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226 wo et he ne or er 18 ic ov ie a, mn 10 Dt ha di in, ds at 22 etre ae -body before its internal Page ‘Six * i THE DAILY/WORKEAR THE DAILY WORKER. Ser a Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 21118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....8 monthe $6.60 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1918 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Mlinele ~- (eee ta ma 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL t Editors WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. cmos Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <P 200 Advertising rates o3 app“cation The Modern Inquisition The terror raging in the Baltic states—Finland, Esthonia and Lithuania—against the working class exceeds in violence and brutality even the tortures inflicted on the workers and peasants in the Balkans. It is inspired by the same motives and has the same purposes in both of these spheres of imperialist influence—a deliberate process of extermination for the most militant of the workers and peasants is being carried out with the approval and financial backing of Great Britain, France and the United States. Merely to read of the horrors in these countries causes the blood to run cold. What must it be for the workers who day and night are forced to live in the slaughter-houses and torture chambers into which these countries have been turned? The days of the inquisition are used as the standard by which we judge of terror, but a new one is needed. In the last few months more than 3,500 hundred workers and peasants have been ar- rested, tortured, hanged and shot in the four little Baltic states. In the city of Reval there is not a single working class family that has not had at least one of its members tortured, killed or Jailed. The prisoners, whose only crime is their opposi- tion to the government of hired murderers, are tortured in every conceivable manner—by fire, water, electric shocks, clubbings and other methods too horrible to be printed. The cities resound with the cries and groans of the working class victims. We see in the Baltic states the treatment the ruling class reserves for all those who refuse to submit to the tyranny of capitalism. On a small scale is being enacted the scene that will one day be repeated in the United States if the working class is weak enough to make it possible. There must be so much hell raised in the west- ern nations that the counter-revolution is forced to call off its tortures. The rulers of the Baltic countries are puppets moved by strings from Lon- don, Paris, Washington and Wall Street. It is in the imperialist nations that the pressure must be applied. There ‘s no other task of such immediate importance as opening the dgors of the dungeons of the capitalist inquisition in the Baltic countries and the Balkans. The capitalist press is grumbling over the im- possibility of enforcing all the laws. It is notice- able, however, that there is never any great delay in enforcing all laws designed to suppress the workers. The European Crisis The eyes of the world are on Berlin and Paris. France and Germany are powder magazines and sparks are flying all over Europe. The House of Morgan watches developments with an interested but cynical gaze. Whatever happens, outside of actual collapse and revolution, is all grist to the Morgan mill. The cocky victors who have been fooling the French masses with fairy tales of German gold that was to liquidate all indebtedngss now talk in humble tones while the German reactionaries show more and more assurance. Over all is the black pall of the Dawes plan under which the leech-like finance-capitalists prepare to suck the lifeblood of the French and German workers. All talk of “stability,” that magic word with which the allied capitalists have conjured up visions of a Europegn slave-pen filled with toiling, sweating workers devoid of all power of revolt, has ceased for the time being. A nationalist government in Germany, repudiat- ing the Versailles treaty and its territorial ar- rangements in eastern Europe, with a French gov- ernment of the Poincare type, will undoubtedly méan that war becomes a danger of today. Even tho the nationalists are defeated, their power is such that any regime other than a Communist one, willbe foreed to renew with vigor the attempt to bring back to Germany her lost territories. That the capitalist class sees war in the offing is indicated by the increase of the Polish army by 170,000 effeetives and by the terror against the workers in all the states bordering on Russia. Emma Gets Poor Results Prince Hopkins, than ;; hom there is, or was, no better exponent of the Tidaral cult in the United States, in the recent issue of Labor Age is editoriga- ly intrigued by the adyentures, writings and gen- eral activity of Emma,Goldman. Emma is in England at,present and has been taken up by the intelligentsia. The rude.and un- tutored worker will have nothing to do with Em- ma, however. Like the rest of the counter-revolutionists in the anarchist and socialist camps, Emma is greatly in- terested in the political prisoners in Russia, but Prince Hopkins is forced to admit that she is having little success in arousing British labor to protest. The report of the, British trade union delegation on Soviet Russia came at a very un- fortunate time for the Goldmans and Abramo- viches. The great bulk of British labor now sees in the unity of the Russian and British labor movements the only real hope for, world trade union unity. Furthermore, the British working class has made up its mind that the Russian workers and peasants have had the right to do anything they have done to maintain and defend the revolution. Counter- revolutionists now get a chill reception from’ the British working class no matter vies what angle they attack Soviet Russia. The Goldman formula for serniation, is given by Hopkins with sympathetic comment. It is sup- posed to represent great achievement from the liberal standpoint because it is in conformity with what Hopkins calls “Ethics’—spelling it with a capital BE. Here it is: “No revolution can succeed as a factor of libera- tion unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PUR- POSE to be achieved.” An intelligent ten-year-old child will see im- mediately that this formula, if followed, makes social revolution impossible. The capitalist class and their hangers-on must not be treated roughly— oh dear, no. This would not be in keeping with the high purpose of social liberation. Even tho the army and’other mercenaries of capitalism fill the gutters with the blood of murdered workers, the masses must not lose their collective temper. This would be very naughty and would defeat the pur- pose of the revolution. The Goldman formula is about the. best counter- revolutionary dope the ruling class. has been able to purchase up to date. It explains fully why Em- ma Goldman is welcomed in England by the apologists for eapitalism. But the -workera¢do not listen. to Emma any more. She is unable to make but poor returns on the money the British imperialists have invested in her. Her charm ‘has departed with her virtue. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Miners Rally to Militants The rank and file of Sub-District 4 are rallying to Freeman Thompson and James Watt, the two officials whom Farrington is trying to railroad out of the offices to-which they were elected and eventually out of the union. Our news from that section tells of huge mass meetings at which the miners pledge support to Thompson and. Watt:jn their fight. They are still in office and intend to stay there. There has not been such an outburst of rank and file resentment for a long time as that which is making itself heard in the southern Illinois coal fields. What the.eventual outcome of the struggle will be is impossible to predict at this time, but it is certain that the attack by Farrington has so far solidified the left wing and brought into action practically the whole membership of the sub-dis- trict behind the two militants. Farrington seems to be preparing another Howat case. It is significant that just as the United Mine Workers are called upon to face the onslaught of the operators the efforts of the fakers are devoted to war on the militants. It was the same in Kansas. Howat and the miners were fighting the slave industrial court bill when he was removed by Lewis. No opportunity is neglected by the Lewis-Far- rington machine to strengthen the hands of the coal capitalists by fighting the honest and courage- ous district and sub-district leaders. In so doing they are juggling with the very life of the union. | ; Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. Hindenburg Is Resurrected Hindenburg is to run for the German presidency and the social-democrats are reaping the reward of their betrayals. There would be little for us to regret in this were it not for the fact that the work- ing class has been misled and disorganized and its forees weakened by the continual treason of the social-demoeracy. The parties of the big industrialists, the right Seven years after-the signing of the armistice jand left wing of the nationalists, and the Bavarian and Europe seems ready ‘to burst into flame again. | party have combined behind Hindenburg, according But war this time means revolution. This is why | relentless offensives are made on the Communists and the revolutionary sections of the working class. contradictions rend asunder. to the latest dispatches. This group is said to be able to muster about 12,000,000 votes, while the | Weimar coalition—the social-democrats and other Capitalism is trying to sterilize its infected bourgeois parties—are credited with approximately it |14,000,000 votes. In this situation the Communist Party holds the ‘The fear of revolution alone prevents the present | balance of power. European crisis from turning into another holo- caust. Our magazine section tomorrow will carry a |special article on the German elections by Ernst Thaelmann, Communist candidate for the presi- Have you seen the pictures of the land fortifiea-|dency, in which the relation of forces and the pro- tions-and the big guns in Hawaii? Then you know |gram of the German Pian Party is discussed. why we took that little island. It was not because our capitalists wanted to raise their own pine- ples. \ Aaah naapenamararigcesiveew Get a member for the subscription for the DAL arkers Party and a new WORKER. =~ COLLABORATION OF CLASSES IS GIVEN APPROVAL Bill Gu Ae rees to Everything (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) NEW YORK CITY, April 12.—The National Civic Federation, the leading organ for years of class collaboration, began what it calls its first “indus- trial round table” here Saturday, to “bring about elimination of industrial waste and the minimization of indus- trial strife.” Ou All the boys were there, including Herb Hoover, secretary of commerce, sitting alongside Bill Green, head_of the A. F. of L.; Gerard Swope of the General Electric trust and D. L. Cease of the Brotherhood of Rallroad Train- men, Hoover Threatens Wage Cuts. Hoover let thé feline out of the sack early by remarking that “the |fund from which’ labor must expect maintenance of present wages or an increase in real wages lies in more efficient production’ and elimination of waste.” The none too gentle hint that even the “maintenance of present wages” will be subject to cut if the toilers do not produce more efficiently is an obvious threat of wage cuts. Mr. Hoover did not explain how it happens that his own government statistics show that as efficiency has gone up, wages have gone down. However, Mr, Hoover is supposed to be on the capitalist side of the ar- gument. What was more revealing was the reply to Hoover by Bill Green, who did not attempt to refute the false idea that efficiency increase means a better wage for the workers. Green Accepts the Base of. Argument. Green practically agreed with Hoover that Labor is or should be in- terested in helping the ‘boss manage industry efficiently’ so that the boss could make morg money -than ever “Just so the workers’ standard isn’t lowered,” said the chead of the A. F. of L., with absolute:ignorance that if efficiency is increased and wages arc not likewise increased wages are, that fact, lowered, Economics are a mystery to Green, however, who left the subject to talk about something that he could under- stand—“collective Qargaining.” Bill was strong for “collective ing” and was willing to give up most anything the re of the A. F. of L, have or hope to get, if only the employers will let him, Bill Green, do the “collective ing” stuff. He did not sive 1 reason why the members of uniorig, ages trust him to do their “collectlye bargaining” in view of the fact he knows so’ little of practical economics that he thinks increased production without a wage raise is not @ wage cut. Argentine Paper Says South America Never Again Will Trust Cal (Special to The Daily Worker) BUENOS AIRES, April 12—Com- menting upon President. Coolidge’s note to Peru, in which he declared the Tacna-Arica award was. final, the Buneos Aires Herald, an English. lan- guage newspaper, refers to the bluntness of the president’s message as “entirely at variance with South American ideas of statecraft.” It expresses the opinion that “no South American republic will ever again appeal to Washington to solve its problems. “The damage now has been done. We believe that had Pern thot such |summary judgment would have been | Pronounced, she never would have submitted the problent to arbitration.” Find Arcturus Is Safe. WASHINGTON, April 12—Anxiety for the safety of the vessel Arcturus. bearing William Beebe’s oceanograph- ic expedition in southern water; was relieved here today following the navy's re-establishment of communi- cation with the ship, a Conductor Burns to Death. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 12—Chas. Kruck, Delaware; conductor, was burned to death and three passengers seriously injured ‘here when a special car on the Columbus, Delaware & Marion Interurban. line ran into a ‘regular car in North Columbus. ee Paasche Dies in Detroit. DETROIT, Aprih12—Dr. Herman Paasche formerly: privy counsellor and vice president of the German reichstag was dead here today, fol- lowing a sudden attack of pneumonia while on a lecture tour thruout the United States, Hoover Man Goes to Paris. | WASHINGTON, April 12—Ray- mond ©. Miller, of Vincennes, Ind., was today appointed assistant com- mercial attache at Paris by Secretary of Commerce Hoover, Feel Quake Tremors. WASHINGTON, April 12—An earth- quake of severe ity was record- ed on the university seis- mograph here. The tremors began at 6:02 o'clock and until 8:46 with the most severe Tegistering be- tween 7:03 and 7; oe STANDARD OIL THREATENS TO PUNISH. SOUTH REVENUE TAX OF FIVE CENTS CHINA FOR ITS of an Internal tax of five cette! (Continued from Page 1). they sent organizers all over the coun: try to put this ticket over. If we are going to set the referendum aside in this manner and hold a secret con- vention of a small number of dele- gates to select our officers why. not let all delegates have a yoice:in such selection. Second. «© “Several years ago PresidentJohn- ston and Secretary Davison with the approval of Board Members: Carr, Fechner, and Gauthier, purchased two hundred thousand dollars’ worth of stock in the Commercial National Bank of Washington, D. C., paying two hundred dollars per share for same when it was selling on the open market for $148.00 per share or in other words, they paid more than fifty thousand dollars above the market price for it, This they do not deny, “Second, they bought fifty thousand dollars’ worth of bonds in the Minne- apolis Star, This paper is in the hands of a receiver and we may never get jour money out of it. Third. “They invested $25,000 im the Gra- ham Printing company of Washing- ton, D. C. That also went up the flue and we lost our money. Fourth, “They lied to our members about the organization owning the Mount Vernon Saving bank. We never own- ed this bank, we never controlled this Machinists Official Exposes Graft ~ eulexi-e CANTON, China, April &--CGanton was threatened with a gasoline and kerosene famine today as a result.of the Standard Oil, Texas Oll and Asiatic) Petroleum companies discontinuing all shipments here following imposition bank and we were told that under no circumstances would the bankers who have controlled it since its organiza- tion, give us control, _ Fifth. afd “They are not putting a dollar. in the strike fund as, provided by law,.in fact they are gradually draining the jorganization of its funds in order to |keep their machine intact. Practically all money received at headqiarters is being used to pay running’: @x- penses. The law at presenty;states that forty per cent should be placed in the strike fund. Not one per cent goes in the strike fund and,. there seems to be no intention of putting any there, “These statements are true ‘and you can tell the world I said so and as a member of the board I believe the membership-should know them. There are many other matters that. could be shown up. that are equally bad but this should be enuf to. convince any, man that a change is necessary. “Well old top.I will .be.in Chicago within a couple of weeks and try to land you a job there. Hoping that this finds you well and with best wishes to all the fellows I am, “Fraternally yours, M. J.. McMahon. “P. §. The reason that Carr was not on the Johnston slate was be- cause he was outvoted at the secret convention. There were not enuf votes cast for him at this little convention.” THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN:PUBLIC SCHOOLS By ANNA THOMPSON. bargain- |The Campaign Against Religious In- struction in the Public Schools. OST comrades have seen in the papers—in our own as well as in the capitalist press—the great amount of discussion that has been going on in the educational and _ religious worlds in New York on the question of using the public schools in the field of religious instruction. Recently the matter passed beyond the discussion stage, a series of conferences were held, and actual organizational steps were taken to utilize the New York public schools in the work of inculcat- ing the working class children of New York with the religious poison, From reports we are receiving from our Junior comrades in the schools this work is already well on its way. In a growing number of schools, the bi- ble is read and discussed, psalms are learned and sung, sermons and lec- ture are held on religious texts and so on. In others, arrangements have been made for the early dismissal of children on certain days on condition that they immediately proceed to places (religious schools, Talmud Terahs, étc.) where religious instruc- tion may be obtained. It will not take long before the whole public school system becomes perfectly adapted for these new tasks that the capitalists have entrusted it with. Of course, all these proceedings are a direct challenge to our Communist movement, particularly to the Young Workers’ League and its Junior Sec- tion. It is the business of our Junior Section to immediately start the agi- tation against religion and against re- ligious training in the public schools and become the centers of the protest movement among hte children—thus following up the work of propaganda and agitation with organization work. It is the business of the Junior Sec- tion, this time in co-operation with the league and the party, to take the lead in arousing the young and adult work. ers against this menace of religion in the schools, to organize this protest movement, to back up in every way the school struggle of the » Juniors, which is bound to be very severe, and in general, to throw into: action against the bosses and their:tools, as large a portion of the workers as pos- sible, These, in outline, are the ele- mentary tasks of the communist move- ment in the face of the tidied situa tion. The Junior Section of the: Young Workers League has nov been. behind hand in its tasks. The District Junior Committee has already elaborated an all-round plan of activity for the league and the Junior Section in refer- ence to the campaign against religion and religious training in the schools. This plan was accepted and discussed in minute detail by the city executive committee and detailed "plans laid by this committee for carrying itinto ac- tion. Beside making» arrangements for such internal activity, (within the groups) as the enlightenment of the Juni at cart: seed "yaaide aS paign,. our plan of activity also goes into such matters of agitation and propaganda in the schools (a printed leaflet and seysral mimeographed leaflets to, a Tested) mass protest mee! and parents’ meetings to be call , @ call for a united front to be fasned, Tahor ° unions and labor frater- nal org nizations to ‘be circuralized gah s° op Nor Plans simply on Daper. 8. ork, ane schools has already | begu “mass meetings have already pet sronee for and held, and in every way, the Y. W. L. and the Junior Section are coming to the front in this aitfseiions ampules Qf the comrades in the league what we ask is understanding and support. We Mh support first of all in the re- cr of our Junior groups. See that x children you know between ithe age of ten and fifteen join the Junior groups. Secondly, we need Junior leaders noW ‘more than ever. Why don’t’ you become..a Junior leader? Call-at the district office d talk the‘ matter over, Then we ‘want every section of the league io form a sect on Junior. committee. This is absolutely necessary. Will you help us by seeing that a Junior committee is organized in your Sec- tion? Will you take the initiative? Comrades, the Junior Section has great tasks before it. We want you to see that we carry these tasks out in the proper manner, Hold Mine Rescue Contest. SPRINGFIELD, Il, April 12— Teams from every coal mining state in the natioh, as well as teams from foreign countries, were expected , by Illinois miners today to take part in the fourth annual international aid and mine rescue contest to be held in Springfield September 10, 11 and 12. RAMPANT AMONG HIGH OFFICIALS OF POLAND WARSAW, April 12. — After. lengthy investigations into the .ac- counts of the Polish navy, in whieh | charges ‘of graft were jevelled against high officials, Naval Com mander Bartoszewicz has been ar. rested and Vice Admiral Porsgmeee chief of the Polish navy, suspended, Both officials are charged with lack of proper surveillance, while nine other officials and controllers in the department Have been dis- missed or reduced .in rank. Commander Bartoszewicz, who was formerly in the old ezarist Rus- sian navy, is also accused of trea- son. AS WE SEE IT.. By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) In the meantime, we must get rid oi e surplus abroad. But Europe, owes $20,000,000,000, has no money and invonly pay us in goods. A + 8 ABOR unions are at their best, says Babson when employers are bidding for help, but in a situation such as he visualizes, the workers will be bidding for jobs. The manu- facturer who can produce goods with the least expenditure of capital on wages will win out; the others must close up shop. Note the case of the coal, industry, Non-union operators going strong, and non-union miners living comfortably while union mines are. shut down ahd union miners are unemployed. This is Babson’s yarn, His, solution of the problem is that the workers should accept a lower standard of living in order to. ¢ peté with the workers of Europe, wha will in turn be asked to accept a dower standard in order to compete with the American wage slaves, And so on ad-infinitum. ees NYBODY can see at a glance, from the foregoing that the workers must be organized internationally in order to solve the social problem which can only be solved in one way, that is, by taking the wealth produc- ing machinery out of the hands’ of the capitalists and organizing society on the basis of production for use instead of for profit. The unions must be fighting instruments and not capitalist auxiliaries as the labor fak- ers have partly succeeded in turning them into. Babson is speaking for his class. He is one of their most highly paid philosophers and indus: trial Baedekers. He deserves credit for being faithful to his trust. ee UT what can we say of the labor leader, who has risen to power on the shoulders of his class and then betrays them? Take Warren S. Stone, alleged progressive! Stone holds forth in the same capitalist sheet that contains Babson’s views on business. The journalist who secur- ed the interview says: “Stone, as he spoke, looked more like a prosperous big business man than like the most dynamic of labor leaders.” Space does not permit me to deal exhaus- tively with Stone’s capitalist hokum. The head of the Brotherhood of Loco- banks that it would take too long to count them. ° eee E declared that labor in the Unit- ed States has gone thru three cycles. The first one was class con- sciousness, the second collective bar- gaining and the third, what the faker is _ pleased to call co-operation, but which is better described by the term class collaboration. Stone gleefully stated that the brotherhood had “pass- ed succeséfully” thru the class con- scious stage and was on the thresh- hold of the last and more comfort- able cycle, under which Stone and Dupont have their feet under the same table and pick cigars out of the same box. The sum total of Stone’s theory is that the workers and the capitalists would join hands under the new dispensation and run indus- try thru the joint effort of each oth- er’s labor. orf bi Daktetiae? is nothing new in this the- ory, except that the labor fakers have officially accepted it. This has been the ideal of the robber barons of this country, the religion of big business. Everybody knows that the workers now run the industrial ma- chinery for the capitalists, but the latter play the role of exploiters while the workers get out of it whatever it pleases the capitalists to give them in wages. And it will be thus so long as capitalism exists. The brother- hood banks, says Stone, are educating the workers how to invest wisely. What will the miners of Nova Scotia, Southern Illinois or those who toil in Stone's scab mines in West Virginia think of this counsel? oe @ O sum up. A final damning indict- ment of this traitor out of his own mouth: “That means co-opera- tion, unity safety for all. It means that when our banks in Cleveland jo! | hands with the National City company jot New York and bought together $3,500,000 bonds of the International Great Northern Railway company a new epoch in the relationship of cap- ital and organied labor was ered in.” There youare! The unions have a future says Babson, as corrals to keep the wag an yes,” happy ‘itue capitalleté' out of the. workers.” But should Babi Dessimistic picture of indus’ itions in the next ten years. true, the dreams of the class borationists will be kicked “higher than a runaway kite. Soviet Electric Plant Explodes. MOSCOW, April 12—Six persons were killed and three injured in an explosion today at the Tshakent Blec- tric plant. EXPLOSION ON ITALIAN WARSHIP . KILLS F , INJURES FIFTEEN rirtatig MILAN, Italy, April 12—-A va exploded aboard the Itallan ‘eae Dulllo in the harbor Spezia t ha Smee | i io | 1 Vener ay hone A alii Hing four sailors and injuring.fifteen 4 Nell hs as ihn appa tt, ‘ fi motive Engineers, boasted of so man” doings