The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1924, Page 6

Pp = THE DAILY WORKER. pene eee RSE Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES | By mail: $8.60....6 months $2.00..3 months | By mali (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 montua 66.00 per year 98.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to . THE DAILY, WORKER 1918 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, IIlinola —<—<—<$—<—<—< $<$< $< $< —< ee J. LOUIS HNGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. —<—<—<—< $< — << Batered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928 at the Post- Ofice at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. > W Advertising rates on application. ‘More Confusion of Issues Political speeches on Labor Day are in the na- tare of bait on the hooks of those fishing for work- ing class votes. Ag such they might be expected to clarify some issues vital to labor. But such an expectation this year must have received a sad jolt. One and all, the speeches of all three capi- talist camps were mere mazeuvers on the political chess board. The death-bed repentance of the democrats, re- nouncing the New York convention’s refusal to consider the pitiful demands of Gompers, can hard- ly raise more than a smile. The democratic devil is very sick, it is true, but its ludicrous efforts to appear as a saint are not only late, but devilish awkward. Davis, as a champion of the workers, requires more than eleventh-hour conversion to be taken seriously even by the bureaucrats. As for the republican department of Wall Street, it stands pat, handing out the same old “full dinner pail” that has seen service for generations, ts But how about those champions of democracy, freedom, and the rights of labor—LaFollette and Wheeler? The senator from Montana, in his Boston speech, made out a good case against the Gold Dust Twins of republicanism and democracy, but failed completely to make out a case for his own bi-par- tisan substitute. His statement that he is “still a member of the democratic party” remains on the record; and mere ranting against capitalist parties while proposing nothing but another, is nothing but | demagogy. Wheeler is still a “democrat,” and when the democratic party is ready to restore Gompers to its inner councils, will become regular again. .LaFollette added a point to his election issues, when he denounced the Dawes plan as the plan of J. P. Morgan. That is true, indeed, and that La Follette has finally spoken may indicate that he reads the DAILY WORKER. But what LaFollette will do on the burning issue of international rela- tions and the enslavement of the German workers still remains a mystery. And that LaFollette will really fight against the Dawes plan is an illusion, proven by the fact that he proposes no alternative; further, many of his chief supporters are ardent supporters of the Dawes plan, such as Villard of the Nation and Samuel Gompers. This should pro- vide material for many a scrap in the already chaotic camp of the “progressives” who stand on every side of every question. The confusion in the camp of capitalism grows more intense with every passing day. This is but an added sign of the disintegration that proceeds apace within the capitalist system. They do not know where they are going, these large and pretty bourgeois “statesmen,” but they are surely on their way—to the*breakdown of their senseless, anarchic, greedy system. And in the confusion the only clear note is being sounded by the Communist can- didate—William Z. Foster; who calls upon the working class to establish its own class rule upon the ruins of the decaying capitalist system. Recognize Soviet Russia The fake progressives have dropped the issue of | reebgnition of Soviet Russia. They have tacitly agreed to the program of Gompers, which is “no recognition until Russia has completely restored | capitalism to power.” Such contemptible cowardice | in dealing with one of. the issues most vital to the} workers must arouse the deepest disgust. Even for those who do not yet understand that the Workers’ Republic is the only bulwark against the most terrible reaction, it should still be clear that recognition of Russia is an absolute pre- requisite to the solution of unemployment, and that Gompers’ policy leads directly to another world slaughter. That.the “progressives,” who pretended in the past to be, at least, as advanced as the British Labor Party on this issue, should surrender without a pretense of a fight, stigmatizes them as fakers, pure and simple. The very minimum program that could call for support from the working class on the issue of Russia would be: complete recognition and resump- tion of full trade relations; repudiation of all Allied projects of partitioning of Russia, both those accomplished and those planned; the summoning of a world conference for disarmament, as called for by ‘the Soviet government; a large-scale credit to the Soviet government, to assist the workers’ gov- pment and to re-open the factories of the world; repudiation of all demands for compensation to the former property holders and other claims against the Russian workers on account of their success- ful revolution. 4 ‘ There is but one way in which the workers of America can vote for this common-sense program. That is to vote for the candidates of the Workers Party, for President; William %. Foster, and for vice-president, Benjamin Gitlow. 4 { perce aati cece S97 se Se aewwndet me Bam put up a real battle against the approval of the |their orders in later than 6 o’clock Friday night, The Chamber of Commerce at Work Another development in the war of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce upon the organized workers is witnessed in the latest battle at Herrin, in which seven deaths occurred Saturday. When the Cham- ber of Commerce began, to raise its war chest, two ears ago, to “wipe out the stain” of the first Wi iamson County battle in which imported gunmen, | brought in to break the strike, were driven from | the region, few people realized what a long and} terrible war was being launched. Today it is be-| coming apparent that these champions of “Amer-| ican institutions” will stop at nothing. | Under the flood of cash poured into Williamson | County by the “open shop” forces, murder has be- come a commodity, purchased in the streets. Cor- ruption has eaten into every institution, from city halls and churches to labor unions, until every person guards his slightest word for fear of spying| agents, and officials are financed and receive their orders direct from the agents of the Chamber of Commerce. Under all the confusion of feuds, inevitably en- tangling such murderous warfare against the labor movement, this sinister “open shop” campaign is the one silent but effectively directing force that knows what it wants and is driving to get it. It is not a mere co-incidence that it was in Herrin| where the coal operators called a conference to con- sider slashing the wages of the miners, only a few short days past. Cd British Labor Congress The Trades Union Congress, now meeting in Eng- land, will disclose how far the left-wing of the Brit-| ish labor movement has developed during the first six months of “Labor” government. The appear-| ance of this left-wing section is a matter of historic | importance, but to expect much from its official! leaders in this Congress would be a mistake. It is) probable that, upon most issues before the Con-| gress, they will be indistinguishable from the right} wing. | Only the Communists will really fight for the| left-wing issues in the Congress now going on. The| so-called left leaders are actually conservatives, in| the main, and they take a left position only under the pressure of the rank and file. They have been | foreed, in order to head off the growing radical- |ization of their members, to put up a battle against the government leaders, especially on the question of Russian recognition; they realized that if the Labor Party should allow the negotiations with Russia to break up, the result would be an enorm- ous increase in the strength of the British Com- munist Party. They took a “left” position in order to keep the masses from going farther left. But now they are able, thanks to their forcing of MacDonald to sign the preliminary treaty with Russia, to keep the mask of “Labor” on the face of the fake Labor government. Even tho the treaty which was signed contains very little indeed of a practical nature, being significant as a gesture rather than a concrete step forward, still it is enough for them to feel that they have brought their rank and file into line again, for the time at least. And so it is to be expected that they will be very “revolutionary” at this Congress. * The one issue that there is much possibility of a| large division on in the Congress is the Dawes| plan. On this issue it is possible that a fight of some} proportions may be staged, with the left wing in- creased from its Communist nucleus to a consider-| able body. Certainly, if their words at the Trans-| port Workers Federation International Congress, | held recently in Hamburg, are to be taken serious-| ly, the British transport union delegates should| “Labor” government’s role as the executor of the plans of J. P. Morgan. That Special Campaign Issue | Comrades from aJl over the country are writing | in to the DAILY WORKER, complaining that we) did not tell them what a crackerjack of a special edition we were going to get out last Saturday when the 18-page Campaign Special was issued. They say that if they had only known, they would have increased their orders many fold. Others got and therefore did not get their papers at all, be- cause the flood of orders coming at the last moment wiped out the whole edition as soon as it was,off the press. Our answer to’ the disappointed boosters of the DAILY WORKER is this: This Campaign Special was only the first one of several that will appear in the course of the presidential campaign. Now you know what we mean when we say that a Specjal is coming on a certain date. And after this there will be no excuse, and no placing of the blame on the DAILY WORKER, if every city, town, fac- tory, mine and shop does not receive a plentiful supply. They can be gotten simply by placing your order by 6 o'clock the night previous to date of issue, And while the DAILY WORKER staff realizes that the standard set by this first Campaign Special is a high one, and will require a lot of hard work to repeat time and again on still higher a level, yet it assures all the boosters and circulators of the paper that in this office everything possible will be done to make every Campaign Special a regular political machine gun that will mow down our enemies in wholesale fashion. But the effectiveness of the Specials depend upon our readers and pro- moters, the members of the Workers Party and its sympathizers, upon whose effective work in giving us a big circulation depends not only the cam- . THE DAILY WORKER (Continued from page 1) to colonize a large tract on the Ca- valla River in Maryland County, Li- beria, to import skilled and semi- skilled Negro workers familiar with modern industrial methods and expe- rienced farmers, and to exploit the rubber and mineral resources of the country, One of the communications most highly enthusiastic about the, plan bore the signature of James J. Daw- son, late chief justice of the supreme court of Liberia, and the date of July 1, 1924, Fear Independence of Negroes. A significant note that ran like a red thread thru most of the communi- cations was a suggestion of hope that the operations of the Negro associa- tion might fan to life a general polit- ical movement for. independence of African peoples adjacent to Liberia now ruled by European Powers, and that the Liberian republic might be helped to escape the intimidation of French and British creditors. Mr. J. Van Lowe of Detroit, an offi- | cial of the association, and Mrs. Hen- rietta Vinton Davis, recounted to the convention the events of their visit as members of a commission to Liberia at the time when, they said, the Li- | berian government agreed to the plan. Garvey Blows Hot and Cold. After their reports, the convention awaited with tense excitement a speech from Marcus Garvey, president- general of the association. The pic- turesque and enigmatic Garvey has blown both hot and cold thruout the convention, once electrifying his hear- ers with terrific denunciations of the capitalist imperialism. that enslaves the Negro at home and abroad, then suddenly descending to a fawning at- titude toward the Ku Klux Klan, melo- ramatically terrorizing his followers with warnings of what the bedsheet- ers would do to them if they didn’t “watch your step” (thus arousing an old rumor that he has himself had dealings with the Klan), then again declaring that the Communist denun- ciation of the Klan should be “courte- ously received”—and still. another time suddenly switching about to ad- vise the convention to send servile pleas to the “white supremacy” gov- ernors of southern states. Would Garvey blow hot or cold now? was the unspoken question on every face when it became apparent that all the pan- all the surrendering of the Negro’s rights in America made a cruel joke by this sudden bursting of the illusion of pacifist solution of the race problem thru the peaceful liberation of the Ne- gro in Afrida ynder the benign smiles of capitalist cist. “ Would Garvey blow hot or cold this time? charging the toreadors. “We are going to fight!” he shouted. The tension relaxed, and men and women gave way to almost hysterical cheers, tears streaming from hundreds of eyes. “We of the U. N. I. A. work best when there is a fight on hand,” the speaker continued. “Now I hope that all of the members of the association feel like me, I know all that has hap- pened. Somebody has to play smart. Somebody has to sidetrack somebddy. Somebody has to play the fool. You ambassador to England what I said about diplomacy. Diplomacy is, ‘If everything is all right, I know you. If everything is not all right, I never saw you before.’ Now read between the lines. At the same time it is such a mixup that we have to explain a lot before our people can understand. Now, I trust this will prove to you the importance of the U. N. LiA. Tell me the Journeymen Tailors’ Union, 1921, and delegate to the Port- land Convention of the A. F. of L. who fought for progressive measures together with Sillins- ky. The letter follows: “MAX J, SILLINSKY, Cleveland, 0. “Dear Sir and Brother; In an en- deavor to comply with your request for a confirmation of my conversa- tion with you at Cleveland,’on July 4th, the following is my remembrance of that conversation; “I am of the opinion that, with Sweeney at the head of the J. T. U. of A. that organization must in- evitably grow, like the cow's tail, downward. At a meeting of No. 11, I stated that I had known Sweeney for years; had served with him on two committees and at two coventions, also as delegate to the convention of the A. F. of L., as a result of that ex- perience with him, I would not place any confidence in anything he might say or do at any time. “In my opinion he is absolutely and puign we are now in, but also the very life of the movement. utterly unreliable, and that so long as hy dering to the enemy was of no avail,) Garvey advanced to the spedker’s/ stand, shaking his head like a bull) The audience roared its approval.) remember when we were sending our | the Negro organization in America or in the world that could have such a document to be sent out to the United States of America, That thing has lifted us to the status of a govern- ment, to nationhood. The whole thing is pressure. + “When our delegation was in Li- beria, the Hnglish. and French con- suls danced around trying to find out what was going on. They had in- structions. Ultimately they found out what we intended to do, viz., to help to build up Liberia. So long as she remains undeveloped Liberia supplies |an argument for England and France and Italy and Spain that the Negro is incapable of self-government; that therefore they must go there with their protectorates, mandatories and colonial. domination and run the coun- try until they have exploited all its wealth. England and France knew well that if a group of progressive Negroes coming from the western world, equipped with the best in sci- ence, in art and in literature, went there, it will only be a question of time when all Africa will be one place for the black man. And they could not allow that to go on, so they had to put some obstruction in the way. Therefore they called upon little, help- less Liberia, who has borrowed money from them, She owes England and France aver a million dollars, and they said to her, ‘It is an unfriendly act to allow the U. N. I. A. to settle here. Now, what are you going to do about it?’ Unfortunately we hadn't a J. J. Borsum as president of Liberia, who would have replied, ‘Go to hell! and let the black man redeem his country.’ It is purely a question of backbone and guts, and the belief that we could not pay off the two million dollars that they owe. If we had that amount to give them to pay off Eng- land and France we could have put backbone into somebody. That is one side of the matter. “A couple of weeks after our dele- gates left Liberia, the Firestone Rub- ber and Tire Company of Akron, Ohio, United States of America, went there when they heard that Negroes had been there. They knew it was valu- able and what the land contained and what Negroes who had the aid of sci- ence would do. They said, ‘Look here, here is money. Give ifs some land.’ You know what money is. And one | Million acres of land—nearly half of the country—was given to that capi- talist concern of Ohio to exploit for rubber and minerals. That is the oth: er side of it. “Now, how would the Firestone company act, going there where there are two million natives who are crude and whom they can employ in the rubber fields just as they did in Peru and in the Congo? Give them hardly anything but hash twice a day. Surely they should keep out the American Negroes who knew about the price of labor and about union organization and high wages. And the word was |therefore passed to keep out the U.N. I. A. crowd. “That is what they played up to, and |it is there that the Negro proved that |he is the greatest enemy and curse to the race. That man DuBois is the | greatest enemy of his race that God | Almighty has ever made, He is the man who supplied the argument. Two years ago he wrote in the Crisis that it was the intention of the Garvey men to go into Africa and drive out all the whites from there. That is the man who gave the argument to the Eng- lish and French to tell President King.” (In quoting Garvey’s remarks about Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, I feel that it is only fair to say that DuBois’ criticisms of Garvey have been partly based upon Garvey's soliciting financial sup- port from white capitalists in return PROGRESSIVE TAILORS SWINGING TO MAX SILLINSKY IN ELECTION; REACTIONARY SWEENEY REPUDIATED ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 2.—Those progressive elements in that supported Soderberg in the first election that resulted in eliminating all but Sillinsky the pro- gressive, and Sweeney the reactionary, are now throwing their support in the final election to Sillinsky. That is the meaning of a letter sent to Sillinsky by Arthur Keep, Chairman of the last Convention of the Tailors’ Union in SH U. of A. there will be continued fric- tion. I know most of the organizers, and have never met one that did not tell the same story of his play- ing polities, causing friction and gen- eral unreliability. As I told you, that included Jacobs. Certain of these gentlemen are apparently supporting Sweeney, yet they know that what I now say is the truth. _ “The one outstanding thing I have always noted was the way Sweeney posed as a rfidical and at every op- portunity would play the conservative role. The tailors have always been noted for advanced and progressive action. I remember a letter he sent Washington in 1921, in which the radicals quite to “the queen's taste.” As a cold matter of fact, he is anything for Sweeney, I remember on one asion in Chicago he told me he never played politics, and I told him to-tell that to the marines, for I knew him and that I did not care for his “bunk,” giving him at the time several instances of is in any way directing the J. 'T. his playing politics, notably, the time . mn) ¥ ’ for a suggested surrender of the Ne- gro’s right to equality in America, ay well as a charge that Garvey made a deal of similar nature with the Ku Klux Klan.) DuBois-Goes to Liberia. “Do you wonder why DuBois was in Liberia part of this year? Go and find out among the capitalist classes who are paying Negroes to keep down Ne- groes. You would find out why Du- Bois wrote over two years ago about the Garvey movement and why the Afro-American of Baltimore also wrote their recent articles. It was wicked propaganda with the object of causing Negroes to fight against Ne- groes, “We are our own greatest enemies. But, men, you will realize this that the Liberian government is not the Liberian people. Now Garvey has got to fight and will do so until hell freezes over. “The things. that they have pub. lished only show how weak England and France feel, and how fearful they are of the U. N. I. A. If I have no fear of John Brown I would not try to prevent him going to his house. But because they are afraid of John Brown, they seek to close the doors of his house against him in the hopc that the snow sfiall fall and that he will be frozen and die. We know th: strength of the U. N. I. A. and with thc aims of the 400,000,000 Negroes o the world. “We are going to give them hell The damned audacity of it! Tha a bunch of Anglo-Saxon rapers, vil lains, scoundrels and felons to sta; in Europe and say that we must no go to Africa. Our people saw hell i: fighting for the cause of France an¢ England, in France and Flanders ané in Messopotamia. They saw hell ii the cause of America in the Spanish American war, and we can see hell ir ‘our own cause. , Yes, let \Englanc know that the 400,000,000 Negroes arc determined to redeem Africa, and ever tho they have a little weak-kneed fish bone president like Charlie King, we shall redeem Africa so long as we arc alive. “The skunks had not the decency to tell us what they were doing before they published the articles. I despise the inan who has not enough decency and respect for his own manhood. You, know what politics and govern- ment is. Coolidge is not the everlast- ing president of the United States and King is not the everlasting presi- dent of Liberia. “The U. N. I. A. is going to fighi until it gets a man in Liberia. So that when King passes away, Liberia wil’ still be marching on. It is a fight tc the finish. Brother, they were look- ing for me in 1914 and 1918, and they could not find me, but nobody has tc look for me now. The U. N. I. A. can look for me any time the call comes: - “It is a shame and disgrace, tha‘ Barclay should pen such a letter afte’ he himself penned the document it 1921 that welcomed the U. N. I. A. ir Liberia. And the lying skunk says he dd not indorse the thing. Coward! What could England do to Liberia in the face of the world sentiment at the present time? Could England invade Liberia and live? It was only a mat- ter of courage. Now I give it out again from Liberty Hall: You cannot fail with the U. N. I. A. It is not an organization. It is the spirit of 400,- 000,000 men. It is not a question of whether we are going to Liberia or not, altho we are going. It is a ques- tion of when black men get ready to do something. “Africa will redeem herself when the time comes. Not from without, but from within! So do not be wor- ried; just stick to your program. Six years ago Marcus Garvey was on the streets on a little soap box, and was unknown. Now he has one secretary he euchered Biggs out of a job. I have in my time heard men tell of smalf and contemptible things they have done, but never in all my ex- perience have I listened to such a tale of little tricks and picsyune politics displayed by @ man as was set forth in the story of that occurrence as told by Sweeney Himself in 1917. The worst part of it is that Sweeney tells it with gusto and seems incapable of understanding how small it makes him look. “You ask me if I am against Sweeney? The above would to show that I am. For years now the J. T, U. of A. has played a sorry role in the labor movement. It is: neither fish nor fowl, and it must be that way because of the leadership it has had. Why should not other national and international organizations laugh at it? We have a joke for a leader. “I notice that writers in “The Tailor” who boost Sweeney are in- clined to call names at long distance. In that they follow Sweeney. They are the kind that when they meet me they want to kiss me, and when they are away lie about me. I sometimes wish one of them would say the same things to me about me that they say to others. I have never been back- ward in telling any of them what/I thought when they are around. Mr. Sweeney usually changes his line of “bull” when he meets me personally, Most of what I have said in his letter I have said to him and added to it at times. “I should have liked to see Soder- berg in the second run-off, for he}? Fir Ps 2% ie ball ce ond eaten eet. APIS Ti Fan ee BE, RA adh Na Es Rae cE So A ai a nat ion 8 i Ea Eat Wednesday, September 3; 1924 Negroes Fight Concession to Rubber Trust of state writing to another. “Please wait awhile. There is going to be some more change. We have the chancelleries of Europe working over- time. All you have to do is to keep up these things. The idea of sending all over the world now to the different consuls not to give passports to cer- tain people! They had to disarrange the whole diplomatic service to carry out that order. Any Negroes who can do that show that they are stepping on the gas, “Keep your organization intact, World changes are going on and all you have to do, even without fighting, is to step on the gas, Where is Rome? She tried to stop the prog- ress of the people. Buried and gone! Just a few years ago Germany could have dictated the policy of certain countries and peoples. Where is she now? Asking for an economic chance, So just keep your organization intact. When you find these things are hap- pening it means that you are neaerr the goal. With all the bluff of Eng- ‘and and France, were it not for the bad Negroes, we would have already iad what we wanted, and no notes would have been sent. But wait un- il these troubles are clear, and I get o England and France. Then you rill see something. “When all these things happen, don’t ccuse the people for it. The people of England and France are not to be jamed; nor those of Liberia. It is ‘at group of self-seekers and grafters ho are so placed as to represent hem. But when they arouse the eeping conscience of the people hose fellows have either to deliver he goods or get away. It is only a uestion of time. We are going on vith the program and we are deter- nined to put*ft over. “We will give them a run for the noney. Brother, somebody is crazy if ce thinks he can plan to strangle the New Negro; to brutalize and enslave cond kill him and leave him still smil- ng. ‘ “What does all this talk of prevent ng the Negro going to Africa mean? s it friendship or fellowship? It neans that somebody hates the Negro 30 bad that he does not want to give he Negro a chance to live. Would you call any man who tries to keep you from your home a friend? And when you find out his designs, would you greet him with kid gloves? If I ‘ave to fight to the end, I would die to prevent his plan going thru. “Such a man is a prince not only of his race, but of his conntry.- “Gentlemen, if you want anything, n time you will win it. Going down on your knees will not win it. But standing your ground and striking yaa, and by God, the Negro * strike back! Any one who thinks th: the U. N. I. A. is\ made up of cowar s mistaken. We have men here w sre willing to die for the principles o/ ight and justice, and the liberation snd emancipation of the 400,000,000 Negroes of the world. “Somebody is crazy. The audacity of these men! We were at our homes three hundred years ago, never dis- turbed anybody. These men stole us « away from our homes; kept us in chat- tel slavery and bondage for three hun- dred years; raped or brutalized us; sucked our lifeblood, or milked us, and © now that we are ready to go home he talks about keeping us out of our home! Brothers, we will fight and even if the devil in hell tries to pre- vent us we will kick him out of hell, because, as the popular refrain of ‘The Blues’ goes, we are: ‘going home, go ing home! ” : The applause was mingled with shouts, “Going home! Going home!” which gave a vivid impression of the race spirit which seems to furnish a large part of the motive force of the present movement. ten eS a was my choice; but I hope and trust | the membership of the J. T. U. of A. | will give the organization a chance to | i live by defeating Sweeney. To ex- pect the organization to carry that | “old man of the sea” another two | years is presuming too much. ayy “Yours fraternally, | “ARTHUR KEEP.” a 14,000 Vets Drop _ Out of Missouri Legion in 1923 f ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2. — Since 1! | the American legion membership | the state has dropped from 32,000 to only 12,018, according to the annual report of Louis W. Kane, state secre-, tary, which means that only seven out of every hundred men who served in the world war are now legionnaires in | - Missouri, The report reveals a-startling loss of membership since the preceding year. The state organization has lost | 4,895 members during the seven months of this year, During 1923 a total of 14,000 members quit rie MARX'S MARC! how ait of vie} morta Univer — off Pro ns | tte And toil no more f Who roll in wealth y ‘8 Unheeding aber whee ai moan HORUS i) Eb, NOTE:—Music f | in applicatios ta tas?