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

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113°W. Washington Bivd, Chicago, Ml. Phone Monroe 4712 Sansa aan CASSIS SiR SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicag>): $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 Bivd., Chicago, I!inols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL \ WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOBB.... POS LET Na bacciasebieoraabaeaaias ee Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill., under the act of March 8, 1879. .. Editors «Business Manager 290 Advertising rates on application. ————— —==== ’ The Victory of Frank L. Smith The victory of Frank L. Smith over the Mellon-Coolidge senator, William B. McKinley, in the republican primaries of Tuesday proyes that the middle-west industrialist group of that party is still power- ful. The Chicago ‘Tribune, as the spokesman of the harvester and ASK SABATH TD SPEAK AGAINST ANT-ALIEN LAW Invite Congressman to Foreign-Born Meet The Joint Committee of Machinist Local Unions Nos. 84 and 337, which has sent out a call to Chicago labor organizations to’ participate in the con- ference for the Protection of Foreign- Born, has also addressed the follow- ing letter to Congressman Sabath call- ing on him to participate in the con- ference Sunday mofning, April 18, at Room 300, 180 West Washington St., at 10 o'clock: “Hon. A. J, Sabath Esq., packing house trusts, certain powerful public utility combines, ds}""Representative District 5, Minois, well as the La Salle street banks that derive their power from these trusts, hails the outcome of Tuesday’s primaries as evidence that the middle section of the country is opposed to the European orienta- tion of finance capital on Wall Street. In spite of its opposition to the imperialism of the House ofl Morgan this section of the bourgeoisie carries out an imperialist policy by endeavoring to extend its talons into Central and South America. To the extent »that the Coolidge administration aids in this aggression on the South American continent the Tribune enthusi- astically supports Cooliffge. The administration encounters opposi- tion from the middle-western group in the republican party when it adopts as its major policy defense of Morgan’s interests in Europe and proposes entering the league of nations by way of the world court in order more effectively to extend its power in that part of the world. Six years ago the policy of the republican party was that of the present group whose most influential spokesman is the Tribune. But the growing power of finance capital over industry and the fact that Standard Oil, one of the bulwarks of the republican party in 1920, is now fighting side by side with the Morgan forces in Europe and is inextricably tied to the policy of European penetra- tion has shattered the foundation upon which Harding stood in his campaign against the league of nations and European entangle- ments in 1920. Within another few years this last powerful branch of that party will also yield to the pressure of Wall Street. Even now there are strong undercurrents in that direction. _ Frank L. Smith is unlike the insurgents of the Brookhart, Borah, LaFollette type. They are representatives of the petty bour- geois and the smaller industrialists. Smith represents the great trusts of this part of the country and will stand with Coolidge in his campaign to aid the trusts wipe out all opposition of the smaller fry. He embodies all the labor-hating viciousness of the class he ; represents. He was state chairman of the republican party when the strikebreaker Coolidge made his campaign and was equally as effective as any chairman in the nation. As chairman of the state commerce commission he enabled Samuel Insull, the traction and public utilities magnate of Chicago, to acquire valuable railroad property for a song. He favored the raise in street car fares and in other ways helped the public utilities gouge the masses of workers. First and foremost of all Smith is a politician. Trained in the foul Kankakee school that hatched Len Small, now governor the treasury of the state of Illinois in order to benefit himself and| ‘the packing, houses, his one motive will be to stay in office if he! gets in. He is not bothered about scruples of any sort. When! finance capital finally subdues the middle west’ group in the repub- jican party Smith will be found yelping with the pack instead of following into the petty bourgeois camp of the irreconcilables ,of the ‘two old parties who will still be repeating the trust busting slogans of a day long past which not all the frenzied appeals to the Americanism of George Washington can ever conjure up again. Trade union officials who support Smith, the traction tool, in- stead of endeavoring to crystallize the discontent of the workers un- der their domination into a labor party are traitors’to the class they are supposed to serve. Luther Burbank The “plant wizard” of California who died the other day at the age of 77 years will be the topic of hetereogeneous sermons next Sun- day as pious ignoramuses of every denomination rise and vent their _Spleen at the corpse of a man whose sojourn upon this earth did “Yastly more to make life worth living than all the religionists of all ereeds,and denominations who have inhabited this globe since first cestors. ¥ Luthef Burbank was uniqne in capitalist society. He worked ef] tirelessly applying artificial selection and blending to plant life and caused to bloom hundreds of new species of healthful foods. Modern, Seience was his guide, so he ‘inevitably arrived at the-conclusion ‘ respecting religion that all scientists worthy the name arrive at. When the flivver magnate Henry Ford enunciated his belief in religion anda future world, Burbank courageousky affirmed that in hi opinion there can be no life after death. He further asserted that could not accept the story of creation, the notion that a god made the earth. He believed that 2 god who would make an earth such as this and inflict his children with all the plagues of mankind must, of necessity, be a monster and not a benefactor and he said that if he much better job. For expressing these sentiments he was assailed by a horde of christian ladies and gentlemen who make their living preying upon the ignorance and fear of mankind, Since they could not answer his arguments they fall to reviling him. But the old man patiently con- tinued his work, doing far more for mankind than all the mythical gods of all time. Burbank’s life shows in a small way the immense possibilities of subduing natural forces to the will of mankind. When the class fetters are shattered before the revolution thousands of scientists will develop and be able to devote their energies to extracting from nature’s storehouse the secrets that will enable all to live longer and better. Senator Jim Reed of Missouri hit the nail on the head when, discussing the Italian debt settlement, he said: “Thig settlement is ‘orst piece of intolerable grand larceny ever attempted on the pre of the country. It is making “a present of nearly two m dollars to Italy at the expense of the American taxpayers.” of Illinois who was recently convicted of a million dollar steal from|} a naked savage grovelled in fear before the tomb of his dead an-| eters’ locals are also in line, were a god he would consider himself a criminal not to have done a’ | ‘House of Representatives, “Washington, D. C, “From the enclosed letter which has been mailed to trade unions and other working class organizations of Chi- cago, Ill, you will note the action taken jointly by our unions to oppose the antialien bills now pending be- fore the United States congress, “Our committee has been authorized to take all steps necessary to further the movement of opposition to these bills. A considerable number of lo- cal trade unions and other organiza- tions of Chicago have gone on record concurring with our efforts and elect- ed delegates to the conference called by our committee to further consider the matter. It is with great pleasure that we have also noted that you thru your public utterances have recorded yourself in opposition to these anti- alien bills. “There is not the slightest doubt on our part that the proposed bills are directed against the American working class as a whole and that the workers must unite their forces in opposition. It is, moreover, our conviction that all real liberty loving citizens should aid in the efforts to oppose the anti-alien bills which seek to destroy the organized movement of those who produce the wealth of the country. “Noting that you have publicly voiced your opposition to these bills we cordially invite you to become a participant in the conference called for April 18,10 a, m., to consider ways and means to fight the passage of the pending bills if at all possible for you to be in Chicago at the time. If it should not be possible for you to be present may we count upon your valuable co-operation in our future ourpeses as herein set forth. “Anticipating a favorable reply, we remain, x “Respectfully yours, “Joint ‘Committee of Machinists, “Local Unions Nos. 84 and 337, “Matias Perner, Secretary.” Language Groups Participate. ‘The. Alliance of Lithuanian So- gieties, representing 44 local organiz- ations with a membership of 15,000 will send a delegate. The council for the. Protection of Foreign-Born or- ganized at the March 22 conference of Lithuanian Societies, where 34 dele- gates represented 14 organizations nd 5,000 members, will send 3 dele- gates. Other Lithuanian Societies will also be there. German fraternal so- cieties like the Naturfreunde have chosen delegates. The Hungarian Council will be represented. Dele- gates from Jewish, Lettish, and other language societies will be there in full foree. Unions Behind Conference, Not only the language societies, but the unions are getting under way, as well, The newly elected progressive joint board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers has gone on record against the damnable laws to fingerprMt and register the alien workers, and will get behind the con- ference with solid support. Some car- Wawina Co-op. Protests Against Fascist Terror , WAWINA, Minn., April 14. — The Wawina Co-operative Society has passed a vigorous resolution against ascism in Italy-for its terrorism \inst the Italian. Co-operatives and a Ma OR ae ed PP ACS Ba SE Ahad, Rc PR eed I AE a BE Sc NA FD ON ind eR dds RE ESS SA ad ln tea a2 Sitch ED Hi Sit Sadie tin SLA sue workers’ movement.. The society also endorsed the proposal that the International Co-operative Alliance take the initiative in calling a world gathering of all workers’. movements tor a struggle against fascism, Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting, HONOR ROLL OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS Mrs, Krotofil, Norwalk, Ohio., M., Balvich, Akron, Ohio. Frank Melder, Milwaukee, Wis. W. P. S. Osasto, New Rochell New York Donations March: Ray Bennett 8, Lubin Pertzofsky M. Sachs Irene Stern J, Trams THE WORKERS OF LE HAVRE LAY THEIR MARTYRED COMRADE TO REST . PARIS, April 1-——(By Mail)—:The workers of Le Havre have laid their martyred comrade, .Jules Durand, to rest.. Thousands followed the bier of i their old leader and thought back to the time, during the great industrial struggle of 1910 when Durand fell a vie, tim to French “justice’—# justice that this year sent him to his grave. Jules Durand organized and led a strike of the coal loaders of Le Havre, the most highly exploited | of French workers, He was secretary of the union, the idol of the workers and the bane of the masters of Le Havre, There was in Le Havre at that time a spy and a thug by the name of Donge, a drunken beast who was the ROCKEFELLER BANK TO TO GOLLECT HONDURAS DEBT FOR GT. BRITAIN (Special to The Daily Worker) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, April 15.—The Honduras congress has ap- Proved a contract with the National City Bank of New York under which the bank will collect all funds re- ceived by Honduran consular officers and will act as intermediary for the payment of British bondholders un- der the recently concluded debt agreement with Great Britain. £5,000,000 to £ 80,000,000. The bank will pay semi-yearly in- Stallments of £20,000 each during the term of the debt agreement, 30 years. The Honduran debt was floated 50 years ago:in.Great Britain, amounting to £65,000,000, but before the settlement was made the amount due had risen to nearly £80,000,000. LEGION DRAFT BILL ENSLAVES WORKERS OF U.S. Makes President Abso- lute Dictator of U. S. By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, April 18 —(FP)— Showing up the American Legion's “general” conscription bill as a meas- ure designed to enslave the manpower of the nation in time of war while putting no real check on profits of private capital, witnesses before the senate committee on military affairs put squarely up to the committee the eae issue of equal treatment for wealth fool nf: Che. Pogeehy, MO: Wean Trade with, Soviet “The provisions and implications of Thea & A ° this bill are probably the most es Union as UL Ss. Quits astounding and revolutionary ever Qn a night in September, proposed to congress,” said Dr, John 1910, this scoundrel was ' JULES DURAND. seen in a brawl with some sailors in a public house, He. was later found dead. Here was the chance. Durand was accused of Donge’s death. % A paid agent of the coal barons stated under oath at the trial that the union had decided In a meeting that Donge must die, Despite the fact that five witnesses testified they were offered bribes by the coal company to give false evidence, Durand was sentenced by the court to die. Strikes and disturbances followed this savage verdict. trial was granted. This time Durand was given twenty years hard labor. For ten years the workers of Le Havre fought for Durand’s release. Finally he was “amnestied.” Released and sent to an asylum—the brutality ‘of the French prison regime had made him insane. He died in the asylum, But the workers of Le Havre have not forgotten their comrade, Jules Durand. (Continued from page 1) A. Ryan of the National Catholic Uni- a consortium of German banks be or-| Versity, in opening his attack. He ganized to endorse the Soviet notes, i Went on to interpret the several sec- these to be then turned over to his| tions of the scheme, disclosing that American group for collection, The | it makes the president, when war has Soviet notes thus endofsed would then | Deen declared or is imminent in his be used as the security’back of a bond | judgment, absolute dictator over the flotation in the United States. The | lives of all male citizens between the effect of this proceduce would be to | 28s of 18 and 45, with power to draft relieve German banXs of the necessity |them immediately into the federal for financing their 40 per cent of the | Service; making them subject to mili- Soviet purchases. The German banks | t@Ty law, regardless ‘of whether they did not take to the proposal, however, |@7@ employed as soldiers, factory both because their heads felt they | hands, clerks, or any other calling. were in a position to get the terms Worse Than Mussolini. they sought and because they were un-| Dr. Ryan declared that neither czar willing to hand over the contol in-|nor kaiser dared ask for any such volved,to the American financiers, power during the late war, and that Lenin and Mussolini have scarcely ap- poe cone re” needy. proached it, The key of the scheme British capitalists will probably take )lies in the fact that whenever the up the negotiations at the stage where ‘ president, in time of war or of peace, they have been dropped by their Amer-| thinks that war may result from his. ican rivals, Several of the largest | policies or those of others, he may German concerns, notably the Otto| proceed to assume full dictatorship Wolff and the Demag companies, are | over wages and salaries of all work- said to have already completed ar-|ers. There will be no appeal from his rangements with certain London banks | decision as to an adequate wage or by which the latter’will finance thru |salary. There will be no appeal from an arrangement similiar to that sug- | his decisions as to prices of commodi- |’ gested by Harriman) the 40 per cent | ties, whether cotton or wheat or steel }) due on the Soviet purchases. The Eng- | or ships or shoes, lish banks are to charge not over 9 This, he summed up, was slavery per cent annually for interest. ‘The |of the manhood of America, without Krupps, Thyssens, nd other steel/any lHmitation of the profits which manufacturers are ufderstood to con-|capital might take during war. The template a like schéme, This proce-}vague provision as to price-control dure, however, only*helps the big cor- | was not conscription of capital in any . is 4 Sam Up Pleas for Dry Law Reiision (Continued from Page 1) don’t have the organization to cap- ture them?” asked Codman. “Wes,” Andrews replied. “Those stills might be used to make millions of gallons of liquor?” | “Phat might be true and may be ‘true, too,” Andrews replied. wis Sanctions Beer. _ The general created a sensation) when’ he frankly told the committee hat“he favored a system of govern- mental control and sale of beer as an aid in enforcing the 18th amendment, ‘The dry czar said he favored sale of beer as an aid to temperance as well’ “as prohibition. enforcement. the sworn testimony of Stanley Clark, of the Moderation League of New York, reams of statistics and news stories showing the evil effects of the prohibition law and its impossibility of enforcement. Moderation Drinkers. Among the prominent members of this ‘league are the Rt, Rev. Charles Fiske, protestant episcopal bishop of central New York; Haley Fiske, presi- dent of the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance company; Elihu Root, formerly secretary of state; George C. Holt, former federal judge; Alexander C, Humphreys, president of Stevens uni- porations with international connec- | sense. Pressed for an angwer on the s@le of|Versity; George B. Buchanan, New tions. The little conéérns which must Irritating Corporation Lackey. wine; “Andrews declined to commit}York stock exchange; Newcomb rely on the local Geyman banks are S. L. Calvert, for the federal council fiimselt. Carlton, president of the Western *“*Your opinion then is that, in view ofthe ‘bad quality of hard liquors now being sold, if a healthy beer could be matiufactured—a beer that is non-in- toxfcating in fact with the average person—and distributed by the rf erfiment under regulations an ot allowed to be sold in saloons, public places‘ér drank on the premises the ‘peoplé- would take up™drinking that substitute beer instead of the vile liquots now sold?” said Reed. “You ‘thik the sale of such beer would be ald to temperance and“would aid| , Coates has the power to legalize ‘én suppressing bootlegging?” ‘in ten minutes” the sale of cider and 2d believe it,” the dry czar said wines, containing from 2.7 to 11.68 per firmly, feent of alcohol, Representative John Hill, (R) of Maryland, chairman of the house “beer bloc” told the senate pro- hibition committee in his testimony. Representatives Royal H. Weller, (D) of New York, and Adolph J. Sab- ath, (D) of Illinois, followed Hill but only filed statements with the com- mittee urging modification of the dry law. still helpless so long as the German banks continue their obstructive tac- tics, fia & Build Up Foreign Trade. The fundamental object back of this huge effort at finaueing Soviet pur- chases on a large seage is, according to Dr. Curtius, head of’ the German Econ- omic Ministry, the biilding up of Ger- many’s foreign markets to their pre- war importance, Thi§ reconstrunction and increase in foréign trade would relieve the unparalléled. pressure of unemployment whi¢h still runs into the hundreds 6f thousands, exceeding even England’s total#'Such orders as those which the Sovtets are ready to place would, in particular, start many of the thousands of small. industrial establishments goingand: key up the whole industrial system, Dr, Curtius believes. Telegraph company; William N. Dyk- Qan,. president of the New York State Bar Association; William Barcidy Parsons, president of the board of trustees of Columbia university; Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching; Prof. Michael I. Pupin, Columbia University, and William C. Redfield, former secretary of war, of churches, irritated Sen. Reed of Pennsylvania, by asking: “Are you willing to write a bill which would pro- vide that the Bethlehem Steel Co. should in case of war make the same sacrifice that is demanded here of one of its foremen?” \He said the man sacrifices a job at $5,000 a year, for instance, to draw $30 a month as a soldier, under the conscription scheme. Would the proponents of this scheme | provide in the same bill that stock- holders of Bethlehem Steel, such a: Chas. M. Schwab, should sacrifice a! or virtually all of their holdings, or, even their profits? To Reed’s argu- ment that war profiteers had to give up 95 per cent of their profits in tax- ation—the excess-profits and indiv’ dual income taxes—Calvert replied that somehow there were 20,000 new millionaires created by the wartime prosperity of stockholders. He said he wanted to tear away the hypocritical mask from this bill and show it as it is—a measure to draft men but not capital, and a measure to encourage war, not to prevent war. Social Patriot Ready Edgar Wallace, for the American Federation of Labor, argued that the enactment of any such measure would excite suspicion and a war making spirit abroad, and would do infinite damage to the cause of world peace. Labor would never fail to meet a national emergency if voluntary action were permitted, he said, but efficiency cannot be maintained by compulsion. As for the argument of the legion that wages had been excessive during the late war, and hence there should ‘be a rigid autocratic control of wages and prices, he showed from federal sta- tistics that the cost of living went up much faster than wages in each of the war years, beginning in 1914, Even in 1919, at the peak of wages, the cost of living had not been overtaken in) its flight. . Pacifists Present Protest. Mrs. A. Morris Carey of Baltimore, for the friends servicé committee, and Bishop Paul Jones, speaking for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, enipha- sized the moral obligation of civilized humanity to work for peace and un- derstanding, and to protect the con- science of the individual against the coercion and degradation which they found in the military draft idea. Mrs, Carey replied to a sneer by Capt. Tay- lor, spokesman for the legion, to the effect that “All the pacifists were slackers,” by reminding him that it took more courage to face the resent- ment of the great mass of one’s fel- lows than to go with the crowd, on an issue of conscience such as is in- volved/in killing men in war, Rights of Minorities, Miss belle Kendig, for the Amer- jean Civil Libert Union, protested against the viol of rights of min- orities which is/implicit in any p! of conseription, *. Beer Easily Legalized Against Open Salobn. ‘You also believe that if there were ‘pen saloons, for sale of beer and wines, that might be-used as a cover by which proprietors could slip their customers illicit whiskey?” Reed asked. “And that would increase yout difficulties?” Private Stills Galore. ~ “I think so,” replied Andrews, “It would be disastrous.” Andrews also shocked dry members of the committee by declaring his agents were unable to capture more than “one in ten” of the private stills now ‘being opérated in the houses of Aiherican citizens. He declared he ‘had ‘ihstituted a new policy, however, of making: his men concentrate on “big' game” instead of on home brew- rs.‘ "The general declared the day of /thvading homes without search war- rants was passed, © © ° Beer With Meals. es@eneral Andrews endorsed as a part $f his plan the sale of beer in restau- rants and hotels in connection with the serving of meals. He did not op- prove its sale in any other places, Labor Exploitation. The ministry assumes that one-half of the amounts involved will go in pay- ment for German labor, thus relieving the central government of substantial unemployment allowances. The liabil- ities of the authorities for the 60 per cent of the sums due from the Soviets will be balanced, i is asserted, by the generally improved economic con- ditions: Incidentally} the official esti- mates that only 5@°per cent of the payments will go tothe German work- ers turning out the’products reveals the high degree tof‘which the toiling masses are exploite@ in this “demo- cratic” republic. No Competition, With U. S. The efforts to jgterest American financiers in this ject. were based on the theory that the trade thus de- veloped would not interfere with the foreign démand for the products of the United States, whife it would, on the other hand, furnish Substantial profit for capital investmd@#t. The purchases of the Soviet Union, Dr. Curtius states, are to be principallyof heavy machin- ery for the equipment of Soviet plants, He says that theseypurchases will not at present compete) with American in- dustry because né that nor the British are interested in such exports, The comparatively smal} sum involved, $100,000,000 over a period of from four to six years, would not be of any significance to international trade as such, Adverse Trade Balance, In connection with the ministry's ef- forts to stimulate Germany's exports, Dr, Curtius points out that whereas in 1918 the country had approximately one-eighth of the world’s commerce, today she has but one-twelfth. More- over, while imports are 83.6 per cent of pre-war figures exports are only 65.3 per cent, a constantly increasing bal- ance of trade thyg. growing against Germany. This, inister contends, can only be ov. e by using every possible means t cure foreign or- ders. For this n, he says, Ger: | “Say it with many must arra’ some method of | correspondent financing Soviet purebases, Cl Woman for Beer. A stinging indictment of prohibition was presented to the senate sub-com- mittee today by a woman—Mrs, Mary T. Norton, of New Jersey, one of the three women members of Congress. She told the committee that prohibi- tion is corrupting’ the youth of the country, destroying home life, increas- ing the drug habit, and’ “effing peo- ple” with its poisons. General Lincoln C, Andrews, chief of prohibition enforcement, was re- called to the stand by Senator Reed (D) of Missouri, “far further question- ing.” i fe @ Raid N.Y. Places, ; NEW YORK, April 15—Subpoenas in padlock proceedings were served today on forty-two night ¢clubs, caba- rets, roadhouses and restaurants by prohibition agents and “flying squads” of deputy United States marsha, constituting United States attorney Emory R. Buckner's fourth and largest prohibition enforcement drive, Smarting under criticism of his testimony before the senate commit- big tee on judiciary at the Washington Children Drinking Moonshine. prohibition hearing, Buckner struck a Yesterday's seskion of the commit-|heavy blow at New York's most ta- tee was featured by the testimony of|mous night resorts, stretching from Father Kasacaun, a catholic priest] Manhattan to Monticello, Many of the whose church is in the heart of the! places, according to Buckner, include hard coal district of Pennsylvania, | “silk stocking” resorts and rendezvous and. that of Mrs. Viola Anglin, jn|owned by men with police records charge of the work of the probation yee ee, officers of the magistrates courts of Ilinois Students Wet. New. York City. Both witnesses de-| CHAMPAIGN, IIL, April 15—Three clared that illicit stills were common| atths of the political science students of the University of Illinois, are op In their sections—so common in fact that little children drank the poison-| posed to the existing prohibition law, ous stuff, Mrs, Anglin lared thatthe student paper disclosed today im “In thonsands of tenement homes| oublished accounts of a mock election held in various classes. Forty-four out women are making hard liquor and the husbdnd, the brother, or the] of 360 votes casts asked complete re- far as however, hard liquors are sold a bottle ata time at government retail Stores.ag” ‘ se ‘ to longshoremen.” _ tion to permit the sal selling it of light wines in the worker The DAILY brother-inlaw is taking. it. out and] peal of the law; 190 asked modifica: Se eel —_ Finally, a new,