The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1924, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 monthr 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 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Iilinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE) “ MORITZ J. LOBB....... 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. <e- 20 Advertising rates on application. The Lying Press The capitalist press never lived up to its reputa- tion as a perverter of facts and purveyor of false- Mussolini’s Dilemma The kidnaping and possible murder of Gioconio Matteotti, socialist deputy in the Italian parlia- ment, by a Fascisti gang, dramatica!ly “brings world attention to the dilemma in which Mussolini and his cut-throat organization find themselves in, after three years of dictatorship. Unable to turn back the hands of progress on the dial of time, the renegade socialist is-now faced with the growing wrath of the workingclass which he has ruthless- ly suppressed and the disappointment of those he succeeded temporarily in seducing with his fine phrases and specious promises. When the Fascisti came to power, it was over the prostrate body. of the Italian workingclass movement. By the use of murder and arson, the black shirt bandits were able to almost completely crush out of existence the economic organizations that it took the workers decades to build. The Fascisti were able to do this because of the failure of the reformist socialists to take action until it was too late. Even then they did nothing. They refused co-operation with the Communists: in .a united front against the Fascisti, who» were financed by the big bourgeoisie. THE DAILY WORKER Wall Street’s New “Old Guard” There is an oft-repeated saying in political circles that the “Old Guard dies but does not surrender.” The Republican convertion just closed at Cleveland, brings this ques- tion into prominence more sharply than it has, been for a long time. On the face of it the last Republican na- tional gathering was not run by the “Old Guard.” Quay, Penrose, Knox and Murray Crane are dead. George Harvey, in whose room Harding was born, while the 1920 convention was on in Chicago, was not in the spot- light. Lodge, the keynoter of 1920, took a ‘back seat. Except for the chairmanship of one committee falling to Paul Howland, Daugherty’s private attorney in the Brookhart investiga- tion, the “Old Guard,” on the surface of it, did not have a look in at the show. Many of the “Old Guard” have died. The revelations of the oil scandal, the disclosures of the committee investi- gating Daugherty indicating the President Coolidge is a graduate of the Murray Crane school of politics. And Murray Crane was the marrow and essence of the old “Old Guard.” It was Murray Crane who projected Coolidge into national politics. Charles B. Warren, who was the chairman of the resolution committee at the convention, is an experienced diplomat. Mr. Warren has on many occasions distinguished himself as an expert witness before government in- vestigating committees in evading questions and in answering perplexing questions with consummate skill in evasion, Mr. Warren is reputed to be the most skilled diplomat in American imperialist foreign service. Silk Stocking Ogden. Ogden Mills is a comparatively young member of the old “Old Guard.” Tho he has not been in the limelight as an old “Old Guardist,” the New York silk-stocking. district congress- man has for some time been working on most intimate terms with the best brains of the Republican machine. Mr. Wednesday, June 18, 1924 By Jay Lovestone alliance with such big financial insti-]Harboard is an outspoken reactionary. tutions as the Chase National Bank} He is in close touch with the Morgan of New York, the Guarantee Trust Co., the Continental and Commercial Bank of Chicago, and the Girard’ National Bank of Philadelphia. Mr. Stearns is a silent man. He is almost as silent as Coolidge. But his money has been doing quite some eloquent talking for himself and his protege whom he has pushed into the White House. It is Mr. Stearns who will be pulling the purse strings in the coming Republican campaign and many such golden threads. will have to be woven into Coolidge’s. campaign if the coming months will weaves success for him. Burton is Regular Devil. Theodore Burton is one of the “Ohio gang.” Because of his supposed great. culture he was chosen as the key- noter. Mr. Burton is as black as they come. He has been in the senate and house for many years. He has been a prominent figure in the ruling cir- cles of the Republican national con- ventions for the last twenty years, A interests as president of the Radio Corporation of America. Owen D: Young, who along with Dawes, was a member of the Reparation Experts Committee is a co-director of the Radio Corporation with General Har- board. Morgan Rules the Alr. The Radio corporation of America is a Morgan firm. It is controlled by the following corporations: The Gen- eral Electric Company owns 620,800 preferred and 1,876,000 common shares of stock; the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company owns 1,000,000 preferred and 1,000,000: common shares of stock; the Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany owns 400,000 shares of ,preferred stock; the United Fruit Company, largely controlled by New England banking interests, owns 200,000 pre- ferred and 160,000 common shares of Radio Corporation stock. It is obvious that the new “Old" ‘ j in i 4 St. 1 4 . .. [depths ot depravity and corruption to} Mills is a multimillionaire. He is a|few years ago Mr. Burton served as|Guard” is at least as reactionary as ¢ Reet ere tennitn ith. treatment cf ie) 5s nee After the black shirts seized power, they in-| which’ the department of justice had| director of many banks and corpo-| president of the Merchants National|its predecessor. The old “Old Guard” convention. For months before the date of the his-| stituted the severest terrorism against the Com-|sunk, the serious discontent amongst|ratioris. Mr. Mills is one of the lead- may have as Bees has ae ee i bering every capitalist propaganda agen-| munists. For a time the socialists were not serious-|the rural masses as a result of their|ing spirits of the New York Central rendered. The capitalist principles bain as ties bd . P P fe P a d the| ly interfered with. Mussolini, the bloody renegade being condemned to bankruptcy, the} Railroad and the Farmers’ Loan and A Servant of God and interests for which the “Old cy, including labor fakers, fake liberals sa" | 5 EN 2 growing class consciousness of the in-| Trust Company, both of which are Guard” of yesterday stood and fought bankrupt socialist party poured out the vials of dictator purchased some of the yellow leaders and dustrial workers as a result of the| sections of the House of Morgan, the are safe in the hands of the new “Old their wrath on the great class farmer-labor move-| frightened the rest of them into submission. The] giant national coal, railway and textile| uncrowned royal family of American Guard” dominating the reactionary ment that had its focal point in St. Paul. rule of blood and steel was for a time in full sway, | strikes of 1922, have all done their bit] finance and industry. Republican party. Various discredited political hacks were trotted) and the workers lay broken beneath the iron heel ee ere SF ho old Bill Butler at Helm. i } s di is stuff. The|of Italian capitalism. waite William M. Butler is the man who uv out to denounce it. Gompers did his stu ene} Pe Te . Wall Street Picks New Ones. has been running the preliminaries to AS WE SEE IT socialist party kept up a constant stream of villifi-| But the Italian workers seem to be recovering] |. lier to ayold Political suicide| the costly Coolidge campaign. He will cation. Finally, Robert Marion LaFollette was in- from the demoralization caused by. the Fascistil ine post minds of Wall Street, the real| continue to run “Cal's” campaign un- By T. J. O'FLAHERTY, duced to raise his voice against it. Then the anvil murderers and se treason of their hang _— pens of the vate pete party, Mc til he succeeds in running the strike- é rus began in:real earnest. A concerted effort} cratic leaders. ey are again assuming the offen-|cided to remove from the public] breaker president back into the White ff 4 Mite to frighten the workers and dirt farm-|sive in spots. Their morale is improving. The|8cene, at least some of the dying|House or out of polities. Coolidge NES EL Boe, ee gem ease > ically waving the| kidnapping and possible murder of the socialist figures of the old “Old Guard” and put| must win the next election to be at our bonus.” One of the bandits who ers away from St. Paul by frantically waving oe brit ‘ in their place a néw “Old Guard.” In| the top in the political game. He was looted the Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Communist banner. This stunt was a flat failure.| deputy shows that the Fascisti are getting des-| view of the tremendous dissatisfaction mine ‘by 'siiabcldent |dniotar ea He Paul train to the tune of $3,000,000 is he workers and farmers came to St. Paul and so| perate and the nation-wide anger that the latest] amongst the city and rural masses, present high position is concerned. alleged to have made the above state- did the Communists. black shirt outrage has aroused may be the spark|the powers behind the Republican| wr. Butler, in politics, is a hard- ment. Gas bombs and gas masks But the capitalist reporters did their darndest| that will serve to fan the flames of the smouldering boiled business man. The way he Wore usbd in. the holds Th te A on the eve of the convention. Several of the best] fires of Italian class struggle into a blaze that spy ge aman a ra Feed Lay. sonable assumption that some if not liars in the country were in Chicago, Washington} will raze the rotten structure of Fascism to the most irritating details, the despatch =e of those who took part in the rob and St. Paul. Tired radicals, discredited labor] ground and with it the capitalist government of with which he made his decisions, the nie keine Te der igi tae fakers and pulpitless preachers who turned from| that country, swiftness with which he wielded the Germans then for Wall Street. , God to the workers for a meal ticket delivered power all bore out the truth of this Now they are willing to kill to rob themselves of weighty pronounceamentos. St. ° characterization. Wall Street. It is a robber system, vould fizzle. It would go on the rocks. Lawless America Played Marbles with “Cal.”” and the bandits who hold up trains Paul'wou a " 919 8 va that * fe = y: Mr. Butler was a classmate of Coo- are merely robbing outside the law.” Then from the twin cities came the news v a One of Wall Street’s battleships, while practic- lidge in the Murray Crane School of} An Ohio Bishop (not Brown) |The Harding-Coolidge administration ‘ the Communists were not admitted to the conven- ing for the next war off the coast of California had Capitalist Politics. He is the presi- who asked God’s blessing on the and all capitalist administrations ped« ” tion. This was the biggest whopper of the lot.|,y explosion which resulted in the death of 48 dent and director of more than half die the country’s raw resources to tha A tale that is not adorned by a moral | .a3] According to the vidi f onilesd a dozen textile mills running about | Teapot Dome. highest bidder. The capitalists of the It is a poor tale tha Ry ane ak sailors. According to the evidence so far produced, 10,000 looms and 600,000 spindles. The country rob the workers every day of and the moral of this story is: If you wan the accident was due to the inefficiency and neg- total assets of these corporations are| Bank of New York, now amalgamated | millions of ‘dollars. Is it surprising learn the truth about the labor movement read/}jivence of the ship officers. After the first explo- more than $20,000,000. Mr, Butler’s| with the Manhattan Trust Company.|that bandits who are not on the in« your own paper, the DAILY WORKER. sion the ship wandered almost around the harbor mills were in the front ranks of the| Mr. Burton is a recognized authority | Side of the ring should play the gam@ ; ‘ ; open shoppers fighting to force ajon money and, banking. He has|on the outside and take a chance: om until one of the guns went off accidentally, and but sail? ? . . for the fact that the big fourteendnth rifle. was wage cut ranging from 20 to 42 per/handled the most delicate financial See M acDonald s F oreign P olicy nei ame 8 cent on the textile workers in the last| problems for some of the biggest in- Mexico is now a school room in which the British éxcellent To offset public indignation against the avo ! taraste Mr Rutlawr fe an nfficor in| vastioatod the sharge that a nawerfit ithe country could not afford the ex Labor Party government is giving an a m sei nt _ ‘ st The, CRIM Pamala ind teem Pere ee eT a lesson in the art of serving capitalism, while osten-| officers for their criminal negligence, a gang 0! corporations whose resources are |lobby was maintained in Washington|Penditure, but he did not veto bilt sibly concerned with the rights and welfare of the It is only fair to the British La- bor party government however to state that the great majority of them have long since eliminated the class struggle and all that goes with it from their political curriculum. But when Ramsay Mac- Donald took over the foreign office, well meaning American liberals thought a new departure would working class. pointed seaward, the shot would have inflicted con- siderable damage on the city of San Pedro. elements and open shoppers, hoodlums inspired undoubtedly by the business raided a meeting place of the Industrial Workers of the World, wrecked the hall, scalded two girls with boiling water, tarred and feathered seven men and left them in a dying condition, and severely injured twenty men and one child. This was the way in which the gallant sailors vented their wrath on a a human being. Kansas Republican appears at G. O. P. Convention disguised as great depression. All in all, inclusive of his railway, electric and other in- more than $100,000,000. Frank Mondell is an old-timer. His record is as black as they come in the annals of corrupt employifig class. Mr. Mondell has never fought for or pro- posed a single measure which might be suspected of being near-progres- As congressman, Mondell was so clumsy in the way he handled deli- cate matters for the big business in- sive. terests of the country. Then the Mr. Coolidge vetoed the soldiers Sixty-third Congress, first session in-| bonus and postal clerks’ bills because to influence legislation, Burton played an important role in the investigation. Mr. Burton testified that the agents of the knit: goods, sugar, wire, cloth, electric light carbon, machine tool, interests were in close touch with him while the tariff duties were being prepared pottery, sewing machine for the Underwood bill. “Millions for prisons for the poor, seems to be his motto. se @ é to appropriate over five million dob’ lars for an irrigation plan in Arizona and another big appropriation for q We are now told that Hell an’ Marty not a nickel to jail the rich grafters,’ An Intellectual Figleaf. Dr. Marion Burton, president of the University of Michigan, is a man of the type of the new attorney-general, Stone. Dr. Burton serves as a sort of intellectual figleaf for the~circle of corrupt politicians forming the Wash- ington body-guard of President Coo- lidge.. Dr. Burton has for a long time enjoyed the confidence of the multi- millionaires who are accustomed to investing heavily in the education of throne seized upon this moment to make the long-needed change in the anatomy of the Elephant party. Physically the personnel was recon- structed. In fact, in spirit, the old “Old Guard” remains supreme. The only possible deviation that might be}manship at the Republican conven- found by the most critical observer| tion. is the infusion of some new real busi- sian be ness blood into the directing commit- Stearns is Very Dry Goods. tee of the party and its affairs. Just as McKinley had his Mark An examination of the new “Old Hanna and Harding had his Daugh- be initiated in the relations between the British Empire and other countries. The foreign policy of Britain however, remains, the same under the so-called labor government as under the Tories and Liberals. Hence the Mexi- can crisis. Great Britain has not yet recognized the Mexi- can government. The British agent in Mexico was carrying on propaganda against Mexico. It is well known that British money was back of the recent Dawes is always silent when he fq aiding somebody. He will have aq much difficulty in making us swallow that statement as Coolidg nomi. nator had in convincing the workers of this country that “Cautious Cal" has a soft place in his gizard fon them. It is rather pertinent to note that all the hidden kindnesses of the General are coming to light after hig nomination for the vice presidency. One of the Chicago ‘Tribune’y group of workers who had no more to do with the accident than Julius Cesar. One hundred and fifty hoodlums took part in the raid and not one of them was arrested. The local police were evidently in collusion with the raiders. The local papers justify the attack. alleg- ing that the I. W. W. planned to blow up the morgue in which the dead victims of West ‘Point naval officers were lying. : Of course this was an absolute falsehood, fostered terests that Roosevelt was compelled to rebuke him openly and to brand him as a reactionary. This is the Mondell who was defeated so decisive- ly in the 1922 elections. This exceed- ingly lame duck was put in the chair- ; ” the country. He is a trustee of the| champion liars tells a few abortive De La Huerta counter revolution. The re-|by the naval officers and their capitalist allies, ae ag? A pepda: Pi di dhe the/erty, so Coolidge had his Frank|Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- Dawes that are eetiaten eo ie volt was also backed by the landed aristocracy of| calculated to kill two birds with one stone, glut *: aoe Lia Stearns. Mr. Stearns is the real|ment of Teaching. him the sentimental vote next Novem Another supposed newcomer in Re-| per, mi publican backstair politics is Major| “angel” behind the Coolidge fortune in politics. Mr. Stearns is a million- aire wholesale and retail dry goods|General James G. Harboard. General merchant. He is closely associated |Harboard was prominently mentioned with business interests which are inlas a vice-presidential probability. Mexico and by the Catholic church. A Mrs. Rosalie Evans, born in Texas and mar- ried. to an Englishman, owns a big ranch in Mexico. She has refused.to recognize Mexican laws and has turned her hacienda into a fortress. The British agent is supporting her in the war against the their hatred on the I. W. W. and divert attention from the catastrophe. Barbarous California in lawless America! Force and Violence “Cal” Leads the Gang. At the head of the new “Old Guard” is of ‘course none other than the “Silent Cal” Coolidge himself. ses y While Budget Director in Washing» ton a reporter came into- his for news. He casually ment that an old newspaperman was brok@ and about to die. “Hell,” said Dawem Mexican government and his efforts have been en- dorsed by Ramsay MacDonald. The Mexican gov- ernment ordered his deportation, after having ex- The capitalists and the different brands of fak- ers, liberal and labor, who are the allies of the capi- hausted its patience, but the British propagandist and agent provocateur refuses, flys the British flag over his headquarters and challenges the Mexican government to remove him. The crime committed by the Mexican republic was its refusal to turn the wealth of the nation to the British oil companies at the head of which is Lord Cowdray. Ramsay MacDonald as well as the liberal and Tory governments that preceded him, because of this fact, refuses recognition and main- tains an agency in Mexico to foster rebellion against the regularly constituted government that republic. The British Labor Party government is here shown playing the role of defender of the interests of the British capitalists in Mexico as it does England and all over the world. Moscow is credited by some of its enemies with haying distorted notions of the condition of the revolutionary movement here and the weakness of the government. Let us hope that the reports hold-ups, hangings, train robberies, ete., will not of in deny. of were in the overwhelming majority members of talists against the radicals seek to poison the minds of the workers against the communists by making it appear that the latter advocate the use of force as a method of advancing the interests of labor to the exclusion of all other forms of ‘action. The communists do not hesitate to say that the use of force is inevitable in a period of revolution. No ruling class has ever surrendered its power without a resort to force and the rulers of today are at least as®bloodthirsty as any of their prede- cessors and have more to lose by the change from the present system of exploitation and production of wealth for profit to a system under which wealth will be produced for the use of the producers and |out of the swill trough, but it was not for the profit of a few, as is the case today. | just between pigs. That the capitalist class will resist this change by force no one who is honest and intelligent will By HARRISON GEORGE swamp at Cleveland, If anything were needed after elther with God or the devil. LaFollette’s own record of cl the| His Wisconsin is famous for its craw- fish, but we never céuld ingurgiate ‘em. Our born dislike to the var- mint’s family and features seems just- ified by the way it has crawled back- ward from St. Paul to the muddy Follette’s denunciation of St. Paul to disillusion his former supporters, it was furnished by the sickening spec- tacle of his forces wallowing in the pig-sty of the Republican convention. True, the old gang tried to snout them But timi- dity, coupled with a purely personal ambition, is against any such excuse, record of republican regularity tical ipecac, propose something and have it La- to build a party.” » Some claim that La-Follette’s action was caused by “bad counsel” given him by his spirit medium, J. A. H. Hopkins, who materializes ghosts of The capitalist class murdered millions of the|48 progressive liberals who dwell in flower of the world’s manhood duririg the murder |Pursatory, not being able to agree carnival that was let loose when the bugles of war sounded in Europe in 1914 until the fake truce was signed in 1918. The victims of that awful butchery The Crawfish Is a Funny Critter “he’s an old friend of mine.” He the reporter a $500 check to bring old friend. Come to think of LaFollette’s sudden effort at the close of the congressional session to feated merely for campaign thunder is transparent hypocrisy. His egoist motion that the farmerlabor move- ment is his personal property is aptly lampooned by Cramer of Minneapolis, who said, “The St. Paul Convention was not called to crown a king but He has the hal- lucination that a historical class move- ment should depend upon his Battle Creek digestion or receive orders thru his son, whose capacity may be guaged from the fact that a letter of five lines sent by him last year to the writer of this’ observation con- tained eight major solecisms. His program clamoring for economic de- yolution like trust-busting, while illus- trating the flat contradiction of the whole small class to laws of progress, offers no solution to workers and poor farmers. On May 28 this false alarm awoke even some radicals from’ dreams of “a LaFollette revolu- tion.” How little can be expected from LaFollette is shown by the statement of Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of Doheny, the oil pirate also had a de- easy as the old reporter got the i check from Dawes. Doheny got his money, of course. Perhaps reporter is writing General, now: casting bread & 3 § eulogies” It's another upon the waters. ga eR Magnus Johnson, the horn from Minnesota bid for fame in Washington ! af gE election, endorses LaFollette his program of reform is “much along) the lines of those urged by Woodrow Wilson in his first campaign.” Villard evidently wants another “war for democracy” and another Versailles treaty—but the workers and farmers | Pre don’t. spot in his heart for his old friend Fall got $100,000 out of him just 3 national penal institution for women Coolidge is strong for law and see * .: i create the impression on the other side that the working class but the paitl hirelings who lie about| thru thick and thin is no recommend- Teapot Dome government has quit. the communists today, instead of protesting|*t! to starving farmers and unem- against the violence of the capitalist war were adden ening the eM me ih either silent as the tomb or else were vociferously | use of “red plot” yarns joins him to urging the workers to take part in the for) Harry Daugherty and Bill Burns and/|th Secretary Hughes. His campaign com- tee consists of bankers and busi- ness men. obviously demagogic talk about “a long suffering and righteously indignant people” is poli- ‘A New York society girl in announcing the date of her wedding also announced that among the witnesses to the ceremony would be her three dogs. The girl is described as “beautiful but ety She has something on the dogs at least. They are dumb if not beautiful. The Poor Fish says:, My friends say ublican ticket is well-bal- ed one—Coolidge and Dawes. It really Id be Dawes and Coolidge. If Coolidge is to get any publicity at all he must do something extraor- dinary—begin to cuss or something. sleep on that score,” says the “Search- light” editor, “LaFollette is not ultra the profit and glory of capitalism. The capitalists use violence today to keep the workers in subjec- tion. They will use more violence to preserve their robber rule / if