The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1925, Page 6

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LOEB.......mercememe Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, <= 20 Chicago, tlineles Advertising rates op application Bloody German Democracy Six Communists have been killed and thirty wounded in Halle, Germany, and the election cam- paign is just beginning. “Schupos,” the “green police,” so called because of the color of their uniforms, the official terrorist organization of German social-democracy, fired on an unarmed crowd of workers at a meeting where Thalmann, Communist presidential candidate, was to speak. This incident, taken in connection with the col- lapse of the German “republican” bloc, the ex- posure of the social-democrat party as corruption- ists and grafters in addition to their betrayal of the German workers to American and allied cap- ital, the violation of the agreement to withdraw troops by the allies after the social-democrats had prevailed on the masses to poll a majority vote for the Dawes plan, requires no undue addition of undue optimism to make the strong strategic position of the German Communist Party the major event in German political life. The Com- munist Party appears as the party of and for the masses. It is certain that the Communists will cast and count several million votes, sufficient to make an- other election necessary by preventing any candi- date from securing the necessary majority. The government, actuated by this knowledge, is pre- paring for terror during the campaign, directed against the Communists with the object of cowing their supporters. Capitalist terror always meets some success at first, but in this case it will not stop the German Communist Party from rolling up a total vote whose numbers will be actually less than that of its supporters, Election campaigns are not an end of Commun- ist activity as the ruling class of the world knows. All power to our German comrades in the new battle in which they are engaged and which is.for them a bloody and dangerous one in spite of all the “democratic” rules by which it is supposedly governed. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. More Deportations There have been 4,448 deportations under the provisions of the new immigration law in the last six months, states Senator Reed of Pennsylwania in an interview given in Washington, D. C. The secrecy with which these proceedings against foreign-born workers are veiled is evident. There has been no publicity whatever except in a few cases where the victims were well known and in- terest aroused in their behalf. A new wing of the secret service has also been established, according to the senator. Two hundred and fifty police have been recruited and at all Mexican and Canadian ports squads of inspectors are stationed. Immigration has been reduced to aimost nothing. In the last six months 67,303 im- migrants arrived; 48,120 left the country for per- manent residence abroad, leaving the net increase in foreign-born population only 19,203. The gates are shnt to the working class of Europe. This being the case, the question arises of the purpose of House Bill 11796. It establishes new, excuses for deportation proceedings and gives the department of labor and immigration the widest powers—powers that it certainly does not need in view of tthe 4,448 deportations admitted. The proposed law then is simply a terrorist measure. Foreign-born workers are to be subject to an intensified espionage. Blackmail of aliens by labor department officials is to be encouraged. The principal offense will be joining a union or working class political party. House Bill 11796 has nothing to do with stopping igration. It is to make easier the persecution and deportation of foreign-born workers already workers who have incurred the anger of the s. It is another union smashing measure that can and will be used to the limit in the open shop drive that the capitalists are preparing and that is already launched in the textile and coal mining industries. Resistance to wage cuts and the open shop by foreign-born members of unions will be construed under the proposed law as crime. Foreign-born workers who have not yet become citizens could be automatically elminated and in unions like the United Mine Workers, the International Longshore- men’s Association, Food Workers and even in many unions of the building trades great inroads could be made on the membership. During the congressional recess the labor unions should marshall all their forces for the defeat of this vicious anti-labor measure. Send in that new “sub” today! oan saena deg : SS ————————_—_—_———— terror |’ “nl init tan ers ya mney a a. The Federationist on Soviet Russia The officialdom of the American Federation of Labor cannot be honest even with itself. In the last-issue of the Federationist, edited by William Green since the death of Samuel Gompers, there is published an interview on Russia with John Turner, head of the Office Workers’ Union of Great Britain and a disciple of Emma Goldman. Needless to , the interview is composed of the stereotyped lies and insinuations to which we have become accustomed. The official report of the British trade union delegation is not even mentioned in the article in spite of the fact that its favorable character has caused comment thruout the world and drawn a clean line of division between the bureaucrats of the Amsterdam trade unions and the British trade union movement—the most powerful group in the Amsterdam International. The suppression of the statements of Purcell, | | Bramley and others of the majority report-of the British trade union delegation, the publication of the statements of a lone minority of one whose influence in the British labor movement is non- existent, shows conclusively that the Greens and Wolls do not want the truth of Soviet Russia to be known to the membership of the American Fed- eration of Labor, that they fear even the considered and conservative views of British labor men on Soviet Russia and its accomplishments. Purcell is the head of the Amsterdam Interna- tional. His statements are certainly more valuable than those of Turner, yet he will not be allowed to tell what he thinks to the dues-paying union men of the United States if the A. F. of L. bureaucrats can prevent it. The whole incident is illuminating. It stamps the enemies of Soviet Russia in the official circles of the A. F. of L. as enemies on principle and not because of lack of information. This is the way we have always regarded them and obviously we have made no mistake. In no other channel of expression have the im- perialist masters of the American labor fakers shown such outright evidences of their control as in the war conducted on the government of the Russian workers and peasants by the Gomperses, Greens, Wolls and Lewises unless it be in the be- trayal of the Mexican labor movement to Wall Street. Shalini Metal Workers’ Strike The capitalist press is puzzled by the news from Italy. It cannot understand the strike of 100,600 metal workers in northérn Italy who are nominal- ly members of fascist unions. The explanation is simple and for that reason alone would never occur to a capitalist editor. It is that these workers are not fascists, and, never haye been. After the failure of the huge movement that culminated in 1919 in the seizure of factories and collapsed because the leadership did not under- stand or were unwilling to seize the state power, they were discouraged and disheartened ; their out- look was that of anarcho-syndicalism with which fascism has much in common. . These workers accepted fascism as millions of workers in other nations acccept capitalism, but they have no love for it. The outlook seemed hope- less. and they waited to see what fascism had to offer. Its castor oil, daggers, black-shirts and clubs did not fill the stomachs of the workers. Its program was, in spite of its military character and bom- bastic utterances, a program of surrender to the capitalists. It mobilized workers against their own interests. This is a very mild description of the monstrous thing known as fascism, but it will serve for this short article. The Communists have never ceased their work |” among “the masses. Their program is a- program of struggle not with but against national cap- italism. The strike of 100,000 nfetal workers is the best possible proof of the effectivéness of Communist activity and the complete breakdown of the fascist leadership among the masses. It is not a huge group of fascist workers that are striking, but a group of workers, essentially revolutionary, from whose eyes the scales have fallen, and who are once more swinging into the international struggle against world capitalism. . Fascism in Italy dies, but Communism and the Communist Party live. A “Strong, Silent Man” This is the story of how the “strong, silent man” in the White House met an emergency: Warren was rejected by the senate. Coolidge sent his name back for confirmation. Coolidge talked with the republican senate lead- ers, heard that the appointment of Warren was im- possible and agreed to withdraw Warren’s name. A few hours later he gave out the information that he would insist on Warren’s appointment. As this goes to press the republican’ ledders are again in conference with Cal and “the “strong, silent man” may change his mind again. Moral: By Election publicity seldom has much basis in fact. The mine owners are throwing up a mighty smoke screen to hide their moves directed toward wage cuts for the mine workers. But the coal dig- gers recognize the attack that is being made upon them just the same. , The condition of Mussolini was reported worse when the strike of the metal workers began to spread, Workers in other industries will give the faseisti dictator an excuse to get worse still. . More enemies of Soviet Russia are being smoked out from behind the thin mask of liberalism, Let the smoking goon. “~ ¢ Bt At 4 HE DAILYYWORKER Outlawing the Im migrant “ Ww" the copie the army of wage workers there grows the element of finalydestruction of the capitalist order. ‘The quicker the pro- letarian majority of society increases its relative strength the sharper de- velops the conflict between the éxist- ing forms of production and distribu- tion with this majority of society. And the sharper this conflict grows the more revolutionary becomes the struggle of this proletarian majority against the beneficiary minority classes in society, the capitalists, And in the same ratio. grows the pros- pect of a final victory, of the revolu- tion, The leadiug groups of: the capitalist class are fully conscious of this, In realization of the dangers threatening their social order; the; capitalists are using their political power to enhance their dominating. position. With the sharpening of the antag: onisms between the American -work- ers and their immediate exploiters the problems of the elass istruggle im this country have inereased in numbers and in intricacy: To ‘concentrate on these problems the capitalist govern- m yenergies.on the passage of a selec. ment of the United States has created iti ve immigration bill and on a bill to a@ department of labor. The appoint- ment of a “labor leader” as the first secretary of labor has mislead millions of workers into the belief that in the department of labor the workers were given direct representation in the exe- cutive department of the country. The deportation delirium of 1919 has done much to dispell such illusions. But to some extent they stili persist. ‘But the latest activities of this depart- ment should open the eyes of the workers. The capitalists of America fearing the growing dissastisfaction and the increasing strength of the American workers are busily engaged in dividing the workers among themselves, The department of labor is the outstand- ing agency for the accomplishment of this task. This department plays the colored workers against the white, the immigrant against the native, and at- tempts to organize on the basis of prejudices existing and fostered and by the aid of specially designed laws reliable strikebreaking guards within all of these groups. To this end the Secretary of Labor Davis has bent alt X-RAYING THE CANCER IN THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT. Class Struggle vs. Class Collabor- ation—By Earl R. Browder. Second booklet of the Little Red Library series published by the Workers (Communist) Party of America— 10 cents per copy. 1,000,000 copies of this pamphlet in the hands of as many trade unionists would make trade union Judases of the “Bond Ox Bill” Johnson type hunt hiding places and send up the price of halters. “imperialism needs and-tries to mold a working class that is unorganized and therefore timid, ignorant and therefore fearful, weak and therefore helpless, a working lass soaked in the sordid profit-making ethics of cap- italism and that ip therefore a vast reserve of cannon-fedder for the wars that imperialism incites in order to live. The United States ‘is the master of the western world!’ Unsatisfied, hun- gry for world power, ‘its ruling class conspires against ‘all other nations and against its owh!workers. It tries to create a working ¢lass that knows no other master. # ~ Earl Browder has’shown with the all the harsh disregard of pain to the subject that chara¢t#rises the best curative surgery,” ‘the methods by which the organizé@ workers of Amer- ica—the trade uniénsare being cor- rupted, castrated an@ chained as eu- nuchs to’ ithe steel ¢Hariot of Amer- ican imperialism. -©%« He has‘taken the banking and busi- ness schemes to which the official- dom of the variou® Unions has com- mitted the membership, and which re- ceived the endorseméht of the late Sa- muel Gompers; the’ company unions of the great corporations; the “B. and 0.” plan organized*by William John- son of the International Association of Machinists; the @ld.doctrine of the “identity of interests'j{,of workers and employers; the scab:eoal mines own- ed by members ofthe Locomotive Engineers’ Union, headed by Warren Stone; the debepohiaaee the intellect £0 uals by the bureaucrats thru high- salaried research jobs connected with ‘abor financial institutions; the con- rection of the labor movement with he Civic Federation and the ‘Secur- ity League; the united front of the liberal intellectuals with the rotten bureaucracy of the labor movement, the capitalist press and the capital- ists themselves against the only fight- ing segtion of the trade unions—the left wing organized around the Work- ers (Communist) Party and the Trade Union Educational League. Browder, having assembled _ this mass of material, all of it having that putrid purplish tinge and bed smell which distinguishes decaying organic matter, puts on his rubber gloves, cuts off characteristic sections, and one by one examines them with the MarX- ist-Leninist microscope. His findings are all in this little pamphlet, It is doubtful if so much light on the workings of capitaligt agents inside the labor movement was ever contained in a booklet of 31 pages. What are his conclusions? That American capitalism, in its final stage of imperialism, has pur- chased outright the upper layer of the labor movement—the officials— and made them part of the middle class, As such they have ho further interest-in the labor movement as an instrument to combat the employers. In return for their own economic security the labor officialdom are now betraying the trade unions by endors- ing and giving a labor color to meas- ures like the “B. and O.” plan which are only company unions im disguise. As soon as the organized workers are under the influence of this injection of dope, they will be shackled, their organizations destroyed and when they wake up it will be as industrial serfs, One more point Browder makes so clear that it is hardly necessary to mention it here: ebiutae and fingerprint immigrant ‘workers. ‘In these activities of this member of the “official family” of the Strikebreaker president of the United States the dictatorial character of the government finds its clearest manifes- tation, \ Fitting into the’ series of proposals made by the secretary of labor, and into the series of laws already passed by congress, fits house bill 11796, Passed by the house and now up in the senate. The bill is entitled ‘“‘Deporta- tion act of 1925.” In this bill all hitherto existing re- strictions for the deportation of aliens are removed. \No matter how long an immigrant. may have resided in the country, he would still be subject to deportation in- case ofa conviction in court to imprisonment of one year or more;. or in case of unlawful entry. of the immigrant. The bill is designed 'to extend the Dower of the police over the immi- grant and ‘thus enable the ‘state to terrorize the alien’ worker into meek submission’ to the dictates of capital. The bill establishes the basis for By Max Bedacht outright blackmail against alien workers, a blackmail that will be per- petrated by the “authorities”: against any immigrant workers, active in the struggle for. the wage workers against capital. The bill turns the department of la- bor into a. police department for every labor exploiting corporation and prac- tically outlaws alien workers. The bill is just one of a series of outrageous attacks against the work- keke that must result from a capitalist government at a time when the class struggle has advanced to a. point where the ruling class openly puts a strikebreaker in office as president, an open shop propagandist as. vice: president, and the councilors of the most corrupt private corporations aa members of the official family of the president. In. the face of such attacks the workers of the United States must forget differences in nationality, creed, color and politics and combine in a united front action against this bill. Against the solidarity of the capi- talists and their government there is only one defense—the solidarity of all the workers native and allen, black and white. These’ Judases of, the labor move- ment who -head ‘the banks and busi- ness corporations which they have started with union funds, capitalist institutions. with no,semblance of a labor character, in which the office employers are after not even allowed to organize, are carrying this same subversive ;policy of their House of ‘Morgan masters into the Canadian and Mexican labor unions. They ar smoothing the path of American im- perialism in its colonial and semi- colonial fields. The betrayal is therefore not con- fined to the United States—it is a gigantic scheme that follows the same lines as the investments of Wall Street. Abroad it weakens the resist- ance of the Canadian and Mexican workers to the tyrannies and robber- ies of the American capitalists. At homie it debauches the organized labor movement and. destroys its mi- litancy, leaving the working class of the United States naked victims of a Tuling class’ bent * on “world domina- tion by the sword. ~ i There have been plenty of “studies” by the verbose intelligentsia of vari- ous phenomena i ‘the’ labor move- ment. Browder is thé first, because he is a Communist, 6 ‘take labor union coruptionism apart and show to the workers what makes it'go—the money of labor’s enemies. Any worker who reads this little will know more about’ what ds ‘the: matter with the American “labortinovement. with- in ten minutes than igvhe spent a year reading *th® diagtoses. of liberal surgeons more téer-dit less truth- ful. ‘ IGE" “YR « : 6? GBI Dunne _ Increase ‘Texte ‘Production Moscow, Feb. Fe By Mail)— The All-Russian yndicate has decided to exte: ait production of cotton fabrics in the Course of the present working, year 1924-25. The 1923-24 program’ of” prothiction was based on 1.9 milliott ‘spindles and 52 thousand looms being*in operation. In the 1924-25 program itis aid down that there shall be 3:1 million spind- les and 81 thousand looms. Letters From Our Readers (The following relist was sent in response to some clipping received.) An Answer to Clippings. To the DAILY WORKER: Dear Comrade: I had noted what the New Leader said about the “Communist split,” and also had skim- med thru or over, the long drawn-out controversy as to whether an effort should be made to organize a farm- er-labor party on a class basis. The one group thot the LaFollette move- ment had swallowed the material for it, and the other giotp thot not. I had also noted the unbecoming speech of comrade te-comrade in dis- cussing the issue. “But since bott groups adhere to théComintern, and since the Comintern isthe central au- thority of the world-Communist move. ment, when it speaks here is an end of dispute, There’ is no “split.” There are no free@dances in the Com- munist Party. 710 I had noted also the Turner inter- view published in the; New Leader. Turner and one other, British delegate to Moscow took am adverse view of Russian conditions, while a majority of the visiting delegates were favor- ably impressed. Haye you any idea why Oneal did no! aaa one of the favorable interview: Thru all their verbiage and unique activities the Communists have one fundamental, well-defined, supreme idea, to-wit; capitalism must be over- thrown by force, and all activity in the labor unions,“ in_ politics, pry. where, and all the time sll propaganda to that end. This, at least, is understandable, it puts an in- terpretation on tiiefr conduct quite. at variance with thepeharge that they are merely disturbegg,for disturbance sake. One may egtion their wis: dom on occasion, MA no revolution ist will discount “their controlling idea. “strategic retreat”). iboundaries, a phase of modern capi- Oneal” Gilates upon “The Russian Tragedy.” For convenience of analy- sis let us group and number the points of his logic, thus: No. 1, Quotes Marx to show that socialism cannot eventuate until capi- talism has produced a good state of industrial development. No. 2, The Bolshevists tried the impossible stunt of jumping to social- ism without the necessary capitalistic industrial development. No. 3. The Bolshevists made con- cessions to native and foreign capi- talists, which by the logic of No. 1 was necessary to the required indus,| trial developments. (Lenin called it a No. 4. This act of the Bolsheviki was a “counter revolution,” and a “united front against the proletariat.” Now put 3 and 1 together and ask why No. 4. By the Oneal logic the Bolsheviki ought not to have disturbed capitalism for 50 or 75 years yet, or until it come into possession of all the coun try’s resources, industrialized the na- tion, and po: sed itself of all the powers of government—as in, the United States. Do-you but oi “with him? Have you any idea why Oneal did not burst forth in great indignation over the failure of the social demo- crats to disturb capitalism in highly industrialized Germany? Or why he has been so pacific toward the s0- clalist labor party of England which set in order the Dawes plan for skin- {ning Germany, and incorporating the rest of Europe into the Anglo-Ameri-" can financial imperialism? i I have here a choice sample of the Hillquit logic, as follows: (Taken, from his article on “The March of American Imperialism”) q No, 1, Imperialism is the exere! of sovereignty beyond the country’ talistic industrial development. (This is understandable.) No. 2. Imperialism cannot be pre- vented. (This is understandable.) No. 3.. We can mitigate the evil by insisting that government shall not support the risks of our citizens in foreign countries, (This is also under: standable.) o But No. 3. prevents No. 1, which No. 2 says cannot be prevented. With very best wishes, L. D. Rattiff, Soviet Timber Export Program Out Stripped By Actual Results MOSCOW, Feb. 13.—(By mail)—~The timber ‘expért program: for the year 1923-24, which had been provided by the state planning commission as amounting to 33.4 million roubles, has been carried out 115 per cent in vat ue, according to a report made to the central expert: bureau. “There hasbeen a. notable irtcrease in the exports by private merchants, almost entirely from the Far Eeastern territories. | - As before, Bngland is still the big- gest market for Soviet timber, having consumed ‘about 65 per cent in value of all the exports of timber from the ‘Union in'1924, The next in the list of purchasing countries are BE Ths Germany. An interesting item in the mention- ed report is the gradually increasing share of Soviet timber in the markets 6f the Near East and the appearance Russian Far Eastern timber in the “market, *Y ORs pin “Ove. your shopmate this copy df the DAILY WORKER—but be n@y.4@ Kee him the next day to ‘iption, AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1.) class war had-no other aim except te establish the right of free speech. It that was the only aim it would be better to teach the workers to alwaya think like their masters who would give them all the freedom for ex- pressing themselves that even the most loquacious would ask for than to urge them to overthrow capital+ ism. But that is not the alm of the revolutionary working class move- ment. Its aim is to overthrow the cap- italist system and establish the rule of the producing classes on its ruins, oa 2 EE speech is impossible in a class society. It can only be possible im a classless society. There can be ne real freedom for all while one ¢elase rules another. Can that ‘be success. fully refuted? Of course, not. There is no freedom of speech in any cap italist country in the world. That is, complete freedom of speech. The rea son js not far to Seek. The capitalists place such limits on the freedom of action of the workers as they deem necessary to the safety of their regime. This is not theory. It is a fact, — sf HERE is no freedom of speech or of the press for the capitalist minor- ity in Russia or for their tools, the socialists. But there is freedom of. speech for the workers and peasants: who support the revolution. There will not be any freedom of speech in Rus- sia for the opponents of the rule of the’ workers until that opposition in a world sense becomes so infinitismal that it involves no danger to the So- viet power. The Communists of Rus- sia might win the applause of the American liberals if they threw away their rifles and said ‘to the Grand Duke Nicolaievich and his capitalist paymasters: “Here Nicky, walk right in, and let’s settle down together and fight it out with our mouths.” Of course, the lampposts of Russia would have long since carried the hanging bodies of those Communists and their followers if any were left alive would be the objects of American “liberal” sympathy as they languished in Rus- sian dungeons or rubbed their frozen toes in Siberia while the daughters of the American capitalists would be having the time of their lives seducing the thousands of Russian nobles who had nothing else to do but risk seduc- tion. T’S either one thing or the other. This is a fight, not a debate over the theory of evolution or special crea- tion. There is no free speech in war. Even Villard of the Nation kept his mouth shut as a clam when Wilson was on the war path. He opened it after the war was over to get the class. fighters out of jail. For that we give him credit. But he is now doing more injury to the working cass movement than ever Palmer or Burleson did, by turning over his magazine to the moat poisonous collection of rattlesn that ever spewed their — on viet Russia. .. a8 4 Neshapoasd will be free speech in Russia and all over the world when cap- italism is overthrown in the United States, England, France, Italy and Germany. The other capitalist coun- tries don't matter much, But betore that is accomplished the working class will pass thru fire in which the sup pression of opinion will not be the sreatest of evils, In a classless society, the government of people, always an organ of suppression will give away to an administration of things. When the brotherhood of man will become @ reality, there will be freedom of ex- pression but not until then, oe = D° we wach the same rule in uring Soyiét Russia that we apply to capitalist countries? Of course not. Like A. A. Purcell, head of the British trade union movement, we are biased in favor of the working class. The DAILY WORKER is not concerned with being fair,to the enemy. It ia too busy Ropes to defeat him,