The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1925, Page 6

Ste MemMeisemer , shed within the boundaries of that nation. \ Re Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of 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 Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ilinols $$$ aaa EN J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. ee CCC ——$—$_$___—- Bntered av second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, [iL, under the act of March 8, 1879, SA aE ae — Advertising rates on application. ——=—=== One of the Locarno Sidelights. When President von Hindenburg, the German marshal of military might, and M. Vandervelde, the Belgian scoialist premier, agree on the Rhine compact it ought to be able to stand a good deal of rough treatment.... —Edwin L, James in THE NEW YORK TIMES. This very efficient European correspondent of the Times seems to view Hindenburg and Vandervelde as representing two extremes in the arena of European politics. The Rhine treaty, hailed as one of the principal achievements of the Locarno “seeurity pact,” is thought to be doubly assured of being carried into effect because Raeaps ose eanecs Business Manager <> 190 it is acceptable to both, Marxians understand, of course, that its duration will depend.en- tirely upon the length of time Europe can continue to patch up its insurmountable antagonism. When an impasse is reached that can- not be solyed by-peaceful methods then war will again flame forth and the Rhine pact will go the way of other diplomatic “scraps of paper.” But to classify Hindenburg and Vandervelde as political op- posites is completely to ignore the roles they have played since the events of July and August, 1914. They were opposed to each other only inasmuch as one of them served the kaiser of Germany and the other the king of Belgium. Each of them served his ruler with equal fervor. It is impossible to compare the varying degrees of their crimes against the peoples of the countries in which they played dominant roles. They can never be caleulated. But immeasurable as are the crimes, we can with a degree of accuracy estimate the criminals. Among criminals there are varying degrees of criminality. As Victor Hugo said, crimes are committed on a grand scale “Ceasar passes the rubicon; Mandarin bestrides or on a mean scale. the gutter.” Hindenburg, the monarchist, the mighty war lord of imperial Germany, a life-long militarist, did precisely as he was expected to do. He had never been anything other than a militarist and a mili- tarist he remained. He was expected to lead tle German masses to the slaughter house for the glory of the empire and he did it. His crime was consistent. It was spectacular, carried out on a grand seale. Consider Vandervelde, the vassal of his majesty, the king of the Belgians. He had been @ life-long socialist, a: world figure at international congresses whete resolutions were passed declaring against participation in wars between capitalist nations. He was the leader of the international socialist movement, which at its Basle congress in 1912 declared against war and proclaimed its de- termination to use any means within its power to stop war once it started. In the closing days of July and the opening days of August, 1914, when the hordes that were to form the magnificent Hindenburg line for the most sanguinary military drive in all the history of the world were on the march under the banners of imperial Germany; when similar scenes in varying degrees were being enacted in Russia, France, Austria and England; when, in a word, the very war an- ticipated at the Basle congress of the socialist parties flared into being, it was the duty of Vandervelde, as the head of that interna- tional, at any cost, and in spite of everything, to issue the call for “ the class conscious proletarian masses of the world to rise and challenge the impending butchery. Instead of that Vandervelde entered the cabinet of the king of the Belgians, himself one of the most loathsome criminals in his- tory, Albert, the king of Belgium, will go down in history as the monarch who deliberately murdered his subjects in the interest of foreign powers. The German armies desired to go thru Belgitim and offered to pay indemnity for damage to roads and other property. lfad they been permitted to do so there would have been no blood- But an uninterrupted passage thru Belgium would have endangered Franee and England. So these two nations succeeded in inducing the king of the Belgians to throw his own people before the German cannons and bayonets where they were torn to shreds in order that the French and British could have time to mobilize their forces. While the kaiser slaughtered his people in what he believed would contribute to the glory of Ger- many, the king of the Belgians knew full well that the blood of his people was shed for the glory of other nations. He played a role similar to that of the colonial despots who, for the aggrandizement of the oppressor country, deliberately slaughter their own subjects. And Emil Vandervelde, one of ‘the heroes of the socialist interna- tional, became a minister in Albert’s cabinet. ig Now, after eleven years, these two agents of. the. bourgeoisie meet on common ground. They have reached what they imagine is an amicable agreement. The millions of corpses whose blood is upon the heads of these two statesmen cannot rise to plague them. And when the time comes for the battle line to again’ form, if they still live, they will both be fouid holding in contempt the words writ- ten at Locarno. Each will express himself in his own way. Hinden- burg with his spectacular blustering will, with one sweep, throw the pact into the scrap heap of history, while the detestable scoundrel, Emil Vandervelde, will write long treatises’ and ‘detiver-inépired speeches, reeking with sophistry, to prove that the other side violated the provisions of the pact and that according t6 all socialist prece- dents he must again reluctantly urge the workers to sacrifice their lives in the interest of his capitalist masters. If Mr. James, ihe Times correspondent, was’ as familiar with the history of the heroes of the Second International as we are; he would not see in a document accepted by Vandervelde and Hinden- burg any assurance of its provisions being carried. out. Everyone knows what to expect of the German war lord, his crimes are measurable, but no one knows the immeasurable depths io which a Vandervelde can sink. We only-know that he will grovel just as low as is necessary to serve his masters, the bourgeoisie. Like the whole léadership of the Second .Luternational, Vander- velde can be relied upon to commit erimes.in the interest of his capitalist masiers that they themselves would shrink from comumit- ting. : ? By A HUNGARIAN COMMUNIST OR weeks past the Hungarian so- party has been using every endeavor to destroy any possibility of revolutionizing the work: ing class. Right from the earliest days of the white terror it has em- ployed for this purpose the method of shameless denunciation. But it must be said that in recent times it has surpassed itself in this respect. When the delegates of the independent socialist labor party appeared at the cial-democratic international socialist congress in Marseilles, they were openly de- neynced by Payer as “Bolsheviki.” When the working masses attended a public meeting of the social-demo- crats and and called their leaders to account for their treachery, these bureaucrats called in Horthy’s police to deal with the revolutionary ork- ers, described them as being hirelings of Moscow and called upon the police to take a note of the names of the interrupters. HAT was ‘it that caused the Hun- garian social-democratic party to expose itself to an extent unexampled even in Hungary? Why did the Horthy social-democrats, even at the risk of exposing themselves in the eyes of the very small upper section of the labor aristocracy, carry: out shame- ful and criminal denunciations? The “sanitation” in Hungary has (Continued from page 1) of the war, and follows the prophesies made during’ the sixth assembly of the league of nations last September, when for the first time every measure adopted meant a compromise with British interests. Whereas the previ- ous assemblies, five of them in all, were manipulated in the interest of France, the last one was a triumph for England. A demilitarized Rhine zone, to be followed by the evacuation of Cologne, which in turn is to be followed by a plebiscite of the inhabitants of the Saar valley (which will result in a declaration to be a part of Germany) means forever blasting the hopes of France to create an industrial unit by unfting Alsace-Lorraine with terri- tory forcibly annexed from Germany under the pretense of sanctions (punishments) against Germany for failure to met reparations. pe oné imarked change in Buro- pean politics is the entry of Ger- many into the league of nations. At all times Germany was on an equal footing | with the former | entente powers, ahd frequently held the upper hand. ~ This was’so, not because Germany, by her ‘own might, has become power- ful, but’ because the powers knew full’ well that to drive Germany too far ‘would’ force her into closer economic alliances with Soviet Russia, At Locarno, as at Genoa, it was-only as an ally of Soviet Russia that Germany could play an active role toward the entente. And at Locarno the history of Genoa repeat- ed itself by impelling Germany toward a closer alliance with Soviet Russia. Pe 'N the midst of the Genoa confer- ence, Germany and Russia, on Easter Sunday; ‘ 1922, staggered Premier Lloyd George of England, Premier Facta of Italy, Poincare of France and the other delegates by defiantly signing the treaty of Rapallo. When at Genoa the victori- ad Workers: The great battle of the rank and file of the cloak and dressinakers of New York for, the control of their union, has been successful, For the first time in the history of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, the autocratic union bureaucracy has received a crushing defeat. The beginning has been made for the building up of a strong union in the needle industry that will truly defend the interests of the workers. What the Membership Has Won. The recent struggle in New York has won many valuable rights for the membership. -They have won: The right to decide on the amount of dues to be paid. The right to elect their own offi- cials as leaders of the joint board. The right to maintain a unified or- ganization—thru the complete de- feat of the expulsion policy. The right to decide upon the question of proportional representa- tion. HE job is only half done. Victory is not yet complete. The smoke of the last battle has hardly begun to clear away and already the burean- crats are scheming to rob the work-| ers of the fruits of their successful struggle. They speak of peace, but) they prepare for war. The Forward gang is preparing to reestablish the old, hated rule of the corrupt, bureau- cratic machine in our union, They have their*eyesyon the coming na- tional comyenti There ‘they will make a renew attempt to fasten ES IS RR BA SERED SS apes SARS Bo SE ER RT I A a a Ea c= NR — I em Ra AER RI Ae BOA RN cP AD ao PN A, Se A a = En Ar Ae eo ‘ THE DAILY WORKER (Rakosi and 105 Workers Artested and Tortured.) never been experienced.before in the economic life of thetountry. Unem- ployment, the misery’ »f the masses, discontent and desperation are grow- ing from day to day, Neither the social-democratic party leaders nor the trade union bureaucracy consider it necessary even to pretend to do anything in the interest of the work- ing class, They declared quite open- ly that the present time is not suit- able for even the smallest struggles. The trade union bureaucracy support- ed strikebreakers against the fighting workers, and, in spite of’the enormous profits of -the employers, have ac- quiesced in wages being reduced month by month, The, discontent of the working class against the lackeys of the bourgeoisie increased. Hun- dreds and hundreds tore up their par- ty membership cards and thousands withdrew from the trade unions, in spite of the efforts: of the revolu- tionary trade union opposition to pre- vent this, HERE was a movement going on in Hungary which was bound to cause the creatures of Horthy to fear that the ground would give way un- der their feet. They also realized that this movement would obtain a lead from the growing Communist Party of Hungary, which is providing the move- ment with proper aims and giving it a definite direction. About three months ago the con- gress of the Tailors’ Union adopted by an overwhelming majority a reso- brought about a crisis such as has‘ lution welcoming the alliance between ous allies were striving, completely to subdue both Germany and Russia. the two nations. got toggther in a small town fifteen mileshaway and signed a treaty’ that’ enraged the diplomats of the other nitions. Ger- many was accused of being a treach- erous ingrate, Russia was charged with having designs upon “civiliza- tion,” while the world was called upon to witness their own hapless plight at being betrayed in such an unheard of manner. It was indeed a heavy blow. The victims chosen the chains of: bureaucracy: on the rank and file. Wermust be on our guard. We must prepare. We Must Win a National Victory. HE New York victory of the cloak and dressmakers has great nation- significance. But it gs only the first step toward a national victory. Only a national victory will. mean that all the needle trades internationals will be amalgamated intoxone: powerful in- dustrial union of the needle worke’ With such a union “we can success- fully fight the jobbers, for: 36 weeks guarantesd employment. 40-hour week. ant Better wages. i \No piece work. The elimination of the speed up system. a NATIONAL vittory will mean that we will bé ‘able to build a national industrial wiiion whose com- bined strength will be sufficient to or- ganize all the out-of-town and unor- ganized shops. Thus’ we “will estab- lish full union control of conditions in the industry, A national victory will mean that the entire, useless, bureaucratic machine will be abolish- ed. The union will be transformed into a live organization, thru the es- tablishment of theeshop committee and shop delegate system. Thus we will have a unionw6ewhieh the rank end file will havecprtal and lasting vontrol, _ A national viet ill mean that we will be nearer&to the realization of a powerful Jal party to protect Qs against injui » police, profit. cers apd landlord) the English and Russian trade unions, and calling upon the workers to fight for revolutionary trade union unity. After the Marseilles congress of the Second International the Budapest shoemakers’ organization held a meet- ing which was attended by 2,000 mem- bers, and which in a most impressive manner demonstrated in favor of revolutionary trade union unity. The meeting expressed its disapproval of the counter-revolutionary attitude of the trade union council, and in- structed the delegates of the Leather Workers’ Union to vote at the interna- tional congress of the leather workers in Paris for the admission of the Rus- sian trade unions, The Hungarian social-democracy, which not only has a decisive in- fluence in the trade unions, but is or- ganizatorily connected with them, felt that all this meant the beginning of the end. They decided, as the trade union papers announced, to take “de- termined action.” This “determined action” has now been carried out. Within the last few days the executive committee of the Shoemakers’ Union has been dissolved and all prominent revolutionary members expelled, while the Trade Union Council hag artitrari- ly set up a commission to take the Place of the dissolved executive. UT this was not all. All the spies and detectives were set to work. The trade union bureaucracy and the social-democracy worked quite openly’ hand in hand with the Horthy police. It has now come to light from of- by the executioners refused to bow) definitely breaking At against Russia. their heads for, the axe to fall. Locarno the same thing happened. Less than a week after the conference opened that. ever delightful jester, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, made court} as Russia has ficial reports that the trade unions | and social-democrats employed dozens | of people, who not only worked in} the Hungarian socialist labor party, but who also managed to smuggle into the ranks of the Communists as spies, In this manner they succeeded in getting on the track of our Comrade Rakosi, who led the Communist move- ment in Hungary, and in having him, as well as over a hundred other com- rades, arrested. By means of fearful tortures the police succeeded in ex- torting “confessions” from some com- rades. And by means of lying fabrica- tions bourgeois society in’ Hungary was “rescued.” The Nepszava, the’ organ of the Hungarian social-democratic party was overjoyed. It declared that the social- democracy itself has settled witn the Communists, but every line betrayed its satisfaction. Its joy; however, was somewhat premature. Com. Rakosi| behaved heroically before the police. The police did not succeed, even by means of the most fearful toftures, in extracting a “confession” from him. He admitted that-he had come to Hun4) gary in order to carry on Communist The Fresh Wave:of White Terror in Horthy Hungary © the jailers. mee replies given by Rakosi to hie questioners had such an effect that even the mewspapers of the “race pro- | tectors, (fascists) reported his state- | ments, which at once brought about a complete change in the pogrom mood, Only the Nepszava kept silence re- garding them, But this will not help the heroes of | the pact with Horthy, the allies of |hangmen. The attitude of Comrade Rakosi has called forth a fighting mood among the working masses in Hungary, so that the social-democracy and the Hungarian bourgeoisie will soon realize to their cost what a real Communist means even in prison. By his heroic bearing Comrade Rakosi had not only) made a deep impression upon the, working masses, but has j tendered an indisputable service to | Communism, | The working masses perceive not | only the act of devotion, but also the | direction in which they have to fight. | AS a result the Hungarian revolu- | tionary labor movement is enter- ing on a new phase. The glorious memory of the Hungarian proletarian propaganda and to organize a strong| dictatorship is again «being revived, Communist Party. To this work he had devoted his life, and becatse he knew that he had eontributed some- thing to this werk he considered that he had not lived in vain. In the face of his tortures he delivered an im- passioned speech against capitalism and against the Horthy regime in a tone which even won the respect of Locarno---The Thirteenth Conference ——2_. SECOND INTERNATIONAL the blockade This trade agreement will be im- mediately productive of good results, harvested what is called in this country a “bumper” the sage observation that Russia was| grain crop, with millions of bushels completely isolated as a result of his deliberations with his associates. The next day the history of Genoa was repeated by the signing in Moscow of a Russ-German trade treaty regulat- ing the whole status of the economic relations of the two countries and ne What You Must Do. TTEND all union meetings regu- larly. Organize yourselves into a group within your local and affiliate with us. Put up left wing candidates for the national convention. Support only those who are pledged to sup- port this program: 1. Complete amnesty to all those expelled for their opinions. 2. Proportional representation to joint boards and conventions, 3. Amalgamation of all needie Ave: Hartman. Bronx: bér man, Manley, Schlachter, Boruchowitz, Eps Stone, corner Pitkin Ave. Undjus, Krumbein, Lifshitz, Wolf, Bentall. Wednesday, Oct. 21. 104th Street, corner Madison Ave.: kind, Siskind, Huiswood, Potash, Pollack. Intervale, corner Wilkins Ave.: Boruchowitz, London, Epstein. Brownsville: Bronx: Manie) Williamsburg: Grand Street New York Street Meetings Monday, Oct. 21, to Thursday, Oct. 22, Inc, Tuesday, Oct. 20. Seventh Street, corner Second Ave.? ash, DeLeon, Grecht, B. Miller, Weinstone. 110th Street, corner 5th Ave—and 106 Street, corner Madison Siskind, Jampolsky, Codkind, Huiswood, Gordon, Benjamin, Claremont, corner Washington Ave.: for exportation, while Germany is capable of supplying industrial pro- ducts. At the same time there are inexhaustable supplies of raw mate- rials in Russia that are required for German industry. It will be mutually beneficial to the two countries. An I. G. W. U. Convention Message trade international unions into one departmentalized industrial union. 4. The formation of an all-inclu- sive labor party. 5. The democratization of the union thru the establishment of the shop committee or shop delegate system. NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE NEEDLE TRADES SECTION, TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE, . 108 East 14th Street, New York, N.Y. Hurwitz, Valentine, Pot- Suskind, Glau- in, London, Lindgren, Levy, Rosen, Primoff, Jampolsky, Cod- Sisseliman, Siskin, extension, corner Havemeyer St. Krumbein, Rosen, Lindgren, Fishbein, Undjus, Schlerer, Valentine, Bentall, Neslin. f } Thursday, Oct. 22, Sy Firth Street, corner 2nd Ave.: Jampolsky, Krumbein, Siskind, Hartman, DeLeon, B. Miller, Valentine, Stachel, Grecht. 110th Street, corner Lenox Ave. and 110th St. corner Fifth Ave.: Manley, Hulswood, Potash, Suskin, C. Miller, Codkind, Pollak, Bentall. 4 i: 2 not only among the masses of the in- dustrial proletariat, but also among the poor peasants, and this means an indestructable gain for the Com- munist Party. The road and direction have now been indicated, not) only by words but also b yself-sacrificing acts, and this means a serious step forward for the victoriou revolution, Bases conclusion of the confetence can only be interpreted as the political reflex of economié ‘conflicts that are raging througout the whole world, Another handful of documents have been added to those frenzied products of various batches of Euro- pean statesmen who have labored to heal the mortal wounds from which capitalism is suffering. But nothing is fundamentally changed, because the basic antagonisms still remain. The revival of German industry threatens the industry of France. Yet, Germany cannot pay her debts to France without a revival of her in- dustry. At the ‘same time, since in- dustry is the basis of military power, a revival of German industry is a military threat to France. Britain will suffer by seeing her un- employed army grow ‘ever larger in case of a revival of German industry. Yet without that revival she cannot collect the debts owing her by Ger- many. These irreconcilable contra- dictions mock the pompous diplomats pt the countries involved. In spite of the Locarno conference, the thirteenth international confer- ence on a major scale since the close of the war, one thing and one thing only stands forth and that i$ the fact that the ruins of peace in Europe are evidences of a-devastation equally. as great as that of war. Capitalism is mortally wounded. Each of these conferences marks the progress of the malady that already has stamped the brand of death upon every feature. The capitalist system is utterly doomed -by its past and nothing that it can do now can ever revive it. The ambitious plans for reconstruction, for creating security pacts, for world domination, do not better the condi- tion of the working class of the world. Instead these plans so elaborately de- vised pave the way for new military alignments, new balances of power, new wars in which the world willbe turned into a vast abbatoir with the working clas as the victims. Wes the time comes that these political struggles cannot be pro- longed at conference tables they -will be carried out by force of arms. Then will be the signal for the oppressed of the world, whose labor makes possible the existence of these blood-* thirsty governments, to refuse © to fight the battles of the master class, but to rise in their might and sweep from the earth the last vestings of capitalism, by rallying to the ringing challenge of Nicholai Lenin: “Instead of fighting in defense of the conflict- ing governments, turn the imperialist war between nations into a civil war against capitalism.” AQOUEEUAUUOOOUOOOUAOUOTRREGAADEEAOUUEO AAU reeaAUOU eee Famous Russian Poet Mayakovsky - Comes Back to Chicago TUESDAY, OCT.20 He will speak’ at Schoenhofen Hall, Cor. Milwaukee and Ashland Aves. An Entirely New Program. Come and listen to him. Tell Your Friends About It. Beginning at 8 P. M, Admission 50 Cents, ‘ot ey