The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, I. (Phone: Monroe 4712) memes SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50...6 months — $2.50....8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Illinois g. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUN MORITZ J. LOEB... Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. << 200. Advertising rates on application Gompers Is Dead—The Revolution Lives ®amuel Gompers has gone and no matter what temporary arrangements are made to keep peace in the official family of the American Federation of Labor, there will ensue a bitter struggle for the throne he occupied so long. Forty-five years of. experience in the game of in- ternal trade union politics, forty-five years of play- ing one union against another. in jurisdictional disputes, forty-five years of dividing the support of political opponents and mustering a majority for his machine at every convention, made Gompers an artist of rare skill in this field, He played on the ambitions, prejudices and pas- sions of the lower. strata of. officialdom like a violinist plays.on his. strings. He was far abler and much better informed than any of his im- mediate associates and he was regarded by many an ignorant international union. official with al- most superstitious awe. He dominated the American. Federation of Labor and it bears his mark today. He made no pretense of leading the labor movement, but fought always for the fetishes of craft and calling, was against industrial unionism, working class political. action, against anything that smacked of criticism of American capitalism, acted always on the theory that employers and workers were parts of a happy family and that bad conditions were due to bad employers—not to a bad social system. He delivered the labor movement to the House of Morgan in 1917. He waged’ war on every work- ing class foe of imperialism, was the most bitter and outspoken enemy of Soviet Russia in America and crowned his labors, a few days before his death by handing over the Mexican labor move- ment, tied hand and foot, to American imperialism. He fought against the socialist party before it betrayed the working class during and after the World war, and when the Workers (Communist) Party became the revolutionary vanguard in the United States, he formed a united front with every agency of capitalism against it. The capitalist, yellow socialist and reactionary labor press will mourn Gompers. They will praise his leadership, his strategy and his organizing ability, but the record of history can be read by all and it says in unmistakable terms that Samuel Gompers left the American labor movement weaker, in proportion to the strength of, the capitalist class, than it was when he came upon the scene. .-He left the American Federation of Labor an organization that has forgotten how to fight and that glories in its subservience to American capitalism at-home and prides itself on the aid given by it in sub- jugating workers of other nations. The record of the El Paso ¢onvention of the American Federation of. Labor—its endorsement of military training camps, its request for more battleships, its plea for official representatives in the war department, its enunciation of the Monroe doctrine in accordance, with the imperialist policies of the Coolidge-Morgan-Dawes government, its be- trayal of the Mexican workers—is the epitaph of Samuel Gompers.: 2 He lived a servant of American capitalism and he died as such. The labor, bureaucrats have lost their leader and American capitalism an efficient ally. The Workers (Communist) Party of America and the Trade Union Educational League liye and will carry on the same. struggle to win the masses for the revolution that they waged before Gom- pers’ death and which served to show to hundreds of thousands of workers the true character of Gompers as the mouthpiece of capitalist reaction in the ranks of labor. His successor cannot fool for long the workers into following the bloody trail that Gompers blazed for them—the trail that leads straight to death on imperialisin’s battlefields. Social-Democracy “Victorious” The German social-democrats announce triumph- antly that the recent elections were a victory for the Dawes plan. If there is any shame left in the Bergers and Hiliquits they will be as outspoken as their Deutschland kindred and admit that the socialist party—what part LaFollette did not swallow—is as Comrade Zinoviey so aptly phrased it, “the third party of the bourgeoisie.” Perhaps in the light of the sturdy work of the social democracy for the slave plan of American imperialism this phrase should be revised and the social-democracy given first place in the list of capitalism’s supporters. ‘Its boast of the victory of the Dawes plan in the German elections entitles it to promotion, when added to its murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa | “Czarina’”’ Becomes * ° The Communists and Child Labor NORTHERN WT The census report of 1920 showed that only 43 per cent of the farm boys and girls of high school : age were enrolled in school. More than half of all the farm children are not obtaining the educa- tional advantages which our schools are theoretic- ally supposed to offer to all. Many of them remain at home because they are unable to carry high school work, but the greater portion of them, are at home because they have to work or because of a financial handicap. bess —J. E. Hill, state supervisor of Vocational Education in Illinois, in a speech befére Tho Unemployed They the Society for Vocational Education, : ee 7 Besambai it: Bay Policies i pyres be re amph oeene tay ss hey essen (Special to The Daily Worker) e rmers’ children e 9 eric’ rs state of [llinoi iver * Be i nigh ape cask CLEVELAND, 0;, Dec. 11.— bi x 4 Ke given Y an expert in close touch Many Workers Party branches Ms h the situation. It is complete proof of ‘the in northern Ohio have already statement contained in the manifeso of the Wor-| oversubscribed their quota for kers (Communist) Party of America on child la-|the fund to insure the DAILY bor, that any method proposed to destroy this eyil] WORKER for next year, in spite which does not provide for maintenance of school|0f widespread unemployment in children by the government, is meaningless and in-|,this section. * effective. At a meeting of the Cleveland Illinois is an old and rich agrarian district. The Sy Sela Come ent state is covered with a network of public sch DEYN ORES See ee ae 7 ea a network of public schools} ¢q that the sales of the insur- hat are as good as any under capitalism. Trans-| ance policies are in full swing. portation is excellent, yet but 43 per cent: of the Many of the Cleveland branches eligible high school youth were enrolled. have promised to subscribe an Why? The state supervisor, certainly no friend | average of five dollars per mem- of Communism, states plainly that poverty of the! ber: parents necessitating the employment of the chil- pitts cpt ae ele Lr fs is a. sn ey 4 ‘i arren, io, an interesting dis dren: Parca paeit reason. And now we come UPON) cussion took place at the DAILY one of e worst effects of child labor i. e. its de-| worKER membership meeting. The vastating inroads on wages and conditions of ia-| Finnish branch will try its utmost tc bor. The father of a family, if his children ean] ‘sise its quota in spite of much znem find jobs, can be forced by the bos picyment. among the: Aue, | The Grantic reductions in his wa e ae z po South ‘Slavic: Praneh: sae re P : X ges and as for large nearly raised its quota. , sections of the farming population they live only] In Ashtabula and Conneaut there is, by intensive exploitation of the labor of their own | also much unemployment. Some mem flesh and blood, bers have not worked for six months i Lt cE In spite of this the sale of policies 4 united front of all working class organizations to build the DAILY WORKER is or for the government maintenance of all children of |and many bought five and ten dollar school age is the only method of combatting an| Policies at the meeting. evil. that not only condemns children :to lives: of| The wemployed ae Numatins slavery but that al rings i upon all higher paid Finnish building livin ilk th em: abit 2 the standard of laborers and others in the east to buy ig e whole working class. five and ten dollar: policies to. assure the full Finnish Federation ‘quota. | | Acclimatized to | 5 | ert * Sse Crbeiow American Hot Air * 45 4 NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—The “Grand oe , | Duchess” Victoria Fedorovna, form- |) j2rly of Russia, wife of the Russian |grand duke Cyril, who claims to be TP |“Czar of all the Russians,” has been Rebukes Cop for Killing occupying her royal time in the United A coroner’ jury reprimanded former Traffic Police-| States attempting to solve ¢ross-word man John MoGuire yesterday for killing Chester|PU2zles. The “Czarina,” seems not a Mizulowski, 20, of 4227 South Richmond street, who| it embarrassed by the fact that her “subjects” are a handful of disgrunt was shaking dice. McGuire has resigned from the led monarchists: who fed 4ér-theh pollce force—News Item in Chicago Tribune, lives to Paris in mortal fear of being Policeman McGuire was probably actuated by|PUt to work by = bee: 3 i ‘a fico A sas * The “Czarina” has extent r ea gs of pate indignation when he resigned. “kingdom” to the hand-kissing follow- © be reprima: for the killing of a forvign-born| ors of extinct Russian imperialism in worker who was undermining the Anglo-Saxon | New York, including the American so- civilization by shaking dice, is too much for any|ciety people and industrial monarchs self-respecting bluecoat in this land of freedom, __ | WB0 are afraid of being buried as deep The increasing domination of South American nations by American imperialism is shown in recent dispatches from Brazil which state that that country will await action by the United States before proceeding further with negotiations for recognition of and a treaty with Soviet Russia. The American army officers who are training AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) | and luxuries to boot. The duchess was received in the metropolis with | }] kissing of hands by the male flunkies, the Brazilian forces for war on Argentine are ap-| and curtsies by the women. She was parent], i i iviti referred to as “Your Highness” by. the Si et their activities: to Europe: es jaded parasites of Fifth Avenue who 2 attended the ball in Sherry’s in honor. of the czarist female. The writer once Watch the capitalist press, see how it will play puch turd pe So i-4 “who haa " ; comfortably for several years on the up the working class traitor Gompers. _Last week moneyed ‘aristocracy, from aie Bask they had a picture of Debs too, with a nice friendly Bay in Boston to the fashionable sec- little note. Usually the photo section is filled with| tions of New York, on his title and | pictures of kings and murderers, bandits and whole | "is kilts. A grand duchess should not worry about the economic conditions strings of social parasites, with royalty always ik doniion as long as the American played up strong. And this is the greatest “dem-| workers are willing <3 be slaves. ocracy” on earth. se 8 UR old friend, J. A. Lochray, edi- * Py . tor of the Mid-West News and That the division line of society cuts thru racial one of he gntuusieaie for a farmer- groups and follows class interests, is seen ‘by the] \abor party when such a proposition way the American capitalists can get the Mexican | was popular among the masses, does president, Calles, to lick their boots, while Gom:|"° Seem to have prospered much pers joined with other labor fakers of the Mexi- Syiith “Wirdt “casen rch Gn GaNEN its can race, joins hands with both Calles and Hughes | farmerlabor party. Next he sup- to fight the Communists. ported LaFollette, perhaps a little, fe but he damaged his virtue neverthe- less.. Then he came into Chicago and If anyone asks who the “reds” are today, let him| oftered to peddle himself for cash. look at those the capitalist press attack. ‘The | He was willing to be sold to any or- anarchists are non-existent, the socialists are |%#nization. ane 0: P; tao Sie oom ee dead, even the I. W. W. has become harmless, and| ¥08 0m the hoot. He immediately 4 ? declared for Coolidge, and opened fire only the Communists are the center of hostility. |on La¥ollette, branding the latter as That’s because they are alive. a radical, tho Lochray, a few weeks prior to his sale on the Chicago mar- ket, put LaFollette down as a reac- tionary. French imperialism raided a school in Paris where Communists taught natives of Tunis, Mo- bien rocco and Syria how to organize their fellows to|"[ HE latest copy of Lochray's paper overthrow French rule. The Communists are the to reach us is reduced/in size and only group which makes internationalism a thing carries the announcencnt that hence- of reality. . ; forth it will appear, monthly instead of weekly. It carries a front page ts story boosting the policies of the} The German social-democrats ate now engaged | bureaucrats of the Américan Federa- in going around with offers of cabinet johs to bea b fap ae nee eee fi fascist nationalists to trade off for support by| publishes a take “special” trom Chi. these monarchist elements ‘against the Communists] cago to the Mid-West News, denounc- in the reichstag. The more we see of social-| {8 the Workers Party man democrats the better we like dogs. Mas cprene Phage Pts: / 4 j ity will enable him to g {t is rather consoling to kno’ i _ | perfidy has not added to the sum total of bis material comfort, Next Sunday Night and Every Sun-| day Night, the Qpes Ferum, ! a Friday, December 12, 1924 (‘TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK CHICAG ilitary Plans Formulated to STORY OF THE WALL STREET BOMB, PLOT TO SLAY PRESIDENT WILSON Here you have it. This Is what they do to us whenever an opportunity arises. For ten days Chicago literally shook while it was being soaked, day after day, with this yellow filth, © ele: * 5 This yellow filth contained a bit of truth, of course. That’s what they hang their lies upon. That Chicago is a hotbed of red propaganda, true! That Communist are, from tip to toe, foér Soviet Russia, correct! But that we plotted to slay public officials; made bombs in either dunes or flats or any place; conspired to assassinate President Wilson—this is foolish fiction, ridiculous rot. ‘3 We had the DAILY Mi aad we eet covering their yellow with a bright coat of red. Upon large posters in our daly we told the workers that’ Communists were not to be found under beds or in dark alleys, or in the woods. eee Ge : 4 more We told Chicago that we were reeptibly located at 1113 West Washington Bivd., and that there wasn’t a “keep out” sign on or in the building. The same sun that shines on the Daily News and its brothers in the corrupt chorus of capitalism: also shines-en us. We told the workers that if they wanted to learn ALL about us, to read the DAILY WORKER daily and not the enemy press, the Daily News, Our only bombs are the. propaganda In the DAILY WORKER.’ And.this dynamite we do not intend softening one bit. With this dynamite we helped silence the Daily News. About a week, and the Daily News closed its columns to this yellow dope. It had discovered that it did not pay. BUT SUPPOSE WE HAD NOT HAD THE DAILY WORKER? Then what? Confronted with these questions is what compels us to make this campaign to INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925 a “must” campaign. We MUST make the DAILY WORKER safe so that it will always help us give battle in all our struggles with the yellows. ; , Do you seriously wish to. increase the effectiveness of the DAILY WORKER? Do you demand that It live and increase in power? Are you in earnest in this fight against world imperialism and that section of it that abides in this country? Are you with.us? You answer these questions in the affirmative today by a generous purchase of INSURANCE POLICIES. YOUR POLICY MUST BE TO BUY A POLICY SIGN AND SEND - ‘You are with us in this race to win the world. This ‘isa big job; ‘You know that bi johs can only be accom- plishe fA instruments. . 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