The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 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 mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 months By mail,(in Chicago only): < $8.00 per year —$4.00....6 months —‘$2.50....8. montis LE sl tend a eaadebsinde eases ae Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Ilinols ——————$ J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE ~Rditors MORITZ J. LOEB... ...Business Manager ——$— $$$ << —— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. $6.00 per year Advertising rates on application. = 20 The Anglo-Russian Break It is significant that the key question over which the reported breakdown of Anglo-Russian negotia- tions took place was the demand of the “labor” government of imperialist Britain that the Work- ers’ Soviet Republic renounce its right to national- ize the industries in Russia which had been gob- bled up by foreign capitalists during the Czarist tyranny. Comrade C. Rakovsky of the Soviet delegation flatly rejected this insulting trespass on Soviet sovereignty. At the same time it is announced that the “rad- ical socialist’? Premier Herriot, of France, “is known to have become lukewarm recently toward Russian negotiations.” The Wall Street press slyly notes that Morgan’s whiskered messenger boy, Secretary Hughes, beat the Soviet emis- sary, Comrade Kameneff, to Paris. Hughes is bludgeoning Europe into line for Mor- gan. The prize spokesmen of American imperial- ism, the New York Times, gloats over the end of “American isolation” and gleefully remarks that however “unofficial” is the visit of Secretary Hughes to the capitols of Europe, “all Europe is thanking God (read, thank Morgan) while Amer- ica (read, Morgan) stands by openly rejoicing.” It adds hopefully that now “we” are in Europe, we soon will be in the League of Nations. “We” are in Eufope! In Europe to stop the westward course of Bolshevism. {| Hughes frankly acknowledges that if Europe wants American help it must fight Bolshevism. The MacDonald in- sult and the Herriot “lukewarmness” toward the Soviets are the result. If Hughes can do so, it will be again the inhuman blockade, Vorovsky assas- sinations, “libertarian” attentats within Russia and, perhaps, war against the first Workers’ and Farmers’ Republic. War marches on the heels of Hughes. In this conflict between American imperialism and Leninism, the revolutionary workers of Amer- ica stand behind Trotsky in his challenge to the expansion of murderous Morganism. And Hughes, he is so little welcomed’as the “savior of Europe” that in Berlin he dares not go upon the street ex- cept under heavy guard. The Flag Follows Oil By virtue of the American government’s grab- bing another strip of land from the weak republic of Panama the area of the United States is now larger by twenty-two miles. The announcement of this land-grab was given practically no publicity by the press. Even the financial papers saw fit to give very little publicity to this incident. Following the terms of the treaty of February 26, 1904 and in the path of the revolu- tion engineered in Panama by Roosevelt, President Coolidge went ahead and issued an executive order adding this territory to the Canal Zone. Why the secrecy about this sudden awakening as to this need for more land in the Canal Zone? Merely to put this question is to answer it. Re- cent months have seen several big American oil firms acquiring an extensive acreage ‘of land in Panama. These companies are drilling for oil. It is said that this little republic has large oil tracts of high merit. The steal just perpetrated by the President of the United States is of two-fold import. Commer- cially it would be of tremendous aglvantage to the American capitalists to have oil cDse at hand in in 1917, Panama. Such oil will be particularly economical in supplying fuel for the steamships passing thru the Canal. The establishment of American re- fineries on the west coast of South and Central America will be of invaluable aid to Yankee busi- ness men in their transactions with the Latin- American countries. Then there is the military and naval advantage} the London Conference, declares thatthis gathering that will aecrue to the United States from this|jg the most successful one since the treaty Reaping the Whirlwind Mrs. Rosalie Evans, an American citizen by birth and a British subject thru marriage, has just met with death in Mexico. This incident may bring about a situation | fraught with great dangers for the struggling Mexi- The death of Mrs. Evans will un- doubtedly be seized upon by the British imperialist government as a further cause for demanding that the International Bankers’ Committee tighten up on Mexico. Our own capitalists, being close part- nership with the English financiers in Europe, may yield to such pressure. For some time Mrs. Evans, who was a wealthy landowner in Mexico, was resisting the supreme law of the land. Mrs. Evans was violating the Mexican constitutional provision as to land. Mrs. Evans refused to carry out the law which provided for turning over to the workers of the land all acre- age over the. fixed limits, More than that, Mrs. Evans totally disregarded all.the provisions of the constitution dealing with working conditions. It is this flagrant disregard of the highest law of the Mexican Republic that proved a source of serious difficulties for Mrs. Bvans. As a matter of fact, Mrs, vans even went so far as to hire private armed men to defend her hacienda and herself in the violation of the constitution. Under such circumstances, with Mrs. Evans waging pri- vate war against the Mexican workers and the cone itution of the republic, it was inevitable that erious consequences should ensue. Mrs. Evans is simply reaping the whirlwind she herself has sown. For scores of years the Mexican working and farming masses have been giving away their lives and spilling their best blood on account of the manipulations of the foreign and native capitalist exploiters and landowners. After ten years of continuous revolution the masses forced’ the adop- can republic. tion of certain constitutional provisions guarantee- ing them a few elemental rights. Mrs. Evans was attempting to rob the workers and peons of Mexico of these hard-earned elementary rights. The numerous years of bloodshed for the Mexican masses has never brought a wail from our imperial- ist kept press. These defenders of the capitalist faith cry only when the profit system, when an exploiter is in danger or meets with defeat and disaster. The American Okhrana The Civil Liberties Union has done a service by issuing a pamphlet exposing the enormous growth of the government’s secret, political police. This arm of the capitalist dictatorship goes under the name of the Bureau of Investigation of the De- partment of Justice. This bureau did not exist until 1908. Nothing challenged capitalist rule. They didn’t need it. But in 1924 it confesses to employ 700 spies en- gaged in spying on labor unions, workers’ political parties and “radicals” of any real or pretended sort. If a union man arises in his local meeting and speaks against capitalist profits, the fact is duly entered on a card in Washington. The graft has been goody Nearly six times as much money is being spent this year than ten years ago. ‘This years’ bill will be $2,283,863. The excuse given that these huge sums are to “eatch criminals” falls flat. There has been only six and two-tenths per cent increase in cases prose- cuted in the last ten years in federal courts, and actually less convictions obtained. But six times the money is used. Aside from the card file of 200,000 workers. and “radicals:” the government illegally used money to practically bribe state and local officials to “raid the reds” and try them for “criminal syndicalism,” as in Michigan. Upon occasion its agents commit crimes and cinch their jobs “searching for the criminals.” In a foreword the Civil Liberties Union hope- fully states, “It looks like this spy system was about to be rooted out by the new Attorney- General, Harlan F. Stone.” Piffle! Do you think the capitalist dictatorship is going to throw away all those nice cards with our names and doings recorded, And abandon the system? We know all will be on hand in a “pinch,” with new dope and dopesters. Tf we had no other evidence we would merely take the fact that before the Bolshevik revolution “investigation” cost Uncle Sam only $617,- 534, but after the Soviets seized power in Russia in the name of the world proletariat, it needed $1,748,226 to “investigate” in 1918. And the sum since has been rising, just as has the Soviet “menace.” Col. James A. Logan, the American delegate to Ver- THE DAILY WORKER \ Thursday, August 7, 1924 What Wall Street Thinks of Davis By JAY LOVESTONE f HAT does Wall Street think 01 John W. Davis, the Democratic nominee for President? Here are some of the opinions taken from authoritative, recognized, spokes- men of the biggest business interests in the country. We present the ex- pressions from seven widely recog: nized organs of the most powerful financial industrial groups of the country. : Wall Street Journal Mr. Candor of the Washington Staff of the Wall Street Journal, which has the largest circulation of American financial newspapers, said the follow- ing about the nomination of Davis in the issue of July 10th 1924; “The Democratic national conyven- tion has reached the best possible so- lution of an almost impossible situa- tion, with the nomination of John W. Davis of West Virginia and New York, for President of the United States. “From the strictly non-partisan point of view, the Dayis nomination insures a clean campaign conducted on thoroughly national issues.... “This writer knows many men of both parties who served in the Con- gress with Davis, and he has yet to hear one say that the new Democratic candidate is anything but able and clear-visioned, Supreme Court Just- ices have said that Davis, as Solicitor General, was the most able govern- ment lawyer who ever appeared before the high court. His record as Am- bassador to the Court of St. James is one of the outstanding bright spots of the Wilson administration.” Coal Age “The July 17th Weekly Review is- sued by the Coal Age organ of the strongest coal magnates sums up the nomination of Davis in this significant fashion: “Clutching any straw within reach, the coal industry rejoices that the long, drawn out convention of the democrats has finally come to an “BOYCOTT FINNISH PRODUCTS,” PLEAD OPPRESSED POLITICAL PRISONERS OF “BUTCHER” LAND acre ae WORKERS OF ALL THE WORLD! The political victims of Black Finland appeal to your class solidarity. Hear the cry of your brothers suffering in prison hells. “Fully normal conditions prevail in Finland.” the representatives of White Finland state in foreign lands in order to cleanse the “innocent” blue-white flag of their country of the blood stains of the White Terror. ‘Finland is a constitu- tional state,” they blazon forth, “it is the bulwark of western culture against the barbarism of the east. Finland is a civilized state.” Yes it it! less violence. Bayonets, the army, and a special class-army, the weapons of the executioners of a hundred or so defense guard companies, that is what this “civilized state” rests on. Its soil is still drenched with the blood of tens of thousands of fallen, shot, mutilated and famished workers. Its prisons are still crammed full of po- litical prisoners dnd its “impartial” courts hardly find time to sentence all the “criminals.” COMRADES! WORKERS OF ALL THE WORLD! Little Finland has over one thou- sand political prisoners according to official information. A great portion of us are those who were still left alive after the great butchery that occurred six years ago, but who have since then been confined in prison dungeons. In addition there are sever- al hundred who have been thrown be- hind the bars since 1918, several hun- dred who have dared—not to take up arms, not to revolt—but to aid the Widows and orphans of their mur- dered comrades, to organize labor or- ganizations and work in them, to read Communistic literature, to admit be- ing Communists. Even for our opinions we have been sentenced! And recently nearly two hundred comrades were sentenced to the penitentiary for many years mere- ly for the reason of having belonged to a labor party, which has been sym- pathetic toward the Communist Inter- national, not affiliated with it. In this manner prisons here gain occupants, in this manner White Finland defends “western culture and leg ure.” proced- Just the same as all other “civilized states” which are based on treachery, falsehood, injustice, deception and reck- Ni eeterinieeertahecsisiwaieeniet ieenlaritaphilibiechintiedibesinis Torture System of our Prison Melis. In other parts of the world political end and heaves a sigh of relief that he choice of a candidate fell to one 10t likely to indulge in rampages for regulation if his cdmpaign for élec- tion should prove successful, Whether this is the herald of the early ap- proach of the long hoped-for upturn in business, or not, it marks the pas- sing of what, in some quarters, has been regarded as one of the obstacles in the path of business resumption,” The New York Commercial This oldest of our financial news- papers, which prides itself on being called “The National Business News- paper,” made the following observa- tions of the Democratic nominee in its issue of July 10th: “In nominating John W. Davis for the Presidency, the Democratic Party has assured the country that it has neither trade nor parley with that species of radicalism which has acclaimed itself “progressive,” while it is really destructive. “Mr, Davis Is sane, ndrmal, intel- ligent, capable, efficient, and exper- ienced. He stands with his feet on the ground, not with his head in the clouds. He has a knowledge of the needs of the country and his record as a diplomat in the Court of St. James proves him a wise man so far as the nation’s foreign relationships are concerned, “Mr. Davis, like Mr. Coolidge, is entirely competent to fiff the great office of President of the, United States. In the election of either man the country has nothing to fear. It is inconceivable that selfish blocs or associations should, in the mad pur- suit of government aid, get any en- couragement in the White louse, when it is tenanted by either Coolidge or Davis—and since one of the two is to be chosen at the polls in November, it is something of a pleasure to give that assurance to Commercial readers. “The outcome of the long drawn-out strife of the convention in Madison Square Garden is encouraging. If Mr. Davis does not amalgamate all sane divisions of his party it will not be because he is not all right but the other way around, This is what co where the only properly built portions are the iron bars. We are compelled to perform our compulsory labor in crowded, dusty, stuffy shops, which lack the most elementary require- ments from the viewpoint of health. In case of illness we receive no care, even tho unable to rise from our beds, and when epidemics rage we are al- ‘lowed to die for lack of care in the corners of our dungeons. The “care of the sick” provided by the prisons is only an imposition upon us and mockery at the expense of the lives of the prisoners. Cannot Write In Prison. All means are used to suppress our efforts to educate ourselves. We are not allowed to loan books to one an- other. Even a great portion of thd pure bourgeois books of general knowledge, not speaking of any labor literature, have been included in the list of “forbidden literature.” We are not allowed to make memorandum notes from all of the “permitted works,” especially those of a social nature, and all original writing is for- bidden under threat of punishment. Literacy is general in Finland, but we are not allowed to take advantage of it, Such are the educational pursuits of our “civilized state!” Disciplinary punishment is fre- quently imposed. Bread-and-water and the dark cell are handed down ey- eryday and arbitrarily. Guards lack- ing all morals may punish any one without cause, and complaints are followed by additional punishment. When some “guilty one” can not be distovered, the entire working group is punished. The prisoners must make compensation for property, lost from the prison, even tho it cannot be prov- en that the prisoners are guilty of ed gratefulness of “Whatever of apprehension busi- ness men the country over have been experiencing, because of the politfal outlook, can now be dismissed. The nomination of John W. Davis has, we believe, restored to the commercial and financial world that feeling of confidence in the future which is 50 necessary for the free and untram- meled progress of what we all know under the general head of business.” The National Republican Even the National Republican, the official mouthpiece of the most reac- tionary section of the Republican party, could not desist from praising Mr. Davis. In its issue of July 19th It declared: “John W. Davis of West Virginia, is perhaps second in ability to no public man of the period. scholar and gentleman of high persoral char- acter, wide and successful experience in public affairs and of proven capa- city in his profession and in public life, his fortuitous nomination by a convention worn out with fruitless effort to nominate someone else, puts at the forefront of the Democratic campaign the most creditable candi- date, personally, perhaps, who has carried the standard of his party since the Civil War. “John W. Davis is a man of great ability and high character, who if elected, would make a capable pre- sident.” Barron’s Weekly Mr. C. W. Barron, the editor of this national financial weekly, appearing in New York, Boston, and Philadel- phia, was rather generous in his opinions of Mr. Davis, as can be seen from the following excerpt from an article of his appearing in his organ under date of July 2ist, and purport- ing to be a summary of the views held in financial circles: “Mr. Davis stands very high as a lawyer and adviser in the financial, the business, and the political world. Indeed he is ranked by certain of his admirers along with Choate and Root, He is sound in every way as a man and professionally, and the wonder is that he could come forth as a presi- fined in prison, we appeal to you, our brothers; we appeal to your class-con- sciousness, your class might, your in- ternational solidarity; we ask: Do something in our behalf! We no long- er have any faith in the amnesty hum- bug of our diet, we do not expect any mercy nor pity from our class ene- mies, and we do not appeal to them. But you, comrades, you can help us, you can at least alleviate a little the unfortunate fate of us and the en- tire oppressed and enslaved Finnish proletariat. You can at least brand the white executioners of Finland with the burning mark of shame, you can have them despised before the en- tire civilized world, you can show the foreign representatives of our coun- try that the world does not consider Finland a civilized state. With the aid of an economic boycott you can compel Finland to free its political prisoners ang cease its political op- pression. Y6u can save us and again show in a practical way the gigantic power of the united forces of labor. Comrades! Brothers! Do not allow our cry to echo in vain, do not consider this indifferent- ly and allow the working class of Fin- land to sink down into deeper slavery, do not betray the hoty commandment of class brotherhood! Act, brothers, act, and you shall receive the undivid- the entire working class of Finland! Trusting in you, we shall. keep up our fighting spirit even in these prison hells, and we ex- tend you our hand in firm brother- hood thru our prison bars. Town with tne butcher execution- ers of Finland! Long live the international broth- erhood of labor! Long live the firm unyielding class struggle! Long live the Soviet Republic of the Workers of the World! Tammisaari Institution of Penal Servitude, June, 1924. Political Prisoners of Butcher Fin- land. RIVERVIEW—RAIN OR SHINE AUGUST 10th—SUNDAY PRESS PICNIC DAY dential candidate from such a con- 4 vention as that which for so many / days held the attention and something of the interest of the American people, “Nobody can question the standing of Davis. He stands for stalwart Americanism. The Democratic party made its best possible play to redeem the convention fiasco by naming such @ man,” St, Louis Liberty Central Trust Co. Monthly Review President J. L. Johnston, of the Li- berty Central Trust Company of St. Louis, expressed the attitude of West- ern,bankers towards Mr. Davis in his last monthly Business Review, when he said: “From the standpoint of all who desire to see our national affairs con- ducted on a’ sensible basis, with no compromise offered to destructive and uneconomic forces, the outcome of the two great political conventions is highly satisfactory. The individual ‘will prefer one nominee or the other; inWany event hg should rest assured that the next Chief Executive will do all in his power to keep the business, industrial, and agricultural life of the nation on an even keel.” The Commercial and Financial Chronicle In its July 12th issue, this spokes- man of the most important industrial JOHN W. DAVIS and banking interests of the country, strongly endorsed Mr. Davis. In its lavish praise of the Democratic nominee the Chronicle declared: “The whole business world has reason to feel gratified over the out- come of the Democratic National con- vention, In the turmoil through which this convention passed during the last two weeks, hardly any one had dared to hope for the selection as the nominee for’ President of a’ man of the calibre of John W. Davis. It can be said without reservation that Mr. Davis is qualified in every way to fill the Presidential Office should the choice of the electorate fall upon him. “Mr. Davis commands the support of all the different elements of the party. There is in that circumstance occasion for the greatest rejoicing.” PROSPERITY IS ‘DOWN AT HEELS IN CAL'S STATE 150,000 Fewer Jobs Than Last Year BOSTON, Aug. 6.—The prolonged depréssion in Massachusetts indus- © tries which began in March, 1923, con- tinued thru June, 1924, bringing em- ployment to a level 19.7 per cent be- low June, 1923, and 22.2 per cent be- low the high mark of last year, Ap- proximately 150,000 factory workers who had a job in March, 1923, are out of work today. r The average weekly pay has also been shrinking. In June it amounted to $22.79 as compared with’ $23.10 in May and $24.72 a year ago. Approxti- mately $4,000,000 has been cut from the weekly pay of factory workers in the state, nearly 25 per cent. In June as “compared with May there were decreases in the number employed in 27 of the 36 industries. Compared with a year ago every one of the 9 major industries shows a marked decrease in the number on payroll. In 5 the number fell off more than 20 per cent: cotton 26.4 per cent, boots and shoes 31.5 per cent, foun- dries and machine shops 22.9 per cent, rubber products 34.4 per cent and electrical machinery and appara- tus 28.4 per cent. Only 28.2 per cent of the manufac- turing establishments were operating full-time full-capacity during the month. In the shoe industry only 10 out of-121 plants were operating nor- mally, in the cotton goods 6 out of 48 and in woolen goods 7 out of 38. Brockton had only 5 of 34 plants op- erating normally, Haverhill 2 of 34, Holyoke 1 of 11, Lynn 4 of 33, New Bedford 4 of 28. Send in that Subscription Today. aS the Texas Co., and the Standard Oil of California} The papers are full of tosh about how Tweed- also own great acres of oil land in the Darien|ledum Coolidge spent the week-end yachting while region of Panama. The Royal Dutch Shell is here |'Tweedledee Davis passed Sunday on the links. The to contest their inroads. Now the American flag|workers will remember that these parasites pass is here, following the Yankee oil prospecters, and | their lives this way, while workers swelter in the warning the British interests to get out. Onur flag|slums and farmers sweat in the harvest sun. Is does follow oil. . a nice world! y { ‘apenamomaareranrausrea sie wort einen cre rorDAMuni tw eidttmnrs mamnmen a mere suspicion, into the same prisons with individual criminals. The greater He portion of the political prisoners. is 1 therefore without any privit . : in many res in a more condition than common criminals, — We are compelled to live in cold, drafty holes, the roots leak sanity, suicide and attempst at mur- - Sunday. land grab. In time of war American military |sailles.” Stocks rose at once on the Wall Street| prisoners have at least partial priyl-|the thefts often committed by the ‘This . fellow ot the House | | forces stationed at the Canal would not be im-)market. But we cannotforget that Versailles was|!8e8 compared to common criminals. | guards. ; 4 is good look- beg baka “ perilled by the possible misfortune that might}so “successful” that this Conference had to meet|#0¥ Sbout White Finland? Nearly to Nicieue Suerte, per: typ Tiny that the overcome tankers bringing them fuel from the]to dodge the danger of immediat eth the contrary, Only a few Sus may} Our guards are of the real “element) | Sot is DAILY ge re mediate war een|enjoy the so-called “politic® privi-|of culture,” uncivilized, harsh and tay. * Tt outside. Oil within the pipe-line reach of the Canal] and among the Allies themselves. legos,” ‘read hourgecise cruel. ‘The executioners of 1918, who| | Well for him, WORKER m Zone will release for her the warship convoy that pred and receive a portion of the de-|are unfit anywhere else, are desired because he is pre ae . +e 9 would be necessary for the protection of these] After peddling a swarm of lies about the “fail-|#¥eFed by our relatives. These “poli-|material here. Drinking bouts and| | Soins to be the toe sae re tankers. Gh tae: Movies ofitlale tical privileges” are remnants of the |rough fights among them are so gen-| | donkey's hips pe te Aig ] " ure” of the Soviet officials to preserve the body} conciliatory efforts” of the class war, eral, that even certain Fascisti pa-| | % the coming vis. ler The American flag is beginning to drip oil from} of Lenin, boasting that some enemy had destroyed|by which the bourgeoisie attempted |pers have had to demand that their election. It is ts rai h - every one of its corners, from every fringe and|it, and getting indignant because this mythical|to plaster the bleeding wounds of the|weapons be taken away from them| | Feported that peg: yaad thread of its fabric in Persia, in Sakhalien, in] enemy had been sHot by the Cheka, the plute preas|>rlstariat. | se kegel Seer care, ‘ae. srteon.,. But here: they Cy Pogewsy will see his |” bd ‘Venezuela, in the near and far east, and in Panama.|has to publish the fact that the embalmers per-|tney uro being diminished from day Ririt fie gn wonder, then, that some| | for him. fmage on the The Sinclair Consolidated owns more than a mil-|formed a miracle of life-like restoration. to day. One comrade after another, |of our comrades are overtaken by dis- Therefore, firing line at | | lion and a quarter acres here. The Gulf Oil Co., who is suspected of being an “agitat-|couragement and melancholy? Is it] | 1D the inter Riverview | or,” is transferred, on the basis of|any wonder that sudden cases of in-| | ests of the Eieek Rent |