The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 11, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER 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 montis $6.00 per year $8.00) per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE ‘DAILY WORKER 1198 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE) MORITZ J. LOEB..... .. Editors -Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. | 20 Advertising rates on application. Barton Keynotes for Coolidge Reports of Burton’s keynote speech in Cleve- land agree that upon the subject of the Senate investigations “the speaker unburdened himself without restraint.” The keynote of the Republi- cans is “to call a halt” to all exposures. To this add a rebuke to Congress for weakening under popular clamor for the bonus act, demand for drastic tax reduction on big business, opposition to farm-relief measures, a warning against the menace. of “third party” movements—and Coolidge, as the great leader—we have the Republican party campaign issues according to its official spokes- man. It is a program 100 per cent Wall Street. J. P. Morgan, Judge Gary, John D. Rockefeller, all will find complete comfort and joy in the speech of their servant at Cleveland. Which does not mean that Coolidge will neces- sarily receive all their support. Not at all. The Democratic keynoter will praise the investigations, approve the bonus, demand tax reductions for the small business men, sympathize with the farmers, and warn against third party movements—and laud the greatest leader, whoever that may happen to be—-and the Democratic keynote and candidate will please the masters of the nation perhaps more because it will have more power to blindfold and lead some discontented masses. And then when LaFollette finds a keynoter at Cleveland, we will hear a curious thing. There will be a note sounded there also that rings in purest harmony with the G. O. P. and Democratic keys—the menace of third party, the sanctity of the private property of capitalism. And in every one of these gatherings, will be denunciation of the Communist movement, of the Workers Party, of the Third International. Burton’s speech is, therefore, not alone the key- __ note of the G. O. P. convention. On every issue ~ of fundamental importance he sounds the key for the Democrats at New York, and for the C. P. P. A. at Cleveland. also. But Burton did not sound the keynote for St. Paul, June 17th. At St. Paul alone will the key- note be the struggle of the working and farming masses against the exploitation of big business. Only at St. Paul will the clarion call go forth for the organization of working- class power. Send in that Subscription Today. Another Sell-Out Orders were given to the street car men in Cleveland, by their own international union offi- cers, not to carry thru the strike called for last night to enforce the decision of an arbitration award. The workers are left holding their “award” with the powers of their own union turned against its enforcement. A more flagrant sell-out has not been seen. .It is of no consequence whether the officials who gave this outrageous order did so for payment of money, or whether they did it for political favors from the G. O. P., or whether it was done merely for the purpose of demonstrating the “respecta- bility” of these officials. The point stands out in any case—the workers lose, while the politicians, the capitalists, and the wnion officers gain. It remains to be seen if the street car men will quietly obey the orders of the officials. If they do not, rifles, machine guns, armour, private armies and public police, are all ready—in co-operation ln the union officials—to “pacify” the men who t their wage increases that were granted by bt ation. Send in that Subscription Today! Beg Pardon, Mr. Morgan! “M. Herriot, prime- -minister-to-be of France for the Bloc des Gauches, craves the pardon of Mr. J. * P. Morgan if any word of his may have created the impression that M. Herriot feels that M. Mor- gan is anything less than the purest incarnation of international philanthropy.” ‘Thus would run a free translation of the apology of Herriot, given to Morgan in order that nothing may ptevent the advent of this latest “socialist” _ adventurer to rulership in France. Thus does the “block of the Left” announce that its rule will differ in no essential item from that of Poincare and Bloc National. “All of which will stir the unruly French workers to make more of those troublesome demands of ' which the leaders have been complaining since the election. It is indeed troublesome to have a rank _and file that makes demands; indications are that - the French politicians will have, before long, a tank and filethat also acts, For the French work- ers are swinging toward Communism. Gond In that Subscription Today. Pom The Tribune Parks its Gallows Whenever a murder is committed in the city of Chicago or anywhere within the limits of the Chicago Tribune’s main circulation area, that paper howls for the blood of the murderer. No extenuating circumstances are allowed to stand jin the way of a speedy hanging, provided the killer happens to be poor. The Tribune spares neither age nor sex.. In fact it takes particular delight in howling for the blood of members. of the fe- male sex, just to show what a masculine organ the World’s Greatest Liar is. People have wondered why the Tribune has not called for the blood of the two millionaires’ sons who murdered the son of another millionaire “just for the fun of it.” It is true that the crime was played up in its news columns, but that helps circulation and circulation brings in more money per inch for advertising space. But editorially, since the murderers confessed, the noose which the Tribune usually dangles from its editorial pages is -missing. The Tribune had parked its gallows in the basement. Why? The answer is obvious. The fathers of the murderers are wealthy. Because of their wealth they are respectable. No doubt they advertise in the Tribune. They might withdraw their ad- vertising should the Tribune indicate its custom- ary desire for more sacrifices to glut its insatiable thirst for human blood. So, instead of a provocat- ive halter, the Tribune published an _ editorial eulogy of the fathers of the two murderers and praised them for their public spirit in allaying the alleged fear on the part of the public that the Loeb-Leopold families would spend their com- bined millions in saving their sons from the death penalty. It is not surprising that the two young murder- ers should feel that their wealth could save them from the consequence of their crimes, when the standard organ of capitalism in this city displays such unabashed partiality toward the rich, while it froths at the mouth whenever a jury frees a female killer, who must depend mainly on her pulchritude to dodge the gallows. Yet we are told capitalist justice is blind. Yes, blind to the crimes of the rich. Send in that Subscription Today. “Progressives” in Action The tenth of the twelve commandments. issued by LaFollette under the alias, the “Wisconsin plat- form,” thunders against America’s foreign policy being “in the interests of the financial imperialists, cil monopolists and international bankers,” On this and eleven other planks LaFollette and his unorganized flock hope to storm the reaction- ary republican convention. This is the kind of “radical stuff” that the Wisconsin Senator hopes the workingmen and poor farmers will swallow. On a program of similar demands La-Follette and his stars and satellites are now working overtime in a desperate effort to undermine the tT of the discontented rural and industrial masses from organizing themselves into a party that will be openly committed to waging a determined war against the employing class. If words were the only test of progressivism, one might sometimes fall into the belief that La- Follette was enroute to a fight against the cap- italist exploiters. Fortunately this is not the his- torical criterion. Deeds are the essence of history, the life-blood of all movements against oppression and exploitation of one class by another class. It is in practice that “Fighting Bob” has failed and failed miserably. The senior senator from Wis- consin does not do even what he says he is ready and anxious to do. In carrying out even his in- sufficient, limited, unsatisfactory program, La- Follette is not there. The gap between LaFollette’s words and deeds is as great as the chasm between the golden promises and the leaden performances of the openly reactionary capitalist politicians. The other day the senate progressives were given a chance to do something for the above mentioned anti-imperialist section of their program. The senate was confronted with the task of approving the naval bill aiming to make the United States the leading power on the seas. The measure pro- vided for the expenditure of $150,000, 000 for eight ten-thousand-ton scout cruisers, six gunboats to be used in Chinese waters and sundry other items. Not a single voice was raised against this machin- ery being put at the disposal of “the mercenary system of degraded foreign policy” by the self- appointed defenders of pure progressivism in the senate. LaFollette, Borah, Wheeler, Norris, Dill, Magnus, Shipstead and other fraudulent ingur- gents and liberals did not register any oppdsition whatsoever to this imperialist measure. Action on the bill was taken in the record time, required for the clerk to read merely the title of the resolution coming from the Navy Department. This disgraceful betrayal of the most half-hear- ted promises is symbolic of LaFollettism in ‘prac- tice, of capitalist progressivism in action. “With Stop-Watch in Hand” “We stand with stop-watch in hand, observing the performance of the Republican and Democratic national conventions,” says a statement issued by the publicity bureau of the Conference for Prog- ressive Political Action. Time-keepers for the old-line potittelie—sens thotisands of workers and peasants there is no doubt that the oad bureau has properly characterized the C. P. P. A. Observers, who look on with an eye to the pick-|tola, is CIVILIZATION! — ings that may fall by the way in the struggle be- al|tween two sets of job-holders for the: priy acting as the guardians of private property—that Hert peyrmyt is the C. P. P. A. , of| Only one power raises its dastardly By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH, The long fought battle between the rank and file of the Miners’ union and the officials over the question of the appointive power—the power to hand out organization jobs—is one that prompts the average person to won- der what it is all about. On the one hand the men of the mines say that it is because of the abuses to which the appointive power is put, (and they are right) while the officials will blatantly yell that it is because there are so many men in the ranks with a little influence who want appointive jobs, but who, because there are not enough jobs to go around, begin to make accusations against the officials. In brief they say that the “outs” want to get “in.” For a long time the officials were able to. make their explanation stick, because there were such people in the ranks of the miners’ union, but the ex- planation never carried the informa- tion that these people had been pur- posely advised to make a fight with the real progressives in the ranks, so as to discredit the effort being made to put the control of the union in the hands of the men who pay the bills. So encouraged were the officials with their success in planting such people here and there, later appointing them as organizers or field workers or giv- ing them some other portfolio, so as to be able, thru their henchmen, to point them out as examples, that they now openly put men on the payroll for no other purpose than to play spy on the members of the union. oO! Oe. Detective on Payroll. In addition to the many men who have been appointed from the ranks it is known that professional detec- tives are also employed. A glaring example of this is shown in the west- ern Pennsylvania district, District 5, at Pittsburgh, where a man by the name of W. D. Reese is employed. This man is a professional detective and no attempt is made to keep the By ISRAEL A AMTER. Reaction dominates the world out- side of Soviet Russia. Having sur- vived. the war, capitalism has suc- ceeded in reconstructing its forces, even tho it may only be for a short period. It has succeeded in breaking up or weakening the trade unions to such an extent that, for the present, they offer no great resistance to cap- italist designs. | In this work the capitalists have been aided by the trade union official- dom, who are upholders of the capi- talist system—against the workers. Millions of workers have left the trade unions, but the trade union bureaucracy has made no efforts to get them back. Tens of millions are outside the unions, scabbing on the organized workers in strikes, but the trade union leaders remain indiffer- ent. The purpose of trade union or- ganization is FIGHT—and the lead, ers are opposed to fight. Hence the opposition to capitalist schemes is weak. Socialist Treason. The Social-Democratic parties, with- out exception, have placed them- selves on the side of the capitalist system. Long the preachers of the “Socialist commonwealth,” when the moment for action came, they flunked and supported the capitalists against the revolution, Since 1914 it has been one systematic campaign of be- trayal, until today the Social-Demo- cratic government in Germany and now in Denmark, and the so-called (Socialist) Labor government in Eng- land, are the best exponents of capi- talist and imperialist oppression. The methodical campaign of slander against Soviet Russia by the Social- Democrats the world over demon- strates conclusively that social trea- son is class treason without mitiga- tion. Altho the hands of capitalism have been freed for any acts of vandalism against the working class, the capital- ists and capitalist governments do not feel perfectly secure. They no longer trust to “democracy” to keep the workers peaceful. “Equality before the law” no longer impresses the workers. Hence, the rule of Musso- lini in Italy, and the Fascist dictator- ship in Hungary, Bulgaria, Spain and Germany. Capitalism has shown its real nature—“FORCE WITHOUT STINT.” 10,000 Red Prisoners in Germany. The application of this force has cost the working class many victims. In Germany 10,000.of the best prole- tarian fighters’ aré behind prison doors; in Italy, thousands have been slaughtered and thousands more fill the duageons. The Bulgarian hang- men have not hesitated to murder the leaders of the workers and peasants. In Poland, four thousand workers; in Roumania, Jugo-Slavia, Greece, Tur- key, Finland, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithu- ania; in Spain, France, in Palestine, India, Java, Japan and China—tens of are languishing in the prisons, where they are beaten and uddenly disappear. we are Communists Lead Fight. hand and the savage pitalists, the governments and their the Communists, For 3 Hs 4 fact secret, in fact when one of the officers of that district was admon- ished recently for having such a char- acter on the payroll, he merely an- swered that it was necessary to keep track of the Bolsheviks. For two weeks’ pay and expenses the first half of January, 1924, Reese collected $300. Much has been done in the past recent months to encourage the rank and file in their fight for abolition of this misused appointive power. In District 14, Kansas, and in. District 12, Illinois, the appointive power has now been taken away and ‘from now on the men will decide who will fill these po- sitions, Like every other great change that has ever been made, there are reasons for same and when taken into consideration the righteous- ness of the move cannot be ques- tioned. How it Corrupts Men. Let us recount some of the abuses of this power and try to analyze the effects such power has had on the labor movement. There are many who fail to see the effects of appoint- ments, on the men who are now hold- ing elective positions, but it has to a large degree the effect of retarding their efforts in behalf of the men who elect them, and in this respect: Many men holding office by virtue of their election to same, often find them- selves in a position where they must fight, not only the coal operator, but also the officer higher up, and rather than do this they begin to cater to the desires of the latter. Usually it does not take long for such an arrange- ment to react against the men of the picks and when election day rolls around they usually decide to elect someone else to serve them. If the defeated candidate has, during his tenure of office, served the high of- ficer well, he is invariably appointed to some job and if none is available it is an easy matter to create one so as to make room for him. In addition to this method there often exists an army of aspirants to office, whose only desire, in many ploitation and oppression of the work- ing class, thousands of Communists and revolutionary workers are thrown into prison and many of them mur- dered. Their wives and children are persecuted; from town to town the capitalists follow them, denying them bread and work. In the prisons are also hundreds of syndicalists and left democratic workers who have not yet freed themselves from a false philos- ophy and false leadership. These tens of thousands of revolu- tionists and their families must be helped. Taft declared that a political prisoner is more dangerous than an ordinary criminal, For capitalism he is more dangerous; for the working class he is invaluable. Tens of thou- sands of political prisoners in all countries and their families are waiting for help from the workers out- side. To aid these prisoners is to ald the revolution. International Organization. Capitalism is internationally organ- ized. The working class movement is international in form. The- struggle is not local, not national—it is inter- national in scope. The ranks’ of the revolutionary workers are interna- tionally organized. Hence the help for the revolutionary political prison- ers must also be international in form. The INTERNATIONAL RED AID is the realization of this idea. The International Red Aid is a mili- \tant, fighting organ of the revolution. Wherever revolutionary workers and peasants are thrown into capitalist prisons the International Red Aid ‘mo- bilizes the workers in protest and ex- tends its helping hand. 1,500,000 Russians in |. R. A. Where does the International Red Aid get its funds to assist the tens of thousands of political prisoners? The Russian workers and peasants, who have passed thru seven years of strug- gle and suffering, in comibat with the counter-revolution and against hunger, are giving of their weekly pay to help the revolutionary workers all over the ‘world. One million and a half Russian workers and peasants. are enrolling in the Russian section of the Interna- tional Red Aid, never faltering, never hesitating to give even tho it means, to give up meals. Five hundred thous- nd workers and peasants in and about Leningrad .are in the International Red The Poor Fish Says: LaFollette was having a good time for himself at Atlantic City while the Com- munists were raising hell Daugherty and Burns. If LaFollette had come to Daugherty’s assistance How Mine Czars Hold Power cases, is to secure something better than digging coal. Usually’ they are known. by the officials for what they really are. ‘However, many. of. these men have a considerable local follow- ing and in order=to win- support for themselves, the officials will promise jobs to these candidates if they will drop out of the race and throw the support. to the candidatés selected by the official family. The result of these and divers other tricks to retain pow- er prove very expensive to the mem- bership ang with the present deplora- ble condition in the industry getting worse instead of better, the feeling against the officials has been inten- sified. i see Victories in Two Districts. It should cause no wonder that the rank and file of the U. M. W. of A. have fought so. consistently for the abolition of the appointive power in their union. They now have victories in two districts to their credit and be- fore long every, tyrant holding office in the miners’ union will be stripped of his autocratic powers. With the advent of that day the removal of themselves from office will be accom- plished, for the chief function of the men appointed to office in the past, has been to, see to it that. the big chief got the votes and it mattered not how they were gotten, as'long as they could claim that the president had been re- elected. That ‘has been the reql mystery to the outsider, “how does the president retain his office, if the membership is against him?” It has been’ possible just as long as he retained his ap- pointive power. Without the appoin- tive power the votes of the membev- ship will probably be counted as they. are originally cast and then the. pres- ent day autocrats of labor will pass on to oblivion, to be replaced with men who have the welfare of the movement at heart, men who are will- ing to fight to make progress and bring to the toiling masses the things to which hatin’ os Hage cate tuo ees are so justly entitled. Support the International Red Aid Aid. They constantly ask to-do more than merely give of their material aid. In the Don Basin, in TurRestan, in the Ukraine, in the Urals and in Siberia— in all parts of Soviet Russia, the work- ers and peasants are joining the I. R. |A. by the hundreds and thousands. The Russian workers and peasants under- stand the struggle and are determined to stand by the Western proletariat in their fight. Capitalists Doomed to Failure. In Germany, Poland and Italy, in the Baltic States and Bulgaria—in all countries where reaction rules, the workers are unable to collect large sums for the assistance of the political prisoners and their families. In some countries, as, for instance, Poland, Esthonia, Roumania, Hungary, Fin- land, Lithuania, Bulgaria, it is a crime to help the political prisoners. Officials of the sections of the I. R. A. are ar- rested and their funds confiscated. The capitalist governments are determined to uproot the revolutionary, movement. But they ‘shall not succeed! The workers have learned: that ways of the revolution—and what the capitalist governments: will not allow to be done openly, they will do secretly. The thousands of political’ prisoners in these countries must be pans: 95 they shall be helped. This Is Your Fight. The struggle is demanding ever larger numbers of victims. The de- mands upon the. International Red Aid are growing day by day. Who should help—if not the revolutionary workers all over the world. The revolutionary workers in countries where the White Terror is not yet dominant should be the first to help. The workers of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South Ameri ot England, South Africa and A shouldbe the first to come forward and give—and give with a free hand. if the Russian workers and peasants can do it, no worker of these countries can refuse. Workers of the Americas, England, ‘Australia, South Africa! Tens of thous- ands of political prisoners now behind prison bars and the tens’of thousands who will follow them demand your solitarity and assistance. Give now! Give regularly! Join the International Red Aid! If there is im your too, follow the ‘of the Russian workers and peasants, wno give and Abuses in School By E. J. “D. IRVINE. (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 10.— About 150 students are on strike at the U. 8S. Veteran’s Rehabilitation school at Perryville, Md., in» protest against graft, maltreatment, insanita- tion and lack of medical attention. The charges are said to involve sev- eral of the highest areaking: officers A few of the ch tainted meals, and Senator | at structors are incompetent; that the caberemtae seutents ace Wot ngpngnaen ebeistd a time. without waiting until he was|from the others. he could now have valuable ay ‘A riot resulted in $600 worth of ‘ ppelines ‘tne. Conamnuntone, actual een anE Ty hit 4 Send im that oe Wednesday, June 11, 1924 AS WE SEE IT By T, J. O'FLAHERTY When the Chicago Rapid Transit Company was fighting to retain the | ten-cent fare’ it made a noise like @ man about to crave admission to the’ poorhouse, Its poverty smelled higher to heaven than the odor from the filthy lavatories that stink along the rambling eyesores of steel. But for its marriage to public service the company would immediately divorce itself from the altruistic task of lug- ging thankless patrons back and.forth. So it wailed. But now that it is selj- ing stock, the tune is very different. Instead of a poor mouth the company throws out its chest and boasts of its enormous: profits. + + 8 The Chicago Rapid Transit Com pany is selling stock to its employes. It considers the workers the easiest marks. Anyhow it has a way of en- forcing its wishes upon them. Better purchase a share of stock than incur | the displeasure of the boss and per- i * haps get on the waiting list of some unemployment agency. The elevated lines earned over $18,000,000. last year. Of this sum over one million was set aside for dividends. Along with wringing these enofmous divi- dends out of the hides of its employes the Rapid Transit. Company will also suck the few dollars they manage to save out of their meagre wages. But they will have the satisfaction of he- ing part owners in Samuel Insull’g company! eo @ Some people are funny and some fare born funny. Victor Berger belongs in the latter category. Normally, @ sleepy individual who doesnot look as if he knew the war was’ over, Victor of late has grown as obnoxious: ly lively in a political sense as a dope fiend after getting a shot in the arm. Berger looks with horror and fear on the St. Paul convention. Horror be- cause the Communists are included — land fear lest it hurt the political for- tunes of this new-found leader, LaFol- lette. Victor has even taken a slam at Gen Debs, simply because the old rebel used the word “revolutionary” im an article on the Socialist party. se Of course Gene had no right to do it, because it didn’t fit. But not fom g* that reason did Berger lambaste: him, The article was published in Berger's paper, but it was considered meces- sary to publish an editorial in the same issue explaining that 'Gene did not mean anything by the word. It was merely a sacred word handed down from father to son and is as safe in the mouth of a socialist as a graft- er in the ranks of the G. O. P. But still "Gene is liable to be misunder- BES Mind Berger said of the sacred word, ‘Wp disregard it long ago.” As he understood it, and as he hoped Debs understood the word, it meant a change from capitalism to socialism, but to the Communists it means blood- shed, gore, buckets of it, Therefore the explanation is essential. It is just like Berger. He is funny. When he was indicted for opposing the war, he ventured to prove that he was in- . strumental in getting sundry relatives to offer themselves as sacrifices to f keep him out. of jail) He was vety disappointed because one of. his edi- torial writers did not join the army and he told it to the judge. But the funniest thing Berger said is that the Socialist: party will furnish most of the spirit and the brains to any poli- tical working class party that may be formed. That is the limit. ‘ 7. © Wotan H. Green, secretary of the Progressive party ‘of Nebraska said a mouthful to John Appleton Haven Putnam of the three remaining mem- bers of the Committee of 48 in a siz- zling letter setting forth the views of the aforesaid William Green on such political cattle as the cognominal monstrosity. Green is a member of the arrangements committee of the St. Paul convention and feels as uncom- fortable in the presence of a faker aw an ear of sweet corn in a barrel of ‘gl rubbish. He writes as foilows: “It o all the discordant elements who hay forced theniselves’ into gatherings of the workers and farmers with a de- sign to sabotage the movement Ie itt i follow your advice, two days wil saved to our convention and we- not have to employ an espionage ,|brigade to watch our own member- ship.” This was the reply to Hopkins’ statement anonuncing his withdrawal atl from the June 17 convention and ime viting others to do likewise. eee 3 General Ludendorff, recently ac knowledged head of the German na- tional socialists is urged by his ‘or lowers to make another attempt to overthrow the government and | lish a real out-and-out The General started the last re! from a Munich beer hall, bu friends do not blame him for fiasco, “How could a successful lution be carried out with beer inspiration,” say Ludendorft’s There is good whisky in Berlin | the General spends most of his. guzzling it. The General | party now in power res] the surrender in 1918 with |is served in the mess hall; tne teins, before signing hie ise Ludendorff was