The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1925, Page 6

’ emerge, ames cess oni peter ead Tagg oP hd Ae po ala RP Sea MC THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months —— Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Illinois _ teen J. LOUIS ENGDAHL l WILLIAM F. DUNNE (*” MORITZ J, LOB. 5b ssscesncsssiees Editors ...Business Manager = nt Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. July 4, 1925 So July 4, the anniversary of the founding of the American gov- ernment, is to be a test mobilization day. July 4 has\been substituted for armistice day by President Coolidge as the time to turn the mili- tarists loose for twenty-four hours and let them have their way with the populace. Coolidge may be dumb in-many ways, but no one can accuse him of not being in line with the war plans of his imperialist masters. British imperialism is the real rival of America in the world today and on July 4, the anniversary of the struggle for independence from Great Britain, all of the camouflage can be discarded and an orgy of patriotism indulged in with the hated “redcoats” as the target of 100 per cent American wrath. This is a clever maneuver and the coming anniversary will be something more than a celebration of past victories—it will be a pre- paration for a new war for world domination in which our rulers hope, by sacrificing millions of workers, to arise as the unchallenged tyrants of the eastern and western hemispheres. On this account it is all the more necessary that the class con- scious workers to turn this ruling class holiday into a day of demon- stration against imperialist war, to expose the murderous use of a revolutionary tradition to further the bloody aims of the ruling class. EhPe 290 —= ose . . Negro Baiting in Chicago * A Negro lecturer goes into a Chicago restaurant with two prom- inent women social workers. The proprietor refuses to serve him, four policemen are called and throw the Negro out, beat him up and arrest him. The Chicago Tribune gives the story first page space and treats it as a great joke—on the Negro. Ngan The victim of racial prejudice happens to be a citizen of France, a college graduate and an editor of a Negro paper published in Paris. He is in this country to investigate the conditions under which the American Negroes live and by accident of birth he is a lenial descend- ant of the royal family of Dahomey. There is no reason why any restaurant should object to his patronage except that he is black. Incidents such as the above give the lie to the professions of friendship made for the Negroes by the capitalist press. Not only is such treatment of the Negroes made the subject of merriment, but it is directly encouraged in order that the white workers, kept in ignorance of their class interests by the rulers, may have a group, lower in the social scale than themselves, upon which to heap scorn and thereby forget the insults and hardships visited upon them by the rulers of their own color. The recent outrage should be made the center of a protest in all the Negro sections of the city in which all whites who sincerely want racial hatreds wiped out should be asked to join. Mass meetings should be called, delegations sent to the city and state authorities and such a fuss kicked up that the Negro baiters and .their agents will understand that there is a penalty attached to such brutal dis- regard of the right of Negroes to live as equals in the United States. Dawes Plan Stabilization The Dawes plan has brought temporary stabilization to western Europe and checked for a time the revolutionary struggle, . More than this it cannot do. On this point we have the testimony of no less a personage than Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador to America. The heart of the Dawes plan is the revival of German industry. But this revival is meaningless if Germany cannot sell her industrial products abroad. \ Germany owes France and Britain huge sums in reparations. They in turn owe the United States billions of dollars, Germany can pay Great Britain and France only by selling her commodities in their markets. They again can pay the United States only by selling their commodities in American markets. 5 The Dawes plan rests, therefore, upon the backs of the workers of all nations. It can work only by the American masses being feduced to a new low living standard just as in Germany and Great Britain it has resulted in a lowering of the living standards of the German and British workers.. The American capitalists will demand that the American workers. meet European competition. A tarifi wall is no solution of the problem, in spite of the approval given it by Laurence Todd of the Federated Press in a recent article. If Europe cannot sell neither can she buy and-tariff or no tariff, the breakdown of the European markets spells unemployment for the American workers. F The choice which the American workers have to make is the same as that the European workers must make: Hither a stern and militant struggle for a workers’ and farmers’ government with control of industry by shop councils and unions, or ecoolie wages, chronic joblessness and slow starvation, . ° . se Americanism in Haiti : A Haitian editor has been jailed for printing the story of an ancient Swedish king who. was overthrown because of his tyranny. This was claimed by the armed forces of the American government now in possession of Haiti to be direct incitement to violence against them. We hope it was and also wish to remark in this connection that when an editor has to dig up the sages ‘of the Norsemen in an at- tempt to avoid prosecution it is pretty good evidence that the gov- ernment he is attacking needs overthrowing. More power to our Haitian comrades, _ We do not understand the delay in Dayton, Tennessee, in burn- ing at the stake young Scopes who tried to teach a milk-and-water brand of evolution in the so-called schools of that city. He has been indicted for a crime against god almighty and his Tennessee vicars and many a Negro has been tortured to death for less, le that the leniency extended to Scopes marks a Lov is progress or is the delay due to the ravages of the The By MICHAEL KALININ. President of the Union of Soviet Republics. f I |] )URING the first half of May the regular Soviet Congresses will meet: first the Russian (R. S. F.8. R.) and afterwards that of the Soviet Un- ion. The main question on the agenda of |the Soviet Congress of the R. S. F. S. R. is the report of the People’s Com- misar for Health. It is the first time |since the existence of the Soviet Re- public that this. question is on the agenda of the Soviet Congress. I believe that the Congress will sup port the policy of the People’s Com- misar for Health, which consists in promoting as much as possilble the publis health in the villages, In spite of our relative poverty, the public service in the towns is more or less satisfactory-; in the village however, it is very much open to criticism. I believe that the Congress will point out the necessity of finding some means in order to enable a number of peasants to visit the sanatoriums in the health resorts. Many comrades will here make the objection that we are not even able to supply the peas- ants with the necessary quantity of castor oil—how then, can we talk of health resorts. It is true that in many cases the drugs and medicines are sold so.dearly that they are almost unobtainable for’ the peasants. But it is the same case with the workers; nevertheless, the health insurance authorities find it useful to send sick workers to health resorts, and I be- lieve that the trade unions, which determine the line of policy of the { THE DAILY WORKER ~—~—--——— - { workers’ health service, are acting rightly. : i is clear that in this, connection it will be only posible to providé ac- comodation for about two to three thousand peasants, but it is not a matter of indifference whether these 2000 to 3000 places ate occupied by the privileged sections of the popula- tion, who are able to visit the health resorts almost every year, or by those peasants who are most in need of a stay at a convalescent home. The question of the seed campaign will have an informative character at the Congress. It was necessary to place it on the agenda, because the unusual winter gave rise to some doubts among the population regard- ing the results of the autumn sowing. According to the declarations of the specialists, the present condition of the crops sown in ‘the autumn is rather middling. An atithorative dec- laration regarding the results of the autumn and spring sowing certainly would be of great importance. In addition to the questions men- tioned above there stand on the ag- enda certain constitutional questions. in connection with the ,establishment of the Union of Soviet Republics, of which the R. S. F. 8. R. (Russian So- cialist Federated Soviet Republic) forms a constituent part. ly HE agenda of the-III Soviet Con- gress of the Union of Socialist So- viet Republics, which will meet on the 8th of May, is fairly large. The first question to be discussed will be the question of the inclusion of Turkmenistan and. Usbekistan in the Soviet Union. This question, there- for,—contrary to the traditions of the Purcell’s Visit Alarms the Bosses Ralph Easley of the Civic Federation, the organization of labor officials and capitalists, in which the spiritual guidance of the Amer- ican labor movement is vested, has sounded the war cry against world trade union unity. ? The occasion for the call to fakerdom and its bosses to be on its guard is the coming visit of A, A. Purcell, president of the Interna- tional. Federation of Trade Unions, to the United States. He has been elected as a fraternal delegate to the American Federation of Labor convention by the British Trade Union Congress, the .most powerful body of organized workers in the world outside of Soviet Russia, and there is a great fluttering in the dovecotes of American fakerdom in consequence. Why? x6 Because Purcell was one of the British trade union. delegation to Russia, is a member of the Anglo-Russian Trade Union Unity Committee and one of the editors of a magazine devoted'to the drive for unity among the organized workers of the*world. « A special meeting of the Civic Federation willrbe called to devise means of gagging Purcell or of keeping him out/of the coun- try if he refuses to keep his mouth shut or ‘say only the things the labor agents of capitalism want him to say. The plan cannot be carried out secretly due to the prominence of Purcell in the labor world and there are first class prospects of the American trade unionists getting a close-up view of panicky labor fakers scurrying for cover when the inevitable exposure of their lies about Soviet Russia, the Russian labor movement and the drive for «world trade union ‘unity begins. 4 q r They have underestimated the strength of the desire for world solidarity of the workers and they are going to be shown up as the traitors they are. This will not happen overnight, but the fear of the consequence of Purcell’s visit marks the beginning of a process of enlightment in the ranks of American labor that will ultimately de- throne the Greens, Wolls, Lewises and other exponentsof the gentle art of leading workers into the camp of their enemies. pI RGR: ABN SE OR LE Bl Stopping the Marder of Miners Day before yesterday we published a story from , Reliance, Wyoming, telling of the fight of the coal miners there for enforce- ment of safety provisions and the conspiracy existing between the companies and the state inspectors. ; Yesterday we carried a story of a gas blast in a Pennsylvania mine that took the lives of five miners, a blast that was the inevitable result either of poor inspection or of neglect to report the presence of gas. It is the second serious accident in this district within a week. st It seems to us that the union officialdom does not.use accidents of this kind to put the coal barons on the defensive in the way they could, There is too much of a tendency to accept these horrors as a.necessary part of the risks that miners must take®and dislike of using them for great publicity campaigns which would arouse both union-and non-union miners and form the basis for mine commit- tees that would undertake the most rigid inspection and enforce safety regulations to the hilt. soe The reason for this is obvious. The officials feat’rank and file committees, especially responsible committees like these would be, just about as much as the operators do. ans Tt is ridiculous to say that the long death roll im American coal mines cannot be cut down, but it is just as ridiculéus to say that it can be reduced substantially by co-operation with’the coal mine owners, Militant rank and file committees with a union that backs them up uncompromisingly is the only way the murder of miners for profit can be stopped. sttye t > Settlements That Settle Nothing The proposed agreement between France and Spain on one side and the Riffs on the other, looking toward a settlement of the Moroc- can war, has in its provision something far more dangerous to the working class of Europe than the war itself. This is a widening of the breach between France and England by the project for a French controlled railway thru Spain to the Mediterranean that brings French Africa into Europe so far as distance is concerned and which is the basis of the proposed agreement. : ‘ The project, as it affects Great Britain, is exactly the same as the Berlin-Bagdad railway scheme which sowed the of the world war. Great Britain eam no more afford to have ce tap her great West African reservoir by a railway than shewould afford to haye Germany secure a similar short rail route to the Near East. = Settlements of colo wars by new alliances. these days of between high imperialist enterprise can only increase the the great powers just as will A SA of the s pt IE Sa a Re i Sc Sl A EE SO I I A nl Congress hitherto—constitutes the first item on the agenda, in order thereby to enable the people of these two republics to participate in the work of the Congress and, further, in order to emphasize the enormous im- portance of the fact that two Hastern Republics have freely joined our Un- ion, The second question is the report of the government, which will probab- ly furnish occasion for a debate on the general policy of the government The third question which will be discussed is the position of industry. This item was deleted from the agen- da of the II Soviet Congress owing to the death of comrade Lenin. Dur- ing the two years that have elapsed since the I Soviet Congress, our in- dustry has made great headway. Two years ago the main problem for our industry consisted in keeping the fac- tories employed. The general slogan of our industry at that time was “give orders!” To-day, our undertakings are receiving orders at a much ~quicker rate than we had anticipated. The time is not distant when our industry will not know what to do with all the numerous orders. Already to-day we see a change of roles between the People’s Commissar for Traffic and the Supreme People’s Economic Council. The People's Economic Council, which formerly almost had to beg for orders from the People’s Commissar for Trat- fic, has now become an organ that ex- ecutes the orders of the Commissar for Traffic as if they were the merest trifles. And in the next few years we shall see the same thing happening along the whole industrial front. This dev- elopment of industry “brings to the en forefront quite a number of extremely important problems with which our industry was quite unaquainted even @ year ago. I will only mention, for example, the necessity of furnishing our industrial undertakings with new plant and machinery. It was obvious that so long as our industry had only to meet a minimum demand, it was able to carry on with the old technical equipment, At present, however, when the output of the undertakings in many places has reached a hundred per cent of the pre-war output, they cannot, of course, cope with the de- mand with the old worn out equip- ment. (HE fourth item on the agenda is the question’ of rendering assist- ance to agriculture. The congress will probably adopt a whole number of measures in order to improve the sit- uation in agriculture. These measures will not be confined to measures for improving the soil, but measures will be adopted in the sphere of taxation, co-operative activity, the consolidation of agricultural credits, the encourag- ing of home industry, etc. A great number of these measures have al- ready been introduced by the govern- ment, regarding which a report will be submitted and which will be*dis- cussed from all sides by the congress. The question of the Soviet construc- tion work constitutes the fifth item on the agenda. This question, which formerly had a purely organizatory character, has recently received a pro- found social and political import. In all probability instructions will be is- sued with regard to the duties of the higher officials, for the improvement of the Soviet apparatus and for bring- ing it into touch with the masses. aot Third Soviet Congress of the Soviet Union The sixth item is the’ Report of. the People’s Commissar for Finance. Fi- nance constitutes today the blood ves- sels of industry. Nevertheless, I be- lieye that the dicussion of this ‘ques- tion at the III Soviet Congress will not bring anything new or unexpected. If anything new is decided upon this will be in the direction of lightening taxation, and in no way in imposing fresh burdens of taxation. HE seventh item will be the Report on the Red Army. -Formerly, these reports contained statements regard- ing the conditions on our fronts, which rendered them of very great interest. The Red Army is now leading a more or less peaceful life. During the past year the activity of the Red Army has eonsisted in \developing and strength- ening our powers of resistance against our enemies. In spite of our continu- al efforts for peace, and our desire that (the time may soon come when armies will be superfious, the Soviet Ufiion is at present compelled to follow atten- tively the development of the military power of the capitalist countries, and to make its preparations accordingly. Since the last report our Red Army has made very great progress in the. sphere of organization, of discipline, and in learning the art of war. Of course, like other important branches in the life of our state, it needs a con- siderable supply of material means. There is no doubt that the Congress of the Soviet Union will support our Red Army with the whole of its au- thority; it will give expression to the love and gratitude of the workers, the peasants and of all honest citizens of the Soviet Republic towards the de- fenders of Soviet Russia. A MEMORIAL DAY REVERIE Our Readers’ Views. Educational Possibilities Among Miners. To the DAILY WORKER:—The miners of the Pittsburgh, Kansas, dis- tricts like the miners of the other dis- tricts are unemployed most of the time. This forces many into the bus- ee CARLSON LIVE IN WANT—REST IN PEACE. \ . Ziegfeld | Follies Show Up American Follies By ESTHER LOWELL, Fed. Press. “lTWHANK you, bankers,” Will Rogers retorts in the Ziegfeld Follies when he gets a hand for Andrew Mel- lon in his proopsed cabinet. Rogers claims that Mellon is the first secret- ary of the treasury we’ve had who was used to handling money before iness of bootlegging, making this 80-ihe took office. “Why, when Mellon cigl evil a wide-spread menace to the intergity of the workers. These work- ers must live and other industries can not absorb them so they revert to this natural result of capitalism, Working class literature has not penetrated this district. The unions have neglected to take care of this forced idleness for use as education as the other nations do in the way ‘of establishing reading rooms with maga- zines and books suitable for the: miners. & The distribution and sale of ‘the’ DAILY WORKER, that now leads, the contest being over the top in subs ‘as well as the sale of books, shows the desire by these miners to read work- ing class literature and shows the ne- lected possibilities of trade unions in’ this country. . E. Hugo Oehler, Pittsburgh, Kan. Two Broth Victims of Bloody Exploitation To the DAILY WORKER:—In the bloody exploitation of the working class the iron mine field of northern Minnesota is a crossless cemetery of workers bodies. The slogan “Safety Fi is a veil behind which the steel lords unmercifully suck the exhaust- ed workers’ blood. The death of miners is a usual occurrance, and the capitalist press usually describe it as due to some negligence on the part of the workers. The two miners, Nick Yiliock, 36, and his brother George, 28, were" killed yesterday morning at Stevenson mine, four miles west of Hibbing. The walls fell in while they were working in a small room ‘on the 100 foot level. Both of fig Biters resided at the St. Louis location, near Keewatin, Nick is supvived by his wife and four children, “refer the mercy of the capitalists. George N. Zalckov, me sd Minn, ase ety, comes from one of his own banks into treasury,” says Will, “he’s going slum- ming.” Ziegfeld’s famous Follies glorifies the American girl as advertised but slips in an assortment of slaps at some other American institutions in comic supplement style. Will Rogers isn’t the only dose of social satire in the show. But Will is just himself and wields a wicked rope and swings a tart tongue. For instance he con- ‘fidéntially announces that Coolidge ed to him like an insurance agent and that the real reason the president prefers his iron horse is OATS. Coo- lidge says the mechanical horse ‘gives him more exercise but Will remarks: Give Cal a real horse that won't eat and he'll take him every time! ‘Rogers suggests that if Hindenburg disgraces the Kaiser by making him vice-president of Germany, when they want another war let Dawes and Bill fight it out—with pipe and sword. Maybe Dawes can do better with his European plan than with his Amer- ‘American plan . Rogers thinks senate could walk right out on water without sinking. And the cowboy that anyone who could change the philosopher, highest-paid-ad-writer, tells you that it isn’t the Volstead agents who are behind this orgy of prohibition padlocking but the Yale lock people! The Senator as presented by Tom Lewis might by any distinguished po- litical speaker getting rid of surplus hot air. Lewis runs along absurdly stringing. connecting phrases and frag- ments of sentences. You get the idea that he’s trying to say something and always suppressing it because he Teal- izes at the instant that it isn’t the thing to say aloud. The show is a contribution to American life but priced out of reach of most workers. It is a beautiful production, with a matchless display of legs, and-is not so babbity as the usual audience who sees it, , on Soviet Goods on the MOSCOW,—The Dani ing been declared open for ping of all countries, the State Commercial Fleet is o a regular service on that river. will allow the Union of Soviet Social- ist Republics to receive goods directly without transit thru Poland or the Baltic states. Get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER. FACTS FOR WORKERS By JAY LOVESTONE, Director, Research Department, Workers Party Growth of the capitalist government apparatus in the United States, as shown by the increase of revenues from taxes of counties, incorporated places of over 2,500, the national government, and states: 1912 and 1922, Division 1912 1922 Pet. Increase Counties $307,872,000 $745,000,000 142 Incorporated places 849,971,000 1,532,435,000 80 National Govt. (June 30, " i 1913 & June 30, 1923) 667,038,000 3,204,133,000 be State governments | 306,521,000 867,552,000 | GRAND TOTAL’ —>$2,131,402,000$6,849,120,000 _ Based on United 1 census bureau investigations,