The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1924, Page 1

4 | THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 101. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16,1924 <<3»*”” Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents DAWES PLAN AT STAKE TODAY Foster Scores Debs O.K. of LaFollette FRENCH NATIONALISM PERILS WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN PLAN MEANS ACTION Members Mobilized For Local, National Work William Z. Foster, Workers Party candidate for President, leaves tonight for Detroit, after his mass meeting in Douglas Park Auditorium, So. Kedzie and Ogden Ave., for a swing around the east, with C, E. Ru- thenberg, executive secretary, to speak to the Workers Party membership on the campaign policies of the party. Foster’s appearance tonight where he will speak on “Russia in 1924,” is his first big meeting since the announcement of the candidacy of Foster and Benja- min Gitlow on the Communist platform and the withdrawal of . the Workers Party from the Farmer-habor Party campaign for president. Foster recently returned from Russia. State and city candidates on the Workers Party ticket will immediate- ly be put into the field. At a party conference of district 8 last night, the Communist standard. hearers for Chi-| . cago and Illinois were to be selected. Young Workers to Help. Twenty-five’ states are expected to secure@nough signers to tlie petitions which the Workers Party is preparing to put Communist electors on the | allots in these states. The, Young Workers’ League is mobilizing behind the Workers Party presidential candidates. Max Salz- man, in a statement issued in behalf of the Young Workers’ League de- clares “It becomes the task of the Young Workers’ League to give its ut- most support to this struggle of the Workers (Communist) Party which enters the parliamentary/ campaign for the first time on a national scale. The Young Workers’ League must help utilize this struggle, for the spreading of Communist propaganda, tor the bringing of new members iato the party, and for the strengthening of the Communist forces of the United States. Gitlow Tour. Mobilization of the speakers to aid in the campaign is progressing fa- vorably, Ruthenberg announced yes- terday. At least a dozen well-known Communist speakers will tour the country taking the Communist mess- age to most of the states in the un- fon. Benjamin Gitlow, candidate for vice-president, will start a Coast-to- Coast tour during August, when he will speak in every large industrial center of the country. Foster will speak at important mass mectings, «nd has already begun writing on the compaign for the various Workers Party publications. MUSSOLINI AND FASCISTI GANGS Debs Deserts the Class Struggle William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president on the Workers Party ticket, has addressed a stinging re- buke to Eugene V. Debs, who has officially endorsed the in- dependent candidacy of Senator LaFollette for the presi- dency. Foster’s letter to Debs, in full, follows: * * * * . Chicago, July 15, 1924 lege V. DEBS: — Your statement in support of La llette, which appears today in the capitalist press, is an astounding document. In spite of the indications pre- viously given that you would allow Hillquit to carry the socialist party into the camp of the Wisconsin senator, your complete capitulation to this petty-bourgeois reformer will come as a shock to thousands of workers, who look upon you as an enemy of the capitalist system. But what will the workers, who have followed you for so many years in building up some semblance of independent political action, now think when you abandon it all and give your unqualified endorsement to the personal campaign of an individual who is not only NOT a Socialist, but is an avowed anti-socialist? What will they think when they see this personal candidacy,, with your endorsement, destroying all the traces of independent political organization built up _ thru years of painful effort? You seem to believe that La Follette will, in some unspeci- fied future, help you to build a labor party. Did he give any, signs of such intentions at Cleveland? Decidedly not! He did not allow the convention to write a word of his program, or to have a word to say as to candidates, not even the vice- presitentsl candidacy. He acted thr: part of an absolute dictator. He is pledged to align himself with old party politi- cians of both the apitalint parties. He dealt a death blow at the great rank and file labor party convention in St. Paul and already he is setting up his machinery in the various states to destroy and wipe out the budding labor parties that were being built, substituting therefore a parody of the old parties with lawyers, preachers, and professional politicians as his henchmen. Nowhere is the La Follette candidacy in the hands of “labor equi elements. Even in Minnesota his re- presentative is the banker, Sinclair. You may rest assured that a real party of industrial workers and exploited farmers can be built only the% fare of La Follette active opposition. When Hillquit was making his glowing eulogy of La Fol- lette at Cleveland, as the one outstanding champion of the oppressed | thot of you, and wondered what had become of the old war-horse who had fought for so long to break the ties with the capitalist persies that Hillquit was re-establish- ing. | wondered why the eulogy should go to a petty bour- geois politician, who has fought against socialism all his life, and that the working-class militants were forgotten in a supreme moment in the political life of the workers! Very few will be surprised at Hillquit. He is already well known! But that you should, without qualification, fall into step be- hind him comes as something of a shock. You have occupied a position of leadership before the re- volutionary workers of America, and thereby you have ac- cepted responsibility toward these workers. Thousands of them will join me in saying, that this “golden opportunity” which you have embraced on the advice of Mr. Hillquit, is an opportunity only for the enemie of working class action on the political field. For the workers it stands as the “height of stupidity and folly and depth of desertion and betrayal” to ask them to abandon all their past efforts at independent action and to submit unconditionally to the whims of a poli- tical who is not, even yet, outside of the Republican Party of Calvin Coolidge, Charles G. Dawes, and J. P.“Morgan. The petty bourgeois united front is now complete from Hearst to Debs. The Socialist Party is liquidated, together with its last remnants of leadership, which were in your hands, and which you now voluntarily surrender to La Follette—WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. \ Russia Planning to for the results of my policy.” government from falling before the opposition forces which were bitterly denouncing the fficials for the murder of Gia- como Matteotti, socialist deputy. Ousted From Office. But Aldo Finzi, former secretary of the department of the interior, and Cesare Rossi, former head of the de- partment’s “press bureau” (spy sys- ), have actually implicated Musso- bimself MURDERED OPPONENTS WHO SPOKE AGAINST GRAFT AND TERROR RULE “The Ministry of the Interior has been the target of every form of censure and accusation. It was its intention to give the impression, that the Palazzo Viminale was teeming with corrup- tion.... The heads of that department are above all suspicion. ws the head of the government I claim complete responsibility These were a few of the vainly bravado remarks of Benito Mussolini before the Jtalian senate on June 24 when the black- shirt premier-dictator was trying desperately to save his fascist —— which has grown out of the general corruption of Italy under Fascist rule. Rossi is already in prison, and Finzi, who has been questioned, has been a target for Roman papers’ queries: “Why is not Finzi in prison?” As the DAILY WORKER pointed out yesterday in the special interview with Antonio Presi, editor of the Communist daily Italian paper, Il La- yoratore, who has documents written (Continued on page 3.) Resume Manufacture All New Dredges (Rosta News.) MOSCOW, July 15.—The Central Metal Board, after thoroly discussing the question of the possibility of con- structing dredges in Russian works, has come to the conclusion that there | P' is no special difficulty in resuming their manufacture at such works the Neviansk, the Red Putiloff Works, and others, where dredges used to be manufactured previously, provided, however, that special contracts be en- tered into with the corresponding for- eign firms for technical consultation, as well as the purchase of sketch from them. Under such egnditions it has been decided to place’ with Russian works all orders for dredges wanted by the Ural Platinum Trust, and that the re- specti ngineering works should im- mediately enter upon negotiations with foreign firms, and—in the first place—the American ones, anent the purchase of sketches and technical co-operation, : DEBS GIVES IN TOBOURGEOIS UNITED FRONT La Follette Hegemony Over Middle Class Eugene V. Debs today com- pleted his surrender to LaFol- lette in a statement issued thru the office of the Socialist Par- ty. At the same time William Z. Foster made public a letter to Debs, in which he denounced the surrender to the most dan- gerous enemies of working class political action, and declared that Debs had surrendered the last remnants of leadership of the revolutionary forces of America by this action. Fos- ter’s letter is printed in full in another column, Deb's statement, after declar- ing unqualifiedly for the support of LaFollette, goes on to ex- plain: ‘ “To yield to the weakness and cowardice of expediency has always been repugnant to my nature.” But, he says, the situation is not an ordi- nary one. This time, expediency be- comes a “golden opportunity,” to re- fuse which would be “the height of stupidity and folly and the depth of desertion and The’ shades. xt” » Engels, and Liebknecht, are called upon to wit- ness that, were they in Chicago to- day in the flesh, they would approve of LaFollette and his “independent candidacy.” LaFollette is praised as a man who “all his life has stood up like a man for the right according to his light.” The same thing, of course, might be said for thousands of €xploiters and capitalists, and what this has to do with the class struggle and the principles of Marx is pot explained. Debs asserts with great emphasis, however, that “we need not blush or apologize to give our support to Robert M. LaFollette.” “Like Job’s noble war-steed we smell the battle from afar,” says Debs. “We stand for the peace and free- dom and happiness of all humanity and our cause is cetrain to triumph in the end. Forward, comrades, with the courage of conquerers to the land of light and the new civilization.” LaFollette is going to do all that for the workers, according to Debs, while the class struggle, the break with capitalist parties, the principles of socialism as expressed in the de- mands for nationalization of all basic industries as against LaFollette’s “back to 1776” slogans, are all ig- nored. Only the shade of Marx en- ters, when Debs calls upon the ghost of the Father of Communism to bless the death-bed of the Socialist Party of America, HARVESTER CO. WORKS SLAVES IN DARK HOLES By PHILIP SMITH. The International Harvester lant contains the most dilapi- dated machinery | ever saw in a yo plant factory. 1 could well eve the workmen who told me that the machines are falling to pieces and that some of them are twenty-five to thirty years old. Contrary to the general opin- ion, the International Harvester company is filled with obsolete machinery, poorly ventilated and poorly lighted buildings, and inefficient arrangement of the machines. Workmen whom I talked to while going thru the plant told me that they believed jhe conditions ate bad be- cause the International has no compe- (Continued on page 5.) * “RED RUSSIA IN 1924” BY WILLIAM Z, FOSTER IN THE DAILY WORKER Here is an important announce- ment. The DAILY WORKER has se- cured the serial rights for “Russia in 1924,” by William Z. Foster, who recently returned to this country from the First Workers’ Republic. This is the stenographic report of the lecture that Foster delivers to- night at Douglas Park Auditorium, Ogden and Kedzie Aves., in his first appearance with the fatest story from Soviet Russia. Is there a more gripping and vivid story in the world than that of how the Russian working class has mas- tered the problems of taking and holding one-sixth of the earth's surface? William Z. Foster went to Russia in 1921, and upon his return he told the story up to that date, in his book, “The Russian Revolution,” which sold in thousands of copies, proving the most popular book on Russia published in this country. Now Foster has visited the coun. try of proletarian rule again, after three years, and the story of what has been accomplished in that time, in solving the problems that still faced Russia in 1921, is told in his new pamphlet, which is the report of a speech delivered in Chicago, July 16. In 1921 the Russian workers had solved the fundamental problems of establishing a government and pro- tecting it from military assaults. The problem of industry remained staring them in the face. Foster sa solution of this central problem of reviving the economic life. The general problem manifested itself as a multitude of specific problems, all of which had to be solved at least in part before industry and agriculture could be revived. A few of the more important of these sub- sidiary problems were the breaking of the conomic and political block- ade which was strangling Russia, the establishment of a stable cur- rency in place of the debased rou. ble, which was making all real ac- counting systems impossible, the development of a state budget and the balancing of it, the utiliation of the dangerous experiment of the New Economic Policy for revolution- ary ends, the stoppage of the so- called declassing of the proletariat thru the hungry factory workers scattering out upon the land, the ab- olition of sabotage by the supporters of the capitalist regime, the estab- lishment of a new and effective sys- tem, of proletarian industrial disci- pline in place of the old slave-driv. ing methods that fhe workers had suffered under from time immemo- rial.” Foster tells how the Russian workers, under the leadership of the Russian Communist Party, met and solved these problems... It is the most interesting story in human his- tory. BEGINNING TOMORROW, “RUS- SIA 1 924” will run serially in the DAILY WORKER, after which it will be available as a pamphlet for still wider circulatidn and per- manent/form. Read it in the DAILY WORKER, pass it on to your friends, get new subscribers to the DAILY WORKER, so that no one will miss it, and then buy the pam- phlet for your library. Jobless Drafted to Fight Fires LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 15—Man power, drafted from the streets of this city, to battle throughout a long night, beside hundreds of volunteers in an effort to check the progress of the worst forest fire in the history of southern California, today had failed to stem the onrush of the flames cut- ting through the san libre mountains. Ural Iron Program MOSCOW, July 15—The Ural re- gional economic council has drawn up a tentative production programme for the metal trusts of Ural for 1924-25, providing for the manufacturing of 17 million poods of pig iron, 6.4 million poods of sheet iron and 6.6 million poods of assorted iron, 115/154 B. L. F. and E. Members, CLEVELAND, July 15.—There were 115,154 members in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine- men on May 1, 1924, —_ Everything, depended .upon. the | INTERNATIONAL BANKERS, PLAN FOR UNITED CAPITALIST FRONT (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, July 15.—Dangers to the Dawes plan for interna- tionalizing the exploitation of Germany are coming to the front as the inter-allied conference, with its 150 delegates from 10 na- tions, begins its sessions today. The danger appears with the declaration of Premier Herriot of France, that his nation will not surrender the right to occupy portions of Germany whenever she sees fit. The inter-allied conference will try hard to iron out this wil- fulness of the French. Leaders, such as Ramsay MacDonald, say the anti-soviet nations of Europe, must unite. They are warning France that the only refuge against the revolutionary, Third Communist International is unity on the basis of the Dawes plan and the League of Nations. brought into this coalition movement as a junior partner. point out that Germany must be sequent revolution, which would Urge United Capitalist Front. Herriot’s attitude is a sharp disap- pointment to MacDonald, Owen D. Young of the Dawes commission and the other forces working in line with the international financiers. The Frenchman is regarded as a deserter to the cause. It is felt that he is sur- rendering to certain local French cap- italist interests which look with a cold eye on the far-sighted international program of the big bankers. But they intend to swing him into line. Common agreement, for the enforce- ment of the Dawes plan is the basic purpose of the inter-allied conference. This program: reguires a nnpited.front of the big allied powers. It calls for huge loans to Germany by the House of Morgan and associated banking in- terests, these loans to be secured by mortgages on German railroads. And behind all this must be the united front of the allied powers who will have to collect by force whenever Germany defaults—should she default thru internal political changes. Fighting Over the Loot. France will receive reparations ra- tions under the Dawes plan. These reparations rations will be smaller than the payments her extremists wanted, but they are as large as Ger- many can pay without becoming in- solvent and endangering her tribute to the international money lenders. The extreme French nationalists are opposed to the present terms of the; Dawes plan for two main reasons: they think they can squeeze more from Germany by playing a loose hand thru their occupation measures and they are opposed to the Dawes plan idea of rehabilitating German indus- tries to such an extent that they will seriously compete with French indus- tries. The fact that American finance is al- ready heavily interested in German industry and that the Dawes plan mortgage loans will still further in- jcrease American financial control of German industries angers this ex- treme nationalist group of French- men. They see nothing for them in this phase of the Dawes plan. Morgan Man Is Big Noise. Owen D. Young, unofficial American advisor at the inter-allied conference, has the task of convincing Herriot. Young is president of Morgan’s Gen- eral Electric company and was Mor- gan’s expert on the Dawes commission who wrote most of the clauses in the document at issue. As Morgan’s repre- sentative he has a powerful argument with Herriot. The French franc was recently saved by a Morgan loan. It will need to be saved again by the same aid. The pressure which Young can exert on Herriot thus becomes ob- vious. ¢ Owen D. Young at the conference overshadows Ambassador Kellogg. Kellogg is a member of the republican party which rules at Washington and Young is a democrat. But a republic- jan administration selected Young, nev- etheless, for he is the represntative of the “invisible government,” not very invisible any more. Germany May Scrap It. Dangers to the Dawes plan are com- ing from another source—Germany. The Marx-Stressmann government has yielded to the bankers’ program as now drawn, but if terms are made more stringent, in response to’ French They wish exploited Germany, They, saved from utter ruin and con- overwhelm Europe. RADEK REPLIES TO ZINOVIEV AT SIXTH SESSION Discusses Slogan of the Workers’ Government. Editor’s Note—Today’s story from our Moscow correpondent reports the continuation of the discussion on the United Front tactic of the Comintern and its application in the German situation. As Karl Radek came in for severe criticism as a result of his conduct of the party maneuver during the October crisis in Germany, his speech in defense of his policy, which is substantially given here, should prove of unusual interst. * see (Special to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, June 21.— (By Mail.)—After the opening of the sixth session on June 21 Rossi (of Italy) declares in the name of the Bordiga group that at- ‘ tacks on the leftist mistakes of Bordiga are unjust. Bordiga is not preaching sectionalism, he is fighting opportunistic inter- pretations of mass parties. Bor- diga is propagating no idealistic Neitschean views in the realm of philosophy. The United Front policy became subject to opportunistic interpretations. The Bordiga group accepts the United Front tactic from be- low in the industrial field, but challenges it in the political field. If “workers’ government” is only a synonym for “prole- tarian dictatorship,” then it is admissible, but why use the synonym? Concerning the mat- ter of union with the Italian ocialists, the Bordiga group advocates union with the social- ist masses under the leadership of the Communist Party. , The policy of the Comintern is eclectic, which is a mistake, for the great Lenin could man- euver, but the little -Lenins, hanging on the outskirts, de- generate thru opportunism, In the Comintern there is only a right-wing danger; leftist dan- gers do not exist. Made Mistakes. In the name of the Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia, Smeral ex- piains that the party is not thordly Bolshevistic, The party should take reproofs in the proper spirit and should increase their efforts and their presstre, then the Germans will hard.| field of activity, altho Zinoviev's rea ly dare to accept them. Otherwise the|Soning is not quite correct. The party cabinet would be overthrown. aa Siiteaeh ideseetemmmameetneeddabiiaatian a aeiniadintandenmeaniel (Continued on page 4.)