The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1924, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER . Tuesday, August 19, 19: f i ALL AFRICA IN REBELLION, IS (Continued from Page 1.) ICTOR BERGER has a rather nov- AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY, ress, but it travels mighty quick the Small ticket was endorsed against the MORGAN GETS STRANGLEHOLD Prince’s Cards Show Fate That Awaits CLERGYMAN WITt OBSCENE TONGU! ( ir agitation for the over-|Other way. The culmination of that . FLAYS PACIFIST: FP RT Reba eR Le body’s orgy of treachery to the work-| ~ ig j ais f gies ing class had its culminating point . $ LES, 8 last Sunday whe®the LaFollette- Rotarians Have Ment: Fall Rights Demanded by Negro Communist By ROBERT MINOR. (StaffewFlter Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, August 18.—A flash of light was thrown upon the international character and wide political interests claimed by the convention of Negro peoples of the world, now in session here, under the auspices of the Universal Negro Improve- ment Association, when Marcus Garvey, president of the organi- zation, interrupted the proceed- ings to read to the delegates two dispatches, one telling of an uprising of natives of the Sudan in Africa and the other of the defeat of both the French and the Spanish troops by na- tives of Morocco. The large Negro audience, composed of a thousand or more Harlem Negroes and also of delegates from many colonies of colored population, from the West Indies to the French and British possessions in Africa, shook the roof of Liberty Hall with their cheers and shouts of joy. Greets Importance of Revolt. “Some of us may not know the tre el idea of running a column. Only very rarely does he write any- thing original beyond an introduction to a clipping from some other pa- per. In a recent issue he quotes a certain Frank Putnam on the Dawes plan, Berger is opposed to the plan, not because it adds new burdens on the German workers, but because it imposes new burdens on the “mighty German race!” This is about as far as the Socialism of Victor Berger really ever got. Scratch a Socialist of the Berger type and you will find a potential Fascist. Like another An- glo-Irish alleged radical, writing in a Hindoo sheet on the Irish and Indian questions, who weeps over the spec- tacle of his “race” fighting each other and asking that “God rest the souls” of the foolish statesmen who signed the peace treaty with England in 1921, Berger is for a united front in Ger- many of the workers and capitalists against the allies. . . ‘HE radical movement in all coun- tries has suffered from an over- dose of these muddleheaded bufoons, but the longer they are tolerated the worse for the movement. Berger was always an eye-sore in the Socialist Party, but anything went in that or- ganization, with the inevitable result. Berger was not against tle war for the same reason that Karl Liebknecht was against it in Germany. Berger was merely against the Allies and realized that when America entered the war on the side of the Allies, the protests of the Communists, the only faction to stand for the principle of working class political action. The Socialists as usual were first in trea- son to the interests of the workers, The progressivism of the Chicago Federation of Labor has been washed jaway, It did not take long to do the washing. Fitzpatrick and Nockels had to choose between the Gompers wrath and the cozy snugness of a po- sition basking in the sunlight of capi- talist approbation and the security of fat salaries, more than necessary to renew the portion of the pants most worn by labor leaders. Oe URING the discusston at Sunday's meeting of the Federation, an alleged radical, Anton Johannsen, took occasion to reflect on the sinceri- ty of the Communists who supported the Foster-Gitlow ticket on the ground that they were employed by the Work- ers Party and therefore paid to sup- port the ticket, Communists, said Jo- hannsen, never.turned down a chance to take a trip to Moscow, and added that if Russia is so very good and America so very rotten why don’t they stay in Moscow? If Johannsen had any originality he would invent something newer than that in the form of a re- tort uncourteous. That is what the capitalists say to the worker who de- mands a higher wage: “If you don't like this job, why the door is open,” This Babbitry passes vogue with the average “dumbell,” but it should be beneath Mr. Johannsen. However, when an anarchist hits the toboggan Socialists and Bankers Clinch Dawes Plan (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LONDON, August 18.—What may turn out to be a second treaty of Versailles was signed in London when the German and French delegates to the London Conference agreed on the conditions for the evacua- tion of the Ruhr, the only ob- stacle in the way of putting the Dawes plan into operation. The reparations protocol was signed by the Allied and Ger- man representatives. Premier Ramsay MacDonald having done good work for capitalism was ready to go away for a vacation, The bankers and their political lackeys, were get- ting ready to leave London. There was an air of optimism everywhere. The bankers had won. Bankers Accomplish Purpose. It took a month’s hard work for the bankers to accomplish their purpose. But they have plenty of time, Im- ‘portant factors in the peacemaking were the American ambassador Kel- logg, Col. James A. Logan and the So- cialist premier, James Ramsay Mac- Donald. MacDonald Rule By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. i Rah the Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne, is spending his idle hours at Deauville, the French sum- mer resort for the parasite rich of Western Europe and the United States. The only job the prince has on his hands is waiting for his father, the King of England, Emperor of India, and a lot of other titles, to die, so that he can step into his shoes. The prince drinks whisky sodas until he can’t ride a horse without falling off, divides his nights between the dance palaces of London and Paris, and leads the usual dis- solute life that lost King Manuel, of Portugal, his throne, with Alfonso, King of Spain, next on the list to go. The prince tried to week-end at Le Touquet, on the Normandy coast, while the real ruler of the Empire, Premier James Ramsay MacDonald, patched things up in favor of the Dawes reparations scheme across the channel, in Lon- don. The prince isn’t worried over the so-called “labor” rule that MacDonald is giving England. As long as MacDonald rules, the prince knows that the next coronation ceremonies will go ahead, in Westminster Abbey, according to the customs of a thousand years. The eee main worry was that Le Touquet was rather dull, so he motored over to Deauville, the flashy sur- roundings of which are more suited to his royal tastes. He had a hard time breaking into the Casino, the Mecca of Europe's gamblers, but he got in, not because the proletarian door tenders knew him, but because he had “friends” on the inside. * * . * * ‘The cables tell us that the Garbage for Desert (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Lieutena Colonel John H, M. Dudley, pastor the First Congregational church Elizabeth, N. J., speaking at a Rota:, club luncheon recently, outdid “Bill; Sunday in the picturesqueness of h vocabulary, as he “threw the hook; into the Communists, pacifists and « those who opposed another capitali war. The reverend disciple of the Lo: frothed at the mouth as he combe the vocabulary of obscenity for e pressions filthy enough to convey { his hearers the thoughts that domina ed his mind. A few excerpts from h speech, taken at random, will suffic to give the DAILY WORKER reade: a mental picture of this religiou maniac. He Swore by Jesus. “The pacifists are radicals and th Communists are pacifists. They don like these United States because, Go damn it, we make them work.” Thi from a sky pilot who never did a day’ work in his life. “There is an insidious and growin, group who believe in the dictatorshi of the proletariat. They are all pac! fists. I don’t mince words about thes: birds. Why, it makes my blood boi when I think of these dirty, lousy long-haired people who want to divid up the country.” Lots of Them. Bin rince played baccarat, with After the holy man wiped the frott mendous import of this moyement,”|#iser's goose was cooked. - ae pg in , Seana corey etik Cette bad luck, and then changed to chemin Vs fer at tables where |from his mouth, he continued: “They ‘i course than a reformed rouge who are honeycombing the United States aon, a re woawiaee a ait ACIALISM, nationalism, or any/gets religion and goes in the general | were responsible for the bloody war Here the prince con- " oJ delight. we are doing accOunts for a great deal of misunderstanding, as ex- pressed by some of our critics, “The international character of our movement and its determining pur- poses are so marked that we cannot but feel happy and glad when certain things happen which are in accord with the spirit in which we are work- ing. Now and then things occur in which our movement is especially in- terested—especially things that are happening in Africa, for we must re- member that our supreme purpose is to free and redeem the African conti- nent for the colored: people who are entitled to have it and to work out their destiny there. “Now, some things have been hap- pening there which are of great in- terest and importance, and yet which some people do not pay much atten- tion to because they do not realize the significance of them. Yet they are events which show the immense work that the association is doing. They show that we are dealing with a sen- timent that cannot be destroyedy-the other superstition that divides the workers of the world against each other, has no place in the Communist movement. Anybody suffering from any of these diseases should not be tolerated in a position where he is al- lowed to mislead the workers with a perversion of Communism. National- ism is one of the evils we must fight. Religion is another. Color and race distinctions are others, It is true that the fight on the part of the Irish na- tionalists and the Hindoo nationalists and the colonials against the big cap- italist nations should be supported by Communists, but for a Communist to blubber about his “race” and talk of unity of workers and capitalists is an entirely different matter. ee ae ‘HE Irish struggle against the Black and Tans supported by the Irish labor movement, offers a good example of the folly, of the working class sacrificing themselves in bour- geois quarrels. After the treaty cre- ating the Free State was signed, both factions, those who were opposed to the wording of the treaty and those direction of Christ, * . . R. JOHANNSEN is an unphilo- sophical anarchist. He poses as a skeptic and sneers at the passing show. But perhaps there is method in his madness. A man who is able to command a salary of $100 a week from* the Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, for organizing sales, ac- cording to Mr. Johannsen, does not find his radicalism so much of a li- ability. And Mr. Johannsen, would resent the suggestion that he will vote for Coolidge and Dawes, or Davis and Bryan or LaFollette and Wheeler or whatever capitalist com- bination his paymasters are behind, merely because he is working for the Automobile plutes. During the July 3rd conference, in the midst of the confusion caused by Fitzpatrick’s de- sertion of his position on independent workingclass political action, Johann- sen sagely whispered into the writer’s ear: “This fight is made for nothing else except to save the jobs of two men.” The two men were Fitzpatrick and Nockels, which the erstwhile pacifist opposed was a testimony to the elasticity of that gentleman’s political creed, Depends on German Workers. The German Reichstag is expected to pass the necessary legislation on August 15, so that the Dawes plan can be set to work at once, The DAILY WORKER has already made it quite clear that operation of the Dawes plan depends on the German working class. It is out of their flesh and blood the profits must come to pay the reparations, and the millions the international bankers will receive in commissions for fioat- ing the $200,000,000 loan. From the point of view of practical politics in the immediate sense the suecesstul conclusion of the London conference is a feather in the hat of Ramsay MacDonald. He now stands high in the estimation of the interna- tional bankers. Perhaps none of the leaders of the bourgeois parties of England could ‘accomplish what he has for high finance. MacDonald, Socialist, was able to call Premier Herriot, radical Social- there were women in og ad numbers, tinued to lose at 20,000 rancs {$1,000) per clip. . * * The Chicago Tribune’s Foreign News Service says that the prince ‘had an unpleasant expression when he lost.” This was no doubt due to his inability to display any worth- while agility as a gambler before the women present. It is certain that the loss of the money did not bother him. Why should it? The funds for the royal family, totalling many millions annually, are provided by the liberal financial policy of the socialist secretary of the exchequer, Philip Snowden, whose recent budget received the unani- mous applause of Britain's greatest bankers, iJ * * But it is most significant that at the hour the prince was losing money, of which he had never earned a cent, at $1,000 per throw, Premier MacDonald was closing the Lon- don Conference with what the capitalist press refers to as a fr geo: incident. MacDonald was bidding farewell to the capitalist no ig of the continent, who had joined with him in enslaving the workers of Germany, for years to come. Then the Associated Press correspondent reports what happened as follows: “The signing of the documents was ended and the British prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, was shaking hands all around. When he came to Chancellor Marx (Germany), the prime minister, still grip- ping the chancellor’s hand, led him to where M, Herriot, the French You will find them in your homes, in your drawing rooms, yea, perhaps in your bedrooms, drinking tea with your wives and daughters. They are every: where. Look in the telephone book. There are a thousand and one socie- ties spreading Communism. “The wheels of progress have been stopped by a few men in congress. It began seven years ago in Tampico, Mexico, when Soviet agents hatched @ plot to go into the western states of this country and by getting into poli- tics, create a bloc in congress.” Then, as if seized by a fit, he danced and shrieked, his face livid and flecks of foam flying from his mouth in all di- rections, he supttered: “And now, by Christ, they’ve done it” . Out for Blood. Even the Rotarian babbitts were getting a little bit nervous, War is all right at a distance, but to have a lunatic paint its virtues to them while enjoying a good dinner was not at all to their taste. The chairman pulles the sky pilot’s coat tail, but he took that for encouragement, and he blast- growing and persistent sentiment for|who favored it, entered into a com- Soa ~ ist, comrade, and send greetings to| premier, was standing, surrounded by friends. ed away at that section of the popu- African freedom and redemption|pact which was to eliminate the Irish EN like Johannsen may feel that bier ae pelts ge (Pcaag er “Without a word, so the story goes, Mr. MacDonald lifted M. |jation which believes that, if possible, hi ir organization. Labor Party from the political field i: ocialist, er " Herriot’s right hand and joined it with that of Dr. Marx. Then he ‘s which is behind our org ‘Ga contac oma cal field in the workingclass are unap-| Social democracy “doing its stuff” for ‘a j the people should be given an oppor. All Africa Afire. “You should know that every sec- tion of Africa has stirred itself to this same sentiment, which grows and The workers were told to sit back and let the bat- tle over the treaty be fought free from “class issues.” The workers, after preciative of their sacrifices. There- fore they desert the class struggle and go over to the enemy, not openly as labor leaders used to do, once upon the international bankers and the lat- ter are not unappreciative. To Start Evacuation Soon. stepped back, smiling genially, while the Frenchman and the German tightened the grip and shook hands cordially.” * * * © tunity to die a natural death, After informing the now thoroly frightened Rotarians thag there were “hoe 400,000 ‘Communists in’ the United their big sacrifices, were rewarded In order to dull the sharp edge of It has thus remained for a “labor” premier, with the sagt Wpreads thru all the colonies. Mo-lwith inguits, by both factions. Since ih 7D aad and more | nationalist German resentment, the| shadow of a gambling prince awaiting to be king in the brandi be poh gett oll rocco is in rebellion, the Sudan, East|then Republi ’*!French have agreed to start with- r © cement the capitali: ies betwee: nce 4 Africa, West Africa—all of the peo- epubloans and Free Btatets | not 90 long ago, it was con-|s 100 : henkgrounds- © spmnent the sapien See eg ples there are responding to this great urge for liberation. I have just received a letter from South Africa which states that the downfall of have united in local cases to rob the workers of their standard of living. It is sheer treason to talk of a united front of all Irishmen against the Brit- sidered a crime for a labor leader to go over to the master class. But it is no longer a crime. The labor fak- ers have built themselves a_philo- drawing the troops immediately after the Dawes plan starts to function, It is reported that the visit of Charles Evans Hughes to Paris and and Germany, for the further mutual enslavement of the | workers and farmers of both countries. Marx is fighting for the triumph of the rich exploiters over Workers’ R tuted for a government of decent men? For God’s sake, get out and vote!” He denounced the Christian Cen- le in Germany. Herriot is doing the same | t Protestant publication, for de- ish Empire. Th rticularly his conversation with} ‘ b aerali 4 ury, & e P . Generel Smuts in Bouth Atrios’ wasll pone 23 ar ese Barty Pall ee: sophy in which they clothe their olasars, Oh smoothed the way for} in France, They unite their forces, to better crush labor in |fending the Soviet government and absolutely due to the activities of the| sants against British rule. There can real 5 wes pote) reat |Herriot in the French parliament.| both Germany and France, and Pani 8 have baer blessing of hve | “to join hands with those natives. never be a united front of all cl ti S col | Hughes was able to tell Poincare that} J. Pierpont Morgan, the Strikebreaker President of the |damned scalawags. “And the Moors. The° Moors are “asses |laboration. From Gompers down to beating Spain, and they have shat- tered her armies until they have prac- tically upset the government of Spain which is now in a precarious condi- tion.” After Mr. Garvey had read the two dispatches from two afternoon news- papers, and after the demonstration ‘was quieted, the convention passed into consideration of a plan for the formation of the proposed “Universal Negro Political Union.” It must be explained that the Negroes use the term “universal” in the sense of “in- ternational.” The operations of the proposed union would, according to indications gathered from the speeches, be of an anti-imperialist na- ture thruout all colonial and semt-in- dependent Negro countries, but as to their nature, within the United States there is less clear indication as yet. There is some reason to think that the leaders intend to operate in the United States on the basis of select- ing individual candidates on Repub- lican and Democratic tickets who are supposed to be “good” to Negroes’ in- terests—in short, the same plan which Gompers has so disastrously applied to the labor union movefnent. But it is impossible as yet to make sure what the domestic policy of the Ne- gro Political Union will be. Communist Moves for Equality. An attempt was made by Mrs. Olivia..Whiteman, Communist dele- gate,.to have the appeal to governors of southern states, which was passed the day before, reopened for reconsid- eration. “I make this..request,” said Mrs. Whiteman, “because 1 notice for one thing that the resolution says that the Negroes donot seek social equality. Now I dow’t "think there is a man or woman here who does not think that he or she is the social of any dé in a capitalist country except to the disadvantage of the workers. Re Bch ‘HE Chicago Federation of Labor was always slow in making prog- hope there is no such person her While attempting to read her marks, which she had written out, Mrs. Whiteifian was ruled out of or: der. She then handed to the press table her statement, which reads in part: ‘ . “I for one intend to fight for the equality of my people—any kind of equality, and every kind of equality, everywhere—including social equality. W. P. For Social Equality. “IT am not @ republican, as so many Negroes are. And I am not a demo- crat. I am a Communist, a member of the Workers Party. And in that political party we believe in and prac- tice the dignity of the Negro people as the equals of anybody, As a Com. munist I could not give my consent that the Negro should give up his de- mand for social equality, or to con- sent to any limitation of the equality of the Negro. “Social equality’? Well, what is social inequality? That means Jim Crow! That means being kicked and cursed around as an f{nferior, and be+ ing exploited more and paid less than the white person, and lynched if we don’t get off a sidewalk tor some bully with a white face, “I think we are obliged, for our own dignity, to reconsider this matter. J also think the resolution is mistaken in being addressed to the southern authorities instead of Negroes.” Requests Correction, William A, Wallace, a Chicago lead- er of the Universal Negro Improve- ment Association, today told me that he believes I did him an injustice in reporting his actions ia the conven the socialist party there is a united front open or unanavowed. And it is not surprising to find a frothy wind bag of an ex-anarchist joining the anvil chorus. tion during the Klan resolution: “Facts are facts,” said Mr. Wallace, “and you have a right to print them, I don’t object to the facts you printed, but when you expressed your view of my amendment, that it completed the surrender of the Negro’s manhood rights, you certainly were not fair, You should have taken Into consider. ation what my purpose was, I in. tended in a diplomatic way to accom- plish the very thing that you contend should be done—that is, to overcome the completely weak resolution of Bishop McGuire. “When the objection was made to my amendment ‘condemning’ the Klan, it is true that I consented to change it to read ‘we protest against the atrocities and brutalities alleged to be perpetrated,’ ete., but this was only for the purpose of diplomatically doing something to strengthen the stand we were to take.” “But, Mr, Wallace,” I said, “what I mainly referred to was the assurance you were giving that the Negroes would not demand ‘social equality,’ which I contend is a term behind which the white ruling class robs the Negro of any sort of right they de- sire to take away from him.” Doesn't See Point. Mr. Wallace replied: “Even tho he sees fit to use that term for the purpose you state, never- theless I contend we do not have to accept his interpretation of the Phrase, but rather concentrate our of: forts on @ social standard that is ap- plical both, automattcally creat- ing an ity of social basis,” ‘ e on the Ku Klux the United States government was behind the Dawes plan and any French statesman who succeeded in|" overthrowing the Herriot government by an appeal to French chauvinism, would find a bill collector from the United States at his door, very short- ly asking embarrassing questions about the French debt. This club knocked belligerency out of Poincare with the result that he sent Louis Lucheur to London to inform Herriot that if the latter insists on a year’s time to evacuate the Ruhr, Poincare’s opposition in parliament would not be serious. That is the way the political situation stands at present and it is not expected that the French nation- alists will dare the wrath of the Unit- ed States government. - Chicago’s High Cost Of Living Greater Than Any U. S. City The cost of living in Chicago has gone up higher than in any other city in the United States, according to the latest survey of the department of la- bor. The cost of living in Chicago is 72 per cent higher than it was in 1914. “Eternal City” Fascist Propaganda. MILES CITY, Mont., Aug. 18,—The Trades and Labor Couneil of this city has gone on record as condemning the film entitled “The Bternal City.” This picture, which is advertised as a mod- ernization of Hall Caine's novel, is in reality a vehicle for anti-labor and Fascist propaganda, The action was filmed in the nation ruled by the black shirts, and shows, among other things, @ dagger hurled at a worker's door, bearing a warning against strikes, and also shows a close-up pose of Musso- lini. Get a member for the Workers Party. United States, Cal Coolidge, and the “British “labor” pre- mier, MacDonald, ; * * * Over on the continent the prince risks another $1,000 at the Deauville gambling tables. He loses. So the MacDonald “Jabor” government in Great Britain must lose, because it is not labor, it does not fight to win for | labor. MacDonald may read his government's fate in the cards that turn up for the prince at the French gamblers’ resort. And he may read his own fate in the fact that the rank and file of the Labor Party is in revolt against his-policies. Bhs fia branches of the Labor Party are demanding affiliation with the Communists in resolutions sent to the next Labor Party Congress. Picnic and Song Festival FINNISH PICNIC GROUNDS, Lorain Ave. and W. 117th SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1924 PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS: Bohemian Singing Circle Star, Hungarian-American Singing Society, Ukrainian Children’s Club, Lithuanian Lyric Society, Slovak Singing Society, Freiheit Dramatic and Singing Society, Ukrainian Dramatic ’ Club, Finnish Singing Society, Hungarian Children’s Club. Come and bring your friends. Take Lorain 117th car and walk five blocks south. If you can sell tickets, notify John Fromholz, 8606 Clark Ave. and same will be mailed to you. Refreshments on Grounds. BENEFIT GERMAN WORKERS’ RELIEF ADMISSION 10 CENTS ’ AUSPICES, FRIENDS OF SOVIET RUSSIA. The Rotarians applauded vigorously - at the end of the speech, evidently glad the ordeal was ended. Some of them said he had it all over on Billy Sunday and that he was the type of preacher the country needed, the kind that would “send the God damn paci- fists to hell.” , Distribute a bundle of the DAILY WORKER'S first Special Cam) in Edi- tion, dated Saturday, August ‘When speaking to your neighbors, ends and shopmates and urging jem to support and vote for Wil- Mam Z. Foster, the working class candidate for president, at the iter’s book: AN Al JOGRAPHED COPY “THE GREAT STEEL STRIKE AND ITS LESSONS” fight for organization and recog- nition, led by William Z. Foster. Literature Department, Workers rary, of America 1113 W. Washin, Bivd., © Chicago, Il.