The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1924, Page 6

THE DAL z DAILY WORKER. : North Dakota Straws 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 Chieago only): $4.50. .6 months $2.50. .8 months $3.00 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.. Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the aoe Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, > Chicago, Illinois Pia derts esdecees Editors .Business Manager Advertising rates on application. cl ed RIE A Joke On You Mayor William E. Dever, last Saturday, offi- cially launched Chicago’s fourth annual “Own your own home week,” given at the Coliseum under the auspiceg of the Chicago Real Estate Board. Greetings were read from President Coolidge, Secretary Hoover, the governors of many states, and many “ell known national figures. When asked what it was all about, Mr. Jones, an executive of the Chicago real estate board, told the DAILY WORKER, “We must carry on an extensive campaign all over the country. Not only will an increase of home owners solve the housing shortage, but it will help greatly to Americanize and stabilize the American people.” ‘ But Mr. Jones forgot to add the interesting figures that over 90 per cent of the people in Chicago are living in apartments, flats and over stores, and that of the homes which are occupied, 73 per cent of them are rented from real estate companies, another 17.2 per cent being mortgaged to the bonding and real estate companies at a high interest. We do not charge all the worthy gentlemen supporting the “Own Your Home” drive with trying to assist the Chicago Real Estate Board members in increasing their business. But it is a fact that large employers would rather hire married workers than singie men. The mar- ried man, having more responsibility, is more closely tied to his job. He is less independent and necessarily shows more loyalty to his boss, in order to be able to keep his family with security. For a similar reason, the large em- ployers like to have their men live in their own home—preferably one they are paying for on installments.. It makes the workers better Americans—that is they are better slaves, be- eause they cannot run the risk of losing their jobs which would also mean the loss of their homes. The hundred Illinois mayors who as- sisted His Honor, Mayor Dever, in the opening ceremonies, no doubt had some such idea in mind. If more citizens own their own (mort- gaged) homes, there is less danger of “radical- 'sm” in their communities. A mortgaged home not only keeps the employes faithful, and their wages down, but it enables the em- ployers to get back a large slice of these wages in the installment payments on these homes, and in the large interests netted from the mortgages. The Tribune and Pacifsts The Chicago Tribune on Sunday morning carried a first page cartoon which, in addition to being a direct incitement to violence against pacifists is, in view of the scandalous revela- tions in Washington, D. C., somewhat illogical. The cartoon depicts a stern-faced Uncle Sam admonishing a cringing pacifist instructor to ‘teach patriotism.” Our wholehearted sympathy is extended to the teachers w..o take the Tribune seriously. We can think of no task requiring more ability io sidestep, duck and explain than that of working up a heated patriotic enthusiasm for a government represented by such individuals as Daugherty and Coolidge who have, accept- ing only the recorded facts, been engaged in peddling the salable assets of the nation ever since they have been in office. Passive resistance to evil seems to arouse the Tribune to an insane frenzy, but if it is wise it will begin to show some consideration to the pacifists. Only in a country where tolerance of oppression has become a slavish tervility could the individuals involved by the recent odoriferous disclosures continue to con- trol the machinery of government. We are of the opinion that Al Jennings, re- formed bandit will doff his hat in admiration ‘0 the new school now operating in Washington when he learns how they “do their stuff” in the Capitol. Bet Harding and Jess Smith are now giving the razberry to Captain Kidd, Tesse James and the Younger Brothers in their little Green House” on the Styx. Those were mere pikers, THE DAILY WORKER Monday, March 24, 192 The supporters of Coolidge can find little solace in the results of the primary elections just closed in North Dakota. At best the fact that President Coolidge received a plurality of the participating voters makes a bit more certain that which was already assured—his nomination at the Cleveland convention. Be- yond that, the prospects of the republican party and the administration have not been brightened in the least. The surprising weakness of Hiram Johnson, whose supporters waged a vigorous campaign and spent plenty of money,.is significant. The unexpected strength of the LaFollette vote, gotten thru a sticker campaign, after the Wis- consin senator had withdrawn from the con- test, is of like significance. The low vote of Johnson and the high vote of LaFollette show that the voters of North Dakota, on the right and on the left, are in no mood to brook half- way, artful dodging devices and prefer to act definitely either for the spokesmen of big capital, Coolidge, or for the opponent of the big banking and industrial magnates, La Follette. Hiram Johnson, avoiding a position on the agricultural crisis and evading every fundamental problem confronting the masses, was consequently snowed under. Coolidge’s getting a plurality, but not “a majority, of the republican primary voters, with LaFollette a good runner-up, tho formally not in the campaign, will not ease things for the reactionary clique. The local leaders had been won over by promise of lucrative jobs. The official peace ship of the administration, the Mayflower, was called into action. Special tete-a-tetes were held at the White House be- tween Coolidge and Roy Frazier, of the re- publican state committee. The Non-Partisan League was corrupted. LaFollette, knowing the game Coolidge was playing, refused to get into such a fight despite the fact that his past experiences with North Dakota assured him a clean sweep. Plenty of Coolidge money was poured into the state. Yet Coolidge could not get a majority of even the primary voters and was especially weak in the rural areas. With a defeat chalked up against him in Noth Dakota, Hiram Johnson is at a disadvan- tage in the South Dakota race. With so much strength for him even in the less progressive ranks of the republican fold of the state, in the ranks of those who refused to heed his ad- vice and keep his name out of the contest, La Follette can safely view the North Dakota re- sult as a further indication of the tremendous} support he could marshal in a determined fight | against the reactionary republican party. The North Dakota result is an index of the sharpening of the political conflict, and is the | best indication of the fact that now is the/| time for the masses to organize themselves to | strike telling blows at their capitalist enemies | running the democratic and republican par- ties and dominating the government in behalf of Wall Street. Invincible Soviet Russia The last Morgan mortgage on France and the delayed de jure recognition of Soviet Rus- sia by China are not without connection. Morgan has secured a lien on the policies of | the French government on the continent, in| the Near East, and the Far East. It is the Morgan pressure that is responsible for French interference with the resumption of com- plete friendly relations between China and the Soviet Republic. The failure of the Chinese government to ratify the agreement drawn up by its represen- tative, Mr. C. T. Wang, with the Soviet spokes- man, Karakhan, is caused by the opposition of the French imperialist agents in Peking who fear that the Sino-Russian agreement is a menace to their investments and spheres of in- fluence, particularly to the French stockholders in the Russo-Asiatic Bank seeking to dominate the Chinese Eastern Railroad: Soviet Russia on the other hand holds that the status of this railroad is a subject for nego- tiation solely between itself and China. The Soviet Republic will see to it that the French government keeps its hands off this railway. It is evident that Mr. Morgan is now vitally concerned with the balance sheet of French imperialism. He is the moving hand in the mga brought by the French government on ina. At best Morgan and Poincare can only delay the re-establishment of friendly relations be- tween China and Soviet Russia. The Chinese people have been smarting under the lash of their foreign imperialist oppressors. The masses of China are more and more seeing in Soviet Russia their only friend and are putting ever more faith in the Russian workers and farmers. Soviet Russia is looked upon by the Chinese and by all other oppressed national- ities as the one unconquerable, steadfast cham- pion of their freedom from capitalist domina- jon. There is a tremendous demand in China for \ NOTE.—The DAILY WORKER today begins publication of a sspeech made by I, Stalin, of the executive committee of the Rus- sian Communist Party. He takes issue with the position of Comrade Leon ‘Trotsky and his group, whose views we have already pub- lished. ‘ * * * STALIN SAID: I. How the Opposition Seems to Be Gradually Disappearing. HE discussion -which has been proceeding for several weeks on the situation of the Party is evi- dently drawing to a close. At least this is the case with Leningrad and Moscow. As is known, Leningrad declared in favor of the line of the Communist Central. The principal districts of the town of Moscow have likewise adovted the platform of the Conmunist Central. The conference of the Moscow Party functionaries, which was held on December 11th, has fully approved of the organizatory and politi- cal line of the Communist Central. Without doubt the forthcoming gen- eral Party conference of the Moscow organizations will follow the ex- ample of the districts. The opposi- tion, composed of the bloc between a part of the left Communists (Proebrazensky, Stookov, Pyatakov and others) and the so-called demo- cratic centralists (Rafael, Sapronov and others), has been annihilated. The phases of the discussion, and the transformations which the theses of the opposition have under- gone during the same, are of the highest degree of interest. Opposition Demands. The opposition commenced by de- manding nothing less than the revi- sion of the principles of organiza: tion of the Party and of its inner policy which had been laid down two years ago and had been followed during the whole periqd of the New Economie Policy. The opposition de- manded the entire carrying out of the resolution of the Tenth Con- gress regarding democracy within the Party and, at the same time, insisted upon the abolition of the restrictions adopted by the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses (prohibition of group forming, etc.). But the opposition has gone much farther. Claiming that the Party had, in its very essence, been trans VV ABREN GAMALIEL HARDING, the “just folks” president, and Calvin Coolidge, his Puritan moralist running mate, were the puppets of as low a crew of crooks and grafters as have ever appeared on the pages of American history. ‘ Harry M. Daugherty, Jesse Smith and Jake Hamon—blackmailers, bood- lers ‘and bootleggers—engaged in any and every form of crime that prom- ised revenue, from stealing oil leases to protecting booze-sellers plying their trade on Indian reservations, chose Harding and Coolidge for the American people in 1920 in behalf of themselves and the oil interests. Harding—the front porch cam- paigner, the small town churchman and ray-haired respectable; Cool- ‘idge—the possessor of a New Eng- land conscience and enemy of the mildest form of liberalism, the froz- en-faced apostle of Back Bay Brah- \manism—were made president and \viee-president by the Daugherty- Hamon-Smith trio whose political strength came from their successful manipulation of votes of the under- world of vice and crime in a dozen states. The price of the presidency was agreement to appoint Hamon and Fall to cabinet positions where they could loot the oil resources of the nation. , Jake Hamon’s paramour, Clara Smith, stood in the way and when he conveyed, none too gently, the news that she could not go to Wash- ington with him, she shot him. She was acquitted by a jury picked for the purpose after she had made threats to tell the whole sordid story. Upon the good-will of an oil-field adventuress hung the fortunes of Warren Gamaliel Harding and Calvin Coolidge—the “just folks” candidates who represented the ideals of the plain people on Main Street. The American people are easily fooled. ae A 7,000,000 majority was piled up for the precious pair by preachers and teachers, housewives and hus- bands, Y. M. C. A's, Christian En- deavor societies, anti-saloons leagues, Women’s Christian Temperance asso- ciations, Rebekahs, bees and the whole horde of religious and moral uplifters who crawled onto the Every American Boy Has a Chance to Be President By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, military character, and that the Party discipline had been transform: ed into a military discipline, the op- position demanded that the entira staff of the administrative apparatus be overhauled from top to bottom and that the most important func- tionaries be recalled, ete. ‘The cam- paign of the opposition included the most violent attacks and reproaches Le ofa against the Communist Ceg- tral, The Communist Central, as such, did not during this period, partici- pate in the discussion carried on in the columns of the Pravda, as it wished to ailow full liberty of criti- jesm to all Party members. It did not even deem it necessary to refute the absurd accusations levelled against it, as it considered that the Party members possessed enough in- dependent judgment to be able to decide the questions at issue for themselves, Tired of Accusations. This was, so to speak, the first period of the discussion. The second began when the Party members grew tired of this campaign of ac- cusations and demanded the objec- tive discussion of the questions at issue. This period was opened by the publication of the resolution of !the Communist Central on the Party {structure.* From this was no longer possible to confine | the criticism to mere generalization. | The concrete scheme presented by the C. C. and the C. C. C. faced the | opposition with the alternative, [either to assent to this scheme, or |to come forward with scheme of a concrete character re< garding the realization of democracy |within the Party. From this point it became clear that the opposition was incapable of opposing to the Communist Central scheme its own concrete one which would have cor- responded to the requirement of the Party organizations. Thereupon the opposition began to beat a retreat. It no longer insisted upon its de- mands for the modification of the principles of Party structure follow- ed ‘during the last two years. The }demand of the opvosition regarding the abolition of the restrictions upon | democracy, which were imposed by the decisions of the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses was like- wise promulgated with less vigor. McLeans, Sinclairs and Dohenys, the frenzied efforts to prevent the con- nection of the White House with the lowest element in American polities being known, the use of the bureau of investigation under Burns to in- timidate men who were_on the trail of corruption—has been according to the plans made by the Daugherty- Hamon-Smith trio and the endorse- ment of those plans by Harding and Coolidge as the price of election. A government of the people? Ex- cuse the laughter. Consider the background of the Harding-Coolidge slate once more: ' Harry M. Daugherty—a shyster lawyer and third-rate- politician; Jesse Smith, his friend and partner, under-cover man in a hundred shady deals; Jake Hamon, bootlegger and -gambler extraordinary, turned oil operator and his mistress, Clara Smith. These were the instruments used by the oil kings to pick and elect the president and vice-president pf the United States. All of which proves that every Anes boy has a chance to be presi«| ent. Health Experts To Russia. NEW YORK, March 28.—A trip to Russia at the invitation of the health department of the Russian govern- ment is being contemplated by Dr. Alice Hamilton, expert on oceupa- tional diseases; Lillian Wald of Henyr Street settlement, and Eliza- beth Farrell, director defective chil- dren in New York schools. Their journey would survey conditions in their specialized fields, presumably allowing Russian and American in- dustrial, social and educational in- stitutions to examine their findings. It is probable that the three American women will leave in May for Moscow. moment it} another } : : : i : Stalin Discusses Russian Party Problems the apparatus from top to bottom took on a more feeble note and was relegated to the background. The opposition considered it expedient to substitute all their demands by pro- posals calling attention to the neces. sity of “a precise formulation of the question of fractionism,” “proceeding to the re-election of all the organs of the Party,” and “abolition of the system of nomination from above,” It is characteristic that even these proposals of the opposition which had taken on a very feeble note, have been rejected by the workers’ organizations of Krasnaya, Pres- raya and of Zamoskvaryetchye (dis- tricts of the town of Moscow), both of which have, by an overwhelming majority, adopted the resolution of {the Commumst Central. Third Party of Discussion. This was, so to speak, the second period of the discussion. At present, the third period has commenced, Characteristic for this period is the further retreat, I ven- ture to say, the wild flight of the opposition. This time, in the reso- lution of the opposition, there are not even the greatly toned. down demands. The last resolution of Comrade Proebrazensky (which for the iuoment is the third one to be enumerated) which has ‘been pre- | Sented to the meeting of the respon- sible comrades of the Moscow or- ganization attended by more than a | thousand comrades, runs as follows: “It is solely by the rapid, general | and sincere carrying out of the reso- j lutions of the Political Bureau, in | particular by the renewal of the Party apparatus by means of re- elections, that our Party will be able ; to enter the new period of its de- ‘velopment without interior strug- gles, which would distort its struc- |ture; it is only by this, that the co- hesion and the unity of the Party can be confirmed in the true sense |of the word.” ~H is certainly not a mere chance | that the meeting has rejected even | this absolutely harmless proposal. It jis equally no mere chance that it ‘has, by an overwhelming majority, | adopted the resolution on the “ap- |proval of the political und organi- |zatory policy of the Communist ' Central.” | (To Be Continued satay.) *This was published in our Special Number Russian Party Discussions, 1 formed into an organization of a The demand for the overhauling ot Vol. 4, No. 7, of January 29th last. STATEMENT FROM THE PARTY PROGRAM ON THE NEGRO QUESTION THE NEGRO WORKER. The Negro workers of this coun- try are e and oppressed group, Negro is “ype history ee ter- rorism, of persecution murder. During the war tens of thousands of Southern Negroes were. brought to the industrial centers of the North to supply the needs of © for cheap labor. In Northern industrial cities the gro has found the same bitter eke ms the N me f East Si attack upon jegroes o! it. Louis, Illinois, the riot in Chicago are examples of the additional burden of oppression which is the lot of the Negro workers. Altho the influx of Negro work- uf F ‘ 1 is : “Dresses and frocks’—a special sale: You who buy never see how pale Are the faces that bend over weary thin hands, That cut and baste and guide thru machines, So that others may press and finish the bands. i AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. J. P. Morgan is ‘one of our most respected “citizens.” In fact, he is no longer a citizen, He is a master and the rest of us are his slaves. Not alone does he dominate the United States and the South Ameri- can republics but he reaches over to Europe and makes proud Poincare dance to his tune. Even the Chicago Tribune admits now that France is no longer free—it is ruled by the great international banker. The French frane was tottering in the wake of the mark. Poincare was fighting for his political life. Then Morgan stepped in. He made his deal with Poincare, closed a -stiff bargain and then saved the france and won a victory for Poincare. It is reported that Morgan cleaned up enough on the rise in French cur- reney to give him back his principal and still be a French debtor to the extent of $100,000,000. Even Am- bassador Myron T. Herrick invested $200,000 in francs and made a profit of $75,000, That is how the capital- ne make their money. Easy, isn’t it? ee @ Sir Esme Howard, new British Labor Party ambassador to Wash- ington addressed one thousand pil- grims in New ‘York last week. Among those who talked besides the knightly labor representative, were Jules Jusserand, French ambassa- dor; John W. Davis, former U. 8. ambassador to Great Britain, and Frank L. Polk, former acting secre- tary of state. Sir Howard indulged in the customary twaddle about the good relations existing between the United States and England. As a matter of fact, the capitalists of the . two countries are as fond of é¢ach other as two hungry wolves in the vicinity of a rabbit. 7. * @ Well, the war veterans have a bonus bill. Perhaps Coolidge will veto it, tho I do not see why he should. The bill gives those who won the war a twenty-year paid up insurance policy. But Coolidge, we understand, is opposed to_the prin- ciple of the bonus. It would place a price on ‘patriotism and that is something our rulers cannot toler- ate. Should not the workers con- sider it an honor to be allowed to risk their lives for a country where a few men control most of the wealth and the remainder live at the mercy of the few? een @ Communists made big gains in the Ruthenian elections for the Czecho- Slovak Chamber, polling 100,000 out of the 250,000 votes cast in the election. They will be represented by five deputies. The social demo- crats, Agrarians, Trudova Party and the Hungarian parties elected one deputy each. The Communists also elected two members to the senate against one for the Hungarian Party. As the social democrats align themselyes more and more with the foes of labor, the working class of Europe are turning to the Communists for leadership, eee It is refreshing to hear la: like that used by President Manuel Quezon, of the Filipino senate, in speaking on the question of national independence, “American capitalists in the Philippines will not need pro- tection of the American flag after independence has been granted the islands, but will be treated squarely, even generously,” he said. Our rulers tell us that the United States government holds onto the islands use of consideration for the welfare of the Filipinos. Quezon makes it quite clear that the “people” of the United States have nothing to do with the subpection of his native land. But the American capitalists have. c There is much anti-militarist propaganda carried on in the French army, we learn from a Paris press spat ig pater lords alarmed a few days ago and the head 4 of a groups, where they claimed to have discovered incriminating docu- ments.” As usual the came either “from Germany or Rus: sia.” Hew beautifully definite! The French now need a stronger army than ever to compel the workers to pay the interest on Morgan’s hun- dred million dollar loan, How many o! f , read the DAILY WORKER eR? ont one of them to subscribe today, | Hardi i ba d j close co-operation and friendship with the|were po manny polls choiel- You don’t know when the workers strike, Will Hayes left the witness stand “looking|Soviet government. It will not be long before | est collection of crim that ever For a little time to do as they like, like a man not entirely happy.” There was no reason why he should get so excited gran‘ that Harry Sinclair only paid $75,000 to pay the deficit of the campaign for making Warren this great demand will wipe away all the |Peddled lemon extract bers se lackeys of the Morgan-mortgaged French and ta be Ned Melwan the a » is other imperialist plunderers of China’s huge |ington publisher and debauchee, natura] resources. explained; the For a chance to be rested and free to unite With others to bargain for life From men-who hire vile brutes for their fight. . ‘otection of McLean G. Harding president. Why, Daugherty would| Before the invincible Communist republic |»y Coolidge is likewise fer! You don’t walk in the picket: lines not accept that amount as a birthday gift from|the heavy hand of the Czar. of Insernational repel atid pei ind To see how men act mal designs: a bootlegger. capitalist finance, J. P. Morgan, will meet the|idge circle and who aie Mee oh How girls may be beaten for nothing more \ same fate that befell the whole dynasty of | presidents to see that the wishes of Than for strolling the street'to warn the unwise Ramsay MacDonald's cabinet ministers are | Czars. dead Jake Hamon are fulfilled by the That they injure themselves if they enter the door. ' making quite a hit with English royalty. They wir ecridag "dus dasa iisbaade 5 an se even wear the purple when the king says it is|_ King Fuad of Egypt formally ‘opened par-|since the election of 192 theft “Dresses and frocks’—a special sale: liament a few days ago, His Majesty's photo-|of the naval reserve ail the ‘bribery You will not guess the amount of bail not nec . Just going out of their way to please His Majesty. we- JOIN THE WORKERS PARTY -wa graph appeared with the news item and re-|°f public officials, the use of minds one of the face of a successful beer- runner, ai 3 It took to make the dress you buy. ment agencies for, personal | You won't know until.a ted day By, am naling noice, ‘by, When, to make you see, many may dle. 4