The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1924, Page 6

| Page Six 2 THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00..3 monthe By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 montas $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IIlinols 3. LOUIS ENGDAEL (| WILLIAM F. DUNNE { MORITZ J. LOBB.. = + Haltors jusiness Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <> 250 Advertising rates on application. Dawes Sees Red a The eminently respectable and “sane” Mr. La Follette was taken by Mr. Dawes, in his Evanston speech last night, as the text for a sermon against the reds. While it is very seldom that we can proclaim an identity of interest with LaFollette, yet such occasions do arise at certain points, even » if for opposite reasons. This is one. The reds must repudiate LaFollette even more emphatically than the polite Senator can disclaim the red banner. Dawes is merely playing a demagogic trick when he accuses Mr. LaFollette of being a red. Mr. LaFollette is eminently correct when he insists that there is no fundamental difference between himself and Mr. Dawes. The fact that Lafollette has corralled the remains of the socialist party in his entourage, of which Dawes tries to make capital, is no count against the respectability of the Wisconsin Messiah at all. Just the opposite! If Chester Wright, the wriggling non-entity who once edited the socialist New York Call, can so reform as to become con- fidential adviser of Gompers, why should not Hill- quit become a chief of staff for a capitalistic presi- dential candidate on the same conditions? And as for Debs’ hysterical words about keeping “the red flag waving,” Dawes should not take a sick man so seriously; the fact that the red flag has been definitely abandoned for the national colors and the slogan of “Back to ’76” entirely offsets any temporary sentimentality that produces a ritualistic reference to an emblem of past dis- respectability. No, Mr. Dawes, you cannot get away from the real issue hetween yourself and Mr. LaFollette. Both of you stand for exactly the same system of exploitation of the working class and the toiling farmers. Both of you stand for “American insti- tutions” that perpetuate the system. But the real difference is this: Dawes stands for the bold and open proclamation of capitalist rule, while LaFol- lette would prolong its life by throwing a pro- tective camouflage about it. Sooner or later the capitalist class will be de- lighted to have the LaFollettes to fall back upon as chloroform for the rising workipg class. And in that time Dawes will strike hands with LaFol- lette in the common cause that, even now, they hold close to their hearts. Bryan Blesses Wall Street The Bryan Brothers, political vaudeville artists extraordinary, have been converted to J. W. Davis, Morgan’s lawyer, as the “highest type of progres- sive democrat.” William Jennings says he was mistaken when he opposed Davis before the nom- ination—that was before his brother received the vice-presidential nomination, which could not, of course, have been foreseen. Everything is different now. Davis has been absolved from the sin of being on Morgan’s payroll and embodying Bour- bonism generally. All in all the developments in the presidential campaign are most entertaining. Who could have imaginéd that so many of these bourgeois polit- icians of ours would give such public disptay of stupidity and venality? If the whole show, from the reluctant disclosure of graft and the common hushing up, down to the participation of Len Small in the Dawes celebration and the conversion of Bryan to Davis, had been planned and staged by the cunning Bolsheviks to disillusion the masses, it could not have been better done. Faced with the terrific exposures that these politicians are ° Gompers’ Pan-Americansm On December third there will be held in Mexico City the fourth conference of the Pan American Federation of Labor. This gathering will assume additional significance because of its being coinci- dent with the inauguration of President Calles. One of phe most pressing needs of the American workers, of the working masses of the United States and the Latin American countries, is a genuine Pan American Federation of Labor. Polit- ically, most of the Republics south of the Rio Grande are vassal states in the thrall of American imperialism. Economically, the Latin American Republics are at the mercy of the Yankee industrial magnates and financial oligarchs. Today Latin America is a hinterland for the sinister maneuvers and aggressive campaigns of the exploiting class of the United States. i Under these circumstances the workers of both continents, more than ever before, face a common. danger and a common enemy. Only common action can save the workers of North, South and Central Ame from being doomed to degrading wage slavery. A Pan American Federation of Labor is undoubtedly a step in the proper direction, But any Pan-American Federation of Labor in which Mr. Gompers is boss and which works according to the dictates of this field marshal of the employ- ing class in the ranks of American labor cannot help towards freeing the workers from the capital- ist rule now oppressing them, 3 In fact, Mr. Gompers has been a silent partner to and at times an active participant in rearly all the shameful affairs of the American imperialist clique. Mr. Gompers has found the ravages of American exploiters in Haiti as making for satis- factory conditions. His interest in the liberation of the Philippine Islands from the Yankee imperial- ists is limited to a narrow desire to “save” the American workers from Filipino competition. The titular head of our trade union movement is today lined up with Gary, Schwab, General Tripp, Persh- ing, and Secretary of War Weeks in its militarist maneuvers set for September twelfth, Defense Day. It is high time that the working masses of the United States and Latin America did get together into a fighting Pan-American Federation. All steps in this direction will be hopeful signs of progress. Yet it is sure that the complete banish- ment of Gompers’ influence in the Latin American labor organizations will have to be a prerequisite to the organization of such a united fighting body. The revolutionary workers of both continents should take steps immediately to rid themselves of the Gompers scourge and to build a real Pan- American industrial and political federation. READ THE DAILY WORKER The Minister Is Embarrassed Jacob Gould Schurman, United States Minister to China, is returning to America to overcome a terrible embarrassment. He was so embarrassed that he just couldn’t stay in Pekin any more; he had to come home and talk to Hughes about it. It seems that the Far Eastern situation is get- ting a little muddled. Where before there was unity of policy and action on the part of the “great powers,” the capitalist nations with big guns, and a common bullying of China, there is now a “deplorable lack of solidarity” and a great deal of independent action by the representatives of the various powers. Schurman, as the representa- tive of Morgan, the world’s ruler, wants to get this straightened out. But the real embarrassment, the cause of the sudden trip home for comfort and advice, is the appearance in Pekin of a full-fledged ambassador from the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Un- til the appearance of the Soviet representative, all diplomats in Pekin had been ministers only, a studied insult to the Chinese, according to diplo- matic etiquette. Now this same diplomatic red-tape proclaims that when an ambassador appears he becomes the “dean” of the foreign representatives, and their spokesman in dealing with the Chinese Foreign Office. Horrors! Diplomatic etiquette is sacred and cannot be lightly scorned! Neither is it thinkable that the United States should deal with China thru the Russian ambassador! What a dilemma! What an embarrassment! What a humilating posi- tion! There was nothing for Schurman to do but to come home for instructions. And now Hughes THE DAILY WORKER By TOM BELL, AMSAY MAC DONALD, leader of the British Labor party, Christian “socialist,” premier of his Britannic majesty’s government, member of the ruling clique of the Second Socialist International, and apologist extraor- dinary for British imperialism, has de- livered a confession of faith in one of the capitalist rags of Chicago. Under the heading, “MacDonald, Premier, Tells Socialist Aim for British Em- pire,”+there is collected the most ap- palling’ collection of gibberage mas- querading as the program of the Brit- ish workers organized in the Labor party. Thruout the entire article there is no one word that would of- fend the sensibilities of the most hard- boiled capitalist. MacDonald breathes devotion to the cause of the bour- geoisie against the workers and for the preservation of the capitalist sys- tem as represented by the British em- pire. The leading idea thruout is the ne- cessity of applying the principles of Christianity to modern society. And MacDonald poses as’ the modern MacDonald---The Christian | Martyr none in their appreciation of its worth.]cently, for the simple reason that he If they disliked it, they would let it go on destroying itself. They want capital conserved and saved from abuse.” In common with the other major parties of the Socialist Inter- national, the leadership of the British Labor party have shown themselves to be the best defenders of the capital- ists and their ownership of the means of wealth production in times of crisis, ,The MacDonald gang has not been called upon as yet to murder thousands of workers to preserve the capitalist system, as their German Prototypes were in 4918 and since then, but their record since they came into power in Britain has shown that they are also perfectly willing to com- mit this crime against the workers it called upon. So anxious are the Brit- ish Socialists to “conserve capital” that they abandoned the capital levy plank in their program as soon as they formed a cabinet. To “conserve capital” they threatened the dockers when they were on strike with the emergency powers act if they did not agree to accept the compromise raise in wages offered by the bosses. To “conserve capital” these idealistic Christ that is trying, in the midst of all the temptations of the devil, to bring humanity back to the virtuous life of the early Christians, ‘“Social- ism,” says the apostle, “signifies a rea- soned and resolute effort to Christian- ize government} and -society.”. How joyful the capitalists of Britain must be to find that MacDonald, while pur- suing the imperialistic policy of Bald- win and Curzon, takes care to camou- flage his course of action under the humanitarian phrases of religion. The cynical gentlemen of the bourgeoisie snigger to themselves as they read this trash which is meant for con- sumption by the workers of the em- pire alone. So long as MacDonald continues to be a willing tool in the hands of the rapacious and blood- stained rulers of the British empire they are perfectly willing to allow him to proclaim himself a disciple of the Christian martyrs. But in spite of his caution, Mac- Donald lets the cat out of the bag when he states: “Socialists want to conserve capital. They are second to Disruption (Continued from page 1) such a manner that he was forced to throw them over and to defend him- self. He has charged from the public platform that two members of the su- preme council did all in their power to keep him in jail. The resulfft of the leader’s incar- ceration and the consequent failure to hold.a convention last year was the serious weakening of the organization, persons not over-friendly to the as- sociation claiming that its dues-paid laborites stood calmly by when Hindu textile workers were shot down in Bombay while on strike against a re- duction in wages. The conservation of capital by MacDonald and his gang does not mean only the preservation of the means of wealth production from the ravages of an unruly mob, but the preservation of the rule of the capitalists over the millions of British workers and enslaved millions of peoples in the east who are groan- ing under the exploitation of the Brit- ish capitalists. Patiently, MacDonald explains that his “socialism” has nothing in common with Communism. His socialism is opposed to tyranny, he wishes to pre- serve the capitalist system, but thinks that a more Christian attitude on the part of the capitalists would enable them to continue their system of ex- ploitation without danger of revolts on the part of the workers. MacDon- ald and his clique have always stood “in the forefront of the socialist an- tagonism to Communism and the Thrid International,” as he stated re- of Negro government of the black inhabitants now under colonial rule, The Universal Negro Improvement Association last winter applied to the Liberian government for permission to colonize 3,000 American Negroes on Liberian soil. This application was finally refused by the Liberian gov- ernment in February, this year, the Liberian president giving as one of his reasons for the refusal, that he is “keeping his mind on the obligation membership was depleted to 15,000 in financial standing, altho they say that 400,000 or more Negroes in all parts of the world count themselves as members. The official claim is of five million members. 4 Great Powers Interfere. The next attack upon the Negro working class mass-organization, which its opponents call the “back-to- Africa” movement, had peculiar inter- national complications. The Negro republic of Liberia on the West Coast of Africa was chosen as a point of approach in an ambitious plan to col- of Liberia to the Great Powers.” Garvey openly charges that the rebuff was not an act of an independent Ne. gro government, but was put thru under orders of the colonial offices of France and England and the minister of’ the United States, all of which powers are keenly anxious to pre- vent any Negro nationalist movement spreading in Africa and thus endan- gering colonial rule. Accuses DuBois. Garvey declares that Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, famous Negro author and editor of the official organ of the Na- onize some American Negroes in Af [tional Association for the Advance- rica, to attempt to strengthen the ex- isting Negro states in that continent and to spread from there an intensive Negro nationalist propaganda for the redemption of Africa from French, British, Belgian, Itallan and Spanish | A JEST . By LISA. ow Lady Life has strange gifts In her rag-bag carry all. You can hear her cackle indecently as she hands them around. There is an Italian man— His name is Bartolomeo Vanzetti. He has a round face, and genial drooping ment of Colored People, became an instrument for inducing the Liberian government to declare that no vises would be granted the members of Garvey’s organization’ Garvey also charges that DuBois made himself useful to those imperialist powers who wish to hold Liberia under intimida- tion. Garfvey says the little Negro republic is heavily in debt to French and British bankers, and that these bankers and their governments, to- gether with the American government which is now trying to edge into the colonjal opportunities of Africa, keep the Liberian government in constant terror and under absolute dictation of stands for the preservation of capital- ism, while the Communists and the Third International stand for the de- struction of the capitalist system and the rule of the working class. MacDonald asks for time to get his “socialism” under way. He stands for a@ careful, imperceptible evolution of capitalism into socialism, but he main- tains that the Labor party is making progress in that direction. How fast MacDonald is proceeding toward so- cialism is demonstrated by the fact that in his cabinet all the positions needed by the imperialists to preserve their line of policy were handed over to them. The naval, army, air and Indian departments of the so-called labor government ar. ~headed by avowed imperialists. @ labor cab- inet sponsored the building of five new cruisers for the navy, and has Promises to create an air_fieet that will equal that of France,” Even the so-called left wing of the Labor party, the “wild men from the Clyde,” agree with the increase of armament, as is shown by the statement of William Johnston, labor M. P. and editor ot the Glasgow-Porward: “We are in fa- vor of the armaments extension pro- gram because we are not Tolstoyans or Doukobors.” MacDonald also states in his recent interview that he did not oppose the building of the na- val base at Singapore as a whole be- cause there is already a naval base there, and he did not think it neces- sary to build an addition to it at the present time. On examination it is difficult to distinguish between the policy_of Curzon and MacDonald. The clash of interests between ‘the rival capitalist cliques of France and Britain over the hegemony of Europe, and particularly the exploitation of Germany, shows MacDonald as a firm supporter of the interests of British capitalism. He does not take into consideration the fact that the appli- cation of the Dawes plan to Germany will be successful only at the expense of the agony of the German workers. He merely sees in it a fine weapon against France since it will force the French evacuation of the Ruhr and lead to an alliance of ‘British and American capital against the imperial- -«-_...sday, August 20, 1924 and Imperialist istic aims of the French capitalists, MacDonald, the pacifist and Christiay gentleman, to persuade, Herriot tq agree to the demands of the Morgan bankers regarding the loan to Gen many invited him to witness a great demonstration of the naval strength of Britain. France has the strongest army in Europe, while Britain possesses the strongest navy. Herriot, the so-called radical socialist, rules for the capital ists of France and. relies upon the army to gain consessions, while Mace Donald, the pacifist Christian socialist, rules for the imperialists of Britain and uses the navy as a threat to France to secure the consent of France to the desires of British capi- tal. The advent of MacDonald to the premiership of Britain has changed nothing in the imperialistic policy ex. cept that he uses “Christian” phrases which the Curzons and Churchills of Britain are too blunt to use. A con- tinuation of imperialistic policy for the rulers of the empire, and “Chris. tian” phrases to fool the workers and petty bourgeoisie, is the essence of the policy of MacDonald. The so-called labor government of MacDonald is a farce. It is a liberal government pursuing the same aims as the imperialists of Britain have al. ways stood for. MacDonaldism is the same cancer as ate out the vitals of the Second International and led them to support the war in 1914 and be come the oppressors of the working class on behalf of capital when the workers menace the rule of the capl- talists. MacDonaldism stands for the undisturbed rule of. the capitalists, for the crushing of strikes, for the shoot ing of Hindu workers and the arrest of Indian Communists for daring to organize a workers’, political party, for using stool pigeons against the Brit- ish Communists; in a word, for the subjection of the British workers and colonial slaves to the rule of British capital. In, this work he relies upon the navy to intimidate rival imperial ist cliques, on the police and emer- gency powers act (martial law) for the subjection of the workers and In. dian peoples, while in American cap- italist rags he poses as a Christian martyr. Congress Attempted imperialist rule thru independent self-|ders the rights of the Negro in this country. m imperialists Exposed. At any rate it is evident that the imperialist governments which hold African colonies under subjection, were responsible for the attempted exclusion of the U. N. L A. from Af- rican soil, and together with the United States government coerced the Liberian government as Garvey charged. Coolidge, while attempting to imprison Garvey and to destroy the masg organization, appoints DuBois as official spokesman for American capi- talism before an African government that is being coerced. One of the attacks upon the Uni- versal Negro Improvement Associa- ion has been made in the past few months by Negroes who have had more or less connection with the or- ganization in the past, and who used the past connection as a ground for going into court and suing the as- sociation for large sums of money claimed as due them for services. The courts have invariably, and with a seeming zest and enthusiasm, granted judgments for large sums to everybody who has brought suit, thus having bled the treasury or the organ- ization for more than $30,000 within Order Your Bundle of First Campaign Issue the past few months. It appears that no one who has taken the trouble to drag the association into court has been refused a judgment. Sums pf $1,000 to $3,500 have thus been ob- tained by persons whose very vague “services” to the organization were of only a few days or weeks duration. The claim of Mr. Johnson for $7,250 seems to be of similar nature to the other claims “for services rendered.” Members of the association say that Mr. Johnson’s function as “supreme Potentate” consisted of wearing a much plumed hat and spangled uni- form while he conveyed “knight- hoods” upon favored members of the organization under a system of pomp, title and ritual which is much less in evidence since the supreme poten+ tate’s departure. It may be necessary. to explain that under the condition if which the Li- berian government is subjected to the will of the European and American governments, which the Liberian president describes as “keeping his mind on the obligation of Liberia to the Great Powers,” the appointment of Mr. Gabriel Johnson to the consul- ship in British West Africa makes him necessarily subject to the British Colonial Office’s will. {" this year of political confusion the Workers Party of America is faced with the task of bringing the thiges <f of Communism to the workers and exploited farmers who making of themselves, we must feel modest indeed mustache. its policies. x ; ; " \ decide whish iu thas aap aut his ey, t with to are being led into a promised land by the Wisconsin Moses, at the little mite that we can add to their work. mina as evan pg age athe jo onic For that Old Harridans es DuBois Represented Cal. Robert Marion LaFollette. The Workers Party alone pre- As for Bryan, he was always a political mounte- bank, and little else could be expected of him. He is an ignorant, stupid, reactionary demagog, of just the type that is most useful to Wall Street for the very reason that he makes loud outcries against it but always carrier out its orders in the last analysis. treatment of China as an inferior power not en- titled to an ambassador. READ THE DAILY WORKER Is it merely'a coincidence that Grand Duke Nickolas of Russia was dug out of his cellar in A thousand sunbeams dahce a around him, He is a man who hates all moneyed things. Joy comes to~him through velvet starless nights And yellow days; Through those, his masters first, and now his friends, gs fares in Bene a arl Marx, and young Rousseau, And Tolstoy, Dante, and Garibaldl And many hundred others, Mostly he is sober, but when pipe C4 Dr.” DuBois went to Africa about the beginning of this year. President Calvin Coolidge gave DuBois, thru Secretary of States Hughes, creden- tials to represent the United States government as “Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.” In this capacity DuBois attended the in- auguration of the Liberian president, sents a stern opposition to the bourgeois reformer and his labor faker and socialist lieutenants. Only the overthrow of the capitalist system will free the workers from wage slavery and the Workers Party tells the reason w! Saturday, August 30, the the first Communist campaign issue in the histo hy. DAILY WORKER will publish of the © United States. This special issue will have tremendous edu- cational value. T! ress of the liberals, labor fakers, liberal | | Paris and given almost half a page in the Chicago|"” yrother-tove” “™roush teaching | 5 which occasion he spoke as trans.| Capitalists and ie, gad socialists will sing the praises of Loyal Gompers Men Tribune immediately after the Dawes report was And frecioin Yo, thore, slaves, mitting “the personal word of Calvin] the ‘new Moses and lie about the Communists. Now is the 4 f 7 { i { Gompers has no supporters today more servile than the leaders of the Chicago Federation of Labor. When they started back to Gompers a little over a year ago, the left-wingers predicted that they would go all the way and more, a prediction that ‘was protested by some of our optimistic friends. accepted? Now that the American bankers have written a new treaty of Versailles it is about time for our patriots to take down Washington’s Farewell Ad: dress and shed a tear over it. rt. He has no hate for little things Like men and gods— But most, most bitterly he hates That ceaseless, grinding mill That some call capital and others reek That inding, grinding, grinding, night y an au Crashes those men he loves to nameless st, His life was crowded out of time for love Of women. But children used to crawl Coolidge, President of the United States of America, by the hafid of Charles BE. Hughes, Secretary of State.” Dr. DuBois told the ceremon- ial gathering that it was a “special mark of the President’s favor.” ‘He has since written of it editorially as “a gesture of courtesy; a little thing, time that Communists are put to the test. Order a bundle | of the special edition and distribute them among your fellow | workers. FOR THE COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN DAILY WORKER, But when the Chicago Federation is afraid even t : - his back 1113 W. Washington Blvd., to endorse LaFollette until the word has come from He'd grow! and shake them oft "| Merely a gesture, but one so fine and) |* Chicago, Ill. The DAILY WORKER is telling the real story of the unemployment situation thruout the coun- try. And the truth will move the world. And ¢ ey would scream with laughter and one so unusual that it was epochal.” climb back. Mr. Garvey considers that the event Sometimes he was a laborer, @ cook, A dish wiper behind a dirty’ Dench. was neither fine nor unusual, but only For the enclosed $.........04 send me... ined copies of the First Special Communist Camphign edition of the DAILY Gompers, although central bodies and local unions all over the country were at least independent yet enough not to wait for Gompers to tell them to sur- Aa he roamed. about ftom a bapt coarse and ordinary act of im- pear teehee Tos phat aay pstosge. ara Ja 5 ; render to the middle-class but did it on their own| New “subs? for the DAILY WORKER will help | sus tiving.” Aeloattae, caicling Gah taotectnca Greil cancatos ol Oanducnians Gh thle soatbarbh erie; weenie Our flattering, cajoling and terrorizing the leaders of a people they wish to hold in subjéection. Dr. DuBois retorts that Garvey is “either a lunatic or a itor” in his appeals to southern A dish of raviola and a not too cigar Made Plato all the sweeter iy To Vanzetti. Wouldn't you think that shameless pinster Would be generous t, Bho cackled indecently and paved throuety, hook—when the Chicago, Federation cannot even go| swell the audiences at the Communist campaign to LaFollette without Gompers’ permission—then | meetings. indeed the retreat of Fitzpatrick & Co, can go little ' further. New members for the Workers Party will mean ticket—Foster and Gitlow, NAME hor fog-tae snes ha elotaesite ters AD DIREOR Silents mutlnhncivitle itl oka te EN Pa more ae to help carry on the work of the aye the Hh bageaston of attataasien sot, tad that po PES SRT AMA i EERE 4: sp oh Gat a member for the Workers Party. American Communist movement Sl eae! as a ene yenae of Bussor, | in order to win such support, surren- : resem ert « LL