The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1924, Page 5

“The idea becomes power when it pene- Special Magazine Supplement a magazine supplement will “coc |THE DAILY WORKER) == —Karl Marx. - ; in The Daily Worker. SECOND SECTION March 22nd, 1924. This See) eR SHED Crt Down With the Capitalist Teapot Dome! Forward To the Workers’ and Farmers’ Government! Call for the Celebration of May Day,’ May 1, 1924, Issued by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers’ Party of America. HE CELEBRATION of May Day—the holiday of the International Workingclass—in the United States this year, must be.a great demonstration against the Capital- ist Bhd ye and the Government which upholds and sup- ports it. Probably never in history has there been such an ex- posure of rottenness and corruption as in the Teapot Dome investigation and the investigation of Attorney-General Daugherty. The men in high offices whom the members of the working class are asked to look up to, respect and revere are shown to be the paid agents of the capitalists looting the nation for their own profits. Representatives, senators, mem- bers of the cabinet, yes, even the president, past and present, are splattered by the oily filth. No worker who has read the story of corruption coming from Washington from day to day can any longer have illu- sions about the italist System and the Government which supports it, whether Republicans or Democrats are in\power. Capitalism is stripped bare. The capitalists stand before the to be the instrument thru which the capitalists steal the nations natural resources and exploit the producers of wealth. Teapot Dome is but an example of the whole Capitalist System. The methods of the capi i ~are the methods of the capitalists in the mining industry, the railroad industry, the steél industry and every other industry. Bribery and corruption of public officials to secure the oil resources of the country have been matched in steal- ing hag lands, the timber, the coal and other resources of the - The methods used by the capitalists in gaining control of the natural resources are also used in exploiting the work- ers in the industries and the workers upon the land. When the workers go on strike the capitalists use their government against them, just as they use their government to secure the oil of Teapot Dome. Need the industrial work- ers be reminded of’ the Daugherty Injunction, and hundreds of other injunctions issued to break their strike? Need they be reminded that government boards, courts and soldiers ‘are always at the command of the employers in their fight against workers. The government plays the same part in the fight against workers who want higher wages and better ; in the capitalists the natural — of the country. It is the agency of the employers, of the capitalists. The farmers who are being bankrupted and driven off the millions know that they. are being robbed methods. They know that the banks which hold their mortgages, the marketing institutions which handle their products, the elevators which store them, the railroads which transport them, are all supported by The Color Line and B cleverly drawn laws which aid the capitalist who owns these institutions to rob them. All Capitalism is a Teapot Dome. Capitalism stands for corruption and bribery to secure the natural resources of the nation and to rob the industrial workers and farmers of the product of their toil. The Government is always the agent of the Capitalists, aiding in the loot of the natural resources and using its power to help maintain the system of robbing the workers in industry and on the land. There is but one answer to the Capitalist Teapot Dome: Down with the Capitalist System. This goal can only be achieved thru the industrial work- ers and farmers organizing their political power and using their political strength to take control of. the government from the capitalists and their agents. The experiences of the years since the end of the war have created an ever-growing movement on the part of the workers and farmers for a great Farmer-Labor Party to fight their political battles. Every experience of the work- ers in industry and on the land during recent years has shown that they cannot hope to win the struggle against their exploiters and oppressors, the capitalists, unless they first wrench control of. the government out of the hands of the agents of the capitalists and establish a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. The Farmer-Labor parties of this country have called a great convention of industrial workers and farmers in the Twin Cities, June 17th for the formation of a great organiza- tion of workers and farmers which will carry on the fight against the old parties. The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party ealls upon all organizations of industrial workers and farm- ers to join in great United Front demonstrations on May Day against the Capitalist Teapot Dome, for a Farmer-Labor Party and for A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ Govern- * Let us ‘sake Labor’s International Holiday a demonstra- tion that at last the workers of the United States are awaken- ing to the character of the capitalist system under which they are robbed and exploited. Let us make it a demonstra- tion that masses of industrial workers and farmers are unit- ing to fight against the capitalist.Teapot Dome and for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. Workers and Farmers! Build a United Front for May Day! Build a United Front Against the Exploiters and Op- ressors! P DOWN WITH THE CAPITALIST TEAPOT DOME! | FORWARD TO THE MASS FARMER-LABOR PARTY! UFORWARD TO THE. WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT! Central Executive Committee, Workers Party of America, C. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary. Profiteers #/ KARLREEVE with the white social workers. Ityinfluence of the investigations of continue to deteriorate and ' the § Ganod the Negro districts of Chi- J cago is a “Race within a race”— an entirely separate world—with its classes, arts and occupations, how- ever, imitating and paralelling the white—is clearly brought out in an examination of the housing problems on the south side, For the last quarter of a century the south’ side Negro quarter has been the subject of*numerous hous- ing investigations. Federal street is a paradise for the social worker. A muck-raking reporter can walk along Federal or South Dearborn streets, pencil and paper in hand, and as he walks, jot down a con stream tails, such as uncleaned t tered alleys, broken down fences and porches, falling doors and windows. And thru these years of continual estigations the Negro has rents to go up. Investigators Mere Frauds. In a recent investigation of the housing situation in this district I ed to many Negro workers and shopkeepers. When I asked them if the Negroes were not a little resent- ful or at least a bit bored at béing made so often the subject for so many futile investigations, the sur- prising — invariably was, “The negroes don’t know that they have been investigated. They never hear about what is written in the housing surveys.” There is a type of Negro, how- ever, who is well aware of the in- terest of the white social worker in his miserable habitations. This is the successful Negro business man and property owner, the landlord and the store owner who pattern after the hite bourgeois investi- et an gl ho gal w has built up a prestige for himself, means a fleeting chance to forget that he is the member of an oppress- ed race—a chance to get his name in the paper or in a pamphlet, and to eat lunch on terms of seeming equality with the liberal social worker who is temporarily interest. ed in the “Downtrodden Negro.” As A. C. Thayer, of the Urban League, proudly put it to the writer, “I was a member of the Lowden Commission of Race Relationship, 1 am a property owner myself, you know.” The Negro Elite. Chicago’s social workers has- stop- ved. The influence of these surveys has penetrated no further into thew consciousness of the negroes; no fur- ther than thé upper crust where such influence is not needed. In between the extreme squalor of ;the depressing ‘fire-traps of Federal street and the palatial residences on the Boulevard, we meet al the com- plex business activity which is to be observed in any capitalistic so- ciety. Meet Charles Duke, in his busy office on Indiana avenue, near 85th street, who has made such profitable connections with the down: It is only a five minus walk from |town bankers. Shut your eyes and Federal street to South Michigan |hear any hanger-on of the capitalist Boulevard, but in that long narrow | handwagon—-whether colored, w'<*e, strip of Chicago’s negro nation, can green or black. His language would be found the counterpart of every jhe incomprehensible to the resident class and organization that exists|,° Federal street. He can tell you in the white society. And it is on/a, it the value of any block on the South Michigan Boulevard, incon-| south side; he can tell you how much gruously enough, with its large,! money. has been loaned’ on these stone mansions, inhabited by the! properties, and what effect the zon- Negro wealthy, select class, that the | (Continued on page 8.)