The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1925, Page 6

_ THE DAILY WORKER Published by thé DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113. 'W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 oe i cadiinel dla SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicage only): By mail (outelde of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50°six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months lanes aie aD 7 Address ail mail ‘and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ilinols Rc) ae J, LOUIS ENGDAHL \. ue i WILLIAM F. DUNNE AX orgy of militarism is. enveloping our country ever more and more. Maneuvers by the navy, maneuvers by the air fleet, mobilization of the youth in the training camps, a tre- Mendous budget for the war and navy departments, and finally bellicose Speeches by a number of generals on Independence and Defense Day—this is but an incomplete list of the most Editors { MORITZ J. LOEB.. Business Manager oustanding facts which took place dur- ——<—<$< $<$____—— ing the last three months, and which -class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- ona aad a cage IL, under the act of March 3, 1879. clearly prove that the United States is rapidly advancing on the path of ge <= 290 Advertising rates on application, | militarism saturated with the blood —————————— = of millions of workers and farmers. ; is 4 By the first years “following the world A New Chinese Saviour war France, measured by the : ee i growth of militarism, dgok the place George Kirkpatrick, one of the socialist party’s press agents, | ot pre-war Germany among th eim¢er- ialist powers. At present this role is passing more and more to our coun- try. The U. S. is becoming a new Germany, a North American Germany, Systematically and deliberately pre- paring for new imperialist, grasping wars. Rm carefully the speeches deliv- ered on July 4 by Major-General John L. Hines (chief of the army gen- eral staff), Major-General Harry C. Hales (commanding the Sixth corps area) and Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, and you will be convinced that they have in mind nothing else save Preparation for an offensive war, for a war of plunder and annexation, and not for a defensive war. They contemplate not the defense of the independence of our country, but an atack on the independence of other countries, agrees with the capitalists that ignorance is the chief cause of China’s troubles. But while the capitalists offer as a solution for what ails China long hours, short pay and poison gas; Kirkpatrick flies to Margaret Sanger and holds up a certain article made from rubber as cure for the evils that pester the Chinese masses. In simple terms; Kirkpatrick says that the'trouble with China is too many Chinese, This is typical of the socialist way of looking at things. Instead of blaming the imperialist robbers for the dreadfull poverty of the Chinese masses, they grope around for some scintilla of evidence to prove that the Chinese themselves are to blame, ..So the tendency of the Chinese to beget children is the reason why. American, British, Japanese and British capitalists are now shooting them down on their own streets! Kirkpatrick evidently read in the DAILY WORKER that the Wall Street government went to the expense of sending battleships to settle the Chinese question. He therefore admonishes our rulers for their extravagance and makes the following suggestion: “The cost \ of one big battleship would be sufficient to provide every woman in China with one piece priceless information—information used by the wives of all bankers, bishops, senators, judges, governors and cabinet secretaries in the United States—information on voluntary parenthood; that is a harmless, painless method for preventing con- ception. Why hesitate—to save China?” | The old Malthusian fallacy has been exploded time and time again. The earth is not overpopulated. The cause of poverty is not too many people, but the unequal distribution of wealth. This con- | dition will only be eliminated when capitalism is eliminated. There | is enough wealth in China to take care of its teeming population many times over. But the Chinese have not access to this wealth. They are not entitled to it according to the laws of capitglism. What the Chinese must do, and what all the exploited.people of the world must do, is to abolish the robber system of capitalism. Then they can begin the task of disseminating knowledge that will enable them to regulate their lives in accordance with their own in- terests and those of society as a whole. What the Chinese need now- adays more than knowledge about contraceptives is knowledge of how to use rifles and a plentiful supply of them. There are not too many Chinese in China; but there many imperialists there. dents were im full retreat and an the The Real General Feng street lay the dead and wounded. The outstanding military figure in the Chinese movement for| There were nine killed and a. 25 * * 7, * * ts wounded. The news of the slaughter the liberation is General Feng-Yu-Hsiang, also cflled the “christian sheead like, Wilahye tarwouti tiie’ olty: general.” Feng was once a supporter of Britain and when Wu-Pei- More Wanton Butchery. i i i i On Sunday, meetings were held at 1 Fu started out on the campaign that ended in his eclipse, Feng was eesnant piicda 1s aud MtonnA the wat one of his leading generals. tlement. ‘A general strike was de- In those days, the “christian general” was pictured to the readers | clared and the Chinese of the peice of the American and British capitalist papers in ‘glowing colors. He prion iagrngen pied raertea | was a nice man, humane and democratic. But Feng ceased to be the (Continued from p.ge 1) push them back. The Sikh police with a certain in- their own sufferings from British im- ished lead-filled batons at the heads of the defenseless students. “Shoot to Kill” British Order. By this time the crowd had reached the confines of the Louza police sta- tion and were going to pass by con- tinuing their parade when six or sev- en police (all British) on orders from their chief couched in the words, “Shoot to Kill” fired into the crowd. After the first volley the crowd na- turally turned to get back. when a are t00] second volley was fired, this time fired at the students when their backs were turned. And then a third vol- i}ley'was fired. By this time the stu- that was the political end of Fu. Suddenly Feng lost all virtue in|a defenseless group of students and the eyes of British and American capitalist editors. His chrjstianity | workers by gg Pies arin pay shloughed off him like a rubber coat and the public has been given the Paced mg Spal taken ie impression that the once humane and democratic Chinese general] jay. erect. had changed to a man-eating tiger, who went around hunting nice} of the electric company, the telephone | fat bodies on which to perform carving tricks with his sword. company and the employes of the About the only coherent speech Feng could make according to het eee Aetcaci oetiea | his capitalist traducers, was one clamoring for gore and plenty of it. peti Tt He was represented to be as bloodthirsty as the god of William Jen-] English and former Russian white nings Bryan. He had no program except an insatiable desire for un-j guard remnants of the armies of Kol- limited and unceasing slaughter. In view of this campaign of cal-}chack, Denikin and others, who took umny, the DAILY WORKER is pleased to feature on another page ooh the thy Pherae Mace an artcile cabled by.General Feng to the Workers Weekly of Great} ,11.° Republic, U..8. @ R., are again Britain, the official organ of the Communist Party of that country.| receiving British shekels, this time The article, which our readers are urged to study, is a calm,|to attemp® to break and crush the reasoned document, setting forth the facts that led up to the recent pat a for Chinese freedom, by ] crisis. in China, the bloody deeds of British imperialism and the} **??™* : Mass Movement Begins. determination of the Chinese people to free themselves from the! gy the waiters (in Shanghaiese blighting and brutal yoke of all foreign imperialism. This article] cated “boys”) of the leading hotels } gives us a clear picture of the real General Feng an@ not the eari-|in the city also walked out. Then gses. one of the most feared effects of the cature that the paid liars of capitalism drew to.fool the masse: Eero’ cvedituited.. ‘The vitppiug; te most important factor of Shanghai commerce, was effected. The Chin- Less Hours and Less Pay ese crews stepped ashore from most “ ‘ | of the boats manned by Chinese la- The Standard Oil company of New Jersey has decided to estab: bls) ust’ dn dosh db: they: tenahed’ the lish ‘the eight-hour day in ‘its oil fields. - Hitherto its slaves worked} wharves and now there are 50 ships twelve’ hour shifts. With a reduction in hours there also comes | (by the time you get this letter the nservative estimate would be 75 reduction in the pay envelopes of the Standard employes. thie ted * tis ry hao: Hols So ‘strong is the hold‘ of the Standard on the press thru its ad-] hardly a man to man them. vertising hush fund, that very little public clamor was made about LAG couhe meant eaten the inhuman hours put in by the workers who turned out millions bot’ 46 prevent rth lived Kf for the Rockefeller interests. And now the santimonious John D.| catéte and vegetables into the settle- Rockefeller, Jr., decides to make a gesture of generosity, we find that] ment for food for the foreigners. Fit- it is the kind that pays. good dividends to the oil octopus. teen hundred laundrymen have closed Coincident with the establishment fo the eight-hour day in its|‘%¢ir shops and are at present on properties the Standard Oil company raised the price of gasoline strike. Yesterday the majority of the dairymen walked out. ee oné cent. This raise will pour many millions into the coffers of the} _ Imperialist Invasion. company. And the Standard’s slave drivers will learn to make their| It is needless to state that, men-of- employes produce as much oil in eight hours as they formerly did in, wr both British and Japanese, have twelve. They initiated t.¢ eight-hour day, not for the benefit of the) —~ workers, but because;they know it will pay better than risk a revolt) of their slaves and the substitution of a real union for the bastard company organization that now pretends to A the employes in their differences with the oil trust. i — Ponzi was given another stretch’in prison for taking several miilions of dollars away from the innocent people of Boston in his fake international exchange scheme. Ponzi should have his swindle scheme incorporated in the state of Delaware. —————_____§ Every day get “sub” for the DAILY for the Workers Partys- WORCESTER, Mass, July 15.—Sco in rioting between ku klux klansmen Worcester county early i as di rs were The Leicester riot was the more The scenes of the bottl mobiles were damaged: ccaaiies RKER and a member British Ordered “Shot to Kill” in China the police that were vainly trying to | herent brutality (probably because of | perialism in their native land) brand-| Monday in front of Wing On’s several | tool of British imperialism. He quit Wu-Pei-Fu, seized Peking and|pritish and Sikh police killed six of | All the Chinese force | SCORES INJURED WHEN KLANSMEN CAUSE RIOT IN MASSACHUSETTS ' TOWNS; THROW EGGS, PULL GUNS being thrown hati: ata flourished. by’ the kluxe THE DAILY WORKER Defense Cloaks A HE specehes figures. The regular army, the first line of defense (meaning, the first line of offense)—150,000 mé@n.) The National Guard, the second tine of defense (read: second line of offense)— 200,000. The reserves, the third line of offense—95,000. The Women’s corps for war work—2650,000 (the pro- posal to organize such a woman's crops is now being considered by the war department as an integral part of its permanent “defense” plan). The thoro preparedness of our industry for war, and lastly, by way! of dessert, the jesuitical attempt by Admiral Fiske to pass the blame for “the suffering caused by war to the pacifists. The reasoning of this old admiral deserves detailed consideration. The admiral declares: “I know that the so- called militarists (of course there are no militarists, there are only ‘so- called militarists’) ate ‘much more pa- cific in their atitude “and language than the pacifists.”” Such is the old sea-wolf's aphorisnr number one, pals impressive ERE is aphorism number two: “The tendenoy of. wealthy and commercial nations has always been toward effeminacyyand away from wor, while the tendency of poorand aspiring nations ‘has always been to make war against them as the short- est road to wealth and power.” The retired admiral does not take pains to mention instances proving this last aphorism. Let's do it for The poor, very poor England him. been summoned from nearby ports and sailors and marines have been landed from the ships already in the harbor to patrol the settlement and “protect foreign life and property” in | Shanghai. Not only were Saturday's and Mon- | day's shots heard ih Shanghai, but | they echoed and re-echded thruout the | Yangtze valley and thritout China. No {sooner was the news known than things began to happen in other cities. In Peking whére student de- monstrations were taking place be- | fore the Tsingtao and°Shanghai mur- | ders, the news was 0} more, fuel | | to the fire and as a result there is a| | general strike proclaimed which am spreading daily. + At Chinkiang, some miles from the | city of Nanking;'the°students had a demonstration, with ‘the result that all foreignérs were ordered out of | the city mifhin.24 Hpine and thoce orders were obeyed P. D. Q., with the result’ that the Loong Wo steamed into Shanghai threé-days ago with a boatload of foreigners, i. e., mission- aries and businessmen. Two days ago Hankow was the | scene of slaughter when foreign vol- |unteers and marines tifned machine guns on a mass of unarmed students |and workers demonstfating against |the Nanking Road massacre. Right Chinese students weré killed and many more wounded. Kiukiang was the stene of more! outright murder but’atual figures| and facts have not as ‘yet been se- | cured. Numerous demonstrations of stu- dents in many other cities are report- ed and the general trend portends a non-peaceful culmination. China, al- |Teady at the boiling point, is begin- ning to seep over; and once she gets started, “All hell can’t fee her.” FLEXIBLE SHAFT COMPANY PRUNES WORKERS’ WAGES Employes Quit When Stop Watch Introduced penne: = The Flexible Shaft company which manufactures considerable shee p- shearing machinery for Australian, New Zealland and Argentinian exoprt, also is quite efficient ‘at the task of shearing the workers ‘employed in its shops thru a highly déveloped system |, of speeding up ac companied by dras- tic wage cutting. ri The Taylor stop- watch system was introduced in punch’ and drill press departments. As a result of this in- tolerable system, 20) ‘workers quit. This system is also in’ preparation for the toolmakers, mailers, assemblers, polishers and plasterers, The Flexible Shaft ¢ompany, which fk located at 5600 West Roosevelt Road, also makes “Sunbeam” electric irons. The wages were slashed in some departments from 86 cents to 55 cents an hour, 8 of men were injured, two seriously, and anti-klansmen in two sections of in Medfield and serious with eggs, sticks, ston ¢ has waged war against the wealthy people of India, Pauperized Franee is now waging. war against the Riffi- ans who live in abundance and lux- ury. Lastly, poverty stricken United States is preparing to war against China which is suffocating in wealth, PHORISM number three: “The greatest danger to the American flag is not Communism. The greatest danger is that mis- called pacifism which is softening the fibre of the nation.” You are mistaken, wise admiral in retirement. Precisely Communism is the greatest menace to the power of Wall Street. And do you know why? Because Communism is REAL pacifi- ism, not the bourgeois and’ petty- bourgeois pacifism which, as you cor- rectly declare, has not prevented a single war in the past and has no con- crete plan how to prevent war in the future. The Communists are the only real pacifists, and they have a con- crete plan, namely to establish a workers and farmers government the world over, and then war will become impossible. Precisely as pacifists really having no intention to oppress any nation, the Communists are the greatest menace to Wall Street. DMIRAL Fiske is confusing theSg.w) DMIRAL FISKE is confusing the question of militarism, pacifism and Communism in order to cover up the traces, to conceal from the work- ers and farmers that the hombast about defense, self-protection and in- dependence is used to camouflage the actual practical and concrete plan of ggression. preparation for a war of eneroach- ment.and. plunder. But the admiral was carried: away by his theme, and let the cat out of the bag. He concluded . his speceh with: “A continuance to protect at all times, and in all places, under all conceivable circumstances—the Amer- ican flag.” To b esure, “in all places.” That is, in China and in Japan, in Russia and in the, Philippines, in South America and in Mexico, HAT is the real meaning of the present militarist campaign, was best proven by Bx-Senator Hamilton Lewis, who in his speech, a& réported by thé Chicago Sunday ‘Tribune, “warned against a war from out of the orient in whcih America will be without, the aid.of her. late allies. “England, France and Italy. never would aid us against China, Japan.nad Russia,” Thus, China possessing no “Ravy, Russia® Possessing only small rem- nants of the czarist fleet, and Japan which’ has been weakened by earth- quakes for at least a scoré Of years, are menacing the U. S. witha war of “offense.” And the poor U. S., in possession of an immense and power- ful navy, is compelled to make prep- arations for a war of defense, AVE mercy, honorable senator. There are bounds to credulity which even a senator may not cross. With your talk of Japan, China and Russia you are giving away your real intnetions—to enslave these countries to American imperialism. You let the NEARING FINDS DEMOCRACY OF BRITAIN GONE Pacifist Alic Stineed by Hand Across Sea NEW YORK, July 15.— Visaes on American passports have been denied | Scott Nearing and his wife Nellie Nearing without explanation. Less than two weeks previous a British visa was denied Brent Dow Allin- son, conscientious objector during the | war. Allinson left with a group of young, | people for a peace conference in Eng- land and was forced to leave the party in France. The Nearing plan to go to Europe for travel and study. The British consulate wrote to Lon: don for further instructions on the case as the Nearings intend to fight the decision if vigaes are again re- fused. “It is remarkable to think that the British secret service should main- tain in this country a file of the ac- tivities and politics of American elt zens,” Nearing states. British officials attempted to pre- vent foreign Communists from enter- ing England to attend the party con- gress this year. However, two dele- gates from France and Germany, not | being sticklers for etiquette, slipped thru the swarm of detectives, deliver- ed speeches and then vanished. State Court Wipes Out Reduction in Utility Co’s Rates One hundred cases where the state ! utilities commission has ordered pub- lic utilities to reduce their rates from war levels were invalidated by the ruling of the state supreme court that all cases involving utilities or rates concerning one county must be heard: -in that county. They must be heard only by the’ commissioners, assistant commission- ers, Or the secretary of the commis- sion, the court ruled. Heretofore, practically all hearings have been at: Springfield or Chicago, and experts connected with the commission have | been allowed to preside, It is impossible for seven! commis- sioners to hear all cases, the mem- bers point out. Dairy Company Sold Milk Twenty-five Per Cent Watered The license of the Newton-Dowd-) Quigley Dairy company, 4326 S. Wa- bash Ave., has been revoked by the city health commissioner, after evi- dence that their milk has been wat- ered from 17 to 29 per cent. It has also been shown that new caps were substituted for old caps on the milk bottled day. The company has been water- ing the milk for some time, having previously received three warnings from the health authorities. South Bend Picnic and Mass Meeting on Sunday longer than one SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 15— On Sunday, Jily 19, a picnic and mass demonstration meeting will be held at Kaley Park, under the auspices of the Workers (Comi it Bend, Pro: languages also’ a Negro speaker and a speaker in English. © in South Bend is welcome. bring your triem@m=** ~ Party of South in foreign Every worker Come and AS WE SEE IT By John Brown secret out Mr,.senator, you recklessly exposed the cards.,, The fairy tale about an alliance between socialist Russia, which has no plan of con- quest and is helping China in her struggle for liberation, and Japan, which is right now taking a leading part, alongside of the American forces, in the suppression of the Chi- nese liberation movement,—this yarn is too much even for the most impor- tant, for the least class conscious worker, You're a mighty poor story- teller, Mr. Senator, i ND now, comrade reader, compare the bellicose speeches of the gen- erals, who are contemplating the en- slavement of Japan, China and Russia (and ‘are therefore shouting about protecting the independence-of the United States), with the speech of President Coolidge, which was also.de- liveted on July 4.. The president calls upon all nations of the old world to make permahent peace. (Admiral Fiske, is not this most typical pacif- ist ‘préaching? Or do you favor 'pa- cifism for the old world, and militar. ism for the new world?) President Coolidge adds to this, that the only hope of success les in “peace with justice.” N old Latin general declared; “If you want peace, prepare tor war)” In the United ‘States this proverb ‘has been changed to read: “When you want war, shout for peace, if you contemplate the en- slavement of other nations, talk of defending the independence of your nation.” By T. J. O'Flaherty (Continued from page 1) we went into Williamson county and you have read of the results.” “© S: religion today is under closer ‘scrutiny than usual, because of the public interest aroused by the Dayton trial, the following excerpts from the evangelist’s talk to the Ro- tarfatis may be enlightening to those who» want to get a line of the men- tality of William Jennings Bryan and histype. “Christ did it. I didn’t. (This was in reference’ to the clean- ing up of Herrin) God almighty work- ing thru me, a former sinner, enabled me to go to that sin-infested city and telthem the story of Christ. I had to knock hell out-of a‘ few, but the citizens of Herrin .are better now.” The prosecution rests here. But we humbly submit that the guns of Sher- iff Galligan and his frionds were mone. potent in beating the klan than the. lord's brimstone retailed by evan- | selist Williams. Fpxovann once had the reputation for’ being’a land’ of freedom. When other European countries had obhoxiots passport systems anybody ‘Tcawld “come into England’ without much’ bother. Revolutionists pointed out: ‘that’ British capitalists would show its teeth when things began to look dark; that it would throw off the mask of democracy and talk abroad. in all its bourgeois nakedness when ‘its power ‘began to wane and its wage slaves began to show a susceptibility to radical ideas and a tendency to act, eee 2 usiosesh time-has arrived. The action of the British consular officials in New York in refusing to grant visas to Scott Nearing and Brent Dow Al- lison, who planned to visit Britain shows to what extent the prevailing capitalist terror of radicalism has hit Britain. With fascism growing in England and the police raiding the homes of British workers, the old traditional freedom of “Merrie Eng- land” is dying a natural death. But on its Tuins will be built up a new and ‘more lasting freedom, the free- doin’ that will flourish * when’ class tule js, abolished and all men and Women will be equal in fact as well as in theory. This equality can only prevail when exploitation of man by man ceases. ee HOSE who are interested to know what is happening to some of the money that is made out of the toil of the American wage slaves should glance occasionally at the “society columns” of the capitalist press. Thousands of Amerfcan millionaires and their female parasites are cutting loose in the capitols of Europe. Lon- don, which boasts of the .most re- spectable and the most solvent royal family in Europe is a favorite resort of our bloated boodle-hounds. While American workers who produce the wealth that enables these parasites to revel in luxury, are lucky if they can take a moonlight excursion on some pond called a lake, the papers have the following to say of ‘the do- ings of our “best people” im London, eee ‘ NE American hostess who is re- spected and taken quite serious- ly is Mrs. Charles Marshall of New York, the mother of Mrs. Marshall Field III. She has taken a house at 6 Grosnevor Square (the residence of Lady Burton) and according to cur- rent reports, Princess Mary has ac- cepted an invitation to a dinner and dance Mrs. Marshall will give this month, Incidentally Mrs. Marshall has for neighbors in Grosnevor Square, Lady Cunard, the Duke of Portland, the Duchess of Somerset, the Marquis of Bath and the Earl of Durham—a _ galaxy of blue-blooded peers that lead smart London go- ciety.” N° doubt the counter jumpers of the big Marshall Field depart- ment store will be happy to learn that the profits which flow into the Field coffers as 4 result of their toil, en- able their employers to tickle the pal- ates of British aristocracy with the choicest of foods and drinks, while the poor slaves can find consolation in knowing that our rulers are able to hold their own with the British aristocracy, Is it surprising that our capitalists should hate Soviet Russia, the only country in the world that has taken steps to put an end = Dara- sitism? sehaileipusstvw Lal nsian-cinit a atrcenn op ldietabcli aie cc Daily Worker New. York Conference | LD dint WORKER Builders of New York will hold a most important> conference at nine o'clock this Friday evening, July 17, at 108 East . dath street. ty branches must be present. Every DAILY WORKER and literature agent of the New York Work. If any fall to. come they willbe re. | sand collectors, worker correspondents. and all other party members who want to help build the DAILY WORKER ‘are also invited to attend this conference to discuss the DAILY were € “mid-summer campaign in. New York, : OA similar meeting for the Y. W, L. DAILY WORKER’ and sre f ving, July 20, inte will take place at headquarters, 108 East 14th street, ‘Monday ; New York: Keep Aug. 30 and Sept. 7 Open! The DAILY WORKER is arranging an excursion for Sunday, August 30, and a joint picnic with the T. U. E. L. for Labor Day, September 7, All friendly organizations in New York are asked to refrain from an ‘ ranging conflicting affairs on these dates, More Volunteers Wanted. | Volunteer workers do a “lot of work every week for the DAILY WORKER in New York. The hot weather does not stop a number of rades from helping severa | hour RKER New York office, a@uweek as news stand colle ch week with details in the DAILY . dover twenty donate from one to four hours” rs. The results for the DAILY WORK R oan be increased in proportion as additional comrades volunteer for these various lines of work. _ Typists, addres led for and a bookkeeper are needed in the office, more and work, and there js immediate need for a number of speakers to visit branch of the DAILY WORKER. If willing to help, ple: and union meetings in behalf report in person to the manager of the New York DAlkY WORKER agency at 108 East 14th t. \