The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1925, Page 6

Page Six \ ~ THE DAILY WORKER | -— foe he THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $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 J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. .Hditors .. Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at® Chi- cago, Ill., under the act of March 8, 1879. <> 290 i Advertising rates on application. Looking ’em Over The United States has as fine a collection of labor skates as any country under the sun, not even excluding Britain, the home of the species. It is interesting to watch these animals doing their stuff on the capitalist stage and begging for the applause that comes as part compensation for their services. . In the higher grades the fakers manage to veil their treason be- hind a theory of class collaboration which at least gives an indica- tion of intelligence if not of honesty. But among the lower strata the brazen tactics of the street walker are used, and the capitalists are to come on and invest a small sum in a good proposition, in this case a deserving labor skate. We offer the following quotation nas the Union Labor Journal of Bakersfield, California, as one of our exhibits in this rogue’s gallery : Labor Is loyal to the American government—that is as set forth In the constitution. Hence labor has several conflicts on Its hands. It Is fighting |, W. W.ism and Communism, quite as much as these are fighting labor, So long as labor remains the overwhelming majority It is, when compared with these two named factors, It will keep these two revolutionary factors from the activity they plan. To the reverse, so soon as labor loses that position, then the revolu- tionary party will be In power. Strange as It may seem, labor has another enemy. This is with certain elements of organized capital. There has been an effort all over America, and Bakersfield Is no exception, to bring about a condition which would destroy or paralyze the labor unions. For- tunately for the United States this has falled In the majority of places. It has succeeded in a few. We say it Is strange. One would think that with the sweep of radicalism, affecting many countries with the doctrine of absolute Commuism, that capital would be anxious to defend itself from these inroads by the bulwark that labor Is. Note that this parboiled idiot expresses amazement that labor should have as one of its enemies “certain elements of organized capital.” Since Harry K. Thaw gave forth his famous “rabbit in- terview” during his “sanity trial” in Philadelphia, no other human being has succeeded in fathering a more obvious proof of intel- lectual vacuity than the writer of the above nonsense. Labor or-} ganizations under capitalism, have no other reason for existence than to fight capitalism because in their efforts to improve the conditions! of the workers, not to speak of emancipating them, they are faced with the opposition of the employers at every turn of the road. This despicable prostitute holds up the radicals as an example! of what will happen to the employers unless they support financially, the stoolpigeons who are using the labor movement for their own private end and to the detriment of the masses. The sooner this foul brood is cleared out of the ranks of labor the better. In Northern Africa If the socialists and trade union bureaucrats underestimate the importance of the great mass movements of the dark-skinned people now gaining impetus in Northern Africa and the Far East, the im- perialist press does not. A recent dispatch to the capitalist press from Fez says: Without understanding the surprising discipline and organization which Abd-el-Krim hag been able to develop in a little time among the dissident tribes, without seeing the material which he has at his disposal and his manner of utilizing the natural advantages of the terrain, without seeing the possible effect the present situation may have on the loyal tribes, it is easy to believe abroad, even in France, the Abd-el-Krim, being a native adversary, if of no importance. Even here the tendency is to underestimate the new spirit which Inspires the whole of Islam since Mustapha Kemal triumphed over the European armies of Greece and Abd-el-Krim’s victory over Spain . . . What has made possible the unity of the nomadic tribes of North- ern Africa against Spanish and Frencli imperialism? It is the belief in the ability and the right of the subject peoples to govern themselves, a confidence in themselves inspired by a mastery of the weapons of modern warfare gained as conscripts in the world con- flict, a hatred of foreign domination on the part of the peasants and herdsmen springing from their inferior economic status under for- eign rule. As these colonial thovements rise higher and higher to plague imperialism when it needs stability, more and more does the immense practicality of the Coramunist theory of the revolutionary role of colonial peoples as allies of the working class become apparent. ¢ . o,° The Empire Is Sensitive Great indignation is raging thru aristocratic circles in London over the action of Solomon, king of the Zulus, in refusing to accord the prince of Wales a royal salute. The prince has been playing the role of imperial drummer in South Africa and great throngs of natives have been induced to greet him by threats of force or promises of gain. But it seems that Solomon was not exactly pleased with the way he was treated by the heir to the British throne at one of those staged receptions. The Zulu chief indirectly told the prince to go chase himself with the result that Solomon’s followers: found con- siderable satisfaction in the spectacle of their chief telling a repres- entative of a big empire where to horn in at. This injures imperial prestige and it does not look any too good in the movies. So the imperial brigands are going to punish Solomon if they find him guilty of lese majeste. Perhaps they will and per- haps they will not. The pirate empire has her hands full ‘at home and abroad these days and the once despised black, brown and yellow men are knocking the stuffing of the fat-bellied boys of the bulldog breed in more places than one. The bullying policy of the British government towards weak and defenseless people is not in harmony with that reputation for liberalism and straight dealing which has been sedulously cultivated by the imperial political drummers and swallowed wholesale by some of our American pacifists, But the British imperial bluff is being called today as it was never before, and we venture to predict that the oppressed peoples under the British yoke will not have to wait many more decades for their emancipation from British rule. The brand of pacifism that is flourishing in China today is the __kind we would like to see sprouting in the American labor movement. ARTICLE IX OT until later did the Chinese learn of secret treaties made be- tween France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan, giving assurance to the Japanese that no effective resist- ance would be offered by these powers to anything which Japan might desire in China at the end of the war. (“An American Diplomat in China,” Paul 8, Reinsch.) Japan lost no opportunities to make hay while the sun of allied favor shown on her endeavors in China, In this she was ably assisted by the al- lied diplomatic corps. Not a week passed, It may be safely sald, that the Chinese foreign office did not recelve some reminder that the associated nations expect- ed to have their wishes followed. (“China, Captive or Free?” Gilbert Reid, page 135.) HE Tuan government, Japanese controlled for the most part, en- tered into the most traitorous arrange- ate ments with the Japanese government, It secured huge loans: for;carrying on civil war against the Kuo Min Tang (Peoples Party: of Sum Yat-Sen), which held southern China and which alone was keeping the nationalist movement and spirit’ alive in these dark days. + + . Of between $200,000,000 and $225,000,000 loaned, much has gone into the hands of corrupt offi- olals and the military governors and by them wasted Instead of be- Ing used for the constructive pur- poses declared, (“Agiaticus,” writ Ing In Asia magazine, March, 1919.) The more money was wasted the better was the Japanesé’ government pleased. It hoped to have China so securely in pawn by the time the war ended that Japan would have first call on the revenue and ‘resources of China even tho the allied imperialists welched on their secfet treaties. Japan was getting htige concessions for little or nothing”while civil war weakened the nation. * (Continued from page 1) Impertalist Week” a mighty demon- stration of international solidarity against American imperialism. Especially to us—exploited«“work- ers of the United States, is the call directed. Let us respond as one man, in the name of the common exploitation that weighs us down. “The week ending July 4, is Antt- Imperialist Week!” Hard Lot of the American Workers, S our great “national holiday,” the Fourth of July, approaches, we have less and less reason to make it an occasion for glorifying American capitalist rule, in accordance with the |The conditions of the working class jare far from what might be expected from the fact that in the vaults of American bankers lies more than half |of the gold in the world. Insufficient wages and long hours of tofl are the rule in every fleld; all |pretense at maintaining an eight- hour ‘work day has been laid aside. But' that is not the worst. Unem- |ployment has again laid its dread {hand on the industries of the United States. More than 2,000,000 workers ee walking the streets in a vain |search of a job which will pay them enough to buy food and shelter for their families. Moreover, the unem- ployment roll is swelling. Men who jare ‘working today live in constant fear that they will be laid off to- morrow. ‘This uncertainty is the mark of wage-slavery. It is due to the fact that ‘tho the worker is the backbone of industry, the factory does not be- |long to him—even after he has given the better part of his life to it. It belongs to the capitalist, who “pro- vides work” only so long as it is pro- fitable for him to do so. What we are now witnessing is a permanent increase in the army of unemployed. Big Profits for the Trusts. HE profits of the bosses are great- er than ever. At the beginning of 1925, 81 industrial corporations re- ported undivided surplus profits of $1,652,057,381. Monopoly profits may be realized because every important industry in the land is dominated by a handful of individuals. There is the oil trust, the steel trust, the copper trust, the electric trust, the sugar trust, the meat trust. All that is left of competition on a large scale is the competition of the workers for jobs. When the workers combine to im- prove their conditions they are greet- end with police clubs. If they initiate a big strike, the militia may be called out against them. Injunctions are is- sued. Meetings are broken up. Strike- leaders are arrested. A “Business Man’s Government.” ‘OR the government is on the side of the bosses. This means that a handful of mono- polists, who control American indus- try, also control the federal govern- ment. The policy of the government is their policy. The power of the government is theirs to utilize as they see fit—now in West Virginia, against the striking coal miners; now in far- off China, against the natives who re- volt against foreign profit-interven- * | tion, It is they who are behind the scheme for a general mobilization on July 4. The real decision was reach- ed not in Washington, but in Wall Street. Wall Street and Foreign Investments. OST powerful of all the trusts is the money trust, the narrow ring of bankers with J. P. Morgan at, their head, who control the flow of capital to modern large-scale industry and who make up the ruling oligarchy in our country, If the profits of ordi- nary monopoly are large, those of the important bankers are truly fabulous. Only a few days ago it was officially announced that the First National Bank of New York is on a dividend ba of 25 per cent quarterly, which means that the fortunate holders of bank stock are to receive dividends equal to 100 per cent on their capital each year. In fact, the capital of the financial kings is in * 80 rapidly that they can not place in the United States to reinvest all of it remem proclamation of President Coolidge. | |taking a leading part in the latest They cast their eyes abroad, to the so-called backward countries, where raw materials abound, where labor power is dirt cheap and land can be had for next to nothing. Confirmed monopolists, they seek to monopolize thé oil of Mexico and Venezuela, the nitrates of Chile, the metals of Bo- livia, as well as the virgin invest- ment areas themselves. They even stretch their hands out for Europe, thru the medium of the Dawes plan. nee the Final Stage of Capl- tallem. HE natives must be “colonialized,” that is, they must be virtually en- slaved. Wall Street has the armed might of the United States govern- ment at its disposal for this purpose. Many a Yankee soldier has been sent out to Haiti or Central America to fight and die for the National City Bank. In China today American troops are outrag@s against the Chinese people, which have as their purpose the re- division of China among robber im- perialists. This is the capitalism, of today. It is imperialism. t Imperialism is the final stage of capitalism, springing out of the soil of capitalism, resting on the system of wage-slavery in the home country and bringing with it new and greater sufferings for the workers. What Imperialism Means for the American Workers. Imperialism forces down the stand- ard of living of the workers in the United States, because, at the compe- tition with the labor, of more back- ward countries. # It increases the insecurity of the working class family; makes uneni+) ployment a permanent plague. It allows bosses to, ignore the de- mands of the workers by simply shut- ting down plants and shifting produc- tion to some other territory. It greatly intensifies the class strug- gle, at the same time opposing the poorly organized workers to a power- ful, slosely-knit ring of finance—mon- opolists. It increases the size’ ‘and mobility of the military forces to be used against the workers in industrial struggles. It results in devastating wars—the bloodiest and most tremendous wars the world has ever seen—tearing the workers from their families and send- ing them to kill and be killed on foreign battlefields for the sake of the money kings. The Next War. we is one of the regular forms of competition between the great militarized imperial trusts of modern capitalism. The imperialists of the United States, eagerly striving to force open the already “closed door” to the treasure house of China, comé into open conflict with the Japanese imperialists and the, British imperial- ists. In making use of the Monroe Doctrine to keep thewdoor closed upon Standard Oil's d u of the pet- roleum resources Latin America, they clash directly with the British imperialists who also want to mono- polize this petroleum for their own purposes. There aré\a hundred and one other points of? conflict, all of them leading the Way to inevitable war. in The next war is ei the cor- ner. Wall Street wunikehfas, and wants it soon, because it feels that it is now in a position to annihilate its strongest rivals, “Preparediese!” ENCE the great propaganda * against the “yellow peril” and for “white supremacy” in the Pacific. Hence the “friendly” maneuvers of the United States fleet in far eastern waters. Hence the widespread devel- opment of military training camps, Hence the drilling and training of workers’ childrens in the public schoo! pw Hence President idge’s call for @ general mobil on July 4, the Innocent “defense "tb test the willingness of thesdmerican workefs to defend Morgan's investments in Europe, are the Far East. The must an- N instance of the manner in which China was being robbed by the Japanese-controlled militarists is men- tioned in the article quoted above: + for a paltry $15,000,000 loan China hae signed away a lien In all her forests In the two north- ern provinces of Heilungklang and Kirin, equal In area to the combined are of all the states of the United States touching the Atlantic sea- board from Maine to, but not Includ- ing Florida. The miltarists, caring only for money with which to*pay their mer- cenary armies were warring on the Chinese people, simply peddled China to Japan: To pay for these loans China has mortgaged railway lines, gold, coal, antimony and iron mines. She has mortgaged the government printing office at Peking, the Hankow elec- trio light and water works and na- tive forests in various parts of the country, is a clause in each one of the: agreements that the The Enslavement of China Chinese authorities: shall not obtain, additional funds upon these seourl- tles unless the consent of ese bankers first has been ob’ (Millard’s Review, July 27, 1918.) UCH an extension of economic con- trol naturally brot and increase of political pressure upon the Chinese government, each new concession to the greedy Japanese merely acted as an appetizer for them and so outrage- ous were the terms of many of these loans and the corresponding conces- sions that Japan was afraid to have them known! The Japanese minister here hae warned the Chinese government that If. premature disclosures of secret documents by China cause loss to Japanese financial and com- mercial interests, Japan will hold China responsible for such loss. (Associated. Press dispatch, March, 1919), Surely no nation ever reaped such speedy advantage of the jeopardy of Celebrate Anti-Imperialist We must refuse to “mobilize” for Morgan’s next war! Let us mobilize not for Morgan, but against Morgan! The proclamation of the All-Ameri- can Anti-Imperialist League points the way. Trade Unions and Labor Fakers. HE American trade unions should be the first to take up the vital struggle of the workers against impe- Tialism. Many of them have already shown their determination to do this. But the bureaucratic officialdom of the trade unions is not anti-imperial- ist but pro-imperialist. The compla- cent ”$10,000-a-year labor leadrs” are themselves enjoying the fruits of im- Derialism; the extravagant profits wrung from the toil of colonial and semi-colonial peoples, enable the im- Perlalists to share a small portion with the so-called aristocracy of la- bor, a form of bribe-money of which the labor fakers are the first to take advantage. These “labor leaders” do not live the lives of workers. They do not represent the real interests of the workers. They interfere with every attempt to strengthen the unions by amalgamation. They sabotage the movement for the formation of a labor party to give political expression to the workers as against the political parties of the bosses. They lead the workers to the slaughter whenever a new imperialist Profit-war breaks out! It is from the rank and file of the trade unions that the struggle against | ‘ capitalist exploitation gets its urge. Allles Against Wali Street. HE American workers have one staunch ally, Soviet Russia, which Bes already vanquished capitalist rule r one-sixth of the surface of the earth and which is bound by -ties of revolutionary solidarity to the work- ing class movement everywhere. Another trust worthy ally is the oppressed colonial and semi-colonial peoples, the victims of American im- perialism’ in Hawaii and the Philip- pines, in Porto Rico, in Hayti and San- to Domingo, in Cuba, in Mexico, in | try. Central America, in Venezuela, in Bolivia and Peru. These peoples pay toll to Wall Street no less than we. They are the worst exploited of all.’ And they are struggling to be free. Oppressed Peoples Fighting Our Enemy. heise are fighting our enemy, Ame- rican capitalism, on “the foreign front.” Week The paid press agents of imperial- ism tell us that the United States has entered these territories “for their own good,” that American rule is beneficial that the natives like it and that “only a discordant minority” op- poses. This is the hypocritical lan- guage of imperialism—the same as that used by the’ British imperialists in India, and by profit-seeking canes rialists everywhere. What are the facts? Fillpinos and Latin Americans Wa’ Freedom. gi as Filipino voters have time after time demanded immediate inde- pendence from the United States. Both houses of the Filipino congress are completely in the hands of the independence party led by Manuel Quezon, who has just scored another evorwhelming victory at the polls. Porto Rico has already forced the reéall of one American governor-gen- eral and, against the open hostility of American officials, has kept in of- fice a legislature elected on a plat- form of national independence. The people of Haiti and Central Amierica have used every means to freé themselves. Thruout Latin America, American rule is maintained only by corrup- tion, “bulldozing and force of arms. ‘American Workers Facing Test. HE separate struggles for national Wbération have now been unified, thru the formation of the All-Ameri- ¢an'“Anti-Imperialist League, which thé American workers have also been invited to join. It has put the workers of the Unit- ed States before a test which is far more direct than President Coolidge’s “defense test.” With United States trdops actually occupying foreign ter- ritory, the supreme test of the sincer- ityof every class conscious worker in tiifs country is militant opposition to Atnerican imperialism. Celebrate Anti-Imperialist Week. week of June 29 to July 4, will ‘be Anti-Imperialist Week thru- out the American continent. There is té be a solid week of protest and prop- aganda in every Latin-American coun- “Anti-Imperialist Week” must be célebrated still more widely, . still more militantly in the United States itself, by American workers. 5 The revolutionary working class must be the champion of every op- pressed people. Our dead Comrade Lenin emphasized time and again that no people can be free that oppresses others. The struggle of the American workers and that of the nations op- le ecient ee MANIFESTO OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA Sees enema By Wm. F. Dunne her allies in other sections of the world and took such full toll of agre- ments blackjacked out of imperialist rivals thru the necessity of the mo- ment. Neither did Japan hesitate to call upon the allied nations for aid in disciplining China when she showed a tendency to kick against the pricks. HE “Twelve Points” is one of the allied documents that deserves special attention. In its way if was just as arbitrary and insulting asthe “Twenty-One Points” of the Japanese. It had, however, less excuse because China had already complied with her promise and declared war on Ger- many, It shows, rather conclusively, when the supplementary facts are considered, that the allied embassies” in Peking, after China had entered the war, were, insofar as treatment of China is concerned, little more than agencies of Japanese imperialism, The next article will deal with this document. pressed people. Our dead Comrade one. The capitalists realize this full well, as is shown by their treatment of the brave soldiers, Paul Crouch and Walter Trumbull, who dared to form a Communist organization in the im- perial domain of Hawai. Let us show that we realize it too! Workers Party Takes Up Call. if lagen Workers (Communist) Party | of America takes up the call of | the All-American Anti- Imperialist League in a spirit of comradeship an revolutionary duty. do everything in its power to make Anti-Imperialist Week a real mobil- ization of anti-imperialist forces in this country. Every unit of the party will take part im it. Our publications will tssue special “anti-imperialist” editions, : To all wor! class organizations, we appeal to unite with us in joint mass meetings and demonstrations during Anti-Imperialist Week. ‘E invite the trade unions, the so- clalist party, the I. W. W., the proletarian party and all farmer-la- bor parties to present a common front with us on this issue. We invite Negroes and representa- tives of Negro organizations to speak with us. from:the same platform. And especially do we extend our fraternal appeal to all members of the Chinese Kuo Min Tang Party and to Filipinos and Latin-Americans in the United States, June 29 to. July 4, is Anti-Imperial- ist Week. A united struggle of the working class with all the oppressed peoples of the world will put an end to capi- talist rule and usher in the dawn of a society free from oppression of class or race or.of nation by nation. We call upon the American work- ers to demand: Unconditional Independence for the Philippines, Hawail, and Porto Rico! Withdrawal. of all American mili- tary and naval forces from China! Withdrawal of all American and military forcé® from Latin-Americal Hands off Mexico! Down with the D: Street’s scheme for e can and European workers alike! Equal rights for Negroes with whites! Unconditional release for Crouch and Trumbull, victims of American imperialism! Enter the American political strug- gle as a class and form a labor party! WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, William Z. Foster, Chairman, Cc. E. Ruthe lllinois Industrial Situation Getting Gloomy By JAY ‘LOVESTONE IHE latest report on the industrial situation in Illinois in May 1925, just issued by R. D. Cahan, chief sta- tistician of the Illinois department of labor, shows very clearly that “the downward course of industry in Ilk- nois continues.” The volume of employment in the state shows that conditions make May 1925 the worst May in four years, Reports from manufacturers employ- ing formerly about 40 per cent of the factory’ workers of the state show that the number of unemployed has been increasing by the slackening of operations in the factories by 21,000 since the middle of February. Indus- trial operations in Illinois are today 7 per cent below the level of a year ago and 14 per cent below that of May 1923, Illinois Not Alone In Decline The report goes on to say “that Milinois is not alone in experiencing the effects of depressed industry.... a preliminary statement issued by the press on June 10th by the New York state department of labor states that employment in that state had receded 1 per cent in May following a 2 per cent decline in April.” Unemploymen jerious Problem The Illinois state department of la- bor declares that “the present down- ward course of industry is apparently @ continuation of a movement that began nearly two years ago.” Official figures indicate that there are now more people out of work in Illinois than there were a year ago today. Employmetit is-continuing to decline. A yéar ago the unemployment situa- tion in Tlinois was already declared to be confidential. The Illinois depart- ment of labor had declared in 1924 that the unemployment situation was already a serious problem. Mining Situation Growing Worse The mining industry is not only not improving but actually growing worse There are today more mines closed down than there were a year ago. The largest mine. in the Peoria sub- district has just shut down. 15 to 47 mines .submitting monthly reports to the Illinois department of labor were completely inactive during May. Metal Indusries Hard Hit, The decline of employment was particularly noticeable and severe in some of the metal industries. The steel mills laid off nearly 4 per cent of their workers; tools and cutlery manufacturers 6 per cent; and agri- cultural implements 2% per cent. Automobiles and accessories concerns were the only outstanding instances of industrial expansion in this group. General Conditions Poor, p= to freakish changes in weather the out-of-door trades which tisual. ly are busy in May have been held back this year. Also, May usually shows a high level of employment. in the furniture and musical instrument | ton. factories, May, 1925, however, was an exception, Furniture factories em-| | ploying about 7,000 workers laid off nearly 4 per cent } their employes last month. M discharged at least 4% per cent of their workers in May alone, Employment fell by nearly 17 per cent in the men’s ready-made clothing factories during the month of May, In the same period women’s clothes factories laid off nearly 12 per cent of their workers ard the millinery factories laid off nearly 30 per eent of their workers. The payroll of 1184 employers Te, Porting to the state industrial poten ment shows a decline of nearly 1 Der cent during the month, ay British Rail Union Officially Welcomes. LONDON—(FP)—Exctusion of the Communist party from the British La- bor party is condemned by the annual conference of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers’ and Fire- men, and the membership is request- ed “to work with the Communist party or any other labor organization which has for its object the control of in- dustry and politics by the classes.” The conference also ed to affiliate with the National cil of Labor Colleges, which sents the left wing in worker educa- Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your sbopmate tac-|and you will make another mem. |trin ompoving abot _ ber for your branch, Our party will’ " a il my t] wa