The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1925, Page 6

ww Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING OO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, 1. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES i By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months y mail (in Chicago only): $4.50...6 months $2.50...8 months $6.60 per —. $8.00 per year 4Gdress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER $918 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL { Chicago, ilineis Editors Business Manager WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Qutered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1878. <p 200 Advertising rates op app“caticn War in the Air The militarists have the floor: Any semi-articulate colonel, general or admiral can bust on to the first page of the capitalist press provided he yowls for more soldiers, battleships, airplanes, big guns and universal military train- ing. Hawaii has been found to be pitiably weak. The pineapple plantations there are at the mercy of any nation which covets them and Major-General Foreman of the Illinois national guard, who has just returned from a four-months tour of the world,| | yelled for a huge appropriation for Hawaii the moment he stepped off a train in Chicago, where he was welcomed with a great military display. The opinions of such individuals are, of course, worth nothing, but the imperialists want the hysteria to increase up to the time of the test! mobilization which has become an annual event in the United States and the capitalist press takes its cue and its subsidies from them. The Hearst press syndicated last Sunday a huge! picture of the Japanese dragon swooping over our| defenseless shores—as vicious a piece of war pro-| paganda as we have ever encountered. The military training camp publicity is well organized and con- tinuous. Public stadiums are turned over to the army for*military displays. A pacifist organiza-| tion like that of the women who met recently in} Washington is denounced and vilified by the cap-| iialist press. All talk of disarmament enitinencesl has ceased. The tour of the Pad¢ific fleet will be the occasion for another barrage of imperialist publicity and all signs point to a summer season devoted to putting}. the populace in the proper frame of mind for an- other slaughter. A war for world supremacy is in the offing. Here is the basis for a united front that will bring into action millions of people who cannot be reached on any other issue. The activities of the militarists must be utilized to point out to the American masses the very real danger which confronts them. It is a concrete issue, but one befogged by much Mnisconception. The duty of the Workers (Com- munist) Party is to explain the underlying causes for the campaign of the imperialists and the direct connection of their activities with the lives of the American workers and the world situation. A Fake Label League We have in the city of Chicago an organization known as the Trade Union Promotional League, which is officered by a collection of labor skates who are as free from a spark of the divine fire of revolution as so many icebergs. The ostensible ob- ject of this organization is to boost trade union- ism by convincing the employer that he can make more profits by having his shop uaa than not. It develops that this Trade Union Promotional League is actually a sales organization for the Axton-Fisher Tobacco company, manufacturers of the Clown cigarette. The Tocal organizer of the Trade Union Promotional League was an agent for the “Clown.” The Seattle Union Record, of May 14, states that a branch of the Trade Union Promotional League is being organized in that city. And the organizer is none other than “E. J. Helck, assistant to the various parts of the United States.” kind of him! If the trade unionists of Chicago realized that this fake organization on which they waste time and money, is actually a good sales agency for a cigarette manufacturer, they might come to the conclusion that they are bigger clowns than the cigarette that bears that name. How very Australian coal miners strike for the release of their fellow workers jailed for violation of the bosses’ law. This_is an example that the miners of the United States could very well follow. There are miner prisoners in more than one American prison for their activity in strikes. The support of the imprisoned soldiers, Crouch and Trumbull, by Hawaiian labor is one of the most encouraging events in recent labor history. It is further evidence that the labor imperialists at the head of the American labor movement have not succeeded in poisoning the membership. Professor Chaffee thinks that the next imperial- ist war will end thinking. Thinking, will end be- fore the next war or else it cannot oecur. When it does come, not only will. it. end thinking but many thinkers as well. ‘hom thus at least a portion of the payment’ “for president of the Axton-Fisher Tobacco company, J vi 2 © manufacturers of Clown cigarettes, who has i i helped to organize branches of the league in| fighting program and give new hope and inspira- France and Morocco | Whatever the outcome of the Riffian war, it is certain that France has taken up the fight which | Spain lost as a preparation for a future and larger | war. France depends upon the Negro colonials in| West Africa as a source of supply for her con- script armies and Morocco must be hers if quick | and safe transportation is to be had for them. | An article in the Action Nationale of 1922 gives | the key to French policy in this matter. It said: If unfortunately there breaks out another general conflagration analogous to that of 1914, no more hesi- tation then! Let us draw widely, let us draw with- out counting, as we shall at home, upon the reserve of black men that we shall have had the foresight | to preserve and increase. The Negroes whom we have guided into the path of progress, must then repay to us in the form of battalions the benefits they have received from us. These semi-civilized will con- tribute “chose sone to the defense of civiliza- tion, The French imperialists have enacted compul- sory military service in their Negro colonies since the war and they feel that an indepent state in northern Africa would menace their control of one of the principal sources of Negro conscripts. Colonial troops are being used against the Riffs the benefits they have received” is being. made. Meanwhile the Riffs, who are fighting for their} country against the Spanish and French invaders, are being treated as rebels and denied even aid from the Red Cross for their sick and wounded. The French government is engaged in wholesale murder of the Riffians without the shadow of | moral justification. The whole adventure is typical jof the complete disregard of the rights of the so- jcalled backward peoples exhibited by American imperialism in Haiti, by British imperialism in | India and Ireland, by imperialism in Korea—to| cite only three of a hundred bloody instances. The Riffians will find no friends among the “civil- | ized” nations. If there is any interference with| France it will be because Great Britain cannot | tolerate an increase of French control in the Mediterranean, not because of any humanitarian |feeling for the murdered colonials. Cynically the | imperialist diplomats are wondering how long it) | will be before the Riffian war sets Europe aflame. | The colonial masses are watching the heroic | struggle of the Riffians and there is more than a grain of truth in the statements of the capitalist press that Egypt, India and French and British Africa movements for their support are dev elop-| ing. European capftalith 3 rests today on its colonies and it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the Riffian war marks. the beginning of new gi- gantie struggles for colonial liberation that will strain the resources of France and Great Britain Unions | to the breaking point. Bosses Begin War on Cleveland The bosses are never backward in taking ad- vantage of favorable conditions as is shown by the new drive on the Cleveland building trades follow- ing the court decision outlawing the closed shop on the street railway lines in that city. An attempt is to be made to interpret the su- preme court decision as a mandate to destroy all closed shops and the Cleveland bosses are lining up their forees for the battle. There is a lesson here for the unions. It is general- ly known that no struggle of workers is unimport- ant to the rest of the working class and particularly that in a basie industry like transportation is there no place for the hesitaney and crawfishing | that there was last year when the street carmen had an opportunity during the republican conven- tion to strike a real blow at the bosses The whole Cleveland labor movement will suffer now for the major mistake of last year and must begin by repairing it. Faith in capitalist courts, in the “fairness” of arbitration tribunals, belief} that a policy of respectability will divert the hostility of the bosses, is evidence of a childlike conception of the class struggle and proof of weakness that the bosses see at once and count on to aid them. The left wing in the Cleveland labor movement} now has a splendid chance to put forward their tion to the trade unions. Before the war the lives of German coal miners were safer than in many other countries. The kaiser has gone. American capitalism and a “democracy” patterned on its model are supreme and great coal mining disasters are the order of the day as in America. Thus are the blessings of American democracy spread over and under the earth, The blow-up of the fake labor bank in Phila- delphia is only the forerunner of a series of sean- dals that will awaken the whole labor movement to the fraudulent character of the financial insti- tutions organized by the labor fakers for their personal profit and’as propaganda for capitalism in the unions. Caillaux, having made peace with the pope by submitting to a church marriage, get himself into the good graces of Wall Street by suggesting that France return all her industrial monopolies to private hands, Japanese troops have almost finished the evacua- tion of Sakhalin Island. It does not look as if the Soviet power was “tottering.” |A | particularly those that, have taken THE ee NE Ki 3€ BAS By G, ZINQVIEV. “+ (Continued from, last issue.) 1 The Main Points in the Present Political Situation. NUMBER of changes can be noted in the world political situation, place within the last nine months. It is’ quite clear now that we were right. What interests us most in the pres- ent state of affairs of course is the world political prospects. Taking it | on a world scale, the general situation is as follows, and can be divided into | the following twelve points: 1. America—England; 2, Japan; 3, Eastern question; 4.0. 8 8 Re 5, England; 6. England—France; 7. Germany; 8. The Balkans; 9. Poland; . Italy; . Czecho-Slovakia ; . Scandinavia. Anglo-American Co-operation —_—_——_— HE relations between England and America, to a certain degree form the central point of our discussion. Probably, you remember that several months ago the represéntatives of the right wing of the International tried | to give an exaggerated interpretation | to the rapprochement between Eng- land and America and drew conclu- sions, which if correct, would have |lation between England and America. compelled jus to change the whole ot our tactics. One of the characteristics of opportunism has always been that it sees everything in the enemy's camp thru rose-colored spectacles while everything in ifs own camp ap- pears dark and gloomy. This deeply influenced the estimination of the re- The fact that America has once again turned its face to Burope is, of course, a mater of world significance, The rapprochment between these two countries is a fact of world-historical significance in spite of its temporary and passing character. To assert, however, as does Comrade Trotsky, that Europe is being converted into a dominion of America, means very considerably to over-estimate things. To say that America can place the whole of Europe on rations, means to overestimate the antagonism between America and Europe and within Eu- rope itself. Antagonisms between France and England undoubtedly ex- ist, Recently we have. witnessed a con- troversy over this question bétween Pepper and Radek. In my opinion, Pepper is right and Radek is cer- tainly not. We do not in the least deny that the rapprochment between America and England is a fact of his- torical importance, but at the same time, we must not lose sight of the fact that between imperialist Amer- ica and imperialist England, antag- onisms exist and that they are be- coming more acute, T the present time we have in both England and America, govern- ments which socially, are akin to each other. There is social kinship be- tween the conservative government of | England and the present government of America. What does this fact im- | 5. Oil. ply, from the point of view of a cor- rect estimation of imperialist antag- onisms? What will it lead to in the capitalist world? Is social kinship between two gov- ernments equivalent to friehdly rela- tions between them? Not in the least. In the beginning of the war of 1914, the reins of government in the coun- tries of Europe were in the hands of governments. who were also somewhat akin to each other, from the social standpoint. Nevertheless. this kin. ship did not prevent them from going to war against each other. ‘Ine sauie thing applies to America and Eng- land. Imperialism is imperialism. The conflict, the competition con- tinues. This sort of antagonism not only exists, but may become more acute, in spite of the social kinship between the two bourgeois govern- ments. Ang! merican A NDEED, the co-operation between America and England is a definite fact. Nevertheless, the antagonisms between England and America are in- creasing. These antagonisms may be divided approximately into 10 points, and each one of these is sufficient to convince one, that the rapprochment between America and England, must not be exaggerated. The ten points are as follows: 1, The direct struggle for world hegemony. The world’s creditor to- day is not England, but America. The fight between these two in this sphere is already raging and will continue to rage in the future, 2. Canada. 3. Aystralia. 4. Mexico. 6. Markets. 7 The ques- tion of armaments. The open rivalry in armaments for the purpose of se- curing the domination of the seas, 8. geile 9. The import and export of International Prospects and Bolshevization— raw materials and 10. Even on the question of the Dawes plan, around whith the rapprochment has taken place, there are fundamental antagon- ~ isms between the two states, ACH of these ten points is suffici- ent to demonstrate, that parallel with the process of rapproachment, there is the process of growth of an- tagonisms which, generally, is char- acteristic of capitalism. I will quote only’ one illustration which is charac- teristic of the relations between America and England. I have in mind Canada. In 1913, the amount of capital invested in Canada by England was double that invested by, America. In 1923 a complete change is observ- ed: there is about an equal amount of American capital invested in’ Can- ada as British, that is to say, about two and a half millards of dollars: It should be observed also that America’s method of investing capi- tal in Canada differs from the method employed by England. America in- vests her capital directly in Canadian enterprises.. The Americanization of Canada is becoming a fact. Culture in Canada is completely American ac- counts in Canada are kept, not in pennds, but in dollars. The press, the cinema, the theaters, the railways, fashions in clothes are all, not English but American, In England as well as in America, people quite openly speak of the possibility of the gradual con- version of Canada into a new state of the United States of America. At the present moment England is trying to find support in the two or three mil- lion French Canadians living in Canada, for the English who live there have long ago become American- ized. Only recently the Times spoke openly of the possibility of losing Canada. (To be packs eee ee Film Censorship and the Working Class By WILLIAM Fy.KRUSE WO more states, Olifo and South Carolina, have been’ added to the list of those in which a. bitter battle over film censorship is being waged by differing factions of-the capitalist |class, One group, made up princi- | pally of motion picture'interests fights the open exposure of state dictator- ship in this field, because it would slightly decrease hsenine' reds pro- fits. In their support ttrote are groups of liberals anxious toi"preserve the fig-leat of democracy “ais in the case of “freedom of press alia Bpeech.” It is interesting to note ‘that those slo- gans of the bourgeois revolution do not cover the motion picture film, de- veloped after the rise to ‘power of the bourgeoisie. There is*no such legal fiction as the “freedom of the films,” instead, just like the press and plat- form of the 18th century, it is de- clared to be directly under the police power of the state. Medicine Men For Censorship Other big business elements line up in support of official censorship, and they are represented by their spokes- men among the clergy, pedagogs, pro- fessional reformers, and other medi- cine men of capitalism, Harmful films must be stamped out, they demand, and by harmful are meant all that would tend to arouse the class con- scious of the workers or®the group consciousness of any who are op- pressed. Questions of “immorality” in films are mere “fringe” and are themselves to be traced to economic backing. The support of the established order thru the suppression of criticism is the object of all censorship, and it is to be expected that we find the slight est disrespect to soldier, priest, law- yer, and other props of the old order, absolutely forbidden. Likewise the fake shibboleths with which the mas- ses‘are narcotized must not be touched. — = Workers Must Have Own Filme, Those who attack censorship as “un- American, un-ethical and un-every- thing,” as did a Connecticut theater owner before the legislature there, are very careffii to point out that) they do not wish to foster any radical tendency in the movies. They prefer to “let the industry to be its own eensor,” or, as some put it, “let the public be the censor in the only effect- ive place; the box office.” What is meant by the first remark is that with the ever increasing trustification of motion picture production and distri- bution, it will be hard for anything but pro-capitalist pictures to slip thru, while the control of press and other avenues of advertising will pre- vent the movie goers from finding out about pictures that big business does not like, hence they and their timer- ous, producers will be damped- to financial failure. Both of these condi- | tions are facts, as has been demon- strated in actual cases, many times. The fight over censorship resolves it- ; self into the question of whether the capitalist economic machine shalt crush out non-conformist films, or whe- ther the political executive shall do ithe trick, | The only answer of the workers is to develop a motion picture field of their own, They should support such semi-friendly pictures as occasionally slip by, the economic and political censors, but basically they must de- velop a class film precisely as they do a class press. Such films as are passed are weapons of enlightenment among the workers, such as are re- jected are weapons and bases of strug- gle. The International Workers’ Aid, 19 S. Lincoln St., Chicago, is prepar- ed to furnish excellent working class | films, Paul Bunyan Stories Turned Against the Bosgu. By ART SHIELDS (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) . Paul Bunyan, by Esther Shephard, McNeil Press, Seattle, $2.00. Paul Bunyan, by James Stevens, Alfred A. Knopf, $2.50. "* * AUL BUNYAN logged off North Dakota and dug Puget Sound with the aid of his Blue Ox Babe and a crew that worked 12 hours a day in the good old days. And like most myth tales these classics of the log- ging camps have been cleverly used by the employing interests, old Paul’s orgies of toil are hailed as examples to the toilers of today and have been amply exploited in the 4-L Bulletin, organ of the company union = up in wartime. But now Paul Bunyan stories come into their own thru the pen of Esther Shephard of Seattle, who shows—in- cidently—how yarm. spinners in the bunkhouses use the Bunyan tales for propaganda against the boss. Her book, coming out shortly before a similarly named volume from the pen of James Stevens of Tacoma #s vastly more entertaining than the latter and more human, tho it has not the ad- vantage of the fine bookmaking of Mr. Knopf. All good Bunyan stories come from the bunkhouses and, those Esther Shepherd tells are strung. together as the tales of an old Jogger who had worked with Paul. So naturally he knew him well. Old Angus MacDon- ald, the story teller, liked Paul great- ly, but he had to tell the truth about his boss, even to the way Paul got his Washington timber claims thru dummy homesteaders,"some of them dead. And he shows us Johnny Inks- linger, Paul's bookkeeper, using a split pencil in charging up supplies to the loggers, #0 i 3 make more money for the boss. The old timers " ‘q,to work with Paul: there was ry in it, But Paul's biographer jets slip the fact that they had to in muzzle- loading bunks after 12-hour day. And the bedbugs were so clever they would climb the bookk 's fountain pen'to see where ke was, and the Deane ee Them were the good old days. Things ain’t as they used to be no more. tators have changed them. There is no doubt that Paul and his Blue Ox did things on a grand scale. Read how North Dakota was logged off in one season: Or read about Paul’s hotcake griddle, measuring 235 feet across; or Babe’s stable that had to be raised 1,600 feet to keep above his manure pile. It is a series of jocund tales that Esther Shephard gives. James Ste- vens’ book is in more studied vein. His Paul Bunyan isn’t the! familiar The agi- Old Paul of the other book, but a dim sort of demi god that looked on com- BBY ROCKEFELLER, grand- daughter of the skinflint John D. Sr., was married to another son of the millionaires—but not a single worker was present, Billions of dollars Were represented at the wedding—billions that the young “heiress” will inherit when John D. Sr, and John/D. Jr., shuffle off their “mortal coils.” The “heiress to the greatest fortune in the world,” they called the young lady, billions that she had nothing to do with, except to pocket when her turn comes. But the working class was not invited—it was a “quiet” affair, with the “best people” present. The same day's papers reported that @ woman took gas, because she had no money and had a family of chil- dren to support. She did not “inherit” any fortune, nor did she have any prospects, But the workers were not invited to the Rockefeller wedding. That is quite proper. The workers’ may grind out their lives in the Rock- efeller oil refineries, steel mills and THE WORKERS WEREN’T INVITED coal mines, They may strike to pre- serve whatever little organization they have—as the miners of West Vir- ginia are doing. But the state sup- ports Rockefeller St., Jr, and the THE WAY OF THE ANARCHISTS | Opens TRESCA, the anarchist, has|large number of students were greet been released from prison, His first |ing the president. So mon loggers as so very, very com- mon» This is Stevens’ first sustained literary effort. Earlier writings are in the 4-L Bulletin, the American Lum- berman, the American Mercury and the Saturday Evening Post. In the American Lumberman, the employers’ trade paper, he attacked the I. W. W., then the lone labor union in the woods, And in the Sattrday Evening Post he pictured the common labor- er’s condition as a most happy one, Stevens was a workingman until re- cently, but seems always to have looked thru the boss’ spectacles and it is natural that he should carry this viewpoint into his Paul Bunyan book. “young heiress,” in destroying the union and reducing the standard of living of the workers. That is quite proper—and will re- main proper until the workers of this country organize to put an end to this system whereby Abby Rockefeller can inherit billions, whereby John D. and Morgan & Co. can control the re- sources of this country, It will remain proper until the workers and the poor farmers of this country realize what kind of a system they live under—and organize plitically and economically to take over this rotten capitalist gov- ernment of the United States and establish a workers’ and farmers’ government of the United States. Then there will be no “elite” wed- dings of the parasites, no suicides of men and women out of hunger, no de- struction of unions to favor the bos- ses, no use of government authority— police, militia, federal troops, gas, machine guns, and bombs—against the workers. As long as the workers of this country still think it is proper that the capitalists should control everything—they will have to accept the consequences, the cute action was to go to Washington to|revolutionist, got into line and passed see the president. Tres managed to| the president and shook hie hand with- oe To ening on. ¢, tite eee tim tacheoaiesy even knowing it, Ste 6 me mat This must have been one of the hap- piest moments in the life of Tresca, the arch-reyolutionist. “There was no effort to stop me, no effort to identify gue, and I might have done as I wished, but my only thought was to THANK the’ president for his kindness to me. However, since I was not an invited guest. I , remained silent.” There were good reasons when President Harding released Debs. He knew that Debs is no longer a danger to capitalist rule in this country, for the socialist party has gone the way of-all traitorous parties—and has lined up with the bosses against the aspira- tions and struggles of the workers, When Coolidge commuted the sen- tence of Tresca, he also knew what he was doing. Trseca has sold out to the capitalists, and there was nothing fitter for him to do than to proceed to Washington and kiss the hand of the bosses’ president who released him from prison. Tresca can now be counted on to support the American government, American institutions and the Amer- ican capitalist class against the revo- lutionary movement. His spoutings about the horried fascisti of Italy will , be looked upon with a smile. Tresca and his associates are romain. the capitalists. The American work- , ing class now knows clearly where he belongs—to the class of the traitors— the class that.so many of the an- archists, petty-bourgeois at heart and’ in method, belong to. THE VOICE OF LENIN. TO BE HEARD IN CHICAGO SUNDAY, MAY 24 Something new and different is being arranged by the Russian branch of the Workers Party for Sunday, May 24, at the Workers’ Home, 1902 W. Division Sti It will ~ be a Lenin Evening, with Comrade Nicolai Lenin as the chief speaker. This is no joke, as the talk by Com n Lenin will be heard from a phonograph record, as well as speeches by Comrade Lunachar sky, Trotsky and others, Comrade Alexander Chramov, tional organizer of the Russian Seo tion W. P., who is touring the Unit+ ‘ed States, will bring the records to Chicago, He will also speak on Lenin as a leader of the masses. A good musical program is also prepared, Tell your friends about > f | | f