The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1924, Page 6

~——“coming to the aid of the unorganized ant Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. ‘Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3. months By mail (in 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 Bivd. Chicago, Hlinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE ) * MORITZ J. LOEB... Editors jusiness 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. Who Owns Crowe? When the Daily Worker began its exposure of the conditions that cxist in the monster plant of the Western Electric company in Cicero, the offi- cials of that company were in the midst of an efficiency campaign which had the objective of slashing the payroll two million dollars yearly by laying off thousands of workers and increasing the output per employe so as to maintain the former standard of production with a reduced staff and if possible increase it. The bosses were trying to bamboozle the workers into believing that increased efficiency on their part meant more work for them and more pro- sperity for the whole country including the com- pany. What was good for the company was good for its employes. After all are not the Western Electric Company and its employes members of one happy family? The Daily Worker set off a bomb under this company buncombe in a series of articles written by its staff reporters who went into the plant and worked inorder to get the facts first hand. Thou- sands of the papers containing the stories were sold daily at the gates of the plant. The workers were glad that at last they had a paper, to tell the truth about the conditions under which they la- bored; a paper that would fight their battles. The inefficiency system was knocked into a cock- ed hat. The propaganda of the bosses went in one ear and out in another. The workers had their eyes opened. So had the stool pigeons of the elec-| tric trust. Karl Reeve; the man who made the ex- posure for the Daily Worker was arrested and a charge of disorderly conduct placed against him. When he appeared in court a man from state’s attorney’s Crowe’s office was there at the request of the Western Electric Company to assist the trust in blocking the expose. Crowe’s office is now busy trying to frame up on the Daily Workeryfor oit- ed slaves of the mighty corporation. Who owns Robert E. Crowe? He is backed by the Chamber of Commerce, the Chicago Tribune and all the capitalist papers in the city 6f Chicago. He is always at the service of the bosses. He would never be elected to office but for the votes of the workers who are not yet class conscious. The employes of the Western Electric company are urged to read the story of the St. Paul Conven- tion, join a political party of the workers that will elect men to office pledged to represent the workers alone. Politicians elected on the Democratic and Republican tickets are like Crowe owned by the employers. Send in that Subscription Today. The “Third Degree” Every now and then a howl goes up from the liberal elements over some particularly obnoxious incident connected with the working of the capi- talist government. But the shouting soon dies down and the capitalist government goes along riding roughshod over the people’s “rights,” re- cognized more in breach than in observance. The arrests of two Chicago teachers on suspi- cion of being connected with the murder of the Franks boy, and the tortures inflicted on them in an attempt to extract confessions of guilt from them under pressure has again brought these bru- tal police methods to public attention. The two teachers were beaten, frightened and threatened with death unless “they came clean,” “told what they know,” or informed the police “where they buried the body.” To justify the il- legal detention of these men, incommunicado, the police issued fantastic statements to the effect that the teachers confessed to sex persersion and nauseum. 4 After the Leopold-Loeb confession. was secured, the two victims of police brutality were released. When the facts of their treatment became kpown, an investigation of the truth of the charge made against the police was started but the two men had a taste of what the police can do in the way of punishment and are afraid to testify. But for the comparative prominence of the tutors the beating and torture they suffered would never come to light. Had they been ordinary work- ers, nobody would bother about them. The brutality of the police will continue until the workers who suffer most from it will exert their political and industrial might and wipe out the brutal capitalist system which brutalizes its agents. Capitalist governments do not maintain power because they serve the people. They exist by force and are primarily for the purpose of keeping the workers in subjection. _. The it will not go until the workers act. Send in that Subseription Today! Massolini in a Fix Signor Matteoti, millionaire Socialist deputy, who was kidnapped by the Fascisti has not yet been returned dead or alive. It is quite likely he will never be returned alive. The wife of the miss- ing deputy implores Mussolini to give her back the body of her husband so that she can give him de- cent burial. The black shirt dictator hypocritical- ly said he would be glad to return’ her, husband alive. He knows better than anybody else except those who did the kidnapping whether Matteoti can be returned alive or not. Mussolini and his murder gang have killed thou- sands of Italian workers during their career of crime, But they were applauded by the capitalist press of the world. Now the story is’ different. Mussolini’s gang did away with a millionaire so- cialist. This is striking too near home. ° :It is an act of desperation, which shows that Mussolini is finding the ground slipping from under. his feet. It is no wonder that his face was yellow when call- It is no wonder that his face was yellow when called on to explain the disappearance of Matteoti. The anti-Fascisti bourgeois press which tolerated and approved the murders of the Communists:now be- gins to dig up enough courage to call on the Fas- cisti dictator for a showdown, The boasted purity of purpose of the Italian Fascisti, it seems was about to be exposed by Mat- teoti. The saviors of Italy like our own Ku Klux Klan, the Falls, Daugherties and Coolidges were found to be colossal thieves who looted one great financial institution and build up tremendous for- tunes for themselves with the loot. The deposi- ters whose savings were stolen now call frantically for the documents that are alleged’ to be in Signor Matteoti’s portfolio when he was kidnapped and most likely murdered by those who had reason to fear the threatening exposure. The comrades of the murdered workers and those whose homes were burned, who saw their labor temples destroyed, their organizations wrecked, and their printing plants smashed, are also watching the situation with an interest that bodes ill to the arch assassin of the Italian workingclass. Mussolini, the black dictator tried the wrong kind of dictatorship. He tried to block the onward march of evolution. Backed by capitalism he turned his face to the past and sought ‘by’ artifi- cial means to thwart the movement’ for freedom from class rule that for a moment promised to win in Italy. Today he sees his edifice crumbling about him. What he may do or can do in this critical juncture cannot Ke predicted with infallible accu- racy but itis a reasonable deduction from the re- ports coming from Italy that the end of his bloody rule isnot far off. \ f . s Les Majeste Is it a criminal offense to criticise a president of the United States? Not according to the constitu- tion of course, but that venerable document was patched together quite a long time ago outside of recent additions, which are also carelessly ob- served, and anyhow what is a constitution between friends? Since the Teapot Dome party held its convention in Cleveland and affirmed Wall Street’s nomina- tion of Calvin Coolidge, two outrages were com- mitted against workers and citizens of the United States for availing themselves of their constitu- tional right to state their views on current events and to criticise the president of the United States and the things for which he stands. In the city of Philadelphia, in the state made famous by the much touted progressive governor, Gifford Pinchot, H. M. Wicks, of the Workers’ party, was arrested while speaking at a picnic, because of his criticism of Calvin Coolidge. True to Pennsylvania style the arrest’ was. made -by mounted policemen, or cossacks, and the outing broken up. In Buffalo, New York, as a member of the Prole- tarian party was speaking on the street corner in the vicinity of the headquarters of the American Legion, a gang of hoodlums was organized by the legion which seized the defenséless speaker, and beat him severely. Not satisfied with the first beating the brave warriors who would no doubt pass into eternity if they ever faced a number of men approximating their number, followed him down the street and gave him a second beating. The capitalist class care nothing for law; order or constitutional methods except when their own purposes can be seryed thereby. Their laws are made to protect their ill-gotten property and to keep the workers down. laws officially and unofficially. In Philadelphia Comrade Wicks was arrested by uniformed ser- vants of capitalism. In Buffalo the extra-legal arms of the capitalist government punished the worker who thot he had a right to express his opin- ion on the affairs of the country in which he was living and working. This state of affairs cannot be remedied by try- ing to democratise or civilize capitalism. The system must be destroyed and the workers must set about reconstructing society on a Communists’ basis. Only when the workers have governmental power will they be immune from such outrages. “The cure for highway robbéry is unfailing punishment of the robbers,” says the Chicago Eve- ning Journal, commenting on .the Chicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul robbery. The darned trouble is there are too many robbers and they control the government, H At a mass meeting in Tokio speeches were made denouncing the United States and resolutions “third degreeing” of workers must go. But] passed calling on naval reservists to be ready for “defense of the nation’s honor.” Did you ever hear inything like that before? Of course you did and very likely you will hear the same story again. THE DAILY WORKER MARCEL CACHIN, GREAT FRENCH COMMUNIST, TELLS OF PARTY’S AMAZING SUCCESS IN CAMPAIGN By CHARLES ASHLEIGH. (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, May 20.—(By Mail.)—‘‘Man proposes, and the movement disposes,”’ would be an apt adaptation of an old adage, for the use of revolutionists. The last couple of weeks, or sb, has seen much sudden changing of my plans and, incidentally, those plans I had made regarding the exigencies of the class struggle. DAILY WORKER, owing to the It.is terrible to try and be a correspondent of the one English- renee speaking Communist daily in the world and, at the same time, to be ruthlessly ordered here and there by genial, but quite re- lentless, officials of the Commu- nist party of Great Britain. For instance, I wished to report the French elections for the DAILY WORKER. I had had the opportunity of getting to Paris. So I got there, But then, alas, came a peremptory wire from England, and back I went. For the British Communist party was going to have a party congress and they wanted me there. I had fraternal delegate’s credentials from the Work- ers Party of America, for one thing; and, for another, Marcel Cachin, just re-elected as Communist deputy to the French parliament and editor of that great Communist daily, L’Humanite, was to be present as fraternal dele- gate from the French party, and I was to interpret his speech. So I thought to myself, “Well, if I can’t send the WORKER any French election stuff, at least I'll send them two or three stories on the British party congress.” And with that conso- lation did I salve my soul. Back to London I came. A day or two there and I was embarked in a special delegate’s coach, on the train for Manchester, where thé congress was to ba held. In the Communist Congress. The following morning the congress opened. During the opening speech scribbled a few lines of my opening story for the DAILY WORKER, just describing the hall and giving the number of delegates. I also enclosed the resolutions and the agenda. This I sent off immediately to be mailed. And no sooner had I got this done when I was called from my place. “Be ready to interpret Cachin,” I was told. I secured pencil and paper, mounted the red-draped presidium with Cachin, and my labors began. And then, after I had interpreted Comrade Cachin’s splendid speech, I went back to my place among the del- egates, prepared for three days’ list- ening and reporting. Ah, the good stories I would be able to send, hot off the bat, to the DAILY WORKER! But it was not to be, Again I was called from my seat. With Cachin to Glasgow. “We're going to send Comrade Cachin at once to Glasgow, to speak at two meetings tomorrow, for Com- rade Ferguson, the Communist who is running as Labor Party parliament- ary candidate for Kevingrove, Glas- gow,” said the secretary amiably, “and you’ve got to go with him to interpret his speeches. You have only got three- quarters of an hour to get to your hotel, pack up, and get the train to Scotland.” Meekly, I left. It seemed that I should never be able to send the WORKER any special stories. By the time we would have finished in Glas- gow, the Congress would be over. But, after all, I did get a story for the DAILY WORKER, and a good one, too. Because I spent three days with Comrade Cachin. On the train to Glas- gow; in between the rousing meet- ings in Glasgow—international ones they were, ‘for at them spoke the Frenchman, Cachin, the’ Dutchman, Edo Fimmen, and the semi-American, myself—and ‘on the train, on Monday, returning to London; all this time I was talking with Comrade Cachin. oO Oe Naturally, he talked about ‘the eleo- tions. He told me how the French FRENCH COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN. They violate their own|Communist Party had, for the first time, organized 9 really centralized campaign. The French itional method is to leave much latitude to districts—it is the legacy of the old revolutionary federalist and autonom- ist thought of France, But in the election campaign they had organized straight from headquarters in Paris. It was a stirring c: and an ef- ficient one, in which every unit of the party participated with energy. Fight in 500 Constituencies, There are over 500 electoral consti- tuencies in France; and the Commun- ist Party presented its candidates in every single one of them! Not be- cause they had any hopes of success in hundreds of them, but for purposes of propaganda, to bring the Commun- ist message before the workers of all France. The Communist Party had to fight practically alone. They had called upon the socialist party to form, Communists Double Membership. The Communists have more than doubled their membership. They had otily 10 deputies in the chamber before the election. Now they have 26. They polled nearly a million votes. In some industrial districts the Communist vote was greater than the total vote of all the other parties. This is a great success, especially to be realized if we can get the right focus on France. Germany is different. In de- feated Germany the process of capitalist decay has gone much further than in France. In Ger- many, also, there has long been the tradition of centralized, disciplined parties of the workers. In France, the workers have not been reduced to such conditoins of starvation and misery as: are the German workers. And in France the old tradition of anarchism and. anarcho-syndicalism was strong indeed. The workers were unaccustomed to the idea of a strong, centralized Marxian party of revolu- tion. Great Swing to Left. As Comrade Cachin remarked, this marks the beginning of great Com- munist advances in France. There is a definite swing to the Left, as was unmistakably shown by the elections. Hundreds of thousands of workers have voted for the Socialists and the Radicals, hoping that these parties will bring them peace and financial stability and an alleviation of the bur- den of taxation. But they-will be unable to do this, I said Comrade Cachin. The bourgeois parties of the Left cannot bring peace to Europe, nor can they cope with the growing financial problems of France. Only revolutionary action can do this. In five years’ time the’ French state will not even be in a position to pay the interest on its ordinary national debt—let alone its enormous war debts to other countries. -And then They have celebrated In Odessa The LAUNCHING of’a'ship WRECKED by the French invaders, And SALVAGED By the Soviet. shipyards. In the rout Of Wrangle’s forces The Chalirdal.was seized Along with all the other Boats in sight, To carry off the officers Of the White Army. But in their panic hurry They ran it on a sandbar. So the French removed The ENGINES, |And smashed. up all the woodwork, And scrawled _ x Across the. broken cabin-walls; “Good-bye, Bosheviks! This is good enough for you!” -_* © But the Bolshies Didn't think it good, enough, So they towed it into the harbor At Odessa, And fixed it up again Just as) they fixed is THOUSANDS of burned bridges HUNDREDS of burned villages All thru south Russia. And now They have finished it in time To carry freight to France When they sign The Franco-Russian TRADE-AGREEMENT. e+ * But I wonder HOW MANY MORE Little freight ships And bigger ships of state, Scattered thru the broken lands Of eastern Europe, Which were wrecked By Poincare, — Will be fixed up at last? By those BOLSHEVIKS? age of five meetings a day, during the French elections, and ‘had been edit- ing a daily paper ‘in between whiles. Then he had traveled to London, and then from London to Manchester for the congress. From there we had gone straight on to’ Glasgow, where he had made two long, fighting speeches, and now we were. making another long train journey back to London. And from London, he was to. go. straight to Paris, to his beloved paper. He talked of the paper with love and un- quenchable enthusiasm; it was evi- will come national ruin. And the So- cialists and Radicals, like the Social- ists and Radicals in Germany, will seek to throw the burden of these debts on to the proletariat. And the French proletariat will have an opportunity of realizing, in bitter fullness, the treachery and uncapacity of the Socialists and Radicals. Then wil come the great movement of the masses over to the Communist Party. Workers And Peasants Only. One of the striking things about the last election, said Comrade Cachin, was the proletarian character of the Communist candidates. With the ex- ception of the retiring Communist de- puties who stood for reelection, and of the heroic sailor, Marty, all the candidates came straight out of the factory or workshop, or from the fields of the peasantry. At the last national congress of the French Party, it was decided that no full-time party officials should stand for the Chamber. So, every one of the candidates was @ worker or peasant. At 5 o'clock, when the factory gates closed, they came among their electors, to bring them the message of Communism. Particularly, striking was the number of working farmers who stood as can- didates in the Communist cause. “So,” said Comrade Cachin, “when the chamber opens, they will march in, straight from the factories, the mines, the fields, or the prison, carry- ing with them the marks of their ar- duous and ill-paid toil, bringing with them, into the effete atmosphere of the chamber of deputies, all the vigor of their proletarian hatred of capital- ism and determination to end it.” se @ Jailed for Work in Ruhr, Marty was not the only ex-prisoner who was elected. Comrade Cachin himself, not so long ago, passed five months in the Sante, the well-known Paris jail, for having brot the message of brotherhood from the French work- ers to the workers of the Rhur. That splendid fighter, Vaillant-Couturier, who has also been re-elected, also suffered imprisonment in the work- ers’ cause, as have several others, The case of Jaques Doriot is partic- ularly interesting. Doriot is a young worker who holds a prominent posi- tion in the Young Communist move- ment of France. Together with others of is comrades, he was recently sen- tenced to six months’ imprisonment for activities among the French sold- iers in the occupied German territory. He was sentenced and imprisoned about three days before the election. And, on the Sunday following his im- prisonment, he was triump! elected, by a working-class suburb of Paris, to the chamber of deputies! | “They have not yet released Com- rade Doriot,” said Cachin. “But they soon will. We're going to see to it with them, the bloc of the workers|that he is free for the opening of the and peasants, but the socialist party had preferred an alliance with the|the old fighter’s chi E rather than with|@nd those fierce, beetling eye the proletarian Communists. But the|ffowned down over the clear, workers, organized in the trade unions | ©Yes- bourgeois liberals, affiliated to the Unitary Confederation of Labor joined them, and the ‘ {confederation supported — their fight] very fatigued, altho he is getting [in years, He had spoken at an chamber, the first Dong in June.” And shot forward, Cachin's Man-Sized Job. Comrade Cachin did not seem dent that “Humanite” was his life’s job to him. Yet, he had\to attend the chamber, and party councils as well. And public speaking was another con- tinual occupation. But Cachin; one could tell, enjoyed comes from Brittany, wiv the peo- ple are of the same stock as the Irish, Welsh and Gaelic Scotch—is a fighter born, and he exults in the struggle as heartily as does any youth, newly come to the ca see | ABOUT THE DAILY WORKE! | Comrade Cachin: was very interest- ed in the DAILY WORKER. He rec- ognized to the full the importance of an English language daily paper to the Communist movement of the United States. ‘He asked me a dozen questions about the DAILY WORK- ER: about its make-up (Comrade Cachin does not know English, and so had not read the paper), about the territory it. covered, the methods of distribution, and many other keen questions, some of whieh, I regret to say, I could not answer, being an ex- ile from America, and*thus somewhat out of touch.. But I told him every- thing I knew about ‘the paper, and about the Workers party and. the Trade Union Educational league. He listened with close attention, and im- mediately ‘spoke in’ warm : approval when I mentioned the tactics of the party with regard ‘to the formation of a Farmer-Labor party in America, and when I touched on the policy regard- ing the trade union movement, It was a happy meeting this: be- tween the editor of an historically fa- mous papér; the paper founded by Jaures, with ‘its: cir tion of about ) neer journal, which is with dauntless “Tell the comrades Comrade Tcouee Thursday, June 19, 1924 A SHIP LAUNCHING By ANISE (Federated: Press Staff Writer) AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY The Minnesota Daily Star is in deadly fear of the Communists. We do not blame it. Every grafter and political crook from the Statue of | Liberty to the Golden Gate has several substantial reasons for fearing the communists. One reason’ is that the communists are out to abolish the robber system on which grafters thrive. We can dispense with all the other reasons as superfluous. The Communists are becoming an import- ant political factor in Minnesota and the slimy .Van Lear warns: all those would “play ball? with the radicals that they are marked for slaughter, The Minnesota Star has a lot of’ im- pudence to warn anybody. It has one foot in the grave and another in the political underworld of the Twin Cities. It has lost every share of de- cency it ever possessed and is a stench in the nostrils of all progress- ives. Van Lear was made mayor of Minneapolis ‘by the radicals and> the progressives. He sold them out. He would not be elected dog catcher to- day. The Communists do not wage political campaigns in order to get elected to,office. Van Lear is warning those who like himself look on the working class movement’ as a stepladder to power, influence and graft. ee 8 ; The police claim that the solution of the $3,000,000 train robbery is at hand. Nothing remains to be done except the location of the loot and the robbers; that is, the robbers who have not yet been arrested. Those arrested are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but as usual the police declare they have the culprits. Per- haps they have. We are so accus- tomed to police “confessions” and the methods used in securing them that a@ policeman’s word counts for little. ‘We have not yet read any editorial in the capitalist press commenting on the inefficiency of the privately owned railroads that cannot safely ship. val- uable consignments from city to city. se 8 Miss Muriel Buell, 28 years young and the owner of a nifty figure, was on the pay roll of Jefferson Living- Ston, millionaire and owner of a large Kentucky breeding stable for racing horses. He was running a harem on the side, it seems. The old man sim- ply could not get out of business. Miss Buell, however, was too extrava- gant, declared the old capitalist sup- porter of the home, the family, the purity of young and virtuous woman: hood and the sturdy foe of Commun- ism, so he cut her off with the prov verbial nickel. Muriel is now telling it to the judge, She thinks a settle- of her young life might atone for the loss of the turfman’s affections, such as they were, or at least until she got a decent job with good pay, The world waits with baited breath while the judge is making up hig mind, if he has any. “aes ef That interesting old faker, Arthur Brisbane, produces almost as many editorials jas Ford does flivvers, He is usually clever, tho not always truth- ful. Sometimes he sells real estate thru editorials; sometimes he writes boosts for the Standard Oil company in return for juicy advertising con- tracts. He is nothing if not original. Brisbane ‘is employed by William Randolph Hearst at a.salary of $100,- 000 a year to write these editorials. Hearst at the present time is engaged in trying to establish the open shop system in his Post-Intelligencer plant in Seattle. But, to prove how good’a friend of union labor. this —ecabby Hearst is, his hired man Brisbane writes an editorial for the Hearst pa- pers which serves as a caption to a Picture showing Hearst’s young son with a group of pressroom employes. He is in overalls, like the rest of them, He has a union card in his pocket, Arthur reminds us. But haps it is in George L. Berry’s u The picture may appease the anger of the Seattle printers who are on strike against the scabby Hearst. mis ef * ' LaFollette insists that his new ganization must not be called a party. It must be the tail to Bob's kite. La- Follette is also very much distu a suitable companion as It is said Warren 8. Stone is yorite, but Gompers does not with great favor on Stone's. rise power, , financially and litically, pers, who has done level best to kill every kind of a vention that showed any incl! toward forming a labor party, will strike | SS é a& as of $1,750"a-montir for~the-reat~— ~~~ ,, *