The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1924, Page 4

j FA e biggest bankers by forcing the Mexican govern- _ fage Four Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 months. By mall (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year * $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 mont’s $6.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington ‘Blvd. Chicago, Ilinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE) MORITZ J. LOBB..... Editors siness Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. 290 Advertising rates on application. Wall Street Winning Wall Street was elated by the Coolidge con- demnation of the tax measure. The President was roundly applauded for his “tearing to pieces” the continuation of certain inheritance taxes, the limited publicity provisions, and the lowering of the surtax from 50 to 40 per cent instead of to 25 per cent. At the same time the financial moguls rejoiced over the president’s signing the bill. So important a journal of high finance as the New York Annalist even had the courage to point out very frankly that the new revenue measure is very much of a Mellon proposal in its essentials. Having cleared up the taxation muddle for a while, the reactionary interests are proceeding with rare brazenness to oil the steamroller for the Cleveland republican convention. The choice of Frank W. Mondell to be the permanent gavel- wielder is a sample of the western atmosphere that the eastern bankers will accord their progressive colleague LaFollette. With lame duck Mondell of Wyoming in the chair there will be more bus- iness than pleasure at the show. Mondell was re- pudiated by the voters of his state in the last sen- atorial contest. He was disastrously defeated. Then he was given the sinecure of the chairman- ship of the War Finance Corporation which is hated most intensely by the farmers thruout the country. Chairman Mondell as ruler of the ma- chine delegates will have time for the busy serv- ants of Wall Street and words for LaFollette and his hopeless handful. Charles B. Warren, now ambassador to Mexico, will be chairman of the resolutions committee. Mr. Warren is an accomplished diplomat and is one of the ablest spokesmen of American imper- lism. He has just won his spurs in the eyes of toment to yield to every demand made upon it by eulae Morgan interests. With Mondell, who when volt be- cause of his raw reactionary record, as his team- mate, all will move very smoothly. Wall Street is winning—in the republican party. It could do nothing else, the disappointment of LaFollette to the contrary notwithstanding. Wall Street is sure to clean up in the democratic con- vention which will be held within a stone’s throw from the world’s biggest financial center. To look for aid and comfort from these capitalist conven- tions, in so far as the working and farming masses are concerned, is like looking for aid and comfort from a gang of highway robbers point- ing fire-spitting automatics at your head. What Cleveland and New York, what the re- publican and democratic conventions will be doing for the exploiters, St. Paul, the Farmer-Labor convention, will be doing for the workers and poor farmers. Left-Wing Progress ‘Advancement of the left wing program in the trade unions looking toward the amalgamation of craft unions into industrial unions, breaking with old political parties and establishing a labor party, abolition of class-collaboration policies, and the crystallization of a revolutionary leadership, has been phenomenally great during the past two years, and especially during the last six months. It is, therefore, strange to those who do not know the peculiarly illogical minds of the dual unionists, to hear voices proclaiming the failure of the left wing tactics. These voices which come from the little “One Big Union” and from some quarters of the I. W. W., can be explained on the grounds of interest—failure is seen because failure is desired. To the Communists, however, it is the final proof of success of the left wing program that the officialdom is resorting to the most desperate ex- pedients in their frantic efforts to cut the left wing off from the unions. Expulsions, disfran- chisements, discriminations—anything to kill the revolutionary influence that is growing so rapidly, even to killing workers’ democracy completely— such is the order of business in the trade unions where reaction reigns supreme. If the revolution- ary program was not winning the masses—and that is the only test of success—the bureaucrats would not be so worked up. If there are any, revolutionists in the country who are downcast or pessimistic, who cannot see The Farmers’ Outlook A perusal of the numerous bulletins issued by the department of agriculture on the economic outlook of the farmers, reminds one of the great truth spoken by John Bunyan very many years ago that “He who is down needs fear no fall.” We are told that the farmers have no reason to fear the future. Well, it could not be much worse than the present. Then, in preparation for counteracting the growing awareness of the farm- ing masses that the much-heralded diversification remedy is a flat failure, the government experts go on to tell us that the farmers must exercise caution not “to overdo poultry, corn, butter and potatoe production, and to cut down too far on wheat, beef cattle and hogs. How poisonous this official propaganda is for the farming class is best evidenced by the deliber- ate attempts to make the rural masses believe that their economic conditions will tend to improve be- cause of the growing industrial slump and the con- sequent fall in wages. Were not the agricultural areas in such desparate straits one could calmly THE DAILY WORKE June 17th After LaFollette OW that a week has gone by since the La Follette statemert, we can estimate the result ef the La Fol- lette attack on the June 17th Conven- tion and the Communists. Very likely La Follette and the lead- ers of the C. P. P. A. who unquestion- ably inspired his statement thot that they were doing an injury to the Communists in making this public attack upon them and upon the June 17th Convention because of their par- ticipation. Actually the reverse is true. La Follette and the leaders of the C. P. P. A. did the Comhmunists a great service by their public attack. The Communists, as represented by the Workers Party, never had any illusions in regard to LaFollette’s candidacy. They knew that La Fol- lette would not represent the work- ers and exploited farmers of this country. In my pamphlet “The Farm- er-Labor United Front” I wrote, “We know that so far as the revolutionary pass by this rank stuff as plain persiflage.. But the bottom truth of the matter is that the welfare of the farmers are inextricably bound together. When the farmers are so hard pressed by the rule of the capitalist masters owning and controlling the basic industries, the means of transportation and ex- change, and the government, the economic depres- sion of the rural sections very soon hits the in- dustrial regions. The present collapse of business is to a no small extent due to such a condition. Again, when the open-shoppers have their way and slash wages to the marrow, the general stand- ard of living is lowered in the cities. This is positively against the interests of the farming class. Lower wages tend to narrow the market for fruit and vegetables, eggs, butter, lamb, and other farm products. Hence the workingmen and «the farmers are undermined by the same capitalist wrecking crew no matter whether the rural or in- dustrial areas alone suffer from economic depres- sion or whether the agricultural and industrial masses are at the same time in the throes of a severe economic crisis. The American farmers are the most efficient pro- ducers in the world. The last decade has seen farm labor rise almost 20 per cent in efficiency. Yet, the future of the farming masses is today pitch black. Even the dairy situation is decidedly discouraging. Our wheat exports for the ten months period ending April 1924 totaled only seventy million bushels against 135,700,000 in the corresponding period of 1923. When all due respects to the tireless efforts of the department of agriculture to convince the farmers of their hopeful outlook, we dare not blink these cold facts and figures. Send in that Subscription Today. Berger, the Milwaukee Leader, and what is left of the Socialist party, are now out to save the farmer-labor movement. In an editorial the Leader, on behalf of the others, offers to take over and run the parties united in the St. Paul convention, on certain conditions, i. e., that the Communists be excluded, that no nominations be made, that co- operation be offered the C. P. P. A. at July 4, and that the Farmer-Labor parties then gosto the So- cialist party convention on July 6. Now that is right generous of “Comrade” Ber- movement is concerned, that its vic- tory will be ovey the dead body (po- litically) of La Follette.” On the other hand, the Workers Party said publicly that if the work- ers and farmers who still had illus- ions in regard to what La Follette stood for, and nominated him at the June 17th Convention, the Workers Party would not therefore split away from that convention, It would re- main a part of the Farmer-Labor United Front, knowing that at some stage of development La Follette’s ac- tions and policies would of themselves create the split between the workers and exploited farmers and him. What has actually happened is that La Follette thru his attack on the June 17th Convention has created this split earlier than it was expected. If the Workers Party had made a head- on attack against La Follette last No- vember when the June 17th Conven- tion was first arranged or in March when the final arrangements were) made it would have alienated from itself the masses of workers and farm- ers, in the northwest particularly, who believed that La Follette should be the leader of the Farmer-Labor move- ment. Such a fight made at that time would have forced, the farmers and workers closer to La Follette and delayed the time when they would separate themselves from him. By following the policy of criticism, stating to the workers and farmers that La Follette would not be the leader of The movement, that La Fol- lette stood for other interests than those of the exploited farmers and workers, but at the same time making it its purpose to accept his nomination and continue the fight if the majority of workers and farmers demanded that policy, the Workers Party gained the confidence of those who are sup- porting the Farmer-Labor movement by emphasizing the need of the or- ganization of a Farmer-Labor Party as against a loose movement around the candidacy of La Follette, it built up the ideology which, when La Follette did actually come out in the open as he did in his statement last week, made it impossible for La Follette to sweep along wit® him in his opposi- tion to June 17th and the Communists, the Farmer-Labor support of that con- vention. The reports from the Northwest states show that all of the six state Farmer-Labor Parties which partici- pated in the arrangement of the June 17th Convention are standing firmly for June 17th against La Follette. In fact, all the worth while ele- ments which supported the June 17th Convention are standing firmly by that convention. The Class Party. What La Follette has done for the Farmer-Labor movement has been to strip away from it all those elements which have no place in it, The Farmer-Labor Party, if it is to have any role in American political life, must be a class party. When we say a class party, we mean a party which represents defi- nite class interests; the same politi- cal party could not represent the class interests of the exploited industrial workers and farmers and at the same tifne represent the interests of the | Our Daily Pattern | ger, and will give rise to feelings of gratitude and affection on the part of the exploited workers and farmers, who doubtless are lost and wandering about helplessly since LaFollette cut loose from them. One savior from Wisconsin having failed, Berger hopes that another may be tried, trusting to the magic of the badger state name. There is one trouble with Berger’s scheme. That is, the farmers and workers have given up the idea of finding a savior; they are learning the hardest of all lessons—that if they want to be saved from capitalist exploitation, they must do the job them- selves, with their own organization, and their own leadership. That is the essence of the farmer-labor movement. Fakers inthe I. L.G. 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The fact that days after the old agree- ment expired, weeks after the employers had re- fused to discuss the demands, and months after it was well-known that a fight would have to be made, no preparatory steps had been taken—indicated that the officials do not desire nor intend to put up a battle. No adequate preparations had been made for a strike, in spite of the fact that the employers re- fused to even talk about the demands! Can it be that there exists a secret agreement between some of the princip-_ * the negotiations, that the fight shall only be talked oout, and then compromised on certain terms? Whatever the answer may be, one thing is cer- tain; the garment workers have been led into a serious situation in which they are at the mercy of a handful of officials. The state of the negotia- 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS. NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—The Rogerze being sold thru the DAILY 'ORKER pattern department are fur- nished by a New York firm of pattern manufacturers. Orders are forwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re- ceived, and they are mailed by the man- ufacturer direct to the customer, The DAILY WORKER does nto xeep a stock of patterns on hand. Delivery of pat- terns ordinarily will take at least 10 4 SENATE CHILD LABOR ENEMIES SHOWN BY VOTE Borah One Who Wanted Age Limit Lowered (By Federated Press) WASHINGTON, June 6.—Passage rramnee 9 OF “the -elttid labor reselution. through the Senate was accomplished by a vote of 43 to 40, whereby the age limit for future regulation of child labor by Congress was kept at 18 years, rather than being reduced to 16 years. The final vote, of 61 to 23, by which the resolution was formally adopted and sent to the states for ratification as an amendment to the federal con- stitution, would have been meaning- less if the age limit adopted by the House had been cut down, Voters who want to hold accountable the enemies of the child labor amendment will therefore use the rollcall of 43 to 40, taken on the Reed amendment which sought to reduce the age limit. Those who voted to cut the age limit were: Ball, Bayard, Borah, Broussard, Bruce, Caraway, Dial, Ed- wards, Fernald, Fletcher, George, Gerry, Glass, Gooding, Harreld, Har- rison, Heflin, King, McKellar, McLean, Mayfield, Moses, Norbeck, Overman, Phipps, Ransdell, Reed of Missouri, Reed of Pennsylvania, Shields, Sim- mons, Smith, Smoot, Spencer, Stan- field, Stanley, Stephens, Swanson, Trammell, Wadsworth and Watson. Underwood, Elkins, Warren and Wel- ler were reported “3 paired in favor of the cut, against Couzens, Dill, Fer- ris, Greene, Owen, Pittman, Ralston and Wheeler. Reed of Missouri shared with Wads- worth fhe brunt of the fight against the resolution. He said “It assassi- nates democracy . . . it is as idiotic as it is destructive. It is sup- ported by revolutionistsy wno despise the constitution and regard its pre- cepts as inferior to the teachings of the Communist Internationale, by en- from the date of mailing the order. not become impatient if your pattern is not received by return mail, MOSCOW, May %.— (By Mail)—C. M. Cherepukhina, a factory worker, recently invented a gold plating ma- chine. In the opinion of experts this invention is of great importance. Send in that Subscription Today. tions seems to call for a strike; but the officials the tremendous sweep of revolutionary sentiment and ideas thru the un. 3s, who are blind to the rapidly-forming left wing organizations—to those we can only recommend a vacation at some health resort, to clear their systems, and restore their minds to good working order again. For, to the fighters in the movement, the present struggle, hard and bitter as it may be, is recognized as the y price that must be paid for progress. The pevolutionists are glad to pay the price, Send in that Subscription Today. have not taken the steps to make such a strike ef- fective. The rank and file will have to rouse itself | and begin to check up on things more closely. LaFollette certainly knows a lot more today about the attitude of the workers and farmers towards Communism than he did a week ago. It was certainly a bad day for LaFollette when he listened to Gompers and his anti-Communist propagandists. UNCLE WIGGLY’S TRICKS thusiasts who are socialists without the ability to appreciate the character of their doctrines.” Former Sen. Thomas of Colorado submitted a brief, attacking the reso- lution, as did Grey Silver of the Farm Bureau Federation. Send. in that Subscription Today. Fou look like aletier, Uncle Wiggily! By C. E. Rathenberg group known as the Committee of 48. hundreds of thousands of industrial The same party could not represent the class interests which La Folette represents in American political life and at the same time fight for the in- terests of the poor farmers and the city workers. The inclusion of such elements as those of the Committee of 48’ and the Progressive groups represented by the La Follette elemefits In Congress, would have meant that the Farmer- Labor Party would be a mongrel. Such a party would have divisions within itself which would have made it impossible for it to carrY on an ag- gressive fight because of the contest within the organization itself. It was necessary, in the movement for the organization of the Farmer- Labor Party, to accept temporarily the support of some of these elements, but the Communists at all times kept clearly iff mind that at some stage of the development of the party it would be necessary to separate these ele- ments from the Farmer-Labor party. What Senator Robert M. La Follette has performed for the Farmer-Labor Party and for the Communists is to slough off these elements before the opening of the June 17th Convention. We give them a hearty “Good-bye” as they go on their road to the July 4th “Third Party” Convention—maybe to support McAdoo. What June 17th Promises. With the discordant elements elim- inated, the way is open for the or- ganization on June 17th of a class Farmer-Labor Party. The June 17th Convention will still represent from a half-million to a mil- lion organized workers and farmers. Out of the répresentatives of these workers and farmers, there can be welded a mass, class Farmer-Labor Party with a platform which will clearly express the economic interests of the producers of wealth on the land and the producers of wealth in the mines, mills and factories in this country. Such a party will be stronger than a party of double the size made up of heterogenous elements with different economic interests. The grouping to- gether in one Party of J. A. H. Hop- kins and “Dad” Walker of North Da- kota would not have added strength to the Farmer-Labor Party—it would have meant weakness rather than strength. Robert M. La Follette, the representative of small business in the Senate and William Bouck, the leader of the farmers of Washington, have nothing in common. They repre- sent different economic categories, and to try to unite them iff a political party would.have been to create the conditions® for splits and confusion and withering away of the whole movement. But William Bouck, Tow Ayres, “Dad” Walker, W. H. Green, William Mahoney and the Communists can form a Farmer-Labor Federation with a program of action in the interests of the exploited farmers and workers and build upon this program a solid mass movement against the domina- tion of Wall Street in the government of the United States. Coalition and Party. La Follette’s atack on June 17th has also made near the defififte formation of a national Farmer-Labor Party at the June 17th Convention. Without this stripping away of the non-Farmer-Labor elements which has taken place as a result of La Follette’s statement, there would have been a strong argument for a coalition rather than a Party. J. A. Hopkins and his group would have been a foreign ele- ment in the body of the Farmer-Labor movement. To endeavor to make a unit of such different elements would have been dangerous. With these elements removed, there remains the material for a stronger party organiza- tion. ‘The reaction on the part of the state Farmer-Labor parties to LaFollette’s statement shows in itself their atti- tude on this question. The state Farmer-Labor Parties are for the or- ganization of a national Farmer-Labor party. They want a party which will go on from this fight to the next fight and continue the fight until the strug- gle against Wall Street control of the American government is won and a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government is established. The June 17th Convention, before LaFollette’s statement, presented many dangers and difficulties. It had within it the elements which might have made the organization of a strong political party to fight the bat- tles of the farmers and industrial workers impossible. LaFollette’s at- tack has removed many of these dif- ficulties. ‘Lhe road is now clear for the Farmer-Labor movement to march forward. The way is open for the or- ganization of that mass class Farmer- Labor Party on June 17th upon which workers and exploited farmers have placed their hopes for relief from the unbearable condftions to which the ex- ploiting class subjects them. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY It is reported that a brand new Re- publican party will emerge from the national convention in Cleveland. Coolidge is not entirely satisfied with the organization in its present form. There are too many alleged radicals kicking over the traces. The elephant is getting restless and so are the big bankers and the heavy industrialists who own the animal. “What is the use in feeding the brute unless he car- ries our load,” is the way these fel- lows express their displeasure with the G. O. P. of today. They figure on Coolidge doing the animal training stunt for them, Perhaps. ee Those in the know say that “Cau- tious Cal” aims to be another Wood- row Wilson. But those in the know also know that he lacks Woodrow’s brains. Whatever may be said about the famous fourteen points, none could deny that he had more in his head than a comb would take out of it. On the other hand Calvin’s dome does not even keep his spine from un- raveling. He hasn’t. any. What Cal- vin is good for the bankers know quite well. He is the best political clerk that ever took an order over a telephone. Later on the plutes may need a Mussolini but they figure that just now a nonentity will suit them better. -* The Republican party is so corrupt that nobody but a martyr would care to run on its platform this year. Cal- vin is a Puritan and proud of it. It is said that Oliver Cromwell is his favorite butcher. He resembles Oliver in his intentions but not in his actions. Coolidge wants to make this cam- paign a Coolidge proposition. The big idea behind this strategy is that the voters will support Coolidge in the hope that he may purify the G. O. P, But the task of the gentleman who had to ‘clean out the Augean stables was simple compared to the job of getting the filth off the Republican party. ry French radicals charge that the fam- ous. Morgan $100,000,000 loan netted insiders a profit of over $200,000,000 in ten days. Herriot said, “Our country was treated” like Turkey. I see no excuse for it,” Herriot was not in on the deal. He is @ millionaire anyhow and is not badly off for cash. Herriot would hot erit- icise the American bankers but he would not withdraw his criticism of the French politicians. He may need the bankers later on. This is a pretty lesson in patriotism that will not be taught in our goosestep universities. How self-sacrificing our patriots are? In the moment when France was slip- ping and her currency traveling at lightning speed trying to overtake the invisible mark, those who were at the helm of the ship of state were busy making fortunes out of the increasing misery of the people. Well, the Har- ding and Coolidge administrations were doing the same thing here. But they are patriots. It’s a paying busi- ness. Screwed Tater, the tired radical who runs the funny column in the Chi- cago Tribune, remarks that the slogan, “Workers of all coutries unite,” has fallen on deaf ears. Not so fast, Mr. Leach. The DAILY WORKER car- ried a news item a few days ago which told of Czecho-Slovakian workers re- fusing to transport arms and ammuni- tions from the great Skoda factory to Roumania and Poland, for probable use against Soviet Russia. The Czecho- Slovakian workers in doing this sacrificed employment and wages in making these munitions, but they did respond to the revolutionary slogan. They did not turn a deaf ear to the unspoken plea for solidarity’ coming from the Workers Republic. were ready to sacrifice for an id to defend the Soviet against its ca talist enemies. The Screwed Taters and the renegade radicals are hoping against hope that the divine fire of revolution which sends its warm rays from the Soviet Republic, will not light up the hearts of the despodent in other countries with hope for the new day. But the workers in all countries including the United States will be driven by necessity to follow the example set by the Russian work- ers and peasants and establish their own rule on the ashes of the system which produces such political perverts as Screwed Tater. i They signified by that act that a » A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN ips ; Saturday, June~7, 1924 i /