The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1925, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Publishéd by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 3118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, In. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago’ only): $8.00. per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months By mail (outside of Chicago): $6.00 per year $3.00 six months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, Hlinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE f” MORITZ J. LOEB. _ $$ crs nti} ..Business Manager cr Bntered as second-class mail September 21, 1923,.at the post-office at Chi- cago, Lil, under the act of March’3, 1879, <> 290 Advertising rates on application. \ The Ninth Year Dawns The Bolshevik revolution, that eight ‘years ago tomorrow was hailed by the advanced section of the world proletariat, still marches from triumph to triumph. Eight years ago the bourgeois world was infuriated at the spectacle of Soviet Russia defiantly raising the crimson banner of world revolution. then, as now, to find words with w The kept press was unable hich to villify the revolution. Predictions of dire calamity to the revolutidén echoed ever more feebly until finally the capitalist world had to recognize that it was here..to stay. / For the working class of the world during the rising tide of revo- f lution after the imperialist, war, Bolshevik Russia was the inspira- tion for determined struggle. In the dark days when ‘the revolu- tionary tide subsided it was the ray of hope that enabled us to strug- gle aganist overwhelming odds. Not merely does the working class turn toward this outpost of the world revolution for help and guidance, but the oppressed of the earth, whether they live in New York or Damascus, London or Canton, Persia or the vast stretches of the Asiatic desert, recognize the Soviet Union as their own, the one great bulwark against the] of society act as a dam against this frightfulness.of imperialist despotism. November 7, 1917, is the outstanding date in the history of the world, the date on which, to use the term of Engels, man began to “emerge from the realm of necessity in the kingdom of freedom.” Instead of reckoning tinle from the beginning of the christian era, the calendars will eventually be revised and this era, the period of world revolution, will datefrom the storming of the Winter Palace and the proclaiming of fhe revolutionary dictatorship of the. prole- tari; A Fighting Englishman Chicago tabor has as its guest today Albert A. Purcell, president of the Amsterdam International Federation of Trade Unions, long prominent in the labor movement in Britain, and outstanding ad- vocate of world trade union unity. He does not come with a message of submission or despair for the working class, but with a program, the fulfillment of which will cement the labor movement of the world into a powerful force aiding.in.the liberation of mankind from the thralldom of wage slavery. His challenge is a call to labor to forge its own means of freedom. Aware of the lesson of history that never at any time in the age-long struggle of oppressed against oppressor has the slave-master | the floating of loans through American sought the liberation of his slave, Purcell knows that if labor would | bankers. The second treaty rearrang- be free it alone must strike the blow. Not being a Communist, Purcell does-not emphasize the one in- despensible thing for the revolution, the necessity for the creation of} upon Santo Domingo in 1907. The ex- @ political party that will lead the working class, to the overthrow | tension is to run until Santo Domingo of the capitalist system. But as Communists we nevertheless hail his} ?4¥S off its debt on the loans floated coming, as we recognize that given unity of the trade union forces of the world the strugglé forthe elementary demands of the working class will take on new forms that will lead to an understanding of the necessity for a political struggle against imperialism in all parts of the world. = After the By MAX BEDACHT HE proletarian revolution ‘in Rus- sia ended the short rule of the Russian bourgeoisie. Bourgeois and proletarian revolution were simulta- neous phenomena there. The prole- tariat had grown so strong and s0 conscious in Russia, even under the old regime, that it could no longer be used by the bourgeoisie as an instru- ment of the latter's revolution, On the contrary; the proletariat very deliberately used the bourgeois revo- lution as the basis for its own im- mediate struggle for power. Revolution is that period of history in which the social changes that take place gradually but continuously have reached the point where they come in direct conflict with the outward forms of society. Revolution is the process of a fundamental change of these out- ward forms. This change is necessary for the continuity of the progress of society. Without the safety valve of a revolution the inner forces of s0- ciety find only one way of freeing themselves and that is by throwing society back into the throes of un- limited reaction. The process of revolution is not a quiet, orderly phenomena, OCIAL changes are a_ steady stream of social development and progress, The existing outward forms process and stowe up and hem in tremendous forces. Thus two contra- dicting forces are wrestling for su- premacy. The old social forms act as a break to social development, try- ing to slow it up and to stop it entire- ly. At the same time, this progress is hammering at the fetters of obsolete IMPERIALISM IN SANTO DOMING THE DAIEY"-WORKER nore roletariat forms. The onward pressure of pro- gress doubles its force in the same ratio as the resistance of the old order increases, Revolution is the process of break- ing the dam of the old order. All forces of social progress are freed by. it. With renewed vigor and increased speed the stream of onward develop- ment of society rushés forward to a higher perfection, Thus revolutions become, as Karl Marx expresses it so graphically, the locomotives of his- tory. From the foregoing it becomes at once clear that to understand a revo- lution it is necéSsary to understand the forces that mtake/it. To compre- hend a revolutionyits Sources must be understood and its“ origin investi- gated. 4 ne beginning” of Line proletarian revolution leg at»the end of the bourgeois revolution, The beginning of the political of the bourgeosie is at the same time the beginning of the proletarian revolution. The rule of the bourgeoisie Mevelops the object- ive forces of the,prdletarian revolu- tion, the means ‘ofpr uction, and the subjective roreedftn proletariat. The proletarian_reyolution in Rus- sia is no exception to this rule. The special conditiongj under which that revolution ‘took place, however, pres- ent difficulties whigh fhe international mensheviks have not yet succeeded in, understanding. ...This gentry insists that. sincé the proletarian revolution in Russia followed so closely on the heels of the bourgeois revolution, (they were only nine months apart), the bourgeoisie had no chance to de velop the objective and subjective forces of the proletarian revolution. Therefore, they reason, this revolu- tion was out of order. With this ab- stract formula the social democrats cover their very concrete opposition to the proletarian revolution, By JOSEPH FREEMAN. MERICAN control over Santo Do- mingo was strengthened this week by the ratification of two treaties be- tween the United States and the Caribbean republic. By one of these treaties Santo Do- mingo. confirms all the acts of the American military occupation, which lasted from 1916 to 1924. Among the acts so confirmed were the levying of taxes, the granting of concessions, and es the distribution of Dominican funds, which are under Americgn con- trol. It also extends the treaty forced by American bankers in 1922, 1918 and Bankers’ Scheme. HE new treaties grant the Amer- ican customs receiver general of Santo Domingo the power ‘to apply Purcell’s visit-on thé eve of the eighth anniyersary of the Bol-| revenues for paying interest and shevik revolution serves.also te-emphasize the duty of labor thru- out the capitalist world to overthrow its treacherous leadership and form an alliance with the unions’ of the victorious proletarian state.} United States. The bulk of the cus- Because of his stand for the fundamental interests of the work-} toms revenues collected by the Amer- ing class he receives no. welcome from the slimy servants of the bour-|!c@2 receiver general is applied to geoisie masquerading as leaders of labor in this country, his coming is not the subject for servile fawning on the part of the capitalist| pominican government. editors; as is.the ease when: prominent members of the British ruling class stop here. a valiant fighter in the interests him with acclaim not because he of the working class and receive is an Englishman, but beeause he speaks in the interest of Jabor thruout the world. MOSCOW TRADE UNIONS PROTEST AGAINST RAKOSI COURT-MARTIAL MOSCOW, Nov, 6.+-At a protest ‘meeting arranged by the Moscow Trade| ean republic was paying off its debts Union Council against’ the white terror now prevailing in Horthy-ruled Hun- gary, Mathias Rakosi, Zoltan Weinberger, Kathrina Haman, Goegoes and Oeri were elected as honorary members of the presidium. Comrade Bela Kun:made a detailed report upon the situation ofthe Hun- ~—Sarian working class movement, He pointed out that altho the working ¢lass | troops, was once again beginning to mobilize + its force, the aims of the “present struggle of the, Hungarian working class are to better the economic situ- ation of the exploited . workers, to achieve trade union unity and: to le- galize the Communist Party. Bela Kun pointed out that Rakosi and his comrades had also worked for these aims, but that they were far removed from any intention of organ- izing any armed struggle for Power. ‘The information of Bela Kun upon the treacherous and provocative role of the Hungarian §gocial-democracy in the attempts now being made to crush the Hungarian ‘working class once again, in the handing over of Rakosi to the vengeful bourgeoisie of Hun- gary, caused a storm of indescribable indignation in the thickly packed masses. Bela Kun concluded with the declaration that the powerful and united protest action of the interna- tional proletariat could save the Hun- garian comrades from death. England to Lead Reaction. Brown of England, joined in the protest against the white terror iin Hungary and pointed out ‘that the English bourgeoisie, which was at the moment flinging prominent Eng-) lish Communists into’ prison, was eager to take over the role of leader ol Lhe international reaction, but Res this attempt would’ besdefeuted by the resistance of the English working class. n amortization on these loans, and in addition-opens the way for a new loan of $25,000,000 to be floated in the paying off the American bankers; only what is left is turned over to the The purpose of these treaties was But thé masses_of conscious labor welcome him as}to extend American eontrol over the Dominican republic. America’s excuse in 1904 for invading Santo Domingo was that the native government was having trouble with foreign creditors, chiefly France, which threatened to send warships to collect the debts claimed by its bondholders. In 1922, when Santo Domingo’s bonds wére held by American bankers, the state department thought that the Carib- too rapidly, and was approaching the point where it could claim complete freedom. In June 1922 Secretary of State Hughes announced ‘that the United States. would withdraw its if Santo Domingo signed treaties recognizing all the acts of the American military occupation, extend- ing the 1907 treaty until its debts to Losovsky of the Red International of } American bankers were. paid off, ex- union movement, the yellow trade, unions in their strug- gle against the revolutionary trade union wing, Send Protests to Embassies. After the speeches of Dobrogianu and Gera “of Roumania and workers from the Moscow factories, the meet- ing adopted a ‘protest resolution in favor of Rakosi and his comrades by acclamation, The. meeting further elected a délegation to hand the. pro- tegt to all the embassi¢s in Moscow. The meeting also dispatched tele- grams to variots ‘working ‘class or- ganizations ina) "countries, to the An- glo-Soviet Trade Union Unity Commit- tee, the general council of the British Trade Union Congress, to the parlia- mentary labor party, eto,, in which the international working class was re- quested) in the name of the 500,000 members of the Moscow Internation- al Reil Ald organigation, to do every- thidg, possible, to prevent the trial. of Rakogi before an extraordinary court. Labor Unions, pointed out that the} tending the powers of the American social-democratic trade union bureau- | Peceiver general of customs and open- eracy au Hungary‘and in other’ coun-] ing.the way for a new loan by Amer- tries was prepared to use all measures |/¢an bankers. If- these treaties were to foree back the révolutiqnaty-trade | ratified, Secretary Hughes declared, Expulsion from the | “lections could be held for a native unions and denunciations to the po-]sovérnment and the United . States lice are equally acceptable methods to | troops would be withdrawn. Resist Loan, HE treaties were secretly nego- tiated in 1924, after which- Amer- ican troops were withdrawn and the present native government. of Santo Domingo was elected; When the se- crecy surrounding the treaties | was lifted, nationalist Dominican leaders vigorously. protested against what they considered America’s attempt further to enslave their country, Seventeen out of the thirty members of ‘the native chamber of deputies signed a “Pact of Honor” in which they bound themselves not to vote for the treaties. They declared that these treaties involve “a serious danger for the sovereignity of the nation;” and that the contemplated $25,000,000 loan which is “the basis and the motive” of the new treaties implies “the prolongation of the state of sub- ordination to the United States for a period of Gme ranging from 26 years as a minimum to 100 years maximum.” The deputies who signed this pact absented themselves from the cham- ber whenever the treaties came up. The treaties were finally ratified by a parliamentary trick,‘when one of the signers of the pact entered the chamber and the president quickly declared a quorum and pushed the document through. Military Backs Loan, THE significance of the provision in the new treaty that American control is to extend until the debt to American bankers is paid off may be seen from the ci “issued by Lee, Higginson and company of Boston which participated in the floating of the 1922 loan. This circular, sent out to prospective American investors, points out that the American military authorities in Santo Domingo guaran- teed “the acceptance and validation of this bond issue bysaay government of the Dominican tepullic as a legal, binding and irreyocablg obligation of the Dominican republic.” The 1922 loan runs until 1942. 4 letter to Lee, Higginson and company from the United States naval ‘officer in charge of the department ‘of; finance and commerce in Santo Domingo assured the bankers that Dominican customs duties “shall be collected and applied by an official appointeé by the presi- dent of the United (States and that the loan now: authorized shall have first lien upén such customs reve- nues.” + Though the American military gov- ernment of Santo Domingo has given way to a native civil government, the treaties ratified this week confirm this and all other acts of the American military gevernment, as a Rail Union Delegates to Submit Proposals _ to Other Conferences aes The deinands submitted by the com- mittee of ten to the western general chairmen's meeting has just closed in the Morrison Hotel for the restoration of the war-time wages will now be submitted to the tern and South- ern General Chaitmen’s Association meetings, where representatives of the eastern and southern railroads of the Brotherhood of road =Trainmen and Order of Railrdaid Conductors will pass upon the demands made by the Chicago meeting ahd then the union officials will presemt them to the em- ployers in the negétiations for a new scale, All details as: t@ the demands for working conditions and means to ‘be used to gain the Wage increase wil’ be kept in secrecy:tintil after the meet: ings in the other two sections, Philadelphia Yellow Taxi Sold to Transit . Trust for $33,000,000 (Special to The Daity Worker) NEW YORK, Noy. 6.—W, B. McGuirk, president of the Yellow Taxi Corporation of New York, to-day con- firmen reports that negotiations are under way by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company to purehase the business of the Yellow Cab Company of Philadelphia, ithe reported price is $33,000,000, +% $ ey iy urgeoisie, HE bourgeoisie always had a bet- ter understanding, at least of the subjective factors of revolution. In 1848 the German bourgeoisie betrayed its own revolution because it was aware of the existence of the prole- tariat as a factor to be reckoned with. The German bourgeoisie then knew that it would be incomparably harder for it to suppress the inde- pendent revolutionary aspirations of the workers in 1848 than it was for the English revolution to suppress the Levellers in 1649, or for the French revolution to suppress the followers of Badeuf in 1796. The German bour- geoisie saw no other sure way to pre- vent the proletarian revolution than by making its peace with the old re- gime and by solving its own need for a social change thru a compromise with the old order. The revolutionary hopes of Karl Marx in those years were based on the expectation that a bourgeois revo- lution could and would be turned, within reasonable time, into a prole- tarian once. ee revolutionary upheavals of Eu- rope of the 18th and 19th centuries were not without an echo in Russia. The French revolution had a very dis- tinct reverberation in Russia; but no upheaval resulted. Revolutionary slo- gans and maxims were imported. But there was no class to lend revolution- ary energy and force to these slogans. Russia was a backward country. The class on the back of which the whole burden of autocracy rested, the peas- antry, looked backward for its salva- tion, not forward. It looked upon vil- lage Communism of the past, com- pared to which, speaking from the standpoint. of economy, even pro- duction on the basis of serfdom re- presented social progress. Besides the peasantry was divided into tens of thousands of little villages that did not even know of each other’s exist- 0) LABOR DEFENDER TO APPEAR ON DECEMBER 1 Will Voice Needs of the Class War Victims The Labor Defender, an illustrated monthly magazine to voice the fight for release of all class war prisoners will make its appearance on Decem- ber ist next. It will be published by the International Labor Defense with offices at 23 South Lincoln Street, Chicago, Illinois. There are many victims of the'class struggle in the United States who are now almost unheard of. They are rotting away in the dungeons of cap- italism but almost forgotten. Long and bitter fights to release them have failed and it appears that many have lost courage and hope that those whom the capitalists have succeeded in getting a stranglehold on can ever be freed. Voice of Working Class Martyrs. The Labor Defender will probe the barred cages of the master class and shed a new light on those working class martyrs who have spent many, years away from their homes and their friends bereft of fresh air and the pleasure of participate in the movement of working class freedom. The story of Ford and Suhr, of Mooney and Billings, of McNamara and Schmitt and of many others will again be told and the fight for their liberation will be given a fresh urge. Right now Richard Ford who had already spent almost twelve years in Folsom prison, California is again in the tofls, threatened with death on the scaffold. There is a hardly a state in the union that has not its quota of workers doing penance for their loyalty to the cause. They must not be forgotten. Furthermore they must not rot in jail. The first issue of The Labor De- fender will contain an article by the rebel poet Ralph Chaplin. He will tell the story of Sacco and Vanzett who are sitting in the shadow of the electric chair in Massachusetts. The Zeigler frame-up will be treated by Thurber Lewis who investigated the case on the spot for the Interna- tional Labor Defense. It will be illus- trated with pictures of the defendants, the mine where the defendants sweat- ed for their masters and the union hall where the shooting occured. The story of the Rakosi trial in Hungary and the campaign waged, by the American workers in his behalf; the story of the Ford and Suhr arrest and trialtwelve years ago. the Crouch nd Trumbull case; the Merrick case 1 Massachusetts and the other Mer- ‘ek. case in Pittsburgh—those and many others will be told in the first ‘ssue of The Labor Defender. Pictures depicting the class struggle in Am- erica and all over the world will be an important feature of the magazine. The Labor Defender will sell for ten cents a copy. Subscription is $1.00 a year, if Admits Drinking at Games MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.,, Noy. 6, — Prohibition officers and police were asked to stop dirnking at tie Minne sota university football games by the university head, Build the DAILY WORKER, ence and divided into dozens of na- tionalities with different languages. Autocracy on the other hand, pres- ented itself as a strong centralized power. But in the middle of the 19th cen- tury capitalism came into Russia; as a foreigner at first, Soon, however, the stranger became acclimatized. While capitalism could not conquer politically it did conquer economical- ly. Absoluteism had to make its bow to the newcomer, The wide spread revolutionary ten- dencies among the Russian intel- ligentsia. was a manifestation of the will to political power of the bourge- oisie. This revolutionary bourgeoisie could not find any allies and fighters except among the proletariat and the peasantry. Thus the. revolutionary bourgeois intelligentsia became to a large degree the leader of the revo- lutionary movements of the masses in Russia, But when in ‘the '80s and ’90s the revolutionary aspirations of the pro- letariat became more clearly defined and a Marxian proletarian movement developed, then the revolutionary ardor of the bourgeoisie cooled off very decidedly.’ The growth of the subjective forces of a proletarian re- volution made the bourgeoisie trem- ble before its own revolution, The Russian bourgeoisie therefore attempted to solve its. problem in the same way:the German bourgeoisie had solved it in 1848: by way of com- promise with autocracy. ee came the world war. The barbarian greed for conquest do- minating the autoctacy, very well chimed in with the imperialist aspira- tion of the Russian bourgeoisie. During the war, however, the con- flict between the bourgeoisie and the autocracy became irreconciliable, The state apparatus of autocracy was do- minated by greedy and extravagant HIS issue of The DAILY WORKER is dedicated to four branch WORKERS PARTY who together sent in the necessary money for print aristocracy. Conquest was for this class merely a new source of graft. War itself developed into that. Like in the Russo-Japanese war so again in the great world war graft and cor- ruption became the order of the day, While the bourgeoisie was. bent on making graft at all costs, even at the cost of victory. Here the confilet between autocracy and bourgeoisie became acute. ‘While the most clear-sighted lead ers of the bourgeoisie dreaded revoly- tion yet history told them categorical- ly; hic rhodus, hic salta! Here is the rose and here you dance! But, alas, the bourgeoisie had wait- ed too long. The proletariat of Rus- sia had long ‘beem born as an inde pendent class. It not appear mere ly as a potential revolutionary force within the womb of capitalism, but as an independent force alongside of capitalism. The howirgeoisie did not appear as a young and vigorous class, proud of its revolutionary aspira- tions; but it appeated as an old and senile class, shaking with fear at the thought of révolution, The working. class, on the other hand, was no longer an infant strong enough only to help. its parent, but it was a full grown giant, confideft, vigorous and self-conscious. This giant, unlike the bourgeoisie, was not\afraid of revolu- tion. It welcomed dt. And, against the wishes and theories of the inter- ‘ffational social-democrats, this giant of the working class pushed the tot- tering bourgeoisie aside into a com- mon grave with autocracy and collect- ed its lawful inheritance, political power, Hight years it has maintained this power against a world of enemies. It has proven its right to the title: of ruler by the fact of its rule and has thus shoved all contrary theories down the throats of their originators, the anti-proletarian social-democrats, pape for Wednesday's and Thursday's editions: The ‘Bulgarian branch of Mich.; the Finnish branch of Astoria, Ore.; the “South Slavic branch of Akron, Ohio; and the downtown Russian branch of New York. Other dona: tions received brought the drive total to $17,638.58, as ifollows:, Mat is Marko Ebenhe, Kenosha, Wis. $ 4.00 Joseph Panek, Chicago .... 1.00 Worcéster, Mass., Eng. W. P. 15.00 Boston, Mass., Eng. W. P. 7.00 Milton Harlan, San Francisco, California 3.00 Wm. Schubert, Indianapolii Indiana. ... 3.00 C, Demuijdt, Moline, Ill. 1.00 Jugo-Slav Worker, Chicago 1.00 Cc. Kraven and Sam Johnson; Cleveland, Ohio ... on 4.75 8, A. Nelson, Iron Mountain, Michigan 4.00 Newport, N. H., Finn! 5.00 Perth Amboy, N. J., Hungarian Br.; W..P; N. Sockshin, Youngstown, O. Y. W. L., Paynesville, Mich, B. 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