The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1924, Page 6

. THE DAILY WORKER Wednesday, November 5, 1924 ras tees acata HE DARY WaeRkEr. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington’ Blvd.; Chicago, Il. (Phone: Monroe. 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50...6 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Illinois ditors -Business Manager §. LOUIS ENGDAHL { WILLIAM F. DUNNE(" MORITZ J. LOEB... €ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, IIL, under the act, of March 3, 1879. <p> 290 “Non-Partisan” Politics in the Labor Press The degeneracy of any organization is shown in its press. It is a known fact that when a labor organization adopts a militant attitude toward capitalist control of society, such militancy is clearly discernible in its press. When it loses that militancy the change is immediately reflected in its printed organs. The papers which reflect the ideology of the American labor movement have excelled them- selves during the campaign just ended. And in the tone of their political propaganda may be seen how utterly degenerate is the ideology of the or- ganized labor movement as a whole. Altho oc- cupying a position where the cause of working class progress could ag easily be served as can its betrayal, from coast to coast the whole tribe of so- called “labor papers” has been openly offering it- self for sale to the highest bidder. They have done this because the labor bureaucracy itself is a parlor house of painted prostitutes. The labor bureaucrats of Gompers’ immediate family were so unattractive that the republican and democratic parties alike would give them noth- ing more than a glance. So Gompers went out in the alley and sold himself to LaFollette. The yellow socialists in the garment trades especially were hot rivals. Now they are erying at being deserted by the Sullivan-Costello-Brindell-Curtis crew who fell for the seduction of Tammany Hall. The labor press of all these factions offer them- selves shamelessly. In someobscure rag with a sounding name like The Labor News, the reactionary republican party had published the “labor record” of: Coolidge. A Cali- fornia “labor paper,” which shall remain nameless, picks it up and runs it. It is then reprinted as the certificate of the toilers to their “friend” in the White House. It contained the endorsement of the Brotherhood of Trainmen whose “sterling” presi- dent, W. G. Lee; announced that no vile politician could bribe him. This also contains the bland expression of “la- bor” that—‘As to the Boston police strike, it is the opinion of the great many representatives of Jabor that such a strike was unwisely called.” That the cops’ union voted 1,134 to 2 for a strike, means nothing to these labor fakers. The organ of five railroad labor bodies, dis- agreeing markedly with Bill Lee, flopped without blushing from Coolidge to LaFollette. But Berry of the Pressmen’s Union was filling the air with cheers for Davis, while Lewis of the U. M. W. led tooth- less old Mother Jones to Calvin’s welcoming arms and in the press of both organizations the cloven hoof of a sell-out-has left its track. These be the fruits of “non-partisian political action.” The whole tree is rotten and should be yanked up by the roots. When that happens, the “labor”. press will represent labor—not before. Advertising rates on application A Jewel of Imperialism If consistency is a jewel, the Chicago Tribune editorial column is a jewel of imperialism, naked aud unashamed. It is perfectly consistent and not at all a mis- chance that in Sunday’s Tribune the editor led off with an editorial entitled, “Vote for Coolidge and Dawes,” followed by another entitled “Elevate the Guns.” In the latter it is carefully and clearly explained that battleships in Wall Street’s navy cannot shoot as far as those in Threadneedle Street’s navy. The Trib wants the guns on Morgan’s battleships fixed s0 as to shoot farther by elevating the trajectory. After comparing Morgan’s ships to Britain’s, in such invidious manner, one would not be surprised at Britain’s “polite suggestion that the elevation of American guns would not be received with re.” The Trib, however, waves aside such objections. “Britain needs an efficient American navy,” it as- serts. It continues, “The American navy in the next war will be on the Pacific. And it will not be aiming at anything British. It will be protect- ing British interests as well as its own.” Nothing could more frankly proclaim the next war with Japan. But we know the policy of English imperialism enough not to be so certain of its alliances as the Trib pretends to be. How- ever, be that as it may, for a policy of “Elevate the Guns”—no matter whom they are to be aimed at—the Trib says, “Vote For Coolidge and Dawes.” That under the exhortation for elections the Trib should insert a pious word or two about Cool- idge “co-operating sanely for world peace” and having “given an example of pacific policy which has made powerfully for world peace” is not at all inconsistent with the above,-even ‘though it is an utter falsehood. For the falsehoods of imperialism are consistent to its purpose of American domina- tion by fair means or foul» $2.00....3 months | $2.50....3 months | The World in Bondage The flotation of the first Dawes loan in Jnited States brings to the foreground with ex- traordinary clarity the extent to which Américan unperialism has succeeded in establishing its’ finan- «rat hegemony over international capitalism. This year establishes a new peak in the foreign ns subscribed in the United States. Practically every banking house in the country has negotia- tions for loans or has already handled loans for foreign governments or corporations. Within the last five years the total British investments «in other countries fell from twenty to’ seventeen bil- lion dollars. At the same time, Americari foreign uivestments increased at a terrific pace. New York has. outstripped London as the world’s: ‘financial, center, despite the latter’s advantages gained thru centuries, of banking experience. Tn the first ten‘mouths of this year, the combined total foreign issues reached a sum’ closé to nine hundred million dollars. The vast proportion of this huge suin was consumed in financing ‘foreign governments, in maintaining the capitalist organs of oppression abroad. Nearly one hundred million: dollars were invested in foreign industries. More. than fifty million dollars were’ sunk in Canadian’ railways. When we call the roll of the debtor gov- ernments we find the Argentine; Hungary, Canada, San Domingo, Jugoslavia, - Japan, Switzerland, Holland, Czecho-Slovakia, Norway, Bolivia; Bel-, gium, Peru, Finland, France, Germany,’ and Sweden. When we turn to the foreign industries coming under increasing American control, we find Freneh and Canadian railways; Japanese electri¢ ¢on- cerns, Austrian and Hungarian public utilities, and Finnish general manufacturing groups. This has been a banner year for American im- perialism. The immediate outlook: for the exten- sion of Yankee capitalist supremacy is’ bright. But these conquests are only the silver linings of the dark gray clouds of war that are) hovering over Europe and the Far East. Every dollar in- vested by the American capitalists abroad is a dol- lar taken from the exploited working class at home. Every dollar invested by the . American financiers in Europe and the Far East is a dollar invested in the next world war. Fools at King Capital’s Court In medieval times kings cosiumarily kept a kind of. human being, often artificially disfigured into grotesque form, in attendance at their thrones, dressed like a clown and privileged to crack: jokes at -the monarch without making acquaintance with the headsman. In return they drank the king’s wine, ate at his table, enjoyed the boon of the kingly smile and doubtless were given a few coins. A few weeks back the plute press was full of stories and photos of a visit made to the White House by a group of famous actors and comedians, led by Al Jolson, John Drew and Charlotte Green: wood, Stories filled the newspapers with eulogistic |tutional guarantees,” says the program detail of how they “breakfasted” with Cal Cool- idge, how “spontaneous” Al Jolson’s humor was, and how all sang and laughed like “lappy and in- nocent children,” and even Silent Cal deigned to bestow a royal smile. It is our sad duty to disclose that the Borah committee investigating campaign expenses was told that the whole affair was staged for election purposes by Rhinelander Waldo of New York. with G. O. P. money.” Waldo paid $1,297 in carfares and hotel bills alone, while Gilson Gardner testi- fied that the stunt was offered for*his favorite can- didate at the price of $50,000. The theatrical profession has need to make itself heard in protest at this disgraceful prostitn- tion of professional prominence. But Communists are not surprised. In 1847 Marx and Engels wrote:—“The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and. leoked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physi- cian, the lawyer, the priest; the poet, the man of science into its paid wage laborers.” f But in the ease of the visit to Coolidge, it did more. These actors were earning their living pro- fessionally as wage laborers more-or less honestly. They volunteered, for an extra stipend, to prosti- tute what they call their art to capitalist polities. Several people were killed here at a railroad crossing owing to the criminal cupidity of the Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad and the Chicago surface lines. Both roads spent more money trying to get Coolidge and Dawes elected than would eliminate ‘all the dangerous crossings in the state of Illinois. Should present indications hold good, there} should be some excitement at the El Paso conyen-| tion of the American Federation of Labor, It is: not likely that Gompers will have the “red” ‘bogey: man to work up hysteria, so the ¢rooks will most likely fight anivtig themselves. Now that a Christian general has ‘chatge of Peking, the American missionary business should take a decided boost as far as collections ‘are con- cerned. Whatever donations Rockefeller made ‘to advertise Jesus in China has not been wasted. The British labor ministry might not have needed to resign yesterday if it had rallied the workers against the capitalists instead of raiding |' the radicals with capitalist’ police. * \ Tf the election campaign lasted another inonth, LaFollétte would not have enough labor fakers|_ behind him to make a decent dinner party. Send in that new “sub” today! ... POISONING THE YOUTHFUL MIND AGAINST LABOR Gompers in Alliance with the Fascists By KARL REEVE. The American Federation of Labor is co-operating with the American Legion and the Na- tional Security League in at- tempting to make labor haters and red-baiters out of the school children of America, it was learned at Sunday's meet- ing of the Chicago’ Federation of Labor. A communication Was re- ceived from Mathew. Woll, as member, of the _ educational committee of the A. F, of L., asking. the Chicago Federation ‘of Labor to co-operate to: make American Educational Week a success, “It is fitting that we co- operate to make Education Week a success,” says Mathew Woll, crown prince to Gompers, in his letter. The American Federation of Labor officials have thus formed an alliance with the capitalists by trying to get aFollette elected on the political field, and are aiding the National Se- curity league and the American Le- gion to permeate the educational with | anti-labor propaganda. “The employ- | er who keeps his men at work .con- tentedly today is America’s most prac- tical patriot,” says the National Se- curity league propaganda, to be distri- buted by the thousands to children during the week that the A. F. of L. has indorsed and is going to aid. “Don't waste men, it is important that efficiency be maintained.” White Guards Unite. The “American Education Week” that Woll asks the Chicago Federation of Labor to aid, is a-new drive against | the Communists and militant organ- ized labor generally. The department of the interior has issued a program, with which the American Legion, the National Security league, the National Educational association and the Amet- ican Federation of Labor officials will co-operate in putting into effect. Pres- ident Coolidge officially announced “Education Week” to be held from Nov. 17 to 23, The program is proof that the A. F. of L. offic! family is supporting a purely anti-lal program. ‘“Revo- lutionists, Communists, and extreme pacifists are a menace to the consti- which suggests subjects for lectures by teachers to the school children. “The red flag means death, destruc- tion, poverty, starvation, disease, an- archy and dictatorship.” “America first—the red flag—danger. Productive Institutions. “The school as a productive institu- tion” *is another subject which the bankers and open shoppers, assisted by the A. F. of L. officials, advise teachers to lecture on. “Religion, mo- rality and education are necessary to good government,” says the program. If the Chicago Federation of Labor | co-operates with this program, it is going to collaborate with the capital: | ist government to “stamp out revolu- | tionary radicalism.” the final day, Sunday, to “God and country.” . It is a beautiful program —for class collaboration, fascism and white guardism. Against Labor. Now that the election is over, and Gompers has taken all he could get trom the capitalist bankers backing LaFollette, Gompers and his clique of officials are indorsing a movement smanating from Calvin Coolidge and G. Dawes, with a program nade up by Coolidge’s department of nterior, and tons of literature against abor being distributed to the chil- dren by the National Security league. What is an American? is the query fired at the immature minds of. the ‘school children by the literature which the open shoppers are going to cir- culate in co-operation with the A. F. ‘of L. officials, “ who says ‘if I ‘tail or fall behind fellows, the fault and discredit will be mine, no “I harbor no class resent- They Prefer Fascism. The propaganda to be spread broad- against a plague, ‘ment and every any degree, to conv tive form of gove: racy,” is the Security league. But the Gompers’ and the American company in their shoppers out of the school children. William English Wi ’ pros- en tnistanh thoar af an November t Ne ? Also, to devote |ed Editorial In The Workers’ Tribune, Polish Communist Weekly. O you fare badly brother! Do you fare badly sister! You work like an ‘ox, or perhaps even harder, and what have you? The bitter worry over what you will put into your mouth tomorrow, what you will feed your children with, and what you ghall cover your nakedness with. You are worse off than the ox. He docs not think of the morrow, ‘does not dream that things could be bet- ter, He, chews his.cud and carries his yoke until the time comes when he, will be driven .off . to..be. but- chered. But he knows not the worry which hharrasses you, And he does not know what you know—that from your. bloody labors arise the mag- nificent sky-scrapers, - the - wonderful palaces. for the idlers, .who never touches work with their hands; that the labor overtaxing your ereates a superabundance of luxuries isfy even your most humble needs; that the bloody tears of your wrongs shine with a myriad colored lustre of jewels sparkling on the necks of the masters’ harlots. You tare badly brother and sister! You know that itis not.a necessity of nature, but human wrong, terrible divides the abundance. of riches avail- able to humanity so that. the. rogue as he wants, while the man. of. all- creating toil receives barely enough t6 keep him from dying of hunger as long as he is of-:use to the exploiters. You desire emancipation from this misery, you desire justice, a’ ray of happiness, which is justly due» you for your labors; But what are you doing: to bring this ray of happiness to us? You know that there are countless millions of such as you, of working- men and workingwomen, wives of the workers. You know that we are in the great majority; that if we rose to action together we would crush completely the parasitic vermin that suck our blood, that the only thing needed is the awakening of our sleep- ing power, organizing it and throwing it into the’ struggle! But that must be done. It will not do itself. You forge your shackles every day, increasing the power of your oppressors with your labor. But you hesitate to’\apply your hand to break these shackles. The first wedge which crumples the prison walls of our present miserable existence is the word of working class truth, the workers’ paper. Tell us, how many readers did you get for our “Workers’ Tribune?” You are silent? You have nothing much to brag about? Perhaps you do not even know that in order to insure By M. A. SKROMNY. strength | for them, while you are unable to sat: | injustice, the vile sogial system that | | | who produces nothing ‘takes. as much | “To Action!” for The Daily Worker WAR. AGAINST. WAR—ACTION NOT PRAYER Diek Ovendenin “Labor Call” (MELBOURNE ,AUSTRALIA) its steady publication our ‘Workers’ Tribune” should hayé at least twice the number of readets that it has at present; that:today it isyconstantly in danger of suspengion due ‘to the lack of money for. printing” and’: paper, which with the.‘present number, of readers costs almost, twice as much as is receivedfrom the sale ofthe paper? poaean mae 2: od And how many readefs did you gain for our English language daily, the DAILY WORKER? t “Oh,” you say, “why worry about the English. daily when our Polish weekly is just about breathing?” Your attitude is wrong. We must worry much more about our English daily.. The English daily is the torch lighting the way of the struggle for emancipation of the entire working class of this country. . If it did not jexist- all the working class papers published in--other languages which reach only groups of. workers. isolated from each ‘other/:would amount to practically nothing. You say ‘that you do pot under- stand English, that: you cannot read this paper yourself. That's bad. You should know not only enough Eng- lsh to understand ‘the orders and in- sults of the boss, but also-to be able to speak to: your fellow worker. You should learn, and it is precisely by reading ‘a workers’ paper: that you should do so; because it is working class matters that you have to speak about. But. even now, when you cannot Tead English, ‘your younger brother and sister, or your child can. Did you ever hand them a DAILY WORKER? You do n6ét Know how to agitate your American fellow-worker, because you do not speak English.. The DA- LY WORKER will do that for you very well. If you are not able to ‘agitate yourself, then the greater your duty to circulate the paper. Hand it out, ‘secretly pass it where it will be noticed if you are afraid to do so openly for fear that you may be reported to your boss and be thrown out of+work. One way or another, but act! Eman- cipation will not come of itself. You must do everything that you can af- ford to, you must do more than you jcan afford to do to spread the light of revolutionary workers’. thought, you must build the mass Workers Party. To action, those who do not want to humbly die in -slavery! The first step on this road of action is the circulation of the revolutionary workers’ press, our “Workers’ Trib- une” among the Polish workers, and —which is still more important—the circulation of the English language paper, the DAILY WORKER. ‘ M. BORUTA, Labor Defends Its Journalists A trial which roused all Russia and had its echo even in this country, just ended in Nikolaiev, Russia. According to a cable which reached here a few days ago, six of the criminals received ithe highest penalty, being sentenced to death. The capitalist press lacon- ically reports that they were sentenc- “for murder of a village corre spondent, who accused the village ad- ministration of anti-Communist ac- tivities.” The motive in this report was to create the impression. that bolshevik “atrocities” are “still” being perpetrat- ed. No account of. the case is given, not even the names mentioned. A few months ago when the murder was discovered in the small village of Dymoyvka and the murderers arrested, the DAILY WORKER gaye a detailed report of the case. Now we can add the grewsome details which came to light at the trial in Nikolaiev. Malinovsky Exposes Criminals. The victim, Gregory Maltnovsky, was village correspondent for “Krasny Nikolaiev” and other labor papers. /When he came back from the Red Army he found a gang of criminals, moonshine distillers ete., intrenched ‘in official positions in the village. |The population was terrorized. “We are party members, you can’t do anything against us,” boasted some | of these rulers. Everybody was forced to pay graft in order to id trouble. ‘A great majority of the little dark village Dymovka is illiterate, and they saw the news life and freedom as re- presented by these “communists.” Nobody dared to complwin, they didn’t know how to do it, and those that knew were afraid. Life was unbearable in the village until Gregory Malinovsky came back from the army, Hé has been a true Communist. He fought at many differ- eut fronts defending the revolution. What he found in the vilage shocked hi He immédiately began an attack on thé gang at the village meetings and in the press. Tho gang was scared and decided to get rid of him. One night he was found shot tu death with i: Insulting nolo pinned to his breast. * four months no investigation was pict het the murderers were Plan Beastly Revenge. who fired the fatal the instigation of the village grafters. They made him so drunk with’ moonshine that he heard the shot fired and fell to the by one of the village officials after the gun and was promised immunity. Some of ‘the instigators the. world.” ground. The gun was given to him’ they made him drunk. He returned’ PHILADELPHIA, NOTICE! Ms ae Celebration — C.E. RUTHENBERG is the main International Orchestra — Admission 25 cents * » - Auspices: Workers Party and Young These are some of the murderers. In the center is Andrew Malinovaky, hot that killed his own brother. The others are some revolution within Russia and the white guards in other countries.” The resolution together with many other resolutions from.groups of correspond- Now sentence has Six of them will pay. with for the brutal murder, for th against the workers and Russia, for their crimes. Soviet government. - ‘The sentence will tale 00 tie Béclalist Sovt prctenchieau: «.