The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 12, 1924, Page 6

Page Six ‘THE DAILY WORKER. 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 month By mail (im 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 Blvd. Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS: ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE) MORITZ J. LOEB... Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <e 250 Advertising rates on application. Winning a World In Boston, the empire city of Coolidge’s state, there was held a.convention the other day which is, of inestimable importance to the workers and dispossessed farmers of the United States. We have in mind the eleventh convention of the National Foreign Trade Council. From the point of view of the control of the nation’s economic system and the welfare of the masses this gathering of captains of industry and finance far exceeds in importance the puppet show now going on at Cleveland. The most striking and significant speech of the gathering was that delivered by James A. Farrel, President of the United States Steel Corporation. Mr. Farrel made a clarion call to American manu- facturers and bankers to go out and win the world. The American capitalist class was implored to girdle its loins for a contest in which it would beat all competitors in getting control of more markets, in securing a hold of new raw materials, and in expanding its industry and commerce. A strong plea was made for increasing American investments in the lesser developed industrial coun- tries. . Special attention was brought to the op- portunities awaiting American exploiters in Latin America. The case of Cuba’s being a good cus- tomer was offered as “a graphic illustration in the manner in which American investment of capital abroad stimulates industry and trade at home.” It.is of special interest to note the keynote siruck for finance and industrial capital was by | the head of the biggest basic industrial organiza- tion in the country. The fact that Mr. Farrel was chosen to deliver the main speech at the con- vention of ‘the real rulers of the country indicates the almost complete unity between finance and in. dustrial capitalists already attained in the Unjted States. Under such a condition the nationg} capi- talist group is almost invincible in the struggle for world markets and spheres of investment influence. /“\~.This determination of our capitalist class to achieve world financial and Coniniércial hegemony is of tremendous concern to our rural and urban working masses. Such a conflict and aim on the part. of our exploiters can only be attained at the expense of the welfare and lives of the wage work- ers and exploited farmers. The will of any national capitalist group to conquer and attain supremacy is always buttressed by huge armadas and power- ful armies. Militarism and capitalist imperialism are the two faces of the employing class Janus breeding new wars and infernal destruction for the masses. The dollar and the flag are a most ex- plesive combination. Together they spell only death for millions of workers and poor farmers. Undermining Tammany Hall Gompers complains, in an _ encyclical nouncing the June 17 St. Paul convention, that it is a “plot”-to undermine our national institu- tions.” Samuel evidently has reference to his political organization, the Democratic Party of Tammany Ball, Mitch Palmer, and “force without stint.” He fears that-the lanuching of a real Farmer-Lahor Party will destroy the illusion, carefully culti- vated by his Non-Partisan Campaign Committee, that Gompers has political power which the Demo- eratic Party must purchase by handing out a few jobs to his satellites. Gompers has a new reason, at this time, to fight against June 17. He hopes to have his friend Berry, pressman strikebreaker, as candidate for vice-president on the Democratic ticket. He there- fore fears a real labor ticket in the field like the devil fears holy water. June 17 is the enemy of the fakery and political slavery typified by Gompers; if that is one of our “national institutions,’ the workers will be glad to join a plot against it. Shades of Glenn Plumb! de-| THE DAILY WORKER Coolidge the Liberator President Coolidge is at his best when he does not say anything. With no man ‘in public’ office was silence ever as gold-laden as with “Cautious Cal.” : The other day Coolidge broke his silence and de- livered an address at the commencement exercises of the Howard University, an institution attend- ed by Negroes. On this occasion the President did his best to win the Negroes because of the ap- proaching elections. His remarks are most. en- lightening for the great mass of workers and poor farmers of all races. According to the Teapot-Oil-annoited head. of our nation “the black man’s probation on this.con- tinent was a necessary part in a great plan by which the race was to be sayed to the world for a service we now are able to vision.” In the plain English, the President told his audience that chattel slavery was in order at one time and that the Negro people had to-go thru all the sufferings and degradation of the slave sys- tem in order to prove themselves worthy of the opportunity to live on the North American con- tinent. This is nothing else but an indorsement of slavery for the Negroes while it existed’and an acceptance of its abolition only after its overthrow. ‘We are somewhat surprised at this line of talk on the eve of a national campaign from so prac- tical a precinct politician as Coolidge. “For once his principles got the better of his sense of political discretion and he refused to, make. mer- chandise out of them. The Negroes owe Coolidge a vote of thanks for showing his real self to them. What can the Negro masses expect from a_pre- sident who thinks that slavery, degrading chattel slavery, was a necessary test of probation for their race? How much will such a man andthe, Party he leads be ready to do for the relief’ of the subject Negroes? Of what concern can the welfare and the economic and social equality of the Negroes be to Coolidge and. his capitalist masters, whose voice he is, when he is still in the state of justifying all the crimes committed against the colored race? Coolidge’s speech was also the answer to all ot these questions. The Negroes without the land would do well to think and act cn the above con- tribution of the president towards the genuine liberation of the people. A Teapot’s Tempest? Mouselike résults for mountainous efforts! This is the best way of summing up the conclusions of the Teapot Dome Committee on the scandalous oil lease. * Only a few months ago the country was flooded with the revelations of sinister control ‘of all agencies of the government by the oil and. other capitalist corporate interests. For a while it ap- peared to the credulous and the liberal supporters of capitalism that a big moral revolution, a sort of a fit of purity in employing class politics, would break out. At last the bad would make room for the very good in the national political life. And then—the brakes were put on: A halt was put to the disclosures. The country wasn’t told even one-tenth of the story, to quote almost the exact words of a so-called progressive member of the Teapot committee, Senator Dill of Washington. Gradually but certainly the reactionary interests resumed control of the committee. Even the in- vestigation steam was denied us’in time: Now the Walsh report on the whole filthy megs comes as the only logical and inevitable conclusion, as the crowning point to the failure of the insurg- ents and “constructive” progressives to utilize the |Soviet films that’ has as yet come to situation for the enhancement of the © political |America. power of the masses. The report on the Doheny- Sinclair-Fall oil leases is noteworthy for its de- liberately avoiding a restatement and emphasis of those of its findings the knowledge of which would tend to undermine the faith of the exploited classes in the present system of capitalist government and industry. For example, the report submitted by Senator Walsh and his committeemen does not say a word about the “principle.” The improtant incident in- volving the Washington horticulturist and Coolidge wire-puller, McLean, who was dealing;in “peaches” and “apricots” while he was shielding the plunder- ers of the country’s oil resources is not discussed: The role of Jake Hamon at the 1920. Republican convention in purchasing the Harding nomination is left out of the summary, The ownership atid con- trol of MeAdoo by Mr. Doheny is forgotten. A certificate of innocence is given to Denby. Roose- yelt’s skirts are cleared. The part’ played by Coolidge, Smoot and Lenroot of the Old Guard of the Republican Party does not even draw the slightest attention of the Committee. » In short it can be correctly stated that the Walsh Committee made it its business to hide from the American working and farming classes those very disclosures which, if impressed upon them would If the spirit of Glenn Plumb has not entirely] promote their taking steps to make impossible the forsaken interest in this world, and turned to the/recurrence of such capitalist scandals. But try as nationalization of the celestial traffic system, then] the Walsh Committee might, the it must have uttered deep. moan, clanked heavy|velations have already done a grea’ ts of the re- deal towards chains in the depths of night, and otherwise done} exposing the government in all its ugly nakedness. its best to haunt Warren 8. Stone after that warthy made his speech of June 7th at the engi- neers’ convention. Chester Wright, handy-man for Gompers, has a series of articles running in the Labor World of “The railroad brotherhoods have no quarrel with| Pittsburgh, diagramming the diabolically ingen- private ownership,” Stone told the convention. And|ious red plots to undermine the government. Who this is the same Stone who lately propagandized|pays for Wright’s screeds? The same for the Plumb Plan; who followed the dynamic in-jries highly-paid ads from the Allegheny ‘ telleet that gave Gompers his only serious defeat|the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the | in a generation at the Montreal convention of the|Steel Co., the Washington Coal & American Federation of Labor; who joined in a]Central Light & Power Co., the Pitt movement for the nationalization and democratic|(Co, and banks, coal mining companies, railroads, management of the railroads, that for all its short-|and steel trust subsidiaries galore. ..Wright is as- comings was the first victory for idealism and| sisting the Steel Trust undermine the labor move- progressive thought in the American labor move-| ment. \ ment since 1886. Plumb must have turned in his grave if he heard this statement. os. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! 2,008 WORKERS STRIKE INN, Y, LUNCH HOUSES 4,000 Waiters Stay on When Bosses Settle (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 11.—A strike of 2,000 waiters and waitresses in chiefly small lunch rooms and cafeterias of the Bronx and Manhattan, has been called by William Lehman, business agent of the Waiters and Waitresses Union No. 1. The strike is called to enforce the union demands for higher wages and guarantees that wages will be paid when earned. Employers ‘of approximately 4,000 workers have already signed with the union and prevented the strike reach- ing them. The union:is asking for a 15 per cent increase to men waiters now. get- ting $20 for a 54-hour week, for wait- resses now paid $15.a week, atid the deposit of two weeks’ wages with the union, In the small restaurants affected by the strike conditions are none too good and with living costs rising the work- ers find their wages impossibly small to meet their necessary expenses. East Side New York Has Exhibition of “Russia-Germany” NEW YORK, June 11—The new Soviet film “Russia-Germany” which has made such tremendous success in New York City wherever it was shown, will be given again Wednes- day, Thursday and Friday, June 18,| 19 and 20, at the East Side Forum,| 9 Second avenue. | The film features the two most in- teresting republics in Europe, Rus- sia and Germany. The pictures were taken by an American camera man who travelled 15,000 miles of terri- tory, some times at great risk in or- der to get actual conditions of the workers in Germany. From latest re- ports millions of workers are locked out and are without bread. The film gives scenes of the Political uprising of the workers in Germany; the down- fall of the young labor government in Saxony, hunger demonstrations in the, streets of Berlin where hundreds ot thousands of working people crowd to hear the speeches of their leaders, Remmele, Heckert, Clara Zetkin and many others. Russia, on the other hand, is shown at peace. The world famous Interna- tional Agricultural Exposition in Mos: cow is given in full. Hundreds ‘of dif- ferent nationalities in_their native costumes gather in picturesque scengs. There are huts on exhibition showing how the workers of Russia lived one thousand years ago, and along side of it are clean, sanitary cottages which are now being built by the Soviet government for the workers-of Russia. In addition there will be shown the Picture of Lenin's funeral where Rus- sia's greatest leader is being put to rest under the Kremlin wall. The film is being shown under the auspices of the International Workers Aid and two performances will be given beginn’ at 7:30 p. m. and 9:30 p. m. All workers should make every effort to see thevbest of the series of West Side Young Workers Hope to Capture Honors “In spite of the warm weather the last meeting of the West Side branch of. the Young Workers League was very well attended. Plans for the next month’s ac- tivities were discussed at the branch. The regular class in “Communist manifesto” with Comrade Max Shacht- man as the instructor will be con- ducted every Friday night. This class is proving of interest and value, not only tothe members of the League, but to Party members and outsiders as well. It is very worth while at- tending. Plans were made to hold open-air meetings every Saturday night during the summer on some prominent cor- ner on Roosevelt Road so as to reach the adult and young workers.in the Douglas Park neighborhood with our Pp m and slogans. Notices of ex- act’ place and the speakers will be eiven later. “ The members of the branch re- ceived with enthusiasm the news of the drive for 400 subscribers to The Young Worker by August 15th, and pledg to go over the top.of its quota of 50 subs, challenging the John Reed, which has been alloted the same quota, to a race to reach this quota and win the prize. Blanks were distributed to all comrades and sev- eral subs were taken right at the meeti Pennies for the Penny-a-Mile fund ‘were collected and by the response received from the membership to this drive, it looks as tho the West Side will capture the banner which is to be given out at the next enlarged ecutive Committee meeting. ‘Helping the Striking German Miners. " MOSCOW, June 11.-The Moscow trade unidns collected for the ald of 1e striking miners in Germany ~27,- 0 rubles, Collections are still be- ade. The C. B. C. of the Com- 10,000 to the relief of intern a the relief the Ruhr miners. of Bolshevism. Dr. Pusey’s talk was a fitting climax to the ‘crescendo of stupidity of the evening. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, former presi- ad test dent of the «association, somehow dragged into the talk a glorification of the world war, and had made his hearers sniffle audibly at the mention of the brave boys in France. Mayor Dever welcomed the guests of the city. by. telling them that he had already attended two notable fune- tions in the course of the day, that he was now on his way to another, and that he had dropped in only at the ur- gent request of the committee on ar- rangements. So that no surprise met Dr. Pusey’s announcement that the greatest danger to the medical profes- sion today is the menace of Bolshe- vism. Terrible Dangers. “We doctors must throw ourselves into the current of events and stem the tide of history,” cried Dr. Pusey, throwing out a narrow chest as tho already breasting the floods. “The trend to socialization is a natural one, and in that very fact lies its danger. The natural course of events must be turned back, if medicine is not to lose its standing as an honored profession —if doctors are not to become mere business men or workingmen.” Bolshevism, to Dr. Pusey, means the taking over by the present govern- ment of the mines and the railroads. “When the government at Washing- ton has usurped the functions of un- hindered business men today we will have a state of complete Socialism.” Then, with the self-confidence of a lesson-perfect scholar, this: “The puny efforts of man cannot stem the course of nature. The fittest will sur- vive in the end, and it is of no use to legislate to try to improve the status of man. But Cal Can Save Us. “Calvin Coolidge’s stand against these dangers is to be praised.” Maternity legislation, such as is em- bodied in the Sheppard-Towner bill, Dr. Pusey thinks an infringement on the natural rights of the physician. Emphasis on preventive medicine, Dr. Pusey decried. Credulous listeners must have been convinced, last night, that the present state of affairs is the state of natural perfection. Open ears at the Municipal pier, where medical exhibits and clinical demonstrations are going on this week, would have caught murmurs of discontent, undercurrents of bitter- ness, a tension that showed an impa- tient desire for a breath of new life. Wonderful products of medical and mechanical science filled the booths of the pier. There were demonstra- tions of the process of manufacture of suprarenalin, which can bring to the dying a new lease of life; of digitalis, the wonderful plant which can slow the human heart. There was a tiny machine which has almost achieved perpetual motion, which will run for 19,000 years at a time, thru the mar- velous force inherent in an infinitesi- mal bit of radium. Got to Have Money. “Wonders that can’t be touched un- less you have money,” muttered a young doctor, who prudently withheld his name. “In medicine, as in every- thing else, you get what you pay for. Clinics—the free clinics of . which cities boast—are filled with inexperi- enced students. And I have ‘seen wealthy men and women, too selfish to pay for. medical treatment, ‘enter these crowded clinics by.a back door to take ip the’time of even these stu- RIVAL DICTATORS The Bratiano Brothers who ha advantage to themselves if not to the Roumanians are liable to be dictator. The General, ANTI-BOLSHEVISM INJECTED INTO BLACK BOW-TIES AND PUDGY ARMS ~ AS DR. PUSEY CLIMBS THRONE A stodgy face above a black bow-tie and a-stiff white shirt prated happily last night at the Auditorium Theater toa thousand black, bow-ties and white shirt-fronts and another thousand bare and pudgy arms.- It was William Allen Pusey, the’ néw: president of the American Medical Association, making an’ inaugural ad- dress to doctors from all parts of the country*on—the horrors KINGDOM OF THE BLOODY BOY ARS fhursday, June 12, 1924 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. While Coolidge was being boosted in Cleveland as a model Anjerican, courageous and just, the Christian La- borers’ Association of Tokio was dis tributing ‘handbills which denouncéd Pontius Pilate and Calvin Coolidge ‘as the two greatest cowards in history. Calvin opposed the Japanese exclusion law but nevertheless signed it. Pilate is alleged to. have adopted the same attitude toward the execution. of Jesus. He washed. his hands off the crime but allowed the agitator to be hanged. Coolidge is a small bore poli- tician, who has come to the front in the Republican party not because of force of character but owing to his dog-like humility, in the presence of the big financiers of this country and hig obe dience to their wishes. ** * The, capitalist: papers of the United States regret that the French radicals see the necessity of compelling Miller and to resign tho it is entirely uncon- stitutional to take this course. Consti- tutions, however, have a habit of bow- ing before new conditions, Millerand after considerable. blustering decided to, quit. Now, the so-called radicals-can, show what they cannot do. Meanwhile the position of the French Communists is. being strengthened among the work- ers. The French Communist Party hag 60,000 members and their official) or gan Humanite has a circulation of a quarter million daily. Its rival daily, the organ of the socialists, died last week. The political pot is boiling dents, while hundreds of poor waited.” |furiously in France and the future. is Proyincialism in the profession was|With the revolutionary workers. decried by Dr. Homer Sanger. Thirty- Ogee seven per cent of the internes desired| Coolidge has his ear to the radio by hospitals go to places that are not |Teceiver that brings the speeches de approved by medical standards,|livered in the large Cleveland Audi- “They do this not because it is cheap-|torium to the White House. He hears er, but because they lack initiative to|nothing but sweet words about him, tear themselves away from their sur-|No doubt he is pleased. But all the in. roundings.” habitants of this great country are not * “Multiplicity of examining boards in|at the G. O. P. convention and they do this country accounts for such dis-|not all expect to get fat jobs for ut- graces as the fake diploma mills of |tering words of praise for Coolidge, Connecticut and other states. There|There are millions of workers being is no centralization of the profession; |thrown out of work and hundreds of poor doctors escape detection by moy-|thousands of farmers losing their ing from: place to place,” said Dr.|homes and their farms because of the Sanger. | .-jexactions of the profit systém which Guns Not Playgrounds. * |Coolidge so loyally supports.. What Of the American taxation dollar,|they say about Cautious Cal will not not quite 2 per cent is spent for play-|be relayed to. the White House.. But ground activities; according to charts|they will make themselves felt next shown at the pier by the child welfare | November at the polls. bureau. Over, 50 per cent goes for} “May these delegates be men of military purposes. clean hands and clean minds,” prayed Preventing the many nostrums and|Bishop Anderson at the G. O. P. cons quackeries with which the public is} vention, as he looked around for a traca afflicted would be an easy matter, ac-|of Harry Daugherty. The bishop con+ cording to Dr. A. J. Cramp of the de-|tinued: “Within the past year thou partment on propaganda, were it not|didst bring us as.a people face to face for the powerful lobbies of, manufac-| With the stern reality of eternal worlds turers at Washington which workionce again. Thou didst call us to stand against patent medicine legislation.|with tear-dimmed eyes in the prese “Federal legislation has been ren-jence of our fallen chieftains, laid low dered useless by being made to apply |by the hand of death. When in this only to trade packages. There is plen-|unsearchable wisdom it pleased thee ty of.state and city legislation, but|to summon our chief executive into no conviction has ever been secured. |the unseen world, thy hand was still Why? Because the local attorney |over us for good.” must begin prosecution, and the local be thay ua attorney is too sensitive to. the com-| The Bishop might be thinking, “Oh ment of the newspapers, which derive |God, why in the devil, when thou didst much profit from patent medicine ad-/snatch Jess Smith away from his boot. vertising. The liquor interests, too, |leggers and caused thy devoted serve oppose such legislation, for whisky is|ant Warren to sample his stuff an important ingredient of nearly all often, thus bringing him to thee: be fake remedies.” fore the Teapot Dome scandal would Voice Against Child Labor. have killed him politically; why. did The laxity of the federal govern-|the evil one induce thee to leave Har- | ment in permitting child labor is bit-|TY Daugherty with us to spoil our terly denounced by Dr, F: P. Gengen-|Chances of putting Cautious Cal over back, specialist in children. “The |the tape next November. I tell thee, states’ rights of which we hear so|Oh God it is hell, to ponder on how much in connection with this subject,” | we shall be smitten by the children of said Dr. Gengenback, “is so much dust Satan who infesteth this land, for thy which .big manufacturers throw in the jcrimes of omission.. Thou wert doing eyes of the public.. The truth of the fine when in thy invincible wisdom matter is that under the present sys- thou didst inspire Clara Smith to pull tem human life means\less than fast the trigger on Jake Hamon, but suffer- production, and child welfare less ing catfish, thou didst stop too soon than profit.” and left us Daugherty. We shed salt AIM TO RULE "a The Poor, Fish says: Why all this fuss about finding a suitable running mate for Coolidge? ‘It: seems to me Harry Thaw would be an excellent candidate. He killed hismanand got away with it. Furthermore, he is fond of dumb animals. Those who will vote for the Teapot Dome party will be all that. What more could Wall Street want? last.” That is what the bishop probably |thought but did not say out loud,. see Theodore Burton said the Republicar? Party stands as always for law forcement. You would hardly no it during the Teapot Dome quiz Harry Daugherty and his man instead. of running down the cul who had robbed the government had all the department of justice sleuths framing up on the senate committee which was doing the investigating. Eyery grafter who robbed the natural rm rces: of the country was immune m punishment under the Harding and Coolidge regime, and under all capitalist» ‘regimes for that matter, whether Democratic or Republican but the Coolidge gang were more brazen’ and shameless than any of their pre- decessors. The Republican Party, how- ever can rightly claim credit enforcing law against workers” strive for better conditions by going on strike, and where. a law does not already exist by making a law to suit the occasion. Ditto Democratic par- ty. That is the reason for the great enthusiasm shown by the workers and exploited farmers for the St. Paul. convention, ees —_ ; Young Communists of Ukrainia. CHARKOFF, June 11.—The Young’ Communists’ organization of Ukrajnia: 4 has 51,000 members and 29,000 can- didates. 13,000 of the candidates ‘are ; re of the “Lenin mobilization.” 63 per f . . saan cent of the members leh sly ge por ruled Roumania with considerable |*1, ne" Cont Peasants, oi ee eas dropped | ary the organization has doubled its the into the political ash can by General Averescu who also has the ambition to | membership. The biggest niza-| Support in his attempt | tion in . to reach the top. i o \ s it is reported has the King’s rainia ts and ey with ooo