The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1925, Page 3

‘ | PALESTINE REDS LEAD FIGHT ON BRITISH RULE Arabs and Jews Unite Against Imperialism By J. B. JERUSALEM, Palestine, May 13.— Little Palestine again has been the centre of interest for a few days. The telegraphic agencies and special corm Tespondente of the big English newa Papers sent out detailed descriptions of Lord Balfour’s Journey In the “Holy Land,” his arrival, hls welcome, and everything ¢lse concerning the matter. But all these announcements and de- scriptions—probably purposely rather than otherwise—ignored the true poll- tleal significance of the Balfour trip. The ceremony of the opening of a Jew- Ish university in Jerusalem (which, by the way, has a thoroughly clerical oharacter, and will be a bulwark of reaction, and with the splendour of which the Jewish bourgeoisie will daz zle the broad Jewish masses In varl- ous countries), Is naturally not a suf- ficient reason for luring a British ar tetocrat, advanced in years, of high standing In political ciroles, such as Lord Balfour Is, to Palestine. Tests, British Policy. And the other “popular” explanation —that Lord Balfour came to Palestine in order to see with his own eyes how the Zionists have put the “Balfour Declaration” of 1917 into practice, in which Palestine was set aside for the Jewish peoples as a “national home” —also deos not suffice. The crux of the matter is that Balfour, as one of the most “moderate” conservatives in intimate relation with the foreign of- fice at present, has been entrusted with the task, under the guise of 4 “visit,” to subject British policy in the Near Hast to a test. After the “stabilization” of British power in Egypt by the Ziwar Pasha cabinet, and the dissolution of parlia- ment, and the security of the other | “wing” of the British possessions in | the Near East—Mesopotamia—by the | cleverly incited uprising in Kurdistan, the time has now come for British policy to introduce the policy of the firm hand in the centre, i e. Palestine and Arabia. Lord Balfour’s journey, as the British conservative weekly Near East itself states, was a pro- vocation of the Arabians, just as the journey of Lee Stack to the Soudan was five months ago. But that is just what the imperialists wanted. At the same time a test was to be made to find out how capable the native pop- ulation was of resisting British imper- ialism, and also how far the alliance with, or rather the lackey service of the Zionist bourgeoisie and the social- democrats-could be depended upon. Socialist Allied With Imperialists. The second test was a glorious suc- cess. The Zionist bourgeoisie and their lackeyes, the social-democratic “Poale .Zion” of various tendencies, showed that they place a good deal more value on the smile of the Eng- lish lord than on the peaceful rela- tions with the Arabian population of Palestine. The Zionist organization, which, by the way, not only in Pales- tine, but also in the other countries, has put itself completely into the hands of the reactionary sections of the Jewish bourgeoisie (which recent- ly went beyond an unscrupulous of- fensive against Soviet Russia and has again begun taking an active part in the intervention schemes), is ostenta- tiously challenging the Arabians to battle by abusing the Arabian central committee and the Arabian nationalist leaders. When tanks and aeroplanes are holding the Arabians in check, the Jewish bourgeoisie courageously at- tacks them. As a consequence, the Arabians break out in wild fury a- gainst the Jews and instigate pogroms against innocent poor Jews. It is this which constitutes the greatest service rendered by the Jewish bourgeoisie to British imperialism, because it can maintain its position in Palestine only on the basis of national antagonisms. Arabs Unite Against British. Thus, whilst the Jewish bourgeoisie in Palestine showed to Lord Balfour that it Was a trustworthy lackey, the attitude of the Arabs showed that the native population has much more power of resistance than was expect- ed. The two parties in the Arabian camp (the “nationalists”—the party of compromise, and the extremist party of the “Arabian Executive Commit- tee”), as well as the various small peasant parties of. Palestine have made common cause in an: to the British-Zionist provocation, anda the protest against Balfour was unant- mous. Apart from the slavish and fawning Zionists, the whole countrry was united in its protest against brut- al British imperialism personified by Balfour. But it would be wrong to assume that this great anti-Balfour demonstra- tion was only caused by the national questino. The nationalism of the Arabian peasants, artisans and work- ers is not developed enough for that. against the economic impoverishment of the masses of Palestine and against the oppression under which they are groaning. And not only the Arabian masses, but also the lower classes of the Jewish population of Palestine, except the small group of Zionist agents, have experienced nothing but evil from imperialism, andknow that there is worse to come. $ Reds Lead Demonstration. The Palestine Communists took an active nay, a leading part in the anti-Balfour demonstration and urged the Jewish and Arabian workers to make common cause against the pre- datory lords. Thus the national pro- test was converted into a class pro- test: the entire working class popula- tion of Palestine demonstrated against imperialism and Zionism! It is as yet impossible to guage the resu¥s and consequences of the Bal- four visit. But one thing is quite cer- tain: the more brutal the measures of British imperialism against the population of Palestine and Arabia, and tke more the Zionist lackeys lend themselves to the role of the im- perialist agents—the stronger and the more united, the bolder and the more revolutionary the national liberation movement will become. And the Com- munist Party, which the British gov- vernment hopes to throttle by ar- rests and persecutions, will in spite of it, or rather because of it, get into closer and closer contact with the masses and will take the lead in the coming struggles. Fire Sweeps Jap City. TOKIO, May 18. — Kumagaya, a small city forty miles from Tokio, was virtually in ruins today following a disastrous fire last night, which de- causing a damage 000, There were NEW YORK, NOTICE! Special Attraction! Maypole Dance and Entertainment given by DOWNTOWN ENGLISH BRANCH WORKERS PARTY on Saturday Evening, May 16th, 1925 at the Party Headquarters 108 E. 14th Stre It was rather a vehement protest} ii ‘i Ly ie Me 6 sme THE DALsY¥. wor KER Pa a | f 5 Page Th Soviet Banner at May Day Meeting in Dublin, Jreland Irish and British Workers Hail the Red Banner Sent to Irish Workers and Peasants by Their Comrades of Russia. Left to Right: Griffin, formerly of the Irish Republican Army; J. Lawlor, of the Dublin Trades Council; S, Saklatvala, Communist Member o' Stewart, Communist; M, Sutton, of the Irish Citizen, British Parliament; Bob ‘A LITTLE JUDICIOUS LYING CAN paid to major generals of the army only fair that these highly decorated are granted this allowance. supervision. Here, for example, comes Major showing seven military medals—in an article, “Can the United States be Sovietized?” in the current issue of the National Republican. This is the propaganda magazine conducted by that Geo. B. Lockwood, former secre- tary of the republican national com- mittee. “No Harm in Lying,” Says General. Fries does not say that the United States is in danger of coming under Soviet government at any particular time, but he warns: “If we over-es- timate the danger a little, no harm is done, and the sooner we will probably remove the danger. If, however, we entirely under-estimate it the time will come when we must face revolu- tion—and bloody revolution—on a greater or smaller scale, On any scale that might be started, it would involve an economic loss comparative- ly greater than the cost of stopping agitation now.” This incitement to “stopping agita- tion now” is followed by a defense of the use of poison gas in warfare, and an attack on the National Council for Limitation of Armaments. He asserts that his office investigated the reasons for this opposition to chemical war- fare, and discovered that a mysterious superior authority was directing the council's, work, and this mysterious authority might be located in Vienna. General Mixes His Drinks. “We very quickly ran into the s0- olalist camp,” the general proceeds. “I use the word ‘socialist’ as inclu- sive of the various organizations that are operating openly or under cover as Communists, Bolsheviks, anarch- ists, I, W. W., Soviets or similar terms. The basic idea in them all is Communism, That is, all property is common, or as more often now ex- pressed, all property belongs to the state. “Under this theory each man shares equally with every other man, not- withstandihg his efforts or his results. One of the disturbing facts is that so many people who have accumulated considerable property, or who have made considerable stccess, are de- ceived by this idea, They take this idea up, not realizing hat if it is put thra they possess in the HARM NOTHING,’ FRIES IN ATTACK ON SOVIETS (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, May 13.—If generous retirement pensions are to be SAYS MAJ-GEN. of the United States, it would seem officers should be possessed of ordin- ary common sense and average eighth-grade information at the time they Otherwise they should be subjected to special General Amos A, Fries, late chief of the chemical warfare service, with a fiercely-scowling portrait of himself BOSSES THOUGHT UNION COULDN'T TRAVEL, 100, NOW SHOPS ARE STRUCK PORT CHESTER, N. Y., May 13. —(FP)—The M. & H. shop of Port Chester is completely tied up by the organization strike of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers’ Union. The employer laughed at Union Or- ganizer Wertheimer at the sugges- tion of the union winning his work- ers, but the union is enjoying the last laugh and expects the em- ployer, Magid to sign on the dotted line shortly. The Amalgamated is making a steady drive against open shops in Port Che wither many New York shops fled to attempt evasion of union working conditions. world will be wiped out.” Grotesque as,this statement is, with its bristling stupidities, it reflects the actual mentality of a very large group of active and retired military nabobs in Washington, Cotton Prices Go “Down.” Weakness in cotton still prevailed yesterday. At the opening prices were 22 to 87 points lower. May opened at 22.50, down 26; July 22.19, down 37; Oct. 21.45, down 28; Dee, 21.58, down 22; Jan. 21.69, down 26, (FO00 ayear net 4200 9 montis Dy fitment 6 monty oF montis: 1 SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY TWO MORE MINES CLOSE AS MEN GROW DESPERATE 3-Year Agreement Now Realized as Suicide SPRINGFIBLD, UL, May 18.—"They | shall not work,” so say the mine op: | erators, “Thy will be done,” answers {ed out in 6 days for 6 days’ pay. the reactionary officialdom of the U. M, W. of A., headed by the Lewis- | |Farrington combine, So the scheme | of “deflating” the mining industry goes on. The so-called “deflating” scheme | | scheme hatched out by John Li. Lewis | jin conjunction with thé operators is nothing more than a plan to drive the miners to desperation by the starva- | tion process, also to eliminate the mil- itants from the union and kill the fighting spirit of those who remain iy the organization so the operators will be able to put over their program of wage reductions, etc. Two More Mines Close. Two more mines in the Springfield sub-district have just been shut down, One in Springfield, that of the Sange- mon Coal Co., known as “No. 2,” em- ploying 500 men, and one at Divernon, Ill, known as Madison Coal Co. mine No. 6, employing about 800 men. The Divernon mine just re-opened about five months ago after a nine} months’ shut-down. Of the five months it has supposed to have been operat- ing, it worked just twenty-eight days. Provocation by Operator. The notice of the shut-down was posted at this mine two days after pay day. The men had spent their money as usual, paying off old debts, | etc. not knowing the mine was to shut down. After word of the shut-down be- came generally known, the local gro- cery stores posted notices that they were on a strictly cash basis. Bourgeols Out of Business. One store keeper posted a notice that he was forced to quit business | and was closing out his stock for cash? It is believed that others will also quit as soon as their stocks are ex- hausted. The situation of many of the miners at Divernon is almost unbelievable. | A typical case is that of a Divernon }miner who has six children and a | wife to provide for. The shut-down found him with a $180 debt on hand and just $1.60 in his pocket. It is use- less to try to get credit, there is none to be had in this town. “Deflating” Process Starves Miners’ Families. The three-year contract with its. de- flating process is working to perfec- tion. The progressive miners (who fought so militantly at the district and International conventions to prevent Farrington, Lewis and the mine oper- ators from hog-tying the coal diggers) did not muster enough strength to} prevent the three-year agreement, and so the miners are now being skinned alive. | In the face of these grim tragedies, | Farrington continues to draw his fat salary and turn in huge expense ac- | counts of $20 a day railroad fare and | $1,500 for telegrams for a period of | three months. Any talk of forming | unemployed councils is met with charges of “dual union,” and threats of expulsions. Organize the Left Wing. The rank and file of the miners must organize their forces to fight, and must fight hard if they are not to have all of the hard won conditions taken from them and open shop con- ditions given instead. Says Rebels of 1776 Would Revolt Against the Tyranny of 1925 ST. LOUIS.—The free people which revolted against tyranny of the Brit- ish government in 1776 would never stand for the tyranny of the United States government in 1925, declared Isaac Lionberger, former assistant U. 8. attorney general, addressing a meeting of the St. Louis electrical board of trade. “It was the obstinacy of the British government, backed by the rapacity of merchants, which refused us re- lief and thereby set us to organizing for rebellion,” the speaker asserted, characterizing repressive laws, search and seizures and the gradual nullifi- cation of the bill of rights as “some of the tyranny of the U. 8. govern- | ment.” He concluded: “This march of tyranny cannot be stopped unless a large body of the citizenry becomes as indignant as it ought to be, as we once were in the face of British tyranny.” WORKER NR FORD SPEEDUP SYSTEM PRODUCED $100,000,000 PROFIT IN 1924, BUT WORKERS GOT NO PAY RAISE By LELAND OLDS, (Federated Press Industrial Editor) The last word in scientific exploitation of labor produced for the Ford family 1924 profits of more than $100,000,000. This means approximately §47 profit on each of the 2,100,000 cars turned out in contrast with $37 per car in 1923. Ford’s extra $10 profit per car in 1924 came from the simple trick o! further speeding up the work until workers produced as much in 6 days for ¢ days’ pay as they had previously turiee Peeeereatenitent- neers | This step was first announced to} the country as another of Ford's pro- gressive ideas. Ford advocated a 5-| day week. With an extra day of| rest, he said, workers can produce as | much in 6 days as in 6. Of course, | nothing was said about the cut in wages. But the Detroit bureau of the Wall Street Journal predicted that | the idea would be given practical ef- fect because “1923 profits were unsat- | isfactory.” And within a week or two | the change was made Deadening Monotony. What this speeding up means to the Ford worker is suggested in the an-| swer of a German employe of the Highland Park plant to Herr Licht-| hard, director of the Stinnes com-| panies, now visiting this country. Ac-| cording to Wall Street Journal the worker said his job was easy—all he | did all day was to turn a certain bolt | to the right 8 times. He had been} doing the same thing every day for 4 | years. It has become so familiar that | he does it automatically. | There you have it. A complete pic-| ture of the deadening monotony pro-| duced by the discipline of a machine | dictatorship. Suppose this employe | makes 20 turns a minute, probably an underestimate. That's 1,200 turns on 160 bolts per hour or 7,200 turns | on 900 bolts per day if we assume he only works the equivalent of 6 steady hours. That means 236,000} turns to 4,500 bolts in a 5-day week | and 1,800,000 turns to 225,000 bolts in| a 50 week year. Four years represents | 7,200,000 turns to 900,000 bolts. That | is all he can show for 4 years of his | life in Ford’s kingdom. Continued} long enough it would surely produce | a new form of insanity, a Fordo-| phobia. | «income Reaches Millions. But it also would produce the pro- fits which Ford is after. This work- er is typical of the tens of thousands of human cogs which produced $100,- 000,000 profits in a single year for a} single family. Incidentally this $100,- 000,000 represents a return of $581.72 a share of the $17,264,500 common stock. As a matter of fact, the en- tire Ford works has been built on an original cash investment of $28,000 thru investment of surplus profits made at the expense of the workers. In 1922, the last year for which in- dividual income tax data are avail- able, the two Fords had a combined personal income of $13,397,930 from dividends alone. RUSSIAN PACT HOLDS DESPITE FRENCH CHANGES Herriot Did Not Push Trade, Rykoff Says MOSCOW, May 13,— In an inten view with journalists at Leningfad, where he came for a short visit, Rykoff, president of the council of People’s commissaries, declared that, for @ number of years yet, private commerce was bound to play a con- siderable part in the economics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- lics, No Obstacles to Private Capital While the commercial exchange had rapidly grown lately, neither the estate hor the co-operative trading organiza- tions actually could increase their capital in a measure fully correspond- ing to the general growth of national economy. The relation between state and private trading must be based entirely on the principle of sound economic competition, Mr. Rykoff ob- served, and no administrative obsta- cles should be created to the private capital. Franco-Russian Relations Unchanged. In reference to the resignation of the French premier, the president of the council of people commissaries, remarked that the good intentions of Mr. Herriot’s cabinet in the domain of mutual relations with the Soviet Union had been better than what they practically put into effect, so that the new French cabinet could hardly be expected to make those relations any the worse. Herriot Lacked Confidence Indeed, Mr. Rykoff stated, while the progress of restoration of normal re- | lations had been extremely slow since the recognition, the lack of any pro- gress in the solutions of such import- ant questions as the old debts or the Wrangel fleet partly hung on the want of confidence of Mr. Herriot’s cabinet in its own forces, That it was necessary to move the Franco-Soviet inter-relations from their present abnormal “dead point,” was Mr. Rykoff’s conclusive remark. C’mon If you have a day, an hour, c'mon over. for fun, c'mon over! 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