The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1925, Page 6

_ for the DAILY WORKER. THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 2118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IN. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' By mail (in Chicago only): By mall (outside ef 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 Phone Monroe 4712 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Iilinole J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WMitors WILLIAM F. DUNNB MORITZ J. LOEB. jusiness Manager Biatored ay second-class matl September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. SB ___ Birertining rate on application The Fox Trotting Prince The Prince. of Wales is about to return home after fox trotting his way over two continents. If there are some who believe that the prince uses his feet solely because of his desire to be in close proximity to the fair sex, that delusion must be combatted. Much tho the prince may be addicted to those pleasures that §nclude indulgence in the terpsichorean art, his mission nevertheless ‘was one of business and not of pleasure. It merely happened that in this case pleasure was the handmaiden of business. One of William Randolph Heart’s special writers tells the truth about the prince’s travels. He says his royal highness is simply an imperial bagman, using his prestige and the publicity value of the royal name for the benefit of products of the British manufacturers. The prince’s trotting expedition was made necessary because of the growth of American trade in South America, says Hearst’s pen hireling. Correct! General Pershing kissed every baby in Ar- gentine that he came in contact with, so that the products of Gary’s steel mills would knock out those of the British iron masters. The general had barely returned from his mission when the prince went on his. This is how the game works. Every time the prince moved to the strains of the latest musical jingle there was a nickel under his heel. The prince is returning home. He will find England a little bit different to what it was when he left it. When it is possible for an article to appear in the respectable London Daily Herald, with the title “Should the Workers Arm?” written by John Wheatley and answered in the affirmative, the prince may be justified in remember- ing a few lines from Oscar Wilde’s “Ballad of Reading Goal.” Yes, prince, it is nice to dance in a ballroom but “it it hell to dance in the air.” Kings have had a rather easy time of it in England since Charles lost his head, but the British. workers are getting hungrier and hungrier. Hearst and Saklatvala William Randolph Hearst hastens to take advantage of the ad- verse public sentiment aroused against the Coolidge administration by the ruling of the state department which bars Comrade Saklat- vala, Hindu member of the British house of commons, from entrance into the United States to attend the world conference of the inter- parliamentary union. Hearst’s action is not motivated by any sincere desire to ad- vance the interests of the cause which Saklatvala has at heart. Hearst is no friend of the revolutionary working class movement, nor of the movement to free the people of India from the yoke of British imperialism. In fact, many of Hearst’s writers, particularly the notorious mental prostitute Brisbane, never miss an opportunity to glorify British rule over the subject peoples of the British em- pire. If Hearst were concerned about free speech or free assemblage in the United States, he would have an opportunity every day to write an “open letter” to the administration in Washington protest- ing against the violation of the constitutional guarantees regardng free speech, free press and free assemblage. Yet Hearst remains silent while the capitalists fill the jails with their victims, and the odor of the burning flesh of Negroes pervades the air of the south. The class conscious, workers will not take Hearst’s defense of Saklatvala’s right to enter this country seriously. They know his object in jumping to the front_in this controversy is to gain adver- tising useful to him in securing more circulation for his publications and in gratifying his craving for personal publicity. The Class He Dreads J. R. Clynes, prominent member of the British labor party and a trade union official voiced the unspoken thought of every labor faker in the world when he stated at the British Trade Union Con- ‘gress in Scarborough that he was cnet afraid of the capitalist class; the only class I fear is our own.” Quite righty Clynes. and company have no reason to fear the capitalist class unless the capitalist class should suddenly get crazy and imagine that the Jabor fakers represent the interests of the workers. Barring that the labor fakers have every reason to hope that capitalism will continue indefinitely, or at least until they are com- fortably tucked away, in a neat little grave. The reactionary labor officials are in mortal dread of a revolution. It has the same ter- rors for them that it has for the capitalists. Mr. Clynes unloaded more wisdom than he probably was aware of when he spoke those chistoric words. Vroetor, the soap, king, spent almost one million ‘dollars to have General Leonard Wood elected president of the United States. Well, he got him appointed.governor general of the Philippines anyhow. oY)? 4 e ae When will Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake, alcohol kings, be invited to speak before the Y. M. C. A. on “How to make a million dollars a year and stay out of jail”? The Chicago police are said to be again under the control of the war bosses. When were they not? The capitalist press now brands General Feng as the “christian miilitarist.’ He used to be the “christian general.” Whether Robert LaFollette, Jr., or Calvin’s man. Wilcox wins in _ Wisconsin, the workers and poor farmersyvill lose, Even if Ramsay MacDonald's star is on the wane, Sir Alexander Grant has lots of biscuits, enough to feed Ramsay's parrot. Get a member for the» Workers Paty, and @ new, subseription Every day get “snly for the DAILY WORKER and a member the Workers Party " Less Wheat and Lower Prices for U. ~S, Farmers By EARL’ R. BROWDER bone year the Agrarian crisis in the United States obtained spectacu- lar relief by the unusual juncture of a world shortage of wheat and ex- ceptionally large production in the United States, The result was the farmers had more wheat and receiv+ ed higher prices for it. The diver- gence between industrial and agricul- tural prices (the “scissors”) was over- come for the time. But 1925 is witnessing a reversal of the situation of last year, for Ame- rican farmers, The wheat crop this year is dist- inctly smaller for the United States. Thus the farmers will have less to sell. The world production is immensely larger than 1924. Thus the farmers will receive a lower price per bushel for the smaller crop. A bulletin of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture dated Sept..21st, states: “World wheat production so far as reported this year is 8 per cent larger than the 1924 crop, indicated by total estimates of 2,853,000,000 bushels for 29 countries whighiproduce 85 per cent of the world crop;outside Russia and China, These countries last year produced 2,634,000,000 bushels, “The abundant harvests in Europe, Canada, and North Africa have more than made up the deficit caused by the short crops of India and the United States, the department of agriculture declared today in announcing these figures. The postwar come-back of world wheat countries is also shown in the fact that the 29 countries pro- duced an average of 2,660,000,000 bushels a year in the pre-war period 1909-13, “With a record wheat harvest in Italy and large crops in France, Ger- many and the lower Danubian coun- tries, the European wheat crop this year outside of Russia is 26 per cent above 1924 production, ahd only about 1 per cent below the 1909-13 pre-war average, the department says, Aggre- gate production of 20 European. coun- tries reported to date is 1,282,000,000 bushels against 1,015,000,000 bushels last year, and 1,296,000,000 bushels WELCOME BY A. F. OF L. ASKING AID AGAINST TRADE UNION UNITY (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 24.—William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and a formidable array of the leading bureaucrats of the American labor movement, will form an official reception committee to meet the delegation of German labor reactionaries which is due to arrive in New York on Sept. 25, This choice group selected from among the blackest forces in the German labor movement is coming with an ominous pur- pose in view. The rising tide of sentiment in favor of unity between the organized workers of England and Russia has aroused a panic among the red+ + baiters in the American Federa- tionof Labor. A Well Planned Scheme. The conference with the German delegation is the first move since the last convention of the American Fed- eration of Labor, at which Samuel Gompers initiated an alliance with the extreme right wing of the German unions, ‘for the purpose of assisting the American bankers and imperial- ists in«successfully carrying out the provisions of the Dawes plan and for, the. purpose of combatting the leftward: surge in’ the European labor movement, The delegation includes the follow- ing. German labor fakers: Friedrich Heusman of the Miners’ Union; Os- wald Sehuman of the Transport, Work- ers; Fritz Tarnow of the Woodwork- ers; Franz Wendel, Franz Sheflo of the Railroad Workers; Herman Joch- adp, Fritz. Meunter of the State and Federal Employes; Edward Beckert of the Food and Drink Workers; Mar- tin Pletil of the Clothing Workers; Kurt Heinig of the Miscellaneous ‘Trades; Bernad Meyer, chief director of the workers’ banks of Germany and their translators and secretaries, TWelcomed by Capitalists, Too, These archfakers will be warmly received not only by Green and his staff, but also by the capitalist class and the capitalist press. It is notable, also, that the Forward gives a very prominent place to the arrival of these betrayers of the German work- ers. This is, of course, in line with its policy of opposition to all progressive tendencies on the part of fhe workers and its consistent policy of collabora- tion with the bosses. In this case an alliance of the reac- tionary Green machine with the black wing of the German labor movement against the alignment of the Russian and English workers is a_ direct service to the cause of international imperialism, SYRIAN TRIBES BEAT ATTEMPTS TO AID SUEIDA French feu Fort May Surrender PARIS, Sept. 24—Premier Pain- leve informed the French cabinet to- day of the unsuccessful attempt to relieve Fort Sueida in the war against the leader of the Syrians, Djebal Drus- es. The fortress has been reseiged by the Syrians for forty days. Two attempts to get relief to the beseiged defenders of France’s imperialism have failed. Drinking water is supplied to the 700 French mercenaries by airplanes dropping cakes of ice within the French lines. Food is also being sup- plied in the same manner. At pres- ent the premier asserts the soldiers have enough ammunition, but help must be sent them immediately or the fortress will have to surrender. Repulse. Legionnaires, The tribesmen have repeatedly made attacks on the foreign legionnaires, hired by’ Frafice to fight the Syrians at Messi Frey. The tribesmen inflict- ed heavy los: in the French column and are™ ssfully blocking the at- tempt ofthe legion to march to the aid of Fort Sueida, Farewell Party to ’ Comrade Sends Gift to Communist Dailies NEW YORK—Comrades gathered at a farewell party to Comrade Pianin from Branch No. 22, Young Workers’ League, Bronx, expresséd their ap- preciation of their comrade by doing the thing that would give him the most pleasure. They “took up a col- lection for the DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit amounting to $20, to be divided equally betwee both papers. cna 827 ) Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, Sept. 24—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.84 1/16; cable 4.84 9/16. France,‘frane, deman& 4.72%; cable 4.73. Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.36%; cable 4.37. Italy, lira, demand 4.07%; cable cable 4.08. Swe- den, krone, demand 26.88; cable 26.86 Norway, krone, demand'20.43%; cable 20.45%. Denmark, krone, demand 24.17 cable 24.20. Shanghai, taéls 80.00. Send for a catalogé@ fof all Com- munist literature. ASWESEEIT -:- (Continued from page 1) Communists. But he does care very much. Democracies are ideal for gen- tlemen of easy virtue, who desire to accumulate wealth at the expense of others. It would not be so easy for Wright to float a fake ofl scheme un- der a workers’ government, the kind they have over in Russia. He would probably lose his head. Wright also knows that if the radicals get control of the labor movement, he will either have to go to work directly for Wall Street, or live on his savings. oe show his contempt for the strug- sling people of India, Wright says: “I roasted Secretary Kellogg as bitterly as anyone when he turned loose his ridiculoug shaft against Mexico, but | am strongefor what he has handed the Hindu Red. I like this business of telling this angel of destruction where he gets off.” Then with a last cry from the bottom of his unsullied soul, Chester mourns: “Oh for the day when freedom-loving taen and women will thivk straight atove this whole revolutionary pro- paganda beatiean oMMUNISTS are not in the least disappointed because, Saklatvala was refused admission to this coun- try. It is what we, . expected. The more intelligent of the capitalists know that Saklatvala’s exclusion will create more fuss than his admission would, The big fellows feel much more secure in their positions than the labor fakers and their bootliokers. The Wrights and the Greens dread the Communists at this moment much more than the capitalists. The growth of radicalism is reflected in the trade unions, and the skates are uneasy. * HE Reverend Norman Thomas, ex: preacher, and jidate for mayor of New York on the socialist ticket, declined an invitatign to speak at a united front mee called to pro- test against the jusion of Saklat- vala, He refused, very likely on Hill- quit's advice. best inje knows how to take his orde’ Thomas’ excuse for declining tho wan phat the pre-war average.” 'N addition to this is the latge Rus- sian crop; which, it is announced by the Soviet foreign trade Office, will provide an export surplus for the Eu- ropean market about ten times that of Russia’s 1924 exports. Again the American farmers are in for a bad time. The “scissors” must inevitably open again. The agrarian crisis that began in 1920, which was so deep that it was the principal im- mediate factor in producing the La Follette “third party” movement—this crisis which the unusual conjuncture of 1924 placed for the moment in the background—becomes again a major problem of American economic life. Will any of the schemes of Amer- ican imperialism, now being discuss- ed, be able to help the farmers? What about, for instance, the project re- ported by Sigrid Schultz in the Chica- go Tribune, in a dispatch from Berlin, dated Sept. 22, which says: “A plan for an economic rapproch- ment of America, England and Ger- many of such a wide scope that it borders on a political pact is under consideration in Washington, London and Berlin, the Tribune learns from a reliable source. If carried thru, the plan would solve the problem of the American farmer who is trying to dis- pode of his raw products at a profit and would solve the unefnployment problem in England and Germany. “The old idea of America’s advan- cing raw material to Europe on credit, Europe paying after the sale of manu- factured’ goods, is revived. Economic experts of world fame are said to be sketching an agreement for economic reciprocity by which American raw material, especially farmers’ products, would be advanced to Mngland and Germany. In exchange goods from these countries of the same value as the American articles exported would be allowed to enter the United States free of tariff.” Without entering into the implica- tions of world politics involved in this prop@fal, it is interestittg for the moment to ask, supposing it could be put into operation, whether it could possibly improve the situation of the American farmers in any basic man- ner. We are forced to the conclusion that ynching Photos Show Victim at Death’s Door TRAITORS TO GERMAN LABOR GET | Lynching Phot it: would not, There is more wheat in the world than there was last year. American farmers have less of it, The conclu- sion is inescapable that, no matter what economic “rapprochements” are made, American wheat will not bring more than the market price, Nt ahd ways out are possible for the farmers. (1) With the help of God to per suade the capitalists to forgive them their debts; or (2) Failing success in this, to join hands with the working class to re- pudiate their debts, increase the con- suming capacity of the working class by raising wages, and establish a workers’ and farmers’ government, As American farmers have not yet faced the last proposal seriously, we will this year be forced to watch them again rely upon God, knowing that he will fail them again as he has 80 many ‘times, and that the resulting agrarian crisis will ultimately force masses of farmers to realize that help will come, not from capitalism or the deity, but from a revolutionary work- ing class. Central Press Photos Ly ERE are pictures showing J. P. Ivy, another Negro victim of a white mob, this time at Rocky Ford, tre» The mob helped the photographer tale the picture showing: Left, Doomed man on platform with rope around neck; right, above: victim, chained to ‘stake driven in ground, sees self-elected executioners ignite soaked saw- dust. When flames got going, brush was piled high around him until flames leaped far over head. Below, Ivy (arrow) making ‘an alleged confession of his crime five minutes before his death. GREAT CHINESE MILITARY LEADER ‘OPENS NEGOTIATIONS WITH SOVIET REPUBLIC FOR AID AGAINST FOES MOsCow, Sept. 24—General Feng, China’s great military leader, has opened negotiations with Soviet Russia. These negotiations may have a vital bearing upon the fortheaming Chinese customs conference in October and also upon the proposed con- By T. J O'Flaherty the Communists did not believe in free speech, and therefore had no right to protest when the capitalist government gags the workers. Any- how there are political prisoners in Soviet Russia and the Communists broke up Abramovich’s meeting, says the reverend. ‘ee TT'HOMAS pretends to be in sympa- thy with Russia, yet he never misses an opportunity to stab Russia in the back. Thomas knows that the political prisoners in Russia are con- spirators against the workers’ repub- lic, Evidently Thomas places opposi- tion to a workers’ republic and oppo- sition to a capitalistic republic on the same footing. This is where he slips, ,consciously. Either the struggle for the emancipation of the workers is justified or it is not. If it is not, the workers should humbly submit and worship the capitalists. If on the other hand, it is justified, every means of doing away with the robber system is moral. HIS may seem like jesuitism to the reverend doctor. We believe it is the only sound position for re- volutionary workers to take, The Communists do not expect that the capitalists will surrender their privi- leges without a struggle. The current history of England shows that quite plainly. Even mild radicals like John Wheatley are calling for an army of ten million workers to defend the la- bor movement against the armed for- ces of capitalism, Will Thomas say that Wheatley is taking orders from ‘Moscow or that he should be gagged by the tory government for believing that force only can meet force? i Ome M°= nonsense is being indulged in by capitalist writers regard- ing free speech in England. There was free speech in England just as long as the British ruling class felt that their wage slaves were in no danger of revolting. Those wero’ the days when British capitalism was on the upgrade and the upper str of labor in England was given p Mttle extra a the. ot-the ference upon extra-territoriality, Representatives of General Feng arrived here on Sunday, together with a new ambassador from Mongolia. Altho no official statement has been made relative to the purpose of the visit here of the representatives of Feng, it is generally believed that they, come to seek the support of the powerful red republic against the interna tional bandits who are plundering their country, a colonial slaves. Even the most de- his writing. That is what we mean based proletarians were able to get | by “Brisbanality.” enough under their skins to keep them from the morgue. But those days are no more. 1,250,000 unemployed are eloquent testimony to the decline of British capitalism. ARTHUR BRISBANE writing in the New York Evening Journal makes the following profound comment on free speech in England: “The British have found it a good thing to let men talk, Talking often takes the place of action. In Russia and other countries where talking was forbidden, bombs often took the place of talk. In Eng- land they let you say. whatever you please, as long as you don’t actually do anything.” Brisbane is a clever writer and has a strong hold on mil- lions of American workers who read his contributions in the Hearst press. eae HE word “Brisbanality” has often been used in this column to char- acterize the poisonous piffle that Brisbane is an intelligent man, He deceives willfully. We don’t object to his propaganda because it appears on the front page of the Hearst press “in the upper left hand corner” as a certain learned omadgaun, did to this column in ‘the DAILY WORKER, © It would be well if most of the contribu: tors to the radical press could ‘use the American language well! Brisbane uses it. But he uses his to dope the brains of the masses. ‘bat is the objectionable feature, of ae ee ILE the ruling class of Britain allowed orators to shoot the air in Hyde Park, with attacks on every- thing from roast beef to his majesty the king, without interference, there was a different policy followed in Ire- land, India, Egypt. and everywhere else where the pirate flag flew over an oppressed people. Why? ‘They were the. same rulers, Our liberals attribute their liberality in England to genius for government. Why did they not follow the same policy their colonies? ' Simply because. people were in a state of revolt/and they used the same methods the Czar of Russia used against his slaves. «ee 21 bude the British lion is growling at home as he used to growl abroad. The only hindrance to a government campaign of terror against the British working class is the strength of the labor movement. All capitalist. governments act alike in like situations, Every dog scratch: es himself when bitten by a flea. When the British capitalists get a little shakier than they are now, Hyde Park will see mounted machine guns . 4s well as revolutionary orators, But this will not stave off the inevitable downfall of British imperialism any more than the exclusion of Saklatvala will keep Communism ont of the United Stutes or hide the truth about 2 | See | Mt