The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1924, Page 6

Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. (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 POLAR SANE EB PA RNR CSO Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Ilinois ——— J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE ) “gia MORITZ J. LOEB...... Business Manager $6.00 per year i 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. ———— ae An Indefensible Policy Important problems come before the convention of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union meeting in Boston today. We feel that the most important of these is the question of liquidating the indefensible policy of the Sigman administration this past year of ex- pelling militants in the organization, because of their membership in the Trade Union Educa- tional League. This disrupting Sigman policy was spawned by the machine that draws its inspiration from the New York Jewish Daily (Socialist) Forward, It lives because of the aid given it by this same For- ward organization. What are the crimes of the militants? list a few of them: That they urged amalgamation as against craft separatism. That they sought an all-inclusive Farmer-Labor Party as opposed to a Socialist-labor bureaucracy controlled Third Party. That they demanded the shop delegate system of labor organization as opposed to the outworn local union system. That they pressed for a militant struggle against all reductions in wages as opposed to compromise and collaboration with the bosses. * These are all “crimes” that every member of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, claiming to stand for the welfare of the organiza- tion, should claim as his own. Every member of the union should look upon it as a proud duty to fight for. these measures urged by the militants. And that seems to have been the way that the militants leoked upon the whole problem. We do not have to ask the membership of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to liquidate the indefensible expulsion policy. They Let us have already shown themselves already in favor of doing that very thing. It is now the duty of the delegates to the Boston Convention to interpret correctly and carry out the desires of the rank and file. It is said that a majority of the delegates to this convention have been elected pledged to the repu- tation of the expulsion policy. It remains for these delegates to stand loyal to that pledge, true to the task entrusted to them. They should not. allow ‘themselves to be misled by carefully pro- voked hysteria or cleverly aroused prejudices. All the charges against the Trade Union Educa- tional League, including the silly theory that it is a dual union, have been repeatedly punctured. Only the officialdom, from Sigman and his satel- lites, up to Gompers, cling to this absurd claim. Let the delegates to the Boston Convention of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union repudiate this indefensible policy of expulsions, and they will make for real unity within the whole labor movement. The brilliant struggle of the Pullman strikers will make the big bosses in other industries think twice before they try to impose wage reductions upon their workers. Edwin Denby, ousted secretary of the navy, is still welcome at the White House. “Cautious Cal” no doubt expects Eddie to deliver a few Michigan votes his way, if they can be New- berryed in that direction. William Howard Taft, the obese head of the U.S. supreme court, complains that newspapers do not hire lawyers to report court doings. No doubt “Bill the Fat” would enjoy picking either of the injunction judges, “Dennie” Sullivan or “Charley” “Foell, to do the court reporting for the DAILY WORKER. Well, all we want to say to Judge Taft is, he’s got another guess coming. “Stay away from the old party primaries!” is ry ery that is being heeded by the workers and farmers everywhere thruout the nation. Less than one-sixth of the qualified voters of Ohio went to the polls in the recent primaries of the Wall Street primaries in that state. Among the five- sixths are big possibilities for the growing Farmer- Lavor Party movement. Ex-Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was in his element before the Daugherty investigating com- mittee in Washington. He was strong in his de- nunciation of the West Madison street bootleggers. But no mention is made of the big thieves of the Union League Club, where Landis got his orders while on the federal court bench. Landis yells so londly over the little crooks that it helps the big crooks cover up their tracks, Clubbing the Cubans American arms are being rushed to Cuba to help maintain the status quo in the Caribbean satrapy of Wall Street. As usual, the pretense behind which the imperialistic ventures of our ruling class hide is one of abstract justice or some other ethereal vagary of the thinnest order. The Cuban incident brings to the fore a problem which is assuming serious proportions for the workers and poor farmers of this country. There is one outstanding feature of American capitalist expansionist policy. And that is that those goy- ernments of other countries which tend to assure the maximum safety to American investments are the governments which the Washington govern- ment will support with money and military strength. Today this imperialist dictum is tan- tamount to a declaration from our financial over- lords that the Latin American peoples are to have only those governments which are satisfactory to the banking and manufacturing interests of the United States. The Yankee imperialist government is for a revo- lution in a country only when the revolution promises more profits and higher interest rates to the capitalists. Thus Theodore Roosevelt manu- factured the Panama revolution against Colombia. Republicanism goes by the board when the dollar demands it. The American capitalist republic has to its discredit the record of having destroyed more republics than any other country in the world. The first republic in the Orient, the Philippine Re- public, and the Republic of San Domingo were both crushed by the military and naval guns of the republican army of capitalist America. In Peru, the American ambassador, Poindexter, is serving as the agent plenipotentiary of the Na- tional City Bank, and Washington power and Wall Street money are the sole prop keeping up the Peruvian Fascist government which is threatened by the wrath of the masses. In Honduras it was American capitalist intrigue that was responsible for the revoluttion. In Mex- ico the Washington capitalist bureaucrats were compelled to help Obregon, not because they loved him or hated de la Huerta, but because they feared that the business outlook would be much worse for their masters if Obregon was overthrown. Obvi- ously the Latin American countries have become the natural hinterland for American capitalist manouevers and exploitation. Herein lies a source of many dangers to the American workers and farmers. In time the Latin American masses will revolt against their being ‘pawns in the hands of the Yankee capitalists. The Cubans will get sick and tired of revolutions being made to order and crushed in their country by the agents of Wall Street. Bolivia may soon want to have a government of its own choice. Unless the American working men and poor farmers get to- gether with their brethren in the Latin-American countries to fight the common enemy that is op pressing and exploiting them, the proletariat and dispossessed agrarian masses of all the American countries will be thrown into a mortal combat in behalf of their masters—a war in which hundreds of thousands of wage workers and peasants will be slaughtered. One of the Millions Helene Jessmer was the beautiful daughter of a California bakery owner. But she cut loose from her dreary surroundings, joined the Follies, met the young millionaire, Phillip Morgan Plant, crashed into a tree with him in an auto accident, and was disfigured. Because she had a rich para- site at her side, in the smash-up, Miss Jessmer is now able to go back to the California bakery with $100,000 in settlement of her $500,000 suit. And the average reader of the daily newspapers, faced with his own struggle for a daily existence, will chime in with, “lucky girl.” But there are millions of young girls, children, by the grace of the United States Supreme Court, many beautiful children of the working class who are being sent into the mills and factories of the nation, there to have the bloom of their youth from them, more slowly perhaps, but just as ruthlessly, as thru the most terrible automobile wreck, To be sure there are millionaires near as the roses die in the cheeks of the young factory work- ers. But they are usually heavy paunched, thick jowled, aged profiteers, who have their property rights protected in the courts, where the $500,000 damage suit of a girl worker for the loss of her youth and beauty would be thrown into the street, Yet it wouldn’t be a bad thing for these children of the factories to take the case of Helene Jessmer as a precedent and place a similar price upon their youth. Congress and the courts, the tools of the bosses, have rejected them. Perhaps the children, spurned on by the luck of Miss Jessmer, with her millionaire, might try for a little luck against their own millionaire disfigurers. The deadly grind of the factory takes a toll of child life much greater than the more spectacular auto spills of young millionaires with their chorus girl companions. It should also pay the penalty. “Cal” Coolidge may be silent and cautious but the telegrams seem to get them all, International May Day, 1924, is over. But all Communists will keep on working every day in the year for the aspirations of all May Days. If you secured a subscriber for the DATLY WORKER on May Day, repeat the good work as often as you can during the coming year. THE DAILY WORKER COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA CHALLENGES COLONIAL POLICY OF PRESENT BRITISH GOVERNMENT The Communist Party of India sends the following challenge to the Independent Labor Party of England, of which Premier Ramsay MacDonald is a member, to keep its pledges to fight for the liberation of subject people. The challenge recites the tyrannical persecution of labor in India today under the present government and calls on the Independent Labor Party conven- tion at York, England, to take action. in full by the DAILY WORKER. The statement is given I. L. P. On Internationalism. Fellow Workers:—One year ago, in the London conference of the Independent Labor Party, a resolution on Internationalism and Imperialism was adopted, which defined the attitudes of your party, as follows: The I. L. P., as an integral part of the International move- ment for the world-wide spreading of Socialism, recognizes: 1. That the interests of the work- ers thruout the world are one. 2. That the International Socialist Commonwealth can only be secured by a world organization of free peo- ples, co-operating in the production and distribution of the world’s goods. 3. That towards, this end, the I. L. P. works for the most effective action of the International Socialist Movement to prevent war, abolish conscription and militarism, and liberate subject peoples. 4. That the I. L. P. opposes the exploitation of economically back- ward peoples by the more advanced, and declare for a relationship with the less-developed races to prepare them as speedily as possible for self-government. 5. That as a method to attain these ends, the I. L. P, takes its part in the struggle of the workers to win freedom from the economic tyranny imposed by the capitalist class and capitalist state. It holds that the best way of effecting a peaceful change to Socialism is by the organization of the workers po- litically to capture the state power, and industrially to take over the control and management of the in- dustrial machinery. 6. The I. L. P. recognize that circumstances may arise when a government or reactionary class might attempt to suppress liberty or thwart the national will, and it holds, that to defeat such attempts, dem- ocracy must use to the utmost ex- tent its political and industrial power. Demand Freedom of India. In view of the fact that in India to- day, a reactionary government and class is attempting to suppress the liberty and to thwart the national will of the people as expressed thru peace- ful constitutional action, by certifying measures rejected by the elected rep- resentatives in the so-called National Legislatures; by shooting down un- armed men and women who assemble together to demonstrate. peacefully against social, economic and political suppression; and by wholesale arrests without charge or evidence, of res- pectable citizens accused of conspir- ing against the authority of the State, the Communist Party of India calls upon the Annual Conference of the In- dependent Labor Party to uphold and give force to its resolution of the con- ference of 1923, by taking energetic action against those acts on the part of irresponsible authority. In view of your position as the supreme govern- ing power in Great Britain today, we call upon you to use the utmost ex- tent of your political and industrial power to put an end to these intoler- able conditions prevailing in British India. Preservation In India. The Communist Party of India calls the attention of the delegates to the annual conference of the I. L, P. in particular, to the flagrant attempt now being made on the part of the Indian government to suppress the right of political organization for economic ends on the part of the Indian work- ing-class, by damning it in the eyes of the law as “conspiracy to over- throw the sovereignity of His Majesty, the King-Emperor,” and by seeking to take such action on the part of the Indian working-class punishable un- der Section 121 and 121A of the In- dian Penal Code by death or life-im- prisonment. The Communist Party of India de- sires to emphasize the fact that the real object behind this attempt to crush the legitimate right of Indian labor to organize itself for political and economic end is threefold: Plot Against British Labor. 1. To prevent the emancipation of the Indian masses thru their own political and economic action to achieve improvement in their Present miserable condition, and to bind them perpetually to the chains of Imperial and native exploitation. 2. To maintain the present isola- tion of the Indian people from the world International movement of labor towards full social, economic and political emancipation from capitalist slavery. 3. To prejudice the organization of a working-class party in India by damning it in the eyes of the law as “Bolshevik conspiracy and prop- aganda,” thereby at the same time prejudicing the negotiations now Proceeding between the British La- bor government and the Russian Soviet government to re-establish and friendly relations. Sedition Tried at Cawnpore. The Communist Party of India em- phatically repudiates the unfounded and unprovable allegations brought against it by the government of India ag the basis of the trial now proceed- ing at Cawnpore against some of its members, and calls upon the Inde- pendent Labor Party and the Labor government, as well as upon the British proletariat, to vindicate the full constitutional right for Commun- ist, Socialist and working-class par- ties to exist and to function in India, maintaining their appropriate inter- national connections, as in all other parts of the British Empire, and thru- out the world. Convention Must Act. To this end, the Communist Party of India calls upon the delegates of the York Conference of the I. L. P. to protest against the present at- tempts being made by a reactionary government and class to suppress the liberty of Indian citizens and to thwart the Indian national will, and in con- sonance with the resolution passed in your London Conference of 1923, to recommend: 1, That the government ban on Socialist, Communist and working- class organization and propaganda be lifted. 2, And that those now suffering from government prosecution and persecution for their activities in behalf of the Indian working-class be permitted henceforth full free- dom of action, both in and outside of British India, in their efforts to organize a political party of the In- dian work®S and peasants for social, economic and political eman- cipation. In behalf of the Communist Party of India, MANABENDRA NATH BAY. Government Coal Control Debate Topic Of Schools The question of government own- ership and operation of the coal mines will be debated by Cathedral High school of Indianapolis and Harrison Technical High of this city. The two schools will hold their verbal clash Friday evening, May 9, at 8 o'clock in the Harrison Auditorium, 24th St. and Marshall Boulevard. The sub- ject is stated, “Resolved, that the federal government shall own and op- erate the coal mines.” | New Soviet Film Shows Russian Toilers Forging Rapidly Ahead f A new film of Seviet Russia and Germany recently arrived in America, will be released for the first time in New York City, on May 9th Friday evening, at 8:30 at the Central opera house, 205 B. Sixty-seventh st., by the International Workers’ Aid. The technical part of the photoplay, the photograph, titling and dramatic value is superior to any of the other films which have been shown here of Soviet Russia. Russia is shown in this film busily engaged putting its house in order. Building up the industries, improving its agricultural methods, with scenes of the International Agricultural Ex- position which was recently held in Moscow, Russia, in the years 1923-24 were busy and historic years for Rus- sia, and this film deals with every phase of its social and economic life. Monday, May 5, 1924 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY “Hell must go” is the slogan of Dr, Percy Stickney Grant. And it is go- ing fast according to the doctor, who is making it quite hot for that insti- tution even tho he believes the public is growing cold towards it. We com- mend the activities of Dr. Grant in disposing of the infernal regions, hoping that after he dethrones Old Nick he will join Bishop William Montgomery Brown in “Banishing the Gods from the skies and capitalism from the earth.” ** @ Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com- merce, denounces as false the charge that he turned over to a friend the salmon fisheries of Alaska. Now, Germany, on the other hand, is in a turmoil. The film shows great anti- government demonstrations in which hundreds of thousands take part, peo- ple rioting in the streets over a rise in the price of bread. The German government suspending even their pit- tance of a charity dole which enabled a family of four to buy one loaf of bread—this sounds like a setting for a real blow-up. The picture is called “A Tale of Two Republics” because it deals with two most interesting countries in the world, Russia and Germany. Every worker should make an effort to see this picture. The film is so well arranged that it clarifies the is- sues as no amount of newspaper re- ports could portray; especially does it affect the false reports of the capital- ist press. ‘Keep Up The Work,’ War Prisoner Urges To the DAILY WORKER: Yours of the 10th at hand; have also been receiv- ing your unusually interesting DAILY WORKER. Keep up the good begip- ning*as you are filling a gap in jour- nalism that there is great need of in every city in the world. I know that you are not running that paper to make money or you would print less truth and some capitalist propaganda in place of labor facts. You know there is a yery bad disease raging in California at the present time; the hoof and mouth disease of cattle which can be taken by human beings as well; that is, a good reason to boycott all California products, And a further reason if you happen to work for wages in some of the labor hating laws of this state of Sunshine, Slavery and Earthquakes, namely, the C. S. law. Every worker ought to boycott this state until it gives labor a right to organize. 3 I suppose you wonder how we stand pat under the circumstances; there is no other way for a man that under- stands the economic reason for our in- carceration. OMER J. EATON No. 36627. San Quentin, California, Bill Got Him Going . The DAILY WORKER:—Nothing I have read for a long time so tickled my intellectual funnybone as the article by William F. Dunne, telling the ex- Reverend-Socialist, Norman Thomas, where to get off at. He certainly knocked the Dr. for a row of empty pulpits. For a man of his intelligence to charge ‘the Communists with favor- ing a dictatorship in the unions, shows to what length saffron-hued socialists will go to vent their spleen against the Workers Party. The DAILY WORKER is certainly a fine working-class paper and is rais- ing the devil with the master class. I wish you success.—Nicholas Fine- berg, Jonesburg, Ia. May Day in Chicago. To the DAILY WORKER: A reporter for Farmer-Labor Voice attended the United Front May Day Conference and Concert, held at the North Side Turner Hall, Chicago, on the evening of ‘May and these were his impressions. He found a large and very enthusiastic crowd of workers in attendance. But Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was not there. Nor were any of his official representatives heard from, during the lively meeting which followed. But William F, Dunne was present, as the principal speaker—the same “Bill” Dunne who was expelled from Gompers’ last A. F. of L, convention because of his alleged too “radical” ideas with regard to the workers’ rank in society. And “Bill” Dunne paid his respects to “Sammy” Gompers—from the progressive point of view, Inci- dentally, he indicated that Mr. Gom- pers and his Federation were about the only things of a Labor character —and he didn’t give them credit tor much of a character under that classi- fication—now unaware of the real sig- nificance of May Ist as International Labor Day. Dunne voiced opinion that chief among the arguments for setting May 1st as Labor Day, was the vernal quality of that season, as contra-distinguished from the autumn- al “has been” character of the old September date. Just as the month of May is the preparatory ‘season for bringing forth the first fruits and flowers of Nature, so is that season THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS symbolical of Labor's efforts to pro- duce its fruits of victory. Today, even more than in times past, does this Poetic allusion seem appropriate. And these fruits of the Labor struggle will soon now be brought forth, prophe- sized speaker Dunne. “if we progres- sives have the sense, and the cour- age, and the spirit of self-sacrifice that is necessary.” In opening this meeting, Chairman Abern (former Secretary of The Young Workers) told of the Russian workers’ victorious celebration of May Day in their country. And he express- ed belief that with this glorious exam- ple before the eyes of the world’s workers, a hope for international sol- idarity of the working-class is fully justified. > Editor Schactman, of The Young Worker, was of the opinion that only a class Farmer-Labor Party can lay the permanent foundation for work- ers’ control and abolition of child wage-slavery in this country. A. Bittelman, of the Workers’ Party, also addressed the meeting; and other good speakers representing the Jew- ish, Russian, Italian and Polish lang- wage groups of progressive workers’ organizations, A fine concert, in connection with this educational meeting, was render- ed by the Freiheit Singing Society and members of the Russian Grand Opera Company. The Poor Fish says; The Pullman workers ought to let Florence Pull- man Lowden cut their wages because it'll cost her husband a lot of money ie get the nomination for vice presi- ent. what else could you expect? All the crooks do that. Did not Hoover deny aiding the counter-revolutionaries of Russia against the Soviet government and of giving them one million dol- | lars out of the relief funds granted by congress for the feeding of the famine stricken people of Russia, But documentary evidence recently un- earthed in Washington proved the charges true and convicts Hoover of being a liar as well as a political crook. Hoover in rebuttal says that special interests prevent legislation to save food fish. It’s a neat come- back. Unfortunately for Hoover he has been caught lying so often that nobody would believe him even if by some accident he did happen to tell the truth, se @ You may remember that when Ludendorf took part in the burlesque tap room revolution of the Bavarian Fascisti he threw himself flat on the ground when somebody’s pistol went off accidentally. History almost re- peats itself. There was a reaction- ary meeting advertised in Berlin re- cently at which: Ludendorf was billed as the principal speaker. The General issued a provocative mani- festo calling on his followers to fight all foreign and domestic foes par- ticularly the Communists. The latter came in large numbers to the meet- ing ready to give him an opportunity to fight or eat his words. The Gen- eral prudently, if not gallantly, stayed away. The Communists cleaned up his followers and peace once more reigned in Berlin. se 8 Peace conferences come and peace conferences go but under capitalism preparations for the next war always go on. Secretary of State Hughes gloried in the success of the Wash- ington Conference which resulted in a Naval agreement between the United States, Britain and Japan on the basis of a 5-5-3 program. We are now informed, however, by our “large navy” enthusiasts that this country is outgunned by even Japan and is in quite a serious condition. Lord Balfour, the tricky, British diplomat fooled the hick American statesmen and got away with the gravy. In speed, gun elevation and protective armoring the floating fortresses of America’s potential enemies are far ahead of the United States’ ships. The workers are de- luded into the belief that we can have peace if only the capitalists can sit down together and take strong injections of applied Christianity. The Communists insist that we can have no peace until we get rid of capital- ism and the capitalists and abolish the profit system that is the cause of all modern wars. s 2. @ Andre Tardieu, a Clemenceau henchman, was addressing a large crowd in one of the Paris suburbs, when a Communist candidate for elec- tion appeared. The workers immedi- ately called on the Communist to come to the platform and address them. He politely informed Tardieu that he would like to comply with the demands of the workers. The bour- geois boor, instead of acceding to the workers’ request kicked savagely at the Communist, whereupon the work- ers seized Tardieu and brought their boots vigorously in contact with the fleshiest part of his anatomy, throw- ing him from the platform. While the scrimmage was on, Andre Marty, no- ted Communist rebel, sprang to the platform and addressed the crowd while the workers were mopping up the bourgeois hooligans who raised the rumpus. 2 @ Mrs. William Jennings Bryan is a paralytic, but she has faith in the Lord, So far, God has not cured her, but that does not faze her any. When she generates enough faith in God the cure will be affected, she believes. Even if she should never be cured that will not alter her devotion or weaken her faith. She will take all the blame for God's failure to cure her ,on her own shoulders, She attends the ser- vices of a roaming evangelist, who claims to have healed hundreds of people, performing miracles that equal those claimed by the Catholic Church. Mr. Bryan, she says is a firm believer in health thru faith and the “great commoner” is expected to spend some weeks under the minis- trations of the evangelist before he goes to the Democratic convention,” where he might be defiled by contact with the Catholic “wets” of Tammany Hall, who in turn believe, if they take their religion seriously—that Bryan, being a non-Catholic, is an imp of the devil and will go to hell no matt how many Darwinian monkeys he nihilates this side of the “dark ocean.” ver