The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 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, IMInots” J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB.. Editors ‘Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., <> 290 Advertieing rates on application. “Peace” in the Electrical Industry “There has not been a strike or lockout of con- sequence in the electrical industry during the past year,” declared Chas. P. Ford, secretary of the electrical workers’ union. Ford seems to think this is something to brag about. But what has been the price of this “peace” of which he is so proud. The employers in the electrical industry have been very glad indeed to make all sorts of concessions, all in a small way, thru their Council for Industrial Relations. They have done so because thereby they have purchased immunity from organization of the vast body, of workers in the electrical industry. The number of electrical workers organized in unions is small. The industry is wealthy and growing by leaps and bounds. If those who are organized in unions can be made to block the or- ganization of the rest of the workers in the indus- try, and leave them helpless and without means of demanding justice, why should not the employers be very glad to use such means. They have been glad, and they have used that means—they have made concessions to the relatively small group organized in the I. B. B. W., and that union has left the bulk of the industry unorganized as the price for their own small adyancement. This may be “peace” in the industry for a little group of privileged workers,. who have deserted their fellow workers and entered into an alliance with the employers; but it is not peace for the hundreds of thousands subject to the daily exploi- tation of the electrical trust without any organiza- tion to protect them. It is not peace to the 40,000 workers in the Western Electric plants of Chicago, and it is not peace to the hundreds of thousands thruout the land who are thus abandoned. There can be no real peace in the electrical in- dustry until the workers therein, in close organiza- tion with the rest of the working class, has taken : the electrical industry. Until that time there ae 7 must a struggle against the capitalist exploiters, and those who talk of peace, talk treason. Greet the Workers’ Candidate Duncan McDonald, candidate of the Farmer- Labor Party for president of the United States, —, will open the campaign with a meeting tonight at)‘ Wicker Park Hall, 2040 North Ave., Chicago. Workers in Chicago should turn out by thou- sands to greet their candidate. McDonald carries the banner of the workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment, against the combined forces of the Teapot parties, the oil-soaked democratic and republican gangs that serve the Wall Street parasites. He has been chosen as the representative of the working class to lead the battle against the capitalist class in this election. MeDonald not only stands four-square upon the platform adopted at St. Paul, a platform that re- presents the immediate needs of the workers and farmers. He also embodies that platform, and those class weeds, in his own person, his record, and his long years of service to his class. Me- Donald’s life has been one long struggle against the forces that oppress the workers, both against the capitalist class and the agents of capitalism within the workers’ organizations. Come hear the miner-candidate for president deliver the first blew in the campaign battle ainst the Demo-Rep combination of capitalist servants. Come and demonstrate for the workers’ and farmers’ government! Hall tonight! 4 Stop the Splitters i The little “one big union” of Canada is trying to split the miners of Nova Scotia away from the United Mine Workers of Ameri John L. Lewis [ has been trying to do the same thing for more than a year withont success, The miners of Nova Scotia.know that their battle against the coal kings and against the traitors at the head of the M. W. A. cannot be won except in solidarity with the miners thruout the continent. They have } refused, and we hope that they will continue to refuse, to be led off into the blind alley of seces- sionism. But one thing makes the splitting tacties of the ©. B. U. in Canada a menace to the miners. That thing is their revolutionary phrases. Because the dualists talk about the class struggle, many honest and sincere fighters in the union may be weakened in their determination to carry the struggle thru. The siren song of the “easy way” of a new union may sap the strength of some of the tired ones. There is no “easy way” to the emancipation of the working class. There is no escape from the struggle. Dual unionism, the policy of secession, is retreat. It is cowardice. It is surrender. That is what the O. B. U. is advising. The miners should repudiate such advice. On with the fight to regenerate the U. M. W. A.! Bs 1] under the act of March 3, 1879. | Purity of the Drama The appellate court in New York has upheld the verdict prohibiting the production of the drama, “God of Vengeance,” by Sholem Asch, which was stopped about a year, ago after beginning a re- markable popular run. It was charged that the play was “obscene” because it dealt with a brothel. It is a peculiarity of conceptions of “purity” in a capitalist society, that public morals can be protected by ruling off the stagey out of literature, and from the newspapers, any work dealing seri- ously with such problems as prostitution, while the actual evils themselves grow and multiply apace in every community unchecked. Whatever the merits of the prohibited play, the same moral code rules it off the stage as “indecent” that, at the same time, lifts to the highest places in the na- tion the men and women who profit from the deg- radation produced by a rotten and collapsing in- dustrial system. A single department store in New York City, with its miserable wages, its inhuman exploita- tion, its capitalist tyranny, will do more in one week to degrade public morals than the worst imaginable “9 could do in years. But “morals” bas nothing to Uo with the protection of wages, hours and living conditions in industry, in the eyes of a capitalist society. It is interesting to note that, in Soviet Russia, commercialized vice entirely disappeared up until the partial re-introduction of capitalist markets under the new economic policy, according to the observations of observers friendly and otherwise. And since the new économie policy brot back some of the evils of capitalism, the strict enforce- ment of the protective legislation for all labor, the social insurance, the maternity protection, and provisions against unemployment, together with a great stimulus to education, have been able to keep this social scourge of prostitution te < min- imum. But of course it is too much to expect capitalist courts to join in making the revolution in America. It is so much easier to rule prostitution off the stage and out of books, while it is allowed to con- tinue its devastation among the population. Send in that Subscription Today. The Republican Trinity Newspapers report that the plans for the repub- lican campaign are being laid in a conference to- day between Coolidge, Dawes and C. Bascom Slemp. A wonderful combination, this trinity should arouse the enthusiasm of the masses—for a farmer-labor party. The republican trinity should arouse the anger and resentment of the workers Be at Rr oat and farmers if anything can do it. Coolidge—who broke the policemen’s strike in Boston, who vetoed the soldiers’ bonus, who blocked the farm-relief bills, who cancelled the postal workers’ wage increase, who has been 100 per cent for Wall Street gn every issue before the country. Dawes—the appointee of Morgan in the Euro- pean experts commission, the banker who belongs to the inside gang of Wall Street, the “open shop- per,” who wants to break up even the most mild and reactionary unions, the Fascist who organized the Minute Men of the Constitution, the militant enemy of the workers and farmers in every phase of life. Slemp—“political secretary” to the president, the connection with the political underworld, the go-between on oil deals, peddling of favors, and all the slimy secret side of capitalist politics, from whom even the capitalists turn in disgust, and who is carefully kept in the background to keep the tender stomachs of the “decent people” from being turned. Truly a picture of the degradation of capitalist politics is given us in the trinity that today is mapping out the campaign for the republican de- partment of the Wall Street Party. The demo- crats will have to search for several more days before they ean pick out an equally malodorous gang with which to compete for the favors of their common masters. : Morgan is Master It is not a coincident that one of Morgan’s ap- pointees to the Experts Commission on Repara- tions is a big gun at the republican convention, while another plays a decisive part in the demo- cratic love-feast. Charles G. Dawes, of the repub- lican department of the House of Morgan, becomes the running mate for Coolidge, while Owen D. Young, of the democratic section of the same bank- ing combination, dictates the democratic plank on foreign relations. It is the living proof that gan is master in both camps. World imperialism today hinges around the enslavement of Central Europe. Morgan, re- presenting the young giant of American capital- ism, is establishing his hegemony over the capital- ist world. The basic issue today, epitomizing the world struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, is whether German and Entente cap- italism can coin from the vlood of the workers of Central Europe the cost of the war, and thus stab- ilize the system of exploitation for another period. Morgan’s program, the Dawes-Young report, is made the common basis for the platform of demo- cratic and republican parties. The only means the working masses have to vote against Morgan and imperialism is to vote for the Farmer-Labor Party candidates—McDonald and Bouck. Attempts are being made to install the “B. & 0. plan” on the Canadian National Railways. Beware of the railroad corporations when they bring gifts—even or especially when the corpo- Oe as BON MR 1. DIC Ly Po ration is the Canadian government. Send in that Subscription Today. 4 THE DAILY WORKER 4 Wednesday, July 2, 1924 Much to Learn From Back Alley Scrap By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. 'HE pitiful spectacle of division and disruption presented by the so-called “leaders” of America's or- ganized workers, fighting for a place on the back doorstep of the national democratic convention at New York City, may well be charged to three elements that are or have been more or less active in seeking the political support of America’s workers and farmers, Sam Gompers and his Tammany Hall gangsters in the New York state labor movement have not tried to hide their democratic party affilia- tions. And the railroad chiets, who keep unruly company with Gompers and the garbage and ash cans at the rear entrance to the donkey's quadren- nial show, have been staunch sup- porters of McAdoo from the start, in spite of his oily affiliations, \ sr © Traitors to the United Front. But these fake “leaders” can only get away with their fraud, with a greater or less degree of success, be- cause of the treason to the United Front Labor-Farmer movement of three distinct elements as follows: FIRST: The groups still clinging to the Conference for Progressive Po- litical Action, that meets July 4th, at Cleveland. It was this conference that first started out with the promise of independent political action for workers and farmers, but has now trimmed its sails to the “independent” go-as-you-please candidacy of LaFol- lette, supported by adherents of both the old parties. SECOND: The Fitzpatrick-Buck- Brown tendency that really organized into the first National Farmer-Labor Party, started in 1919, but who be- trayed the United Front in 1923, and have now strangled the child of their own creation. THIRD: The socialist party that became the ally of the worst reaction in the American labor movement in its war upon the Communists. zs * ¢ Who Speaks for Labor? Both the Gompers elements and the railroad brotherhood crowd are try- ing to crawl under the tent that shel- ters the jackass circus in New York City on the plea that they alone “speak for American labor”; that they “represent American labor.” Only the smoke screen raised by the LaFollette-Johnston-Stone C. P. P. A. crowd; by the Fitzpatrick fol- lowing and by the socialists, could give labor fakirs clinging to the tail of the democratic donkey the brazen nerve to make any such claims. Only the attack of a LaFollette on the American Communist movement and the St. Paul June 17th Conven- tion, successful tho it was, could stir the high-salaried ‘members of the “steering committee” of the railroad ers in New York to so rape the truth as to declare that “the sentiment of the great mass of the organized work- ers is overwhelmingly for Mr. Mc- Adoo.” Only the surrender of all his preten- sions to militancy by a Fitzpatrick, and the cowardly capitulation of the socialists, including complete agree- ment with the red-balting of the here- sy-hunting president of the American Federation of Labor, could have such a moonshine effect on Mr. Gompers, as to cause him to contend that no one is authorized to speak for the American Federation of Labor except his own, privately conducted, Non- partisan Political Committee made up of his own henchmen, Matthew Woll, Frank Morrison and James O'Connell. «=e Unmasking Fakirs. This cat-and-dog fight among the self-appointed boosters of both Mc- Adoo and Al Smith should open the eyes of America’s workers who pro- test at thus being sold on the political bargain counter. In the words of James P. Holland, the Tammany Hall president of the New York Federation of Labor, applicable to both the Mc- Adoo and Smith labor fakirs, altho he threw them only at the McAdoo boosters, “they ss enc no one but themselves.” It is these des pebatieds these reac: tionary railroaders, and all their retinue, even down to the socialists, who have been yelling “splitters” and “disruptionists” against the Commun- ists. The workers and farmers will surely see where their interests lie as they study the brilliant results of the St. Paul convention, and then re- view the haggling in the New York political slave market, where the railroaders promise to knife the Cleveland gathering of the C. P. P. A,, if the Wall Street politicians will only give them McAdoo. The treason of LaFollette and the C. P. P. A., of Fitzpatrick and the so- cialists, has spawned such twin aggre- gations of traitors as the “labor” fol- lowers of McAdoo and Al Smith. The result must be new hosts of work- ers and farmers for the United Farm- er-Labor Party organized at St. Paul. The civil war growing out of the po- Jitical activities of labor, is to be found only in the efforts of treason- able officials to hitch themselves to the bandwagons of Wall Street, drawn either by the G. O. P. elephant or the democratic jackass. Labor’s political unity is to be found alone in the growing class party of the massed city workers and farmers. The division and discord among the Officials of labor at the New York democratic convention will be repeat- ed at the July 4th meeting of the Con- ference for Progressive Political Ac- tion at Cleveland. It will all serve to more clearly emphasize the complete unity of the rank and file in the class party. sn 8 LaFollette’s Shallow Words. How shallow and empty sound the words of Senator LaFollette, who the other day sought to raise a cry against the national republican con- vention, recently held at Cleveland, Ohio, by declaring— “The cry of ‘radicalism’ and ‘social- ism’ can never destroy Principles which are sound, and right, and just. The people know this.” What a hypocrite this LaFollette must be to write that only a few days after he had Aimselt denounced the “radical” Farmer-Labor Convention, at St. Paul, at which his own follow- ers had proudly proclaimed that he “never got ahead of his times;” that he always gave the people just what they wanted. This is the LaFollette who now boasts that some of the planks he urged in 1908 and in 1912 have now jbeen adopted by and are the proud boasts of both the republicans and jthe democrats. LaFollette’s latest declaration ap- pears in the columns of the Hearst ipublications, but offers no prophesy as to what may be expected 12 or 16 lyears from now, in 1936 or 1940, when jhe and Gompers and the doddering railroad chiefs are gone. 78! 8 Laugh at This Alibi When John Fitzpatrick, president jordered the dissolution of his “Farm- \er-Labor Party,” he loudly wailed that ‘there were too many Farmer-Labor ‘Parties in existence; so many as to \confuse the workers and farmers. Fitzpatrick did not specify. He \never does. Like La¥ollette, writing for William Randolph Hearst, who is operating a scab shop in getting out jhis Seattle, Wash., Post-Intelligencer, he dealt in the thinnest generalities. In this respect Fitzpatrick is also of the Chicago Federation of Labor,) like James Oneal, the historian of the period of decadence of the socialist party, who loves to mix his arithmetic with his politics, and dotes upon the fancied myriads of Communist organ- izations he claims to have discovered in his literary wanderings. .* * An Ego Gets Jolted The weakness in the position adopt- ed by LaFollette, Fitzpatrick and Oneal is that they arrogate to them- selves all the righteousness there is in the world. They surely need all they can get their hands on. LaFol- lette claims to be the last thing in radicalism.: Anyone more radical than he, not to mention revolutionary, is all wrong. He is wildly chagrined to think that anyone else, especially the Communists, should win an audience. He thought that a withering blast from him would wreck the St. Paul Farmer- Labor Convention. But it didn’t, and LaFollette’s ego has suffered another well-nigh fatal jolt. © The same with Fitzpatrick. He thought that his desertion of the Farmer-Labor United Front would destroy the whole movement; that all unity rested with him, that without him destruction would surely ensue, Oneal and his kind were cast in the same mould. We were assured that the revolutionary elements that left the socialist party, disgusted with its counter-revolutionary compromises, would soon exterminate themselves in internecine strife. * * All Prophets Gone Wrong. But time has exploded the vacuous philosophy of these false prophets. The St. Paul June 17th Conference was a living reply to all three of these calamity howlers—LaFollette, Fitz- patrick, Oneal, representing each in his way attempted obstruction to the militancy of the American workers and farmers. LaFollette’s fading glory has no less significance in its going than the departed influence of the workers’ political organizations, championed by Fitzpatrick and Oneal. ee Rip Off Camouflage. It is high time, therefore, that the camouflage be ripped éff these self- proclaimed saviours of the city work- ers and poor farmers. ‘It is time to reveal them in their true colors. Those who split and divide the workers and farmers, bringing chaos into the ranks of labor Struggling for its own emancipation, are: 1. The Gompers-Woll-Holland fol- lowers of Tammany Hall and boosters for Al Smith in the democratic party. 2, The princely salaried chieftains of the railroad brotherhoods, who want to make McAdoo president of the United States. 3. The bewildered elements in the Conference for Progressive Political Action, who first urged a workers’ and farmers’ political party, but are now running around trying to drum up sentiment for the aptic Communist, LaFollette. 4. The Fitzpatrick type, that had its own Farmer-Labor Party, then paddled for a‘time with the C. P. P. A., but has now gone all the way back to Gompers. 5. The socialists, who still hang onto the C. P. P. A, because they can’t let go, and if they could they wouldn't have any place to land be- jcause they just won't join a Farmer- eee Party that they vse cis con- trol ee Getting It Straight These are the disrupters. These are the splitters. These are the en- emies of the masses. These are the tools of the old party politicians. These are the obstructionists. Against these the class conscious workers and farmers must wage a re- lentless strugglé. Only thru the com- Real Kick in the July Liberator HAT was it that Michael said to the census taker? Michael is the living incarnation of the spirit of rebellion that has kept the race mov- ing forward, ever since the world be- gan, to the ultimate goal of Commun- ist brotherhood. He is the non-con- OF! formist, the yellow dog that yaps at privilege, the friend of all the leaders of great revolutions—of Joremiah and Jesus, of John Huss who defied the saints, of 'Gene Debs who defied all reactionary America, Jameg Rorty wrote about Michael and what he said to the heavenly census taker is told in a poem which appears in the July Liberator. That's only one of the many good things that The Liberator contains this month. It has come out in a bright green dress, and it has daring, and ruthless rebelliousness and de- flance. You're a revolutionist. Just at this moment you want to read something that’s humorous, that has a light touch, that shows rollicking good spirit in every line, The capitalist hu- mor-sheets, with their ba outlook on things, don't fill the Will. You can laugh with them, but not whole- heartedly, They're too much at outs with you on fundamental problems. The July Liberator is just what fou're looking for. It has good hu- mor—and it puts that humor to the best possible use—it pokes fun at the idiotic stupidity of the bourgeoisie. It's thoroly readable, it’s damned enter- taining, and at the same time it’s sci- <ntifically and politically sound. That means, of course, that it’s Bolshe- vik. The Poor Fish Says: If | wanted to be a public figure and have a good time | would become a profession- al liberal, be against war until war breaks out, then be against every- body who is against war, on the ground that such opposition might lead to vio! and bloodshed, and when the war Is about to stop be the, first to cry “Lay off MacDuff. We have had enough.” 1 would thus keep up the fight against op- pression without much danger to my: and still @ave the satisfac. tlon of being a protector of justice when the powers that be can afford to tolerate mo, Bee Syren crea Do you know how the little brown brothers of Japan became little yel- low devils in the eyes of American imperialists? Max Bedacht tells you about this remarkable metamorphosis in a leading article in the July Li- berator. The generals of the world revolution--the Communist Interna- tional—have just finished another epoch-making convention. Alexander Bittelman analyzes: the results of the Fifth Congress in three pages of read- ably presented facts. Floyd Dell’s beautifully written serial is still run- ning, combining and analyzing the li- terature of a machine-made present in thé light of a revolutionary future. Max Eastman has produced another incisive, biting, keen-edged article on the philosophy of the greatest revolu- tionary leader of the time—Nicolai Lenin, C. E, Ruthenberg has present- ed a careful analysis of ‘the results of the great Farmer-Labor convention at St. Paul. And cartoons! Art Young is with us again, as irresistably as ever. Bob Minor has a full page of his incom- parable sketches.of the trained circus leaders of the Cleveland ° elephant show. Maurice Becker is better than ever before—he sets off current events with just the right Commun- ist touch, Amd Fred BPllis has done a double-page drawing. If you miss the July Liberator, you're missing something with a real proletarian kick. Send in that Subsoription Today. plete unimasking of these fakirs and traitors can real progress for fe class Farmer - Labor Party achieved. The pitiful spectacle of self-pro- claimed “leaders” of city and land workers trying to get charity at the alley entrances to the convention halls of Wall Street’s political harlots, must surely be a nightmare of a pass- ing day. The inspiring vision of new masses of workers and farmers rallying un; der the standards of class political action must be the growing dawn heralding new and greater victories for the oppressed in these United States. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O)FLAHERTY The New York Leader, official organ of what is left of the Socialist party has declared for Al Smith in its ad- vertising columns. Of course, the edi- tor presumably has no control over what the business manager must do in order to dam the deficit which is whispered to be in the vicinity of $1,200 a week, but the advertiser who sells cheap suits was justified in con- cluding that a paper selling cheap so- cialism would not object to handing beery Al Smith a bouquet if by so do. ing some deserving democrat might be induced to purchase a suit. Did not the great Hillquit compliment Mr. Smith on his general goodness when millionaire Hillquit was leaving on a trip to Hurope once upon a time. ese 8 Thercfore the firm of Soakem and Fleecem (nom-de-plume) in a special convention declaration to the needy, praised New York city a-la Arthur, Brisbane and gave the following doubtful compliment to Al Smith: “T can’t think of a man more capable, more able for the highest executive office than our own popular ‘Al Smith’ —he’s like our suits, ‘All wool and a yard wide.’” This Potash and Perl- muter style of advertising is in har- mony with the political low comedy indulged in by Hillquit’s house or- gan. eee One of those venerable and good wo- men engaged in the rather entertain-_ ing and decently remunerative busi- ness of putting a rubber pad on the up of the capitalist boot so that when the footwear comes into collision with the posterior of labor, the latter will not be jerked into eternity suddenly and without due notice, but will wan- der aimlessly in a state of coma while reformers apply cooling lotions to its injured feelings. The lady is a liberal, and a dispenser of sleeping drops to the workingclass movement. eee : She takes a slam at the St. Paul convention and declares she has no in- terest in the Communists and hazards the prediction that the party formed there will not amount to much. She enjoys thé distinction of being head of a Consumers’ League, which rep- resents some 110,000,000 individuals, who let it be said, do their eating without consulting any head other than their own. Many amiable para- sites who now scratch labor's back for a consideration will have to scratch something else for a living when labor realizes its power and strikes off his shackles instead of al- lowing the so-called liberals to tinker with his chains. These parasites don’t like the Communists because the lat- ter want to cure society by a major operation. ee The prayers of William Jennings Bryan may have prevented the dele- gates to the democratic convention from murdering each other over the religious issue, but God and all His tricks will not prevent Tammany from double crossing the democratic candi- date unless it gets what it wants in terms of political emoluments. Rather queer that God could not make him- self clear to his followers and pre- vent all this turmoil. He seems to | as vague as McAdoo and as dumb I Coolidge. He may satisfy William J. Bryan, but he seems to have degen- erated since the old days when he was a lusty and savage brute who re- warded his friends and killed his ene- mies after the fashion of Samuel Gompers, but with more beating of - drums and sharpening of knives. a The Prince of Wales has announced his intention of looking around for a suitable wife after he has passed his thirtieth birthday. The Prince, ac- cording to rumors, is in no hurry to burden himself with a wife but the — capitalist press ever fearful for the continuity of the Royal Line begins to warn him that England expects every man to do his duty today as — well as in the days of Admiral Nel- son. The Prince is not known to have | | | | | | any aversion to the fair sex any more than his grandfather Edward had, but the latter did the conventional thing, while the young prince seems to have inherited only the Bohemian portion of his illustrious ancestor's virtues, If the prince does not find a suitable wife it will/not be due so much to dearth of applicants as to a superflu- ity. Several shiploads of American heiresses whose fathers made millions during the war, are booke« for pass- age to England. They hope the prince will give them the once over befe he casts the die. While th no titles, they Tiave cash which is to be sneezed at these days, ¥ i ad ' '