The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER | ‘THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. ((Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 months By mall (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 montis SEN A ee RC ne ESAS Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, HlInols Phe ER nN LESS J, LOUIS ENGDAKL WILLIAM F. DUNNE HAltors MORITZ J. LOBB...... jusiness Manager $6.00 per year — SSeS Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, <a 250 Advertiging rates on application. Morgan as Peacemaker Morgan and his agents intervened in the London Conference, we are told, thus preventing a rup‘ ture between Great Britain and France. But for the holy Morgan we would haye war on our hands, so the implication runs. This is not a new trick, the decking out of the chief war-makers with the medals of peace, for Morgan is only following il- lustrious precedents. It was the Czar of Russia, bloodiest of all tyrants and imperialists, who called the first “disarmament conference.” He was hailed as a new “prince of peace” by all the silly sentimentalists of the world. William Stead, prominent English liberal and mystic of that time, wrote a hysterical eulogy of the Czar for this move, now recognized as a settled tactic of war-preparation. Wilhelm II, also, was hailed thruout the world as the great advocate of peace. The Kaiser was decorated, wined, eulogized, by the sycophantic press and so-called intellectual elements, by the peace societies, and by the muddle-headed, middle- class peace lovers of the world. Our own national “hero,” Roosevelt, joined in hailing the Hohen- zollern as a second Christ. Both the Czar and Kaiser, together with their adulators of all countries, were among the chief war-makers not long after. All their “peace moves” were shown to be moves on the checker-board of imperialist politics of which war is but an exten- sion by other means. It is the same with Czar Morgan. Preparing for a new world war, he directs his journalistic prostitutes topaint him as the angel of peace, standing between the horrified popula- tion of the world and the threat of war, and hold- ing out his beneficent protection. But today it is “old stuff.” The workers of the world know Mor- gan for what he is, the director of world imperial- ism, that is driving surely to a new world con- flagration. Muzzling the World Acting under strict orders from the State De- partment, the United States Chinese ambassador Schurman has issued an order prohibiting Amer- jeans residing in China from discussing frankly and freely the conditions in this civil war-torn country. Our ambassador to China made a special trip from Peking to Shanghai to inform the Amer- ican organizations in the latter city that Secretary of State Hughes is displeased with their talk about Chinese affairs. The ire of Mr. Hughes was espe- cially aroused because some of this “unpleasant” talk has been reaching the ears of an increasing number of people in the United States. This is about as outrageous an example of im- perialism in full flower as can be had. Not only do our capitalist rulers stifle the expression of discon- tent or dissatisfaction at home, but they even go so far as to crush all disagreement with their po- licies abroad. The American constitution may not be law in China, or in the other spheres of Yankee imperialist influence. Yet the American dollar reigns as supreme in China as in the state of Penn- sylvania or the District of Columbia. And here is the immediate cause for Mr. Hughes’ insisting on Americans residing in China keeping their mouths shut. Under the recently concluded Sino-Soviet treaty, the great Chinese-Russian rail- way, running thru Chinese territory and’ financed by Russian money, has been restored to its right- ful owners, China and Soviet Russia. This is the railroad that was seized by the imperialist Allied brigands when the Soviet Republic was repelling the invading counter-revolutionary armies. Mr. Hughes is now insisting that the Washington con- ference has decreed a trusteeship of the railway for the benefit of foreign creditors. Furthermore, Mr. Hughes insists that American capitalists have a claim to the road because the United States gov- ernment furnished more than four million dollars worth of equipment for it during the Allied occu- pation. Our State Department is now looking for a pre- tense to fall upon China and punish it for the grave crime of restoring peaceful relations with Soviet Russia. Some of the Americans residing in China ‘seem to think that this railway is a matter of con- cern only to Soviet Russia and China. Mr. Hughes is anxious to prevent such opinions spreading to the United States, in order to be able to put over his anti-Soviet Russian manouvres. At the rate American imperialism is now mak- ing headway towards world supremacy, it will not be long before the State Department will attempt to muzzle the world. Coolidge says September 12 is not “mobilization day,” but “defense day.” The War Department says it is “mobilization day.” Let them carry on the debate. What’s in the name? A skunk by any other name would smell as sweet! Negro Emancipation In the propaganda for the Garvey project of restoring a “fatherland” for the Negro race in Africa, to which all Negroes shall return from all over the world, there is a curious mixture of error and sound insight. So far as concerns the population of Africa, the masses living on that continent and perform- ing the labor that makes it one of the great sources of wealth of the world, there is no question that “gelf-determination” is the inevitable goal of their immediate struggle. The African masses must or- ganize their own strength and, in alliance with the uprising proletarians of the world, throw off the chains of capitalist imperialism. In the struggle of the colonies for emancipation from imperialism, the African people must receive assistance not only from the international labor movement, they must also have especial assistance from the Negro population thruout the rest of the world. = But this does not solve the problems of the millions of Negroes in America. These latter have become a part of the American working class. For better or for worse their fate is bound up with that of the American proletariat. Just as the white worker must learn this lesson and-extend the hand of fellowship to his black brother, so also must the Negro learn the futility of the utopian schemes of transporting the millions of his race from one continent to another as a solution of their problems. The Negro also must learn to think of himself as a part of the American working class, and extend, in his turn, the hand of proletarian fellowship to his white brother. The Brazilian Missions Sundry reasons have been given for the, recent outbreak in Sao Paulo, the wealthiest and. most important industrial section of the South Amer- ican republic. It has béen said that the Paulistas, paying two-thirds of ‘the taxes and representing the richest division of the country, are seeking to wield more power in the government. Then the policy of President Bernardes in limiting the export of coffee is declared to have aroused the violent anger of the big business interests in Sao Paulo. On other occasions the dissatisfaction with the find- ings of the British Financial Mission have been blamed for the conflict now raging in Brazil. All of the above reasons may be true. But there is a more fundamental and comprehensive cause for the difficult straits in which Brazil now finds itself. To get to the basie source of Brazilian as well as other industrially less developed coun- tries one must look into the activities of the strong imperialist capitalist powers in such lands. The helplessness of Brazil before the big capi- talist countries is reflected in the work of two missions whose results are now before the Brazil- ian people. Examining the conclusions and recom- mendations of the Britsih Financial Mission, we find an advocacy of a reduction of import duties on machinery and coal in order to benefit British export trade to Brazil. We find proposals for re- form in banking and currency with the same end in view. The Mission demands that the native government get out of business and give up its merchant marine and railways. The British ex- perts further insist that the government should not help in the development of steel manufacture and other industries in Brazil. It has been the practice of British capitalists to discourage the development of industries which might compete with their own. Then there has been in Brazil for the last eight- een months a special American Naval Commission having its task the modernizing of the Brazilian navy and proclaiming its purpose as “eminently pacific.” Rear Admiral Vogelgesang, now stationed in Rio de Janeiro is'the big gun and overseer of American capital in this country thru his being at the head of the naval mission. Tho both of these missions were invited official- ly yet their presence has proved irritating to the great mass of people in Brazil. Political disturb- ances and economic chaos are the sole fruit of the efforts of these missions. More Socialist Treachery James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, is a prominent socialist. He was also a leading figure in the launching of the Farmer-Labor Party of that state. While this party was greatly neglected, and therefore did not grow as it should have done, yet the rank and file were taking hold of it and preparing to-make a real party of it. Which did not fit into the schemes of the S. P. leaders to trade their little local posi- tions for some “national influence.” So we have the spectacle of Maurer, socialist and leader of the Farmer-Labor Party, knifing in Wednesday, July 30, 1924 fo EEEEEeeSSSSSeesesSSCtl*} “NOW, BOYS, TELL THE AUDIENCE HOW TO THINK!” IT 1S A CRIME TO GE POOR! IT IS NOBLE TO BE RicH! THE POOR SHOULD BE PUT DOWN AND THE RICH EXALTED! . fp) “HIGH PRIEST OF BUSINESS EOE: eo, U abys DAILY WORKER is reprinting this cartoon by cour- tesy of the Seattle Strike-Intelligencer, the vigorous sheet which the striking printers from Hearst's Post-Intelli- gencer of Seattle are putting out. Anyone who still thinks that Hearst is a friend of labor should read the facts bared in the strikers’ organ. The state of Washington is now HEARSTS INTERNATIONAL VAUDEVILIE GEORGE ~* Ww : APOSTLE OF LIGHT (3 IT (S.A CRIME TO BE RICH! IT 1S NOBLE TO BE POOR !-:THE RICH SHOULD BE PUT DOWN AND THE. POOR EXALIEO! being urged to prosecute the Hearst management for work- ing girls 12 hours a day, in violation of law, inthe effort to break the strike. friend of Hearst. Circulation Labor in Washington is certainly not the of the scab Post-Intelligencer has been cut by one-half since the strike started. Solicitors are being turned away from workingclass doors in all parts of the northwest. LaFollette, Labor and the Business Men. By MAX SHACHTMAN R. W. T. RAWLEIGH is the presi- dent and owner of a business in Freeport, Illinois, with a capital and resources of over $13,000,000. He is the chairman of the LaFollette-for-Pre- sident committee. He is considered to be one of the few millionaire “angels” of the LaFollette president- ial candidacy. When he speaks it is worth while listening. In a recent issue of a local Hearst newspaper, Rawleigh signs an article which is headed with the illumin- ating title: “Why Business Men Should Support Progressive Cause.” It would be well to quote and com- ment on some of the more salient statements made by this multi-mil- lionaire backer of the Wisconsin Messiah, Here is Mr. Rawleigh’s fundamental reason for calling upon businessmen to support LaFollette: “What the business men of the United States need now more than anything else is a free, open and competitive market in which to buy their raw materials and supplies, and the opportunity to buy, sell and compete on an equal basis in the greatest producing and consuming market in the world. “There should be no discrimina- tion against business, large or small —no special favors, no monopolies of any of our great natural resoure- es, no illegal combinations - to stifle competition and restrain trade,-no private control by the few at the expense of the many of any of the necessities of life.” His kick is therefore directed against the big monopolies which control both the sources of raw mate- rials and the market where commo- dities are sold to the consumer, that is, “trusts,” “privilege” or “the inte: .” Should LaFollette be elect- the back his own state party organization, by call-|ed, then, it {s assumed that he will ing a conference of the C. P. P. A. and shoving the Farmer-Labor Party off the map. If Maurer and his fellow traitors have their way there will] powerful manufacturer; be no Farmer-Labor ticket in Pennsylvania. There is not even the excuse in the Pennsylvania case that any outside sinister organizations were present that LaFollette could not go along with. The Workers Party was not in th®Penn. F. L. P. It consisted only of unions affiliated with the State Federation and A. I’. of L.. Not even the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers could sit in the Penn- sylvania party. But Maurer does his best to kill it just the same. LaFollette does not want a Farmer-Labor party. So all his lickspittles pro- ceed to kill their political children at his behest. “Get a new'reader for the DAILY WORKER and a new member for the Workers Party.” eel break up the monopoly control of the trusts and enable the small business man to compete successfully with the that the business man, large and small, will be able to purchase all the necessities for manufacturing on an equal basis, i.e. without having to face the centralized control of any particular commodity such as machinery, raw materials, and similar necessities, The slightest examination of this economic doctrine will show that, just as it would without doubt benefit the small two-by-four business man, in the same way and with as little doubt would it bring grave injury to the masses of the people in this country, the workers. To a great extent, La- Follette’s backing comes from organ- ized labor, and if we can prove that LaFollette’s candidacy and program would not aid the workers, to that extent will the LaFollette myth be punctured. eee Two things are always needed before one can start manufacturing any commodity: raw materials and labor to be applied to these raw ma- terials in order to turn them into finished products. The trust magnate has it comparatively easy when it comes to obtaining raw material, since he almost invariably controls its source. For example, the steel trust controls iron ore and coal mines and accessory industries, either directly or thru interlocking directorates. Continuing the example; the steel trust, in securing labor, does not have to come to the labor unions, where the workers have organized them- selves in order to present a united front to the employers on the question of their demands on wages, hours and working conditions; the steel work- ers compete amongst themselves, instead, and that is the basis of their rotten conditions and one of the reasons for the strength and wealth of the steel trust. On the other hand, let us consider the small business man. He meets monopoly on every hand. He must accept the prices demanded for raw materials because their owners have lready agreed on a monopoly price, because competition has practically been abolished. In manufacturing, therefore, he fails to hold his own because the “big interests,” who pro- duce the same commodity, can afford to sell it. at a cheaper price on the market, since they not only have cheaper recourse to raw materials which they openly or secretly control, but because they also can afford to engage in “cut-throat competition” in order to eliminate the upstarts, the peanut business man. The same thing holds true for labor. As indicated before, the huge cor- porate interests, the “trusts” have not yet been unionized. This is un- fortunate for the workers, but it is true. The smaller plants and the less essential industries are more or less organized by the trade unions. This is irksome to the employers of these plants and industries. Their cost of production is increased to the extent that they have to pay more to their workers. A larger cost of pro- duction makes it impossible for them to compete with the trustified con- corns. The small business man is there- for to ,become interested in the “progressive cause” because it opposes monopoly which “stifles competition fellow, But, included in this talk of “monopoly” is not only the controllers of raw materials and markets, but also the organized labor movement! From a careful study of the” pro- gram of the LaFolletteites, there is to the conclusion that, if LaFollette and his administration were in power today or four years from now, the organized labor movement, the trade unions, being stripped of the primary reason for their formation—the consolidation of the strength of the workers for the purpose of bettering their conditions, increasing their wages, and decreasing the number of the hours of work. There is, on the contrary, every reason to believe that this would-be American Ramsay MacDonald would follow his British prototype in at- tempting to discourage and prevent strikes, or in “arbitrating” them—in the interests of the public, (read: the bosses.) Mr. Samuel Gompers once consider- ed the Clayton Act as the Charter of Rights of American’ Labor, But he soon discovered that the Clayton’ Act could be very easily used, and was used, against organized labor itself. The workers who are now being misled by the mirage of LaFolletteism should learn by their experiences with AS WE (Continued from page 1) the French radical socialist. on boys” says Trotsky in effect “and disarm, You have been talking peace long enough. Deliver the goods. We have cut down our forces from over 5,000,000 to approximately 600,000 in- “Come cluding land, air and sea forces. We are willing to do better than that, but if we do you capitalist jackals would jump on us.” Herriot and MacDonald, being tools of the capitalists will not disarm and Trotsky knows it. The capitalists cannot disarm. They need their armies and navies and air fleets to protect their loot from each other and keep the workers in submission. Patifism under capitalism is futile. Only when capitalism is abolished can we have peace, oO rae. Leopold and Loeb, two young mil- Honaire sons who killed another sprouting millionaire youth confessed and their attorneys having advised them to tender a plea of “guilty” noth- ing remained to be done but fixing of the sentence to be imposed for the crime. Under the law, that sentence may be death on the gallows or ‘life imprisonment. The details of the crime have been spread over the pages of the capitalist press until people with a sense of decency were nause- ated. One would think that once was enough. But despite the plea of “guilty,” Robert H. Crowe insisted on nothing to prevent one from coming |going thru the whole rotten mess bs s would not be in danger of} i By T. J. O'FLAHERTY, the “anti-trusts” Clayton Act, by the actions of Premier MacDonald and his cabinet, and apply the conclusions to be drawn from these to their actiyittes the coming campaign. The workers of this country cannot place themselves under the’ leader- ship of brankrupt middle class busin- ess men. The workers must realize that La Follette’s anti-monopolism is a double-edge sword which may some day—which will some day—be pushed into their back. A “back to '76” program is not for the working class. Only the organi- zation of a class farmer-labor party will mark the beginning of the first | steps towards freedom from capital- ist society. Support for the candidacy of Foster and Gitlow, on the ticket ' of the Workers Party is at one and the same_time a repudiation of LaFol- letteism and the middle-class leader- ship that accompanies it, and for the organization of a working ‘class political party independent of big and small business control or participa- tion. SEE IT again in order to gain more publicity, and get his picture in the papers in his various fighting po: Crowe has — staked his.career on a hanging verdict — we are told and he must have blood. He must win fame and the only ave- nue open to this ward politician is via the gallows. Mr. Crowe is a good Catholic and a follower of Jesus Christ. _ actress by the name of willing to travel for L: amuse the voters in for her railroad fare. is willing to do the same for Charlie Bryan, — John W. Davis’ partner, This girl is so non-partisan that she would _ make a good nurse =i Sam Gome