The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1924, Page 4

Page Four EEE f due so much to the superior technique of the THE DAILY WORKER. THE DAILY WORKER . Saturday, November 22, 1924 American devil as to the high cost of living. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00, No soul worth a damn will turn down a good meal and a well-regulated diet will sometimes make a battered one look like new. But this treatment: costs. money, hence the high cost of travel to heaven, Every business has its particular problems. It is so with the soul-saving game. Another mission- ary complains that. radicals and atheists purpose- ly attend camp meetings and sing the hymns out of pure devilment in order to ‘bring ridicule onthe ministers of the church. This is a per- nicious form of “boring from within.” Strange to say, God does not strike these miscreants dead. On the contrary they get fat on this kind of thing, laughter being conducive to good health. The ministers get thin, because a business that draws only grins does not draw money, unless it is a vaudeville act. But the law of self preservation works myster- iously its wonders to perform, so we find the mis- sionaries looking around for pioneers to go into the mining and lumber camps with the word of God. Not only must they ‘have something in the head, but they must be ready to fight like blazes in order to put Christ into the hearts of the seoffers. Here is a chance for the O’Banion, Torrio, O’Donnell and other Chicago gangs in the event of unemployment. These boys would keep Saint Peter busy hauling in sinners over the golden rails if they had a free hand. If the preachers brought their problems to the attention of President Coolidge he might appoint a commission to reduce the cost of saving souls. Calvin considers waste of money the greatest sin. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50..6 months : pat moatha B: 11 (In Chicago only): f ma b0 6 mosths $2.50...8 months & 66.00 per year $8.00 per year A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 9113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL eee TAL WILLIAM F, DUNNE — MORITZ J. LOEB.....ccccmnee Business Manager Chicago, ilinele ————— ee Ontered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Pest Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, Advertising rates on application Imperialism in the Labor Movement Last Sabbath day, the delegates to the 44th an- nual convention of the American Federation of Labor went to Juarez, Mexico, where they were entertained in state at a bullfight. Four bulls were killed. It would have been more fitting to this holiday of Yankee imperialism, if these had been four Mexican peons butchered to edify the labor lieutenants of Morgan and company, On Tuesday, it is announced that Gompers is beginning maneuvers to re-enter the reformist Amsterdam International in order to further therein the interests of the Dawes plan which un- derwrites the imperialist ventures in Europe of Morgan and company. In Panama, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Cuba, Colom- bia, Mexico, Nicaragua and other small and help- less nations, the agents of Gompers and company have followed the United States marines to add to armed force the power of guile and deceit un- der the sacred name of the brotherhood of labor. The marines and Mr. H. L. Brunson, commissioned by the Pan-American Federation of Labor, were both agents of the same institution, the banks of J. P. Morgan and company. It is no accident that Ricardo Trevino, . sec- retary of the Mexican Confederation of Labor, lauded_Gompers at the time Calles, the new pres- ident of Mexico, makes obeisance to Wall Street, and then goes into the convention of the Mexican confederation to expell a Communist delegate as a sign of submission to the Caesar of the north. Neither is it an accident that Peter Grassman, the German labor bureaucrat who last spring was called into conference with Brigadier General Dawes, Fascist open shop agent of Morgan’s bank, to discuss the provisions of the Dawes plan, should now be at the El] Paso convention in conference with Gompers, and publicly bowing both to the -Dawes plan and to Gompers. Nor is it by chance that Gompers should ful- minate against the Japanese, while twenty of his henchmen propose a resolution which is purposed to make three officials of the A. F. of L. assistants to the secretary of war at a time when American banks and commercial interests, desperately striving to dislodge Japan from her new vantage in China, are intriguing night and day and using freely the threat of war, the presence of warships and the promise of maneuvers “east of Hawaii.” These things all have a relation and a meaning. They are not isolated incidents. They mean that the labor bureaucrats of the American Federation of Labor are owned body, soul.and bootstraps by the American capitalists, and revel in their har- lotry. But this constitutes something besides a shame. It is a living threat to the lives of workers of every land. The A. F. of L. leaders plan to be the recruiting agents which inveigle American workers into the trenches in a new and more ter- rible war. Do the American workers like that? If not, let them speak so even Gompers may hear. The A. F. of L. leaders plan to use their in- fluence upon the careerists, such as Trevino in the Mexican confederation, who seek to ride to power on a lie, the lie they tell the Mexican workers that Gompers is their friend and an enemy of the “sausage empire” of the north. Gompers is recruit- ing “Gringos” to shoot them. If the Mexican workers do not like that, let them speak so Trevino may hear. In Germany, Herr Grassman may have some diffieulty in convincing German workers that Gom- pers is recruiting troops for purposes of brotherly love. If German workers don’t believe it, let them speak so Herr Grassman may hear, even across the Atlantic. In El Paso, if possible, in Juarez if it can be done, or in Mexico City if humanly attainable, a demonstration should be made in support of the proposal of the Trade Union Educational League, ‘that all organized labor should unite in a struggle against imperialist ventures and for national free- dom and independence. U. S. Souls Cost Like Hell It costs almost twice as many dollars to keep an American soul out of the devil’s clutches as it does a foreign soul. To be exact, the per capita needed to send an American sinner upwards in good condition, is $457 while a foreigner can be fitted out with a clean shave and a brand new pair of wings for $263. We are indebted for this information to the Rey. ©. J. Gulp, of the presbyterian foreign mis- sions committee. If the Rey. Gulp did not confine himself to a superficial analysis of the soul problem he might learn that the high cost of souls was not . pe 5 Sinking the Washington American jingoes are howling because the gov ernment has decided to sink the Washington, the $18,000,000 steel monster, that was doomed by the signing of the Washington agreement. Let the jingoes howl. It will not cause any pertubation in the White House and it will not hurt the plan for heavier naval appropriations to be submitted to the next congress. But the sinking of the Washington is no wan- ton act or the result of a desperate intention to scrupulously obey the terms of the four-power pact. Reading the inspired news dispatches from Washington, we learn that the sinking is merely a rehearsal for the next war. At this rehearsal, the Washington will be subjected to every test it might meet with in war. This floating death palace is the latest thing in naval constriction, so that Wall Street’s naval strategists are not such Simple Simons as they appear to be in sending their costly warship to the bottom of the ocean. The sinking of the Washington will be done “in camera.” In other words the public will not be let in on the ceremonies. Japan, England and France the other signatories to the four-power pact would like to have a look, but tho the Un- ited States is generons—like all money lenders— it will keep its $18,000,000 lesson in naval warfare all to itself. The Washington arms conference was hailed by many liberal pacifists as a step toward peace. Communists branded it as a war move. It was a war move of gigantic proportions. It laid the basis for the present anti-Japanese alliance that is being built up under the leadership of the United States. Wall Street has money to burn and to sink, but the money wasted on the Washington can be saved one hundred fold in the next war. The sinking will serve a double purpose. It will look to the unthinking as if the United States was punctiliously carrying out the terms of the Wash- ington pact and it will prove a valuable object lesson in the art of modern naval war to the Wall Street government. Selfdetermination! It looks as if the whole capitalist world was going into receivership, with the United States as the receiver. Nations that will not be pur- chased by the great United States financial trust, will be put out of business as the Standard Oil and the Steel Trust put their industrial compet- itors years ago. Before the war, the European powers enjoyed some degree of independence. Today they can hardly put on a new suit of clothes without ask- ing Wall Street’s permission. The Dawes plan is not only ‘working in Germany but in every other country in Europe. Even the British lion’s roar is no longer what it used to be. Owen D. Young, one of Wall Street’s expert managers has returned from Europe, after setting the machinery of the Dawes plan in motion. Young declares that France considers a “fully de- veloped German democracy as the best safeguard for the future.” This means that Morgan’s favor- ite agents in Germany are the socialists and demo- crats and France must trim her political sails to suit whatever breeze the magician Morgan whisles for. Europe is today a dependency of ‘the United States. j Speaking about the resolution introduced by Major Berry against the scab coal mines of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, we anirmad- vert that the pot is finding the kettle a bit grimy. But, passing on, we note that the resolution of Major Pot recites that Warren Kettle makes neces- sary a call for aid for foodless and c¢lothless miners and their families. Major Pot could not, of course, sell some of those 6,000 acres he owns and make a collection of diamond pins and rings from the delegates at the convention. / “ANTLRED WEEK” SEES STRUGGLES IN CALIFORNIA Water Fight and Milk War Battle Centers By JACK CARNEY. (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. —Coolidge’s “Anti-Red Week” opened up with a bang here in California, with enraged farm- ers, small business men and small town bankers, in Owens Valley, defending their water from the hands of the industrial interests of Southern California. In Oakland a similar celebra- tion has taken place with the large milk dealers employing armed guards to prevent the farmers from selling their milk to the independent milk dealers. Farmers are Threatened. In thé case of the Owens Valley farmers and small business men, as previously reported in the DAILY WORKER, the issue is one that threatens their livelihood. An aque- duct has been erected in the Owens Valley that takes away the water for Power purposes and leaves the farm- ers and ranchers without water for their crops and their cattle. If this aquedtict continues to drain the valley, ruin and bankruptcy must inevitably follow. The farmers and small business men are camping out- side the aqueduct with guns to defend their claims. Reinforcements are be- ing rushed to them. The governor of the state has re- fused the use of troops. He declares that the use of troops will lead to bloodshed. The capitalist press is trying to minimize the seriousness of the whole affair but the truth of the matter is that these ranchers mean business. Milk Dealers Fight Farmers. The large milk dealers of Oakland have informed the farmers that they must accept 29.1 cents per gallon for their milk. The milk dealers retail it at 56 cents per gallon. Independent milk dealers are taking advantage of the split between the milk dealers and the farmers and are buying milk from the farmers at the prevailing prices. The San Francisco Chronicle car- ries a picture of the leaders of the milk dealers and declares, “Here is the president of the Milk Producers Association, and three of the commit: tee in charge of the strike which has brought gunplay and terrorism thruout the east bay district, in the price wai between the milk producers and the distributors.” As the large milk dealers are not members of the I. W. W., nor are the farmers and ranchers of Owens Valley there have been no warrants issued under the criminal syndicalist law. It has been definitely proven that if you talk force in California you get pinch ed. On the other hand if you use force you get away with it. The moral may not be lost on’ some of those who feel the effect of the rapid ly growing unemployment situation. ** SAN FRANCISCO, Noy. 21.— “Mother” Bloor is addressing meet- ings thruout the Bay district in the “Forward to the Soviets” week of the party, assisted by James H. Dolsen, the district organizer, and Jack Car- ney, editor of Labor Unity, Meetings have been held outside the gates of the University of Califor- nia, various factories and the usual open air meeting places. Great suc- cess has attended these meetings due to the tremendous energy of “Mother” Bloor, who seems to be a veritable dynamo, shaming many young com rades into action. The Young Workers League held ¢ mass meeting on Friday evening at the party headquarters with Comrades Riker, Bassi, “Mother” Bloor and Jack Carney as speakers, A meeting for school children will be held on Saturday morning with “Mother” Bloor as the speaker, dealing with the children in Soviet Russia, Sunday, Nov. 30, there will be a large mass meeting, the proceeds to go to assist the German. Communists, to be addressed by “Mother” Bloor ind Jack Carney. An enthusiastic membership meet- ing was held last -Monday with “Mother” Bloor giving a spirited talk on the functions of a member of a party and what it means to be a Com- munist. Oakland members of the I. W. W. on Sunday, Nov. 23, on “Soviet Russia,” COOLIDGE’S ANTI-RED WEEK Community Day Saturday, Nov. 22.—Service to Community, State and Nation is the Duty of Every Citizen.” 1. Equality of opportunity in education for every American boy and girl. 2. Better rural schools. 3. Adequate public library service.for every community. 4. A community’s concern for education measures its interest in its own future. 5. Good roads build a com- munity. SLOGANS. Get acquainted with your neighbor, A square deal for the country boy and girl. Children today—citizens to- morrow. For God and Country Day Sunday, Nov. 23.—“Recligion, Morality and Education Are Necessary for Good Govern- ment.” 1. Education in the home. 2. Education in tke school. 3. Education in the church. SLOGAN. A godly nation cannot fail. Truths for “Educational Week” ACH DAY this week the DAILY WORKER, in parallel columns, will publish the slogans issued by Coolidge’s Anti-Red Week Drive and also those of the Workers (Communist) Party. parison of the Communist and capitalist positions is as follows: FORWARD TO Community Day .— ‘Service to the Working Class Revo- lution is the Highest Duty of Every Worker.” To establish equality of opportunity in education and all other phases of social life means to destroy the rule of the capitalist class and to substitute for it the rule of the Saturday, Nov. 1. working class; 2. Membership in the ‘Young Workers League is the duty and privilege of every American working class boy and girl. 3. Unite the rural working youth with the city working youth for the common struggle against capitalism. { SLOGANS. Acquaint your neighbor in the shop with the problems and tasks of the working class, Abolish child labor on the farms. Children today—Communists tomorrow. For God and Country Day Sunday, Nov. 23.—‘Religion, Capitalist Morality and Capitalist Education Are the Mainstays of Capitalist Govern- ment.” 4 munist. 2. To train valiant and intelligent fighters in the soolal revolution is the aim of working class education. 3. Religion is the opium the servile tool of capitalist oppression. SLOGAN. A class conscious and militant working class must be victorious! “EDUCATION WEEK” COMES TO AN END BUT OPEN SHOPPER'S DRIVE AGAINST LABOR WILL CONTINUE By KARL REEVE. (Final Article.) Two days after election, the lumber companies of the north- west, realizing that the election of Coolidge meant the reign of the open shoppers, abolished the eight-hour day and prepared to reduce wages. Reports have reached. the DAILY WORKER that the Mc- Cleary Lumber company, with headquarters at Olympia, Wash- ington, ordered their employes to work nine hours a day with- out increase in rate of wages. The election of Coolidge and Dawes was the signal for the large employ- ers to cut loose with wage slashing and speed-up methods. The Coolidge ticket is the ticket of the labor haters, and working class enemies, Coolidge Ignored This. In his proclamation on “educational week” Coolidge was careful to refrain from mentioning the condition of the workers and their families thruout the country. Coolidge pleaded for educa- tion, but did not say how the chil- dren of the workers are to obtain that education. Coolidge made no suggestion as to what to do with the boys and girls of ten, twelve and fourteen years of age who cannot read or write because they do not have the opportunity to leave the industries and attend school. Coolidge did not mention that the states which have the largest number of child laborers also have the largest number of illiterate children. Coolidge Brings Chaos. Twenty-three states permit children under fourteen, to work in industries ten states allow children under sixteen to labor 11 hours a day and thirty- seven states allow children to enter industry as workers before complet- ing the eighth grade of school. Sixty-four per cent of the children under sixteen work regularly in the Pennsylvania coal mines as breaker boys, one investigation revealed. Nearly half of those who worked were under eleven years old. In North Caro- lina cotton mills employ twelve-year- old boys, while girls and boys fourteen years of age are employed for eleven hours a day. In the factories of Geor- gia twelve-year-old children work 60 hours a week, and children of fourteen years of age work on night shifts. These facts are gleaned from reports of the Coolidge department of labor. Promotors of “Education Week.” Education week is promoted by a “Mother” Bloor speaks before. the| vicious open shop president who sanc- tions wage reductions and unemploy- ment, by the American Legion, whom the Communist hating commissioner of education, J. J. Tigert, allows to try to militarize the schools, and by Samuel Gompers, hanger-on of the capitalist bandwagon, who sells him- self to the capitalistic political party that will pay the highest price for his services, and by the national education association which has tried to indus- trialize the schools in order to turn out cheap, efficient and unthinking wage slaves for the capitalists’ fac- tories. At this time statistics reveal a monstrous condition of the children of the workers. Child Jabor and il- leteracy, going hand in hand, are pre- velent. Following the re-election of Coolidge, wages -are being slashed, Every. member of a working class family—a Com- Today's com- THE SOVIETS of the people—the church is men laid off, and hours lengthened, sending thousands of more women and children into industries in an attempt to keep starving families alive, | The Solution, In Soviet Russia on the other hand, anti-working class propaganda is not Permitted as it is in America. The children of Soviet Russia are taught that their interests are the interests of keeping the working class, which produces all wealth, in control of the government. There is but one solution to the problems of illiteracy, and child labor, malnutrition and militaristic, anti- working class propaganda. The capi- talist class of America, which owns the Coolidge government, and burdens the workers with the system.of wage slavery, also dominates the public schools. The capitalist class consi- ders control of the minds of the chil- dren of this country necessary to the continuation of the profit system, Communists Led Fight. The Workers (Communist) Party of | America has led the fight against the control of the public schools by the manufacturers and exploiters of labor. ‘When the working class of America takes over the industries and govern- ment of this country and runs the in- dustries for the use of the workers— abolishing the profit system—then the school children will be freed from the grip of the master class. The issue is working class control of industry and government, and work- ers education versus capitalistic pro- paganda. Editor’s Note—Every day until CRITICAL AND REALISTIC oping within the broad masses. While ee Publication has been completed, the {these latter had been protesting DAILY WORKER will publish a |against the peace treaty, the soldiers new chapter from the book, “Len- | were leaving ‘the front en masse. in: The Great Strategist of the | Lenin has defined the situation by a Class War,” by A. Losovsky, secre? |very laconic but significant expres- tary of the Red International of |sion: “The peasants have voted in Labor Unions. The ninth chapter | favor of peace with their legs because is entitled; “Critical and. Realistic.” ‘hey have been leaving the front.” No a Seer es se amount of phraseology in favor of a SOBER estimate of hig own and|revolutionary war could convince his enemies’ forces was arene to the contrary, He was asking the starting point for Lenin’s political! ‘is opponents; “Have you got at least activity, Only he can be termed a|02¢ regiment, have you the support of real statesman who is able feaessly | vy armed’ power, which could be put to look reality in the face, who cooliy|p against the fleeing, demoralized estimates the forces of the opposing| Peasant masses? We cannot fight. We class, who is not dealing in mere|nced a breathing space. No matter how Phrases. and who is-able mercilessly | Short, it will be of advantago to us.” to expose and criticize the weak side: }Tfstory has proved that ho was right. of his own class and his-own organi» ‘Lenin's prognosis that by means of zation, Also .in this respect Lenin} this breathing space we would be able Possessed , an .exeaptionally» strong |t? create a new army, inspired with sense for reality’ He never sue )\ new spirit, and able to take the of. ed to the hypnosis’ of fantastic figures} /énsive again, has been proven to be and pompous proclamation. correct. “One must know also hoy” When he came to Russia in 1917, thre |lo evade a fight,” he used to exclajiu, time when the SocialRevolutionists [arguing in favor of signing the Brest. held full sway, Lenin remarked: “The|Litovsk treaty. “It is better fo re. power they hold is only imaginary. |treat in a semt-orderly fashion-than to The Party of the Socialist Revolution-|subject the army to complete dissolu- ists is an ampty shell.” Although at] tion. “A leader is he who knows how that time milliéns upon millions of|to protect his army from breaking up workers were following the lead of|and who adopts all necessary meas- the party of the Chernovs and Keren-|ures to Preserve his army for future WELL KNOWN AMERICAN: EDUCATORS PROTEST AGAINST EDUCATION WEEK NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 21.—Protests from educators and publicists from all parts of the United States have come to the American Civil Liberties Union, which took up the fight launched by the Teachers’ Union against an educational program dominated by jan outside organization, the American Legion. David Starr Jordan, of Stanford; Vida Scudder, of Wellesley; Charlies W. Elliot, of Harvard; William Ellery Leonard, of Wisconsin; W. H. Tyler, Massachusetts Tech.; Bernard Glueck, James H. Maurer, Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, and many others protect the legion’s interference, er ie ‘ ty Sof Sa skys, yet he immediately’ perceived the instability of the influence of the Socialist Revolutionists. Basing his on the real sit: uation, Lenin spoke; in favor of the Brest-Litovsk treaty against the wish of the “public opinion” (at that time the liberal and reformist press was still in. existence) and at first even against the leadership of the Russian Communist Party. Upon what dic Lenin base his tacties? Upon those ‘deep processes which have been devel battles,” Today this look to us Hke A,B. C. wisdom, In order to undes- stand the real extent of Lenin’s gen: jus one must remember the tragic sit epee of Soviet Russia in 1918, and the sterific dificultios which Lenin had to overconie in order to convince his eye party that his estimate of the / situation, dnd of the relation of forces; was the correct one, et ee ae) Mohday—"The Great Allia tween Workers and Phaanntar ”