The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1925, Page 6

| Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Ce cana atlases ieee eat cease RCTS Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.00....8 months in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....8 montha $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to ‘THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. = 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL t WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Chicago, Ilineis coon DCItOFS emo Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. > Advertising rates op application The Diplomats Bicker Great Britain has set out to redraw the map of Europe. The Geneva protocol of the league of na- tions has been junked and ‘British imperial di- plomacy has set three objectives for itself: 1, To arrange an offensive and defensive alli- ance among the western European powers that will satisfy France and at the same time be acceptable to the British dominions that have spoken very openly against being drawn into another European war. 2. To rearrange the eastern frontier of Germany, enable that country to become a power to offset France in Europe and weaken the influence of ance in Poland and other border states. To use the new alliance as an anti-Soviet Russian bloc and thus relieve the pressure on Brit- ish imperialism in India, Persia and China. France will oppose stubbornly the first two pro- posals. If the coal and iron of upper Sile: now Polish territory, comes into Germa hands, the French iron and steel industry has a dangerous competi- tor and Germany, with her superior industrial or- ganization, would not be long in building the m tallurgical basis for her army. France has Gei many strangled at present and no substantial re- covery is possible without changing the European map. England needs a strong Germany, France wants her weak and helpless—this is the basis of all the diplomatic jockeying taking place in Down- ing street and the Quai d’Orsay between Chamber- lain and Herriot. The best informed capitalist political writers of England and France agree that the situation is acute. Augwr, the semi-official mouthpiece of the British foreign office, compares it to the pre-war months of 1914. England is willing to guarantee the security of France, but insists that Germany be a party to the agreement. It is this aspecet of British poli that holds the greatest danger for Soviet Russia, but to which it is the most difficult to secure the consent of French imperialism. —If Germany can be brought into a western European alliance she can be used against that powerful enemy of French and British imperialism—Soviet Rus: France knows, however, that she has less immediate cause for worry over the increasing influence of Soviet Russia than Great Britain. Germany to her is the enemy that must be tied hand and foot. British diplomacy is the cleverest and most unscrupulous in the European capitalist world, but the task it has set itself this time is an im- possible one. The European news of the next few weeks will be full of interest and meaning for the working class as the imperialist powers strive to reconcile the nevitable rivalries the better to combat the rising tide of world revolution. ‘ Japanese Sedition Law Passed The Japanese im al diet has* passed what is probably the most drastic suppression law on the statutes of any country.. Thé full text of the law was published yesterday in our:magazine section. It will be noticed that one clause brings under. the provisions of the act anti-capital propaganda or organization work conducted in other countries. Japanese exiles and immigrants who retain their connection with the revolutionary movement are liable therefore to the savage penalties of the law in case of théir return to their native land. The law itself is the product of a ruling class whose grip on:the masses of the Japanese workers and peasantry is slipping. It was the pressure of the masses more than anything else that forced the recognition of Soviet Russia and a gréat sym- pathy for the workers and peasants of Russia has swept thru Japan. The bonds between the work- ers of both countries have been strengethened by the signing of the treaty. On the-other hand, the industrial and. financial system of the Japanese empire is in extremely bad shape. Late news places the number of unem- ployed at 3,000,000 and like most of the other cap- italist nations, its ruling class has been mortgaging the workers to the House of Morgan. The only way out for the Japanese rulers is a war that might unite all classes behind them for a time. But this, too, is a grave danger. It is almost a certainty that in the event of war the 15,000,000 Koreans would begin an armed struggle for na- tional independence and the growing strength of the labor and revolutionary movement in Japan is a menace to any continued militarist policy. The drastic nature of the law just passed; pro- hibiting as it does even the ordinary activities of the workers’ organizations, is the best of evidence of the fear that the Russian. revolution, the tre- mendous power of Soviet Russia in the Far East and the spread of labor organigation and revolu- tionary thought among the #dpitiese masses, has struck to the hearts of the imperial government and its supports ~~ The present political crisis in Germany following the death of Ebert, one of a long series, has been intensified by the strike of railway freighthandlers who have been joined by the workers of other oc- cupations and which may become general. The German railway workers have been among the first to suffer from the operation of the Dawes plan. It is a striking coincidence that the day the House of Morgan henchman, for whom the plan named, becomes vice-president of the United ates, the German workers are forced to strike jagainst the reduction of their pitifully low living standards. It is not hard to see what class the Dawes plan is directed against. | The German railways were owned and operated by the state, but under the Dawes plan they be- come private property and their income is one of Wem cen pean 8 ALTAR NRDU NH my THE DAILY WORKER The German Railway Strike [CHILDREN SOLD FOR PROFITS IN SOUTH DAKOTA Welfare Workers Find Solons Corrupted PIERRE, S. D., March 8.—The mis- guided welfare workers who have been here lobbying for the passage of bills to raise the standard of living of women and children, to take chil- dren out of industry, and to protect illegitimate and orphan children, have been ground in the machine of rotten capitalist politics. The women do ‘not understand, as yet, that these politicians are control- the principal sources from which the reparation payments and interest on the House of Morgan loans is paid. The railway workers of America can get-an ac- curate idea of what the Morgan-Coolidge-Dawes government has in store for them by studying the effects of the Dawes plan on their fellow workers in Germany. The DAILY WORKER expresses its solidarity with the German railway workers and urges them to support the Communist Party of Germany and its program, to strive always for the overthrow of German and allied capitalism and the establish- ment of the dictatorship of the German workers and peasants. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Nova Scotia Battle Line Forms Once more the Nova Scotia coal miners are challenging the might of the British Empire Steel corporation. Evictions and denial of credit at com- pany stores were the weapons used by the com- pany during the lockout that preceded the strike and unquestionably the history of the bitter strug- gles of 1922-28 in which Jim McLachlan went to jail will be repeated. No place on the continent have the miners fought with greater determination. Troops, police, spies, the press and crooked union officials have been used against them. They were expelled*from the United Mine Workers in the midst of their strug- gle by the Lewis machine, but they maintained their organization, foreed concessions from the coal and steel capitalists and fought their way back into the union. 4 The coal operators are attacking all along the line. The lockout foreed the strike in Nova Scotia and on this side of the line the coal barons are massing their forces for an open shop drive. if the whole nnion is animated by the spirit y| displayed by the Nova Scotia miners the offensive of the coal barons will be short lived. Polish capitalism and Russian Communism are contrasted in the news of the excution of a priest by the Polish authorities. Accused of exposing the priestly spy system of Poland, he was covered with gasoline ‘and burned to death. The Russian Communist gave Butchko- vitch, the holy Polish spy, a merciful ’death by shooting. We are awaiting a loud outburst of indignation from the catholic and capitalist press over this latest exhibition of Polish capitalist culture, but we are afarid we will wait in vain. The railroad strike is an other indication that the workers of Germany are not going to accept the Dawes plan without protest, even if the Ger- man socialists beg them’ to. Under Communist leadership they may shortly kick this pet plan of Morgan into the discard completely along’ with its socialists lackeys, The final rejection of the Geneya protocol by Great Britain means that the chronie Nuropean political crisis has entered a new phase. Questions of territory and security are raised now that the army and air fleet of France and her vassals— | Poland, Roumania and Czegho-Sloyakia— and the navy of England, may be called upon to settle. With goodly bunches of Communists in all the state legislatures it will not so easy for the cap- italist lackeys to kill anti-child labor legislation. The Communists will unmask the effort of these bought lawmakers to carefully and quietly shelve all legislation for the benefit of the workers. If you want to keep touch with the valiant fight that the Irish workers and peasants are making against the famine that has hit great sections of Ireland, then you will have to read the DAILY WORKER. The open shop war of the mine owners against the miners’ union has not been called off. It has the miners union has not been called off. It has barons are working under cover. Let the mine workers get busy. All Communists and Communist sympathizers in Chicago should give their best efforts in support of the local subscription drive for the DAILY WORK- ER. New readers make more Communists. Protest Day for; Saeco and Vanzettti may be over. But the fight for the release of these and all the other class war prisoners goes on just the When militants get on the offensive in their strug: gles their victories tre not far away. same, wt cmeeptemeionn ninety hance Livery day get-atisubesfor the DAILY WORKER aod a member for the Workers Party, 4 / ' ted by the business interests, and that the only way to improve living conditions is for the workers to take control of society,” A letter which reveals the futility of the activity of these welfare work- ers, as Well as the manner in which the capitalist politicians sacrifice the interests of the children and women of South Dakota to the business in- terests has been received by the DAILY WORKER, The letter shows how the governor of the state pun- ishes the women in industry for cross- ing him in politics, and how the cath- olic hierarchy. doctors and dawyers prey on defenseless orphans.¢ The letter, sent by Mrs. Franklin Denver Smith to her sister, states: Given Away Like Kitten. “Dear Sister: “I have been here, Pierre, South Dakota, two weeks. trying to get our children’s code adopted. But I find that while they appropriate money to protect the . pockét book, to protect animals, pigs, bugs and even frogs, children, especially tnose born out of wedlock, are denied any protection whate’ “They may be ‘given away like an unwanted kitten. “I have been able to get three bills past the house, and ,they are now in the senate. I think they will pass. But the two most important bills were lost because every catholic hospital is fighting them, and every disreputable lawyer and doctor, who wish to traffic in children. Catholics Buy Children. The catholics wish to place all the illegitimate childrén they can get hold of in catholic homes; and the lawyers get a fee out of drawing up papers ‘transfering: the custody of a child without court: action. “The governor is ;peeved because some of his plans were checked. He claims our commission did it, so he is taking it out on the children, be- gause he knows that.is what I am most interested inc “He was trying to fix up a measure to supply jobs for:hig particular friends, and we usedjall our influence against it, because:the whole thing was wrong. Legislature for Profiteers. “The men in this legislaturé have moved heaven and earth to break ey; ery measure that affects in any way the women and chijdren. “Mrs. Franklin Denver Smith.” Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! | Organize Six Shop Naclei in N.Y. | (Continued from Page 1)’: the support of their fellow workers because the shop nucleus is daily fighting in their interest, Only recent- ly this shop-nucleus prevented the boss from discharging, one of the workers. In Brooklyn Shoe Factory Shop Nucleus No, 2 is organized in a shoe factory in Brooklyn that em- ploys 60 workers. The nucleus is made up of five members of the party. Due to the activities of its members in the shop one of them has been able to win the chairmanship of his local union and to obtain a place on the executive board. The organizer of this nucleys is positive that in the very near future the best elements among the workers in the shop will join the nucleus and thus become members of the party, be Shop Nucleus No. 3 is organized in one of New York big cloak and suit houses that employs 150 workers to manufacture the beautiful garments the ladies like to wear. This nucleus started with six members. It is act- ively functioning in the shop. Among its members are some of the most active militants of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The activities of this shop nucleus will be well worth watching. Nucleus of Working Women Shop Nucleus No. 4 is made up only a big men’s clothing factory. One of in a dress shop that employs 40 work- ers. There are many shops in New York that employ only women or the working force of which is overwhelm- ingly composed of that sex. Due to this many shop nuclei in New York will be made up entirely of women comrades. Active militant trade union- ists are members of this nucleus. Shop Nucleus No. 5 is organized in big men’s clothing factory. One of the members of the shop nucleus holds one of the most strategic posi- tions in the shop. The comrades who took part in the organization expect to add many more members to the party from this shop. Shop Nucleus No. 6 is another shop, nucleus composed only of women com- rades, It is functidning in a dress shop that employs 60 workers. The members of this shop nucleus are com- rades who have actively participated in the struggles of the girl workers in Proves that not only is it possible to the Comrkunists in the shop have won| reorganize the whole party on such a basis but that it is also essential to do so if'the party is to keep good con- tact with the workers and the Com- munists to become their leaders. Shop nuclei in the New York industrial districts are turning the attention of the Communists to the workshops where the workers daily feel the lash of capitalist exploitation, The slogan in the shop nuclej drive is, To The Shops. As shop nuclei are being or- ganized one shop after another is be- coming a center for Communist work. Cruelty Killed’ Negro in County Jail is Charge Relatives of Marvin Prestwood,’ 18- year-old Negro who died récently in the county jail, after a sudden illness, have started an investigation into the causes of his death. The coroner’s inquest at the time of the youth’s death decided that Prestwood had died of pneumonia. Relatives, however, say they have found that Prestwood was confined tc the “island” in the county jail, where those who break rules ave confined for punishment, from Wednesday to Sunday without food and clothing. The two brothers of the dead boy, Clem and Andrew Prestwood, who are conducting the investigation, declare that their brother died of exposure caused by the punishment. They. said they “hired a white lawyer by the name of Ames, but he did nothing for them.” opment Three Miners Die in Another Indiana Mine Catastrophe (Special to The Daily Worker) TERRE HAUTE, Ind.,. March 8.— Three more Indiana miners were ad- ded to the long list of those sacrificed to the greed of the Indiana coal oper- ators. Two shot firers were killed and anothey entombed at the Shirksville mine seven miles northwest of here. The cause. giyen for the accident was that itwas thé “result of a windy shot.” Fifty-one: miners were killed in an explosion at the mine of the City Coal the dress industry, They are enthus- | company at Sullivan Indiana, a few iastic and expect to make good head- way among the workers in their shop. Centers of Communist Work This week there will be organized a shop nucleus in what is perhaps the largest shoe shop in New York City, and another in a large waist shop. The success the party is having in this district in organizing shop nuclei weeks ago. This disaster was follow- ett, by several other fatal accidents in Indiana mines. Safety laws have been Wmlch’ discussed"in the Indiana legis- lature at Indianapolis, but nothing done to stop the heavy loss of life in Pema mine catastrophes. Get a ‘eub in your shop! Walter Lemon Dies at Kamerovo, Siberia NEW YORK, March 8.—Walter,. Lemon, widely known American industrial worker, died at Kemerovo, Siberia, on January 31 from hemorrhage of the lungs. He wi ick only .a few days. Walter Lemon left for the Kuzbas Colony in 1922 where he took part in the splendid growth ard development of Kuzbas into one of the most modern producing organizations in the U.S. S. Re For twenty years Comrade Lemon was a membe? of the American railroad unions. He was 53 years.of age at the time of his death. in Kemerovo. His wife will remain concn SSC Ur orn SE BSCR NLT A, ‘i PA roa Arata NCat si. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. , (Continued trom page 1) of slaves, What a commentary on the capitalist class and their morality! Their paid literary hacks and their sanctimonious pulpit pounders have rung the changes on the horrors of Communism, its tendency to break up the home and destroy the family. Dis- regarding the major family destroying and home-breaking capitalist indus- tries, such as war and industrial lock- outs, no- day passes that does not show up the capitalists as a set of idle per- verts, good for nothing but to waste the product of useful Ituman toil on their female toys and on male pander- ers to the idle rich. oe © HAT concerns Communists is net that capitalists are immoral, or that they make fast and loose with their own moral codes. Our objection to them is not because of misconduct, but because of their existence as a class. They are human leeches, who render no useful service to society in return for what they get out of it, One capitalist wastes more wealth than would keep thousands of workers in comfort, Their licentious animadver- sions will gladden capitalist newspaper publishers and the hearts of our morons will throb over their amorous adventures until the workers of the United States consign, them to the ash heap of history as the .workers and peasants of Russia did to their human garbage. Ss 6:2? IR John Cowan was quartermaster general of the British army dur- ing the war. He was a good one, ac- cérding to all reports—the best since Moses fed those who fled from Egypt on quail and other delicacies. But 4 scandal has hit Sir John. When the capitalist papers are not busy coining yarns about the mariage laws of So- viet Russia and retailing the hoary lie about the “nationalization of women,” they might draw the moral from the tale woven around the adventures of the gallant soldier and the captivating wife of a British general who was am- bitious for promotion. The general got promoted. Sir John not alone fed his army, but spared a few thousand pounds for his affinity, who in turn loaned the money to her ambitious husband, The story is now being told to the judge, aes OME capitalists undoubtedly have brains. But it can be proven quite easily that neither brains nor virtue is required to amass wealth. Stokes is one example; “Harry K. Thaw is an- other. Those who have contributed most to human knowledge and whose inventions have helped most to speed up the process of production, have died either in want or in comparative poverty. The wolf and fox type are only concerned with amassing wealth. The real men and women of genius are concerned with producing some- thing that will be of benefit to society. Soviet Bank For Russia PARIS, France, March 8.—Negotia- tions have been begun here by M. Tartouta, financial representative of the Soviet government, and M. Preo- brajensky for the founding of a Soviet Russian state bank in Paris, it is re- ported. The Paris Commune and te Russian Revolution By ISRAEL AMTER. UST 54 years ago, the workers of Paris, disgusted with the manner in which the bourgeoisie had sold out their power; disgusted with the manner in which the bourgeoisie had deserted their posts; oppressed and ‘suffering from .the war against Ger- many, by which France was defeated, took the power int6 their own hands. For sixty-three days, the workers of Paris held this power, manning the factories, hospitals, city offices, tak- ing care of all: municipal affairs. They put an endfor the time-being of all bourgeois control, and it ap- peared as if the revolution, the estab- lishment of the Commune, would be permanent, us The enthusiasm of the Parisian workers was inest{mable. Their cour- age in understanding a task of such dimensions as ru a city at that time was unp led. Inexperi- enced tha they were, they did not hes- itate, but plunged into the work of consolidating theif forces and fortity- ing their power. Tt meant much—fo on the other side of the border, to the east, were the German armies, led by the brutal, tyrannical, shrewd, conniv- ing Bismarck, ready at all times to plunge into the struggle against the Commune. The inexperience and lack of under. standing of the Paris workers ulti- mately led to their defeat and to the breakdown of the Commune. They committed two undamental mis- takes. They didjpot understand that Paris could not, Mipld out if the bour- geoisio retain eir arms. The bourgeoisie an ir hangers-on re; tired to Versail here they organ- ized their forcesg) They had consider- able equipment whatever they lacked they kn they could procure from the victoriam@:German army The BOO ecb 2e bourgeoisio armed ia @ bourgeoisie|tain their arms. Fi veneer eran ected that may conquer again. A bourgeois- le armed is a force that can be met only with force. The Paris workers made a second mistake: they understood how to take power, but they did not consider the methods of holding power. Paris could not maintain herself, the people could not be fed if food supplies were hot obtained. The workers of Paris did not think of this problem—until it was too late. nected with the peasants, who had to be won over to the side of the revolu- tion,, The workers. of Paris looked upon the revolution as a proletarian revolution—and what had the peas- ants to do with the proletariat? The peasants had very much to do with the workers: if they were not on the side of the workers—on the side oi the revolution—then they would be on the side of the counter-revolution And this actually took place. “The poor peasants who had not been wor over to the side of the revolution, let the city starve. This in itself endan gered the revolution. But the peas ants also militantly aided the counter- revolution. How could they trust to the managing ability of the workers |, of Paris—the “rabble” trying to do things that only their “superiors” had the ability to perform? “How coul¢ one believe that workers would have any understanding of state matters, since they were totally inexperienced? The Paris workers forgot the peas: ants—and they forgot that the bour: geoisie still possessed their arms— and that necessitated and actually brot about the downfall of the Com. mune, This happened in 1871. .<. In 1917, another revolution | took place—this time in an agrieultura’ country. The proletarian ‘revolution in Russia did not fail and cannot fail because the revolutionists took..cog- nizance of the mistakes ‘k- ers of Paris in 1871 amit eased The wi against them. did not allow the bow Paris had to be con- immediately upon instituting their power on Nov, 7, 1917, the campaign for seizing the arms-of the bour- geoisie, for destroying the -organiza- tions of the bourgeoisie, for ‘com- pletely uprooting bourgeois influence and power began. It was a campaign of iron, no mercy being shown. Either the workers must rule alone o: the bourgeoisie will continue to rule. Disarming the bourgeoisie, therefore was one of the fundamental ideas of the Russian revolution, The Russian workers, however, did not forget another fundamental idea The workers must unite with the poor peasants in order to beat down the bourgeoisie. They made their decis- ion not because Russia was an agrar- jan country, with an overwhelming agricultural population. ‘They made this decision because that is in the nature of the proletari revolution, The workers may get. tas dh rena the aid of the poor peasan cannot bold tt without CHUE bets They will be starved out and their power broken. The peasants will be lined up with the bourgeoisie and form the counter-revolutionary army, * Russia is an agrarian country—but let the workers of the industrial countries not imagine’ that it will be different in their revolutions. The support of the poor peasantry is even more essential in the industrial coun- tries, for the proletariat is more de Ipendent upon the supply of food, which cannot for an indefinite time be requisitioned, but must be regulated in its supply by the friendly co-opera- tion of the poorer peasantry, Coalition with the poor peasantry is a revolutionary factor of the great: est importance. It breaks up the back- jward elements of the potentially counter-revolutionary forces, it brings into close, active alliance with the revolutionary workers these sections of the peasantry that likewise suffer under the rule of the tion. To neglect this factor is to en- danger the proletarian revolution, But the Russian revolution was @ success for another fundamental rea- son. It had as its leader a Communist party, which understood the ways of the revolution, which formulated its policies and methods, A Communist Party, which had learned from the mistakes made by the workers of Paris and did not repeat them. So- viet government, with a proletarian dictatorship—hard, unbending, mak- ing no concessions to the bourgeoisie —that was the way of the Russian revolutfon, which stands today more powerful than ever before, The workers of Europe and America must learn from the mistakes of the workers of Paris. ‘They must under- stand the fundamentals of the Rus- sian revolution. The Paris Commune did not fail because economic condi- tions had not yet sufficiently develop- they | °° the Russian revolution did not succeed because these conditions developed. The workers of Paris di not understand; the workers of Rus- sia did’ understand. Thru the prop# ganda and organization work of the Bolshevili. they grasped the ie principles of the revolution—princi- ples and policies that they are carry- ing out today with even greater in- tensity. Unless the workers of Eu: rope and America understand those methods, unless these ideas and the organization for their realization have become part of the very lite-blood of the Communist parties, the proletar- jan revolution will fail, as it failed in Hungary and Italy. aich 18, 1871 and November ~ i" 1917 are of tremendous significance to the revolutionary working class of the whole world. Let the workers take heed; the day of their evolution must still come. Let them not com- mit the errors of our Paris comrades; let them comprehend the ganius and leadership of the Russ’ Commun- ts who not only knew but also acted,