The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 10, 1926, Page 4

Said Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES | By mail (In Chicago only): By mall (outs'de of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months THE DAILY WORKER <= The Crown Prince From Sweden The Deluge of Princes—Why They Come—Monarchist Propaganda for Trembling Thrones— John Ericson, the Swedish Worker Who Was Exiled—Swedish Prince a Frenchman—The Prince as a Salesman—Workers’ Press Exposes Swedish Nationalism. was almost exiled from his native country by the nobility and the nou- veau riches, who never could tolerate that a poor worker, like John Ericson, aganda, Not long ago we had a Greek | was intelligent enough to get above prince here, and a littledater the Dan-| them, There was no place in Sweden ish Prince Aage visited US. Parlier | or this intelligent worker; it was of- the German kaiser, Wilhelm Rex and | ficial Sweden who deported him to his Celebrate the Ath of July: Q Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IlInols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F, DUNNE f MORITZ J. LOEB... Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, lil. under the act of March 3, 1879. By ELLIS PETERSON. [ Thy sabe is sending princes over to America for monarchist propa- kaiser—so there is no reason for call- ing him a Swedish crown prince, He has not a single drop of Swedish blood in his veins. Every word about him representing the “Swedish racial characteristics” is just so much hum- | bug. ERE in America the enthusiasm is port will increase as a result of this friendly visit of a Swedish king to be, if the European revolution does not take his crown before that—or maybe his head. The Swedes are very busy creating a Swedish national center in America. The visit of the crown prince has Editors Advertising-rates on application. ——) <> 290 * Great Britain Seeks a New Alliance } An imperialist alliance, which can mean nothing ore #3 not in the distant but in the near future, is planned by Great Britain. At the imperial conference in October the plan will be put for- ward and the decision made as to whether Great Britain will con- tinue and strengthen the alliance with France or line up. with Italy. As usual the protection of the empire trade and military routes to the British colonies is the paramount question. Italy is showing all the customary signs of a nation preparing for a war of expansion and the ferritories most accessible to her are under British control— Egypt. Italy insists also that the mandate question for Tangier, directly across from the British fortress of Gibraltar at the western entrance of the Mediterranean be not settled without her having a voice and vote. Altho Italy supported Great Britain in the Mosul controversy, she is by no means friendly to the proposal, which is the basis of an Anglo-French alliance, that these two powers share control of the Mediterranean area. ase ‘ The weakness of the British North African and Asiatic empire is that the strategic points are peopled by alien nationalities, colonial or semi-colonial peoples whose nationalist ambitions are evidenced Dy continual challenges to British rule. In Egypt and India. are fertile fields for diplomatic intrigue and the “backward colonials” have learned from the world war that the white race is by no means a unit. The British dominions—Canada, Australia and South Africa— are not enhusiastic about further sacrifices to maintain the empire, particularly when they are asked to endorse an alliance which is based on European exigencies and which they know quite well will mean that again they will be called upon for man power and money to maintain. Australia and Canada are being drawn closer and closer into the American imperialist web. Australia remains.a part of the em- pire only because she fears Japan and wants the backing of the im- perial navy. Could she be assured of support from the United States against Japan the question of separation from the empire would become a practical one. In Canada, American finance capital exceeds that of Gre#t Britain. Economically, Canada is American, but the tendency is towards independence rather than annexation. The Canadian de- mand for a minister to Washington is evidence of the driving force of investments upon politics. The British proposals are proof that the Versailles treaty settled nothing, but instead made necessary a whole new series of alliances and counter-alliances which have for their object the perpetuation of the slavery of the colonial peoples and the main- tenance of European capitalism, but which bring another stupendous conflict within the probabilities of the present decade. The threat of another mass slaughter must be made known to the millions of workers and farmers and made the basis of a league of r against the warring murderbunds of world capitalism. World trade union unity, support of the workers’ and peasants’ ‘government of Soviet Russia, the strengthening of the labor move- ments in all countries, these alone can prevent another blood bath for thé world’s working*clas: y “Where Will the Negroes Find Allies? ; The problem of smashing the anti-Negro movement (we say movement, because it is organized, has a theory which justifies its \\atrocious acts and is well financed) in America is a practical one. Absizactions are impermissible when no day passes which does not see some act of cold brutality perpetrated upon members of the Ne- gro race. The conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples faces this practical problem. Alone the Negroes are unable to combat effectively the power of racial prejudice and persecution and economic oppression. The question of allies in their struggle is paramount. Can allies be found in the ranks of the democrats and repub- lican parties—the parties which represent both wings of the Amer- ican ruling class—who will aid the Negroes in what is actually a struggle against American capitalism? The answer, of course, is no. Allies must have some aims in common. The Negroes can find such allies only among the white workers and farmers of America who suffer, altho not to the same extent, from the oppression of the class represented by the democrat and republican parties. The N. A. A. C. P. conference ‘must choose between dependence upon the proven enemies of the Negro race who for reasons of polit- ical expediency throw a few sops to the Negroes from time to time, but who never will, because they profit from existing conditions, agree to social, political and economic equality unless forced to do so. Political action by the Negro race as a bloc is meaningless unless it recognizes the basic fact that there is a class struggle go- ing on in America with workers and farmers on one side, bankers, industrial lords and their retinue of hangers-on, on the other. Independent political action with the farmers who are robbed by the trusts, marketing combines, bankers and railroads, and the workers who are robbed in the factories is the only possible effective method of struggle for the Negroes—90 per cent of whom are work- ers and farmers. The national conference of the N. A. A. ©. P. must decide with what section of the American population it will align itself. If it decides to depend upon individuals im the capitalist parties it means that only Negroes who accept surrender as the best method of securing favorable terms will be relieved from lynching, jim- crowism and segregation. It will mean further that in the struggle against racial per- secution the N. A, A. C. P. abandons the Negro workers and farmers to cater to “the better class” which cannot and will not fight for full emancipation because they have purchased some measure of economic and social security by leaving the great majority of their race to jthe mercy of the Negro baiters, ’ ling the U. S. representatives are hav- Imperator, had alone to take care of the monarchist propaganda, But now, when the revolutionary upheaval is | felt all over Europe, now as many | princes as possible are sent over to | America in behalf of the monarchist ideas. This propaganda is not as| much for the benefit of the Americans | as for the benefit of the people in the old countries over in Europe. All the bunk written here by stupid, ignorant American newspapermen about the princes is carefully translated and used in Europe. In that way the great American republic delivers the most valuable and precious monarchial propaganda for old Europe. HE Swedish crown prince came here for just the same purpose. The social democrats are strong in Sweden. Their members—not their leaders—are republicans and demand the abolition of the monarchy. Some of the liberal bourgeoisie—espegially politicians in contact with the poorer farmers—side with the republican workers in this question. But only the Communists are the militant re- publicans in the parliament, “riksda- gen,” where they many times have moved for the abolition of the mon- archy in Sweden. HE strength of the organized work- ers in Sweden have already many times put the social democratic party in charge of the government, but al- ways the social democratic leaders have betrayed the workers. As a re- sult of this the opposition inside of the social democratic party is grow- ing, and outside the influence of the Communists is growing day by day. Under such circumstances it is very } natural that the crown prince has to be used in some way or other for monarchical propaganda. And that was the reason why the royalties were sent over to America. RMALLY they were sent to rep- resent Sweden at the unveiling of the John Ericson monument. There was a strong opposition in Sweden against the crown prince representing Sweden at this occasion. The Commu- nists pointed out that John Ericson new country, America, And now the same official Sweden, thru its crown prince, comes here hypocritically to praise the man they exiled, now, when he has gained world fame. The work- ers in. Sweden insisted that only a workers’ delegation could at such an occasion really represent Sweden. UT against the opposition of the Communists and with the able assistance of the social democrat lead- ers it was decided that the crown prince represent Sweden and, further, the “riksdagen” yoted 50,000 crowns for his representation, taken from the money of the unemployed, This was done with the consent of the social democratic government and against the Communist liberal yotes in the “riksdagen”! Pak ae He in America the crown prince has been saluted as.a very edu- cated and learned man. No wonder that this country, where real knowledge and higher education is among the poorest in the world, is humbugged by the crown prince, who is an educated man, but by no means any scholar or learned in sciences. He is just a common amateur on archaeology and history, just like every other educated Swede or Euro- pean, but his position as honorary chairman of learned societies has forced him to learn a few phrases, and with the phrases he gives the Ameri- can newspapermen their dope. In their naivete they are strongly impressed by this knowledge of a crown prince, who has studied titles and indexes of scientific,books enough to know just the learned *terms, but hardly their real significance. HE crown prince Gustav Adolf is also declared to be 4 Swede “with all the best characteristjas of his peo- ple.” In fact, Gustav Adolf never was a Swede and never will be a Swede. His ancestors were French common people. One of them became a gen- eral and later the king of Sweden— made by Napoleon. Thé favher of Gus- tav Adolf is a Frenchman and his mother is a German—zister to the Imperialists Busy!at Panama Conference Pan-Americans O. K. American League Plan PANAMA, June 25.—(AP)—The Pan-American congress here has ap- proved a resolution for the creation of an American league of nations. oe ‘e By MANUEL GOMEZ. HREE seasoned advance agents of imperialiat policy are working day and night among the delegates to the Bolivarian centenary conference at Panama to win support for the idea of an Amearican league of nations, which, as it is expected, would be un- der the exclusive domination of Wall Street and Washington. These three men are John South, Charles W. Hackett and William Jennings Price, the representatives of the United States govrenment.. Price is the dip- lomatist who “negotiated” the robber treaty with the republic of Panama, whereby the government of that help- léss country delivered her over to per- Petual control by the United States. Latin-America’s Program vs. Wali Street's, Late reports from Panama indicate ing some success' with their propa- won the title of “the Fa er of Five Republics.” Fewer still "know! any- thing about the conference he con- vened af the city of Pajama on June 22, 1826, of which the present Panama conference is the centenary celebra- tion, 4 Bolivar the Liberator, Perhaps’ it would be well to recount a little history to supply this d ficiency. About the midile of 1819, the Liberator crossed the Andes and struck decisive blows for the freedom of what was then the Spanish vice- royalty of New Granada. Before the close of the year he had united New Granada and Venezuela in a single state, which he named the Republic of Colombia. He was soon to incor- porate Ecuador with the new republic, Moreover, he exercized influence over the policy of Argentina, and offered to Chile a contingent of troops to free the archipelago of Chiloe, still in pos- session of Spain. On the north he fought to extend influence to Mexico, to libertate of which, Santo Domingo, had already declared itself in 1821 an integral part of Colombia. In December 1824 he wrote from Peru his memorable circular address- ed to the governmentg of Buenos ganda, a resolution favoring a pan- American association having already been introduced. There is known to be strong opposition, however. Against the scheme for Wall Street’s own lit- tle league of nations—continuous pres- sure in favor of which was fore- shadowed more than a week ago when Brazil gave notice of withdrawal from the league of nations—~is set the idea of a federation of Latin-American states, Those who favor a Latin-American federation lay stress on the facts that, (1) the Latin-American countries are united by the bond of a common or similar language; (2) all are “un- developed” countries exploited by for- eign capital; (3) all ave directly men- aced by the steadily growing aggres- sions of U. S. imperialism. Not the United States government but the American working class is looked to as the ally of Latin-American freedom in the United States, Another factor ‘strengthening the tendency toward Latin-American co- operation, especially active just now when the eyes of all Latin-America are turned toward Panama, is the great Bolivarian tradition, The force —or even the existence—-of that tradi- tion is not appreciated by the work- ers of the United States. Few. will even remember hearing the name of Simon Bolivar who helped free Vene- zuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia trom the rulw of ——_—_ Aires, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Central America, in’ which he in- very great among the royalist Swedish Americans. They enjoy this magnificent display of royal splendor on the soil of America, where the royalty was abolished and _ extin- guished thru a revolution. And even the American Swedes badly need the crown prince. Why? Because in America more than 90 per cent of the Swedish population are workers. But all their organizations are bourgeois organizations, almost all their newspapers (except two) are bourgeois, all their life is under the petty-bourgeois control. Ninety per cent of the Swedes have until lately been fully controlled by less than 10 percent of the kinsmen. The Swed- ish bourgeoisie felt that the opposition against their rule was growing. The workers began to demand their rights, Workers demanded that their large organizations should cease to be re- ligious or Swedish patriotic societies; that the intérests of the workers should be considered in them, ete. IN face of this revolt there could be nothing ,more welcome than a crown prince to check this opposition with a wave of patriotism and royal- ism. And in the most democratic way, very cleverly and cunningly, the crown prince, who by no means is stupid, plays his role as the savior of the Swedish bourgeoisie in this coun- try and of their power over the Swed- ish population composed mostly of workers. But even this royal help will be fruitless. Everywhere in the country the Communists have met the crown prince with leaflets, eagerly ac- cepted and read and approved by the Swedish workers, who are tired of fol- lowing their bourgeoisie and now try to build up their own culture, trans- form their political and economical organizations into real workers’ or- ganizations to collaborate with their comrades, the other workers in Amer- ica. HE crown prince comes also as the foremost salesman of Sweden. Already there has been reported an increase in the American orders in Sweden. Likewise the American ex- helped them a great deal. The Swedes claim that one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, John Morton, was a Swede. Now they have | dedicated a temple in Philadelphia to John Morton, and that temple is going to be the center of all the Swedish | activity in America, UT the Ny Tid, the organ for the revolutionary Scandinavian work- ers, happened to be more versed in the history of the signers of the Decla- ration of Independence than the poor Swedish professors in this’ country, and was able to show that the great Swedish national hero in this country, John Morton, was no real Swede, but was a poor Finn! This resulted in an uproar, Think of it! é “Por years our professors have told us everything great in the world was Swedish, even George Washington was almost a Swede, yet it cannot be proved. And then they proved for us that John Morton was-a Swede. And now comes a workers’ paper and shows that their documents were fake and that John Morton was a Finn, was a ‘poor Finnish farmer; Juhana Martti- nen!” So goes the Swedish idol down to Hades. HIS is illustrative of the national- ist humbug. A memorial building is built in the name of the holy Swed- ish nationalism to the memory of a “Swede.” A crown prince comes here and gives his Swedish blessing to it. And the Swedes are happy. Now everything is done in a true Swedish way! And it turns out that neither the man to whose memory it was built nor the crown prince who blessed it are Swedes! America likes to be fooled. It is economically now the strongest coun- try on earth, But a crown prince from little Sweden comes here and hum- bugs it thoroly, giving the impression that he is a learned man of science! And he is only a man with common European education traveling around with money stolen from the Swedish unemployed workers. e' Antilles, one. newal of the treaty of union, alliance, and perpetual confederacy against Spain or any other power which might attempt to’ dominate over us.” (Em- phasis mine. M. G.) The decisions ar- rived at were’ wholly in harmony with the spirit in which the congress was convened. Unfortunately, however, iéywere never ratified. U. S., Not Spain, the Present Menace. Since the days of Bolivar the Boliv- tradition has persisted and gathered force. A number of Latin- American congresses have been held in the intervening years, based more or less upon the original plan of Bolivar. There have been repeated moves for unity of the Latin-American states, with first Mexico, then Peru, the Mexico again taking the lead. Of late years these have become crys- tallized into a clearly defined move- ment. Today it is not Spain that Latin- America fears but the imperialist cap- italism of the United Stat Indeed Latin-Amreican freedom can be pre- served only in uncompromising strug- gle against U. S. imperialism—which is the reason for the steady growth 0} the All-America = Anti-Imperialist League, with sections in ten Latin- American countries as well as the small section. organized by revolution- ary working class elements in the United States. If Bolivar had reasons for not want- ing the U. S. government represented at the first Panama conference in 1826, the Latin-American countries have a thousand times stronger rea sons today. It is everywhere under- stood that the U. S. government would never have been invited if it were not for the fact that Panama is today a U.S. protectorate and the president of Panama, who issued the call for the Bolivarian centenary celebration, is a servile tool of U. S. imperialism, By Uplon Sinclair’ Spain, and common interest, among them, “re sisted upon the immensé benefits that would acrue to the ydung republics from a meeting at Panama to consider the joint protection of’ their institu- tions, First Panama Conference, The congress was hurriedly called and only the delegates from Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Central America ar- rived in time to attend) the sessions. There was also present @ representa- tive of Great Britain’ and Holland had an unoffigial observer. Chile pro- tessed friendship for thé congress, but delegates were appointed too late to arrive, Bolivia’s delegates had the same fate, Bolivar's plan was for a. strictly Latin-American congress and his first invitation did not include either the United States or Great Britain, How- ever, the vice-president, Santander, took it upon himself to send sub- Seuent Invitations to these powers, Two United States representatives were appointed by President John Quincy Adams, but one of them died en route and the other, to quote the Mexican diplomatist, Isidro ‘Fabela, “either could not or did not wish to” arrive at Panama in time. The congress was to consider, ac cording to a letter from the Colombian government, a number of matters of | Manuel back on the throne at Lisbon. W Nati Cans to spend his parasite if aa toile! Bist eaiaae load A mee 4 Read it today on page 5. By Wm. Gropper. 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