The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1925, Page 6

Page Six T . HE ain WORKER ; , - | Sessions of Enlarged Executive of the C. 1 THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00. 1218 'W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $6.00 per year 93.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50..3 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1918 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, tilinele 2. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM ¥. DUNNE {at ICO MORITZ J. LOEB.......remermm Business Manager ——$<<—_—. Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1878. <= 20 Advertising rates op app’cation Putting Them to Work Tho von Hindenburg is never, known to have sweated over a machine, he is very devoted to labor. provided it is performed by somebody else. Thi: goes for Andy Mellon, whiskey secretary of the treasury and for Herbert Hoover, the chubby sec- retary of commerce. Statesmen are in a quandary, whether to offer felicitations to von Hindenburg on his elevation to the office, until recently occupied by the yellow socialist Ebert, who is down as well as out, in a very literal sense. The statesmen are willin’ like Barkis to do the right thing, but diplomats never say what they feel,. but what should be said. There- fore no indecent haste will mark their observance of the formal courtesy observed between govern- ments on such occasions. Andy Mellon and Herbert Hoover, being real he- men, come out point blank for the sword-rattling fascist, and opine thatehis election is good from the business standpoint. This is the way they reason: The major part of Germany’s financing abroad is accomplished and von Hindenburg’s slogan of “Get to work” will react to the economic stability of the counrty. This “strong povernment” means one that will crush German labor into the dust if possible. But in this crushing process the German workers will have the iron of rebellion driven into their souls. They will learn more about their social democratic betrayers when the German Mussolini, acting as the slave-drivers of Wall Street, apply the lash to their bleeding backs. The slogan “Get to gyork” sounds good in the ears of the capitalist Tlass. It is meant for ‘the workers. Some day the same slogan will be raised from the fanks of the emancipated proletariat, all the world over, but it will have an entirely different meaning. To the workers it will mean freedom from capitalist rule; freedom to enjoy the product of their toil, but to the parasite capitalist class, * it will mean “work or starve,” that is to those of them who escape the lampposts in punishment for their crimes. Chester Wright—Oil Promoter. , From the editorial page of the ‘ate and un- lamented socialist daily, the New York Call, to trustee and ballyhoo artist for a Fort Worth oil speculation! This is the road traveled by Chester Wright, ex-socialist, stoolpigeon for American cap- italism during the war, later on literary scavenger for Sam Gompers and now peddler of oil bubbles to his fellow fakers in the trade union movement. Fort Worth, Texas, is as famous for phony oil companies as Connecticut was for wooden nut- megs. Gentlemen of oily flavor flourish there like yellow flies on a heap of cow dung. Wright opens his nostrils wide and what he sucks in makes him happy. He is in his element. Wright got canned recently by William Green, who has his own stoolpigeons to look after. This enterprising journalist looked around for a field worthy of his steel. He picked on Texas. Knowing that Fort Worth had anything but a good reputa- tion, Wright wrote a long letter introducing him- self to his prospective victims. He explained that the United States government had already cleaned out all the oil crooks. Evidently there is a lot of room for a new colony. This letter of Wright, a copy of which reached this office, is the slimiest concoction that ever flowed from a swindler’s brain. Uriah Heep and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in collaboration could not produce anything like it. It’s a long letter, but the gist of it is that Wright, looking around for some place to settle, saw an opportunity to buy oil property cheap. He jumped at it as a highway robber would jump on a crippled bank messenger. “I have found it pos sible to arrange to take a substantial interest in this project and I hope to find ways to take more.” You may ask where did Chester get the money? It’s a legitimate question, but we can only hazard a guess. Wright was a stoolpigeon for the Wall Street government during the war. There was money to burn in those days. Since the end of the war he has stooled for the capitalist class under the direction of the notorious faker Sam Gompers. Is it necessary to say any more? Treachery pays good dividends yet. But the time will come when the American working class will stop payment on the checks. In the meantime if you care to invest your say- ings in a nice little oil speculation, Chester W. Wright, stoolpigeon, will take your money. If the German socialists busied themselves as much with fighting the monarchists as they did fighting the Communists, von Hindenburg. might now be pushing up lilies instead of feeding a of junk the I. W. W. has published for a long | time, and that is saying considerable. ‘“Unite on May First for Action” For downright putridity there is nothing that beats the labor faker who is supposed to be a revo- lutionist. The “supposed” is used with care and discretion, And we have in mind one of the in- sectivora that now is devouring the once starwart I. W. W. and poisoning its heart with anti-revolu- tionary theories just as the Gompers-Green-Hill- man type steadily bored from within and diverted the stream of working class ideology into class collaboration, craft separatism, social pacifism and active counter-revolution. We refer to Petrus Jesus Welinder, who ought to be on the payroll of the lumber trust and the shipping board for the work he is doing for cap- italism inside the I. W. W. An example is the ar- ticle he writes in the I. W. W. magazine for May. [t is entitled, “Unite on May First For Action” and is illustrated by a giant labor arising and | breaking his chains. But the article itself completely contradicts any militant thought or feeling’ related to the title or * "““sormotion. Tt is the rottenest, damned piece | The following is a sample of the article whose heading calls for “unity and action.” It is the first paragraph of the article which pours offal and slime upon all the inspiration a worker might get from International Labor Day. It says: “With May First approaching, the usual amount of bull is being prepared and made ready for delivery as per schedule. Every holiday has its special brand of nonsensical bunk for a decora- tion, and May First not the least in this respect. Each holiday has its own litany .. . on Christmas Day we glorify the birth of Christ. On July fourth we must be patriotic, but it is all right to fleece the country the rest of the year. On May First.we say, ‘Hurrah for the revolution!’ ” The revolution, to this agent of the master class ideology, is bunk. And even the general strike is a thing of ridicule. He says: “Not any general strike, nor any mass insurrection will accomplish the new order.” ‘ We are, it is clear, to have a new order, but not a revolution, and everything will be done with-| out quarreling with his excellency the policeman. | He goes on to belittle any “program of salvation” | and sneers at “all the simon-pure revolutionary | and other bunk” he says is offered to the workers. This is the philosophy of pacifism, class collabor- ation and counter-revolution. And Welinder is a member of the general executive board of the I. W. W., some members of which feel deeply grieved when the Communists point out that an organiza- tion which permits this kind of official to get. by with this kind of stuff, is scarcely a model of revo- lutionary excellence. Cal’s Undecided Calvin Coolidge, the canny errand boy of Wall Street, is undecided whether or not he shall send a message of congratulations to Paul B. von Hin- denburg on his election to the presidency of the foyal and imperial German republic. Why this indecision? If Ernst Thaelmann, the Communist, had been elected, Cal would have cabled before now, breaking off relations with the German re- public. But— Von Hindenburg is a staunch supporter of the capitalist system. He may not be the first choice of Wall Street, but he will do nicely, thank you. And we bet our twenty-fiv cent watch fob that Mor- gan’s men are talking things over with yon Hin. denburg and that after the conversation is finished, “Silent Cal” will have nothing very bad to say about the monarchist clique whose tool von Hin- denburg is. Nearly one hundred thousand American soldiers left their bodies in France when the ‘Wall Street government decided to “crush German militarism” and clean up on the kaiser and his gang. Well, the doughboys stayed in France, but” the German kaiserites did not stay put. They are back again with polished helmet spikes and sharpened spurs. They will make their dictatorship sharper than ever, and the German workers will begin to think that the dictatorship of the workers and peasants, after the Russian model, is not such a bad idea. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Bulgarian Army Revolts That a section of the regular army of Bulgaria was in revolt against the Zankov regime is now ad- mitted in news dispatches from Balkan capitals. The military arm of the government is now the fas- cist militia. The council of ambassadors sitting in Paris gave Sofia politicians the authority to in- crease their armed forces, over the protests of Jugo- Slavia and Greece, who fear a strong Bulgaria. The council of ambassadors not only authorized the increase of Bulgarian military forces, thus liquidating the treaty of Neuilly, but the fascist recruits have power “to give orders to regulars” and very likely to disarm and shoot them as they did in Sofia where a clash took place between the regulars and the “patriots.” The haste with which the big capitalist. powers of Europe acceeded to the request of the fascist Bulgarian government for permission to increase its armed forees in order to suppress a revolution, again demonstrates; {hat when the capitalist sys: tem in any country is threatened by the workers and peasants, capitalism as a whole makes a united front against its dreaded foe—labor. There is a lesson in this for the workers of the world, The golden word “unity” should be on every worker's tongue in these days of white terror and MOSCOW, April 6 (By Mail). 'N the name of the German and Pol- ish delegations, Comrade Domsky brings in the following resolution on the report of the executive: “The plenum affirms that the devel- opment of the international situation since the Fifth Congress has fully confirmed the decisions of the Fifth Congress on the political and econ- omic situation and on the ‘tactics of the Communist Parties. “The executive has acted in the spirit of these decisions, and has fur- thered the Bolsltevization of the Com- munist movement and the elimination of opportunist tendencies, The plen- um emphasizes the significance of the international campaign for the unity of the trade union movement, which |has strengthened the left tendencies in the Amsterdam International, hav- ing undermined the influence of the trade union leaders and advanced the revolutionization of the masses. The plenum most resolutely rejects the at- tacks of the right elements on the ac- tivities of the executive, ‘and affirms that in a series Of countries, the ex- ecutive has, thru its intervention, helped to overcome the right tenden- cies. The action of the executive was especially correct in the Czecho-Slo- vakian question. “In extremely dificult situations, be- tween two revolutionary waves, in a period of temporary depression in the labor movement ‘of some countries, the executive helped preserve the mass character of the parties, to strengthen our influence on the work- er and peasant masses, and to in- crease their capacity for action. The plenum expresses its confidence in the executive, and calls. upon all sec- tions of the Comintern to support | with all determination and energy the struggle of the executive for Bolshe- vization.” By LOVETT FORT-WHITEMAN. HE first of January, 1863, Presi- dent Lincoln signed the Eman- cipation Proclamation, breaking the shackles of chattel:slavery for three and a half million Negroes. The republican party, at that time, was revolutionary. It represented the political expression of a rising class of American society. It stood in opposition to the agricultural slave- owing class of the South, which rep- resented its reaction. could have done nothing other than support the republican party in poli, tics and even for some years after his emancipation. But in the mid- | dle of the seventies the republican | party was nearing the end of its historical role. Whereas, in the former year preceding the civil war, the economic interests of the South and North had been in keenest op-, Position, it was during the seven- ties that a community of interests between these two sections began to consolidate. About the year 1876, it may be said that the South and North effected a gentleman’s agree- ment in respect to the Nebro. The clauses in the American constitution guaranteeing the Negro the rights of citizenship are “dead-letters.” They are no longer operative for today the economic ‘interests of the two sections of the South are more or less one and the same. Northern capital has penetrated the South and the southern states have pro- duced their own capitalist class. Even tho the Negro was on the side of progress and revolution in the early history of the republican party, yet, he was no more than the ally of the republican party /and could not be accepted on the basis of equality but today with the rise of a new class in capitalist society, the proletariat, the Negro in linking himself up with this rising revolu- tionary class becomes more than an ally but an equal in every sense of the term. It is a-€lass of which he is essentially a part. The First of May, a day set aside thruout the Pe] wie By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN IREDERICK STOCK’S last sym- phony program at Orchestra Hall opened with the calling of fairy horns and wound up with the firing of Rus- sian artillery chasing Napoleon away from Moscow. In other words it open- ed with the overture to Weber's opera “Oberon” and closed with the Grand Slam Bang, Chaykovski’s “The Year T818."''«4 id In between was @ great deal of music, There was straight for- ward, aseptic Ge inspiration of the Brahms © minor symphony, the first and finest of the four. There was more German music, such as the love scene and a concert arrangement of much of the third act of “Tristan and Isolde,” which is high pitched Wag- nerian passion, a tremendous distance from the cold profundities of Brahms. Just before the “1812” was an “Ev- ening Song” by Schumann, arranged by Mr. Stock, which is an unnecessary little thing that does not improve with repeated hea The Chaykovski overture is one of The Negro | of Spring, This resolution was adopted unan- imously. OMRADE MARTY presents a reso- lution on the question of the In- ternational Red Aid, in which the at- tention of the parties is called to the werk of the International Red Aid. The terror is growing; the Interna- tional Red Aid has five million mem- bers; it has carried out splendid cam- paigns, as in the Lanzutsky case. The plenum expresses its satisfaction with the work of the Internationai Red Aid, and calls upon the parties to support it. In his speech, Marty points out the political importance of the International Red Aid as an edu- cator in political solidarity and fight- er against fascism, and emphasizes the need for individual membership, the formation of nuclei, and the cre- ation of mass organizations of the International Red Aid. ‘The resolu- tion is adopted unanimously. The resolution on the agrarian question» is adopted unanimously. Comrade Riasanoy calls for support of the work of the Marx-Engels Insti- tute. jg higeaiesan DROZ then speaks on the Italian question, and affirms the strengthening and Bolshevization of the Communist Party of Italy and of the Italian youth organization since the Fifth Congress. Bordiga was in- vited to the plenum, but he preferred to stay away. What is necessary is an ideological clarification within the party; the resolution therefore rec- ommends that the question of the role and tactics of the party, and the question of absenteeism be clarified thru a discussion before the party congress is convened. Thereupon, the resolution on the Italian question, and those on the trade union and agit- prop questions are adopted. A declaration of protest is then adopted against the forgery of the Bulgarian government, which has pub- The Meaning of May First to the Negro!| lished a forged “Instructions of the Executive” ostensibly calling for an armed insurrection; this the Bulgar- ian government has done in order to justify its murders of revolutionaries. EMARD then makes a statement in the name of the French delega- tion, in which Trotsky is asked whether he has empowered the Ros- mer-Monatte group to use his author- ity in their agitation against the Com- munist Party of France, and whether Trotsky is in accord with these groups. The plenum adopts this de- claration, INOVIEV: “The meetings of the plenum had the importance of a congress; it has furthered the inter- nationalization of experiences. The parties are paying a high price for their own mistakes, but this price is becoming smaller and smaller. There were great differences, but our bonds are greater than our differences. The most important question, the Czecho question, has been decided unani- mously, The solution is acceptable to the overwhelming majority of the C. P, Ch. . There are no victors and no vanquished. We are certain that there will be no split in the C. P. Ch. and that the Czech workers will drive out those who are thinking of a split. The party is above all individuals. In the Czech question everything was done to preserve unity and to defeat the right tendencies. The significance of the plenum’s work lies; (1) in its strug- gle against ultra-left illusions and for a realistic estimate of the given situa- tion; (2) against any concessions to the right, against the senility of the right, because these lead to the social- democracy, i. e., to’ the bourgeoisie; (3) for Bolshevization, whereby we differentiated according to the con- crete situation; (4) to the masses— in spite of all difficulties, in spite of the growth of the social-democracy. “The Communists must prove their Spokesmen of Russian Workers in the Communist International world for the celebrating of the in- ternational solidarity of the working class, should at once assume a greater importance to the Negro worker than the first of January held in memory by the American Negro as the day he was freed from the bonds of slavery. The First of May symbolized the new freedom which is yet to come—the complete emancipation of not only the Negro but of all the working class. The First of May shall mean to the poleon’s defeat in Russis in 1812, and has in {t a sort of crude symbolism in the fact that the opening bars of the “Marseillaise” recur again and agin, invariably drowned out by a Russian folksong, and at the end by the old ezarist Russia hymn, It is scored for symphony orchestra, brass band and cannon. At orchestra hall it is given by @ symphony orchestra organ and two Winchesters, the effect of which, were it not for the smoke they pro: duce, is like the vigorous slamming of a large door. I once played this cannon part on a 22 pistol, and so I love the overture. After that there was much ap- plause, Stock made a speech that was more about the weather than the music season, the orchestra gave him a “tusch” and everybody was happy. The symphony season centered en- tirely around the nineteenth program, which was given over mainly to the works of Igor Stravinski, with the composer directing. 'The most import- ant new work of the year, “The Rite “Bucharin and Zinoviev. Negro the birth of the new revolu- tionary spirit of our epoch of imper- jalism that shall free the toiling masses from the steel heel of capi- talist oppression. The republican party played its part in American history—it broke the power of the slave-owning class and ushered in an epoch of capitalism. It: stands at the end of its course, and a new class has arisen which is contesting for control and the ushering in a new and complete emancipation. TT M \ shih is od Stravinski sang. Then*he observed. Of late he has been laughing. It is the laugh of a character in an An- dreyqv drama. Z Strauss, the great brainy German idol, had more of a hearing this year than in previous years. We had such works as his.“Thus Spake Zarathus- ll Eulenspiegel” and “Don Quixote,” as well as the more famil- jar “Don Juan,” “A Hero's Life,” and “Death and Transfiguration.” Of the rest there is not much to be said, Many of the newer things were either stupid of undistinguised. There was the usual backbone of Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Bach and Chaykov- ski, But the performance of Stravin- ski's masterpiece and his later visit were ample recompense for what the season may have lacked in other res- Pects. if WASHINGTON, D. C,, April 27— Victor L, Berger, socialist representa- tive from Wisconsin, passed the time today by calling on President Cool- idge-at the White House. mettle in the class struggle as well as in civil war. They must give more attention to trade union work and to economic struggles. The position of the Soviet Union has improved, The Cc. P, R. as a section of the interna- tional army realiges that the final vic- tory of the Soviet Union depends upon the victory of the international pro- letariat, The sympathies of the work- ers for the Soviet Union are growing. “Even social-democratic delegations want to come to Russia. We welcome them and shall show them everything without any deceptions. We are proud of the fact that Leninism is the common possession of the world or- ganization which will, in spite’ of everything, achieve victory.” . (Great applause; the International is sung.) The session of the plenum is ad- journed. MANIFESTO of the R. I. L, U to the strikers in Ostrau (Czecho- ae reads as follows: “The R. I. L U. sends to you ‘its fraternal greetings and expresses its sincere solidarity with your struggle against the exploiters. Victory is only pos- sible thru unity of all workers’ forces regardless of tendency. The unity of the trade union movement,. which is so sorely needed in Czecho-Slovakia, will arise out of joint struggles., The trade union movement which is. split into national and political divisions, cannot fight successfully against the united front of the capitalists. The most important task confronting the Czecho-Slovakian proletariat is there- oe the creation of a single, united, solid trade union movement, which shall comprise the workers of all na- tionalities and political tendencies. The R. I, L. U. and the General Coun- cil of the Russian Trade Unions here- by remit 50,000 roubles to all strikers, regardless of nationality or political tendency, (To be continued.) _ Our Readers’ Views | 15,000 Jobless in Toledo To the DAILY WORKER:—Please notice the following attitude of the bosses towards workers in Toledo: Of course, I presume it is the same-all over the United States. There are more than 15,000 unem- | ployed in this city at present, but the | local capitalist sheets are running big jads for labor and trying to impress |} upon the minds of the workers, that | there are plenty of jobs and all the unemployed worker *should do is to | try and get it. Notwithstanding, that many work- ers are hunting for jobs for many months in Toledo and have not suc- ceeded in landing one, the bosses are importing Mexican workers from South to cheapen the wages of the | workers. This is the way the wage cut plan is launched in Toledo by the | slave drivers, who have only one tse for the worker, that is to exploit him and keep him half-starved, by which he will be forced to be an obidient servant. The trade unions with their react- ionary leaders (labor fakers) entire- ly overlook this attitude of the bosses and continue their old old story, the fair day’s work for fair day's pay, and America for American$, foreigners should go back to their old country, where they come from, specially Rus- sians, because they are red Bolshe- viks and liable to Bolshevize Amer- ican slaves. ‘When the members of the Workers Party ig. Toledo are trying to ap- proach the factory slaves to read the DAILY WORKER and educate them- selves, they say, the DAILY WORK- ER is favoring Russia and Bolsheviks and criticizing the slave drivers of America, That is the excuse of an American worker for not subscribing the DAILY WORKER, Overland fac- tory have just recently cut the wages of the loading crew from $19.00 to $9.00 per box car and is the answer to our American fellow workers pa- triots, I have been in many homes where these faithful slaves eat pray- ers for breakfast and their children go to schools in rags without break- fast in this country of (so-called) plenty and land of liberty. Yes, there is. plenty of food, clothing and shelter, but try and get it. Lots of freedom, the watchman will kill you for cros- sing the railroad track and the honor- able judge will glorify him for that and call him a hero. Mr. John D, has raised the price on gasoline three times since this year. He is enjoying the freedom of this country, but if the workers of Mr. John D. will ask him for little more money, for their toil, he will say, it is a crime, send them to jail, or deport them to Russia, they are Bolsheviks. Even the poor fish vadovil actors on hungry stomach uses the word Bolshevik to make their acts more injoyable for the bourgeosie attend- . ants, By by beds they are building a few new churches in Toledo, they did have enough, workers were savas home on Sundays to try and think and find the salvation of their pro- blems, but the holy-smokers got wise to that and decided to increase churches and their activity, by which they will prevent the workers to think, and instead of solving the earthly problems, they will offer to save the souls of the workers and . take their money from them. which is an evil--DAILY WORKER ore aE = the favorite footballs of | atop the agent, Toledo, Ohio, , ar A 8uB AND ave f the world over. It | “hey 7 music world of today as Wagner did generations age. Harly in i tough-looking mustache. Talk it u shopmate ited: \ ip—your shopmate will oa SxcaaT