The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1925, Page 3

BANKERS FORM COSSACK FORCE AGAINST WORKER Minnesota “Rang ers” Armed With Shot-Cuns (Special to The Dally Worker.) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 15— During the past 12 years, the master class of Minnesota has pel ‘ently Sought to have the Minnesota state legislature pass a state cossack law. It failed every time in its efforts, The farmers as well as the workers, . always offered the stiffest opposition to the passage of the cossack bill. Broke Up Farmers’ Meetings, At the time when the non-partisan Teague was a militant organization, the farmers of this state obtained a 00d taste of the brutal methods of the home guards. Their meetings were broken up, and active members were brutalized in the Most inhuman fashion. Intimidation ‘Was rampart. Czarism paled into a tame thing compared to these infam- _Ous home guards. Consequently, the farmers of Minnesota, -who are among the most progressive in America, are bitterly opposed to the cossack idea. Their representatives in the legisla- ture dare not ho gvaie that iron heel Measure. Bankers OFianiga Cossack Army. ‘The bankers have, therefore, de- cided to organize a state cossack army. At the annual convention of the Minnesota State Bankers Ass’n., held’ at Duluth organization units of the “Minnesota County Rangers” were authorized. It is planned to organize three thousand members, F. P, Fel- lows, secretary of the association, de- clared. “Robber” Camouflage. The ostensible aim of this cossack band, is to chase bank robbers and hold-up men. This is the customary camouflage that goes with the outfit, @ product of the hypocrisy of the bab- bitry. Of course, it would not do to be honest and straight forward in the matter. But every farmer and worker, who ©. 4s conscious of the struggle against the domination of capitalism, knows full well that the first and major task of these so-called “County Rangers,” will be the suppression of the rise of the farmers and workers, toward the * sunlight of economic freedom, Every farmer and worker of the state, who has taken an active part in the class war upon the master class, knows that the organization of “rang- ers” by the bankers, is the definite outcome of their fight for a state cos- sack law, in the last 12 years, What the legislature would not do for them, they have undertaken to do for themselves. Armed with Shot Guns, Under the plan, all “rangers” will be sworn in as deputy sheriffs and will be armed with sawed-off shot guns and revolvers. Thus, if the bankers want to play at rabbits with the farm- ers, they can use the shot gun; other- wise, the revolvers may be resorted to. Its a mighty polite civilization, this thing called capitalism, The farmers and workers of Minne- sota are now face to face with a state cossack army. The problem of ef- fective assistance to this fascist gang will very soon be the order o the day for the progressive movements of Minnesota. LALOLI hs # ’ (OP MA A? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BACKS SLAVERY IN AFRICA—REPUDIATES colonies of Portugal in Africa, (Continued from page: 1) complacent faith in a mythical para- dise. As a result of these jolts and jars their minds will begin to see the light of day and the real world they live in. From their sluggishness and smug- gishness will arise a revolting attitude towards the ignorant and primitive lives they are now forced to live be- cause of the mythical chains of christ- ianity that enslave them. And it is due time that they do.re- volt against the crimes committed by the christian church, for it is the his- torical truth that christianity has al- ways QO. K.’ed the slavery and wars brought about by the rulers and mast- ers of the enslaved masses. No won- der is it that Bryan is repeatedly praising the ignorant for woe to him if the masses saw thru his trickery and hypocrisy! The old fairy tale about the poor inheriting the heavens and the rich going to hell is still being preached by Bryan, yet Mr. Bryan is still going wild in his chase for the dollar. By his preaching of bunk to the masses he has amassed not a small fortune. Christianity Aids Capitalism A hungry worker can have faith in the bible, but he cannot study science, Therefore so long as modern christ- ianity holds sway over the masses, so long as the Bryans can hypnotize the massés to look towards heaven for their salvation, so long will they re- main the victims of the idle pluto- crats. But when the masses. will re- yolt and unchain themselves from. the ravings of religioug fanatics and thus look for their betterment here and now tbe days of wage-slavery will be numbered. It is therefore quiet obvious that the capitalists are drunk with joy when they can get the legislatures to pass laws barring the teaching of evo- lution, and at the same time make bible reading in the’ public schools compulsory. For no matter how rot- ten the conditions under which the workers toil, and regardless of the starvation wages they receive, the worker who is dominated by ‘the Bryans will always look to héaven for better conditions and for a better day. Religion OQ. K.’s Slavery. Such religiously dominated wage- slaves will always be too blind to de- mand a higher wage, a shorter work- ing day and better working condi- tions. Such workers neyer compose the militant working class who fight for the end of wage slavery. Would Spread Bigotry Because of these cold facts the rul- ing class is anxious for more ignorant and bigoted legislatures to pass suth anti-evolution laws as the one under fire in Tennessee. At present several more states are considering enacting similar slave laws, and compel the children of the working class to be- come imbued with religious bigotry. With the passing of such legisla- tion we have further indubitable proot that the teachers and professors are not free and dignified and independ- ent (as some budding school worms seem to think) but are simply the mouth-pieces fo the present capitalist PROFESSOR’S EXPOSURE TO LEAGUE WASHINGTON, July 15.—The state department has advised the league of nations that it cannot vouch for the competency of Prof, Edward Ross‘ of the University of Wisconsin, who charged that slavery existed in the Ross’ league. The state department today informed the league that Ross did not represent the United States government. complaint was made direct to the Bryan Helps Hide Capitalist Crimes and religious domineering classes who rule America today. Teacher A Wage Slave The teacher is a wage slave and be- longs in the same class with the work- er in the mill, factory, and mine, And the sooner he realize it the' sooner will he fight for an organization that will fight his battles for lfigher wages, lower hours and more freedom in the class room, as the trade unions fight for-the industrial workers, Schools Run For Big Business Upton Sinclair has produced con- clusive evidence in his “Goose-Step” and “Goslings” to convince anyone that the schools and colleges are run for the interests of big business. As Dr. Tilasey, district superintendent of the public schools of New York City says: “I do not know any school sys- tem in the United States which is run for the benefit of the children. They are all run for the benefit of the gang.” And the “gang” is none other than the predatory interests that rule supreme both government and in- dustry. Children Turned Out By Yard The schools of this country are run like factories; the children are the raw material and are turned out like biscuits and bolts, completely standar- ized. The rulers of imperial America hire the teachers for this job of mold- ing your children so that they. will make good docile wage slaves. The more reactionary the teacher the bet- ter can he repress and suppress the individualism and freedom inherent in your child. The teacher tainted with the least liberalism or radicalism is hounded and spied upon like a thief or traitor. “We must please the business man, otherwise they will not vote the bonds to keep our schools going,” says the Los Angeles superintended of schools. Thus is it true thruout the country. The schools are here'to inculcate the children’s minds with propaganda of the vilest brand. “My country right or wrong” is the leading motto that is upheld in our public schools. Perpetual Profit System As Nicholas Murray Butler, chief- master of Columbia University says: The schools must teach that “the duty of one generation is to pass on to the next, unimpaired, the institutions it has inherited from its forbears.” In other words what has been and is now is perfect. Teachers Must Organize It thus becomes apparent that the teacher must organize into powerful unions if he is desirious of bettering his present measely “salary” and rid- ding his profession of the cowardice and timidity that is so typical of his profession. He must revolt and de- mand that his dignity and conscience and liberty and independence be up- held and reckoned with. He must also revolt against the routine and tedi- ous and nerve-wrecking work he is now forced to perform after school hours. Only in organization can these things become real. For at present the teacher is the docile tool of the orthodox social, religious and econom- ic views that are in sway today. The Scopes trial proves this fact beyond doubt. penatens THE’ DAILY WORKER : Page Threé NEGROES FIGHT WT) INATION IST HOMES Dem and Right to Live Where They Please WASHINGTON, July 15.—(FP) Negro familie8 are attempting to find better homes in every section of the country. Their efforts to find suitable places to live make a stirring story, according to'Arthur E. Hungerford of the Federal Council of churches.’ In some cities Where they have moved into neighborhoods tenanted by white residents their new homes have been set on fire and in others they have been bombed. “One of the most dents in tlte;record, 8 the report by the commission of race relations,’ is of a white congregation singing “Onward Christian Soldiers” march- ing to the home of a highiy educated Negro who was engaged in important educational work. The leader of the band handed the home-owner a writ- ten demand to leave the neighborhood and waited for his reply. The ownet said he would remain where he was. The crowd left, but speciai police pro- tection was Needed for some time be- fore the family felt safe in their home. The Negroes have suffered more from the housing shortage than white persons and are seeking to improve their health and living conditions by leaving alleys and undesirable dis- trics to which they have generally’ been forced to confine themselves. Negroes have not been permitted to remain unmolested in their own homes. Hoodlums have been permit- ted to break windows and destroy shrubbery. > urprising inci- Frame-up Artists of California Capitalism Spurned by New Ones (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, July 15.—Oaks, for- mer chief of police of Los Angeles, is pleading for help and protesting against neglect. Still a member of the police force, he wishes to be pen- sioned off, but his desires are ignored. His complaints are directed against Heath, present chief of police, who was opposed to Oaks’ peculiar meth- ods while in’ power. Obedient to the mandarins, Oaks, as chief of police, made a record for frame-up work. Men, ,suispected of being I. eM etc, ¥ ere brought to him ‘by po icemen, warned by him to leave town, within 24 hours or be framed (he ggiticed no words) and, in cases of failure to leave, were in short time tried on‘ trumped-up charges, convicted om perjured evidence and sentenced to.J,to 14 years (meaning 14 years) inystate prison. The victims; still imprisoned, are haunted with memories of the spectre of ruthlessness and fraud. But few Others remember him. Police command he was stricken with an incurable ailmen. That is why he strives to be retired and pensioned. Oaks may resign but may not be pen- sioned.” That is to be seen. Curiously enough, Fiékert, former | district attorney of San Francisco, who supervised the frame-up of Mooney and Billings, became para- lyzed shortly after he was forced out of office. His affliction is similar to the case of Oaks. As his victims van- ished behind prison walls, Fickert passed into oblivion as far as the pub- lic was concerned. |the record of the city, but rather a As soon ‘as he was forced out of jin U. S. naval uniforms” were sailors FROM MOSCOW TO PEKING Soviet aviators flying from Moscow to Peking. Top row, from left to right: | Najdenov, Wolkovoinov, Schmidt, Rodzew'ch and Kuznetsov. Bottom row, from left to sii Poliakov Gromoy and Stakov. | OF CAPITALISM AND KLUXERISM OF THE BOURGEOIS DICTATORSHIP | ey: FRAPIESA, LOS ANGE July 15.—One full year has passed since the San Pedro outrage was committed. The Los Angeles authorities have that any punishment has been meted out to the guilty. Here are the fac ome working class folks, supposed to have leanings toward socialism, were holding an entertainment in a small hall at San nothing to show Pedro, There were men, women and children present. Coffee and sand wiches were served. It was a private +— affair. American Labor Atrocities. Suddenly the doors were broken open. Many men, including some in United States navy uniforms, rushed in. They attacked the members of the sociable party and drove men and women into the streets. Having possession of the hall, they demolish- ed furniture. Upon three children, a boy seven years old and two girls, nine and ten, they upset a boiler of hot coffee, crippling one and disfiguring all three for life, They carried furniture and station- ery into the street, made a pile and fired it. Everything portable in the hall was destroyed. Above the Law. At that time H. EB. Haldeman was recruiting sailors of the United States war vessels off San Pedro as mem- bers of. the ku klux klan. This man is head of the Los Angeles K. K. K. and is son of H. M. Haldeman, presi- dent of the Better America Federa- tion. Afigust Vollmer, chief of ‘polfce or Los Angelés, publicly announced that if the perpetrators of the outrage Were not caught and punished, law and order would be jeopardized. A few weeks later he resigned. Nothing Has Been Done. Nothing has since been done to bring the offenders to justice. Appar: ently, in the view of Los Angeles leaders, the crime was not a blot on EXECUTIVE OF ean COMMUNISTS REPORTS ON DAWES PLAN FIGHT BERLIN, Germany, July 15—The central executive committee of the German Communist Party reported to the party’s national congress that masses of workers had been mobil- ized during the past year to fight against the Dawes plan which aims to oppress the German workers. Another campaign which received great response was the rallying of the masses to fight the exploitation of the German imperialists who are attempting to regain their pre-war power by forming an alliance with the British ia doatats cottalapene Military Training Exposed by Y.W.L.; Mass Meeting July 21 Twenty-five _ thousand. leaflets. ex- posing the Citizens Military Training Camps for what they are, are being distributed by the members of the Young Workers League at the largest shops in Chicago, particularly those shops which are directly supporting the C. M. T. C. camps and which are sending their “selected few” workers to the camps with full pay. Resolutions are being brought up in the unions protesting against these Citizen's Military Training Camps and a big protest mass meeting is being called for Tuesday, July the 21st, at 8 p. m. at the Northwest Hall, corner North Ave. and Western Ave. All workers who realize the purpose and see the danger of these Citizen’s Military Training Camps for the work- ers of this country are urged to assist to their fullest extent this activity of the Young Workers League, feat to be preserved in history. All indications are that the “men from the war vessels and under K. K. K. orders and that the outrage was committed by votaries of the Klan and federation. It could hardly be ex- pected that they would be bothered by the authorities. Fighting in Mexico. MEXICO CITY, July 15.—One man was killed and three were wounded when rival political groups clashed over control of the municipal govern- ment in Monterey. Korea Homes Submerged TOKIO, July 15.—Heavy floods in central and south Korea have sub- merged 16,000 homes, and a number were killed, it is reported. HANDS OFF CHINA MEETING HELD IN SPITE OF POLICE Philadelphia Audience Show They’re Awake PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 15 Over 300 wotkers gathered at Ran- dolph and Girard Ave. at the open air Hands Off China demonstration held in this city under the au pes of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League. Comrade Baker, secretary of the Workers Party, was the chairman and Comrades Oliver on and’ Harry Wicks* were the ers Duriitg Comrade Wicks’ speech the police came around and demanded | that the meeting be stopped. He gave nearby house as the reason, The entire meeting crossed the street in a body. But as soon as the meeting got under way the police this time on the illness in a interfered) again, flimsy pretext that the permit did not hold good for that corner, The com- mittee in char; nsisted on the right to hold the meeting. The police be- ame rough, pulled Wicks off the plat- form and told him he was under ar- rest. Audience Demanded Speaker The audienc $ one man surged into the police and demanded that the speaker be immediately released threatening to exercise their rights as citizens against the pplice who were disrupting a peaceful meeting. The militant attitude of the workers transformed the police into a couple of lambs and they mumbled some- thing about orders and said the meet- ing would be permitted a few corners away. By this time a tremendous gather- ing of workers (this is a working class district) collected around the meeting and the committee seeing an opportunity to turn the meeting into a parade decided to move the meeting a few blocks away. Wicks announced that the meeting would move and re- quested the audience to form in line and parade in a body to the new loca- tion. This was received with wild outbursts of cheers. The entire au- dience now ‘consisting of over 600 workers proceeded to parade up Girard Ave. cheering and singing. Meeting Undisturbed The third phase of the great demon- stration was opened amid much cheer- ing. Comrade Wicks proceeded with his speech which was received with much appreciation and enthusiasm by the tremendous gathering. The chair- | man. then adjourned the finest open air meeting ever held in Philadelphia with repeated cheers for the Workers Party, the Young Workers League and for the Communist International from the audience, * * 6 Coolidge Commission Rules in Favor of the Tobacco Trus§ WASHINGTON, July penne The result of President Coolidge’s ukase against any further investige- tion of “Big Business” was again seen in the announcement from the federal | trade commission that it has dismis- | sed ten complaints in connection with price fixing of tobacco. The com- panies against whom the complaints were lodged were, American Tobacco Co., Milwaukee Tobacco jobbers, Chattanooga Tobacco jobbers; Kansas City, Pittsburg and Erie Pa. jobbers and others in Wilkes Barre, Colum- bus, West Virginia, New England and Pacific Coast states. French Bankers Plot New War with Aid of Socialists (Continueé from page 1) arrested because of their opposition to the capitalistic Moroccan war, after Comrade Zinoviev’s speech. The speech follows: By GREGORY ZINOVIEV. Comrades: In certain parts of the ‘world events are now developing which constitute, altho for the time being on a relatively small scale, the precursors of those great upheavals which will undoubtedly take place on a huge scale in the future. One of * these is the war in Morocco. In Mor- occo there is proceeding a typical colonial war which affects only two of the great powers. But in this struggle there are to be seen, as the sun in a drop of water, the outlines of great events which await humanity in the next few years. In one of his writings just before his death, Comrade Lenin stated that, in about the years 1925 or 1928 a new great world war was to be expected _which would cost humanity five to ten times more victims than the war of 1914 tho 1918. Socialists Again for Robber War. The events which we are now ob- serving show that this prediction is undoubtedly proving correct. In fact . the French Republic, in which the ; jensheviki who defeated Poincare » jn power, a government which calls | itself a democratic and a left govern- ment, the government of the left i bloc, 1s now carrying, on a typical t colonial war of plunder and robbery One would pent Rep hich the workers of the whole wor! ble 8) the war of Gatssiaceas that ing Burope trom csarism and against a little people. have expected, after even the party of the mensheviki would have shown in this whole affair at least some vestige of shame. Mean- time, the whole tragedy of the situa- tion consists in the fact that in the year 1925 the French party of the mensheviki, who constitute a consid- erable power in France, have the brazenness to repeat word for word that which international menshevism declared at the beginning of the war in the year 1914. The same deception, the same speeches regarding “‘defend- ing the fatherland,” the same: false phrases and in reality the same help for the bourgeoisie of their own country. ' Imperialism vs. Riffians. If in the war of 1914 the state of af- fairs, at least at the commencement, was somewhat confused, if at that time it was not at once quite clear who was the aggressor and what w: the question at stake, tr at that time there was a tangle of complicated re- lations, in the present affair in Mor- oceo everything is perfectly clear, Here there can be no two different op- inions regarding the causes and the character of the war. On the one side there is a small people, on the other side a great imperialist power, which is attacking a weaker country and is twisting a fresh knot of international conflicts thru which it will be exceed- ingly dificult to cut. And if in the war of 1914 one still spoke of defend- ing civilization and democracy from the attacks of Russian czarism and such like, we haye before us now a perfectly naked example of open rob- bery. Here no mention whatever is made of defending “culture,” of sacks. Here the only fact is that French imperialism is lusting for con- quests; it is endeavoring to wrest from a small people, the Riff Kabyles, fresh stretches of territory. “Democracy” Attacks Colonial Workers. And therefore, in the summer of 1925, after the victory of the left bloc over Poincare, after the victory of so- called democracy, which has intro+ duced a new era of pacifism, etc., the French bourgeoisie sénds its troops to Morocco and begins a new war. Within the last few days the most prominent representatives of the French parties have, in the press and ia parliament, expressed their opinion regarding the events in Morocco. Ren- audel stat ‘With what means does the government hope to end the mili- tary operations and to restore peace in Morocco? Right from the first commencement of the occupation of Morocco the socialist party pointed out the danger. “Who is responsible for the present conflict? We have been attacked (just fancy, France has been atacked!) but who has provoked this attack? My criticism does not give you the right to believe that we are defeatists, The socialist party does not by any means demand the avacuation of Morocco (1) but ft will not agree to a war for the sake of fame, a war in which the flower of the manhood of France would perish. Renaudel asks, what is the number of the French troops in Morocco and what losses has suffered there, se tates that. the lope gate of Casab- wounded and that there. will soon be no place The workers do not support it, in the for further wounded, Renaudel fur- ther states that he is pleased to hear the declaration of Painleve, that as soon as the French have won back their former positions they will cease military operations, Finally, he has found the most important argument against the war: “It is a question of the interests of France. Now, when in France there is a shortage of work- ers, we shall not agree to fresh vic- tims in Morocco.” Jouhaux Fights internationalism. If there were no lack of workers, then the evil would only be half so Breat, then the hospitals could be filled with fresh wounded, But as (just think) there exists no unemploy- ment in Frai but on the contrary a lack of i ochecs, the representatives of the French #fiensheviki will not agree to permit fresh victims. That is the attitude of the representative of the French “socialist” party. Is this ist? No less interesting is the attitude of Jouhaux, Jouhaux is the president of the French menshevist trade unions, sven tho he alls himself a syndical- ist, Tho syndicalists at one time con- stituted a wing element, but fellow not a traitor, a social chauvin-| derers who have attacked a small peo- since the beginning of the war of 1914 they have, just as the mensheviki,| i. gone,” gone right over to the side of the bour- Beoisie, Befdte all Jouhaux is over- flowing with ériticism. Against whom, do you think? The imperialists? no. The Communists! “The so-call- ed ros of the leaders of ‘Third rath ti appecte st nationalis: Sn ima i) ‘al is, in fact, only an} heen able. to maintain anything ap- between the number of the male female population. As a result of t first imperialist war, the French +. lage has been devastated and destroy- ed. And now, at the very first at- tempt of the capitalists to inaugurate fresh slaughter, these mensheviki lit- erally repeat what they said in the year 1914. You have here a sample of what the Second International would ‘do tomorrow if a new war were to break out, From this example it is quite clear that the bourgeoisie and the sociat democracy now represent one camp as regards main questions, and that one cannot vanquish the bourgeoisie without having to defeat the treacherous leaders of Second In- ternational. New Liebknechts Arise. But the Morocco war has served at the same time as a certain testing of those new forces which have grown up in the past few years. When the war of 1914 broke out, in France, in the first period, there was hardly a single man who ventured to oppose it. The first protests in France against the war were made in the year 1915 And then people came forward with & confused and vague program. In Germany at that time Liebknecht stood alone in his opposition to the war, The events in France have| shown that should the bourgeoisie | now attempt to resort to a fresh war, We would not see one but thousands and thourands of Liebknechts in all the prominent countries of Europe. (Applause.) I am happy to be able to say that the Communist Party of France, a same way as they are not minded to follow those who wish to extend an adventure and’ those who dream of fresh conquests. The workers of our country pronounce themselves against any extension of military operations which would have as their aim, to penetrate to the Spanish zone.” (le Peuple of May 23, 1925.) As you know, a struggle is proceed- ing in Morocco between the Riff peo- ple on the one side, the Spanish bour- geoisie on the other side and the French bourgeoisie on the third side, When the war between the Riff Kaby- les and the Spaniards had come to complete standstill, the representa- tive of the left bloc, Malvy, a member of parliament, who had been sent to Spain, endeavored to kindle the war afresh. Repeat Betrayal of 1914, Now, when a bold word requires to be spoken against the capitalist plun- ple and who are prepared to kindle a new European war for the sake of (heir predatory interests, the so-called representatives of the proletariat, the French mensheviki, attack the Third International and issue the slogan: “We don't want any extension of military operations which would have as their aim to penetrate to the Span- Ten years have passed since the out- break of the first world war. In this war the imperialists sacrificed ten mil- lion human lives, One of the great- est sufferers was France, where today there is hardly a village which has proved itself a party worthy of the Communist International, There have. been found people in this party who succeeded in the French parliament in flinging a pro- test, full of contempt and indignation, in the face of the bourgeoisie, as wel: as of their lackeys in the menshevist camp. Especially worthy of note is the fact that, in the name of the Com- munist Party, a young comrade came forward, who only recently emerged from the ranks of the Young Com: munist League, a typical representa tive of the new generation of revolu- tionary leaders, Comrade Doriot, (ap- plause) who delivered a splendid speech in parliament. After the speech of Comrade Doriot, the Cen- tral organ of the Communist Party of Germany quite rightly published an article under the title; “Liebknecht lives; yes, he lives im the new gen- eration of workers! Greetings to Red Prisoners, The attitude of Comrade Doriot is, 80 to Speah, @ small example of how the new forces which are ripening among the working masses would speak and act if events should develop and the bourgeoisie decide to kindle a new imperialist war on a large scale, French democracy, supported by the mensheviki, has carried out ‘undreds of arrests thruout the whole country, Communist workers w Dost up bills and leflets against the war are being arrested, fresh | - ings are being brot against It Would be @ good thing if we were to greetings to all who have party which has grown @trong in the proaching an appropriate proportion] last few years, has in this matter ae ae A a gS” te Stage —— ed on account of the fight (Applause.) send from this meetin, arrest. pete iit i