The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1925, Page 4

Page tir 4 SESE — — ———— — | SOCIALISTS OF ITALY ESPOUSE KILLER, NOSKE Workers Turn from the Traitorous “Democrats” (Continued from Page 1) behalf of the party, he declared it to be necessary to revise the judgment which the Italian social-democrats, at the moment when the masses still possessed the possibility of express- ing their views, had passed upon Noske. Professor Basso is of the op- inion that today one should not con- tinue to abuse Noske, but to render him the highest praise as he “saved the gains of the German republic.” He further expressed the demand for “a strong state” (of course against the proletariat), and when he ventur- ed to admit that it is necessary that the trade unions should have liberty, he proposed to erect a dam against strikes and opposed strikes in public undertakings. Our professor declared himself in favor of the army, which assures the protection of all (of course, all bourgeois.) Sociaalists Support Bosses, Thus the development which the party of the Italian social-democrats commenced some years ago, has fin- ally reached its climax. In the midst of the fury of the fascist regime, they openly proclaim themselves to be in favor of supporting the bourgeoisie. As they cannot overcome the fascists, they try to compete with them. Is it necessary for the Italian bourgeoisie that the Italian social-democrats prac- tice Noskeism? Or have we not al- ready had our Noske period in Italy? It the role of the Italian social demo- crats is the same as that of the s0- cial-democrats of all countries, that is to prepare the way for reaction, for the defeat of the proletariat and even for fascism, then did not the Italian social-democrats already play out/ their role in 1920—already at the time | when the factories which were occu-| pied by the proletariat were given | back again, or in August 1922 when they deliberately sabotaged the strike | and thereby let loose the fascist storm? Too! for Maintaining Exploiters. At any rate the Italian bourgeoisie is content to learn officially (what it has long known in fact) that the so- cial-democratic party has become & useful tool for the maintenance of the existing social order. “Gradualism” and “opposition to violence,” these are. beautiful words for a whole program. The professors and lawyers within the social-demo- cratic party are taking pains to in- terpret this program. “The abolition of private property and the capture of power is proceeding step by step, by obtaining one reform after another, without destroying the powerful ma- chinery of the bourgeois democratic state.” If any doubts had existed, the declaration of our social-democrats, that for them Kerensky is the true representative of liberty in Russia, as were Noske and Ebert in Germany, will certainly serve to dispel these doubts. It is not to be wondered, therefore, that the liberals declare in their daily | paper Corriere della Sera that this conversion before all the public does honor to the social-democrats. The | monarchists say in their Giornale} d'Italia that “Communist extremism | remains isolated. The moderate forces | of socialism are coming more and more into line with constitutional | democracy.” Workers Turn from S. D. Traitors. The only people who are not satis- fied with this are the fascists. “Good luck” says the Idea zionale, “but the fascists have the power and are} convinced of the historical mission | they have in the political life of Italy. | Fascism, therefore, has the right to defend itself and defends itself with | those means with which the law pro- vides it; so long as these suffice, and | when they no longer suffice, it makes ; use. of ultra-legal means,” This is a! plain warning to their would-be com- petitors. ‘The proletariat has almost entirely turned from the social democrats. On the other hand the latter have re- ceived a new influx of petty bour- geois elements, who are always vac- cilating, and at one time hang on to the coat-tails of reaction and at an- other time cling to those of social- democracy. The masses of the work- ers after innumerable painful experi- ences, are now finding, the way to their party. . The beginning of the end of the Italian social-democrats will be their participation in the bourgeois power and their gradual absorption by the parties of law and order. IN. NEW YORK On matters pertaining to THE DAILY WORKER WORKERS MONTHLY and COMMUNIST BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS SUBSCRIPTIONS— BUNDLE ORDERS AND NEWSSTAND SALES. THE DAILY WORKER AGENCY L. E, Katterfield, jent 108 E. 14th St. jew York If you are in a hurry call Stuyvesant 8100 | ity. Palestine Communists Call for United Front | (Continued from page 1) imperialism, it has rewarded the Jew- ish financial magnates with the “Bal- four declaration,” which promised the founding of a Zionist state in Pales- tine. At the same time, however, the imperialist robbers concluded three contradictory treaties: 1) with Hus- sein against the French and the Zion- ists; 2) with the French against the Arabs, and finally 3) with the Zionists against the French and the Arabs. It is this imperialist chaos which is the cause of the continuous hostilities, of the hate and the discontent and the successful suppression in the Arabian countries, England Divides Workers. In order to secure their power and to justify themselves before all three parties, the English imperialists sought by every means to divert the attention of the masses from their true enemy—imperialism; they set one portion of the population against | the other, organized revolts, incited wars and plotted pogroms. As a re- sult, innocent blood is being shed on the altar of European imperialism. In Palestine an attempt is being made to wipe out the revolutionary movement. By means of betrayers of | the people the nationalist movement has been split up. Communists are arrested, brutally beaten, and con- demned and expelled from the coun- try. Workers’ clubs are closed and prohibited and meetings of workers dispersed. There remained only one thing for | English imperialism to do in order | to show to the world that “England is mighty” and that “imperialism pays no heed to the opinion and the feel- ings of the native population.” And for this purpose it decided to send Lord Balfour to Palestine. Balfour, the symbol of imperialist fraud, the symbol of the occupation of Palestine by the English, was sent to Palestine. Zionist Leaders Sell Out. The visit of Balfour to Palestine means a blow in the face of the whole of the population of the country in general and of the Arab nationalist | movement in particular. But who re- joices at the arrival of Balfour? No- body but a handful of Zionist bour- geois, who are arranging such a big set out that one could really believ ;that the whole of the Jewish popula- tion was celebrating the visit of the “great lord.” But this is a mistake! In the name of the class conscious Jewish workers we raise the sharpest protest against the handful of Zion- ists who wish to connect the fate of | the Jewish masses. with the name of the blood-thirsty imperialist bands of robbers. The Jewish working masses of all countries, as well as those of Palestine, have nothing in common with the corrupt-imperialist world and its representatives. The Jewish peo- ple, which for centuries suffered un- der the double yoke of suppression and slavery, fully**'realize that its emancipation cant, come thru the enslavement of others, whoever they may be, and certainly not thru the English Zionist occupation of Pales- tine. United Front of Workers. The Jewish working masses know that for them as well as for all other working masses, there is only one way out, that of self-emancipation, which can only be realized by the in- ternational proletarian revolution which will break the capitalist chains, shatter the imperialist rule, annihilate the robber bands and, in brotherly un- ion with all the suppressed masses, AS WE SEE IT j to once for all! will establish a new free society—the Communist society, in. which there willbe neither masters nor slaves, neitherdespots nor the victims of despotism, The central committee of the Com- munist Party of Palestine protests in the name of the class conscious Arab- ian and Jewish comrades against the sinister designs of the Arabian execu- tive committee of the nationalist movement, indicated in their deci- sions regarding Lord Balfour's visit to Palestine, which can be regarded as a threat of a pogrom. This blind fanatical incitement of one people against another must be put a stop Pogroms must not be tolerated! It is not pogroms against the Jews which will liberate the coun- try, but the revolt of the whole of the oppressed against the rulers. The Communist Party of Palestine regards Lord Balfour's visit as the symbol of imperialism and declares this arrival of Balfour to-be a provo- cation on the part of the English gov- ernment, which wishes to challenge the population of Palestine in order. to create the possibility of finally set- tling with the people of Palestine, who dare to cry out when they are beaten. The Communist Party of Palestine appeals to all Jewish workers: Be- ware of the new English-Zionist ad- venture! Do not be blind tools in the hands of the chauvinists! Do not take any part in the celebrations in connection with the visit of the im- perialist lord. Do not take part in the Zionist demonstrations! Imperial- ism is the cause of war, pogroms, sup- pression and bloodshed, but it brings no salvation. Unity of Palestine Workers. Arab workers, Fellahin and honest citizens! The English wish to provoke you to pogroms in order to show to the world that the Arabs are savages who organ- ize pogroms and therefore need educa- tion—the English mandate. Do not yet yourselves be led astray by blind chauvinist incitement! Ev- \ery conflict with the police, every col- lision with the English government weakens the authority of imperialism in Burope.as well as in the colonies, but every pogrom, every dispute among the population of our country only strengthens the power, consoli- dates the authority of and the confi- jdence in the foreign imperialist “pro- | tectors.” Every class conscious work- er should bear this in mind! Demonstrate for the unity of the |broad masses.of Arab and Jewish |working masses. The Jewish and | Arab workers should march, not with the Zionist bourgeoisie against the poor masses, not with the fanatical feudals, but in brotherly unity hand in hand in a common fight against their class enemies, \under the banner of the Communist Party. Down with imperialism! Down with the Balfour declaration! Down with the fanatical feudals! Down with the Zionist adventurers! Long live the united proletariat of Palestine! Long live the free, united, indepen- dent workers and Fellahin Federation of all Arabian countries! Long live the international prole- tarian revolution and its leader, the Communist International! Long live the Communist Party of Palestine! The Central Committee of the C. P. f Palestine. (Section of the Communist Interna- tional.) By T. J. O'Flaherty (Continued from page 1). monarchist victory, at least not open- | ly. George W. Hinman, one of his industrial experts, says that the elec- tion of “indenbyurg is a splendid augur for Germany's future prosper- And it is a victory for German peiriotism. Germany is today a col- ony of British and American capital- ism, and the once proud empire has as much self determination today as Roumania or Poland. Hindenburg will prove a loyal lackey of Wall Street, tho his epaulettes and mili- tary trappings will give the German péople the impression that his swag- ber has the independence of pre-war days behind it. aa ENERAL’ HERTZOG, premier of the Union of South Africa, was a bitter anti-Briton before his elevation to officé. In the early days of the war he led an armed rising against the British forces. He was the lead- er of the republicans and swore on his lifted sword that he would sup- port the secession of the union from the British empire when his party secured power. But today, Hertzog thinks it would be a fatal mistake for the union to secede from the empire. How those bourgeois republicans can see the other side of the case when the coin of the realm hoves in sight in sufficient quantities. “ee HE Federation News, official organ of the Chicago Federation of La- bor, declares that the Communists elected Hindenburg and are in gener- al a bunch of reactionaries. Except for the fact that they favor the over- throw of capitalism and the establish- ment of the rule of the workers and peasants, they would be as reaction- ory as Charley Dawes or perhaps Len Small, the financial expert of the state of Ilinois, The German Com- munists did not take a lesson from the supporters of the Federation News, who went back to their vomit in the last elections. The fake labor partyites turned themselves inside out for the faker Small. Of course, there is a suspicion that Small had to turn his pockets inside out during the negotiations. .o ee |",.HE German Communists should have supported Marx, the favorite of Charley Dawes and the American bankers, says the Federction News. Because the Communists . raised the working class. standard and fought both Marx and Hindenburg, the Federation News throws a catfit. Unfortunately for the prestige of the Federation News and the reaction- aries who back it up, the tirade against the Communists in a recent is- sue is so silly that nobody will take it seriously. Why can't the editor put |his head under some generous hyd- rant and let the water run? He must have a lot of superfluous gudgeon grease between his ears. | Subseribe for the DAILY WORKER! Unemployment and Wage Cuts Ignored By Baldwin Cabinet LONDON, England, May 3—Win- ston Churchill's budget is “the worst rich man's budget ever released,” la- bor members of parliament charged beforé the house of commons. Altho the country's two grave prob- lems are unemployment and indus- trial depression, it was pointed out, the chancellor of the exchequer en- the workers. tifdigMgnores the deplorable misery ot|nure to wee him the i] THE ea ti Blo dhe INJUNCTION: OF 1913 IS DUG UP AGAINST STRIKE Lewis Lawyers Make a Plea of 1914 Change WHEELING, W. Va,, May 3— The West Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal cdm- pany was charged here with fraudu- lently imposing on the United States district court in bringing contempt proceedings against seventeen mem- bers of the United Mine Workers of America for alleged violation of an in- junction against unionization of the company’s mines in Northern West Virginia. Claim 1913 Injunction. Modified in 1914 In a responsive plea entered by Van A. Bittner, international organizer for the union, it was charged that the or- der prepared by the coal company’s counsel and submitted to Judge Will- iam Baker on July 10, making perma- nently effective the restraining order signed by the late Jud ge Alston Day- ton on Dec, 2, 1913, failed to take any account of the modification of the or- iginal injunction made by the United States circuit court of appeals for the fourth district. Judge Baker, before whom the con- tempt proceedings are being tried, was asked to set aside his own injunction decree, which is the basis of the charges against the defendants. Same Plea for All. This defensive counter-attack brot an early close to the proceedings, which. were adjourned until argu- ments of the coal company’s counsel will be heard in rebuttal of the un- ion's charges. It was announced by the union at- torneys that the pleas of all the defen- dants would be similar to that made for Mr. Bittner, “Lawful Union and Non-Violent Pick- eting” Approved. The modification order granted by the appellate court quoted by the de- fendants, is said to have been issued on May 28, 1914. As read by the union attorneys it provided that Judge Day- ton’s injunction of Dec. 1, 1913, was not to be understood as preventing the employes of the West Virginia- Pittsburgh Coal compahy from joining any lawful union or from receiving non-employment benefits, and further, that it prevents no member of a labor union from endeavoring to persuade, without violence any worker to dis- continue work in the mines of the company. Lewis Ordered to Appear May 4. Of the seventeen defendants cited for, contempt in case all but five ap- peared in court. These were John L. Lewis, international president of the Miners’ Union; Lee Hall, president of District No. 6; G. W. Savage and Phillip Murray, national organizers, and Angelo Nude. On motion of John A. Howard, attor- ney for the company, Judge Baker di- rected that each of these defendants should be served with notices to ap- pear here for trial on May 4. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! SHOW THAT STEEL..TRUST GOT PROFITS ENO TO PAY OUT. H IN 5 YEARS ALL “INVESTMENT” How the cost of the war was inflat industries board and serving as a bas’ steel during the emergency. three times as high as those of 1915. cent in 1917 and 20.2 per cent in 1918. on the whole investment account incl profits. Almost 100 Per Cent in Five Years. Average annual profits of various types of steel corporation for the four- year period are shown as follows: (1) companies controlling production from raw materials to finished prod- ducts, 21.9 per cent; (2) companies beginning with the making of pig iron, 24.5 per cent; (3) companies begin- ning with the making of steel, 36.2 per cent; and (4) companies simply rolling steel products, 36.8 per cent. The U. S. Steel corporation is shown separately with an average return of 18.2 per cent on its total investment including capital stock, ~bonds and surplus. These figures give the false impres- sion that the big corporations like U. S. Steel were less notorious profiteers than the small hangers-on of the in- dustry. The real nature of their pro- fits 1s concealed by their, overcapitali- zation. Half Billlon of Water. A true estimate of rate of return on U. 8. Steel investment would elimin- ate the $508,000,000 common stock al- together. For it was originally all water and has value today only be- cause of the surplus profits which have been invested in physical plant. This means that the commission's re- port really counts this half a billion dollars twice in reckoning the invest- ment. Making this correction increas- es the corporation’s rate of return to 23.5 per cent. It would be further increased if allowance could be made for all the investment in resources for future production not actually neces- sary to current activity. _ Tbé. commission found cost of pro- duction much lower in the big in- clusive corporations. In 1918 the cost of producing shear plates in these larger concerns was $52.01 while in the others it ranged around $70 a ton. The cost of all rolled steel products averaged about 25 per cent lower in corporations controlling production from raw material to finished product. Juggling Figures On Profit To find why these low cost combines showed a lower rate of profit the com- mission investigated the investment per ton of steel produced. It found the investment per ton comparatively high in the big trusts. It says: “High average investment per unit appears to explain in large part the lower profits of Class 1 (the integrated) companies.” This shows how, by overcapitaling big monopolies the exorbitant rate of return on real investment in conceal- ed, because the profit is spread over an excessive number of stocks and bonds. SOVIET RUSSIA INCREASES OUTPUT OF ASBESTOS A In the May 1 number of the Russ further evidence of the tremendous Soviet Union’s mineral resources. One of these articles describes the rich graphite deposits in northwest- ern Siberia near Turukhansk at the rivers. Recent surveys by a special expedition prove the available reserves to be at least 2,500,000 tons. The graphite is of remarkably high quality, containing only 2 to 15 per cent of impurities as against 40 to other countries. Native Graphite Cheaper. The deposits lie very favorably for ready exploitation and cheap water transportation can be used for a good part of the year, so that this high grade graphite could be sold in Len- ingrad or Moscow at about $3.50 per 100 pounds, whereas imported gra- phite of equal quality sells in these cities at about $14.00 per 100 pounds. The other article discusses the as- bestos industry of the Soviet Union. A number of deposits are known, but the Ural mines are the only ones be- ing exploited on any considerable scale. The total reserves in this re- gion are definitely known to aggre- gate at least 25 million poods of as- bestos and may run up to 300 million poods (1 pood equals 36 pounds). Import Asbestos, With the exception! bf one deposit in the Alapayevska region, operated under a concession agreement by the American Allied company, all the Ural mines are in. control of the Uralasbest Trust, a state enterprise which was founded in November, 1921. In 1923, this trust turned out 300,000 poods of asbestos, over two-thirds of which were exported, Production for 192425 approximat- ed 500,000 poods, which brought, the output up to 35 per cent of the pre- war volume. There ig a ready sale for Soviet asbestos in Burdpe and the markets lost by Rugsia during the war are rapidly being, reconquered. ——-—— Give your shopnitate this copy of the DALLY WORKER—but be next day to get hin subscription, = ND GRAPHITE MINES ian Review there are two items giving magnitude and great variety of the junction of the Kureika and Yenissei 60 per cent in graphite mineral from ple Des Moines Unions to Feel Lash of Open Shop Drive (Special te The Daliy Worker) DES MOINES, Iowa, May 3.—The streetcarmen of this city, altho pro. tected by a long-term agrement, may have the one-man car forced upon them by the local traction company, whose officials claim that such meas- ures are necessary to offset falling revenues, The union, which is strongly en- trenched and has a large auditorium, offered to discuss the one-man car before an open meeting of the train- men. Instead the company called the men together in small groups, hoping to win them over to the proposed change. The union points out that the one- man car would mean the elimination of practically all the conductors, as very few would be retained as motor- men. Hach side is now “watchtully waiting.” Even Des Moines feels the lash of capitalism and the impending open shop drive. Negro Elected President. NEW YORK, May 3.—~A 17-year-old Negro boy, Arthur Waller, of Jamaica, L, I, was elected president of the gen- eral organization of the Newtown high school, Elmhurst, L. L, by the stu« dents today after a bitter fight. Waller received 1,406 votes from a student body of 2,300, and defeated! two white candidates. There die} only twelve Negro students in the’ school, a By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) ed by the excessive war profits of the steel companies is revealed in a report submitted to congress by the federal trade commission. The report is based on information gathered for the war is for determining the price paid for The war profits of the entire steel industry ran at a rate ‘more than According to the commission's figures the rate rose from 7.5 per cent in 1915 to 21.7 per cent in 1916, to 28.9 per The average for 1917 and 1918 when the United States was at war was 24.5 per cent. And this return is reckoned uding stocks, bonds. and undivided Rich Teapot Dome Crooks Will Escape Senator Declares (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3—Thé prosecution of those involved in the Teapot Dome oil scandals will come to nothing it was predicted in the sen- ate. “A year has passed with no very aggressive effort being made to vin- dicate the law in the case of the oil scandals,” one senator told his col- leagues. 2 “Now because of legal technicall- ties, both the criminal and civil suits seem in a fair way to come to noth- ing and the rich will escape.” | TOA right tracti The _ theoretical ments. 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