The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. a wT Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Tl. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: 93.50.26 months : Vag: months i) (in Chicago only): ta ye ar morths $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 Bivd. Chleago, Iinols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... {eumenennnennenmn EAItOTS Business Manager i Post red as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Ontee at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, <p 290 Advertising rates on application Re The Low-Down on Courts Next to an open demand for the confiscation of natural resources now held by the capitalists no- thing arouses such intense antagonism from the most powerful sections of the capitalist press as a criticism of the courts or proposals to curtail their powers in any way. It is common knowledge that the courts are bul- warks of the capitalist system but the exact man- THE DAILY WORKER - - Unemployment The director of the New York City Industrial Aid Bureau announces that there are least 300,000 out of work in the metropolis. In reality the total number of unemployed much greater, for at least 60% of this figure represents union mem- bers. Unquestionably there are many out of work in the ranks of the unorganized. Most surveys do not take adequate account of the disemployed in the ranks of the non-unionized. The later, of course, consisting primarily of the unskilled and less skilled, are the worst sufferers from this dreadful scourge. It is further reported that this condition is more acute than any time since the great depres- sion. The employment bureaus are besieged with job-seekers. Let no one mistake this situation. The condi- tion pictured is not abnormal. It arises out of the very system of production and exchange. It is not merely a Marxian hypothesis that capitalism rests on the maintenance of a huge industrial re- serve army. It is a fact of capitalism itself— a dreary but irrefutable fact. The Russel Sage Foundation has just announced the partial find- ings of an employment survey it has been making for the last five years in the various industries of seventy cities in 31 states. Its findings add fur- ther proof to the mountains of evidence already ner in which they function in America, the all- important role they play, is known to but few. In Professor Beard’s “American Government and Politics” we find the following statement made by ex-President Hadley of Yale University—an acknowledged authority on American jurisprud- ence: When it Is sald, as It commonly is, that the fundamental division of powers in the modern state is into legislative, executive, and judicial, the student of American institutions may fairly note an excep- tion. The fundamental division of powers under the constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand and property owners on the other. The forces of democracy on the one side, divided be- tween the legislative and executive, are set over against the forces of property on the other, with the Judiciary as arbiter between them. This theory of American politics has not often been stated. But it has been universally acted upon. The general status of the property owner under the law cannot be changed by the action of the legislature, of the the executive, or the people of a state voting ‘at this polls, or at three put together. This is fairly clear. The courts are the only authority that legally can change the existing relationships between property owners and the propertyless. They are the obstacle, powerful be- cause accepted, between the masses of workers and the minority of landlords, financiers and industrial lords. Back of their decisions there stands of course the armed.forces of capitalist government but the courts are the first line of American cap- italism’s defense. It is their task—and they do it well—to give the proper sense of error to any rash person or group that challenges the right of the few idlers to rob the many toilers—to preserve the legal fiction of democracy in a nation where by no possible legal enactment can the natural resources and the ma- chinery of production come into the hands of the masses. Any agency whose sole task is to legalise robbery is too sacred to be tampered with. Therefore the wild howls of rage that arise from capitalism’s spokesmen whenever courts are criticized. Our Imperialists Eye Brazil Natural resources of other lands and naval pro- paganda go together. Scrutator, financial writer for the Chicago Tribune, tells of the discovery of great tracts of land suitable for rubber production on the lower tributaries of the Amazon. Then comes the inevitable reaction of the imper- ialist mind: if one will take a map of the Amazon valley and of the Atlantic ocean and note how the mouth of the river projects toward Africa and Europe the thought eccurs that a great Brazilian naval base in one of the many numerous harbors of the Amazon estuary wouldn’t do any harm, provided Brazil adheres to her tradition of diplomatic co-operation with the United States. The mouth of the Amazon may be close enough to the Caribbean to insure control to any power dom- inating the Caribbean, but a naval base in the mouth of the river would be a nice litle lock on the door of what is probably the greatest source of future wealth on this globe. The parrots who put down for print ideas like those above, emanating directly from the publicity centers of the robber band which owns America, are never backward in lauding the splendid en- terprise and courage of te American business- man. Here, is proof that these entrepreneurs, though they long for the rich rubber lands of Brazil and the profits to be made therefrom, con- sider the risk too great unless they can oppress , and plunder native labor under the protection of the guns of a mighty war fleet. In the light of these disclosures the fact that forty or fifty American army officers are now at- tached to the Brazilian army in the capacity of “instructors” is of considerable significance. The largest and richest, as well as the most reac- tionary of the South American nations, Brazil will make a fine base for the conquering forces of Amer- ican imperialism. The protection and expansion of business abroad by actual or threatened force of arms becomes more and more the basic policy of American cap- italist government. piled up in substantiation of the Marxian analys- is of the capitalist system. We are told by the Foundation. investigators that on the average, the good and bad years in- cluded, there are continually several million men out of work. Every year there are from one to six million workers jobless for weeks or months. One out of eight workers are thus affected. And the social degradation is the worst feature of the acute condition. Says the report:” There is something which we are just beginning to recog- nize, a resentment on the part of the workers against an industrial situation in which such in- security and uncertainty are possible. It is not only unemployment but the fear of unemployment, the knowledge that any joy is uncertain and in- secure, subject to the fluctuations of economic change, which are responsible for much of our present industrial unrest.” These are the facts. This is what we have with us. No communist critic could paint a blacker picture. And the workers, the sufferers, alone can change conditions for the better. Militants Win in Nova Scotia A Three-Cornered Deal--Smith, LaFolletfe and Hillqui By WILLIAM WEINSTONE. ~ LaFollette is entering into a deal with the Smith forces in Tammany Hall, and the socialist party is on the inside of this deal, The deal consists of an exchange of votes in the present elections, Smith is to knife Davis and LaFollette is to hand over the progres- sive and socialist votes to Smith in his contest with Teddy Roosevelt, the republican candidate. The socialist party is a willing tool in the further- ance of this Tammany Hall and La- Follette election alliance; an alliance which will sacrifice the socialist party candidate. It is an alliance which may have more far-reaching effects in the New York political situation than may appear at first glance. It is an alliance which may result in a more permanent combination and a broad- ening out of the present LaFollette movement to include a section of Tam- many Hall in this state. Who is Al Smith? Who is Al Smith? Smith is the po- litical chief of Tammany Hall in New York state; the candidate of the demo- cratic party for re-election as govern- or. Al Smith during the war, not only ]trew his full support to the Wilson administration, but it was during his first term in office that the first prose- cutions of the Communists in this state took place. It is the Tammany Hall of Al Smith that was responsible for putting into use the Criminal Syn- dicalist Law, which was a dead letter since 1901, for the conviction of Ben Gitlow and the other Communists. It is Tammany Hall, lately led by Charlie Murphy, arch corruptionist and servile tool of the capitalists, tne Tammany Hall of ward heelers and crooks of all varieties, of which Smith is now the political leader. Tammany Hall is the sinister politi- cal force which kills every spark of class-consciousness in the local labor movement. Tammany Hall has bolt- ed the door of the trade unions to ev- ery voice expressing the interests of the workers. The labor movement of New York state with its Jimmy Hol- lands, Peter Bradys and Coughlins, is a political machine corraling the votes of labor for Tammany Hall. Socialists Eager for the Alliance With Smith. The socialists have been playing for this three-cornered deal for some time. They voted for the resolution intro- duced in the Schenectady convention of the New York State Federation of Labor, declaring Smith to be “a friend of labor.” With their vote, the resolu- tion was adopted unan:mously, Norman Thomas, the socialist party candidate for governor of New York wrote a letter to Smith, published in the New York Times of September 29, that was a direct bid to Smith to ac- cept LaFollette and throw over Davis. Pretending to call upon Smith to clari- fy his position, Norman Thomas de- clares that in view of the report that representative Carew had been to Washington seeking a LaFollette en- dorsement of Smith’s candidacy, that Smith must therefore choose between LaFollette and Davis. The letter fur- ther declares that “With much of the platform of the democratic party adopted at your behest progressives generally, including socialists, are in sympathy.” The whole tenor of the letter is but an indirect endorsement of Smith, placing him on many issues in a most favorable light. This let- ter is but one of the links in the pol- icy of a rapproachment with Smith. Norman Thomas, speaking at Schen- ectady on September 17, declared, ac- cording to the New York Leader, that “Smith has a good record” and is a miracle in Tammany Hall. LaFollette, speaking at Madison Square Garden, surprisingly touched upon local issues, and clearly made a bid for Smith’s support by touching on those very same points upon which Smith will claim support from labor. Frank P. Walsh, who backed Smith for president at the democratic nation- al convention and is today an elector and supporter of LaFollette, at a meeting in Town Hall, spoke of the tavorable record of Smith, altho Nor- man Thomas, the socialist candidate for governor who supports LaFollette was on the platform. These facts indicate clearly that the socialist party and LaFollette desire an understanding with Smith and that Smith himself is not averse to such an understanding being reached. This deal may not come into the open either in a direct’. endorsement of Smith by LaFollstte or an open dis- avowal of Davis by Smith. It will work out, by Smith giving only lukewarm support to Davis and having his ma- chine knife him in the actual vote. The socialists and LaFollette will sa- crifice Norman Thomas. What Is Behind the Deal. LaFollette know that without the support of the cities in the East, he cannot hope to make a great national showing or build up a strong base for his future third party support. LaFollette knows Well the lesson of the Roosevelt campaign of 1912, which failed precisely because it could not secure the support of the — castern cities. These votes Tammany Hall in large measures controls, The deal which Lafoilette will con- summate with Smith is typical of the Politics being played by LaFollette in other parts of the country. In Mon- tana the LaFollette-Wheeler forces en- tered into an alliance with the local machine democrats. In Wyoming, ac- cording to the New York Times, a similar deal was made with Judge Rose, running for senator on the dem- ocratic ticket, in which focal demo- crats are to let the national ticket shift for itself, thus indirectly support: ing LaFollette, and in return receiy- ing the backing of LaFollette tor their candidates. On the other “hand, the middle class followers of LaFollette are really class brethren of the fol- lowers of Smith. Both rely upon the middle class for support. While Smith may talk the demagogic phraseology suited to “East Side, West Side, All Around the Town,” LaFollette speaks the same demagogic language but suit- ed to “field and farm.” Both pronounce themselves as friends of labor, and both represent minorities in the-old parties. Important tho Tammany Hall may be in the democratic party, the old guard interlocked with Big Business holds the deciding influence. Smith this year is particularly awake to the necessity of an alliance with LaFollette and the socialist par- ty. The republicans hold the upstate farming sections and Smith can win only by securing the ovetwhelming support of the industrial clties. In this respect the socialist party is a Monday, October 13, 192: because the socialists too draw thet, support from the industrial cities. What the Treachery of the Socialist. | Party Means, | | The attitude of the socialist party toward Smith reveals the full treach- ery of the socialist party when it is borne in mind that labor in New York state is held to capitalist politics chiefly by Tammany Hall and can be freed only by the destruction of Tam- many Hall. The Smith-LaFollette-so- clalist party alliance during the elec- tions will have far reaching effects upon the LaFollette movement after the election, by bringing in these Tam- manyites into the third party. This will still more destroy the indepen- dence of labor in the LaFollette move- ment. Eyen the mirage of a labor par- ty which has been propagated by the socialist party, will fade from the scene. The socialist party is dealing its death warrant as a labor organiza- tion in “furtheritig such a deal. The socialist, party in New York state maintained that it would build its local organizations as a result of the endorsement of LaFollette. But in reality it has steadily given way to every demand of LaFollette. Ithas with- drawn its most prominent local can- didates, London, Lee and Panken. .It withdrew its own candidate in the 20th congressional district, a former Socialist stronghold and endorsed La Guardia, the war jingo, La¥Follette’s candidate, whose name appears today under the arm and torch. It has ac- cepted a subordinate position on the local and state directing committees. Now it has gone still further back- ward; completely giving up a fight against Smith, thereby sacrificing Nor- man Thomas and its state ticket. In place of increasing the socialist vote, it will cut. its vote in half. The so- cialist party, having abandoned the class struggle and independent politi- cal action, comes as a beggar to the table of LaFollette, enthusiastic over every crumb that this lord of the mid- dle class throws in its direction. It is the duty of the Workers Party to increase its agitation against the socialists to expose fully this treach- ery and to win over every honest so- clalist supporter to the Workers Party. [sete and can cut into his voty sessed sebbbi tank. eas de Gan Og EE The long, bitter struggle waged by U. M. W. of Constabulary Stars Flash in Herrin Riots A. District 26, (Nova Scotia) for the return of its autonomy has ended in victory for the militant rank and file and the revolutionary elements who would not concede defeat. The workers had to fight not only the British Empire Steel corporation and its coal company subsidiaries ‘but the Lewis machine of the United Mine Workers as well. Openly and shamelessly, Lewis, who now betrays his own union and the whole labor movement by the support of Coolidge, when troops and gunmen were brought in to terror- ise the striking Nova Scotia miners, revoked the charter of the district and cooperated with the cor- porations and Canadian government to drive them back to work. A provisional board of Lewis’ lackeys and cap- italist tools was set up to rule the district. Every effort was made to break the spirit of the miners but at the special convention they forced from Lewis, they have elected militant officials who represent them and who will fight their battles. (Continued from page 1) ent” in the state constabulary. Carl Neilson, who was recently found guilty of assault after a jury trial in the Herrin courthouse, is a “captain” of the state constabulary. The state constabulary has found difficulty in finding excuses for going before the public and carrying on seemingly legitimate activity, while it cloaks its alliance with the klan and with those employers who want to in- stitute a Cossack militarism in this state such as prevails in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The Illinois state con- stabulary is founded on a law passed in 1787 which allows “officers of the state to call to their aid peace officers of the state in accordance with law in the pursut of stolen property and apprehension of criminals.” But the only thing those who be- come members are privileged to do is to apprehend criminals in the commis- The Nova Scotia miners face now another wage eut and the lack of desire on the part of Lewis to fight his coal company allies is probably one of the contributing factors in his surrender ‘to the rank and file of the district. The policy of the Communists and the Canadian section of the Red International of Labor Unions in the Nova Scotia district has been proven cor- rect. It has triumphed over the disrupters and kept the miners together. This is a remarkable achievement in the present period of reaction. America—100 Per Cent Two hysterical girls and and a mob seeking ex- citement have murdered a harmless Negro. night while they were crossing the street, a Negro spoke to one of them and took hold of her arm. They reported the matter to the proprietor of a bootleg joint—and the murder followed. Negroes who were on the scene and who escaped say that no one spoke to the girls after they left the men in the machine and the girls are unable to identify the dead man. atrocity for what it is worth as follows: We do not believe that any Negro spoke to the girls. We believe that they went to the wineshop and said that they had been accosted by a Negro a Negro had spoken to them. Psychology has scien- tific explanations of these cases and the two girls attorneys, but by trained psychologists. populated jointly by Jewish and Negro people, The mob that committed the murder was almost exclus- ively Jewish. sion of crime—and every private citi- zen is authorized to go that far. The state constabulary, however, gets in its real work in drumming up militar- istic sentiment and entering activities such as are carried on by the klan to divide the workers. Claim 28,000 Members. The workers who. join are made to pay $24.50 in return for which they re- ceive a tin star and permisison to carry a gun. The organization was formed, “under the state laws of Illi- nois, Indiana and Wistonsin,” and now claims 28,000 members in Illi- nois. Practically every member, the DAILY WORKER learns from a reli- able source, is a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The few who do not be- long to the klan are attracted to the constabulary because of its activities to stir up militarism. The state constabulary, in spite of its exhorbitant charges, is constantly running at a deficit. But the capital- ist press, the large employers, one hundred per cent Americans, and thugs clinging to the skirts of the capftalist system find the state con- stabulary very convenient for their use. Seek Control Thru Politics. The constabulary has frequently entered politics. At the present time the organization is backing not only ex-governor Deneen in his race for the senatorship from Illinois, but has also put up J. M. Leventhal, a democrat, 48 its candidate for judge of the mu- nicipal court.. Leventhal is secretary of the constabulary, Dennis Eagan, baliff of the munici- pal court, is listed as a vice-presi- dent in the “Constabulary News,” of- ficial organ of the state constabulary. Other vice-presidents, as. announced in literature of the organization, are: Fred Sterling, lieutenant governor of Illinois; Joseph J. Merensky, assistant United States district attorney; How- ard Hayes, judge of the municipal court, Theodore Steinert, member of the house of representatives; Edward Litsinger, chairman of the board of review; Robert M. Lee, city editor of the Chicago Tribune; Homer Hogan, city editor of the Herald and Exam iner; Robert Thomas Loughran, offi- cial editor of the United Press, and Edward W. Geiger, assistant editor of the Chicago American. Some of these men, when interviewed, declared their names had been used without permission. building up of the organization to act as a foundation for a state constabu- lary which employers hope, will off cially be sanctioned by the state of Illinois. S. Glenn Young an “Inspector.” The Constabulary News appoints “inspectors” in each locality, which are suposed to send in news and build up the organization in their locality. S. Glenn Young is the “inspector” for the constabulary in Marion, Illinois. In addition to the “inspectors” and the news items in the Constabulary News, the membership is held to- gether by an occasional banquet where law enforcement and militar: ism is preached. “I retally don’t know what excuse the state constabulary has for its ex- istence,” a high officual of the or- ganization told the DAILY WORKER in a confidential moment. “We give away a tin star, but in reality it does not give the wearer more privileges The state constabulary, which has no lawful connection with the state of Illinois but is a private organization formed by James R. Howe and his backers, in addition to mixing into politics, and its alliance with the klan, makes one of its principal aims the Our Readers Views on Many "A Veteran Revolutionist. To the DAILY WORKER: Since 1887 I have been active in the Inter- national revolutionary movements of imany countries, Today I look over the records up to the present time of The girls claim that following their conversa-{those stalwarts of my early days in tion with two men in an automobile, around mid-| Manchester, England and other Brit- ish cities with whom I fought shoulder to shoulder in revolutionary battles. Such men as George Lansbury, Jack Jones, Keir Hardie, Ben Tillet, J. R. nearby sacramental wineshop—a euphemism for|Clynes, Ramsay MacDonald and a host of others, Some Betrayers of Workers. I look back today and see the treachery and betrayal of many of these comrades of past days when I helped with my voice and pen to carry We give our opinion of this typically American | their victory into the House of Com: mons. Especially that one Judas and lickspittle of capitalism, J. R. Clynes, With him I class Ben Tillet whose name and portrait was revered and hung up in thousands of homes of either because they thought it would be a good!the British workers in the 90’s but joke, or because they were hysterical and thought |Who today to the revolutionist and Internationalist, he has gone like my old time but despicable comrade, H. M. Hyndman, They both betrayed the should be examined, not by ignorant prosecuting} workers of Britain in their hour of crisie during the world war and sold The murder occured in a neighborhood that is|themselves, bag and baggage, to the capitalist, oligarchy. They made the Social Democratic Federation of Great Britain, of which I was once a mem- ber, stink in the nostrils of true revo- Race hatred has reached a high pitch when one |lutionary class conselous proletarians oppressed race becomes the executioners of an-|0f the world. other. The whole affair is illuminating in its dis- closures of the violent nature of American mobs and the influence over them of the capitalist press with its constant appeals to racial prejudices, Communism Hope of the Workers. But comrades, of America and of all other cpuntries, the Red Star of Russia is a oy hee to the real revolutionary units who are fantiog in every capitalist country under the banner of the Communist Interna. tional against great odds and the treachery of the Amsterdam Interna- tional. The future is bright with hope. The doom of capitalism is fast approaching in every country of the world and it behooves the workers to so mobilize their forces that Commun- ism, the hope of the workers of the world, shall stand triumphantly on the ramparts and ruins of decayed capi- talism. Yours fraternally,—Vincent Brown, Seattle, Washington. e e'e Everything To It. To the DAILY WORKER:—After reading Comrade Buchwold’s impres- sions of a LaFollette meeting entitled “Nothing To It,” in the Los Angeles Special, I feel duty bound to write about my impressions of a Foster meeting. Some 1000 tickects were sold at 25¢ a piece for admission to the Gamut Club Theatre where Foster spoke here. Every seat was occupied and many people were turned away be- cause the house could hold no more, Tore Capitalist Institutions to Ground Comrade Foster attacked the tnsti- tutions that support capitalism, and believe me, he tore them to the ground. He not only proved that the government was “the exec! Doard” of the capitalists, but convinced the dullest of us that the army and navy, the schools, newspapers and the churches were all used to poison our minds and force the workers to lead the lives of semi-slaves. Mobilization Day was explained and also the Japa- nese Immigration Law. He diagnosed the different parties in the political feld and showed their relation to the class conscious work- ers. Lifts LaFollette Illusion, After quickly dismissing with the republican and democratic parties, Comrade Foster swept the LaFollette illusion from the people's eyes as one might a spider's web. The program of the Workers Party was well deli- vered, added to which was an appeal for new members for the local. This was the cause for another of the spon- taneous bursts of applause which punctuated Foster's entire speech, The defunct second international did not escape Foster's denunciation. He predicated a Communist president of the United States who would b called the Chairman of the People’ Commissars of the United States, in the near future amidst thinderous ap- plause. i; } i It was the most inspiring meeting I have ever attended. _ 5 Isadore Spenser, : bes trl Angeles, Cal. Will Russian Student Correspond? To the DAILY WORKER: There are a few good comrades here who en- joy reading the DAILY WORKER, Af. ter reading my copy I pass it around to comrades who can't afford to sub- scribe, | section of the country has been very hard hit by bank fail- ures, a low cattle market and a very dry season—all these and many other monet make it very hard to raise sul We were very much, interested in the recent article from Kuzbas as we once thot of joining that colony. We are glad to note they are making a success of it, — My daughter wishes to correspond with some Russian students ‘who than an ordinary citizen. Perhaps those who buy these stars exceed their authority, I don’t know.” : In the next article I will tell of the activities of the state constabulary during the Defense Day celebration on September 12. “ Subjects would be interested in writing to an American student. This is her third year of Deming High School. She is sixteen years old. The news of Russia interests us very much. We enjoy reading the DAILY WORKER and I spend all of my spare time reading it. I hope it will continue until the revolution and then too. Yours for Communism, Mrs. S. M. Calkins, Deming, New Mexico, ——— TO A CAPITALIST ORATOR. — \ You say we are free with no masters te serve, But | think you're a fake and a fraud,” Surely admire your cast-iron nerve,, . jut know not the freedom you laud. im not even free for for a master te ihn a nee bd be freed, rom a master jot g bm in ondae Socoons inva, 90% For those who can rise upon others whe For THEM there is fi light, But for Whe Bee toler, ne son of the soil, ‘There is nothing but darkness and night. Pee etaeele to knowledge yeu “know, Altho his muscles vontinue oon ie’ He must suffer ri nin brain, When the workers will all of their ‘Thare le nse ne hed ta beipeeh,. It is: while we for others’ great fo tes 4 That the wolf is on watch at the doo When only the tate, What pee tothe: Toate i ha? 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