The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1926, Page 6

, Paza Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co. 1118 8y mali (in Chicago only): $4.50 six months $2.50 three months $8.00 per year — — W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill, a Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (outside of Chicago): $6.00 per vear $8.50 six 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 WILLIAM F. DUN MORITZ J. LOEB... eerste oneness Entered as second-class mail September 21, eogiZirw 290 en Editors Business Manager 1923, at the post-office at Cni- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. =: ===> ica, held a war conference at the president’s summer residence New York. Both are men of peace. Peaceful Militarists Calvin Coolidge, president of the United States, and Edsel Ford, son of the biggest manufacturer of the smallest automobile in Amer- in This is what we are told. Yet both are preparing for war . Once upon a time, Ford sent a ship to Europe laden with peace enthusiasts and pie- -d artists extraordinary. It was*during the great war and Henry wanted to get the boys out of the trenches But before long Henry’s tin lizzies were in or around the trenches and Henry soon forgot all about peace. Instead he declared war on the Jews. before Ch Now which for safety fiying near to perfection. the Fords also saying: ial aviation we have the defense of the country He ha ment of ¢ view for war. the struggle to get rid of capitalism. ristmé as. He ommer has perfected a triple motor all-metal monoplane durability and cruising radius brings the art of | So writes the Ford press agent. “In all our plans for devel: We are anxious that our experience and our faciliti shall be at the disposal of the country.” This is a mixture of business with the pleasure of preparing Incidentally the only people who can properly be labelled men of peace under this system are those who are preparing for will end war. Also incidentally, Coolidge will have the Ford millions and all the Ford election. flivvers This is the only war that back of him if he decides to try his chances at re- There is a nickel under the heel here. Competition was said to be the life of trade. Now there is a deadiy war on in the automobile world between two giant corpora- tions—General Motors ‘being pressed to the wall, tho not painfully, yet. and the Ford Motors company. Henry is It would be a nice thing for Henry if he secured a contract to turn out a lot of war planes. Yes, they are for peace but are preparing for war. Echoes of the British General Strike An ounce of action is worth a ton of declarations. The activity of the British Communists during the general strike has convinced the Llanelly divisional labor party that. they ‘have proved by their conduct as well as by words that their part in ‘the general labor movement is a constructive one and not destruc- tive as the reactionaries represent it. On the agenda for the annual meeting of the above section of the British labor party was a recommendation from the executive committee that the affiliation of the Communist Party be refused and that the Llanelly party adhere to the Liverpool decision, barring the Communists. Between the time the agenda was made up and the meeting was held the British strike had taken place and when the mem- bers of the executive saw how the Communists conducted them- selves, were unanimously sustained by the conference. In the elections that followed a Communist was made vice- chairman and four others were elected to the executive. The reactionaries in the British labor movement have already failed in their attempt to isolate the Communists. Their American prototypes will be equally unsuccessful. Wind and Windbags Senator Borah is not the first man to get into trouble because of a healthy pair of lungs. He delivered a speech for the anti-saloon Jeague in Georgia recently. Now, the Pennsylvania democrats are appealing to him to enter the seat and stump for William B, Wil- son, dry and democrat. But Wilson is also for the world court and the league of nations. So what can Borah do unless he plays the role of a “hind let loose?” Ahother individual who got into trouble because of his honest antipathy to booze and slush funds is the editor of the Locomotive He gave editorial support to Wilson, not know- ing that the gentleman was an operator of scab mines. But then. | Warren S. Stone, late head of the Engineers’ Union, was manager of a few scab mines. So perhaps that is not such a serious matter. * What some reformers seem to worry most about are not issues {that affect the corned beef and sauerkraut of the workers, but vague “ideals” like the furnishing of fig leaves to the natives of Central | Africa or christianity to the Chinese. Engineers’ Journal, Did Frank McErlane have a drink in the detective burean or did he not? This question is causing considerable discussion around \town. He was drunk when he reached the jail, It must be admit- ted that he was in an awful hurry. He should have patronized his jneighborhood drug store. Are the capitalist papers newspapers or propaganda. sheets’ | You will tind the answer to this question in the columns of inspired enlogies of Premier Poincare of France. Poincare is the best bet jof the iniernational financiers, so their literary hacks sing his ppraises. SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY WORKER! By EARL R. BROWDER. N many things the great British strike presented the international labor movement with new phenomena to study. Not the least important is talist press. On this question the British strike is rich in experience. A brief survey of the outstanding facts will furnish a basis for some of the lessons that must be learned, Lying Capitalist Press Silenced. For the first time in history the en- tire press of a great capitalist nation was completely silenced, This is, even alone, an occurrence of great moment, bound to produce great changes in the minds of the workers. In a highly industrial country the press, next to the basic factors of transport, coal, and metal, plays a mighty role, espec- ially during social struggles. At one blow the bourgeoisie of Brit- ain found this weapon struck from their hands by the inclusion of the printers in the first call for the gen- eral strike. This decision of the T. U. C. general council was doubtless forced by pressure from below, by the general hatred of the workers against this lying press, and by the action of the printers even before the strike was officially called initiating action that closed down several London dail- they, withdrew the anti-Communist recommendation and| ies, including the Daily Mail. ! Printers Begin Great Battle. fact, the printers were the first ter the miners, to engage in the t struggle. Baldwin used their ac- on in closing down the Daily Mail jas one of his reasons for closing the negotiations on Sunday night, May 2, when the first attempts of Thomas & Co. to surrender the strike were not successful. This, and other preliminary skir- mishes which reflected the militant spirit prevailing thruout the labor movement, were reported in another capitalist paper, as follows: “Members of the National Soci- ety of Operativé Printers and Assis- tants at Carmelite House took ex- ception to the leading article which had been prepared for publication in the Daily Mail of today, under the heading “For King and Country,” and they demanded that alterations should be made by the editor, who refused to comply. They were sup- ported by the machine managers, the stereotypers, and the packers.” “The National Society of Operat- ive Printers and Assistants and the unions supporting them ceased work, and consequently there will be no issue of the Daily Mail from Car- melite House this morning.” (The Morning Post, May 3). HE principal editions of the Eve- ning News and of the Evening Standard also failed to appear on May 3, and the late editions of the Siar the role of the printers and the capi-| |been disclosed by what | government, were stopped, due to the attacks against the trade unions that were to appear’ in them. In the case of the News, the offending article was a re- production of the Daily Mail’s leader entitled, “For King and Country,” which had caused the first strike. The Standard was stopped because the editor refused to remove an ar- ticle entitled, “Recruiting Scenes in Whitehall.” The Star was stopped on account of publishing the govern- ment’s call for volunteers to break the impending general strike. (See Morn- ing Post, May 4, the last regular edi- tion until the strike’ was ended). The British beh eit and the British orker. NE of the stupid acts that disclos- ed the defeatist attitude of the T. U. C. general council was its de- cision to include the Labor Press in the general stoppage. It has never sophistical reasoning they justified this act. The however, gathered enuf middle-class strikebreakers (as would have been foreseen if serious plans had been made for the strike by the general council) sufficient to produce its emergency journal, the British Gazette, which appeared on May 5. The general council found itself in the ridiculous position of voluntarily stopping its own voice thru which it must speak to the millions of work- ers, while the government, which was not hampered by sentimental scrup- les, produced its scab sheet. ie is impossible to judge definitely whether even then the general council was prepared to change its attitude and publish a journal for the workers, but pressure was coming from the mass of the trade unionists. So finally on May 6, the British Worker appeared, A very instructive revelation of how the ordinary members of the unions were pushing their leaders onward, was unconsciously made by Hamilton Fyfe, the reformist editor of the Daily Herald, in his incredibly stupid pamphlet on the strike. He relates with indignation afd curses how a young worker got him out of bed at the unholy: and undignified hour of seven in the morning, after having spent two hours looking for him and awakening many of his friends, to tell him about the appearance of the Brit- ish Gazette and to demand that the general council should issue a labor paper to counteract its provocative and poisonous propaganda, The extreme heat with which Fyfe abuses this zealous worker, arouses something more than‘a suspicion that no paper was intended by the gen- eral council even then, but was forced by such pressure ffi the member- ship; surely he would not have writ- ten his anger into a big book only be cause he lost a few hotrs of his beau- ty sleep! s By JOHN PEPPER. NEW chapter in the rascality of the Hungarian counter-revolu- tion is beginning, The trial of Rakosi and his comrades began on July 12 in Budapest, | Fifty-eight workers will stand be- fore the counter-revolutionary tribunal jot Horthy. Mutiny, coup d'etat plans, offenses against law and order of the “kingdom of Hungary” and—most “ter- rible” of all—Communist propaganda, agitation for the ideas of the third international—these are the chief counts in the indictments. Forgery Trial. Hungary once more shows its true face, The forgery trial is followed by the Communist trial. It would re- quire a new Carlyle to depict the torgery trial—this Hungarian edition of the necklace case. Active and former ministers, the national police chief, the chaplain-bishop of the Hun- garian army, hjgh officers of the gen- eral staff, of the Horthy and Bethlen ministry, even’ the premier himself— all were involved in the frane forgery affair. An international scandal with- out parallel, The Bank of France ap- pealing as prosecutor against the whole of official Hungary in the league of nations’ council, Briand even pro- posed an international law for the punishment of counterfeiters, In Gen- eva Premier Bethlen had his ears boxed by an embittered “republican.” Despite the endeavors of England, chief protector of the Horthy regime, the league of nations finance control was not withdrawn. Despite all the juackery nd faith healing prayers of he lehgue of nations’ “rationalized” ‘lungary remains the “sick man” of entral Europe. Chronic Depression, Chronic economic crises, chronic un- »mployment, and a counter-revolution- ry dictatorship grown chronic, with ts secret societies, its irredentist propaganda, and its brutal contempt of all “formalities” of bourgeois democracy—such is the picture pre- sented by Horthy-Bethlen-Hungary, Now the trial of the 58 workers is o take place in these surroundings, This picture of the actual milieu would be incomplete, however, with- out the inclusion of the Hungarian so- clal democracy, For Hungary also has its social democracy, The relations between the Bethlen government and the social democratic party of Hungary is best characterized in the words of Heine's poem, “Kra- pulinsky “hd Waschlappsky:” “One jouseamdsone soul.” — ecg In all the world no.social democracy s so closely bound up with its “own” sovernment as is the Hungarian. In 1 duly executed contract containing many paragraphs and much juridical finesse it sold out the Hungarian pro- letariat to the Bethlen government. “Bethlen Pact.” When this notorious “Bethlen pact” of the social democrats became known it gave the impetus to the consolida- tion of the illegal Communist move- ment, to the splitting away of the left wing of the social democracy, and to the founding of the socialist labor party of Hungary. These two points, on the one hand the Communist movement getting its foothold, and on the other the founda- tion of a left social democratic labor party, furnish the foundation of this new trial, The 58 workers who will now stand before the bar of “justice” really fall into two groups, The first is the Communists—Rakos} and his comrades, who, with tenacious detail work and heroic disregard for death, worked away at the building up of the illegal Communist Party. The other group is a left social dem- ocratic one—Vagi and his comrades, who severed connections with social democracy on the publication of the “Bethlen pact” in order to found a new left sociglist party on the basis of the “straight Marais class strug- gle.” The Rakosi Group. The Rakosi sree appears’ at the bar as the standard bearer of the Com- munist International, as the perpe- tuater of the great’ revolutionary tra- ditions of the first Hungarian Soviet Republic, as the subterranean advance guard of the pee by cnak ap reyolu- tion, The Vagi group was dragged. before the counter-revolutionary court as a group of honest workers (practically without exception they are good trade unionists) that applied for entrance to the second international at Marseilles, and has not yet fouid the road to Communism, but that could no longer stomach the “traitorous, counter-revo- lutionary policy of official Hungarian social democracy, ‘The indictment of the counter-revo- lutionary tribunal seeks to intertwine these two groups with one another, The charges maintain that the social- ist labor party is only the legal cloak for the illegal Communist Party. As proof of this, the fact that certain Communists worked in the organiza- tion of the left socialist party, just as they do in the trade untons and in ‘he organizattonsté the oMetal social ov j § the scope of this article is to deal with the role of the printers in the strike, the very interesting questions of the editorial policies of the British Gazette and the British Worker must be referred to another time. It was not the fault of the printers if the British Worker was a milk-and-water sheet that did its best to dampen the ardour of the strik- ers; the printers supported the strike beyond all expectations, there any record of union printers go- ing back to work until the strike was called off by the leaders. How Strikebreakers Were Recruited, The story of how strikebreakers were mobilized in sufficient numbers to print the British Gazette has been told in the columns of the Morning Post, in whose plant it was printed. It is an instructive and amusing tale. Let the bleacklegs tell it in their own words, in the following excerpt (Morn- ing Post, May 14, and May 17): “Such a sight was never seen be- fore. Leader-writers, art and music critics, reporters, sub-editors, finan- cial experts, — every able-bodied man, of whatever rank or station, was recruited for the occasion, and all responded to the call with a frolic welcome.” .. . “The machines were late in start- ing. There was an accident in the foundry, A mould was broken; it took nearly two hours to clear away the splashed metal so that the auto- plate would work again.” “A night of toil and weariness for all engaged. . “In one case the steel dogs which should have lain flat were left up when the cylinder began to turn. If it had gone a full circle, however slowly, the sharp teeth of the dogs would have torn the machinery to pieces. By the breadth of a hair short of disaster it stopped . “It was a nightmare night. Ey- erything seemed to be going wrong. The paper, threaded between and under and over scores of rollers with slow painful effort, would run a little and then strain and burst with a crack like a falling tree; endless delays, endless stoppages, endless watching, endless noise, whistlings, shoutings—a blessed in- terval of beer and sandwiches—and at it again, a hurricane, a tornado of blasting, yelling machinery .. .” ES, it seems that even for a “frol- _ic,” these bourgeois lackeys did not @njoy a night of the “nightmare” of a worker’s task. And they were so hopelessly incompetent as workers that the only factor which finally got the British Gazette out at all was the body of superintendents and foremen gathered from all the other daily pa- per plants in London—a motely array of traitors who had long since sold themselves body and soul to the bour- seoisie. ineffable Nowhere is. The Printers: and the General Strike Fruits of the Betrayal. When the general strike was called off, the printers found themselves fac- ed with a concerted offensive of the employers to break their union; they were given their jobs only by signing individual contracts. With complete unanimity and solidarity the workers refused to return, and for five more days they kept the capitalist press completely silenced except for the few little miserable sheets that the black- legs could produce, T would have seemed that even the poorest leaders, with such a solid body of workers behind them, could have at least gotten the men back to work without serious losses, But so great was the panic created among the union officials by the policy of sur- render of the general council, that the printing unions on May 17, signed an agreement with the employers, which most shamefully conceded some of the most important gains made by the printers in years of struggle, This agreement conceded seniority rights in the shops to blacklegs who worked during the strike; abandoned the right of the workers to meet dur- ing working hours; abandoned all un- ion contro] of allocation of work; and agreed not, to participate in any gen- eral or sympathetic strike in the fu- ture. The role of the government in this offensive against the printers, is clearly exposed in the order issued at H. M. Stationery Office, the printing establishment of the government. This order says: “Any unionist who returns to work must recognize that for the future this is not a Society house, and he or she may be _ working alongside nonunionists.” F course the printers have not been passive under this assault and the betrayal of their leaders. Fierce and protracted struggles have taken place, particularly in the newspaper plants, and especially in Glasgow. But due to the failure of leadership, these struggles have been isolated and split up, and tho they have mitigated the depth of the defeat and preserved the unions, they could not overcome the betrayal. The printers have been traditionally conservative in all countries, and no- where more so than in England, But in this general strike they have shown wonderful fighting abilities, great dis- cipline and loyalty, and have obtained experience that will doubtless awaken and develop a class-consciousness hitherto unknown among them. This will, be of measureless value in the next great struggle that will inevitab- ly come. And in the meantime the printers of the world, and all other workers; should study the deeds and achievements of the British printers in the great general, strike. The Rakosi Trial Is On democracy, is being utilized against the workers. To Muzzle Communists, Thru this trial the government pur- sues two political goals: First, it hopes to muzzle the Communist Party by intimidation and imprisonment of its spokesman. Secondly, it seeks to force the socialist labor party into ille- gality. It is the duty of the international working class to concentrate attention on this trial of Hungarian workers. The first ‘attack of the Hungarian counter-revolution which last winter sought the life of Rakosi was beaten back thru the splendid solidarity ac- tion of the international proletariat. Comrade Rakosi showed himself worthy of the great revolutionary tra- ditions of the Hungarian working class in his first appearance before the court. He, the former people's com- missar of the Hungarian Soviet Re- public, the former secretary of the Communist International, ‘went back to Hungary fully conscious of the dan- ger of death and torture in order to carry out difficult illegal work. The life of Comrade Rakosi, formerly the roperty only of the Hungarian proleta- riat, has by this splendid international solidarity action become the precious possession of the workers of all the world, Support Hungarian Workers. We are confident that neither he nor the other 57 workers now before the Horthy tribunal will be deserted at this juncture by the working class of the world, onan Maritime Labor Herald Suspends Publication GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia—(FP)— July 29.—The Maritime Labor Her- ald, focus for many years of the mili- tant miners of Nova Scotia, is forced to suspend publication until better times. In a statement published in its farewell issue the Hérald says: “This paper during its entire life was surrounded by those who sought to destroy it. We would advise these foes not to be too jubilant over the fate that has overtaken the Maritime Labor Herald, “It's not dead, but suspended until such time as the workers of this prov- ince have learned the leston of the need of a live uncompromising work- ing class paper and are wil to pay the price to keep it going.” SEND IN A SUBL.. SEN, JOHNSON HITS AT THE WORLD COURT The Wesld Againnt Us Because of Banks Senator Hiram Johnson of California stopped off in Chicago long enough to deliver a few war cries against the world court and the administration that got America into it, “If, with the world united against us,” he said, “we are a part of any league or league court, what might occur none can foretell.” “The passionate outbursts abroad agafhst our courtry seem to go beyond the mere passing caprice of an ex- citable crowd. The hostility extends thru all classes and is voiced by in- fluential and conservative newspapers. “When, at the instance of Morgan and company, we settled the Italian debt due us for 20 cents on the dollar and interest at 1-8 of 1 per cent, while Morgan and company at the same {ime charged for its loan to Italy 7 per cent, our internationalists fondly imagined we were buying Italy’s favor. Instead we won Italy's contempt. “What chance would America have n a world court today, with every country influenced against us? No Frenchman, a judge of the court, would dare tw return to his native land it he rendered a decision for Shylock Upele Sam¥ and the imagination ts staggered by the consequences to an Italian who might look with favor upon us as suitor.” Can Spend Only $18 from $18 Wage, Says Melancholia Grocer INDIANA, Pa. July 29,—(FP)—A traveling salesman asked an Indiana merchant why business was so bad; why goods did not sell. The mer- chant’s answer appears in Tl Patriota, a local Italian paper, as follows: “Well, I'll let you figure it out, ‘The Bethlehem Mines corporation pays its miners 40 cents an hour, The av- orage working day for the miners is seven and a half hours. A day of seven and a half hours, at 40 cents an hour, means $3.00 in wages. A week of six days gives the miner $18 a week, How much can a miner buy with such wages, besides meeting his light bills, etc.” “ ‘ WITH THE “STAFF | Being Things peer Here and There Which Have Inspired Us to Folly or Frenzy Christus a He-Man (Wherein the Son of God Visits Hollywood, Refuses to Sup- press His Emotions and Meets a White Mule) “Jesus Christ was not a ninoore poop and | would not interpret him as such,” declares William Favers- ham, veteran actor, fired by the Hol- lywood movie directors because he was ‘too virile” in his portrayal of the role of “Christus” In “America’s Passion Play.” “The Passion Play managers ask- ed for a meek man, a gentle, retin ing man of sorrows, but Jesus wae _ Physically a giant as well mental- ly. He braved the hardships of out- door life and. hiked the deserts.” The actor stroked his jaw reflec- tively and cogitated upon the Mexi- can hegira of Almee Sempie Mo- Pherson, Then he erupted once more: “Above all Christ was a dignified man. At one place In the drama | was to ride a donkey. The directors couldn't find a donkey, so they ob- tained a white mule. Y. sir, @ white mule. That mule was so mean he kicked when | mounted him and it took two men to hold him while 1 got on, A bucking mule, fighting two men, while I, In the role of the Savior, tried to ride him like a cow- boy. Picture such a spectacle!” a7) © A Caustic Critic Said We Should Put This in “Now You Tell One” —Likell We Will, Likell! THE “BUGHOUSE FABLES” AND “WITH THE STAFF” ARE TWO COLUMNS TO BE PROUD OF. — LAWRENCE FENNER EVANSTON, ILL. MusstoManta A foreigner was admiring the Arch of Titus in Rome one day, when a man started to pass under it. A ship could have passed with- out difficulty, but this man stoop- ed low. “Who's that idiot?” the for- eigner said to a native. “Undoubtedly, signor,” the na- tive answered, “that is Mussolini.” —From Chicago News. see Deep Dig at Charlie. “Since the retirement of Charles E. Hughes as Secretary of State, Mr. Coolidge has a more direct and intimate part in foreign af- fairs.”—An anonymous official’s unofficial statement from Mr. Coo- lidge’s summer home. E-X-T-R-A COOLIDGH DENOUNCES THE PRESIDENT! (From the New York Times.) ». «+ Coolidge dictated the fol- lowing statement: “The President has made no state- ment and authorized no interview con- cerning our foreign debts or trade agreements.” Little Allah Goes to Jail. “Oh, my little Allah, he is so small and affectionate; he wouldn't hurt anyon said Mary Neryda, 19 years old, an orien- tal dancer, who started a near riot when she appeared at State and Washington streets among a busy throng, with a py- thon wrapped around Her neck in place of a summer fur, “It may be tiny and playful,” said ‘ju Joseph ulmi in court — cops and bailiffs sh: T. symptoms wi en id few feet see affection for your playmate ui jut ky cover in public Next .case.” Mary had a little snake " Whose’ length was forty feet; So wrapped up in it was Mary That she took it on the street. The crowd stampedes; the coppera roar; Poor Mary lands in jail; The judge decrees with shaking knees He'll touch the stuff no more. His honor then rebukes the maid And tells her without fail To lock her playful python up, While Allah wags his tail. “T never heard of an instance where men could be purchased for money.”—H enr y Green, G. O. P. who put out $324,000 in cash for McKinley ha boss