The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1924, Page 6

sow NON HER PANN ERNE SS A Te I HSN Sem eons Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Tuesday, August 19, 1924 | ala au ll el EU cE iD eT SS Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.60 ....6 months $2.00..3 momthe By mail (in Chicago only)? $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....8 mont'ss (Os eam a Rta an ee Address all mail and make out chécks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. —_—————$—$—_$ NGDAEL | .EAltors $6.00 per yea> Chicago, IMlinols J. LOUIS Restoring World Trade Tho the ink is not yet dried on the Dawes pact, many financial experts are in a race to pronounce the acceptance ofthe new reparations scheme as a step heralding the advent of a new, vigorous revival in world trade. The failure of the London conference to break up in the fashion of several of its predecessors will, no doubt, serve to delay the overthrow of the Herriot ministry in France and the MacDonald government in England. As to its effect on the po- litical situation in Germany, one must hazard-a guess with far more caution. Then the likely (Continued from Page 1.) headquarters, and had arrested John R. Campbell, the editor of the “Work- ers’ Weekly,” official organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Campbell, who was editor of “The Worker,” of Glasgow, the weekly British organ of the Red Internation- al of Labor Unions, had just come down to London to edit the “Work- ers’ Weekly,” owing to the fact that Court, Campbell appeared before the magistrate for his hearing. Formal evidence was offered by Detective- Sergeant Parker, chief of the Special Branch (the anti-Red section) of Scotland Yard, of having arrested Campbell and of having seized and carried away documents from the Communist headquarters. Under $1000 Bail. Thereupon the Prosecution request» Campbell is a, bright, clean-shaven man, of slightly under medium height. He is 29 years old. He limps because both his feet were blown off in the war, Was War Hero. That is the irony of it! During the war, Johnnie performed an act of cool gallantry which won him notice and reward. He leaped forward to pick up a German bomb and hurl it Indictment of Campbell Hits “Labor” Government munist Party is concerned in secur- ing another printer for their official organ, They state that their present printers, after a visit from Scotland Yard, cancelled their contract with the party. It looks like being a tough job to find another printer. Workers Disgusted With Mac, Coming at this time, when Left. wing dissatisfaction is growing in the Labor Party and the trade unions, ka . UN 7 10 ole a 7 -Slovaki ed an adjournment of seven days,|back towards the enemy. At the mo-|the arrest and trial of Johnnie Camp- / Monies TOBE. a ..Business Manager whe ng mone _ pierce me ays ree sad Palme Dutt, its regular editor, had] which was granted. Bail, in two sure-|ment he got there, it exploded, and |bell should have a tremendous effect. 7 e ai _—| their militarist aiiiante: with imperialist *Tance /been ordered into the country for a] ties of one hundred pounds each, was|both Johnnie’s feet were gone! He|The Communist Party of Great Brit. ; Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post-|does not appear just now to be a force making for |rest, after a severe nervous break-Jallowed, and, the necessary formali-|walks without a cane, the stumps of|tain believes that this example of 4 Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879./! European political stability. |down. ‘ ties having been complied with, |his feet—the heels are left—thrust in-|Labor Party Government tactics will { Without doubt the first effects of a huge Anglo- A Capitalist Charge. Johnnie Campbell-<as he is known to|to ordinary shoes; and all that shows |alienate hundreds of militant work- y <p 290 Advertising rates on application, American loan to German industrialists will be| The charge againss Campbell is hundreds of friends and admirers—|of his injury is a slight limp in his |ers, who will rally to the Communist —— : i DP ROPE Ra Ge aig |that of “seducing members of His Ma-|!imped briskly from the Court to the |quick gait. Party as being the only real expres- é ree ‘ towards a revival in German industry. If Germany |jesty'’s Forces from their allegiance.” | Street, where a small army of press} And this is not all; for Johnnie also|sion in Britain of a fighting revolu- ‘ Shall Courts Choose Union is to foot the bills and mortgages fixed for her by |'The charge is based on two articles, | Photographers awaited him. received a bullet thru the neck while |tionary policy. Stress is laid on the Officers? When Judge Hurley opens the case of the In- dustrial Workers of the World in the county court today, the issue that will really be raised is whether the ofticers of a union shall be chosen by capitalist judges. attitude of the members of the I. W. W. who find new officials chosen for them by Judge*Hurley? A partial answer to this question is found in a reso- lution adopted by the Building Construction Work- ers Industrial Union No. 330 of the I. W. W., Chi- cago branch, which says on this point: “That all industrial unions, branches, and mem- bers refuse to recognize any and all officials ap- any or all capitalist judges.” ‘ ss-conscious worker will applaud this on of the Building Construction Workers. organization of workers that makes the slightest pretensions to revolutionary or working class principles, can for one moment accept the in- tenference of a capitalist court in its internal af- fairs. Injunctions against workers were made to be disobeyed. A thousand times is this true of an injunction that attempts to name the officials of a union. No the Dawes plan, this revival will have to be strong enough to enable her to export a sufficient quantity of her commodities which will bring about for the Reich a favorable international trade balance. In the last resort international loans and debts are met in the terms of a transfer of commodities. Granted, then, that the Dawes plan works to perfection in bringing about an industrial revival into the European continental market mean to British tradesmen and industrialists? If theGerman revival is real enough to enable it to export sufficiently for its payments to the Jeneral Reparations Agent, then its effect on American and British industry will be detrimental. Since the declaration of war in 1914 American and British capitalists have had the world markets all to themselves, with practically insignificant German competition. There is no use in blinking the fact that a restored powerful German industry will compel’ these capitalists to cede considerable ground to their German competitors. At hofme, in England and America, this conflict for new and old markets between the various national groups of capitalists will mean only lessened production. At best, therefore, the Dawes plan will tend to produce a shifting rather than an increase in the volume of world trade and industry. |appearing respectively in the num- ‘bers of the “Workers’ Weekly” dated |July 25 and August 1. These were the | special anti-war numbers. In the July |25 number there was an “Open Letter to Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen.” In | this letter, the members of the forces |were urged neither to fight in capi- |talist wars, nor against the workers in industrial ‘When I say that Johnnie has hun- dreds of friends and admirers, I am not using an empty complimentary phrases. Campbell is well-known, es- pecially among the Scotch workers. He is known nationally among the militant workers as editor of the fighting “Worker,” and he ts known to the workers of his native city of An Unsa 'HE recent sessions of the London Reparations Conference have brot many American diplomats and bank- ers into prominence. Before Europe and the rest of the world fully pays the effects of the decisions arrived at by this gathering of the saviors of capitalist imperialism, many more of these Yankee lords of dollar diplom- acy will be in the public eye. “Who Is James Logan? Just now there is one man who is in the forefront and who is not so well known.’ This man is James A. gan. The foreign dispatches have fighting for democracy. : And this man, who is being charged with seducing the allegiance of sol- diers, has the coveted Military Cross, as well as a string of medals gained in action! It will be an interesting trial, when it gets going! Lansbury Goes Bond. The two bondsmen for Campbell fact that, since the war ended, there were no prosecutions of the Commun- ist leaders or press by the old capi- talist governments. It was left to the Labor government to resume the good old game of Red-baiting. Next week, I hope to send to the DAILY WORKER an account of the trial. is Ay Wokbepe ae the : disputes, but to fight |Glasgow, and to the Scotch workers | were Edgar Lansbury, son of the well-| NOTE:—Since this was written by One pup in the Industrial or reg ., 9._,)in Germany. What of the effect of such a revival | with the workers against the master | generally, as a courageous and effec-|known George Lansbury, and Alex-|our correspondent, the news has ar- iy World appealed to the machinery of gor on American and British industry? What will ane They were also expressly urg-|tive organizer and speaker. When|ander Gossip, veteran generai secre-|rived—see DAILY WORKER, August democracy, against another group in the Indus- See?) PRIA ® a45 ed to refuse to fire upon workers, if{the stalwart workers of the Clyde|tary of the National Amalgamated |14—that Comrade John Ross Camp- : trial Wek iad of the World and asks for an in- ite we ed, eeeleysa seg a so ordered, in industrial disputes, The | heard of Johnnie's arrest, I fear their |Furnishing Trades Association. Ed-|bell has been.freed by the MacDonald pe ht be half of Aeaineh tho puee in the Latin-Amer ican an siatic markets Lat article in the issue of August 1 was|comments were of such a nature as|gar Lansbury is a member of the|government due to the pressure of junction on behalf of one against the : r to American manufacturers and exporters? What} of a similar character. to prevent their literal reproduction |Communist Party; Gossip ig not. the left wing trade unionists of Eng- If the injunction is granted, what will be the will a new and steady flow of German commodities Today, at the Bow Street Police#in any public journal. In the meantime, the British Com- tland.—EKd. vory Saviour - well-trained, international pawn- broker of American capitalism. Mr. Logan has an alert ear for capitalist politics and a keen eye for capitalist militarism. If it is true that the poli- tician is one who has an ear to the ground and that a statesman is one who has his eye to the future, then this unofficial American observer at the London Conference is the very incarnation of the soldier-statesman combination, the very ideal, type in whom American imperialism must and will pin its faith in order to ex- tend its sway over the world’s re- sources. James A. Logan talks little and does much. To the European diplomats, now assumed the job of field-director- ship of the intricate and sinister ac- tivities which, under the guise of hu- manitarism, were responsible for fan- ning the flames of counter-revolution and spreading the plague of capitalist reaction over the continent. A White-Guard Savior. Colonel Logan was the brains of the Hoover relief machine which or- ganized the successful counter-revo- lution against the Hungariaft Soviet Republic and which was responsible. for the bloody outrages perpetrated by the Roumanian and Horthey white guards against the workers and farm- ers of Soviet Hungary. Our “unofficial observer” is a bear By Jay Lovestone talist government, thru the same Col- onel Logan, was giving financial and technical help and direction to these tyrannical cltques ruling by the grace of the bayonets from the Quay d’Or- say, the gold from Wall Street and at the expense of the blood and misery of millions of defenseless workers and farmers in Central and Southern Eu- rope. James A. Logan—Big Stick Statesman The Colonel was also the American representative in the financial and communication sections of the Su- preme Economic Council when that imperialist body had as its supreme function the organization and main- tenance of the “cordon sanitaire,” the -_ time and again declared that Mr, Lo-| bankers and government officials Col-|at work for the gangmen of interna- ghastly starvation blockade against wel ee ‘4 se gan and Ambassador Kellogg, the|onel James A. Logan is no novice.|tional capitalism. While hiding his} Soviet Russia. Schlossberg Stands Up Colonizing Europe unofficial American observers, have!He is an old-timer at the game of|dastardly campaign against the class- For two years Logan was the ad- Ree The true economic import for the world of the|saved the conference from going to|serving the billionaire folks back|conscious workers and exploited|yiser to the American Relief Admin- Amal- : Joseph Schlossberg, secretary of the gamated Clothing Workers of America, has taken his stand against the betrayal to the LaFollette bi-partisan combination. And as he rises to speak we sea labor official who stands head andsshoulders above all his calculating and opportunist asso- ciates. Of all prominent leaders with revolution- antecedents, Schlossberg is the only one out- side the Communist movement who has refused to follow Debs and Gompers into the quagmire of capitalist politics. At the time when the line-up for the campaign was not yet clear, and when the Hillman admin- istration was walking the tight rope of non-com- mittance, they very cleverly played up Schloss- berg’s opposition to entanglements with a “third party” of the bourgeoisie as a means of sabotaging the St. Paul convention. They made use of Schloss- berg’s known integrity and the extensive trust placed in him by the membership in order to pave the way for their present surrender to LaFollette without even the “third party” attachment. But Schlossberg’s determined opposition has proved stronger than the cleverness of a Hillman. The membership of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America will support Schlossberg in his denunciation of the LaFollette swindle. The plans of the pussy-footing aspirants for respectability in the administration of the A. C. W. of A. will come to a smash-up on the revolutionary aspirations of the rank and file of the union. Socialists Support Small Did Debs know that his endorsement of LaFol- lette was going to take him into the camp of Len Small, head of the republican party ticket in the State of Illinois? Whether he knew it or not, that is what has happened. When the issue of Lal’ol- lette was brought into the Chicago Federation of Labor at its Sunday meeting, it carried with it--- as it does practically everywhere—the principle of endorsing not only LaFollette but other capitalist candidates generally, in this case Len Small in particular. The Communists made the fight against the Small-LaFollette combination. The issue was a clear one that the workers can understand. Whether the worker is clear enough in his own mind as yet to break with LaFollette and Small, Dawes Plan is to be found, not in the “revival of German industry,” but in the conditions under which this revival is sought. German industry is to be revived under conditions of denationaliza- tion of the railroads, hegemony over the German financial system by an inter-Allied central bank, and the loading of the burden of the plan upon the working masses. Translated into plainer words, this means that Germany is to become an industrial colony under the joint administration of the allied powers united by the leadership of J. P. Morgan. The dangers of German competition to allied capitalism are to be avoided by reducing German industry to the the position of subordinate units of British, French and American industry. German capitalists are made silent partners in world capitalism by giving them a small share of what they sweat from the pieces. Most of the American “observers” and performers need no introduction to the workers and poor farmers of this country. To the capitalist gov- ernments of Europe the banking and powerful corporate connections of nearly all of our government officials and bosses serve as the passports. Ordinarily the question who is John Doe or Jack Roe in diplomacy has no special interest to the American working masses. But today the tale is quite different. Here we have a man playing so important a role in the development of the foreign pol- icy of the strongest employers’ gov- ernment and yet he is one unknown to the great masses of the city and rural areas, Careful investigation will shed wel- come light in replying to the above- German masses. The products of German industry] raised question. are then to be available for the allied capitalists, not in the shape of competition, but in the form of a tremendous weapon for beating down wages| ,. An International Pawnbroker. James A. Logan in every way repre- ents that type of American diplomat and living conditions of British, French, and| that is just now coming into his own. American workers and destroying their labor or-|Mr. Logan is a skilled, experienced, ganizations. Will this gigantic scheme of world imperialism work out as Morgan and Dawes think? No, it will not. For the fundamental contradictions lying at the basis of the capitalist system are working un- touched within the whole Dawes plan, which intensifies them rather than diminishes them. And, above all, the pressure that is called for upon the IMPERIALISM IN THE NEAR EAST Federated Press Review.) The Great Betrayal by Edward Hale Bierstadt is frankly anti-Turkish working masses, by the operation of the Dawes| propaganda against the ratification of plan, guarantees the rapid growth of the forces|the treaty concluded between the of revolution, their crystalization under the lead-| United States and Turkey. The au- ership of the Communist International, and the European revolution in the not distant future. How the eapitalist press howls when American | Smyrna. thor presents a great deal of data re- garding the near eastern situation, particularly the much exploited Ar- menian questions and the burning of Everything is anti-Turkish Communist delegates go to Moscow to confer with |#24 one-sided. their comrades of other countries on the best way of waging the class struggle to a successful con- clusion. But when the Secretary of State, the The author is anxious to prove that the United States naval officers and others who have shown pro-Turkish : attitude have taken that stand to se-|D. Secretary of the Treasury, J. P. Morgan and other} cure oil concession: He also sug- American bankers and military men go to London|gests that there is a well-organized to confer with capitalists from other countries on|P*-Turkish propaganda in the United the best means to exploit the workers of the world. songs of joy are sung over the prospect. 8 ’| true. States. Both charges may well be However, he forgets to men- tion the anti-Turkish propaganda car- ried by various dubious agencies and the churches. : home while occupying the honorable post in the Washington government's foreign department. f Ten Years of “Unofficial Observing.” Colonel Logan has been ‘function- ing as an “unofficial observer” for our imperialists for the last ten years. From Septeniber, 1914, till the time the United States officially entered the war on the side of the Allies, Col- onel Logan was the unofficial ob- server of the Wilson administration, the Chief of the American Military Mission, with the French Army. Upon America’s official declaration of war against Germany, the “unofficial” Colonel Logan became the official As- sistant Chief of Staff at the head- quarters of the American Expedition- ary Forces, After the Armistice was signed Col- onel Logan went back to his unofficial capacity and status. This time the Colonel developed a new specialty in rendering service par excellence to the Wall Street financial gourmands. Soon Logan became the principal aid to Herbert Hoover in the so-called re- lief affairs in Europe. Colonel Logan ted by the Turks on Armenians, With- out pleading for the Turks, it should be considered that Christian peoples allowed and legally justified the Am- ritsar Massacre in India, the concen- tration camps in South Africa. They have accorded very unpleasant treat- ment to the Jows all over the world and tolerated the activities of the Ku Klux Klan, They are not in a position to class the people of Asia as barbar- ians. ‘Where the author has dealt with economic imperialism and its influ- ences in the near east he has done very well. Freed from his nationalist and narrow religious conceptions, he might have come to the conclusion that not Turkey but imperialism and the economic order is the cause of near eastern and other troubles.—T. The Great Betrayal, by Edward Hale Bierstadt; Robert McBride & Co, New York, $2.50, peasants behind the hypocritical re- lief activities of Herbert Hoover, Col- onel Logan also served as the Euro- pean representative of the United States Grain Corporation. In this in- nocent role Colonel Logan was charged with the all-important task of co-oridnating the operations of America’s swarm of so-called techni- cal advisers to the various puppet states. and governments that arose as a result of the infamous Versailles Treaty. In other words, this job, stripped of all its diplomatic camouflage, had just. one purpose: Colonel Logan was the adviser and overseer of these little weakling governments in order to save the exploiting classes of the var- ious areas involved from Bolshevism, from Communism, from the rule of the working and farming masses thru Soviet Republics. Officially and on paper the Ameri- can capitalist government, thru Col- onel Logan, was rendering humani- tarian aid to these mushroom militar- ist republics. Unofficially and actu- ally, in the field, the American capi- Nowadays it is an event of genuine rareneas to be treated to an accurate er truthful view of agricultural con- ditions. The iast report on the eco- nomic condition of the farming popu- lation, issued by the Agricultural Foundation of Sears-Roebuck and Compony, is a notable exception to tke recent literature on this subject. Its contents merit the attention of the workers and bankrupt farmers, par- Uvulaily in view of the countless ru- ral remedies boing peddled by politi- cal hawksters these days. For many years farmers with varied forms of title to some land, depended for the relatively certain portion of their income upon the growing land valuts. For instance, between 1910 snd 1920 there was a huge increase jn this, direction. During the war period land prices more than doubled. In otber words, the agricultural in- dustry saw an increase in the price of its land and shared in the general rise of prices experienced by the man- THE RURAL TOBOGGAN istration of Herbert Hoover in Soviet Russia. This is the organization which the Soviet Government was compelled to watch, so carefully in order to prevent the spread of coun- ter-revolution at a time when the Russian masses were struggling against a most devastating famine. At the close of 1919 Colonel Logan was made assistant American unoffi- cial delegate to the Reparations Come mission. When the full unofficial del- egate, Roland W. Boyden, resigned last year, Colonel Logdn was called on to take the latter’s place. Today he is filling it admirably—for the big bankers. Colonel Logan is also a graduate from the Army War College. He be- gan to wield a big stick oF the rul- ing class in the days of McKinley by serving as a captain of volunteer troops on duty in the Philippines. Colonel Logan is that type of un- savory savior of capitalism that the American imperialists are now plac ing in every country in order to has- ten and insure their conquest of the world’s resources and industries, try, is bound to suffer in the exchange of commodities. Besides, the tremen- duous advantages enjoyed by the own- ers of the industrial means of pro- duction and exchange tnru their cen- traltized control of the railways, the grain elevators, the shipping facilities put the agricultural producers at still greater disadvantages. It is obvious that not until the work- ers on the land and the workers in the mills and mines get together to own and operate collectively all the means of production, agricultural as well as industrial, will the rural mass-: es be spared from their present hard- ships arising out of ‘the contradiction between the private capitalist owner. ship of the macBinery of production aud exchange and its social use. Our present social inequality mae terializes the upper class, vulgarizeg the middle class, and brutalizes the lower class.—Mathew Arnold. | } when his official leaders are pulling him in the The international bankers) after their success! “ine Turks are interested in de By HENRY GEORGE Wi ufacturers of industrial commodities. | The absurdities ot capitalism are e other direction, still he understands and sym- in putting the Dawes Plan over on Germany, would veloping a pan-Turanian movement to Jesus, the Yorker fame, back to earth _| But for the past nine years this|becoming as rent every day ta pathizes with the Communists. How pitifully dif-|!ike to clean up on Russia, How they would|unite the racial elements in the near|His fect were sore, and the clothes he | 80urce of the farmers’ income, which | even its own pions as its iniqui+ ferent is the position of the socialists into which Debs has helped to lead them! Committed to LaFollette, the socialists still pre- tend that they will not go into the republican party with Small. But when faced with the issue in the relish getting their hands on the enormous wealth|¢ast and central Asia, Pan-Turanian- contained in that great country.. But the Red|{%™ {8 as dangerous as Pan-Slavism, Army and the Communist parties of Europe stand in the way. state not for love of the poor Arme- nian alone but to check the Pan-Tur- anian movement. “The mere possibility of a Pan-Tur- Ramsay MacDonald believes that the London| ania is a danger to be considered very wore ‘Were the kind tha “re made.” He begged for a Hob atthe anor, mn i him ‘old But the masters th His beard was | and he wasn't strong to coin them 3 e cities’ greed, In the heart of And his |, gaunt form, and his worn has been most stable and has coun- terbalanced the losses and stagnation of his receipts from the produetion of dairy and animal products or sun- dry crops, has been on the toboggan. The price of land has not beem a source of income, and has ceased be- ties have been apparent for ades past to socialists. ~ Nothing useful can be poured inta . seen nus is already full of what is useless, We must ; what is Mielesu—Towtal SP ae tion of Labor, of joining the Com- Wt The hare nat Spats his need: Society is composed of two classes SE ake apataes Pony cll ganas Med the| conference made for peace. The war mind was de- se ag he fcc oh a = get, Napivon coagton and never; ried - sewn Ma be di siniepdhag! Es gee 4 aoe atho have more appetite than Len Small forces, they unhesitatingly spoke and feated, he said. But while Ramsay was talking : And the city. 'can’ for a a of main’ | the Saneouwon tHGE tarks lanids have ox- . ‘ose Who have more din- ‘ voted for the endorsement of Small. The socialists have joined the republican party in Illinois. setting up an independent Armenian thusly, his warships were hastening to Egypt to| state from the Black sea to the Med- shoot peace into the revolting Egyptians. Ramsay |iterranean not only would justice be is for peace where the capitalists want it. done Armenia, but a barrier would be was the onl to Jesus the worker went And plead : To ‘york ond breasts dubbed him a perienced in price after 1916 have al- ready been squeezed out of them. Today the farmers must meet their ner than appetite.--G, B. Shaw. . No pretence can be so ridicul é that the laws were designed peri at tection for the poor and weak : erected which would reduce this ranaret fo, the “pen. ends out Ks rok sen pengived by |the rich and the powertul.—Burke, bundle of the DAILY WORKER’S . | chance to practically nothing. a suy,}them in juction of crops and f tetoieen ria Campaign Edition, dated Saturday, |g. ney member for the Workers Party is a new! ""t'is rather unjust for dhe author| i Seer ‘tm jitenthe loury brutet Jather items. In this the farmers are |<, {hat will not reason ts a bigots } first Special Campaign Edition, da aturday,}recruit to the revolutionary army. Become 4} ¢o classify the people of Asia as bar-| #1 won't last two years_mo at a-special disadvantage for agricul:|that dare not tourer te a bad ¢ August 30. recruiting sergeant for Communism. barians because of atrocities commit-] Send in that Supsoription Today. |ture, being .ess developed than indus- | Drummond. ‘ e: 4 ‘ ‘