The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1924, Page 6

Page Six ‘THE DAILY WORKER. Published “by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 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): $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 montus $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Illinols 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. ee 290 Advertising rates on application. OOOO Profitable Politics A noteworthy object lesson in American democ- racy and in capitalist politics can be learned from one of the points just brought home by the Brook- heart committee investigating the Department of Justice. It has been disclosed that the indictments brought against the. United Gas Improvement Company of Pennsylvania for violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act were quashed because of the corporation having contributed handsomely to the Republican party campaign funds. The capi- talists running the gas company were particular friends of Daugherty and spent substantial sums of money on.his campaign. Attorney Lewis, who was originally handling the. case, told the com- mittee that after he had. secured indictments against the corporation in question, a certain Mr. West was chosen to take his place and that this West “seemed to belittle the case and acted as tho he had been engaged by the United Gas Improve- ment rather.than by the department.” This is certainly profitable politics for the em- ploying class. The United Gas Improvement Com- pany has as its leading spirit, E. T. Stotesbury, of J.P. Morgan & Co. It is a hundred million dollar corporation controlling nearly thirty-five gas, electricity, power and railway companies in Penn- slyvania, Minnesota, New Jersey, South Dakota, Florida and other states. This giant concern is one of the most powerful political forces in Penn- sylvania, being closely tied up with the Mellon machine in the Keystone state. Naturally, being the owner of so large a share of the United States government, the latter could not sanely be expected to prosecute it. : ‘ This revelation which bears out once more the cardinal truth of the Communist viewpoint that the government is a strikebreaking agency in the hands of the employing class. To the liberals and others who are still engaged in a useless attempt —_____tagaluanize the capitalist corpse into life, the dis- closure will prove a signal for more lamentations over the system of campaign contributions. These self-appointed purifiers of all that is putrid in capitalism would have us believe that the “evil” can be eradicated by enacting a law preventing big campaign contributions, How childish! What is the law between Daugh- erty and Stotesbury? The employing class knows that the workers must be misinformed, misled, and blindfolded in order to insure the continuation of the present system of wage-slavery. All of this costs money. Law or no law, we can leave it to the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the bosses to devise ways and means of paying for this insur- ance, of paying for the cost of misleading the masses. Running Away from the Unions Capitalists established great factories in back- ward China, because there they have a great mass of helpless unorganized labor to exploit, means larger profits in spite of lesser efficiency. The, same factor works in another way where, as in the garment industry, we see a systematic move- ment of production away from the big cities where strong unions are established, into small towns and villages where the workers are inexperienced. The latest industry to be hard-hit by a move of this kind, in the search for ever greater profits, is the publishing business. Collier’s Weekly has just annoynced that it will no longer publish in New York City, but moves to Springfield, Ohio, where it will be produced in an “open shop.” The Me- Fadden publications, consisting of 12 magazines circulating some 4,000,000 copies per month, are reported moving out into a small New Jersey town for the same purpose. Harper’s magazine has moved to Camden, N. J., the Williams Printing Co. to Albany, McCall’s to Dayton, Ohio, and Vanity Fair, Vogue and House and Garden, to Connecti- cut. All of which presents a problem to the labor movement that will soon demonstrate the bank- ruptcy of the “job trust” idea of unionism. Nothing will solve the problem except the widest organi- zation of the workers in every industry. The ofly way to prevent the capitalists from exploiting backward labor, in the final analysis, is to elim- inate backward labor by organizing and educating it. When there is no longer any place to run to without running into the unions, then Labor will begin to feel a bit of strength. Alleged “constabulary” killed Jack Skelcher at Herrin on Saturday, but the supposed official gun- men could not be located for the inquest, which brought in a. verdict of “death from gunshots by parties unknown.” In other words, the killing of Skelcher was a typical Ku Klux Klan murder, in reprisal for the shooting of the Mussolini of Williamson County. which | |umns of the Cubans the fact that they have not |worshipped at the feet of General Crowder who from financial ruin. Mr. MacDonald Scores Captain Walter Elliot, formerly an undersecre- tary in the reactionary Baldwin administration, |has just been elected to parliament from the Kel- vingrove constituency in Glasgow. The results of this conservative victory are of greater importance than the outcome of an ordin- ary English bye-election would tend to indicate at first sight. The Liberals and Conservatives prac- tically united to defeat the candidate of the Labor Party, Aitken Ferguson. Ceaseless efforts were put up by the various spokesmen of capitalism and great sums of money were spent by them to over- come the labor candidate. Aitken Ferguson, if press despatches are correct, is a well-known Communist who ran on the Labor Party ticket. The enemies of the workers saw in him a mortal foe and forgot the differences amongst themselves to unite to crush him. This is no surprise. But even Mr. MacDonald did his bit to help the opponents of the Labor Party suc- ceed in defeating its candidate. It is customary for MacDonald to forward a personal letter of commendation to the. various candidates of the Labor Party during campaigns. In this instance MacDonald did not do so. Obviously Ferguson was too red for the British premier and the latter preferred to aid, covertly and tacitly, of course, the enemies of his own party to score a victory. , Between a communist or a revolutionary worker on one side and a capitalist coalition on the other, Mr. MacDonald chose the reactionary-liberal al- liance. It is apparent that MacDonald feared that the election, on the Labor Party platform, of a communist in so strong an industrial center as Glasgow might tend to give the Communists too much prestige and influence, especially amongst the great mass of industrial workers in Scotland. Mr. MacDonald fears communist influence in the Labor Party more than he fears a victory of the capitalist groups over the Labor Party because he knows that such revolutionary influence is bound to galvanize the Labor Party into a powerful fighting organization against the present order. The development of such a class-conscious poli- tical party of the workers and the consequent turn the class conflicts would take would naturally wipe the MacDonalds off the map of the fight and put in their place those who are prepared to wage de- cisive battles against the employing interests. But Mr. MacDonald has scored only against himself in this sabotaging of the Glasgow election. Already the conservatives, elated by their success, are planning to attack the Labor Cabinet on the housing question. The Liberals will very likely support them. The black cycle may then be com- pleted. Ungrateful Cuba Some of the moulders of public opinion are growing impatient over the ungratefulness of the protectorate of Cuba, sometimes called by mistake, the Republic of Cuba. , The little Caribbean country is being painted in the blackest of ink woefully unappreciative of all that the United States has done towards its economic and political salvation. The editorial effusions on ‘this subject appear to the reader like columns of a ledger with all the assets credited to the Yankee emperialists and all the liabilities debited to the Cubans. For instance, we will find in the liability col- was “loaned” to them in order to save the island President Zayas, who has shown himself to be a puppet in the hands of Wall Street, is now being denounced because he is not coming across even more submissively, as was expected from him by the Washington agents after they helped him suppress a rebellion against THE DAILY WORKER COLLECTING HIS PRICE * SALESMAN sam “AN ILL CUT HIS LEFT WING i Spa you By CATHERINE BICKLEY. The American labor movement to- day stands on the threshold of a new era. The new political party, growing out of the Farmer-Labor party con- vention, a true expression of the rank and file of the movement, will crys- talize and utilize a power which in the future is bound to be all-conquering. When the class-conscious political mind of the working masses bécomes aroused to unified action, no barrier can long stand in the way of its attain- ing the goal of a workers’ govern- ment. But the whole mass must be awak- ened. The woman at home, who is caring for the children and scrubbing By GEORGE McLAUGHLIN. Wine of Fury by Leigh Rogers, A. A. Knopf, New York. Every rebel should read the output of clowns like Lothrap Stoddard, John Corbin and Cecile Tormay,, These cannot fail to’ delight’ By if’ rag: time Nordic biology or shrfil nation- alism. This recommendation cannot be extended to “Wine of Fury,” as the mime is clumsy. Rand, an executive robot, goes to Leningrad in 1916 to start a branch of a big New York bank. He has splendid success, but notices with an- noyance the seething unrest of 1917. He is horrified when the workers put the aristocrats to street cleaning and indignantly expostulates to commis- sar Radkin that these people have worked hard with their minds all their RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN OPERA STARS SANG IN CONCERT SUNDAY Eugenia Sadovskaya, the great Rus: dramatic soprano, sang with many other noted Russian and his administration. The recent fifty million dol- lar loan given to Cuba and the thread-bare, worn- out illusion about having saved the Cubans from the clutches of the cruel Spaniards do not seem to have evoked as much enthusiasm among the people of the island as our financial solons and their legislative lackeys desired. These lamentations make it difficult for one to avoid repeating, in coniment, the old adage, “Be- ware of the Greeks when they bear gifts.” Our capitalist newspapers always omit mentioning the fact that Crowder was sent to Cuba as an agent of the big sugar interests to force the Cuban Sugar producers to set a price on their product suitable to American bankers. Not a word is ever mentioned by these scribes about the dicta- torial conduct of General Crowder in Cuba. Notb-| ing is ever said that it is American influence that is responsible for Zayas aggravating his strike- breaking policy against the Cuban workers. In the recent longshoremen’s strike Zayas sent hundreds of convicts to scab on the workers. Policemen were freely used to break the strike of Havana carmen. In order to intrench themselves further in the, Caribbean island, the American | Pines from Cuba. Yet Cuba is said to be ungrateful. Do our imperialists propose to deny their victims even the right to ery out in pain when their oppressors’ blows lacerate them? Carl Vrooman, agricultural expert,” tells the Democratic party that “six million farmers are in politieal revolt,” suggesting that a nice little law, giving the farmers what they want, would correl a lot of votes for the Democratic party. What Carl overlooked was, that the Democratic party exists for the purpose of keeping the farmers from getting what they. want. And the farmers cad it—they are building their own party. 4. ar SRN LEO capitalists are also planning to grab the Isle of; Italian singers at a special concert given Sunday, June 1, at 8 p. m. in Division Hall, 2441 W. Divi- sion street. Mario Carboni and En- are the Italian operatic Michael Kuchelev, Fran- cesco Patozkia, Eugenia Sadovskaya, and Mabel Stapleton, from the Rus- sian Grand Opera Company. Sadovskaya is the prima danna from the Moscow Grand Opera House, and recently entertained the striking ladies’ garment workers at the seventh concert arranged for presentation of Russian folk songs. Clausi, tenor of the Italian Opera Company, sang again for the strik- ers at this last concert. » Eyery new subseriber ‘increases the influence of the DAILY WORKER. and cooking is just as important a |political unit as the woman in the shop, or the man in the field. By the very nature of her occupation, that of home making, she is keenly aware of the evils of the existing capitalist sys- tem. It is she who has to puzzle out ways of stretching her man’s weekly wage to cover the high costs of bare |mecessities for her family; she knows only too well the anxiety and hard- ship of the unemployment period, and on the other hand she feels the loss of comradeship for her and her children when necessity drives the father on to long hours and overtime. Even more than these, the mother slaving at home, and too often in the factory, lives and should not now be deprived of the leisure they are enjoying on their saved earnings. He schemes to make a settlement with the counter- revolution or with the invading Ger- mans—his country’s enemy—and is stunned when the Communists beat him to it by seizing his bank. He flees to America. It is strange that a man should write a long historical novel, being too lazy to study the events of the last ten years. Rand stresses over and over again the idea that as’a banker, he must be neutral in politics. Think of the world-wide record of the J. P. Morgan firm—anu laugh! The author describes the Bolshevik coup as. tak- ing place in broad daylight! He tells of constant, drunken orgies! in the looted wine cellars of the rich—tho one of the most dramatic of the Sovy- iets’ acts was the destructfon of an ocean of valuable wine in their deter- mination to prevent drunkedness. He never found out what were the revolu- tionary programs. . Radkin is a pas- sionless fanatical revolutionist and talks pages of sentimental piffle about justice, utopia and “soul hunger.” His line is strongly reminiscent of Wood- oe Station Agent Tells of Long Hours and Broken Home Life (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 1.—A station agent of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company has just written a letter to one of the local papers which shows up conditions on that road. He writes: 5 “I have been a station agent for eleven years, and receive first-grade pay, which is $37.40 per week for eighty-four hours. Out of the twelve hours daily we get a ten-minute relief in the morning, thirty minutes for lunch and ten minutes in the after- noon. “Besides thim we must pay 75 cents a month, which is taken out of our pay, for a company relief fund, which pays 50 cents a day benefits when on sick leave, payable after seven days, and in the meantime your pay stops jwhen you stop. A, “We are also compelled to belong to the company Brotherhood, which costs us $3 a year. We leave our families asleep in the morning and find them ready to retire after only one meal at home. This is the same thing 365 days a year. “I leave it to the general public whether Mr. Hedley is justified in de- creasing our pay five per cent. STATION AGENT.” Horrors! Workers Limit Families! ALTRINCHAM, Eng., June 1.—Brit- ish couples in the working class are using birth control methods to keep down their families, according to.the medical officer of health of. Altrin- Woman’s Share in the New Labor Party too, feels the great industrial giant suck the life blood of her young, first, thru cramped and unhealthy hous- ing conditons, then through inade- quate education, and finally thru the wholesale turning out’ of young chil- dren into the gtasp of the facto: itself. x These and hundreds of other facts are why, shut up in the heart of every working woman, are great potentiali- ties f6r carrying on the class struggle. The workingman’s wife is needed to make our solidarity complete! Wives of workers, think with your men, re- main their equals and unite your strength to the great independent class conscious political party! EWE 8 SEE sanetatiss auite S, row Wilson. To the author, Bolshe- vism means chaos, and a Bolshevik is a criminal—or a devil! It never occurred to this naive young man that a system as corrupt and clumsy as he describes, would col- lapse in a month—whereas, the Soviet regime has fought off the most power- ful military coalition the world has ever seen; has stamped out a famine and already accomplished half its task of teaching a nation of 150,000,000 peo- ple to read and write within one de- cade. Not only is the book dull, but the grammar is bad and the command of words worse. It is surprising that as reputable a publisher as Knopf, should touch so weak a tirade. We enjoy abuse, but let it be at least entertain- ing.—GEORGE McLAUGHLIN, Chant For Young Workers By ALFRED V, FRANKENSTEIN. it is the dead child of a millionaire found in a swamp a mangled body, a pair of glasses, a letter, are the only crazy clews let us weep let us sit in solemn council wearing our high hats and declare such things a Menace to the Welfare of the Community let us weep over all strange and ter- rible happenings it is the living, half dead children of a million workingmen caught in the grinding cogs of a ma- chine caught in the knives of packing ma- chines picking cotton, rice, shelling nuts, with living, half-dead arms “I know they bleed your wrists, there in the dark,” said a gray-haired man with sad eyes let us put on our gayest sport clothes and go to Palm Beach for the Win- ter The Poor Fish veteran hero who committed suicide on Mem- cham. His annual report relating to the fall of the birth rate says: “Many young couples, married since the war, still in rooms and with no prospects of a house of their own, having had one child, or perhaps two, are careful to avoid further births.” orial Day, surely pulled a bad one. While it is perfectly 0. K. for any veteran to end his life on any other day during the year, such affairs should be postponed until after cele- brations like Memorial Day. There ought to be a law against it.’ Monday, June 2, 1924 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY The Ku Klux Klan is clean mad because its headquarters on the South side of this city was bombed recently. Catholics are suspected of being the culprits. The Kluxers are quite handy with the bomb, torch and bullet in sections ofthe country where they can commit acts of violence against their enemies with impunity, but where their opponents take the biblic- al law of an “eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” seriously, the gal- lant knights of the pillow case cry to heaven. see An Englishman by the name of Mathews, claims to have invented a deadly ray capable of killing human beings at a distance of eight miles. No doubt Mathews is a patriot; the fact that he is interested in death- dealing machinery is prime facie eyi- dence., Yet he is not willing that “his” country should have the benefit of his brain-child unless he is well compensated for his invention. He is now offering it to the highest bid- . der. France, England, the United States and several other countrfés are competing for the deadly ray. Thus, almost six years after the end of the “war to end war” the capitalist gov- ernments are using the energies of other war, thousands of times more cruel and savage than the great carn- age of 1914-1918. This is civilization under capitalism and only the vic- tory of the working-class and the or- ganization of society on a Communist basis will end the perpetual dread of ‘war, which forever hovers ovér a class- ridden society. see After reading one of Calvin Coo- lidge’s prosperity speeches, Nellie Asher, a department store clerk of St. Louis, attempted suicide. The speech was not entirely responsible, however, for the working girl's at- tempt on her life. Her last dollar was spent and all her family were unemployed. Under such conditions she thought death was preferable to existence. “I was tired of fighting a losing, battle’ for a livelihood. For years I have had to make my own way in life. It has been one con- tinual uphill struggle and things have grown worse. I had to work from early yesterday morning until late last night. to ‘earn enough money for one meal.” Thus she explained her act. If shé recovers, the state may indict her 0: the charge of attempt- ing to kill herself and if found guilty, she may reczive a long term of im- prisonment or the electric chair, what- ever the capitalist class of that par- ticular state think should be appro- priate punishment, for her effort to escape from the capitalist system. ee General Ludendorf and his Fascist followers did not enter the reichstag until they had guzzled themselves on good, strong German beer, Inwardly fortified they were able to put up a good show of fight and cursed so vociferously that they succeeded in convincing themselves they were the saviors of Germany. They attempted to rush the Communists, but the lat- ter, tho not supported by Dutch cour- age, made it so uncomfortable for the Ludendorfers that hostilities were called off. At that, those who got in between to play the role of peace- maker got the worst of it. They usually do, The German Fascisti have no grudge against liquor. Their first bid for large scale notoriety had its origin in a beer hall. ee 8 The British Fascisti are preparing to actively enter politics. Judging from their program they are merely an auxiliary of the Tory party whose organ, the Morning Post, is also boosting the Fascisti. The British black shirts are not quite sure whether they should copy Mussolini or not. Some of them think the “British and Italian temperaments ‘re dissimilar.” Ex-servicemen of the type heading the American Legion, are the backbone of the Bri- tish Fascist! movement. Its progran is a combination Ku Klux a k American Legion, G. O. P. and Ital! Fascisti. e. &€ Baron Eugene Ferson, now living in Washington, hag renounced his Russian baronship. He also took out first papers as a preliminary to be- coming a citizen of this country. It was rather nice of the baron to dump his title over six years after such things became obsolete and ‘rather risky in Russia tho still somewhat in © brisk demand here in America. There is hardly a doubt, however, but that the baron will be given his final Papers without any question. He is © not a radical, a worker or a union- ist. ) He is entirely satisfactory to the American bourgeoisie, San Francisco’s Italians Protest Fascist’s Arrival | SAN FRANCISCO, June 1,.—A near riot in the Italian quarter followed the first public Fascist demonstration in San Francisco, Prince Gelasio Gae- tani, Italian ambassador appointed by Mussolini, is here on a visit, and local Fascists came out from hiding and appeared in black shirts and skull caps. Both the local Italian papers are against Fascism in this country, and the more important of the two is also anti-Fascist for Italy, ,