The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1924, Page 6

: (dada Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CQ, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., 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 $6.00 per year $8.00 per year 2.50...8 months A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. D MORITZ J. LOEB —— ®ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <p 20 ia | ene ..Bditors ven Business Manager $$$ Advertising rates on application Unofficial Diplomacy When the three Wall Street bankers, led by “Hell an’ Maria” Dawes, went to Germany in order to place that country in receivership, the mission was supposed to have no official government sanc- tion. This would involve some rag chewing in congress. The best thing to do was to let the mis- sion know that it had the government’s good wishes rather than give it official endorsement. In the event of the errand being successful, the adminis tration could ¢laim the credit and on the other hand, if it fell down on its job, nobody could blame the Coolidge cabinet for the fizzle. But while that policy had advantages, it also has disadvantages. The Wall Street bankers went, saw and conquered. Tliey placed Germany’s re- sources in hock and hold the tickets. They also collect the cash, which they turn over to the allied governments as reparations, but keeping a goodly sum for Wall Street which, to do it justice, aided the allies considerably in putting Germany in a position which made it possible to loot her with- out much inconvenience. Since the tory government assumed the task of guiding the feet of the British Empire on its un- certain path, bellicose Janguage has come from Downing Street expressing the belief that the United States has no right to claim any part of Germany’s cash until the allied governments first get theirs. America, not having signed the Ver- sailles treaty, is not in the game, writes Austen Chamberlain and furthermore the Dawes plan, not being officially backed by Washington, the United States has no right to share in the benefits of a plan in which it took no part. Charles Evans Hughes, slick Standard Oil lawyer, beams across the herring pond at the wily Chamberlain and remarks that he gave no order to the American experts, namely, Dawes, Young and Robinson, but let it be known to them that he wished to have a provision inserted in the plan, allowing the United States a share in the spoils of defeated Germany, spoils wrung out of the blood and sweat of the German working class. His wish became law. Since the last shot was fired on the western front in 1918 a diplomatic war has been waged between the allied and associated bandits who defeated the his status is that of a vassal. His new foun friends, the Wolls and Greens, will do nothing fo: him or the Mexican people except to advise sub mission in the name of “peace and democracy.” If a crisis arises out of this canceliation of con cessions, as it has so often in the past, the Mexican people will find their only friends in imperialist America in the Workers (Communist) Party of America. Mr. Gompers’ Friends The pwans of praise sung in behalf of the de- ceased Mr. Gompers are illuminating. So reaction- ary a newspaper as the Chicago Tribune declares that “there has never been a labor leader in this country the equal of Samuel Gompers and we doubt there has been his equal in any other country.” The Tribune is absolutely correct, from its em- ploying class point of view. There has never been in the history of American labor a lieutenant of capital in the ranks of the working masses who rendered as much service to the exploiters as Mr. Gompers did. We seriously doubt whether and are bandits on the other side led by Germany. France and England have been on the verge of war several times. Only weakness and fear of revolution held them back. The United States and England are snarling at each other: The robbers cannot come to terms. They cannot agree on the‘division of the loot. There cannot be any peace between capi- talists. Today, Wall Street fights Downing Street by means of diplomatic notes. and by dollars. Tomor- row the weapons will be deadlier. But the war is being carried on nevertheless. When capitalist governments talk sweetly to each other, you may be sure war is in the back of their heads. The Dawes plan, which was a scheme of the American finance-capitalists to fasten their hegemony on Europe, is one of the war seeds so liberally strewn by capitalists. Newspaper reports advise us that the league of nations has a ticklish job to quell the Albanian revolt. No doubt. Judging from the league’s record in recent imbroglios, a riot in a foundling hospital would be about its capacity. Calles Cancels Concessions President Calles of Mexico has issued orders can- eelling many concessions held by foreigners who have not complied with the provisions under which they were granted. Most of these concessions were held by Amer- icans and unless they represent the investment of very little capital or are worthless from other causes, President Calles is going to discover that the friendship of the American Federation of Labor officialdom is a Judas loyalty. Every president of Mexico since the overthrow of the tyrant Diaz has had little trouble until he began to enforce strictly Mexican laws regulating land and natural: re- sonrees. Immediately after this has been done the American oil and mining capitalists, backed by the United States government, have fomented and financed uprisings so that Mexican chaos could become an excuse for intervention. The Mexican labor movement, hitherto the great bulwark against landlordism and capitalist. reac- tion, has been led into the camp of the imperialists. Its only center of resistance today are the Com- munists upon whose heads the officialdom heaps insult and slander in the best Gompersian style. It will be interesting to watch the results of the attempt of Calles to assert some few signs of in- dependence. If he has infringed on the privileges BR W of exploitation held by any powerful group of ee ee eee eee We oP a nae OY oat quite certain that there can be no equai of Mr. Gompers in this respect in the future of the Amer- ican labor moyement. In shedding tears over the death of this stal- wart ally of the enemies of the working class, one of the blackest, if not the blackest, newspaper in the country, the New York Commercial, declared that “The organization holds nobody fitted to take his place and carry on in the same masterful fashion.” Such are the compliments accorded Gompers by the worst foes of the workers of this country. The comment ow the successor of Mr. Gompers is almost as illuminating. Beneath the surface of the numerous compliments showered on Mr. Green by the open shoppers of the country we find an undercurrent of anxiety. It is true that the capi- talist reaction has unlimited faith in Mr. Green. The latter gentleman was a delegate to the last democratic national convention) and was seated alongside of the bloody strikebreaking sheriff, Don Chaffin of West Virginia. Mr. Green was also a champion of John W. Davis, lawyer for J. P. Mor- gan and company and the Standard Oil, in the last campaign. What the employing class fears, therefore, is not Mr. Green but whether Mr. Green, not having the advantages of tradition and prestige that Mr. Gom- pers had, will be able to carry out its policies against the labor movement as effectively as his predecessor. The friends, of Gompers are the friends of Green. But the conditions under which Mr. Green will be working in the interests of the exploiting class will be very much different from the conditions under which Mr. Gompers was work ing. That is why the friends of Gompers tend to be disturbed at this moment. The workers of this country know only one duty. The workers know that now that Gompers is dead they must resolutely set themselves to the task of killing Gompersism—the scourge of the American working class. Paris Developments Recent weeks have witnessed gigantic Commun- ist demonstrations in Paris. The Communist Party of France has very properly utilized the occasion of the arrival of the Soviet ambassador, Comrade Krassin,,to mobilize the working masses for an THE DAILY WORKER SALLES SLASHES RAILWAY WAGES TO PAY BANKS “Labor Party” President Defies Unions (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Dec. 25.—One thing is fast following another to prove that President Calles, elected by the work. ers and peasants of Mexico on the labor party ticket, is proving to be as hostile to the workers as was the labor party premier, Ramsay Mac- Donald of England. Cuts Rail Workers’ Wages. Yesterday Calles notified the rail waymen on the Mexican National linc that the government was going to cut their wages. He even went so far ar to threaten that he would oppose ¢ general railway strike with every force of the government in order tc compel a lower wage standard. The railway workers of Mexico are strongly organized, and up to this time they have been conferred with when wages were discussed. Thi’ blow by Calles has disillusione? them in their support of Calles and the labor party whom they greatl: aided in the fight against De le Huerta Workers Reduced for Wall Street. That the siashing of wages 'z donc merely to benefit Wall Street, i shown by the announcement that ever in the short time of three week: Calles has been in office, he has taken 25,000,000 pesos out of the Mexican treasury and given them to Ameri- can bankers who hold old loans against Mexico dating back to the regime of Porfirio Diaz. Calles says he is going to work other “econom- ies,” which means other wage cuts. Life Among Riffs Not So Pleasant When Bullets Whiz HAMBURG, Dec. 25.—The Hamburg expression of their confidence in the first workers’ republic. This has brought a howl from the hyenas of the capitalist press. In fact, our zealous imperialist watchdog, the American Ambassador Herrick, has found it necessary to investigate the likelihood of a proletarian revolution in France. This Yankee imperialist bloodhound has assured the Washing- ton administration that Morgan’s investments in France are secure. Now Comrade Krassin comes forward with additional cause to disturb the peace of the in- ternational capitalist clique. Comrade Krassin, in occupying the embassy, has found certain docu- ments which the ezarists had forgotten, by accidetit of course, to steal. These documents shed very welcome light on the imperialist machinations on the eve of the war. “These documents divulge de- finitely that imperialist France and czarist Russia were in a secret agreement to slice up Turkey amongst themselves. This agreement was binding upon the two capitalist powers while they were in alliance with Great Britain in the last conflict. This treaty was kept secret from Great Britain by her Russian and French imperialist allies. The fraudulent pacifist Herriot now shows signs of extreme nervousness, He is frightened to death lest Soviet Russia make public these terms. Her- riot fears that the publication of this treaty by the Soviets would spoil his plan to enter into a new accord with Stanley Baldwin’s reactionary British government. Besides such a step by Soviet Russia would knock the props from under France’s hypo- critical policy in the Near East, It would again tend to draw the Turkish government away from France and towards Soviet Russia. These Paris developments are very significant. | They not only indicate the real character of capi- talist diplomacy but they also show very clearly the foundation of sand on which the European political imperialist edifice rests. The Russell Sage Foundation reports that man- agement sharing between the employers and their employes means more dividends for the former. It did not say that it meant more in the pay en- velope for the latter. Get a member Leet “iad the DAILY si papa Volkszeitung publishes an appeal from a German, one of many, who was driven by unemployment and hunger to join the Spanish foreign legion for the war in Morocco. This soldier writes of the terrible conditions and the brutal manner in which the Span- iards treat these German soldiers. He appeals to the German government to demand the return of all Germans be- longing to the foreign legion. He states that most of the Germans are hospitals, wounded or ill, and that the Spaniards neglect them’ and treat them as beasts. The German government recently demanded that the Spanish govern- ment return all such Germans. see Shortly after the world war, when American service men were looking in vain for a job in the country they had fought for,-Spanish agents lured a number of veterans into the Spanish Morocco army. The recruiting stopped as soon as the first tales of the Span- ish officers’ treatment of the Amer- ican fighters came back to the Amer- ican side of the Atlantic. Fascist Movement in Melbourne, Australia, Sleeping in Files MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 25... A search among the police files at Melbourne by the newly-elected labor government in the state of Victoria revealed the existence of a fascist organization. The files showed that all members of this secret force belonged to influen- tial families, and were authorized to carry arms, to wear a badge under the lapel of the coat like those worn by American movie sleuths, and to have gen marks and lights on their or cars. Not only were the files marked “strictly confidential,” but there was a note to the police chie. that the strictest secrecy was to be observed about the force, The labor government of the state has ordered the secret force to disband, but there is no proof that this has been done. The discovery of the existence of this confidential file reveals how far the fascist movement has develop- ed in Australia. Anti-War Meetings in Australia Attack the Wars of Master Class hy The Federated Press) MELBOURNE, Australia, — At huge anti-war demonstration in Mel- bourne, the speakers declared that wars were invented to make greater wealth for the capitalists. He stated that the masses had never gained from war, but merely became the machines of massacre, The following resolution carried un- animously: “This demonstration of Australian citizens, representing the majority of the people in this country, sends forth our fraternal greetings to the people of all other countries, and declares our determination to join hands and hearts with them in the great fight to abolish militarism and war.” Lay Off Rail Shopmen. CLINTON, la,—Indefinite layoffs were the Christmas present of the for the Workers Party and a new| Chicago & Northwestern railway to 50 of its Clinton shopmen, we sawatichgned fre NEW HAMPSHIRE CAPITALISTS REVIVE INDUSTRIAL SLAVE LAW THAT ALEXANDER HOWAT KILLED DOVER, A. H., Dec. 25.—A court of industrial relations to make strikes and lockouts impossible in New Hampshire labor disputes is proposed by Frank F. Fernald, state legislator from Dover. Fernald plans to introduce a bill providing for a court, entirely separate from the present. judiciary, of three appointed judges. The Work of the state labor bureau and Its board of arbitration and conciliation will be given the court. After 60 days’ trial of the decision of the court preventing a strike or lockout either party if dis: ified may seek modification of terms of settlement. The New Hampshire court would be similar to the court attempted in Kansas but wrecked by an outlaw strike of miners lead by. Alex Howat. DILLONVALE, 0., SUPREME COURT MINERS GIVEJ.L. |APPEAL ON |. W. W, LEWIS TRIMMING DEPORTATIONS Progressive. Beats Him |Defendants Over the 5- Five to One DILLONVALE, Ohio, Dec, 25.—Lo- cal Union 5173 of the United Mine Workers of America counted the votes cast for the international and ‘istrict officers in the recent elections and found the following results: Lewis, 26; Voyzey, 144; Murray, 37; Staples, 182; Green, 48; Nearing, 119 In the vote for sub-district presi- dent, progressive candidate, J. J Hoge, polled more than twice as m ny votes as his nea-es: competiccs. Pro tress’ve candida‘ss for delegates tc the American Jederation of Labor ccnvention polled u heavy vote. eee NORTH BESSEMER, Pa., Dec. 25.— The results of the elections in Local 4238, give Lewis 5 votes against 81 for George Voyzey, progressive; Mur- ray, 5 votes against 81 for Arley Staples; Green does a little better and lands six votes against 80 for Joseph Nearing. For delegates to the A. F. of L. convention the machine did even worse. ‘Labor Doubles Vancouver Vote. VANCOUVER, B. C.—In the munici pal elections in Vancouver labor in creased its vote from 2,459 in 1923 tc 4,717 in 1924 or almost 100 per cent. Year Dead Line (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The failure of the U. 8. district court of appeals to adequately answer the argument o! defense counsel for five members 0’ the industrial workers of the world will be the grounds of appeal to the U. S. supreme court on the deporta: tion cases of Richard Brazier, Peter Green, Joe Graber, Don Sheridan, and James Slovik. Attorney Isaac Shorr urged for the defendants that the alien act of 1920 provides very speci- fically that the crime which might make these men undesirable must have been committed jwithin five years of their entry to the United States to make them subject to deportation. All of the men had been in the coun: try longer than five years and none were arrested until the five year per- iod had passed. . The majority opinion claims that these men and other convicted of of- fenses against “measures adopted only to preserve the life of the nation in time of war, were in a class by them- selves, and that class was to be treated in a way of its own, not like other aliens who had not manifested aggressive hatred of the land they chose to ipihabit.” GO TO YOUR CLASS MOVIES! ‘HE following are definite dates on which workers’ motion pictures are being shown in the cities tndi- cated. If your city is listed in this column, make a note NOW of the time ind place of the show. If tt is not ‘isted, have the secretary of any work- ers’ organization to which you belong get in touch at once with the Inter- national Workers’ Aid, 19 South Lin- coln street, Chicago, Ill. Program “A”: “Beauty and the Bol- shévik,” Russian feature comedy- drama, rollicking romance of Red Army love. “Russia in Overalls,” three-reel educational, showing actual industrial life in Soviet Russia. Nokomis, Ill.. Opera House. Dec. 29. Livingston, Ill, Jan. 4. Bentleyville. Pa. Opera House, Jan. 9. « Daisytown. Pa, Home Theatre, Jan. 10, Wheeling, W. Va., Union Theatre, Jan. 10. Omaha, Neb,, Alhambra Theatre, Jan, 12. Boston, Mass., Symphony Hall, Jan. 16. Cleveland, Ohio, Engineers’ Audi- torium, Jan. 17 and 18. Reading, Pa., Jan. 22. Cincinnati, Ohio, Labor Temple, Jan. 22. Chicago. Ill., Ashland Auditorium, Feb. 1 and 5, San Francisco, Caltf., March 21, oe Program “B”: “Polikushka.” a real Russian classic made by the Moscow Art Theatre, has been shown under the direct auspices of “National Com- mittee for Better Films,” which listed it as one of the “best forty films of the year.” together ‘with a tworeel Russian slapstick, “Soldier Ivan’s Miracle,” and a one-reel educational, “With Russian Miners.” Rock, Mich., Workers’ Hall, Dec. 27. Chicago, Ill, Gertner’s Independent Theater, 3725 Roosevelt Road, Jan. 15, Los Angeles, Calif., Philharmonic Temple, Jan. 19. Other Films. Binghamton, N. Y.: Hither Theater, Jan, 9, “Russia and Germany.’ Philadelphia, Pa.: Jan. 24, “In Me- Colin, Namst Ba IRISH FREE STATE NAILS TORY GOVERNMENT ON LEAGUE DISPUTE (Special to The Daily Workers } GENEVA, Dec. 25.—Ireland took a sharp issue with. Great Britain in a note which Ireland sent to the Anglo-Irish treaty. Ireland dec! jue of nations today on the subject of the that the league pact clearly requires that the Anglo-Irish treaty shall be filed with the league. Great Britain’s recent protest to the league contended that the Anglo- Irish treaty was an “internal affair,” therefore not a matter for league dis- cussion. Red Russia As We Like jump industry ‘has taken in Soviet ;of those present (if applause (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Wherever and whenever the Gommunist Party and the Soviet government come up tor discussion, there life is injected; a|no matter how dead or dormant the environment—it arouses to life and struggle. Miss Jessica Smith just returned from Russia, after a stay of three full years, spoke on Russia, “As I Like It” at the civic club here. She witnessed the slow, but certain progress toward the ultimate Communist goal, She de- scribed the schools, the farm life, the factory. She didn’t disguise the facts. ‘The children even lacked pencils, still lack these and many other jals. It was hard to move the peasants from the old habits of life and work; hard to make them give up the antiquated implements, to get them to take up co-operative production with modern machinery. But the -beginnings are being made. She cited instances in the new movement that will after a decade or #0, revolutionize peasant life and Russian agriculture. Of the factories many facts and figures were cited by to show the remarkable Sai RNR Oe Russia—of the reduction too, in the gap between the two ends of the “scissors.” : The civic club contains every shade of opinion and the. socialists were there in full force. Charlie Erwin, the Jeffersonian socialist and once editor of the New York Call, led the attack, The first question a yellow socialist puts, no matter what the phases treated may be, is: “Why are ‘per- fectly good revolutionaries imprison- ed for their opinions by the terrible Bolsheviks?” . ‘The question, tearfully formulated, gathered around it si “hot shot” in the way of answer that the meet- ing became a battle ground in which the mensheviks got by far the worst of it. Dr. Anna Ingerman, who bored tes: the audience with fifteen minutes of hysteria on the same sad subject, got many a giggle out of the crowd when she strove to tears and was call- ed to time by the chairman in the bargain, 4 Rose Pastor Stokes took five min- Tre oy yt Friday, December 26, 1924 CAPPELLINIIN OPEN ROLE OF : STRIKEBREAKERs Miners Doubt His Ability For Dirty Job - By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKES BARRE, Pa., Dec, 25-—" Rinaldo Cappellini, renegade raidcal of the anthracite region, once the leadér of “outlaw strikes” to win power for himself, now makes the. announce, ment that his “about face” is com: plete, for tomorrow he begins as w fullfiedged strikebreaker. This much is gleaned from the ar- ticles appearing in the local press of today, which are to the effect that Cappellini will appear, beginning, to- morrow, before the rank and’ file miners, to ask them to return ito work. He is reported to have based this decision on the request of a “committee of fifty” (some commit, tee) who, he says, visited his office and asked that he do something to get the mines started to work again; Press agenting of this kind, ‘how- ever, will not accomplish. anything, for it will not surprise anyone if ‘his “private chamber courage” d t him before tomorrow. He claims that his first effort to break the strike will be made on the employes of Underwood colliery, at which place, it is claimed, one of his supporters, in an attempt to have the men. break ranks, succeeded only in breaking the temper of the strikers and having hie arm broken in the melee. Several strikers from that ‘place, upon hearing today that Cappellin’ will attempt to break the strike to: morrow, are reported to have offe: wagers that he will be afraid to ap- pear and also declaring that if he does come, he had better be wearing a good pair of shoes, to assure his exit. Threatens Miners. He has answered the géneral mittee’s action in publishing their list of grievances, by giving out the statement appearing in yesterday's fs- sue. He answered the action of the Lehigh Valley general committee's action to take a strike vote, by send- ing a telegram to each local telling them of the dire consequences that will accrue if they carry out their threat, and his latest, to break | strike, if he can, is in answer‘to the new move of the now striking com+ mittee, in sending speakers to each local in the district so that all may be informed of the true state of af- fairs, from the viewpoint of the: mep on strike. 3 Cappellini’s political burial ett soon be held and not at all before the regular election in 1925. The coming week will be an interesting one no matter what re sults are obtained, for it will deter mine the kind of metal. the-men in the anthracite region are made q Blames Communists. . A special meeting of all the gen- eral grievance committees is ex: pected to,be held some day during the week in Wilkes Barre, if a hall can be secured for the occasion. In blaming the Communists for all the trouble, Cappellini says there are eight Communist organizers in Wilkes Barre, and only “God knows ‘how many are in Scranton.” To Squeeze Fruitgrowers, VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 26,—The big fruit packing concerns are trying to. hogtie the co-operative movement the fruit growing districts of, Columbia by having the provini legislature pass an act. which force small growers to sell to an asso ciation but does not require the asso ciation to purchase fruit from growers. The bill is being fought the labor members in the. hi . largely thru their efforts an ment was made to the snlere which prevented the associations fr taking action against the small, ers for breaches of contract’ prior the passitig of the present act. taken as an indication) that | 4 three conscious currents. an international scale, the. ithe 38 yellows and the whites. That re lows being bourgeois at compromises with the white | against the revolutionary Avo class, but never with the rgds , the capitalists. She dec d letarian revolution will ( sw world and appealed to all tng be in line with the fo smareh of history to help, not hinélek, ress toward the profetari which alone can bu! the C society, Mary White 9 ‘Aemcytrnve om rade Stokes took ‘her presi Russian ‘fj Mit posite, Her ete good deal of applause fi ence and a few facetious Charlie Erwin, who val that @ pacifist like — should sanction’ violence,” ‘The en’ oreaing es 8 battle in soln ec itisht is beg mveroal on ‘nay beg