The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1924, Page 6

Page Six RK THE WORKER. ernst Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO.) 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, tl. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months Ny B ail (in chines only): f ary 50....6 momths $2.50... months | $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ilinols | Editors .Business Manager WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \ em | Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March, 3, 1879. <p 290 Advertising rates on application [eee Coolidge on Communism In his address before the Holy Name Society, the Sphinx of the Potomac lived up to his reputa-| tion. Everyone expected Mr. Coolidge to utilize the occasion of addressing.a great number of Catho- lics by denouncing the Klan in name. But “Cautious Cal” continued his policy of as- suming that silence is wisdom. In the case of the president, however, silence has been the badge of cowardice. Instead of rising to the occasion and taking a position on so pressing a problem, Mr. Coolidge hid himself behind a vicious poison gas screen. The president, posing as a man endowed with the courage of conviction, dared not assail the Klan for fear of losing votes. At the same time the Boston strikebreaker would not sacrifice the opportunity to coin prejudice and ignorance into political capital. Mr. Coolidge made a deter- mined but unfounded attack on Communism. The effort was directed at LaFollette. Of course, Mr. LaFollette is as much opposed to the abolition of the private ownership of the means of production and exchange as is Mr. Coolidge. The president shot his bolt when he declared: “To attempt to deal with persons or with property in a Communistic or socialistic way is to deny what seenis to me to be a plain fact.” Were it not for the faet that Mr. Coolidge had had years of experience in denying plain facts, we would be prone to swear volleys at him. When Coolidge speaks of the plain facts, he has in mind the plainest fact that the Communists aim to end the rights and privileges of economic ex- ploitation and political subjugation now in the hands of the employing class whose champion he is. When the president declares that “We live in an impatient age,” he is again an astronomical dis- tance from the truth. No one knows better than Coolidge that the working and farming masses of the United States have been entirely too patient ‘with the machinations and crimes of the exploiting class. The Coolidge attack on Communism is to be welcomed. It indicates, for a change and in a clear manner, the plain fact that the dynamic forees in the ranks of our ruling class are fully aware that the most dangerons force to their tyranny is the growing power of the Communist movement the world over. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. “The Great Silent Vote” Returning from his first western trip, the demo- cratic standard bearer, John W. Davis, tells the world that he is surely going to get the “great silent vote” and the presidency. It is customary for all capitalist presidential candidates to declare themselves elected before the balloting day has arrived. Mr. Davis will certainly have to make many declarations:in order to keep up his near-fighting spirit. This boast of Davis reminds one of the school boy whistling to keep up courage. Everyone knows that if it were not for the solid tier of southern states, the democratic party would be off the political map. Many cautious observers who have had the opportunity to look into the prevailing political situation contend that Mr. B. Parker in the days of Roosevelt. No super: Davis will make an even poorer run than did Alton abundance of loose talk about graft and corrup- tion, no obviously artificial attempt to talk of com- mon honesty, can help Mr. Davis. The difference between Mr. Davis and Mr. Coolidge insofar as the fundamental principles involved in the present campaign are concerned is the difference between pitch black and very black. The only possible chance of victory for Mr. Davis lies in a union of the darkest forces of the demo- cratic and republican camps in the event of the election being thrown into congress. Even under these conditions, the hope of Davis lies in a pos sible conjecture. At any rate, it is only an over- worked imagination that ean lead one to believe that the democratic party stands a chance in the peesent election campaign. We do admit, however, that a large portion, an altogether too large portion, of the Davis vote will be a silent vote, Under conditions in which the jobs of the workers are owned, to a large extent, by the supporters of Mr. Davis, at a time when the press and the schools and the countless organs of misinformation are controlled by the backers of Mr. Davis, it is inevitable that many popular votes will be cast for the same Davis without really in- dicating genuine support or intelligent acceptance of his policies, Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER aud a member for the Workers Party. NTA PECTS I | Nita a se NM LP Communist Mobilization A leading oracle of big business is now circular- ng the biggest employers of the country with a |statement that the election outlook sums itself up jin: “Coolidge or an election by the House.” This $500.8 maonthy | 28°8°Y of big business has a reputation for jaccur- 'y and near-accuracy in its financial and political jestimates. Under these circumstances, it becomes increas- ing important that the working men and _ poor |farmers should mobilize their maximum forces \tor concerted action of defense and offense against | the plans of aggression now being laid by the em- ploying class. Today theré is only one way in which working class mobilization can be achieved most effectively. In this campaign effective working class mobilization can translate itself/only into Communist mobilization. In a survey made by the Magazine of Wall Street, jregarding the opinions of “leading citizens” as to |the business policies, in other words as to the at- |titudesof the three candidates of capitalism towards the present system, we learn that “the leaders of each of the three parties are alive to the needs of business, however much their methods may differ.” In this symposium it is especially interesting to note that William H. Johnstone, who boasts of be- ing a director in one of the largest commercial banks and supervising extensive real estate and other investments, proudly declares that “LaFol- lette’s election would make for better business. Better business means higher profits. Higher profits under the present domestic and interna- tional economic conditions, can come only with lower wages. Lower wages with the present tem- per and mood of the working masses in the United States, can come only thru the employing class waging a fierce offensive against the workers thru- out the country. This means a declaration of war upon the workers’ organizations and the slight gains won by the workingmen in the last short- lived prosperity spurt. ‘This means that the work- ingmen must mobilize themselves as a class in self-defense. No doubt the election of Coolidge would be a signal-for a renewed and redoubled vigorous offen- sive against the organizations of the workers and poor farmers. There is every likelihood that if the election should prove a stalemate or a deadlock at the ballot box, that the reactionary forces dominat- ing all the capitalist organizations would unite for a “safe and sane” ticket. Such a union would equally be a signal for an attack on the working class. In these cirumstances, it would be the ad- vanced guard of the workers, the Communists, who would be chosen for the first assault, which would be only a prelude to,a general attack on the work- ing class. What better reason could the workers and farmers want for rallying to the support of ly the Workers Party and its Communist program and candidates in the campaign? » Shop Collections That the rank and file of the labor unions are taking a growing interest in the candidacy of Wil- liam Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, despite the flood of bourgeois propaganda that flows from the headquarters of LaFollette and his labor hench- men, is demonstrated by the very interesting meet- ing that took place in New York last week under the auspices of the eastern division of the Trade Union Educational League. It was a meeting of unofficial representatives of several unions located in New York.. The officials of most of the unions represented had already pledged their organizations to the LaFollette per- sonal campaign for the presidency, but evidently they spoke very much for themselves, no doubt be- ing of the opinion that the rank and file had no thoughts worthy of consideration. The New York meeting, however, proves that rank and file members, despite the heavy pressure brought to bear on them by the traitorous leaders who deserted the standard of independent work- ing class political action for the banner of the bour- geois LaFollette, have not only decided to remain true to their principles but have also decided to back up those principles with action, And as money makes the mare go, money also supplies political campaigns with the sinews of war. Money talks. So the meeting of New York trade union militants pledges $2,700 to the Foster-Gitlow campaign fund. Each industrial group pledged a certain amount of this total. Funds will be collected in the shops and those who are disgusted with the action of their leaders in deserting the class struggle on the political field will have the opportunity of support- ing the only ticket that stands for the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ government—the Workers Party. The action of the New York comrades deserves the honor of emulation by left wing trade unionists in other cities. READ THE DAILY WORKER The Methodist clergymen who have not taken after the Holy Ghost éxpress the hope that the Rev, Lawrence Hight’s escapades will not injure the reputation of Christ as a savior of souls, The preacher who killed his friends to save their souls was not putting something original across. Re ligious people have been doing that for centuries. | Now that. Calvin Coolidge has made his bid for the Catholic vote by denouncing socialism before the Holy Name Society, his next speech should be delivered before the national convention of the Ku Klux Klan, stressing the necessity for more little red school houses. Send in that new “sub” today! TWorkers Party Weutesday September 24, tial Issues Statement Against Capitalist Dictatorship — The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party has issued a statement declaring that the pres- ent government of the United States is a dictatorship of the capitalists and that this dictatorship will con- tinue whether Coolidge, Davis or LaFollette is elected president. The statement calls upon the workers to rally behind the Communist candi- dates, Foster and Gitlow, to carry on the fight against this dictatorship and to establish a rule of the Work- ers and Farmers of the United States. The statement which will be is- sued in pamphlet form and distrib- uted in millions of copies follows. eee Workers Rule Or Capitalist Dic- tatorship. Shall We have a Government of, for, and by the Capitalists, or a Govern- ment of, for, and by the Workers and Farmers? THE CAPITALIST DICTATORSHIP. The present government of the Unit- ed States is a-dictatorship of the cap- italists. The capitalists who own the industries and run them for their profit also own the government and use it to maintain their special privi- leges and to secure greater profits for themselves, Crushing the Workers. Every worker who things must- recognize that this capitalist dictator- ship rules the country. On whose side of the struggle does the government appear when the workers go on strike to secure, better wages and working conditions for themselves? The courts, the police, the soldiers are always on the side of the employ- ers and against the striking workers. These institutions of the government are partof the machinery for protect- ing the capitalists’ profits and to keep the workers from securing a higher standard of living. One of the things which endears President Coolidge ‘to the capitalists is because he is credited with break- ing the policemen’s strike in Boston. President Harding tried to break the miners’ strike in 1922, when he fillea the mines with militia sent at his call by the state governors, © President Wilson used the courts, injunctions and soldiers against the miners and steel workers in the great strikes of 1919. President Roosevelt threatened {the anthracite miners with the iron fist of the government. President Cleveland sent federal soldiers to break the Pullman strike. ‘What has been true of the national government. is equally true of the state and local government. All are part of the capitalist dictatorship which keeps: the workers under the heel of the capitalist bosses. In every great struggle between the workers and the capitalists, whether the republican or democratic party has been in power, the government has been on the side of the capital- ists and against the workers. Grabbing Profits for the Capitalists. The capitalists do not only use the government to put down the workers when they fight for a higher standard of living. They also use it directly to secure greater profits for them- selves. The-whole history of the govern- ment of the United States is one story of graft and corruption. Land steals, railroad land grant steals, for- est and timber steals, oil steals, these are written upon almost every page of the history of this country. The graft and corruption exposed in the Teapot Dome investigation is only the most recent example of the way the capitalists use the government to enrich themselves by looting the na- tion. This ‘direct looting of the natural resources of the country is not the only way in which the capitalists use the government to secure the bil- lions upon which the workers pay them tribute. Tariff laws, banking laws, shipping laws, tax laws are all so framed by the capitalist dietator- ship as to help the capitalists add to their enormous’ fortunes at the ex- pense of the workers. Coolidge, Davis, ‘LaFollette and the Capitalist Dictatorship. The capitalist dictatorship will rule and use its power to crush the work- ers as long as the capitalist system of private ownership of industry exists. So long as the capitalists have in their grip the tremendous economic power which their ownership and con- trol of the machinery of production gives them, they will control the gov- ernment and maintain their dictator- ship, whether a Coolidge, Davis or LaFollette is in power. Coolidge and Davis are the candi- dates of the parties which have maintained the capitalist dictatorship in the past. LaFollette, while he de- nounces the control of the govern- ment by the. privileged class, is a supporter of the capitalist system of private ownership of industry and op- eration of profit. He supports the the system which gives the capitalists the power to enforce their dictator- ship and in supporting and upholding the economic system which makes the capitalist dictatorship possible he is supporting and upholding that dic- tatorship. Fighting the Capitalist Dictatorship. There is only one way in which the capitalist dictatorship which is crush- ing down the workers and robbing them of the right to enjoy the product of their work can be fought. The workers must organize as a class to fight against capitalist ownership of industry and for workers’ ownership and control. The capitalist dictatorship ex- presses the class interests of the capitalists. The capitalists are able to beat the workers into submission because the workers do not fight as a class, do not unite their power on the basis of their economic interests and unitedly fight the capitalist rule. The capitalists have common inter- ests. They want to maintain their ownership of industry and to compel the workers to accept the lowest wages and worst working conditions, so that the capitalist profits will grow and they can live in luxury and splen- dor and increase their swollen for- tunes, The workers havecommoninterests, too. They want more wages, shorter hours, better working conditions, a higher standard of life. They can se- cure these only at. the expense of the sapitalist countries. The United States of Soviet Russia information sub-section of the Agitprop of the Comintern sent to the DAILY WORKER the following copies of the telegrams and greetings received by the Third (Communist) International from the comrades at these We print then. tn Soe reer full for the inspiring message] headquarters of Communist revolu- gatherings. they contain to the workers of America, and everywhere that workers are still subject to capi- talist wars. Send Greeting on Opening 0% Newly Constructed Bridge. The workers engaged in the erec- tion of the bridge across the Moskva river on vertst 15-16 of the Moscow- Kursk Railway, in celebrating their victory by opening the new bridge across the Moskva river erected by proletarian efforts, send their warm greetings to the headquarters of the proletarian world revolution, the Third Communist International. We, the workers who built the bridge, thinking that this structure consti- tutes a stage towards the socialist» or- der, are naming it “The Comintern Bridge.” We believe in the inevita- bility of the proletarian world revolu- tion, we know that only in a Soviet Republic, created by proletarian ef- forts, such bridges represent real as- sets to the proletariat. Let the capi- talists of other countries jeer at our Union of Soviet Republicsy let them vociferate that we are engaged in wrecking and pulling down everything that comes into our hands. Yes, we do pull down everything that is obso. lete and rotten, everything that comes from the hourgeoisie, while engaged in our own proletarian constructive work. We are strong. Let the slave- drivers know how great our force is. We shall indicate the path for a new system where labor will be the master of the world. Long live the international prole- tarian republic. Long live the leaders of the Third Communist International. Long live revolutionary trade un- ionism, GURNOV, Chariman, FEDOROV, Secretary. Will Fight Until Capitalist Domina. tion Is Abolished, Greetings to the Militant Headquar’ ters of World Revolution, the Third Communist International, A crowded mass meting of trade union members, red army delegates, Young Communist Leagues, thé toil- ing peasantry and the cossacks of the district of Kizliar, on the tenth anni- versary of the imperialist world war: 1, Sends greetings to the world MORE IMPERIALIST WARS,” Y TELEGRAMS FROM WORKERS TO THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL » Demonstrations and gatherings of workers were held thru- out Russia on the Tenth Anniversary of War. The demonstra- tions were very different in tone and character from those of jtheir spporters, the social-democrats, tion, the Third Communist Interna- tional. 2, Expresses its ‘profound hatred to the originators of the world war and the leaders of the yellow Second In- ternational and the betrayers of the working class. Only Communism Will End Warfare. 3. Expresses its profound convic- tion that the only organization cap- able of averting the inevitable new war is the Third Communist Interna- tional, the leader of the world prole- tariat. 4. On being called upon by the mili- tant headquarters of the world Com- munist revolution, we shall all, like one man, throw ourselves into the fight against world capitalism, never laying aside our rifles until bourgeois domination shall have been abolished thruout the globe. Long live the Communist Interna- tional and its leaders! FIRSOV, Chairman of the meeting, Khavrenko, Responsible Secretary of the Local Committee of R. C. P. Moscow Garrison. ———_— To the Executive Committee of the Communist International: The Third Conference of Party Members of the Moscow Military Dis- trict, meeting at a moment when the proletarian masses thruout the world are demonstrating their readiness to take up the fight against the menace of new imperialist wars, declares that the only reliable means of putting an end to all war it the victory of the proletarian revolution thruout the world. The whole energy of all the Party organizations of our District is directed towards: strengthening the might of the Red Army, the reliable bulwark of the Communist Interna- tional. At the first call of the Comintern, the Red Army is ready to take up the fight against militant world imperial- ism, for the abolftion of all wars, and to bring about socialism and real brotherhood among nations. Te Presidium of the Third Confer. ence of Party Members of the Mos- cow Military District. Unite the Toilers of the World. A meeting of workers and peasants of the hamlet of Khartsiz in the dis- trict of Stalin, sends fraternal greet- ings to the World Headquarters of Revolution. We hail the work of the Comintern in uniting the toiling and oppressed of the ‘world, we believe that the union_of the toilers with the Comintern affords the only guarantee of the liquidation of world wars and of the restoration of the brotherhood of nations thruout the world. Long live the Third Communist Interna- tional, long live the world union of The October Military Camp aes RESULTS OF FIVE DAY’S VOTING IN DAILY WORKER STRAW VOTE SEPTEMBER 16th: Foster Hart, Schaffner & Marx.... 67 Kuppenheimer . 52 Royal Tailors otal vote cast, 994, SEPTEMBER 17th: Western Electric Co... Total vote cast, 1056, SEPTEMBER 18th: Stockyards .., fag Total vote cast, 348, SEPTEMBER 19th: Pullman Palace Car Co. Executive office Factory workers Total vote cast, SEPTEMBER 22nd: Sears - Roebuck .. Ch. & N. W. R. R. Sho Total vote cast, 1142, Grand total for Coolldge LaFollette Davis 158 206 31 94 200 19 37 90 8 407 70 57 ————————————— [ins cers and everlasting pean toilers and everlasting peace among the nations. SOKOLINSKY. Secretary of the Communist Nucleus. and to take up the fight for the emancipation of the tollers thruout capitalists, They can make certain that they will have these only it they unite their power and abolish the capitalist ownership of industry and operation for capitalist profits. Coolidge won't fight in the inter- est of the workers. Davis won't fight in the interest of the workers. LaFollette is for the capitalist sys tem and won’t and can’t fight in the interest of the workers. The only party with a program foi the“workers’ rule and abolition of the capitalist system is the Workers (Communist) Party. The only candi- dates who represent the workers’ in- terest in this election are Foster and Gitlow, the Communist candidates, The Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. The Workers Party is fighting for a@ workers and farmers government thru which the workers will rule and use the government in their interest It calls upon those workers who wish to fight the capitalist dictatorship to vote for its candidates as a demon- stration of their «support. The workers’ and farmers’ govern. ment will use its power in the in- terest of the workers. The courts, in- junctions, police and soldiers will be on the side of the workers and against the capitalists. The workers and farmers government wil end the basis of the capitalist dictatorship, the private ownership of industry, by taking the industries for the workers and establishing workers’ control, Let us fight as a class. Workers, farmers! Sto; wapecieing the candidates of your class enemies. Coolidge, Davis, LaFollette are all the representatives of the capitalist system which robs you and oppresses you. Take your stand in support of your interests. Support Foster and Git- low, the Communist candidates. Down with the ep acai dictator. ship. Forward to the workers and farm- ers government. Central Executive Committee, Workers Party of America, WM. Z. FOSTER, Chairman, Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, Execu- tive dul statin aat cca beratiaraialh aeRO Bias: Oca aoe An extensive non-party conference of the parish of Kamishin in the dis- trict of Kamishin in the province of Saratov, expresses its profound grati- tude for the timely protest against fratricidal wars which was expressed by the Comintern in the manifesto adopted at its last congress. Wede- clare ourselves ready to take up the defence of the toilers thruout the world. Down with imperialist war. Long live our vanguard, the Third Communist International. Long live the international solidarity of workers and peasants. TERENTYEV, Conference. ' —————$S —————__, Agricultural Workers Send a Chairman of the to Betrayers of Workers. The agricultural laborers of the So- viet estate “The Red Dawn Com- mune,” and the peasants of the parish of Stanovo in the district of Vassily- evsk, on the tenth anniversary of the imperialist war, in protesting against all capitalist wars, send their curses to the betrayers of the Working class and ask you to inform their brothers in foreign lands that at any moment they should be ready to resist the evil designs of the enemies of free Russia, the world. Long live the Third International. BAKULIN, Chairman of the meet ing. ase Foster Outruns Both Coolidge and Davis — * in Vote at Carshops (Continued trom page 1) é wake them from their stupor. They must read the DAIL YWORKER.” | The vote is encouraging. It shows that there is a good field for consist: , ) Se ent propaganda. It proves to us how much can be done thru a» consistent propaganda directed to the work- shops. More Workers Are Needed. Any comrade or sympathizer who has one or two hours to spare dur. ing the morning or afternoon, should get in touch with Martin Abern, local secretary, Workers Party, at the district office, 166 W. Washington § phone State 7985, or come waite DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Wi ton Blvd., and sign up. The few comrades who ‘have been going out since the straw ballot vote was first started find the teresting and instructive, kept right on the job every day. we need many more and the more we get the better the results. There only a few days left in this cam: and we must work hard if we wan! to get worthwhile results. We should get at least 50 comrades to visit each shop. ‘We now only have Get busy!