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

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER 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 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 Bivd., Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB.. Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- eago, Til, under the act of March 3, 1879, fen EAHROTS ..Business Manager Advertising rates on application. | <a 290 — eS Wall Street’s Four Fronts in China The insistence of the American state department on a confer- ence of all powers signing the treaties of the Washington conyention to go into the question of extra-territoriality rights in China, delivered to President Tuan Chi-jui by Ambassador McMurray, is evidence of the widening breach hetween American and British imperialism and American and Japanese imperialism. Coming at a time when Australia is in the American market for a $100,000,000 loan ‘and the biggest American fleet ever assembled in the Pacific is making a tour of the Far Eastren ports, only a blind man can fail to sée that the much touted Anglo-Ametican bloc is only a veil for a deep-Seated and irreconcilable conflict between these two dominant imperialisms. Under the guise of friendship for the Chinese government and people, American imperialism is putting tremendous pressure on her British and Japanese rivals in China. They now enjoy advantages of extra-territoriality and control of customs revenues in which American imperialism does not participate. To demand the same advantages would be to undeceive many Chinese who see in Amer- ica a friend because she has not heretofore insisted on special privil- eges and gone in for extensive armed conquest as have the British and Japanese. It is much simpler and more effective to force Britain and Japan to relinquish their advantages and in this way place American imperialism on an equal footing with them in China. American finance capital has nothing to lose and everything to gain by such a policy. It has one advantage in particular—America appears in China as a champion of the territorial integrity of the Chinese republic and thus serves to effset the influence of Soviet Russia—the prole- tarian power that American imperialism is shrewd enough to recog- nize as its real enemy in China. American imperialism is operating in China on three fronts openly—against Great Britain, against Japan, against Soviet Rus- sia, Secretly it is fighting on another front—against the liberty of the Chinese masses. Just as Wall Street in Mexico frees the Mexican masses from the] , oppression of British imperialism so that it can set up a more stringent form of slavery under its hegemony, so in China it de- mands the abolition of extra-territoriality lawg in order that it can have at least an equal opportunity with Great Britain and Japan to enslave the millions of Chinese workers and peasants. That it will have to fight Great Britain or Japan, or both, to establish equal rights for American imperialism is unquestionable. The anti-Japanese attitude of the American press seems to indicate that Japan will be the first foe. The drive for militarization of the nation, the increased nayal appropriations, the anxiety over the fortifications in the Pacific pos- sessions are sure signs that American imperialism prepares for war in the Pacific. To challenge the extra-territoriality rights of Britain and Japan in China means war and this is exactly what American imperialism is doing. The slogan of the next war can almost be heard now: “Freedom and American democracy for China.” In 1898 we “freed” Cuba with a similar slogan. The Chinese masses will achieve freedom in spite of the Amer- ican imperialists if. the American working class forees a genuine “Hand Off China” policy, and keeps the bloody hands of Wall Street from the throats of the Chinese workers and peasants. Darrow Sidesteps in Dayton Fundamentalists can be understood. They stand on the bible as the word of their god and close their minds to reason. Believers in the materialist conception of history stand on the sure ground of science and are able to show that religion has evolved from the fears and ignorance of our savage ancestors—that geology ethnology, biology, physics, chemistry and the kindred sciences, his torical research and the sociological sciences all prove the mythical character of all religions. Communists are content to rest their case against religion on seientific proof with additional evidence of its use to enslave man- kind. But what can be said for the defenders of Scopes who seek to prove that a belief in evolution is compatible with a belief in religious dogmas—that there is no conflict between religion an science? The best that can be said for them is that they are even bigger fools than the fundamentalists who have enough fanatical ¢anning to feel that the issue is between religion and science, between Night and darkness. The theologians of all ages have fought every advancement of knowledge. They have fought also that freedom of inquiry which leads to knowledge and the opening of the Scopes trial with prayer at each session is symbolic of the belief in a being to whom appeal from the decisions of earthly men can be taken. : It is no far ery from the human sacrifices on the altars of tribal gods to the spectacle in Dayton, Tennessee. Nor is there any great difference between the banishment of the jury when scientific evi- dence is being taken and the secret hearings and torture of the in- quisition. No conflict between religion and the doctrine of evolution? No conflict between religion and science? Whoever does not know that this is one aspect of the age long struggle between master and slave is a fool and who knows and still denies it is a hypocrite. The need of modern capitalism for scientifie processes and mastery of nature has served to gloss over the conflict between re- ligion and science and conceal its essentially class character. The Scopes defense is fighting no clean cut battle, bat niore' than the mediaeval-minded Bryanites is befogging the issues involved. Only the Communists stand squarely against religion as “the opium sii the people.” Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY omen e Mie} Jand skill of their pers The Militarization of Railway Labor ¥iteFtum MERICAN railroads are ready for the next war. At’a conference held in Washington, the’éxuet date of which is not known but which was reported in the New York Times of June 22, a complete scheme for mobilization of rail trans- port was submitted to the gathering composed of “rail transportation offi- cials and businessmen.” The basis of the scheme for milit- ary control, as outlined by Assistant Secretary of War Davis to the confer- ence is: , 1. Possession and control by the government of the lines taken over is essential in order that the govern- ment, in carrying out the war pro- gram, may make the necessary da- mands upon the railroads and insure obedience to these demands as a mat- ter of right. 2. Effective mobilization and use of the transportation resources is im possible unless the lines taken over are operated as a single system under one control and one administration. | 3. Requirements of the govern-| ment can be carried out most eff ively, intelligently and successful availing of the existing organizations of the several companies and by mak- | ing full use of the trained experience | mnel. Too vio- ent changes in either organization or | methods of procedure are liable to} lave an adverse effect on efficiency | ind morale. HE army appropriations act, pass- | ed August 29, 1916, gives the pres- ident, acting thru the retary of war, the power to take possession and control of the railroads. This law was enacted six months before this coun- try entered the world war in April, 1917. How many people know of such a MAY KEEP BRYAN FROM MAKING AN ASS OF HIMSELF But It Will Be Hard Job for the State DAYTON, Tenn., July 16.—William Jetinings Bryan, haled as the “evan- Bélical leader of the prosecution,” may be barred from making a new feross of gold” speech in the Scopes @ntievolution trial, it was learned to- day.! | ‘“Altho he has waited in the stuffy courtroom for a week fanning himself patiently while other orators held the spotlight, Bryan may be counted out, in’ Kis chair. Under the prosecution's present plans, it was learned, Bryan will not be called upon to speak upon any point of law. If he does speak, it’ will be on evolution and its relation to'‘the bible, which the defense has been trying to expound in the trial. If the defense fails in this effort, as was widely predicted today, the cham- pion self-advertiser will be without a THE DAILY WORKER measure? The control of all mitiers relating to the railroads, under sthe scheme placed before the conference, will be vested in the hands of)q)single indi- vidual appointed by the secretary of war, There will be an gxecutive board of railroad presidents, who will be nominated by the Association of Rail- way Executives subject to the appro- val of the secretary of war. This executive board will deal only with questions of policy, however, the act- ual management of the roads being vested in the secretary of the war de- partment and.his assistant, The plan states: i «it should be thé:policy of the secretary of war to @ncourage the initiative and management of his executive assistant by; placing upon him the responsibilities for general management. 1 ‘ge railroads are nét Hoing to lose any revenue under the plan. They will be paid: -a sum equivalent ‘to the aver age “annual net railway operating income for the three Years ended on the thirty-first day of December next preceding.... except that if exceptional or abnormal conditions were fund by the president to exist during all or a substantial portion of such period of three years which justify a larger or smaller compen- and in anyoevent due allowance ins. the » compensation should be made for the use of addi- tions, improvements .on equipment, the use of which was not fully re- flected in the operating railways revenue of the said three years.... HE railway owners seem to have taken care of themselves very well in the matter of payment for their properties while the war necessity exists. The question arises: Why, since the capitalist press of America constantly points out the su- periority of private over government control, continually lauds the efficien- cy of the present railway management and fights militantly all measures for the extension of government control, have the railway executives, who since the last war have been claiming that government control ruined their properties, submitted tamely to the plan proposed by the war depart- ment? HERE are probably two reasons: First, the Coolidge administration can be trusted to work no. hardship of the railway stockholders and to see that the clause in the war plan deal- ing with compensation is interpreted liberally—in meaning and in cash. Second, there is the feeling that the international situation is pregnant with war and that in the event_of hostilities it is better to militarize the railroads before railway labor gets a chance to take advantage of the si- tuation. The most militant opponents of government interference in busi- ness never hesitates to encourage such interference when it will aid him in crushing labor. HE railway brotherhoods are the most conservative unions in Amer- ica, They do not strike, they feel, for the most part, that they are part of American capitalism and are loyal to} what are called “American institu- tions.” They have made no protest while the process of militarizing the transportation systems has been going on. The unions have said nothing while skeleton army units have been set up on the railroads and the master mech- anics, trainmasters, roadmasters, divi- sion superintendents general manag- ers all the official personnel have ac- quired militancy rank in the national army ranging from lieutenant to gen- eral. The officialdom of the railway unions have made ng protest while a steel web of military discipline, which can be tightened the moment a Wall Street president declares a “national emergency.” has been wo- ven around the membership. Ube railway workers of the United States have already become part of the military forces of the American imperialism. Most of them do not know it yet but they will learn the bitter truth when they find that they have been drafted to serve under the same bosses they*have to fight to prevent their standard: of living being reduced. These. bosses have been given military rank, the railway work- ers will be the ‘troopers, their daily tasks will be to-carry out the orders of superiors who can and will order them before a firing,squad the mo- ment. they protest—in, “a national emergency.” Who is so foolish as to think that the rulers of Atmerica:go to all this trouble for “defense?” Or that unless they have plans of world domination leading inevitably to wars of con- quest, they secure, agreement from the railway capitalists for govern- ment control, under the dictatorship of two men—the secretary of war and his assistant—at a time when violent protestation of the peace‘al intentions of America emanate from the White House daily, and the slogan of “no government in business” resounds in every haunt of the ruling class and its hangers-on, from the Civic Federation, the Security League and the Unten League Club to the humblest gather- ing of kiwanises and rotarians? O! The American railroads, so far as railway capital is concerned, are ready for the next war. It remains only to consolidate the skeleton military units onthe rail roads into actual regiments and ,divi- sions officered by the same individuals whom the railway workers have to fight in peace time. War, being, the extension of capitalist competition to it logical conclusion, makes it logical also that the railway workers should, as part of the imperialist war machine be bullied by the agents of the rail- way capitalists. ET the railway workers examine the evidence submitted here. The evidence of their betrayal into the hands of war-mongers, They will see that while the rail- way labor board has been fighting them on matters of small wage in- creases and working conditions, the rest of the government ‘apparatus has been strenghtening the machinery by which the workers can be deprived of their civilian status at any time. the rufers decide it necessary. In every local union of every. rail- way organization this matter. should be brought up and the official instruct- ed to immediately organize the unions for resistance to this wholesale milit- arization. If the officials do not act it is proof that this scheme has been carried out with their knowledge and that the membership must devise ways and means of bringing mass pressure on both the union officials and the government for the repeal of all military measures, The time to begin to fight this in- dustrial conscription for imperialist war is now. HANG SCOTT ON SON'S BIRTHDAY, NOT ALLOWED TO EMBRACE HIS WIFE Six feet of space between them, not permitted to embrace one an- other and two guards présent, Rus- sell Scott and his wife; Catherine, bade their last adieu today. Scott is to hang this‘morning for the murder of Joseph Maurer, a drug store clerk. “Don’t tell my little boy that his father was hanged on his seventh birthday,” he said: Governor Smalt de Mrs. Scott and he intervene in FRANCE NOT TO LEAVE COLOGNE AS PACT PRICE PARIS, July 16.—THé foreign office announced today that’ Should Herr Stresemann, German foreign minister, led appeals by is father that cution, subject for-the first time in his life. He will have come from Florida, dropping his Chautauqua engage- | ments, merely for a vacation in a heat | stricken community, far from the | luxuries of life. For if the scientific | evidence is forbidden by Judge John T. Raulston, Bryan will likewise be prohibited from touching upon evolu- tion, from attacking the modernist | cause, from defending fundamental- ism and from endorsing the biblical story of the divine creation of man. These subjects eliminated, the | noted real estate dealer might just as well have remained in Florida. His speech, if he makes one under these circumstances, could deal only with the testimony of two fair hafred high school youngsters who said Scopes taught something or other from page 155 of Hunters’ biology. Omaha S Street Meetings Win Workers’ Interest in Communist Movement OMAHA, Nebr., July 16.—We held very successful street meetings in Omaha with Comrade J. E. Snyder talking on class war prisoners, gen- eral strike, unity movement, imperial- ism and the Chinese situation. We had good crowds and the DAILY WORKER, the Workers’ Monthly and our party Mterature. were sold and distributed. These meetings brot us a large number of inquiries and we feel they were highly worthwhile. Tho Comrade Snyder has left for Sioux City to join Alfred Knutson for a speaking trip thru the small towns and farming communities, the open air meetings have not been stopped. Comrade David Coutts is delivering splendid talks every evening at 16th and Capital Ave., between 8 and 9:30 with Comrade Patten acting chair- man, All readers of the DAILY WORKER are invited to attend, “Pacifist” For Big Navy. LOS ANGELES, July 16, — David Starr Jordan, the liberal pacifist, de- clared in a speech before the council of international relations a “peace” or- ganigiétion, that “as long as the United States has a navy, it ought to be a good one.” Jordan spoke on the same plat- form with Secretary Wilbur, who con- demned the pacifists and spoke for further armament, & in his reply to Foreign Minister Briand make the military evacuation of Cologne a condition’ precedent to the entry by Germany iftto a security pact, the reply would be Entirely un- acceptable, Rumors that such a conéition would be proposed by Berlin have reached the Quai d'Orsay. ret Forest Fires Sweep Montana and Idaho, | Still Uncontrolled MISSOULA, Mont., July 16. most menacing in many years” was the way officials today characterized ‘the forest fire situation thruout Mon- tana and northern Idaho, re Two new fires were reported from the Custer national forest in eastern Montana,..previously considered “fire proof.” A total of more than 400 fires have been reported in western Montana, and the Idaho panhandle. Many of these have been controlled, but others have spread until scores-of dangerous fires are now burning im+the Kootenai, : Pend O’Reile and a national forests, Ea 7% 2 Cal Boosts Commereial Aviation. SWAMPSCOTT, Mags, July 16— President Coolidge ‘today accepted the resignation of Col. Paul Hender- son, of Clficago, as sétond assitant postmaster general, éfféctive July 31.! “IT understand you are engaged in commercial aviation,’t\«the president wrote, “Altho this isnot work for the government I feeflisure that you will contribute to thé¢ progress of commercial aviation f®such a man- ner as to' render a public service," The government feels that the com- mercial planes can be turned into a war fleet on short notice. MEXICAN GENERALS IN DUEL 10 DEATH OVER FAVORS OF SHOW GIRL oe MEXICO CITY, July® 16.—Identi- ties of the two generals said to have fought a duelote the death over a Mexican show girl remained hidden today. Army officials prom- ised the names would be made known when a com investiga- tion had been made “The ' : Deen ee nn EEnEIEIInEEENEEntemnemeeed THE SLEEPER YOU.NOW EXPERIENCE A DELIGHTFUL ELING OF CALM AND SECURITY, ANO A DESIRE TO FIND OUT WHETHER ou. Wage Fight on New Injunction Law (Continued from page 1 violence, claiming that there were aets of violence committed every day. “You have a hundred policemen on the job, they seem to handle the situa- tion pretty well | for you,” replied Cunnea. Always Urgent. “This is an urgent matter,” peated the bosses’ shyster. “Did you ever see one of these re- quests for an injunction against strik- ers that wasn’t urgent for the em- ployers?” asked Cunnea. Judge Foell became very much in- terested in the violence charges. “Violence must stop,” said the judge. “Will you give me your word that violence will stop, Mr. Cunnea?” “If there is any violence committed it is instigated by the employers and the police,” said Cunnea. “They ar- rest men and women there indiscrim- inately, and finger print them as if they were criminals.” Who Expects Foell to “Look Favorably?” Judge Foell warned the attorney for the strikers to tell his clients that he would not look very favorably on their side of the case if acts of vio- lence continued (as if a capitalist judge would ever look favorably on the workers’ side of the case.) _ Cunnea tried to have the case set over until Friday while the bosses’ attorneys pleaded again for an im- mediate hearing. With two cases on his hands already set theyjudge said he probably would have tofwait until 4 re- Friday to hear the injunction plea, Three More “Criminals.” Yesterday two strikers were ar- rested absolutely without any cause, and another got. a place in the wagon for good. measure. The strik- ers gatheredaround the wagon and gave the victims rousing cheers, to which a police sergeant objected and threatened arrest. of demonstrators, But nobody paid any attention to him or any other ‘cop. Yesterday the Italian business agent, De Felichi,,.addressed the strike meeting and,got an enthusiastic reception. The meeting was inter- rupted somewhat by camera men tak- ing pictures of the crowd of strikers. Everybody was jolly:and wanted to get into the picture and show their faces among the'workers who are standing firmly for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers: Union and against the-open shop. | °° New Trick—Same Old Failure, The I. T. C. is now trying something |. new to get scabs. It has obtained, by some underground manier or co-op- eration with other bosses, names and addresses of workers whose previous employers went out of business for one reason or another, Figuring that these workers might still be looking for a job the firm gets tne address and sends the worker a letter offering him or her a nice job scabbing—altho it don’t say so—at “anion wages.” This is another case where the soll+ darity of the capitalist class is proven, and the strikers are learning to match the bosses in unity—and since the workers have more power than the bosses when Per are really DESCENDED FROM A MONKEY, united, the outlook is good. The fol lowing is a letter received by a worker whose boss went out of bust ness several weeks ago: “Mr. R. Leesa, 2512 Haddon Ave., Chicago, Ill. “Dear Sir:—The firm last employ- ing you discontinued busin cago because—well, I guess derstand the conditions. “We offer you now a position in your own line of work at regular union wages. Weare going to stay in business in Chicago and to. work for us you won’t need to wait untill you are at the top of the list... How, many thousands are there ahead of you on the list? “Come in and bi us+work under union _conditionsreceive > “regular wages and good full envelopes. « “We have always had the best pay- ing positions in Chicago and that con- dition will continue to remain so, “Yours very truly, F “International Tailoring Company. “Bring this letter with you.” This trick is not the first and will likely be not the last one the open shop firms who are aided by the scabby United Garment crew willtry to pull off, But bg Amalgamated strikers are very alert and no one has Jee oe accepted the “kind invitation” to scab,. even at “union eared ‘eing ‘the United gets them, The fight goes on and the ‘battle in the capitalist courts shows ‘how des- perately the’ I. T. ©. is being pressed. Bankruptcy may lurk around the cor- ner, other firms get their without the secret fund of the chants’ and Mantfacturer: tion is. payii » bills, the 1.7. 0, is wetting it, | | , {