The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1926, Page 10

® ont 40908 3801 Hoi ‘MikG toon? BAST 06 By Maurice Becker. The Diplomats Gather and Drink to the “Golden Peace’—But Death Rises to Take the Salute. French Communist Party Salutes the Daily To The Dally Worker: HEARTY salute from France to the only Communist daily of the English language! Ever since its first publication, two years ago, its constant and surprising progress has been noted with joy by all those who, in this country, follow with anxious eyes the evolution of American imperialism. The masses are faced today with a tragic dilemma: Hither revolutionary change and the seizure of power by the working classes, or the most op- pressive tyranny by a monied oligar- chy that the world has ever seen, The capitalist class of America, as a result of the war, is extending to Europe its formidable means of coercion and crushing domination, and looks for- ward to exercising on sea and on land an unquestionable supremacy, Last year, under various. pretenses, 16 million men in the United States were marshalled in military reviews and parades. In a few years, the naval ipower of. America will. be second to ‘none. Its means of defense and attack hare being constantly increased and perfected. In a word, the military, naval, aerial as well as the economic and financial stronghold of world- capitalism is now situated on the other side of the Atlantic. In France, despite her seventeen hundred thous- ‘and war victims, there is no question whatsoever as to “who won the war.” In opposition to this formidable power, the only hope of the exploited masses in America and elsewhere is in of a strong Communist. movement in America you are fighting our battles as well as your own. Great is our joy to hail the second anniversary of The DAILY WORKER! What a powerful daily organ means to a great mass movement can be measured by the services render- ed in times of need by our paper 'Humanite. It is notorious that the Communist Party was.saved in periods of stress and adversity by the power of its official organ commanding the attention and directing the efforts of its two hundréd thousand readers. The extraordinary influence of the press over the public mind can hardly be exaggerated, The paperread every day in the year creates prejudices, inspires ideas, dic- tates every. mental ‘attitude, 4 The power ofthe capitalist press is unlimited. Within its means are all the facilities of harvesting rapid and accurate news of every description, paying professionally-perfect talent, furnishing every possible attraction, and resorting to the best possible forms of advertisement. Our revoluttonary press, money- less, boycotted in every way, hindered at every turn in its normal develop- ment is at a decided disadvantage. In France, the newspaper is the pol- itical advisor of its readers, Unfor- tunately, here as elsewhere, the work: | ing classes, exhausted by their daily labor, seek from the press rather re- creation and rest than food for study; of their interests and aspirations, The class accurate and rapid informatior of all important events. It has always kept its readers well grounded on all events both national and international of an economic and political import. Today, the paper can well represent the aspirations of the workers . of France, and voice the soul of the re- volutionary vanguard of its exploited masses, Such.is the destiny that lies before the valiant organ of the American workers. The all-but-crushing difficul- ties that it must surmount can hardly be over-estimated. In no other country are the powers of capitalist corruption equal to those*that curse the United States’ If atiything, the American moulds opinions: worker is, for many reasons, an easier The Souiee +e prey for capitalist deceit than his European brother. Furthermore Gom- perism and the betrayal of the revo- lutionary movement by the socialist party. have created a situation of un- common and almost baffling complica- tion. In spite of all, the encouraging pro- gress of The DAILY WORKER in this short two-year period is a sure war- rant of success and of ynprecedented development in’ a near’future. In France, as in every countrry where Communism is fast nearing its desti- nies, the growth of the movement in America measured by the influence of its daily organ, is the. object of. the most sympathetic and passionate in- terest. By HENRY GEORGE WEISS. VE prating fools who talk as if Your filthy lucre did the work. And raised the steel and drove the plough And mined the coal in deepest murk-— Can dollars climb a laddef, say, Or pull a lever, shift a gear? Can dollars dig coal in’'a mine, Can dollars span that river there? Ye fools, it is not gold that works, But sweating toilers ‘neath the ban, It is not dollars sweat and quake, —That lot falls to the working man. the Jonged-for awakening of the! capitalist press panders admirably to working class of the United States. This is the reason why all the efforts of the brave DAILY WORKER are watched carefully and with the most grateful appreciation and hope on this side of the water, Friends, were you in need of any encouragement, you might rest assur- ed that in erecting the foundations i re ee ee ee this state of mind and accustoms its readers to amusing, exciting news with which is cleverly’ mingled all ideas ‘of reactionary thought, patriot- ism, and those prejudices which make for the eternal blindness of the work- ers. L’Humanite has always made a de- termined effort to give the working- rn This modern serf—come view him close— Oft robbed of brain, bereft of health; This worse than ‘slave—don’t turn away!— Is source of all your boasted wealth, - Then tell me not your dollars spin, ‘Then tell me not your dollars plan, When I can see that all is done By just the common working man! i er ¢