The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ©O., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. (Phone! Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.60....6 months $2.00....8 months By mail (In Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 montis SS Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. $6.00 per year Chicago, Ilinols 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. <> 290 Advertising rates on application. The Fifth Congress Millions of workers the world over have their eyes fastened upon the Fifth World Congress of "| Workers’ Industrial union of the Industrial Work- / THE DAILY WORKER Success to Harvest Drive The annual harvest drive of the Agricultura) ers of the World has commenced in Oklahoma Kansas and will sweep north into the Dakotas as the wheat ripens. This organization, since 915, has done excellent work in raising wages, shorten- d the grain belt. The winter “stake” of many thousands of workers must be made during the harvest son. the dark winter of unemployment that seems to be looming ahead. And the size of the “stake” depends on their aggressiveness in banding to- gether in spite of constables, sheriffs and the|ven' ener small town American Legion gangs that infes pioneer American products of the best 8 gang! t the native brand, as authentically Ameri- wheat country. This summer many unemployed city workers will tackle the harvest. can forgotten their union principles, worked for the “going” wage and failed to join the only union in the harvest field—giving the excuse that it was A Frie (Written for the Dally Worker.) As I look back at the St. Paul con- ing hours and developing class consciousness in|¥@2tion, where I was what Daisy Ash- ford would call, a “friendly visitor,” and wore a guest badge big as an ostrich‘egg, one of my pleasant mem- Ht ories is that the convention was con- On this sum will depend their livelihood thru|ducted in the American language. Marxian thought formed the spinal column of the convention and. stiff- But the flesh and muscles of the con- "3 Ham and eggs may not seem like a 4 The complaint has been|great step forward from the pretzels made in the past that union men have frequently |and sauerkraut of the old Germanic Socialist party, or the kasha and: vod- ka of early Communism, but one must respect the customs of one’s country. American workers and farmers like By MIKE GOLD. tic! d it into an integrated organism, | Wo Dw ret: ition were corn-fed, flivver-using, as ham and eggs. roll me leggers, actors, forgers, bigamists and other clever and strategic people could see little difference between them and the labor skates who bored him with their lust for publicity. ‘When he went back to the office, this young, about the boys, |the editors. erful, and they are a great aid in managing the unions to whom news- paper publishers must pay large wage skates also talked to the editors. The result was they began sending only tactful and experienced men to cover ndly Visitor at St. Paul labor skates, and who often ruffied the §didn’t give a damn what capitalist dignity and designs of the powerful labor bureaucrats. who had interviewed Tammany poli- newspaper or labor leader disagreed with them, Not even the cleverest labor report- er at St. Paul could invent a theory to fit Alex Howat, the great, rugged Kansas miner. In his speeches, short and powerful as the, blows of a min- er’s pick, there was no hint of Mos- cow; there was only the need of American labor expressed, William Bouck, who looked and talked as if he had dropped his plow in the field to attend the convention, was also a puz- zler to the reporters. He was a work- ing farmer, and not even the skillful- est American lar could make a sin- ister foreigner out of him. Duncan McDonald, who will run for President on the Farmer-Labor ticket, was a manly, self-possessed authentic figure—an American miner, obviously, and the former head of one of the largest miner’s groups. - And then there were men in the convention like A young reporter ‘ians, congressmen, captured boot- eare-free cynic sometimes uld write strangely truthful facts to use William inne’s classic phrase. The fat boys aliated with indignant pressure on The fat boys are pow- ls. Bankers, chambers of, com- ree and other friends of the labor | ’ Wednesday, June 25, 1924 that LaFollette is not going to take a chance. Even if he had, he wovld have been a liability and not an set to a real Farmer-Labor party. would have obstructed its real tasx in every way; obscured the issu¢, and led this new wave of American» in- surgence into the swamp where Bryan and Roosevelt had formerly led it. It is better to be patient and thoro, and to build from the bottom up, and to work with time. The Communists saw this’ at St. Paul, and they made the non-Communists see it. They chose to build the new house of labor on the difficult rock of a class, rather than on the easy sand of the passing popularity of an individual politician. I believe in the foundation of rock, as well as in American ham and eggs. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. the Communist International now in session in Moscow. The hopes of the world’s proletariat are centered in this gathering, which concentrates the organized power, will, and intelligence of the ris- ing class that is soon to rule society. Wo par an “outlaw” union. This is a wretched excuse for|ham and eggs in their diet, and St. scabbing. The American Federation of Labor|P8ul save it to them, plenty of it. It has refused to organize the migratory harvest rkers and every genuine union man will sup- rticular field where it functions. seems to me that they ought to be able to digest their favorite breakfast ‘ i food more readily than they have the port the organization which is doing so, in the|more unfamiliar foods of the past. . Any American trade unionist or any While the Communist congress proceeds, the forces that brot it into being continue their work uninterruptedly. The breakdown of the capital- ist system becomes more and more evident, and what were but cracks in its giant walls a short time ago now show themselves as great breaches. In Italy, the triumphant Fascist party of coun- ter-revolution is completing the destruction of “ capitalism under the guise of re-establishing it, and hastening the proletarian uprising. Recent revelations are stirring the entire Italian work- ing class to action after several years of apathy, while the last resources of capitalist resistance have been exhausted. The workers’ and farmers’ government is near in Italy. In Germany, quick upon the heels of a retreat that seemed to threaten disaster, the: working class had made another great advance in the May elections, which showed that in the industrial cen- ters the Communist party of Germany has a posi- tive majority of the working class. The 4,000,000 votes in Germany are the guarantee that the revo- lution will soon rescue the unhappy masses of that country from the slavery of international capitalism. In France, also, the center of victorious im- In like manner when wobblies go into an indus- try which is organized by the American Federation the ranks of labor. "a “Turn the Other Rascals Out” seemed as realistic as a convention of wobblies bent on organizing the whe: ing Senator Pat Harrison’s keynote speech to the|?°T ® concrete object and it accom- y plished that object. vention cluttered up with badly writ- democratic convention yesterday was even more empty than expected. There was hardly a varia-|ten, tion from the old theme, “Turn the republican|wordy and useless resolutions. It rascals out, put the democratic ones in.” “Are|W8s you dissatisfied?” it asks the masses; “if so, want a change. We offer you a change from republican label to the democratic.” for But those who may have expected a note of mid-|i2€ die-class revolt (of course there were none foolish |!° enough to look for the slightest working class on tendency, were disappointed. Apparently the|even when a capitalist boss has in- jackass politicians are not going to compete with] structed one to regard it as wiener- the elephant keepers in angling for any class an group that is in the slightest antagonism to Wall Street, but rather to outbid them for the support Hs of the big check books. Money will bring more| othe: votes than platforms and speeches; that seems to| World, I have seen at several labor mortgage-ridden would have understood every word ty, f spoken at the convention and would of Labor they should join the union of their fellow|have understood what it was trying to workers in order that there may be no division in|40 for him. The convention was down ou farmer-labor party in America, and it YOU! did the job simply and thoroly. Even the} the capitalist reporters, who .are paid I pitied some of these capitalist re- jorters. One of them was an old and couraged friend of my youth, and labor news—experts, students of the labor movement, renegade radicals, usually, who found their radical edu- cation a short step to high salaries and favored jobs. That is the genesis of the labor re- porters. They are a new class in American journalism, and wherever they go they are almost the personal press agents of the labor skates who sit in power. I remember Leary at the International Ladies’ Garment Workers convention, in 1922, for in- stance, where he seemed not a com- placent high-caste reporter for the New York World, but the right-hand man of Schlesinger, the president. In West Virginia and other struggles these men have been playing the same part—their main function being the slandering of all progressive ten- dencies in American labor, and per- sistent day by day support for the la- bor oligarchy. That is now their job, and it is a well paying job. They came to St. Paul in great numbers; it was interesting to a newspaper man to see what impor- tance the editors of the nation at- tached to St. Paul. The whole bat- tery of labor reporters was there, from east and west, working and sweating over their task, and waiting impatiently for a disaster. They had their program all laid out for them; it was to report that this convention was a Moscow product, dominated by Communists, with no real roots in the American soil. American farmer brass tacks all the time, and at fields, or a convention of cloth, workers or machinists. It met It was not a con- rubber-stamp manifestoes or a convention met to form a class their successful misunderstand- of such conventions, had a hard trying not to understand. Any must recognize a plate of ham eggs when it is set before them, itzel or borsht. rs, like Leary of the New York Robt. Cramer, of Minneapolis, and the kindly and earnest labor editor Wil- liam Mahoney, aid able John Kennedy, of Washington, and Beebe of the Nebraska farmers, and many, many others, The. Chicago Journal of Comm ca informs us that Dawes will open campaign for the presidency in Lin- Then there sat the delegates them-|C°!™, Nebraska. Nebraska happens to selves, red-faced, sun-tanned farmers in rough, baggy clothes, with hands calloused by the plow, and industrial workers with pale faces, and so many of them non-Communists, yet undis- turbed by the daily shriek that went up all over the land against this Com- munist convention, so-called. It ws a new phenomenon for some of these labor reporters, and I think some of them must have felt helpless in the face of it. Reporters believe in nothing except their weekly pay-check, but I think a few of them must have believed in one thing when they left re—and that is, that the labor Skates do not dominate all of America, and that’ there are a sizable number of workers and farmers in America who are determined to establish a real party of their own. As a “friendly visitor,” let me say that the Communists distinguished themselves in this convention by their tact, their restraint, and by their real and unselfish desire to help in the for- mation of this new party. After all the false alarms about seizing control, they demonstrated that they did not want control, but unity. The proof that they did not attempt to capture the convention was the fact that none of be the home of Senators Norris and! Howell, who are considered radicals because they are not as reactionary ad Dawes. Why has Dawes selected Nebraska to open his campaign in? Because Dawes is the darling of thr “ farmers, says the Journal of y merce. The G. O. P. has picked t. “General” to line up the farmers while Calvin can reach the industrial work ers from the back porch. Dawes will do the great open spaces and Coolidge will do the porch climbing. A fine pair of burglars. The only qualification © Dawes has as a farmer candidate is that he smokes a pipe upside do’ Perhaps we are taking liberties the farmers. If they take Daw seriously we will believe that they to are hitting the pipe, + The Journal of Commerce was con- siderably disappointed that the F: er-Labor convention at St. Paul did not endorse the candidacy of Sena La Follette. It was predicted b hand and it was a darned shame. spoil a perfectly good prophecy. By that is the way these confounded cor munists act. According to the J. of’ La Follette is just as radical as 4 communists but he does not want world to know it. The J. of C. is ef perialism, the workers have learned the lesson that there is but one real victory for the workers, and that victory is the one that overthrows the capitalist class of France as well as of the rest of the world. The French workers are but a step behind the German. In Great Britain are the the development is slower, due s-fan~ af maarofnl and “demn- To the Comctimucu tuusives va prarrsus wae - cratic” transition still pervading the working masses. But there, too, the revolutionary spirit and understanding is waxing rapidly as shown by the growing circulation of the Communist press, and the growth of the trade union left wing. And outside the great industrial centers of the world, even into the darkest recesses of Africa and Asia, the message of liberation of the Com- munist International has gone. All the subject peoples of the earth will be awaiting the results of the Fifth Congress with eager hearts and a firm faith. Hindus, Chinese, Japanese and Negroes join in the great onward march toward the new ociety. . Closing an interval in the development of the world revolution in which the working class had been temporarily halted, the Fifth Congress will at the same time mark the beginning of a new and greater advance. From its sessions will go out the understanding, the clarity of purpose, the strength of will, and the firmness of organization that will push the dominion of the workers out and over greater areas of the earth’s surface, one-sixth of which is today under proletarian rule, Send in that Subscription Today! British Labor Uneasy A great unrest is stirring in the British Labor party. The rank and file do not like the goings-on of their “leaders” in the so-called labor govern- ment, with its high hats, dinners with the king, eulogies of empire, and policies of class collabora- tion. They are murmuring and muttering their discontent, but it will break out in the open before long. Even some of the leaders are feeling this, and are expressing it in a mild manner. : “Personally, I would be profoundly thankful if our party were thrown out next week,” Mr. FB. Varley, member of parliament, is quoted in the Daily Herald as saying, “Even at the risk of my own seat, for I do not agree with the present situ- ation in the House of Commons.” Nor do the British workers agree with the pres- ent situation, either in the House of Commons, on the jobs where they are having to fight bitterly for the slightest ameliorations, nor among the mil- lions of unemployed for whom nothing whatever has been done that would rouse the ire of the most be the attitude. Never before has it been plainer to the working class that the Republican and Democratic parties| editors. their rivalry extends only to seeing which can serve the big bankers most efficiently. The speech|as a cub newspaperman. Any one wees alt : aw wea the offea was sent to cover ot Pat Harrison, more sonorous Wat wits o. Du ler in Cleveland, was equally devoid of all meaning except, this—that the old parties stand ready to fight against the working masses and for the main- tenance of the rule of capital. convention. con identical, that they are the deadly enemies of} T working class and the exploited farmers, that day: aul abe Le Te The workers can see the whip of their masters in the New York Amsterdam Rejects United Front The Amsterdam International (the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions) meeting in Vienna a few days ago, is reported to have again rejected the idea of unifying the fight against war and fascism by means of a united front with the Russian unions and with the Red International of Labor Unions. This is no surprise to those familiar with the record of the yellow Amsterdam leaders. Since 1914, when they joined their respective govern- ments and sent their followers to slaughter one another, thru the days of the 1918-19 upheavals when they helped shoot down the revolting work- ers in the streets of almost every European capital, down to the present day, the Amsterdam bureau- crats have taken every opportunity to further divide and weaken the working class. One development in the Vienna congress, how- ever, shows that the policy of betrayal is no longer so profitable as it was. This is seen in the move- ment to the left of some of the industrial secre- tariats, notably the metal workers, the food work- ers, and the transport workers. These three sec- retariats have admitted the Russian unions formed agreements for fighting together upon cer- tain issues, and, altho they have sabotaged these cynical vultures, they cabled thou- sands of words of carrion to their city in American journalism. member many of these people in the ventions, where, like smart and/| T! wer ‘he labor reporter is a new figure I do not re- 8 when I first entered journalism |also es OB ee ort on - labor stories at that time, and it is a testimony to the increased importance of American labor that these experts have been developed. Let me digress for a moment and explain these new reporters. ‘They are experts who haye been developed to fill a real need. The casual labor reporting of former days was done by happy, care-free young booze hounds, who were often quite cynical about tion in their stories, and yet there clear-cut assassination. powerful section of Communist indus- trial workers and farmers at the con- vention, it was true, but there were munists. ‘hey pursued this line of assassina-| the ‘© many obstacles to whole-hearted There was a Al men there who were not Com- They were men whom it factured lie. men, they were not foreign intellec-|on) or the-}cow tuals or Marxian students, orists, or any of the things capitalist newspapers like to call American rad- icals. The delegates were real American workers and farmers and their lead- ers. They were no man’s dupes; they were there because they wanted to form a class Farmer-Labor party, and LIFE, LABOR, IND Slaves Until United for Power. To the DAILY WORKER—I have not been a subscriber of your paper long, as you know, but the few copies I have read have made me feel that the workers have a real paper at last. There is one question that is not clear to me, and that is, Are we really dangerous or are we industrial slaves? I have asked my brother workers, and some say we are slaves; some differ in opinion. The reason I ask is last year about this time, when the factories were all in need of help, the police were given orders to arrest men in parks and poolrooms for not working. If I un- derstand the South Bend daily papers correctly, they either had to work or leave town. They claimed they had sufficient law to enforce this order, and a number of arrests were made, so the paper reported. There are a large number of unemployed this year, but I have not heard of any such ar- rests being made, neither have I heard agreements, they have thereby shown that the rank of steps towards real international unity in action of the working class. ; it is in the United States by the Trade Union Ed ultimately bring them completely over to Com. munism. and file of their organizations are strongly in favor ucational League, has drawn this rank and file closer to the revolutionary international and will of that “law” being modified or re- THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON USTRY, POLITICS my! They smell all over the dock! Some say they cannot be shipped on account of the freight being so high. I think that’s a lie. Railroads never have high freight rates. It’s those poor and unemployed up your way. They get so much to eat that us poor farmers here have to quit raising things. I will never raise a potato again until I see some photos of a group of unemployed getting lean and thin after they voted the Demo- cratic and Republican tickets. No, never! A LAID-BY FARMER. Fort Landsdale, Fla. Greetings With Sub. To the DAILY WORKER—1 inclose you a sub which I took from my fel- low-worker, who sympathizes with the Communist movement in America, and he promises me that very soon he will be a member of the Workers party. This is the product of my propa- ganda by giving him the DAILY WORKER regularly. I send my best wishes to the work- pealed. It is my humble opinion that when a law does not work both ways it The leaders of the Amsterdam International are| makes slaves of us. If not, why not? traitors and will never be anything else. But their followers are members of the working class, and the policy of the Red International of Labor| were dangerous. Unions, carried out in the international field as I do not believe there is any more crime in South Bend this year than last, altho they said men not working Yours truly, AMOS EARL KIRK. South Bend, Ind. Farmer's Food Rotting. To the DAILY WORKER—How about the following views of life? You like to hear from the am ir ers and farmers of America, Yours forever, tion or the platform, (except two soli- tary soldiers of Gompers and La Fol- lette, whose sniping hurt nobody, and who went back to their generals emp- ty-handed.) observer. I came to the convention after a trip thru the west, where I was not easy to dismiss with a manu-|saw a great deal of La Follette senti- They were not weak/Ment. 4 wellevea tune yessoye ~~ non-Communists bolted the conven- cockeyed or crazy in the dome, el. is a darned Har. We bet on the i. diagnosis. It is a dirty Democratic trick to Ps hold over the Daugherty investigation until the cool fall days preceding the election, comments the same sheet. The committee knows that during the hot spell the American voter will he [| more interested in base ball-and piece bathing suits than in im tions. Therefore the plot is to hold up the on poor Daugherty until can be mixed with pleasure. remaining details of abuse of his office will be poured the ears of a receptive and the G. O. P. will have to grin | bear it. It is mean politics, says t J. of C. It really is. The grafters should hang together or * ~ separately. Either way would suit, . . > ee taste. | 4 David Karsner, former : editor of the New York Call cin nd now a last personal word of an «ened ERO a ene the - ly way a class Farmer-Labor party 1d be established would be by nom- inating the Wisconsin liberal, and rid- ing on the wave of his popularity. The convention decided otherwise. Think- ing over its decision, and reading the latest reports from the Democratic convention, I am now convinced this attitude was correct. The chances are about fifteen-to-one Workers’ Sports on Class Basis Under Rules of Alliance NEW YORK, June 24.—The Work- ers’ Sport Alliance of America, which was born here last week, has sent out its program and constitution. H. Winter, Charles Kavalin, John Daimo- vich, Emil Toikka and I. Fralkin are the “leading spirits” in the new move- ment for encouraging workers’ sports contests. The purpose and main points of the organization are as follows: “The purpose of this organization is to unite the new existing working class sport and athletic organizations of this country to work for the phys- ical and mental development of the working class men and women on! Herald articles against So class lines. One of the main objects| published in the Call a is the development of mass sports|} weakly surrendered. ™ against individual stars. party had too many hungry “All workers’ athletic and sport or-| hanging around so Karsner anizations that accept our program |into exterior darkness, where are eligible for membership in this or-| now weeping and gnashing his ganization. Each organization pays|in the New York Times ‘ a few pages of the New York Tin publication, Current History, pre that the Socialist Party was dead »= why. David took occasion whi'e ing the obituary to sling a at the labor Goliath. He snet radicals and at the work movement. The working cl ment will get along very we Karsner. He was neither fi nor good red herring while in cialist party. When he took o management of the New Yor the Abe Cahan gang war atrocious MacCullagh, N $2 affiliation dues. The W. 8. A. of A. : charges to its affiliated organizations} James Oneal uses up 2 cents per capita tax for each mem-| space taking the side of ber per month. The latter in his ) “All members and units must re-|attacks made on the C frain from taking part in the affairs, | the Socialist party were games or contests arranged by organ-| ly responsible for the JOHN PAPANICHOLAS. Send in that Subscription Today. — izations that are antagonistic to or-| partment of Justice and ganized workers and their cause.” ment of many n All communications should be ad-|true that the 8. P. tool dressed to Emil Toikka, secretary; 124) point out that the Com Brook Ave., Bronx, N. Y. ; fine to arcest. The & Sue Mayor in Speech Test. Hable to ) OLD FORGE, Pa, June 24—A| outdid the capitalist third attempt to exercise the consti-|the role es tutional rights of free speech in this|™munists. No town, controlled by the steel barons, will be made by the American Civil Liberties union, June 26. Birch Wil- ; socialist ty irritated O reactionary Tory. Elaborate staging of the old party conventions has reached the condition that stage directions sometimes. Well, here it is. dock in Fort Landsdale, Fla, is worst offenders. / The British government is labor in name only. It is without policy, without backbone, without any definite objective except to hold on to the fat jobs, to make their government as like as possible one should ever fail to follow directions? A to a liberal-conservative one. If a fighting policy cannot be developed over the heads of the Mac- will not care how soon the bankrupt party is 1 Communist party tions at all, w hand? “G glutted with about 2,400 crates of the how long will it be necessary to hold the conven- hen it would amount to the same Donalds, Clines, et al, there will soon be many who|thing to send out the accounts prepared before-| you are written out in advance for the co mea finest potatoes. Lake an re- ld hi some | ports about 12 shiploads s away, from the audience. What would happen - Bae ie pri seal beans and tomatoes. It looks like the Brossard county. poor fish up there cri accept LaFollette’s leadership then try to go it alone against the|son’s behall Farmer-Labor party organized. at St.