The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1925, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER. aie soe RC IIRS osc hanced Et Sal 8 SSG a Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, TL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: * $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months mall (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.60....8- months $6.00 per year By $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Ilinele J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE -Rattors MORITZ J. LOE! emer Business Manager ———————— Qntered as second-class matl Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post. | Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <= 290 Advertising rates op application Greéce and Turkey The Most Reverend Constantinos, uceminical patriarch of the Greek catholic church, was peremp- torily ordered to leave Constantinople by the Turk- ish government... The Greek capitalists are sore. They feel liberties have heen taken with their dig- nity. They are talking of making Turkey pay for the insult. But it‘is very likely that they will take it out in jaw exercises rather than with cold steel Au, It Isn’t As.Bad As That War is not the horrible’ Yhing it has been rep- resented to be by pacifist” and press agents for the chemical section of the War department. This is the burden of a statéméit made by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, and given front page space in the capitalist press of last Monday. According to poison gas experts, new chemicals have been invented that would destroy whole coun- tries and annihilate millions ‘who succeeded in dodging the draft. A shudder went thru the na- tion. Happy capitalists who contemplated another nice little war with the prospect of making mil- lions of dollars exploiting the workers and robbing |" the government, muttered: “Dash it all, if war is getting to be that bad, there’s no fun in it.” The war department of the capitalist govern- ment began to sniff danger. The capitalists were beginning to get frightened. This kind of propa- ganda was more dangerous than the most plati- tudinous piffle the pacifists could put out. The poison gas experts had the best of intentions. They were proud of their art.and.proud.of the country that could produce such deadly poison in large quantities. Being poor psychologists, they thought the information they were imparting would make the American capitalists desirous of starting a war at the earliest possible moment as the bill collectors say when requesting payment of the and poison gas. They haven’t got the money. London and Paris are also discussing the latest Greeco-Turkish rupture. Well, they might. It is part of the Franco-British struggle. When France takes a crack at England, she does it by proxy. Some small nation subsidized by France takes a smack at some small nation subsidized by England. Looking at things impartially, one would say that the Greeks have no kick coming over the ex- pulsion of their patriarch. The Turks kicked out their own sultan who had more dependents than the patriarch. When the sultan was evicted, a happy and populous home was broken up and several perfectly good wives thrown on an already overstocked market. If the patriarch has one wife he has one hundred. Perhaps that is why the Greeks are kicking. They might have a lot of fun with the sultan’s cabinet, if only the Turks estab- lished reciprocity. Judging from the size of the headlines in the capitalist press, another war between Greece and Turkey is possible. But it is not probable. England and France cannot afford to let their dogs quarrel, just now. Who Is Crazy? “Our greatest needs now are shoes and stock- ings for children from 6 to 12 years old and money to keep some of the people here in coal.” The emphasisis ‘ours in this extract from a let- monthly installment on the radio, But they. almost knocked them wordless instead. Scenting danger, Secretary. Wilbur proceeded to inject a little hop into the public. He said: “The writers who seek to terrorize the people by the statement of the awful calamities of the ‘next war’ overlook the one fundamental principle of war that to have war one must have a defense and that the means of defense should be commensurate with the offense. “If poison gas can be used on one side it can be used on the other, as Germany found out to her sorrow. If disease germs can be used on one side they can be used on the other. “Moreover, the nations using disease germs as a means of offense cannot confine the effects to one side of the fighting line. Yon can’t keep small pox or any other disease on one side of a given line and what will make the soldiers on one side of the line. immune to disease will make the soldiers on the other side of the line immune.” This proves conclusively that war is a game two can play at; in fact there can be no war unless at leart two nations are willing to fight. Having made his, point, the intellectual secretary of the navy drops the following spongeful of dishwater on the heads of those who paint war in colors so black that war's best eustomers are being frightened away: eG “First, treaties haye been made prohibiting the use of poison; in the next war.” His second ter from a comrade who has been active in collect- ing relief for unemployed coal miners’ families in southern Illinois.. No more enlightening comment on the workings of the capitalist system could be}. had. The men who dig the coal are unable to ob- tain enough of it to keep themselves and their families warm. They must buy the coal at $6 per ton from the coal-capitalists who have no use for their labor except when huge profits can be made. The coal lies at the pit mouth—hundreds of tons of it—that the labor of the miners brought to the surface. They dug the coal, but it “belongs” to somebody else. Therefore they must freeze if chari- ty is not forthcoming. The whole thing sounds like something from Alice in Wonderland, but in one form or another this is an everyday event under capitalism. It is not the Communists who strive to wipe out this system that are crazy. It is those who suffer from it, but still support it, that are insane. Being Mayor Is Hard Work Running New York is such a big job that Mayor Hylan commutes between the metropolis and Palm Beach. One of the flies in Hylan’s ointment is Controller Charles L, Craig. This man Craig almost delayed his honor in get- ting away to Florida a few days ago. The two statesmen do not like each other, and in their debates, which are frequent and acrimonious, they sometimes tell the truth about each other. Last Thursday*the mayor was getting ready-for ‘his fourth vacation in six months’ and Le wasn *a hurry. He wanted some matter disposed of .be- | fore \he went away. The controller was stalling. ‘Hylan got angry and called the controller 4.liar. ‘Phe controller demanded that the mayor be _ar- “rested for disorderly conduct, Thé cop, Hylan’s guardian, justlaughed and told Craig to sit down. After considerable noise the statesmen cooled off and Hylan went on his way to Palm Beach. In sunny Palm. Beach his honor will not be “bothered with thoughts of: the, thousands of..New » York workers who are unemployed and suffering >from eold and hunger. “He was not what you might call a religious man,” said the only non-klan preacher in Herrin, while officiating at the funeral of Ora Thomas, who was recently murdered by klan gunmen. The preacher refused to make any further comment on Thomas’ life owing to his boycott of the church. He was not a customer, so the preacher Jeft-him to his fate. “One of the most christian things I have ob- served about organized christianity is the mission- ary spirit which pervades it,” said President Cool- idge to 5,000 alleged christians a few days ago. The American capitalists spend $40,000,000 a year on their missionaries. Forty million dollars can reason was not forthcoming. Perhaps one is, enough. ,. One is, tempted to ask the honorable setretary of the neve tbe question: If the use of poison gas is, prohibi' by treaty in ‘the next war, why are all the capitalist governments spending millions of: dollars sperfécting already existing gases and dis- covering new, ones? The secretary of the navy knows very well that treaties can no more prevent the use of gas or any other,.lethal weapon in war than they can prevent war. His clean bill of health is not con- vincing. The next war will he more horrible tlian the last, and the only hope for the human race is that, the workers of the world take steps to make the next war the last by stepping in and getting rid of the capitalist system that is at the bottom of all modern wars. Famine in Ireland Ireland is in the grip of a very serious famine, according to news dispatches. Not only has the potato crop failed, but the peat, on which the poor peasants have depended for their fuel supply, is flooded with water, due to the continual downpour j of rain which prevailed last summer. The famine is not confined to the western sea- board where a chronic state of semifamine exists. In many inland towns the people have not tasted potatoes since last November. Unemployment is widespread and the workers and peasants are dying of disease caused by malnutrition. In addition, plagues have broken out among the sheep and cattle, adding to the horror. It is regrettable that in face of this horror the trade union movement should be torn by civil strife, ignoring a splendid opportunity to take the lead in bringing relief to the suffering people, all of whom are workers and poor peasants. The re- sult is that the middle. class, capitalists and the church, who are responsible’ for the chronic state of poverty of the those unfortunate people, appear in the role of saviors and‘benefactors. The re- lief work is in the hands of the catholic church, which strengthens its, hold on the people and gives it added prestige. That poverty and misery can flourish even under a native government, is now being amply demon- strated to the Irish people. In “black ’47,” when over 1,250,000 people died of hunger or were driven into exile because of the famine, enough corn was exported to feed three times the population. The money was needed to pay the landlord-his rent. That was under Britigh rule. Today Ireland is under native rule, but the con- dition of the worker$* ad’ peasants is as bad as ever. There was only an'éxchange of masters or more correct a change of ititve drivers. The present Kree State government 18 Hit the agent of the same ruling class that dace ufed from Dublin castle. Famine and ose Will’be the lot of the Irish workers and peasan' ithey have a change of buy a lot of enthusiasm. t a PP LE IN AR IONE ORR ” L economic systems podiainis a change of masters. j THE DAILY WORKER CHICAGO LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL. ...... FORMS SLAV:WORKERS’ CONFERENCE ‘OUR LEADER,’ SAYS BERGER OF LAFOLLETTE Declares Bob Resps Up Fight, Scolds Frear (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.— Formal ex ulsion, of the LaFol- lette republicans; from the re- publican party in the house is to be attempted. The first blow was struck by William Wood of Indiana, chairman ‘of the G. O. P. caucus, when°He issued, on Jan. 29, a call for a party cau- cus on Feb. 27,, and omitted from the list of ‘Inyitations the names of the ten members from Wisconsin and representatives Keller of Minnesota, Sinclair of North Dakota and LaGuardia of New York, i “We Are Good Republicans,” Says Frear, To this declaration of war. Rep. Frear of Wisconsii replied with a speech in which he*reviewed the his- tory of the party, showing that Lin- coln opposed the Mexican war, and Roosevelt bolted the party when he felt that it had come under the con- trol of corrupt special interests, but that Roosevelt was welcomed back and died a good republican. He eulogized Rep. Cooper of Wis- consin, who has’a longer record of ser- vice than any other republican in the house. He declared that the Wis- consin republicans are good republi- cans, and that nobody can read them out of their party. “Our Leader, LaFollette,” Says Berger To these defiant remarks Rep. Vie- tor Berger, socialist, interposed a number of questions, calling attention to the fact that “oun leader, Senator LaFollette,” had decjared that the new political movement of 1924 must go forward; and hinting that Frear was now trying to run away from the battle. Frear replied that he: was re-eletced last fall without repub! opposition, by 30,000 votes, whereas Berger came back by a margin of only 2,000-odd. Vic Will Discuss Progressive “Re- treat.” “That is because(l honestly declar- ed myself, and did not-run under false colors,” Berger shot back, while stand- pat republicans and semocrats laugh- ed at Frear. The secialist member gave notice that he would discuss the retreat of the Wisconsin® ives in a special speech to the houge at the first opportunity. ».-,, Nick Longworthy, Gi 0. P. floor leader, joined in the ‘ive question- ing of Frear on thé pegularity of his republicanism. He... announced in November that the LaFollette ele- ment should never be permitted to enter another party, caucus. Pavlowa’s D 1 Quixote yw! All.» rs in riginality and Beauty Tass Admirers of Anna, ‘Pavlowa’s danc- ing are never disappotnted’ after at- tending one of her performances, for she always embodies in her program a few of the favorite pieces that have brought her the tribute she so fully deserves. The audience who saw her dance Saturday night at the Auditorium again brought dowm the house with applause in appreciation of her rendi- tion of “The Swan,” which she so truly portrays. She is none the less wonderful and bewitching in the Syri- an dance in which she is accompanied by Laurant Novikoffe This program included her original pantomine dancing ‘program of the Spanish comedy, Doh Quixote, in two acts and a prologue. The prologue us to Don Quixote in his o7 » and we wit- ness him preparing to go on a knight- ly expedition. Mé ski was splen- did in the comic ret of Sancho-Pan- 20, Don Quixote’s goéd natured simrle servant. Domoslavgaki makes a very dignified and stiff Don Quixote who loosens. up » , in spots and then very self-cot ly. I have seen ixote done in pantomine a nw of times, but this exceeds theriMall for originality in colorful setting#tichness in cast and super dancing. .Pavlowa as Kitry the innkeeper’s danghter and as Dul- cinea is of marvelous. She does a generous it of dancing appearing several and in most of them she is pros eh by Novi- koff with whom she dances so har- moniously, These performances which we ar informed, is her farewell tour, will be given only until the « of this week, Our Kids Are Having ONE BIG JOB Carrying Their i jist Message To the in of CLASS MOVEMENT the of all working class slomenta:againet The urgent need for svchtubeBion the renewed Michigan prosecutions as. expressed “inthe jailing ‘of C. E. Ruthenberg and the calling to immediate trial of Robert Minor, has’ closed the ranks between the workers’ organizations ‘of three - Slavic languages; and has resulted in the formation of » united Slavie Conference’ for “Labor” De- fense. The three languages are the Jugo-Slays, the, ‘Slovaks and the Czechs. Three representatives of each of these groups . met last Friday at the South- _ rrr Slavic book store, 1806 8. Racine Ave., PARTY ACTIVITIES Philadelphia Activities The city central committee of Phila- delphia has outlined a campaign of activities that will not close untill the two thousand workers who cheered the Communist speakers at the great Lenin meeting are brought into the Workers Party. The first step towards this goal ts the campaign to increase the circula- tion of the DAILY WORKER and in connection with that, the first annual DAILY WORKER ball which will be held Friday February 27, at the New Traymore Hall. Daily Worker agents from 17 branches are busy making preparations, distributing tickets and securing advts. for the DAILY WORK- ER ball souvenier program. The en- thusiasm and activity of our comrades assures us that the ball will be the greatest event of the year and an aditional milestone indicating the growth of the influence of the party in Philadelphia. The first meeting of the Labor Defense Council has laid down plans for an intensive campaign against the criminal syndicalist law and the raising of*a defense fund to help the legal battles to free our com. tades involved in the Michigan cases. March 21st, the anniversary of the Paris Commune and. the Hungarian Soviet republic has been set as the date for the great defense bazaar. Collection lists for the articles for the bazaar are out and the party is being mobilized to carry out this task with the same spirit and results that we attained for the Lenin memorial meeting. 25 new members were taken into the party during the month of Jan- uary and. several new branches are being formed. The open forum conducted by the |’ city central committee every Sunday eveneng at the Grand Fraternity Hall; 1628 Arch St., is growing in size and influence. It is the only center where the every day problems and the burn- ing issues of the workers are present- ed and discussed from the Communist point of view. The Carlson series of lectures on the elements of Communism are at: tracting wide attention and the grow- ing attendance of party members is another healthy sign displayed by the party in this city. The industrial department © has shown great improvement during the last few months and is steadily bring- ing the party into closer contact with labor movement. The trade union class which meets every Sunday morning at 11 in the party head- quarters discusses the many tactical’ problems that confront our comrades in the unions. First steps have been taken to reorganize the party on the’ shop nuclei basis. The industrial de- partment has given special attention to this matter and some results will soon be forthcoming. The close co-operation of the Young Workers League in all the above work has aided greatly to the influence and growth of the party. Cleveland Activities. ; West Side English Branch Holds. Red Revel The west side English branch of the Workers Party in Cleveland finds it! self up against it for funds. After scratching our heads for a consider- able time as to how we might lay our hands.on some ready cash it was de- |. cided that something different and at- | 98 tractive must be done. So, it finally leveloped that a Red Revel should. be ‘eld. ‘Too much information can not »e given at this writing, but merely ust enough to make you itch for the right. A few of the things to be “pull- od off” will be an expose of the “Mi- chigan Spinach Law” a Soviet Court, the Cheekaa who will bring all offend- ers to the Soviet Court to be fined and. numerous other attractions. Never before has anything like this been “pulled off” in this city and every member of the branch has his hands full making rangements, The date will be sae day evening March 7th, at.7:00,P, The place is the Hungarian ‘Workers Home, 4309 Lorain Ave, For additional information agk a, member of the west side. branch and also watch this, column. CARL HACKER, |. Branch Organizer, |...4. the . at-|. and considered ways and means. of combining » their. resources. for the benefit ofthe. Labor Defense cam- paign. . A commaittes ‘consisting ot. ichel: atsky, Kratovehil, and Vrabel, ‘one from each, nationality, will work with local Secretary, Kruse in winning the attendance, of all Slavic ‘workers or- Sanizations, at the. coming generat united front labor. defense’ conference, scheduled for Feb. 26th, at ‘t¥0 “west Washirigton .St. In order to better effect this result there will‘he’a spe- cial Slavic defense conference held on Friday Feb. 20, at 1806°8, Racine Ave. we OY + Combine on Defense Movie The firat united effort wi | take the form of .an entertainmen “on” Feb. 22nd, at ©. .S. P. S. Hall,” 1£26 “West 18th St- The; Czechs had taken the initiative hut, admitted the other two organizations. on equal basis with their own branches. when. the need for united work became clear.’ At least fitty, per cent’ of ‘the proceeds will benefit the lefense. The chief feature. of the program will be the showing: of “Polikushka” famous Russian film made by the Moscow Art Theatre, and which has been shown to large and enthusiastic audiences in Orchestra Hall, Gartners Independence ‘Theatre, and Hull House. ‘Nevertheless thousands of workers in Chicago have never seen this film and. theywill welcome this chance to,do. go.. Start. Street, Collections The, South Slavic comrades took over a score of collection boxes for use in a house-to-house. drive for sub- scriptions for their paper, “Radnick.” Every subscriber. and every prospect- ive ag will.also_ be soap to ER ey ' -WASHIWGTQN;, Feb. 2—Great Brit ain and?Canude ‘the best cus tomer# of the United States in 1924 taking $1/800,090,000 ;of the total ex: ports of F4599,000,900. Germany ¢ame second with 000, "cnn Soe a4 779,008, % 483 Qn ‘Uniitied (Sttatys - bona goods valuec at more: stom the United ‘Kingdom “an frons Japan) trom: Brazil, $179, 334, rance $174,363,000; from* 9;257,000. Take Up Ancient Claims. 4 _ WASHIN( |, Feb. 2—The sen- ate woted, A5 34 to consider at once the Rrengh., } ‘pill’ The claims have been. ‘pending sinéé 1801. HEFLIN DEFENDS © ‘DOWNTRODDEN. MILLIONAIRES But Has No lo Objection: to Labor Baiting ~ (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Sen. ‘Tom Heflin of Alabama, whose -persiatent campaign led to the rejection by ‘thé senate of the renomination of W. GP. Harding as governor of the federal re. serve ‘board, has’ undertaken to pre vent Atty. Gen. Stone from pet gio the bench of’the supreme court,” His latest triumph fs to win'the: am tility, to himself ‘of Ned) McLean’s Washington Post, apologist of Daug. herty, Fall, Sinclair, Dolietiy and other notables of the Hardini g-Coolidge® bid gime, When a Millionaire Is, Gyped—ot wy! Replying to. what. he termed “this hireling sheet,” and “this filthy Tag,’ Heflin told the senate that his oppos! tion to Stone was hased on the admit ted fact that Stone argued and won before the supreme:eourt, the suit brought in Delaware under an ‘obsolete and barbarous iaw, by:which,Oal- Owp bey, a pioneer mining man, of Colore do, was: stripped ofa million: dollar: worth of property without setting even a chance to be heard in court.) <1» The senior J. P.. Morgan was Own bey’s partner in some mining enter prises. When Morgan died, his hejr: tried to throw the companies. into. ¢ receivership, after Ownbey had , re fused to sell out to them for $1,250,000 The receivership tied up the mines the stock rapidly fell in value, anc when suit was brought in the Dela ware court the ancient law whic! Stone’s firm had invoked made it ne cessary for Ownbey to put. up a bon of $200,000. He had nothing wit! which to secure such a bond. Ston: argued before the supreme court tha he must put up bond or lose the prop erty. The. court upheld Stone. No Objection to Persecuting Worker: Heflin told the senate that the coyn try is entitled to know the characte: of a man placed for life upon the sy preme court. Every senator is’ in. hon or bowhd to resist the confirmation t: that powerful position of any man wh: would deprive a citizen of the eque protection of the laws.: He points t Stone as a man who has helped. to ro) @ fellow citizen as ries tor pe Mor gan estate, No Defense Council saa Meeting on ‘Saturday There will be no meeting Chicago Defense Council this day, Feb. 7, but there will be held the following Saturday. All dele gates should be prepared to settle fo tickets and advertising ‘at that Complete settlements should if possible, but all perl: should be turned iny : (8 Takes Another Rest. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—The Unite States supreme court seeeree bad until March 2. bay mil | ‘ELEMENTARY MARXIAN ECONOMICS |Cus. ‘tn elementary economic: meets; Wednesday night, 8 p. m. at'722 Blue. Island avenue. Max Lern- er, insttuetor. Claas to have resumed work again last Wednesday but due to former nieeting’ place being locked dir not meet ‘as scheduled. Note chang: address to 722'Blue Island Ave. All peiaay et “enitered inthis class whicl ping conducted by Earl R pvt ‘required and urged to. be ‘week. First four Hg ser ; Bi "y ps ane gh wie 2 ean gona less al i tts “advanced tc crete en mer Mark 182 iperrosyl. ions mich rate S als shaptées bet aes are | Z Mu WASHINGTON, Feb Feb. 2—A rena cS y itation conference at which it is hoped’ a plan for the unification of Chin will be evolved, has opened in Peking, according to dispatches “veceived" by) the state department today, trom Dr. | Jacob Gould Schurman, the American |Ctll minister, ABONg yraw. ROME, 2.—A seaplane flown by the aviator Perugia, Umbria, today Mattei and @ pupil who vested in labor power on the ae hand. Note—The answers to the above re view questions will be published nex week either in the form given of { the form of a brief summary it Rad sible. Further Questions on Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8, at 1. Does the capitalist produce va ues in use for their own sake. is the essential driving force ates the capitalist in ae c ful things? “ 2. Explain how the canitalat follow the law of exchange of values for equal. Mpa in the. chase. of all things: ry for duction and yet, after, commodities in baie sae greater, valu Be he Sate wpe Point out why ‘the: profit cannot: be ‘explained pose