The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1925, Page 6

| | | Page Six. THE DAIWUY WORKER ensue ei THE DAILY WORKER NO CONCESSIONS Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. | 1113 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 montha { $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 Bivd., Chicago, Hlinois | ditors J. LOUIS BNGDAHL ( WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. — | Advertising rates on application. SSS Business Manager 290 — —= TO BELGIUM ON PRE-WAR DEBTS. Affection for ° Ally’ Shown as the Bunk WASHINGTON, July 8.—The Unit- ed States will decline to recognize any difference in the status of debts contracted by European nations dur- ing or after the world war. This statement was made officially | nouncement in Brussels that the Bel- gian debt funding commission, which Evolution, Capitalism and the Workers In no other advanced capitalist nation could such a trial take place as that opening at Dayton, Tennessee. That John Scopes, a teacher in a public school, can, be brought to trial for teaching evolution as a law of nature, under a law enacted by the ‘Tennessee legislature, is evidence of the retarded development of a whole section of the United States. The south is not yet industrialized. It is dominated ifitelectually by feudal conceptions which are not found in the great industrial centers where the masses are either irreligious or lukewarm towards orthodox religion. » It is noticeable that the great metropolitan dailies are on the side of evolution. ‘The Scopes case has given them a splendid chance to demonstrate a devotion to scientific truth—truth divorced from the class conflict. It ing capitalism that brought about the Reformation— the restrictions placed upon independent inquiry by feudal religion made commercial progress difficult and the merchant class broke the power of the Roman church. Insofa orthodox religion has been of use to capitalism it has been encouraged, but the ethics of christianity have never been al- lowed to interfere with business—the bourgeoisie have two codes as Lafargue explained long ago: One for business and one for their private lives. Between the two a constant struggle takes place with the result that the best christian businessmen are the biggest hypocrites. But to get back to Dayton. ‘ There is much. to interest the working class in what is taking place in that little mountain town where feudal reaction is in the saddle. The defenders of Scopes and his prosecutors are of the middle class. It is therefore evident that within that class is a deep division. : Darrow is typical of the middle class liberal professional in- tellectual—individualistic, a believer in personal liberty, educated and cultured. Bryan represents the agrarian element in the middle class—he is a leader of the. well-to-do farmers of the middle west and of. the south whose economic interests are opposed to those of big capital-| ism—the element that at different times has crusaded as Greenback- ers, Populists and Free Silverites, rallying always around some chimmerical scheme of currency reform in which was expressed their ees antagonism to the increasing control of industry and finance by the big capitalists. The city and the town—these are the two forces in opposition to one another in Dayton and it is noticeable that Bryan is calling the attention of the ruralites. to the ridicule heaped upon them in the metropolitan press as part of his campaign in defense of the dogma of a creator, a special creation and the first chapter of Genesis. In Great Britain this struggle was fought out during the 80’s and 90’s. The complete victory of British capitalism over feudalism symbolized by the huge expansion of industry and the rise of in- dustrial capitalism with the proletarianization of the overwhelming majority of the British masses, was accompanied by the spread of rationalism, the printing and distributing of millions of pamphlets) on the Darwinian theory; pamphlets by Lyell, Huxley,- McCabe, Allen; the works of Leckie and Haeckel, Lubbock and Romanes, But it was not until the dominant capitalist class had found in the Darwinian theory of the “survival of the fittest” a justification for their oppression of the working class that opposition 1o the theory of evolution became negligible in England. The jungle law of “tooth and claw”. seemed to them to be eminently fitted for their period. Nature itself had placed the seal of approval upon British capital- ism and all its works, they claimed, and this distorted Darwinism became the petted darling of the lords of coal and steel. It may be well to say here that capitalism seldom if ever inter- feres with the search for abstract truth. Scientific researches in physics, chemistry, biology, anthropology, astronomy, geology and other sciences are encouraged. It is the sociological sciences where the class character of society is shown by every truthful investigator that are frowned upon by the ruling class. Academic freedom is curtailed only when the results of scientific research tend to expose the hypocricy and cruelty of the ruling class and weaken it or strengthen the working class. Modern science is the handmaiden of capitalist production and this valuable servant it is not going to destroy. If we want to prove to ourselves that it is abstract freedom and not social freedom that the metropolitan press defends in the Scopes ease we have only to compare the amount and the kind of publicity given by it to another recent case—the Gitlow case. Here was a class case. The question involved was the constitu- tional right to advocate the overthrow of American, capitalist gov- ernment and the replacement of it by a workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment. With a few strokes of the pen the United States supreme court wiped out the constitutional guarantee of free speech: ‘It legalized prosecution under criminal syndicalism laws in 35 states and, placed the whole working class in jeopardy. From the capitalist press which either denounces~or ridicules the prosecution of Scopes came a chorus of approval for the action in the Gitlow case. There is one more thing in connection with the Scopes case and the anti-evolution law under which he is tried that is of grave im- portance to the working class. We can be certain that in spite of the devotion to abstract truth manifested by the capitalist press, that if the Tennessee law is upheld and other states adopt similar measures they will be used freely by the capitalist class to suppress all educational work having any social significance. Just as the criminal syndicalism laws were adopted as war measures for the curbing of enemy, aliens and then uséd against the |trickled thru, working class, so will anti-evolntion laws become another means of. jailing the most intelligent and militant workers. Invoked for this purpose they will be objects of praise instead of denunciation in the oa 1% Ba Get a member for the and a new subscription for,the DAILY WORKER, SF {ether ynd: wonionammemmne st im MM rE RO pRMRBNRRERNNR N=: | is due to arrive in Washington early jin August, would seek to repudiate | that part of its debt contzected be- | fore the armistice and would agree | to pay only its post-war debt. | The Belgian government has been | advised by the state department and | thru the American minister at Brus- | sels that all of its debt, now-amount- ing to $480,503,984, must be finded on the same basis. ® | | that have taken place in Brussels and Washington looking to the opening | of debt negotiations, officials of the , Belgian government and Baron De | Cartier, ambassador to Belgium here, have broached the question of fund- ing only the post-war debt. The total of the Belgian debt prior to the armistice, the amount which Belgium now wants to repudiate, is $171,780,000, to which has been added interest totalling about $50,000,000. Belgium paid interest five per cent on this part of its debt up until 1918 and then stopped. Criticism of the American debt-col- lecting policy by European financial leaders during the recent meeting of the international chamber of com- merce-in Brussels was looked on here as contributing to the decision of the Belgium government to carry to Washington its plea for part cancel- lation of its debt. NEGRO WORKERS TO HOLD MASS _ MEETING TONIGHT South Side Branch and Y. W. L. Speakers Operating with the South Side branch of the Workers (Communist) Party in conducting an anti-imperialism mass meeting tonight (Thursday) in the Community House, 3201 S. Wabash avenue. i Robert Minor, Communist writer and cartoonist and authority on the Negro problem, will speak. William Anderson, a Negro work- er will speak on the struggles of the Negro workers for race equality and betterment of their conditions. There will also be speakers repre- senting the Young Workers’ League. | Admission is free. A short musical Program will be rendered. “The Will—Let’s Hear the Will.” Hearing of the will of William Mc- Clintock, ward of Mr. William Darl- ing Shepherd who died on Dec. 4, will take place before probate Judge Henry Horner on July 14, the court announced today. Try Mother for Murder, GARY, Ind., July 8— Mrs, Anna Cunningham, Gary mother who ad- mitted killing three of her children by administering arsenic in their food, went on trial today at Crown Point, Ind., charged with the murder of her 12-year-old son, Walter. (Continued from page 1) are menaced. When that sort of realization crystalizes, it can raise more hell than redfire and mob excite- ment. For a Reign of Persecution. “Those who are behind the prosecu- tion are honest. They believe with doubt they are right. know, the fewer doubts they have. They are opening the doors for a reign of bigotry and persecution win. They will not be satisfied wit! even a belief in Christ and christian- ity, but will enforce their own sort of belief in them. Many protestants are as bitter against catholicism as against judaism or evolution or ag- nosticism. This may result in cru- sades of one creed against another or all others. “While the press has handled this situation’ with a modicum of’ frivol- ity, the stubborn truth seems to have The citizens’ under- stand now how a theoretical problem jean, overnight,beeome a revolution: fore any criticism ary domestic, social and physical one. So this science- movement right now is more tal about than base. ball, the movies om the weather. ~ ‘And teh lor ows, the people the are not aed here today in connection with the an-| In the course of the discussions | The Young Workers’ League is co-| the zeal of the crusader and ‘have no| Probably will be in many other states, The less men in any states where’ busy fanatics can equal to anything in the middle ages.| rn No mian’s belief will be‘ safo if they | 28 science in one éhool, it can stand | 1 i ; ae j | | || AS WE SEE IT || | (Continued, from ,page 1) | | true that they roh the farmers; they | | also rob the eastern bankers when-| | ever they have thezopportunity. They | | don’t recognize class: distinctions in| this respect, | eee | HE big eastern banks are putting | the local fellows out of business | by establishing branches of the great financial institutions in) the little towns. The village bankers becom their agents. But it seems they cal not keep their hands off the money. This tendency is partly responsible | for the number of siekly banks around | here. Of course, d good deal depends | |on the crop situation. ‘ Agriculture is a gamble. The farmers never can tell | |from one week to’ the’ other whether| | they are going on easy street or into) | the poorhouse, HE businessmen <n ‘Sheridan coun-| ty are a cowed lot today. They act | like men on probation: The workers| and farmers consider them guilty un-| | til they are proven jnnocent, The |}man with a paid-up dues book in a} | trade union, whether it be the Amer-| |ican Federation of Labor or the I. W. | W. is always sure'of a friendly hand in Plentywood, ‘* sas HE Producers’ News goes into every honig in Sheridan county. It is the official organ of the county and; of the farmer-labor party. This farm- er-labor party is a mass organization, predominantly farmer. But many of those farmers do other odd jobs in or- der to make’ ends meet. The crops were good last year and another good one is in prospect for this year. The ex-wobbly banker tried to make us believe that we were in for an ex- tended period of prosperity, but the Producers’ News carried a story to the effect that an unusually heavy crop is expected this year in Soviet Rus- sia, The question of prices then be- comes a burning one for the Montana farmer. | QHERIDAN county takes good care of its renegades.s The farmer-labor | the street groups of three or more are | | party elected men to office many times | | only to see them join the enemy. But | they don’t get eleeted again. Burton { people, mostly girls; eyeing every one | | K. Wheeler got only 17 votes in this | county, Those farmers are well train- ed and they have excellent memories. | | One of those sent to the state legis-| | lature in the last election from Sheri- | dan county joined up »with the repub- lican party machine, “He found that the farmer-labor:«party: was atheistic and anti-social.o’Mhe farmers say that even his: god wiltmot be able to elect him the next time, «0°. | se LK Ree automobile has revolutionized farming life socially. The radio is another factor. Young men and women, fathers and mothers and children,.come for scores of miles in every make of:car to the summer re- sorts. The serjous':minded people listen to speakers:expound their theories. The young dance the latest steps to the sound ofa jazz band. The | farmers’ sons—some of them at least |—dress like Greenwich Village cake- | eaters. The baggy trousers that bring |So much joy to the clothing manu- | facturers are very much in evidence. | The wearing apparel’ofvthe girls is no more generous than what can be seen on Michigan Boul, @hicago. The | twentieth century has joined city and | country. The time is:tipe for the workers and farmers to form an al- liance and use modern machinery to its fullest extent for the benefit of the producers. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, July 8,—Great Britain, pound, 4.85%—4.86%. France, franc, | struggle is on. | all set to receive the sluggers that | the officials of the I, LL. 6, W. MEMBERS HOLD THE FORT AT 16 W. OND ST, Guarding Their Union Night and Day ~ By ASSAD. NEW YORK CITY, July 8.— The The battleground is Sys: A Ws might send to capture Local 22 from the duly elected representatives, as they did to Locals 2 and 9. We are on guard. We are on guard as we always have been to safeguard he interests of the rank and file of. the union. It gives one a sense of safety and hopes for the future, see- ing hundreds of girls and men, de- priving themselves of their sleep and recreations, in order that their or- ganization, which was built thru years of hard labor and struggle should not be thrown to the dogs, that their lo- cal should not fall in the hands of those who have sold them time and again to the bosses. An Address That Means Something. Sixteen West 2nd St., N. Y, is an address not be forgotten in the an- nals of the union movement of New York, and especially among the class conscious and progressive workers of the I. L, G. W. U. Day and night passers-by can see groups of working girls and men, standing on the watch, alert and ready for any eventuality that may arise. Inside and outside of the building, | during and at the end of the night, one can see people with closing eyes, worn and pale faces from lack of sleep and rest. In spite of all that, their determination to fight till the bitter end is written on their faces. All night long they are on guard, changing posts, singing, laughing and hopeful, not withstanding the fact of | their tiredness, » Holding the Fort. In front of the building, and across discussing the possibilities of a quick victory. The stairs crowded with who wishes to enter the building, the doors are guarded day and night. In the corridor still more people on guard. First floor: Young girls and boys singing, playing and dancing; to chase away the slumber that insists on at- tacking them. Second floor: In one corner, a group discussing some inter- esting topic; literature, politics, eco- nomics and some times (not very sel- dom), you could hear people discuss- ing science and philosophy. In another part of the room some- body is leaning on an arm-chair doz- ing his or her sleep off. On the third) and fourth floors, here and there tey’re lying on the floors, on the tables and on the chairs stretched all their length with a deep slumber, but up as soon as an unusual noise is to be heard. With Their Chosen Leaders. It needs an artist to paint and de- scribe the different poses, modes and expressions to be seen these days among the defenders of Local 22. In spite of all the slanderous lies heaped upon them by the reactionary papers and the yellow Forward, the rank and file of the workgrs are with the lead- ers of Local 22, Auto Hits Rock; Three Dead. TARRYTOWN, N. Y., July 8—Three men were killed when an automobile today hit a ledge of rock. The dead: Vincent Santori and his brother, Frank of New York. Bert Schoberg, a stew- ard for the Munson Line. 4.66—4.661%. Belgium, franc, 4.59% 4.60, Italy, lira, 3.63%—3.6314. Sweden, krone, 26.78—26.81. * Norway, krone, 17.93—17.95. Denmark, krone, 20.54— 20.56. Germany, mark, not quoted. Shanghai, tael, 78.50, ties—the dangers, 1 might say, the benefits the fundamentalists might |Say—but, elther way, the possibilities. They are actual, they are imminent, ithey are immediate, Other Laws, Threaten, “If such a law caf be put over and /Sustained in ‘Tentiessee, it can and |Work up a feeling of. bigotry, intoler- |ance, zeal and cocksureness. And |that means in most states. “It a law can stand against teach- wainst teaching ‘seience anywhere. |And if it can bar thé teaching of one Science, it can baf’the teaching of any science, therefore all sciences. This law holds the theory of evolu- tion contrary to the divine account of creation, If that is so, and that is a crime, then there is nothing to stop action to illegalize the teaching of geology, astronomy, biology, psy- chology, anatomy, zoology, ahtoropol- ogy, sociology. In truth, the literal in- terpretation of is more in conflict with all gelence than with evolution, Therefore. the zealots can |go further and m: " they have be- )of any paragraph of any of the 66 books of the bible a crime, further, they can force not only church-going, but can pick the particular church Where all must go, for if the bible is to be the source of and not the source of relig:| ne ee oe Quake In Portugal. LONDON, July 8—An earthquake shock occurred over northern Portu- gal today, according to a dispatch from Lisbon, ion, then church-going will be com- pulsory as education, and the theory of the Tennessee law that the educa- tion bodies can choose what may and what may not be taught will apply toward naming what church our chil- dren must attend. 3 State Married to Schools. “Fortunately our laws divorce church and state, but unfortunately forgot to divorce church and school specifically. As for general guaran- tees, political bodies during late years have found convenient ways to ignore them as unworthy of attention, “In the movement to extend the Tennessee school law to other states, inevitable if the Scopes defense is lost, the ‘fanatics will run against state constitutions. But they are as easily changed as state laws. The federal constitution has no right to in- terfere except on grounds of federal unconstitutionality, and then only after a test cage, as in the present instance. I hope. the test will be a clear one. We can win nothing by getting a technical verdict of not guilty. Scopes isn’t on trial. Civ- ilization is on trial, I get no fee in this case, I enlisted for liberty and humanity, according to my lights.” ore Law Unconstitutional, Says Scopes. DAYTON, Tenn., July 8—The Tenn- essee anti-evolut: » testing the right of any state the limits of public educat! uld be fought out on scastiatiell™pibbaes, John | janity, (Continued from page 1) of the I. A. M. took similar action last week. ‘ It must be said that the United is getting little results for its pains, and the scabs are actually scabbing on scabs, they are being treated \far worse than scabs usually are. Dur- ihg the. strikes of the past, scabs were accorded all protection possible, giv- en hotel accomodations, food and even the solace of women compan- ions, besides better pay than the boss- es would grant,to the union. Scabbing .on Scabs. |. Today, however, union scabs of the | U. G. are scabbing on the scabs. Pay jis not even equal the union scale and | the boss furnished luncheon only the | first two days, Then the scabs were told to go out for lunch as- they “would have to get used to it. When the scabs refused, saying they feared | the strikers, the boss said, “Of course, | we don’t want you to get hurt. We'll send out ‘to ‘¥et*a box: lunch for you, but it will ‘cost you 25 cents each.” Tuesday,*'the' twelve alleged “cut- ters” who have been fooling around in the cutting’ room, suffered a great | loss. ‘Eight‘of them walked out and | joined ‘the ‘strike and said they want- ed no more.of the “worth while” unionism a the U. G. The four re- ma{ning-ate*not mechanics and might just as well not be there for all the work they do. ‘ Label Girls and Order Writers Walk Out. Signs of spunk are appearing in unexpected placg;. The label girls. who tend to the work tickets attach- ed to orders sent thru the workrooms, and who have never belonged to the union at all, when asked to do some work customarily done by the work- ers on strike, refused and walked out. The order writers, whose clerical tasks haye never brought them into the union, when told they would have | to cut, after the foreman or some of the’ few scabs have marked out the suits, refused, saying that they would quit rather*than scab on the union cutters. “The bosses were stubborn and insisted, and: the order writers were honorable enough to stand by their class brothers and quit, joining | the strikers on the streets with loud | acclaim, (> A “Street Car Convention. The ‘strike picket line was good as usual Hoth ‘night and morning, with the workérs''from the struck shops and nearby"shops covering the streets. The ‘scabs’ have an uncomfortable time, if ‘Spite of the private cars pro- vided riéw to sneak them off thru the alleys, "'‘Otie Scab, ‘sort of reckless like, opined: he would go home on a stréet ‘car. The strikers reached him on @ Vat’ Buren car and talked to O° '¢Onvincingly that he didn’t show up*yesterday morning. With''allthe tricks and the aid of the scabs from the U. G., not one garment ‘has been produced that was made so*atiyone could wear it, all of the few turned out have been so im- possible that the firm dares not ship them. |" & Pants‘and Vest Makers Support. The Pdntsmakers’ Local 144 and Vestmakers’ ‘Local 152, have both held meetings on Tuesday evening. Both locals passed a resolution pledging {unanimous "support in every way to the strike and the strikers. The strikers’ morale is excellent, as may be seen by the joyful way they are taking the police interfer- ence, five being arrested yesterday ang an attempt made to frighten them with all the fol-de-rol of lugging them off in. big handcuffs to the detective bureau where they were honored by being finger-printed, mugged and Ber- tillon measured. But the whole five turned up smiling when the little game of the police was over—and that’s how all the strikers feel.. No Thomas Stopes, youthful defendant, declared today. * If the fight {& lost to thé evolution- ists, Scopes predicted a wholesale drive by religious, political and eco- nomic fanatics to force their theories upon the general public by placing limitations ‘on public school curricu- lums. He “The real issue here,” said Scopes, “is wether the anti-evolution law is constitutional. I believe it is not, because it violates the religious free- dom guarantee and the property rights clause of the constitution.” Encroachment of Religion, “What was your purpose in volun- tarily becoming the defendant in this case?” he was asked. “I wanted to safeguard our public schools from encroachments by any religious group,” he replied. “Educa- tion means a broadening of the mind, to limit our curriculum in the public schools as this law provided, was to narrow the field of education, to foster bigotry. and to force the religi- ous sentiments of one group upon all the people, in defiance of their consti- tutional guarant i Scopes pointed out that both the Tennessee state constitution and the American Declaration of Independ: | ence guarantee to each citizen the right to “worship God" according to” the dictates of his own conscience. | This constitutional right, he added, does not involve the bible nor Christ: CLASS SOLIDARITY SHOWN A. C.W. STRIKERS BY MACHINISTS, OTHER LOCALS AND NEW YORK WORKERS police intimidation can \scare them away. , Membership Ready to Fight it Out. The most obscure member of the Amalgamated know that the fight with the I. T. C., is a challenge to the union, They are in readiness, have accepted the challenge and will battle the thing to a finish. They are confident ‘that “a policy of militant struggle will win. They are confi- dent of their own mass power, In New York City, both the Taylor firm and the I. T. C. are completely tied up. The open shop has failed and all attempts to get United Garment scabs have fizzled out. The workers of both cities feel a new unity and fraternity and nobody can hereafter \ tell them that they have no, business \ interesting themselves:in. their mu- tual problems. Secale Manager Looks Siek; Injunction Delayed. Kormeier, the labor manager of the I. T. C., appears to be suffering from the heat of late. On the: street he shows a sickly face. .No orders are being given. No one. to. bring. them in, No one to work them. up... No one to take them out. The injunction application whieh was to have been given a hearing was laid over Tuesday and will probably come up on Thursday. The Italan business agent of Local No. 270, Mike De Novi, in a spirited address to the strikers at the activity meetings, told of the situation in the shops both here and én New York and declared that no injunction would prevent the militant membership of the A. C. W. from winning the strike, in spite of the police, the bosses and the scab- bing United Garment crew. German Railmen in Convention Assured of British Support BERLIN, June 25 (By Mail).—The third general congress of the German railwaymen’s unions, which opened in Cologne on Sunday, was attended by 100 delegates, representing 180,000 trade union members. Delegates from | Great Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Hol- land, Austria, Poland, Sweden and Czecho-Slovakia were also present. Replying to an address of welcome, Mr. C. T. Cramp, industrial general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, assured his comrades of his~readiness to assist the German railwaymen to secure better condi- tions. He realized the difficult position created by the Dawes scheme, but, he said, if reparations had to be paid, they must not be paid at the expense of the German working man and his wife and children, The supreme question of the pre- vention of war in the future rested with the transport workers, acting with international solidarity... Mr. Cramp was definitely in favor of the workers combining to prevent war, even if it meant a series of interna- tional strikes. Earthquake Shock Kills One in Japan; More Are Expected TOKIO, July 8.—Nagoya was shak- en by another severe earthquake shock today, which demolished sever- al buildings, opened large fissures in the ground, killed one person and re- sulted in the injury of several others. The second shock today bore out, the fear that the “quiet area” of Jap- an, in which Nagoya is located, again is in an active earthquake phase, Another new Sub—Makes an- other Communist. Bryan Would Bar Science From the Schools Law Would Bring Universal Ignorance “I feel that any law requiring our bic children to worship God ac- cording to the St. James or any other version of the bible is a. clear-cut. violation of the constitution,” Scopes declared. re zs “I hope the fight is made on con- stitutional grounds and that my trial will not develop into a battle between evolutionists and fundamentalists, At least, it seems to me, to be unneces- sary to drag in the fundamentalist- modernist row.” F 5 The Tennessee law, which he .vio- lated, Scopes declared, was an “open- ing wedge for scores of similar laws forcing the educational and if will of the majorities upon all the people.” “In this instance, the law déstroys the basic facts of nearly all the sciences. Further encroachments would eliminate the sciences and’ leave our public education’ blighted with universal ignorance thruout the land."" ern Colby Withdraws From'Case. The withdrawal of Bainbridge Col- by, former secretary of state, from the Scopes evolution case, will not af- fect the presentation of John T, fypres. defense, it was | afternoon by defense cout . Vt de withdrawal did not a8 rprise to either the defense or community, since the defeat. Cotby'e plan to transfpr the trial imto J