The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1926, Page 6

ae 2 t e a q a t 1 aS Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, Phone Monroe 4712 eine SUBSCRIPTION RATES \ By mail (in Chicago only): | By mail (outsids of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months j; $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months * | $2.00 three months i Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIlinols _—— ——_____——— J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOBB......... Uo acces isate tec BOER ) Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- | cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, Advertising rates on application. ———) The Chicago Deportation Orgy_ Gangsterism, wholesale beer-running and organized. murder be- tween competing bootleggers is rampant in: Chicago because of the intimate connection between politicians, police and the so-called “‘un- derworld.” Whole colonies of foreign-born workers. are» terrorized by these maurading bandit gangs preceding elections so voters can be herded to the polls in the interest of various political. machines. In case this fails of the desired result the gangs cruise from precinct to precinet repeating their votes; and as a last resort ballot boxes are stuffed and stolen in order that some eminently respectablé re- publican or democrat politician may get into office. Between elections campaigns these hooligans run wild, plying their trade with an astonishing degree of impunity because the politicians they have elevated to office and the police controlled by these politicians dare not assail them for fear of exposure. » This is beyond doubt the real cause of the so-called organized “crime waves” in Chicago. Another municipal campaign approaches and the forces of criminality are again active trying to terrorize the foreign-born population into support of various camps. Recently a hue and ery has been raised to deport the Sicilian gangsters. This appears as a drive against crime on the part of professional uplifters, the forces of sweetness and light. The de- praved old prostituté, the Tribune, in its customary hysterical hag- yish manner, urges on the orgy. While posing as the defender of “decency, the home, and civilization,” it stands up to its neck in the slime of crooked politics. Itself the agency that drove William Hale Thompson from office by proving that he obtained his principal . Support from the vice lords of the city, it mow embraces him by acting | as defender of and spokesman for the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson polit- ical machine. Opposed to this outfit is the Deneen-Small-Lundin machine. Lundin, the “big Swede” who was the political wet-nurse of Thomp- son, still maintains the support of such luminaries of the Italian section as “Diamond Joe” Esposito, formerly a resort proprietor and now alderman and boss of the 25th ward. The city administration is controlled by the Brennan demo- cratic machine with Mayor William E. Dever as the figurehead. Hence the democratic city administration and the republican Crowe-Barrett-Thompson gang in control of the county law enforce- ment machinery unite in an assault upon the political playmates of “Diamond Joe.” In the first raid his place was hit hard by the wrecking crew. Out of 121 taken'in that foray, all but 30 were released. They are held for investigation by the immigration authorities of the federal government. The thoroly rotten Mellon-Coolidge administration ‘steps into the picture for motives of its own. While it is mildly concerned over the Chicago elections it takes a hand in the raids from the viewpoint of the national policy of assailing the working class by first striking at the foreign-born population. So while the city, county and federal governments co-operate in the wholesale terror against the Italians, there are different motives involved. Within the city it is a phase of local politics, bordering on guerilla warfare. The Coolidge government participates in the wholesale raids and de- portations against those accused of being gunmen in order to set precedents that will enable the employers of labor and tke federal agents everywhere to hold the foreign-born workers in a constant state of terror. The government, in striving to put thru its policy of registering and finger-printing the foreign-born workers, is meet- ing with stubborn resistance because many sections of the labor movement are building up councils for the protection of the foreign- born. It strives, thru the raids against Chicago’s alleged gunmen, to detract the attention of the labor movement from the funda- mental issues involved by raising the bogey of crime. Intelligent workers will refrain from joining in the clamor against these Sicilians and other Italians now victimized and will keep in mind the main reason for these deportation orgies, which is anti-labor and nothing else. The Italian workers are not criminal, any more than are the 100% American workers, despite the efforts of the Tribune to besmirch the whole nationality. Locally, the way to eliminate organized crime is to drive from office all the capitalist political machines—Brennan and Dever; Crowe and Barrett and the lame duck, Mr. Thompson; and Mr. Small with Senator Deneen and the “Big Swede.” Illinois politics is today a flagrant»example of the fraud of capitalist class democracy and the crime situation is an inseperable part of the system. Pastimes of the Bourgeoisie The British nabob and elegant lady, the Countess Vera Cath- cart; the American millionaire, Harry K, Thaw, and assorted ladies and gentlemen participated in’ a debauch staged by the theatrical degenerate, Earl Carroll, whereat they tried to satisfy their jaded tastes by drinking champaign out of a bath tub in which reposed a naked chorus girl. .-Postal regulations against ti sending of obscene literature thru the mails prohibit’ further’ description of this affair. mt ; Lady Cathcart, who is in the United States, after a legal tangle with the immigration authorities, is to have a play produced by Mr. Carroll, purporting to depict the story of her life. We wonder if it will include such refined pleasanteries as this recent one. There is no moral whatsoever to be drawn-from this. Such per- formances are not uncommon for the bourgeoisie who spend most of their time as Marx and Engels said, “seducing each others wives.” This case simply came to light by accident. We relate it here in order to explode the ideas of respect some unsophisticated workers still hold for the sadists, Lesbians, desciples of Oscar Wilde and other perverts of the ruling class whom the newspapers, novelists, chautanqua orators, preachers and priests would have us believe are superior people who rule by divine right. _. Profound political antl sociological, query: If, the Cook county atate’s attorney, Robert E. Crowe, and the, Chicago’ were to arrest all the gunmen, yeggmen and other crooks in “=~ would they get to steal and stuff ballot boxes on election day? | By ALFONSO BERNAL DEL RIESGO | (Member Central: Executive Commit- tee, Communist Party of Cuba) UBA ig an island, the largest of the Antilles, situated at the very en- trance to the Gulf of Mexico, It is| only six hours’ steamship ride from the | United States; an airplane can make the trip in forty minutes, The population of some 3,000,000, about a third gf whom are Negroes, | stretches out over an area of 114,000) kilometers, ‘whose fertile soil is cap- able of producing every tropical fruit |known. Despite the luxuriant variety jof Cuwhba’s natural products, the finan- jcial interests of the Yankees have} |made her almost exclusively a land| |of sugar. The tobacco crop becomes smaller every year, and coffee, the {traditional early basis of Cuban} j wealth, has ceased to be cultivated! since the “independence” of Cuba and} the annexation of Porto Rico, | Politically, Cuba has much in com-)| mon with other Spaztish-American na-| tions. Her territory is divided into six provinces, each with a governor elected by direct suffrage but subord- |inated to the president, Every prov- ince is divided into municipalities but | such a thing as municipal home rule is }unknown, The president has in fact almost dictorial powers, is really a veiled monarch—within the narrow limits left to him by imperial over- | lordship, that is. This has been dem- | onstrated in practice by the history of |the tyrants Menocal and Machado, the last named being the present reaction- ary dictator of the country, having acted in that capacity since last May. | The independence that Cuba is sup- Cuba Under United States Imperialisi Entire Country at Mercy of U.S. Sugar Barons U. S, IMPERIALISM TRIED 10 PUT HIM TO DEATH IN CUBA JULIO ANTONIO: MELLA. Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba. dependent than the capitalists of the north committed an assault upon the consititution of the new “republic” in order to assure themselves a legal basis for their outrages. They im- posed on Cuba the Platt amendment, demanded and secured ‘the island’s two best ports as naval stations and put thru the celebrated “reciprocity treaty.” Cuba freed herself from the tute- lage of Spain only to become a vassal | posed to enjoy was acquired after the | Spanish-American war of 1898. In that year the Yankees intervened in the civil war that was raging in the country, following upon the myster- ious blowing-up of the battleship Maine. Thus ended Spanish rule on |the island, giving place to the dom- ination of the United States, IL. Spain maintained a more or less veiled monopoly in Cuba and the United States was determined to sup- plant her. The Cuban war of inde- pendence presented to North Ameri- }of the United States. The aforemen- tioned “agreements” and amendments | to Cuban independence, anulled that {independence completely. Cuba has no guarantee whatsoever against the | #ggressions of the United States; the |right to intervene is sanctioned by the | constitution itself, the fundamental law of the land. The right to revolution is denied; |U. S. property must not be endan- is | The Swndle Treaty. | By the reciprocity treaty Cuba was | obliged to let U. S. merchandise enter can imperialism, then in its swaddling| free of duty, receiving’ in turn the clothes, one of its first opportunities. | right to ship goods freely into the No sooner had Cuba been declared in-; United States, This famous treaty is known in history as the Swindle Treaty, for while the United States exports to Cuba every kind of article of consumption, Cuba is able to ex- port to the United States nothing more than she produces, which means sugar. But that was only the begin- ning. An American senator, Mr. Fotd- ney, was of the opinion that the swin- dle was not complete enuf and pro- posed a special tariff for “one of the products of Cuba”: sugar. At the present time sugar pays an import duty 18 per cent above the earlier arrangement. Nevertheless,, the U. S. differential in favor of Cuba as against others keeps Cuban sugar out of the world market, These customs fences and the con- ditions of maritime traffic make it im- possible for Cuba_to think of trading with any other country than the United States. Lords of our com- merce, masters of the national pros- perity, the Yankees pull the strings of Cuban economic life ‘at their will; at the caprice of Wall Street, Cuban sugar rises or falls, and as sugar is the sole product, the entire economy of the nation rises or falls in unison, Under these conditions it is impos- sible for the most intelligent bour- geoisie to develop its finances, Bour- geois production is anarchic; imper- ialist production is chaos, squared and cubed. At the present time Cuba is in economic decline; perhaps she will not succeed in finding her feet again. This depends on the national resist- ance, on the small proprietors, the colonos of the sugar-cane fields. Workers Like Coolies, At present the sugar workers are being gradually reduced to the posi- tion of coolies. The price of one cent does not cover the cost of colono production of cane. As a result the entire country is in bankruptcy. Al- ready workers are toiling in the fields for no other recompense than their meals; soon there will not be even that. Only the government appears te be in a flourishing condition. Hav- ing imposed the most onerous burdens upon the population, it now spends its time shooting down in» they streets workers who protest against this state of things. The Communists, as in’ all parts of the world, are those receiving the most careful “attention” at this time. If the colonos were wisethe present By A. LOSOVSKY (Continued from yesterday) The British and German trade un- ions include approximately 75 per cent of the Amsterdam International (their forces are now numerically equal). The German trade unions, just as in pre-war days, are now commencing to play an important role in the interna- tional, but this role is of a different nature. Before the war they forged ahead of other trade unions and in fact the British trade unions lagged very far behind. Now things Nave |changed to a considerable extent. The German trade unions are at the tail- ment, while the British trade unions occupy a position which provoked sav- age attacks on the part of all the con- servative and reactionary elements in the world labor movement. ra If we compare the congresses of Breslau and Scarborough and the trade union and socialist press of Germany and of Great Britain, we see that the British trade union move- ment is emerging from the narrow framework of economism, is tearing asunder the old conservative trade union traditions and is setting itself general class tasks. On the other hand we see that the German social-demo- cratic trade union movement is sink- ing deeper and deeper ito the mire of the class truce and is donning the old cast-off trade union garments. Whereas the Britishers are deciding questions ag to factory and workshop committees and are seeking forms and methods for increasing the fight- ing power of the trade unions, are organizing themselves for the coming struggle and are discussing in the so- cialist press the problem as to wheth- er the workers should arm for the struggle against reaction—the Ger- man trade unions are busy with workers’ banks, are idolizing building guilds, jabbering about economic de- mocracy, are bowing lower and lower before the bourgeoisie and are per- sistently persuading it to adopt the united front with the trade unions. The British trade union movement has faced around towards the U, S. 8. R. and taken up a firm anti-militarist pos- ition, while the German trade union movement is further consolidating its unti-Soviet and anti-Communist posi- tions. Amsterdam Divided. What is the position of Amsterdam after all these congresses. Can it count on the British trade unions any longer? The most optimistic leader of the Amsterdam Interna- tional was compelled to say no, The conflict between the British trade unions and the right wing of the Am- sterdam International after Scarbor- ough™ig’growing to considerable, mensioiis,, Morally speaking, the ] ish trade unions are no longer with they stilt remain there organ | and jend of the European trade union move- | ly. This does not prevent’ Oudegeest the rest beating the drum and {shouting about unheard of successes of the Amsterdam, Intepnational and its would-be numerous Jégions. Scar- borough signifies an deological en- strangement from the Amsterdam In- ternational and an_ ideological rap- prochement with the ‘revolutionary trade union movement.!'And this is of great importance for the world labor movement. An analysis of the Work of these congresses bears witness to the fact that revolutionary ideas have pene- trated so far into the Amsterdam In- ternational that entire national organ- izations are becoming “infected.” These congresses have brilliantly con- firmed the correctness of the Comin- tern and R. I. L. U. tactics and the question of international trade union unity. There is no more popular idea and slogan than unity. That is why even the bitterest enemies of unity have been compelled to struggle against us, not with open visors, but by means of all kinds of underhand backbiting. But this ddes not worry us in the least. The united front has passed from the propaganda and agitational stage and entered the organizational stage. The ratification of the Anglo-Soviet unity committee by the Scarborough congress, the commencement of work of this committee sienfty the practical realization of the united front. The ‘agreement between ‘the British and |Soviet trade unions refutes every- | thing the Second an@wvAmsterdam In- ternationals haye written and spoken concerning the united front and unity. The united front and unity have been realized—such is the. conclusion that millions of workers will arrive at af- |ter Scarborough. If Yhere were the |slightest doubt as to this, the declara- tion of the joint advisory council |should disperse these\doubts, Indeed what did the Anglo-ifssian commit- tee say? Here is tha essense of their findings: Piatiorm. Anglo-Russian “The industrial an@‘economic situ- ation, aggravated by the Dawes Plan in most of the countries, has become worse since the beginning of this year. “Unemployment is world-wide in its effects and is steadily increasing, The attacks of the employing class on the workers’ hours and wages become more and more definite and Geliberate, “Parallel with the growth of eco- nomic reaction, the political situation had become more and more reaction- ary and obstructive to working class interests, In the various parts of Eu- rope reactionary groups of capitalists are obtaining more end more power and leadership in the policy of the state. The danger of war is becoming nearer and more evident. . . “War is being rr upon the Riffs Morocco and wu) the Arabs in cago who|tne Amsterdam , International, altho Syria, while the Chinese workers and ts, revolting against exploita- Mv Three Trade Union Congresses ‘tion and usurpation, are*held down by armed force. This is making clear to all workers of the world/thé insincer- ity of the lofty professigns,of peace made by capitalist statesméns “The guarantee pact pla¢es -upon Germany the duty of using sanctions (military and economic. .penalties) against the states unwilling to submit to the league of nations.. The object of this is to include Germany in a mil- itary alliance directed against the U. S. S. R. (Soviet Russia). “This would make Germany a con- stant menace to Soviet Russia and at the same time would create in Ger- mmany a strategical base for any pro- jected attack upon the Soviet Repub- lies, “The establishment of an all-inclus- ive world-wide trade union interna- tional has, therefore, become more necessary than ever. “The joint advisory council. . ap- peals to the workers of every country, to their organizations and leaders, to join their efforts with the British and Russian trade union movements in or- der to secure the removal.of all ob- stacles and difficulties in the way of national and international working class unity, and to help them to bring into existence one all-inclusive world- wide federation of trade unions.” For or Against Unity- Is it possible to dispute these find- ings if they arise from the interests of the working class? Can one say that the joint advisory council, has laid on the colors too «thick or over- estimated the danger of growing re- action, It would be difficult to find a single worker who could assert this, Every honést proletarian must .ac- knowledge that without unity there is no salvation, The Scarborough con- gress and the declaration of the Anglo- Russian committee bring the, Amster- dam International face to face with the question of unity. Now their Jesuits, formulae, lawyers and chican- ery are of no use. A clear and defin- ite answer must be given—for or against the Russian committee—for or against unity; we on our part answer clearly and without any prevarigation —for Scarborough, for the declaration of the Anglo-Russian committee. Thus the cause of unity has entered on @ new phase, but this does not mean that we are already on the eve of the solution of this complicated problem, By no means, Now, the re- sults of the ratification of the Anglo- Russian agreoment are beginning to eprout thruout the entire world labor movement, In the reformist unions the question will arise as to whether to follow the Britishers or the Ger- mans, |. e., for or against unity. The German trade union bureaucrats have placed themselves in such a position whereby they have become the center, of logical reaction in tr jon movement. It w. desivo And now they will receive their deers. wey crop would: never have been grown. Nothing has been achieved in the sace of the perennial voyage of pov- arty to Cuba, always coincident with new purchases of land and with new taxes and loans. On the last crop there was a surplus of more than half a million tons, out of a total crop of 5,000,000 tons. And now Cuba, with- out having opened up new markets, without having established a mini- mum price, without any security, without her own refineries—launches out, on the word of the president of the republic; upon another crop. This year, in order that next year’s: crisis may be still worse, the yiéld wilt be upwards of 6,000,000 tons” Unsupportable has beconre ‘the’ con- dition of oppression, of exploitation: Moreover, there has been no such thing as political responsibility. All that count are money and good rela- tions with Uncle Sam. The bour- geoisie is the same the world over, but in the EatintAmérican countries its attitude is particularly odius; The regime of exploitation out of which these things arise’ is not diffi- cult to understand. It is necessary 'to wring from the colony the greatest possible amount of*surplus value, and in the most advantageous form. To accomplish this, the colonos are be-) fooled andthe developing radical unions of workers and peasants is brutally repressed. In truth organ- ization of the peasants has, not been possible to effect in Cuba; it has sprung up momentarily in periods of extreme oppression but the govern- ment, faithful watchdog of its imper- ialist masters, has @rowned it in blood and deportations. Workers Paid in Script. Life in the sugar “centrals” or mills or factories is insufferable. The ma- terial conditions of labor are of the worst. There is no money wage, workers are being paid in script that can only be exchanged for merchan- dise at the company stores, where fantastic prices are charged. Socially, the workers in the fields are treated in about the same way ‘as the animals. He must be submissive’ and exagger- atedly respectful in the face of all the abuses of the bosses who are pleased to humiliate him. In treatment of the workers the “central” has not changed in 60 years. In place of the old mill turned by horses there is now a magnificent ma- chine; instead of ten bags of sugar a day, a 1,000. Only the worker remains as before. Formerly he was called slave, not Juan or Pedro, but life for him continues on the same level of misery. S “Yankee methods” of exploitation have been extended’ to all the cen- trals. $ Pin aise While sugar is the one big indus- try on which Cuban ‘prosperity de- pends, it is not the’ only one on which the American capitalists have gotten thelr hands. ‘The United Fruit com- pany dominates a great part of the export of pineapples and other fruits, In the city of Banes—“yellow Banes,” as it is now called—the company has a field of its own. Trespassing is not permitted without permission of the special police maintained to “keep or- der” in the American possessions, All products going into the old city of Havana enter by Way of the Yankee- owned Banes railroad. Cuba will soon be an enormous city of Banes. Dare Not Offend Crowder, Wherever they go the Yankee cap- italists leave their trail. ‘They believe, as in China, that it is sufficient for the native if he produces for them. Their rights are the only ones respected and respectable, their agents are the only ones that may not be removed, and their desires must be fulfilled to the raising of an eyebrow, like Father Jupiter. The’ father Jupiter of the Cubans is called Crowder. One must be “persona grata” to Crowder, Woe to the government official, party or in- dividual wko raises the wrath of his excellency, the ‘ambassador of the United States’; . ) ‘ si Aside’ from’ the ones © mentioned, Cuba’s products develop very slowly, if they develop at’ all. We have’ no markets. The Americans do not want Big Parade,” now shows rick Theater, has m: @ ‘con! ments or ideas, bit “because it ap: proaches realism in/its war scenes. The death rattlé of machine guns, the boom and shéck of “annonading, the whirring of aeroplanes, punctuate, the action, The miseries and horrors of|tural steel worker, respectively, are “THE BIG PARADE” Inadvertently the producer of “The out of this war, anyway?” But the ing at the Gar-| producer, as tho frightened at the por- ‘ tribu-| tent’ of the question’ which has’ been tion to anti-war propaganda. It’ is/posed, abruptly rushes it aside by not antiwar by reason of its argu-)plunging Jim into action. wie BlG PASSAIC MILL JOINS | MASS STRIKE (Continued from ‘page 1.) that after a conference with the spin- ners in the Forstmann-Huffman mill they had unanimously decided to join the strike. He predicted then that all the workers in the factory would fol- low the example of the weavers and spinners and that'the operatives of five more mills would come out. Cheers-swept the halls at which the 10,000 strikers had gathered to cele- brate the fourth week of their strug- gle ‘when this announcement was made, for‘ this mill holds a strategic position in the local conflict, Every available hall in the ‘city was taken, the strikers deeming this an appro- priate way to commemorate Washing- ton’s birtliday. “8 ae ‘ oe ye Officials Responsible, Welsbord Charges. PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 24 — The threat of the textile bosses that they would%get the police to close the halls to the strikers has been toned down considerably by the visit of organizer Weisbord and Attorney Unger to the mayor and commissioner of public safety. These officials were informed that no violence would occur unless provoked by themselves. The delega- tion stated that the police had been to blame for the trouble thus far. The police, however, they added, have only acted because of orders from their superiors, PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 24 — The case of the six strikers who have been ar- rested from day to day still drags along. It is evident the bosses have not decided what they want to do wii them. They are charged with disoi erly conduct, their crime consisting in having been on the picket line and in not having made as swift a dash for the cemetery as the police fancy they should when ordered to move on, #60. 3 Relief Work Well Organized. PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 24 — Coffee booths have been established in the halls where the pickets go after they have done their trick in the line. Hot coffee and good sandwiches taste mighty fine after a march of several miles around the mills in the cold of the morning, and the relief committee realizes that many of the pickets are not too well fed at home, nor have they clothing that keeps them any too warm, The relief store where needy famil- ies may secure food and groceries has opened and is now serving all who are destitute. No striker need gO without the proper food and clothing. Money is coming in from different unions and from many other sources. One church in Passaic took up’a col- lection of over $10 and handed it to the strike committee with the assur- ance that all possible assistance would be given until the strike is settled, Strike Bulletin Out. ° The first issue of the Textile Strike Bulletin is out, The strikers furnish many of the stories and fine articles are contributed by Mary Heaton Vorse and organizer Albert Weisbord. It will appear as often as the committee deems necessary, possibly twice @ week, —————— our coffee, nor our delicious rice, nor most of our various fruits, Tobacco is on the down grade and is already being displaced. What is the cause of this disdain for the fine Havana, ci- gar? Can it be the workmanship, the eminently careful, personal, Cuban touch? Or is it perhaps the Virginia tobacco interests? The general situation of Cuba has been and is that of a colonial coun- try. The Cuban bourgeoisie, almost entirely a hereditary class, is of the most despicable and stupid—its repre- sentatives (the government) cheap peddlers who sell out the wealth of ‘the land to the highest bidder, And the Yankees pay best and back up their money with force, with force... A Review The story into Which the war scenes , are fitted, tho thoroly hackneyed, is, redeemed by some outstanding touc es of ‘verisimilitude. Jim’s Bull and Slim, bartender and - war—the- mud, the lice, the poison gas, / life-like, if not true to lite. Jim's in- the bayonetting, the bloodletting, the beastliness, and ‘the omnipresent death, death, death—all are shown, The film is remarkably free of war hysteria and patriotism, except at the beginning, when there is briefly pic- tured the parading, flag waving, and war spirit which featured the en- trance of the U. 8S. into the world- slaughter. Even here, there seems to be present in the producers’ mind an undercurrent of critical questioning which says: “How crazy people were! What is all this for, anyway?” Indeed the ehtire war portion of the film, to. t “What t uppermost in the ‘minds of , hell do we get. M, ’ re a ( articulate wooing of the French peas: ant girl and the latter's search for ‘ him in the torrent of soldiers, “moy- / ing up” are noteworthy in this re- spect. Jim's attitude upon his return home {s the logical continuance of ques- tion: “What the hell do we get out of this war?” He regards with sullen , dilike the father who urged him to go to war, and seems bitter toy the world in general, Only the fact that Jim is taken to fine | and his future secured pre vents the picture from placing :