The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1924, Page 6

i | 3 i PIES attendance! Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. ———— Published by the DAILY WORKHR PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $4180.06 months : ee months By mail (in Chicago only): . $4.50....6 momths $2.50....3 months | \ $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make ont checks to THE DAILY WORKER | 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ilinole qe VOUIS -ENGDARY arecnepeonrtnssrnannnoreenosnees HICICORD WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOE! «wn Business Manager ——$— Intered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post ofice at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, <p 290 Advertising rates on application eee me ee a The ZR-3 There is rejoicing among the bourgeoisie of Ger- many over the feat of the great airship that sailed from that country to the United States in 81 hours, But there is also gnashing of teeth. While the building of the monster airship is a great mechanical feat that reflects credit on the industrial prowess of Germany, the fact that this ship, which bears the once mighty name of Zep- pelin, is now in the hands of the power that humbled the mighty empire of the Hohenzollerns in the dust, is bitter gall to the militant national- ists of Germany. In a world freed from the curse of capitalism, the breeder of wars, the accomplishment of the ZR-3 would be hailed with unalloyed joy. But to the class-conscious section of the American work- ing class the flight brings forth visions of dropping bombs and burning ities, of mangled bodies and devastated countrysides, of the horrors of another capitalist war in which the ingenuity of mankind will be taxed in the mania for destruction. The ZR-3, made in Germany but paid. for by United States dollars, is a symbol of American capitalist might. There is no glory here for, the American working class out of whose weary bodies the dollars were wrung. There is no glory for the German workers who toiled to produce this modern air monster. The honor and the glory are for the American ruling class. Today American capitalism sits on the top of the world. But a mightier power than organized capitalism is arising. It will wring the sceptre of power from the hands: of our ruling class. It is the power of the awakening giant of labor. The New York Campaign The Foster meeting in New York on Sunday, October 19, will mark a high spot in one of the most vigorous campaigns ever waged in New York ee . ° Anticipation—Not Anxiety There have been many heart-rendering pangs at the passing from the. field of revolutionary magazines of the Labor Herald, the Liberator, and the Soviet Russia Pictorial. Each one of these printed expressions of distinct revolutionary: cur- rents had its field, and its friends, thousands of them. Today, with the announcement that the | three are to be combined into one great periodical, the WORKERS MONTHLY, these partisan hosts of the one or the other are suffering some anxiety. We counsel them, one and all, to be glad and make merry, for the new magazine, the WORKERS MONTHLY, is going to do more than merely take the place of the lost one. The WORKERS MONTHLY is a synthesis of all the best of the three magazines it supersedes—and a great deal more. It would not be fair to tell ‘you what is going into the first issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY. Nor could you form any idea of what it will look like if we told you the table of contents. There is something added to any magazine, some sort of a personal quality, the sense of which you get only when you hold a copy in your hand.. So it would be damning with faint praise to tell you its con- tents. Sufficient it- will be to say that. the American labor movement, at no time in its history, has had a magazine of such surpassing excellence. In one way'or another, even the best of them have been— naturally, no doubt—a little one-sided, devoted to one or another phase of the world-wide and all pervading revolutionary struggle. Now we are to have a comprehensive magazine. Some ‘people, even some revolutionists, are serious minded. There will be roast beef-for them. But humor, especially the graphic sort, is a rich "element of the class struggle. The editor of the WORKERS MONTHLY will feed the grapes to the wine press and the foaming, sparkling vintage will be yours. - Poetry, too, is the crystallized song of life. If they are songs of the workers, they, too, will find a place in the pages of the WORKERS MONTHLY. Politics, national and international, is the vital force of the whole struggle. We shall find keen political analysis and guidance in the WORKERS MONTHLY. Stories of industry, the contact point of the classes, written by that marvelous conjuncture, workers who are writers, will have their place in the WORKERS. MONTH- LY. -And all the new life of great Russia, the first working class republic, the land of the soviets, will be told in both word and picture. For there will be profuse illustrations, by photo and pen. We told you that there would be something else added to all the contents. Yes, that is true. For in addition to the body of the magazine, the some- thing that you hold in your hand and may weigh upon the scale, you will have in the WORKERS MONTHLY the revolutionary spirit of LENIN- by any working class political party. Comrade Foster will address two meetings on that date, one in New York and one in Brooklyn. The New York Communists deserve credit for the energy which they injected into the campaign from the beginning. Needless to say, it is not a vote-catching campaign such as was indulged in by the socialist party, before it became part of the ingredients that go to make up the LaFollette chop suey. Besides putting forward the Communist pro- gram, our comrades also made very effective use of the campaign for bringing in new members to the party and securing subscriptions for The DAILY WORKER. One of the most interesting items on Comrade Fosters’ New York program is the presentation of a red silk Bolshevik banner to the branch that makes the best record. That the conglomeration of camouflaged cap- italist lackeys sailing under the LaFollette colors are incensed at the success’ of the campaign waged by the New York Communists is proven by the ar- rest of one of our comrades, at the instigation. of the fake progressive Congressman LaGuardia. These acts of desperation, instead of dampening the ardor of the Communists only encourage them to increased efforts. Workers of New York and Brooklyn should not miss the opportunity of hearing William Z| Foster, the only revolutionary candidate for president of the United States, speak on Sunday, Oct. 19, at the New Star Casino, 107th street and Park avenue, Manhattan, at 2 p. m., and at 8 p. m. on the same day at Arcadia Hall, Brooklyn. The Youth to the Factories The aim of all Communist érganizations is to be based on units organized in the factories, mines and fields for the purpose of political organization, education and activity. In the endeavors to re- organize on this basis of shop nuclei, the Young Workers League pas been in the forefront. Folowing out its national program of action, the Chicago yinit of the league has taken the first step its reformation * toward basis. i It is an excellent sign of the invasion by the young Communists of the , industries where tae youthful toilérs feel the bitter lash of exploita- tion, and where: the league members, with their program of ecovomie and political demands, can rally the young workers to the standards of Com- munism. The factory youth will form the backbone of a powerful young\Communist movement. The young Communist movement will be, more than ever be- fore, one of the strongest arms of the American revolutionary ‘movement. All success to the young reds. Let the area branch meetings tonight have an unprecedented into the shop nucleus ISM. What more could a worker ask for? The British Fascisti The news that the membership of the black-shirt organization in Great Britain has reached the figure of one hundred thousand may come as a shock to those who hug the delusion that England is so crazy about constitutionalism, since Cromwell chopped the head off King Charles, that the transi- tion from capitalism to socialism will take place without even the king having to chop wood for his breakfast. But the bourgeoisie of England are no happier over the prospect of losing their graft than their contemporaries in other countries. Regardless of the failure of Fascism in Italy and Spain the THE DAILY WORKER 8 (Continued from page 1) “underworld” in the machinery of gov- ernment on which the decadent cap- italist power rests. “Framing up la- bor men, for instance, is engineered by these underworld characters, but paid for by their employers. Some times the employers are double-cross- ed. Sometimes they pay for extrava- gant “investigation” where no investi- gations ‘are really needed. But the fact that there is a place in the gov- ernment for these finks, and that daily hewspapers give prominent space to their bleary-eyed fiction, proves that capitalism consciously and deliberate- ly uses this method to combat the struggles of the working class to free “BILL” HEARST MADE BID FOR “JAKEY'S” BUNK Randolph Gagged at Price of Hokum What’s the prevailing market rate for “red” scares? It seems to be high. William Ran- doph Hearst, owner of a string of newspapers thruout the country which exist only on scares and scandals, failed to outbid the Chicago Daily News for the series of articles by Jacob Spolansky, which the News is now running. o And while Hearst's pockets seem to be sewed up tight when it comes to paying his reporters a living wage, he is quick to come across when he can pull a “stunt” that will send up the circulation of the papers. - His Price was High. But Hearst wouldn’t have Spolan- sky's “red” stories—at least, not at the price at which Spolansky was ped- dling them. Spolansky has told the DAILY WORKER how he let the cap- italist newspapers, one after the other send the price for the “red’ scares higher and higher, In the end the Daily News outbid Hears$, and the Daily News forked up—the money has already been paid—and the Daily News is now running the articles. Jake Got the Dough. “What good does the publishing of these articles do me?” said Spolansky last night in answer to a question from the DAILY WORKER. “lve been paid good money for them. And what good does it do the News? Well, they predict that the circulation will go up immediately.” I talked yesterday with the news editor of the Daily News--a small frightened-looking: man by the name of Chapell. Chapell reminds you of nothing in the world excepting the smaller end of a worm that has been cut in two. But Chapell has a bull’s voice. And he shouted wildly when he found that a DAILY WORKER re- porter had come to see him, The rest of the editors were “busy.” Their office boys said so. Their priv- ate secretaries said so. Their sten- ographers said so. As one of the guards explained: “Five minutes is a “boys of the bulldog” breed have. an idea that where the Latins failed the Anglo-Saxons will be successful. The British ruling class have no intention of surrendering their power without a struggle and unless they break their necks in a quarrel with their American competitors, they will wreck them in a civil war with the British working class. For the moment the services of the British so- cialists are accepted as a necessary evil, but how- ever implicit may be the faith of the bourgeoisie in the loyalty of the MacDonalds, Snowdens and Thomases, they have a wholesome .dread of ‘the masses behind these traitors who have not had their eyes opened yet to their perfidy. The British Fascisti, like their tribe in every other country, make no secret of their ‘intentions to employ extra legal force against jthe> workers They are armed to the teeth, equipped with modern, appurtenances of war and ready to answer the call to aetién at a moment’s notice. They are financed by the tory landowners and the big oap- italists. u $ The British labor party government that has ar- rested Communists for alleged seditious articles in the Communist press, raided their homes and spied on their meetings, has tolerated the Fas- cisti in their midst even tho this element has openly violated the law. ‘ Pi What does this prove? Simply that the British labor party is a governing organ of capitalism; that it looks on the Fascisti as a possible successor, when the condition of the British Empire becomes such that parliamentary democracy must go by the board, The British Fascisti are using violence to up- hold tie robber capitalist system. The British Communists are avowedly out to overthrow it. There is the difference, and like the social-demo- erats of Germany, the British socialist govern- ment is.ready to shoot the Communists while pay- ing the way for the Fascisti’s coming to power. It.is possible the British Fascisti may have come too late, but there is no telling what may happen these days. In any event it looks as if the British love for “law-and order” is going to be put to test. ' a8, 3 good bit of time for those people.” Hard Working Editors. The staff of the Daily News was busy. A large part of it was sitting around the tables playing poker. And five minutes is a great deal of time. In the five minutes which you might give for a courteous answer to a re- porter, your opponent might bluff a royal flush with a pair of deuces. There is a general impression among the staff of the Daily News that the man really responsible for the Spolansky articles is “Bill” Forte. Whenever I asked for an interview with the person in charge of the “red” stories, | was promptly referred to “Bill” Forte. But Forte claims to know nothing about the matter. He says he is only a reporter. “Bill” Fumigates the Offal. Is it “Bill” Forte who is writing up Spolansky’s articles in literate form? On one thing the editors were agreed~—that they would print no let- ters or stories sent in to them mak- ing corrections in the Spolansky stor: ies. f I explained that Spolansky had been thrown out of the department of jus- tice at the same time as Burns. I showed that his technique was even too crude for the government in these days of loudly smelling oil pots. The reply came quickly: “But he'll do for us.” But how much more sensational these “exposures” could be! Spolan- sky says that we meet in groups, that Wwe spread literature, that we form a party. And he expects his readers to be startled. r Jakey Missed Something. °~ Spolansky doesn't seem to know the half of it. He dosen't know about the junior groups of Bolsheviks which the Workers Party has formed in the pub- lic schools. He tells nothing of our great daily press. He applies. super- lative adjectives to the most inno- cent and least “damning” expressions of Communism, Again we Communists have been ar- rested for political murder. And brot to trial, we are charged with nothing more than political Sabbath-breaking. / cae * itself from wage slavery. § Burne Milke U. 8. Treasury.. -~ That is how William J. Burns was able to get a stranglehold on the federal department of justice, long be- fore he had any official connection with it. Burns milked the government treasury, and he made use of the se- cret service organization to further his own private detective business, but he returned value received to the Wall Street-owned government, neverthe- less. ‘The Labor Defense Council has look- ed into the career of Burns pretty thoroly.' It was as a Burns client that Warren G. Harding took office as pres- ident of the United States. In 1919, he had bought spurious “anti-red” stories from Burns for his paper at Marion, Ohio. Burns is an ot} “iend of Daugherty’s.. He has worked in close association’ with the ‘Ohio crowd” for years. He boasted, even before the 1920 election, that if Hard- ing should be elected president he, Burns, would be made boss of the secret service, under Daugherty. Espionage is Organized. One of the first things Burns did when he got the job was to organize a widespread system of. industrial es- pionage.. He -established the “bureau of identification,” which (incidentally) served him excellently for his own in- ternational business.’ He took people like Spolansky into the secret service in droves, making that branch of the government an even more vicious ad- Junct’ of: capitalist rule than it had (Continued from Page 1.) bellish the advertising and preserve the system of society on which the advertisers thrive—makes the follow- ing statement in an editorial: ‘Mere- ly to be here with a chance to work for American wages and an American living, is the happiest hope of many a man, woman and child over there,” referring to Europe. We note that the Prince of Wales is not one of the Europeans whose fondest hope is to. work for an American wage. It would be interesting to learn what the five or six millions of unemployed American workers think of this jour- nalistic vomit! * 8 @ E fall of the Spanish dictator- ship as a result of the Morocco fiasco. may result in liberating the 23,000 Workers who are in Spanish dungeons. Strange is it not that our great American lovers of democracy will shake the hand of a black shirt dictator; who governs the many with AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. the swords of the few, but they will not even touch the hem of the gar- ments of the representatives of the workers of Russia whose dictatorship is of the many, by the many and for the many. .* * NITED States Ambassador Moore, Morgan’s chief agent in Spain likes King Alfonso very much. He calls Alfy. “Chief,” I suppose. our. Ital- ian ambassador calls Mussolini “Ben- ny.” Perhaps they *shoot craps to- gether when “Benny” is: not busy murdering some Italian workers. But the black shirt dictatorships have fallen on evil days. Even the coward- ly liberals are now gunning for them in Italy and ‘Spain. But the liberdls have not a-word to say about the thousands of workers who are rotting in prison. The workers must not de- pend on the liberals. They must take on the task of freeing themselves. Join the Workers Party! Daily News Unblushingly Continues to Publish Lies earariomenacnemmarimsentty Friday, October 17, 1924 | been in the days of Wilson and A. Mitchell Palmer, As I have hinted once or twice be- fore, Burns did not give up the activ direction of his private detective agency when he went to work for the government. Altho nominally operat: ed by other members of the Burns family during this time, William J. exercised ‘personal supervision over the business. In a subsequent article prepared thru the co-operation of the Labor Defense Council, the DAILY WORKER will go into all the details of the Wall Street bomb explosion of 1919, advertised for “exposure” by Spolansky in the Daily News. The DAILY WORKER will show how Burns used the government in this. case in attémpting to frdme up radi- cals so that the William J.. Burns In- ternational Detective agency could se- eure the profitable employment of rounding them up. Labor Defense Council Active. _The Labor Defense Council is, as its name implies, a defense organization. At its offices, 166 W. Washington St., it is collecting funds for the defense of all Workers Party members prosecut- ed because of their opinions or beliefs. But that defense is mogt effective which is also an attack. Therefore, the Labor Defense Council has been conducting a systematic campaign against the finks and stool-pigeons which are used by the employers against the labor movement. In the course of its investigations it has come upon some interesting material. Much of this will be made available to readers of the DAILY WORKER. Spolansky is a type that the labor movement should understand thoroly. Ignoramus that he is, he represents a system that accomplishes its purposes by means of brutality, deception and frame-ups. Even should the Chicago Daily News wish to repudiate him, it could not. He is an essential part of the present order, on which it too de- pends, another instrument of the same regime, flesh and bone of the same system, Born of a Wish and of the needs and desires of the working class, the Daily Worker—with the aid of the meager funds and the untiring efforts of those who must labor to live—has in the ten months of its exist- > ence established itself as “The National Labor Daily.” It is hereto stay. The future size of the Daily Worker and its ability to better fight the worker's battles rests en- tirely in your hands. 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