The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1213 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, II, 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 year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to YHE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, tilinole Specthsiatiatin hadinantseacie NS Miitors Business Manager femmes WILLIAM F. DUNN® MORITZ J. LOEB. <a> 100 Give Morgan’s Spies Something to Report! URGES TRAINING CAMPS TO OFFSET PACIFISM IN U. S. Extension of civilian training camps and of resreve officers’ train- ing camps. to combat “the growing pacifism of America,” was urged by Wheeler P. Bloodgood before the military intelligence unit, meet- ing yesterday in the Palmer House.—Press Report, What are these secret und semi-secret military meefings, a meager account of which creeps into the press from time to time, and what is this “military intelligence unit” which convenes in a loop hotel? Why all this furore in the capitalist, press over the need for | greater efficiency in all branches of imperialist butchery? The country is at peace so far as actual warfare with other powers is concerned; why must “pacifism” be “offset?” The Locarno pact has been signed and hailed as the opening of a new era in which war will cease but if the publicity in the capitalist press is any indi- cation, and it has all the earmarks of the “preparedness compaign” which preceded the entry of America into the world war, the Ameri- can ruling class is getting ready for a war of conquest under the guise of “national defense.” The clue to the causes of the feverish militarist manifestations can be found in another section of the capitalist press—that portion wherein is chronicled the progress of the various debt settlements. To date, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Czecho- Slovakia, Roumania and Ethonia have either accepted Wall Street’s terms on their loans, are negotiating for settlements or are being threatened because no settlement has been made. Huge loans to foreign governments by the U. 8. treasury and state departments, huge private loans to capitalists of other coun- tries by “private” bankers—the House of Morgan—backed by the * state department, huge sums inyested in Mexico and South America and China—the ever growing need, augmented by the constant’ flow of gold to America, for more foreign investment to prevent inflation at home, these things determine the foreign policy of the United States—a policy of imperialist expansion whose domestic expression is the militarization of the masses of the population. These crumbs of information such as we quote are only frag- ments from the gigantic, bloody feast that American imperialism is preparing. The skeleton of a huge military organism is now being formed out of college students, businessmen, lawyers, technicians and other elements aligned with the ruling class. These elements are already spying on the workers, establishing a nationwide espionage system, qualifying for the “cushy” jobs, The working class will be forced to furnish the cannon-fodder. No more irgent task confronts the Communist Party than the exposure of this conspiracy against the workers of this and other lands and the arousing of the labor movement to action against, the growing danger. Imperialism is the period in which a few great powers struggle for world domination. The era of peaceful competition passed with the world war. : “Imperialist war,” said Lenin, “is capitalist competition carried to its logical conclusion.” The working class must make its opposition so well-known and effective that the “military intelligence units” need read only the stern faces of millions of wage earners to understand that their schemes will be determinedly challenged at home. Hearsi-Hylan Back Tammany 4 After months of the vilest mud-slinging in which William Randolph Hearst and his political protege, Mayor John F. Hylan of New York, proved that “little Jimmy” Walker—Tammany candidate for mayor who defeated Hylan in the primaries—and his sponsor, Gov. Al Smith, are political looters of the public funds and hirelings of the big interests, this pair has announced their intention of sup- porting the Tammany ticket on Tuesday. This means that petit-bourgeois politicians in the democratic party unite with Tammany and Wall Street for the sake of party harmony and in order to get a share of the rich loot. New York City alone spends more than $400,000,000 a year. The modern pirates with hundreds of millions of dollars close at hand make Capt. Kidd, who spent his piratical existence scuttling ships and cutting throats, look like a bungling amateur. Hearst, Hylan qnd Smith—a combination that will win in New York tomorrow. Despite their loathing of each other they unite in defense of the interests of the Class they serve. Like Dumas’ musketeers their slogan in the final analysis is “All for one and one for all; united we stand, divided we fall!” " In the game of looting. New York, and placing in power the cor- rupt Tammany machine, always ready to crush the workers at the slightest indication of determined action on their part, the un- speakable role of the socialist, party should be given due considera- tion. Mr. Rev. Norman Thomas: and his associates, as well as those claiming to speak for labor in general were requested by the Work- ers (Communist) Party to form a united front in order that there might be a united labor ticket in the elections. They refused and in- _ sisted upon their own campaign, the result of which will be to divide the working class forces on election day. Paid agents of the ecap- italist class could not be expected to render better service to Tam- many. ‘ Emile Daeschner, French ambassador to the United States, is to ~ be-reealled and his place filled by Senator Victor Henry Berenger, who is reputed to be a noted financial.authority, Caillaux who went ..down, to ignominous defeat was also a financial authority, but his wisdom did not avail against the grim fact that the House of Morgan wants complete domination over France.. The latest “authority” will meet the same fate. oo If that sensational defender of the nordic rfiéé, Mr. Lathrop Stoddard, who writes much of the “Rising ‘Tide of Color” in the colonies, were in Chicago he might find f he American Why A Eeoas parties ‘are not mere ac- cidents. They do not just happen to be. The history of “all governments, based on the suffrage of the people, has been that when a respectably large group of its citizens become con- scious of the fact that within that |sroup their material interests were harmonious, but were antagonistic to | the material interests of other groups | they organized for themselves a poli- | tical party, that they might use that party as a means to capture the poli- tical powers, to the end that such |powers might be used to protect and further advance, the material inter- ests of the group in power. | To state it another way. Pelitical | parties are but the political business agents of groups, or classes, the mem- bers of which have been drawn to- gether by a mutuality of interest. Labor: Party? , izations so long as clapsgs conflicting material interests exigts. Governments administered by poli- tical parties are theregong, necessarily class governments. i wy A GOVERNMENT of, all the people, by all the peoplepfor, all the peo- ple, is a myth, Ht is a-beautiful but impractical and impossible dream and will remain so as long as our methods of production of the material things of life divide the people into groups or classes with material interests an- tagonistic one to the other. So long as the farmer produces 2 bale of cotton for which he can get only $100 or $150 and the wage work- ers make the bale of cétt@n into over- als for an aggregate wage of less than $150 and then farmers! dnd wage work- ers are compelled to pa¥ more than $700 for the overalls bifck~so long as this method of productfofi and distrib- ution! obtains there will be a conflict of interest between tho¥e who pro- duce and distribute overalis and those who gather profits froift overalls. Both the democratic and republican | Political‘ parties are, always have been, and always will be, class organ- Chained, physically exhausted, yet firm and steady stands Comrade Math- ias Rakosi before his jailers, hirelings of Hungarian landlords and capital- ists. The steadfastness of this revo- lutionist, strong in body and -soul, ready to sacrifice himself to the peo- ple’s cause, calls forth all over Hun- gary an unlimited enthusiasm of the working class and even the Hungarian bourgeois press writes about him with a strange mixture of respect and hatred. Comrade Rakosi belongs to that leading staff of the labor movement which rose out of the war and revolu- tion. However, his participation in the labor movement dates from the period before the war. He was born in 1892 of a petty bourgeois family in Southern Hun- gary, belonging now to Jugo-Slavia. He Made an early acquaintance with want. From 1909 he became’ one of the’ leaders of the radical student movement sympathetic to the- labor movement,» After having finished his education in the Academy of Com- mefce, ‘ie worked from 1912 until the beginning of the war in Hamburg and later"in London as an official of a parties are owned bodily‘and control led completely by ths? groups, or private firm. Here Oomrade Rakosi takes an energetic part;in:the activity of economic and political labor organ- izations. From 1913 heswas‘a member of the “social democratic; federation” of England, At the beginning of the war Com- rade Rakosi was mobilized in. the Austro-Hungarian army. In 1915 he came to Russia as a war prisoner and was sent to Chita in Eastern Siberia. The revolution set him free. When at the beginning of the revolution he returned again to Hungary, he was charged with the instruction of the, repatriated prisoners of war. At that time Comrade Rakosi was busy with revolutionary propaganda in the army, which far surpassed the limits of the pacifist anti-militarism. He was spared from courtmartial only. by, the crash of the Austro-Hungarian empire and the outbreak of the reyalution. In the autumn of 1918 the Hungar- ian Communist Party was organized. Comrade Rakosi was one, of the first who presented himself to the central secretariat of the party,asking for work. He became™an organjzer and agitator of the Commupist “Party in- cessantly making a tour)of most of the provincial towns, agitating amongst the masses, creating. organizations, He was undoubtedly one of the best paren! ee Rees ; By FRED HENIG. * 4, Jim,” Rowlana vegan, as| he reached for his cigarettes. “I wouldi’t mind your black eye nor the gash ‘in your head, if it got’ me the ‘rep’*you got. Every member of the union’ in town is talking about you!” “ttl be all over the country in a week,” added “Spike” Hennessey, “and éveryone in the crowded hall of the local nodded their heads in ad- miration. “Ya kin run f'r president, if the election was on, and win hands down,” Morowitz heaped further laur- els'on the hero of yesterday's battle with the police. "Christ—but wasn’t Chippoliin yel- low—the dirty dog!” UT Jim Pasco—the Jim Pasco— who “ruined” three cops and mauled a “Fink;” about whom the papers were printing long stories with seven-column heads—the strike lead- er—“A Modern Spartacus,” one head- line hailed him. The gang stopped to listen. Jack Minski spat unerringly into a distant receptacle and shifted his tobacco. “Spike” lit a cigaret without taking his eyes off Jim Pasco, A chair scraped—the local gave their ready- ears. Jim had “guts.” Weakly he raised his hands to ad- just the bandage on his head and turned to the last speaker, “Chippolini wasn’t yellow,” he be- gan, “he just didn’t know any better. “Yes,” he waved aside the protest, “he beat it from the scrap alright but don't forgef you guys forced him into the union.” Ls i “Well, it got him wages, didn’t it?” “Spike” protested, “Yes,—sure,—but listen— “ A BOUT five years ago, a guy land- ed in Pittsburgh—broke. He was young, about twenty-five—and he'd just been knockin’ around, workin’, readin’ some, livin’ in flop-houses— when he had the price—you know the kind!” Jim drew a cigaret from his vest pocket without lighting it. : “He got a job—new in the trade— bluffed it, Sure he joined the union— had to.” “Spike” offered a light and after a “drag” at his cigaret Jim continued: “The business agent didn’t give a damn—something like Jack Walsh in Local 38—just makin’ a soft livin’ outa it!” Someone muttered under his breath, WB pegs elsé gave a damn neither! Thé* guy just worked, never attended a union meeting and nobody else cared if he did. He'd a never known there was a union if the business agent didn’t come around for ‘his! tes, “And then the strike broke out. The bisin nt tried to stave it off but was out for more ‘dough’ ip time and this trip THE YELLOW DOG ; they meant business! “The poor say..who'd.just started workin’ wanted .to keep_on workin’.” “I know them birds. »..” Mor- witz interrupted, but warning glances cut him short. fue “Well, they were out, for about three weeks—the new gay too—until one day they run into trouble, P “There was a big. meeting on and the cops tried to break it up. One of them got killed, two 0',.the boys got shot and a wagon full,.9’ them was taken to the hospital.” 5 ¢.. “The old story,” someon: e added, but Jim kept on, as “Everybody was in it, got hurt—all but the saw him sneakin’ off.) started.” ey “Why .the dirty yellow dog!” “Spike” blurted out. “That was me!” Jim answered and struck a match to relight his cigar- ette, sr. jp everybody ¥. Suy. They the fun “Cut it out!” “Spike” growled skep- tically, “You!” “Yes, Spike—me!” Jim continued. “And it would o’ still»been me if it wasn’t for old Frank Lister—you know, large family, killed last year workin’ overtime when-he was all in. “After that Pittsburgh strike, I hatta, beat it. Couldn't work in that town anymore. Not that I gave a damn for the union, That:didn’t bother me—nor the strike, I wasn’t much in- terested. “I landed in Chi id got an- other job in the trade —and met old Frank. He'd reeognized me. “But he didn’t say @ Word, One day he took me to a uniéfh meetin’, And often at lunch he’d'/talk. Why we needed a union, the workers oughta stick togethe' id he gave me papers to read kinds, You know old Frank was dffe’o’ them radi- cals. But he was strohgfor the union would 0’ give his for it! “Well, to thake a 1§hng story short, it wasn’t long before P@ realized what a piker I'd been—and got busy in the union, gx wien “That was me five Péars ago—that’s Chippolini today!” © No one had anything to say. “Spike” moved uneasily and turned to the crowd: “I think we oughta send somebody out to visit this Chippolini guy,” he suggested, “I don’t think much o’ this bird myself, but maybe he don’t know better.” aye © “I'l go,” Rowland yplunteered, “but if he can’t see a go@d argument, I'll knock his “can” off! : “That's @ good committee,” Jim said laughingly, “they'll ejgher convince or bury that bimbi, jays. “Now you guys i better see they get relieved on the ,pi¢ket line!” a wheics classes, that profit by exploiting the the labor of both farmers and indus- rial workers. Their platforms ‘are written and their campaign funds are ‘urnished by these people, Labor has yractically no voice in their councils ind can expect no relief from their idministrations, HE quarrel between the democratic and republican parties is a family quarrel within the ranks of the ex- ploiting classes, over the manner of dividing among themselves the profits they have wrung from hte sweat and toil of the working class. We have reached a time in the economic strug- gle of the working class when a poli- tical party of the working class is an imperative necessity. r; So long as We leave in the hands of our economic enemies, the political powers they can and will nullify any advantages that we‘paay gain thru our trade unions or our farmers co- »perative organizations, ; As an example of how this can be ‘lone, we have only to cite a concrete xample of two in the state of Ar- cansas. Let us suppose that every union Mathias Rakosi Must Not Mathias Rakosi and most -diligent party. of the workers With a boiling energy Com- rade Rakosi manifested a sharp sensi- tiveness and the cold calculating mind of a politician, quite uncommon at his age. The arrest of the leaders of the Communist Party on Feb, 20, 1919 in- cluded Comrade Rakosi. In the council of the people’s com- missars of Soviet Hungary he was as- ‘APPEARANCES’ A REVIEW By SYLVAN A. POLLACK NEW YORK.—The first play writ- ten by a Negro playwright to find its way to Broadway can now be seen at the Frolic Theatre, New York. The author, Garland Anderson, a former bell hop in a California hotel and latter a elevator runner in the New Amsterdam Theatre of Flo Zieg- feld, has written a play which, while it has many flaws in it, and has a sort of religious basis, is never the less a worth while achievement. The topic is an attempt to frame up two Negroes, charging them with assault- ing a white woman. Three Negroes are in the cast and give a good account of themselves, especially one named Doe Doe Green, who shows how the persecution by the white man is the past reacted on him while he was on trial. When asked by the district attor- ney, why,gif he was innocent, did he attempt to escape from the mob that wanted to lynch him. To which he replied, that being innocent would not help him very much after the mob carried out its desire to string him up to a telegraph pole. The play, the first thet Mr. Ander- son ever, wrote, shows that he has much potential ability which might be developed in a future play by him, if he ever writes another one. To Use Skill on Strikers, _ WASHINGTON, Oct. 30—Army avi- ators established a new record for bombing proficiency at Langley Field, Va., the war department an- nounces. From a height of 5,000 feet, Lieut. C, 8. Shankie, bomber, and Lieut. Levi Beery, pilot, dropped nine 10-pound Practice bombs on a ground target, scoring 100 per cent. Seven of the bombs struck , the target and the other two were near enuf to be classed as constructive hits. . Write a story about your shop— distribute a bundle of The DAILY RUSSIAN BRANCH TO CELEBRATE 8TH YEAR IN CHICAGO, NOV. 8TH A mass meeting and concert in honor of the eighth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution is arranged by the Russian Branch of t je Work- ers Party ’for Sunday, Nov, 8 at 6 p.m. at the Wor! "House, 1902 W, Division St, Admission’ free. Come and bring your friends. Russian apeakers, a Blan pro- we a mi. farmer in the state of Arkansas should receive by virtue of his being ‘a union man $20 a bale increase for his cotton this year, it would not begin to pay the interest on the road, bonds levied against the farms of the state by a democratic administration. If they saved a dollar a barrel on every barrel of flour they used for a year, by buying it collectively, they would not save enough to pay the ex- cessive profits handed to the school text book trust by the present dem- ocratic administration. I would'not for one moment minim- ize the importance of the workers building their economic organizations. These are neceSsary to even a semb- lance of economic freedom; but with- out a political party of their own, with which to safeguard ther victories won in their struggles: on the economic field, these victories :will, be of ques- tionable worth and of doubtful per- manency. UR economic enemies—those who live and grow rich upon the prof- its “of toil—have their economic or- ganizations, such as the bankers’ as- sociation, the merchants’ and manu- Die! sistant commissar of commerce. Dur- { ing the revolution he was at the dis- position of the Soviet government for | every kind of commission. Where any difficulties or dangers appeared, Comrade Rakosi was the first to be. Were we in need of a disciplined, calm politician, we always applied to Com- rade Rakosi. When the Czecho-Slo- vakian army threatened the only coal mine district that remained in pos- session of the Soviet republic, Com- rade Rakosi with several hundred workmen, whom he had succeeded in organizing in military bands, held the front for a few days and while coal was being loaded, led the work in the mines so that the transportation of | troops. was made possible and the ex- istence of the Soviet republic was saved for at least a short period. After the fall of the dictatorship of the proletariat, Comrade Rakosi fled to Vienna. They put him, together. with other leaders of the Communist Party, in the concentration camp of Carlstein, where he directed the whole organization work including the keep- ing of .connections with the outer world.. When set free he took part in the second congress of the Comin- tern;;as delegate of the Hungarian Communist Party. He won a general sympathy, .and respect by his state- ad H Reviewed by Leland Olds. LP..AuL. by Felix Riesenberg, Robert M. McBride & Co., New York, $2. HE millionaire parasite energetic- »ally:. coining .money out of other people’s pockets thru catch-phrase educational campaigns stands before you in P. A, L, Tangerman. Tanger- |man, the leading character in Felix Riesenberg’s very interesting novel, P, A..L., reflects in some degree the Wrigleys, etc, who have elbowed their way into the ranks of the rich by elever salesmanship in unscrupu- lous exploitation. a iGERMAN’s udahey Vacuum Dome, his Vim or pills, Glan- dula, Blue Bird Cigarets, Mont Healy institute and countless other enter- prises seem uproarious burlesque and yet they provoke strangely similar echoes from the real world. East Grapenuts, Chew Spearmint for Diges- tion, Chesterfields for the Discrimin- ating Business Man, not to mention the blurbs of LaSalle Extension Uni- versity, all these slogans are not meang for providing the public with valuable goods but for achieving some predatory business man’s ambi- tion for money leadership. » A, L, whirls you into the rush of this likable, energetic, vulgar American’s enterprises. Whey he succeeds in coining dollars everything is his, credit, fellowship and fawning publicity—yet P. A. L. generally glimpses the underlying fraud. “TATHICS,” he remarks early in the story “ares elastic. My people back in lowa believed it wrong for one man on a raft, let us say, to hog all the available provision: But as the raft bets bigger, about the size of our earth, it’ beco highly re- spectable to grab of trémendous blocks of the common sustenance, namely money.” “\7OU see, Mark,” he says later as he slides out from under a fail- ing business leaving stockholders to hold the bag, “we incorporate our ac- tivities and at the same time decor- porate ourselves. If the job in hand busts up, it’s the-corporation that’s in had. The legally decorporated man walks away and leaves the corpora- tion in the hands of the stockholders where it belongs E cipaigep vay why he bothered to put some sheep nd in his worthless respirative glandula he re- calls the experience of Lafax with his 2e ground baked crusts called Fig Jewels, retailing for 15 cents thu “The cover of his original package contained a marvellous story of dex- trine, peptone and fig-sigar solvent, Later on the unimaginative govei ment made him take ‘this humorous descriptive matter off ‘the labels; and then he annexed Vv! , HE author is P. A. L.'s confidential partner, useful but understanding little of all the high tension activity, except fora growingweense that ~ Portrait of a Big Diltieeis Man ———————— By J. C. THOMPSON, State Pres. Arkansas Farmer-Labor ‘3 Union. facturers’ associations, and others too numerous to mention. In the council chambers of these as- sociations, the men who live, not by labor, but off it, work out their politi- cal programs, these programs are car- ried to the state and national conven- tions of their political parties and are toere used as material for the con- struction of the. state and national democratic and republican platforms. The workers are not invited into these council chambers. They have no voice whatever in .preparms the material out of which old party plat- forms are inade. It is only on rare oc- casions that a working man is found in a stale er national convention of these parties; where the platforms are finshed. Let us then, a¥ workers, learn a les son from.those who live off of our. labor and build for ourselves a poli- tical party to ‘be used by the working class a8 a means by which we can sweep ourselves into political suprem- acy, to the end that we may write the jaws of state and nation in harmony with the material interests of those who work, -_ oe By Bela Kun ments concerning the role of the party. Shortly he became secretary of the executive committee of the Comintern, the third congress elect- ed him again to that post. Even in the Comintern Comrade Rakosi was working in most instances, in the most responsible positions, Finally the Hungarian Communist Party re- quested Comrade Rakosi to go back to lead the political and organizational work at home, The difficult, dangerous work that was laid upon him in Hungary Rakosi performed with enormous enthusiasm, steadfastnesg, calmness and practical knowledge. “He enjoyed the general respect, the love of his comrades and their unanimous support. He suc- ceeded in uniting the best elements of the old and new generations of the revolutionary workers. The Hungarian Communists believe that the cause for which Comrade Rakosj fell into prison and for which a death sentence is threatening him, will not remain without international support, as in the period of the strug- gle of the Hungarian Communists for the Soviet republic. The Comintern has become stronger since then and this must be a guarantee that Com- rade Rakosi will not fall the victim of Horthy, the hanger. is all fraud. He comes up against the founder of the American. Patriotic Chamber of “Commerce with its “Whoop-up week” and attends ban- quets given by the “influential na- tional organization of business men,” the Reciprocating Club. He considers how rich men endow the word of Christ and draw perpetual interest in holy works; how even the church is glad to ‘be seen walking ‘with Stan- dard Oil on Sunday. He reflects, “Take away the mails and 90 per cent of these people would have to earn their living by honest work.” He touches the wheat pit “where maniacs gamble in terms of food and hunger, staking ‘the product of an empire of grain against the need for bread, in- creasing the price per loaf in distant villages across the sas TH the author, you both like Tangerman and despise him, but you stick to him right up to the min- ute when his career is suddenly ter- minated by a bullet from a woman's gun. You are aware of the boundless insincerity, yet baffled by the com- plete conformity to modern +usiness ethics, the bankers behind the scenes encouraging him and sharing the spoNs. His wife who is hardly his wife realizes that this business mag- nate is “a milker, a full grown man pulling at the teats of life, always taking the real work of others, shoul- dering a@ burden on others, that is passed along. What he takes leaves a void, and so on down ‘to the bot- tom where we find the helpless and the sstarving. All parasites; mark, subsist on the poor. Without men like Pal, and the thousands they cre- ate’ and support, we would have no slums, no starving children.” Western Bank Fails. SPOKANE, Wash., Nov, 1.~—With deposits amounting to $240,000, the First National bank of Davenport, Wash., failed to open yesterday. } Whether there are any assets. is doubtful. This bank is in an exclusive wheat country and went into bank-' ruptey thru financing wheat farmers. There are loans to renters as high as $20,000, where the securities are chat- tels such as machinery and horses, of hardly any value. } =