The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1926, Page 4

Page Four ~ THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, Phone Monroe 4713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): | By mail (outside of Chioago): $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 mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iilinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL REE MLAGi wotoRara {a someertrne EAItOPS MORITZ J. LOEB......scsssesssssoeers yooeaunecconssecs Business Manager Hntered ag second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. <a 290 Advertising rates on application. British “Democracy” in Egypt Only the most fanatic Anglophiles will believe that the warlike threat of Britain against Egypt is for any reason other than to prevent the Zaghloulist nationalist party, which was duly elected to power by the votes of the Egyptians, taking control of the govern- ment. The flimsy excuse for sending British battleships into Port Said and threatening to land reinforcements for the army of occupa- tion that infests Egypt is that six out of seven natives charged with various crimes against British agents of imperialism were acquitted of the crimes charged against them. Britain uséd the assassination of Sir Lee Stack in 1924 as an excuse to oust Zaghloul Pasha as premier of Egypt and put in his place Ziwar Pasha, a lackey of British imperialism. A few days ago the people of Egypt by overwhelming majorities and against the palpable intrigue of Britain voted to return the nationalist party to power. The election infuriated the imperialists of England. With a nationalist party in control the British exploitation of the cotton plantations that produce for British textile mills could not be con- ducted in such a high handed manner and the nationalists would also insist upon the right to export cotton to other countries besides Britain. Then a triumphant nationalist movement is a threat to British control of the Egyptian bank of the Suez canal, the gate- way to India. This is the real menace against which British im- perialism struggles. So the British puppet, King Fuad; refused to carry out the usual procedure and call upon Zaghloul to form a cabinet. To avert the consequences of such a victory Britain, “the mother of parliaments,” reveals its utter contempt for democracy by throttling the Zaghloulist party which was elected in con- formity ‘with parliamentary democracy. Britain favors the demo- eratic form as long as it serves the interests of its own ruling class, but stifles with the most savage ferocity any attempt of the colonial nationalists to control their own destinies thru the use of democracy. The attitude of Britain toward Egypt is a characteristic of im- perialist policy, which demands complete subservience on the part of colonial governments. It is one with the despotic action of the United States in suppressing at the points of bayonets the govern- ments in Haiti and its present efforts to crush the movement for in- dependence in the Philippine Islands. Lowden and Dawes The wave of resentment against Coolidge and the republican administration that is sweeping the agricultural belt of the middle- west has forced the wily politicians in control of that organization to prepare to ditch Coolidge in 1928 and run a candidate that has some chance of again hoodwinking the farmers. For many months Frank O. Lowden, of the Pullman corporation, has been building political fences in that region and the press of the railroads and the harvester trust has been creating the myth that Lowden is a true representative of the farmers just as the press of the nation tried to create the myth that Coolidge is a superman in- stead of a nonentity raised to the-presidential chair by Wall Street. But the old guard in the republican party does not depend upon one favorite alone when casting about in troubled political waters for a puppet president. Lowden is a very poor candidate because his venture into Newberryism, when his agents were exposed buying votes in Missouri during the campaign to secure the presidential nomination in 1920, is still too fresh in the memory of most voters. So, while not immediately abandoning Lowden the Wall Street directors of the republican party proceed to train Vice-President Dawes for a prospective candidate and this lackey of the House of Morgan pretends to be gravely concerned about farm relief legis- lation. In case both Lowden and Dawes and other candidates that will be brought forward in the next two years are discredited there is al- ways the stable full of “dark horses,” one of which can be saddled on short notice to make the run as was the case with the late Harding when Lowden and Major General Leonard H. Wood were out of the running. Perth Amboy—An Example The organization movement now under way in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, is one of those signs which point the way to a bigger and more aggressive trade union movement in the United States. Getting its impetus from a small strike of smeltermen in the Raritan Copper Works, the movement has grown until it embraces workers in brickyards, tile and porcelain factories, cigar factories and fire proofing manufacture. . The workers are joining the existing trade unions, four organ- izers are now in the field and what a short time ago was a desert so} far as the labor movement was concerned, is now developing genuine organized workingclass activity. Most of the workers are foreign-born and again a hoary myth has been refuted—that foreign-born workers are hostile to unions. Wages are low in Perth Amboy, working conditions are bad— the usual condition in localities where no unions exist. The rise of the trade union movement there will give the worker a weapon to use against the hitherto unchallenged might of the bosses. The United States is dotted with Perth Amboys—big and little. They can all be organized. INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID TO CONDUCT OPEN AIR MEETINGS The International Workers’ Ald will conduct open air meetings for the purpose of familiarizing the workers of Chicago with the growing intensity and significance of the British coal mine strike and the Passaic textile strike. A series of open air meetings have been arranged and will take place as follows: Saturday, June 5, 8:00 p, m—Corner Western Ave. and Division street. Speakers: Jack Braden, Les’le Hurt and L. Greenstone, Monday, June 7, 8:00 p. rt-—Corner Ashland Ave. and 39th etreet. Spoak- ers: W. G. Hays, H. A. Beck and Pat Toohey, The Brookhar By H. M. WICKS. ee al the republican primary con- test in Iowa over the nomination for United States senator is basically no different than a dozen similar con- tests in other states it deserves spe- cial consideration because many of the contradictions within the capitalist, class are more sharply brot out than elsewhere, The forces supporting Albert B, Cummins, for eighteen years senator from that state, are direotly connected with Wall Street. He is always on the Mellon-Coolidge side when the roll is cabled, Smith W. Brookhart, the “insurgent” republican who was ousted from the senate by the administration-demo- cratic coalition in order to seat Daniel W. Steck, a Morgan democrat, speaks for the petty bourgeoisie and, whether he deserves it or not, will have the support of the impoverished farmers among the republican voters, to whom Coolidge “prosperity” has become a cynical jest. He has always been on the opposite side from Cummins. Next Monday, June 7, is the primary election that will decide the fate of Cummins ag repubiclan standard- bearer in the state. It means much to the administration at Washington, for if Coolidgeism is rebuked in Iowa, following the defeat of McKinley of Illinois, Pepper of Penn- sylvania and Stanfield of Oregon, the entire middle west agricultural belt will unquestionably fall in line and stage a political revolt against the Wall Street coalition. Wage Terrific Struggle. LL legislation desired by the Mel- ++ lon-Coolidge gang has been put thru without serious opposition. The insurgents were even prevented from talking on the senate floor becat Wall Street had enough votes to ifn- pose cloture (gag rule) whenever they desired to get quick action. The Wall Street gang didn’t need to debate— they had the votes. It was and is an ideal situation for the plunderers, and they want to maintain it, so they are concentrating their forces in Iowa, the pivotal state in the present agricultu- ral crises, c There are few big capitalists in Iowa, but many great railroads cross the state and it has always been a center of agitation against high rates and othér issues affecting interstate com- merce. The most powerful backers of Cummins in this campaign are the railroads, with the harvester trust throwing its influence on the side of the senior senator. Then the food trust—the packing houses and milling combines—contribute their quota to the cause of the old guard senator. These trusts are out to slaughter Brookhart and have mobilized the most formidable array of political scouts that ever traversed the Hawk- eye state in a political campaign. The same slush fund that was i so lavishly upon the Pepper candidacy in Pennsylvania furnishes ammunition for Cummins in Iowa. Rounding Up the Small Fry. OWA farmers are up in arms against the Coolidge administration. For years, among the most prosperous ag- ricultural states, they were hard hit by the corn crisis; thousands of them were driven from farms on which they had lived all their lives; others still cling to their land while the standard of living sinks lower; no. amount of sophistry on the part of the adminis- tration supporters can overcome their resentment against Cummins and his colleagues in the senate. The debates on farm legislation now proceeding at Washington were ini- tiated for the purpose of aiding Coo- lidge senators in the coming elections and not because of any inclination to solve the farm crisis, even if that were possible. Cummins is trying to convince the farmers that their prob- lem is so many-sided and bewildering that even the “best minds” at Wash- ington stand appalled before its mag- nitude, But he@s getting no response and has about given up. hope of ob- taining their support. In despair the Mellon-Coolidge polit- ical sharpshooters in Iowa turn from the farmers to the small towns and vil- lages and concentrate their heavy fire there, where they hope to swing that always unstable and cowardly element behind Cummins. This rounding up of the small and middle business class brings into play various forces that deserve special mention. Small Town Newspapers. PECIAL agents are employed to round up the small town newspa- pers for the Cummins camp. This is usually accomplished thru the adver- tising agents of the railroads, who bribe the publishers with advertise- ments for which they pay exhorbitant rates. Many heavy mortgages on small printing plants are lifted when advertising contracts with. railroads are closed, The so-called farm papers operated by private concerns are mere adver- tising agencies for the harvester trust, which has also interests in many small country banks that play an important role in modern agricultural life, Their mission is to induce the farmers to mortgage their lands in order to ob- tain expensive farm machinery on the installment plan, for which they are expected to pay exhorbitant prices. All of these papers support Cummins either directly by praising his alleged achievements or indirectly by assail- ing Brookhart as a destructive ‘radi- cal.” Only a hantful of farm organization papers back Brookhart, while editors THE DAILY WORKER er {Cummins Contest in lowa of others are openly bribed by the | notorious Watson-Parker swindle, trusts, The Traveling Salesmen. HE so-called commercial travelers, or “traveling salesmen,” who are merely glorified peddlers, roam the state from town to town calling upon the petty business men and repeating the propaganda of Wall Street that is carefully instilled into their vacuous heads in “salesmen’s conferences” held at the head office of the combine for which they peddle. The gaping Bab- bitts and yokels that operate the small town stores listen to the propaganda of the salesmen and are usually con- vinoed that unless Cummins and other Wall Street minions remain at Wash- ington they will not pe able to re- main in business. . Most of the small bi tain liberal credits pthe concern represented by the salestian and are easily persuaded that their interests are closely bound up with the desires of big business. The; mere dis- tributors for the trust are eco- jigess men ob- nomicalHy obligated Those known to have bat enough openly to oppose the lates of the trusts suddenly find selves denied the liberal credits yy hitherto en- joyed and frequently have a change of political opinions after pressure has been put upon them. The American Legion. c spite of the fact hog 2g Brook- hart is an ex-servide man with a record that ought to; patriots, the bulk of sion, a purely petty zation {n Iowa, is Street has been P in gaining influence over this element thru the fact that Hanford MeNider, former national legion commander and now assistant secretary of the navy, owns a bank at Mason City, Iowa, which town he claims as his residence, and utilizes his influence to line the members of his organization up be- hind Coolidge and imperialism, whose favorite in Iowa is Cummins. Rallroad Labor Officials, tad a number of railroad centers the officials of the railraagjunions have come out for Cummins and carry into these centers the alliance with 1m perialism that was realized at Wash- ington when the grand lodge officials of the brotherhoods and the heads of standard railroad unions put over the Railroad agents and the union of- ficials unite in telling the railroad workers that any interference with the right of the companies to raise freight and passenger rates will cause deduc- tions in their wages and promise them that increases in rates will result in increased wages. Many railroad work- ers believe that sort of thing, and it is not at all unlikely that there will be slight, almost insignificant, increase in wages, which will be followed by increased freight rates, as bribes to induce the railroad workers to support the reactionary policies and candi- dates of American imperialism, Petty Bourgeois Futility. HE powerful forces in operation in Towa to swing that middle class state into line behind the program of Wall Street, which obviously is meet- ing with success with large elements of that class, is a splendid example of the utter futility of the petty bourgeois hoping to lead an effective independ- ent political existence. In spite of the noticeable absence of\great capi- talists in that state the dependency of the lower-middle and middle class on trustified industry furnishes powerful allies who act as agents for the Mel- lon-Coolidge defenders of monopolisti¢ capital and imperialism. With the continued increase of the power of the trusts what little inde- pendent political expression the mid- dle class now retains will be wiped out as the last stone of its independ- ent economic existence is shattered and its members either driven into the ranks of the working class or forced to become mere distrubuting agents for the trusts. If Cummins, the Wall Street sena- tor, who, like most Iowa solons, start- ed his career as a radical and “insur- gent,” but soon capitulated to the flesh pots, is defeated, it will be the achievement of the farmers and those elements of the working class of Iowa that are not under the spell of im- perialism, but who have not yet ad- vanced far enough to realize the fact that republican “insurgency” is merely a hopeless yearning for a return to the pre-monopolistic days of free com- petition and that the only effective op- position to the power of Wall Street today must come from a class party of labor that will be able also to de- fend the interests of the impoverished farmers, as well as its own interests. ANEW NOVEL Glen Sinclas (Continued from page 1) door, so that you could see what was offered; and the prices charged. There were tables along one side of the wall, and a counter along the.other, with a row of broad backs in shirt- sleeves and suspenders perched on top of little stools; this was the way if you wanted quick action, so Dad and the boy took two stools they found vacant. Dad was in his element in a place like this. He liked to “josh” the waitress; he knew all kinds of comic things to say, funny names for things to eat. He would order his eggs “sunny side up,” or “‘with their eyes open, please.” He would say, “Wrap the baby in the blafket,” and laugh over the waitress’ effort to realize that this meant a fried egg sandwich. He would chat with the rancher at his an side—learning about the condition of the wheat, and the prospects of prices for the orange and walnut crops; he was interested in everything like this, as a man who had oil to sell, to men who would buy more or less, according to what they got for their products. Dad owned land, too; he was always ready to “pick up” a likely piece, for there was oil all over South- i California, he said, and some day there would be an empire ere, But now they were behind their schedule, and no time for play. Dad would take fried rabbit; and Bunny thought he wouldn’t—not because of the cannibalistic suggestion, but be- cause of one he had seen mashed on the road that morning. He chose roast pork—not having seen any dead pigs. So there came on a platter two slices of meat, and mashed potatoes scooped out in a round ball, with a hole in the top filled with gluey brown gravy; also a spoonful of chopped up beets, and a leaf of lettuce with apple sauce ffi it. The waitress had given him an extra helping, because she liked this jolly brown kid, with his rosy cheeks and hair tumbled by the wind, and sensitive lips, like a girl’s, and eager brown eyes that roamed over the place and took in everything, the signs on the wall, the bottles of catsup and slices of pie, the fat jolly waitress, and the tired thin one who was waiting on him. He cheered her up by telling her about the speed-cop they had met, and the chase they had seen. In turn she tipped them off to a speed-trap just outside the town: the man next to Bunny had been caught-in it and fined ten dollars, so they had plenty to talk about while Bunny finished his dinner, and his slice of raisin pie and glass of milk. Dad gave the wait- ress a half dollar for a tip, which was an unheard-of thing at a counter, and seemed almost immoral; but she took it. They drove carefully until they were past the speed-trap; then they “hit it up,” along a broad boulevard known as the Mis- sion Way, with bronze bells hanging from poles along it. They had all kinds of picturesque names for highways in this country; the Devil’s Garden Way and the Rim of the World Drive, Moun- tain Spring Grade and Snow Creek Run, Thousand Palm Canyon and Fig Tree John’s Road, Coyote Pass and the Jackrabbit Trail. There was a Telegraph Road, and that was thrilling to the boy because he had read about a battle in the civil war for the pos- session of a “Telegraph Road”; when they drove along this one, he would see infantry hiding in the bushes and cavalry charging across the fields; he would give a start of excitement, and Dad would ask,’ “What is‘it?” “Nothing, Dad; I was just thinking.” Funny kid! Always imagining things! Also, there were Spanish names, reverently cherished by the pious “realtors” of the country. Bunny knew what these meant, because he was studying Spanish, so that some day he would be equipped to deal with Mexican labor. “El Camino Real” —that meant the Royal hway; and “Verdugo Canyon”—that meant “executioner.” “What happened there, Dad?” But Dad didn’t know the story; he shared the opinion of the manufacturer of a nationally advertised automobile—that history is mostly “bunk.” (To be continued.) ON THE JOB FOOD FOR THOUGHT IN LOS ANGELES. The Ginsburg Vegetarian Restaurant at Brooklyn and Soto Sts., in Low Angeles, gives out good food for thought and for the “tummy.” They have donated ten meal tickets at five dollars each toward getting subscriptions for The DAILY WORKER. They probably figure it out this way: “First a worker will read The DAILY WORKER and that will make him a lot wiser. And if he gets wise, he will surely eat in this restaurant!” ‘Whatever way these loyal supporters figure it out we suggest this to our Los Angeles redders: If you are a meat-eater, step over sometime to Gine- burg’s restaurant and nibble a carrot for a change—or some other tasty vegetable. It will do you good and they deserve to see you. LOS ANGELES CALLS FRISCO. Los Angeles is going good in this campaign. But their district is in the lead in the race to Moscow and they instist on getting help. At @ gen- eral membership meeting they decidedto challenge Frisco and here's their resolution : Daily Worker Bullders Club, in membi 0 raise The DAILY WORKER Sub quo ge San Francisco organization to do like ay And then Comrade and Builder Jerome Maltzoff donated $15.00 In addi- tion to a collection which netted a few dollars,~more. That's action! SUBS RECEIVED IN THE THIRD ANNUAL NATIONAL DAILY WORKER BUILDERS CAMPAIGN. Subs of May 27, 28 and 29. Pointe Total Points bbe Paul M. 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