The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1925, Page 4

SDPO ae RNR RR Te NS Bee Re a a THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ML. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $6.00 per year $3.60....6 months $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.00...8 months il (in Chicago only): Bere eran $2.60....8 months Adress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOE: eo EGItOrS mene Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879.' sociates of the Barmats had a material interest in Ee 250 Advertising rat op application Still at the Same Task Nothing more amusing to the political observer has appeared in the daily press for quite some time, than an editorial in a recent issue of. the Milwaukee Leader, on the problem of peace in Europe. According to the scribe, the Geneva pro- tocol, of Ramsay MacDonald and Edouard Herriot, is anything but lucky. At the time this famous document was framed, there was a socialist government in England, and a semi-socialist government in Germany. Herriot, the radical-socialist premier of France felt some- what cocky in such goodly company. But thanks to the bourgeois democracy at whose shrine our capitalistic socialists worship, Ramsay is now in Bermuda doing his little bit for the Empire as if nothing had happened, and Herriot is more or less left in the soup. The Kaiser is getting out his clean shirt preparatory to march- ing back to his throne. Peace in Europe is in desperate straits. There- fore the executive committee of the Socialist and Labor International met in Brussels recently to see what they could do about it. But instead of having a peace conference, the socialists of the French capitalist government began to blame his : x British majesty’s socialists for their attitude to-|¢ed to handle a large consignment of American wards the peace protocol. Leon Blum declared that| Herriot had done his share for peace by appoint- ing the socialist Paul Boncour a member of the league of nations council, to work for the protocol. If the other governments refused to accept this pact, Herriot would have to fall back on military alliances. A British representative said that it was impos- sible at this time to get British public opinion interested in saving France from attack. England is not threatened with war and is not anxious to be drawn into another war to protect another nation. The British navy would never again be used to énforce a blockade for the benefit of an- other warring country. The British labor party, declared John Bull’s the get socialist, is averse to having England play the role of international policeman unless States shared the cost. the United The British and French socialists argued in favor of the policy of their respective governments, and the Socialist and Labor International is today as it was during the war, torn to pieces by the conflicting interests of the capitalists of the various nations having representation on the councils of the fake international. The debate showed Blum, the French socialist, defending the acts of the French capitalist premier Herriot, while Josiah Wedgwood, the Briton stood up for the anti-French policy of the tory govern- ment. Back in London he might criticise Stan- ley Baldwin, for factional reasons but in Brussels he was the staunch imperialist. The Socialist and Labor International is but the creature of the capitalists. It is not an instrument of peace. It will do whatever its owners com- mand. There is only one international political party in the world today that is making for peace. It is the Communist International which points out the road to peace over the dead body of capi- talism. They Want the Cossacks The Chicago Tribune sees in the recent shoot- ings at Herrin, another argument for a state con- vtabulary. The state militia is not enough. It gets on the job only after the shooting is done. What is needed, declares the esteemed Trib., is a mobile force, of motorized state police, that could rush hither and thither and hold up the warning hand of the law before those bent on murder could get out their guns. The agitation for the state constabulary is reviv- ing. The chamberce of commerce and their news- papers will keep at it until they are successful in instituting the cossack system in this state, which has been so useful to the capitalists of Pennsyl- vania and oher states in crushing strikes. That is what the Illinois bosses want the state police for. There ate several thousand police here in Chi- cago. They are on foot, on horse and in auto- mobiles. Yet they are not able to prohibit crimes of violence. The workers of Illinois must vigorously com- bat the effort to put over the state constabulary bill during the present session of the legislature. The enemy never sleeps. His myriad agents are constantly on the job, planning to strengthen the grip of capitalism on the workers. Eternal vigil- ance is the price of the little liberty the work- ers have so far succeeded in wrenching from the ruling class, thru struggle. Only by struggle will they be able to hold what they have gained, make new gains and finally emancipate themselves from the thraldom of wage slavery. Chicago, Minels | Social-Democratic Bratters Haying sold out the German working class during and since the 1919 revolution, the German social- democrats decided to get theirs at both ends. Berlin is now convulsed with one of the biggest scandals in the history of Germany. It exceeds in magnitude even our own Teapot Dome. Prominent members of ‘the social democratic party are involved. The Barmat brothers, entre- preneurs, obtained, during the last year, from pub- lic institutions and the Prussian State Bank, credits amounting to $10,000,000. They made tremendous profits during and after the war .sup- plying Germany with fats. Several members of the social democratic party were made members of the company. Thus the social democratic as- |seeing that the enterprising businessmen secured credits. The Barmat brothers are now in jail, but some of the social democrats are defending them in the columns of the Vorwarts. Heilman, for instance, a prominent socialist politician said that he was proud of his connection with the grafters. He is a member of their board of directors. Herr Richter, Berlin’s police president, a former member of the Metal Workers’ Union but long. since expelled from that organization is also in- volved. He is not too rotten however for the social democratic party. Nobody could be. Richter is 4 frequent guest at the palace of the eldest of the Barmat brothers or at any of the luxuriously fur- nished habitations of their official and unofficial tools. Richter is so crooked that the chief pro- secutor warned the police against giving him any information which they might secure in their in- vestigations of the Barmats. The social democratic minister of the interior, Severing, is supporting Herr Richter, while among the other prominent socialists involved in the graft orgy are former Chancellor Bauer and Herr Wells, both close friends of President Ebert. Vorwarts, official organ of the social-democracy, jexcuses Barmat on the ground that he supported |a dockers’ strike in Rotterdam in 1920, with 60,000 |guilders under the conditions that the dockers ag- bacon destined for Germany. The social democrats are now urging that the Barmats be released on the ground of their patriotic pro-fatherland attitude during and after the war. This is social democracy in action. The contemp- tible grafters sold out the workers in 1919 and to- day the Kaiser is getting ready for a comeback. Contrast their conduct with that of the Russian Communists. The latter could have hundreds of millions in return for treachery to the working class but after seven years of the most severe tests that any organization ever went thru the banner of the Communist Party of Russia is stainless and not efen its worst enemies dares‘question the hon: esty of its leaders. It is a striking contrast to haracter of the German social demo- crats. . * Disappointed! Smiling, jovial, back slapping, handshaking, Al- fred Smith, governor of the state of New York, has disappointed the labor fakers of his own state and even the optimistic and trusting editor of Labor, official organ of the sixteen standard railway un- ions, because “Al” has trimmed on the child labor amendment. Smith received the wholehearted support of the trade unions in the last election, even the officials of the garment workers’ unions known as social- istic, deserting Dr. Norman Thomas in favor of Tammany’s champion. . One of the labor planks endorsed by Smith prior to his election was one calling for ratification of the child labor amendment. “When the devil was sick, the devil a saint wonld be, when the devil was well the devil a saint was he.” ‘The pre-election “Al” Smith and the “Al” of today are two entirely different characters. Another “friend of labor” fallen by the wayside! When asked to vote for the Workers Party can- didate, many sympathizers say it would be “throw- ing away a vote.” But voting for any other can- didate than a Communist, is certainly a waste of THE DAILY WORKER, far ated ad Wide iia is hanes, teas Mahoney--Agent of Minnesota Bankers By EARL R. BROWDER. HEN “progressive” leaders in the ‘labor movement. lose their nerve, when they get tired of the bat- tle and begin to think longingly of the quiet and remunerative life of those who conform to the ruling powers, when they finally quit the struggle for progressive measures—they alwayr outdo the old reactionary bureaucrat: in the depths of their treachery and the viciousness of their attacks upon their erstwhile comrades. They seem to feel a necessity to prove thir com- plete severance with the past which proved unprofitable to th»m, by glory- ing in the depths of infamy. William Mahoney of Minnesota fs a case in point. One year and a half ago Mahoney set out to do battle with the enemies of labor by. fighting for the formation of a national farmer-labor party. Find ing the Communists the only deépend- able fighting element he accepted the proposition of (and financial assis: ance from) the Workers Party. for a Joint effort to this end that resulted in the June 17 convention. Before that gathering occurred, already Ma- honey had gotten cold feet anu tried to back out, but under pressure ana perhaps with the horrible example of Fitzpatrick before his mind, he did nor break at the convention. He found out something about himself, in the course of that fight, that he had not realized before, namely, that Ma- honey didn’t give a damn for a farm er-labor party but was interested only in rolling up votes for LaFollette and AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) ] ist Party was small,.weak and inex perienced. When Jim-Larkin was re- leased from Sing Sing in 1923, thru a pardon, the Irish left wingers were happy in the thought that they now had a leader who would organize the scattered radical forces and give them. a program. On hig return to Ireland he was greeted by thousands of work ers. He still had his old place on the executive committee of the Transport Union, the office of general secretary. It was a-powerful, strategic position. But Larkin as usual muffed the ball. ese S was the case in America he was surrounded by a group of place hunters and sycophants who were dis- credited in . labor and nation- alist movemént were not rad- icals. Outside of the Communist frac- tion, his cronies were disappointed leaders who had no principles and no aims except to gain office. Instead of using his position as general secre tary to win over the masses to his views (what they are nobody has yet been able to learn), he decided to make a frontal attack on the old ex- ecutive committee and charged them with using the funds of the union for political purposes and for the organ ization and sustenance of a workers’ citizen army. It was quite true that the funds were used for this purpose. It is also true that such use of union funds was in violation of English law but English law was not always all- powerful in Ireland, eee ‘HE charges were threshed out in court and Larkin lost, the execu- tive committee taking care to appear in the role of revolutionists, while Larkin, who talked revolution brought the union into court for having vio- lated an English law. It is bad enough for a trade unionist to resort making Mahoney a big frog in the Minnesota puddle. The Communists found out early in the game, and spent many weary hours furnishing the missing backbone to Mahoney dur- jing the battles that occurred before June 17. : After LaFollette had knifed the farmer-labor party, and had publicly spanked Mahoney, the latter crawled abjectly to him and promised to be a good boy hereafter. Mahoney de- nounced the candidacy of Foster, al- tho Foster was upholding the pro- gram of a farmer-labor party, which LaFollette had betrayed. In all of this, it is possible that many honest workingmen, themselve: blinded by the LaFollette illusion may have thot that Mahoney was cor- rect. But Mahoney’s latest perform- ance should open their eyes to the meaning of the events of the pas! year, and make it clear to every worker, that Mahoney has become the agent of the forces of capitalist ex- ploitation in Minnesota, that Mahoney is now the agent of the bankers. For bre is now engaged in completing the work of destruction of the farmer-la- bor party movement, which LaFollette carried out nationally, by liquidating the farmer-labor party of Minnesota. The facts are clear. Mahoney, a: chairman of the Farmer-Labor Federa. tion (organization of the trade union wing of the farmer-labor party), has signed a call, jointly with the ap- pointed “legal” charman of the F. L P., for a convention on March 20, to which the trade unions are not In- vited. Not only are the trade unions shut out from representation in the con- vention, but those trade unionists who happen to get elected from the county mass conventions are express. ly forbidden to hold any kind of cau- cus in connection with the conven. tion, This {fs nothing else but treason to the workers’ and farmers of Minne- sota. This is liquidation of the farm. er-labor federation and the delivering of the Minnesota farmer-labor party into the hands of the profesisonal pol iticians, merchants, and bankers of the state, Workers and working farmers can only attend conventions if they have organizations that send them and pa} their expenses. This convention cal) which shuts out such representation forces the farmers tb elect the locas banker, or merchant, or petty electea official, as their delegate to tne con- vention; because these are the only ones who quite generally can -affor¢ the time and expense of such gather- ings. If Mahoney succeeds with his latest trick, then the workers and farmers of Minnesota will have not even th shadow of control of the farmer-labor party. That organization will becom+ a simple duplicate on a local scale of the republican and democratic parties on a national scale. The trade union- and the farmers’ organizations wil- quickly find themselves pegging for favors from the “farmer-labor party” as they used to beg at the doors of the older capitalist parties. to a capitalist court anyhow, but this}Communtst Party, so that he could action of Larkin’s was extremely |hold the center of the stage as the stupid. Even if he could get his hands |only “revolutionist” in Ireland. He on the $180,000 which he accused the|does not believe in organization, un- officials of misappropriating for poli-|less it takes orders from him. An in- tical purposes, putting up labor can-|curable egomaniac, he refuses to ac- didates, he would have neverthelese|cept advice from anybody. Larkin at- suffered a moral defeat before the|tended the latest congress of the Red masses in playing the role of law en- Intetrnational of Labor Unions, but forcement agent. since his return*he never mentioned the Pfofintern or made any effort t6 IS expulsion. from the union fol-|carry out its decisions. lowed the trial and he then or- 7.3.8 ganized a dual union, called the Work- ARKIN’S failure, in view of the ers’ Union of Ireland. He launched e Particularly rosy opportunity weekly, paper called the Irish Worker. |that awaited him on his return from Those who knew Larkin’s methods did |the United States, is an object lesson not expect the venture to be anything|in trade union tactics that should be more than shortlived, particularly in|taken to heart by Communists every- face of the competition of the power-| where. By splitting the union, taking ful Transport Union. After severa!|the officials into a capitalist court on jurisdictional quarrels between the|the sordid charge that they had used two unions, lawsuits instituted by Lar-|union funds for political purposes kin on Larkin’s friends, he was ad-|calling strikes of members of his dual judged bankrupt by the Dublin courts |union against members of the Trans- in November and his examination|part Workers, engaging in business showed that his assets amounted to|ventures thus laying himself open to something like ten dollars, while he|suspicion, and in general his all owed five thousand. He should know by now that capitalist courts are dan gerous playthings for workers. eee N one of the latest issues of his paper to reach here, Larkin threat- ens to quit unless his supporters came across with money, automobiles, jew- elry or anything else that could sat- isfy a printer. It was something like The Communists of Minnesota wilt call upon every honest worker to de- nounce and defeat this treason of William Mahoney. Every time the enemies of the In bor movement want to put over some especially dirty piece of work, they begin by a smoke-screen of denunetw tion of the Communists. Then they make an attack upon the Commun. ists by arresting them (in the case of labor fakers by expelling them from the unions) and then, with the best fighters out of the way, they proceed to issue injunctions, to cut wages, or (in this latest case) to destroy a la- bor party. Workers of Minnesota should now begin to understand why such extreme Measures have been taken lately to expel the Communists from the cen. tral labor bodies. The Communists will rise up and denounce this surrender to the Min. nesota bankers. e The Communists will expose the treason of William Mahoney. Therefore the Communists must be expelled. ‘ But the Mahoneys, the Sinclairs, the Paul Smiths, the Cramers, et al, have overreached themselves. »By this their latest blow against the workers and farmers of, Minnesota, they will , expose to tens o& thousands of toilers ! the true nature of all their other acts, Mahoney and company, acting in the interests of the wealthy exploiters of Minnesota, dre liquidating ‘the farm- er-labor, party and the farmer labor federation. That is the big fact for the workers to~begin to understand. PP aut esr Se By T. J. O'Flaherty around buffoonery, is a spelndid les. son in the wrong way to fight reac- tionaries in the trade unions. £6 % N addition to those colossal blunders I Larkin had no program, neither did he show by word or act that he was more revolutionary than the of- ficials in power. As it was, the work- ers were confronted with a choice be- tween two evils. Whether the Irish labor movement, which looked so promising during the dark days when the trade union movement on the con- tinent was dragged at the heels of the capitalist war chariot, will soon again play a progressive role, in Europe, is hard to predict. Perhaps the nego- tiations now taking place between the Russian and British unions may have some beneficial effect in Ireland, The Irish Trade Union Congress is neither affiliated with the R. L. L. U., or with ||Amsterdam. A Trade Union Educa- tional League is badly needed there. What is rfeeded is organization and discipline and not a Barnum or a Marcus Garvey. INDIAN MAGICIAN WILL PERFORM MAGIC TRICKS AT JOINT BAZAAR OF LABOR DEFENSE AND I. W. A. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—The most famous Indian magician, whose name what Grand Duke Cyril would issue.| we will keep secret for the time being, will participate in the Joint Bazaar Whether his paper has-given up the! of the International Workers’ ghost or not I do not know, but there is no doubt that his experiment in dual unionism is a fizzle. one ARKIN has a reputation of being a revolutionist, but the reputa- tion is not founded on any basis more substantial than a loud voice. His first act on returning to Ireland was to instigate the liquidation of the WAS LENIN A RUSSIAN? : By ISRAEL AMTER. ALVIN COOLIDGE is.an American. The kaiser and Hindenburg are Ger- His burning trick is one of the most mans. Clemenceau and Briand are Frenchmen. De Rivera and Alfonso **tonishing achievements ot modern votes. Not that we believe the social revolution | are Spaniards. Lloyd George and MacDonald are Englishmen, can be accomplished by voting. Revolutions don’t happen that way. The most important feature o: election campaigns is not the actual voting but th propaganda that is put forth during the fight. The labor leaders will not look upon the desertion of Alfred Smith, Gompers’ close friend, as an indict- of how many times their present policy is exposed. that there is only one political party in America, whose political action is,truly working class and that is the Workers (Communist) Party. Big Woolworth Sales The exploitation machine known as the Wool worth 5 and 10 cent stores, cleaned up only $215,-|Communist parties that grew up under his inspiration, and the 501,187 last year, nearly every penny made out oi | International, the working class, who are forced to deal with this | ¢Volutionary company. Its sales for 1923 were $193,000,000, The the workers in these stores. This is a highest record for the F. W. Woolworth Compnay. Its sales for 1923 were 193,000,000. The were profits. It also says that each dollar earned 9.59. So is the working class exploited. Get a member for the Workers Party and a@ néw | sians, because Lenin subscription for the DAILY WORKER. , Lyceum, 86th St. and 3rd Ave. And and the Labor Defense Council at the . Has World Reputation. This magician will appear in the Keith circuit later in the season. He has already appeared in the theaters in this country and has produced a sensation. The professor, as he is called, tho still a young man, has been doing magic and tricks of the east for many years. He began to do this work when a child and came to this country a few years ago to in- terest the American public in the high ic of which he is capable. the professor will appear in person on all four evenings of the bazaar Performing the most unusual tricks magic. This is an original trick of Gor t the professor's which is a great strain Was Lenin a Russian? No, Lenin was the greatest internationalist that | his rervous powers. he world has ever known. By accident he was born in Russia, but he was an internationalist not only in spirit, but in understanding. Morgan and Rockefeller, Rothschild and Stinnes, Armstrong and Baldwin, | are 25,000 revolutionary workers and Feels Kinship with Victims. The professor became interested in ‘the bazaar owing to the fact that there Loucheur.and de Wendel aré also internationalists, They are capitalist in-| peasants in the prisons of India, He ternationalists, who know their own interests all over the world. But their| knows that the International Red Aid ment of their non-partisan political policy. They interests are the interests of a small group of imporialists whose aim it is|S€nt financial assistance to India to will simply pick on some other “friend, of labor” | to conquer the world in theier own interests. Their capital is invested in| lieve the sad plight of these ‘pris- who is on the make. They will not endorse inde-|every part of the world, enslaving races and peoples to make profits for pendent working class political action, regardless | tem. Lenin was on internationalist in the interest of the working masses of the world. He showed that he understood not only the Russian workers and poor That is up to the masses andishay Alo. will Ieatn| ee pup eMMElstda rhe stnasien te ait’ the capitalist and colonial | professor loarned that the Interna. countries of the world. He formulated the methods that the Russian work-| tional Workers’ Aid and the Labor ers and peasants should use in order to get power. He also formulated the | Defense Council are organizations por- methods that the colonial peoples—india, Java, China, Korea, Atrica—should |forming work of relief, he was only employ to throw off the dominion of the Morgans, Rockefellers and their |t0o pleased to sort. He showed to the workers of ALL countries what they must do to put an end to exploitation, ‘The imperialists of the world hate and fear Lenin, Soviet Russia, the Hence they are condu but also against the iter against provid imperialism, capitalist countries must rise against the capitalists. That is the watchword f the day: Solidarity of all oppressed against th ssors, Lenin, the in- company reported that of these sales, $20,669,397 tesaationaiial calls to the revolution. a le’ Today, Febru yee + 1, at Madison Square Garden, we will commemorate the death not of Lenin, the Russian leader, but Lenin, the 1} the world pales oppressed peoples, They call all revolution! 8 & Russian. Let us fill ourselves with the this Russian internationalist, Lenin, and follow in his steps. . jer of Communist | joint bazaar comm! ‘Théy hate and fear the] of its main successes it of the capitalist countries and of the colonies.|cured the a vicious campaign not only against Soviet Russia, | wishes to leave i ‘unist International, the creation of that greatest |for a short excursion in to of internationalists, Lenin. The colonies together with the masses in the |of magic should not oners. Many of them have been in prison for years without receiving any aid whatever. Conditions in India are very bad—and the prisons are among the worst in the world. When the co-operation. sisted by others of in having professor, Anybody who the everday struggle to bazaar. At the same elping along the 5 Tell t Rus- lajong your children either in the eve: spirit of |ning or Saturday afiernoon, Feb. 14, which fs “Junior Day.” DA NO-GOOD WORKMAN {am ashame’ weeth deesa man For dat he ees Italian. ik’ good "Merican Of Joe Marelli from Milan— An’ so he lose hees Job. Las’.mont’ we'n he e¢s landin’ here,” He fi ’ look so queer, can be jem job for work weeth me tranch een deesa street, ve glad for eet, no vera long gona wrong. ‘anja sight an’ sound He drop hees peeck an’ looka ‘round, Eef mebbe so a sparrow hen Near where he work eet mak’ heem stop. So, too, he watch cef on da street Som!’ choeldran com’ weeth dancin’ feet; An’ som’time w'en from far away He hear da banda moosic play, He stan’ weeth head on wanna side » An’ ears an’ movtha open wide. Wen time wen breeze dat sweep da rect Sreeng newspaper to he He tak’ an’ try for readin’ But theeng dat tak’ “hees J Eos dees dat happen Som’ | drop it ‘ellow, whit red— flower weeth bushy head? h! yes, dat’s eel— lem een da street pa queeck, dem back ‘an’ ateeok ut eer socha st; weeth so fina care, You theenk for sure dey growin’ deret An’ pretta dey catch da eye _ Of evra wan Wat's passin’ by. * Eh? Sure-dey tooka pretta so, But seence eet ees no kK, you know, Da boss raise som’the ‘alte for Joel So | am ‘shame hd For dat he ees Keatiann argh oer An’ sooch a lazy slob; We no could mak’ gaod 'Merican Of Joe M, Help Insure HE DAILY WORKER for 1925!