The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Tl. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By. mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By mail (In Chicago only): $4.60....6 months $2.50...8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Blvd. Chieago, Miinole J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB.. woreccennpevonencsccessssneess DGICOFS. «ever Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March’ 3,..1879. <> 290 Militarism in Excelsis Secretary Weeks is an apt pupil of his predeces- sors. When has a session of congress ever opened with- out the official spokesmen of the army and navy announcing that the nation is in grave danger? This is the usual prelude to a demand for generous appropriations for the flock of gold-braided para- sites which is the inevitable accompaniment of a regime of plunder. The nation that is in danger is not the United States, but the countries where the House of Mor- gan and its brood of financial chickens have made their nests. Little nations like Mexico, Cuba, Santo Domingo and Costa Rica, Chili, Peru and other republics of South America that have rich natural resources which marines and battleships can capture for the covetous rulers of the United States, big nations like Germany and France where the whole working class can be enslaved profitably, Great Britain whose imperialist ambitions run counter to those of the American’ plunderbund in all quarters of the globe, Japan who must be eliminated so that the Pacific can become a Morgan Jake, China with its teeming millions, its fertile soil and its enormously valuable deposits of coal, cop- per and iron, these are the nations that are in dan- ger and it is for offense against them that the alarm is raised. There is no limit to the ambitions of the Amer- ican ruling class and the servility of the officialdom of the American labor movement allows these am- bitions to run riot. When the officers of the metal trades section of the American Federation of Labor ask for more battleships, and the whole convention endorses military training camps, as they did in El Paso, it is not surprising that real militarists feel that the sky is the limit. ~ Gold for the Soviets There is considerable stir in certain London and New York financia} circles: over the -ultimatey- destination of a recent shipment of two million dollars gold to England from the United States. The first belief that Germany was to be the re- cipient of this sum has vanished. ‘What agitates the financiers at this moment is the belief that the gold has found its way to Soviet Russia. The British and American financial wizards seem to feel that they were outmaneuveted by some mysterions Bolshevik banker. To them it is horror to think of good American capitalist gold finding its way into the realms of the Soviet Union. Whether this suspicion is warranted by fact or not does not matter. Before long the imperialist governments’ will be “ compelléd to extend huge gold credits to the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics. The capitalist groups of the various countries will be driven to do‘so by a multitude of reasons amongat which will be their love of profits and their desire’ to secure what they call “political stability on the continent.” In the light of such transactions the probable rownd-about shipment of the paltry sum of two million dollars assumes insignificance. It is not our task to delye into morals. It is not our aim to examine the so-called abstract ethics and morality of capitalist banking which is based on a thorogoing anti-social” foundation. But ‘all this horror of ‘a fe\ illion dollars gold finding its destination in Soviet Russia thru a commercial deal causes one to do a little recollecting. What about the huge sum ‘of gold, running into several hundreds of millions of dollars, that the allied im- perialists forced Germany to disgorge when they full well knew that it was the property of the Soviet government? It is an act of consummate humanitarian diplom: aey for the allies to steal duftight hundreds of millions of dollars of gold belonging to the Soviet Republic, gold which it was temporarily compelled to give to Germany after the Brest-Litovsk treaty. However, consternation arises when perchance the Soviet Republic thru a commercial deal manages to receive in exchange a. small quantity of gold from the American imperialist clique which has hoarded more than half the monetary gold of the world. The lesson in class morality is too simple to need emphasis. The Bank of England is loaning the Greek goy- ernment $55,000,000. This looks like another war on Turkey with the brave bankers furnishing the gold while the Greeks furnish the guts. A Chicago bank cashier fifstook a carload of policemen for bandits and shot threé of them. The surprising thing is that this raiena br not made oftener. The dollar today buys 65.2 per cent of what it did in 1913. If a worker gets $9 per day now he is no better off than he was in 1913 wes RLS Berne veer 8 Advertising rates on application | Hail Owen the First! Within a few days the leading lights of America’s imperialist aristocracy will gather to tender a royal welcome to one of Germany’s most recent monarchs, King Owen the First! We have in mind the gorgeous banquet that has been arranged for Owen D. Young, the first American receiver for Germany under the Dawes plan. American imperialism has good reason to hail Owen D. Young. Despite the fact that the repara- tion scheme is generally called the Dawes plan, those most acquainted with the actual prelim- inaries and mechanism of recent European nego- tiations are aware of the fact that it was Owen D. Young who was the real author of the whole plan. This conclave in the Waldorf Astoria will be an expression of joy and. satisfaction by our biggest exploiters and their allies over the contribution made by Mr. Young towards their extending financial. domination. It is an indisputable fact that’ the Yankee banker Young and his present shoe-warmer, Mr. Gilbert, are endowed with more power over the lives and fortunes of the German masses than the Kaiser ever dreamt of attaining. It is especially interesting to note the character of the personnel that has been chosen to dine and wine this oligarch of American imperialist prowess. Every section, every layer of the imperialist group is to be at hand to participate in the rejoicing. Big business is to be represented Elbert H. Gary, Herbert Hoover, Charles Schwab and. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Ivy L. Lee, the notorious open shop advocate, will be one of the leading enter- tainers. Seated right next to him will be the spokes- man of the aristocracy of labor, an integral part of the imperialist machine, Matthew Woll and Peter J. Brady. The latter will pose as the repre- sentatives of the working class in an effort to mis- represent the.opinion of the toiling masses of this country regarding the vicious Dawes scheme. No worker or poor farmer will be permitted to participate in the celebration. This is proper. For the workers and poor farmers of the country the Young banquet is an occasion not for celebra- tion but:for preparation for vigorous battle against the exploiters and despoilers of the country. “Moral Consciousness” An interesting angle is being given the various employers’ associations to the. drive they have launched. against the proposed insufficient child labor‘amendment before the country. This new coloring is of a two-fold nature. First of all, the profiteers are howling that to give con- gress power over children up to the age of eighteen is:repugnant to the “moral: consciousness” of the ‘country. We can understand. this «‘wail. To the employers “moral consciousness” and an unbroken flow of fabulous dividends, huge profits, aré synonymous. -The second phase of this opposition is based on the promise that the United States government was organized on the principle of decentralization, on the principle of a diffusion of its powers among the yarious ‘states. The New York chamber::ofcom- merce, for instance, is yelling about giving over too much power to congress. Here we are afforded an excellent treat, a splendid lesson, in the morality of>thevclass struggle. It is always proper for the government to centralize its power when such cen- tralization will enable it to function more effective- ly as a strikebreaking agency. It is always im- proper for the government to tend to assume more centralized power when such power is not directly and immediately beneficial to the enhancement of profits for the exploiters, How many workers have ever heard of any em- ployers’ association protesting against. the exten- sion of governmental powers when the militia, when the army, when the courts, when the depart- ment of justice are mobilized to break strikes, to jail workers, to issue injunctions and:to: shoot down striking laborers? The answer -is:obvious. Not a single worker has ever heard of such a pro- test by the bosses because no such protest is ever issued. However, scratch the skin of a profiteer and you will be flooded by a stream of “moral consciousness” rebelling against the “tyranny” of their own open shop governmental clique operating in Washington. Gompers Gets a Government Samuel Gompers and the executive council of the American Federation of Labor have at last got a tame government that they can play around with and hold up as an example of what a labor government should be—the Calles. government. of Mexico. Like the social-democratie government of Ger- many which accepts and enforces the Dawes plan of allied imperialism, like the late MacDonald gov- ernment of England which put over the Dawes plan when the tories felt the task too hard for them, like the “liberal” Herriot government of France, the tax collecting agency for the House of Morgan, the Calles government is the Mexican apparatus of American imperailism. This alone explains the fondness of Gompers for it. The Calles government marks the end of the present revolutionary period in Mexico .and the alliance of the bureaucracies of the American ‘and Mexican federations of labor is for the pur- pose of preyenting a real social revolution toward which the Communist Party of Mexico leads the workers and peasants. This is made plain by the fopen, unity ¢ of Gompers and Trevino—the Morones spokesman—against the Communists, the force that ‘both American imperialism and ‘ite’ “Mexican ‘allies fear. The new union is blessed by nocedeaiied and Morgan. a4 COMMERCE IN HUMAN FLESH IN HEBRIDES by Planters SYDNEY, New South Wales, Dec. 2. —Black slavery as well as the buying and selling of women for sex pur- poses, and abuses of the worst kind still take place in the New Hebrides islands (South Pacific ocean) in spite of ‘the publicity given to the matter. Decisions from the courts are never enforced and outrages continue, despite official condemnation. The French planters seem able to do just what they liked with their slaves. A recent case, typical of many, is that of a French planter who killed ¢ native, He was merely put to the in- convenience of going down to the courthouse, stating that he had hit the native and that he died. He was acquitted by the court, Charges are made, that slavery is rampant in eertain parts of the islands. The position of the native women is, they said, intolerable. They are recruited in unspeakable ways, married and divorced at the will of the planters, and used simply to induce the native males to stay on the plantations. In a word, prostitu- tion is enforced at the will of the planter. Regarding the male slaves is is stated that at least 40 out of every 100 die during the three years they are indentured to the plantation owners. MAKE NEW DISCOVERIES ABOUT DIPTHERIA AND DIABETES REMEDIES Medical circles here today were disoussing the discovery of Dr. Ar- thur Locke, 26 year old chemist of St. Luke’s hospital by which he claims to have isolated the active elements in insulin, diabetes rem- edy, and the diphtheria anti-toxin permitting their laboratory synthe- sis. The discovery, physicians de- clared, would permit the inexpens- ive manufacture of the drugs and-do away with the present. bh of obtaining them by laborious pro- cesses from animals. Dr. Locke's announcement states he had ef- fected the isolation by electro-di- alysis. Outrages Are Committed Greeting from Our Comrades in Jail. OMETHING to be thankful for, and something in which more than one comrade in jail has shared in, was supplied by a generous gift of Comrade Linday. of Evanston, tll. His was -a donation of $5.00 In answer to our plea to/“send the DAILY WORKER to jail.” Here is a reply in appreciation, from a comrade in Jall, who since Thanksgiving can “talk turkey” to any worker. His letter of necessity unsigned, reads as follows: “COMRADES: Your letter. informing me of the generous gift of Comrade Linday, which was supplemented ‘by your office to cover the cost of a six month “sub” to the DAILY WORKER, WORKERS MONTHLY and COMMUNIST INTER- NATIONAL to my credit, duly ‘received. “Needless .to say, | am very proud of. this stroke of policy. It did much to strengthen my falth and moreover:-tosupply a weapon ‘for better polemics against my bourgeois associates. 1 am instinctively a’ revolutionist but lack « smuch: In_the ‘way of theoretical argument. Naturally the news of this gift com- prising the cream of the revolutionary thought kindled high hopes in my ambition to be like. you feliows. | have been mentally starved to such ai extent hitherto:that the rich. nutri- ment from your pens had ilttle trouble in Giaeaiving my iNusions. “IL have hoped for ues such actlyity your party has under- taken to clarify and oppose the scheme of exploitation affilct- Ing humanity. You have my heartfelt: wishes and Ife long support In pushing this. fight to Its consummation. My ac- knowledgment to Comrade Linday has ‘been: posted. The com- rades sharing this gift join me.in greetings to you all. SERIE RY: NEGROES CHARGE. YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION IS GUILTY OF SPIRIT OF THE KU KLUX KLAN NEW YORK,.. Dec. .2.—The.. Young Women’s. Christian’ Association is found guilty of a.“Ku. Klux spirit. and program,.without.the. hoods,” by the African Methodists’ Episcopal Preachers’ Association. of. Greater New York, in a statement denouncing the Y. W. C.A. for barring Miss. Lydia Gardine from its school of hygiene because of her color. “These are some of the persecutions that are constantly asserting them- selves against the race in this coun- try, a Ku Klux spirit and program without the ‘hoods,’ yet no less dan- gerous and outrageous, “Any institution bearing the name of Christ, calling itself christian, should be above such hypocrisy, and when revealed, no terms are too strong for their denurtciation.” The issue of discrimination against the young colored woman was first taken up by the national association for the advancement of colored peo- ple. The Y. W. C. A. stands. pat on its jim crow policy. Got Something to Wear. MT. VERNON, Ill, Dec. 2—Shoes, men’s clothing and other merchandise to the estimated value of $2,000 were hauled away in a truck by bandits who broke into Porter & Glenns, gen- eral store at Dahlgren, east of here early today. RAID ON WINE PARTY AT WEDDING. FEAST IS NOT SAGRILEGIOUS NEW YORK, Dec, 2—Jesus Christ raided at his wine party at the Cana of Galilee wedding feast; raid- ed by William . Jennings Bryan, Andrew J. Volstead and William -H. ‘Anderson, with ; Voistead’s hand clapped. arrestingly on Christ’s shoulder. This audacious picture, hung. in the Waldorf-Astoria at the society for ii ident artists’ ex-: hibition, roused the wrath of a right- eous policeman and led to a $100 fine of Abraham S. Baylinson, sec- retary of the artiste’ society. The higher courts have now returned ‘the fine. 5 dnesday, December 3, 1924 RUHR OCCUPIED BY WALL STREET DOLLAR | BRIGADE Labor Bileowns Are Now Morgan’s Collectors PARIS, Dec. 1.— The Ruhr is\no longer occupied by a French army; it is now operated by the dollar army of Wall Street. The Dawes plan has taken the place of the French occupa tion. The Belgian. and French profits from the Ruhr occupation during thet eritical and stormy. period was only $150,000,000. The Dawes plan removed the irritations caused by the .Poin care method of making Germany pay, and substituted a system whereby the German workers are made to pay the reparations to the allies, with the sanction of the socialists, the petty bourgeoisie and the big capitalists in the best American fashion. The labor leaders are now the Simon Tesroms of the American bankers. The Ruhr railways, considered the most perfect railway system in the world, were not turned over to their German owners with other industries: Instead they were turned over tothe company organized under the provi sions of the Dawes plan for ‘their operation. The profit from - their operation will go to the reparations fund. Bankers Meet with Coolidge. William E. Knox, president of: the WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2. American Bankers Assn., announces that the winter meeting of the admin- istrative committee of the bankers will take place in the national capital Dee, 11 and 12, and that “arrangements are being made” for the committee to call on President Coolidge, Secretary Mét* lon, the comptroller of the currency, the governor of the federal reserva board and the chairman of the banking and currency committees in the house and senate, “In some cases,” he confesses, “con- ferences will be held to discuss, pat ticular subjects in which the bankers are especially interested.” . og Sawdust Catches Fire. 3 ROCK ISLAND, IIL, Dec, 2.—Spon- taneous combustion in the sawdust stack today was held responsible for the explosion in the boiler room of the Rock Island Sash and Door company which yesterday caused serious .in- juries to Osborne Bateman, engineer and Thomas Armstrong, watchman, and did damage estimated at $200,000. The plant is the largest of its kind in the world. ‘Americanization’ and the Open Shop By SAMUEL SKLAROFF. UBLIC schools are popularly sup- posed to occupy a neutral ground in the disputes between labor and capital. Maintained as they are, so goes the legend, by taxation levied on all classes of the population, they rep- resent no particular class interest. Their function, so we are told, is to offer equal opportunities for educa- tion to rich and poor alike. Democracy Is Delusion. The trouble with our so-called demo- cratic education, however, is that like all capitalist democracy it is, as far as the working class is concerned, only a delusion and a snare. Not- withstanding all professions of impar- tiality, the virus of capitalist propa- ganda is subtly and insidiously® in- jected into the minds of the children of the working class. It is common knowledge that no teacher suspected of “radical ideas,” if only of a pale pink hue, can hold his or her position very long. The schools are honeycombed with spies and stoolpigeons whose business it is to ferret out and report the ihstructor whose highest crime may be an ex- pression of sympathy for the strug gles of organized labor. On the other hand, the teacher who fawns an¢ cringes before men of great wealth and holds them up as shining ex amples of success for the worship anc emulation of his class, is ured not only of a permanent position but of favor and advancement as well. “Americanizing” the Immigrant. Within recent years this capitalist propaganda has taken a bold and new departure. Looking upon the tide of immigration flowing into this coun. try, it has occurred to some “educa tors” to utilize the need’of the alien for the study of the new language for the purposes of “Americanization.” Startling and incredible as it may seem to American trade unionists, there is, nevertheless, abundant evi- dence, some of which shall be pres- ently submitted, that. of aliens in hundreds of public schools are being taught that the union shor is un-American and that the open sho; represents the “American idea of freedom.” How Propaganda Is Put Over. This training for prospective strike- breaking is carried out only by word of mouth, but also by printed page, in primers and readers for for eigners. At the foot of each reading lesson there are se8 in tended to drive ie hohe waa “The Strike,” word study the vicious anti-labor con- tents of the preceding lession. Probably the most widely used reader of this kind is published by Charles Scribners’ Sons’ and bears the following caption: “Second Book in English for Coming Citizens’— By Henry H. Goldberger, principal. of public school 18, New York City, in- structor in methods of teaching Eng- lish to foreigners, Columbia Univers- ity. This book deals in simple language with the supposed experiences of a foreigner, Anton Bodnar, in this coun. | ' try. In the course of his struggles Anton gets a job in a cigar factory. Here, we learn, conditions are ideal for the workers. To quote from chap- ter xxiii entitled “Trouble in the Fac- tory,” it is admitted that “they had not much to complain of; that the rates of pay were as high as anywhere in the country; that the working con- ditions in the factory were excellent.” But union agitators penetrate this ideal workshop, the men organize and then go out on strike apparently for no reason whatever. ’ Here’s Where Juniors Will Get Busy. The two succeeding chapters are entitled “The Test,” and “The Strike,” and give a typically employ- ers’ point of “labor trouble.” In chapter xxxiii, Anton’s reactions at his first union meeting while listen- ing to the various speakers are de- scribed as follows: “He felt, however, that there was something wrong with the proposition that workingmen should dictate to the employer; should tell him whom he may hire and whom | the he may not hire. He wondered i* the union worked on the American prin- ciple of freedom. Does the union al- low the employer the same freedom of action that the worker asks for himself? These were difficult ques- tions for him, and as yet he Hae thot little about them.” At the bottom of this lesson of the questions are: “What is a closed shop? An open shop? Why did) Anton join the union? Do you. think | 5 he was right?” Should dered Anton in one of these 'Ameri- canization” classes, beset with doubts, request the help of the teacher in answering these “difficult question: the teacher will supply the “proper” answer, or lose his job. The next chapter describes the fan- tastic generosity of the management of the Bravura Cigar company, { Why Does A. F, of L. Tolerate This? The first two ae in chapter hewal thet cuarehie “The strike was on. for employment in other cigar factor- jes, but found nothing.” and following his shop-mates strike. Editor’s Note.—Every day until publication has been completed, the DAILY WORKER will publish a new chapter from the book, “Len- in: The Great Strategist of the Class War,” by A. Losovsky, secre- tary .of the Red International of Labor Unions. The fifteenth chap- ter is entitled, “The Proletarian State and the Communist Party.” oe ENIN had a perfect conception of the nature of, democracy and of the state. He restated, the Marxian position regarding,the nature of the state and its role in the class strug- gle. As against the bourgeois demo- cratic state, he’ placed the Soviet state as the concrete form of the proletarian brag And ‘he also defined position of the Soviet state in the development of the social revolution. Byery state, including the Soviet state, ig the weapon of a definite class. The state as ‘ig an organ of oppression of one class by the other. definition 4g contained: the idea of the transitory, natureof the state from a historic point of. view, By the aboli- tion of classes and the class struggle, the state will disappear, but as a re- sult of many years of his' de- vel Asa result of one the conception of To’ bring about the ré there are no classes in situation wi ‘of the be class, because it is only by means of such a dictatorship that we can break the resistance of the classes that are opposed to the riat. ‘Lenin also knew that the establishment of the proletarian power is impossible with- out a violent ‘tevolutton, and’ that the maintenance ¢ Pomibe's. Powerit Anton looked And so he paid the penalty for joining the union in a The story of the strike is ridicu- lously absurd... Pickets are represent- ed as stationing themgelves at fac- tory doors and preventing all and sundry from entering the building, for which offense the judge in the court- THE PROLETARIAN STATE AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY room magnanimously fines the arreat- ed picket “one dollar!” How long will organized labor tot erate this vicious propaganda con- ducted by the enemy in the guise of public education? There are many such text-books in thousands of schools all over the country by means of which the capitalist oligarchy which rules “our free country” are attempting to raise a generation of scabs and willing slaves. Ms om less suppression of the on classes. But the state is not an abstract cate. gory. The proleta ape creates the state in a form which is most advantageous. to itself. Such a form is the So’ system of state, for it best unites the: workers for management of the eco- nomic and political affairs of the ae try. Consequently the Soviet s; Xu is the best form of the fisttertiide i tatorship and the Soviets are the adapted fighting organs of the ing class, How does the working ce! i its dictatorship? Naturally, thru Soviets. And how do the Soviets ize their dicfatorship? Thru sj organs created by themselves. T opponents of Communism criticized Lenin for the fact that he p! sign of equation between the dicti ship of the class and the dictato of the party. They said: “The torship of the class is one thi the dictatorship of the party lirely different pro; In this, vanguard, and since the, Party of Russia is the vanguard | this party exercises the power of proletarian rule.” This theory had put into effect. And it is not 4 abstract theory, but’a living reality, the gigantic workshop called’ §o' Russia were forged the new forms of working -class power, new methods of struggle for its lib tion. Lenin always went ahead, ing the path, casting aside all dices and throwing a mighty light of Marxism upon the com problems of the social and struggles, Cae Femntcowr amavis of