The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1924, Page 6

a bE Page Six = = — = THE DAILY WOR Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL (Phone: Monroe 4712) — ——— SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $6.09 per year 68,00 per year $4.50....6 mopshs $2.50....3 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Chicago, Iinele {euennnnnnnnnn IOS ..Business Manager ————$—$$—$—<—<—— —— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Il, under the act of March 3, 1879. <p 290 Advertising rates on application gE Singapore When the British labor party government was allowed to assume office in order to pull some chestnuts out of the fire for the British ruling class, among the projects inherited by it from its predecessor in power was a plan to build a power- ful naval base at Singapore. This project was drop- ped by the MacDonald government, tho, in order to mollify tory opinion it gave orders for the building of several new cruisers and carried out extensive bombing excursions in India, I Mesopotamia. i The Singapore project is directed against Japan, and for the protection of British interests in the Pacific. The jingoes of Australia and New Zea- land are for it, which is an added reason why the extreme right wing of British imperialism should be willing to spend over $100,000,000 on the Singa- pore base. It may keep the Antipodean colonies closer to Threadneedle’s apron strings. Writers who take most things for granted as- sumed that the serious blow to Japanese naval power by the great earthquake wag responsible for the temporary shelving of the Singapore base. This is nonsefise. Japan is not the only power besides Britain with interests in the Pacific. The United States is intensely interested in that part of the world, and it should not be forgotten that Britain and the United States are watching each other’s moves with no platonic interest, knowing quite well, that some day, unless the unforseen happens, the rival navies of the two great powers will battle for the supremacy of the seas. Today Britain is building the Singapore base with an eye on Japan, but tomorrow it may be used against the United States. While the rulers of both empires, the American and the British, profess the most benevolent in- ftentions toward each other; while they shake hands, they also hold daggers. After all the peaceful pretensions of the capital- ist nations it is quite clear to any thinking work- er that there cannot be any peace until the cap- italist system is overthrown, the world over. Lodge Goes Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, ‘the symbol of blackest reaction in the republican party, has died. His passing reminds the political observer of the almost axiomatic statement that the otd guard may die but never surrenders. The death of the senior senator from Massachus- etts comes at a momentous period in the life of the republican party. Six months ago all but the last count had been called on the republican eagle that was considered down and out because her talons were sticky with oil. The conspicious of yesterday were temporarily given a back seat, at least in so far as the public limelight was con- cerned. So-called new, in reality only nationally un- known political blood, was injected into the bird of prey. Then the eagle’s stomach was stuffed with gold. Soon the bird of prey began to soar high. Aided by certain transitory economic conditions and by the incompetency and weakness of its op- position, the republicans swept the field in the last election. The exit of Lodge, one of the stalwarts of the old guard, comes at a moment when the man- agerial transformation, on the surface only of course, of the republican party is complete. The death of the Massachusetts senator in fact re- ypt and an honest effort to organize the young workers of this country, some 3,000,000 of whom slave in the industries. The young workers do not want to scab. They are underpaid and used to undercut the adult and organized workers only because the American unions so far-have paid not the least heed to their $2.00....3 months | organization and left them to the mercy of the By mail (in Chicago only): |bosses and the patriotic scab-breeding agencies which inculcate in them a hostility towards union- ism as a principle. The adult workers are paying bitterly for this inexcusable negligence in organ- izing their boy and girl fellow workers. Tt remains to be seen what the 42nd convention of the A. F. of L. will do about the problem of youth |labor which daily becomes more pressing. The T. \U. E. L. has issued a program of demands for young workers that the A. F’, of L, will have to con- sider seriously or stand convicted of the most utter negligence of the interests of its own members. | These demands are that the A. F. of L. shall fight for equal pay for equal work to stop the danger of competition between youth and adults; a six-hour day and a five-day week for the young workers; abolition of overtime and night work for young workers; a minimum wage beginning at subsistence and going up; the closing of dangerous work to young workers and the establishment by the unions of apprentice schools. These and the elimination from the union riles of all limitations of age for entrance to unions and lower dues and initiation fees to permit all low wage young workers to join the unions—these measures together with an aggressive organization campaign by the A. F. of L..would do much for the young workers and even more for the labor move- ment as a whole. These plans of the T. U. E. L. must be fought for by all militants in all unions. Pressure must be put upon Gompers to enforce action. War Talk Multiplies A perusal of many of our leading dailies in- dicates an increase in the talk of the liklihood of the next war being fought in the Pacific. The con- flict between American and Japanese capitalist interests in the Far East has long been considered a menace to world peace. United States Rear-Admiral Fiske chose the Church of the Heavently Rest in New York City in which to deliver one of the rankest and one of the frankest jingoistic addresses that has yet been made by our increasingly voluble militarists and navalists. The peace-loving admiral warned the country that America is becoming effeminate while its enemies, principly Germany, Soviet Russia and Japan, are becoming stronger and stronger. The admiral pictured these nations as being envious of America’s great wealth. But Admiral Fiske did say one great truth in his excited address, when he declared: “They real- ise that we have obtained it largely by means of war.” The sea-fighter was referring to those whom he termed enemies of the United States. That is indisputable. From the very moment that the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock to the days in which Mellon and Hughes accidentally spent their vacation in London, the development of American capitalism took a course of war, fraud- ulent treaties, chicanery. American capitalism is today what it is because of its prowess in war. Texas was seized by force of arms from Mexico. Much of the western ter- ritory was secured thru gun-powder and whiskey from the Indians. Our colonial empire was born at the point of the bayonet and now rests on poten- tial and altogether too often brutal force and vio- lence. The encroachments being made by Yankee investors in the Far East, in Latin America, in Europe, in Africa and the Near East are fully sup- ported by the fullest possible military, naval, aer- ial and financial strength of our exploiters. The American militarists are now in the stage of the German Junkers on-the eve of the last war. They are preparing the “public mind” for big things. And the only big things these watchdogs of American imperialism know are wars in which the lives of the workers and farming masses are wantonly squandered. Perhaps It Is a Wise Custom The news ticker carries a story from Kansas Set vieent oe) aenttnnn-eectanely set. male thing, even a Chinese legend, moves the last of the influential old timers in the} City which is worth an editorial, whether the story innermost reactionary councils of the republican] is true or not. Kansas City has not the reputa- party. tion that made George Washington a good bogey- We have no desire to insult the memory of the|™man to scare imaginative children. But that makes dead, But the dead do not appear to us as the|n0 difference. The end justifies the means and a subjects of fetish-worshipping. Senator Lodge was| sprighly yarn of doubtful authenticity is good for the blackest type of capitalist reactionary to the| Our purpose. i ‘ very marrow of his bones. Reputed as a statesman He goes. A rich Chinaman has his tonsils re- of the first order, he was in fact the most cultured| moved by a surgeon whose business it is to carve ignoramus in the senate. This is certainly an|up as much of the human anatomy as his clients’ unenviable position. Lodge has always loyally| pocketbook and patience will allow, The Chinaman served the most crass and unblushing exploiting |may have smoked a bum cigarette and had an ir- group in the country. There is not a white spot|ritation in his throat. The doctor came, saw and on his pitch black record in Washington. He was|cut out the Chinaman’s tonsils. a sworn enemy of the workers, Now, it happens that there is an old Chinese legend which says that Chinamen who depart from ee this earth minus portions of their anatomies will Young Workers and Unionism spend all eternity hunting for the missing parts. One of the leading programs of Gompers has} Being rather inclined to leading quiet lives on this been to make a noise about “child labor.” It would] earth, Chinamen do not relish the idea of an in- have been much more logical to organize the youth | definite tramp after such a trifle as a pair of ton- and young workers than merely to protest their | sils in their imaginary next world. existence and sputter around the various legis-| The mutilated Chinaman, after he got over the lative bodies and beg the national congress for | effects of the anaesthetic, hurried to the doctor and prohibitory laws. While all workers must sup-|demanded—not his money—but his tonsils back. port laws against child labor, such laws are no} The doctor being a resourceful person was not in solution of the problem which must be treated] the least flabbergasted. He picked up a woman more fundamentally by the labor movement. who had not already been de-tonsilized, expro- The place for labor to legislate is in its union|priated that part of her.anatomy, and brought her halls and on the job. The coming convention of] tonsils to his Chinese client in a neat little bottle, the A. F. of L. at El Paso has much to do if only] It seems a surgeon can cut his way thru any- ‘at ean Maa ie ih ibe THE DAILY WORKER (Continued from Page 1.) some awkward questions about his open alliance with Mussolini. He might be asked to take up his bed and walk after the fashion of the miracle-working Jesus. Spain is also straining at the leash and the liberal elements who are expected to lead the revolution against Primo de Rivera are anti-clerical. In the event of the Pope’s monarchist and Fascisti allies getting the heavy end of the stick, America would be about the only country that could afford to keep His Holiness in the pomp he is accus- tomed to. see HARLES SOLOMON, a prominent member of the socialist party in” New York, bears unwilling testimony to the truth of the stories carried in the DAILY WORKER regarding the deal between the Hillquit socialists and Tammany Hall, to knife Norman Thomas and vote for Al Smith. Thomas was an accommodating fel- low and took all the dirt the socialists wanted to throw at him. He ran 30,000 votes behind Solomon, who is practically unknown as a state figure, while Thomas is a public character and a publicity hound to boot. The socialists split the ticket for Al, de- clares Solomon, and insinuates that between him and Thomas there was not much to argue about. Personally, Al is a less nauseating hypocrite than Thomas, but if the socialists have gone so far that they feel comfort- able in the embrace of Tammany Hall, it is mighty hard for them to sink any lower. Yet their resourcefulness must not be underestimated. + * HE New York Central Trades’ and Labor Council, at its last meeting, took a night off and indulged in an orgy of socialist baiting. The social- ists like nothing better than to see the Communists getting booted out of the unions and out of the presence of respectable labor fakers. They were the trusted stoolpigeons of the C. P. P. A. in ferreting out stray Commun- ists from central bodies to the C. P. P. A. convention Now they are at the receiving end of the mud guns of the old Gompersian labor fakers + jee HAT a trimming they received in New York, with poor Left- kovitz, of the Teachers’ Union, the Greenwich Village farmer-laborite yapping like a spaniel in defense of his LaFollette sins. The Central Trades Council, it seems, endorsed Al Smith. Leftkowitz, being a rather lit- erate fellow, drew up the endorse- ment. Then he turned around. and supported Norman Thomas. The offi- cials of the Central Council denounced him as a double crosser and declared that one good reason for their flop Wednesday, November 12, 1924 on the LaFollette endorsement was the action of the socialists in trying to get their-man Thomas over by treachery and fraud. The socialists went half way with Al, but the Tam- many labor leaders are whole-hoggers. see 'HE socialists said, that deceit was only practiced by the Commun- ists but the old Tammany ‘leaders were ‘not so easily fooled so they spent the night hurling insults at the poor S. P.ites. Figuratively speaking, Leftkowitz looked like the mudguard of a Ford on a slushy day as he left the meeting. One year before the New York Call went out of business, Charles Erwin, managing editor, spent most of his time conferring with the officials of the Central Trades Coun- cil, in an attempt to get that body be- hind the Call. They finally got be- hind it but so far that they could not be seen with the aid of a powerful telescope. They endorsed the Call in a half-hearted fashion and the poor thing died. Doctor Norman Thomas came along with a $100,000 pullmotor and revived it, but after it took his medicine for a month it, passed in its checks and not even Thomas’ Christ could now bring it back to life. see USSOLINI'S power is on the wane. The. war. veterans organ- izations are now out for his neck. Garibaldi, descendant of the noted a AS WE SEE IT - - By f. J. O'Flaherty ———_—_——— TT, Italian nationalist revolutionary, was challenged to a duel by a Mussolini understrapper. But Garibaldi would rather try his sword on Benito’s hide. Benito is tough but not impenetrable, It is not likely that Garibaldi will be succéssful in tempting Mussolini to take a chance on getting some steel deposited in his anatomy. But he is lucky if he escapes a leaden tenant in his upper story at the rate things are going there. ses *+ & USSOLINI promised ‘to make Italy prosperous and contented. But he is a dismal failure. While the dictatorship of the proletariat in Rus sia is forging ahead, bring~ health and happiness to the workers and peasants, the blackshirt dictatorship is up against an economic stone wall. Mussolini put up the telephone system for auction. But owing to the threat ened chaos, the American telephone company withdrew its bid. Before long the American writers who ‘prev- iously extolled the Italian cutthroat as‘a man of destiny, will be quick. to find many serious flaws in his ‘char- acter to explain his failure,’ ‘being careful to attribute it to personal frailty rather than to the impossibil- ity of reviving a system that is doom- ed to death by history, and the revy- olutionary working class movement led by the Communists. ins Letters from Our Readers What Simmons Sees. To the DAILY WORKER—Colonel Roscoe Conklin Simmons, the Uncle Tom, me-to-boss, hat-in-hand, self styled Negro leader, and chief Negro boot-licking capitalist lackey, has cn- stantly filled his weekly clumn in The Defender, with anti-red, and anti-bol- shevik slush. The reds are people who advocate removing ills or maladies by doing away with the cause or causes of same. The reds advocate abolishing wars, race riots, unemployment, poverty, prostitution, prejudices, by doing away with capitalism, which causes and keeps in existence these evils. Simmons is a mental prostitute, and he and his ilk will have to do useful and necessary work when the reds come into power. That is why Sim- mons “misrepresents the aims and. ob- jects of the reds to Negro workers, because this journalistic harlot dreads going to work. . According to all of the newspapers last week, the largest Negro church in this country, located in Chicago, was put to flames by 100 per cent Am- erican klansmen. According to the Daily News of Oct. 22, 100 per cent Americans bombed a white woman’s home because she had sold same to a Negro. Of course this yellow harlot, Simmons, is too busy selling favors to the capitalists, to take notice of these minor occur- ences.—Gordon W. Owens, Chicago. For German Workers’ Relief. To the DAILY WORKER—Just re- ceived your letter with $2.50 worth of stamps for sale in behalf of the strug- gling working masses of Germany. But in the face of the overcrowded work market I find it difficult to dis- pose of them. Besides the contingent of working people I am acquainted with have, like me, only seasonal work, i. e., harvesting the different crops in the summer which this year is harder on us because we are crowded by other out-of-workers, who the years past did not follow this line of occupation, and winter times there is little or nothing to do. But such as could contribute their mite have no international working class solidarity feeling—at least as far as I have experienced in country dis- tricts. ’ I am familiar with happenings in Germany and the danger for the rest of the workers of the world in case of their being subdued, so I hasten to send you five dollars, little enough as a contribution to the German workers’ relief.—E. S., California, LaFolletteism and Communism. To the DAILY WORKER: Inten- tionally or (in rare cases) unintention- ally, the capitalist press assumes the mistaken idea that LaFolletteism, so- cialism (of the socialist party) and| Communism are one and the ie thing, that the aim of any of thent is |to educate the masses and to prepare them for the overthrow of the pres- ent state of society and to place the Red flag on the capitol building at ‘Washington. ; They take for granted that the op- posite of republicanism is LaFollette- ism, and at times place socialism or Communism in that role, Allow us to differ with them by questioning their declaration that tho LaFollette raves about the kept press, he is given as much publicity as | or Davis. Is it not obvious that ¢ is not a real menace to or he would not be permitted to talk so freely in the press? Are the view- points of William Z, » Commun: ist leader and ex) @ new or. der given a hundredth part of that _|master is paid on a basis. of fight for the establishment of a work- ers’ and farmers’ government and have surrendered themselves to the whims of LaFollette by consenting to his program, we may safely say that these two groups aim at the same goal. Now what is that goal? Read their program and you find not even a whisper of advocacy ~for « change of the present system of society in which a few money lords exploit the masses, Government regulation of railroads is not Communism, nor is the abolish- ment of monopoly in industry even progressivism. We have government ownership of mails under capitalism, then why not government regulation of railroads under the profit system? To do away with monopoly in indus- try is a step backward not forward. The recent merger of two great rail- road systems into the Nickel Plate is only another sign of the inability of legislation to stop the advance of the inevitable capitalistic trend toward the gathering of the means of produc- tion and distribution into the hands of fewer and fewer people. Wants No Change. The LaFollettes want no change in the present system of society, they merely want to make it less polluted. They uphold the system that expolits labor for a profit, the system that breeds money lust instead of good will among men, the system that hatches wars for the control of world markets like the murderfest of the late world war, The LaFollettes would doctor up the ills and try to alleviate the suffering of the people under capital- ism, but they do not aim at a perman- ent cure by abolishing the root of the disease, the profit system. A victory for LaFollette would still be a victory for capitalism, would still mean a continuation of the present system of wage labor, of commodity production for profit instead of for use, of the ownership of the means of production and distribution by a few. If it came to question of permitting an overlord to look after the people or whether the people should do it themselves, the LaFollettes would still maintain that it is better to be dependent rather than independent. Wall Street Has Reason LaFollette is being denounced by Wall Street thru its mouthpieces the republican and democratic parties for the simple reason that he is the agent of the small capitalists and middle class who are also wringing profits from the sweat and blood of the work+ ers. Big business wants it all ‘for itself, wants to monopolize industry so that it alone gets all the loot. And little business 4s fighting, thru the in- dependent political group headed by LaFollette, to keep its hands in the money bag too, therefore they are against monopoly. The wolves arc only fighting among themselves, Fortunately, there are some who see thru this fog of criminal and dis- tructive misrepresentation and come out openly on the political and. in- dustrial field for the overthrow of the corrupt and already decaying capital ist system. These people are united un- der the banner of the Workers (Com- munist) Party.—A, B. . Not According to Hoyle. Editor, The DAILY WORKER— Farmers are sorely pressed to resort to every conceivable method to eke out an existence in the more remote places here. At Ashmoor, an outlying country post office, it is reported that excessive carrying charges were over- come by friendly agreement in which their local postmaster sells a dollar's worth of stamps for twenty-five cents in all cases where the stamps are used in the shipping of cream by parcel post. This may not be strictly according to hoyle, but the practice seems to work alright, since the post- the amount of postage cancellation. —A. * | meena. 4 The following letter comes from a comrade 76 years young, who has stood the acid test of a class con- scious revolutionist tho she has seen many fall by the wayside.—Rditor’s Note. Keep On, Because We Are Right. To the DAILY WORKER:—Enclos- ed find $2 for the Worker's Monthly. I also want to tell you how much I appreciate the great work you dre do- ing on the DAILY WORKER. I am truly sorry it is not in my power to do more, But money is indeed very searce now. A It seems as if the LaFollette flurry has brot the neople’s mental condi- tion to about the same level that it was at the time of the war-craze six years ago, and I am afraid it will have to run its course like any other fever. The thing to do is to keep working for the cause and not get discouraged, because we know we are in the right. Reformist Casualties. It just about took my breath away when d read the article by Kate O'Hare in the September Vanguard, in which she tells us that LaFollette is the man of the hour, another Lincoln sent by God to deliver the American people from evil. Oh, we have to stand a good deal with our Debs, Rus- sells, O’Hares, Creels and Hillquits. It is in times like these that we re- member that there was a time when Lenin and Trotsky stood alone when men of lesser strength failed them. When I left Minnesota, I came to what I think may be called the very heart of the ranch country in Mon- tana and it is pathetic to see the con- ditions prevailing here. I have seen several big ranches with good build- ings and thousands of dollars worth of machinery lying around rotting and places deserted because it does not Day to keep them going. Homesteaders and Bankers Go Broke. Then again there were many home- steads taken, cabins were built and the homesteader stayed a few years until he got his deed on the land. He m borrowed money from the banks to pay his mortgage on the homestead. But conditions instead of improving, were getting worse. There was no money to pay taxes and interest and so both the homesteader and banker went into bankruptcy. I have seen a called wholly inefficient if they ha‘ To The DAILY WORKER:- I have recently noticed that you have a few columns in the DAILY WORKER devoted to the views on dif- ferent. topics of your readers. I wish to submit a few of my thoughts’ per- taining to Chicago schools. I am a second year student in one of Chicago High Schools and thus far have found school a bore. We have four major subjects and the teach: ers each seem to think that they are the only ones who give us homework. In this way they fill ug up with so much so-called knowledge that as a result of this we know very little of our studies. Many pupils get disgus- ted with these methods and often skip classes. (Which they cannot be blamed for doing) We sometimes have so much homework that we are kept busy till eleven o’clock at night. Then when we get to school, they teach us that a sound body makes a sound mine. They seem to think that the measly amount of exercise we receive at school is enongh for us I am sure that our Russian Com- rades are treated better than we. Yours for real schools, ~» ; Fred H Herzberg. What Is Efficiency? To the DAILY WORKER: Quoting from the proposed program of the United States bureau of education for American Education Week. “What is this thing men call Bolshevism? It is the revolt of the inefficient resenting the prosperity of the efficient.” And I ask, “What is this thing ef- ficiency? Does it consist of robbery and oppression?” ee Methinks no class of people can be enough force and courage to 4 It is an evil time indeed that finds a people so cowed that they will make no effort towards freedom. ed Let us honor revolt. He who would be free must indeed strike the blow or remain in chains. Is peace so sweet ‘that it should be” purchased with the price of chains and slavery? —Fred Cobb, Marianna, Pa. Another Polltical Cadaver _ The socialist party of Wisconsin 1s dead. It is a sinking political cadaver slowly awaiting scavengers to take away its decomposing body. Its lead- ers having betrayed the principles of its founders are awaiting the highest bidder and the first opportunity to desert the collapsed movement.’ great number of these deserted homes. The people that are left here slave so hard they have neither time nor energy to study conditions and learn the causes for what has happened to them. They are easy prey for the LaFollette illusion. They look to him to give them back their property. But if good times don’t come with La- Follette, what-then? Mrs. Ingeborg Monsen. Negro Workers Like jaily” To the DAILY WORK! ‘Many copies of the DAILY WORKER are being distributed daily to the indus- trial work Everyone who sees a copy once is willing to have it again and the sale of the paper is increasing rapidly. Especially do we find this among the Negroes here. They snatch up theDAILY WORKER as soon as it arrives. C. ©. Micley and ‘A, Barbat, Rou- manian Communists have set up a newsstand on the corner of Penn and Washington Sts and they also dis- tribute the paper to the homes in the evening. Indiana Harbor is a town with about 10,000 industrial workers. We have a big task before us to awaken these workers who have been sleeping in profound ignorance all their lives. They can see nothing but their dinner pail and even around that they build the capitalist philosophy of saving their pennies and becoming rich and their children the potential presidents of the United States. But by our organized campaign of spreading the truth thru our daily we are rapidly reaching many workers, Ted Hader, Indians the promising proletarian movement was stabbed in the back by the mid- die class politicians under the leader ship and with connivance of cialist party politicians, the | kee Leader glorying in its murder proclaimed the St. Paul ize their own movement. some of its candidates on criticizing one of the opponents does, “It would be After the St. Paul convention when bd as a political . Little did they realize at the time that they were signing their own death warrant and that the repugnant term will st The socialist party is still but Berger is getting d ger states that it is a very unpleas ant duty to criticize the Y and he is sorry to say the things | impossible for the socialist party to give up its iden- tity until a new party is formed,” he. says. This is an open bid for holy alliance and a bid for of the socialist party to the aries of the republican camp, , every one is conscious of the r Even rebellious candidate | Roy: ernor, Quick, is silent. There s to be no issue between the cand: for governor on the republican ‘and socialist party ticket. Both are La- Follette progressives. Oh yes! there is a difference; socialists claim to be honest. “We are the only dependable A political t