The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1926, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISMING CO. 1118 W, Washington Blvd,, Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIlinole J, LOUIS ENGDAHL f WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB. \eeneypnees Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ii, under the act of Marci 3, 1879. WMitors Business Manager Advertising rates on application. se Agitate for Revision of Dawes Plan According to Berlin dispatches one of the foremost business men of Germany, Louis Hagen, speaking before the Cologne chamber of commerce, an American banking firm is openly advocating a “revision of the Dawes plan.” Following close upon the heels of boasts that the Dawes plan has rescued Germany from its chaotic condition, the speech of the The real condition of German magnate deserves ‘consideration. Germany is revealed by Hagen: “The increase in unemployment, the greater number of bank- rupteles, and the protesting of drafts—remnants of inflated prices— cannot be expected to disappear immediately with the early dawn of better times.” Tho Herr Hagen implied that the increasing unemployment, the increase of bankruptcies and the worthlessness of German drafts may eventually be overcome, the important fact is that he admits that the condition of Germany is growing worse instead of better. England, that participates with the United States in the Dawes plan, is gratified over this condition, as the one thing British in- dustry fears thru the Dawes plan is a revival of.German industry to Herr Hagen also sounds a note that is becoming ever stronger since Locarno to the effect that he hopes to see the creation of “a European union, which will not be forced to allow the North American union to outdistance it | compete with its own industrial concerns. in all fields.” Continuing he said: “The whole of Europe must work for this aim, since not only are the German economics sick but the economic system of all the continental countries as well.” * Further barriers in the path of enforcing the Dawes plan is shown by the fact that the month of December closed with a deficit of $40,000,000 in tax returns in Germany. As far as German business men and industrialists are concerned, may much as they, in collaboration with other European nations, desire to resist the growing power of Wall Street in Europe, they can never formulate a solution for their predicament, because the question of stabilization can never permanently be solved within the confines of the capitalist system. The breakdown of the Dawes plan will aid in exposing the so- cial-demo of Europe of labor to tie traitors to labor who have hailed it as the savior nd will result in accelerating the swing of the ma rd the German Communist Party—and the proletariat revolution, which alone can finally overcome the power of the House, “e~ * of Morgan and the imperialist brigands of the world. | No More Income Tax Publicity By unanimous vote of both republican and democratic members of the senate finance committee the Mellon tax bill is to be submitted for ratification. Senator Reed Smoot announces that the bill will be introduced Tuesday and that debate will proceed on the thing. Thru this agreement the opposition is reduced to the insurgents in both camps and the approval of the bill is assured. Never was there a more palpable fraund perpetrated upon the ‘sovereign voting kings,” the American people. The big incomes we to be benefited to the tune of millions upon millions of dollars, the middle class will continue to pay the same tax it paid last year and those who paid low income taxes are to. be exempt from this form of taxation, while the vast masses of labor will not be affected, but will continue to pay indirect taxes that will help to keep down their standard of living. The publicity clause of the income tax law is to be revoked so that the public will not be able to learn the facts regarding incomes of the billionaires in the class of Rockefeller, Henry Ford and See- retary of the Treasury Mellon. The voters of the country learned much more about the ramifications of the income tax law than they were supposed to know, so both democrats and republicans unite to shield their campaign contributors. Britain's Hand wa-Greek Belt With its customary subterranean diplomacy against the growin; power of the United States in Europe, England is striving to induc: its dependent nations to repudiate all efforts toward debt settle ment with the government at Washington. : The dictator, Pangalos, an agent of Lombard street, whos duty it is to defend the power of England,.now contemplates re futing the latest Greek debt memorandum to the United States. Britain relies upon Greece as an aid in its struggle for domina tion of Turkey and-thaé territoty at the eastern extremity of the Mediterrs 1. Greece, as a tool of Britain is expected to help blaze the trail toward domination ‘of Constantinople, in order to bottle up the Black S gainst Russia. | Now that pawn of Britain is called upon to play a new role’ in resisting the rapid penetration of Ameritan finance as Sep into all parts of Europe. Despite the pacifist twaddle about the “spirit of Locarno” this conflict between the two great imperialist powers of the world por- tends the inevitable clash of arms, wherein the working class will be called upon to defend its rapacious exploiters in a struggle for domination of the world, In such a situation it is eminently fit that.the workers every- where take advantage of the Lenin memorial meetings to learn how effectively to combot these imperialist conspiracies. Ex-Governor Frank 0. Lowden, of Illinois, caught corrupting voters in Missouri in an effort to obtain the 1920 presidential nomina- tion on the republican ticket is now playing the con game of trying to pose as the benefactor and spokesman of the farmers in the corn belt, in an effort to secure the 1928 nomination. While he can- not be deseribed as resourceful, we may concede him a-degree of audacity that intelligent men do not possess. det a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription t for the DAILY WORKER. s|things have the Four Articles—Article 1. A NUMBER of recent events to which the capitalist press devotes much space calls for special atten- tion of our class. Even if considered separately “they are of tremendous importance as indicating the express train. speed with which foreign policy, because of the rapid rise of the Unit- ed ,States as an imperialist nation since the world war, is coming to dominate all other questions of state, But the real significance of these events for the workingclass is reveal- ed only when we consider them to- gether—as the imperialist mosaic into which all actions of the American ruling class now fit snugly and into which they are firmly fastened with the golden cement of interest and dividends flowing im an unbroken stream from every capitalist and many colonial countries, OR the trade unions, the organized and therefore most powerful sec- tion of the workingclass, to continue |to adopt an ostrich-like attitude to- ward events which point unerringly to new wars of conquest to be waged in behalf of the American plunder- bund, and for which the -unions will be mobilized after being gastrated and made into eunuch-like organiza- tions of cannon-fodder, is to court dis- aster, Nor can the trade unions con- tinue to believe that the onward march of imperialism is for them a matter of no moment provided they formally concern themselves with the economic interests of their members. It is precisely because imperialism presents new problems for the trade unions in their daily struggles that a thoro understanding of the meaning of new developments is necessary as well as a strategy and tactics based on the needs of the new situation. HE class peace policy of the A- merican trade union bureaucracy, its denial of the class struggle and its entry into the field of insurance and banking, is a direct consequence of | America’s premier imperialist position | whether the masses of the member- |ship know it or not. The hostile attitude of the A. F. of L. officialdom towards Soviet Russia, its expulsion policy directed against the Communists and the left wing in general, statements by President Green before chambers of commerce to the effect that “American labor has accepted ‘the existing order, there is no room for class hatred or the class struggle in America,” the opposition of the bureaucrats to the drive for world trade union unity, all of these closest connection with such events as the following: 1. Hoover’s warning to other gov- ernments — categorical statements that the United States will tolerate | no monopolies or foreign govern- ment subsid! or raw materials such as rubber, al, nitrates, pot- ash, iodine, quicksilver, tin, ‘silk, ete. 2. The joint bill just introduced THE DAILY WORKER by Senator Capper and Representa- tive Johnson providing for the auto- matic ‘establishment ofica military dictatorship in the evant of war or a “national emergency.” It gives the president power to draft all necessary man-power and to “con- trol” materials, The bill is endors- ed by the war department and the American Legion and receives the support of the most influential cap- italist’ journals. 3. The steady propaganda for the World Court and the majority of the senate favoring the entry of the United States into this body. 4, The systematic boosting of the Locarno pact as an instrument for permanent peace. 5. Wall Street inspired hostility to the Mexican land, Jaw and the coincidence of another Brunt revo- lution in Mexico just at the time when American impérialists are threatening Mexico again. 6. The public denunéiation of the Reuter news agencytby agents of American imperialism in China as a British propaganda agency engag- ed systematically in ¢greating sus- picion of America’s purposes in China. 7. The announcement of an agree- ment reached between the railway brotherhoods, the government and the railway capitalists: which will Danger Ahead. for Labor make strikes impossible and which in fact outlaws them, 8 A modification of the class peace scheme of the. brotherhood bureaucracy proposed for the ‘an- thracite miners by John L. Lewis providing for a joint efficiency com- mission, a “no-strike” board with the majority appointed by ex-sec- retary of state Hughes, and a five- year contract. NLY the most important incidents of the last two weeks have been listed and it will be noticed that of the eight cited, five have to do with foreign relations and only three with internal affairs. But the three domestic events—the introduction of the Capper-Johnson bill and the peace pacts between or- ganized railway and mine workers and the railway and coal capitalists and the government—are of primary importance in that they express two entirely different but inseparable re- sults for the labor movement at home of an imperialist foreign policy. The five other events are surface signs of the inescapable contradic- tions in a capitalist society which is in its final stage—imperialism, a pe- riod of wars and revolutions. They represent the reactions to, the at- tempts to solve these contradictions strument—the American government. PSH signs are characteristic in that they combine the two’ tacties by which imperialism proceeds in this epoch—gestures' of peace anf open or disguised threats of reprisals. Affiliation to the world court and the praise of the Locarno pact are peace gestures—hypocritical gestures, it is true. The-threats of Hoover, Morgan’s secretary of commerce, the browbeating of Mexico, the rift over Reuter’s activities in China, are-war gestures. Peace maneuvers are de- signed to create confusion in the ranks of imperialist opponents (while strengthening the imperialist front against Soviet Russia) war gestures are for reminding them that behind thé gestures of peace lies the will to use force to the utmost. The same-tactics are used in the class struggle. Towards the workers both peace. gestures and threats of war, open or covert, are made. E Capper-Johnsgn bill is a war threat against the workers (it kills two birds with one stone, however) it shows the war-like determination of American imperialism to both. the rival imperialist nations and the A- merican working class. The agreement between the rail- on the part of the American imperial- ists, their spokesmen and their in- ways, the government and the rail- way brotherhoods, the Lewis proposal, Notes of an Internationalist The German Communists’ Success! By JOHN PEPPER. Ae the recent lengthy letter ad- dressed by the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Internation- al to the German Communist Party, our enemies and even many party members shrieked that in instigating a new party crisis the executive was shattering the German party. The latest events, however, show more and more clearly that the E. C. . I. letter and its proposed tactics which are now actually being applied by the party, already show good re- sults. What was really, the chief pur- pose of the letter? Nothing other than the shattering of the unbending atti- tude of the-party nee the non-Com- munist masses, the king down of the Chinese wall which the C. P. G. shut, itself off from the social- democratic masses. Various bourgeois papers can be cit- ed which most unwillfigly, had to ac- knowledge the corrédttiess of the C. I. tactic in view tied already fine results, Concerning the” i, Provincial, Landtag, and Kreista#’ elections we find the following very interesting expressions in the botirgeois press. The Berliner Tageblatt writes: “The heavy lo: Which the social- democracy has sufferéd’ in many plac- By WILLIAM WEINSTONE, HE leaders of the socialist party in their recent declarations ad- | vocate the recognition of Soviet Rus- sia and the establishment of trade re- lations. To this step they have been driven by the pressure of the working masses who have come to realize that Soviet Russia stands for protection igainst imperialism and therefore it s political expediency for these so- ‘alist leaders to advocate this slo- rane > * The socialist leaders, however, fa- vor this slogan at a time when recog- ition of Soviet Russia has been taken! ap by groups of bankers and hig busi- ess men and when it has become heartiest comradely greetings to sion of its second anniversary. the country. We assure you that the Finnish ers in America, circulation, which it so well deser to all comrades thruout the part; paper, * “envy Puro, Secretary mee) —_— the establishment and maintenance of The DAILY WOR and ready to do all they can to make The DAILY WORKER an ever more powerful and influential leader and an organ of revalutionary work- in building up our three Finnish dail ficient circulation machinery the success of the paper is guaranteed. By special campaigns, as at present, we can raise the circulation occasion. ally, but unless a good regular circulation machinery is built up, we may easily lose what we have won by special efforts. Mere words do not count very much. the line demonstrate in practical work by getting continually new sub- scriptions and renewing old ones that they really stand behind their daily Hf we do this, then at the third anniversary we,will find The The DAILY WORKER three times as powerful and inflyential as it is now. Long live The ‘DAILY WORKER! With Communuist Greetings, nish Bureau of the Workers i Party, ‘Why the Socialists Advocate politically respectable advocate this slogan. No one will accuse the social- ist leaders of turning Communist when bankers associated with Morgan and company, and when such respect- able citizens as Senator Borah pub- licly declare for recognition of Soviet Russia, But the counter-revolutionary pur- pose of the socialists, their identity with bourgeois aims,-is openly see in the resolution adopted by the Jewish socialist verbond at its convention held during this week, The resolution advocates recognition of Soviet Rus- sia so that the “industrial develop- ment following therefrom will help to liquidate the system of dictatorship and terror and will help to establish "INNISH BUREAU OF WORKERS PARTY GREETS DAILY WORKER HE Finnish bureau of the Workers (Communist) Party extends its The DAILY WORKER on the occa- ot Since The DAILY WORKER was established, our Iniguage dailies have found in The DAILY WORKER a great inspirer, leader and have had much help getting from it very valuable news of the gonditions and struggles of the working class here and abroad. In addition to this} The DAILY WORKER has contained fresh news of the party, life all over It is very clear, that thus The DAILY WORKER has done very much towards unifying our foreign language press, Being for them a common source for all kinds of valuable news. al comra who have'ione much for , are willing And especially in the circulation campaign that is now going on, we promise to do our duty that The DAILY WORKER will get a wider We want to emphasize this fact because from our own experience we realize that by having ef- Let the comrades all along a) ak = my es, chiefly benefited the Communists. The new course, demanded by Mos- cow, has clearly made it possible to overcome the fearsome effect of the tactics propagated by Ruth Fischer.” The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung says: “The survey now available shows that the German , national, German Peoples, Wirtschaftspartei, and cen- trum generally maintained their standing. Democrats and social-demo- crats lose, while the Comniunists,, at the expense of the latter, can boast of a somewhat accelerated vote in: crease.” The Clerical Germania: “The winners are the Communists who generally held their ground and in places even increased the number of their votes and mandates.” The’ Liberal Boerenkurier says: “On the whole the @ommunists ad- mittedly seem to have won an~ in- crease, This ipcrease every- where it makes gained at the expense of the sodcial- democrats.” Thanks to the new tactics of ‘the party, thanks to the intervention ‘of the Communist International, the ‘Ger- man party’s isolation has been brok- en down, the growth of the social- democracy has been rot to a halt. Great potentialities today confront itself apparent is many. During the last month the number of unemployed his doubled, it is to- daf one million. The number of part-time workers has grown greatly and today includes many millions. Hundreds of factories have simply been closed -by the capitalists. The credit crisis has become a market and production crisis. Nor can the Ameri- can credits help in this. Neither can Locarno conjure bread for the hun- gry masses. The governmental crisis adds to the feeling of, insecurity and the gifts of millions now being made by courts, cabinet and parliament to the deposed and expelled dynasty will certainly not add to the contentment of the hungry and freezing proletarian. In view of this situation the Com munist Party follows the correct tac- tic when again and again, it calls up- on the social-democratic masses and also upon the social-democratic party for a united struggle against Locarno, for social policies, and an ° alliance with Soviet Russia. The winter of 1923 was a tragic period of severest defeats for the Ger- man. reydlution -movement but: all signs now promise that the winter of 1925 signifies the introduction to 4 period of the C. P. G.’s integration and the Communist movement in Ger- success. Recognition of a democratic system of government.” Here is stated plainly enough that the aims of the socialist leaders asso- ciated with the Forwards (which do- minates over the socialist party) are identical with those of Baldwin, Cham- berlain, Lloyd George, Mussolini and Morgan and company. Recognition is advocated. not for help to the workers’ republic. Support io Russia by the socialist leaders it to be a noose with which to hang ‘the Soviet republic upon the gibbet of bourgeois demo- cracy. Hoover entered Russia at the time of the famine, not to ‘help the strug- gling proletariat and poor peasantry, but to peacefully penetrate and des- troy the revolution. The socialists now calls for the entrance of Coolidge and Kellogg, of the American dollar into Russia, so as to destroy the fruits of the victorious Russian working class, Here is plain speaking. The For- wards wing of the socialist party does not conceal its real purpose in taking up the isste of recognition, For this reason it is not sufficient for the revolutionary workers to ad- vocate recognition of Soviet Russia, alone, To this must be added the slogan of defense of the Soviet Union. Recognition and defense of the Soviet Union must ber the watchword of every fricnd of the Union of Soviet Republics, Recognition of Soviet Rus- sia by England, France, Italy, ete. is 2 mask behind which lurks the | Fur Workers to Give’ Broader View of the World-Wide Struggle NEW YORK, Jan, 17.-~A broader la- bor journalism policy to “present the current history of our union and link our struggle with that, of the workers of other industries and countries” ts announced by the Fur Worker, official organ of the International Fur Work- ers’ Union, to begin with the Janu- ary issue. he The new program comes with the accession of O. Shachtman, editor and general president of the union, elected at the recent convention {n Boston. R, Youkelson is the: managing editor He will like it? Give your union brother «a “ot eg DAILY WORKDR, Soviet Russia sinister moves at Locarno, The bour- geois masters do not simply hope that -ecognition will destroy the Soviet regime; they base their hopes upon concrete deeds—the organization of the imperialist states into an alliance against Soviet Russia. The spirit of Locarno is not peace, it is war against the Soviet Union, The workers of New York and the workers of America cannot be content simply with the advocacy of recogn- ition and the establishment of trade relations. We\must go.one step far- ther. Everywhere the workers must take up energetically the slogan of recognition and defense of the So- viet Union, A whole campaign to de- feat the aims of the Forwards social- ists in discrediting Soviet Russia be- fore the workers, in dispelling the il- lusion that recognition alone would bring } to the Russian workers from t mperialist bankers must be taken up in all workers’ organizations. The lies spread about Soviet Russia, the lies about the Soviet regime in which’ the New York. Forwards,-out- strips the most yellow journalism, can be answered only by relating the ac complishinents -of the first wotkers’ republic. An agitation pointing ont the dan- ger andthe need for defenseviot..the Soviet Union against Locarno and the qnastery ‘of the’ American’ dollar, «will bring nearer Russian recognition-and | will thus detéat the yellow ea socialists, “Community Chest” Heavy on Chest and Weak on Community NEW ORLEANS, Jan, 17, — The budget of the community chest organ- ized for sweet charity's ke has been placed at $1,177,001.14, However, out of this sum, twenty-five thousand dollars will be ‘expended for renumer- ation of the drones for collection and necessary expenses, $120,000 for “emergency funds and maintanence of headquarters.” e American legion is down for $7,982.60, and the boy scouts, composed of the sons of well to do parents, receive $20,699.35 for the maintemee of headquarters, and By William F. Dunne like the Locarno pact; are peace ‘gés- tures but they have the kindred and sinister purpose. of demoralizing the workers of these unions, by higher wages and security of employment, etc., destroying their class connection and interest witlr the less privileged sections of the workingclass. This tactic, like that of militarization of the population, as seen in the Capper- Johnson bill, is characteristic of im- perialist methods. Sim, ben of this phase of imperial- sae Lenin said: SeeaNieay! capitalism has produced a HANDFUL of people (less than one-tenth of the population of the globe, and with the most liberal and exaggerated figuring, less than one-fifth) especially in the wealthy, arid powerful nations, who plunder, the entire world *Y, the simpl ‘ellp- ping of coupons.’............ It is easy to perceive, that from such large additional profit (for it is re- ceived in addition to the profit which the capitalists extract from the workers of ‘thelr: own’ country) \fa- bor leaders and the upper strata of the workers’ aristocracy CAN BE BRIBED. So the capitalists of the ‘progressive’ countries bribe them by a thousand different means, dl- rect and indirect, open and secret. “This upper strata of workers of* ‘workers’ aristocracy,’ which Is wholly petty bourgeois with regard to their manner of living and the size of their earnings as well as with regard to their entire world viewpoint, constitutes one of the main props of the second interna- tlonal, and at present the main peacetime SOCIAL PROP FOR THE BOURGEOISIE. For the truest AGENTS OF THE BOUR- GEOISIE. IN THE LABOR MOVE- MENT are the labor lieutenants of the capitalist cl. (Empha- sis in the original—W. F. D.) ANY workers have been puzzled by the new-born friendship” be tween the American labor aristocracy and bureaucrats and the social trai- tors at the head of the second interna- tional and the German trade unions in particular. Here is the reason, 1. e., they are one in their support ot capitalism, tho they differ on such questions as independent parliamen- tary action. Even on this question the American and German bureau- crats are not so far apart @s may appear because today the German 8o- clal-democracy forms a coalition gov- ernment with the purely capitalist parties. The debauchery of large sections of the American labor movement is ® matter of the gravest concern to every honest worker and it is a part of the war on the whole working class comducted by American impe- rialism—it is the corollary of the in- creasing enslavement by American imperialism of the workers of other as. lands. (ro Be Continued). ELEVENTH WEEK OF CIVIC OPERA CLOSES SEASON Many Attractive Pieces Feature in Windup The last week of the current sea-- son of the Chicago Civic Opera Com- pany will be distinguished by excep- tionally fine programs. Monday night will be graced by the merry, tuneful “Barber of Seville” with its atmosphere of old Spain; its flowers and mantillas; its caballeros and senoritas. The cast—Macbeth, Claessens, Rimini, Trevisan, Lazzari, and the great Tito Schipa. Conductor, Moranzoni. é Tuesday night will witn the third presentation of Tolstoi’s dra- mati¢ “Resurrection,” music by Al fano, with the star cast headed by Mary Garden that made its American premiere New Year's Eve. an epoch- naking artistic triump. Ansseau and 3aklanoff wiN support, and Monnet will conduc®, .. Wednesday night will feature the re- turn of Titta Ruffo singing opposite Charl@s Marshall in the tragic “Otel- jo,” with Anna Fitziu-and Alexander Kipnis. Marshall's triumphant. intro- duction” to the United States was in this great opera, of love and intrigue, Conductor, Moranzoni, Thursday night will be distinguished by the beautiful, lilting, ever popular “La Traviata,” with iusto, Schipa, Bonelli, and Ballet divertissement. Conductor, Moranzoni, Saturday's matinee (Jan, 23) wil attest the tremendous reception al- ready given “Resurrection,” with ‘a fourth presentation of this great work, for the especial benefit of the subscribers for that day. The cast before—Garden, Ansgeau, Bak! with Moranzoni conducting. Then on Saturday night (Jan, 28) will come the finale of a wondertyl season in a revival of the beautiful and romantic “Lucia di Lammermoot” with Macbeth, Schipa, Mohica, Bonelli, Lazzari, and Corps de BBallet; St, Leger will conduct, 7 salaries of so-Called’ seout masters the lute lamented: P. T, Bar- num said “there is one born, every minute.” In this city the clock is running fasiand going rapidly, ¥ You do the job tibice as well— when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your story init, ~ , —