The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1924, Page 6

aro —timseit-eonbited with hardheaded financiers Page Six HE DAILY WORKER nn “Stool” Reports Lenin Meeting To Patriots THE DAILY WORKER. the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., Published b; te40 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): $8.00 per year $4.50..6 months $2.50. .8 months 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- Ghee nt Obitare, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. SB 0 Advertising rates on application. Playing Down Oil | Denby’s resignation has plunged the capital- ist press into a discussion of the legality of his part in the transfer of public oil lands to pri- vate hands. : We submit that this has little to do with the major issue which is that Secretary of the Navy Denby, an important cog in the machin- ery of American capitalist government, took part in the conspiracy for which all members of the Harding-Coolidge cabinet must be held responsible. This conspiracy, entered into long before the Harding administration took office, and in which participation in the profits thereof was part of the reward for the support of Harding by various individuals, had as its object the theft of pubiic property—if public property ean be said to exist under capitalism, Perhaps the steal had the sanction of law. Legal authorities appear to be divided on the matter—their opinion depending upon their professional connections. It will be discovered in all probability that the Denbys, Daughertys, Roosevelts and others are not legally guilty— that at the worst they were merely indiscreet. Senator Fail may be prosecuted if he does not save his former friends from embarrassment by dying. He is the scapegoat. Denby is a 100 per cent American type. Below the average intelligence, even for an ’ American business man, his career in the cabinet was the culmination of a life of publi- city-seeking. . Over fifty years of age when this country entered the war, with one eye on future political developments, he enlisted as a private and bravely aided in keeping the German army out of Detroit, Ypsilanti, Kala- mazoo and other Michigan cities. His: appointment. by Harding was in line with a policy which filled the cabinet with vicious mediocrities like Davis, Daugherty and Address all mail and make out checks to Chicago, ini 1 a EEE Editors Business Manager of the Mellon type and skillful corporation lawyers like Hughes. Considered from the standpoint of capitalist morality alone the Harding cabinet was little above the average of a convention of oil stock salesmen. The 7,000,000 majority polled by the repub- licans made their capitalist backers a little careless. Neither did they take into account the discontent that has been growing thruout the nation since the war and which has been aggravated immensely by the bankruptcy of the farmers and ‘middle class elements, living on the farmers, to whom the democrats make an. appeal. The theft of the Teapot Dome oil reserves was a little too raw; the masses had been waiting for some opportunity to express a hatred of capitalist normalcy that had been nurtured until it’ was lusty and vociferous. The exposures of the robberies let loose a storm that has all but wrecked the republican party and that has involved the democrat op- position. Theresignation of Denby, probably followed by Daugherty, is the first attempt to clean house. The feeling in Washington is| that the exposures have gone too far and that} in the interests of both capitalist parties -a! truce should be arranged. The next few days will tell whether popular resentment is strong enough to prevent the playing down of the oil scandal investigations. The endorsement of McAdoo by Senator Walsh of Montana shows that for a cabinet official to sell’ his influence to an oil corpora- tion is not regarded as culpable, but in line with the best capitalist traditions. As chair- man of the senate investigation committee, Walsh now is hardly in a position to demand the prosecution of republicans like Denby and Daugherty. This will doubtless be a source of great re- lief, not only to the culprits, but to many of the babbittry, who were afraid that in the heat of a presidential year the rules of the game had been forgotten. Liberal Lying ~ Norman Thomas, in an editorial service is- sued by the league for industrial democracy, writing on the miners’ convention, repeats the canard that the radical opposition to Lewis combined with the klan elements in the con- - vention. We love our liberal friends, but when they _ descend to the same depths as the capitalist press we are forced to chide them and in this particular instance there is some evidence of conscious falsification. In support of this statement Norman Thomas quotes a female, whom he describes as “our own correspon- one issue and on one issue alone did the 1 aN ATE vention find themselves woting alike. This was on the question of the basis of representa- tion from unions to the convention and no one not consciously desiring to slander the radical would attempt to make of this accidental bu easily understandable incident an alliance be- tween the klan and the radicals against Lewis. The radicals wanted a larger representation from the local unions and so did the klan— but for obviously different reasons. The klansmen in‘the convention supported the Lewis machine on every issue except this; seemingly this should be enough to convince the fair-minded liberal critics of the labor and radical movements that no alliance was pos- sible between the two. By J._0. BENTALL cs HE morning papers advertised that the nfonster Lenin memorial meeting held in the Madison Square Garden was to be reported to the Al- lied Patriotic Societies at a session in the Army ond Navy Club and that it was “open to the public.” Only a sensation like that could possibly have jerked me off my chair in my den where I was fighting with the heroine and the villain in a plot that I was just trying to finish. - Now sincs I was to ruin the after- noon I figured that I wanted to see ie icy rience service that be eld where the Lenin meeting ha May we say here that the small but heroic] tien plate; “in the? Madison ‘Square band, who are striving to usher in industrial] Garden, so I got an early start, vivid- democracy without even knowing of what it] ly remembering that I had the time consists, constantly furnishes incidents, such as San i yi Load Be Nas the one cited, tending to show that they find| the previous Monday night to honor it much easier to get along with reactionaries| the memory of Lenin, tho I was there of the LeWis type than they do with the left] before seven o’clock, With all the ing elements like the communists, for in-|Scveaming headlines of the entire wing @ £0! metropolitan press calling frantically stance. upon all ker patriotic Seale Rte i 0 zens to gather in tribute to ison, a communists, of course, are uncharitable. the ‘great waripresifants- had slight e refuse to be fair to the enemies of the|nopes of being able to get within a working class and that is an unpardonable sin| block or two of the place. But there in the eyes of liberals. They themselves are] Ws Plenty of room. Big flanks of so fair that they never lie about the employers} and only ew -were in. the falieries, (Wednesday, February 20, 192 them in the chair next. He would, this stool who made the report. And they took up a collection, t2? —after the people had paid to get in. They had. the whole thing so well organized that they could do the job in no time. They had a lot of young people, girls in red waists, and fel- lows with red bands around their arms. Most of them from eighteen to twenty-two years of age. Husky young ones, maybe some of them are clerks and stenographers in respect- able business houses, And they don’t appreciate it. They talked to the police, too, He saw pretty young girls argue with the police, and the police took it all in and bowed and smiled, and he had heard one woman say to a policeman that he was also a member of the working class, and the fellow had agreed. It is hard to tell what influence meetings like this might have on our loyal police, and is it not a wise hint to look after that, too? e8e Lore, he was a German, but it is queer how these foreigners learn English. There he stood as if he had born right here in our own city and talked English like the rest, and the people applauded this German, an editor, he thought, of a German pa- per, oh yes, the Volkzeitung. And Olgin, he must be a prominent man, He also got an ovation.: He is a Could they get a translation of it? Could they find out if it had anything Seditioug in it? Would the committee try to report on it at the next meet- ing? Such singing they had never heard. The people all sing it, and they sing it as if they meant it. It must be red and seditious, Get a copy of it—in any language. ‘The Allied Patriotic Societies must’ know about this song. Maybe it can be suppressed. The red flag was and this song should come before the legislature and Congress. If it is seditious, The stool who had been at the Lenin meeting made many motions and showed great indignation, It wae hard for him to speak, he said. It was an awful meeting. They charged 80 and 55 cents and, think of it, one dollar! And he could hardly get in at that, He had no ticket, and bluffed the cops and made them be- lieve he belonged to the press, and got in free, he bragged. But how to get a seat. There wag none, and he was there before seven, The crowd was just horrid. There was a bigger crowd on the outside, and he under- stood thatthe Central Opera House was also filled and thousands had to be turned away. No such meeting had he ever seen, and he wag no newcomer, He had gathered a lot of leaflets and programs, a copy of the Lib- seats stood yawning for occupants and their tools in the labor movement, but| It was sana jieess a i only about the radicals, who, as everyone | £°vernment had a lot of soldiers who fa : could be drafted into the hall, and a knows, expect this kind of treatment from the] punch of preachers qwho wanted to liberals—and are seldom disappointed. see what a crowd looks like, The whole meeting showed that Wilson is dead, So is all that Wilson stood for. He stood only for dead things. No workers were there to A New Capitalist Crisis mourn him. Only a labor faker was The French franc is again on the toboggan| there to say that Wilson stood for and dispatches yesterday tell of wild scenes renege te ie ecg me he i stoo or peace, 01 led, an ey on the bourse with brokers swamped by orders demand 66 Eee Seeley conkat for the sale of French securities. to the Lenin meeting. It seemed a The stock exchange reflects the crisis in the| Pity that the place should jo Seems French government. The scenes in the stock eal hethe Senki Tiras hail winds market are duplicated in the Chamber of Deputies where, it sacred at the Lenin meeting. with the Communists playing|__ Then I hustled off to the Army and a leading role, an assault is being made on the Poincare policies that will lead to his resig- Navy Club. Preliminary reports nation. were made. Among them one on il- literacy. “20,000,000 people in this 5 country re neta read segs write,” holiay, . * came the facts that seem 0 aston- It had been believed that the action of the! ish the.two dozen ladies and gentle- Chamber in voting, tho by a reduced majority,|men present. These are the “Allied the Poincare 20 per cent tax measure, would io Societies,” and they looked tend to stabilize the fratic; the debate, how-|""1, was a hard pill to swallow—this ever, developed such strong opposition to the illiteracy report, An old man came government that, altho the measure passed, . the ES ecoam a cme See these illiterates of tl jouth lad re- the frane dropped to 24.30 to the dollar. sponded to the draft and had killed It is believed that Poincare will fall when| millions of Germans, The illiterates he attempts to jami thru his electoral reform] re loyal, and that’s what counts.” bill to which even President Millerand is op- posed. The cabinet and financial crisis in France is part of a general European crisis—one of a series that we. predicted over a month ago; ungarian, Austrian and Belgian currencies Applause. Then: “The question is not if they are illiterate, but are they loyal?” Next came the question of “that song they sing, that ‘International’.” pate Teaser Ait Sa deiner ss ane e writer and a lecturer, it seemed, and he spoke in Jewish. He must be watched. Then there was that man Foster, William Z. Foster, who was also ar- erator, of the Daily Worker, of the Young Comrade, He slapped! the package on the desk and sighed. “The editor of the Liberator, he is an American-born, Robert Minor, not a i ‘ rested in “Brickman.” They had eee ee a tried him and convicted him, too, al- See who spoke, Ruthenberg, he|™0st. He had a very bad record, but is still at large. It was up to the Allied Patriotic Societies.to get this man put where he cannot put over red propaganda like his. He told the people what a great strateg- ist Lenin was and said the Workers Party is continuing the work of Lenin. And you should have seen how the crowd rose and yelled in response to this man. It was ter- rible. He and Ruthenberg are “astute men.” They as much as said that we had to have ‘a revolution in this country, but they were very “astute” and did not say it would be by force. They were shrewd. They would establish a soviet government here in America, but they used such guarded language that you could’ not ‘catch them, Whe big thing now before tho Allied Patriotic Societies was to write Congress that it pass the fingerprint immigration law, or a law that. will prohibit immigration en- tirely for at least five years, and also to get a translation of the “Interna- tional.” After which a motion was made to adjourn in honor of Wood- row Wilson, readily seconded by the old lady with fur-lined cape and lip, has been in jail. He was caught with barrels and barrels of red literature in “Brickman, Minnesota.” ‘ He thot that was the place, was sure it was. He had been convicted and yet he was not in the pen. Our courts are no good, he felt. The lawyers try to get justice for these fellows— when fey should get the rope for them. “There is too much of this justice talk,” he meant, and an old lady with fur-trimmed cape and lip applauded, The Chairman, that was a man by the name of Gitlow, a lawyer, and could not the bar association get his license aay from him. It should try, it should. Such a voice he had. Everybody could hear him. He was “astute.” Ruthenberg also was “astute.” They are all “astute” fel- lows. “They have brains and p'ay upon the forcigners—and upon pa.s.r sent. Act at once! raditais, like Poyntz and other n.en of means.” Gitlow, who was ‘h’s Gitlow? He had been in the pen also. Smith had partouea him. He has not repented, this man Gitlow. Now he was chairman of this horrible meet- ing, which shows how much good it does to put some men in jail. Put inte Sate and lip are also dropping and pioneering the path ce! Yes, _ Capitalists Have N Oo Brains the French currency will follow. The British “dock strike, the strike of thou- sands of French workers in many industries, |*" The hereditary owners of the coun- renewed revolutionary activity in Germany, |try’s productive resources are in a the cabinet crisis here and the near-panic in|Pretty tough fix. ‘They need brains By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) From this pea of an outstanding try even, without taking into account representative of the absentee owner those whose work would be simply class it apears that the captains of in- | administrative.” dustry don’t captain any more. The Turning to the inadequacy of the sons and grandsons of the business | present supply to meet. this demand men who by hook or crook managed .est he is by no means pure. Wall Street last Friday, all bear witness to the fact that a tremendous new upheaval is taking place in the capitalist world. The Poincare government is the leader of continental reaction and counter-revolution ; even tho Poincare be succeeded by Clemenceau the unity of purpose of the French imperialists will have been broken and their hold upon the masses weakened. A new wave of revolution ig beating against that breakwater of capitalist society— the capitalist state. # Worried Wall Street Says the New York Times, explaining the near-panic on the stock exchange last Friday, when the bears struck some fell blows that resulted in the Wall Street barometer of pros- perity dropping to “stormy:” It became evident, even before the beginning of last week, that something akin to hysteria was beginning to seize the public mind. The incident of Mr. Vanderlip was only one illustration of the way in which rumor, inference, prediction and insinuation, applied to all kinds of in- dividuals and industries, were affecting excited imaginations. The Times goes on to say that the decline of the list under bear pressure was the result of a “tip,” given by a professional operator, but this hardly accounts for the loss of from three to twelve points by well-known issues, The truth of the matter is that confidence in government has been shaken to such an ex- tent by the Teapot Dome exposures and the promise of further revelations, preceded by the widespread economic breakdown in the agricultural regions, engendering such a grow- ing distrust in the stability of American capital- ism, that it is forced to operate in what may be described as a chronic condition of nation- wide skepticism. It is not surprising that the stock exchange should reflect this national frame of mind. It sys- tem and, while predictions in a period a rapid change are doubly dangerous, we ven- ture the prophecy that from now on the stock presented with one crisis after is the most unstable part of the financial market will be another, ‘ We may witness a real “Black Friday” i Wall Street before the red in November despite the frantic efforts of the financiers to send out rescue expeditions i the stricken provinces. * wee aR and klan elements in the miners’ con-| #g- JOIN THE WORKERS PARTY i] : ’ presidential elections to run the enormously complicated in- dustries which have come into their nossession during the last half cent- ury and they just haven’t got them. Lack of brains is the most serious problem facing industry today, ac- cording to President C, Philip Cole- man of the Worthington Pump & Ma- chinery corporation, one of the lead- ers in the open shop campaign. There is plenty of capital but a scarcity of persons to work with hands and brains. “American industry,” he says, “is faced today with a new problem, the magnitude and gravity of which is not nearly as widely recognized as it should be. It is not a problem of working capital, for the capital re- serves of this country are now so well organized that few conservative and well managed enterprises have diffi- culty in finding investors. Neither is it a problem of labor supply, serious as that problem has become in recent years. The problem is simply one of brains. The industrial army like our military forces in 1917 is seriously short of officer material.” East Meets West--Orient’s Me Written Especially for The Daily Worker Jack Armitage, longkong. Capitalism’s Hunt for Cheap Labor. Wit Southern Europe and Great. Britain rapidly approaching a state of economic chaos, coupled wit a growing discontent the workers; Germany fast to- wards Communism and the Soviet ‘overnment insisting on a, distinct fimitation of profits by those capital- istic concerns which are allowed even the most precarious foothold in Russia, financiers and big industrial- ists are turning their attention to other and what they may prove more servile sources of labor, What then more natural than that they should look to Asia? In_ this eld of cheap labor, the Euro- pean and American capitalist sees visions of amassin; wealth ers Um ath ime, an o} n= yy to apply sufficient economic pres- sure to smash Occidental Trades Unionism and hi | by gered which dares to a bold front in opposition to t! redations of “Fat.” ‘Two factors have, bean responsible 0 rs have ial ga grr of for- in. China, these is the innate esent dep- irst of «version on the part of China to for- oe eavreenes sone. shape or form. je secon rapid growth of a virile labor hes : That the feeling cdnguguaitiea ith | would have the Western wage slave working class eign as lited by to squeeze out competitors and esta- | blish mighty corporations aren’t fit to ‘carry on the leadership. Or it may |s' be that a hereditary genius for gam- bling and sharp practice, which en- abled certain men to emerge victori- ous from the cut-throat competition of the latter part of the 19th century, is not the kind of ability needed for the efficient management of the great productive enterprises which resulted. Henceforth the wealthy owners will become more and hors a leisure class without any function to perform and the actual captaincy of industry will pass to paid or mercenary officers, men technically trained for indus- trial leadership. Coleman is talking to the wealthy classes whose future control of in- dustry depends upon their ability to | t buy the administrative brains which they lack. He is asking them to con- tribute $4,000,000 to be added to the endowmént of Lehigh university which is a technician factory in east- ern Pennsylvania. He estimates that the wealthy leisure class must employ “at least 150,000 engineers in indus- regards exploitation of China’s vast resources’ has been used by the Labor movement as u powerful weapon in their fight with foreign financiers has to be admitted, but this has never be- come the purely racial question which foreign capitalistic believe. A Deliberate Lie. Another deliberate and sinister lie which has been consistently cireu- lated among Occidental ‘workers thru the capitalistic press, is the assertion that there is practically no Labor movement in the East. Only too well do foreign financial Pais pepe realize that both Phe te an apan possess stron, 0 parties which are rapidly po EE to themselves not only the great mass of workers, but the intelligentsia also. Capitalism has already had one or two sharp lessons in this matter, but just so long as workers in other countries can be persuaded that the activities of a “weak” Labor move- ment in Asia are confined to anti- European prcpaganda, wiil the posi- tion remain dangerous and foreign exploiters manage to maintain a foot- hold in Asia, meanwhile praying to Mars and Mammon tor an oppor- tunity to finally enslave the prole- tariat of the whole world. The Lie Refuted. ‘ Both the contention that the Labor movement in Asia is weak and that its activities are confined to anti-for- » have been discred- repeated actions of Chin- aL, | tion is in progress. become more and more divorced from any active part in the business of {society. The owners will cease to be necessary. They will be nothing but consumers who live in idleness and luxury on the basis of a vested right to the productive work of others. The business of producing and distribut- ing the goods which people require will be carried on by the workers with hand and brain from the unskilled laborer up to the professional direc- says: “The progress of industry has - . outstripped the progress of technical education and to meet the ituetion the technical schools must Prepare to provide a better all-around training to a greater number of more \carefully selected students.” Such remarks means that a revolu- ership will or. The absentee owners will have to justify their continuing to be a burden on the productive work of others by reference to some vague ability-of an ancestor many genera- tions back, The Land for the Users! ese and Japanese labor organizations, Among these may be mentioned the message from the Chinese Seam Union to the workers of Australia published in the Queensland er”; but never has the lie received commentators|a more direct and incontrovertible refutation than by the following ter, sent Union Sacramento, en’s, 5 “Work- let- by the Chinese Seamen’s to Governor Richardson, California: CHINESE SEAMEN’S UNION 88 Ching Hoi Road (Third Floor) ANTON Cc. Canton, December 15, 1923, Hon. Governor Richardson, State House, Sacramento, California. The members of the Chinese Seamen's Union have learned with no little astonishment and dismay that nearly one hundred American workingmen are in prison try, and We are sorry it alleged that our fellow working- men are being subjected to such lleled even in AS WE SEE IT By T, J. O’FLAHERTY. Even Diogenes would take Ton Arthur from Montana for an hones man. After one look at this chun of protoplasm the old Greek wouli drop his lantern and declare hi quest ended. Tom Arthur is honest He admits it, He has not acceptet a couple of millions from Doheny Furthermore he is a “progressiv’ democrat” and gupports McAdoo fo1 the demograt nomination for presi dent. 7 the McAdoo eonference it the Crystal Room of the Great Nor thern Hotel, bluff old Tom shed ofly tears over the dereliction of th present republican administration which was turning over the oil re sources of the country in grea squirts to the oil trust. * * But alas, tho Tom Arthur is hes has oil in his system. It is true it it not trustified oil. It maintains its independence and it has not yet beer “caught.” Tom ig a friend of Senato, Walsh, the nemesis of oil republicans’ The senator from Montana sent Ton) a telegram telling all and sundry) how high Wilson's heir stood in th estimation of the Teapot prosecutor Tom de-oiled McAdoo. Then the re publician sleuths got busy and turne the hose on Tom. Now he is warned to keep away from fire. This ig the story: se # @ Tom is an employe of the Mutua and Continental oil companies, Hy was formerly an employe of tht Mutual but when it was gobbled uy by the Continental it took Tom ints its system, so to speak. It lookr like an infant Trust, Perhaps Senator Walsh succeeds in killing the Sinclair and Doheny trusts the in fant might have a chance of reach ing man’s estate. Now Tom admi' that he is an employe of the o! company. Ah, but there is a big difference between being an employs and being a “pal” of an oil trus head. MeAdoo, for instance, accepted $250,000 from Doheny for helping te purchase the salable part Of the Mexiean government. Fall took » paltry $100,000 for leasing a Dome Fall lost his head. McAdoo may bt our next president. McAdoo got hit by check. Fall took his compensa tion in a satchel. That is the big difference, tee etsy ng t Tom Arthur no doubt does no carry his salary away every Sab urday evening in a barrel. He tucky it away in his vest pocket. He it an employe and not on intimate satchel orne with his boss. “Out in Montana they call me a bolshe vik,” says Honest Tom. Governor Dixon does not call hin a bolshevik, or even a militant dem ocrat. He calls him a militant of man, Listen: “During the legislative session of 1921 Thomas Arthur was actively and as seer in charge of tht legislative oil lobby to defeat the tax on crude oil. ~ 2 “During that session, following hit open boast at the Billings hotel that he had manipulated and witnessed the votes of eight legislators, | called the attention of the legislature in a special message to his boasted declaration. “A senate legislative committee investigation followed, but the majority committee report white washed him in spite of overwhelm ing testimony.” * * * Alvin York, the long-legged here of Tennessee who killed almost as many dead Germans as Micky O'Leary, went down in defeat a few years ago before a fire which burned $12,000 worth of his property. York was more fortunate than the ue returned war hero having a go press agent and a lively imagination, With an eye to future imbroglio; where a few men like York woul make the pesegsity of organizing large army superfluous, militant ani wealthy patriots raised a large sum of money to enable York to purchas¢ a farm. It appears that the farm has now gone up in smoke, like York’s war record. How many of your shop-mate: THE DAILY WORKER. Get ie > them to subscribe today, reply is received from you in reasonable length of time the me: bers of the Chinese Seamen’ Union will understand that Ameri can workingmen are the subjects of a brutal and unjust persecution, and it is certain that our mem- bers will then demand that some economic action be taken which will bring your attention and alsa the attention of all American capi- talists, to the fact that the work. ing class of the world will na longer permit without protest the persecution and imprisonment of wi ywhere, a better world, CHINESE SEAMEN’S UNION, It is quite possible that Governoy Richardson wit see fit to “overlook” such an “unimportant” document un+ less his memory is jogged. Herewith the necessary jog. The Great Working Class Slogan. In conclusion, let it be clearly uns derstood that this great Labor moves ment, which ere long will be one of the jpaineipel factors in shaping the destinies of Asia, makes no sepa for financial aid, What is desired by those who walk daily under the ass sassin’s knife and ‘the headsman'a sword in their fight for Sut class emancipation, is that Occiden' workers ges Paes hand fellowship which is being exten by the Orient, in the belief that La: bor should know race, no creed, other than the great working. class slogan “Liberty and Equality.’ * Y ssage to the Occident_ ae