The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. aitendieeenaiaaniate Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO: 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3. months By mall (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 1118 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Chicago, Illinois wemmersore EAI COPS woven Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. <=> 0 Advertising rates on application War? With kaleidoscopic rapidity the center of gravity of the imperialist conflict that rends world capital- ism has shifted from China to Africa. The tory government of England junks the league of nations and prepares for major conquests in northern Africa that drive the French imperialists to frenzy. The death of a British general at the hands of workers whose comrades he had murdered throws all Europe into turmoil and brings joy to the hearts of the munition makers just as did the as- sassination of a Serbian princeling in 1914. The rapidity of the change of scene is in itself indicative of the instability of world capitalism. That the new casus belli revolves around a semi- colonial domain similar in many respects to China, is proof of the Communist contention that every one of these aréas of capitalist exploitation is a potential bombshell that a slight jar may explode. Great Britain has not a single friend or ally in Europe. The rest of the imperialist powers, France particularly, look at the mobilization of troops and warships for the Egyptian campaign with jealous fear. There is a panic in the robbers’ roost and like the lowlier gunmen of Chicago, they do not intend to let one of their number get more than his share of the loot. The threat of war growing out of the Egyptian imbroglio is no journalistic phrase. All of the in- gredients for another wholesale slaughter of the masses are present—Europe is armed to the teeth and vicious nationalism is at high tide. There is a new factor present in the European situation, however, one that was not there in 1914. Soviet Russia and the Communist International— the personification in the minds ‘of the militarist madmen of the revolution, the force that allows them no peaceful moment, are in Europe and have the backing of millions of the same workers that imperialism must depend upon for its life. The last war almost ended capitalism. Whether it comes today or tomorrow, and come it will, the next war will end it everywhere and forever. The fear of this is one of the major factors in tem- porarily halting another world war. “Capitalism,” said Marx, “came into the world dripping blood and dirt from évery pore.” No one who looks at the present European situation and hears the baying of the dogs of war can help be- lieving that it will go out the sditie way. The New Morgan Loan The House of Morgan is heading a huge syn- dicate of American financiers to float a hundred million dollar loan to the Herriot government of France. American imperialist domination has been mak- ing such rapid progress in recent months that a hundred million dollar loan in itself is no longer of momentous importance. This loan, however, bears significance in many directions, For months negotiations have been going on be- tween the firm of J. P, Morgan and company, rulers of the United States, and the Herriot administra- tion of France. The “Herriot cabinet, it will be recalled, reached its present political pinnacle thru attacking its predecessor, the Poincare clique, along many lines. One of the most forceful lines of criticism leveled against the Poincare ad- ministration by the French liberals was its alto- gether too-ready acceptance of harsh terms’ at the hands of J. P. Morgan and company in the financial transactions. Now-these liberals are in power. Now the critic Herriot is at the helm. Mr. Herriot and his “radicals” who did all the howling aguinst Mor- gan in order to ride into power on the tide of mass popular discontent with the Morgan maneu- vers in France, are now the very ones to accept the same disgraceful terms at the hands of the American financial dictator. Again we must ask: Where is the blessing that the Dawes plan wag to shower on France? — It simply is not there. Some may say that the Dawes plan has not been in operation long enough. Yet, the fact remains that Dawes plan or no.Dawes plan, French imperialist finance is in such wretched shape that it cannot administer its governmental| machinery without aid from foreign’ capitalist sources. This big Morgan loan is another root’ sunk into the European soil by the American imperial- ists. It is another step in the direction of untram- meled American hegemony. It,is another move that is bound to hasten the coming world conflagration, If Koretz, the Chicago society swindler, had real brains he would have gone into the bootlegging business in his home town and been entirely safe from arrest. ” Every day get a Attack on Brotherhoods Begins Right thousand engineers, firemen and hostlers employed by the Southern Pacific railway are tak- ing a strike yote. The railway company’has re- fused to negotiate directly with the union and in- sists on having all questions of. wages and working conditions handled by the strikebreaking agency of the government—the railway labor board. Fed- eral Judge Wilkerson, who granted the injunction that was a major factor in breaking ‘the strike of the railway shopmen in 1922, has upheld the juris- diction of the railway board over’ these questions and has ruled that union members or officials who refuse to answer the summons of the board may be imprisoned for contempt of court. ‘The workers involved in the dispute are asking an 8 per cent increase in wages and the negotia- tions have been hanging fire for almost a year. The Southern’ ‘Pacific railway has postponed de- cisions time after time with the evident intention of waiting until after the election returned Coolidge, the enemy of the labor movement, to office. This single instance affecting the most © con- servative section of the organized workers,’ one that has never been the target for the open shop movement, is proof that the labor unions are going to be forced to fight for their very lives in the very near future and is probably only the begin- ning of an attack that will involve even large sec- tions of the labor aristocracy that has hitherto stood aloof from the struggles of the rest of the organized workers as the railway brotherhoods did in 1922. There appears to be some militancy left in the firemen and enginemen in spite of, the efforts of their officials to make them believe they are bank- ers and not workers, but the officialdom, which hailed the establishment of the railway labor board during the war period as a victory for labor, will not fight. We propose the immediate organization of shop committees as a weapon for these workers and the recommendation will call forth a sarcastic smile from them. A year from now, however, we venture to say that they will not dismiss the suggestion so lightly. By that time the anti-labor offensive will be in full swing and they will be froced to fight or surrender: They will not surrender altho their banker-leaders will—in fact they already have. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Hail—Our Navy! We do not refer to the armada of battleships which is preparing to sail for far Pacific:waters under the stars and stripes as a threat against Japan in the guise of “naval maneuvers.” That is but the first major step in the mobilization for the coming war for, the conquest of China and the Pacific: It is a definite outward manifestation of the transfer of the struggle of imperialism from the Atlantic to the Pacific which Karl Marx was able to forecast even when first the gold discoveries in California in 1849 turned the gaze ‘of American imperialism across the westward shore. ‘The navy that will soon sail to make the first skirmish, at least a tactical skirmish, in the coming real world war, is not the navy we hail. Hail our navy!—But we refer to a navy which really belongs to the revolution of the workers of the world. We refer to the Red Navy which flies the flag of the first workers’ republic. 6 The Red Navy of Russia has secured the return of its Black Sea fleet. The French government, in recognizing the Soviet government, was compelled to return these ships which had been in the pos- session of the counter-revolutionary Baron Wran- gel. The regaining of possession of these ships is, however, not to be credited to a mere diplomatic victory. In the truest sense of the word these ships were re-won thru force of arms in warfare. Soviet bayonets punctured the French-fed bellies of Wrangel’s: mercenaries. Soviet cannon battered Wrangel off the coast of Crimea. The valor of the Russian workers and peasants conquered imperial- ist France in the form of its mercenaries in the south of Russia, and in the west, and in the valley of the Volga, and in the north. The revolutionary Red ‘Army placed Russia in a position where she could not be treated as a subject nation to’ be looted; Soviet arms forced the situation ‘where capitalist France felt compelled to recognize pro- letarian revolutionary Russia, ; But Soviet Russia in the best: sense belongs to the workers of the world. Its Red Navy will fire its guns in no other cause than the cause ‘of the workers of the world, and in such a cause it will fire, The recovery of the Black Sea fleet, which soon will hoist the flag of Communism and sail to a home port, will greatly strengthen our interna- tional cause. ‘ " Hail our navy! Join the Workers Party and subscribe DAILY WORKER. to ‘the es boc ees ae Wage Cutting in Maine The Maine textilé workers have been ‘handed a 10 per cent wage cut—a further testimonial of the esteem in which the textile capitalists hold’ them following a 124% per cent reduction last year. ' The Paterson silk workers have shown the way to take care of such forays on the already ‘low ‘wages and living standards of the textile workers and the best thing the Maine workers é¢ah do ‘is ‘to follow their example—organize, strike andefight thrn to: victory or honorable defeat. The lack of sueh action, doubly difficult because of the absence . Jot any union, when the ent was made last year, for the DAILY WORKER | is doubtless responsible for the new attack. — is also a Coolidge stronghold, iii ) tour of the NBN By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. The sweep of American imperialism in all avenues in which it finds ex- pression is one of the.most remark- able events of the present epoch. As Communists we are especially interested in its activities in the ranks of working class organizations and the effect it has on the working class or- ganized and unorganized. It is a commonplace to. state that the Gompers’ officialdom of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor is an append- age of American: imperialistic enter- prise, but even commonplaces become of unusual interest when new events of major importance to the working class appear. Of. such a character is the policy, adopted: previously by the A. F. of L. officialdom but openly announced to the world at the Bl Paso convention in the presence of Mexican, British and German delegates. “Monroe Doctrine of Labor.” Matthew Woll, the heir apparent to the Gompers’ throne, characterized this policy as the ‘Monroe Doctrine of the American labér movement.” No- where in the world are the catch words of the capitalist class used to the extent that they are by labor offi- cialdom in America, but this is some- .thing more than @ mere parroting of capitalist slogans. Following the reading of a resolu- tion aimed at the Communists and the left wing critics of Gompers which was adopted as a pledge of good faith by the Mexican labor bureaucracy and which contained the following clause, “Resolved, that the Mexican Federa- tion of Labor will oppose all attacks which the enemies of the American Federation of Labor will attempt to undertake against it in any part what- soever of the Mexican republic,” Woll delivered himself -as follows: “Mr. chairman, | move that the president of this federation convey to the Mexican Federation of Labor our appreciation for this declaration of loyalty to the ideals of democracy and pledge of support and co-opera- tion with the American Federation of Labor in the: promoting: of. the ideals of trade unionism, which, af- ter all, is the beginning of the Mon- roe doctrine of American labor to apply to the western hemisphere.” New Coalition Starts Work No sooner was this cementing of the bond of Latin-American and Yankee labor imperialists concluded than the new coalition of betrayal showed its hand. Trevino, secretary of the Mexican tederation, who recently went to Eng- and, and offered to MacDonald affilia- ion of the Mexican labor movement tothe Amsterdam International in re turn for recogni ‘of the Mexican government by Great Britain, took the floor and accused the British labor party government of allowing British capitalists to ship arms to de la Huerta. He further stated that con- signments of arms and munitions were on the way from England for’ General Flores, who is heading anoth- er armed insurrection against the present Mexican government, and ap- pealed to the British fraternal dele- gates present to “show real solidarity and prevent the .shipment of thes« arms.” No Communist will criticise Tre- vino for his expressed desire ‘to :pre- vent British capitalist aid to reaction- aries, but arranged for by the Gom- pers’ machine, it served two purposes that are of evil import to the working class. First, it served to throw sus- Picion upon and compare unfavorab)) | the British labor movement with the American Federation of Labor in the eyes of the delegates and the work- ers who read the reports of the con vention. Second, it displayed the Brit ish imperialists as the only enemy of the Mexican workers and concealed the fact that AMERICAN CAPITAL {STS ARE NOT FURNISHING ARMS AND SUBSIDING INSURRECTION IN MEXICO BECAUSE THE MEX! CAN GOVERNMENT HAS CAPITU LATED TO THEM. Aid Wall Street In Mexico. ° In other words the American Feder. ation of Labor officiatdom ‘has, on be half of American imperialism, stepper out as the foremost defender of it: right to a monopoly of: exploitatio: on the two Americin continents American imperialism and its labor wing, the American Federation of La- bor will “protect” the Mexican mass- es from all oppression except that sponsored by Wall Street and its in- strument in Washington, D, C. It is of course, much better for the Mexi- can workers to be robbed and murder- ed by the gunmen of Yankee oil well and copper mine owners than by simi- lar agencies employed by British capi- talists. Gompers and Coolidge agree on this. So do their Wall Street mas- The rivalry that can end only in war between British and American im- perialism, but which the capitalist press has not yet been ordered to in- tensify by propaganda, in every field of imperialistic endeavor—oil, shij é markets, world finance—finds the Gompers’ clique ready to champion the home-grown variety of imperial: ism, This attitude is the “inevitable fruit of a policy that denies the class struggle and sets up a united front with capitalism on every possible oc: casion, a policy that leaves: the Amer- lean working class all but and now intends to tame militant Mexican workers and make them do- cils slaves of Wall Street+ y While the tf met ish admiral, com THE DAILY WORKER American Imperialism’s brings home a plan for an expansion of British naval power in the Pacific. Blesses Navy Maneuvers, American imperialism answers with naval maneuvers around Hawali and the American Federation of Labor says amen. All relations are broken off between Great Britain and Mexico and Wall Street makes hay while the sun shines, John D. Rockefeller places a chaste kiss on the brow of Sam Gom.- pers’ cast in the role of Maud Muller. Nor is this all, In every phase of the policy of the state department and the most dangerous activity of the war and navy departments, the A. F, of L. bureaucracy adopts the policy of American imperialism, Its attitude on the matter of Japan- ese exclusion is too well known to need mention, but at El Paso the met- al trades department of the federa- tion adopted a resolution urging the construction of more battleships—the logical corollary of the hostility of the parent body to Japanese workers. The navy department is well pleased. To Recruit Cannon Fodder. At El Paso, scene of the complete | pet of the imperialists, degradation of the American labor movement, the war department is not forgotten. A.resolution is introduc- ed, to be sent to all affiliated locals, signed by. no less than twenty-five union officials, the preamble of which reads as follows: Resolvéd, By the American Feder- ation of Labor in national conven- tion assembled. . «. that the citizens’ military training camps are ving of the support of Ameri- can laboring men and ‘the executive council is authorized and directed to nominate three civillan aides to the secretary of war at large, and one civilian aide in each of the forty- eight states, to co-operate with the government in recruiting candidates for these camps. Among the signers of this resolu- tion is the name of Ledvinka, repre- senting the Ohio State Federation of Labor, a member of the United Mine Workers of America, an organization that has met bayonets every time it has engaged in°a*strikeof any size. The war department is well pleased. Endorse..American, Fascisti. The American Legion is the prize It -has been Prasre Tee Sait barker or Mes THIS LETTER IS ADDRESSED TO YOUR BRANCH; IT MUST BE READ AT THE NEXT MEETING (NOTE.—Every member of every branch is to make sure that this letter is made part of the order of business of his next branch meeting.) DEAR COMRADE:— We must be frank. This is YOUR paper and it is your busi- ness to know how it is getting on. Give careful attention! The DAILY WORKER is carrying two heavy burdens, one on each shoulder. We have our own building, but it is not fully paid for—that’s burden number one.. We have our own presses but they are not fully paid for—that’s burden number two. The DAILY WORKER cannot fight with a Joad on each shoulder. You know that. Everything that stands in the way of our progress must be kicked out. Therefore this campaign to INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925. It means that ALL OF US want to make absolutely sure that our paper will have CLEAR SAILING for the year to come. To put the DAILY WORKER in fighting trim, we are sending BOOKS OF POLICES to the branches. Every member must buy an INSURANCE POLICY. EVERY means EVERY—and nothing less. Directions for selling POLICIES follow. Comrades! Back up this campaign to the limit. Buy $5 POLICIES. BUY $1 POLICIES every time the branch meets. Buy YOU MUST. This is final. This is a party decision. Not an inch in retreat! Ever FORWARD to ALL POWER for the working class. Fraternally, THE DAILY WORKER MORITZ J. LOEB, Business Manager. ALFRED WAGENKNECHT, Campaign Director. THE WORKERS. PARTY WM. Z. FOSTER, 4 National Chairman. Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Sécretary. e Directions for Sale of Insurance Policies (Follow them to the letter.) 1. This book of INSURANCE POLICIES must be made a vital part of SVERY meeting of your party branch. It contains fifteen $1.00, three $5.00 and two $10.00 INSURANCE POLICIES. 2. To your order of business at EVERY branch meeting must be added “DAILY WORKER INSURANCE.” 3. When the order of business, “DAILY WORKER INSURANCE,” is ~eached, the secretary of the branch will read the names of all comrades who ‘rave bought their INSURANCE POLICY and the names of all comrades who iave not yet helped to Insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925. 4. After the names have been read, those who have not yet purchased ‘heir pol*cy will come forward and do so. 5. Comrades who fail to attend branch meetings should be visited and isked to buy their policy. Branches should buy one or more $10 policies ut of their treasuries, "6. INSURANCE POLICY BOOKS are to constitute a vital part of every varty mass meeting. 7. A competent comrade must be assigned to address every mass meet: ng upon the need of INSURING THE DAILY WORKER FOR - vresent are to be solicited for the purchase of INSURANCE POL, Es. 8. Remittances for INSURANCE POLICIES soldjare to be made ONCE A WEEK to the DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. 9. Every comrade or party official + »:eiving one ‘or more of these INSUR- ANCE POLICY BOOKS will be held STRICT! Stubs for POLICIES sold, and unsold POLICIES’ close of the campaign, 10, THIS CAMPAIGN WILL CONTINUE UNTIL EVERY PARTY MEMBER HAS BOUGHT A POLICY AND HAS THEREBY HELPED TO INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925, a and ? _ We've NEW MOVEMENT ORGANIZED BY _ INDUSTRIAL BARONS FOR UNITED ATTACK ON AMERICAN FARMERS (Special to The fae ES NEW YORK, Nov, 27.—Better understanding multure is the imposing title of a new m Barr, president, National Founders’ Association. | gram is outlined by Barr, including a call for ateduntable for them. pa theese Daily Worker) | tor struggle against this basest of plots, whose black putrescence ‘ous the whole labor movement, “It can be done and it will |tloa adopted at El Paso. It ig. Jevery speech of the Vrevinos, Hal | profit Was sanctified at El Paso ani in return the House of Morgan | Friday, November 28, 1924 Labor Outpost practically entrusted with the pro- gram of the bureau of education it spreads in a thousand ways the specious propaganda of the militarists. Here was an opportunity not to be overlooked by any organization seek- ing to prove its loyalty to every in- stitution of American capitalism, so the officialdom of the A. F. of L. forms a united front with these open class enemies of the workers, exchanges representatives with them at, conven- tions and at El Paso endorsed the American Legion resolution for univer sal military service inthe next war— mass mobilization of the workers dis- guised under the euphonious phrase of. “conscription of capital and labor.” The capitalists are supposed to part with their precious wealth while the workers will have to give only their lives. The strikebreaking American Le gion and its capitalist backers are well pleased. Betrayed Mexican Labor. We leave for a moment the question of what these things mean for the working class of the United States to say to the Mexican workers and pea- sants: Gompers and the tools of the blackest forces of reaction met you at El Paso with hands outstretched and protestations of good will. They posed as your allies while they give the utmost support and cheerful en- dorsement to the self same explolt- ers that made Mexico a slaughter house for a decade. Not only that, but they actually aided in the pre- aration of the navy, the army and the volunteer mercenarles of Ameri- can imperialism who will murder you under the slogan of “teaching you democracy” if you try to keep the gains of the revolution your comrades died for by the hundreds, Another Dawes’ plan is in force in Mexico today and the instrument of its enforcement is the officialdom of the American and the Mexican Federations of Labor. This brings us to another incident that shows the servility with which the Gompersites serve Morgan democracy. Gompers Becomes “Internationalist,” The faintest taint of socialism is anathema to Gompers, while Commun- ism sends him into a wild delirium whenever mentioned ‘in his presence. He has been unable to tolerate any thot of affiliation even with the reformist Amsterdam International, but at Bl Paso his attitude suddenly changes. For the first time in many, many long years there is present at a convention of the federation a representative of the German Trade Unions—affiliated with Amsterdam. English—“our al- lies, you know”—are barely welcome but have been tolerated, principally to give Gompers the opportunity of tell- ing how much better off the working class was in this country. But today there id a striking § Gompers is very friendly towards Am- sterdam. The European workers are in a bad way. The national econo- mies are demoralized. The yellow un- ions have always depended upon the capitalists and capitalism is not. so good just now. Amsterdam needs money. So do the capitalist governments which its un- ions support. It is simple, Aid to Morgan’s Dawes’ Plan. The Dawes’ plan and the entry of the American Federation of Labor in- to Amsterdam or rather the absorp- ion of Amsterdam by the American Federation of Labor will, in the words of the classic “cure all diseases to- day.” Amsterdam needs the A. F, of L. enough to surrender to Gompers but it does not need it as bad as Mor- san needs to strengthen his hold on Amsterdam so that the slavery of the German workers can be made com- plete. Amsterdam will come to terms with Gompers, El Paso marks the vbandonment of a policy of isolation from international affairs by the American labor officialdom just as the Dawes’ plan—the reason for it— narks the entry of American imperial- sm into world politics on a truly gi- santic scale. 7 The circle is complete, * American imperialism is in’ deadly conflict with Great Britain for world supremacy, Japan is in the way—a iuisance, The finance capitalists, ev- ory day, increase their inv ‘broad (another —$100,000,000 te ‘rance—mere pocket money). They are drunk with the glorious vision of world supremacy that is to be baptiz- ed_with the blood nf the workers. . ‘The officialdom of the American federation prepares the machinery that will be used to drive the work- ing class of America and Mexi y the shambles. it is a procurer non fodder. It ties the worke: chariot wheels of American ism and prepares to act as sary in Europe. i Task of Communist Parties, Upon the Communist Parties of the United States and Mexico—especially upon the party in the United States rest the responsibility of mobil the working class of the two natic i be The evidence of the betrayal is hand. It shrieks from every reso! i Wolls. Mass murder che blood money to be paid j i i he SRE TSE AEE CTS contr ESTAR GAT | —