The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1924, Page 6

ne SE EASE vw spies SR z : “ Drees oe seas Asia Un ASE SN tA SAE NOY AEN # uy Page Six ‘THE DASLY WORKER. a ae Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 ‘W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Il. | (Phone: Monroe 4712) ‘ SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 montha) By mall (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 months Address all maf] and make out checks to | THE DAILY, WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB..... Chicago, Minols | {mn neem GIOTS Business Manager | Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, >_>" Olander Dodges Klan Issue Victor A. Olander, secretary of the Illinois Fed- eration of Labor, was accused by two delegates to the Peoria convention, in a statement to The DAILY WORKER, with having, in conjunction with Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois Miners’ Union, attempted to induce the two dele- gates, Eli Lucas and Robert Speedie of Dowell, | Advertising rates on application} denouncing the Ku Klux Klan by name. The DAILY WORKER reporter learned that Farrington received a letter signed with the ini- tials of the Klan, warning him that unless this resolution was withdrawn he would lose thousands of votes in his candidacy for president of’ the Miners’ Union. Fearing loss of Klan votes, Far- rington prevailed on Olander to assist him in try- ing to induce the Dowell delegates to withdraw the resolution. They flatly refused to accede to the request. The publicity given to the story aroused much anger among those exposed in this shady proceed- ing, but no denial was made during the Peoria convention of the truth of the story as published in The DAILY WORKER. In order to give Mr. Olander an opportunity to confirm or deny the truth of the matter, a DAILY WORKER reporter called on him at his office. After considerable beating around the bush, Mr. Olander finally decided to issue a statement that had no more to do with the question of the Klan resolution than it had with the fourth dimension. But he did not deny the charge that he tried to have the Klan resolution withdrawn. The state- ment follows: | have been requested by a reporter from the DAILY WORKER to express my views with refer- ence to certain reportorial opinions, published under the guise of news in the Chicago Tribune and the DAILY WORKER, regarding the actions of the convention of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, ~~ the views expressed by the delegates and the opinions of the officers of the convention. In reply | have Stated that | shall gladly give to either newspaper Statements showing exactly what the convention did, but that | will not assist either of these publica- tions or any other publication antagonistic to the trade union movement by discussing with them the unfair and untruthful articles relating to the officers of the federation, the delegates and the convention itself which have appeared in both papers. It is my duty as an officer of the Illinois State Federation of Labor to uphold the policies determined by the federation thru its conventions, the organiza- tion itself and its affiliated unions against those who, for purposes of their own, seek to create dis- sention among the organized working people. That is all | care to say on the matter either to the Chi- cago Tribune or the DAILY WORKER.—Victor A. Olander, Secretary. i The Olander strategy, to link The DAILY WORK- ER with the Chicago Tribune is as clumsy as it is -rooked. Itlis on par with his puny effort to ‘onnect the name of William Z. Foster with “Hell an’ Maria” Dawes. The labor fakers, fast losing the confidence of the class conscious workers be- cause of their open alliance with the capitalists, their secret and clandestine love for such strike- breaking organizations as the Ku Klux Klan and their frank endorsement of the Fascist American Legion, are obliged to dissemble and in lieu of a genuine defense resort to the time-worn trick of the shady lawyer, that is when in difficulty abuse the opposing counsel. There are none so blind as cannot see thru the smoke screen raised by the ossified labor lieutenant of capitalism, Victor A. Olander. It should also be noted that he did not deny his truckling to the Klan when given the oppor- tunity. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. Strikes and Politics Strike murmers are audible thruout the entire textile industry. The workers are chafing under the conditions that the textile barons have been imposing on them. Part time employment, low pay, and degrading working conditions have been the lot of the great majority of the millhands and loom workers. The drift towards a general strike in. the textiP industry has, in recent weeks, become so pro- nounced that the federal administration is begin- ning to feel very uneasy. Strikes on the eve of a national election are never conducive to the suc- cess of the employing class tools who happen to be incumbents in office at the time of unrest. Be- sides there are special reasons demanding that the Coolidge clique do everything in its power to ,le- lay a widespread textile strike until after the elec- tion contest is over. Mr. William M. Butler, chairman of the Repub- lican National Committee, which is in the extra- ~ ordinary good’ graces of the textile manufacturers, ny himself heavily interested in such operations, ‘ to withdraw the resolution they had introduced], & Then, a textile strike would in all likelihood be waged most fiercely in the president’s own state of Massachusetts and in his stronghold, the New England tier of states. This close financial iden- | tileation and political alliance on the part of the republican administration with the textile barons, accounts for the energetic efforts now being made by the reactionary interests to delay the revolt of the textile workers until such time as when there will be a greater likelihood of administering the latter a crushing blow. We have great hopes and firm cause to believe that the textile workers Will strike at their enemy when they themselves see fit and think best. Since 1920 the New England cotton and woolen mill workers have suffered a decrease of about 25% in their wages. This reduction has been made more oppressive by an increase in part time employ- ment. At the same time textile magnates have waxed fat on fabulous dividends. Last year, for instance, the American Woolen Company reported net profits of more than nine million dollars, or an increase of about fifty per cent compared with the preceding year. The time at hand is obviously propitious for the working man in the cotton and woolen mills of New England and elsewhere to lock horns with their exploiters. The present political situation can and must be utilized by the workers for their own advantages. America and the League To date the entry of the United States into the League of Nations has been only a secondary issue in the campaign. This-was expected by many ob- servers who were convinced that pressing domestic issues would supercede the fundamentally formal foreign questions. ‘ But while Davis, Coolidge and LaFollette vie with each other in a contest-of silence in reference to the European policy of the~ United States, the dynamic, ruling forces behind the scenes are work- ing overtime clearing the paths for the next step in the open political participation by America in European affairs. We are told that the League of Nations’ Committee working on a peace plan is planning to back an “American idea.” That in- domitable lackey of Yankee gold, M. Benes, titular head of Czecho-Slovakia, is the loudest proponent of this move. Of course, it was to be expected that the ac- ceptance of the Dawes plan would be a prelude to more open American participation in the European imbroglio. The whole.trend of the Washington government’s imperialist policy in Europe has been first, to sink the oil shafts, to lay the pipe lines, to seize the railways, to take over the collieries, to dominate the industry, and then to get “proper” legal sanction. The League of Nations, in its present form and structure, will, under the pres- sure of the American bankers, certainly be re- christened, revitalized, and reorganized to suit the needs and purposes of our financial oligarchs. This accounts for the little noise that is being made now by the capitalists’ presidéntial candi- dates over the “burning question” of 1920. This ac- counts for the decision of the directors of the Na- tional Association of Credit Men-to demand that the United States enter the Permanent Court of International Justice. There is a pointed lesson in the development of America’s European policy for every working man and poor farmer. The whole trend of the Yankee imperialist encroachments in Europe indi- cates rather painfully the stranglehold that the employing class has on the lives and distinies of the working masses. The League of Nations, un- der any other name, can be only a League of Loot, a league of capitalist plunderers and pirates, seek- ing to despoil the résources and wealth that be- long to the great masses of the population of every country. Hence, camouflaged as the next American step towards Europe may be, it is only a step in the direction of a new world catastrophy. Real Communist Work In canvassing the industries located in this city in order to test the sentiment of the workers to- ward the leading candidates on the,three capitalist and one Communist tickets, Local Chicago of the Workers Party has set an example that other locals thruout the country would do well to follow. This is real Communist work. Aside from the news value which such a cam- paign has for the DAILY WORKER, the canvass sharpens the interest of the workers in the election struggle and brings the issues on which each can- didate stands under discussion. The Communists stand to gain by such a discussion. The result of the straw vote taken in the plants covered as these lines are written is very encour- aging. It shows that large numbers of the workers, despite the desertion of the socialists and the so- called progressives to the bourgeois LaFollette, can sée thru the LaFollette illusion and: signify their preference for the Communist candidate, William Z. Foster. Bringing the issue of Com- munism versus Capitalism into the shops where the exploitation of the workers takes place in this manner is a forward step for the Workers Party and the enthusiasm with which the workers partici- pated in the straw ballot gave the Communist militants a sense of doing effective propaganda work among the masses. To the Workers Party taking a straw vote, means something more than testing the political pulse of the masses. Its propaganda value is the important feature and our comrades in the large cities should not let Local Chicago have a monopoly on this form of Communist campaigning. Join the Workers Party and subscribe to the DAILY WORKER! 'HE American Empire, under the rulership of J. Pierpont Morgan, and protected by the armed forces of the United States government, is just now rounding out in form as a world- embracing organization. Perhaps the most comprehensive outline of its’ far reaches, in brief as well as a classic expression of its spirit, is to be found in an’ editorial in the Chicago Tribune of September 14. Under the title of “White Unity on the Pacific,” a pic- ture is drawn that must make the Kaiser green with envy and King George fear for his future, America’s “huge destiny” in the Hast, in “the Pacific basin as the critical area of human progress in the next hundred years,” is an expression of the absolute necessity of capital- ism to conquer the last available sec- tion of the earth, rich in natural re- sources, undeveloped in industrial technique, vast and heavily populated, in order to have that field for expan- sion that is the breath of life to in? perialism, the modern stage of capi- talism. : The Pacific Empire, The Pacific basin means for Ameri- can imperialism above all China, Mon- golia, Siberia, But it means more than that. It cuts into the heart of rising Japanese imperialism, backed by an ambitious young bourgeoisie that holds 200,000,000 people at its command, that has mastered the modern art of war. It does more: It carries with it the beginnings of dis- solution of the British Empire, hither- to the “mistress of the seas”—until the Washington naval agreement es- tablished the 5-5-3 ratio and cancelled the British alliance with Japan. The Tribune points out, in the editorial Soviet Ambassador Addresses Chinese Teachers (Continued from page 1) pression, perhaps, that the other Ori- ental peoples. Tho you may not be ready for the struggle as yet, your sympathies go to the Soviet Union, for it is the only country that is following with the greatest sympathy the strug- gle of the Chinese people against their external and internal oppressors. “I must say”—declares the Soviet Ambassador—“that the sympathy I have been voicing for your ‘fight against imperialism is meeting with much disapproval in certain quarters. In a conversation I recently with a foreign diplomat, the latter pointed out that my speeches could not but make the foreign diplomatists feel un- easy. Well, I wish to avail myself of this opportunity to \say that the dan- ger which some people appear to see in my speeches only proves that im- perialism has not learned yet the true reasons of the anti-imperialistic movement which is now rampart all over the Asiatic Continent, Soviet Gets Sympathy from Oppressed. “In fact, it is not a question of speeches or would-be propaganda and agitation of the Soviet government. If you like, I am ready to admit that the latter is rather inconvenient for the Imperialistic Powers, but this is so only because the policy of the Soviet government differs from that of other Powers. It is a policy which at- tracts to the Soviet government the sympathies of all oppressed peoples and stimulated them to the struggle against imperialism. Now, that can- not be helped: it cannot be changed, as neither can the Soviet Union be overthrown. “Indeed, there are but two ways of thwarting this so-called Soviet men- ace. One is to overthrow the Union. However, as you well know, such at- tempts were made in the past, but they were all fruitless, and I really do not believe there would be anyone now willing to try again. The other way is to change one’s own policy and make it as full of respect for the sovereign rights of the oppressed peo- ples and based on principles of equal- tiy and reciprocity as the Soviet gov- ernment had done. There is no third way. “Naturally, everyone follows his own path. For our part, we do the policy that follows from our principles and interests, while the other powers do the one that follows from their prin- ciples and interests. One of these two policies—namely ours—is more suc- cessful, for it is more up-to-date, while the other is based on the past and quite naturally is liable to err. Discu Boxer Indemnity. “Now, I should think you are more interested in the question put by Pro- fessor Ma Shu-lun, and so I will pass to it. In this matter of the Boxer In- demnity there is a misunderstanding which it is necessary to clear forth- with. Professor Ma believes the question is to be discussed at the Con- ference. I must assure you categor- jeally that the matter of the Boxer Indemnity has been definitely ‘settled in the Agreement signed on May 31, and that this question, which is one of the few finally solved, will not be taken up at the Conference. Ms “As a matter of fact, the purpo for which the Boxer funds have apportioned are precisely defined in the corresponding _Declar: signed on May 31: those are THE DAILY WORKER Outlines of Empire siti mentioned, that Australia and New Zealand not only belong, by logic of Morgan’s billions, in the framework of American Empire, but—more sig- nificant—that the bourgeoisie of these British colonies are conscious of this and already feel more closely tied to the United States than to Great Britain. That Canada and Ireland al- ready have their separate ministers in Washington is pointed out quite cynically by the Tribune as a “source of what must be enduring friendship” with the British Empire. What logic- ally follows—“On pain of war to the death between these rival imperialist forces in the struggle for poesession of the world”—is left unsaid by the Tribune. Empire in Latin America. But America has also, the Tribune reminds us, other “huge destinies” be- sides the Pacific. “America has the Carribean and the Atlantic, the south and the east, to tie with the Pacific into one huge conception of world statesmanship.” That is, Central and South America, the West Indies, and —last but not least—Europe itself which is to bow its head to Morgan under the yoke of the Dawes plan, which is designed to piace in Morgan’s hands the regulation of every phase of production, the market, and gov- ernment. - i. One World System. The Phillipines, the Aleutian Islands, Hawaii, Alaska, are some of the fin- gers on the hand of Morgan that reaches into the Pacific. Hleven re- publics in the Carribean, either direct- ly under the rule of American armed forces or under the dictatorship of armed native agents of American capital, testify to the continued sub- jugation of the continent to the south. Canada, to the north, is openly sever- ing the leading strings from No. 10 for the education of the Chinese people. True, there have lately ap- peared reports in the papers, purport- ing to convey that some militant gen- erals would rather see the. Boxer sums expended for other purposes. Of course, I do not know how much truth there is in such reports, nor am I aware whether the news is true of some inter-departmental conferences meeting to discuss the question of how to use best the Russian share of the Boxer Indemnity. However I don’t attach importance to such talk, and so did not react to any of this news. Apportioned for Education. “According to the Agreement of May 31, it is perfectly clear that the Boxer funds have been apportioned for educational purposes, so that un- der such conditions what have the fancies of one general or the other to do with the matter?, Naturally, we cannot prevent generals from finding good ends to get possession of the Boxer funds. But I may assure you that for us it has no_ significance: none shall deceive us, nor do I be- lieve anyone would be bold to raise the question with us of modification of the May Agreement. “IT am sorry to say”—continues Mr. Karakhan—“that the Chinese govern- ment has not yet appointed delegates to the Commission, and that two months have already been lost which might otherwise have been spent in preparation for the use of the Boxer Indemnity funds. I do hope, however, that the Chinese government will very shortly appoint its delegates upon this Commission and that these delegates will be named in full accord with yourselves, gentlemen, and also that they will be prepared to co-operate in|. a friendly manner with the Soviet "Rods ; ALAS PR PRO A Downing Street, replacing them with bonds of gold from Wall Street. The Dawes plan, subjugating Europe, places the final seal upon the system as the most gigantic world empire in the making that was ever conceived in the mind of man. see That this “huge destiny” of Mor- gan’s billions involves the certainty of gigantic world’ wars is an accepted commonplace, Only those who deliber- ately shut their eyes are uncorscious of this fact. “Defense Day” was but one of the first, “psychological” mobil- izations of the American millions, for their own “huge destiny” of fighting and dying for the glory and profit of Morgan’s world Empire. “Staking Out” the World. The recent around-the-world flight of American aviators was principally a grandiloquent political gesture to the world, an announcement of Morgan's world rule, to the other nations of the earth. .It was a sort of preliminary survey of the possessions, present and prospective, of the Morgan Em- pire. It was a dramatization of what the Tribune calls the “huge concep- tion of world statesmanship” that ani- mates tho American capitalist class today. Imperialist wars with Japan and with Great Britain lie heavy within the womb of this “huge conception.” The present civil war in China is but a stirring, a preliminary clashing, of the terrific forces that are gathering to drench the earth again with work- ing class blood. The Washington agreement on the Pacific was but one maneuver for position, on the part of all the powers, in preparation for what all consider the “inevitable con- flict.” Announcements from time to time in the papers, always immediate- ly hushed up, of discoveries of new representatives upon the Commission. Not Old But New Education. “T would also point out, in this con- nection, that no illustions should be cherished as to the Boxer Indemnity sums being in any sense intended to replace the budget of the Ministry of Education or alleviate the budget of that department. Anyhow, I am strongly against it. The Boxer funds must be used for educational purposes unprovided for in the actual depart- mental estimates, in other words— for purposes of either enlarging the existing educational schemes or creat- ing new ones, “I may further be permitted to say a few words about one of the most important scientific and educational tasks that are facing China and one for which a part of the Boxer funds should be used. It must be said that the present social and economic con- ditions of life in China, and, in par- ticular, the life of the peasants—the fundamental class of people of China —and of the laborers, are not studied at all, are, so to speak, outside of the scope of research of economists and Politicians. “I recently wished to study the agrarian problem of China, but I must confess that I could not pro- cure any reliable or exhaustive in- formation. And yet, the Chinese farmers constitute 60 per cent of the Population, they are the foundation of the country, its fundamental class, on whose shoulders China could’ live till this day as one sole nation with all her culture and her national pe- culiarities. This peasant class sup- plies live material to all the spheres of Chinese life; soldiers to the army, workers to the mills and factories . . And yet, who of you, gentlemen, can say in truth that the conditions Friday, September 19, 1924 i death-dealing rays and deadly gases, indicate how feverishly the chemical laboratories of war are preparing. Feverish races in construction of air- planes and submarines are on in the carefully guarded yards and factories of each great imperialist power The Rising Nationalities. But not alone between the rival i imperialists are the seeds of war | taking root and growing mightily. } Thruout the Far Hast the great masses are rising in revolt against the imperialist exploitation of Western capitalism, In India, in China, even in “our own” Phillipines, great national- ist mass movements, fundamental and primitive protests against im- perialism, are growing and swelling. A part of the “huge destiny” of Amer- ican imperialism will be to drown these nationalist aspirations of the Eastern peoples in their own blood and the blood of the American work- ers. Ce see There is but one power in the world that can halt this insane march of Morgan over the bodies of humanity. It is the power of the awakening pro- letariat of the imperialist nations, in alliance with the awakening nation- alist masses of the subject lands of the East. This alliance, under the leadership and inspiration of the Com- munist International, is the one great remaining obstacle to the ambitious greed of J. Pierpont Morgan and the class of exploiters at whose head he stands. And by the same token the Communist International is the one rallying point for the world’s work- ‘ing class, in its struggle against war, and against the damnable system of wage slavery and exploitation in every land except Soviet Russia, which: is the source and inspiration of all im- perialist wars. of life of the peasants in China are well known? More Attention to Farmning Question. “The sciences that have been ap plied to study China have left these basic classes out of their scope. Neither do the foreigners, who make a very careful study of China and the economics of this country, pay atten- tion to the farmers, for they study China from quite a peculiar angle: théy are interested in the external trade, the natural resources of the country, in other words—in all they can profit. by in their own selfish ends. It is but natural, then, that they are not interested in the life of the Chi- nese peasants, either in their welfare or their sickness, or in what could make their conditions better. It is up to the Chinese people themselves to do it. For my part, I believe that a part of the Boxer Indemnity should be apportioned for the study of life of the Chinese peasants and workers. Some special institutions or organiza- tions ought to be established, whose aim should be the work of scientific investigation of the existing social and economic conditions in China, and, in particular, the study and investigation of the economic situation of Chinese peasants and workers. I would very much request you, gentlemen, to con- sider this all-important scientific and educational problem. “I address myself to all those pres- ent”—concluded the Ambassador amidst loud applause—“with a request to help me with their advice and sup- port me, for it is only if this is done that it will be possible to find an ef- fective use for the avajlable Boxer In- -|demnity sums, and—which is para- mount—to save each cent from falling into the wrong hands.” AMERICA LAUGHS AT HERSELF By IDA DAILES. At the Adelphi Theater here in Chi- cago a curious performance goes on before the eyes of the dwellers in the city of smoke and stockyards, Capi- talist society is held up to ridicule, and we find an inordinate pleasure in laughter. “The Beggar on Horse- back” was written by George Kauf- man and Mark Conelley, with inci- dental music by Deems Taylor. The writers have taken a Saturday Evening Post story, the tale of a poor artist who loves a working girl and finds that art and love do not mix. He engages himself to the daughter of a rich manufacturer and falls asleep in his chair, He dreams a nightmare of his future life as the husband of the monied young lady. And here we bid au revoir for a while to the Saturday Evening Post. ~ The mother-in-law knits, rocks and sings hymns. The father-in-law plays golf and talks succe: and “giving them what they want.” The brother: in-law is sickly, takes powders and is a radio bug. And worst of all, his wife drags him around to teas, recep: tions, cafes and dances, When he wishes to finish his symphony she tears the manuscript and tries to haul him off to a new cafe. In despair he kills the whole damned family with e paper knife, and for a moment a look | of bliss comes over his face. * ‘Woven in with this horror of bour- geois life are moments of peace with Cynthia, the girl who didn’t have any money. . During the intermission newsboys distribute to the audience @ small newspaper which gives all the news of the murder, This contains boiled down, all the rot that one finds in capitalist newspapers from coast to coast. It makes very amusing read- ing. The scene of the murder trial is rich with humor, and to describe it in detail would be an injustice to the original. Our young musician is con demned to become a successful song writer and is put in a cell in an art factory to grind out popular songs. Finally Cynthia and his doctor friend come to bring him the peace of death, and he wakes up. We now meet our friend, the Sat- urday Evening Post, again. when the rich young lady comes in to break off the engagement, and Cynthia and Neil ‘go off the scene trailing talk about a little, cottage and a little red hen and @ little dun cow. COMPENSATION FOR LACK OF. EXPERIENCE, By JAY ENGEL. In “Back to Methuselah” George Bernard Shaw deplores the fact that man does not live long enuf to really benefit by the experience gained in the seventy years allotted him. No doubt this is true. There is, however, ee . a compensating feature which we must not overlook: Life must renew itself if we are to go forward to higher and better things, materially and spiritually. Experience may teach, but it also at the same time inculcates prejudices that fossilize and militate against change. | Supposing the Scheidemanns and Kautskys lived to, be three hundred and thru all those years carried with them the now discredited idea of bour- ceois democracy and the conquest of political power thru-parliamentarism. Or, supposing that nearer to home the Gompers, Hillquits and Spargos lived hundreds of years and perpetuated their antiquated ideas, how much the worse for society. What holds good for individuals is even truer of or- ganized movements, The hope of the German Commun: ist Movement is that only a fraction { of its youth will go thru the outworn | | school of i ty Democracy, and will therefore avoid unlearning its. bour- geois prejudices. The same is true of America; the revolutionary youth is joining the Workers’ Party and not the Socialist Party which died inglor- jously with LaFollette as the under- taker. mh, Seventy years even for the Boudins, H Watons and Kerachers i quite enuf. A new society is dawning and it be- longs to the coming generation, a gen eration without experience, but alse without