The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 2, 1924, Page 4

} % | . Page Four THE DAILY WORKER. Se i a ee ae La. ec IS Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By mall (In Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 mont’as $6.00 per year $8.00 per year habbit betta SAE Ae SPIRE AOA Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, IilInols J. LOUIS ENGDAKL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... rer Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sépt. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. << 20 Advertising rates on application. Mexico Moves Forward Mexico has decided to recognize the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. An ambassador from the Latin-American Republic will soon occupy a diplomatic post in Moscow and a representative of the first Workers’ and Farmers’ Republic will take his place in Mexico City. This action is most welcome news. every good reason to be on the most friendly terms with the Soviet Government. Like Soviet Russia, the Mexican Republic has been compelled to fight for its existence against the aggrandizement of the imperialist powers of the capitalist world. It is significant that, at this very moment when the Mexican government is forced to negotiate with the Committee of International Bankers in refer- ence to old and new loans, it should have the cour- age to resume friendly relations with the Soviet Government. The farming and industrial masses of our southern neighbor have many times and long ago expressed their keen friendship for and genu- ine sympathy with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Only the fear of the foreign capitalist powers has prevented the Mexican Government from yielding sooner to this strong feeling of the overwhelming majority of the country. The red flag is now flying to the north of Wash- ington in Canada, where there is an official mission of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Soon the red flag will be flying to the south of us in Mexico City. The imperialist United States Gov- ernment is being rapidly isolated in its anti-Soviet Russian policy. Hughes’ isolation policy against the Soviet Republics is proving a boomerang. Last but not least, the restoration of complete, normal relations between Mexico and Soviet Rus- sia is of inestimable importance in the field of all Latin-American and United States relations. Latin America is today a sort of an economic hinterland for the powerful group of Yankee capitalists. The great storehouse of natural resources to the south of us has been at the mercy of the profiteering American capitalists. There is much intense hatred of Yankee imperialism in all the Latin- American republics. Mexico is the threshold of Latin-America. The Mexican recognition of Soviet Russia will bring the oppressed republi¢s much closer to the only government that entertains genuine friendship for them. This is an event of tremendous international significance. Mexico has The Circulation Drive The DAILY WORKER is the mightiest weapon in the hands of the revolutionary movement in the United States. “How did we ever get along without it?” is the question our most active work- ers ask of each other. Now, that we have it, we can very well forsee what its loss would mean to the Workers Party and to the working class move- ment. But that is a very, very hypothetical specu- lation. ° We are getting a circulation drive under way. This drive is an unusual one. It is a combina- tion membership drive for the Workers Party and a circulation drive for the DAILY WORKER. Very novel and very interesting. ss The problem is a simple one and quite easy. We pride ourselves on being militants. Here is a chance to prove that we are workers as well as talkers. 7 The plan is that every party member should en- list another member in the party and bring in a new subscription to the DAILY WORKER at the same time. Combination membership-subscription cards are issued. The DAILY WORKER has a reputation as a fearless battler for the workers. It does not seek to hide the truth behind a barrage of meaningless phrases. It is not “diplomatic.” It is straightforward. The workers like it. Every member of the party is expected to bring in at least one new member-subscriber during’ this campaign. Failufe to do this means that it will take a good deal of argument to convince us that the comrade who cannot bring in a new member ‘Gnto the party is much of a militant or has exerted himself to gain influence among his fellow workers. While the reformists are scuttling their organ- izations in order to grab votes, the Communists will be busy doing organizational work during the election campaign and turning voters and sym- pathizers into members of the Workers Party and subscribers‘to the DAILY WORKER. When the capitalist press begins to write “Rus- sian Reds plan war,” then the workers may look out for new moves against Russia. The capitalists of the world have made war on Russia for years, their peace was preparation to renew that war, and now they begin to roll the drums again. The working class must mobilize against this new war threat! Atta Boy, Morris! Next to. John W. Davis, Morris Hillquit is the favorite political prophet of the New York World. Pulitzer’s sheet is very well pleased with the selec- tion of Norman Thomas as candidate for governor on the socialist party ticket but it is still better pleased with the sentiments expressed by Mr. Hill- quit in “his interview to the World. The World hopes Mr. Hillquit will be allowed to set the key- note for the party. “A progressive,” says Mr. Hillquit, “is one who has a definite, program of economic and social reform, the first test being the positive constructive character of such a program. Merely cursing the rich is not progressivism. Repeated and emphatic assertion of love for the poor is not progressivism.” That is very sweet. No talk here of “fighting like a tiger on the barricades.” And the capitalist press will not remind the once militant Hillquit of his earlier indiscretions. The revolutionary skeletons in his closet. will not be rattled by the “rich.” It is even reported that he is on speaking terms financially with the millionaire class. Why should be hate the rich? a “In his counsel to his own party, and his char- acterization of the opposing candidates as men whose aims may differ without a consequent de- fault in honesty, Mr. Hillquit sets a standard of good taste and tolerance in political discussion.” The New York World talking. Daniel O’Connell, the famous Irish “Liberator,” once said that whenever af English government official praised him,,he went home and examined his conscience. If Hillquit considered praise from enemies of the working class in the same light as O’Connell did he would go home and open his head with a meat axe, Monkeys and Monkeyettes The committee on education of the Georgia house of representatives has favorably reported on a bill barring the use of state funds from any educational institution which acquaints its pupils with the Darwinian or any other theory of evolu- tion. A similar law has already been passed by the Kentucky legislature. One of the Georgia representatives in reporting for the committee declared the theory of evolution “rotten stuff.’ Another gentleman threw a fit over the suggestion that he was descended from a mon- key and said that if he was, it was not his fault and would repudiate his ancestors. Still another solon blamed the Franks murder on the kind of education received by the Loeb- Leopold boys. They did not receive sufficient religious instruction. Of course Darwin never claimed that man was descended from the monkey. But if such were the ease, the monkey and not the members of ; the Georgia legislature would have reason to kick. When the Catholic church was all-powerful and made and unmade kings, it was a crime punish- able by death to doubt the theory, sanctioned by the church, that man was created by God and woman out of a Tib taken out of Adam, the al- leged first man. Those having the courage to doubt the Pope’s word found tlemselves in jail, on the gibbet or on the rack. Yet in spite of all the forces of darkness and reaction, society man progressed intellectually until today only comparatively few accept the rib theory of the origin of man, and the Darwinian theory tho not accepted as a solu- tion of the riddle of the universe, is given reypected consideration in every reputable school. The attempt to blame the Franks murder on lack of religious training shows a blindness to facts that none but. fanatics could be guilty of. Disregarding wars where millions are murdered in the name of God and religion, statistics prove that the great majority of crimes against human life have been committed by persons with religious af- filiations. In many instances the criminals claimed divine sanctions for the murder. The crimes of clergymen have cluttered the front pages of the newspapers for several years. And the South, in which the brightest gem is Georgia, has at least held its own in the figures dealing with crime particularly sex perversion. Darwinism surely, cannot be blamed for the murder, rape and lynch-' ing cases that have disgraced the South. Darwinism is not to blame for ‘the Leopold-Loeb crime. The educational opportunities received by them are not responsible. But the rotten, cor- rupt, unjust socialist system which distributes its wealth in such a manner that a few at the top become perverted with excess while the millions at the bottom are reduced to physical and mental wrecks thru want, is the cause of crime, and only when the exploiting capitalist system is done away with and Communism established in its place can the human race begin in real earnest to tackle the many serious problems that are ig- nored in the hurry to accumulate wealth at the expense of the producers. Morons of the type that hold forth in the Georgia legislature are obstacles on the road to progress. Evolution has passed them by, but revolution will not. Morris Hillquit’s Program “The intelligent handling of such questions as those dealing with the prohibition of child labor, for instance, establishing a minimum wage and af- fording other protections for the labor of women, measures looking to sanitation and safety places of employment, curbing excessive working hours, and so on.” Calvin Coolidge is in favor of every one of these measures, realizing that so long as the capitalist class holds political power, they will be honored more in the breach than in the obser- vance. Hillquit is not to the left of Al Smith but very much to the right. ; va THE DAILY WORKER \ Saturday, August 2, 1924 Only Communism Can Crush Wars By BEN GITLOW. Workers Party Candidate For Vice-President, i Hey years ago the world was plunged. into a savage devastating war by its capitalistic imperialist rulers. Cap- italistic governments for four and a fhalf years sent millions of workers to the bloody fields to be slaughtered. The World War in its colossal destruc- tiveness threw the masses of the peo- ple into the depths of fear, extreme misery, hopeless despair and sortow. Every advanve on the road to human freedom and justice was crushed ruth- lessly. The capitalist rulers of all countries kept protesting that they were con- tinuing the struggle in the interest of humanity and for the establishment of permanent peace. At the same time these capitalist rulers were converting the agony of the people into millions and millions of dollars of war profits. They fastened the many billions of dol” lars that the war cost not only upon the backs of the workers of this gen- eration, but upon the backs of the fu- ture generations also. Thru their bloody regime they have so disor- ganized and destroyed the economic life of Europe that millions of people find themselves destitute. Starvation, unemployment and extreme indescrib- able poverty are today the common lot of most of the people of Europe. Wars Against Labor The capitalist rulers soon forget their protestations, The armistice was not followed by the laying. down of arms and the resumption of peace- ful industry.In Germany the revolution- S.L.P, DENIES - PRESENCE AMONG C. P,P, A. CROWD Says No Delegates at Cleveland The national office of the Workers Party is in receipt of the following letter from the national secretary of the Socialist Labor Party. Mr. C. E. Ruthenberg, c. 0. The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Sir: In the DAILY WORKER of July 7, page 1, there appeared an article signed by you entitled, “Railroad Chiefs Dictators at Cleveland.” In this article you say: “Most surprising of all, there came ‘to the convention three delegates representing the national organization of the Socialist Labor Party, and they sat thru the convention and accepted LaFollette and his program without a word of protest, in spite of. their many loud protestations of revolution- ary virtue.” As national secretary of the So- cialist Party I herewith denounce this statement as an unqualified falsehood. I also demand that you prepare a statement for the DAILY. WORKER withdrawing this utterly false, and, to the S. L. P., libellous statement. ‘ Yours truly, Socialist Labor Party, Arnold Peterson, Nat. Sec’y. The following reply has been sent to this communication by the execu- tive secretary of the Workers Party: Arnold Peterson, National Secretary, Socialist Labor Party, 45-51 Rose St., New York, N. Y¥. Dear Sir: In making the report to the con- vention of the Conference for Progres- sive Political Action, the credential committee of that * body reported among the delegates seated in the gonvention: % “National organization of the So- Gialist Labor Party, 3 delegates and 3 votes.” This report was made publicly to the convention and there was no other inference to be drawn from it than that the national organization of the Socialist Labor Party had sent three delegates to the convention who were speakers in the convention. From your letter it appears that this is not the case. In view of these circunistances, I suggest that you ad- dress yourself to the secretary of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, making inquiry as to who. presented the credentials from the national organization of the Socialist Labor Party reported to the conven- tion. We will, of course, be glad to print your letter in the DAILY WORKER tonether with this reply. t Very truly yours, C. EB, Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary. Italian Speaker Arrested. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug. 1.— Fernando Pascoli, of the editorjal staff of “Il Lavoratore,” who was ar- rested for speaking at an anti-Fas- cisti meeting here Sunday night, is still in jail, The speaker was de- novneing the Mussolini government and the capitalist system which per- mits and éneourdkes such a dictator- ship of big business when he was taken by the officious upholders of “the law.” Send in that Subscription Today. ! bad, for then ary struggles for true freedom were crushed by the force of arms. In Rus- sia, armies were hurled against the Russian workers and peasants who had liberated themselves from the yoke of their oppressors.’ In India, Indian workers who had aspired for national independence were massacred by the troops of the British Empire. The streets of Ireland were strewn with the corpses of young Irishmen who had dared to hope for an Irish re- public. The United States with its wealth and gold crushed under its iron heel, Haiti, Santo Domingo and the Philippines. The Hungarian work- ers republic was wiped out in blood and a reign of terror instituted. Everywhere, the armies were in thd field fully equipped and prepared for all eventualities. Out of the Versailles Peace, no soon- er had the signatures been dried, sprung the dangers of a future World War more destructive and more ter- rible in every respect to the war sup- posedly just ended. Peace Was No Peace. The peace that the capitalist gov- ernments concluded was no peace. The victors ‘first economically ruined the defeated nations and then proceed- ed to demand tribute from them in the form of reparations that under no cir- cumstances could be paid. They» re- districted the earth’s surface and divided among themselves extensive territories subjecting to their militar- istic, financial and economic, that habiting them. They made new al- liances and counter alliances, militar- istic, financial and economic that formed the basis for the alliances in the coming world catastrophe that is so lightly promised by many promi- nent capitalist diplomats. No Peace Under Capitalism. Capitalist governments can assure no peace, The only hope they hold out to the workers is continued ex- ploitation and misery at home and savage, brutal devastating war. war is to be ended, if the slaughter of millions of workers is to cease, then capitalism with its imperialism must be destroyed because capitalism in its very nature breeds war. Just so long as the earth’s surface with its wealth is the private property of individual capitalists and their com- bines, just so long will there exist the danger of war. Just so long as the various national capitalist interests must find markets for their surplus products, and undeveloped territories for the investment of their surplus capital, just so long will they come in conflict with other national capi- talist interests similarly situated. Out of such conflicts war must eventually follow. Because the markets of the world are lintited and undeveloped territories more so. Permanent peace can be established only by destroying the cause of all modern war. To get peace capitalism must be destroyed. The only ones that can do that job are the workers. Since they must bear all the war bur- dens of capitalism they have every- thing to gain and nothing to lose by doing so. Workers Must Seize Power. The only movement, in the world today that is engaged in a struggle against capitalism is the world Com- FIGHT AGAINST MILITARISM TOLD IN YOUNG COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL MOSCOW, July 15.—(By Mail.)—The fourth world congress of the Young Communist International opened today simultaneously with the sixth All- Russian congress of the Communist youth. , In his opening speech, Jefim Zetlin eulogized Lenin and the sacrifices of the young Communists in the struggle against the white terror and capi- talist militarism. Gregory Zinoviev, chairman of the Communist Inter- national, was election honorary chairman, and Comrade Lozeray, victim of the military courts, was made an honorary member of the presidium of the congress at the suggestion of Schatzkin. Comrade Manuilsky. representing thé Communist International, ad- dressed the congress on the tasks of the Young Communist International, saying that its chief problems were the struggle against militarism and the preparation of the youth for the civil war against capitalism. Long cheers and ovations met the greetings of Frunze who spoke in the name of the Red Army and the Red Fleet, and told of the high ideals of the Red soldiery in maintaining the power of the proletarian dictatorship. Further greetings were made by Monmousseau (France) in the name of the Red International of Labor Unions; Erna Halbe, in the name of the International Communist Women’s Congress, and Israel Amter (America), in the name of the International Red Aid. Chasseigne, of the French league, proposed a resolution of protest against the white terror and against bourgeois class justice, which was accepted by acclaim. | ’ Greetings were also received in the name of the imprisoned victims of Polish and Esthonian capitalist persecution. Tschaplin, speaking for the congress of the Russian Young Communist League, was followéd by the presentation of a red banner by the Moscow youth committee to the fighting young Communists of Berlin and another banner from the Red Presnija district to the Swedish Young Communist League. It munist movement. It is therefore, the only movement that is truly wag- ing a war to destroy militarism and ¢ end war, It proposes that the power © to make war shall be taken out of the hands of the capitalists, This it pro- poses to do by placing all the power in the hands of the workers,\ The Communist movement stands for the overthrow of capitalist rule, for the overthrow of the rule of the militar- ists. It proposes to set up in its place the rule of the workers. In place of the capitalist governments with their imperialist policies the Communists propose to apt up the government of soviets, the ‘government of workers and farmers. The power to make war is then wrenched from the hands of the war lords, the bankers, the indus- trial overlords and the whole crew of parasites who have grown rich thru the misery and exploitation of the masses of workers and farmers. These present day rulers of the peo- ple’s destinies will then no longer be in a position to stay at home and glory in the wholesale slaughter dur- ing a war of millions of youthful workers and farmers. C.-1. Offers Only Hope. On the 10th anniversary therefore, of the outbreak of the World War the only hope for the workers against another recurrence on @ world scale ‘of similar capitalist insanity and all it implies for the workers is in the International Communist Movement. The cry of all workers should be “Down with international war butch- ery, up with the international solidar- ity of the workers of all countries in the Communist International. NEW YORK CITY Party Activities Section 2 Is Active. Section 2 is numerically the largest section in District 2. Its membership is about 1,000 and embraces the Har- lem and Yorkville territories. The open air work was started in this section as early as the month of May, atid about three to four meet- ings a week were held successfully. In response to the call of the cen- tral executive committee to organize anti-war and anti-imperialism demon- strations, Section 2 organized a house to house distribution of the party manifesto. About 50 per cent of the membership reported for this work and regardless of the depressing heat 25,000 leaflets were distributed within two hours. A large open air meet- ing was held at 110th and 5th aves. The party speakers presented the subject of imperialism and imperial- | ist wars, the crowd listening atten- tively. The meeting lasted until mid- night; literat dealing with the sub-— ject of imperlismn and the DAILY WORKER were sold successfully. The audience numbered about 1,000. Brazil Rebellion Continues. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. — The UNIT a AN | AM THE “CHILD-WORKER” I am the child-worker! Day after day I toil in textile mills, where there is only the roar of the machinery and the sharp com- mands of the masters. My broth- ers and sisters “toil at my side. Our clothes are ragged and we are—oh so tired! OOH Every morning, in the chill of the dawn, the great whistle blares forth its summons and we must crawl from our warm beds and hasten to the factory, How I would like to sleep—just once— until I couldn’t sleep—any more. But I know I can never do that for it isn’t pleasant to go hungry.... How bright the sun looks in the early morning as we trudge to our work. How soft and restful the grass in the yards of the MASTERS looks. How happy I would be if my brothers and 1 could play there in the soft grass. And how fine it would be if my sisters could have a playhouse and dolls there under the great oaks. But that can NEVER be, for we are poor. Play is not for such as we. I once saw a happy crowd of boys and girls playing in a school yard. They were like us, only better dressed and their cheeks full and red; not thin and sallow like ours, How lucky are those little boys and girls! I have a BAD cough. The doc- tor says I should be sent away to the country, but father says it can’t be done. I must continue to work thru long hours and weary days while the cough grows worse. The foreman looks at me coldly when he hears me cough. I am afraid that he is going to send me* home and that will be will beat me. I wonder why some little boys and girls can have time to play and go to school, while others like us know only a factory’s gloom and the goad of work in the factory.... I’m just a little slave boy who has never been to school and who jknows only to tend a loom, but I think it’s hardly fair! Do you? * ‘ Do you wonder why WE NEED JUNIOR GROUPS? BOYS and GIRLS who read this story and have as yet not joined the junior group, JOIN NOW! Let.us work and fight together to do away with these conditions. ... Join and help make every boy and girl happy! Down with child labor!! American consulate at Sao Paulo has been struck by bullets in the battle between Brazilian rebels and Govern- ment forces. The shells damaged the consulate building, but no American lives were lost. *. . * MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug. 1.— In preparation for a heavy bombard- ment of Sao Paulo, the commander of the federal army besieging the city ordered all civilians to leave Sao Paulo. Klan Kandidate Leads Woman. FORT WORTH, Aug. 1. — Judge Felix Robertson of Dallas, Ku Klux Flan candidate, today was holding a loed of nearly 30,000 votes over his eight opponents in the Texas guber- patorial primaries, and a woman, Mrs. Mil:m Ferguson, was battling for a pee in the run-off. ~ Shot In Klan Fight. WORCESTER, Mass., Aug. 1.—One man was shot thru the chest and thir- teen others were injured in a pitched battle between members of the Ku iux Klan and anti-klansmen on the streets of Worcester. More than 500 persons were engaged in the melee) T. U. E. L. HEARS ABOUT I. W. W.; COMPARISON A hot night proved no deterrent at North-West hall for the monthly m League. OF INTERNATIONAL to a large crowd of militants gathered) eeting of The Trade Union Educatiot ral h Harrison George, writer and speaker whose long and active participation. in the I. W. W. has made him well posted on that organization, spoke on the “I. W. W. in the Labor Movement.” His detailed story of the rise and slow degeneration of this great organization proved one of the most interest: ing lectures of the season. \ i Of special interest were his side-lights and stories of the personal incidents in his active years as a “Wobbly.” The political aspect of this “industrial” organization received full treatment at his hands and with hie criticism went unstinted praise for closer to. EB. L. general meetings. Congresses, situation in the needle, building and to whom the Red Trade Unién International has the accomplishments of the militants made every effort to come) ’ 4 i] 4 Earl Browder in his monthly review of the latest developments in the world of labor helped further establish this interesting featare of the T. U_ In a comparison of the Amsterdam and R, I. L. U his review of the position of the British “Labor” government gave the militants not only a clear picture of the division of these two but the very best summary the militants of Chicago have heard in months. Jack Johnstone, Erwin Girsch and A. Overgaard gave a review of metal trades and the coming conyen- tions in the carpenters, state A. I. L., and other organizations received at- tention from the militants’ viewpoint. The programs of these monthly thihjennenentnth 5, s meetings are receiving a truly.