The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1924, Page 6

Am Page Six DAILY WORKER. ——— Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50...6 months $2.00....3. months B: it (in Chieago only): miso momths $2.50....3 months $6.00: per year $8.00..per year Adress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY, WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE (*"""" MORITZ J, LOEB.. Chicago, Ilinele Business Manager ————_——$— Watered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, —————<—<—<——— $$ <0 \ The Wilbur Recall The recall by President Coolidge of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur from his speaking tour on the Pacific coast has aroused widespread interest of an international character. Not only has there been made an attempt to learn the why and where- fore of this sudden “come-home” order,~in the United States, but there has been manifested some anxiety even in Japan and England. As usual, Mr. Coolidge would have the country believe that everything is just normal and that there,is no occasion for disturbance. The facts belie the explanations or rather the absence of ex- planations on the part of Coolidge. The truth of the matter is that Mr, Wilbur was talking just a little too much and above all was telling too plainly the aims and plans of the American mili- tarist clique. “Mr. Wilbur’s unguarded and un- camouflaged pleas for gun elevation at a time when Great Britain was protesting this move as a viola- tion of the Washington Conference agreement were considered as unfortunate and inappropriate. Nor did Japan welcome the bombast of Wilbur when he declared: “Marching hosts of two civiliza- tions stand face to face across the Pacific,” and that the mainténance of a powerful fleet in the Pacific '“‘would be a deterrent against hasty, pas- sionate, and ill-advised attack and conflict.” In- deed, the answer of Japan ‘to this confession of purpose by our first war lord of the sea is the plan of its navy department to elevate the guns of the Niponese fleet. Advertising rates on application The art of diplomacy, like other arts, can be} mastered only with time. Mr. Wilbur will learn to ply his trade of befuddling the minds of the masses and serving his employer, the capitalist class, after he stays in the game as long as some of his colleagues. Messrs. Mellon and Hughes have been too long at it to spill the beans so clumsily. No doubt the, comparatively speaking, novice Wil- bur was ordered to come back to his post in order to improve his skill as a diplomat and in order to avoid the embarrassments which usually follow plain, blunt talk in imperialist politics. Balkanizing South America It has oft been said that the Balkans are the curse of Europe. This is true if war plots, im- perialist machinations, royal conspiracies, and capitalist conflicts are to be accepted as the basic criterion of the curse on the continent. More major’ wars have had their origin in the Balkans than in perhaps any other section of the world. The Balkans are the least industrialized portion of Europe, except for some great stretches of Soviet Russia. The Balkans abound in natural resources.. The Balkans are the threshold to the near-East and the unlimited wealth of Asia. It is precisely for these reasons that the capitalist imperialists of Europe haye promoted national strife, political chaos, economic stagnation, and wars in the Balkan peninsula. Our American imperialists also have their Bal- kans. The chronic chaos in Central America is only a staging of Balkan politics on a smaller seale. Geographically speaking, the political instability and economic under-development of South America are a staging of sinister Balkan maneuvers on a larger scale. Just now, there is going on a great race for naval armament in South America. In March 1923, the United States was instrumental in holding a Pan-American Disarmament Conference ‘in San- THE DAILY WORKER “ees Help Mobilize 100,000 Workers for Communism | The Dominion of Canada is planning to borrow \a hundred million dollars in the United States. The joffering of an issue of short term notes for the |Canadian government is part and parcel of a plan jto refund the Dominion’s debt of about two hun- dred million dollars. The flotation of this loan in the United States is another indication of the rapidity with which | American capitalist interests are assuming con- \trol of the economic life of our northern neighbor. |There are today invested more than two and a half billion dollars of American capital in Canada. | American investors hold nearly twenty per cent of }the Canadian government provincial and municipal |securities. Twenty-five per cent of the Canadian | Pacific Railway shares are in the hands of Amer- ican capitalists. The situation involving the con- trol of Canada’s mines, railways, motor car and ac- cessories industries, meat, rubber, metals and re- fined petroleum is essentially the same. Momentarily there is a new angle to this Cana- jdian loan. It appears that the Chase Securities |Corporation is planning to compete with J. P. |Morgan & Company for this loan. It had been as- jsumed that the House of Morgan, which financed \the Dominion government during the war,. would, |without question, be the sole financial institution called upon in this instance. Besides, recent years have witnessed a specialization on the part of the Morgan firm to deal in government loans or serve as a direct agent of large corporations. This little brush between Morgan’s concern, which is principally an underwriting house, and the Chase corporation, which is primarily a com- mercial bank, is interesting in the sense that it shows that the process of complete unification of our biggest financial interests is not yet consum- ated. However, it holds out no hope at all for Canada. The connections anf dealings between J. P. Morgan & Company and the Chase. Corporation, are too numerous and too. firmly rooted to be disturbed by this temporary competition. The \two giants of finance will undoubtedly get together to tighten their grip on Canada’s resources and to secure a more complete “Americanization” of our northern neighboring country. Purif ying Democracy Our national election campaigns appear to the careful observer as dress rehearsals of the sham democracy with which we are blessed. | On the eve of these campaigns the employers whose class interests are served best by the \fraudulent parliamentary system tend to. get busy to purify our democratic institutions in. order to |make these dress rehearsals gala affairs. It was \this desire for political advantage that animated John W. Davis to resign, temporarily at least, from many of the corporation directorships held by him. Of course, Mr. Davis refused to give up these financial footholds before he was sure of getting the democratic nomination. Such dishonest and meaningless attempts at purifying our national politics are not the privilege of the democrats alone. All employing class parties vie with each other in throwing sand into the eyes of the’workers by attempting to assume the holiest of holy attitudes in-the purest of. pure democracy. The constitution provides that “No person may serve as a presidential elector who is holding an office of trust or profit under the United States.” Therefore, Colonel Francis T. Maxwell has given up all his banking connections including the direc- torship in the Hanover National Bank of New York and the Hartford National Bank, and the Rockville National Bank of Connecticut. This is the second instance where a republican ‘elector has resigned his business directorships in jorder to avoid a possible contest of eligibility in \the electoral college. Apparently, Coolidge and his supporters are sure of a sharp contest in the electoral college and are not prepared to risk a |Single vote. We wonder where the textile baron, William Butler, who is now the republican big jboss, will stop in such purification in order to avoid possible conflicts over the election of the Sphinx of the Potomac. It is, of course, the height of asininity to con- |sider these resignations, whether they be tem- porary or permanent, as steps in the direction of the purification of capitalist democracy. Germs can’t be purified. A cancer cannot be cleaned up, | | | | tiago, Chile. Thru the very efforts of the Yankee|ut must be cut out if the patient is to stand the imperialists this conference was a flat failure.|Slightest chance of living. The illusory employ- Since then Pern has ordered a fleet of submarines, |i"& bi democracy, in reality a terrorizing ex- the construction of which is being directed by an|Ploiters’ dictatorship, holds out no hope to the American naval mission established in Lima.|™@88es even at its purest. Surgery, and not the Chile has opened the largest’ drydock in South|@@ck patent medicines, offers the only road to America in order to maintain its fleet at the max-|8#!vation. imum efficiency. In Brazil there is an American naval mission planning the greatest naval deyelop- Wheeler’s crime in trying to scuttle the Farmer- ment in South American history. Argentinia is|abor Party in Montana is greater than Doheny’s considering a bond issue of about two hundred |steal of Teapot Dome. After all Doheny never million dollars for military and naval purposes. |¢laimed to be anything but a capitalist. Wheeler is The leading Argentinian battleship, Rivadavia, is|parading over the country as “a friend of labor,” now in the United States being thoroly modernized. |but really stabbing it in the back at every op- This mad navalist race is the result of America’s | portunity. refusal to put a halt to it at the Santiago con- ference. Apparently the American capitalists are Capitalism must be in a very bad way when it bent upon fostering national strife, group jeal-Jinvites the representatives of Soviet Russia to a _Jasiea, political turbulence, and economic instabili-| disarmament, conference. Well, that is ‘what we ty in South America for their own class purposes.| have been saying all the time, that capitalism is The Yankee imperialists do not desire to see «Jon its last pins. i unified Latin.American continent. Solidarity and common purpose among the Latin American peo- Workers and farmers are beginning to analyze ples would only hasten the end of Yankee im-|/the LaFollette illusion and discovering there is perialist domination. nothing in it for them. They are casting their lot The capitalist class whose industrial throne is|with the Communist candidates, Foster and Git- in Wall Street and whose political seat is in Wash-| low. ington, is deliberately Balkanizing South America as the European imperialists have Balkanized “Hands off China!” is the demand of the Russian Southern Europe for their own sordid imperialist] workers an@ peasants upon the capitalist world, al Be ey mn — that should be taken up by labor everywhere, , (Continued from page 1) spirit of: WE HAVE MADE OUR CHANGE OF TACTICS. WE ARE.IN A NEW STRUGGLE. AS COMMUNISTS THE WHOLE STRENGTH OF EVERY MEMBER AND EVERY PARTY UNIT MUST BE GIVEN TO THAT STRUGGLE. Six weeks of work in that spirit will get us one hundred thousand votes for our candidates. It will get us ten thousand new members. It will get us ten thousand mew readers for the DAILY WORKER, Six weeks of such work will enable us to register the election as one of our victories along the long and difficult road to the Proletarian Revo- lution, even as the Farmer-Labor United Front campaign was a victory for our Party, tho we did not attain our objective, because we strengthened, bullt up and extended the influence of our Party, the Workers Party—the Communist Party in that campaign. * 8 * What We Can Do—The Election Campaign. The results we achieve in the form of support for our candidates at the polls depends upon the number of workers we reach with our speak- ers, our literature and our slogans. We have distributed a half million copies of our election platform. But our Party should be able to distribute at least two and a half million copies. That means only one hundred copies per member, Distribution of leaflets is something every Party member can do. We must increase the number of, platforms whioh have been distributed. We. must distri- bute millions of the new leaflets on the Capitalist Dictatorship and Un- employment, which are being published. The Party 7 suing special campaign pamphlets. These must be sold by the thousands in order to give the workers a more thoro knowl- edge of capitalism and of Communist principles. The stickers, bearing our slogans should be put up by the millions. The number of meetings held must be doubled, trebled; and more effec- tive work done in arranging the meetings. . The Campaign Fund must be suported by the Party. The work of the National Organization and the Districts has been crippled because the work of raising funds has not gotten under way promptly. Every member must sell CAMPAIGN FUND STAMPS among his friends and shopmates and thus help intensify all the work of the campaign. * * * & * THE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE. All our work of agitation avails us little if we do not follow it up with organization. We have not had an organized campaign for new members. We cannot expect the workers to join our Party if we do not ask them. We must make appeals for new members at all of our public meet- ings. The audience must be systematically solicited in regard to join- ing the Party, as we systematically solicit our audiences for‘collections JAPAN'S WITHHOLDING. OF RELATIONS WITH SOVIET RUSSIA HIT BY KARAKHAN (By Rosta.) PEKING, China, Sept. 10.—With reference to Viscount Kato’s interview, as transmitted by the Nippon Tempo Service, Mr. Karakhan, Soviet Ambassador to China, expressed the follow- ing views to representatives of the Japanese press. “The interview given by the Japanese. Premier, Viscount Kato, goes far to explain why relations have not as yet been re- stored between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan. Even today the Japanese government is mistaken in its estimate of the importance of the question. “Indeed, Japan thinks she is making a big concession to and putting the Soviet Union under an obligation by recognizing the Soviet government. Until Japan realizes that both sides are * equally interested in the restoration of mutual relations and that +--+ neither party is doing a favor in this matter, but that both are fulfilling what is essentially in their own interests, it is difficult to achieve a common end. “Japan Wants Unmasked. “What are the points at variance between us? Only in that Japan, while she has no right save de-facto illegal possessions; wishes to receive under her control, on conditions which only vicfors could dictate to van- quished, the material resources of Northern. Sahalin. What we say is that Japan cannot claim any monopoly or exclusive rights in that part of the island. But Japan can get concessions on a general basis in Northern Saha- lin as well as in other parts of the Union. “It is in this point, and not in the question of the evacuation of North- ern Sahalin, that lies the difference. And yet this point is beyond question. There could be no negotiations unless Japan were from the very outset willing to evacuate the Northern port of Sahalin at a definitely fixed date. Japan Must Evacuate. . “The draft of the article concerning the evacuation of Sahalin, as pre sented by myself and by Mr. Yoshiz- awa, contains one divergent point. Namely, whereas we insist on evacua- tion within a fortnight, considering this term amply sufficient, the Japan- ese government agrees to evacuate within a»period of three months, ex- plaining the necessity thereof by technical difficulties. “Xs regards international faith and obligations, upon which Viscount Kato makes dependent the question of rec- ognition and the settlement of the Russian problem, there are, as it seems to me, no special difficulties in this matter. Mr. Yoshizawa took with him three propositions covering the subject. It is up to Japan, demand- ing as she does the fulfilment of in- ternational ‘obligations, to decide whether she is herself ready to shoul- der the international responsibility for those material claims which exist on the part of the Soviet Union, Russia Will Make No Sacrifices, “Our policy vis-a-vis Japan ig based on strict responsibility, andewe will not recede from this principle, I ho) that Mr. Yoshizawa, to whom the- finitive point of view of the Soviet government on all questions is known, will very well explain it at Tokyo, so that I hope that if the Japanese gov- ernment is sincere, it has, while send- ing Mr. Yoshizawa to Peking, done everything so that it should not be necessary to have interruptions again. I also believe that Mr. Yoshizawa has been able to give documentary proot to his government that we are not TREATY WITH RUSSIA BRINGS HOPE OF NEW PROGRESS TO CHINA (By ROSTA) MOSCOW, Russia, Aug. 22—(by mail.)—In celebration of the sign- ‘tng of the Russo-Chinese Agreement the Soviet Representative in the llyisk region, Mr, Petchatnikoff, held a reception at Kuldja, which was attended by all the Sovietcom- munity and Chinese officials with the Chinese Governor and Com- mander of the garrison at their head, and also representative Chi- nese big and middl# meréhant: In their speeches, the Chinese rep- resentatives expressed their firm be- lief that now that the Soviet-Chin- ese treaty has been signed it will be easy for the Chinese people to shake off the yoke of imperialism and resolutely follow the path of economic and all-round national progress. “given to too much diplomacy,” but say frankly and openly what is pos- sible and what is not. “We want an agreement with Ja- pan, but can make no sacrifices, nor do we demand any sacrifices on the part of Japan. I shall use all efforts to bring the negotiations toa positive result and in this I count on the friendly and sincere co-operation of Mr. Yoshizawa.” Cal Favors Couzens’ Plan to Quiz His Pal Andrew Mellon WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.— Presi- dent Coolidge approves the plan which has been laid down for, the senate in- vestigation of the internal revenue bureau, Senator James Couzens, re- publican, of Michigan, chairman, an- nounced today after a conference at the White House, “When I told the President of the general scope of our inquiry, Mr. Cool- idge declared he believed it was a constructive program for investigat- ing the bureau,” Couzens said, Couzens is listed as a “progressive” and has the support of the Detroit la- bor leaders, who think they are fight- ing Coolid, g ARE YOU OBTAINING YOUR BUN. DLE OF THE DAILY WORKER and CAMPAIGN LEAFLETS to distribute when you are out getting signatures anne { ’ » , and in the sale of literature.. A Membership Application Committee should function at every mass meeting. Members individually must enter systematically into the work of securing new members. Let every member of the Party make himself a list of the five persons nearest to him who’ should join a Communist Party, furnish them with literature systematically and then extent an in- One out of every five will join. TEN THOUSAND NEW MEMBERS CAN BE ADDED TO THE PARTY BY ELECTION DAY IF WE CARRY ON A MEMBERSHIP vitation to become a member. CAMPAIGN. x * THE DAILY WORKER. With the ten thousand new members should go ten thousand new readers for the DAILY WORKER. The election campaign offers the best ‘opportunity to secure sub- scriptions. ings bring them together. The DAILY WORKER is a power for Communism now. paring the way for a stronger Communist party. readers we will put it on a safer foundation, extend its influence and pre- pare more’ material for party membership in the future. 4 * A NEW MEMBER AND DAILY WORKER SUBSCRIPTION FROM EVERY PRESENT MEMBER OF THAT IS NOT TOO.GREAT A TASK TO PERFORM IN SIX WEEKS, IF WE WORK AT ALL WE WILL SURELY GET TEN THOUSAND NEW MEMBERS AND TEN THOUSAND NEW READERS, Work! Work! Work! 1 The Proletarian Revolution does not fall from the skies. Comrad: The. Communist Party is not organized by wishing for it. ‘work, work, and more work that carries along the road to our goal. Now is the best opportunity for work. Now we are in the midst of Now is the best time to get results. a great election campaign. Can we mobilize all our forces tunity which Iles before us? Can we prove that we are really Commun- ists by working for our Party when the Party requires work from us. Today we fight one way, tomorrow another, the’ next We must learn that lesson. fight for our principles and our Party. Let us prove that we can do that. ; Let us throw our whole energy into the election cam- paign and work with enthusiasm to achieve: At least a hundred thousand votes for our candidates. Ten thousand new Party members. Ten thousand new readers for the DAILY WORKER. Comrades! day still another. PERSIAN MERCHANTS DID GOOD BUSINESS AT REGENT BAKU FAIR By Rosta. MOSCOW, Russia, Aug. 22 (by mail).—According to information received by the Russo - Oriental Chamber of Commerce, the Persian merchants were able to sell nearly all the stocks of goods they brought to the recent? Baku Fair, to an amount of over 345,000 poods and a value of about two million gold rou- bles while they purchased some 1,350,000 roubles’ worth of goods. ‘These figures do notinclude the deals transacted between the Persian mer- chants and the mixed Russo-Persian companies, the “Centrosoyua” or the State Trading Department. — GITLOW MEETINGS IN- PENNSYLVANIA WELL ATTENDED Communist Candidate is Eloquent S er ERIE, Pa., Sept. 21.—In view of the splendid audiences that greeted com- rade Gitlow, candidate for vice presi- dent on the Communist ticket, thru- out Pennsylvania, the Erie comrades expect one of the best attended meet- ings in the history of the city on Wednesday eve., Sept. 24. The capi- talist press thruout the great steel and coal states have given much pub- licity to the Communist meetings ad- dressed by Gitlow. The Smoky City. In Pittsburgh, the city where the air is black with the smoke from the sweating steel hells, where the lives of the workers are ground into gold for the master class, and the anti-la- bor record of the government officials is blacker than the smoke stacks of Gary's mills, comrade Gitlow spoke to a throng of steel workers during the first week in September. Aims of Party. Gitlow exposed Coolidge, Davis and LaFollette as capitalist agents and stated the aims of Communism. “The purpose of our campaign” declared Gitlow, “is not primarily to elect the Workers Party candidate to office in the government, but to spread the message of Communism in America.” Comrade Gitlow is an eloquent speaker and he held that Pittsburgh audience spellbound. Calvin Coolidge has to pay labor fakers to come and listen to him but these exploited workers paid to hear Gitlow expound the Communist mes- sage and then chipped into the collec- tion basket. The LaFollette, Davis and Coolidge parties have their millionaire angels like Spreckles, Vanderlip, Morgan, Rockefeller and Gary but the Work- ers (Communist) Party must depend on the loyalty and generosity of the workers in the industries and on the land. Wotta Sum! Wotta Sum! NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—Mrts, Finley J. Shepard, formerly Miss Helen Gould, was instructed to appear next Wednesday in the $82,000,000 account- ing suit brought by the Jay Gould estate against the trustees of the late George Gould, after brief and per. functory questioning today. She is one of the four Jay Gould estate's The workers are interested. They will listen. -[No-9 Jack W.Johnetone 985 1,200 Monday, September 22, 1924 at * Public meet- It is pre- If we add ten thousand OUR PARTY IS OUR SLOGAN, It is work, during the six weeks of this oppor- We must learn to always CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE OF W.P. ON TICKET Gordon Owens First to Go Over in Chicago Gordon Owens, the Negro, who is the candidate of the Workers Party for congressman from the first congressional dis- trict, Chicago, is the first of the congressional candidates, to ob-. tain the needed number of signatures to go on the ballot in the November election. This is a worthy achievement for the efforts of the Party and Y.. W. L. branches in that dis- trict. There was presumably a difficult district, but the com- rades have made good. The Young Workers. League, Engle- wood branch, did exceptionally well, the comrades obtaining nearly two-thirds of the 1200 signatures wanted. All Will Go On. From now on we expect at least one congressional district per day to finish the job of obtaining signatures. Every Workers Party candidate must go on the ballot. When the results of Sunday's work by the comrades is in, we shall have a quite accurate estimate of how soon every candidate can go over. There is a race on be- tween District 4, Joseph Podkulski, candidate, and District 9, Jack John- stone, candidate, for the honors of being the second candidate to go on the ballot. However, the comrades in these districts will have to hurry or District 8, George Maurer, candidate, may slip by them and take the lead. Earley Takes Charge of Dist. 5. In an effort to get District 5, H. Ep- stein, candidate, on the ballot, Delbert Earley, who has been campaign man- ager for District 9,, has been placed in charge of District 5 by the City Cam- paign Committee. He replaces Com- rade W. S. Milson.. Comrade H. Hen- _ derson, who has been aiding Com- rade Earley in District 9, will finish the job in that district. With the change made, the City Campaign ‘Com- mittee hopes to make sure of getting District 5 on the ballot. Comrades in District 6 were ‘out Sunday an early returns are good for a large number of signatures. . The same with District 7, which is working very hard to get the 4,000 signatures want- ed. Comrades have every reason to feel encouraged with the results so far and should spare no efforts the remainder of this week in getting sig- natures. Every Signature In This Week, Comrades must be sure to get in al’) their signatures this week. % can be no delay. “ring or sen your signatures as fast as the tions are filled out. Every comrade on — the job evéry day. Put the Workers ;, Party candidates on the ballot, i The results to date HB i" Dist. Candidate obtained required No.1 Gordon Owens.....1,200 1,200 No.2 Joseph Podkulski 1,100 1,300 No.5 Harry Epstein...... 601 1,000 No.6 Frank Pellegrino 1,475 3,00 No. 7S. Hammersmark 2,100 4,000 No.8 George Maurer. BY *