The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1926, Page 14

This is The United States, Not Russia The New York striking cloakmak- ers seem to be getting on the nerves of the manufacturers as can be seen from the “warning” issued by the president of the Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, IH says in part: The union has no right to inter- fere with regular employes which remain in our shops. We serve public notice on all union officials that we intend to protect our prop- | erty and our foremen and design: | erg at any cost. This is the United | States and not Russia; and we hap- | pen to be in a city where those | at the head of the government be- | lieve in maintenance of law and | order. Mr. Findler is perfectly right. This; is not Soviet Russia by a long shot. | Here the capitalists rule, not -the| workers. But that’s what the workers are struggling for: to, make the United States a country| ruled by workers and poor farmers. | * * “Communism is Not for America.” This is the opinion of James J. Davis, secretary of labor in Coolidge’s cabinet. in a speech before the thir- ty-eighth annual convention of the Loyal Order of Moose, recently held in Chicago, of which Davis is some kind of a Chief Grand Master, he spoke as follows: - The United States is the first country in the world in which the common man was placed on terms of equality with the wealthy one before law. Communists will tell us that is not emough. They say that we must make all men rich or poor alike, that we must emulate the example of Russia, Our answer to them is that we will fight to the last drop of our blood before we will consent to submit to the dic- tation of Moscow. No, Mr. Davis, you are all wrong on @his ‘submitting to Russia stuff. You undoubtedly know better. Whom you will have to submit to eventually is not Soviet Russia, but the toiling masses of the United States. This outlook may not please you. In fact, we know it doesn’t. But that does not worry us. When the day comes around for the American workers and farmers to take over the govern- ment, Mr. Davis will be given a good job. He will be sent to the factory to make an honest living instead of being a fake secretary of labor. A Chilean Speaks His Mind. Former president Alessandri of Chile, on his way home from the United States, uttered a piece of frank comment on the leading lights of our government. He said: I cannot understand how a people ag great as the Americans couid select a man so incapable of ful- filling so important an Office as Mr. Kellogg. He is altogether lacking in intelligence and has not the re- motest idea of what the Tacna- Arica problems ig all about. He is incapable of comprehending the principles involved, and the same applies to President Coolidge. I conferred with both Mr, Coolidge and Mr. Kellogg, and found them without the slightest idea of what the Tacna-Arica problem means, Of course, they wouldn’t know. But why should they? The American ‘bankers and their economic experts are doing all the knowing. What is expected of Coolidge and Kellogg is to put the military and naval power of the American government to the ser- vice of whatever the bankers decide. And for this job Coolidge and Kel- loge seem to be well equipped. Fritz Thyssen is Satisfied With the Dawes’ Plan. Fritz Thyssen is one of the big- gest German: industrialists. He is the head of the famous Thyssen Iron Works, and he is well satisfied with the Dawes’ plan provided he can bring back the kaiser and make the German workers and farmers pay whatever is coming the former allies S74, ie SBE CLOAKMAIKERS ON STRIKE TRY AND BEAT THIS ONE— PRIME MINISTER BALDWIN, c~: THE “IMPARTIAL AKBITA— ). &, OR” BETWEEN MINERS WS (<= AND MINE OWNERS 1S A MAJOR OWN~ ER CF LARGE BE CALLED INDUSTRIAL |AoAL PROPER— CINZENS——~ 1T WiLL. | TIES o— MAKE THEM WORK BETTER” says darr BEYER AT RAIL YMION CONVENTION AT CHICAGO. under the wonderful plan of Hellen Maria. The Dawes’ plan has been of wi, doubted benefit to Germany It can be carried out if: First, German economy is made so pro- ductive that it is able to bear the burden; second, markets can be found to buy the German products. In order to make Gerniiny as pro- ductive as possible, all unproduc- tive expenses must be curtailed. Whether this can be obtained un- der the reign of parliament, | do not veriture to judge. He better not. The 15 million votes cast in the plebiscite on June 20 in favor of expropriating tHe Prince rep- resent that many militant opponents or the monarchy, of Thyssen and of everything that he stands for in Ger- man life. These 15 millions may have very little faith in the present “reign of parliamentarism,” but when it comes to making changes in the German system of government, they will introduce something which Thys- sen and his kind will like even lass than they do the present system. * ¢ @ The British House of Lords “Profane” Language. It is reported in the papers that when the house of Jords was passing Hears the eight-hour bill for the miners, the labor members were shouting at the others: Dirty dogs! Murderers! Swine! And that thereupon the Lord Chan- cellor shouted the order: “Clear the Bar,” and the sergeant at arms, “in his velvet knickers. and with his be- jewelled sword dangling at his side, gently but firmly removed the com- moners.” Which is not bad as far as it goes. A little more militancy and natural- ness and plain talk on the part of labor members in parliament will help the workers. But when these little diversions become a substitute for real labor politicos and real struggle against"the capitalists, then it is no good. The betrayal of the general strike by the Thomases and Hender- sons and the surrender of Purcell and the other progressives before tho right wing cannot be retrieved by “profane” language in the house of lords. It will require radical changes in policy and leadership to accomplish that, G Tricky Maneuver to Fool the People. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune writes to his pa- per as follows: The West against the Bast-- that’s what it’s coming to im the struggle for the presidency in 1928, in the opinion of many Republican and Democratic leaders, All this is pure bunk. “The West against the Hast” is merely a tricky maneuver by some republican poll- ticians to prevent an alliance between the workers and farmers against both capitalist parties. What it is coming to is not West against East, or North against South, but poor against rich, oppressed against oppressor and toller against exploiter. WHAT AND HOW TO READ, This section will again be open in the next issue of the magazine containing the second lesson in the series on Economie by Arthur W, Calhoun. it will deal. with books on the origin of the American Empire and U. 8, Imperiallem, Be sure to get a copy of the next Issue,