The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. ennslasacarublaghaa® 4 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING €O. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, NL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50... % months . - .00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only if $4.50....6 months $2.60...8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 91113 W. Washington Bivd. J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE Editors MORITZ J. LOEB.......ssennmn Business Manager Chicago, Mlinele Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act.of March 3, 1879. <> 200 Advertising rates op application “Our Empire” The London Daily Herald carries an advertise- ment in a recent issue of a series of “brilliant and statesmanlike” articles from the pen of J. T. Thomas, colonial minister in the MacDonald gov- ernment, to appear in “Answers,” one of the string of publications founded by the late and unlamented imperialist Lord Northcliffe. When the labor party was called upon by. the king of England to form a government and Ram- say MacDonald kissed the royal toe,,yellow social- ists all over the world boasted that the policy of class collaboration and “letting evolution take its' course” as against the policy of class struggle and revolution, was vindicated. The Communists pointed out that the assumption of power by the labor party did not mean the conquest of ‘power on the part of the working class or their emancipa- tion, but that the bourgeoisie were in a tight fix and needed the labor fakers to pull them out of a hole. That is what happened. Ramsay MacDonald guided the destinies of the empire as carefully as did his predecessor, Stanley Baldwin. He slaughtered Hindoos and Egyptians, who thought they had a ‘right to some liberty in their native land. He built battleships to defend | the loot of the pirate capitalists who own the Brit- ish government. He threatened to use the armed forces in strikes, against the workers. What more could he do? J. H. Thomas looked after His Majesty’s colonies. He explained to the workers of Britain that the empire was their empire, that it was to their in- terests to put down “native” uprisings and exploit the colonial peoples. He performed his duty just as conscientiously as the comparatively unknown flunkey who preceded him. The labor party gov- ernment brought no change in British foreign policy until the labor movement forced it to guar- antee a loan to Soviet Russia. Then the bourgeoisie decided that danger was around the corner and kicked it out. Today J. H. Thomas is writing for a bourgeois paper about “our empire.” The Daily Herald, an alleged socialist paper, publishes the advertise- ment. In doing so the Daily Herald participates in the treachery of J. H. Thomas, who is selling for cash the confidence that the masses of British workers still repose in him. He is instilling into their minds the pernicious doctrine that Britain and all her colonies belong to the British workers, and that they are co-partners with the bloated im- perialists in the business of looting the victims of the pirate empire. The British labor party has given fool proof evi- dence of the futility of expecting a labor party government to represent the interests of the work- ing class. Wherever they have been in office, they have acted as the willing servants of the ruling | class. The Right Honorable J. H. Thomas is a horrible example of a yellow socialist serving his masters. But Victor Berger or Morris Hillquit : THE DAILY WORKER The Mad Dog of Menshevism The Irrespressible Mahoney There is a person in St. Paul, Minnesota, by the name of William Mahoney. He is editor of a weekly labor paper, which he maneuvered into being made the official organ of the Minnesota Federation of Labor, much to the chagrin of a rival faker in Min- neapolis, who edits the Labor Review. Mahoney is ambitious and has more schemes for getting his name into the capitalist papers than a conjurer has tricks, At one time Mahoney worked the “progressive” gag for breaking into print. As a phraseologically fiery radical, the capitalist papers got a kick out of featuring this harmless middle-aged property owner. On the other hand Mahoney could prove in his weekly sheet that he was a perfectly tractable progressive who would never upset the capitalist apple cart. There was a time when millions of American workers and poor farmers thought they wanted’ a labor party. Scores of American labor fakers and capitalist politicians thought they didn’t, but did not say so openly. Their policy was one of watch- ing and waiting and making Delphic promises. The Communists took the lead in endeavoring to organize the growing political consciousness of the masses. This caused the labor fakers to sentence the Communists to political isolation. But they could not carry out the sentence. The Communists advocated class political action for the workers and poor farmers as against a united front with the bourgeoisie as urged by the progressives and reactionaries. One of those who stood for a class farmer-labor party was Mahoney. But when LaFollette blew his bugle and the fakers followed him as the rats of Hamelin followed the Pied Piper (tho unfortunately not into the ocean) Mahoney joined the procession. At the Cleveland conference of the C. P. P. A. Mahoney was not allowed to sit with the respect- ables. He was unclean, because in a weak moment he invited the Communists to participate in the St. Paul convention. But he was willing to make amends and since then he has made penance in sackcloth and ashes for his progressive sins. Mahoney recently figured in the expulsion of two Communists from the St. Paul Central Labor Council. He aided the reactionaries. Again he breaks into the news. This time by reading the Communists out of the Minnesota farmer-labor federation. In doing this, Mahoney will win back whatever credit he lost with the capitalist class during the days in which he sowed his radical wild oats. The political roue has now turned evangelist. If Ma- honey thinks that he is hurting the Communists by his action, even his addled brain will soon be con- vinced that he has hurt his fake farmer-labor party more than he hurt the Communists. The workers and farmers of Minnesota have in the Workers (Communist) Party the only political party that fights for their interests, The farmer-la- bor federation is now in the hands of bankers, labor fakers and petty bourgeois professional politicians who will use it to further their own ambitions and as a club to shake graft out of the capitalists. With- out the Communists the farmer-labor federation is like a body without a soul. It is a political corpse. Mahoney is welcome to the job of’ being its undertaker. Paste This in Your Hat If anyone has a notion that the employers want an open shop in order to be able to raise the pay of the workers, or even if anyone has the insane idea that a successful open shop campaign won’t make any difference in the general wage rate, mere- ly because he himself is not a member of organized labor, he should read the following editorial taken ‘from the Minnesota Banker for the month of December, 1920. If anyone says, as some labor fakers do some- would act no differently if Wall Street decided that | times say, that, the “radicals” and “left wing” the Coolidges and Davises were no longer able} to keep the masses from revolting. The Same 0 Old Northcliffe Perhaps some of our readers believe that Lord Northcliffe $s dead. He isn’t. He simply stopped editing the London Times and took a long vacation. | Being a staunch imperialist, Northeliffe still watches over the empire from his invisible vacation land. ° You can’t keep some people from breaking into the news. Northcliffe is one of them. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and several other bourgeois gentlemen hell a meeting in Queen’s Hall, London, recently, The hall was crowded. It is no wonder. Who would not go to see a bunch of bourgeois nuts offer them- selves as object lessons on the intellectual deteriora- tion of capitalist society? Aceording to the author of Sherlock Holmes, Northcliffe does not like the Times editorials. He) says they are too long. Some critics find the same| fault with the DAILY WORKER editorials. But} we submit that ours are interesting. Northcliffe resented his being given credit for popularizing the “bogey of Bolshevism” as a means of scaring the masses.’ The best way to keep the masses in tow, he told Conan Doyle, is to “tickle ’em.” We suggest that Conan Doyle get in touch with Lenin! A man who never looked at the clock—press ‘are “helping the bosses” y “disturbing things,” you may read that chap this quotation from the Minnesota Banker. So paste the following in your hat: “The open shop movement, now well under way all over the United States, is deemed by its pro ponents as the prime means of bringing about* lowered labor costs and with them increased produe- tion. When such a gigantic force in the industry of the country as the Bethlehem Steel company openly announces its aid for this movement, even to the ex- tent of refusing to sell its product to manufacturers not favoring the open shop idea, it is at once evident what vast momentum the open shop movement is ob- taining. “There is no question as to the economic value of the open shop. But, at the same time, those who are pushing it must be most careful in their methods. The open shop movement is a powder magazine. A carelessly thrown match might start a nation-wide conflagration. The closed shop is zealously fought for by the radical wing of labor organization. The Open shop can be the most readily brought about by the elimination of this element as a power in or- ganized labor. “The conservative labor man is one to whom sound argument and sound horse je appeal. He is the hope of the open shop proponent and upon him, In the final analysis, will rest the matter of accepting the idea philosophically, in the right spirit, without disrupting the entire industrial situation by means of disastrous strikes and lockouts. The open shop argument must be addressed, therefore, to the better sense and judgement of the conservative in organ- ized labor. He must be won over to the soundness of the proposition. “This is the ideal thing to do and it can be done in many parts of the country. In others, where the agent stuff—left a thriving business to six of his employes recently. He was in the cloak and, suit business.. The gift looks fishy. The benefactor’s name is Almerindo Portfolio, and when he turned into Santa Claus his brother Pasquale became president and treasurer of the new firm. The ques- tion before the house is: What's the matter with the rest of Portfolio’s employes? Where do they come in? The story is mental food for morons, 4 radical element is too strongly entrenched, there is, of course, but one final thing to do, and that is to beat them by force. They must be locked out and licked until the conservatives the light and realize that the rights of capital must be considered. This harsher method, however, should not be employed until all other plans have failed.” Joi the Workers Party and subscribe to the DAILY WORKER. (From the Novy Mir. Russian Communist Daily.) ‘HERE recently arrived in the * United States one of the famous gang of the menshevik leaders. ‘He came here to agitate among the Amer- ican workets. against. Soviet. Russia and for the International of: Scheide- mann, He came here for the same reason as those bankrupt aristocrats who are.coming here to revive -their business. In their homeland | these Abramoviches are -bankrupt.. The working masses have turned away from them, The'great Russian revolu- tion branded them with scorn, The future holds nothing for them in the Union of Soviet: Socialist Republics. America is big and plentiful, and here there are uncountable fools. ‘ That is why the Abramoviches are coming here hoping to strengthen their failing political credit. But it isn’t only) Abramovich as such. It is the American menshevism and the American’ social-patriotism that are involved. Abramovich came at the invitation of the yellow Jewish newspaper Forward... He came to aid the reputation of this organ-parasite To the Proletarians of All Countries! ‘HE Polish bourgevisie, in alliance with the Polish . socialist party, has introduced an era of most brutal repression inst the Communist Party of Poland, which is heroically fighting for the emancipation of the working class, the working peasantry and the suppressed. peoples of Poland. The Communist: member of parlia- ment, Comrade Lanzuski, and the Ukrainian members of parliament are the first victims of this campaign. Hunger, misery and the most brutal exploitation is driving the Polish pro- letariat and the propertyless peasan- try into the fight against the ruling classes. In the border states, in spite of the military dictatorship and of the death sentences, the flames of révolt are again arising among. the doubly exploited masses’ of White Russian and Ukrainian peasantry. The White Russian and Ukranian peasant is fight- ing, weapon in hand, against the Po- lish landowner for national emancipa- tion and the right, to self-determina- tion. An economic and financial crisis of enormous extent,.as well as.un- employment and impoverishment of the masses, is undermining the found- ations of the bourgeois feudal Polish republic. The ruling classes of Po- land are attempting. to master the difficulties of the situation with the aid of terror and streams of blood. The Communist Party of Poland, which is Suppressed and exposed to the blows of an unheard-of -persecu- tion, is organizing and conducting the struggle of the m: who are more and more threatening the rule: of the Its influence is growing bourgeoisie. By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. There are four kinds of opera. Low- est in the scale are works like “La Traviata,” which consists of exactly three melodies hung onto a bed plot. |Next is the glorious boob type, like “I) Trocatore,” in ;whith a trashy melo |drama is set with eatehy, brilliant tunes, which are ‘mever dramatically appropriate, Them®.there are the masterpieces, Mke'“The Dusk of the Gods” or “Boris Godunov,” in which every last line, every holding tone in @ fourth ‘bassoom ‘has meaning’ and Sfefiificance. og “Werther,” which the Chicago Civie Opera Company, gave at the Auditorium oe night, be- longs to the cl of pleasantly un- important operas, along with a good many others. The opera is by Jules Massenet, adapted om’ the novel, “The Sorrows of, " by Goethe. Werther is in. with Charlotte, f Albert. Al- ‘8 affection, mother had n ingly when the — “Werther” by the Chicago Civic Opera Co. | that grew fat at the cost of the Jewish workers. One bankrupt helps the other. But will it help any? Even the backward American workers are beginning to turn away from these brazen traitors. The class struggle is growing sharper on the one hand thanks to the steady capitalist oppres- sion, and on the, other—thanks to the steady work of the Communists, © But still we may say a few words about the enemy that has just arrived. Abramovich is one. of the most Poisonous informers against the Un- ion of Soviet Socialist Republics; one of the maddest enemies of Commun- ism. When he talks about the revolu tion and the revolutionary proletariat he chokes with madness. When he mentions the victorious Russian Com- munist Party, his face turns into the grimace of the insane. One can feel that it is a personal madness; a per- sonal account. What is the matter? Abramovich cannot forgive himself because he missed a revolutionar} holiday. The poor menshevik figured wrong. When the great masses o workers and soldiers began to rise in order to capture power, he thot it wa every day. It is gathering around the flag of Communism the entire flower of the working class who have been tested in fierce revolutionary strug- gles. Its infinite devotion to the cause of the emancipation’ of the working class, its heroic fight on all fronts of the class struggle—in the dungeéns of the Polish secret police, upon the barricades of the revolutionary strug- gles and in the “democratic” parlia- ment, where the Communist deputies raised flaming protests against the capitalist reign of violence and na- tional suppression, which nailed down the whole fraud and hypocrisy of par- liamentary democracy—all this is winning for the Communist Party the confidence of ever wider masses of the working people. The parliamentary fraction of the Communist Workers Party in Poland has couragéously and resolutely taken up the fight for the emancipation of the workers, of the peasants and the suppressed nationalities, The bour- geois-feudal rulers in Poland and their allies the Polish socialist party—these faithful watchdogs of the Second In- ternational and of world imperialism on the frontier of Soviet Russia, from whom all class conscious proletarians of Poland have long since turned from in disgust—are now endeavoring, drunken with the workers’ blood which has been shed, to silence the Communist parliamentary fraction. The bourgeoisie and the Polish so- cialist party are seeking by this means to prevent the exposure, by the revo- lutionary representatives of the pro- letariat and of the poor peasantry in the sejm, of their lies, their deceit and their base betrayal of the inter- ests of the. working. masses. Three years later Werther, who still loves Charlotte, meets her husband in a.small village, who counsels him to attempt to work up someraffection for Sophie, Charlotte’s sister. But Wer- ther finds that after.the absinthe is gone he gets no kick out of trying to eat the glass. He visits Charlotte in her home. Hoe leaves her, sends for Albert’s pistols, which Albert maker Charlotte handle, ‘shoots himself, and dies in Charlotte's arms. It is a dramatic tale, this, of how the hand of the dead can cause suf fering and suicide. In its operatic form it has one fault. The hero of the sstory, Werther himself, is a sort of animated. toothache, he has nothing to sing but sobs and supposedly heart- rending appeals. The music is not so important ar that.of some other Massenet operas. There is nothing at all here compar able to the “Meditation” in “Thais,’ or the ballet music in “Le Cid.” In the third act is a lovely solo for Char. lotte, as she tells her sister of Wer- ther’s love for her, and at the very . 'end is a most effective duet for Char Ten Thousand Less‘ Textile Workers i inR.I. PROVIDENCE, R. R, I, Jan. 22, — There were 10,674 less persons in the textile industry of Rhode Island in 1924 than in 1923, according to the computation of the state factory in- spector. The number working in 1924 is estimated at 75,786. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum, Relations With Nicaragua Good, MEXICO CITY, Jan, 22—Mexico has not broken relations with Nicaragua, The foreign office was on record to- day in a statement to this effect and Foreign Minister added that to show its taeaaling ite Nicaragua, Mexico would send representatives to the forthcoming inaugural ceremonies Nicaragua. if an insane mutiny. When, from one end to the other of the vast country there sounded the slogan: All Power to the Soviets!—he held ‘on'to the folds of Kerensky and Chernoy. When the Red Guard at the head of the revolu- tionary. workers’ of. Leningrad was fighting to capture the Winter Palace. our menshevik hysterically cried: “Help!” When the Second Congress of the Soviets in the great day of Oct. 25 (Nov. :7). became the supreme power and inaugurated the new Soviet system, Abramovich remained with the “democracy.” ‘The poor menshevi? did not grasp what was going on. He was sure that the Soviet power would exist for only a day or two, or a week. He was preparing to celebrate, with those who would “overthrow the Bol sheviks,” and would bring back to Russia the bourgeois system. He was drunk with hopes, His awakening was a rude one. When he finally found himself after the world explo- sion, the revolution passed by and went ahead with giant strides casting him, and those with him, into the gutter. It’ happened that he missed th greatest event in the history of the The Polish sejm decided to deliver Comrade Lanzuski into the hands of the secret police on account of a speech which he delivered at a meet- ing of the: railway workers. Com- rade Lanzuski—a worker, a: railway man, is accused of high treason. <Ac- cording to the laws: of “democratic” Poland, the penalty for this crime is| capital punishment. The arrest of Comrade Lanzuski had long been prepared and did not come unexpected. During the whole day the police of the Polish bourgeoisie were lying in wait before the sejm building in order to arrest Comrade Lanzuski immediately the decision .to hand over had. been. adopted by the sejm. In spite of this, Comrade Lan- zuski appeared before .the sejm in or- der to hurl in the face of the Polish bourgeoisie and of the Polish socialist party the defiance of the revolution- ary proletariat. The accused became the accuser. “Communism js growing and the day is not distant when it will sweep you off the face of the earth,” declar- ed Comrade Lanzuski in his speech; and these bold words of the proletar- ian champion will find a response, not only in Poland, but everywhere where there are revolutionary workers and peasants. Comrade Lanzuski is torn from the ranks of the active champions of the proletariat, as was Comrade Dombal two years ago. But the Communist Party of Poland lives and will con- tinue its fight, in spite of the white terror and in spite of the campaign of lies of the bourgeois and: social democratic press. ‘The Polish bourgeoisie and its con- federates . intend, by the: arrest. of By Moissaye J. Olgin working class and in the history of the world. He became useless gar- bage.. The victorious revolution has thrown him aside as one would shove aside a filthy cur. ‘And a filthy cur he has been since that time, running with slavver drip- ping tongue around the camp of the victors, sniffing about in search of that which may be found in the rear of a building under construction. Here he. notices a pile of garbage, there a few scraps from the table, etc., and all that which is unavoidable at a great historical job, all that the builders themselves are trying to cor- rect-he attacks as a starving dog attacks a carcass. _He feeds on that, without noticing the great things that are transpiring in the land of the Soviets. This offal. with the aid of the menshevik press, he spreads all over the world, This offal he brought here—to the United States, The workers will resent it as the Russian revolution resented the Abramoviches and all his kind. Too: brightly across the world shine the hammer and sickle, the symbol of victory of the working class! For the Fighting Proletariat of Poland! Comrade Lanzuski, and of th Ukranian deputies, to provoke the pro- letariat. The Polish rulers wish to arrange a massacre of St. Bartholo- mew, according to the Esthonian mod- el; they wish to carry out a blood- bath among the revolutionary Poles. This must not be permitted! Revolutionary proletarians of all countries, remember that the reaction- ary clique In Poland form the outposts of world counter-revolution! traitors. Protest against the arrest of the working class members of par- lament and the inhuman treatment of the workers. Protest against the un- restrained and ruthless suppression of nationalities In Poland. The workers and poor peasants of Poland, who in the course of their long’ struggle against czarism have brought so many sacrifices to the altar of the revolution, have a@ right to reck- on upon your solidarity in the hour when, under the flag of democracy, a new attack is being carried out against the workers of Poland. Demand the liberation of the un- daunted revolutionaries of Poland. Demand ‘the liberation of the -thou- sands and thousands of Polish, Ukran- jan, White Russian and Lithuanian workers and peasants who are pin- ing In the dungeons of the Polish de- mocracy. Demand the {liberation of Comrade Lanzuskl! Down. with the white terror! Long live the Communist Party of Poland! The Executive Committee of tha ~ Communist International. lotte and. Werther, as the hero dies The rest is insignificant. It is not bad. is as bad asthe. first. act of “ grin,” but it is music. day who is a real opera singer. Her name is Helen Freud, and she played Sophie. In “Louise” this same girl 1: but in “Werther” she is quite charm- ring. Her voice is small, both in vol- handle it, and she knows howto act. Mary Garden played Charlotte. She ‘was good in the part because Mary Garden is always good in any part. She could play one of the giants in “Das Rheingold” and get away with it, if necessary. Ferdinand Ansseau played the un- satisfactory role of Werther, and Alexander Kipnis was the Albert. The scenery for the opera was,gor- geous. ‘The company spared nothing to make the four sets, a garden scene a village street, and two interiors, as beautiful as possible. THE HIRED MAN. We've sweated and stru; Like the beasts we Toft tte nat you thought nee life was good. We a wee they in dest have! uve in ieheap no! ‘open spaces green, mee rr ae back, » washing, ates at neery, Nersek, mer u, and sit and holler, an) ews you Uke to whine, Guree your NE And your I grant, eta mings Think that we will always stand it sno MRS te ab EE ing we'll seo tf 's got guts Tren with. Pi mors the, coun RR TE Ba no more Tf ite As you shovel ome manure, Yoo our om that nen na You will di mat There is. not a note in the score that “Lohen: simply unimportant The performance brot out a little the nastiest little beggar in Paris ume and quality, but what there is of it is very fine. She knows how to BRISBANE GUEST _JAS PLUTES PLAN WORLD CONQUEST British and American Capital Now United (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 22--The Right Honorable BE. H. Young, M. P., for- merly' financial secretary of the Brit- ish treasury, and for some time a visitor to America to effect an alliance between British and American capi- talists, told an audience of fifty finan- ciers than England America now exert a dual control over world finance. Young stated that formerly Great Britain controlled the world money bags, but “the young American giant with new ideas had assumed at least an equal part in a dual control.” Young spoke under the auspices of the Bankers’ Club. “What is needed is metal to join the two countries in international bonds,” Young added. “That metal is international financial relationship,” Prominent at this gathering of American millionaires ahd industrial- ists was Arthur Brisbane, who per- forms the job of keeping the employes of this gathering satisfied with their low wages. All the millionaires smiled at Brisbane, and told him he was doing a good job in filling the minds ot the workers with fantastic fairy tales in order: to make them forget their empty. stomachs, In addition to Brisbane, the guests included Charles M. Schwab, Bernard Baruch, Newcomb Carlton, Charles A, Peabody, James H, Perkins, Thomas W. Lamont, Paul M. Warburg and Owen D. Young. 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