The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1925, Page 6

) Page Six _——— ——————————e—e—e—eEeEeEeEe=eEoExvOSOvSvOe—> ae THE DAILY WORKER.| PURSE Wy the DALY WORKER PUBLISHING 00 blishod by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, DL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50...8 months $2.50...8 monthe 66.60 per year $8.00 per year AQdress all mail and wake out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. ~ 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE wee Etre MORITZ J. LOEB......00emrnene Business Manager Chicago, IMlinele €ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. ——$—__———— $$ ee 290 Advertising rates op application Back to the Versailles Treaty In his speech at Bar-le-Duc, former ' Premier Poincare informed that part of the world’s popula- tion that was listening Sunday that. the powerful section of French imperialism which he represents will tolerate no rearrangement.of the German frontiers. The speech was an open declaration of the in tention of the Poincare group to oppose any weakening of Poland \as an ally against either Russia or Germany. It was. undopbtedly intended as a notice to Great Britain that France has no intention of allowing Germany to enter a security agreement that does not recognize the colonial status of Germany. Foreign dispatches state that Premier Herriot’s new note to the German government will contain an almost verbatim copy of the statements made by Poincare Sunday, i. e., that the eastern frontiers must be guaranteed in the same way as the Rhine- land before any further negotiations with Germany can progress. Months of diplomatic dickering ees France and England have brought the two nations no nearer agreement. Both countries add to their armaments and encourage their allies to do like- wise. The Versailles treaty is still the basis of the frontier arrangements. It strangles the masses and keeps the fires of national hatreds burning. It can result only in war. In the meantime every ruling clique jails and murders Communists who alone expose to the masses of Europe the plots and counter-plots of the rulers. Renegades from Revolution A former I. W. W.. now in the Seattle. Labor Council, in close allianee with the reactionary, gang to expel the Communists, has tried to prove thoroly that he can be worse than anybody whose, feet neyer strayed into paths of protest. He declares that “division is better than unity” for the work- ers as long as capital is united (and he doesn’t point out any end to this condition). He likewise declared that industrial w a bad thing and all strikes, too, should den. This is nothing strange coming from a “modern” | ‘ionism is forbid- I. W. W. since the days of Sandgren, Welinder.and | Payne has given the organization an entirely new face. he is the editor (providing it has not died since the last mail), quite frankly sides with the reac- tionaries in the Seattle Labor Council, attacking | the very Communists who, as members of the “labor | at Centralia, gave the I. W. W~ vietims of | jury” white terrorism their best basis for appealing for| the support of labor. | One might think that some regard for the work of such left wing elements might, prompt even stupidity to hold a tongue when the issue was-be- ing fought out inside the A, F. of L. But Payne, who, in a united front with the labor fakers, is so devilish particular about “outside”. interference, boldly stalks into the fray, stupidity in this case, being allied with mendacity and a carelessness of consequences to the interests of I. W. W. prisoners. We: repeat that we can expect anything from the I. W. W. officials. And it is not strange that the most disgracefully anti-labor speech in th Seattle Labor Council should come from an e wobbly at the same time that the official I. W. W. In fact Payne, in the Seattle paper of which| The Milwaukee Leader and the Marxians The Milw aukee Leader does little but complain these days. Its latest whimper is caused by\the Christian Scietice Monitor, which stated in a recent article that the Russian Communists “put the Marxian theories into practice.” The Leader. says: “How is it that the Christian Science Monitor tacitly admits that the claims of the Communists to the title of Marxians and completely ignores the leading Marxians who have always repudiated the Communists?” The Leader answers its own question in another part of the editorial from which we quote when it says: “The Communist revolution in Russia was repudiated by the leading Russian Marxians.” Marxism is a revolutionary method. When it utilizes the breakdown of: capitalism for success- ful revolution those who repudiate the revolution naturally repudiate Marxism. Bourgeois students of Marx can understand this, but logie has never been a strong point of the Mil- waukee Leader. The enemies of the Russian revolution and of, the working class are not Marxians no matter how many quotations of. Marx they may ,have memor- ized. The test of a Marxist is understanding of, levotion to and participation in all the struggles of the working class. When the social-democracy betrayed the workers it proved that it was not Marxian, but anti-Marxian and therefore counter-revolutionary. Coolidge Wars on Printers The Typographical Union is feeling the heavy hand of the Coolidge administration. Members of the union employed by the government to the num- ber of 167 have been fired outright and it is gen- erally believed that the little tyrant Carter in charge of the department, is going to try and destroy the union. Treachery on the part of the officialdom of the Pressmen’s and. Bookbinders’ Unions has aided the Coolidge-Morgan government while the heads of the Typographical Union also show much reluctance in aiding the members of their own union. ~A revolt is. brewing in the government printing plant as a result of the inauguration of the spy and blacklist system. Civil service tules are supposed to protect gov- ernment employes, but capitalist government al- ways manages to disregard even its own rules when war on the workers appears to be advisable. The printers are learning that there are no rules in the class struggle that capitalism respects ex- cept that of power. A general strike of all government printers would probably result in the “canning” of Carter and the abolition of some of the more flagrant outrages in that department. The campaign of the printers against the government should have a general strike as its objective. “Will Not Harass Business” Referring to Attorney General Sargent, a Wash- |ington correspondent of the capitalist press says: “Attorney General Sargent has exhibited a_per- sonality different from that of his predecesgors. From what he has said so far the impression has been given that he will be a firm prosecutor and law enforcer, but that he will not harass business unnecessarily.” We wish someone would point out how this dif- ferentiates the new attorney general from any of his predecessors. All of them have been “firm prosecutors and aw enforcers” when the workers and their organizations were inyolved, but none of them have harassed business unnecessarily or otherwise, ~ It is not the function of an attorney-general to harass anyone but workers. Since 1917 this fact ‘has been so patent that even the always hopeful liberal middle class has become somewhat pes- simistic. A few big strikes and the record of Daugherty will be eclipsed by the new “firm prosecutor and law enforcer.” The Lanzutsky Demonstrations Che demonstrations against the murder of Sta- east and west covertly or openly sides with be pees Lanzutsky, Polish Communist worker and blackest reactionary labor fakers against the left wing and the Communists. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. o ae No Impartiality Even in such a disaster as that in southern Ii- nois where a tornado destroyed hundreds of homes and Jeft thousands destitute, the class struggle makes its appearance jin the relief of the vie- tims. Our story yesterday of the conditions in the storm-stricken district, the Combination of bankers and businessmen for the control of relief, the rise in prices of all necessities. of life, the clash between the miners and the red cross, all show the class interests that will not down. There is no catastrophe too horrible to be turned to the purposes of profit. War, the greatest of all curses, is at the same time a harbinger of prosperity for the capitalist class, In the relief of the distressed in great disasters there is no more impartiality so far as capitalist agencies are concerned than in any other avenue of its activity. It looks after the profits and the profitmakersits soldiery are on the ground at once to aid in quelling an outbreak of resentment, The International Workers’ Aid looks after the workers and it makes no pretense of being im- partial. Organized prineipally to help in strikes and other struggles of the workers, it knows that capitalism’ looks after its own, Se entinda. a eRe Bae jarrests—also as usual. leader, have Been successful, In Washington, the capital of the nation, in Chicago, New York, De- troit, Seattle and a dozen other cities the Polish embassy and the consulates were picketed by work- ers bearing banners with appropriate inscriptions. The police were on the job as usual. There were The capitalist press gave much space to pictures and news of the. demonstra- tions apparently with the idea that they were in some way hurting the Communists. Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States know for the first time of the murderous acts of the Polish capitalist government,. of the heroic fight of Lanzutsky, the reason for his perse- cution and of the role of the Communist parties in Poland and America as the moegpoavanced sec- tion of the working class. TERE” <A The Japanese Sailors’ Union, resenting the in- ference that a sky pilot is any better than a sea captain, have decided that an American moyit which pietures a priest converting a captain to ways of righteousness, is bad. And they refuse to sail any ship from any harbor which has a priest as a passenger. God’s disciples have fallen upon evil days when rude sailors refuse be to humbled before the gowned men with crooked sticks. — ~ er cent increase in the value of the out ‘ficial leather is reported by the census jews item. ce at a three months old pair of ‘where most of the increase is being A 116.3, put of ar bureau. Looking, a we kno’ WORKER FREELANZUTSKY, Oe UH NEW YORK CITY TOULERS DEMAND Resblations Denounce White Terror NEW YORK, March 30.—The white terror of the capitalist countries of the world was denounced In a reso- lution unanimotsly passed at the large mass meeting of workers held here at the Central Opera House. Another resolution was unanimous- ly passed condemning the Polish white guard government for its perse- cution of the Communist deputy, Stag- islay Lanzutsky, who has been sen- tenced to be hanged for urging the workers of Poland to organize and prepare to overthrow their oppress- ors. “Comrade Lanzutsky, Communist deputy in the Polish parliament, fac- es death at the hands of the Polish capitalist ‘class’ and nobility for dar- ing to stand before the Polish parlia- ment and expose the shameless bru- tality of the capitalists of Poland,” says the resolution, which was passed following the speech of William Wein- stone. Hands Off Lanzutsky. “This meeting of workers assem- bled at the Central Opera House em- phatically protests against this per- secution and execution of the Polish workers, and categorically demands ‘Hands off Comrade Lanzutsky.’ This meeting declares it will rally the workers of the entire country and will not rest till, with the aid of the international working class, Lanzut- sky and the four thousand proletarian” revolutionaries in the Polish prisons have been freed and Polish reaction has become a thing of the past.” -“In their vile aétions they were aid- ed by the treacherous socialist party of Poland, which denounces the revo- lutionists, and hahis them over to the mercy of the capitalist executioners.” Denounce U. S. White Terror. The resolution dénouncing the white terror practiced By ‘the government of the United States,'‘as well as by Eu- ropean imperialists; which was also unanimously passed, follows: The international capitalist class has thrown off its ‘mask and is ruling thruout the world by force. In every country of Europé &nd Asia;the capi- talist governments employ thé most brutal means to“stippress and crush the workers and peasants. More than 200,000 revolutionary workers and peasants are langiishing in the capi- talist di no other reason that they have it for the working class against the'¢apitalist class. In these capitaligt dungeons they are tortired and iMnurdered; the capi- talists not shrinking from the most violent methods iif order to-break the spirit of these fighters. But the capi- talist class makeSa serious mistake; these revolutionariés, to a great extent Communists and Young Communists, have pledged thétfiselves to fight to the finish against’ papitalism and will not cease till capitalist rule is over- thrown and the power of the workers and peasants is ‘@stablished thruout the world. f Support Workers’ Aid. This meeting’ of workers of New York City assembled at Central Opera House, protests against the brutality practiced agairét our courageous comrades. This meeting also calls at- tention to the fact that there are workers and peasants in prisons in the United States, im the American pos- sessions and spheres of influence— Haiti, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, the Philippines, Hawaii. This meeting de- clares that even in the United States so-called capitalist “democracy” rests upon naked force, which the United States government is using with every greater frequency and violence against the working class, This meeting declares that capitalist violence is part of the capitalist sys- tem and will not cease until capitalist power is destroyed and the power of the workers and Peasants {s estab- lished. This meeting further pledges itself energetically, to tional Workers’ organization in world aiding the revolutionary workers in the capitalist prisons. 1 Long live w ig class solidarity. Long live the fighters of the work- ing class. we Soviets Guard Rights of Chinese on en (Continued from Page 1) go vy prejudice the Interests of China, the which was concluded and put into, .@f4 government of the Union of Soviet So. fect in 1905, could not in any measure) olalist Republics nevertheless deemed effect any rights or interests in China whatsoever. China Bowed to Czar. 4your protest would have been quite timely and have had perfectly rea- sonable grounds twenty years ago, when the treaty of Portsmouth was be- ing signed and when the czarist gov- ernment felt itself in China like a master in his own home and, without the knowledge of the Chinese govern- ment, ceded to another country the territories and rights which the czar ist government had itself seized in Manchuria. However, the Chinese government not only failed to offer any opposition to the czarist govern- ment, but by two acts which were signed between China and Japan in Peking on the 22nd of December, 1905, the Chinese government itself recog- nized all the rights of Japan that had been ceded to the latter by the czar- ist government on the strength of the treaty of Portsmouth. “Consequently, as early as on and from Dec. 22, 1905, the treaty of Ports- mouth lost all its significance as an international act in any way affecting the interests of China. Moreover, in 1915, on the strength of an agreement concluded between China and Japan directly and without any reference to the treaty of Portsmouth, the rights which, twenty years ago, have been ceded to Japan by the czarist govern- ment, were established on a new for- mal basis. I may be permitted here to invite your kind attention to the fact that those rights which have now ap- parently caused the protest on your part were fixed in 1915 for terms many times longer than those which were granted by China to the former Russian imperial government. “2, However, notwithstanding the fact that the recognition in 1925 of the formal validity of the treaty of Portsmouth could not in any way it, mecessary, in a special declaration signed on the same day ‘as the con- vention of January 20 of this year, to exonerate itself of all political respon- sibility for the contents of the treaty of Portsmouth, Soviets Defend Chinese Workers. “IT might indeed welcome your pro- test if I could regard it as an attempt to defend the rights and interests of China, but, as may be seen from the above-mentioned considerations, the protest contained in your.note of Feb. 11, 1925, cannot serve any useful pur- pose and is unwarranted both formally and in substance. It, therefore, only remainst to me to express my sincere regret at the said protest, addressed as it is to the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics— the only power today that has of its own accord rejected the unequal treat- ies imposed upon China by the czarist government and concluded with the Republic of China a treaty based on the principle of equality and justice, because—undoubtedly against the wish of the government of the Républic of China—your note of the 11th inst. can cause the Chinese people to err by suggesting to them an altogether un- warranted idea that the policy of the government of the Union of Soviet So- clalist Republics can violate the soy: ereign rights of the Chinese people. People’s Interests Protected, “I wish to assure you that neither in its part referring to the treaty of Portsmouth, nor, for that matter, in any other part of the Soviet-Japanase convention of Jan. 20, or the. docu- ment& opposed thereto, can there be found any stipulation violating the in- terests of China, and that the said agreement does not even embody any question in whatever way affecting the sovereign rights and interests of the Chinese people.—(Signed) L. M. Karakhan.” GZARISTS’ ATTEMPT T0 OUST RED FROM THE RUSSIAN SCHOOL FAILS A drive of counter-revolutionaries within the Federation of Russian Children’s schools of Chicago and vicinity, to displace the superintend- ent of the schools, Comrade J. Eber- gard, who is a Communist, ended in defeat when the executive com- mittee voted to sustain Comrade Ebergard by a vote of 13 to 9. The czarist Russians have been attacking the superintendent and the Communist members of the schools for the past year; since they have’ been badly defeated at the convention of the schools. They made many attempts to get control over the schools but fa In one instance they attempted to appoint a czarist general as instructor of Russian history. The superintend- ent blocked this scheme and his action wai stained by the execu- tive committee. This was too much for the counter revolutionists and they prefered charges against the superintendent. After making careful and deli- berate preparations to oust him about a month ago at the meeting of thi xecutive committee, they failed as the vote ended in a tie. Action was postponed for another month and in the meantime the counter-revolutionists opened up an attack against the superintendent and the Communists in general in the local Russian sheet. The final meeting was held this Sunday and they suffered another defeat all along the line, being beaten on all important questions. All honest non-partisan workers who are inte- rested in the welfare of the schools voted with the Communists. Killed by Freight at 80. STERLING, IIL, March 30.—Charles Wequist, 80 of Des Moines, lowa, was killed today by a freight train in front of the North Western railroad station here. He was enroute home from Beoria where he had been visiting. Favor Automatic Stop, WASHINGTON, March 30.—Instal- lation of the automatic train stop de- vice of the Miller Train Control cor- poration on the Chicago division of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois rail- road was approved by the interstate _ commerce commission today. WORKERS FACE DEPORTATION ee 3 (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK-CITY, March 30,.—The foreign-born workers of this country may be deported»without further ado if the house bill No. 11796 is passed by the senate of thé United States. This bill has been passed by the house of representatives &nd thréatens the whole working class in a manner wiknown in this country, — The purpose of this bill is clear, workers and the textile workers are TION. Workers of New York City! at 8 p. m. nent speak fellow work the shops, Rouse every worker | Mannacian | om Friday, April 8. The United Mine Workers, the needle primarily foreign-born workers. The unskilled workers on the railroads are foreign-born; many of the building workers are aliens, When depression comes, followed by wage slashes and longer hours for those workers’ who still can find jobs, the have a convenient weapog against the foreign-born workers, viz., DEPORTA- ernment: will Come in your thousands to the mass pro- test ear at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., on Friday, April wi ‘Labor Defense Council has arranged this meeting and make addresses, Workers of New York. Wake sel the unions, This new attack affents country. Be on your guard—and line up in time. Be at Hunting for That Job. To the DAILY WORKBR:—1! am an ex-soldier. I was fighting to ‘protect J. P. Morgan's money, now: Tam aight ing for a job.. I have been in -cificago } about nine months, out of the:«nifié © months I have-been working only thrée months. Early in the morning‘# start on my daily routine, going ‘to factories in hope of getting a job, bift-there is only one chance in a hutidtéd 'to ‘get a job, because there afé''several hun- dred people lined up. It shows there are many thousands of people here in Chicago that are in® ~ same position as I am. “4 Finally I went to wie of the employ: ment shates on Madison street. They had jobs for a few then’ as: truckers in the Pennsylvania freight house. I paid him’ four dollars for the job. When I went there, ihéut sixty men were there, the foremar came out and asked who had tickéts from the em- ployment office. A few, of the men that had a ticket gdt'a*job. I was one of the unfortunate ‘ones that did not get a job. ad When there are so‘tnany men out of work they could get ‘pléaty men: with- out the employment sharks, but only those that have paid for a‘job have a little show to land “éne,/*while the others have no chanée whatever. When the war was ‘on; our Teapot Dome government was ‘tilling us we would’ receive jobs after we came back to the U. S. A. When we came back, we were asked::what> kind of job we wanted I filledyont an-appli- cation to work in a machine shop. I am still waiting for that job.—J. A. F. WHAT? AN IDEA IN A COLLEGE? AFTER IT MEN! So Say. the * Legislatoss of Ohio By A. WAGENKNECHT. CLEVELAND, March 30.—The Ohio legislature is having its eleventh hour session. It has been a good boy, it has behaved itself wonderfully these weeks that its session lasted, says the Ohio manufacturers’ associa- tion. The “yellow dog” contract has not been voided. Union smashing will continue along the lines laid down by those who rule Ohio. Throughout the state workers seeking employment will be compelled to sign agreements pledging themgelves_not to join a la- bor union if they desire to connect with a feed bag a couple of times a day. ‘The Ohio open shoppers are the state, They are naming the tune and paying the Columbus fiddlers. -Ah, Hal an Idea Loose! So when these coal, steel, rubber, pottery barons became afflicted with a last minute inspiration, and decideds they’d better have a little more “my- country ’tis of thee,” they rushed a long resolution before the legislature, a resolution which has for its aim hot- footing it after a couple of “pinks” they discovered in several Ohio uni- versities. The resolution, if passed, will stop the pay of any professor who has been publicly active in any socialist, athe- ist, Communist or other organization of revolutionists, The resolution re- fers to the I. W. W. and those lib- erals helping it off and on; hits ‘at the Civil Liberties Union and its de- fense of conscientious objectors; as- sassinates the Committee of 48 for daring to sit next to’ Communists at the St. Paul convention; exposes those who helped organize the mon- ster “Recognize Soviet Russia” meet- ing held at Madison Square Garden in 1919; lauds,the labor unions that are expelling Communists; and grows white of face at the mention of La- Follette! ; “ Pink Professors Punished. To a Communist, all this is hash, of course. “But where there is a little pink smoke there may also be a bit of red fire. And the cry that’s heard above and over all this pink trash is that Bolshevism is being taught in the Ohio universities. Undoubtedly there are a few progressive professors who demand the recognition of Soviet Rus- sia, who desire that the “workers’ experiment” in Soviet Russia be al- lowed to run its course without inter- ference. These professors are going to be smoked out and, if the resolu- tion passes, they will promptly be told that their wages pe been stopped. The Ohio manufacturers’ sieociac tion has no use for the “pinks” as yet. The day will come when they will put them to work to try to save the day for capitalism, much the same as was done in Germany, and same as those of redder hue in the Ohio universities. NEW YORK CITY. Italian D. T. branch is arranging an entertainment and dance Sunday, April 5, at the Workers Party head- quarters in 108 East 14th street, New York, at 8 p, m. Admission is 25 cents. A cordial invitation is extended to all comrades of other branches. Do not fail to come! A Son of the Working Class Speaks We print a letter sent. -by.a boy 12 years old to the Literary Digest in reply to their request ‘that he renew his subscription: »They, of course, did not print it. But we do. Here it is: oS re v4; Dy, The Literary Diary’ Gentlemen: In reply to your letter of Feb.’ 14, 1925, in which you request me ay renew my subscription, T say I will not subscribe to your magazine because the facts you publish are: misleading to work- ers. I am a son pf the working class. My father is a worker. I ‘do not wish to waste my time reading your paper. Why? Be- cause— What does it matter to me if Coolidge or LaFollette is elected? Did the workers elect Coolidge? No. It was Wall Street. He is their man Friday. He Will do the bidding of the millionaires and multi-millionaires on Wall Street, alright. Wasn’t Coolidge a strike- breaker in the Boston police ‘strike? He earned his job. Stow would the tariff help the jxatiore? It is only an uncivilized, medieval act to make people pay to get across the bridge owned by “What is prohibition? ‘There i a ion? is The poor are at the mercy of crooks who sell them poison and the rich have their private boot- leggers and saloons in their own homes., I am not inventing this. The papers show it. What good did the Dawes plan bring to European workers? It brought be ps greater enslave- ment. - Look wiv your ¢apitalists did to Russia. Why did they blockade Russia? What right have other nations to employ counter-revolu- tionists to destroy that country? The liberals you praise are noth- ing but misleaders of the workers. What has LaFollette done to help Wisconsin workers? Wisconsin workers are exploited as mych as all others and even more 60. Oh, yes, it was a- great and beautiful saying of Lincoln, but is it true? We have a government “of Wall Street, by Wall Street and for Wall Street. All the leaders you praise are nothing but misleaders of the workers. But the true leaders of the workers you never have a kind word for. No, not even a word of truth. For the great leaders of the Russian revolution you Rave only harsh criticism, ridicule or silence, 1 don’t want to read your paper. Yours ia E. 1. RUBIN, years old, . y