The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1924, Page 2

. holder appear: Page Two Wallace Wants Farmers to Rejoice Over First New Shoes in Four Years MEXCO CHARGED HEAVY INTEREST ON BIG U.S. LOAN It’s Only a Matter of Tutionary crises which are a mortallvalue of high menace to the continuation of the| commodities. Tule. of the internationa{ capitalist Principle with Banker AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 5.—Mexico will have to pay over 9 per cent interest on | it: the new $50,000,000 bond issue floated many that the imperialists of for it by J. L. Arlitt, an Austin banker. |torious and vanquished countries alite “Just a matter of principle,” Arlitt |are after, says. “The loan was not obtainable differ amo: from eastern money interests because | ogg, &n additional stranglehold was desir- ed upon the natural resources of our oO southern neighbor. The loan bears a face interest of 6 per cent but the bonds are sold so low that the annual return on the mon- ey actually invested is about 9 per cent, Adding Arlitt’s commission and that of his agents brings the annual charge to Mexico for this $50,000,000 around 10 per cent. The loan runs 1 years, $5,000,000 in addition to in- terest to be retired annually. WORKERS PARTY OF DISTRICT FIVE SETS NEW RECORD Tours for Four Speakers Now Arranged (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, Oct. 6.—The Work- ers Party of District Five, is swinging into action for the October campaign with a spirit that promises to break even the excellent record set by the Communists for street meetings and distribution of literature in September. Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes is now touring the district, and has already addressed huge crowds at McKees Rocks, New Kensington, Canonsburg, and McDonald. She will speak in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, October 8, at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller street, and on Thursday, October 9, in Wil- State street. Comrade Stokes will be followed by Jay Lovestone, Charles BE. Ruthenberg and William Z. Foster. Jay Lovestone to the 19th. Charles E, Ruthenberg will speak in Pittsburgh at ure’ var negiey Music Hall, Federal and Ohio streets, on Thursday, October 23, and our presidential candidate, William Z. Foster, will spéak in the same hall on Wednesday, October 29. The wide-spread unemployment in this district has not prevented the «comrades from raising a large cam- paign fund for the Workers Party. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC. REQUIRED BY THE ACT -OF CON- GRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, Of THE DAILY WORKER, published Daliy except Sun., at Chicago, IL, for October 1, 1924. State of Illinois, County of Cook. Before me, a Notary Public, in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Moritz J. 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That the average number of coptes of each issue of this publication‘ sold or distributed, through the mails or other- ‘wise, to paid subscribers during the six jmonthe preceding the date shown above is, 16,792. Moritz J. Loeb Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of Boprember, 1924 (Qty Commission exp! Get 2 “sub for the DAILY WORKER. SMARK. lay 22 1928) modities can Germany pay repara- tions? tors accept these payments without disrupting their own industries and merding, at the Lithuanian Hall, 119 |the Productive and exchange systems of the rest of the capitalist countries? international payments can be made. These are in gold or currency the will be in the district from the 15th | transfer of securities, (Continued form page 1) life of Germany they do so not only to get reparations, but to get these reparations in such a fashion as will avoid and remove the recurring revo class, group of capitalists of conflict in scheme to stabilize world capitalism. Problem of Payments. imperialists. ceived payment. Perience. marks Germany can pay. It only tells in a year and then avoids telling how these marks are to be transferred as payments to the Allies. It is patent that the real problem before the Dawes’ committee was evaded rather than solved. ‘ The core of the whole reparations question is: In what form of com- In what form can the credi- There are only threa ways in which and the export Fe tmonities. Aden worth mentioning x3 §Wedinitwrypay: ment. Then the payment in currency in marks, is not feasible. To resort to the purchase of sterling or france with marks on a large scale as it would occur here cannot but depre- ciate seriously German Dawes Plan Bolsters Capitalism ” the vic- regardless of how these may|fore the war were the principal coun: ngst themselves as to meth- The world supremacy of the private | western, central and eastern European wnership of capital, of the means of| countries, the free|Germany's creditors must under the ing over of the German railways to a But an analysis of the economic bas- mi is and proposals of the Dawes’ plan}the G reveals the impossibility of the remov- | produ al of these contradictions which have | quest proved the source of the revolutionary | ists crisis. We will examine the five most tries glaring contradictions and the phases | Germ: the much-heralded | for t} ably increased share of the total world trade; the operation of the Ger. man industrial machine in such a fashion as will require a minimum value of imports and a maximum grade manufactured The plain meaning of this is that the world must buy from Germany It is the stabilization of world cap-| more commodities and “services” than alism thru the stabilization of Ger Germany buys from it, than it sells to Germany. It is interesting to note that Germany's leading customers be- tries of Burope. In 1918, Gérmany sent 76 per cent of her exports to It is obvious then, that -} sell less to her than they did befonrg the world war. Let us grant for the sake of argu: ent and for the moment only that erman masses can be forced to ce the necessary surplus. The ion arises then: will the capital- of the creditor and other coun- be willing to buy enough from any so as to enable her to pay ‘he commodities she herself must buy abroad and the billions of gold The Great Contradiction. inherent in Dawes’ scheme. Granted even tha marks to be turned over by her in It is one thing to get reparations |eParations? from Germany and another to transfer these payments to the Allied govern- ments, the spokesmen of the entente | tradiction the inter rican, the gro And here we come to the giant con. the whole t Until the German marks can be con-|the German masses can be completely verted into foreign currencies, the | °2Slaved, the success of the operations creditor capitalists will not have re-|f the plan is contingent upon interna- Here the Dawes’|tional capital—primarily American— Plan is careful to point out that the |COming to Germany as investments in number of marks that could be so industry, loans, purchases of securi- converted is to be determined by ex-|ties, and so on. Profits on this capi- The Dawes’ scheme does | tal can be garnered by the internation- not. tell of the total number of gold}! capitalists only thru the develop- ment of Germany’s industry and its (Continued from page 1) have the honor. a matrix for publicity purposes the wily Peter got in touch with the Tri- bune and “made a statement.” It was rotten of course. Jack Johnstone, delegate from the painters’ union, and leader of the left wing in the federation, rose to say fest.he mwas in he accord with th sultans Ms "s confide the denun work of the Labor News when the Federation News, the official organ of this body, is equally mendacious in its attacks on the Communists in gen- currency.|eral and on William Z. Foster in par- This means the undoing of the stabil-| ticular? ity of German exchange and industry Johnstone called attention to a very which is a vital aim of the whole| Stupid cartoon in the current issue Dawes’ program, of the Federation News, attempting to ith Dawes. On the heels of the collapse of the show Foster lined up wi German currency would come a vio- ‘The Workers Party is the only poli- lent rise in French and British and| tical party with a revolutionary ticket other exchange. would be detrimental in may ways. A further transfer of marks would be useless. But the act of purchasin; marks would bring into the different countries an increased supply of francs or sterling. Soon there would follow a sharp fall of these currencies. Next The effects of this| i the field,” Johnstone declared. “We are open and above-board. Our plat- form calls for the dictatorship of the z proletariat. Fitzpatrick knows Fos- ter as well as any man in this hall. He knows that the attacks on him in the Federation News are dirty lies “He worked with Foster in the steel strike and in the stock yards strike. in order is a serious derangement of Why not fight the Workers Party on Production in these countries because} +n. basis of what we stand on arid not. of the sharp fluctuations in currency. resort to such filthy methods, Here again we have the negation of the very purpose of the Dawes’ pro- gram—the stabilization of capitalist as are used by the Federation News?” production and exchange in Germany Many Members of and the victorious creditor countries. The trnsfer of securities would bring about the same effects as the transfer of currency except it would be at a much slower pace. First, it is true, piling up of interest and dividends on the Amalgamated in Fight on Hold-up (Continued trom Page 1.) business agent threatened the. chair- the price of German securities the names and ad-|would be enhanced. But in time the|™&™ of the shop with removal from his position. Elet blames the shop these securities being transf 4 to! Chairman for the small attendance at the English and French would tend to exclude other payments. This would bring a collapse of the currency mar- kets. On the other hand, if these dividends were left to pile up in Ger- many, their interest would compound and precipitate a crash, the meeting because the chairman is opposed to the endorsement of La- Foilette by the union officialdom on the grounds that in doing so they are violating the decision of the last convention of the union, which in- structed the general executive board of the union to support the establish- The investment of the Allies in Ger-| ment of a labor party. A meeting man industries on a large scale in or-| has been called for today by the busi- der to avoid this trap would lead them] ness agent at which he will attempt into another economic complication of} to put his threat into effect. the first magnitude. First of all Ger- man taxes would effect them. Should the Germans not tax these invest-| Rissman No Discussion Allowed. \ At a shop meeting of the Cohn and company at which Leo ments they would cut down on their| Krezycki, member of the general ex- capacity to pay. Then, of course, the} ecutive board of the amalgamated danger of war and the consequent| was to speak in favor of the LaFol- lack of saféty of such property must|lette campaign, the question was ask- not be overlooked. Furthermore, to|ed at the beginning of the meeting the extent that the reparations marks| if discussion would be permitted after are expended in Germany or invested | his speech. Krezycki answered that in German industries there is likely| 20 discussion would be permitted. As to be a slowing up of German exports| @ result a large number of those who —a reduction of the export surplus,|°Pposed the endorsation of La¥ol- the only other source of reparations. Export-Import Complications. The experts admit that in order to make the Dawes’ plan effective, Ger- many must have surplus balances abroad. Only these can © possible | peit, the transfer of the sums accumulated] pe lette left the meeting. Another step taken by the official- dom to force the LaFollette endorse- ment down the throats of the mem- bers and crush those opposed to their action, was the exclusion of the Frei- Jewish Communist organ, and DAILY WORKER from the li- to the credit of the Allies in the bank brary of the union. of issue, The success of this process This action was taken because is gependent upon three factors: &) these papers printed a report of the general increase in the volume of] action of Local 54, world trade; New York City, Germany must have/and the Cleveland joint board, had much more than its proportionate|turned down the endorsement of La- share of this increase and # consider-' Follette - ing to the Coolidge camp while the $25,000 a year labor skates are mak- ing their way to political prominence on the LaFollette bandwagon. Cuniff is out forthe cash. Anybody else can So when the LaFol- lette campaign committee sent Cunift how many gold marks can be collected | Competitive capacity. This is against LABOR BACKS SACCO, VANZETTI of the Hntente and Am- Capitalists, rt was to prevent br capacity of the war Was fought by a More than that, there {s sllght Ike: tie o the creditor capitalist coun- these con®, Willing or able to take all © commodities from Germany. The capttalists of these countries must Svold a derangement of thelr own in- dustries ang consequently the ex- changes as a result of German com: Petition. Great Britain has salready relmposed the 2¢ per cent burden on German imports, after having lowered {t some time ago to’ five per cent. There is much Ujeasiness in England over the prospecis of intensified Ger- man competition,’ Snowden and Mac- Donald are busyonferring with the industrial maguetes whose establish: ments are parallded in Germany. Of course, What England, the land of free trade is doing, vill be done in many other countries. In the United States the irritating tal: of German competi- tion is becoming audible. The only possbility for a delay in the crash—ecommic and political— following from this contradiction is afforded by a npid and substantial enlargement of the world market to take up the prducts turned out in the extension ¢ French, British and Gem industries. At this moment, oily}Soviet Russia and China are sueh ogsible new big mar- kets, The Uninjof Socialist Soviet Republics is ne @eady to put herself on the auctfonfjock and become a colony whose ets and industries are the pawns (™mternational capital- ism. In Chinafe conditions are too unstable, Evenfihe attempt to utilize these two flel@gas markets can be made only in @p ways. The Allied and American mperialists may seek to war on Sovig) Russia, or they may extend long credits to Soviet Russia and Ch The international capitalists areflot in a suitable posl- tion to resort either at this time. ¢ This brough\ forth a rather amus- ing reply from Edward Nockels, sec- retary of the federation. Nockels claimed as muchresponsibility for the News as anybody else. He had not seen the cartoonin question. He had not seen anything, but he agreed with what he had not seen or heard. Fitzpatrick made a speech resembl- ing an appeal to a prodigal son. Per- haps he learned his stuff from Sam Gompers in the days when Sam was acting the pied piper tothe leaders of the Chicago Federation of Labor. “Foster is just one of our boys gone wrong,” di ed Fitzpatrick. He Foster's ability as a trade union! and an organizer, but almost shed tears over the fact that his former co- worker saw fit to become a Commun- ist and prepare the workers for the overthrow of capitalism. To prove that Christ was in his heart, Fitzpat- rick said that he would rather take Foster by the hand and lead him back into the fold that denounce him. The denouncing he no doubt does as part of his religious duty. A further installment of comedy was given by the frivolous Harry Sheck of the Trade Union Label League, who announced that he had written a report on the convention of the Illinois Federation of Labor that would take half an hour to deliver. Immediately a motion was made to ac- cept it unread and publish it in the next issue of the Federation News. Despite a protest from Arne Swa- beck, delegate from the painters’ un- ion, the motion was passed. Gitlow, the candidates of the Work- ers Party for president and vice-pres- ident. Try to Keep Labor in Dark. The officialdom of the amalgamated besides violating the decision of the last convention by endorsing the re- publican and democratic candidates, LaFollette and Wheeler, do not wish the members of the Chicago locals of the union to find out that thousands of members in the east are bitterly opposed to this betrayal of working class interests. Mussolini Recalls His Tool Salandra From League Confab (Special to the DAILY WORKER) ROME, Oct. 5—Premier Mussolini today sent @ message to former prem- ier Salandra, head of the liberal party of Italy, who has been representing the Italian government at the League of Nations conference at Geneva, to return at oNce to Tuseany for the con- vention of the liberal party at Livor- na, Black Shirt Agent. Salandra ae been Mussolini’s chief instrument in suppressing that faction of the Hberal party which advocates open opposition to the Fascist gov: ernment. It is understood that Salan- By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, the big job of the capitalist politicians is to per- suade the workers and poor farmers that they are gorged with riches. They tell those who labor, in the city and on the land, that they haven't too little, but too much, There are tens of millions of workers and poor farmers who will be interested in learning these things. They didn’t know them before. * * * * George W. Hinman, one of the troupe of financial ex~- erts that galavant daily thru the pages of the Hearst pub- oattene, charges the great unrest in discontented North and South Dakota, Minnesota and lowa is due to the fact that the farmers have too many automobiles. They use too much gasolene. ane “There is no moral lesson to be drawn from all this, says Hinman, “unless it be Mr. Reynolds’ lesson that we all live too fast, east and west, and north and south, that we all are inclined to regard the luxuries of yesterday as the necessaries of today.” Mr. Hinman doesn't ask the banker, Arthur Reynolds, to cut down on his automobile bills and use the street cars. Nowhere can we find that he urges his employer, William Randolph Hearst, or his millionaire co-editor, Arthur Bris- bane, to cut down on their automobile expenses. Hinman completely dodges the Rolls-Royce clientele in automobile “luxuries.” He only hits at the poor farmer with his Ford flivver. * * * * This only shows that Hinman has been well trained in the ways of capitalist press prostitution. In the long ago he was cae of the now defunct Chicago Inter-Ocean, one of the most rabid anti-labor sheets the nation has ever had. When its owners refused longer to pay its deficits, and closed up, Hinman became president of some Catholic college down in Indiana. But recently he has been back in Chicago work- ing for Hearst. $ Hinman knows better than to attack the luxuries of the great rich, of the bankers, industrialists, landlords and what not. These are on the “sacred cow” list of the Hearst pub- lications, except when they cross Hearst's personal ambi- tions. Only then does he have a falling out with them. Hearst fights Tammany Hall, in New York City, for instance, but only because the democratic machine stands in his road to greater political power. When Hearst picks an enemy, he lets all of his editors know about it, and the war is on. And they are all personal enemies. Hearst never had a principle that would divide him from the rest of his class. * * * > We can read in Hinman’s mouthings only an effort on the part of the Hearst publications to stand in with the Cool- idge administration. The Teapot Dome politicians have adopted the “prosperity” appeal as their own, and anyone, farmer or worker, who doesn’t believe that his pockets are bulging with gold, is a rank traitor te all American institu- i inc: “Rill the Fat”. Taft's supreme court. _ Let'us compare with Hinman's story of riches in auto- mobiles, the statement recently issued by Secretary of Agri- culture Wallace. Altho Wallace works for Wall treet, in- stead of for the farmers, he has to stick a little bit on the - side of the truth or his usefulness would disappear. The farmers might not believe anything that he had to say. “The wheat belt,” says Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace, “is in infinitely better shape than for four years... . IN THE WESTERN SPRING WHEAT TERRITORY, WHERE NO ONE HAS HAD A PAIR OF NEW SHOES SINCE THE WINTER OF 1919-20, THERE IS PARTICULAR REJOICING.” Perhaps even the adroit Hinman will explain this away. He will no doubt claim that the farmers in the grain belt haven't had a new pair of shoes in four years, for them- selves, the wife or the kids, because they had to buy gaso- line. But that would only put him in his true role—a Hearst clown, performing ‘with printer's ink, rather than with a painted face. * * * * The 3,000,000 bankrupt farmers, walking into the cities off the land, robbed of everything they possess by Mr. Hearst's friends, is testimony to the fact that millions of farmers have not only been without new shoes, for the four years of Harding-Coolidge republican ‘rule, but that if they owned a flivver it also belonged to the pre-Teapot Dome era. * * * * But why shouldn't every farmer have his automobile? He needs it, as part of the day's work. The automobile is a necessary part of the great agricultural machine, that plants, cares for and harvests the nation’s crops. Hinman, like LaFollette, would no doubt have the farmers return, not only to 1776, but go back into the days of medieval agriculture, when the farmer could not even vision the use of a tractor, or machine power of any kind. * * * * Hinman’s article breathes the spirit of the manufacturer who told his employes to give up the movies and live on sauerkraut,—then they would be able to get along on the wages he paid them. But America’s workers and poor farmers are insistin on something more than a sauerkraut diet. The drift pe. | Communism is big enough indication of that. New multi- tudes are realizing that the fight against the whole capitalist social order is being made only under the Communist stan- dards of the Workers Party. The Hinman propaganda in the Hearst publications was | rag for the days of Mark Hanna and William McKinley. But it will not fool the massés of discontented, in the cities and on the land, of. today. The workers and poor farmers hope some day to re- joice; not because they have a new pair of shoes, as Secre- tary of 1 goog Wallace point out, but because they have triumphed over capitalism and established their own Soviet Rule of the nation’s workers and farmers. . Prison-Made Goods, Don’t Want Yellow Cab Buses. dra will address the convention in fa-| SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 5.—Instead DETROIT, Oct. 5.—City buses for vor of co-OPeration and defense of the |of flooding the open market with pris-| Detroit, according to the local Fed- Mussolini regime, on-made goods The gTOUD Which Mussolini fears is|with free labor, the penitentaries in unfair competition|eration of Labor which protests the of|plan of the general manager of the demanding ® return to the forms of Utah, Idaho and Oregon are making|municipally-owned street railways “to “constitutional” sovernment — the}goods to be used in the public insti-| buy Chicago-made Yellow Cab buses. rights of “free speech, Press and as-/tutions of these states. Utah con-|Home industry and home taxpayers seomblage.” openly dentos the torms of “democrat. io” rule. tor are for Utah, jand Tho Vaselst » movement | viets make overalls for their state and| should be patronized by the city, the Idaho and Oregon, Idaho convicts| federation declares, especially when, making shoes for their state and/as in this case, the local concerns _ Prisoners, asylum inmates|made lower bids than the Yellow Cab Monday, October 6, 1924 ee COMMUNISTS IN GERMANY EXPOSE SOCIALIST CRIMES Cover Cities with Posters Showing Betrayal (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Oct. 5.—Huge posters printed in red, white and blue colors in ironic reference to the United States, and bearing printed matter de- nouncing the socialist party of Ger- many for the aid which it is giving to the advocates of the Dawes’ plan, stare out from the walls of hundreds of buildings all over the city. The poster displays a cartoon show- ing an artist drawing the cartoon which recently appeared in the “Vor- warts,” official organ of the socialist party of Germany, of German work- ing men and women rejoicing in the ray of the rising sun, labeled with the sign of the American dollar. The Communist artist shows Morgan standing behind the socialist paper, dropping money into the free hand of the Vorwarts cratoonist. The printed matter on the poster reads: “Down with the Dollar-party! “The socialist party of Germany is the greatest aid of the American rob- bers. It is only thru their co-opera- tion that the experts’ report was ac- cepted, and by that means the indus- tries, banks and railrgads of Germany turned over for the benefit of interna tional capital. “The twelve-hour day, starvation wages, and new hardships will be the results for the workers. “The socialist party lied to you when in 1919 it told you: ‘Socialization is going on.’ “Today German industry ig being ‘so- cialized’ by Morgan. “Workers—the Communist party is fighting for real socialization, but the socialist, party of Germany dared to say in the Reichstag: ‘Socialization means betrayal of the people.” “Workers and farmers! If you wish to fight the fight for freedom against Morgan and his help-mates, you must enter the ranks of the Communist Party of Germany, in a united front with the international proletariat and with Soviet Russia.” Tech Aid Affair at Soviet School Proves to be Usual Success A suceessful performance was bao S ‘or SOHAL EL Poort nuosta, As usual, the hall of the society, at 1902 W. Division street, was filled. The society announced many performances to be given during the winter. The next performance and a dance to fol- Jow will be given Sunday, October 19, at 6 p. m. The classes at the Soviet School begin to function tonight, Monday. The first to start was the class in the Eng- lish language. Classes for “foreigners” in the Russian language will start as soon as there are sufficient applicants. Comrades who wish to study the Rus- sian language are urged to register at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division street, every evening. Machinists Plan Referendum, WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.— An early referendum is to be taken by the membership of the International Asso- ciation of Machinists on the changes in their laws approved at the recent convention in Detroit, because one of these changes requires that offi- cers be elected in time to take office - next July. The terms of the incum- bent officers are cut short by a year. If the change is ratified, hominations for president, secretary-treasurer and seven vice-presidents will be made early in 1925, these to be followed by referendum élection. | Pay 16 Cents an Hour. READING, Pa. Oct. 5—Sixteen cents an hour is being paid by the Penn Hardware Co., of Reading, to boys hired as strikebreakers, accord- ing to union locksmiths who struck in protest against the firm’s labor Policy. The company had been ing off employes with long service to hire boys at starvation rates. The four- week strike is progressing well, with the Reading public informed of the company’s tactics thru the strike committee. Australia Has Red Soare SYDNEY, N. S. W.—The Australian federal government is prohibiting the entry of literature by unions affiliated with the Red International of Labor Unions. It is also laying its hands on Communist literature coming to Aus tralia from Europe, The government has seized literature in the parcel ° post addressed to the Labor Coun- cil of New South Wales. The Labor Council is going to give the govern. ment an opportunity to prove its au thority in the law courts. nf ———— Fuclloa Increase Membership, DET: -—Five per cent i in the membership of Typographical Union No. 18, Detroit, is reported since June. Work has been brisk re- cently for union men because Sep- pale is a favorite vacation month ‘or many of the regulars but normal mae have returned with Octo.