The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1925, Page 6

Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 ——_ SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): | By mail (outsid2 of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50- six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Illinois —- He J, LOUIS WILLIAM F, DUN. MORITZ J. LOEB. Entered, as second-class mail “ee cago, Ill., 290 + al eptember 21, 1 at the post-office at Chi- under the act of March 3, 1879. vey. * ‘Advertising | rates on application. | Moral and Unmoral Nations ' As a holiday theme ‘the ultra-imperialist| New York Times edi-| torialized on the morality of the nations that created the Locarno | treaties. These nations, thru accepting the terms of the various pacts drawn up at Locarno are in a distinct class, These are moral | nations, while Russia is outside these nations and therefore unmoral,| The Russo-Turkish pact signed a few days ago also threatens to in \ pair the morality of Turkey. However, the Zimcs does not des and hopes for a revival of Turkish moralit Tf Turkey humbly bows befor the decisions of the council of the| league of nations and consents to England robbing her of Mosul] she will then demonstrate a proper appreciation of morals and prove| herself fit to associate: with the other moral nations. \ In that case Russia, according to the Times editorial, will be | “~+=.peyond the pale of such eminently moral nations asFrance, Italy | r and England, who are signatories to Locarno and old gnember: i good standing of the council of the league. hi France demonstrates its super-morality by bombing defenseless huts of the Moroccans and blasting Damascus in Syria off the map, burying in its ruins thousands of defenseless people. Italy sutfers in chains and silence under the ferocious despotism of Mussolini and | his brigand fascisti. England’s mercenaries swarm India, Egypt, the Sudan, South Africa, not to mention Ireland, ready to again stifle in blood the first indication of a liberation moyement. Germany, ‘ ss which during and since the war, was considered an outlaw nation, ds now inside the “moral breastworks” of Europe. Her, so-called statesmen, both avowedly bourgeoisie and social-democratic, rule } only by grace of Britain and France. Their. morality permits them | to serve with equal loyalty any power that can use them against the German working class. Contrary to the sermonizing of the imperialist press, there is no | such thing as an abstract national morality that stands above} economic interests and that can avoid politieal conflicts. The so- + called morality of Locarno is impelled by a mutual desire té: prolong | the bandit rule of capitalism. At the same time there are irrééon- cilable contradictions between the parties to the treaties signed the first of this month at London that will inevitably break forth into open warfare. When that time comes the Times «will ‘then have to formulate new codes and new alignments between moral and» mi in any ¥ ‘moral nations. ft As to the treaty between Russia and Turkey neither ae con; 3 cerned about the opinion of the organs of the House of Morgan, = © beyond knowing what their plans may pe. At a moment whenothe a overmment is threatened with war by the tory government of Eng rt is but natural that Turkey should turn to thesonky powerful friend of oppressed nations on earth—the Union of. Soviet Rey: iblies. If, at any time, the present or any future government of Turkey forgets the debt it owes the great proletarian power that aided it in its hour of dire need, we can rest assured that the working elass of the Angora republic will not forget, any more than the-Ger- man proletariat will forget. The farmers have Coolidge scared. But the only way to really ms threaten capitalism is to sign its death warrant and carry it out. Berger’s Discourse on Taxation Never was there a greater opportunity for a working class » spokesman in the house of congress to expose the fraudulent nature of the capitalist government than during the debates oh the Mellon tax reform program. The one member that claims. to represent the working class in that body is Victor L. Berger, the Milwaukee “so- cialist.” He participated in the debate. informing his colleagues that as a socialist he considered that the measure proposed by Mellon “holds out a promise of a rapid breakdown of this system by a fear- ful concentration of wealth.” - Here is reformist socialism in its most dogmatic form. Instead of exposing the true role of the United States government which has reduced the surtax ‘of -the billionaires from 40 per cent to 20 per cent, thereby relieving them of the necessity of financing their own ‘I ent Berger indulges»in silly talk about the concentration of th and the resultant “breakdown” of the capitalist system. h an analysis fails utterly to expose the nature of the cap- state. The present heavy taxation, which has accompanied ntration of wealth, is surely not indicative of the “breakdown’ the capitalist system. It means that the power of the government ing centralized and strengthened and the shifting of the tax | to the middle class simply means that this class is to be| ‘to pay tribute to the government that exists for the purpose of ing the power of Wall Street. A genuine tribune of the work- ig class would expose the method by which the capitalist finances ¢ “government and not indulge in bourgeois nonsense about some of mechanical process that disintegrates the capitalist system extent that wealth concentrates. revolutionist would never fail to expose the character o} st state and would emphasize the faet that no matter ho’ many contradictions may exist and how much capitalism may con: aie in fewer and fewer hands there must al& be created th: ive condition, the determination. of the working class to oy the ver of the capitalist class thru revolution. The revolu- ionist would use his position in the capitalist congress, not to win raixe from the flunkeys of the old parties, but to excoriate them 80 that they wauld come to be despised by the workers in the factories, ; mills and BPOR the railroads and in the agricultural regions No wonder Blatherskite Blanton of Texas praised Berger as the good thing about socialism that he knew of, in the same speech where he said he had no “prejudice against banks or just big business.” ution thru mere concentration of wealth hold class that rules by force thru the power | ance’ of the | our own forces, | | Selopias a feverishly ieserea monstrous that for 2,000 ws should have been held responsible for the death of corny NS ea (Continued from page 1) Dawes plan and treaty of Locarno, ilization of Europe, the object of Lo- carno -the political consolidation or the political coalition as the case may be of the largest countries of Europe. “On the other hand, along with this process of coalition and of the appar- | ent strengthening of the capitalist countries, there is proceeding the re- volutionizing of the broad masses of workers in western Europe and the revolutionizing of the the | continuous internecine struggle, The object of the} | Dawes plan was the economic stab- cofonies and} semi-colonial countries which is even | a@ more prominent feature, It is in the midst of these two processes that | we have had to lead our party and our country onward. “What is the ti | gain in the midst of the fight among | the various forces or the different groups of the bourgeoisie, increases We have deliberately earried out and continue to carry out this policy of gaining time with, as I believe, no small amount of success. “In the international situation there S a certainly temporary partial stab- ion of the capitalist powers. I' would be folly not to recognize thi On the other hand howev ven a blind man can see us ~ k we set ourselves | in doing so? This task was already | formulated by Lenin and _ still re-| mains in full force. It is, to gain time | to increase our economic and po-| litical strength. Every day which we | | nary elements in the’ Kast. | “As is well known, the capitalistic | countries hoped that® we should not j succeed in the recdii&ftiiction of our} | 1 7a | stabilization only canceals the fact of Breeds New-Corlflicts. “This is also how the Locarno agreement is to be understood, for on the one side it has the character of an apparent pacification. of Europe, while onthe other side it is the result of an acute internal strugglé and con- tains the germ of a whole series of future conflicts, | “It might have been expected that, with the stabilization of capital, the | revolutionary movement would have subsided, but nevertheless it is con- stantly flaring up in eyer fresh coun- tries, The so-called, stabilization of capital has simply to, pyt up with such | fac’ a number ,of colonial wars | (Morocco, Syria) and # revolutionary movement such as we,see at present in China, “Thus the struggle between various forces goes on under, new forms, the fight of the capitalist, states among Laemselves, the fight, pf all the cap- | italist countries aga! mst the revolu- Capitalist Hopes. + country, that-we showldé-not be equal to the task of buildjmg»up our econ- omics, that our for outa automat: | feally disintegrate in. consequence of | he incapability of re-establishing in- hticipated. ustry which they had *% good long time. For the time ,being they have postponed the question of exercising military pressure against us. Now they see that we have com- pleted our economics tasks, that our economic position improves from year to year, that our forces are constantly increasing and that, if they do not, succeed in putting a stumbling block in our way, we shall be, in a few years, if not the richest, at‘ any rate one of the richest, the most united, energetic and self-confident countries of the whole world. To Strangle Soviet Union. “This prospect must alarm those states whose power is based on the oppression of colonial peoples, It is not difficult to see that the idea of a war which would disturb our further development is based on the view | that the Soviet Union must be strang- | led before it finally gets ‘on its feet and collects its forces. We must not regard our enemies as fools, they are extremely clever when it is a question of defending their class interests, and they see that every month lost may prove fatal to them. “Why do the capitalist countries not try to attack us at once? “Mainly because they cannot agree amongst themselves. Locarno is the first attempt to come to an under- standing which is to open the way thru Germany to the frontiers of So- viet Russia for English and French capitalism. As however Germany, std cherished By 8 hopes for a} which was recently shuttered up by ,with Germany, meets with consider- them, feels herself to be an oppressed and plundered country—and this is felt not only by the working masses but also by the bourgeoisie of Ger- many—the agreement on the part of England and France to act in common able difficulties. It is much more im- portant of course, that the working class should realize that Locarno is the first step in the attack planned against us, and that all the capitalist governments are afraid that any at- tempt at hostile action against us would demoralize their own forces. Growth of Labor Movement. “It is precisely the growth of the revolutionary movement; which .guar- antees that the war to, which.I have referred, and which is undoubtedly in the minds of the capitalist powers, in spite of the passionate, desire of Churchill, Poincaré, Millerand ete., will be postponed, and ia-tact will not be realized at all if the, growth of the labor movement in Hurope continues. “The revolutionary .movement~ in Europe itself is progressing. It suffices to call to mind the most recent events in order to see this, I need only refer to the elections successes of our brother parties in..(zecho-Slovakia, Germany and Belgium, In France we see a really strong.Communist Party backed by the working class; we see an extraordinary change of attitude in the English trade union movement. “In the English labor movement especially, the .tactics of the united front have led to very important 3¢- sults, As is- known, the development of the English trade union movement led to the formation of an Anglo-Riis- sian unity committee whose task it is to carry on-a common fight against war as such, and consequently aga’ the foundations of capitalism in ‘Een- eral. This committee has not remain- ed a mere pious wish, it is developing a real activity of its own, is initiating actions and carrying the masses with it. This change in the English labor movement, the connection which has been established between the English trade unions and our trade union council, is a great success for, the tactics of the united front. Capitalists Doomed to Fail, « “If we take all these facts into con- sideration, we see that the situation is one in which Churchill and Miller: and, however, much they may wish to fight against us and stratigle us be fore we have ‘arrived at our. fill strength, will not do so, that. is, ‘will not have the power to do so,» ix “They will not by any means what~ ever, be able to arrest the revolution= ary movement in the East, for it ine historical movement, backed by hun- dreds of millions who want to burst their capitalist chains. The proletar- ian movement in Burope, on the othr hand, will develop further, “We have then every reason to: a sume that, in the immediate future at any rate, we shall have a breathing space for our work of reconstruction.” American Imperialism’ s Offensive in Asia and Africa By F, RASKOENIKOV (Moscow.) MPERIALIST Amerie: working behind the s conference of Locarno, succeeded in realizing her program in’ Western Europe. In its chase after.new mark- ets, American impe: is now de- tive policy in the East, it is making convulsive ef- forts to extend its “sphere of fnftu- ence” on the Asiatic and African con- that was enes at the | | tinents. In China. Am an capitalism is supporting the Chili group’ with Wu Pei-fu at its head and is egging him | on to definite acts of war. America appears in China under the | banner of the policy of .the “open door” and professes, in words, to be a} “friend” of the Chinese people, but in | reality is carrying on an independent | imperialist policy of oppression which aims at ousting America’s competitors from the Chinese market and taking possession of the natural wealth of China, At the Peking conference on customs, America is also pursuing a -line of her own which deviates sharp- ly from the interests of Japan and the other competing imperialist powers. N Persia, The American general administrator of Persian finances whose sphere of activity is Teheran, has, since autumn 1922, actually di- rected the finances of Persia. But that is not enuf. American imperial- ism is at present attempting to extend its fleld of activity. Only recently, the Persian parliament, on American ini- tiative, passed a law which allows the government to appoint twelve more American specialists for 3—5 years. One will be nominated’ director of agricultural policy, another is to be expert at the head of the railway de- partment, and thesrest will concern themselves with directing the affairs of the country, Agriculture, railways, finances, foreign trade, tariff policy, in one word, the whole economic life of Persia is threatened with the fate of falling into the clutches of American imperialism. In Syria. American imperialism har for a long time been interested in this country, As early as in 1919, at th time of the Versailles peace negotiz tions, an American commission wen to Syria to study its economic resou ces on the spot. The war of the COMPETENT. EVIDENCE REQUIRED By Hy M. WICKS. ABBI Stephen S. Wise, a doctor of delusions of the Jewish faith, started a religious conflict Christmas by asserting that Jews should accept the fact of Jesus Christ’s existence as a Hebrew teacher of whom they should be proud, Tha rabbi is one of the leaders of petty bourgeois liberal- in New York and is of that ig- lly serve the interests of imperial im by advocating such measures as the adherence of the United States to the world court. Hence when he speaks his utterances have a certain news value for the capitalist press, Since the principal nations of the world conduct their butcheries in the name of Jesus Christ we presume the rabbi thought it a wise stroke to align himself with the desciples of Jesus. His action infuriated some of the more everlasting life, braided him as an apostate, Soon a conflict ensued not unlike that which has raged for many moong in the protestant churehes between ‘modern- ism and fundamentalism, Rabbi Samuel M. Gupp, of Prov. idence, RY 1, comes to the defense of ‘and holds that the Jews ieht laim, Jesus for their’ own, e galaxy of pacifists who contin- orthodox dispensers of the water of who roundly up- French troops against the Druses, the insurrection in Damascus, Homs, Hama and other places in Syria have attracted America’s attention. Two American torpedo boats were recently , sent from Gibraltar to Beirut, the chief Bet and center of administration Ai OROCGO. The deposits of ore in the territory o¢eupied vy the Riifs, attract the capitaligts of all im- perialist countries. The, French and | Spanish capitalists whosruled in this | territory even before, tne-imperialist jwar, carried on a. desperate fight , against the German firm of Mannes- maun & Co. whith Was trying to gain jan economic | After the swar, German. imperialism, | which had lost all +a gwn colonies | and its possessions it the colonies of | | other imperialjst countries, disappear- | jed from the scene. In the place of the German capitalists} there are now active in Morocco: nihiérous French | the Dutch firm of Muller, which pos- seses more than 7,000 Léetars of land in the Spanish zone, atid finally Ital- ian capitalists. In quite Tecent times however, American imperialism has appeared in the Moro¢con arena, The id By EARL R, BROWDER. SN’T it astounding? The National Association of Manufacturers (the head of the “open shop” movement) is agitating for wages to be increased by 35% in order to meet. the increased cost of living. You don’t believe it? Then get a copy of its official organ, American Industries for December, and turn to page 13. Your astonished 2yes will see such arguments as the following: “The rise in the cost of living has made it almost impossible for’ many of the workers to liye upon their sarnings.”” There are two inaccuracies in the bove quotation. Yes, you guessed it the first time. t was not “workers” that were poken of. It was “judges,” and refer- vd to those most ae gentlemen, 1e federal judiciary, Who receive from 415,000 per annum down to $7,500. In when it was the Roitians and not the Jews that ruled ae at that time. All shia. doctiV@E AMIR: aaeahe “Tike mature. In ordinary evidence before one is accused of raihéer it is neces- sary to establish two things 1, That there is a, corpse. 2. That the corpsg was one time known to have been alive. In the case of Jesus Christ both these essentials are . nt. There is no authentic record, of anyone ever having seen such a)person. No con- temporary historian, mentioned his name. Surely if he had such an in- fluence upon those around him as is described in the holy book that relates his adventures some historian of the time would have mentioned it. No one leged to have seen him wrote a single line about it, So there is no competent proof that such a person ever lived, Then there is no one who ever saw his corpse. Surely it is essential to establish the fact that Jesus was murd by someone before we ac- cuse either the Jews or the Romans, There must be a corpse before one can be tried for maeder. It seems to us that {t would be much rabbis and the 4 preachers first to that such a lived. before hold thruout Morocco. | firms, the .Jnglish firti of Gardener, | Manafactarers “Favor” Wage Increase American capitalist Otto Kahn, who in April of this year carried out per- sonal explorations in Morocco, is at present working at the creation of an American syndicate w! , by agree- ment with Abd-el-Krim, is to exploit a territory which stretches for 80 | versts along the coast, ¢ and west of Alhucemas Bay, and reaches to the borders of the French zone, The Otto Kahn & Co. will work the jzine, iron and antimony deposits in this district, is preparing to construct railways and roads, is planning to un- dertake extensive irrigation-works | and to equip some water power works. | American capitalists are investing a | capital of 200° million gold francs in hese undertakings. Liberia, nominally the independent Negro republic on the West coast of | Africa, has long attracted the atten- tion of American imperialism, which lis at present engaged in consolidating its rule there. HE fact is that the gigantic Amer- ican rubber trust, Garvey-Fire- stone, has succeeded in obtaining a very advantageous concession for rub- ber plantations in Liberia. The Fire- stone Co. which is closely connected with Ford, the motor car manufac- view of the magniiicent services this judiciary renders to the “open shop” employers, it suddenly becomes plain that $15,000 is not enough to live on in these days of high prices. And, second, the original didn’t say “earn- ings,” it said “salaries.” But how about the worker who only gets one-tenth as much in a year, and who must work like the very devil to get that much? Wouldn't you think that the high cost of living would press upon his $1,500 annual wage at least ten times as hard as upon the $15,000 “wage” of the judges? That only shows how little you know about “economics!” The high cost of living is a very good argument for adding $2,500 to $5,500 to judges’ sal- aries, to bring them up to $10,000 (the lowest) and $20,500 (the highest), for federal judges. But for workers at wages only ten per cent of. those amounts, the high cost é¥ living ar- gument is no good. Did we not hear President Coolidge and Secretary of Commerce Hoover, only the other day, Prove that wages were entirely too high in comparison with the cost of living? Personally, I agree on one point with the National Association of Manufacturers. That is, with living costs so high, all incomes for heads of families should be from $10,000 to $20,000 per year. That much is ab- solutely necessary to take care of a family properly, But the federal judges should be the last ones to get it. They are already pretty close to it. So let’s begin with the 15,000,000 workers in the shops, mines and trans- portation service, who get from $750 to $1,500 per year, and for a begin- ning, just to see how it works, double their wages. They will still be only 20% of those starvation “wages” of the judges, but even that is better than only 10%. All the labor unions should give a vote of thanks to the Association of Manufacturers for telling us what. is @ living wage. It is $10,000 to $20,000 a year. And since the bosses of in- dustry say so, it must be true. Let every union then set itself to reach this goal for its members, “A living wage of $20,000 per year for every worker.” For surely the worker earns as much, and is as necessary to society, as a federal judge. And living costs hit him just as hard, And if the | tional Association of Manufactui turer, acquired one million acres of land for rubber plantations and as- signed 100 million dollars for the equipment of the plantations. A plan- tation of 1,000 acres which belonged to the English and was in full working order, has already been bought by Firestone, and its whole production of raw Tubber has passed into the hands of 4 igany imperialism. This is not all howeverd#According to the plan of American-capitalists, 300,000 workers (mostly Negroes) will be con- tinuously engaged: for five to six years in building barbors,,railways and a whole numberoof towns, in a district which today,.Js impenetrable jungle. This undértaking on so large a scale willsvansé ‘4+ complete revolu- tion in tlie iifenational rubber indus- try. Whereas today America holds 3% of the world, production of rubber, and 97% is incthe: hands of English (partly Dutch) ;;imperialism, America will, when the oplantations in Liberia are equipped, produce 250,000 tons of rub- ber annually, which represents more than 50% of the present world produc- tion, Thiguwillyput:an end to the pres- ent AnglorDutch: monopoly, teresting, Tt is in- »hote. that Liberia was for this purpose when imperialism arrived at the conclusion’ thatthe Philippines, Mex- ico and (Cenetal America are unsuit- able in view, of-the growth of their re- volutionary, movement. It goes without saying that, as a re- sult of this American economic pene- tration, Liberia. will become a colony CASUAL REVIEWS By HENRY GEORGE WEISS. 1. W. W. NDER the caption “Statement of the Case of the I. W, W. in Amer- ica,” there appears in the November 12 issue of the One Big Union Bulle- tin, of Winnipeg, Canada, an article emanating from 186.N. LaSalle street, Chicago, and signed by one Matt John- son, putting forth in characteristic language the “emergencyites” version of the split. in the ranks of the I. Ww. W. As might he: expected, “emergency- ites” find themselves ein full accord with the A. F. of, L, labor fakers in dubbing the Communists “liquidators” of unionism, and without much effort succeed in establishing an united front with the Chicago Tribune, Daily News, the Chamber of Commerce, etc. In fact, the “injunctionites”’— by the way, they don’t mention any such little thing in their article as seeking an injunction in the capital- ist courts in direct violation of work- ing class principle—can give the above mentioned papers and organ- ization of the master class much need- ed lessons on how more. effectively to damn Communism. The I. W. W. members whose revo- lutionary. realism has made them in- cline more and more to affiliation with the Red International of Labor Unions are not in the least surprised by this attitude of the injunctionites. Long ago they realized that the muddled I, W. W. leaders and egarding ‘the revolution- ary (inetious. of a union, was paving the way for the downfall of industrial unionism by inclining more and more to the “decentralizatibn” ot the anarcho-syndicalists, and would lead to splitting the I. ITH whole arta indtcatiye ot petty spite and individualistic ven- om that would take too sons to enu- “Communists are ee of American imperialism without any rights of its own. e¢ 4 hgielen American i. perlalism, whieh since the war has generally shown a tendency to conquer new colonies, is now receiving a new tm- pulse to increase its activity. The ag- gressiveness of American imperialism in Africa and Asia will necessarily grow. This circumstances will ineyit- ably lead, and is already leading, to conflicts with other imperialist “rob- bers who have divided up the colomies of the whole ‘world amongst them- selves, In the Far Kast, the efforts at expansion of “American nee clash with the Interest of Japan, the Near Hast’ they encounter in the first place France's’ interests ami finally, in Liberia; those of The increasing bellicosity of ican imperialism which intensifies the world conflicts, ‘involves the rr of new wars. For this re fe working masses of the Soviet 1 and of the whole world must follow the activities of the ists and of their fights among selves. In this connection it shot not be forgotten that the conflict” interests between the im) powers is a powerful ally of the’ viet Union. Looked at from this stand- point the increase of the on Nan colonial policy of American im ism, which inténsifies the cont tions, implies that the creation of: imperialist united front against Soviet Union and against the ‘d al revolutionary movement in the’ onies and semi-colonial countries = become more difficult. ay tralization; and how ft will ‘be sible without centralization to ize industrially in one big ce: union to fight the master class, {ga problem we will leave for the 4 lectuals of the injunctionite camp solve. It has often “keen said that a every mass of lies one will find grain of truth. The saying holds in respect to the article I am review- ing. Thus in its own language article vindicates the conch many of us have arrived at a ing the tendencies that led to the veering in the whole body of | W. W. from the practice of and a consequential. confusion of t that could terminate no other. than it did. The hostility to is expressed in these words: wish to take this opportunity, 2 delayed thru the schemi : munists and other: Mj e to step into our plabe.dn your i There is the’ truth-in a nut The emergencyites are throwing /the realism of Marx overboard bn preparing to embrace the philoso of anarchism in toto. The % ism to Communism is thus expos as being, not objections to Moscow but repudiation of Marxism steelt. ie Sep Communists.” Freetow Workers, you ‘mem re the rank and file who hay more or less sincere rebels against the capitalist system, do realize that in doing so you arg scrapping Karl Marx for Bakuninigm? : And you fellow wor! who stand by 8333. Belmont, do you realize that the issue confronting you today is one of coming more more to #6 _ That they accuse the Communists being “Marxian Jdevotees,” they are. If you you will then xe no enmity betwéen the I. W, the Workers. P America, necessity, ¥,