The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1924, Page 1

Ye (Continued on Page 2.) The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government ol. II, No. 214, AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. HERE is a good deal of “dope” coming from the opium confer ence at Geneva, where representatives of the great powers and of the optum growing countries are pretending to thrash out the problem of regulating | . the drug traffic, All agree that opium, when not used for medicinal purposes is bad for the health, but while there is profit in its production, all attempts to regulate its production and distri- bution will fail. oe 8 HINA has demanded the uncondi- ditional departure of all foreign missionaries in that country. The Chinese have learned that preachers of religion have invarrably proved to be disturbers and agents of capitalist powers. The bible and the sword are very close friends. The bible usually precedes the sword. In China, Yohn D. Rockefeller’s missionaries nd his oil cans went hand in hand. The new awakening in China is a significant warning for the imperial- ist powers of the world. That awak- ening is in no small degree due to the beneficial influence of Soviet Russia. .e © OUNTS and no accounts in Ger- many consoled themselves for the loss of their former power and affluence under the kaiser’s regime, by indulging in the most depraved or- gies. The scene of these debauch- eries was the great castle of Fuersten- stein, the seat of the royal house of Plons:.. Several counts have been sen- tenced to terms of imprisonment. The government made strong effurts to keep the news out of the papers. .The so-called republican government of Germany is always willing to shield the monarchists but never allows pity to stand in the way of the most se- vere ene fo the Communists, Bite United acates, pbviceienns does that its agents ‘shalt [ be altogether, gh aed factors i. the operation of the Dawes’ plan. From the flood of gold which is expected to pour out of Germany, into the cof- fers of the reparations committee the United States capitalists expect to get their share. The American figure may reach the tetal of $500,000,000. Such a sum is considered exorbitant by England. But the United States holds the whip hand. se 6 ‘HE much advertised death ray, is not. what it is cracked up to be, according to a statement by Brig-Gen. Amos A. Fries, chief of the chemical warfare division. There is no evi- dence that any known ray can be di- rected so that life can be destroyed, declared this expert, and no scientist is willing to predict that these rays can ever be so controlled as to render their use in war likely. What mentary on capitalist society, that the ingenuity of mankind is directed to- ward the development of means of de- struction, particularly destruction of life, rather than towards discovery of new ways of making life more pleas- ant for the human race. eh a French government may con- ler paying its four billion dollar war debt to: the United States pro- vided the latter reduces its bill sixty per cent. It is now learned that An- drew Mellon, secretary of the treasury made heroic attempts to get some sort of a promise out of France and Italy, to come across with-some cash. Both nations pleaded unconcern over t! Mabilities. The Italian and French governments claim that while America was shipping over dollars to win the war, they were |. sending men to the front. France owes four billion dollars to the United Ramsay would find it hard to hold his position DOORS OPEN AT 2 O'CLOCK SUBSCRIPTION RATES: SOVIET RUSSIA DEFIES BRITAIN PERS: Friend of kings and presidents. Friend of steel trust magnates and international ‘financiers. Friend of all those discriminating mighty ones who scorn the common laborer but who discerned something precious in me—I was appreciated. self beside Elbert H. Gary in the TO RULE OVER EUROPE’S LABOR Amsterdam Affiliation EL PASO, Texas.—The fare- well addresses of the fraternal delegates from Britain and Ger- many to the 44th annual con- vention of the American Fe eration of Labor, plies, as well as all debate upon the proposal for affiliation to the Amsterdam International, indi- cate that the A. F. of L. will en- ter Amstredam upon action of the executive council to which the work of carrying on “closer relations” was referred. In essence, this means the Amster- dam International will come under the extreme torship of the American labor bureau: cracy, now the labor wing of Ameri- can imperialist domination of, Europe as effected thru the Dawes plan, Un- questionably such affiliation will be}lahor uty to a slender |foliowed with a new attack upon So-|vented the 8 per cent increase de- purse and showed a most aggravating | viet Russia. with possible military ac: |manded is evidenced by the fact tha‘ tion accompanying it, ~~ FINE HOLIDAY PROGRAM — _ THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT Dancing and integra dy 12 P.M. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd., C In Chicago, by mail,-$8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. 28, 1924 << FRIDAY, NOVEMBE R COMMUNISTS OF FRANCE IN BIG JAURES MARCH German Workers Honor French Rebel (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Nov. 27.—The great Communist demonstration in Paris last Sunday on the oc- casion of the ceremonies for Jean Jaures resulted in a severe attack on Premier Herriot by reactionary deputies for allow- ing the Communists to stage what the deputies described as a “red saturnalia.” Deputy Tattinger, who raised the protest, declared that Gen- eral Nollet, minister of war, was obliged to flee in order to es- cape the Communists. The chamber by a vote of 318 to 196 upheld Herriot, who warned th¢ deputies that an adverse vote would be taken as an indication of no con- fidence in the government. The Jaures ceremonies brot out a tremendous outpouring of workers The bourgeoisie used the occasion to ingratiate themselves with the masses by posing as admirers of the great French rebel. Herriot delivered a long eulogy of Jaures in which he stressed the dead leader’s patriotism and his love of France. While Herriot was speaking the Communists kept on singing the “International.” Jaures, long a leader of the socialist party of France, was killed by an as: sassin on the eye of the great war His murderer Lape never punished. _} Today the h_hourgeoisie have es afd lengthen hours and smash unions that went “fed.” 1 have broken more strikes than Bill Burns himself. | have done my best to prepare the workers to submit to the next world wart, and conscrip- tion for the battlefield, and conscrip- tion of labor for the workshop. | am a patriot. | don’t know how much fonger I'll play hookey from this:tomb, but when | die, a great man shall pass away.. . . Truly, a ad AMUEL “GOMPERS AT THE GRAVE. OF SAMUEL GOM- “Surely | was a great man. Civic (strikebreaking) Federation and had my legs under the same table with Morgan himself; | had my picture taken. with John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. In war | helped to send two million workers to France, where a hundred thousand of them Nie buried . . . They died young- er than me. | helped Wilson to make war on Russia, where workers were.in rebellion. After the War I helped to. break the wave of strikes and to deflate labor, cut down wag- Isat my- leader in the Pantheon. The living ‘OVER “MER TORIOUS” LOANS socialists have made peace with the enemy, so it is no harm to pay an empty honor to one of their dead, who with all his wéak points was ‘a rebel by nature. About 50,000 Communists and ap- proximately 15,000 socialists marched in thé procession of demonsration. The Communists carried banners with inscriptions urging a vigorous prose- cution of the class war against capi- talism. The socialists had feeble slo- gans praising peace. German Communist Delegates. One of the most striking features of the great demonstration was the Ger. man Communist delegation headed by two little girls carrying branches of holly, to which were attached ribbons By J. W. JOHNSTONE. (Special to The Daily Worker) EL PASO. Texas—The convention of the American Federation of Labor was nearing its end whén it took up Resolution 22, proposed by the Seamen’s Union thru Andy Furuseth, protesting against the use of the army or navy to collect either the principal or interest of capital invested abroad. Woll and “Meritorious Loans.” Woll said that the resolution committee subscribed to the “lofty ideals” expressed, but opposed the method of the resolution. ‘Woll, an expert on ‘such affairs, said he believed “inter- in His Hands By J. W. JOHNSTONE. (Special to the Dally Worker) PUBLISHING CO., placed © the oacti of the socialist} ~ inscrifed: “To Jaures in memory of Liebknecht;” and “To Jaures in memory of Rosa Luxembourg.” A Communist column with a forest of bright red flags, all topped with the bronze Soviet emblem — the crossed hammer and scythe—came on The Communist column took one hour and a half to pass a given point and was continually cheered by the spec- tators. Its band played the “Inter- national” and the marchers raised the slogans of “Down with war” and “Long Live the Soviets.” One in- seription on the banner read “Rather the revolution than war.” A memorial tablet was dedicated in the restaurant where Juares was as- sassinate by Raoul Villain, in July 1914. national. honor and human intel- ligence” would work out the problem in the same manner as in national life the old cruel methods, such as the A general strike on western rail- way lines of the members of the debtors’ prison, had been abolished. But, he.avered, according to the reso- lution, “we could not enforce payment no matter how meritorious the loans may be.” Furuseth disagreed with this idea of “meritorious loans.” He said all Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers loans were made by international and the Brotherhood of Locomotive|>@akers in the name of the people, Firemen and Enginemen {s a possi- but without their consent. He failed bility asa result of the strike vote of the two organizations in progress on the western lines of the Southern Pa- cific. That the membership. of these two unions is extremely dissatisfied with the prolonged wage negotiations and to specify that the “liberty loans” were forced upon the workers. But the arbitrary attitude of the railway board, which has so far pre and the re- he did say that loans were forerun- ners of war, that all the workers had to do with the whole matter was to bleed and pay. War he discovered to be “immoral and dishonorable” and the conven- tion should condemn it. Only small (Continued on Page 2.) EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF A. F. OF L. TO STUDY AID TO NEXT CAPITALIST WAR By J. W. JOHNSTONE. f (Special to The Daily Worker) EL PASO, Texas,—In the closing hours of the 44th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, Resolution 75, was referred to the execu- tive coungil for action. counter-revolutionary dicta this is the first strike vote taken by these unions since 1916 when they forced the passage of the Adamson .|law by similar pressure. “A general strike would affect ap proximately 60,000 engineers, firemen {jand hostlers and cripple traffic on ninety western railroads. ‘| The unions involved are among the most conservative in the American labor movement and their action means that among all classes of rail- way workers there is a deep-seated resentment aroused by the labor’ Woll Expresses Bid for Power. L. proposing that the executive council appoint three aides to the secretary of war and one aide in each of the 48 This referenece of the matter to}to be of ,|the railway labor board as the im- the executive council probably means! chine of imperialism. _ Benefit DAILY WORKER and Labor Defense _ This is the resolution, offered by twenty affiliated bodies of the A. F. of ° > $$ states to co-operate in recruiting for; fulfillment of its provisions, as Gom- -Jerushing tactics of the railways with |the citizens’ military training camps.|pers and his aides are most anxious stance to the war ma- FOR BIG FESTIVITIES Wednesday night saw the open- ing of the DAILY WORKER-Labor Defense Bazaar. The booths are full of useful and. beautiful thinga. Everything is ready for the festiv- tles for Thursday afternoon. There is a Childrens’ Booth—a la Poland, a Czecho-Slovakian “Market” a “sweets shop” run by the Greek comrades, and many other colorful attractions. Thursday afternoon the doors open at 2 o'clock. Dancing and en- tertainment start at 3 p.m. Lettish orchestra, Ukrainian chorus, Polish singers, Junior dancers; banquet (a ja Latvia) at 6 p.m. (Lettish com- rades reserved entire 7 o'clock sit- ting. All others will dine at 6 p. m. —if they have their seats already bought.) Thursday night—Russian “Balal- alka” orchestra, national dances by Emma Blechschmidt and Elsie New man. Dancing thruout the evening. Friday night—entertainment in- cludes South Slavic orchestra, Htal- ian baritone and soloists, also mandolin and guitar, Finnish gym- nastic stunts. Dancing thruout the evening until 12 o'clock. BRITISH ARMED FORCES GATHER TO CRUSH EGYPT FrenchH esitate to Take _ Action (Special to The Daily Worker) CAIRO, Nov. 27.—The Anglo- Egyptian crisis is not over. There is a very suspicious calm, the. prelude to another storm. King Fuad adjourned the Egyptian parliament until Dec. 25. In the meantime, this coun- try’s. agents will be busy in France and elsewhere. England is not trusting to diplomacy. She is holding on to the Alexandria customs and is tightening her grip on the Sudan. Strong detachments of British troops are marching thru the streets of Alexandria and Cairo to impress the popu- lation. Converging on Egypt. British warships are steaming towards Egypt from all directions Liners sailing from India to England have received orders to debark their passengers at the nearest available port and convey troops to the trouble zone. The King’s Own Scottish Bor- derers, the infamous regiment that fired on the women and children in Dublin in 1914, are on their way to Port Sudan, BAZAAR LADEN WITH GOODS AND ALL SET *e2- 8 French Are Cautious. PARIS, Noy. 27.—While the French government has apparently decided not to interfere operily at this time with Great Britain's attack on the sovereignty of Egypt, the press con- tinues to denounce the British govern- ment's action as most unwarranted. It was at first thot likely that Her riot would bring the matter before the league of nations, but that organ- ization is now in such a battered con- dition that it is doubtful whether it will ever again recover from the blow dealt it by the tory government. An Old Agreement. In the year 1904, the French and British governments reached an ac- cord on their so-called rights in Af- rica, It is not expected however that French reluctance to block British ex pansion in Egypt is dictated by re spect for a twenty-four year old pact as much as to the fact that the coun (Continued on Page 2.) Today! Come to the BAZAAR and DANCE. And Again Tomorrow! EoUneTs HUS, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. BRING YOUR FRIENDS FRIDAY South Slavic Italian V Finnish Gymnastics, Eto. Help Infre THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Price 3 Cents hicago, Til. PROLETARIAN CHALLENGE T0 IMPERIALISM Scores Executioners of Egypt, India, Ireland (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 27.—Soviet Russia today _— delayed its reply to the British note, in ich Downing street served notice of abrogation of the com- mercial treaties negotiated with the soviet government by Ram- say MacDonald, formerly Brit- ain's prime ‘minister. The British note, whose con- tents were published today, pro- voked this editorial in “Pravda,” the Communist organ: “Does the Communist Inter- national conduct propaganda? Yes, it does. Such right is in- scribed in letters of gold in our constitution. “The executioners of Egypt, Ire land and India, cannot abridge prole- tarian law. The British government must not imagine it can destroy the asylum rights of Soviet Russia as it destroyed the right of political demon- strations in Egypt. Austin Chamber- lain's strong tone is proper for any. one but us.” Establishes Precedent: The action of the tory government in cancélling treaties signed by a Previous government without submit- ting the documents to parliament es- tablishes a new diplomatic precedent. That the Soviet government is not a willing target for British capitalist abuse can be gathered from the edi- torial comivent in the Russian press which mirrors the feelings of the Russian working class and the Com- munist Party, which is the leader of the Soviet government, The perfidy of Ramsay MacDonald is becoming more glaring every day. It is now a matter of public knowl- edge that while the former premier was in office he refused to receive a diplomatic note from the Soviet gov- ernment written on October 27, rela- tive to the tory forgery. Note Officially ignored. J. D. Gregory, of the permanent staff in the foreign office, curtly in- formed Rakovsky that Chamberlain would not acknowledge the note of October 27, thus endorsing MacDon- ald’s action. Austen Chamberlain in reply to the Rakovsky note branding the “Zinoy- iev” note a& a forgery, declared that the government. was convinced the letter was genuine. He brushed aside discussion of this incident however, as trivial and attacked the Communist In- ternational whosé influence in India, Egypt and other oppressed colonies of Britain is one of the main causes of British hostility to the Soviet gow ernment. Uses MacDonald’s Words, The foreign minister quotes Mac- Donald extensively in attacking the Communist International, proving that the former premier was merely a stop gap to tide the British ruling class over a@ troublesome period. The British capitalist press endorse the tenor of the tory diplomatic duel with Russia, but _ hastens to warn against any rupture of relations. It suggests that the tory government will take steps to reach agreements which will be more satisfactory to British interests than those signed by MacDonald. No cancellation of de jure recognition is expected. en ¢ French Admiral Recalled. PARIS, Nov. 27—Admiral Exelmans post admiral of Bizerta, and command- er-in-chief of the French naval forces in North African waters, was recall- ed after having declined to receive representatives of the Soviet govern: ment, delegated to take over the Baron Wrangel fleet, which was held under French protection pending de jure recognition of the Soviet government. NIGHT PROGRAM: Orchestra ocal and Guitar Soloists DANCING AND GAMES