The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1925, Page 2

Page Two CANCEL RUSSIAN DEBT, Mi. CACHIN’ ADVISES FRENCH Deputy Tells Chamber of Damage Done Soviets (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, Jan. 25.—Marcel Cachin, Communist deputy, in a speech in the French chamber, denounced the London agree- ment and the Geneva protocol of the allies and declared them failures. Neither the United States nor Great Britain would pay the slightest attention to the Gene- va protocol, Comrade Cachin said. The Comunist deputy showed the hypocrisy of the present French gov- ernment in attempting to repudiate the debt owed by America to France, while at the same time France in- tpists that Soviet Russia pay debts in- feurred by the czar. Cachin declared ‘that the banks which issued the loans {should refund the full amount, more than one billion francs. France’s Anti-Soviet Acts. “It is no more just to demand that money than for America and Great ‘Britain to ask us to repay the 130,000,- j9000,000 francs they advanced to us.” ‘Soviet Russia would be justified, Com- ‘rade Cachin said, in asking compensa ‘tion for the billions of francs France fhas loaned to enemies of Soviet Rus- ‘sia in its attempt to overthrow the MBoviet government. Poland and France had united in a secret treaty, | Cachin charged, and was withholding (all information from the public as to tits contents. He was interrupted by Premier Herriot, who defended “French democracy.” Disi!ke Borah’s Frankness. Senator Borah’s frank statement that France and England secured the bulk of the plunder from the world war has caused excitement here. Bor- ah declared in his senate speech that “If you take the states of Washington Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, you will still have less in area in territory than Great Britaia ac- quired as a result of the great war.” Borah declared that, “Never was there such a division of territory an of spoils as characterized these settle ments designated and controlled by the secret treaties.” He said tha France got out of the war 402,39: Square miles of territory with a pop ulation of 4,000,000, the coal beds of ‘the Saar, Alsace Lorraine, and muct cash from Germany. America Wants Plunder, Too. Talk of the “moral contribution” of France and England to the war ha: been punctured by Borah’s speech ‘The French now realize that the Unit ed States wants her share of the plun der confiscated at the expense of the »German people. | “Remember the secret conference at }which four or five nations met and literally divided the world,” Borab jeald, speaking of the Versailles treaty )“President Wilson was unable to re (lease their grips on these seizures.” The American capitalists are deter- mined to do some gripping of their own, and Morgan seems to consider Coolidge more efficient at securing ‘plunder than was Wilson. When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. THE DAILY WORKER /) LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS | January 26. Dillonvale, Ohlo. Speaker: min Gitlow. 7 p. m. January 27. Yorkville, Ohio. Speaker: Benjamin Gitlow. 7 p. m. January 28. Bellaire, Ohlo. Speaker: Benjamin Gitlow. 7 p. m. January 29. Benja- Powhatan Point, Ohio. Speaker: Benjamin Gitlow, 7 p. m. January 30. Neffs, Ohlo. Speaker: Benjamin Gitlow, 7 p. m. January 31. Christopher, IIl., French Club, at 7 p. m. Speaker: John Mihelic. Sunday, Feb. 1. New York, N. Y., at 2 p. m., Mad: and Ruthenberg. New Haven, Conn., |Hall, 158 Crown St., Speaker, Joseph Manley. Buffalo, N. Y., at 8 p. m., Labor Ly- ceum, 376 William St. Speaker, Ben- jamin Gitlow. Portland, Ore., 227 Yamhill St., at 8 p.m, Speaker: Stanley Clark. Elizabeth, N. J., Sunday, Fob. 8, 7:30 Dp. m., Turn Hall, 725 High street. Erie, Pa., Russian Hall, 156 BH. 8rd St. Speaker: Benjamin Gitlow. 2:30 p.m, Waukegan, Ill, Slavonic National House, Cor. 10th St. and McAllister Ave. Speaker, Peter Herd. Sunday, Feb. 10, Baltimore, Md. Hall to be announc- Hermanson’s at 8 p.m. son Square Garden. Speakers: Foster ed. Speaker, Joseph Manley, MINOR’S TRIAL NOT POSTPONED ~- (Continued from page 1) declared that the cases are directed from the office of the state’s attorney in Lansing and that O. L. Smith, and not Brookwalter is in charge. Trials To Go On Attorney for the defense, I. HB. Fer- guson, called Smith on the phone after reading the Brookwalter state- ment and learned that no decision to postpone the Minor trial had yet been reached by the state. Comrade Maurer urges the readers of The Daily Worker not to slacken their efforts in raising funds for the defense. The following dispatch from our St. Joseph correspondent may throw spme light on Brookwalter’s reasons for making the statement. eee Taxpayers Worrying ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Jan, 25.—Ber- rien county taxpayers are becoming incensed by the increasing burden of taxation the trials of the Commun- ists being prosecuted there under the Michigan criminal syndicalism law are causing. Thousands of dollars are being spent by the county on every trial and there are thirty-one more yet to be held. The storm of protest has been so great that George Bookwalter, Berrien county prosecutor, is beginning to worry about his political fortunes. He has, it appears, been frightened into announcing that there will be de- lays in the prosecution of the Com- munists. Voters Kick. But that is mere talk for the vot- ers. Brookwalter knows there will be no shortage of funds for prosecuting the Communists. This recalls a simi- lar situation that existed in 1923. Then too, there was a kick from Ber- rien couyty. But it was goon hughed. The taxpayers were given to under- stand in various ways that they were not paying the bill. The Michigan state legislature, for example, passed a bill about that time, authorizing the state board of appropriations to supply all the neces- sary funds for the prosecution of criminal cases in any county in the state. This was obviously meant to bear the financial burden of the Ber- rien county cases. A Little Check For Berrien. In January of last year, the DAILY WORKER published the photograph of a check for nearly $4,000.00 issued by the state of Michigan to Berrien county to help cover the costs of the prosecution. This was only one of many checks. Beside this, the state took the lead in the prosecution and lightened the burden in that way as well. Department of Justice Wants Action. It is also a matter of record that the department of justice has shown must more than a casual interest in the proceedings in Michigan. It was department of justice agents who raided the convention. It was agents SOVIET OIL INDUSTRY WINNING MARKETS FROM AMERICAN AND BRITISH FIRMS THRUOUT PERSIA MOSCOW, Jan. 25.—That Soviet-Persian trade relations are rapidly growing, is shown by the following figures supplied to the press by Shu- miatzky, plenipotentiary representative of the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics at Teheran. While Soviet Russia exported 400,000 poods of oil to Persia in 1922, 750,000 poods in 1923, the export of this mineral reached 1.5 million poods in the current year, At the same time, the Soviet ofl industry conquered new markets in South Persia which before were entirely controlled by American and British firms. As for sugar, exports have also grown considerably, namely, from 100,000 poods, in 1922, to 350,000 poods, in 1923, and 600,000 poods in 1924. Have Good Organization, “Such a considerable development of Soviet trade in Persia and the in- terest witnessed for it on the part of local merchants are due in a large measure to the organizational forms and methods of the trade volicy of the Soviet Government,” remarked Shu- miatzky. “Slight mixed stock com- panies have been organized, thru the activities of one of which, the ‘Per- sian Cotton Trust’, about 75 per cent of cotton growing has been restored in Persia, Another company, the ‘Per- sian Silk Trust’, is engaged in restor- ing Porsian silk industry, its work be- ing carried on very successfully.” ‘The operations of the Russo-Persian Bank have considerably increased, their volume reaching nine milifon rubles in the current year. | Further, special mixed companies \ wader way of organization for carry- ' ‘ \ ing out electrification in Persia, and (he Leningrad electrical industry will have a big part to play in this branch. Soviet participation in the fulfilment of Persian orders for airships is an- other interesting feature: Russian made airplanes have successfully ar- rived in Persia in spite of all the difm- culties on the way, and they now con- stitute the kern of Persian ‘aviation. On the other hand, French machines, manufactured by French automobile works, have proved unfit for Persian conditions, Persia Boys Farm Implements. The sale of Soviet agricultural ma- chines in Persia {s also growing, and it may fairly well be expected that further progress will be reached in this branch with the gradual fall in the cost of Soviet industrial products, At present, the commercial turnover between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Persia is about 16 mil- lion robles and is steadily nearing pre- war dimensions, which will probably soon be exceeded, of the department of justice and spies of the United States secret service who planned and executed the whole frame-up. They certainly haven't lost interest to the extent they are going to let hard-earned indictments go by default for mere lacks of funds. Burns Takes a Hand. There is another element. The Burns’ detective agency took an extra- ordinary interest in these trials as well as the Thiel detective bureau. Both of these are professional red- baiting institutions and are keeping in close touch with every move in the Michigan cases. It has been reported many times that both these bodies as well as other organizations interested in the prosecution, not forgetting the Michi- gan chamber of commerce, have let the authorities know there is no need to worry about running short of funds in pushing the cases to the limit, State to Push Cases. When Ruthenberg was sentenced on January 6, O. L. Smith, assistant at- torney general of Michigan, announc- ved that the state would proceed with the other cases im February, with Robert Minor to be the first one tried. Behind the prosecution are the notori- ous Daugherty, active again in Wash- ington, Burns and all the red and la- bor baiting agencies, and all the pow- er of the reactionary open-shop move- ment of the country. So that all rumors of the county prosecution delaying or threatening to close the Michigan cases for lack of funds, can well be “taken with a grain of salt” in the face of all these willing sources of revenue for send- ing the thirty-two Communists to prison for long terms. \ pas oamanen sts fowar eve Law A Spurious God NEW YORK, Jan. 25—In a talk here former United States Senator Beveridge calls law a spurious god. “American people are by law forbid- den to do more things and, by law, ordered to do more things than was the case in Russia under the Czar or Turkey under the Sultan,” asserts ex-senator Beveridge. He would have a law repealed every time a new one is enacted. “One out of every 11 of our adult wage-earning population is a government employe,” says Bever- idge. He claims that “We have made law a fetish, a spurious god.” Reverses Court as Theater Censor. NEW YORK.—The God of Venge ance, the play against which judgmen was made on the grounds of its alleg ed immorality, has won a reversal by the court of appeals, because producer Harry Weinberger was not allowed tc introduce a copy of the play, which i: Yiddish, as evidence. The play deals with the effort of a brothel keeper to rear his daughter in decency and his failure because of the environment which he created around her. ECLIPSE BLAMED FOR HIGHEST TIDES AND SOME G00D RADIO MUSIC UNION, S. C., Jan, 25.—District stations never before rd by radio fans in this city, literally filled the air with music today during the par tial eclipse of the sun. 7446 DAYTONIA BEACH, Fla., Jan. 25, —The highest tides on record here for several years past, exceeding even of the storm period last fall, are attracting the attention of tour ists. and residents. Belief is they are caused by the eclipse of the sun and continued calm weather at sea Frevails, Karachun, FinancesAre Thrown to German Industrialists (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.— The American bankers, headed by J. P. Morgan, who have sad- dled the Dawes plan on the Ger- man people, have declined to float a new French loan re- BIRTHDAYS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS Birthdays in February of political prisoners, confined in various state institutions of America, are announced by the Workers’ National Prison Comfort Club, 2923 Chestnut street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as follows: At Box 500, Steilacoom, McNeils Island, Washington—February 6, Anton quested by the Herriot govern- ment, in order to force France to recognize its war debts to America. Under pressure of the American bankers, Premier Herriot and the chamber of deputies have suddenly curbed. their enthusiasm over the speech of Deputy Marin, and have re fused to print the. speech for public distribution, Marin, amid the ap. planse of the entire chamber, had de- clared France should not pay the $4,000,000,000 war debt owed to the United States government. England Also Wants Money. The Baldwin government is greatly pleased that Senator Borah and Cool idge are opening a campaign to dun France for the debt. Winston Church. ill jhas pointed out that Great Britain will insist that if France pays her deb! to the United States, Great Britain will also have to be paid. Churchil’ is trying to cut the income tax for the British millionaires, and he sees in the debt payment from France a way tc bring about the decrease in the in come tax. Churehill declares if Franc« pays anyone else they must pay Brit- ain a proportional amount at the samc time, Wall Street bankers, in a move tc force France to recognize her debt were yesterday underwriting a num ber of German industrial loans, while French industrial loans were being held back. The bankers pointed ont that Germany and France are compet. ing in the investment market for capital to build their industries, and i France persists in her debt policy they will force a change by throwing financial support to Germany. CHICAGO CANDIDATES ENDORSED BY WORKERS -—CGOMMURIST) PARTY Candidates nominated by. the Workers (Communist) Party for the spring aldermanic elections are as follows: 3rd WARD—E. L. Doty, candi- date; R. Minor and Gordon Owens, captains. Branches participating: South Side English, Englewood Eng- lish, South Side Scandinavian and Polish South Side, 11th WARD—Victor Zokaitis, can- didate; J. Manus, captain. Branches participating: Lithuanian No.° 5, South Slav No. 1, Ukrainian No. 1, and Y. W. L. No, 3. 22nd WARD—L. Cejka, candidate; A. Overgaard, captain. Branches participating: Czecho-Slovak Nos. 1 and 3, Lithuanian No. 5, Y.-W. L. 24th WARD—H, Epstein, candl- date; William F. Kruse, captain. Branches participating: D. P. Eng- lish, Italian West Side No. 2 and Y. W. L. No. 1. 28th WARD—N. Dozenberg, candi- date; W. Ozol, captain. Branc participating: Lettish and West Side Scandinavian, 32nd WARD—Peter M. Lucas, (candidate; M. A. Stolar, captain. Branches participating: Ukrainian No. 1, Polish N. S., Russian, Y. W. L. No. 5. 36rd WARD—J. L. Engdahl, can- didate; N. J. Christensen, captain. Branches participating: N. W. Eng- lish, Karl Marx Scandinavian, and the Armenian Branch. 34th WARD—Harry Brooker, can- didate; 1. L. Davidson, captain. Branches participating: N. W. Jew- ish, Italian Terra Cotta, Y. W. L. No. 6, and the Roumanian Branch. 44th WARD—J. W. Johnstone, candidate; Walt Carmon, captain. Branches participating: Finnish, Lakeview, Scandinavian, North Side English, German and Y. W. L. “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” ie coming to Ashland Auditorium Feb, 6, At Box 520, Walla Walla, Washington—February 21, Eugene Barnett, Reg. No. 9414; February 21, Frank Nash, No, 9516, At San Quentin Pententiary, San Quentin, California—February 5, Frank Sherman, No, 35768; February 27, Francis B. McClennegan, No, 38125. At Folsom Prison, Represa, California—Webruary 13, P, Gordon, No, 88113; February 26, Rarl Firey, No, 12540. At Thomaston, Maine, Box “A”—February 11, Neils Randquist, Cora Meyer, secretary, invites friends and sympathiors to send birthday cards and letters (money 1s advisable for gifts) to these political prisoners, Books and publications to be sent directly from the publishers. Small calendars for the year 1925 are alse suggested, — No. 4, Lithuanian No. 77, Douglas | Park Jewish. { BANKERS MOVE |'Kept Press Shows Its TOMAKEFRANCE|| Ignorance About Ruling PAY U. $. DEBT| Power in Soviet Russia By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ODAY, the capitalist press is much chagrined over the failure of Leon Trotsky to do in Soviet Russia what it was hoped he would do; try to usurp the Soviet Power. ; Arthur Brisbane, of the Hearst sheets, seemsmost peeved. Day after day, he harps on his disappointment, concluding that Trotsky must have been sore kind of a coward. Bris- bane put his viewpoint in a paragraph when he wrote; “What a chance Trotsky had when Lenin died, leaving him with the army under his control. A Napoleon Bonaparte, or even a Napoleon 111, would have known what to do, Trotsky didn’t know.” But there are two other paragraphs that help shed some additional light on Brisbane's monumental ignorance, when he writes: “There Is something the matter with Trotsky’s mental fighting ap- paratus. He had his chance when he had the Red Army under his orders, and Lenin, dying, left the whole of Russia to any man able to seize the power. “Trotsky seems to lack the power of-a Danton, Robespierre or Marat. Those men knew how to fight for what they thought was theirs, and how to die cheerfully.” * * ¢ @ The recent relations that have Russian Communist Party and Trotsky pin pricks the bubbles that Brisbane, in common with the whole kept press lackey- dom, have been blowing these past seven years in speculation as to the future of the Soviet Power. Trotsky was often been referred to as a “Red Napoleon,” who would in time establish a military dictatorship. Other prominent Russian Communists were picked for roles that individuals have played in previous revolutions, notably the French Revo- lution. In this, all these press prostitutes either display a willful or actual ignorance of the real nature of the Russian ren. 4 Lenin did not do, something he could not do, leave “the whole of Russia to any man able to seize the power.” Lenin left Russia with the organization he had helped build, more than any other single individual, the Russian Communist Party. His legacy to that party, and to the World, Communist movement, is Leninism, the teachings of Lenin. * *£ & @& The ruling power today in Soviet Russia is not lodged with any individual, or even group of individuals. The dominant power in Soviet Russia today is the Russian Communist Party. It rules thru its hundreds of thousands of members directly affiliated with it. Neither Trotsky, nor any other individual, at any time, ruled the Red Army. It was ruled at all times by the Com- munist Party; especially thru the Communists who were the leading and most self-sacrificing spirits in the Red Army. The Communist Party rules in industry thru its members in the shops, the mills, the mines and the factories. That was the strength of the Russian Communists, even before the revolution; that they were able everywhere that labor tolled to create their nuclei, and keep in the closest touch with the everyday aspirations of the workers at their work places, leading them to victory. * * * @ It is the inability, or lack of desire, on the part. of the capitalist scribbler to understand the’ role of the Russian Communist Party in the Russian revolution, that leads to many silly conclusions. The failure of the French Commune was due to the fact that the French workers had no powerful, disciplined, centralized Communist Party to inspire and lead their struggle. The strength of the First Workers’ Republic issucha party, the Russian Communist Party. Lenin’s strength, his power, grew out of his ability to lead the Rus- sian Communists in their struggle for power, and later in their fight to maintain power. It was Lenin who founded the Communist International, the world Communist Party to win the victory for the world social revolution, just as he helped organize the Communist Party to triumph in Russia. There are no Alexanders, Caesars, Napoleons or Kaiser Wilhelms in the Soviet Rassia of today seeking world con- quest. It is not in the theory or the practice of the Com- munist struggle for power. Trotsky knows this. He has shown it again by submitting to the discipline of the Rus- sian Communist Party. developed between the Trotsky is weak because of his inability to help lead the Russian Communist movement along the correct Bolshevik path. That weakness,—not courage, or willingness to fight,—costs him his place as a dominating influence in the Soviet Republic. If the policies that Trotsky espouses are found wanting, and they have been found wanting, then all the bravery in the world would avail him nothing. He would forfeit his place under the dictatorship of the prole- tariat that leads on to Communism, * * @ It is this same capitalist mind, supported by “socialist” theoreticians, that charges the present Dictators! ip in Soviet Russia is a dictatorship over the workers and peasants, and not a dictatorship by the workers and peasants. Just as the kept press pictures Trotsky as usurping power without the aid of the Communist Party, so it claims that the Communist Party maintains a dictatorship over the workers and peasants in spite of their opposition. This is also a phantastic dream. The Communist Party rules thru the dictatorship of the workers and peasants, and it maintains its ruling position because the masses of workers and peasants om pty its policies, It is well that American workers and poor farmers un- derstand these fundamentals in order to interpret correctly the capitalist press accounts of what is transpiring in Soviet Russia. Of course, it is better still to read the capitalist press at all. end on the Comm press for the truth about the First Workers’ Republic. Ruthenberg in prison! Thirty-one more trials ahead. — Ten thousand dollars wanted by February 15. Volunteers wanted to help mail out tens of thousands of letters for the Michigan defense. Come during the day or phone State 5959 if you will come at night. Bring others, Labor Defense Council, 166 West Washington Street, a Rar ee WASHINGTON IS. WHISTLING OVER RUSS-JAP PACT Anything to Keep Up the Face of Officialdom By LELAND OLDs, (Federated Presa Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.— Official Washington's attitude toward the Russo - Japanese treaty under which the Soviet Union gets recognition and the Japanese get oil, coal and fish- ing concessions and trade ad- vantages in the Russian Far East, is one of feigned indiffer- ence. Hughes Has Nothing to Say. Hughes has nothing to say, but ap- parently waits for the senate to charge him with having helped Japan to wring from Russia a naval ofl.end coal supply close at home, and first choice of all trade privileges 1. Siberia. Hoofer knows nothing officially about the Sinclair oil concessions that seem to have lapsed, and about the value of the oil concessions now given to Japan. The possibility that this fuel supply may turn the scale of Jap- anese development toward the produc- tion of steel and machinery, to the in: jury of American commercial expans- fon in Asia, does not appeal to him. The White House Remains Calm. . From Japanese propaganda quarters comes a plausible statement that Am. mands against China and entered the : i i H77St Ee Hae sia E i E z k d ee Views of Our Readers Debs Wakes Up: Sees Nothing. DAVENPORT, Iowa,—With the sud- denness of one i : : F : ik EE. ick i Fe § g ij Es Eis ie re iB i l aah fy Fe Hy | te fini e}%] Ht i a