The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1925, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (outside of Chicago): $3.50 six months $2.00 three months Phone Monroe heh | By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50. six months $2.50 three months $8.00 per year | $6.00 per voar Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, Aubin had Washington Blvd., Chicago, Illinois MORITZ, J aan ose ..Business. Manager at the postoffice at Chi- Entered as second-class mail S 3 er the act of Mareh 3, cago, Ill, und ‘Advertising rates on application, Two Views of the World Court Now that the question of the world court‘is to be the major i in the realm of for of the court. again bringing up ihe conflict over States government to that tribunal. The Chicago Tribune, republican, opposes the program of the republican president, Cal Coolidge, to enter the court, while the New York Times, staunch democratic organ, favors the Coolidge proposi- The Tribune, speaking in the interests of the McCormick . har- vester combination and the middle-west industrial group génerally, wants no European entaglements ¢ ing competing industries in Europe that will threaten American in- dustrial products in the world market. herence to the world court as a step toward the league of nations and a submerging of the interests of the small industrialists to.the world-wide interests of Wall Street bank capital. indignation it views with a s nations sitting upon an inter’ of questions concerning the United States. As against this conception the Times acclaims as eminently just the decision of the court vindicating the faith that Coolidge has evinced in the thing. The attitude of these two metropolitan papers, one in Chicago and the other in New York symbolizes the struggle against the com- plete ascendency of ‘finance capital over industrial capital and the conflict within the republican party itself as the small group of in- dustrialsts vainly struggle against the inevitable. Neither of the publications see the real significance of' the de- cision. They do not realize that it is a decision in favor of the British imperialists, struggling for world domination and that the decision of the court in the Near East boundary dispute means a blow to Turkey that will not be accepted peacefully. flocks of airplanes waiting the signal to try-to blast the Turks out of nd resents finance capital develop- It views the proposed ad- With high moral ssibility of judges from foreign ational tribunal and deciding the fate British warships and The Labor Movement in Syria and Palestine RITAIN in Palestine and France in Syrira face not alone the na- tionalist movements that flare into open rebellion at frequent intervals, }but there is also developing a labor movement that challenges not merely \the power of the imperialist banditti of these two powers, but is equally determined to crush all capitalism in these countries While there still rages the unre- strained frightfulness of the French hordes invading Syria, while Damascus in ruins at the feet of the French pillagers, and thousands are being cremated in the ruins of the towns {burned by the maurading bands of |French imperialism, the nationalist struggle consumes the energy of all “| classes in that stricken land. ign relations before the next congress every att of that tribunal is carefully scrutinized by both friends and enemies In the comment of the capitalist, press political party lines yanish and only the economic groups stand forth. The recent decision of the court declaring the league tf nations had the right to determine the frontiers of Irak and Turkey ‘was the excuse for the adherence of the But as these mandated areas be- come objects of imperialist develop- ment, the labor movement also de- velops. It is not the reformist social- democratic trade unions, nor the trade unionism of the British type, nor the syndicalist type of unious, but a movement under the domination of the Communist Party. The Beginnings. eee the present trade unions came into existence the only unions in that part of the world were the Jewish unions in Palestine. Jewish workers, driven into Palestine by the antisemitic movements of the cap- italist countries, endeavored to trans: plant their trade union experience in- to new soil. Instead of creating a mass movement among the natives, {his movement was confined to the harrow space of the ghettos, to which the Jewish immigrants flocked. With large groups confined to certain locali- ties in the industrial cities the move- | ment became purely nationalistic. Altho the Jewish movement cele- brated the First of May as Interna- tional Labor Day, the celebration it- self was merely a nationalistic dem- onstration. They perverted the labor movement into nationalistic channels. The native workers considered the | First of May as a Jewish nationalist and religious holiday—one of the many holidays celebrated by various religious elements that exist in Palestine. The Illusion Vanishes. HE activity of the Communist Par- ty in Palestine and Syria, where the most difficult campaign of organ- ization and education was carried on fdr the purpose of creating a genuine labor movement, finally broke down the barriers of prejudice, Following a true Bolshevik policy aries of France ‘en Britain and the ntensive exploitation of labor created che objective conditions favorable for our agitation. One ofthe Comntunist leaders in Palestine reports that with- in the past two years hundreds of thousands of copies of newspapers, brochures, tens of thousands of Com- munist proclamations, hundreds of meetings, and small groups meeting in secret to plan organizational work, laid the foundation for the rise of the labor movement and dispelled the illusions created in the minds of the creating nationalist groups under the guise of unionism, May Day, for the first «time in the his- tory of these territories, the workers in all the industrial centers participat- ‘ed in huge mass demonstrations. In were of a real Commiinist character, the workers, in spite of police threats and terror, marching¢thru the streets with the red flag defiantly fiying. Bolshevik Tactics Necessary. tine who have bedéine the leaders of the labor moveméKt¥are confronted with most serious th&ks because of the complicated: dhdtacter of the struggle existing in ‘the ‘mandates ter- ritories. Not only’ must they strive jagainst great odds't6* build up the unions in defiance of the bayonets 6f {the foreign invaders°Who defend the investors, but they tHitét fight against the nationalism that® thanifests itself in the slogans of Métiimmedanism. Such slogans as @ré* calculated to cause an uprising ‘of the Moham- medan world against the rest of the world are most dangerous and it is Jone of the major tasks, and may soon become the one imperative task, of the Communist Party to dispel that illu- sion just as they Nad to combat the Jewish nationalism “of the earlier movement. : ‘ Such slogans as “Asia for the Asiatics,” and “The World of Islam for the Faithful,” have ‘nothing in common with Bolshevism. They are absolutely, now and forever, érrecon- cilable with the tactits of Commun- ism. Amidst the Islamite clamor and | the general merging ‘fall classes in the struggle to throw off the foreign invader the task of hglding aloft the banner of the class struggle becomes extremely difficult. “In periods of open, bloody struggle!such as now convulses Syria, thé class struggle becomes obscured.’ SIij/this critical period the Communisg Party struggles with might and main against the sub- merging of class lings in the swamp Arabs by the Jewsih immigrants de-| liberately segregating themseives and | The Communists report that on last | the principal centers the celebrations OMMUNISTS in’Syria and Pales: | Communist leadership, were called thruout Syria. Every effort was made to give the movement a distinctive class character and to prove to the workers the necessity for clearly distinguishing between the world struggle against imperialsim and the religious slogans of Mohammedanism against the rest of the world. Keeping in mind the international character of the class struggle, the Communists ba Syria and Palestine - The foe Inferno The war in Syria has shitted from around Damascus to Lebanon \where the French are being driven from one position after another. American destroyers are lying off the coast of Sidon ready to aid the French murderers of colonial peo- ples. The French mandate is in Syria. the British mandate terri- tory begins at the border of Pales- tine (indicated by line) and British forces are-mobilized there watching the struggle and awaiting the time when Britain thru the league of na- tions can wrest the Syrian mandate from France and contro! the entire territory. apeiron ey (who work together as one unit) op- pose the rallying cries of the world of Islam for the reason that a struggle against the imperialist. powers on such a basis arouses a feeling of hatred and distrust against the whole population, including the workers, of the European countries. In this gen- eral Islamitic wave the class struggle between the workers and the native bourgeois is found to be obscured. While taking a most energetic part in the nationalist struggle to forcibly expel from these territories the im- perialist bandits operating under mandates from the league of nations, | a1 the revolutionary proletariat must al- ways keep in mind the fact that the | working” class. cmaubiicionars Prospects. pas revolutionary wave that will expel the invaders must: not be permitted to subside, the workers must not be permitted to disarm them- selves and submit to the yoke of a native bourgeois, who, altho.they use national ‘shibboleths, would in reality serve the ends of foreign imperial- ism. Instead of surrendering to the nationalist bourgeols they must main- tain their arms and follow up the overthrow of the power of the. im- perialist nations of Europe with the crushing of the native bourgeoisie, The task of overthrowing the nation- al bourgeoisie will not be difficult for the reason that the industries of these andates areas were developed by foreign capital, with absentee owner- ship. Like all, the colonies where im- perialist bank capital has penetrated, the industries have grown and with the growth of the indus ie ere aro: industrial, proletariat, “ But | latte industries created tlle, pro- letarfat they did not create ‘a power- fut aon re bourgeoisie; the result being that, ‘all these countries the strength ‘of the capitalist” Glass is weak compared to the strength’ of the a This situation makes it much. less difficult to dehieve the actual’ verthrow of the native bour- geoisie ‘en in the countries where cans has followed ‘thé ‘normal col of development ‘and’ where a nal hee ‘capitalist class has grown up with, the industrial development, of the Inkthe:struggle in Syria where: the French forces are meeting with the determined resistance of the native population, Britain maintains an at- titude of neutrality beeause she hopes that the upheaval can be utilized to prove France incapable of admin- istering the mandate of the league of nations. In the event off the league deciding ‘against: France, then Britain, would get control over Syria, British troops are mobilized on the Syrian border in northern Palestine awaiting the signal to enter and help “restore order.” Another motive is the threat from® the labor movement, as Britain well ‘knows that such nationalist strageles against imperialism may at any time break forth into a class con- scioifs ‘movement is penned ~all. cap- italism. © But°hot far to the north and edst lays'thé Soviet Union, and the work- ers In’ the colonies and mandates aréa$~know that when they have ac- cum) lated sufficient energy, to act t "imperialism as a‘class they woe be at the mercy of the im- “butchers. Once a wave of By H. M. Wicks HILE the labor movement in cotin- tries developed in _ hot-house fashion by the great imperialist na- tions has many obstacles to over- come that other laber movements do, not have, there is one blight that it has escaped. That is the deadening influence of the social-democracy of the Second International. The- heroes of that international of ineffable in- famy were so busy serving their various capitalist masters and. kings, that they devoted no time.to the colonial movement except “to hélp enslave the colonials. While the colonial’ territories were being subjected and enslaved by the imperialist nations the ‘social-demo- erats were playing grand polities by entering the cabinets of their various countries and aiding in forwarding the interests, of imperialism. te Being true social-d¢mocrats and therefore slimy philistines they form: ulated a theory for their betrayal by @ monstrous perversion of Marxism. They. held that a real labor mowément could only develop in those countries where capitalism was highly develop- ed and that it was useless to attempt to bring the workers of backward countries into the labor movement until’ such time as capitalism had sufficiently developed. The logical de- duction from such a position was that by aiding, their capitalist masters ex- ploit the colonies the social-democrats were conferring upon the natives the blessings of capitalist civilization and preparing them so they would be fit to enter the exalted company of the Second International. This distortion of Marxism was utilized to conceal the material in- terests of these, mercenaries of the bourgeoisie. The extreme exploita- tion and open plunder of the capital- ist nations in the colonies results in a super profit which is shared with the skilled strata of the working class of the home country, ~ Social-democracy is the representa- tive of this bribed and corrupted strata of the working class, The failure of social-democracy to gain a foothold in the colonies, com- bined with the facet that we are living today in the era of world revolution, accounts for the developing of the labor movement in these countries un- der the domination of the Compuary ist In the dredentt struggle aeainah the immeasurable terror of Britain and France in the Colonies and mandated areas the Communists strive with the nationalists to break the imperialist chains so that they can clear the ground for ‘the final conflict. «Europe may appear to the Angora government too formidable to be challenged at once, but the final settlement of the frontier dispute ' will be by force of arms. The Times and the republican and demo- a cratic representatives of the House of Morgan want to utilize the } world court and the league for diplomatic intrigue while preparing to defend on the battlefield their mighty investments, while the J} “Tribune and the republican agents. of the industrialists want to keep out of the mess and sell their products in all the markets of the world. But finance eapital will not long be challenged by an industrial bloc trying to thwart its purposes. The great mergers of industries under: domination of finance capital will soon destroy the basis of such opposition. . the Communists became the organizers of the new labor movement in Syria and Palestine. The struggle against the imperialist invaders was directly connected with the class struggle; the frightful terror of the armed mercen- CHICAGO I.L.D, TO AID ZEIGLER WITH'BIG BAZAAR Grand Gpeting Night of December 10 As the trial of the framed-up Zeig- ler miners opens, the Chicago I. L, D. is redoubling its efforts to arouse workers’ organizations to their sup- port. The local committee has set a goal of at least $2,000 for the Zeigler miners’ defense, to be raised at the Labor Defense Bazaar, December 10 to 13, at the Northwest Hall, The local I. L. D. has already guaranteed $1000.00, which had to be advanced. Donations of all kinds of articles— saleable and useable material—have .~ Communists strive for the day when the walls of these relies of Spd pag Alte 5 ce hee dae the inqnisition will be battered down and tortured inmates liberated | varied assortment of wares *o be col- = thet they may-gwell our.ranks and wreak yengeance upon the|Jected and donated before Dec, 10. system that exists thru such terror. |. A colorful international program of entertainment is offered for the dif- ferent days of the bazaar. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Eor Friday night, Bec. 11, the Ger- With thé labor movement/in the ( colonies! upder control of Communists, and Communist influence gaining in the home countries, of imperialism the death knell of capitalism will soon be sounded, DAILY WORKER RESCUE FUND OVER $27,000 With $100.00 from the Jewish branch of the Workers Party of De- troit, Mich., and $95.02 from Canton,’ Ohio, proceeds from the meeting cele, brating the eighth anniversary of the { Russian revolution, The DAILY WORKER rescue fund was sent past the $27,000 mark Monday, with the following items ¥ of religious rebellion against all the unfaithful, as the ae a ta wars rage, As a protest agalist the French j storming of Damascun, 9 trikes, under Wants Poison: Gas Warfare Developed. for the the Next War Claiming that err is not mak- ing enough preparations for chemical warfare, Brig. Gen. Amos E, Fries, chief of the chemical, warfare service of the army, in his amnual report to the secretary of war, urges that this country appropriate more money to develop poison gases to compete with rival capitalist countries. In his report “Justifiable Means of Waging War,” he says in part: “It must be recognized that there is absolutely nothing inherent in chemical warfare to prevent its con-' sideration as a logical and perfectly justifiable means oft waging war. It borders on national suicide to neglect proper preparations for a means of warfare or a defense against a means which has proven so efficient. “Despite the many disadvantages under which we e labored, the morale of officers, 1é@h and civilian employers is excellefit;’ he says. “Nevertheless, withdtit' a drastic in- crease in appropriations, we will soon be the weakest among! the half dozen most powerful natiofs in chemical warfare.” bit Gen. Fries stated/that it is uni- achievement of national independence is not an-aim in itself, but only the starting point for the development’ c: the class power of the workers tha will realize the proletarian revolution proletarian upheavals, divested of the iationalist garb, starts among colonial ‘eoples-it’means the beginning of the nd of capitalism in P saatihag Asia nd? Africa, OCTOBER IN THE DOFTAN PRISON.IN ROUMANIA | | daily half-hour walk was postponed to the’ evening. Atter supper, on going out into the prison yard, we, at a given signal, faced the windows of the cell where, in solitary confinement and bound hand*dnd foot by chains, our comrades Max Goldstein and Bojor, were wast- ing ‘away. ’ > And suddenly the words of the In- ternational were flung into the night air, reaching right up to thé stars, echoing far and wide, bold and chal- lenging.” The prison warders.hoarsely shout- ed, ran hither and thither, beating, this one with the butt end of the rifle, | Hungarian Workers Chorus of forcibly, dragging this one to his cell.| Zleveland,, © d And still the strains of the Interna-|L. Bry F. Pogasnik, a tional swelled out, Warming our hearts} © and = fanning.» the’ ever-increasing flames, And ‘suddenly, wnexpectedly, the song: broke off. There, in the corner Ww! » in the Nght of the moon, ap- | J. |. the curly head of (The reminiscences of an escaped prisoner). ‘ Cast into the dungeons of the most terrible and at the same time largest of all Roumanian prisons, whose hor- rors are whispered in many a legend, wasting away behind the prison walls ,of Doftan, we send the toilers of Soviet Russia our fraternal greetings on the occasion of the seventh anni- versary of the October revolution. Each year, according to the prison reports, from forty to fifty lives are taken. Taken for ever. But, notwithstanding the ferocities and horrors of our prison routine, we yesterday celebrated the a@niversary of the October victory. We arose be- fore the dawn, two hours before the reveille, and the strains of the Inter- nationale, which went out from our very hearts, swelled the gloomy space, confined by the prison walls of the dead Doftan prison. A special commission, duly elected | by us a few days prior to the anni- versary, having by various means col- lected a little money and having brib- ed the prison administration, organ- ized a breakfast. Marder of Prisoners 1 | Revolting details of the bestial beating to death of Negro prison- ersin a North Carolina jail again brings to the attention of the work- ers the horrors of capitalist penal institutions. Such atrocities make it easy to understand why the bastilles are usually the first institu- Bs tions to fall before the fury’ of revolution. , Facts regarding this latest jail scandal are being brought to light-thru the investigation of the murder of prisoners ynder the direction of one M. C. Hanford, county convict superintendent of Stanley county, North Carolina. After severe beatings for minor es infractions of rules a number of prisoners died and the slimy prison - physician signed) death certificates to the effect that they died of heat. = Marcella, San om Cal... . sae ret, Cal. nce as of the Fer Figneg in | g¢ F ‘thin, clear wor Another Sullivan Decision i Superior Court Judge Dennis E. Sullivan, long notorious for his unrestrained hatred of the working class and with a long list of labor injunctions, to his credit on the books of the open shoppers and’ the _Wandis award seab-herders, has added to his alveady odious record by declaring “unconstitutional” the state law. passed last summer legalizing peaceful picketing. Continuing a long list of court usurpations of powers never, granted by even the bourgeois constitution of the country, test act again demands decisive action by organized labor in ite city of ‘Chicago and in the statewf Illinois: This servile satrap of the open shoppers must be driven from the bench in disgrace for ing his power. The most effective way to eliminate the judge is for labor to pursue a political policy independent of and against the capitalist parties that sponsor such people as injunction J ~ Meanwhile—ignore the injunctions and fight on. man, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Italian, Finnish, Greek, Bulgarian, Armeffian, and Roumanian branches and work- ers will hold forth and provide enter- tainment, such as a children’s chorus, orezestra numbers, classic dancers, soloists etc, Saturday night, Dec. 12, the Ukrain- ian, Russian, Polish, Jewish, and youth branches will show their stuff. There will be singers, dancers, balaika and mandolin orchestras, etc., to say nothing of Russian tea and costumes. Sunday afternoon and evening, Dec. 13, Scandinavian, Lettish, So, Slavic, Slovak, Czech, and English groups will entertain with Danish and Cossack dances and the Charleston; war prisoners’ tableau; vocal arlec: tions by Andrew Torrence, etc? per at six, and such a supper as only a class- Sup- versally appreciated!/By¥ those respon- sible for carrying oiffthe leadership of warfare, that poi##n’ gas industries should be developed’ @ia@ supported in their respective cougtries. “To neglect ‘thist phase of pre- paredness,” he declapes; “would place a nation at the meray:of one having such a weapon. This state of affairs is recognized and acespted by those charged with the national defense in all countries, ‘as isuthe impossibility of regulating an yy practice of war.” From the above: ipustatichn from Gen, Fries’ report, it can easily be seen what a sham was the claim that was made that the world war was the see. Preparations for the next war, which will make the former one look like a Sunday school picnic in com- last one that the world would ever It was still dark, and the chief as- sistant, autocratic prison governor Stanescu still slept, overcome with deep slegp, and nobody interfere¢ with us in the early hours before sun ‘ise. the International instilled them with fear, or was it the excitement felt miracle took place: in’ the ordinary notice our celebrations. Moreover, one of them, peeping thruout the keyhole, said in a whisper: “And you carry on without any noise”—and, unexpectedly It is still uncertain—was it the '’ co mean presents, given us by the prison }.( warders, or was it that the sounds of |* by the prisoners—more than likely, all these reasons put together—but a way, andas a rule gloomy and strict, |. ever ready to hit us without sHghtest reason, the warders feigned not to 28 myir AMO NRL wb, Raye OFt 4 Just as German social-democracy betrayed the workers into the ~ hands of Hindenburg and the kaiser during the war, they now try betray them into the hands of Britain in a hoped-for assault o siygsatanend Hindenburg as president of their democratic the South Slavs can provide, Opens Thursday, Dec. 10. ‘There will be dancing every day, the best of refreshments, including Turkish coffee, games, prizes, an auc- tion on Sunday night,—and what makes it a bazaar—loaded booths of all kinds of wares, from which to select your bargains. Thursday evenihg, Dec. 10, is the grand opening, admission free, on which night all donations must be brought in, at the latest, and when the first choice h adgortment of goods may be LASS, threw something thru the peephole. We got up, opened. the newspaper, and were confronted with a gorgeous bou- > quet of red pinks, A storm of applause resounded in our ce’ Then commenced a conversation, As we were very badly acq ited with the news of outside events our talk was bates ted to reminiscenses of the past, a iu was now taking, ta talk continu veille, when ae The holiday ‘ome supper, For soi parison, are already being made, Error in Yesterday's Editoria). In the rush of work in our mechan- ical defiartment yesterday an error crept into the editorial on “Phe North- western ‘Riot'”, The sentence that read “The reason the workers are shot, slugged and jailed is because they are fighting for decent condi- tions to defend ther capitalist exploit- ers” was obviouslyy an error, and should read “because the are fighting for decent condit! inst the cap- italist exploiters.” ? ‘DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. mp 1 Ey ah ew is the season of the year when the cabinet officials present HERE 'S MY DONATION: reports purporting to prove that this is ‘the "best of all capitalist tries ‘and that workers enjoy unexatpled prosperity. The wage s themselves ean a radial Se the lie to this piffle. . ad,