The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 8, 1924, Page 6

Pian Sits —_ \ Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. It has been a matter of common knowledge 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. among the militant workers that the Socialist Party (Phone: Monroe 4712) jis thoroughly petty bourgec It has remained for the past year to produce an §. P. of which not only is this true, but which feels a pride in the shameful fact. Today the socialists take their Indecent Exposure of the S. P. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: | $3.60....6 months $2.00..3 months By mail (in Chicago onty)* $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50...3 montus (6 aol aha ea EB diab eee ae Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY, WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Illinois ————— J. LOUIS oper _.Baitors WILLIAM F. DU? MORITZ J. LOEB. jusiness Manager $6.00 per year ket place as recommendations for support. Consider, for example, the following, culled from the New Leader, weekly organ of what remains of the Socialist Party, under date of August 16: Frank Ehrenfried lends to the Socialist ticket a very substantial measure of strength. ‘Asa young man he entered the United States Army and did five years of border service in Montana; he was honorably discharged. He has for many years been a jeweler, and has been president of the Retail Jewelers’ Associa- tion. He is prominent in masonic circles. Eutered 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. | pe 290 Fake Maneuvers at Geneva The parliamentary puppet favorite method of diverting the minds of the workers from discontent and revolt. Now that national parlia- ments become more and more discredited, the in- ternational stage receives more of the spotlight. And surely there never was a more ludicrous farce than that now being performed at the League of Nations Assembly by the twin-stars of pacifist illusions—MacDonald and Herriot. A furious battle of words is first put up, serving the double purpose of reassuring the respective bourgeois sections that their “socialist” representa- tives still hold the “national” interests before them, and at the same time rousing fear of a crisis that might result in war, in the hearts of the work- Then, at the proper moment, “concessions” are granted that preserve the interests of the capi- talist class, adjust rival claims by throwing addi- tional burdens on the workers, and leave the work-|/he belabors all groups who do not accept his ers so thankful that war didn’t come that they|plackly reactionary policies. That it is nothing may accept the new load without a struggle. That put a pose is demonstrated in a hundred ways, not is the purpose and meaning of League of Nations |the least of which is his own employment of ren-| debates such as we now see going on. beer “intellectuals” from the revolutionary move- Whether it be J. the so-called Labor Party, representing the bloc of petty bourgeois and so- cialist parties, or the personal agents of J. P./and William E. Walling. Morgan—one and all of these actors now treading| In the current issue of Gompers’ house organ, the international stage are actuated by one motive | walling has an especially blatant piece of “in-| only, to squeeze more profits out of the working |tellectual” bunk, that gives the measure of the class, to more firmly enslave the workers, and to| mighty thinking machines that get upon the pay- load the entire burden of the war upon their/yol] of the arch-reactionary. Writing to the text shoulders. The only force that is organizing the/that “American labor leads the world,’ Walling} struggle against this historic treachery is the in-|hoasts that the Gompers’ policy uses “all political | ternational Communist movement. parties for its purposes instead of losing its poli- tical independence and identity in one party,” and Wall Street Is Not Afraid that thru this all-party method American labor Commenting upon Gompers’ endorsement of the | “leads the world bepeeis3 ee ug LaFollette-Wheeler ticket, the Magazine of Wall |84¥8; ust be excluded from leadership to ac- Street, under date of August 30, has the following complish this tremendous result. to say: show is a by itself, but expressing as it doés so typically the preseift sense of values of the Socialist Party, i becomes almost a classic. Mr. Ehrenfried is looked upon as a pillar of strength of the socialist ticket because he is a small merchant and a leader of small merchants, and because he is prominent in the circles of a bourgeois secret society. A work- ing man on the ticket, bringing none of these great “recommendations,” would certainly be out of place. The Socialist Party has worn out its last shreds of working class clothing and, unless it quickly obtains a complete bourgeois cloak, will be in danger of arrest for indecent exposure. Gompers’ Intellectuals Samuel Gompers has a pose of opposition to “intellectuals” in the labor movement, with which ers. intellects” for so much per, are Chester Wright) That “non-labor intellectuals” of the type of “LaFollette’s impeachment of the ‘reds’ led by Walling must be repudiated by the yes wore: Foster made his position perfectly clear to those ment, is true enough, altho Walling didn t mpan in labor circles who were willing to follow a pro-| that. He meant the intellectuals who disagree with gressive platform but who balked at allying them- Gompers. Ww ithout defending Walling’s rivals for selves with the exponents of the dangerous theories the title of intellectual, it must be stated that few of Lenin and Trotsky. It is evident that this coun- of them indeed can descend to such depths of try has in no way to fear from such institutions triviality and servility as does Walling. : American Federation of Labor, On the} At @ time when: every child is realizing that] | political parties are expressions of class interests, | whole, American business can congratulate itself) | th idle cl t li t t ini : ° e| om the inherent good sense of the average American | |when even the middle class is struggling to crea laboring man.” Almost an endorsement of LaFollette, this would seem, and it comes from an outspoken champion | of Wall Street. Certainly Wall Street does not see any danger to itself in the wordy denunciations of the so-called progressives, and it frankly tells the world that it is not afraid of the Wisconsin no matter how many votes he gets. On the Wall Street considers Foster and the no matter how small their vote, as a to domination, dan-| as the is dragging Gompers & Co. along with it, when the personal control of Morgan over the republican an “intellectual” repeats to the workers, in the “all” parties in the interests of labor. Intellectua bankruptcy could hardly be more complete. One grain of truth is there, when seen from the proper angle: Gompers does use all parties—true enough—but it is for the purpose of selling the interests of the working class to the highest bidder, and not for the purpose of fighting for the interests of the working class. senator, other hand, Communists, distinct gerous. There ought to be a lesson in this editorial from] the Wall Street magazine for the workers every-| where. It is the same lesson that LaFollette has been teaching with his every move, from the seut- tling of the farmer-labor parties, the autocratic bossing of the Cleveland conference, his nomination of himself upon his own platform, his organiza tions of bankers, millionaires, and manufacturers as his chief down to his surrender to Gompers in the alignment with reactionary state politicians—namely, the lesson that LaFollette merely represents another section of the capitalist class, that he does not represent the workers and farmers, and that the latter are making suckers and fools of themselves by supporting him, while Wall Street laughs. menace its own as Berger and Dawes “Thanks to the Dawes plan,” says the Milwaukee Leader, organ of Victor Berger the socialist, “so- cialism will triumph. The experts’ plan would never have been adopted but for the socialists. It would never have become the basic law of European economy with Poincare, Lloyd George or Ludendorff in power.” A brazen boast of treachery to the working class of the world v never more open than this, The road to “socialism” of the brand of Berger, lies in backers, TONITE J. P. Morgan. A Fighter for Communism There will be thousands of workers who will feel a pang of sorrow at the news that Charles Brower | is dead. For years one of the active workers in the Communist movement in and around New York City, he was also known as an indefatiguable edu» cator in the principles of Marxism, equally popular in the class room and on the lecture platform. His ability on these lines was equalled by his devotion to the cause. His sudden death was a real blow to the Communist movement as well as a personal Joss to hundreds who had worked with him. At the memorial meeting, to be held on Septem ber 10 at Brownville Workers Hall, 1844 Pitkin Ave., where Comrades Ludwig Lore, Juliet Poyntz, and Noah London will speak, the comrades of New York and vicinity will be speaking for the entire Workers Party in acknowledging the valuable services, the loyal devotion, and the personal esteem and affection, which were centered in the|And LaFollette is frankly capitalist, while Berger activities of Charles Brower and which make his|still pretends to speak for the working class, The untimely death a cause for sorrow among wide|Bergers and MacDonalds make better servants for circles of the revolutionary movement. Dawes than members of their own class, he says, “because it gave them a chance to force} European imperialism under the yoke of American | bankers.” It is hard to imagine more miserably puerile justification for this treachery than the plaint that, own capitalists and could not overthrow them, once these European masters are tied to Morgan, | then the socialists will boldly defy J, Pierpont, | turn the Dawes plan into a socialist instrument, by denationalizing the German railways and ‘abol ishing the 8-hour day. Even LaFollette, whose program is essentially the same internationally as that of Dawes, is not | so servile as Berger. He at least tries to make some | political capital out of denouncing Morgan’s plan even if he accepts it in principle. He hides his} shame, while Berger flaunts it before the world; signs of shame and boldly exhibit them in the mar-} This would have no particular importance, taken| Ramsay MacDonald, leader of | ment. Two of his particular pets, who do most of} or Edouard Herriot, |his writing for him, and otherwise prostitute their} a party of its own in the LaFollette movement and| and democratic parties is apparent to the world,| name of Gompers, that they have a method of using | surrendering the working class to the control of | Berger says this in so many words: | The European socialists accepted the Dawes plan, | while the socialists of Europe were afraid of their | and establish “peace and justice.” This they begin | THE DAILY WORKER (Continued from Page 1) then make terms with one of the rival bandit generals. eee aa HUS would the present Peking gov- ernment be: punished for ignoring the threats of our bewhiskered secre- tary of state and the puny strike- breaker who lends sanctions to his | schemes, The first act of the | Chinese administration would be to jeancel the China-Russia treaty on |some pretext or other. In the mean-| | time each of the capitalist powers that | have troops in China would find some | pretext for invading the country and exact some well-worth-while conces-| sion as the price of evacuation. | hee ae | UT things may not turn out as/ planned. Soviet Russia cannot be treatéd today with the same lack of consideration as was shown by the} robber nations in 1919 when sundry | bandits were hired to invade her ter- ritory. Today Soviet Russia ‘has a powerful Red Army and also the good | wishes of the mas: of the Orient | who have for the first time found a country that is interested in their welfare. The American workers may | have difficulty, following the situation | in China owing to the philological dif- ficulties involved. It is sometimes | hard to figure out without the aid of} a map whether Hiangstu or Chekiang | are persons, places or things, or whether Wu Pei Fu is a general or the name of a new game, But the capital- ists are not frightened away from the} profits to be derived from the exploita- | |tion of China by linguistic obstacles. | They can get a Chinese boss to swing | a lash over a Chinese “coolie and the | money wrung out of the poor body of | the coolies can be squandered where some other language is spoken. Pie ee warships are in China. They, are | They MERICAN They are in Honduras. in Mexico, They are in Brazil. jare in Chile. class demand their presence. may laugh with the wrong side of their mouth some day when they are called on to defend the oil wells of| the Standard Oil Company, of ,the loans of the House of Morgan. se HERE is an old saying that “the eyes of the fools are on the ends of the earth.” But like many ol@ say- ings it is out of date. The eyes of the capitalists are on the ends of the earth, but they don’t want the work- ers to look beyond their own national boundaries until it is necessary to fight “for democracy” somewhere }else. Capitalism knows no country. |It is international. It will invest its \dollars wherever it can make profit. |It knows no religion. It will hire the |labor power of the Mohammedan, the Buddhist, the Bush Baptist or the | Holy Roller as well as that of the Catholic, Protestant and the 57 other | varieties of Christianity, ee HE workers must take a leaf out of the capitalist’s book. They | must look on the workers of all lands and of all races as their brothers. As the capitalist system, has today en-| circled the globe, the workers must} build up an international organization | to wrest the reins of power from | capitalism and abolish the system of) exploitation that has turned this earth | into a veritable hell for the great majority of its inhabitants, The Com-| munist International, with sections in| almost every country in the world is| the only international organization | having for its object the overthrow of | the capitalist system, The class-con- scious workers of this country should join the Workers (Communist) Party and help to overthrow the American capitalist system, the most brutal in the whole world, can make a real contribution to the ERE are the soldiers hurried into Herrin, last Saturday, following the inauguration of a new Civil War by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Proseqyting Attorney Delos Duty, of Willjamson County, charges that \ing in munition factories, we are told. | Allied celebration. interests of the American capitalist|the International This | Workers officials when that organiza- | boasted haven of the oppressed, the |tion held its recent convention in Bos- United States has today become the | ton? world’s Simon Legree, the big bully |ton police from arresting strikers who that signs communications to weak |do picket duty, even members of the nations with a sword. And the Ameri-| organization whose officials were giv- can workers who shrug their should- jen keys to the city. Curley knew that ers and joke about the war in China \he ,could have given keys to the city Monday, September 8, 1924 AS WE SEE IT task of eliminating the horrors of war by removing its cause, +o 8 ‘HE Honorable James M. Curley, mayor of Boston, makes it quite | clear that he is not a pacifist. Every- thing that America has won, was won by the sword, he declares, in a letter turning down a request: for a_permit| to hold an anti-war demonstration on| Sept. 12, which is set aside by the capitalist government as “Defense Day,” name changed for psychological | reasons from ‘Mobilization Day.” There was a time when His Honor was not so militaristic, but that’ was | before Woodrow, Wilson “kept us out} of peace” in 1917. Before then Cur- |ley found it to his advantage to say nasty things about the: “coupon clip- | pers of State Street” and the Back) Bay aristocracy. coat) UT Curley made a tidy bit of money during the war by invest- | His rival, John EB. Fitzgerald, cleaned | up at least a million on Bethlehem Steel: Naturally, the war. was alright }and James M. Curley, who was born in humble circumstances in old ward 17, Roxbury, now owns a handsome residence in Jamacia Plain and is one of the new aristocracy. Why should |he bite the hand that fed him so mu- |nificiently? He made his money on war, and he does not %o back on his friends. Boston is an Irish city and the Irish were not heartily in favor of the late war, and the Honorable | Mr. Curley lost considerable caste among them by singing, “God Save the King” on State Street during an But he made up for that concession to the exigencies of the moment, since then, by shout- jing for an Irish Republic, when the shouting was good for votes. soe 8 AYOR CURLEY is considered a friend of labor in Boston. Did They are wherever the|he not give the keys of the city to Ladies Garment But that does not prevent Bos- jails to Sigman and Pearlstein and the pickets would stay there. Should the Irish nationalists who opposed the last «| italism. uae because it helped England look with cold eyes on Curley’s militaristic pronouncements, His Honor will be | able to prove to them that the paci- | fists are agents of the British govern- |ment, who are trying to weaken the | United States. ‘ * * oO much for Mr. Curley. The Catholic Church, in America, even |that propaganda auxiliary Known as the National Catholic Welfare Coun- cil-is strongly ‘in favor of ‘Mobiliza- | tion Day.” The N. C. W. C, quotes | Cardinal Mercier of Belgium to the effect that “Nobody can be a perfect Christian who is not at the same |time a perfect patriot.” So there you are. In order to be a perfect Chris- tian you must be a good patriot, and |a good patriot is one who is ready to |slay his fellow man at the orders of |a government that in turn takes its orders from the capitalists who own |the country. The Catholic Church is |one ‘of the strongest bulwarks of .cap- No~wonder the capitalists, that is, tHe dominant faction, give the | Ku Klux Klan the cold shoulder, ex- cept in local situations where they can | use it to break strikes, | sR UT as a dope joint the Catholic Church takes the biscuit. And the National Catholic Welfare Council was supposed to be progressive. But it went the way of the rest of the progressives. Most of the Protestant churches opposed Mobilization Day. They lack centralization and discip- line, and are not nearly as useful to the Capitalists as the older and more disciplined Roman church. But we must add that pacifists, be they sin- By T. J. O'Flaherty cere or insincere, cannot prevent war. The last war came even tho majority opinion was against it. oe 8 NOTHER war will come more sweeping in its destruction of life and wealth than the last war, War is inevitable under the capitalist system. Wars cannot be prevented by urging the capitalists to be good. The capitalists could not stop war and remain capitalists. The workers alone.can stop war. They cannot do this by merely passing resolutions, * #8 OMMUNISTS are not pacifists. And yet the aims of the Commu- nists will, when realized, make peace possible. But as a major surgical op- eration is sometimes necessary in or- der to save the patient, a major surgi- cal operation must be performed on society to remove the system which has outgrown its usefulness. Opera- tions are not pleasant and are only undertaken as a last resort. Tinker- ing with the capitalist system a la Fol- lette, or a la Hillquit will not abolish war. Outlawing war under capital- ism is‘as feasable as outlawing wage slavery under capitalism. The “war to end war” that the notorious mountebank Woodrow Wilson repre- sented the last world war to be, will be the class war. It will be interest- ing to see our bourgeois pacifists who now wail so loudly against the mili- tary preparations of their govern- ment join with the same government in its attempt to crush the revo- lution. They will be found lined up witli the capitalist militarists as they were in 1917. “He slips In and then slips out, leaving a trail of hopes dashed and opportunity cast away.” * * ‘HE local unions comprising the Chicago Metal Trades having agreed upon. presenting a united front in demands for higher wages in the shops of the Chicago Sur- face Lines, opened negotiations with that street railway corporation. Mike Boyle runs Local 134, Elec- trical Workers, which holds sway over the electrical workers in the south Council, Headquarters of Ku Klux Klan | | everyone for MIKE BOYLE: A “LABOR LEADER” Tite shops. Local 713 has jurisdiction over the west side shops. While discussions between resentatives of the workers’ and the corporation are under way, Boyle's lientenants get busy in Local 713. A group of some 300 members, acting on a promise that under Mike Boyle’s protecting wings the west side shop electricians will get more wages in the new agreement, decide to go over to Boyle’s local, No. 134. Representatives of the Metal Trades ‘Council are, in the meantime, wear- ing a groove in the door sills of the corporation. office. They are also paying repeated visits to Mike Boyle, urging. him to hasten in the matter of setting a date for a full representa- tive conference with the Surface Lines. Patience gives way in the end, and the Metal Trades Council _ notifies Boyle that, unless something definite comes from him in the way of getting together, they will be compelled to go alone. the rep- Mike Boyle makes no answer. Whereupon the Council representa- tives go to the corporation without Boyle for a_full_ conference without mands of the shopmen. The Surface Lines officials, with beaming faces and great good nature, advise the Metal Trades Council rep- resentatives that Mr, Boyle, represent- ing the Electrical Workers, had signed a new agreement providing for the old scale of wages. Among the appointment, workers is anger, dis- chagrin; the rule of himself is put forth. |Treachery triumphs, The only ones satisfied in the deal aj are the officials of the Chicago Surface Lines, and, presumably, Mike Boyle. 1. W. W. Case Dismissed. FRESNO, Cal., Sept. 7.—Avictory for the I. W. W. was gained in Fresno, Cal, when cases against Miles Mc- Cabe, T. O, MacDonald, Mickey Hur- ley, John Martin and Emil Staffo, un- der charge of criminal syndicalism, were dismissed. All five were tried once with a hung jury, no evidence having been offered except their mem- LS T was in front of the J. H. Smith garage, shown above, the headquarters bership in the I. W. W. of the Ku Klux Klan in Herrin, that the Klansmen inaugurated their new few minutes, of six men. In this way they | civil war in Williamson County, resulting last Saturday in the death, in a Adjutant-General Carlos D, Black, in charge of th as Governor Len Sma Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. CHARGE OFFICER OVER THESE SOLDIERS IS KLANSMAN militiamen, as well supported for re-election by the LaFollette preal: ential samealaey is a member of the Kian. .