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

Page Six THE DAILY:.WORKER THE DAILY WORKER *Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 3218 W. Washington Biyd., Chicago, It. Phone Monroe ¢713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mall (eutelde ef Chicage): $8.00 per year $4.50 six monthe | $6.00 per year $3.60 six menths $2,50 three monthe $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iilinele a J, LOUIS ENGDAHL Wiitors WILLIAM F. DUNNE ‘ MORITZ J. LOEB.inuemunsmnnnnn Business Manager tered a» second-class mat! September 21, 1923, at the pestedies ag Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1878, — Advertising ratos on application. <a> te Debunking Patriotism Cancellation of 73 per cent of the total principal and interest of the Italian debt has been useful in one way at least. That is to help in the process of convincing intelligent workers that the poli- ticians, professional patriots, four-minute speakers and others who peddled liberty bonds to the American people didn’t know what they were talking about. What they said was mostly bunk! When people bought liberty and victory bonds they were told that the money raised would be loaned our “self-sacrificing, heroic allies” for the same rate of inteypst that American investors receive from them. The government was to act as a mere collector from the Huropean nations and pay the money to the American bond holders. The Italian debt settlement explodes that myth. Mussolini . pays practically nothing during his lifetime, while whatever government that succeeds will only have to pay 28 cents on the dollar over a period of 62 years. American taxpayers pay the difference. Hiram Johnson, senator from California, declared during the de- hates that if any senator or other person had hinted at so dishonest a transaction during the war when these liberty bonds were being sold he would have been a victim of mob psychology. Certainly many men and women were mobbed and hanged or arrested, thrown in jail, tried and sentenced to long terms in prison for merely mildly suggesting that the war was not fought for democracy. _Now everyone knows that the war was fought to make the world safe for Morgan’s billions.invested on the side of Britainand France, that the slogan “make the world safe for democracy was a Wilson lie,” and that the liberty bond sales were nation-wide expeditions in grand larceny. . It is of no particular advantage to rub it in by reminding the victims of their folly. We recall it only in order that they may be wiser next time and refuse to buy bonds or in any manner contribute} to the next imperialist adventure of the government even tho the professional patriots shriek themselves hoarse in order to catch! suckers, to help finance the predatory expeditions of Morgan. EC RAS ahi. sch ec Illinois Democracy The democratic party of Illinois, at its platform convention in Springfield, is in the same position in relation to the national party as is the republican outfit of this state. The republican-democratic coalition that put over the world court proposition is in bad odor in Illinois and the middle west. The republican platform makers repudiated United States adherence to the court and oppose the na- tional policy of their party. The George E. Brennan democratic machine, while professing to uphold the alleged policies of Wilson, | which were the demands of the House of Morgan, was forced, as a matter of political expediency, to repudiate the world court. Mr. Brennan, democratic candidate for United States senator, in an unconvincing harangue, stated that he was for the league of nations when presented by Mr. Wilson, “which was not accepted,” and that at this time he is convinced it would by “folly” to get into the world court. bd Just how the Illinois democrats expect to reconcile this declara- tion with the stand of the democratic group in the senate is not revealed. Certainly George E. Brennan and his machine do not intend to break with the national, Morgan democratic party. Plat- forms of old parties are not to be taken seriously. They are written to get votes, not enunciate a principle. In the case of the Illinois democracy, they have no hopes of electing Brennan ‘as United States senator, but they do hope his eandidacy will aid them in Chicago so they can elect Brennan’s local slate in order that the hungry mob of Chicago Tammanyites may obtain the loot to be derived from packing the city hall with democrats. 5 Brennan can afford to. denounce the world court contrary to the platform of the national democratic party because it doesn’t mean anything. Likewise the booze plank, while useful to get votes in Chicago, doesn’t mean anything in the senatorial campaign. When workers come to perceive the tricks of the old party politicians and to learn not only do platforms not mean: what they say, but quite frequently eandidates run for office who never expect 10 get elected, but who use their candidacy to help. pull a corvapt city machine thru, they will refuse to support such trickery and will create a party of their own., .- COOLIDGE NOT INTERESTED IN ASSAULTS ON PASSAIC STRIKERS WASHINGTON—(FP)—If American mill owners in Passaic, backed by the — wre pazammen epee nane What the Striking Furriers Did to the Boss, the Gunman, the Cop and the Yellow Socialist. - Kalenin Reports By EARL BROWDER. VERY interesting letter from “Moscow, written by Earl R. Brow- der; research director of the Workers (Comniunist) Party of America, who is in Russia making a study of con- ditions im the Workers’ Republic, is printed ‘below. The letter contains Browder'’s ‘impressions of a great workers’ meeting to which Kalenin, the president of the Sovjets, reported on the state of the union. Kalenth Reports to the Workers, Moscow, March 31, 1926. Deat Comrade: Far away from the land that is ruled by tig ‘Workers you will find it diffi- cult ‘to“jeture to yourself just how the “dictatorship of the proletariat really Gperates. When I came I was very’curious myself, and I find a flood of questions come here every week from workers in other lands asking such quéstions as: “How do the work- ers control and influence the operation of’ such complex things as economic policies?” “What are the relations be- tween the trade unions and the Com- munist Party?” “What are the rela- tions between the trade unions and the government?” etc. Everyone wants, not the formal charts, but a picture of how the machinery really works, how it responds to-the workers in the factories. Let me give you a bit of the answer which I received with my own eyes and ears. AST Monday evening I was invited to come at 6 o'clock to one of the | downtown theaters. These institu- tions are used on Mondays for work- ers’ conferences and so forth, as this is the day of rest for theatrical folk. When I arrived with Boris Reinstein, who acted as my translator, the meet- ing was already opened. There were about 2,000 workers present. Listen- ing to the chairman, we learned that+ they were elected from 200 Moscow factories, and had come to hear a re- port from Kaienin, president of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, and then to discuss all this evening and the next day the problems facing their government, their own .griev- ances, their ideas of what the govern- ment ought to do, what the trade unions should do, and what the Com- munist Party should do. The composi- tion of the gathering was 65 per cent non-party, 35 per cent Communists. A presidium of 29 members was elected citizens, whether press correspondents or others, are arrested and jailed In Passaic in violation of their federal eonstitutional -rights,-iet them carry their complaints to the federai district attorhey in New Jersey. That is the answer made by Pres. Coolidge’s spokesman to questions asked by the Bederated Press corre- spondent. The spokesman made pain the Coolidge attitude, which is: 1. That he knows of no such viola- tions of federal law or rights by the Passaic local police and deputies, ex- cept in newspapers. 2. That he is making no inquiry into police activities that rob citizens of protection. 8. That he wiil insist that victims of Police thuggery shail first get the sup- port of the federal district attorney for any appeal to his Department of “Justice, if they are dissatisfied with the violent methods now being used against strikers and strike sympathia- _ ers and press correspondents by New y officials. bn 4, That he believes the Depart: 4 or is still offering mediation and’ yn in the wool textile stritee® , Calvin Coolidge declines to : if in the fact that the A usual finanacial groups controlling the city, county and state governments, have created a reign of terrér in the strike region. He is somewhat dis- turbed by the unfavorable press treat- ment of his rebuff to the pitiful dele- gation of ‘strikers’ children who came here to ask him.to, call.off the cos- sacks. He wishes that they had not been permitted to show their half-fam- ished faces, their wearied limbs and their threadbare garments in Wash- ington, But he stands by business, Maintenance of Way Men Protest Police Brutality in Passaic By a Worker Correspondent. DENVER, Colo., April 25—At the last meeting of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Emptoyes, Local NO). 14, or Denver, the membership unanimously decided to telegrapheto the mayor of Passaic pi T7 ‘ainst his action in allowing’ ice force to club men, wo nd SEND IN A SUB! +} here they are so used to it that they thildren in the textile strikes to conduct the conference; on this 18 were non-party, 11 were Communists. | About 10 of them were women from the shops. ALENIN reported for about two hours. I will take it for granted that you have read the substance of his report in the press, and that you know the problems and conditions ex- isting in Russia today in their main outlines. What we are concerned with now is something else, First, here was the president of the biggest coun- try on earth making his political and economic report to delegates of work- ers from the factories in much the same way that Coolidge goes before the chamber of Commerce in America, Coolidge knows who his masters are and reports to them; Kalenin knows the same thing and acts likewise. The difference is that in America it is the chamber of commerce that unites the mastersethe capitalists, while in Rus- sia it {8 the trade union that unites the masters, the workers, This strikes one from America with great force; take it as a matter of course, 'HILE Kalenin spoke | noted little apers flutter down trom the | ‘conies and others ap on the 2s floor, all of whichtwere carefully passed from hand ¢o.hand and came to the presidium on:the stage. Upon my inquiry, Reinstein explained to me that this was oné ef,thée methods by which the vast meeting actively par- ticipated in the yproceedings. We found out that thigconstant stream of notes from the delegates contained the widest variety jof material; sug- gestions on procedurg; questions about points of the repor$, proposals for names of speakers, seolution on va- riou subjects connected with the re- port of their shop prpblems. Literally hundreds of these came to the presid- ium while we watched, and all were carefully sorted out,and given atten- tion by various persoys or committees. USSIAN workers,always have time to establish contacts with the workers of other lands. So I was called upon to greetethese delegates. I felt very small and modest before them, feeling all the time that they would be justifiedsén:calling out, de- manding to know why the American workers don’t takes control. of their own factories as the Russians have. But they are too.courteous for that. Then the orchestrayplayed the “Inter- national,” and everybody stood up and applauded, not my spéech, which they hadn’t had translated yet, but the idea of international proletarian solidarity. HEN Reinstein had finished trans- lating, which took about ten min- utes, and the business of the meeting was resumed, the chdirman called our attention to a veny interesting thing. Within a few moments this gather- ing, intent upon its own immediate problems, had reacted to the presence of a worker from America, and up from the floor of the hall had come to the presidium a half dozen propos- als for resolutions of greetings to the workers of America and best wishes for a successful struggle against “our own” capitalists. “It gave we a warm feeling inside, and I hope I can com- municate some of that to you who read this letter? HE first speaker from the delega- tion was 61 ho had something on his chest, — ie workers in the shops, he said, @f@ responding to the demands of the’ fay for greater pro- duction, better proletarian discipline; they know this is absolutely’‘necessary in order to ‘rehabilitate their influs- | tries, to put a foundation under | their governmeft. But they are in- censed to hear.this word “miscaleula- tion” in the ri 8 (referring to the question of theailure of grain exports to come up to @aleulations); their rep- resentatives inithe higher bodies must not be allo 40 make “miscalcula- tions;” the workers must call them to account, and the Communist Party (he to the Workers was a non-party man), which has! a particular duty to guard against such things, must tighten up the machinery and eliminate those who made serious mistakes. ‘HEN the speaker began to wander a bit from his he was called*back quickly, not by the chairman, but from the body of delegates, with calls of the Russian equivalent to “Get down’ to brass tacks.” But when he did°talk to the subject he had a quiet ‘awd-at- tentive audience, and his timé was twice extended to allow him to finish everything he had to say. COULDN'T stay for the rest of the meeting, but I left with a feeling of calm confidence which intelectual conviction had not been ablé*to pro- duce, that the tremendous problems being tackled here in building’ Soéial- ism will be solved, and that our Séviet industry and Soviet state will continue and quicken its upward developmeiit hich has marked the past four‘yéars. S I left the hall I looked with new understanding at the great red banners across the baleony: On’one the slogan read: whine “ENERGETIC LABOR AND PRwu- LETARIAN DISCIPLINE WILL OVERCOME THE DIFFICULTIES OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION.” The other one said: “GREETINGS TO THE COMMU: NIST WORLD PARTY, THE COM: INTERN, WHICH IS,THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION.” HIS close communion, this intimate contact, this thoro organization, this iron will, expressed in the gather- ing which included Kalenin, the high- est official of the Soviet state, down thru the Communist Party, the trade unions, and broadest non-party masses of workers, in which each person and unit. shoulders not only his immediate task bug his portion of the whole direc- tion and control, is the solid founda. tion upon which is being built brick by brick the Communist society, i which to try to convey to you the solid satisfaction that comes from seeing the revolution at work. I have done my best, but you will have to |come here to get it deep into your |bones. Or, better yet, begin.to obtain some experience ourselves, Yours, Earl Browder. . Drastic Finn Law. HELSINGFORS, Finland, April 25— ~—Smugglers caught within a half mile of the shores of Finland are to be shot on sight, under a new prohibition bill expected to pass the Finnish rigs- dag shortly, THE SPIRIT OF LOCARNO IS THE SPIRIT OF RIFLES AND BAYONETS POINTS OUT THE COMINTERN The Communist International (Comintern) says: “From the first moment the Communists declared that the treaty The events in Geneva have shown gas and hand grenades, “The pacifist face of Locarno by _ The bankruptcy of the of Locarno was a treaty of the imperialist powers against the people, an agreement of the big capitalist powers which will rel wars, which will suppress the small and disarmed nations, which will prepare the way for the new armed intervention against Soviet Russia. the spirit of Locarno is the spirit of rifles and bayonets, of poison criminal, game of the imperialist with the lives of the people is being je new more clearly than ever before that is Only a mask behind which the Geneva negotiations has —————- WHAT DOES AMERICAN LABOR THINK OF THE STRIKE OF THE PASSAIC TEXTILE WORKERS? The following editorial taken from the April issue of the Uphols- terers’ Journal, organ of the Upholsterers’ International Union of North America, is in direct contrast to the refusal of President Wil- liam Green of the American Federation of Labor to organize 16,000 striking Passaic textile workers: Industrial Rebellion The textile barons of New Jersey are again giving the qvorld a demon- stration that barbarism is not yet of the past and that wage earners ate still regarded by them as so many slaves. At present Jersey justice seems to consist of armed and mounted rough- ‘necks in uniforms trampling children under horses’ hoofs and smashing heads. This gentle activity of the Jersey cossacks is augmented by the pse of gas bombs and the wholesale arest of pickets, oe Workers Unorganized. The strike was not of regular or- igin, for the workers involved are not members of a regularly organized trade union. The explanation of this is that almost exclusively these men and women are foreigners, who have about the worst crew of labor exploit. ers ever collected in one spot, It would not matter to them who led the istrike, they would use their subsid- ized police, their bought-up pigmy mayors, and cheap town officials to beat and bully those who demand but bread. , Their god is profit. The strike has now reached a point ‘where it is a national political issue, with the nation aroused over the bru- tality of the police and the callous- ness of the mill interests, Police Brutality. It is interesting to note however, that important as are the issues in- volved that fact alone does not ex- plain why it has received sufficient publicity to even agitate congress. The Jersey cossacks carried their bru- from their entrance into this country | ‘#lity @ bit too far and made the mis- settled in these mill communities to slave at starvation wages. They are a difficult group to awaken to the need of unionization and the wily mill operators have taken g care to weed out the few independent think- ‘ers, by, the extensive spy-system that APER and ink are poor mediums by | they-are operating among the work- Under these conditions only ex: me necessity and privation drives them to common action on their own behalf. The successive wage cuts im- ed upon them by the operators, ich “materially reduced the wi ich ran from $12 to $25 a time work reduced these sims yy weeks so that privation o and fostered revolt. The one assumed the deadership was A, Weis- bord, a known Communist. This fact should not be used as a blind nor lead anyone to minsunderstand the real polits involved, > Bosses’ Blacklist System, It was not the Communists who established the spy system and the blagklist in the ‘mills, It was the tex- tile barons, ‘ . Weisbord did not institute the star- vation stale of wages that are being paid. It was the mill owners, N was not the Bolsheviks who pre- vented the organizers: of the trade union movement from ee a peace- ‘ful appeal to the men and women to unionize, It was the operators, Botany Earnings. It was not the orders of Moscow that the Botany mill and the Garfield mill collected $2,229,550 in net earn- ings and a surplus of $1,781,298, while the workers who created this wealth were denied a living wage. It was a group of vultures in human form that live upon the brain and brawn of the workers. " All of this being true, Jersey a purbo | take of not only beating helpless work- ers but newspaper men and photog- raphers as well. Having suffered the beatings meéed out to strikers so often before, not to speak of the yalu- wble cameras that were destroyed by the police, the newspapers instantly became the staunch champions of the downtrodden. The powerful press for ‘once was on the side of right instead ot} tight. ake’ : + Again it should be remembered that a condition. éXists in these mill ,| towns that cannot be readily under- stood by those who live in larger communities. The entire population ppractically works in the few mills and pend for their livelihood upon | “The New Jersey strike hag uncoy- ered a nasty mess that should have been cleaned up many years ago, and now seems to give promise of some betterment. The ‘present strike has served to call attention dramatically to the ap- palling conditions existing in the tex- tile mills of New Jersey, It has dem- onstrateg ‘that the employers are ready to use force. It has proven the futility of putting faith in the tariff 48 an economic panacea. It has prov- ed that wage earners who are wit the rights of citizens in a community are at a distinct disadvantage and that political power is a big factor after all, It has demonstrated that in the long ha even gorge backward and htened will revolt when. 0} ion is carried too far, fie > Unlonize Textile Industry. What we are not atjall sure about is whether the present n the men and women involved wi sult in their remaining TEE OE