The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1924, Page 6

‘THE DAILY WORKER. 1113 W.. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50..6 months sere months B il (in Chicago only)? ‘{ rpaeae mogths $2.60....3 months $6.00 per yoar $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 4113 W. Washington Blvd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL VILLIAM F. DUNNE ontrz J. LOEB.....:snmene Business Manager Chicago, Ilinole {enneemnnns EAILORS ———<——_—$_ tered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post.” Omics at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, 290 Advertising rates on application REISS Sa 2S SE A Successful Fiasco After the labor movement under the leadership of Gompers and company has been defeated by its own disintegrative factors, by large masses of unionists being more swayed by the “Coolidge or Chaos” slogan than by any labor propaganda. by groups of labor bureaucrats not even ventur- ing as far as supporting the petty bourgeois La- Follette but clinging to the old parties of big cap- ital—after all this, the news letter of the A. F. of L. has the immaculate nerve to come out with the following barefaced lie: “Labor’s campaign was markéd by complete harmony, solidarity and enthusiasm. There was no discord or internal dissension in the ranks of labor.” Evidently Mr. Gompers did not read the news dispatches telling of the New York City Central Labor Council representing, more or less, the 700,- 000 members of the A. F. of L. in that city, going over to Davis and Tammany Hall on the eve of election. Nor has he heard of Major Berry and his formation: at Washington a few weeks before election of a committee of labor bureaucrats both republican and democratic joined in opposition to Gompers’ “non-partisan” endorsement of La- Follete. Nor has Mr. Gompers ever heard of John L. Lewis, who sat upon Coolidge’s “board of campaign strategy” and who sent Mother Jones to get her picttire taken with Silent Cal. Probably Mr. Gompers will hear of these things at El Paso, but as yet he is completely uninformed. It is with no joy we report that Mr. Gompers lies about the part of labor in the campaign. We would have been pleased if we could have seen the labor movement really break with the old par- é ties even if it meant, for the time being, following the LaFollette illusion. Our complaint is that it THE DAILY WORKER For a General Labor Congress It is certain that, despite the temporary upward swing in production, the United States is entering upon a crisis. American imperialism which, in Europe, is striving successfully for dominance over both German and allied powers, is certain not to allow, if it ean help it, the labor movement of America to retain even its present weak strength and poor morale. An open shop drive against American unionism is the complement to the enslavement of German workers under the Dawes. plan. American imperialism, unchastened by defeat, looks with lusting eyes upon Asia, and in the existing turmoil is deeply involved in intrigue, the furnishing of arms and, if need be, of soldiers taken from the ranks of American labor. America is openly preparing war with Japan. And mean- while she subjugates with forced loans or simple might the Latin peoples of South and. Central America. To.oppose these imperialist designs, American labor has nothing but the weakest of organizations, and these are divided from and disinterested in one another, To add to this, the labor bureaucracy has practically given up the strike and either gone openly into class collaboration in industry, or has taken to bourgeois politics to avoid the task of actual struggle. All can now see how bankrupt is the labor bureaucracy of all ideological unity. While Lewis clung to Coolidge and Major Berry stuck to Davis, the great mass of workers remained inert and un- affected, even by Gompers’ lame effort to get them to support LaFollette. It is clear if the workers’ interests are to be protected more vital and far- reaching means must be used. If all the little scattered regiments of labor could be gathered into one mighty army, the de- signs of American capitalist imperialism upon the standards of American labor would’ surely: be de- feated. It is the duty of the 44th annual conyen- tion of the A. F, of L., opening next week at El Paso, to summon such an army together. If not only those unions of the A. F. of L., but also the independent unions, the city central bodies, the district councils, the co-operatives, the shop delegates from unorganized factories elected by general shop meetings, and the political parties of labor were all called into a general labor con- gress, a real power would be born. The first duty of this new power should be the rallying of the whole working class to struggle against war threats, wage cuts and the open shop. It could demand and enforce the demand for na- tionalization of industry, the withdrawal of armed forces from foreign soil, the establishment in very shop and factory thruout the land of shop committees representing all workers engaged to AS WE SEE IT (Continued from Page 1.) to scare the workers. If the labor party leaders took the offensive in- stead of adopting an apologetic atti- tude toward the enemy, the attacks of the tories would rebound off them like a rubber ball from a rock, oe 8 ‘HE ingratitude of the capitalists knows no bounds. After the Brit- ish labor leaders prostituted them- selves to put over the Dawes plan in an effort to give the rotten system a new lease of life, they find them- selves out in the cold. After refusing the Communists membership in the labor party, the right wing leaders are given the gate. The British ruling class treated MacDonald and his gang as Gompers was treated by after several decades of loyalty to their interests. But the British Com- munist Party will not submerge it- self in the British. labor party and lose its identity in order to remove the makings of a handy bogey man any more that the Workers (Com- munist) Party of America will lose itself in a “progressive” party under any name. The only revolutionary party in the world today is the Com- did not happen. Instead, the labor bureaucrats|control production and regulate employment. split in every direction, following their own oats-, Such a congress could lay the basis for amalgama- bag, each after all he could get from any old pol-} tion of the craft unions into powerful industrial itical group. unions and could bring the unorganized by the That labor—the rank and file—was not aroused | millions into such unions. and: inspired to. make the break from traditional] These things and the election by such a congress reactionary political lines, is chargeable directly |of councils of action to organize and direct local and personally to the fossilized leadership of|and district councils of action in the co-ordination Gompers and all his kind. They have proven/and strengthening of labor's combative powers, that they can inspire nobody, enthuse nobody,|could be initiated by the A. F. of L. convention influence nobody. They are completely bankrupt| taking the lead. If it does not, it will prove traitor in ideology and are successful only in making an|to its duty. utter mess of everything they touch. Their Hopes Soar High | There is a tremendous outpouring of satisfac- tion in the circles of big business with the decisive Coolidge-Dawes victory. No doubt this is an ac- curate barometer of “the confidence” of the stock market in the reactionary capitalist regime, Mil- lions of shares are now being sold on the New York stock exchange, Useless and Ineffective The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom has protested to the Federal Bureau of Education against its becoming an organic part of the various patriotic efforts to be made during the Constitution Week. : Mrs: Hull, the head of this pacifist. body, in-mak- ing her complaint rails against the educational program because it savors of “the propaganda of The question arises: “Is this ‘confidence’ based on any positive economic changes?” Our answer is: “No!” The mere fact that railway, industrial stocks and other shares are turned over in large quantities on the New York exchange does not add to the favorable conditions necessary for a long- suspicion, prejudice and hate.” This is typical of the moral. outbursts that greet the militarist efforts. This is typical of the pacifist outrage that always spends itself in quick time and never trans- lates itself into vigorous action: os % We have no moral or any other ‘mysterious ob- time favorable economic trend. Speculation tends |jections to the campaigns launched by the capital- to be rife when there.is an underlying expectation | ist hundred percenters. We object to the so-called bordering on certainty that the incoming adminis-|“Educational Week” and other ‘poisonous. pro- tration will be aggressively helpful to the biggest} paganda schemes of the exploiters.of the working business interests. In fact, this form of express-|and farming masses simply on class grounds. We ing confidence may even be a very costly one and | see in all such campaigns only efforts of the bosses bring about certain dire economic effects. to perpetuate their system based on the rights and The underlying business conditions have not. un-| privileges of the exploitation of the overwhelming dergone any fundamental change as a result of the|}majority of the country. These . grounds, » our elections. The advance in railway stocks is due as| grounds of protest, are based on the facts of life— much to the new tendency towards mergers and|the facts of the hardship faced and experienced by consolidations as to the feeling of freedom from | the mill and farm hands in their daily work. hostile legislation. The'rise in the stock markets| We have no illusions about the government of has not removed or basically altered those econ-| the United States or any of its subdivisions being omic forces which in, reality shape the develop-|anything but prejudiced against those who earn ment of business. their livelihood thru working for the owners of The indisputable fact.remains that the “revival” |industry. ‘We expect no fairness: from. a. govern- in American agriculture is. only temporary. It|ment which is of, by, and for the bosses. ar'ves out of a transitory favorable stage in the| It is because of this realistic attitude of the Com- workl market in which there’ is temporarily aj|munists that their efforts against employing elass shortage of certain crops and staples. It does not|rule, against the aggression of the exploiters, tends arise out of a more favorable relationship between | to materialize into concrete, — practical effective agrieniture as a whole compared with industry.|campaigns, That is the reason why Communist More than that. The much vaunted increased farm | opposition to the employing class dictatorship, in purchasing power is not bringing about the much |its varied manifestations, meets ‘with such hostil- hoped and equally expected increase in the demand |ity from the ruling class’ in every captalist country. for commodities, “Because of seasonal influences |That is also the reason why the pacifist criticism the composite economie movement tends to be up-| based on hypothetical, abstract virtues that totally ward, but the rate is slow and especially far from | disregard the class relationships in society are usu- definite. oh wis ally worthless tho occasionally well-meaning. Here- The hopes of our ruling class are soaring high.|in lies the greatest need for the Communist cam- The basic economic conditions in which such hopes |paign against “Education Week” and all other must be rooted to be sound are far from favorable | frauds of the capitalist dictatorship in the United at this time... . States. munist International. Its different sections are alone in their respective countries in carrying the banner of working class revolt. Pig 'T is reported that Calvin Coolidge is waiting a favorable opportunity to call another, world arms confer- ence. This means more trouble and more war. Peace conferences under capitalism are ruses employed to de- ceive the enemy. But all the capital- ist nations are equally suspicious so they come to these peace conferen- ces, mentally armed to the teeth. The famed Harding-Hughes conference for scrapping naval junk was one of the biggest hoaxés ever put over on the working class of this or any other country. Since that conference the race of death has increased and the nations that participated in it, no lon- ger talk peace but openly prepare for war. os .@ ‘HE United States is preparing for wars with Japan and England. Japan is liable to be tackled first as it is the easiest mut to crack. Then John Bull will get his. The more American diplomats praise the Anglo- Saxon breed and talk of the “bonds that unite the two nations of one family” the nearer we are to a first class: slaughter feast in which the loving family will test out its’ carving instruments on each other. Capital- ism knows no ideals but profit mak- ing. The capitalists of America show- ered kindness without end on the German crown prince when he was in this country some ten years before the world war broke out. Alice Roose- velt, now Mrs, Longworth, kissed the Hohenzollern prince publicly, and no doubt American society was as gen- erous to him as it was to the Prince of Wales during the latter's \ visit. Yet the American capitalists had no compunction in sending the Kaiser to Holland to saw wood a few years later. “ee © “I PERSONALLY favor entering covenants for the purpose of out- jawing aggressive wars by any prac- tical means,” declared Calvin Cool idge in a recent address. What na- tion admits being the aggressor in war? The hypocrisy of the peaceful pretensions of the United States ts apparent. Never were greater efforts made to arouse the jingo spirit and this propaganda is carried on by the war department and its unofficial agencies like the American Legion, the National Security League, the American Defense Society and the of- ficial bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor, Peace would be desirable to the capitalist system as a whole. War is bad for capitalism. But there cannot be any peace-under Facts For By JAY LOVESTONE. By Tf. J. O'Flaherty i capitalism, and there is no “honest ef-|follow the working class movement fort being made for peace by any|thru the columns of The DAILY capitalist nation or the capitalist} WORKER. The The class war|shares in popularity with the Dally. league of nations, Workers. Monthly against capitalism is the only road to| Any of our readers who wish to bring peace. ears of pacifists but it can’t be helped. se @ © Austrian strike is settled and This may seem harsh to the|a little meeded cheer into the dreary® , lives of the victims of ruling class | brutality, are invited to subscribe to The DAILY WORKER and the Work- and the catholic premier is back|ers. Monthly for some comrade -in on the job again. The workers were granted am increase in wages. prison. It will be a deed that will In| bring as much joy to the giver as to Berlin the street car and subway em-|the receiver. Ployes struck and the gas workers threaten to quit. When everything seems to be quieted down, trouble pops up again. Poincare of France thanks the German socialists for put- ting the Dawes plan across. No more damaging evidence of the perfidy of ‘German socialists could be brought Sgainst them than this testimony of the notorious French Fascist, 2. 8 HRISTMAS time is coming and hundreds of workers are im- prisoned in the bastilles of the United States. It {s a real pleasure to know that The DAILY WORKER has the largest prison circulation of any daily paper in the country. The class war prisoners of all affiliations read it avidly. Thanks to the generosity of our readers, many of those brave fighters against capitalism are able to Workers Number of persons ten years of age and over engaged in gainful occupa- tions in the United States according to the 1920 census: Occupation Manufacturing and mechanieal industries. Agricultural, forestry and animal husbandry. Trade ... Domestic and person: Clerical occupations Transportation Professional service Extraction of mineral Public Service (not elsewhere classified).. Total gainfully employed........c.0..... Per cent of Total 30.8 0,953,158 26.3 4,242,979 10.2 3,404,892 8.2 3,126,541 75 3,063,582 74 2,143,889 5.2 1,090,223 2.6 1.9 carsvecsoverecevonnssoesseeres 4 14614, 248 the republican and democratic parties Total number of women gainfully employed. Total number of farm laborers working ou’ Decrease in number gainfully employed In agricul- ture, forestry and husbandry from 1910 to 1920.: 1,705,924 Increase In number gainfully employed in manufac- turing and mechanical Industries, extraction of minerals, transportation and clerical occupations 4,130,497 8,549,511 2,055,276 se ® ‘HE Ku Klux Klan seems to’ be changing its color, A news item informs us a group of Klansme marched into a Negro methodls church in Long Island, New York, and presented the church with $200.00 ig gold. The Klan spokesman declared that the order was not against the | Negroes, but against the mixing. of | black and white blood. It looks like | the old story of “when the devil was , sick, the devil a saint would be; when the devil was well the devil’a saint was he.” The Klan is si¢k and is playing saint. ee - ey Reale sons" of wealthy plutes “have started to work in an Albany, New York, department store, “at the bottom.” They have just retarned from Huropean trips. No doubt,: in after life when they stop fooling and, decide to live on their father’s mil. lions, “who's who” will describe them as self-made men. They had no trouble in getting jobs either. ~ *¢.s8 ; "HE Medical Association takes. a heavy wallop at Bernard Mae- Fadden, millionaire publisher of “health” and “sex” magazines. ‘The association brands MacFadden asa faker. While the noted physical cul- turist denounces drugs he receives revenue from the drug business by advertising patent medicines in his magazines. MacFadden’s stuff is not all rotten, but that he is a monumental faker, can be seen from reading any one of his publications. Capitalism is a corrupting influence. It lays its withering hand on every profession, Only when the workers rule and the profit system ig abolished can the human race make a real beginning to solve the problem of health and pover- ty and bring universal happiness to the people on this planet. army ‘ UT while MacFadden tf a clever faker, it is not likely thet he does as much harm as those ostrichtke medical men who are living in the past and treat new discoveries inthe art of healing with corftempt, and hostility. A Little Matter of History By P. B. COWDERY. The World, socialist party organ of Oakland, Cal,, for twenty years, is no more. (Incidentally, @ new paper, The Labor World, has been established in San Francisco. Evidently five years of treachery to the World’s previous good name has become too apparent and has made a-new paper and loca- tion advisable:); The World would have been a Communist paper since , had it not at that time been aved” by a handful of “socialists” in collision with the legal authorities. Cameron King, lawyer, Alexander Horr, “labor” editor, and H. Sliker- man, lawyer, and a few others took a copy of the World, as published then (Nov., 1919) and copied all advertise- ments and other standing matter. ‘This, with such-other material as suited them, made up their first issue of the World. This was printed by Horr in his newspaper plant at Stock- ton. An affidavit. of ownership in the name of the socialist party was filed in the Oakland post office. Local Oakland, for fifteen years publisher of the World, had just recently changed. by vote of 10 to 53 from sociatist to Communist. Owing to the affidavit mentioned above and a counter-affidavit filed by the Com- munists, both the Communist edition and the King-Horr edition were de- nied second-clase privilege. All mail was detained in the post office, Begin With Clean Slate, This situation ‘resulted following the raiding of the World office and the arrest of eleven Communist lead- ers charged with criminal syndica}- ism. The World with all] of its fifteen years of prestige and power was bad- ly needed to defend and give pvub- licity in the defense cases which dragged on for years and finally have been beaten. Rather than go into court and defend their title to the paper and all the adventages its re- tention would mean, the Communists relinquish all rights such a majority should have given them and started ON EE TW a new movement ‘and new papere from the ground up. The facts are these: The Workers (Communist) Party of today fs the actual successor of all that was soctalist of the socialist par- ty. To them belonged the fundamental organization they had built, under whatever name, and with “it th World. . The socialist party of today is a new party masquerading under that name. ization. Those of the old guard still in the party are either deceived or never were socialists except in name. The ‘socialist party, following 1919, started with the name and everything except socialism (Communism) it- self. Now this party has lost all ex- cept the name. The Communists started“with noth- ing, not even a name, but are now heir to all that was ever socialist (Communist) under any name. Revolution Not Planned. Revolution is the only escape, the open door from war, murder, suicide, starvation and misery. The Commun- ists welcome revolution as the final steat liberating force. They expect it only when, by contrast with the miseries of capitalism, the masses will welcome and bring it. It is be- coming a matter of common knowl edge that revolution is the natural wateway and oaly possible way of escape from capitalism. Humanity can pass that gate when by suffering and experience it gets to it—not be- tore. The World has been saying for fiye By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. ‘ 'HE RITE OF SPRING,” the mas terpiece of Igor Stravinski, was played by the Chicago Symphony or- chestra on the fourth program of the season last Friday and Saturday. “Le Sacre du Printemps,” as it is called in the score, is a long ballet, having for its subject the celebration of the spring festival it was done in pa- gan Russia, There are a number of dances, the sacrificial victim is chosen, is blessed, and the work closes with the dance of the sacrifice. Given without the stage action as it was at Orchestra Hall, there was a necessity for the unfolding of the story as the music went on. This was done by means of @ series of cards that were exposed at the back of the stage. It seems the popular notion that to appreciate Stravinski one must first be a little unbalanced mentally, and secondly must have studied.him and other contemporary composers inside and out for years on end. This is foolishness, Stravinski writes in what is known as an “tonal” scale. Tt usurped the ‘World ang: the organ That is, the relation of the tones in and Communist'as names for political years, ‘while it’ has been subsisting upon and living upon its good reputa- tion established by others during the previous fifteen years: Communists foment revolution. Revolution is unnecossary. Take no chance on getting arrested. Socialists are evolutionists, not revolutionists. Government is not based on force. Workers can acquire government by the ballot. Promised reform is a step toward the workers’ freedom. Communism Very Different. Mlusions, deceptions, sophistries, lies—one and all, and everything based upon such a position. Socialist parties parted company in 1919 in this country and have had nothing in com- mon since that time, altho socialism The passing of the World with. all its five years of sophistry and de tion is to be welcomed, Some Wrong Views. Yes, the World and “socialist party” were “saved.” Thousands of dollars were collected for the “World Press,” and all those five years the “com- rades,” the “socialists,” have been de- ceived. They are those who won't read because “they already know” and those who will “always vote all right anyhow,” ‘Those knowing comrades helped take the paper away ‘from comrades who spent fifteen years building it up and making it effective and helped to give it to tricksters who had always previously fought it, but now seized it and used it against its and Communism mean the same thing. capitalism, by capture, and the Work- builders when arrested, And good comrades who have “loyal” to the World and the “old. par- ty,” do not yet know what has hap- pened. a And what happened to the World — and to the comrades of Oakland dur- _ The socialist party is a creature of ers (Communist) Party is the creature of Communism, having been created by the workers out of struggle and /puntally, , In short, Stravinski does necessity. In this way it happens that some who think themselves and call themselves socialist are really Com- munist. Many a good Communist is | supporting the bogus “socialist” par- ty, who is d colved as to its purpose. if ER Pn pone ons ea oe a . the scale he uses is not fixed, as it is in Beethoven or Wagner. Sometimes Stravinski. writes polytonally, which means that he uses several keys at once. His work can be analyzed melodically, or contra: just what he, pleases, And he is a very great artist as a result, “Le Sacre du Printemps” uses one of the largest orchestras ever assem- bled at Orchestra Hall. It totale around 105 men. .Stravinski calls for eight horns, two bass clarinets, two English. horns, and such unusual in- struments as the bass trumpet and He has a.part fora second contra- bassoon, but, it seems as if the Sym- phony has only contrabassoonist in captivity hereabouts, since the second contrabassoon part had to be played on a ra bass clarinet. As a result of the boldness and novelty of his musical ideas and of ‘the colossal size of his mechanism, Stravinski’s “Sacre du Printemps” suggests, when heard minus the danc- ing it was written for, a ceremony PO NE A Beeeh atte IR PURER, A RRA ATS A ie He EL Py ATURE BR? ing this period, happened to the com-, rades of everywhere from Moscow. Podunk. In this little experience the evidence that revolution, not ey lution is the order of the day in the struggle for the new society. = cd depths of a forest of portions. Nothing smaller suff is one of the most thrilling and ing, and at thé same time emo ly satisfying works the writer ever heard. Mr. Stock ought to it again. : Madame Marie Leschititsky, 3 of the famous piano teach soloist. She played the fir: Amazon type, and succeed well the big Hungarian melodies used the concerto, ere Mozart's overture to “The Maj Flute,” and the second tho symphony opened the program. pendant READ THE DAILY wor will be given next Sunday at 2:30 o'clock, at the So isi