The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 13, 1924, Page 6

i Pa OE eB SP oS IO EO Po RSS eee yo ‘ & hs } Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., 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 po Ae bee RA EYEE DS Ee Se ESS Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1413. W. Washingtan Bivd. $6.00 per year Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE) “"" MORITZ J. LOEB... + Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. << 290 “The Amalgamated” Meets It is not exaggerating to say that every conven- tion of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America turns some new page in the history of the American labor movement. And every new page has had some new, inspiriting story written upon its surface. Last year the Russian-American Industrial Cor- poration was launched, thru which “The Amal- gamated” organized its aid to the needle industry in. Soviet Russia. The achievements of the “R. A. I. ©.” during the past year, has been one of the big inspirations, not only to the workers in the needle trades, but to the whole advance section of the American labor movement. It is to be hoped that such another new page and such another encouraging story will be the out- come of the present convention of “The Amalga- mated,” now meeting in Philadelphia. Tt can be done thru the convention taking an un- compromising and undivided stand for the Na- tional Farmer-Labor Party Convention to be held at St. Paul, Minn., June 17th. The value of send- ing delegates to St. Paul would be greatly lessened by also flirting with the nondescript gathering of July 4th, at Cleveland, Ohio. It was ip a recent issue of “The Advance,” the official organ of “The Amalgamated,” that an editorial appeared headed, “A Labor Party—Not a Third Party.” The spirit of that editorial expres- sion demands that “The Amalgamated” go to St. Paul and not to Cleveland. It may be that. “The Amalgamated” would be the only large international union to go to St. Paul. If this develops, then “The Amalgamated” can only be proud of the pioneering work it is do- ing. Its delegates were at the July 3rd Confer- Advertising rates on application. ‘all other industries. ence in Chicago, last year, and the delegates to the convention of “The Amalgamated,’ at Philadel- ._Pphiq, must know that it is the forces, organized at Chicxgo last year, that are shouldering the big struggle for a class political party of the workers and farmers of the United States. St. Paul will see the gathering of the labor party forees. The third party elements will go to Cleve- land. “The Amalgamated” is a class organization. Its delegates must go to St. Paul. A Worthy Task There is only one German publication, a weekly, the Arbeiter-Zeitung of Chicago, left in the land that displays any sympathies for the Socialist Party in this country, and for the Social-Demo- cracy in Germany. And that sympathy seems to have undergone considerable change since the re- cent elections in Germany. “If the loss of nearly half of the Socialist seats is to be. regretted,” says the publication, “there is cause, on the other hand, for rejoicing in the fact that the loss benefitted -the Communists.” These are words of confession, indeed, from a source that has gained its inspiration these past years from the Hilquits, Bergers and other bitter anti-Communist socialists. .The Arbeiter Zeitung admits a long trail of German socialist failure, from the day the Kaiser was overthrown, in the following words: “One thing the election should teach the Ger- man workers and that is, not to repeat the mis- takes made since the November revolution, of 1918; the mistake of compromise with the cap- italist class. We repeat what we have been teach- ing for decades, ‘The liberation of the working class can be achieved only by the working class itself.’” l Since even this socialist organ now admits, what Communists have always contended during the whole struggle of the German workers for power, then there is no excuse for the thinking among the German workers of this country to re- main outside the ranks of organized Communists. They should immediately get into the Workers Party. The best way for America’s German speak- ing workers to prevent the mistakes of the German social-democracy being repeated in this country is to completely repudiate the American Socialist Party. The Arbeiter-Zeitung, if it believes in its editorial expression, should join in the effort to accomplish this worthy task. “And the same rea- soning applies to the outlook before the workers of all other nationalities. Mayor Curley, the Tammany Hall mayor of Bos- ton, handed a golden key to the city to President Morris Sigman, of the International Ladies’ Gar- * ment Workers’ Convention in session there. But this kind of a key will give the workers no aid in unlocking their problems. That will only come thru intelligent action of the union’s members, irrespective of the reactionary and disruptive policies of the union's officials. The Illinois Minets Meet The DATLY WORKER warmly greets the Peoria Convention of the Illinois Mine Workers, and thruj it the 100,000 organized coal miners of the entire state. The gathering that assembles today has problems before it, just as large in scope ‘as those that confront many international unions. In fact, the number of organized mine workers in Illinois outstrips by far the total membership of the ma- jority of international unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The United Mine Workers of Illinois constitutes the largest district unit within the miners’ inter- national union. What the Illinois miners decide, therefore, has a tremendous influence on the ac- tivities of the whole international. Big issues are up for decision this week. The appointive power of the Farrington administra- tion will be under fire. The rank and file wants to elect its spokesmen. Illinois miners will again be called upon to take action on the reinstatement of Alex Howat, expelled president of the Kansas District. The coal miners of this state can be depended on to stand 100 per cent with Alex Howat against the boss rule of International President John L. Lewis. In fact, Lewis himself, will be on trial for his refusal to give Howat a hearing at this year’s convention of the interna- tional at Indianapolis. And the alliance of -Presi- dent Frank Farrington with the Lewis machine against Howat will also go on the grill. Insfact, the Peoria gathering ought to be such another rank and file demonstration as the Kansas coal miner's staged recently in their state, at Pittsburgh, at their district convention, when the Lewis spokes- men, repeatedly defeated, left in disgust, allowing “the men from the picks” to carry on their’ own business. And they did. Action will also be taken against the Ku Klux Klan. It is hoped that this will be decisive, a re- sounding repudiation of the flirtation with the Klan carried on by International President Lewis. There is unemployment rampant, not only in the coal industry of Illinois, but thruout the na- tion. This is another problem, out of which grows the wage cutting efforts of the bosses. Unemployment and wage cutting are two issues that link up the coal miners with the workers in But the Illinois miners should, and to a very great extent they do, con- sider all their problems from the standpoint of the welfare of the whole labor movement. It is, therefore, to be expected that the Illinois miners will take definite action, not only on the gathering at Peoria, next Sunday, of the class Farmer-Labor forces of the state, but also on the mass National Farmer-Labor Convention to be held in St. Paul, Minn., June 17th. We greet the delegates to the Peoria Miners’ Convention as militant warriors of the workers against the whole capitalist class. The decisions of the convention will show how well they have learned to fight. * After Five Years Five years ago the convention of the Interna- tional Furriers’ Union met in Chicago, a united organization, militant in spirit, proud of its achievements, and with enthusiasm for the future. This week another convention of the Furriers’ Union is being held in Chicago. Unity has been mutilated under the blows of the fascist club of the yellow socialist reginfe that maintains with force its seat in the administration saddle. The militant spirit has been put in a straight jacket, insofar as this has been possible, while the out- look for the future is marred by the prospect of new struggles with the reactionary officialdom, in- stead of a.united assault against the bosses. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, at Boston, has its Sigman, and the Fur- riers’ Union has its Kaufman. Both of these are a blight upon progressive action of the workers in the needle trades. In spite of all the efforts of Kaufman’s dictator- ship, to exclude all semblance of opposition in this year’s convention, there will be dissenters to face reaction and sound the appeal of progress. It is time that Mussolini rule in the Furriers’ Union, as in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’. Union, came to an end. Let the dele gates to the convention realize that this year is a good time to end it. One By One They Fall The British government is planning to turn ‘he old imperial Russian embassy in London oyer to the Soviet Delegation. Vladimir Sablin, czarist diplomat, has been allowed to maintain possession for the seven years since the czar fell, but the changing order has now dispossessed him. He must get out. Thus the tentacles of the old czarist regime are élipped, one by one. Russian Soviet rule has secured possession of similar embassies in Rome, Berlin and other Huropean capitols. One by one the citadels of the czarist reaction fall into the hands of the Soviets. Where the agents of Nicholas plotted foreign alliances with capitalist powers, the Soviet representatives will now keep open house for the workers and farmers, in the nations of the oppressed. Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, announces that the steel No doubt he has been reading about the stabborn fight of the car builders of the Pullman Company, who objected to having their wages slashed by this powerful corporation, that gets its inspiration trust is not contemplating cutting wages. from the steel profiteers, “Liberty” is the name of a new weekly issued by, We should say “Liberty” the Chicago Tribune. to think as the Tribune tells you to think, THE DAILY WORKER ERY few workers are aware of the fact that there is a socialist con- gressman in Washington. If we are any judge, the voicé of Victor L. Ber- ger is not heard far beyond the neigh- borhood of his own desk in the House of Representatives’ office building. Which in some ways is a pity. Because if a larger number of workers could hear the voice of the Milwaukee so- cialist, we are very sure there would be many more Communists. If the workers know “Vic” Berger is in congress, fewer still know that the editor of the Milwaukee Leader, this lone surviving socialist daily, de- livered a speech the other day to his fellow congressmen, It appears inthe Congressional Record under the high sounding title, “A Survey of Our Po- litical and Economic Conditions.” And we have received a copy of it. eee EORGE Washington, surveying Virginia and Pennsylvania in the early days of the colonies, in an effort to steal as much land as possible from the Indians, didn’t allow himself more latitude and longtitude than “Vic” Berger in his speech, as he dipped in- to all the problems confronting the human race. It was only after he had waded thru some 8,000 words that his impatient fellow-congressman from Wisconsin, Mr, Nelson, rose to in- quire: “Will the genleman please tell us what the Socialist Party really stands for—give us something of an outline of the party’s principles.” It was only then that Berger con- descended to use up about 200 words in an effort to tell what the Socialist Party stood for. This was in effect that, “The Socialist Party stands for the collective ownership and demo- cratic management of all the social means of production and distribution.” e ‘HIS reply is typical of Berger’s whole speech, which is really a study in pathos. Berger could have made pretty much the same reply, and probably did,’ when someone asked him what the People’s Party stood for, when he attended its convention as a delegate in St. Louis, Mo., in 1896, before he helped organize the Social- Democratic and then the Socialist Par- ties. Berger’s speech in congress stands with Gompers’ political proclamation for the American Federation of Labor, in showing that neither man has ad- vanced in thought, let alone in action, in spite of the great upheavals that have taken place over the world these past ten years. And they both join in an opposition duet to the effect that: “I am absolutely opposed to Com- munism.” . os & /ERGER’S speech was a pathetic one. He announced that he is not bothering much what is going to hap- pen after the socialist party has ac- complished the taking over of a few trusts, “because that is a pretty large program.” ‘ And then this confession: “I gave Lenin six months for his ex- periment when he took control in No- vember, 1917, but it has lasted six years, and it may last another sixty.” These are words that fall from the lips of a man more than 64 years old. On the brink of the grave he shows he has no faith in the onward march of his ownecause, and with palsied hand, he vents his wrath upon the thing he hates—COMMUNISM. His whole speech is a warning to capitalism against Communism. If the U.S. autocracy will not repeat the mis- takes of the czarist autocracy, he ar- gues, then it will be safe from Com- munism. | am not a Communist and have never agreed with Lenin,” declared Berger in congress. “‘More- over, I would rather use a hundred years to bring about a new. world, a better world by evolution, with all the blessings of civilization, than bring it about by the bloody revolution.” Which would indicate that the ex- school teacher Berger needs a few elementary lessons in the definition of the two words “evolution” and “revolution.” But instead, Berger continues with the usual broadside against hhe Soviet regime, concluding with, “In America also we shall soon have to decide the question whether the English or the Russian method is to be followed. What is it to be—a MacDonald or a MacLenin?” Berger made his speech before the recent elections in Germany. Other- wise he would have had the answer of the workers of Germany, who have had half a century’s trial of Berger’s brand of socialism in all its phases. In connection with his speech Berger published in the Congressional Rec- ord a table showing the parliamentary representation of the socialists in the various countries. Germany he lists with 173 seats in the reichstag. But the workers revised that a week ago by cutting the socialist representation in half and turning it over to the Com- munists. The German workers will give Berger a lot of this “peaceful evolution.” And they'll give him real revolution, too. + a\6 ‘HE German workers set the pace for labor in other lands outside Rus- sia. The British workers will follow their example. They will in time put their stamp of disapproval on the Mac- Donald regime, that urges increasing the British navy to defend British im- perialism, that threatens force against the restless and oppressed masses of India, Egypt and other colonial de- pendencies, that seeks to arouse the backward peoples of Afghanistan in Asia against Soviet Rule in Russia, and that is an instrument for breaking strikes at home. Just as socialists in all parliaments are an ally of capitalism against Com- munism,~so Berger in congress warns his fellow republican and democratic spokesmen of Wall Street, that: “Poverty is the mother of misery and the grandmother or revolutions. Again I say, then, genttemen, our main fight ought to be to combat po- verty. Poverty is a curse. Poverty is the mother of ignorance, of crime and disease. Poverty is dangerous to every body, but it is especially dangerous to the ruling class.” : 2 @ ERGER is like the bird in the jungle that warns the hippopo- tamus, uncouth monster of primeval places, of the approach of his enemies. Berger tries to warn capitalism of its enemy—Communism. But there is a big difference. The hippopotamus, lumbering along, has a chance of es- cape. But the capitalist system is here and it can’t get away, it cannot escape, except thru its complete ex- termination. All the dangers that Berger warns capitalism against are inherent in it— graft, corruption, war, militarism, child labor and all the rest. Capital- ism cannot escape from them, any more than pre-war socialism can es- cape from the treason to the working class inherent in it, and that is work- ing daily for its complete elimination from the fteld of the class struggle. se 6 UT Berger rattles on. Corruption must be eradicated, in his own words, in the name of “the beautiful Some Allies Against Communism scenery of Wisconsin,” and of his “admiration for the First District of Wisconsin that sent him to Congress.” Berger hit the Mellon tax bill, the housing shortage, child labor, the com- ing unemployment, the Teapot graft- ers in both parties, the world war, the bi-partisanship of Wall Street, and then offered this advice to the old party representatives of Big Business: “If you want to defend property and make sure of property rights—and that, gentlemen, seems to be your aim —see to it that everybody in our coun- try gets property.” A plea that the big profiteers divide a little of their swag with the workers and farmers—a flivver and a free pass to the movies for the city workers, perhaps, with a few acres of unmort- gaged ground, and an extra Sears- Roebuck catalog for farmers. Berger cites the “6,000,000 peasant owners in France now,” but somehow fails to show how French capitalism is im- mune from Communism as he claims under his, scheme. The big capitalists would laugh at Berger’s “dividing up” scheme. No doubt some of them are laughing at it now. se 8 ERGER’S speeth is a confession that the socialist party is not a class party, that he does not pretend to speak for the robbed and exploited workers and farmers. He was most blunt about this when he said: Tuesday, May 13, 1924 By J. Louis Engdahl ter how many rambling speecties he may be permitted to make in congress, because there is no power on ear' that can stop the growing masses workers and farmers from marchit to world victory under the standart of Communism. Capitalism has had its day! So has Berger! They will pass together, al- lies to the last—AGAINST COM- MUNISM. ~ AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY Count Salm Von Hoogstraeten may not be an early riser and according to the early-bird-early-worm philosophy of Benjamin Franklin, the Count and a hearty breakfast would not on very intimate terms, as a general rule. But Von Hoogstraeten, hereafter known as the Count, never heard of Benjamin so he kept on staying in bed until two o'clock in the afternoon and spending the rest of his time getting br married to ladies of charm and wb chritude plus wealth. When the ph turned into a minus so did the Count. if we As a result he had hardly fingers i enough to count his wives on, | * 8 «@ f He was very ambitious and decided | to make his mark in the world. He | did not join a Rotary Club or Associa- “There is so little difference be- tween the socialists and the progres- sives, and the so-called radicals of every description, that I cannot un- derstand why they do not get to- gether.” And again: “There is not much difference be- tween honest progressives and the socialists. .. . . There is virtually no reason why honest progréssives should stay out of the socialist party.” eee LL of which has put the Bergers PXand the Hillquits, with their so- ‘cialist party in a dilemma. While they flirt around with*the alleged progres- sives, these remain in the old parties, while the thinking workers and farm- ers are demanding a class Farmer-La- bor Party. It is thus.that the mem- berless socialist party goes to the progressive convention at Cleveland, July 4th, while all class consgious elements turn to St. Paul, for the Whe 17th Farmer-Labor gathering. a ad OST pathetic of all is the fact that Berger, in his speech, and else- where, tries to traffic with the 20-year prison sentence imposed upon him for alleged violation of the espionage act. His declaration sounds like the out- bursts of Edwin Denby, deposed secre- tary of the navy, the other day, that if he had to choose between being shot and repudiating his part in the Teapot Scandal, he would rather be shot. But there is no danger of that. So with the Milwaukee socialist. Referring to his trial and conviction, he confesess, “If I- had to do it over again, I would do it all over again, as sure as my name is Victor Berger.” But capitalism will not trouble Ber- ger again. He is safe, for them. * e * ‘VENTS during the past five years, since Berger joined with others in expelling the Communists from the socialist party, have shown that Ber- ger was inspired by pro-Germanism during the war, and since, rather than by anti-capitalism. During the war Berger wanted to save,German supremacy from Wall a Now.he wants to save Wall ‘eet from Communism. He lost dur- ing the war because world imperialism is more powerful than narrow nation- alism. And he will lose again, no mat- Literature - - Music - - Drama By ALFRED V, FRANKENSTEIN. The annual prize contest of the Chi- cago Musical College was held at Orchestra Hall last Saturday night. There were two prizes for pianists, one for violinists and one for singers. Joe Harding won the violin prize, Harold Strong and Dorothy Kendrick the piano prizes, and Arlene Durkee Sad State, West Virginia. To the DAILY WORKER: I have done my very best to get subscribers for the DAILY. WORKER, but have made no success, The people here are in very bad shape. There has been no work for some time, I have showed my friends the paper. Everybody says it is a fine paper. And so long as I can get a dollar I will neyer be without the DAILY WORK- ER, as my wife and I know it is one of the best papers ever printed. It sure does give the straight news. The first DAILY WORKER I read was given me by my friend Martin Alapic, He WORKER. Will close wishing you much suc- cess. Your faithtul DAILY WORKER readers, Mr. and Mrs. George Gurko- vich, Box 76, Handley, W. Va. Canadian Farmers Broke To the DAILY WORKER: THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS is a reader of the DAILY T am the vocal award, It is noteworthy that of the nine contestants only two were men, and also noteworthy that both men won first prizes. The violinists each played the first movement of the Spanish symphony by Edward Lalo. It is called a Spanish symphony probably because it is so distinctly and unmistakably French in character. Like so many French works sorry to return the enclosed list, It is not possible to get subs for any- thing here. There are no wages paid here, and the farmers are hopelessly in debt. I pass my own copy around always but I cannot get a sub. Yours truly, W. TRUSCOTT, Blackfoot, Al- berta, Morgan Passes the Buck. NEW YORK, May 12.—J. P. Morgan found it more agreeable and safe to discuss how he and his wife got back without their passports than to ex- plain what part he had in the propos: ed allied loan to Germany under the Dawes plan of reparations, After he had arrived on the Homeric, he timated that since the United government was“hot to participate in floating half of the Proposed loan, J. P. Morgan & Co. was the private firm most likely to take over the issue for disposal, for instrumental solos, it contains bits of music here and there, and the rest is tuneless and foolish technical dis- play. The Grieg piano concerto which fol- lowed is quite different. It is a big and powerful work, conceived not as a solo with orchestra accompaniment, but as an integrated composition, in which orchestra and piano play equal- ly important parts. The second piano prize was award- ed for the best performance of a con- certo by Xaver Scharwenka. The two movements played by each contestant contain in them the same sort of briliant tunes that made Scharwenka popular with his “La Paloma.” Hach singer sang a different oper- atic aria, Miss Durkee, the winner, sang the familiar “Kegnst Du das Land” in Thomas “Mignon.” The other arias were from “The Prophet” by ledetin and Verdi's “The Favor- ite.” Judging a contest of this kind is no easy job, So much weeding out has occurred beforehand that the final contestants are pretty evenly matched. The violinists and singers present dif- ferences in tone quality, which the ists do not, all have differ- in int .» There is gen- erally little difference in» technical ability shown. Judgment must be on the basis of tone, for violinists and vocalists, interpretation, and that scarcely defineable quality known ag musicianship, The judges were Fred- erick Stock, Leopold Auer, Rudolph Ganz, and Herbert Witherspoon. tion and decided to use his feet in- stead of his head. Armed with two slippery hoofs he finally glided his way into the affections of Millicent Rogers, daughter of Col, H. H. Rogers of New York, Standard Oil Company millionaire, ee © In the meantime thousands of Amer- ican slaves, some of them members of the Ku Klux Klan, American Legion and the Masonic Order were sweating out thousands of dollars for the cof- fers of the Standard Oil Company. Millicent Rogers and her Count were tossing these dollars across French barns in return for snappy cocktails. With their dainty feet on the rail and inspired by the spiritual pabulum, the pair mated and presented old mil- lionaire Rogers with a fait accompli. The Colonel did not like it worth a darn, but the Count was on the in- side track, . * . ‘American workers were slaving for By" a few dollars a day for Standard if) Princess, but the Count using modi technique, was making more per hour than any New York Times brick- layer flying to work in tne morning in his modish airplane ever dreamed of. The Count was deeply in love. Who would not under the circumstances? Old man Rogers tried to frighten him away from his feminine 1eapot Dome, but the Count had his leases in good condition and furthermore claimed squatter’s rights. Denby and Archie Roosevelt with a squad of marines could not drive him off his reserva- tion. ¢ 6.0.2 Finding that force was of no avail, realizing that unless he got rid of the Count, he probably would have to sup- port half the population of Austria in a few years who might claim rele, tionship with his son-in-law, the Ofl § King finally decided to talk moneyy—_ The Count figured the time he spe ¢ on Miss Rogers and greser.ted tl Colonel with a bill for $100,000. This the Colonel gladly paid and left for America carrying his more or less damaged princess wits him. After all a man who wants to get along in this | world can do so provided he is am- | bitious. .Here is an excellent lesson | for American workers. Any good American worker may become presi- | dent or marry his boss’s daughter. WBS Promises of adventure more allur- ing than those held out to would-be world travelers, in the well-known navy recruiting poster, “Join the navy and see the world,” are suggested in the plans to enlarge the United States coastguard service in conformity with the president’s crusade for the en- forcement of the Prohibition amend- ment. The men will be specially drill- ed to man the “dry navy.” Old sal} object to this appellation but as nm of Uncle Sam’s ships are now business of collecting bills for | Street bankers, whose clients in Sout America fail to cough up on the dot, there is no reason why the pride of a respectable sailor should be hurt by serving on a rum fleet. He will be in a position to drown his grief at any rate. In order to cut down expenses the London Zoo authorities are putting geese and llamas to trim the lawns, The geese are kept from straying by wire fencing and the llamas are tether- ed by a long rope which gives them a twenty-foot grazing circle. Human beings used to do the work, now be- ing done by the Zoo guests. But the human beings insist on eating three times a day, sleeping in beds and do- ing other little things that cost money whereas the geese and Mamas have to be fed anyhow. Thus the Zoo authorities kill two birds with one shot so to speak by having them k ” and at the same time. If the chi talist keep on economizing at t present rate the workers may be ob- i liged to come back and outbid their competitors in the grass-eating con- test, Hither that or they must make the capitalists provide fertilizer for the grass which is about the only function they could decently perform at this period in world history,