The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1924, Page 4

ADMIRAL ASKS WARS 10 KEEP - IDLE IN EASE Beats Malthas’ Fears With Mutual Murder (Spécial to The Dally Worker) WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 13.—Visions of people top- pling off the “edges” of the nited States unless we imme- diately prepare for a war of aggression were created before an audience at the Institute of Politics at the open conference on disarmament by Rear Ad- miral W. L. Rodgers, retired. In the first frank defense of war, including war of aggres- sion as well as war of defense, that any speaker at the Insti- - tute of Politics has made in the four years of its existence, Ad- miral Rodgers declared that the United States should arm itself to defend its new immigration policy now and to seize territory from other. nations in the fu- ture with which to accommo- date its growing population. War to Keep Population Down. Admiral Rodgers quoted Professor Henry Pratt Fairfield of New York universty, who said the other day that if America’s population continued to increase at the present rate, it wo - equal the present population of Chi at the end of the century. The present population of the Unit- ed States is 110,000,000, and that of China is 410,000,000. That argument convinced Admiral Rodgers and got him to thinking, and he has found the solution. We must create new wars. In the course of his speech he made this interesting statement: “In this country we do ourselves the pleasure of maintaining the weaklings of soci- ety at the expense of the commun- ity.”. We cannot help but agree with Admiral Rodgers on this point. But we differ “a little” as to the remedy for this conditon when he proposes that we exploit the workers of other countries so that we may continue supporting the weaklings of our soci- ety. Perhaps we differ also with his interpretation of weaklings. For we understand weaklings to be those who do not work. He says we must take unto ourselves more territory and en- slave their inhabitants so that we may continue to maintain these weaklings in luxury. That is the sum total every intelligent worker will get from his speech. . The admiral made his statement after listening for three days to Pro- fessor James T. Shotwell’s elucida- tion of the American draft of a pro- posed treaty for disarmament which will come up before the League of Na- tions. Assembly at Geneva next month. Rodgers said the American plan rested on the mistaken belief that thy whole world wanted to do away with war. There might be some possibility of agreeing upon limitation of arma- ment, he said, if all the world were animated by the same abhorrence of war shown by Professor Shotwell, but he believed certain great and power- ful nations “regard successful war as @ means of getting what they want, tho too expensive for frequent use.” NEW YORK CITY Party Activities OREN AIR ae ja, ugust Section oliver ‘and Mad : oy «Pgs Sa : Joe uls be Le 4—Grand Street loxtension— Ettlinger, 8. Felshin. § Stone and Pitkin Aves.— ; Charles Brower and others. ‘ion 6—25th St. and Mermaid Ave.— in wg hen Pollack. pean Saat Nes ances 8. Fel- 1 ee teas August 16—George Esimoft, — WANTED — A citizen living in either Suffold or Nassau County, New York, who Is sympathetic to the Workers Party to go on the ballot as a presidential elector for the party. Kindly com- municate Immediately with Harry M. Winitsky, campaign’ manager at 208 East 12th Street, N. Y. City. APARTMENT FOR RENT. Couple wanted (comrades) to share 6 ey gia a agpeptld - ment Seminary ve. eo View 6982. Sts.— Primo! fan and”. others. ‘ FURNISHED ROOM WANTED. Atagie room for man. Northside pre- St, The Daily hahoiel "Box 9-A. PI 'URGH, PA, D a DENTIST ft earth Be QUALITY SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN | o""! 2427 LINCOLN, AVENUB Py on | ‘bia i eae at TH CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE / OF WORKERS PARTY CONDEMNS ‘. “VOLKSZEITUNG” ADVERTISEMENT seokeabaperheioomn The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party has issued a statement on an advertisement that appeared recently In the “Volks- zeltung,” the New York German Communist Dally, as follows: o * "= T has come to the attention of the Central Executive Committee of the Party that the following advertisement appeared In the Volkszeltung of August 1, 1924: “Purchase from the 7/2 Percent State Loan of the Kingdom of Hun- gary at the Price of $87.50 for $100. Banking House Emil Kiss, 133 Second Avenue (8th St.) New York.” The bonds offered for sale In this Advertisement are those of the counter- revolutionary Horthy government which Is now in power in Hungary. This counter-revolutionary government established itself after overthrowing the Hungarlan Soviet Government. against the workers of Hungary and During the period of its reign it let loose particularly the Communists of Hun- gary a white terror which has not been equalled in any other country. Tens of thousands of Hungarian workers and Communists were murdered and imprisoned by the Horthy government. It was only thru the intervention of the Soviet Government that some of the leading Communists of Hungary were saved from death at the hands\of Horthy. It Is a matter of shame and disgrace for the entire Workers Party that such an advertisement should appear in one of its publications and the Cen- tral Executive Committee condemns unsparingly and censures the Volks- zeitung for publication of this advertisement. , The Central Executive Committee has also adopted the following de- clsions In regard to the matter: 1—That if, after investigation, any Party member is found to have passed upon this adyertisement before publication, he shall be immediately expelled from the party. 2—That Comrade Lore, the Editor of the Volkszeitung, is instructed to immediately write and pyblish an editorial repudiating and apologizing for the appearance of the advertisement in the Volkszeitung. 3—The Central Executive Committee instructs the German Bureau to in- quire into the matter as to how the advertisement appeared and who was responsible and also appoints as a sub-committee of the Central Executive Committee Comrades Foster, Gitlow and Bittelman, who will investigate the matter and submit a report to the Central Execuive Committee. 4—The Central Executive Committee is determined to do all in its power to mye out this stain upon the revolutionary Integrity of the Workers Party. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WORK RS PARTY OF AMERICA, William Z. Foster, Chairman. Cc. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary. BILL T0 SETTLE BOUNDARY FIGHT IS INTRODUCED Irish Labor Charges Treaty Violation DUBLIN, Aug. 13.— The British parliament will reassemble on Sept. 30, in order to take action on the boundary dispute between the north- ern government of Ireland and the Trish Free State. This issue has seri- ous possibilities and the Ramsay Mac- Donald government is doing every- thing in its power to conciliate the Orangemen and at the same time make it appear that it is willing to carry out the terms of the treaty signed in 1921 and ratified by the British parliament. J. _H. Thomas. colonial secretary, journeyed to Dublin and hatched a compromise with President Cosgrave of the Free State. Mr. Thomas agreed to introduce a bill immediately de- signed to settle the boundary dispute, but to postpone debate on it until the house reconvenes, hoping that in the meantime the Ulsterites would listen to reason. Tories Defy Government. The Ulster Tories have always in the past been able to browbeat the British government into acquiescence with their desires, and they are suc- ceeding in imposing their will on the British labor government. So sub- servient hag the present government showed itself to the Tories that it commissioned the Duke of Connaught to represent the king at the Derry cor- poration (city council), which has re- pudiated the principle of majority rule, backed by the bayonets of the north- ern government. The bill introduced in the house of commons provides that, subject to confirmation of an agreement by the British parliament and the Dail Eire- ann, the northern Irish government's power to appoint a commissioner shall be transferred to and exercised by the British government and for the pur- pose of Article 12 of the treaty, any commissioners so appointed shall be deemed to be a commissioner appoint- ed by the northern government, Cosgrave Fears Fall. Failure of the British Labor govern- ment to enforce the terms of the treaty has created a serious political situation for the Cosgrave govern- ment. Fear that the republicans might take advantage of the crisis to over- throw the Free State government was responsible for the hurried trip of J. H, Thomas to Dublin, . The Irish Labor Party in the Dail demands that steps be taken to frame a new treaty on the ground that the British government has been guilty of @ breach of faith, Buy U. S. Eletric Goods. MOSCOW, Aug. 13.—The Ukrainian ,| Ukraine, reports that, in May, the vol- ume of trade done between the Ukrainian Foreign Trade Department and American firms increased several times, as compared with the preceding months, Articles purchased in the tt §. A. were mainly electro-technical cia cnet All these deals are being between sellers it any Western eripeae nat- FARRELL STEEL _ WORKER MAY WIN RETRIAL SEPT, 3 Defense Attorney Has Fifty Grounds The motion for a new trial for Tony Kovacovichy steel worker of Farrell, convicted of “sedition” at Mercer, Pa., will be argued on September 3, ac- cording to the information just re- ceived by Attorney I. E. Ferguson, who is handling the defense of the six indicted steel workers. Ferguson will argue on the new trial motion on as many as fifty grounds if necessary. He says that there are easily that many bases for granting a new trial. Many grounds deal with the evidence offered by the federal de- partment of justice agent, Lennon. Ferguson will argue on the impropri- ety of the dick’s testimony. Altho the trial of the steel workers comes in a klan-infested territory, with K. K. K. bred hysteria influenc- ing the juries, the judge is likely to grant a new trial. The many grounds of error in the previous case should be ample justification for his allowing a retrial. Wallace Metcalfe of the Labor De- fense Council, in charge of defense publicity and the raising of funds for the Farrell steel workers, has written that there is almost no money with which to carry on this important work of protecting the workers of Pennsyl- vania. The lower court’s adverse de- cisions in the Farrell cases will mean practically the outlawing of thé Workers Party in the steel territory unless enough money is raised to car- ry the fight thru the highest courts. The Labor Defense Council is plan- ning to launch a big campaign for funds to protect the six Farrell work- ers, two of whom have already been convicted. This is one of the most necessary fights facing the Workers Party, even tho not all of the workers indicted belong. No Compromise with Coolidge, Cheated Postal Clerks Say (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—Two offli- cers of the “company union” maintain- ed by high-collar men in the post- office department have started a re- port that Coolidge has “virtually” as- sured them of favorable considera- tion, after election, of a “scientifical- ly drawn” postal pay increase scheme. This rumor is repeated by the Re- publican national committee, and is inflated by the Hearst wire service to be the start for a generous postal salary move by the man who vetoed the salary bill on June 7. Officers of the postal -employes’ national unions state that no assur~ ance has been given by Coolidge, no erence has been proposed, none to be expected, and no truce with Coolidge is to be made. The 300, 000 postofiice workers are out to de- feat Coolidge because he not only cheated them out of a fair wage, but slandered them into the bargain. They do not consider his word worthy of credence, urally helps to make prices cheaper, | Send in that Subsoription Today. sv E DAILY WORKER RUSSIAN GRAIN BEATS RIVALS IN MANY LANDS Crowds Out U. S. Turkish Trade (Rosta News.) MOSCOW (by mail).—An interest- {ng survey of the Russian grain ex- port trade was made at the conference of the representatives of the “Export- Kkhleb”—the “Grain Export Trust”, held in Moscow. The London agent of the Trust, Mr. Ternakoff, told of the unfavourable conditions under which the work of the organization had at first to be started in England, as during a nine years’ interval the English market had got disaccustomed to the Russian grain. As 4s known, the main sup- pliers of wheat to England are the United States of America, then Cana- da, Argentine and Austrialia, and up to the spring of the current year the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics played but a very insignificant part among the “other” importing countries English Like Soviet Trade. Since last March however, the sit- uation changed rather notably in a favourable sense and imports of So- viet grain, more especiaily barley, have “since been rapidly growing. What is noteworthy, too, is a rapid change for the better in the general attitude of the English market to- wards Soviet grain: the British im- porters have now come to realize that under the system of foreign trade monopoly, the standard of Russian grain exports is higher than it was at the time this trade was in private hands. + As for Denmark, Mr. Stohl, agent for the export of grain at Copenhagen, reported that Denmark takes the third place among other European countries in regard to the amount of Russian bread products purchased. The con- ditions under which Soviet grain is being disposed of in the Danish mar- ket are considered on the whole to be quite favorable. Greece, Turkey Take Grain. Mr. Anikeyeff, agent for the Near East, told of the great difficulties the Grain Department of the Soviet Trade Mission at Constantinople ‘first met with in view of the competition in the Near Eastern market on the part of the American produce. It is interst- ing to note that before the Soviet made its appearance in this market, the United States imported the entire 160 per cent of the foreign imports; however, after Russia resumed opera- tions, in August, 1923, 14 per cent of all foreign imports in the Turkish market were Soviet grain, and this proportion rose rapidly to 88 per cent in January, 1924,—at which period the States did not import a single pound of bread to Turkey. At the present time, about one half of the exports of grain from the Soviet Union to the Near Eastern countries goes to Greece, and the other to Turkey. The reporter concludes by stating that the prospects of Soviet grain ex- ports to the Near East are ‘quite favourable and stresses that the So- viet can easily import into. Turkey from 80 to 90 per cent of the entire imports of wheat into that country. With regard to trade with Greece, Mr. Anikeyeff believes that the Union of Soviet Republics can import into that country about a half of the total im- ports of grain into Greece. British Producing Co-operatives Have Growing Enterprise CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 13.—The Co-operative Productive Federation of Great Britain, comprising the lead- ing producers’ co-operative societies of that country, has just released thru the All-American Co-operative Commission a report of its trade and profits for the past year. The 39 so- cieties comprising the federation pro- duced $8,389,000 worth of goods, with a net earning of $619,000 for their members. The most prosperous groups were the textile societie- which did approximatety $5,000,000 worth of business, while the co-oper- ative shoe factories came second with about half that amount of trade, The British co-operative societies have recently held a memorable con- gress in the city of Nottingham. The producers’ societies represented man- ufacture everything human beings need, all the way from toys for the children to crutches for the aged. The oldest producers’ society at the congress was the Paisley Textile Works, established in 1862, and now possessed of factories occupying sev- eral city blocks manufacturing all kinds of textile goods. The American co-operative head- quarters has received a beautiful sou- venir of the Nottingham congress produced by the Leicester Co-opera- tive Printing Society, a handsomer piece of typographical work than any co-operative society in this country has yet produced. (Christian Anti-War Week. NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—The youth of America are’ asked to participate in International Peace Week, August 3- 10, by the Free Christian Student's Union and Young People’s Union of Holland, Young people's organizations thruout Europe will participate in the anti-war demonstration, Send 4 In that Subscription Today. MISIAN CHILDREN TO THEIR A LETTER FROM THE RUS- AMERICAN COMRADES. Moscow, Red Presnin District, 11th Branch of the Young Pio- neers, at Factory “Red Defense” No. 32 Workers of the World Unite! Pioneers for the sake of the work- ing class, be ready! Dear Comrades: We are send- ing you our warm greetings. We are interested to know how you are organized. Have you got com- panies and branches? How many | branches have you got? The first day of May big celebration in Moscow. we passed the tomb of our dear unforgetable grandfather, Ilitch, we all lowered our heads and| many had tears in their eyes, Everyone reminded himself of our dear Tlitch. We celebrated the first of May but he was not among us, and he will not return to us any more. But altho he is dead, his ideas will never die! Dear children, you should never forget our dear father Ilitch! The 17th of May our branch we had a When | Thursday, August 14, 1924 five days. While in camp we helped the peasants in the field. One little pioneer, the smallest of us, asked a peasant to allow him to plough, and was actually ploughing. We are now real Pioneers. The} 23rd of May we have taken the| official oath. We had a parade} before Comrade Trotzky. Now we are called. Leninci (Leninists). llitch is dead, but he does not need any dead wreaths, but live ones. The ranks of the Communist Youth are growing constantly Our branches are also growing! rapidly. Write to us about your life. Is} your enemy very strong? Are you) helping your parents? Write to) us about your organizational -| work. The struggle for us is an| jeasy one, as Ilitch led us out to| |the wide road and we are follow- | ing his footsteps. Good bye. Write to us soon. We will be| glad to receive your first letter. | Fraternally yours, went for an excursion to camp for Stands for Communist Ticket. To the DAILY WORKER: LaFol- lette is playing the same game that Bryan played in '96. At that time the populists voted the Democratic ticket and lost their identity on the ballot in many states. At our state convention Peter Witt and George Gruth of Cleveland, were the disturb- ers and busted the Populist party in Ohio. I can now see the dirty work they are playing in Ohio thru the LaFollette movement. I am surprised at Debs and many others who are either playing as traitors or are too cowardly to stand by their colors. I was a dyed-in-the-wool Republi- ean, and I know what unscrupulous and illegal tactics were used to poll the vote. The Populist movement was destroyed by its fusing with the Democrats in the North and the Re- publicans in the South. I was a char- ter member of the Knights of Labor in Michigan and now I want to ask the old guard what other course we have as the farmers and the work- ers but to get together and give the plutes such a razzing by voting for the Workers Party that will make them hide. We have been hiding long enough. I am a full-fledged revolutionary Communist and they may call me a red or anarchist or an I. W. W., but their bluff doesn’t work on me. Put me in touch with the Ohio state organization so that I can assist with our state petition. I was pleased to see Coldwell stick; he surely is not a coward.—Otto Huber, New Richmond, Ohio. Write to This Comrade. To the DAILY WORKER—I am sending you a letter which we have received in response to our agitation to draw workers into the Workers Party. This response comes from a group of miners from Flushing, Ohio. It reads as follows: Flushing, Ohio, Aug. 7, 1924. Dear Editor of the Novy Mir—On the 5th of August I have read in your paper the Lenin appeal, which calls to the working masses to unite and be- THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS Pioneers at factory “Red De- fense,” Novo-Slobodskaya ulica, No. 24, Pioneer Branch 11, Moscow. I have rejoiced at this appeal and am ready to step into the ranks of the| Workers Party and to take with me other comrades. I am working in a mine among Russian and Polish work- ers. Altho there are only a few Rus- sians here, yet even these spend their time in vice, scandal and drunken-| ness. Please give me your advice as to how I can form a branch of the Work- ers Party here. I think that after we have a branch of the Workers Party here the Russian workers will aban- don their present mode of living. There are a few comrades here who will help me organize these workers. Comrades, please send me your ad- vice. With comradely gretings, H. M. jand F. B.—With comradely greetings, B. Borisoff, Editor Novy Mir, Russian Communist Daily. Music for Foster Campaign. To the DAILY WORKER—I have; just read the letter of Comrade Frank} Miller, New York, in the DAILY WORKER of Monday, Aug. 4. In response to his suggestion that} the workers need music, I am send- ing an original composition, words and music. I would like to see Foster rollgup a million or more votes. Faithfully, I MILITARISTS USE DEFENSE DAY FOR PROPAGANDIZING Mavors’ Plans Prove Preparedness Aim The “defenses” which the mayors of Illinois assembled in solemn meet. ing-in the Chicago Athletic Club pay {lors plan to put up on “Defense Day” or, as it is better known, “Mobiliza- tion Day,” are not designed to show what forces this nation has to “pro- tect” it from war but are directly in- tended to arouse the country for a preparedness campaign. Prayer and patriotic speeches are prominent in the recommendations of the mayors. Display of flags on |homes, shops, streets and barns is | approved. Athletic meets to demon: strate the “fitness” of the nation’s | youth for slaughter by all the horrible devices of modern warfare are sug- gested. P Is for “paytriotiem.” Pageants and parades are included in the patriotic mummery planned for Sept. 12. The children are to form tableaux and the army units are to parade for the “paytriots.” And fim- ally mass-meetings with music and speakers on “public safety” are of- fered as proper parts of the “de- fense test.” The original purpose of “Mobiliza- tion Day” was to mobilize the citizens and the regular and reserve army to |demonstrate what forces this country’ would have in the event of an out- break of war. But the tremendous wave of criticism which has swept over the government and against Coolidge for proposing this “war-like” gesture has made the militarists shift a bit and change their tactics. War Pays the Bosses. The proposals of the Illinois may- ors are sheerly for propaganda pur- poses, for propagating the idea of preparedness, for getting the country into a more susceptible temper for war preparedness, and for ultimately }introducing the next world war tothe |“common people,” the workers whq jmust fight the battles of peace and war for the capitalists until they get sense enough to shake the corpulent pests off their backs. Milwaukee Trades Council Raps Cal On Military Feelers MILWAUKEE, Aug. 13.—Notwith- standing the American Federation of Labor executive council’s refusal to |denounce President Coolidge’s Mobil- ization day stunt, the Milwaukee Fed- erated Trades council unanimously threw its hooks into the militarist scheme and voted to tell Coolidge of its disaproval. Delegates to the cen- tral body declared Mobilization day was one of the most atrocious pro- posals ever launched by the munition D. McFadden, Montrose, Colo. FIGHT FOR FIGHTING FOSTER! Hear the cry of terror springing From the hee ea Lalval swingin! (CHORUS) We will end all exploitation! i not work sh: ; — eat!” Foste: Red Administra Graft of all kinds, will ‘defeat! Farmers, Skinners, wi Those who to Let the Re Editor’s Note—The music to this song can be had upon application to the DAILY WORKER, Readers’ View come members of the Workers Party. Department. OPEN KISSING OPENLY ARRIVED AT SLOGAN OF BALTIMORE BULL BALTIMORE, Aug. 13.—Automo- bile “petting parties” were officially ‘|12 times the rate before the war, approved today by Chief Police Inspector George Henry. “It Is no more harm,” Henry said, “to kiss a girl in an automobile than to sit in her parlor with your arm around her.” Reactionary Rulers Of Serbia Fighting Labor or Movement (Special to the DAIL DAILY WORKER) BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 13.— Of the 13,000,000 inhabitunts of Serbia 540,000 may be classed as industrial workers, ‘Wages per day in paper is about Free Railroads Just as Logical as Free Bridges CLEVELAND, Aug. 13.—Toll rail- roads must follow toll bridges.. ‘This fiashed through a number of minds as with the opening of the 1,317-foot, ten-span concrete bridge on the main Chicago - Cleveland - Buffalo road the last toll bridge in Ohio was wiped out. Although the occasion was marked with addresses by important federal and state officials, not one called at. tention to the fact that it is just as illogical to permit private profit to favored corporations controlling the nation’s steel roads as it is to permit profit-making control of its dirt roads. Negroes Gain Estate. LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 13.—Ellen Davis, aged Negro servant, was today made heiress to a farm estate, includ- ing home, stock, equipment and 273% acres valued at $100,000, thru the will of her late employer, John T. Hughes. while the cost of living has gone up 16 times. The trade unions, which as a result of the revolution jumped from a pre- war membership of 20,000 to 250,000, were dissolved by the government in 1920, Since 1921 they have been al- lowed to partly re-establish them- selves, provided they are not radical. The authorities and courts are hostile to the labor movement, Alex Rankin, another Negro servant, was bequathed 96% acres. Bosses Must Quit Unions. MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 13.— Employers’ Associations in Australia are demanding that workers promot- ed to staff positions where they con- trol other workers must resign from their unions. The Melbourne Trades Hall couheil affirms its intention of preserving the right to continued Anembership. interests in time of peace. This Fellow READ A PAMPHLET! Suppose you order a supply for sale at open air meetings! You read them first and then sell them to your friend, shopmate and fellow unionist. Don’t tell him about the donkey never reading pamphlets or books. Special discount if ordered before . Sept. ist, 1924. The World’s Trade Union Move- ment, by Losovsky. 50 American Imperialism, stone ..... 15 Amalgamation, Jay Fox. 15 The Struggle Against Fascism, Be NAD ooveciess 15 For a Labor Party, by J. Pepper 20 No Compromise, No Political © Trading, W. 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