The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1924, Page 6

“A - Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. ‘var Tallulah Rs cca aa EROS Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 .W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By mall (in Chicago only): $8.00 year $4.50....6 months $2.50....8 montas Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W.:-Washington Bivd. Chicago, IIlinols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. ————$ ; Datered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- "Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Pee ERIS nnn near ORES ee 250 Advertising rates on application. a Chop Suey William Randolph Hearst slaps LaFollette on the wrist because he did not organize a party in- stead of running a private campaign. A new party is needed, said Hearst, to take the place of the democratic party which has lost its purity. Hearst is dangerously radical—compared to La- Follette. He looks with longing eyes on LaFol- Editors Business Manager lette’s show but before he pitches his tent in the LaFollette camp, it must not be a political House of David with LaFollette playing the role of King Benjamin. The labor bankers, more conservative than Hearst are quite willing to follow LaFollette, and to use the popular protest vote as a club over the big capitalists. What they want is concessions. They must have a weapon to shake the money bags down. They do not want to lead the work- ers as a class agaiust the capitalists. That would be too revolutionary. It might set the workers to thinking of their own power. Too risky. The capitalist system is alright, for them. Like sena- tor Shipstead, they believe the system is alright, but it needs a shave and a clean shirt. The socialist party goes along with LaFollette, hoping to secure the ear of the masses that now fol- low him and convert the small bankers, small capi- talists, well-to-do farmers and the aristocracy of labor to socialism after the fashion of the brand popularized by Kautsky the Renegade in Europe and his American prophet Hillquit. The followers of William Gibbs McAdoo threaten to get on the LaFollette bandwagon, un- less their darling is nominated at the democratic convention. Ditto the followers of Al Smitli. Judge Cohalan of New York, thru his paper, de- clares that unless Al Smith is elected, LaFollette will get the eastern vote that would be cast for Al. William Hale Thompson, former mayor of Chi- coga, is off on a tour to hunt the tree-climbing ish. On his return it is rumored he will do some porch climbing with LaFollette. All these elements, with the exception of the socialists are avowed supporters of the capitalist system. They have different reasons for kicking over the traces. Al Smith’s followers will vote for LaFollette to spite the Ku Klux Klan. Mc- Adoo’s Kluxers will vote for LaFollette to wreak vengence on Al Smith. Patent medicine manufacturers, liberal capital- ists, bankers, disgruntled statesmen, renegade so- cialists and labor fakers will make at lot of noise and a lot of trouble for the big capitalists, but will make no effort to free the workers from capi- talism. That must be the task of the workers themselves thru a working class party. She Always Liked Cops! Rosetta Duncan has been introduced to the gold- fish. Not exactly, but in effect. Rosetta is a love- ly lady whose business it is to amuse the tired business men in a comedy running at one of the local show houses in which the 100 per cent Mor- onians can find diversion. Everybody knows that amusing the morons is a respectable and even lucrative occupation, hence Rosetta never shou]d have met the goldfish at all. A party of actors and actresses, you understand, was negotiating the highways of Cicero, a suburb of Chicago, when a policeman, in “pursuit of duty” and a fee, arrested them for violation of auto traf- fic rules. At the station, while the others were inside, Rosetta sat in the car. It seems that Rosetta laughed, grinned or smiled sarcastically. ‘Twas enough, two Cicero cops dragged out the fair Rosetta and breke her nose, a rib and finished up by mauling and maiming her brother who came to the rescue. We have nothing against Rosetta, but we sub- mit that her statement that she “always liked cops and often played benefit preformances for the po}ice” somewhat hardens our otherwise sympa- thetic hearts. Not so the capitalist papers. With a harmony that is beautiful to see, the capitalist papers of Chicago have tenderly bandaged up Rosetta’s broken nose and wounded feelings—and so deftly! ©, so deftly! without mentioning. the fact that these police have been trained to beat up workers and merely picked on the wrong per- son. They even manage to sympathize with Ro- setta without censuring the police custom of slug- ging workers. It is not the slugging they object to, but they require more care in picking the vic- tims. The only lesson the Tribune draws from the incident is that Cicero should be annexed to Chicago! Chicago’s beatings are better regulated. The apotheosis of this comedy of errors is State’s Attorney Crowe ordering his assistants to prose- cute the police sluggers—Crowe Whose business is carried on and whose reputation is founded upon goldfishing every poor devil who falls into the ‘police net. Police brutality must be practiced only on the heads of the workers, is tie lesson. ¢ ’ - Brazil’s Revolution A revolt has broken out in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the coffee capital of the world. This city with a population of 600,000, is the second largest city in the Latin-American republic, and is the hub of the industrial state of that name. This perennial Brazilian revolt is indicative of the chaos American imperialist policy is bring- ing about in the Latin-American countries. The “revolution” of Sao Paulo is not a proletarian outbreak. It is not a political revolution in the sense of being a conflict of one class that is higher developed socially against another class standing in the way of economic progress or development. Brazil witnessed revolts of this character in July 1922 and January 1923. Primarily the revolt of Sao Paulo is an outbreak for more political power on the part of a group of capitalist inter- ests concentrated in the most highly industrialized section of the country against another section of the same employing class now holding political sway. Of course, this conflict is precipitated and aggra- vated by the interference of outside capitalists, principally American capitalists. It has been the time-dishonored policy of the Yankee imperialists to interfere in the domestic political and finan- cial life of the Latin-American countries in order to enhance their own interests, in order to fasten chaos on these industrially lesser developed coun- tries and thus multiply the excuses for extending American economic domination. It happens that about forty per cent of Brazil’s exports go to the United States and that nearly two-thirds of these exports are coffee. Hence, the shadow of American capitalist encroachments is especially menacing here. It is the influence of foreign business groups that has in the past been principally responsible for the recurring conflicts between the Sao Paulo industrial group and the group governing at Rio Janeiro. Tho Brazil is not as much under the thumb of the Wall Street oligarchs as Cuba, for instance, it is rapidly fall- ing under Washington’s domination and is al- ready reaping the harvest of difficulties that goes with the inevitable establishment of American eapitalist dictation. The Sao Paulo “revolution” is another sample of the fruit of the Americanization of our sister republics by the salesmen and bankers of the world’s ruling financial clique. Rockefeller Has a Birthday John D. Rockefeller is 85 years of age, and the whole world stops to take note of this extraordin- ary fact. Why the world should be interested in the age of this dried-up bit of humanity that still lrangs on to life is to be explained, ‘not by any good that Rockefeller has done to his fellow-men, but by the amount of money he has mulcted from them. The measure of John D.’s greatness is the measure of his exploitation of society. We live in such a perverted state of society that few people stop to realize what a degraded thing it is, that society should honor its parasites and exploiters. Rockefeller is mentioned only because his is an outstanding name. But the same thing is true in the smallest country town with regard to smallest capitalistic toad that rules his puddle. And every newspaper (except the DAILY WORK- ER) is filled with the senseless goings-on of the most useless, stupid, and degenerate portion of society, the men and women who spend the money of the Rockefellers, Morgans, Goulds, and Astors. So when John D. Rockefeller has a birthday, and all the sycophantic newspapers of capitalism re- mind us of the fact, we duly take note of it and mark it down as another reason for the abolition of the capitalist system at the earliest possible moment, that it develops people so lacking in self- respect that they render homage to parasites. The Riga correspondent of the Chicago Tribune made the marvelous discovery that “Isaac Amp- ler,” American Communist leader, sneaked into Russia last week and made a red hot speech to the Third International congress on unrestricted immigration. He is also reported by the same author to have glorified Marcus Garvey, the Negro leader. The only thing the matter with the yarn is that it is not true. Outside of that, it is alright, at least as right as we expect anything to be that is published in the Chicago Tribune. “When the devil is sick, the devil a saint would be; when the devil is well, the devil a saint is he.” The Socialist Party devil is sick and now de- cides to put on his halo and cease showing the anti-Soviet cloven hoof in its official organ. By a majority vote of its national committee it has decided to refuse publication to attacks on Soviet Russia by Czarist propagandists. Attacking the Workers’ Republic does not pay the Socialist Party, so the policy is dropped—ofiicially. McAdoo is done. Doheny’s oil and Smith’s alcohol could not mix and the Micks could not stomach Mac beeause he could not hold his oil like a man, but squirted it in the face of Doc Doheny. William Jennings Bryan is sick of the demo- cratic convention, but the entire country is sick and tired of Bryan. He was always an ass, bu’ he made a monkey out of himself when he de- fended the Klan. Now that the Socialist Party has dropped the class struggle, it is about time the Ku Klux Klan PRESALE Ph vapaal rea ————— 3 THE DAILY WORKER = Berger A Convert to “Force and Violence” By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. Since the proletarian revolution in Russia frightened the capitalist world into a war to the knife against the Soviet republic, and the yellow social- ists into a bitter struggle against Communism, Victor Berger has never missed the opportunity show his contempt for the victorious Russian yworkers and his antagonism to the was the bitter foe of violence and the unflinching champion of democracy. No dictatorship for him. Let the capi- talists dictate if they will; the social- ists would never stain their demo- cratic esoutcheon with such a blot. But an editorial in a recent issue of the Milwaukee Leader, Berger's pri- vate property, comes out strongly in tavor of the arming Of European so- cialists to protect themselves against “Fascists and Communists.” This means against Communists, of course, The socialist leaders in most. Europe. an countries have vied with the Fas- cisti in their service to capitalism and have distinguished themselves so far by acting as the agents of the capi- talists in crushing the workers’ at- tempts at revolution. The editorial in question is entitled, “Militant Huropean Democracy,” and goes on to tell how the European so- cialists have deoided to give Fascists and Communists a taste of their own weapons. Peaceful persuasion has failed; force must be resorted to in the struggle for self-preservation. Constitutional government has been challenged and socialists, of course, rallied to its defense. Austria (would you ever think it?) set the example. (Austria is owned by the international bankers and controlled by the League of Nations and the socialists.) It kept the army democratic. “It fears neither Fascists nor Communists. It can take care of itself ....” “The German socialists made a mis- take when they failed to control the German army after the revolution. Fascists and Communists started a reign of terror. The reactionaries, tried to overthrow also the socialist and labor organizations.” And so on ad naseum. Socialists to Fight! It is refreshing to learn that the cided to arm themselves. In fact they have been armed for some time. Who murdered Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg, if not the yellow social- ists under Ebert, Scheidemann and Noske? It is not necessary in order to refute the lies of the Berger scribbler to go back to the, period of the Eu- ropean war, when the leaders of the after beating down the Communists, | yellow socialists of Europe have de-| Second International sat with the kings and lords of Hurope and super- intended the slaughter of ten million human beings, the flower of the world’s manhood. It is not necessary to recall the action of the British so- cialists in the Asquith cabinet who Participated in the murder of the Marxian, James Connolly in 1916 for the crime of fighting for the freedom of the Irish OREO class from British dictatorship of the proletariat. Berger}Tule. . It is not necessary to recall the crimes committed by the Vander- veldes of Belgium, the Thomases and Jouhauxs of France, the Turratis of Italy, the Brantings of Sweden and ime other traitors who acted as the rained arms of the capitalists in lead- ing the workers to the slaughter. It is only necessary to recall the im- portant events that occurred in Eu- rope since the treaty of Versailles was signed in order to prove that the writer of the Berger editorial is a com- mon liar in stating that the Commun- ists of Germany started the reign of terror after the revolution, that sent the Kaiser to Holland. Socialiste Betrayed Workers. After the revolution that followed social democrats came into power. Instead of making a clear break with capitalism as was done in Russia, the yellow socialists compromised with the enemy. The reactionaries were discredited because they lost the war, so the socialists were used to pull their chestnuts out of the fire for them. The Kaiser went to Holland and the social democrats liberally supplied him with cash. The social democfats instead of arming the workers and disarming the bourgeoisie, dia exactly the opposite. No, they were not against the use of armed force. They were merely opposed to using it for the proletarian revolution. They were quite willing to use it against the revo- lutionists. And they did use it. Noske, Scheidemann and Hbert! Three traitors who will occupy niches of infamy in the Rogue’s Gallery of history. When the German workers led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg tried to direct the Ger- man revolution into the same chan- nels as the Russian revolution, it was these same yellow socialists, who we are now told were so peaceful, that ordered Von Hindenburg and the Fas- cisti of today against the revolution- ary workers and drowned their ef- forts to emancipate the German work- ers in a sea of blood. These are the facts. But what are facts to a scrib- bler on Berger's capitalist sheet? And the German socialists have per- sisted in their treachery step by step since then until now, six years after Miners! Shall By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH. The words “District autonomy sus- pended” are familiar ones indeed, to the ears of the men who comprise the membership of the U. M. W. of A. This time it is the West Virginia, District 17, unit that is affected and “differences of opinion within its councils’ ’are given as the reason. If there are differences of opinion exist- ing in the councils of the organization in West Virginia, it can safely be said, that, in that respect, West Virginia does not stand alone. Differences exist over the entire jurisdiction of the or- ganization, but not without reason. However it should be clear to all, that, to thrive and progress, these things are necessary and that when this right to differ is denied, the only thing facing those who make such de- nial, is gradual extermination. What has been the result of previous ex- periences in this direction? Wake of Wreckage. The Kansas district shows today its deteriorating effect and will not change until the very last vestige of the Lewis-Bittner rampage of 1921 is eradicated. The Nova Scotia situation is somewhat a kin to mulligan stew and would be completely on the rocks, if it were not for the determination of the Progressives in that district to keep men in the U. M. W. of A. One noticable thing has been done in that district, however, for the illiterate Silby Barrett has been replaced as provisional president by a William Houston, this taking place sometime about Apri! 1st. Buta district election would clean out the entire gang, with the result that the Canadian miners would get some of the things that they have been fighting for. In addition to these two districts, we have the coke region, Westmore- land and Somerset counties of Penn- sylvania, where, instead of the seven- ty thousand men who were organized during the 1922 strike, we have prob- ably a handful of members, an office, a dead-head custodian and an enorm- ous expense. We also have a weak) ened district in Washington; a drum, but no band in district 16, Maryland; the new provisional district in north- ern West Virginia, with Captain Percy Tetlow as president and Van A. Bitt- ner as chief representative of the In- ternational (remember Alabama and Kansas), the struggling district in western Canada and the provisional should do the decent thing and drop its night] districts 19, 20 and 30. shirt. A double case of indecent exposure. Send in that Gulesription Today. How Lewis Got There. This is the story of Lewis’ reign in the U. M. W. of A. Beginning as sta. bi Lewis Dictate? tistician and moving along as manager of the Journal; vice-president by ap- pointment; acting president by virtue of clever manoeuvering to rid them- selves of the then president, Frank Hayes, in 1919 and continuing in that capacity until the election of 1920; when, by the well-known method of stealing votes, he was declared elected as president of the union. Since that time and even before, one district after the other has had its autonomy suspended under one pretense or the other. The West Virginia situation is a rather peculiar affair, because it is claimed that the officials of that dis- taken, because of differences of opinion. There have been differances of opinion in that district for a long time, for Keeney, Mooney and ex- board member of the now defunct dis- trict 29, “Peggy” Dwyer, were all elected to office in West Virginia thru the efforts of a dual union, according to word of standpat officials of the union, The request was signed by 22 of the district and sub-district officials of West Virginia, most of whom un- doubtedly will be kept on the payroll, while those who differed in opinion will be cast adrift to shift for them- selves. It is rumored by some who claim to know that the offlicers of West Vir- ginia were forced to make this appeal to the National Executive Board and that in consideration for same, the re- maining indictments growing out of the armed march in Mingo county, would be nolle prossed. It is a remark- ‘able coincident that this was done about the same time the autonomy of district 17 was suspended, without sanction of the membership involved, 80 it is quite probable that there is some truth to the story that both force and bait was used in making the move. Thoughtful miners everywhere will watch with interest the situation in that district, because of the announce- ment “that Van A. Bittner is to have charge of the northern section with headquarters at Fairmont, because they still remember his work in Ala- bama and his more recent episode in Kansas. The disgrace tho is on the shoulders of Keeney and Mooney, re- gardless of the surrounding ciroum- stances, because to sign the petition to the International Dxecutive Board is a frank confession of their incompe- tency to handle the affairs of the dis- trict and this at the end of their several years of heralding and braying about their super-natural abilities, » the defeat of the Kaiser’s army, the |g: trict requested that such action be| the termination of the war, they form the backbone of the plot conceived by the American Chamber of Commerce and Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State for Wall Street, and executed by Hell an’ Maria Dawes to bind the workers of Germany hand and foot to the chariot of High Finance under the Dawes plan. _Try Stem Red Tide. The yellow socialists of Germany or their prototypes in any other coun- try in Europe have never been known since the beginning of the war to turn their guns against the enemies of the working class. And this re-birth of militancy which now makes its ap- pearance in a soldier’s uniform is not progressive militancy, but a last desperate attempt of the social demo- cratic bureaucrats to stem the rising revolt of the workers under Commun- ist leadership against their rule. The socialist parties in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Belgium, France, Italy and England have collaborated with the master class and are its strongest bulwarks. The socialist par- ty of Bulgaria joined the Fascisti revolt against the Stambouliski peas- it government and murdered thou- ds of workers and peasants. Some of the strongest supporters of Mus- solini in the early days of his reign were the socialists, In fact General Ludendorff of Germany is head of the National Socialists. Why waste evi- dence on Berger’s hack writer? But here is another gem from the same pen: “The victory of the British Labor party and of the French liberals has given new strength to the militant AS WE Thursday, July 10, 1924 European democracy. In any reactton- ary attempt to start violence and over- throw constitutional parliaments a / large part of the French and English armies and navies will fight the reac- tionaries.” The Socialist and the King. And again: “The Swedish king recently asked his socialist minister Branting: ‘Hadn’t I better resign to avoid trouble?’” Branting replied: “Never mind, your majesty. We'll tell you when to resign.” That is militant EHuropean democracy. The socialists will defend capitalist democracy with : arms against the workers who would establish the democracy of the majori- ty thru a dictatorship of the prole- tariat. Even Berger’s Leader protested a little against the reign of murder int- , tiated by Noske and Ebert after thé German revolution and the New York socialists protested a good deal. But now that the Socialist party has liquidated and joined LaFollette, the friend of the late Boies Penrose, in a united front with small bankers and | patent medicine manufacturers, its or- gans will outdo the big business rage | in denunciation of Soviet Russia and: Communism. It is prostitution hitting & new low level. The funniest part of a funny edi- torial is that which boasts of the strength and militancy of the-socialist party of Austria. The country is sup- ported by the international bankers thru the League of Nations and prac- tically the entire membership of the Socialist party is on the league’spay- roll, ’ SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. People who are in the profitable business of trying to convince the masses that religion is necessary for happiness in this world and protec- tion from excessive heat in the next, continually trot out the falsehood that crime is in a large measure, if not en- tirely, due to the coolness of society in general toward their doctrine. The 60,000 different varieties of hokum peddlers vociferously bark the merits of their individual wares and swear by the eternal that unless you accept their God and give the other 59,999 the cold shoulder the devil will give you the hot griddle when you stop paying on this earth, se 8 That religion is a crime deterrent is a finished fable. Quite the contrary. Organized murder on a colossal scale, a great war for instance, is usually carried on accompanied by the bless- ings of the priests and the sanction of the deity, represented of course by whatever organized gang of religious hokum merchants happens to be the most acceptable to the ruling class of the nations engaged in the war. As it takes at least two to stage a fight of any kind, it takes more than one nation to make a war, so we often find two nations who worship in the same manner, even to detail, securing the blessing of their God, in their at- tempts to murder the same God's chil- dren on the other side of a line known as a national boundary. a ee Buckets of holy water are sprinkled on the gallant heroes who go forth to save“the capitalist’s pork chops from the greedy maws of their opponents. But the preachers discover that the fighting is not for foreign markets or other loot, but for Christianity (in Ja- pan it would be Shintoism), democ- racy or the freedom of the seize. Those who have any moral scruples over sticking sharp bayonets into the quivering flesh of other human beings are inoculated with religious phobia |germs, and their eyes soon begin to gleam with a fanatical light over the prospect of wading in the gore of their fellow-men. All for the Lord. Se! & Whenever a criminal happens* to hold a radical viéwpoint on any ques- tion, the sob sisters of the capitalist press, male and female, immediately begin to flood the papers with articles seeking to prove that radicalism is re- sponsible for-crime. But the crimes of preachers have become so common that even the newspapers do not fea- ture them any more, unless the case is of exceptional interest, as when a conspicuously godly preacher is“dis- covered playing the role of King Da- vid to 50 per cent of his flock. ee ® The fact that the notorious interna- tional spy, Ignatius T. Trebitsch- Lincoln, now identified as “Otto Chir- zel,” held in Rome on the charge of complicity in the murder of the Italian socialist deputy, Matteotti, is an ex- Anglican curate, will not be stressed in the capitalist press. The capital- ists realize the usefulness of organ- ized religion in their task of keeping the workers in a state of passivity and dreaming of happy homes beyond the skies to comygnsate them for the misery they suffer in this world un- der capitalist exploitation, There- fore the master class are averse to bringing discredit on religion by fea- turing the crimes and morab direlic- tions of its standard bearers, . a A” The “Left Wing” socialist at the Cleveland convention of that organ- ization, Who wanted a referendum on the liquidation of the party—that is what its surrender to LaFolette real- ly means—is at least blessed with a sense of humor. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the entire membership of the party participated in the Cleveland Conference for Pro- gressive Political Action. If the 8. P. wants to submit the burial plan to e referendum of the remaining few, it could save time and not lose very much money by doing it by telegram. When Abraham Cahan took the light- ed torch and hid it under Hillquit’s coattail, he only did—a little inde- cently or painfully—what the socialist party had been doing in practice for the past few years. Hillquit, Cahan, Berger and the weak sisters, Oneal, King and Gerber, had practically ditched the class struggle as the foun- | dation of the socialist philosophy _ since the Communist movement first | challenged the prestige of yellow so- cialism. ees In order to curry favor with the y y capitalists and prove their innocence | of any intention to bring discomfort | to the capitalist system, the socialist | leaders have formed a united front | with the bosses in America against ; the Communists who have held alott | the revolutionary banner and pro-! claimed that there is and must be a class struggle as long as the means of production and distribution neces- sary to the life of all the people ares , owned and controlled as private prop-; erty by a few. That no reform canp materially improve the condition o the masses so long as the many exploited by the few. That only when a revolution takes place which placesh all power in the hands of the work- ers thru a dictatorship of the work+: ers can the workers begin to build society where exploitation will ceasde and the groundwork laid for a society where the terror of war will not han like a Damocles sword over the head# of the human race. Ps, tee ae, The socialist leaders have repud ated the cla: truggle and have n¢ reason to exist. Hillquit has now fol, lowed Cahan and Berger tho a littl more cautiously. Cahan spilled beans at Cleveland rather crud He spilled them on Hillquit’s front. The latter made haste to ap ply the handkerchief but he only suq,; it Cahan has no reputation t 4 lose as a socialist leader or a lead of socialists, He established his utation as a yellow socialist journalis, and he is a top notcher without ous competition in his field. Hillqu: on the other hand, has been the er of the socialist party for twent years, and it does not look well fe such a wise head to be obliged confess that for two decades he h been talking thru his hat. B has already placed the word “revol| tion” on his index purgotoris. Tt class struggle gives way to a stru owthe part of Hillquit and his follo ers to hang on to LaFollette’s p bourgeois coat tail. f THE HERETIC. “Banish gods from the ski claimed Bishop Brown. He might yet be wearing a cl man’s gown, Had he stopped at that. He kicked from his berth, For adding “And Capitalists from , earth!" He showed that THE CHURCH at first, COMMUNIST! No Capitalism therein, could exist! The Church Leaders have been o rupted by Gold! No wonder they thrust Bishop B from the fold!