The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Monday, February 18, 1924 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50..6 months $2.00..8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50..6 months $2,50..3 months to fel SRD ES MC REN CR Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street J. LOUIS ENGDARL. ( WILLIAM F. DUNN MORITZ J. LOEB.. tered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Stive a: Chicago, Tl, under the act of March 3, 1879. EP vor Advertising rates on application. McAdoo’s Last Stand Mr. McAdoo, the discredited democratic white hope, recently issued an appeal for a conference of all democrats, “progressives,” farmers, workers, and what not, who had been inspired at some time or other by his chances for the presidency and their chances for pa- tronage as a result of his success. We are asked to believe that this confer- ence, to be held in Chicago today, is called for the purpose of enabling public opin- ion itself to decide whether Mr. McAdoo is to continue his drive for the White House. In the words of this Latter Day Saint of Wilson- ian imperialism garbed in the cloak of hypo- critical liberal cant, this conference is made imperative “‘by the appalling conditions pre- vailing in Washington today—corruption, graft, incompetence—have created a situation more dangerous to government than Bolshe- vism itself.” Even the most amateurish observer of the Teapot tragedy can detect the hollow sound in these ringing appeals to save the country emanating from the oily corporation lawyer of California and lower Broadway. (We can see how Mr. McAdoo can become desperate, but we must confess that we are somwhat astounded at his developing a degree of des- peration leading him to the unfounded belief that he can pull the wool over anybody’s eyes today by the fraud of a hand-picked confer- ence and an eleventh-hour appeal-to “the in- dex of public opinion” which he never con- sulted when his quarter of a million dollar fee was at stake. If Mr. McAdoo and the big financial inter- ests backing him had the slightest doubt:as to their being able to onganize and manipulate this conference in such a fashion as to secure Chicago, Illinois jraaoeme sue beeen sReaeOre ... Business Manager -his being implored and urged in the name of the most sacred duties to and crying needs of i poaivan? socks} standard bearer of “progressivism,” such a conference would never have been called. Mr. McAdoo would then discreetly, with perhaps less valor, have slowly and without much ado have withdrawn from the race and would have done some “watchful waiting’ for a better day. If Mr. McAdoo had felt that there was any possibility of this conference telling him cold-bloodedly to quit, he would never take chances on dramatizing the disaster that has befallen him thru his contact with the oil prince, Doheny. The McAdoo discovery of a gre&ter menace than Bolshevism is especially significant. ' It shows that McAdoo is appealing to all ele- ments of the capitalist class to rally to him as the least damaged in the calamity that threat- ens to overwhelm them. Mr. McAdoo’s latest maneuver is bound to fail. The working and farming masses have his number. This number is exactly the price Mr. Doheny paid him in dollars and cents for services rendered. Two Remedies Fifteen thousand tons of French and Bel- gian steel products have been sold recently on the Atlantic seaboard for from $8 to $10 under the prices of similar American products. The Virginian Railway, managed by super- patriots, as the Locomotive Engineers Union can testify, has bought 4,000 tons of French steel for its electrification project. Three thousand tons of cast-iron pipe has been sold by the French steel interests to Pacific coast concerns. All of which shows that tariffs and restric- tion of immigration cannot and does not stop American labor competing with lower paid labor in other nations. No matter where a com- modity that is needed in capitalist economy is produced, if it can undersell like commodi- ties, it will find its way into the world markets and displace higher costing products. American labor has viewed complaisantly the titanic struggle of the German, French and German workers to maintain their living stan- dards. Its officialdom is today in full accord with the rape of the Ruhr and the impoverish- » ment of the German workers. No nation in the world can compete with the steel and iron mills of the Ruhr while the wages of the workers are at the present low level and it is on the steel i ser that modern capitalism is based. As soon as there is a comfortable surplus of labor the employers of America will forget their love for the highly paid American worker and endeavor to shove his living stan- dard down near the level of the European workers; it will not go quite so low because the American worker is more efficient—he earns more for the boss in proportion to the \ Aig UB PLNSOREN Yo wages paid—but a smash at living standards will be made. The British employers, with 2,000,000 unem- ployed besieging the factory doors, have low- ered the already low living standard of the British workers because British iron and steel have been driven off the markets by German competition. In no other way can even a sub- stantial portion of the German reparations be paid. Our government and our labor leaders want them paid. If the reparations are collected it will be not from the German workers alone. Every working class in the world will pay— and is paying now—in poorer food, shoddier clething, less comfortable dwellings. The question of German reparations is an international question but not for capitalists alone. It is an international question for labor as well, but American labor speaks only thru American capitalist government with the ex- ception’ of the Workers Party, which joins its voice with the other 42 parties of the Third International in protest and action against the exploitation and brutalities of capitalism the world over. The Gompers remedy for foreign competition is restriction of immigration and isolation of the American working class from the inter- national field of the class conflict. The remedy of the Workers Party of Amer- ica, is unity of all labor movements in the Red International of Labor Unions, the raising of living standards in all countries and relentless struggle against capitalism everywhere. Anticipated Pleasures It was cold comfort that Senator Moses brought to the Coolidge cohorts in the rock- bound fastnesses of New Hampshire day be- fore yesterday. According to the senator the worst is yet to come. More and more prominent names are to be unearthed as parties to the greatest fraud for four decades. “Those yet unnamed are greater in number and of more consequence than the ones al- ready involved,” declared the New Hampshire solon. Only presidents are of greater importance than cabinet officials—who are already soaked in oil—and Senator Moses must have meant that the greasy trail leads straight to the White House. As American citizens we are prepared. Nothing that can happen can lower our opin- ion of the present incumbent of the White House, either as a president or as a politician. Why did he keep the gang of highbinders which composes the cabinet if he knew, as he must have known, that they were engaged in plundering the public domain without due process of law? ~~“fe is either the poorest politician -since-U> S. Grant or else he knew and they knew that he did not dare to ask for their resignations. lLet us say right here that we are indulging in no moral spasms over the Teapot Dome dis- closures, nor will we, even tho the President himself is shown to have had a guilty connec- tion with the Doheny’s, Sinclairs and other small fry of capitalism. If the whole administration is shown to have violated every law of the land we will be sur- prised—pleasantly—only because of this evi- dence of the weakness of the capitalist ma- chine—its failure to conceal and protect its most ardent supporters in their speculations. We hold that laws are made by and in be- half of the capitalist class. They are their laws and they have the power to evade or live up to them—as may be most profitable. They break a thousand laws every day but it is only in a situation such as exists at present—where the middle class is discontented and clamor- ing for relief—that any but the always vic- timized workers pay any attention to the fact. We do not share the indignation of the fear- {less crusaders in the house and senate whose own records are just as spotty—with oil or steel or copper or coal—as the officials they are showing up. We recognize the value of their services, however, not to the cause of good government as understood by the moral- ity squad of capitalism, but to.the workers and farmers of the United States who are watching with intense interest the process of denuding American government of its respec- tability. Senator Moses probably knows what he is talking about. We hope so because the higher the officials involved the more speedily will the knowledge be spread that capitalist govern- ment, like capitalist business enterprise, con- sists of trickery, fraud, chicanery—and force when these fail. The Albanians want Harry F, Sinclair for king. We have no objection, but we suggest that they lock up the silverware and other valuables before he takes office. If they need some cabinet officials to fnatech the set we beg to be allowed to nominate Fall, Daugherty and Denby with the understanding that the Albanian: babies will have their milk bottles fitted with burglar-proof locks. Michigan friends of Senator Newberry, act- ing on the old golden rule that one good turn deserves another, engaged lawyers to go to Washington for the defense of Secretary of the Navy Denby. The naval chief was one of Newberry’s staunchest friends when the latter |®"% was charged with buying his way into the senate. Coolidge threatens to sift the ‘rape of Alaska.” But while he holds on to Denby he is keeping the rapists in his cabinet, Read “A Week”-Here Is the Second Installment (Continued from page 1) greeted each other. out in the street. Klimin relit his cigarette that had gone And, following Klimin into the inner office, Gornuikh heard of the three meetings at heard of Ziman’s report, of Robeiko’s speech, of the meeting of the Party Committee. “And what did Karaulov And struggling in pleasant morn- ing sleepiness, like a fly in scented jam, Klimin told his story, and end- ed it with a sleepy yawn. Gor- nuikh silently nodded his head. He went to his own room, took from the shelf a fat portfolio of cur- rent work, and began carefully: to look thru several dossiers. Two years had already gone by since the revolution had torn Gor- nuikh as a seventeen-year old lad from the dull factory,- and the Party had sent him to mork in the Cheka. He could beat a chisel with a hammer without looking at his hand and without fear of smashing it, and he had the same confidence in himself and in the re- sults of his work. He never spoke at meetings, and very rarely in the gatherings of the Party Group. Gornuikh was always full of wide-awake anxiety. He knew how to connect every crime with those disturbance unnoticeable by the majority, which, like deep sub- marine currents, are perpetually brewing in the people, toss them- selves from village to village, which Kimin had been present, say?” he asked anxiously. thru markets and fairs, and stir the many thousands of the towns- folk. And sometimes it seemed to him that he himself and the thou- sands of the comrades were walk- ing on a thin, fragile crust of ice, beneath which was surging angry water ready to carry away and drown everything. . . . And so, when Klimin told him of Karau- lov’s protests, he nodded his head with approval, and, looking thru the last cases and the builetins of information, he said to himself, “Good fellow, Karaulov!” Imperceptibly, delicately, but none the leys with insistent force, the pale dawn took possession of the room and made unnecessary and pitiable the light of the elec- tric lamp.| The sun rose, not hot, but scar- let and bright, and threw yellow patches on the floor of the room. Greedily pulling at his cigarette, which did not seem strong enough, Gornuikh swore angrily because his head ached after the sleepless night, and his weary body begged for rest. The working day in the BOLD MUSICIANS EXHUME BAGH AT ORCHESTRA HALL Antiquities Featured by Symphony Orchestra By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. Antiquities of two very different kinds featured the concert of the Chi- | cago Symphony Orchestra at Orches- tra Hall last Friday and Saturday. The program opened with an over- ture by Handel ina modern setting. Tike the Gluck overture of last week, this is a big, solid composition, com- posed of solid musical rock. A concerto for two pianos ghd or- chestra by Philip Emmanuel Bach followed. It, was played by the in- separable Guy Maier and Lee Paitti- son, The younger Bach did not revere the stiff style of his famous father, as musicians of later date do, but wrote freer, more elastic music. This concerto shows nothing remark- pidity: The next number, a miniature symphony in three movements by Schumann, is a little more pleasant, but scarcely less stupid. * “King Estmere.” Leo Sowerby’s ballad, “King Est- mere,” for two pianos and orchestra, played by Maier and Pattison, is by far the best work of its co: er that we have heard. The ink on the score has not been dry for a year, but the poem from which the subject is taken is a very ancient English ballad. It tells the story of a king winning his bride by magic, and Sowerby has caught the spirit of it most marvelously. The music runs with a great, pulsating rush and spirit, with original and wonderful harmonies and instrumental combina- tions. Sowerby is the most important American composer, and if he con- tinues to write works like “King Est~ mere” he will probably become the most- important composer of the century, : Another modern work, “The Foun- tains of Rome,” by the Italian, Res- pighi, was played. A most unique conception, this, of the varying moods expressed thru impressions four fountains at different times of the day. Shadowy, mysterious, pas: toral is the Valle Giula fountain at dawn, a dance of water nymphs in the Triton fountain in the morning sun, while more solemn and reflective music paints the Trevi fountain at znid-day. The poem ends in the mys- tery in which it began, with the play- ing water of the Villa Medici foun- tain at sunset. Boring and Sleepy. To conclude the program the co: of old J. S. Bach was exhumed again. sinag This time a concerto for three pianos, played by Maier, Pattison and it Shattuck, was performed. The two fast movements could have been more boring, and the slow movement eould have been more sleepy, but they were boring enough and sufficientl, A Next week Felix Salmond, . will be the soloist. He will play a concerto by Lalo, and the orchestra i play pee tng i first on phony, a marc issy, Stravin- rand ‘Song of the Nightii ” and selections from Berlioz's “ ition of Faust.” Bronx, N. Y., Bra Announces Commune Celebration, Mar. 16 NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—The Bronx Pome branch of the Workers Party will hold a Paris Commune i ne ig ir Workers A joston Road, Saturday evening, March 16. A special surprise pro- ym has been arranged. i All sympathetic organ’ are asked to help make the celeb: nm and dance a success by not any competing affairs on that da "How many of ur shop-mates read ae 4 Cheka was already beginning; typewriters were tapping alertly, chasing each other, And from out- side, into the life of the\ Cheka, every minute, now in one room, now in another,~broke the ringing of the telephone bells... . Close by Klimin’s ear the silver telephone bell rang, and, vexedly shaking his finger at Gornuikh, Klimin took dow» the instrument, from far, far away came words, incomprehensible, as if written on rough paper. And the voice, thru long inaudible, transformed by the telephone, became sudden- ly recognizable, familiar..... And Gornuikh noticed how Kli- min’s face joyfully lightened, and how it grew clear that he was still young, tho the skin of his face was grey and there were many wrinkles under his eyes. But a smile of white teeth brought the dawn into his face, and suddenly he was young, and tenderly con- fused. ‘What is the matter with him?” thought Gornuikh. “Good morning! Good morn- ing! ... Long from Moscow? At the railway station? Send horses? Good. . . . I’ll come: myself.” He stood up from the table and hung’ up the instrument. “Comrade Gor- nuikh, here is Simkova come from Moscow, bringing literature. I have no time to spare for the moment. We'll talk later... .” And he was already running | down the staircase into the yard. (To be Continued Tuesday.) Principal of Firetrap Thorp was a whitewash, but I think Chicago. \fighting for the improvement lof conditions in his school | which serves a large working- class district. He is thoroly disliked by the business offi- cials of the board of education because of his fearless attitude and fighting spirit. Inspector Admits Evil. “When the inspectors were at my school one of them told me that if it was a private school he would or- der it closed and have a policeman placed at the door so as to prevent its use till it was fixed up properly.” The board of education in making tors found it all right and that it had one of the best fite escapes in the city. “The men who do inspection work for the various departments of the city grow to have one track minds, They look for specific violations of specific city ordinances. When in- specting a city building they are well satisfied if the building meets the minimum requirements of the ordin- ances. They are not authorized nor do they think in inspecting a build- ing, ‘is this building the sort of place necessary and proper for serving the social purposes it was intended to serve?’ They think only of the city ordinances, “There is’ no agency in this city to pass on such a question. In erect- ing a school there is no one to ask: ‘will this building be socially serv- iceable 2” Demands “Social Architect.” “There should be such an agency. There should be a social architect connected with the board of educa- tion who would try to make the schools more effective instruments in society, “TI am glad to see your paper come ut and fight for better schools. It is a fine work.” Mr. Hatch declared that he in- tended to continue to fight for a new school building for the Thorp school to replace the present unsafe and inadequate one. e Know a worker who needs a working class education? Get him to read THE DAILY WORKER. able, it is a piece of pleasant stu- public pe Jira ot ied ginapoctces ‘ RATES: . 1 year ........$6.00 6 $3.50 640 N. 3 months....$2.00 IN CHICAGO 3 months... $2.50 | | STREET BY CARRIER— “Lyear ......$10.00 1 month «$1.00 ; i \ SURSCRIRTION om ie THE DAILY WORKER, | Chicago, ll. Enclosed please find $....0...000.0000.. to THE DAILY WORKER, te ee School Says School Board’s Inspection Was a ‘‘Whitewash”’ “The board of education resents the charge that their inspection of the fire hazards in some of the fire trap schools that is just what it was,” said Henry D. Hatch, principal. of the J. N. Thorp school in South Mr. Hatch was largely responsible for the exposure of the conditions in his and many other schools. For years he has been United States Is Bar to Workers’ Rule in Mexico By BERTRAM D. WOLFE. MEXICO CITY, Feb, 17.—A_ pro- posal for the government to hack its way thru the tangle of juridical ob- stacles to the pacifying of the coun- try and the distribution of the land and seizure of wilfully closed fac- tories by the establishment of a mili- tary social dictatorship under Obre- gon for the period of the civil war will be made by Dr. Siurob (pro- government) in the chamber of deputies, The plan is for a constitutional dic- tatorship in the sense that it is to be voted by the national congress. This is to concede extraordinary fac- ulties in all departments of govern- ment to President Obregon. These extraordinary powers are to last till the pacification of the country has been completed when he is to con- voke a new constituent assembly to revise the constitution of 1917 ,which, however radical it may have seemed to American petroleum companies and big land owners and employers of labor, Siurob regards as_anti- quated and not in accord with the social tendencies of our times. All states are to be put in charge for the time being of military govern- ors. These are to use their extra- ordinary powers to begin in earnest the distribution of lands which has so long been blocked by court pro- cedures, injunctions, hostility of state and local governments and _ legal tangles generally. Once for\all the redivision is to be made thoro and complete. All industries that have been shut down without just cause (many owners are trying to embar- rass the government or lower wage standards thru such maneuvers) shall be operated by their workers thru co-operatives or thru state controlled organizations, All citizens are to be subject to possible draft until peace has been restored. A commission is to be named to consider compensation for seized property. It is doubtful whether the president will approve these measures out of fear of his “ancle”—Tio Sam—to the north. HALSTED ST., \ Ne ‘| WORKER-grow” DO THE MEN AND WOMEN IN YOUR SHOP KNOW ABOUT THE DAILY WORKER? Take your paper to work with you and let your shop-mates read it. THEN GET THEM TO SUBSCRIBE. Another DAILY WORKER Reader in your shop will put you in a stronger position against the boss. Fie MN ee RMU MRID VE A Nc crt teat OD AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. We are informed that several hun- dred of foreign born residents of Chi- cago took out their final papers last week. The exercises were in charge of the American Legion. A person by the name of Shick made a “speech after which a Mr. McCarthy prayed. The reporter who covered the meet- ing testified that McCarthy “prayed like the devil.” Whether he read the gospel according to Billy Sunday sor some of the more ancient reformed sinners is not what we are concerned with but why the services usually as- sociated with introducing the foreign born into the mysteries of Ameri- canism should be delegated to the American Legion. _ * * # States Attorney Crowe has a rather peculiar conception of how to econ- omize in public office. He generous- ly offered to lon off $10,000 of his annual appropriation for office ex- pensés other than. salaries, but re- quested a special appropriation of $75,000 fora graft investigation. We suggest that another $75,000 be rais- ed to investigate the first $75,000. The politicians in the city of Chicago like their brothers in Washington fight like Kilkenny cats over the di- vision of the spoils and if they can- not agree they squeal on each other and the result is what always hap- pens when thieves ee We have a Teapot Dome in Washington and real estate graft probes, school graft probes and state treasury probes in icago and vicinity. The trouble does not lie in the individuals. It {s in the system that breeds graft and corruption—the capitalist system. Before public life can be clearised of grafters the robber system of capi- talism must be abolished. A lily cannot flourish in a sewer, neither can honesty flourish under a state of society where the incentive to ge- tion is personal gain and not the eom- munal good. ** * & The weekly edition of the mori- bund New York Call and its short lived successor, the New York Leader, is running true to form. Commenting on the miners’ conven- tion, an editorial attacks Alexander Howat viciously and charges him with associating with radicals, in- stead of relying on the fairness of John L, Lewis and the union con- stitution for a redress of his griev- ances, The editorial denounced the communists for endeavo: to give the policies of the miners’ union a jolt forward and break the power of the bosses’ friends who now con- trol it. The paper in which the edi- torial appears is a socialist weekly organ of the Socialist Party—or what is left of it—of New York. It is edited by James, Oneal. The executive board of the Illinols Federation of Labor endorsed Gov- bias Small’s pecitg sina examin~- ing it we are |. We are hae} eens Aiea ni — that ae e the labor fakers ng to peruse Mr. Small’s pirind & Be- sides endorsing the governor, who is a “friend of labor” in the Gom- pers sense, the meeting also en- dorsed Newton Jenkins, endorsed by the Conference for Progressive Political Action, ie endorsement of these labor skates are fast los- ing their value. The rank and file of the organized labor movement are losing faith in them. Men like John L. Walker, who change their politi- eal clothing so suddenly are justly suspected of ulterior motives. The ‘suspicion is more than well founded. William Gibbs McAdoo will have a tough job trying to shake off the empty oil can that makes an irritat- ing noise every time he moves his feet \in the direction of the demo- cratic_nomination for the, presidency. One of the refinements of cruelty practiced on criminals in the middle ages was to have them immersed in eauldrons of boiling oil. If they emerged unscathed from the ofdeal their innocence was affirmed. ‘If not—? With tears in his eyes “Mac” ! calls on his “progressive friends,” among them the Ku Klux Klan, we believe, to decide in the interests of the nation whether he shall come forth untarnished from the seething ofl tank. Vox Populi. Vox Dei. . A thousand new members wanted for the At sarc aphenrgh DAILY club, 2 sannnenebnnnnensnesessonseeneeasen Write for <