The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 9, 1926, Page 6

rage SIx ‘HE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKHR PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. Phone Monroe 4733 Ss ThA it dts ate Biel SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mail (outs!de of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.60 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, Mllnols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F, DU: ty MORITZ J, LOES. Editors Business Manager ED Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. EB~ 290 Advertising rates on application. — Coming Around to It Signs are multiplying that a diplomatic accord may be reached | between the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and ‘the United States in the near future. That powerful financial and commercial interests in this coun- try are openly and secretly urging recognition is no longer a,doubt- ful matter. Such an important organ of big business as the. New York Journal of Commerce is conducting a campaign for recogni- tion and several emissaries with credentials from influential quarters in Washington have recently visited Moscow, ostensibly to gaze in rapture at the weird architecture of the church of Saint Basil, .but really to have a chat with Tchitcherin about the business of. getting the two countries on official speaking terms. According to news dispatches from Moscow, the Soviet Union is willing to discuss payment of the Kerensky debt, tho most of that money was spent by the “orphan” Bahkmeteff, in his efforts to overthrow the Soviet government. Diplomatic and commercial relations with the United States are necessary to the Soviet Union and American business men stand to make large profits from trade with the workers’ republic. The entire indebtedness of the Soviet Union to the United States, including claims of private concerns, is less than half a bil- lion dollars. When the U. 8. S. R. puts in a bill for damages caused by the invasion of Russia by American armed forces under the ad- ministration of Woodrow Wilson, the difference between the two bills may be worth considering. It should not be forgotten that this on was without congressional sanction, illegal even under the elastic rules of international usage and an attack on a country then in friendly relations with the United States. Sooner or later the American government must recognize the Soviet Union. It is the most stable government in Europe. Even the most optimistic of the “emigres” have given up hope of overthrow- ing the rule of the workers and peasants. This is a bitter pill to swallow for international capitalism, but business is business. So the American capitalists will grasp the hand of the “bloody Bol- shevik” even as the British capitalists did when the latter came to the conclusion such a policy was more profitable than financing counter-revolutions and paying spies to blow up bridges and wreck plants in Russia. The state department has often declared that the chief obstacle in the way of an accord with the U. S. S. R. was a recognition by the latter of its indebtedness to the United States. This indebted- ness is a mere bagatelle compared to what France owes the United States government, yet the American ambassador to Paris has not been recalled. The real obstacle to recognition never was a disinclina- tion of the Soviet government to take a realistic view of the debt question, but the opposition of, certain American interests that the administration dared not oppose. It appears now that the forces favoring recognition are strong enough to force the administration to give serious consideration to their demands. That such a development is considered probable in the near future is still another sign of the growing power and stability of the Soviet Union. The Colonel is Clean! The republican state campaign committee of Illinois will sup- port Col. Frank L. Smith for the United States senatorship, despite his besmirching with the slush funds distributed by Samuel Insull, Ira Copley, Studebaker, public utility magnates.and other interests who were benefited by Smith’s benevolent action as chairman of the Illinois commeree commission. This polluted candidate will be supported in the elections by the G. O. P. machine against the somewhat less polluted George E. Brennan, democrat. But Brennan is less polluted, not because his political morality is higher than Smith’s, but for the simple reason that it was not necessary for Insull to expend as much money on Brennan’s primary fight as he spent in putting Smith over. Insull turned two hundred thousand iron men loose in behalf of Smith and only fifteen thousand for Brennan. Both won and no matter which of the two is elected Insull will be the victor. Tue Dairy Worker would be as strongly opposed to those two errand boys of capitalism as it is now if they never had received a penny in campaign contributions from the big utility men. All capitalist candidates serve the interests of capitalism as a whole. Against the true interests of the working class they are united. Sometimes the capitalists quarrel over spoils and they subsidize their favorite politicians to do their fighting. Certain interests in Illinois politics prefer Frank L. Smith. Others prefer Brennan. Insull is big and wealthy enough to pur- chase both, so he can now sit back and let the voters amuse them- selves. The workers, still influenced by reactionary leadership, are participating in the election shell game presided over by the capital- ists. One set of labor leaders suport Frank L. Smith, tho covered with slush. Another group are behind Brennan. Whichever of the two wins the workers will lose. Owing to the alliance between the reactionary labor leaders and the capitalist politicians the workers of Illinois will not fight a cohgressional campaign this year under the banner of a united labor ticket. The Workers (Communist) Party has urged a united front of all working-class organizations in the congressional elec- tions, but it was a voice erying in the wilderness as far as the lead- ers of other groups are concerned. Therefore, the Workers (Com- munist) Party has entered the campaign under its own banner and British: Leaders | Coal Miners Endanger | the ’ Strike The Anglo-Russian Committee for world trade union unity recently met in Paris. Because of the attitude of the British delegates, nothing was accomplished to aid the British miners, tho the Soviet delegates had proposed relief to the miners be the work of the conference. The following is the resolution of the plenum of the Central Council of the Soviet Labor Unions on the Conference, adopted after the report of Andreyev, chairman of the Soviet delegation: ee Beh hearing the report upon the conference of the Anglo-Russian committee in Paris and upon the work of the delegation of the Central Council of Soviet Labor Unions, the plenum of the Central Council of So- viet Labor Unions ratifies the actions of the delegation during the confer- ence. The plenum pointed out that: the British delegation to the Paris con- ference took up an attitude contrary to the interests of the broad masses of the British miners. The chief ques- tion is that of supporting the heroic struggle of the British miners. The striking miners, their wives and chil- dren, are suffering the greatest need and privations. Ali the forces of the bourgeoisie—the government, the mine owners, the police, strikebreak- ers, and espionage organizations—are directed against the miners. HE hypocritical “friends” are at- tempting to cripple the will to struggle of the miners and to spread defeatism in their ranks in order to force them to surrender. The miners are in great need and it the duty of every honest supporter of the work- er’s cause to regard the support of the miners as the chief task. It is for this reason that the cen- tral council took the initiative in call- ing together the Anglo-Russian com- mittee and proposed the question of support for the British miners as the one and only point on the agenda, a support which would oppose the inso- lent attacks of capitalism not only in words but also in deed. HE Soviet Labor Unions have done everything within their power to this end. They considered it neces- Sary to increase the amount of sup- port, and to enlarge the campaign to include the whole international _pro- letariat. “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” But altho the privations of the min- ers have become very great, and the attacks of the bourgeoisie have be- nominated J. Louis Engdahl, editor of Tar Darty Worker, as the} standard bearer of the interests of the working class against the two puppets of Samuel Insull and capitalism, Brennan and Smith. Valentino's estate was stripped to the bone when he died, but a few days of pitiless publicity sent hundreds of thousands of movie fang to see him again on the sereen. It is reported that half a mil- lion dollars will go into the safes of his relatives as a result of this curiosity. The art of publicity is great. SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY WORKER} come particularly sharp, the British delegation refused to dis- cuss the question of supporting the miners. The central council regards this at- titude as wrong both in substance and in form, IORMALLY, this attitude is wrong because the answering telegram of the general council of the British Trade Union Congress accepting the offer of a conference made no protest against the agenda proposed by the Soviet labor unions which contained only one point, the question of sup- porting the miners. In substance this attitude of the British delegation is the continuation of that policy of capitulation and sa- botage pursued by the leaders of the general council during the general strike which damaged ‘the working class movement and above all the in- terests of the miners severely. HE plenum of the central council wishes to place the fact on record that thru this attitude the British dele- gation must take the responsibility for any lack of sufficient support for the miners. The plenum is of the opinion that the demand which the British: dele- gates placed before the Soviet dele- gates calling for the withdrawal of the declaration of the central council of the Soviet labour unions in connec- tion with the British general strike is more than unfounded, The central council sees no reason to alter its analysis of the British events and the role played by the general council and its present lead- ers in it. Particularly as not only the history of the strike, but also the attitude of the British delegation at the Paris conference fully corrobo- rates the basic contentions of this dec- laration, j He plenum wishes to place the fact on record that the refusal of the British delegation to discuss the ques- tion of support for the British miners and its covering of this refusal by the demand for the withdrawal of the dec- laration of the central council of So- viet labor unions is in fact a step to- wards the breaking up of the Anglo- Russian committee and an attempt to make the international campaign of assistance for the British miners im- possible. Altho the working masses of Great Britain and other countries are closing in more and more round the banner of unity, altho, the possibilities of activity for the Anglo-Russian com- mittee are becoming ever greater and altho the working masses are regard- ing the Anglo-Russian committee with ever more sympathy, nevertheless the leaders of the British trade unions have taken the responsibility for the first step towards breaking up the committee. HE plenum declares that the re- sponsibility for this step rests absolutely and completely on tre shoulders of the British delegation ‘n the Anglo-Russian committee. The plenum is of the opinion that it is the duty of the Sovjet labor unions despite the attitude of the delegation to prosecute the idea of the unity of the trade union movement with all the means at its disposal. For the Soviet labor unions the Anglo- Russian committee {s.not a block of leaders, but the embodiment of the friendship and solidarity between the working masses of Great Britain and the Soviet Union. IHPREFORE the central council of the Soviet Labor unions in the con- viction that the maintenance of the Anglo-Russian committee is necessary in the interests of the, international proletariat, will continue to demand from the Anglo-Russian committee an British | active support of the workers against the capitalists, a support. not in words but in deeds, This is‘ the only hon- est working class poliey, The plenum is of the opinion that it is the duty of the Anglo-Russian com- mittee to use all the) means of its power to support the miners. The plenum considers a Tefusal of this support to be tantafgount to an in- direct support of the ‘capitalists and all class enemies of the proletariat. HE plenum stresses’the necessity for a complete freedom of mutual criticism inside the :-Anglo-Russian committee, The central council of So- viet labor unions as-an organization of the victorious proletariat of the Soviet Union has ha@.immense experi- ences of the class struggle and its la- jbor unions have conducted victorious general strikes against the enemy more than once. It avill not keep sil- ent when the incorréct policy of the leaders of the central council damages {the cause of the working class strug- gle. The central council makes not the least demand to be allowed to “inter- fere in internal matters.” It wishes to assist the British proletariat both materially and ideologically. HE centrai council observes with indignation the strikebreaking at- titude of. the Amsterdam International and the leaders of the International Miners’ Federation and the other in- ternational organizations who for the sake of the bourgeoisie have refused deplorably to support the heroic Brit- ish workers. The plenum of the central council considers it necessary to continue the energetic campaign of assistance for the British miners. & _— All Who Raised Their Hand up yo @rried, make: (Continued from page 1) to. an end, Farinaccl was superfluous and was removed, Altho the censorship prevents any discussion and any explanation of this matter, the Farinacci affair is causing the. government much worry. There have been conflicts between fascists in various Italian towns, in Turin, in Genoa and other places. Thus, in Sa- vona, .the opposition succeeded in taking possession of the town hall, the sub-prefecture and the premises of the fascist party and the fascist trade un- ions. The plot was suppressed in time by: the police, the earabinieri and the militia, ert In Naples. also, there were serious encounters between the official fascists and those of the opposition in conse- quence of the death of Captain Pado- vani who had béén excluded from the party and who died under peculiar circumstances. “It is further a telling fact that Farinacel was called upon by the prefect of Milan to leave without delay that town, in which he had come together with his friends. In Trieste also there ‘were’ a number of sharp conflicts between the public forces and fascists, which even led to shots being fired in the streets of the town, Fascists Grab Funds. The chief. scandal, however, was caused by the fascist press and by the authorities in connection with the col- lapse of the Agrarian Bank of Parma. Tn this collapse, some of Farinacci’s friends from Cremona, a town in the neighborhood of Parma, were involved. The responsible director of the bank was Count Lusignani, one of the most famous businessmen, who had only re- cently declared himself a fascist and had understood how to procure the friendship and protection of Farinacci in spite of the most violent opposition of a section of the fascists of Parma. Merely an Incident. The breakdown of the bank ip itself is of no special importance, It. was _ LS Puzzle,—Which Is the Scab? merely a.case of several millions which were squandered by a few finan- ciers and political businessmen, that is to say of an event, which is by no: means anything peculiar under the fascist regime. Farinacci’s opponents however seized the opportunity and embarked on a violent campaign of agitation. Matters were brought to light which otherwise might have been left in the dark. Among other things, Farinacct’s friends were accused of having embezzled money of a chari- table institution in Cremona, and Fart- nacci himself was accused of having pocketed ‘money for his paper “Il re- gime fasel ” (The Fascist Rule.) The methods were revealed by which he extorted ‘subscriptions and assign- ments of money from the agrarians of Cremona according to the amount of their possessions. Altho Farinacct’s opponents work on the same lines, all this was draggéd into the light of day in orderto injure Farinacci. The money affairs of a certain Max Bondi and a certain’ Cupini are connected tter;’ the financial col- ttér was a breakdown in grand style, In which Deputy Balbo, one of Farinacci’s intimate friends, played a disgraceful part. Struggle Developed, At the same time another struggle developed between the leaders of the fascist corporations .(trade unions) and the leaders of the association for industry and agriculture. The new trade union law and still more its regulations, make the unions absolute ly dependent on the political author- ities and rob them of all autonomy and all freedom of action, whilst in reality, the associations of employers retain the greatest freedom of action. The leaders of the corporations tried to offer resistance, either to satisty the masses to some extent or to pacity their discontent or to do justice to their natural desire to dofend their own power. Consequently there were some lively discussions in the bosom of the great council; Deputy Rossoni, general secretary of the corporations, talked in threatening language, whilst in private conversation he did not even hesitate to make some very cut+ ting remarks about the Duce and some of his chief collaborators. Another FASCIST RULE IN ITALY IS SHOWN VICTIM OF INTERNAL STRIFE to speak of a general strike! It is’a matter of course that the landowners and the industrialists met with suc- cess all along the line, Points of Dissension, The last great point of dissension was the question as to whether the (proletarian) tenant farmers should belong to the association of the land- owners or of the agricultural workers, In reality, a political problem is in this case concealed under the mantle ow legal problem, because, as a matter of fact, the agrarians wish to prevent any alliance between the tenant farm- ers and the agricultaral workets by forcing the former into the organiza- tions in which they themselves are of course masters, Article 5 of the trade union regulations had already decided the question according to the will of the landowners. The fascist trade unionists succeeded in bringing the} matter up again for discussion, It ts however very doubtful whether they: will attain their end. Increasing Discontent, The struggles to which we have re- ferred are in reality extremely im: portant, because they are symptoms of rapidly inereasing discontent among the masses of the petty bourge- oisie with the oligarchic and phito- cratic rulers who are now completely and openly in control of the govern- ment and of fascism. They are symp- toms of deep clefts between the centre and the periphery. The central power is today, in the hands of the financiers and is repres« ented in politics by an oligarchy con- sisting of former nationalists who have gone over to fascism and have become its spiritual masters and lead- ers, The government is under the domination of the triumvirate Feder- zoni, Rocco and Volpi. The two first were originally nationalists, protagon- ists of an. absolute regime, the legiti- mate power of which is not traced back to divine right but to the right of the stronger. The third is the rep- resentative of the Banca Commerciale, the confidant of Italian and foreign high finance, His assistant, who takes a rather less important place, is Bel- luzzo, the Minister for national econ- omy, an engineer, who is exclusively in the service of the capitalists. Mus- solini appears everywhere as the head- Piece and the sign-board. He is in reality nothing more nor less than a prisoner... a voluntary one of course. Economic Condition Worse. The politics in this effair are ef necessity politics of great oppression and of ever increasing exploitation of the masses. The economic position 1s getting worse in spite of all fascist “reconstruction.” The trade balance shows an alarmingly increasing defi- cit, the lira continues to fall. In the last two months, it has fallen far more than ten points and, as compared with the pre-war lira, it 1s not worth more than 18 paper or 14 gold centesimi. In order to relieve this condition’and to keep exports going, there is nothing to be done but to reduce the cost of production by cutting down wages, and that at a moment when the Italian people are already almost faced. by starvation. Of course these matters do not only affect the masses of workers ‘and peasants; directly or indirectly, the small property owners, the merchants, indeed innumerable members of the petty bourgeoisie are hit by the re- duction of incomes, the increase of the | prices of food, the increased burden | of taxation, ete. They are beginning to recognize that the enthusiasm, with | which they greeted the fascist cause, | was devoted to a lost cause, The gov ernment, however, continues its policy with all the means in its power. The suppression of the elected municipal | councils and the replacement of them by administrators nominated by Ro: the suppression of the chambers of commerce, the restriction of the field, of activity for lawyers, the prevention of the activities of all non-fascist agao- clations, all this cannot but subjeat the petty bourgeoisie to pressure, The discontent of these circles xpressed both in the movement centering round Farinacol ond in the movement of the leader of the fascist unions qvem dared } fascist professional untona,