The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 17, 1926, Page 6

be THE DAILY WORKER Page Six 7 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, I. Phone Monroe 4713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicage only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $6.00 per year $4.50 atx months | $6.00 per year $3.60 six months $2.50 three monthe $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ilinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL m itors WILLIAM F. DUNNE ap MORITZ J. LOEB... Business Manager ns Batered as second-class mat! September 21, 1923, at the postoffice at Chi: cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. _ Advertising rates on application. SESE Wants to Hold His Job Senator William B. McKinley, the traction magnate of Cham- paign, Illinois, is again in Chicago, trying to lay the basis for his camapign for re-election after six years of the most persistent, foul and. shameless truckling to venality ever recorded against any person in public office in the history of this or any other nation. After‘his visit of a few weeks ago he hastened back to Wash- ington to be on hand to help vote this nation into the world court so that Morgan could forge another weapon in the struggle of American imperialism to dominate the world. Now he has the effrontery to return to Chicago and declare that he would just as willingly vote the country out of the world court as he voted it in if the proposition came as:a republican party mandate. McKinley is unquestionably a regular republican. Elected to the senate on the Harding anti-league of nations landslide in 1920, he participated in the cogruption and political debauchery of that administration: : With ‘the 'unlamented departure of Harding, he supported every proposal of the Mellon-Coolidge agents of the trust and tried to conceal from the eyes of the public the appalling record of graft and corruption. McKinley will try to make the world court question the issue in order to cover up the rest of his record. Rotten as the world| court record is, it is no worse than other official acts of the Illinois senator. His record has been one of consistent depravity without} ‘one single redeeming feature. The high lights of the six years of McKinley in the senate are: <i 100 1—He supported the Mellon tax steal of May 5, 1924, and 2—Repeated the performance last week. 3—Supported Truman H, Newberry who corrupted with millions of dollars most of the state of Michigan in order to buy a seat in the United States senate. When McKinley and 17 others now up for re-election had finished voting for’ Newberry one of the members of that body truly said: “YOU CAN NEVER LESSEN THE DIG- NITY OF THE SENATE AFTER TODAY. IT CAN NEVER SINK LOWER.” Ww 4—On-February 11, 1924, voted to save Edwin L. Denby in spite of proof of his peculation in the Teapot Dome oll scandals. 5—On January 20, 1925, voted against approval of the report con- demning Edwin L. Denby and Albert B. Fall for their part in the oil scandals. 6—Two months later tried to aid Coolidge place in the office of at- torney general “Sugar Charley” B. Warren of Michigan. Warren had helped create the sugar trust which was to be prosecuted by | Soviet Union naturally { cated. The central committee of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union addressed the following informatory letter to all the sections of the Com- intern on the results of the fofrteenth party congress: With regard to the special interest that we observe in our, sister parties for the discussion that took place in our party, with regard to the fact that the actions of the opposition within the Communist Party of the cause fears among the workers and Communists of thé whole world and finally with regard to the fact that the social democratic and bourgeois press ex- aggerates our discussion in every possible way and systematically mis- represents the true situation, the central committee of thé. Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to address this informatory letter to all sections of the Comintern thru the executive committée of the Communist International, The situation, in which the differ- ences of opinion have developed in our party, is characterized by the rapid growth of the economy of the Soviet Union and the very compli- cated tasks with which the Communist Party is confronted. Our foreign com- rades must take into consideration, that in our country, under the condi- tions of proletarian*dictatorship, not only the whole attitude of a Commun- ist Party to the daily political problem anges (for we utilize the power hat has been conquered for the carry- ing out of the socialist reconstruction while our brother parties will only in the future fight the revolutionary struggle for power) but that all con- crete tasks become extremely compli- Every word, every decision of the party must mean action. Only thus can and must a party work which leads a victorious proletariat. The past year was’a year of great economic progress. The industrial and agricultural production almost reached the pre-war level. The social- ist elements of economy have devel- oped very considerably and their spe- cific gravity has increased. On the other hand the contradictory, transi- tional character of our society, the majority of which consists of peas- ants, inevitably expressed itself by the fact that together with thé devel- opment of the socialist forms of eco-; nomy, the elements of capitalism, | particularly on the field of commercial | eapital, and in the country in the form} of the so-called kulak, economies were strengthened, if not to the same de- gree. i ‘The intensification of the social con- | the government and Coolidge wanted to appoint Warren so he could protect his interests as chief law enforcement officer of the United States and thereby escape the penalties of his lawlessness. McKinley has three votes recorded in favor of this corrupt White House move: (a)—Voted to keep investigation under cover. (b)—When that was defeated voted against considering it at all, and (c)—Voted to confirm nomination of “Sugar Charley.” 7—Supported Coolidge in effort to shield the notorious Harry M. Daugherty and thru friendship with Daugherty suceeded in secur- ing the appointment to the federal judgeship in fllinois of Wilker- son, who, at the request of Daugherty, issued the infamous shop strike injunction in 1922. 8—Voted for the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill that enabled the big industrialists to realize millions of dollars in increased profits. That is his partial record. It stands without an equal for brazen political ignomony. After MeKinley’s six years in the sen- ate nothing can ever further befoul it—not even his republican op- ponent, Frank L. Smith, of Dwight who grew up in the political school of Len Small of Kankakee and Ed. Curtis of Grant Park. Let McKinley use his millions, even as his friend Newberry did his, in the coming campaign, he cannot prevent the vanguard of the working class, the Communists, exposing his record and the record tradictions in the present stage, of | development of our conditiongwhen there are in the village a great nuni-| ber of unoccupied peasant hands and inthe towns unemployment and strata of less qualified and at. present. still badly paid workers, particularly those who come from the villages, confronts By WILLIAM SIMONS. HE capitalist class of Chieago ‘to- gether with the national govern- ment are intensifying their fight against the foreign-born worker and Jare using the gangster war in Chicago lto stir up more hatred against the foreign-born worker thus preparing the ground for deportation of militant of the party for which he stands to countless thousands of workers of this state who now know little about him, A Scab Upon Ordinary Lackeys Even among the recognized lackeys there must exist certain rules supposed to be observed. by that degraded fraternity. Those who grovel longer and lick: Jonger than the other lickspittles. be- come objects of aversion, even, among flunkeys. Such. is the case of John L. Lewis in the anthracite coal fields. According to press reports from that region many of the preachers berated him last Sunday for his foul betrayal of the cause of the miners. The Scranton Daily Telegram, a faithful defender of cap- italism, brands Lewis as 'a “quite deplorable failure as, a labor leader” and adds that Lewis “has scored the biggest victory for the anthracite operators that bas ever been enjoyed.” The ordinary servants.of the anthracite barons, the preachers, editors and so forth, look wpon Lewis as a scab on their profesion. ° Passaic mill workers, striking against the textile exploiters, | are writing their achievement big in the history of labor. struggles in that industry. Miners relief is«still badly needed in the anthracite and every effort should be made. to assist the International Workers’ Aid that has so valiantly stood by the miners. Every Communist eligible to join a union should be a mem- ber. There is no excuse for remaining outside, whether the industry you work in is organized or not. |workers. Screaming headlines an- nounce the determination of the gov- |ernment in Washington to start de- | portation proceedings against the alien criminals. The pretext is furnished by the ‘jarge number of murders in Chicago during the last twenty years which have been reduced to a system. Re- cently several such murders occurred, At present two men are on trial ac- cused of killing two policemen.» One prospective juror stated that he fear- ed for his life, if as a juror he voted to convict the aceused. This unusual discovery has suddenly afoused the moral indignation of the judges, law- THE DAILY the party with the problems of the concrete road of development of the Soviet country to socialism, The delay of the world revolution and the comparative stabilization of capitalism and furthermore the strengthening of the class contradic- tions within the country, have caused within the party a certain spirit of depression, This spirit has received a certain ideological form by various statements made by the opposition which became the subject of the dif- ferences of opinion. Building Up Socialist Economy. They concern the problem of the possibility of the building up of so- cialism in a country, despite its tech- nical backwardness. They include also the problem of, the significance of the new economic policy (whether it constitutes exclusively a retreat or also from a certain,,moment on, an offensive against eapjtal), further the | question of the Po pe of our state industry (whether its, character is so- cialist or only a kind of state capital- ism), finally the question of the rela- tions to the peasantry and its various groups. From this great problem a number of others resolve, everyone of which has a g at significance. Should we, from the point of view of the class struggle of the proletariat in the village limit ourselves in the present stage of development to the mere neutralization pf the middle peasantry? Or ig it necessary, in agreement with es plans, to carry on a policy of the firm alliance with the middle peasantry in the joint fight against the capitalist elements of the village, as the. kulaks, etc.? Should we, from the point, of view of positive socialist reconstruction limit ourselves to the neutralization of the main masses of the peasantry? Or should we, as Lenin always stressed, direct all our endeavors to- wards winning the middle peasantry by means of the cooperatives, for so- cialist reconstruction? Should. we, in our struggle against the kulaks limit ourselves to organize only the poor peasantry against the kulaks or should we,’at the same time under all circumstances. win the main masses of the peasantry, i. e. the middle peasantry, - the establish- ment of the alliance of the proletariat and the village poor with the middle peasantry for the isolation of the kulaks? ES. Study Central Committee Report. Naturally we cannot explain here these problems concretely and in de- tail, we only mentioned the most im- portant ones in order to explain the very complicated character of these questions, We ask our comrades to be interested in..these. problems, to study them as carefylly as possible on the.basis of. fiable .docu- ments. Above all, in ur opinion, the | resolutions of the arty congress, particularly the resolution on the. pol- itical report of the cantral committee, should be studied. ., The party congress, realized that introduces the red Herring of honest juries as the solution’ for crime. Deportation no Solution. Deportation will solve nothing but will simply transfer, the activities of the criminals to Italy. Those who at- tempt ty go into industry will draw down further the standard of living of the Italian worker, Some of them will become, others will resume their pre- vious role of fascisti wreckers of working class organizations. The Italian government refuses to shoulder the responsibility for the gangsters describing them as “made in Amer- ica.” America charges foreigners with the responsibility for crime, and pre- tends that with their exclusion, crime is-done away with. As is usual with crooks, both are right in charging the other with responsibility. The complicity of, the government in crime was reyealed by Deputy Chief Stege, when he admitted that all the efforts to deport 86 “Sicilian gunmen” during the last year had tailed, yers and businessmen, who are howl- ing for law and order. Ostensibly, the campaign is aimed at certain gangsters who fight out with guns the economic competition of the bootleggers and the politicians | allied with them, Even Chief of Police Collins admitted that the gangsters | are rendered more powerful than ever |thru the fortunes made thru bootleg ging, and their political affiliations. Campaign Is Fake. No sincere drive against crime will result against the capitalists responsi- ble for present conditions. In view of the existence of gangster rule in Chi- cago for a generation, the present campaign can only be regarded as but one of the periodical clean-ups made for public consumption and accomp- lishing nothing, There will be no drive against the higher-ups in politi cal circles, in the police department or among tho bootleg rings. The brunt of the campaign is against the tools, the “poor fishes.”, Even should any be deported ito.will not be the most effective killers---for these will be protected, The working class sons Government. Steps In. The case has med national im- portance with the gtatements of Coo- lidge and Davis, lidge, the fake strong man of the Boston police strike of 1919, the silent mouthpiece of Wall Street, urges deportation of alien criminals. Secretary of Labor Davis with years of antialien propaganda vehind him ot an procession. But leportation neve ‘was a weapon against criminals;,it was used against class conscious workers striving for better conditions for the working class, The Palmer “red raids’ pro- duced the deportation delirium of 1920 and 1921, Since then many other cases have come up of similar nature, The fear of strikes in basic indus- tries is behind the administration move for laws to register all aliens, and to finger-print them. The machin- ery for deportation is being olled, Working Class Protest, The only effective protest agajnst past attempts to put over such legis- lation came from the councils for the protection of foréign-born, consisting of unions and otf working class or- ganizations, They ‘rendered valuable aid in arousing the workers of Amer- ica against such) legislation, Now will be sing! voyt, many of them in- nocent of, Wigs oie, others pre- oing straight” by police d for efficiency, when eral 1 tions are already before the house of representatives, to “bestow” upg. all alien foreign- we DAS Soviet. Union Communist Party Lett Gangster. Scare--Screen for | Anti-Foreign-Born Laws WORKER aL) pesantry for the separation of the middle peasantry from the kulaks and the isolation of the latter, as well as thru the organization of the village poor against the kulaks.” The party convention definitely con- demned the deviation which consists in the underestimation of the kulak danger, as well as that digression which fails to realize the significance of the winning. of tie middle peas- antry and of its socialist cooperation: The party congress particularly stres- sed the necessity of the fight against the latter deviation because the party is better, prepared for the, immediate struggle against the kulaks while the latter digression is based upon the lack of understanding for the compli- cated. methods of struggle and en- dangers. the alliance between the workers and. peasants and thus the whole .work. of reconstruction, These are. the most important an- swers, of the party congress to the questions. which were immediately connected .with the discussion. The resolution ;on the political speech of the central. committee is based on the “development and the victory of the. international proletarian revolu- tion,”.on the strengthening of proleta- rian solidarity, on the struggle against the hypocritical slogans of the league of nations and of the second fterna- tional. “the struggle for the victory of so- clalist reconstruction inthe Soviet Union is the main. task of our party and that our country possesses every- thing necessary for building up the completed socialist society.” (Lenin). The party congress recorded “the economic offensive of the working class on the basis of the new economic policy and the progress of the eco- nomy of the Soviet Union to so- cjalism.” The party congress declared that “one of the conditions for the suc- cessful solution of the problems con- fronting the party is the struggle against the disbelief in the possibility of the building up of socialism in our country and the attempts to present our state enterprises which Lenin called enterprises of a logical socialist type, as state capitalist en- terprigses.” The party congress declared that “the main road to socialist recon- struction in the village consists in the drawing into the cooperative or- ganizations of the main masses of the peasantry, in securing the socialist development of these organizations and utilizing, overcoming and abolish- ing their capitalist elements, under the strengthening economic leader- ship of socialist state industry, the state credit institutions and other strongholds of the working class.” The party congress condemned de- cisively the “fear of the middle. peas- ant” and stated that objectively. this fear would lead to an undermining of proletarian dictatorship, Condemn Underestimation of Kulak Danger, The party convention explained that “the straggle against the kulaks should be carried on by the strengthening | kian and Polish problems is approved of the alliance of the working class|and the delegation is instructed to and the village poor with the middle|take the necessary measures for the For Marxian Line, In the resolution on the speech of the delegation of the Communist Par- ty of the Soviet Union in the executive committee ‘of the Communist ‘Interna- tional, the ‘necessity of the struggle for a correct Marxian line is particu- larly stressed, the attitude of the dele- gation in the German, .Czecho-Slova- A Passaic Strike Scene A iat nee ES CRRA er to Sister Parties reorganization of the apparatus of the Comintern in such a manner that:all important sections take a greater part in the leading political work of -the Comintern. The significance of the capturing of the trade unions and of the struggle for international unity was particularly stressed. The central committee of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Unions re- jects with determination all counter- revolutionary talk on an alleged in- tended affiliation of the trade unions of the S6viet Union to the Amsterdam Trade Union Federation or of the Soviet Union to the league of nations, The central committee of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union states that on questions of foreign policy of the Soviet Union as well’as on questions which concerned the po- licy of the sister parties, no dif- ferences of opinion of any significance existed within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The discussion on ‘the’ internal problems is settled by the decisions of the party conven- tion. ‘The party congress has not only passed ‘decisions of principles on the questions of the agenda, but also ad- grad’ party organization which deals with the attitude of the Leningrad*del- egation, which made a co-speech to the political speech of the central com- mittee’ and, in contradiction to the vote of confidence of the Leningrad government conference for the activi- ty of the central committee, voted against the declaration of confidence at. the party congress, Unity in Russian Party. At present the Leningrad delegation has been already disavowed by the Leningrad proletarians and Commun- ists, The unanimous support of the party masses of the whole country, among them also those of Leningrad, of the decisions of the party congress guarantees the party unity. Under such circumstances we have all reasons to believe that within a short dressed a special letter to the Lenin-- Police Thugs Hé born workers the “privileges” of finger-printing formerly granted only to convicted criminals, the councils for the protection of the foreign-born are again rallying their forces. The campaign is nation-wide, and promises to stir up not only foreign-born work- ers but even native-born. Coolidge’s Red Herring. At a time when the militant work- ers of America are gathering their strength for a struggle against these persecution laws, Coolidge is drawing across the trail the deportation weapon against’foreign-born criminals. When the militants are protesting against deportation of the foreign- born workers, Coolidge camouflages the deportation stick as if intended only for alien criminals, When the Coolidge camouflage campaign runs its course, then it will be easier to put over the vicious laws aimed at the foreign-born, Deportation will have become a popular method, and finger- printing and registration will only seem a means to determine those fit for deportation, This is the plan of the government at Washington, Work- ers should not be deceived by it. A real war against crime is a war against the capitalist system. Theré is no other solution. Deportation is not @ weapon against criminals, but against the working class. The pro- tection of the foreign-born in the light of this capitalist campaign ‘becomes an issue of immediate importance to the working class, 7 Birth Increase in S6viet Union. MOSCOW,.U. 8, S. R.—(Tass)— Feb. 15.—At the conference for th protection of motherhood and infants, Professor Mikhailovsky read letters on the birth and infant mortality in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. For the last two to three years the birth rate has reached the pre-war standard, There are 5,500,000 chil- dren born yearly, The rate of infant mortality is only 17 per cent of births. Lowering the death rate by 40 per cent is due to new social conditions, to the new legal position of the moth- er, and to the care, of the Soviet gov- ernment of infants,,On.account of the high, rate of births and the startling diminishment of mortality, the Soviet Union hi van: increase of population, exceeding those of the other states in ag ’ hand is a constant irritant to Ameri- time, the party will overcome the period of temporary economic diffi- culties which result from the economic growth of the country and which the enémiés of the working class will at- tempt) to utilize. The central committee of the Com- munibt )Party of the Soviet Union is unahitmoysly of the opinion that the exténsion™ of the discussion on the Russian problem into the ranks of the.,Gomintern is undesirable. The central ommittee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is just as unanimously of the opinion. that the leadership of the Comintern must also in future receive full confidence. and support. The central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union hopes that the sister parties together with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union will march in closed ranks their historic road under the banner of the Comintern. (Signed) Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union. Notes of an Internationalist THE ANGLO-AMERICAN DUEL By JOHN PEPPER. i Sheed co-operation between British; [N South America, in Agia, in all and American imperialism is more + parts of the world there rages the ind more turning into a duel between desperate struggle of Anglo-American these two mightiest robber states. At: Aeapeetes tenn. for markets, for sources ts unmistakable that the chief point, | of raw material, for investment fields, the new feature, in the entire inter- | America exercises an ever-increas national situation is precisely this ing attractive power on the most im- sharpening of relations between Amer- | portant dominions of the British em: ica and Great Britain, |pire, especially on Canada and Aus: All recent events go to prove the | tralia. The former American ambas- correctness of this statement. |sar to Great Britain, Harvey, recently The most recent reports on the declared that the British Empire is Mosul question indicate that Ameri-|done. The indignation which this can imperialism is decidedly displeas- statement aroused in all political ed over the decision of the league of shadings of the British press is hardly nations giving Great Britain exclusive | describable. control of the rich oil wells. The) It is no coincidence that President American press is filled with moral in- | Coolfdge in his last address to con- dignation and even goes so far as to gress’ so decisively declared against support the “Heathen” Turks against the entrance of America into the the “Christian” Englishmen. league Of nations. With growing vex- 'N the recent struggles for the free. |#tiom America ‘sees the league of ta- ing of:China from customs’ control, |tions emerge as ‘the instrument ‘of America, checkmated the plans of British tmperlalism. , Great/Britsin:in many ways. Ameri: Our Soviet republic and the entire ca proclaims the open door in Chine, eee aeee proletariat has reason to In other words, America does not re- {low carefully this Anglo-American cognize the, old British priviliges and @¥el, to analyze all. entanigtéments’ of demandg equality and freedom for all, A"S!0-American diplomacy, to expose especially.since this . equality would | the fhtrigues of both imperialist pow- mean freedom for the newcomer, for CTS» >ut also to exploit the confltets American, capitalism, between the two imperialist bandits The,Logarno. pact also leads to the in the interests of the Soviet-republic, sharpening, ofthe Anglo-American dif. |e oppressed peoples of the Hast, and ferences,.,.Locarno was directed not) ‘He world proletariat. alone .againgst Soviet Russia, It was} ._ not only, a chess move of British di- plomacy against the continental hege- mony of France. It was the first step toward building.a bloc of the most im- portant European states against the overwhelming American imperialism. The American cotton monopoly is a constant problem for Great Britain and in the final analysis this is the explanation of the aggressive British policy in Egypt and Sudan, The Bri- tish rubber monopoly on the other Austrian Co-ops. Deal with Russia, MOSCOW, U S. 8S. R—(Tass).— Feb. 15.—The Central Ukrainian Co- operative Societies of Kharkov have concluded a contract with the Austri- an co-operatives for textile and other manufactured goods, The deal amounts © 1,250 roubles, The merchandise 4s siven On a five months’ credit, CHICAGO TRIBUNE EDITOR WAS ASLEEP; TRUTH SLIPPED THRU “The working man has no reason ‘to love and admire the United States courts. Too many injune- tlons have been handed di | against him."—Chicago Daily’ : une, Feb. 10, 1926, “ f can imperialism, The higher the rub- ber prices mount the more militant sats the oe attacks of erbert, Hoover, the American secre- tary of tiie American iaparine ism now | i day out the greatest rubber — platitations “in “the” wo#ld by means of an-investment of 100.mil- man, Medi tish rubber monopoly, rae ———+ ae pear