The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1924, Page 5

Thuyedey. may 1, 1924 { ARTICLE Viil. Program of Action. ‘The price of our imperialists for the development of the industries and na- tural. resources of the colonial and so- called backward countries, and the price of American “humanitarian help” towards Buropean reconstruc- tion is complete economic hegemony over all of these territories. The steps already taken by the United States government in helping capitalists se- curé a firmer foothold in the Near Hast, Far East, Latin America and BHurope, are only a prelude to more entangling alliances which are bound, sooner rather than later, to draw an army of millions of American workers and farmers “over there” to fight for the safety and defense of the foreign in- vestments of our employing class. The ying up of the interests of a small ‘killed section of our working class f with the interests of the monopolistic '} group of the capitalist class, is an add- ed danger to the welfare and security of the whole working class and the ex- ploited poor farming masses. In the light of this ever increasing militarist and imperialist menace to the peace and security of the Amer- ican workers and poor farmers the need for united action against Amer- ican imperialism is more urgent than ever. Towards this end the Workers Party-of America proposes the follow- ing program: 1, General propaganda to arouse the opposition. of the laboring and farming masses to imperialism and militarism. 2. A united front of all workers’ and farmers’ organizations against the maintenance and’ extension of American imperialist plans, 3. Concerted action by the work- ers’ and farmers’ political and eco- nomic organizations to compel Con- gress to enact legislation prohibiting the expenditure of a man or a dollar to guarantee the investments of American capitalists abroad. 4, A vigorous campaign in all labor and farm organizations for the eco~ nomic’ and complete indenpendence of all possessions of the United States. 5. Struggle against American in- terference in the political and eco- nomic affairs of Mexico, the South | American Dollar Diplomacy in Action » === and Central American republics, The immediate evacuation of all ter- Titories now occupied by American military and naval forces should be demanded. 6. A-special organizational and propaganda campaign to help the Filipino people in their resistance to American capitalist exploitation. Our workers and farmers should render the greatest help possible to the Filipinos in their struggle for complete national independence from United States imperialist de- mination, and for the improvement of their conditions at home, 7. Special publicity campaigns are to be Organized exposing American capitalist brutality in our posses- sions and in territories occupied by the military and naval forces of the United States. The interests domin- ating Mexico, Central America, South America, and our island pos- sessions must be exposed in their light as imperialist brigands before the working class and poor farmers, 8. Struggle against the reaction- ary trade union leaders of the Unit- ed States and of the weaker exploit- ed countries, These leaders of the type of Gompers and the Mexican PROSPECTS OF LABOR PARTY SEEN BY WOLL Wants Esch-Cummins Law Repealed to Stop It By H. M. WICKS. NEW YORK CITY, April 30.—Mat- thew Woll, Vice President of the American Federation of Labor and head of the Photo-Engrayers’ Union, speaking before the convention of the National Civic Federation here on the subject, “Is There Need for An Amer. ican Labor Party?” declared whether or not there was formed an American Farmer-Labor Party would depend upon the attitude taken by the two old parties. } ‘Woll said that if the two old parties continue to help business and neglect the workers and farmers, it would no‘ only create a third party of farmers and workers but would wreck one of the old parties. Apparently so naive that he imag- ines the old parties can serve the workers and farmers, Woll hastened to reassure his cohorts in the Nation- al Civic Federation that in his opinion the old parties could forestall the cre- ation of a third party by repealing. the. Esch-Cummins law, or changing it so that railway workers can adjust their wages and working conditions by vol- untary action. If this is done the de- mand for parliamentary action will cease, according to Mr. Woll. Gompers Shows Off. Old Man Gompers was also present and spoke on The New Industrial Phil- osophy of the American Federation of Labor.” He prefaced his remarks by admitting that the title of his lecture was a misnomer because the policy was not new at all. The burden of his discourse was to the effect that the A. F. of L. had never favored anti- trust legislation as such legislation tended to hamper legitimate expan- sion of business and it was to the in- terest of all people in the country, workers and employers alike, to see that industry continued its normal development. In face of the steady decline in membership of the organizations af- filiated with the A. F. of L., Gompers had the audacity to assert that “The American labor movement is not do- ing so very badly.” “The relations existing between en:- ployers generally and the organized fn g movement is better now than it has been,” boasted the Old Man e Sea. * coute M. Wright, renegade sovial- ist and former editor of the now de- funct New York Call, seconded ‘om- pers’ senite discourse. Elects Officials. Officials were elected, Samuel Gom- pers was re-elected as vice president; Warren S. Stone, pooh-bah of the En- gineers Union and prominently iden- tifed with the Empire Trust Com- Pany, a Wall street concern controlled by the Schwabs and Du Ponts, is chairman of the Social Insurance De partment. Alton B, Barker, Tammany candidat« for president against Roose velt in 1904, is President of Civic Fed: eration, while August Belmont, multi. millionaire, is chairman of the Work- men’s Compensation Department, The TRIC "Want a bounce, Uncle Wiggily?* STEEL TRUST’S PROFITS RISE TO $50,000,000 DESPITE SHORTER DAY NEW YORK, April 30.—An exts extra dividend of fifty cents a share on U.S. Steel common was announced here today. The regular dividend of $1. declared. 25 on Steel common also was Earnings of U. S. Steel corporation for the quarter ending March 31 were announced as $5: 0,075,445 after taxes have been deducted, compared to $49,958,980 for the preceding quarter and $34,780,069 during the first quarter of 1923. notorious prevaricator, Conde B. Pal- lon, is chairman of the Department on Study of Revolutionary Movements, in which position he will continue to lie about the vanguard of the working class during the coming year as he has in the past. Many other hangers- on of American capitalism, fit for com- pany of Sam Gompers, are on the various committees that were elected. Favor Military Training. The armour plate manufacturers, represented by flunkeys of Schwab and the Du Pont powder manufactur- ers, passed a resolution strongly con- demning pacifism and recommended strong support of Citizens’ Training Camps and close cooperation with the civilian aids to the secretary of war in the several states making effective the National Defense Act. U.S. Fights Labor . In Porto Rico For Capitalist Exploiters WASHINGTON, April 30.—Santiago Iglesias, president of the Porto Rican Federation of Labor and Socialist senator in the island legislature, is leading the struggle begun by his own party and by the rank and file of the Republican party of Porto Rico, against the attempt of Sen. Tous Soto, leader of the Republicans, to throw that party into an alliance with the Unionist party to control island pol- itics and to destroy the labor move) ment. Editorials from Republican papers in San Juan, reaching here, show that the alarm raised against Iglesias by Tous Soto and Senator Barcelo, leader of the Unionists, has tailed to stampede the public. The first purpose of the Barcelo- Tous Soto alliance is:to secure from Congress a bill limiting the franchise in the island, thereby cutting off a large part of the votes which repres- ent labor. Senator Willis of Ohio is chairman of a subcommittee of the senate committee on insular affairs which has been asked to report a bill enabling Porto Rico to elect its own governor. The sugar, coffee and tobac- *©o companies and the bankers con- trolling American ownership of the industrial life of the island, are co- operating with Secretary of War Weeks in this attempt to eliminate the Socialist party and the labor unions at one stroke. Iglesias, in an appeal to the Amer- ‘ ican Federation of Labor for help, says that over 30,000 fraudulent reg- istrations for the néxt election have already been discovered. SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 30.-The oldest woman in northern Indiana, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mayo, is dead at the home of a daughter here. She was 109 years old. She was born in Lansing’s Fakers Sabotage Meeting For June Convention (Special to The Daily Worker) LANSING, Mich., April 30.—Edgar Owens, District Organizer Workers Party, spoke here recently on the Farmer-Labor convention to be held at St. Paul on June 17th. He had a fairly large audience consider- ing the handicaps under which they had been assembled. Early in the month a committee from the Lansing local of the Work-) ers Party succeeded in gaining entry to the Trades and Labor Council. The workers attempted to get the support of the Council for the June 17th Con-/| vention. They were told to arrange a} date for the hall and bring an able speaker and that the Council would co-operate in securing a good attend *Varioe, The meeting was arranged and George Allen, editor of the Lansing “Industrial News,” agreed to assist in publicity by advertising and personal soliciting of trade union members. While professing friendship, Allen, who belongs to the Labor Council proved himself utterly contemptible. He not only failed to give any notice to the meeting in his press but he was largely responsible for Council members turning away, by denying the meeting to many interested work- ers -who wanted to attend. In spite of this sabotage Owens had an en- thusiastic audience. Teachers May Worship Hole In Ground For God In New Jersey TRENTON, N. J.—Discrimination against teachers in New Jersey on religious grounds has aroused so much protest that Governor Silzer has been forced to order school boards to stop questioning prospective teachers regarding their religious affi- liations. An opinion of the state at- torney general cites the first amend- ment of the United States constitu- tion, the state constitution and vari- ous statutes which make such prac- tices illegal. Co-operative Society Helps Workers Eat Under Capitalism GUELPH, Ont., April 30.—Workers in Guelph, Ont., know how co-opera- tion can cut the high cost of living. tive society which has not only di- rectly benefited the members by say- Owensboro, Ky., in 1815, and until four years ago was a resident of Ey- ansville, Ind. ' KS vate merchants. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN of the| recast THE DAILY WORKER Morones have become part and parcel of the imperialist coterie op- pressing the working masses. 8. Struggle against the attempt of of the imperialist Coolidge adminis- tration to unite the countries of the world against Soviet Russia and against the tacit support given to the monarchist movement in Ger- many by American reactionary forces. 10, An intensive campaign against American participation in the League of Nations, the World Court, the Reparations Commission, andall other imperialist conferences and alliances. 1. The organization of an inter- national united front of the political and economic organizations of the workers and poor farmérs against international capitalist imperialism. The workers of all the American countries must unite for a common struggle against American imperial- ism and the native capitalist groups of all the countries. 12. That copies of this resolution be forwarded to the labor organiza- tions of all the American posses- sions, Mexico, the Central and South American countries. ‘$80,000, 000,000 WASTED IN WORLD. WAR,SAY BANKERS. Allies Cost T: Twice That, Of Germans By LELAND OLDs, Federated Press Industrial Editor. The total.cost of the war to all na- |tions, expressed in 1913 dollars, |amounted to the huge total of $80,-| | 680,000,000 according to an analysis prepared for the Bankers Trust of New| York by H. E. Fisk. This represents, |says Fisk, the, value in gold of goods |unprofitably consumed during four jand a half years of insensate strife. \Tt is sheer waste equivalent to all the |wealth accumulated by the people of France and Italy combined in the course of centuries. It exceeds by 50| per cent the total cost of the govern- ment of Great Britain from 1688 to 1914. The enormity of the total impresses | the Bankers Trust statistician, but he| |fails to point out the extraordinary | fact that the debt burden assumed by |the common people as a result of the war amounts to five times as much. The inflammatory method of financing the. war adopted. by the financiers. left the population.in debt to the wealthy classes to the tune of approximately $412,000,000,000. The burden of this debt will stead- ily increase as prices slowly approach the prewar level, thereby increasing the amount of labor which the work- ers must exchange for each dollar that they use in paying the interest and. principal of the debt. In the course of the generations which will be required to pay it off the owning class will reecive in interest and prin- cipal many times the value of the goods and services utilized in the war. More Than England’s Wealth. The $80,680,000,000 which the war would actually have cost if the gov- ernments had controlled the rapacity of the financial oligarchies, represents colossal waste which is emphasized by Fisk in the statement that it exceeds shipping traversing every sea, the en- jallied and associated powers and $24,- jshowing what the people would actu Peinali Parasite In by $10,000,000,000 the entire wealth of | the people of Great Britain in 1914,/ ineluding the railways, the docks, the! TRIADELPHIA, W. VA. Marks Wucetie Jobin Perkovic Matt Tominac Anko Tominac Tam Tominac Any Tominac Lous Tominac Karlo Zolio John Gerovac John Rukavina Spiro Gagrica Frenk Triczonjm Stif Knzevich Nick Cvihanovich Joe Susac Frenk Fratte Matt Kurkaly Mary Remek Emil Sertic Alen Elna John Yronich Yorg Benae Kata Benac Peter Sostaric Panama canal, and even then the fig- ure would be far under a third of the total cost of the great war.” Allies’ Cost» Twice Germans’. Of the total expenditure of 80,680,- 000,000 “1918” dollars, .$56,184,000,000, or 69.64 per cent, was the cost to the 497,000,000, -or 30.36 per cent, the cost| to the central powers. Approximately $68,890,000,000 went into military ex-) penses, $5,144,000,000 to other special | |expenses due to the war and $6,242,-| |000,000 was used in paying interest on the war debts. | The is of value as whole study ally have paid for the war if the ad- jvice of unbiased economists to pay-as- yougo had been accepted. But of course that wouldn’t have given the money ¢ asses the enormots mortgage on the world which they now hold. Tale of Woe: Ring Cost Only $1,500 ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 30.—Some in- teresting bits of testimony were tak- en in the trial of a divorce suit brought by Mrs. F, J. Stuart against her husband, president of the Consoli- dated Iron and Steel Corporation, which operates plants in many cities. Mrs. Stuart’s coniplaint was that her husband had not properly provided for her. Her testimony revealed the aristocrat’s idea of an American stan- dard of living—for themseives. There was the wedding ring, it cost only $500. . Yes, and -her solitaire, the neglected wife bought that in Austral- ia for $1500. In her bedroom she had to contend with a cheap rug that cost the paltry sum of $150. And so it was, as the victim of neglect quoted similar figures in appraising her other personal property in an effort to shcw in what poverty she was com- pelied to live. Poor woman, she wants Circuit Judge McElhinney to inter- vene and see that she is properly pro- vided for with her just share of this world’s goods! WASHINGTON, April 30.—The special federal Grand jury before which government counsel Atlee Pom- erene and Owen J. Roberts will lay evidence of alleged criminal action in the execution of the naval oil re- serve leases, was sworn in here. Hearing of evidence will begin April 28. ATTENTION! READING, PA., READERS For 19 years they have had a co-oper- ing many thousands of dollars in grocery bills, but indirectly it has benefited every citizen of the city by lowering the prices charged by pri- tire navy, the great factories, the coal, | | tin and iron mines, in short all the) property of every “kind in England, | Wales, Scotland and Ireland. If all this} wealth had been suddenly destroyed in 1914 the loss would have been-$10,- 000,000,000 short of the waste due #84 the war. He continues: “Coming home for a final compari- son, we find that the expenses of the United tates government from its) foundation in 1791 thru the year 1913, a period of a century and a quarter were $24,500,000,000—less than one- third of the gold cost of the great war, and yet during this period we fought England in 1812, Mexico in the "40s, the very destructive civil war in the 60s, at various times many Indian | campaigns, to say nothing of the) Spanish war in 1898. “To the current expenses of gov-| ernment we could add the 1 outstana | purchase, the acquisition of Alaske,! the purchase of the Virgin Islawts, | what we paid Spain for the Philip. pines, and the cost of constructing the ago 5 MASS Sunday, May 4th, 7:30 P. M. BRING YOUR FRIENDS! MAY DAY MEETING R. V. V. F. A. Hall, 612 Franklin Street. HARRY WITNITSKY, Of New York Principal Speaker. More May Day Marchers NEW YORK CITY John Barkman Juhanes Baardu Eanni Barkman Inja and Lempi . Dritsas . Demitrakopoulos E. 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