The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1925, Page 9

‘(Spectal International May Day Edition) BRITISH EMPIRE ENTERS WAR ON FOREIGN WORKER Australia Takes Up U. S. 100 Per Cent Cry SYDNBY, N. 8. W. (By Mall), Thru- out the world today there Is a drive hy the capitalist press against foreign- born workers. From America to Japan, from Eu- rope to Australla, this drive, under various forms, but with the same fix- Ity of purpose, is to be observed. In Germany and Scandinavia, those ‘ef “Nordic blood” are exalted as the salt of the earth. Special immigra- tion laws are demanded against the so-called “inferior” races. And the workers are asked to join fm because their standard of living is Ukely to deteriorate with the influx of these undesirable aliens. Want Cheap Labor. We all know how keen the bosses are in keeping up the wages and standard of living of the workers. We all know how distasteful it would be for them to employ cheap foreign la- bor. It is in America that the capitalist drive against the foreign-born work- ers is most strikingly in evidence. There, with a unanimity of purpose which is remarkable, the bosses have launched a powerfully subsidised cam- paign for “100 per cent Americanism.” The effect of this campaign is the imposition of drastic laws designed to exclude many races hitherto freely admitted. Same Campaign In Australia. Whenever there ts a public office to be filled, the press gets up on its hind legs and barks for “100 per cent Americans.” Deluded “100 per cent American” workers, thinking the boss means it, and hoping, anyway, to re- duce the competition for jobs, join in the racial hunt against their foreign- born fellow workers. In Australia the same press cam- paign is just now commencing. This campaign started against Greek and Italian shopkeepers and barrowmen. It quickly spread to Serbian laborers on public works. It is now comfort- ably ensconced in the factories, and lirected against all foreign-born work- ers. ‘The Lithgow ironworkers demanded the sacking of foreign-born workers. ‘The bosses agreed with alacrity, and sacked. around a hundred. ‘Why? Why should the boss, who thrives en cheap labor, foreign or otherwise, have initiated this drive against one section of the workers? The reason 1s sticking out a mile. To Divide Workers. The boss sees his crazy industrial system rocking on its foundations, and he is organizing, merging and consoli- dating his forces against the workers, irrespective of religion, color, nation- ality or anything else. You never hear of a split in the ranks of the big vested interests (the smaller fry of employers do not count) on any sectarian or racial is- sue. It is only the workers who are urged to divide their ranks. The big drive of the employing class against the foreign-born workers in all countries is undertaken to divide the workers, and becduse the foreign- born are the weakest politically. Divided in Craft Unions. As a separate industrial unit they do not exist, for they are divided up among the various craft unions, and politically they are defenseless. Of course, the drive proceeds me thodically thru its various stages. The workers must not be alarmed. First, the drive is against the “South Bu- ropeans,” and the workers help to sandbag their fellow workers under the cry of “low wages.” Then the drive will be extended to “North Bu- ropeans,” and then to Britishers, and new cries will be invented. By that time the bosses will havo the workers just where they want them. They will, if the workers don’t wake up. Gapitalism Is International, ™ those countries where the for- eign-born workers are most numer- ous, as in America, the capitalist drive against them is more powerful and more clearly visible, The few anti-foreign incidents that have cropped up in Australia are not Seolated events, They are part of a world-wide movement, initiated by the employing class, Already the ‘8. M. Herald adopts the international boss- es’ slogan, and calls for “100 per cent Australians.” The workers can only successfully fight international capitalism by or ganizing themselves internationally. The “foreign-born” agitation inau- gurated by the bosses seeks to pro vent that. Don’t let us help the bosses, Workers of the world, unite! Textile Union Sells Coal, (By The Federated Press) PAWTUCKDNT, Rhode Island,—The United Textile Workers’ Union is in the coal business here as sole proprie- tor of the United Textile Workers’ Coal Co, which sells coal under a partial payment plan to union textile THE DAILY WORKER Page Thres Communism in the Colonies siitimF dan Letter Head of Hawai ian Communist League ‘WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT| YOUR CHAINS AND A WORLD TO GAIN, HAWAIIAN COMMUNIST LEAGUE ExecutiveCommittee Hawaii for Hawaiian Workers Arise, ye prisoners Walter M. Trumbull Roderick P. Nadeau Paul Crouch RODERICK P. NADEAU, Seoretary The World for Communism Schofield Barracks, Hawali of starvation, Arise, ye ® earth, For Justice thunders condemnation] A better world’s in birth Horace acca sca ETNA ASNT Sa a aa a I are HE Honolulu Advertiser, | April 4, carried this headline: SOLDIER COMMUNIST GETS 40 YDARS. The April 7, carried TRUMBULL GETS 26 YEARS FOR “COMMUNISM.” On the same da) had another headline: GENERAL HINES BXPLAINS PURPOSE OF MANEUVERS HERE. HH coming cruise of the Pacific fleet, the sham battles to be staged to test the strength of the Hawaiian fortifications and the orsy of mili- tarism in connection therewith, have held the first pages of the capitalist press for many weeks. But the news of the trial of two Honolulu Star-Bulletin, on this headline: y the Star-Bulletin private soldiers in the Hawaiian army of occupation reached the United States only thru the medium of the Communist press. After they had been safely convicted and jailed for 40 and 26 years, the capitalist press at home, in news stories and editor- jals, heaped odium on the heads of the two men who had dared to form a Communist League, express solidarity with Soviet Russia, accept the prin- ciples of the Communist Internation- al and ask for affiliation, in the steel- sheltered Hawaiian inn that American imperialism. has erected as a half-way house on its march across the Pacific. N addition to Crouch and Trumbull, leaders and organizers of the Ha- walian Communist League, a half- dozen other soldiers were members. Hight men all told—but what a storm has broken around their heads! Why? The American army is a profession- al army. The soldiers are enlisted for a long period, they are removed as far as possible from civilian influ- ence and the colonial divisions in par ticular are picked men. The army is the sacro-sanct institution of Amert- can capitalism yet Communist teach- ings have found their way there. UT this is not all, The first open appearance of Com- in the United the imperialists and their militarist | _HE Gor 40 Years | PAUL CROUCH handmaidens have selected to use in the most gigantic naval mobilization and maneuver ever attempted by the war department. The main object of this display of force is to impress distant but very interested neighbors—Great Britain, Japan and Soviet Russia—and is a pre- liminary to a tour of the far eastern seaports by the Pacific fleet in full battle array. HE secondary object is to impress the colonial slaves with the might of their masters. The Filipinos have been showing symptoms of dissatisfac- tion culminating in a number of arm- ed uprising among the rice field and frenzy than the open organization of a Communist league of soldiers’ right in the gateway to their Pacific posses- sions and in full view of the cynical Japs, the smiling Britons and the grinning Russians with their cursed emblem of the crossed hammer and sickle beckoning to the colonial peo- ples of all the world. O the savage sentences were given the two soldiers after the court of officers had discussed the evidence for ten minutes, the capitalist press at home heaved a sigh of relief, congrat- ulated the militarists on the prompt and drastic manner in which a revolu- tion had been “nipped in the bud” and gave its attention to the fleet maneu- vers and other important matters, But Communist Leagues are not} formed by revelations from Moscow. They arise as a result of the class struggle and the best that the Com-| munist International can do is to give such organizations advice, assistance | and direction. The Communist Inter- national cannot create the class con- flict that brings Communist organiza- tions into existence, WwW" must look beyond the personal | knowledge and courage of Crouch and Trumbull for the real reasons | that cansed the formation of a Com- munist League in Hawali whose name brings up, to the ordinary reader, visions of peaceful fields of pineapples and sugarcane, creamy surf breaking softly on coral reefs, brown-skinned hula dancers, ox-eyed natives strum- ming ukeleles while the balmy sea breeze tosses their strings of lei blos- soms. This is the Hawaii of the Sunday supplements but not the Hawaii of reality—the Hawali that is a princi- pality of the sugar trust and a naval base ringed round with steel and con- crete, a stepping stone to the Ameri- san conquest of the Pacific, OR the real Hawaii one must go to the workers—white, yellow and brown—that work, sweat and die in this imperialist stronghold. Of the fate reserved for soldiers of the army of occupation who protest, we know already. But of the workers in the fields owned by the sugar trust, the dominant economic interest in the islands, we read little. The story of their lives and struggles is, for the capitalist press, verboten. (HE complete control of the press by the imperialists in Hawaii is good evidence that their grip on the masses is one of iron. One of the officials of the Honolulu labor move- ment states, in a letter in which he sugar cane workers which have been | UT&eS that his name be not used, put down by armed force, with. much bloodshed. Could anything under the circum- stances be more embarrassing and calculated to drive the imperialists to Labor Defense Council on May Day NEW YORK CITY.—May Day class prisoners in the capitalist Jails. Is a day to remember the working The Labor Defense Council calls on the Communists to remember the Communists in American jalls, the comrades facing court trials, and the comrades facing de- portation. The Labor Defense Council, New York Section, needs 200 com- rades to sell Defense buttons and All comrades willing to co-operate to make collections on May Day. should report at 108 E. 14th St., Room 32, on Thursday, April 30, any time after work. Don’t forget our Communist prisoners! that the first knowledge the labor movement’ obtained of the ‘case of Crouch and Trumbull was a news item In the DAILY WORKER with a Honolulu date line. That night he brought up the mat- ters in his union as an example of the suppression of all working-class news. The next day the announce- ment of the conviction of Crouch and Trumbull was in the Honolulu press. The news was sent to the DAILY WORKER by the defendants, it was published, and the papers carried half way across the Pacific, before the sugartrust press published a word about the cases. ‘With such control of the sources of information it is not surprising that a strike of Filipino canefield workers. involving 12,000 men and women, and [ HE GOT 26 YEARS WALTER TRUMBULL lasting over a year, has not been heard of in the United States. PON the strikers and their fami- lies unbelievable persecutions have been committed. Following an attack on the strikers by the police in which four policemen were killed, the strik- ers were ambushed, sharpshooters posted around them and Sixteen of them killed by these murderers, who used softnosed bullets. The strikers and their families are existing on charity and such sea-food as they can pick up on the beaches. The suffering among the women and children is impossible to describe. The leaders of the strike have been tried under every conceivable form of suppressive law—anti-picketing, crim- inal syndicalism and riot acts. They have been charged with cane- burning, sabotage, assault and con- spiracy. Sixty of these Filipino work- ers are now in the penitentiary, in- cluding the secretary of the strike committee and the president of the Agricultural Workers’ Union, Pablo Manlapit, is under sentence for con- spiracy after a trial that was a crimi- nal farce. ‘]\HH sugar-trust prosecutor brought witnesses who had been paid to | perjure themselves and altho the de fense™disproved every one of the counts in the indictment by docu- mentary evidence, the sugar-trust jury brought in a verdict of guilty in ten minutes. A number of white labor men testi- fled for the defense and all know that Pablo Manlapit is innocent. The case is now on appeal to the supreme court but there fs little hope of a reversal. A letter from a prominent official of the Hawaiian labor movement | states: ": Conditions are terrible here in the islands. Everything is tainted with sugar, from the governor down the line. The legislature now In ses- sion is merely a bureau of the Sugar Planters’ Association. TERE 1s American impert action in one of the garden spots of the Pacific. This is the Hawali that the tourists never see. The natives have been debauched, their tribal institutions destroyed. | Agricultural workers have been im- ported from the Philippines and Ja- |pan. The internal affairs of the island have been handed over to the sugar trust, Around the island itself are the circles of steel and concrete that, disguised with waving tropical foliage, mask the machines of death almed at the toiling millions of Asia. Inside the forts the working class is brutally exploited, their protests drowned in blood, the imperialist press lauding their murderers in the same breath that it boosts the tourist at- tions of this outpost of a ruling class bent on world conquest. UT the fortresses have not kept Communism out. It required only the conviction of the organizers of the Communist League to start the flow of resentment long stored up and hot as hell, Soldiers, white workers and the colonial slaves have new hope. The cases of Crouch and Trumbull are of international importance and thru the activities of the Workers (Communist) Party of America and the Communist International, the mur- derous. purposes of American imper- ialism, the brutality that underlies its mask of democracy, have been ex- posed to millions of workers in every quarter of the world. Crouch and Trumb ave become symbols of the unity of the revolu- tionary workers of the United States and the enslaved colonial peoples in the struggle for the proletarian dicta- torship. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IS NOT ALL GASOLENE AND MOONSHINE; THERE IS A LOT OF PORK IN IT By CARL HAESSLER (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) Efforts, however involuntary, of overworked underpaid clerks in depart- ment stores and in the world’s leading mail order house are enriching the college founded in Chicago by John D. Rockefeller. The $17,000,000 begging campaign instituted by the University of Chi- cago this spring has resulted so far in enormous gifts, one from Julius Rosenwald of $1,000.000 and one from the Wieboldt foundation of $500,000. Rosenwald gets his surplus money for charitable purposes from Sears Roe- buck & Co. The Wieboldt foundation gets its philanthropic cash from the two Wieboldt department stores in Chicago, The packers, who were recently revealed as serving up 1898 embalmed beef to the army in the world war, INTERNATIONAL MAY DAY, 1925 munist’ influence 3tates army in organizational form occurs in a-colony. And worse than all combined in that colony that head the university board of trustees thru Harold Swift of Swift & Co The trustees gave $1,700,000. The University of Chicago is no longer exclusively a Standard Oil plant, having attracted other kinds of oney since John D. put up the cash nm 1892. In fact, almost from the start it was extremely sensitive to the influence of the traction interests and the Chicago packers. One of the celebrated cases of Am- erican academic freedom occurred in 1895, when Prof. Edward W. Bemis was fired by Pres. William Rainey Harper. Harper told Bemis the trustees had him dismissed becauge of Bemis’ “opposition to the efforts of certain Chicago utilities to secure lighting and street railway franchises while I was at the University of Chi cago.” Today the Chicago city. coun- cil plans to consult the university traction experts again on the trans portation problems of the city. Another Chicago university instruc tor who felt the big fist of the corpor- ations was John C, Kennedy, later a socialist alderman in the Chicago council and now manager of the Seat- tle workers’ college. Kennedy's re- port for the university on labor and living conditions in the* stockyards was mutilated by the board of trus- tees (the packers have long had a voice on the board) because Kennedy had suggested that conditions would be improved if the workers organized. On the other hand, James Hayden Tufts, head of the university’s phil- osophy department, was the govern: ment’s principal informal stool pigeon in academic circles, snooping for se dition among professors during the war, The university got its financial start from the oil pirate Rockefeller and its educational impetus from the academ fe pirate Harper, Warper got his faculty together by golng to Clark University in Worcester, Mass., then an important graduate school, and seoretly buying up all the professors he needed by the simplé plan of of- fertag each such double the wage he ws from Olark. MILITANTS OF THE TRLCITI FOR RED STAND Greet Communists at Davenport, Iowa By DAVID COUTTS. (Special to The Dally Worker.) DAVENPORT, Ia.—A visit to the | Tri-City Federation of Labor meeting | aii closed the same aimless, hopeless Jat de that prevails generally thru- out the labor movement. There were jabout 2 elegates at the meeting in Rock L nd, representing the trades j unions of Davenport, Rock Island and foline with a combined population 131,000. The session was presided »ver by the editor of the local labor paper, while his assistant acted as secretary. A resolution was passed endorsing the ratification of the child lmbor amendment. Individual members were requested to write the legislators from their respective districts to the same effect, and that was that. A number of communications were read from the state legislative commfttee, “labor lobbyists,” regarding pre posed legislation or bills introduced. One pertaining to workmen's compen- sation and another to farm and mutu- al credit associations were referred to the local committee on legislation. No discussion of a constructive na- ture appeared during this part of the session. Brother Molder Passes the Buck. A delegate from the molders’ local made a complaint against « city alder- man who had put in an unfair fur- nace in his house, the delegate re- quested that everybody take notice and act accordingly when the said alderman wanted his job back. Just about then the sheet metal worker got the floor and stated the furnace in question was installed by «union men, therefore the said alderman was fair to his craft. And further, the furnace made by the union molders was being installed by non-union fur- nace men, therefore the work was un- fair. The molder insisted that the fur- nace made in Rock Island was union made, and a home product, and should have the preference. His local and international had no jurisdiction over the furnace after it the foundry, and so the sheet metal worker would have to clean his own workshop. The ergument continued for some time, then a carpenter butted in. He wanted to know if a certain big sash and door factory in Rock Island em- ployed union men. He was informed that they did not. “Then the carpenters use material from that mill and they are just ike the sheet metal worker with the un- fair furnace. There fs one small mill that is union, and another mill has a few union members, but the carpen- ters do not make any distinction be- tween them,” he sald. Spolls of Political “Victery” Davenport was at one time a great socialist stronghold. They succeeded in electing their ticket in the city campaign. The result was disaster ous to the faithful, and this no doubt gave strength to the non-partisan, non-principled and non-compos-mentis posers in the labor movement. The meetings of the socialist councilmen was the “best show in town.” It finally resulted in an orgy of graft that left the workers politically bank- rupt. About this time a sem!-labor e@ut- istration was elected in Rock Island. This was the signal to the “labor lead- ers” to make their harvest, Corrup tion entered into the Labor Temple and gambling and vice was charged against the officials. It finally result- ed in a shooting affray and two lead- ers were indicted. This threat fs ap- parently still being held over thetr heads as they have never been prose cuted. State and city machinery is so corrupt ‘that only expert crooks ure capable of conducting such af fairs. As soon as a worker tries his ‘oand at capitalist government he is at once exposed, Davenport and the Tri-Cities have apparently lost their desire to strug- gle further and now drift with the tide. The mayor, who was elected on the socialist ticket and who had been a jemocrat, like Constantine. who saw the christian cross, suddenly saw the light paraded by the socialists. He made two or three radical speeches and was taken to the bosom of the comrades, When it came to appoiit- ments the faithful comrades were for- gotten, Class Conscious Need Inspiration. In the Tri-Cities there are quite a few class conscious workers who have been trained in the European school. They lack leadership and initiative which the Workers (Communist) Party must supply thru a series of meetings that will bring inspiration. There are quite a few militants in the unions who are not organized and have no program. The meeting at which Comrades J. BE. Snyder and David Coutts spoke in Davenport showed that the Workers Party has the only program that can bring to life and action the splendid spirit of the workers in the Tri-Cities that i= now being smothered by lack of ag.