The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1924, Page 6

‘General’s’ side of the story, we know in ad- THE DAILY WORKER Monday, February 25, 1924 OT ‘THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., ‘Chicago, Ill. i (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 } ....Editors WILLIAM F. DUNNE §""""**""** chi MORITZ J. LOEB .Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. GP Advertising rates on application. — “‘Holier Than Thou’’ We are in receipt of some publicity from the democratic party national committee. It is especially interesting in view of the known penchant of Samue! Gompers for democrat administrations and the recent endorsement of McAdoo by railway officials of the Conference for Progressive Political Action. The republican administration is called ‘the most scandalous in history”; it is stated that it “humiliated the best element in their party and have given new impetus to extreme radicalism “which is antagonistic to our form of government and more or less antago- nistic to all férms of government.” (Emphasis ours.) After citing a few more misdemeanors of their republican opponents, the democrat publicists conclude: What a deplorable contrast to the eight years of Wilson’s administrations which successfully conducted the greatest war in all history, and which, after searching in- vestigation of Republican committees, was shown to have a record free from a single national scandal. Passing over the debatable statement that the Wilson administration was free from scan- dal, we call attention to the accomplishment with which the democrats point with pride— plunging the nation into a struggle which no sane statesman dare defend today. (The endorsement of McAdoo by the officials of the railway unions affiliated with the Con- ference for Progressive Political Action is evi- dence that these gentlemen are prepared to campaign for the Wilson son-in-law upon the war record of himself and his wife’s father. This would surely be a dainty dish to set before the American workers and farmers— especially the farmers who are now reaping their share of the harvest of misery that the war sowed in all countries. With skepticism the primary requisite for Chicago, Illinois | the distrust of government the Teapot Dome revelations have caused. This is an accurate guide to the amount of enmity existing between the democrat tweedle-dum and the republican tweedle-dee. ‘His Side of the Story’’ The threat of Attorney-General Daugherty in refusing the request of Senators Pepper and Lodge to resign from the attorney general- ship is one of the most astounding develop- ments in the whole Teapot explosion. Attor- ney General Daugherty, arch grafter and pace maker in corruption, has told the Old Guard of his party to keep their hands off his job on the pain of his taking “his side of the story” to the people. There is no telling what Attorney-General Daugherty might say once he decided to take the lid off. This threat of the Attorney Gen- eral may put the quietus on the belated efforts of his colleagues to force his resignation. Daugherty’s oil deals may have struck the death blow to his tenure of office but the At- ‘torney-General will go when the going suits him best and not when kis friends demand his head in order to save their own skins. We would like to hear “his side of the story.” We believe that if Attorney-General Daugherty would come forward and tell only a small fraction of what he knows about the workings of the government that he would for the first time in his excessively prolonged poli- tical life, render a service of inestimable value to the working and farming people of this country. Daugherty could tell us something about Senator Pepper and his relations with the Pennsylvania Railroad and the United States Steel Corporation. The Attorney-Gen- eral might even tell us about the great interest Lodge has in recent years been developing in the protection of the coal magnates. jWho is there who knows the government better than Attorney-General Daugherty, a past master in the art of prosecuting innocent working men and protecting criminal capital- ists?) The reactionary capitalists controlling the republican machine are up against jt. When Fall threatened to expose some of the morally indignant gentlemen who were work- ing overtime denouncing his political dishon- esty, the Senate was quick to take him off the witness stand on the plea that further talking on his ‘part before the investigation committee might endanger the government’s case against him. ve would like to hear the Attorney- Much wance, that we are doomed to disappointment because we are convinced that the political wizards running the governmental machinery of today, will resort to some ingenious subter- fuge to stop Daugherty from telling “his side of the story.” @e- JOIN THE WORKERS PARTY “eu ct ~ The Johie-of It All . It’s no extraordinary event for the principal actors in the puppet show on Capitol Hill to lash themselves into fury over the sacredness of the interests of the people to whose service| they tell the world they are dedicated. But the joke of-it all is that at the crucial moment, when their fury is about to break forth abate and the country is anxiously awaiting for deeds to put an end of the bed- lam of words, we are treated to a complete right-about-face and a refusal to do anything at all. The ruling clss of this country has set up innumerable devices to hide the class charac- ter of our much vaunted democracy. One of the tricks most frequently employed in the game of blurring the dictatorial nature of our Republic is the apparently innocent Senate rule that no senator is permitted to impugn the motives of his colleagues. In one of the vigor- ous debates agitating the Senate the other day, Mr. Ashurst of Arizona, implied that the gen- tleman from Colorado, Mr. Phipps, had voted on a certain measure with due consideration of his own interests involved in this particular piece of legislation. Immediately Mr. Ash- urst was called to order and ruled off the floor for impugning the motives of his worthless colleague from Colorado. Everybody knows that Senator Phipps is a member of the Phipps family, one of the big- gest share holders of the United States Steel Corporation. Everybody knows, as well, that in the consideration of the Fordney-McCum- ber tariff steal, Mr. Phipps lined up with the reactionary regul@rs and thus did not forget his own economic interests—the shares he owned in the Steel Corporation. Yet, Senator Cummins, who has had years of experience in serving .big business, particularly the rail- roads, in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate, believes that he can fool the masses about the functions of the Senate, by apply- ing this technical rule to hide the motives animating the individual Senators. The workers and farmers of this country are not especially concerned with the motives of any individual in the government apparatus that is now employed by the capitalist class to pe et them. The workers and farmers are primarily concerned with the conflict of eco- nomic class interests. The workers and farm-, ers know that whether one senator is per- mitted to impugn the motives of another or not, the unchallengable fact remains that the| government as a whole is dedicated to the pro-| tection of the class interests of the industrial and financial magnates a'gainst the class inter- ests of the working and farming people. The American Serf Economists of the Department of Agricul- ture have just completed a survey of the con- ditions of the truck farming workers in New Jersey. Among. the 683 interviewed by the! government investigators, four-fifths did skilled work. Forty per cent of these workers had no other trade. The average earnings, from all sources, were slightly under $600 a year in 1921. In some cases many of these farm workers eke out their existence by managing to secure farm supplies and house room in- directly, that, is thru special arrangements with their employers. ‘On such limited earnings the workers have to practice strict economy and have little to spend on recreation and ad- vancement.” The seasonal character of farm labor tends to aggravate the unsatisfactory conditions. The increasing use of farm machinery and the growing need of skill in caring for the perish- able products, make the lot of the mass of un- skilled more miserable. Under these circum- stances the low pay of the farm workers trans- lates itself into their being denied the most elementary needs of education, home and so- cial life. Thus, three-fifths of the workers under 16 years of age, who should have been attending at least continuation schools, were not making normal progress in their school work. Out of 140 children of the farm labor- ers only 58 were making normal progress. Thirty-seven per cent were two to six years behind in their normal grades. Very few of the adult workers have had the advantage of a high school education. Practically none of them has been to college. The foreign-born worker has received less education than the native-born. Of this group investigated about two-thirds had no ambition to rent, own or operate a farm. Apparently the intense exploitation of these workers has stifled all hope in them. Nearly one-third of them did not know whether they would stick to agriculture or not. Almost as many had no savings whatever. This is the condition confronting the work- ers in every industry operated on a capital- ist basis. In the industries that are less de- veloped, for instance the agricultural industry, the wage workers very often find themselves denied even the most elementary needs and as a rule have a lower standard of living than the average worker of the highly developed industry. Progressive senators claim that the enter- prising Mr. Burns has all their telephones tapped. Senators may fiind it hard work under these conditions, but we Communists have been ac- customed to it for some time. . Why not rename the president’s residence “Heartbreak House” since James J. Davis, steel trust secretary of labor, has admitted that the cabinet is “heartbroken” over the oil graft scandal. : nothing to fear from the Red Army’s bayonets. Its force is only and expl directed against o; S8OFs Trotsky se ¥ The laboring masses of all countries ne | Seeoqens } compass” and discovered what is. be- eteaboneedoe-aegrtecpectrciedatetodateededteatertetetenbetentntetenentertentnnietotosteteaeientese SOLVED “MYSTERY OF FAULTY COMPASS” : AND DISCOVERED COLOSSAL IRON DEPOSITS : z az 2. EW YORK, Feb. 24.—He solved the “mystery of the crooked lieved to be the world’s largest iron deposit. Called in to help solve a problem that puzzled other scientists of the country, Dr. Peter Lasareff ex- amined a compass in the province of Kursk, in Russia, that was being deviated by a mysterious cause, fol- lowed a trail that led several hundred miles, and found a whole mountain range of iron. The huge deposit had become magnetized and was disrupt- ing the compass much like a “divin- ing rod” might be expected to do. Dr. Lasareff is now visiting the United States informally in the in- terest of scientific development in his revolutionary country. He brought with him from the land of the Sov- iets news of marvelous new achieve- ments of science. The doctor, who ig director of the Russian National Physical Institute, in Moscow, is telling of the discovery of a method of keeping a man’s sev- ered hand alive and growing in noth- ing but pure air, and of researches in electrionic acitivity. showing why and how man’s nerves see and hear and feel and taste. He says investigations of the operation of man’s nerves indicated that the nerve centers, as the brain, for instance, in a state of activity, create waves in the surrounding ether. Waves Measured. He has gone so far as to deter- mine the approximate length of these waves and says that such phenomena as mind reading, hyp: notism and mental telepathy “will probably be explained thru these waves.” His laboratory is now en: gaged in the task of investigating these waves, aiming to detect and study them. Lasareff told how he happened to discover the gigantic iron deposits. “It had ‘been observed that. in a certain section of the province or Kursk, in Russia, the magnetic needle was deflected from the nor- mal, This mysterious action of the needle aroused much speculation. So an expedition was sent out. We found, 450 feet underground, the most colossal.deposit of iron ore yet Dr. Peter Lasareff. discovered in the world, a deposit vastly larger than any other. “Some idea of the enormous size of the find may be gained by com- paring it with the largest deposit hitherto discovered, that in Sweden, which is 10 kilometers long and two kilometers broad. “Our newly-found deposit consists of two strips, 250 kilometers long and 2 to 40 kilometers broad. We have already bored down 170 meters into this iron ore and have not yet struck bottom. And our new ore is of fine quality, the top samples show 40 to 45 per cent pure iron.” Dead Hand “Lives.” Then he gave news of another world wonder, “Russian scientific. activity has recently produced anéther remark- able phenomenon—Dr. Kravnoy has succeeded in keeping ‘alive’ for about one year, the severed hand of a man,” said Lasareff. “My friend, Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Medical Institute here, has, I know, kept a tiny piece of chicken heart alive for years, feeding it regularly with a ‘nutri- tious solution. But Dr. Kravnov, of the Military Medical Academy, of Petrograd, has succeeded in an ex- periment. that has quite different factors. He has kept this hand ‘alive’ and growing for about 12 months, now, without feeding. He has merely kept it in pure, germ- free air. The growth of the finger nails and the growth of the hair on the back of the hand is visible. If the hair is shaved it grows again.” Dr.. Lasareff regards the three new giant Moscow radio towers as notable achievements in Russian engineering. “There are two wooden masts 450 meters high and one steel tower of the same height,” he said. “The steel tower is a sort of lattice work, and while it is half as high as the Eiffel tower in Paris, it has only one-tenth of the weight of Eiffel tower.” Dr. Lasareff himself drew the architectural plans for the insti- tute, of which he is director. He did this before the revolution and work, was commenced on the build- ing. in 1917, : “The new government permitted the work to go on and is supporting the institution,” he said. Japanese Girls Work Twelve Hours, Kept in Confinement, But Happy, Says Mikado Consul By RITSUTARO INOUYE pecial to The ki 31 _ NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—On the eve of the Japanese im- perialist government sending twenty-nine Communist leaders to prison for their intention to form a.Communist government, Jeanette Pearl, American Communist speaker and labor educa- tor, spoke before the Japanese-American Young Men’s associa- tion from the same platform with Mr. Saito, imperial Consulate General of New York. She spoke first of the attit tional toward race problems, saying that the Communist Inter- national makes no racial dis-| crimination within the laboring) class, all races of whatever color or language being equal “T am a member of the Com- munist International,” she went on, “and have no race preju- dices, so my criticisms of the Japanese government’s policy toward the working class is not at all due to any prejudice against the Japanese people. “Fifty years ago Japan was an un- known country on the map of the civilized world: today she is one of the most powerful nations from an industrial standpoint. Z import- ance is not, as in most countries, due to her natural resoure: rather to the low value of lab order to maintain Japan’s ind 1 importance on a plane with that of England and America the Japanese Imperialist government has practical- ly enslaved labor, and those who have endeavored to emancipate labor have been brutally persecuted.” 5 She explained further what com- munism is and where the communist international stands and gave a vivid picture of the persecution of the twenty-nine communists before the Japanese earthquake. Among those twenty-nine communists were Com- rades Sakai, Yamakawa, Inomata, Takatsu, and other young militant workers, Those comrades were ar- rested last June without having com- mitted any crime but that of having tried to organize the communist party and kept in prison for six months without any trial. Comrade Pearl then accused the Japanese government of having de- layed the trial of these twenty-nine communists in order that there might be no sentence for which they might be pardoned at the time of the mar- riage of the Prince Regent when a general amnesty was declared and forty thousand prisoners (most of them robbers, murderers, and other criminals) were either released or re- lieved of the major burden of their *evGne then spoke of the Imperialist e then spoke of the Im government's leniency mith ig Senn who having killed the anarchist leader, his bi and their seven year old nephew during earthquake in September, was in. the first place sentenced to only ten years, too short a term by m: years for the killing of three people, and ote os Prince redus seven half Pansy only and assured that he would not be treated as a in rison, as are the communists who fave committed no crime. She spoke too of the nine com- munist and aes ye leaders vie were murdere' japanese at Kameido police station during the earthquake for no other reason than that they were militant trade ists and working class leaders, soldiers burned the corpses victims in order to hide Daily Worker) ude of the Communist Interna- His Uncle Murdered MANEKAZU: TACHIBANA A nephew of Osugi, Japanese radical, murdered by the Fascisti militarist, Captain Amakau, following the recent earthquake in Japan. which was aggravated, so the report goes, by the fact that the working class leaders sang the Japanese revo- lutionary hymn ‘in the police station. One of the other prisoners in the police station the same night with these victims, however, claims that no dienc revolutionary hymn was sung or other disturbance caused by them. As for the. five hundred Koreans who were cold-bloodedly murdered by Japanese imperial militarists during the earth- quake, Comrade Pearl, said that these were victims of an imperialistic deter- mination to id stro the movement in Korea to establish an independent government, a determination carried out by the scientific spreading of rumor, at a time when the mob was hysterically capable of believing any- thing, that the Koreans led by com- munists were marching toward the imperial palace to overthrow the gov- ernment, and murdering innocent refugees and raping women and young girls on their way. result of this scientifically cates out determination was the murder of five hyndred Koreans, but no one has ever heard whether the murderers were ever tried. Before the earthquake there was a liberal element in Japan (which opposed the law the government introduced in the diet limiting freedom of the press and speech. During the earthquake this law was passed by the pronounce- ment of the Prince Regent. There- fore Japanese communists and trade unionists have no voice or power to organize labor. But so long as the capitalist system exists the commun- ist movement will exist, whether or not the government tried to suppress it. The only task of the communists in Japan under the circumstances is to organize the revolutionary trade unions, to educate them politically and industrially to use their power of organization against capitalism. Comrade Pearl was mwhole-hearted- ly greeted by the audience, Mr. Saito, representative of imperialist Japan answered very stupidly. For instance “There are no two classes in A del ensued between Comrade Pearl and Saito. The more Mr. Saito tried to explain about con- ditions in Japan, the more Comrade Pearl picked out the worse part of Japanese labor conidtions and when Comrade Pearl finally said that the Japanese working girls in spinning mills work ten or twelve hours a day and get very ‘small amount of wage and are detained in factory, hav- ing no freedom for social once ‘a week, ‘and added “Isn’t that true,. Mr. Saito?” Mr. “Yes, but they are ve happy,” laughter burst from the ent governments. istan, China, Japan, Mongolia, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Esthonia. The official condolences from the Mexican government, published in the DAILY WORKER, and those which the Chilean government was forced to send thru the insistence of the socialist members of parliament had not yet been * Among the important governments mi from the list are France and the United States. Poincare and pore are the two irreconcilables. It is interesting to note that only the Communist and but also Lenin’s Death Mourned By Almost Every Nation But U. S. and France| By ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG. ~ i (Special to The Daily Werker) ' NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Issues of Russian papers covering the first three days after Lenin’s death show that condolences had already been received in Moscow from about twenty differ- These include England, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Austria, Cheko-Slovaki Sweden, Norway, , Turkey, Persia, Afghan- Sam Gompers, in common with his friend Hughes, was, of conspicuous by his absence the mourners of the Soviet leader. The street lamp eaid: “Regard that woman Whe hesitates towards you in the light of the door AS.WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. of the Outlook, has a happy way of looking at things. He does not see things as we see them, There is less radicalism in this country today than there was in 1922 he informed the National Republicgn Club, New York, He found a lot of confidence and cool headedness abroad, partie, ularly among the farmers. Our read- ers may remember that Teddy Roose- velt once wrote for the Outlook and that Teddy discovered the River of Doubt. Mr. Rogers must have sat in the late Theodore’s chair or in some way contracted the habit of ob- serving imaginary phenomena, There may be confidence somewhere in the country but it is not wasted on the Republican administration or on the million dollar Democratic errand boys of the oil trust, “8 G HERMAN Rogers, associate “| Of course Mr. Rogers was wildly applauded when he finished his haran- gue. The bosses like to be told what they like to hear and their literary poodles pass them the honey. Why not? The latter have no scruples and they know the fat men are legalized robbers so why not rob the robbers? While Mr. Rogers was offering con- solation to the supporters of the Tea- pot Dome administration, John N. Dyer, director of the American Farm Bureau was telling the Illinois Lum- ber Merchant’s Association that agri- culture was in a worse condition to- day than it has been any: time in the last four years and that 625,000 farmers are bankrupt, This is what has made the workers and farmers 80 cool, Well, Well. ‘se ® Policemen are beginning to inter- pret duty in a manner that Ides ill to the citizen going about his business unprotected by armor plate or other safety devices. Fifteen persons were killed by New York policemen duri: the past year in the performance o! duty. The number slaughtered by the Chicago police is not given. We un- derstand that several adding ma- chines are working day, and night on the tally. 5,206 New Yorkers died of violence during the year 1928. That is quite a record for peaceful America. oe ft @ Ramsay MacDonald used a novel argument in supporting his order to begin the immediate construction of seven warships. He did not care a fig for the battleships, but the unem- ployed must be given work. They could be employed turning swords in- to pruning hooks or something like that, couldn’t they? Ramsay is a pacifist. His coming to office gave Oswald Garrison Villard a happy week but we fear that gentleman will suffer a severe relapse when he reads that his hopeful fell by the wayside. “es @ @ It should be distinctly understood that we do not criticise the British Labor Party government for building warships. We condemn them for building warships in order to uphold the capitalist system. The Soviet government of Russia also builds battleships and bg en a large army, but with a different purpose than which moves Ramsay Mac- Donald. The Russian workers build war machines to defend the revolu- tion of the workers. MacDonald builds it to use against the workers and the exploited subject races that support the ruling class of Britain. Only a few days ago we read in the news dispatches that British troops in India shot down scores of rebel Hindus—under a British Labor Party vernment, This is bad news, not t we did not expect it, because we know our MacDonald, but the work- ers do not know him and his tribe and they will be disco for a while. But not for long. e conditions of life are getting harsher and harsher and they roll over and flatten out dis- appointments as a tank flattens out a toad that comes in .its way. The workers of Russia were disappointed in the Kerensky socialists but they tried the communists and won with them. The British workers will do the same. oe @ @ It did not take Calvin Coolidge very long to set the machinery in motion for bringing about the se of the so-called “lost legion” now serving terms of imprisonment for various violations of the army regulations. The capitalist press is furious because the political prisoners were x loose while men who wore the uni- whose cago Tribune is so in- terested. We. find that the great ity of the serving time for eh cel spoon rape, attempt- Jed rape, sodomy, burglary, hi; » highway robbery, larceny, embezzlement, etc. Of course they fought for the flag, and really are no worse morally than those who committed murder legally and robbed the count under the cloak of frit sim) the ship swindler Morse who was defended by McAdoo. s. \ ii