The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1924, Page 6

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Independence Day The historical significance of July 4th, and its revolutionary effects upon the development of capitalism, lies in the fact that the breach between King George and his American colonies that gave birth to the United States of America, was the release of a young and rising class, destined for a time to rule the world, from the dead hand of feudal aristocracy. It was the birth of capitalism as the ruling system and in conjunction with the events thruout the world, consigned the rotten and worn-out system of feudalism to the waste- basket of history. Today it is capitalism that has run its course and now stands as the obstacle to further progress. Capitalism, that in 1776 was the regenerating and revolutionary force, is today threatening to destroy the world. In the dialectics of history America has come to another parting of the ways, to the time for another declaration of independence. Today it is the capitalist class that chokes humanity; the class that is rising to power is the working class. It is the proletariat that foday must cut all its connections with the dead past, must resolutely assert its class will, must take charge of society and usher in the new era, establish the new society. The decaying and corrupt capitalist class at- tempts to use the traditions of its birth, the asso- ciations of July 4th, to bolster mp its tottering power. It tries to renew its youth by appealing to history. But the lesson of July 4th in history is not the reconsecration of capitalism, but the ‘ inevitability of its downfall, of the necessity of the rise of the working class to power. The next independence day in our land will be the day of the establishment of the Soviet Government of America. _- ae . . Negro Emancipation After generations of chattel-slavery in America the Negroes were finally “emancipated.” Chattel slavery was abolished. The Negroes were given the privilege of working for wages, just like the white wage-slaves, and another page was turned in Negro history. J But a more important “emancipation” is now occurring. It is the emancipation of the Negroes from the domination of the capitalist parties, the breaking away from bourgeois thinking, the assertion of the Negroes as an integral part of the whole working class, white, black and yellow. We see this process of emancipation going on in the meetings of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People. Yesterday that organization adopted a resolu- tion, greeting the formation of a party opposed to both the republican and democratic parties, as a step toward the political and economic emanci- pation of the Negro. Both republican and demo- cratic parties were denounced as “catering to the Ku Klux Klan, that secret fomenter of religious intolerance, race hatred and midnight murder.” The next step for the Negroes is to recognize that their problem is not strictly racial—it is part of the struggle between the working class and the capitalist class. The Negro is suppressed because he bears the tradition of past slavery, and because it helps to keep the working class divided and thus more securely bound in wage-slavery. The platform of the Farmer-Labor Party, in pledging its support to full economic and political equality for the Negro as an integral part of its struggle for the entire working class has shown the way to the Negro race in America. “The Men in the Back Room” “Communists Not Welcome” Announcement is made by Labor, weekly organ of the Conference for Progressive Political Action that anyone “tainted with Communism” will be shown the door at Cleveland, if they have the temerity to appear. * To be “tainted with Commun- ism,” in the eyes of William H. Johnston, now means to be in favor of a farmer-labor party to fight against both old capitalist parties all down the line. So the Communists are not welcome. They are not wanted in Cleveland because they cause work- ers and farmers to become “tainted” with the de- sire to build a party of their own. And it is in- deed embarrassing to have Communists around when some dirty political trick is to be pulled, because the Communists point out these betrayals, the Communists show how to put up a real fight, and they lead-in the struggle against the traitors. If any faker wants to sell the vote of his group to some capitalist party, the first thing he must do is attack the Communists and throw them out. The Communists are weleomed by everyone who is getting into a fight against the employers, be- cause they are the best fighters, and a struggle cannot be made effectively without them. But the Communists, for the same reason, are not welcome when the order of the day, as prepared by the “official leaders” of the labor movement, is to leliver the labor vote to a capitalist party or can- didate, and to knife the Farmer-Labor Party. Illiteracy in the U. S. There are more than 4,300,000 illiterate voters in the United States, according to a statement issued by the National Education Association, meeting in Washington. The N. E. A. is a most conservative body, the interests of which are to make things look as rosy as possible. We may therefore assume, that the figure is not exag- gerated. In the richest country of the world it is thus re- vealed that in education for the masses it is among the most backward of the industrial countries. The only explanation of such a phenomenon is_ the fact, long known to all students, that capitalism is inherently antagonistic to all education except the kind and amount necessary to produce a high- ly-trained class of industrial workers. Capitalism raises the general level of education, in its first period of establishment, just as it develops and {increases the forces of production; but also as it quickly becomes the greatest obstacle to the pro- ductive forces, so also does it become the enemy of education of the masses. Capitalism in America has, in common with the system in Europe, passed beyond its progressive phase. Today it represents nothing but reaction, alike in education as in politics and all questions affecting the toiling people. On the Neck of LaFollette Socialist Party delegates are going to Cleveland July 4th, placing their fate at the disposal of LaFollette. On one thing they are divided—some of them, like the Wisconsin group that has ex- perienced LaFollette first hand, would demand guarantees that LaFollette would break with the republican party; but the national leaders, know- ing the complete bankruptcy of the S. P., throw themselves completely on LaFollette’s neck. The Wisconsin senator is their final refuge. They re- fuse to believe that he will not save them. On this they are all united. With the faith born of desperation, Morris Hill- quit, intellectual leader of the S. P., declared on June 30th, that a third party hefided by LaFollette is certain. This, in spite of the declaration made by the men “who have the votes” at Cleveland, that “it is not contemplated that independent candi- dates will be put up for senate and house of rep- resentatives.” The C. P. P. A’ which meets at Cleveland is inextricably bound up in the old party machines in the various states. It is almost impossible for it, with its bureaucratic leadership, to make the break necessary for a “third party.” But the 8. P., having no program but LaFollette, must whistle and go to its doom. Wm. Jennings Bryan, the man who wants to burn school books that mention evolution, and wishes compulsory teaching of fundamentalist religion in the public schools, prays in the New York convention that “religion shall not be made a political issue.” It is to laugh! Canadian postal employes got the same kind of a deal from the Ottawa government, as the U. 8. postal workers got from the White House. They Arthur Brisbane, a kept writer of the Hearst] have the advantage, however, in that they at least sheets, is supposed to be “in the know” on political matters. He wants his readers to think that all the mysteries of conventions and deals, candidates put up a fight. The democratic fight over the Koo Koos was and platforms, are an open book to him. In the/even more of a fake than the fight over the Kandi- Hearst papers of July ist, he speaks glibly of “the| date. The results of the convention on every major boys in the back room,” of going outside the con-| point .as charted in Wall Street before the con- vention “to get the real news,” etc. Yes, dear Mr. Brisbane, we know that the lair of the Imperial Wizard in the Hotel McAlpin is only one of innumerable “invisible empires,” all subject to the super-empire of the “boys in the] conference. back room” who have the direct wire from Wall vention opened. LaFollette has let it be known, thru his friends, that he wants no nomination from the Cleveland All he wants is support. Nomina- tions mean responsibility, and LaFollette is de- Street. But what we want from you is not these| termined to be reyponsible only to himself. stale generalities but some facts. ‘ Mr. Brisbane will not, of course, embarrass his “War against war” can only be effectively car- superior officers by disclosing any “deep stuff,” if}ried out by means of “war against capitalism.” by chance they were so careless as to let him in on it. He is a discreet person. knowingly and wink a sly eye to his audience. But actually to trace the wires that reach from 26 Broadway and Wall Street to the Madison Square Garden—horrors. NO! That would be Bolshe- The middle-class pacifists are the advance agents He must write] of imperialist war. d After two years of government by assassination, Mussolini has, at last, about reached the end of the road. The proletariat is gathering its forces vism. Only a Communist would be guilty of that.) to deal the Fascist dictatorship its death blow. «ae vrs THE DAILY WORKER Lenin’s Last Political Teaching - HEN the All-Russian Central Trade Union Council sent a delegation to the International Peace Conference at the Hague which was convened by the Amsterdam Interna- tional in December, 1922, Vladimir Tlyitch, Lenin, exhausted by the work for the World Congress of the Comin- tern just ended, was unable to take part in the consultations held by the Congress of the Comintern of the Russian Communist Party with the delegation ‘of the Trade Union Council with regard to the tactics to be adopt- ed by our delegation. Lenin discussed this question with some of the mem- bers of the Congress of the Comintern and drew up a sketch of theses, which was handed me on the day I left for the Hague. These theses may be re- garded as Lenin’s last utterance on general questions of Comintern pol- icy. They are of such eminent im- portance that they must not only be brought to the notice of the broadest masses of revolutionary workers, but must be studied and thought out with the utmost care, to the end that the Comintern and’ its sections shall draw the concretest practical conclusions therefrom. Lenin at once seized the bull by the horns. He declared that “none but the completest fools and ost hopeless liars could suppose” that we could reply to a war by revolution or strike: “It is impossible to reply to a war by a strike, just as it is impos- sible to reply to a war by a ‘revolu- tion’ in the plain and literal sense of the word.” Four years of war and six years of peace lie behind us, ahd the peace years have not been much better than the war years. Not only do the ma- jority of the reformist leaders quiet the masses of the workers by declar- ing that they will not be thrown into the jaws of war again as cannon fod- der, but the masses of the workers themselves regard a fresh war as im- possible, because they are afraid of the possibility. Great masses of workers in western Eurdpe take part in the pacifist demonstrations held under the slogan of “Never agai war!” The rejection of the idea of the possibility of war by the masses who have not yet attained to class- consciousness awakens among the communjsts an over-estimation of their own powers, and an over-esti- mation of the revolutionary energy of the proletariat. It is for this rea- son that they frequently, as Lenin observes, make “entirely wrong and frivolous assertions about war against war.” The great realist and strategist of the proletarian struggle did not shut his eyes to the disagreeable truth: “We give the masses no actual living idea of how a war can break out. On the contrary, the dominating press hushes this question up to such an extent and spreads such a daily veil of lies over it, that the weak so- cialist press is completely powerless in comparison, the more in that it has always adopted a wrong viewpoint on the subject, even in peace times. Even the communist press is at fault in this respect in most countries.” ’ Those who peruse our communist press attentively will be aware that it devotes a comparatively large amount of attention to questions of international politics, but with few exceptions publishes but little con- crete material on the economic sub- structure of ‘all international con- flicts, altho there is an abundance of this material in the international bourgeois press and literature. How many communist newspapers are there which devote any attention to the excellent works published by De- laisy on the reparation question, and Sent With His Verse. To the DAILY WORKER:—You are calling for the workers to take an in- terest in their daily and help edit it. It would be too strenuous a job for me to attempt editing my favorite paper from this city; and anyway, it strikes me that you are doing a pretty good job as it is, I read A.B. C.’s criticism with much interest. Doubtless, the paper isn’t perfect, and could stand improving; but it is so superior “to anything of its kind being published today in America, that I have nothing but applat for it. What A. B. C, really means is that the paper should have more pages, and thus be in a position to feature news now neces- sarily crowded out. There is only one way to do this, and that is by boosting the DAILY WORKER for bigger cir- culation. Yours for a working class nwt Henry George Weiss, Oakland, Cali! Western Electric Slavery. To the Dai Worker:—Western Electric. The plice where people are hoarded like cattle and driven like 8] The nickname given to Western Electric by a great many boys is “bandhouse,” meaning prison. I am a student, and I secured a job at “Westerns” during the vacation at 27 cents an hour, After going thru a lot of red tape I finally ended up by getting a physical examination, The next day I started working. It was a pretty good job but the amount of work I was supposed to “get out” at the end of the day was something unbelievable, I was a feeder to a machine, which revolved about twice in a minute and re ‘ on the role played in the reparation question by the German and French trusts? How many of our commun- ist newspapers follow up the strug- gle between the American and Eng- lish naptha trusts, one of the motive powers of international post-war poli- tics? Works dealing concretely with these questions are read with the gfeatest interest by the workers. Three editions of my pamphlet on the Genoa conference were sold out in Germany within a few months. The heads of the party pay less attention to these questions, At the time of the’ beginning of the Ruhr struggle an excellent pamphlet was written by two young German Communists, Friedrich and Leonid, dealing with this struggle. This met every require- ment demanded by Lenin for such pamphlets. It was short, running in- to about thirty pages, and it was based on accurate and clearly out- lined facts. But it was two months before the party issued this pamphlet. In Russia we published a great deal of material on the Ruhr struggle, but “The Young Guard,” which undertook the publication of these brochures, could not bring them® out for many months. We could cite dozens of simi- lar examples. And we do nof even accomplish the most necessary work towards enlightening the communist vanguard of the proletariat as to’the approaching dangers. I give another example. An English war specialist on the question of chemical warfare, Major Lafargue, published a book in the English language: “The Riddle of the Rhine,” in which he drew a frightful picture of war chemistry and its attendant dangers. This book should be in the hands of every com- munist agitator. It should be popu- larized in pamphlets and in thousands of articles. But there has not been one single communist newspaper in the west which has taken any notice of it. Our revolutionary council of war has’ now had this book published in the Russian language. But our newspapers make no comment on it. No practical difficulties lie in the way of our propaganda and agitation in questions of international policy. In the Comintern we possess a_number of comrades thoroly versed in inter- national politics, as for instance com- rade Van Ravenstein in Holland and comrade Newbold in England, who are among the best informed writers on the connections between the Eng- lish business world and English im- perialist policy. And then we have the Polish comrade Lapinski, whose works on foreign policy represent the best analysis of international rela- tions which I have had the 6pportuni- ty of reading, and comrade Roth- stein, who possesses a thoro and con- crete knowledge of English foreign policy. Here in Russia we can count among the members of the Comintern such competent and energetic com- rades as comrade Voytinsky for ques- tions of the Far East, comrade Brike for the rose past and comrade Tivel for Indian questions. The reports is- sued by these comrades show their competent knowledge of their sub- ject, but at present these reports are only accessible to a limited circle. They could be of great importance for wide circles of propagandists and agitators in the Comintern. It is THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS merely a question of overcoming a certain inertia with regard to the or- ganization of the matter. A wider knowledge of such reports would en- sure that ten or twenty of the most advanced workers in all countries could obtain a clear knowledge of the questions of international politics, and would be able to enlighten hun- dreds, workers. It need not be said that eyen the thousands, and millions of contained twenty holes, and in order to put out my rate I could not miss a hole, and so had to make 40 pieces a minute. During lunch the first day, I was reading a paper when the whistle blew, and after I got to my machine I was told by the strawboss that the machine should be started the instant at which the whistle blew. Another instance of the grouchiness of the company is shown when one boy left his machine to go-to the toilet. After staying there about 7 minutes the strawboss went after him to bring him back to his machine. The company employs mostly boys, girls and old women, who work for a small salary, and give out a great deal of work. At the end of the day if the employe fails to make his rate he is severely reprimanded. I assure everybody that the above facts are nothing but the truth, Western Electric Worker. To the DAILY WORKER—You can use the following infémpation in the next issue of your paper. Jack Kennedy, head night paymas- ter working for the Western Elec. tric Company, department 50-50-I, un- der Mr. Nelson’s supervision was heard recently to make the following statement: He said that no matter how long you work for the Western Blectric Company, you are never appreciated, In fact, that the longer you worked for the company the less you were appreciated. Mr. Kennedy works out of Mr, Peter Hoffman's office (sheriff), and we believe Jack knows what he’s talk- ing about.—Western Electric Worker, md best organized propaganda work can- not protect the masses of workers from the war danger. If class con- ditions do not give rise_to a wave of revolution in every country, we are not safe against the impending dan- ger of a world war, of a war which may come despite the fact that even the capitalist fear it. As Lenin rightly puts it:\ “.... a war may break out any day with no further cause than a quarrel between Eng- land and France with regard to some detail of their agreement with Tur- key, or between America and Japan over some unimportant difference re- ferring to a question of the Pacific Ocean, or between any of the other great powers with regard to disagree- ments about colonies, tariffs, or gen- eral commercial politics.” If revolution does not develop in the most important capitalist coun- tries before these latter, having re- covered from the world war of 1914, plunge afresh into another world war, then"the masses of the workers will again be confronted by the question of defense of native country, a ques- tion which, as Lenin observes: “the overwhelming majority of the work- ers will inevitably solve in favor of their own bourgeoisie.” This is a very hard truth. It is difficult to pro- claim this truth after all the lessons of the war, after ten million victims have been sacrificed, after half of the globe has been devastated. But I am convinced that Lenin is perfectly right. When it comes to a world war, the bourgeoisie will not only force the masses of the people to take part in it, but will be successful in de- ceiving them as to its real nature. And what then? “The boycott of war is an imbecile phrase. Communists are forced to take part in every reac- tionary war,” declares Lenin. And Thursday, July 2, 1924 H | By Karl Radek why they must take part in it he further explains definitely by omy that ‘the sole possible means of com- batting war is “the maintenance or formation of an illegal organization of all revolutionists taking part in the war for the purpose of carrying on unceasing work ayainst the war.” It might be thought that this is no very great task, But when we recol- lect the situation in all countries af- ter the outbreak of the war in 1914, when month after month passed away, and there was still no organ- ization of revolutions fighting against the war; when we remember that the whole war dragged out to its end and still there was no country except_ Russia successful in creating such an organization to any mass extent, then it must become clear to us that it would be of tremendous importance, and constitute an enormous stride for- wards, if we communists could rise as one man against war, as a compact, international organization. The pre- paration for the formation of such an organization demands closest study of the total political experience gained during the last war, and re- quires that the communist workers shall become thoroly familiar with every shade of opinion formed during the war in the camp of Socialism, and which form the fundamental prin- ciples on which political action will be based in the future. The tenth anniversary of the out- break of war is approaching. On this day millions\of workers will be bet- ter able to mediate over the lessons taught by the last ten years than they can on ordinary work days. The Comintern must utilize this mo- ment for conducting an extensive campaign of propaganda and agitation on the lines laid down by Lenin’s last teaching. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY, The Blacksmith’s Journal is angry because Judge Gary would “get” Bishop McConnell, and in the words of the title of the article in the cur- rent issue of the above magazine, “wreck the Christian religion.” The Bishop, it is true, was and is a friend of the steel strikers, but if the labor leaders, instead of depending on God and bishops to help them, organized the workers to help themselves, there would be no necessity of crying to heaven for salvation from the Steel Trust demon. During the great steel strike, when under the leadership of William Z. Foster hundreds of thou- sands of steel slaves were brought together into a union, instead of giv- ing real aid, the labor fakers were quarrelling over the per capita and double crossing the strikers, eee Brigadier General Dawes called on Calvin Coolidge in Washington. He was accompanied by his brother Hen- ry M. Dawes, comptroller of the cur- rency. The latter job seems to run in the Dawes family. Charley had it once, before he organized the Central Trust Company. Perhaps Henry may start another bank when he quits the job. The General had nothing to say to questions asked by reporters about his plans except, “I wonder.” Thé reporters were disappointed that the usually vocal Dawes was so uncom- municative. Wall Street, very likely, advised him to keep his mouth shut until he was told what to say. se ‘The London Daily Hetald is disap- pointed because the Democratic con- vention spurned the League of Na- tions’ plank, supported yy former Secretary of War Baker, the fake liberal who became the worst of jin- goes and suppressers of free speech during the war. The British, Labor Party and the yellow socialists Europe are staunch supporters of the League of Nations and so is Wall Street. The Democratic convention did not turn it down because it is op- posed to a Capitalist International, but owing to the traditional hostility of Americans to “entangling alli- ances,” and to the rival interests of the capitalists themselves. But re- gardless of what the Republican and Democratic conyentions do, the bank- ers will have their League of Nations, officially or unofficially and the yel- low socialists of Europe will be happy. Pagel fc The Milwaukee Leader is peeved because the parade of the members of the Soctalist Party of Austria, in honor of the meeting of the Amster- dam and London Internationals, was not shown on the movie screen, Mili- tary reviews of the Russian Red Ar- my are featured but the army of the asad tale, but true that those who serve the capitalists best are often treated with contumely by them. -An- other socialist paper boasted that several capitalist governments exist thruout the world today because of socialist support. Quite true, but it is nothing to boast about, > A ek South Africa has a new cabinet, Gen, James Barry Hertzogy-who led a revolt against the British in the early days of the world war is premier and minister for home affairs; Col. H. P. Creswell, labor leader, is min- ister of defense and labor and Thos. Boydel, labor member of parliament, was given the portfolio of posts and pa yellow socialists was ignored. It is} telegraphs. The labor fakers will take good care of South Africa for the British Empire. ‘2 « Because Premier King of Canada failed to welcome the British squad- ron visiting Canada, the opposition launched a vigorous attack on the Pacifistic policy of the government. This brought forth a vigorous reply from the government spokesmen, who flayed Vice Admiral, Sir Frederick Field, who is credited with ‘stating that Canada should come to the as- sistance of old England with four new cruisers. ‘Tell the admiral to mind his own business” said Roche Lanc- tot, a government member. It looks as if Canada intended to cut the lead- ing strings with the Pirate Empire before long. ** * Mussolini will not attend the repa- rations meeting of the interallied con- ference to be held in London this month. He is too busy trying to keep his head above water as a result of the latest Fascisti murder—but one. The latest atrocity committed by the Fascisti was the brutal killing of a motorman who announced his in- tention of observing the ten minute no-work period in honor of the assassinated deputy. Because the motorman was not a millionaire his death was not flashed to the four corners of the earth. Mussolini is on the toboggan and his fall is hourly expected. a The expected has happened in Ja- pan. A jingo, perhaps a hireling in the employ of American warmongers, cut down the American flag from the staff at the United States embassy and a delicate diplomatic situation de- veloped. The incident will not result in war NOW, as neither country is ad Prepared for such a development, But when the time is ripe and the im- Derialists of both countries see no other way to solve their irreconcil- able problems, such an incident will not be wanting to provide the excuse for another bloodletting. 7. © The Irish Free State government intends to pension those soldiers who fought in the Easter Week revolution against the British government, later on during the Black and Tan st1 gle and again against the Republicans The government hopes tliat this pen sion will help to allay the dissatistac tion among those who fought during the civil war, with the of the army authorities in di ing large numbers of soldiers. it actior obiliz The Poor Fish Says: | liked tha’ religious atmosphere at the Demo cratic convention. Whenever thy ates were going to murde. each other over God an appeal + the Deity was generally effective, ns { \