The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe anz| — SUBSCRIPTION RATES S By mail (in Chieagy only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per vear $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three mouths $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iilinois J. LOU WILLIAM F, DU MORITZ J. LOEB Entcred as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. La {ems Editors Business Manager ‘Advertising r ratos on application. | ap 290 a << . . Capitalist Graft Why do capitalist politicians fight so vigorously for election to ofii The reason is not far to seek. The answer to the question is: ° Graft. The New York bonding firm of Sinnott and Canty, are suing newspitper owners and others to the tune of $13,000,000 damages for publishing news in connection with the relations of the bonding firm to the Hylan administration. John P. Sinnott, leading member of the firm is brother of Mayor Hylan’s son-in-law and private secretary. The firm had, $500 .in cash when they incorporated in Albany in 1922, with a capitalization of $10,000. Sinnott was the owner of $200.00. What political power means to the politicians can be gathered from the fact that on Hylan’s school construction contracts, involv- ing $24,000,000, the contractors paid into the* firm of Sinnott and Canty the sum of $163,000 in bonding premiums. Politics pays. Mayor Hylan’s enemies among the capitalist gangsters are mak- ing those revelations because they ate out in the cold. When they ‘CORPSE OF LOS 5. P. GIVES OFF STRONG AROMA |Only 23 Present atDebs’ THE DAILY WORKER AGENCY SHARKS AND EMPLOYERS FILGH FAT FEES FROM WORKERS Coast Arrival By L. P. RINDAL (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug, 2.—The socialist party held a “regional red card convention” (as they called it) in the Labor Temple of this city. A resolution demanding the recognition of Soviet Russia was sent back to the committee on resolutions, but a mo- tion in favor of recognition passed. “We do not want to go against the wishes of Debs,” said one self-styled leader, flashing a hostile look thru his glasses. This individual was also responsible for a motion demanding the release of all traitors in the So- viet republics.. The motion passed 57 to 6. These 63 souls were the voting strength of this “mass” convention of which more than half were new mem- bers. Thru the effort of Attorney E, W. Henderson, an I. W. W. defender, a resolution against the criminal syn- dicalism law was passed. A few ‘socalists” objected to the language used. Praise Strikebreaker Callies. succeed in defeating him, others will get the cream of the loot. It will only be a question of what gang will have the choicest seat at the pie counter. During the czarist regime in Russia, graft was rife. From the highest officials Of the state to the most menial employe, everybody was for sale. But since the Soviet government was established things have changed. Those who take liberties with the property of th workers and peasants today, d0 so at the risk of losing their heads. The result is that there is less corruption in the Soviet government than in any government in the world, despite its inheritance’ of cor- rupt officials from the old days. ‘ Capitalism and corruption are synonymous. terms. Comnmnists refuse to get excited because the capitalist politicians rob theirown government or rob each other. We only make use of those revélat- jons\as proof of their hypocrisy and crookedness and to point out:to the workers as we did in the Teapot Dome scandal, that capitalist government besides having as it main object the suppression of: the woring class is also a rogues’ hangout where the robbers of the works ers also fleece each other. The Tribune as Crusader $i The role of crusader to free Italy from dictatorship is essayed by the-Chicago Tribune, after its correspondent. George Seldes was expelled from that country, by Mussolini for the alHeged bias of. hig news in favor of the anti-Fascist opposition. The Tribune warns the Italian government that even tho the ~ news agent sent out of Italy by its correspondent may not be entirely satisfactory; ithe stuff that will come from Paris, Geneva, Helingsfors or Riga, will-not be near so palatable. In‘other words the Tribune threatens to lie. indiscriminately jin retaliation for the expulsion of its man, It is not very likely that the Tribune can say anything so bad about Mussolini that will stag; ger on the wrong side of the truth. But the threat sheds light on the Tribune’s policy. It shows that its devotion to facts does not interfere with business. Its readers want news about Italy, so any news is Ketter than néne. The Trilnine says it has no prejudice against fascism. This: is very true. But it happens that fascism is not the kind of capitalist dictatorship ‘that suits the Tribune’s business at. this stage of: the game. Too much government, too much interference with the indi- viduat if that individual happens to be a member of the bourgeois or petty bourgeois classes. This is not comfortable. Had Mussolini confined his assassinations, suppressions and persecutions to the revo- lutionary working class movement, the Tribune’s correspondent would not have occasion to arouse Mussolini’s wrath. The writer would be too busy acting as Mussolini’s press agent in lying about the radicals as he had previously lied about Soviet Russia. The Tribune will not convince thos¢ who know its shamelessly reacitonary policy, and its utter disregard for truth where the inter- ests of the working class are concerned, that its present offensive against Mussolini comes from an honest heart or -because of loyalty to the truth. The Tribune simply believes that Mussolini, having temporarily wrecked the working class movement, has outlived his usefulness. But when working class democracy, thru the dictator- ship of the wokrers and peasants is established in Italy it; will have no more bitter enemy than the Chicago Tribune. A Friendly Visit Wlic United States fleet ig in Australia, after going ‘thew a series of muneuvers at Hawaii, having for their object, preparation for a way with Japan. ‘There is no significance to the Australian visit, we are informed, by the admirals of the American fleet who reply to the addresses of welcome from the Australian politicians, The governor general of Australia toasted the king and the president, let us hope in water, and dwelt on the enduring friend- shiyy that exists between the people of the two nations, It seems to us that we heard those sentiments before, and. unless we are mis- jaken they were bandied between British and German statesmen shortly before they started out to kill each other by proxy. Admiral Coontz, speaking for the House of: Morgan was not be- hind in handing out the soft stuff, tho it must be admitted that he added a note of originality to the proceedings unusual in a like sit- uation. Ife said: “Our visit to the sonth seas is.a friendly one. If every nation would send a vast number of its citizens to visit other na- lions, a greater toleration would be fostered.” «Good, but the admiral did not say that those visiting friends should. bring along their howitzers, poison yas, submarines, battleships, battle planes, Zep- ins-and sundry other tokens of capitalisi\ civilization. It strikes us flint the millions of United States citizens that. were sent to Lurope in 1917 and 1918 did not contribute materially to making the United States better liked in Germany, at least not among the widows and orphans of the Germanywarkers that were killed by the bayonets of the American visitors. Admiral Coontz talked heap muels hokum, tho the freshnes# of the output was, welcome, Ay. Every aay get “eub” for the DATLY WORKER and a member ere Party: x e ‘ RE ey DP aw 4 & oN é In the Mexican situation Coolidge and Kellogg were» condemned and Calles praised. Thé ‘‘delegates” (many curiosity seekers, scraped together on the spot) were also in fsvor of the new S, P. paper, the “American Ap- peal.” Howeyer, only a few dollars were collected for its support. A sum of $200,000 is nedeed, they said. Hard Up for Members, The only credential necessary was a membership card, or an application for membership. was compared with Lincoln, Huss and Jesus. . Not a Labor Convention. The fact that the convention was called to order early in the morning when the slaves are working or look- ing for a job) seems to indicate that this gathering was a “nep-men” affair, not a real labor convention. The word “high-brow” was also used in this con- nection by Attorney E, W. Hender- son mentioned above. An air of the middle class surrounded the “conyen- tion.” Hero Worship. ;,At about 9:45 Débs came—And the sissing game began in earnest. Gene igemed to be a real expert at it, too. en, women and children of all ages id to be kissed. Lovely women that had not been kissed for 60 years had the time of their life. Everything nice indeed. But the class struggle can’t be built on hero worship! The Resurrection. When the meeting was opened, 25 bewildered souls were present. The chairman, Debs, had a hard time to make these people, strangers to each other, feel at home. The S. P. must have been dead and buried for a long period. And now the martyr and savior is here for the resurrection. Therefore the reference to Jesus on the advertis- ing for this convention, I suppose. In Minneapolis, however, the situation was worse. The S. P. convention in that city, according to Debs, started with three people. One couldn't help {but feel sorry for the old fighter. Most of the forenoon was taken up by Debs’ usual speech making. A ‘few others spoke long enuf to say that Debs was the “greatest man in the socialist convention in the civil- ized world. But such a praise does On the handbills Eugene V. Debs, |on the peace and harmony harp. And By WORKER CO RRESPONDENT, NEW YORK, Awd 2—-Talk about the slave market in New Orleans be- fore 1860! Sixth avenue in this city in 1925 has nothing on it. All day long in front of private émployment offices crowds of unemployed wage slaves may be seen eagétly* scanning the tall signboards in the hope of finding a buyer of their idlé labor power and a feeder of their empty stomachs,, That's where the slave of 1860 had it on the slave of 1925. He always was sure at least of his next meal. 1925 slave at not finding a job is so+— frightfully pathetic. doesn’t eat, Employers In Plot. It means he His real troubles begin, however, | when he does find an offer of a job to suit him. The fee the employment sharks charge for putting a slave to work is exorbitant:and no fee in ad- vance-—no job, starved-out worker tobe put to work and have the fee deducted from the first week's pay fall on déaf ears. The job won't last @ week, you see. These human vulturep don't grow fat on putting a worket ffito a permanent job, The scheme they work in con- junction with a ceftain’ group of em- ployers is _to goti'thé fee out of a Allethe pleas of a/ That's why the disappointment of the | worker, put him to work for a week | or so and have him back looking for | another job and shelling out another fee inside of no time. Great scheme, isn’t it? No Jobs In Sight. The’ peculiar thing is that the state financed employment office on Pear street, run by the American Legion is daily crowded by able bodied men and women, and some not so able bodied as a result of the late lamenten fight for democracy. All day these men and women hang around this office, and seldom is there a job in sight. No fees you see, And we are now living in a period of re- not mean much—doming, as it did, from the glib tongi@ 6f a social demo- crat who excludes Soviet Russia from civilization. Can't Locate a Socialist. Mrs. French from San Francisco, who claimed to haye attended every soeialist congress in the world for 15 years, said almost with tears in her eyes that she had been uhable to lo- cate a single socialist in Los Angeles “before today.” Socialism is the great- est ism in the universe to her, except isms connected with peace con- gresses. During the world war, in England, she had a h-ll of a time ad- vocating peace. It was mot so much hardship for working men or working women, to be radicals, she said, but for people of “higher standing it is awful.” Anyhow, she had no jail story to tell. Harmony—No Class vciigote: Nearly all the speeches were tuned that at a time whem the; imperiaiists are running roughshod@iover the work- ers and their interests:im every corner of the world. Not auwerd was said about the workers’ ;struggle in China or the war in Mor neg Another Abra ich Liar, The rest of the few,“leaders” pres- ent warmed up onl 2 en the Com- munists were mentio: Cameron King, of Oakland, | at Moscow. Herr of San ‘Fran¢is駒 and Los An- geles, remembered the time when the “Workers (Communist) Party used its scissors” op the S, publican Coolidge prosperity. What a damned lle. But the man with glasses (men- tioned at the beginning) was the most hostile of them all. He blamed all the trouble now going on in the clothing industry on the Workers Party and Moscow. He turned things upside down and called bey Commun- ists “scabs.” Abramovitch was praised as the one who told all the truth. This yellow- fish found plenty of opposition, how- ever and no, motion was passed on the subject. In the afternoon a motion to open the doors to the gallery carried. Debs wanted to admit everybody, even members of the W. P. - Said “yellow-fish” objected to the Commun- ists, and the officials “forgot” to carry out the will of the membership, Hopeless Effort by S, P. In spite of the socialist boast that “Posters, window cards, letters, auto- hundreds and the thousands are being distributed, besides 10,000 copies» of The Labor World and an equal num- ber of the Daily’ Forward’— “huge outpouring” of “radica.s” and “hundreds of enthusiastic socialists” did not turn out to be a “great social- ;ist revival’—unless the curiosity seekers at the Hollywood Bowl can be called “a pilgrimage and a new crusade” for socialism. The people do not care for the S. P. By fighting against the cause of labor the S. P. has disappeared— and the real champ- ions in the class struggle, the Com- munists, have gained in strength. DISABLED: Av, S. T. ~ MON ou Dips Vat) ge i MINNEAPOLIS;*Minn., Aug. 2—The writer and several disabled com- rades are on @ tour Of Minnesota for facts before the we shall ask only My case is similar, to hundreds. the U. S. veterans’ bureau, saying in part: given a rating of temporary partial 25 per cent, with compensation pay- ments at the rate of$20.00 per month on your disability ofuberculosis, pyl- monary, chronic, arrested ;and plouri- sy.” Turon) Also I was informed that when ne- cessary I could apply dor hospital treatment. Doctors tell me that to un- dertake any sort of work that will en- volve lifting and etc., will in all pro- bability mean that my case will again become active. This has been the almost immediate result, of bengredan if boys who like L WHAT IS LOREISM? PARTY of action must strip itself for action. In order to be able to overcome all the numerous obstac- les in the path of action the party must cleanse itself of all inner ob- stacles to action for one on that path, Loreism is such a serious inner ob- stacle to action for our party. To eliminate Loreism is a major task of our party at the present time. Our coming convention must mobilize our party completely for the accomplish: ment of this task. What is Loreism? American variety of opportunism which manifests itself internationally in this period of temporary lull in the world revolution. This opportun- ism makes its appearance as Brand- lerism in Germany, as Trotskyism in Russia, as Bubnickism “in Czecho- Slovakia and as Loreism in America. Thus we find that. while Loreism is a specific American product, yet, it is made of a substance that must sup- ply the opportunists in all Communist parties with material for thetr “plat- forms. HE rapid development of American éapitalism in the last decades has long shutup completely all avenues of escape from an existence as a wage slave that existed for . energetic American workers in a limited way in the pioneer days, And the effect Loreism is an the working class. This consolidation is. gradually, but surely, killing what- ever illusions of “ghanevs” may Still exist in the heads of American work- ers and is thus offering the basis of the formation of the American work- ers into a. political entity as a class. This process représents a revolu- tionary event of first importance. It accelerates the development of con- sciousness and militancy among the workers. It confrénts the conscious revolutionary section of the workers with tasks that deménd Imperatively to stop talking and philosophizing and | begin actidn and organizing. Thus, while in the revolutionary movements and parties of old all sorts of tend- encies could philosophize about the labor movement alongside each other within the same . organization this “harmony” is no: l possible in this period of actiom yn demands ideological unity of the revolutionists, It is for these reasons that seeming- ly. little differences in conception de- velop in our movement at the present time into deep going and important deviations, Loreism is such a devia- tion, The more our party develops into a revolutionary party of action, a Bolshevist party, the more will the foreign substance "Within our party conie to the surféee.. The tremen- dous task of our petty will need readi- ness and ability ofvaction. Foreign substances, standiw® in the way of such action, either must be speedily assimilated in the of active Bol- of the world war upon the economic|shevization and Bolshevist action, or itructure of America has c lid. it must be fin \. “ e hoon ated ally Feliminated. R VETERANS TOLD BY MUST LIVE ON $20.00 LY, HOLMES GOES ON TOUR By EMIL E. HOL! £. HOLMES | the purpose of attempting to place the on the causes of war. We do not seek sympathy— ation to spread our message. I have today received a letter from “You are informed that you were yA 2 Wt Ne MIE: SS myself, went into the army in good health and because of gas came out with T. B, ‘Weed not enjoy much prosperity at twenty dollars per month however, so what are we to do? At every turn we find many appli- cants for every job, nothing seemed left but a campaign to bring the real story of war to the workers. We will appreciate requests and co-operation on the arrangements of meetings, to secure a meeting requests should be made at an early date. OREISM is such a foreign sub- stance. It presents the Ameri- can variety of vacillating centrism. Eternal hesitancy before action, vacil- lation between one road of action and the other, and when action can no longer be avoided the invariable choosing of the wrong road, are the outstanding characteristics of this tendency. The attitude of this tendency to- ward the tasks of the party are deter- mined by an essentially petty bour- geois approach. The Communist Party for them is not an integral and inseparable part of the working class, fighting the battles of the workers— not for them, but with them—but it is a sort of settlement work with the task of uplifting. These comrades reason this way: The emancipation of the workers can only be accomp- lished by the: workers. themselves. But the workers need education to ac- complish it. The part¥ must convey this education to them, That is done with lectures, books, programs, ete, No action is needed. Action is even detrimental—because the education of the workers is not yet completed, they are not ready for action, and under these conditions action becomes adventurism and putchism. Yas total lack of understanding ot the tasks of a Communist Party, paired with an utter lack of confi- dence in the abilities of the working class, itself, always supplies an ex- cuse to these comrades why a certain thing should not be done at a certain time, And their aversion to action is mobile signs, and small cards by the | the | NEEDLE TRADES WORKER PLEDGES SELF 10 AID COMMUNIST STRUGGLE: In the special New York needle trades edition of the DAILY WORK- ER recently distributed here, we made an appeal to the workers in the needle trades engaged in the | struggle to join the Party. The following is copy of a letter coi taining an application for member- ship, which we think merits pub- lication. You will note we use the name Chas. B, instead of his full name. “I believe that the place for ev- ery class-conscious, worker is the Workers Party, the party which is based upon. the .principles of cla: struggle and .make,no, compromise with the exploiting class. “1 came to this, conclusion follow- ing the struggle that is going on between the. so-called left and right wing in our cloakmakers’ union. This fight revealed the real friends and traitors in our movement. “1 pledge myself to apply all my intelligence ‘and ility to enlighten my fellow’ workers to join the Workers Party. Yours for the social revolution, ‘Chas. B., Brooklyn, N. Y. YWL. STUDENTS’ FAREWELL PARTY GOES OFF BIG Rock, Michigan, School Term Closes By RAY AHOLA. ROCK, Mich., Aug. 2—The com- |mencement exercises of the Y. W. L. ‘Summer School were a great success. About 250. persons were gathered at} the main-hall from three different; states,, The crowd would have been largersbut, many couldn’t come on ac- count,.of the rainstorm. Were they pleased with our pro- gram? Yoti tell the world they were! | Our Speakers brot them to the edge of theif Seats. They went wild over our ¥0ng#"'and recitations, and our comitéf ‘dialogues brot them to the point’ of‘ crying. We also haa a play called “Nick In Siberia” which made the Hill ‘ring with applause. Little time Wadleft for dancing as tne pro- gram ‘todk up most of the afternoon and“ e¥ering but dance we did “Apostles. of Pep,” our school orches- tra\"@a fits duty well. 2 Parture Came and Tears, Comrades were ‘sorry to leave the school and to part from therr com- rades)*iit the ‘idea of advanced aes ext sunimer cheerea them up. As <e*Whible the courses and also the” détmencement ‘program was somettifiig’ unheard of before and a succés¥! tothe full meaning of the wort) °F The *sttident body wishes to thank the ’Yobalcémrades of Waino for the co-opétation ‘they extended to us and also’ ‘the DAILY WORKER, IDS / Ohio Judge Held. TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 2—Judge John. &,,Tanney of Erie County, said to be,the youngest judge in the United, , ‘States, was free on $2,500 bond t day, following his arraign- ment. before, United States commis- sioner, F. L. Gaines, here, on a charge of conspiracy in what is said by federal agents to be one of the greatest liquor conspiracy cases un- earthed since the enactment of the federal prohibition law. ked in a mantle of “realism, ' * pseudo realism lead: to paral; isone of the most dangerous fiadi ions of Loreism. At the ¢ we find this op- portunism ‘ade under the tune of radical phra: The division of so- ciety into two classes is a very rigid one in the eves ‘of these comrades. On one sidé"is the proletariat, on the invariably ol other the hourgedisie. This concept determines, the ay ttitude of these com- rades toward a farmers. The farmers belong. to, the bourgeoisie, ergo they are reactionary enemies of the proletariat and must be combat- ted. No comprom! with them—No alliance, That all sounds very radi- cal, but it is. not, It, is, in the last analysis, only another argument against hated . action,, It is funda- mentally anti-revoluti@mary . because it attempts to prevent. the revolution- ary movement from exploiting the inner diviisons of the capitalist class which are especially serious between petty. and big bourgeoisie, In place of revolutionary action they want to put on the throne the cle auras phrase. ° bb earns more rapidly capitalism bad onward in America, the more\the growing class dntagonisms call for action, the more ‘dangerous becomes the opportunist, even tho, and. the more so when, he covers up his, lack of revolutionary energy and under: standing with a revolutionary phrase. A shining example of this m tation of Loreism is an articl ten ‘and published by Comrade CLEVELAND LABOR HEARS ‘HANDS OFF CHINA’ SPEAKERS Public Square Scene; of Big Meeting CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 2—Fif- teen hundred workers gathered atthe Public Square here in spite of rain, at the demonstration called by the Workers Party and Young Workers League under the slogans. “Hands Off China,” and “Stand by Soviet Russia.” The Kuomintang branch of Cleve- land joined in the meeting with two speakers, David Lee, and Watrén G@. Poyd, who described the miseries of the Chinese workers and peasants un- der the system of foreign industrial, financial and political rege ie bess in vogue, For Self Government The speakers pointed out. thatthe Chinese are fighting for the rights of self-government and also. for freedom from capitalistic domination, and dut- lined the program of Dr, Sun Yat Sen, the founder of the Kuomintang party, which is following his teachings, in opposing imperialism, and militarism | and advocating international unity of the workers. Alfred Wagenknecht, district organ- izer of the Workers Party, J..A, Ha- milton, local organizer, and Carl Weis- berg, organizer of the Young Workers League, also spoke upon various phases of the world-wide class strug- gle of the workers against capitalist imperialism. Dunne, Editor of “Daily Worker,” Speaks Bill Dunne, delivered the main speech in which he pointed out the reasons behind the imperialistic de- signs upon China and against Soviet Russia is not only the greed of the | financial interests but also the neces- | sity they are urder of finding wider land wider markets for,the sale of | goods and opportunities for the profit- able investment of funds, and that the workers real interest is with the work- |ers of China and Soviet Russia and | not with the American financiers plot- | ting against these countries. The success of the meetings the Workers Party has been holding. on | the square is shown by the efforts of the police to embarass the. meetings. The rule against the sale of merehan- dize in the public parks has, suddenly been so strictly interpreted as to ban the sale of the DAILY WORKER, and Tat the July 25 meeting, the officers forbade the sale of the daily eyen on the nearby street corner: on the grounds that the paper had been “nien- tioned in the speeches from the stump. This is only another instance how- ever of the arbitrary policy pursued by the police department, under the administration of public safety. wa tor Barry and ought to be a lest the Cleveland workers. as | to. Barry would do in case of a situation of any magnitude, is Sunday Picnic pears 32 On Sunday the local and. district picnic at Willoughbeach Park. was: a surprising success in view ofthe wery bad weather. “Mother”. Bloor had one of her best days, with 28 subs; and Dunne made*a well-received speech. Get $10,000 Worth of Diamonds While hundreds of men and’women working in the capitol building in the loop, passed thru the hallways in their way to lunchegn at noon, two armed bandits appeared in the office of the S. L. Simmons & Company, slugged one man and intimidated ‘several others and then escaped with \s30.000 worth of diamonds. Order a bundle to distribute there, The Struggle Against Loreism in Our Party 5y Mex Bedaci two months ago about the Chinese situation. In -this article Lore de- clares that the present struggle in China is a nationalist one, that the workers fighting under the banner of nationalism hope to free igri from oppression. But that is , says Lore. First English, Japanese, etc., impertalism is 80 strong that the Cihense workers hav: no chance of victory. And ‘t they would accomplish the impossible it would not mean anything because the foreign exploiter would be re) ed by the Chinese exploiter - and things would remain for the Chinese workers as they are today. The only way to emancipation for the Chinese worker lies in the Communist revolu- tion. But, so concludes Lore, the time for that has not yet come,“ eRe we have opportunism’ in “Reinkulture.” Here is the log- ical conclusion: A nationalist fight useless—a Communist fight prema- ture; therefore why fight. No under- standing of the dialectics of social struggles which can make and do make a Communist fight out of a ma- tional one, which made a proletarian revolution out of a bourgeois one. No understanding of the international character of all proletarian struggles in the age of imperialism; no_ of the possibility that what ep J nationalist ‘