The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1924, Page 6

* THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. ——_—_———— Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: 76 months $2.00....8 months Chicago only): $2.50...8 months $6.00 per year $3. By m ( $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER $113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Iinele J. LOUIS ENGDAHL rt WILLIAM F. DUNNBS alone MORITZ J. LOEB... Business Manager — Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Il, under the act of March 8, 1879. iz 290 Advertising rates on application = The Poor Taxpayers That Calvin Coolidge should be popular among ica’s millionaire class because of his war on high taxation is not surprising in the light of the story told by the income tax figures for last year, made public by the Internal Revenue Department. Andrew Mellon, whiskey Secretary for the Treasury, paid a tax of $1,173,987.85 on his income for last year. William Wrigley, Jr., of Chicago, the chewing gum magnate was a close second to Mellon, with $1,134,420. Some of the most impor- tant returns from the New York millionaire eol- ony are: John D. Rockefeller, Jr., $7,485,169.41. John D. Rockefeller, Sr., $124,266.47. George F. Baker, $660,371.52. George F. Baker, Sr., $678,664.16. Eugene Myer, Jr., $152,466.60. Frederick A. Clark, $172,405.58. John T. Underwood, $258,617.65. Henry H. Rogers, $873,297.22. T. W. Lamont, $847,820.44. J. P. Morgan, $98,643.67. E. H. Gary, $473,464.20. Despite the law which declares that income tax lists must be made public newspapers had a hard time gaining access to the returns. The capital- ists hold that the less information the workers get about their swollen fortunes the better for the former. Correct. But somehow or other the work- ers get the information. « The New York millionaires raised a terrible how] when the papers gave the news of their belongings to the public. But Mellon made a virtue of neces- sity and said the will of congress must be done. Judging from the tax returns, Andy is the second richest man in America, but perhaps J. P. Morgan is holding back something. Small and the Klan Governor Len Small of, Illinois is reported to have the open support of the Ku Klux Klan in this state. There is very good reason for this belief. In fact the statement of Charles G. Palmer, Grand sragon of the gowned night prowlers leaves noth- ing to the imagination. It has been stated quite frequently that at a klan ‘parade held in Springfield recently, state and fed- eral-owned military horseg assigned to Illinois Na- tional Guard cavalry were loaned to the klan. Grand Dragon Palmer openly admits receiving the use of the horses from the Small administra- tion and boasts that the klan now holds the bal- ance of power in the state and can get what it wants. Palmer declared it was none of the public’s busi- ness who gave the » Klan permission to use the horses or other government property. 4 doing this right along in Indiana and not alone using horses but army trucks and other parapher- nalia.” The governor gave the use of the state fair grounds to the klan and two of Small’s meetings in Vernon and Williamson were organized by the notorious Glenn Young who urged his hearers to vote the republican ticket straight. The miners of Williamson county who have experienced the» terrorist methods of Young and his bloody murder fiends will be interested to know that Len Small, backed by Frank Farrington, “Honest” John Walker, John Fitzpatrick and the other labor fak- ers is supported by one of the Fascisti organiza- tions of the United States. Gary’s President Speaking before an audience of steel magnates on the effect of the discontinuance of the “Pitts- burgh Plus” policy of the United States Steel cor- poration, Judge Gary, declared that “the future success of the iron and steel industry in this coun- try is assured if the managers will keep. their heads, and further ifthe approaching election re- sults shall be satisfactory.” According to Gary a “good” president should have the following qualifications: “He should be modest, plain and simple and still courageous, dig- nified and wise.” Calvin Coolidge is the ideal president of Judge Gary. About the only one of the qualifications mentioned by Gary that Coolidge posesses is that of simplicity. He is simple to a fault. He dis- played his lack of courage during the oil expose. His silence charitably hides his ignorance. A small bore nonentity like Coolidge could not be! dignified if he tried. As for modesty, if he pos- sessed that alleged bourgeois virtue he would be- take himself to his father’s farm’ and stay there. The one virtue possessed by Coolidge which out- weighs all others is his loyalty to sae capitalist system. COARSE MALICE . (The Ottawa Journal, Canada) ~~ A disagreeable but interesting tribute to the work done by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in pro- moting goodwill is the peculiar malignity with which the revolutionary press has followed him. . The , Chicago DAILY WORKER, the . official organ of the Workers Party of America, for example, has been unable’to keep its tongue off him. Since his visit to this continent was announced it has referred to him in sixteen separate is- sues, on some occasions publishing two attacks on the game day, and its utterances have been marked by a Brossness of personal calumny which in many. ‘instances defies quotation. This coarseness and bitterpesy, it,is to be observed, increased ag the Prince’s popularity bécame more and more apparent. The Toronto Worker, + the Communist weekly which some time ago got into trouble by the foulness of its language in commenting upon Arm- istice Day, expressed its annoyance because “The wastrel and idler spawn of the British King is allowed, even inyited to defile the land ‘gh Conidae and. ‘democracy’ with his presenc 2 Such persistent pursuit must have a feaion, These devil's disciples abhor international goodwill, and thrive on hatred and discontent. They eagerly expect a war between the United States and Japan, and hope for a conflict between the British Empire and the United States, just as they prefer that times should be hard, and the laboring classes in distress and penury, and are exasperated by any prospect of the return of prosperity. It is clear that His Royal Higness on this visit has won the liking of the American people—as it incidentally has exploded the absourd legend of his bad horsemanship— and alarm and amger speak in the reviling. One question is raised by the Toronto outburst. It would be a pity to dignify this venomous sheet by holding it to the letter of the law against sedition. against any private citizen, The eminence of the object of this insult protects the person who emits it; and that j “We have been seems a pity, None the less this | is vulgar abuse which it would be dangerous to utter |demands’ that AS WE SEE IT .- - (Continilelt/tion from page 1) tendency to make ws too partial to the workers. 7. * # UT the toiling slaves of capitalism know that we always give them the breaks. We are for them in all their battles. With us they are always right when they are fighting the en- emy. We confess that the DAILY WORKER is partial and we don’t care who knows. The DAILY WORK, ER is one sided; it is concerned with the welfare of the workers only and the hatred of thé master class and their labor lieutenants or the superior attitude adopted towards us by the lib- eral-radical does not phaze is a bit. But We are concerned with the at- titude of the workers toward us. We are here not to please them but to serve them. sf @ ‘HE British tories are complaining that the workers do not recog- nize the right of free speech. Now, this is funny. For once the shoe is on the other foot. The British workers who have fed thé capitalist dun-| geons for centuries now muster up enough courage to throw over-ripe tomatoes at the capitalist | blather- skites when they get up to speak. This is not nice, but, it is a war re- |hearsal, and wars are not pleasant as the workers and a few of the capital- ists have learned. Later on the Brit; ish workers may not be throwing. to- matoes at the capitalists, but some- thing harder. ‘ee ADY Nancy Astor, the millionaire virago from America, was. forced to quit the campaign. She.was vigor- ous in her attack® on the workers. But the workers are many and the Nancy Astors are few, so it is not surprising that Nancy got the worst of it... Things are coming to a pretty pass in England when a millionaire parasite who has entry to Buck- ingham palace is to shut her trap in an election campaign. . 'HE tories are at all sure that the election - will bring them a very big ¥! » They will gain seats to be at the expense falling for their Soviet treaty.. It. tories are astou! attacks on the reported that the at the pro-Soviet sentiment i British pop- ulation. It ‘seems that the rantings of Snowden, Tho! and other cap- italist lackeys, tories to be- lieve that there- a big anti-Rus- sian sentiment: the workers. But they found an entirely | Seernt situation. & “ NS. the tory a are cal ling on their paigners to stop scolding Russia and to say something about the issues that the workers are interested in, But they have no so- lution for the ps od of the work ers. ‘Neither does the labor party make any attempt-to solve the prob- lem. It merely competes with the capitalist parties in making promises, The British Communist Party has a of His Majesty's socialists and. while it welcomes titled aristocrats into its ranks it has no welcome for the Communist: Party. 6.6; 0-8 'WENTY six counties of Ireland, being under the Free States, and nominally independent of England, the general election is confined to only the six counties of Northern Ire- land. Eamon DeValera announced that he would go into Ulster and stand as a republican candidate. The Orahgemen promise to arrest him. In the rest of Ireland, there is consider- able excitement over the boundary question, but the only force that could solve that question, the labor move- ment is in a state of civil war, with- out any prospect of either side being able to offer the Irish working class any leadership. se @ 'HE Old leaders who inherited from James Connolly, a movement that bore promise of great things, have sold their birthright for a mess of pot- tage. They are neither with the Communist International nor with the Second International.. While putting up a fake opposition against the Free State government, and mildly protest- ing against the crimes committed by that government during the civil war, they took no active steps to intervene By ELLIS CHRYSSON Editor of Empros, Greek Communist Weekly HE DAILY WORKER is the offi- cial organ of our party. It is the only Communist daily in- the English language. It is true that our members did not realize yet the im- portance of a mighty English daily. Before the DAILY WORKER had STAY AWAY By ABRAM. JAKIRA in the orgy,of.murder carried out under the Irish flag in the name of freedom, by the. servants of British imperialism, C8 o& NFORTUNATELY tthe opposition ! to the reactionaries which had a splendid opportunity to rally the masses behind a revolutionary pro- grath,-was cursed with a leadership so stupid that language fails to de- scribe its blunders. Instead of fol- lowing the trade union policy of the “Red International of Labor Unions, these crazy strategists en- tered on a campaign of secession in the best 0. B. U. of Canada style, un- til today the Irish labor movement is a cock pit of trade union civil war, with the organization that Connolly gave.a backbone and a policy to, slow- ly bleeding ‘to death, and nothing but “vapor” as a substitute. ry rer) TRIKES are taking place, not against the bosses but between two rival sections of the workers’ in- dustrial movement. Jurisdictional strikes, the. curse of: the, craft-ridden American labor movement, have again reappeared: in: Ireland, The most, reg- rettable feature of the situation is that radicals who have no excuse to be ignorant of the trade union policy Monday, October 27, 1924 By T. J. O'Flaherty involved in these escapades. The pol- icy of staying within the existing unions applies with equal force to Ireland and to Germany or America. In fact the opportunity to get the Irish Transport Workers’ Union inte the hands of the radicals, looked very bright but for the stupidly criminal tactics of a few ego-maniacs, who only. tolerate the co-operation of syco- phantic poodles, who are. always ready to fawn on those in power. "ee 8 CCORDING to a report appearing in one of the Irish papers, an educational society called the James Connolly Workers’ Republican Club is formed in Dublin. Since the Com- munist Party of Ireland was liquid- ated shortly after James Larkin’s re- turn ‘to Ireland there has been no communist propaganda put forth in that country. The official organs of the Irish Transport Workers’ Union ‘and Larkin’s dual union, the Work- ers’ Union of Ireland, are chiefly de- voted to shooting mud at each other. The only hope in the present dilemma of Irish labor is that a left wing under constructive and revolutionary Communist leadership will develop out of the muddle into which the lead- ers have led it into. The Red Trade Union International has shown ec of the Communist International pod Rio The Daily Worker is the Organ of Our Party been published our members were eagerly waiting the first issue, be- cause they were not satisfied at all seeing the Federations with daily s and the Party with a weekly The Worker.) ~ There are many comrades, and many among the subscribers of Em- pros who read English, but still they ‘are not subscribers to the ¢ “OOKING over the October issue of “The Painter and Decorator,” the offi- vial organ of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers ot America, my attention was attracted by several timely notices bearing the same headline “STAY AWAY.” Here are a few of them: “Stay Away from Niagara Falls,” as work is-very slack there and no hope for improved conditions in the near future. “Stay Away from Cléveland, Chicago and ‘Tampa, Pla., is prominently displayed in a box on another | page. “Stay away from Kelso and Longview,’ Wash.,” owing to difficultie . being encountered | “Stay Away from Los Angeles,” for work has fallen off fully 50 per there, cent in the past six months, with no Indications of its becoming normal for some time to come. Thus appeals to “Stay Away” come from trade unions trom practically all parts of the country—from Florida. to, Washington. and California, Ac- evrding to these appeals the worker ofthe: unemployment stricken towns | hus one of the two ways to choose. He'can either hire’a Zeppelin and take « trip « Mars to try his luck: there or’ he’ must remain quarantined in his home town and starve until his‘ employers will again find it profitable for them to give him a job, until the “conditions will again become. normal.” But there ts another way of ‘solving the unemployment problem, the way propose@ by the Workers Party: Abolish capitalism which causes unem- ployment by creating a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government and meanwhile make the bosses and their government pay the unemployed. Any worker can readily see that there is no need for him to take a flying trip to Mars, neither is there any need for him to “Stay Away” or sturve, The «employefs who make enormous profits out of the sweat of the workers geared in “normai” times and who alone have the right to hire and fire must be of the Soviet ‘of government, 84° to pay the unemployed to whom they cannot give work. It is the in the “putting forth | uty and within the power of the, government to tax the industries for tho ‘bring the work.| Purpose of maintaining the unemployed and thus keep them away from into battle their masters | *tarvation. the labor jos Hd now dom- Organized JaBor ‘tas’, tise power) to. inake the bosses and their govern inated by the psychology | mont pay the unemployed. . What {6 needed is the will to do it, ' DAILY WORKER. The DAILY WORKER is not only the organ of the American comrades, but the or gan of our Party. Therefore our members must become subscribers not only themselves, but they m secure subs from their shop-mates” and friends. We are all In a posi- tion to buildup our mighty an, if we realize the services it to the awakening of the cli n- sciousness of the workers of , i ica. Whereever you are, In the shop, in the restaurant, try to get a sub for The DAILY WORKER. We must support The DAILY bob ER just as much as we do Empros. — Our adherence to our principles and to our Party must be proved, by our energies and activities, be- & coming real builders of a powerfyl daily. ate nee The capitalists having’ colossal / daily organs at their dispositl ‘poison the minds of our fell workers, and lead them. against their own interests. They k them © ‘ant, because then, © workers serve their interests. cause they thus perpetuate the tem of exploitation. 8 ee When The DAILY WORKER Im . ‘erease its circulation—when we, the class. conscious workers 4 devote our time and energy for then the number of the mi the trade unions, will also be do led, and then the workers will ge rid of the reactionary leadership Gompers and Co., who sell pad a ganized workers of this po to the capitalist parties and the capl- italist government, who use the workers as war material for thelr imperialistic plans. Forward comrades. Let us crease the circulation of our di g live our Workers ( ist) Party and its official organ, DALY Ww RKER. ' ‘