The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1925, Page 2

SOCIALISTS NOW YELLOW, SAYS CHICAGO TRIBUNE Victor Berger Totes Bourgeois Mentality That capitalist writers who do not take their information concerning the revolutionary movement from the fink agencies are becoming convinced that the socialist parties of the world are no longer at war with the capitalist but on the contrary, are its st and most loyal supporters, is becoming more apparent every day. It is not often, however, that one of them, comes out so openly as “Scru- tator” the “radical” expert of the Chicago Tribune. + Writes to Suit. “Serutator” is a renegade radical and while his slam at Marxism is about all that could he expected from a slimy creature who writes to suit his boss, his picture of the socialists im the role of conservatives is cor- reot. In proportion as the yellow so- cjalists turn to the right the masses, whose exploitation continues with greater intensity desert them and turn to the Communists. Scrutator’s article in The Chicago Tribune of April 1, follows: ‘ If any one had predicted ten years ago that the world’s financial centers would feel reassured by an increase of the socialist vote in any country he would have thrown doubt upon his own sanity. Yet the showing of the social dem- ocratic party in the German elections probably carries such reassurance, and a victory for the out and out con- servatives would have catsed alarm, as it would. have been felt that the measure of European settlement al- ready achieved would be imperiled. Yes, the world changes—and so does socialism. Nothing has been more marked than the shift of German socialists from class consciousness to state conscious- ness, since they began to participate in power after the German revolution. A German socialist today, like Vic- tor Berger, mostly imagined that he is a socialist, while in fact he has a most respectable bourgeois mentality. A complete socialist government of Germany probably would amount to nothing more radical than a socialist government in Milwaukee, which has long ago become a commonplace. A political platform usually is the last place to look for a change in a party’s mind. Usually the old slogans are carried in the preamble and reso- lutions long after the stuff is dead. Witness the democratic party of dry southern states reaffirming Jefferson and Jackson after eight years of Wil- sonian federal autocracy that would have shocked Hamilton. But the present program of the so- cialist party of Germany reveals a great change. Adopted in 1921 on the reuniting of the party after the war split, it is conspicuous for its abandonment of many pet Marxian, dogmas, including the disappearance of the middle classes and the impover- ishment and expropriation of the working classes. Even a faith so fanatical as that of Marx couldn’t re- tain these old formulas in the face of years and years of history that show- ed that they were not true, and that they were becoming less true as time passed. If German socialism has been thus weakened and diluted despite na- tional defeat, poverty, and reduction of living standards resulting from the war, need we be surprised that every- where else it is becoming more and More practical and opportunist—“yel- low” instead of “red.” At its present rate of progress to- ward reformism and away from revo- lution socialism will be politically less radical than the populist party of 1892 in a few years. And half or more of the “pop” stuff is now the law of the land. But as insidious reformism, sapping the springs of individual enterprise, socialism may prove more dangerous to civilization than in its older form, in which it caused alarm and stiffened resistance, Over Half Million Dollars Appropriated for State Army Camp GFIBLD, UL, April 1—Tho politicians in session here turned down the labor injunction bill and the forty-eight hour bill, the bill sponsored by the militarists to appropriate $650,000 for the extension and improvement of Camp Grant went thru the senate appropriations com- mittee like grape juice thru a prohibi- tlonist. Generals and officers appeared be- fore the committee but their services were not required. Railroads Absorb 8. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 1. — Indiana electric interurban railways companies spread farther into the ‘fleld of bus transportation as a supple- ment to traction service with the announcement that the Interstate Public Service company will buy the J, & H. bus line between Indianapolis and Franklin, Talk it up—your shopmate will subscribe! 1 ov ey cate (Continued from page 1) a letter to the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers and Railway Train- men, drew atfention of these organ ziations to the fact. that 2,500 mill workers of the American Thread com- pany were on strike resisting a 10 per cent wage cut, and that m@émbers of these organizations were pulling out cars from this company, thus helping to defeat the strike. On be- half of class solidarity he asked that this be stopped. The Sanctity of Agreement, The answer to this appeal we print in full: March 21, 1925, Grand Office, Brotherhood ef Locomotive Engi- neers, Cleveland, Ohio. Warren S&. Stone, President. L. G. Griffing, Grand Chief Engineer. Mr. William Simons, District Organ- izer, Workers Party of America, P. O. Box 183, Willimantic, Conn. “Dear Sir and Brother:—We have your letter of the 17th wherein you explain the strike of 2,500 mill work- ers of the American Thread Co., which you state, is a protest against a 10 per cent cut and I note your reference to members of our organization pull- ing out cars with American Thread dompany product and asking what we are going to do regarding the matter. “In the first place, we have agree- ments with the railroad companies and pride ourselves on the fact that we have never yet broken a contract and do not intend after almost 65 years. “Furthermore, the federal law de- mands that railroad employes shall transport all inter and intra state commerce and you can readily appre- ciate that if our members refuse to haul goods manufactured by a plant whose employes are out on strike, the railroads would be idle a great part of the time. “Where we are advised of a legally organized strike called by a recogniz- ed labor organization, our members are notified to continue performing their usual duties but under no cir- cumstances take the place of strikers or to do work formerly performed by those out on strike and if our mem- bersi follow these instructions, they if [hot violating their obligation. “We regret that you feel as you do oward our men who are simply car- ‘ying out the contract they have with the railroad company, but we have never ordered our men off their en- gines in similar cases and cannot con- sistently do so in this instance under the law. “ Fraternally yours, “L. G. Griffing, G. C. E.”" (Seal) Grand International Division Broth- erhood of Locomotive Engineers. This: is the typical attitude of the labor. bureaucrats towards strikes, And this undoubtedly would be en- dorsed by President McMahon. Ap- peals to these people are useless. Labor's future fighting force must be developed from the bottom. Griffing, the grand chief engineer, like Stone, Lewis, McMahon, and the others, has been too long removed from contact with working class life until his po- sition of labor leader has become a business, 80 that he feels a more har- monious relationship with the em- ployers’: than with the workers, The letter above might have been written by the secretary of any chamber of commerce, In spite of all handicaps and the lack of leadership, a united front is being slowly formed. The textile in- dustry has been the scene of many bloody battles. Militant in the strug- gle, their main weakness has been their inability to hold their lines in- tact. Men and women of the textile in- dustry rally your forces to oppose wage cuts, and demand an increase in wages! Instead of hours! Abolish the speed-up system! Abolish child labor! Fight against the increasing unem- ployment! Organize shop committees thruout the textile industry! Away with your small craft unions. Amalgamate, An industrial union of workers against the industrial union of the bosses. A united front of all textile work- ers against the united front of the textile barons. longer hours, shorter SHIPPING BOARD SELLS SHIPS FOR $25,009,000 LESS THAN FIRST COST WASHINGTON, D. C,, April 1—The shipping board has voted to sell the government’s five ships in the San Francisco-Orient ‘service, which cost thirty million dollars, for $5,625,000. The ships were voted sold at a price which is 25 million dollars less than their original cost and 15 millions less than it would cost to construct them at this time. Farmer Worries Over Money. LINCOLN, Ill, April 1—The body of Ervin A. Trefter, Logan county farmer, was found at his home near Pulaski today with a rifle bullet in the forehead. He was believed to have committed suicide since it was known he had been despondent over illness and financial difficulties, Head-on Crash, ST. PAUL, Minn., April 1— Two men and a woman were killed and an- other man and another woman criti- cally injured here early today when their automobile traveling nearly 60 miles an hour crashed head-on into a street car at St. Paul-Minneapolis in- tercity limits. Firetrap School Burns, Fire in the grade school in Brook- field endangered the lives of the 450 school children. The fire destroyed the third floor. Some of the children were hit by flying embers, altho, miraculously, none were seriously in- jured, German Bullding Burns, The German building, one of the last remaining landmarks of the world famous Chicago fair of 1892 was destroyed yesterday by fire of undetermined origin. The flames had gained great headway when fire- men reached the scene. AUTO TRUST IS FORMED BY WALL STREET BANKERS NEW YORK, April 1—A New York banking syndicate headed by wiliont, | Read and company, will acquire bid trol of Dodge Brothers, Detroit auto- mobile manufacturing company, when the final papers ‘in the negotiations are signed this week, it was learned today. In order to acquire this property, the bankers crossed swords with Mor- gan interests, who were anxious to annex it to the General Motors Co. enterprises. The success of Dillon, Read and company was due to the fact that they offered cash, where the Morgan bankers suggested the ex- change of stock of General Motors and affiliated concerns. Consummation of the purchase of ‘Dodge Brothers was expected to be made the basis for another gigantic merger of automobile manufacturers, involving property worth $500,000,000 and including the Packard Motor Co., Hudson Motor Co. and Briggs Body corporation, It is understood that about $176,000,000 in cash will be transferred to the Dodge Brothers’ heirs in the closing of the deal, mak- ing it one of the largest single cash transfers for an industrial unit in the history of the country, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. is also interested in the deal, Deny Latest “Trotsky Story.” MOSCOW, April 1.—Soviet officials semi-officially denied today rumors that Leon Trotsky had been slain and his body destroyed. Officials said Trotsky, late Soviet commissar for war, still was at Suchum continuing his cure and had so far improved in health that he was able to make speeches and had written a book. BIG CORPORATIONS AND POLICE PROSTITUTE LATEST INVENTIONS TO SAFEGUARD PROFIT SYSTEM ‘The radio, telephone, and the photo-telephone, are now being used ‘by the large corporations, thru their servants, the police departments, to protect private property. The latest inventions, instead of being used for the betterment of man- kind, the advancement of science, and the raising of the standard of living of the workers, are being prostituted by the capitalists to prolong their .Tegime of exploitation. The organization of a national sys- tem for the rapid identification of criminals will be started by the Bell Telephone company on Saturday, when the Chicago, New York and San Francisco police departments will be hooked up for the transmission of “telepix” photos by telephone, This latest invention, the photo telephone, will be used to broadcast the pictures of “criminals” all over the country within a few minutes, so that private property may be pro- tected, Prosecute Negro Boy. SHELBYVILLE, IL, April 1.—Trial of John Howard Thomas, 17, Negro charged with the murder of William Funkhouser, Mattoon, Il], newspaper temploye, slowly dragged nearer to- day as final efforts were made to ob- tain four more jurors. The Negro’s attorneys declare that while he had @ part in the slaying, Thomas was not guilty because of feeti® mindedness which has afflicted hi ince birth. ‘Join’ the Workers Party! wis 8A bbcadeale | j HE a WORKER ~— : Workers"Seeking Power Are Today’s Victims of Class That Oppresses DEPORTATION MENAGE MUST BE COMBATTED Labor Mifense Council Sounds Warning (Continued from Page 1) and cite exrepresentative Chandler. speaking in New York, who said “alien Reds must be told that Russia is their nopmaj abode. American Reds must be told that Leavenworth or Atlanta is ‘ better living place for them than New,York City.” And “Reds” of couse, are all workers who fight agalnet reaction, wage cuts, longer hours, open shop, company unions, and f better conditions, strengthening of unions thru amal- gamation, ete.” * Want Docile Slaves. i ‘What the government and the bos- ses want is docile wags slaves, How do the bosses get around the immigra- tion quota regulations when they want cheap labor in quantitics in certain sections? Why, there is a convenient arrangement under which Mexican and other workers are brot into the United States under the cont: ract system, and supposedly shipped back when the job is done. Not so long ago the American Civil Liberties Union reported “The fear of radicalism hag very largely abated as a result of the sweeping conservative victory in the campaign and there will be less interference with their pro- paganda.” In relation to this state- ment @ religious weekly (!) asked “Are we to judge that the failure of their cause is the only way to insure free speech for ‘pink’ lips?” But evi- dently the cause: has not failed, and there will be continued interference in spite of the Civil Liberties Union's statement. The government now aims to divide the workers, and hopes to break this resistance by centering the attack on the foreign born. So the fight must and will go on. Dropped One Case. { -Only recently the Labor Defense Council has had to take up the cases of John Schedel, Blais Kuush, Thomas Klein, E. Vajtauer, John Lassen and the three Young Workers in New York City, all of whom are involved under existing deportation laws. On} direct appeal to the Secretary of La- bor, deportation proceedings against Klein were abandoued, due principal- ly to the a a Klein has a de- pendant wife seven children in this, country. It is hoped that the Schedel case, whwxe the situation is similar to that of ‘Klein, will also be dropped. After long and unsuccesful efforts in the courts the defense was only able to get permission for Kuush to voluntarily deport himself to Rus- sia. Kuush and his wife left New York on February 28. Vajtauer and Lassen were both active editors of Commun- ist language dailies and it looks as tho they were deliberately “selected” for deportation. Evidence against them was taken from their writings in these papers. Vajtauer is still held on Ellis Island; the Lassen case is pending. $ Also recently. the © proceedings against A. V. Severino, active Com- munist in the labor movement of Cleveland were renewed. Severino is @ naturalized citizen. of Italian birth, but the department of, justice is mov- ing to take away his citizenship pa- pers and then have him deported. Another case of “seldctive” deporta- tion, Severino is too active in the la- bor movement. He is a “Red,” The technical (open) argument of the go- vernment seems to be: If you are a Red now you must have been when you entered the country; for Redness is @ foreign disease, it doesn’t have its birth or growth here; therefore you must have misrepresented your self when you asked for citizenship, So not only alien workers are men- aced but also naturalized workers. All of the workers of America must unite in a fight against the deport. ation methods and bills of the bosses, for the sake of working class strength, resistance, and solidarity. é lilisto Search for Lost Airmen, SEBRING, , April 1. — Stuart Moir, southeastern ‘Tepresentative of the Fairchild Flying corporation, passed thru here early today enroute to West Palm (Reach, where he will take chargé of the search for two alrmen of that corporation who have been missing since Friday. Join the campalen-get @ sub! i Forest Fire Sweeps Yellowstone, * LIVINGSTON, Mont, April 1— Damage of from $600,000 to $1,000,000 was the toll ofthe forest fire which swept Mammoth Springs in Yellow. stone National Park yesterday, ac- cording to estimates today of Superin- tendent F, BH. Kammermeyer. In addi- tion to houses, repair shops and gar- ages, ninety-seven passenger auto busses were destroyed by the conflag- ration, 4 5 Fix Rates on Stone, SPRINGFIELD, Ul, March 31—~The Tilinols commence commission today authorized the @hicago and Hagtern railway to effecb a rate of 76 cents @ ton on crushed stone and other ar. ticles accepted ‘at the same rate from Thornton to Champaign and Urbana, ‘aalto« By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ToPAY, workers may well interest themselves in’ the activities of the state's attorney's office in the so-called Shepherd case, It,is just an incident that the same terror- istic methods are being used by Crowe's frame-up gang in this case, that feature every attack on labor. There is this difference, however, William D. Shepherd has a million to back his fight. The newspapers are alter- nately friendly to him and to the state’s attorney's office. Shepherd’s case gets before “the public” without prejudice, in fact, the Hearst ee is pretty much on his side. Shep- herd’s case will-get before the jury, without prejudice, in the promised murder trial. All of which is denied workers who threaten the employer’s power. * ° ee This sensational murder case has developed into open warfare over witnesses who say they can “blow the whole Shepherd case out of the water.” There is an Earl Clark who made an affidavit that he “had never seen any germs of any nature in Faiman's school.” He is promptly arrested by Crowe's office. Then there is a Mrs. Luella Rhuebell, another former attache of Faiman's school, who claims she had “never seen a letter written by Shepherd” that Faiman said was sont to him inquiring about a course in bacteriology. Crowe's police are immediately put on her trail, but she eludes capture at her apartment by getting away via the fire escape, All of which will no doubt develop interesting clashes at the trial. But no one will get hurt, * * * ° . It is different when a worker, like Salsedo, held captive in the federal offices of the capitalist state on a top floor. of a New York skyscraper, is driven mad by the persecution to which he is subjected, and leaps from the window of his rison, being crushed to death on the pavement far below. hat was during one of the “red raids” that had the endorse- ment, if not the actual participation, of both the Shepherds and the Crowes. In the Salsedo case, for instance, the kept press of the metropolis was all on one side, on the side of capitalist prosecutors, : . inte. dite 2 But the piffle writers of the yellow dailies are also at liberty to expatiate at great length on the murder, by John Bircher, aged 73, of his wife, after which hé committed sui- cide. Bircher had prayed publicly for the conversion of his wife to his religious views. When she refused to be con- verted he murdered her. None other than Arthur Brisbane, again of the Hearst press, finds comfort in,the fact that: “There was a time, not long ago, when nations and organized religions within the nations did on a gigantic scale exactly what this half-crazy man in Ohlo did to his wife.” . Which raises the question whether Bircher or Brisbane is insane; no doubt both, Bircher is a survival of the religi- ous intolerance that is dying out, because religion feels itself powerful enough to along without er ing its oppo- nents. One of the highest points in-Chicago is the tip of a cross on top of a “loop” skyscraper owned’ by:a church. All religious sects are backing one creed in New York City to- day in the building of a $15,000,000 cathedral. The church feels secure in its place under capitalism and it can afford to be tolerant of its enemies, at least for the time bring. Not so the capitalist state that protects it. 6 * * * * Gita When the Brisbane-Hearst outfit called for the blood of Mooney and Billings, in California, as it did,,it was not much different from Bircher, the religious fanatic turned murderer in Ohio. It wasn't the catholic church in Poland that sought the blood of Stanislav Lanzutsky. But it was the church’s best protector, the Polish capitalist state. It is capitalism that fears for its life today. !t murders and throws into prison by the tens and hundreds of thousands the political dis- senters of today, the Communists, just as surely as the Roman Caesars threw Christians to the lions in the arena twenty centuries ago, or the British church in the early 17th century drove dissenters across the Atlantic to find new homes on the unsettled shores of the American continent. 14 * Brisbane isn’t a Nero. But he would like to be one, He is just a little scribbler for the great capitalist Neroes of this day, who send workers to the | sc wtage or to prison, when they protest against the torture of labor today in the world’s great industries of this century. it is the dread of the destruction of this insane capital- ist system that unites ye ag 2 of madmen like Brisbane, the journalist; Shepherd, the little capitalist; Mundelein, the churchman; Crowe, the prosecutor, in support of the cap- italist state with its nominal heads like Coolidge, in the United States; Mussolini, in Italy; Horthy, in Hungary, or Grabski, in Poland. In the war against Communism all these defenders of capitalism are no more sane than Bircher, the Ohio murderer, crazed in defense of his religion. Every oppressing class breeds its own brand of madmen. Com- munism comes to rid the world of all oppressors. It comes to bring sanity to'this earth. : ’ é TRAIN SHOPS IN | Wicks toLectare, STORM AREA NOT| ”. Tomor . Tomorrow Night se NEA Ver ee cue PN CR Str ECON et ESCO: Tae ONION SEER a ic an ne a a 3 ~ TO BE REBUILT SPRINGFIELD, IL, A 1+-Sus- pending the rules today’ the ‘senate voted unanimously to forward a reso- lution to officials of bap phd and Ohio R. R, requesting that they re- build storm destroyed shops at Mur- Dhysboro, in presenting the resolution Senator Harry Wilson, Pinckneyville, said current rumors! indicated the rail- road company had decided to rebuild its shops elsewhere, Dr. Isaac Rawlings, state director of public health, announced the spread of scarlet fever in the storm area, following reports that appeared, maniacal s\ 004 Killed in Destroyer/Blaat. — WILHELMSHAVEN, GergAptil 1. ~—Four men were killed today when 4 boiler exploded aboard a destroyer in the harbor here, {9 AKL ask? || READING, Pa., April 1—A:most in- teresting and timely lecture on “The Awakening of American Labor” is ar- ranged by local Reading Workers Party for Friday, April 3, 8 p. m., at the R. V. V. F. Hall, 612 Franklin St. Comrade H. M, Wicks ot New York will be the lecturer. * Comrade Wicks is well-known in the American labor movement is a Marxian student and splendid lecturer and orator. He was formerly a mem- ber of the central executive commit- tee of the Workers Party and editor of the Soviet Russia Pictorial, He is an active member of the Typo; cal Union and is thoroly acquainted with the American as*well as Euro; ean labor movement, i Admission is free and all workers are invited to attend. This is the first of a series of lectures to be, ranged by the Reading local of ioe," alta ican jernal movemenh hr eat 0. phi. | ah on WAR ON DANGER THAT THREATENS FOREIGN-BORN Mass Meeting in New York Friday Night (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW ‘YORK, April 1.—Every for eign-born worker in the United States is in danger owing to a new law. The house of representatives has passed Bill No, 11,796 which makes it possible to deport any worker ac- cused of a crime. This is a new step in American “democracy.” To be sure there is a constitution, to be sure every American capitalist is proud of the Declaration of Independence, to be sure we—especially the capitalists —have welcomed every foreign-born worker who came to this country. But things are different now. The country faces severe labor struggles. The decline of industry, the farming crisis, the increasing competition of foreign countries, the surplus produc- tion in American industry, all of these things indicate without a doubt that the workers will be compelled to fight against the coming wage cuts, longer hours and worse conditions. The workers are not likely to submit. Hence the government is forging a weapon to use against a large part of the working class of the country when the time comes. The foreign born are among the best militants of the country—both among the organ- ized and unorganized workers. They are not afraid of a fight—and will not stand back when the struggle is on. They are a menace to capitalist pow- er. The new law will make it pos- sible for the government to hand any obstreperous foreign-born worker over to the immigration authorities—and he will immediately be deported. Do the. workers intend to stand this? Does the entire working class of the United States contemplate ac- cepting these new conditions—which mean a splitting of the labor move- ment—something that the capitalists always plan and bring about? The workers must show their colors. The Labor Defense Council has called a meeting at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., on Friday, April 3, at 8 p. m. The speakers will be Comrades Wein- stone, Amter, Baron, Wexler, M, Ep- _ stein, Zam. Workers come and pro- test against the new law. Organize to protect yourselves against the new terroristic methods of the United States government, AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) both sides of the Atlantic make him out to be. Perhaps Cook cannot quote the father of modern socialism as glibly as an American S. L. P-ite for instance, but the coal barons of Brit ian would rather see a battalion of Snowdens, Hodges and MacDonald's than a glimpse of Cook’s mustache. Cook accused Hodges of playing the employers’ game, Snowden jumped into the fray—in the columns of the capitalist press. eee sb ashes are happening in England, events that should be followed with close attention by the American workers, particularly those who have an international vision, and who real- ize that the world does not end at the statue of liberty. The policies. that are considered cause for expulsion from the American trade union movement by our fakers are accepted by some of the leading figures in the ranks of labor in Britain. Two new weeklies have come into existence there and one monthly. One weekly is edited by George Lansbury. The other is a Sunday paper, Cook and Kirkwood and other progressives are on the edi- torial staff. eee CAUSE the organs of the Amster. dam International are closed to the trade union leaders who favor one unified: international, Purcell, Hicks © and Fimmen are getting out a month- ly called: “Trade Union Unity,” This magazine wilt fight the sabotagers of Amsterdam and the yellow socialists who are opposing every effort to bring the trade unions of all countries into one international. Honest British trade unionists now admit openly, that the Red International of La! Unions represented in the United States by the T, U. EB. L., is the great- est force in the world for labor unity. Riisien thee Mnitome to Fight the Reds NEW YORK, April 1—That the masonic order is-used chiefly as a tool of the employers to fight Com- munism was admitted at a meeting of the second masonic district asso- ciation of Manhattan, in the Hotel Commodore. : Charles Johnson, senior game war- ‘den, declared in addressing the meet- ing, that it was the duty of the ma- sons “to combat the spread of Com- munism.” Johnson objected to the recent meeting of the Communists in Madison Square Garden to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the Paris Commune. Get A Sub And Give Ont i Eb ai by preety j