The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1924, Page 6

Page Six : THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER i Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 monthe |! By mail (in Chicago only): | $4.50....6 momths $2.50....3 months | $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to / THE DAILY WORKER | 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Mlinole | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Editors usiness Manager bn Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879 200 Advertising rates on application | It is the irony of fate that the two acts of tlie} Macdonald government which the masses forced it to perform against its will are the issues on which |; the liberals and tories are challenging it and on which the resulting election will be fought. The recognition of and the treaty with Soviet Rus- sia and the quashing of the indictment returned against the editor of the Workers Weekly for tell- ing soldiers and sailors not to shoot their fellow-' workers are the only two acts of the MacDonald, government that have had any working claks charac- ter. The treaty was signed because the left wing} laborites in the House of Commons threatened to #0 before their working class constituents if there was further delay. The indictinent against Comrade Campbell was dropped because the Communists had the support of the majority of the organized workers when they pointed out that certain members of the MacDonald government, among them MacDonald himself, had said just about the same thing during the war before power and association with imperialists had squelehed their pacifism. It was the organized might of the British work- ers that was responsible for these two measures and not the MacDonald, government. It has al- lowed the imperialists a, free hand in India, Ira Persia, the Sudan and China. It has built battle- ships for the financiers and the industrial capital- ists. It is for the League of Nations with Britain holding the power. , It has taken up the hue and ery against Soviet Georgia and gave moral support, at least, to the abortive and hopeless attempt of the Georgian mensheviks to overthrow the power of the Georgian workers and peasants. It is for the Dawes plan and the slavery and exploitation of European workers that is the in- tent of the plan. It has traded its heritage for a series of com- Chinese as a real friend and ally whose desire is just the reverse of the western powers, a desire | not to divide but to assist China to become a strong and united nation. News of the negotiations have been carried by the capitalist press for months but the actual con- summation of the agreement has created a panic in imperialistic circles. Coincident with the sing- ing of the agreement the Soviet government has |opened its embassy in Peking and established con- sulates in the principle cities of China. Over all the consulates flies the crimson banner of the | Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The Chinese people will have no difficulty in understanding the Soviet diplomats. M. Ellender, Soviet Consul general in Shanghai, in the course of his speech at the reception accorded him when the consulate was opened, called attention to the fact that Soviet Russia came to China peacefully jand as an equal while the imperialist powers were present with warships and guns to protect foreign British Imperialism and MacDonald *m2ncia interests exploiting the Chinese people. |Such a statement is unanswerable and such rey- olutionary diplomacy more dangerous than dyn- amite to the profit-making projects of the imper- alist nations. The news from Peking, read in connection with the events ‘in Shanghai, is comedy of a high order. It seems that the hopes of the allied powers are now pinned on General Wu. The British minister jpresented him with a set of binoculars and the Japanese minister gave him several caseq of Jap- anese wines. The Asiatic Petroleum Company, an American concern, has presented him with two carloads of oil. The spectacle of these dignitaries conducting themselves like a bartender in a water front joint when a drunken sailor rolls in will not escape the Chinese people who are a silent but an observant race. But General Wu is not going to get back the have been presented with an accomplished fact which tends more than any one thing to unite the Chinese factions. The Russian ambassador in Pek- ing, M. Karakhan, has described accurately this new development as “a crushing blow to the im- perialist states, destroying their last chance to grasp the eastern railway.” It binds Soviet Russia and China close together with a common bond >|that is strengthened by the efforts of the imper- ialists to break it. A new epoch is beginning in China—an epoch in which the power of the western imperialists is wan- a position of leadership and comradeship with the toiling millions of the Orient. In every nation whose ruling class is meddling in Chinese affairs there must be carried on a cam- paign that will divorce the working class from the aims “of their rulers, that-will make it impossible for the. imperialist nations to mobilize armies for the subjugation of the Chinese masses or for a war promises and betrayals of labor that rank with the worst exploits of the German social-democracy. It has not tried to weaken the hold of British capitalism upon the working class in any way. It discarded, immediately on taking office, the capital} - levy and nationalization of the miness It threatened the British workers, when they went on strike, with the application of the Emer- gency Powers Act, the equivalent of martial law. Since the signing of the Russian treaty the Brit ish imperialists have conducted a systematic cam- paign against Soviet Russia on all fronts with the unexpected result that not only did China sign the Russian treaty in spite of them but also turned over the operation of the Chinese Eastern Railway to Soviet Rus: Meantime the Hull conference f the British Trade Union Congress showed that the British labor movement was developing a new militancy. The function that the imperialists expected the MacDonald government to perform, that of toning down and emasculating the labor movement, it has not, in spite of its studied efforts, been able to carry out and its usefulness to British imperial- ixm is almost at an end. It might indeed, under growing pressure from the fank and file of labor, ‘ause the imperialists much embarrassment. There are many conflicting interests within British capitalism itself and the capitalists are not 2 unit in the struggle to rid themselves of a govern ment that came to power largely thru their suffer ance but we think that this is about the process ol reasoning by which the tories and liberals arrive at the conclusion that MacDonald has outlived his| usefulness. This policy is a dangerous one for British capital- ism because it is possible that the labor party may be returned to power and even tho it Josses the election in will have a-powerful minority in the ‘House of Commons that swept in on wave of work- ing class protest, may prove much harder to handle than the present Macdonald government. A New Epoch in China From the standpoint of world politics the agree- ment between the Soviet Russia and China by which the control and operation of the Chinese Eastern Railway is turned over to the Soviet gov- ernment is of far more importance than even the Dawes plan. To secure control for themselves has been the objective oftimperialist strategy in China. The striking part of this new development. is that, in spite of their differences over domestic af- fairs, the most powerful groups in China are satis- fied with the arrangement. Sun Yan Sen, the leader of the influential revolutionary Kuoming- tang, approves of it. So does the Peking govern- ment and Chang Tso-Lin, nominally the instrument of Japanese, French and English capital (depend- ing on which power bids the highest) has signed n similar agreement. This shows just one thiag and shows it conelus- ively i. e, that Soviet Russia is looked upon by the on the workers’ and peasants’ government of Rus- sia, which they no longer ridicule but fear. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. Hands Of # Of the Wo World! President Coolidge has added another chapter to the “Hands Off” diplomacy of Amerigan imper- ialism. On the occasion of the dedication of a monument to the memory of the dead of the First Division, the president declared: “We do not pro- pose to intrust to any other power, or combination ‘of powers, any authority to make up our mind for us. The “silent” Chief Executive then went on to thunder about the United States government be- ing the best in the warld today; with Coolidge at its head, of course. The Dawes Plan was hailed as the one panacea which will lay “a firmer foun- dation for industrial prosperity and a more secure peace. The pith of the president's address is this: Hands off America! It is a warning to the League of Nations that the United States will not brook even the faintest notions aimed at influencing the course of American policy. The speech is a direct reply to the League of Nations’ deliberation on the pro- test of Japan against the American exclusion po- licy. The president has simply served notice on the other capitalist cliques that his bosses, the Amer- ican imperialists, are strongly dissatisfied with a good deal of the talk that has been ‘going on in Geneva. When the president talks of the Dawes plan in this speech he reminds the European capitalist classes that America is saving their economic sys- tem. But the president, in his plea for the-world’s putting faith in the altruistic purposes of Amer- ican capitalism, does not say a word about.the fact that the United States is compelled by its own economic conditions and by the challenge of the revolutionary working class movement, the com- munist movement, to international capitalism, to embark upon the Dawes course. All in all, the Coolidge speech is a-war speech. The president, in the toga of the spokesman of our imperialist aristocracy, has deereed that it is pro- per and necessary for the United States, for its ruling class, to extend sway over the world, to in- terfere in and determine the internal affairs of Europe and the rest of the world. Yet, the econ- omie class interests of Yankee capitalism, all its resources, its military and naval prowess forbid any other capitalist group attempting such a policy and practice against the United States. There is’ but one answer to this defiance hurled at the world by Mr. Coolidge. The workers of the United States and the other countries should reply in a forceful chorus to the American, imperialists: Hands Off The World! Send in that new “sub” today! ing and which marks the rise of Soviet Russia to| Chinese Eastern Railway for the imperialists. They |, psterdam. Mr. Davis and Don Chafin By MAX SHACHTMAN. ON CHAFIN, notorious tool of the. coal companies of Logan County, West Virginia, has been indicted by the grand jury for partnership in a “speak- easy” together with Tennis Hatfield, one of the sons of the late “Devil Anso” Hatfield. Don Chafin is the democratic leader of Logan County. He is the man who, at the national democratic nominat- ing convention in July, was the fore- most advocate of the nomination be- ing given to John W. Davis, West Virginian native son. When others laughed at the possibility of Davis being named, Chafin, his two guns hanging from under his armpits in the regular manner, continued to lobby for’ the candidate of Wall Street and tha non-union coal inter- ests of West Virginia. He is gener- ally credited with having had one of the major parts and being the most ac- tive politician in the scheme to put Davis across. \ A Booze Artist. Chafin is now under charges, in the United States @istrict court at Hunt- ingfon, for conspiracy to violate the law gf the land, the Volstead act, and for engaging, unlawfully in the retail liquor business. The indictment sets out as the basis for the charges the asertion that: “the said Tennis Hatfield paid to the said Don Chafin divers and dif- ferent large sums of money, among other sums, that of eleven hundred and twelve dollars, which was paid by the said Tennis Hatfleld in the said Logan County on or about the ‘day Of August A. D., 1922. which . . Was derived from the unlawful sale of intoxicating A New 2; International NEW host of Vikings are setting out from Norway and Sweden to conquer the big, wide world: Tran- mael'and Hoeglund plan the forma- tion of a “Scandinavian International” which they hope to transform pre- sently into a real “international Inter- national”, Tranmael proudly declares that this new International will neither bow to Moscow nor to Am- The’ Craewinkle-Congress of the Hoeglund group declared that this new International is to unite all Communist and other revolutionary parties which are outside of thé Com- munist International, Hence we have to deal with a new edition of the 2% International. The first appearance of the 2% International in the labor movement could, with some good will, be called a tragedy. The second, how- ever, is unquestionably a farce. The initiative for the formation of this new 2% International originated with the Norwegian labor party. On Aug. 28th its Christiania organ “Arbeid- erbladet” published an article under the — heading “The International”. Tranmael rings the death-knéll for the Communist International in this article: “It is clear now that~ the Communist movement cannot be saved by the Third International. It must remain without that organization. The independent communist parties have a great task ahead of them.” The Communist International had to go bankrupt because “the organiza- tional practice of centralism, Jesuit- ism and the disease of prejudice had gotten too much elbow room in the International and had killed its life- inspiring and uniting ideas.” Even the Soviet system in Russia had to fall into ruins and became an “empty institution.” Old capitalism again raises its head in Russia and “by all appearances a new revolution is nec- essary even there.” The executive of the Comintern pushes the best com- rades like Trotzky and Radek into the background; it works with putches and party splits; it pulverizes all mass organigations of the Comintern and transforms them into insignifi- cant sects. Only the “independent” Communist parties outside the Com- munist International can save the si- tuation: “they must now get into contact with each other, must work together and must create the founda- tion for the unity of all workers of the world on a broad, Communist basis.” The Norwegian labor party has al- ready taken the initiative for the formation of the new International: “Our party shall now get into contact with the Communist party of Sweden, There are chances for connections with similar-minded comrades in Den- mark as well as in Finland. During the autumn we surely can succeed in organizing an international confer- ence, Many big parties and groups will participate. And our numbers are growing. These parties and groups have to create organizational unity and an intenational bureau.” Thus we have the great plan all fixed up and ready. Why should the saviors of the international labor movement not start their march from Christiania? Skeptics, ‘of course, may doubt — but then, skeptics, even one thousand nine hundred and twenty. four years ago, have already asked the ironical question—"What good can come from Nazareth?” The co-operation between Tranmael and Hoeglund is an accomplished fact. Tranmael appeared at the con- | gress of the Hoeglund group in Stock- holm as a representative of the Nor-|worry about their DAILY. liquors sold pursuant to said unlaw- ful conspiracy, confederation, com- bination and agreement.” It is interesting to see what sort of man this is who put Davis across. It would also be interesting to hear what Mr. John W. Davis, who has just made @ grand splurge about our dear and non-existent liberties in this country would say about this latest act of his lieutenant It would be still more interesting to hear what this same Mr, Davis, the presidential nominee of the democratic party, this friend of labor and liberty, would say about the infamous record of his political tooter, ‘ Who Is Don. Chafin? The question: “Who is Don Cha fin?” can be asked only outside of the state of West Virginia. In that/thug- ruled state, there is not a youngster that could not tell you of Don Chafin. And if he were the son of a worker, he would speak of “’Ol Don” in no po- lite terms. Very few workers can speak of Chafin in friendly terms in that state and maintain the respect of his friends and mates. ‘When the United States entered the war, unionism among the coal diggers of District 17 grew swiftly, from five to forty-two thousand. Only one county was closed to union organiza- tion: Logan County, ruled by Don Chafin and his picked crew of “depu- ties,” thugs—every mother’s son of them. The story goes that when a man would come into town who was sutspected by Chafin to be a union or- ganizer, he was told to leave on the next train or have his head blown off. Usually, the man left town, for Chafin .|is a good gunman and has a score of notches to his gun despite his forty years. wegian labor party. He even had the good fortune to be prevented from speaking by the Stockholm police. The embryo of the 2% International, therefore, was conceived by the petty bourgeois congress of the Hoeglund group, with Norwegian fertilization. But from conception to birth is a long way—and for the new Vikings of Stockholm and Christiania there is still a long march to the metropolis of the international proletariat of Ber- lin, Paris, London, and so forth: One need not be a great prophet to fore- tell that even if the weak infant of this new 2% International wilh see the light of this wicked world it will quickly enough return into the social- democratic womb—just as did its in- glorious ancestor, the first 2% Inter- national. Upon what do these hairdressers of the new 2% International really build? First of all, upon the refuse of the Communist movement of all countries. The split-off and thrown- out of the Communist International are to be the center for the crystal- lization of the new International. Tranmael in Norway and Hoeglund in Sweden; the small student group “Pressen” in Denmark; Frossard in France; Ledebour's socialist federa- tion and the scanty independent so- cialist party around the puny Theo- dore Liebknecht in Germany; Edvard Huttunen and the other renegades of the former socialist labor party of Finland; the Bulgarian “Communist deputies” who shamefylly disowned the heroic rebellion of the workers and peasants; and propably also the latest refuse of the-communist world movement—the Messrs. Newbold in England and Toman in Austria. Tran- mael must really be a very skilfull matron if he wants to succeed in ‘When. the union finally managed to filter into Logan county, Don Chafin, officially the county clerk, got busy. The well-founded rumors of beatings, evictions and brutal murders of min- ers who exercised their “constitu- tional rights,” Mr. John W. Davis, soon reached the organized portions of the state. And the miners of the other counties, Mr. Davis, did not per- mit any law to stand in the way of their fundamental liberties; they took their rifles.and shotguns and revolv- ers and. began the famous Armed March of September, 1919. And your Mr. Chafin might not be alive today had it not been for the presence of the governor of the state and the president.of the Miners’ district union, who intercepted the indignant march- ers just over the border of Logan county, and persuaded with false promises to turn back. And ‘in August, 1921, when thous: ands of miners marched on Logan county, incensed at the cold-blooded murder of Sid Hatfield on the court- house steps if Welch where he had been tricked into a trap, who was it that met them? When these thous- ands of American workers attempted to assert the rights they were told they possessed, who was it that led ap army of thugs and gunmen to de- feat this noble attempt? Don Chafin. Not a Word from Davis. And do we remember you as having said a single word, Mr. John W. Dayis, when Don Chafin, your man, and your good friend the governor, Mr. Morgan, contrived to send hundreds of state troopers to the defense of the coal companies in their fight against the union? Where were you then with your speech? Where are you now when Don Chafin is in the hole? weaving a pretty and useful shawl out of this hodge-podge of refuse. How do these heroes of this inter- national of thrown-outs really look upon close inspection? It is really a very peculiar salon de refuses. It is really a remarkable gallery of re- fused: Tranmael, the labor leader who in the name of the trade union traditions of Norway has betrayed the Comintern, and who, after his breach with the Comintern felt his hands free enough to shamefully betray the metal workers of Norway in their struggle against the bourge- oiste—Tranmael, who still calls him- self Communist but who, on the day of his breach with the Third Internat- fonal threw away the fundamental slogan of the arming of the proletar- iat and went back to the stale paci- fism and refusal of military service: Falk, who is constantly suspended in the air between Communism and Fascism, like Mohammed’s coffin be- tweem heayen and earth: Haakon Meyer, who in his consequent Marx- ism succeeds in uniting anti-semitism and Communism into a perfect syn- thesis: the three dozen “clear heads” of Danish students who sympathize with the Fascist Falk but who at the same time approve the expulsion of Hoeglund from the Communist Inter- national with. correct commentaries: Edvard Huttunen who. coujd not sub mit to the discipline of the socialist labor party parliamentary group in Finland because it was too narrow for his unbougded social-democratic policies, and because it tended to hold him to real, revolutionary action as the chairman of the federation of labor of Finland: Frederick Stroem, the Swedish Tacitus of the Russian reyolition who, as a Bolshevik and the secretary of the Communist Party LITHUANIAN EDITOR ASKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE SPEAKING WORKERS URGE CHILDREN TO READ “DAILY WORKER” EDITOR'S NOTE.—This is the first of a series of articles that we hope to publish from the editors of the forei These articles are appearing as edito: press. foreign-language publications, language Communist als in their respective The accompanying article by A. Bimba, editor of Laisve, the Lithuanian daily, appeared as an editorial in the Oct. 3 issue of that pubdeation, It * is as follows: . . by A. BIMBA Editor, Laisve, Lithuanian Daily. The Workers Party has made a great step forward in the class struggle of this country by establishing an English Com- munist daily, the DAILY WORKER. Especially in the presi- dential campaign, the English daily plays a most important role. Without such an instrument as the English daily the voice of the revolutionary proletariat. of America would hardly be heard among the citizen-workers. The foreign-speaking Communist press plays a very im- Bn portant role in the class strug- gle, but it cannot reach the English-speaking workers. As long as we did not have the DAILY WORKER there was a very great lack in the Communist move- ment. Now that we have the DAILY WORKER we must circulate it so that it will be read not merely by tens of thousands of wage slaves, but by hundreds of thousands of them. The DAILY WORKER is their organ, the untiring and faithful guardian and de- fender of their interests. They will read it and like it, but we must reach them and explain to them the ideas and ideals proclaimed by the DAILY WORKER. A This is the job of the militant work- ers, We cannot say that the English- speaking Communists alone should Their group as yet is not very numerous and therefore all class conscious work- ers must do their bit for the DAILY WORKER, even tho they are foreign- ers. True, the work is not easy, put all Communist » activities require energy and sacrifice. Besides, thou- sands of Lithuanian workers can read English and they often buy the Bng- ish bourgeois. papers. Why not sub- seribe for and read your own class paper, The DAILY WORKER? Or why not subscribe for the DAILY WORKER for our growing children who read the. English papers? It is our duty, to enlighten our youth so that they will understand their class interests and fight shoulder to shoulder with their older comrades for the abolition of the capitalist system. Thru the DAILY WORKER we can| Thursday, October 9, 192" | And if memory serves us well: you' didn’t say a word either, when your By man, Chafin, now indicted for bootleg. ging, fitted out his two airplanes so that they could drop bombs of Chris: | tian civilization and democratic per | suasion on the grouped miners who had come to “defend the constitution.” | In fact, tho we wrack our mind, we | cannot even recall that you uttered a © word of protest against the first bomb | that was dropped and fell between two women, Sallie Polly and Lizzie Oxley, who would have been blown to _ bits but for the stupidity of your friend Chafin who was unable to con- struct a bomb that would not be so clumsily manufactured that it failed to explode. Not a syllable passed your lips when another bomb sent Dula Chambers to the hospital, gassed with the chlorine wafted by your ingenious Mr. Chafin. Don Chafin is now under indictment for conscious violation of the law of the land, together with a number of his appointed deputy sheriffs. Don Chafin has an unenviable record of militant anti-unionism. Don Chafin was the gunman who helped to put Davis on the democratic ticket last , July, We have already exposed in the DAILY WORKER the false preten- tions of Davis who claims to have de- fended the miners of West Virginia in a strike action, by showing that Davis was the attorney for the coal companies which were instrumental in prosecuting the miners, amongst: whom was Mother Jones, Wes are glad to give here a glimpse of the record of the outstanding sup- porter of Davis, It is a significant sign of the interests behind Davis, be- hind the democratic party. By John Pepper of Sweden could not exactly detect the difference between the Russian Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, and who fought the centralism of the Com- munist International in the name of the specific Scandinavian workers’ psychology: Ledebour, the most con- fused of all the harebrained of Eu- dope: Steinberg, the social-revolu- tionary, the former member of the Russian Soviet government, later of- ganizer of attempts against the lives of the leaders of the Russian révolu- tion and at present secretary of the Berlin committee for the formation of @ new international. Zeth Hoeglund, who as a pacifist once joined: the Communist International and who now, again as a pacifist, ends in the camp of counter-revolution; Zeth Hoeglund, who last May still approved of all the decisions of the Communist International for the Bolshevization of the Communist parties and who now has become the foremost Bolshe- vik killer of Sweden; Hoeglund, who once fought against Branting in the mame of the dictatorship of the pro- letariat and who now with open shamelessness takes out of his elect- ion program the idea of the dictator- ship of the working class and of the criticism of parliamentarism. These are the leaders and heroes of the future 2% International. A motley crew that has nothing in com- mon except its variegated deviations from the idea of Communism; a rag- tag whose only title to the formation of a new international is their uniform clinging to their respective national prejudices and traditions. Tranmael broke with the Comintern because he was “Norwegian.” Hoeglund broke with the executive because the execu: tive was not “Swedish enough.” And now they want to form a common international, the sole purpose of which shall be not to be too/inter- national. And with this sentence the whole history of this new internat- ional is told. The first 2% Inter- national was at least a mass organiz- ation of great proletariat strata who were scared by civil war; but this second 2% International will be, at best, as sect of petty shopkeepers who are “not only scared of civil war, but also of the most elementary duties of the class struggle. | Views of Our Readers Sends Poem to Our Readers. © To the DAILY WORKER:—About four years ago, when I was in the pa- per makers’ union, I learned a which I think, should be published b the DAILY WORKER. I am eomning it to you herewith: The Open Shopper, The open shop is the place, alas, You. Pei find employed the working His mind is weak, his back is cae | His pay is short and his hours lo: He is satisfied and well content, It he.can barely pay his rent, And just exist from day to day, That {s good enough for such a Jay. “No unionism goes for me, For I am independent see.” oe SR RAASRENTD