The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1924, Page 4

Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSORIPTION RATES By mail: $3.60....6 months $2.00....3 months at By mail (in Chicago only): 4 $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 months 1] A@dress aii mail and make out checks to THE DAILY, WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE {™ MORITS J. LOEB... 96.00 per year Chicago, Ininois | se Editors ..Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, <p 290 Advertising rates on application [eerie Dawes in Milwaukee The windy armchair general who has taken the silence out of the republican party election cam- paign, paid a visit to the city that was once made famous by Schlitz beer and perverted socialism. The object of the general’s visit was to reveal Robert Marion LaFollette in all his native naked- ness as the most finished demagogue that ever The Slave Mind That the American Negro igs going thru an awakening process is evidenced by the number of organizations that have sprung up in recent years, designed to give expression to the volume of dis- content that is rapidly growing among that most exploited and persecuted people. All Negro or- ganizations of any numerical importance are in the hands of either bourgeois professors who fol- low the policy of dignified begging from the capi- talists or else are directed by such charlatans as Marcus Garvey, who also begs but without the polish of his competitors. Among the Negro workers there is a rapidly developing sentiment that the progress of the Ne- gro toilers toward freedom from industrial slavery —the same kind which their white comrades suffer from—and from comparative social ostracism, de- pends on their ability to organize themselves on a class rather than on a racial basis and to throw in their lot with their white fellow workers in as- sailing the power of their only enemy, capitalism. Capitalism is the real enemy of the black man as it is of the white man. Negro editors who try to arouse the hatred of the black workers for the white workers are not serving the cause of their own ‘people. They are either silly fools or paid agents of the white capitalists. The workers have no rights except those they have secured by fight- charged the American political ozone with things that appeal to the passions of the masses, but not te their reason. There is an old saying, “It takes a thief to catch ». thief.” It is quite obvious that one acquainted with the profession of thievery should be better fitted to track people following this line of business than one who was never in the game. So with demagogues. Hell an’ Maria is an expert tho he lacks “Fightin’ Bob’s” technique. While LaFollette defends the capitalist system with certain reserva- tions, the general defends it from Abraham Lin- coln to Harry Daugherty. In his Milwaukee speech Dawes followed his usual line of attack. LaFollette was trying to un- ; dermine the constitution; he was wrapped in the red flag; he was the leader of the “forces of dis- order” ad nauseum. Nobody knows better than Dawes that LaFollette is no enemy of the consti- tution or of the capitalist system. LaFollette repudiates the charge that he is radical. At least 75 per cent of his publicity is devoted to proving his loyalty to our so-called American institutions. Tn accusing LaFollette of being wrapped in the red flag, Dawes reveals himself as the most vul- garly brazen demagogue in America. Between LaFollette and Dawes the American workers have only a choice of two evils. Dawes appeals for the support of the American workers on the grounds that the republican party, political organ of the dominant faction’of American capi- talism, will keep their dinner pails full. LaFollette them that his antiquated nostrums, such as restoring competition in industry, curbing the power of the supreme court, and in general clip- ping the claws of the capitalist tiger, will bring them prosperity. The Workers Party alone of all the parties ,con- testing the election, thru its candidates William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, tells the workers that no tinkering with the capitalist systém will bring them prosperity. Capitalism itself is the cause of the evils from which they are suffering, and before they can even make a beginning to solve their prob- lems they must abolish the capitalist system, the capitalist government and establish a workers’ wd farmers’ government in the United States. ’ Burning the Ships News that $265,000,000 worth of wooden shijis, built by the government during the war but never used, are to be burned to recover the few thousand dollars worth of metal used to hold them together. will probably leave the pnblic rather cold. It has become old stuff, this matter of revelations of the gigantic graft and waste of the war, and no one will get excited about it any more. Capitalism is continualy burning its ships, however, and the incidents of war waste and cor- ruption have a much more general significance than merely to illustrate the evils of imperialist wars. What happened when the United States entered into the world conflict was not a sudden orgy without connection with the “normal” course before and after. Incidents like the wooden ships, which can be multiplied to account for many billions of war debts, were but intensified and mag- nified examples of what capitalism is at all times. For the capitalist system has passed beyond the point where it is constructive, where it builds and develops the machinery of production as a whole. It stands now as a fetter upon the development _» of world economy. It is continually producing wooden ships only to burn them later. It keeps constantly increasing millions of workers, who are anxious and willing to create more wealth for so- ciety, in a state of unemployment, and general degradation and unproductiveness. ‘Phe reason for this is that capitalism is built upon profits and not production. If profits can be increased by a curtailment of the volume of com- modities produced, then capitalism immediately shuts down on production. When the big capital- f ists at the top of the machine can increase their wealth by building wooden ships to be later burned, why should they build anything that would give them smaller gains for themselves? Which is one of the guarantees, also, that capitalism is headed for the graveyard. Its date of burial depends upon the rulers of the future, the working class, but its death is made sure by its own inner corrup- tion. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new tion fp~ the DAILY WORKER. ing. They can hold no rights except those they are willing to fight for. This applies to black and white. The subserviency to the Americanruling class which finds expression in editorial whining in some Negro papers is disgustingly advertised in the current issue of the Chicago Defender, a Negro weekly published inChicago. In aneditorialon Defense Day, the writer, after blatantly declaring that: “If Uncle Sam wants to know what he has at his command for the future defense of the country let him look at the 12,000,000 of us and count every one as present in time of need,” goes on to boast of the half million Negroes who helped in the late Mor- gan war, and even tho on their return from France, they had their uniforms torn off and some of them starred as the principal attraction at lynching bees and tar and feather parties, before the stench from the rotting corpses in Flanders ceased to pollute the atmosphere, this slave-minded editor tells us that the Negroes are willing to do the same thing again. We doubt it. At least we hope he is talking thru his hat. The Chicago Defender hopes that by thus grovel- ling in the mud before the military army of the American capitalist class, which is the government, that the masters will deal more leniently with the Negro. The American Negro will be treated with respect when he learns to rely on his own ability to protect whatever rights he has now; when he ceases to follow the grovelling humbugs and char- latans who now lick the boots of his masters for a consideration; when he no longer gives ear to the siren call of race hatred that is chanted by the prostituted editors and bourgeois mountebanks of his race; and when he learns to join with his white brother for the overthrow of the robber system that condemns all workers black and white to a life of toil, misery and degradation. The Chinese Tell a Story Just listen to the Chinese for a while. Let them tell you the story of what is going on in their country. It will be a different tale altogether from what you are accustomed to find in your home newspapers, in the organs of the capitalist press. The Chinese delegation to the Fifth Congress of the Communist Internataional has given us just a few of those excellent doings of the foreign govern- ments in China with which the history of world imperialism is replete. Listen to it: For an attempt to search an American merchant at Kalgan, who was suspected of carrying on il- legitimate business and who resisted the Chinese authorities, the American government demands payment of fifty thousand dollarsof “compensation” and punishment of the “guilty” officials. Guilty of what? Nobody knows. Chinese textile operatives at Hankow, employed by an English cotton mill, declare a strike in pro- test against the dismissal of some of their fellow workers for joining a union. A street demonstra- tion takes place. Whereupon the English soldiers stationed at Hankow attack the strikers, disperse the demonstration, wound some of the participants and have a number of them arrested and given jail sentences. ; Examples of this sort could be related without end. We listen to the story told by the Chinese themselves and we get the true flavor of imperialist rule in China. And we ask again: How long are the workers of America, England, France and Japan going to keep quiet about it? , Luckily for China and for ourselves, the Chinese masses themselves are beginning to move. Just a few weeks ago there was formed in Peking, China, a new organization that calls itself “The Society for,Combatting Imperialism.” And the first public act of this new organization was to send a letter of greetings to Comrade Trotsky, expressing recogni- tion and gratitude to the Soviet government for its humane, sympathetic and brotherly attitude towards the sufferings of the Chinese masses. Which again proves the old truth that the only real friend of the oppressed nations the world over is the revolutionary working class and its leader—the Communist International. “During the last few years,” said Sidney Webb, a leader in the British Labor Party, “this party (Labor Party) has enrolled bishops, and peers, landowners, a banker or two and not a few manu- facturers and other employers of labor.” Is it surprising that LaFollette should favor a party of that composition here, minus the name? THE DAILY WORKER a (Continued from page 1.) would mean his quick departure from Downing Street. LaFollette, who is not a pacifist—this much is admitted by the Nation—would do just as Mac- Donald is doing. He is busy now proving that he is not a radical. If he gets into the White House he will be in a better position to prove his loyalty to capitalism, Co Eee HE NATION also congratulates Calvin Coolidge for “two excellent things since the beginning of his cam- paign for which he is entitled to all praise,” namely his approval of the nomination of a colored man in New York on the socialist ticket and his refusal to come out for the elevation of the guns on American battleships in order to bring the fighting effici- ency of the United States navy up to the British standard. Perhaps Villard is thankful for small mercies and Calvin’s record is so black that these two liberal virtues shine like the glow of a firefly in a swamp. We once knew of a rather undesirable farmer who took his passage beyond the dark ocean. The neighbors gathered around at his wake and as it is not considered good taste “to speak ill of the dead” the mourners maintained a discreet silence with the exception of one who succeeded in finding one thing that could be put down on the credit side of the deceased’s ledger. “Tf he wasn’t much good for anything Expose U. S. As Oppressor (Continued from page 1) directed against imperialists and their agents. Cites Imperialist Oppressions. “A number of outrageous events hay- ing occurred during this last year are an evidence of imperialistic, arbitrary and oppressive action in China. The following are but a few instances thereof: z “(1.) The case of the American mer- chant at Kalgan, who, when searched by the Chinese authorities, resisted and was wounded—whereupon the |American authorities demanded $50,- 000 compensation, apologies and the punishment of the Jecal officials, and the Chinese authorities had to sub- mit to these conditions. English Break Strike. “(2.) The strike of the Hankow tex- tile, workers, following the dismissal by an English cotton mill of 300 Chinese operatives, as a reprisal against their attempt to form a union. The ejected workers arranged a dem- onstration, which was however dis- persed by English armed force, many of the workers being wounded in the affair. Thirty-three of them were ar- rested and five were sentenced to five months and the rest to two months in prison by the British con- sul. “(3). The Gold Franc question. As is known, the French government, ow- ing to the fall of the franc, demands payment of the French part of the Boxer ‘indemnity in gold, instead of paper francs, which means a loss of some 55 millions taels to the Chinese people. Japan Gets In An Oar. “(4.) The Port Arthur and Dairen leases. Altho the term of lease for which thése areas were handed over to Japan after the RussoJapanese war expired last year, Japan is still refusing to restore them to China, “(5.) The Lincheng affair. After the attack of the bandits on the ex- press near Lincheng, in which about 100 Chineses and 20 foreigners were robbed and made prisoners, the diplo- matic corps demanded $8,700 compen- sation for every robbed foreigner, the organization of railway protection con- trol of foreign chiefs and the dismissal of a number of officials. These de- mands were complied with. “(6.) Cotton exports. The diplo- matic corps demanded that the pro- hibition to export cotton be lifted, and, in spite of the protests of Chin- ese merchants, the government sub- mitted to this demand. smoke a good pipe of tobacco.” ee ‘HE socialist party was afflicted with a set of princpiles as re- cently as the year 1920. Since then it has reorganized and listed its 1920 dec- laration of principles under the gen- eral heading of “unrealizable Mabili- ties.” Many socialists who have for- gotten all about their principles may be interested to read paragraph five of the 1920 declaration of principles: “Around and -about the capitalist class cluster the numerous and varied groups of the population, generally known as the ‘middle classes.’ They consist of farm owners, small mer- chants and manufacturers, profes- sional and better paid employes. Their economic status is often pre- carious. They live in hope of being lifted into the charmed sphere ‘Of the ruling classes. Their social psychol- ogy is that of the retainers of the wealthy. As a rule they sell their gifts, knowledge and efforts to the capitalist interests. They are staunch upholders of the existing order of so- cial inequalities.” se 8 ‘HIS seems to fit the leaders of the movement that now finds in La- Folette its modern Moses. “They are staunch upholders of the existing or- der of social inequalities.” They are selling their gifts, knowledge and ef- forts to the capitalist class. This is just as true of the socialists as it is Dodge $200,000,000 In Taxes. “(1.) Tobacco taxes. The British- American Tobacco company in China is exempted from paying the tobacco tax, which means a loss to the coun- try of some $200,000,000 yearly, “(8.) The Canton duties. When the Kuomintang government of the south of China decided not to hand AS WE SEE IT - else,” he said, “he could THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DEFENSE DAY of Gompers, the chief American la- bor taker, Warren 8, Stone, the labor banker, and non-union mine operator; Rudolph Spreckles, the sugar magnate and the hundreds of other disgruntled capitalist retainers who are trying to boost their sale price by shaking the LaFollette club at the heads of the master class. The socialist party has as little stomach for the exhuming of its past class declarations of policy as the British government would have for the publication of the skeletons in the war department closets. , ye ‘HE state convention of the New Jersey State Federation of Labor adjourned sine die after a resolution endorsing the LaFollette-Wheeler ticket, was tabled by.a vote of 206 to 95. The New Jersey labor fakers are for Davis and for open booze openly arrived at. While Bryan, the missing link on the democratic ticket is as dry as the lone proverbial Scotchman in a saloon, Davis is judiciously wet. The labor leaders of the Mosquito State are as co-rupt as Chinese tuch- uns.. So are the reactionary labor leaders of the other states. *** OVIET RUSSIA shipped abroad during the first half of the cur- rent fiscal year, 758,000 tons of oil, which is more than 80 per cent of the total exports for 1913. Russian pe- troleum is again competing with Am- erican in the European market. A capitalist editor commenting on the toms duties to the Peking government —or, in other words, due to certain circumstances to the control of for- eign powers—twenty foreign war- ships were despatched to Canton, to force the authorities there to recon- sider their decision. Demand Naval Squadron “(9.) Foreign fleet. The imperial- over the revenue from Ievying of cus-|istic powers have an agreement be- Saturday, September 13, 1924 By T. J. O’Flaherty remarkable progress made by the Communist government in bringing its oil industry up to within twenty per cent of the pre-war production, as- sumes that Russian peasants are g0- ing without oil. As a drowning man will grasp at a straw the enemies of the Workers Republic readily grasp every possible assumption that would minimize the victories of the Russian Communist government on the eco nomic front, ‘*e * GENTLEMAN who styles him self president of Georgia (not the state that cast its solid vote for MacAdoo at the Democratic conven tion but Soviet Georgia, a contented member republic in the United Social. ist Soviet Republic) had better secure the services of ap alienist, or else go on a tomato and lettuce diet. He is rambling about Europe telling strange tales of revolutions in Georgia, cities captured, Soviet troops revolting, etc. The gentleman has written a letter to Rykov, Soviet premier offering Russia a “most favored nations” commercia) treaty in Georgia, provided Rykov rec: ognizes the independence of that coun try. But the gentleman is rather late with his offer. The Georgian workers and peasants are under the impression that they are already free and inde pendent and are heartily enjoying their status in the great Union of So- cialist Republics with headquarters in Moscow. Another case of defective pineal glands. of China tween them regarding the formation of a joint naval squadron on the river Yang-tze-kiang,, and are making ef- forts to have the Chinese government agree to this plan.” “Thg list of such examples,” the au- thors Of the Chinese declaration con- tinue, “could be prolonged indefinite- ly. The government is under the, in- fluence of imperialists, but in response to the arbitrary conduct of foreigners, the national movement in China is growing, in which the Kuomintang in- fluence is steadily growing. Organize Revolutionary Movement. “We consider necessary to create such a national revolutionary move- ment, under the direction of a strong centralized party, which could draw broad masses to the movement. “The national congress of the Kuo- mintang adopted the-party program, demanding the abolition of all oppres- sive agreements of exploitation, con- cluded with foreigners, regarding con- cessions, consular rights, foreign con- trol of customs, and also the repudia- tion of all loans contracted by irres- ponsible governments. In the field of home policy, the party demands gen- eral suffrage, freedom of speech and meetings, the enactment of labor legis- lation and the protection of labor or- ganizations, the reorganization of the agrarian system and nationalization of means of communication. “After this congress, the Kuomin- tang entered into a new phase. Many laborers and intellectuals have now joined the party. Hold May Day Demonstrations. “A number of big demonstrations in various towns were arranged on May Day under our direction. When the Chinese government at first broke up the agreement with the Union of So- viet Socialist Republics, the Kuomin- tang arranged a demonstration in Pe- king, which was dispersed by the police. ! “Today, the Peking government is beginning to persecute the Kuomin- tang. Thus, five members of the party were arrested at Hankow on May Ist, and then executed, while five other Kuomintang. members were appre- hended in Peking and jailed without court judgment.” The authors of the reported declara- tion conclude by stating that their party is still small in China, They state that it is the party’s program, in accordance with the resolution of the Fourth World Congress of the Third (Communist) International, to direct the labor and participate in the nation- al movement in China, Charge Labor Heads Sought to Shield Klan (Continued from Page 1) _ bor several years ago, part: “We feel that the attempted usurpation of the power of govern- ment by the Ku Klux Klan is of para- mount importance to every American. We cannot belive that any American after giving full thought to the pur- poses and objects sought to be ob- tained by this organization can either join or condone such a conspiracy. Hit Klan Intolerance, “The American people cannot toler- ate the threat or the accomplishment of usurpation of the powers of govern: ment by any organization or be denied by intimidation, fraud or duress. The intolerance of the Ku Klux Klan is its stock, in trade. By the arousing of blind hatreds it seeks to nerve its ad- herents on to a policy that falls little short of treason. Thru prejudice it at- tempts to swerve its followers to a course that could not. be made at- tractive to any following by any other means. We cannot refrain from point- ing out the fact that great wars have been fought for the very freedom that ‘ the Ku Klux Klan seeks to deny and declares in| destroy. THE DAILY WORKER, The workers employed in the on the presidential Democratic Party susensnsenneennnnuneonnnsonnnessnssensonsoenn WORKERS’ STRAW VOTE 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. indidates, and the vote was as follows: WM. Z. FOSTER wucuune Votes; LaFOLLETTE ... » Votes; Workers Party No Party DAVIS .. uu Votes; COOLIDGE soon VOR. | certify that this report is correct: ‘ AGAPOCG! srsepecsssescsssarsoscesecsenscdoonsnevevenevesssnnsseoseoenoecnageodonsanessnesennnonnyssensoeseeeseeooeeroeseee “The trade union movement for it- If has always sought to keep its own BOP Cbasd scrrerrperisnrorevies have taken a straw vote Republican Party seenevunenssnnoonsvensossonseesseneosonnuosevsessssssenesens constituted today in the was woven into the resolution councils free from either religious or racial bigotry, intolerance. We have the highest regard for legitimate fra- ternal organizations, and we pay the highest tribute to them for their good works, But the K. K. K. seeks to overthrow laws and deny constitution- al rights which we prize above every- thing because they constitute the breath. of fife itself to tree men and women. Condemn “Invisible Empire.” “We condemn this secret conspir- acy, this hideous and sinister move- ment that proudly calls itself ‘the in- visible empire, cloaking itself in masks and mumery while it eats at the hearts ‘of our institutions. We call upon America in general, and trade unionists in particular, to be- ware of this menace and to conduct themselves in the open under the law. It is the trade unionist’s duty of the highest order to shun this conspiracy.” Reverence for democracy as it is United States oe Ba |