The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1925, Page 6

4 Sl Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 | SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $8.50 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 J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB Editors jusiness Manager Entered as second mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi under the act of March 3, 1879. ‘Advertising rates on application. The Outlook The industrial outlook in the United States for the balance of the year is not so good. A note of pessimism is creeping into the articles of the business experts who usually peddle optimistic mental | pabulum to the middle class and to add to their fears it begins to appear that the agricultural situation is not of the most hopeful kind. There-is a great surplus of unskilled workers in the large cities of the middle west, an unusual condition for this time of the year when the haying and harvest season is beginning. The gov- ernment bureaus report a 15: to 20 per cent decrease in the demand for agricultural labor and the wages offered farm hands have declined from $5 to $15 per month. Unskilled labor in the cities reflects in its wages the decline in demand by a maximum of 40 cents per hour and a minimum of 30 cents—a decrease of something like a third from a year ago. Crops are bad and to us it appears that many farmers have been afraid to increase their acreage to any great extent due to the belief that the high prices of last fall were largely the result of speculation and could not be maintained. The two factors contribute to the drop in the demand for agricultural labor. It is fairly certain that there will be no bumper crop in the U. 8. as was the case last year and indications now are that a slackening of industry will be simultaneous with agricultural depression. That this belief prevails in official circles is shown by the special bulletins sent by the various commercial agencies to their clients to the effect that the next congressional elections will see a swing against the republican administration. Official labor, since its wild plunge of last year into the hitherto unexplored regions of political action outside the capitalist parties thru participation in the LaFollette movement, has remained more or less quiescent after a round of mutual recrimination but among} the rank and file there are important evidences of discontent crystal- lizing into a lfet wing movement of far broader proportions than any yet seen in this country. Coal miners, carpenters, machinists—key unions—with barbers and other miscellaneous unions are developing rank and file programs of surprising militancy with strong fol- lowings. Even in the railway brotherhoods, notably the trainmen, there have been such unheard of events as progressive campaigns against+ the reactionary leadership. The evident intention of the capitalists to seize. the first oppor- tunity for war on the union membership, which even the policy of class collaboration cannot disguise, has made the rank and file watch- ful and unusually suspicious of the officialdom. All of the above are signs of the sharpening of the class struggle in the United States. In addition, to these indications there is the quite obvious fear on the part of a large section of the middle class that the foreign adventurers of the House of Morgan are drawing the country into entanglements pregnant with the danger of new wars. Even the overtime efforts of the propagandists of imperialism can- not quite allay this fear, which finds its expression in scores of paci- fist and semi-pacifist organizations, helpless to stop war, but signi- ficant of the drift of sentiment among the small fry of capitalist America. “Internationally, the political situation is vibrating with the elash of imperialist rivalries in Morocco, the Balkans, Mesopotamia and China. We stand on the eve of new developments in the class conflict and upon the Workers (Communist) Party is the responsibility bringing into the confused atmosphere of the American labor move- ment new clarity of thought and a new will to struggle. We must carry on our work within the mass organizations of the American toilers with ever greater energy. We must endeavor to erect on this foundation a labor party with which to give a mass char- acter to the election campaigns of labor and thru which the political education of the American working class can be éxpedited. But most of all must we concentrate on building a mass Communist Party, strong, self-reliant, skilled in class warfare and capable of giving revolutionary leadership in the mass struggles for which the develop- ment of American capitalism has created the historieal background. American Democracy in China American machine guns are pouring a hail of death into the ranks of striking Chinese workers and students who have taken the part of the strikers against the exactions of foreign employers. The situation is fraught with serious possibilities. The struggle has a two-fold significance. It is a fight of the Chinese masses against the brutalizing working conditions and low stanard of living forced upon them by the capitalists and also a struggle on the part of the Chinese people as a whole against the degrading system of foreign domination imposed on the country by all the capitalist powers. In this game of oppression the United States is taking a leading part. The country that made a magnanimous gesture to China by returning its share of the Boxer indemnity, now uses the machine gun to force the Chinese to comply with the wishes of the money barons of Wall Street. The Chinese masses no longer look upon the United States as their friend. That place in their affections is now occupied by Soviet Russia, which joins with the Chinese people in fighting foreign political and economic domination. One significant feature of the Shanghai strike is the fact that all the capitalist powers, Japan included, are united against the work- ers, Tho the robber nations have conflicting interests they present a united front against labor. This should be a valuable lession in the| need for unity to the working class. The awakening of the Chinese millions is a serious threat to the plundering powers. In this period of temporary stabilization for capitalism, a slumbering China—slumbering but willing to slave for the capitalists—would mean hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for the plunderbund. But the days of capitalism are numbered if not yet ended. As the blackest of the clouds pass out of the capitalist By OTTO (Berlin) “The Executive of the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions has decided, simultaneously with the disarmament conference to be held by the league of nations in Geneva, to arrange in the same place a conference of the organiza- tions affiliated to the International Federation of Trade Unions.” HE “disarmament conference” of the league ofqnations, and also the “disarmament conference” of the In- ternational Federatfon of Trade Unions which is to be held at the same time, are the effects of definite causes. What causes? Before all the fact that all the capitalist states, both small and great, have commenced a competition in armaments which places that which preceded 1914 com- pletely in the shade. Feverish prep- arations are being made for war by land, air, and sea. If the storm should break, then the wholesale slaughter of 1914-1918 will appear insignificant in comparison. This fact led to the first “disarma- ment conference” in Washington on the part of the great powers, as well as to the Hague peace conference on the part of the organizations of the working class. If the Amsterdam In- ternational now once again convenes such a. conference, it only proves that the tremendous competition in arma- ments of all capitalist states has not been restricted by the Washington dis- armament conference, but that it has F THE DAILY WORKER Link Amsterdam ‘Trade Union International With League of Nations’ Disarmament Conference danger of war. The mew: conference further proves that the Hague peace resolutions have done nothing to change the rivalry in armaments. The iron arguments of sea, land and air armaments speak another language than that of the Hague paper TesO- lution, berm present step of the I. F, T. U. is a practical admisison that both it and its representatives on the league of nations aye not checked the armaments fever. \In spite of all the hymns of peace of the leaders of the I. F. T, U. and its representatives on the league of nations; none of the great powers takes a notice of the league of nations and of the I. F. T. U. This fact was rendéred obvious at the last session of thé league of na- tions and serves: best to expose the fraud of world peace which has been carried on hitherto by means of the league of nations by all its supporters in the face of the working masses, It was there that Chamberlain, the Brit- ish foreign minister, rejected the Geneva protocol, “as its clauses were calculated to increase the danger of war instead of promoting the idea of peace!” Briand, the representative of France in. the league of nations, also used this as an occasion to declare, “that it is: quitesimpossible for the league of nations to come before the world at present with the declaration that it cannot do anything to stop war.” The bankrupt peace angels of. the International Federation of Trade become an ever nearer approaching Unions are quite disappointed over this defeat of their policy and excuse themselves by saying: “They would never have believed, that after the last barbarous war, any government, even if it were a conservative government, would have the audacity to speak so op- enly of the necessity for alliances and armaments as was recently done by the foreign minister, Cham- berlain.” ND in such a moment of pointed declarations on the part of the great powers against the Geneva pro- tocol of the league of nations, the In- ternational Federation of | Trade Unions convenes its conference, with- out communicating the agenda or the program of the conference to the working class and the public. In- stead of appealing to all workers, as wellas.totheir organizations, in order to carry out the immediate common steps in the active fight against the armaments race, the International Federation of Trade Unions intends to do the following: “At this conference it will not be a question of a great demonstration, similar to that of the Hague peace conference, but of exerting practi- cal and impressive influence upon the representatives of the govern- ments themselves.” How these Amsterdam trade union diplomats are going to exert practical and impressive influence upon Cham- berlain and Briand, as well as upon their policy of iron arguments, they do not say. And why do they com- municate the import of their practical and impressive influence to the rep- resentatives of the governments and conceal it from the working class? Simply because: “in no case must there be a great demonstration similar to that of the Hague conference!” IHERE we have the reason for secret diplomacy. The workers of all countries must see thru this and energetically call a halt to~this ac tivity of the Amsterdam trade union diplomats. Whilst at the Hague con- ference there were representatives of the Soviet trade unions present, at the conferenceto be now convened by the International Federation of Trade Unions only the organizations affill- ated to the Amsterdam Trade Union International are to take part. Whilst at the Hague conference there stood on the agenda the ways and means for common attion against all imperialist wars, it i8 Now sought to prevent this, becatise*the trade unions of the Soviet Union. serve as a brilliant example in the active fight of-the workers against all imperialist wars. Whilst at the Hague. congress the trade unions of the Soviet Union demanded, instead of the proposed paper resolutfon, the ac- tive mobilizing of the masses against armaments, with all the means of the class struggle, and a common interna- tional week of agitation against im- perlalism to be concluded by a one day’s protest strike, this interference is to be avoided when exercising “im- pressive influence upon the represen- tatives of the governments.” Trade Unions does not know what If the International Federation of | means the working class has at its disposal, then the workers in all countries must raise their voices and declare: The question of war prepa rations or peace is not an affair of the International Federation of Trade Unions but of the whole of the inter: national working class! UST as was the case in the last world war of 1914-1918, the whole working class, without distinction, will be hit by the coming war. And if the. workers do not wish to let this mass slaughter sweep over them while they remain helpless as in 1914- 1918, they must act. unitedly and with determination. This requires, at least, the closest fighting unity and solidar- ity in this question with the trade unions of the Soviet Union. For the Russian working class is threatened by the war danger promoted® by the armaments competition of the capi- talist states, no less than the’ West- European working class. Their suc- cessful policy in the defensive ‘strug- gle against all military actions on the part, of the West European imperial- ists is the best instructor as to how to exercise “practical and impressive in- fluence,” If the working class does not desire to wade once more thru a sea of blood, then it must stretch out a hand to the Soviet Union and see to it that the International Federation of Trade Unions complies with this demand and establishes a close fighting alilance |of the whole working ‘class for the fight against all military intentions of the imperialist states. The American Massacre in the Far East - MERICAN..troops have fired upon Chinese workers and students! Is this the opening shot in a com- ing world war? An American “citizen” has been shot. What citizen? “Private T. G. McMartin of the American company of volufteérs at Shanghai,” say the reports. The complaint is’ that™ a| Chinese’ “mob” fired upon American | troops, wounding McMartin who is an} innocent dentist, but was under arms in military formation on Chinese soil at the time he was shot. What are the American troops do- ing in China? What are American) ships of war doing in Chinese har- bors? F Chinese troops were marching un- der arms somewhere in the United States—say in California—what would happen? Is there any doubt that some of them would be shot? But this is not in California or Mlli- nois. It is in China, and China is supposed to be different. The Amer- icans are fn Ghina for the purpose of plundering’ and exploiting the 440, 000,000 Chinese people and the enorm- ous resotrces of that marvelous land. The “Anéricans are the “superior, race” in China for the purpose of en- slaving the “inferior” yellow Chinese. Chinese workers are being employed in factories for wages ranging from one and’ one-half cents a day for women to fifty cents a day for the higher paid men. Chinese children are being worked twelve hours a day at the age of six years and up. This is the sugar bowl around which are swarming the filthy imperialist files of all big capitalist nations. The mur- der of men, women and even babies is being done by American capitalists for the money that is to be made in fabulous sums thru'the act of murder. No crime of a foot-pad who murders to obtain a pocketbook, no crime of a Leopold and Loeb” who! «murder for the fun of witnessing death, can.com- pare in cold-blooded, heartless, sordid brutality. with the crime’ which is be-| ing committed in China undér the) American flag. The exploitation, the filling of graveyards with the bodies of mere babies worked to death, is | the first crime, The ‘shooting of the, | protesting Chinese workers and| | students on their own soil is the next | | crime. t UT it is profitables< The American capitalist class, the most ruthless beast of history, will continue the ex- poitation and the murder at any cost. The first turning loose of the American machine guns om the: Chinese in Shanghai is a forwarning of what is to follow. vues The smug gentlemen in Washington will seek means to continue and ex- tend the exploitation, Military men and navy commanders will sit and plot for the exploitation of Chinese babies for the profits of American corporations. The recent gigantic fleet maneuvers in the Pacific had the pur- pose of preparing for the conquest of the Far East. All the strength of the marvelous machine development ot the United States can and will be| mobilized for the wholesale murder of the Chinese, and for the struggle against all competing powers for the first right.to do so. if ioe Chinese nation is: being solidi- fied with an intense determination to resist subjection. Of course, the Chinese industrial working class is the backbone of the movement and the one unswervingly reliable ferce of resistance. But also the nationalist Bunking the Workers Ranking officers of the army and navy, trade union leaders, movement of China {s supporting the resistance. semi-colonial country, the nationalist | Movement may objectively be a vast- lye different force from what it is in a dominant nation, and in the case of In a subject colonial or| | great powers, weakened by the last war. and fearful of another big con- | flict, at the present time, are not s0| | able as the Unietd States to throw the world into a cataclism at this moment. American capitalism is China .the nationalsit movement 38) bursting with the material for an at- arrayed against the foreign exploiter | tempt-at world conquest. The Chinese and is under the circumstances a revo-| propaganda of resistance has hereto- comedians, movie stars, officials of the Federal Reserve Bank, promi- nent bankers, officials of the governments of the nations, state and city, gathered together at the second anniversary celebration of the Federation Bank of New York. This is one of the so-called labor banks that have come into existence during the past few years. This bank now has $11,000,000 in deposits and is patronized not only by workers but by the business elements, acegeding to the proud boast of Peter Brady. president. Among those who congratulated the Federation Bank on its prosperity were Calvin Coolidge and Andrew Mellon..That both those outstanding representatives of capitalism should endorse labor banking, is in itself a convincing argument against this form of business unionism as a substitute for fighting the bosses. Coolidge declared that the growth of labor banking proves that this is a real democracy where the workers have the same opportun- ity as the capitalists for making money. Mellon said labor banking proves that the workers can save money as well as money. President Green of the American Federation of Labor, not to be outbabbitted by Messers Coolidge and Mellon, declared that “labor banks would have a profound effect on future progress and advance- ment of community and individual life upon industry.” Which is almost as clear as mud, g Labor banking will not solve the problems of the working class, tho it must be admitted that it will help solve the problems of the labor fakers. Nice jobs as bank presidents and directors beckon to the tired per capita sharks, who have long since taken their last look at the picket lines. But labor banks will not eliminate the class struggle which arises from the conflict between the sellers and buy- ers of labor power over the cost of that commodity, which remains a commodity despite the provisions of the Clayton act. | Labor in business means that a few confidence | men from the ranks of labor will reap a golden harvest in juggling savings of the workers after the fashion of the older bankers dnd insurance companies. . sky in Burope, trouble looms in the colonies, today in China, yester- day.in Morocco, tomorrow, perhaps in India, _, The colonial masses are awakening and this 1# a most encour- aging sign of the times for Tabor. It carries an ominous note for imperialism. — The middle class holders of stock in the hantongll Chicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul railroad again learn that the b hold the whiphand, een cat es ee lutionary force. | The Chinese nationalist movement | has for its slogans the independence’ of China from foreign domination, the | abolition of extra-territorial rights of | the foreign capitalists, the abolition | of foreign concessions and foreign con- trol of customs. HE Chinese labor movement—new and glorious phenomenan of the new epoch!—is directed against the conditions of inhuman exploitation, by the capitalists of the cotton mills and other industries, and these capitalists are also foreigners. The existence and militancy of this industrial labor movement gives the backbone and en- sures the dyanmic force of the revolu- tion. The fact that the upheaval takes the form of a general strike of in- dustrial workers gives the peculiar es- sence of the present situation. This is the guarantee that the affair will be no passing incident, but an endur- ing movement which leads on without doubt toward the final crisis of world imperialism. Tt is entirely possible that the United States will be called to war in Asia in the chain of events now oc- curring. American marines were landed at Shanghai last Monday. More warships are on the way. The direct drawing’ of the United States into the situation greatly in- tens: the probability of war. Other Stupidity of “Cop” Costs Innocent Man Life; Shot in Jaw Wilbur Johnson, @ messenger for the Brinks Express company, was shot and killed by a policeman who mistook him for a bandit as he at- tempted to collect some money from an oil station at Milwaukee Ave. and Clinton St. “Give me the money,” said the express messenger to the man in charge of the oil station, in his usual manner, Just then Baston appeared and hearing the command, he fired, hit- ting the messenger in the jaw. At the county hospital the man died on the operating table, Tornado In Nebraska. OMAHA, Nebr., June 3.—A trail of death and property destruction today marked the paths of three tornadoes that swept over eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. Four were known to have been kill- ed in Nebraska and 3 in Iowa, east of Adair. More than a score of persons were injured, Miner Is Murdered. CENTERILLBE, Iowa, June 8,—Alex Johnson, 62, a miner, died at St. Jos- eph’s hospital here early today trom axe wounds received while asleep in his tent near mine No, 4, No cluot to his slayers has been found. Johnson had fived tn the tent for 12 years while he worked at the mine, SPRINGFIELD, ‘Tll,, June 8.—By a vote of 65 ayes to 79 nays, the house today killed the O'Grady resolution providing for. of the Illinois Mquor laws. The measure carried a referendum which {t proposed to pre- sent te the general electorate, ae fore,apparently been aimed chiefly at the British and Japanese imperialists. ‘Now dt: must inevitably be turned! against the American imperialists with intense vigor. The Chinese wall- poster’ cartoons which are stuck up | om ‘every lamp post, door and wall, | picture the foreign imperialists as | tartles. The turtle, to the Chinese, symbolizes all that is filthiest in human affairs. Inevitably the Ameri- ean imperialists must be pictured as the biggest turtle of them all. How is the American working class going to respond to the call for mass murder in China in the clearest pos- sible form of strikebreaking? Lives there another Gompers who can per- suade the American labor movement to- support the massacre of Chinese Workers and peasants in a war for “democracy”? mic 14 a! duty of the American working class is to prepare to support the Chinese workers and the Chinese na- tionalists against the invasion by American militarism, and to support them by every effective means in their powet, A like duty faces the work- ing class of England, the British dom- inions, France, Italy and Japan. As te the Russian working class, it will do its duty to the full measure, and, possessed as the Russian workers are, of full state power, this will be no small measure. The'now long estab- lished relations between revolution- By R. ALBERT. HE assassins in the pay of M. Zan- kov murdered in Prague M. Daska- lov, the leader of the Peasants’ League and ‘an old colleague of Stamboulisky, the former chief of the Bulgarian peas- ant government. In Milan they killed the hero of Macedonian independence, Peter Tshaulev. To their other numerous crimes they have now added the murder in Vienna of Todor Panitza, another fighter in the Macedonian cause. -were already aware that they were preparing to carry out assas- sinations in Austria and in Italy. Docu- ments émanating from the Bulgarian embassy in Rome have been made public regarding thelr activity in Italy. With regard to their activity in Vienna we only know that they have “con- demned to death,” among other poli- tical opponents, D. Viakhov, the presi- dent of the Balkan federation and that they are only waiting for a suit- able occasion in order to carry out their decree, * In addition to these professional cut- throats, the Sofia government is work- ing abroad with the aid of its diplo- macy and {ts secret police, Its secret police study the habits of and the places frequented by the vic- tims who ‘have been marked down for assassination, Its diplomacy corrupts the press and {s continually intriguing in the foreign chancelleries. It de- It seeks to prove that the victims who fall under the knife or the revolver of its assassins are the assassination in carried Vienna was fh ae: prosion moment By Robert Minor ary Russia and revolutionary China |are a guarantee that China will not be without powerful help if this is |indeed the beginning of the coming world conflict. Will the American working class face | its duty? One thing is sure: the Amer- | fean Communist’ will do their ut- | most to bring the American workers to face it. | Whether the second world war, cen- tering about Asia, is precipitated early {or late, these strirring events in China should be a warning against any foolish dreams of permanent stabilization and a long period of peaceful development of capitalism. It should be a warning that if there is a temporary pause in the development of the revolutionary world situation, it is a perfod in which to build the Communist parties in all countries as thoroly and as rapidly as’ it can be ‘done. Bspecially the American party has this duty. The picture of the gigantic tasks we have to perform here {n this center of the strongest, most brutal of capitalist societies, to- gether with this threat of the im- minence of a world cataclism, should stir every American Communist to work hight and day for the building of our party to a size and Bolshevik character more in measure with the task. (HE machine guns which massacred the Chinese workers in Shanghai should be heard in every branch and every shop nucleus of the Workers (Communist) Party of Amefica, Build the Workers (Communist) Party of America! Faces to the Far East! Bring the American workers to undrestand that the Chinegt workers are figating our fight, in which we, too, must play our part. 5 The Assassination of Todor Panitza in Vienna when the cabinets of Sofia and Bel- grade, who are obviously supported by Chamberlain, are exerting a shameful pressure on the small Austrian repub- lc. They demand nothing more nor less than the abolition of the right of asylum at present enjoyed by a few Bulgarian subjects who have escaped the slaughter in Sofla, Gorna-Djou- maia and other places. a! The murder of Todor Panitza bears all the marks of a political’ crime. ‘The female student, Mencia Car. niciu, who, on May 8, during the’ per- formance of Peer Gynt in the Burg Theater, aimed the bullet at the donian leader, was—as the o statement shows—a frequent Visitor of a certain M. Antonov, the chief of the press department of the Bulgarian embassy in Vienna. M. Antonov was in the habit of handing over to her the “remittances” sent to her by her par- ents in Bulgaria. Ig not the matter suffictently clear? ‘ENCIA CARNIOFU has declared that she wanted to punish in Pa- nitza the “wicked Macedonian.” The 00d Macedonians are those of Gener- al Protogerov, who are in the service of M, Zankovy, The bad Macedonians are those who support the united front of all the suppressed and the free federation of the workers and peasants of the fe. After the assassination of Peter\ Tehauley in Milan, Todor Panitaa, who was an old insurgent renowned for his courege and who for a long time Mved {n .ie mountains, fought for years against the Turkish oppression and never submitted to any for | yoke, became the real leader sade rerdissata ta