The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1926, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, I. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): i $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 J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Btitors WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB.......cssseensensssesesenen Business Manager ——<—<—<—<———————————————— Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, [il., under the act of March 3, 1879. 390 . Advertising rates on application. ————————————————————————— SE Henry Ford Embraces a Spook Henry Ford, ignorant mechanic, who thru intensive exploita- tion of labor has become one of thé most powerful industrial mag- nates of the world, has a new spook—réincarnation. Voicing this preposterous doctrine in a recent interview he invoked a reply from Luther Burbank, the plant wizard of California. Burbank is a scientist, a thinker, who speaks with some authority because of his scientific outlook. He replies to Ford that he is unable to accept the theory that we will live again on this earth or any other. Ford is notorious for his ignorance of eyerything that passes for en- lightenment among intelligent people. He is the author of the famous watchword “History Is Bunk.” Pilloried as an ignoramus he con- soled himself with trying to revive old-fashioned dancing and sought amusement and solace by picking up a mendicant fiddler, bringing him to his luxurious home in Dearborn, Michigan, hiring some piano thumper to make orchestrations of the “tunes” played by the fiddler and eventually shipping the virtuoso of the hoe-down to his native land. His knowledge of music parallels his knowledge of history, which registers zero. Like all other religionists, tho he knows nothing of the world in which he lives, he professes to know everything about other worlds and life after death. If Ford were not a billionaire his opinions would be everywhere rated as on a par with other religious quacks, the phrenologists, fortune tellers, spiritualists, voodoo docters, christian scientists, Gideans, holy rollers and international bible students. All religion is, as Marx said, dope for the working class; an opiate that paralyzes the mind so that workers will be content with things as they are upon this earth. Ford says he believes that life on this éarth is “solely for the purpose of giving experience to men for future lives.” That is good propaganda for a slave driver. If he can induce his slaves to believe that the harder they work in his factories making tin lizzies the better chance they will have of securing satsifactory conditions in their next appearance upon earth, he and his profits are safe for a long time to come. But if they realize the fact that this life is the only one and that there is no other they will organize and fight to get theirs while they are here upon the earth this time. a soanenemnecees . American Heroes in the Philippines One of the superlative blessings of American conquest:of the “Philippines is two generations of illegitimate children, offspring of Filipino mothers and American fathers. These heroes that have in- vaded the islands for the past quarter of a century have given the natives a splendid example of American uprightness and manhood by taking the native women as their wives during their sojourn on the islands and then, when they are called back to the U. 8. A., deserting va! j \ their families. . : The healthy stock of the natives has been polluted by. the back- ni wash of our society that makes up the standing army in peace time. Today there are in the islands an American population numbering 2 only 6,000, but there are 18,000 half breed children at this moment facing all the devastating effects of poverty because of their abandon- ment by their white fathers. Now comes Major General Leonard Wood, military dictator of the islands, with a request for $2,000,000 from the United States to help care for these offspring of American heroes. If there are 18,000 children at present the total result of race pollution by America has been sending its degraded hordes to the islands and giving them carte blanc to seduce, rape and pillage in the most approved 100 per F cent American hoodlum fashion. 4 Instead of raising millions to try to overcome some of the effects hf of this deplorable condition, the best way to atone for their crimes : is for the Americans to get out of the islands and permit the Filipinos to live their own lives free from interference by the heroes of the army, the navy and the marine corps. But that would be confrary to the wishes of the imperialist plunderers. Wood and his gang will get out only when the natives _- get sufficient power to force them out,and it is to be hoped the time is not far distant when they will have that power. In such a struggle they will have the support of all intelligent American workers. Another Sample of Labor Politics The despicable campaign of the Tabor fakers to suppert cap- its building trades council lining up’ if’ support of Frank %. Smith for United States senator, we now have the degraded spectacle of representatives of twelve labor unions, most of them teamsters’ and chauffeurs’ organizations, grovelling “‘before the strikebreaking, scab-herding, union-wrecking Crowe-Barrett republican organization and king this eontemptible machine to place on their ticket ni Municipal Judge William R. Fetzer for renomination. Such perfidy and rank treachery is almost inconceivable con- sidering the record of State’s Attorney Crowe, who used his aggrega- tion of thugs and gunmen attacked to his office in 1922 to raid union offices and imprison union officials on fake charges in an effort to aid the open shoppers and the Landis award gang in the building trades sm unionism in Chicagor The friendliness of leaders of labor to such a creature as Crowe should be sufficient cause to seourge them from official positions in the labor movement. Such people are the vilest of stoolpigeons and should be kicked out of the labor movement. Goyernor Small of Illinois is unique in one respect. He has his political machine so well organized that when he is caught misusing funds and ordered to make good a million dollars he simply proceeds to make the rest of the gang bear the burden. Perhaps they are ‘all so crooked t dare not refuse-to pay tribute to make good the shortage of the chief. s rd — diet a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER 4 must number hundreds of thousands over the period this country Article II. By WILLIAM F, DUNNE. HAT is it that American imperial- ism demands from its rivals and the weak colonial and semi-colonial countries from which most of the raw materials Hoover mentions are ob- taine Let oover answer: “| believe the solution lies in the willingness of statesmen thruout the world to recognize the conse- quences of government controlled production and price, and to meet the issue in the only way it can be met, that is, BY ABANDONMENT OF ALL SUCH GOVERNMENT AC- TION. (Current History for Decem- ber.—Emphasis mine.—W. F. D.) HE wealth and power of American industry, not damaged but given a | mew impetus by the world war, makes lit possible for it to prosper without direct government subsidies. (Only in shipping where British competition is | still met does the subsidy question arise.) No other great nation has an industry capable of this. American finance-capital holds mort- gages on the other nations and they must come to it for the needed loans. The American government does not subsidise the American monopolies but back of them stands the full pow- er of the American imperialist gov- ernment—its departments of state and commerce, and if economic pressure fails—its army and navy. If the “abandonment of all such gov- ernmental action” by other nations, i. e., the withdrawal of all subsidies to industrial enterprises whose prod- ucts Americkn imperialism buys, can be forced, then the American impe- rialists have the whole capitalist world at their mercy, No such arrogant and sweeping ul- timatum ever has been delivered be- fore. It is given now, because Ameri- can imperialism feels itself strong enough to demand entry, on nothing less than an equal basis, to those col- onial regions controlled by rival im- perialists—Great Britain in particular. to withdraw their subsidies to the spe- cial industries whose commodities Wall Street covets, and together with theenslaved workers and colonials who produce them, they will pass rap- idly into the clutches of American im- perialism. ABE imperialism drives for world hegemony. It has much but it wants it all. “Lenin’described this process in his Imperialism: “Not only are the already discov- ered sources of raw materials of importance to finance capital, but also the possible sources of such material technique is develop- ing very fast in our times, and the lands which today are useless, new methods happen to be discov- ered (and in such cases the large banks can send out special expedi- Danger Ahead for Labor tions, composed. of engineers, agro- nomists, etc.) and large amounts of capital are applied. The same applies to searches for new miner- al deposits, and researches for new methods of working and utilizing of one or another kind of raw ma- terial, etc. Hence the unavoidable tendency of finance capital toward expansion of its economic territory and even to the extension of terri- tories in general. Just as the trusts capitalize their property at two or three times their value, counting By JOHN PEPPER, POLITICAL career;jhas come to its end. Hoglund, ‘the former lead- er of the Swedish Communist Party, has returned to the social-democracy. A Babbitt run amuck; who for some years shrieked so loudly that he be- came self-convinced of his own revo- lutionism, has calmed down and final- ly broken with the affairs of the prole- tarian revolution, : 8 Hoglund was a leader of the Swed- ish youth: movement, participated as a pacifist in the Zimmerwald confer- ence and then directed the splitting off to the CommunistInternational of Let the other governments be forced; the left wing of the, mighty Swedish social-democracy, fit bd He came to the Comintern, his en- thusiasm was great, but he really ne- ver felt entirely at home in the Com- intern, He found the Communist In- ternational too “Russian,” too “back- ward,” and could never subject him- self to international discipline. From the very~beginning down to his in- glorious end, he was ever one-sidedly influenced by Swedish: conditions, in the words of Bucharin, by the “Swed- ish Idyll.” Sweden is a petty-bour- geois country without the tempests of the great cities, of the big industrial districts, without the revolutionary foundation that only fife great 'indus- trial proletariat can fiitnish. Sweden is a country which néver went thru a really serious revolfitiénary crisis, where revolutionary “traditions could ism was his attitude ‘on’ the question of religion, in which We sought to de- clare religion a “privaéfé*matter” also Hongkong (Great revolutionary changes are taking place in China. The present period is one of stirring, enthusias- tic struggle and the greatest factor in China’s battle today is the Hong- kong strike, even the existence of which has been concealed by the capitalist press.) see I RITISH imperialism, the ogre that has hovered over the East for many years is now receiving a blow that promises to be serious in the Hongkong strike. A strike of over 150,000 oppressed workers was de- clared six months ago, in sympathy with the Shanghai strikers who pro- tested against the brutal slaughter of defenseless, workers and students. At the very beginning of the strike Sir William Stubbs, the governor of |Hongkong was supposed to have gone on a long-delayed vacation, but jowing to the commencement of the strike he was ordered not to leave until he had effected a settlement. He was quite furious and issued a dec- laration to the effect that as those “bloody strikers” kept him from his vacation he would “show” them. NIOT long ago Sir William Stubbs 1% left Hongkong, but not on his va- cation; he left for Jamaica to govern Negroes. He had started out to show the workers where “to get off” so to speak, but, instead, it was he who was shown were “to get off.” He had instituted several forms of . punish- ment, which are not even used on the worst of criminals, to “punish” the strikers. He revived the use of the “cat” and of the “solitary.” He tor- tured the strikers to find out whether ist candidates having been launchéd by one of the officials of the }they had any “Bolshevik” leanings. This went on for a time but in no way diminished the progress of the strike. In fact the number of strik- ers increased two-fold... Parlia- ment held several meetings to decide whether the “cat” was the proper method to use to break the spirit of the strikers. Speeches were madeby eminent tories and still more eminent labor members and it must have been decided that the removal of Stubbs would save Britain’s-face! It N July, after most of the strikers} had come to Canton, a new era in the Chinese labor movement began. Thousands of workers, for Many years under the iron heel of the Hongkong imperialists had at last gotten away from under that heel and had come to Canton where they were welcomed with open arms. Canton, itself a chronic sufferer from British impertal- ism, embodied in Hongkong, could sympathize with the strikers. Almost immediately the strikers’ guard was formed, This guard con- sisted of over 3,000 men who keep the masses of strikers in perfect order, |The guard consistéjof men, picked be- cause of their mefital and physical fit- ness, who are trained by the officers of the revolutionary army. Ther] . SION ERI VON Canty Rema, iii eG Strike have special uniforms and for the most part carry batons!’ One of their important duties“ is®46 enforce the blockade and boycott a#ainst British goods. Those stationéd at the more deserted parts of thevéity and in the suburbs have rifles. ** © N China, as anywhepe in the world, no matter how intagge the patriotic feeling, there is always to be fouhd plenty of treachery and deceit. Here this treachery is expressed by a cer- tain part of the popiilation who at- tempt to smuggle pro¥isions to Hong- kong or try to conyey"provisions into Shameen, tlfe foreign’concession of Canton which is also |tiitder strict boy- cott. This is for thé'most part pre- vented by the strikérs’ guard, who keep a strict watch oh any would-be smugglers. . HEN thousands of people are idle and have nothing to do but eat and wait, there is a-danger of hooli- ganism arising. But this danger has been effectively killed by the discip- line instituted in the ranks of the strikers, In the morning and at night the roll is called and those missing are accounted for by their fellow- strikers, Strike pickets patrol streets and search any persons carry- ing suspicious parcels or bundles, After the institutié of shipping regulations by the strike committee, whereby no. British skips or any other craft carrying Britishpgoods is allow- ed to unload here, the strike pickets got busy to enforcesthe regulations. Every steamer comingeinto Canton is searched by strikea pickets. The blockade is being morally effected by the patriotic spirit he people and is technically being ‘c: ried out by the strikers’ guard. r iter HE strikers are mgt, entirely idle during this periodowhen the whole of China is looking atethem with eyes full of hope. The strike committee, consisting of men well-tried by the battles of the past, haye realized that without the political training of the strikers half of their gtrength is lost. There is a great difference be- tween a soldier whd@fights because he is ordered to and a soldier who knows what he is fighting for. The latter type is what the strike com- mittee has been striving to work out. They want the strikers who are struggling against imperialism to realize the full meaning of this struggle. i The strike committee has organized a special school for the political train- ing of the strikers, OLLOWING, is a report on the progress of the school: “(1) Eight sectior the strikers’ guards have been seat o the outlying distriets to enfores’ the blockade. Bach section is accompanied by a po- litieal instructor, “(2) The school sections of five stud@nts each, Every graduated five the} = 7 | a on the ssible’ future (not pres- ent) profits and on the further re- sults of monopoly, so also does finance capital in general tend to- ward the acquisition of as much land as possible, no matter of what kind, where, or how, counting on the future sources of raw materi- als, fearing lest it remain behind in the frantic struggle for the un- divided portions of the earth or the redivision of the already divided portions.” ‘i within the Communist Party. He could never tolerate the discipline of the Communist International and fought against it with all the finesse and in- not_evolve themselves. Hoglund ever felt himself a “Swede” in the narrow- est sense of the word and wanted to impose his “Swedish” policies upon the Comintern. The crassest example of his backward Philistine provincial- genuity of a typical intellectual. Of course, this was no accident; the Communist International represents the great proletarian masses of. the big industrial countries, the working masses of these countries in which the post-war crisis created a revolu- tionary situation and a revolutionary tradition. Hoglund’s rebellion against the Communist International was in the last analysis nothing other than[ the revolt of the petty-bourgeois Swedish Idyll against the Comintern, representing the revolutionary, great industrial proletariat. As Hoglund, in Stockholm, hoisted jthe Swedish flag of rebellion’ against the Red flag of the Comintern, he be- came at one blow the national hero of the Swedish bourgeoisie, and Mr. Engberg, the leader of the so-called “Teft” social-democrats declared that Hoglund was but a prodigal son and that the old social-democratic home- stead would ever be open for him. For sometime Zeth Hoglund was coy, he did not want to return to the social-democracy; he founded his own Communist ‘Party independent from Moscow, he created his own central Strategy Wins sleeping quarters or in the open air.” LLOWING are regulations issued by tHe strike committee regarding political work: “(1) The chief instructor must co- operate with the chief commander of the strikers’ guard in designating the movement of the guards, issuing no- tites and orders and controlling the educational work. ““(2) The instructors are responsi- ble for the education of the guard and for propaganda among the rest of the strikers. “(3) Each section must make a weekly report concerning the political education of the strikers during the week, “(4) The instructors must be fully informed of the spirit of the guard and must look out for any counter- revolutionary elements arising in the ranks of the strikers, “(5) The instructors are responsi- ble for propaganda; verbal and other- wise, . “(6) They must supply the strik- ers with proletarian literature.” Iv HE strike committee consists of ten members who werevelected by the strikers’ representatives’ assem- bly. It is similar to a presidium, or the central executive committee of a political party. All questions concern- ing the strike and its policy are de- cided by this committee. It holds meetings daily. : The strikers’ répresentatives’ as- sembly consists of representatives of the strikers and the proportion is ap- proximately one representative to every 50 strikers, They hold meet- ings three time a week. At every meeting reports on the polftical situa- tion are given by the leading figures of the Kuomintang. A financial report of the strike is given by the strike committee. After these reports they. have discussions in regard to them. The assembly forms the regulations of the strike and hands them to the committee for decision. Any member of the assembly has the right to pro-|! pose any action concerning the strike. INANCIAL support of the strike is received from many sources. The Canton merchants donate approxi- mately $15,000 a week. The oversea Chinese have also responded nobly, The following sums were received in one day taken at random: Canton merchants . Chinese colony in Cuba. Chinese colony in Cana Chinese colony in Mexico, Chinese colony in Vancouver. Chinese in United States citiés 53,600 Shanghai Physcial Train. A: 3,271 Following are the expenses of the 4 of the strikers for one day eer oat fendom Food rf To different organization: Tea, medicines $4,019.26 33.00 210.92 day, at 7 in the ev@ning th stud- ents speak to the “atrikers at their AC. Sundries “ay 63.34 Allowances 70.80 Furniture 32.65 Travelling expen: me an worker: Australia is entrenched firmly upon an industrial basis. existetice apart from that foundation, and its success or otherwise depends largely upon the organization of the ‘ndustrial and political their effective and harmonious inter- relations. vent the congress, fearing that it will within the party and the fear that if Labor was elected there would be a revolutionary change of government. Notes of an Internationalist ‘No. 3—Hoglund Again a Social-Demoerat.: organ, But events, have theii logic even in so petty, bourgeois a land as Sweden. At first Hoglund only fought against the “Cadaver, obedience” of the Comintern—then he supported the social-democrats in the parliamentary elections against the Communists, At first he was only against the “meth- ods” of the Comintern, later he iden- tified himselfi'with Trammael, who was preaching’ 4’ new revolution in Soviet Russia against the present one directed by Bolsheviks. At first he was’ only agains| himself also~against the dictatorship of the proletariat and, like a convert- ed sinner, he confesses himself “for democracy, the only method for the liberation of the: proletariat,” At first he founded a fraction with- in the Comintern against the Comin- tern; then he tried to build up a frac- tion, international in extent, outside the Comintern against the Comintern; and now he issues the ceremonious de- claration that he will refrain from all factional politics within the social-de- mocracy. ag Hoglund’s disgraceful end proves clearly the correctness of the Comin- tern policy in Sweden, the inevitibility of the split and the propriety of the methods whieh, marshalled the entire Communist Party, for the Comintern but against. Hoglund. Hoglund now, becomes an official member of the sgcial-democratic party of Branting, but politically alive, is now buried deeper and with more finality than Branting dead. Office expenses: 82.48 108.60 1,275.15 sembly. 315.31 jilding. 223.09 Total expenses....$6,446.15 A glance at these figures shows that while much money is being received from many sources, the expenses are large and funds are needed. (Many hapspngs, of strikers have gone to the interior to their homes and therefore do not receive financial support from’ the. strike committee. But ag to moral and, political support, propagandist sections are sent at fre- quent intervals to the interior to talk to the strikers and. peasants). vw) 5M of cad effect produced on Hongkong by the’ strike could not have been foretold by the most extravagant of prophets. The average daily financial loss in the turnover of trade is con- gervatively put at’ $4,000,000. The to- tal loss since the beginning of the strike is estimated at over $600,000,- 000. The economic pulse of Hong- kong has stopped beating. The tre- mendous business done by Hongkong in, pre-strike days’ has now dwindled to a mere ‘heap-of ashes. Hongkong used to be ‘the Skey to South China trade... sre of)? - All goods” had’ to pass thru Hong- kong before" it‘ could proceed to Can- CALL FOR LABOR UN. BY AUSTRALIAN LEFT WING GIVES the Australian Labot the militants in the par; flemanding a con, n in Australia at the ie. moment. A mani- the unions.reads, fn ery indication, both al as on the political fields, that @*reorganization of the whole of the labor movement, political and imdustrial alike, would be in the best interests of the mass of the The labor movement of it can have no wings and The political wing is trying to pre- It is claiming that t In the federal electio: due*té" thé presence of radical The militants say that Labor's de- feat wassdue-to the failure of the it the “dictatorship” | of Zinoviev, how however, he declares | By William F. Dunne | Fiennes activity in China un der the slogan of the “Open Door,” the financial and military penetration of Mexico, Central and South Ameri- ca, Cuba and Haiti, under the aegis of the Monroe Doctrine, to the almost complete exclusion of other nattong, and now the attempt to dictate the economic pqlicies of all other govern- ments expressed in Hoover's ultima- tum, together with the dominant po- sition of American imperialism in the field of international finance, show. that American imperialism com- thods of expansion as set* forth by Lenin. “Great colonial possessions,” said Lenin, “and a monopolistic position on the world market” are two teptoal characteristics of imperialism, \ ‘im: perialism,” he said, “has. a tendenoy to create privileged ranks also among from the broad masses of, the,prole- tariat.” t ENIN quotes a letter of Engels; to: Marx written during the time the two great revolutionists -were study- ing the “relation of opportanism in the labor movement to beac ‘ist, characteristics of capitalism.” i “The English proletariat is actual- ly. Becoming more and | more r geois, so that it appears that this most bourgeois of. all nations. evi- dently wants to bring things about to the point, where it will have ay bourgeois aristocracy. and a bour- geois proletariat alongside of the bourgeoisie. Of course, this is teva certain degree natural on the part of a nation exploiting the whole world,” And again, quoting a letter of Eng. els to Kautsky, 1882: “You ask me what the English workers think of the colonial police; They think the same of it do of politics in general. There is. no labor party here, there are only conservative and liberal radicals, while the workers most calmly share with them the benefits of England’s colonial monopoly and ite monopoly on the world market.” The analogy between the British la- bor movement of that period and the present condition of the American la- bor movement is obvious. Whole sec- tions of the Ameritan labor move- ment are sharing in the super-profits of American imperialism. (To be continued.) By SINBA ton, the commercial and political, capi- tal of South China, which contains 80,000,000 people who were forced to depend on Hongkong for import and export. Now Hongkong loses this trade and as a result is becoming eco- nomically rotten. (I have given @e- tual statistics as to the effect the strike has had on Hongkong shipping in a previous article). By LTHO Hongkong. has kept a poker face to the outside world she is beaten and she knows it. . Several times meetings were held by leading citizens in Hongkong and resolutions were drafted to urge the home gov ernment to take drastie action against Canton but no favorable answer has been received, Her commerce tied up, no chance for the settlement of the strike in the near future visible, Hongkong is certainly in a sorry plight. Many firms in Hongkong thave de- clared bankruptcy and there is. not, one firm, Chinese or foreign, in- Hong- kong that is not in danger of passing into the hands of a receiver. There remains one outlet for Hongkong and that is unconditional compliance with the demands of the strikers, A report has just been received of 5 «wi ae pee, ION CONGRESS» 8 te ‘arty to institute a live, radical policy. Had'this been done, they/assert; Labor would have had a sweeping -vietory in Australia Nov, 14, 4 At Brisbane the Communists,.have ‘been ordered to give up rooms in,the Brisbane Trades hall. Messrs. and, Moroney, chief officials .of the Queensland brané! of the. Australian Railways union, es been expelled from the Queensland executive of the Australian Labor party, They were the leaders in the recent successtul general strike of railway workers throughout Queensland which pelled the Labor government to grant an all-round increase in wages, They are not members of the Communist party. wae Priest Gets Jail for | _ Fake Charity Forgery RICHMOND, Va,, Jan, 19.~The Vie sinia supreme court today upheld the conviction and sentence to two years in prison of the Rey, Father ie P. Dennis, a catholic priest, F of Baltimore and Worcester, Ma Dennis Was convicted of of victimizing a local bank | large sum of money in \ ‘with an alleged charitable. \ plies in all these respects to the me-_ the workers and of separating them. wom