The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1924, Page 6

i { : i ; Page Six ‘THE DAY WORKER. ———$— $$ Published by the DAILY WORKHR PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, TL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months ee By mail (in Chicago only): i $4.50....6 momths $2.50...3 months $6.00 per year $2.00....3 months $8.00. per year A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, tlinole| J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ES [nmi yrersens Editors WILLIAM F. DUNNE x MORITZ J. LOEB... Business Manager ——— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, <0 LaF ollette and the Workingmen The pride of the LaFollette movement is the so- called “Model Commonwealth” of Wisconsin. In- variably the LaFollette champion will point to Wisconsin as the why and the wherefore of the working masses supporting the Badger state sen- ator in the present campaign. Fortunately there is an abundance of facts— Advertising rates on application | Armstrong, head of: the eommittee to enforce the |ago September permits reached a total of $27,847,- jof approximately $6,000,000. How It Works September building permits, according to Fred Landis award—the euphonious title of the Chicago open shoppers—show a drop of more than 25 per cent below the figures of September, 1923. A year 000. This year they total $22,000,000, a decrease The Armstrong explanation of this rapid de- crease in productive activity of a great basic indus- try is typical. It is that the high wages of building tradesmen are responsible. The truth of the mat- ter is the housing needs left unfilled by the mobil- ization of production for war necessities during the great crusade for Dawes plan democracy, have almost been supplied and that the building in- dustry is facing a slump that affects unfavorably other industries from which it draws materials. Mr. Armstrong lets go of another morsel of in- formation that throws much light on the manner in which the lower middle class and the upper strata of skilled workers are fattened for the periodical slaughter which takes place during the depression that follow boom periods like the one that is now closing. Says this seer of the realtors’ association : incontrovertible facts—that smash to smitherines all claims laid to labor’s support by the LaFollette organization. Given all the accepted standards of measuring one’s service to the working masses, we cannot but conclude that LaFollette’s greatest achievement—the “Wisconsin Experiment”—is an unassilable argument against his getting the sup- port of the workers. In LaFollette’s Wisconsin the average wage of the workers falls well below fhat prevalent in more than half of the states of the country. Wiscon- sin is twenty-ninth in the monthly wages paid workers. The LaFollette machine which has been in power for more than a score of years has done nothing to attempt to improve these conditions. Nor has LaFollette made the slightest effort to raise the low standard of long working hours pre- valent in the manufacturing industries of his state. At most only one out of every three work- ers in these industries have the 8-hour day. And when the workers of Wisconsin attempted to fight against the powerful open shoppers dom- inating the biggest industries of the state by seek- ing the enactment of a law against private de- tective agencies, it was the LaFollette legislative solons who undermined the effort. In no small measure, therefore, are LaFollette and his allies responsible for the weakness of or- ganized labor in Wisconsin, for the failure to carry out even the limited sanitation laws, and the state government’s lending aid and comfort to the anti- union groups. One need but turn to the annual proceedings of the Wisconsin State Federation’ of Labor convention to find long list upon longer lists of labor bills defeated by the so-called progressives who are now seeking the votes of the workingmen. With the socialist party having committed suicide thru assuming the unenviable role of a fig-leaf for the ugliest side of LaF olletteism, there is only one political party in Wisconsin that can put forward any claims to being worthy of the support of the workers of the state. This is the Workers Party—the Communist political organiza- tion speaking and fighting for the working class against the bosses. ° Why They Are for Coolidge To attempt to marshall all the’ reasons of the employing class for.supporting Coolidge would be impossible. To attempt to add reasons to the al- ready well-known ones would be carrying coal to Newcastle. Rut the reason for employing class support of Coolidge, just given the other day by one of the leading exploiters of the country, is of timely im- portance and deserves special attention. Mr. W. W. Nichols, president of the American Export Manu- facturers’ Association, is the author of the declara- tion of support. He has returned from Mexico after making an extensive survey of the investment and trade possibilities for American capitalists. Mr. Nichols is a plain talker. He says that the “The building activity of today is confined prin- cipality to home buliding and the erection of two- flat buildings by small investors. High rents of the last several years started the ball rolling and home building will continue for some time.” This means that, irritated by the exactions of landlords and inspired by the slogans of “own your own home” weeks and “build now” campaigns, a great number of workers with small savings and middle-class elements with a little plunder to in- vest buy property and erect buildings when prices are at their peak. The boom “bursts,” as our Eng- lish comrades say, and the process of shaking down the small investor begins amid shouts of glee from the banking fraternity who assure the workers with sanctimonious earnestness that the home owner is the bulwark of the nation. This method of disillusioning the elements that have faith in the high purposes and complete stability of American capitalism is a painful one but extremely effective. It operates almost auto: matically and with increasing vigor. Following war prosperity, during the depression 1920-21, the basis was laid, thra the ruin of millions, for the present wave of discontent expressed by the third party movement. In the coming period of depres- sion the number of casualties will be multiplied | tenfold. So widespread will be the disillusionment | and the misery of the masses that a mass Com- munist Party will be possible. | Historical Processes at Work The California supreme court decision, ruling the LaFollette electors off the ballot, has produced some very interesting developments in that state of sunshine, real estate sharks, anti-Japanese hysteria and prison sentences for workers. The rumor persists that Hiram Johnson is to come out for LaFollette in protest against the} court ruling which is obviously one of those tactical errors so easily made in a state notorious for its judicial corruption. We hope he does. It would! be the final touch needed to align all the hypo- critical middle-class elements behind candidates whose slogan of “back to 1776” gives a correct idea of their economic vision and conception of realities in an imperialistic epoch. It has taken a good deal to arouse Hiram John- son’s sense of justice—probably something in the nature of a promise of a cabinet position. It is a matter of record that Johnson has been one of the bitterest enemies of Tom Mooney who lies in San Quentin prison for a crime the world knows he did not commit, and that he has tacitly agreed to the wholesale imprisonment of members of the Indus- trial Workers of the World by the official tools of the lumber and shipping interests. Support by such individuals as Johnson can be purchased only by their sharing any power that may be acquired, altho by reason of their class interests they belong with the LaFollette group. It becomes plainer every day that when this process of dividing power is concluded the share of the de- reason for his and his kind supporting Coolidge }luded workers and farmers in this movement will be is this: “I intend to vote for President Coolidge, be- negligible. This is the historical process by which the mid- cause he has been notably in favor of the expan-|dle-class elements secure power. They enter into sion of American business. Primarily the American |a struggle with the big capitalists. They convince people are concerned in the expansion of their |masses of discontented workers:that their interests trade. ... Fortunately, they have as president ajare identical with the middle class, but they al- man who is keenly alivé to the value of business|low the masses no organizational guarantees. The expansion in foreign lands. It serves as an adver-|destruction of farmer-labor parties by the LaFol- tisement of American enterprise, it fathers con-|lette henchmen is an example of what is meant. fidence.” To retain power, middle-class groups enter into At this time ‘when the employing class of the}coalition with the representatives of big capital United States is bringing up all its reserves forjand industrial and rural masses find themselves establishing American commercial and industrial }worse off than before. supremacy, such an attitude of a presidential can- The support of Hiram Johnson, which-will be didate is an especially worthwhile reason for his{secret if not open, means that the group of capi- support by the bosses. But what of the working |talist cliques, slightly inferior in strength and in- masses? What of the farming masses whose sup-|fluence to finance and trustified industrial capi- port Coolidge is pleading for? What does this trade|talists, haye thrown their support to the Lalol- expansion mean to those who work for a living? lette movement. In other words, the LaFolletteites Coolidge is a war maker. He is the candidate}have begun the process of compromise with power- of the imperialist clique that is preparing another|ful enemies of the masses even before they have war for the United States by aiding and abetting |secured power. every effect, every maneuver of the employing class Upon the Communists devolves the task of ex- to extend its spheres of influence and investment.|posing this systematic policy of hoodwinking and The trade expansion Mr. Nichols speaks of is only |selling the working class and the remedy for it—|rnat the Russians coming north | another name for the subjugation of weaker peo-|organization of the workers in industry for resist- ples. It is only the prelude to the civilization of Jance, led by the mass Communist Party, to slave the dollar and bayonet—a civilization whose ad-| conditions disguised with the blue and buff of 1776. yanced guards are the marines who broke up the - Haitian republic and the missionaries who crucify the native population on the cross of gold. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER, j THE DAILY WORKER N Milwaukee they do things with a bang. The Workers Party believes in advertising. My two really enorm- ous street meetings at Allis and Chalmers shop, and the two held at the International Harvester company’s plant were advertised by early morn- ing visits by young comrades with leaflets, which announced, “Mother Bloor at your factory today.” At the last noon meeting, over one thousand ‘men rushed out of the shops at exactly twelve, having ‘hurriedly eaten their lunch in the shop and lit- erally swarmed the Workers Party stand. The platform was plastered with the large Foster-Gitlow posters. The hall meeting Sunday was an- nounced and many DAILY WORK- ERS were sold and literature distrib- uted. a The Sunday meeting in Miller Hall was attended by a number of the men from the Harvester shop, who came with their wives. The evening meet- ings held on the street were equally successful in fact, entirely too large to suit the “socialist” administration. Two evening meetings were harshly broken up by the police. The first time the policeman shouted, “I’ve told you three times to stop. You can’t talk without a permit. If you don’t stop, I'll call the wagon.” Then he ‘promptly chased the crowd down the street, men bitterly protesting. I announced that we would conduct @ meeting on the came corner the next evening. The next day I called up the socialist mayor, Hoan, and asked him if it was necessary'to have @ permit. He answered, “No. I have never issued a permit in the city of Milwaukee. We believe in free speech.” I then asked him why his police had broken up a perfectly peaceful meet- ing at 4th and Wells streets, when the republican party were holding meetings the same day on Grand street, which is a congested district. Mayor Hoan muttered something about “Restricted zones,” and said: his secretary would take it up with the chief of police and that he would tele- phone me. Of course he was simply passing the buck, as no message came. An immense crowd was awaiting me that night. The salvation army held forth on the opposite side of the street beating thir drums and singing hymns for 40 minutes. The crowd increased until about 500. peo- ple were there, and then the police came again. Seven of them chased The Campaign in Milwaukee the crowd away and finally took me to the station house where again the night chief prated about “Restricted zones.” But it was obvious to all that the “zones” ‘were only restricted where the Workers Party was con- cerned. One» humorous incident occurred during this meeting, A drunkard with flowing moustaches and an appearance of assumed dignity, shouted, “Don’t listen to that woman. She’s in favor of Russia. I can't stand it. I’m one hundred per cent American,” Finally the crowd complained of his antics and had him arrested. When I arrived at the station he was being “investi- gated” as follows, by the police ser- geant: “How old are you?” 49," i “Any wife?” “No.” “Any home?” “No.” “Any job?” “No.” “Any money?” “No.” “Where were you born?” “Germany.” Some one hundred per cent Ameri- can! No home, no job, no money, no wife, and a German. By ELLA REEVE BLOOR One Sunday in Milwaukee I spoke on “The Issues of the Campaign” tc a crowded hall, The audience voted spontaneously and unanimously that } come back in the evening and deliver / another talk on “Russia of Today.” The hall was again filled in the even: ing. At seven o’clock I addressed a crowd at an entertainment held by the West Allis South Slav branch. At Racine and Kenosha I spoke vat hall meetings I found the comrades of Racine doing especially good work in selling campaign literature. At Ken: osha the Young Workers’ League is growing and helping the party in many’ ways. In Milwaukee on Sunday after the hall meeting the Junior League gave a play which stirred the audien more than any other kind of -propa- ganda could. The Hungarian branch then gave some revolutionary tableaux, and a young comrade of five years of age also made an address. Thruout Wisconsin I find the rank and file of the socialist party, disgust- ed with the LaFollette leaders, are leaning toward the Workers Party, while the reactionary Hoans and Ber. gers are calling in their police to try and check the growing prestige of the Workers Party in Wisconsin. Bankers Take Anarchist Position 3 xarc Reeve Bhi organized forces of American capitalism, the American Bankers’ Association, meeting in Chicago this week to strengthen their grip on the working masses of the country and de- vise ways and means to increase their hold on the government, while they in- discriminately praise their two pri- vately-owned political parties, echo the decay of their class by champion- ing the “principles of democracy” and declaring for the anarchistic position of “less meddling legislation.” The discontent of the workers with Wall Street “Teapot Dome govern- ment” is fully recognized in the con- vention at the same time the ground- work is laid for the capture by the bankers of the “social democratic” movement which spouts “democracy.” Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes, the republican figureheads, were proudly claimed as the bankers’ private property by Walter W. Head, in his last address as retiring presi- dent of the bankers’ assciation. The Dawes plan, which effects the thrott- ling of the governments of Belgium, France, and Germany, with the co- operation of the aristocratic cracker \king, Ramsey MacDonald, was praised credit goes to Charles G. Dawes and his two associates for the stabiliza- tion of Europe” said Head on the opening day of the convention. “It will be observed that two of these three men are bankers, The appoint- ment of such a commission was for- mally advocated and _ persistently urged by this association at a time when such action was by no means popular in many other quarters.” John Davis, the personal lackey of J. P. Morgan, who has for many years fattened off the fees thrown his way by the bankers, also comes in for his share of praise, for denouncing moves to curb. the power of the supreme court. “Mr. Davis is right,” said Head, “Exactly right, and president Colidge is right when he says the people want a government of common sense.” It is interesting to note that the bankers’ association uses the same ar- guments as are put forward by the anarchists. “ “Once we kicked against taxation without representation”, said T. R. Preston to the delegates on Wednesday. “Now we have too much of both. Decentralization of the cen- and applauded. “The large measure of individual tral government is most important. TO THE YAKUTSK INDIANS By ANISE. Federated Press Staff Writer, I read in a Moscow paper: ‘We have published The FIRST political pamphlet In the Yakutsk language. It tells all about The life and works of LENIN And is intended For distribution Among the nomad tribes Of the Far North.” ae And I pictured That vast untamed region In the northeast corner of Siberia, Just across Behring straits from Alas- ka, With its tossing miles of snow-peaks, And its wilderness of tundra, And its few thousand Wandering NATIVES Living on fish and reindeer, Just like Alaska Indians,— 4 And its scattered settlements of Rus- sians Many weeks away from railroads Like our own early Hudson Bay posts. And I thought of the Romance Of that PAMPHLET Scattering to the far north a message: WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE; And the news . That far to the southward was a world That hailed them brothers! 6...) oo And I remembered how WE also Sent PAMPHLETS northword The life and works of Jesus, Or something else from the Bible, To tell the Alaska Indians That all mankind were brothers, And we followed it up with WHISKY, 3 And a few schools, and a lot-of gold- seekers, Who took away their lands, And their fish and their furs, And gave them in exchange OUR DISEASES. . So I think those Yakutsk folks Won't care so much About the PAMPHLET As about the FOLLOW-UP! And that all the words of Lenin Won't impress them Half so much as just the fact, Are helping them to orgariize - - CO-OPERATIVES th abt Sw. For selling their FURS And are making them in all things EQUAL SHARERS, Rulers of their own lands, organizers Of their own Republic, ri, Ole and WORKER inepi conquests. ery week—-this column uncovers to your view the behind the DAILY WORKER. Here for the int very reader—and gents and committees—are tried and proven sugges- tions and accomplishments to drive the DAILY WORKER to further Here Is POWER—the power of brain and effort of men and women ‘of the working class who not only believe—but ACT! What the voters ought to do is to lift the yoke from the neck of the Amer- ican. people. The government could help the farmer by quitting its policing of American business.” “The necessity that economic prob- lems be solved by economic remedies ~—rather than by political tampering —applies to the entire field of com- merce, industry and finance,” said Walter Head in opening the conven- tion. “We are oppressed by a mul- tiplicity of restrictive laws,and ad- ministrative regulations. We find our- selves constantly waging a defensive war against plans and progrms which will hamper individual initiative still further which will crush individual ambition and destroy individual op- portunity.” The American bankers. wage war against government when it restricts their industrial oppression of the workers and threatens to take their profits away from them. But when it is proposed to abolish their tool of government, the autocratic power of the supreme court, they take a right about face. . While the spokesmen for American capitalism are thus pretending to be on the defensive at this convention, est specially the DAILY ANNOUNCING A CAMPAIGN FOR MORE POWER TO THE DAILY WORKER Beginning Today and Until November 7 a Bais DAILY WORKER is gathering up steam. More drive to its power is coming with slowly increasing subscrip- tions and more bundle orders to meet the campaign needs.” This is not enough for “The National Labor Daily.” Begin- ning today the DAILY WORKER is gaing to “give ‘em both In This Way barrels.” 1. Every reader of the DAILY WORKER will receive two bricks (REAL bricks to “Build the DAILY WORKER"). YOU will receive them. And we expect everyone—meaning YOU—to “heave ’em back” at us properly filled and with remittance. Thousands of bricks will be carried in this way to raise a mighty daily working-class newspaper. 2. Every branch of the Workers Party will be asked to take off their collars and get into overalls—until Novem- r 7. A load of bricks is bein; 3. Every live member of the Labor movement will bricks from the DAILY WORKER brickyard to aid. in building of a still will an mailed to each secretar the reater newspaper to lead and express the ideas of the American worker. All These Builders ° will be united in this effort in the livest campaign of the The D. W. B. U. © (The hae Pate Bricklayers’ Union.) nj Every city sen sending in a keen and rick will be a member. ch member and local will be mentioned in the bricks will be a local. Every worker Competition will be pages of the DAILY WORKER. We want the Labor move- ment to know who are: the live wires workin hard to build up a great newspaper to better fight the workers’ battles— to add punch to the power of the AILY WORKER. ; On a page of this issue is the first ‘brick. BACK. And carry the others . HEAVE IT you will receive to “Build the DAILY WORKER.” Beginning today and until November 7 —there is no unemployment in the t working class. G le of helping the ON THE JOB—UNTIL NOVEMBER 7—YOU'RE HIRED? be y and this will. be another section of energetic building © Bolsheviks. by complaining against government in- terference with their control of indus try, and anticipating the time when the discontent of which they speak will grow so strong as to make the goy- ernment a hindrance when the herald- ed discontent finds political expres sion, in reality they are planning fur: ther onslaughts on the fight of the workers for emancipation from their rule, The American bankers are already laying their lines to fight aginst en- roachments of working class parties on their privately-owned politicians and are preparing the fight against government, when big business con- trol is threatened by: political. parties representing workers and farmers. , AS WE. SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) to Iraq to “establish a local govern- ment in' accordance with the senti- ments of the majority of the inhabit- ants.” eee te happened in the year 1920, while Lloyd George was premier ot Britain and while the Black and Tans were forcing British conceptions of “self-determination” on Ireland with gun and torch. But Iraq was different. After Sir Percy discovered how the people of Iraq took to the proposition, he set a fellow by-the title of The Naqib of Bagdad up in business as president of the concern. It was a sort of holding company—holding the Iraq oil for the British capitalists, The British ruling class are nothing if not condescending, so an electoral law was to be framed which would give the Iraqians power to make their own laws and everything. ese UT there was an Ethiopian in the lumber, in the form of Mr. Feisul of no man’s land. That gentleman mysteriously appeared in Iraq when the “people” were about to have the boon of self-determination bestowed on them. It is true that Mr. Feisul ar- rived on an English ship and it is also true that he never saw Iraq until the very day he placed his big feet on the soil of that country. Another ambi- tious gentleman who it must be said to his credit, had lived in Iraq, but had designs on ‘the kingship or lead- ership of that country, was ceremoni- ously deported by the British from the country, fearing himself and Mr. Fei- sul might begin to scratch each other's eyes out. fe © EISUL declared himself king with- out saying “as you please” to the people of Iraq. The Naqib of Bagdad made himself scarce. Feisul crowned himself king at breakfast and before he geached the toothpicks the British “recognized” him. It took the Iraq: jans a little time to get acquainted with him and as they are naturally suspicious of strangers, several of them could be seen testing the s! ness of their blades preparatory to testing the protective hide around Feisul's windpipe. But.there is oil in Iraq and the democratic British gov- ernment provided Feisul with plenty of guns to protect himself against the knives of the people he was sent te rule over. He is still there. But may not be th very long, + se @ B Baw bit of history may enable our readers to understand the little items that trickle thru the foreign dis- patches these days telling of the figh: ing between the Turkish and Bri troops for the possession of Iraq. The British “labor” ministry wil for Iraq and its ofl to the last prole- tarian British soldier. It will defend the right of self-letermination of the Iraqians and by Saint George, it will never stand for the enforcement of Mohammedanism on the halt dozen oil engineers who are bringing civil ization to that territory. ie