The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1924, Page 6

Re Page six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By m $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 Bivd. Chicago, IIlinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE ) MORITZ J. LOEB. ...Hditors jusiness Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 38, 1879. 290 Advertising rates on application. —=———————————— SS Greetings! Steel Workers! This is the first time that the DAILY WORKER has really had an opportunity to send its greet- ings to the steel workers in the far-flung industrial district that stretches away to the south of Chi- cago and over into the State of Indiana. We are able to send you greetings, steel workers, thru the fact that the rebellion of labor at the huge plant of the Pullman Company, at Pullman, has. created a great demand for the DAILY WORKER, all along the furnace-blazing southern shores of Lake Michigan. ‘Therefore, just as a starter, the DAILY WORKER is’ now on sale on the news stands of South Chicago and Pullman, of Kensington and Calumet, of Hegewisch and Ham- ncnd. The DAILY WORKER is the only daily news- paper that is giving the news of the spontaneous and growing walkouts of the workers in Pullman and Hegewisch. The whole, bosses’ press is silent except for the paid advertisements of the panic stricken employers, calling for strikebreakers. These “ads” gre being carried conspicuously by the subsidized sheets of the “open shoppers,” the Tribune and the Daily News. The DAILY WORKER is being hailed as an emancipator by the workers on strike in the steel belt; just as it has been considered by the striking garment workers in Chicago, as their valiant cham- pion. The Pullman strikers get large bundles of it and dispose of hundreds of copies among the workers who still remain on their jobs. This is the only means of publicity they have for their struggle. And it is the first time they have had this daily method of communication. There is no’ need now for the workers in South T: skies and he was. popularly supposed to have been above the sordid political struggle. He is an expert on food supplies and now seems to have turned that knowledge to good accoynt— in the interest of one of the most vicious corpo- rations that exploit the American workers. One by one the idols fall. Against their will the American masses are being shown by brutal facts that every agency of the national government is merely an adjunct of the profit-making machinery of privately owned industry or an instrument of oppression for use against resentful and disillu- sioned workers. Hoover as an aid to counter-revolution in Hun- gary and Russia perhaps was a little too far re- moved from the American class struggle for the full importance to be understood by the American masses; but Hoover as the protector of the notori- ous Alaska Packers Association is something that can be easily grasped. The exposure of Hoover helps some in the proc- ess of disillusionment that is taking place so rapidly and that is giving the American workers and farmers a clearer insight into the purposes and processes of American capitalist government than they have ever had before. Before and After Len Small, gloating over his recent re-nomina- tion as governor of Illinois in the republican pri- maries, and proud of his control of the republican party machine, last week graciously allowed his “labor official” following to have an anti-injunc” tion plank inserted in his republican platform. But hardly 24 hours had passed after the ad- journment of the harmony state republican con- vention, when Circuit Judge E. 8. Smith issued an injunction against union men, ordering them not to picket the scab moving picture shows of Spring- field, the convention city. The voice of Len Small and his, political hench- men have not been raised against this injunction issued within view of the state house itself. Judge Smith issued the injunction against the whole of organized labor in Springfield, and then set the hearing on it two weeks hence, during which time pickets will not be allowed to let the public know} that a strike is on. strike can be broken. The anti-injunction plank is a good. one, no doubt, for Len Small to buy the support of reae- tionary labor officials with. It is an excellent plank for him. to use in walking back into office. But even before re-election this slight pledge to labor is ignored. The only conclusion then possible is that it will be completely discarded after election. An anti-injunction plank in an old party plat- And during that time the Chicago, Hammond, Calumet and*Kensington, not tnowing what is going on in Pullman and Hege- wisch. Every day they can get the news of the iatest developments of interest to themselves. And they can get it off the news stands in their own -hey can get it off the newsstands in their own town. This is a new weapon, a new power, at the dis- posal of the tens of thousands of workers in this unorganized industrial area. We know that the workers will take full advantage of it. Thousands of workers reading the DAILY WORKER, from South Chicago, all the way down to Hammond, Indiana, will mean the beginning of a new era, the beginning an epoch of organization of labor in this almost untouched non-union territory. Workers of South Chicago, Pullman, Kensing- ton, Hegewisch, Calumet and Hammond! Again the DAILY. WORKER greets you! All together and forward for greater victories for the whole working class! Hoover Also Hooked Herbert Hoover appears a little late upon the stage where is presented “Washington Scandals of 1924,” but it is no small part that has been as- signed him. Supposedly buried in the department of commerce Hoover has been neglected by all but the Communist and left-wing press; his use of American famine relief funds for subsidies to the counter-revolutionary army of Yudenitch has aroused no great indignation among the middle class elements prosecuting the Teapot Dome and Daugherty investigations but now Hoover is found to be closely connected with wholesale theft of the fabulously rich salmon fishing rights in Alaska. ‘These preserves appear to have been given out- right to the Alaska Packers Association—a hame that carries in Alaska all of the odious significance that attaches Standard Oil in the states. Hoover has ‘been engaged, as secretary of the department of commerce, in giving first aid to the enterprising American babbittry who with his sym- pathetic assistance,, have been acquiring such profit-making fields as were easy to grab and as yet unassimilated. Hoover has been carrying out the pledges made during the Harding campaign and has been giving away, in conformity with the pro- gram of a “businessman government,” sundry valu- able natural resources. a The Alaska salmon fishing fields exceed beyond caleulation the wealth of the naval oil reserves that were given to Doheny and Sinclair. Their wealth is inexhaustible and consists of a food sup- ply that has become a staple diet of millions. The Alaska Packing Association is an employer of slave labor—its contract system ‘means just this. It fosters the lowest forms of vice and takes profit from them; for years its activities during the salmon season have been a scandal but have been given ‘publicity only in labor and radical papers. . . Herbert Hoover has been the petted darling of boon lauded to the} thing to aay about ¢ form doesn’t mean anything. It will only have value as the rallying ery of a class Farmer-Labor Party. “Abolition of the Use of Injunctions in Labor Disputes,” is one of the slogans of the Farmer- Labor Convention called to assemble at Peoria, IIL, May 18th. All labor interested in a real fight to abolish injunctions will quit the old parties and join the united front of Illinois labor that will be created at Peoria next month. Bed-Time Stories, Maybe Harry M. Daugherty, the former labor-baiting head of the department of justice, threw a boomer- ang when he charged that it was the long arm of Moscow that forced his expulsion from Coolidge’s strike-breaking cabinet. From the Chicago Daily News to the Wall Street (N. Y.) Journal, the bosses’ press groans under the terrific blow dealt their anti-Soviet propaganda by the silly alibi of the pal of the world’s greatest sleuth, William J, Burns. The Wall Street Journal states the situation when it wails that, “The ‘red’ plea of Daugherty hasn’t helped his case.” And it will help make the “red” hysteria stuff of the employers’ press pretty sterile matter in the future. Daugherty was just another pea in the same capitalist pod, like his predecessor, J. Mitchell Palmer, of the Wilson regime, and Mr. Burns, whose “red plot” exposures have shown big on the front page of the daily press, without result- ing, however, in a single arrest or prosecution. We suggest that the anti-Bolshevik fiction of Daugherty, Palmer, Burns and the rest, be here- after published as bed-time stories. But we doubt if even children can any longer be frightened by them. Keep an Eye on China Washington and Western European imperialism is getting ready to launch a new attack on China. There can be only one reason. China is getting ready to recognize and open trade relations with Soviet Russia, even against the interference of dollar diplomacy at Paris and Washington. The old war cry against China, “hostility toward foreigners,” is again being used. But we find that “the most daring outrage” reported in a Peking dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, April 26, is an alleged robbery committed against six junks of the Standard Oil Co.’ In support of John D. Rockefeller’s oriental oil fleet, the United, States government landed marines from the U. 8. 8. Monocacy, in a preliminary effort to impress the natives with the importance of submission to American gold. No doubt, if the natives of China are not as obedient to Rockefeller, as the people of the United States, then American troops, American battle- ships, submarines and airplanes will be sent across the Pacific to teach thei this lesson. But the workers of the Uni ‘tates ought to have some- HE DAILY WORKER May Day Greetings | By MATT TENHUNEN. Half a year ago the revolutionary workers of America only had a slight comprehension of the fact that we need, above all, our own daily news- paper as a weapon in our struggle. That thought changed into activity, altho many among us said that it could not be done, About four months ago it was de- lcided that the publication of the | DAILY WORKER would be com- }menced on January 13, but still there |were many who doubted whether it could be done. Thrée months ago the DAILY WORKER commenced to appear, but, as usual for workers’ papers, in a rented building, with rented machin- jery and under temporary agreements. Therefore a heavy burden of rent, in- |terest and profits to carry. And while jthe element nearest the DAILY | WORKER sweated with . plans to purchase a building, machinery and fixtures, made drawings and specifi- |cations for a home and press of its own for the DAILY WORKER, there still were many among us who. |thought it could not be done. | Now the DAILY WORKER has been established, it has its own up- to-date building and printing machin- ery, all paid for. Are there still com-) rades who can say that it cannot be done? * + I know that the DAILY WORKER} has the best, the most up-to-date and modern building, printing machinery and fixtures that any one could have secured for the funds that were avail- able for the purpose. I know that with the aid of this printing outfit the DAILY WORKER and other party publications can be issued most eco- nomically; but the success of the DAILY WORKER is not benefited} alone by its own home and printing | plant. The DAILY WORKER was not established forthe purpose alone) lof getting it a new home and press.) \It was established to guide and de- |velop the class struggle of the work- ers. The’principal progress of the DAILY WORKER will be shown by the wide extent of its subscriptions! | Therefore all friends of the DAILY WORKER must obtain subscribers for it! When we have secured a building, presses. and fixtures, when we are |sacrificing a great amount of the la-} |bor and funds of our party in giving out a paper for 15,000 subscribers, then it can be easily realized that with the same expense we can have the educational influence.of our pa- per reach 25,000, 40,000, why not hun- dreds of thousands of workers? In- deed, why not? Many will, of course, again say that it cannot be done, ~~ But it can be done if the member- ship of our party and the friends of the DAILY WORKER spend a half of the time in circulating the paper that they have spent in the past in carrying out all kinds of minor af- fairs, which the paper will carry out. in the future. And if the member- ship of the party will understand the significance of its own paper and how the work can be accomplished thru it. As a matter of fact not much, as yet, has been done toward circulating the DAILY WORKER. It has, in re- ality, obtained the circulation it has itself without any special effort or organized work. It is the party’s turn to work now. Every member of'the party must be something now. Espe- cially in Chicago, toward which every one looks as if it were a Mecca, how much has each one done for the cir- culation of the paper? io Away with incapability! Principal issues to the front! The circulation of the DAILY WORKER is one of them! The circulation of the DAILY WORKER must be increased, first to 25,000, then to and then al- ways upward. Fifty thousand sub- seribers for the DAILY WORKER in Chieago is not much. When we have that, then workers’ dailies must be established, too, in New York, Cleve- land, Detroit, and the West. Not only one DAILY WORKER in Chicago, with 50,000 or 100,000 subscribers, but a DAILY WORKER of its own for every large industrial center, with tens of thousands, nay, hundreds of thousands of readers! This alone will id us to victory! And all of this is possible within a few years with good, intelligent, earnest effort! But it requires the work of all of us. As a beginning let each one of us se- cure a few new subscribers for the DAILY WORKER! How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. Thirty-five years! I had the good fortune to take part in the first Con- gress of the second International at Paris, where the transfer from Ame- rica to Europe of the celebration of the first of May was voted on. As always, those who proposed it could not have foreseen all the consequenc- es of the revolution. Some presented it as a holiday of labor. Others look- ed on it as a pledge of international solidarity, of proletarian brotherhood. Still others did not wish to see in the first of May anything more than an occasion for renewing the memory of according to public authority, by a legal and correct proceeding, the formulation of the workers’ demand. May Day Issue x It is interesting to notice that it was precisely in France, where the Congress took place which introduced May 1, we could take a hand in this paradox. The French Marxists, the Girondists, good theorists and excel- lent propagandists, but mediocre men of action, typical representatives of the Second International—that is to say, revolutionists in theory and op- portunists in practice, —the French Marxists at Paris, to celebrate the First of May by impeccable steps, ac- cording to public authority where the program of workers demands was laid down. In revenge, the revolutionists, those who followed Allemane, one of the militant members of the commune thought that the first of May, not summoning to arms, did not have revolutionary value. The historical truth,—and France itself* jeers at both (ideas). The First of May of 1890 witnessed a We must have war. [Thirty-Five Years By CHARLES RAPPAPORT bloody fight—a class fight, and not- ably at Fourmy, a town of the in- dustrial and proletarian region of the North. The French bourgeoisie fired Lebel guns—then the new thing—on the workers in celebration. This slaughter contributed to the develop- ment of class consciousness in France and even to an electorial success of Paul Lafargue, the son-in-law of Karl Marx,—the first Marxist in the French parliament, For thirty five years the world pro- letariat has not stopped celebrating the first of May. Useless now to compare one meaning of the proleta- rian holiday with another. The first of May is a proletarian reunion. It is at the same. time a workers’ holiday, a demonstration of the fight against capital, an act of international soli- darity, and of a review of our world forces. The first of May has survived all the proletarian crises. It is cele- brating at present its first great vic- tory. A country forty times as big as France is celebrating the first of May in the name of the proletariat in power, by a working class which has abolished Czarism and—let us hope for ever—has done away with ‘capitalism. In present day Russia, the first of May enters into his home, into his house, and into his strong- hold. Proletarians of all countries, look with joy and confidence to Russia. It is the country of hope in a better future, which is no longer a hope, but an accomplished fact. The proletariat there is celebrating the first of May as a victory over capitalism and the powerful builder of a new world. WARI!! By HENRY GEORGE WEISS. Down with the Japanese! Let hatred wake, and murder walk the land. Whose turn is it next? The yellow dogs must go! Say what you please, The Teapot Dome we'll settle with the brand. Up with the flags and let. the boy-scouts drill; Call out the citizens and beat the drum; Put Old Abe's picture on the screen, and thrill The patriotic hearts of all the dumb. On to Berlin! Excuse me, Tokio! Wipe out the yeller heathen—cursed race! ba vt the husky morons—let us go— You bet we'll keep Cal Coolidge in his place. Slay, tar and feather, lynch and jail the reds, Burn, beat, and murder all the pacifists, Behind bars with the wobblies, break their heads, Down with the japs! May “‘Liberator’’ Is Splendid Combination Of Art And Revolt From the May-bloom cover, drawn by Hugo Gellert, to the ad for the Bertrand Russell-Scott Nearing de- bate, the May Liberator offers an ar- ray of springtime revolutionary in- spirations. The vigorous May Day Song, by Mi- chael Gold, beginning: “Follow the drum, follow the drum,” and ending: “Thunder the song, Labor's spring song, at the foe,” is headed with one of Fred Ellis’. stir- ring cartoons. The joyous workers are shown following their red flags and the thumping drum. The only criticism to be made of the drawing is the lack of women workers in the marching ¢rowd, and this is almost unforgivable. Old May Day and New. The old May Day and the new, the original Saturnalian celebrations and reversal ‘of the usual order of society and the later demonstrations by work- fers, are shown to be intimately asso- ciated by Robert Minor's ca) arti- cle on “The Story of May Day.” Much new data is added to this fascinating subject and Minor has presented it with appealing simplicity. He leads up to the conclusion of today: “All news is the news of the Revolution— impending. . “We carry Death out of the world, ‘We bring Summer into the world,” be Max Bedacht paints a word picture of the brewing political storm in this country. How well he says that “Communists not only interpret and analyze history—their prime object is to make history.” And he shows how in the coming crisis the Workers The Poor Fish says he is tired of hearing about the death of workers in money and the workers risk their and it’s a fair proposition. eee Party of America is going to “make history.” Government,” by Scott supplements Bedacht’s arti- cle with some significant facts and statistics on the cost of government. The articles on the two most bril- liant figures of the international revo- tenia vy Katt Ba —wWe'll make a dozen fortunes out of this! Goose-step the willing heroes to the fray, (We aught to lose a million dubbs or more), Oh, this is candy, say On to the front! we must—we must have war! lar the ‘successors of Lenin in all countries must go to have ‘his clear understanding of the revolutionary movement and the intimate gontact with workers. List of Fine Features. The activities of the United States government (industrial and money lords) in Honduras are recounted by Bertram D. Wolfe. Alexander Bittel- man bed, explains the vicious bills now in Congress, which threaten the lives of the foreign born. Robert Mi- nor’s cartoon of Secretary of State Hughes’ Japanese “jingoism” and flag- waving to hide the Teapot Dome gov- ernment from workers is a graphically strong emphasis on the current situa- tion in America. Floyd Dell concludes his “Litera- ture and the Machine Age,” which has found many eager reafers, and the book reviews are ‘more interesting than usual in their brief characteriza- tions. Liberator “fans,” young or old, par- ty members or not, will find the May issue well worth their attention. I Russi, Workers’ Parade To Honor May Day MOSCOW, Russia, April 27.—Peace- ful demonstrations will mark the May Day festivities in Russia this year. The workers will supplant the Red Army in the chief parades. Hundreds of thousands of workers and their families will gather in a gréat pro- cession to the improvised wooden shrine in Red square, which houses the body of Nicolai Lenin. The workers will honor their dead leader in their joint manifestations of homage. ‘The change from a military May Day demonstration is made, accord- ing to dispatches, to show the world the tranquil state of the powerful Russian Soviet Republic and its industry; the capitalists risk their |characters and value, The one con-|bill, lopping off some of the principal | July first, at Riga. The Monday, April 28, 1924 | AS WE SEE IT ~ By T. J. O7FLAHERTY. But even in defending his peloyt § liquor, Gompers proved himself™t he said that there would be a revolu tion if the American workingman dit |not get his beer he replied that hé it |not in the habit of making intemper ate statements. “But you headed @ parade which carried placards with the inscription, ‘No beer, no work’?’ inquired a member of the committee “The American workers’ do not de things that way,” said Samuel. Well the American workers can no longet say that they are not led. They are if only 2.75 per cent. ‘. 8 # John Fitzpatrick and the loca Farmer-Labor Party leaders who “in jected” themselves into» the Small campaign for the Republican nomina tion for governor of Illinois, have suo ceeded in bringing about a United Front between Small, Thompson an their enemies. The hatchets that ti) rival factions hitherto buried in ea other’s political necks may now hurled simultaneously into the anato mies of the working class. Fitzpat rick’s strategy in urging the workert mary ‘day,-in order to defeat the Chi cago Tribune and State’s Attorney Crowe, “enemies of labor,” which they’ are, of course, had the result of clos ing the ranks of labor's enemies an¢ leaving the ranks of labor divided, ee 4 William Hale Thompson and Robert E. Crowe, formerly enemies, now agree on the same state supreme coutt judge, a certain De Young. Is he as “injunction judge”? He is a capitalist judge, and therefore’ an injunctios judge. The labor fakers were de nouncing Crowe as an enemy of labor and boosting Small as a friend, Now these two crooks unite when it suitt them, leaving the workers with their fingers in their mouths. Did the la bor leaders know what they were do ing? Perhaps. The Chicago Tribune no longer uses its best cartoonists t¢ draw caricatures of Small, nor does ff use its most vulgar editorial writer to pillory him as a public thief. The Daily News has called off its dogs The fight is over and only the poor, betrayed workers are bitten, as usual se. © Elbert H. Gary, head of the Steel Trust, likes Calvin Coolidge. He is at strong and as silent as the Rock ‘ol Gibraltar, declared the steel king Yes, as silent and almost as ignorant, tho not quite so strong. We nevel could get that Samson slant onthe little lad in the White House. He al ways looks to us like a little boy after taking a pill. The Chicago Tribune believes that Judge Gary should be muzzled and prevented from eulogia ing Coolidge, else the voters might think Calvin is actually a friend of Big Business. This should form the basis for a good bedtime story. Bughouse Fables FABLE NO, 2 WASHINGTON, D. C.—Samud Gompers, labor chieftain and honorary president of the Father Matthew Total Abstinence League, created a sensa tion here a few days ago when hé threatened to lead a revolution if the wet forces succeeded in modifying tht provisions of the Volstead act, to allow beer containing 2.75 per cent alcoho to be manufactured in the United States. Interest switched from the Daugherty quiz ‘to the little room it which the booze committee was hold ing its sessions. Starting in a low tone that was almost inaudible, tht old man gradually developed fire unti finally in a voice trembling with emo tion he shouted: “Rather than see tht young manhood and womanhood ot this nation degenerate into whisky guzzling, beer-swilling disciples of Sa, tan, I would have this proud count for which I have sacrificed so m sink under the waves forever, Mucl tho I detest bloodshed, even advising the workers against strikes lest some innocent person might get injured, ! warn all concerned, and the liquod forces in particular, that I will rais¢ the banner of revolt and lead the em battled forees of prohibition in anoth er civil war to attest the truth of tht immortal Lincolnian axiom that ‘this country cannot exist half drunk an¢ half sober.’” Gompers carried a bo! of milk in his hip pocket, from which Chester ‘M. Wright, former editor the New York Call. 4 oi Thru Railway . Service Started — rf ee Russia-Esthonia (Rosta News Agefcy.) MOSCOW, Russia, April 27.—The R Esthonian-Latvian Railway com ference recently held at resulted in the signing of an agree ment regarding the mutual use of cars, a direct Russo-Msthonian-Latvian thru service, the transport of passem gers and goods without ~ Y trains, and also for establishing reg ular railway conferences and These measures went into effect on the first of April. Many of the an ticles of the agreement, such as mutual use of cars, are innovations | sin European riilway circles. ve The next conference will be champion of law and order. Asked ¥ he was given an occasional sip by | bureaus, — to go to the polls for Small on pri - eee