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eines, { Page Six ‘THE DAILY WORKER. nS Tublished by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES ‘ By mail: $6.00 per year $3. 6 months $2.00...8 months By mail Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 moths $2.50...3 months Aadress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL TEDLAM Th DUNNE fovrmmeemrnnennners EAItOFS wonirz J. LOEB. -Business Manager | Chicago, Minot | —— $e o 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 “eet Provoking Japan “Japan Admits Dream of War on United States,” says the Chicago Tribune in a six-column headline over the story of Adachi’s outburst at Geneva. War with the United States is not merely a’ dream of the Japanese ruling class, it is a night- mare. The clashing interests of American and Japanese imperialism make war between the two nations just about as certain as anything can be in this unstable world altho it is probable that neither the rulers of Japan or the United States want war right now. Internal unrest affecting all sections of the popu- lation other than the aristocracy and the big capi- talists has not yet reached such intensity that a war for the defense of the national honor appears to be the only way out for the Japanese rulers. That it will before long afford them only this alter- native to surrender is known to every student of Japanese internal affairs. } Our rulers have given the Japanese governing classes the finest*kind of an excuse for a war—an excuse that for millions of Japanese workers and peasants might easily disguise the real causes of an armed struggle with the United States. The Japanese exclusion act is being used to weld to- gether the Japanese masses, not with the success that might be expected among a people whose repu- increased work by children kept out of schools— in too many cases the older children taken out for good.” This is the plight of the farmers. We wonder how many of the million who have been driven off the land are sharing in the wheat spurt. It is grue- some five years that the farmers have gone thru. That is where they are today. Dreary facts speak louder than dishonest election talk even from our Puritanic president. Fit for the-Public Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, who has in a brief period of office distinguished himself rather auspiciously as an agent of the government that does too much “talking at the wrong time, is again coming to the fore. This time the unrestrained By MAX SHACHTMAN, F the political messes inte which the workers have been dragged this year, the one now existing in Colorado threatens to be a serious contender for first place. The situa- tion there is a good reflex of the con- fusion existing in the politics of the organized workers of America follow- ing on the endorsement everywhere of the sleight-of-hand artist from Wisconsin, LaFollette. The Colorado State Federation of Labor has not only given its endorse- ment to LaFollette and Wheeler, but also to Alva B. Adams, junior senator, secretary is not attacking the Japanese or the Ne- groes. Mr. Wilbur is now a censor of the fitness of a certain play before New York audiences. “What Price Glory” is a play that has aroused considerable approval among many New York workers because it tells the truth about the life and sufferings of the marines. The play sheds a light for re-election to the Millionaire’s Club. Adams, it will be recalled, was appointed by Governor William Sweét to fill the term left vacant by the death of Nicholson. Sweet, who cashes in on a nice bit of lucre an- nually as a bond broker, is support- ing John W. Davis, democratic can- didate for the presidency. And Sweet has the endorsement of the American on the realities of war which all too many workers in the metropolis know from their own costly ex- perience to be true. This has brought a storm of protest from the arch-demagogic Tammany liskspittle, who is now the mayor of the greatest city in the land, John F. Hylan. The shadow ofthe once notoriously corrupt boss, Charles F. Murphy, has appointed a committee of citizens, leading ones of course, like admirals, police commissioners, and major-gen- erals, to decide on the fitness of the play for public consumption. Then, not to be outdone in the con- cern for the welfare of the morality of the masses, the secretary fo the navy breaks into print along the same Puritanic lines. ai Mr. Wilbur has had plenty of experience in preventing the working masses from going “wrong,” that is from doing anything against the interests of the employing class. Mr. Wilbur is to ano small extent responsible for the fact that Tom Mooney is in jail today. The same “safety-seeking” secretary of the navy is even threatening to invoke the federal statutes against the players. Mr. Wil- tation for national pride is of the highest, but with some success nevertheless. If a desperate Japanese ruling class can be provoked into an attack upon the United States it will certainly be a rich dish for our war- mongers. We have held from the first moment that the agitation against Japan began that the handful of Japanese in the Pacific states and their skill in bur’s modesty is overcome by the fact that the play is “full of gutter language” which, he would have us believe, is no longer to be fqund in the navy. Then, how can one associate the uniform of the United States navy with vulgarity! The heavens protest! And what will the Haitians, the Nicarag- uans, the Mexicans, and the Dominicans say about such misrepresentation of the gentle marines who have treated them so kindly in their civilizing ex- acquiring property was not the real basis of the peditions? campaign, but that the real reason for the hostility Here is where the real difficulty lies. Here is why that culminated in the exclusion act was the rivalry | the navy officials who are sworn to defend the so- of the imperialists of the two countries aroused called sacred rights of freedom of opinion, speech, by the desires of each for the unrestricted oppor-})Tess, and assembly guaranteed by the constitution tunity of robbing and oppressing the masses of the Orient, China particularly. We are of the opinion that the present Japanese yovernment will be swept out of existence by the} outraged masses, that the Coreans will revolt and a government with strong Jeanings toward Soviet Russia will take its place in the event of war with the United States. The workers of the United States then will be faced with the task of preventing their rulers mak- ing war upon the revolting Japanese workers and | peasants and subjugating them as they did the} Filipinos. es We must not be fooled by lies of the imperialist press. Not a single American worker has anything | in the Orient that needs defense from Japan., If we take care of our own war-mongers the Japanese masses can be trusted to take care of theirs. The probability is that they will have their job almost completed before ‘we start on ours, if we cgn judge by the rapidly increasing power of working class organization and the growing discontent in Japan. The Agricultural Y ear The latest agricultural year book just issued by the department of agriculture ought to find its way into the hands of every workingman and poor farmer. It is an official volume of evidence giving the lie to all the roseate contentions now made by the reactionary politicians about the conditions of the farming masses. We draw the attention of our readers to such outstanding findings as these in the survey of what the farming masses are up against: Within the Jast five years the value of farm property has declined more than twenty billion dollars. Within a single year more than a million farmers were driven from their homes by the severe economic depression and their inability to make ends meet. Since the close of 1922, 23% of the farmers of the wheat and corn states have been bankrupt. The proportion of tenant farmers who have been robbed of their property has been even greater. Worse than that. The social degradation visited upon these farming masses who were dispossessed is a curse that no figures and no statistical reports can plumb adequately.’ Let us take the picture of are the first ones to serve the employers in denying these much-vaunted rights to the masses. The moral outburst on the part of Mr. Wilbur and the insig- nificant Hylan is only a sereen. It is not the vul- garity but the truthful picture of war that the play in question presents which is causing the con- cern of our employing class hooligans in and out of uniform. What of Bulgaria? A censorship in which more than one govern- |ment must be co-operating has prevented any news jof the progress of the yevolt of the Bulgarian |masses reaching America for the last ten days. Had the revolt been suppressed, it is reasonable to |suppose that the welcome story would have been ‘cabled to every reactionary sheet in the world. No news is therefore good news for the workers of other nations who sympathize with the Bulgarian workers and peasants in their struggle against the bloody Zankov government. | That the Communist party of Bulgaria is play- ing a leading role in the’uprising is certain because {more than six weeks ago it issued a manifesto to \the workers of the world telling of the crimes of the Bulgarian rulers, the numberless and. inde- scribable outrages inflicted upon the workers and peasants since the fall of the Stamboulisky govern- ment and the failure of the revolt that followed it. The manifesto stated that all elements of the work- ing and farming masses were combining against the Zankoy regime and that its overthrow was ex- pected. ‘ Alexandrov, the leader of the Macedonian faction that backed the Zankov government, has been as- sassinated and a portion of his forces have joined the revolutionists since the manifesto of the Bul- garian Communist party was issued. The Macedon- ians have ‘usually held the balance of power in Bulgaria and their defection probably means the downfall of the Zankov government. In the absence of news from Bulgaria we can only hope that our analysis is correct and that the Bulgarian masses have won their struggle for freedom and under the leadership of the Com-| munist party are at last on the way to a Soviet republic. In this event the eulogies that the capi- talist press will print of the departed Zankov gov- this damnation of the farming population out of }ernment will be the best proof that the social revo- their mouths, out of the records prepared and|lution is advancing in the Balkans. supervised by secretary of agriculture, Waflace, himself. He says: Rail labor chiefs have warnell MacAdoo that if “The losses have not been due to an inefficiency|he supports Davis, his popularity among the rail on the part of the farmers. Practically all of them] workers will go up in smoke like his candidacy were incurred by men who had been doing fairly |for the presidency. They might promise him, in well until they entered the period of drastic defla-|return for his neutrality, the seeretaryship of the tion. The nation has suffered in another\way. The|Interior in the Laollette cabinet. Mac would drastic economies which have become necessary on| locate any stray oil wells that Fall missed. the farms have greatly reduced the standards of living. They havg compelled overwork by the Get a member for the Workers Party and a new 8, unaccustomed farm work by farm mothers, [subscription for the DAILY WORKER. — Federation of Labor in Colorado. Bob’s Committee Headed by Traitor. Now! The gentleman who has been put in charge of the Colorado cam- paign of LaFollette is John R. Law- son. Lawson was once a fighter. -He headed District 15.0f the United Mine Workers of America, and was the leader of one of the most. glorious strikes in the history of the Ameri- can working class, the Ludlow strike. As a result of that walk-out, with its attendant, now infamous massacre, Lawson was framed up by the Colo- rado Fuel and Iron Co., run by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the teacher of Sun- day schools, and the feudal lord of the state, and, was sentenced to a life term of imprisonment for his activity. The case was, however, appealed to a higher court, the decision reversed and the entire affair was dropped. As soon as Lawson was freed from jail, he initiated and led a secession- ist movement out of the United Mine Workers because, he maintained—and perhaps correctly—that the interna- tional officials of, the union has re- fused to give the strike the support it needed and deserved. For this, he was expelled by the international from the U. M. W. of A. For some time, the fame of John R. Lawson was not heard until he fin- ally turned up as an employe of none other than the Colorado Fuel and TWO TIMELY BOOKS American Agriculture and The Europe- Jan Market, by Edwin G. Nourse. Russian Debts and Russian Reconstruc- ter are Leo Pasvalsky and Harold G, Published by McGraw Hill Book Co., 370 Seventh Avenue, N. Y.C. Price, $2.50. ERE we have two timely volumes issued by the Institute of Econ- omics. The first volume was written by the generally recognized foremost agricultural economist in the country: Not many worth while. books on the development of American agriculture have been prepared in recent years, despite the fact that there has, for some time, been an abundance of ma- terial at hand. “American Agriculture and the European Market,” is a pleas- ant exception to the general, cohjec- tural literature on the’ state and de- velopment of rural economy in the United States. Dr. Nourse deals with the develop- ment of American agriculture from the per-Civil War days to the present moment. The early periods are treat- ed briefly and the more modern are accorded the more thoro treatment. The analysis of the effect of the world war on American agriculture is the most complete we thave seen. Nor must one accept all the interpreta- tions and the specific forms of the reasons given by the author to recog: nize the value of his analysis of the course and effects of the boom and de- pression of 1919-1923. Especially timely and worth while Tron Co., of the same Rockefeller, that is, whom he had previously fought and who had been instrumental in framing him! In view of his new job, suspicion was aroused at his previous actions, but today they are all si- lenced. He is state director of the LaFollette campaign and, ‘like Brutus, he is an honorable man, But the same gang that is backing LaFollette is also backing Sweet and his appointee who is now running for senator, Alva B. Adams. To analyze Adams a bit will give an insight into the type of a labor supporter that Sweet is. Adams—Anti-Labor Lawyer. Sweet appointed Adams to fill the term left vacant by Nicholson at the time that the shopmen employed on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railtoad were still locked out. Sweet had only a short time before been elected to the governorship with the support of the American Federation of Labor’s Non-Partisan Political Com- mittee. His first act of generosity and appreciation to labor was the ap- pointment of the lawyer of the Sante Fe, one of the worst labor hating or- porations in the country, to the United States senate. As you suspected, dear reader, this lawyer was none other but\Alva B. Adams! On the board of directors of the Santa Fe can be found, among others, a gentleman by the name of John W. Davis, who happens to have been nominated by the democratic party to run for president. Davis only with- drew from his directorate after his nomination, holding on to this Morgan job with all energy up to the very last minute, Other directors on this road are such men as Edward J. Berwind, of the notorious -anti-labor union mines in Pennsylvania; Ogden. L. Mills, one of the biggest stockholders in the N. Y. Central Railroad; W. B. Storey and W. E. Brown, of the famous Brown Brothers in Philadelphia, who engineered that little imperialist man- euver in the Caribbean a few years ago. It is for this railroad that Alva*B. Adams, now supported by organized labor in Colorado, was the attorney. In case there should be any doubt as to the policy of the Santa Fe, it is sufficient to recall the railway strike of 1922, when this road spread the lie about the abandonment of passengers on the “desert” at Needles, California. are the concluding chapters déaling with “The Problem of 1924 and After.” A critical examination of the valuable data massed in these chapters will do a good deal towards helping one see .|thru the fraud of the present farm prosperity that being sold so widely. Also, in the light of the fictitious and exaggerated claims made for the Dawes’ plan to wage the next war, it is interesting to note that the author concludes, upon the basis of unim- peachable evidence that “agricultuar] exports may be expected to drop still further in 1924 and thereafter.. For American agriculture to plan her fu- ture building on the foundation of an expected revival and growth of the European market would, therefore, mean building on quicksand.” On the whole, “Agriculture and the European Market” is a very readable volume containing invaluable materi- al on the biggest industry of the coun- try and dealing in a scientific manner with-one of the most important prob- lems facing the working and farming masses, “* * Perhaps in no country in the world is there such an abundance of -ignor- ance about the economic potentalities and conditions of Soviet Russia as there is in the United States. This little book, by Pasvolsky and Moulton, should prove of help in dispelling some of this dangerous ignorance. Be- cause the volume is primarily a study in ‘This canard was later exploded by the district passenger agent, HE. H. Dallas, and Albert E. Coyle, editor of the Locomotive Engineers’ Journal. Coyle is now also supporting LaFol- lette! A Silent Adam. Adams was the attorney for the Santa Fe at the time the road was carrying on its bitter struggle against the workers, and he uttered not a sin- gle word in support of the strikers. Today he gets the support of the la- bor movement there. Aside from the Adams buncombe that is being spread by the labor fak- ers in the state, there is another ele- ment of confusion. The political field is cluttered up by a would-be “progressive party,” which put up a slate of presidential electors for La- Follette and Wheeler in the hope of attracting votes, but was later repudi- ated by Frank A. Harrison, LaFol- lette’s regional director. It is composed of disgruntled elements who failed to receive an opportunity to feed at the Davis pork-barrel. And on top of it all comes the farci- eal Farmer-Labor party, which is hei- ther farmer nor labor, and which will probably have a state ticket in the field this fall. For the last few years a few individuals have been paid by the republican party to navigate this decoy in order to draw some votes away from the democrats. A Political Chinese Puzzle. What a muddle! Labor endorses LaFollette, whose campaign commit- tee is headed by a traitor to labor; also. Adams; Adams gets the O. K. of Sweet, who in turn supports Davis; Adams was attorney for the reaction- ary corporation on which Davis was director. Then again: Labor en- dorses Wheeler, who is running with LaFollette; Wheeler supports Walsh for senator from , Montana, altho Walsh has been condemned by the Montana State Federation of Labor as an enemy of the workers; Walsh supports Davis; Davis gets the aid of Adams who is endorsed by labor or- ganizations that are backing the op- ponent of Davis, LaFollette. No, this is not a Chinese puzzle. It is only an example of the maze into which labor has been drawn by its failure to follow a policy of indepen- dent political action. The only party in Colorado that of fiscal and foreign trade questions it deals with the mist vital points in- volved in the development of Soviet Russia's international relations. This is true despite the fact that the au- thors set out to deal only wih the problems of public finance and not at all with the present economic condi- tions and diplomatic status of the Un- ion of Socialist Soviet Republics. This book does not deal with the prevailitig economic condition of So- viet Russia. It limits itself to the official pre-war facts of Russia’s for- eign debt, the effects of the imperialist war on Russia's international status in the capitalist realm of commerce and industry, Rus: pre-war export and import capacities, her budgetary trend, and her financial standing. The author's discussion of the role of the United States in Soviet Russian reconstruction is interesting. The crux of their attitude is most instruc- tive, as can be seen from the follow: ing: “American exports of wheat to the continent of Europe were on the wane before the war. Profound econ- omic dislocations produced by the war and its aftermath temporarily gave a great stimulus to American wheat and other agricultural exports, but the tide is already ebbing. Looking for- ward, exports of Fo eae wheat to the continent of Eufope will be of dwindling importance, even if Russian wheat production does not regain its former position. . .” Wednesday, October 1, 1924 Colorado takes a clear stand on questions af. fecting the workers on all fields of ife, is the Workers Party. : » When the workers of Colorado dé cide as to where they shall throw their support in the coming election it is well to remember the terrible result of the futile policy of “reward- ing friends and punishing enemies.” It is well to recall that the horrible Ludlow massacre, when the tools of John D. Rockefeller, jr, murdered workers, their wives and children, oc- cured under the administration com- posed of such “friends of ‘labor” ‘as the following, elected in 1912, when the Colorado workers achieved their great “political victory.” Here is the list: Governor—Elias Ammons, erat, Farmers’ Union. Demo Lieutenant Governor — Benjamin Montgomery, Democrat, Farmers’ Union. f Secretary of State — James’ B. Pearce, Democrat, R. R, Telegraph- ers, Superintendent Public Instruction— Mary C. Bradford, Democrat, Women’s Trade Union League. Congressman—Edward B. Keating Democrat, Typographical Union. State Senators—Joseph Berry. De mocrat, Locomotive Engineers; A. E Gorman, Democrat, Typographical Union; 8. S. Bellesfield, Democrat, Typographical Union; Ralph Tucker, Republican, T'rainmen’s Union; Wil- liam Matz, Democrat, Conductors’ Union; John Cross, Democrat, Farm- ers’ Union; John I, Tierney, Demo- crat, Typographical Union; Matt Lynes, Republican, Locomotive Kn- gineers; John Hurd, Democrat, United Mine Workers. House of Representatives—John Williams, Democrat, Bookbinders; Phil McCarthy, Democrat, Stationary Engineers; William R. Elmore, Dem- ocrat, Machinists; Charles J. Left- wich, Democrat, Carpenters; Peter Turnbull, Democrat, Metal Workers; Jack Slattery, Democrat, Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union; John. T. Kavanaugh, Democrat, Street. Car. men’s Union; William Dailey, Dem- ocrat, Typographical Union; A. C. Newton, Republican, Typographical Union; J. McDonald, Machinists’ Helpers. They served in office from January 1913 to January 1915. The Ludlow massacre occured on April 20, 1914. It should be an unforgettable lesson. By Jay Lovestone Then discussing the possible effects of Soviet Russian competition on cer- tain branches of American agrieul- ture, the writers show that one can more than easily “set off certain gen- eral advantages that would be derived from a recovery of Russia. The re- vival of production and commerce in Central and Western Europe which would attend the rehabilitation of sound conditions within Russia and the re-opening of her trade relations with the rest of Europe would be re- flected in expanding trade in manu- factured products between the United States and Europe generally, and it would also doubtless improve our Eu- ropean markets for such agricultural commodities as tobacco and cotton.” This point knocks into a cocked hat th@ argument so often used by the enemies of Soviet recognition in their attempting to mislead the workers and farmers as to the true effects the restoration of normal relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics would have on their economic conditions. 4 The book also has a valuable ap- pendix containing authentic informa- tion about private investments in pre- war Russia, the text of the Soviet de- cree on the annulment of the czarist debts, the Soviet’s reply to the Genoa Conference Memorendum, the official position of the United States govern- ment towards Soviet Russia and other important official documents. Dawes Plan to Sweat Germans Doomed (Continued from page 1) Dawes’ plan sentences Germany—its working and farming masses—to pay the international capitalist imperial- ists an unnamed staggering sum for an unnamed period of years. In the plainest words spoken in the diction of Wall Street, a first mort- gage will be placed on Germany's railways, transportation system, sugar tobacco; her customs will be regulat- ed and determined as has been done in San Domingo and Nicaragua; her taxation system will be arbitrarily fixed to yleld the greatest loot in the name of reparations; her budget and currency will be handled with the ments, such a ntic tribute, from one country to others, over and above the normal industrial and commercial operations, been demanded. The same end in view; and the hours of labor and cost of living will be driven upward and the conditions of employ- ment, standards of living, and wages downward so as to assure the allied imperialists, led by the American group, the maximum tribute—ranging annually from a billion to two-and-a half billion gold marks. The first lien laid on the industries and resourses of Germany, under the guise of stabilizing her currency and safeguarding the initial loan of two hundred million dollars, is only a pre- lude to the complete program of the Yankee imperialists. The hundred million dollars flotation allotted to the United States is only a. drop in the bucket of what the American capital- ists are planning to’ put into private industrial investments. In this light it is easy to understand why the Ger- man Finance Minister Luther said on Sept. 1, 1924 of the first, the repara-| tions loan: “This loan is the safest investment in the world, because it has priority on all reparations .pay- ments and is backed by the whole German national wealth controlled by an American.” But this turning of Germany into an American sweatshop, into a vassal colony of Yankee imperiali: is only the first step in the Balkanization of Europe, in ‘the turning of Hurope into a pawn in the hands of America’s fi- nancial and industrial overlords. The role of General Dawes follows closely upon the role of General Pershing in the evolution of Wall Street's re- ceivership of Europe, It was Amert- can military prowess, under the lead- ership of General John J. Pershing, that firmly set the first foot of the conqueror of Europe on the continent, that ‘made possible the allies’ crush- ing of Germany and the dictation of the Versailles pact. Today, it is Am- erage economic prowess, under the leadership of the House of Morgan, whose tool Dawes is, that is firmly setting the second foot of the Ameri- can capitalist conqueror on the con- tinent of Europe. In 1918 the Ger- man Junker-capitalist clique surrend- ered to the overwhelming forces of American militarism camouflaged by the fourteen points of peace. In 1924 the whole European employing class has yielded to the supremacy of Am- erican capitalist, imperialism openly represented in the capitals of Europe by the fourteen leading Wall Street bankers, Doomed to Failure. And just as Persing and the Ver- sailles Treaty could not restore Eu- rope and world capitalism: to its pre- war health, so will Dawes and his London pact fail. The 1 it plan to save capitalism thru the establishment of the world hegemony of American imperialism, reeks with too many con- tradictions, For one thing the Dawes plan does not answer the paramount question: In what form of goods is Germany to pay the reparations? What class of goods can the allied capitalists accept as reparations without bringing about serious de- rangement in their own and the rest of the capitalist world’s industries? This contradiction {s insoluble be- cause it is inherent in the very sys- tem of capitalism. Interesting com- ment on this point is to be found in the statement of Mr. Hartley With- ers, the London correspondent. of Barron’s Weekly in its issue of Aug. 11, 1924. Wejread this frank confes- sion: “So that the real problem that we all wanted the Dawes committee to solve was evaded. It told us not what Germany could pay her credi- tors, but how many marks a year could be collected, for them to vert, if they could, into their currencies. And this evasion of the core of the problem, seems to have been largely unnoticed by the eral public in the creditor coun ji which assumes that it is going ¢o re ceive what the Dawes rep it can be collected.” ‘ More than that. The maximum reparations, that the French can get will be less than what they will have to pay to the capitalists of Great Britain and the United States is meeting their debts, bahar «is f 4 yt