The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Givd., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.00....3 monthr Chicago only): months $2.50....3 montis $6.00 per. year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. 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. <B> 20 Gompers, July 4th, and La Follette Three groups with essentially the same ideas, Gompers, the C. P. P. A., and the LaFollette group, still go their own separate ways. They are united in their lack of definite program of action, and they split on the question of who shall lead Advertising rates on application. the inaction. The American Federation of Labor non-partisan campaign committee (which means Gompers) issued a statement a few days ago. It expresses a few’pious wishes, which it hopes and trusts will come to the attention of the candidates of the Republican and Democratic parties. It promises that those candidates who tip their hats to the statement will be announced as “friends of labor.” The C. P..P. A. has announced that it wants liberty and justice for all, and has shown that it intends to split its forces between Democratic and Republi- can parties in- an effort to get it both places. LaFollette has slapped the organized Farmer- Labor movement in the face, is organizing his committees from middle-class elements, and an- nounces that unless a “good man” is named by one of the old parties, the citizens of the United States will have an opportunity to vote for, not a party of their_own, but an “independent” candidate. The one positive thing, common to all three groups, is their, confusion. AllL.of which makes the June 17th, St. Paul con- vention stand out on the political horizon like a mountain on the desert. St. Paul has issued a clarion call for independent political action of the workers and farmers. At St. Paul has been laid the ‘basis for a real class party of the toiling masses. At St. Paul the rank and file will find expression thru delegates selected by themselves. St.Paul gives a clear lead towards establishing _ political. power for the hitherto /disfranchised classes. St. Paul is the gateway from the present leaderless, chaotic, confusionist, futile, helpless- ness of the workers and farmers, into the field of struggle, of organized power, of the beginnings of achievement. ri Tice in the East One outcome of the estrangement between the Japanese and American governments over the exclusion of Nipponese that will very soon out- weigh all other considerations is a new turn in the relations between Soviet Russia and Japan. ~ Taking advantage of its present unassailable economic and political position the imperialist Washington government dared do against Japan what it has for years shrunk from doing. This compels Japan to seek new friends, if not to un- make old enemies, at least. A reproachment be- tween Soviet Russia and Japan in the Pacific will do more than anything else to make the Yankee ruling class toe the mark and accord the Japanese the same treatment now accorded European immi- grants. In view of the center of gravity of the economic development steadily veering toward the Pacific, such a realignment would be of inestimable significance in world politics. _ Thus the reports of a settlement of the old diffi- culties between the Soviet republic and Japan are of paramount interest at this moment. From Peking it is reliably reported that Japan has agreed to recognize the Soviet Republic, to evacu- ate Saghalien, and to cancel the old czarist debts. In return the Soviet government will grant certain concessions to the Japanese in Eastern Siberia and, Northern Saghalien. In the history of Soviet Russia’s foreign rela- "tions this is an event of international significance that is “not even exceeded by the British recogni- tién’ of the Soviets,” according to one of the ablest observers of world politics. The new American THE DAILY WORKER Chasing Death Rays The air in Washington is thick ‘with peace There is loud talk of Coolidge calling a new naval and military disarmament conference. Senator Lodge, the historian of the reactionary republican party, is falling all over himself in an attempt to make history by putting forward a new peace plan whereby the United States can enter the League of Nations thru a back door. Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania, the reputed best legal mind of the Old Guard, is on his hind legs keeping pace with Sir Oracle Lodge in concocting peace schemes and is advertising his own quack remedy to secure world brotherhood. Why all this fight for peace among our militarist capitalist peacemakers? On the basis of our ex- periences with our ruling class we are inclined to think that all of this noise is merely camouflage to hide the aggressive plans for new increased mili- tary and naval preparedness now being worked out by the general staff of the employing class. If the increased volume of the noise for a more power- ful navy means anything at all this is already rumors. obviously true. But there is another incident which turns the scorching searchlight on the fraudulent peace maneuvers of our capitalist clique. "While Coo- lidge, Lodge, Pepper and a horde of other employ- ing class agents are mouthing phrases. about the earnest desires of the American government. for peace, the same government is working overtime devising the most effective weapons of infernal destruction. A certain English Professor Matthews is re- ported to have invented a death ray which can destroy whole cities at a distance of miles. This new messenger of imperialist peace is said to be of so deadly a character as to be able to decimate regiments of soldiers at a stroke. Disappointment with the lack of enthusiasm that first greeted his invention, Mr. Matthews turned to France for recognition. The French imperialists, of course, welcomed the inventor with open arms. Now, the United States, hearing of the mad scramble for this new agency of hellish destruction, has joined the race to secure control of the invention ‘and is feverishly chasing the death rays. There is no doubt that the government paying the highest price will win a monopoly against England and France and the United States stands the best chance of winning the race. Apparently, chasing death rays is the shortest and only road to peace that our employing class knows. Another Friend of Labor When workers first began to organize labor unions, the bosses passed laws, in their kept legis- latures, making unions a conspiracy. Workers were hung, branded, mutilated, imprisoned and suffered all the tortures of bourgeois law for the crime of conspiracy, for organizing unions. It is popularly supposed that the old “conspiracy” laws had been dead and forgotten for a long time. It has remained for a well-known “friend of labor” to dig them up again. Samuel Untermyer, millionaire lawyer, liberal and “friend of the working man, is prosecuting for the second ‘time officials of the plasterers’ union of New York City on the charge that, because the organization is powerful enough that the bosses are afraid to fight it, therefore the union is a conspir- acy. The theory is that in order to be lawful, the union must be weak. Untermyer is no exceptional instance of a “friend of labor.” One and all they love labor most when labor is most helpless. They want to come to the “rescue” just when labor is about to be hung, drawn, and quartered. And if no one else will put labor in that desperate plight, they will do it themselves. Perhaps they will stage a last minute rescue, just in time to get labor back to work in good health and at a “reasonable” wage. Labor generally, however, is getting a belly full of such friends. Better be friendless and strong, than have a world full of friends like Untermyer, McAdoo et al, whose kindness is the sort that kills. Recognition of Russia Capitalist world polities continues to stagger from pillar to post. On the question of recogni- tion of Russia, it is torn by the contradictions of class interests demanding that Russia be crushed, sectional interests demanding the profits of trade, and the sympathies of the great masses of every country demanding full and complete recognition of Soviet Russia, as is. Out of the tangle comes, Capitalist Agents in the Unions which is posted as its agents and sen-/T. U. E. L, program for amalgama- Many. years ago Austin Lewis wrote a little pamphlet about: the deaden- ing influence of the petty bourgeoisie in the revolutionary movement, but Lewis dealt with the question in the abstract and referred definitely to the role of the petty bourgeoisie in the old Socialist movement of pre-war days. New conditons and the new Com- muhist movement has devloped a new petty bourgeois influence, or rather has brought out in bold relief the pet- ty bourgeois nature of that infiuence wielded over the working class by the bureaucrats of the trade unions. It is, therefore, intensely interesting to Jearn that so able an analyst as Wil- liam Z. Foster has briefly but distinct- ly defined the character and tenden- cies of this class’ influence’on the or- ganized labor movenient. In the Labor Herald for May Com- rade Foster makes clear that the trade union bureaucracy has. become a special section of the petty bour- geoisie. More definitely. it has be- come that section of the bourgeoisie SIMON CALLED PETER By ALFRED FRANKENSTEIN After seeing “Simon Called Peter,” now playing at the Great Northern, one has a strong and itching desire to go after Jules Eckert Goodman and Edward Knoblock, the dramatic butchers who ruined Robert Keable’s novel to make the play, with a large bottle of some effective but torture- some poison in either hand. For Keable’s story and what might have been a good play are both spoiled by one of the most asinine happy end- ings ever put on a stage. The play deals with the effects of the war on a. bourgeois minister. Peter Graham leaves his church and his rich congregation to serve in France as a British army chaplain. But when a small group attends his sermons, and only because of regard for him and not for what he has to say, he doubts the value of his preach- ing. .A British officer explains that nobody wants his sort of religion, a religion of words and phrases. He advises the “padre,” as they call him, to get down from his high horse and learn the umrestrained and lewd psyehology of men at war. The “padre” does so, and in the do- ing learns to. doubt that religion has any value at all. There occurs an episode in a French cafe, in which is a startlingly vivid air raid. A friend of the preacher is killed in the raid, but dies without wanting the prayers of the church of England. There is also an adventure with a prostitute, which further destroys his belief. Graham falls in love with an army nurse, and lives with her for a week in a London hotel when they are on leave. He declares his intention of quitting the church, and his intention of marrying her. But she refuses, be- cause she says he is still too much of a preacher. She says he will go back to his sumptuous church and his rich congregation to preach again the same old stuff. And she is right. So far so good. But in the final scene the play falls flat and far. It represents Peter Graham preaching in his robes of a priest of Jesus. Clack, clack goes the scissorbill. He winds up by telling his hearers he will quit the church because he has sinned according to the laws of the tinels in the headquarters of organ- ized labor—as spies upon and traitors to the marshaled ranks of labor. As petty bourgeois shopkeepers the union bureaucracy is interested in la- bor only insofar as labor is saleable. As Foster puts it, “They have the same interest in organizing and main- taining the union as has the shop- keeper in building shelves and filling them with saleable merchandise,” The article elaborates how. this inter- est inevitably conflicts with the inter- ests of the rank and file workers. Here, also, Foster makes clear that the opposition to the program of the Communists and the measures advo- cated by the Trade Union Educational league is not derived from any “hon- est opinion” on the part of union of- ficials. The solid wall of hostility confronting the militant workers in the unions is the united officialdom. These officials are famous mainly for their stupidity and ignorance, and Foster correctly points out that noth- ing on earth could unify such a pig- gish tribe but the threat against their material interests embodied in the church. Thru the house comes Julie, the nurse, crying, {‘Peetah, Peetah, forgive me.” Acting, costumes and scenery are good. Noel Tearle makes a good| preacher, and Frieda Enescort a good Julie. There is splendid work on the parts of Jetta Goudal as Madeleine, the prostitute, H. Tyrell Davis as the lieutenant killed in the air raid, and Harold de Becker, as the private who tells the preacher his reversed collar “is too damned nosy.” see ELNWAH “Elijah,” by Mendelssohn, opened this year’s North Shore music festival, at Patten gymnasium, Northwestern university, last Monday night. The soloists were Louis Graveure, bari- tone; Richard Crooks, tenor. Merle Alcock, Contralto, and Monica Gra- ham-Stults, soprano. There. was a chorus of a thousand voices, flanking the huge bank of organ pipes in the center of the stage. “Elijah” deals with the famine and misery of the Jews, the miracle work- ing of the prophet to bring them back to the worship of the Jews, and his subsequent flight, ending with his re- solution to devote his energies to a second reclammation of Israel. The music, unlike so thuch of Mendels- sohn, is powerfulj almost classi¢ in spirit, and so dramatic that the ora- torio might well make an opera. It was Graveure’s evening, as far as the solo work went. The words of the prophet were given to the bari- tone. Graveur’’s voice is a most unusual baritone, for, unlike the dark profundities of Russian, German and American singers of low voice, it is light and high in quality, yet low in range. His interpretations of the prophet taunting the priests of Baal to perform a miracle, and of the hope- less and tired Elijah cast out into the wilderness were especially fine. Musically, the chorus is next in im- portance. It is no small task to train a thousand singers to the point where they can put over even a mediocre performance of such a work as “Hli- jah,” and this was no mediocre per- formance. The work of a small cap- pella choir, singing the words of the angels of the Lord, gave a peculiarly beautiful and mystical effect. The other soloists had little to do, but that little done with perfec- THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS Unholy City of Disgraced Angels. To the DAILY WORKER: ‘We are supposed to have an up-to-date chief of police in this city, but police brutalities are just as bad now as ever before, or worse. Even Deputy District Attorney Clark—suspected of being a bootlegger—was badly beaten up last year in the third degree cham- ber of the city jail. But. this was a “mistake,” of course, and therefore does not count, they say. On the other hand, former U. S. Senator Works, who, by the way, is rich enough not to work any more, comes out in Cornelius Vandervilt, Jr.’s publicity is necessary, for Chief Vollmer’s “scientific police methods of today” are copied from the Spanish inquisition—with some devilish tricks added to it for good measure. The painter's strike is still on—but tion, a labor party and other meas- ures. It-is not a “difference of opin- jon.” Comrade Foster depicts how these bureaucrats trade off organizational power for personal favors, how they often become immensely wealthy, their intimate relations: with politi- cians of the capitalist parties which keeps <organized labor’ in leading strings. in this manner. Such a subject could be well ex- panded into a book, and it is notable that, according to the'Labor Herald custom of condensing the most valu- able matter into brief and -readable form, Comrade Foster in the May is- sue has given the very essence of so important a work. By it he makes clear that the necessity of fighting re- actionary labor bureaucracy is bound up with the fact that it is the outpost of: capitalism in the camp of labor, and no attack can be made upon cap- italism without making first contact with these petty bourgeois sentinels. No better and more vital article has appeared upon any labor union sub- ject for many months. tion. Richard Crooks has had his praise sung in these columns before. His rendition of the famous aria, “If With All: Your Hearts Ye Truly Seek Me” demonstrated the high silken quality of his voice and his dramatic interpzetative ability. se 8 “Behold This. Dreamer.” By FULTON OURSLER. (The Macaulay Company, New York.) By GEORGE McLAUGHLIN. Charley is.a.dreamer, an inchoate artist married to a contented slave and chafed to fury by his slave ring, which is inscribed “Filing Clerk.” He meets ‘a girl of .charm’ and plays awhile in Arcady. ‘He chivies her away in disgust when he: finds she uses a lipstick: and—doubtless—garters. His in-laws failroad him to an-asylum to save a divorce scandal. He escapes to New York, the modern sphinx, whose shibboleth and. motto is: “Quick, quick; be quick.” | His car- toons make a big splash but he hotly refuses a fat job; he will not become a “dreamer, who has accepted harness and oats,” he will-draw only beauty, nothing so coarse, so ugly as. car- toons. So he meets his dream woman, his Aphrodite, lovely in mind ‘and body and soul, and ‘her uncle is a wise old craftsman, who makes a master paint- er of him. - The world acclaims him pera the book ends in a rosy Pollyanna mist. A corking book but strangely my- opic: The world is-a cesspool but he still devoutly praises God. - Tis a wild weird theory that’ the knights « of Hearst and the Saturday Evening Post are self-aborted dreamers. Picture the shy, stifled souls of Ar- thur Brisbane and Edna Ferber, of George Patullo and Mary Roberts Rinehart!, : These’ heroes. are word- merchants, there’s. a streak of shoddy in them.. Some ‘of the dreamers man- age to compromise enough to join Romain Rolland and Oursler in their safe retreat “above the battle.” The gifts of those; who are not heard. at once and who find no Fairy with an uncle-cornucopia are strangled at the dajly task in coal-pit, steel -mill or packing house. The best use their divine fire to heat the coals in Vul- can’s brazier forging the rebel. blade to hack outa world in which Prome- thean fire will not be stifled. « this struggle against the open shop did’ a lot of good, as the sale of the paper among painters increased 400 per cent. This put 100 percentism into the back seat in shame once more.—L P. Rindal, Los Angeles, Cal. Are Unemployed: “Idlers”? ATLANTA, Ga,, May 28.—, Leland Harvey: started something when he told police-his occupation. was “poker playing.” Chief of police Jett or- good hopes are reported. Those ar-|dered an immediate round-up of idlers ticles in the DAILY WORKER -about|and 140 were arrestéd. VANZETTI GREETS WORKERS FROM PRISON WRONGLY HOLDING HIM Thursday, May 29, 1924 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY While the Communists in the Ger- man Reichstag sang “The Internation- ale,” the Socialists and the Fascisti roared out “Deutschland Uber Alles.” The session which was to pave the way for the Dawes slave plan, ended in an uproar. When the presiding officer—a Socialist—could not stop the noise, he put on his silk hat and walked out. Socialists in Germany line up with the Fascisti. That is, the So- clalist leaders and the less class-con- scious of their followers. Tn England ex-premier ‘Asquith praises Philip Snowden’s budget. A good labor budget that will satisfy capital anq labor. The only worth while opposi- tion to the capitalists everywhere now carried. on by the Communists. The Socialists in every country are the betrayers of the workers. Morris Hillquit said there was difference between the progressive capitalists in congress and the Social- ists. Now, there is less than ever, La Follette took a hand at denoune- / ing the Communists because of their energy in pushing the June 17 conven- tion in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the di- rection of organizing a class party, representative of the interests of the exploited farmers and workers ahd not merely a jumping-off board for some ambitious capitalist politician. The Communists do not depend on individ- uals who wish to play the role of Moses leading the children of Israel out of the capitalist Egypt. They be- lieve in organizing the workers to free themselves, The editor of the Locomotive Bn: gineers’ Journal arrives at the pro- found conclusion that even if La Fol- lette is not elected, the workers still have a chance of “CHOOSING BE- TWEEN THE REPURLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES thru their balance of power in the house.” ‘What a splendid opportunity? It seems they have had that opportunity for several decades and don’t seem to be particularly satisfied. Mr. Warren §. Stone’s employee also says that if the Magnus Johnson and Shipstead forces in Minnesota control the June 17 convention, the Cleveland and St. Paul conferences may serve as the twin pillars to La Follette’s political arch of triumph. While the C. P. P. A. does not know what it wants, La Follette may be able to advise it, pro- vided of course, the labor leaders who are watching it—not pushing it—will not make a satisfactory agreement with the capitalist parties. . Victor Berger published the editori- al from the Locomotive Engineers’ Journal in his paper and comes to the conclusion that only if the reactionarp Communist and Gompers’ machines are eliminated from both conferences will the situation be hopeful. Other- wise, the La Follette edition of the 1912 Bull Moose revolt would start out with the germs of an incurable dis- ease in its system. Well, Berger is even more incurably sick than his worst enemies thot. If, as La Follette says, the capitalist parties don’t take a physic and purge themselves of the evil within t¥em, Berger will have an opportunity to offer himself as a pill on the altar of patriotism. The capi- talists are welcome to him. ' The state of Texas is sending a strong Klan delegation to the Demo- cratic convention pledged to vote for McAdoo for the Democratic nomina- tion for president. In order to coun- terbalance the anti-Catholic Klan sup- port Senator Phelan of California, a Prominent Catholic and oil expert will place the name of McAdoo in nomina- tion. This is expected to soothe the feelings of Catholic delegates that may be ruffled by the presence of the Kluxers. It is rather appropriate that Phelan should nominate the man who received a $50,000 retainer from Do- heny. He nominated Doheny for the vice-presidential race at the 1920 Democratic convention. Senator Phe- lan is one of the most reactionary ¢ap- italists on the coast, yet McAdoo, the “friend of labor” is not too radical tol him. Nice gentleman is McAdoo, Tries to please capital and labor. Lady Astor, the American parasite who became a naturalized British sub- ject. because there was no title fac- tory in the United States, ventured into Glasgow to oppose the labor can- didate and assist -her friend, an ex- CHARLESTOWN STATE PRISON. _ army officer, who is running on, the dj immigration policy and the swing to the liberals|not a policy, but a drift of events, that shows that |DCW8P4per saying that all benoit ng Charlestown,Mass, basanites ees teamed 6 - in the recent Japanese elections have undoubtedly | Soviet Russia is here to stay, and that politicians ‘hed aa te tae brag er is a ‘ ne : 8 ee ae oa ous gabe el in played a decisive part in precipitating the change] of realism are being forced to deal with stub-|mistake and often criminal. Wii best way out of their troubles, sha . in attitude on the part of the government of Japan.|born fact. nem y The question is: What is the rea- ‘May I 1924 © says, is to forget them and refuse . . This resumption, of friendly relations between} That American capitalism is the slowest in get-|®° for this hot-headed stuff? The iy Ned dl Haven. to the -pesgimistic! sbeectiag ta Soviet Russia and Japan is bound to have its effect] ting into this drift of history is explained by three Hi ened ade paso rk (Taworatonasy je teas ed Se le aye . bolt ya apa nna aes jae on-the attitude of the American capitalist govern-|facts. First, capitalism in this country is. the|Galitornia in general and this waholy __Invio a voi 1 miei Salut! fraternt) try, ational t4 Glasgow. “Nancy” ment towards the Workers and Farmers’ republic. | strongest in the world, and the most able to follow |eity of disgraced angels in particular. je°gli auguri per questo esto ‘Primo — is one of the gay ladies who are used Judging by the way foreign affairs are developing] its instinctive aversion to dealing with a workers’ "Arrest Little Children. Ola Sacco), by the rufing class to tickle the fancy of the soldiers who may be needed ‘Jat any moment to die for the safety of the aristocracy and the capitalists. But the Glasgow workers have listened to better propagandists tl Lady Astor and her bunk will not impress them, The Highland Light Infantry can have her all to themselves as far — as the workers are concerned. in Europe today, one cannot blink the fact that the United States has dismally failed in its attempt to isolate Soviet Russia. io,a nome mio e di N sidire "d!interpretare 4 ‘suoi, sentimen-) *s rando”e”oonfidando t wren r con’ Seren ‘ede e forti prapossth ap As “Vostro; © government. Second, trade connections with Rus-|. 4 Prominent woman here invited sia before the war were weaker with ca than |*me redicals from San Pedro to ar) 4 Tange for an entertainment in Pasa- with other capitalist countries, and the lure of | gona—a city of millionaires—and a present profits is therefore not quite so strong. group of children, with their parents, Third, the masses in this country are not yet|went to their hall for practice last aroused to express their sympathies with Soviet|WeeX. But the affair was broken up by six husky brutes who ited Russia in a political way, as, for instance, is re- Maw: aud “order”. A “nstnae aad ‘ United Shoe Machinery Corp., announces net » earnings for the year of 8,054,941. A surplus of over $21,000,000 shows on the corporation books. Gescteats topoct wists. oports toom ‘ho’ shoa|poen the Proletavians both ia Brite dah Webee rte hae renee aoa. dea a Report On Muvele Shel . sen . e charge is criminal eport On Muscle Shoals, workers indicate that 90 per cent of them operated|rise up in wrath whenever the subject (aggression cca ye crateiPsiae to the} ana <Lodroid} panera patente redriat pheanansZielnaieey ata WASHINGTON, May 28.—The Sen- } re Inquency minors. Th rei: . 1 0 at a loss for the year. Wages were reduced, hours|against Soviet Russia) recurred for discusion.” tg ge Al eaten iit . Bis, og be roughly transited: WORKERS;—I extend to you my fraternal greetings |! Asriculture committee today fa- But slow though America may be, for these reag- ons, the same forces are at work. Recognition of Soviet Russia must come, and come.soon, lengthened, unemployment was rampant. If the year was unsatisfactory for the capitalists, what would you call it for the workers? en. ‘ and best wishes for this sad first of May, in my name and in that of Nicola|VOrably reported the Norris govern. Pies ‘Aneplonn ‘vit tinal Sacco, whose sentiment I believe I interpret. With strong and firm faith LRG eet pag edie yd eg is golng good werk/here, bet more] in the future, Yours, Bartolomeo Vane . Lis agen inet gd