The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKE Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 4113 W.\ Washington Blyd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): 1 By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIlinols i J, LOUIS ENGDAHL saceannemeeeneneanessconerenenimeenees ACOPS WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. Ad <a 390 ——— oe Purcell’s Speech The, delegates to the American Federation ‘of Labor got the greatest jolt of their lives yesterday—those who understood what the speech of A. A. Purcell Was all about and this does not include all of them by any means. When we say “the greatest jolt of their_lives’ we mean as delegates to the A. F. of L. conventions because most of them have been attending its sessions for many years. It is part of the business of being a “labor leader.” There have been other speeches in the A. F. of L. conventions urging the need of trade union unity; there have been speeches hail- ing the class struggle; there have even been Communist speeches. But Purcell’s speech stands out as a landmark of labor history be- cause of the position he occupies and because of the world situation. The president of the Amsterdam International urging world trade union unity in company with the unions of Soviet Russia against world imperialism—in the United States, its most powerful unit! This is a spectacle to confirm all the fears of the stalwarts of imperialism in the labor movement of America—their boés-inspired fears that the forces of the working class and the exploiters are ar- vayed in a battle front where such phrases as “a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work” and ‘identity of interest between employer and employe” are meaningless terms. ‘ President Green, however, seems to have risen to the occasion. He' pledged American labor never to join with the All-Russian unions for the reason that “they (the All-Russian unions) stand for the overthrow of goverfment.” This in the face of the fact that the All-Russian unions are the foundation of the most stable gov- ernment in the world today! But Purcell’s speech was not delivered with the view of con- ~verting labor officialdom to the class struggle. It was made to show to the American working class that they cannot escape’from the class struggle—that they must either fight or be enslaved. American labor officialdom, as beneficiaries of the rich fruits. of ising rates on application. SSE American imperialist robbery, will snarl but the American working’ &*tteme class, its victims, will read Purcell’s speech—and think. The Deadlock at Locarno Two events have occurred which have substantiated the predic- tions made by us relative to the Locarno conference. They are: 1. The deadlock of the conference. over the question of a revi- sion of the German eastern frontiers. 2. The assurance given representatives of the Soviet Union by the German delegation officially that Germany will not be a party to any agreement calling for military action against the Soviet Union nor allow France to guarantee the treaties with Poland and Czecho- Slovakia. The assumption of the allied imperialists concerning the order of business for the Locarno conference was that the existing treaties with the little countries composing the “sanitary cordon” were not to be subjects for discussions. Germany has knocked this idea into a cocked hat and by her assurances to the Soviet Union has attempted to force the recon- sideration of the whole question of her eastern boundaries. Hence the deadlock. : If the capitalist press was willing to explain the real basis of the proposed security pact and the differences between France and Ger- many on one hand and France and England on the other, with both trying to reach an agreement that would allow Germany to be brought into an anti-Soviet bloc, every literate would know that a deadlock was inevitable. But the capitalist press is trying to spread an atmosphere of optimism around the conference and lull the masses into a feeling of security for which no reason exists. It is true that the pressure of American finance-capital will force some kind of agreement among its debtors. Debt-funding mis- sions form Czecho-Slovakia and Roumania are in the United States. Poland and Italy are mortgaged to the House of Morgan and every effort will, be made to weld these nations, with France and Germany, into an alliance against the Soviet Union. The outlook for the peace of the Soviet Union and the peace of the world is as gloomy as it has been since the abandonment of the policy of armed intervention by the allies following ‘their defeat by the red army. But the present deadloék in Locarno and the’ tremendous in- fluence exercised on German and Polish policy by the Soviet Union ig.an indictaion that even the tremendous weight of the mountain of . gold. owned by the House of Morgan cannot weld into a solid bloc ‘the warring capitalist nations of Europe. . . Coolidge in Omaha The speech of President Coolidge before the American legion convention in Omaha is one of the greatest bits of unconscious » humor yet biought to enr attention. ¥ Y His appeal for “intellectual demobilization” to bring peace, would do credit to Kin Hubbard. Only a country that has been intellectually demobilized can go to war for the profit of its ex- ploiters and oppressors. If the president does not believe this he should take another look at the militant section of the babbittry assembled in Omaha. ’ The high spot of the whole proceeding was the presentation of a Texas “ten-gallon” hat to the head of the nation. This was the oceasion for prolonged cheering in ‘whith ‘the voices of the middle class morons present were strained to their utmost. It is logical to assume that aftersthis get-together meeting held in the best rotary club style, every legion delegate is ready to break uny strike that Coolidge, at the orders of the bosses, chooses to take a crack at. Just why Coolidge went to the legion, instead of to the Amer- ican Federation of Labor convention is a mystery tg us. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. sree bee Pr TH ARTICLE Il. NE*has only to read one extract from Saklatvala’s recent speech in the house of commons to realize that to British imperialism he appears as the forerunner of the day when {India drives out British hangmen and {becomes an ally and friend of Soviet Russia. Said Saklatvala to the repre- sentatives of British imperialism: “It may be that you are honest in- compentents . . . but why not learn from others, Our Russian Bolshevist friends have in five years time been able to give the political franchise to the agriculturists of Russia, who as a class are parallel with the agricultur- ist population of India. The are also people of diverse religions, Including Mohammedans, Jews, Greek church people and others. The Bolsheviks have been able to give them education in five years, yet in the Czar’s days these people were treated with that same callousness and brutal cruelty as that with which you have been treating the Indian peasant for 150 years. In five years after the Com- munist International revolution in Rus- sia, 65 per cent of the agricultural po- pulation have received education and you have today the testimony or half. a dozen British men and women that in spite of the bloodcurdling articles in your newspapers, the Russians have done their job well. Why play a dog- in-the-manger part? I appeal to this committee to allow a commission of Indians to go to Russia to study and to find what the British have failed to discover—the way of granting to the people of political franchise and edu- cation, scientific laboratories, institu- tions, health homes, compensation and allowances for industrial workers. If Russia, a country of agriculturists, The Fascist International Holds Secret C By R. DOMBUSCH The jmternational united front against Communism and against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics js already more than an idea, a wish of feaction generally. The struggleagainst the Soviet Union, ac- cused of the deadly sin of being the union of the liberated peoples of a sixth part of the earth and as such exercising great influence in. the his- torical libération movement of all peo- ples—this struggle has now taken on real atid “concrete organiaztional forms.* : It is now fio longer a question of howling against the first workers’ and peasants" state, not only are calum- nies cirénlated, which are very often heipless and‘ absurd as tho the pro- duction of ‘some circus clown; now organization is actually being taken in hand. -Of course, for us this is nothing. new. We have already ex- perienced the organization of an arm- ed intervention against Sovjet Russia, during which the capitalist govern- ments got the worst of it. But that % # ‘ Zé E DAILY WORKER could find the way, out, how is it that you with your world-proclaimed clever- ness as administrators have failed to find it, why not. be-honest and step aside and let us do the job, and we shall do it on an international Com- munist basis? Why are you turned in- side out at the very thought of Com- munist propaganda in India? If as an industrial nation with your Western mind you have failed to discover a humanitarian cure for the ills of an agricultural population in an Eastern country, why play the-dog-in-the- man- ger? Why not fiermit the Russian nation, which hasyactually discovered the way out of the darknegs, to come and help you?” f rpes is no parliamentary bombast, ‘These words are true words and the lords by right of birth and bank- roll know them td be true. The colo- nial liberation movements are shak- ing imperialism :the, world over and British. imperialists know better than any other ruling group that the eyes of all the colonial people are turned towards Soviet Russia and that in Moscow are the headquarters of the Communist International which links up these movements with the struggle of the working class in all lands, HEY will ask even their bitterest imperialist enemy to prevent their working class being “corrupted” and moral aid being given by them to the Indian liberationists. But Saklatvala speaks also for the British working class—the working class that in the last year has asto- unded observers by the rapidity of its development to consciousness as a class. The organized section of this class—the trade unionists has sent an official delegation to ,Soviet Russia and has published a report that has shattered the lies of thé capitalist was during war time. The govern- ments making this attempt were op- timistic, for how should these govern- ments of stockholders and profiteers know what unbounded strength the people liberated hy revolution pos- sess and what fighting power the sol- idarity of their “own” working class in the proletarian’ revolution signi- fies? g Preparing Intervention, It cannot be said tiiat capitalist gov- ernments haye learned nothing from the experiénces of the first interven- tion. They haye grown cleverer. Théy are preparing interyention more care- fully, more thoroly¢ ‘They are carry- ing it out on a much larger and in their opinion, more suitable form. The official form is expressed in that col- ossal and finely sput diplomatic man- euver which is manifested in the ne- gotiations and proposals regarding the “guarantee pact”, the basic idea of which is not as the official diplomats maintain, the pacifist combination of the entente powers with the conquered state, but a continuous cunning en- deavor to organize an international Imperialist Rivalries in China Increase The news from from China shows that world imperialism is like a syphilitic patient in the hands of the pain of one ulcer by*the appl a quack doctor. Whe quack eases ication of some patent ointment, ‘but no sooner is it done than a lesion appears on some other part of the body. Healing salves and sweet smell rotting carcass of world -imperiali ing balms are being applied to the sm in Locarno, but in China the three-cornered antagonism between America, Great Britain and Japan breaks out afresh. A dispatch sent by a great capitalist news servicé says: A belief exists tonight, on the eve of the judicial investiga- tion into the Shanghai rioting of last May, that serious differ- ences of opinion are developing between Justice Finley Johnson, the American, and the British and Japanese judges. Judge John- son is reported to be skeptical the inquiry, and fee! that America should not have -of the constructive results of agreed to participate owing to the possible adverse effect of Chinese opinion on American interests. vw American imperialist policy, based on the “open door” doctrine for China, has been to appear as the friend and ehampion of the Chinese people against the other imperialist powers. The use of American marines in the recent Shanghai strike and liberation demonstrations has tended to enable the Chinese masses to see Amer- ican imperialism in its true role. The dispatch of, the gunboat Palos 1,400 miles up the Yangtze river to punish natives who were alleged to have fired on a ship of American registry has;been of additional value in this respect. The British and Japanese, the British in particular, have been demanding joint action by the foreign representatives against the Shanghai workers and students but the dispatch quoted shows that the American imperialist agents are now aware that to act in concert with the other powers means to arouse further ¢ ity among the Chinese masses that will inevitably put American, exploiters in the same category with the British and Japanese andeinvolve them more directly than heretofore in the anti-imperialist movement that is sweeping China. i . All this division of interest and conflcits arising therefrom among the imperialist powers give the greatest encouragement to the liberation movement. To see dissension in the ranks of the enemy, enemies which have generally been able to appear as a unit against the Chinese masses, cannot help but encourage the drive against the foreign robbers. ° The working class in the United States must stake full advantage f these imperialist rivalries to create the widest possible sentiment and action forthe withdrawal of all troops And warships from hi "oes ‘ is by building a solid front of the wor and the colonial and semi-colonial p lass in the great as the imperialist ri grow more bitter, that victory for both sections of the ‘ ed, woud proletariat can be achiev ron bust: i, A ogates axsured eer’ press and given to millione’ of *work- ers an insight into the wonders of’ the Russia of the workers and ‘peasénts. HE British trades unions ‘have, with the all-Russian unfons,*taken the lead in the drive for world-trade union unity. An English worker, chair- man of the Amsterdam International, A. A. Purcell, is a leading figure in the Anglo-Russian Trade Union Unity Committee. The British miners force the govern- ment to subsidise the coal industry and while the coal owners Will profit largely by the settlement it is never- theless only a temporary one, repre- sents a huge concession by the tory government and it has allowed the alliance of miners, transport workers and railwaymen nine months in which to prepare their forces for'a still more serious struggle. of Mees government subsidy to the coal industry, the cost of which is estim- ated variously from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000, is made possible by the super-profits from the colonies — Ind- ia in particular. Yet the British Trades Union Con- gress meeting at Scarborough passes a resolution (by some 3,000,000 votes with a negligible majority voting against) endorsing the liberation movement in the colonjes and uphold- ing the right of any or all of them to separate from the empire at any time. This is a great historical act on the part of the organized section of a class which has been bound up with imperial exploitation for detades. It has been proverbial that to scratch any Briton was to find an imperialist but the chains of tradition were brok- en at Scarborough and British labor, at least the very powerful left wing, now acknowledges that the empire must be broken up if the British work- ing class is to save itself from utter slavery. —— united front against the Soviet/Union. Require Parallel Actién. - It is a foregone conclusion that the realization of the actual object of this attempt cannot be attained by mere legal and diplomatic formula con- cealed under a pact system. “The goy- ernments, chiefly the British’ éonserv- ative government which is the leader in this world com , Will require parallel actions. which are tiich more open than is possible ‘Within the frathework of diplomatic actions. The “public opinion” of the protectors of “the social order”. .is éssefitial for these governments, Such’ lictive sup- Port on the part of the arch-reaction- ary strata has actually beeh found by all governments in their 6Wn coun- tries. wee vidio: The innumerable legal ‘and illegal organizations of fascist afid’ semi-tas- cist reaction, continually offet support to their governments not therely mor- ally but in actual fact. But now the question is that of international ac- What Saklatvala Symb OlIZeS - HAT has change? The outstanding fact is that with all the Joose talk of the {‘stabiliaztion of capitalism” the trend of Great Britain’s national economy is definit- ely downwards. Unemployment ison the increase and conservative estimates place the total number of jobless workers at 1,000,000, The numbers of these work- ers on part time is at least double this figure. | ba report of the ministry of labor as of September 17, published in the London Daily Herald, states: For food alone, the- corresponding percentages were, 70 and 68 respect- ively. A housewife. who has one pound to gpend on food is receiving now™~in values eleven, shillings and nine pence as compared, with 1914, and during the month of August the Price of food rose 2 per cent. The British pound, is, worth appro- ximately $5 in American-money. There are twenty shillings of the approxim- ate value of 25 cents to the pound. The penny rates at about two of Ame- rican pennies. In other words the British workers. is able to buy with one pound nominally rated at $5, food only to the value of $2.93 NCREASING. unemployment rising food prices! It is no wonder that the British im- perialists want no talk in the United States or elsewhere of the oppression by them of the Indian and British working, class —- or of any other sub- ject which would tend to explain the need for working classsolidarity with | the colonial peoples. | RITISH seamen are on strike. In | defiance of Havelock Wilson, the | imperialist tool who heads the union, the seamen have tied up shipping thruout the~empire. They have re- ceived sympathy and support from a brought about this. and anti-Bolshevist memoranda would surely exercise influence on the Brit- ish government and act as a moral support in action for same. It is not difficult ‘to find a logical connection tion, intervention must be carried ‘on: an extensive scale and united. The fascist groups in the individaal coun- tries are now strengthening their in- ternational connections and ‘organiz- ing on an international scale. There- by they have two objects in view. On the one hand, they endeavor to ad- vance the struggle on a national scale against individual Communist parties; on the other hand, they offer their capabilities to the sacred causes of international intervention against the Soviet Union. The Aubert League. The documents before us give ex- act and irrevocable proof of this, These documents are the protocols of the second conference of the “Inter- national Alliance against the Third International,” which took Place in Geneva on May 25, 26 and 27. At the head of this alliance is a cerain Au- bert, after whom this organization is called, “The Aubert League.” Mr. Au- bert did not gain this role of interna- tional leader without sufficient cause. He is one of those who organized the murder of Comrade Vorovsky, The Second Conference. The delegates assembled under his auspices. We learn that the first con- ference really took place in Paris in 1924. We do not think we are mis- taken when we maintain that this re cent second conference is of much greater significance than the first, for the participants, if only on account of the present situation of international politics. At a moment when England is endeavoring to keep Germany and the Soviet Union apart, to incite Po- land and the border states against the Soviet Union, and altogether to create @ system of foreign policy of all states bent on opposing the Soviet Union, at such @ moment a conference of “priv- ate” organizations in opposition to Bolshevism is really of significance for the official initiators who have their seat in the various governments, The, Suitable Moment. Various delegates at this Aubert conference clearly referred to the “suitable moment.” It was no mere chance that the delegates from Great Britain declared that the present mo- ment was especially favorable for the submission of a memorandum-to the British government, since at the head of the state a conservative «govern- ment held sway. In reference to this the chairman ment of the British especial importance. was of del- the conference that the between the shameless campaign against Russia which the British gov- ernment has been carrying on and the German machinations of the mur- derer Aubert. But in order not to compromise the governments all this must be done very carefully. And we Saw evidence of this care at the fas- cist international conference. Apart from the fact that the entire confer- ence was of a conspirative nature and only a brief non-committal commun- ique was issued to the press, the dele- gates were often reminded of this delicate point. The German repre- sentative was quite logically of the opinion that the idea of intervention should originate with a private ~or- ganization and not with the state as the latter would call forth a strong movement FOR Bolshevism. He sup- Plemented this point by stating that some states would be exceedin#ly hap- py if they could count on the support; of private persons since for various reasons they could not fight against Bolshevism. The Dutch delegate de- clared that on the previous day he had had an interview with a “highly Placed person” who gave him to un- derstand that the alliance ought to devote special attention to strength- ening its national organizations be- fore approaching the governments and the league of nations. 4 Liberation of Governments, Of course, voices expressed discon- tent with the liberalism of individual governments. In many European countries, governments allowed them- selves to be guided by public opinion instead of guiding the latter, was the opinion expressed by the representa- tives of “liberal” Belgium. But on the whole, the conference was quite content with the governments. The statements of the representatives of some of the border states of Soviet Russia were characteristic. From these of the Esthonian delegates we arn that the fascist volunteer or- ganization in Esthonia received ma- terial support from ; the government and that the Finnish delegate carried on negotiations with the. Latvian and idea of a conference .of the various governments to. “fight against the Communist danger” was. especially approved by the Polish delegate, who maintained that such a cofiference would surely receive support of his government. Yet, despite all. this Plain language the decision was made to avoid any kind of action-that would indicate direct contact between the Aubert league and the governments, In deciding on the next center for the conference a proposal was made to decide on NO CAPITAL since the alli- ance must maintain a neutral char- acter of a private organization in re- spect of the governments, > Onlooker from U. S. At the international conference there were ives from Ger- many, Austria, Bel Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Brit- ain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Norway, |° Roumania,, Holland, . Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia Jugo-Slavia and Swe- den. From America, was an “on- looker” present and,.of course a rep- resentative of the Russian white suards and immigrants also was pres- By William F. Dunne dozen different countries — Russia in particular, _ P But most surprising of all they-re- ceived support from the regular Bri- tish trade unions. An example of the disgust that the Havelock Wilson have aroused among the honest. ele- ment of the trade unions is the fol- lowing statement of J. Rowan, general secretary of the Electrical Trades Union published in the Daily Herald: The unfortunate thing for the sea- men is that they are not only fight- ing the shipowners, but they are fighting their own union, who, altho they did not consult the men about the reduction, are insisting even at the revolyer point, on its accept- ance. i * It is a, most disgraceful state. of, affairs and a blot on the whole trade union movement. The procedure seems to be that the union, representing their own grades, agree with the shipownérs. what their reduction is going to be, and seem to do it without any eon- sultation with their members. It is well to say here that “union,” when used in the sense in which it is used by, Rowan, refers to the official. committees. and not to the general membership, A militant spirit among the seamen -—.the most oppressed and low- est paid of all the “sons of Mary” of whom. Kipling wrote in the one mo- ment he forgot his imperialist alleg- iance! ‘ Revolt in the merchant marine — the second line defense of Britain's empire! God save the mark! It {s time for someting more than letters to The Times—when “outlaw” strikes get support — outlaw strikes of sea- men at that! In times like these no impudent ‘Ind- ian can be allowed to raise the fiery cross in other Anglo-Saxon lands! (To Be Continued) onference ent, We get a picture of the nation- al organization from the reports of the delegates. In this connection, too, Great Britain in conjunction with other countries takes the lead: The “central” council of economy league which ‘has for its object the task of forming “a united front against the agents of the Third ‘nternational” subdivides its work into five sections: 1. Propaganda amongst the intelli- sentsia, 2, Press propaganda amongst the masses, 3. Propaganda by organizations. 4. Education and development ot reporters. 5. Work amongst the youth. Penetrating Communist Groups The British delegation drew atten- tion to the special danger of the Min- ority Movement which was enjoying Such great success amongst the trade unions. This movement requires the organization of anti-Bolshevist cen- ters. The system of penetration into Communist organizations is one of the chief organizational principles of the Aubert league. For this purpose, “anti-agitators” are being educated. What are the methods of struggle of these protectors of the “bourgeois order?” We must admit that it dis- plays a definite sympathy for the pre- vailing forces of Communist organiz- « ations. Communists form nuclei {n the factories. What is simpler than to form “anti-Bolshevist nuclei” in the * factory? At the head of these nuclei we find the people, who are doubtless the most interested in the matter; the employers themselves. Thig institu- tion of the fascist nuclei gives the employer the possibility to “observe” Communists, their organization and their activity. The tasks of the nu- clei are to disclose “plots against the social order,” to betray the existing Communist nuclei and destroy them, to..maintain the strictest discipline, to watch systematically each worker during work, paying especial atten- tion to foreign workers, to organize the inspection of the factory, — ete. Anti-Bolshevist nuclei are “built from above.” The Communist factory nu- cleus ig the bearer of elementary eco- nomic and most’ extensive Political interests of factory muclei, whilst the Aubert nucleus is an organ for at- ear en the interests of the workers and hence remains a while guardist Sectarian organization which can strike no roots in the (To be continued) ‘os Atalians Avoid French, jl ROME, Oct, 7.— The possibility ot fr: meeting and a tactical ‘ween Finance Minister. Vi of Italy, and Finance Minister Calfiaus of France, vanished the announcement that the Ij debt delegation had cancelled its via Cherbourg in favor of paving from Naples for America al the liner Duilio.