The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1925, Page 6

4 Page Six THE DAILY WORKER | THE DAILY WORKER | Be Rua aco (Pho sa! easements ata ac Sea Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. | Phone Monroe 4712 | 4118 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, I. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): 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, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois J, LOUIS ENGDAHL \. WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB.......cossseeesseessee ———________ Bntered as second-class mail September 21, 1 cago, Iil., under the act of Mar . at the post-office at Chi- 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. SS Polluted at the Source | | the fact that Senator Borah, chairman | @8 the savior of the world. No one} | assails the foreign policies of the ad-| | gress is evidence of a serious conflict | Senator Borah and the World Court time was in the interest of Morgan. HE line-up in the senate and house | The journeys of Woodrow Wilson to p | of congress against the foreign | Versailles as the representative of the policy of the Coolidge administration | banking combines seebalaee an reveals a sharp crisis in the republic- | triumph of Morgan. Everyw! ras tl a an party, This crisis is due to the |Ut Europe Wilson, ane ng a fact that the republican party itself is | 88ressive imperialism uni ee : : in a period of transition. Certainly | Cloak of pacifist phrases, was haile ibil- aig lati committee, | ever stopped to consider the poss: terse hey ae eee | ity of a struggle against ratification ministration, and the fact that he has|f the “triumph of the ages”—the behind him a formidable group of| league and the treaty. ; republicans in—both houses of con- UT no sooner had the documents been adopted than a storm broke |in the United States. In the senate | The political basis, of the struggle | me ge a ied ch Me: gale is the question of the United States | !c@n, Med ate ase eat | entering the world court, Coolidge | first salute of the battle that ripped within that party. That exceedingly modest journal, the Chicago Tribune, ries on its first page the legend “The World’s Greatest Newspape proves its greatness and accuracy by obtaining its inforniation re-| garding the American Negro Labor Congress, now in session, from | a Negro stoolpigeon factory, the Bruseaux concern; known as the} Keystone Detective Agency. | With this reliable gentleman and scholar as its authority the paranoic editors depict the congress as manipulated from Moscow. | Tho representatives of the Negro work from all parts of the | United States participate in the congress, the Tribune says “the| better classes of Negroes are spurning the advances of the red| agents.” Unquestionably the “better classes,” the ward heeling politicians, the skypilots, the voodoo doctors, fortune tellers and the vendors of black magic that prey upon the backward elements among the Negroes spurn this assemblage, for the simple reason that among other tasks the congress, by bringing the Negro workers to a realiza- tien of their position as workers, will raise their intellectual level so they will no longer be victimized by these “best people” of their own race. This eventuality would not only eliminate these parasites, but with them those who prey as parasites upon, them, the private detective agencies. If. the Tribune hopes to attain even a moderate degree of great- ness as a newspaper, its first task is to learn how to gather news from reliable sources, instead of cheap hirelings of the type of Bruseaux, who would not be tolerated even in an Ananias club. Such “news” as he furnishes is polluted at its source. As for the congress, tho a first step toward bringing the Negro masses into the American labor struggle, it is a landmark in the development of the labor movement and of the Negro race. Labor Bankers and Trade Unions ‘When the late Warren S. Stone, head of the Engineers’ Union and one of the first champions of labor banking in this countr}; was fighting the United Mine Workers of America in order to operate scab mines in which he was interested, the officials of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers’ Union joined the general denunciation of such tactics. and the stalwarts of the party in the | the halo off the war president and sent into the discard the treaty and east support the proposition of the entrance of this country into the| the league. It was the challenge of court, In this stand they are support: | industrial capital to. finance-capital— ed by most of the democrats in both and industrial capital won the battle NCR MY ET OM A LEER RUN QE tion. The outcome of the election was| the president himself personally re- a landslide in repudiation of the| quested Borah to run for vice-presi- league and the treaty. Industrial cap-;dent. A request for Frank O. Lowden, ital had won. former governor of Illinois, and one T that time the present writer, re-| Of the industrial group, to run also viewing the results of the election,| Met with refusal. Every effort was analyzed the defeat of finance-capital, | de to palliate the opposition group. but added the prediction that the| Jt is plain that Borah refused because rapid ascendency of finance-capital|€ could not agree with the policy over industrial America would even-| being pursued. Charles G. Dawes, a tually force the republican party into| T@Presentative of banking capital, was a crisis wherein it would have to| Chosen as vice-president. Tho sfill yield to the demands of the Wall| °PPosing the league because to sup- Street banking houses. And that pré-| port it would split the republican par- diction proved to be correct, because|tY and because it was not possible it was based upon a correct estimation | Within so short a time to swing public of the economic trend in this country,| S¢mtiment back of it, Coolidge and The United States Steel corpora-| the official machine of the party ac- tion, altho its board of directors un-| C@Pted only the world court which, der Gary were closely linked with the However, is an adjunct of the league, House of Morgan, defended the stand | #24 which as Borah correctly charges, of the industrialist group against the| is the “means of entering the league league. The railroad magnates, the| thru the back door.” automobile interests, the packers, the) Borah, who, in his Chicago speech, houses, i What does this alignment of forces imply? Does it mean that Coolidge, thru his superior political leadership, has caused the majority of the de- mocratic statesmen to flock to the sup- port of his foreign policy? It means nothing of the sort. Quite the con- trary. The republican party has, in its foreign policy, gone very far on the road toward the democratic party. And it is not Coolidge and Dawes and Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania who uphold the traditions of the republic- an party, but the so-called insurgents, under the leadership of Sen, Borah. son returned from the peace table in Europe he brought with him for rati- fication the covenant of the league | of nations and the treaty of Versailles. | These two documents contained the hopes and aspirations of the House of Morgan. They represented the am- | bitious dream of world imperialism | whereby a group of powerful bankers would systematize their predatory ex- peditions and eventually bring the earth under their domination. Morgan had invested heavily in the war on the side of the entente and had won. The league covenant furnished the theoretical basis for consolidation of the victory. Henceforth the foreign policy of the United States was to be tended its tenacles to all parts of the world. 2 Versailles was the goal Now we have the spectacle of a vice-president of the Amalgam- ated Bank of Chicago and a member of the general executive board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union instructing a group of bank clerks, members of the executive committee of the Bank Clerks’ Union, to expel Joseph Shafir for the “crime” of presenting progressive resolutions at the Atlantic City convention of the Amer- ican Eederation of Labor. as Intimidation of other clerks in the bank was resorted to in order to get rid of Shafir. The expulsion of Joseph Shafir, who was president of the union, and the intimidation of others, is equivalent to wrecking the organ- ization. Vice-President Mariempetri resents the institution of which he is one of the heads being forced to recognize union conditions. Like the late Mr. Stone, he is an enemy of labor organizations that interfere with the conduct of his business. Perhaps the most contemptible incident in connection with the attack on Shafir was the effort to hush up the matter after we had started to arouse the membership of the Amalgamated against this outrage, by the vice-president informing Shafir that if he kept quiet he might remain in the bank until January 1. One question inevitably arises: Is the Amalgamated Bank so closely tied up with big banking houses that it must follow the union smashing policy of capitalism? And, if so, how long will it be be- fore it will be used against-the interests of the very union that created it? The membership would do well to start an investigation of the motive behind this anti-union drive. Make the Coal Strike Effective The Progressive Miners’ Committee has issued an open letter to John L. Lewis that, if adopted, will make the strike’in the anthracite effective and bring the mine barons to their knees. One of the out- striving since 1910 Avhen the House of Morgan rescued it from the stag- nant swamp in which it was vege- tating as the party of the small busi- ness class. Every acf of the leaders of the democratic party since that “The Present Economic Revolution in the United States," by Thomas Nixon Carver, Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1925, $2.50. Professor Carver is a christian as well as a professor of political econ- omy at Harvard University. It is in this sense that the title of this review should be’ read, for it has. no direct reference to the church founded by Mary Baker Eddy. In a larger sense, of course, every one who tries to combine christianity with science be- comes what is generally known as a “christian scientist’—that is, one who believes that the material world is merely the expression of mind or “spirit,” and changes to conform with the changing thots of the Professors. So it is not too much to say this is a book on “Christian Sci- ence.” But even more than christianity, and more than science, Professor Carver believes in capitalism. For this book is a defense of the latter, while it only in passing pays its re- standing demands is to make the strike effective by bringing out the maintenance men, whom Lewis now permits to stay in the mines and keep them in condition so the owners’ sacred property will not be damaged thru neglect. Lewis, who in reality plays the operators’ game, places their property above the interest and even the very _ lives of the men in the union he is sypposed to defend. In a demagogic appearance before a miners’ convention he sheds tears over the slaughter of men in the mines, but when it comes to putting up a real fight for the miners, he proves in action that his sympathy is with the bosses. Another demand of first importance is that Lewis appeal to the railroad workers to refuse to haul coal while the strike lasts. Putting forth these demands and the other progressive planks has the advantage, not of convincing Lewis, but of proving to. the membership of the United Mine Workers’ Union that the official machine is a tool of the employers and bringing out in bold relief the difference between the tacties of a leadership representing the interests of the rank and file and the reactionary lackeys of the cap- italists. - * The coal strike can be made effective by the rank and file forcing the maintenance men out. If Lewis will not call them out, they should be treated as seabs by the membership and forced out, against the mine owners’ pleas and in spite of Lewis, The president .of thé United States is very liberal with his speeches, His latest was before the international convention of the y. M. C. A. in Washington. He told that eminently patriotic or- ganization, that setd for cold cash goods contributed free to boys at the front during the war, that the youth of the country needs more control at home thru parental action. From the antics of these christians during the war their parents must have all been pick- pockets and porch climbers, fit candidates for cabinet posts in the | 4 a government, oon spects to religion or science. So profound is the author’s faith in cap- italism, that he gives us a picture of it, not as a mere “system,” but as some immutable divine law. Thus he Says (page 5): “In the absence of force, capitalism automatically exists.” This is said in the year 1925, while the capitalist statesmen of the world are frantically rushing from conference to conference, trying to patch up the damage of the world war fought between ,cap- italist nations; when 90 per cent of all governmental revehue is expended on past wars and preparation for fu- ture wars; when force and terrorism, legal and extra-legal, against the workers and to uphold capitalism, has | tal become the order of the day in every capitalist country. It is said by a “professor” of political economy, who should at least know that the histori- cal basis of capitalism is the forcible expropriation of the land and natural resources by a small class, and the creation of a landless, propertyless, helpless proletariat. Every page of history and every daily newspaper shrieks aloud that, “in the absence of force, capitalism automatically col- lapses.” But what are facts to a Har- vard professor? Carver shudders at the thot of Bol- shevism. He polemizes at great length against it. The keynote of his argument lies in the final words of this paragraph (page 18): 4 “When Marx’s materialistic inter- pretation of history is combined wit! in 1919 and 1920. But its victory was evanescent, McCormick, the representative of the harvester trust of which his family is the head, insisted that the govern- ment refrain from further participa- tion in European affairs and that the development of .the western hemi- sphere be the objective of American policy. He pointed to the Argentine and the South American republics as the logical spheres of penetration for American capital. Senator Borah threw his support to McCormick and EFORE it is possible to understand! Henry Cabot Lodge, representing the the present alignment it is neces-/ New England textile industries, pre- sary to look back to the aftermath of| sented legal arguments against further the world war. When Woodrow Wil-| participation in European affairs. As the defender of Wall Street as it ex-! the republican party was Warren G. toward | which the democratic party had been| A Christian Scientist Looks a Labor <a Lal @ | waged such a spectacular struggle | that he soon became the outstanding |champion of the anti-Wilson forces. the fight became acute, the entire re- publican party was mobilized on the | one issue: “Smash the league and the | treaty!” | FNDUSTRIAL capital saw a menace in the schemes of finance-capital to involve this country into the affairs of Europe. If European industry were revived so that the terms of the | treaty could be carried out it meant| teal Serious competition for American in- |dustrial products. The ideological cloak was a harking back to the famous dictum of George Washington: | No entangling affiances. Defeated in the senate, Wilson car- ried the issue into the presidential | elections of 1920. The candidate of Harding, whose “concourse of best |minds” assailed the league in the famous front porch campaign in Marion, Ohio. The candidate of Mot- gan was James M. Cox, an obscuré newspaper publisher of Dayton, Ohio, who upheld the Versailles pacts, Harding. was nominated by Elbert H. Gary and the Standard Oil interests who controlled the republican conven- the doctrine of evolution thru class struggle, it becomes even more ‘strange to christian ears.” No doubt, no doubt! But these christian ears find a “beautiful ideal” guiding the actions of Judge’Gary, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, and the rest of the goodly crew of the pirate ship “American Capitalism.” As a re- sult of this “beautiful ideal,” says Carver, “wealth is not only increasing at a rapid rate, but the wages of those we formerly pitied are rising, labor- ers are becoming capitalists, and Prosperity is being more and more widely diffused.” The oustanding signs of this are; increased savings ‘deposits, insurance and labor banks These are the signs that capitalism is diffusing wealth and well-being to all, wiping out the antiquated class strug- gle and composing society into com- plete harmony, It is too bad this book can’t be fur- nished to the West Virginia miners, to the child laborers in the cotton mills of the South, to the 200,000 “superflu- ous” coal miners, to the textile work- ers of New England, and to all those masses of workers who are as yet ig- norant of the wonderful things capi- talism is doing for them! It is also too bad that Professor Paul H. Douglas, of the University of Chicago, should not have read Prof. Carv r’s book, before he so per- versely and Bolshevistically spent several years investigating the course of real wages, in the past 25 years, Doubtless it was by pre-arrangerhent with Lenin that Douglas disclosed that real wages are four points lower today than in the years 1890-1899, Carver's book would make a good text for a comprehensive exposure of what is really occurring under capi- lism in America, Someone must find time to do this work, In the meantime it is interesting as.an ex- ample, of the obcurantism that pai for learning, and culture in the seats of education in America, The “christian ears” are the ears of a jackass —Earl Browder, Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Oct, 27.-Great Brit- tain pound sterling, demand 4.8414; cable 4.84%. Rrance, franc, demand 4.1744; cablé 4.18, Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.48%; cable 4.49. Italy, lira, demand 3.96%; cable 3.97. Swede: krone, demand 26.72; cable 26.76, Nor- way, krone, demand 20.36; cable 20.38. Denmark, krone, demand 24,73; cable 24.75, rmany, mark, not quoted, Shang! taels, demand 79.50, | sheriff and” textiles, in fact most of the industrial ists backed the republicans in their stand. ' S is always the case, economic forces proved more powerful than political forces. The victory that was denied the league advocates on the Political field is now being realized because of profound economic changes that have taken place and are taking Place today. For years mergers of industries had been going on. But they were few and far between com- pared to the tremendous impetus given this movement after the war. The years 1922-3-4-5 have been years of moat astounding mergers in every branch of industry. Rails, copper, steel, oil, motors, packers, silks, cotton, tobacco, bakers, public service, electrical, and importers, all were involved in tremendous mergers. And every merger means a reorgan- ization of every unit involved under the domination of bank capital of Wall Street, This movement destroyed the old economic base of the repub- lican party, and as the industries that backed the great campaign against Wall Street’s league of nations propo- sition in 1920 fell under the control of Wall Street the leading group of the republican party changed from the agents of industrial capital to the agents of finance-capital. i lig first result of the pressure of finance-capital upon the republican administration was the Washington limitation of arms conference, called by President Harding in November, 1921. The next the unofficial sponsor- ing of the Dawes plan in January, 1924. In neither of these moves was the republican administration chal- lenged by the democrats. The only opposition came from those within thé republican party itself, At the republican nominating -con- vention in 1924 when the question of a running mate for Coolidge came up, scored the administration’s proposal to enter the world court, is still up- holding the™historic past of the re- | publican party. He speaks for the |industrialists who still resist the domination of finance-capital. er the United States is deeply involved in European affairs is em- phasized by the fact that every event in Europe has its reflex, in one form or another, in American politics. Both republicans and « democrats saw in the outcome of the Locarno conference, vindication of their stand. Senator Borah, the most able de- »ater on the floor of the senate and occupying the strategic position of chairman of the foreign relations committee views Locarno as a blow at the world court. Says Borah: “If the court is so good, why did not the nations signing the Locarno agreements agree to submit disputes arising under them to this same world court? Did they? They did not. They agreed in matters of dis- pute to select their own arbitral commissions. “They set up a permanent con- ciliation council” at Locarno, It Shows, to my mind, that the faith of members of the court in their own creature is not so great.” Senator Morris Sheppard, of Okla- homa, one of the spokesmen for the pro-court group, composed of admin- istration republicans and the demo- cratic party, who is himself a demo- erat, sees Locarno thru different spectacles: “The Locarno agreements confirm and strengthen the leadership of the league and show it more than ever to be a permanent institution. Arguments against the world court, based on its alleged weaknesses and ineffectiveness, are shattered by this latest development. | feel cer- tain we will enter the court, and it wiil be only a matter of time be- LABOR DEFENSE WILL PROTEST COURT DECISION: California Workers For Anita Whitney SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27—The International Labor Defense has af- ranged in California protest meet- ings in California protesting against the refusal of the United States su- preme court to review the appeal of Anita Whitney, convicted under the state syndicalism law by the Cali- fornia state courts. Frisco Meeting. In San Francisco, the protest meet- ing will be held in the Native Sons Hall, 11th and Clay Sts., Saturday, Oct. 31, at 8 p. m., with Atty. Austin Lewis, representing the International Labor Defense; Prof. A. E. Anderson of California University; Anita Whit- ney; John D. Barry, editor of the San Francisco Call and William Short, editor of a local labor paper, as speakers. Tom Lewis will act as chairman. No admission will be charged. Berkeley Meeting. In Berkeley, there will be a protest meeting at the Berkeley High School Auditorium, on Wednesday, Nov. 11th with the same list of speakers as is used in San Francisco. Arrangements are being mad? for a protest meeting in Oakland. Unions Protest. Many of the labor unions in Oak- land and Berkeley have passed resolu- tions demanding that Anita Whitney be pardoned and condemning state criminal syndicalism law. Cable Breaks at er River Dam Killing 2 Workers (By Worker Correspondent) MT. VERNON, Wash., Oct. 27—Two workers, Irvin H. Jones, and Harl quist and Howard Williams were in- jured yesterday at the Baker River power dam when they were spilled into the canyon, 110 feet below, by the breaking of a cable from which the bucket in which they were riding w: suspended. Many fatal accidents have occured on this project. It will be re- membered that this is the place where the I. W. W, conducted a strike and were later forcibly deported by the gunmen, the |; to bear on Spain to force her to go to | an inspection tour of the Riff trenches, which were built during the Riff at- tack to prevent the landing of the 5,000 Spanish soldiers, “They abandoned some of the most fertile parts of Morocco at a great cost in money and men, leaving be- hind in our hands an enormous wealth in war material. Then a year later, at the demand of the French, they return here to occupy the most barren rock on the whole continent of Africa! France Exerts Pressure. “I believe France must have exer- cised enormous pressure on Spain to induce her to commit such a ridic- ulous action. The French probably threatened to withdraw all of Spain's so-called ‘rights’ over Morocco, But what rights are those? The only rights that France and Spain have they derive from this country’s weakness. That weakness will not last forever.” In spekaing of the French view- point, Abd-el-Krim said: Fear Moroccans. “The French viewpoint I under- stand perfectly. France is devoured with imperialistic ambitions, She is a nation of tremendous military power and vast colonial aspirations. The French fear the Riff state because they know they are insecure in Moroc- ca, Algeria and Tunis, and they are fraid to see us elevated into a posi- tion of leadership in Islamic Africa, “France believes that she is a colo- nial power of the first rank. She knows better than any other European nation how to enslave subject popula- tions and dominate men’s souls. For this reason France fears us and has decided to destroy us. Make Peace, or Lose Africa! “If France is discreet she will make peace this winter. If she does not make, peace she will lose all North Atrfca, “We can withstand>ten years of such attacks,” said Krim referring to the fierce attack of the France-Span- ish forces on Abd-el-Krim's men, when the combined fire of the battleships, fortress on Alcehumas Bay, artillery and airplanes failed to drive the Riffs back on Cape Moro Nuevo, “And we are willing to do so in the defense of our liberty and homes!” / By H. M. Wicks fore we enter the league.” N an effort to counteract Borah’s appearance in Chicago where he fired the opening gun in his campaign against the administration’s world court plan, Senator Geroge Wharton Pepper, of Pennsylyania, in two | Speeches in that city, upheld the proposition to enter the court, while still insisting that it is not the back door to the league. | It looks as tho at the coming sés- | sions of congress we will have the | spectacle of the democrats support- ing Coolidge against the opposition | within his own party. For the revolutionist it also bears |out another of our contentions: That the time is fast approaching when we will have one reactionary party, rep- | resenting finance-capital in the United States. From present indications the republican party will fulfill that fune- tion. Its victory_over the democrats in 1920 on the league of nations ques- | tion has placed ‘it in a strategic posi- tion so that it can offer more to Wall | Street than its competitor which was | revived in 1910-12 for the specific pur- pose of serving the interests of the | House of Morgan. |. For the Communist it will be | illuminating to watch the antics of |the agents of imperialism in the of- | ficial machine of the American Feder- ation of Labor as they swing from their traditional support of the demo- ‘eratic party to supporting the repub- lican party. Already, in the last elet- tion, we saw tendencies in that direc- tion, with John L. Lewis of the miners and even Mother Jones, former gocial- ist, coming out in support of Coolidge, while the balance of the officialdom were reluctantly paying lip service to the LaFollette movement, The new political developments in relation to the world court issue lend emphasis to the Communist demand for the creation of a labor party that will break away the masses from the old parties and mobilize them on a class basis. When they learn that they can expect nothing from the Coo- lidges except the most vicious stifling of every effort to improve their condi- tion and when they realize that Borah, altho he opposes Coolidge on foreign affairs, is the representative of in- dustrial capital and is just as deter- mined to crush labor in industry as is Coolidge, they will flock in millions to the standard of the labor party, which is even now being advocated by thousands of trade unionists in this country today. Within a labor party, striving for parliamentary success they will soon learn the fraudulent nature of capitalist democracy and, as the class struggle intensifies, as it must intensify, be swept toward the leadership of the Communists, prepar- atory to storming the final citadels of capitalism. ABD-EL-KRIM RIDICULES SPANISH PARTICIPATION IN RIFFIAN WAR ADJIR, Spanish Morocco, Oct. 27.—The Spanish attack on Adjir and her invasion of the Riff country was ridiculed by Abd-el-Krim as nothing but’a foolish attempt and intimated that France must have brought much pressure war against the Riffs. Spanish are Idiots, “See what invincible idiots the Spanish are,” declared Abd-el-Krim, as he Pointed to the Spanish troops located on the bare rock of Moro Nuevo during A, F. OF L. REACTION CONGRATULATED BY THE MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOC. ST, LOUIS, Mo. Oct. 27.—The American Federation of Labor was lauded today by John E. Edgerton, president of the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers, at the open- ing session of the association con- vention here for “refusing to co- habit with Communism and with Russian Sovietism.” Edgerton deplored the trend to attain pleasures and ease “without having earned them” and declared that much of the discord between employers and employes was caused by forces “outside of industry.” He did not include the manufacturers’: association, of course, in this cate- gory.” : Fifteen Killed When Passenger Train Jumps Tracks Near Memphis MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 27.—From fifteen to twenty persons were killed when St, Louis and San Francisco passenger train No, 108, Birmingham to Kansas City, was wrecked near here, , Tt was said the baggage, expresa cars and two coaches left the rails, All Pullmans remained on the tracks, Ambulances and doctors are being sent to the scene of the wreck from Holly Springs. i ~