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

\ Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Thursday, March 20, 1924 = nn . = - THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50. .6 months $2.00..8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50..6 months $2.50. .8 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street J, LOUIS ENGDAHL re LOB. ee Kidleibaene Business Manager i 2 23 he Post- Bntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at t! Gea age. Til, under the act ‘of March 8, 1879. a 104 ‘Advertising rates on application. A Real Test The MacDonald government in Great Britain is soon to be faced with a real test of strength. The country is on the eve of a great strike of 00,000 miners. ‘ The coal diggers are in no mood to com- promise. They have suffered so long from the exorbitant cost of living that they are bent on fighting it out despite the insistence of many of their leaders to put the brakes on and cautious. ‘ Whee some time the miners looked for relief in the award of the Sankey commission. [True to. his colors, Lloyd George sabotaged ‘these recommendations and made them a dead let- ter. The situation has grown more critical since the advent of the Labor government and the recent rise in the cost of living. More than that. The miners are in an ugly mood at the do-nothing policy of the govern- ment. Three miners lose their lives daily in the mining industry of England. One miner is injured every three minutes. Only decisive action by the government can meet these wretched conditions even half-way. It is this determination of the miners for a showdown that is forcing the MacDonald gov- ernment to consider the critical state of affairs amongst the coal diggers. The government is soon to introduce a miners’ minimum wage bill guaranteeing the workers 79 per cent more in wages than they received in 1914. This, it is hoped, will help the miners bear the heavy burdens of the increased cost of living. For the English capitalists this is very dan- gerous legislation. Once this policy of the government fixing wages on the eve ofa strike is adopted in the case of the miners, what is there then to stop its application in the case of the railway workers, the dockers, and other workingmen? Such a policy is diametrically opposed to a most fundamental prerogative of the ruling class—the right to dominate the dis- tribution of the products of industry. On this point all shades of capitalist opinion will unite. We may, therefore, look forward to a de- cisive test of strength. The Labor cabinet members cannot delay the issue as far as the miners are concerned. They dare not antagon- ize the miners’ powerful organization, for they can as much get along at the helm without the support of the coal workers as they can without a majority vote in Parliament. The issue is thus narrowing down to a funda- mental issue of class power, with the miners as the spokesmen of the whole working class and the majority of the government as the open representatives of the whole capitalist class. Chicago, Illinois Editors Fooling the Farmer The four i!eading panaceas ofiered the farm- ers by the capitalists to relieve the acute eco- nomic distress of the rural regions are: tariff, co-operation, diversification, and government credit. All of these “remedies” have been tried at some time or other jointly or separately, and they have failed disastrously. An examination oi these measures shows that there is no way out for the mass of farmers under capitalism. {Wool, wheat, flour, corn, live poultry, eggs, cattle, swine, and fruits were taken off the free list of 1919 and given the high protection of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act by the government. , Yet, it is these very products which show the heaviest decline in the last five years of “protective” tariff blessings, ac- cording to the last report of Secretary of Agri- culture Wallace. Co-operation as practiced today along capi- talist lines stands no chance in competition with the highly developed, strongly organized capitalist combinations. So long as the grain elevators, the railroads, the shipping, market- ing and distributing facilities are controlled by the employing class the financiers and manu- facturers of Wall Street, farmers’ co-operative attempts will meet with failure for the eco- nomic reason of being unable to compete with and overcome the insuperable obstacles of the capitalist clique and its stranglehold on agri- culture. _ Diversification translates itself into diversi- fied hardships, What relief is it to the farmer to be at the mercy of the beef trust or the dairy magnates instead of the grain gamblers? Attempts at diversification simply spell in- creased difficulties in the process of diversify- ing which is not a matter of the moment but & process over years, -The farmers have had too much experience with government credit to take any stock in its efficacy. As long as we have capitalist control of the government, credit in practice means big interest for the bankers, more stringent control of the farmers’ fate by these bankers, and Tots of graft and corruption for the bosses’ lackeys. The story of War Finance Corporation and its pong gt ageomn pnd best proof of the useless- ness of quack remedy of capitalism. u | The Daily ‘Revolution The self-styled “world’s greatest news- paper,” sometimes called the Chicago Tribune, seems to have been seized by a peculiar sort of revolutionary fits. Hardly a day passes when this sheet is not filled with the blessings of some revolution sweeping Soviet Russia some- where in some way. How? When? Where? By whom? These are only incidental questions which the revolutionary stories seldom deal with. When these questions are the order of business for the revolting scribe, imagination is the arbiter and the informant. It might appear strange to some that a news- paper which has such high regards for itself and its reputation should peddle in such thrash at this late date. How is this practice of the Tribune to be accounted for in view of the al- most daily increase in the number of countries giving Soviet Russia full recognition? Many explanations have been offered to ac- count for the overworked imagination and the ordinary, plain lying of this daily. It seems as if the Tribune_is attempting to cajole the So- viet Government into allowing one ofits cor- respondents to remain in Russia. The Soviet authorities have expelled the Chicago Tribune correspondent because of his deliberate lies and rather questionable activities. Then again it is\said in prominent business circles of Chicago that the manager of the Tribune’s European main office, the Paris head- quarters, is in the employ of the French 'gov- ernment. The French capitalists are anxious to estrange everybody from Soviet Russia so that they have as little competition as possible in their dealings with the Soviet Republic. These French interests are particularly inter- ested in keeping the United States away from a policy of normal, peaceful relations with the Soviet Government. The Tribune correspon- dents are thus reported to be getting paid on both ends of the news lines for their revolu- tionary activities in Soviet Russia. Whether these are the precise reasons for the Tribune’s vicious lies, we don’t know, yet. But these explanations look mighty plausible and are well suited to the general policy of this daily mouthpiece of the owning class. Ghandi, the Pacifist! No more humiliating figure crouches on the world stage at the present moment than Mahatma Ghandi, once revered leader of mil- lions of Hindoos and honored chieftain of the pacifist cult. Yesterday his name stood high on that list of champions of human freedom who throw themselves in front of the merciless juggernaut of oppression. Today he hides away in seclusion in mortal dread of the move- ment he helped to create. Mahatma Ghandi is the foremost prophet of non-violent resistance. He was able to arouse the Hindoo millions against the British govern- ment, but the time arrived when that govern- ment feared that the great tide of opposition would burst the dykes built by Ghandi, so it threw the prophet of peace into prison. When Ramsay MacDonald went into office he re- leased Ghandi and for very sound imperialist reasons. Since Ghandi went to jail new leaders have arisen in India. They do not like a policy that allows the British government to kill their people while they look on and bow in homage before the altar of pacifism. Today the Hin- doos view the crouching prophet of pacifism with pity and perhaps contempt. But it appears that Ghandi is not an un- diluted pacifist. He is surely 100 per cent pacifist in the struggle between the Hindoos and the British government, but listen to the Mahatma talking: “If Russia attacks us (mean- ing the British occupation—Ed.) we expect the militaristic nations of Europe to come to our aid to prevent Russia from becoming too strong, and we should welcome the aid.” So it appears that Ghandi is willing to shed blood in defense of the capitalist system, even wel- coming the aid of the militarists of Europe against the introduction of the Soviet system into India. Ramsay MacDonald was serving British im- perialism well when he freed the Hindoo fakir Ghandi. The Negro Tenants League The foresight of the Negro workers in presenting the resolution at the Sanhedrin All-Race Conference, demanding that all landlords be compelled to rent their houses to the first comer, at prices listed and unchange- able, has now borne fruit in the newly formed Negro Tenants League. True, the influence of the real estate sharks killed this resolution at the conference, which was controiled by con- servative business men. But the rejected resolutions declaring against discrimination against the Negroes, both as tenants and in industry, put squarely before the Race the fact that so-called welfare work- ers and property-owning business men do not represent the workers’ interests. At the San- hedrin a Workers Party delegate strongly championed this resolution for the abolition of the restriction of the Negroes’ right of resi- dence. The DAILY 'WORKER, therefore, welcomes the news of the formation of the Chicago Ne- gro Tenants’ League, which demands in no uncertain terms that landlords cease their dis- crimination. If the recent Sanhedrin, con- trolled by conservative business interests, countenances profiteering on the Race, it seems the Chicago Negroes are determined to have a workers’ organization of their own which will put an aggressive anti-profiteering -and anti-discrimination program thru the 1926 Sanhedrin Conference. Note.—Today the DAILY WORK- ER continues publication of a letter written by Leon Trotsky, Minister of War in the Soviet government and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Russian Commun- ist Party. Our readers will see from reading the letter on what a flimsy structure the capitalist press \liars hang a revolt in the Commun- ist ranks, We will publish Trotsky’s | fied, letter in three installments. » Next -will come speeches by Stalin, Rykov and other leaders of the Russian revolution, Members of the Work- ers Party in particular should read this debate very carefully. Trotsky wrote to the enlarged session of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party as follows: * . « . A DEGENERATION of the “old guard” is to be observed sev- eral times in the development of history. Let us take the most recent and most striking historical ex- ample: The leaders and the parties of the Second International. We know perfectly well that Wil- helm Liebknecht, Bebel; Singer, Vic- tor Adler, Kautsky,. Bernstein, La- fargue, Guesde and others have been direct and immediate disciples of Marx and Engels. We know, however, that all these leaders—some partially, other total- ly—have in the atmosphere of par- liamentary reform and of the strong growth of the Party and trade union apparatus, degenerated towards op- portunism. Eve of Imperialist War. On the eve of the imperialist war, we saw with remarkable distinct- ness, how the formidable . social democratic apparatus, protected by the authority of the old generation, became the most powerful hindrance to the revolutionary development. And -we must say—we, “the old ones”---that our generation which, of course, plays the leading role in the Party, does not by itself conclude any guarantee sufficient in itself against a gradual and imperceptible weakening of the proletarian and revolutionary spirit, if the Party tol- erates the further development of the bureaucratic methods of the ap- paratus, which transform the young generation into a passive object of education, and unavoidably confirm the alienation between the apparatus and the mass, between the old and the young. Against this undoubted danger, there is no- other means than a serious, profound and funda- mental new orientation towards Party democracy with a continually increasing attraction of the prole- tarians from the workshops to the Party. of I shall not go into full details on Trotzky’s Letter to Russian Communists the juridical interpretations of Party y furnished by @ profound conviction democracy and its limitations pre-| and. an entire independence of char- scribed by the statute. how important these questions are, they are but secondary questions. We shall examine them in the light of the experience at our dis- posal and shall modify that which can be modified. But, before all, it is the spirit prevailing in our organizations which must be modi- Acquire Collective Initiative. The Party, thru its nuclei and unions, must again acquire collective initiative, the right for a free ‘and comrade-like criticism without anx- iety and fear, the right of organiza- tory self-government. The Party apparatus must be absolutely re- generated and renewed by means of compelling it to understand that it is the executive mechanism of th- great collective body. In the Party press, a great num- ber of examples have recently been adduced characterizing the far-de- veloped bureaucratic degeneration of Party practices and conditions. In response to critical voices, one met with the retort: “What is the date of your membership book?” Before the resolution of the Communist Central regarding the new policy had been published, the bureaucrat- ized representatives of the appara- tus had considered all mention of the necessity of the modifying the inner Party policy as heresy, as for- mation of fractions and undermining the discipline, And now they are in the same way formally prepared \to “take note” of. the new policy, i. e., in pracifice to stow it away ina pigeon-hole. The renewal of the Party apparatus—of course, strictly within the frame of the statute—must have as its aim the substitution of the fossilized bu- reaucrats by fresh elements who are closely connected with the life of the whole Party or who are able to guarantee a suitable leadership. And before all there must be eliminated from the leading Party posts those elements who, at the first sign of criticism, of protesta- tion or of objection, seek to silence it by demanding production of, the membership book. The new policy must have as its first result, that all members of the apparatus from the bottom right up to the top, realize that nobody is allowed to terrorize the Party. Action Not Lip-Service. It is by no means sufficient for our youth merely to repeat our for- mulas. It must make the revolu- tionary formulas their own by fight, fill them with life; it must form its proper opinion, its proper features and become capable of fighting for its views with the courage which is No matter } acter, We must rid the Party of the pas- sive obedience which leads to doing everything with eyes mechanically fixed on the superiors; we must rid the Party of all spineless, servile and career-hunting elements, The Bolshevik is not only a disciplined man: no, he is a man who goes deeply into the matter and who, in every case, forms a_ well-founded opinion and courageously defends it in the struggle, not only against the enemies, but also within his own Party. Perhaps today he is in the minor- ity in his organization. He subor- dinates himself, since it is his Party. But that does not, of course, always mean that he is wrong. It is per- haps only that he has perseived and understood earlier than others, the new task on the necessity of a change of policy. He will pertina- ciously raise the question a second, a third and, if necessary, a tenth time. By so doing he will render a service to his Party, as he will help or to accomplish the necessary change without organic tremors and without fractionary convulsions. Yes, our Party could not fulfill its historical mission if it became de- composed into fraction groupings. This must not and will not be done. The Party as a whole, as an auton- omous collectivity, will prevent this. No Fraction Formations But the Party will successfully combat the dangers of the forma- tion of fractions only when develop- ing, confirming and strengthening the new policy towards workers’ democracy. It is precisely the bu- reaucratism of the apparatus, which is one of the principal sources of fraction-formation. It suppresses criticism and~ en- ables discontent to penetrate the or- ganization. It is inclined to label any individual or collective, critical or warning, voice as fractionism. Mechanical centralism is unavoidably ‘complemented by fractionism, a cari- eature of democracy and a formid- able political danger. With a clear understanding of the entire situation, the Party will ac- complish the necessary change with all the firmness ana resoluteness which the importance of the tasks confronting us require. It is pre- cisely by this means, that the Party will raise its revolutionary unity to a higher level as a guarantee for the successful accomplishment - of the immensely important tasks, both in the political and economic sphere and on a national as well as on an international scale. (To Be Concluded Friday) Mr. Morgan Takes a Hand By JAY LOVESTONE, AS ELEVENTH hour: attempt is being made by the king of intera~ national finance, Mr. Morgan, to save the tottering franc. A loan of $100,000,000 has been granted to the French government in order to help it avert the financial and po- litical crash that a continued depre- ciation of the franc would entail fur it. The money will be used to stabi- lize the france and “for such other purposes as the French government may determine,” Since the Armistice the European governments have floated loans close to a billion and a half dollars in the United States. Durjng this period the Latin American governments have received about half a billion dollars of credit from our financiers. Thus the American capitalists are tightening their grip on the world’s productive system. Government Loans. It is no accident that Morgan, who symbolizes more than any other banker the aggressiveness nnd the determination of our capttalist class to become tie rulers of the capi talist world, should be called in at the last moment to pull the chest- pats out of the fire for the French imperialists. But at this time it is interesting to note that the arrange- ments of this loan call for repay- ment within a year. We had been rT; n Which I Review the ‘Goslings led to believe that the xeason for the French government’s failure to pay the billions of dollars it owes to the American government, the bil- lions of dollars gathered from the masses during the war in the vari- ous Liberty and Victory loans, was poverty. How does it come that the French government is able to pay the money it owes to private capi- talists but is unable to pay to the government? Why is it that the same bankers who are insistent about the Federal government’s calling off the French debt are tak- ing care to get back whatever money they themselves lend to the same French ruling clique? Why is it that the United States govern- ment guarantees the Morgan firm all the strength at its disposal to collect private debts but keeps si- lent about the French debt long overdue the country as a whole? Martial Law In Paris? And what are “such other pur- poses” that the French government is planning to use the Morgan mil- lions for? Already the French bankers and iron and steel kings are prepared to issue orders for a pro- clamation of martial law in Parts? The Comite des Forges is on the job. The first step towards the es- tablishment of an open, brutal capi- talist Fascist dictatorship has been taken. The cebinet has heen em- powered to legislate withcut the By HARRY GANNES. Upton Sinclair wields a wicked pen, Wrong gets no quarter from him. Especially has he paid great attention to the American youth. He has set himself the easy task of showing that the schools, from the kindergarten to the ae eas courses, are controlled by “Goose-ste) Goslings”, younger grafters and teach propaganda, was an exposé of the colleges. Now comes “The to the “Goose-step”, and Sinclair tears the thin sheeting from the public schools and reveals beneath the surface a gang of politicians all over the United States telling the children what 8 Bute aft ik | give the children better school- rooms, cal would not be un- dermined one whit. fact the matter is, the schools would be- come more efficient under those eir- in turning out citizens with a vengeance. To show up the class nature of | in capitalist education is not class nature of education to repres- sion, to graft, and to lack of schol- freedom is to indica’ these things can be reformed under capitalism and to show all that is 999, thing occurs in te that | superviser chamber Pee pect France, the of capi' lemocracy, is dropping its las’ pretenses. Thus the United States govern- ment is aiding the French imperial- ists to stamp out revolution of the mass of workers and farmera in Eu- rope, under the cloak of interfering politically. It is the lenioncy of the Federal government towards the French debtors that has enabled the Poincare clique to expend millions for the maintenance of armies with which the workers and farmers of Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and Xou- mania could be crushed. Tt is the support given by the Washington government to the Morgan interests that is now helping the French capitalists to save themselves from the wrath of the working masses of France, Morgan’s Fear. Mr. Morgan as the agent pleni- Potentiary of the United States gov- ernment secs only one. enemy--the social revolution of the international proletariat against the capitalist imperialists, The Morgan Iwan is a cruel reminder to ‘he American working class that our capitalists have become tho hangmen of the workers of the world, How long shall we tolerate this ‘condition fo which we, the workers and farmers of this country, will, sooner rather than later, have to pay with our lives? soci: 80 times. Sinclair in tee “Gots and “Goslings” shows us conclusive- ly that graft and repression occur many thousands of times. But, con- tinues Bogdanoff, this is all mean- ingless if we do not explain the un- derlying basis for the phenomena that comes before us. new ff i it to prepare itself for the new task, bo: AS WE SEE IT By T, J. O'FLAHERTY. Presidént Obregon of Mexico, sent condolences to the Russian Soviet government on the death of its great leader Lenin. But Ramsay MacDon- ald did nof, tho he cabled his re- grets to Washington when the no- torious mountebank Woodrow Wil- son quit the world he had helped to make safe for the ruling class, er es When Ramsay MacDonald recog- nized the Soviet government, he followed that action up by a state- ment that “he would stand no mon- key business from the Soviet govern- ment.” Ex-premier Stanley Bald- win remarked that Mr, MacDonald would not dare use such language in addressing either the United States or French governments. * * * @ American Socialist papers have placed all their eggs in the British Labor Party basket. and are furious- ly defending every act of the Ram- say MacDonald government. A re- cent issue of the Oakland World, edited by a group of pacifists, tells us that even tho the British La- rt Party can accomplish nothing in parliament, it is better that it should stay in, doing nothing than get out and allow somebody else in. For instance, a socialist has the job of cleaning out King George’s garbage. Another sees that his sleeping quar- ters are free from unpleasant com- pany which might cause his Majesty to consume much valuable ene: scratching himself at night. Then, there is the Scotch socialist flunkey who is in charge of the Church of Scotland. All nice jobs. * * *. * They can do lots of things in these positions the Oakland World argues. They can promote international peace (by laying the keels for seven new warships); liberate oppressed peoples, (by shooting fourteen Hin- doo rebels and. dropping bombs on Mesopotamia), The labor govern- ment of England, our socialist con- temporary goes on, has already done a good deal for world peace. It has done so much that we have a new dictatorship in Europe, since Ramsay MacDonald assumed office. With the aid of Morgan’s $100,000,000. Poin- care has assumed the distatorship of that country. 7 @ © MacDonald released the Hindoo pacifist Ghandi, and assured the Hin- doos of sympathy in their move for self government, says the Oakland World. Ghandi was released. He is now supporting England against the real Hindoo rebels, The latter part of the statement is a deliberate lie. MacDonald sternly warned the Hin- doo that his government would stand no nonsense about independence from India, The Irish Republicans asked him what he was going to do about self-determination, which he bleated about before he came into inet at atte ae re] ie ca] levy in his platform and the nationalization plan! Like the Socialist Party of America, the British Labor Party has thrown overboard everything it ever stood for, that means anything to the workers, but it will hold to the jobs to the very last. * 6 @ po ° The Ramsay MacDonald govern- ment is just as imperialistic as either the Tories or Li! It is seeking to harmonize the contradic- tions within the capitalist system as its brother party in Germany did. The Social Democrats of Germany are today thrown on the dung heap of history while the exploited work- ers of that unhappy country spit on them as they pass. Ramsay Mac- Donald and his partners in the be- trayal of the workers’ interests will travel the same road. They will be tolerated by the capitalist ‘ies so long as they serve them, but when the workers get thoroly 4d s. ble Fa ee hd booted out in’ ie cold world by British ruling class, nr # @ The Chicago Tribune comments as follows on the Dawes Commission. “The Dawes commission is a Mo: commission, and Poincare who taken Hay from Morgan, must ac- cept the findings of the Dawes com- jion or the as will be with- ill be in the ruin Yet the M > blessed by the Coolidge government and in a recent comment on the $100,000 loan of Morgan to enable Poincare to become dictator, Cool- idge declared that the United States government was behind the loan. Perhaps the esteemed Tribune thinks Morgan is not running this country as successfully as he is running France. Well, we'll say he is, If our readers have any doubts as to. whether democracy exists in the United States we urge them to go over our “Teapot Special” vary gore fully and then do a le king. We put the questio to them whether they want thé oily demo- eracy of Morgan’s millions in the interest of a few grafters to the dem of a great majo. of the people, the producers, under the title of a W and a Workers orl Soviet Republic. | Bs ead ‘The Chicago Tribune is’ running an s campaign for an dic- tatorship {n the United Sta’ It fears a Party would throw the irae ore gear, fore, it is , a Mussolini rule in advance. Our ers help make this P. le. Patron- Paper possible. Pai Advertisers. and tell