The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1924, Page 2

Sew sens SESE Page Two NO POLICING OF BUSINESS, SAY BANKERS Want No Interference with Hold-up Game The bankers assembled in the gorgeous Auditorium theatre here for their annual conven- tion, yesterday joined a united front with the anarchists, speakers declaring against “government policing of busi- ness,” for “individual enter- prise,” and stating that “that government is best which gov- erns least.” The bankers are afraid their railroad interests will be taken away from them by the work- ers, so they denounced state control of railroads. Fight For Their Profits. They are afraid that legislation to (Continued from Page 1.) which its suggestions can be carrie? out, is a receivership.” The coming political events, the steps taken by the Washington state department, further forecast the dark shadow of American decisive partici- pation in Europe thru the Dawes Com- mission of Reparations Experts. As soon as Mr. Hughes assumed the toga jof the secretaryship of state, he in- |structed Royland W, Boyden to take part in the meetings of the reparations jcommission in Paris, “Unofficially” of | course, In April 1921 the German govern- ment sought American mediation in the reparations controversy and asked the administration to “fix the sum to be paid to Germany.” Hughes promptly and curtly replied in the negative, However, he assented to transmit to the Allies any proposals which the German government might formulate. Within three days the Germans an- swered the Hughes offer, Little atten- tion was paid then to the reply, which coincided with the attitude of the ‘American dollar diplomats. The Ger- man proposal had in it the essence of |what, in a few years, was to become the present Dawes report—the appoint- better the economic conditions of the? Ment of-an international committte of farmers will eat into their profits so they declared against such legislation, There are times, however, when po- litical meddling is a good thing for the business men, and therefore S. M. McAslian, vice-president of the South Texas Commercial National Bank, spoke for greater powers to be given to the comptroller by amend- ments to the national bank act. It will be a serious blow ‘to the capitalist class when the fatmers and workers unite politically, so T. R. Preston, president of- the National Bank Division of the American Bank- ers’ Association, declared he would hate to see this happen. “Political remedies for farmers’ ills always will fail,” said Preston, making the wish father to the thought. “The farmers must be tNe architects of their own fortunes. The real remedy is to give them an equal chance with Other classes of business. The Bov- ernment could help by quitting the policing of American business and reduce the burden of taxation. There is a perfect mania for the government to attempt to solve all problems and to attend to all things.” For Individual Rights. “Our nation has developed as the great defender of the rights of the in- duvidual,” said C. H. Markham, presi- dent of the Illinois railroad, which Was not’so solicitious of the rights of individuals in the shopmen’s strike of 1922. In reality, Markham revealed that he was speaking for the rights of private property and of the rail- road trust to monopolize the railroads built by the workers, for he said in the next sentence: “Private property is the cornerstone of our industrial Structure. We have had to regulate many private Wbusinesses, including railroads, but we have always man- aged to avoid confisction. We have never forced government ownership as a national policy and we have therefore never been called on to de- cide definitely just how far it should 0. the government we must face the fact that the big step in the reversal of our old settled policy will be taken and there will be no stopping the force once we have let it loose. If there is no particular reason why the government should not own and run the railroads, is there any reason why it should not take over the “banks, stores, factories, farms, until.all of is are government employes and the ideal soviet is attained?” Markham spoke feelingly as to how horrible it would be if the workers took his rail- road away from him. Has Crime Wave Cure. R. H. Bronkhorst, president of the Chicago Bank Auditors’ conference, spoke in favor of a national organiza- tion of bank auditors, claiming it is needed to check the crime wave among surety companies and banks. William E, Knox, newly elected president of the A. B..A,, attributed his success to hard work and to his immense knowledge to which he freely admits, COMMUNIQUES FROM TROUBLED FRONTS GIVE THE LATEST WAR NEWS MADRID, Oct, 1.—A Spanish col- umn in the Tetuan sector of the Moroccan battle front destroyed the headquarters of the local command- er at Beni Mazadan and two vil- aid a war office communique eae British Turn Down Hussein. IONDON, Oct, 1.—Great Britain has refused the request of King Hussein, of the Kingdom of Hedjaz, for airplanes to ald him in fighting the Wahabi (Mohammedan Arabs). oe Turks at Mogul. LONDON, Oct. 1—Turkish troops are still refusing to withdraw from disputed territory in the Vilayet of Mosul, on the Irak frontier, despite the presence of British troops, said advices to the foreign office today. Turkey so far has not answered the British notes of warning. “If the railroads are taken over by | expéFts to decide on Germany’s capa- j city to pay, the flotation of a huge | nternational loan to the Reich, and the fixing of approximately twelve and a half billion dollars as the total re- paration payment. Hughes Takes a Hand, Hughes informed the Germans that their plan did not afford “a basis for discussion acceptable to the Allied governments.” He did not transmit the proposal as he had promised to do, because official action of this sort, at that moment, would have aroused Allied imperialist suspicions of an op- position to the United States Govern- ment. Nothing was done by Washing- ton till the Fall of 1922 when Hughes broached the idea of a committee of experts to the Franco-British imperial- ist spokesmen. The Hughes suggestion evoked no response. The agricultural crisis was becoming so sharp in the United States that the Government was compelled to make at least an audible and visible pre- tense at procuring relief. In order to forestall action on the Borah resolu- ion calling for an international confer- ence, in order to avoid legislative, senate action on American foreign re- lations as provided for by the Consti- tution and thus to limit the consider- ation of these matters to executive, backdoor treatment, Hughes went to New Haven in December 1922 and sug- gested, in a public address, the ap- pointment of a committee of experts. French Imperialists Yield. Another year intervened before the European financiers were compelled to yield to the American moneyed lords whose trump card was economic pres- sure, economic prowess. On December 5, 1923, Louis Barthou, the French | president of the reparations commis- ‘sion, asked Colonel James A. Logan, the American unofficial member of the body, if the Washington government ‘would “acquiesce in the acceptance of invitations by American experts. The die was cast. The American im- perialists had now crossed the Rubicon of their campaign for the industrial jand financial conquest of Europe, ‘What IRISH BOUNDARY BILL EXPECTED TO PASS HOUSE Tory Die-Hards Will Fight to End LONDON, Oct. 1.—Colonial Secre- tary J. H. Thomas today took charge of the government's side in the Irish bill debate in commons. . Passage of the measure is now prac- |tically assured despite opposition of |the tory “diehards.” This bill empowers the government ‘to create a commission to settle the Irish Free State-Ulster boundary dis- pute without consulting Ulster, if the Ulster government refuses to parti- cipate. Hastings Under Fire, Sir Partrick Hastings, attorney gen- eral, is under fire from liberals and tories for his withdrawal of prosecu- tion against J. R. Campbell, acting ed- itor of the Workers Weekly, official organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain. ‘The offices of the Communist organ were raided by Scotland Yard, men | under the direction of Arthur Hender- son, secretary for Home Affairs. The editor was charged with inciting the soldiers and sailors of His Majesty's government to rebellion, but there was such a strong protest from the ranks of organized labor against the arrest that the attorney general seized a con- venient excuse to drop the charges against Campbell. Feared Trial, The ‘government learned that the Communist editor was a war veteran and was decorated for bravery. What they feared was that his arrest would have a damaging effect on MacDon- ald’s career. In explaining to the House of Com- mons the reason for withdrawing the charges against Campbell, Hastings said, that no jury would convict him | U. S. DEEP IN EUROPEAN NET followed, followed quickly, The Banker- Generals Dawes, Young and Robinson became “unofficial” members of the last experts’ committee. The Dawes report soon appeared, Colonel Logan, Ambassador Kellogg, Secretary of State Hughes, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Thomas W, Lamont, J, P. Mor- gan were all “unofficial” observers at or near the London Conference. But “unofficial” or otherwise, the financial barons of no national capitalist group have ever acted in so dictatorial a manner as the American bankers and diplomats did at this reparations con- ference, Full Government Support. On April 14, 1924, at the Annual Luncheon of the Associated Press, in New York City, President Coolidge €.lled on the country to back the Amer- ican share of the Dawes loan soon to be floated by the biggest banks. The President said: “I trust that private capital will be willing to participate in this loan.” “Sound business rea- sons” were advanced by Coolidge for his plea, In his address of acceptance of the republican presidential nomination delivered at Washington on August 14, 1924 Coolidge further called for sup- port of the Dawes plan when he said: “I shall do what I can to encourage American citizens and resources to assist in restoring Europe, with the sympathetic support of our govern- ment.” Add to this the report of the Foreign Securities Committee of the Invest- ment Bankers’ Association of America as delivered before its last convention at Cleveland, Ohio, on September 24, 1924. The report proposed the esta- blishment of a special foreign loans bureau of the United States Depart- ment of Commerce which shall be charged with the task of furnishing “all the special information pertain- ing to the terms and provisions of is- sue and to the actual conditions of the country involved.” The next logical proposal is now be- ing put forward—a demand for open, frank protection of these investments by the government. Writing from Geneva, Paul Scott Mowrer, the well- known European correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, in its issue of September 27, 1924, -made it plain that “the protection of American capi- tal is not only a legitimate govern- mental preoccupation, but an actual duty.” Dollar Diplomacy Supreme. As a result of this first direct at- tempt, in time of peace, of the Unit- ed States government to encourage, even unofficially, the purchase of a foreign issue, we have the complete receivership of Germany in the hands of the American financial oligarchy. The Germans are speaking of the American banker, Owen D. Young, as “Owen I,” with more power than the Kaiser ever had. An American capi- talist is now serving as one of the arbitrators in the transfen of repara- tions payments. An American bank- er is director of the new German Bank of Issue. The first general rep- arations agent is the American cor- poration lawyer, S. Parker Gilbert, Jr, This is the full fruition of the re- actionary republican policy of “hands off Europe” while at the same organ- izing to secure a stranglehold on the industries and resources of the conti- nent and the world, and the Communists were only too glad to have a martyr. Debate will be held next week on the subject. Carson and MacDonald. A sensation was created in political circles here today over the announce. ment that premier MacDonald had in- vited Lord Edward Carson, to repre sent Ulster on the boundary commis- sion. Lord Carson was formerly one of the most active of the Ulster un- ionists and leader of the fight in op- position to the Home Rule Bill which was passed in 1914 and signed by the king. Led by Carson, the Ulster reaction- aries defied the British government and imported arms and ammunition from Germany to equip the volunteers which were ready to come to grips with the government in defense of the Empire. The Ulster unionists were backed up by the British tories, im. portant military and naval leaders like General Roberts and Lord Beres- ford openly siding with Carsonites. Connolly and Carson, .The war prevented a showdown, the Asquith, liberal premier, surrendered to the tories. John Redmond, leader of the Irish Nationalists joined hands with Carson, leader of the Orangemen in pledging their respective followers to defend the Empire, but Redmond soon lost his following and in 1916 James Connolly, the proletarian lead- er, raised the banner of revolt against the British Empire. Connolly was ex- ecuted by Asquith’s government, of which Arthur Henderson, today home secretary in the MacDonald, was a member, But Sir Edward Carson, now Lord Carson, was given one of the highest offices in the power of the dis- posal of the British government, Didn't Finish the Job. OTTAWA, Ont., Oct. 1—John Buch- anan Pirie, a bookkeeper, walked into a police station this afternoon saying that he had murdered his wife and two children an@ would have killed himself had not his courage failed him, He was arrested, Police went to the home and found Mrs. Pirie and her two children dead in their beds, Vote Communist This Time! { THE DAILY WORKER WAR ON NEGRO GIRLS SEEKING AN EDUCATION Bootleggers Welcome on the North Side “Bootleggers welcome—‘nig- gers’ keep outi9, This is the stand taken by the small business men of Chi- cago’s silk-stocking district, or- ganized into the Loyola-Sheri- dan Business Association, in at- tempting to prevent the lease of the building at 6344-46 Broadway as a boarding school for colored girls, It Was Former Cabaret. The building was formerly occupied by the Northern Lights cabaret, a no- torious bootleg joint. This brought no protest from the Loyola-Sheridan Business association. In fact, members of the association had to call in their attorneys to discover that the place had been ordered closed by the courts, and that it had been re-opened in con- tempt of court. But the information that a school for colored girls might opened in the same building resulted in the calling of a special meeting of the Loyola business men. And the Loyola business men, fear- ing the effect which the presence of self-respecting colored girls, trying to) get an education, might have no real- estate values, will do everything in their power to prevent the signing of the lease. Make “Jim Crow” City. The action of the Loyola associa- tion is in keeping with the campaign of small business men of Chicago with the aid of the police to prevent the Negroes from breaking thru the set boundaries of an established col- ored zone. few days ago a colored man and a white woman, walking to- gether, were aproached by a police- man and forced to separate. Every possible help in the plans to Jim-Crow the city is being given by the Chicago Tribune, which character- izes the news of the possible estab- lishment of the school as a piece of “disconcérting intelligence.” Boy Shoots Father. POTTSVL Pa., Oct. 1— Shot three times by his 17-year-old son in their home at Port Carbon near here, August Dewitt, a plumber, died at the Pottsville Hospital today. William Dewitt, who did the shooting, is be- ing held in the county jail pending in- vestigation. The boy is alleged to have opened fire when his father came home in- toxicated and made threats against his wife and daughter. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. STEEL WORKERS HEAR ABOUT THE FIGHT OF THE DAILY WORKER ‘The Workers Party of Gary is con- ducting a whirlwind campaign to in- troduce the DAILY WORKER to the steel workers of Gary. Posters have been distributed thruout the town, the poo! halls have agreed to sell the paper, and the DAILY WORKER is now conducting negotiations to have the paper on the Gary news stands. In connection with the DAILY WORKER drive in Gary, the City Central Committee is instituting the shop nuclei form of organization among the Workers Party mem- bers who work in the Gary steel mills, Comrade John Heinrichson, circulation manager of the DAILY WORKER for Chicago, deelares that “Gary will be the first to have a well organized shop nuclei move- ment of any Workers Party branch in the country.” At a special meeting of the C. C. C. last Sunday, the DAILY WORK- ER drive was taken up and a DAILY WORKER committee of seven elected, with John Rusak, DAILY WORKER agent for Gary, as chairman, Business men in Gary inform DAILY WORKER agents that as members of the Chamber of Com- merce they cannot give advertise- ments until the Chamber of Com- merce approves. Hence most of the business men of Gary have sabo- taged the DAILY WORKER. The Negro population has become In- terested in the drive, and as a result Gordon Owens’ meeting there is expected to be especially well at- tended, Workers Party members have been getting up and selling the DAILY WORKER in front of the steel mill gates every morning at 5 o'clock, In conjunction with the DAILY WORKER drive in Gary, Karl Reeve has been writing a series of articles on the conditions prevailing among the steel trust slaves there. | . Thursday, October 2, 1924 By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, ‘ODAY, an American churchman raises the ory that Soviet Russia may exert some influence upon the Chinese situa- tion. He is very much afraid that Bolshevik support of the cause of Sun Yat Sen may prove detrimental to the cause of the imperialist plunderers in the Orient. * * * * This fear. was voiced by Bishop L. J, Birney, in charge of the Shanghai, China, area of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the opening of the 85th Annual Session of the Rock River Conference of this same Methodist Episcopal Church, held at Sterling, Illinois. This is the feature of the story that the Chicago Tri- bune’s expert on church matters, the Rev. W. B. Norton, sends in to his paper, and the headline writer falls into the spirit of the news by putting a headline over it as follows: “Soviets Worst Peril in China, Bishop Asserts.” . * * * * The Bishop confesses that he has much greater inter- ests in the Orient than converting the “Heathen Chinese” to the Christianity of John D. Rockefeller,.and J. Pierpont Mor- gan. He is looking much more to the pocketbooks of the great American bankers and industrialists, than he is to the souls of the Orientals, “The constitution follows the flag,” is one of the say- ings that constitutes the backbohe of America’s colonial policy. But the American missionary, financed by the great wealth poured into the churches by the nation’s multi-mil- lionaires, precede both the flag and the constitution, in developing possible foreign fields of exploitation. The Bishop tries to dismiss the present troubles around Shanghai as something of no consequence. Internecine war, fomented by American and British gold, to weaken Chinese resistance to the foreign invader, does not concern the clergyman. Thousands slaughtered in order that the Al- mighty American dollar might win a little more advantage- ous position in the Shanghai sector, does not spur him to * notice the blood upon his own hands. * * * * True, the fighting around Shanghai is only incidental to the greater effort of American and British bankers to crush the national revolutionary movement in China, and overthrow the rule of Sun Yat Sen at Canton. Listen to the Bishop proclaim: “The real danger is the attack on Peking, with the aid of Russia. The Southern General, Sun Yat Sen, has openly proclaimed himself a Bolshevik. The general who is leading the attack from the North, Chang Tso Lin, is commonly believed to be in sympathy with the Soviet Government, “There are already 500 Russian soldiers in the Northern Chinese army. If this number is increased to 5,000, there will be a real danger * of the fall of Peking and of the government.” ey ec a Well, what of it? : Thero are good American precedents for all the aid that the Russians may desire to give to the Chinese revolution- ists. During the American revolution, in 1776, when the colonists were fighting valiantly to overthrow British rule on this side of the Atlantic, LaFayette, Von Steuben and a. host of other sympathizers with the cause of the colonists crossed the Atlantic to fight on the side of the revolution. Without the aid of foreigners, it is doubtful if the American cause would have succeeded as well as it did. Even in the British parliament there were statesmen who raised their voices, on behalf of the American revolution, in defiance of the king. * . * * We do not know how many Russians there are fighting on the side of the Chinese revolutionists. The only regret of American workers should be that the bishop was not compelled to claim that many Americans se enlisted under the revolutionary standards of Sun Yat in. With the bishops and missionaries on the side of the Oriental headquarters of Standard Oil and Wall Street, sure- ly it behooves America’s working class to offer some assist- ance to the courageous Chinese masses fighting the efforts of foreign imperialists to wipe out what progress they have won during the years of hard struggle since the emperor was overthrown and hurled into the discard. Where is LaFollette, who claims he is opposed to Walt! Street? Not a word’ does he utter on the Chinese situation. The Chinese revolutionists have not a single friend in con- gress. This is easily understood when it is realized that all the fair weather friends of Russian Recognition have taken to their storm cellars during this campaign. ° Yet it is fitting that only the Communists in the United States should raise their voices on behalf of the oppressed in China. Even the MacDonald “labor” government in Eng- land, falls in line to support British imperialist designs against the Chinese revolution. | : . ; It is well that the bishop pa up the Chinese ques- tion. Many workers will get a little more interested in his task in the Far East. Jay Lovestone, ‘in his par hlet, “American Imperial- ism,” shows how the church falls in line with capitalists seeking foreign markets. On page ‘en he points out that: “Our capitalists are interested even in the wildest thickets of African’ investments. In the recent Tangiers controversy, Invoiving about half a dozen European countries, the United States, that is, the Stone and Webster Electric & Power interests, were represented by Father Denning (Catholic), who was supposed to be bringing the Light of Christianity and the Power of the Saviour to the backward tribes- men.” Bishop Birney's speech at the Conference of the Method- ist Episcopal Church ought to place him in line for a good, high salaried job, many of which are at the disposal of the great American interests that have profitable business enter- prises in the Orient. When Bishop Birney gets the job, let the workers and farmers understand why he got it. Then they oan be the better persuaded to fight on the opposite side from the bishop and his rich friends, ’ 1 An American Bishop Fears Aid Russians May Give to Chinese ee [a IAP DIPLOMAT DENIES ANTI U.S. WAR MOVE. League Still. Chatters About Peace (Special to the DAILY WORKER) TOKYO, Oct. 1,—Replying to the charges made in the Amer- ican press that Japan was lin- ing up the League of Nations against the United States, For- eign Minister Shidehara, today in an interview declared that, “Japan had no intention of sub- mitting the American immigra- tion problem to the League of Nations for arbitration.” Shidehara said that if the league was created to mini- mize the chances of war, league competency should as a matter of principle be extended to all varieties of differences between ‘nations, This attitude appears quite logical, but nothing is logical except force un- der the present social order and the most powerful capitalist nation in the world, the United States, is not going to tolerate any interference with its ambition to go out and take What it wants when it wants it. Irritating Japanese race pride may not be such a bad thing for the Japanese ruling class for the moment. It enables them to cover up their exploitation of their own subject classes behind a smoke sereen of anti-American feeling, and the American ruling lass can arouse more emotional insanity in the form of patriotism over the “yellow peril” that it could over the exploitation of the Orient. While the diplomats in Tokyo and Washington make peaceful gestures the respective governments are build- ing up their military and naval forces + for the next great conflict. Nobody expects that a war between Japan and the United States can be localized, When whe storm breaks, the League of Nations will die with a loud gasp and the workers of all na- tions will again be thrown into the bloody arena, unless in the meantime they take the power of government out of the hands of the master class. League Still Talks. GENEVA, Oct. 1.—The arbitration protocol draft, containing the Japanese amendment was formally placed be- fore the League of Nations today. M. , Politis of Greece, and Dr. Benes, of Czecho-Slovakia, introduced the draft to the assembly in plenary session. The sponsors of the peace protocol show a naive faith in the capitalist governments, that is not shared by the newspaper correspondents or in- deed, by the diplomats from whose lips the words of peace flow so gently. If nations begin hostilities impulsive- ly, the League will simply proclaim an armistice, and of course, “the impul- sive nations” will pack up their deadly weapons and go home shamefacedly! It is to laugh loudly and uproariously. The heads of two small nations were given the honor of bringing in the latest peace baby. But it will take more than the product of Ram- say MacDonald’s cracker factory, to bring it to maturity. WORKERS LOSE SAVINGS IN BIG BUSINESS GRAFT Stock Sold for $65 Share, Worth $.00000 INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 1.—Morton 8. Hawkins, head of the Hawkins Mort- gage company, with home offices at ortland, Ind., and eighteen other de- ‘endants indicted in the Hawkins and subsidiary companies, faced trial in federal court today on charges of us- ing the mails in a scheme to defraud. A nation-wide plot to defraud home vuilders is charged against the de- tendants who include William Sacks, St. Louis millionaire capitalist and politician, and for whom a continu- ance was asked on a representation that Senator James A. Reed, his at- torney, was too ill to appear in court. Lost Millions, Stockholders in the Hawkins Mort- gage company and others which in- cluded the United Home Builders, the Welfare Loan company, the Co-opera- tive League of America and others, have lost millions, according to gov: ernmhent attorneys, who claim th stock sold at $65 a share, was reality worth less than one cent. \ Not 80 Sick. sf Judge John R. Caverly, who sen- tenced Nathan F, Leopold, Jy., and Richard A, Loeb to “life and 99 years” for the slaying of little Robert Franks, today sent word to chief justice John A. Swanson of the circuit court that he will be on the bench Monday, fol- lowing completion of treatments at the Mercy hospital here for a nervous breakdown suffered two days after he imposed the sentence Sept. 21, = oe