The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1924, Page 6

Page S Six T THE DAILY WORKER. ——$—$—$$ Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, TL. (Phone: Monroe 4712) > CREE ES eee Aa aa — SUBSCRIPTION RATES wah mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By mail (in apintpnes only) 7 $4.50....6 momths $2.50....3 months | 66.00 per year "$8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 11138 W. Washington Blvd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL i WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOBB... Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill. under the act of March 3, 187% <p 290 Advertising rates on application (Eee MacDonald’s Dishonesty Ramsay MacDonald, since his assumption of of- fice, has given a most nauseating e: ditional British ruling ¢ ypocrisy. His rapid retreat from his former professed belief in social- ism to a position closely resembling that of the pious fraud, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., caused a re- vulsion of feeling even among some of MacDonald’s supporters in the British labor party. In an interyiew to capitalist reporters, MacDon- ald denounced strikers for asking too much and urged them to suffer and set the capitalists a good example. A few days after making this statement, it was learned that he accepted a “gift” of $150,000 from a tory millionaire, Alexander Grant, who was knighted thru the good offices of the socialist premier. Needless to say the knightee and the knighted denied that the “gift” had anything to do with the honor. While MacDonald was berating the poor wage slaves for demanding a little more bread he accepted'a large sum of money and an automobile from the owner of a biscuit factory who sweats thousands of girls out of the product of their labor. But MacDonald’s latest piece of treachery on the Russian treaty is the blackest act in his dishon- est career. In the first place he was forced by threats of the left wing of the British labor party to affix his signature to the agreement which guaranteed a British loan to the Soviet govern- ment, for the purpose of getting Russia’s industrial machinery in working order. The bankers did not like the treaty and their tory political agents immediately began to attack it. So did Philip Snowden, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. But the British workers were for it, so Snowden kept quiet and MacDonald thot he had won a victory that would stand him in good stead in the election campaign. Now, on the eve of election, MacDonald has pub- ~ lished a forged document alleged to have been re- eeived from Zinoviev by the British Communists calling for the overthrow of the British government. MacDonald knows this to be a fake, but he.fears the hostility of the bankers and he wants to take | the ground from under the feet of the liberals and | tories and’ crawl back to office again as the loyal servant of the empire by dropping the treaty and proving to the satisfaction of the most exacting im- perialist that he is more loyal to them than even Stanley Baldwin, Lord Curzon or Lloyd George. It is refreshing to turn from the spectacle of | deceit, treachery and corruption, presented by Mac- | Donald and his crew, to the sterling honesty and revolutionary integrity of the Russian Communist | leaders of the Soviet Republic, who fought a capi- talist world in arms and brot their revolution from victory to victory, while the millions of capitalism were theirs for the asking. The Real Workers’ Party There is no better evidence of the fact that the Communists are correct in their ‘policy of staying | in and building up their movement among the la- bor unions, than the news from New York City showing how the workers in the clothing industry are using their Trade Union Educational League groups to rally support for the Workers Party. In spite of the fact that the officials of even the supposed radical Amalgamated Clothing Workers have gone over to the LaFollette camp and have tried to drive the membership to support his fake labor program, the membership grouped around the Trade Union Educational League raised a revolt and are holding under their own auspices many meetings every night all over New York City in be- half of the Workers Party. ° How mitch good it has done Sigman of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers and Kauf- man, of the Furriers; to expel the rev@ution from the unions they consider as itheir private property, is shown by the way the left wing groups in these unions are waging a wide campaign, in the union and upon the streets and in halls for the party of Communism, the Workers Party. M : In both these unions, supposedly nailed down 5 and clineed on the other side by yellow socialist i reactionaries of the Abe Cahan school of mendac- ity, strong bodies of workers are rallied to the party, auto trucks are hired, platforms provided and everywhere members of the union arise to take the lead in the fight for a party which makes its basic demand the proletarian dictatorship. We see two things in this, first’ that it is just as impossible to stop a really revolutionary political party from working in the unions as it it to stop it working in society as a whole; second, that the Communists are pursuing the correct tactic in America by staying in thevunions and winning the workers in them for revolution regardless of npether officials like it or not. hibition of tra-| Cal’s Final Effort It is entirely fitting that the so-called “final po- litical effort” of Coolidge in the campaign, should be a speech favoring imperialism abroad and reac- | tion at home delivered at the dedication ceremonies | of the building erected by open-shop labor at Wash- ington, D, C., as a home for the American Cham- | ber of Commerce. In foreign policy, Car champions “semi-isolation and independent action.” In plain Yankee this means that American imperialism feels strong ally, in the fight for world hegemony, It is a de- |claration of war upon every other power which ob- structs the world-encircling triumphant chdriot of the House of Morgan. It even declares that, tho the League of Robber Nations may be treated with politeness in some cireumstances, the prime requirement of those cir- |cumstances is that American imperialism shall re- |ceive the lion’s share, as in Germany. That this bald declaration should be eovered with sugary phrases about “being helpful to Europe” and “anx- ious for peace,” is merely another instance of im- perialist ethics. At home, Cal sets his face like flint against more “deflation in agriculture,’ but failed to, explain how and why the recent one was not prevented. Nor does he show how the capitalist financial sys- tem can ayoid inflation, the necessary forerunner of deflation. “Wages,” he boasts,) “are more than twice the highest European wage.” That the rate of sur- plus value taken out of labor by reason of the speed-up system of American industry is five times that of Europe is a corrollary concerning which Silent Cal was especially silent. This and the claim of food consuniption are de- ceptive devices to secure support for a reactionary program which, by including the Dawes plan, op- enly, frankly and definitely aims to make Ameri- can labor reduce its wages, accept a lower’ stand- ard and’ compete with German slave labor in long hours, or go into the streets in millions hunting for jobs that are not, high wages that are gone for- ever and a “consumption of food” out of garbage cans. READ THE DAILY WORKER The Dictatorship at Gary There is no such animal as the capitalist. dicta- torship, accérding to those who allege. that’ the Communists are extraordinarily full of gall for openly advocating the dictatorship of the prole- tariat. Unfortunately, such critics disagree with’ facts. We have not got to go further ‘than Gary, Indiana, nor to any history more remote than yesterday for a clear example of the capitalist dictatorship; Some nameless white collar underling of the Steel Trust who runs the educational department of the capitalist dictatorship in Gary, caused the withdrawal of the lease held by the Workers Party on the auditorium of the Froebel ‘high school,’ be- cause he learried that Foster, Communist’ ¢andidate for president_and organizer of steel workers, was going to speak there. This was accompanied by the force department of the capitalist dictatorship arresting two Com- munists “who were distributing the “DATLY WORKER. And inside the steel mills, the bosses of the United States Steel corporation, the steel and iron department of the capitalist dictatorship, have issued ‘orders that any worker caught reading the DAILY WORKER will be fired. This is the kind of “white terror” the workers face day after day and year after year. Millions of them take it for granted. Only the Communists know how and show how to abolish it. Nobody else knows or gives a tinker’s damn. But when the Communists openly state that the only solution is the dictatorship of the proletariat, a host of “libertarians,” “humanitarians” and sen- timental boobs and bourgeois spring up wildly pro- testing. And they, well, they are the pacifist-indi- vidual-liberty department of the capitalist dicta- torship. Nothing more, nothing less. The Fascisti cabinet of Italy decided to recog- nize titles of nobility conferred by the Vatican. These titles had hitherto been ignored by the Italian government since the fall of the temporal power of the church. His Holiness will no longer be considered a foreign potentate by Mussolini, and the names of the families honored or dis- honored by papal titles will be inscribed in’ the Golden Book of the Italian nobilty. The stock of our American Papal Knights should now rise and the female aristocrat chasers of this country will not be obliged to go to Europe for. thrills in case the Prince of Wales is otherwise engaged. In a debate on capital punishment with Clarence Darrow of Chicago, Judge Talley of New York, a Catholic, held that the only cure for murder was enforcement of the death pénalty. It appears that 2,000 years of Christianity have not proyen an efficient crime deterrent. The capitalists and their apologists have a grudge against individuals who sometimes break in on the ruling class monopoly on murder. The comedians who went to Washington to see HE DAILY WORKER By THOMAS J, O'FLAHERTY 'HE New York Nation, edited by Oswald Garrison’ Villard, an or- gan of American “liberalism” and pacif ism, in its issue of. October 29, makes aj most vicious and unwarranted at- tack on Dr. Sun Yat Sen, president of the Canton republic, and the lead- Chicago, Minels| enuf to stand alone, without sharing loot with any |er of the national-revolutionary party of China. Unusual importance is attached to the abusive editorial owing to the | pose maintainined by Villard as a radical and defender of ‘oppressed peoples everywhere, and his proféssed opposition to Coolidge, Dawes, the American legion, the Minute Men of the Constitution and the other agen- cles of American reaction. But unless Villard repudiates the editorial referred to, the conclusion is inescapable that he is one of those wolves. in sheep’s clothing who main- tains an outward camouflage of pac- ifism in order to petrify the minds of the workers and blind them to the fact that our so-called democratic form ‘of government is an illdisguised dictatorship which rules by force and and violence. The Nation accuses Sun Yat Sen or unloosing war after war on Can- ton until he paralysed the economic life of the city. It upholds the Chinese Fascisti which were financed by the British government. It declares that the Chinése merchants gave Sun “numerous chances to practice the kind of government, he preached.” The Canton Merchants’ Volunteer Corps—this is the liberal name for the Fascisti—is no Fascisti in the European sense, says the Villard organ “it is an expression of Canton weariness with twelve years of rev- olutioneering by Sun Yat Sen‘and his cohorts.” This is the language of the stoolpigeons of capitalism. Oswald Garrison Villard, the defen- dér of the I. W. W. against the per- secution of the American capitalist gov- ernment seems to have just about as Sincere in his profession of sympathy for the struggling slaves of the colon- ial empires and protectorates as he has for the American labor move- movement. While he upholds the principles of American tradé union- ism in theory, and favors the class war prisoners, he operates a scab iron mine. His defense of British im- perialism in China raises the ques- tion: Is the deficit of the Nation, paid out of the proceeds of his ‘seab mine or what relations has Villard makes him come to the assistance of What a Cruel Land! By ANISE Federated Press Staff Writer She was a frail little lady With white hair. She told me Sitting on a park bench In the Caucasus, How her husband a famous PROFES- SOR Retiréd on ample pension, Was CAUGHT by the Revolution! She spoke of street-shooting And the search of dwellings: Our pension was lost When the ruble sank; Our furniture was sold In the FAMINE; And we are living npw in ONE BIG ROOM. ‘We should have reached the age Of comfortable REST, But he must teach again to earn our food. Things are getting BETTER now, The Social Insurance gave us : Six weeks in the mountains, And we are feeling stronger. Then, she asked me About RICH America Inquiring WHAT SIZE PENSIONS We give old teachers? ° a's. And I said: We don’t give ANY, as a regular matter. ‘There is a Carnegie fund For special colleges Controlling the standards of teaching. And few CITIES give pensions— If you teach all your life In THAT CITY. But general teachefs’ pensions We don’t have in America. ef She sighed: Is America also PREJUDICED against intelligentsia, . | That it denies to teachers ‘What is the right of all WORKERS? And I laughed: Our workers also Have NO PENSIONS, neither for old age Nor hespermniche and: only some- times For ACCIDENTS - Ae rs - But your country is rich, she stam- mered, And very efficient, What then is its PLAN for old folks? We expect them, I said to save money, the president, are demanding increases in salaries | 2" t® live on their ehildren, on the ground that they made the president laugh. But judging from the photograph of Little Silence Or to DIE or go tothe poorhouse. “| If you talk of pensions they call you Communistic _ the facial contortion looked more like what a stiff Discouraging private initiative dose of salts would induce on the physiognomy of | Encouraging lazy people. a wayward child who swallowed a family of hot dogs against mother’s advice. by s =—re She stared at me in Horror With the eyes that had looked On WAR and FAMINE: Get a member for the Workers Party and a new] What a SRUBL indi shuddered, subscription for the DAILY WORKER. La eae British Imperialism whenever it is in trouble? The Irish nationalist revolu- tionists have long claimed that Villard was an agent of British imperialism. It must be confessed that his attack on Sun Yat Sen whose government the British bankers tried to over- throw by force of arms lends color to the charge. Villard says that the Canton mer- chants “organized, not for any polit- ical purpose, but to rid the city of Is “The Nation” Turning Fascist? befuddled ‘anarchist would talk of getting rid of politics. He might as well talk‘ of abolishing governments. Mr. Villard has not yet posed as an anarchist, But the, Nation lies, when it says that the clash between Sun and the merchants came when his forces tried to disarm the merchants. The DAILY WORKER has’ told the story be- fore, but we will tell it again for good measure. Tuesday, October 28, 1928 threatened to bombard the city if Dr. Sun did allow the guns to be delivered. to the merchant forces. Under this threat Sun was forced to comply, ‘bit the Canton labor unions, afterwards seized the guns, not. relishing je idea of becoming fodder for aS bullets, x The Canton merchants then made an attack on the Sun forces and suf: fered a severe defeat. All this. been admitted even by the Lo with the Cowdray oil interests that} politics altogether. This threatened Dr. Sun’s supremacy, and his troops tried to disarm the merchant forces, whence the’collision.” Aside from the stupidity of this argument, we will prove that The Nation lies, In the first place nobody but a particularly companied the munition THE POWER COLUMN Twice every week—this column uncovers to your view the motive power behind the DAILY WORKER. Here for the interest and inspiration of every acai ty WORKER agents and committees—a Proven sugges- tions and accomplishments to drive the t DAILY WORKER to further conquest: Here is POWER—the power of brain and effort of men and women of the working class who not only believe—but ACT! Campaign like ours to “Build the DAILY WORKER” brings strongly to the fore the fact that the Labor movement is founded not on any ephemeral dream but on the actual needs and desires of the working class. In such a campaign, tho all do not participate, come to plain view the splendid efforts of the militant “vanguard of the vanguard.” That group in the Labor movement ‘ever willing, ever trying, are the main cogs in the POWER — takes the movement a step forward al- ways. There have been hundreds of examples of real effort, of splendid loy- alty and of sacrifice. One of die many cases is such as you will find in this letter: Dorchester, Mass. Dear Comrades: Enclosed find one brick (3 Month). Am sorry ¥ can’t do better but the 7th of August put me on the “bum.” 1 fell then during my work, down two stories with the result that the bone-setter, eleven days after, had to amputate my left leg above the knee. So you understand that at present or until | get my arti- ficial leg | ain’t much good for anything. STILL SO LONG AS THEY DON’T CUT MY HEAD OFF | will try to do all | can for the only paper worth anything, ‘tine my friends that come to see me during my lay-up. 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How far It surpasses our other publications of the past standard articles, art work, larger | Don’t miss the first issue! * Send in your subscription—and that of kt hels denen quickly send you that bundle order. There may be a esiry if the pres- bachansinnal ler Biante sinc beta eal nee yon rge printing. See ott “een meet err erny The British bank at Hong Kong, sent a shipload of arms and ammuni- tion to the Canton merchants with which to arm their Fascisti fon the purpose of overthrowing the Canton government. 'A British warship ac- ship and -ean see for yourself in the high’ and mene a bed it includes. Daily Herald, official organ of | British Trade. Union Congress: and | severe criticism was levelled against, |Ramsay MacDonald by the British | trade unionists for sending His Majes ty’s warships to threaten war. on. friendly nation. The Nation knows quite well that Sun Yat Sen has done more than! any other individual to overthrow . -the |hated, Manchu dynasty, that’ tyran- nised over the people of China for cen: turies. Sun traveled over China syft fering the greatest discomfort, at, im- inent risk of death, carrying on his war against the Manchu tyrants until they were overthrown, and ever sinée he has stood like the rock of Gibraltar against the capitalist pirates of the world who have robbed and plundered his people. Communists are not surprised >to see Villard and his organ ecéme iit openly for the Chinese Fascisti. Our liberals claim to be against violence, and dictatorship. But they scout-the idea that the capitalist government the United States is a dictatorship. It is a democracy in their eyes tho it can: be improved. Hence LaFollette. They abhor violence but if they must have violence they prefer that {ft should be captalist violence, Hence the preference given to the op) of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. This interesting question will not be pursued farther here for the pres- ent, but let us assume out of ch for Villard that his vicious and stupi attack on the Chinese revolutionary leader, was due to irritation over Sun Yat Sen’s exposure of the knavery of. Ranisay MacDonald—the Larollette of Great Britain—and not to a #| pected association with the payroll 0 the British Foreign Office. : roe} Religious Propaganda ° for the Masses By JOHN & SCAR. s The Ten Commandments, a pheto- play by Jeanie MacPhersone: (Ceci! B, DeMille), is an elaborate and costly piece of propaganda for’ the “people’s opium.” Elaborate costly, and yet lacking in any’ ity of artistic distinction or realism, espe- cially in the second or Drinelpal 4 tion of the picture. The first part or prologue denies the biblical story of Hxodus. flight of the children of peetihes their pursuit by Pharaoh’s afford an opportunity for some geous pageants in colors and a re- markable piece of trick photography in the opening and closing of waters of the Red Sea. Moses shown receiving the tablets of the law on Sinai amid much firework on ‘ screen and great uproar from’ chestra and the backstage noise battery. He descends and finds to his horror that the people have e become addicted to another and authorized kind of dope, so he - into a rage, smashes the holy dope stone, exhorts the people to repent ance and destroys the golden ‘calf. The plot of the principal is laid in present-day America. I the story of a young man who, irl by the restrictions of a fanatt pious mother, scoffs at her rel! and sets out with the avowed inten tion of breaking all the ten I ments. He prospers as a grat building contractor, but collapse of some rotten concrete a church he\is building kills» Nhe Next, learning that his” of-love has infected hifm with he kills her, and loses his own while attempting to escape in a mot boat. His pious brother is for his sanctimonious sen’ by receiving the repentant. who is miraculously healed of which she had developed A “touching” scene is that ° the holy brother (who is a by the way!) takes his erring in-law, chilled and drenched by a:te rifle storm, into his home. As’ aid measure against the effects of severe exposure he sits down reads to her from the Bible! T part. is atrociously written and» rected, in the style of the ten-twe thirt’ blood-and-thunder” mers” of twenty-five or thirty ago. ‘ Especially amusing to a ist are those titles which dem idolatry of the golden calf. Su day one could quote M in addressing that brute: “Ot world the lord art thou!” Not. gettitig, of course, the one ailstin ant exception, Soviet earth poitite the way toward) ition of all idolatry, and the to full stature of all the noblest ties/of mankind in the ¢