Chili—The shock which Nicolai Lenin’s death has given the entire world was recorded in the Chilean chamber of deputies when a resolution went thru for a message to the Soviet government expressing the official condolences of the Chilean people. ~~ The measure was taken on the demand of the left wing elements who said that the death of the Russian premie must bring forward the same homage accorded Wilson. Reactionary deputies fough' the proposal but were over- At the last moment the govern- ment ‘threw in its vote with the proponents of the resolution fearing to lose support for cer- whelmed in the final vote. ing and ni *_ ec *# © Big “Washington Meeting. WASHINGTON.—The worker of Washington mourned the loss of meet- Nicolai Lenin at an overflowing ing held at Pythian Templ olice sought to stop the meeting, but their plans were foiled by Sena- tor Wheeler's declaration that if the meeting were interfered with he would make a public issue of the th affair. At the rear of the platform artistic portrait of Lenin, with red and black silk. The was held under the auspices Workers Party and a Workmen’ ele branch. Lenin’s work in shaping the gram of world revolution left a ment to final success, declared low. He appealed to the men ‘women th tioning in Washington as in the proletarian centers of A: “Lenin was the pilot o Soviet ship, which weat be the storms that The Chilean chamber today has a large bloc that is resisting the efforts of the old guard of deputies who rep- resent the mining, shippi trate interests. 4 Ben Gitlow spoke and Western oe Starr, a Washington liberal, presided. and more than a doze "s Cir-| present who had not already izer of the done so to join the party of Lenin, Ei e Workers Party, which was fune- ai of People’s Commissars at Mos- T| cow. ae et deh Steel Trust Stops Meeting MONESSEN, Pa.—tTrue to the re- actionary record ‘of this steel city, where the murders committed by em- ployers’ agents during the steel strike are still fresh in the memory, the Lenin Memorial meeting was pre- vented by the American Legion and beeen ee reats of violence had been made by the Legion should any meetin; for the departed Soviet leader be held and police had announced that the Legion would be protected in stopping the meeting, night of the meeting, two it tain domestic measures it was attempting to put thru. to the hall intent on trouble, but they found the hall dark with a squad | of police about it. The police had come on the same errand as the ion. orkers in Monessen had called off the meeting, feeling that useless bloodshed would flow, but they are continuing with their work of organ- izing the radical forces so that such tyrannical procedure can be pre- vented in future. The Steel Trust owns the jobs and e government of Monessen. Dur- great steel strike scabs im- med within the mills revolted, n were slain by carefully kept out of the news agen- cies at the time and officially hushed Italians Hold Lenin Meeting BALTIMORE, -Md.—The Italian Educational Club gave a memorial to the working class which they can meeting in honor of Lenin at their only pay by carrying on the move- headquarters at 829 E. Pratt street. The meeting was well attended. Comrade T. rking, 1 Workers 5 As ish and Vincent Betros in Ital- on Lenin’s life. Nick Ciatte was 5 * * * | SYRACUSE, N. ¥.—The 5 doctrin: ‘of Nicolai Lenin will be universally j the class of the future. Yet those of our! auto-loads of Legionaires rolled up| Here and There LINES TO ALBERT B. FALL, (Ex-Senator, Ex-Secretary of the Interior.) Dignified Ex-Secretary, Famed payee of divers checks, Lg are surely very, very x,” ‘ And... fond friend of Ed, Doheny, Well-beloved’ of H. Sinclair— iy don’t give a teeny weeny are, 14,000 Cheer | “Leninism” at Garden Meeti Rte dicts Overthrow of All Governments and Setting Up of Soviet Republics Hundreds Turned Away W. Z. Foster and Chief of Workers’ Party Speak; Cable Report Sent Moscow Fourteen thousand men and women who paid their way into Madison Square Garden to honor the memory of Nicolai Lenine, cheered the predic-{ tion of speakers last night that the! parent form of government in the United States and in all countries of the world would be replaced by Soviet republics, and, dictatorehips of the proletariat established everywl.are. DRGES REVOLUTION Time was when you bored the senate, Ranting like a drunken priest. You were tolerated then at Least, Nay, Men said: “He’s just the man for Moral raids on Mex-i-co; He'll do anything he can for Dough.” ae pee 8 And you “viewed with apprehension” Mexico’s oil laws; and’ vowed Bir You yelled for “interventg:n” O, you were a pampered nepot, Gloating in your terraced home! Then—before the days of Teapot Dome. Filching oil from foreign nations Paid. You erred when. one fine OAPAMBETING HERB) xis soe prt | W. 2. Foster Addresses 15,000 at Lenin Memorial Gather- ing, at the Garden. You’re a novice, greatly slandered. Knew you not that on this soil Everything belongs to Standard Oil? Innocent Ex-Secretary! SAMUEL GOMPERS IS BOOED Lucky that you cashed those checks! | | Certainly you're very, very Women Weep and Are Led From “Ex.” F the Hall Whon the Audience Rises J. RAMIREZ. fiaceeiepei and Sings the International, The delegates at the miners’ con- vention in Indianapolis received souvenir belt buckles. They will come mighty useful to the miners to tighten in their beits in the lean summer days of unem- ployment. NAT. NAT is a lady. She could hardiy say that something to hold up their pants was the only support that Lewis gave the rank and file. RED REVEL—Ashland Auditorium —Feb. 16. With all these investigations and everything, one can’t be too careful these days! more ominous, than anything which happens in a meeting of Communists at Madison Square Garden. If it shall appear that the taint of corrup- tion has deeply penetrated both poli- tical parties, a great impetus will be iven to discontent. Should Congress ‘ail to show itself absolutely deter- mined and fearless in cleansing our i » the effect would be most in many sections of the Congress may also work nation. , much more mischief than the Com- munists, if it proves to be so torn by petty and partisan motives that it \cannot dispatch the public business efficiently, and cannot respond promptly and intelligently to the de- mand of the country for legislation imveratively needed. “Revolution” | will remain an idle phrase in the United States unless men in responsi- ble position at Washin; and in the conduct of large affairs so bear themselves as to stir popular impa- tience, exasperation, and revolution- ary impulses, Labor Hall impressed on the eager audience that filled the auditorium. There were speakers in English, Jew- ish, Russian, German and other lan- guages. A portrait of Lenin, draped in mourning, was exhibited from the platform and the Russian funeral march for fallen heroes was rendered. Boris Vodneff presided. *_* 2 * Lenin Memorial at Glace Bay. GLACE BAY Nova Scotia —A huge Lenin memoria] meeting was held here under the auspices of the Glace Bay branch of the Workers Party at the Russell Theater. In spite of the bitter cold weather ana the poverty under which the min- ers are suffering owing to the un- employment and the present strike since Jan. 16, the theater was jammed. The meeting opened by the sing- ing of the Internationale and the Red Flag. The chairman, Alfred Nash, called the attention of the meeting to the fact that all over the contin- | Intelligencer. ent the workers were holding similar ‘ meetings to show their devoticf to} A Chicago Tribune editorial head- the greatest revolutio: leaders | line asks: “Who Won the War?” the workers ever had. other If the investigations of the Veter- speakers were Alex. A, McKay and | ans’ Bureau included war contracts Tom Bell. They dealt with the life | we could probably find out. Any of Lenin and the development of | worker can tell you who lost it! the Bolsheviki from obscure | Must Be a Gown Easy to Slip On! And now in Paris it’s the “banana gown”: “A wonderful clinging, sinu- ous yellow plaited evening gown with short skirt, tapering and revealing evi line of figure,” reports a paper. . wedding peo tho and nt gowns, 4 and—and—everything—at The Red Revel, AGITATOR. William Randolph Hearst was in Washington to confer with President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon. What’s the idea of spending alt that railroad fare? Can’t he get this instructions by mail? RED’S WIFE. - In Stockholm they are building houses out of waste paper. And here we can’t even build one out of wages. We'll Be There With Bells On! Oh, Reds, come and Revel, As angel or devil, Feb. 16th—that Saturday night. You're presence we're asking, To join in the masking, And help win our Michigan fight. RUBY. Current Fiction. (The week’s Best Smeller.) A comparatively few years ago the church began to be something else. It’s members began to think of it as an organization of folks 2 together for practical purposes. It. began to think more of life here and less of life hereafter. The emphasis on theology was lessened. It began to function for human_ betterment.— John Carlyle in the Daily News. See the Red Revel and die happy. The difficulty in turning immi- grants into good Americarg is to find a model, to work by. “Wheeling during the revolutionary against the whole capitalist 1, and the magnificent role which the Communist Party, the Lenin, played in these were spoken of and evoked cheers wns, and gowns— shown, he a of ge re yp the gn workers’ demonstrations, the Red 'Army and Fleet, were greeted with en During the meett: following sent to Mos- the meeting: “Gregory Zinoviev, President International, Moscow, Russia: Glace Bay workers in mass meeting, ex- press sorrow at loss of leader, rade Lenin. live the Com: ist international el ceeem ania Work. INGTON, Feb, 10.—F Itai Taft haa recovered from the ; ive attack st ich sett lan $0 bode on Wotaae: AY. to He ‘out Monday for proc ordered by his Te Tyne tigagemente fore couple ut ste “ 28 ie ‘was 4 the trust’s gunmen, The matter was great his weeks,