The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1926, Page 3

DEBAUCH FARMERS INTO SUPPORT OF COOLIDGE IN 1926 CAMPAIGN (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, who is desperately striving to devise schemes that will fool the farmers into supporting the Coolidge candidates in this year’s congressional elections, appeared before the house agricultural committee yesterday and advocated farm co-operative market- ing panceas. He urged an appropriation of $225,000 to establish in his department a special bureau to promote co-operative organiza- tions, to assist existing co-operatives and to engage generally in co-operative extension work. He estimates it would require from 12 to 22 “experts” to car-+ 7 ry on this work. Political Motive. Behind this proposition is seen an effort of Jardine and the republican Machine that came into power on the claim to establish an era of unexam- pled prosperity to debauch the farm cooperatives that already exist by bribing certain leaders of the move- ment with government positions so that they can pretend to be formulat- ing relief measures that, will carry the party through the stormy seas of the coming election. Coolidge and his backers fear that they are done for unless something can be accomplished to ward off the blow that now threat- ens to smite them from the corn area of the country. His Chicago speech before the farm congress still rankles in the memories of the farmers and théy look with suspicion upon the government at Washington, So the one remaining defense is wholesale bribery and corruption of officials of farm organizations and cooperative societies. The $226,000, if granted, will be the first instalment toward pillaging the treasury of the United States in order to aid political ventur- es ofthe Coolidge-Mellon machine. Cooperatives Lose Millions, Jardine said the cooperative mar- keting legislation sought presented fact finding features to aid in produc- tion and marketing and education in cooperative operation through experts. “In recent years farmers have lost millions of dollars thru cooperative or- ganization promoters,” said Rep. Ad- kins, republican of Illinois, “will this legislation stop that?” “It should,” replied Jardine. “We will give farmer groups desiring to organize government officials expert in their lines to assist them.” Rep. Doyle, democrat, Illinois, said the dealers and operators in grains and meats in Chicago had not been considered in the framing of the legis- lation. “That is too bad,” retorted Rep. Tincher, republican, of Kansas, “they should not have been.” Jardine said no protest had been re- ceived by him against extension of federal aid to farmer cooperatives in gathering of information or price news dissemination to aid marketing and distribution. Farm Official on Job. In the campaign to rehabilitate the republican party in the eyes of the farmers of the corn belt one C. H. Richeson, of Des Moines, Iowa, pres- ident of the national corn growner’s association, arrived in Washington, visited Coolidge and is now carrying on a campaign of falsehood to the effect that the farm crisis is improv- ing owing to “efforts of the federal authorities.” Meanwhile reports to the contrary come from the home state of Riche- son, where farmers are still being ex- Propriated from the land on which United States Wants Europe to Work and Pay (Continued from page 1) but that it is also an organization for the moral justification of all the in- Justices of the Versailles treaty and an organization for the assistance of the entente, : WEE regard to the fourth category of the capitalist contradictions, namely, the contradictions amongst the victorious states themselves, it is very important that despite a certain co-operation between America and England upon the basis of the agree- ment against the cancelation of the inter-allied debts, the struggle of the conflicting interests of America and er, especially in the world struggle for oil, the chief nerve of economic ance of England. ‘ The now secret now open life and death struggle between the English and American oil companies takes place everywhere: In South America, in Persia, in Roumania, in Galicia, ete, Further there is a half concealed struggle between America and Eng- land in China where America which follows @ more elastic policy than that the brutal colonial English diplo- U. S. SEEKING 70 HOLD UP THE CONFERENCE ON WORLD ‘DISARMAMENT’ WASHINGTON, D, Cy; Jan. 13.— Government officials express the view that the “disarmament” con- ference, alias the “limitation of arm- ament” conference, alias the plain “arms” conference, as proposed by the league of nations will be post- poned until late summer or even next winter. It is apparent that the United States has its own reasons for pro- pagandizing for a postponement. But it says that the delay must be had because “other nations” are not ready and cannot be ready for sev- eral months. =e they have spent their lives and forced into the towns to compete with un- skilled laborers. Lauds Fake Bill. Enactment of the Dickinson bill, which would create a governmental holding corporation for surplus farm products ayailable for export, coupled with the creation of a cooperative or- ganization for orderly domestic mar- keting, will solve the problem of the corn belt Richeson, is said to have told Coolidge today. Richeson said he came to the white house primarily to dispel the belief which he feared was becoming preva- lent in the east that the corn farmers were trying to lean absolutely on fed- eral aid. . “We are working out our own salva- tion,” he said. “I outlined briefly to Mr. Coolidge the cooperative, market- ing movement which we»are -building up.” te Coolidge Propaganda. “We have, however, a small corn surplus about 2 per cent of ‘our crop, available for export, in the disposition of which we would like some: federal aid.” The credit situation in, the corn belt has been much clarified in the past few weeks, Richeson said, be- cause of the efforts of the federal authorities. Capitalist Political Parties Put Pressure on the “Labor Banks” NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—The City of New York is again banking with the Federation Bank. Following the in- stallation of Mayor Walker the $250,- 000 withdrawn by Mayor Hylan during the primary campaign, has been rede- posited, with an additional $100,000. Hylan pulled the money out when Peter J. Brady, labor bank president, threw his support to Walker, the regular Tammany choice, The contradictions between Amer- iea and Japan in the Pacific and in China are well known. Finally, the never-ceasing armament race of the victorious states is very significant, for the reference to a German danger is no longer applicable, the arma- ments then can only be meant for the armaments of their allies... Apparent- ly the Second International which just like the league of nations does noth- ing to bring about disarmament, does not observe this. vt The Second International and the rest of the pacifist chatterboxes have done no single thing to support the continual efforts of the Bolshevik since Genoa in favor of general dis- armement. The present peace amongst. the victorious states is not e friendly one, but a clear and obvious armed “peace” just as it existed in 1914, This means that the stabilization which Europe has bought at the price of subordination is not a lasting one, be- cause, apart from the continually sharpening contradictions between the victors and the vanquished, the contradictions amongst the victorious states themselves are ripening ever more quickly. "Nad fifth category of the contradic- tions, is the contradiction between Soviet Russia and the capitalist world. Eye He fie ‘i : two countries; nogemony ina RE NN FOR THE UNITY OF THE CITY AND LAND WORKERS 1}! JARDINE SEEKS SLUSH FUND TO Farmers Getting Lot of Promises of Good Wishes; Green to Aid The American Federation of Labor will support the farmers of the middle west in their demands for legislative action for the relief of agriculture. William Green, president of the fed- eration, so declared today as he board- ed a train for his return to Washing- ton, after filling a speaking engage- ment here. ; “The federation is deeply interested in the farmers’ problem, particularly in the pressing situation in corn,” Mr, Green said. “It stands ready to’ co- operate in support of the farmers’ leg- islative program as finally formulated. At present, those plans are still in the making but when the farmers finally decide what they want the federation will stand behind them.” This comes simultaneously with the completion of plans by the Illinois Ag- ricultural Association for its annual meeting, to be held at Urbana, Jan. 21 and 22, at which the corn surplus prob- lem will be the principal topic for dis- cussion. Meanwhile in his home at Kanka- kee, Governor Len Small was meeting a delegation which desired him to call a statewide meeeting in Chicago in the near future to discuss corn. ILLINOIS GETS BACK OF CORN CRISIS FIGHT Joins lowa Farmers and Appeals to South (Special to The Daily Worker) MORRIS, Illinois, Jan, 13.—Illinois farmers in conference here have join- ed the clamor of the Iowa farmers for farm relief measures at the hands of the present congress at Washington. Some 3,000 men, from 52 countries as- sembled here for Grundy county “corn day” and turned the affair in- to a state conference at which resolu- tions were adopted calling upon Gov. Small to try to get Illinois into the corn fight. No definite program is outlined be- yond mere legislative reform and talk of more efficient marketing. No de- mand is made upon the government for a subsidy. These farmers, like those of Iowa, were supported by numerous small town bankers and business men, all of whom are hit by the crisis and they are utterly incapable as yet of decisive action. For a long time they have been of the respectable middle class, well-to-do farmers and they are be- wildered to find themselves being re- duced to a condition far below any- thing they ever contemplated. The crisis has stunned them and they are blindly groping for a way out of their predicament. Appeal to South, In addition to the orientation to- ward the Iowa farmers and their de- mand upon Governor Small, the farm- ers assembled here also sent an ap- peal to the cotton growers of the South asking them to unite with them in a demand, for congressional relief at this term. A state-wide conference to definite- ‘ly organize to resist the politicians at Washington muddling with the crisis will be held in Chicago in a few weeks it is announced. Laundry Workers Organize, NEW YORK, Jan. 13.— A drive to organize the laundry workers in this city is under way. District meetings have been arranged for. The first will be held this week, camp of the anti-imperialists is in the hands of Soviet Russia. Two basic and diametrically op- posed centers of attraction have formed themselves: England and Am- erica for the bourgeios governments and the Soviet Union for the proletar- jat of the west and the revolutionaries of the east.. The fourth factor is the lack of unity in the camp of capital- ism owing to the struggle between the opposed interests of the victors, for the colonies, etc, The stabilization of this camp is uncertain. Our country has a firm and healthy stabilization, the growth of socialist reconstruction. All the revolutionaries of the west and of the east are rallying around the Soviet Union. The pilgrimages of all revolutionary and socialistic ele- ments in the whole world to our coun- try, deserves particular attention. What is the significance of these workers’ delegations? All our com- missaries have given these delega- tions an account of their work, This means that the revolutionary Europe- an proletariat will defend us against all interventions, We have won the confidence of the working class, This is the basis of the connections between the Soviet Union and the world proletariat, From this follows: the weaknesses of cap- italfsm will grow hourly. Without the workers it cannot carry on a war against us. We will do everything THE DAILY WORKER COPPER TRUST IN PLOT AGAINST FARMER-LABORITE Sheridan County, Mont., Scene of Struggle By JOHN GABRIEL SOLTIS. PLENTYWOOD, Mont., Jan, 13. — Several weeks ago, Attorney General Foote of Helena, a republican politic- al crook owned and controlled by the Anaconda Copper Co., sent one of his deputies to this county seat of Sheri- dan county, for the purpose of fram- ing up on the’ sheriff, who is a farmer- laborite in “politics, Rodney Salis- bury, ° He came héré’ ostensibly represent- ing the federal department for the enforcement’’dt the Volstead law. However, upén’ his arrival here, he at once went'into conference with the local leader of ‘the klan, He did not consult the sheriff's office at all, as was his°dity, but immediately commenced to’ achieve his plan, by breaking into’ the homes of innocent people, threatening them with dire calamities, @nd using third degree methods, in @ frantic effort to extort affidavits frowa'them, against Rodney Salisbury. Of course he failed to get what he was after, for the good and sufficient reason that no 'farmer would assist in the plot to frame Salisbury, Now a charge of assault and battery is lodged against Foote’s deputy by the farmers’ government of Sheridan county. As he comes to trial this week in the district court of this coun- ty, Foote sends B. E. Collins, his as- sistant here, to defend him. What is All Means, All this drama revolves around the fact that Rodney Salisbury is a very dangerous person to the interests of the loan and mortgage sharks. He stands foursquare with the farmers and their interests, He never lets an opportunity slip to favor the farmer on all points of legal technicalities, in the matter of, mortgage executions. There has not been a chattel mort- gage seizure. under his administra- tion. He is a pillar of strength to the farmers and his county is referred to by the copper trust press as “The Soviet domain,” This pleases Salis- bury immensely. He is the bitter pill which the capitalists cannot swallow. Recently, the copper politicians at Helena, have been evolving all sorts of plots in which to enmesh Salisbury. However, Salisbury is not only ‘a rebel, but also an intelligent one, He has frustrat all their attempts so far thru the Backing of the farmers of Sheridai who first sensed the fervor of revolt against copper trust domination. ss SaaS Blacksmiths’ Pres. to Become. President of Drop Forge Company After a quarter century as an offi- clal of the International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers, Pres, James W. Kline will retire in June, it is announced at the union’s headquarters in Chicago. Leaving the union presidency which he has held practically 21 years, he will devote himself more exclusively NYE WINS SEAT “IN SENATE AFTER BITTER STRUGGLE Governor Had Right to Appoint Senator (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—Climaxing a five-week battle by western pro- ‘gressives the senate this afternoon seated Senator-designate Gerald P. Nye, youthful republican insurgent, of North Dakota. The result came as a distinct sur- prise to administration leaders who had opposed the seating on the con- stitutional issues that Governor A. G. Sorlie had no power to make the ap- pointment. Senator Is State Officer. By its decision in seating Nye, the {senate inferentially ruled that a | United States senator is a “state of- ficer” as this claim was raised by Nye’s supporters in arguing that Sor- to the presidency of the Continental |!ie had power to fill all vacancies in Drop Forge Machine Co., which is |8tate offices by appointment. producing automobile and railroad specialities based on patents, The union had a tremendous ex- pansion to 50,000 members under war- time conditions but now numbers 5,000 compared with 8,500 in 1915. It suffered severely during the disas- trous railroad shop strike of 1922 and from the growing use of auto- matic power machinery. The vote was 41 to 39 to seat. Immediately after the vote, Nye was sworn in as the junior senator from North Dakota. As the oath was admin- istered by Vice-president Dawes, there were cheers and applause on the floor and in the galleries. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. been enumerated? World capitalism is being eaten*up more and more by its own internal contradictions, on the other hand the world of socialism is consolidating itself ever more. Upon this Wasis a provisional bal- ance of power had come about. From this came th®' era of the peaceful existence of the Soviet state side by side with th eapitalist states. Two facts charactétize this era: America does not want-a war in Europe, she demands peaceful work and payments on the invested capital. The second fact is, the withdrawal of a country with an enormous market and im- mense sources for the supply of raw material, from, the system of capital- ism. Thru this @ limitation of pro- duction becomes necessary for cap- \talist Europe, thru this came the basic shattering of its economy in consequence of the victory of the Oct- ober (Nov. 7, 1917) revolution, The balance of power between the camp of socialism and the“camp of capital- ism makes a certain co-operation with the capitalist world possible for us. TALIN then went on to discuss the chain of recognitions of Soviet Russia on the part of the capitalist bowers and the increases in the So- viet Russian foreign trade, The pres- ent year will result in a great enlarge- ment of, the commercial connections. And ‘this the question of the re- possible to strengthen the contact be-| payment of débts is connected. Our tween our working class and the|debts are calculated at: Pre-war debt working class of the west thru the|to Hurope, six milliards; war debts, workers’ delegations. seven eniiitards, making a total of 19 hfs follows from the contradic: | milliards, tions Of cupitaliom which pave Im goneequetice of $hq degreaiation | national, A of currency, and subtracting the debts of the border countries, our debt to Western Europe amounts to approx- imately seven milliards. But our counter-claims in consequence of the intervention amount to 50 milliards. This latter sum is not recognized by the capitalist governments. And from this comes the greatest hind- rance in our negotiations. The atti- tude of the central committee to this question remains the same as it was at the time of the treaty with Mac- Donald-(J. Ramsay MacDonald, form- er labor premier of Great Britain). We cannot abolish the law of 1917 can- celling the czarist debts. We cannot abolish the law expropriating the ex- propriators, We stand and we will continue to stand upon the basis of these laws. In exceptional cases we can in puncto pay czarist debts to France and England in order to re- ceive something in return. Private creditors can be satisfied by conces- » if the conditions are accept- able. Upon this basis we achieved the agreement with MacDonald. The pre- liminary condition was the actual can- cellation of the war debts. It was said that the agreement with Mac- Donald was annulled by the interfer- ence of America which was unwilling to witness a precedent for the cancel- lation of war debts, We remain upon the basis of the agreement with Mac- Donald. . oe © NOTE:—In tomorrow's instalment of his speech, Stalin will take up the question of the Communist Inter ars awe Guilty of Getting Caught; Congressman Deserted by Fellows (Special to The Dally Workerd WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. — Two hours after the supreme court had in- ferentially upheld his conviction and sentence to the penitentiary for viola- tion of the prohibition law,,Represent- ative John W. Langley, republican of Kentucky, submitted his resignation as.a member of congress. As swiftly as Langley submitted his resignation, it was accepted by the house. It was presented to the mem- bership within a few minutes after it was submitted, and it was accepted without debate and without dissenting voice, alurday Lenin tssue JANUARY 16 Newt and Militarist Cohorts Stepped on by Cleveland Board CLEVELAND, Jan. 13. — Ignoring protests by Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war and various veterans’ organizations, the board of education voted six to one to abolish military training in the high schools effective at the end of the present school year. Clothing Store Goes Broke. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan. 13—Listing assets of $18,938.58 and Habilities of $21,480.62, Franz, incorporated, a clothing store company, has filed vol- untary bankruptcy proceedings in fed- eral court here. The firm has a store here and one at Hast St. Louis. SENUUOVOO TUATHA TAAL SECOND INSTALMENT OF “THE BEYOND” AN ARTICLE BY and articles about LEO KAMENEV of Russia CARTOONS Fred Ellis A. 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