The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1925, Page 6

Page Six Germany's, Elections The social structure’ 6f-German capitalism is in process of dissolution ahd that process has been THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 'W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Munroe 4712) greatly accelerated in the last few days. SUBSCRIPTION RATES The measure marking rapid advance in the com- By mall: plete ruin of great masses’ of the population, the 66.60 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months | middle-class holders of government bonds and other By mail (in Chicago only): securities, is one providing for the liquidation of eee er ee a | these obligations at from 5°to 25 per cent of their Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. 4a. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F) DUNN@T f= row EDAItORS MORITZ J. LOEB... Business Manager pre-war value. The political effect of this on_the middle class |is understood when'‘we recall that the great indus- | trialists, the Stinnes and Thyssen crowd, paid off | their debts to the government at a small fraction | of their previous value thru settlements made with Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- | depreciated paper currency. mine at Chicago. Hl, ender the ant oC Moreh, 1800 |. Themiddle Vass duyestamansaherstars required <> 290 Advertising rates ov application to make good out of their pockets the losses sus- ~ | tained by the government in extending favors to Senator Wheeler Stumbles Chicago, tMlinele oppressors and exploiters of the German masses. The result of this one action of the German 1ator Wheeler of Montana has been indicted|regime.is almost indescribable. It has created a together with Gordon Campbell, Montana oil opera-|S0rt of hysterical hopelessness among some of the tor, and one Edward 8. Booth, known more fami-' Middle class and driven others to the side pf the liarly as “Eddie” Booth, for conspiracy to defraud "evolution. Dispatches published in the capitalist press show |political affairs in Germany as chaotic. We can |be certain that the American press, the mouthpiece jof the finance-capitalists who desire stability in Germany, does not exaggerate. Some 300,000 of the German petty bourgeoisie |have pledged themselves to take no part in the |coming elections. They have lost faith in German |capitalist demotracy. There are other millions to | whom the government decree means absolute ruin, but who exhibit the characteristic inability of the “ange : {middle-class elements, caught between the work- Eddie Booth has been for years the chief stool- ling class and the big capitalists, to adopt and sup- pigeon and political fixer for the Anaconda Cop- | port a militant program of their own. per Mining company in the eastern agricultural | Par ; i districts of the state. It was his task to distribute is cd cod sachet pon Berend path ag a the slush fund where it would do most good and |luminating: line up the sons of the soil for the republican or rs democrat slate—which ever the company had | chosen to put over its program in Helena, the state capital. Eddie is quite a character. For many years he was a state senator from the cow counties, but he got his start in life, so the story goes, by splitting with a fille de joie a roll of a couple of thousand dollars that she had lifted from a drunken pros- pector. Eddie was city attorney of Butte at the time and in a strategic position in these matters, so to speak. The prospector tried to kill Eddie, when he sobered up, but Eddie had the law on his side, was able to prove that the hard rock miner had never possessed such a sum and if he had that he had no right to it. Such assiduous practice of thrift and display of adroitness never went long unrewarded in Mon- tana in those days. The big bosses smiled on Eddie and he flourished like the well-known green bay tree in spite of the arid eastern Montana soil. Came the war and Eddie was a leading patriot. He kept the kaiser out of Wibaux and Powder River county by seeing to it that the cowhands ran the non-partisan leaguers and other emissaries of the enemy out beyond the skyline. , He was most assiduous in assisting in the de- nunciation of Wheeler by the state council of de- fense, but with the rise of Wheeler’s political star Eddie seems to have patched things up. Money has no odor and business, like politics, makes strange . ee ‘ bedfellows Hither: the capitalist class with its mercenaries Wheeler and Booth, once deadly enemies, are now | 24 the-more resolute of the middle-class hangers- friendly enough to be jointly indicted for an al-]°" Tesorts-to-armed force and establishes an open leged attempt to gather to themselves some 10,000} dictatorship in the interests.of a minority, or the acres of of] land. working Class, ‘led by its most resolute section, The lesson? the Communist Party, conquers the forces of cap- That middle-class politicians are businessmen |italism and establishes a dictatorship based on the first, last and all the time, that any measures they | interests of the workers and peasants—the majori- may favor which the workers are demanding are|ty of the population, 4 favored simply to gather support for their own} That this conclusion is correct is shown by the careers and the welfare of their class. The Wheelers | flowing in the news from Germany: and LaFollettes work well inside the orbit of cap- The serious side of. the campaign is beginning to- italism and their thoughts never stray beyond it. night. Squads. of Communists and representatives In Montana the title of government to land is| of militaristic organizations are patrolling the streets, uot regarded: very highly and attempts to defraud| *¢@ting down posters of their, enemies. All are the state are not considered as indicating great| Provided with weapons, from revblvers to daggers moral turpitude. But if Wheeler can be tried for] 2%4 clubs, and a score were injured in the first skir- associating with Eddie Booth, the jury will convict iedeakke suet and the twelve good men and true whose privilege} The German elections have already produced it will be to render the verdict, will receive sub-]the beginning of an armed struggle for power be- stantial téstimonials of approval from a grateful|tween the working class and the determined de- citizenry. fenders of German capitalism,. " The election itself will settle nothing. It will indicate only in a general way the relation and strength of the forces in German society. These forces—the capitalist class and certain upper sec- tions.of the middle class, the Communists, the most advanced sections of the working class and peas- antry together with the most impoverished portion of the middle class—will decide in open conflict whether Germany is to be ruled by the capitalist dictatorship or the dictatorship of the working class and peasantry. We do not know if the conflict will be preci- pitated by the election campaign and the deliberate bankrupting of the middle-class investors, nor do we know that such_a conflict new will result in victory for the working class. We can from this distance judge only tendencies, not concrete results expressed in terms of power. We know, however, that the German Communist Party has made great strides in reaching and mobilizing the masses for struggle. Perhaps only/in actual armed gombat will it be shown whether the balance of power is on the side of the German revolution, It is the organized workers that are the decisive force in Germany and if the Communist Party has won the important sections of the working class the outcome will not remain doubtful for long. One thing is certain. “If the German working class is not yet ready fdr revolution it soon will be, for social-demoecraey, the chief obstacle in the path of the workers’ drive‘for power, is no longer the United States government of oil lands. Of the legal merits of the case we know little, but whether Senator Wheeler is guilty of con- spiracy or not, there are large numbers of Mon- tana people who would cheerfully vote for convic- tion because of the mere fact of his association with the Booth* person. The indictment of Wheeler is such an enlightening event in the evolution of a middle class politician that we feel some space can be devoted to it. Any one familiar with Montana politics knows that Many others are awakening with republican am- bitions and are rushing to election. headquarters at the last minute to propose friends or themselves as future presidents of Germany. The population realized only this week that every man in ‘Germany can ‘become a presidential candidate if he has enough friends. Whén this dawned on the former kaiser's subjects the election headquarters were stormed. * A Breslau tailor who has a clientele that thinks he is a wizard,a Berlin postman whose colleagues pat him on the back, a Hanover clerk who has invented a perpetyal motion machine, and hundreds. of others have found. their way to election headquarters, con- vinced that their day has come. All these freak candidates will have to be con- sidered seriously on Sunday night by the election statisticians,.since the German law provides that if twenty voting slips show the same name a record of the count must be kept. Berlin actors and movie stars have. entered and are making bets as to who will obtain the most ballots. The middle class has always been the great cham- pion of parliamentarism. It has found in the elec- tion machinery .of the capitalist state and in the bureaus of government a method of securing recog- nition and places for its members. Vociferous but planless, the middle class are born parliamen- tarians, What happens when the fetish of parlia- ment and.democratic. procedure loses its power to charm? One of two, things occur. Polish Terrer—Amarican Courts As this is written many members of the Workers (Communist) Party of America have been arrested in Detroit and Seattle for taking part in a de- monstration before the Polish consulate against railroading Stanislav Lanzutsky, Polish Commun- ist, to the gallows. He is to be tried, under a law providing the death penalty for urging the railway workers to continue and extend their strike. His immunity as a mem- ber of the Polish diet has been taken from him so that the terrorist government can send him to his death. Is it a crime to protest against the murder of spokesmen of the workers in other countries? American capitalism evidently so considers it. Poland is the pet of the imperialist robbers and it is not well that the Polish masses in America should know of the crimes committed in the name of “democracy.” In a few hours there will be more workers ar- rested tm connection with the Lanzutsky protest. Secret serviee men have been watching the head- quarters of the Workers (Communist) Party all day. Capitalism is international. So is the counter- revolution. Capitalism protects its own whether they are American or Polish. The working class “must do the same and turn these defensive strug: gles info a struggle for power. apitalism surrenders its working class| an insurmountable obstruction. Capitalism itself when been |soundly thrashed, |has neutralized its, middle-class following. i THE OAL WORKER O.BURN DETROIT. HERETI Monkish intfiisitors Do Not Awe Carpenters (Special to The Daily Worker.) DETROIT, Mich., March 29.—When the carpenters’ district council open- ed its meeting Thursday, March 26, a group of solemn-faced unfrocked monks of the order 8f Indianapolis marched silently in and planted them- selves in the front row. Lay members of the brotherhood sensing the pres- ence of an awful authority whispered one to another and looked apprehens- ively towards Wimmiam Reynolds, the heretic who was to be burned, on whom in the words of the poet Scott “they might ne’er look again!” The first move of the higher hierar- chy was to ask that all lay members of the order be dismissed by the ex- ecutive session formula. They were decisively defeated in the first skirm- ish, Next they asked that the district council vote to co-operate in the “in- vestigation.” During the discussion on this motion the head ecclesiastic, Cosgrove, let slip the» information that co-operation meant exclusion of Reynolds from the meeting, as, al- though he was functioning as vice- president of the district council he was not recognized by the pope in Indianapolis, Reynolds stated that he had,been convicted in Indianapolis Dy these gentry and that he would insist on being present at dny sittings of the inquisition in Detroit, unless they were arranged for privately in the Hotel Statler as had become the esta- } \ Profit Vultures, Hover Over Storm Area | (Continued from pagei) way or another by profit from the dis- aster in which the worxets are the sole victims. Bankers, lawy , Teal estate men and lumber dealers pte- dominate, In Franklin. county the committee of from 35 to 40 has only about five union men on it. This ‘condition prevails thruout the whole five affected states, reports say, and in Southern Illinois deep resent: ment is being shown by the union miners. When two miners were chos- en by the miners’ camp at Orient, they went to West Frankfort, to work with the “citizens’ committee,” but ‘when they saw the complexion of the committee they were filled with anger and suspicion. Union Miners to Check Up Accounts. Reporting back to Local 303, Orient, iL, these two miners wished to resign and have nothing to do with a com- mittee whose material interest is so in conflict with the needs of the relief given fo the victims of the storm. But the local union instructed them to re- main in the committee and contest all observable profiteering and corrup- tion, The Red Cross, says Hewlett, has not given a dime to relieve the situa- tion so far. It has loaned a few tents, with the strict injunction that they must be returned. dtis assuming charge solely of the business end, and giving that into control of gouging lo- cal capitatists. The Usual “Unexpended Funds.” And “after the reconstruction is ended,” so Hewlett quotes the local committee, “if any funds remain un- expended, they will be turned over to the Red Cross.” Hewlett says that the union miners have no trust in the Red Cross, the se- lection secretly of profit-taking capi- talists and few worker& on the com- mittee is enough. But in addition he blished method when dirty work was/declares that the record of the Red afoot. Got An Ear Full Seeing that their brand of co-oper- ation was not forthcoming the heresy hunters decided to sit back and listen, and they heard much. Brother Botter- ill, the senfle old rascal whose fancies still turn to thoughts of love, was graphically described as the fountain from which most of the difficulties of this district flow. It was stated times without number that he must go. One delegate stated that while the general executive board fulminated against Bolshevism and Communism that they the G. E. B, had made more Bolshe- viks in two months that Reynolds could make in a life time, that hard conditions of life and autocracy cre- ated radicalism and that the respons- ibility for the radicalism of Detroit carpenters laid with the G. B. B. Chief Devil-Catche' A rehashed the contents of his lying and insinu- ating letter to the Io unions in which he connects the T. U. E. L. with past and present dual unions | to the ridiculous conelusion that the T. U. EB. L. is a dual union trying to take members from the Brotherhood. When asked to mogpen a single in- stance where the E. L. had taken or attempted to take a member of group of members from the Bro- therhood he admit he could not do so. When asked ‘whether or not he considered the action of the G. E. B. in expelling Reynolds without hear- ing accorded with the elementary con- ceptions of justice fair play, he answered, “We syed. the instruc- tions of the general convention,” The Praying Organizer One of the intellectual eunuchs con- stituting this inquisitorial board stated that he had “prayed” that Detroit might be organized. General Organ- izer Botterit has preached at the carpenters in Detroit for three years and has ended up by “praying” for police protection and an injunction against one lone expelled member. His piety has been characterized by one member of L, U. 2140 as follows: “Brother Botterill, I have heard the scriptural text e thru your lying lips while the truth stuck in your teeth, and I ha’ ashamed and disgusted.” Wh this preying ag- gregation preac! or prays they grow sleek and fat by high Uving from the per capita by members whose most fundar constitution- al rights they 46 Hot respect and on whose shoulders, with the rest of the toiling ma rest the edifice of class society +h these parasites seek to perpetuate. The T, U. B. L. cating the worl its work of edu- intelligent class understanding action finds‘ able though un is allies in these hide-bound bigots, ‘Their actions are animated Coject tains easily explain- ed to the workers, Botterill has con- vinced them that he is their enemy and he must go. G. E. B. has convinced them that they are @ BTOUD | (on vinced of purblind aut enemies of the rank and file, that the constitu- tion is a scrap of paper in their hands. ‘They have relieved the T. U. H. L, of much arduous toil, May their stu- pidities increase and multiply. The inquisition signalized the last desperate efforts of organized bigotry to maintain its absolute control. The heresy, hunts Snes political bigotry in the * union sign- alizes the fall ofthe regime based upon abuses sone i by fraud, Cross in the Cherry, Illinois, mine dis- aster of Nov. 13, 1909, where 289 min- ers were:blown to pieces or burned to death was bad. The Red Cross’ Past Record. At that time the Red Cross made a similar appeal for funds as the prey ent one—“for relief.” Among others who sent in relief was James Waite, who ran a benefit show and for about fourteen weeks sent in weekly and large remittances to the Red Cross. But he never could get any receipt for these funds, nor did they appear in the report of receipts later issued by the Red Cross. (Continued from Page 1) public printer by Harding, on recom- mendation of Smoot and Moses. The practical details of wiping out union- ism in this department were left to the ingenuity of Carter. Berry’s Cohorts Play Part. No union-wrecking conspiracy in the printing industry ‘is complete without the support of the George L. Berry gang in control of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistant's Union. With the first evidences of discrimination against union fen, a committee from Columbia Typograph- ical Union called on Harding to lay their grievances before him and de- mand the discharge of Carter. Moses and Smoot contested this demand and Carter, the public printer, brought committees from both the pressmen’s and -baokbinders’ unions. The boo! binders’ rank and file were infuriated at this act of treachery on the’ part of their committee and withdrew them with a stern rebuke, but the Berry supporters persist to this, day in sup- port of Carter. Echoes of Howard. Another labor faker, expresident Charles P. Howard of the Internation- al Typographical Union, refused to step into the situation and support the fight of Columbia Union No. 101. Howard was later rewarded by Car- ter who openly campaigned for his election as head of the Typographical Union in the last campaign and who instituted a reign of terror against the critics of Howard in the govern- ment printing office. Carter even went so far in support of Howard ‘to boost this consummate faker before a convention of the Jypothetae held at Atlantic City shortly before the elections in the Typographical Union. For his treachery to Columbia Union, the compositors of the District of Columbia overwhelmingly rebuked Howard at the polls. The refusal of Howard and Berry to inaugurate a fight for unionism in the government printing office paved the way for the drive that is now being waged. Members of Columbia Typographi- cal Union openly declare that they are Carter plans the extermin- ation of their union thru wholesale discharge of union men, and is ac- complishing it with the assistance of George L, Berry's associates here, _ Old Employes Get the Ax. _ Many old employes who in a few years will be eligible to government pensions for thirty years’ service are being eliminated because they have the manhood to place me union ahead of their johs. They were told, as other government employes are told, that Uncle Sam always care’ of his loyal servants. Thft fairy ‘tale has been exploded by thé terror waged by Carter and thridut all gov- ernment departments the "Washington “white collar” slaves are~coming to that the government (ei ‘ pee eters 14 years at Washington, was chosen,| tant. The miners want no more of such “relief.” From their own union locals they are donating and sending out so- liciting committees to gather necessar- ies for the victims, They were cheer- ed to see that the International Work- ers’ Aid was trying to gather funds for the same purpose. And they have only scorn for the despicable Farring- ton machine, which is using the storm victims as another excute to milk the treasury. . Farrington Has Hand in Treasury. According to the Mlinois Miner and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Farring- ton is quoted as saying that the JIlli- nois District of the U. M. W. A. has appointed a union relief committee which “Has orders to go the limit and ganization.” The miners sometimes see one of this fake relief committee on the streets, but have yet to get a dime of relief from them. The Far- rington machine is again finding rea- son to “turn in the bills to the district organization,” ,but the miners are get- ting nothing but the experience. None of the members of the Work- ers. (Communist) Party lost their lives at West Frankfort, according to Comrade Hewlett, altho some lost their little children, killed in the schools, and some lost all their mea- ger possessions. Workers’ Children Killed to Save Taxpayers’ Cash. Again, in the case of the school chil- dren, the cloven hoof of capital is seen. The mine companies and wealthy tax- payers were so “saving” that not enough adequate and safe brick struc- tures were built, and the workers’ children were herded into “second- hand” houses, moved from other prop- erties as uninhabitable. They were nothing but shells of wooden beams and. planks, and it was in these death traps and. not in the few and inade- quate brick school buildings that the children were mangled and killed by the tornado. Send: Funda to the Workers’ Aid. Even ‘those ‘workers not struck di- rectly by’the-storm are in need. They opened “tif their’ homes and shared their littlé “savings with their fellow workers ft distress. They either have been tihemployed, or in some cases such“a§‘the ‘Peabody Mine 18, will be unemployéd for’ monthis because the upper structtires of the mines are de- ed. ‘All ‘funds for workers’ relief the ‘mést vicious labor exploiter ex- Veterans are Aroused. ~ Dufing thrée years this drive has been confined exclusively to trade un- jon rs, but in waging warfare against unions Carter also found him- self confronted with some of the -ac- tive members of war veterans* organ- izations, some of whom were also un- ma Pursuing his policy of ex- terminating all’ who dared to fight against the stool pigeon system that : Cartér summarily atscharg- ed a group of ‘world war veterans of years standing’ in the government printing ‘office. Yesterday, ‘under the leadership of some ‘of '‘the* prothinent members of the Typographical Union and some prominent’ ‘veterans, 62 discharged employes sent~a' protest to Coolidge and followed it'up with a declaration of war-against Carter. The statement says in part: “In our 25 to 40 years’ experience, the mental state and general effi- ciency of the government printing of- fice workers was never. worse. “Deep-seated and justifiable discon- tent and disorganization exists and has existed for some time, indepen- dent of the methods persuea in re- cent dismissals, which were made Im- mediately following a country-wide search for printers under the guise of permanent employment. These injus- tices simply. augmented the dissatis- faction already existing.” The 62 signers. of the protest told Coolidge that they were acting “with- out fear of punishment or hope of reward.” No reply has emanated from the White House, and.those familiar with the contemptible recotd of Coolidge knew that he will confer with the Mermon, Smoot, and Senator Moses, regarding the course he ts to pur- sue. Carter May Go Anyway. Despite the fact that there ts no hope of Coolidge eliminating Carter in response to the protest of the dis- | charged employes, there is a possibili- ty that criminal action may be taken against him for summarily discharg- ing war veterans, Eight veterans were discharged without excuse and in ion of an act of August 4, 1912, which declares that any public official who discharges or demotes an honorably discharged veteran of the army, navy or marine corps, is subject to a year’s imprisonment or a fine of $1,000, or both. Mass meetings of government em- ployes are to be held to expose the true character of the government as the central strike breaking and union smashing agency ‘in the natton. Prom- inent veterans of wars, trades union- ists and militants will address these ism | meetings, thereby... causing sparks from the forge of the class struggle to fly under the noses of lackeys of capitalism in the senate and in the White House, * I turn in the bills to the district or-| WORLD POWERS CAN NO LONGER — IGNORE SOVIETS Russia Looms Over Pro-. posed Parley By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 29— Sur. rounded by aides who took part in the Washington conference of 1921-22 on limitation of naval armament, Secre- tary Kellogg is carrying out the in- struction given him by President Coolidge—that he study the history of that meeting. + s If the staff diplomats cannot fur: nish enough light on the intrigues of that “attempt to make militarism ‘less expensive” while keeping up the mill- tary predominance of the chief em: pires, Kellogg can call upon Root, Hughes and Underwood. These three were members, with Lodge, of the Am- erican delegation that worked so smoothly under the leadership of ( four. Then there are the written records of debate that took place ‘behind closed doors. Elihu Root is old, but not too old to tell Kellogg the whole story in a few hours. If he makes a fair report Kélogg will inform Coolidge that the British proposed a preliminary and ~ see¥et meeting in London to agree on what was to be publicly done in Washing. ton; that Hughes balked, knowing the political glory “to be gained by sur- prising everyone from Washington .with an American program of reduc tion of naval armament; that the Brit- ish talked privately with Root, and agreed to let Hughes have the glory. Then he will follow the intrigue of the French and Japanese. based on the particular hostility of Tokio and Paris to Soviet Russia at that time. How the French refused to permit lim. itation of the use of submarines, and how the Japanese adroitly seconded them in this refusal. How the British, fearing a French attack on their'mer- chant ‘marine, wanted submarines out. lawed. How the French won the con- test, and how regulation of aircrafi was abandoned, Russia’s Power Grows. There will be a special chapter “or the “settlement’s of the future of Chin: and the Russian Far East in the reso- lutions of this conference, Ho’ y the Anglo-American combine. generously proposed to let China have a few more of the rights of independent, nations, and how the French have never per- mitted that treaty to go into effect, How China has dissolved into a politi- cal jelly since 1921, entailing heavy | losses on American and other foreign _ investors and lenders. How China and, Japan have recognized Soviet Russia, which is steadily gaining in prestige in the Far East. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1). Richard. So the Arabs go on strike: Listen to what a New York Times re- porter has to-say of the welcome given by the people of Jerusalem to Lord Balfour. “The shop strike ‘cer- tainly was quite effective and the e Sight of the principal streets of old Jerusalem without a soul in them and all shops shuttered by a long line of bars and padlocks was most depress- ing and conyerted the place into a veritable deserted city. On the other han@ the cab strike failed and those who had to circulate had difficulty in getting transport.” This does not look as if the strike was a failure by any means, see ‘HEN the crusaders were brawling and drinking over the Holy Land | they did not bother about gasolette, — They worried about the supply of hard liquor. Oil is one of the big bones contention between the capitalist ers today. Wherever it is di there is bound to be trouble. tine is situated*along a strip of: on the Eastern Mediterranean from Asia Minor to the Suez’ It would make a nice road for bent on invading Egypt. Eng! fined a good excuse for hold it. Anti-Strike Law Punish Pi f ing used by chamber lobbyists in pushing anti. lation. One bill, aimed ranted” strikes, could mean most strikes, and meanors, Another, aimed at picket ing, provides 60 Jays to two ydurs im. prisonment anf. $1,000 to $3, for interferenve with strikebreakers. Besides the American Thread Co, strike at Williamantic, there are walk- outs of girl workers at the Hygienic Fiber Co., Skelton Looms, L. \ branch of U. S. Rubber Co., Goodyear Rubber Glove Co. and | Give your shopmate this co] of the DAILY WORKER—but ate to see him the next day subscription, — i to