The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1924, Page 6

. THE DAY WORKER. (“hai a RA SR Ae aE Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. | (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: | $3.50...6 months $2.00....3 months | By mall (in Chicago only): . $4.50...6 months $2.50....3 months | $6.00 per year $8.00 per year AQdress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Chicago, Illinois .Editors jusiness Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 38, 1879. ee 290 Advertising rates on application ——— ee Enter the Liberals In the interview with Burton K. Wheeler, pub- lished in the news columns of this issue, is dis- closed that gentleman’s conception of where the LaFollette movement is going. Only a short 60 days ago, Mr. Wheeler stated very emphatically, “T am still a democrat,” at the moment he was accepting the LaFollette-Vanderlip invitation to Albania Is Naive “The Dawes plan is a tortuous, complicated, diabolical, infernal concoction of bubbles. It may secure a vice-presidential chair for its author, but it will produce very little in reparations.” So spoke the representative of Albania in the League of Na- tions’ Assembly. But what Mr. Fannoli overlooked is, that the Dawes plan is only incidentally concerned with reparations, and it really does not matter a great deal to those responsible for it if reparations re- sult or not. What the Dawes plan unquestionably does accomplish, is to establish the rule of J. Pier- ;pont Morgan over Europe, and that is the vital point. Of course, that Dawes shall also become vice-president is desireable, and to squeeze a lot of wealth out of the German workers will be a thing to drive for. But when Morgan gets his fingers thoroly fixed upon the,throat of Europe, he will find ways and means to carry that purpose out, in addition to the Dawes plan. This Albanian representative, by the way, ought to soon find himself in the good graces of Morgan. For he seems to be a good Fascist dictator, with plenty of contempt for democracy a la Mussolini, and still more contempt for the workers and farm- ers. He still has to learn the lesson that “good taste” and the upholding of the pacifist illusions of the masses require that he speak not so bluntly in public, but that is a minor matter, and Morgan run for vice-president. But it is very, very hard, indeed, to make a campaign against the democrats and republicans while still protesting one’s pure democracy or republicanism, and the logic of the situation is driving Wheeler to talk of some sort of party organization for his hybrid movement The “party” that Wheeler forecasts is described in the name he suggests for it—Liberal Party. He wants bankers and manufacturers in a leading position in it, he doesn’t want to have anything to do with Communists, and he confesses that he “does not like the term ‘industrial workers.’ ” In- asmuch as he does not even mention what the pro- gram of such a party would be, it must be assumed that he proposes nothing further than the present proposals to put salve on the blisters of the work- ing class and regulate Wall Street for the benefit of the small capitalists. And Wheeler shows a fine instinct for reality when, altho wishing to correl Jabor party sentiment by kind words for the British Labor Party, he picks out the name rather of the party of Lloyd George and Asquith. That is what he wants—the party-of the middle class and small capitalists. When Wheeler says he wants exactly what the Brit- ish Labor Party now is, he confuses two things—the party and the Labor government. What he wants is a party that is the same as the British Labor government of Ramsay MacDonald. And that is so indistinguishable from the Liberal governments that preceded, except in its greater lack of courage, , that Wheeler should be excused for confusing them. %——hit the British Labor Party, because it is based upon the trade union movement, is something big- ger and more important than the Labor govern- ment, with which it is already profoundly dissatis- fied. As crude and compromising, as muddled and reformist, as the British Labor Party is, it cannot x escape going forward to some sort of struggle with 7 capitalism which is already developing a left wing leaning towards the Communists. Wheeler’s pro- posed “liberal party” could not develop in that way, because it would be organically a petty bour- geois party. . & Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. Public Benefactors What would we do without the thieves who, by stealing the pretty jewels of our rulers, give us a look in upon how the “better classes” live, by making news of the loss of their toys. The public benefaction of such thievery is shown by a couple of jewel thefts, totalling a half million dollars, calling our attention to facts that would otherwise entirely have escaped our attention. Here is the unfortunate Lady Montbatten, mem- ber of the party of the Prince of Wales on Long Island, who once had $250,000 worth of gems to hang upon her aristocratic body, but who has them no longer because a wicked thief in the night pur- loined them. Of course, the jewels lost were only an inconsiderable part of the wonderful collection of Lady Montbatten, who has to compete with several rivals in this field of extravagance, And then there is the ,000 pearl necklace of Mrs. Margaret Savell, which was stolen from that estimable lady while she was in Paris, not, the American Embassy hastens to inform a palpitating can teach him that and use him to good advantage for American imperialism. Get Ready for War With the supreme ruler of the United States, J. Pierpot Morgan, reaching out to extend his dom- inion over new millions of unruly subjects, prepar- ations must be rushed for rejuvenating the war machine and increasing its capacity. For Morgan’s plans mean war, and Morgan’s wars must be fought by the workers and farmers of the United States. Hence the fact that today we are having “mobiliza- tion day.” Get ready to protect Morgan’s billions, is the message to the American workers of the agents of capitalism. Against this message, which promises more death, destruction, suffering and slavery for the working class of the world, the Communist Inter- national calls upon the workers and farmers to mobilize their forces against, the capitalist system. Morgan’s wars will inevitably continue, at the price of working class blood and suffering, unless the workers overthrow Morgan’s rule. Against the government of Morgan, the Communists call for a government of workers and farmers; against the imperialist wars, against fratricidal struggles be- tween workers of various countries serving their capitalists, the Communists call for the civil war of the workers of the world against the world’s capitalist class. : . Going Up in Smoke Norfolk, Virginia, will be the scene of a very interesting event when 218 wooden ships, built by the government during the war at a§cost of $235,- 000,000, will be burned. A salvage company has an option on purchasing the ships for $262,000, provided the metal in the first ten ships destroyed shows the purchasers a fair profit on their invest- ment. Oil to the value of $25,000 will be used in starting the bonfire. The bonfire terial listed above is only a part of the big fleet that has been floating idly in the James river for several years. Who said wars did not pay? It is true that ap- proximately one hundred thousand young men, the floway of America’s manhood, laid down their lives on the gory battlefield of France and Flanders, and several hundred thousand were gassed, wounded and broken in mind and body in order to protect the millions with which the House of Mor- gan backed up the allies in the late war. The only compensation these victims had was the satisfac- tion of dying for the glory and profit of Wall Street! But what about the shipbuilding firms that turned out these wooden tubs at an enormous profit? What a pity the war did not last a few more years! Our patriotic capitalists were just beginning to learn how to do their tricks. But a bigger and better war is coming and a portion of the swollen profits made in building wooden ships that hesitate to go beyond their depth, airplanes that refuse to fly, and submarines that either fail to submerge or else once submerged stay in that condition—could not be more profitably invested than in “patriotic” movements to jazz up the can- non fodder for another war. Some of the dough made in turning out the wooden ships will pay the traveling expenses of the atavistic generals who world, to get a divorce, but apparently to show off her jewels. Another $75,000 worth of jewels that were under the same pillow were not stolen, and we are given all sorts of delicious thrills by the wide field opened for conjecture as to who and why slipped his or her hand under the pillow of the wealthy and aristocratic lady, thereby making her jewels a matter for our entertainment as well as that of the small circle who could enjoy them on the lady’s person. Z We certainly are good providers for our rulers. Mayor Dever finally called on the citizens of Chicago to observe defense day, rebaptised from Mobilization Day. The mayor did not like to do it, but when backbones were handed out His Honor drew a string of spaghetti, and Mr. Dever is just a nice little tool of capitalism who does what he ig told even tho it may rub his conscience the wrong way. Anyhow it was Dever’s democratic political conscience rather than the original article that will belch forth on “Defense Day” for prepared- ness. By the time the last wooden ship is burned with the aid of whatever oil Albert B. Fall overlooked while he was Secretary of the Interior, our ship- builders may be called upon to start turning out another flock of wooden ducks to carry our cannon fodder within shooting distance of the Japanese guns. And when the show is over, the navy depart- ment will be careful that the millionaire junkman who buys the cast-off navy does not get cheated on his purchase, It’s a grand and glorious system! The Chicago Tribune wanted war with Mexico be- cause the life of the land pirate, Mrs. Rosalie Evans, was lost in a battle between the gentle lady and persons unknown without the killers being brought to “justice.” Now it is Mexico’s furn to threaten war 6n the United States for the latter’s failure to break the necks of Loeb and Leopold for a mur- der which calls for the death penalty. All up-to- gagged at the defense day proposition. It is a Coolidge scheme and Cal will get much publicity date wars are fought for civilization, and how can civilization be preserved unless the old Mosaic law is lived up to? THE DAILY WORKER By ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG. ‘HE Russian press carries @ bit of news which, I believe, is of inter- est to the readers of the DAILY WORKER. The General Council of the British Trade Union Congress has sent a letter to Comrade Dogadov, Secretary of the, All-Russian Council of Trade Unions inviting the council to send a fraternal delegate to the an- nual British Trade Union Congress which convenes September 1, at Hull. The letter points out that the only other fraternal delegates will be from the International Federation of Trade Unions (Amsterdam International), the Canadian Trade Union Congress and the American Federation of La- bor. Albert Thomas, head of the In; ternational Labor Office of the League of Nations, we read in the letter, will also grace the occasion. Considering the fact that the Amer- ican and Canadian labor organizations have been officially exchanging fra, ternal delegates with the British Trade unions for over twenty years, the present invitation to the Russian unions singles out the Russian labor movement among the labor move- ments of all other countries. Towards Unity. Why this sudden desire of friendly relations with the Russian unions? Various international labor unions have during the past year or two, tried to enter into cordial relations with the respective Russian unions. We all remember the activities of Edo ¥immen last year in trying to bring about a rapprochmont between the Russian unions and Amsterdam. To show that he meant business, Fim- Moving Towards ternational conference of © transport workers, At the recent meeting of the Amsterdam International at Vien- na, the British delegates were particu- larly active in championing the idea of opening negotiations with the Rus- sian unions for their admission into tke Amsterdam organization. The in- fluence of thé British unions in the international organization ‘at the pres- ent time is comensurate with the in- fluence which the German unions used to exercise before the war. Forming with Fimmen’s and other organiza- tions a “left” block ou the question of co-operating with the Russian unions, the British unions have made it the biggest issue in the international la- bor movement today. The invitation to the Russian unions to send a fra- ternal delegate to the Hull congress can be looked upon only in the light of this general campaign. Conservatives Fear Militants, Just as the various capitalist gov- ernments had to give up their policies of isolation and come to an agreement with the Soviets, so the conservative labor movements are realizing that they cannot effectively organize an in- ternational labor movement without the militant Russian unions as an in- tegral’ part of jt. In addition, and which has particularly brought about this feverish action, the revolutionary wings of the labor organizations are growing more menacing every day and the conservative leadership be- lieves that it will neutralize the op- position by including the Russian un- ions in the international family of or- ganized. labor. ‘When the representatives of capital- ist governments meet the delegates men brought the Russians to the in-g of the Soviet Government to negotiate Vacationing With the Workers in Russia By ANISE. UGUST, 1924. Iam down in a health resort in the Caucasus Mountains. I am staying in a sani- tarium that is run entirely for work- ers. Just now as I write the strains of a piano come upstairs from the so- cial hall, indicating that they have been having a concert this evening. That is because it is raining; if it were fine weather, they would be out, as usual, strolling along the cliff in the moonlight or sitting on benches under the trees. Perhaps the word “Caucasus” sug- gests wild bandit tribes and rough living to the average American. Just as “sanitarium” suggests a place where sick folks lie in bed. I as- sure you that, neither of these pic- tures is a true one. Imagine the mountains of Southern California turned into a summer resort. Assume that some one has discovered sul- phur springs, and sparkling soda springs, and iron springs, and lakes of sulphur mud, tucked away in the vari- ous valleys, and has established there a host of hotels with open verandas, and vast stone bathing pavilions with many rooms and hundreds of attend- ants and scores of rest couches for use after the baths. Musicians Entertain Patients. If any have anything the matter with you, from rheumatism to heart trouble, there is a big clinic in the center of each town, and smaller clin- ics in all the sanitariums, where your doctor will tell you what kind of bath to take and what kind of water to drink for what ails you. If you dis- dain medical care, and have merely come for a rest, then there are moun- tains to climb, and band concerts in the various parks. Many of the best musicians of Moscow are down here, paying their way by their perform- ances, The best sanitariums in all these towns are run by the Sostrak, or So- cial Insurance, and are exclusively for workers. The lucky chance of a va- cancy occurring at the last moment, together with my trade union card and my credentials as correspondent for the labor press of America, got me a room in one of these. It is in Bssentuki, where they have 20 dif- ferent mineral springs of varying strength and qualities, and hot mud baths that are supposed to be good for various ailments. On Comradely Basis. * As soon as I got my paper entitling me to live at Sverdlova Sanitarium, a pleasant maid took me upstairs to my room. In an American hotel I sup- pose one would call her the chamber- maid, since she makes my bed and washes the floors every day, But in the friendly atmosphere of Sverdlova, she had her arm around my waist before we got upstairs and was con- fiding to me that she was just a new Communist and was ever so glad to meet a comrade from America who could tell her all about the workers there. Did they have sanitariums like this? he wanted to know. Or was it only after the revolution that work- ers got sanitariums like this While I was taking off my things she brought me in a pile of linen. 1 gasped as I surveyed it. Not only sheets and bed spread and towel, and table cover, but also a set of under- wear, a pair of sandals, a handker- chief! And a new tooth brush with & box of tooth powder, And a new cake of soap. Evidently the Social Insurance which is run by the Depart- ment of Labor, believes in setting cer- tain standards for the workers who come from all parts of Russia. I forgot to mention the bath cloak! The maid took me down to @ bath | house where I received a hot bath and a shampoo. Then I was present- ed with the garment which was to be my most comfortable friend for the rainy weather which unfortunate- ly followed, a large cloak of warm fuzzy material which you wear around the park after taking your various baths. The dinner bell rang and we all trooped into the dining room, which consisted of a large veranda support- ed by great white pillars and closed on three sides. On the fourth it looks out towards avenues of tall trees, un- der which you stroll after lunch or sit on benches. There were seven long tables in the dining veranda, each with a different diet. A doctor who was a specialist on diets arranged the menus; and if you needed more milk’ or more acid or’more or less of any- thing in your system, you just sat at the proper table and got it. There are 225 guests at Sverdlov, which is only one of a dozen or more sanitariums opened this summer by the Sostrak. It must not be suppos- ed that these are all the sanitariums for workers. There are many more. Five minutes walk away is a special sanitarium owned by the Oil Workers of Baku; they have quite a number of sanitariums and vacation houses in these mountains. For Baku has a hellish climate in summer, and these, are the nearest mountains; so large numbers of them come here for their vacations. Unions Have Sanitariums. Other large unions have also their own sanitariums and vacation hous- es; for the first two night of my stay in Esseutuki I stopped at the House of the Trade Union of Educational Workers, the union 1 belong to. We have half a dozen vacation houses of our own scattered around Russia. So have all the other organizations. But the Sostrak is the special organiza- tion of the Department of Labor, which care for the health of workers. It is supported by special taxes on all employers; (I myself, for instance, have to pay into it an amount equal to 16 per cent of my interpreter’s, salary because I am to that extent an employer of labor). But it is admin- istered by the Department of Labor in close co-operation with the unions. Next to me at table sits a worker from Siberia. He makes felt boots, He is here because of rheumatism ac- quired by standing many weeks in water during the civil war, and by keeping on standing in water during his work. I asked him why he didn’t wear rubber boots if the place where he worked was so wet. He laughed. Hope for Better Technique, “On Monday when they heat up,” be said, “it is so full of steam that you can’t see the next worker six feet away. If you changed your un- derwear fifty times it would be al- ways wet. It drips into any boots you have and makes pools of water inside. Some day we'll get better technical methods, and the factory will be improved; but Russia is still poor; we haven't the money for prop- er technique.” But he told me that he liked mak- ing boots, in spite of the fact that knew it gave him rheumatism, “I changed once to typographical work,” he said, “but I didn’t like it. I want- ed to get back to the felt boot fac tory.” “Who'll Do The Dirty Work?” ™~ “Why?” I asked. He Jooked a trifle nonplused for 4 moment and then re- plied that he supposed it was be- cause he was skilled at the job... . There you have the answer*to a lot the Russian Unions a-treaty for the resumption of diplo- matic relations, one of the cardinal conditions usually presented to the Russians is a promise not to carry on revolutionary propaganda. That the urge toward a revolution is ever- present in each country on account of prevailing economic and political ‘con- ditions, seems to escape the agents of the capitalist governments. Similarly the reactionary labor leaders who hope that the inclusion of the Rus- sian unions will call off the attacks upon them forget, that the rank and file opposition is caused by the very nature of their leadership and the in- herent weakness of the organization for which they are responsible. Russians For Unity. The Russian unions have long evinced a desire to aid in unifying the shattered forces of organized labor. To prove their sincerity they propose that all existing labor organizations shall be brought together at an inter- national conclave where an all-inclu- sive labor international shall be built. Realizing the present attack of inter- national capital upon . labor the Rus- sian unions propose an effective unit- ed front of all labor organizations. This project would not only add the Russian unions, but all revolutionary labor organizations included in the Red International of Labor Unions which are now independent of the Amsterdam International or its com- ponent organizations.. The Russian unions which are the backbone of the R. I. L. U. will only then heed the importunities of the Anisterdamers when they are convinced that they are really interested in building a militant labor international. The first step in this direction is the calling do the dirty work, or the mechanical work, or the dangerous work?” Conditions in Russia are certainly not ideal yet, and thousands of men are doing disagreeable and unhealthy jobs on account of mere lack of money for improvements. But, once you take the social stigma‘away from manual la- bor, and give the worker a pride in his group and his. organization, and men will not only do. work, but will LIKE it, even work that is dirty and unhealthy and dangerous. They will like it because they are skilled in it and because they get out of it the sense of achievement. Across the table is a tall, handsome man in white trousers and white Rus- sian blouse. He tells me his “spe- cialty” is making window glass. He announces it just as a doctor might say that his specialty was nose and throat, or internal diseases. He wants to know all about me, because I am an American. Only Learning. “Don’t you find it very lonesome in Russia?” he says. “We are so. much less cultured than you Americans.”... I gasp at this and ask him what he means.... “We have only just learned to read and write,” he tells me. “The things that come after this, science and technique, and art and how to behave courteously to each other—we have hardly begun with those things yet. But your American workers—they know how to read and write since they were children. They must. be much more civilized than we are. You must find us very dull and crude.” Quite the contrary is the case, I assure him. For what good is reading and writing if you spend it reading comic supplements and trashy stories. The average Russian worker, I tell him, has a much wider interest in the world at large than the average Amer- ican. Russia “Not So Bad.” “Politically, I suppose that is true,” he says, “because of our Revolution. But in all other things you must be far ahead”,.... And I think of the excellent symphony music which the workers in Sverdlovy Sanitarium en- joy both in the park. and in their own “veranda concerts,” and assure him that even in other things Russia ig not so uncultured as he thinks. Four or five women and girls sit also near at hand at our table. A tenographer: from the Ural Metal ‘Trust at Ekaterinburg, a. textile worker from near Moscow, and an office employee from the War In- valids Organization. Two of them have their babies with them; babies seem to be in the way in Russia than in any other country. ‘ AS WE (Continued from page 1.) OVERNOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD of the Philippines is com- ing to the United States to testify be-| Dr. Sun fore congress on Philippine affairs. Before he makes his report to con- Friday, September 12, 1924 of a constituent international con- gress to which all labor unions should be invited, The Russian unions are pledging themselves to belong to the international organization which will ie be formed there. The recent R. I. L. U. congress at Moscow has approved this policy. The Amsterdamers must now act. Forced Towards Left. Whatever the outcome of the pres: ent development in the international labor field, one thing is certain. Thanks to the growing urge from be-, low, some of the Amsterdam leaders who have been struggling for some time between an orientation toward the A. F, of L, and the Russian un- ions, were forced toward the left. With a British trade-unionist, Purcell, president of the Amsterdam Interna- tional, the invitation to the Russian unions to the Hull congress looks ag By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. } though these Amsterdamers want to have the door between them and the Moscovites open. It is well that that Peter Brady, the Tammany politician, sailed ignorant of this Russian invitation. If the A. F. of L. fraternal delegate to the Brit- ish Trade Union Congress thought that he would have as co-fraternal delegate Tomsky, who, as president of the Russian unions, is a member of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party( member of the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the Sov- fet Government, etc., étc., he would have taken sea-sick before embarking. As it is, he might have a pleasant voy- age and the exchange of delegates be- tween the A. F. of L. and the British unions was never meant to be any- thing else but a junket for the lucky fellow who is sent across the water. Not only have the workers the best .|Sanitariums, with the possible excep- tion of a few for the highest officials of the Republic (the sanitariums of the Central Committee, which are just as good), but when we go for our baths in the various establishments, * we have it all arranged beforehand by the sanitarium. The private people are standing in line and waiting some- times for hours if there are many of them. But the organized people in the sanitariums, and that means among others the workers, go in with- out waiting. We have free tickets to parks and concerts that all the private people have to pay for, it is part of the sani- tarium privilege. And everything, from food and beds to doctors’ treatment, is all free in the Sostrak Sanitariums. There is no cashier’s desk where you can pay for anything; I myself will have to settle my bills when I get back to Moscow, for no one down here seems to be authorized to ac- cept money. The workers are sent on a slip of paper from the Sostrak, and that entitles them to everything the land provides. A Trip to Kislovodsk. Yesterday I went for an all-day ex- cursion to Kislovodsk, another sum- mer resort higher up in the mountains. The glass worker from the Donetz Basin took me, as he knew the ropes. After we had climbed over half dozen hills and visited several friends, we came upon another sanitarium, the highest up in the mountains. We noticed that it, too, belonged to Sostrak. So we walked in and showed, our little tickets and were told to stay to dinner. We had vegetable soup with perozhniks (a frech baked * roll with meat filling) and tomato and rcucumber salad, and chicken and ice cream. It was so good that we de- cided to come back for supper! And we did, on the strength of that little Sostrak ticket. We discussed how pleasant it would be when Communism really arrived,’ to be able to go anywhere just on one little card, and drop in for meals at the places you liked, not merely in a dozen Sostrak vacation houses, but in all the vacation houses in the world... . The average American won’t understand this at all. He will say that he can go now to any hotel | and pick out his meal, on the strength } not of a ticket but of a dollar bill. So he can, but there’s a world of | difference in the feeling. All the differs | ence between strangers—and home. We didn’t know anybody in that new Sostrak place, but they felt and acted like comrades. If we could go to places all over the world and feel Jike that ....- - SEE IT a 'O Charles Evans Hughes does not spend all -his time plotting against Soviet Russia! According to Sen, Hughes and Ramsay MacDonald, avowed capitalist and al- leged socialist are putting up a united front to get their puppets in control of that rich country. There are rich’ pickings in China for the. capitalist robbers of the world, but. unfortu- nately for them they are so greedy that they cannot agree among them- selyes, Japan wants all there is to be looted out of China for her own capitalists, therefore the Hughes’ jame is meeting with obstacles. So-