The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1924, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER. Pubitshed by by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING C Oo. : 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 months $6.00 per year ~ $8.00 per year Address all mafl and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE j MORITZ J. LOEB. Chicago, Illinois .. Editors -Business Manager at the Post- arch 3, 1879, Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 19: Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of } i <2 290 lv ertising rates on application The Chinese Puzzle We are indebted to the Chicago Tribune for "* making an open breast of the United States align- ik ment in China. American capital is backing Wu { Pei Fu, the Chihlian dictator. It is trne The | DAILY WORKER had . already explained the Chinese puzzle and showed where the big powers { stvod in the civil war which is now tearing China to pieces, but it is gratifying to have our ¢ rnosis confirmed by such a distinguished capitalist authority as the Tribune. The Chinese situation a very gobd object lesson for those who believe that the capitalist is - powers are serious in their peace maneuvers. Fe While the League of Nations was babbling over | “peace protocols” and Herriot aygd MacDonald i were pledging the love of brothers in their crusade i against war, England and America were putting f up a united front in China behind Wu Pei Fu, \ while France and Japan were supporting Chang i Tso-Lin, the Manchurian war lord. The Chinese puzzle is no longer puzzling. Those who follow the civil war in that country are get- ting acquainted with the names of the saetsiel These generals are generally the puppets of the _capitalist powers. Dr. Sun Yat Sen is the one out- standing figure who puts the interests of the { Chinese masses above his own personal aggrandise- { ment. Sun has the support of Soviet Russia and ; behind Sun are the great teeming millions of China who now have for the first time in their history a great.friendly power as a neighbor. That power is Soviet Russ China is now the cock pit of the deadly compe- tition between the United States and Japan over the domination of the Far East. The other powers bear the same relation to the two main combat- t ants, that the allies of England on one side and of ¢ Germany on the other bore to the struggle waged | between those two giant powers over «the com- mercial supremacy which is now lost by both of H them to the United States. i ‘Seeds of a new world war are being sown in| i‘ China. The capitalists are always sowing the seeds of war. But into the Orient has come a new world ee power, a power that speaks a new language. It is not_the lying language of old-fashioned diplomacy. It carries the message of emancipation to the ex- ‘ploited millions of Asia and calls upon the plundered peoples of the cast to break their chains and tread the path to real freedom under the tutelage of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics of Russia. The red flag flies today in many parts of China and the capitalist powers are “seeing red.” Another “Red Exposure” | Chicago and its environs are soon to be treated fe to another gigantic “red exposure.” This time Chi- cago’s leading evening paper announces-that an equally leading ex-secret service man will tell the world about the nefarious doings and plans of the “terrible reds.” There are many reasons why this. sort of cam- paign against the class-conscious workers is bound to fall flat. For one thing the scheme to howl against the “reds” and charge them with fantastic bomb plots, with assassination schemes has been tried so often and failed as often, that even the most credulous can no longer be fooled. Then, the Communists have shown on many occasions to many workers that they are the ones who fight hardest for the interests of the working class and fight openly and courageously. Add to these veasons the fact that the Commupists now have a press whieh helps them considerably not only in stating their own case before the masses, but also, * in refuting the lies, the vicious canards being circulated against them by the open shoppers, by the employing \ The new hero who will tell the yarns about the unists is a notorious detective who has been caught red-handed in many vile misrepresentations against workingmen. The new “expert” is none other than stoolpigeon of the rankest type parad- ing under the name of Spolansky. He is the same spy who boasted of having sneaked his way over to Bridgeman in order to help organize an attack on a Communist meeting. It would appear that the spy Spolansky has been fired by the federal department of justice be- use his services were not needed. Obviously the Washington red-baiting authorities are thru with the “goods” Spolansky has been de- stag to them. The Bridgeman experience alone has proved such a boomerang to the authorities of “law and.order” that the agents connected with attack must necessarily have shown their “inside” stories to be told by Spolansky — be the usual tissue of hackneyed lies, They be woven out of the whole cloth. The DAILY promises to turn the searchlight on weird tales and expose them and the “exposer” Of the Road toa Militant Union They are well on the road to victory, these working militants in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Neither Sigman, nor Perlstein, nor the whole treacherous crew of labor fakers now in control of that union will be able to stem the tide of rank and file demand for a militant union in the class struggle. It was good news, indeed, and a telling symptom of a new day, that mass meeting of protest of the workers in the dressmaking and cloak trades, held in Cooper-Union in New York, Saturday, October 11, It was a manifestation and proof -that the membership of that union will not stand any longer for collaboration with the bosses, secret diplomacy and dictatorial bureaucracy in the af- fairs of their union. What is to become of our union? This is the question at present on the lips of nearly every member of the International Ladies’ Gatment Workers’ Union. Where are we drifting to? Do we still have a union? For all practical purposes this organization is no longer an independent working class body. The Sigman machine has developed its so-called arbi- class tration tactics to such a degree as to deliver the ution all but completely into the hands of the manufacturers and government agents. It is no longer the membership that directs the affairs of the union but the bosses working int col- laboration with Al Smith, Tammany Hall governor of New York state. Such is the practical effect of the Sigman-Perlstein arbitration schemes. This state of affair calls for_renewed vigor on the part of every loyal member of the union in a concerted struggle against the betrayal of the trade union officialdom. It becomes the sacred duty of every militant in the International Ladies’ rment Workers’ Union to rally to the demands of the Cooper Union mass meeting that the union be penne to the rank and file to serve the work- 's and not the bosses, Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party: On a Labor Faker’s Trail The series of articles now appearing in The DAILY WORKER, exposing the crooked career of Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois Miners’ Union, throw a light on the technique of this species of pest, which has had such a dam- aging effect on the trade union ‘movement of the United States. Farrington is only one of many, but a particular- ly odious specimen we must confess. Since he first joined the miners’! union, he has consistently availed himself of every opportunity to advance his own material interests at the expense of the coal operators, he has maintained his stranglehold to line up with the capitalists and their political agents in the democratic and republican parties. Farrington is a wealthy man today: With the aid of the capitalist parties and the coal operators, he has maintained his stranglehold on the miners’ union. But it appears as if his power to wreck the industrial might of the coal miners of Illinois is,about to see the end. There is today thruout the mining fields of this state a well or- ganized body of progressive miners who are deter- mined to rid the union of this crooked capitalist lackey. The DAIL¥ WORKER expose ts a_ valuable weapon in the hands of the progressive miners in District 12. It will provide them with the am- munition to use agaimst Farrington. It will prove in black and white to the deluded miners whom he has so far succeeded in fooling with his specious falsehoods that if the union is to be saved from an- nihilation, Frank Farrington, the tool of the coal operators, must be sent into retirement. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. . o—r “Pacifist” Imperialism Following the best—or worst—traditions of British imperialism, Premier MacDonald has given scant consideration to the Sudanese demand for home rule under the Egyptian government. Zaghlul Pasha, the Egyptian premier, has been rebuffed apparently and it is probable, that the policy followed. in India, that of discouraging de, mands for independence with airplane bombs, will be extended to include the Sudanese whose recent demonstrations have alarmed the foreign office. MacDonald has made too many concessions to the British imperialists to be able to change the policy of suppression at this late date even tho his protestations of concern for the welfare of subject peoples could be taken at their.face value. As a matter of fact, the MacDonald government has never attempted to make any change in the personnel or control of the foreign office and the disciples of Curzon have had a freer hand than ever before in meting out punishment to the colonial nationalities. It is poticable that the liberal journals of the middle class in the United States that laud Mac- Donald to the skies have very little to say abou a foreign-policy which convicts this preacher of pacifism for the workers of being more brutal in his attitude teward the oppressed colonial peoples than the most outspoken upholder of the empire. |" teen enmeeeicneci Hoover Predicts rags Future For Radio Industry. Headline. This master mind vill undoubtedly take a long chancerone of these days and announce that two and two make four. Send in that new “sub” today! THE DAILY WORKER ‘Soviet Georgia Tells Its Story (Continued ’ from page 1) the state administration and of popu- lar education along with the full se- curity of the rights of the national minorities. For the first time in its history Georgia, has been covered by a close net work of educational institutions, for the maintenance of which the So- viet government devotes 54 per cent of the state budget. In the atmos phere of undisturbed peace the labor of the workers and peasants of Soviet Georgia is converting this country into a center of highest culture. Intellectuals Join Reaction. But this prospect which stirred our hearts with joy, infuriates those trai- tors to our cause, the Georgian men- sheviki. As they consider themselves not only to be the outpost of all the forces of Georgian reaction but also an integral part of Buropean reaction the leaders of the Georigan menshe- viki, consisting entirely of intellec- tuals, and abandoned by all the work: ers and peasants without exception nave entered into a close political and military fighting alliance with the par. ties of the bourgeois feudal reaction here at home and with the bourgeois imperialist governments of Europe, For three years the oyerthrowr government of the mensheviki with Jordanija, Tschenkeli, Zeretelli, Tsch- eidse and others at the head has been conspiring with the leaders of the Second International and intriguing with the governments of the capitalist powers of Europe for the overthrow of the Soviet power in Georgia, where- by they promised the imperialists in the event of their restoration to power to give access thru menshevik Georgia to the oil wells of Baku and Central Asia, This reactionary group whose means was not difficult to discover, has uninterruptedly carried on a dis- organizing and. provocatory propa- ganda within the country and is con- stantly\ endeavoring to bring to nought \all the results of our recon- structive work, These destructive tendencies have particularly increased since the recognition of the Soviet Union by a number of European states and have assumed an outspo- ken brigandlike character. Before their natural death, before their dis- appearance from political existence, the intellectuals, the shabby remnants of the menshevik party have put forth all their final efforts in close union with the expropriated feudal owners, traders, parsons and monks and assisted by the armed bands of reaction who took to the forests in order to escape the laws of the work- ers’ and peasants’ government, they have attempted to draw the sword against the proletarian dictatorship. Under the fraudulent slogan of “liberating” Georgia, that is. its lib- eration from the rule of the prole- tarian dictatorship and for its en- slavement to European capitaly they intended to stir up the masses of workers and peasants to joverthrow the Soviet power. These attempts took place in a few localities of one of the provinces of Georgia, but. met with an equally vapid and inglorious end. Not only the working class of Georgia without exception has actively opposed them, but the whole working peasantry re- pudiated them, isolated the handful of adventurers and thereby rendered pos- sible the rapid liquidation of the ad- venture by the Communist forces almost without any Sudrticlpation ee the regular army, * Revolutionary Order Reigns. Was any other attitude on the part of the working.masses possible? Could it be otherwise than that the class consciousness of the workers flared up in anger against those who during the two or three hours of rule in one or two small localities, in close union with former landowners, trad- ers, house owners and parsons has- tened to decree the restoration of private property in the means of pro- duction, in buildings and land? Would it not have been monstrous if the contrary had been the case? It was unavoidable therefore that this at- tempt at an action became converted into a faree,, even tho a teneeatte and criminal one. f DECLARATION OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF GEORGIA The following declaration, issued Sept. 3, is the one referred to in the accompanying manifesto of the Tiflis Soviet.—Editor’s Note. 'HE Committe for the Independence of Georgia having from the first day of its formation set itself the aim of re-establishing the inde- pendence of Georgia was convinced that it would be able to prepare and carry out an armed insurrection of the Georgian nation for this pur- pose. To this end the committee for Independence thru the medium of the parties affiliated to it, in the course of eral years, carried on the appropriate work and organized armed group: On the other hand, thru the medium of an office abroad, it strove to create in. the western Euro- pean states, and particularly In France and England, suitable conditions for receiving help. But our hope failed to materialize and consequently we suffered a defeat. The organized mass insurrection which we had been expecting did not take place. The broad masses of the people did not support us. We were left alone with those active forces which had been recruited from the upper circles of the nation and which had for the greater part hidden themselves in the forests: Our action, practically against our will, became converted inte-a mere adventure which was, of course, followed by strong reprisals on the part of the authorities, the responsibility for which lies wholly with us. In acknowledging its error in preparing this ie the committee for independence declares that, beginning from this day, tle continuation of armed struggle against the Soviet power appeared to be doomed to com- plete failute and to be disastrous for the Georgian nation. In view of this, the committee for independence calls upon all parties affiliated with it and upon all armed groups which have dispersed themselves in the remote*corners of Georgia, amongst them the armed troops of Kakutz, Tsholokashvili, to cease immediately from any further action against the government, to disband all their armed forces, to give up all weapons to the governmental organs, and by obedience to the government to mitigate that enormous disaster which our insurrection has brought upon the Georgian people. Beginning from this day we declare th to be dissolved, ip the center as well as ing K. ‘committee of independence 1, provinces, ANDRONIKASHVILI, President. I, JAVAKHASHVILI, Secretary. BOTSHORISHVILI, JINORIA (Member of the C. C. of the Georgian Social-Democrats) . ISHKMELI, (Member of the C. ©. of the Georgia National Democrats) Klean stober 14, 1924 There now reigns thruout the whole republic strict revolutionary order, which was not even disturbed for an hour either in the capital or in any of the big towns of the republic. The shamefil failure of the counter-revo- lutionary attempt of the Georgian re- actionaries had to be recognized even by the fighting organization of the re- actionaries, the so-called “Committee for Independence,” whose declaration of the 3rd of September we heartily recommend to your attention in order that you should become familiar with this document proving the shame and the’ degradation of one of the parties i of the Second International. 4 Fellow workers, fellow peasants of ‘4 Europe! a The capitalist and social democratic f press will attempt to deceive you re- t garding the events in Georgia, They { will serve you up _ hair-raising 4 stories of revolt on the part of the Georgian people, as they have repeat- edly done hitherto. Do not believe their lies! Before the sitting of fhe League of Nations the reaction has decided to carry out the despicable comedy of a general uprising of the people in or- der that the meeting of the interna- tional slave holders in Geneva could demand the handing over of Soviet Georgia to them under the mask of restoring the rights ofa “democratic government” of Jordanjia. But this, comrades, will not happen. We are not going to enter.the prison house of capitalism again no. more than the peasants of Georgia are long: ing for the return of the feudal lords drivensout by the Soviet government. We are determined to defend the So- viet system with our lives, apart from b which we have no hope of favorable conditions for or final renaissance as a class and for our national-cultural development. And we have the right to expect from you, our fellow-work- ers, that you will allow no fresh be- trayal of the broad masses of the ’ workers by the leaders of the Sec- ond International, who are conspiring with the former ‘ministers of the Georgian mensheviki against the workers’ and peasants’ power in Georgia. : The Soviet of the workers, the mem- bers of the red army and of the peas- ant deputies of Tiflis sends you ite fraternal greetings and emphasizes that the only thing we are jonging for is peace and quiet in order to carry 'y on creative ‘work for the up-building of the proletarian state and the great alliance of the workers of the whole world. Long live the revolutionary, cause of the workers of all countries! i Down with reaction, which con-) spires behind the screen of the Second : International! ad ee oe AS WE SEE | (Continued from page 1) ° of the leaders are catholics in name only and rarely attend mass or any of the other Catholic services. This element favors a friendly alliance with the Masonic order. The bishops are strongly opposed to this move, fearing its effect on the rank and file who are led to believe that all those who are not Catholics go to hell, after death. » oe os ARREN 8. STONE has not yet made any reply-to the corre- spondence published by John L. Lewis concerning the relations between the United Mine Workers of America and the scab coal mines operated by the Brotherhood of Locomotive ‘ineers, thru Stone, the head of that ofganiza- tion. Stone being a leader in the La- Follette movement, which claims to entertain good intentions towards the workers, is expected. to fut up some kind of defense. But then another scab mine operator is Oswald Garri- son Villard, one of the earliest sup- porters of “Fightin’ Bob.” Not alone is Villard operating a scab mine, but he ran the New York Evening Post, open shop, when he owned that pa- per, and on a recent visit to Chicago, he held a banquet ina scab hotel. We indebted to the Federated Press ‘for this information, o e2—8 'HE PRINCE OF WALES is coming to Chicago. It is rumored that secret orders have been isued to the police to “lay off” the bootleggers while his royal higness is in town. There may not be any truth in’ this report of course, but it is only fair that the prince be given the benefit of the doubt. The Swift family was selected to do the entertainment hon- ors. Those of you who have followed the financial gyrations of the big packers will marvel where the Swifts got the money to put on a swell party, All the packers have been de- clared bankrupt quite frequently within the past two years, yet Soi of them have yet applied for a berth in the poor house, the “Labor” Party will make gains in the general HINGS are livening up + Nite bit tn Mgiand. "B. seappaneiae: tt San Francisco correspondent, native of Liverpool, that such things are quite.common in England and that we should not apply the rod of castiga- tion too freely to the political hide of Ramsay, because he only did what Lloyd George and other British poli- ticians have done before. iy ae ‘HE DAILY WORKER wil not shed any tears over MacDonald’s ex- posure as a political grafter, who hides his treachery under the mantle of a most nauseating hypocricy, but it is a pretty state of affairs when @ social democratio renegade is ex- cused for accepting thirty thousand pounds from a capitalist tory politic: ian merely on the ground that capital- ist politicians have done the same thing. The saving grace of the inci- dent is that it provides a club with which to hasten MacDonald’s political death. The bribe incident is not Mac- Donald’s greatest crime. His utter be- trayal of the working class is his major sin, The “auto” is merely a partial payment ae ~~ treachery. * 'E situation a the Brit- ish Empire is by no means a happy one. Aside from trouble in Egypt, India, Ireland, South Africa, Mesopotamia, and China, the unefn- ployment problem atshome is becom- ing more and more acute. There are 1,500,000 workers without jobs in Britain, and there is no ~prospect of 11 y (Pape itonereaeccersopn ROROUG: bral AS By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN avowed purpose of producing ul- tra modern works. The Progressive Symphony Orchestra, made) its debut at Kimball Hall under the baton of B®. F. Harder, whose compositions made up most of the program. Harder’s music is modern en Mf. | English their ever being employed again under capitalism, The cost of living has risen over pre-war days 184 per cent. The British income from foreign in-; vestments has dropped from one bil- lion dollars per annum to 500,000,000 dollars... Britain is losing ets in every country in the world. America is her strongest rival. Even her colo- nies are now becoming industrialized and are turning up their noses at the “Mother Country.” But the men of the “bull dog breed”, the ruling class of England, will not quit without a fight. id there will be a flight with America unless“in the meantime, the working class of England fight it out with their masters. Ee) e f OVIET RUSSIA is getting along rather nfcely in the Orient these days. Red flags are flying-in many parts of China over Soviet embass- jes and consulates. The Chinese Eastern Railway is in Communist hands. The tuchun, Wu Pei Fu, backed by British and American gold is getting a good trouncing by Chang, backed by Japan, and not opposed at least by Soviet Russia, It would not be surprising if the British and Am- erican capitalists were eating crow in- stead of rice, before long, as far as China is concerned. os v *. ge Sr con ote aoe with Russia in a few France, according to _smertsw wil much the colorful and rhythmic style of Borodin. with an expressive and beautiful Eng- lish horh solo in the second move- ment. > “The clarinet,” said an eminent : theorist to me last summer, By T. J. O'Flaherty recognize the Soviet government not later than this week, The* Frénch, vassal states that have not yet estab- al jlished diplomatic relations with Mos- cow are expected to follow the French lead. This will mean that ail the big world powers and most of the small ones will have bowed the knee to the power of the Russian workers. / Only Silent Cal and his whiske: secre- tary of state, Hughes, co: ue to ignore the greatest revolution in te \ tory. { ef © ; T appears that France has broken decisively with the Vatican. This’ is a matter of considerable impor- tance. American radicals are prohe to underestimate the influence of the Roman church in world politics, tho loons of the Ku Klux Klan type see a aay knight behind every lamp Post. Present pope, while sta- tioned at Se was largely respon- sible for organizing the Franco-Polish offensive against Rus: He was re- warded for his services by thé papacy. The Vatican acquired great influence during and after the war. It was a useful agency to keep the cannon fod- der from revolting? But it has passed the peak of its influence and is now on Sd di . ‘The French deflection is the’ most severe blow it could re- ceive in Europe, short of an Italian | proletarian revolution which would .|mean the liquidation of the biggest ligious opium jolnt in the world. filled up with unmusical junk to give the virtuoso a good Right in line with the trend of ae a AS ith te teen clarinets and bass clarinet, also lab Harder, PintorGunately. 2 was