The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. eee Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml, (Phone: Mumroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $6.00 per year $8.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.60...8 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB........ Chicago, tlinels wee EGOS Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. => 20 Advertising rates on application The Crime Hunters Crime statistics, like advertising figures, de- pend on who is slinging the figures. Those in charge of law enforcement show, by figures, that crime is on the decrease. Those who would like to be on the crime hunting payroll, produce figures that prove the opposite. Thus the battle rages. Since the Volstead act became the law of the land and violating it became the favorite indoor sport of the law-loving American people, law en- forcers have more trouble than they ever had be- fore. The competition for the job was never so keen, because never before did it pay so well. Chicago would like to be known as a law abiding city. The capitalists who run it have grown wealthy in shady transactions and like the roues with less vitality than virtue, they are now willing to be good. Those whose fortunes are yet unmade are on the other side of the fence. Hence the tumult over crime. The violators of the prohibition law suggest that the police get after the rape fiends, the profes- sional burglars and murderers. The clergy, evi- dently thinking the burglars, rape fiends and mur- derers are less obnoxious to god than bootleggers, devote their time to raiding blind pigs and vice resorts. Perhaps they do this to dissipate the grow- - ing feeling that a clergyman’s collar is only a license for licentiousness. The net result of the crime is that the murderers are getting cockier, the rape fiends get more fiendish and the burglars don’t even get their names in the papers. But the crime hounds do. Mayor Dever was praised by Gary and Rocke- feller jr. for his efforts in enforcing the prohibi- tion law. This despite the fact that his honor is a catholic. Since those words of adulation were uttered the mayor is unbearable. His chief of police called a meeting of captains to discuss plans to put down liquor. One captain walked in, or rather rolled in. He was the living embodiment of the fine art of putting down liquor. Chief Collins took his star away. The captain didn’t care; he was gloriously drunk. Chicago is in America, not in Russia. Now the wealthy citizens of Chicago, railroad magnates, oil barons, bankers and brokers, men who have run thegauntletof publicopprobrium for years have decided to become law enforcers. They grew tich thru various forms of robbery, robbery of the workers in particular.. They are acting on the theory that a good offensive is the best defensive strategy. While they are noising about criminals, their own criminal acts may escape detection. It is mighty difficult to suspect a judge of being a crook or a clergyman of being a libertine. Do not bank thieves nowadays appear in the role of bank inspectors? One must keep up with the times. / There is money in crime. There is money ih protecting it. There is no civic spirit under capi- talism. “Chicago is a fine city to plunder.” This is the slogan of the capitalist politicians who run it or have ambition to run it. The law enforcers are a set of grafters in competition with the other set who want a wide open city. Administrations come and administrations go, but graft, crime and vice go on forever. Social cleanliness and capital- ism cannot exist together. The Chicago city council voted to open its ses- sions by prayer. In order to keep on the right side of the votes every respectable sect in the city is urged to send a prayer monger. The crooks can now operate under divine sanction. _ The Socialist Debacle Monarchist supporters of kaiserism are today ir charge of the republican government of Germany Of the eight cabinet members officially appointed six are monarchists, the seventh is an industrialis with anti-republican leanings, The eighth is a re vublican. The social-democrats, watchdogs of the capitalist republic, are on the outside twiddling their thumbs. Despite their boasted victory in the recent elec- tions, they have no more effect on politieal develop- ments than a fly on the axle of a wagon wheel has on the progress of the vehicle. The pendulum has swung to the right, about as far as it can go, with Germany remaining a republic. The next step may be the restoration of the monarchy, Six years after the.German revolution sent the kaiser into exile, his supporters are again at the head of the German government. The German revo- lution, the much touted monument to social-dem- oeraey, is but a bad dream. The workers who made it possible to ditch the kaiser are today worse off than ever with the Dawes plan like a giant iron collar around their necks. Phey may thank the soecial-democrats for their predicament. The socialists drowned the German revolution in and Rosa Luxemburg, Communist leaders, were assassinated by the socialists: who fought to up- hold the banner of capitalist democracy rather than the dictatorship of the proletariat. They pointed to Russia, torn by civil war, devastated by famine, and isolated by the blockade as a horrible example of workers’ rule. The German workers followed .the social-democrats. Today, the kaiser may be packing up his household goods for a come- back. Only a political saphead like Victor Berger sees a danger of a monarchist revival in Russia. The ezar is under the ground. He is safe. His sup- porters are scattered all over the world, living precariously. The Soviet republic is powerful. The workers and peasants are their own bosses. Pros- perity is on the up-grade. It is the workers’ pros- perity. They have a dictatorship. It is their own dictatorship, real democracy. It is a dictatorship of the many in the interests of the many. Russia is no longer torn by civil war and devastated by famine, it is no longer a horrible example. It is a beacon light to the workers of the world. Join the Workers Party and subscribe to the DAILY WORKER. The New Brain Twister The cross word puzzle has a serious competitor in Washington political circles. The wives, daugh- ters, friends, poor relatives and other liabilities of the politicians and diplomats who live in and on the Capitol have put their cross word puzzles on the shelf and now devote themselves to the task of solving the question, whether or not this government is entangled in European politics. It all happened because the unofficial official representatives of the Coolidge administration signed, with the allied powers, an agreement af- fecting the collection of reparations from Ger- many under the Dawes plan. According to London dispatches, Winston Churchill, British represen- tative, pulled the wool over Ambassador Kellogg’s eyes by handing him a lot of taffy and commenting favorably on the amount of gray matter he carried under his hat. Kellogg rose to the occasion in- stantly, like a well-trained sucker, and put his John Hancock .where Churchill’s index finger pointed. The French and the British thereupon} began to wink at each other and said substantially: “We got the Yankee by the shirt tail.” The French and British feel it will be easier for them to soak Germany with the signature of the United States attached to the dunning bill. But the policy of official participation in “foreign entanglements,” as the capitalist demagogues like to put it, is not popular in the United States, and| is a bad vote-catching bait. So, when the London and Paris dispatches came chuckling to Washing- ton, the wise heads in the Coolidge balliwick began to sniffle danger. Hence the difference of opinion; one set of politicians saying: “We are entangled,” and the administration set saying: “We are as free as the air.” But as the Moscow Pravda points out, the United was not unwittingly drawn into the Dawes plan entanglement. Wall Street is bursting with gold and needs new outlets for its surplus. The policy of isolation no longer works. Political factors must be taken into consideration, but the world is none too large for American capitalism and the policy of isolation must go by the board. Coolidge and his masters are simply getting the United States used to participation in “foreign entangle- ments.” It is already in in fact if not officially. - Communist Leadership The labor fakers“aré bitter against the Com- munists not alone because they advocate the over- throw of capitalism, under which the fakers are doing nicely, but because the Communists insist on getting the workers into action against the capitalists now, to wrench more of the products of their labor from the exploiters. The fakers stand in the way of any action of this sort. They are not labor leaders in the real sense. They are agents of the bosses and the last thing they want to see the workers do is fight against the bosses. The Communists are not content with carrying on a desultory propaganda against capitalism in general among the workers. They have a program for immediate action as well as for the ultimate goal. They know that the masses require leader- hip. They will have either the leadership of the eactionaries, which they have now, or they will ave the leadership of the progressives, which is ‘ommunist leadership. This means the unhorsing 1 the present reactionary jockeys and that is vhere the Communists hit the fakers right where hey live. This accounts for the campaign of ex- sulsions against the Communists. But in spite of ull the efforts of the fakers the Communists are making progress. The Communists have nominated a slate for the slections in the International Association of Ma- chinists. Julius Emme, of St. Paul, is the candidate for president, Tim Buck of Canada for general secretary. Lodge 84 of the Machinists’ Union, at its last meeting, endorsed the entire left wing slate, This is only one example of the rebirth of in- surgency in the ranks of organized labor. Whereas in former years such developments were leaderless and ineffective because the efforts were not co- orditated, today the Trade Union Educational League is giving direction to the rebellious move- ment within the trade union and organizing it on a national scale. This accounts for the desperate efforts of the fakers to drive the Communists, the leaders of the revolt, out of the a But their efforts will be the blood of the working class. Karl Liebknecht|in vain. “Socialist” Treachery in Ebert Case By R. ALBERT. ‘HERE was a time when the Ger- man social democracy was the brain and the hope of the labor inter- national. There was at this time in the saddlers’ union an active man, who was certainly more inclined to a cautious policy of reform than to pre- parations for street fighting, but nev- erthel€ss, was sufficiently eloquent and red; Fritz Ebert. Bygone times! What a foul vapor is more and more blotting out this glorious past of the greatest party of the Second Interna- tional is shown to us in a most strik- ing manner by the trial in Magde- burg. We had believed that we had seen and heard everything possible in Ger- many, the reichstag vote of the 4th af August, 1914. Scheidemann, who agreed with the court flunkeys that he and his party should cry “Hoch der kaiser,” on the occasion of voting the war credits. Noske, who caused to be shot down the proletarians who had taken his own socialism serious- ly. The. “Vorwarts,”* which incited the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the ‘Vorwarts” which clings to the official legend re- garding this crime. The fascist Ehr- hardt, who a year ago made the reve- lation that before offering the dic- tatorship to Kapp, he offered it to Noske. The social democratic party executive which approved of the march of the reactionary reichswehr into red Saxony. And so many other execrable things which have been spoken, written down, posted up, pro- claimed and committed! So that we had to ask ourselves repeatedly: When will there be an end to this cesspool of iniquity? No, it appears we have not yet seen everything, we have not yet learned everything. From this. cess- pool, still further stenches arise and mingle With the thick vapor which covers the memory of Bebel and the great founders of the German social democracy. This is shown by the trial which is now being held in Madgeburg. A German nationalist of the name of Rothardt now, after eight years, MILLION ‘KIDS’ NOW EMPLOYED IN INDUSTRIES Al Smith Trims on Child Law There are over one million children now being exploited in the industries of the nation while millions of adults are unemployed. This explains the op- position of the employers to the child labor amendment. Children can be employed at lower wages than adults. It is not concern over paternalism in government that prompts the opposi tion. The capitalists are anxious to have this paternalism exercised on the side of their interests. But they want no law that would even in the slight- est way interfere with their right to grind profits out of the children. Smith with Bosses. That Governor Al tenis straddl- ing of the amendment in his inaugural speech had the sanction of the busi- ness “elements is proved by a resolu- tion passed by the merchants’ assoc- iation, endorsing Smith’s position on the child labor law. The governor recommended that the question be submitted to a referendum vote. This would give lemies of the propor ed law an oj to spend hun dreds of thousatids of dollars to’ de feat it and line up the Roman catholic church machine to kill it is they did in Massachusetts, According to the 1920 census there were 1,060,958 children at work in in dustry and in the agricultural regions This count only covered those from ten to fifteen years old. Thousands of children less than ten years old have been found working by investigators from societies concerned with child welfare. Leaders Are Asleep. The South Carolina legislature re- jected the proposed amendment by + unanimous vote in both houses. Cali- fornia ratified the law and the gov- ernors of Maine and New Hampshire recommend ratification. The reactionary leaders of the Am- erican Federation of Labor ate making no organized effort to defeat the ex: ploiters of child labor. Mass meet- ings should be" organized and the workers aroused to the seriousness of the child labor problem. 501 TOMORROW Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum. MUSIC. By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN The unfinished quartet of Ernes’ Chausson was given its first perform jance in Chicago last Wednesday af ternoon, on the second program of this season of the Gordon string quar- tet, given in the foyer of Orchestra Hall, This quartet of Chausson is much like his symphony. That means it is highly concentrated emotional. ex- pression, the expression of some great tearing necessity within the man to give vent to his feelings in tone. There is no resistingsChausson. He, sweeps one away so completely that one cannot analyze his music intel- lectually as one hears it. And it is because of this appeal directly to the heart and not to the head that makes Chausson, however, few of his works, one of the great composers of modern times. The Beethoven quartet, opus 132, followed the Chausson. It might have been that the writer had not recuper- ated from. the Frenchman’s composi- tion, but it seemed as the Beethoven were infinitely inferior to it. The first movement has the typically trou- bled, nervous touch of a Beethoven al- legro, but the third section, which is the slow movement, is so long drawn out that it seems endless. The Gordon quartet is composed of four members of the Chicago Sym- shony orchestra, Jacques Gordon, first violin; John Weicher, second violin; Clarence Evans, viola, and Alfred Wallenstein, violincello. The playing f this organization has the elegance and the fineness that comes with such close association as these four men experience. Senators Want More Money to Be Spent On War Appropriations (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 18.—An- other attempt was made in the senate today to secure elevation of guns on American battleships, in order to increase their range. The debate on the elevation of the guns occurred when the $287,316,000 naval appro- priation bill came up for passage by the senate. Senator Hale pointed out that the bill represented an expenditure of $9,141,000 more than was given the navy during the current fiscal year. In addition to this large appropria- tion Senator McKellar declared in fa- vor of further appropriations to allow for elevation of the guns. He attacked the bill because it had made no such provision. Q Johnny Disagreed with the Teacher. One day in school the teacher was reading to our class about the capitalists. After she was thra she asked the children the follow- ing question: “What are those people who do all thé work in mines, factories and other places called?” ‘ Johnny, who was a Junior, rose and answered: “The workers.” The teacher's face colored as she said: “Why, Johnny, you're mis- taken! It is the capitalists who do all the work, The workers are the laziest people on earth. The capi- talists are the people who do the big work of this world.” Johnny could not control his anger. He yelled ont to the teacher that just the opposite is true. The teacher told Johnny that if he spoke another word he would have to go to the office, Johnny didn’t want to say any- thing else to the teacher just then. “PI talk.to her after school some day soon,” he it. URLIST CHILDRENS COLUPN Sj ag Everyone in the class agreed with Johnny except Billy, who is a rich boy. Just as soon as John- ny got thru speaking, Billy shook} ‘ his fist at him and passed a note to him which read: “Meet me be- hind the school house after scho and I'll show you if capitalists work.” Johnny answered on the same slip of paper: “I’ll be there.” As soon as school was ont John- ny and his friends went behind the school house to meet Billy. It didn’t take Johnny long before he had Billy on the ground, begging Johnny not.to hit him any more, and promising that he would not write such a note again, The next afternoon Johnny talked to his teaeher about the workers and the capitalists. John- ny went home very happy because he convinced his teacher that the workers did all the work at the mines and factories, and every- where, Sally Pietarila, age 12, mem- ber of the Finnish Hall Junior Group, Minneapolis, Minn, ‘ ecuses the reichs President Ebert of having, in January, 1918, on the oc- casion of the great strike in the muni- tlon “factories—the first great mass ‘rising of the German workers against the imperialist slaughter, the true forerunner of the November revolu- tion—declared that the general strike must be continued as it would shorten the war, Abominable calumny! The citizen Ebert starts an action for libel against the base slanderer. Hindenburg, Ludendorff, Macken- son drove their last reserves of can- nonfodder into the slaughter. The em- pire cracked in all directions, the realm began to collapse. The’ general strike in the munition factories in 1918 was a “wild” strike, instigated by Spartacist dgitators.. When the strike broke out the social democratic party executive, of which Ebert was the chairman, joined in the strike and sent its representatives into the strike committee. These arethe facts, Now witnesses appeal before the reaction: ary judges, who sit there with mali- cious joy. It is a pleasure for these Judges to see the: good social demo- cratic servants of the bourgeois order oscillating between treason to the old regime and treason to the working class. President Ebert disclaims that .he over wished to shorten the war, th vould be a contradiction of his whole vast. The ‘honest man smites his »osom, the witness Scheidemann will explain everything. Scheidemann has done so. At the hearing of the trial on December 11, he deposed that it was thanks to the social democratic party that the mon- archy did not fall some months ear- lier than it did: “If we had not been on the strike committee, then this court would probably not be sitting today, and the war and everything else, according to my firm conviction, would have been already~-settled in January, 1918.” These are the ac- tual words of Scheidemann. The na- tiorfalist court of Madgeburg is one of the courts of plutocratic Germany, in which over 8,000 proletarians are pin- ing in prison. “You ought to be grate- ful to us,” said Scheidemann. That is also our opinion. Questioned by the president of the court in a cynical. manner regarding the influence of the social democrats at that time, Scheidemann evaded the answer and only said that if the so- cial democratic party had attempted to oppose the strike, it would have been like attempting to check an aval- anche. In the further course of his evidence Scheidemann made a state- ment regarding a very interesting sit- ting of the ‘social democratic reich- Monday, January 19, 1925 [aw stag fraction on September 28, 1918, In this sitting it was decided to par- ticipate in the then still existing im- perial government of the lost war, and Scheidemann now related that when Ebert received the last news from the front, tears came into his eyes and he said, one must’enter the govern- ment in order to save what still re mains to be saved. To save what? The dynasty! The army? The colonies? The shatter- ed hopes of profitable annexations? The bourgeois order? To save what? Everything that can be saved at any price. Of course, with the exception of socialism, When Scheidemann was reminded that the strike of January, 1918, had put forward the demand for an am- nesty, he pointed out that the party executive had rejected, this in the same way as it today rejects that of the Communists. It never occurred to him that anybody having the Teast pretentions to honesty would, even tho hypocritically, have made a distifiction between the prisons of the Hohenzolierns and those of the re- public. It is true that. we find prac- tically no difference. It would be worth while to follow all the statements of the witnesses word for word. After Scheidemann and Hermann Miller, came the turn of Dittmann, who, among other things declared on oath, that the social de mocrats only entered the strike com- mittee in order, by skillful negotia- tions, to bring about the resumption of work, in plain language, to sabo- tage the movement. That is true. One can fight the working class bet- ter from within than from without. Treachery is the shatpest weapon against it. The witness Wutschik, confessed to the lack of political in- fluence of the social democratic party executive at that moment, which, as it was no longer able to lead, only had the possibility of be- trayal; the witness stated that the strike had already been entered upon up to the last man when the party executive sanctioned it. The trial/is still proceeding. The exposure of social democratic betray- als promises still further revelations. For the present we will quote the concluding words of Scheidemann: “If we had not entered the strike committee, then the ‘Deutsche Zeit- ung’ would not be ih a position today to abuse me; a tscheka would have come into existence which would have put an end to this paper and ‘prob- ably hanged me.” Scheidemann is right. But what did not happen in 1918 can still hap- pen one of these fine days. Hinman and His Mouthful OME of the papers of big business see radicalism in eclipse in the small vote that LaFollette polled. Specialist, who noses Hinman, the Hearst around the crooked paths that the rolling dollars make, who claims to have studied the development of radicalism on two whole continents, tells the business world not to believe it. Radicalism is still as busy as ever, says Hinman. “Radicals are still trying to force the class struggle upon business men by forc- ing workers to strike, by urging ‘have-nots’ to rise and smite the ‘haves.’ And therefore business men had better not sit back too deeply in their cushioned club chairs, closing their eyes to this imminent danger.” Hinman says more. He says that the extreme radicals have in this country the same powerful press as ever. Seventy pa- bers printed in English, 220 printed in foreign languages, 269 imported regularly from for- reign countries. If Hinman means extreme radicals, then ber of papers he credits us with having was us wher he refers to we wish that the num- — really the number we had. With 70 English papers and a couple of hundred language pa- | pers we'd be inclined to look for the revolu- tion just around most any corner. As matters stand we must confess to only one English daily paper. And we are trying our best to vitamine and callory this one so that it may swing a wicked fist during the coming year. Dollars, many of them, will help this paper of the oo nots” land solar aves.” If you are with us in this fight, then you'll tell this story at the next meeting, to all the We want everybody that’ on our side to help INSURE THE DAILY plexus blows upon the workers you see. WORKER FOR 1925, WE HAVE ISSUED OF DAILY WORKER POLICIES TO DA dais eid YOURS?, $15,000 WORTH INSURANCE HAVE Y OU © TE.