The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1926, Page 4

‘Page Four ree THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712) } SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all matl and make out checks to | THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, lilinole | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL t i WILLIAM F. DUNNE { oneness nae MORITZ J. LOEB ws.ssssenernnememenee Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <> 290 Advertising rates on application. | Another Passaic Appeal to the Senate Demands for a senatorial investigation of the Passaic strike and the conditions of labor of the men, women and children in the| highly protected textile industry, at first confined to the strikers, are now being taken up by other elements in Passaic. A committee composed of business men and clergymen recently visited Washington and, with Frank P. Walsh as their spokesman, interviewed Senators Borah, LaFollette and Wheeler on the pros- pects of getting action on the proposed investigation. The LaFollette resolution is in the hands of the committee on manufactures and thus far the rock-ribbed reactionaries on that committee have blocked any move toward action. Coolidge senators are, of course, averse to recommending action that would utterly dis- credit the administration Fordney-McCumber tariff which favored the woolen industry above all others in the country. They strive to suppress the fact that the most highly protected industry exploits its workers in the most shameful and barbarous fashion. The in- fluence of Senator Edwards, the textile tool of New Jersey, is utilized to the utmost to prevent the facts coming to light. Edwards, speaking for the textile barons, assured the com- mittee that the strike would soon end in defeat for the workers. But two months have since passed and the lines are holding as firm as ever and the strikers are able to hold out all summer if need be. So the business interests of Passaic and vicinity, hard hit by the strugglé, are endeavoring to bring the strike to a close. The mill owners show a total disregard for the community in which they operate. Their efforts to enslave their workers affect the whole community. It is not because of any particular love for the work- ing class that the preachers and business men journeyed to Wash- ington, but because they want to extricate themselves from being economically crushed between the workers and the mill owners. Perhaps the committee on manufactures will be more respon- sive to such pleas than they were to pleas of the workers. We welcome an investigation in order that the facts may be brought to light, regardless of the course from which it springs. Meanwhile the valiant strikers of Passaic can be depended upon to continue the fight until they break the resistance of the mill owners. The American Armament Fraud A rather vague and ambiguous proposal for limitation of arma- ments has been presented by the American representative, Hugh 8. Gibson, for consideration of the league of nations preliminary arms conference now in session at Geneva, Switzerland. Plans are suggested for “regional agreement of neighboring nations for the limitation of land armaments.” As the banker of the world the United States is vitally concerned about the problem of ever-increasing expenditures for armaments. Nations that spend all their money on preparations for war are not the most reliable places to invest capital. The proposition of the United States is designed to induce certain nations to cut down their expenditures for arms so that they éan pay interest on Wall Street loans. At the same time it must permit the nations it must depend upon for eventual aid in the next imperialist war to maintain sufficient forces under arms for defense of its interests. Its zoning proposition will unquestionably favor its potential allies while demanding considerable reductions for those nations whose support may be cast on the side of the imperialist rivals of Wall Street. The very proposal of the United States ambassador carries with it warlike implications. The astute politicians of Britain, the most formidable’ rival of the United States, will not fail to detect the fraud of the whole thing. Disarmamenj can never be realized in a world of capitalism. Only after the capitalist soil from which wars spring has been destroyed can there be real disarmament between nations. France Follows the Franc The French franc drops below 35 to the dollar. Dispatches report the populace as “dazed” by the continued collapse of the currency. Other dispatches tell of new atrocities in Damascus, the bomb- ing of the city and the murder of more than 500 civilians—men, women and children by the French forces. In northern Africa the French government:has an army of 170,- 000 men trying to conquer some 50,000 Riffians. Poland, a French protectorate, has collapsed after untold millions of francs have been poured into the army by the French militarists in pursuance of their mad dream to build a new empire in Europe. The French government must choose: now between the com- plete cessation of its military enterprises, which means the weaken- ing of its grip on its colonies, or a financial debacle, which means the rise of a real mass workers’ and peasants’ movement at home. It may be that French imperialism has waited too long and that the progressive decline of France as a world power has gone too far to be checked to an appreciable extent. Certainly the tremendous increase of the influence of the Com- munist Party in recent months is an indication that jingoism and “revanche” have ceased to beguile great numbers of the workers and o; THE DALEY (Continued from page 1) to organize and strike. If they can reduce the foreign-born workers to the status of “coolies” they can force down the standard of life of na- tive and foreign-born workers. The Government Fighting the Workers. Every arm of the government is used to help the capitalists and fight the workers. The 16,000 Passaic textile strikers have learn- ed how the government fights for the bosses. They have had their meetings broken up. They have had their pickets clubbed. They have been denied the right of freedom of speech and assembly. They have had injunctions in the in- terest of the bosses issued against them. They have been arrested by the scores. They have been attacked by gas bombs. They have been indicted on fake charges and held on exorbitant bail. All this has been done by the government to help the mill owners defeat the strikers and to prevent them from securing higher wages and better working conditions. The 158,000 anthracite miners who went on strike could tell a similar story. The 12,000 New York furriers who are on strike have had the same experiences. Thes facts are from the record of the last year. The record of the last ten years tell a story of equally brutal use of the governmental power against the workers. The democrat, Wilson, used injunctions and soldiers against the miners and steel workers in 1919. The republican, Harding, used injunc- tions and soldiers against the railroad shopmen and miners in 1922. | Labor and the Government. | The evidence that the capitalists hold the governmental power thru the republican and the democratic parties and use it against the work- ers is complete. Yet the workers of this coun- try have as a rule supported these political par- ties of their class enemies. In practically every other country of the world the workers have learned to organize a political party of their own and carry on a struggle for control of the government, but the American workers still support the republican and demo- cratic parties, which, when in power, use the governmental power against the workers. From 1918 to 1924 labor was moving away from this policy. Its experiences with the gov- ernment in the great, post-war strikes developed the demand for a labor party which would fight for labor's interests. This movement was betrayed and side-track- ed by the LaFollette’s third party movement. LaFolletfe and the political leaders representing the small capitalists of this country who were associated with him did not even have the cour- age to organize a third capitalist party and they betrayed completely the workers who saw in this movement a movement for a labor party. | The 1926 Election Campaign. | The 1926 state and congressional elections present the opportunity to labor to regain the ground lost thru the side-tracking of the labor party movement by LaFollette. LABOR MUST ENTER THE 1926 ELECTION CAMPAIGN AS A CLASS, CARRYING ON A STRUGGLE IN ITS OWN INTERESTS FOR A LABOR PROGRAM. AT THE SAME TIME LA- BOR MUST MAKE AN ALLIANCE WITH THE EXPLOITED FARMERS FOR A COMMON STRUGGLE AGAINST THE CAPITALIST EX- PLOITERS, THE BRAIN” FILM DISPROVES SOUL MYTH SOVIET PRODUCTION SHOWS THE “MECHANICS OF WORKER For a Labor Ticket in the 1926 Elections! Wherever labor or farmer-labor parties exist the trade unions, labor political parties and other workers’ organizations should affiliate with them and make them the medium for nomina- ‘tion of a labor ticket on a labor program in the election campaign. Where no such parties exist the trade union, labor political parties and other workers’ or- ganizations should call a' conference of delegates from these organizations to nominate a united front labor ticket to carry on a fight for a labor program. ‘ labor ticket in every congressional and state election fighting for a labor program must be the slogan for the 1926 election campaign. This is the big step forward toward indepen- dent political action which the labor movement should take this year. Such a campaign in sup- port of a labor ticket and labor program will be a big move toward the creation of a labor ~ What Labor Must Fight For. The program which labor must fight for in the 1926 election campaign should include: 1. Nationalization of all large scale in- re and workers’ control. Revision of all taxation and tariff 's to place the burden of taxation on the ist and not upon the workers and ‘armers. 8. Repeal the Watson-Parker bill and all laws limiting the right of the workers to 6. ¢ Against the use of injunctions, police 4 soldiers in industrial disputes. Outlaw- va of all private detective agencies operat- ing as spies and strikebreakers in industry. 5. Repeal of all laws discriminating against the Negro. Complete social, poli- tical and economic equality for the Negro. 6. The land for the users. A moratori- um on all debts of the exploited farmers. Nationalization of all marketing institutions including railroads, grain elevators, etc., existing as a measure of relief for the farm- ers. A government appropriation for the ers to aid them in establishing genuine, erative marketing association. ,. Immediate reduction of the army and , now maintained to protect the capi- it investments abroad. Withdrawal of rican soldiers from all foreign terri- tory. Immediate freedom and uncondition- al independence of the Philippines and the right of self-determination for all other American colonies. 8. Struggle against the entry of the United States into the world court or League of Nations, which are instruments of imperialist capitalist powers to carry on their imperialist battles. 9. The recognition and defense of the first workers’ and farmers’ government, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The Workers (Communist) Party calls upon all trade unions, labor political parties and workers’ fraternal and benefit organizations to support the placing of a labor ticket in the field on such a program for the 1926 election cam- paign. This will also be a great step forward the formation of a labor party, which will carry on a struggle in labor’s interest, not only in lection campaigns, but in every situation of it to labor. ard to a Labor Ticket in the 1926 elec- ard to a Fight for a Labor Program. ard to a Labor Party. al Executive Committee, Workers (Com- st) Party, C, E. Ruthenberg, General Secretary. Coal Digger Grabs Off Mickey Walker’s Welter Weight Crown (Special to The Daily Worker) SCRANTON, Pa., May 21, — The talk in the anthracite today revolves around Pete Latzo, former coal-digger, Big Increase in Soviets’ Sports Activity Russian Athletes Win Laurels in International Sports Meet ‘The younger generation in the Soviet Union Is taking to sports of all kinds to an extent undreamed of in the emplre of the czar, when all pop- ular public gatherings were viewed with suspicion by the authorities. Soviet newspapers give increasing at- tention to athletic events. During the past winter inter-city matches in hockey, football and skat- ing, and the various skiing champjon- ships evoked intense public intefgst. A record-breaking crowd is reported to have attended the final hockey matoh between the teams represent- ing Moscow and Leningrad, won by the later by the close score of 4 to 3. When the Moscow football team re- turned from France after blanking the French chamion team 5-0 and 4-0 in Paris, the Soviet papers expressed great enthusiasm and ran interviewes with the athletic heroes. A little later they were proclaiming another inter national victory. Soviet skirunners who had entered the international con- tests in Finland finished first in the distances of 500, 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 meters, and every Soviet wig was proud of this unexp victory against the best ski experts of Fin- land and Scandinavia, Athletic organizations by the thous- ands have been springing up in the schools and colleges and among the organizations of workers. The Soviet authorities have encouraged their de- velopment. Several conferences on athletics and physical culture were held in Moscow and other cities dur- ing the winter, attended by represen- tative physicians, teachers and ex- perts on physical culture. A supreme council of physical culture has been formed under government auspices which is engaged in standardizing championship contests and making de- cisions on new national records in all sports. Girls and young women as well as boys and young men are enterjng the athletic contests by the thousands, This spring it is planned to enter Soviet teams in athletic contests in Czechoslovakia, Latvia and other countries, CHICAGO LEAGUE HOLDS MEMBER MEETING. On Friday, May 28th, the Young Workers (Communist) League of Chi- cago will hold a general membership meeting. Anti-Militarism and Negro work will be the two main features for discussion. The hall will be an- nounced later. a WHO SAW OR HEARD OF GUN-BOAT SMITH? ; Information is wanted leading to the whereabouts of an ‘ex-soldier who served in the Hawaiian Division known to the enlisted personnel. as Gun-Boat Smith. Send the informa- tion to W. M. Trumbull, care the Na tional Office of the Y. W. Ly, 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago. IREUTLOOUUHHEQONEQOQQQQQOOOOUOOGOOOOOOOHOROUUAFROOUUUOGEOOOOOOOOEGGOONOROUUGNEOONEN sate “aren UNG WORKERS LEAGUE © Militant Youth Fight Capper-Johnson Bill Cc. M.T.C. and R. 0. T. C Also Hit BOSTON, Mass. — Immediate ao- tlon Is expected from the youth con- ference to be held here In the fight against militarism. This Is but one of the many conferences springing up all over the country which Is fighting against the nation-wide military prop- aganda, being spread In behalf of the Citizens’ Military Training Campe, the R. 0. T.C., the Capper-Johnson conscription bill which is aimed to. make cannon fodder of the young workers under the president’s dicta- torship in the next war for Morgan's interests. The call for this conference is en- dorsed by many prominent individu- als, membersof labor unions, liberal clubs, fraternal organizations, youth organizations. Among the others there will be the Paperhangers, Up- holsterers, League for Democratic Control, Harvard Liberal Club, Cap Makers, Boston University and the Young Workers (Communist) League. The conference will be addressed by prominent speakers who are well acquainted with the subject. It is ex- pected that the conference will elect an executive committee and detailed plans will be decided upon. All la- bor unions, factory groups, student bodies, young people’s organizations, etc., are invited to send delegates. The conference will meet at the Y. M. C. A,, 816 Huntington Ave, at 7:30 D. m. YIPSELS AND COMMUNIST: YOUTH IN UNITED FRONT Other Centers Should Follow , Suit MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The develop- ing trend towards proletarian unity of the working class youth in the face of the growing militarization and the fall in the standard of conditions of the young workers has reached Milwaukee, the strongest center of the soclalist party. Conservative as the S. P. is there, the Young People’s Socialist League is of somewhat dif- ferent calibre. At the last May Day meeting, the Young Workers’ League participated with the Young People’s Socialist League in a united front meeting. The development of,other united front ac- tivities are also being planned, par- ticularly against militarism, The Milwaukee Yipsels have a large membership and are made up predom- inantly of young workers. The mili- tant spirit of some of the Yipsels is something from which their socialist’ elders might learn. The Milwaukee experience is the best example of united effort on a minimum program between the socialists and Commu- nists. In New York and Chicago, the same thing is being duplicated to a certain extent. More power to such a development! GENERAL MASS MEETING For All Shirt Ironers in Greater New York will be held NEW scientific film, entitled “The Mechanics of the Brain,” has just been finished by Mezhrabpom-Russ, Moscow, and has been acclaimed en- | thusiastically when it was first. shown, |without titles, to an audience of | Scientists, motion picture men, educa- tors and journalists. Not since the film version of the Steinach rejuvena- tion operation, which proved a first- |Tun attraction for months at the pbig- |gest theaters in Moscow in 1923, has |there been such a favorable furore created in critical circles, The “Prav- |da” of April 14th, prints the following comment on the pre-view: “Mechanics of the Brain,” The doctrine of reflexes opens an jentire new chapter in organic science, |It introduced practically a transtor- |mation of many of our conceptions of. | psychological processes, as well as of peasants. Acquaintances with “Boss” Vare, republican senatorial candi- date from Pennsylvania, testify to the fact that the boss is lamentably ignorant. That is no argument against his becoming a member of the senate. He will be in compatible company among the Wall Street rubber stamps. “Gangsters Control Town,” was the headline of a Chicago paper. It referred to a suburb known as Lake Forest and not to Chicago. |the manner and means of their reac- jtions. But the value of this doctrine jis not yet exhausted in this. Reflex- ology proves itself simultaneously a | tremendous cultural-training factor; it strikes the bourgeois ideology to its very fleart—mysticism—and calls forth the most blasting and irremedia- ble destructivity on this field. Prog- ress on the field of the‘reflex doctrine sounds the death-knell of the centu- ries-old superstition with regard to the “soul.” Everything that appeared so mysterious in the “unknowable” human psychic life is ruthlessly ex- posed from the viewpoint of the re- flex doctrine, is so unmasked that one no longer knows what to do with the mystic “soul,” one has no further use for it, there is no more room for it, WEIMAR NAMA SHE MALEATE ON TRO NRE saieiammuunmmuae imal Moscow Correspondence by WILLIAM F, KRUS Man is subjected in alp his creative Processes—even to the it perfected and most intimate—to\the ordinary, clear Di gical laws, is the teaching of reflexology, at Darwin began Pavlov has continued. Now that the prol revolution is killing off mysticisnt it would, of course, be a crime if so mighty a cul- tural-ideological factor as the reflex’ doctrine were not expl scale. Luckily the 1 comes to our aid. Vi on a mass ion picture » clear, as could not be presen’ any book— comprehensible to broadest masses, this Meshral “Russ film, “Mechanics of the in,” destroys step by step the al legends of the human soul. By ins of a se- nies of interesting ai ple experi- ments upon all sorts @f,Jiving objects (monkeys, dogs, infants, adolescents; adults; ordinary as well as “great creative forces;” rational and { tional people) the onlooker is drawn willy-nilly into the current of the only possible conclusion: that there ig no soul, that the human soul life, human creative power and inspiration—all these are but simple reflexes in a higher stage, ‘God has nothing to do with these reflexes, The film must be supplemented with strong, incisive titles—otherwise its cultural significance will be weakened, The film is a very valuable cultural phenomenon not only on a Soviet scale but also in international scope. Aside from its ideological significance, it presents a tremendous interest in the popularization of science. One looks at the film with @ lively, oon- ’ aah é who last night knocked the crown off world welter-weight champion Micky Walker's head and put it on his own. Latzo is a Checho-Slovak lad who was born in the coal flelds in 1902 and entered the mines to work at an early age. The prowess he developed by swinging a pick proved too much for the tough welter champion, when the two met last night in a slugging match in which Latzo received the edge from the judges. Ss stantly mounting interest. It merits presentation to the broadest possible masses, It would be well to integrate many more films of this type into our cin- ema treasury. Thus far there are practically none, Nicaraguan Rebels Defeated at Rama MANAGUA, Nicaragua,, May 21, — The rebel forces which held Rama, have been routed and the town re- captured by government troops after seven hours of battle, The rebels fled leaving dead, wounded and arms, Sub-Section No. 9 of Section No. 6 Meets. This concerns street nuclei Nos, 29, 80 and 31 and shop nucleus No, 28, A membership meeting of our sub- section will be held Monday, May 24, at 8 p. m., at 2633 Hirge’ houlevard, Folkets Hus, Williayy’?, Dunne, who has just returnedy’trom Europe, will speak on “The “iritish General Strike in RommtionZo the World Labor Move- Monday, May 24, 1926, at 3 P. M. in LAUNDRY WORKERS!’ INT’L UNION’ MEETING ROOMS, 62 E. 106th ST. ‘ Laundry Workers’ Int'l Union, Onn Sess HELP! To Disribute ONE MILLION LEAFLETS ON THE CASE OF SACCO-VANZETTI $1.25 A THOUSAND nay 10,000 FOR $10 SEND YOUR vy ORDER. 0 . 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