The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES @ months 32.003 monthe Chicago only): $2.50....3 montus $6.00 per year $3.60... By mall (in $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY, WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. wemeemvonveneer EGItOFS ‘Business Manager J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. On Glenn Young’s Bond It was very illuminating to find out who went on the bonds for 8S. Glenn ‘Young, ex-prohibition of- ficer of the U. 8. government, Ku Kluxer, dictator of Williamson County, and aspiring Fascist extra- ordinary, who has been freed on a quarter-million dollars bail to answer for his crimes at Herrin. Who else should it have been to buy freedom for Young, but the-coal operators of Illinois? That’s who it was. Now that Young is away down south in Georgia, and is armed with a battery of physicians’ certi- ficates that he cannot travel, some of the coal oper- ators seem a bit worried about all. the valuable coal lands they put in hock for the super-gunman. But, of course, they need not worry. Glenn Young may skip the country for a while since he has made it so hot for himself, but no forfeiture of bonds in Southern Illinois will be allowed to injure the coal operators so long as these operators own the state government so completely as they do today. No, the coal operators will undoubtedly keep their rich lands, no matter how deep they are in- volved in the murderer, Young, who seems to be hitting it out for parts unknown. But at least we have some information as a result, which is really very illuminating, and which should help to educate the mirers of Illinois on the exact meaning of the Ku Kluxers in relation to unionism in the coal fields. <=> 20 ° oye Piracy and Imperialism When Wm. S. Culbertson, of the Tariff Commis- sion, denounced “economic piracy” in the undevel- oped sections of the world, he raised a very delicate issue. Where does “legitimate” imperialism end, and “economic piracy” begin? All nations of the capitalist world will agree that*imperialism is kosher but economic piracy is taboo. But the de- finition of these terms—ah, there’s the rub! Who will decide it, and how? It is in the very nature of imperialism that all rivals for the control of markets are “economic pirates.” Our own imperialists are always good, kind, chivalrous, gentlemen who are working more for the benefit of the colonial natives than of them- selves. The “foreign” imperialists are a no-good bunch of pirates, who menace the peace of the world. That’s why we have to go to-war regularly every few years. The story is the same within each capitalist country. For the workers the truth is on neither side; rather, they must declare that imperialism and piracy are synonymous; that our own imperialists are of the same stripe of economic brigands as those of other lands, tho more powerful today, and therefore more dangerous to the working class of the world. American gunboats in South America are performing the same “piracy” as British “la- bor” government aerial bombs in Irak, as the French troops in Africa, as the Belgian exploiters in the Congo. Imperialism is a gigantic robbery for the benefit of a small class, destructive alike to the subjects in the colonial countries and to the working class of the “fatherland.” It is all piracy to the workers. The Farmer’s Dilemma Every capitalist solution is merely a prelude to another complication. ‘We have in mind the eco- nomic effects dnd political consequences of the recent upward trend in the prices of cortain farm commodities. The world wheat crop shows a decrease of about twelve per cent compared with the 1923 figures. The areas hardest hit are the wheat producing territories outside the boundaries of the United States. Consequently the price of wheat has gone up. This rise in price has been considered by some as the signal for a revival of American agricultural economy, as the beginning of the end of the severe depression in which agriculture has found itself in the United States for the past five years. But while the echoes of applause occasioned by the increased price of wheat and corn were still reverberating in many sections of the country, the Separtment of Agriculture let it be known that, at most, this upward trend would boost prices to a total of two hundred million dollars. For the country as a whole, since only one-eighth of our wheat crop is exported, this meant merely a shift and not an increase in the total purchasing power. Now, we are further told the livestock situation is an increasingly menacing cloud on the farmer’s economic horizon. The prospect of an extremely poor corn crop and the simultaneous advance in rye and wheat have tended to lift the values of all stock feed. Thus the survey just concluded by the Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation tells us that “beef steers are about one dollar a hundred pounds lower than last year, veal calves a dollar and a half down, wool six to seven cents lower, A a ae THE DAILY WORKER cheese two and a half cents, and the average price of fluid milk for city supply thruout the country is about ten cents a hundred pounds lower.” Hog prices, the only ones holding up at present, are enjoying only a temporary spurt. The pig crop shows a tweaty per cent reduction this year as compared with last year. Corn prices are higher. It costs more to feed the hogs. There are less hogs to be sold. It is on this basis that the farmers’ prosperity is founded in the hog market. Verily, the temporary removal; to an insigni- ficant extent, of one obstacle, is only the occasion for the rise of new, widespread difficulties for the farmers. The dilemma the farmers are facing is a dilemma that has its roots deeply set in the present system of production and exchange where- by the capital, socially used, is individually owned for private profit. Another Strikebreaker Strikebreaker Coolidge and “Open Shop” Dawes have drawn to their support a labor agent of theirs, John L, Lewis, breaker of the Nova Scotia strike, betrayer of Alex Howat, and servant of capi- tal under the title of president of the United Mine Workers of America. Lewis has joined the “board of strategy,” according to undenied reports, that is headed by William Morgan Butler, the “open shop,” spy-using, sweater of labor in the textile in- dustry, and chairman of the Republican National Committee. The company is fitting all around, and, it is hard to judge which is the worst scoundrel of the lot. Rumor has been going the rounds of the labor movement for quite some time, that John L. Lewis, expecting Coolidge to get back into’ office, and doubting his own ability to hold on long where he now is, had made arrangements fora soft place to light. The story was that Lewis will support Coolidge, and that the agreed-upon price is, that Lewis is to become Secretary of Labor if Coolidge is elected. John L., by going on the Butler “board of strategy,” has certainl t given the lie to that rumor. We wonder what the miners think about it? After all, the miners are among the most political- ly developed and class-conscious workers in the American movement. They know that Coolidge makes his bid for fame principally upon the claini that he broke a strike; they know that Dawes is a Fascist, an “open shopper,” and an imperialist agent of Morgan. They also know, by bitter per- sonal experience, that John L. Lewis is a treacher- ous autocrat. Under the circumstances, it probably is the better part of wisdom on Lewis’ part, that he is looking for an appointive job in Washington. . Campaign Camouflage The two parties of big capital, the democratic and the republican, are preparing to employ the most ingenious strategy, the most skillfully manip- ulated camouflage in order to win the support of the laboring masses in the coming campaign. Such maneuvers are, of course, not new in Amer- ican politics. This year, however, efforts in this direction will be intensified because of the deep- going unrest that has of late manifested itself in the ranks of thé organized and unorganized work- ing men. Tho redoubled in energy, these attempts are fundamentally 'the same threadbare, time-worn, hackneyed efforts that have characterized the re- publican and democratic campaigns. for many years. The republican drummers will try to sell the un- founded idea that the protective tariff means good wages and prosperity for the working men. Need- less to say, these Coolidge boosters will be silent about the fact that the Fordney-McCumber tariff act has levied an additional tribute of more than three billion dollars on the laboring masses. ‘When the democrats will be making most ‘noise about the prosperity enjoyed by the masses during the Wilson regime, they will be pathetically dumb about the fact that the world was at war then, that conditions were artificially stimulated, that the seeds were then being sown for the worst de- pression in American history. Nor will the republican orators attempt to be eloquent about the spreading unemployment and the increasing economic depression when they will be laying most emphasis on a change of administra- tion being a cause for a panic. Likewise, both republicans and democrats Will be in a conspiracy of silence and avoid deliberately the slightest mention of the strikebreaking char- acter of the United States government when they will be yelling loudest for decisive majorities in order to avoid the wheels of legislation being stopped. ‘ And Mr. LaFollette himself will do’nothing more than avoid and evade the issues confronting the working and exploited farming masses by harping on the need for an impossible return to the “good old, golden” days of 1776, LaFollette’s economic program, the basis on which rests his political doc- trine, is fundamentally unsound. In the coming campaign there will be but one call aimed at rallying the workers to action, to decisive struggle against their exploiters. This will be the call sounded by the Communists. The Communists alone will be the ones to raise the class issue and thus attempt to strike at the roots of the hardships and sufferings of the overwhelm- ing majority of the population. Join the Workers Party and subscribe to the DAILY WORKER! Many willing hands make the big jobs easy. Get new members for the Workers Party. Send in that new “sub” today! — Wednesday, August 27, 1924” Dawes Plan Seeks Stranglehold on Germany (Continued from Page 1.) European markets, and has thereby caused an economic and, to some ex- tent, even a political crisis in Amer- ica. The method of the Ruhr occupation has proved to be unsuited to achieve the desired end. The world war ended with the “peaceful -war” of the Versailles Treaty. The Ruhr war followed on the heels of the peaceful war. After the Ruhr war the “peaceful war” has begun afresh, this time in the form of a systematic, refined, well- thought-out method of extortion against the German proletariat, ac- cording to the plan of the Morgan group, which goes under the name of The Experts’ Report. Anglo-American capital requires Hurope as a market, as a colony. For this purpose finance capital pushes forward the labor government as a screen, and employs the more “culti- vated” and “peaceful” forms indicat- ed by the best experts, in order to throttle the German proletariat. Socialist Hangmen. To the help of the hangmen there comes their trusted servant: Interna- tional Social Democracy.. Ten years ago international social democracy everywhere voted for the war credits; everywhere it supported its national bourgeoisie; it supported the Versail- les Treaty, which was dictated to the vanquished people and set its signa- ture to it; in all countries it furthered the attempt to reestablish capitalism at the expense of the proletariat; it only conducted a sham fight against the Versailles Treaty, against the rob- beries and against the occupation of the Ruhr. And now it is the first to sing the praises of the plan of the Morgan group. Social Democracy has made use of every one of the 22 reparation conferences in order to dish up new illusions, and it now seeks to make use of the 28rd repara- tions conference of the victorious im- perialist robbers. for the same. pur- pose. On the occasion of every con- ference the Social, Democrats pro- claim the beginning of a new era of pacifism and claim that this time the conference will finally bring salvation and “reconstruction.” This is done in order to entangle the revolution in pacifist-democratie illusions. At every betrayal of the working class the Amsterdam International was a true ally of the Second Interna- tional. At the Vienna Conference Facts About LaFollette’s Wa (Continued from page 1) must be remembered, are the sinews of all capitalist wars. In fact, a summary of ‘Battling Bob's” "war record reveals that he voted for at least fifty-five out of sixty war measures passed by congress. Tho he opposed the armed ship bill before the United States joined the Allies, he did not speak on this mea- sure, did not utter a word against it in the senate. : LaFollette Pledged Self For War to Utmost. * When one thinks of the suffering of the Communists, the revolutionary workers, in every country for their opposition to the imperialist blood- fest, he is immediately convinced that LaFollette did everything but fight against the World War. There is an unbridgeable chasm between the war records of Robert M. LaFollette of the republican party of Wisconsin and Karl Liebknecht of the Communist Party of Germany. Let us call upon State Senator Henry A. Huber of LaFollette’s own, Dane county, to tell us of “Bob's” war patriotism. Listening to Senator Hu- ber's speech before the Wisconsin up- per house on February 23, 1918, we hear him say in defense of LaFol- lette’s war record: “War having been legally declared LaFollette immedi- ately accepted it as a fact. He set about to make effective war, He be- lieved it to be wise to make war as effective as possible that it might be the sooner ended. (This was exact- ly the reasoning of the capitalist su- per-patriots and the profiteers). Here- after I will give his record on the war measures coming up for consideration in the senate. It is a record to be proud of. He consistently and patriot- ically supported the president and his country to the end that we might win the war at the earliest possible mo- ment with an honorable and abiding peace.” Didn't Interfere, And turning to an address deli ed by LaFollette before the United States senate, as reported in the Con- gressional Record (Page 681) of April 14, 1917, we read: “I do not desire to hamper our own effort to speedily prepare to prosecute this deplorable war.” Ten days later LaFollette took oc- casion to tell the senate (See Cong. Rec. April 27, 1917; Page 1362): “First, all our naval and military re- sources should be concentrated on the solving of thé submarine problem.” Pleading that the country arm it- self to the teeth, the “progressive” leader who would now hav: believe that he fought against the war, thus implored his colleagues in the senate (Cong. Rec. Oct. 6, 1917; Page 7,887): “It is said by many for whose opin- fons I profound and sincere whose motives I know to even its left wing failed to utter a]'The spectre of an economic crisis is syllable as to the necessity of liquid-| knocking at the door; the absorbing ating the Versailles Treaty. The Dawes plan was subjected to a for- mal criticism, but. then at the joint conference of the Amsterdam and London Internationals in London, was declared to be “the only possible so- lution.” What Is French Imperialism Aiming at in London? It is seeking to set up for all time the political and military hegemony of France upon the European main; land, It wishes to perpetuate the Versail- les Peace Treaty; it desirés to render permanent the enslavement of the German proletariat; it wishes ‘to arm for a new war, It wishes to suck the blood from the veins and the marrow from the bones of the German proletariat in order to guarantee the reparation payments, as it knows, that the French finances are completely shattered and that the revenue for the year, 1924, will scarce- ly suffice to cover the interest on the state debts. The burden of taxation in France is continually growing, the Franc is deteriorating (the French petty bourgeoisie and peasants at the recent elections gave their answer to Poincare regarding this). Behind Her- riot stands Poincare with his whip. Both of them are only representa- tives of French imperialism. What Is English Imperialism Aiming At? It wishes in its own interests to wreck and shatter French hegemony. MacDonald is carrying out the pro- gram which the Conservative Baldwin drew up for the construction of the air fleet and only cancels a paltry sum from the old armament budget. The Allies, France and England, can neither agree with one another nor can they separate from each other. For the time being they are com- pelled to avoid a war, because neither of the two countries are ready with their armament preparations, but be- fore all because America has not yet decided which of the two hostile im- perialist groups she will support. English capital has to spread new il- lusions among the English proletariat, because the number of the unem- ployed has again reached a million and because the wave of aggressive mass strikes, despite the will of the trade union leaders, is advancing. Salvation is expected. from Ameri- ca. But America herself is suffering from an agrarian crisis. Two million farmers have abandoned their farms. that ‘we are in this war and must go thru to the end.’” That is true. “There is, and of course can be, no real difference of opinion concerning the duty of the citizen to discharge to the last limit whatever obligation the war lays upon him, “Our young men are being taken by the hundreds of thousands for the purpose of waging this war. . . . Nothing must be left undone for their protection. They must have the best army, ammunition, and equipment that money can buy.” Here we have a song very: much in sympathy with the Ghant sung to the working men by the Garys, the Schwabs, the Morgans, and the Na- tional Security and Defense Leagues. LaFollettism Not Opposed to Imper- ; jalist Wars. Scrutinizing Senator LaFollette’s yoting record during the last imperial- ist war, one sees that, all his present anti-war protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, the self-annointed progressive Messiah is no enemy of capitalist aggression when it is wrap- ped in such empty phrases as Bh for defense” and “safety and security of the country.” In a speech he made at Port Wash- ington on July 18, 1917, “Battling Bob” plainly said: “I didn’t’ belfeye in waging war to collect Mr. Morgan's money for him.” Yet, having no il- lusions about the character of the bloody struggle, LaFollette voted for 55 out of 60 war measures, prior and subsequent to this declaration. The Wisconsin senator at no time Proposed to take away from the im- perialist diplomats and the financiers their powers to make war. At most LaFollette has sought to give the masses who fight the wars a voice along with the intriguing capitalist statesmen and the profit-hungry boss- es. Thus we find him say in his Po- litical Philosophy (p. 205): “Why not let those who must pay some- thing to ? Why not let the people themselves, on whom the burden of war falls, have a voice—some direct expression—along with fii and diplomacy, in determining ether ere shall be war, or wh there shall not be war?” ! Not Really ‘Against Conscription. , LaFollette’s opposition to ription bill before it became law was only to the method pursued by the employing class in murdering the sons of the workers and poor farmers and not to their right to call upon the working masses to fight their im- perialist battles. In the Wisconsin state senate Hon. H. A. Huber, thus on February 23, 1918, defended and explained LaFollette's opposition to conscription on the basis of military efficiency: ; A “Had men been enlisted in an or- derly manner as needed they could have been equipped and supplied as called, and we would not now have a ' power of the home market is decreas- ing, ruined Europe is not in a posi- tion to purchase American goods; South America forms a too restrict- ed field for investment of capital in view of the furious pace in the de- velopment of productive forces. Mor- gan imposes his will on America and in the name of .Morgan, Dawes and Hughes dictate to Europe. American Dictatorship. The first assault of the democratic- pacifist era will be the nearer ap- proach of the Dictatorship. of American. Finance ‘ Capital, which has set itself the aim of con- verting Europe into a colony. As a screen there serves the labor govern- ment and the left bloc; sham democ- racy and sham pacifism. In the back- ground the fascist watchdog is ~on guard. Germany is to be made an interna: tional colony, an exploitation ‘field for the robbers of all countries, All bour- geois parties in Germany are heart and soul for the Experts’ Report. The German fascists cry out against the conversion of Germany into-a col- ony, but in the parliaments they sup- port the state governments of Thur- ingia, Mecklenburg and Wurttemberg, the premiers of which have come from the ranks of the German nation- alists, and in spite of all their lying pledges have voted for the Dawes Re- port. The London conference impos- es exhausting taxes upon German in- dustry, but these ‘taxes, right up to the last penny, will be entirely and unconditionally transferred to the working masses, the’ middle class of the towns and the working peasants. For this reason all the bourgeois par- ties of Germany are in favor of the Experts’ Report and only carry on a sham fight against -Entente capital. The Social Democrats and’ the trade union bureaucrats,—these profession- al traitors—have this time also offer- ed their services to world capital and render practical assistance in the set: ting up of the’ dictatorship of Ameri- can imperialism -over the whole of Europe.. y * Twelve-Hour Day. The London. Conference will mean for the German proletariat the twelve- hour day, the dismissal of 50 per cent of all railway workers, a more dras- tic reduction of the civil service staff than hitherto, extortionate taxation, increase of custom duties, of the rail- way rates and food prices. The Ger- million men drawn away from essen- tial industries awaiting transporta- tion that cannot be fully provided for more than a year yet. LaFollette was right as evéfits now amply show. Notwithstanding he opposed the conscription act, upon its pas- sage, LaFollette immediately coun- selled full compliance with the law.” Little Hostility. to Capitalists. Nor was. LaFollette . dangerously hostile to the big employing interests in the: revenue measures Proposed by him to raise;more than enuf. money with which to finance the war. In his discussion of the income tax bill before the:senate-he said: “The public must. pay: enuf for the Products to furnish a good round profit for the capital actually invested.” (Cong. Rec. September 3, 1917; p. 6530). Not only did LaFollette- differ merely as to. the method of fiiancing the imperialist war, but he advocated his own plan for adoption of which he argued on the ground that it would safeguard the spirit of war among the masses. Thus the Wisconsin sena- tor made his plea for his ‘plan as fol- lows before his colleagues in Wash- ington: “I tell them one and all that by their refusal to justly tax war prof- its and excessive incomes they are destroying the war spirit among the Compoundi By HARRISON GEORGE ODERN ‘science is complicating if not compounding crime. The Doheny indictments demurred to on the grounds that the grand jury might have soaked up some wave lengths when Senator Walsh spoke over the radio concerning the Teapot Dome oil leases, etc. Doheny’s lawyers say this seriously “prejudiced the in- terests of the defendants, etc, Together with this radio business, comes the “selentific” testimony in the Leopold- Loeb case, compelling a revaluation of | what are known as “delinquents.” After glancing hastily: through the symptoms and looking up our psycho- pathology, we have arrived at the following conclusions about some poli- tical delinquents: Gompers. has a, wart on his pineal gland, thet’s what makes him act that way toward the left ig. John L. Lewis has an enlarged pituitary, that’s why he took the money scab mine operators which ~ ton accused him of getting. Johnny Walker has thyroid insufficiency, that’s why he reversed hin on, endorsing Len Small. Wi aeheer: has a king-and- | slave fantasy, th why, he said “Thank you, Bob!” when he was booted out of the C, P. P. A. conven- tion, | La Follette is in a bad way accord: | Send in that Subssription Today. man workers will. become the white slaves of democracy, the .coolies of pacifism, compulsory strike-breakers on a world scale, The 12-Hour Day in Germany means the introduction of the ten-hour day in France. The abolition of legal pros tection for labor in Germany will be followed by ‘its abolition in France, England, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland and other countries. Starvation wages in Germany will lead to unemployment in England. : The London Conference can Jéad to a new attempt to form an imperialist united front for the Exploitation of Soviet Russia and for the introduction of imperialist control over Germany’s foreign trade with Russia. Workers, Proletarians of all Countries!) Tear the bandage of illusions from your eyes! Do not allow a repetition of the August Days of 1914! See the position with your own eyes and do not allow yourselves to be deceived by the professional betrayers of the workers! Workers of England, America: and France! The German proletarians, who are fighting against Entente capi- tal, will not attain victory without your help. ‘ Render active. support to every. ef- fort of the fighting German. proletart- at against the sweating exploitation by the Entente and against the preda- tory policy of America. May the murderers of the German proletariat hear with utmost -clear- ness the. voice of all the hundreds: of thousands of workers: 2 ? Hands. off the German proletariat! Away with imperialist slavery un. der the flag of pacifism! Forward with the proletarian revo- ution! Down with the dictatorship of Mor- gan and of finance capital! Long .lMye the dictatorship of the proletariat! Down with the international stock exchange and its agents, the Second International! Down with the Versailles Peace Treaty! % Workers of Germany! Forward with the struggle to preserve the eight-hour day! Proletarians of all countries! Form @ firm proletarian united front with Soviet Russia! x Protect the German revolution as you protect the Russian revolution! Form a protective wall of millions round the center of the world revolu- tion—round the German proletariat! The Executive Committe of the Communist International. r Record hundred million people of this coun- try which is abosulely necessary if we are to acquit ourselves even cred- itably in this great war.” (Cong. Rec, September 10, 1917; p. 6861.) Tax Rich to Breed War Spirit.. Finally LaFollette demanded that the peace terms of the capitalist war be stated not because he might’ thus expose the true character of the con- flict and throw a monkey wrench into the imperialist war machinery, but be- cause he was convinced that such a statement by the ruling clase of this country would tend to win the masses more firmly to the war campaign. We need but turn to the speech de- livered by LaFollette to the United States Senate on October 6, 1917 to see this truth: aie : dis “Such a course (a declaration of the. purposes. of the war) would also immeasurably, I believe, strengthen our military force in this couptry, be- cause when the objects of this war are clearly stated and the people ap- Prove of these objects they will sive to the war a popular support it will never otherwise receive,” . . Such was and: is the oppogition LaFollette to capitalist imperialism and war. And such is the support the workers and dispossessed farmérs should give the Wisconsin senator in return on the basis of his war record. ng Felonies ing to our diagnosis He is badly in- volved in a Narcissus complex of self- love, a paranoiac tendency of exag- gerated appreciation of self, and a split-personality indicated by trying to cater to both capitalist and proletarian interests and to compose his trust busting program with Sam Gompers’ demand to repeal anti-trust legislation. Bob's a sick man. 18 Secretary. Hughes, according to psycho-analysis, confuses himself with Christ, that’s: why he won't recognize Russia. Coolidge’s basal metabolism averages about 17 minus, that's why he ae it seamiey Ags instead of “mo- bilization.’ id has giantism, that’s why he is dtenke tee injunctions; and Wm. J. Burns’ central ganglia are out of gear, that's why ‘he's a crook. Now we know, don't we! > Yh vp atte Too bad that Jesse James was. shot before it was discovered that his en- docrine system was unbalanced. And it is a shame that Captain Kidd, and many another lusty pirate, never was able to hire a dozen “alienists” at $250 per day each, f° plead that -he slit many a throat and scuttled many a merchantman, his mind, if not his ship, had struck a reef off. the Islands of Langarhans. wh od