The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1925, Page 4

os © §4J8 W. Washington Bivé. — «mm, grin of glee to the faces of the Wall Streeters THE DAILY WORKER. Published by We DART WORKER PUBLISHING 00. 1218 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Mi. (Phone: Monree 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: 96.00 per year $3. 50.8 ‘months $2.00...3 monthe By mall (in Ghi enty): $8.00 per year §4.50..8 m 32.50...3 months AQdrest all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY, WORKER Chicago, Iinele 3, LOUIS ENGDAHL itors WILLAAM F, DUNNE MORITS BF, LOEB......meee-Business Manager | | Qntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post: | Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, —_ Advertising rates op appMcation Communist Colonial Policy in Practice AM as not going well for French imperialism in fhe Riffian war. The facts of mutinies among the French troops and general disaffection in the whole expeditionary force are escaping the censorship. The war is unpopular among the French workers and fhe peasants see in it only an excuse for further heavy taxation. Recruiting is slow and the Communist Party is leading the agitation against enlistments. As usual the ministry of war tried tc create} the impression that only a few minor battles would | ; be necessary to crush the Riffians, but it is a mat- ter of public knowledge now that not only have the French forces suffered severe defeats, but that at the best a huge army and many months will be required for victory and even with this extensive and costly preparation victory is not certain. A speedy defeat of the Riffans would cause com- paratively few complications at home, but this is| impossible and the longer the struggle continues}! tthe more restive become the tribesmen in other French possessions and the French populace. Coupled with the precarious state of French finances this latest venture creates a real crisis. In the old days such projects could be con- ducted with more or less secrecy and even if known did not result in great disaffection in the ranks of ithe working class. The parties of the Second In- etrnational never thought of aiding the liberation movements in the colonies of their respective coun- tries and the imperialists could crush uprisings with ease and dispatch. But the situation has changed. The colonial peoples have a new outlook since the world war. They have become accustomed to the use of ‘weapons of modern warfare and the Communist parties extend every possible aid 1o them. The working class in the imperialist nations are not in accord with these adventures of their rulers for which they are recruited and for which they must pay either with their lives or in lowered standards of living. So far these colonial movements are more or less sporadic and lacking in unity. But the tendency is to unite in the common struggle against imperial- ism and every extension of imperialist oppression, as the French war on the Riffs, brings more unity ‘among the colonial peoples. With the working class in France and the colonial peoples working in harmony against the bloody system of robbery, French capitalism is confronted with a power that it cannot crush. The extension of this united front to include the workers of all imperialist nations and all colonial and semi-colonial peoples means the vic- tory of the world revolution, a world Soviet Re- public. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Why Wall Street Laughs Signs of Revolt in the Ranks of the| Labor Aristocracy Lee, head of the Brotherhood of Railway Train- men, announces a gigantic plan of class collabora- tion while his union is in convention dn Cleveland. Sheppard, head of the Railway Conductors, attacks the Communists and the left wing in a public meeting and his union severs all connection with the LaPollette third party movement at its Min- neapolis convention and sinks back into the quagmire of the old “reward friends and punish enemies” policy. The two incidents illustrate a reactionary trend of the most dangerous character—first, the willing- ness to surrender the weapon fo the strike, second, to abandon even the vague and confused form of independent, political action represented by the LaFollette third party movement, in favor of active participation in the capitalist parties, As an explanation of this trend in the American |labor movement, a trend which the last election campaign interrupted temporarily, and which finds additional-expression in the launching of banking and insurance schemes on a purely profit-making basis by the union officlaldom, the mere pointing out of individual labor officials as traitors does not sufficé. On the surface of American working class political life these officials are-only bubbles. We must look for the chemistry of social change Nhat agitates the mixture and forces these evil- smelling bubbles to the top. We find the real explanation in the new status of Americna capitalism as a world power. Amer- ican capitalism has become the creditor of all the capitalist world—a stream of gold flows ever out- ward to needy nations in the form of loans and in consequence a new. kind of income,. interest on foreign loans and investments, shows itself in the credit balance of the ruling class. Foreign investments carry with them the dan- ger of war. Defaulting debtors must be whipped into line and encroachments on the fields of Amer- ican financial influence by other imperialist nations must be fought. Modern warfare, successful modern warfare— and success “is the watchword of. America—de- mands as its first requisite a docile working class. Wor the great mass of the working class the era of imperialism brings added hardships and in- erease the danger, for the ruling class, of revolt. A working class united in opposition to wars of conquest and the cause of these wars, is something that the rulers must find ways and means of preventing, With a tremendous surplus from foreign in- vestment, a huge portion of it derived from the robbery of colonial workers and peasants whose ‘American workers, the ruling class proceeds to divide the labor movement by granting special favors, in the form of higher wages and better than average working conditions to certain strata of the working class, particularly among the or- ganized workers. It is not. necessary even that the labor. officials be bribed outright altho for quick results in an emergency,"this is done. It is sufficient that work- ers who oceypy key, positions in important in- dustries, notably transportation, be made to feel that their interests lie with an imperialistic policy rather than in opposition to it. Right here we find the moying factor in all the schemes for class collaboration including the Johnston “B. and 0.” plan and the extension of it advocated by Lee. But the class conflict is not abolished simply be- eause a privileged section of the working class lines up with the imperialists. The conflict con- tinues and ravages even the highest strata of labor. Revolt develops even here. It is necessary there- fore to disembowel the unions of well-paid work- ers and make of them an empty shell. They must be made an integral part of the capitalist organ- ization in order that organized action in time of erisis becomes impossible. Company unions that can control every action of the workers are the only form of labor organization that imperialism President Calles of Mexico breaks strikes and smashes unions and the Mexican Federation of La- bor issnes manifestos to the workers telling them to like it. So it is that Calles is a popular hero in the American capitalist press and the idol of the yellow socialists. His latest exploit is to break the strike of Huasteca oil workers and come out openly against them in their endeavor to force concessions from foreign oil capitalists. This also has the support of the Mexican labor fakers and it must bring a to see the whole-hearted co-operation and profitable returns they are getting from the money invested in, first, subsidizing the officialdom of the Amer- ican Federation of labor and secondly in its Amer- icanizing of the Mexican labor movement thru its officials and the socialist hangers-on. It is a far cry from Mexico to Ireland, but the similarity in role and method between the Free State government and the Calles regime is too obvious to be overlooked. Both murder the most militant workers and sell the rest to their im- perialist masters while the labor officialdom of both nations not only applauds but conspires to weaken and destroy all resistance in the ranks of the working class. The Communist Party of Mexico alone points out 4o the working class the treacherous role of their will tolerate and it is trying, thru the Johnstons, Lees and other less outspoken advocates, to trans- form the railway unions into outright adjuncts of its political power. We do not wish to give the impression that the Lees and Johnstons are consciously working to this end. This would be giving them credit for too much intelligence, It is probable that they do not even understand. very well the real nature of the treacherous work they are doing. It is sufficient that they are middle class in outlook, with all the servility to the big bosses that all middle class elements manifest, willing to do anything that will keep them well-fed and respectable. But these procurers for American capitalism are not doing-as well as might be expected’ by those who realize the lack of class consciousness among the American workers. In Johnson’s union a rank and file revolt has*defeated him and in the con- vention of the Trainmen, Lee is having the fight of his life. His whole policy is challenged and the struggle has erystallized around a resolution for amalgamation brought in by a Minneapolis dele- gate. So the American working class, even its labor aristocracy, is not so backward after all, The left wing movement gathers momentum day by day and any oné who knows the A, B. C.’s of the American labor movement knows that when amalgamation becomes an issue in a convention of the Railway leaders and points to the path of struggle which they must follow. " Bvery day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. Trainmen there must be a great ferment at work whose internal stress will, yet break the class collaboration bubbles, clear away the seum and leave the clear solution in Which the revolutionary germ alréady there will begin to multiply. Re YOUNG WORKER The Masterpiece of the Sofia Criminals By Vv. "KOLAROV. Secretary of the Communist Inter. national. No long ago it was revealed that thousands of forms for the pro- duction of false “Comintern docu ments” had been printed by a@ print- ing shop in Berlin, at the order of a person who was in touch with the Russian monarchists, As we were informed, these forms had the follow- ing heading: at the left top corner, “DB. 0, O, 1,” Mustration of sickle and hammer, below this “Central Section of the Department foy Foreign Rela- tions,” space for dat d number and “Moscow.” Besifles this, as is proper, at the right top corner ‘Pro- letarians of all countries, unite!” A few weeks ago the igarian tele- graph agency trum a saat the world that the Bulg: ‘government had got hold of a “command of the ThirdyCommunist International” to the Bulgarian Communist Party, ac- cording to which the ©. P. of Bulgaria was to start an armed insurrection in Bulgaria on April lb, No. more and no less! As is well known, the En- larged Executive of ‘the’ Comintern detected the Sofia murderers and their forgers as early.as April 6. The Bulgarian papers of April 4, which are before us, contain the whole text of this “document,” even in “fac- smile,” and we thus have the oppor- tunity of being edified at the same time by the refined Jesuitism and the stupidity of the Balkan criminals. This is how the “document” is ar- ranged: BC... Proletarians of all (Illustration of countries unite! sickle and ham- mer.) Central Section of Absolutely the Department private! for Foreign Re lations. March 12th, 1925. Destroy after car- No. 2960. tying out instruc- Moscow. tions! {© herewith communicate to you that, in accordance with a reso- lution of the Communist Balkan Fed- eration of the B. C. C.1. of March 12, 1925, you are immediately on the re- ceipt of this letter, to. get into direct touch with the comrade who is chair- man of the supervising committee of your section in the Macedonian “Ouena Ojuka Taueb,” and to let him know that the Communist Balkan Fed. standard of living is much lower than that of the} eration, through the above resolutio' confirmed the resolution of the Mace- donian “Ouena Ojuka Taueb” with re- gard to carrying out the verdict against, Russinow and Garchitsch and agreed to enturst the exdeution of the resoltuion to Comrade8 Motjko and Kaschemirow as approved function- aries of the operative terrorits depart- ment. Further you must on the basis of the same resolution, initiate all the comrades of the supervising commit- tee of the Balkan centeb. who are at WORKERS PARTY CONDUCTS FREE SPEECH FIGHT Holds Meeting Tonight Where Police Interfered The Workers (Communist) Party will hold an open air meeting tonight on the corner of Orchard St. and North Ave., to establish the right of the workers to speak on the streets of Chicago. The police have on two Saturday nights arrested Workers Party speakers on this corner. Four weeks ago D. E. Barly was arrested on a charge of “disorderly conduct,” and two weeks ago Thurber Lewis, Karl Reeve and John Hecker were jailed, charged with spéaking on the streets “without a permit.” The city ordinance which required a permit for street speaking, was declared uncon- stitutional by the supreme court many years ago. No meeting was held last Saturday night on acipunt of cold weather. At tonight's meeting 1. Louis Eng- dahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, and Manuel Gomez, will speak. Other open air meetings will be conducted by the Workers Party to-, night on the following ‘corners: Division and Washten&’w—Speakers, William F. Kruse and Barney Mass 12th and Marshfield Sts.—Jack Me- Carthy and Karl Reevé. 12th and St. Louis—D, E. Early and Sam Hammersmark. & 30th and State—Robgrt Minor and E. L. Doty. Baku Fair Attracts Far East MOSCOW, (By Mail),.—According to information given by the Russo- Oriental chamber of commerce, a great number of appiications have been filed with the chamber by Turk- ish and Afghan merchants wishing to participate in this yeas Baku fair. Accordingly, the Russ iental cham- ber of commerce ve td the com- petent authorities for am extension to Turkey and Afghanistahgot the special privileges and facilities granted for the Baku fair to Persia merchants, Does your frien the DAILY WO) bseribe to ? Ask him! your immediate disposal, tuto the fol- lowing: 1, From April 15th of this year, all the functionaries of the supervising committee of the Balkan center will be regarded as mobilized, 2, Those of you who are organized in groups of threes, fives and ‘tens must, at the latest by midday of April 18th, communicate the order of mobil- ization to the comrades under your direction of work according to instruc- tion No, 27,001 of the HB. ©. CG, I. of May 10th, 1924, 8. The directors of the centers for the distribution of arms must, by 1 p. m., on April 16th, prepare the dis- tribution of munitions in the quanti- tles necessary for each district ac- cording to the statements of the dis- trict directors. 4. The arms will be distributed in the night of April 15-16, and must then be in the keeping of the leaders of groups of ten, on their personal re- sponsibility. In points 5, 6, 7 and 8, detafled tn- structions are given as to the tasks of the individual fighting subdivisions in the carrying out of this plan. 9, The members of the workers, and Peasants’ organizations, with whose action of the Macedonian “Ouen Ojuka Taueb” will be brought into lne, are to be informed that the slightest breach of the fighting orders, will be punished on the spot by ex- ecution. Point 10 is devoted to the connec- tion between the individual bodies of troops. fi beeing decree is to be communicated at once to the provincial depart- ment, and that with the use of code Al. Z. and while pointing out that the communication is to be destroyed as soon as read? By order of the Executive of the Comintern A. Dorot, General Secretary of the Depart- ment for Foreign Relations. At the end of the document is the following postscript: To Comrade Sotow! Communicate the verdict at once to B.c. c. 1 Comrade Jants- (Illustration of chew, translate sicke and ham- the instructions mer.) in code Al, Z. and! Pass it on in the necessary num- Central Sectionof bers to the De- the Department partment for se- for Foreign Rela- cret Exp, tions. To be preserved in my personal archives. No. 2960 19. IIT. 1926. S. Buschalek Recd. No. 346a. Moscow. 19. IIT. 1925 De- partment for gen- eral supervision of the depts. for Foreign Rela- tions. As we see, the international forgers were quite indifferent to the fact that \{ their plan was exposed from the be- ginning. They used the forged forms without reflecting. that the Comin- tern, as an international organiza- tion can have no “Department for Foreign Relations,” since the Com- munist parties are for it no “foreign” organizations, but their own sections. At the end of this monstrous “docu- ment” they put the signature of some imaginary A, Dorot. Without turn- ing a hair, they, in this “document,” passed a sentence of death on some unknown persons and “fixed on the executioners who were to carry out this verdict.” And, to prove the genuineness of their production, they even added the mysterious words “Quena Ojuka Taueb” and go so far as to mention the “code Al. Z.,” etc. The “Central Section” instructs the “Balkan Section” to pass on the decree—naturally in full—coded. At the same time, however, they write this decree in pure Russian!—obvious- ly with the intention of making it possible for the band of forgers to read it, should it “fall” into their hands. Otherwise, of course, it could not be exposed, Ig rulers of Sofia have, as {s well known, declared war on their peo- ple: martial law, court martials, per- secution of the “illegals” in the vil- lages and in the towns, street fight- ing, dafly murders and “suicides,” per- sons disappearing without leaving a trace behind them, individuals jump- ing from the building of the secret police in Sofia, the houses of sus- pected persons being set on fire, wholesale arrests, barbaric tortures, ete. As, however, the government in- cludes not only generals but also professors who appreciate the sig- nificance of the “moral element” in warfare, the above—more or less crudely Balkan measures—are not the only methods of fighting used, for they might rouse the indignation of “pub- Uc opinion among the democratic powers.” Other, finer, intellectual methods of fighting, i. e. “Zinoviev letters” are added which, as ex- perience has shown, are not condemn- ed even in countries possessing all the virtues, such as England. To do them justice, we must acknowledge that the Sofia strategists made use of this kind of weapon as early as during the preparations for their September attack in 1923, that is to say, a year earlier than the English conservatives; it is only now, how- ever, that they have learned to handle this weapon in an accomplished and cold-blooded manner, The “Moscow order” published in Sofia is indeed their masterpiece. At the very moment when the gov- ernment has mobilized all its repres- sive and provocative forces, when, in the towns, in the villages and in the woods, thousands of workers and peasants are being chased to death under the pretext that they are “con- spiring,” when every-day workers and peasants are being shot down in the streets like mangy dogs—at this very moment thé - government publishes BUILDERS AT WORK The Daily Campaign List Keeps Growing SUBS RECEIVED ON MAY 21: OAKLAND. CALIF.—P. B, Cowdery (6). CINCINNATI, O.—M. Esterkin (4). ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Fred Eickhoff (4). “THE WORKER,” TORONTO, CAN.—(4). BUFFALO, N. Y—S. Katz (3); J. Sans; Jack Soininen. NEW YORK, N. Y.—Katterfeld (2); L. Niebrief; C. 0. Peterson, HARTFORD, CONN.—Geo, J. Epstein. GALVESTON, TEX.—A. M. Algelo. oi CHICAGO, ILL.—M. Auerbach (2). , INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—W. F, Jackman (2). KANSAS CITY, KAN.—M, Saras. BOSTON, MASS.—Anna Jancy. 8. PAUL. MINN.—H. Seklund, BALTIMORE. MD.—Philip Chatzky. ST. LOUIS, MO—H. Stoltz, BENTLEYVILLE. PA—Adam Getto. This Is a Different Challenge WILL COMRADE BLOCK OF CINCINNATI ACCEPT? Many builders have gone out to get subs and then challenged others to get what they got and the challenges have produced and are producing results, But Comrade Meyer Esterkin goes further. He not only got subs but means to get more and has the audacity to challenge no less a person than the City DAILY WORKER Agent himself! A brave builder indeed and here is his open and unashamed defiance: Comrades:—I'll bet Comrade Goodman Block one year's subscription to the WORKERS MONTH- LY that he will not get as many subs as | will dur- ing this campaign. | “T° you will take up this challenge Comrade Block Yours for filling the quota—to build for Com- munism, MEYER ESTERKIN oe f @ Now what do you say Comrade Block? Let the DAILY WORKER hear from you at once that you accept and mean to play h—avoo with this bold bullder Comrade ei 18 THE RACE ON? “the order of the B. 0. 0. I" with re- gard to the declaration of the {nsur- rection, which had been written on an exposed Berlin form. The moment has indeed been well chosen and the effect is tremendous. How is the Bul- garian petty bourgeois to know any- thing about the forged forms from Berlin? How could he, since not only the Communist, but every more or less independent press was suppressed long ago. No one in the country can write anything which is contrary to the orders of the Zankoy police, And if, at any time, the forgery is exposed, it will be too late, as by. that time the government will have attained its ends. HE fact remains that the whole press has, with great eagerness, Published this “document.” With the exception of two papers which ex- press a certian doubt as to its gen- uineness, all the rest of the papers, among them the soclal-democratia or- gan, represent {it as a genuine doou- ment. The foreign correspnodents who are well paid by the government, have communicated it to the foreign press. Bulgaria is represented as an unfortunate victim of the devilish plans: of the Comintern, at the back of which, of course, is the Soviet’ gov- ernment. The latter is said to have no less an object than that of wiping - the Bulgarian people from the face of the earth. But the Zankov govern- ment stands like a guardian angel at its post and prevents the collapsa of Bulgaria, Thus the band of murderers who, in the interests of a handful of bankers and speculators {s terrorizing a@ whole people and physically ex- terminating the most self-conscious and active part of the people, are try- ing in the light of this “document” to represent themselves as a group of self-sacrificing “heroes” and “saviors of the country.” In this way they ob- tain: exculpation of the crimes they have committed, a free hand for further shedding of blood, the conces- sion to increase their army and, as the result of all this—a temporary strengthening of their power. Is not the political success of this “Zinoviey letter” sufficient to encourage the Zankov bend to*manufacture similar “documents” in future? OWEVER important this “sue: cess” may be, it will not enable the Sofia leeches to establish their power for long. A large dose is not always the most helpful. When the government resorted to this monstrous forgery, it was only because its situa- tion was desperate, hopeless and that heroic means were needed to save it. We are firmly convinced that the masses and the Communist Party will preserve their self-control in the face of the, devilish attempts of the bands of provocatory agents, whose power is shaken to its foundations. In the atmosphere of blocd and forgery , which the government creates and the - general discontent, to which it gives rise, as well as in the defensive of the working masses, the bands of murderers will soon be exterminated. THREE DIE IN OND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS STORM Destitute Werkiacs Are Again Hit CENTRALIA, Ill, May 22— Two persons were killed here in an eleo- ‘} trical storm that swept the southern part of the state, inflicting severe damage to crops and homes of work- ers already made destitute by the tor- nado which cost several hundred lives early in the year. Homes were demolished, trees uprooted, and other severe damage done. The dead are M. B. Kesterson end his wife, Laura. One man was report- ed killed in McLeansboro. At Fairman, a dozen houses were unroofed, small structures were over. turned, and window panes shattered. Outlying rural districts reported a heavy crop damage. Fifty . thousand dollars worth of property was reported destroyed in Marlon. Yapy, houses were wrecked. a Gudttigton Train Overturns. | BROOKFIELD, Mo., May 22—-One man was killed and two others, all’ members of the crew, injured, when a Chicago, Burlington and Qi senger train derailed and several miles west of Novinger, Mis- souri, early today. Fireman Robert Watson, of Milan, was killed outright, pinned beneath the locomotive, « Engineer Harry Kendal of Milan, and Baggageman C. F, Lewis were cut and bruised when they leaped from the train, No passengers were injured, but panic ensued when the entire train stalled on the brink of steep embankment. nth Italy Would Reduce Debt to U. 8. ROME, Italy, May 22.—Mussolint will ask the United States govern- ment to reduce the debt of I to reapportion the debts among the vic- tor nations according to what each got out of the war in the way of plunder, it was made known here ‘| after a speech of the fascist dictator before the sénate. A small rate of interest will also be asked. i } , I)