The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1924, Page 6

Page six DAILY WORKER ‘THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 months ed AR AL PNAS TEES SE A et Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. $6.00 per year Chicago, IIlinois 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, ES 250 Advertising rates on application. ES Morgan, The Dictator John Pierpont Morgan, head of the banking house of Morgan & Co., has assumed the dictator- ship over Western Europe. The DAILY WORKER has persistently pointed this out, ‘especially since’ Chicago’s Charles G. “Hell and Maria” Dawes handed down the Wall Street inspired report of the commission of ex perts, setting forth the ability of Germany to pay. Morgan is in Paris. He is not taking orders from; but giving orders to, the nations of the Ver- sailles Peace—France, England, Italy and Great Britain. Morgan’s picture is published conspicu- ously with the news, and under the headline, “Mor- gan Offers $100,000,000 on Berlin Loan.” The real ruler of America, and all Europe but Soviet Rus- sia; takes his place openly, on the front pages of the ‘newspapers, without any foolish coronation ceremonies. Morgan stands back of the Dawes plan. In fact, as we have pointed out, it is his plan. It is the plan of Wall Street. Morgan pledges the financiers of Wall Street to raise $100,000,000, or one-half of the 800,000,000 gold morks ($200,000,000) that Germany needs under the Dawes plan. An English-group of capi- talists pledges $75,000,000.00, the rest to come from France, Holland, Switzerland, Italy and else- where. The determining power, therefore, is in the hands of Morgan. And-no Mussolini, in the hey- day of his power, laid down his Fascisti terms, more ruthlessly. Morgan says the Dawes’ scheme that means an- other war in Europe, more ghastly and destructive than the last, within the next few years, must be accepted without alterations, or political modifi- cations.. The plan must immediately become operative. The capitalist politicians of the various countries have been warned by “Morgan-The Dic- tator,” that they must keep their hands off, and not shackle the experts’ business-like arrange- ments with political or military considerations. Western Europe, in accepting the Morgan dicta- torship, has surrendered the right to decide its own destiny. It has turned its fate over to the Fascist Dictator, Morgan, of the House of Morgan, Broad and Wall Streets, New York City. We hear the complaining admission of the Ber- liner Morgenpost that, “There is no doubt that the really great lord, who will exercise the decisive influence in all these reparations questions is the American billionaire, Morgan.” That this thing has been done is a confession 4 by the capitalists and politicians of Western Eur- ; ope that they fear for the life of European capi- talism. It is world capitalism’s last effort to pull i Europe’s “revolutionary tooth,” as Trotzky calls it; to crush the First Workers’ Republic—Soviet Russia. . The House of Morgan now stands supreme. Its foundation was laid on the graft and the profits won by the father of the present Morgan, during the Civil War. The House of Morgan won its place, during the recent world war, as the great- est of international banking houses. It was Mor- gans’ war and Morgan got the United States into ; it, to help save the world and make it safe for * Morgan. The blood and agony of American work- ers and farmers, in two great wars, laid the foun- dation and reared the superstructure of the House of Morgan. Wilson tried to get the United States govern- ment into Europe thru the League of Nations. The republicans are profiting by the failure of the Wilson democratic regime, and Coolidge does not urge the government, but the House of Morgan to extend a loan to Germany, under the Dawes plan. Thus Coolidge confesses the House of Mor- gan even greater than the United States govern- ment; confesses capitalist America, as well as capitalist Europe the vassal of Wall Street. It rests with the workers of all the coutries con- cerned to say how long they will endure this dic- 1 tatorship. It cannot be that the workers of Ger ij many, or of any other country will indefinitely if tolerate this international fascisti rule. ty It is against this world Fascisti Rule that the ; Communist International issues its International { May Day, 1924, proclamation. ; “The United States does not know where to spend all its money,” says the proclamation. “It is eagerly stretching out its hands for new riches; seeking new sources of oil and attemping to mono- polize by every means, including deceit and violence. Thereby the United States again con- jures up a terrible new war aspect.” This International May Day is a good time for the workers and farmers of the United States to consider if they will safeguard with their lives, in 2S ES a NO ee enantio the next war, this $100,000,000 that the House of Morgan is planning to drop into the capitalist ; chaos of Western Europe. We believe that the verdict will be that Morgan must fight his own battles, while the workers and farmers rally for the final conflict under the stand- ards of the Communist International, against the whole Morgan social system. If He Had Been Elected Newton Jenkins, one of the election hopes of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, pranced along to defeat in the April republican primaries in Illinois. At the mass meeting for Jenkins, held by the Conference for Progressive Political Action in Chicago, before the elections, no attack was made on the republican party. But Jenkins was de feated just the same. Mr. Jenkins, still on the outside looking in, has now polished up a few radical phrases. He is out announcing that there will be “independent” or “third party” candidates in the field for the No- vember elections. He declares: “There are three political machines left in the re- publican party in Illinois and one in the democratic party. These devices stand between the people and their government. They constitute corrupting in- fluences in our government which are intolerable.” Yet, before April 8th last, this Jenkins was will- ing to have a machine inside the republican party elect him United States senator. How gloriously satisfactory everything would have been inside the republican party had he been nominated in April, and elected in November—a REPUBLICAN. It is logical to conclude that all that Jenkins wants inside even a third party is to turn it into a replica of the- Wall Street republican party, at the very first opportunity. This is the brand of political turncoat that is trying to direct the eyes of the workers and farm- ers away from the class National Farmer-Labor Convention, at St. Paul, Minn., June 17th, by beat- ing the tom toms for the Conference for Progres- sive Political Action Third Party gathering at Cleveland, Ohio, July 4th. Let the workers and farmers become fully ac- quainted with these facts and then they will give their unanimous and whole-hearted support to “June 17th” at St. Paul. We Say, “Let’s Go” Sam Gompers is ever busy making propaganda against the Russian Workers’ and Farmer Repub- lic. The kept press of the bosses always have an apetite for his stuff. And, if the truth must be known, there are even some so-called labor papers that print it. While Mr, Gompers was silent for many long weeks, before we would acknowledge having had anything to do with the resolution calling for the exposure of the Teapot Dome Steal, not so with the Borah resolution calling for the recognition of Soviet Russia. Gompers is at all times ready to attack Russian Recognition. The latest is from the typewriter of Mr. Gom- pers own kept press agent, Mr. Chester, Mr. Wright, renegade Socialist of the vintage of William English Walling, John Spargo, Dr. Frank Bohn, A. M. Simons, and other “for hire” scribb- lers. The Gompers-Wright publicity wants to create the impression that not only Senator Borth, but American Communist as well, are anxious to hush up the hearings on the Borah resolution, in order to prevent Mr. Gompers and his anti-sovietists from producing a “barel full of evidence.” We confess that we have no entrance to the in- ner workings of the mental processes of Senator Borah. But we are sure that American Com- munists have nothing to fear from any barrel of evidence, or barrel of anything else, that Gompers might have on his hip. Every word of testimony that Mr. Gompers could produce against Soviet Russia the American Communist movement has already been worn so threadbare, that even the most devout czarist would have u hard job finding any value in it. Mr. Gompers should profit’ Dy the said experiences of his pals, Daugherty and Burns. The house of representatives by vote of 297 to 69 adopted the proposed child labor amendment to the constitution. Judge “Bill the Fat” Taft ought to get out an injunction stopping any further con- tempt for the U. 8. Supreme Court that members of the senate might display by voting for this amendment. For, it will be remembered, the U. 8. 8. C. held this amendment “unconstitutional.” Bill Taft might call upon Chicago’s anti-labor in- junction judges, “Charley Foell and “Dennie” Sullivan to help him out. In the language of Daugherty, it must be that Moscow is trying to destroy respect for the decisions of our most honored judges. Fascisti rule in Spain has announced that all May Day demonstrations have heen forbidden in the land of Alfonso. That will not increase the liking of the workers for their Music Hall King, nor make the war against Morocco any more popu- lar. Fear of the workers goes before the fall of the Spanish dictatorship. Watch it tumble. Our “Poor Fish” ought .to have something snappy to say about Herb Hoover’s connection with the $60,000,000 salmon steal in Alaska. * * * Fall had his oil; Hoover his salmon; Wood his Filipinos; Weeks his Canal Zone; and they were all trying to make the most of it e (An Editorial in the Volkszeitung, by Ludwig Lore.) N ACCORDANCE with the decision of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party, to correct the misunderstandings created by our ar- ticle on the Fifth Anniversary of the Third International, which was writ- ten.as an honest and enthusiastic trib- ute to Communism and its interna- tional organization, the Communist In- ternational, the following statement is made. The article in question con- tained the following passage, which has regrettably led to misunderstand- ings: “In the five years of its existence the Third has gone thru many an in- fantile disease. It swung from the strict denial of parliamentarism on the one hand to its use, always with the same reaffirmation of its impor- tance. It condemned the cre;tion of dual labor organizations, in spite of the fact that it had, at first, supported the splitting of the existing labor union movement. It shook off the utopian conception that a small, de- termined ‘minority can bring about a revolution in every country, and taught that a majority of the prole- tariat must feel at least a sympathetic alliance with the idea of the necessity of such an upheaval. It led Commun- ism thru the secfet society tactic of underground conspiracy, and pro- claimed the right of revolution and revolutionary propaganda. And after each sickness it grew stronger and more Virile.” Our conception of the Third Interna- A Few Necessary Statements tional, when this article was written, was a union of parties in all countries which had come together for revolu- tionary action, And the above quota- tion refers to some of these parties at certain stages of their development, not to the Executive Committee of the C. I. or to the congresses. The Com- munist International itself, as repre- sented by the congresses and the Hx- ecutive Committee, never made these mistakes, but corrected them when they were made by some of the affili- ated parties, In this period of storm and stress in the Communist movement there were at times differences between the theoretical position taken by the con- gresses and tieir Executive Commit- tee on these questions, and the prac- tice of some of the national organiza- tions, The endeavors to tear down the old conceptions of the Second In- ternational to build up a new psy- chology in the masses had led some of the more important parties to adopt tactical measures which had not re- ceived the sanction of the Interna- tional. So dangerous had this ten- dency to become that Nicolai Lenin felt the necessity of combatting it in his “Leftism—an infantile disease of Communism,” which appeared two years after the formation of the Com- munist International. That it was possible for these parties, in the few short years of their existence, to put sound theory into practice, was—and this is what our article wished to con- vey—the greatest achievement of the first five years of our International. In his first annual report to the Sec- “Save Your Money And Buy A Judge!” By I. D. McFadden. The Wage Slave humbly begged the boss, a job, to give him, in the Mine. A Worker had heen killed. The loss a place created for this fine, Proud Soldier of The U. S. A—A Patriot who sought to earn Three dollars for his daily pay, but would not learn. The ite had learned (Not so, this Drudge) “Save your Money and buy a udge.’ They put the new man on a tram. The Drift was crooked, rough and steep. The owners did not care a D—n for worker's lives, but, sought to keep An income high and outgo low. No Trammer might ride in that mine. But, me who walked would take so much time, he would get sent down the ne! Against this System, bear mo Grudge. “Save your money and buy a Judge.” The Car they gave him, had no brakes. increased. Such is the risk, the workers take. ceased. (Brakes cost too Much.) The Speed The Track gave way. His Journey The Judge decided points of Law, against the Worker. It became His Honor’s Duty to withdraw the Case. The Worker was to Blame. ties 28 Parties, Do Not Budge!” “Save your money and buy a udge!” ond Congress, Zinoviey, president of the Third International, declared that “the Executive Committee has had, from the very beginning, to wage a de- termined struggle against the teh- dency of small groups of ‘left’ Com- munists, who were propagating the boycott of the trade union movement. The Executive Committee insisted and insists that the Communists must not leave the trade unions, but that to the contrary they must double their ef- forts inside of the unions; that they must organize~ Communist groups therein in orde® to conquer the trade| unions for the Communist Interna- tional in a persistent and systematic struggle.” Altho the first Congress emphasized | that the parliaments must be used for revolutionary propaganda, it became) necessary for the Second _ Congress and the C. I. to force a number of parties to take part in election cam- paigns. Similarly the widespread con- ception that a small minority of the proletariat of a country could bring about a successful proletarian revolu- tion was fought by the leaders of the International. Here again it was Lenin who battled against this mis- conception in his “Leftism.” It_has not always been easy for the Executive Committee of the Third to adjust the practical application of its theoretical position to the needs of the various countries, Particularly be- Tuesday, April 29, 1924 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O)FLAHERTY, The American soldiers who won th war for the American capitalists, ma, bless their stars—and their stripes, of course. At last a grateful capitalist nation has decided to compensate them for their services in killing ob- stinate German workers on a wage scale of $30.00 per month, The sen- ate has voted for a bonus. After twen- ty more years—they have already waited five—the heroes may be the happy possessors of a fuii-paid en- dowment insurance policy, That is, unless our masters declare war on Japan or England in the meantime, and send the insured on another pil- grimage to save civilization, in which case a man might be lost, but a policy would be saved. Anything may happen in twenty years, sf © It is not quite so sure, however, that the heroes will get even an endow- ment policy. Our scrupulously righte- ous president, does not like the idea of a bonus at all. It is putting a price on patriotism in his opinion, which is extremely demoralizing. The working class must not get the idea that war is a big business enterprise—capital- ist competition carried to the point of the bayonet—and that they are em- cause it is difficult to judge true con-¢Ployed by their governments acting ditions thousands of miles away. In our “Wochen-Rundschau,” of March 2, we quoted from a cabled excerpt of a “Pravda” article by Zinoviev and re- marked that Comrade Zinoviev, who does not know American conditions at first hand, was evidently not always receiving reliable reports. The Ameri- can Labor Monthly, in referring to this remark, intimates that these re- ports emanate from _ responsible American party circles, or from the representatives of the W. P. to the cI. We repudiate this “interpretation” of our remark, for we know that the comrades in charge of this task re- port with great care. What we want- ed to express. was that the exaggera- tions that appear in the capitalist press of this country—which is at- tentively read in the C. I—concerning the growth and influence of the revo- lutionary American movement, for thé purpose of terrorizing its bourgeois readers, to pave the way for feaction- ary measures of suppression, are at times given too serious consideration. Democrats Are Hopeful. WASHINGTON, April 28:—Senate democrats clamed enough progress- ive votes to assure adoption of their Literature -- Music --Drama_ | tax reduction schedule. for the rival business concerns to dis- pose of a competitor, in a way that is a little out of the ordinary. The work- ers must feel that they are crusaders, going forth to battle for a righteous nation that has reached the limit of its patience. An insurance policy is a nicely engraved piece of paper. Its cash value just now is nil. Calvin may sign the bill for the sake of po- litical expediency, unless Wall Streut feels too keenly about it. eee There is a big fight raging in the Protestant churches between those who claim that war and Christianity are synonymous terms and their op- ponents who believe that Jesus was a man of peace and that his followers should oppose all wars. The battle rages. The war-like faction have the big capitalist papers on their side and the power and prestige of the ‘War Department. Generals appear at church meetings and denounce the Christly peace propaganda as “Com- munism”. Parades are led by accom- modating prelates who would repre- sent Christ as a bootlegger if there was any money in it. Speeches are made in which the meek and lowly Nazarene appears as a blood-thirsty war maniac. All this is quite enter- taining. eae In the fall of 1922, several Com- munists sojourned for several weeks in Berrien County jail, Michigan, On Sunday evening a local preacher ac- companied by half a dozen women of indifferent pulchritude, and in various degrees of conversion, visited the jail to offer us spiritual consolation, and tell us that perhaps there were many Theodore Thomas By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. Exercises in memory of Theodore Thomas, founder of the Chicago Sym- phony orchestra, on the occasion of the unveiling of a monument to him, were held in Orchestra Hall last Thursday afternoon. Charles S. Hammill," president of the Orchestral association, the finan- cial backers of the Symphony orches- tra, in a long address painted a pic- ture of the life of the first conductor of the orchestra. Strength and fight, artistic taste and ability coupled with determined confidence in the face of failure characterizes the life of Theo- dore Thomas. He came to America at the age of ten, and at first was,a concert violinist in the Hast. He di- rected an opera company, which fail- ed. He directed a numper of sym- Phonic orchestras, travelling about the country.. When Thomas came to Chicago he played to empty seats. Year after year he went on, his back- ers paying his deficits, until, in 1914, big subscription fund was raised to ld a concert hall, according to Thomas’ requirements. Orchestra Hall resulted, but Theodore Thomas lived only to conduct one short sea- son of concerts in the new hall. Musical Pioneering. The musical pioneering of this man is of inestimapie worth. When he first came here, a Chicago newspaper said it was bad enougn to sit taru one movement of a symphony, but to be compelled to listen to three drove the writer speechless. He concluded by remarking that the orchestra should be driven out of town. Musi cal taste as gon long way sinc: then, with full symphonies perform- ed at popular concerts, and with pop- ular concerts, children’s concerts, uni- versity concerts, and concerts in Au- rora and Milwaukee regularly, beside those of the regular season, Not only in Chicago has musical taste been developed thru the work of Thomas. Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleve- land, Minneapolis, to mention a few cities, could never have symphony or- chestras as they have had not this man succeeded in Chicago, In fact, one might not be exaggerating when one says that musical taste and cul- ture thruout the middle west had its origin in the musical missionary work of Theodore Thomas. Bach, Beethoven, Wagner. At the exercises the orchestra play- ed three of their first director's fa- -|vorite compositions, quite interesting in that they show his musical outlook. The chorale and fugue by J. 8. Bach arranged for modern orchestra, by Abert, opens slowly, religiously, and then changes to a tremendously big, many-voiced fugue, which might grow tiresome if it were not for the skillful modern orchestration of Abert. The Beethoven Eroica symphony is as its title proclaims it, heroic, noble. And the music ended with that glorious and colorful medieval procession, the prelude to Richard Wagner's “Master- singers of Nuremburg”. The memorial to Thomas is a bronze statue of a grand lady in an- cient Greek costume strumming on a harp. In back of her are engraved figures of men playing orchestral in- struments. She was made by Albin Polasek, and to us, who know nothing of sculpture, she is not adequate. The figures in back of her look like Egyp- tian glyphs, and the central figure it- self, looks stiff and unnatural. A sim- ple, dignified statue of Thomas him- self would have been—but then we know nothing of sculpture. MENTIONING THE MOVIES By LELAND OLDs. (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) If you are a moving picture fan you are being forced to pay your share of a huge annual tribute to the Dastman Kodak company and asso- ciated interests whose monopoly zon- trol of the manufacture and sale of raw films has just been exposed by the federal trade commission. The commission orders the Eastman com- pany and concerns under its domina- tion to stop the conspiracy in re- straint of trade by which they are seeking to extend their film monopciy. Profits of Eastman Kodak for the year 1923 totaled $18,877,229 after a depreciation and federal taxes. This meant a return of $9.13 on every $10 share of common stock or a profit of more than 91 per cent. The concern paid cash dividends toting 75 per cent and raised its undivided surplus profits to $65,958,640, a figure which is more than three times the entire in- vestment of the common stockhold- ers. These 1923 profits are by no means exceptional, Total profits of the last five years amounted to $86,348,275. In other words common stock holders have in five years received no profits more than four times thefr entire in- vestmefit. Dividends during this per- jod totaled $51,891,889 or more than 2% times the investment. In the last decade, dividends totaling 362 per cent have beer paid. During 1922, in order to conceal the enormity of these profits, the stock- holders voted to change the stock from 250,000 shares of $100 par to ten times as many shares of no par | People walking the streets who were value. This meant that for every |Just as wicked as we were or per- share of the original stock the owners |H@PS; more so. After inflicting an un- received ten shares of the new stock. | 8T@mmatical and idiotic sermon on us, Destroyed Competition. By means of coercion, the trade commission charges, the Eastman company has destroyed the competi- tion of other producers in this coun- try and also of foreign made raw films. It holds over members of the Allied Film Laboratories Association the threat that it will itself enter their branch of the business unless they purchase and use only the raw film manufactured by itself. To make good this threat Eastman holds three fully equipped laboratories ready for oper- ation on short notice should the al- lied laboratories attempt to break, away from its monopoly grip. “The acts of the responden’ the commission's order, “constitute a conspiracy or combination in restraint of trade in interstate and foreign com- we were given the opportunity of se- lecting our favorite hymn from a hymn book, a copy of which was giv- en to each prisoner. Being Commun- ists, we were militant and being mili- tant, we were war-like, so we picked on “When Jesus Christ Goes Forth to ” This seemed to please the preacher very much. The hymn was repeated several times and the spiritual sales- man seemed on the point of taking up a collection, when a local pugilist, who was held in the jail for attempting li- berties with his landlady, shouted, “Well, by Jesus, this old Christ was a fighting son — — —”. And it is not S| surprising that the laity should mis- understand Christ’s ideas on violence when even the clergy are at sea about them. merce and have the effect of maintain- ing and extending the monopoly of the Eastman Kodak Co. and of hinder- ing and preventing competitors from establishing enterprises for the man- ufacture of raw cinematograph film.” No less a man than Harry M. Daugherty, ousted cabinet crook, is engaged in an insidious attempt to turn the heads of American Commun- fists by flattery and perhaps, inveigle them into initiating their pre-conceiv- Watch Your Goose-Step. ed, Moscow-hatched, plan to capture LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 28.—,the Capitol and fly the red flag over Cleon Knoles, president, College of|the White House. If we are to give the Pacific, had better look out for|credence to Mr. Daugherty’s version his job—he must have been reading|of their accomplishments, it is not The Goose-Step. He told the Mutual|impossible that such clever fellows Business club here that “America is| could perform this big task. At a mo- ruled by sixth-grade. intellects,” and|ment’s notice they may unmask their the six-grade intellects who listened |™an Gompers, (who is really an agent to him were not very much pleased|0f Trotzky) call out the secret milt- by his speech, tary battalions of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, exhume How many of your shop-mates read | the Socialist Party, which is destined THE DAILY WORK Get one of ip cen Gaete hettee Rede ag “ ship, jenjam| 4 baat abieks| sc sandy-mustached, red mouse hunter, for Hearst's International as Dictator pe the United Soviet States of Amer- ae ti ae This may seem far-fetched, and proof of the DAILY WORKER'S the- ory that Daugherty is engaged in a lunacy contest with the rabbit-biting Harry K. Thaw, but after reading the evidence produced by the ex-attorney general, the possibility of such a de- velopment does not look so hazy. What have the Communists done so ‘far? They have induced Doheny to bribe Fall with $100,000, in return for which Fall handed Doheny part of the Navy’s oil lands. Then got next to Marry Sinclair, who The Poor Fish says:.Workingmen’ wages are plenty high enough but the |race horses and a car load of Mquor, trouble is that they want a lot of | Sinclair got most of the State of Wyo- things that only the rich can afford to|ming. Next the Commun: buy. on Daugherty himself, Fall $25,000, hundreds of cattle, some » 1 |