The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1925, Page 6

PNR N eiikt ahe kids ms c Page Six —EEOee_e—_eee—e—ee—ee THE DAILY WORKER.| Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, DL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months it (in Chicago only): 6 months $2.50...8 months 66.60 per year 68.00 per year Chicago, Mlinels Business Manager Address all mail and wake out checks to THE\DAILY WORKER 4118 W. Washington Bivd. ~ WILLIAM F. DUN tia bw MORITZ J. LOEB.. Office at: Chicago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. Gi 290 —. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- France's Frenzied Finance Advertising rates op app’cation The lid is off in France and the resulting odor is anything but pleasant to the ruling class. The Bank of France has been doing a little coun- terfeiting, it seems. A mere trifle of 2,000,000,000 ances over the legal limit has been issued and without the legalizing of its action the’ currency is just so much waste paper. The director of the institution threatens to close up shop unless the yovernment stands back of him. It appears that the committee which acts in a supervisory capacity refused to sign the bank’s statement unless the excess circulation was admitted, but with the aid of Herriot the matter was patched up. It was un- derstood that the premier would issue a decree legalizing the inflation, but his advisers informed him that this procedure was illegal. Before a vote of the chamber on the question could be secured the Herriot cabinet fell. i Unless the 2,000,000,000 frances worth of paper are given some sort of a legal camouflage before the regular statement of the bank is due on Thars- day, French exchange will take a bad tumble. The entire affair, which would never have seen the light of day had it not been for the cabinet crisis, is illuminating as showing the thin ice on which supposedly powerful goveriments are skat- ing in these parlous times. Coupled with the sensation that the disclosures have made is the anxiety due to the uncertain re- sult of the German elections. It is felt that the position of France as the dominant power in con- tinental Europe has been seriously weakened by the exposure of the basic weakness of her finances and that the German government whether mon- archist or republican, will be encouraged to make new demands. Even among the allied governments, nominally with France against Germany, there is to be heard a note of satisfaction over the ridiculous position in which the bully of Europe is placed. The House of Morgan is greatly pleased. It feels sure that the French government will have to ac- cept any terms it cares to make for the new financing necessary to save the franc pending re- turns from any taxation measures that will have to be introduced. It looks as tho French hegemony in Europe is definitely on the wane. With the French government in pawn to the House of Morgan it will be able to continue its support of vassal states and the plundering of Germany only insofar as this fits in with the plans of American imperialism for world control. The Charch Militant There are two warring schools among the fol- lowers of Christ, tho it must be confessed neither school walks the chalk line very strictly. But in the piping days of peace, one section presents the} alleged founder of their creed as a man of peace while another section dresses him up in the habilia-} Whatever position Jesus of Nazareth | that can be filled with ‘cannon fodder on short ments of war. took two thousand years ago, does not matter very much today when the warring capitalist groups clash over world markets or spheres of influence. The preachers don the war paint at the point of a gun. The capitalists will stand no nonsense from : ft ; d hig |that the United States today is on a war footing— their men of god. A rather lively scrap has been causing some ex- citement in the methodist church for the past year or more. The United States government, not being engaged in war has allowed the scrimmage to pro- ceed more or less unhindered excepting the atten- tions of sundry stoolpigeons from the department of justice who take note of the pacifist leaders with a view to filling jail cells, when we proceed to eliminate the “yellow peril” or some other menace to our “Jiberties.” But Wall Street has its caucus in the methodist church. Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes is one of them. Tn an dddress before the American Legion in a local hotel a few days ago, he denounced those who ‘were attacking the militaristic and imperialistic policy of the United States.: He seored the resolu- tion presented to a methodist’ conference a year ago denouncing war. “If-thepoccasion were to arise again I dm sure that I would do as I did dur- ing the last war,” said the bishop. ‘No doubt the pious would stand on the side lines and, cheer the cannon fodder.on its way to stop bullets so that bishops, capitalists and other para- sites might enjoy the hostilities from a safe is- tance. This was his service in the late war. The prospective cannon fodder need not look to the chureh for a solution of the war evil. It must look to its own organizations, industrial and political. _ And it must abolish the capitalist system before i peace becomes more than an empty dream. _ Every member of the Coolidge cabinet is a chris- t da member of some ehurch, but the Wash- hostesses, alw were count the silverware after ia Ominous Signs The decrease of ‘almost a half million tons in the unfilled orders of, the United States Steel corpora- tion last month, the drop in the price of wheat, con- tinuing depression jn the coal industry, a falling off in ear loadings, all point to the shaky founda- tion on which American “prosperity” is built. Production is far, far in advance of domestic consumption and the standardization: of industrial processes brings ever increasing numbers of recruits into the permanent army of unemployed thus narrowing the domestic market. The outstanding feature of the present period in the United States is the frenzied attempt of the alists to increase the domestic market. Ad- sing schemes on an enormous scale, special deferred payment plans for selling everything from automobiles to perfumery, “own your home cam- paigns” that tie the gullible investor to the mort- gage shark for the rest of his life, changes in styles of wearing apparel as sudden as changes in the weather, great public and semi-public improvement projects, every one of these phenomena have for their purpose the extension of the market for the flood of commodities that American industry turns out. The official American labor movement is living in a fool’s paradise. Its attitude toward Amer- ican industrial and political life is that of the middle class. It talks glibly of “good times” and igh wages” and it refuses to see that rising and the extension of the power of the cap- italist state lowers the standard of living, reduces the bargaining power of the workers and puts them at the merey of the capitalists the moment the in- evitable industrial depression strikes. This dream of permanent prosperity is about to be rudely shattered. The signs of a sharp curtail- ment in industrial activity are here. es Morgan and Mussolini Thomas W. Lamont, of the House of Morgan, spent the Easter holidays in Rome. But he did not waste his time visiting the catacombs or the ancient spot where the early christians once tempted the palates of hungry lions. Morgan’s ambassador to fascist Italy spent his time in conference with Mussolini, Finance Min- ister De Stefani and Minister of the Interior Federoni. What did they talk about? The conferees are silent. But a news dispatch that reads as if it were inspired, informs us that Lamont’s purpose was to learn the facts regarding Italy’s finances, the labor situation and the pros- pects of Italy’s economic future. Morgan is already the official receiver for Ger- many.,He has his foot well inside the French door and it is,more than possible that the king of Italy has not his headquarters in the Quirinal, but in Wall Street. The recent strike in the heart of industrial Italy caused as much uneasiness at 100 Broad street, New York, as it did in Mussolini’s office. Is the fascist. regime about to topple? Morgan wants to be on the-safe side, so he sent one of his best men to look over the situation. Morgan may decide to put his millions behind Mussolini and his fascist cutthroats or he may decide that the socialists can serve his purpose better. He is paying the piper. It.is up to him to call the tune. Italy is today a dependency of Wall Street. The iron battalions of Italy stood back the Austrian legions on the Piave, but the iron dollars of Wall Street were busy back of the lines putting an iron collar around the necks of the Italian bourgeoisie. And behind the iron dollars of Wall Street atang:sthe army and navy of the United States. Peace There are 80,000 reserve officers in training in the United States today. They form skeleton units notice. It is necessary only to call up 20 con- | scripts for every officer and an army of 1,600,000 men is in existence. These simple figures shatter all the “peaceful progress of American civilization”. dope. They show for what? For war, of course, Against whom? Read the capitalist press and note the conflicts arising in the fields of American imperialist enter- prise between America and Japan, ‘America and Great Britain, Note the cruise and the “war game” of the greatest fleet ever assembled in the Pacific. Only fools think that the rulers of the United States are not preparing in earnest for a war of conquest of which our part in the late. won, war was only the first act. Colonials Are Astir We pick up a copy of the London Daily Herald, official organ of the British labor movement and MR scrum nasno pei THE DAILY WORKER (Continued ramp | from last issue.) Gallagher Emphasizes Discipline. Comrade Gallagher (England) em- phasizes the necessity of discipline which at the same:time presupposes self-discipline. The shop councils constitute the basis for organizing the workers in the,shops and factor- ies. The anti-militaristic work is ur- gent, for otherwise Comrade Smeral and others may be surprised by a crisis. The Czecho-Slovakian Com- munist. Party should bear in mind that the deserters of today are the fascists of tomorrow. It is the task ofthe Communists to prevent the stabilization of capital. The organization of the unemployed is a matter of primary importance. The trade unions must not be weak- ened. The demands of the unem- ployed, the wage’. demands of the workers, the solution of the housing problem and the-parliamentary strug- gle must undermine capitalism. The Comintern must study the stat- egy of the bourgegisie. The speaker is of the opinion that the stabilization process had its roots in the betrayal a the British miners’ strike. The Eastern ‘question demands more attention. The workers must be acquainted with the treachery of the social-democratic “trade union bu- reaucracy. In England a new revolu- tionary wave is rising. We must therefore create a strong Communist Party... Our party must be deeply rooted in the shops and factories; it must carry on anti-militarist propa ganda; it must seek an alliance with the land; and neutralize the reserves of the bourgeoisie. That is why the British Communist Party accepts Zinoviev’s theses on the Bolsheviza- tion of the parties. “ee Living Cost Rises in Italy. Scoccumate (Italy):. The.most im- portant characteristi¢.of the Italian economic situation is.the discord be- tween agriculture and industry. The burden arising out of this discord has to be borne by the’ Yorkers and peas- ants. The cost of dg” is rising, and wages .are being cut. As a result of the Dawes plan the crisis is becom- ing more acute. The bourgeoisie re- sorts to protective. tariffs, which makes the — of the workers still worse. By’A,, 0. (Bi (Berlin) . ren Ww" the usual cnigs of democracy which are well known in Am- erica the German presidential elec- tion campaign openi The first act of ihyaste Noske democracy was the,g8uppression of the Rote Fahne, the official organ of the Communist Party as a sort of. ap- petizer and later om .over a dozen other party publications were sup- pressed for short or long periods. All this of course under the excuse of insults against the ‘deceased presi- dent, Ebert, whom the Communist Party has exposed as a simple tool of the worst reactionary and monarch- ist forces in Germany.” Transport Worker as Candidate of| The Workers. HE candidate of the Communist Party is Comrade Thaelmann who is at the present time the chairman of the party and also a member of the reichstag. , Comrade Thaelmann is a transport worker and was one of the leaders in the Hamburg uprising. He is an ideal representative and in fact the only working class candidate for president in contrast to all the other candidates, who represent the German bourgeois and petty bourgeoisie, The social-democrats, who have re- cently been involved in the great Bar- mat swindle affair have as their can- didate Otto Braun’ who is nothing but a straw man re the mon- archist and reactio: elements in Germany. Workers in Halles. crats’ Police Chief. Responsible. Mao Communist Party had organ- ized one of the! first campaign meetings in Halle with Comrade see three news items that are symbolical of the stir-|Thaelmann and French and English ring of the masses in the British empire: “Disorders in Egypt.” “Bengal Crisis Acute.” “Jerusalem In Fear.” ‘The colonial peoples are striking, demonstrating, rejecting British-made laws, and fighting British troops. There is no longer any period in which all colonial troubles are liquidated as was the case be- fore the world war. The black and yellow races have caught the spirit of revolt and their struggles link up with those of the white workers in the imperialist na- tions. genuine world revolutionary movement, for the first time the workers of all races are actually fighting capitalism side by side. Is it any wonder, that world capitalism hates and fears the Communist; International whose call to revolt has been AWvered by millions of hitherto passive colonial me Cantante: picabenmenie nitty ea? ——, £ * leomrades ag the main speakers. ° To a tremendous over-flow meeting these comrades delivered speeches and the masses arose to sing the In- ternational after which the interpre- ter went to the platform to translate ise speeches of the foreign comrades. As he stepped on the platform the | police arrived and ordered the meet- ing dispersed with the excuse that the safety of the state was in danger, bi gprs order was given by the social- democratic police president, Runge, who would not allow the German Yor the first time in history there is a|workers to hear the message from workers in other countries, He is of course as worthy representative of the Second Internationa, The story tells that someone threw, glass of beer at the police captain in charge and that a.shot was fired from the gallery by, most probably, a r of the secret service who. have learned . Se mee The destruction of the proletarian organizations and the impoverization, of the petty bourgeoisie, renders the struggle for partial demands particu- larly important. Fascism was unable to consolidate its own organizations, and as a social phenomenon, fascism is. gradually disappearing. That is why the bourgeoisie desires “normalization,” i.e. a mixture of de- mocracy and fascism; which in other words means: the alliance of the petty bourgeoisie with big capital, The maximalists are playing as treacherous a part as the left social- democrats in Germany, They are sup- porting the reformists with whose aid they hope to form a labor party. The intensification of the agrarian crisis offers the basis for -the creation of workers’ and peasants’ committees. This complex situation gave rise to two deviations. The right elements believe in normalization; this consti- tutes no serious danger, since the party rejects this view. The leftists on the other hand, think it possible to overthrow fascism by a frontal at- tack. Bordiga is doctrinaire and is unable come Politically active, as may be seen from the Lanzutsky campaign as well as from the Dombrov episode whith involved 30,000 workers. The Polish party is meeting with success in’ its work among the social-demo- cratic wroking masses. ~ The right wing in the Czecho-Slovakian party must be ruthlessly combatted. The right elemients have turned the parties into propagandist sects. The parties must be based on action. The Polish party, has abandoned its old policy. Events in Dombrov showed how a Bolshevized party can fight. It is duting the stabilization period that we must develép the fighting capac- ity of the masses, Real Cormmunist World Party. Comrade Kun speaks on the tasks of ideological stabilization, and points out that the Comintern has’ developed from a series of propagandist groups to a real Communist world party. But when the parties had become mass parties, the practical activities dis- tracted their attention from theory. and education. It is not by chance that these questions are raised now in connec- to adapt the elastic Leninist dialec-|tion with our slogan “To the masses” tics to the given concrete situation. Bordiga does not realize that the party must live and fight among and with the masses, and not alongside of them. Altho Bordiga recognizes the Leninist policy of the Comintern in theory, he combats it in practice. Bordiga’s absence from the central committee increases the danger of fractions. Fascism was a good lesson for the Italian Communist Party, and accelerated its Bolshevization. At the evening session of March 28 Comrade Domsky spoke: The stabili- zation is not as secure as the bour- geoisie believes it to be. When Radek and Brandler claimed the victory of fascism, they attempted to hide their opportunist tactics, Already the bour- geoisie thinks it can rule without the aid of the social-democrats. The Communigts must not share the illus- ions of the bourgeoisie. Permanent stabilization is out of the question. The convention of the Polish Com- munist Party made it clear that the consolidation is giving rise to new conflicts and is rapidly ‘revolutioniz- ing the peasantry. A great influx of new members is to be observed in the independent peasants’ party of Poland. In the border regions there is a revolutionary mass movement. The Polish working masses -have be-\by the Austriay school, The increased‘ American methods of frame-ups, st aad police captain then gave orders to fire into the crowd with the re- sult that seven workers were killed. This number has later been swelled to-nine among whom were also social- democratic workers. Hundreds of workers were brot to the hospital se- verely wounded. In the panic when the people were rushing for the exits the pressure was so great that the stairway leading from the gallery broke like matches and the crowds fell to the ground floor. Thus ended the meeting in Halle. That is the kind of protection the workers receive from social-demo- cratic chiefs of police. Great Demonstration of Protests All Over Germany. ————— MMEDIATELY all over the coun- try the workers demonstrated against this bloody action and de- manded that the guilty be punished. It was my great fortune to be in Ber- lin at the time of a great demonstra- tion organized here within 24 hours after the Halle affair by the Commun- ist Party. It is especially impressing to see 20,000 fearless and young proletar- Translated by Y. NISHIMURA. Mun Hey Weekly, a radical progres- sive paper (Chinese) published in New York City urgés unity of the working class in Asia, We print a translation of an article that appeared in that paper—Ed Note. With the development of modern in- dustry most of the land of Asia upon which beloved mountains rise and gracious streams flow, was trans- formed into a slave colony of domin- ant western imperialism, Even Japan, who fortunately is able to keep her head upright as an independent em- pire, does not permit her countless toiling masses to share this right. ‘They are enslaved by their own im- perialists at home. Their agony and our misery, both under the reign of imperialism, are common in the na- ture of our suffering. While we suffer from foreign power the Japanese masses are struggling with oppressive capitalist law makers, The aim of the three principles ad- vocated ‘by the late leader of the Chinese workers, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, are the equal distribution of land to the people; strict restrictions for capital; governmental functions by votes and self determination of the questions now confronting tt whole Orient would be readily solv: Dr. Sun's principles are the jey note of the great emancipation wh } Chinese and Japanese Problems Identical i and Bolshevization. Opportunism is characterized by the enthusiasm for the narrowest forms of practical ac- tivity. Opportunism yeans a-policy from case to case, and shows the lack of a theoretically well thot-out poli- tico-strategic plan. Opportunism means the negation of the role of the party as the conscious leader of the proletariat. Bolshevization means the installa- tion of the party into this role. This is possible only when Marxism and Leninism play their due role in this propaganda. No Bolshevibzation is possible without theory, nor is it pos- sible without the propagation of Len- inism, Between two revolutions parties can, in complicated questions, easily lose théir “bedrings, as was seen in the case of Brandlerism, Brandler’s fundamental error was in his errone- ous state theory, and in the fact that in that circumstance he took the il- lusions of the,working class and not their daily needs, for his guide, Dis- orientiation, can:be. caused by. leftism as well as. by right..opportunism. Urges Deep-Rooted Propaganda. The social-democracy invents new theories like;the one. of socialist con- struction, whieh was;also taken over The Presidential Elections in ians with red fogs munturled and sing- ing revolutionary songs, stopping ob- stacles. in their. way. Young they ane; these boys and girls in age from 16 up. They are the cream of’* ‘German proletariat. They know.the: sof discipline and march in regiments under well-trained rere ae Ska ROE (ee watch .,the . marching of these young storm troops. makes one realize that in spite of temporary de- feats the German. Communist Party is the only paxty representing the Ger- man masses. and,can not be brushed aside. This -hopeful,.and courageous battalion ofYoung Communists con- stitute the future Red Army of Ger- many. [Fercea to Fire Police Chief in Halle AS the pressure of the masses be- came stronger the minister of in- terior of Germany was forced to dis- charge the police president, Runge, and have an investigation instituted to determine who was responsible. Sessions of Enlarged: Executive of the C. I. party tasks create the need for a deep-rootéd propaganda. Similarly with out position in the parties, The reorganization of the parties on the basis of shop nuclei, sequires propa- ganda which is deeply rooted in the masses. The new generation of party functionaries must receive a Leninist education. With the sole exception of the Com. munist Party of Russia, the afirarian, peasant and nationality questions have not been worked out theoretically at all. Leninist propaganda is a guar- anty. against the danger of. losing the revolutionary perspective. in. the sense of right opportunism on the one hand; sand: against isolation from the masses in the sense of left opportun- ism on the other. Russian experience is an essential part of Leninism, and must. be: applied dialectically, just as Lenin, in the year 1902 applied Ger. man and French experiences. to ‘Rus- sia,.not mechanically but dilectically. y The , differentiation of Russian ex. perience for each country‘is necessary. Leninist* propaganda is. still in the Stage*of agitation; it must, however, be. developed into real mass ropa- ganda. . A very praiseworthy begin- ning has been made by the Commun. ist Party of France in establishing a Lenin school, and by the British Com- munist Party. in opening an elemen- tary school. For Central Party Schools. ‘The first great difficulties consisted in “combining propaganda with daily Problems and organizational forms, Another deficiency is the lack of Len. inist literature in the most important languages. In the near future the works of Lenin will be published in German, French and partly in English. The main tdésk in Leninist propa- ganda is the democratization of Len- inism, so that theoretical knowledge may not become the monopoly of the leadership, as it the case in the Sec- ond International. Our most impor- tant task is the education of the party members to real Communism thru elementary schools of Leninism. The Leninist education of the functionar- ies is very important because every one draws his ideology from his social surroundings, No less important is the creation of central party schools in the biggest parties and the estblishing of interna- tional courses in Leninism. Ideologi- cal Bolshevization and the acquisition of Leninism fs an important factor of Bolshevization ... . (Applause.) Germany account for when the German work- ers establish their own rule and side, by side with the Russian proletariat begin to build a Communist society. Communist Party Organizes Great Demonstrations in Honor of the Fallen in the March Action. FEW days later 5,000 workers in Berlin held a gigantic demonstra- tion in honor of the fallen revolution- ists in the March revolution. Dem- onstrations took place all over Ger- many, Thirty thousand workers demon- strated in Hamburg for Thaelmann and in Dusseldorf the French troops Prohibited a meeting where he would speak, The workers answered by marching to the station 25,000 strong and the police did not dare to inter- fere. Comrade Thalman spoke to the greatest demonstration held in Dussel- dorf since October. The German Communist Party is recovering its former morale and This of course means only the usual whitewashing of those responsible, Many are the crimes committed by the local traitors in the name of Ia- bor, and mahy more will they have to fighting spirit during this campaign and is again awakening to action the masses in Germany who have been suffering under the treachery of the social-democrats, workers of Asia, The, deep condol- ence expressed by the Japanese work- | ers at the death of Dr. Sun signifies it. Now is the time that we who belong |. to the same class of China and Japan unite to.clear the sky of the Orient from the oppressing air of imperial- ism, Let us finish the commendable | task begun by Dr. Sun—the Pan-Asi- atic principle of no imperialistic capi- talism. Our workers 6f China who still look with suspicion on the success of the national revolution should draw in- spiration from the teachings of our Father Sun Yat Sen and follow where his brigth star leads us—toward the emancipation of the enslaved work- ers of the world, “Maiden Dearborn’ Is B: DETROIT, April 15.—The “Maiden Dearborn,” of the Ford Motor Com- pany air freight line, left for Chicago at 6 a, m, today, carrying 1,000 pounds of mail and light freight, The plane also returned today, making the second round trip. Houghton Goes to London. NEW YORK, April 15.—Alanson B. Houghton, newly appointed ambassa- a] dor ‘to the court of St. James, sailed t | today for London on the liner George Prams Get a PEPOLD another Com- Pe. el ‘ berg OLGIN 10 * SPEAK IN’ RUSSIAN IN CHICAGO, FRIDAY xl What copihilebh te) to be one of the most interesting lectures given: in- Chicago in the Russian language ts the lecture to be given by Comrade’ -Moissaye Olgin, co-editor of the « Russian Communist daily, Novy Mir: He will speak at the Workers’ ’ Home (formerly the Soviet School), 1902 \W, Division St., on Friday; ate Aprit 17, at 8 p. m., on “What did » ‘ the Russian Revolution Give to ve Workers and Peasants?" Comrade Olgin was in Russia ra few times during the revolution as delegate to the Comintern. He is: thevauthor of “The Soul of the Russ © jan Revolution,” and. other works’ » about the revolution. He cellent speaker and it is expected that he will draw a big crowd of those who understand the Russian language. Admission is only 26 cents, cients GET A SUB AND GIVE ONEI Pai rial Redistricting. SPRING , Tih, April 16.—-The pest Mimgnptley «pacer again was senate today by vote of 28 to, # Senator resolution providing a comm! of five senators and ‘five