The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1924, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Lincoln 7880.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50..6 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50. .6 mont $2.50, .8 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 NX. Halsted Street J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNN MORITZ J. LOEB... Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. Pn Advertising rates on application. Pa(y)triotism Supreme In every country run and ruined by a class of exploiters, the masses are called upon, with regularly recurring frequency, to defend the “honor” of the nation, to die for the “homes and hearths” they do not own, and to preserve the security of the plunderbund’s country. All of these widely advertised sacred duties gum themselves up in patriotism, the all-em- bracing super-virtue of capitalist government and industry. Patriotism, the much-heralded employing- lass ideal, is in reality the last refuge of our imperialist scoundrels. Patriotism, as preached and practiced by our ruling class, is, in the last resort, a blanket employed by the bosses to cover the countless crimes committed by them against their wage and farm slaves. Captain Scaife’s testimony before the Wheeler committee has turned the scorching light on American paytriotism. Those who have yelled most for crushing the German government are now exposed as the tools of the despicable German imperialists. Those who have cried loudest for a powerful aerial armada, second to none in strength and num- bers, are shown to be the very ones who de- spoiled the country of a billion dollars de- liberately squandered on useless, faulty air- planes whose victims were the duped Amer- ican pilots, misled by the fraudulent cries of capitalist patriotism. The people who have worked overtime breeding war-fever against Japan, now turn out to be the skillful manipu- lators of the Japanese imperialist interests. Those who have yelled loudest for our work- ers and farmers to rush to Flanders fields and Verdun to die at $30 a month are precisely the very ones who have coined the fabulous profits out of the last imperialist war to save the world for capitalist democracy. Above all, it is instructive to note that it was under the righteous-mouthed democratic administration of so notorious an apostle of capitalist peace as Woodrow Wilson that these damnable $2.00..3 months Chicago, Mlinois Editors Business Manager ~~~ erimes were perpetrated against the working- men and farmers. There is nothing startling about the above irrefutable truths disclosed by Captain Scaife, a former employe of the Department of Justice, for the third time in the last two years. This is merely more unchallengeable proof of the fact that the laboring masses of the city and country have no interest in and should resist to the bitter end all attempts of their exploit- ers and government oppressors to draw the country into capitalist imperialist wars, re- gardless of the sweet words and high-sound- ing phrases peddled by the prostituted press on such occasions. Here we have capitalist patriotism with a vengeance. The American workers and farm- ers have been fooled all too often into fighting the battles of their bosses. The Scaife testi- mony exposes capitalist patriotism at its highest stage of development. (hese revela- tions can only prove a signal to the exploited working masses, to be on guard against ever again being poisoned by this deadly toxin of employing class patriotism and national honor and safety. Russia To the Fore An undercurrent of pessimism is making it- self felt on the continent of Europe. The hopes aroused by the likelihood of the Dawes com- mission providing panaceas for Europe’s severe economic illness are losing their glamor. In many quarters fear is displacing these hopes—the fear lest the Dawes proposals should strike a snag somewhere in Berlin or Paris. Judging by the preliminary reports concerning the “Hell-an-Maria” recommenda- tions, there is plenty of trouble ahead for the “Good Samaritans” of Yankee imperialism. In this vast sea of troubles, there is but one isle of safety. And that is the Workers’ and Farmers’ Republic of Soviet Russia! Slowly but surely the Communist leviathan is rising to its feet, despite countless obstacles and diffi- culties: Soviet Russia, alone of all the Euro- pean countries, is on the upward grade today. Two years ago the Soviet Republic’s exports barely tuoched the fifty million dollar mark. Last year this trade rose to $110,000,000. The outlook today is for an export of about one- quarter of a billion dollars worth of produce. Germany, the land that was saved from the “horrors” of Bolshevism by Kautsky and Noske, is now in agony. Its workers and poor farmers are helpless before the death-dealing juggernaut of the Junker-capitalist alliance. Even the vaunted German capitalist productive system has been rocked to its foundation. The German Mark is a reproach. The revival of German industry is contingent upon the rest of the world, especially the United States, allow- ing the German manufaeturers to dump huge piles of commodities produced by woefully underpaid workers. With Soviet Russia, the! black sheep of the imperialist world, the story | is exactly the opposite. Soviet currency—the Chervonetz—is one of the very few currencies now standing at a premium over the dollar. The Workers’ and Farmers’ Republic is stead- ily raising the pay and living standards of its workers, It is illuminating as well as interesting to note that every hellish scheme devised against the Communist government has turned out to be a boomerang for the capitalist brigands. The foreign-inspired counter-revolutions, the French and British financed attacks and wars, the economic boycott—all have failed miser- ably. The allied imperialists thought it was a master stroke of military and financial policy to separate Esthonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from Soviet Russia. Here the imperialist fail- ure is especially appalling. The severance of these war-devastated regions has saved the Soviet Republic innumerable difficulties of re- construction. These capitalist-financed pup- pets of French and British imperialism are to- day compelled by sheer economic necessity to be the agents of Communist Russia’s rehabi- litation. Soviet Russia’s remarkable advance to the fore is the best vindication of the correctness of Communist policy, of the efficacy of revolu- tionary tactics and the wretched bankruptcy of the social-patriotic tactics of betrayal expoused by the Second International and its followers—the world over. The Tribune and Leningrad The Tribune, peeved because the Soviet Gov- ernment has changed the name of Petrograd to Leningrad, sheds bitter tears over the neglect shown by the heartless Communists to bloody Peter, its founder and states that the city popu- lation has shrunk, under the Soviet government to 400,000. The inference of course {s that Lenin repre- sented sorry failure and that poor shrunken Leningrad is a fitting monument to his failure and fanaticism. The Tribune, with its usual disregard for facts, when there is any workingclass angle to the subject, gives the population figure at less than one-third of what it actually is. Instead of Leningrad having a population of 400,000 the latest census shows that it is a city of 1,137,600. In 1920 its population was 740,000; in 1921, 782,000; in 1922, 1,038,001.. There has, there- fore, been a steady growth since 1920 despite the fact that in 1918 the seat of government |was moved from Leningrad to Moscow taking away thousands of government employes. The information given above is as accessible | to the Tribune as it is ‘ us and the misstate- ments are consequently the more contemptibly culpable. “‘Impartial’’ Government “Not a chance for a strike to succeed when there is proper police protection.”— John M. Glenn of the Illinois Manufact- | urers Association. We offer the above as a text for a disser- tation upon the impartial role of democratic | government as exemplified in this republic to the | gentle gentry who expatiate at length upon the | evils of a workingclass dictatorship as a means for abolishing capitalism. We suggest further that they explain in the light of the above frank utterance what the principal role of the armed forces of the state is in maintaining law and order. Bolshevist. ideas are opposed to the tempera- ment of the Russian people declared an exiled Russian pastor recently. While the Russians are not exactly as crazy for pastors as the South Sea island cannibals who used to eat them for! breakfast, the very fact that the reverend gentle- man was kicked out of the Soviet Republic by the “temperamental Russians” hardly jibes with his testimony to their religious fervor. But then who expects a clergyman to tell the truth? Marquis James, a writer in Hearst Inter- national suggests the drafting of wealth and labor as a means of war prevention. The wealthy: could claim exemption and let their wealth do the fighting! Is that it? We suggest that the embalming of nutty gentlemen like Mr. James might console some of the war victims even tho it might not prevent it. The installation of a radio set in the Chicago jail on the theory that it will make happy and contented prisoners reminds us of a remark made by a friend of ours on seeing the adver- tisement of a portable graphophone for camp- ers. “What’s the use of going camping,” he said, “if you can’t get away from the grapho- phone?” All labor should be for Small bleats John L. Walker former member of the Socialist Party and one time leader of the Farmer-Labor Party movement. It is rather amusing to watch John shed those heavy, beady, glistening tears over his past sins, that is when he was an honest man. In the suit over fhe will of the late Lord Northcliffe dividing an estate worth $3,750,000 59 lawyers have been retained. A 10 mark note of the Rhine republic will be given to the reader making the correct guess as to who gets the money, The newspaper advertising which Roosevelt senior received seems to have lost its efficacy so Sar as Roosevelt junior is concerned perhaps gg the son is both less truthful and tooth- | ticians in the future.” the Pederation to an indorsement of |THE DAIL’ Small. FARMER-LABOR SECRETARY HITS SMALL BACKERS McCabe Says Ernest Is Purchased Faker The entire Chicago and_ Illinois Federation of Labor machine, backed by the Hearst press, is touring the state electioneering for Len Small, for Governor, in the last lap of the primary campaign, and at the same time Thomas G. McCabe, secretary- treasurer of the Cook County branch of the Farmer-Labor Party of the United States reiterates his contempt for the trade unionists who have be- trayed independent political action. Downtown politicians stated today that Small has @ much better chance for nomination and election, and that if he does not ride in, it will be due to the increased activity of trade un- ion officials in his behalf. Small Advocate Condemned. William Schoenberg, International organizer of the machinists, at the last meeting of Local 390, made an impassioned speech in an endeavor to convert the rank and-file to vote for Small in the primaries. “If I were in Milwaukee I should vote the Social- ist ticket, if I were in Germany or Denmark I should be with the Social- Democrats. But here in Illinois, as there is no independent political or- anization for labor, it is necessary for the workers to deal with Small.” The machinists’ organizer was re- minded by Andrew Overgaard, Louis Look, president of the district coun- cil, Jake Weydert, Philip Kerr, and several other rank and file machinists that there is a Farmer-Labor Party in Illinois as well as Minnesota, but that trade union, officials have been engaged in merrily knifing the labor party in the back in favor of the old POEM WITHOUT RHYME BUT NOT WITHOUT REASON (By GORDON W. OWENS) I am The Chicago Tribune, slinger of mud, distorter of news and teller of lies. Manufacturing fake news, creating prejudices and race riots are my specialties, will call black white and white black in order to put something over. I am brazen without honor or shame. No sewer is so deep that I will not descend into same to obtain mud to sling at those whom, I oppose. No lie is so vicious that I will not print in order to slander those with whom I disagree. No deed is so vile that I will not resort to in order to accomplish my purpose, am The Chicago Tribune, the Ananias of the newspaper world, representing journalism in its blackest and yellowest form. German Living Cost One-Third of What It Was Before War By LOUIS P. LOCHNER (Staff Correspondent of Federated Press) BPRLIN, April 4.—The cost of living has gone up about 33 1-3 per cent in Germany as compared with pre-war days. But workers’ wages have in most trades been decreased over the prewar period, So that the workers not only find necessaries more expensive than in 1918-14, but he has less money to pay for them. The following table shows work- ers’ wages per hour this year and ten years ago: y 1918-14 Jan.1924 pfennigs pfennigs 59.7 Magons .... 3 k Building trad 54.2 parties. They pointed out that Scho- Metal Y ckere 67 52.9 enberg seemed to be with the party| Cabinet makers 56 53.4 which he thought had the most pres- Upholsterers . 54 52.6 tige, or which he could get the most} printers .... 60 57.0 out of. They declared there was lit-| Weavers . 50 AT tle difference between Small-and Es-| tailors ..-..------- 67 52.2 sington, that whoever wins, the politi- cians and the policemen’s club will be used against labor, as they are being used in the garment strike at the pres- ent time. They declared their faith A pfennig is worth about one- fourth of a cent. In tne above, the highest hourly rate is 15 cents. In only three trades, painters, leather- workers and bookbinders, in Ger- in a workers’ party which is based on class lines and which is against both of the old parties, : Need Leaders With Backbone. _ “I don’t see how any self-respect- ing trade unionist can go into the coming primary fight for any candi- date put up by the old parties,” said Thomas G. McCabe, last night in an exclusive interview with the DAILY WORKER. “The old party primaries are like a pest house. No decent man can enter them without becoming con- taminated—I don’t care who he is. I made my statement advising all friends of labor, to stay away. from the polls because I wanted to set the Cook County Farmer-Labor Party right by declaring against entangle- ments with old party politicians. “Tt is deplorable that more Farmer- Labor Party members did not have the guts to support me in my stand. I was speaking with the backing of the unanimous decision of the execu- tive board of the party and the con- stitution of the National Farmer-La- bor Party. It is the duty of every union man who has any class con- sciousness or any realization of the position of the workers in society, to stay away from the primaries—both democratic and republican—on April 8. The Cat’s Let Loose. “It is evident that we need labor leaders with a good deal stiffer back- bone and good deal clearer §rains if we are going to keep the workers from being sold out to corrupt poli- many has there been a wage in- crease over 1918-14, Sut this in- crease is-more than offset by the rise in the cost of living. After March 31 the building in- dustry will be without any collec- tive agreement. «As 75 per cent of the building workers are unem- ployed, the employers’ demands would throw the unions back 30 years. These demands include a 60-hour week (48 in winter, 72 in summer), the loss of holidays, the exclusion of apprentices from the agreement, no restriction on piece work, W. Va. Labor Faker Had Business Angle On Labor Politics (Special to The Daily Worker) WHEELING, W. Va., April 4— The president of the West Virginia Federation of Labor, Mr, Harris, ac- cording to G. W. Otto, ef this city, made an wumsuccessful attempt to “Where they would do the most good,” in the recent senatorial cam- paign. “Harris informed me,” said Mr. Otto, “that he was president of the American Federation of Labor in West Virginia, and that ‘he had the votes to deliver and would throw them the way they would do him the most good.’ Harris declared that ‘Records got a man nothing, and that if Senator Cooper did not deal with him, then another man would be candidate for the senate, and that he—Harris—would swing labor's vote to the other man’.” Mr. Otto declares that in spite of the fact that Cooper was the logical candidate for labor's vote, having a good record in working for the 8- hour law and other labor legislation, President Harris declared he would not swing labor’s vote to a ¢andi- date who gave him nothing in returp, New Zealand Labor Paper Harpoons Our Robber Paytrioteers (By The Federated Press) WELLINGTON, New Zealand, April 4—Commenting on the Tea- pot Dome oil scandal the New Zea- land Worker says: “Gentlemen of the by States ae ee bese caught in a ‘great an my 0 scandal, but only after they had dipped their tarry fingers deeply into the loot. “The Daughertys, Bakers, Roose- velts and company in the oil sean- day, it must be remembered, were the very creme-de-la-creme of | United States patriotism and it was they who organized the drives against socialists and others for their alleged lack of love of country and their corrupting influence in the state, “A nice bunch, the lot of them! Liars and thieves all, whose knav- cries almost make the earth stink to heaven, And it is these, and such as they, monopolizing patriotism as they have done for filthy profit, who have vilified and persecuted paci- fists and conscientious objectors for ting their beastly greed and loodshed.”” IE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. McCabe launched into an attack on the Illinois Farmer-Labor Party, a dual organization headed by Gifford Ernest, not connected with the Na- tional Farmer-Labor Party. “The Farmer-Labor Party of Illinois is a scab organization,” said McCabe. “Ernest never carried a union card. He is a non-labor man who has lived off of union men and women of Chi- cago for the last three years, I am @ that this situation has revealed nest’s organization in its true light. I believe we have discovered that Ernest is just a figure head, backed by Walker and Olander. I believe we have discovered who is paying Ernest’s salary and expenses—-the very people who are backing Small. I am now convinced that Ernest en- tered the July 3rd convention at the instance of these men for the very purpose and the definite intention of disrupting the Farmer-Labor Party of Chicago so that Small and the other old party politicians would not lose support.” “Ernest would not dare to declare in favor of staying away from the primaries because he would éndanger the funds necessary to maintain his headquarters, which are supplied by Small men. Walker and Olander have in the past received favors from both the old parties, They have a very unsavory records,” Attempt to Swing Federation. “Influence is being exerted on members of the Farmer-Labor Party to keep them lined up for Small, It is ridiculous that serious Farmer-La- bor Party members should repudiate their Party and declare that they do not owe any allegiance to it, We are having an executive board meeting tonight (Friday night) which will probably have an important bearing on the future of the Farmer-Labor Party of Chicago.” It is being generally rumored in the Federation of Labor Building that at the meeting of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor next Sunday, some of the officials will endeavor to swing swing the labor vote he controlled |‘ HIGH QUALITY FOOD BINS Ripe. opm oatogs ogereys ar epee Boe | Per Week Brings This Genuine Victrola to Your Home Imagine having most of the world’s great jazz bands right in your home at all times, ready to start an impromptu dance when “folks drop around.” That's what you feally with this Victrola Outfit. 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