The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1924, Page 6

Page Six 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..3 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 Chicago, Illinois batbere Editors Business Manager i 1, 1923 3 Post- Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928 at the Pos Dffice at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. i Advertising rates on application. Why Hide? The investigation of the Fall leases of the naval oil reserves involves the most vital inter- ests of the working and farming masses of the country. Big as the natural resources at stake, in the crooked transactions between a clique of government officials and the Doheny-Sinclair band may be, there are infinitely more import- ant phases to this investigation. No one can seriously dispute the fact that the disclosures to date have already made it clear, even to the most cynical, that the Tea- pot Dome affair has brought into bold relief the whole question of the role of government in our economic class society. More than ever before, great masses of workers and farmers are beginning to be convinced that the whole @overnmental system of this country is unfitted to respond to the interest of those who work. Under these circumstances, the workers and farmers must demand that the Teapot Dome investigation proceed in the open. We must force the Government to hold the hearings of the Walsh Committee openly, so that the labor- ing and farming masses can get as much infor- | mation and enlightenment as possible out of the proceedings which concern them more vitally than any other social group. 4 It is a.crime for the Government to permit the continuation of secret sessions by the Public Lands Committee. The investigators have no right to conceal any information from the workers. The committee should go to the root of the matter and stop holding sessions behind closed doors. There is no room for secrecy in dealing with the fate and resources of the hundred million workers and farmers of the nation. Hughes’ Purity Many people ask why our Secretary of State, Mr. ok orig has not yet been drawn into the ———vi} 4candal—The-failure-to.subpoena Hughes whose State Department is notorious for its services to the Standard Oil interests, has given many the belief that this bewhiskered savant of international capitalist oil diplo- macy has clean hands. : If the Norris resolutions are ever complied with by the State Department the country will be treated to substantial information about the extent to which Mr. Hughes has oil on his hands. But we believe that there is already sufficient evidence at hand to warrant the call- ing of our Secretary of State for a thoro cross examination by the Teapot committee. Some time ago Mr. Hughes recommended the acceptance of a house for the American embassy in Mexico City at the hands of Mr. Doheny. In view of the fact that oil has been the major factor in the foreign policies of our State Department, we feel certain that this Mexican incident necessitates the immediate examination of Mr. Hughes. The conduct of the government in Colombia, Turkey, Mexico, and in the question of Russian recognition be- trays a stranglehold by the most powerful oil interests on the State Department. The rela- tions between Mr. Hughes ‘ad these oil mag- nates and the dealings between other cabinet members and the-Sinclair-Doheny group are closely interlaced. The Public Lands committee has summoned| Teapot mess. THE DAILY WORKER counsel” could show that Fall and Denby acted entirely within.the law and that “the Govern- ment actually made profit on the leases.” Let no one fear that Fall will not have ‘“‘competent counsel.” . To those who are not aware of the primary function of capitalist government this might sound strangely incomprehensible. However, we have seen the government too much at! work to forget that the role of the State under) capitalism is to maintain and: perpetuate the} present private property system and its at- tendant exploitation of the great mass of ex-) propriated rural and city workers. The great! steal perpetrated by our cabinet officers with the able assistance of several senators and congressmen is perfectly legal because it very well falls in line with the general capitalist purpose of securing iron-clad control of the natural resources and the means of produc-| tion and exchange. The Capitalist Chierts That the courts are tools in the hands of the employers against the workers is now recog- nized as an axiomatic truth by a great section of the working class. The other day the Supreme Court denied the petition of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers and the Brotherhood of Railway Train- men for a review of the injunction granted the Pacific Electric Railway during the 1918 strike. This decision of the Supreme Court is tanta- mount to a ukase preventing the workers from organizing into unions. At this time while so many people are opti- mistic that the courts will mete out punishment to the despoilers of the country’s oil reserves and other natural resources, it is particularly appropriate to rip the veil off the judiciary. Our aristocrats of the robe hiding behind the thinnest of judicial abstractions are the most reliable servants of the employing class. In the code of our court system property comes first. The decision against the railway work- ers is based on the belief of the Supreme Court Judges that in this particular instance proper- ty would be seriously endangered if the work- ers were permitted to organize. Likewise, we would not be surprised to find the courts de- claring Fall, Doheny, McLean, Burns, and men of their ilk, innocent because a decision against them would tend to discredit the property sys- tem they represent. An examination of the record of our state and federal courts shows very clearly that our judges as a class, come from the employer group, that the courts protect the giant rob- beries committed by the capitalists, that they are too expensive for the poor, even if the workers could put trust in them, and that they serve to help the employing class against the working class. When the Supreme Court refused to -review the petition of the Railway unions, it was simply pursuing its time-dishonored policy of serving the capitalist class in decisive tests of strength against the exploited masses. In the eyes of the courts the solidarity of the workers is a crime.. The court system with its ap- pointed judges and life-long terms of office tenure is a dictatorship of those who own over those who work. The Supreme Court is the apex of this strike breaking state machinery— the government of, by, and for the bosses against the workers and poor farmers. The Unholy Trinity ae role played by the three fiendish en- emies of organized labor, Palmer, Daugherty and Burns, is one of the outstanding revelations of the oil scandal, in so far as the working class ig concerned. In the annals of the American working class there could not be found three more notorious foes of the workers and farmers than this galaxy of strikebreakers. Yet, it is these very individuals, who have overworked themselves suppressing the labor movement in the name of “law and order,” that have now been caught doing the dirtiest work in the whole filthy Former Attorney-General witnesses for less substantial reasons than are|Palmer who proclaimed his anxiety for the present in the case of Mr. Hughes. W mand that our Secretary of State be imme- diately subpoenaed and that full light be shed on his dealings with the Doheny and other oil interests. Perfectly Legal We de-| Security of the country far and wide and threw into jails hundreds of innocent workingmen, has been shown to be the guardian angel of McLean and Sinclair, two of the most ‘daring plunderers of the country’s resources. Harry M. Daugherty, the attorney-general who threatened to call the Whole army into action against the railway workers, and who organized an army of 6,000 strike-breaking We fervently hope that the workers and|deputy marshals and perhaps an even larger farmers will not fall a prey to the loud wail- ings of illegality now being raised by many liberal purists against the Fall leases. In these days of history and hysteria it’s no easy task to avoid being buncoed when so many traps are set for the unitiated. Yet we will take a chance on saying that after the lid is put on the Teapot, the Coolidge oil investigators won’t find much evidence of illegality in the whole filthy transaction. Moral turpitude and ethical corruption are one thing and proving criminal guilt is quite another. Already, we have been told that the committee hasn’t a. single document affording it a necessary legal basis on which to prose- cute in the courts. The documents needed to enable successful prosecution have been stolen in the usual manner that precedes legal] actions in political scandals, * And a prominent Republican has boasted to the writer that, to date, “there isn’t a thing that they have got on Fall” on which they could convict him. As a matter of fact, this re- publican spellbinder and legal expert even con- tended that he felt certain that “competent xX number of nondescript detective-gangsters in order to smash the shop craft strike, has now been exposed as the arch-protector of the Doheny clique. William J. Burns, whose name spells infamy and disgust to every workingman in this coun- try, has been compelled to confess publicly his crooked relations with the oil thieves. The next time that any officer of the govern- ment, whether he be democratic, republican, or liberal, takes any steps against the workers and farmers movements in this country, it will be very much in order for the workingmen to find out who are the real masters of these self- proclaimed saviors. On the basis of our past experience, par- ticularly with this strikebreaking trinity of Palmer, Daugherty and Burns, we can safely say that it will invariably be found that those who are most vociferous in their declaration of loyalty to the government and in their in- sistence on law and order, are the most ener- getic defenders of the millionaire capitalist criminals and the most dangerous enemies of the working '«"~ | in @ near-by park. Are You Reading By IURY LIBEDINSKY Published by THE DAILY WORK- ER thru special arrangement with B. W. Huebsch, Inc., of New York City. Coyprighted, 1923, by B. W. Huebsch & Co. on * % (WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE) he Russian Communist Party branch is governing this frontier city and fighting the counter- revolution, Earlier installments tell of the fuel] shortage that pre- vents geed grain from being fetched on the railroad. The Party meeting decides to send the Red Army far away for fuel, at the risk of leaving the city open for bandits and counter-revolutionists. It also decides to conscript the local bourgeoisie ‘for wood cutting Varied types of party members are flashed on the screen: Klimin, the efficient president of thé branch, who still finds time to have a sweetheart; Robeiko, the consumptive, whose devotion is killing him; Gornuikh, the brilliant youth of 19 on the Cheka; Matusenko, the luxury- loving place-hunter and Stalmak- hov, a practical workingman revo- lutionist. Gornuikh, disguised as peasant, overhears talk in the market place about a plot of counter-revolutionists to seize the town while the Red Army is away getting wood. The Communist company is summoned. The last issue ends with the counter-revolu- tionary forces bursting into the house of the druggist Senator, a room of which has been comman- « deered by the communists for Com- rade Robeiko. ‘Lisa, a school teacher gazes at the mob with horror-stricken | eyes—NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY). - + 6 #8 & CHAPTER X—Continued. ROSS e in his underclothes, a bloody weal cutting across his face, stood with his hands bound, barefoot on the cold floor. Repin was immediately in front of Robeiko; Lisa saw his eagle’S nose in profile. As always, he was cleanly shaved, but, instead of his Red Army helmet, he was wearing a black fur hat with a blue ribbon; he was smoking and slashing with a nagaika (whip) at his polished boots. Lisa, glancing at the na- gaika, knew at once the origin of the weal on Robeiko’s face. And there, from Repin to Ro- beiko, from Robeiko to Repin, shaking his fists in Robeiko’s face, shouting and gesticulating, was Senator, little and fat, in a blue waistcoat without-a coat. .. . “Ha! Comrade Robeiko! Now I can talk to you... . Once morg, as an equal to an equal, Do y hear, you convict, as an equal to an equal? Your robber band requisitioned my_shop. . . . I said nothing. You searched me, arrest- ed me for speculation. ... 1 said nothing. You forcibly planted yourself in my hduse and did not pay rent... . Still I said nothing; The Communist International months have not been heard from except as factors in crushing work- ~ By ROBERT MINOR. ©* the 5th of March, 1919, came together in Moscow the group that founded the Communist Inter- national. Russia was beleaguered at the time, The kind of-men and women who go to Moscow for revo- lutionary purposes could not have easy passage to the borders of that country. The great capitalist na- tions had just finished the war and were planning to clean up its debris in rushing out the revolution, Russia was practically sealed by a “sanitary cordon.” The little gath- ering which formed the Communist International was, therefore, not made up entirely of persons sent there for the purpose. But all were men and women known to be repre- sentative in some respect of the revolutionary workers of their re- spective countries. It was a little handful. But it was initiated by a party that. had a revo- lution to its ecredit—the Russian Communist Party. 2 It was the fashion am the es- tablished leaders of social thru- out the world to jeer at little new International. Grown fat and given the illusion of strength thru their support by bourgeois i > ments, the “socialist” party ders of all countries were contemptuous. “Why form another International?” they cried. “Haven’t we already an Intenational a thousand times as strong as this contemptible gather. (By telegraph) Ou. red by mass en; e! created by the failure of the So class struggle, arose of the wor! | Olgin Greets International as Beacon Light to the New World _By MOISSAYE J. OLGIN wrought by the world war—out murder and pr Fa Uo ap to the ideale of the e Thind (Communist) Tateraetignatt ths topes Thursday, March 6, 1924 What Do You Think of Our First Story? The DAILY WORKER wants to ers think of the it offers ‘to its have published 's of this gripping appears today. What do you think of the ite setting, its character, as far as gone? We want our read- t us know. Write down and send them in to the DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St... Chicago, Il, W. publish as many of these lette we can fi e for. . Don’ lay. Write today. What could I do? the Vice... . Vice-Pres-Ex-Com or the Vice-PYes-Ex-Sov, devil take you together* with all your titles! .. . A whole Governor! . . .” Lack of breath interrupted Raphael Antonovitch, but he took breath and screamed still shriller: “Now is the end of you.. They will shoot you all, like mad dogs, and tomorrow I shall take down the placard from my shop. Do you hear? From my shop. Yes, I am rich. You hear, I am a bour- geois, and always will be one... . You were a ragamuffin vagabond and always will be... . You say nothing? Speak, Comrade Robeiko, since you are such a good orator. Make a speech, please, for the last time. We'd like to hear you. ...” Senator made an artificial, re- spectful bow to Robeiko. Repin smiled. The bandits laughed loud- ly... Lisa heard a malicious titter- ing and in the door of the kitchen saw the laughing face of Madam Senator, her grinning teeth, the wrinkles round her eyes, and a yellow dressing gown with purple flowers, “You say nothing, you say noth- ing,” Senator bellowed. | “Take this!” and he spat a great lump of spittle in Robeiko’s face. Robeiko broke away, but a black-bearded peasant caught him by the shoulders’ and Robeiko struggled helplessly in his hands, while Senator’s spittle trickled down his forehead and into his eyes. Robeiko could not even wipe away the poisonous stuff, for his hands were bound. With scorn and hatred he looked round the mock- ing crowd, and, looking by’ acci- dent in Lisa’s direction, caught sight of her pale face in the door- way, and smiled. . . . And from” this smile Lisa knew that tho Ro- beiko was suffering from the blows and: the insults, his spirit was un- broken, he was not afraid ‘aim he scorned his enemies. It seemed to Lisa that Robeiko was smilin because he was remembering their talk in the evening. The smile woke Lisa from. her stupor, and with terrible screams she threw herself on Repin and Weren’t you ing of nondescript outlaws in Rus- sia? We want no oriental socialism. Lenin’s attempt to build a rival International can only fail.” But those who formed the Com- munist International knew the in- curable corruption of the old Inter- national and the hopeless cowardice of its leaders. T¥e Communists knew that the Second International was an empty shell, sucked dry by the capitalist governments. Know- ing that the workers inevitably would have a revolutionary prole- tarian International, they foresaw that their efforts could and would bring this about. In the five years that have fol- lowed, the Communist International has grown to be the one and only revolutionary force in every impor- tant country in the world, The yellow socialists’ Second Interna- tional has ceased to be a factor in history except as a very dangerous counter-revolutionary mac! for the use of capitalist governments, Everywhere now as a matter of course “revolution” means commun- | \j, ist revolution. Even the stupidest of press dispatches never use the word “socialist” in description of revolutionary manifestations and up- heavals. The whole world under- stands that there is no kind of revo- lutionist in the working class a Communist. Anarchists ai}: a! a harmless and even half-respectable philosophieal sect in many countries, and are dangerous to capitalism only New York City, March 5, 1924. of hatred of despair tional—after the ‘ovocation—out “A Week”? caught him by the hand. “Comrade Repin, why are you torturing him? He wished well to the people . . . and to allof you,” she cried, turning to the bandits, “He was on your side, for the peasants and workers. . . .” Laughter and curses drowned her ‘words. And Repin, the elegant. Repin, so handsome and kindly, pushed her away with his full ‘strength, so that she fell agsinst. the wall while he cursed her cynically and at length. “To the devil. with this foolery! Take him out, lads, into the street, and there get rid of him at once, sharp now.” The crowd poured out of. the door; Lisa, holding her head, got up from the floor. “You shoving your nose. in too,” cried Madam Senator. “She, Mr. Officer, is a Bolshevik.” And Mr. Senator shook her by the shoulder. Just then a shet sounded in the yard, Lisa knew they were shoot- ing Robeiko, and. screamed so piercingly that even Repin was startled, and shaken, and, breaking from the clutching hands of Sena- tor, she ran down the staircase into the dark court. On :the steps she ran into a heap of clothes, in which, with groans. and sobs a human body was struggling.. She stopped, and on the stone thresh- hold saw “the face of Robeiko, dripping with blood. ‘Screaming still louder, she rushed from the yard into the street. Two shots crashed in pursuit of her. Lisa ran to the end of the block, turned into.a quiet side street, ran to the middle of the long block, and stopped, breathless. She listened. No one was coming after her. The little hoyses were quiet and dark, only, from somewhere far away, she could clearly hear the sound of rifle fire. Now and again came the regular tapping of a machine gun. From time to tinie the wind blew; and Lisa, with nothing on over grew cold, and shivers ran down her spine and thru her arms. She. walked ‘en mechanically, and wept quietly, the tears pour- ing down her cheeks and falling in the snow. “The fit of horror caused by contact with the squirm- ing body of Robeiko had now passed. In this way, forgetful of herself, she walked for a very long time, mechanically hiding her hands in the opposite sleeves. It was al- ready growing light when she was walking by some grey palings over which drooped the naked boughs of trees. tga o sees and bier 29 still, as if nailed to, the spot. Or the blue snow, close under the railing, she saw some sort of formless heap. It seemed to her that again she saw the outlines of a human body. (To Be Continued’ Friday) ing-class discontent. The little gathering in Moscow that founded the Communist Inter- | labor has fath- World Con. gresses of the Communist Interna- tional are the most important events They over- shadow all the attem: “world- govern- ments, which always adjourn bec 8 unist Inter- national on March 5, 1919, ered a giant. The great in. present-day ‘history. conferences” of capitalist accomplishing their aims. Con vi Commi Congresses of the national, and the Executive Commi between Congresses, » the factor that decides _ hii i agpiseag Now we must know the Com-| marks that munist. International is destined — be the instrument thru which — working class takes the earth. To it alone. strengtl git Fas oe Bes er tunic, ind, It is fast developing the FE i #E AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. The scurrilous attack made on Gai vin Coolidge by Senator Caraway deeply offended the dignified Chicago vening Post. To call a president, “Cautious Cal” is going a little too far. Head hunting hysteria is gone on a rampage in the senate. Graft investigations if they have to be con- ducted, should at least be carried out in a gentlemanly manner between gentlemen, argues the Past. By the way we see at the mast head of the esteemed Post the name of a Mr Shaffer who received a trifle over $90,000 for—nothing at all except the knowledge that the Teapot Dome was to be leased. He simply walked in and told the oil men he was en- titled to get his share of anything that was going as well as the rest. s * & «@ Of course this fact has nothing to do with the editorial views of is Post. Newspaper owners do not de- ‘termine the policy of their papers, Perish the thought, It only happe that the editorial writer and th owners have minds that run in th same channels, **e € Lloyd George was as big a man in his own country, a few years ago as Woodrow Wilson was in his, When he spoke, people listened. Some lis- ten now; the credulous nod of other days is now turned into a skeptical shake of the head. Lloyd George has still a big enough audience to make it a paying proposition to hire him as a special writer for the Hearst Papers. He is very much of a real- ist and tho he is a political crook ote in a while he enjoys the lux- ury of telling the truth, particularly when such innocent diversion does not add to the glory ot his enemies, Speaking in West Hartepool, En- gland, ‘recently, he made some ob- servations on Ramsay MacDonald and the British Labor Party which contain more truth than poetry. He likened the prime nfinister to an air-squadron leader of Socialism who spent most of his time in the clouds but who has now joined the infantry and is sobered because he has to carry a knapsack. " His speech as prime minister said Mr. George haa “all the restraints, reservations and compromises which mundane states- men hitherto have indulged in. When. I heard MacDonald, who had in- dulged in the shrillest notes, pitching his tune so low and imitating the very modest notes from less preten- tious singers, it recalled the memory of many a cracked tenor who had been forced to become a baritone.” Ps . Lloyd George made it quite clear that should the present government attempt to translate into law any of the important planks on which they made their campaign for office, the Tories and Liberals would unite ‘to kick them out of office. Now, this is illuminating and justifies the con- clusion’ that the British Labor Party is suffered in office by the two avow- edly capitalist partiés because the low socialists and the. liberal lords, dukes and barons who make up the cabinet can serve the master leas of England better at this mo- ment than either the Tories or Lib- erals, who are unpopular with the masses, ~ - “We are free to criticize and cens ports" ‘Lloyd “Georan. declared. o loy 5 in essence the Tory attitude toward the government is identical with the liberal attitude.” In other words the eloquent Welshman compares the British reactionary socialist group to a courtesan who is patronized by friendly rivals, in this case two cap- italist parties, who support the yel- low socialist lady of complacent vir- tue so long as her charms can be enjoyed to the satisfaction of both or until a successful rival appears in the house of assignation known as-the Commons.” if fF ET a over Cie in tite a pc pr ore Swine is a little graft in a tich like this? And any- i