The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1924, Page 4

‘ Page Four Saturday, August 16, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $8.60....6 months $2,00..3 months | By mall (in Chicago only): | $4.50....6 months $2.50...8 montus $6.00. per year $800 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER VWAE-W. Washington Bivd. ——————— Wntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. =e 20 Chieage, IllInole J, LOUIS ENGDAHL LLIAM F, DUNN. MORITZ J. LOBB.. Editors Business Manager Advertizing rates on application, Foster Speaks Tomorrow William Z. Foster opens the Communist presi- dential campaign tomorrow afternoon in the heart of the Steel Trust realm. On Sunday afternoon thousands of steel workers will gather at Avalon Park, Youngstown, Ohio, to hear Foster flay the candidates of Wall Street, Coolidge and Davis, and puncture the pretensions of the representative of the patent medicine manufacturers, small mer- chants, and the Spreckels-Vanderlip capitalists— LaFollette. After the workers have been fed up on the plati- tudinous Coolidge, who points with pride to . wage-cutting, injunction-issuing, labor-baiting - ministrataion; on the cynically aristocratic Davis, who boasts of his long service on the payroll of J. Pierpont Morgan; on the unctious LaFollette, who cries for a return to the “golden past of 1776” while he makes alliances with ‘the most corrupt and reactionary union officials and with politicians supporting republican and democratic party or- ganization—after all this, it will be refreshing to hear the worker, Foster, proclaiming the war of the working class against all of its exploiters, the proletarian revolution, the rule of the workers thru their own councils. William Z. Foster enters the presidential cam- paign under the banner of Communism. There will be no bunk given to the workers that they can emancipate themselves by voting for Foster. On| the contrary, the Communist message in this and every campaign is that only the workigg class it-| self, in the most bitter struggle against the capi- talist class, can abolish exploitation: The presi- dential campaign is merely one of the means of rallying and uniting the revolutionary will of the workers, to give it expression, and to establish | in the minds of the working masses the great revo- lutionary lessons of the class struggle and the proletarian dictatorship. That is what Foster’s meeting tomorrow in Youngtown will mean. Exit the New Majority The New Majority is no more. Its place has been taken by the Federation News, under the editorship of James Bruck, formerly an employe of Denny Lane of malodorous stockyards memory, and pledged to the support of Gompers in all things. Such are the laws of life. For a living thing to continue to exist, it must continually justify its existence. It must make itself necessary. It must be something. It must stand for something. If it isa publication it must be wholeheartedly an advocate of one side or the other in the struggles that are go- ingon.It cannot blow hot andcold at the same time. It cannot straddle. Because the. New Majority did not observe these laws it had to die. Coming into being at a time when the Chicago Federation of Labor, its sponsor, was the foremost exponent of independent working class political action along the lines of a federated Farmer-Labor Party, the New Majority exercised quite an in- fluence and acquired a reputation of militant pro- gressiveness. But when the movement for a Farmer-Labor Party assumed proportions men- acing to Gompers and his bureaucratic lieutenants, and when Gompers began to press down upon the Chicago Federation, threatening war—then enthu- siasm rapidly waned, and by the time the great convention of July 3, 1923, came along, the fervid advocacy of a great Farmer-Labor Party had turned to antagonism. The New Majority, to gether with John Fitzpatrick and the Chicago Federation of Labor, repudiated its own creation and went back to Gompers. The scrapping of the New Majority is the final seal on the re-entry of these former insurgents into the camp of their taskmasters. It is the dutward sign that the change is complete, that the moral breakdown of July, 1923, has been followed by a complete invasion of the Chicago Federation and all its works by the agents of Gompers, Lane, Quesse, Olander, Neery & Co. The progressives are no more. At the Shrine of Coolidge Coolidge’s speech of acceptance was a combina- tion of plain talk and plain lies. As the standard bearer of the blackest of the re- actionary capitalist groups in the country and as the present incumbent in the president’s office, Mr. Coolidge could deliver no other address. He has fully lived up to all our expectations. “Cautious Cal” minces no words in serving notice upon the political doubters and skeptics that’he stands for the two party system of govern- ment oppression of the working men by the em- ployers. Of course, he hides his brutality behind a thin-but enveloping smoke screen of diplomatic verbiage. With the army of unemployed increasing by hundreds every month since he has thrown his hat into the ring for the presidency, Coolidge certainly is taking a lot unto himself and working his imagin- ation overtime to talk of the “great revival of in- dustry” that has taken place under his regime of oil and scandal. Restricted immigration, fake pro- tection, and equality of opportunity is all the President can offer the working men, The Chief Executives’ speech abounds with the perennial balderdash of high tariff being a pan- ancea for the workers and poor farmers. Mr Coolidge has in this case a weakness ‘for accuracy in numbers. He forget to tell the country that the vicious Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act has levied an additional tribute of more than four billion dollars on the masses. The high sounding but meaningless words “co-operation and diversifica- tion” are offered the farmers. And to boast of the Washington Conference as a peace gathering is to build out of cannons and war victims’ skulls a monument to international peace. This is precisely what Coolidge did in his speech. His wholehearted indorsement of the Dawes plan to enslave Germany is another sample of the peace the capitalist war makers can bring to the world. On the whole the Coolidge address is a notable contribution to the brazen declarations of the Yankee imperialists. He promises to “encourage American citizens and resources to assist in restor- ing Europe, with the sympathetic support of our government” and talks “of the mighty influence which our moral influence exerts thruout the world.” The biggest capitalist imperialist interests can stand securely on Coolidge’s platform of gold and force. The Canal Zone Celebration American governmental, naval, military and commercial authorities are now celebrating the tenth anniversary of the official opening of the Panama Canal. This is an historical event of the finest order. The Panama Canal has undoubtedly proved of great service to enhance the development of in- dustry and commerce in the Latin-American coun- tries. It has also brought closer the millions of the American continents to Asia the greatest labor market in the world. But there is another phase in the role of the Panama Canal in history. It is significant that so great a monument to human progress, that so marvelous an engineering feat as the cutting away HN aa re ta ARTO ay LL THE DAILY WORKER All Ready for the Industrial Registration ‘By JAMES P; CANNON, Ass’t. Executive Sec’y, Workers Party. LL the material for the new regis- tration of the party members is now in the hands of the branch sec- retaries, with complete plans and directions for carrying it out. On ac- count of some delay in the printing the time limit for completion of the registration by the branch secretaries has been extended until September 15. A large part of the value of the registration depends upon its com- pletion within the time set. Septem- ber 15 is the “dead line.” No real active branch of the party will go over it. The Central Bxecutive Committee is laying great stress on the Party In- dustrial Registration and is depending upon the information which we will thus gain about the composition of our party to enable us to correctly lay out our plans awd measure our forces for a number of important activities. BY KARL REEVE, NTIRELY as an afterthot, LaFol- lette comes out with a weak statement regretfully denouncing the Ku Klux Klan, and this statement is immediately followed by the’ appoint- ment of G. Victor Cools as National manager to round up the oblored vote for LaFollette. LaFollette, in glaring contrast to the Workers Party, prattles about ‘relig- ious tolerance instead of treating the Negro as a worker fighting side by side with his white brotner for eman- cipation from the capitalist class. La- Follette does not specifically take a stand on the vital problems of dis- crimination which face the Negro workers. LaFollette does not men- tion, let alone, offer a constructive solution for the discrimination against Negroes in housing, the use of Ne- groes by capitalists as strike break- ers, the lower economic standards imposed by capitalists on the Ne- groes, the discrimination against Ne- groes in reactionary trade unions, the of thousands of miles of nature’s obstacles should also serve as an agency of destruction and op- pression. The Panama Canal is one of the first lines of defense and offense in the strategy of ag- grandizement adopted by our imperialists. The Culebra Cut is serving as a short cut to the im- perialist ambitions of our ruling clique in Asia and the Latin-American republics. It will not be out of place at this time to re- count some of the other “achievements” of Amercan imperialism. The working men in the Canal Zone are not permitted to organize. Low wages and de- grading working conditions are the lot of these. Then the treaty concluded between Panama and the United States after the fake revolution en- gineered by Theodore Roosevelt in Colombia en- ables the American government to gobble up the small republic any time it sees fit to do so. Only two weeks ago the Coolidge administration grabbed another stretch of land covering twenty-two miles belonging to Panama. The oil companies, hiding in the folds of the stars and stripes, are also cel- ebrating the tenth anniversary. Millions of acres belonging to Panama have been gobbled up for oil by the Sinclair company, the Gulf Oil, and other American groups of exploiters. American capitalists are clinching their hold on European resources. They have a firm grip on the South American industries and markets. They are making great strides in Asia and the near East. The tenth anniversary of the opening of the Panama canal should serve to remind our working class of the brutal aggressiveness being developed by their bosses. Frost and Corn Prices Reactionary politicians see, or at least they pre- tend so, great relief to the suffering farmers in the recent advances in the price of corn and wheat, Loud rejoicing about the predicted return to con- servatism by the restless agrarians has filled the capitalist press. What justification is there for this? Have the farmers gotten relief in the new grain prices? It is buncombe! The farmers on the whole are as bad off as ever. Prices for wheat and corn have gone up because the farmers have less of these commodities to put upon the market. Corn ad- vanced in price yesterday above the dollar mark— but why? Because of frosts and general unfayor- able conditions for the corn crop! There will be less corn than was expected—the price goes up. But to say that the higher price for a smaller pro- duct is going to help the farmers out of their hole is the rankest kind of nonsense. The strangest thing about such propaganda is the uselessness of it. It does no good to convince the workers in the city that the farmer is all right. The farmer knows better, or at least he will know better when he cashes in on his crop. The truth of the matter, known to the capitalist class also, is that agriculture has been brought to a crisis by the capitalist system under which it must operate. And the capitalist system has no way out except the expropriation of hundreds of thousands of farmers, throwing them into the cities, there to take their place among the propertyless workers in the factories. And the only way the capitalist system has of doing this is thru the process of bankruptey. Advance in corn prices is the response to frost, not to the needs of the farming population exploitation of the Negroes on the cotton fields of the South and in the industries of the North. LaFollette, harking back to his trust busting, democratic ideas, treats the Negro problem as a moral one, and does not point out that the oppression of the Negro in America serves to divide the working class and keep the capitalists in control of the government. LaFollette is obviously guardedly “denouncing” the Klan in a belated attempt to garner votes from the Ne- groes. As a good politician he weighed the Southern White vote with the Ne- gro vote and decided to cast his lot against the Klan as a more effective Political move. Even so, the 15,000,- 000 Negroes have nothing to gain from LaFollette, and those of them who are acquainted with his past rec- ord know this. LaFollette does not advocate a con- structive program which would in any way advance the welfare of the Negro Wokers. LaFollette’s Wisconsin plat- form, which dispenses with the labor question in exactly 61 words, does not consider the Negro worthy of mention. The eight resolutions passed by the National and Illinois Conferences did not bring up the Negro question in any way. LaFollette’s statement to the Cleve- land Conference for Progressive Po- litical Action and his Wisconsin Re- publican Party platform, which he de- clared were the basis of his candidacy for the presidency, complétely ignored the Negro question. LaFollette’s past record regarding the discrimination against Negroes is unsavory. In 1920, when the Farmer Labor Party was considering him for candidate for President, LaFollette refused to in- During the election campaign it will be our duty to raise the campaign issues in every single labor organiza- tion where we have one or more party members. It is necessary to know where our members are in the various trade unions in order that we may get in touch with them and co-or- dinate their activity with the other comrades in the same union. The In- dustrial Registration will give us the information necessary to expedite this work. But that is only one illustration. The Communist work in the unions must be multiplied ten times over. The Communist International in its last letter to our’ party tdéid us this plainly. The work must be developed, concrete and practical, as well as general programs worked out for each trade and industry, and the whole party membership in the unions or- ganized into a single fighting machine. The Industrial Registration, which LaFollette Hands dorse a Negro plank passed by the Farmer Labor Convention in Chicago. Dr. Jay Peters told on the floor of the convention of the Universal Negro Improvement Association last week how “William Pickens, the Negro au- thor, went to the LaFollette progres- sive convention with a bunch of reso- lutions denouncing the Klan and was will inform the party about the trade union affiliations of the party mem- bers, is the basis upon which this work. of organization must be culcu- jated. The plans made for carrying thru this registration call for the active participation in the work of all the units of the party. 1, The branch secretary receives the material from the National Office. He supplies each member of his branch with a registration card and has it filled out and returned to him. He then copies the information on triplicate forms provided for this pur- pose and sends them to the party of- fices, designated on the forms. 2. The City Central Committee supervises and directs the registra- tion in its territory. It sends speakers to the party branches to stimulate the registration and push it forward and to check up on the branch sec- retaries who may be lagging behind. Bunk to UNFORTUNATE THAT QUESTIONS INVOLVING RELIGIOUS OPINION AND OTHER QUESTIONS UNRE- LATED TO THE VITAL IS- SUE OF RESTORATION OF GOV- ERNMENT TO THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN RAISED, I AM. UNALTER- ABLY OPPOSED TO THE EVIDENT PURPOSES OF THE SECRET OR- insulted and turned down by LaFol-|GANIZATION KNOWN AS THE KU lette’s agents.” The Illinois state convention of the /ITS PUBLIC ACTS.” KLUX KLAN AS DISCLOSED BY LaFollette C. P. .P. A, in the Auditorium Hotel, | pases his objections to the purpose of Sunday, July 27, completely ignored|the Klan on the grounds of liberty the problems of the American Ne-|loving, of tolerance, and of freedom of groes. When asked whether there was any religious opinion. Victor Cools, following LaFollette’s declaration in the Illinois State plat-|Klan statement, has been made Na- form on the Negro question, Dennis |tional Manager of the Independent McCarthy, state secretary of the Con-|Colored Voteys LaFollette for Presi- ference for Progressive Political Ac-|dent Club. In his first statement, tion, asked: “What Negro problem? |Cools cites LaFollette’s statement, “I ‘We don’t recognize any necessity for | must wrong no man,” and LaFolette’s a Negro problem.” After further questioning, McCarthy said the C. P. P. A. did not recognize the necessity for discrimination against the Negro. “Do you state that in your plat- form?” he was asked. “No,” McCarthy replied indignantly. LaFollette in his anti-Klan state- ment says, “The one, dominant, all- embracing issue in this campaign is to break the combined power of the private monopoly system over the po- litical and economic life of the Ameri- can people. To this issue, in so far as I am able, I shall hold the attention of the voters of this country. From this position I shall nof—be turned aside. HENCE I DEEM IT MOST recent Klan statement as proof that, “LaFollette gives the colored voters the first opportunity for a square deal, because he has openly challenged the right of the Ku Klux Klan to rule the country.” In direct contrast to the weak, lib- eral, religious gush of LaFollette, are the revolutionary, working class state- the revolutionary, worikng class state- ments of the Workers Party on the Negro problem. The Workers Party attacks the Negro problem on the ba- sis of “a primary demand for full so- cial, political and industrial equality of all races, and the solidarity of the working-class.” The Workers Party suggests “A drive to open the doors of all labor | MR. COOLIDGE—NEXT TO NOTHING “Up to the adjournment of Congress last June, there was not a single day when, if the full and exact truth had been told about him, he would not have been revealed as a rattled and ridiculous person who would have been’ less out of place as a county judge than he was as President of the United States. To every close observ- er it has been clear that instead of a wise, strong, silent man in the White House jwhat we really have there is as close to complete futility as any man in his position can ever get.” “In the three years he was vice-Pres- ident he made neither friends nor foes. Socially and politically, he was considered hopeless. He was as near nothing as any man we have ever had in that office, and it is no secret that had Mr. Harding lived the plan was not to renominate him. That single fact is the most revealing index of the intellectual inanimation and forceless- ness of the man.” THE MOST PERFECT MURDER TRIAL And yet this man “too weak and nondescript to run again for the vice- presidency” suddenly was “pitchfork- ed into the presidency. a “As Governor of Massachusetts and as Vice-President he had been a laugh- ing stock for those who watched him function—a thoroly commonplace, col. orless person with a neat little one- cylinder intellect and a thoroly pre- cinct mind. A docile product of the Murray Crane machine . . in the matter of the Boston police strike, he had to be forced to act and did not deserve the credit he got.” “Not in the memory of any one now living has there been a President who leaned so heavily on this newspaper tendency to praise and protect, who profited by it so much, who would shrivel so quickly if he lost it, as Cal- vin Coolidge.” “Regularly, the insignificant, insipid, almost meaningless remarks of Mr. Coolidge are vitalized by the corre- spondent so as to seem human, force- ful agd thoughtful, The inanity and inadequacy of the man are never re- vealed.” (From “Mr. Coolidge” in the “Am- erican Mercury,” published by Alfred Knopf, for August; written by Frank R. Kent, explaining the legend of the “strong, silent man” in the White House.) eee “For Plymouth, Vermont, and for Calvin Coolidge, the individual is the thing that must do the real walking and the trade union and the govern- mental bureau are mere possibly nec- essary occasional crutches. . . The remedy for poverty is early hours of rising, long hours of laboring, and the personal acquisition of personal pos- sessions. . . The thought that with- out them (the trade-union and govern- mental bureau) a man may remain poor has no terrors for an antique Vermonter. “Calvin Coolidge’s politics is a poli- tics professional in the extreme. . . training in the Murray Crane school of politics in Massachusetts. Senator Crano was one of the greatest known practitioners of noiseless and in vis. ible successful politics, He seldom addressed the Senate. His speeches were speeches into the ears of indi- viduals. . .In his school Calvin Coolidge was an apt pupil.” (Mr, William Hard, in “Hoart's In- ternational” fails to stress the speeches into Coolidge’s ear which r show in his subsequent stand on leg- islative or administrative matters. He mentions Mellon's advice on the tax bill, which Coo! took.) Send In that Subscription Today. It orders from the National Office a supply of registration material to take care of the needs of larger branches whose initial supply from the Na- tional Office is not sufficient. 8. The Industrial. Organizers, for whose work the Industrial Registra- tion is a first necessity, push it. for- ward all along the line and do not allow it to be sidetracked until the job is finished. 4. District Organizers supervise and direct the registration thruout every district. They make it an item in every communication to the branches during the coming month and put life into the work by means of confer. ences and pérsonal discussions with the comrades responsible for the regis- tration in their respective units, The completion of the registration by September 15 will be a real achievement for the party. Let us all put our shoulders to the wheel and accomplish it, Negroes unions which now discriminate to the full and equal admisison of Negro workers, with the demand for equal wages and no discrimination in ob- taining work, and for the complete or- ganization of Negro labor with the white workers in the same unions. This involves the need of educating the white workers to eradicate the in- fluence of capitalist propaganda which purposely plays each race against the other. We stand uncompromisingly which will wrest control from the capitalists and take over the indus- tries for the use’ 6f the workers who While LaFollette harps on moral- ity, and the days of free competition, the Workers Party stands for the sol- idification of all workers—both white” and black—into one mighty power produce all wealth. ELECTION LICKS. By WILLIAM SIMONS. Sam Simp pleads that presidential nominees should be allowed at least six months before being ,notified of the choice. Otherwise, complains Sam: “How can they have their speeches ready?" If Sam weren't Simp, he'd know who writes the nominees’ speeches, A Communist candidate has an easy job. He stands for a program he believes In. But the others wiggle, and wiggle, and are quite uneasy. No capitalist. program is so involved, that a Communist cannot see through it. For sale: A lotion which transforms conservatives into progressives. Only one application necessary. Davis, Cool- idge- and LaFollette applied it, and now listen to them. LaFollette didn’t have to be notified that he was nominated by the Simp Cc. P. P. A. at Clevaland. He notified them. La Follette needed no extra time for his acceptance speech. It was read to the Conference before the nomination. ‘Wouldn't it be hell if Morgan and La- mont, and their politiqal puppies, Mellon and Hughes, stay in England so long that they lose their vote at the coming election? Catch them losing anything! ‘With out leading “economist and boot- legger”’ and “diplomat and oil hound” on the other side, why doesn’t the coun- try go to the dogs? Because they are already in control. To try to get away from the toboggan, the S. P. are grabbing on to the tail of LaFollette’s political kite, As the bad book says, “Folly rises but to fall.” Prominent socialists have been noticed practicing kissing King Bob's hand, and &neeling before him. They say it would be adding to the impressiveness, if court costume were allowed. They have already received some point- ers from their fellow socialists and la- borites across the sea. For retrogressive Hamlets. not to bolt. To bolt or That 1s the question. All's right with the world. The League of Nations Labor Bureau is still gather- ing information. And who is so qualified to solve the labor problems of China as the yellow socialist, Albert Thomas? The electoral college, a relic of the medieval Holy Roman Empire, will in- evitably be scrapped in our unholy In- dustrial Empire, in favor of the hysiness college. ‘ — The Big Show Ladies and Gentlemen:—Announcing the world’s \greatest. contest. Modern style. Guaranteed bloodless. Both mem- bers of the House of Morgan, Greatest Punch and Judy Show of the age. Dan+ difled Davis vs. Calculating Cal. Ad- mission free. Costs you absolutely noth- ing NOW. Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, Last show for four years. 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