The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1926, Page 6

<i a a Page Six #69 ip wi THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 panic eC ata ath SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outsids of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months | $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to >, THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Illinois J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. «Editors Business Manager | am on Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- | People in the Philippines do not want| cago, \Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. <= 290 oo ntl Advertising rates on application, ae The Morgan Coalition The defeat in the senate, by a vote of 36 to 33, of the proposed investigation of the Mellon aluminum trust is an event-of far-reach-|, ing political significance. It signifies an unmistakable trend to- ward a lasting coalition of democrats and republicans sworn to carry out every policy of the House of Morgan and thé great trusts of this country. Gertain democrats thot they could launch a series of investiga- tions that would give them campaign issues for the Fall con- gressional elections. They had chosen’ the aluminum’ trust as the easiest target. Mellon, the Pittsburgh billionaire, and the sec tary of the treasury (holding office in violation of law) is the real boss of the republican administration. Coolidge is a mere messenyer boy for Mellon. One of the most powerful financial and industrial mag: nates in the nation, Mellon’s policy is to utilize the government openly and brazenly in the interest of the great trusts and make no apologies for it. On the question of the world court the democratic senators— with two exceptions—supported the Coolidge-Mellon program. The 14 insurgent republicans around Borah, one lone farmer-laborite and two democrats made up the opposition on that issue. Walsh, of Montana, one of the world court advocates, proposed the alum- inum trust investigation as a matter of political expediency, but the more stable Morgan senators in the democratic camp, like Un- derwood of Alabama, Bruce of Maryland and Glass of Virginia, refused to unite with the insurgent republicans and the other demo- erats, with the result that the attack on Mellon failed. , The Morgan coafition, now clearly in evidence at Washington, heralds the endorsement of the Italian debt cancellation; it prob- ably means victory for Coolidge in securing approval of his ap- pointment of Thomas F. Woodlock of New York on the interstate commerce commission, because Woodlock is notoriously an agent of the trusts and will aid in utilizing the commerce commission in the interests of the Morgan railroads. As we predicted on numerous occasions the trend of polities to- day in the United States is toward a permanent hide-bound re tionary bloc—a democratic-republican coalition that will defend the political interests of Wall Street.’ It does not -mean the im- mediate destruction of the two-party system, but it does mean that for all practical purposes there will be no conflict between! the lead- ing strata of the republicans and the democrats,’ because they both represent the same economic group. Against this coalition will be a’smaller coalition of the irreconcilable republicans led by Borah, Johnson, LaFollette and Brookhart and‘ the democrat, Jim Reed, of Missouri, who will have some following in certain of the campaigns. Such feeble opposition, based upon the economic interests of the petty bourgeoisie, can have no vitality. Time and again this class has proved that it is incapable of leading an independent political existence. And Borah and Reed; notoriously anti-labor, cannot repeat he performance of LaFollette in 1924 who secured the sup- port of large groups of organized workers, for the reason that most of these leaders have deserted their Plumb plans and ideas of in- dependent political action and are now back Of the administration’s proposals for railroad legislation buttressing class collaboration schemes. This situation clears the atmosphere for the development of a class party of labor, that will be able to appeal to and rally large masses of sympathizers and supporters who now have no means of resisting the unbridled despotism of the great combinations of eap- ital that rule thru the Morgan coalition at Washington. Defend Right to Picket! Long experience in mill town strikes has proved the efficacy of mass picketing. So long as the picket lines hold firmly the strike extends. The spectacle, day after day, of thousands of workers picketing the mills inevitably has its effect upon the minority that remains at work during such strikes. In the Passaic strike this tactic has again proved its effectiveness so thoroly that the police, at the behest of the labor-hating chamber of commerce, are striving to prohibit picketing. One Abram Presikei, police commissioner of that city, follow- ing conferences with the chamber of commerce announced the ab- surd excuse that picketing came under the heading of parades and because a city ordinance requires permits for parades, he has pro- hibited picketing. After a few weeks’ struggle this period of suppression is always reached in every strike of a similar nature. In the Paterson silk mill strike of 1924:a similar threat on the part of the police occurred in a similar situation. Defiantly the Paterson workers’ violated the Police orders and precipitated a decisive struggle over the right to picket and to hold meetings. Their determination soon forced the police to capitulate. F In Passaic the strikers should do likewise. The police are the agents of the mill owners and the chambers of commerce. Not for @ moment should the strikers consider obeying the order of a police satrap, but should openly defy such an order as the one against picketing. The only reply to such an order is intensification of picketing. If the strikers are attacked with police clubs then entire fam- ilies of the ten thousand strikers—men, women and children—should be called upon to swarm the streets. The police thugs would hesi- tate to attatk women and children and if they did so it would arouse the workers and the whole population to the political significance of strikes and pave the way for effective class political action against ‘the administration responsible for terrorizing the strikers who are fighting for merely the elementary needs, the creature comforts, that every human being ought to enjoy. Get a member of the Workers Party and a new subscription for The DAILY WORKER. #5 i ae The Filipinos D By HARRY GANNES. HOSE who benefit most from Amer- ican imperialism have not. the | brain texture necessary to conceive |the idea that anybody could want to |be free from the domination of the | world’s richest country. One of the | standby arguments against Filipino in- |dependence is that the mags of the. jto relinquish the blessings that flow |from United States control It is a study in the prevérting and manufacturing of issues to look into {the distortion of the real desires of {the Rilipinos with respect to United | States “benevolence.” There is constantly a loud rumbling in the United States press, as well as |in congress, ivhenever Filipino inde- |pendence is mentioned. This disturb- -ance is interpreted as the indignation of the Filipinos against any attempt to relieve them of American political domination. But in reality what ;causes this anti-independence smoke jin the Philippines? , Chamber of Commerce Opposes 1 Independence. In the Philippines the only group against independence from United States imperialism is American in- vestors, their employes, and army of- ficers. All the active and propa- gandistic opposition to the relinquish- ing of this American colony in the Pa- cific is engineered by the Manila American chamber of commerce. There is a stream of cabling to in- By 1. AMTER. I V a recent issue of the Cleveland Call, a colored paper, there was an editorial entitled “The Colored Citi- zen and Communism.” In this editor- ial the writer contends: that when “other groups like the Socialists de- monstrate that they are our most out- spoken champions for our rights, the colored man feels that there is some- thing good in their principles and at Once becomes susceptible to propa- ganda.” Furthermore you state that “if those who believe in the present form of government desire to retain the color- ed citizen’s loyalty to this form, they must demonstrate that this form in- sures him equal rights and justice.” There are fundamental errors in this logic. The latter statement first, that “they must demonstrate that this form insures him equal rights and justice.” What position do the Negroes occupy in this country? Of the more than 10,000,000 Negroes, 990 per cent are workers and tenapt farm- ers. Do the workers—black or white >and do the farmers—black, or white c7set “equal rights and justice” in this country? This question must be answered with an emphatic negative. Other Discrimination, ET us examine some problems of the foreign-born white workers. If he becomes a citizen, he knows that if he fights for the betterment of the condition of the members of his class, he is subject to arrest, indictment as a “bolshevik” and then deportation. What is his economic position? He is the cheap, unskilled labor employed in the basic industries. It is becoming harder and harder for him to enter the skilled occupations, Colored col- lege students cannot obtain positions after graduation and must accept any kind of unskilled labor. Why this discrimination against the foreign- born and Negro worker? Because the employing class requires a reserve army that may be used to lower the condition of the American workers as a whole. In addition, there is work In the heavy industries—railways, steel, in the packing houses, etc., where cheap labor is required. Who ‘is to do this work? The American will not accept it, hence there must be a large quantity of foreign-born and Negro labor to filltthe fob. Up to a year ago, there was a strong current of immigration into this coun- try. Since the farmers have gone thru a crisis, and two millions have migrated to the cities to find work; and since the Negro was found to be potential material for industry, the Stream of foreign-born workers into this country has stopped, The Negro workers now.do the “dirty” work in industry, and they will continue to do thi8 work, Can the Negro think that the capitalist will put the Negro on a par with the white workers? Yes, only is one instance, when he needs strikebreakers. The reactionary trade union officials, guarding more the interest® of the employers than of the working class, keep the Negroes out of the unions, thus guaranteeing a reserve army for the service of the capitalists, , In an emergency, Negroes can do the work of white workers, since in- dustry has become so mechanical, This emergency is the strike. But should the Negroes, thru pressure get i @ trade unions, or ‘a their ob itive form thelr ow “unions, wit the situation change ‘under the -) present system? Not at all. ‘The cap- italists will keep up the warfare be- tween the two races in order to keep them apart, just as they breed hatred, emand Independence From “Immediate, Absolute and Complete Independence,” Is Slogan ts fluential sources in Washington by this American unofficial political bu- reau against independence that has more weight than the combined will of the nationalist and democratic party, the labor organizations and the peasantry (all of whom stand for cut- ting the political bond that binds them to the United States), Special paid writers are employed by American capitalists in the Philip- pines to agitate against Philippine in- dependence. Their “stuff” gets prom: inent space in the entire capitalist press in the United States. Junius Wood, now a correspondent for’ the Chicago Daily News in ;Moscow, ac- cording to sworn testimony in con- gressional hearings, sent cablegrams from Manila that were published in 23 American newspapers stating that the Philippine Independé Commis- sion (in 1924) was buying’ support for Philippine independence! “This. was later proved to be a lie out of the whole! cloth, Poison Propaganda. The sole purpose of this ‘propaganda was to poison American opinion against independence of ‘the Philip- pines. ee Junius Wood was later-¢mployed in Washington+by anti-independence in- terests. It does not require a long stretch of the imagination to realize that the material published as “news” from the Philippines was concocted (and still is).by men who are In the employ of the Manila American Cham- ber of Commerce. between the various ~iationalities. They know very well that if the work- ing class gets together én‘ a common basis, to fight as workers-‘against the capitalists, the capitalis? Bystem will be in serious danger. © What is the position 6f'the native worker? Can one talk of “Equal rights and justice’? Shfficient has been said by our jurists?‘among them Chief Justice Taft, abotft‘the failure of the law toward the!“paor man,” that is the worker: He*tannot carry on in the court as can thé capitalist; if he commits .a petty offéise, he goes to prison, while the rich’fian escapes. [f he commits a major offeiise, murder, he hangs, while the riciman is de- clared insane, till a cértdiH time when the whole thing’ has blown’ over and he is.freed and becomes*Hinew “a re- spectable member of soléty.” This is inherent in the presétit system— the laws being made by’ the capitalist class thru their represetitatives, for the benefit of the capitalist’ who are the dominant power in Ss¢éciety, owing to their control of the eéénomic and therefore of the politicaf'ife of the country. £ The most powerful drathatization of this fact is a strike> The capitalists use every means possibfe'to break a strike even if it is on fair grounds. The movies, speakers; p¥e#s, church, and finally the courts, pofiée and mili- tia, all are used by the capitalists “in protection of their rights and their property,” while the workers cannot get the protection of the law at all. When, as in West Virginia the miners and their wives prayed before a prison they wexe sent to jail, When the anthracite miners demanded that the books of the coal operators be opened fgr public inspection, it was consider- ed unreasonable, When the workers, demand the right to organize, it is considered against the “constitutional right of every individuak to freedom and to work.” When the capitalists, the banks, railroads, fad manufac- turers, oil companies, etg, etc., com- bine to monopolize the,drade, it is declared a natural develapment. No Equal Rights, ‘OW can one, in face 6f' these basic facts of the presetit” system of society, the capitalist system, talk of “equal rights and justidd? There is What are the views of the Filipinos on continued American domination? All political parties in the Philippines are unanimous on this point, - The democratic party declares in its program, “As Filipinos we consider it our imperative and unavoidable duty to work and exert all our efforts for the attainment of the supreme ideal of emancipation of our country from all foreign rule. .” The Nacionalista Party is more in- sistent: “Immediate, absolute,» and complete independence.” And the Nacionalista Colectivista Party, a split-off of the Nacionalist Party re- peats its appeal for immediate inde- pendence, Organize for Independence. On January 6th, 1926, the two major parties in the Philippines formed a coalition with an advisory board of 25 members for the purpose of con- solidating the native political force for independence. Besides merely agitat- ing for self-determination the new po- litical fusion intends to stave off any backward steps on the part of Amet- jican imperialjsm that would threaten the meager autonomy now enjoyed by the Philippine legislature. The Fil- ipinos recognize the imperialist de- |signs of Amefican capitalism. Speaking of the coalition the Phil- ippine Herald said: “There should be some sort of understanding or coalition not only for the purpose of our campaign for independence but also. to insure concerted efforts here in preventing encroachments on our autonomy.. Every ruling nation nat- urally rejoices to see division in the colony.” And all division on the question of independence is artifically inspired, concocted and injected into the Phil- ippines by American imperialism, Passion for Independence. The desire for independence on the part of the Filipino people amounts to a passion. It is the foremost polit- ical question in the mind of every Fil- ipino. It reverberates all thru the is- lands and the reply to the question “Do the Philippines want independ- ence?” is emphatic, Every bourgeois professor who has studied the Philippine question recog- nizes this mass'\demand for independ- ence. James; A. Rdbertson, ph.gB., L. H. D., chief of the near eastern. di- vision, department of ¢ommerce, co- editor of “The Philippine Islands,” 1493-1898 (55 Vols.) anda host of other works, in his article inthe En- cyclopedia Britanica says regarding independence: ' “The desire; of;the Filipinos. for in- dependence was and is real, and has grown with eaclr succeeding year... .” ~ And at the same time the desire to tighten its grip on this profitable col- ony and source, of raw material/ has grown with’each succeeding year on the itching ‘hands of American capi- talism, The struggle for independence in the Philippines is dirceted to electing members to the Philippine legislature who are in favor of this step. So far ‘the U.S. there has been unanimity on the part of the Filipino legislatures,» Then an independence commission is sent to congress to petition for independ- ence, Must Fight Imperialism, The speaker of the Philippine legis- lature, Manuel Quezon, holds his posi- tion and is considered the leader of the Filipino people by virtue of his continued tho somewhat, too suppliant insistence on independence from the United States. He has found it desirable to recog- nize‘the importance of revolutionary working class co-operation,. as evi- denced by his letter to the Workers (Communist) Party of America ex- pressing ¢hanks for the party’s Phil- ippine policy and activities. Obvious- ly, however, the -Filipino ‘politicians place too much reliance on, disgrumt- led American politcians who do not have the real desires of the Filipino people at heart but who seek cam- paign material against Coolidge. The fight for Filipino independence, once it swerves from’ a conscious struggle against American imperial- ism, will bé lost in a maze of petty politics. Sénator Osmena, head of the independence commission now in the United States. was not long ago acciised in the Filipino press of show- ing too many flirtatious smiles to Americansrubber interests and prom ising things that would enslave the Filipino people to, the rubber mag- nates. \ The Negro Workers and “Equal Rights and Justice” Under Capitalism no justice either for the black or the white worker. That is the réason that both the white and the black worker is turning toward the Communist movement. It is not because the Communists make any pretences. They show up the sham of the present system of “equal rights and justice.” They show the workers, both white and black, that under the present system, they must submit the control of their lives to the capitalist, There can be no “just- ice” under capitalism—and the Negro worker who suffers most of all, under the present system, in spite of the fact that a civil war was ostensibly fought ‘to “give him equal rights,” in spite of the fact that he was promised “equal rights” to enlist in the world war, knows this best of all. Hence he naturally and logically turns to the revolutionary movement. All attempts to wean him away will only have temporary success. The capitalist system depends on reserve labor, the mechanicalization of indus- try will reserve the skilled work to the favored few, the aristocrats of la- bor, The vast majority of the work- ers will be condemned to perform the mechanical, unskilled work. This pro- cess will become ever more extensive with no hope for the broad working masses. Hence “equal rights and justice” fundamentally incorrect’ and illusory, 0 longer deceives large numbers of workers—the blacks above all. These workers lack organization, which will be furnished them by the only ones who see thru the hollowness of the system, and provide a sane state or- ganizational form for the working class. The capitalists know this, @nd in- stead of bestowing "equal rights and justice” upon. the Negro-workers and the tenant farmers of the Southy they do everything in their power to pre- vent them from seeking to improve their position by organization. This may Jintimidate for a time, but soon the conditions will Yorce the Negro, the foreign-born and the oppressed section of the American working class, to organization and united ac- tion, economically and politically, as a class to get “equal rights and just- ice” for their class by getting Dower, RED AID CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL PROTEST AGAINST JUGOSLAV TERROR MOSCOW, U. S. §, K,, Feb, 28—In connection “with the terror and tifo recent events in Jugo-Sjavia, the executive committee of the Internationa! Red Aid has addressed, thg following appeal to the workers of all countries: “The white terror insthe Balkans rages with all its old force. The mili- tary dictator of Greece;pGeneral Pangalos, has followed in the footsteps of the Bulgarian hangman:@ankov and his successor Liaptschey Bratianu. Pangalos Jails Workers, “General Pangalog has flung the best representatives of the working class into jail and is preparing death sentences-and years of hard labor for them, “In the last tew days the terror has again flamed up in cl sb with renewed strength. The Pashitch and Raditeh government has flung itself with unexampled cruelty upon the working class, “In the prisons of Belgrade hun- dreds of workers are subjected to tor- ture, One of these unfortunate work- ers has already died as a result.of the terrible mistreatmen ich he re- ceived, The exam! of these workers has been completely in the hands of the mliitary camarilla. “The government intends to destroy the best leaders of pork tard class by means of bloody A on gov- ernment stops at ‘hich end in death, tortures to ex- ‘act ‘confessions’ which can then be used to make giant processes and,to support sentences of death and life terms of hard labor, Stifle Jugo-Slavia Workers, “Paschicht hopes in this way to stifle the working class movement in Jugo-Slavia which recently has again begun to grow. “Comrades, protest against these new murders and torturef of the Jugo- Slavian working class. “Demand the release of the prison- ers, “The workers of the world must re- ply to the united front of the hang- men in\the Balkans with the united front of all the toflers,.the workers and peasants of all countries under the banner of the International Red Association” f i AUSTRIAN WORKERS’ DELEGATION STUDIES CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb. 28— The first Austrian workers’ delegation to the Soviet Union in'a declaration to the press, points out that tho they were in the Soviet Union but a short time, they were very much impressed by the way the workers’ and peasants’ government was carrying on the econ- omy of the Union and that they would do all they could to learn as much about the Soviet Union as they could so that they could describe to the’ workers ‘of; Austria the real condi-¢——W——W—W—___ tions invthe Union: | “In the solemn moment of our re- “The first Austrian workers’ tort ception we did not forget the miser- gation’ consists of nine members Of) able situation of tens of thousands the sociatdemocratic party and four} of. unemployed workers in Austria. membersof-the: Communist Party of Austria, Abtha;the delegates are thus from two: different. parties, they have a commoeninnderstanding of the great task whigh Mesbefore them. It is their task;to;bring about a fraterniza- tion between; the proletariat..of Aus- tria_and) that of the Soviet Union and to strengthemthe fraternization of the proletapiat,,of.the whole world with the proletariat of the. Soviet Union. Look: With Expectation. “Humireds of thousands of proletar- ians in Austria) look with expectation and hope:tothe activity of the delega- tion. ‘They wish to learn the real truth jt Russia from the lips of their own representatives, It is not ‘sufficient to:criticise with theoretical prejudices.;as:this was previously done in Austria. We must see with our own eyes; make an actual study of the situation and then describe the situation: as it actually: is. “The first impressions of the dele- gation have been favorable. We were filled with a. feeling of solidarity when the masses at the stations on fhe way to Moscow greeted us. The delegation has come prepared to be just in all respects to the Russian pro- letariat and its state and this it will do thru a thoro study of the existing conditions. The delegation approached the .cen- tral council of the Russian trade un- ions with the request that it should make possible the immigration of Austrian workers who seek work. The delegation found complete understand- ing for its situation and received the promise from the central council a the Russian trade unions that it would. make representations to the government of the Soviet Unior re- questing it.to take our suggestion in- to consideration. . ‘ Will Study Conditions. “The delegation will proceed confi- dently to a study of the conditions in the Soviet Union and -hopes that by its work it may render the proletar- iat of the Soviet Union a service, that proletariat which has held out thru years of terrible misery and suffering and maintained the first workers’ and pedsants’ power in unexanipled strug- gles. In working for the consolida- tion of the brotherly connections be- tween the proletariat of the outside world and the proletariat of the Sov- iet Union, the delegation hopes also to assist in the building up of the united trade union front for the unity of the fighting proletariat.’ \ “Signed on behalf of the delegation: “Farkas, Chairman, “Sommer, Secretary.” RAILROADS MAKE $150,000,000 MORE PROFIT IN 1925 THAN IN 1924 By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. | N. Y. Central Railroad profits of $1,136,984,243 in 1925 are a gain of more than $150,000,- 000 over 1924. This huge increase has enabled 19 of the 42. principal carriers. tabulated by Dow, Jones & Co., publishers of The Wall Street Journal, to present their stockholders with a return-of 10% or more on their investment; )Infaét 12 of them report more than. 16% on their common stock. sence “ The $150,000,000 gain in profits is due almost?entirely to the increased efliciency of the railroad employes who handled” $198,946,341 more busi- -iiess in 1925/than in 1924 with an-in- crease of but $23,482,065 in operating oxpenses. Expenses in 1925, absorbed only 74% of the trans; ‘tion dollar compared with 76% in 1924 and 78% n 1928; ys * The expenses most directly connect- ed with the production of transporta- viom did not increase at all, The ransportation men and shopmen act- wally reduced costs in their depart- ota spite of the heavier volume of traffié, transportation expenses fell about $15,000,000 compared with 1924 and the cost of maintaining equip- ment about $2,000,000, The profits of 22 of the larger roads in 1926 and 1924 were: = + Railroad Profits 1925 , 1924 Atlantic Coast 1.$20,184,646 $16,179,185 . 48,034,087 38,084,824 . 28,181,917 28,742,324 BAG FOUr sevens 18,516,709 14,364,267 0 “sue 21,108,750" Webassssivsinss 17,680,620" 2! 22,817,742 21,072,891 201,287 Mo. / evans 83 013,063 16,817,584 | cie ” 64,635,074 19,861,077 . 67,909,316 . 22,227,319 North’n Pacific Pennsylvania ....100,108,007 78,799,913 Reading «20,354,629 18,967,742 Rock Island » 17,926,185 17,713,593 St. Paul . 16,873,635 18,972,102 Santa Fe . 53,666,692 47,283,278 Southern . 85,086,021 30,442,719 South’n Pacific .. 50,313,759 Union Pacific .... 40,038,545 50,475,486 87,913,161 Among the big gains over 1924 are the Atlantic Coast Line with 33%, Big Four 29%, Northwestern 26%, Michi- gan Central 25%, Pennsylvania 26%, Great Northern 17%, Southern 15%, Missourt Pacific 14%, and the Bali- more & Ohio and the Santa Fe 13%. Michigan Central leads the proces- sion in return on capital stock with anjeven 100 % which com; 8s with 73% last year. Most of swells the wealth of New York Central stock- holders, for the larger road hol about 95% of Michigan Central st Atlantic Coast Line comes second with a return of 26% on its common stock. Big Four follows with 244%4% and Chesapeake & Ohio with 21%%. Other big returns for common stock- holders include Reading 19.6%, N folk & Western 18.7%, Santa Fe 18.1%, New Orleans, Texas & Mexico 16.8%, be gee 16.3%, Louisville & Nashville 16%, Nickel Plate 15.8%, Frisco 15% and the Union Pacific 15%. The Baltimore & Ohio and New York Central systems each produced 4 12% profit for their stockholders, sLehigh Valley made 12.8% and e Pennsylvania 11.8%. Such profits should make it difficult for th railroads to deny their em- share in the increased pros- perity made possible by their @fi- ~