The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1924, Page 4

f | *~~—ihe standpat element might think of his accepting The Nationalist Party, especially, that cap j|Sam. If the middle class elements “name. Australia’s Real Problem Page Four THE DAILY WORKER ‘peice imemmenanrmnevseremtcontne THE DAILY WORKER. A Startling Contrast Saturday, May 10, 1924 | tc ae ting Contrast | /Senator Wheeler---The Montana Meteor 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. unseating of Rose Wortis, left winger, at the con- (Phone: Monroe 4712) By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. Bhar at the International Ladies’ Garment sane ey of the federal Judge | not the slightesf doubt but that the sussoniprion RATES Workers’ Convention, in Boston, and of the suc-|pirm speed with which Senator Bur- pehiaesk Mote ee majority are pleased with their choice mall: a i c ern verees $3.50..6 Sconthe $2.00...3 months |C°Ssful efforts of another left winger, Nathan} I ton K. Wheeler of Montana has|' whoeler refused. He likewise refus- | #24 that if he had to run for election flashed across the political firmament By mall (in Chicago only): ed to prosecute the strikers and the $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 months strike leaders unless actual law viola- tion could be shown and the federal Judge—George Boruquin—stood be- hind him. Judge Bourquin is a character that |e? and farmers of Montana except his deserves more than passing mention | hatred of the Anaconda Mining Com- it the environment that produced | pany and it is not hard to understand Wheeler is to be understood. Bourquin | how the keen edge of his enmity has is a lineal descendant of the French] been blunted by political expediency, Hugeonots; he is an aristocrat in the: association and class interest, for full meaning of the term and altho| after all Wheeler is middle class thru I have never spoken to-him I have the| and thru. He has no confidence in the impression that he has.a good deal} working class—the typical middle- of contempt for the working class. He | class attitude. Sone the coarse and uncultivated His Class Interests. millionaire class and in particular he His interests are those of the prop- hates the tactics and policies of the erty-owning class; he is worth at Anaconda Mining Company. least $100,000 and probably $200,000. His attitude all thru the war can He was raised in poverty but his early be explained only on this basis for he hardships have not made him hate the Was appointed to the position he now | capitalist system; they have. only holds because he was thought to be made him fear poverty and created in a “company” man and while a district /nim a passion for wealth and the judge he gave plenty of grounds for security that wedlth gives. tat Deliet if the stories of the old-!" That he is honest—outside of his mers are to lieved. Kings: ils cappolntinant aa. tedecal profession—I have no reason to doubt Judge, however, he has invariably— always within the law because he has never been reversed by a higher court —siven the company the worst of it. He fined one of the chief attorneys of the Anaconda. $500 after Wheeler had prosecuted him for tampering with a federal jury and in Montana at that time this was nothing less than blas- phemy and sacrilege-combined. this year he would be returned by a larger majority than he received a year and a half ago. Yet Wheeler has Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE) we aditors MORITZ J. LOE! ‘Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. that in a struggle where the issue was capitalism or communism, Wheeler uals like Palmer and Daugherty who, by their raids on the halls and homes of workingmen, violated the constitu- tion and he has done so to the best of his ability; he has not brought forward the class issues which were Two Incidents. and are the basis of all the campaigns When a deportation case growing | of governmental terrorisation and . uo out of an illegal raid on the I. W. W. | not believe that he could if he wanted hall was brought before Bourquin he|to; he looks upon such measures as dismissed it and in his written deci-| unconstitutional and is against them sion included the following obvious |for that reason. He is a Jeffersonian and sound advice to the defendants: democrat and sees as the cause for “The evidence shows that no |the evils of which the masses com- resistance, oral or otherwise, was | plain the abrogation by unscrupulous offered by the defendants altho the | individuals of the principles embodied Provocation justified resistance to jin the declaration of independence. the last dread extremity.” His rebellion against the big Montana When by some process or other, an- | capitalist interests has no theoretical other member of the Industrial Work- |foundation beyond those I have cited ers of the World was brought before | because Wheeler {fs not a student; if him for evading the “work or fight” |I remember correctly, Alf Budden and law after he had been farmed out by |I introduced him to The Nation and the sheriff of Cascade county, the| the New Republic, and he was much judge dismissed the case, told the de- Rosen, ‘in waging wee organization drive for the has been equaled only once in Amer- same union at Waukegan, Illinois. ican history—by William Jennings This must appear as a startling contrast to the rede whist : Sis i members of “The International.” A left winger was eh amie Ge AP OGHALDD eviote ae. is good enough to face injunction writs, get beaten|fecting millions of the workers and up on the picket line, thrown into foul police sta-|tarmers of the United States; he was tion cells, to do all the important and necessary jad ree cit canara Rain ana work of a strike. Rosen’s efforts have prevented | snancial crisis and like Wheeler, Bry- scab work being done in that city against the Chi-|an was and is middle class in thought cago strike, just as the Chicago left wingers have|and action: = 00 ‘Advertising rates on application, |Shouldered the burden of the Chicago struggle. tt bin beatin ver: te ead it: ee nee=| But-a left winger is‘not good enough, inthe boise) gabigerbe at ie a eyes of the Sigman dictatorship in the union, to}; goes mean that he does so bécause Real Fighters sit on joint boards, executive councils, and act as} of their political backwardness and for delegates in international conventions, where the|lack of more revolutionary leadership. What can be done by determined workers and|work of the organization is done, where policies} T° rasiribgper hens social forces that fighting leadership in defense of living standards|are determined and provisions made for carrying kackitly pic Meiers otis atic against the attacks of even such a powerful organ- them out. : that is almost without parallel in Bret f ital as the Pullman company is There is only one conclusion that can be Ameérican politics, to understand why a oe sa . ¢ , |drawn. It isn’t the loyalty to the union, the abili-|he is able to throw so much discredit shown by the brilliant strike now in progress in ty, the union activities that the Sigman reaction|pon the governmental machinery and the little empire owned by that corporation. |fears. It is the ideas of the left wingers, to which macata ane Peg sh alk bette The workers engaged in the struggle were un-" the Sigman officialdom is opposed. Amalagama-|trom Montana—the private property organized previous to the walkout; those who tion, shop councils, the all-inclusive class Farmer-|of Anaconda Mining Company—have came out at first were small in numbers, but were Labor Party,—these ideas challenge the rule of|led mveelins iene into corruption with- 4 have|?eaction thruout the entire labor movement. They canes sing any other than convention- not discouraged because of that Mee one paralyze Sigman as well as Gompers. It is because mM i. eee acne extended the strike and strike activities until the} they are faithful to these ideas that the left wing-|ine pict ha ae he cise giant industrial concern whose heads at first de-| erg feel. the heel of persecution and ostracism. spread revolt that is gaining headway nied even knowledge of the strike is now seriously Rose Wortis was unseated at the Boston. con-|in America. hampered and in a mood to negotiate with its} vention because her voice and vote would strength- The Background. former employes. y en the support of these vital issues. The immedi-| 1 Montana, one of the richest states The spirit of the strikers is such as to shame} ate excuse for robbing her of her convention pri- : ns gy by cig ae bes the timid and reactionary officials of the American vileges was that she had refused to file a declara- Meine tower eras By ae a 9 trade union movement who always raise the cry} tion with the General Executive Board that she|conda Mining Company, has had a free that they can do nothing because workers will not} was not a member of the Trade Union Educational |tiand for years, people fall into two fight. This spirit is an infallible refutation of League. But the Sigman dictatorship was so classifications—those who | are tor” that statement and proof that the Communist fearful of its rule that it gagged all discussion of and sot who are beg bq Fart left wing is right when it says that, given encour-| the real isses at, stake. The verdict was born of Mr bentty Taine, eaneaee Takin: agement and inspiration by the officials instead hysteria and prejudice. Sopeata: Meatbenouie par waibanare. of defeatism, the American labor movement can be] “In the meantime, the left wingers continue| Until the farmers’ revolt which be- built into a powerful ae by the same millions] their work on the organization’s frontiers. The ae in ped gah the mones ea be peoveny who are now unorganized. a membership will, in time, learn the important les-| 2% "ever Deen seriously challenged. The DAILY WORKER takes credit for a good/ son of this startling contrast of Rose Wortis, at ey Me eis aoe ple: itr deal of the activity displayed by the strikers and) Boston, and Nathan Rosen, at Waukegan. And|ed—later the Anaconda Copper Min. it knows that without the publicity it has furnish-| they" will throw their full weight on the ‘side of|ing Company—competition in the cop- ed the strike would have been a purely local issue.| progress, supporting the ideas that their present| Der industry was practically wiped out As it is, it is of national-importance when the} dictators fear. in Montana with the Clark properties | #2" dant. abun Hevea tne CNS ae an Lak soussiie wie Mtiataa in es capitalists are about to launch: another wage-cut- porno ie peepee: “ae American citizen to sue the sheriff ; effete east. ting campaign showing that in one huge industry Th F f C . Clark had to depend for his power |! damages and further advised him Wheeler's Viewpoint. the workers are not going to take reductions lying le Fear o ommunism transportation and water upon the A, |#8 to the approximate amount of dam-| jy talking over Wheeler’s qualifica- down. The German Fascisti parties, that made their|C. M. haste Hg gs iriencp tions and limitations with others I The copper press conducted a cam- paign against Wheeler and Bourquin that is without parallel in American life unless it is equalled by the bitter- ness of the abolitionist period. Wheeler was thought to be more vul- nerable than Bourquin and the attack was concentrated upon him. It was not confined to attacks upon his per- sonal integrity but took every con- ceivable form until it became an open demand for his life appearing simul- taneously in every daily in the state— in editorials and news stories—until the Butte Daily Bulletin was estab- lished. have said many times that his best asset from the workingclass point of view was his hatred of the practices of the Anaconda Mining Company and reviewing, as I write, his activities in Washington, I see no reason to revise this statement. Wheeler does not dislike the A. C. M. because it is a capitalist institu- tion and part of American capitalism. If it adopted a welfare system or al- lowed its employes to organize and dealt with the committees of the union—“recognized the union” in labor parlance—if it discontinued its policy of freezing out small mining operators and. bribing legislators—in other words, if it made concessions to the idea of competitive capitalism that Wheeler holds in common with other Jeffersonian democrats and LaFollette progressives, he would have rio quar- rel. with the company any more than Another feature of the strike is the refreshing} campaigns on an anti-Dawes plan platform, have| Te entire Montana labor movement iw, 5 62 ts . up until 1917 was controlled by the militancy of John Holmgren, one of the vice-pre-| suddenly changed their minds since the votes were Ls gna with the labor officials open- sidents of the Railway Carmen. This official seems | -ounted, and it became known that more than four|ly and shamelessly supporting the to be one of the few who are not afraid of what) nition ballots were cast for Communism. company’s political ang industrial pro- ii is which supported the company were the largest number of reichstag seats, and will be|corrupt, the labor officialdom was a - called on to form the new cabinet, toppled over |thousand times more so and it was towards the company as long as it refuses to meet) ender to the Dawes-Morgan Ping order | 2stural that the leadership ot:Cia acay- the demands of the men as well as a disposition hay stk fie i of the Ce ‘en Catho.|‘eed insurgent movement should fall to fight it out in a militant manner. A trade}. hei pastas Xe kde ot wmae es mn (Catho- into the hands of lawyers whose per- union movement with a fewofficials as close to| /#<) and the People’s (Stinnes) parties. sonal injury practice brought them in- the actual struggle as Holmgren is would amount This means that the Communists stand alone in|to conflict with the company. to something. We do not wish to be understood | °PPosition to the plan to bring the German work- ot Leh oag oe papeh < a 5. " 0) as sponsoring his political beliefs—as a matter of|¢"S under the lash of the House of Morgan. The] gutte in 1911 and a socialist adminis. fact we do not know what they are—but certainly German Fascisti have shown, like their counter-|tration was elected in that city only if one labor official in this decadent period of the| parts in other countries, that they love Morgan-|to be thrown out of office in 1914, trade union movement has the courage to chal-| Wall Street rule most when the danger of Com-|When the militia was brought in dur- ight of a corporation like the Pullman] munist supremacy threatens. Stinnes made his ing a Lasts nad benetel eee lenge the might Pi FP y the miners’ union caused largely by company and the ability to build an organization} deals with the French industrialist, Loucheur, to|the corruption of the union officialdom. in the face of its bitter opposition, he deserves] keep the workers in the Ruhr in submission. But|From then until 1917—up to the time some credit if only for the sake of contrast with| Ruhr labor showed its stand Sunday by voting|°f the great strike of the miners and the great majority of officialdom. Communist almost unanimously. Since all. the Deh wag fk tho Mines a Ae If the whole labor movement would rally to the| anti-Communist parties in Germany are now show-|ture and in the courts, support of the Pullman strikers—raise the slogan| ing such affection for the American billionaire, it| Wheeler is a personal injury lawyer of 100 per cent pcre that plant—such| is taken for granted that the tremendous Com-|@nd a Mini en io ho was al- an organization could uilt. munist showing last Sunday is only the beginning; |°° Couns! for @ number of the more Unfortunately the American ed movement} that new masses wiJl continually rally to the lead- iad Upcaaty, it wt ae peytond has not yet reached that state of development and ership of the German Communist Party. pany ‘itself, at least of the legal and until it does the Communist left wing and DAILY German capitalism, as well as the money power |Political staff which handled its af- WORKER will give the best it has in pe yr eal that sits enthroned in Paris, London and Wall fairs. organizers and those unions who show that they] gi root j know how to fight and will fight. > aa plier bate adiggy 3 Aun Pomay The Pullman strikers and John Holmgren, iso- <TR will beth meh Gen » pirat Iie bri f the American labor moye-|. ea . vinane more fete he fees oe the, grip of foreign reaction. This is daily becoming Some idea of the power of the Ana- conda Mining Company in Butte, and ment, waging a singlehanded struggle against a]© gigantic industrial monopoly, present a picture ‘l@arer to all German labor. Hence the rapidly thruout the state can be gained from ®-onsideration of the fact that in Silver Bow county—where Butte, the that is food for thought for those who realise the @PPToaching and complete triumph of Communism necessity, if further progress is to be made, of ai” Germany. labor movement that is something more than a support from the left wing and his attitude in this strike is one of uncompromising hostility Added Frenzy. This served to cag the fury of the local capitalists their tools in and out of the labor Movement. All of this time the strike was going on, Butte was filled with gunmen and mili- tiamen who knew that a quick rise to fame and asurfeit of gratitude from | he has a quarrel with the Kevin-Camp- the patriots could be had by murder-| pei] ofl concern, for which he is ing Wheeler and a few individuals | eounsel, if like myself. Emergency measures! jp g recent number of the Labor taken following the murder of Frank Age—the official organ of the League Little were all that prevented an ex- for Indusrial Democracy—Wheeler has tension of the terror. set forth his views of workingclass The Bulletin staff and Wheeler were parliamentary tactics; very frankly he haled before the state council of de-) states his belief that better results fense composed of the governor—a can be obtained by non-partisan po- copper tool—and 10 other copper lack- litical action—supporting “friends of eys. Wheeler was censored and the!j,nor" on the two capitalist party basis laid for the prosecution of my- tickets. I said he spoke frankly but self and other members of the Bulletin |r think that this is not quite correct; staff. I was arrested and then kid- “4 napped from Butte, finally brought to |“e*tally he Drefers that the “tress trial in a hostile county for sedition democrat party for the very obvious Sud: Wheeler defended m6. :1 wae.cone] or enact’ victory for the democrat victed and he was then forced to re- party opens out a political vista for sign. iv hav The Political Struggle. Rife toad Sttsache wie teks usec After the war he ran for governor |iixe a common criminal by the press and was defeated following a cam-|of a section of the,most powerful paign marked by such incidents as | group of industrial capitalists in the his being besieged in a small railway | world, Wheeler is ambitious and from depot by American legionaires andthe pinnacle to which he has been custom of the company up to a few|Tescued by armed members of the /raised by force of circumstances— years to pay a monthly retainer to| World War Veterans. Two years later |circumstances which are the result every lawyer in Silver Bow county the {he was elected to the United States) of the clash of social forces that he moment he passed the bar examina-|Senate and has attained the highest | will be one of the last to understand— tion—if he would accept it and most | Pinnacle of fame measured by news-|he has seen the very beautiful world of them did. Those who did not and|Paper standards—his name is publish- | that belongs to those who enjoy great who ventured to oppose the company |@d without explanation as to who or | political power in the republic. He in the courts acquired a reputation for | What he is. will stay with his class and with the radicalism automatically and without | Wheeler was elected by the workers |party of his class and he will be any inquiry being made into their po- wrecked with that party and that litical and economic beliefs. class by the same forces that, vaguely The War Period. understood by the workers and farm- largest metal mining camp in the world, is located—not one single de- cision has ever been rendered against the company in a personal injury case —no court has ever decided against the company in all of the thousands of cases of loss of life and limb that have occurred in the mines. It was the . : The combined war and domestic debt of the com- Bessarabia Is Russian monwealth of Australia amounts to over $900 per It did not matter to the framers of the Ver-|capita. This means that every man, woman and sailles peace that Bessarabia was Russian. The child in Australia in addition to subsistence must rights of self-determination were ground under-|be exploited for at least enough to pay interest on foot here, as everywhere else, by the Paris treaty|* debt that has been saddled upon the masses by makers. the British and Australian capitalists. The work- Nearly six years after the war ended, however, ingclass of Australia works for the finance-eap- the rumblings of a new war are heard along the|italists and compared with this problem that of Dniester River. At least Russia stands ready to| keeping Australia white, sinks into significance. fend the rights of the Bessarabian population| The bugaboo of the “yellow peril” is doubtless} Wheeler was one of this small group ers of Montana in blind revolt against teat the iisiaien oppressors. of great assistance to the imperialists in keeping |404 it was with the reputation of be- trolly Peles] rie : iad The city workers and farmers of Bessarabia|the more important matter of who owns Australia cde epotinedlor se, ‘Dnlted States prong shpeu andere driving them have shown, in many ways, that it is their desire|from becoming of too much interest to the Austra-| nistrict Attorney. War was declared first to class political organization to become a part of the Union of Soviet Repub-|lian workingclass. It works rather well in Cali-|in april and early in June, following and'then onward to a goal far beyond lies. Aiea oa, however, is raised the bloody |fornia at any rate. the smothering to death of 164 men that to which the Wheelers, Brook- fist of Roumanian fascisti rule, backed by France in Speculation disaster, the gen- . |harts, LaFollettes and other middle- class elements are willing to travel. and the Little Entente. ‘The flames of war again| “The European Commercial,” that announces sintueion son nts pater Wiese * | In a word, Senator Burton K. ten the Balkans. But not in local, nation-| itself as “an organ of world-wide commerce,” with hi Wheeler, the Montana meteor, is a alistie wars. It is a test of strength between the|its home in Washington, D. ©. calls for the teey of tes badnetehr re ri product of the instability of American Soviet Rule of Moscow, the friend of oppressed | organization of a “Capitalist International” to off-| The company officials immediately capitalism, a period marked by the peoples everywhere, and World Imperialism, that|set international organization of the workers and|demanded that Wheeler turn his of- dissolution of the American capitalist two-party system of parliamertary Poor Fish says: That it is a|government, consequent upon the widening breach between the interests of the working class and the capi- talists. “He is the product of a transition pe- seeks to enslaye all nations under its profit rule. |farmers. Can it be that this sheet has never heard bined at ih aipkandtie Seetarvoat Let the workers of all nations, the United States|of the House of Morgan, just about all the inter- was a command such as the copper |sad day for America when the forced in particular, watch the developments around Bes-| national organization that world capitalism needs. | monarchs were accustomed to deliver- | resignation of William J. Burns allows sarabia. They may closely affect them in the very | Someone had better call up “J. P.” and put him|ing and having obeyed without ques- cals to have the laugh on all near future, wise to this heresy, tion, It was really not an unusual de- nothing in common with the work- would be with the capitalists. He pledged himself to discredit individ- mand because with one other excep-,and farmers of Montana and I have] riod in which the workers and farmers have rallied to middle-class progres- sives because they were unready as yet to accept a revolutionary program and leadership. AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY We are informed by the business leaders of America that 1924 will be a year of unexampled prosperity for American business. These predictions are indulged in at the twelfth annual convention of the United States Cham- ber of Commerce. It would be a Chamber of Labor. However, that is scanty consolation for the millions of “dirt farmers” who are bankrupt un- der capitalist rule in the great North west. It would be a funny thing if the farmers got a little sense all of a sudden and vented it on the pluto- cracy, eee Another banker said that the growth of bank deposits was golden testimony to the prosperity under which the capitalists are enjoying happiness and the workers poverty. any more than I have reason to doubt}, . Chicago statistician blamed the farmer for most of our cares. “When the farmer stops producing the flap- per on Broadway stops eating.” The capitalists don’t stop eating so soon, tho. Another banker said the Dawes plan would bring the United States more foreign trade than it had in years and that would in turn stimulate do- mestic exchange. Thus we can feel the hairy hand of Esau despite the al- truistic voice of the liberal Jacob. If the capitalist class could turn the workers and farmers of America into Robots, physically as well as mentally, a heavy load would be taken off their chests. Instead, the “dirt farmers” and the industrial workers are getting ready to pile dirt on the coffin of capi- talism. see Hiram Johnson is not howling as loudly as he used to over the danger threatening this blessed nation, the danger of getting mixed up in the in- ternal affairs of the Gol-darned bank- rupt, imperialistic, Godless, money- less, old nations of Europe. The Dawes plan, which normally could be counted on to produce at least half a dozen Johnsonian fits, on the con- trary did not. bring forth a stuawk from the political “Wild Bull .of the Californian Pampas.” Johnson \start- ed out to lick Coolidge, He posed as a progressive. Unfortunately he was not able to prove that he was suffi- ciently different from Coolidge to warrant anybody getting excited over it. Wrigley, of chewing gum fame, was his original backer. The DAILY WORKER labelled Johnson the “Chewing Gum candidate” and his bandwagon got stuck. In other words, the works got gummed up. Wrigley withdrew his dough and from then on Johnson’s oratory did not seem to avail him any. Money is more elo- quent than speech. He was badly beaten by Coolidge in the California primaries. A silent man with dough can beat the most eloquent but pen- niless orator that ever lived, in a primary glection. It should be remem. bered that Johnson is mainly respon‘ sible for keeping Tom Mooney in jail. er Fe Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, one of the wealthiest men in the United States asks a veto on the sol- diers’ bonus bill which was passed by the Senate. He claims the measure would be a menace to American indus- try. The president is expected to veto the bill, but it may be passed over his veto. And it may not. Capitalist politicians like to please the “common people” who like bonuses.’ They also like to please the money classes who can afford to give them the luxuries of life. Retaining the confidence of the voters and the dough of the em- ployers is the aim of Democrat and Republican politicians, awe American workers went to France | and braved German bullets, trench lice, and the Y. M. C. A. for $30 a month to save the investments of the American bankers. Since the end of the war they have been rewarded with eulogies and decorations, but no cash. While they were at the front, the millionaires were some three thosand miles in the rear making new fortunes. Yet we find many of the returned soldiers aiding these same capitalists that sent them to stop Ger- man bullets, and making war on radi- cal organizations that would prevent another capitalist war. It is safe to say, however, that the great majority of the ex-soldiers are thoroly disilu- sioned and are not in sympathy with the strike-breaking American Legion. *-e @ The Polish cabinet may pass ‘a law limiting the freedom of speech of the President of Poland. President Woj- ciechowski recently made two speech- es which could be interpreted as rec- ommending an imperialistic policy, cabinet in handling the utterances of the king. One of the prime minister's office boys writes the speech, and the king obediently delivers it. To a certain extent the same is true of some American presidents. In lieu of that we suggest that Poland exchange presidents with the United States, Calvin would not cause the Polish cabinet any trouble and we would have a lot of fun trying to get our tongue around. the new president's | name. ;