The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1924, Page 6

es os yy bya 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, Hilinols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE) “ MORITZ J. LOEB... Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <> 290 Advertising rates on application. ——————————————————E————— Coolidge and the Capitalist Press The manner in which the capitalist press dis- torts issues and conveys false impressions is well shown up by the manner in which the Coolidge speech was handled. The few reluctant words the president devoted to peace measures were played up in the headlines ‘and we have not the slightest doubt that millions of American workers and farmers believe that this was the high note in the address. The Coolidge speech meant war—not peace. The important point—and the reason that it was delivered—was the whole-hearted endorsement of the Morgan-Dawes plan for the subjugation of Europe ‘to American finance-capital. As Scott Nearing points out in his able analysis of the Dawes proposals—published elsewhere in the DAILY WORKER—the scheme hinges on the granting of the right to issue German money— a basic right of rulers—to the international bank that will be controlled by the House of Morgan. No people, says Nearing, will submit for any great length of time to such oppressive measures as the Dawes plan proposes to liquidate the cost of the war for the allied nations. When it is known that the German masses are to be enslaved for a period of 50 years the scheme endorsed by Coolidge becomes still more monstrous. The military power of France has failed alike to conquer the working class of Soviet Russia and to secure the fabulous sum required of the German nation; the European financial system—a tremen- dous pyramid of debt—is toppling. It is the hope of the House of Morgan, to whom most o the debts are owed, to bulwark the forces of ite allied nations with the military forces of the United States in a last desperate attempito wring from the working class of Germady and all Western Europe the sums necessaiy to stabilize the European budgets and liquidate the indebted- ness of the nations to this great combination of international financiers. e plan Wo! any degree of success in Germany there is not the least doubt—if the attitude of our state department is a guide to the Russian policy of the House of Morgan—that a new war will be fomented against the Soviet gov- ernment. < These are the two great problems upon the solution of which depends, in a large measure, the continued existence of European capitalism: The collection of the German reparations and the destruction of the power of the workers and peas- ants of Russia so that that great country can be thrown open to unrestrained capitalist exploita- ion. The Coolidge speech is the first trumpet note sounded in a campaign that will, as surely as flags follow capital investment, end in the American masses being rallied for a new world struggle. There is no more important -issue before the workers and farmers than this and upon this issue almost every accepted leader of the workers and farmers is silent. That Daugherty is not the only moron high in the councils of the republican party that is still at large is evidenced by the fact that its national chairman, John Adams, has issued a windy dia- tribe upon which we commented yesterday, lump- ing reformers, progressives, radicals and revolu- tionists together in one fearsome list. From all we can gather, the last effort of Daugh- erty to pose as a savior of the nation has not elicited any great response from the 100 percenters who ‘hitherto looked upon his activities with a kindly eye. They are agreed, of course, that the nation must be saved from the vandal hordes of workers and farmers but they prefer that it be done by hands that will not smear the ‘rescued country with an ill-smelling compound of oil, opium, booze and blood. In other words, the savior or saviors must at least conform to the bourgebdis notion of respecta- bility and the ex-attorney-general cannot even qualify for this low rating. The Canadian Communist Party. Communists on this'side of the border will greet with pleasure and enthusiasm the splendid achieve- ments of the Toronto Convention of the Canadian Communists, just adjourned, a report of which appeared in Tuesday’s DAILY WORKER. Especially significant is the fact that the party changed its name from Workers Party to Com- munist Party. The party had all along been consid- ered as thoroly Communist, by friend and foe alike, with the result that the convention, by practically unanimous vote, decided to make the change, thus clearing the issue for the future. At the same time the party decided to enter more actively into’ the political struggles con- fronting Canada’s workers and farmers. The con- vention recognized that it had not made the most of the situation growing out of the ‘Nova Scotia sirike of coal miners and steel workers against the British Empire Steel Company. But the discus- sion of the delegates showed that the party is find- ing itself and that it will register powerful blows against Canadian capitalism in the near ddture. The convention also voted to raise thefssue in the Labor Party of the political unity f the city with the land workers. ed The attendance ot C. E. Ruthenberg,. executive secretary of the Workers Party, at the Canadian convention aided materially in developing the desired “solidarity with the Communists of the United States. While big business in the two countries: is becoming more and more identical, the Communists of the United States and Canada are developing ever closer relations under the ban- ners of the Communist International. It is the solidarity that brings terror to the citadels of capitalism upon the North American continent. It is the growing terror that precedes the final victory of the oppressed in the cities and on the land. Hands across thé border—the Workers Party of the United States to the Communist Party of Canada, both sections of the Communist Inter- national. * An Illinois United Front The call for the Farmer-Labor gathering at Peoria, Illinois, May 18th, presents: to the workers and farmers of this state the best opportunity yet offered for a united class political front of those who toil in the cities and on the land. It is a call that should find a 100 per cent re- sponse from the steel mills of Waukegan, to the coal mines of Zeigler, and beyond. It should rouse the hopes of the mortgage and tenant farmers of the fertile but plundered fields from the- shores of Lake Michigan to the banks of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. This is an opportunity for the farmers and city workers of Illinois, not only to take a stand in their own state, but to link up with awakened Let those who are trying to sabotage the masslabor in other states thru the historic National convention of workers and farmers called for June 17-explain why in this critical epoch they do not advoeate a break with the two parties of capital- ism—both of which are pliant tools in the hands of the House of Morgan and which have proved their allegiance to the lords of finance and war innumerable times. Daugherty’s Defense Farmer-Labor Conyention planned for St. Paul, Minn., June 17th. There is no excuse for any class farmer or city labor element being absent. Absence from this gathering means a direct, even if unintended blow, at the unity of the exploited masses of this state. The heavy defeat in the recent republican pri- maries, of the forces parading as the Conference for Progressive Political Action, should end for all time the meddling of workers and farmers in The secret is out! Ex-Attorney-General Daugh-| old party politics in this state. What is needed erty was corrupted by the Communists and forced | now is a class political party of city and country to accept bribes from bootleggers, bank defaulters| workers. That is what will be organized at Peoria and white-slavers in order to discredit the Ameri-| next month. can form of government. The workers and farmers of this state should be This is what we gather from the dispatches] proud to take their places in such an organization, carrying the speech of harried Harry in his own| fighting side by side, nationally, with the Farmer- defense. Of course, the Communists did not|Labor parties already carrying the standards of actually capture Harry but it was so apparent to|embattled toil in Minnesota, North and South this great patriot that Ameriegn institutions were| Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Washington and a in danger that he took steps immediately to remove| host of other states. 5; 7 danger by entering into an alliance with a It is not sufficient for the readers of the DAILY band of great souls actuated by a high purpose of] WORKER to give a passing glance at the call for which Jake Hamon and Jesse Smith were out-|the Peoria Convention, that appears on another standing figures. page of this issue. Clip it out. See that the ques- Daugherty is a lawyer but he is also a damned| tion of sending delegates is brought up at the next and discredited fool. If his clients have been using] meeting of your union, party branch, fraternal this kind of a defense previous to his appointment society, or farmers’ organization. as attorney-general it is little wonder that they considered the purchase of pardons a much more] tion judges, the landlords, the ba: reliable method of escaping the consequences of} trial bandits—the United Farmer their crimes. Against the Teapot Dome grafters, the injune- rs, the indus- bor Party of the robbed but fighting workers and farmers of An eight-year old child who is fooled by the ex-| Illinois, ¢ x planation given for his resignation by the late attorney-general should be examined immediately tent alienist. It is the duty of every class-conscious worker to put in his best efforts for June 17th. THE DAILY WORKER’ ICK up any paper, journal, maga- zine or financial report and you are sure to find some reference to the “Farm Crisis” or “Farm Revolt” or that Agriculture is a “Sick” industry. And just as certainly you find a pet remedy proposed. Of all the pet and patent remedies Credit, Diversifica- tlon and Cooperation lead the field. Its really too bad that all the old economists left no definite sign posts to guide the farm doctors thru the Agrarian wilderness. True Marx did foresee this little difficulty and gently and perhaps too generally treated the patient of the future. If a poor Farmer may “steal his stuff” I want to point out that it is not Agriculture but Capitalism that is ill. We have had no general drouths, our scientific work, our ‘Agricultural Extension aré models for the world. We have literally learned to make two blades grow where only one grew before. Modern tractors and machin- ery lie all over the U. S. And the American farmer leads all others in production per man, Yet the farmer is admittedly BANKRUPT! Capitalism’s Problems. If you want a close-up or rather an X-Ray of this apparent contradiction get out to the Wheat country. There sits the Farmer, He is still on the job evidently because he has no other Place to be and because his small town Banker doesn’t dare foreclose, In the small town sits the Banker; far sadder than the farmer, waiting to learn his fate from the Bigger Banker back in St. Paul or Minnea- polis. And these bigger Bankers also wait the commands of the Powers that Be in Wall St. It is a tremendous problem. The whole structure of Capitalist organiz- ation depends upon its correct solu- tion. How can the city worker and the farmer be kept apart? How can cheap foods be taken from tne farmer who knows his farm tenure is—after all—a Gold Brick? American Cap- italism has builded upon a deluded, un- organized farm class and used them in its struggle against the city worker. In the past the high “American standard of living” among the in- dustrial and city populations, has been maintained by the payment of high wages without hurting the profits of the Powers that Be. To understand this clearly you must see them, standing between two great masses of workers. On one side the Industrial workers, each one paid a definite wage for a definite days work. A system dictated by the nature of centralized production and constant struggle on the part of organized workers united by daily contact and work in common. On the other side of The Powers that Be stand the working farmers. The traditional family farm unit, iso- lated, unorganized, operated by the unpaid labor of the family. The small food factory, multiplied by millions, has persisted while all other indus- tries grew itito larger and larger com- binations. By building up an ideology of The Family Farm as an objv..ive; the Powers that Be stimulated the illusion that financial independence could be won by breaking all the economic laws of Capitalism; i. e. by telling John Farmer that he could somehow do better by standing still, while all other industries organized. Isolation Helped Parasites. Being unorganized and isolated not only from the city worker by distance and insidious propaganda of the Press, he was. also isolated from other farmers by smaller distances and a greater individualism carefully idealized by politician and pulpit, Thus they were led to produce food- stuffs below a true social cost of Literature -- Music-- Drama Milwaukee Shows “Polikushka” Film Saturday Night MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 24.— “Polikushka,” the Russian Art film, will be shown in Plankinton Hall Au- ditorium at 8 p. m. Saturday, April 26. A comedy film, “Soldier Ivan’s Mir- acle,” will also be given, and Engle- Wood's ten-piece orchestra will furnish special music thruout the perform- ance. The program will be completd by a Russian Sketch in Fun. The picture, “Polikushka,” has made a tremendous hit wherever exhibited. The star, Ivan Moskvin of the Moscow Art Theater players, is especially clever in portraying the happy*go- lucky Russian peasant. The support- ing cast is equally adapted in the vari- ous parts and the photography adds effectively to their skillful acting. The happy-go-lucky peasant, Poli- The Twenty-Thitd Psalm kushka, in the days of serfdom, was 4 “beloved vagabond,” but his mistress trusted him. She sent him on an im- portant errand to the city, and the de- lighted stableman tries so hard to ful- fill her confidence by returning with the money entrusted to him. Unfor- tunately he is a poor man, tho good hearted to an extreme, and his clothes are ragged. The money packet falls out thru a hole in his cap and is lost by the roadside while Polikushka dozes. The simple soul in his distrac- tion can think of nothing to redeem himself but taking his own life. The money is found too late by another to save the peasant’s life, but he is vin- dicated in the eyes of his companions. Milwaukee will be glad to have the opportunity of seeing this exceptional picture. The National Board of Re- view recommended it. as one of the finest films yet produced. All tickets for this performance are 55 cents, no tax, and the net proceeds will be divided for the benefit of the starving people of Germany. The president is my shepherd; | am in want. He maketh me to lie down on park benches; He weareth out my sole on the hot, dusty roads; He adeth me beside the free soup houses; He restored my doybt in the Republican party; He guideth me in the paths of destruction for his party’s sake. Yea, tho | walk thru the shadow of the Valley of Starvation, A will fear no devil, for he is with thee; Thy profiteers and thy staff of cabinet officials, they frighten me. Thou preparest a table of reduction in enemies; wages for me in the presence of mine Thou anointest my slender income with grievous taxes and tolls; My expense runneth over my income. Surely, poverty and unemployment shall follow me all the days of thy “nor- maicy” administration. And I-shall dwell in a rental house forever! ire D. A. VID, Crucible (Seattle), April 16, 1923. FARMER-LABOR FUNDAMENTALS What are you doing for June 17th? It is June 17th against July 4th. > It is the producing class Farmer-Labor Party against the middle class Third Party. Wainy It is the rank and file workers against the labor 4 aristocracy. - Ae It is the producers against the small bankers, the small landlords and other hesitating small fry. Stick with your class for June 17th, P Break definitely with the enemies of your class by taking a definite stand for June 17th. Work for the complete triumph of the National Farmer-Labor Convention at St. Paul, Minn,, June 17th. nel Patent Medicine for the Farmer By Credit-Diversification-Cooperation “”“* production. Or stated in other words, they were forced to sell their products to the Powers that Be at prices that not only did not account for the family labor but which also forced the farmers to draw upon every resource at his command. It is a damning indictment of Cap- italism and a pathetic history of faith in an ideal, which.records the farmer’s struggle. He has put untiring labor, free land, modern machinery, science and last of all, his Land mortgage in- to’the fight for his illusion. He has lost’ both the fight and his: illusion. He is Bankrupt; but not beaten. True only 20 per cent of the American farmers are “Free” and independent of Capital control. 80 per ¢ent are either managers, tenants or mortgag- ed owners subject to the Capital in- terests that have slowly but surely ab- sorbed their equity in the land. But remember those farmers are still ON THE LAND. They are demanding “Moratoriums” and some, even “Can- celation of debts.” Medicine Men. So you see it is the Boys back in Wall St. that need your sympathy more than John Farmer. What makes the latter “sick” if at all is the puerile Bunk of the petty go-betweens who pander such “Remedies” as CREDIT, DIVERSIFICATION, COOPERATION. The Public may be fooled, as well as damned, by such tactics; but John Farmer who holds the land and the Financial Gentlemen who hold the title to the land know better. If the Powers that Be decide upon eviction they will meet actual phys- ical resistance as well as the political revolt which already confronts them. If they do nothing and try to make a virtue of their indecision, by telling the farmer they are his. friend and wouldn’t foreclose for the world; then they will have set up an unwritten “law of possession” that no sub- sequent decision could change. If they Friday, April 25, 1924 grant the radical demands; which by the way are the only real solution, then they have actually broken down the very Laws of Capitalism and. set up precedents that would lead swiftly to a general breakdown of their power. And so these powerful gentlemen are sad indeed. It must make them sadder still to be forced to continue the old game of delusion. They have no solution—and so they hopefully offer for John Farmers consumption the patent medicines labeled: Credit, Dl- versification, Co-operation. It is undoubtedly true that there is a sucker born every minute, But you cant fool all the people all of the time, Every election brings hordes of politicians, who have miraculously become the “Farmers Friend”. They tell us that we are the “Backbone of the Nation.” Well its about time we stopped getting the lower.end of that “backbone” kicked. It is about time that we faced the realities of our | economic position and power, Land Psychology. After all it takes a Farmer to farm, There is an universal Land Psycho- logy that binds all farmers together. Whether he is a Mexican peon, a Russian peasant or an American farmer—He works the land and he wants it! It spells “home” and the work he loves. He gets a kick out’ of watching things grow. The smell of the first brown furrows in Spring are like wine to his wintered soul. The freshly mowed clover hay that perfumes the whole barn pays divi- dends in satisfaction if not in dollars, The hard necessities of his struggle against the forces of nature and the artificial man-made handicaps, hag forged iron as well as poetry in hig character. Such men can fight. For the first time in American his- tory the American farmer is literally fighting for his land. General His. tory records that whenever farmers fight for land—THEY WIN! ‘© eer “Allied Economic Alliance” has been running a big display advertisement against unionism in the Chicago Whip, a Negro Weekly, for four com secutive issues. The advertisement quotes an imaginary Negro Working- man as turning away from the union “wise guy” with the answer that “the “great industrial plants gave me a job with a living wage, and I am honest and happy.” The advertising writer goes on to assert that Capital is the friend of the Negro and adds more bunk de-| signed to counteract radical educa- tional work. i “Reds” Alarm Bosses This is ample proof that the work of the small but active group of Negro “Reds” in Chicago 1s causing the employing class grave concern. The contents of this ad is an insult to the intelligence of Negro exploited workers. This so called, “Allied Economic Alliance” or Employers’ Association ought to tell in their next ad, of the vicious anti-Negro propaganda dis- seminated thru the capitalist owned and controlled newspapers, and other capitalist agencies. Class Bigger Than Race Negroes who read Labor or union papers know that the real friends of the Negro workers are the class con- scious white workers, and that the real enemies of the Negro workers are the capitalists and exploiters. Negro Workers ought to look upon this capitalist snake-in-the-grass pro- paganda of the Allied Economic Al- Vance with scorn and contempt.— GORDON W. OWENS, Chicago. Editor of the DAILY WORKER. Comrade and Fellow Worker:—I have followed the discussion in the DAILY WORKER regarding the Far- mer-Labor Party and am fully in ac- cord with it. Since 1904 I have been a member of the S. P. one year, S. L. P. 3 years and the I, W. W. about 17 years. I am surprised at the ability of the leadership and the rank and file of the Workers Party to change their tactics and to firmly grasp the signi- ficance of various events. Most of the radical minority group: with which I have been associated, put their heads against a stone wall, and refuse to learn. They kill all dis- cussion, and go on year after year making the same blunders over and over again. The only hope that I see for re- lease of the I, W. W. prisoners in the prisons of California and Wash- ington, and the release of Mooney and Billings is the success of the Class Farmer and Labor movement in those states. Let every migratory worker in the I. W. W., Workers Party and the Trade Unions register, try to keep his residence in the same coun- ty, and vote at the fall elections, There is no powerful Industrial Or- ganization at present trying to bring about their release, let us look the THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS To the DAILY WORKER:—Thej facts in ‘the face, admit it, and use the best weapon at. hand. Vincent St. John and Wm. E. Trautman advo- cated “any means to win with the least expenditure of time and energy.” One militant outside of prison is worth more then a dozen in prison! The lives of tried and true revolution- ists are worth more to us, then the worn out Phrases that bring only de- feat ofter defeat. A mass movement this country will give more power to the militant minority. You all swore that you would stand by Ford and Suhr, Mooney and Billings, and the Centralia heroes. Now is the time to_act——John Pauznes, Detroit. To the DAILY WORKER: It is time for the working class of Chicago to repeal the “daylight saving” law. The “daylight saving” law has been repealed forever in every civilized city in the United States. It is time for Chicago to become civilized and repeal this war profiteer law. Organ- ized labor, the A. F. of L., the motor- men and conductors of surface and elevated lines especially, should im, mediately demand the repeal before April 27. The workers of Chicago did not vote for this law. It was put over by the capitalist class. (Signed) A Worker and Reader of the DAILY WORKER. : Poincare Swallows Dawes-Morgan Plan . en ue Without Hesitation PARIS, France, April 24.—Premier Poincare again displays his impe- rialist policies by bowing ‘to the Morgan and other financial interests. in accepting, without reservation, the Dawes reparations report. The accept- ance of the Dawes report by the French government is officially regis- tered with the reparations mis- sion of Poincare’s letter to them. Poincare informs M. Barthou of his hopes that the Dawes report, which would complete the control of Ger- man industries by foreign capitaly will be speedily put into operation. In spite of the intimation by Premier MacDonald that this course might lead to friction between London and Paris, Poincare has obeyed the im- perialist and American capitalist: voices, a Coolidge kicks against raising the taxes of the rich he is only doing what any real American ought to do. % te The Poor Fish says that when Cal” 0