The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1926, Page 6

<2 eal esrb ne i Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Wasbington Bivd., Chicago, In, Phone Monroe 4712 Geeeehicenemeeeneyensadshneniepee eee eceeerem—eneen SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.60 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, II!ino! a ele aad See en. pei cia tt cothenlie, AE J, LOUIS ENGDAHL Bittors WILLIAM F. DUNNE [OO .Business Manager MORITZ J, LOEB......sesecseoseores (re TS Entered ay second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Lil, under the act of March 3, 1879, EN 290 Bas Advertising Untimely application. The Straggle Within the League Premier Aristide Briand of France and Austen Chamberlair, foreign minister of Great Britain, are soon to meet’and discuss what capitalist newspaper correspondents refer to as “a rift which has been growing between the two countries.” With Britain at Locarno striving to align Germany with her interests"and the imminence of the German government entering the 1 the control of Britain strengthened. Hence France, thru its domination of Poland, incites the Warsaw government to insistently demand a permanent seat ou the league council, so that it may balance Germany when that country enters. sue council, France sees immensely This maneuvering only confirms the Communist charge that the league of nations is merely a sphere of diplomatic intrigue wherein the nations affiliated with it build, up new alignments. The irreconcilable economic contradictions. between the nations within the league are giving rise to ever more bitter conflicts, and point unerringly to the time when they will burst the bounds of the machinery of the league and flare forth into another imperialist wa This present diplomatic conflict is only one of a dozen that menace the peace of the world and not all the exalted praise of the “peace spirit of Locarno” can efface that fact. Gilbert Admits Dawes Plan Failure Following the admission of one of the German commercial leaders that the condition of Germany is growing worse instead of better and that the Dawes plan must be revised, comes the con- fession of S. Parker Gilbert, agent general of reparations that there will be no such cash payment under the Dawes plan and that if the debtor nations want reparations they will have to take them in German goods. The reason given by Gilbert is that German cur- rency: will collapse if transfers in cash are made. The contradictions that rend capitalism here appear in the sharpest form. None of the debtor nations have markets for Ger- man industrial products} they cannot dispose of the commodities produced in their own factories, The so-called western orientation of Germany thru the Dawes plan is in a crisis of such magnitude that it must force Germany to turn to Russia as its only market thru which to dispose of its industrial products. By playing the game of Britain at Locarno the German government has caused Russia to take drastic steps toward building its own industrial machinery, which will soon shut off that market. The collapse of the Dawes plan before immutable economic laws brings nearer the day when the German proletariat must rise and overthrow its capitalist oppressors and then, under the crimson banner of the proletarian revolution, forge into one vast economic whole the industries of Germany and the tremendous natural re- sources of Russia under the political shield of the proletarian dic- | tatorship. i ar Labor Lieutenants Boost Smith for Sinate Now that the congressional elections are just over the horizon the labor lieutenants of capitalism are beginning to issue statements regarding the various candidates they favor. As is well known Senator William B. McKinley, the Champaign, Illinois, traction magnate and defender of the world court, is running for re-election and is being opposed by a professional republican politician from Dwight, named Frank L. Smith. Smith was hatehed in the same incubator with his down state neighbor of Kankakee, Governor Len Small, has been a staunch sup- porter of the reactionary McKinley, and for twenty years has been known as a despiser and reviler of organized labor. Now, when he desires to go to the senate the subterranean forces begin to stir the filthy pot of labor politics and bring to the surface one Samuel P. Luzzio, president of the Chicago Track Layers’, Construction and Repairmen’s Union, and vice-president of the Chicago Building Trades Council, who proceeds to apply the “reward your friends and punish your enemies” non-partisan policy of the treacherous official- dom of the American Federation of Labor by securing the follow- ing emolument from the Chicago Herald and Examiner: “Former Mayor William Hale Thompson, Frank L. Smith, chair- man of the Illinois commerce commission, and the Herald and Examiner and other Hearst papers were tendered a vote of thanks yesterday, by 3,000 members of the Chicago Track Layers’, Con- struction and Repairmen’s Union, for their ‘frank, honest and clear “stand against the world court.’” The resolution was presented, not by a rank and file member, but by Luzzio, and passed by his clique of henchmen, who presume to speak for the total membership of the organization, It is by such fraudulent methods as these that eapitalist can- didates create the fiction of labor support. The resolution is a stereotyped thing, drawn up by campaign supporters of Smith and ends with an endorsement of hjs candidacy. One tremendous advantage of labor party agitation is that it exposes these political henchmen of the capitalist parties, mas- querading as labor leaders. Until labor organizes its own party it stands perpetually in the dock to be bartered to the capitalist clique that can create the largest slush fund to pay labor fakers for put- ting thru such insults to the labor movement as the Smith resolution. Coolidge is now being properly tarred with the stick of graft that smeared the carcass of the late Harding. What teapot dome did to the dead Harding, the Mellon aluminum trust seandal may do to Coolidge. The prosecution of the aluminum trust was “in- defintely postponed” following a conference between Coolidge, At- torney General Sargent and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, the chief brigand,of the aluminum trust. cet a member for the Workers Party and @ new subscription gl the DAJLY WORKER 4 AION IEE SALT IN om Danger Article Hl. By WILLIAM F, DUNNE, ia group of imperialists has three enemies—its working class the enslaved colonials and its imperial- ist opponents in the game of grab, So in every imperialist nation the bribing of certain decisive sections of the workers is accompanied by an increase in armaments and the exten- sion and consolidation of the war ma- true that the preparations for e disguised somewhat by the sistence on peaceful intentions as witness the suggestions for disarma- ment which emanate from time to time from eminent statesmen but which invariably coincide with some new plot against the -working class and the peace of the world. One Capper-Johnson bill, however, speaks louder to the ears of intel- ligent workers than all the scrapping of useless battleships and hypocritic- al paens of praise to peace in the abstract. F American imperialism dreams no dreams of conquest, and does pot jintend to materialize these dreams into a bloody nightmare of slaughter for the working class, why is it that with the ink scarely dry on the Lo- arno, pact, hailed in the capitalist ress as opening a new era of “peace by understanding,” military training camps dot the land and the war-lords openly discuss the advisability of a military dictatorship the moment “the next war” appears possible? The Chicago Tribune for January 11, quotes Secretary of War Davis as follows.on the Capper-Johnson bill: “Call it a dictatorship if you will, but the fact remains that it is ne- cessary to lodge vast power in the executive to fight a war success- fully jand with the minimum cost of man-power and material resour- ces, If this bill proposes dictator- ship then we fought the last war un- der a dictatorship eventually and that was what enabled us to win. “This bill simply proposes to provide for the emergency IN AD- VANCE so that man-power and re- sources can be mobilized at once on the outbreak of wars and prices controlled instead of losing valu- able time by delaying until such measures could be enacted after war begins.” (Emphasis mine--W. F.\D.). NDER the guise of “conscription of wealth as well as man-power,” the slogan of the middle-class ele- ments who suffered from the exac- tions of the big capitalists during the recent Morgan crusade for democracy, a complete militarization of the work- ing class is legalized at any time the war-thermometer, manipulated by the imperialist propagandists, rises to the necessary level. The sponsors of the bill claim that it was inspired by the demand made by Senator Fall’s gray- haired playmate, one Warren Gamaliel Harding, in his inaugural address, for legislation to “conscript wealth as well as men in time of war.” But the correspondent’ of the Chi- cago Tribune, in a careless moment, gives the show away. In the same story from which we quote above, the Tribune says: “The more the matter was stu- died, however, the more it became eae apparent that What:was declared IS NOT THE CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH, NOT THE: TAKING OF PROPERTY, BUT THE CONTROL OF RESOURCES BY THE. GOV- ERNMENT TO INSURE THEIR MOST EFFECTIVE USE IN THE WAR EFFORT..,... Hence the term ‘DRAFTING MATERIAL!’ re- sources employed in an earlier bill WAS DROPPED and ‘CONTROL’ substituted.” (Emphas' mine— W.. .F... Diy. “So in the next waz, as in the last one, the law of loot will not be re- pealed and -only the workers, not wealth,” will be conscripted. Imperial- ism guards its treasyre well. 1 becsete imperialismy, not only are certain sectiong ;of the labor movement debauched ‘and prepara- tions made for blogdy wars of con- quest but these wane are directed against both imperialist rivals and the workers and peasants of the colo- nial and semi-colonialyregions. The Reuters incident:is one which shows that the penetnation of\ the so- called backward nations like China by imperialist nations,for the purpose of subjugating and ropbing the work- ing class population, inevitably leads to strained relations, between the im- perialist rivals which is a principal factor in the increase of armaments and the militarization.of the working- class, " In the same issue,of the Chicago Tribune which carries the article on the Capper-Johnson bill (a coincidence not without significance) is the story of the conflict between American and British interests in China. NDER the head “Allege Reuters Twist U. S. News in Far East— Ahead for Labor Yankees Critical of British Press Service,” a copyrighted dispatch says: “Considerable stir has been caus- ed here by an editorial in the China Press, an American paper here, charging Reuters, a British news service with the suppression of news references to America’s Chinese policy, the editorial says that Reuters enjoys a practical monopo- ly in.supplying foreign news to the Chinese press and for a consider- able period deliberately has been suppressing news of the views of the American policy in regard to China. the paper also charges that Reuters’ deliberate twisting of reports with regard to the British rubber monopoly is leading people in the far east to believe the whole American protest is a huge joke and not serious. It says Reuters only sends reports to the Chinese Papers which are critical of the A- merican policy, giving the Chinese a false impression of the American policy with respect to China’s na- tional aSpirations.” It is evident from the above that the contest to determine whether British or, American imperialists shall sob the Chinese masses, is causing the “blood is thicker than water” and the “hands across the sea” stuff to wear thin quite rapidly. The American and British soldiery in China are not shooting one another as yet but—they are butchering the Chinese Workers, peasants and stu- dents in the interests of their impe- rialist bosses. ITH Mexico also we are nominal- ly at peace. But the demands of Wall Street upon Mexico become more and more = co] = insistent, Abandoning its recent pre- vious policy of private, conferences and agreement with Mexican officials, Wall Street now works directly and openly thru the state department. A news item under a Mexico City date line of January 6th, says: “A dispatch from Washington stating that the United States gov- ernment looks with disfavor upon Mexico’s’ new laws limiting the rights: of foreign ownership, and regulating petroleum production mining, caused a big stir here to- day. EI Arafico this afternoon says there have been numerous ar- rests in the capital and more are to follow as a result of the recent attempt to start a new revolution + + Among those arrested are members of the thirtieth congress, in which members of the de la Huer- ta party are exceedingly prominent, and officials of the city government who are de la Huertistas. It was | Senor de’ Ja Huerta, a former fin- Ance minister, who headed the last verr—he whose charitable instincts big revolt which was crushed by former President Obregon.” Cause and effect seldom are con- tained more concisely in one short news story. “It means that American imperialism is following its traditional policy, in Mexico—a two-sided policy of bringing pressure on Mexican gov- ernments from outside, by threats of withholding or withdrawing recogni- tion if objectionable laws relating to the disposal of natural resources are passed, and of encouraging or actual- ly , organizing reactionary revolts agdinst the ‘offending government. E come next to the recent activ- ities of the versatile Herbert Hoo- did not prevent his snooping into the Notes of an Internationalist A Workers’ and Peasants’ Government—with Large Land Owners! By JOHN PEPPER. sha great, election victory of the Communist Party.of Czecho-Slo- vakia has created:\a:: fundamentally changed political siyation. The coali- tion parties, which jheretofore consti- tuted the government, continue to hold the majority, if is true, but this majority, much reduced, has become shaky. The national epposition of the oppressed nationak«mimorities (Ger- mans, Slovaks, Hungarians, and Ukrainians) and the,class opposition of the Communistg*have undermined the foundations of;the present-day coalition administration in Czecho- Slovakia. 502. The Czech social-democratic party which for years hagloparticipated in the bourgéois coalition’ government, of course “in the interests of the pro- letariat” and also for “upholding the state,” feels itself especially uncom- fortable. The bourgeois coalition still retains the majorityyin the new par- liament (it has 159. representatives out of a total of 300) but the Czech social-democratic gentlemen are ne- vertheless uneasy, «;Phey feel the re- newed pressure ofi:the proletarian masses, they are gripped by panic at the invincible advamee of the Com- munist Party and now seek to turn the stream by crafty ;maneuvering, The tractible Czech social-demo- By ISRAEL AMTER. a hued power of the press. is tremend- ous, The capitalists recognize this power and adapt the press to their needs. By promoting certain ideas, by coloring other ideas, they instill in the workers a feeling and conviction that ‘the present system js correct in its . organization, even tho here and there defects ~may be found in the operation of the system, The capitalists recognize that think- ing workers are a thenace. Hence they foster the idea of lulling the workers to sleep, providing them with such reading matter as will take their attention away from the real prob- lems, and burying them in nonsens- ical manifestations of the system. Thus the dailies are filled with humor- ous pictures, ridiculing this and that, yet always suggesting that these are slight errors that Must be corrected. The workers are poisoned by this reading and pictorial matter. They are not allowed to examine the ques- tion to the bottom—but on the con- trary are restrained from doing so. This poison is spread thruout the working class and the working class, yields to it with little resistance. No Communist or radical worker questions the power of the press, He recognize that the press is a medium for reaching the workers and opening their eyes to the nature of the system, its operation and effect on the work- ers, Every Communist realizes that the press may reach workers who otherwise are closed to new ideas, The press is a weapon of the working class that functions when the indi- vidual or groups of workers are not in a position to function, @ One has further to count with the prejudices of the workers, A back- ward worker or even one strong in his convictions in favor of the pres- ent system very reluctantly acknow- ledges mistakes that he makes and upholds. Whén alone with a paper that he can fead at his leisure, his pre- judices faliraside and“he looks at the question with less opposition. Fur- thermore, jt-de not the gift of if at SS — ae What Our Daily Worker revolutionary to be able to convince each and every worker. It is Com- munist tactics to piek out special Communists to approach certain work- ers in order to win them for the Com- munist movement. The variety presented by the Com- munist press makes it possible to reach category of workers and thus win them over to the party. - The Communist..press must be re- garded as one of the most powerful instruments of the party. A cam- paign &mong the workers to convince them of the necessity of reading the Communist press is, a difficult cam- paign. It requires, the keenness of every party member to get subscrib- ers; it is a long and difficult task— but it is a task that dare not be ne- glected. A single Daper reaches many workers. It passes from hand to ‘hand. It sows ideas that, eonvince the work- ers, thru their experience of the cor- rectness of the Communist position, How shall a campaign be carried on? The Britishy@Gommunist Party has employed a »pplendid method. House-to-house camyasses are a. regu- lar method of the British” party. Squads of memberg go from house to 1ouse in the working class districts, soliciting subscripfions for the party papers. These campaigns are politi- cal campaigns of the first order. The canvasser not only must solicit sub- seriptions, but must also elaborate the Communist position on all work- ing class problems and convince the workers of the Communist attitude on the class struggle, ‘ What is the consequence of these campaigns? “The sharpness of the Communists is intensified. They are obliged to formulate their position with clarity, They are compelled to meet the arguments of the workers. They gain experience that is invalu- able for their work, Each canvassemapust meet the ar- guments of the er that he takes from the capitalist press regarding Soviet Russia, “machinations and intrigues” of Communist Inter- national. He be able to an- awer the contenbigns of the capital- crats now try to mimic the methods of the Communist International and ery for a united front. Of course, a united front as they conceive it, of a social-democratic, hence opportunistic and traitorous kind. The Czech social- democrats who are responsible! equal- ly for the suppression of the national minorities and for the subjection of the proletariat, have proposed to the Communist Party to combine with the Czech and” German social-democrats and the agrarian party of the present minister-president, Svehla, in forming a@ new government. The slick social- democrats also immediately worked out a complete program. The eight- hour day, tax reform, tenant protec- tion and ail the other worthy and fine things that they hitherto betrayed in the bourgeois coalition “government, but which they now want to realize under the new coalition. In their pro- posal they even had the effrontery to call this new coalitio™ “workers’ and peasants’ government.” \— If such a government came into existence it would truly be a most pe- culiar workers and peasants’ govern- ment, The representatives of the workers —the —various social-demo- cratic, national-socialist and Commun- ist Parties—would be taking part to be sure, but the peasants would be represented in this government by the large landowners. The various work- Campaign Means ist press regarding strikes, lockouts, ete, in this country. (Who does not know that the capitalist press in- variably is on the side of the bosses in all strikes? The workers know it, but continue to read the capitalist papers.) The DAILY WORKER is the organ of the Workers (Communist) Party. he Communists must make The DAILY WORKER the organ of the working class. This drive of the party to increase the circulation of The DAILY WORKER must be régarded by the party membership as an im- portant political and organizational task. “A DAILY, WORKER in each workman’s home,” must be our slo- gan, Teams of comrades in the street nuclei must scour the working class districts and, in comradely rivaly, vie with another in procuring subs. The comrades in the shop nuclei must car- ry on a like campaign in the shops, even tho their work is more difficult, All the comrades in the unions, fra- ternal organizations, etc., must do the same. Make the subscription campaign in connection with the Lenin memorial meetings a real memorial to our great leader, Died While Waiting “Speedy Justice” in Suit Against Bosses NEW YORK—(FP)—While radium necrosis, newly discovered occupa- tional disease, claims its eighth known worker victim, doctors studying it disclose the danger “for other radium workers. Marjorie Carlgugh, 24, sev- en years-a watch dial inter for th U. 8. Radium -Corp. of New Jerse; died with her $75,000 damage suit against her employers untried. She had been ill for months, Her. sister, Mrs. Sarah T. Mailleger, 35, died in the summer from the same di after eight years’ — > ers’ parties, the Czech social-demo- crats, the German social-democrats, the nationaksocialists and the Com- munist.Party of Czecho-Slovakia have no parliamentary majority hence the artful ,social-democratic parliamentary combination could only come into ex- istence-by. coalescing with the Svehla agrarian. party. x But this.agrarian party of Minister- President Svehla is the party of the Czech) Jarge landowners, it is under the direction of the very worst ex- ploiters: of the:rural proletariat and even tho.some small peasants may have yoted for this party they play only the role of good-natured, stupid sheepcherded by the snappish shep- herd: dog. The: Communist Party of Czecho- ‘Slovakia of course very energetically rejected: this proposal to form a “worker. and peasant government” with the large landowners and called upon the, social-democrats to form a reak united front in the interests of the workers, the real peasants, and the oppressed nations: The principal task ofthe Czech Communists now is to show, inthe examples of the thou- sands ,efismall economic questions of daily, life, that they alone represent the interests of the masses and that the cunning, yes, altogether too cun- ningly maneuvering~social-democrats, are only indulging in maneuvers. (Continued from page 1). and the last meeting this was one of the chief demands of a group of delegates, “take out the maintenance men.” The officials who had made it their business to. be present in order to keep the angry delegates quiet, cautioned the assembly got to take matters in their own hands, The “advice” of the organizer’was to be- have and follow the policy of their leaders.’ ~ Pickets were placed at the col- Meries on Saturday in order to stop work but no violence occurred. Over Sunday the anger of the miners had increased and on Monday morning crowds pt miners had gathered’ in different’ parts of the towns, Cossacks Rush In. As usual, whenever worker» take matters in theif own hands, go above the head’ of their spineless leaders, at the command of the crjish them. No sooner had the first, call gone out as to what was happening at’the two collieries cossacks hurried there with guns. and clubs. Their forces were supplemented by a-detail of coal and iron police. The miners are quiet at the present time but a spark is Hable to go off at any time, The police ‘| patrol the town, - Since the very start of this strike the progressive miners have demanded the withdrawal of these maintenance men, All these months the left wing elements have fought for this demand, in face of the policy of persecution, arrests and expulsibn directed against them by the combine. of the coal operators, the labor bureaucracy and the capitalist gov ent, In many mass meetings progressive speakers have charged these mainte- nance men with doing other work than is classified “maintenance” We have charged them with timber ing, drilling and doing exploration work, we have charged them with doing other ‘k which comes under the classification of scabbery. The HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! demand to withdraw thaoe ~ypinte- saanasccssacr t Mt NARA aia ote A tion: By William F. Dunne intimate affairs of all the ‘govern. | ments to whose aid he came as ad- ministrator of the food supply during - the war. The knowledge thus gained . he utilizes now for the advancement of \the interests of his masters—the House of Morgan and the industri: lords who make up its retinue. Hoover, as secretary of commerce, has developed a great dislike, amount ing to aversion, for monopolies; mot for American monopolies, which are wise and generous, but for “foreign” monopolies. Foreign monopolfes: are bad, according to the Hooverian theo- ry, because they are subsidised by the governments of other nations. In a Washington dispatch of January .6, Hoover is quoted as saying to a con- gressional committee of investiga- * “The world has often seen at * tempts to set up private monopolies, but it is not until recently that we have seen governments revive a long forgotten relic of medievalism and of war time expediency by de- liberately erecting official controls of trade in raw materials, and thru these controls arbitrarily fixing prices to all the other people in the © world. It is this intrusion of gov- ernments into trading operations 6n © a'vast scale that rai a host of | new dangers—the inevitable after - math of any such efforts by political agencies to interfere with the nor- mal processes of supply and de mand.”" E amiable Hoover threatens no _ Anthracite Miners Begin Picketing |withdrawal of the isc one. He merely speaks in a warn- ing tone and points out the “possi- bilities’. as in Current History for December, 1925, where he says: _ “We are, of course, a large pro- ducing as well as a consuming na tion in raw materials, and we have it within our powers to retaliate, so that we could take care of our selves if the world is to develop this form of international relation. The industrial countries of Europe, how- ever, HAVE LITTLE OF SUCH RESOURCES AND THE GROWTH OF THESE METHODS CAN ONLY LEAD TO FURTHER RETARDA- TION OF THEIR RECOVERY.” (Emphasis mine—W. *. D.). This is fairly plain speaking. It means that American imperialism will establish a boycott of such na- tions as do not meet their terms in the matter of access to and price of raw materials. But Hoover goes much further than this, In the Chicago Tribune of Jan. 7th is found the following illuminat- ing information which we cull from a Washington dispatch: | “Mr. Hoover revealed that the ad- ministration has asked American bankers not to finance the rubber, coffee or other monopolies, and that the bankers have complied.” s oe not only does the department of commerce threaten to depriv: tions whose governments aid indus- trial monopolies in the materials A- merican imperialism wants to pur chase ‘at its own price, but the de- partments of state and commerce act- ing together shut off al? loans to for- eign capitalists who are aided by their governments. Only the fact that these éther gov- ernments are in no position to fight prevents this being an act of war. It is nevertheless a warlike act. ‘ (To be continued.) | u nance. men was carried to the anthra- cite miners in every possible manner. Today we witness the spectacle of & group of union miners assuming the role of pickets and attempting to cone vince their’ fellow union members to lay down’ his tools. We witness the beautiful spectacle of union minérs, their ranks divided, engaged in street battles with each other. In the mean- time the bosses sit back and. watch things without=a care in the world. Such is but a sample of the lea¢ ship and the policy which’ has been effective since the strike commenced, Pittsburgh District Desperate. In the bituminous fields the ‘union is’ fighting for its existence. The Pittsburgh district’ is rapidly going 0 pieces. The operators are —— hitherto organized -territory: while union officialdom sits back-and sighs. Town after town is being populated! with imported non-union eléments m the south, oi ig Searchlights grace the tipples and all public buildings in’ these little | mining towns, Thé mines are géing back to work on the 1917 scale, which is a twenty per cent’ reduction ‘in wages less than the Jacksonville agreement. Lewis threatened’ the’ op- erators with a general strike. Now is the time for that strike, te Progressives Go to Membership, — At all meetings of the progressive miners in this region, where the ques+ tion of the maintenance men and @& general strike is discussed, the ranle and file ich a step is tially necessary for the pre of the organization, It is unanimously agreed to that if this policy of scab- bing on each other is continued the union will be soon smashed, ‘ If the position of these miners, who attend the meetings of the progres: sive miners, can be taken® ym! of the sentiments of the 4 file, which certaftily it 46, "1 mands are for a national national agreement e) dustry nationally and