The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 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 mail (in Chicago only): 32.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 montus Poa eth ale cM SS ae ce ee Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. $6.00 per year Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F, DUNNE { MORITZ J. LOEB.... .. Editors .Business Manager —<—$—$< $$ —— 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. <> 250 ' War Over Peace Treaty? Will the United States and England go to war to settle the dispute over the proper interpreta- tion of the Washington convention for the limita- tion of armaments? Other war threats are more immediate than this one, but still this dispute over what the treaty means, containing as it does the seeds of war, is very illuminating. It helps to throw light upon the essentially warlike and imperialist nature of capitalist government, and discloses the so-called peace treaties for what they are, mere maneuvers on the war chess-board. Great Britain and the United States, among other nations, entered into an agreement for the limitation of naval armaments. This was supposed to stabilize international relations and insure peace between the agreeing nations. Out of this very agreement Great Britain finds a serious grievance. She complains that the United States, in violation of the convention, is changing the elevation and range of guns on battleships. A formal protest has been entered at Washington. On the other hand, Washington officials take the protest very lightly. They announce that they “will go ahead with the program,” refusing to acknowledge that any violation of the treaty is involved in the “modernization” of American battleships that is being carried out. The paragraph in the treaty to which the British refer provides that in existing battleships, “No alterations in side-armor, in caliber, in number of guns, or general type of mounting shall be per- mitted.” Britain says this prevents “ns” from doing what “we” do; “we”’—which is to say, our capi- talist masters in Washington who assume to speak in our name—say it means nothing of the sort. Well, inasmuch as we don’t agree on what the peace treaty means, there seems nothing left but to test out the guns on one another. The one who has violated the treaty most effectively will win the test and establish his interpretation of it. A sense of humor is absolutely necessary in dealing with the absurdities of capitalist imperial- ism.. Have a good laugh—but prepare. for the next conscription act that will soon be picking us up for service in “pacifying” Europe. Watson’s Antics The country will soon be treated to another bat- tle in legal sophistries and abstruse judicial techni- calities. United States “Beef Trust” Senator Wat- son of Indiana is on the warpath against the In- ternal Revenue Investigating Committee. Senator Couzens of Michigan is insisting that the committee investigating the prohibition unit of the Internal Revenue Department continue its work during the summer. Mr. Watson, who has for years served the packing and other big business interests, is doing his best to stifle the investiga- tion in order to save the political face and neck of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. The latter is now vacationing in Europe and laying down the law of the American bankers to Herriot, the Belgian Theunis, MacDonald and other Euro- pean diplomats at the London Reparations Con- ference. A majority of the committee has decided to re- sume the investigation. Senator Watson, who is always ready to applaud the sending of troops to break up strikes of miners and railroad workers under the guise of preserving law and order, is now breaking the law by blocking the investigation and by urging witnesses to refuse to testify. The Indiana senator would have the country believe that the committee has no legal right to investigate while Congress is not in session. Of course Mr. Watson is simply trying to avoid any more truth Jeaking out about Mellon’s shady deals. Campaign times are not exactly appropri- ate for exposures of rankness in republican poli- tics. Mr. Watson ought to know. He has been steeped in the filthiest brand of employing class politics for many years. But there is something more significant about the incident. Congress was elected under the sys- tem which we are so often asked to Believe sacred and inviolable. This Congress appoints a commit- tee and empowers it to finish a certain piece of work. Now Mr. Watscn is planning to call on the courts to choke off the investigation. This is the usual style in which such operations are engi- neered. This is the blessed democracy that the workers and farmers are asked to worship. This is the way in which the “will of the people” is violated by the very ones who are supposed to be serving them. What a hollow mockery !, What a sham the whole show is! Senator Watson and his capitalist crew will have their way, without doubt. When will the working class have its »way? When will this fraudulent democracy of the bosses be cast overboard? Snowden’s Confession Of all the dangerous “Bolsheviks” who rode in on the tide of the last Labor Party victory in Eng- land, none was more feared than Mr. Philip Snow- den. A shudder went through the spines of the Lombard Street bankers when Snowden was made Chancellor of the Exchequer. But now Mr. Snowden is no longer a menace or a mystery to the British capitalist class. In his new and mighty pffice Snowden has lost all ear- marks of a pink labor evangelist or agitator. Mr. Snowden has gone oyer the top for the London big business interests. For the first three months the Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer was watched closely by the hawks of London’s financial alleys. The official observers began to say that My. Snowden, the labor agitator, was as different from Mr. Snowden, the Chancellor, as Mr. Hyde from Dr. Jekyll. Then | on the eve of his first budget, the British pound | began to wobble a bit becatise of the fear that the | ° dreaded capital levy would be advocated. | The employing class was most pleasantly dis-| appointed. There was not even the slightest hint} or mention—by inference or sufferance—of the hated levy. Snowden’s letter to the National Sav ings Committee was another breeze which w hailed by the overlords of English finance as a most favorable politico-economice wind. Yet the real, “full dr confession of faith,” ‘as Mr. Roy Hopkins of the Annalist well put it, v 1ot made by Mr. Snowden until the banquet given imnually by the Lord Mayor of London to himself, the bankers, the merchants and the Bank of Eng land was held. This was a most auspicious mo- ment for the Labor Chancellor Snowden to reas- sure the bankers in these explicit, words: “Altho [ belong to a political party which is supposed neither to know nor to care anything about the national credit, I can assure you that there never has been in office a Chancellor of the Exchequer | who appreciated more highly than I that a Chan- cellor’s first duty is to do nothing which will in the slightest degree result in a loss of confidence in the national credit.” ‘ The British employers know that Mr. Snowden is fully aware thatthe mere possibility of the levy} on capital is sufficient to cause another “flight of*the pound.” His unequivocal words are there- fore welcomed by them as definitely putting on the shelf this tax measure. The exploiters of the English working class cer- tainly have good cause to rejoice. Mr. Snowden is doing for them in the name of the Labor Party what the leaders of the Second International have been doing for the German, French, Belgian and other capitalists for many.years. The Membership Campaign It is not merely a coincidence that the Workers Party selected the election campaign period as the time to inaugurate a drive to double the member- ship of the party. This is the time when the work- ers are most receptive to the Communist message and the best time to show them that the Workers ei Friday, August 1, 1924 EE ee ‘Anti-Labor Hearst Post-Intelligencer Is Rubbish on the Highway. This picture, taken on Lake Byrien Highway near Seattle, shows how the scab Post-Intelligencer is hated. The “P.-I.” circulation department wouldn't stop the paper whén it was’ notified to do so. Accordingly the non-union sheet is decorating the asphalt as the Seattle Star did when it tried to come out during the historic general strike of five years ago. By JOSEPH MANLEY In a recent issue of the New Leader, of which James O’Neal is editor, an editorial appeared under the caption “Kluxers and Kommunists,” in which he seeks, by a fabrication originating in his own renegade and morbid imag- ination, to connect me with the Ku Klux Klan. Party is the only organization that offers a solu- tion of the problems affecting the working class and maps the road alorig which the workers must ravel in order to emancipate themselves. . This year, the prospects fqr increasing the mem- bership of the party are exceptionally bright. The Workers Party is the only reyolutionary party with a national ticket in the field, raising the ban- ner of Communism against all the bourgeois par- ties combined. No class conscious worker can be in doubt as to what party he should vote for. All the other parties support the capitalist system. From the republican party to the LaFollette party, there is only a choice between good and bad repub; licans or good and bad democrats. But the Work- ers Party is the party of Lenin, the party of revo- lution. It is the party that every red-blooded worker should belong to. Our members are starting out on the campaign to double the party membership with vim and en- thusiasm. The new eleetion policy of the party has inspired them. The Workers Party enters the election campaign with two noted fighters in the lead: Foster and Gitlow. Its banner is clean. It stood true to the Farmer-Labor Party policy which was’ deserted by the yellow socialists and the labor fakers. Already the most class conscious and honest in the ranks of the reformists are apply- ing for admission into the Workers Party. Now is the time to reap the harvest. “Vote and Work for Foster” by bringing a new member into the party. Send in that Subscription Today. Cuba, Sugar, and LaFollette Rudolph Spreckels owns great sugar interests in Cuba. He is on the LaFollette campaign commit- tee, contributing of his time and millions. The tariff commission is recommending to the Presi- dent a cut on Cuban sugar tariff. Commissioner Culbertson, one of those in favor of reduction, is reported to be a close friend of LaFolletie. The Wisconsin senator makes his first public statement in the presidential campaign in the shape of a broadside against Secretary Hoover, charging collusion with Smoot, chairman of the finance com- mittee, and with western sugar interests, in fore- ing up prices of sugar in the United States. All of which should be interesting to the farm- ers of the Northwest who think LaFollette is fight- ing their battles. “Fighting Bob” takes up the fight of the millionaire sugar king as the first order of business. Not the plight of the bankrupt farmers of the Northwest, not the abolition of the injunc- tion rule over labor, but the issue of lower tariff on Spreckels’ sugar. It is all very interésting and instructive, The editorial in typical O'Neal, “left- handed” style recites the break-up of the socialist party, blaming it upon the Communists, and indicating that the Communists “have undertaken a wholesale campaign of destruction of the socialists and labor movements in every country.” ... “These. things being so, to point out facts bearing out that line of action is the plain duty of the socialist press.” Follow- ing this statement of high purpose the editorial continues: “In the reso- lutions committee at the St. Paul con- vention, the committee discussed the advisability of a plank on the Klan. Mr. Manley, who was the chairman of the committee, stated that in localities where labor is organized the Klan is for organized labor, and in localities where labor is not strongly organized it is ‘open shop,’ and that nothing should be put in the platform antag- onizing it.” Worthy of Burns. This is not simply a misquotation; it is a deliberate frame-up worthy of the best efforts of that other “left- handed” gentleman, W. J. Burns himself. O’Neal was not at St. Paul, and had to depend on one of his numerous stool pigeons to help cook THE LITTLE TIN SOLDIER “I like the story about Peter the artist. I would like to hear something more about Peter,” writes Beatrice Jackerson, seven years. old, of Washington, Dis- triet of Columbia. This story is not about Peter, but maybe we can tell more about the boy artist another time. This is about a little tin soldier and the little boy who owned him. The little boy who owned the tin soldier used to put his shiny little fighter with his red enamel coai, an old-fashioned soldier he was, on the floor. The boy would pretend that the little tin soldier was part of a big army. The little boy had found the tin soldier where some rich child had lost it. The little tin soldier could stand a lot of rough fighting and never get hurt. The little boy sometimes played that his soldier was hurt and then he wrapped up the tin soldier’s arm in a torn bit of cloth. ¥ The little boy always had his tin soldier fight for the workers, because he heard his father say that they needed to beat the bosses. When the little boy grew up, a| great war began and the bosses began to draft men to fight for them. The little boy, who was now a young man, was drafted, which means he was made to go to war and fight altho he didn’t want to. He knew if he said any- thing about not wanting to go that he would be put in jail and so he went off across the sea to —s war. He hoped he could get some of the other boys who were fight- ing to turn against the war and fight the bosses instead. In the real war, the boy, who was now a young man, did get hurt. He wasn’t a tin soldier. His bosses, who wanted to make more money selling war goods, didn’t care because he got hurt. They didn’t care when a lot of the boy’s soldier comrades were killed. The boy told many of his sold- ier comrades that they should not fight against other men like them- selves who were in trenches, in holes inthe earth, not far away. The boy said to the soldiers, “We are-all working men.’ We have nothing but the hard work to do all the time. We have to work all day at home for the bosses to make them rich while ‘we al- ways stay poor. We have to go to war and shoot at other work- ing men. Do you*think that is right?” And the soldiers said, “No, it isn’t right,” and that they would never fight other workers again. Then a bullet came whizzing thru the air and hit the boy who had grown up afid he fell down dead. He was not a tin soldier and the little piece of lead cut right into his soft warm flesh and tore a hole in his heart so that it could not beat anymore. The soldier died, and so did many of his friends. But those that didn’t die have been telling other workers not te go to war for the bosses but to fight against the bosses and make Labor councils of the’ northwest and the Washington State Federation of Labor are backing the strikers and spreading the message that Hearst is unfair to organized labor. The DAILY WORKER is tration to the Seattle Strike indebted for the above illus- Intelligencer, organ of the striking composing room force. This militant sheet is gotten out in the same general form as the Post-Intelligencer. MANLEY NAILS ONEAL KLAN LIE up the above fabrication. Such a one perhaps as his man Nathan Fine, form- erly a student at the University of Chieago, who now seeking to escape useful work is selling himself to the cause of ‘that latest godsend of cast- off trade union bureaucrats, former socialists and ex-peddlers of Clown cigarettes— Robert M. LaFolletie. From such sources as this “reporter,” O'Neal, probably gathers his “facts.” Yellows Try to Save Klan. The real facts are: I was chairman of the St. Paul convention platform. Just when the committee was getting ready to report to the convention, some progressives appeared before it to try to butcher the platform, by taking out such radical planks as “Land for its Users,” “because it might antagonize LaFollette.” In the midst of the heated discussion that ensued some reporters came snooping into the committee meeting. I ordered them out. I insisted that we could not whittle down our platform to suit the meaningless one, which Walter T. Mills, and other supporters of LaFol- lette and the C. P. P. A., wanted to substitute for it. A majority of the committee ‘decided that neither could we agree to take out certain planks, which the reporters dubbed as “bol- shevistic.” Communist Resolution Hits Klan. Following this decision two resolu- tions were introduced, both dealing with the Ku Klux Klan, the most radi- cal one of the two, calling for an out- right denunciation of the Klan, was introduced by Ludwig Lore. Discus- sion occurred on both resolutions. As Chairman of the committee I invited our Comrade, Stanley J. Clark, who was present tho not a member of the committee, to address the committee “as the best anti-Klan expert in the country.” Several progressive non-; Communists on the committee, one of them a trade union representative and the other a “socialist,” spoke against adopting the resolutions. Manley Flayed K. K. K. As chairman of the committee, I desired to get a unanimous report to the convention on the Platform. And sooner than have a split in the com- mittee on my hands,—the very thing that “Comrade” Nathan Fine and oth- ers of his type wanted, and were fi- nanced to come all the way from New York to promote—I made my own un- alterable opposition to the Klan as plain as my alien English would al- low. The few other communists on the committee did the same. Shortly afterwards the demand was made upon the committee by the convention that had been impatiently waiting for the report, that the platform be forth- with presented. No vote on, the reso- lutions was taken as the majority of the committee, who were progres- sives and non-Communist, stated that they would vote against it in commit- tee. The committee hurriedly ad- journed to report on the platform to the waiting convention, with the un- derstanding that the Klan resolution workers free all over the world, |would be offered from the floor, and ——- that those progressives who oppose it in the committee would not oppos it on*the floor of the convention. Thi was done and the anti-Klan resolutio at the St. Paul convention wa adopted without discussion unan mously. i Fascism and Soclal-Democraoy. — Comrade Zinoviev expresses a pri found thought when he says: “Fas ism is a mixture of the blackest cou: ter-revolution and irresponsible 5 cialist demagogy. And part of th ‘synthesis’ are the leading sections « the yeliow social democracy.” O'Neal himself fits right into: th category when his same editorial say: “and they (the Socialists) have help« otver bodies in securing informatic that led them to exclude the Cor maunists because of their lack of ca dor.” This will have a familiar rir to the Communists expelled from ( Neal’s socialist unions in .the need trades.~ Much of the informati: against the expelled Communists w furnished by socialist and many the officers who engaged in the here hunting and expelling were socialis Fascism in the Labor Movement, h its best supporters and fighters int ranks of such socialists as O'Neal. To Deport Palestine “Left-Winger: HAIFA, July 31.— Seven Jewi workingmen, members of the extrei wing of the labor movement, we tried bere last* Monday for disobe ence to the police when the lati rigd to disperse an illegal meeti of worringmen, They were sentenc to one tnonth’s imprisonment and deportation upon release. The prisoners have appealed fr: this sentence. 1 Jim Larkin Spoke. DUBLIN, July 31. — Earth shoc were registered today over a per. of two hours on the seismograph Rathfarnham Village on the outski of Dyplin. The locality of the sho. could not be determined. The Poor Fish says: Henry Fi will need some first-class smell to determine how many of employes have whiskey on breaths as they pass the gates’ work in the morning. A little of garlic would drown a lot of go: