The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1924, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, NL (Phone: Munroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3,50,,..6 months $2.00....8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4,50....6 months $2.60...3 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year | Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chlieago, Iilinois Editors emeeee business Manager J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \ WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. os Entered as second-ciass mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. << 290 Advertising rates on application The Pope’s Problems Pope Pius may have gotten a kick out of reading his diatribe against Soviet Russia in the capitalist press recently and also the editorial compliments showered on his hypocritical head by the editorial hirelings of capitalism. But there are happenings not so conducive to the mental calm of the alleged earthly ambassador of the mythical Saint Peter. The French government is waging war on the papal agents who are supported by the royalists and the extreme reactionaries. The public school system without religious worship has been forced on Alsace Lorraine and Paris has made no further provision for the continuation of the French em- bassy at the Vatican. In Spain the liberal elements who would like to see King Alfonso’s lascivious mouth chewing on a sharp bayonet, have not the warmest feelings for the pope. When they topple Alfonso from his throne they intend to cut a lot of priests and other religious parasites off the payroll. The liberals do not like to share the loot wrung from the toil of the working class with any other group of thieves. They want it all for themselves. If Alfonso was wiser he might have the liberals on his side. He does not know how to share the loot judiciously, or perhaps there is not enough to go around. But that is a digression. If the pope looks across the Atlantic, he will find nothing but trouble facing him, after he passes Palm Beach on his way south. Not so very long ago the Mexican government gave a papal con- spirator his walking papers. In the Argentine a papal ambassador is held up pending examination of his credentials which he refuses to submit to the proper authorities. Hard words have been hurled at the pope’s envoy in the southern republic and unless His Holiness is less sensitive to abuse than is proper for one who has such a high opinion of himself, we are of the opinion that he will need some of Mussolini’s castor oi] to regulate his system. The attack on Soviet Russia may have relieved him somewhat, but the rising tide of opposition to his black shirt ally, Mussolini, is another black blurb on the horizon. His Holiness is entirely sur- rounded by trouble. If he is depending on us for sympathy, he is out of luck. Fascist Tide Ebbs Faced with a split in the ranks of his supporters, terrified by the growing strength of the opposition, Mussolini is on the defensive and little of the bravado that characterized his earlier utterances is discernible in his latest statement. He is going to “choose a favorable moment for the elections,” he tells his disgruntled followers, but there will be no favorable moment for the Italian fascisti. They may secure a parliamentary majority, but it will mean little. The masses of the Italian workers are in motion. They -have seen and endured the full power of fascism and they are no longer frightened by the braggadocio of its spokes- men. Fascism had the task that every exploiters’ gov- ernment faces—it had to improve economic condi- tions of the masses and stabilize capitalism—it had to build an economic basis for its bayonets and this is an impossible task for any government in Europe that seeks to preserve capitalism. The tide of fascism in Italy is running out. In comes the tide of Communism and another gréat struggle will take place when these conflicting cur- rents meet in the final clash. Communism is virile and fights with history on its side. Fascism is decrepit and tries to stop the relentless march of historical development. Greetings to the “Freiheit” The “Freiheit,” Jewish Communist daily, will celebrate the issuance of its one thousandth num- ber with a celebration on New Year's Eve. This affair will be held at the 69th Regiment Armory, 25th St. and Lexington Ave., New York. Our Jewish comrades are to be congratulated on their success in guiding their fighting revolu- tionary daily thru the many trials that confronts snch a paper under the most favorable conditions. But when we realize that the “Freiheit” has en- countered the flerce opposition of the bureaucrats of the needle trades unions and by that champion yellow socialist political pervert Abraham Cahan and his daily Forward, the fact that it is in the field and going strong is excellent testimony to the devotion of our comrades to their splendid paper and is the best guarantee for the future. The DAILY WORKER extends greetings to its sister Communist Daily and our readers are urged to give the “Freiheit” celebration their support. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. fe ok Immediate Returns To workers who are modest about demanding a high wage promptly paid, we commend the example of William Morgan Butler, erstwhile campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge. The votes have hardly been counted when Colonel Butler is dis: covered in Washington with a demand for a higher tariff on the products of his textile.mills and those of his collegues in the profitable enterprise of ex- ploiting the labor of children. Colonel Butler may have a high regard for Calvin Coolidge and this may have spurred him on to do his best as campaign manager, but the little matter of juicy pickings to be had from higher taxtile tariffs was a much greater incentive. Nor has the colonel been hesitant in demanding his re- ward. He feels that the laborer is worthy of his hire when employed in a vineyard where the grapes hang well within reach and in such juicy clusters. “The unimpeachable integrity” of William Mor- gan Butler was a great propaganda slogan in the Coolidge press. He is a great capitalist and there- fore could not be actuated by any desire for sordid gain, but his immediate proposal to cash in on the victory of his protege is more added to the moun- tain of proof that office holders receive the support of capitalists because their loyalty means money in the pocket for the fat-paunched parasites. Lese Majesty There is a gentleman in Philadelphia known as General Butler. His job is to clean up the city, which means closing blind pigs, saloons that ignore the Volstead law, houses where female virtue is on sale and no credit given. How well he has done the job is not yet apparent. But he has been there now for more than a year and “evil” seems to be holding its own. The general being a public character, he be- comes a target for criticism, ridicule, compliments, and any other form of intellectual diversion the populace may see fit to indulge in. But our gen- erals are getting rather testy. It was once the privilege of “American citizens” to poke fun at their elected “superiors,” but the good old days are gone, unless Simple Simon, LaFollette and his merry men bring them back in the next presidential election, In Philadelphia, also known as the Quaker City, it is customary to have a mummers’ parade on New Year’s day. This parade usually burlesques current events, but the political hide of General Butler is so sensitive that he had orders issued to the mummers prohibiting ridicule of himself or his police. It looks as if our “democracy” is badly, bat: tered. The Left Wing Grows In our news columns we have been publishing stories of the election in the United Mine Workers of America that completely support our statement that a great revival of the militant left wing spirit is in evidence in that organization. Where the left wing was organized the Lewis slate was beaten and even in many localities headed the poll. With all the crookedness of officialdom, their control of the union machinery, with wide- spread vote stealing and resort to fraud and in- timidation of every kind, it is impossible for the Lewis machine to conceal the presence of a rank and file revolt of huge propértions. In Kansas ninety per cent of the district voted for Howat while in the anthracite fields more than 20,000 miners have defied Lewis and his tools because of a long list of grievances against the operators that the officialdom refuses to adjust. In Illinois the Farrington machine has had the fight of its life and here, in the largest district in the union, the left wing is a real power. The fight is just starting. Considering the youth of the R. I. L. U. section and the solidly entrenched machine when it began its activities, it has done wonders. Not only in the United Mine Workers but in other unions the left wing, by dozens of its activi- ties, shows its increasing strength. The campaigns and programs of the left wing groups have at tracted the support of thousands of workers in thi carpenters’, steel workers’, needle trades’ and md- chinists’ unions. The R. I. L. U. program offers} the only hope for these workers and more of them are realizing it. John Scurr, labor party member in the British house of commons, questioned the government’s Indian policy. He urged the tories to adopt a wiser course. Note, the labor faker did not favor giving the Hindoos independence. He favored giy- ing them soothing syrup instead of bayonets, and! bayonets only when the syrup failed. It is well to. remember that under the regime of Ramsay Mac- Donald 253,000 Hindoo rebels were imprisoned. That flourishing Chicago industry, the produc- tion of gunmen, has developed to the point where it is on an expert basis. According to dispatches from San Francisco, twenty-five of the Windy City automatic artists have been sent there to protect the holiday supply of hooch, That the domestic market was overstocked is shown by the long list of homocides in the gunman colony recently. According to late reports on the recent élections in Germany the Communists gained in Prussia and in the heavy industrial sections with a few excep- tions. They lost only places where the white terror prevented the Communists from voting. American financiers have $10,000,000,000 in- vested abroad now. Foreign countries borrowed $1,100,000,000 during the first eleven ‘months of this year, That tells a tale, THE DAILY. WORKER BUTLER TAKES ADVANTAGE OF BUTLER’S LAW Buys Stool Pigeons and President (Special to The Dally Worker) Be heron yc la panera edit proportion of the votes cast by the| Vice versa; the attitude of England | ¢ ‘AT was to be done? “We know —such is the tune sung by the cotton |COUServative party and the labor party fe: Japen gad vice: rerea, W quite well that the trust corporations led by none other than Wake, Morgan Bntien who, you | SPite of this these figures prove on will recall, was the campaign manager closer inspection, to be crushing for, for “Silente Cal.” Immediately after the holiday recess, the cotton trust will come before th congress with a proposal for higher This is a joint demand of both the New England | V heliningly voted for the conservates. mills, headed by Butler of stool-pigeon fame, and the Carolina mills, which are now in close combination with duties on cotton goods, Butler, The claim is that a higher tariff is necessary to start the mills now closed and keep them going. This “relief otherwise called robbery is asked under the “flexible provisions” of the Ford- ney-McCumber tariff act. Side Line For Stool Pigeons. This act, it will be remembered, was passed after committee hearings ha been listening to “union men” from th New Bedford Textile Council: ask for higher, tariff to protect “labor.” It happened afterward, that the DAILY WORKER exposed these witnesses as stool-pegons in the union under. pay of Wm. Morgan Butler, who had thent:| the English workers. to go down to Washington as a sid line to spying on the unions in Butler’ mills, Now, Mr. Butler, who is president ofjthe National Association of Cotton fanufacturers, declares innocently that should avail themselves of the nice “flexible provi-|80 When the well-aimed bomb of the cotton manufacturers sions” of the Fordney-McCumber act. It is not expected that President Coolidge will veto any tariff increase m ue . A ANT ST SD THE END OF THE PACIFIST ERA and pushes the whole international la- bor movement:a stage forward, Everything at present is in a state of flux.. Singapore, the greatest na- val base in the world, the link be- tween Africa, Asia, Australia and America, will be renewed and will immediately raise three questions: the attitude of the dominions te the mother country and of the mother country to the dominions; the attitude of Hngland to the United States and The Defeat of MacDonald and Its Con- sequences for England Itself. By A. MASLOW. To seek to attribute the annihilat- ing defeat of MacDonald solely te the anomalous, obsolete English election system is childish. A whole number of factors have contributed to this de- feat. Numerically regarded, the defeat of the first Dnglish “labor government” is, at the first glance, not great. The class as a défeat-for ca two important issues: tated the elections; the and the Soviet loan, These fighting issues for us. eee Another example: Mosul. Here a policy of prestige oan lead very rap- idly to a great war. A third example: Egypt. The Egyp- tian question can very easily become 8. French. or Franco-Italian question. For the Egyptian opposition can be used? as a@ pretext so to strengthen the Mediterranean fleet that it would not be tolerated by France, eee All these possible diMculties. render it improbable thatthe English con- servative government will create un- necessary difficulty by withdrawing the recognition of the Soviet Union. But the treaty will certainly not be ratified. _ Even if the government wished, they could not ity it in the face of the election campaign, which was waged against the treaty There will therefore be new negotia- tions, prolonged negotiations; the conservatives will practice the strate- gy of wearing down their opponent, The new era which is now begin- ning will be an era of unrest, of mis- trust of one government by the other, of sham conferences, of secret agree- ments, of diplomatic intrigues, of in- creased war preparations. a 2 @ What is the task of our Communist Party in England? It was rightly pointed out that its tasks and its pos- sibilities of development: were espe- cially great during the’ “democratic- pacifist” era. This era is at an end. The tasks however, not only remain, but have grown, respectively are as 6 to 5%. But in ist International is conducting S| ganda in England thru. the: Britigh Communist Party. We know: favors a republic in Ireland and ts ing as much aid and comfort to Hindoos, Egyptians and the in our other colonies as it can. we protest against this kind of publicly and express: much’ moral: dignation, the Soviet government equally excited over our mane Georgia and our relations with menshiviks. It is the game, sir. did not have any Zinoviev letter, we had one drawn up almost just’ as good. It was so good that ‘it Ramsay MacDonald, tho that gol man was willing enough to be fooled. eee ACDONALD made the ‘mistake of attacking the Soviet. ernment and affirming his | the authenticity of the letter. . played into our hands. His later statements professing doubt. 4 matter. It was his first comment that counted. We scared small. Binet stiff. We got big. business fight mad. Millions of workers who we wavering in their allegiance over to us fearing revolution if | Tespectable MacDonald party werere turned. The forgery, (a igeoage name) did its work. Now that the elections are over, it makes little dif ference whether its authenticity was proven or not. “But genuine Commub- ist propaganda looks so much like the fake letter that the average ‘person the labor government. For the masses of the electors con- e | sist of workers, of compact masses of workers, who, in the cities, as for in- stance, in Birmingham, have over- What is the reason for this? It can be regarded as a rule that masses who are not politically trained and, steeled do not think of support- ing a government which has not done something definite for them. "| This was the experience in Russia; not only with Kerensky, but in many struggles in Siberia, in the. Ukraine, in Caucasus, This was the experience in 1923 with the “workers’ govern- ment” in Saxony, where the proletar- q4 iat entirely failed to defend “its” gov- ornment against the Reichswehr, pre- cisely because it had experienced nothing to show that it was “its” gov- ernment, The MacDonald government had given nothing to the broad masses of Not even good «| Propaganda. Therefore, there remain- g| ed nothing else for the broad masses of English workers, with their tmper- ialist tradition and their petty-bour- geois ideology, than to act like real gentlemen, to be responsive to the oratory of the conservatives, the more ie forged Zinoviev letter exploded. It appealed to their British sentiments: “The first people in the world,” “the on Butler's line of cotton goods. What |freest people, and here was interfer-| Broad work of enlightenment among | could not detect it.” ‘ does Butler buy a president for,|ence on the part of the barbarian, un-|the masses. Energetic rallying of ee anyhow? democratic and unmoral Soviet gov-|the workers for the demands of the H journalist never heard: such = ernment,” “we want to promote Eng-| Hull congress or even “only” the elec- frank confession by & government When you buy, get an “Ad.” lish trade, not to give our money to| tion manifesto of the labor party, New English Branch In Philadelphia Shows Very Promising Signs The Kensington English branch. is now definitely formed and is gettin: nught down to work. o? Kensington ant it sooks as if it i going to become a real revolutionar center. This section of the town was onc: a stronghold of the rebel element: within the socialist party and wa: always a thorn in the side of th Hilquit-Berger dynasty. During th time of the split between the right wing that remained in the S. P., and the left wing which formed the bas for the Communist movement, many ot them drifted apart mostly drop- their was mostly reformism But now movement has ping out altogether because “revolutionary thought” dissatisfaction with the that dominated the S. P. that the Communist been definitely crystallized into th Workers (Communist) Party and is recognized as the only revolutionary leader there is no doubt but that most of them will take their place in its ranks and help blast the road to the overthrow of capitalism. Meetings will take place regularly the second and fourth Thursday of each month. Entrance is on Frank ford Ave. For Dager, 621 York Ave. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun. day Night, the Open Forum, ~ FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE! ie By JAMES H. DOLSEN, Organizer, District 13. No more far-sighted plan could have been devised than that of \NSURING our daily paper for 1925, and It Is worthy of every comrade’s wholehearted support. The launching of such a campaign shows that we are facing facts and using. our common sense in solving problems, This district (No. 13, California) will do its utmost to contribute Its quota, despite the burden it has had of maintaining also a_ tocal paper, and despite also the distance which separates us from our na- tional headquarters. Personally, | shall emphasize the Importance of this drive at every opportunity, In my opinion, the DAILY WORKER is the very heart of our organization, It has done more to make us a real factor in the life of the American working class than any other weapon we possess. Its revolutionary attitude is bringing ever closer a large group of sym- pathizers who Took to it for In- formation and guidance. It is the DAILY WORKER which | will make possible the growth of an Engli king Communist movement In America. Every com- rade must "ia our Daily for the BIG Pus Regular meet ings will be held at southwest corner Frankford Ave. and Chesterfield St. second floor. This is right in the heart information write to Chas. official before, He was shocked. The tory grinned and said, “It pub- lished what I have told you and 3 de- nied its authenticity, it would mean your tuin not. mine.” “The journalist did not publish«the story.~ He told it to his frien untrustworthy undemocratic despots, who in return incite ‘our brave sol- diers and blue jackets to _mutin; and such like cheap appeals. This was to be seen on one side. On the other hand. there was the in- crease in the votes cast for the labor party. That means that the English | working class is becoming politically conscious and more revolutionary. In fact there was no more radical party in the elections than the labor party. The eight Communists do not count. is | And in spite of its miserable policy yjthis party gained votes in the election. This shows that’ class an- e| tagonisms in England have increased, S|are increasing, and will continue to 8 | increase. e ee 8 | The new conservative government in England will no more be able to solve the chief question, the question | of unemployment, than did the labor party. On the other hand, the Bald- win government -will soon restore the McKenna duties (upon sugar, tea and coffee) and thereby abolish the only cheapening of food stuffs achieved by Snowden’s budget. Tariff reform will follow, the notorious preference for /the dominions upon tinned salmon, plums, apples, dried fruit, ete., and then of course, there will come tar- iffs on Industrial products, and prob- ably also on corn and wheat. A fierce struggle will flame up against these tariffs and against the increase of prices. Secondly, the conservative govern- ment will abolish the Wheatley hous- ing scheme. This act was a pure swindle; it provided for the building of two and a half million houses at the cost of the state and municipal authorities during the course of 15 years. But the labor party will make a virtue of necassity and mobilize the workers against this abolition of the housing scheme, Thirdly, the conservatives will con- which the leaders will of course let drop, Creation of factory councils. Rallying of all active elements in the trade unions. Penetration into local organizations of the labor party. Or- ganization of ‘the fight against the fascist organizations which are aris~ ing. Recruitment of members, exten- tion of the press with the view to set- ting up a Communist daily paper with @ mass circulation. Energetic propa- ganda of Communism—these are the tasks of our party in England. And Still They Come. WILKESBARE, Pa., Dec. 26.—The official vote of the Workers Party can didates in Luzerne county, Pennsyl- vania was as follows: Presidential ticket, 88 votes; for state treasurer 41 votes; for auditor general, 351 votes, Lewis Gives Green's Job to Prize Faker As New Year’s (Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Dee. 27— Green, chosen by the executive of the American Federation of to fill the position left vacant by Gompers, wiil resign as secretary-t! urer of the United Mine Workers January Ist. John L, Lewis will appoint successor and this appointment will submitted to the International Exec tive Board for ratification. -O} 5 Asking Reparati WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—As the United States is not a signatory of treaty of Versailles the govern will take no action concerning — British, French and Belgian ments’ decision not to withdraw the Cologne area, on January 10, set by the treaty, it was learned te Fi 4 Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. Diplomacy Mr. Minister, How do you do? The ultimatum’s expired. Any concessions? None! The firm of Krupp Owes the firm of Morgan Three billions and one ruble. Beleaguer the clouds! Start the fight! If any booty— You'll share. —Vladimir Maiakovski. duct a campuign against the unem- ployed maintenance, Fourthly, they will set ap: fascist rganizations in order to crush any ‘ebellious working masses. (They will tave no opportunity of discharging ‘soctalist” ‘officials, as the labor gov- rnment did not appoint any, but took ver the old conservative apparatus 18 {t stood.) The inner political effects will un- loubtedly be a strong revolutionizing of the working class, an enormous increase of class antagonisms, and at the same time a differentiation within the working class, which will proceed much more rapidly than in the last nine months, HE Issue of January 18 will be Nina full of facts and features—all_ gaily attired with cartoons to best celebrate the very first’ bir of the DAILY WORKER, Comrade Bob Minor’s splendid cartoons will be ading +eihord: review of the past year of American labor in general and the W Party in particular—plus the part the DAILY WORKER has played both—will be another feature, ‘ Special contributions by Wm. Z. Foster, Wm. F. Dunn Engdahi, T. J. O'Flaherty, Manuel Gomez and others among writers in the labor movement will add their share to the first | celebration, Give this issue to a worker and you assure the DAILY @ new reader—and your branch of the party a new BUNDLE ORDERS MUST ie he ty iA gecle aan 2 CENTS SPER copy Make your order as large as possible and remittance attached to this blank, tl The workers now have a new char- ter, @ program of demands for which they will fight. These demands are unacceptable for the conservatives, Nationalization of the railways, mines and banks, a 44-hour week, a legal minimum wage—all this will not be granted by any conservative govern- ment, unless they are thoroly compell- ed to it. The carrying out of even these inadequate and incomplete de- mands means the death of English capitalism. A fight, a real fight over them is a fight for life and death, This fight stands on the order of the day. ‘This does not mean that Dnglish capitalism will be “settled” to- morrow or the day after. But this means that in England the struggle for the a toes of capitalism has be- this moans a great deal, — e i send it ii THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Biva. Here are my birthday greetings ine for which you will send mé a bundle order of. of the January 13 issue, ‘ NAME ..... evenssecennenannennennensneeensecnsusstesneesssnsersnnes STREET sssessssssrryseenerneernsetnsovnnenssssersseseessssssessensaney