The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKEK Thursday, February 14, 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 $3.50..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. ae The Starvation Cure Clad in a palm beach suit, in sunny Jackson- ville, Florida, John L. Lewis yesterday told the committee of coal operators that there were Chicago, Illinois rerrrrrr rere Editor . Labor Editor Business Manager Advertising rates on application. too many mines and too many miners; that; many mines must close and thousands of min- ers leave the industry before it could “get back to normal.” | In other words, the work of the coal miners is so productive that thousands of them are no longer necessary. Apply this Lewis solution to industry as a whole and it means that increased production on the part of the workers condemns some millions of them to death by starvation. This is the carefully considered plan for re- lief of unemployment in the coal mining indus- try put forward by the leader lauded by the employers as “sane and constructive.” Is it any wonder they approve of the acts and utter- ances of a labor official, who endorses their own method of ridding themselves of the sur- plus workers? John L. Lewis has been instructed by con- vention after convention to work for the nationalization of the mines, the six-hour day and the five-day week. The adoption of these proposals would put the unemployed miners to work and open up the idle mines, but it would cost the coal op- « erators something and so John L. Lewis has sabotaged this program. The four year agreement, advocated by Lewis, and which the operators will probably accept, is intended to result in a weeding-out of 150,000 to 200,000 miners. They will go to swell the ranks of the unemployed or compete with other workers in other industries. The Workers Party members in the United Mine Workers are going to continue the fight for nationalization, the six-hour day and the five-day week. In this fight every intelligent ~———2nd_honest_coal miner is with them and John L. Lewis and his payrollers will find that the approval of the operators for his proposal to drive one-third of the union men out of the industry will not help him a grea} deal. Crime and Punishment Addressing the National Republican Club, in the sumptuous palace room of the /Waldorf Astoria in New York, “Silent Cal” burst into eloquence, bordering on tears, in an impas- sioned confession that he will do everything to punish those guilty in the Teapot holdup of the country’s oil resources. Every single step taken by Coolidge and his closest advisers as official and unofficial mem- bers of the Government gives the lie to this empty boast of the President. Mr. Coolidge was a member of the Cabinet when the lease was put over to give away the invaluable reserves to Sinclair. He kept silent. Mr. Coolidge was chairman of the senate when LaFollette first introduced his resolution for an investigation of the whole affair. He kept si- lent. More than that. Mr. Coolidge had his close friend and adviser, that most cultured ignoramus of the senate, Lodge, of Massachu- setts, call on LaFollette and implore him to withdraw the resolution. When investigators were to be chosen to prosecute the guilty he picked such cor- poration tools as Gregory, Pomerene and Strawn to act as attorneys for the govern- ment. Gregory has already been thrown over- board because he had too much oil in his sys- tem, and the other two are being stripped to the skeleton and exposed as servants of the railway and oil interests. After the senate voted to ask him to remove Denby, Mr. Coolidge calmly told the upper house to keep its heavy hands off the gentle- man from Michigan, whose whole record bristles with manipulation after manipulation, to hand over the country’s resources to the capitalists. |Mr. Denby was one of the lead- ing figures in the notorious Ballinger raid on the nation’s wealth. In his plea to the New York bankers not to punish the innocent along with the guilty Mr. Coolidge referred to Denby, whom he intends to defend to the last ditch as innocent, altho he knows better than anyone else does that Mr. Denby is as much responsible as Fall for the crime perpetrated against the country. We know Coolidge by his deeds as well as his words. We know that his secretary of the treasury has for some time been permitting the wealthy millionaire tax dodgers to plunder the national treasury of billions of dollars. We know that Mr. Coolidge, as the head of the government, has actively aided and abetted these highwaymen of finance and industry and has not sought to punish these guilty men, while poor workers have been jailed for dar- ing to strike for the right to the barest exist- ence. Collecting the War Debts The government is at last making a half- hearted effort to secure the payment of some of the gigantic war debts due this country from the imperialists of France and Italy. We do not put any stock in this request of our Treasury Department. The imperialist governments of Europe owe this country more than $7,000,000,000. It was only after pres- sure was brought to bear on the Administra- tion in the Senate that this empty gesture at collecting these billions paid by the working class of this country to enable the European imperialists to wage the world war was made. This attempt at reminding the European capitalist governments of their debt to this country is very instructive to the wdrkers. These governments have never made any effort to repay this debt. At the same time they have paid their debts to private American capitalists, squandered hundreds of millions of dollars on the maintenance of huge armies and navies and spent fabulous sums in sup- pressing the workers and farmers of their jcountries. Tho they did not pay this debt owed the United States our government has | recognized them and accorded them every | privilege that complete diplomatic recognition involves. With Russia, however, the situation was | totally different. All in all, Russia owes the United States about $250,000,000. A good geal of this debt was contracted by the Keren- sky government and his imperialist agents to finance counter-revolutionary wars, campaigns of assassination and sabotage against the Rus- sian masses. One of the supposed reasons for the Administration’s failure to recognize Rus- sia has been the fact that Russia has done precisely what other European countries have been doing—it has not paid the American gov- ernment’s claims. Why the United States recognizes France when it refused to pay its debt‘and at the same time denies recognition to Soviet Russia when it seeks to negotiate about paying debts which it never even contracted, is no mystery to us. France is an imperialist government, serving the capitalist class. The United States is the same sort of a government. Soviet Russia is governed by the workers and farmers and has definitely decided to uproot capitalism. It is only in this difference of class control of the governments and industries of these countries that the difference in politics pursued by the United States towards the Soviet Republic and France lies. The reminder of the State Department re- garding the payment of debt. just sent to France and Italy is only a reminder of the dis- honest, hypocritical employing class policy pursued by the United States government to- wards Soviet Russia. . Mr. McAdoo made a desperate attempt be- fore the Senate committee to save his face and political future. The very case put in by Mr. McAdoo for himself is the best evidence that he is done for in so far as the working and farming masses in this country are concerned. Mr. McAdoo innocently pretended to boast about his connections with Doheny before the oil exposure. Everyone will take this plea of McAdoo with a grain of salt. Mr. McAdoo has been long enough in politics and has been asso- ciated in big business to know a good deal of Doheny’s relations with the government, even before Senator Walsh revealed them. The fact that McAdoo told the Senate Committee that Doheny’s reputation was once enviable, condemns this white hope of the democratic party in the eyes of the masses. Doheny has for many years been instrumental in machina- tions to throw this country into war with Mexico in order to enable the oil capitalists and the other big American investors to pile up fabulous profits. Mr. McAdoo’s dealings with Doheny and his services to the Oil Barons, were a closed book to the great mass of voters to whom McAdoo McAdoo’s Innocence ——+ COUNT MASONI LEAVES ROME ON TRIP TO MOSCOW Soviets Call Recogni- tion Great Victory (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Feb. 13.—The Russian Soviet government has notified Italy that Count Gaetano Masoni, newly appointed Italian ambassador to Moscow, is persona grata to the Soviet government, The Count departs for Moscow to- night. The Russian Soviet govern- ment announced that it ratified with solemn ceremony the recent Italo- Russian treaty of commerce, Great Diplomatic Victory. Soviet chiefs look on the consum- mation of the negotiations with Italy as the greatest diplomatic victory so far achieved by the Workers’ Republic, Italy and Britain are now debating which was the first to recognize Moscow, Mussolini claiming that his speech in the Italian parliament last month was tantamount to recognition. Diplomats, however, say that the honors and perhaps more material advantages are on the side of the British government. * 2. 8 Recognition Creates. Talk. The importance of the latest devel- opment in the rise of the Soviet gov- ernment to power and influence is the subject of comment in all the capitals of Europe. Ex-Senator France, of Maryland, in a statement issued in Moscow when news of the signing of the treaty reached that city declared: , “The turning point in Russian- American relations has now arrived. Recognition by-England and Italy will vitally affect American interests, transforming the entire European situation, “Already Britain is reaping advan- tages here at the expense of the United States. Since recognition was granted Russian eyes turn to Eng- land, America retiring to the back- ground. Urges U.S, to Act. Now. “Shrewd British merchants regard with quiet amusement and inner sat- isfaction the Russian policy of our State Department. Practical, conser- vative business men are unable to comprehend Secretary Hughes’ §ir- reconcilable policy when Fascist Mussolini has recognized the Soviet. “This is a moment when American statesmen must change their opin- ions regarding Russia, protect Amer- ican interests and act according to American traditions. The least we can do, and it myst be done at once, is to express a diness to discuss relations, Fear British Policy. “Such discussion is inevitable sooner or later, but the present is the psychological moment as the Rus- sians still display the highest appre- ciation of America. If we maintain our impractical attitude Britain will quickly secure a commanding position as a middleman, handling all finan- cit] and commercial transactions be- tween the United States and Russia.” The Italian-Russian pact provides a most-favored clause for Russian imports into Russia and among other reciprocal benefits the surrender by Italy of property in Italy belonging to the former Russian Empire. A treaty between the Vatifan and Moscow is now be 297 within a very short time. e pope has ex- pressed himself as pleased with the treaty and a resumption of the con- versations between Vatican agents and Soviet representatives at Genoa are looked for, in the near future, * Austria Next to Act. VIENNA, Feb. 13.—A speech an- nouncing de jure recognition of the Russian Soviet government will be delivered tomorrow in Austrian parliament by the foreign minister. has continually appealed for support. Not until he was caught red handed serving Do- heny in these imperialistic ventures and not until his political career was endangered did Mr. McAdoo even hint of receiving any money from Doheny for miscellaneous services rendered. The protestations of McAdoo and his des- perate empty boasts regarding Doheny’s erst- | while record are the best proof of the dollar and cents service engaged in by the capitalist politicians of all stripes. McAdoo’s innocence never was. His political career and the last vestige of his pretense at such political purity have been buried by his own testimony to the Senate Committee. Cash Value of the Uplift The recent sale of all his rights and titles by ;William Joseph Simmons, emperor of the Ku Klux Klan, for $145,000, leads one to believe that the only reason stock in the organization has not been sold on the curb is because it is a closed corporation, The enterprising Simmons was drawing a salary of $1,000 per month, so there must be a lot of money in the uplift as practiced by the kluxers. News dispatches also indicate that all of the morons are not yet enrolled in the klan, as previous to the sale of his right to levy tribute Simmons had gone to Jacksonville, Fla., and organized the “Knights of the Flaming Sword.” If the knight-gowns of these two organiza- tions will only begin a war of extermination against each other now the average intelli- gence of the populace will be increased greatly. : The recognition of the Soviet Re- lie by Austria is expected to be ‘accomplished before the Roumanian- Russian conference which is sched- wed to meet in Vienna early in March under the auspices of the Aus- trian chancellor. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. D SUBSCRITPION RATES : Rockefeller Gold and American Guns Are Paving Way For Great New York-Buenos Aires Railroad By BERTRAM D. WOLFE. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent). A grandiose scheme for Yankee imperialist hegemony over the two Americas paralleled only by the Berlin to Bagdad railroal dream, will be within sight of completion on Jan. 1, 1925, when the Buenos Aires to La Paz (Bolivia) railroad is opened to operation. This will signify the completion of more than three-fifths of the New York to Beunos Aires pan-American railroad which will tie up Wall Street with the whole wast hinterland which the National City bank (Rocke- feller) is opening to “civiliza- tion,” investment, the U. 8. and the commander of the battleship Rochester, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, have marines, naval experts and sey-|known the blessings of the marines. eral hundred per cent Ameri- canism in the form of incredi- ble profits. War Gave Bankérs Power. Tt was not so long ago that this new dream of empire richer than the vision of “Cairo to the Cape,” and without the opposition which blocked the dream of “Berlin to Bagdad” was a mere paper scheme of the U. S. controlled Pan-American Federa- tion, But with the gaining of exclu- sive domination over two continents as a result of the world war, Ameri- can bankers set to work in earnest to build from both ends toward the middle the Beunos Aires to New York master work, The section from New York to Guatemala has already been com- pleted. Jan. 1, 1925, will see the completion of the Buenos Aires to La Paz section, That means the ter- mination of 6,696 miles of the 10,- 116-miles total of this magnificent “Roman” road of an empire destined to put old Rome into the shade. Plans are already being laid for the remaining difficult section of 3,420 miles of Central America and the north of South America. the two plans now being considered by engineers and financial exports is thru Guatemala, Honduras, Nica- ragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colom- bia, Peru and thus into Bolivia. The difficulties are high mountains. - Under American Guns. One of | Panama was created by Roosevelt because Colombia wantea too vig a price for the canal zone, and was ac- tually recognized thru a miscarriage of plans or a mixing of signals, ten days before the imaginary revolution of Yankee dollars broke out there. Colombia was mollified by a hand- some gift of the Wilson administra- tion by way of compensation for the Panama affair. Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia are run in part by the Na- tional City bank and for the rest give off the international smell of Standard Oil. Brazil In U. S. Toils. The alternative line being. debated would be more central, running thru Brazil to Bolivia in place of running thru Ecuador and Peru. Po- litically it presents no more difficul- ties than the preceding plan, for Brazil also yields international |divi- dends to the National City bank and the aforesaid international smell. Brazil’s navy is being run by a U. S. naval commission. To the ignorant the Central Amer- ican portion of the Buenos Aires to New York line would look like a los- ing proposition financially because \the traffic is light. But these “‘favor- able” presidents that the United States is helping to maintain in power will grant valuable mineral, oil, land and other concessions and direct subsidies to the railroad-build- ing, investing bankers. Some of these countries are planning to build the lines themselves, directly thru There are no political obstacles, |the National City bank and its inter- for every one of the countries in |locking construction companies, question: is under American domina- tion. the U. S. battleship Rochester “pro- It is hard to decide which is the Guatemala‘and Honduras have| more alluring of the two plans. The completion of the vast nerve | AS WE SEE IT | By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. was opened at a very appropriate: moment, Just as the old Egyptian awoke from his long slumber the / Conference for Progressive Political Action was shedding every legiti- mate reason for existence at St, Louis. A move to replace King Tut. —who is a live wire compared to some of our labor _politicians—with the corpse of the C. P. P, A. would, we believe, meet with general ap- proval. Y -_/* *¢ @ The “gallant hero” who attempted to kidnap Grover Cleveland Berg- doll in Germany has returned to America, accompanied by a European representative of that prince of yel- low journalism, William Randolph Hearst. Bergdoll, the miilionaire draft dodger, angered the American war lords because he set a very bad example to the Germans of this country who comprise quite a large part of our population. It is a well known fact that Hearst was opposed to the war but sensation monger thaj he is, once the United States fe | over to the allies he howled with the pack, When this thug, Griffis, attempted the kidnaping of Berg- doll and failed miserably, Hearst saw an opportunity to increase the cir- culation of his papers by undertak- ing to secure his release. While the Chicago Tribune’s efforts con- sisted of calling on the public to raise funds to bribe the German government and thus open the prison doors for Griffis, Hearst cabled his Berlin correspondent to put up the “necessary” to free the American le- gionnaire. Griffis violated the laws of Germany and is honored by the upholders of law and order in Amer- ica! * * 8 * The capitalist press of Chicago is not near so excited over the dep- radations committed by the Ku Klux Klan in Herrin as it was over the riot which took place there, when in 1922 a few degenerates em- tecting” them. The U. S, govern-|center of the two continents will be ment by a series of ultimatums, ca-| supplemented by the _net-work of joleries, bribes, and persuasions of |railroads that connect Buenos Aires the marines, is determined whom |with other South American countries Honduras shall elect as president to|not mentioned above and that con- succeed Rafael Lopez Gutierrez,|nect New York with the western whose term expired Feb. 1. Gutier-|United States and Canada. The rez has assumed a temporary dic-|railroad will serve for the easy send- tatorship with the support of Secre-|ing of U. S. troops and manufactured Amalgamated Issues Calendar for 1924; Tt Is the Best Yet The new Amalgamated Clothing Workers Calendar for 1924 has just been issued. This year the calendar is devoted to illustrated sketches of American Industrial history. It tries to present general study of the realities of American life and the lace of the Amalgamated in that life. On each page there is a short story telling the history of the Amalgamated in the making. The calendar is well illustrated and a sucessful attempt has been made to choose illustrations that tell their| !< story with as little text as possible. This calendar the idea of which has been taken from the Italian radical movement is a novel and ef- fective departure in American labor education. The calendar is given to active members of the Amalgamated. It is by far the best calendar that has ever been issued by any American labor. union. Lansdowne Commands Shenandoah. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Lieut. Commander Zachary Lansdowne ,to- day was designated commanding offi- cer of the U. S. Shenandoah, the navy’s giant dirigible, For Recognition of Soviet Russia! IT MAY BE TOO ON’T be among the disappointed ones. Always do the right thing at the right time. The) ernment were forwarded to Moscow right thing to do right now is to see that your name is on the mailing list of THE DAILY WORKER, so that you will be able to begin reading the international literary sensation, “A WEEK,” that starts Saturday in these columns. A new installment will appear every day. You don’t have to buy the book. Subscribe for THE DAILY WORKER instead. Renew or send in a new subscription. See that you are on pur latest. Here is a blank you can use. ; tary of State Hughes until the most | products to South and Central Amer- useful of the three dead-locked can-|ica, of minerals and petroleum from didates can be chosen by the Hon-|Latin America to the United States. “eongress ‘aided by representa-|This is the plan of the American tives of the U. S. state department |empire builders. Proud of The Daily Worker; He Offers Some Suggestions To The Daily Worker:—The Daily is a paper for us to be proud of. I have interrogated scores of comrades and sympathizers, and they all have nothing but praise and commenda- tion. And what is encouraging, is that it is improving all the time. I like especially the way in which it keeps up to the latest items of in- terest. Theoretical, and purely party items tend to discourage the interest of the “casual reader”. It may even pay, do you not think, to have more news, even of a non-political nature. Say a page, or a half-page for an exclusive Chicago news sec- tion. After all our support has its roots in Chicago, and our main field of circulation is in Chicago. And so it may be tactical to devote special space to this section. Also a special column should be instituted, same to be dedicated to “Anti-toxin for capitalist larly the Tribune. These refutations should at least have the prominence and the positiveness of their false antecedents in the capital- ist sheets. This should by all means be a Daily feature—A Chicago Com- rade, The DAILY WORKER serves you EVERY DAY. How have you served the DAILY WORKER today? LATE! fan subscription list by Saturday at the very oe ey ee eee eee ae THE DAILY WORKER, ployed as scabs came to an untimely end, At that time the Illinois Chamber of Commerce raised a fund to bring’ the union miners of Williamson county to the gallows if possible. They failed because of the determined solidarity of the miners. This time, lives have been lost, prop- erty has been destroyed, and women have been abused by the Ku Klux Klan backed” by the United States government, yet cur capitalist ypa- pers have barely uttered a peep in opposition. There is a reason. The type represented by the Ku Klux Klan is good materialfor the Fas- cisti that will some -day—perhaps not far distant—be fostered by the capitalist class of America to smash every form of protection built up for itself by labor and es- tablish the naked dictatorship of the employing class. * 8 * Stanley Baldwin was_ ré-électe head of the British Tory Party. The Tories are either bankrupt in lead- ership ‘or else the recent appeal to the country resulting in their party’s defeat was merely a trick to throw the responsibility of getting Britain out of the tight fixein which she was placed on the shoulders of the labor party or getting the Labor Party in a mess, It is rather surprising that Stanley Baldwin would be re- elected as head of his party after committing what was generally con- sidered a party blunder, if the tor- ies took the defeat so seriously. oe # . At a large meeting held in Glas- gow James Maxton, one of the Clyde representatives in the House of Commons declared he was not very enthusiastic over the attempt to gov- ern with 192 members against 400 opponents. However, the radicals will support the Labor Party, at the same time reserving the right to criticize and will seek to drive it farther to the left. ** © There is almost as much rejoic- ing in cap ae over the Soviet rec- ognition by Italy as there was when England 2) spate recognition, accord- ing to Moscow dispatches. It ap- pears that the French ambassador at Rome strenuously opposed Italian recognition and used all the diplo- matic tricks in his bag to block it. France now is the only strong power in E that has not the Soviet government. The trea’ with Italy places Russia in a stroi ; pice in Europe and makes Fra * quite lonely. _* * * Ramsay MacDonald was consider- ably embarrassed when Commander Kenworthy, a liberal, rose in the House of Commons and _ inquired if the condolences of the British gov- on the death of Lenin, the head of the Soviet government. Jeers came from the conservative benches as the pillar of the ‘second international refused to answer. _*¢ * © J. P. Morgan is willing to raise $500,000 to help the dartioet pro- vided the balance of ten millions is raised others. Now the farm- ers will that Wall Street is not so bad after all. We pay: | | p hal wor a eee for his BY MAIL— 640 N. 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