The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1926, Page 3

od “places in their path is unquestionable | f JAPAN DOUBTS CHANG’S TALE Wettionary J Alliance a Poor Bet for Loan | (Special to The Dally Worker) TOKIO, Aug. 2 Altho Chang Tso} Lin, Manchurian dictator and tool of Japanese imperialism in China, is seeking a $10,000,000 loan in Japan,| the Japanese bankers are shying| away from what they regard as a) gamble. It is possible that some capi- talists will advance the sum, however. | Kuominchun In Good Position. | Chang’s strength is known to de-| pend upon his alliance with Wu Pei Fu, which all are beginning to dis- trust. It is seriously questioned that| Chang has been telling the truth in regard to his supposed “victories” against the Kuominchun, or people's army. Experts point out that the chun forces are still intact and are} withdrawing from the Nankow Pass/ where they held out at enormous cost} to the Chang Wu alliance, assailable base well supplied. troops, meanwhile, have their communications with winter only two months away and with Wu} Pei Fu seriously threatened by the| Cantonese armies marching north-| ward to central China. Chang-Wu Government Ignored. The so-called “Peking government” | set up by Chang and Wu is regard-| ed as important and without any se- curity in what it offers in the line of| treaties, hence no foreign nation is paying any attention to its actions. BOODLE EXPOSE MAY HERALD WAR ON PRIMARIES nomin- | WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 25. The enormous total of the slush funds spent in the Illinois and Pennsylvania primaries has given a powerful impe- tus to the movement for the See of the primary system which was| never palatable to the old political | bosses in the republican and democrat | parties. | Primaries Costly To Big Guns. | That the fellows with the big money | get over whatever obstacles the law | but it is more costly and exposed. The extreme reactionaries in the| pitatist parties will undoubiediy turn! @ slush exposure to good advantage in their effort to abolish the primaries and return to the old nominating con- vention system. Use Billion Union Bread Labels More than a Dillion union labels were used on bread made under de- cent sanitary and labor conditions, the Bakery & Confectionary Workers In- ternational reports. Every reader around New York! should attend the Daily Worker Picnic SUNDAY, SEPT. 5 Edenwald Park, New York (No admission charge) Take Third Ave. “L” to 133rd Street| or Lexington Ave. Subway to 180th Street, Transfer to Westchester Rail- road. Get off at Dyer Ave. (Fare 7c.) Auspices: Daily Worker Build- | ers’ Club, 108 East 14th Street, | New York City | No matter what your ailment, for Expert Diagnosis and Quick Results| see Dr. J. J. Scholtes, D. C.) 2447 Lorain Ave., Cor, W. 25th St, | CLEVELAND, OHIO. -— Melrose 317w Free examination if you bring this ad with you. GINSBERG’S Vegetarian Restaurant | 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. E, W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Six Places 118 S. Clark 169 N, Clark 66 W, Washington | 167 N. S 42 W. Harrison 234 8. H. PHONES, HARRISON 8616. t t Phore Went $690) 8) Commice: 1612 Fulton £t | obe lengthened | K |indlviduals that contains either out- ness banking and business firm in the coun- try. money in propaganda, partment fs given an annual appropri- ation by congress to care for the in- creasing needs of the camps in opera- kind of misrepresentations and salve that are palmed off on prospective Ms THE DAILY WORKE R * ° + Rae 2, ee Who Is Behind Military Training? | All the Biggest Financial and Industrial Combines Are Supporters—The Training Camps Associa: : OF VICTORIES: tion, Their Vehicle—Other Benefits of Training-—Education Subsidizers Are Military Subsidizers By THURBER LEwIs, HERE ts no mystery about who are the chief supporters of civil- training. They them- no secret of the fact. wt the news to the world. to feel that in this heydey imperialism they.can afford to T make free with both militarist pro- paganda and open preparation for war. The chief backers of military train- ing in tthe United States are the most powerful banks and corpora- ons in the land. The combined forc- es of all the greatest capitalist ineti- tutions constitute a power to conjure nh. And when the big fellows yeak all the little camp-followers he war department's program of, civilian military training is encour- aged and supported by a United Front of « —the money barons and 8 cracking the whip and retainers into line. ly: J, P. Morgan & ational City Bank, and , Loeb & Co. combine with the ted States Steel Corporation, the kers, the railroads, the power in short, all the big industrial combines with all their ramifications to give active and material assistance to the United States War Depart- In this fourth article the writer shows what forces are the chief Supporters of the War Department's program for extension of military service. Those support military training who benefit by It. The war Profiteers of the last blood-bath and those who hope to profit by the next one, openly subsidize an organization whose Purpose is to for- ward the cause of military training to include as many youths as possible every year. These same capitalists are the subsidizers of the colleges of the country who also give military training on a grand seale with the assistance of the War Department and funds ap- propriated by congress, ment in a program of military train- g that is planned to reach into every school, every mine, mill and fac- tory, to militarize the youth of the country. This sounds like a sweeping state- ment—and it is. But every word of it is true as we shall show. The Vehicle of the Profiteers, 'N previous articles we have review- ed the development of the C. M. T. (Citizens’ Military Training Camps) R. O. T. C. (Reserve Officers’ ining Corps) ‘since their birth in and their growth into potent in- | stitutions for the extension of military training and preparation for war out- E, Trubee Davison is a member of! the House of Morgan. He is also the head of the army air service. What could be more obvious? side the regular arm We will see what connection there is between these military organizations and the powerful combinations of wealth we mentioned above. First, the C. M. T. C. We have previously had occasion to mention that, outside the War Department it self, the principle promoter of the C. M. T. C. is the Military Training nps Association. Starting first as nization of “Plattsburgh Na- onal Defense Act in 1920 providing for the Citizens’ Military Training Camps, this organization has grown into a far-flung subsidiary of the War | Department. The business of the association i to act as a sort of headquarters for banks and corporations in giving as sistance to the War Department i1 furthering its program of civilian mili | tary training. Its national headquarters are in | Chicago, 705 Tower Building. Each of the nine army area corps and all of the states have separate organiza- tions that work under the direction of the national headquarters, The ex- | ecutive secretary is George F. James. |? president, Charles B, Pike, also | bears the title, “Ohfef Civilian Aid to the War Department.” Openly Subsidized, HIS association is openly subsidiz- ed by a group of corporations and right by name or indirectly thru busi- connections, every important This organization spends most of its The War De- fon. We have shown elsewhere the ouths in the publicity of the associa- ion, Weare, interested just now in howing im parUcular who are behind =| bers of advisory and executive com- J. P. Morgan and Co,, the central cog In the capitalist machine, in this country and practically every other large banking and industrial corporation in the United States has given its unqualified endorse- ment and ald to military training. And why not? Here we have a caricature of Morgan with inserts of Gary, Baker, Mellon, all power- ful figures in the capitalist world, who can’t do too much to forward the plans of the War Department in turning out soldiers to protect their millions. GEO. F BAKER | ANDREWWMELLON the association. When we put our/ protection of these vested interests fingers on these we shall be pointing| chine is being erected there are ad- to those who are backing the militar-| vantages accruing to especially the {st plans of the War Department./large corporations that are not ap- Phatis clear, | Parent at first glance, In a pamphlet, “The Story of the Making Better Slaves. Camps,” gotten out by the association | E refer now chiéfly to the busi- for the obvious purpose of impressing ness “of making better industrial possible contributoys, there are prom-| slaves. inently displayéd on twoifull pagesthe| Practically every one of the 106 names of 106 corporations and banks! powerful business concerns, altogether and 112 Individuals who control them.| employing untold thousands of men, The Line-up, have made arrangements to give ma- There is not one Wall Street bank,| terial assistance to the recruiting for not one large open shop firm, not a/the training camps. They encourage single combination of big-American) their yéang' employes to’ attend the capital absent: schools, They distribute the associa- J. P. Morgan & Co., U. S. Steel | tion tracts in their plants. Some of Corp. Pennsylvania Rallroad sys- |them make arrangements for pay tem, Armour & Co., Swift & Co., S. | while their young employes are away S. Kresge Co,, Intl. Harvester Co., | learning the war game. All of them Sears Roebuck & Co., Western Elec- | make it easy for the lads to get off tric Co., American Sugar Refining | for the thirty days each summer re- Co., Sinclair Refining Co., U. S. Rub- | quired by the course. ber Co., National City Bank of New Why do they do this? Because they York (Rockefeller), Central Trust | love the lads? If they loved them they Co. of Ill. (Dawes), Kuhn Loeb & | would give them more wages and re- Co. (foreign and railroad bankers), | quire them to work less hours. To American Car & Foundry Co. build them up physically, to train their They all answer present, They all| minds or to give them recreation as eagerly contribute a share of their|the camp publicity says? If this were war profits, a share of their imperial-| the case they would lighten their tasks ist spoil to this willing tool that]in the mills, they would shorten their spends the money to build up a big re-| hours of labor, reduce the monotony of serve military machine that performs,|the daily grind and provide ample even in the making, inestimable sery-| recreation. No, it is plain that these ice to coupon clippers, are not the reasons The individuals are here too. They Army Discipline. are called, “Some sponsors and mem- akg Teal reason is, next to the de- sire for a preponderant. military machine, that the military training that goes with the camps teaches obe- dience, Thirty days each year of sharp fommands falling on the ears mittees.” There are 112 of them. Here are a few: W. W. Atterbury, Edsel Ford, James A, Patten, Julius Rosenwald, Morgan, Gary, Mellon and all the other war profiteers know that clvillan military training and training In schools and colleges Ia every bit as much preparation for war as the manufacture of one of these glant guns, == ——SSSSS———— Rodman Wanamaker, George Whar- Same With R. O. T. C UCH the same holds true with the R. O. T. C. In the list of both in- dividuals and corporations mentioned above, there are very few indeed that do not contribute to some educational institution. Every one of the large universities in the country are subsid- |ized by various groups of capitalists. | And practically every university thus | subsidized has military training, It is | optional with the school whether or not they wish a, unit of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps established by the War Department on its cam- pus. Do you suppose the university of Morgan (Columbia), the University of Mellon (Pennsylvania), the Univers- ity of Gary, (Northwestern), the Uni- versity of the Packers (Chicago) or any other capitalist-owned institution would ignore the offer of the War De- partment to install, at the depart- ment’s trouble and expense, a mili- tary faculty with full equipment for complete military training? No. Nor have they. Every one of them give military training and in some 83 of them, as we have shown in a previous article, military training is compulsory. The reasons are much the same as those that actuate these “publie-spirited” pillars of society to support the C. M. T. C. It is not enough that they “goose-step” the minds of the school going youth. They are made to do the goose step in fact with guns on their shoulders under the direction of hard-boiled regular army officers, Whole Capitalist Oligarchy. HE whole financial and industrial oligarchy of the country is behind civilian military training to a man, In their train they are able to drag the hangers-on who shout 100 percentism and otherwise do their bit for the ad- vancement of Jingoism. It is very unfortunate that among the camp- followers must be mentioned the so- called leaders of the American Federa- Dwight W. Morrow is one of J. P. Morgan's right hand men and also a close personal friend of President Coolidge. He was recently given the appointment as head of an air craft investigation committee and is well known for his Interest In aircraft armament, tion of Labor. We will deal with this in a separate article, For now it is enough for us to know that the back- ers of the War Department in its un- dertaking to put all available man- power under arms have firmly set in the back of their heads world domin- ion to be won at the points of millions of bayonets, Incidentally, a military program of this sort will make it ex- tremely difficult for 4 genuine labor movement to exist if this program is carried out. (Tomorrow Educafton in The Camps) Needle Trades Section T.U.E.L. Will Select Convention Delegates Members of the Needle Trades Sec- tion of the Trade Union Educational League in Chicago are urged to attend a meeting at Fretheit Hall, 3209 West Roosevelt Road (today) Thursday, Aug. 26, at 8 p. m. The purpose of the meeting 1s to elect delegates to the fourth national conference of the Needle Trades Sec- tion of the T, U. B. L, to be held in New York on Sept. 10, Five dollars will renew your sub for a year, if you send it in before August 15, ton and David Reed (the Mellon senators from Pennsylvania), Henry W. Taft, Albert C. Ritchie (the Du- Pont Powder governor of Maryland), Charles G, Dawes, Cyrus H, McCor- mick, and Guy E,\ Tripp of General Electric, In addition to giving contributions, these men are only too glad to be of personal assistance in furthering the holy cause. Need more be sald? What could make it plainer who are behind the C. M. T .C.’6. Those are behind them who profit by them. And they profit in more ways than one. The strictly military advantages are not the only ones, built up thru the medium of the C, M, T..C, but it 4s, also true that while thig ma- It is true that there is being 4 reserve machine for duty in ———<* a of lads that are still in their formative years instill a discipline that can be appreciated to the full extent only by a slave-driving factory foreman, Well disciplined wage slaves are manufac- tured at thesa training camps besides willing soldiers, This is certainly worth the money and the aid of any largo organization that is run for profit and that gets more profit th better and harder its slaves toil. Then too there aro the co An citizenship. We will tallc nother article about the kind of “education” WCEFEL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio roadcasting station WCFL is on the ir with regular programs. It is roadcasting on a 491.5 wave length rom the Municipal Pier, TONIGHT, 6:00 to 7:00—Chicago Federation of La- bor talks and bulletins; Instrumental solos, 7:00 to 7:30-—The Florentine String Trio, ule taught in these camps. It is enough] dinner music. now to say that the open shop organ-}| 7:30 to 8:30—Vol. C. Schaunberger, lzations behind the camps are fully| Mezzo, soprano; Jac She, Bie. Irish Tenor; WCFL E 8:30 to $10:00—Jimmie of today; Hazel Nyman, accordian; Nick Smith In popular son 10:00 to 11:00-—Dance musi Muniel Pier acre Orch neers 08's 4 ie aware of the anti-working-class nature of the “oftizenship” courses that are taught by, fhe officers who read from carefully prepared mimeographed out- lines issued by the war department. “Anise’”’ on Progress in the Soviet Union The well-known Journalist and author, Anna Louise Strong (Anise), Is contributing from Rus- sia a very Interesting and inform- ing series of articles to The DAILY WORKER on “Life and Work in the Soviet Union.” The fourth article is printed on page 6. CALVIN TURNED ARID BLAST ON SEN, WADSWORTH): Dripping Solon Dries Up Perceptibly NEW YORK, Aug. 24. — United States Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr. was all wet before he paid a recent visit to President Coolidge at White Pine Camp in the Adirondacks; now he is only moist. Want Real Dry. The out-and-out drys in the repub- ican party are not satisfied that Wadsworth is anything else but a foe of Volstead and many of them are in favor of naming a candidate who will go down the line with the anti- saloon league. There are rumors afoot that there is @n agreement between Al Smith and Wadsworth by which both of them expect to be elected, SHERIFF EVADES CHICAGO GRAND JURY QUESTIONS Sheriff Peter Hoffman was called before the special grand jury investi- gating vice and crime in Chicago, asked to sign an immunity waiver so that if necessary indictments could be voted against him, and then ques- tioned for an hour and a half, The jury ‘wanted to know among other things why the prohibition Jaws were violated on a wholesale scale, why disorderly houses were so nu- merous, why there was so much gambling so openly apparent around town, and what was being done about the McSwiggin murder, in which a member of the district attorney's staff was shot by one gang of bootleggers while in the company of another gang. The sheriff said he didn’t know be- cause he had go little assistance.- The grand jury ordered State's At- torney Robert E. Crowe to appear. be- fore it, but has not announced wheth- er he will be asked to sign an .im- munity waiver also, Schenectady Defenders of Class War Victims Hold Picnic Labor Day By JACK SOININEN. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Aug. 25.— The International Labor Defense is conducting a picnic here Labor Day, at Scotia, Glenolia Park, near the Mohawk Swimming School. The affair will last all day Sept. 6, and there will be a great time. The program is good, and dancing will continue from the opening of the grounds until they close, This picnic is the first of the kind that this branch of the’l, L. D, has held and the members wish to make it as useful as possible to the class war prisoners, A special effort is being made to get the Albany * Young Pioneers to come, and bring all their songs, poems and speeches. All work- ers from the country around, Troy, Albany, Utica, Clovers and everywhere in the vicinity are invited and ex- pected. Everybody is welcome, chil- dren are admitted free, and adults pay 25 cents, N. Y. State Federation Pledges Aid to Strike of the British Miners NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Aug. 25.— Following an eloquent appeal by Ben Tillet, the State Federation of La- bor convention here contributed four hundred and ten dollars, A resolution pledging the support of New York State Labor for British miners carried unanimously, St. Paul Swindle Not Ended, Creditors Say Evidence of further high finance in the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad reorganization was develop- ed in a suit just filed by creditors of the road to the extent of $18,000,000, They say that Kuhn, Loeb and Co. plan in their reorganization scheme to profit certain creditors at the expense of the others, and plead that Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson postpone the sale of the road which he has al- ready ordered until further examina- tion of the books takes place, Get an autographed copy of Red ¢| Cartoons by Fred Ellia amd Robert Minor, Page Thres GOVERNMENT OUT TO BREAK LABOR IN AUSTRALIA Workers Unite to Fight Dreaded Legislation SYDNEY, Australia — (FP) — Australian Labor Party and organized labor in Australia are engaged in a hot campaign against the referendum put forward by the federal anti-Labor government to secure a closer control over the unions, The first proposal would give the government power to create, regulate, control and dissolve corporations, in- cluding trade unions. If the proposal is endorsed by the electors the gov- érnment will have power to deal with | the unions in drastic fashion. It could! put its agents into union oflices, take | possession of their books, interfere, in their internal affairs, hold new | elections and secret ballots on ques-| tions which the government itself | would frame, Under such a regime the eaphawd | tion of spies into the unions woul@{ undoubtedly follow and the entire fab- ric of unionism would very. soon be honeycombed with suspicionjand care- | fully-fomented dissension, / The second proposal would give the government power to introduce legis- lation to’ protect the interests of the public in the event of an actual or probable interruption of any essential service. Under this proposal’the gov- ernment is seeking legislation on the same lines as that introduced in the House of Commons during the ‘receht : British general strike. Under it the government could organize strike- breaking units on an extensive scale, , enter the homes of the workers with- out warrants, arrest union officialstand throw them into jails, prevent free speech, call out the troops to shoot | down the strikers and their sympa- thizers and even conscript the strike ers and force them back to work at the point of the bayonet. 4 Ratification of these two proposals would mean the crippling of the Lebor movement, politically and industrially, and the subjection of the workers of Australia to\the slavery of @ judicial dictatorship. That 1s why the work- ers of Australia are today lined up in deadly opposition to the federal gov- ernment’s proposals, Ped Worried at “Safety” of Pangalos, Greeks’ New Regime Moves Him ATHENS, Aug. 25.—Fearful lest the life of General Pangalos may be en dangered in Athens, the government has decided to transfer him to the is- land of Santorin, pending the form- ation of a committee of inquiry, it Was announced today. Machinists’ Local No. 134 Gives $200 to British Miners The Chicago locals of the Interna- tional Aésociation of Machinists are adding to the fund for British strike relief being gathered in this district. Local 134 of the I. A. of M. is re ported to have donated $200 at its last meeting. Features of j Next Saturday’s Issue of the New Magazine Supplement V. F, CALVERTON T. J. OFLAHERTY MANUEL GOMEZ JESSICA SMITH HARRY GANNES and all the leading figures fm the American Communist movement. ART WORK HG AND CARTOONS” FRED ByLas HAY BALES A. JERGER VOSE and Others Poems - Movie Reviews and other features Be Sure to Get ‘the Issue of Saturday, August 28th a c 2