The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKE Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118. W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL (Phone; Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50..\.6. months $2.00...8 months By, mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 mionths $2.50....8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1313 W. Washington Blvd. 4. LOUIS, ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB.. Chicago, Ilinols [emenenemnennsnnn MHF -Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at tle Post: Office at Chicago, lll, under the act of March 3, 1879. 20 The LaFollette Labor Policy The publicly owned and very successful Canadian National railway is about to follow the example of the Baltimore and Ohio—which seems to be the most sensible of the privately-owned roads—and introduce the co-operative shop employes plan. The aboye quotation is the first paragraph of an editorial entitled “The B. and O. Plan,” published in the Milwaukee Leader of December 16. Readers will sense at once that the Leader is not hostile to the B. and O. plan nor to the ¢api- talist tools masquerading as labor leaders that are trying to put the plan over for the honor of glory and profit of the capitalists with some incidental pickings for themselves. The Leader goes on to say: ©. S. Beyer and William H. Johnston, who aided in the installation of the plan on the B. and O., have been consulted by the heads of the Canadian raod, and, have aided materially in getting things started. + This plan differs from the company union affairs, for, in this one, the regular unions are the ones that conduct the affairs of the workers. It is bona fide co-operation, not a blind to fool the public and the workers. The Leader then Cites some alleged benefits ‘for the workers, the major one of which is described as “recognition of the shop craft organizations as a constructive and helpful policy of the industry.” The “management”—a euphonious term for capi- talist coined by middle-class advisers of the work- ers—is also to derive some benefits, and these are listed as follows: Better quality of work and increased production— stable shop forces and improved morale—fewer grievances and misunderstandings—conservation of material and. ‘elimination of waste—new business secured thru employes and their organizatlons—good will of patrons and the public generally. This is the frankest and most shameless exposi- tion of the policy of class collaboration yet pub- lished and it is significant that it is the official or- gan of the Wisconsin socialist party, which is a strong supporter of LaFollette, that makes this brazen admission. The close connection of LaFol- lette, the socialist party and Willim H. Johnston, head of the» Machinists’: Union, chief supporter of LaFollette ‘ino the:trade-union movement and sponsor of the*infamous B. and O. plan, is so ob- vious as to need no further proof. Here we have a plain and easily understandable demonstration of the labor policy of the LaFollette movement endorsed by its three principal wings— LaFollette, the middle-class idol, Johnson, the class collaborationist spokesman and C. P. P. A. head, whose B, and O. plan was endorsed by Gompers, and the socialist party which furnishes a few class struggle phrases to give the noisome mess a work- ing class flavor. The praise lavished by The Leader upon the B. and O. plan—“this plan differs from the company union affairs, for, in this one, the regular labor unions are the,ones that conduct the affairs of the workers”—shows that its only objection, to com- pany unions is that the betrayal of the. workers Advertising rates on application | the instructions of the French ambassador, Sadoul is threatened with the firing squad, tho now a |citizen of the Soviet Republic and a member of |the Soviet embassy to Paris. Unless the French | workers deter Herriot, Sadoul will pay with his life for his devotion to the working class. In contradistinction to the campaign of terror carried on by the liberal Herriot against the Com- mgunists, we have his policy of forgiveness to Caillaux, Malvy and the pro-kaiser wing of the BS rench capitalist politicians during the war, who were arrested, indicted and conyicted by the anti- kaiser wing. Herriot fights for amnesty for the pro- kaiserites. It is jail for the friends of Soviet Rus- |sia and deportation for radicals. Poincare, capitalist tool, labelled reactionary, did not go so far in persecuting radical workers as Herriot, labelled progressive, did. Poincare could not get away with it so easily. ‘Herriot no more than MacDonald, will fail in ‘his efforts to win more favor in the eyes of big business by out- Heroding Herod. What is the difference between a liberal and a capitalist? They differ only in their methods. In periods of calm the liberals use honeyed phrases and uphold free speech and such things, but when capitalism is threatened by the workers, they act just. like the reactionaries. The Debt Controversy. It is becoming clearer every day that© France does not entertain the slightest’ notion’ of taking immediate steps to liquidate its gigantic debt to the United States. ‘This should cause’ np surprise to any’one. We have been told a good deal about the great relief that the Dawes plan was going to work for France. It has been our position all the time that the Dawes plan, it its attempt to solve certain capialist con- tradictions, has only produced new ones. We have maintained that the complicated problems arising out of the terrific war debts incurred are inex- tricably interwined with the difficulties in the path of the realization of the Dawes scheme. After considerable rumor about the ‘steps that the Frenech government was preparing» to take towards the refunding of the American debt we are at last told that “France must know how the Dawes plan is going to work before she can make definite promises.” This simply means that the French government is confessing its inability to meet the bill. If the French government could take even the most half- |hearted steps towards a debt agreement with the Washington government it would do so, because such efforts would enhance tremendously the standing of the franc and the world ‘financial prestige of the Herriot government. ‘Certainly the Herriot administration can ill afford not to en- deavor securing recuperation in this direction. All the efforts and negotiations in the direction of liquidating the French debt to Great Britain are only maneuvers by the debtor French government against the creditor governments of Great Britain and the United States. Imperialist France is trying to drive a better bargain andgain’ time in its refusal to pay the war debts by seeking terms with one creditor as against another. But vic- torious France is in no position economically to pay the costs of the war. ‘We wonder what would happen to the so-called moral fibres of our well-kept editors ‘of the em- ploying class press if a working class government would so arrogantly persist in not meeting “obli- gations duly contracted.” We recall the vehement attacks on the Soviet government’ merely because it did not declare its readiness and willingness to méet the debts incurred by the czar’s expenditures of pogroms and militarist reaction. Declined with Thanks Charles Evans Hughes, Morgan-Standard Oil- steel trust secretary of state, breathes his most is not accomplished by the “regular” labor leaders. This infringement on the jurisdiction of . the “regular” labor leader being overcome by the B and O. plan, The Leader, the socialist party, the LaFollette movement and its labor leaders, enthusiastically join in boosting it. One question: What is the difference between the LaFollette labor policy as disclosed’ inthe article quoted from The Milwaukee Leader and that of Rockefeller, Gary, Vauclain and other labor ex- loiters, except that labor officials are recognized honeyed phrases in greeting the appointment of a new Japanese ambassador to the United States. “Silent” Calvin Coolidge beeame articulate long enough to deprecate bellicose statements by rear admirals, so-called because of the aversion to Jift- ing their posteriors from the swivel chairs. These warlike gentlemen like the smell of ‘powder from the shoulders of society ladies. They ‘like to spit fire and drink fire water. Sometimes these morons are useful to the capitalists in fanning the flames as the logical persons by whom the interests ‘of [°f Public passion to a white heat. They are then the workers are sold to the capitalists?’ -*’ All workers who answer this question correctly |Pedalling its fighting vocabulary. will receive as a prize one of the “Back to 1776” campaign buttons of the LaFolletteites. - Justice in France unmuzzled. But just now, Wall Street is soft The two leading functionaries of Wall Street, Hughes and Coolidge, are speaking like Quakers. Japan is irritated and almost ina state of panic over the proposed naval maneuvers in ‘the Pacific. The suspected secret alliance between England and Those well intended political sapheads who|the United States does not add to the Mikado gov- hailed the defeat of Poincare by Herriot as a,vie-|ernment’s equanimity. In order to soothe the tory for progressivism, have an excellent oppor-|troubled mind of the Mikado, the United States tunity to analize thé difference between capitalist | government offered to send its fleet on a’ visit to liberalism and. its opposite in the light of Herriot’s|Tokio after participating in next year’s naval conduct sinee he became premier fo France; maneuvers at Hawaii. But the Japanese‘ govern- Herriot was. elected ona reform platform: One|ment declined the offer with thanks, Soft words of the principal planks in his platform was.recogni-|don’t butter parsnips or cause conflicting interests tion of Soviet’ Russia, He dodged the’ issues as|of the capitalist nations to vanish. long as he could, but was finally forced to take action by labor, by.those elements who are in- William Green, secretary of the United Mine terested in tradé with Russia and the small in-| Workers of America, successor to Gompers, is, as vestors who hope to get something out of the bil-| the capitalist press remarks with smug assiirance, lions loaned to the ‘czar thru direct negotiations|“a Baptist and a member of the Elks and Odd after recognition. Fellows.” But on the yery day that the Soviet ambassador} For anyone who knows the witch-burning char- arrived in Paris, Herriot ordered wholesale ar-|acter of the baptist church and the social quality rests of Communists. He removed the Communist | of the two fraternal orders mentioned, no further mayor of a French town because he was a strike |comment is needed. 100 per cent’ Aihericanism leader. He ordered the imprisonment of Jacques|in the A. F. of L. has another able champion. Sadoul, ex-F'rench naval officer, who was sentenced to death by court martial for having refused to] Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER enter into a conspiracy against Soviet Russia on and a member for the Workers Party. * ) wu p pz zm THE DAILY WORK Money (Editor’s Note—This is the first of a series of three articles by Comrade William F Kruze, director of Workers’ Movies. The second article will be “Movies in Politics” and the third, “Movies in Schools and Church.”) By WM. F. KRUSE. HILE the federal trade commis- sion is going thru the motions of “investigating” the “Motion Pic- ture Trust,” the movie magnates are tightening their hold on the industry and constantly boosting their capitali- zation as well as their profits. In the year 1924 new stock issues to the amount of $184,591,606 were announc- ed, the greater bulk being issued by film producers, the largest number of transactions by constantly enlarging theatre chains, During the nine month period end- ing Sept. 30, Famous Players-Lasky announced an income of $2,900,801, only slightly less than the same period in’ 1923. The Loew interests an- nounced their 1924 income from the- atres and rentals at $40,628,928 as against only $16,860,160 in 1923. Even “The Film Daily” is moved to | editorial comment on the personnel {of the directors of the new “Ritz Pic- ,tures Corp.,” which includes Frank Newman, of “Famous Players,” and Walter Hays, of “First National.” Can you see anyfhing in this inter- locking directors’ idea?” they ask. ‘No? Well, wake up. We see a lot.” Serious inroads have been made upon “United Artists,” the biggest of the “independents.” Harold Lloyd and D. W. Griffith have already sought shelter in the snug berths of the trust, and Charley Chaplin is said to be coralled at least so far as his next picture is concerned. Editor's Note—The following manifesto of the Communist Inter- national and the Communist Youth International, was issued nearly three weeks before the workers’ up- rising against ‘the farcical trial and assassinations mentioned therein. It gives in vivid outline the back- ground of the bitter class war rag- ing in Esthonia, this little satrapy of England, which has repeatedly been used as-a base of military op- erations against Soviet Russia. s*® To the Workers of all Countries! N a tortiire chamber, described as a court of justice, the white-guardist Esthonian government of speculators and robbers of state funds is wreak- ing its vengeance on a hundred and fifty brave and staunch representa- tives of the revolutionary workers of Esthonia. The bourgeoisie accuses them of treason, of preparing a revo- lutionary upheaval, of attempting to set up a workers’ and peasants’ gov- ernment in Esthonia. It has handed them over to a military court in order to expedite its revenge. The judges and prosecutors in Esthonia constitute a small band from the camp of inter. national fascism. It is not the first time that the Esthonian bourgeoisie has launched a blow at the class organizations of the Esthonian workers. There was the arrest of those who participated in the trade union congress in the year 1919; the shooting of 26 workers in Isborsk without any trial whatever the shooting, of the old Communist worker, Kingisepp, in the spring of 1922; the murdering of another Com- munist, Kreuks, in March 1923 in the open street by a member of the secret police; the persistent and systematic destruction of all class organization: of the workers, which was twice re- peated in the course of the last year— in January and August—; and finally, this trial of 150 revolutionary work- ers, who are threatened with shooting or imprisonment with hard labor. The bourgeois power in Esthonia has become bankrupt. Various groups of the bourgeoisie—big peasants speculators, social democrats—have succeeded one another in the adminis. tration of the country~-and all with the same result. Different groups of parasites, the speculators and embez- zlers of state funds, have ensiched themselves; but in the country, among the working masses and the peas- antry, among the city petty bourgeoir and intellectuals, there has only been an increase of misery, Factories havc been closed, unemployment has in creased, the state finances have ap- proached nearer and nearer to com plete bankruptcy. The promises of social reforms and of distribution of land among the peasantry, with which the Esthonian bourgeoisie began its rule, have not been caried out. They cannot be carried out because of the complete incapacity of the bourgeois power to promote any de velopment of economi¢ life. Little Esthonia, under the rule of the bour: 48 | geoisie, is condemned to be an insig nificant appendage of one or the other groups of world imperialists. The only way out for the worker and peasants of little Esthonia consists in the creation of a workers’ and peas ants’ government, based upon the class organizations and in close allianc with the international working class The alternative is: either workers’ and peasants’ power, or delivery over of the country to the internationa’ capitalists. ae tye Dourssoaie is already ER The federal investigators seem to be having eye trouble in locating the ‘Trust.” They profess to be fooled by the large number of names under which these closely interlocked com- panies masquerade. Yet a single in- stance of the control of the “first-run” theatres on Broadway, New York, where trade tradition demands every picture must go to establish its “market,” is enough to convince any- one except a government “investiga- tor.” The blatant sentimentality of the stage success, “Welcome, Stranger,” set it out as a “sure killer” in the film field, Instead of selling the story to the trust a group of “independents,” calling themselves “Belasco Produc tions, Inc.” made it into a film not much worse than the play. Since the stage original had run on Broadway successiully there was no reason why. the film should not do the same. Even aside from the good-sized earnings of these “first-runs” on Broadway, it is absolutely necessary that feature pictures make their debut here if they are to have standing in the trade. And the earnings are not small. It costs $14,000 a week to run the “Rialto,” the federal men were told by Hugo Riesenfeld, and about half of this goes for rental. The “Capitol” took in $70,468 in one week of “He, Who Gets Slapped,” and $67,958 for “Scaramouche.” These two films, which contain considerable appeal, should stand at ‘the head of the list. So every film producer wants a Broadway “first run.” He needs it in his business. But when Beiasco Pro- ductions came to Broadway no one said, “Welcome, Stranger.” Instead, it sounded something like, “Where do you fit?” It was necessary for the, backers of the film to advertise in the New York daily press that with two over Esthonia to subjection by Eng- lish capital. But in this attempt at betrayal of the interests of the mass of the population of Esthonia, the Ethonian bourgeoisie encounters the energetic resistance of the united class conscious Esthonian proletariat. And the bloc of all bourgeois and petty-bourgeois groups, eagerly sup- ported by the Esthonian social-democ- racy, has now decided to open the way to this treachery by means of crush- ing the organizations of the Esthon- ian working class, In January of this year there was tarried out simultaneously thruout the whole country, mass house-searchings and wholesale arrests of Communists. The Esthonian secret police broke into perfectly legal workers’ meetings and seized the victims they had marked down beforehand. All the ac- tive functionaries of the Esthonian trade union movement were victims of this attack, as well as the pioneers of the Esthonian working women. In other places-again, if was the staff of the workers’ educational organization: or finally, the members of the Esthon ian state assembly, who are legally immune from arrest. There are ten members of this assembly who are organized in two revolutionary work: Letters From Our Readers Gompers and the Mexicans. The other day, before Sam Gom- pers turned up his toes, we received his letter regarding the way the Mexicans seem to have been in} fluenced by Gompers. We assure the writer that the noise he heard of the Mexican “workers” acclaiming the old taker, was blicity. The Morones gang in M is like the Gompers gang in the U. 8S. A., they speak for ‘labor” which either isn’t class con- scious yet, or which hates their guts. These gangs only get away with it be- cause the revolutionary left wing in the unions either isn't born yet or is sleeping instead of fighting. The letter follows: “Morgantown, W. Va., Nov. 30. “Editor DAILY WORKER:—One of the strangest things and something I can’t understand is Gompers’ in- fluence over the Mexican working class after his betrayal of them into the hands of the American capitalists. “The price paid for recognition of the Mexican government by the United States, was the oil leases given on the terms of Doheney. The deal was en- gineered by Gompers, McAdoo and Hughes. How the Mexican working class can support Gompers for his aid to American capitalists is too much ‘or me. I just can’t understand it as the facts are so well known. “How he can make out that that deal was a benefit or advantage to the Mexican workers is beyond me. I can understand Obregon, Calles, Hughes, McAdoo and the other international crooks playing the game, but not bisa Mexican working class. “I may be wrong, but I feel ase Gompers is to find his Waterloo in Mexico, and his influence to corrupt the European working man gone for- ever.—Signed: Henry Donderey.” Define Your Terms, To the DAILY WORKER: Would it not be a good idea to set aside a particular column for defini- tiong and how to pronounce-words that are unfamiliar to young new Laie —_ vee! bye, sa exceptions “all big Broadway motion picture theatres are owned and oper- ated by the several largest film pro- ducing companies or affiliated with them, and, therefore, must exhibit ex- clusively the photoplays of their re- spective controlling corporations.” Out of the projected $75,000,000 pro- duction budget on the Pacific Coast, two companies, Famous Players and Metro-Goldwyn, admittedly will spend about half. Squeezing Out Little Fellow. But it is not alone in production that the trudtification process goes forward exactly as in other older in- dustries. The film industry's belated arrival upon the- field of economic de- velopment rushes it thru stage after stage in breathléss rapidity, jumping in a year the distance that the older industries crawled in a decade; Every issue of every trade paper carries news of the acquisition of chains of theatres by aggressive individual capi- talists, then ‘the merger of these chains into ever growing combines, the crushing .of competitors by the building of palatial new houses and the eventual gobbling up of all eco- nomically stable properties by the trust. The building programs running into many millions of dollars and conduct- ed in almost every part of the country must be interpreted as evidence of warfare within the trade rather than of general “prosperity.” The same trade paper that announces the build- ing of a two million dollar threatre in Chicago around the corner from two older movie: palaces, also contains a notice of the closing: down of eleven theatres in southern Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee, on account of “poor business,” and breathes a sigh of re- lief over the destruction of two the- atres in Superior, Wis., which will Against the Esthonian Hangmen | following this course of delivering ers’ fractions: in the fraction. of the Communists and in the fraction of th« labor party. The Esthonian ‘bourgeoisie particu. larly hates these members of parlia ment, as, following the example of the revolutionary workers’ fraction of the Tsarist duma, they ruthlessly exposed the robbers of the state’s funds, the acts of violence, and the betrayal o! the Esthonian “democracy” which i: being prepared: The immunity of the members of parliament was treated as a scrap of paper. All thé workers organizations. of the country have been dissolved. The proletariat is to be rendered silent. Bravely and resolutely the prison: ers of the Esthonian bourgeoisie are continuing their struggle within ‘the walls of the Esthonian torture-cham- bers. The -farce of the formal legal proceedings is converted by them into @ political trial. of the -bourgeoisie. They do not recognize this class court. Jan Tomp, a leader of the revolution. ary Esthonian workers, threw in the face of the hangmen the courageous declaration, that the proletariat will soon place the judges in the dock. For this “contempt of court” he was handed over to’a court martial and condemned to death. The bloody sen- tence has been carried out! fonday, December 22, 1924 in Movies for Big Capitalists seating.” In upstate New York two compani each have.twenty-five theaters, they combine and there are fifty. In St Louis, William Goldman, already own ing several theaters, buys half inter. est in a chain of fourteen more; a few days later, same’ city, Fred Wehren- berg, owner of two houses, building a third, lays down $200,000 for a chain of five more, Balaban and Katz, own- ing 60 theaters in Tltngis, invade the- Detriot field. The tremendous hold that a trait fied movie industry can exert on mass opinion is shown in the case’ of ‘New: = ark, N. Y., a town of less than seven thousand population, too small to’ sup: port @ daily paper, yet an up-state _ company operates a chain of three movie houses there. i Need Labor Movies, There is no space at’this time to discuss the use made by;the capita! class of its control of this peerless means of propaganda. A ruling class will always make maximum use of, all available means of publicity, and the American capitalists are astute enough to augment their powerful newspa- pers, college rostrums, yPulpits, ete., with the more subtly appealing, more effective motion picture, Just.as. the answer to the capitalist press is found in the labor press, so the capitalist theater must be answered with the la- bor theater, and the capitalist . 4 with the labor film. Even tho we only match our hard won p; against their dollars filched trom: the workers’ sweat and blood, we must wage the fight unrelentingly’ in this field as in the others. Information on workers’ movies can be secured from the International Workers’ Aid, Lincoln St., Chicago, Ill. relieve the industry there of hs All honor to the revolutionary Esth- onian workers! By their steadfast ness, by their heroic courage, a have already rendered an invalt Service to the whole working pnd May they, in their courageous defence of their revolutionary standpoint and their class organizations, receive the support of the whole internattonal working class, and in the first cn of the workers of Esthonia. Workers of all countries! Your intervention has already often stayed the hand of the executioner which has been raised against work- ers’ leaders. We must not allow thé Esthonian rulers to take revenge ‘on the flower of the Esthonian worl class! May the voice of your pre resound everywhere against the. class court and the hangmen’s revenge! Esthonian hangmen, remember: you will have to pay with your heads for the lives of the leaders of the Esthon. ian proletariat! Down with the E@tnonian execution: ers! Long live the revolutionary ~ prole: tatariat of Esthonia! The Executive Committee of the Communist International. Y The Executive Committee of the Communist Youth International. Moscow, Nov. 15, 1924. +. many for some time to come? Few have dictionaries and fewer still have the latest-and I hardly think even the latest dictionary has all these words used in the DAILY WORKER, like Bolshevik, menshevik, and chinovik, and many words are used in a particu- lar sense in socialist literature as far as I have been able to. learn. ‘ Here is a list of words that are puzzles to. me and I believe they are to many others. I know some of these can be found in the dictionary, but I put them all down here. How are they Pronounced? And what do hey mean? Marxism, Leninism, Marzian-Lenin- ism, materialism, Marxian library, opportunism, propaganda, parliamen- tarism, pseudo-Marxism, socialism, Communism, G. O. P., Soviet, Bolshe- vik, chinovik, menshevik, Fascist, ae NAME) 1890 United States ...senesms.$65,037, United Kingdom sus shscoonoon France Ut aly ssssossesenseeneennenernsene be seeanevanrvnernneeee 14,193,000,000 2,404,000,000 Spain Switzerland saa abe thls leluadan esc omrvev, wens Rotten’ tndeeil Beople and Sateen re ete cones, aoa Sater: "be [eharacteny, = ares ta) b Growth of the Wealth of the Principal Countries Perfalist, socialist, s: it, prole- tariat, bourgeois, autoeracy, bureau: ~ ¢cracy, democracy, ideology.— Emil Benson, R. 5, Box 86, Petaluma, Cal. Calls for Amalgamation. © Editor The DAILY WORKER: read in the DAILY WORKER of Mon-~ day, December 15, your story headed, ° “Baking Trusts Amalgamate, So Must Your Unions.” I showed it to my fel- low workers and they said; “That looks like the truth.” So I hung it in the office so that bsp: can