The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1924, Page 6

*age Six ‘THE DAY WORKER. | Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1213 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, il. (Phone: Monroe 4713) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.60....6 months $2.00....3 months ii (in Chicago only): ng mises moana $2.50....8 months | 96.00 per year $8.00 per year Afiicess all mail and make out checks to TME DAILY, WORKER 4113 W. Waghington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITE J. LOEB. —————————— tered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- ane at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <p 290 Advertising rates on application [REESE A Handy Club The group of grafters that runs Roumania, be- Chicago, Illinois Editors Business Manager A Soviet Envoy to Mexico M. Prohkoysky is the newly appointed represent- tative of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (U. S. S. R.) to Mexico. He left Moscow the other day for Mexico City and will soon assume his very important post in the Mexican Republic. This fact, to our mind, should be the occasion for sincere gratification not only among the peoples of Russia and Mexico but for the exploited masses of the entire American continent. Ours is a great continent. It is great in the numbers of its population, in its natural riches and in the colossal possibilities for the organiza- tion of a happy and contended life for its toiling masses. If only this continent of ours were ruled by the workers and poor farmers instead of by a murderous gang of capitalist imperialists. Few if any other of the small American Repub- lies have suffered as much from the machinations of the world imperialists as has Mexico. And even now it is in imminent danger of new attacks, plots and intrigues by its powerful “friends”—the capi- ing needy as grafters usually are, decided to lay violent hands on the properties of the Standard Oil Company located in that country. To decide was to act, the Bratiano brothers being quick of brain and light of foot, also of fingers. Several million dollars worth of oil properties belonging to the indigent John D. Rockefeller were therefore taken unto themselves by the 100 per cent Roumanians, to wit the Brothers Bratiano, to- gether with their friends and poor relations. Standard Oil raised an awful howl and while it ventured to state that this action was not Bol- shevism in the Russian sense, yet in the Standard Oil sense it meant one and the same thing. It was confiscation of property, and could not be tolerated. The American minister in Bucharest was called to Washington. This action had double signi- ficance. First, it meant that the United States gov- ernment, had heard from the Standard Oil Com- pany and was taking steps to express its dis- pleasure to the Roumanian government. When the American minister bought his ticket to Washington the boys who run Roumania knew that there would be something doing. Secondly: the American minister to Roumania was expected to have accumulated a lot of useful information which the Standard Oil Secretary of State needed in order to make up his mind as to the proper course of action to take, in compelling the Roumanian government to cough up John D.’s oil. Evidently the American minister reported that the Roumanian government was almost dead broke and would do anything for money, therefore we are not surprised to read in the papers that the American government presented a note to Bucharest, politely but firmly suggesting that the 340,000,000 war loan which Uncle Sam lent to Roumania during the days when battling for democracy was a favorite outdoor sport, would look better in the treasury at Washington than in the vaults of the Bratiano Brothers in Bucharest. This is the club. It is an effective one. It has been used on France and other countries. It will be interesting to watch the Roumanian government getting John D.’s oil out of its system. The Changing Mussolini While a “past” may be a romantic thing to have in the sunny land of Bohemia, to a politician it is anything but an asset. To a renegade politician it is a millstone around the neck. Benito Mussolini, who has cut a black streak across the political horizon, was not always black. talists of the United States. The Mexican government has been compelled to recognize and to assume relations with Soviet Rus- sia under pressure from the Mexican workers and peasants. These latter, like their oppressed broth- ers in India, China and Africa, have learned the truth that of all existing governments in the world that of Soviet Russia is the only one whose friend- ship is true and genuine, whose diplomacy is prompted by no other motive than mutual assist- ance and co-operation. It is a new principle in international relations, a principle which is'based on the very simple theory that the world belongs to those who produce and that among the toiling masses of the world there are no antagonistic interests to divide on and to fight about. The presence of a Soviet Envoy on the soil of Mexico should go a long way toward showing the oppressed masses of Mexico the true meaning of the new proletarian diplomacy. We feel confident that in spite of the sinister intrigues that will be developed in Mexico against the Soviet ambassador by the imperialists of the United States, the repre- sentative of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lies will succeed in winning the sympathies of the Mexican masses which after all is the only basis for a true and lasting friendship between nations. Thot He Didn’t Have Any The Prince of Wales took a few minutes off from his favorite pastime, dancing, while attend- ing a party at the boathouse of Rodman Wana- maker II. at Oyster Bay, in order to have his mind read. A This will be startling news to those who have followed the career of His Royal Highness with more or less care since he became a world figure. His actions had not hitherto indicated that the young man had anything in his head that a comb could not relieve him off. But it appears that either we are mistaken or the prince is suffering from a, phantasy. In these days, when the opinions of alienists can be secured for the trifling fee of $250.00 a day, anybody can learn whether the prince really has brains or whether he is not suf- fering from delusions as a result of the constant wear and tear on his glands as a result of wine and dancing. Rodman Wanamaker is the gentleman who owns the great department stores in New York and Phila- delphia where thousands of young and old human beings are sweated to pile up the wealth that their master squanders in the entertainment of royal He was once red, but he does not like to have that period of his political career brought to public notice. Today he is the champion of militarism, but he was not a militarist in 1910 when he made a speech on patriotism, of which the following is a part: “The republicans defend the fatherland. We rise superior to it and deny it. The proletariat has no fatherland; nor in truth has the bourgeoisie. In case of war we socialists will not go to the front— we will raise insurrection within our borders. The proletariat must no more shed its blood for the Moloch of patroitism.” Hot stuff! The kind of militant language that the Fascist patrons, Elbert Gary and Charlie Schwab, would not like. 1914, however, found the once radical Mussolini receiving pay from the French government and leading a movement to get Italy into war on the side of the Allies. The movement was successful. , But Musso! had greater ambitions than to serve the master class as a lowly propagandist and stoolpigeon. In 1919 he was raising the banner of republicanism. The fol- lowing is an excerpt Of a speech delivered by him in that year: “The senate must be abolished—we demand that this feudal survival disappear! We demand propor- tional representation! Faced with the question, ‘Monarchists or Republicans?’ we reply from hence- forth, ‘Republicans.’ We utterly oppose all ideas of dictatorship. We demand the confiscation of riches illgotten during the war.” Now that the great Mussolini sees his house of ards—long propped up by the bayonets of his blackshirted cutthroats—toppling about his ears, speculation as to what the mountebank’s next move will be is in order. It is safe to predict, however, t this notorious murderer, traitor and charlatan will sink into oblivion as fast as he rose to world prominence, and the organization that he built to keep the iron heel of the capitalists on the neck of labor will be smashed by the iron fist of the Italian working class. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Send in that new “sub” today! and other parasites. The prince may not have any gray matter under his slouched hat. But he has something—call it what you will—which, we must admit, is lacking between the ears of the thousands of slaves who are toiling for the Wanamakers. He is class conscious by instinct. He refuses to work at a useful occupation. He knows that he will not have to work so long as the working class keep their backs bent in toil and allow their masters to rob them of the greater part of the product of their toil. When the Wanamaker slaves begin to feel an itching back of their eyes; when they begin to question the right of the few to revel in luxury at their expense; when they understand that the money spent by Wanamaker on the puny prince was taken out of their bodies, then the prince will have good and sufficient reason for going to a mind reader, He will then be faced with the task of working for his eats or starving. The government of Queensland, Australia, is a Labor government but it is in a bad fix. It has no money. The bankers have. But the bankers keep a firm grip on the money bags and the Labor gov- ernment just twiddles its thumbs. It is all dressed up but lacks carfare. The Bolsheviks took ‘the bank- ers by the scruff of the neck and made them cough up. Afterwards they were allowed to choose be- tween earning an honest living or starving in- decently. But the Queensland laborites are demo- cratic and dictatorship is abhorrent to them. The bankers are not worrying—yet. Once, while General Butler was making a court plea in Boston, two cats began to wail in the alley beneath the window. The audience laughed and the laifgh was on the General. Old Ben soon turned the tables on his competitors, however, by remark- ing: “Gentlemen, please pay no attention to the noise on the outside. It only means more cats!” The counter-revolution in Georgia only means that more paid hirelings of the capitalist governments will lose their heads. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. -_ THE DAILY WORKER Wednesday, September 17, 1924 Communist Clarity and Progressive Horse-Trading By ARNE SWABECK, HILE the decrepit leadership of the socialist party is actively engaged in selling the ragged rem- nants of their party to the highest bid- der from among the politicians drag- ged out from the republican and democratic sewer pipe to adorn the LaFollette “progressive” slate; while the trade union politicians are en- gaged in the noble task of attempting to whip their membership into line for the support of the friends of these leaders, members of the Workers Party and other militant workers are plugging ahead to establish the real working class ticket in the central states included in District No, 8 of the Workers Party. Communists to Be on Ballot. Foster and Gitlow will be on the ballot in Illinois where the coal min- ers in particular have felt the scourge of unemployment and misery of the capitalist system of production and are beginning to appreciate the real significance of working class candi- dates and a working class election program, The Workers Party candidates will be on the ballot in Wisconsin where the outright betrayal of the socialist party. and its complete desertion from the struggles of the workers to the bosom of the’LaFollette combine is leading the more conscious working class elements toward the Commun- ist position. Sufficient ‘signatures to enter the candidates on the ballot in these two states have now been se- cured. Prospects are very good to enter the Hammer and Sickle on the ballot in Indiana and thus give the steel workers in the Lake County region an opportunity to cast their vote for a candidate who by actual deed. showed his belief in the need of organizing and solidifying the workers’ ranks and now presents a program calling upon these workers to organize for a fight to the finish against the gang which stole industry and controls the gov- ernment, In Missouri, party members and the other militants are visiting factory and farm to obtain the neces- sary number of signatures with an even chance .to reach their goal. S. P. Must Swallow Pill. In Illinois the labor movement as well as the.former supporters of the socialist party are being asked, in re- turn for some scant representation on the LaFollette campaign committee, to swallow, not only, LaFollette, but Governor Small and all the other re- publican and democratic candidates which will be indorsed by the LaFol- lette combine. As far as the socialist party is concerned, this horse*trading will amount to a quiet burial of their own state ticket and with it the last remnants of their party. In Wiscon- sin, however, these astute politicians have found the art of horse trading altogether too antiquated and they are now engaged in stealing mules, while the socialist party, under the leadership of Messrs. Berger and Hoan, is knifiing its own candidates. Mr. Comings, the present Lieuten- ant Governor, has long and persis- tently nourished aspirations to be- come governor of the state of Wis- 'consin. He announces his candidacy on the “progressive” republican ticket and received the support of the state Cc. P. P. A. (composed mostly of lib- eral petty bourgeois elements) as well as of the socialist party politicians in control of the Milwaukee trade unions. This despite the fact that the party already had nominated its own ticket with Attorney Wm. Quick for gov- ernor, Mr. Blaine, the present incum- bent of the governor's mansion, also announced his candidacy as a “pro- gressive” republican. Everybody in Wisconsin, even the socialist party, is becoming “progressive” republican. Mr. Blaine received the personal in- dorsement of LaFollette, despite his well known anti-labor record often re- ferred to in the past by the socialist [party. Bergeresque Burlesque. At the primary recentiy held, Com- ings was defeated and the socialist party now finds itself in a dilemna. While nationally it has become part of the LaFollette small capitalist com- bination, the latter indorses Blaine. And while some of the disgruntled C. P, P. A. elements, und¢gr the leader- ship of Chester Platt (small banker and owner of a few provincial news- papers) are preparing to support At- torney Quick, the S. P. leaders as “practical” politicians are quietly ditching their own candidate for gov- ernor and lining uy to support Blaine. Attorney Joseph A. Padway, another 8. P. politician and political boss of the Wisconsin State Federation of La- bor, has accepted appointment as manager of the LaFollette-Blaine cam- paign funds for the Milwaukee Con- gressional District and pledged him, self to raise $50,000. Whether this sum is to be collected from the labor movement or from the rich LaFollette- Blaine supporters remains to be seen! At the meeting of the campaign com- mittee, where this appointment was made, personalcontributions amounted to $10,000. Milwaukee is one of the few cities where the socialist party exists as an organization, purely a machine how- ever, with which to gain political of- fices. It has already become a third capitalist party paying no attention whatever to the struggles of the workers and making no further at- tempt to interest itself in their con- ditions. Machine Gets Bob’s Purgative. The LaFollette political lieutenants have already taken steps to change the labor complexion of their Missouri campaign committee, by removing President Wood of the State Federa- tion of Labor and other labor repre- sentative and substituting some “liberal” elements. The LaFollette supporters of Indiana find themselves with a local labor party ticket on their hands; but LaFollette will m tolerate any such adjunct to his eu paign. . To the truly progressive elements, who have been swayed by the present stampede, and those who supported the socialist party because of their belief in socialism, some rude awaken- ing is in store when the machinations of the “poor” capitalists and rich la- bor leaders of the La Follette, 8, P. and small bankers’ combination be- come clear. The process of clarifica- tion has already set in. The cam- paign for the Workers Party candi. dates is in full swing. The message of Communism is reaching these workers who are gradually turning toward the Communist position. Must Clear Workers’ Minds. As’ important as making a clear-cut Communist fight against capitalism and its eandidates in this election campaign is the task of helping in this process of clarification and disil- lusionment. “These are the tasks te which our members of District 8 are bending their energies. Our comrades realize full well that it cannot be ac. complished: by utilizing purely propa ganda methods. No,—the real task is, while we are attempting to bring the Communist message to the workers thru the avenue of the parliamentary election; while comrades Foster and Gitlow and the local Party condidates ‘jare being entered on the ‘ballots in order to participate with full force in the campaign, Wwe must also simul taneously engage in the struggle for the every day needs of the workers, and to take the leadership for revolu: tionary measures representing the only concrete solution.’ That is the point of real value. That is the way in which a Communist Party connects the struggle of the workers with the election campaigns and make cam paigns worth while. This our comrades understand and it is the reason why they have in curred the bitter enmity of the labor fakers thruout the central states. Take Straw Vote in Many Factories silently took a ballot and without a{of the most intelligent, however, cast (Continued from page 1) The vote was: Foster, 52; LaFollette, 200; Coolidge, 94; Davis, 19, and Andy Gump, 1. Kuppenheimer Plant Visited. At the Kuppenheimer clothing es- tablishment, workers stood around in groups discussing the DAILY WORK- ER, the chances of LaFollette, and the trade unionism of Foster, the only trade union candidate for president. Some who voted for LaFollette ad- mitted that Foster had the more con- structive principles, and was the only one hundred percent advocate of the rule of the working class. However, they declared they would give LaFol- lette a trial first, because “Foster has no chance.” “If LaFollette goes back on the workers, then I'll be a Bolshevik in the next election,” one tailor from the Royal Tailors said as he dropped his ballot in the box. One man in coming out of the Kup- penheimer plant was caught stuffing the ballot box with three votes. .As was to be expected, he voted for Coolidge. The results of the first day of the straw vote show that the race will be between Coolidge and LaFollette, with Foster getting more votes among the workers than Davis. The workers realize that the issue of the campaign is between Coolidge, the Wall Street candidate, and LaFollette, the psuedo- progressive, middle class candidate, and Foster, candidate of the workers. In the Hart, Schaffner and Marx plant, the large proportion of the votes of the white collar office slaves and straw bosses went to Coolidge, A messenger by about twelve years old, stopped in front of the Hart, Schaffner and Marx clothing factory, and asked to be allowed to vote. This lad was evidently well trained by the scab, Morgan-controlled Western Un- ion Telegraph company, for he was one of the few in front of this factory who cast his vote for Coolidge. Andy Gump Led Cal. A syndicalist evidently works in the Kuppenheimer factory, for he wrote across the ballot: “The hell with them all.” Probably after sev- eral of the special shop campaign is- sues of the DAILY WORKER are giv- en to him, this worker will learn the value of political as well as industrial organization of the workers and will fall in line’ with Foster. Another worker in the Kuppenheim- er factory sarcastically voted for La- Follette and wrote across the ballot, “Hurra for the workers illusion,” Stil} another, so that there would be no mistake, wrote twenty crosses oppos- ite Foster's name, Andy Gump was leading John W. Davis on the early returns, Throwing It Away. Many of those in front of the Kup- penheimer factory who voted for La- Follette declared their sympathy for Foster and the Workers Party, but did not want to “waste their vote.” They threw it away anyhow, by de- claring for the champion of the inde- pendent manufacturers. An old man with a civil war but- ton on declared, “I want to vote for a working class candidate,” as he drop- ped his ballot for Foster, A Negro word of comment, voted for Foster. The large vote cast for Foster and LaFollette,. and the small vote cast for Davis and Coolidge, demonstrates that ‘large masses of workers are breaking away from the two old parties of Wall Street and are on their way to independent working class pol: itical action. Women Are Backward. The women working in the offices of the clothing factories evidently be- lieving that women’s place is in the home, even tho they have to leave home for factory work, for thé most part waddled by, turning up their noses at entering into politics. Some their votes for Foster. The DAILY WORKER straw vote will be continued every day this week, a different set of factories being cov- ered each day, until every large indus- try in Chicago, and all the large trade unions are covered. Special issues of the DAILY WORKER will be distrib- uted to the workers in these factories. Many of the workers have already asked to see the DAILY WORKER and are interested in Foster’s mes- sage. Volunteers are asked to report at 11 a. m. every morning at 166 West Washington St., Room 303, to help distribute the ballots. PUSH HARD! Congressional Districts Out to Get All Candidates Over! Do Your Share to Make Good! Presidential Electors and State Candidates Over the Top. The Congressional District Campaign Committee, encouraged by the climbing figures, which means that the comrad are awaking to the task of placing the Workers Party members on the ballot, are increasing their efforts to get every Party and League member out every day to get signa- tures. stone, candidate, ai District 1, Gordon Owens, candida and district 9, Jack W. John- expected to be the first districts to obtain the required number of signatures. However, district 4, Joseph Podkulski, candidate, warns districts 1 and 9 to hurry up or district 4 will top the list in speed. District 8, George Maurer, candidate, is also making an effort to get its quota of signatures in the next couple of days. With these districts over, and the other districts also beginning to hum with activity, energies will be bent toward ensuring every Congressional candidate getting on the ballot In Hlinois. Foster and Gitlow and State candidates will go on ballot in Illinois. Over 2300 signatures have come in thus far to the Local Office to place the Foster-Gitlow electors and the candidates for various offices In the State of Illinois of the Workers Party on the ballot. The Party is now proceeding to make all necessary arrangements to file these petitibns. The job for the comrades of the Workers Party and Young Workers League is to go out again and again for signatures for the Congressional candida’ The job has been shown to be easy if a little effort is taken. It must be said that some of our language branches have failed to do very much, If anything at all. Many others have done very fine work. However, with nearly two weeks to go, every Party and League branch must jerk up the membership and get them out on the job. GET OUT IN THE DAYTIME WITH THE PETITIONS It is easy to get signatures in the day-time as well as in evenings. Women can do very good work in this respect. The wives and daughters of comrades who a¥é not working in the shops or factories, should be urged to go out in the mornings or afternoons with the petitions, There can be no doubt that they can get signatures for the Congressional District candidates. Unemployed comrades should report at the Local Office and be assigned territories, The results to date are: District Candidate No. 1—Gordon Owens .... No. 4—Joseph Podkulski .. No. 6—Harry Epstein No. 6—Frank Pellegrino No. 7—Sam Hammersmark . No. 8—George Maurer .... No, 9—Jack W, Johnstone...... Presidential Electors (Foster electors) and Illinois State tures. Comrades! Set Workers (Communist) Party on ti made a big success there, Now let’ golng to be the first Congressional District on the ballot? elgnaturesl Se Signatures obtained Signatures necessary 1200 1200 1000 3500 4000 800 1200 yourselves to the task of placing all candidates of the Not in ti of Illinois. We have make it a 100 per cent job, Who's Send in your AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O}FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1.) religious revival, it is a sign of eco- nomic depression. * ** ‘MIER Herriot is running Ram- say MacDonald a close second in showing up the bankruptcy of reform- ism. The A. P. reports that “The gov- ernment went on the warpath against the high cost of living at a four-hour cabinet meeting. . . . Appeals were made to merchants to aid the govern- ment in reducing prices. . .. Chiefs of Police have been instructed to en- courage public markets.” In Soviet Russia the Chief of Police also has occasional relations with food pro- fiteers. The government fixes wages and prices in definite ratio to one an- other, The violators are arrested and their stocks confiscated. Not so good for “business,” but the workers are able to buy food. aN, At PEAKING of MacDonald, in addi tion to his job of Prime Minister- ing to the convalescent capitalists of Great Britain, he keeps up his literary pursuits. In writing a new preface to his book on “Socialism,” he defends his philosophy as evolutionary, not revolutionary, and expresses the fear that present tendencies among ‘the workers threaten the “ideals” of his own brand. “The revolutionary and materialistic frames of mind created by the war are becoming a serious menace to the socialist spirit of serv- ice. Profiteering has become uni- versal . . . not confined to the classes generally designated as profiteers, but has infected all sections.” F ere... HEN the coal miners go on strike they are naturally “profiteers” in the eyes of the Laborite premier. What he is in the eyes of the miners, and our own—but we don’t print that kind of language. see OTHAM is not behind the times either. A comrade who attended a LaFollette-Wheeler meeting sees the chairman “put his foot in it” and sends in the following: POs T a LaFollette-Wheeler meeting to- night, the chairman, McAllister Coleman, spilled the beans all over himself when he said, “we have only the simple people to support us.” I have an idea that what Mr. Coleman wanted to say was “the plain people,” a» but he is so simple that he could not ~ get his tongue around it. “Simple” is right, tho he cannot be given credit for cleverness. Mr. Coleman must be complimented for telling the truth even tho he did it unconsciously.—g, Jergens, *_* © Let the contribs keep coming, Cunarmare EARN YOUR COMMUNIS' IT STAMP BY GETTING Pb MEMBER FOR THE PARTY AND ANOTHER READER AND suB SCRIBER TO THE DAILY WORKER,