The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER.” which is led by the Communists, be stamped Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER n Bivd. Chicago, Hllnoi: $$ 1113 W. Washi J, LOUIS WILLIAM F. DU? MORITZ J. LOEB. fntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the-act of March 3, 1879. <> 290 Advertising rates on application The Spectre Takes Form The clear division in the world between capital- ism and Communism is clearer today than ever be- sasseersernerseres DGItORS .Business Manager fore. Seventy-five years ago Karl Marx wrote: ‘A spec s haunting Europe, the spectre of That spectre took on form and flesh when the Russian revolution reared its head in 1917 and in spite of the desperate efforts of world capitalism to lay the ghost, it stands today behind every cabinet table and the ministers of capitalist gov- ernments can see and talk of nothing else. Great Britain, altho menaced more than éver by France, her ancient enemy, sends Austin Cham- berlain to plead with Herriot for a truce that will allow the marshalling of the weakened capitalist forces of both nations against the revolutionary working class to whom Communism is not a dreaded spectre but a messenger of hope and _vic- torious struggle. The French press notes with satisfaction that Chamberlain’s note to Herriot contains the phrase “entente cordiale,” used for the first time in years and, according to the New York Times, says that what Great Britain wants is “Western European and especially French solidarity with her against Bolshevism.” Continuing, the Times says, Chamberlain-Herriot conference: speaking of the In this short conversation there was, therefore, discussed for the first time the real post-war divi- sion of the world, from which the perpendicular tines of the nationalists have in some part dis- appeared and given way to the horizontal line which divides Bolshevism from organized civiliza- tion, The correspondent of the Times slips a little here. It is just because, if we may be allowed to emulate the Irish orator, that “organized civiliza- tion” is not organized that the world’s working class under the leadership of the Communist In- ternational, is compelled to bring order out of capi- talist chaos. The outstanding feature of European capitalism today, the feature on which all ob- Servers are agreed, is its demoralized character, its utter and increasing instability, its failure to re- cover from the death blow dealt it during the in- ternecine struggles of the world war. yen the Dawes plan—the extension of Ameri- can imperialist control of European government, finance and industry—has not served to banish the spectre of Communism and this sacrifice of the independence of the European powers has merely increased the disillusionment of the European workers. They might be seduced by nationalist phrasés and induced to work for a national capitalism be- ause of the influence of tradition and the rem- nants of patriotism, but to be enslaved to America, the richest capitalist nation in the world, is quite different. Before they will submit to this they must be conquered again by their own capitalists. The working class of Europe is in revolt and this revolt gains impetus every day because the work- ers prefer revolution in which they have a fighting chance to submission to slavery for generations to ome. The strength of the revolutionary movement in each country is proportional to the strength of the Communist Party, so it is against the Communist parties and the Communist International that ‘the new “entente cordiale” will direct its offensive. This again intensifies the internal crisis’ and arouses the revolutionary masses. ae The extension of this policy can end only in war on Soviet Russia, whose government endorses | to lift the charters of the I the Communist International, workers and peasants and therefore a source of out. | Thus the, world divides more sharply than ever into two. classes—the capitalists who will profit from the Dawes plan and the working class |who suffer from it. Is this not a clear illustration lof the conflicts within capitalism that forces it to | draw closer the battle lines and intensify the class struggle at a tme when it needs as never before the | unthinking loyalty of the class it exploits? Then there are the national rivalries which will |not down and which prevent any such absolute unity. of world capitalism as that implied in the “entente cordiale.” ‘Unity against Bolshevism means war, war for territories now acknowledging the rule of the workers’ and peasants’ government of Soviet Russia.’ The question’ ofthe division of | the loot must first be settled by the bandit chiefs jand this question they cannot settle. It is this |question that appears to issue always from the shadowy mouth of the red’ spectre and the capital- ist rulers go crazy trying to find the answer. There is no answer except that given by the Com- munist International, “Revolution!” : It is here in the United States that the only really powerful counter-revolutionary force in the world lives. Here are the billions of wealth and the millions of backward Wworkers—the finances and the cannon fodder for war on the European working class, and it is here, therefore, that the most telling blows must be dealt this new con- spiracy against the world’s workers, against the] Communist International and against the workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia. Every string that moves thé ministerial puppets of Europe has its end in Wall Street. Morgan, the puppets’ master, also jerks the strings controlling the American variety in the White House and American capitalism prepares—first, to crush the world revolution and second, to crush its capitalist rivals. The Communist Party of America has the big- gest job of all. anne READ THE DAILY WORKER “And the Scabbard Is Thrown Away!” The birth of a new and powerful alliance, a real united front of expléited masses, is heralded in the ahnotincement‘of the organization of the Pan- American ‘Anti-Impérialist League with head- quarters at Mexico City. This organization, born of the resistance by revo- lutionary workers of ALL America, to the savage imperialism of the capitalist government ‘of the United States—the “colossus of the north,” as it is termed by the Latin-Americans—bids fair to give unflinching battle to the infamous class collabora- tion schemes of Gompers and Morones and their satellites in North, Central and South America. The manifesto signed by this organization is signed as well by the Workers (Communist) Party of America, the Trade Union Educational League and the Communist Party of Mexico. These are strong and determined forces to open the struggle altho they face a foe ‘whose power is beyond ‘theirs at present. ‘ But the forces of history are on the side of the soldiers Of labor: ‘The Workers of the entire western hemisphere are arousing, slowly but certainly, the challenge to western imperialism is made, “The | night is gone, the sword is drawn and the scabbard is thrown away!” Down with imperialism !’ Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. The Miners’ Election The members of the United Mine Workers of America, thruout the jurisdiction of that organ- ization are voting today on the election of national and district officers for the next two years. This DETAILED STORY OF BRAZILIAN MUTINY WHEN CREW SAILED OFF WITH $5,000,000 BATTLESHIP (Shecial to The Daily Worker) RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Dec. 8.—With the most powerful battieship of South. America stolen by thitineers and taken to sea, the government’s most strict censorship cahnot prevent the writer from getting to the outside world what little the peoplé of ‘this South American metropolis knows of the most remarkable exploit in Brazilian history, now ended by the ship’s internment in the foreign port of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Extreme discontent against the government exists in the Brazilian navy. On Dec. 4, two of the great battleships of Brazil, the Sao Paulo and the Minas Geras, were lying in the Rio De+ Janeiro harbor, After long negotia- tions with the higher officers .who, re- fused their demands, the crew and petty officers of the Sao Paulo, led by five young second-lieutenants not yet out of their teens, seized their officers and put them ashore. Raise Red Flag. They raised the: red flag over the ship and declared their intention of joining the revolutionary party. The marine commander, Senor Alexandr- ino de Alexncar, under» white flag, boarded the ship and argued all night with the mutineers to no effect. When he finally left. they, cleared decks for action and slipped her cable ready for the sea. By rumor the news of the mutiny | had spread like wildfire and the docks and wharfs around the harbor | were black with people at dawn. The Minas Geras Would Not Fire. The Sao Paulo sent a demand to the crew of the Minas Geras to join her) in the mutiny. Byidently the offi- cers prevented seizure of the Minas Geras, altho they could. not force her crew to open fire.on the Sao Paulo, which, flaunting the.red flag at the masthead, began steaming down the harbor after sending a couple of shells into the naval prison on the harbor hills and demolishing it while the prison guards ran for their lives. The President Was Elsewhere. Not taking any chances, the Sao Paulo kept her guns trained on the Minas Geras while she stopped for an hour just off the palace of the Brazil- ian president on the Praia Flamengo Apparently learning that the president was not at home that morning, and not wishing to waste ammunition on 2 perfectly good but empty palace, the Sao Paulo went down the harbor. Fort Gunners Had Bad Eyes. Here it came under the guns of the forts covering the harbor entrance one of the best fortified harbors in Sonth America. She was subject to a few shots from some of the lesser forts and replied with one or two shots. Then she réaéhed the harbor mouth and came under the great guns of Fort ‘Copacaban. Strangely enough, it appeared the gunners of the fort i shooting wide of the mark. By 12:30 in the afternoon the Sao Paulo, seemingly without injury and with full steam up was out to sea and turned southward. She is a battleshir worth $5,000,000, fully armed and equipped with coal and supplies for a voyage of 5,000 miles. Altho some of the crew wished to take the ship to Soviet Russia, the nationalist senti- ment prevailed, so after a futile voy- age which was, however, a demonstra tion of what could be done, the ship was voluntarily interned at Buenos Aires, Newark Bakers. NEWARK, N. J.—Bvery Italian baker in Newark recognizes the Am- algamated Food Workers’ union loca) No. 11 after the union workers’ four months’ fight for organization of the town. The local union has full juris- diction over all Italian bakeries in the district now. PATERSON STRIKERS election is of the greatest importance to every coal digger in the United States. ee It is a damning indictment of John L. Lewis, and his administration that while the ballots are being cast ten locals in the anthracite coal fields are disfranchised by that autocrat’s orders, be- cause the members dared to strike against the coal companies that violated their agreements. The czar of the miners’ union seized upon this pretext ls knowing that the is a government of | sentiment there was strongly ‘against him. The incident. in the anthracite field could be world This is what the Times correspondent|to Kansas and from Alberta, Canada, to Wilkes- veri) to revolutionary workers thruout the| multiplied one thousand fold. From Nova Scotia m by “the horizontal line which divides Bol-| barre, Pa,, this labor faker has left his trail of shevism from organized civilization.” treachery. Lewis and his administration, including Great Britain is the backer of this policy of ag-|his machine in every district should be driven from gression. She is the great colonial nation and in| office and the progressive slate elected. every one of her Asiatic and African colonies there] Not until the United Mine Workers of America are powerful movements for national independence and the entire trade union movement are under which the Communists encourage while at the same|Communist leadership and the! tools of the em- time organizing the working class for. the social ployers who now rule them are ousted, will these revolution. This is the historic policy of Lenin and organizations become effective instruments to fight the new “entente cordiale” is the best tribute to| for the workers’ interests. its revolutionary effectiveness. France, too, is a great colonial nation and likewise feels the pres: sure of the national revolitionary movements, These two national capitalisms cannot live with- Today the coal miners have an important duty to perform. They should: yote for the progressive slate and solidify their forces for the next drive against the entrenched agents of the coal operators out the tribute squeezed from the colonial peoples| who now crucify them. The battle cannot be won and the Soviet government, with its practical, not| ina day, but victory is theirs just as soon as they paper, policy of self-determination is to France and | make a real and determined effort to win. England the personification of the foree that threaten to disintegrate their empires. Neither nation dares now. challenge the United States in a battle for world supremacy. They ‘are forced to accept the Dawes plan and forced to comply with the demands of the efficient American ferously by imperalists that the European opposition to the| doing business in the same old way. Progressive workers in every industry in ‘the United States are today watching the action of the most militant section of the American proletariat. The Chicago gunmen, altho denounced voci- the mayor and district attorney, are oaeael bee CAN NOW TAKE GARE OF THEIR MEMBERS After four months of strike, the Paterson, N. J. silk workers, thru their strike committee, make the following statement relative to the collection of funds raised by out- side organizations for their sup- Port: aa The results of the appeal issued by the strike committee to support the Paterson strikers sin their strug: gle for better conditions surpassed all its expectations. * This is sufficient evidence that, » despite the attacks by certain news- Papers and so-called fabor lea to the effect that the strike was an outlawed one, the workers thruout the country, and particularly from New York, recognized the cause of the silk workers of Paterson as a just one, ee However, at this time, we are jus- tified in mi 9 the statement that the strike has reached the stage where we will be able, with the funds on hand and the money be- ing raised by our membership, to take care of those who are Jn need if 4 me opportunit: + en W take thi all individuals, organi committees who have assiited’ in the raising of funds. = lay, so that an ceipts and expenses ted. The Strike Commit Silk W , “Ered Hoelscher, Tuesday, December 9, 1924 Hl CHICAGO WhtL RE HELD BY Y, W. L. BES. 13. One .of the most unique affair: $ France to Enter New Naval and Air ‘Armament Race (Special to’ The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, Dec. 8.—France’s new naval program calls for the build- Which, inx-olng.itd bec held:iby: the ing of over half a billion dollars worth of battleships, and the entire recon-| Young Workers —_ ( Communist ) struction of thénayy, a8 outlined by | Leag¥e of Chicago will be a factory, the chamber of deputies commission, | 44"¢¢ on Dec. 13. HH Particular attention will be given to To this dance the young workersit} strengthening the Mediterranean hid vie coat pees, houses will be ite fleet, in order to compete with the| Vited- Special attention will be Italian fleet which is at present sup-| 9/ven to these young workers, Se cieties. NEW YORK—The next war of the United States had its day before the annual meeting of the American 80- ciety of mechanical engineering so- Dwight F. Davis outlined to the tech- nical men the vast quartermaster stores needed to maintain a modern army and spoke of the enormous tasks of industry, and the engineers’ impor. tant relation to it, in war time. Subscribe for “Your the DAILY WORKER. . In iti thi. erior to the French ships in the Med- rudd Bs # donee oie ete 3 Known as a moonlite snowball. iterranean. Air service will be de- is . | Moonlites and snowballs will be the veloped to keep ‘pace with’ American } order of the day air service development. > j Ti 4 ickets are 25 cents. The reconstruction of the navy will he Ohet will be held at North take twenty years to complete accord-| North and Wester pit ona ing to the plan. the auspices of the Young Workers League of Chicago. Planning for War. Assistant Secretary of War Hungry Woman Fined. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Mary Bohm, 24 years old with four children and a sick husband whaq. had been unemployed for four months, took a bag of buns and a bottle of milk from a hallway and was arrested when the spying bakery deliveryman called police. MADISON, Wis., Dec. 8. — Perma nent organization of the Wisconsin Conference for Progressive Political Action will be undertaken at a meets ing of the body in Madison late in December after the national executive. committee has met in Washington. Daily,” PEMA TERETE The American, Tobacco Company fed the yellow press $2,000,000 worth of advertising last year. And what a smoke screen the yellows made with this! Standard Oil was about as generous in lubricating dailies that chirp for it. The Calumet Baking Powder Company raised the hopes of the. yellow press for dividends by an addition. of $1,500,000 to income. The United-States Rubber: Company stretched this by slinging in an equal amount. 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