The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1924, Page 6

\ Page Six THE MA!ILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00...3 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50...3 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB..... Chicago, Ilinois Editors -Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <p 290 Advertising rates on application Free from Working Class Influence The political policy of the American Federation : of Labor as enunciated at El Paso is very simple. It consists of the advocacy of election reforms planned to make it°easier for the workers to vote for the candidates of the capitalist parties. As an appendage of this policy there is a clause designed to extend the alliance with the middle class, The high lights of the document in which these proposals are made are: 1. That the present cumbersome ballot — be changed to make voting easier. That labor participate more generally in primary elections. 3. That all non-partisan campaign committees be maintained on a permanent basis. 4. That a plan be devised whereby forward looking groups composed of persons who are not : trade unionists may be enlisted in labor’s non- partisan political campaigns. That changes in laws be advocated where necessary to make the functioning of independent political movements more effective. The recommendations end with the warning that the American Federation of Labor “must be as free from political party domination now as at any time in the history of our movement.” The Industrial Workers of the World and Samuel Gompers have at least one point of agree- ment in this last doctrine. Of course the A. F. of L. has never been free from political party dom- ination nor is it now but it is probably as free from working-class political party influence as it ever was, Never at least has it stooped as low as it has at El Paso in the service of American imper- jalism unless it was during the time it was under | the influence of Woodrow Wilson. Bad News for Landlords “Cold weather, means a raise in wages for the janitors,” William Quesse, head of the Janitors’ “Union in Chicago, and real boss of the Chicago 5. | labor movement, confided to the delegates at the El Paso convention of the American Federation of Labor. This declaration brings a loud squawk from the Chicago Tribune but we are of the opinion that its protest will have but little effect on William who is even more hardboiled than the landlords and whose urion is composed of equally hardboiled workers who can watch a furnace in a million dollar apart- ment expire without the slightest sign of sympathy for its death agony. William’s methods have been a little crude in the past and his record from our standpoint is as re- actionary as it could well be. He is part of the Gompers’ machine and he hates the Communists but as against the landlords we choose William altho strenuously denying’ that we are influenced by the fact that in this controversy the odds are about 100 to 1, that the janitors will win. In little matters of this kind, William’s methods, as we have already remarked, are a little crude—but effective. In our opinion, about the only thing the land- lords can do is to pray for warm weather. Hiding the Loot Senator Pat Harrison, democrat from the tall woods of Mississippi, who was one of those who demanded and obtained a law which made a bluff of giving public access to income tax reports, has become convinced (after the election) that as the report says, “publicity of private tax information is injurious.” “Private” tax information! “The constant prying inquiry ... has disheart- ened in large measure honest business effort thru- out the country.” It appears that the thirst of the little business men to know the incomes of the big business lords, is a dangerous thirst to appease in too wholesale a manner. Why let the damned working class know the rewards of those who most successfully fleece them? Should income tax reports of our upper and middle classes be allowed, for instance to ap; _ in THE DAILY WORKER? ‘The little business _ failures might gain some satisfaction from the right _ to look over the incomes of their more snecessful rivals, but the law is to be at least modified, with consent, so as not to permit publication in the where the working class might have access information. s not the matter of what tax they pay, or don’t a private matter between the upper classes 2 private government? j , } ; : Sear SESS Bi ae rge L. Berry, president of the Press- n, owns 6,000 acres of farm land in id Tennessee and raises blooded cattle. is opposed to the Communists, Funny, A Threatened Eviction The democratic party has requested its landlord to cancel the lease to its newly acquired national headquarters in Washington, so that it can move into more modest quarters costing less rent. The amusing incident is not to be accounted for on the ground that this noble party of praetically ‘an- broken history from the time of Jefferson to Jeffer- son Davis and on down to John W. Davis cannot get enough money to pay rent on a whole city of offices if need be. But the fiction of its financial poverty has brought out a lot of talk which shows its‘pec- uliar political embarrassment. There are tales of its-repentance from “flirtation with radicalism” (Ye gods! Mr. Davis) and its reorganization on “a firmer foundation” freed from “class and sectional policies,” and purged of any co-operation with the insurgent balancers of power for petty spoils. The currents of history have socruelly exposed the democratic party as having the same class basis as the republican party, that its usefulness to Wall Street finance-capital is seriously doubted by some. There is some inclination to grant to the LaFol- lette “third party’ movement the job which it covets of being the second party of capitalism. It was not entirely comfortable for the larger powers of Wall Street to have their political support divid- ed between two national tickets in the last elec- tion. The role of “flirting with radicalism” so as to absorb even this also into support of capitalism vas performed much better by the LaFollette move- nent than by Davis’ ticket. Therefore, to. concen- rate all of its frank support under one national iicket, obviating for the time such annoyances as the possibility of throwing an election into con- gress, is a tempting suggestion for big capital. The democratic party practically ceased to exist in a large part of the West, and the democratic polit- ‘cians flooded into and took charge of the LaFol- lette movement in mapy places. But the Solid South remained an unbreakable block, with even the fast-growing forces of big capital in the South- ern states unable to marshall the vote for a ‘repub- lean party known traditionally as the “Nigger party.” Even since the republican party was. threat- ened by the petty-bourgeois wave of Bryanism in 1896, when the debtor elements were able. auto- matically to swing Southern states with the mere name of the “white man’s” democratic party, there have been intermittent movements to break up this condition and to extend the two-party system in the South. Roosevelt tried it, Taft tried it and Hughes tried it. Harding tried it in his rise to power, by promising that the republican party would be a “white man’s” capitalist party in the South. Again Coolidge attempted it when he chose “Lily-White” Slemp as a southern political fixer. And Davis’ clumsy hypocrisies about the Negro in the last campaign were not unrelated to the same problem in its Northern phase. The sharper class antagonisms have cast serious doubt upon the policy of big capital running in national elections two tickets, one of which car- ried Morgan’s bank-messenger Dawes. and the other of which was headed by Morgan’s lawyer Davis. We suggest that the democratic national head- quarters save all of its rent by moving into the republican national headquarters. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. Pink Emma Sweet little Emma Goldman, so long the red ter- ror of the tea-room, is reported to be on the war- path against the tyranny of the Russian workers’ state power. She is said to be stirring vast masses of downtrodden lawyers.and department store keep- ers to revolt against. the Bolsheviki, not because the Bolsheviki are too revolutionary, but because they have betrayed the real soul of the revolution. Emma is quoted as saying: 3 “T found Russia in wreck and ruin, presided over by a bureaucratic state, incompetent and ineffi- cient to reconstruct the country and to help: the people to restore their high hopes and great morals,” On the same day this was published, we pick up the organ of a Chicago stock-brokers’ clique which in rejoicing over the election of Coolidge and Maria, repeats some of Emma’s sentiments about “government”—this time referring of course to manifestations of government in the U. 8. The} som financiers’ organ complains that “ander the slow strangulation process of the last two decades, the government has been encroaching upon private rights until it appeared that the individual simply existed for the benefit of the government and the aggrandizement of politicians.” od When you don’t ask what class government itis, but think, as Emma does, of the state in general, the logic is as good in one place as in another. Thus it is. The anarchist “philosophy” despite the fact that many sincere proletarians have fallen for it as a reaction from social-democratic’ -par- liamentarism, is but the reduction to absurdity of the bourgeois ideology of free trade. Thus the an- archist position under the test of revolution. be- came untenable for any section of the working class, and it is in the nature of things that Emma’s present career as the hero of the capitalist press should show so many “distinguished” of the lap-dog type of bourgeois intellectuals as her sponsors in London, A capitalist newspaper says that the’“labor wn- rest” at the Natron Cutoff in Oregon is “catised by the'I. W. W.” From what we can gather, the “un- rest,” far from being caused by the I. W. W.,.was caused by an oversupply of pediculous, otherwise “lousy” bunks. If you don’t think these cause “un- It is the break of dawn. Slowly the sun begins to rise casting its warmth —live-giving glow—all over its great sphere. In the flelds, the dew drops become absorbed by the sun’s friendly rays, giving to the plants a joyful greeting by awakening them from slumber, thus giving life to the vege- table kingdom. The sun continues to rise and now the rays become mightier, penetrat- ing thru the thickly foliaged woods. The friendly rays giving warmth and glow to the mighty kingdom that in- habits the forest. The birds and in- sects nod their heads joyfully in har- mony with the playing sun rays. Such is nature’s gift. It gives bubbling, healthful, vitality to the animal and vegetable kingdom alike, as the sun plays over the meadows and thru the dense forests. ooo While this has been taking place, quietly, unnoticed, unconcerned— simultaneously in the city, the wage slave's kitchen is rattling with pots and pans, and in the bed chamber (if the wage slave has one)—ahem—and a grunt from the wage slave is heard end he himself, half doped from the previous day’s work, rises and pre- pares rushingly for another day’s work. The younger members of the family —the youth—too, is put under the same commotion to bustle to his job. This youth, vital youth and: ripened age, will soon be hustling, half asleep, whether by foot or by car, to their respective slave jobs, unaware of the vitality and comfort that is being robbed from them. Thus, also being deprived of the richness and beauty of the glowing sun. This seething mass has reached the factory doors or pits in the mine fields, and immediately work begins. The sweat and labor is turned into profit for the bourgeoisie while they in turn get a pittance from what they produce, enough to exist upon and to perpetuate their enslaved bodies. The master enjoys all that workers pro- duce, while the workers, unorganized, keep their nose to the grindstone. gern: In the same break of dawn, here and there from different odicus quar- ters of the city, come out another mass of people. Wrecked from liquor, morphine or religion. Youth, aged and deformed or crippled, all victims of either of the three opiates just stated. No doubt, too, some of them have just risen from an alley or door- step from their foul slumber. Here and there, they meet together in twos, threes or groups, brushing ‘taeir clothes, rubbing their eyes to brighten them from stupor slumber and so suggesting the means for a breakfast, | a drink, or a shot of dope. Soon, too, these localities become a seetning mass of these doped men and all Capitalism ‘HAT capitalism is gradually losing its power to rule and control it- self is especially evident by the pub- licity of the 1923 income taxes paid. The capitalists know that they do not want the workers to know what re- mains in their pockets, as a result of the exploitation of the workers. And yet, having become so mad with sur- feit of their economic and political power, they haye lost their heads and “let their own cat out of their own bag.” And like children, who cannot take care of themselves, they cry... after they have “lost the cat.” Just listen to the lamenting of the steel king, Judge Elbert H. Gary, the denouncement of the publicity by bought-and-paid-for Professor Nich- Workers Help Yourselves. To the DAILY WORKER: Like all politicians who speak of “the people” —without telling us whom they have in mind—so the Detroit leaders of the progressives and reformists do. No matter under what masks La Follette or D. E, Batt appear, and promise to be fair to the working class, they always fail to realize that to accom: pPlish the reorganization of workers it is necessary to have class conscious workers with the revolutionary spirit, who will consider its own worth and refuse to accept the slavish conditions of capitalism. “The Lord helps those who help themselves” (and when one is able to help himself, I don’t think he is apt to trouble the Lozd much for his assis- tance.) So long as the working people fold their hands and pray thu gods in Washington to give them work, so long will they not get it. Syatem Makes Producers Beggars. So long as they tramp the streets, whose stones they lay, whose filth they clean, whose sewers they dig, so long as they go from factory to fac- tory, begging for the opportunity to be a slave, receiving the insults of bosses, so long as they consent to herd like cattle in the cities, driven year after year, starving in the midst of food they produce but cannot have; so long as workers cofitinue to do the things vaguely relying upon power outside of themselves, be it god or priest or politicians, or any Progressive or the reformist’s so- ciety + to remedy matters, so long deliverance will be delayed. No change ever was, or e can be worked out in any society, except by the mass of ect Theories may Propounded by educated people and set down in books and discussed in lecture halls; and the Tax Publicity olas Murray Butler, and the bitted re- sentment on the part of the world- known Wall Street! Will the Workers Learn? But this lamentation, denouncement and resentment will not do the cap- italists any good. The deed is done. The figures and their interpretations are open before the public. And, how that the workers have access to the amounts paid by their millionaire bosses, will this “publicity” teach them anything? Will the workers open their eyes and see—that they who mine the coal, they who man- ufacture the steel, they who draw the oil from the oil-fields, they who paste the “tin-can-lizzies” together, they who manufacture and otherwise produce all’ that is needed in this world we live in, in this country we live in—that they, the workers, do not. find their names published manufacturing learn that there is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth. So the workers of America must iearn that even then (when they have a com- plete organization) they can win nothing permanent unless they strike for everything, not for a wage not for a minor improvement, but for the whole natural wealth of the earth. In conclusion I wish to state that this fight which the DAILY WORKER undertakes against the demoralizing activity of reformism in this country, is a necessary and important fight. For the last few years reformism in Europe became the most powerful weapon in the hands of the bour- geoisie. Due to reformism the work- ing class movement has failed to over- throw the capitalists in Germany and Italy; reformism is one of the great- est enemies of the labor movement. Eva Hill. Anti-Intermarriage Laws. To the DAILY WORKER.—The inter- marriage between Negroes and whites in the United States, which is prohib- ited by the laws of many states, is usu- ally objected to by Negroes as an in- vasion of their personal liberty. Many whites interpret this to mean that Ne- groes want to marry white people, Thereupon all the devils of “race in- tegrity” invade rostrum and press, to prove the utter shame of Negroes in having such desires. No attention is paid to the fact that in states where Negroes are free to marry white peo- ple, the cases of intermarriage are so few as to be negligible. An Aid to Lust. The real effect of the existing laws banning intermarriage between Ne- groes and whites, is not to stop the fruition of legitimate love across the race lines, but to furnish immunity for t | offenders against the virtue of Negro women, Take it any way you choose, such laws serve no other purpose. \ Tuesday, November 25, 1924 How We Live and Why within the shadow of the church steeples that number quite a few. These very churches of all denomina- tions support and hold in a vise these sordid. men by the worse opiate of the three ’opiates—religion. As aforesaid, all this vileness and degeneracy of these men, is at a stone's throw of the viper’s lair (the church) , where the holy of holies by their hypocrisy, sit . richly -enthroned, giving out.their opiate, so as to give these men strength to carry their das- tardly duty against the workers. They are men upon whom the churches (of all denominations) can’ be called upon to be used as leaches to prey uncon- cealed, upon’ the life of the revolu- tionist, : + The fact or secret of the religious power as being the mightiest prop for the international banker to exist; lies in that religion encourages either by force or intimidations to do the following: Keep men doped. Create religious antagonisms, Fear of God ~-any god, “Create nationalism. Cre: ate race hatred. Must go. to church— any church. Believe in an unknown power. Expose the above structure and the church will crumble to ruins bringing the international banker to ruin also in its wake. Religion is politics and politics is religion. Religion has. en- snared itself into every fibre of the individual and into the very marrow of the government. Thus, thru the among the large income-tax payers? And will they see that their bosses. who never even see the places of toil. who never step into the mines or fac. tories—they are the ones who have all the income and have all the in- come tax to pay to the government! Why Bosses Pay Enormous Taxes Let us look into this tax-publicity a little further. What do we find? We find that the average worker does not earn what ‘the smallest. capitalist pays as his tax for the year. We find that where there are the largest number of workers, in the tac- tories, mines and mills,. there con- currently are the largest profits. The larger a number of workers a capital- ist exploits, the larger‘are his profits As evidence take the Ford family, who paid close to $19,000,000 (niné teen million dollars) income taxes for the 1923 income, Or, take the United lust by showing that the woman could not have been deceived because she knew all the time that he was lying. The white man is thus free to desert the Negro woman and her child, be- cause the law says he cannot be made to care: for her’as her husband. In short, anti-intermarriage laws styled “race integrity” measures, are solely means of safeguarding the lust of white men in having relations sexually with Negro women. Millions of Mulattos: in South. In the south, where every single state has upon its statutes, laws pro- hibiting intermarriage between Ne- groes and whites, millions of mulatto children have been produced in this section of the country. In fact, Ne- groes, who at the time of their intro- duction into the United States from Africa were-all black, are today of every shade and color from a fast black to a lily white, and many Ne- sgroes may and can pass for white. This proves concretely that despite all such laws, Negroes and whites con- tinue to mix very intimately in this country. In fact, the southern white gentleman of the south, who so feroci- ously objects to “nigger men” mixing with or marrying white women, lives in open concubinage with Negro women and are the real onés who are doing their utmost to amalgamate the Negro race. The writer, a Negro, is a descendant from ‘a Scotch-Irish soutiern white slave owner. Negroes will never be free, in the true sense of the word, until every single one of these viciou: iniquitous and lust producing laws, prohibiting Negroes and whites from marrying, are declared null and void. To that Negro should zealously Gordon W. Owens. _ Editor’s Note.—Every day until. publication has been completed, the DAILY WORKER will publish a {cisions on tactics with regard to of | __- LEARNING FROM EVENTS By Louis Reguera main entrance sitting at the right hand of the international banker, by its cunning hypocrisy down thru the ages, religion has become the inte nationally organized espionage axons against the workers. 4 Only when workers will unite and solidify their interest into the Work- ers (Communist) Party will the pro- ducers gain in power and voice, The only hope of the masses, politically and economically, is the Workers (Communist) Party. Around that nu cleus must workers rally. ** * The Workers (Communist) | Party is the embryo that will strike at the opportune time and with a triumphant revolution led by the Communists against these exploiters and hangers; on, will the workers then finally attain their powers, controlling. all the means of production and distribution and so enjoy what they produce and build. Thus gaining in return the abtl- ity to enjoy the “luxuries” of com- fortable modern housing—shorter hours, music, art, health and bubbling vitality, leading their minds and bodies to the true ideals of nature and her laws. This reality of life will be turned from a brutal abject slave condition, a comfortable loyal class-conscious one, by all nations uniting into a Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. This will be the worker’s real break of dawn with the sun shining bril- liantly down upon them. By “SMAXIKO” ——$— States Steel corporation, which paid close to $16,000,000 (sixteen million dollars) as its 1923 income tax. Or, look at the pious hypocrite, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., whose income tax was close to $7,000,000 (seven million dol- lars). John D. Jr.’s tax could serve as the exemption for 8,000 married couples, should they each earn the minimum exempted by the govern- ment. As for Ford’s family and com- pany’s tax it would serve to exempt 47,500 married couples. Workers, can you grasp the enor mous amounts the capitalists are “earning” at your oxpense? What you, workers, ought to get in wages is kept by the bosses, and certified by their (the bosses’) executive commit- tee—the government! The working class will have to take, thru their or- ganized strength, the living that is humanly due the working class! Views of Our Readers on Many Subjects Difference of Opinion. > To the DAILY WORKER-—The comrade who reveiwed “Conscience” which is now playing at the Belmont Theatre in New York, was wrong in her criticisms of the play. “Con- science” is almost a perfect play trom the radical’s point of view. It is as revolutionary as the preamble to the I W. W. and as realistic as a page from the great steel strike. There has never been a play on Broadway before with such a radical theme so wonderfully acted by professionals who presumably are not themselves “enlightened.” # Comrade Pollack tells the story of the play up to the part where the wobbly chokes his scissorbill wife and then runs away. Of course, that summary omitted entirely the parts in the prologue and epilogue where the wobbly, a fugitive from the law, snowed in his Alaskan cabin, vents his hatred of the capitalist system and its monstrous slavery to which it subjects the people. He assails craft unionism as a remedy to be applied locally to the sore of capitalism to keep it from spreading, whereas what’ is necessary is to wipe out the sore by killing its roots. x Names Parrot Gompers. ‘ He tells these things to a parrot named “Gompers,” which he bought to keep him company in the shack. He is haunted by memories of his wife whom he killed unintentionally while in a rage at his helplessness in her from the life of a prostitute whic! the system demanded of her as the price of a little enjoyment. The wob- bly dies; a figure of another worker whose lite was wrecked because he chose to remain true td his class, Yours sincerely, Samson Krieger, tion, the role played by the same during the second revoluti reyolt of the peasantry to’ Soviet power during the first the October revolution—all served Lenin, as material for his de peasantry. He was a realistic