The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1924, Page 6

acti “one of his workers: Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. ae a Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES, By mail: $3.50....6 months By mail (in Chicago only $4.50....6 moxths $6.00 per year 00....8 months .-3 Taonths $8.00 per year $2.5 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DU MORITZ J. LOE! Chicago, Mlinols ... bditors Business Manager he Post- Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at tl Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, ee 290 Advertising rates on application —————————————— The Right to Vote Many of the biggest employers’ associations are now engaged in a nation-wide to the ballot a large proportion of the great mass of non-voters in the country. as to the purposes animating democracy. It has been one of our main tasks to point out | the frauds and the snares inherent in the purest of capitalist democracy.. We have repeatedly pointed out that the right to vote is today deprived of its efficiency as a weapon in class conflicts thru the artificial bicameral system, the ow nership of the means of information by the exploiters, the private ownership of the means of production and exchange, and the control of the governmental machinery by the capitalists. The bosses who own the workers’ jobs never fail | to utilize this ownership for their own politica class interests. The present election campaign affords abundant evidence to show the extent to which the exploiters are ready to travel in order) to minimize the smallest value that the right to vote can provelijy the workers. Many republican employers are bringing pressure on their workers to vote for the strikebreaking Coolidge-Dawes ticket. The exploited workers are being told that “business will suffer,” and that they will lose their jobs. Our attention has just been drawn to a letter sent out by Mr. T. F. Manville, Johns-Manville, Inc., one of the biggest trustified concerns in the country. Each of its hundreds of workers has received a letter informing them that Chairman Manville, “after carefully reviewing the political situation,” is “fully convinced that the election of Messrs. Coolidge and Dawes means a great deal to this country, also general business conditions.” Mr. Manville goes en to say to each “T hope you will agree with me.” It is these tricks and cajolery, this brow-beating, that the employers are continually resorting to. Precisely the same tactics were pursued when the Mellon plan was being sold to the country. Exactly the same tactics are now being followed in Tennessee, where federal employes are being forced to contribute part of their salaries to the republican campaign fund. that the reactionaries have never failed to use in the steel and coal baronies. We know that dictatorship and democracy are synonymous under capitalism. Jarring the Labor Bankers That eminent banker and business unionist, Mr. Warren-S. Stone, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, is certainly having his ups and downs in. the alleys and byways of Wall Street. Now the foremost banker of the trade union movement is exchanging harsh words with the In- terstate Commerce Commission. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineeers has organized the Coal River and astern Railway. The organization recent- ly applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission | for authorization to operate its line in West Vir- ginia between the coal mines of the Coal River Collieries Company and the Chesapeake and Ohio. The Interstate Commerce Commission turned down this request. The noted banker, Stone, who also is reputed to be the highest-priced labor leader in the world, ap- pears rather jarred by this action of the Interstate Commerce Commission. He now contends that this decision “can spell nothing except that the Com-~ mission has joined a partnership with the Chesa- peake and Ohio in oppression.” We suppose that this little venture of Mr. Stone find his coterie of labor aristocrats into the world of capital and profiteering will tend to make the Grand Chief of the Locomotive Engineers more aware than ever of the difficulties and hardships under which the capitalists are compelled to work nowadays! Perhaps the ingenious Stone will also enange his mind about government ownership and regulation of public utilities. But all of these conjectures as to the extent to which Mr. Stone and the business unionists will become more sympathetic towards the plight of the individual capitalist take a back seat when i compared with the significant lesson this incident holds out for the great mass of workers. This de- cision of the Interstate Commerce Commission to dismiss the application of the labor bankers adds only morg brick and mortar to the rising mau- soleum that is destined to hold all such still-born schemes of removing the exploitation of the work- ing class as industrial profit-sharing, employes’ stock-owning, company unionism, and the eeco- nomically and politically suicidal labor banking. Certainly no one need be amazed at a capitalist campaign to bring} We have no illusions | these lovers of dollar | chairman of the| It is these methods | | government jarring a well-kept reactionary labor | | leader even when he attempts to become a hundred |per cent capitalist. | What’s Ahead This Fall? The managers of the republican campaign, led | by Chairman William M. Butler, are working over- time spreading the notion that the unemployment problem has disappeared and that the country is in the midst of great industrial prosperity. We have re@uted the principal contentions of | these fraudulent prosperity peddlers by calling upon the department of labor to testify as to the \actual conditions at hand. We merely want to shed further light on the feverish activities of the em- ploying class politicians engaged in a sinister at- tempt to mislead tte working and farming masses. Much capital has been made out of the fact that the August figures indicated a slight upward trend ‘in the steel industry. Of course, not a word was |said about the extremely seasonal basis for this} jrise. Now, |the steel mills are “having a strenuous time en- deavoring to maintain the pace. Orders are being |sought very keenly and are being filled with re- markable celerity.”” We are also impressed with |the fact that “there are conflicting reports about real volume of steel buying in the past fort- night.” Dun’s Review further blasts the false reports of Coolidge’s headquarters when it says that: “The| iron and steel industry continued very quiet,” and that “the demand for structural steel has fallen off.” The pig iron market is dull and featureless. The Wall Street Journal then says: “As to the ap- praisal of the future by steel. producers them- selves, there seems to be no doubt that they are dis&ppointed.” At ths same time the cost of living is going up. The Bureau of Labor Statistics advance reports indicate an increase of about two-thirds of one per cent in the retail cost of food in August as com- | pared with July. The Department of Commerce index of factory employment for the United States shows no change in August from the July position. The silver linings of the Dawes plan are begin- ning to show their menacing clouds. The great hope which Mellon, Hughes, and Coolidge have been asking the country to place in their European |reconstruction conspiracy is not meeting with |much response. from the masses. The highly ad- vertised farm prosperity is proving of very little relief to the rural masses. The recent increase in |the price of wheat is constantly menaced by the improving: Canadian crop reports. All present evidence of the barometers of in- dustry do not indicate that there will be a turn for the better in the Fall or that the country has already turned corner and is out of the slough of economic depression. | | the | Election Prophecies On the eve of every national election political writers and observers of current events dabble extensively in election prophecies. This year the election rumor industry is flourishing. We need not lay threadbare the numerous lines of gossip that the principal election rumors have assumed. Yet, this year the general trend and the particular form of election estimates have taken jon a significant feature. This is not the first year tin which three parties committed to the main- jtenance of the capitalist system are in a struggle \for the control of the administrative machinery of |the government. But this is the first national elec- | tion in which the employing class entertains, con- | sciously or otherwise, serious fears regarding the | stability of the two-party system. The two-party system is an integral feature of |the entire American capitalist system of govern- ment based on checks and balances. It is one of the firmest buttresses of the entire edifice of Wall Street democracy. It is not so much the rise of a third party movement that the exploiters dread jin the present campaign as the aftermath that will jmore easily tend to follow once the hard and firm- ly rooted political practices of yesterday are shaken. It is not so much the immediate labor and farm following that LaFollette has attracted that worries the employing class, but what these masses will do when they are disillusioned with LaFollette and his private panaceas. It is not at all unlikely, therefore, that the two big parties of capitalism will come to some sort of an agreement to the exclusion of the smallest party of capitalism, the LaFollette organization. The Davis-Dawes schematic prophecy may never see daylight, but the very fact that it ean even be dis- cussed by the leading agents of the republican and dembcratic, paties is indicative of the undercur- rent of disintegration in our national politics: In times of sharp challenge to the fundamental class interests, the employers always close their ranks, sink less basic differences.and form firmer alliances against the dissidents within and the enemies with- out. The particular individual election rumors are of no pressing importance to the workers and poor farmers. The general character of these rumors, however, is indeed a warning and a challenge to the workers that they had sooner and better be prepared to face a closely united enemy determined on maintaining and extending the privileges of exploitation, Some workers say that they would vote for Foster if he had a chance to win, and since he hasn’t, they will vote for the Wisconsin toreador. Well, if LaFollette is elected, he will have won, but not the workers, He stands only for a piece of felt wrapped around the toe of ths capitalist boot that is always striking the workers at the end of ma spinal column, the Wall Street Journal tells us that) jhis damnedest to wipe froin his fair ano nerawenananasaceas disney meant wv THE DAILY WORKER Tuesday, September 23, 1924 ‘The C.P.P.A. Drops the S. P. in Toledo By MAX SHACHTMAN. VER since, if not before, the speech of Charlie Dawes, in which |he attacked the LaFollette ticket as being supported by the allegedly red socialists, the Wisconsin senator has been doing his best to prove that he is firmly opposed to any and all things radical. Dawes, it will be remembered, at- tacked LaFollette some time ago on that basis, and repeated it in his Iowa speech the other day by referring to him as “LaFollette, behind whom is massed a heterogeneous combination of the forces opposed to the existing order of things in this country, the largest portion of which are the so- cialists, flying the Red Flag.” LaFollette’s Antics. Leaving aside for a moment the fact that Dawes doesn’t know waat he is talking about when he says the S. P. is the largest portion of the senator's support, it is obvious to anyone who has been following the verbal antics of LaFollette that he has been doing escutcheon the stain of radicalism. Now the LaFollette gang is. taking more concrete steps towards eliminat- ing the socialist appendix. The S. P. which was simply tickled to death over the fact that it was at last in contact with respectable people who were running a real big show, has pulled a sort of a boner on a small scale. Many months ago, the Hillquiters were impolitely kicked out of the New York state conference for progressive political action at Albany, by the la- bor fakers in control. And it was only by pressure brought to bear from the center that the New York bunch took the socialists back into their expan- sive bosoms, will gall in) their hearts, ready to pull the same stunt at the first opportunity. They Crowed Too Soon. The S. P. began to point with pride. They were an: accepted: part of the “progressive movement.” But they laid their egg without even building a chicken coop, The news has just come that in Toledo, Ohio, the S. P. has been gent- ly but firmly ousted from the ©, P. Pp. A. The labor skates have dumped the socialists back into the can. It happened thusly: The Toledo C. P. P. A., controlled by rabid labor bureaucrats, indorsed, together with LaFollette and Wheeler, the candidacy of General Isaac R. Sherwood, for re-election to Congress. At the county convention where Sher- wood was nominated, the Independent Progressives—which is the local mon- icker of the C. P. P. A—discovered that the S. P. had nominated by pe- tition one of their members for the office of congressman on the ticket of the Independent Progressives. The S. P. had slipped in first, nominating their man, Thomas C. Devine, (a war jingo incidentally), before the indorse- ment for Sherwood had come down to the local fakers from headquarters in Washington. S. P. Is Dumped. Did this embarrass the 8. P.? Not for a minute! Did it embarrass the local fakers? Go to! Amongst them was Victor Gauthier, who had just practiced expulsions in his own or- ganization by kicking half a dozen Communists out of the Toledo local of the International Association of Machinists. So the S. P. job was simple. It was moved, second, argued and voted that the S. P. be obliged to sever its connection with the C. P. P. A., and that their representative, John Kocinski, who had also been nominated for congress, be ousted from the executive committee. One of the “progressives” said: “We wouldn’t have any socialist party in Toledo if it were not for the To- ledo Blade and the republican party. The Blade gives Klotz and his social- ist organization of 18 people the first page and headlines on all occasions now and Klotz jumps every time the Blate tells him to.” Which doesn’t speak well for the S. P. The Troublemakers. Said Walter Guntrup, another La- Follettéite: “If the socialists are not getting paid for what they are doing they are being cheated.” And R. P. McManamon, of the railroad brother- hoods, added: “The socialists are try- ing to perpetrate a fraud on the vot- ers. We cannot afford to be a party to it.” And C. A. Stevenson, also of the brotherhoods, made the conclud- AS WE SEE OB’S campaign is neither a donkey nor an elephant, but it is a many headed monstrosity with the heads de- siring to go in different directions. Quesse and his crowd handed Small to the LaFollette boys in Illinois. Small, politically speaking, is a pole- cat, and is as welcome in a respect- able party as a strict monogamist would be in the House of David. But! owing to political exigencies the La-| Follette crowd are forced to acecpt| him, tho with a look which indicates that the medicine is. anything but agreeable. Quesse and his crowd are} progressive. Anybody is who sup- ports LaFollette. But his progressiv- ism so far as substantial assistance to LaFollette is concerned is rather pla-| tonic. He gives him unstinted praise but insists that money collected thru the unions goes to Small. Isn’t Small one of the progressive boys? And is he not an enemy of Hell-an’-Maria Dawes, the convenient bogey man who is used by the labor fakers as a smoke screen to hide their own misdeeds from the union members they are con- stantly betraying? .¢ Ss 'HE gas pipe section of the trade union movement is lined up with Small; the more respectable section, represented by the railroad brother- hoods and the socialist careerists give “Bob” first preference and still an- other section supposed to have the backing of the now almost homeless Fitzpatrick -Nockels combinations is running around like a hen about to lay an egg, looking for an inviting nest. © #40 'HESE factions care nothing for the interests of the working class Like Tammany Hall, in New York, their own parochial interests come first and their political alignments are determined by those interests. Labor takers who hold up contractors will support Small in return for the keys of Joliet prison. Socialist careerists will place their eggs in LaFollette’s baskets. They might cackle their way into. congress with a good ex; ienced sitting hen like “Fighting Bob.” And a “third party” in the Illinois combination, the orphans who are looking for somebody to adopt them, will land somewhere provided they play the game right. The interests of labor are nowhere considered, but the majority of the workers will not worry about that for another while. © eee ae HEN the democratic convention which nominated Davis ended its labors, the DAILY WORKER pre- dicted that the donkey party received a fatal blow, from which it would never recover. Of course political parties with a past do not perish in a year, or even in a decade perhaps, but it is evident that the party of Jeffer- son has seen its best and happiest days. As Frank Munsey, Senator Fre- linghusen of New Jersey and other supporters of Big Business stated, there being no fundamental difference between the democratic and republi- can parties, the sensible thing for the conservative elements in both parties to do is to unite and leave the so- called radicals in both camps to get into a party of their own, OO UCH a development may result from the present election cam- paign. The rumors of a possible deal between the republicans and the dem- ocrats for a Davis-Dawes combination may have more substance than shad- ow to it. Davis is perfectly satisfac- tory to the republicans, In fact his nomination by the democrats was hailed with more enthusiasm by the republican editors than by the demo- cratic contemporaries, The attorney Big Business? With the violent Fas- cist Hell-an’-Maria Dawes as vice- president, in case of accidents—unless the crabs already referred to are done away with and the osteopaths succeed in relegating ptomaine poisoning to the ash can of history—Dawes would make a better president than Silent Cal. se 8 B beret is a strong possibility That the next election may be thrown | into congress, with the result that Bill | Bryan’s brother might have a chance. Now, the capitalists don’t like Bill | Bryan. Why? you may ask. Is he not a supporter of the capitalist system? It is true that he is, but he rocks the boat once in a while and it would take the big fellows some time to break him in properly. They prefer one who |is already trained and who is not af- flicted with crazy-notions about a re- vival of competition, government own- ership and the like. The tiger will fight for the tips of his mustache as vigorously as he will defend his heart, for the good reason that if he can be shaved with impunity, somebody else might come along and take more lib- erties with him. The capitalists will surrender nothing without a~struggle. Should they fail to avert the calamity of the Bryan Brothers in the White House, they would make the best of things and give the noted political vaudeVillians more presents than Ramsay MacDonald received from Sir Alexander Grant. “aR ET AN UT why go to the troubmle of hav- ing Skull-cap Bryan in the White House when they can have a pair that any capitalist country could justly be proud of? Davis and Dawes! Silent Cal can step up and get a good salary ing statement: “The only way to pre serve harmony is to keep out those who bring the discord. Klotz and Bartholomew (local 8. P. sharpers) are the authors of this trouble. Let the socialists come clean or get out,” What a comedy when the fakers fall out! Chairman Gauthier, the red-baiter in his union, ended the onslaught against the socialists by stating that they” were certified as Welegates from the residence of Ellis Bartholomew for four organizations that simply did not exist. Now, contrast this interesting little take with the words of George R. Kirkpatrick, in the official press ser- vice of the national office of the S. P, on September 19, 1924: “Millions of LaFollette-Wheeler club members are. now learning how sin- cere, how loyal, how unselfish, how open-and-above-board the socialists are in their fellowship and eager will- ingness to do anything—everything— possible to help the plain people build a labor party. Who Knows, Gaonget Maybe so, George, maybe so; but while this moonshine may be all right for the six dentists and lawyers who are still in the party, it doesn’t seem to work with LaFollette and his crowd. Who knows, George, some day just a little while before the Novem- ber election, LaFollette may play you fellows a dirty trick and kick you out altogether, if only to make “Hell-an’- Maria” Dawes feel good. IT as editor of the Ladies’ Home Jour- nal. The Brayin’ Brothers would command higher fees on the Chatau- qua circuit and Fightin’ Bob and his menagerie could step in with their third party, representing those who are fighting with Wall Street over the division of labor’s marrow bone. It may not be a Third Party but a sec- ond party. Those who expect a labor party to spring from that combina- tion are going to be disillusioned we fear. If there is going to be a labor party in this country in the near fu- ture, it will not be born as a result of the efforts of the leaders in the La- Follette movement. They want a party after the fashion of the British Labor Party which is labor in name only. sf @ 'HE alleged disarmament confer- ence held in Washington under the auspices of Secretary Hughes, was not such a bad thing for certain people. Millionaire junkmen are not crying over the resalts. Ships that cost $200,000,000 to build are sold as junk for $2,000,000. Private com- panies got paid for building the ships originally and private companies are getting paid now for scrapping them. It is a splendid system! Battleships get old very quickly. New designs are being constantly introduced. The United States laid no new keels since 1920, but when the time comes to get ready for the frdy, Morgan can show some speed in the shipbuilding line And the warships will be up-to-date. Disarmament conferences seem to be good for the iron and steel business in particular. eee NITED STATES soldiers are busy killing striking Filipino sugar By T. J. O'Flaherty plantation laborers in Hawaii. It is reported that Rudolph Spreckles, one of LaFollette’s millionaire angels is a large employer of Filipino laborers on his Hawaii sugar plantations. But even tho he is a progressive, Uncle Sam's troops will kill strikers in his behalf and Bob will never shake his pompador denouncing Mr. Spreckles. se 8 GENTLEMAN who styles him- self Grand Duke Cyril of Russia, has issued a proclamation declaring himself emperor of Russia, and nam- ing his seven-year-old son, heir to the throne. Mr. Cyril is living in London, where the Volstead laws are not held in high esteem. see RITISH “heroes” who won medals for their gallantry in the world war are now returning the medals to the donors with the legend, “Un- wanted.” Nothing was too good for them while fighting for King George's, throne, and the interests of the Brit- ish capitalists, but now, the ex-soldiers who were employed by the govern- ment as. clerks without undergoing civil service, examinations are getting their walking papers. It is a long, long time since 1914. Capitalist gov- ernments are grateful to generals. Marshall Haig got half a million dol- lars from a grateful empire and other military leaders got a proportionate share of the reward for superintending the butchery of the working class. But a piece of junk is considered suf- ficient compensation for the rank and file. Perhgps it will teach them a les- son. If they fought for their own class instead of their masters they would now be sending the capitalist system to the junk pile along with their military decorations, An American. University in Russia By ANISE. NE of the finest estates in Rus- sia, formerly the property of Ba- ron Steingel, and exhibited by means of pictures at the Paris Exposition of 1900 as & model farm, is to be turned over to the group of Americans head- ed by Harold Ware and Mr. Hillko- witz for the establishing of an Am- erican Farm-University. Ware and Hillkowitz are now in Rostov complet- ing the contracts with the Southeast- ern Agricultural Trust, after which Mr. Hillkowitz’ will return to the United States via Odessa and Mr. Ware will go on to Moscow for the final arrangements with the Chief Concessions Committee. Work of Americans. The Agricultural University is the result of two years’ planning by two groups of Americans who have now united, Two years ago Mr. Ware took to Russia the Tracter ‘nit of the Friends of Soviet Russia as a means of famine reconstruction. At that time he laid the foundation of experience necessary for the plans, and discussed the project with many leading Com- munists in Russia, The one thing lacking was money. This is now be- ing secured thru a combination with the International University Com- mune, an organization started by sey. eral Californians with the aim of establishing a Russian-American Uni- versity in Russia. They had already | raised large funds, but were quite without Russian contracts and experi- ence. The estate which is to be turned over to this group is one of the most celebrated in Russia, Not long ago the Russian government refused to consider giving it as a concession, even tho half a million roubles was for the House of Morgan—could any-| mentioned as the fifst sum to be paid body be better qualified to represent!down, But the government of its own accord suggested this estate to the Americans, on account of the educational character of their work. It contains some 15,000 acres of the richest black soil in the Kuban basin, with a main trunk railway running right across the estate. There are several factories, a candy factory, and a biscuit factory chiefly operated by the products of the place. The manor- house, an old hunting lodge of the baron’s, has 38 guest-rooms, and is set in a 60 acre park. Dakotans to Help. ~ “When it is organized on ‘American lines,’ it cam become the very flower of Russian agriculture” was the state- ment of the Americans after seeing it. Mr. Ware will organize the grain production, with the help of a chosen group of North Dakota farmers, most | (%,M of whom have already seen service in Russia, Mr. Hillkowitz, himself a suc- cessful fruit and raisin grower on a large scale in California, will organize the horticulture. The plan is to make the farm from the very beginning a prosperous in- dustrial farm, and on the basis of its prosperity, to build a school teaching modern farming methods to the entirg district. It will be run as a joint un- dertaking with the Russian Depart- ment of Agriculture, but the Ameri- cans will have full charge of the or- ganization, merely sharing profits with the government, Except for such ‘funds as are needed to pay interest on loans, most of the income ‘will go into the educational features, - Arrangements are in process with the Army Headquarters of the region to furnish young men, during the time of their mobilization, selecting those who themselves wish to learn agri- culture, and station them in organized groups, under their own leaders, on the estate, us the farm will secure exactly the and type of young | men desired, chiefly peasants of 20 years of age, from the surrounding district. The army supports the stu- dents, and they give about six hours daily. to farm work, so organized as to give them, by the ends of the sum- mer, a well-rounded course in both grain and fruit-raising and the use of tractors. At the same time they re- ceive instruction in the organization of co-operative farming groups in their own villages. After they return to the villages they may secure their tractors on,credit thru the school, which will also act as a permanent re- pair and instruction base for machine- farming. A BOLSHEVEEK RHYME. The Russian word ‘Bolsheviki” is defined s Majorit. Kindly ki oy al in, mint Bad To JORITY RULE, they Wars inaver will end until Kaisers, and And Keaphralist, and such blood-sucking No icumber the face of bet earth, Ou zation must have NEW ere No taker of Interest, Profit, nor Rent, No int, Czar, Emperor, nor Presie lent, Shall ert nsiave! ALL the wealth the: roduce, PRODUCERS, an take not for Profit, Production, change, Transportation FOR U! USE o OF ALL FREELY—No ticket, THE Wrote OF HUMANITY then ana TO TH joke WORKER’ UNION of story ney bee red! 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