The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1924, Page 4

ocuadser nace cum amma s ‘ } t 0 AR NEE NOLS OTE PEWTER Ee E | y ! ‘ 72 emery “Page Four THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.60....6 months $2.00..8 montha By mall (In Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 montus $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY, WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. Chloago, Ilinols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNN — inte eaitirns sn MORITZ J. LOEB...... Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, <= 20 Advertising rates on application. ee eEsscce Terrorizing the Philippines The United States court martial at Fort McKin- ley has sentenced more than two hundred Filipino scouts to five years of military penal servitude. This cruel punishment was inflicted upon the native soldiers because they dared ask for the abolition of the unspeakable conditions under which they have been serving and for equal pay with white soldiers. This is the first manifestation of desperate brute force that the American imperialist clique has manifested in the Islands since its mercenaries destroyed the first republic in the Orient, the Phil- ippine republic. This is the official answer of the despoiler and strike breaker General Wood to the ery of the Filipino people for freedom from the clutches of the Yankee exploiters. This incident is of manifold significance. It shows the extremities of brutality to which the American capitalist class is ready to travel in or- der to maintain its position as a ruling class. It again brings into ugly relief the harshness and cruelty with which our exploiters are accustomed to treating not only Filipino but also American privates in their army. We recall the severe punish- ment that General Pershing and his terroristic aides were wont to inflict on the private soldiers in the American Expeditionary Forces while they were shedding their blood and giving away their lives for the safety of the fabulous profits and swollen dividends of the bosses. We recall the swiftness with which hundreds of injunctions haye been issued against the American workers and the years of jail served by our revolutionary spokes- men, the Communists. The display of brute force by the American im- perialists in the Philippines should serve to inspire the Filipino masses to better and more effective organization in their fight for freedom. It should serve to hasten the end of the policy of their na- tionalist representatives in the United States playing with, and catering to, the democratic and republican lickspittles and tools of the very mili- tarist caste and imperialist junta that is oppress. ing the Filipino masses and the American working class. The thousand years of prison to which the Philip- pine soldiers were sentenced should serve as an eye-opener to the exploited workers and dispos- sessed farmers in America. Our exploiters will treat us, as they have in the past, with the same severity, with the same barbarian cruelty as they are now treating the Philippine soldiers. Let us learn from this and help our Filipino brothers in their struggle against their foreign and native ex- ploiters. The thousand years of military jail to which the Filipino soldiers have been sentenced will not break their fighting spirit for freedom from all jforms of exploitation, whether it be American or native. Why All the Excitement? The Chicago Tribune joins with the Steel Trust papers of Pennsylvania and Ohio in angry com- ment on William Z. Foster’s speech at Youngstown. That Foster should openly advocate, in a presi- dential election campaign, that the workers of America should rule thru their own councils or soviets, fills them with righteous rage. With touch- ing unanimity they one and all declare that Amer- ica is the very best place in the world for working men, and that anyone who is not satisfied with this glorious country should go to Russia and stay there. If this is such a very, very good country for working men, then why all the excitement about a few words from Foster? If the conditions are so good, Foster’s words will never have any effect. If the steel workers have a nice soft 8-hour day, at good fat wages, and plenty of leisure, commensur- ate with their services to society—then neither Foster nor all the Bolsheviks will be able to rouse them to rebellion. The word of revolution has life only when it corresponds to the life needs of masses of workers. The excitement of our capitalist papers, and their rage against Foster for his “presidential campaign” speeches, gives the lie to their preten- - tions about the utopian character of American conditions. Quite well do these journalistic har- lots know that, in spite of the enormous wealth of this country, millions of workers actually do not receive enough food to keep them in good condi- tion; that millions of children are forced to work in mills, mines, and factories; that the capitalists, in their greed for more profits, are carrying on a bitter warfare against even the pitiful unionism that crawls about begging for favors. And know- ing this, they know that Foster’s words are falling upon fertile soil, and that they will spring up in the harvest time of revolution as so many weapons against the capitalist system. De Leon and the Dictatorship The Socialist-Labor party, heir of the traditions of Daniel De Leon, is opposed to the dictatorship of the proletariat—for America, altho admitting it may be necessary for Russia—and bases its posi- tion upon the supposed teachings of De Leon. It is interesting, therefore, to know just what De Leon jreally thought about the question of “constitution- alism” versus “dictatorship,” and to consider if he would have approved of the ultra-legality that characterizes his latter-day followers. In an editorial entitled “On to the Dictatorship,” in the Weekly People, June 11, 1910, page 1, De Leon has the following to say: “Gov. Hughes calls a special session of the legis- lature of this state for the purpose of passing a law which he thinks should be passed, and which the regular session of the same legislature rejected. "The issuing of such a call might not be cause for wonder. Chiefs may, and do, at times, slop over. The remarkable circumstance Is that the call Is applauded by some, and that even those who con- demn it, condemn it not upon principle but upon the ground that the specific legislation demanded by the Governor, the Direct Nomination system, is undesirable, “The theory of the government set up by the American revolution was one of checks and balances. That theory served as the mould for all the state constitutions. According thereto, the government consists of thrée co-ordinate departments—the Legis- lative, to enact the laws; the Executive, to carry them out; the Judicial, to Interpret them. Each of these departments attended to its own business. The executive could and was authorized to suggest legislation, and it could and was authorized to veto the same. Nevertheless its veto was qualified. That the executive can be overruled by the proper legis- lative majority is evidence enough that the execu- tive’s authority to suggest was not an authority to dictate legislation. “This notwithstanding, we have latterly seen Presi- dents holding legislative seances at the White House, and thereby exercising direct legislative functions. We have latterly seen these Presidents go even fur- ther, and virtually constitute themselves into a legis- tive chamber of one. Finally, we see the Governor of the Empire State ordering the enactment of a law, and, the legislature having refused obedience, calling them in extraordinary session to do his bidding— AND WE SEE.ALL THIS WITHOUT A-NOTE OF PROTEST. “Besides the economic conditions to warrant the phenomenon, it requires two things for the dictator- ship—the dictator and the dumb dictatorees. The latter seem to be there; the former is taking shape. And yet bourgeois pundits are learnedly explaining the necessity of the dual lagislative chamber sys- ‘tem. They had better try and save their own precious legislatures. Close behind the bourgeoisie dictator comes the dictatorship of the proletariat.” De Leon, we see in this editorial, in spite of his dogmatism, was enough of a Marxist to avoid the pitfalls of theory into which his followers have fallen today. The inevitable development of bour- geois democracy into open dictatorship, he saw clearly, and also that “close behind comes the dic- tatorship of the proletariat.” Why does the So- cialist-Labor party forget this today? Magnus Marching Backward Magnus Johnson of Minnesota is preparing him- self for the day when he will either go back volun- tarily or be taken back into the republican party from whence he came. Addressing a farmers’ picnic at Camp Release Park near Montevideo, Minnesota, Magnus made a fervent plea for the support of the LaFollette ticket. In this speech the Senator made it plain that he is yearning to go back to the republican party as soon as he can find sufficient excuses to do so gracefully. Magnus, The Little, declared in his confession: “I was a republican, but I am a Farmer-Labor candidate now. I may go back to the republicans if they get their house cleaned up.” This is not surprising to us. We base our judg- ment of Magnus and his noisy crew on not only what they say but also on what they do. When a senator who was sent to Washington to give battle to the despoilers of the farming masses of Minne- sota can do nothing else for these masses except get into pleasant milking contests with such agents of the plunderers of the rural masses, as secretary of agriculture, Wallace, then he has lost his last possible claim to the confidence and trust of the workers and poor farmers. In Washington Magnus Johnson made.a signal failure of the task.to which he was assigned and to which he pledged his at Now Magnus is talking openly of “going back.” That is what he has been doing all the time. One might as well try to remove the spots from the leopard as to clean up the Augean stables of the republican and democratic parties, All that can be accomplished is to improve their service to the employers in such a fashion as to hide their real nature a little more effectively and thus give them the appearance of being pure and non-partisan. That is what LaFollette, Shipstead, Magnus John- son and the other fraudulent progressives are seeking. The whole group of self-styled progressives al- ways talk of going back to their old places. They always draw their inspiration from the past and look to the past for their guidance and solace. They dare not go forward at the expense of the ex- ploiters. They dare not attack the source of the corruption and graft with which the United States government is reeking. That would mean fighting the capitalists. That would entail a struggle to overthrow the present system of exploitation. The Johnsons, the LaFollettes, the Wheelers always prefer honest exploitation to no exploitation. In short they want to continue the robbery of the working class by the bosses, but they want this robbery perpetrated in such a way as to give it an appearance of fairness and justice. The Wheelers and the Johnsons want to make the de- grading capitalist system and political agencies only more palatable to the workers in order to perpetuate it. Get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER, THE DAILY WORKER | PARTY BEGINS ACTIVITY FOR MEMBERSHIP AND DAILY DRIVE y Rn: which are beginning to come to the National Office of the party show that the branches of the organization are going to work to put into effect the slogan “Every member get a member and a reader for the DAILY WORKER.” One of the reports received from the secretary of which werites: “Your the Baltimore, Md., English branch, circular urging all branches activity In the new members’ and subscribers’ campaign received and Instructions faithfully complied with,” This is the spirit in which all party branches must go to work. If our party as a whole follows the ex: supplies each member of the branch ample of the Baltimore branch and with a combined DAILY WORKER subscription and application blank and inspires in the members the desire to secure for their dues cards the merit stamps given to each member who secures a reader and a new applicant for membership in the party, our party will make a big jump forward during the present campaign. Other branches of the party are urged to send reports to the National Organization of the work they are achieving in. the membership and DAILY WORKER subscription campaign. REPORT OF CHICAGO CITY CEN- TRAL COMMITTEE. Twenty-nine New Members Accepted. T a lively meeting of the City Cen- tral Commitee of Workers Party Local Chicago on Augast 19th, 29 new members were accepted from the fol- lowing branches: Russian 2; North- west Jewish 5; Douglas Park Jewish 3; Scandinavian Karl Marx 2; Lake View Scandinavian 1; Scandinavian Englewood 1; Lettish 4; Lithuanian No. 5, 1; Cicero Italian 1; Czecho-Slo- vak, North Berwyn 1; Irving Pk. Eng- lish 1; Dotglas Park English 1; Mid- City English 3; North Side English 3, In these applicants were included union members from the following organizations: Machinists union 3; Amalgamated Clothing Workers 2; Carpenters 2; Hod carriers 1; Bar- bers2; Butchers 1; Printers 1; United Mine Workers 1. These applicants also included one former member of Russian Workers Union, seven former members of Socialist Party, two of the Left Paoli Zion, two of Swedish Communist Party, one of fommunist Party of Germany. Two transfers were accepted, one from Kansas City and one from New York. The Czecho-Slovak comrades are very much on the job knitting their branches more strongly together and winning over more elements regu- larly from the Beranek outfit. At a memmership meeting of the Pullman Section, the policy of the PARTY ACTIVITIES IN CHICAGO ns | tee shall be sent out in special min- utes to the branches. Reports of the activities of the organizations are to appear, as is already done, in the DAILY WORKER and other Party newspapers in place of the minutes and are to be regarded as officiah Also all notiges of all kinds of meet- ings of the Party Y. W. League and T. U. E. L. are to be printed in the DAILY WORKER and other papers instead of sending out special letters to branches. Branches and members shall make note that such notices of meetings are official and look for them in the papers, Election Campaign Drive. Reports of the progress in the elec- tion campaign were given by various delegates and Comarde Ida McCarthy, Comrades are finding it easy to secure signatures to place Workers Party candidates on the ballot. The Executive Committees of the Congressional Districts are sub-divid- ing their committees in order to in- sure that street meetings and other meetings during the campaign will be organized. Also this is being done in order to develop the distribution and sale of literature thruout the cam- paign, and the congressional districts, have therefore been made the sec- tional basis for the membership cam- paign and the DAILY WORKER drive. Local Chicago to Supply Free Campaign Literature. Central Executive Committee in they The City Centrab Committee de- elections campaign was unanimously endorsed, The City Central Committee de- cided to severely censure and con- demn the Italian Comrades who were responsible for the evasion of the de- cision of the City Central Committee that their picnic of August 10 should not be held in competition with the City Press Picnic. The Italian com- rades evaded the decisi®¥, holding the picnic under the auspices of another name. Repetition of such a kind will result in stronger disciplinary action. Additions to City Executive, Comrade Rose Karsner was added to the City Executive Committee and placed in charge of the membership campaign. Comrade Sam Hammers- mark was also added to the City Exe- cutive Committee to take charge of the direction of propaganda and lit- erature, especially in connection with the elections campaign. Daily Worker Reports Official. In order to do away with cuniber- some minutes from the city arganiza- tion to the branches, the C. C. C. de- cided that hereafter only actions and decisions of the City Central Commit- cided that the city organization shall take financial charge of the cam- paign. This means that the congres- sional districts are to decide on the amount of literature such as leaflets DAILY WORKERS, etc., which they need and then apply to the city or- ganization for them who will furnish them free. When members go out with petitions to obtain signatures they are expected to take the DAILY WORKER and other literature with them and also to try to obtain sub- scriptions and campaign funds. Thus far a little over $500.00 has come in on pledges in Chicago. Other branches are asked to speed up the collections. The branches have received the campaign books with stamps which they ought to be able to sell without any trouble. DAILY WORKER and Campaign Membership Meeting. i Campaign and DAILY WORKER membership meeting of the Party has been called for next Wednesday, Au- gust 27th at Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., in order to review the GREATEST TONIC for lowered vitality makes your blood tingle with joy the minute you taste it. Take a wine glass full of THE WORLD'S PS BITTERS before me: health In below. w days. and note the improvement of your Order a bottle by coupon ei i a a LIPSEY PRODUCTS Co, 1133 Foster Ave., Chicago Enclosed is $1.85. Please send LIPSEY'S BITTERS at once. Name Add one bottle election campaign to date, subscrip- tions to the DAILY WORKER and the membership drive. In addition to the reports by the various congressional districts, Com- rade Joe Manley in charge of the National Campaign will report and Comrade Harl Browder will report on the DAILY WORKER and member- ship drive. Branches shall make sure of attendance at this meeting. It might be added that unemployed comrades could be of excellent aid in the elections campaign by circulating petitions to abtain signatures to put our candidates on the ballott. Com- rades should call at the. office for pe titions, If any expenses are incur- red, they will be paid. Street Meetings Progressing. Wherever our street meetings are held, we are drawing large crowds. George Maurer is n@w in charge of street meetings which will be or- ganized with and thru the Congres- sional District Campaign Commit- tees, There have been a number of cases of interference with the street meet- ings of Young Workers League and Workers Party in Cicero and in Chi- cago. The Party has decided in all cases to fight out the issues until the right to speak is completely won. The cases in Cicero have been post- poned to August the 27th. Industrial Registration Starts. Get ready to put over the industrial registration. Industrial registration cards and books are now in the hands of all branches. The industrial regis- tration must be completed by Septem- ber 15th. The first ofder of business therefore at the branch meetings shall be the taking of industrial registra- tion. Send in the industrial registra- tion to the city organization as fast as you take it. Some branches have already begun. Let us have a race to se which com- pletes the registration first. Chicago local has challenged the rest of the country. Make good. The city or- ganization will render every help pos- sible. The Food Workers are meeting at 166 W. Washington St., Saturday, Au- gust 23, 7:30 pm., to take up the matter of prograih and policy. In the afternoon of August 23rd at 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Party members of Local 270 Amalgamated Clothing Workers will_meet with the City Committee in order to take up the matter of negléct of union activity on the part of some of the Italian comrades. The Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers»Party and Y. W. L. mem- bers met on Thursday, Aug. 21. The matter of LaFollette and Small endorsement by Chicago Federation of Labor and the activity of the Party members against this action has already been outlined in a previous issue of the DAILY WORKER. Our comrades put up an excellent altho futile fight. There were some Party members who were absent from the Federation meting who ate being called on the carpet by the Party for this neglect. In the matter of the Hegewisch strike, the Party, Y. W. L. and T. U. E. L. are continuing to give fullest support to the union organization drive Headway is also being made in or- ganizing the Young Workers League branch there and in Hammond. Com- plete reports from day to day are ia ie Sh MR RONEN Tar tie Saturday, August 23, 1924 being published in the DAILY WORKER, \ Elaborate Eudcational Program.) In the field of education a very elaborate program has been mapped out for the fall’ There will be an open forum, a class on Imperialism, another yet advanced Marxism, an- other on elementary economics. Then there will be the class on Trade Union Conduct and the Eng- lish class. A dramatic and music de- partment has also been added. En- roHments to all these classes are now open to all. Young Workers League. Young Workers, League members are co-operating with the Party in all its activities. Conducting factory campaigns, organizing new branchés, Will hold big picnic Aug, 24, in the National Grove, Riverside, Illinois, The work of Local Chicago is pro- gressing better right along, but the work can go even much more swiftly, especially during this election cam- paign. The organigation drive for members and the campaign for DAILY WORKER subscriptions going forward. However, insteatt of 60-70 new members a month as we have been getting we must take in 200 to | 300. Get into the campaign that every member get a new member and a subscriber to the DAILY WORKER. It can be done. Into the unions to ! carry on Communist work. Evry | member in the election campaign and + the DAILY WORKER drive. Build + the Workers Party. \ Fraternally yours, WORKERS PARTY— LOCAL CHICAGO Martin Abern, Secretary. Next meeting of City Central Com- mittee, Tuesday, September the 2nd, 8 p.m., at 2733 Hirsch Blvd. (Work- ers Lyceum.) Go to eat where all the rest 100% union men and women go Deutche-Hungarian Restaurant 29 South Halsted St. Pure Food, Good Service and reasonable prices our motto PITTSBURGH, PA DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service ‘ for Years. 645 SMITHFIELD ST., Near 7th Ave. 1627 CENTER AVE., Cor. Arthur St. COKOS BROTHERS Groceries Cigars ‘Cigarettes Tobacco and Candies 1111 W. WASHINGTON ST. JAY STETLER’S RESTAURANT Established 1901 1053 W. Madison St. Tel. 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