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

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. . 1118 W. Washington-Blyd., Chicago, It. Phone Monrog 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six monthe $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, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinole J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB..,.ssesssnoessonees I Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- ¥ cago, il, under the act of March 3, 1879, <> 10 saseeennesrsessreeremnemeammmaenmmevenmeen MMICOPS Business Manager Advertising rates on application. ; An International Scandal. The battle put up by a few hundred thousand Moors on: the north coast of Africa against the force of two European powers— one the most. formidable military, force in the world—is as .gal- lant a struggle as ever challenged huntan admiration. Those ‘tribes- men are defending their country against the imperialist boodlers of France and Spain and they are doing it under handicaps that would daunt any people not buoyed up by an unshakeable faith in’ the justice of their struggle, and in an undying determination to win their freedom at all costs. The capitalist press, which misses no opportunity to slander the proletarian dictatorship of Russia, to accuse the workers’ and peas ants’ government of oppressive rule, gloat over the spectacle of im- perialist France and fascist Spain, sending thejr iron battalions, their air armadas and their floating steel castles against the hardy Riffian tribesmen, who demand only the right to live their own lives in the land where they were born. ‘With very few exceptions the entire American press re-echoes the French plea that it is in the interests of christian ‘civilization that the Riffian tribesmen should be annihilated. In order to save the world for the christian god the Mohammedan Moors must be sent to hell with the greatest possible dispatch ! In theig, fight against the imperialist powers the Riffians found sympathy only in one quarter. That section of the working class which acknowledges the leadership of the Communist International, saw in the struggle of the Riffian tribesmen, a part, of the world- wide struggle against imperialism. So they hitched up that strug- gle with the fight of the Chinese, the Egyptians, the Hindoos, the Philippinos against world imperialism and joined those struggles with the never-ending conflict of the industrial proletariat against their class foes in every country. The American capitalist press cannot speak out against the slaughter of the Moors by the French and Spaniards because Amer- ican capitalism is engaged in the same bloody work elsewhere. The French and Spanish armies are eating food, wearing clothes and manning guns bought with Wall Street dollars. Wall Street is in- terested in the conquest of the Riffian tribesmen, so that the busi- ness of exploiting the raw resources of Morocco can proceed, to the greater glory of imperialism and the greater profit of the interna- tional bankers. Hence there is no outcry against the crushing of a people who want to be free, even tho an American president made the right of self-determination one of the conditions of signing peace with Germany. The boasted regard of the American ruling class for the right of self-determination is a hypocritical gesture. American aviators are bombing pe es me villages in Morocco and murdering women and children. The leader of those cut-throats, a rat by the name of Sweeney, and the son of a fink, is a special correspondent for an American newspaper syndicate and every day, after dropping bombs on a Riffian village, he sends off a story of his exploits, for which he draws blood money. The United States once had the reputation of being the haven of the oppressed of all lands. That day is no more. Those who are wel- come here today, are not men and woinen fighting for freedom, but fhe dregs of European aristocracy and the fascist envoys who seek financial aid so that they can keep their gallows busy with the bodies of the revolutionary workers. ~' Cognac and Patriotism. Perhaps a hero of the world war is just as well off without a glass of cognac. We are inclined to believe that a gulp of clam chow- der would do him just as much good, but you heard the old story of the camel and his ability to go without refreshment. You also know that very few people would exchange roles with a camel, despite that animal's immunity from thirst. Rich people wear silk shirts, smoke half dollar cigars, drink cognac and even champagne, ride in costly automobiles, sail in lux- urious yachts and live in splendid mansions, without exciting any feeling other than envy. But let a working man aspire towards such a mode of living and things will begin to happen. Now we can go ahead with the story. An unemployed ex-soldier recently called Gn M. Clemenceau, war premier of France and after chatting with the Tiger for awhile walked away with a 20 franc note. He did not steal it. } Shortly afterwards Clemenceau’ went out for a stoll and fancy F his consternation when he saw the ex-soldier spending his 20 franc i note on cognac and sitting comfortabley at a sidewalk cafe. Such ‘ conduct’ on the part of an unemployed ex-soldier got under the Tiger's hide, so le reached over and picked up what was left of the g 20 francs and .put it in his pocket. 2 Clemenceat did not do this because he thot cognac was not as i good as potato soup for the stomach of the ex-soldier. What angered him was to see a_proletarian acting just as if he belonged to the G ruling class. . hy Perhaps that ex-soldier remained: little longer at the sidewalk ; eafe pondering pver the question: What the devil was I fighting for? iy The Wall Street Journal sees a bright future for the coal-in- th + dustry. It figures on the miners’ union going out of business by next 4 spring. The trouble with the W. 8. J. is that it is figuring on John % L. Lewis and not on the rank and file of the union. The U. M. W. of A. is here to stay for a long time yet, regardless of the treachery of Lewis, Farr’ ington and the rest of the per capita sharks. Marshal Petain announces that if his campaign against the é Riffians is not successful before the rainy reason begins, he will eon- tinne the fight next year. This looks like the old reliable alibi. Andy Mellon, promised the French that absolute secreey would be observed in the debt negotiations. Andy must have learned the need for tight lip8 in the bootlegging cians ‘Tt was just as we thought. Terry Druggan’s escapades in and out of the cotrity jail came to light when the boys fell ont over the of the bribe money. This is ie al cent Americanism, ‘ sat | THE DAILY WORKER NDUSTRIAL production inj the Unit- ed States, which for the year 1925, has been showing substantial increase over 1924, but which had been de- clining slightly from January to July, took a decided upturn in the month of August. This is indicated by many reports of basic factors in’the indus- trial situation, Among them are: Steel Production. FRRODUCTION of steel ingots for August totalled 3,424,034 tons. This was an increase of 336,444 tons over July, and of 871,143 tons over August, 1924, The daily production averaged 131,694 tons, against 118,753 the previous month and 98,188 for the same month of 1924. This produc- tion is 74 per cent of capacity, against 68 per cent in July, or about 7 per cent above the post-war average. (Fig- ures from Wall Street Journal, and the Commercial and Financial Chron- icle.) It will be seen from these figures that one of the basic indicators of the course of industrial development, is, decidedly on the upgrade. Rallroad Traffic. HE amount of business, measured in the number of car loads of reve- nue freight, has been constantly in- creasing. The following weekly totals from reports of the American Rail- way Association, give some measure of the movement of commodities: Week 1926 1924 July 11— 982,809 909,983 18— 1,010,970 930,713 25— 1,029,603" 926,809 By H. J. R. (Master Mariner.) (Continued from yesterday’s issue.) O* July 10, the fishing was getting pretty well done. That morning there came a Soviet Russian cruiser steaming to the village. Her name was the “Vorovsky.” About 3 in the afternoon there came a steam launch alongside with three officials from the cruiser, Russians, one of them I re- cognized, it was an official from Petropovlosok.’We had met him while there. He jumped on board, shook hands and asked for Staricho, as I could understand that much Russian, by that time, which means old man, J knew he meapt Mr. Bennett. I brot him to Bennett and as soon as he saw him, shook hands and em- braced him and told him thru one of the other. officials who spoke English, that young Kenneth, his grandson, was given four outfits of clothing and was on his. way to Moscow with the other young folks by way of Vladivos- ; tok, to commence his studies at the university. Visit Soviet Village. They stayed.and had coffee with us. One a gentjeman from Viadivos- tok by the*name of Goerman, spoke good English.\He had been in San Francisco, But’ when the revolution started in 1917, he went back to Rus- sia. They. asked us how we liked the village. So we told them that we had not been there because it was too far away, . ‘They asked * us would we like to go and visit the. village. We said we sure would. “Alright,” they said, “can you go tomorrow?” We said we could. “Alright,” they said. “We will ar- range and have a motor boat come for you tomorrow afternoon about two o'clock, then, You be up to the village about 4:30 p. m. and we will meet you there.” So about 5 they said goodbye and left. The next day the motor boat was there at the appointed time and six of us started for the village. The village Ust. Kamchatka, is a small fishing village about three miles up the Kamchatka river with a popula- tion of about 700 people. We arriv- ed there about 4:30 p, m. and Mr. Goerman was there to meet us. The Red cruiser was anchored @ mile from shore and we asked him if we would be allowed to take a look or board of her. He said you are wel- come if you want to go and said, “Any of our warships are open to visits by aworker, so come right along.” So we started for the cruiser. Board Soviet Warship. “We got alongside and when ‘we came on board, Mr. Goerman intro- duced us to the commander who was at the-gangway. The commander, a polite man, spoke good English and immediately took us around the whole ship. They showed us all the quar- ters and the big salon which was used for educational purposes for the crew, with all the up-to-date and Communist diterature. Then we went thru the crew's quarters which were very good and shook hands with all the boys, all fine big strapping young fellows. ‘We met one young fellow amongst them who had been in Honolulu and spoke good English. We were the first foreigners, who had come on board to visit them and he told us he could not understand why it was that foreign merchant seamen did not come on board their warships oftener to visit them. That they were al- ways welcome, And that they were the only real workers’ navy in the world and that the foreign’ merchant seamen were workers and are wel- come, Talk of Amerlon: 4 So I soon explained why it was they did not visit them as I under- stood it thoroly. I explained that thé merchant seamen of the world, never came to visit a warship offany na- tionality as it was not customary for [her to go on board a warship and if they did try to visit ITT of an: Aug. 1— "1,043,063 945,613 8— 1,051,811 941,407 15— —1,064,798 22 1,080,107 29-—- 1,124,436 The total car loadings for 1925, up to the end of August, totalled 33,- 549,472, an increase even over the former record year of 1923. Figures for the profits of the rail- roads for August are not yet avail- able. . Buf reference to the course of the so-called “gross and net earn- ings” up to and including July, will show that the railroad capitalists are reaping rich harvests from the in- creased business. From the Commer- cial and Financial ‘Chronicle (Sept. 12), we find “gross earnings” of rail- roads for the month! of July, 1925, to be $521,538,604, an increase of ‘$40,- 595,601 over the samte thonth of 1924. “Net earnings” were $139,606,752, an increase of $27,819,865. ° A very significant ahgle to these figures is contained th the comparison between “gross” and “het” increases. The gross increased ‘but 8.44 per cent, while the increase of net profits was approximately -25 per cent. This is another indication, in ~-addition to those pointed out in a previous ar- ticle, (DAILY WORKER, Sept. 12, “Problems of the Railroaders’ Left Wing”), of the increasing intensity of exploitation of Tabor on the rail- roads, Building Trades, HE highest total of construction F contracts on record is that for nationality, except a Soviet warship, they would not be allowed to go on board. But I told him soon as the merchant seamen knew they were welcome and understood that the Russian Red Navy was a workers’ navy, they would have plenty of vis- itors. He understood me quite well and realized the whole thing. Next the’ commander’ invited us down in the salon; there we\had tea and cake. We also had‘'an ‘interest- ing talk with all the officials there. We talked about the conditions of the workers in America and the Ame- rican yellow labor leaders’ whose names they know better than we did. Then we spoke about the output and production of commodities in Soviet Russia. Mr. Goerman who was a dele- gate to the Comintern, told us that the output in the year 1924-1925, was satisfactory under the conditions and that 1925-1926 would be better by about 100 per cent th certain commo- dities. Of course,” one must under- stand Soviet) Russia is different from the capitalist countries where the capitalist is always talking about net- ting so much and so*much at the | expense and’ misery yf the worker and his family. Education, Welfare Come First. One must understand the first order of business in Soviét Russia, is edu- cation, the welfare, health and hap- piness of the worker and his family. And then production, We all were glad we had taken the trip on board the cruiser, as the kindness” and happi- ness of all of those om board of her from the commander down, was quite an education. We also féarned while on board there that thé’ day before, when the cruiser came in, there was a Japanese scout crulsér anchored about one mile from shore’ of the Japanese cannery. The Russian commander soon as he came to anchor sent word to get on the outside: of the internationel limit, which the Japanese cruiser immedi- ately executed. About seven o'clock we thanked them and bade them good bye. Mr. Goerman and the young seamen ac- companied us to the village. They told us there was going to be a big meeting of the Communist proletari- an and peasants...We asked them would we also be allowed to attend the meeting. And he said, you come right along. That will give you peo- ple an idea how interested the peo- ple are in their government and also how we run those meetings in those remote villages. A Communist Meeting. We arrived at the village about 8 o'clock and wént right up to the meeting hall, a little’ frame building. The place was packed with men and women, old and young. Mr. Goerman found us all a seat in front. It looked as if every person in’ the village was there. About five yéting sailors in uniform from the crulser were seated in front with string’ instruments. About 8:15 the meeting was called to order, the curtain -was drawn from the little stage, everybody stood up and the seamen played the Interna- tion. The meeting ws conducted by the local secretary amd one of. the seamen from the cruiser in uniform acted as ‘chairman, *! And while the International was played there stood on the stage with the right hand raised the youngest Communist in Kamchatka, a boy of 11 years of age. Mr. Goerman and the young sailor who spoke English were seated next to us and translated from Russian into English’ what was spok- en, Mr, Goerman askeil Mr, Bennett if y | About 9:80 Mr. 4 it's Name was if 2 » he would also liké*to speak a few hg in behalf of the American work- He said he wotild Ike to, but tay would not understand him, Mr. Goerman said go todt old man, I will do the translating. .,f0 Mr. Goerman Jumped on the and had Mr, Bennett's name puton the program, Greetings From America, rie Tae August, 1925.’ Tiiis’ comes as the lat- est development’ in ‘what is sure to be a record yéar. “In the 8 months of 1925, building «construction has reached the enormous,total, according to the figures.of the F. W, Dodge corporation, of $3,778,792,000, for the 36 Eastern states. According to the Indiana Limestoné Quarrymen’s As- sociation, the total for the country exceeds four and a quarter billion dol- lars. This is an increase of 25 per cent over 1924, in spite of all the predictions one year ago, by the same. authorities, that 1925 would witness a big drop in the amount of construc- tion, Lumber production, shipments, and orders for thé first 36 weeks of 1926, showed interesting and substantial in- creases, as follows: — July — 1924 1925 1924 1925 Imports. ...«.$278,593,546 $825,998,901 $2,198,184, 437 $2,389,798,625 Exports ...... 276,649,055 339,629,653 2,366, 371,658 2,708,035, 565 These dre‘the figures of seven lead- ing regional associations of lumber | crease. of 11.26 per cent. : puaagilss © Forelgn Trade. ; Petroleum Production. imports and jae daily average production of PRODUCTION INCREASES IN AUGUST Retall Trade and Péstat Receipts: AIL order*and chain store sales furnish the most available index to the course af retail trade, . For the 8-month period. ending Aug,, 31, the two leading mail order. houses -Feport, sales. of $257,333,267, against $226,- 522,270 for the same period fn 1924; or an increase of 18:6 per cent. Ten’ leading chain’stores report total sales of $381;143,318 against — $290,620,738 for ‘last year, or an increase of 14 per cent. The gain of both groups together for 1925 over last year is 18.7 per cent. Postal receipts for this August, (of 50 selected cities) according to a re- port from the’ office of the postmaster geforal, were $25,084)541, while. for last year they were $22,545,277,.an, in, ~.» First Seven Months apes figures on exports are not yet available. There is every reason to believe that crude oil reported by the Amerl-| thoy will show a continuation of the can Petroleum Institute, in barrels, for the week ending Sept, 5, 1925, was 2,138,850 compared with 2,038,500 for the same period last year, or an in- crease of 100,350 barrels per day, or considerably over 3 million barrels per year average increase. called out by the chairman. He got up and went on the stage. He spoke about 15 minutes. Mr. Goerman writ- ing down in short hand. He greeted them in behalf of the Communists and the workers of America Thunder- ous applause. He spoke of the Russia 2 years ago. when he was in Russia andthe Rui of today. He praised them for destroying the rotten capitalist sys- tem:in;Ryssia and for building up a workers’ republic. And added that he hoped to-live.long enough to see the same conditions in America, He hailed Lenin as the greatest statesman of the day and one, who laid his Hfe down for the cause. of the worker. He thanked them for their kind attention. Mr..Goerman jumped up on the stage and translat- ed. Thunderous applause. Several of the seamen from the. cruiser. spoke and read poetry. The most: interest- ing was the young seaman.who was chairman of the meeting. »:He -had come all the way on the cruiser, from Archangel thru the Suez Canal, and related all his experiences from the voyage to the meeting. Tell of Red Cruiser’s Voyage. First port, in London, he said; they were given a big welcome«by the street car conductors’ organization. Next port, Naples, Italy, they «were not allowed on shore because,.they were Communists, and he; said-the Communists of Naples came down to the ship to welcome them in-behalf of the Communists of Italy, butsthey were driven away by the police and tascist soldiers, After that there, was a guard thrown around the ship and allowed near her., Every- ught, provisions. and other-things for consumption.of the examined and opened. 3 From there they went thru the, Suez Canal, in Colombo and the Eastern ports and said the conditions there were miserable and deplorable beyond imagination. In Colombo they had mostly women labor to coal their ship. The women carrying the coal on their heads and their babies strap- ped to their backs and so they were driven like slaves all day long. Final- ly, they got to Shanghai. He said there was all kinds of labor trouble there and warfare. After they were two days out from Shanghai on the way to Vladivostok, they were sent hunger strike. Comrade Maroun, a tdvcost of Arabian aaelon nationality, had taken a keen interest in the Egyptian labor movement. After the war, whi ship's, crew, he said, was carefully, Anton ‘Maroun The Communist Party of Egypt mourns’ its ‘first victim; on the first of August Comrade Anton Maroun i in the trend up to and including July, which sod! = summarized as follows: Production 8,755,378,948 368,351,631 IMCTORSO seeeeeesssee 378,027,817 back to Shanghai, by wireless from Moscow, with instructions to give the workers party there all possible aid. So we can plainly see that it was not the usual joy ride for those sea- men in the Workers’ Navy. One can notice thet by the welcome they got in alf capitalist countries they ‘visited. There was not the usual free theaters, for them, candy, chocolate nor cigar- ettes and sightseeing. And it is all because they have been bad boys and driven’ the capitalists to destruction in Russia and organized a workers’ government. Meet Old Friends, At about 11:30 the meeting came to anend. When we got outside there were several people who invited us to their homes. But as we could only go with one we went with a friend of Mr. Goerman who invited us. We had some supper and music. So Mr. Goerman said it was too late to go_pack to the ship. We best sleep here tonight, which we did. Next morning we got up early; Mr. Goerman had a boat put at our dis- posal. We thanked the people where we slept, said good bye to Mr. Goer- man, and started back for our little ship. The cruiser sailed up the coa: that evening. We visited the village more often after that in our own motor boat. After that evening I met those three yout men we had given passage from Petropovlosok. I asked them what kind of luck with the fishing and they said good. I asked where the priest was we had also given passage as I did not see him at the meeting. They told me fishing in a little open boat ‘was too tough a life for that gent, so he had gone to*some little place up the river. The last time we visited the village ‘we asked the young people in appre- ciation of their kind treatment they ad given us all times while im the village if they could not visit our ship for a day, a8 we were aboutyready to sail home. They said they gladly would and the next day in the after- noon they came in a motor boat, ten young men and two young ladies, their string instruments with them. They had supper on the boat with us and after supper we had music and sing- ing and jolly good time. They sang Russian songs and we sang English songs. About twelve that night we saw them off on shore as they were n hospital as a result of a the great revolts against English imperialism commenced in Egypt, he devoted his entire energies to organizing tabor unions.. The Egyptian Trade Union Federation, which was affiliated to the R,. retary, At the same time Comrade. Maroun ‘was ve In 1924 Comrade Maroun was members of the Central Committee of the C. in prison while awaiting trial and the abominable ted out to the political prisoners, undermined he alth to such an e: that during the trial in September last year the) medical experts cert that he was not capable of undergoing the trial: Notwithstanding this, he munist Party. L. U. elected him as sec: ry active in thi a with the other Egypt. The toi period atment which was | was condemned to three years’ hard labor. Soon after being sentenced, Com- rade Maroun was compelled, along with the other condemned Communists, to carry out a prolonged hunger strike in order to gain something approach: ing human treatment. This injured his health stlil further. In spite of this, Comrade Maroun flatly rejected the offer of King Fuad to grant him a “par- for his inflexible attitude; strike. Egyptian prison aut! public. ubli¢’ bpinion” in Egypt p: don,” and prefered to share the fate of the other condemned comi prison administration thereupon solight to take revenge on Comrade Maroun’ he was exposed to every possible petty ‘perse.} cution and torment, which caused him once ‘again to ente Comrade Mai rede remained on hunger. cs for six jorities did nothing to meet the. strikers; not a word concerning the strike, penetr: It: was’ not until six days after Comrade M government» published a short communication of the facts. © 9 64 © 8 over in silence:thie act of murder on 5 the part of oe hangmen’s government: ’ But the’ young’ Egyptian . Ce ee ee 8. The to on a hunger’ ay ears of val in’s death that the, By Earl R. Browder That is, in approximate percentag- es, the increase for July, 1925, over July, 1924, was, imports, 17 per cent, exports 22 per cent; for the seven- month period, imports 12 per cent, ex- ports, 14 per cent. The greater in- crease of exports over imports is an important indication of the growing movement of capital to foreign mar- kets. Summary. 4 eae fragmentary but basically ime portant data given above, shows the acceleration of the process point- ed out by Eugene Varga, in his re- port on) “Economics and Economic Policy in the Second Quarter of 1925,” when he said: “In general American’ economics aré taking an upward trend; apart from the periodic fluctuations.” ‘The, upward trend has sharpened considerably. How far it will go, of, how soon the inevitable downward skimp will come, is not now appar+ J ent... ‘Mussolini Caters to Royalty RACCONIGI, Italy, Sept. 15.—Pre miiér Mussolini will take part in the celebration of the 21st birthday of crown prince Umberto here. Shipments Orders 8,641,191,086 8,514,499,375 8,311,237,449 8,056,561,128 329,953,637 457,938,247 A Voyage to Soviet Russia by American Mariners going to stay in the cannery for the night. The Japanese superintendent having put rooms at their dispo: So we bid them a fond good bya they were going back to the early next morning on a lit boat and we were to sail for” that evening. re | Next morning about eight. 0 the tug. boat came out towards { ship witl our friends on ‘board | their way back to the village, all lined up forward on the and bareheaded. sang the Int for us three times as the tug cireled around our ship, and ing big bouquets of forgetmencits our deck. Then they gave us three cheers for the American proletariat and the little tug was off. Soviet Russia There to Stay. That is the kind of farewell we got from those people, which each of us in the crew of this ship will remem- ber all our lives. It was a real fare- well from workers like ourselves. We also wish to add that by the looks of conditions and talk we had with all the people we came in contact, that Red Russia, is there to stay, and not on its last legs as the American capi- talist press would have us believe. Eyery, one we spoke to about that only. Jaughed,;and said, “Let the for- eign capitalist have his way we have no loye..for' him. But we want the workers of the world to know differ- ent. They are the ones we care about and not the capitalists. The workers’ interest-and welfare we have at heart.” Later jn the day we bid farewell to the’ old *proletarian, the custom offi- cial) who -had. been with us 52 days. The old féllow when he said bood bye commenced crying.. He had been one of us*for 80 long. He spoke some- thing in Russian in behalf of the Am- erican and Russian proletariat. That evening we set sail and left for home —Seattle. And in conclusion we wish to. say this about our visit to 'Red Russia: That we have the highest respect for everybody we came in ontact with and that the people are of the high- est moral standard. Straight, honest, upright and friendly to the workers of the world. Joins Workers Party of America, We have been there and have seen conditions and the people and stand convinced that Communism is the only medicine for the proletariat, Therefore it means nine more mem- bers for the Communist Party of Am- erica, ‘And long live the Soviet re+ public of Russia and the dictatorship of the proletariat. j eae i as 8 ''Striking Parents Meet Tonight ~ Circulars announcing a ean re night in a hall at 6505 Sheridan of the parents of children on s at the Eugene Field school were cis- tributed all day yesterday in neighborhood. - eturn of the portables to the oom at Albion ant» EQUIRES $1,800.10 LIVE, 18 PROFESSOR'S REPORT WASHINGTON, Sept. / wage or income of $1,800 needed to supply “elem encies of life” for a jaas, Markuett University, P, said, is increasing twi “population, yet th wealth is not being Machinery is d ‘workers and reduciny f