The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1926, Page 6

ae re \ Page Six SS ROSE ARN: THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by,the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outsid? of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months j $6.00 per vear .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 etehain m J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB.... .. Editors | aera ..Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of Mai 3, 1879, Advertising rates on application. A Side Light on North Dakota Today the remnants of the North Dakota non-partisan league 90 are‘assembled at Bismarck, that state. One group, known as the Sorlie-Nye faction is opposed to the newly organized farmer-labor party of that state, while another faction, realizing the futility of non-partisianism is avowedly in favor of endorsement of the farmer labor party. In preparation for the convention a number of shady political charlatans, corrupt editors, jay-bird lawyers and the usual riff-raff of spoils politics, have opened up a veritable barrage of lies against the farmer-labor party. The weekly rural press that thrives upon the crumbs it gets thru questionable political sources is trying to smog the issue by resorting to the hoax of raising the Communist bogey, because avowed Communists are aiding in the fight to estab- lish a farmer-labor party. One of the most stupid and crooked of these editors is one Ernest A, Frances, whose record is, according to reliable information in possession of Tur Dairy Worker, so vile that if it were generally known he would have to leave the country under cover of night. This creature published an ignorant screed against the farmer- labor party, repeating in his weird diction all the exploded fables about Russian gold financing the party and so forth. Like all of his type he did not venture a solution of the ills of the farmers. He remained silent on the present agricultural crisis and said nothing of the futility of the government’s various panaceas. Challenged to a debate by active leaders of the farmer- labor party this petty scribbler evaded the issue. Such creatures dare not face the light of publicity. Editor Francis dares not debate for he knows that in an open discussion in his own town wherein his career could be exposed he would have to account for his financial management of the farmers’ paper that he edits, he would have to answer for his record while county at- torney and for sundry other things that are unprintable—in other words he would have to leave town between dusk and dawn to escape the wrath of the people he pretends to speak for. Senate Demands Strike Intervention - Democratic and insurgent republican senators succeeded yester- day in rallying 55 votes against 21 for the administration and passing a resolution requesting Coolidge to intervene in the coal strike. The fact that the administration forces opposed the resolu- tion does not mean they are in’ principle against government inter- vention where necessary to defend the interests of the employers. They are considering the political consequences in the coming con- gressional elections. The record of Coolidge as a strikebreaker is already too long and too odious to be revived thru action in the an- thracite strike. Coolidge and his supporters realize that the combination of mine owners and traitorous union leaders has thus far been ade- quate to defend the interests of the bosses. Since the power of the government is not needed, why take steps that may antagonize the organized workers? The vote of the senate places Coolidge between two horns of a/ history so often were they exposed by| armed force. Even dilemma. If he does intervene he will be assailed by organized labor; if he refrains he will be accused of pussy-footing on the strike. The action of the senate makes the anthracite strike a political football and makes it all the more necessary that quick and decisive action be taken by the strikers, The action of thé general grievance committee of Wilkesbarre urging desertion of the mines by the maintenance men, thereby making the strike general, should be put into immediate effect. Every effort must be made to bring the strike to a victorious close in spite of the treachery of Lewis, Cappellini and company and the present ominous threat of government inter- vention. Anti-Imperialism in Fer East The International Association of Oppressed Peoples, recently or- ganized at Canton, China, already embracing suppressed peoples of the Far East, has' extended invitations to affiliate to other similar organizations of the world, including the All-America Anti-Im- perialist League, the American Negro Labor Congress, the Colonial Union of France and the nationalist movements in Java and the Philippines. With the division of the whole world into two camps—the predatory imperialist nations against the colonial peoples and those living under the mandates of the league of nations—it is only the logic of events that the oppressed peoples unite to liberate them- ves from the hideous and debasing thralldom of imperialism. The collapse of the league mandate system in the Middle and ‘Near East, the storming of Damaseus which for a time threatened to inflame the Mohammedan world, the war against the Riffians in Morocco and the unrest in Egypt and India tend to aggravate a situation that is already dangerous for the great powers of the world, If thé potential insurrectionary forces in Asia and Africa can be consolidated into one centrally directed movement a death blow can be administered to imperialism thruout the world. Mussolini pretends to know the history of his seountry and imagines himself emulating the dictators of the past. He ean derive small consolation from the fact that after a creature of his type went down with the Roman kingdom it was 500 years before any Roman politicain dared mention the word king except in execration. _ RENTS AA HR hill Before Walter Trumbull gets very far on his tour of the nation the United States government will regret the hour it put him in prison. det a member for the Workers Party and a new subseription _ tgp the DAILY WORKEK, i 4 \ clared: jcrees. Without such force they are “The court appears to be Inde- | totally impotent. No supreme court pendent of the league, The court | decision would be respected by those derives all authority from the stat- | {t is directed against if behind it was ute and is so completely independ- /not arrayed the formidable power of ent of the league that it could go on | the capitalist state, rae functioning if the league were dis- So with the world court. Its decis- banded, at least until the terms of | ions are enforced by the armed force the judges expired.” lof the various nations affiliated with He was careful to say nothing | the league. It’s recent decision on the about what might happen after the | Mosul steal permits England, as the terms of the judges expire. Such | power holding the Irak mandate, to HE death of Senator Medill Me- Cormick, of the International Har- vester trust, left Senator William ©. Borah, of Idaho, the undisputed leader of the irreconcilables in the repub- lican party. As chairman of the pow- | jerful foreign relations committee Yh the senate the Idaho senator was in} ;@ Strategic position to assail the| | Harding-Hughes-Coolidge world court | ae and he took full advantage | ayivey is on a par with the learned | marshal its army and navy against | | observations of that ornament of the|Turkey. In order to execute judg- Beginning his campaign two months |Ohio gang,” Senator Willis, who in| ments of the world court the league |before the opening of the senate he|the scandals of 1924 defended the | of nations must supply and does sup- j had the combination of administration thoroly putrid Harry M, Daugherty | ply the armed force, and no amount of and democratic forces on the defens- He Opposed Entry to World Court ive in spite of the efforts of the old |Suard to offset the Borah agitation by marshalling its forces in forensic ar- + Added to the stalwarts of the enate «were such luminaries as |Charles Evans Hughes and Edward |Bok. The latter handled the Morgan slush»fund. Pacifist societies, barely re en and openly proclaimed that nothing, in his judgment, can fulfill our inter- national obligations except full mem- bership inthe league of nations. The Maryland senator, who is recognized as an authdrity on the league and the world court; frankly stated: “The court le the auxiliary of the league, empowered to render decis- lons and advisory’ opinions which the league has the organ to carry into effect.” Anyone can verify the correctness of Bruce's opinion by reading article 386 of the brigand’s treaty of Versailles which refers to ‘the court as “the permanent court of international Jjus- tice of the league of nations.” The prestffent of the world court on the day of its official opening declared “the court is one of the principal or- gans of the league.” Beaten at Every Turn. ITH a mass of unimpeachable doc- umentary evidence from the rec- receiving enuf income to furnish sal- ries for the secretaries, were sud- enly revived. Defunct churches snd- |denly received contributions that had a far greater effect than the water of | everlasting life the preachers peddle |to their parishoners, all the riff-raff, ‘the lunatic fringe, the Greenwich | lage disciples of Sappho and Fri ‘ ‘ords of the court itself, the opposition | senators proved their case and de- democratic combination at every }turn. Finally the Coolidge defenders |were In ‘such dire straits that they | made pitiful pleas to enetr the court | because Elhiu Root, one time secre- \tary of state and former senator, was feated in debate the administration- | | and Oscar Wilde and Frank Harris, | the vegetarians, Mberals, millenial dawners, impoverished cross-roads | country hewspaper editors, experi-, }enced such prosperity as they had never known, as a veritable Niagara of glittering gold flowed from the vaults } of Wall Street in a stream that has not yet been stopped because the fight is, as yet, only partially won. Day and night for months the mot- | ley crew repeating the litany of pacif- ism in the service of imperialism in- toned in unison the propaganda of | the House of Morgan. But even then | the overwhelming majority of the American people remained ‘skeptical. Opinions were divergent regarding jthe meaning of American adher- | ence to the world court; some thot we | were to become involved in a scheme whereby England could use this na- tion for its own purposes. Others, a | minority, recognized the fact that it | was a maneuver to enable the House | of Morgan more effectively to pursue | its course of world conquest. | The Fight Opens. | JOR the third time in a message to congress Coolidge advocated ad- herence to the world court. Indulging* and described him “4s clean as a|slimy subterfuge or puritanical piffle in the customary banalities about sta- hound’s tooth.” ilis, one of the| can efface that plain fact. bility, tranquility and peace, he again | luminaries of the Coolidge camp said) AF } presented the Harding-Hughes-Coo-| on the floor of the senate: | Penk SHNOMent, - sale, lidge program. He repeated the} “Who, it is asked,, enforces thé ENATOR BRUCE, of Maryland, one bromide that the court was not a part | judgments of the qvorid court? I of the Wilson democrats, haslit- | of the league, reply, senators, thatthose decisions | tle patience with the evasiveness of Then, on'the appointed day, Desem-| are enforceable o} y an enlight- | Coolidge and his crew, so when he ber 17, the resolution was called up| ened and a civilized, public opinion, | addressed the senate on the question and the battle began. It could hardly | Just as are the degisions’ of the |of American adherence to the court | be described as a debate. Unable to! court across from ,thig chamber (the | he said: yes |marshal One fact that would prove| United States supreme court—H. M. “I have always thot the views of | their case the Coolidge republicans| W.), a court which. certainly re- | Roosevelt as to the means by which |and the Wilson (Morgan) democrats| quired neither armiés nor navy to] the authority of the league should devoted their time to perverting the| enforce its decrees.” be maintained as peculiarity sagac- decisions of the court. Desperately| Only the most unthinking dolt takes| ious and sound. He did not believe \ they tried to prove that the court was| seriously such sentiménts as those ex-| ... that in executing its aim it can | not part of the league, that instead of | pressed by Coolidge and Willis. Never dispense with force. He felt that | an instrument of imperialism it was| at any time, under ally!conditions, in| just as a city must have its police- the benefactor of the human race. But/ all the history of the World has there| men and a commonwealth its soldiers | 80 often as they twisted the facts of| been a court that was mot backed by| to preserve law and order, so the SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH. al | the opposition. Efficacy of “Moral” Force. | (YOOLIDGE was exposed time and again as the veriest pee-wee in| ‘most insignifi- cant courts in the U; States have their policemen.and ¢onstables to en- force their decrees. The United States courts have all the power of the police, the army, the jailers and hang- state-craft. In his message he had de- men back of them to enforce their de- By JOHN GREAT good fortune is to be our share. Otto Bauer, the leader of the Austrian social-democracy, stated in a large meeting of functionaries of the Vienna soctal-democratic organ- ization that under certain conditions he was ready to undertake a journey to the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics, The Bolshevist god is truly good. He has prepared for us this beautiful Christmas present. Mr. Otto Bauer is so extremely sracious that he condescends to pay a visit to our workers’ and peasants’ republic. Of course Otto Bauer sets certain “conditions.” It would be alto- |gether too much of a good thing if so prominent an Austro-Marxist as Mr. Otto Bauer, who even has been minister for foreign affairs of the bourgeois Austrian republic, were to declare himself ready, unconditional ly, to visit our unhappy land now de- serted by all social-democratic democ- racy and idiocy, WwW" do not care to discuss his condi- tions at present, he really does not demand too much, “Only” the legal- ization of the social-democratic party in the Union of Socialist. Soviet Repub- ics, in other words, liberty for coun- ter-revolution and the undermining of the dictatorship of the proletariat. He really does not demand very “much,” he only asks for the liquidation of the|” Communist movement in Europe, in other words, a monopoly for the so- clal-democratic party in leadership of the proletariat, or, otherwise ag stat- ed, an open track for pnrestrained be- trayal, for limitless opportunism in the labor movement, Mr, Otto Bauer's price is really quite cheap. He ts ready to journey to the oe 5 " Notes of an Internationalist OTTO BAUER MA KES CONDITIONS PEPPER, and peasants’ republig¢ in the world in exchange for two “little” concessions, namely, the liquidat of the prole- tarian dictatorship in, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and the liquidation of the European Commun- ist movement, that is, the liqudation of the Russian as well as the world revolution. Now, it is well known that we in the workers’ and peasants’ republic are very hospitable but we fear that, notwithstanding all our hos- pitality, we shall liquidate neither the |Russian nor the ‘world revolution merely to be able to welcome Otto Bauer here as our guest. ‘TTO Bauer said something more. He not only fixed “conditions,” he also “recognized” the great progress which our Union of-Socialist Soviet Republics has made on every field in recent times. We would like to recap- itulate the things that-even Mr. Otto Bauer was compelled to “recognize,” He noted: s 1, The development of our agricul- ture; t 2, The development of our indus* try; 3. The improvement of the material condition of the working class; 4. The gains registered by the So- viet government in. social legisla- tion; tee 5. The progress in the field of pop- ular education; or 6. The general achievements “of the Bolsheviki in recent years have proven that it is possible to get along without capitalists,” T is of course, not unimportant that so-dyed-in-the-wogl @ menshevik as Otto Bauer is co; to admit these basic facts even tho with @ bit " league of nations, to make its man- dates good, must have its interna- toinal police force or army; and 80 do | feel. There is little, if any, peace in the world tht is not com- manded.” 4 ter-sweet smile. But every day from morning to night, for eight long years, Mr. Otto Bauer has done nothing but “prove” that the Bolsheviks are the enemies of socialism and that what is going on in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is not socialist con- struction but rather the compromising of socialist ideas. As a superior “European” he always tried to prove that the “Asiatic backwardness” of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lies could lead only to a asnnt swamp and never to socialism, | For eight years Otto Bauer has cursed the Bolsheviki because they eliminated the bourgeoisie, because they proved practically to the workers the non-fs- sentiality of the capitalists, and’ now, all of a sudden Otto Bauer declares the greatest achievement of the Bol sheviki to be that they have demon- strated to the entire world that work- ers can get along quite well without capitalists, H We ire very grateful for this “rec- ognition” on the part of Mr.« Otto Bauer and we find but consequent that, five minutes after this “recogni- tion” he is so terrified by his own courage, that he demands the legaliza- tion of these Russian mensheviki whose only program is to convince the wotking class that capitalism is un- sparable, that he demands the liquida- tion of the European Communist parties, whose sole program is to ren- der capitalism superfluous to the workers not only of the Union of So- clalist Soviet Republics but of the whole world, Fight School Retirement Plan, Three of the 70-year old teachers that were placed’ on the pesion list have petitioned Judge Hugo M. Friend to enjoin the school board from put ting the emeritus service decision into effect until its validity is determined, The petitioners point out that since its validity has not been passed on it can be revoked or changed at any time to suit the school board. The aged teachers want to be sure of their pensions, 4 really the founder of the court and that his ‘superlative judicial _. mind could never be turned to such base “uses as to try to betray the United States into European entanglements. After a number of senators, including Willis, Smoot and Lenroot, had fin- ished eulogies of Root, Senator Ship- Stead, of Minnesota, a farmer-labor- ite, devoted several hours to proving that Elhiu Root’s mind was far from profound, that at sundry times and places Root had displayed a type of mind that was anything but judicial, and finally gave a laughable example of the judicial calibre of the cranial apparatus of Elhiu, by quoting an in- sane diatribe against the Germans during the progress of the world war. In a speech before the eminences of the legal fraternity, the American So- tiety of International Law, in April, 1918, Root said: “You know the Germans are only half civilized in all that makes for clvilization.’. .. (Germany) has the abnormal instincts which character- ize her barbarisms and separate her from any civilized people. She has the intolerance, the incapacity to realize the right of existence of oth- ers, which characterizes her and Ker people as barbarian.” This exceedingly judicial observa- tion was repeated with variations by the distinguished Mr. Root for an |hour or more, concluding, with the sage and scientific observation that “They are really a lower organization than the countries who are opposed to them now ... just as a jellyfish is a loWer organization than the bird.” This is on a par with the cheap pro- paganda of George Creel and F. Guy Empey. So, besides blasting the court as an instrument of peace, the opposition heaped ridicule upon the austere po- litical shyster, Elihu Root, who served the House of Morgan in the prelimin- ary conferences held for the purpose of creating the world court. Borah’s Devastating Speech. S was to be expected, the speech of William E, Borah was the out- standing event of the conflict. On January 14th he addressed the sen- over again, have passed the $100,000,000 mark. The previous year’s profits are exceed- turn to holders of the half billion dollars of common stock will be about 12% after all deductions. The 1926 record profits are “due in large measure to the efficient coopera- tion” of the employes is admitted in The Wall Street Journal. The work- ers have been speeded up. Altho $26,837,786 more business was done than n 1924, transportation costs (of which wages make up a considerable part) were actually $5,137,916 less. The journal comments: “Probably one explanation is the in- creasing stock interest being taken by the employes. Most of the railroad dollar has always gone to labor, and employes are now benefiting to Bn in- creasing extent in the much larger segment which is distributed in divi- dends.” « The statement that most of the rail- road dolar has always gone to, labor is not-accurate, Statistics of the in- terstaté commerce commission show that except in abnormal years, less than half of the railroad dollar is paid to the workers who produce the trans- portation, The normal proportion of wages to revenue is around 43%, The statement, however, shows how the financial~interests are expecting that the distribution of a small minor- ity of k to the employes will buy Prove Charges Against World Court - - | Bruce went further in his address | ate. Long before the appointed hour |in the Court Fight. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD MAKES PROFIT OF MORE THAN $100,000,000 DURING 1925; WORKERS SPEEDED UP By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. The Pennsylvania railroad, leading off in the railroad industry with a 1925 profit of more than $100,000,000 reveals the capacity of the carriers to share their record prosperity in substantial wage increases to their employes if they cared to. The Pennsylvania report is just one in the series of an- nual statements now coming out which strike the prosperity note over and thelr i in efficiency and their aA I NARNIA EAE MESS ASG I er PN OE Ra By H. M. Wi hs the galleries were crowded to view the slaughter of the Coolldgedeme- erat combination. The galleries were not disappointed. On thelr own ground and with their own arguments, Borah annihilated the contentions of the administration supporters. Con- stantly interrupted by the administra- tion apologist, Lenroot, of Wisconsin, the Idaho senator continued his course. He proved that the league ts not an instrument of peace but of war, that the court was unthinkable apart from the league, But the burden of his speech was that the United States would be at a disadvantage in the court because England with her dominions and colo- nies would be able to dominate the court. Said Borah: “Canada is a member of the league; Australia is a member of the league; Egypt is a member of the league; and under the statute Great Britain could have a member, and either one of the other: British members of the league—Canada, Australia, or any other memben—- could have a member on the court.” Whereas, Washington and the founders of the nation had warned against entanglements in the affairs:af Europe, the Coolidge-democrati¢-goall- tion was striving to plunge the na- tion into the troubled waters of Eu- ropean diplomacy. Such was the at- gument of Borah. bade The opposition could not refute his charges without committing them- selves as agents of the House of Mor-. gan. It is only the Marxian,. the pro- letarian revolutionist, who can reply to the arguments of a Borah. Living in the Past. ORAH and Shipstead and the other liberals and representatives of the middle bourgeoisie live in the past. Their ideas, like those of the late La- Follette, belong to the colonial period, when the United States was a wéak nation, struggling to ‘establish its right to exist. He repeats the isola- tionist slogans Washington, Jefferson and the other giants of that pened penned against the great monarchist nations of Europe that threatened all bourgeois democratic institutions of their day. It is true that Great Britsin has. seven votes in the league, but that. does not frighten the House of Mor gan. Borah specifically Australia amd Canada as votes against the United States Mor- gan and his agents know that Instead of counting these two nations as ene- mies ‘he will be able to rely upon them as allies in a conflict with Brit. ain. Already Canada is under the f- nancial domination of the United States and the liberal (2) McKenste- King government of that nation is far more responsive to the demands of Wall Street than to those of England. Australia is also being drawn into the scheme of American imperialism and is rapidly becoming alienated from England. Within the world court and the league the House of Morgan hopes to achieve political and diplomatic vic- tories that will further defend its economic interests in these British do- minions as well as thruout the rest of the world. That is the point that Borah and his supporters miss and being the central point of Morgan’s policy it explains why they are im- potent against tfe administration- democratic combination, ‘ Next Article—Some of Borah’s Alds The Pennsylvania showing exceeds the fondest expectations of the mil- Mowaire interest sin control. For the first time in history the road’s profits TES RNG ees 1 acceptance of the speed-up methods ed by $21,808,094 or by 27%. The re- which travel under the general title of cooperation with management. Ex- cept in the case of high officials the stockholdings of employes are #0 small that the wage increases ‘for which the unions are fighting would far outweigh the dividends as addi- tions to the employe’s annual income, Awakement Listen! It is soundi Tyrants fear. . Hearken! It is saying Patiently build For the hour when the vision Will be fulfilled, Like a red thread running From land to land, The whole world binding In a crimson strand, Run the ships of the Masters t strong, ring the Revolution a red storm shouting and land rd in Chi It rd in Eng Over the world and back Shout the guns of the Maste Hoarse and strong, Speeding the Revolution along. "Tramp, tramp, trampin The ‘séidiere P50 keg