The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1924, Page 6

* Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 montis PS 0S a a AAS RE NO SRLS Address all mail and make out chécks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. $6.00 per year Chicago, Illinois .. Editors +Business Manager J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. ouver. to have Borah run for vice-president. Coolidge was to get the cold cash from Wall Street and Borah was to be the bait, so-called radical bait, for the agricultural voters to swallow. The loyal lackey of biggest business, Senator Watson, was one of the prime movers in this manouver at Cleveland. breaks amongst the workers. THE DAILY WORKER to Watson, is “running over with fads and vagar- ies” was’ chosen running mate for Davis in order to fool the farmers. That is perfectly sound policy in the game of capitalist politics. If we remember correctly the republican sachems were planning exactly the same man- Their plans miscarried. It was the orig- inal aim of the Old Guard of the republican party In this case Mr. Watson’s attack will produce no moral out- It will simply serve to implant more firmly in the minds of the work- ing masses on the farms and in the mills that all a 240 capitalist political parties, regardless of the mask Wheeler, Jeffersonian Democrat Yes, it is Wheeler who will run with LaFollette, in the personally conducted crusade to turn the rascals out. Aside from the fact that this repeats the performance of the old parties, in ignoring the demand for a “laboy” man of the Berry or Lewis type, there is the furtlfer interesting fact that Wheeler, running with LaFollette, announces that he will campaign for Walsh of Montana, who sup- orts Davis. Wheeler announces he “remains true to Jeffer- sonian democracy.” LaFollette is a “Lincoln repub- lican.” Both remain in their respective parties, but join in a personal independent presidential eampaign. Their supporters scatter their votes thru the old parties, and “Jeffersonian democracy and’ Lincolnian republicanism” is acclaimed by everyone, including Davis and Coolidge. It is aJl a part of the “Back to 1776” program, of course, so we should not be surprised at what- ever happens. Mixing 76 with ’24 is a task that might bring confusion to steadier brains than these. it’s like mixing drinks in these post-Vol- stead days. But to carry the scheme out to its logical con- clusion, the nominees should announce their cab- inet along these lines:: Attorney-general, William Jennings Bryan, in order to get the prohibition yote; secretary of state, Ellis Searles, in order to get the anti-bolshevik vote and also give the cab inet a “labor” color—Searles works for Lewis; sec retary of the interior, Exalted Grand Wizard. Evans, to get the Klux vote; secretary of the treas ury, a clerk from Morgan’s office, in order not to incur the enmity of our “sound” financiers; and for secretary of labor, inasmuch as he is appar ently on his death-bed and can’t last long anyway, Samuel Gompers. The bolsheviks are not, of course, to be placated: on this there is a united front from Morgan to’ Debs. They Decide to Quit No one is surprised at the mounting number of suicides in Germany. Conditions of life are being made so intolerable by the combined exploitation of German and entente capitalism, thru the Ver- sailles treaty and now thru the Dawes plan, that it is taken as a matter of course that thousands of Germans will decide to quit and, with fifteen cents worth of gas, shuffle off the mortal coil that binds them as slaves to Morgan. Germany is a poverty- stricken and ruined-nation. Louis Lockard and his young wife did not live in Germany, however; they lived in Chicago. For those who are not familiar with Chicago, we may say that it is located in the U. 8. A., state of Illi- nois, center of the richest country in the world. With untold wealth surrounding them, with strong bodies at their disposal which they offered for sale to the buyers of labor, with youth and the thirst for life, Louis and Grace came to Chicago, the city of great wealth and opportunity. But the*doors were locked. Something had been taking place within the system that controls wealth and oppor- tunity; “unemployment,” “crisis,” no work for Louis. So Louis and Grace decided to quit. They spent fifteen cents for gas.. The unemployment problem was reduced that much. No capitalist will be held responsible for their death. Everyone will shrug their shoulders. There will be no elaborate funer- als. No “national mourning” will take place. It is the “normal” conditions, of capitalism. The “Impossible Mesalliance” United States Senator James Watson of Indi- ana, the unofficial representative of the Beef Trust in the nation’s capital, has fired a devastating blast against the democratic presidential ticket! This blackest of the black of senators is up in, arms because the democrats have nominated an ultra-conservative for president and an “unultra- radical” for vice-president. Mr, Watson hurls the politically distasteful epithet of “impossible mesal- liance” at the weird combination of his opponents. Without getting into any useless debate as to the fraudulent radicalism of Charles Bryan, the Nebraska wizard, who is the democratic vice-presi- 4ential nominee, let us examine Mr. Watson’s case and see where he gets off. What have the lemo- crats done? Why is Beef Trust’ Watson so en- raged? The democrats have done in New York precise- ly what the republicans wanted. to do in Cleve- land. The democrats have nominated candidates who, in their judgement, will enable them to clean up next Novemberyin the reactionary centers of the industrial East and the disaffected areas of the agricultural West. John W. Davis will bring the support of the men who have their hands on the big money bags piled up in Lower Broadway, New York, if the democratic strategy does not miscarry. Charles Bryan, whose mind according they hide under, regardless of the tricks they. re- sort to @m camouflaging their real, ugly selves, are only misleaders operating in the interests of the exploiters. oe False Optimism Many of our leading journals are now working overtime to convince the country that the recent reces¥on in industry was nly a temporary lull. We are being told with emphatic certainty, if not conviction, that the tide of business has turned. What is the impelling force for this wave of false optimism that is now sweeping the columns of the press? Are there really any signs of a revival of industry? Undoubtedly a good deal of the optimisic pro- paganda is politically inspired by the reactionary interests seeking the most favorable circumstances for waging their election campaign. Then some financial “experts,” selling their stuff for popular consumption, hope to psychologize the masses favorably with the idea of stemming the adverse economic tides. But the facts f the present eco- nomic situation do not show any turn fr the bet- ter in industry. Production and exchange have hit. low bottoms that some believe that this downward trend can go no lower. Not only is there no silver lining in sight for the economic clouds, but the real storm has not yet broken, if the numerous black signs ut hand are to be considered. The decline in employment has reduced the pur- chasing power of the country by at least two hun- ired million dollars a month. The gravity of this factor can be estimated properly only if one takes into consideration that it is usually at least two nonths after the bottom has been hit in aw in- dustrial depression that the workingmen begin to feel the pinch of the crisis. The authoriative P. W. Dodge reports indicate a drop of eight per cent un the number of building congracts awarded in fune in the thirty-six northeastern states. Last nonth steel production fell off nearly 22 per cent. The automobile industry which consumes at least fifteen per cent of the steel produced is still in the dumps.’ Freight traffic on class one railroads decreased nearly fifteen per cent in June as com- pared ‘with the corresponding month last year. Unemployment is no longer a local condition. The surplus of workers is evident thruout the land. Most of the glowing talk about prosperity swoop- ing down ‘upon us is simply another instance of the wish being father to the thought. The stern realities, the cruel hardships that increasing num- bers of workers are facing daily belies all the dan- gerous employing class propaganda. Democratising the Philippines Insular Auditor Wright has made permanent his ruling of March 15th, discontinuing the pay- ments for the national independence fund appro- priated by the Philippine Legislature. This is an act! of brazen affrontery. It is a sample of the despicable democratisation by Wall Street and its Washington government that the Filipinos are so determinedly resisting. have no right to spend their own money in a ¢am- paign to free themselves from the palsying clutches of the American imperialist oil, coal, sugar and railway looters. Filipino soldiers are to be court martialed for attempting to think out loud and de- manding the same pay that white troops are re- ceiving. The Filipino privates were naive enough to believe that because thousands of them were rushed off to the battlefields of France and Flan- ders to be slaughtered on an equal basis with their white brothers, they were justified in seek- ing equal pay. But the stern and swift repressive measures ‘taken by: General Wood’s military junta quickly disillusioned them—as to the chance of their getting a square deal at the hands of the Yankee imperialists. And the saviour himself, General Leonard Wood, on the one hand prates about the blessings Amer- ican democracy has brought to the Philippines and on the other hand vetoes an, appropriation for a ten-year university program for the Filipino peo- ple. Who can utter a syllable about the civiliz- ing influence of American dollar diplomancy and strikebreaking democracy without blushimg with shame in the light of such sinister activities, in the face of such atrocious, democratisation? We earnestly hope that the Filipino working and farming masses will take the mbst effective meas- sures to organize themselves for self-defense, for self-preservation. More than that. It is the first duty of the American workers and farmers to paralyze (Continued from Last. Issue.) The Great Revolutionary Problems. But enough of general impressions, valuable though these may be to indicate the patent fact that the Russian revolu- tion is a success and that it has been accepted as such by’ the masses. Now let us get down to mere specific facts, showing just how the revolutionary workers are solving the problems which must be solved if the new order of society is td live and to develop into Communism. In the brief time at my disposal, I shall not vex you with elaborate statistics, but a few at least will be necessary. . : In my book, “The Russian Revolution,” written after my return from Russia in 1921, I stated that there were three great problems that the revolution, since its beginning in 1917, had had to face, 1) governmental, 2) military, 3) indus- trial. By that time the first two of these had been actually solved. The workers had not only succeeded deéfinitely in overthrowing the old regime and establishing the dictator- ship of the proletariat, but they had also succeeded in defend- ing their rule in the face of the hostile capitalist rule. Wran- gel, the last of the counter-revolutionary invaders, had been crushed late in 1920, and the Kronstadt revolt.beaten early in 1921. The big problem left was the third one, that of reha- bilitating the ruined industrial and agricultural systems, so that the people could be given the higher standard of living which they must have if the revolution were to survive. « Everything depended upon the solution of this central manifested itself as a multitude of specific problems, all of which had to be solved at leagt in part before industry and agriculture could be revived. A few of the more impor- tant of these subsidiary problems were the breaking of the eco- nomic and political blockade which was strangling Russia, the establishment of a stable currency in place of the debased ruble which was making all real accounting systems impos- sible, the development of a state budget and the balancing of it, the utilization of the dangerous experiment of the New Economic Policy for revolutionary ends, the stoppage of the so-called declassing of the proletariat through the hungry factory workers scattering out upon the land, the abolition of sabotage by the supporters of the capitalist regime, the estab- lishment of a new and effective system of proletarian indus- trial discipline in place of the old slave-driving methods that the workers had suffered under from time immemorial. All these problems, and many more that might be men- tioned, went to make up the general industrial and agricul- tural problems, which was so complex and difficult in 1921 as to stagger the imagination. The economic experts of the world, with complete unanimity, pronounced them totally in- soluble. But their solution was absolutely imperative if the revolution was to live. As things now stand, three years later, hardly one of these problems i been actually solved com- pletely. But real progress has been made with all of them. Not one has proved insoluble. Even though this progress towards solution has given birth to new and grave problems, the general result has been good and shows that the worst is over. The economic system of the country is getting under way again, the standard of living of the toiling masses is be- ing steadily raised, and the permanency and success of the re- RUSSIA IN 1924 Monday, July 21, 1 By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER volution is being assured. But let us glance very briefly at what has been done with each of the problems mentioned. Breaking the Blockade. “Of all the factor that combined to break down Russia industrially and agriculturally, none Was 80 disastrous as the economic blockade by which the capitalist world ‘tried to strangle the revolution to death. It was worse in its effects than the world war) the civil war, the wholesale sabotage, or any other single factor. It was death to.the economic life of the country. Before the war, Russia did an average export business of 1,504,000,000 rubles per year; of this 90% con- sisted of agricultural and timber products. Of the peasants’ total products, 45% was thrown upon the market, about half of this going abroad.| But the world war, followed by the revolutio® and the blockade, completely destroyed this foreign trade. Agriculture was ruined for want of a market. The same happened to industry. Not only was the importation of vital manufactured goods and machihery necessary to the life of industry, completely stopped, but on the other hand, the peasant market vanished as well. The relations between city and country were broken. Industrial production fell al- most to zero, and fhe peasants raised barely enough food stuffs to live upon. So far did the collapse of agriculture go that in 1921 we saw the spectacle of Russia, the greatest grain growing country in the world, actually importing food stuffs. For this, the blockade, not the great drouth, was rimarily to blame, because, under ordinary circumstances, with a nor- mal production of crops, Russia could have handled the famine situation entirely with its own surplus. ~ “ From the beginning, the Russian economists considéred the breaking of the blockade and the opening of the world market to Russian trade of the most vital consequence. I re- member a long talk I had in 1921 on this subject with Com- rade Martens, formerly Soviet Envoy to the United States. He said that the fate of the revolution probably depended upon the breaking of the blockade. And when I saw him again this year, he had not changed his opinion. He measured the economic recovery of Russia pretty much by the extent to which it had succeeded in winning its way back again into the world market. The past four years have been marked by - the most determined efforts to break through the death cor- don wrapped about them by the international capitalist class. And these efforts have been a success. By playing one nation against the other, that is by getting separate sections of world capitalism to scab upon each other, the Communists have broke up the united front of the exploiters and have forced their ‘way through the blockade and into the world market. Today a whole row of countries have been compelled fcompelled is the right word) to grant Russia either com- » plete or partial recognition. Among these are England) Ger- many, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Sweden; Japan, Norway, Row mania, and many others. The recent “left” elections in France have insured that even that reactionary country, one of the main points of resistance against Russia, will also have to sit down at the conference table and do business with the hated Bolsheviki. And wonder of wonders, the “progressive” wave now developing in the United ‘States, may probably force even our ultra-conservative Government to recognize Russia, also. : , : (To Be Continued Tomorrow) pstatements made under positive as- Mr. Wright has declared that the Filipino people te s + Florida Land Swindlers. To the DAILY WORKER:—Protec- tion of land swindle among the legal profession of Florida is regarded as public policy and as the paramount principle of kegal ethics. The favorite scheme there is to sell land under false and fraudulent state- ments of profits previously made by raising special crops on such land, sertion of their truths to prospective victims in writing, and consequently believed by the prospects to be true. After a victim is caught by that trick and later discovers the falsity of the statements upon which he relied, he naturally insists on having the fraud- ulent transaction set aside. But some Florida lawyer without authority from the defrauded victim even without -his knowledge, tarts in the victim’s name against the defrauder, a suit for damages and has it dismissed. If then the vic- tim starts his action to get the fraud- | ulent deal set aside, tpe swindler | pleads the former suit as a bar, pre- tending that the matter has already been decided in his favor in a for- mer suit. The defrauded victim naturally re- plies that he never authorized such a former suit or in any way whatever gave his consent to it. But Florida courts, without even requiring the swindler to produce the record of the former suit, (as required by law) have the decisions ready in advance in favor of the swindler and contrary to law, sustain his plea. The object of that policy, prevent- ing a redetision of the fraudulent deal, is evidently to induce and com- pel the defrauded victim to sell out to somebody else and thus attract more victims. There is a great deal of money in that policy, if prices of THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS the conductor. It is an express train, no stops at little jerk water stations, no stops to take on passengers at flag stations. We only stop for one flag and that is the RED FLAG. The seating capacity of our train is limited, no room for bosses, bootleg- gers or boodlers. No room for plutes, parasites or paltroons. We want no saviours, squires of spitoon philoso- phers. Nobody allowed on board but class conscious workers. We have no room for any one else. We cannot stop to let them off at their little sta- tion called COMPROMISE. We are going to keep on traveling until we get to WORKING CLASS CONTROL. That is our destination and with men like Foster and, Gitlow in charge of the train, and with passengers who will not want the train to be stopped at every little SHADY DELL, we will get there. There are no parlor cars oh our train. We would not know what to do with them, as ve will have no “par- lor socialists” on board. Bring your own grub with you, as you will not get a square meal until you get out of CAPITALISM, and it is a long way to go. It is your campaign train and you will have to pay the bills, no free passes for any one. But say, comrade, it is going to be some trip. You had better come along. You will be sorry the rest of your life if you don’t. You will enjoy every minute of it BECAUSE IT IS CARRY- ING ae AW. FROM CAPITAL- ISM. n't make™@ mistake and get on the wrong train; if you do you are liable to get ditched ina swamp. You will<now our train because it is the only one of its kind. It is the only RED SPECIAL and the engine is named COMMUNISM... Look, Bill Fos- ter is oiling her up now and Ben Git- problem of reviving the economic life. The general problem $25 or more per acre can thus be obtained by the land swindle interest for land hardly worth a dime per aci The amount of plunder that can thus be reaped by millions of acres is ob- vious. It certainly is one of the most gigantic swindle organizations in ex- istenca—H. Weeke. All Aboard™ — To the DAILY WORKER:—“All Aboard.” We are off on our first na- this imperialist aggrandizement of their own ex- ploiters in the pi ae Islands. The Wodds |tional campaign AND WE KNOW and the Wrights must be thrown overboard along | WHERE WE ARE hei oe more - . 3 The united hesitation, no more palavering, no with the Garys and the Morgans. dors ,Aickaring: cf¢ 1s WEE Bwh alk {ncekey can do the job and the sooner they do it well, the better,off they will all be, ds ° and our own crew. Bill Foster is at the engine throttle and Ben.Gitlow is low is looking at his watch. You will have to hurry. Don’t you hear that is fast upon their heels. Not only that, but it is becoming clearer to them from day to day that capitalism is threatening to dispossess them of their homes which they have spent their lives for. This education, brought about by natural compulsion, has resulted in a situation that the working farmer is beginning to lose sight of his old ide- ology, the sacredness of private own- ership. He is today realizing that ownership is only given him to the ex- tent that he is permitted to pay taxes on the land and interest on debts. Evidence to this effect is abundant, as here ip Savo township. They have organized a club of farmers and work- ers, where the social question is dis- cussed. The conclusions that they reach in their meetings of the causes of social evils, is much unlike the old, where they only penetrated this capi- talist system to the middle man, to whom all faults wereylaid. Now they all seem to know that there are the two classes in society: the exploiter and the exploited; the rulers and the slaves whose interests are diametrically opposed, and that only as a class they. can break the chains of capitalism, the ruler, and ac- complish their emancipation. VINCENT IGNATIUS. Frederick, /South Dakota. A Cement Plant. To The DAILY WORKER:—Like many workers of today, I woke up one morning at 6 o'clock and thinking about on what “Labor Market” should I go today, with my labor power, to sell it to the capitalist for a wage. Finally I decided to go to the large Portland, Cement plant at Buffington, Ind., nearby Indiana Harbor, Ind. *When you approach the plant it seems as tho you came on an Alas- kan prairie, Its only difference is that the sun is warm here, It is all white around it similar to the winter frost. When I came close to the gate, I found already many fellow workers there waiting for a job, most of them Negro and Mexican workers. And .jcall, “ALL ABOARD FOR WORK- ING CLASS CONTROL.”—Josepli M. Caldwell. Farmers and Workers’ Club To the DAILY WORKER: The threatening bankruptcy and serfdom are playing havoc with the old ideol- ogy of the working agriculturists. They are beginning to see the falla- cies of the existing dog-eat-dog sys- tem, No matter ‘what form of agri- culture they are éngaged in, produc: ing many times the amount that they consume of all kinds of farm products, several young girls and middle-aged women, also most of them colored. When you look around ¢his, people, a man begins to change his feeling with this kind of a situation, Some of them have torn clothes; some a cou- ple of héles in the shoes; some with- out soles on the shoes; some without heels and some even without shoe- laces. : They look sadly at each other, and don't know exactly what might oe next. The air is full of tiny dust fall- ing for miles around the plant. » Many complaints were made , recently tds 80-]' Send in that Subscription Today called Twin City administration (B: Chicago and Indiana Harbor, Ind.) against the nuisance of the pleat. But, as this plant is a part of the United States Steel corporation, it should be fought by workers and far- mers jn the Workers Party. I approach a colored worker and ask him if he ‘had work within, the Plant. His answer was: Yes, I work in for a couple of days, but ) can’t stand the dust. It kills you. It seems like a thick fog in the morn ing, and you have to inhale it thre the day. And if you work any longer in, you're Hable to go to the lancet Because your lungs are filled with the cement.—Chas. T. Jureich. Banish the Phantom! To the DAILY WORKER: In th republican party convention Repre sentative Cooper of Wisconsin, nom inator of LaFollette for president an leader of the LaFollette group in th last house of representatives, on bein attacked for being soctalistic, retorte that the republican party in the par decade or so had adopted 26 of the 3 “red” proposals’ made by the LaFo lette group in that time. Well, 26 « LaFollette’s 31 basic beliefs have a ready been adopted (as most « Roosevelt’s have been), and whi have they done for the workers? Tho Representative Cooper does n realize it, his statement is a confe sion of the inability of LaFolletteis to solve the problems and satisfy t! needs of the workers of this countr Why should the workers of the Unit: States further continue the phanto of LaFolletteism? Must. they we until hundreds of LaFollette’s prin ples have been incorporated fhto o law before they realize the futility such a hope? BEN DAVIDSON. P. S.—Of course our liberals, w believe in honesty and fairness a broad mindedness, will say, “But y have been unfair. You ought to w until the other five points of LaF lette’s 31 have been accepted befc you pass judgment.” Yes, that’s t trouble with us Communists—we're unfair, ove sided and fanatic, Send in that Subscription Today Worker Drowned? MONTICELLO, Ind., July 20,— search was made in the Tippecar River, five miles from here today the body of William Tilson, 40, gansport man employed as a car spector for the Pennsylvania railro who is believed to have drowned a deep hole while wading into the ver to fish. \