The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1924, Page 4

uy» Four THE DALY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ©O., 1113: W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00....38 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....38 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Iilinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE) " MORITZ J. LOEB... .. Editors jusiness Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <B> 290 Advertising rates on application. . Austria Collapses The league of nations appointed the Belgian financier Zimmerman as the dictator of Austria, a loan for that bankrupt nation was negotiated with the international bankers, the press of the finance-capitalists announced that Austria was “saved” and among the liberal fraternity there was general agreement that the league of nations was, after some annoying.delays, beginning to get down to the business of bringing peace on earth and good-will to men. Austria today is in a state of utter collapse after the usual capitalist remedies of war on the unions and other working class organizations have been applied. What seemed to be a temporary re- covery of finance and industry has become disaster and the government, a tool of the banking frater- nity, has squandered the treasury funds by at- tempting to protect the bankers and speculators when Austrian stocks and bonds hit the toboggan following wild speculation in French francs. Conditions in Austria are rapidly approaching those that prevailed before the international loan was negotiated. The depreciated currency has the effect of throw- ing thousands out of work and this in turn curtails the Austrian markets. Production and trade cease because no one knows what the price of any commodity will be twenty-four hours in advance. Capitalism cannot be revived permanently by artificial injections of money. The disease from which capitalism is suffering may be checked temporarily in this or that nation but it becomes more acute thruout the capitalist world as a whole and the Austrian debacle is a splendid example of this. It was necessary for the finance-capitalists to come to the rescue of France. A huge loan was made, the franc stabilized but Austria was ruined ; the capitalists themselves could not resist the te-pptation to speculate in the franc. The finance- capitalists chose to save France from immediate bankruptcy—to take care of the greatest danger. They are preparing now to “save” Germany as they saved Austria and the results will be no bet- ter for them for German production can be re- stored only at the expense of production in other capitalist nations. Capitalism exists today in a state of chronic erisis. No sooner is a wound salved over in one spot than another lesion appears. Y. W. L. Material—Poor But Plentiful. The Englewood branch of the Young Workers League has had some interesting experiences in carrying out the Communist policy of going to the masses and undoubtedly the members have now a better idea of the magnitude of the task the Young Workers League has to carry out—winning the masses of young toilers in America to Com- munism. In American industry where boys and girls jn their “teens” are not so brutally treated that they feel after working hours the need*for nothing but food and sleep, the vicious “welfare” systems sod- den and benumb their brains until they regis- . ter like phonograph records the stereotyped and conventional slogans of American capitalism. In no country in the world is the rising genera- tion of workers so uninterested in the welfare of their cl4ss; any culture other than the Bill Hart School is banned; their music is jazz, their litera- ture is the comic section of the Sunday capitalist sheets, their ideal of the drama that in which the virtuous hero is rewarded by the hand of the daughter of the factory owner. , Yet these thoughtless youths are caught in the gigantic machine of American capitalism; all their lives they will be workers, and the fathers and mothers of workers, for the days of pioneer enter- prise are past. They will have to choose some day between the working class of which they are part ‘and the boss class to whom they are now loyal with an unthinking loyalty. Unemployment, low wages, the speed-up system and the increasing discipline of the factory and workshop will awaken America’s youth just as these conditions have produced a young rebel movement in other nations; this is the economic background of the student pacifist movement. The Young Workers Leagne has the task of guiding the young workers whose shoulders the capitalist yoke galls; it is truly the vanguard of the young workers and it has the field all to itself. Its work, the work it is doing, is to turn the ex- uberant energy of young workers like those in En- glewood to the service of the working class move- ‘ment. _ Itis work that requires patience, knowledge and THE DAILY WORKER The White House Ouatburst The protest of Coolidge against the appointment of Francis J. Heney to conduct the investigation of Mellon’s Bureau of Interna] Revenue is part of the general, national capitalist conspiracy to stifle the damaging investigations that have broken the clay feet and heads of many employing class political idols. Our exploiters have had an overdose of these investigations. The order has gone out from the “G. H..Q.” of the powers that-be who dominate all must discontinue immediately. Each group, in its own way, it is true, is falling in line. The re- publicans, democrats and insurgents are all pre- paring to toe the chalk line and run away from the investigations. . But immediate exigencies of a two-fold charac- ter compelled Coolidge to demand so openly and arrogantly that the lid be put on the governmen- tal disclosures and that the Senate keep its hands off Mellon. The driving facts here are that an in- vestigation of Mellon’s Bureau of Internal Reve- nue would, as Coolidge well knows, reveal so in- herent a sordidness in the capitalist ownership of government as to blast to smithereens the little confidenge that Washington may still inspire in the breasts of the uninformed. For instance, the capitol has for some time been saturated with rumors about a million dollar whisky steal in which Mellon and the republican National Com- mittee were the principal beneficiaries. The nature of the investigator, Mr. Heney, as well the importance of the person to be investigat- ed, has inspired “Silent Cal” to a fit of eloquence. Heney’s past record appears to be one of fearless- ness in conducting such investigations. The flood of words, in behalf of Coolidge, emanating from the dry-as-dust Beef Trust Senator Watson of In- diana reminds one of the telling blows struck by the Heney revelations in the investigation of the packing interests a few years ago. More than that, the fact that the reactionary labor-hating Los Angeles Times denounces Heney is sufficient reason for the capitalist watchdog in the White House to get on his hind legs and bark and bite. Commenting adversely on the appoint- ment of Heney, the editor of this open-shop organ significantly remarked in this fashion apropos of the counsellor’s record in the old graft investi- gation of San Francisco: “No business was safe from indictment. . . . One dose of Heney was enough. His record shows him to be a violent, unfair, immoderate, unbalanced, insatiable seeker after power at any cost.” The New England banking interests and the Pacific Coast financial clique are closely allied today. Coolidge’s outburst is dictated solely by his fear that too much might be told in an investi- gation of Mellon’s financial maneuvers in the cabinet, at this time, by Mr. Heney who has more than one score to settle with the big capitalist coterie that has been hot on his trail for some time. Apologetic Leadership We remarked the other day, following the defeat of the MacDonald government on the Wheatley housing bill, that the leadership of the British Labor Party had shown but little disposition to put up a real fight for the measure. An editorial in a recent issue of the London Daily Herald, official organ of the Labor Party, confirms our statement. Speaking of the manner in which the fight for the housing bill was conducted, the Daily Herald says: That the government handied the matter skill- fully we do not claim. ... But as Mr. Clynes pro- ceeded his courage appeared, like that of Bob Acres, to ooze away out of the tips of his fingers. The bold front was dropped. A conciliatory, almost an apologetic tone was en. The whole business was disposed of by Labor’s opponents, who had it pretty much their own way. It was a pity that Mr. MacDonald had to attend the National Gallery dinner and could not be pi nt...» It would be wise of Mr. MacDonald to husband his energies and o to keep his hand firmly upon the helm. If it had been there on Wednesda: ening, cannot be- lieve that there would een potent a conclusion to th ffort t ve the brave soldiers of industry and their wives and little ones from further undeserved hardship and pain. The Daily Hergld adopts a careful tone but it is not hard to see that even the official organ’ the Labor Party considers it a disgrace to the labor movement that the Wheatley bill—the first real working class measure to be sponsored by the Labor Party—was defeated without a struggle. It may be necessary for Premier MacDonald to attend a National Gallery dinner when a measure of such vital importance to the working class is up for consideration but it is indicative of the attitude of the right wing leadership of the party that this should be so. Furthermore, we differ with the Daily Herald as to the value that the presence of Ramsay Mac- Donald would have had and it is our humble Com- munist opinion that he deliberately ducked a fight and that the Daily Herald is of the same opinion. Send in your order for the SPECIAL MAY DAY ISSUE of the DAILY WORKER. There is only one Japanese threat that the bosses really fear and that is the threat of the Japanese workers to establish their own Soviet Republic. Since people are to receive communion by radio, perhaps some way will be found of enjoying all the privileges of heaven while still on earth. They say the day of miracles has not passed. Harry Kendall Thaw’s “rabbit kiss” may have been hard on the rabbit, but the “oil kiss” that Doheny, Sinclair and the rest bestowed upon the republican and democratic parties has certainly proved itself more deadly, The Case of Behind the walls in a Pennsylvania prison, Jacob Dolla, militant member of the working class, waits daily for word that will return him to his wife and family, giving him the freedom that he was so unjustly deprived of. No word of complaint has come from the lips of this man. Even tho his cup of sorrow has been overflow- ing at times and the prison walls have engulfed him deeper and deeper into the clutches of their shadows, the. world has yet to hear one word of complaint from Jake Dolla. His voice, coming forth from prison, has always urged the workers forward to their tasks, to remain steadfast and loyal to their ideals. Compared with the splendid loyalty of this man, who 4s a member of the Lebanon lodge of the A. A. of I. 8. and T. W. of N. A., was jailed after one of the most contemptible frame- ups ever recorded in the history of the American labor movement, we have the cringing knave-like conduct of M. F. Tighe, president of Dolla’s union, the union_he fought for, in who's cause he was cast into prison. In sttbmitting his report to the forty- ninth annual convention of the A. A., recently held in Pittsburgh, Pa., Tighe had the btazen effrontery to assert that everything possible has been done for Dolla and that noth- ing more could be done, Tighe charged the “agitators,” or those ac- tive in Dolla’s behalf, with being “fal- sifiers” when they stated that he was doing nothing for Dolla. Gradually does the national president of the A. A. record how he made a special trip to Lebanon to silence the “agi- tators.” In fact, three-fourths of Tighe’s report to the convention on the case of Jacob Dolla was taken up condemning the militants active in be- half of their brother worker. The following letter was received by Tighe from the Department of Justice, Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 2, 1923: “M. F. Tighe, 510 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. “Dear Mr. Tighe—The Pardon Board is still holding under advise- ment the case of Jacob Dolla, men- tioned in your letter of Oct. 29. “I believe the case will be disposed of at our November meeting. In the meantime we are looking with great care into the evidence and ar- By WALLACE T. METCALFE. Jacob Dolla what the circumstances surrounding the trial may indicate, there was sworn evidence by some of his fel- low union members that he worked with and guided them in the mak- ing of bombs and the planning of the bombing of a residence. “On top of that Jacob Dolla en- tered a plea of guilty. If men in the position of Dolla desire to have their later claim of innocence considered with full credence, they certainly ought not to plead guilty as he did, You can see plainly that a plea of guilty places the Pardon Board in an embarrassing position, even tho the applicant for pardon states defi- nitely that he did not tell the truth in entering such a plea. “Yours very sincerely, “GEORGE W. WOODRUF, “Attorney General.” Nineteen witnesses have sworn to affidavits repudiating their former testimony. A gassed and wounded ex-serviceman was beaten and com- pelled to testify against Dolla, Scores of others and facts beyond the question of a doubt have been presented’ proving the innocence of Dolla, yet M. F. Tighe reported noth- ing done since Nov. 2, 1923. Five months ago, and five dreary ones for Jacob Dolla. The case of Jacob Dolla was first called to the attention of the world by William Z, Foster and others who have battled consistently for his re- lease, and it was thru the efforts of the T. U. E. L. that the Dolla case was brought to the attention of the forty-eighth annual convention of the A. A, held in Warren, 1923. Every step of the way M. ¥. Tighe has had to be driven and he has never failed to yelp back at the militants in the A. A. who compelled him to officially do something for the release of Dolla. If Jacob Dolla is to be released it will be only thru the efforts of the working class, and not the official- dom such as Tighe represents, every labor organization in ‘the United States and the North American con- tinent, every fraternal organization must SPEAK for, the release of Jacob Dolla. He is needed on the outside to head the organization in whose cause he was imprisoned. His fam- ily needs him. The working class |{ can ill afford to remain idly by and GULB A Baby Can Play It! Everyone Can Enjoy It! Malin Office: Branch Office: Open Evenin -—-—— — — — — MAIL the different models. Name ..... Phone ...... stand with folded arms while its al- gument presented. “The trouble is that no matter leged leaders act as pallbearers for the burial alive of its militants. WITH THE CONDUCTED = BY TH ENGLEWOOD Y. W..L. RESPONSIVE BUT TO MAKE NEW EFFORT SUNDAY By P. K. The must discussed and highly masses” presents no difficulties whatever to the Englewood Branch of the Chicago Young Workers League—as per the experiences of the last three meetings. In fact, the branch finds having to go to the masses at all, but rather of keeping its bearings and feet against the enthusiastic inrush of these masses. strong, and all young workers, they ment to the Englewood Branch that as the last meeting demonstrated, noth- ing short of violent ejection can induce them to forego the pleasure of attendance and participation. All of which sounds fine and would be if there was no details and explanations to be added. Two months ago, the Englewood Branch, dissatisfied with the work it was doing instituted a new policy. Since it is a small branch and has very, very few industrial workers among its ranks and could not reach the masses thru the shop nuclei, de- cided upon other methods of reach- ing the masses. his new policy had two phases; first, to attract young workers, and second, to edu- cate and organize them. Seems sim- doesn’t it? id it is—some of it. As above intimated, the first part of this policy has more than suc- ceeded. With free dancing as the attraction, the young workers have fairly flocked in. At the first meet- ing they came in goodly numbers. They came for a good time and for a while they had it. That was the first part of the new policy. Then came the second part. The dancing was stopped, the dancers were seat- ed and a high-powered propagandist took the floor. A New Specimen, He was a well-known comrade and he talked well. The young workers WORKEDS UNG WORKERS LEAGUE FINDS YOUTH NOT RECEPTIVE; important problem of going “to the itself in the peculiar position of not Between 25,and 40 have conceived such a strong attach- It all happened like this. were stimulated into argument. But not into joining. The meeting disin- tegrated into small groups, holding animated discussions. Pleasant Time Was Had. And then came the last meeting. The young workers came again in full force augmented by many friends, This time they came pre- pared to try and obstruct the meet- ing. | The inevitable speaker was again introduced to them and talked to them in spite of their many inter- ruptions and the missiles that fotind their way thru windows and doors; They are still unconvinced but we feel confident that they will return again. They are terribly miseducat- ed, incredibly incredulous of the truth. Can they be organized? The Englewood Branch proposes to find April 24th, at 6359 S, Ashland Ave. Wm. F. Dunne, editor DAILY WORKER, will speak ‘on “Antt-Mili- tarism” to these young workers typical of America’s youth. All young workers, boys and girls, tl listened, some of them curiously, more of them resentfully and more of them indifferently. It was the first time they heard about the class struggle or the Communists. It was the first time they had heard then: | selves addressed as comrades and young workers. It was the first time they had heard about modern s0- ciety and the truth was so strange and new as to seem unbelievable. A plea for members proved fruitless as expected. One talk does not make a young worker class con- scious. The members were not dis- couraged. A few copies of the Young Worker were sold. Came the next meeting and to it flocked all the young workers who had attended previously ‘and also newcomers. Again there was danc- ing. And again it was stopped and an hour was devoted to a propogan-|trades are meeting success in organ- da talk, This time the results were | izing chain lunch rooms with branches in evidence. ‘The young workers | up A y M4 should attend this meeting. Spring’s Trance Means Spring Dance Youth’s Spring Is here again. This time it will be a spring dance, given by the Bridgeport Branch of the Young Workers League. The date— Saturday evening, April 19,\1924, The place—Milda’s Hall, South Halsted street. 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