The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1924, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER. “Fillsied by he DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. A Mass Party for Britain An event of supreme importance to the working class of the whole world is taking place in Great THE DAILY WORKER AS WE SEE IT Saturday, October 4, 1924 ata NT ASNT a AA. Stir the Shops! The very best place to carry on a working class campaign is in the By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Phone: Monroe 4712) Britain. This event is also of interest to the eapi- TES talist class but one will look in vain for any men- (Continued Som: pam ta in Britain is growing in intensity a8|$] shops and factories where: the workers gather to earn their living. \ wae Pees coats RAT tion of it in the British capitalist press: his | ¥85 shown at the congress indicated } the capitalist system degenerates. It ert eae that minds are open to the measures, parties bee aries v7 i bs ser ta a deep seated discontent on the part ‘so for concrete solutions of the problems of bread and butter 96.00 per year $3.60... months —_—_$2.00...8 months) «vent is the membership campaign which the Com-|or the rank and. file, eerie By mall (in Chicago only): The present T London Daily Herald is giving is facing«the working class. It is in the shops that the workers will see 1y $2.50....8 months | munist Party of Great Britain is carrying on and | leadership of the British trade unions most clearly, for example, the difference between Foster, the union 38.00 per year $4.60....6 mouths h , a " considerable space to the confes- LaFollette, the 1 which is meeting with a response that has sur- |are being forced to the left reluctantly | sion of Boris Sayinkov, counter-revo- Finca paren ioe ° Culler pauiy Worker) STS Se Adress all mail and make out cheoks to prised even the most hopeful members of the party. |®"4 While opposing. the Communists, |lutionary conspirator, who was tried THE ABOVE “HITS THE NAIL” on the head. Nothing could - THE DAILY WORKER 14 |they are obliged to go half way in|recently in Soviet Russia. Savinkov’s be added to that, It’s up to you reader, to do everything physically The British ‘og ty, operating in .the stronghold meeting their demands in order to pla-| testimony reveals the notorious dema- of European imperialism, has many achievements | cate the rank and file. There is only gogue Lloyd George as a scoundrel of in the revolutionary struggle to its credit. It]one kind of progressive leadership and| the first water. While that mounte- mobilized the British workers for the “Hands off | that is a Communist léadership, Ex-| bank was posing before the world as | q ——— | Russi” campaign, it forced the treaty with the sae be i parahcoagy h yc: Be Bal fied pret 2 beac ae Ls ® f ¥ 923, at the Post] o..: a ey ‘w Peer ment has amply proven is. abetting the ussian czarists in fo- eeeres Ne second ine ted then he March &, 1879, Soviet government thru the Labor party cabinet, qv ‘ne menting civil war inside of Russia, furnishes the driving power for the minority move- EVERTHELESS things are movy-} thus spreading death and destruction 290 Advertising rates on application|ment and it established a brilliant leadership of ing in Britain, There are well| of property thruout the Workers’ Re- Eee |the recent strikes. But the party has remained |jover one million workers unemployed. | public. : weak numerically. Its influence extended until its |The Dawes plan is causing much un- re Sacco and Vanzetti membership was physically unable to carry out the easiness among the coal miners. It| JN 1918 the gold reserve held by the seeths that the miners are girding Russian barks under the czarist $113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, IlInole J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE [rrr Editors MORITZ J. LOEB. snenen Business Manager possible to place THESE PAMPHLETS in the hands of the workers you work together with in shops and fac- tories. Sell them everywhere. Now is the time, The LaFollette [llusion— As revealed in an Analysis of the Political Role of Senator LaFollette, by Jay Lovestone. Single copy... 01 BO * * * ° Parties and Issues in the Election Campaign— By Alexagder Bittelman. Questions and answers, how the dif- i. “ferent parties view the conditions affecting the working class. It’s a gem. No worker should go to_the polls this year without first reading this pamphiet..... 100 Sacco and Vanzetti have lost their appeal to|‘#sks placed upon them. the superior court. Judge Thayer, before whom the appeal was argued, refused to set aside the Making the British Communist Party a mass party, numerically as well as in influence, was one of the problems dealt with by the Fifth Congress verdict of the trial jury despite the evidence}of the Communist International. “A revolution gathered by defense counsel Fred Moore and his|without England would be a storm in a tea-cup,” associates showing that perjury had been resorted |Said Marx and the congress fi to by the prosecution witnesses and showing further that the bullet which Sacco is accused of firing could not possibly have come from his gun. The Sacco“Vanzetti case thus assumes the same status as the case of Tom Mooney. In both cases additional evidence secured since the verdict of guilty proves the innocence of the defendants. Mooney, nevertheless, is imprisoned for life while Sacco and Vanzetti face a death sentence. It is impossible to imagine this state of affairs involving a rich criminal or even an ordinary crim- inal into whose case no question of the class strug- gle entered. All three of these victims of capital- ism’s power and viciousness were active in the struggles of their clasé. They were convicted, not for the alleged crimes charged against them, but of opposing the present robber system. If we want the strongest proof of the weakness of the American labor movement and the reaction- ary character of its leadership, we find it in in- stances like the Mooney and Sacco-Vanzetti cases, not in the rates of wages and the length of hours prevailing in the United States. A labor move- ment that cannot and will not throw its whole force dnto resistance to such deliberate assaults upon even its most humble militants arouses neither respecet nor fear in the breasts of its enemies. The counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti believes that the case can be carried to the supreme court. Upon the revolutionists of the United States rests the responsibility of securing the necessary funds. More important and of immediate need is the revival of the agitation that alone saved Mooney from the noose and Sacco and Vanzetti from the electric chair. Hooverizing or Russianizing? Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover has come out with a blast against the LaFollette movement. The revolution-crushing secretary of our govern- ment tells the country that the program of the LaFollette movement demands the nationalization of the basic industries and public utilities. Mr. Hoover warns the voters that this means a Rus- sianization of the United States. Nothing could be further from the truth than the charge that LaFollette stands for the national-| ization of the basic industries of the country Genuine nationalization of the means of produc-| tion and exchange can come only thru the estab- lishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government. To such a working class government Messrs. Hoover and LaFollette are equally and bitterly op-| posed. | In fact Mr. LaFollette is at best only flirting with the capitalist government ownership of public utilities. The Wisconsin senator is not committed | wholeheartedly even to the government ownership of railways. The extent to which Mr. LaFollette is engaged in talking about such fraudulent progres- sive measures is determined by his anxiety to win the votes of many workingmen and farmers who} still have illusions as to blessings that capitalist) government ownership of such utilities would bring them. S Let someone suggest the idea that the workers’ organizations should share in the participation of the management and operation of these railways and other public utilities and Mr. LaFollette’s ire would be aroused in the extreme. He would see in such steps the germs of the proletarian dictator- ship, the menace of Communism, in the denuncia- tion of which he vies with the Hoovers and Cool- idges. Indeed, Mr. LaFollette is ready to join hands with the blackest of the black in the capitalist fold in any movement of opposition to extending work- ers’ control of production and industry. The Wis- consin senator and the secretary of commerce are at one in their insistence on the sanctity of the private ownership of capital, of the agencies of production and exchange, as means of exploiting |Slowly this feeling crystallizes in organizational Yerealized and u the British yp in the world emphasized the tremendous r, Communist Party is destinedd revolution. i It is gratifying to know thi party itself has taken the initiative and is capitalizing in or- ganizational form the tremendous influence it wields in the labor movement. A mass Communist party in Great Britain means a long step toward the Soviet Republics of western Egrope. or Colonial Slaves: Awaken Outbreaks of partisans of: ‘Bgyptian-rule for the Sudan with complete severanée from British dom- ination, are taking place and causing the British imperialists considerable worry. Egyptian students and troops have taken part in the demonstrations and it is stated in London dispatches that the agitation may pe: followed by a revolt. } af The Sudan is potentially*ond of''the world’s greatest sources of cotton supply and an important jlink between Egypt and British South Africa. The officers in its administration are British, but the army is composed almost exclusively of natives. The Sudan tribesmen are valiant fighters and their territory includes about 1,000,000 square miles. A revolt of this people would be exceedingly dif- fieult to crush, but the MacDonald government |has intimated that no concessions will be made. Inasmuch as MacDonald has remained in power because of his support of the imperialist plans of his predecessors, it is probable that a pretty mess is brewing for the empire. The demonstrations in the Sudan have more than a local significance. They are the result of the resentment evident among all eastern and African people against the rule of western capi- talism. China, India and Africa are. awakening and in thousands of villages, among millions of people, there is talk of the new force that has ap- peared in world affairs—the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics—that welcomes ,as equals the oppressed of all lands. i } The colonia! peoples support the great capitalist nations of Europe and this fact these people have discovered. They are wondering why they should continue to do so and receive payment in the form of bayonets, machine guns and airplane bombs. form and empires rock. The freedom of the working class of the world depends upon ‘the freedom of the colonial masses. The super-profits derived from the plundering of these peoples keep the imperialistic machines run- ning and nothing but sympathy and support for come from the working class of the imperialist nations, The question as to what has become of the thou- sands of former socialists of the “postoffice is so- cialism” type, of which the membeyship of the so: cialist party was largely composed, is answered accidentally by Chandler Owen, writing in “The Messenger” for September on “How the Negro Should Vote.” In.the course of the article he says: “Ross D. Brown, one of the best known and oldest Negro socialist lecturers, told me that he went to Indiana to deliver an address last year in a one- time socialist stronghold only to find that nearly every socialist there had gone into the Ku Klux Klan.” We have always felt that anyone who could develop a taste for the puerilities of the Oneals, Hillquits, Bergers, et al, would be intrigued by a pillowslip with a couple of eye-holes cut in it. The financial expert (or pervert) of the Hearst papers, Georgé W. Hinman, findsthat this coun- try is not in danger because i, fepsaing only about 80,000 Communists and about#?00,000 pinks. If the figures were reversed Hinnan would be as seared as the rest, wt every effort towards freedom in all colonies should |’ their loins for another trial of strength with the bosses and are looking around for allies. The Scottish min- ers have {nstructed the miners’ exe- cutive to approach the railwaymen and transport workers with a view to forming an alliance for defensive and offensive purposes. We all re- member the debacle of the former ‘Triple Alliance, But it was wrecked by. the reactionary leaders and not by the rank and file. ‘28 URING the discussion several speakers pointed out thatthe failure of the former effort should not discourage further moves in the direc- tion of strengthening the fighting forces of labor. The former alliance was only at the top; the ‘next one must be built from below. Sounds almost like Zinoviev on the United Front. The county sections of tthe miners were recommended to form lo- cal alliances. It must not be left in the hands of the high officials. Robert Smillie said the alliance should not be confined to the miners, railwaymen and transport workers but should bring in all workers. Another speaker regretted that the rank and file move- ments were not encouraged by lead- ers. HE men who took part in this dis- cussion are important trade union leaders and while they are not ali Communists or perhaps, not even a strong minority of thea are Com- miunists, such recommendations from a powerful trade union body would sound very strange to the ears of a visitor to.a similar convention here in the United States. The class struggle regime, was at Kasan in the posses- sion of Kolchak’s forces. When at the end of that year Trotsky’s victorious army drove Kolchak into Siberia, the gold went along with him. Kolchak thu the Second Internationalist Savin- kov apealed to Britian for aid. The aid was given, but on terms. Even in waging war against “the Bolshevik cutthroats” Lloyd George could not forget business. see OLCHAK shipped the gold on a British torpedo boat to Shanghai. The Americans and British promised to loan Koltchak money for carrying on his war with the gold reserve as a guarantee. Savinkov testified that Britain made good to the tune of 130,000,000 francs or 5,200,000 pounds sterling. But Britain insisted on an interest rate of 7% per cent for this loan. Koltchak, however lost his head and Britain lost the interest. “Inci- dentally” says the London: Daily Her- ald “that gold is presumably still un- der the safeguard of the British gov- ernment.” eee HEN American soctalists as well as capitalists, labor fakers and others, rant about a Comunist dictator- ship in Russia, and send appeals all over the world for leniency toward the agents of the czar who under the red flag of socialism have been waging war on the Russian workers and peas- ants, it would be well to remember the testimony of Savinkov, the most formidable single enemy of the Soviet Republic who’s final surrender reveals the utter bankruptcy and impotency of the counter-revolutionary move- ment. “HAPPY HOME” IS NOT VERY GOOD NAME FOR THESE HOME DRESSES “Happy Home” is the wrong name fr house dresses, now thinks Mr. Loren Miller, president of Loren Miller & Co. dry goods, at 4722 Broadway. Mr. Miller fell for the alluring offer of the Sterling com- pany, the prison contractors, whose house dresses are’made in the Ana- mosa, lowa, penitentiary, and an- nounced a special sale of these curi- ously named convict-made dresses for this week. Mrs. David J. Fitz- gerald, of the Women’s Trade Un- ion League dropped in to see Mr. Miller, told him that it was very offensive to his customers to have prison-made goods sold to them That none of the comfortably situat- ed people in the North End craved to be garbed in dresses made in pris- or sweat shops, and. suggested that he send the goods back to Sterling with his compliments. Mr, Miller could not see it that way and told Mrs. Fitzgerald that he would con- tinue the sale, that he was running his business, and that as he had promised the sale of “Happy Home” dresses to his customers, he was. go- ing to continue it all week. Mrs. Fitzgerald then left after mention- ing that ‘there were some 250,000 members of organized labor in Chi- cago, and that a considerable num- ber lived in the neighborhood. It is understood that Mrs, Fitz- gerald is starting the machinery in motion to demonstrate to Mr. Miller that folks living in the happy homes around the Miller store resent hav- ing convict-made goods foisted upon them. In the meanti: so we are informed, large numbers of patrons of the Miller store have called Mr, Miller oh the phone (Edgewater 3030) to tell him that they resent his stuffing their mail boxes with curculars advertising prisoh-made goods, 5 ANOTHER TRIAL VER U.S. MAJOR’S DEATH, STARTED Cronkhite Died Over Six Years Ago (Special to The Daily Worker) TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 3.— Roland R. Pothier's numerous alleged confes- sions of the slaying of Major Alexan- der P. Cronkhite at Camp Lewis six years ago at the behest of Captain Robert Rosenbluth, will be the sub- ject of spirited debate in the trial of Pothier for murder, when the govern- ment attempts to introduce the con- fessions as circumstantial evidence, it was indicated today. Maurice A. Langhorne, chief de- fense counsel said he will ‘bitterly op- pose introduction of the confessions. The main points of the govern- ment’s circumstantial evidence case outlined by James W. Osborne, in charge of the government's case, are: That Major Cronkhite had no mo- tive for suicide. <j That the bullet which caused his death could not have been fired by Major Cronkhite. That Pothier and Rosenbluth were the only persons present when Cronk- hite was shot. Help! Help! A campaign for increasing the cir- culation of the DAILY WORKER has heaped loads of work on our force. We need Help—NOW— QUICKLY. Comrades wishing to assist report at the DAILY WORK- ER office any day this week during the day or evening. 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