The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1924, Page 6

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 Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 months CS alle aR TA RIS OE AR EE Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. $6.00 -per year Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE) MORITZ J. LOEB.... Editors usiness Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879, EH 290 Advertising rates on application. Russia and France Tt is declared that one of the first acts of the new government, that is soon coming into power in France, will be to recognize the Russian Soviet Republic. This means that all the great powers in the world war now have their eyes on Moscow. Italy and Germany have granted Soviet recog- nition. Great Britain has declared her intention. Now France is beginning to take actual steps in this direction. These developments result in many complications, most of which seem to play into the hands of the Russian Workers and Farmers’ Republic. The ill-fated raid of the Berlin reaction on the Soviet Trade Delegation comes crashing down upon the heads of the German government. The Soviet traders turn their eyes instead to London and Paris, and the rulers of Germany are left to do their own worrying. But it is not believed that the Soviet representa- tives will give in to the French government, any more than they have to the British diplomats, on the question of the czar’s debts. Instead, the Rus- sian Soviet government has bills of its own to pre- sent, and the largest of these will no doubt go to France, since the biggest inspiration for war on Soviet Rule has come from Paris. The French imperialists have financed most of the counter- revolutionary efforts directed against Soviet Rus- sia. These subsidies have resulted in great part, in the heavy taxes imposed upon the workers and farmers of France by the Poincare government. But the French are now faced with the damages wrought upon Soviet territory by these subsidized attacks. The question, therefore, is not whether Soviet Russia will make good on the czar’s debts to France, Great Britain and other countries. It is one- whether the workers and farmers of these capitalist countries will force the payment of dam- ages inflicted upon the First Workers and Farm- ers’ Republic. This question will be one that will _test <p real nature of the governments that have come to power in London and Paris. Killing the Pension Bill President Coolidge has vetoed the Bursum Bill, providing for the increase of the old soldiers’ pensions by approximately $48,000,000 a year. The Chief Executive swung the axe in the name of “economy.” This veto is looked upon as the first of a series of presidential vetoes upon a similar excuse. It is enlightening to note how Coolidge and his masters are animated by a desire to save the country money when the funds to be spent by the government do not go into the pockets of those who own and control the industries of the coun- try—the employing class. To the veterans and soldiers’ widows of the Civil and Spanish-Ameri- can wars, the sum saved the government by the Coolidge veto is quite substantial. But to the government of the United States, a government which squandets hundreds of millions in gifts and bonuses to the bosses, a government which in the 67th congress alone gave away more than fourteen billion dollars to the bosses, this is an insignificant sum. Yet, this government, being a government of, by and for the exploiting class, shrinks at pay- ing a little more to its war victims. According to the last annual report of the Com- missioner of Pensions, there are today in the United States more than a half a million pen- sioners. These include the soldiers who bled in the wars and the widows of those who gave their lives away to win these wars for the capitalist crew wrecking the country today. These men gave their all to fight in wars in which their masters were the beneficiaries. These men were killed and slaughtered to maintain the present system of pri- vate capitalist property relationships maintained by the government of the United States. Still, it is this very government, as the defender of the very system responsible for the wars that robbed the unfortunate masses of their limbs and lives, that now refuses to.make allowance for the welfare of the survivors or their descendants. At the same time those who have not shed a drop of blood in the imperialist Spanish-American War, those who sold the government poisoned meat for the sol- diers facing the deadly fire of their adversaries and the perils of tropical disease, are today being granted huge railway bonuses, shipping premiums, and sundry forms of gifts at the expense of the great mass of the country. Whose government is this? Coolidge has answered. Henry Ford refuses to testify in the Muscle Shoals hearings before the senate agricultural committee. Some more information might be wor- ried out of him, showing how “Cal” Coolidge planned to “deliver” to the Detroit billionaire the valuable Alabama water power site. And that would be bad for Henry. THE DAILY WORKER Cardinals and Capitalism, Red Hats and Revolution An Advantage “One advantage po: they have an energetic and fearless daily n paper devoting extensive space to the conflict—the DAILY WORKER, established here in January by the Workers Party.” * This tribute to the DAILY WORKER is found in the current issue of “The Nation,” in an excel- lent article by John Nicholas Beffel on the Chicago garment strike under the title of “Injunctions Don’t Sew Dresses.” Beffel has become known nationally for his faithful interpretations of labor’s struggles .on many fronts. But he has done an extra good job in word-picturing the brilliant battles fought by the Chicago ladies’ garment workers. “The Na- tion” is to be complimented on the publication of such an article. Beffel gives special attention to the courageous picketing, in the face of police brutality and court persecution, that has faced the strikers in their efforts to organize their jobs. He also draws.the lesson of the failure of the workers to organize for the election of their own judges, pointing out that labor's. officials “con- tented themselves with calling for the defeat of ‘enemies’ and the rewarding of ‘friends’ on the old party tickets.” We would suggest to the editor of “Justice,” official organ of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, that he republish the article in full. The members of the union should call upon him to do this. It would give them an insight into the Chicago strike that they have not yet received thru their own publication. The Klan in Action One of the side investigations at Washington that is not attracting the attention it should from the masses, is the examination of witnesses now going on before the Senate Committee on elections and privileges looking into the election of Senator May- field, in Texas. The testimony of District Judge Clark, of Waco, Texas, once a leading figure in the Lone Star State Klan organization, has revealed a ‘series of out- rages committed by the hooded champions of capi- talist American democracy. Since Texas is said to be afflicted with the sec- ond or third largest coterie of Kleagles, being out- stripped only by Indiana and Ohio, it is safe to assume that the conduct of the Kluxers in this state is not only typical of the behavior of the Klansmen, in other sections of the country, but is even to be emulated by the “dragons” and various other shrouded holligans in other states. It has already been disclosed that Mr. Mayfield was sent to the senate from that Southern citadel of democ- racy, Texas, only thru his having the support of the Klan which terrorized the state thru the main- tenance of a private espionage system, special flogging squads, and an especially picked clique of gangmen. Of course, all of these wanton crimes were committed under the guise of being “essential to the welfare of the country” and some of “the best people of the community participated in them.” This testimony is of tremendous import to the workers and farmers of the country. Again it is shown by incontestable evidence that those who do the loudest yelling in defense of our much-vaunted democracy are the very ones who are hiding the blackest outrages behind the most abstract vaga- ries. At this moment especially should these dis- closures make the working masses think and act. We are on the eve of a national election. Mr. McAdoo, who is still parading the country as a liberal and a friend of labor, is an ardent Ku Kluxer. When Mayfield was elected, Mr. McAdoo congratulated him. McAdoo is intimately con- nected with the Klan organization, which is now being only partially unmasked. He is responsible for every act and move which sent Mayfield to the Senate, ‘ We are not astonished at the gall displayed by the counsel of Doheny. Just as it is natural that those who talk loudest about the sacredness of pure democracy of capitalism should be perpetrat- ing the worst outrages against the masses, so is it logical for the gentleman who has been doing most posing as a friend of labor, McAdoo, to be thé national spokesman of the blackest enemy of the working and poor farming classes—the Klan. . The Klan revelations in Washington should evoke amongst the masses not a spirit of moral revulsion but a determinationtto get rid of the enemies of Jabor regardiess of the mask they wear or the phrases they mouth, * * “Cal” Coolidge has gone into training for the forthcoming circus at the republican conyention in Cleveland, by attending a real cireus in Wash- ington. But the Cleveland show should be the more side-splitting in its efforts to delude the workers and farmers of the nation. Very funny because the masses are getting hep to all the tricks in this Wall Street trained animal. By their votes at the recent elections in France and Germany, the workers and farmers of these two countries have shown, in greater numbers than ever, that they want peace. They want peace thru the abolition of the whole capitalist system thru the ascendancy of Communism. These are blue days in Kentucky when a con- gressman can be found guilty of bootlegging. Whisky hasn’t got the free rein that it once had in this commonwealth of the “Southern Gentlemen,” of seab coal mines and non-union steel mills. Even the Negroes of the South are turning against their traditional emancipator, the republi- can party, They will soon be found where they belong, in the National Farmer-Labor movement. By. WILLIAM F. DUNNE. PLENDID honors are falling in a shower on the heads of American Catholics and, by a process of diffu- sion of which the Catholic hiearchy are past masters, upon the rest of the American populace. ‘WO American cardinals where but one grew before; red hats, red robes, papal blessings and papal knighthoods; stately ceremonials and parades, high masses and incense, children with flowers singing songs of praise—each child, incidentally, dis- playing a badge on which is a picture of one or both of the new church dig- nitaries and which sells for ten cents. The church does not forget the pen- nies of the poor even when it pulls off @ well-staged program with a marked Political angle. Religion and Politics. ELIGION and politics are never very far apart in the Catholic church at any time but with the crea- tion of two American cardinals in the persons of Hayes and Mundelein, the two questions are so close together that a Communion wafer could not be thrust between them. T is all rather obvious—as obvious as the reasons for the publicity given the whole process of cardinal creation by the Hearst papers in a country in which there are some 18,- 000,000 Catholics. URING the war and the pertod of intense revolutionary activity that followed it, the vatican fell upon evil days. The faithful wanted bread and peace and land and the church could not give-them these things and remain a ruling power. The Catholic empire of Austria-Hungary crumbled; Poland, despite her new-found independence, was in the throes of revolt; the Italian workers were driving towards revolu- tion and in no spot in Europe could the vatican see any hope for the es- tablishment of that temporal power which it has never ceased to claim— and enforce at the slightest opportuni- ty. When Revolt Was Checked. 'HE tidal wave of revolution ceased for a while to rock the founda- tions of European capitalism and there set in a period of apathy and hope- lessness which the vatican was not slow to take advantage of. It made peace with the French government and for the first time since the expul- sion of the monks, there is a French ambassador at the vatican; Cardinal Ratti—now pope—went to Poland as an emissary of the French government and helped to organize the offensive against the workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia; came ti¢Was- cist counter-revolution in Italy and once more the vatican had a friend at court in the person of Mussolini; in Germany the Caffiolic party, particu: larly in Bavaria, dreams with inspira: tion from the vatican, of a new Cath- olic empire in Europe. Perhaps Po- land and Bavaria, they say, can unite under the banner of the papacy with Czecho-Slovakia and the remnants of Austria to give once more political backing to the ambitious keeper of Peter’s keys. UT bankrupt nations need money first and the House of Morgan from which the money has come and by which more is promtsed—loans to France, to Czecho-Slovakia, to Poland and tke proposed loan to Germany, the loan to the Fascist government of italy—is the fiscal agent of the vati- can in the United States. “America First.” ‘HE Catholic church has decided to pay some attention to the United States for the reasons implied above; it is today the only stable capitalist nation where there are any large num- ber of Roman Catholics; the creation of princess of the church among the clergy and knights of St. This and at among the laity is a good meth- od of bringing into line many Ameri- cans who, as a nation are among the worst trucklers to titles at large, de- spite their boasted love for democracy. 'HE proposed Morgan loan to Ger- many has received the endorse- ment of the vatican, Morgan himself has made a pilgrimage to Rome, but there are several millions of people in the United States who look askance at the project and who fear that the same result that followed similar loans to the allied governments dur- ing the war, will now accrue from this one. The backing of the House of Morgen in this new imperialistic ad- venture by the American government is a matter on which the American masses have not expressed themselves as yet, but which will soon be a burn- ing issue in the coming presidential campaign. i Where Religion Comes In. HAT better method could be de- vised to secure sanction of this slave scheme by the dupes of the vati- can than to make it a religious issue with the vatican expressing the wish- es of the deity in the matter by its endorsement of the house of Morgan, followed by the elevation to the sec- ond highest office in the chiurch of the American clergymen who will make clear its stand on the question? The big capitalists have come to see that of all the Christian religions the Catholic church is the only one that has any real influence organ- ization; it is a powerful mac! and its edicts admit of no argument; they must be accepted without q by the faithful and they are backed, ac- cording to Catholic dogma, by God himself. Superstition and.its compan- ion, fear, together with a tremendous economic power, are the weapons wielded by the Catholic church over the millions who subscribe to its creed. It is no mean ally for a des- perate capitalist class to have and the House of Morgan is using it to the limit. Natural Unity. T is not hard for the finance-capi- talists to form a united front with the vatican—the most reactionary force in modern society. The catholic religion is a slave religion and it fits in well with the Morgan plau of en- slaving the whole working class of Europe. The cathojic church is ruled from the top; there are no referendum votes, it has never even resigned it-| self to capitalism but looks ever back- ward to the dear dead days of feudal- ism when its lightest word was law to both prince and peasant. It has adapted itself to capitalism very ef- ficiently but it dreams of a world of toiling raillions, whose fulers ‘it chooses, and whose miserable ignor- ance and physical suffering will wipe out all thought except that of a happy life in the hereafter to which the church will hold the key. 'HE Catholic church is not only a great religious institution; it is a tremendously powerful financial insti- tution as well; in the United States it has millions of dollars invested in great industrial enterprises and in Europe its properties are of incalcul- able value. It has a vested interest in the capitalist system. Germans, Irish and Poles. T is not surprising therefore that the vatican should give its wholehearted approval to the Morgan plan for en- slaving the German workers. Cardinal Mundelein is of German descent and thru him it is believed that the large group of German catholics in the Unit- ed States can be rallied to support the |Morgan-Dawes scheme. Cardinal Hayes is Irish and there are millions of Cath- olics of Irish birth and descent in this country and the influence of the church among this politically active nationality will be exerted for the House of Morgan. The Poles, another numerous national group, have not been neglected. Anthony Czarnecki, editor of an influential Polish newspa- per, has been made a knight of St. Gregory. That the Lithuanians may not feel slighted one of their priests has been made a monsignor. So much for the masses. The Cardinal Capitalists. ‘HE entente cordiale between the big capitalists and the catholic church was never more in evidence than upon the return of the new cardi- nals to America. They were welcomed and photographed, immediately upon their arrival, in a room on the New York pier on which they landed, fur- nished especially by Rodman Wana- maker. Cardinal Mundelein was banquetted by the head officials of the United States Steel corporation and “his services in the Chicago district” were referred to in glowing terms. He made the trip from the east in a private car furnished by the vice-pres- ident of the Baltimore and Ohio and in Chicago a banquet was given him at the Drake hotel—one of Chicago's most high-priced and exclusive hostel- ries. F. CARRY, head of the Pullman ‘company, employing thousands of underpaid catholic workers, many of whom were on strike at the time, was brought the order of St. Gregory by Cardinal Mundelein; it was presented in “recognition of ‘his philanthropic work.” ‘HE attitude of the capitalist press —always a good indication of the trend of capitalist opinion—has been one of actual sycophancy. Such words as “prince,” “enthroned,” “glorious,” “multitude of his flock,” “regal robes,” “impressive spectacle,” “symbol of his rank,” “His Eminence,” “blessing on whole city,” “hail return in splendor,” “trumpets sound fanfare,” “in full reg- alia,” “benign visage thrills crowd,” “Chicago’s prince of the church ascends to his crimson throne,” etc., ad nauseam, have made up the head- lines upon which the eyes of the news- paper reading public has feasted. Evidence of Influence. It has been asplendid tribute to the power of the catholic church that will make the Ku Klux Klan gnash its teeth in impotent fury for the klan does not know how to meet the power of the vatican. OUBTLESS the rank and file of catholics—those who bought the badges with the cardinal’s pictures— believe that all this pageantry was the reply of the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church to the assaults of the klansmen and the hiearchy will en- courage that belief; it is one of the best established dogmas of the church that its followers are persecuted for their faith and the klan has been a godsend to it. The catholic church however is not worrying about the klan. It is worry- ing about the breakdown of capitalism and the rise of social revolution. It wisely picks America and the Ameri- can capitalist class together with the backward séctions of the working class to save capitalism and the church from defeat. Basis For War. 'VERY day’s dispatches from Hu- rope indicate that no European capitalist nation, nor any combination of European nations, can save capital- ism in Europe. Only the United States has the financial. resources to halt the breakdown and enough back- ward workers to do the bidding of the capitalist class if it becomes necessary to suppress social revolution in Eu- rope by force of arms. T is another holy war that the Cath- olic church is preparing for—a war on behalf of capitalism and catholic christianity and“it hopes to use its tremendous power in the United States, linked with tne power of the finance-capitalists, for a war of con- quest that if successful would again make the catholic church the only religious power worth mentioning in Christendom. In all America only the Communists raise their voices in protest against this monstrous scheme of church and counting-house, as in the world at large only the Communist Interna- tional stands four-square against the House of Morgan’s plan for enslaving the German working class as a first step to a more rigid enslavement of the working class of all capitalist na- tions. 'HE creation of two cardinals, the pomp and ceremony consequent thereon, were not religious incidents except in the narrow sense. The House of Morgan and the catholic church, representing together the blackest re- action on the globe, united under the red hat, have merely been conduct- ing a political maneuver which if suc- cessful will drench the world with blood while it resounds to the groans of the workers—groans which will mingle with the rattle of their chains to make the most horrid music ever heard in a world to which misery is not new. THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS Likes Our “Center Shot.” My Dear Brother Engdahl—That was quite a center shot you gave the Seattle Union Record on Tuesday, May 6, under the editorial head, “Get- ting the News.” I have quite a time with our Farm- er-Labor people trying to explain that we will get publicity for the party when we go out and make it do some-} thing, say something, write some- thing or put im motion something that will bring publicity and cause the newspapers to print stories. Many of them think the Union Rec- ord is not toting fair in casting about for the mess of pottage and neglect- ing the great questions of the day— things of vital importance to farmers and laborers—but the Union Record will probably warm up to the occasion later in the campaign. I am sending you copy of a declar- ation of my candidacy for governor- ship, that I believe is so far difter- ent from anything of the kind ever written that you will be tempted to print it. In the election of 1920 tne Farmer- Labor party became the second party of the state of Washington, Robert Bridges, candidate for governor on the Farmer-Labor ticket, receiving 55,292 more votes than W. W. Black, the Democratic candidate for goy- ernor, A big meeting of all candidates for governor is being held in Tacoma at this writing. The promoters have ad- vertised that all candidates for ernor have been invited. I was not invited. Just why the state chairman of the Farmer-Labor party and candidate for governor on the Farmer-Labor ticket, the acknowl- edged leader of the second party of the state, was not invited to partici- pate in a meeting of all candidates for governor I am not able at present to tell. ; But I have written a statement for the newspapers, a copy of which is inclosed, If any person has any doubts as to why my name was left out, the an- swer may come after reading the statement. I stand by the people, am not afraid to say so and talk right out in meeting. I know the situation in different farming sections of this state and stand ready to demand that the leg- islature do something for the people now running away from the land to the refuges of nowhere. If you want to use the story, all well and good. It is yours, Its pub- lication might help all of us in get- ting together for June 17, Yours in the fight for humanity, ; JACK SHOMAKER, State Chairman, Farmer-Labor Party of Washington, gov- “When a burglar gets so he can't tell glass from diamonds, ie ought to retire,” Paul Winters, 45, told Judge Lewis in confessing to a petty rob- bery. Lewis was “retired” for from one to 14 years. Friday, May 16, 1924 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY At a meeting of the executive com- mittee of the American Federation of Labor now in session at Montreal, Samuel Gompers declared that the American labor movement must get rid of its “unclean” elements. “We must drive the rascals out,” he said. We do not remember being in such hearty accord with Gompers since— well, we don’t remember ever being in accord with him. However, on the matter of putting this resolution into operation: we suggest that Gompers set a good example to the others and step out. He is the chief rascal. Cee ee While Gompers was threatening to disconnect the crooks with the A. F, of L. treasury another labor faker was unloading himself of some trite piffle at the triennial convention of the Switchmen’s Union of North America, held in Denver, Colorado. J. B, Connors, assistant international } president of that organization predict- ) ed that “the radical element would Ad never gain control of the unions so long as capital treats labor with in- telligence.” Which means if you read between the lines, “so long as capi- talists allow some of the crumbs from their table to fall into the maws of the hungry labor fakers.” * * * Coolidge killed the Bursum pension increase bill with a yeto. He had a narrow escape tho. It was the first victory in a long time, except the easy ones over Hiram Johnson in the Re- publican primaries. The vote was 53 to 28, just one short of the necessary two-thirds majority necessary to over- ride his veto. Spanish and civil war veterans will not thank the president. Harding vetoed the same bill last year. Bursum plans to bring it up again but by the time he is liable to get it thru, the veterans may be in a posi- tion to debate its provisions with Wil- son, Harding and Jess Smith on the River Styx. It is interesting to note that 16 Democrats voted to sustain the veto and only 12 Republicans. It looks bad for the soldiers’ bonus bill. . * * James H. Maurer, socialist and President of the Pennsylvania Feder- ation of Labor, took a leaf out of the black book of John L. Lewis, president ol the United Mine Workers-of Amer. ica, in inviting James J. Davis, secre+ tary of Labor in the Coolidge cabinet to address the convention, now in ses- sion at Allentown, gPa. Davis is one of the archfoes of the for2ign-born workers. Like Samuel Gompers he js an alien. Davis was born in Wales and Gompers hails from Whitechapel, ~~ London. The secretary of lahor deliv- ered bis usual tirade against the for- eign-born but soft pedalled his finger- printing and deportation plans. Per- haps the labor leaders are not prop- erly “psychologized” yet. Or perhaps he feared that he could not be as bold before a delegate co.vention of workers as he could at a Republican Party conference, Mavrer did not have plain sailing at the convention. A delegate asked who ingited the Coolidge tool to. the con- vention. Maurer brazenly almitted be did. ‘hese who thought a few years ago that the Socialist Party of Amer- ica would not fall so low as the Social- ist party of Germany in its sub- servience to the ruling class can now clearly see they are mis- taken. Unfortunately for the workers, in Germany and in the rest of Europe the Socialist Parties there had a mass following and were capable of render- ing real service to the capitalists. Here the Socialist party is used as a press service by Samuel Gompers, who is the chief labor lieutenant of the cap- italists. James Maurer, once the So- sialist war horse of Pennsylvania, has given up the fight against the capi- talists. He has made peace with the enemies of the workers. Peace unto his dead radical soul. se 8 Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., is running two daily papers on the West coast, Unless he looks out, Samuel Gompers. will have him down as an agent of the Communist International. In one of his recent issues he published the following paragraph about Russia: “How different are the facts con- cerning Soviet Russia that occasion- ally seep thru from those furnished by the Better American Federation. By the paid propagandists we are told of the reign of terror that reaches from border to border of Russia. Then comes a dispatch stating that the most northerly weather and radio station maintained by any nation is that at Karsh, on the Kara sea. This station is conducted by the Academy of Sciences at Leningrad, a branch of the Soviet government. Two men are at he yost and it is possible to send them supylies but once a year. I am more and more convinced that Russia is truly a civilized country.” ne We are incliped to reach the same conclusion. Soviet Russia is the only country in the world that is consist- ently trying to raise the level of eul- ture of the masses that will enable them to build up a real civilization un- der a social system where knowledge will be used to lighten the burden of human beings and make the machines do the heavy work, in contrast to this system where labor saving ma- chinery increases the wealtheof its owner and tends to throw thousands of ‘workers out of employment. a