The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1924, Page 8

AS WE: SEE HE NEW YORK that the NATION says London ended in perfect good will. Dawes lan is launched in a most au- spicious atmosphere” is the wind-up of its comment on the most outrag- eous conspiracy on the part of domi- nant international capitalism against the lives of the German working class. How easy it is for the liberals and the extreme reactionaries to get together? What liberals of the Vil- lard type really want is peace among the capitalist nations. Given that they will worship at the shrine of the most reactionary eéexploiter of labor. * * * “ih R. GEORGE LANSBURY, British M. P., got quite excited when Justice McCardie in the King’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice declared that Sir Michael O’Dwyer, butcher of Armistar,..wa¢ wrongfully punished. Lansbury moved in the House of Commons “that an humble address be presented to His Majesty praying that he will cause the re- moval from the bench” of the judicial defender of wholesale murder. Of course the bill was not pressed be- cause Ramsay MacDonald felt that further discusion of the subject might arouse class feeling and he also thot the learned judge was not informed as to what took place. George Lans- conference “The in the British Labor Party. Can you imagine a Bolshevik member of the old Russian Duma moving to present “an humble address to the Little Fa- ther?” *¢8 OW many of our readers know that the late Theodore Roosevelt while president of the United States entered = an agreement with the Japanese government giving Japan a free hand in Far Eastern affairs even to the extent of the occupation of Korea, receiving from Japan in return a pledge not to look with long- ing eyes on the Philippines. This looks suspiciously like secret diplom-|™ acy. We thot only monarchist gov- ernments had such habits. “Teddy” above all. * o * HE NEW YORK TIMES regrets that General Pershing is to re- tire from the active army list with a reduction in his compensation. What Pershing has accomplished that would entitle him to reward from a grate- ful country is quite plain. He de- fended the interests of American cap- italism since America entered the And bury is of the so-called Left world war and since the signing of the treaty of Versailles his mind has been active concocting plans to thoroly militarize this country and turn every able bodied man into a po- tential scab. The “Mobilization plan” is his work. He will retire with the title of General but with a reduction in pay. His present salary is $13,500 with an additional. $8,000 for ex- penses. No doubt grateful capitalists will find some way of showing Gen- eral Pershing their appreciation. * * * RAND DUKE CYRIL VLADI- MIROVITCH, ¢ousin of the late Czar, recently emerged from his fa- vorite Berlin sewer and issued a proc- lamation. The press dispatch does not say whether he had to ‘use the tail of his shirt for writing material, but what he gave utterance to is sub- stantially as follows: Having learned with amazement that Great Britain signed an agreement with the bunch of traitors now in charge of Russia and actually promised a loan to the Soviet government, be it known that I as legal heir to the emperor of all the Russias will refuse to recognize this loan as binding on Russia when I take over the country and mount the Czar’s throne. ee ee, HILE optimistic Russian Czar- ists, such as the above named gentlemen are at large, the insane asylums are being cheated of their legitimate prey. There is as much probability that the Grand Duke will occupy the throne of the Romanoffs as there is that the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan will be the next Pope of Rome. That the capitalist press gives generous space to such rubbish only proves how very happy they would be if the monarchists succeeded in overthrowing the Soviet Government, % es ¢ 8s HE election campaign for Interna- tional officers in the ‘United ‘Mine Workers Union has started in Nova Scotia. The overwhelming ma- jority of the locals have nominated a militant slate in common with the militant miners of Illinois. In one local in New Waterford the backward miners unconsciously played a dirty trick on Czar Lewis by nominating him for Vice-President. Worse still the same local nominated Silby Bar- rett for president. Silby Barrett is celebrated because he is possibly the only pie card artist in the trade union movement who is totally illiterate. His knowledge of the English lan- guage is so extravagant that he once declared that the miners of Nova Scotia were “organized 100 per cent.” The manly breast of Czar Lewis must be swelling with pride at the honor the most backward miners in Nova Scotia paid him! COME ON NOW, OBEY! According to Mussolini. By T. J. O’Flaherty HILIP SNOWDEN, chancellor of the British exchequer expresses ferceful disagreement with the result of the London conference. Snowden is not opposed to the Dawes Plan but he believes that French occupation of the Rhur gives the French capitalists an unfair advantage over the British capitalists and this the socialist chan- cellor is opposed to. It is interesting to watch the British socialists step- ping on each other’s heels trying to outdo each other in anxiety to help the capitalists. * ¢ HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE grows facetous in discussing the Com- munist election campaign. An edi- torial entitled “The American Red Campaign,” after stating that Foster has more contempt for LaFollette, Mangus Johnson, and the petty bour- geois elements represented in that movement now dictated to by the Wisconsin senator than he has for Coolidge and Dawes, makes the rather intelligent observation that Foster and Coolidge are the only two candidates who stand on a record of accomplishments. There is a big grain of truth in that statement. Foster is the choXen spokesman of the most advanced section of the American working class, because he has proven by deeds as well as by words that he is a worthy representa- tive of revolutionary labor. In fact he is everything that Coolidge is not to the workers. a a) OOLIDGR, on the other hand is a class conscious supporter of cap- italism and his record shines with deeds that bring smiles in Wall Street. Coolidge points to the pres- ent condition of American capitalism, as a measure by which the Republi- can ticket must be judged. When pointing in that direction let us hope for the little man’s sake that the vot- ers don’t see Fall, Denby, Daugherty and the rest of the grafters. “Mr. Foster has the achievements of the Soviets in Russia back of him.” Yes, and a mighty achievement it is, which every revolutionary worker in the world is proud of. And if there was some work for the undertaker in Rus- sia, after the Soviets took over the Government, it is possible the under- taker was not put on the job in time, The workers will mourn less over the few thousand Czarists who lost their useless lives in Russia than for the millinos of Russian workers and peasants who lost their lives under the Little Father. Negro Business Men Fear K. K. K. Robert R. Moton, president of the National Negro Business “league, president of Tuskegee institute, vice-chairman of the National Urban league, presi- dent of the National Negro Finance corporation of Dur- ham, North Carolina, and mem- ber of the Elks, addressed the convention of the Business league here this week. He made a veiled reference to the Klan, coughed, hesitated and stopped. He leaned over the press table and asked reporters to make no mention of the story of how last year his life and the lives of thousands of students at Tuskegee institute had been endangered by the threat of the Klan to wipe out grounds and buildings if he did not refuse to accept the ap- pointment of a Negro physician to the hospital on the grounds of the institute. Careful About Speeches. The advance copy of the speech, given out to the press, contains no reference to this part of the address. This is not carelessness, The league has an efficient publicity manager— Cary B. Lewis. Cary B. Lewis took the DAILY WORKER reporter in charge, after inquiring as to the na- ture of the paper. He introduced her to members of the executive commit- tee: “This is the representative of the DAILY WORKER, a-a-oh, a newspa- per.” “A Communist paper,” suggested the reporter, helpfully. “If you insist,” said Mr. stiffly. Lewis, A Level Head. Robert R. Moton has been char- acterized by Calvin Coolidge as “one of the most level-headed of men,” Dr. Moton was careful to return the com- pliment last night by praise of Wall Street, the present administration, and white “supremacy.” “The white man is supreme today, not because he’s white, but because he rules in righteousness. When he is no longer righteous, God will take from him his supremacy, and give stpremacy to the black or the yellow race,” said Dr. Moton. “Let us plan our association so that Wall Street will have faith in us.” Slave Driver Gets Ovation. Julius Rosenwald, of Sears Roebuck and Co., one of Chicago's slave-pens, received his measure of ovation at the oe ee = hands of Dr. Moton for his contribu- tions to Tuskegee Institute. Dr. Moton came to ‘the session after a dinner with Roscoe Simmons, or- ganizer among Negroes for the repub- lican party. Roscoe Simmons is prom- inent in the convention of the league. He is ready to address its sessions at any time. But women garment workers of the Negro race, protesting against the scabbing of other colored women, drawn from the Urban league, during the recent strike of the International Garment Workers’ Union, found that Roscoe Simmons was not available as a speaker before the meeting at Unity House, 3140 Indiana Ave., when they pleaded with women of the South Side not to support the Urban league in its program. Negroes Should Work Harder. Oscar A. Priest, welcoming the del- egates to the city in place of Mayor Dever, urged that Negroes work hard- er and give full measure of labor to their employers. He said that if Ne- groes would speed up in their work the United States would find it un- necessary ever to lift the bars of im- migration again. The spirit of the convention was expressed by C. H. Brooks, vice-presi- dent of the Business League, who said that “the purpose of this organ- 4 ization is to corral the fire-dollar bills.” Mr. Brooks hazarded guess that when the recording angel. ‘Yites the names of the greatest men of his- tory, three will stand out—Napoleon Bonaparte, Bismarck and Booker T. Washington. The incident of Booker T. Washington’s invitation to the White House to visit Theodore Roose- velt, was repeated in detail by Mr. Brooks. Negro Press Controlled. The National Negro Press associa- tion is represented at the league by the Honorable B. J. Davis, its presi- dent. The DAILY WORKER report- er was introduced to a writer on a Negro paper, who had something to tell of the tactics of the Negro Press association, most of whose executive board are to be found also on the boards of Tuskegee and of the Busi- ness League. This reporter had been detailed to cover the unveiling of the monument to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee last year. Davis of the press association made an address condemning Harding. When the re- porter wired his story to the Interna- tional News Service, reference was made to this address. Melvin D. Chisum, secretary of the association, ordered the story killed. Thru an accident, the Birmingham News failed to receive its orders, and the story appeared in print,