The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1924, Page 6

the very fact that the Russia of today can afford (o be magnanimous to its enemies is the best pos- sible evidence of its growing strength and stability. Now It Can Begin With the decisive election of Coolidge, the big- gest employers are preparing to lose no time in launching their national open shop offensive against the working masses. The near future will very likely witness a repe- tition of the “grand offensive” of 1922. All evi- dence tends to indicate that the textile workers will again be marked first for slaughter by the capitalists. New England, the home of the re- elected president, has been chosen as the first ground of battle by the bosses. The textile workers of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Is- land have been ordered by the mill barons to accept wage cuts from 10 to 20 per cent. This drive against the textile workers bears all the ear-marks of being only a prelude to a general onslaught on the workers of all industry. For some time the well-kept press has been ranting about the need for the deflation, the readjustment —always downward, of course—of wages. In launching the wage-slashing campaign against the textile workers, the bosses made it their business to be better prepared than they were two years For months the textile workers have been unem- ployed or allowed to work only part time. Their resources have been deliberately depleted by the exploiters. Nearly two-thirds of the members of the United Textile Workers have been excused from dues payment in the last few months because of wide-spread unemployment. At the some time the textile barons have been consolidating their forces thru gigantic mergers. The textile operat- ors have been solidifying their ranks for a fight to the finish. The textile workers can be counted upon to re- sist heroically’ these dastardly efforts of their ex- ploiters. This, however, is not enough. Behind the textile barons stands the united power of the strongest employing interests of the country. Be- hind the textile workers must stand the united ‘exces of the working class from coast to coast. that the ruling class did not like, therefore it gave it the boot. The Soviet loan guarantee and the Campbell case left a bad taste in the mouths of the British bourgeoisie. The idea that extra-parlia- mentary action should cause a British government to act was repugnant, unless of course it was extra-legal action on the part of the ruling class. Baldwin will take his orders all the time from the British Federation of Industries. The Fat Boys Cheerful The New York stock market reacted splendidly to the unexpected news that Foster had not won the election. The reports ran as follows: “An enthusiastic and vigorous forward move- ment in the principal railroad stocks was the stock market’s response today to the results of the presi- dential election. New York Central and Atchison were leaders ‘in this movement. In the first two hours the twenty railroad stocks in the Interna- tional News Service compilation gained 2.12 points. “Industrial leaders were taken in hand later and boosted to the highest prices of the year and in some cases to the highest point in their history. American Smelting hung up a new high record. American Sugar made a good response. Oil stocks were not weak and Mexican Seaboard advanced. Call money advanced % cent.” If the workers will take this news and ponder over it, remembering that if anything helps the bosses as a class, it hurts the workers in propor- tion, they will see what they voted for. Also, they will, if they follow that line of reasoning far enough, understand why the Workers Party’s struggle is just beginning and why it is the first political party in America which is organizing by basing its lowest and most powerful units on the job, in the shops and factories, It is reported that James J. Davis is taking a trip to South America and that John L, Lewis is to get the job of secretary of labor. It is also whispered that Lewis is out to trim old Gompers.| Even foxy Sam fell for the LaFollette illusion, but it would not surprise us to hear that he is now suffering from a headache, an opportunity to modify the party po- sition on the question. of tariff war as @ means of easing the relations be- tween the conservatives and the li- berals ready for the next step when the united forces of the two parties would be required to dispense with the services of the labor party. Between Two Parties. In this task he was aided by the at- titude of Churchill who, standing first in between the two parties as the rallying force against the labor party, developing the cry which both Bald- win and Asquith echoed at the proper moment for a united front against the labor party. It was easy for him to do this as a free lance and to take the right step on to the conservative platform at the proper moment. The moment of the election in 1924 completes the process. The conserva- tive party was never more united. The whole of the conservative press is una- nimous in the application of the unit- ed front policy against labor while the pact for the elimination of three cor- nered contests where these are deem- ed to endanger either liberal or con- servatize seats is a consumation which it would e been risky to prophesy to happen nine months after the 1923 election. But these developments do not con- stitute the limits of the strategy. Be- sides committing the labor party to the Dawes’ plan and involving it in every phase of imperial responsibility the aim thruout has been to split the labor party. ‘This the conservative party in particular has had in view all the time, taunting MacDonald and his right wing colleagues’ on their association with Communism and those who sympathize with it. How could all their denials be accepted so long as they did not prove their words by dissociating themselves from these people. The more the labor party leadership developed along the lines of liberalism and imperialism, in their efforts to gather elements from the li- beral party and to capture liberal votes at the coming electidn, the more they were urged to cut the painter. But the time was too short altho Mac- led the way with the attack rst upon the Communists in spite of the incidents of the Campbell prose- cution and the signing of the Russian should do that rather than the bulk of that surplus should be turned either into this country, or into our own spe- cial markets which I have described.” In addition therefore, to the hatred of the Bolshevik government of Rus- sia there is also a very definite fear of the increased competition that the rehabilitation of Germany is bound to bring.- As a matter of fact, in the same speech Baldwin states: “It is perfectly true that the increased trade that will come from the rehabilitation of Germany, that is to say the increas- ed world trade, must be coupled at the same time with an increased compe- titive power in Germany, and you have to weigh the balance of advantage. The probability in my view is that the balance on the whole is to our ad- vantage, too, subject to one or two observations I shall have to make,” These observations I have already quoted. . On Dawes’ Plan, The position therefore, becomes clear. The opposition to the Russian 4 ™ . Re eects Aare By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. Jacques Grdon, concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony orchestra, was solo- ist with the organization at the reg- ular concert given in Orchestra Hall last Friday and Saturday. Gordon played, for the first time in America, the Gregorian concerto for violin and orchestra, by Ottorino Respighi. Res- pighi has busied himself greatly in the last few years studying medieval Ital- ian music and this concerto is one of the fruits of his labor, Thruout the three movements there is @ sombre, mysterious atmosphere, reminiscent of the old illuminated manuscript music that is ‘still sung in Italian cathedrals. The work must be ferociqusly difficult to play, and Gor- don did it perfectly. To us there seems a great improvement in the ¢oncertmaster’s work. The tension in his style, so annoying heretofore, was entirely gone. - Liquid What? world market. Behind The Screen. The opposition to the Russian Treaty is therefore, more than an an- ti-Bolshevik campaign and is based upon a planned offensive against the workers of Britain to bring their con- ditions down to competitive levels es- tablished in Germany. Until that has been accomplished there will be no means enabling the placing of large orders from Russia. This conclusion is forced upon us by the general preparation going on thruout industry for this offensive. Hichens,' a chairman of Cammell Lairds, stated frankly to the I. L. P. summer school that “The main cause of the present trade depression lay in conditions outside the control of Britain—in European unrest, in the poverty of other nations due to the war, in foreign rivalries and competi- tion. . . As a temporary measure to meet this situation, I believe it is inevitable that real wages in this coun- and the deeper enslavement of the workers. Hence the defeat of the labor government. Hence the new coalition of conservatives and liberals. But the plans are not complete and the sequel is destined to prove as in- teresting and important as the inei- dent of the labor government. The defeat of the Russian Treaty is bound to make it the first plank of all labor agitation dealing with unemployment and whether MacDonald and his friends like it or not, draw the work- ing class of Britain closer to the work- ers and peasants of Russia.» The fail- ure of the. capitalist plan to split the labor party before driving it- out of office is destined to deepen the work- ing class development, within it; to strengthen the class conscious forces and give a leftward impetus to the whole movement. The speeding up of the forces of competitive struggle of iniperialism has thus destroyed the labor government, but how deeply the sony is being ploughed for Bolshev- sm 4s TERATUR ee of the English horn produces just the effect the subject needs. And if there is anything connected with the play- ing of the instrument that Mr. Nap- Olillt does not. know, it is not worth knowing. The Less the Better. To open the concert Mr. Stock chose that bit. of musical langhter the overtyre to “The Bartered Bride” by Smetana, He followed this up with Paar eecoancmeynmeanggs Y | scribes the swan that swims on the}a work by Smetana’s river surrounding Tuonela. The use| al compatriot, the twenty sevdn var- ~ TOO LATE! ~ hi greatest music jations for orchestra by Dvorak. If some twenty of these were excised from the score, one. might listen. to the composition in a better frame of mind. ae kth at The rhapsody “Finlandia,” also by Sibelius, closed the This is the composer's best known effort. I starts out with a cold, gloomy i and winds up fast.and furiously an infectious dance rhythm. f j . x nde 5 : Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Friday, November 7, 1924 | ' . : e “eye o.e e * EINE DANY WORK. gnivsietien: Significance of the 1924 Britis ections Fiuiised Wy ihe DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00 | According to unofficial returns Emil Youngdahl, g Cc o i 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. | Communist pandidate for the state legislature on or lopment as the only means of develop-) Treaty is based upon the acceptance] try must fail. I say rea) wages bles t 2 ; * By J. T. MURPHY. ing the labor part; f the Dawes’ plan by the British im- | cause it is possible that selene H : 4712, the 4 ° 7 op- rv is party. of the ‘es’ pl iy D prone MON, 4 the Sarees Iubor. ticket, is elected despite: the: Op HILE the election campaign is/ put why the haste? Here I think | Derialists. To carry out the Dawes’| reckoned in money will rise. They’ ; SUBSCRIPTION RATES | position of fake progressives and labor leaders. concentrating upon the Camp-| we come to the crux of the new situ-| Plan and secure reparations it is ob-|tend to rise, in fact, at the present { i By mail: " While the so-called progressives found nothing | bell prosecution and the Russian | ation, The crisis came not on the|Vious that they are anxious to be | moment.” ‘ $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months contradictory in’ supporting republicans and dem- Treaty and developing into a frenzied! Campbell case. Had the labor goy- | able to compete effectively and at the| The industrial correspondent of the i By mail (In Chicago only)? : ae hehe hi a ‘tahie fight against Communism, there can-|ernment. not made an ass of itself on | Same time to be safeguarded against | “Morning Post” writing on September ; $8.00 per year —$4.50....6 months —_—$2.50...8 months | ocrats as the case may be, they achieved ano not be the slightest doubt that the /this question the crisis would still|the competition. The latter part of | 22, of the iron and steel position, says, hocks to unanimity in their opposition to the Communists] tury of the .onslaught means more have been upon them. This crisis de-| the scheme won’t stand a great deal |“A reduction in production costs would i Address all mail and make out c! Pek everywhere. than the imminence of the revolu-|pended on the Anglo-Russian Treaty.|0f examination’ but the question of |appear to be the only way in which t THE DAILY WOR ’ ists of Minnesota, ‘the| tion in Britain, Yet to still narrower limits must we| Competition and the relation of the | to get the industry back onto a sound Chicago, Ittinele| But for the Communists o sota, i $113 W. Washington Bivd. bad f tabi ty. would’ bi a deka eatin ahi? As a matter of fact that latter is | draw it, This hung upon the question | Russian Treaty thereto is all import-| basis, and prevent the blowing out of i sis | Sanne enn: WOULG eee stare 80 near or so far, that we need waste |of a guaranteed loan and debt recog-|#0t for different reasons to those put | further furnaces in the near future.” ; J. LOUIS ENGDAHL { aie ++ EDGItOre bone of Saint Anne by this time. The vacillating| any time discussing it at this juncture nitions forward by Baldwin. b nh ‘ monir2 3 OMe ce iness Manager policy of William Mahoney of St.Paul and the} and concern ourselves with the other Ralacd! Grant Howl For example, we should require to leman\ ‘age Cut, th MOR! 6a niceenncrmmiontiane | tT +k gyrations of Robly D. Cramer, the|*e880ns governing the anti-bolshevik 2 be credulous to thing that British| The “Financial Times” of the same | ee a nn or cacr by, JSR at the BOs | te ee ee pM egal Cael, campaign, On the lines of approach to the Bol-| o. itsiists are prepared to hand over |@ate declares in reviewing the coal 1 Entered as foccasclnee mall ho act of March 8, 1879, | alleged “red” of Minneapolis would long since have] “yy.00 the conservative party lead- | Shevik delegates, MacDonald received any market to a competitor. Even | Situation created by German ¢ompe- | = Ben made the party a cog in the republican machine.| ers decided on a general election in the plaudits of every capitalist paper Baldwin’s Limited are ent so generous | tition, “There is only one way left to i} 290 Advertising rates on applicatios | But there was nothing redsabout ‘Cramer except} 1923, tWo outstanding problems faced | im the country. But when it came to if their recent completion of a £70,000 | Combat German competition and that | eG them. First, to secure unanimity in | the hay yi See: nee ae order from Russia is anything ne go |i8 to get the costs of production in this j 4 5 i t ti , an almost universal howl. ut for U d Ss ° R 1 The “progressives” had a lot of fun charging eal te pres be Paiatinad son es this feature, it is probable that there La ae Tense bpeoetinay Feecrhay Gane is ede beri ncrd nder Soviet Kule the Communists with being visionaries while the] ona; the consolidation of the forces weal aed been ay incon basen Britain is oo fanah soe hl nc the new wage agreement that may be | Since the workers and peasants of Russia, under|former were “practical” politicians. But in that] of capitalism against the rising class pskeos bec ee chaseeaa ppeteys Russian market is to be handed to |*earded as a sheer impossibility, for i es . Anh iaahe pone: ,|kind of a game, the older political prostitutes can| feeling amongst the workers due to Germany because they are ‘neighbors, |the miners will sacrifice neither one i the leadership of the Communist Party, overthrew the prolonged unemployed crisis. The | their campaign against the treaty as nor th th. f th d ” 1 : ‘ i ils ¢ ades. The Com- ploy . why not China to the Japs and South 'e other of these conditions. the feudal-capitalist dictatorship of the czarist give their pupils cards and, Spas ‘ capitalist leaders knew quite well|# Whole and with the help of America to the United States. As for | Sir George Hunter, a prominent ship: j rae ; 3 tt letariat: ‘the munists stuck to their principles, and while they| that it they came forward with the |Lloyd George, the liberal party was language, is Chinese easier -for the | builder, declared also “Improvement in ; vegime and established that of the proletariat, did not win many victories in the parliamentary | Dawes’ report as the basis for a “Hu- | Sung into line. poor Britisher to learn than Russian? | the shipbuilding industry would not American press has been filled with furious de- sense, they gained a greater victory in. winning|Topean settlement” that the labor} Why this complete change in the Tho Russian M come unless the shipbuilders could uunciations of the alleged persecutions and. ter-| the a ae ee fidence of the masses which | P&tty leaders would pounce upon it} attitude of the liberals who previous- je ‘Russian Market. induce the leaders of trade unions to nunciations of the alleged pers S and, he respect an nfide 2 : and make the utmost political capital |ly were in favor of developing the re-| I think wé must go a little deeper |help them reduce their costs and to rorism carried out against their opponents by the} was lost by men like Mahoney and Cramer, who] trom its Proposals as a means of ad-| lations between Britain and Soviet | than these specious reasons. When all | co-operate with them.” These quota- kers’ governme’ is y of abuse the so- »ported republican politicians against the Com-}vancing the labor party. Russia? None of the liberal leaders | allowance is-made for the hatre: tions could be multiplied at workers’ government. In this orgy of abu supp p Pp £ . party. d of H) ad lib, but vialists took a leading part. munists running on the farmer-labor ticket. ey pri on al Mara re perked oe SAN he Ghee a Mare Ger ee ce ut fart Aur once ee Pasta Ve gr Scand * = P “racy. vai i i vhic! ious es lefeat of Soviet Russia was not a democracy, they wailed,| But the immediate aE which these Spurious) ould get this plan accepted in Britain | tirades of the conservative party |ish capitalists see their competitors | the Russian Treaty at this juncture } the Communists outdid the capitalists in cruelty] progressives hankered for did not materialize, an@| was ‘the’ labor Party. Without the | against helping the Bolsheviks. The | rushing into the Russian market, they | is part of the general economic of- | to their political opponents! Even Eugene V. Debs| they are now left without either virtue of the re-| Dawes’ report they also knew things | echo is so complete that we are driven | will not be far behind. A comparison | fensive against the working class of | beat the air with protests against the incarceration| ward of their treachery. They have allowed La-| were going trom bad to worse for they | to the conclusion that the Conserva-|of the trade they have already made | Britain bound up with the operation é 8: Ses S he | 58d no plan apart from it. Looking | tives hold the key to the riddle. with Russia and the trade made by | of the Dawes’ report. The coincidence of counter-revolutionary brigands who sought to|Follette to. inflict a dangerous wound on the 3 i ? : f fi 1 f Mi t The Work back over the last twelve months, I| , Turning to the conservatives for an | their competitors with Russia since |of the two features accounts for the ] overthrow the government which Debs so often ex-|farmer-labor party of } inneso a. 6. or) ers think we are driven to the conclusion | explanation, we find the following in- | the révolution will prove that. But the |fefocity of the anti-Bolshevik cam- ; pressed his willingness to die for. Party kept the banner of independent working) that all other explanations for the sur- teresting theory propounded by | fact of the matter is, both British and | paign far more than the growing im- | But the Soviet government has given many/class political action flying, and is the only party | render of an overwhelming party ma-| Baldwin on the eve of the election. |foreign capitalists do not want to aid| portance of Communism in Britain, i proofs that it is not carrying on a war of revenge,|in the United States today that is a farmer-labor | Jority in the parliament have to take |“Russia never has been, and I do not |the Bolsheviks of Russia at all and | While the fact that the labor party i Boots z ee ie hae a ley dx A eal woe second place to.this determination to | believe ever will be, one of our prin- | will only develop in that direction ac-|is bound to the Russian Treaty more ; against even its most bitter opponents. ‘ as ; party in eal, sense. secure the acceptance of the Dawes’ |cipal markets. Geographically and | cordingly to the pressure of circum: | positively and wholeheartedly than to many occasions pardoned active counter-revolu- SP Aa IRR AT oR I plan, the nature of which they alone linguistically, conditions are against |stances. A further factor must be |the Dawes’ plan made it imperative tionists, sentenced to death. Recently it commuted MacDonald Ste s Out knew at that time, By the time Mac-| it, just as those conditions are against | taken into account and that is, the |that the labor government.should be y tHe death sentence on Boris Savinkov, agent of D. Donald was safely installed the plan |us in our trade on the lower waters | British capitalists have got first of- | immediately displaced. altho the con- j sane’ oe ye rg i + + was practically ready for him to op-/of the Danube. Our natural markets |férs and hold a favorable position in | servative party tactics had not come H Korniloy, Poincare, Lloyd George and Winston Ramsay Lapeer moved his furniture te ‘wate. are tHe tietaiatonn.: ‘Béatts. Rendeies | Sebatlae ibs theleconiaratiiors toe tna ts tit nurtbe 1 Churchill, in causing death and destruction to the}10 Downing street. Stanley Baldwin moved his! ‘The manner in which the conserva |and the East. There we have a bet. | Russian_market. Seried tne Wied q workers and peasants of his own country. in. The business of the empire goes on as usual. erouc ts GaeaNte an ie vane ter chance of competing with the But these offers are not altogether ita calling into being of rae labo: j ; és iversary ee ia of study. Choosin; pis 8p ir } And again on the feveuth seanixesaget oi beng The exploitation of the workers continues. Noth-| the most imperialigt or Jai Sins cae world. ucla tien arb ae ane pont tatp as a government was therefore, determined | oom vf mon ania Pe & cag ing has really changed except that millions of Brit-| ing from the imperial conterenco—tar-| werner wwe like it or got, the na-| World. market especially with, the pes ina Bales br pathaithn munist leaders of the Russian mas 5 = * = war against fi ” 3 , acceptance of the Dawes’ report splendid gesture of peace and forgiveness in grant-|188 Workers are no longer under the illusion ‘that ethpire eet GANT rere tural exploiter of Russian trade is Paes ae holding premier position | +, StetOR class movement. The SP ge al «_,| they are running the empire. ches, ‘ete:; SAUTE Gat treet Germany. They have always done the |i" ‘he capitalist plan of campaign. | 14 of the labor governme t ing amnesty to thousands who had fought against , ete.; in cut free trom the | | a Rasa They ,know as well as we that the bi nt was caus. kk f thei Ange ine dna th behalt of The MacDonald government was never a labor | limitations and commitments of his largest trade in Russia because, geo- placing of orders to the tune of thirty ed by the historic association of the the workers of their ow sites a government except in name. Even its name was|predecessor, Bonar Law, and at Pepgiyanst Rae mid het Trapstd th million pounds would have a decided | British working class movement with > wi i 1 e S . : the capitalists of the ee Mer Sankar AS | badly diluted. Several Lords and Sirs occupied ee sae ie forward to- sian ‘language atid casera eas effect upon unemployment and upon iste n of ores anc S ca a - v * us * * = ‘% cl ; a en nig " Cee tae <ie the fact important position. With few exceptions eyen the standing * probed tha cdeastnstntd sian methods of business. In my view that ain Racwnin of ge Ihtoar | the fulsliment ot ‘the plane of the at in overy canitelist, country in the wortd|UBtitled members made no secret of their devotion| of the forces of capitalism against the |the thing for world trade, of which we sign of revival of trade it ie the sie, | mperialists in spite of the willingness that in every capitalist ¢ rat vay in. vile| ‘© the capitalist system. rising tide of working class discontent. pete Se tty WoMie pe the Ue) ie the wobkiny t6 make demands |°! the labor leaders to serve. The thousands of workers are rotting mented he vile Stanley Baldwin succeeded Lloyd George. Mac-| Immediately he succeeded in bring. y fag ee citnnia oe ac us and for a recovery of their losses, for | ‘ty of negotiations were conducted Fs -apitali a at evel r “the so- . rmany odboetd — ee sek be gre gis the| Donald succeeded Baldwin. It is Baldwin's turn ix back, ae m ah i Rid ‘tho haa {that she should turn into that market, oder bo Pa bho ote. “Tn Ret tach Sceateashan absent: tan Sidon : fe a K sag ae oy pes a Sites wees dni: again. This is democracy, according to the gospel] heen cold shouldered because of their | Wich some day, but not yet, will be a cenditieas bog ae pleats gids bind workers were bourgeois compromises. 3 ai erie ma aca uate ak : Je for in.| 0! the Second International. Under it capitalism! coalition leadegship viz: Birkenhead, |&T@t market—that she should turn in- from the application of the Dewar But the objective situation ruled that | soned in India because of their struggle for in- can change its servants when it pleases. Chamberlain and Co. He drove the |t® that country the surplus of exports report are insisting upon reductions | ‘2° operation of the treaty interfered lependence from Great Britain. The MacDonald governmént was not a labor| liberal sections together on the basis | Wich is to provide for ‘the payment of of wages and the lengthening of the |Wit2 the major plans of imperialism “ eee ae has ie acDona! a ff f&:9 reparations and incidentally of some yey enh iving the i a The lying capitalist and socialist press has done government but it was forced té doa few things of free trade, and once having done of our interest to America-—that she | WO'King day and week would be fatal |!"¥°lving the intensification of imper its worst to put Soviet Russia in a bad light. But that used the results of the election as i, | to their policy of the conquest of the |‘#list competition thruout the world * fy Senator Henry Cabot Lodge suffered a severe shock on November 4. That was the day the Cool- idge landslide took place. When Silent Cal was handed the nomination for the presidency, Henry thought he was handed a lemon. But it was Henry | Contrasting with modern composi- tion, Gordon played the eight concerto by Spohr, This concerto is a work of simple, almost ‘ingenuous liquid mel- ody thruout, tho there are pas: sages of virtuosity which is not mus: that is the fault of the concerto form. The struggle of the textile workers is a struggle of the entire working class. The employers feel that now they can begin their much-heralded and somewhat delayed open shop drive. They are be- ginning to garner the fruits of their election vie-| who got squeezed. Now watch Cal talk to the tory. The time to halt these anti-labor maneuvers | workers! is at hand. « Norman Hapgood says that bunk killed the La- Follette candidacy. We can claim that the Work- ers Party helped to debunk him, ‘Treaty. Conservative Strategy. In this part of the capitalist strategy Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER t™ a member for the Workers Party. on caninas eatecmennialtiltiin,