The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1924, Page 6

cere See Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES / By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00.,..3 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ilinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE ) MORITZ J. LOEB. Editors usiness Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post, Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <p 290 Advertising rates, on application. —— Ready for Scrap Heap The fact that capitalism has outlived its useful- ness as a system of production and exchange and has become a fetter upon social progress is evi- denced by the persistently recurring contradic- tions which are inherent in the present productive order and which bring in their wake untold misery and suffering for the great mass of the population. When industry reaches the stage of over-produc- tion, there inevitably follows unemployment and under-consumption.. In other words, when the working class produces plenty of goods of con- sumption, increasing numbers of workingmen are thrown out of work and the working class as a whole, because it does not receive the full value of its produce, is unable to buy back what it has produced itself, and its living standards are low- ered. Under capitalism over-production and un- der-consumption are synonymous. The great mass of the farming population is subject to the same misfortune and difficulties. The more the farmers produce, the greater the lik- lihood of their having their economic condition degraded today. For instance, the fortune of the farmers today depends on their producing a smaller crop of wheat, corn, or barley. The de- partment of agriculture, in its attempt to show that the outlook for the farming class is hopeful, has been deliberately spreading false propaganda to the effect that these crops will be smaller during the coming year. Wallace sees his hopes for the farmers in wretched crops and not in bountiful ones. < It certainly is an unassailable indictment of a system of production and exchange to have its great industrial and rural producing masses be driven into starvation and suffering because of its efficiency of workmanship or on account of the bountifulness of the crops produced. The menace to the farmers’ welfare today lies in the fact that the Pacific Northwestern wheat producing states “show signs of a considerable improvement in this year’s crop. And Kansas and Oklahoma are like- wise showing signs of an abandoned winter acre- age far smaller than estimated by the department of agriculture. Only ordinarily good weather will bring in these states a crop far in excess of the estimates of the department of agriculture. Worse than that. Today capitalism stifles the development of agricultural efficiency. The farm- ers fear to produce more because they know that an overflow market means ruin to them. It is said that if the farmers of the State of Iowa would use select seed they could raise on the same acreage as last year, with no extra overhead charges, 848,000,000 bushels of corn. Some time ago’ Wis- consin farmers developed a strain of barley which in less than a year produced an increased crop of 25 per cent per acre over the seed of ordinary variety. When an industrial system reaches a stage un- der which a bountiful crop and efficient produc- tion become a curse, it is high time that that in- dustrial system be discarded to the scrap heap' of history. Lodge Fell For Fall Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, comes from Boston. “The home of the bean and the cod; Where the Dodges speak only to the Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God.” He represents the bluest of American blue blood _and has been commended waruly by literary jour- uals for holding high the lamp of culture in the senate. Of course, he has never trafficked with the sulgar politicians who are looked upon with hor- vor in the Back Bay district, but he was so in- trigued by the rugged honesty of Albert Fall, sometime secretary of the interior, that he wrote the following letter to Herbert Wells of the In- dian Rights Association in reply to one hinting that the honest Albert was plundering the wards of Uncle Sam: In my opinion he (Fall) is exceptionally fitted to be secretary of the interior, as it is now generally understood that he will be appointed to that post * * © Senator Fall is a thoroly upright and high- minded man, and is utterly incapable of using his office for his own financial interest, which | regret to say is implied by some of the expressions of your letter. It is said that now, when the name of Fall is mentioned in the exclusive Back Bay district, a cold and clammy silence ensues that lasts for days and days. The moral of this is that the capitalist system ls a united front of all parasitic elements against the working class in which a cultured Lodge and in ignorant Fall are welcome just as long as they serve the real masters—the industrial and finan- tial lords. California Protects Labor The speech made by Senator Shortbridge on the question of Japanese immigration doubtless will please the jingoes and alarm the. pacifists but “ THE DAILY WORKER There Are Two Sides To Ever By ROSE PASTOR STOKES. ‘Walking with a bourgeois acquain- despite the provocative character of the remarks! tance I met on Greenwich Avenue the made by the senator from California Japan will not go to war with us to settle the question of the admission of her citizens to our sacred soil. On the question of the Philippines or the repay- ment of the recent loan by the House of Morgan that is something else again. “Are we going to back down before the threats of Japan?” hoarsely shouted the senator from the state that is filling its prisons with members of the I, W. W. for mere affiliation with the organi- zation and that keeps Tom Mooney confined de- spite unquestioned proof of his innocence. The same California ruling class that brought in Jap- anese to compete with the white workers and thereby lower wages is today yelling for their exclusion and expul8ion. The trouble began when the lowly. Japanese worker boarded his scanty wages and proceeded to buy up some of the land that was cheap before California became the paradise of real estate sharks. Japanese syndicates were formed and now thousands of acres are owned and cultivated by the little yellow men. Japanese labor on the Pacific coast competes with white labor chiefly on the farms; to this landlords have no objection but when the Japs acquire property then the 100 per cent American blood of the native sons begins to boil and they immediately clamor for the support of their state and national government. The conflict between two groups of capitalists is disguised by urging restrictive legislation for the “protection of labor.” On behalf of the dozens of members of our class who are in California prisons for their working class activities we invite any deluded worker to make a pilgrimage to Sunny California and see for himself just what this pro- tection amounts to. What About Borah? Where is Senator Borah and his committee for investigating Soviet Russia these days when proof of the murderous activities of Secretary of Com- merce Hoover, directed against the Soviet govern- ment, is at hand in the shape of documents’ fur- nished by Captain Martin showing beyond doubt that relief funds were expended to bolster up the counter-revolutionary offensive headed’ by Yude- nitch? It is the Borah committee that has been charged with the task of delving into all phases of the rela- tions of the United States government with Soviet Russia but it is significant. that with the opening up of other investigations that might lead to the same point the Borah committee adjourned its sessions. The position of Borah on this matter is quite clear. He has been a kindly counsellor of Presi- other morning, I suddenly halted be- fore a mountainous pile on the curb- stone. “What is it?” asked by companion. “Look!” I replied, pointing at the pile. Wretched chests of drawers, an an- cient ruined sofa and a kitchen table, at the bottom; an old iron bedstead at the side, buttressed by a broken- down sewing-machine and a wooden wash-tub and, piled on top, an in- discriminate lot of stuff, utensils, bedding, the rags that were once un- dergarments, dishes, oil quilts, hats, shoes, baskets, chairs. The previous night, snow had fallen heavily, in the early morning, rain had come down in torrents. It was still raining. The streets were slushy, the gutters, eddying streams. Out On the Street. The pile of wretchedness accumu- lated by some worker's family thru years of bitter struggle with poverty, did not escape the storm. To the remotest fissure in the chests of drawers at the bottom, the rain and the snow had penetrated. The damp wind would come and crack the things of wood. The soggy wool and cotton would take on a deeper misery —perhaps be rendered entirely use- less. Rust, disintegration—this moun- tain of tragic poverty was not a stranger to these, yesterday, and would be less a stranger to these, to- morrow. “An eviction,” remarked my com- panion, somewhat sadly. “Come, let’s go." ‘We started; but, again I stopped. “No,” I said, “let’s find out what's happened. It’s incredible that any human being should be put out on a day like this, in such a storm.” “Oh, come on,” she urged, “they probably deserve it. You can’t tell. There are two sides to every story. You Communists are so one-sided, you never see anything but the work- ers’ side.” I bade my companion a good-morn- ing and returned alone. The little stationery shop, upon which the pile cast a giant shadow— this should be a good place to get, my questions answered. I walked in. A squat woman behind a counter, busy turning a penny—perhaps busier dreaming of a day when she would own a big store with half dozen he- hind her counters slaving for her— was annoyed at an unprofitable in- terruption. One Side of Story. These busy-bodies who come to ask questions about matters that are no concern of theirs! Well, if I wanted to know, it was the janitor and his wife. Rent? No, it wasn’t a question of rent. What then: Why, they were a pair of drunks ... drank all the time, that’s what it was... never saw them sober ... . they lived in that nice room in--the basement «+, free; only had to do janitor’s work for the building, that’s all. Can't keep drunken janitors in a respecta- ble house. Where are they? God knows! Drinking somewhere, shé guessed. Maybe, arrested and sent to jail... serves them right, if they were! They belong in the work- house, anyway. Their stuff? It'll rot and mould? Well, people in’ the work-house don’t need furniture! (Laughter at her neat little joke!) take it all.... I felt relieved that the bourgeoisie did not come with me. I could not have borne her “I told-you-so!” look. To all my arguments that society should take care of its sick, that a habitual drunkard is a sick man and should receive treatment, she would have replied: “It serves people right, Those who have no ambition deserve no better at anybody’s hands.” If they don’t turn up the dump will]... Wednesday, April 16, 1924 y Story The Other Side. The following night, I met Mrs. B., a close friend of the X——es, at a club where liberal people gather. Mrs. B. is a “liberal” of a sort. Her friends, the X——-es, are very con- servative people with an extreme in- come. Mrs. B., whom I had not seen in years, sat down to chat and, a little, she chatted about the X——es, “Poor Mrs. X! She had to board up her mansion, put her servants into the country house and take Mr, X: to the Blank Sanatorium where he may have to stay for an indefinite period, Yes, he always drank heavily, you know. The doctors warned them: But alcoholism brought him finally to this. She’s taken a cottage in order to be near him, to see him just as often as the regulations will permit. It almost broke her heart... she has just had her entire house re- decorated and was planning a social season in town.... You should have seen her! She looked almost as muc} a wreck as he, himself. . . . It’s tragifi\ + what alcoholism will do to pe DIB! psa Now I wished that my bourgeoise of the morning before were with me! - Yes, there are two sides to every story. Our Left Wing While we are rightfully pointing out the weaknesses of the present trade union movement, the class col- aboration policy of the reactionary leaders, the bankruptcy of the social- jist party and its complete surrender to Gompers and company, we must |Pay more attention to the ever-grow- ing number of left wing groups and left wing press. The latest addition to the leftewing press, is the Progressive Shoe and Leather Worker, thus the militants have seven monthly and semi-month- ly papers representing national left wing committees in the Building, Clothing, Leather, Metal, Mining, Printing and Railroad industries. This is the miltant rank and file’s answer to the Gompers, Lewis, John- ston. Berry class collaboration policy. The launching of the Progressive Shoe and Leather Worker is a real achievement, when one considers the terrific chaotic condition of the Leather industry, and the inroads that the secessionist movement had made there. That its first issue should deal almost exclusively with amalgamation is natural and can very well be understood. For years the burning question was dualism versus amalgamation, and now we see the end of the dualistic program and the gradual merging of the un- ions into one organization covering the entire industry, nothing is more natural than to see the Progressive Shoe and Leather Worker lay em- Press - phasis on the question of amalgama- tion. Michael T. Berry in his article giv- ing a short and concise history of the shoe and leather workers’ efforts to organize and how they had tried the craft form of unionism from 1857 un- til the present, showing how miser- ably it had failed to cement labors’ forces, the dire necessity for amal- gamation and drawing the further lesson. “The way out of the trouble lies in a united front on both the political and industrial fields, the hat- tle must be fought out on lines forci- bly determined by all the tactors of the class struggle and not on lines of class collaboration.” Amalgamation is only the means and mot the end in itself. With the solidifying of the ranks of the work- By William Z. Foster ers in the shoe and leather industry on the industrial field, must come the united front of the exploited workers and farmers on the politi- cal field, the understanding of the revolutionary significance of the pres- ent agitation for the. united front of labor, and the relationship of immé- diate demands to the revolutionary struggle. We greet the Progressive Shoe and Leather Worker as another link in the left wing chain that is binding the militants together in the strug- gle against Imperialism on the one hand, and reaction within the ranks of labor on the other. We greet you as the class conscious expression of the shoe and leather workers. You are the seventh nail-in the coffin of reaction. On with the work. i Our Book Review Section POST WAR ITALY Reviewed by ELLA G. WOLFE “Rome or Death”, by Carleton Beals, New York, The Century Co., $250. A discussion of the victory of Fascism in Italy. In view of recent revolutionary de- velopments in Germany, Spain and Mexico, developments, directly or in- dent Coolidge altho some of his remarks have been| directly influenced by the Fascisti somewhat pointed; he has, however, devoted most} movement of Italy, Rome or Death by of his energy to urging that the republican party| Carleton Beals is of very special in- clean house so that it can better fool the masses/| terest to us. and he feels that if and when LaFollette bolts upon his shoulders will fall the faded but welcome mantle of progressivism within the republican party. Yesterday the DAILY WORKER urged that the workers and farmers demand of Senators Wheeler and Brookkart a complete exposure of the Hoover atrocities; we do not withdraw that demand but in addition to that we feel that Senator Borah, because of his previous experience with Russian affairs, is peculiarly fitted to explore further the obscene iniquities of the Hoover attempt to drown in blood, by use of money appropriated for the relief of starving women and children, the only workers’ and farmers’ government in the world. Another S. P. Confession Not even the proponents of the Dawes plan deny that its purpose is to prevent the complete breakdown of capitalism in Europe. It is there- fore of sweet significance to find that Algernon Lee, well-known socialist and director of the Rand school—a socialist party institution—also recog- nizes this and approves of it. Mr. Lee, with one gloved hand resting lightly on his cane, said to the correspondent of the Federated Press: I fear the evil has gone too far to be cured with- out more sweeping measures. The plan seems to constitute a slight step beyond the impossible Ver- sailles treaty. If such action had been taken a year or two jer it would give more hope that Europe may be ied from a general breakdown. So after all the fierce denials of the socialists we find that the Communists were right when they said that the socialists were interested primarily in saving capitalism. Oh, well. A New York lawyer talked a couple of burglars out of $4,000 while they were robbing his house the other day. Once more the value of technical training has been demonstrated. Beals lived in Italy during the rise and development of the Fascisti movement and its conquest of politi- cal power. He is an extremely care- ful student and his book is richly documented in the conditions and causes for the events that made possi- ble a Fascist victory. The author has the magic gift of making history read like romance. In a stimulating, rapid- ly moving, brilliant style he dis- cuses the parts played by National- ism plus syndicalism; international revolutionary socialism; and clerical- ism during the post war period. With a few graphic strokes of his pen he gives us the reasons for the imnpossi- bility of a thoroly industrialized Italy. He says, “Italy is an exagger- ated pushcart. She has no important natural resources, no iron, no coal, no petroleum, no cotton—her one in- dustrial (—water power in Lom- bardy Central Italy.” With the same vividness he compares the power of the Italian petty bourgeosice before and after the great war. Necessary to Read. He paints us a tensely stirring pic- ture of the atavistic violence of the fas- efsti movement ich worshipped the mo it firs: and fine out atfter- ward,” and under this motto de- stroyed labor headquarters and labor papers, pillaged and burned Socialist co-operatives, murdered league offi- cials and labor organizers. lere- fore when the author declares, “It (The Fascisti movement) has never been, except in certain limited dis- tricts and for short periods a White Guard in the service of the reaction: aries and profiteers,” he is making a generalization completely contradict- ed by all the facts he himself ad- vances and by all the testimonies of leading Fascisti that he quotes. From the character of their numerous punt- tive expeditions and of their pro- grame formulated from time to time, the reader is left assured that the Fascisti movement, if not completely rise, development and political NEE Mavi tend Me Aha ae ee A elements that are fuond in the strug- gle between revolution and reactiono the world over. Co-operatives In Italy. The second part of the book deals with the agrarian struggle. “Land! That has been the key to Italian prosperity and politics since long be- fore the time of the Gracchi.” “Italy’s future lies in her soil.” In this con- nection we find telling statistics on the super-concentration of land, es- pecially in Sicily, on the evils of ab- sentee landlordism; also an’ interest- ing picture of the universally hated Gabelloti (the agrarian middleman and the slave-driver of the peasants). As g background for the develop- ment ‘of Agrarian Fascism we are treated to a careful and excellent study of the rise of the Co-operative Movement in Italy. Says the author: “The Italian co-operatives have been among the most happy expressions of voluntary associations in the world. They are“much more extensive and thoroly organized than the old “ar- tels” of the Russian self-governing co-operatives; they are more demo- cratic than the grain banks of Por- tugal and Spain; and they are of more social significance than the Rochdale stores in England. Co- operatives are an integral part of every labor and peasant organization. The first thing a new sindacato thinks of doing is to establish a co- operative purchasing and selling so- ciety.” Rise of Labor Fascism. The third part of “Rome or Death” deals with the rise of labor Fascism and the author indicates that the im- mediate effect of the success of labor Fascism was the disruption of the Italian labor movement. Then follow the causes for the de- cline of the Socialist party; the clari- fication of the Fascist progri in- cluding Italy’s foreign policy in the Mediterranean under the slogan of “The Mediterranean for the Mediter- ranean peoples;” the economic pro- gram for reconstruction characterized by such planks as the return of rail- roads, post and telegram system to private ownership, the settlement of industrial disputes by mixed organ- izations of labor and capital; the denial of the right to strike in the public service, etc. Part four begins by sketching, in a masterly way, the magnetic Musso- lini, the Breaker of Ballot Boxes, as the author picturesquely calls him, and ends by a Vivid narrative of the romantic march on Rome by the Fas- cisti, and ends by a vivid narrative of the romantic march on Rome by the Fascisti. Decay of Political Democracy. The last part of the book discusses in detail the dictatorship of the Ital- ian Fascist State. This is Carleton Beal’s summary of Fascism: “Fascism has created the New Italy in an old, very old Europe—an Italy caught up in the vicious circle of isolated policy, depleted resources, financial bank- ruptcy, and expanding militarism; an Italy strangely imbued with a hier- archal spirit of Prussian sun-worship —yet lacking the temperamental re- straint and lacking both the organ- izing ability and the industrial skill successfully to carry out a policy of aggrandizement; an Italy, which in spite of all logic, intends sooner or later to batter on the closed gates of the Mediterranean. This is the New Italy, which only yesterday wel- tered in corruption, disorganization, and chaos, which today has found a new faith in the “right of the strong.” For fascism is backed by good bayo- nets, and fascism is a new weight flung in the balance of European poli- tics. Some day, somehow, the eclec- tic, hazy, mystic idealism of fascism may be salvaged. But at present the new Italy marks one more milestone upon the road toward the general decay of political democracy in Bu- rope. 5-15, ———, International Association Field, Gas Well, and Refinery Workers America. Labor Conventions--1924 Czerwonsky’s Violin ' 5 Renders Beautiful “Carnival Of Life’’ By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. Richard Czerwonky, well-known as a violinist and teacher of the violin, revealed himself as a composer and conductor, at the third concert of the Bush Conservatory orchestra at Or- chestra Hall last Tuesday night. He produced for the first time two mod- ern sketches and the symphonic’ poem “A Carnival of Life.” The sketches are light ana beautiful works, full of daring and unusual har- monies, while the poem is a more serious composition, with many new,, and original orchestral effects. There were three soloists, all stu- dents of Bush Conservatory. Madge. Geiss played the first Liszt piano con- certo, which formed an interesting. comparison with the same compos- er’s symphonic poem “Les Preludes”,: which ended the program. The early Liszt of the concerto is brilliant, at times all but bombastic. The later, Liszt of the symphonic poem is phi- losophic, the deep and speculative thinker. 4 Agnes Knoflickova, one of Czer- wonky’s pupils, played the first move- ment of a concerto for violin by Vieu- temps, a brilliant work, but a ‘bit-. boresome in its heavenly iength. Josephine Decker, contralto, sang. the aria “O Don Fatale” from Verdi's” opera “Don Carlos”. FS Czerwonky as a conductor lives up» to his reputation as one of the finest of violinists. His orchestra is made» up partly of students, partly of pro- fessional musicians, and the effects’ they produce under Czerwonky’s lead- ership rank high in symphonic per- formances. The next concert of the Bush Con- servatory orchestra will be given in” Orchestra Hall, on May 20, 4 A jt 11-16, Toronto, Ontarie, Canada, srmational ‘Typographical ‘Union, }, Pressmens’ Home, Tenn., In-. taee Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ inion, ber 1-14, N. ectpasnee 2: ‘Kannin’ Otte, tab,’ taburaes Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship of rk City, United mber S18, Indlanapeils, Tnd., United of Carpenters and Joiners of dominated, at least was financed by The Greek populace chased their king and voted | traian Reaction and permitted itsolt for a republic by an enormous majority on April | to be guided by it in the destruction 14. Dispatches today announce that martial law} of the Socialist and Labor movement .| of Italy. pests ny prpelaimed. \ eons , One \ mabe: 20e de) © ao aide tne: aiaiaatlaeeeae Il whole book is a veritable mine of authentic information such as every Brigadier-General Dawes, House of Morgan iil ag ie we to oe und he reparations expert, visited Mussolini in Rome and | tvely an 4 doubtless will return to inform his minute men penalise ean. - ojos ie of the very latest mode in blackshirts. laid in Italy, they contain the same Cony ‘Teachers, 3 tlantic N. J, eat AMEN 1sPae July 8-18, City, N. J., Glans Bottle iiiaticy Bases Su,Terh Some ‘Protective "The Poor Fi he feels sorry says ‘July 21-27, Boston, Mass,, International Piate for the peasants of Bessarabia but if Brine and Die Btampery Union af North they start to fight for their freedom they will only disturb the peaceful rule of the Roumanian nobles. September July ze pg Ste. B We