The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1925, Page 4

; ; acpeatth pees Page ° om seem THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, I. Phone Monroe 4712 pessoal ahaa SUBSCRIPTION. RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outelde 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, IIlinole ciaerenneeslnae iter iacsianectert fiiiliiontpitibcanasasinasaeniatihdcing' J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Battors 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. <Ge> 390 Advertising rates on application. The Bombardment Begins Now that the rubber trust has discovered in the Philippine Islands vast potentialities for the raising of rubber the reptile press of this country is spewing forth a veritable bombardment of~poison gas against the movement for independence of the islands. A splendid sample of this is revealed in the dispatches sent the Chicago Tribune, by one Walter Wilgus. Defending the savagery of the regime of Major General Leonard Wood, the correspondent not only opposes freedom for the islands, but assails with vicious mendacity even the parliamentary bodies of the islands. Wood, who as the pliant tool of Elbert H. Gary, placed the iron heel of militarism upon the necks of the steel strikers. a Gary, Ind., in 1919, and well known in the United States as a swag- gering military despot, is depicted as a benefactor of humanity whose | benevolent rule is challenged by a group of unscrupulous and unap- preciative Filipinos in the senate, under the leadership of Manuel Quezon. The Tribune correspondent urges the advisability of curtail- ing the powers of the senate in the matter of appointments. - Under a provision of the Jones act of 1916, the senate can reject appointments of the governor-general. Filipinos. The implication is that there is ground for doubting the loyalty (?) of the organization and its efficiency in dealing with the, non-christian elements in question. By loyalty, Mr. Wilgus means betraying the Philippines into the hands of American rubber in- terests. The Tribune is the agent of industrial capital in the middle! west. It is the voice of the Harvester trust, and hence is in favor of this government releasing the Philippines and devoting its con- quests to the agricultural lands of South America. .This policy, emphasized with vigor a few years ago, is reaffirmed in a somewhat modified tone at present. Tho carrying the poison propaganda of Wilgus, the Tribune editorially advocates freedom for the islands, so that “we will be out of responsibilities which may bring us any- thing from a native uprising to a foreign war.” Do not mistake the attitude of the Tribune as an anti-imperialist stand. What the McCormicks and Pattersons want is a govern- mental policy that will penetrate South America in the interest of the harvester and packing trusts and keep out of the imperialist ventures of finance-capital in Europe and in the Philippines. The same considerations impel them to support Borah in his attacks on the world court and the league of nations. No one should be deluded into the belief that the Filipinos will attain their freedom because a powerful group of American in- dustrialists favor it. This group is rapidly being brought under the domination of bank capital. American revolutionists warn the natives of the islands not to be misled by the platonic sympathy of the spokesmen of the in- dustrialist group, but to organize and rise in their might and scourge from the islands the abominable despotism of Wood and the journalistic scavengers of the Wilgus type. Rewarding Friends John Fitzpatrick and the rest of the reactionaries who used to masquerade as progressives in the Chicago Federation of Labor are again made ridiculous. Mr. Len Small, the spoils politician of Kan- kakee, Illinois, whom Fitzpatrick & Co. supported for governor last year, proved his great love for labor the other day. He appeared before the convention of the Illinois National Guard Association and told Major General Milton J. Foreman, Brigadier General John J. Garrity (former Chicago police chief), and other heads of that strikebreaking outfit that they represent “100 per cent American patriotic blood and are a valuable asset to the state.” Tf a strike is called in Chicago and the bosses think it cannot be effectively suppressed with the armed forces at hand, Gov. Small will call out these incomparable patriots and smash the workers in typical cossack style. This has happened before and will happen again. And’ Fitz- patrick, who once paid lip service to a labor party and then bolted * when he saw one in the process of formation that would smash the Alliance of the labor fakirs with the capitalist political machines, will try to save his face by saying Small betrayed the confidence of labor. It is not Small who is a traitor to his prineiples. A republican political crook for thirty years, he still remains true to his record. It is the craven Fitzpatrick who is guilty of treachery to the working class because of his support of an old«party politician, regardless of who that politician happens to be. Search Warrants and Defense Efforts to enforce the prohibition law frequently serve to bring to the attention of the public the habitual police violation of certain fundamental principles upon which the government is presumed to rest. One of the traditions is that the habitation of a man is in- violate; that it cannot be entered against his will without a search warrant. The ex-convicts and gangsters who make up the prohibi- tion enforcement agents frequently invade residences without war- rant, as do the uniformed policemen of various cities. In a recent case in Chicago Judge Joseph B, David recommended using the baseball bat on any policeman, uniformed or otherwise, who attempts to enter a house without a warrant. This sort of unlawful invasion is not confined to those suspected of violation of the prohibition law, but for years has been used against revolutionists in this country. But when workingmen en- deavor to defend themselves against atrocious assaults by gangsters clothed with authority they are not regarded as upholders of Amer- ican traditions, but lynched or sent to prison as was the case in Cen- tralia, Washington, in 1919. In spite of this, however, the publicity attendant upon the vandalism of the police will encourage workers to defend themselves against such search of the ‘premises in which they live, Piercy with baseball bats, but with any weapons at hand. Ay iains 14 So widespread has been this/ boycott of Wood appointees that hardly half a dozen American of-| ficers remain in the constabulary, all vacancies being filled by} By H. M. “M. WICKS, XPOSED as the tool of reaction be- cause of a whole series of betray- als of the working class, extending over a period of years, the socialist to conceal its treachery under the bouggeois watchwords of democracy, reason and justice. Like the socialist parties that have played such a vile role in Europe, the American socialist party triés to prove that it is a better defender of the interests of the capi- \talists than the avowedly capitalist \class parties, After aiding and abetting the Sig- man machine in its drive to destroy the rank and file movement in New York, and indulging in every crusade against the left wing, the hypocritical socialists now come forth and de- nounce the capitalist state for doing on the “political field precisely what they themselves tried to do in the trade union struggle. Sigman tried to disfranchise and crush the rank and file movement under left wing leader- Iship. The socialist party aided him in his attacks. Now the election board of New York City throws the Communist, Comrade Ben Gitlow, off \the election ballot—actually in poli- \tics doing what Sigman and the soci- alists iried to do in the union. To be consistcut the socialist party should have praised the s‘ase of New York for achieving in one field what they failed to achieve in another. UT there are more ways than one of serving the capitalist class in a political struggle. One way is to try to perpetuate the illusion of capi- talist democracy. The socialists did not dare permit the attack against |Gitlow. to be passed over in silence. | They had to take a stand, and to lopenly praise the capitalist state would have exposed them to thou- | sands of workers who still harbor the illusion that this is a working class party. So they issue a statement, under the name of their candidate for mayor of New York, the Rev, Dr. Nor- man Thomas. . They. state that Git- low is no criminal in spite of the fact that he was. convicted for holding cer- tain beliefs: “When, on the basis of such a conviction, a man’s name is barred forever from the ballot, it is not democracy but the denial of dem- ocracy which is furthered. If Git- low represents the point of view the Communists believe in, to rule him off the ballot at this,time is virtu- ally to disfnanchise them. It gives color to their cha ge that OUR democracy is organized hypocricy. «+ The socialist party, which is in vigorous opposition to many Com- munist tactics, whole-heartedly de- mands that New York City and state atone for this offence against DEMOCRACY, REASON and JUS- TICE by restoring Gitlow’s name to the ballot.” (Emphasis mine,—H. | M. Ww.) ERE is a classic example of crawl- ing before the. bourgeoisie. Mr. By IDA DAILES “The proletarian revolution can only be victorious when mil- lions and millions of working women take part in the oe gle.”—Lenin. ROM 1880 to 1920, the number of women wage workers.in the U. S. has increased from 14.7: of the total working population to 21.1, and makes up approximately one-fifth of the total working population.\,In 1920 there were over six million women wage earners and over 700,000 professional (“salaried”) women. Over one million of the women wage earners were (agrarian workers. In this same year, while the men engaged in industry were one-fifth organized (in unions), only one-fifteenth of the women work- ers were organized. Besides this large body of women who come in direct daily contact with ‘this glorious system of wage-slavery, there is the still larger body of work- ing-class housewives, who must be ‘won to active sympathy with and par- ticipation in the class struggle. ‘That women can becdéme conscious and revolutionary fighters, even revo- lutionary leaders, has been demon- strated time and again.’ The heroic part that working women played in the French revolution, where they fought and died for the revolution, is well known to all of us. Our own great martyr, Rosa Luxemburg, many capable women leaders in the international Communist movement, make clear to us that not only can women share in the fruits of a victori- jous revolution, but they can take part in the work and struggle and sacrifice necessary te bring avout the revolu- tion. is There a Woman Question? A decade or so ago, and even today to a lesser degree, we heard a great deal about the “woman question.” All sorts of panaceas were offered and are still being offered fon jution of | this question, Every rae trom wo- ‘man suffrage to bi trol was to » | party in New York City is now trying | THE DAILY WORKER The Defenders of Democracy, Thomas does not question capitalist democracy itself. In fact his argu- ment is that “OUR” democracy would be all right if Gitlow’s name were placed on the ballot. Just let people vote according to the established rules of the capitalist government and all hoped-for blessings will come in due time. The republicans, the democrats and socialists may all choose their candidates in conven- tions or caucuses and those American citizens permitted to yot® by the capi- talist state may then have the ex- treme pleastre of exercising their in- alienable democratic: prerogative by voting for any one of the three. If the Communist can get.on the ballot under the LEGAL forms, (determined by the capitalist state), of that democ- racy, then there is po, violation of democracy, but depriye -him of that right and democracy is,dragged in the dust. Such is the inetc of socialist party leaders. ae) EMOCRACY, in the’ lexicon of the socialists, is one article in Mr. Thomas’ holy trinity ‘of capitalism; the other two are RHASON and JUSTICE. Myr. Thomas appeals in behalf of this outraged’trinity. The ideology of the socialist party, as expressed iff the appeal alleged tc be in défen8e of Gitlow, but in reality a defense’of capitalism, is*a survival of the bourgeois illusions of the eighteenth century. Justice, about which we hear so much from all utopians, cannot be de- fined. It is not a tangible thing. Let us take the foremost exponent of jus tice in the history of the international labor movement, Proudhon. This an- archist said of the god he worshipped: “Justice is the faculty of the soul. The foremost of all, that which constitutes the human being. ‘ “Justice ‘is the inviolabl stick of all human actions.” “Justice is the central“star which governs societies, the le about which the political world revolves, the principal and “the rule of all transactions. Nothing among men that is not do name of right; nothing ER oat ine voking justice.” LL this twaddle about this abstract idea was discredited»% century ago. Proudhon, like the Rev. Thomas, was an intellectual atavism, repeating the meaningless sWgans of a dead past. If justice ‘is’ am eternal‘entity, or if it is the facultyvof the soul, wny has yard- Reason and Justice ceeds slowly thru many ramifications and it is only after language is es- tablished on the “basis: of phonetics that abstract ideas develop. And the abstraction “justice” is a late develop- ment. It means everything and noth- ing. Chatteél slavery, for instance, was right and just in Plato's time, but wrong and unjust in Lincoln’s time. People unable to correctly formulate social demands resort to this abstrac- tion. When they can formulate their demands, they do it concretely and such abstractions are eliminated. Justice is a worn-out hag of a thous- and debauches, and was frequently the butt of ridicule of Marx and Engels in their polemics against the utopians of their day. EASON, the goddess of the revolu- tionary bourgeoisie in the days of thé French revolution, cannot be resurrected today. Like “justice” it was an abstraction used to adorn the literature of the rising capitalist class as a substitute for their lack of know ledge of the interplay of social forces O this outworn bourgéois trinity is hauled forth to adorn socialist par ty sophistry in its defense of the fraud of capitalist class democracy today. Just as the religionist translates his ignorance into one word and calls it god, so the confused ‘socialists trans- late their ignorance into the trinity: democracy, justice and reason. 8 for Mr. Rev. Thomas and his par- ty, we conclude with this: In your trade union treachery you support the disfranchising and extermination of ‘ha Communists in the unions,’ prov- ing that if you had the power of. the state in your hands you would do pre- cisely what the capitalist state is now doing. The reason you now urge the placing of Comrade Gitlow’s name on the ballot is because you are better agents of the capitalist state than some of the old line politicians, as you know that Gitlow’s removal from the ballot will expose:to many th@usands of workers the fraudulent character of YOUR tcnogoht. (Th’ case ‘this fact became generally ‘recognized’ your game would be up. You could not then realize your ambition to- play-the wle of the American Scheidemanns and MacDonalds and show thé imperit alists that you can defend ¢apitalisni better than the parties they ‘have cre- ated for their own purposes. If you were really sincere ‘iti your desire to challenge the capitalist class, to fight for thé elementary de- mands of the working ¢lass, you would have responded favorably to our demand for a united labor ticket, it not “always; been known *to the hu- preparatory to launching a tbor' par- man race? Does not Mr. Thomas know that intheimillions of years history of the "humamirace such¢abstractions as justice are ‘only of comparatively recent origin? Language is the key to the develop- ment of the idea from the simple to the complex. Savages Mave no ab- stract words, such as bravery, gallant- Ty, beauty; if one is brave they say “like the lion,” is keen of eye, “like the eagle.” ty. But you do not want to put up a real fight. Like the other sections of the Second International, tat aided the master class lead the’ working class into the shambles, you Want to Play your own dirty kane in’ your own way. And after your brazen treachery on every field you cannot expect us to take seriously your hypocritical pre- tenses of defending the one working class candidate in the mayorality cam- The development of igbioase pro- ' paign—Ben Gitlow. make ends meet—and vér# often does not succeed. The working” woman can- not be “uplifted” while’® capitalism holds the lid‘down. . It is clear to every ¢lass-conscious worker, and certainly to every Com- munist, that the problem of the work- ing class woman is the problem of the working class man; her fate is bound up with the fate of her class. And she must share in fulfilling the historic mission of her class—the overthrow of capitalism. But, while we do not see the “wo- man question” as the bourgeois up- lifters see it, and we recognize that the work of organizing the proletar- ian woman ‘does not, in general, differ from thé work of organizing the whole proletariat, we do realize that there are special aspects of this work. ‘Women are on the whole more ex- ploited than men, theft economic or- ganization is weaker, they are more limited by family ties. They very often hope to escape from the boss thru marriage, but sooner or later find that- this merely: means being transformed from a -wage-slave into the slave of a wage-slave. There is no escape under capitalism, and it is the duty of our party,to make them fconscious of this andsto enlist them in the ranks of the active fighters for the proletarian dictatorship. The Attitude of Our Party. and the! of working women, within all working tions. We must permeate them with aims. slogans and in additional to our general campaigns, we must have special wo- men’s campaigns, as for instance cam- paigns for organizing women into trade unions, for equal wages for equal work, against high rents, for sanitary conditions "in homes and shops, better condi for the chil- dren in the schools, In general cam) ; the women’s angle must be bi especially in such campaigns as cure all the ills that ia is heir to. |ti-militarism, anti- etc. Yet today working wow still ex- |Special propagand t be made ploited,’ still opptedeth e work- | among :working women during ing class housewife st ruggles to strikes, lockouts, ete. to appoint an Organizing the Proletarian Woman As soon as possible, we must estab- lish a women’s section in all of our party press. For a beginning, this could appear on a single page once a week in our daily papers, and occupy one or two columns in our weekly Papers. As the work develops and grows, our aim should be to establish women’s newspapers, These, of course, will not In any way resemble the “women’s page” or “home page” of the capitalist and so-called socialist newspapers. They will not be con- cerned with the latest» Parisian fashions, serial love stories, or inex- pensive ways of feeding large families. They must deal with the economic and Political problems of the working class women, with her struggles and vic- tories and aspirations as a worker. Due to conditions for which no in- dividual can be blamed, the men in the party are far more capable and ex- perienced in party work than the wo- men comrades. It is the duty of the party to see to it that the women com- rades participate more actively in our general political work. The women in the party must undertake more work and more responsibility. We must en- courage and train those women com- rades who show ability in party work. We mist develop women function- aries,—speakers, writers and organiz- ers. This is extremely important in connection with our work among wo- men. The First Step. Kase reorganization of the party on the shop and street nuclei basis will root us deeper among the masses. Bolshevizing the party means building @ party that is capable, organization- ally, ideologically and politically, of winning over and leading the wide masses of workers to the final victory of the proletariat. Not the least among the tasks of such a party is that of organizing the, working women. The resolutions of the fourth nation- al convention of our party on “Com- munist Work Among Women in the United States,” gives specific direc- tions for the setting up of a party ap- paratus to carry on work among wo- men. Every | ‘ty committee and every s! nucleus is member or, ONLY ONE-THIRD OF QUOTA RAISED FO | FOR DAILY WORKER B Bhs issue of the DAILY WORKER is dedicated to the farmers of Frederick, S. Dak., who came to the help of our press at the call of the WORKERS PARTY and sent $50.00 immediately to buy a roll of print paper, Against South Dakota skies alm cross of the ku klux klan. Dakota box cars |. by masked members of the “Home itself, produced that mouth-piece of the American legion national commi class education in the United States, But few of the South Dakota wor this group of dangerous fascists, except in isolated instances, of the exceptions is Frederick, So. ost every night flames the fanatic’s Almost every night this season from South W. W.’s are driven out at the points of guns held Guards.” And Frederick, So, Dak, white-terrorism who is secretary. of ittee for the elimination of working Frank L. Sieh, ‘kers have become organized to fight And one Dak., where loyal, intelligent com- rades, most of them farmers, can always be found to support. labor's cause in opposition to the morons from “Main Street.” This small group in one day collected $50 to send to THE DAILY WORKER, with | the promise of more later on. From other distant points, too, comes aid to THE DAILY WORKER, —from Idaho, Vermont, Oklahoma an a little over a third of what must be id Canada; but the sum total is just raised within the next two months. $40,000 is the needed amount, with $25,182.82 still forthcoming as shown by the following items: $25,000 More Needed to Save Daily Worker. KF Arthur Maki, Chicago, Ill. $5.00 Alex Kozma, New York .. 5.00 Fred Vigman, Philadelphia, 2.00 J, Stefanson, Buffalo, N. Y. 5.00 J. Martens, Moline, Ill. 5.00 Alameda County, W. P., Oak- land, Calif. 3.00 Collected by of Nashwauk, Minn. wat 14.75 Lee Holton, Granite City, Il 1,50 Workmen’s Circle Loan Asso- ciation, St. Paul, Minn. 25.00 Harry Lax, M. Leibman, Harry Pearlman, St. Paul, Minn. 6.00 M. Goldstein, St. Paul, Minn, Collected by O. R. Votaw of St. Paul, Minn. Workers Party comrades, erick, S. Dak. L. Marks, New York, N. Y. Chas Murphy, Yuma, Ariz. Jewish Branch, Workers Party, Bath Beach, N. Y. .. J. Christ, Lansing, Mich, Chas. Rabinowitz, Chicago, Ill. Collected by M. Krompovich of 1,00 4.25 50.00 1.00 1.00 5.25 100 5.00 Chisholm, Minn, . 25.00 J. H. Seitz, Willoughby, 5.00 Greek Branch, Workers Party, Cleveland, Ohio .... 14.00 John Cazin, Red Jacket, W. Va. City Central Committee, W. P. McKeesport, Pa, Y. W. L., St. Loui ye Theo. Evanoff, Cleveland, Ohio City Central Committee, W. P., Baltimore, Md. Stephen Potapoff, G. Fritz, Belleville, Ml. P. Hack, Edmonton, “Alberta, Canada .. Otto Yeaga, Wilkinsburg, Pa. Shop Nucleus 1, Detroit, Mic! Steve Grdinich, Hayward, Calif. C. Freeman, West Allis, Wis. East Side English, (collected 5.00 30.00; 5.00 5.00 14.00 1.00 2.00 - 10.00 5.00 2.00 by Maljevac) Cleveland, O. 4.85 General Meeting (Engdahl’s re- port), Cleveland, Ohio ....... 5.00 East Side English (Gus Ecke), Cleveland, Ohio .... ee (Collected by Amter) W. P. B Steubenville, Ohio . (Collected by Amter), W. P. B Port Homer B. Yankleson, Cleveland, Ohio English Branch, Workers Party Portland, Ore. .. Workers Party, Mount Vernoi 6.75 10.00 Wash. ..... Chas. Lund, Kellogg, Idaho Workers Party, Gary, Ind. T. Gusaeff, Eureka, Calif. John Demchuk, Russian W. P. Buffalo, N. Y. ‘W. Menander, Ludlow, Vt. Osias Bercy, New York ..., Mike Pecoja and Jos. Mihordin, Kansas City, Kans, Jéwish Branch, Workers Pasty: (coll. by Kassin and Snyder) English Branch, Workers Party Kansas City, Kane. ... M. Martinson, Amberg, Wi Jewish Br., W. P., (thru N. Hur- vitz), St. Paul, Minn. «sss. Juanita Finnish Workers Party, Kirkland, Wash, Wm. G. Klasgye, East Liver- pool, Ohio “5 W. H, Willard, Nampa, Idaho 1.00 J. H. Woods, Newark, 'N. J. ........ 1.00 Wm. Woodard; Durham, Okla. 2.00 South Side English Branch, W. P., (collected by Lydia Gibson and Robert Minor), Chicago 14.00 NEW YORK WORKERS PARTY BRANCHES AND MEMBERS: Lithuanian Br., Rochester, 25.00 Shop Nucleus, 1 15.00 Edward Royce, .. 25.00 English Brownsvil 27.00 Shop Nucleus 12, .. wpecermnece 8.00 Esthohian Branch wacessssere 18.00 Y. W. L., No, 29, .. serecsiesseree 16.00 Jewish Williamsburg ener 25,00 John Kasper, Armenian .. I. Feinstein, Eng. Lower Bronx Mailman, Eng. Lower Bronx 5.00 4.50 2.00 D. Pekich, Jugo-Slav Br., 65 C. Silverman, Eng. Harlem 5.50 Shop Nucleus 13, .. 1.00 Lithuanian Literature Society, Nashua, N. H. ...... » 5.00 Lithuanian National Alliance, Buffalo, ...... 5.00 German Night Wo: ville, L. Pasternak, Eng. Shop Nucleus 11 . Matilda Schneider .. West Side Eng. Br.,... ; TOTAL. Previonsly Acknowledged.. ~ $735.95 4,081.23 sub-committee as its organ for con- ducting the work among women. ‘AN’ of this work is by no means’ the work exclusively of the women comrades. It is the work of the entire party and. must be energetically taken up by the | whole party. Paragraph 4, section 5, of the resolu- tion calls for the following immediate action: “The first step in putting this pro ' gram into effect shaii be the calling ts each city of city conferences to cranes cof all the members . branch and nuclei sub comm! women's work and also the women committees from the trade union fractions. These conferences shall be made thonoly familiar with the Program and mobilized to carry it out In the following manner. Sim- ilar conferences shall be held from time to time and at a later stage of developmént of the work it may be possible to hold veneee conferences on a larger se: Our comrades s! ould carefully study this resolution on work among women, and proceed vigorously .to take up this important phase of party activity. We must realize our alm: To win the working women and working class} 4 housewives of this country for the re- volutionary class struggle! Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the D. WORKER, not t lunch). to cpaanbe »} cable ane * taels, demepd Rothstein Meeting of Toronto Needle Trade Workers rs Enthusiastic . TORONTO, ont, 0 Oct. 26,—A ‘well attended meeting, of needle trades workers was held Sund: yn Ida Rothstein of the I. L. poke under the auspices of mY ‘Trade Union Educational’ League tipon’ the crisis thru which the progressive hee aed in the needle trades has n the I, L, Rothstein stirred the a needle workers to great with her account of the, against the Sigman-Forward : ary machine in New York. } -It seems that the cutters’ local in Toronto, without a regular election, has de present them at the Philadelphia con- vention, Foreign Exchange, NEW YORK, Oct. 26—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.84%, cable 4.85; France, franc, demand 4.18%, cable 4.19; Belgium, franc 4.54%, cable 4.55; Italy, lira, cable 3.97%, cable 3.98; Sweden, dase. de- ice of usiasm 24.70; Germany, agin