The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1925, Page 9

Soeecro omae “ ' By SID BUSH. HEN the average American speaks of “our National Government” he associates the thought with the Capi- tol, Washington, D. C., and all that goes with it. To the average citizen it seems as tho the real governmental power really lies in that city, Is not Congress holding its sessions there? Are not the president and the mem- bers’ of his cabinet there? Are not all of the most important of the na- tion’s governmental institutions there? Are not all of the federal laws made there? And, finally, are not foreign relations settled there? The millions of Americans who look upon Washing- ton, D. C., as the seat of the real government do not realize that it is merely the seat of the gigantic apara- tus which. is putting into effect deci- sions made by men who are neither congressmen nor senators, and who meet in an entirely different building than the National Capitol and in a different city than Washington, D. C. One of the buildings where the real rulers of the U. S. A. meet is the Bankers’ Club, in New York City. cy July the 16th an eminent foreign gentleman was invited to a lunch eon. The group which extended thi: cordial hospitality consisted of twenty. nine distinguished American citizens. The foreign gentleman was Baron Natzau, the German ambassador to the United States. To the right of him sat Otto H. Kahn, of Kunn Loep & Co., international bankers, director of the Equitable Trust Co. of Ios An- geles, I. A. & S. L. Railroad Co., Mor- ristown Trust Co., American Inter- national Corporation and Mr. Schiff, Partner of Kuhn Loeb & Co. Director L.A. & S.L. R. R. Co., Mortgage & _ Trust Co., Western Union Telegraph Co., American Railway Express, Wells Fargo Express, Pacific Oil Co., etc., and others representing such interests, To the left of Baron Natzau were Mr. Young, the gentleman connected with and vitally interested in the en- forcement of the Dawes plan. “Mr. Lamar, the representative of the Howie of J- P. Morgan & Co., George F. Baker, Jr., chairman First National Bank, director American Tel- ephone and Telegraph Co., D. L. & W. R. R. Co., Atlas Portland Cement Co., American Sugar Refining Co., U. S. Steel Corporation, General Motors Co., General Electric Co., etc. ARON Natzau was the guest of 29 men who are holding under their iron rule and exploiting millions of workers, that control the great indus- trial and finance corporations, who are subjugating colonial peoples, and because they hold the supreme power of this country they dictate the na- tional and foreign political policies of the government at Washington, D. C. Baron Natzau was not invited for the sake of the luncheon. This was evident from the slight attention that was paid to the best of food obtain- able. It was gobbled up quickly. That bourgeois decorum which in these cir- cles at formal affairs was entirely lacking. Everyone ate his portion hur- riedly as soon as it was placed on the table, without waiting, while conver- sations in a serious business-like mood was carried on. Those who served this choice coterie had to be very snappy, and before they even had a chance to remove the desert plates Air Routes in Soviet Union The Real Rulers of These U. S. A. The Russian White Guards in China are acting as scabs on the striking hotel workers, public utiliti and serve the finger bowls they were herded out and the doors were locked upon the secret meeting. {ep business of that meeting was of most vital concern to the industrial and financial capitalists of the U. S. Was not the Dawes plan attacked and threatened by the International Congress of Bankers which was held recently in Brussels? Is not French capital forging. ahead for and is ce- menting an alliance with the heavy industry of Germany? Is not the Treay of Rapallo between Russia and Germany a thorn in the side of the American capitalists, who in league with world capitalism, are preparing to crush Soviet Russia? Many other such vital issues must be settled. And just as soon as these gentlemen, the real governing power of this country, arrive at decisions at these secret meetings, then the official government at Washington begins to act, which seems to the average person that the course of action was decided upon by the president and Congress. Many counter-revolutions in México and other Central American Republics and in the island possessions of the U. S. were concocted at these secret meet- ings and carried out thus giving the official government a cause to inter- vene in the name of establishing “law and order.” And as soon as “law and order” is established with the help of American bayonets the latter remain guarding it in the interests.of Wall Street. OW that since the world war the U. S. is the most powerful capi- talist nation, and has placed Europe in the clutches of its finance capital- The arrow shows the airplane route that has been established between and Peking. The first trip has already been successfully accom- plieh®i. Other routes will be begun soon, in different sections of the Union. The Moscow-Peking route not only cuts the time from Moscow to Peking by several days, but establishes closer connections between the workers of Russia and China. es workers, ship loaders, etc. ists, the latter are on guard against any one nation in Europe that may endeavor to dislodge them there just as they guard the prineiple of the Monroe Doctrine in the Americas. The imperialists of the U. S. are now deeply interested in every nook and corner of the world. And just as England fought nearly every na- tion in the world to become the world Power so.-is. American.-imperialisnr preparing, itself,.to.war upon anyone that will stand in its way. This is the reason for the propaganda for pre- paredness by General Pershing car- ried by the newspapers of this coun- try. In his last article of a series he says: Letters from Appreciates DAILY WORKER. To the DAILY WORKER: Having spent some time in the orient, the recent editorials by Dunne, Engdahl, et al, have inspired a goodly respect for your paper. It is the only paper that gives. to persons interested in the progress of that class which pro- duces the world’s wealth, truthful in- formation on what is taking Place in the world today. - From what I have experienced dur- ing my three years in China, I can im- agine how Georges Tchicherin must now feel being aware of the broad justice of representing a comparative- ly free people, and in being unham- pered in dealing with foreign affairs by the means of lying intrigues. He surely made monkeys out of all the “diplomats” who attempted to cross his path. But to return to the matter of sub- scription—I wish your paper a fast and ever continuing circulation which means in the long run that there will be numbers added to list of those who are students of social economics, with a view of bringing about a condition where the proletarian will be master, to a great extent, of himself, his prod- uct and a builder for a nobler future society.—E. C. Wagstaff, Portland, Oregon. Prosperity Bunk Shown Up. To the DAILY WORKER: The sales manager of the Fox Film Co., devoted a full column in a trade jour- nal to panegyrics on “Business is Good.” But the same issue of the same paper carries long obituary lists of small movie houses that have gone At this time it again seems un- necessary to sound that warning against the danger of unprepared- ness. There never has been ade- quate preparedness in this country. And again, We always have heard the “no more war phophesy”. It was par- ticularly strong after the War of 1812. It is of foreign importation having been heeded ages ago by na- tions which were thereafter des- troyed by war and have only left their ruins to be excavated by scien- tists. *1Y does Pershing, the representa- tive of American imperialist mili- tarism, want more soldiers, more guns, more machinery for destruction? Be cause he knows that they are needed to defend the interests of Wall Street. He knows that Wall Street’s interests grow heavier and heavier every day in every part of the world. Australia, one of the very few countries of the world which was not a victim of Wall Street yet fell into the clutches of J. P. Morgan & Co., to the tune of $75,- 000,000 loan placed on the market by that firm on July the 20th. In addition to the $9,090,000,000. the world owed the American imperialists at the end of the year 1924, the latter extended another thousand million of dollars of credit during the first six months of the year 1925 according to the Investment Division of the Depart- ment of Commerce. These huge in- vestments need protection. S it a wonder that there is a cam- paign for preparedness? Is it a wonder that “Defense Days” are be- ing held when the entire country is mobilized for war? Is it a wonder that Pershing scorns that “no more war” idea? Is it a wonder that these secret meetings are being held at the Bank- ers’ Club and elsewhere? The capitalists are preparing to use the workers in another world slaugh- ter. The workers must realize this right now and be prepared for the time when the capitalists, under hypocritical slogans, will endeavor to enlist them into another world war, that behind: these. slogans iis nothing else but the “hatd’ cold- cash of ‘Wall Street that ‘they are‘ asked’ to ‘sacri! fice their lives for. The working class, instead of fight- ing for the interests of the capitalists must begin the final struggle for its own interest—its own emancipation. Our Readers out of business because of hard times. And the little fellow reads this as the handwriting on the wall. One of the little fellows, L, M. Jones, of the Ar- cadia Theater, Vandergrift, Pa. un- burdened himself thus: “In the Film Daily of July 6, the sales manager of the Fox Film Co. has a full column under the heading, ‘Business is Good.’ On the same day I talked with three film salesmen one of whom was one of the good Fox salesmen. Every one of them stated that they had never experienced such terrible conditions as right now. “One of them stated that he was satisfied from personal observation, and general information that twenty million people in the good old U. S. A. on account of either total unemploy- ment or part time work are not actu- ally getting enough money to pay their rent and groceries. I agree with him. I know, and the salesmen know, and I have an idea that James R. Grainger and the other high salaried men who are putting out this ‘bu about good times’ know that the pic- ture business is very bad. “Now on July 6 comes another half column of optimistic predictions. I do not know, and he does not know what is going to happen. But the facts are that conditions are very bad now. All the general sales managers are putting out this line of talk in or- der to spur their salesmen in to get more money from the exhibitor for good, bad, and indifferent pictures. I can read a lot of this bunk without getting riled as long as it is all pre- diction. But, when a man goes far enough in the face of present condi- tions, to head an article with ‘Business is Good,’ it is too much for me.”