The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1925, Page 6

‘Page Six 4 <9 THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING OO. | 000 liberty loan money to Europearétigovernments 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months 66.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to | THE DAILY WORKER 1918 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL fa WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Chicago, Iinels snemeseorerseeene EAItOPS een Business Manager —— Ontered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. =| 0 Advertising rates on application ° . . Mexico in Chains Mexico is in for an era of the most intense ex- ploitation in its history providing~ the Mexican | workers and peasants stand for it. The friendly at-} titude of the Calles government towards American | capital expressed by its persecution of anti-im- perialist activities and expulsion of Communists from its personally conducted unions getting their orders from the A. F. of L. officialdom, has greatly heartened the oil, water power and mining barons. No richer field for investment exists on the west- ern hemisphere and the concessions received by American capitalists stagger the imagination. Recent dispatches tell of the immense area un-| der the rule of American capital in the western provinces of Sinaloa and Durango. Here are the great San Dimas silver mines, some 80 miles south of Mazatlan. There are 40 mines in this concession which covers a territory of 250,000 acres. The water power of the Piextla and Rio Verde rivers is to be developed by American capital and underpaid Mexican labor with the first units of the system generating 200,000 horsepower. There is also an irrigation project for over 300,000 acres of rich agricultural land. The power plants will supply a number of Mex- ican cities and another great natural resource whose development forms the basis for airtight po-| litical control passes into the hands of American capital. Is it any wonder, with these great riches to be had for the taking if the Mexican working class can be lulled to sleep, that extraordinary efforts have been made to make of the Mexican labor movement a duplicate in miniature of the American labor movement—feeble and spineless? The Communist parties of the United States and Mexico, the Trade Union Educational League and $2.00...8 months | $2.50...8 months | for dispensing the information would find himself |the territory of its neighbors, taking particular | to advance any funds to countries not at war. But Now It Is Being Told Woodrow Wilson loaned or donated $1,500,000,- lafter the war was over without the authorization | of congress, according to a séries of articles now | appearing in a newspaper syndicate. | This news can now be published, but-if it was | made public during the war the person responsible | behind the bars. One of the juicy items of news picked at random out of this scandal dish is connected with Rou- |mania. That country wanted money very badly | after the war was over. Its government was busy crushing the labor unions and making forays on are to grab whatever it could from Soviet Russia, which was then surrounded by armed enemies and torn by civil war. The treasury department was without authority the state department actually suggested to the Roumanian government that they declare war ‘on Germany in order to get over the congressional obstacle. Roumania did not have the nerve to do this, so Wilson gave them the money anyway. Another scandal that is rehashed is the Bak- meteff affair, That fashionable burglar lived for years in luxury on the United States treasury while posing as the representative of a government | that was as dead as the dodo. Not alone that, but he used those funds to foster counter-revolutionary activities against the Soviet government. The reign of the so-called progressive President Wilson was one of the most reactionary in the his- tory of this country. That mountebank went to extremes that an open reactionary would hesitate |to go. Those who expect anything from ‘progres- | sives in the White House should take a lesson from | the experience with Wilson. Poor Payers; Good Collectors | The French ruling class are not very anxious to pay their debts, but they are good collectors. They owe Wall Street several billion dollars, but when- Regular GREETINGS TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE Daily Worker | Finnish Bratch of the Workers Party.: Meets every ist and 38rd Sunday, 2 p. m., at FINNISH HALL, 5963°14th Street, corner McGraw. SSS SSS rsryssrss Japanese Dance THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Finnish Educational Association at FINNISH HALL, 5963 14th Street, THE DAILY WORKER Special Detroit Daily : EJ el iP@ feeoy of the From the : ‘ | VA SPECIAL fii Will Be Given 4 t By the . dances every Thursday and Sunday, 8:30 p. m. Corner McGraw. First Class Orchestra. ever Wall Street’s representatives suggest a check by return mail or at least a-sincere promise to pay, Paris solons make a noise something like the pop- ping of champagne bottles. If the United States government persists in dun- ning France for her war debts, France may come back by charging the American government rent for the use of French trenches. This seems quite fair. Wall Street actually conquered Europe in the bloody business campaign known by the digni- fied title of the “world war.” There are other ways in which France can get back at her creditors. Weatthy Americans are try- ing to get over the boredom of living by participat- ing in gambling games and other recreations that the Pan-American Anti-Imperialist league are the only organizations that point out to the American and Mexican workers the dangers of the working elass of both nations, the*grave danger facing them in this looting of Mexico. An Unknown Soldier Identified One of the most novel and successsful stunts used by the capitalist class to dope the minds of the workers with patriotic emotion after the end of the world war was the unknown soldier dodge. Millions of workers were legally murdered by the ruling class during the prolonged tragedy. When the war was over, the generals were given large sums of money and titles. The privates, those who survived, faced starvation. But the ruling class responsible for the greatest murder carnival in human history hit on the bright} idea that the remaining cannon fodder would ac-} cept “honor” in lieu of food, clothing and shelter. To show how democratic the ruling classes were, they picked the shattered form of what was once a human being from the corpse pile and honored it. Each government picked a dead body and “honor- ed” it. Monuments were erected over the graves of the unknown soldiers, and generals who got their first look at the trenches on a sight-seeing tour when the war was over, have busied themselves placing wreaths on the poor victims’ graves, But the French government pulled a_ boner. Their unknown piece of cannon fodder was made the target for more speeches than there were shots fired during the world war. He was given credit for all the virtues that ever lodged in a human being. But, drat his hide, he turns out to be, not a patriotic French poiliu, but a hated “boche,” or in other words a German. This is terrible. It is liable to damage the un known soldier business irreparably. Perhaps ‘all the unknown soldiers are corpses of the once hated enemy. Chemists may exhume them and submit their ashes to an analysis to leary) whether they are Frenchmen, Germans, Irish, © Dutch, Liberians, Poles,..Chinese or Bushmen. A promising and flourishing industry is threatened with disaster. Patriotism’s Reward ‘The following letter, taken from the Cleveland Press, is eloquent and supplies its own editorial comment: “Back in the spring of 1917 this great country of ours wanted men to go over and put an end to that racket in Europe. I was one of those who readily responded. A few days ago I received a bonus policy (payable in 1945) for my display of patriotism in 1917-18, At the present time I am out of, work and living on one box of Uneeda biscuits (6 cents) a day and getting weaker. The amount of my worldly wealth is exactly 29 cents to date. Tam alone in this city and up against it. Not having the ability to sell T am out of luck as that seems to be the only line of work that is open.Hungry Doughboy.” Every day get a “sub” forthe DAILY WORKER pnd a member for the Workers Party, involve sums of money. They usually leave their money in the gambling dens. A good portion of the profits finds its way into the jeans of the French politicians who run the government. One of those who helped the French ruling class to make ends meet is the son of General Wood, governor of the Philippine Islands. Young Wood made a lot of money gambling in Wall Street. He spent it in France gambling, where he was on the outside. The general’s son cashed a bad check and fled | 4 te Spain., The French are hot in pursuit. 35,000) | francs may not look like a lot of money to the gen-| eral’s son, but at the rate the French franc is | traveling, unless the Paris police catch young Wood before the franc descends further, they will be ow- ing him money. The DAILY WORKER English Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday, 8 p. m., at the HOUSE OF MASSES, 2646 St. Aubin Street. Greetings to the Special Issue, of from the ' anch of the Workers Party of Detroit. oye The Vanishing Home , “Breaking up the home” is a favorite charge |made against the Communists by the enemies of | the working class. The crime of the Communists which provokes the charge is that they want to make it possible’ for all workers to have homes. This is impossible junder capitalism and the figures on increase in population of American cities and an analysis of the housing problem shows that more and more of the masses are tenants completely at the mere of the landlords. According to a survey made recently by the Na- tional Association of Real Estate Boards, over 51 per cent of the city population is living in flats or tenements. Fifty-four per cent. 6f all new housing = £ E iwellings while the United States census figures give us the information that 68 percent of the total increase of population was in cities, The rural population is being drawn rapidly in- to the industrial maelstrom and the homes they leave in the country or village are the last they will ever have. ? [ Dependent upon the capitalist for a job, upon the landlord for shelter, the American masses are a real proletariat. Most of them have not dis- covered this yet but the pressure of the bosses and landlords loosens a little more each day the grip of the ruling class on the minds of workers —workers whose homes and whose jobs belong to their enemies. Capitalism breaks up the home. The Commun- ists are organizing the workers for the destruction of capitalism and the erection of a system in which homes and jobs will be the right of all workers. Many capitalists and their hangers-on, while this process is under weigh, ‘will be without homes but that is something for the capitalists to worry over. When they decide to work they will no longer be capitalists and thé “build your own home” cam- paigns will take on a new meaning for them. nn ae es Park auditorium statement trying party elements, yi . | The socialist Phone Melrose 5429 construction is of some other kind than Ebi ed Com YELLOW'S QU WEEPING OVER PARTY'S CORPSE The officials of the Rittional social- ist party, including afew federation secretaries, were meeting in Douglas discussing the hopel which their party has sult of its futile col capitalist politicians, The socialist party will have to “be rebuilt from the ground up” was the sense of the meeting. mitted that the party is déad. The pie-card optimists, however, pin their hopes in a last attempt to revive the already rotting corpse, The national convention of the so- clalist party adjourn adventure in class-collaboration with the LaFollette petty bourgeois third ‘ |tinue to fight the |the workers and G6 {and will forget that | lived, it was diseloi th ment, but in the fut will carry on this work SUT LUL LLL. LLLL LLL. CLL LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLoLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL ooo LCL | PRINTING PRINTING PRINTING Let Your Next Piece of Printing Be Printed by THE International Printing Co, Printing of Every Description 4417 CHENE STREET ~ Detroit, Mich. Phone Melrose 5429 TIMI ASK OLD LADIES’ HOME FOR “BROKE” SCHOOL TEACHERS CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 24.—A, national home for id and infirm - school teachers was advocated by Olive M. Jones, principal of Public School 120, New York City, in her talk before the department of super- intendence, National Educational « Association convention here today. Miss Jones declared that the . average “poor house” to which she - would have to go as the only place she could afford in view of her meager pension would be obnoxious » to any educated and cultured school teacher. 1 yestet@ay afternoon plight into allen as a re- ration with Tt was ad- after three year’s woundering, at a banquet given in honor of Eugene V, Debs, and found the old home in such’ a badly decayed condition that repair. is hopele: However, with more optimism than brains, one speaker after another ex-. pounded the “new socialiam!t.which, does not deign to notice the teachings of Marx or the lessons of t! revolution, James Oneal, AM | quit, Debs, and many ot ne. “rebuild the party.” partyeacame home,| “I am a little embarassed and perv- Ob * .. after issuing a to lain the fatal The y will con- menists and of Russia Marx ever tate. @ socialists | sion. Our Ing. cla: ational inatitutions, inches high. They are: | terms if desired. Razor . —Sharpens Itself ous in the presence of this remark- ably splendid and intelligent audi- ence,” Hillquit said sarcastically. “James Oneal talks so much in the Marxian phraseology that his wife does not understand him.” This was the closest Hillquit came to mentioning the teachings of Karl Marx, “I don’t know what the cele- bration is all about, but we might as well celebrate anyway,” he added. “This is a divorced party,” Hillquit said. “This socialist crowd is as pep- py and chipper as a divorcee, and seems to be ready for another wed- ding.” A véice in the back of the hall said,;‘‘Maybe they'll try to marry the Communists next.” And a Communist | who was observing ‘the show, answer- ed “nothing doing.” » “We have been on a journey,” said Hillquit, “And we have returned to our home to vit the home of all truly progressive and forward looking action.” hive «Abramovich ‘Berates Debs Raphael Abramovich, who has not had the nerve tO attempt to speak in Chicago before ‘a public gathering following the” protést: of the workers ‘lof other cities ‘agdinst’ his lies about _| Soviet Russia, was introduced here without casualties. Abramovich said the revolution was a long time off in the United Stat and deplored the fact that for a timé’ “Debs has been carried away by the Bolshevik illu- Lilian Herstein, who is being in- tensively cultivated by the “social- ists” was the only speaker of the evening who mentioned Soviet Russia in a favorable light, She criticised the “progressives” for remaining silent about Soviet Russia. The Jewish Forward. gave $1,200 to help “rebuild” the soctalist party, and Debs ‘added the usual sentimental touch to the banqu ee it Get your tickets for Red Revel Ball, February 28. DETROIT. Workmen's Co-operative Full Line of | ‘Meats, Groceries, Fruits and Vegetables Lowest Prices in City ‘To furniéh pure, clean and wholesome food to the work- “at Gost. We pay no dividends of Intérest on stock or Investment. 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Used Royal Typewriter Price $36—Cash or Terms. Apply 6419 E. Jefferson Ave, Detroit, Mich. Phone: Edgewood 0100-3 Ask for G. Ohun. D asy, £ OOKELLOGC'S Co TASTELESS CASTOR OIL COMMUNIST VOTE = TO BE ANNOUNCED =| IN DAILY WORKER Seventy watchers were sent out by the Workers (Communist) Party, local Chicago, to see that votes cast for the four Communist candidates in the aldermanic contest are prop- erly counted. The Workers Party ran candi- dates in four wards. The Commun- ist candidates were Louis Cejka, 2827 jaulding » 22nd ward; Hyman Epstein, 3131 °W. 16th St, 24th ward; Nicholas Dozenberg, 321 N. Avers Ave., 28th ward, and Harry Brooker, 2708 Crystal St., 34th ward. The DAILY WORKER Went te press ten aarly for the returns,