The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1924, Page 12

gD roe some The following was written to the Brisbane Daily Standard, Austral. jan labor daily, by Professor W. T. Goode, former correspondent of the Manchester Guardian in Russia.— Ed. Note. * * . EN don’t matter; movements do. But find their ex: | pression by men. And when the mouthpiece is dirty, the expression fails and the movement suffers. If it/| were true (which I do not believe) | movements that men make movertients, then my conclusion above is even stronger. | But great movements are the product} of laws of energy and matter, only} imperfectly comprehended. They | throw up from time to time men as} their expressive organs. | And it be-| hooves the organ of expression to be| clean—above' everything. If he’s! clean he’ll be staunch, and staunch} to the principles he has to express. | “And, alas! Of how many it can| be said that they remain staunch?} You have Longuet, Renaudel and Co. in France; Kaustky, Bedel Adler and} Company in Germany; Plekanhoff, Martoff, Ichaikodsky, the Cadets, in| Russia; Gompers (! ! !) in US. A; John Burns, Barnes, J. H. Thomas, Henderson, Hodges, a tribe of others, even Ramsay MacDonald, in England; all of whom have played, or are play- ing the game of the enemy of the workers. a good fhing out of it for themselves, and the influence of that is wide- spreading. “A clean political life, a rigid adher- ence to principles, a ceaseless activity in the fight for the workers, the indis- pensable requisites—where do you find them? What does it matter if you live and die, a pauper? The great prophets, the world-shaking express-+{ ive voices, were poor, stoned, de- famed. The modern would-be prophet wants to live softly, dress finely, be a society darling. And then the spec- tacle, outlined. by de Leon in ‘Pages BRITISH AUTHOR ATTACKS ~ LABOR GOVERNMENT Many of them have made, ing and the poverty so long as I can remain honest. But let that pass. “Here we are going thru the formal phase—lip service to Socialism—and being told ‘the rights of capitalists will be guarded.’ This is textual—J. R. M.’s own words. It must be con- fessed that the position is unusual— office without power. In small ways attempts, at mitigating misery are made—housing, wages, education, and unemployment. But—and it is a big ‘but’—vast concessions have been made to ne EH feeling in the !government appointments. Ridiculous acceptance of feudal ceremonial is the order of the day; kissing of hands, assumption of court dress, holding of department ceremonial functions, the mingling in dnd yielding to functions of society with the capital ‘S.’ “The ‘crabbing’ of those who stood out—extremists they are called— whose appointment would have aroused the former governing class— Morel, Landsbury, Smillie. Ant worst of all, where there would have been no difficulty for the mere ad- ministration machinery sufficed—tho faling down before the permanent of ficials. The head of the Rusisan Com. misison is Gregory, a fanatical anti- Russian of Curzon’s office. Why? Consuls are named for appointment in Russia, drawn up by the premanént officials, every man a former ‘White’ consul, and one at least nominated for one of the “important Consuls- General, a man whose brutal, uncon- troHed action against the Soviet gov- ernment is known, as also his co-ag- ents. I mention merely things I know well. . One can trace this capture of the so-called Labor Ministers by permanent officials in many quarters. “Little wonder that I and many others are sore. We can make every allowance for the position they are jin; none for what is base capitula- tion.” Ten-Second Quake. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 28.—An earth- of Roman History’ is repeated again and again. “This may sound like ‘pure rhodo- montade.’ That it may sound is very significant of the prevalent ideas in the world of politics. But while with you and in New Zealand I never ceased preaching it. I can say quite simply that for me I prefer the ston- quake lasting ten seconds was report- ed from Reykjavik and Harnfjord, Ice- land, followed by a tidal wave. Four Dead in Explosion. WARSAW, Aug. 28.—Four pérsons were fatally injured and ten slightly by the accidental explosion of a hand grenade in a citadel fort téday. LA FOLLETTE IN CONGRESS (Continued from page 3) before the last session of Congress LaFollette’s progressives in the House, led in this debate by the Wis- consin Congressman Frear, joined forces with the reactionary Republi- can clique to vote for the multi-mil- lionaire Longworth’s bill. In doing so, the progressives did not get a thing from the administration and sacrificed even the insignificant demands they themselves had made towards shifting the burden of taxation to the richest. Perhaps the most disgraceful behay- ious of LaFollette’s so called insur- gent group was shown in the disas- trous sally it made in behalf of liber- alizing the rules of procedure in the House of Representatives. These pro- gressives were in a position, thru their power to obstruct, to win recog- nition for their demands. But the progressive group refused to fight ef- fectively. It surrendered to the reac- tionaries by agreeing to a postpone- ment of constructive action for thirty days. Progressivism Disappearing Most of the legislation enacted in Wisconsin is no longer considered rad- ‘ical. As we have seen, twenty-one of the thirty-one planks that LaFol- lette has presented to the Republican convention, prior to the last one, are now law. Competent political observ- ers like William Hard, have declared that LaFollette is growing less rad- ical with time. In this light it is interesting as well as instructive to consider the follow- ing written by Richard Barfy, in the Hearst’s International for Aug. 1922: “When early in the present Congress, some insurgents declared they would depose Penrose, from his Finance Committee chairmanship, LaFollette refused to join them. Penrose sought out his colleague from Wisconsin and expressed appreciation.” Penrose, who is now dead, was one of the old guard reactionary senators from Pennsylva- nia. Mr. Carter Field writing in the 1924, said, apropos of LaFollette’s New York Tribune of January 18th, friendship with Penrose: “It was ‘Bob’ and ‘Boies’ when they met, and that was not all. When LaFollette came up for reelection it was Penrose who hurried up to the hated Wall street and brought back money to help re- elect ‘Bob’ every time.” Finally we call upon the Search- light on Congress, an organ friendly to LaFollette, to dispel any illusions that may have been spread about the radicalism of the Wisconsin senator among workingmen and poor farmers. We quote from its issue of March 31st, 1924: . “There may be some who look with apprehension upon this strangely al- tered situation because of their fear that LaFollette may prove ultra rad- ical. Let no one lose any sleep on that score. LaFollette is not ultra- radical. He is not even radical. On the contrary, he is decidedly conserv- ative. “His record proves that, When given authority, he slows up.” MANABENDRA NAT ROY Leader of the Communist Party of India. Letter from South America. City of Pradera, Republic of Colom- bia, Department of Valle del Cauca, Province of Palmira, July 20th, 1924. To the DAILY WORKER: Friend- liest greetings and wishes for many triumphs in the great struggle begun in-your daily in favor of libertarian progress. . We who haVe been fighting for five years now in behalf of the sublime socialist ideas, are deeply pleased to learn that there is born in that land of monstrous capitalistic, octipi, an intrepid standard bearer of freedom. We assure you that in this land of priests and lackeys, we are fighting courageously and resolutely for the pure socialist principles which have to, lead us to the swelling army of those of Communist doctrine, to which all humanity must go if it does not wish to become the slave of capitalism and all its ridiculous allies. In- this country we have not even one district daily, hardly managing to do more than spread leaflets for prop- aganda. For this reason we wish to establish correspondence with your daily, with the real champion of the proletariat. Also we will inform you that in this Departmento del Valle del Cauca, we have obtained victories of great sig- nificance for the cause of the prole- tariat, and we reckon with a nucleus of more than 12,000 adherents to the socialist banner. We trust that you will send us some samples of your daily which we desire to know better in order to take some subscriptions. I remain your faithful friend and comrade, MIGUEL A. QUINTERO, Director of “El Tribuno,” (Working class paper). Wants Market Report. To The DAILY ‘WORKER:— You ask what‘the rural readers think about the value of market reports in the DAILY WORKER. From the farmers’ point of view, he usually looks for the market report THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON _ LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS at intervals when the question comes up as to what the market is. The average farmer does not sell on a high market and buy on a low market, so to speak. But he sells when he can and buys when he can, and he always accepts the market that he is compelled to. ‘ I think that a semi-weekly market report or even a weekly market re- port would serve that purpose well. Many of the farmer readers are too far away to rely upon the Chicago ‘market alone for this information. The market reports as written con- ceal much more than they reveal. If they were written from the workers’ point of view, they should be as in- teresting and educational for the city worker as for the farmer and would show how they are both gouged when the farmer sells and when the con- sumer buys. But such a report would need to be written by a special writer and cost considerable. Will the read- ers give the price? IRA LIEBRASSE, Big Sandy, Mont. To the DAILY WORKER: Enthus- iasm is growing in the printing trade over the Foster-Gitlow ticket. In my previous letter to the DAILY WORKER I said that'a movement was on foot to form a Park Row Branch of the Workers Party. We have more than tliree times the necessary names now, all union members, who are for Foster and Gitlow. Enclosed find subscription for the DAILY. WORKER from a member of the S. P. who said. “I believe the Workers Party is right.” I have three more subscriptions promised. These new Foster-Gitlow-workers comprise pressmen, sterotypers and printers from the News, Times and Journal besides binders, ete., from commercial plants. — May O’Brien, New York, N. Y. Greeks Have Blowout. LONDON, Aug. 28.—Many persons were reported killed and wounded by an explosion in a Greek naval arsenal, said a dispatch from Athens today. i a