The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1924, Page 4

vdyyormer Page Four to adopt new methods of running the department of justice in the interest of the employing class. When the same service can be rendered to the big financial and industrial groups by legal methods there is no point in maintaining a cumbersome extra-legal machinery, particularly when it is seriously diseredited. As a matter of fact, it is THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: a $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months $2,00....3 months j much more effective to have the department of By mail (in Chicago only): justice run by a $8.00 per year” "$4.50...6 months” §2.50....3 mont’ss |) y # professor than by @ professional detective. The taking over of the functions for- merly exercised by the private detectives of Mr. Burns by formally and legally recognized sub- divisions of the department of justice is no boon to the working class. The operation and manage- ment of. the department of justice in accordance with the provisions of capitalist law for the capi- talist class is as much a menace to the welfare of the working and farming masses as the use of the hired thugs and gangsters in an extra-legal, or temporarily illegal, fashion against the laboring class. ° The changed-methods of oppressing the workin; A Crowning Inf amy and farming classes announced by the disease Coolidge’s veto of the even inadequate soldiers’|/of justice are by themselves no victory for the adjusted compensation measure comes as a fitting] workers. But the fact that the industrial and climax to a series of outrages committed against] agricultural classes were able to force the enemy the great number of workers and poor farmers|to attempt a change of weapon should inspire constituting the overwhelming majority of the} these masses to decisive class action which will expeditionary forces that were rushed to Europe] take the entire governmental machinery out of in the last war. the hands of the bosses whom the Stones, the First of all, these sons of the working class,|Coolidges, the Daughertys, the Burnses, and the these sons of the farming masses were forced to} Palmers have been and are serving alike. desert the mills and fields for the trenches to fight Pisemoninsie stan are I hi to save the profit system under which their bosses, the financial and industrial monarchs, exploit and E Let Us Go Ahead fs oppress them. The fire directed against the convention of Once on Flanders Field and at Verdun, these| Workers and poor farmers to be opened in St. soldier masses were mained and slaughtered with-| Paul, Minnesota, June 17, is the best evidence of out the slightest regard for the value of their lives,| its prowess, the best proof of its being a grave but simply for the enhancement of the military|™enace to the organized clique of capitalist ex- prowess buttressing the capitalist class and govern- ploiters. ska ment in Wall Street and Washington. At the same| The very fact that the charge of communist is time the capitalists for whom they were fighting being hurled at this giant political gathering of were coining fabulous profits out of the blood that| the exploited workers and expropriated farmers these poor workers and farmers were losing in by the bitterest enemies of the rural and city mas- the war. ses, is the hopeful sign of its inevitable success. After these soldiers bought the victory for their| T° the employing class, to the grain gamblers, to employers at the price of their own limbs and| the financial sharks of lower Broadway, New lives, they were shipped back to the “land of the} York, the word communist is synonimous with the free and the home of the brave’ to walk the|™0st effective challenge to their right to exploit streets of the big industrial centers, out of work|*Uthlessly the great masses of the country... and out of hope. At the same time the very gov-| Just now the greatest danger to the maximum ernment which they saved was handing out billions| S¥ccess of the June 17th convention is not the of dollars of bonuses to the railway, shipping,| Vicious attack launched against it by Gompers, mining and manufacturing overlords dominating| Seating, the National Republican, and the Wall the economic life of the country. Street Journal. A real danger to the development Soon the soldiers sought at least a pittance of of all the possibilities open to the delegates at economic relief. An effort was made to secure|St- Paul is the tendency to waver, the inclina- some legislation granting the ex-soldiers only an| tion to hesitate at this time, as to the organiza- infinitesimal fraction of what the employing class| tion of a permanent all-inclusive national work- had been getting all the time. While the capitalist] i$ 4nd farming class political party to lock horns government lackeys were feverishly at work hand-| With the employers. Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. 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, undér the act of March 3, 1879. <= 20 Advertising rates on application. to their masters, they bitterly The tendency to limit the coming monster. con- ae sean inedly resisted the advancement of a vention merely to the setting up of an election au. single cent to any group that was in the slightest|™@chinery and then, if voting results warrant, way composed of members of the working and perhaps~build a permanent political party of the farming classes. All attempts to secure a so-|W0rking and farming classes, must be fought. To- called bonus for the ex-soldiers failed disastrously.|4@V, more than ever before, is the time ripe and Coolidge’s veto was long expected. The frank- the need great for the organization of a class far- ness with which “Cautious Cal” has denounced | ™¢" labor party totally distinct from and opposed and fought even the present mangled bonus mea-| ‘© the parties of the bosses and the “good men” sure shows very plainly the big business interests|®2@ “independents” serving as the fig leaves hid- must have given Coolidge a mighty substantial] !™ the ugliness of these parties. The Commun- guarantee to atone for the loss of votes that his ists have been the lightning rod, the dynamic force, enmity to the bill will surely entail him. Obvi-|/" Promoting amongst the workers and poor far- ously the ruling class is bent on maintaining the|™¢"S the country over, the consciousness for the inviolability of the principle that this is a govern-|2¢¢4 of the organization of a powerful political ment of, by, and for the capitalist interests. party committed solely to the interests of these If the conditions making possible for such con-|™#8ses. Since the last national strikes of the duct of the Coolidges and their agents and masters| ™iters, the railway workers, the textile workers, are to be eradicated, this veto must be looked upon| When great numbers of workingmen and farmers as merely the logical, natural next step in a series| Wee given a painful lesson in the capitalist char- of crimes committed against all workers and poor|*¢ter of American democracy, the conditions mak- farmers by the exploiting class, as the crowning| i" for the building of a party of the laboring THE DAILY WORKER Greetings to The Amalgamated Editor's Note. — The following greeting to the Philadelphia con- vention of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers of ‘America appeared in the Freiheit, the Jewish Com- munist daily of New York city. A great share of the attack on the Forward-Socialist reaction in the Jewish needle trades unions is di- rected against the Freilieit. This is especially true of the officials of the Furriers’ union, which is now holding its convention in Chicago. ‘The Freiheit greeting to.the Amal- gamated follows: 7-2 The Amalgamated is a. child of re- volt; it was -born-in the struggle against the Gompers reign in the American labor movement. This is what determined from the beginning the path of its development, fixes the character of its activity among the American unions, and even among the radical Jewish unions it has always been an exception. From the begin- ning our so-called Socialists have looked askance at the Amalgamated. It was even combatted, in the first place, because at the head of the union there weren’t any men of the Forward machine. Besides, the so- called Socialists did not believe in the staying powers of the new tailor or- ganization. They were’ convinced that the union which has not Gomp- ers’ blessing could not survive any length of time, and is condemned to go out of existence. The time is still fresh in our mem- ory when Max Pine stood with Gomp- ers’ adjutant, Rickert, who betrayed the tailors for years, when the For- ward used every means to silence or to set at naught the revolution of the tailors. Even the broken windows during the great tailor strike of 1913 taught the Forward very little. But it became evident that a union can exist without the blessing of Gompers, without the Forward boom, without Max Pine’s “refined” speeches. On the contrary, the first years of the history of the Amalga- mated are the best proof that only when the workers free themselves from Gompers, and do not allow them- selves to be a victim of the Forward terror, can a labor union develop all its powers and serve as a model of class consciousness. Therefore, in spite of Gompers and the “Forward” mathine, the growth of the “Amalgamated,” both in mem- bers and in fighting strength, develop- ed with such rapid steps that the “For- ward” people against their own will, had to change their attitude toward the Amalagamated; not only they, but the old fox Gompers also, had to re- strain his grimaces against the evil “splitters.” “The Amalgamated” became the mirror, not of the Jewish unions, but also of the American unions. It was always the first with fine, new undertakings, with its ready help for other labor organizations, with its warm response to all important hap- penings in the international workers) world. As the best example,.we,may cite its concrete, constructive aid for Soviet Russia; it is in fact almost the only labor union in all countries which extended its hand so warmly to the only workers’ republic. of the world, paying no attention to all the slanders and incitement against Soviet Russia. Actually, the attitude of “the Amal- gamated” toward the Soviet Republic has not changed to this day. At a time when others of our unions utilize the slanders and incitement against Soviet Russia as a means of fighting against all opposition in their own ranks, the “Amalgamated” continues its work as. before. Naturally, the constantly growing strength of the “Amalgamated” gives the “Forward” no repose; the “For- ward” wants to rule this union too, with an iron fist, to transform it into a private possession. Therefore, this paper is using every means to reach its goal; it does not hesitate to use any means, and, unfortunately, the “Forward” succeeds to a large degree. It is an old generality that when one becomes old, one becomes more settled. But when this good behavior takes on the form of conservatism, of constantly entering into compromises, of restricting the militancy of the members, of going along with those who want to utilize every fight of the workers for their own selfish ends, it becomes seriously harmful, a real dan- ger. This last kind of conservatism has begun to make itself evident in the “Amalgamated”; in its methods of work, in its policy with the bosses, it is going more and more upon the old out and out Gompersian roads. It has come to such a pass that it is already hard to differentiate between the radi- cal Amalgamated and the Gompers’ unions; the same principles, the same tactics. That holds true not only of strikes, of agreements with higher ups, but also of the internal leadership. No stand is taken on any questions, there is nothing but sitting on two stools and listening to those who rule with terror in the labor movement. On the quiet, there is plenty of mouth-radical- ism, but publicly, they are afraid to raise their tone, they are as “Still as water, and lower than grass.” If it is a question of labor affairs in other countries, they don’t dare to take an- other stand than that of the yellows; but as regards to internal matters, the line of least resistance is chosen in order not to break with the official powers that be. This situation must lead often to very sad happenings, in case the right machine takes to ruling in the “Amal- gamated” also, and rules in such a way as to besmirch the fair name of the union. That which took place in Local 2, where the “famous” methods are used against the membership, shows what a neutral, two-faced attitude leads to. The fight against the lefts is in fact, going on in the “Amalgamated” also, and if the present game will be con- tinued of not wanting to break with the “Forward”-machine, things might get to such a point that the entire difference will be wiped out between the “Amalgamated” and the other un- ions iu which the fight has taken on the most disgusting forms. This must not be permitted, and the convention of the “Amalgamated” in Philadelphia, will have to place the “Amalgamated” in the position which it occupied in the year of revolution- ary brilliance; the Gompers methods must be rejected, the “Forward” ma- chine must be put in its place, this ma- chine which is trying to dominate the “Amalgamated” also. The convention has many important problems and it is to be hoped that the delegates will see all these prob- lems so as to solye them in the spirit of the new time, as befits a radical labor organization which does not go backward, but goes forward.” Our greeting to the convention and our wishes for successful work. Lodge As Peacemaker By JAY LOVESTONE. ENATOR LODGE’S proposal for another world peace conference and for the entry of the United States into an international world co ep arate and distinct from the League of Nations, comes so late in the ses- sion of congress that one wonders as to the cause of the eleventh-hour peace bow of the chairman of the for- eign relations committee. Coming on the heels of the “peace” resolution of Senator Pepper, and with only about three legislative weeks before congress, this move of the Massachusetts senator is simply a political maneuver of the Old Guard. All talk that it will embarrass the Coolidge administration is unfounded. Coolidge and Lodge have had their heads close together too long to per- mit a situation developing whereby the reactionary senate leader would take any steps inimical to the G. O. P. —the party of graft, oil and pelf. The Lodge resolution is simply a straw showing which way the wind will blow in the Republican camp on the question of capitalist foreign pol- icy, especially European poiicy. It has been thrown out merely to test the reaction of the mass of voters to be fooled in the coming campaign. Essentially the Lodge resolution of- fers nothing new in the way of fraud- ulent capitalist peace proposals. The reversion to The Hague system of impotent conferences, the plan to have a machinery of “justice” apart from the mechanism of the practical- ly defunct League of Nations, and the proposal to avoid domestic questions have all been put forward at some time or other in the same or slightly different form. There is one phase of the Lodge measure which is of tangible signifi- cance at this time, in view of the official support tendered to the Dawes plan by Wall street and its govern- ment. The plan to have the interna- tional judges chosen regardless of their nationality from “among per- sons of high moral character,” is worthy of the most serious consider- ation. It shows that the American capitalists feel that with the strategic hold they will have in Europe under the Dawes plan, they can safely en- trust more of their European affairs. to such a court. This removes the old objection to the League of Na- tions’ court plan on the score of in- sufficient American representation by superficially avoiding the issue, but in reality enabling the Yankee impe- rialists to dictate the personnel of the new court. The American capital- ist government would be glad to put its faith in an international court where men of “high moral character,” hailing from such satrapies of Yan- kee finance as Colombia, Peru, Chile, the Argentine, and Brazil are “ade- quately” represented. Thru _ this Lodge method the honor and faces of the British and French imperialist ruling classes would be saved and the unchallenged supremacy of the Ameri- can dollar would be secured. In short, the Lodge peace proposal, the measure just introduced by the Massachusetts senator, who has for years been vitally interested in muni- tions works, is simply another step in the direction of American capitalism evolving the effective plan they have long sought for establishing their world hegemony hidden behind the mask of a world “peace” organization. Saturday, May 17, 1924 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O}FLAHERTY By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. The German government sent the police chief who raided the Soviet trade delegation’s headquarters in Berlin on a long vacation. It is pre dicted that his political career is fin ished. He is made a scapegoat for @ crime committed under thé orders oi the German government. Chiei Weiss was unfortunate. Had he ¢ strong military power behind him and had Russia been an anaemic country without a powerful Red army to make its demands for satisfaction heard the subordinate official who carried out the orders of his superiors would be promoted instead of sent to a sani tarium. As told in the Berlin dis patches to the DAILY WORKER, Germany business realized that the raid was a blunder, and business rules Germany. Late dispatches indi cate that a critical situation faces in dustry in that country, as many as thirty ‘bankruptcies being reported in one day. While Soviet Russia is making the nations of Europe craw) before her mighty power, we have the spectacle here in America of labor fakers passing resolutions opposing Soviet recognition. As well try kee back the waves of the ocean. ‘ se Trying to guess whether LaFollette will run on a third party ticket, at an independent, or whether he wil) run at all in the presidential Mara thon, is becoming almost as popular a diversion as mah jongg. Nobody seems to know whose banner he will carry. The senator is adopting a po} icy of watchful waiting. Like Barkia in the Dickens novel, he “is willin’” to bask in the political sunlight. But not unconditionally. Various labor leaders express the joy that would be theirs could they have the pleasuré of voting for him as head of the Re publican ticket, or afty old ticket, But perhaps his health will not allow him to run. In which case the labor leaders have the trusty “nonpartisan policy” of Sam Gompers. They will urge labor to cast their votes for the capitalist friends of the labor fakerm ae So long as the workers and farmers of the United States are depending on some Moses like LaFollette to lead them out of the wilderness in which they are now, into the promised land, so long will the capitalistselaugh up their sleeves at them. To depend on LaFollette or any other liberal capi- talist supporter is to build on quick: sand. The workers of England for years were tied up to the Liberal party, and they got nothing but in- “Instruments at a time when these very masses are infamy of the outrageous treatment accorded the ex-soldier masses that gave their all to make the world safe for capitalist democracy. Stone Reforms Many liberals will greet with joy the announce- ment of reform soon to be instituted by the depart- ment of justice. All the extra-legal and political work that has characterized the activities of the department of justice in the last few years is to be discontinued, according to the promises of Daugherty’s successor. We are in no hurry to celebrate. We know that the leopard cannot change his spots. The depart- ment of justice is today, as it was yesterday, the tool, the weapon, of the big capitalist interests owning and controlling the industries and govern- ment. Mr. Stone, it is true, when compared with the unlettered William J. Burns, and the crude, boor- ish Daugherty, is somewhat of a scholar. Mr. Stone is realist enough to face facts squarely. The rise of Mr. Stone to the office he now holds was occasioned and forced by the menace of a serious mass protest threatening to make changes of the first magnitude in the balance of class political power in the country. The new attorney general’s methods are simply the adjustment of a reaction- ary Coolidge spokesman to the new conditions at hand. With all the revelations concerning the work- ings of the extra-legal machinery of the Palmer- Burns-Daugherty gang, the sinister machinations of a system forced upon the country at a time when the working and farming masses had sur- rendered practically all political initiative and were completely submerged, it would have been theSheight of folly to continue the use of such growing ever-more conscious of the weal character of the department of justice and the class which|a neat bankroll. it serves, Mr. Stone, taking his cue and inspiration from and farming classes have become more pressing. We can realize why it is that men who have Calles Turns the Corner spent their lives in playing politics in the re- actionary republican party, why it is that half-| General Calles who is about to be elected pre- baked liberals whose height of contact with the|sident of Mexico has, according to recent press organized working class movement was achieved] dispatches, announced his intention of surrender- in their working for “good men” and “progres-|ing conspletely to the dictation of foreign capital- sivism” within the decrepit democratic party,| ist interests. should waver again and be hesitant about launch-| General Calles was the symbol of the progres- ing a class party of the workers and farmers. But| sive forces allied with the militant agrarian party, no member of the working class, no spokesman of|the labor party, and the communist forces in beat- the farmers who have lately been “getting” it!ing back the Fascist attack of de la Huerta. The harder than ever from the capitalists, can sound-|reported abject retreat of the Mexican president ly advocate delay in such urgent political organ-'—to be—affords an object lesson of great import- ization. To postpone the organization of the class] ance to the workers and exploited farmers of every party of the city and rural masses, to make the|country. This lesson is particularly timely to building of such a party contingent upon the|our working and farming classes about to enter whims of any individual, whether he be LaFollette| the most important political campaign in the last or who not, or upon the numerical trend of the fifty years. votes, a trend which can only be big if a real class} When de la Huerta in league with the native party is organized, is to throw away the best|reactionary elements organized the Fascist rebel- chance to strike effective blows against the exploit-|lion against the Obregon government, the Com- ing class that has offered itself to the workers|munists of Mexico were the first working class and poor farmers since the close of the Civil War. group to call for a defense of the Obregon govern- The Communists have always stood for strik-|ment. The Communists did this not because Ob- ing the most damaging blows against the enemies|regon or Calles were followers of the Third Inter- of the working and farming classes. Consequent-| national, but simply because they felt that to per- ly the Communists stand for the organization of|mit a de la Huerta Fascist victory over even the a mighty, national class party of the workingmen| miserable compromising government, at best only and dispossessed farmers by the St. Paul Conven-| afflicted with tendencies that might, in a spirit tion. Let us go ahead. of charity, be construed as sympathetic with yel- low aristocratic labor, would enable the exploit- “Billy” Sunday, the hell-roaring revivalist, is on|ers to rob the workers and farmers of whatever his way to a sanitarium in Minnesota. A lunatic|gains they had managed to win thru years of the asylum would be a more fitting destination. He} most dificult and costly struggle. might meet some of the victims of his blood-and-| De la Huerta is crushed. Calles was saved by thunder harrangues. the masses. Now the same Calles is preparing to _ launch a regime to crush the very masses that Billy Sunday says that he and the Lord haye|have saved him and the class he represents. This been partners for 38 years. If the partnership has|is not a new phenomenon in the history of class been on a fifty-tifty basis the Lord has accumulated |conflicts. Thru this obvious right-about-face, open betrayal, great masses of Mexican workers and farmers will now see Calles in his real role, in the Communism will end all wars, including the} light that the Communists have always seen him— the practical politician, Coolidge, is realist enough | class war, thru the abolition of all class divisions.|not as a friend of the working and poor farming ON GO oe ral masses but as a less dangerous enemy of the pro- letariat and the agrarian masses at a particular historical moment. Experience may be a very stern and costly schoolmaster, but experience is still the best teacher for great masses. One can appreciate the difficulties in the path of any Mexican government. Ambassador Warren speaking for the Wall Street interests is bringing to bear great pressure on the poverty-stricken country. We can understand how Calles might be compelled to yield something to this pressure | of the financial Shylocks. Yet, when he makes the demand that the peasants disarm, Calles is shame- facedly betraying the most vital interests of the Mexican workers and farmers. By this move Calles is attempting to enable his regime to force upon the country the harshest terms of foreign capitalist control. Once the peasants are disarm- ed, the death warrant to all the promises made by Obregon to distribute the land amongst the poor farmers will have been signed. Once the. peasants and workers are disarmed, the most virulent germs for a successful Fascist revolt will be implanted in the Mexican soil—a Fascist moyement which might very likely be led by Calles himself the next time. There is only one way out for the workers and farmers of Mexico. The Communists of Mexico have shown the way. The Mexican workers and farmers can save themselves only by fighting to the bitter end for the Communist demand of “Arms and Land” for the peasants and workers. The workers and farmers of France and Ger- many must raise the alarm against the peace be- tween their capitalists that means new wars against the Russian Workers and Farmers’ Re- public, Socialist Congressman Victor L. Berger sent cabled greetings to Jean Longuet on the results of the recent French elections. But Longuet was de- feated by the workers of his district. That is what we would call adding insult to injury. junctions and other anti-labor laws, school of experience they organized their own party, and today, while the workers are far from being the ruling class in England, as the Russian workers are in their own country, British labor is a power to be reck- oned with. In the United States the workers are placed on the market by their leaders at every election, vot- ing like cattle to be sold to the high- est bidder.. And like thousands of southern slaves during the civil war, who fought in the ranks of the Con- federate army, millions of American workers are yet satisfied to be placed on the auction block and in return for a glittering promise they vote for their enemies, the capitalists, and scorn the advice of the Communists, who urge them to stand on their own feet and use their mass power in or- der to free themselves from wage slavery and all its evil consequences. ao: 2 The war veterans would not, even have an insurance policy if Calvin Coolidge could help it. And Calvin was carrying cut the orders of the bankers, for whom the veterans fought in the louse-infested trenches of France. It would cost the country too much money to give the ex-sol- diers an insurance policy on which they could borrow a few dollars after two years “on reasonable rates of in- teerst.” There was no objection, however, from the same government to give the railroads billions of dol- lars for the use of the roads after guaranteeing them a fixed profit dur- ing the war. The owners of the rail- roads did not go over to France, They had plenty of slaves to sen there, who worked for $30 a montli, saving democracy. A grateful coun- try would take care of them! But now we are told that “you cannot put a price on patriotism.” The presi- dent's veto will be overridden becausé an election is approaching and con- gressmen and senators want to get elected. a ee t Boost The DAILY WORKER. If you are a worker, it is your paper. } . é The Poor Fish says that June 17th sounds better to him than July 4th, because it comes first. f + Boost The DAILY WORKER, you are a worker, it is your paper, After considerable lessons in the hard... ...) nd i] [ i] i |