The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1924, Page 6

ee ee ec eSB R tn Page Six ‘THE DAILY WORKER. ae ry Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, mi. (Phone: Monroe 4713) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50..6 months : wear months B: ll (in Chicago ently)? “4 a months $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. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL eee EGitore WILLIAM F. DUNNE {emnmansen MORITZ J. LOEB... Business Manager Chloago, IMiInols —_—_— as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Once at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 187%, <Q 290 Advertising na | on application ? The Sick Men William Gibbs McAdoo has good intentions to- ward the candidacy of John W. Davis, but gall in the bladder is not as necessary a part of a poli- tician’s equipment as gall in the head. So says McAdoo’s doctor. McAdoo vowed that he would campaign for Mor- gan’s favorite attorney just as soon as he returned from Europe. When he returned from Europe, in- stead of taking the stump he took to the hospital. He still had hopes that his health would im- prove sufficiently to enable him to take the plat- farm for candidate Davis. But his doctor would not hear of it. The best he could do was to issue a political bulletin, in which he showered confetti on Davis. Some of it landed on LaFollette. Wil- liam’s brother, Malcolm, is on the LaFolléette band- wagon. Like the Bryan brothers, politics seems to be a family affair with the McAdoos. Al Smith also promised to take off his coat and fight for Davis. But he also got sick. Instead of fighting for Davis, he is fighting for Tammany Hall and against Dr. Norman Thomas, who appears to have reached the conclusion that Al is not as good as he ought to be, but considering his early train- ing, he is better than the ‘company he keeps. Al has not taken off his coat for Davis. But he gives him the glad mitt whenever he sees him and bares his teeth, as much as to say: “Well, you old horse- thief, how do you like running for president?” The humor is subtle and hard to catch. The assistance given to Davis by his rivals for the democratic nomination would make excellent material for a Mack Sennet movie comedy. Al Smith is so sick that he had his picture taken in an invalid’s chair. But that does not prevent him from making several speeches daily in order to get himself elected governor of New York. McAdoo may be ill, but we venture the guess that if there was an operation necessary it was due to rupture brought on from excessive laughter at his dearly beloved friend Davis, who is as much out of place in this campaign as a total abstainer from alcohol on the staff of the prohibition director. It looks as if the democratic party might as well look around for an undertaker. McAdoo’s oil did it as much harm as the Ku Klux Klan. The elephant is a husky beast and can stand the punish- ment. The jackass is dying. McAdoo and Al Smith are succeeding in making a good imitation of the donkey’s bray in laughing at the efforts of Davis, who may go down in history as the last of the democratic Mohicans. Whether he goes down in history or not, he will surely go down to defeat next November. Wounded in Action The new chief of the American Legion is Jim Drain, one of the he-men so much admired by the American capitalists. The New York Times gives the new commander a lengthy boost with a photo- graph in which Drain is shown minus one arm. We are informed by the Times that arm is “some- where in Flanders.” But the distressing fact is that Drain’s arm is mingled with the dust pf Spokane county, Wash- ington, U. S. A., and that it became separated from the rest of the Drain anatomy while that worthy was squirrel hunting. Drain’s anatomical loss was also his gain, financially and politically. He learned from his- tory that not the least of Admiral Nelson’s at- traction for Lady Hamilton was his empty sleeve. Dain has an empty head to complete his equip- ment. In this respect he has it all over Nelson. When Gabriel’s trumpet blows on the Day of Judgment—according to our religious teachers— and the various parts of the Drain person start a united front campaign in order to appear present- able before Saint Patrick or Saint Peter or what- ever saint is on duty on that day, Drain will not be obliged to drain his funds buying a passport to France in order to collect the balance of himself. He will be a 100 per cent American. This is regrettable, but the truth must be told at all costs, It would be much more profitable for Drain and his backers if he could prove that a savage Prussian “Hun” bit off his arm from the shoulder while he was holding off single-handed an army of plundering Germans bent on pillaging an orphanage and perhaps eating the tenants for breakfast. Tt might also interest our readers to know that before Jim Drain was elected head of the Amer- iean Legion he made a living panhandling the cap- italists for funds to support his magazine, “Arms and the Man.” Its principal backer was Dupont. Calvin Coolidge may be silent, but he is not A-at, He hapxs Wall Street’s voice. 1 ‘ THE DAILY WORKER Hogs and Humans The nineteenth annual convention of the Insti- tute of American Meat Packers is now taking place in Chicago. The slogan of the convention is: “Give the Hog a Square Deal.” These money hogs never even considered the workers who make it possible for them to turn the hogs on the hoof into money in their jeans. The meat packers urge the workers to be kind to the hogs. It is an improvement on the theory of “civilized warfare” or the practice of allowing a condemned murderer to eat his fill of his favorite food before he goes to the electric chair or the gal- lows. “Don’t prod the hog with a pole. He can be driven just as easily without being prodded.” So can the workers as the capitalists have learned. Instead of using Simon Legrees with heavy whips to drive the workers, the capitalists nowadays use labor fakers and preachers of unity between. cap- ital and labor. The meat packers are not concerned with the hog’s comfort while he is alive, except in\so far as comfort affects his ability to put on weight. But the packers are very much concerned with the ap- pearance of the hog when he gets as far as the knife and fork on his way to the stomach of the consumer. Our eapitalist rulers are very excited over hogs, cats, dogs and horses, but the welfare of the work- ers is the last thing that enters their mind. Work- ers can be replaced with less cost than animals. The labor market is teeming with human slaves waiting for an opportunity to sell their labor power. If one of them dies the boss loses nothing. Another worker just as good is only too willing to take his place. . : ° The Fighting in Canton The efforts of the bourgeoisie of Southern China, aided by the British government, to overthrow Dr. Sun Yat Sen and his revolutionary government still persist. As the DAILY WORKER has fre- quently stated, a shipload of arms and ammuni- tion was sent by the British bank in Hong Kong to the Canton merchants with which to arm their Fascisti. Despite protests of the Sun government the arms were delivered—under the guns of British warships. But the Canton revolutionary workers did not relish the idea of seeing guns that would be used against them in the hands of their enemies. So they seized the arms. The events of the past week show that renewed efforts are being made by the merchants with the aid of the foreign capitalist governments, chiefly the British, to get rid of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. It should be noted that only in that part of China under the jurisdiction of Dr. Sun are labor unions legal, The workers in the rest of China are not allowed to organize. It appears strange that the British labor party government sMould sponsor such crimes as have been committed against the masses of China by the British capitalists. But after all it is not so strange. The British section of the Second Inter- national is a governing organ of capitalism and is rendering to the British capitalists who have money invested in China the same kind of service that it renders to those who profit by the exploita- tion of the people of Egypt, India, South Africa and other colonies of the Robber Empire. The only government in the world that is giving the Chinese masses_a friendly hand, is the Soviet government of Russia.under. the direction of the Russian Communist Party. The Scabby Y. M. C. A. The Young Men’s Christian Association is one of the favored socio-religious organizations of the American capitalists. On it they shower their generosity. In practically every city in the country the Y. M. C. A. has fine structures, built by the money raised from its capitalist supporters. And this money is a good investment for the capitalists. The Y. M. ©. A. has long been notorious as a strike-breaking organization. Evidence to support this charge is easily available. The latest anti-labor act of this craw-thumping, bible-pounding, hypocritical crew to come to our attention is the prosecution of John Berg, a lum- berjack in the state of Maine. The Y. M. C, A. refused lodging to the lumber workers who wanted to organize their fellow workers. The town babbits backed up the Y. M. C, A. and the lumberjacks instituted a boycott in retaliation. Then the cap- italist prosecutor got busy, and Berg is indicted on a.criminal libel charge. The task of overthrowing the capitalist system is no easy one. The capitalist system is buttressed not alone by its armed forces under the direction of the government, but by the thousands of institutions like the Y. M. C. A. that draw sustenance-from the robber system and in return serve as the willing tools of capitalism for any dirty work they may be called upon to do. | “Hell an’ Maria” Dawes praised, Eugene V. |Debs in Terre Haute, Ind., Débs’ home town. The General gave Debs credit for his willingness to sacrifice. The General has not yet gone on record as giving William Z, Foster credit for anything, except for being a revolutionist. Dawes knows who his real enemies are. The socialist party hdpes the sentiment for a labor party will be finally crystallized at the next January meeting of the C. P. P. A. The Bible says that “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.” | Send in that new “sub” today! r RT SC SERED TIES | Wednesday, October 22, 1924 British Laborite Speaks in Germany By ISRAEL AMTER. R. FENNER BROCKWAY, secre: tdry of the Independent Labor Party of Great Britain, came to Ber- lin to speak at the “No Mome War” meetings of the Amsterdam Trado Union and Second (Socialist) Interna- tionals. stuff off his chest: war is a hateful thing; the last war convinced the peo- ples that it must never happen again. But in spite of this hatred of war, it is the duty of the arch-pacifists to be on guard. They must propagate and organize, till the whole world will rise and put an end to this method of settling disputes between nations, and resort to the more hu- mane, progressive method or arbitra- tion. These meetings were attended by the whole galaxy of the social-demo- cratic and trade union leaders. There were a lot of small shopkeepers and lower government clerks there, too, all dressed in‘ prince alberts and silk top hats—that is all who pos- sessed such objects of the ice age. A fine crew to protest and agitate against war! Workers were few—for the workers are not only tired of war —but also tired of hearing all this nonsense of stopping war by only talking against it. Brockway a Pacifist. Since Mr. Brockway was in Berlin, there was nothing more natural than that the German War-Resisters’ Union should arrange a meeting and have Mr. Brockway talk. A most attrac tive subject was selected for his speech: “The British Labor Party and Peace.” Surely this would fit in with Mr. Brockway’s own ideas of peace. Who is Brockway? In addition to being secretary of the I. L. P., he is® war-resister. When the world war broke out, he refused to serve, and was sentenced to three years’ impris- onment. Before his confinement, how- ever, he had formed the War Resist- ers’ Union, and during the period of the war, he managed to collect a few thousands of young men and women of a similar train of thot. There are 6,000 , in the Union at the present time (the leaflet distributed at the meeting stated 16,000). So here we had a man who knew all about peace and the methods of bringing it about. Old Men are Audience. Mr. Brockway told about the joy he felt in speaking at this meeting—of standing face to face with people of a former enemy country and knowing that they had the same emotions about war that he entertained. (It must be stated that there were not many of these enthusiasts present. The meeting was to begin at 7:30 sharp, but by that time only about 70 people were present. So the chair- man, who evidently was a sociali- democrat, decided to wait a while. Finally 110 persons had paid 50 pfen- nigs to hear Mr. Brockway speak and there was no hope of others coming, so the meeting began. The audience was composed chiefly of elderly men |’ and women, with a sprinkling of youths. Frau Helene Stoecker was there to tell Mr. Brockway of the deep Joy that his speech had awakened in the breasts of all enlightened Ger- mans.) Then Mr. Brockway, in a few words, outlined to the audience the form of organization of the “Labor Party. He also described the difference between the three groups of the I. L. P. “The first group generally is against war between nations and against a force- ful social revolution, but believes that there the instances in which force is unavoidable. The second group is against imperialist war, but for force in the social revolution. The third {group is against both imperialist war and the use of force in any way.” MacDonald belongs to the first group ~-and Brockway, with twelve other I. L. P. members of the house of com- mons, to the last group. Talks About a Labor Party. Brockway considered it a somewhat risky thing for the Labor Party to take over the government in the ex- isting circumstances. “I, as a pacif- ist, believed that the Labor Party could not take power under such cir- Mr. Brockway got the usual}. the next weeks. Following this pol- icy will come debts, disarmament and security.” Just what the Russian pol- icy would be, he did not declare, Applauds MacDonald. Then Brockway became philosophi- cal. “The war was a manifestation of a civilization that was collapsing + But now the corner is turned. There is a tone of hopefulness, for which the foreign policy of Ma¢Don- ald is chiefly responsible.” Brockway held the achievements of the British Labor Party as the main stimulus that led to the fall of Poincare. “The Independent ‘Labor Party is completely dissatisfied with the Labor Party policy ‘toward India. At the coming conference of the Labor Party, the Independent Labor Party will pro- pose that all the Indian parties make recommendations for self-government and submit them to the British La bor government for approval. We be- lieve that the British troops must be withdrawn from India. The method of rule of Iraq by bombing must cease.” “Some may ask why the Danish labor government can pursue a com- plete disarmament policy and not the British. The reason is that the Dan- ish are self-contained; they have no imperialist tradition, which Great Britain passess. We believe that Den- mark can carry it out. . . . A great deal of education must be carried out, in view of Britain’s imperialist his- tory, before complete disarmament can be realized,” Mr. Brockway and his group in the house of commons are doing “heroic” work. They are voting against all militarism, all war, all imperialist plans. “There are now 6,000 war-re- sisters in England. There will be many, many more in case of a dispute between capitalist nations that lead to war. If we can get such groups in England, France, Germany, the small countries of Europe, American and Australia voting against war, it will be a break with the old war methods.” Speech Full of Contradictions. Mr. Brockway, a young man, very much resembling a Y. M. C. A. mis- sionary, delivered himself of this ip just 35 minutes, No-questions or dis- cussion were allowed. “The meeting was in the form of a demonstration,” said the sociali-democratic chairman— with 110 persons present! It is a good thing that no questions were asked and no discussion allowed, otherwise Mr. Brockway would have been put in an embarrasing position by the few Communists present, ex- plaining the “peace” of the British La- bor government. But as Mr. Brockway did not ex- plain these contradictions, let us look into his speech moré*elosely. “One step at a time enough for me,” is Ramsay MacDonald’s phrase. So first the Russian treaty, then the Dawes report, then the league of nations, IT K Paaades AN OUTPOST OF IMPERIALISM. Boe pati “White Cargo,” a play in three acts, by Leon Gordon, now playing at the Cort Theatre, Chicago. An outpost of imperialism on the west coast of Africa. Four men and half of a harlot’s body to bear the “white man’s burden.” Worthy, well chosen representatives. The Over- seer: The black slave must be forc- ed to work, The Office Manager: Capitalism’s profit must be kept count of, tho it rot men’s minds and bodies. The Doctor: Booze - soaked sentimentalist, there will be no rubber unless quinine keeps natives and driv- ers on their feet, The Missionary: To supplement whip, and quinine with more potent dope. Half-breed Beauty: She gets all she can from lite while her body helps whisky and quinine maintain white supremacy. Quinine and whisky. Heat and stench. The black man under the lash. The white slave drivers rotting away under the pitiless tropic sun. The black woman in his bedroom. Young men coming in, strong, hopeful, cumstances. But as the whole Labor ‘ambitious, immaculate. A year later Party was not pacifist, there was no reason why it should not assume power.” Then followed the usual empty excuses about the Labor Party not being able to carry out its full program owing to its being a minor- ity and therefore exposed to the danger of being kicked out, if it an- tagonized the bourgeois parties to too great an extent. ‘Any policy Mac- Donald pursues must win the co-opera- tion of the Europen nations, especially of France.” + To be sure, “MacDonald might have denounced the Versailles treaty. He might have denounced reparations, the Rubr ocupation, the League of Nations, representing, as it does, only the victor nations. : (Applause sounding very, much like an opera claque). He might have announced the willingness of Great Britain to re- nounce Gibraltar, Hongkong and Singapore and have appealed to the nations to support his policy.” He might havo done so, but he didn’t, for, as Mr. Brockway stated, MacDonald must “win the co-operation of the Bu- ropean nations,” The Independent Labor Party: is still opposed to reparations, It re- gards them as “a temporary expedi- ent to give Germany and Europe a breathing space.” “The treaty with pee ¥ the house in} that he will carried out feet first, drunk or drug- ged, under the disdainful gaze of their very superior young successor. Only the veteran overseer, Witzel, stays, corroded with bitterness as with an acid, predicting mercilessly the ex- act stages of degeneration that face the novice, year after year seeing his predictions come true. Bored almost to murderous frenzy at the constant sameness of platitude uttered by his companions—he strikes the highest note of ecstacy in the whole play as he anticipates the coming of the half- breed woman, “Tondeleyo,” to his own bungalow. She has just tried to help along nature because her last consort insisted on marrying her “un- til death do us part.” Witzel forced her to drink a potion intended for her victim and now sits waiting its effects, “If she lives at all she'll live with me.” The missionary and his marriage rite came in for some hard raps. The “superior” young Langford so resents the oversear’s prediction of degen- eration that he goes half-crazy over it, Tondeleyo wants him for her next consort, He wants her, Witzel pre dicted he would. But he will not give Witzel the satisfaction of seeing these predictions come true. He would marry Tondeleyo. He explains to woman that marrige to him Ly The Anglo-Russian treaty looks pretty black at this moment, for part of the Uberals and the conservatives are against it. The return of Churchill to the conservative party is regarded as @ bridge between the liberal and the conservative party to erect a united front against the Labor Party—and defeat the treaty. That will end Mac- Donald’s first “step.” Then the Dawes report. The workers.of England are beginning to protest against it. But, more than that, the industrialists of Great Britain, Holland and France— not to speak of the United States— are worried stiff about it. If Germany is to pay, she must produce 14 billion marks’ worth of goods for export alone and dump them on the world market, which today is not able to do much buying. That will mean sharp competition with the imperialist na- tions, And this is the second “step.” The strengthening of the league of nations is the third “step.” On Sept. 22, Arthur Henderson stated before the league of nations, that, of course, obligatory arbitration for all nations is the basis of the disarmament pact Proposed by the ledgue. But. . “In cases in which the British fleet is engaged in military operations at the order and with the approval of the league of nations—and we give the solemn promise that we shall not en- ter into action without this approval —w¢ demand full freedom of action for the fleet, which is essential for as- suring speedy results. No one can ask that the permanent court should be a body for examining military op- erations.” Of course not. The league of nations is not there for that. It is a body-to talk, pass resolutions—and keep its hands off such things as the military operations of its: constituent bodies—especially of Great Britain, And thus speaks a man who is a mem- ber of the Independent Labor Party, a “representative” of the working class. These are the voice and the words of British imperialism. Pacifism Not Applied to India. It is these same men who are mas- sacring Indian peasants and workers; bombing the inhabitants of Mesopo- tamia; threatening war in the Sudan; beating, deporting and murdering the natives in British Africa. It is these men who instigated the Georgian up- rising, in the interest of the British oil interests and in the hope of get- ting a point in the south from which to intervene in Soviet Russia. It is these same men who landed British marines in China, in the hope of slicing up the country and getting a Point in the east from which to at- tack Soviet Russia. Yes, Great Britain has an imperial- ist tradition and history—and it is be- ing continued and, intensified by the British Labor Party. But the whole Labor Party is not pacifist, said Mr. Brockway, and therefore nothing else could be expected. But the leaders of the British Labor Party are the lead. ers of the Independent Labor Party) and most of the Labor members are} Independent Labor Partyites. Some | of them are against any use of force —like Mr. Brockway; some are for force in the social revolution but against imperialist war; some believe that. “there are instances in which force is unavoidable’—like Mr. Mac- Donald, who also is against the use of force between nations, * Is China no nation? Is Soviet Russia no na- tion? Is Egypt no nation? (Of course, Indian is no nation—she is “unavoidable instances,” in which MacDonald favors the use of force, just as he threatened its use against the striking dockers and tram work- ars. These are just the “unavoidable” instances in which imperialism uses force. And for this / MacDonald is building new. cruisers and enlarging the air fleet; for this he holds an im- posing ‘military review. So what is the difference between MacDonald, Baldwin, Curzon and Lloyd George? Herriot, too, was heralded as the man of peace, and he is carrying out Poin- care’s policy to a dot. He and Mac. Donald are doing so, because they must—for imperialism still dictates. (And MacDonald has to pursue poli- cies that will “win the co-operation of European nations”—which are im- perialist—and satisfy the imperiaists of Great Britain.) Labor Party Sycophant of Wealth. This is all humbug and a lie. The Independent Labor Party of MacDon- ald, Henderson, Snowden, Webb and Brockway is part of the pack of Brit- ish imperialist wolves whose tongues are dripping with the blood of work- ers and peasants in all quarters of the globe, and whose teeth, grown sharp thru Britain’s “imperialist tradition and history,” are aching to crush and crunch the bones of more workers’ and peasants’ bodies. The British financial and industrial magnates were shrewd in selecting these h¥pocritical leaders to do their dirty business. This is the day of “democracy.” Let the workers havea show. Nothing can happen as long as they have such leaders as MacDonald, Henderson and Brockway—and be: sides these leaders will only discredit their party and the workers, disillus- ioned, will return to the fold of the liberal and conservative parties. It is a very neat scheme—and the Independent Labor Party is playing its part in the rotten game very well. It adds to its glory and well-being by having an arch-pacifist as its secre. tary. What could suit the imperial ists better? Mr. Brockway and his twelve colleagues in the house vote consistently against war and imper- ialist plans—and his party carries out the plans. Fakers every one of them! “One step at a time is enuf for me,” says MacDonald. So, too, speaks British imperialism. than anyone ever has before. More silks, and bracelets. She likes that. The missionary at first refused to per- form the ceremony. “Take her and live with her as fifty others have done.” As year before he would have talked otherwise, now his Bible is not so much a cure-all. Witzel shows up the maneuver. “You want to beat me! ‘This rot of a ceremony charges nothing. I told you you would slide to ‘Mammy-palavet’ and you have.” “Shut up, you swine, this is mar- riage.” “Marriage, Hell, it is ‘Mam- my-palaver.’” The missionary is dis- tressed but when challenged to stick to his creed he weakly gives in, ‘ Months pass. Langfords vitality is spent, he loathes her touch. Not so Tondelayo, her’s is a different blood, and attuned to her primitive surround- ings. “In five’ months you have not even beat me!” she screams at him. The old doctor tries his hand at ex- plaining the sacredness of marriage. “And if I no like him I no can go wid’ othafre mans?” “No, not as long as you live. No white man would lift a hand to protect you. That's white man’s law.” “As long as I live? But if I die? If HE die?” Then the other (Editorial in Uj Elore, the Hungarian Communist Daily.) UR language press has an im- mense mission to fulfill. There are great masses of foreign ian- guage workers in the United States —workers full of militant spirit, anxious to take their places on the battlefront of labor, These: masses are educated and organized, in- spired and encouraged ‘by our party organs of various languages. But there can be no doubt that the DAILY WORKER has a still more important mission to fulfill; its mission is to reach, educate, in- Spire and organize the far greater masses of the native-born workers, who ought and will take the lead- ing part in the struggle for emanci- pation, We can imagine the overthrow of capitalism without the participa- tion of the foreign-born workers. But it is impossible against the will | OUR MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON: THE DAILY WORKER or without the militant activity of | Room, Ashlar will be free, he tells her. She doer not want to die. In the last act they carry him out, feet first. And the em- bittered man who saved his life an- ticipates the company of the “wife.” A subtle compliment is paid to the Negro. The missionary complains, they have again stolen his rifles, What need of rifles under his philosophy? Plenty need under theirs. The single stage setting is handled with splendid realism. The bungalow ~« changes hands. New furniture. New whitewash. But “damp rot” compels its renewal every two weeks. The walls get dirtier and dirtier even as the clothes and the lives, Heat seems to radiate from the stage and the many over-familiar bottles make the audience extremely thirsty. Acting is superb, out of the terrible drabness the players rise to crisis after crisis only to fall back, with telling effect, into drabness at the final curtain. “White Cargo” is a real play that deals with red, raw, naked Ife. .A phase of imperialism not good to look upon, the debauchery of the slave- driver as by-products of his calling. But the “reports” are filled out in time. Profits must continue. the native-born workers, The Uj Elore, the Volkszeitung, the Freiheit, and our other language Papers are doing very valuable work, but they are unable to do what the DAILY WORKER does: the reaching and teaching of native and foreign-born workers all alike. We say that it is the duty of eveby comrade of the Hungarian language to read and to get subs for the Uj Elore. But it is a more important. . duty to read and to get subs for tha DAILY WORKER. We know, com: rades of the H rian Section of bod Workers Party, that you are. ly to make great sacrifices fo the DAILY WORKER, Ni The DAILY WORKER is our most effective weapon. Read it, and get Subs for it. Make it a still more effective Weapon against capital- ism, for Communism. ut nS Open Fi » Sunday Night, Auditoriums (We ? i hi