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

Page Six Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 'W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 monthe By mail Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 montis $6.00 per year $8.00. per year i <oieealaied 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. LOE ... Editors -Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, IN, under the act of March 3, 1879. <> 280 A Million-Dollar Defense Announcement is made that the two young mil- lionaire-murderers in the Franks’ case are to be protected by a million-dollar defense fund. The most brilliant “legal lights” of the bar will com- bine to cheat the gallows of this pair of young degenerates, in order to get their fingers into the slush fund. . The trial will be a contest of strength Advertising rates on application. between the private fortunes behind the criminals, on the one hand, and the ambition to make a repu- tation for successful prosecutions on the other. All-in. all, it is a pretty spectacle to which the workers will be admitted thru the columns of the yellow press each day for a few pennies. Capitalism is served by. resourceful scoundrels. They even take such an example of ruling-class deeay as the Franks murder with all its attendant perversion, and twist it into a weapon for further befuddling the minds of the workers. The Franks case is now being used to turn the minds of mil- lions away from the exposure of graft in the heart of government at Washington, away from the ris- ing farmer-labor movement, away from the ques- tions of unemployment and falling wages. While the million-dollar fund raised by the Leopold-Loeb families is primarily a desperate effort to save two members of the ruling class from the results of their crimes, of the legal fraternity to get their fingers into treasuries of their masters, of the prosecuting lawyers to make reputations— yet for the capitalist class as a whole, it is being turned into a million dollar defense of the capi- talist system. The Franks murder case is the modern “circus” to distract the toiling masses from their real problems. Give the workers lurid stories: of murder, millions and perversion— coupled with the bread line for the unemployed— and Coolidge will get more votes next fall. Send in that Subscription Today! ee Daugherty Defies Investigation Congress has‘no right to investigate his adminis- tration of ‘the Department of Justice, according to the malodorous Daugherty, because this might blacken his character before the publie. And he backs up his defiance with a decision of a court somewhere or other. Daugherty will, no doubt, get away with his claim for immunity. Not only because he is still an influential factor in politics; not only because he is backed by much financial power, but above all because there are so many politicians mixed up in his crooked deals that hardly a man-jack among them dares to provoke Daugherty into spilling all the beans. So we have the spectacle of Daugherty snapping his fingers at the hely investigating committee, the investigation itself pushed into the background by ‘its . self-righteous backers, the LaFollettes, Magnus Johnsons, and other so-called progressives joining in the conspiracy of suppression of the rot- ten mess. If the workers of America want to really uncover the corruption of capitalist government, they will findit necessary to follow the example of the Rus- sian workers—go into the files of government them- selves, after having chased the lickspittles of capi- talism out of power. Send: in that Subscription Today. Training the White Guard Stories in the New York Times disclose that special battalions of police, picked for “riot” duty, are in training at Peekskill, N. Y. These nuclei of the American white guard are irregular, so far as legal provisions for their creation are concerned, but technicalities of the law are of little concern to those who handle. the. police of. the big cities. It is not even.necessary for them to explain where the finances come from which is used in such affairs. Workers will do well to keep their eyes upon developments of this nature. Taken in connection with. the attempts to establish constabulary in the various states, troops. whose special function it is to-break strikes and prevent any movement of the workers, it shows the aggressive mood of the American” capitalists. They are preparing to force a show-down in their “open shop” schemes. They are preparing the armed ‘forces necessary to serush the unions. Send in that Subscription Today. The capitalist press on the whole does not like the senator from Wisconsin. That is because he talks about the “people,” and the capitalist press ‘stupidly wishes all politicians to serve them openly. But.as the New York Times. consoles -it- self, “Still, there is this to be said.of the Badger ae bark has always been worse than his Saving the Children Soon the cumbersome legal machinery of the government will be set in motion ‘to ratify the amendment to the constitution proposed by the house and senate for the control of the labor power of individuals under eighteen years of age. After six years of unsuccessful: efforts to enact a law regulating the employment. of children in industry and on the farm, the various labor and social reform groups are now in a‘ position to get all the blessings of government aid in their behalf. We do not want to discourage the hopefuls. Yet there is much truth in the statement that to. be forewarned is to be forearmed. The proposed amendment is to be placed before the states for ratification either by their legisla- tures or special constitutional conventions. Ac- ceptance of the senate measure’ by three-fourths. of the states is a condition prerequisite to its becom- ing the fundamental law of the land. This is a long and painful process. Besides, there is no tell- ing what may happen to the measure when it gets into the hands of the legislatures which: are only puppet shows of the southern cotton ‘and textile interests. Strong opposition will also be encoun- tered in certain northern states. Should the necessary three-fourths not be se- eured, then the movement for the regulation of the employment of children will be. put back for years, The supreme court has knocked out'as un- constitutional two so-called: child-labor laws. A defeat in the effort to put over the amendment will be disastrous. At best, even if the states aecept the proposal to amend the constitution, then the country will be confronted with the task of enacting specific legislation. More time lost in controlling the grinding of children’s. lives into fabulous profits for the employers and in a, con- tinuatiofi of the exploiters’ policy of underpaying the children in order to lower the general stand- dard of living and keep the whole working class in subjection! The tragic farce of attempting to. eradicate the anti-social effects of child labor and at the same time maintaining capitalism is brought into sharp focus here in the effort to use the ponderous slow- moving machinery of a strike-breaking, anti-social, capitalist government. The United States govern- ment moves rapidly and functions efficiently only when it is engaged in the task of smashing the ranks of the workers and serving the owning class. When will our misguided hopefuls become. dis- illusioned? Send in that Subscription Today. Philanthropy or Business Announcement of a gift of $5,006,600 to Harvard university by George F. Baker, New York banker, will doubtless bring forth the usual flood of gush- ing editorials from the kept press, applauding the “philanthropy” of this act, and pointing out how it proves the divine right of our capitalists to con- tinue to rule over-us. But is the $5,000,000 trans- action philanthropy or is it business? This particular gift bears more than the usual marks of business. Ordinarily it would be enough that the rich banker gives to the institution that trains the sons .of the ruling class. Depending upon the capitalistic nature ingrained into all such wealthy institutions, the givers of millions con- sider it good business to demonstrate their close property rights over the universities by ladling out the money squeezed from the workers, in the same fashion as gifts to members of the family. But Baker is more than ordinarily businesslike. He makes conditions for his gift. For the newest donation to the school for young capitalists ‘specifically provides that it is to teach “business.” It is to be a permanent endowment of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Admin- istration. Its purpose is to strengthen the system of exploitation by means of which $5,000,000 was taken from the sweat of the workers, so that future millions may be safeguarded and multiplied. Philanthropy? No, not at all. Business, always business! That the League of Nations is merely an elabo- rate scheme calculated to secure the loot.of im- perialist capitalism, was again demonstrated by the proposed “mutual guarantees” worked out by. the last assembly of the league. In a recent note regarding these guarantees which were proposed to Soviet Russia, Chicherin pointed this out, when he said: “The Soviet government ‘absolutely re- fuses to accept the reservation cont ad in the draft treaty which confirms the Treaties of Ver- sailles, Neuilly, St. Germain and Trianon. The Soviet government took no part in the; conclusion of these treaties and maintains an entirely negative attitude with regard to their provisions: 1 Send in that Subser' ption Today. Let LaFollette console with the socialist con- gressman, Victor L. Berger. Vietor ordered all the Communists out of the Socialist party, with the result that Victor is now practically the whole Socialist party. La¥Follette will also find himself shortly isolated by all thinking workers and farmers. When California, Minnesota and New York came under the wire the same day for the St. Paul June 17th convention, it showed conelusively that the demand for a class Farmer-Labor party has gripped the workers and farmers of the whole nation. It is not a sectional affair. It has spread from coast to coast. June 17th holds the spotlight in the center of the, political stage while July 4th is siping: more and more into the background and out. of ‘sight. A) fHE DAILY WORKER 'HE House of Representatives has just passed a bill aiming to give the United States a navy second to none. The measure authorizes the constructon of eight scout cruisers, six river gunboats, and big improve- ments in six battleships. The cost of these provisions will total approxi- mately 111,000. Besides this sum, about twenty million dollars will be spent on con- yerting six coal-burning ships to oil burners and $12,000,000 on gun eleva- tion. This bill is the first fruit of the vig- orous campaign for preparedness re- cently launched by the American mili- tarist and navalist juntas. The pres- ent strained situation in the Pacific arising out of the controversy with Japan over the immigration question, the increasing interest of the Ameri- can manufacturers and bankers in se- curing complete trade and investment hegemony in the Latin-American coun- tries, the plan to put over thé Dawes’ scheme for turning Germany into an American sweat shop have all been seized upon as immediate excuses for strengthening the lend and sea fight- ing forces of the United States in the name of national security. Of course the above events are only the present manifestations of a con- dition inherent in capitalism. These imperialist ventures, in’ their pres- ently aggravated forms, have undoubt- edly precipitated the re-opening of the preparedness campaign. But there are certain organic reasons for the capitalist class seeking to maintain a powerful navy and army at all times. In view of the fact that the question of building up a navy greater than any afloat is today pre-eminent in the minds of the ruling class of the United States, the reasons given for the main- tenance of such a huge armada are es- pecially timely. The authoritative statements following were gathered by the writer to show, specifically, the role of the navy in the development of American imperialist policy and just why our capitalists are anxious to saddle the country with the staggering costs of naval upkeep. Navy Is Imperialist Cornerstone On January 20, 1923 Assistant Sec- retary of the Navy, Theodore Roose- yelt, delivered an address on “Main- tenance of the Treaty Navy” before the National Academy of Political and Social Science. Among the many frank and significant remarks made by Roosevelt we find the following: “At this time ouf fi@Val vessels are stationed from the Mediterranean to Asiatic waters. At this time we have ships cruising near Central-and South America. Our vessels are spread over the seven seas. They are the tangible evidence of the power of the United States.. Behind all the pronounce- ments of our state department rests the power of our navy. It is the navy that turns these pronouncements from simply unsupported statements into matters that must be given the grav- est consideration by all nations. OUR POLICIES, IN TRUTH, ARE BASED ON THE NAVY. INDEED, THE NAVY IS THE CORNERSTONE ON WHICH REST THE MONROE DOC- TRINE AND THE POLICY OP THE “OPEN DOOR.” (Our Caps) Watchdog of Foreign Markets Admiral R. E. Coontz, Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy LaFollette—Disruptor - The thesis on the united front passed by the fourth congress of the Communist International declares that. “the interests of the Communist movement demand support of the watchword of a united working class front.” The resolution on the tactics of the Communist International, passed at the fourth congress, declares: “Thre Communists are interested in bring- ing about the closest union of all the forces of the working class fighting against ‘capitalism,” and again that “The most important thing in the tac- ties of the united front is and remains the agitational and organizational unification of the working masses.” » In the face of this clear-cut state- ment, LaFollette makes the misstate- ment, in his recent attack on the June 17 Farmer-Labor convention at St. Paul that: “The Communists have admittedly entered into this political movement only to divide and confuse the progressive movement and create a condition of chaos favorable to their ultimate aims.” The statement of the resolution of the fourth congress on “international unity,” while it pertains to the re- formist leaders of the Second, Two Why They Want A Bigger Navy broadcasted over the radiophone be- fore the American Association Expo- sition at New York on November 9, 1922 a speech which is a masterpiece for its boldness and for the informa- tion shed on the usefulness of the navy to the capitalists. In the course of the address the Admiral dropped the following sentences which are highly appropriate at this juncture: “The Navy also thruout its entire history has been a great developer of foreign markets and of American busi- ness ... The navy maintains a patrol force of gunboats on the Yangtze River, and this Yangtze ‘patrol guards our interests for some 1,700 miles up the river, right into the heart of China. It costs the navy some $3,000,000 a year to guard our interests in the Asia- tic. In this connection it might be of interest to note that our exports, to China in 1920 were valued at over. $145,000,000. “NAVAL FORCES ARE MAINTAIN- ED THRUOUT THE CARIBBEAN SEA FOR THE PURPOSE OF KEEP- ING DOWN REVOLUTIONS, protect- ing life, and protecting our commerce. Our trade could hardly exist thruout the. West Indies, but for the protection given it by our “Special Service Squadron.” Our fruit trade thruout the West Indies is enormous. In 1921, we imported fruit valued at nearly $50,000,000 and a great part of this came from the countries bordering the Caribbean . . The result of this whole West Indian patrol so safeguards our trade in the Caribbean that bananas in certain Central American countries can be sold on the fruit stands in New York cheaper than apples which grow in our own very backyards. The sail- ors doing duty in this squadron have dubbed these ships the “banana boats.” It costs the navy some. $3,000,000 to maintain this patrol thruout the West Indies. (Our Caps) “The navy gives direct returns to. business interests in other ways as well.” Capitalism Rests on Violence Addressing the National Republican Club of New York on January 20, 1923 Admiral Hilary P. Jones of the United States Navy made a lengthy argument on the need of “keeping our house in order.” One of the points brot home by the admiral was illustrated by a story purporting to convey to the au- dience what a Turkish delegate at Lausanne said to one of the American observers. The Turkish tale which we quote here shows the real basis of capitalist politics as it is played today. Said the Turkish delegate: “We are very much interested in the views of the United States. Ifyou should send an army of 100,000 men to Turkey, we would discuss matters with you; if you should send an army of | caj 200,000 men to Turkey, we would kiss your hands and say to you that you can have your way; but in the present cir- cumstances we will pay no attention to you.’” The Admiral went on to clinch his argument with this choice conclusion: “This illustrates the value of having force available, and of willingness to use that force.” Ultimate Form of Capitalism—War Captain Frank -H. Schofield made a \rather instructive speech on “Incidents and Present Day Aspects of Naval Strategy” on March 3, 1923 before the Army and Navy Institute of New York. Building up his case for our ruling class possessing an unsurpassed and ed amongst the masses.” “Whenever our adversaries. refuse to support any proposition for a unit- ed stand, the masses must be made to realize this, and thus learn who is actually responsible for destroying the workers’ united front. The heroes of the Second and Amsterdam Inter- national preach unity in words, and in ast act contrary.” m the other hand, under the influ- ence of the ever intensifying on- slaught of capital, there has arisen amongst the workers an elemental, literally irresistible impulse toward unity, proceeding parallel with the growth of faith of -wide masses of workers in the Communists.” The Communists must, insists the Third International, “retain absolute independence and complete, autonomy for the expression of its (the Work- ers party’s) views and for the criti- cism of its opponents.” At the same time the Communists, as part of their and One-Half and Amsterdam Inter- national, in view of LaFollette’s above quoted statement, applies with equal force to LaFollette. Speaking of these reformers, the resolution says: “They have shown by their behavior that when it comes to a question of practical action, they in fact reject their own watchword of unity, In all such cases it is the duty of the Com- munist International, and as a whole of its constituent sections in particu- lar, to expose to the masses the hy- pocrisy of these reformist leaders who prefer unity with the bourgeoisie to-unity with the revolutionary work- ers..... But the refusal to accept one or other of our A ydig sugges- tions will not cause us to give up the policy indicated, which is deeply toot. \ The Poor Fish Says: The Japanese began praying to Holy Buddha after Calvin Coolidge signed the exclusion law. What can they expect from work-| Buddha? He is as mute as our presi- had a fighting God like ours thoy might |t In. rnd ‘Padua -(north | dent and a pacifist. If they have some chance of wi scrap, Atta boy, Jehovah: unsurpassable navy the captain de- clared: “The spirit of the age is competition at home and abroad.. Modern indus- trialism and modern trade conditions are driving governments irresistibly toward a keener competition than ever before. Propaganda, commercial rate-wars, tariffs, concessions, spheres of interest, mandates, protectorates, and annexations are phasés of inter- national competition. Back of all these phases lies peace strategy—both naval and military, because WAR IS THE ULTIMATE FORM OF COMPETI- TION. (Our Caps) I shall make no’ effort ‘to demon- strate to you the necessity for an American navy second to none.” Must Protect Imperial Empire It must’ not “be forgotten that the United States has control of a. big colonial empire. The various spheres of influence, protectorates, colonies, dependencies and investment areas must be protected against the en- croachments of the competitors of other national capitalist groups. Captain Mike McNamee, Director of Naval Intelligence, United States navy, stated the case for the Yankee im- perialists forcefully before the Wom- en’s Republican Club of Massachusetts on. Jaunary 22, 1923, The captain said in part: “Tf one square foot of our territory was taken from us by force, even in the far off Philippines, Guam or Sa- moa, we would have'to go and get-it back if it cost the last dollar and the last drop of blood in the country. ... “We have a foreign fruit trade of $50,000,000 in imports, largely built up around the old Boston Fruit company. Without a Special Service Squadron in West Indian and Central American waters, where the bulk of this fruit comes from, a few revolutions would wreck this business, as well as a busi- ness of $500,000,000 annually in sugar and petroleum. “The time is approaching when our prosperity will depend ‘largely on our ability to compete in the international market with manufacttired goods. All history shows -that war is but an ul- timate form of economic competition. If we are to compete on equal terms, we must have a navy able to protect our trade. ‘He who controls the sea controls the world.’ That is Mahan’s dictum.” To Crush Revolution at Home. The navy, like the National Guard and the army, has been employed by the bosses to crush attempts made by the working class to setter its condi- tions. In the same address Captain McNamee made it clear that the army and navy would come in handy to the italist class in preventing the or- ganization of the working class for victory over its exploiters thru a prole- tarian dictatorship. “I wish to say a word about false propaganda against the army and navy. I am repeating no idle rumor when I tell you that much of this propaganda has a sinister foreign source—its object, the overthrow of (our government and the ultimate dicta- torship of the proletariat. A Togical step in the procedure ofthese foreign gentry is the elimination of the forces of law and order—the army and navy.” From the above expzanations given by the most important. men in the United States navy it is clear why the American capitalists are today work- By CARL REEVE revolutionary leadership ‘of the work- ers of the world toward world Com- munism, are “interested in bringing about the ‘closest ion of all the forces of the working class against capitalism.” The section of the resolution on Communist tactics dealing with the united front declares that “the most important thing in the tactics of the united front is and remains the or- ganizational and agitational unifice tion of the working mas The Workers party has declared ‘the reasons it’ will -attend ‘the St. Paul convention, and has pointed out how an independent labor party will weak- en big business represented by the two old parties. If La-Follette means in his statement that the Workers party is always glad to create a con- dition of chaos in the capitalist class he is-right. ‘The Workers party is always ‘glad to see the capitalist class.of America, and the government at Washington, which is under the thumb of the large exploiters of labor, weakened, con- fused and driven into chaos. a La Follette’s statement mere! Points out that LaFollette is out to win the presidency, even if he has attack the champions of the class in order to win support from those interests which are: against tite Communists. ‘LaFollette’s statement this country. Soviets Invited to Italian Fair. MOSCOW, May 5.—(By Mail).—The veyed ment of the Friday, June 6, 1924 By Jay Lovestone ing so feverishly to become the world’s ,» greatest naval power. it What are the exploited workers and || dispossessed farmers going to say about it? AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY Even millionaires sometimes bet on the wrong political steed. J. P. Mor- gan invested $100,000,000 in the polit- ical fortunes of Raymond Poincare, When the latter was faced with an adverse vote in the chamber of depu- ties, and the franc was on the tobog- gan, the American money king poured his gold into the French treasury afte er receiving assurances that the loan would enable Poincare to weather the storm, bolster up the france and pay. Morgan his cash within six months, with a, good. rate of interest. The loan saved Poincare for the time be- ing, but the recent elections sent him into the discard. Now the frane is sliding. again and Morgan is worried over his millions. In vain Herriot as- sures the bankers that he means them no harm. The drop of the france indicates their alarm. We may need another Dawes to act as the savior of the franc. Capitalism is rather sick in Europe. - *_*2* © Sol Bloom, New York representative, introduced a bill in congress requiring civilans to take off their hats and bow their heads to the American flag. Bloom’s patriotic heart bled on Memo- rial day when he witnessed the callous indifference of Washingtonians to the starry emblem carried at the head of a column composed of Legionnaires, Daughters of the Revolution, and dis- tant relatives of. unknown ‘soldiers. Bloom did not say that the Teapot Dome scandal and the Daugherty reve- lations were responsible for the un- patriotic attitude of the Capitol office dwellers, but he did say that the heart of the nation is sound, which is more than can be said tor Bloom’s bloomin” head. ff Bloom holds that if the people are not naturally patriotic a law should be passed making patriotism manda- tory. Is not Mr. Bloom trying to pasé legislation which may be used by enemies of “lawrenorder”? Supposing a gang of burglars organized in a squad carrying an American flag at the head of the column thus forcing the police. men to take their hands off the banana stands, their hats off their heads and bow meekly while the burglars clean up the neighborhood. What then Mr, Bloom? If the cops arrested the burglars, they could be charged with desecrating the flag by acts of ommis- sion and commission. If they didn’t arrest the burglars they would stand in danger of losing their job thru negy ligence. Bloom looks more like a miss+ ing link than a namesake of the fani+ ous lawgiver. ss 8 LaFollette, acting as Sam Gompers” megaphone discovered a red menac after the new attorney general barely stopped slapping himself on the | back for having disposed of the darn- ~ ed thing. For years, our capitalists went to bed with palpitating hearts and troubled consciences, fearing that their easy, coupon-clipping, wine-guz- ling, lives would be terminated ab- ruptly by the appearance of a brawny worker liberaily equipped with hirsute adornment and death dealing weapons, Burns, Daugherty, Gompers et al were all that stood between them and death or a worse fate. Then Stone came along and hurled a missile at the Bol- shevik menace. It ceased to exist over- night. He simply cast Burns into ex- terior darkness. Daugherty had al- ready ceased to exist officially. Two of the red hunters being gone, the “red menace” lost its press agent. Gompers alone was left. But he is a resourceful rascal and succeeded in lining’ up the Wisconsin senator. But the latter does not hold a candle to the versatile Burns. Gompers has-secured @ poor substitute. . King George of Great Britain, ee land and a goodly portion of the 4 of the earth, is 59 years old. He cel- ebrated the occasion by going to Bp- som f6r the opening of the races, Ac- cording to custom the King has a long list of birthday honors, but no new peerages are created. T. P. O'Connor (Tay Pay), Irish nationalist, is made a privy councillor, The capitalist papers print the usual laudatory drivel abo the King, who is tolérated for dé orative Durponss. A pet. ‘On Memorial day, five years after the world war, a veteran, crippled and homeless committed suicide as ‘th bands played and patriotic citicend cheered the soldiers who fortunately were neither killed nor seriously wounded in the great war for demo- eracy. Girls were selling poppies. ‘Po liticlans were delivering speeches on P| bateiotism. Coolidge was lecturing on “renunciation” and ‘denouncing cons >| gress for taxing the rich a little too much and explaining why he vetoed the soldiers’ bonus, . Business could not afford to carry the additional load, he said, But the poor soldier who “re nounced” his health for whet he thought was a glorious cause, put bullet thru his temple rather I with a tubercular hip and spine, which | he contracted when he fell