The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1926, Page 6

eed aidan { } Page Six 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 (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months { $6.00 per year $3.50 six months | $2.50 three months | $2.00 three months | Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 11138 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IIlinols —<$<—<$—$ _ ___ J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J, LOBEB...... Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Editors ... Business Manager <i 290 Advertising rates on application. oe Out of Obscurity—for a Day Probably the most amusing species: of poppycock inferiorities extant is that embracing prosecuting attorneys in the hinterlands. Irresistibly this thought forces itself upon us. whenever there ensues a trial involving the question of religion... The Scopes case in Ten- nessee produced its quota. For a day these weird creatures stood in the limelight and then sank back into the merciful obscurity from whence they came to vegetate the rest of their futile lives amidst other members of the Kiwanis clubs, the Rotarians, the masons, (the ko-koos) or Knights of Columbus. In the Bimba blasphemy trial now going on in Massachusetts there steps forth ‘one I. Manuel Rubin, whose fate it is to play the role of prosecutor. The forlorn nincompoop asserted, without crack- ing a smile, that “the people must be protected in their belief in god.” If all the gods were not already dead; they would surely. com- mit suicide because of sheer humilation or laugh themselves to death at this bit of unconscious comedy. They would simply ‘pass out, or on, as that other holy spook peddler of Massachusetts, Mary Baker Eddy, might have said. What sort of god exists in the some- what disordered brain of Mr. Rubin that he imagines people who believe in him must be protected from scientific facts? Such sentiments were the vogue in the days of Torquemeda, the dungeon builder of the inquisition; John Calvin, who burned Serve- tius at the stake; or Cotton Mather, the witchburner of Salem, Massachusetts, but their memory only evokes irreverent laughter today. "| Mr. Rubin also invoked patriotism and exposed the fact that his ignorance of history is as Iimentable as hjs shortcomings in the realm of science. He stated that “it was upon reverence for religion that this government was founded.” The direet opposite is the fact. Not one outstanding figure of the American revolution was. a religionist. Thomas Paine, who wrote,the first draft of the declara- tion of independence, was a scoffer at religion; Jefferson, who wrote the final draft was anti-religious; Washington considered the pulpit pounders of his day abominable pests and despised their doctrines. The religionists have tried to claim Washington for their own by perverting the facts of his life, but there are an ever increasing number in this nation who take the trouble to investigate his beliefs and those of other historical figures who knew differently. « Furthermore, even that class document kzown as the constitu- tion specifically stipulates:that one can beliéve or disbelieve with- out any interference on the part of the state. Cotton Mather, the degenerate responsible for the blasphemy law, would probably have tried to burn or hang or draw and quarter the outstanding figures of the American revolution for their heresy. But then who expects a-Brockton prosecuting attorney to know anything about law or history or science? If he did he wouldn’t bea prosecuting attorney. Today the petty creature stands in the reflected light of the defendant he vilifies—tomorrow he will sents take his place among his peers, the nonentities. Americans Lack Political Consciousness Republican pro-court senators who are up for re-election. this year are desperately striving to blame their betrayal of the nation into the hands of the House of Morgan on the yoters who kept that party in the election of 1924. They try to pass the buck to the voters because the republican platform contained a plank pledging adherence to the world court, with the Harding-Hughes- Coolidge reservations. Such evasion is unconvincing, especailly when one considers the fact that few of those who voted for Coo- lidge read the republican platform. In a way and to a degree the voters are to blame, but not because of their political understand- ing. On the contrary, it is because of their political backwardness. Capitalist platforms are not made to be read but to unite various conflicting elements within a party so they may conduct their individual campaigns according to the exigencies of the situa- tion in the particular districts in which they ‘run. How many speeches were made in favor of the world court? The answer is, very few. But there were many speeches reafifrming op- position to the league of nations. Since it is an established’ fact, beyond peradventure of acdoubt, that the court is part of the league, is not support of the court a violation of the pledge made by. the republican candidates? As a matter of fact the last campaign waS not based upon any principle of international relations, but npon the watchword of prosperity with Coolidge. The boobery that voted for Coolidge did so because they imagined that chaos would. ensue if he failed of elec- tion and the contest was thrown into congress. “Before the politicians: could blame thervoters for their own treachery a litical consciousness would» have to be developed: in America and political platforms would have to mean something to them. The electorate of this nation is probably the most «mun- developed of all parliamentary countries. Once the masses of. this country begin to think politically there will develop a class ¢on- scious party of labor. Its absence today is conclusive proof of the low level of political understanding that pervades the working class. That is why it is imperati#e that every effort be made and is being made by Communists to raise the political level of the masses in America. A Present of 119 Million: Both the house and senate have passed the new revenue bill sponsored by Mr, Mellon, outlaw secretary of the treasury and head of the monopolistic combine known as the aluminum trust. The bill presents Mr. Mellon and his fellow millionaires with the newt sum of 119 million dollars, thru cutting the surtaxes from 40 per cent to 20 per cent. The sum handed to the plunderers many be much more, based upon the 1925 income, but if the income does not increase the! big exploiters get the 119 million reduction. Today-the United States govérnment’is a dictatorship of. the millionaires, by the millionaires and for the millionaires. ~ | _— | Get a member of the Workers Party and @ new subscription 5 The DAILY WORKER. | Paneer yas) vy By TOM BELL DOZEN bills are pending in con; gress which provided for register- ing, fingerprinting and spying on alien | workers who come to this country. Elaborate measures for imprisoning | and deporting non-citizens, have been drawn ‘up. At the close of this ses- sion of congress a bill will have pass- ed binding the 7,000,000 foreign-born aliens in the country to their ex- ploiters. They will be unable to take a step without the police knowing of it. The purpose of this legislation is quite clear. The Coolidge government wants to make sure that the foreign- born workers, mostly employed in the} basic industries such as steel, min- ing and packing, will be under close police surveillaneé, and thus render it much more. difficult to organize hese industries. By these means Coolidge and Co, are striving to make sure that the trade unions will not be able to organize the heavy indus- tries of the country. Coolidge Threatens the Foreign-born | Workers, The Coolidge government is com- mitted to this course. Coolidge in his presidential speech to congress, said: . if investigation reveals that any considerable number (of foreign-born) are coming here in defiance of our im- migration restrictions it will undoubt- edly create the necessity for regis- THE DAILY WORKER The Campaign Against the Foreign-Born Workers Situation in Chicago and Brockton Used by Coolidge to Stir Up Campaign Against Foreign-Born Workers tration of all aliens.” The violation of immigration laws is the pretext for registration and spy \~ on all foreign- born workers. The secretary of la- bor, J. J. Davis, has been the ‘fore- most advocate of registering and fin- gerprinting all foreign-born workers. The immigration reswictions intre- duced since 1920 have been enforced by the republican administrations That section of the capitatist class/| which is supporting the republican party demands that the foreign-born] be hedged around with as many re- strictions as possible. This is a deli-} berate policy on the part of the big- gest exploiters in the country. They want to accomplish the, following: 1, Prevent the organization of the basic industries. 2. Carefully select those who come to this country in order to keep out radical workers. 8. Build a barrier between the na- tive and foreign-born workers to ren- der common actibn against the bass- |es impossible. If the great capitalists are able "to secure an army of nyllons \of alien workers registered, fingerprinted, spied on by the police and discrimin- ated against in other ways, they will have at their disposal a force to break strikes whenever they want to. These workers marked off by special laws will become an army of strikebreak- | Coolidge-laws placing these workers ing class. A registered and“intimidated army of millions of workers will be poor material to organize into the unions. The history of the steel and packing house strikes at the end of the war shows that the organization of these industries is a problem of {he organ- ization of foreign-born workers. If the under the direct supervision of the police in every town go into effect these workers will be afraid to join any labor organization. Split Native and Foreign-born. To instill suspicion and hatred against the foreign-born workers among the native-born would be a di- rect victory for the capitalists. To divide the working class forces would weaken the resistance to wage cuts, longer hours, and the open shop, To enable them to pass this ‘legis- latign the federal government has in- tervened in two situations that lend themsélves to propaganda agafnst the | foreign-born in Chicago and the towns around Brockton, Mass. In both of | these places a campaign against the foreign-born is being organized. The ist press is indulging in an or- ting against the “foreigners” and the “foreign menace.” In Chicago the bootlegging busi- ness has given rise to a long series of murders perpetrated by rival gangs ers wsed against the rest of the work- engaged in this business. The major- ' / ity of the murders took place in the Italian colony, and most of the mur- derers and their victims are Sicilians. The press took up the cry for the de- portation of “foreign gunmen” to stop the murders. Immediately the federal government volunteered the services of some of its most experienced agents at deportation, and a deporta- tion campaign is in full swing. Raids, and mass arrests are now the order of the day. The capitalist press has taken up the cry and mil- liong of readers are daily régaled to wild stories of the menace of foreign- ers to the peace of Chicago. Natur- ally, this./creates“sentiment for the}: restriction of all aliens, and this is what the Coolidge government wants and explains why it was so ready. to aid in the Chicago campaign against the “foreign gunmen.” Two Deportation Drives. In Brockton; Mass., Anthony Bimba,' editor of the Lithuanian paper Laisve, was arrested on a charge of blas- phemy. Immediately the local author- ities and middle class of the surround- ing towns seized the opportunity to start a campaign against the -foreign- born workers. In Hudson, Mass., the selectmen and police under the lead- ership of a catholic priest, have wag- ed such a campaign of terror against the foreign-born workers that many. have been forced to leave town. The immigration officials have been called in to co-operate in’ deporting “undé- sirables.” In Boston the capitalist press is screaming against the “for- eigners.” The Boston Telegram, own- ed by Doheny of Teapot Dome scan- dal, denounces the foreign-born call- pg them a “blackguardly crew.” The Bimba case is being utilized by the federal immigration agents to stir up a deportation campaign, Both in Chicago and Brockton the anti-foreigner campaign was not deli- berately started as propaganda for the restrictive legislation. In Chicago the fight between the Barrett-Crowe and Small factions in the republican par+ ty had something to do with starting the campaign. In Brockton a stool- pigeon employed in the Douglas Sho: Go. laid the information against Bi ‘ba which led to his arrest. But these cases have been seize upon to stir up feeling, against ‘the foreign-born, and the federal govern- ment has shown a great willingness to aid in a deportation orgy. In this Way propaganda is being spread for some form of alien registration. All workers must co-operate against this baiting of the foreign-born work- ers. The councils for the protection of the foreign-born must hecome’ great mass Organizations in ‘each city to lead all workers in opposing the de- signs of the Coolidge government against the foreign-born workers it this country. The Lenin Memorial Demonstration in Moscow By WILLIAM F. KRUSE (Special Correspondence to The DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., (By Mail, Delayed)—“The second year without Lenin.” Under this title in thousands upon thousands of factories, shops, villages, schools and all sorts of other gather- ing places of the masses, memorial speeches were made to the millions of Russian workers and peasants gath- ered on the second anniversary of their beloved leader’s death to do honor to his memory and take stock of the stewardship of his heriage. It was the keynote also of the tre- mendous gathering in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow under the joint auspices of the city and district or- ganizations of the Communist Party, the Moscow Soviet, the Moscow Dis- trict Committee of the trade unions, and the Leninist Institute. The great symphony orchestra and _ technical staff of the theater aided in making the meeting a memorable one. Vast Ampitheater in Mourning. The vast red and gold ampitheater took on a sombre’ tone, its glitter dulled by beautifully arranged masses of black crepe, yet the total effect only heightened the pulsating power of the massed red background, for the moment veiled in the .raiments of mourning. The stage was hidden from view with a special curtain on which was painted, in semi-modern style and with red tones predominat- ing, a heroic picture of workers ad- vancing to battle. This curtain drawn aside, the stage was shown as a three level platform on which was seated the combined presidia of the organiza- tions which had arranged the meeting. At precisely 6:55, the hour of Len- in’s death, the chairman, Uglanov, sec- retary of the Moscow Party Commit- tee, opened the meeting with a short statement to the effect that this mo- ment, two years before, was one that the workers would never forget. The audience rose, the myriad lights of the great theater dimmed further and further until only the faintest glow of the thousands of electric candles re- mained barely aglow, and the sym- phony orchestra played the revolution- ary funeral march. A projector threw a picture of Lenin on the rear curtain of the stage during this whole impres- sive period. “Lenin is Dead, This slogan was Leninism Lives.” not left to the streamers that graced the stage, nor to mere repetition ‘by the speakers. From the moment that Uglanow re- sumed*his speech the meeting was a real example of applied Leninism. The Russian Party has just closed its Fourteenth Congress, and with it ter- minated one of the sharpest inner party discfissiong ever conducted in any party. The central comniittee won an overwhelming victory and is now engaged in liquidating all strong- holds of the former opposition. The! keynote of his speech was that to} revere Lenin’s memory it was neces- sary to continue his political line, the jline of the central committee. In | clear, forceful strokes he cited all the | chief points of the congress resolu- tion and then introduced the speaker te the day, A, V. Lunacharsky, Explains Leninism. The “doklad” was prefaced by the statemént that the bourgeoisie profes- sed to find a great contradiction be- tween the honor paid to Lenin’s mem- ory and the Marxian interpretation of the causes of historical change. No such contradiction existed in point of fact, the Communists not merely rec- ognized but emphasized the essential role of the directing cadres of the proletarian advance guard, the party, as conscious elements initiating, stim- ulating and guiding the battles of their class. From this Lunacharsky briefly summarized the Leninist post tion on the chief questions of concern to the proletarian movement; class, party, and leaders, discipline and democratic centralization, the role of the proletariat in the “bourgeois” revolution , and. in capitalist war. Lenin's contributions to revolutionary theory and strategy with regard to im- perialism,.the, colonial peoples, the la- bor aristocracy, the “N. E. P.,” and] finally the relations*to the peasantry were outlined. Then more:attention was paid to the former opposition theories, The “ku- lak” danger: was recognized-by the party, he stated, but it was not over- emphasized, and those who at every cloud across our long and difficult road to Communism were plunged into the, panic of; pessimism and de- spair thereby showed lack of Commu- nist tempering. The opposition charge that the kulak.was being petted was a Memagogic,falsehood, he stated, and the position..that the N. E, P, was purely a retreat that had. now gone) far enuf, was, untrue and dangerous especially in.view of the broad semi- peasant masses who without revolu- tionary or capitalist industrial experi- ences, were now diluting the indus- trial proletariat, The demagogery of “equality” slogans, of demanding the 90 per cent proletarianization of the party membership, of stating that the non-party elements were playing an in- sufficient role as compared with the peasantry—all these were fraught with grave menace at this time, they were left deviations from Leninism. Biting irony was piled upon the oppo- sition conceptions and it was called to the attention of the audience that every opposition in the Russian Party immediately wins the plaudits of the bourgeoisie—“They were ready to give Trotsky a crown, and now Zinoviev is hailed as the heir ap- parent.” The speech closed with" an exposition of the great need for un- flinching discipline in a Communist Party, and an undeviating adherenge to the line of Leninism, Who Owns the Packing Industry? ARTICLE II. WILSON & COMPANY. AND THE CUDAHY PACKING CO. What is now the Wilson & com- pany, was incorporated in New York, April 6, 1910, as the Sulzberger & Sons, company, which became the Schwarzchild and Sulzberger com; pany, following a merger in Septem- ber, 1910. The business was estab- lished in 1853, The name of the con- cern was changed to the Wilson & company in 1916. This company has large packing plants in Chicago, New York, Kansas City and thru its subsidiaries has plants in many other American cities, Thru its subsidiaries it owns about 2,565 railroad cars of which about 2,048 are rgfrigerator>cars, Wilson & company owns and con- trols Wilson & Ca, Inc., of Oklahoma; Wilson & Co,, of California; Wilson & Co, Ine:, of Louisiana; Wilson & Co, of Tennessee; Albert Lea Packing Co. inc; Archer & Co,, Ltd.; Central Pro- duets Corporation, General Rendering Co,; John Reardon & Sons, Co.; Mis- sissippi Packing Go. Ine.; Morton. Gregson Co.; Paul O. Reyman Co.; Haberman ©o., inc.; Pennsylvania In- vestors Co.; Sulzberger Products Cog Union Lard Corporation; Wilson Car Lines; Compania Wilsgn Internation- al; Frigorifico Wilson, de la Argen- tina of Buenos Aires, Argentina, acquired the business.and prop: of the D, B, Martin Co, jaeat packers thru a subsidiary known son-Martin Co. The, atquired pro- and Baltimore and a chain of branch houses thruout the eastern part of the country, It also acquired the business of Martin and Co, It also acquired the Martin Fertilizer Co, of Baltimore, and the rendering plant of the United Rendering Co. of Trenton, N,.J., and the soap. manufacturing business of J. Kavenson & Sons, Inc., of Camden, N. J. Wilson and company does a large export business with England, This company is now in the hands of a re- ceiver, THE CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY The Cudahy Packing Company, the smallest of the Big Four meat pack- ing companiés, was incorporated in Main®, October 7, 1915,/¢ueceeding the Armour-Cudahy company which was incorporated in Ilinoj# August 29, 1887, The name off the Armour: Cudahy firm was changed to the Cudahy Packing company, December 5, 1890, as the Wil-| The Cudahy company has packing plants in Omaha, Neb., South Omaha, Neb., Kansas City, Sioux City, Wi, chita, Kans, Los Angeles, Cudahy, Wis., Memphis, Tenn,, Salt Lake City, Utah, East Chicago, Ind., and it took over the South St. Paul, Minn, plant of the bankrupted farmers’ co-oper- perties were located jm Philadelphia | ative, It has over 100 distributing houses in the United States. Its products are distributed thruout the United States, Alaska, South America, Eur- ope, South Africa and China, 300 New Mineral Springs. TOMSK, U.S. 8, R., Feb, 24.—Out- lets of varloug mineral gases have been discovered in the district of Lake Baikal and in the vicinity of the city of Tomsk. About 300 medicinal mineral springs have been disebvered in various parts of Siberia. A com- mission has been appointed by the authorities in Siberia to investigate these springs which were mostly dis- covered by chance and have not yet been scientifically investigated, You do the job twice ax well— ‘\ when you distribute a bundle of The DAYLY WORKER with your story init, «© © asl \ ShoW Lenin Film. After a short recess a motion pic- ture made up of scenes from Lenin's life was thrown on the screen. The second half, made up mainly pf the funeral scenes was quite well assem- bled; and the awe-inspiring emotional effect of the hundreds of thousands of workers and comrades who passed the ‘bier to pay respects to the dead leader communicated itself so potently to the audience that for at least five minutes after the close of the picture the en- tire audience sat motionless in their seats, the silence in the vast theater was the stillness of the tomb. The majority of those present had them- selves gone thru the experiences pic- tured on the screen, and so perfect was its reproduction that they again lived thru that awesome hour of grief. There followed another intermission. and then a musical program by the theater. chorus. “ Lenin’s favorite song was sung, and ‘several that had been written about him. Russian meetings are almost inevitably built on ‘this pattern—one or two speeches’ suited to the occasion—and then a lighter program interspersed with intermis- sion so that those who do not care to stay until the end can leave without disturbance. “© Allies Evacuating Germany Living Newspaper. In many of the smaller celebrations this enlivening of the meeting pro- grams is effected by the “Zhivaya Gaz- etta,” or “Living Newspaper.” A group of worker-actors, generally young Communists, organize them- selves into a “Blue Blouse” (or red, or green, etc., blouse) dramati¢ circle. They take their name from the uni- form color of smock Worn by all mem- f bers of the group. Then in the form of solo and chorus speaking and sing- ing} interspersed with acting, drills and gymnastic wérk, they give the news of the day. The animated car- toons are, of course, the most interest- ing and effective part of the program —precisely as in printed papers. Of course there is a young folks’ corner in which the “Young Pioneer” group puts on a little “paper” of its own. This form of entertainment is a spe- cial product of the left dramatic tend- encies of post-revolutionary Russia ‘and the-spirit, dash, co-ordination and forethought that these worker groups. put into their performances {s just an- other indication of the depth to which the revolution has penetrated the con- sciousness of all proletarian elements, The Heroes of Locarno Take Their Time Carrying Out Their Own Decisions to Establish the'“Demilitarized Zone," % *