The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1926, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 2418 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, M. Phone Moarce 4713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside ef Chicage): 94.00 per year $4.50 six monthe | $6.00 per year $3,650 six menths $2.60 three monthe $3.00 three months f Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118.W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iitinele a LD J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB....unnmemnernenee Business Manager Mantored as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the postoffice at Chi cago, lil, under the act of March 8, 1879. ‘ih Adv ing rates on application. The Matteotti Verdict Fascism in Italy has again, in the Matteotti verdict, shown its hideously bloodthirsty and debased features to the world. Three’of the five on trial for the shocking murder of the enemy of fascism, Giacomo Matteotti, were found guilty; the other two were acquit ted. But those found guilty will be completely free in a trifle’ mote than two months; under terms of an amnesty anticipating this iden: tical case they will be released in June. From beginning to end the trial was a piece of fascist impudence. So obviously a farce was the whole procedure that the wife of the socialist victim refused to debase the memory of her husband by consenting to appear at. the trial only to be leered at by Farinacci, the blood-streaked butcher who acted as defense attorney for the accused. Of course, as every intelligent worker on earth knows, the real murderer of Matteotti was none other than the fascist braggart and degenerate, Mussolini, whose thievery the socialist deputy was pre- pared to prove to the world from the speaker’s stand in the chamber of deputies. Fascism could neither bribe, nor intimidate, nor reply to the charges of Matteotti so the minions of Mussolini, in order to save the face of their peculating chief, murdered him. Amidst the most insulting grimaces, fascist witnesses testified that the victim was not murdered, but that he died ofa bursted blood vessel. But the evidence was so overwhelming that a verdict of mur- der was returned. Farinacci declared that Matteotti was an enemy. of the fascist regime and that he fought it with “disloyal and:provo- catory weapons,” therefore it was not a capital crime to kill him anyway. The judge agreed, He dared not disagree. Altho this verdict officially closes the affair of Matteotti in the records of a government that is the pariah of the earth it is not the verdict of history. It is only one more sign that indicates what that verdict will be. The bleeding and battered working class of Italy will render the final verdict when they unleash the fury of the proletarian revolution and drown. Mussolini, Farinacci and the rest of the black-shirt brigands in rivers.of their own blood. A goy- ernment that exists thru frightfulness.mist perish by the ruthless- ness of those it oppresses. The reply to the Matteotti verdict must be the crushing of the fascist government by the masses of Italian workers and peasants who now are forced to suffer in silence because a murderer who strode to power over the dead bodies of the flower of the working class dare not let the facts of his tyranny become known. Coolidge Defeat in South Dakota The outcome of the republican pritmaries in South Dakota was a rebuke to the republican administration’s policy of reprisals against those republican senators who waver, even by a_hair’s breadth, from the dictates of the machine in control at Washington. Senator Peter Norbeck, a very mediocre man and for the most part a staunch defender of the administration, has occasionally had to consider the opinions of the farmers of the state from whence he was sent to the senate. His first great.crime against the old guard was when he voted against the seating, of Truman H. Newberry who corrupted the state of Michigan with.a slush fund of millions of dollars in order to crawl into the senate. The second was when he voted against confirming “Sugar Charley” Warren of Michigan as Coolidge’s attorney general. Then, of Jate, he has taken a position in opposition to Coolidge on farm relief measures. On most other questions he has stood staunchly by the foul aggregation that controls ihe administration at Washington. On many occasions he absents jimself from voting. Certainly he is not one in whom the voters of his state can place confidence because he can be relied upon always io serve the basic interests of Wall Street against the workers and farmers. But even that is not sufficient for the Mellon-Coolidge-But- jer-Hoover gang. They demand complete subserviency, unquestion- ing servility. Since they did not obtain this from Norbeck on all occasions they decided to knife him in the primary elections so he could not run on the regular republican ticket. One George J. Dan- forth, a railroad lawyer from Sioux Falls, was selected to uphold the administration in the primaries against Norbeck. The result was a decisive victory for Norbeck, which is tantamount to a repy-|’ diation by the South Dakota members-of his own party of the Coo- lidge regime, . L It is to be hoped that in the.regular elections the labor and farmer forces have a candidate for senator challenging alike Senator Norbeck and his democratic opponent,.whose party, like Norbeck's is the political agent of -Wall Street. Textile Senator Fights Primary Walter 1. Edge, the Mellon-Coolidge’ senator from New Jersey, who unburdened himself of a defense of textile mill slavery and ‘seab- bery the other day in the United States’ sénate when the resolution to investigate the Passaie strike was introduced is busy trying to wreck the direet primary law of New' Jersey as it applies ‘to éandi- dates for senator and governor. t One of the political faglemenyof New Jersey’s scab industries; State Senator William A. Stevens of Monmouth county, at the behest of Edge, introduced a bill to substitute party conventions for pri- mary clections. It appears that certain republican opponents of Edge succeeded in nominating one Arthur Whitney as republican candidate for governor in last fall’s elegtions, The voters did not support the machine as Edge desired them to do, therefore his min- ions in the senate want to smash the primary system and revert to the old party convention where only machine men participate. As revolutionists we certainly do not support the system of, primary election frauds. The primary machinery is subject’ to cor- ruption the same as any other part of the parliamentary system of government. We only expose the manipulation of the New Jersey senate in order to place before our readers one more ill tion of the fact that senators and other officials who profess to. uphold the institutions of capitalist class democracy in sweality have no respect for it and are constantly devising schemes to make their more absolute in order to perpetuate the dictatorship of 4 is ‘ Get a member-=of-the Workers Party.-and.ca:-new-subseription top The DAILY WORKER. Ae os The following is the second of a series of articles on present tenden- cies’ in the international labor move- ment by the president of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions. e @e ARTICLE It. The outstanding feature of the in- ternational labor movement at pres- ent is the birth of left tendencies in- side the reformist organizations and the formation of an opposition in the second and Amsterdam internationals, which means, of course, the weaken- ing of international reformism, The most prominent manifestation of the new aspiration that has taken shape during the past year can be con- sidered as the formation of the Anglo- Russian committee, a product of the new orientation of a very considerable and. influential part of the Amsterdam International. For a while, the re- formists diverted themselves with say- ing that the Anglo-Russian committee was not an organization, but a politi- cal slogan, an idea. Their hopes, how- ever, could not but ‘be dashed when the agreement between the Soviet and British unions was ratified after Scar- borough. British Swing Left. Granted even that the Anglo-Rus- sian committee is not an organiza- By E. HUGO OEHLER. \1HE motion picture, a product of ;twentieth century capitalism, has reached its highest state of perfec- tion..and exercises its greatest influ- ence on the workers in the United States. The industry is controlled by the capitalist class, but caters to the working class for its support. It is the, only art that has mass support and;the only art where the supporters do-not dictate the policy. The policy igndictated by the capitatst class thru.the motion picture trust. * Means to Enslave Workers. .The*masses from the largest indus- trial'icenter to the smallest hamlet are;vietims of the film’s emotional in- fluence, while the crafty master-class utilizes the cinema as one of its most effective weapons to keep the work- erg ;wnder their subjective influence. The highest pereentage of the indi- yvidual’s understanding of the universe comes thru the eye—by seeing. This makes the motion picture all the more efficient in its function as a means to keep, the workers enslaved. »@he motion picture is not only used by. the capitalist class against the werkers at home, but has been found to-be more effective than missionaries in serving capitalism in other lands. It. is true the battleship follows the dollar, but the film precedes the dol- lar, .The network of economic pene- tration is not always a conscious planned factor. Capitalist grows, ex- pands and imperialism utilizes what- ever network the system produces. At present over 30 per cent of the motion picture trust’s income is de- rived from showing films in other lands. The profit from this source urges on these plutocrats to conquer new fields, to increase this revenue, “Pays to Advertise.” “It pays to advertise” is a motto THE DAILY WORKER Tendencies: in the World Trade Union Movement The British Swing to the Left.—The Geran Masses Look to ee Soviet Union._-The Left Wing in the British Move- ment.—The Awakening and Organization of the Orient. tion; but as a political idea does it not represent something new in the European labor movement? If the representatives of the British trade unions were in Soviet Russia as long ago as in 1920, why did not such a committee come into being then? Be- cause at that time Soviet Russia was utterly exhausted, the Russian work- ing class was in an exceptionally bad position and the revolution could not hen exercise such an‘attractive influ- ence on the British Jaor movement as in 1924, Now it-{8 these two cap- ital moments—the stefidy worsening of the British working’ class’ position and the considerable improvement in the. position of the wdtking class in the U. S. S. R.—that form the ground on which the Anglo-Russian rap- prochement has developed. Here it may be asked: why an Anglo-Soviet and not’a German-Soviet rapproachement? Is tv" possible that the working class is better off in Ger- many than in Britain?, Why has there been a change of heart in England in favor of Soviet Russia while in Ger- many the change is towards the Amer- ican Federation of Labor? Surely like causes should have like effects? German Masses Look to U. S, 8. R. The broad mass of the German pro- letariat undoubtedly looks to the U. S. S. R. We see that in the rank and file of the German social-democracy and reformist“unions: and if this friendli- Motion Pictures--Effective Imperialist Tool that all capitalists agree to. The fact that the commodities of Americat manufacturers are so'prominently dis- played in the most etiti¢ing fashion in the motion picture that goes to the foreign countries stimulates trade with that nation. The theatergoers of other lands, seeing’ American films displaying commodities made in America in the bost) possible way in drama enacted beforé their eyes, read- ily obtain a likening«for them and the desire to possess them. The arti- cles may be wearing apparel, uten- sils, autos, furniture:that are seen in the films. This leads\to an increase of imports of American made com- modities wherever ‘the. moving pic- tures have penetrated’: Eighty per cent ofthe films, shown in the world are made by the Ameri- can plutes. Four-fifths of the film market is controlled by: American pro- ducers. These films? -infiuence ~ the trade of the orient, of Latin America, Africa, th The advance by Amierican films has made great inroads;in the German, Italian and English film business. This has caused European natibns to restrict the importation of foreign films. This measures mainly aimed at the Americans. Government Aids Magnates. The check of the American invasion of films by foreign governments has been vigorously protested by the plutes’ office boys, the state depart- ment, thru the embassies and lega- tions. England and Germany has been affected greatly by American production of films. The motion picture is at present controlled by the bourgeoisie except in the Soviet republic, where the pro- letariat is using moving pictures to advance the social, political and eco: nomic life of the working class, Capitalist League’s Rotten for Furuseth WASHINGTON, March 28.—Andrew Furuseth, president of the Interna- tional Seamen’s Union of America, is going to Geneva for the meeting of representatives of many governments ‘) affiliated with the international labor office of the league of nations on June 7, when the convention dealing with seamen’s rights is to be signed. He will oppose the measure, since it fails, in his opinion, to protect the right of seamen to quit work and tends to de- grade conditions already won in the United States and certain other coun- tries, “This proposed convention,” said Furuseth, “restores imprisonment for seamen who quit their ships, and it goes even farther back than the con- ditions we abolished by the seamen’s act of 1916, It will create once more the conditions that obtained inythe sailing fleets in the Sandwich Isfands and out from San Francisco in the early days. That is to say, it will take away all the rights of seamen as men,” ceesaguentihionnns Acquit Union Militants. SEATTLE—(FP)—The second trial of M. Hansen and W. H, Joues, charg: ed with being members of the Work- ers party and as such ineligibie for the Brotherhood of Painters and Deco- rators resulted in a second acquittal by a vote of the jon of 61 to 12. After the first # small group in the union aypealedjfthe case to the grand lodge executive board. The board sent it back~tomthe local for another trial, A -@6¢OHappeal will now be taken, a rd \ Corporations ‘Pile Labor Scheme Is Too | Up Enormous Profits, from Workers’ Labor (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 28—Surplus of Cluett, Peabody & ; NOW amounts to $8,987,000, which fs’ practically the equivalent of the itstanding pre- ferred stock, totaling $9,000,000. The concern has no outstanding -bonds. The excess of curr sets over cur- rent liabilities amounts to $14,055,000. Then there are lands, its and build. and so great the workers that right ni ers could cash in ant the par value of tl course, they have ber cent on the pre e many years, i y the stockhold- t three times ir shares. Of getting the 7 stock for Yucatan Divorces Unconstitutional. MEXICO CITY, March 28—There was a general exodus of unhappily married persons from Yueatan today, as the result of the supreme court de- cision that Yucatan divorce laws are unconstitutional, Many Americans who have been in Yucatan seeking divorces have moved into Mor and Sonora where the divorce laws are constitutional, a Dives Into Funeral Party. MAYWOOD, Illinois, March 28, — Timothy Madden, flying above a cemetery, lost con' of his plane and did a nose-di' ito midst of a funeral party. len had been extricated from the wreckage and sent to a hospitetwith fractured legs and internal was resumed, Fs the funeral | BY A. LOZOVSKY: ness has not manifested itself in the same forms as in the case of the Anglo-Soviet rapprochement this must be put down to the exceptional hos- tility of the social-democrats to Com- munism, It must be borne in mind that the move to the left of the work- ing masses is bitterly opposed not only by social-democratic ideology but also by the social-democratic and trade union machinery, In those countries, such as Germany, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and else- where, where the party differentiation has profoundly affected the masses this change inclining towards Russia is not so noticeable in the masses, is progressing at a considerably slower rate and is given organizational ex- pression to with difficulty owing to the organizational opposition of the social-democrats, British Reformism. Where party differentiation has not cut into the broad masses (Britain) the left wing takes shapes with greater ease. It is for this very rea- son that this changé has been so marked in Britain, even at the top of the trade union ladder. In Britain the dead hand of social-democratic traditions wields least influence while ithe insular type of British reformism has not such a perfect bureaucratic machinery constituting an appendage ‘of the bourgeois state inside the work- ing class. | HE LETTER BOX | Socialists Fear Debate on Soviet Ruséia May I make a small addition to the already voluminous material and evi- dence of the treachery of the socialist party and the socialist group to the workers in this country. . A group of students, interested ‘n the problems of Soviet Russia and in the reaction to them of the various radical groups in America, were desirous—of arranging for a debate ative of one group, and Mr. Morris Hillquit, as representative of the so- cialist’ group. As representative of quit, questioning the terms and condf* tions under which he would undertaké the debate. On March first, Mr. Hilk quit wrote me 4s follows: 1 have your letter of February 26th inviting me to meet Mr. Nearing if public debate on certain aspects of the Russian Soviet government, to have to state that | am not inte: ested in such a deba' On March ninth, in response to a]! query similar to that which I addres-j, sed to Mr. Hillquit, but addressed to the socialist party in general, Mr. August Claessens, as executive secret- ary of the party, whote me: ceived, The socialist party is not in Russia. We have no interest in such a debate, ‘ In these communications the for- saking of the working class which has characterized the actions of the so- cialists for the past few years is quite evident. Soviet Russia is the one receiving just returns for his work, where the closest approach is made to Communism, pure so¢ialism; every worker thruout the world necessarily \}must ‘be interested in his com nd in their treatment in Russia, The socialists, proclaiming themselves ad- vocates of socialism and friends in- terested in and working for the work- ers, shouldgtleast give some external manifestation, if only for political ef- fect, to this absorbing problem of the Soviet Russian government and the system which it is introducing to the world. But no;’they have even lost any sense of shame. They proclaim in tones loud enuf and ominous to warn any worker, in tones weak enuf and yellow enuf to convince any work- er, of their selfish, rotten, collaborat- we are not interested tent of taking advantage of an op- portunity to malign Russia, No, it is juite true; the only function of the socialists in America today is to e tertain such peséect “representatives’ of the proletariat of the world as Lady Mosley and her handsome husband. Their only function today is to stab the worker in the back, as is plainly evidenced in their activity in the New York turriers’ strike; as is plainly shown by the activity of their papers, truly yellow journals, in poisoning the minds and defeating the interests of the working class, The socialists are dead, The work. er must not be allowed to’ stumble over the rotting corpse of these colla- borators in the capitalistic oppression of the working clay The socialists are dead, Let us bury them by coming over to the standard of the only work- ing class organization-working for the interests of the working clas, the Communists, q Irvin Stearns Taubkin Take this copy-of-the DAILY ww the shop WORKER wit between Scott Nearing, as represent- this student group, I wrote Mr. Hillé » regret Your letter of March 6th was re-| a position to offer you the services of | one of its speakers for a debate with Scott Nearing in the matter of Soviet | country on earth where the worker is: The year just passed was further remarkable for an exceptionally rapid growth in the T. U. movement in the Near, Middle and Far East and in the colonies, the most outstanding feature being the stupendous extension of the labor unions in China and the part they took in the national struggle for emancipation. There are over 1,000,000: organized workers at. the present ‘time in China, according to the latest:data published at the Kuo- mintang’ congress held at the begin- ning of January of this year. Need it be said that this organized force is. playing an exclusively important role inthe’ struggle of’ the toiling masses of China against foreign im- perialism? Need it+be further said that the affiliation of the Chinese labor unions to the Ril L. U. in May 1925 ts an act of tremendous historical impor- tance? Eastern Labor Expands, ‘Storm-swept China, however, is not alone in having a rapidly developing T. U, movement: in Japan, too, the work of organization is growing apace and drawing the broad masses into the organized struggle. Furthermore, note must be taken of the extremely difficult struggle of the working class in’ Indonesia in defense of their or- ganizations against Dutch imperial- ism. We see the same thing taking place in India, Egypt and other colo- nial countries. All this goes to show that the past year saw a further development of the T. U! movement in fresh countries and the gradual induction .of the ma- tured workers’ organizations into world politics and the world labor movement. Eastern Movement Important, It has always been an accepted tra- dition of the European labor move- ment that the center of the world was in Europe, that any federated body of the trade unions or socialist parties of Europe was enough to entitle it to be called an international,the inter. national, even tho the workers of the other continents. had no relation- ships whatever with it. As is com- mon knowledge, the traditions of thé Communist International and the Red International of Labor Unions are en- tirely different. From its very incep- tion the R. I. L. U. went beyond the confines of Europe, practically giving first place to the question of the T. U. @ovement of the east and colonies, The tremendous revolutionary sig- nificance. possessed by the trade unions of the east was particularly emphasized by the events of last year. The Shanghai and Hongkong strikes were a model of revolutionary strug- gle, and the European workers may learn from the backward Chinese toil- ers how to fight their class enemies, (Continued tomorrow.) The Founders of Scientific Socialism on America “MARX AND ENGELS ON AMERICA,” by Heinz Neuman, No. 6 of the Little “Red Library, published by The DAILY WORKER Publishing company, « : 1 Rew realize how much time and thot Marx and Engels, the first revolu- tionary scientists, gave to the American question. This pamphlet contains long quotations from their correspondence, an- tively pared to ve home the lesson that it is lutely essential that a labor party e formed, no matter how formless or politically backward. will mark the first step of the workers as ‘a’ separate, distinct class—and then will.come the movement of “colossal rapidity.” The Marxists—the Communists— must work within and steel this plas- tic mass—not hiding their identity but under no circumstances allowing themselves to bé isolated. Marx men- tions the oppressed Negroes and farm- ers as the inevitable allies of such a movement, As the introduction to the pamph- let says: “The reader who’ is familiar with the recent discussions in the Ameri- can Communist movement concerning the role of the Labor Party movement in this country and its sérvices in poli- tically “awakening the American masses to elementary forms of class Ww" have often wondered where James Oneal, otherwise known as Jimmié’ O'Neal ‘i his Celtic cog: nomen was dumped in favor of an un- apostrophied: obtained his inspiration for the attacks he so fre: quently makes on the Communists, in between’ his researches into the ways of the: Whigs and ‘the follies of the "ederalists:’ And now it seems that ‘t can be told. And the admission is nade in ‘nowther place than Jimmie’s own paper, the New Leader, the ane mic child of the socialist party which had two fathers. the Daily Call and the Daily Leader, In thé section which is humorously called the “Socialist Party at Work” we find the following: “March 18 being the 51st anniver- sary of Comrade Oneal’s birth, the diners presented him with a cluster of red carnations. In responding Oneal said that he would never grow old and that no or woman pos- sessed with thé socialist ideal could grow old. Ponce de Leon, he contin- ued, searched in vain for the Fountain of Eternal Youth, hut died a disap. Pointed man, He lived too early in the world’s history to find it. We who give our service to the socialist move. ment ha the fountain, and so far as the ‘er was concerned ho never id to.grow old.” ie statement is astounding. well knownthat“the: It is Such a party} Now We Know Where Jimmie Gets It alyzing the outlook for the labor movement here and the tasks of the Marxists. The historical peculiarities of American so- ciety are discussed—until 1848 there was. no fixed proletariat, the “free land” gave all the chance to become farmers. mad scramble to develop the many workers climbed These decades of flux, the lack of a feudal past in this country, as well as—most vital of all— the higher standard of living of the skilled na- tive worker are at the roots of the compara- low level of class consciousness—the backwardness—of the American workers com- of the west In the immense west, into the bourgeoisie. the European. Engels comments sey- eral times on the “energy and virulence,” fhe sal rapidity and energy” with which the Amerjcan masses will move they start—and a thousand bloody strikes add weight to his words. fyand over both Marx and En-¢—————________ consciousness and class action will no- tice the remarkable applicability of many of the statements and analyses of Marx and Engels to just this prob- lem. A careful study of this material will cast considerable light on the labor party question that is now one of the fundamental problems facing the American proletariat and its party,” This pamphlet is really one of the most valuable contributions to the se entific library of the advanced Ameri- can workers. The author, Heinz Neu- mann, one of the leaders of the Com- munist Party of Germany, performed a real service to the revolutionary movement in America, by compiling and analyzing-this valuable material from the writings of the founders of the’ International Communist Move- men, Marx and Engels, and present- ing it before the American workers in this little pamphlet. —L. C. Duncan, And with the Volstead act still on the statute books it is extremely indeli- cate of Jimmie to make this open admission. At the very least, he might have told where the fountain {g ‘ocated. The source of those brilliant polemics against the revolutionary Communist movement which he regu: larly grants a breathless working class should at least be known to those who are interested, P. 8—Dear Jimmie: Were the car- nations really red, or of a } r shade? a Council of A. F. of L. Condemns Fascist Head WASHINGTON, March 28.—Formal action denouncing Mussolint’s reign of terror dn Italy and Opposing the Ital- jan debt settlement was forecast on the opening day of the current ses. sion of the executive council of the Amorican Federation of Labor at Washington headquarters, “Mussolini’s action in -destroying trade unions,” said the official press statement, “nd in forcing compulsory labor upon wage earners of Italy and threats made by him to confiscate the Property of Italians in this country if they object to his dictatorship were also condemned. This condemnation was informal, nd was the personal e ion of SCAU nenebinowim | } ——