The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 8, 1924, Page 6

ov Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. 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 Chieago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 months aS a YO a RSE Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113-W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Illinois gg Re J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) s WILLIAM F. DUNNE) con Biditon MORITZ J. LOBB.... usiness Manager $6.00 per year Entered as second-class mail Sept. 31, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. EP 230 Advertising rates on application. i An Ill-Timed Raid The old saying of being hoist with their own petard is distinctly applicable to what happened to the reactionary government of Germany when it raided the offices of the trade mission from Soviet Russia in Berlin the other day—just pre- vious to the election that returned 62 Communists to the reichstag with a total of over 4,000,000 work- ing class votes behind them. The raid was made ostensibly as part of a search for a Communist who was evading the police, but the breaking open of desks and the ‘yifling of files, in accordance with the best Ameri- can ‘police procedure, indicates that it was in- tended as a deliberate provocation as well as an attempt to intimidate the Communist supporters in the reichstag elections. The Soviet government has protested and that protest will be voiced by the Communist delegation im the reichstag—a delegation that has surprised even the most sanguine Communists by its size and which includes many of the acknowledged leaders of the German Communist party. More significant than the enormous vote polled by the Communists or the fighting ability of those elected is the fact that all the industrial centers of Germany—the heart, nerves and arteries of the whole nation—lined up solidly for the Communist program. In other words, the Communist strength is in places where it counts the most, particularly in-a great industrial nation like Germany. Faced with this condition of affairs the German tools of international capitalism who are now at the head of the German government are welcome to all the consolation they can derive from the raiding of the Soviet trade bureaus. It might be well to say in passing that the House of Morgan whose plans for the enslave- ment of the German workers and peasants have re- ceived a severe setback by the election results, are also welcome to all the satisfaction they can secure from the insult to the workers’ and peasants’ gov- ernment of Soviet Russia which they doubtless in- spired by methods with which recent revelations in Washington are making the working class of this nation quite familiar. Tt begins to look like the Dawes plan of subjuga- tion by gold will fail so far as the German working class is concerned, just as disastrously as did the Hoover plan for the subjugation of Soviet Russia by steel and poison gas. The Latest Confession In an interview with one of the correspondents of a big capitalist daily recently, L. E. Sheppard, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, expresses perfectly the attitude of the standpat officialdom of the American labor movement to- wards independent political action. “Our attitude,” says President Sheppard, “will depend on what the two great parties do as to platform and candidates. The hope is that both parties will present liberal candidates and plat- forms that would make a third party unnecessary.” No fuller confession of bankruptcy has ever been made by any official of a labor organization, It is a plain statement of the fact that labor offi- cialdom in America does not want to break with the bosses but will accept a few miserable con- cessions to unions—not the working clagss—rather than recognize the class differences that make a working class political party inevitable. It will not take much “liberalism” expressed in words or candidates to satisfy the union bureau- crats. Anything appears better to them than sur- rendering the pleasant and profitable association with the capitalists in the parties of capitalism. Expressions of this kind indicate that the Com- munists and the left wing of the labor and farmer movements made no mistake when they called the dune 17th convention with the belief that any steps made toward a class party must be made by the workers and farmers themselves. _ It is becoming more and more doubtful if the union officialdom which dominates the Conference for Progressive Political Action will even par- ticipate in the launching of a middle class third party at Cleveland and it is certain that if such a move is made it will result in the Conference splitting three ways—for LaFollette, for the demo- erats and for the republicans. . On to June 17th. The DAILY WORKER goes with the workers into the thick of every fight. A subscription secured for the DAILY WORK. ER is another smashing blow at the open shop Berry Turns Prophet Major-General George L. Berry, most often no- torious. for his strike-breaking activities, and sometimes known as the President of the Interna- tional Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union, has just completed a democratic campaign tour across the continent. “General” Berry stopped in Chicago long enough to let loose a flood of words over the bankruptcy that has hit hundreds of thousands of farmers and proclaimed that “This great element is demanding satisfaction. And that they are going to get it.” Pity the poor farmers! The lord and his al- mighty hosts deliver the rural masses from such deliverers and saviors. Strikebreaker Berry, who wants to be vice-president, has turned prophet; a false prophet to be sure. But why. The reactionary democratic machine is planning to pull the wool over the eyes of the working and farming masses in the coming elections and snatch the control of the governmental administrative machinery away from their republican competitors now getting most of the pelf. In order to assure the success of this plan the big business interests that will invest their funds in the democratic party in this presidential election are planning to get some fake progressive or so-called friend of labor to have a prominent place on the national ticket and thus draw a huge labor and farm vote. Mr. Berry has been prominently mentioned as a probable vice-presidential nominee on the demo- cratic ticket with this objective in view. Strikebreaker Berry will not fool the workers or farmers by his crocodile tears over the economic depression in the rural areas. Berry, before he found the camp of the enemies of the working class more comfortable, advocated the formation of a national farmer-labor party. He cannot today halt the organization of such a powerful party on a country-wide scale. The laboring masses thru- out the land know of the inestimable services “General” Berry has time and again rendered the bosses. The way in which Berry broke the last strike of pressmen in New York is still fresh in their memories. And the farming masses who have in recent days shown signs of great advance towards independent class political action will surely not be fooled. The rising tide of farmer- labor sentiment now sweeping the country will dispose of such “friends” -of the discontented masses as their enemy “General” Berry. They Still Break Banks in the agricultural districts of the coun- try have been failing with such rapidity and fre- quency in recent months that their collapse is being accepted as a matter of course. Most of the banks that have failed in the rural areas are small banks; financial institutions car- rying the accounts of the poorest farmers. The latter were the hardest hit by the severe agricul- tural depression. It was thus inevitable that the banks where they had their meagre deposits would be the first ones to go under the avalanche of economic hardships that has overwhelmed the farming masses. But the failure of the Capital Trust and Savings Bank, of St. Paul, with deposits of more than $5,000,000, should tend to wake up even the most self-satisfied to the fact that agricultural condi- tions are growing worse. The failure of so big a bank at this time is indicative of the fact that the breakdown of agriculture is deep-going and fun- damental. It belies decisively the fraudulent no- tions being peddled by the Coolidge clique that the farmers’ lot is improving. Particularly at this time it is significant that so strong a bank should shat down. This inst} tution had been in business 25 years. Its connge- tions with the sundry lowest and highest layerg of big Eastern financial circles were manifoldy An agricultural credit corporation dominated by the leading New York and Chicago bankers And» ganized to relieve the distress of the hard-hit ba ers in the Northwest could not help it. ‘the i cause for the failure of the bank, the hopeless state of affairs that has overcome the farmer-depositors in Montana and North Dakota, was once more |ting old, to end my days in some other basic |ha JOSEPH M. COLDWELL. Once more we celebrate the Inter- national Labor Day, May Ist, called May-Day by many. In some places we have parades, picnics, dances and almost in every town and hamlet where there are a group of radicals a meeting of some kind will be held. This is done to show our internation- al solidarity, to show that labor of every land and language has agreed that May 1st shall be known as Labor Day, not by the grace of God, or by act of parliament, but by the power of class solidarity. To the class conscious worker, whereever he may be, on land or on the seas, sick or well, imprisoned or at liberty, May 1st calls to him the memories of the struggles of the past and the hopes of the future, as does no other day of the year. The master class have tri in vain to stop this expression of international solidarity, but the more they oppress us the greater is our determination to cele- brate, to show in some way that this day is different from other days. In some countries public demonstra- tions are forbidden, but you may rest assured that the comrades will have some kind of a demonstration that will put their hearts in tune with the workers of the world, Even in pri- son they cannot stop this spirit from expressing itself. I have spent three May Days in prison and I know whereof I speak. One o: tiose May Days I was alone, the only radical in that prison, but I put on a little bow of red ribbon and wore it proudly and explained to my fellow prisoners who asked me why I was wearing it, the meaning of May Day. The two other May Days I spent in prison was in the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., and I was not alone. There were many of us, paying the penalty of the law, prisoners of war, held by the enemy, in that bastile of American capitalism. One year May Day happened to come on one of the days that we were allowed the privilege of going in the yard for the afternoon. We passed the word to the radicas to meet ata certain place, which was at To the DAILY WORKER:—I work- ed about 16 years in the factories of Anderson, Ind. I have a family of six children and a wife. I never lost a day when I could be on the job. I never spent any money for booze, or picture- shows or any amusements. I spent about 25 cents for street car fare dur- ing the ten years. We bought the cheapest second-hand furniture and clothes we could find; we had only one fire in the house during. the win- ter, had only 2 pairs of blankets, no sheets and such decencies as every citizen should have. I never rode in automobiles or taxi cabs. Well, well, if I were to tell youu all the particulars of a struggle for exist- ence, often going in rags. You may believe me when I say, I consider if T had been a criminal and in one of our jails that I should have today more money if } had just been releas- ed than I havd now got. Thank Gog I am out of it a while, but for how long I do not know. 1 am on a farm now; a friend of mine had 65 acres, but it’s like a white elephant to me, for when I tell you I landed here on the farm with just 60 cents in my pocket, you may readily see the predicament I am in. I have to do all tWat is done on the farm by hand, as ere is no team or one-horse wagon even. It's a pretty industrial system that leaves a man with 60 cents in his Pocket, with a $50 grocery bill owing after doing 10 years’ hard labor. This is the reason I say tr I had been in jail I now would be better off, for ‘shouldn’t owe a grocery bill, and perhaps the prison authorities would iven me a decent suit of clothes, with at least $10 in my pocket, but I'm afraid I'll have to go back even though my health is bad, and I'm get- beyond the control of the financial manipulators| sweat shop, where I shall be skinned of the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago|# little more till 1 die. Board of Trade. This failure should focus rather painfully in the tor « minds of the farmers the unrestrained fraud of|in ‘his fine car and lives all the agricultural remedies being advertised by Coolidge and his agents. In the fiscal year 1922, the farmers of Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota | practically a life-time in paying for Its a great wonder to me why so many workers are satisfied to work e other guy, who rides around sumptuously every day. % » So many workers buy a little home or shack at a fictitious price, and spend Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, furnished |it. Perhaps when he thinks he is well from 32 to 78 per cent of all the bankrupts in this| 0 and accomplished @ big thing, that Tam m territory. The average mortgage debt of the coun- @ fool. They think little of what they, try has doubled in the last year. aken when I say he or she is have produced and its equivalent in Evidently the condition of the rural masses has|money, and how many thousands of reached a stage far beyond the ¢gontrol and manipu-| dollars they have been fleeced of by lation of the capitalist financiers and government lackeys. The farm crisis can be alleviated today the inhuman cruelty and injustice of the industrial system under the capi- talist administration of affairs as solely by the dispossessed farmers and exploited| represented by the man whom they workers taking political and economic matters| Worked for. fully into their own hands. The republican party machine, in primaries just|be able to stay out. held in Indiana and California, has shown that it doesn’t want Hiram Johnson. Perhaps the senator needs a few more kicks to become aware of the fact. The Germain Communists did well in last Sun- day’s elections. Let the French Communists fol- low their excellent example in the approaching] poll in that country. Well, I thought even with only 60 cents I'd tal this kind of hell and I hope I shall Comrade, if you like being skinned of your life, vote the Democratic or Republican ticket. — Percy Waterer, Box 86, R, R. No. 9, Kalamazoo, Mich. oe May Day in Gary. THE DAILY WORKER THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS the T. B, Camp, where the consump- tives lived behind a barbed wire stock- ade. One of the group was a consump- tive and was confined there. The three Russian boys, Abrams, Lippma and Litchoffsky, Spike Moore and Jack Randolph of the I. W. W., Gene Debs, Nick Zogg and several others whose names I cannot recall just now were there. Litchofisky brought his violin and furnished the music. We sang the International and the Red Flag. Spike Moore, who was artistic, drew the words of a revolutionary motto in the sandy soil and that was our ban- ner. Many prisoners passing by stopped to look at the words that were printed in the sand and then they would look at us and smile. That was our May Day celebration and we en- joyed it, perhaps more than you will enjoy your celebration in gaily de- corated halls. It may seem simple to you who know nothing about life in a prison, but to us it meant much. For one thing, it meant going to “the Hole” if one of: the 110 percent patri- otic guards should feel like reporting us. You may be able to jmagine how “terrible” our simple little celebration would sound when a 110 percenter re- ported that we were sin@ing the Red Flag. But we were not reported and we felt that we were one with our com- rades outside who were celebrating International Labor Day. The group that sang the Red Flag that day are at liberty now, except Nick Zogg; he is still there doing a ten-year “bit.” I think of the other class war pris- oners who are spending May Day be- hind the bars, Mooney and Billings, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the many vic- tims of the “criminal syndicalism” laws. They are prisoners of war, held by the enemy. We must do something to get them out. Think of them when you sing “With heads uncovered swear we all To bear it onward till we fall. Come dungeons dark or gallows grim, This song shall be our parting hymn.” . with several hundred workers crowd- ed into Croatian Hall. There were 35 uniformed policemen — uninvited — ready to act for the steel lords, but the meeting was a success in spite of attempted police intimidation. It A May-Day In Prison was a United Front meeting. There were speeches in Spanish by Comrade Lopez, in Russian by Swetlon. ‘Gien- colo, a member of the I. W. W., spoke, and E. Ettlinger of the Workers Par- ty Branch in Chicago, To the workers in Gary, the steel city, the message of the struggles of the workers of the world against cap- italist dictatorship carried great sig- nificance, for they realized that, in spite of the dictatorship prevailing in Gary, that they are part of the great mass stream which all over the world is organizing and uniting for the final struggle. E, ETTLINGER. “A Long Journey” To THE DAILY WORKER: In the vernacular of the criminal world, “Send him on a long journey” means to murder him—“put him out of the way.” ‘ In the senate expose of the oil mess, there appeared in several telegrams something in regard to sending some one “away on a long journey.” Wheth- er these code telegrams had refer- ence to sending Mannington away to Europe or sending Jess Smith to hell and out of the way has not as yet been disclosed by the evidence. However, there has leaked out oc- casionally a little information to prove that Jess Smith was doubled-crossed in a stock market deal, failing to get his cut out of the transaction. In fact the former wife of Smith testi- fied under oath that he had told her of a deal—a dirty deal—in which he and Daugherty were left out in the rain on @ three million dollar win- nings on the stock market But it is claimed by thé wise ones To the DAILY WORKER: Interna-|the make-up man and the editor, he ional Labor Day celebration at the|is in water most of the time—hot- steel city of Gary was a fine success, down at Washington that Daugherty did get his cut and only Smith was left out in the rain; that Smith threat- ened to peach in an effort to get his cut; that as a result of this threat he, Smith, came in contact with the wrong end of a loaded reyolver—really it is suicide for a poor devil to threaten to peach on a band of criminals so hardened as the Daugherty gang. y JESSE T. KENNEDY Philadelphia, Pa. The Poor Fish says: That between water. |Why People V Me| (“When people come to stay with me, they are much more interested in my dogs than in me.”—Lord Knuts- ford.) When people come to visit me, And stay a fortnight, or to tea, I always tremble at the test Of my own powers to interest, But haven't got a dog, not one, ‘Do fall securely back upon. So I am careful to provide Various interests (outside): For instance, coffee in a tin, Or saucepan to make coffee in, With butter and a lot of nuts; And colored paper that one cuts Figures and mats out of; and books With moving pictures that one looks And laughs at; other books as well, ‘With songs to sing and tales to tell; Big beads to thread,on colored strings, Paints, crayons, and all sorts of things. Then when the People go away, Asking to come another day, I wander round the room and pick Up here a doll, end there a brick, Relieved that it has come about. Those people haven’t yet found out What an unintersting sham, What a dull dolt I really am. But when I find that book and bail And bricks, and even coffee, pail, And, all these interests on the shelf, I've nothing left except Myself— Before the people come, I'll jog To Bethnal Green and buy a Dog! TOMFOOL. MENTIONING THE MOVIES “Drums of Jeopardy.” Some occasional flashes of good acting are utterly wasted in this un- believably impossible strung-together movie hoakum. It has only one re- deeming feature, a negative one, but the only one—it deals with a Russian episode witnout throwing mud at the Bolsheviks. i The fateful “jools” are stolen from the Russian Grand Duke, recovered by his handsome American secrétary, carried across the ocean by his Ital- ian court violinist and turned over to the American banker, who repre- sents “His Highness” in Wall Street. The villain pursues the gems, kills the banker, casts suspicion on the handsome hero, which is dispelled on- ly in a sensational raid on the “Little Russia Cafe,” just in time for the final clinch. If the picture were shown in Rus- sia, especially the episodés purporting to deal with that country, they would cause no end of fun. The Czar’s jewel chambers are represented as a cellar easily entered from a tran- some opening on an unguarded street. All the handsome American has to do is to ride up on horseback, dive thru the transome, overpower the single bewhiskered guard, grab the jewels, and ride off and out of Russia just like that. -The Grand Duke is also very careless; all a gang of rough- necks have to do is to walk right in, wallop His Highness with a dog whip, whereupon tne jewels are turned over to them. Any suburbanite would take more precautions in guarding his home brew than do these screen nobles in matters of crown jewels. The least plausible combination of misinformation ever assembicu, not even rotten enough to be good. De- cidedly not worth wasting any time on, OUR BOOK REVIEW SECTION Accumulations of Capital. Development of industry thru reduc- tion of surtaxes on the rich, the steel trust and how Henry Ford gets his money aye some of the subjects dis- cussed in George Soule’s new pamp! let, “The Accumulation of Capital published by the League for Indus- trial Democracy, 70 Fifth avenue, New York. The pamphlet sells for 10 cents, twelve for $1. ; “The Denial of Civil Liberties in the Coal Fields,” by Winthrop Lane, has been published by George H. Doran for the L. I. D., the American Civil Liberties Union and other organiza- tions. It pictures the czarist rule of company managers and gunmen in company-owned towns. Besides the results of Lane’s investigations for the Chafee committee, reports of oth- er investigations are given, including the official report of the Federal Coal Commission, : Die For Profit. ‘ ALBANY, N. Y.—Menacing increas- es in industrial accidents in New York state is revealed in official statistics which . show 166 deaths from such causes in March. This is a new high record, More deaths resulted in that month in the metal industry and pub- lic utilities than in six preceding months, MOSCOW.—At the meeting of the Moscow Committee of the Russian Communist Party the following scale of party dues was adopted: Those receiving up to 76 rubles per month, pay % per cent; receiving from 75 to 120 rubles, pay 1 per cent; receiving over 120 rubles, pay 2 per cent. Fifty per cent of all dues goes to the mu- tual aid fund. .AS WE SEE IT Thursday, wiay’s, 1924 By T. J. O}FLAHERTY Judge Gary said that “public opin- ion” in abolishing the 12-hour day in steel shops, is costing the Steel Trust $35,000,000 a year and is adding 10 per cent to the cost of operation. However, the Judge is happy that they accomplished two things. They satisfied President Harding and met public sentiment. This satisfaction does not seem to have a very bene- ficial effect on the late president. Gompers agrees with Gary that pub- lic sentiment abolished the twelve- hour day in steel, but the Steel Trust continues to steal the greater part of the product of their labor from the steel slaves while Gompers gorges himself at Steel Trust banquets in- stead of organizing the steel work- ers. eee The election of 62 Communist de- puties to tne Reichstag, caused more consternation in the ranks of interna- tional capitalism than perhaps, any event since the Russian revolution. Behind these 62 deputies are at least 15,000,000 German workers, who favor the establishment of a Soviet Repub- lic. Such a prospect looks none too good to the plutes behind the Dawes plan. Will the German workers agree to the longer work-day required to pay the reparations demanded by the al- lies of Germany? Already we learn that practically ail the coal miners in the Ruhr are locked out because they refused to work longer hours. The capitalists ostensibly pay the repara- tions, but every dollar of it will be taken out of the bodies of the German working class unless they kick over the traces and take power into their own hands, ee eh “We have in office a Socialist gov- ernment, but the leaders of the gov- ernment are no more Socialistic than you and I are,” said Lord Birkenhead of England, addressing a Tory meet- ing recently. “Galloping” Smith should know. He is well acquainted with them. Arthur Henderson, for- mer secretary of the British Labor Party, now Home Secretary, justified the spying of the secret police at a recent meeting of the Communist Party of Great Britain. It should also be remembered that Mr. Hen@erson was in the Asquith cabinet when James Connolly, one of the keenest minds in the international Socialist movement, was executed by a British firing squad in Dublin, without a pro- test from Henderson, who posed as a Socialist. Lord Birkenhead knows what he is talking about in this in- stance. But we can tell the noble Lord that behind the fake socialists who are now leading British labor, are millions of exploited workers. These workers, like their comrades in Germany, will have their eyes opened gradually to the futility of the Mac- Donald-Henderson policy and will ral- ly to the Communist banner as the German workers are doing today, Lord Birkenhead will then be sorry he did not entertain friendlier feel- ings toward the yellow Socialists, 2. © : There is no form of employment safer for a man who is quick on the trigger in this city, than that of pro- fessional gunman and holdup man, on a large scale. While the police and all the law enforcement authorities are fast workers when it comes to putting striking workers behind the bars, a rum runner or gunman who gets into the celJ is considered such an extraordinary event that the pa- pers issue stop press editions, ~ Mr. Dion O’Bannion, the bootlegging: flor- ist, was arrested recently for making the body of Davy Miller, a repository for some lead, which Mr. O’Bannion squirted out of his revolver. Mr. Mil- ler surrendered to the pavement, whereupon, Mr. O’Bannion looked af- ter his business, but did not send his clients any flowers, He might have done so, but Mr. Miller recovered from the effects of the leaden hail, ane Oe Mr. O’Bannion was arrested and his defence was that he was of the opin- ion that Mr. Miller was itching to see howxmany bullets he could deposit in the aforesaid Mr. Miller's anatomy favorite undertaker. At the same time Mr. O’Bannion and a labor official, supporter of Samuel Gompers, were charged with holding up a beer truck. ‘They were arrested. The state claim- ed to have a good case against them. A gentleman by the name of Daugh- erty, was killed. The labor leader was under suspicion, Greatly wound- ter walked into the state’s attorney’s office and expressed his disappoint- ment that such foul suspicions snould be cast on a law-abiding person, such as he was. He had his picture taken with the States Attorney's staff. What more can be said? Much more could be said, but that is enough. When the cases of Messrs. O’Bannion and Com- pany came up in there, there were no witnesses present and the gentlemen went back to their business, free men, WASHINGTON.—Stark Boshevism is the term applied to the Norris-Sin- clair bill, by Aaron Sapiro, of conservative co-operative tions favored by the Farm bill, which is likewise before the Sen- ate as a measure for securing a fair price for the products of the American farm, is described as a monumental blunder. A. vote on each of these bills is anticipated in the Senate with. in a few weeks i without causing joy in the heart of his ed in his tenderest feelings, the lat- / SSE E TF AE NEREER EI ae ceEO