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

i DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. ¥, Washington Blvd., Chicae>, Ill. Phone Monroe 4713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 4 ty mail (in Chicago only): By rail (outside of Chicago): 8.00 per year $4.50 six montha | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.80 three months $2.00 three months ce Slt st SP nl i le EE CES Address all mai! and make out checks to ‘THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, tlt me en i neniniaton Bivde Chlonges th J. LOUIS ENGDAYL ra WILLIAM F, DUNNE BERT MILLER ly By JOHN PEPPER. | HW manifesto of the bankers was | indeed signed by the financial (magnates of England, Germany, {France and the United States. The | chief impelling force behind this man- | ifesto, however, is the change in the |policy of the most powerful army corps of world imperialism, in the at- titude of Ame: n finance capital. ; American finance capital js attempt- ling to break down the tariff walls in |Hurope because it is thinking of | breaking down the tariff walls of the | United States of America, as ieee \PVHE traditional poircy of American Ry vt $6 Ts. oy Rc finance capital is a policy of high 4 s «Nicaragua and Military Necessity }protective duties. British imperialism Readers*witf recall the simulated horror of the allied imperial | Could allow itself the luxury of free fs x anes tee trade as long as it possessed a world ~ ists, and ‘the real horror of their dupes, on the occasion of the: au-| sonopoly: or as long aa its hegemony mouncement by the German Imperial government to the effect that, was not shaken. American imperial the invasion of Belgium was dictated by “1 2, meres ve eo bend pet ae Hi a Chanagtaed against British large industry and has rman militarists followed the fir t with a ¢ haracteri- jalways shown a very strong tendency zation of the treaty guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium as a /to nigh protective tariffs. The trans- “serap of paper,” hatred of the “Huns” burst all bounds . ference of the hegemony from Eng- The “scrap of paper” theory whose corollary is. the complete |!and to America in the imperialist : $i Peek . : abate |competitive struggle led to a change absence in small nations of rights which impenialist powers are Geena bound to respect, has taken firm root in the United States coincident | imperialist rivals. with the acquisition of a dominant position in the world in genera and in the western hemisphere in particular. Speaking of the tre coneluded recently with Panama, and in answer to German pres comment upon its openly imperialist features, The Chicago Tribun: says in its issue for Decembe The loss of the Panama canal would cripple the military and industrial effort of our countr:: in time of war to such an extent that the defense of the canal is of greater importance than the defense of New York.......TO EXPECT THE UNITED STATES TO TREAT WITH PANAMA, THEN, AS IT WOULD TREAT WITH GREAT BRITAIN OR GERMANY ON TERMS OF EQUALITY IS- ABSURD. ..... The treaty is merely the mk admission of a fact which every one knows: OUR COUN- ‘,APFRY CAN ALLOW PANAMA A CONSIDERABLE INDE- PENDENCE IN TIME OF PEACE BUT NOT IN TIME OF .. Editors Business Manager ee are second-class mail September 21, 1925, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, {ann Advertising rates on application, tary necess statement of the two greatest idopt a system of high protective tar- fs are becoming evident, while in o steer its course towards free trade. ital is advancing with gigantic steps. No country in the world knows such powerful trusts as the United States of America, For American imperialism the ex- port of capital has become a vital interest. In 1925 America exported 51,200,000,000 of capital, in the first six months of 1926 $533,000,000, and here is an increasing tendency to in- vest the exported capital not in state ns but in the industries of Europe, ‘ nada and Latin America, Of the WAR. (Emphasis ours.) “a milliards of capital which The kaiser never spoke with more brutal frankness. America has invested abroad, no less han $6,232,000,000 are invested in in- lustry. In the first six months of 924 only 12 per cent of the American apital exported went to industry, in he first half of 1925 as much as 37 ver cent and in the first half of 1926 no less than 45 per cent was invested in industry, HE growing accumulation of capi- tal, the increasing development of rusts which has already led to al- nost 100 per cent monopolies in all nportant fields of industry, the fact hat the export of capital has become vital necessity for American impe- 1lism, the enormous investment of »pital made abroad by American nance capital, the increasing pene- ration of important. branches of in- dustry abroad by American capital— hese are the economic foundations of the significant change in the policy of American finance capital. For the past year there have been symptoms indicating this change. For many years the prevailing policy of ad Panama comes Nicaragua. An offensive against Mexico 48 “ci progress for a long time. All these maneuvers are taken | ; wider the guise of protecting American interests and it is obvious that as long as one independent republic exists in Latin-America the interests of American imperialism never will be guaranteed 100 per vent. The conquest of Latin-America follows premise of “military necessity.” The policy of America’s WallStreet government IS a polic) of conquest. The time to stop war is before it begins. War is being mad on Nicaragua before the ink on the Panama treaty is dry and wa is being made Jecause the Nicaraguan people refuse to be governe: logically from th« 7 formerly a bookkeeper for an American lumber com pany, wh&:e first act was to sell his country to American im Withdraw ati\American forces from Nicaragua and let the _ Latin-American peoptes-have the forin of government they want! We do not believe that the Americgn masses, after having been sent to the shambles in 1917 ostensibly % stop the conquest of smal! nations because of “military nec»sajty,” ‘will support a policy and a government which transplants thi e to North and South America in a more open form. Fascism, Socialist Leaders and Communists Lithuania has a fascist government. The Communists of Lithuania organize and lead the struggle against fascism. They had to struggle in the same way against the ' socialist coalition government which preceded fascism. This is the news from Lithuania as sent out by the capitalist press services : KEOVNO, Lithuania, Dec. 27—Four Communists were ewe- cuted by a firing squad today a few minutes after @ court mar- tial verdict had held them to be guilty of swearing allegiance jo the Communist Party. be cc of all lands! Y In the last few days we have received new particulars concerning impending acts of summary justice on representatives of the Chinese peo- |ple. Quite recently fourteen and now, | with thirteen new victims of the Brit- {ish policy of provocation, twenty-seven | handed over by them to the murderers he _ were arrested during the recent reign of terror and it is not known | ot Maken ™" it whether they are dead or alive. | ‘ " . ‘ ‘ A t that Poland, under the fascist government of Pilsudski, a Ukrain- Pred: Ceaperecthd pg Pe antanery ‘jan Communist peasant, has just been sentenced to death for having |thina will share the fate of many in his possession a copy of the Communist publication, “Land and | thousands of sons of the Chinese peo- i ” |ple, tortured, victimized or beheaded 2 £ i , by Chinese military and counter-revo- _ In Bulgaria, hundreds of Communist workers and peasants have liutionary bands. _ been murdered by the fascists and the bloody persecution still con-! ‘The arrest of the 27 is a sign of the tinues. . |open co-operation of the imperialists _ While Communists all over the world where fascist reaction | With the black forces of China. ns are in the first ranks of the class struggle and die fighting THE passing of the imperialists to : aes aer for working class victory on their lips, the socialist press ~ frank support of the Chinese " joins with fascism in denouncing them and their world party, the pebble ga ag eee Communist International. , ; ¥ ~ a shootings in Shanghai and Peking, In the United States, where every tradition and the ¢. stence of | perpetrated under pretext of “defense | huge semi-underworld class, points to the rise of fasc'<m the mo- against attacks,” we had in September ment the working class realizes anil begins to use it: ower, the of this year a regular slaughter In socialist bureaucracy has joined hands with the potential fascists of ‘V%@sien. A peaceful town was sub- , 4 = 4 . |mitted to a bombardment, which re- eee one republican parties against Communist workers in |.ujteq in 200 men killed, 500 wounded trade unions. and 1,500 homes destroyed. A few days ‘This is not history repeating itself. It is a case of the socialist later, as if in response to the protest playing a counter-revolutionary role in advance of a revolu-|% the Chinese representative at a Sites $01 America, {session of the league of nations, 10 tual ‘i students were sentenced to death in _ That they are not cheering the murder squads of an American ane on a charge of agitating for government as Communist workers are butchered is not their |the Kuomintang. The outburst of in- but the fault of the historical development of the American |‘ignation all over the country pro- A voked demonstrations of protest on es ‘ ‘ : |the part of tens and hundreds of thou- Let us hope that the pace of the class struggle will be increased lsands of people, which were followed iciently in America to allow the present generation of socialist |hy new shootings and murders, § to play out to the end the role for which history has cast| Every attempt to give assistance to jthe families of those killed and im- prisoned is being severely forbidden. With all the weight of their apparatus the imperialists fell on the Chinese Ald Society, a mass organization of the Chinese people, which succeeded during one year in enrolling about 100,000 Andividual and over 600,000 col- lective members and getting the most enthusiastic response amongst the ty : wil A ism developed into a “junior robber” | jlecding Belgium” and, when |im the embittered war of defense g g and, In Great Britain | ronger and stronger tendencies to | \merica financial capital is beginning | In America the accumulation of cap- } members of the Kuomintang, arrested | Tn Italy, practically all of the leaders of the Communist Party >y the British authorities, have been | TH alLY WORK America resied on two pillars: a pol- icy of high protective tariffs which reached its culminating point in 1922 with the introduction of the Me- Cumber-Fordney tariff law, and the slogan of “Away from BHurope!” In recent times American finance capital has introduced a movément against both, which is increasing in strength. ; The new slogan of American finance capital is: “Co-operation with Europe” and |“Break down the walls of the high protective tariffs.” MERICAN capital has invested so much in European industry that it must see to it that it gets interest on The Change in the Policy of American Finance party of finance capital. The first consequence of this great change in the social structure of the republican party was that the party and its gov- ernment openly dropped the “anti- trust policy.” The political skir- mishes in the party battles, great and small, in America in the last few decades, have been nothing but the fight of the petty bourgeoisie and the farmers against the trusts. No country has so many anti-trust laws—and in no country are the trusts so highly developed and so powerful as in America, The whole policy of Roosevelt, Bryan and LaFollette con- sisted in leading and betraying these Pn NU av TCEL SI (i: 0:liNseh this capital. The milliards of debt of the Huropean states to America have been funded in recent times, and Europe must now begin to pay off both interest and capital. Europe can, of course, only pay both interest and principle in the form of the ex- port of industrial articles. The high protective tariffs of the United States, however, make it impossible for Euro- peon industrial products to penetrate into America, The Sh¥lock of Ameri- can finance capital will have his pound of flesh and that is why he is now in favor of breaking down the protective tariff walls. Financial capital is, of course, the most important and powerful factor of political life in Amerfe&, but even this financial capital would’not have been able to carry thru this far-reaching and sudden change Were it not that important and deep-rooted political changes—caused by and due to the mighty imperialist risé of America— had occurred in American life in re- cent times, 7“ tai first of these *political factors is the “cleansing” 6f the ruling re- publican party. In cofisequence of the last election, of the presidency of Coo- lidge, of the LaFollett@ split, the petty | bourgeois and farmer’ elements have left the republican party en masse, so that it has become definitely a masses of workers, péa@sants and stu- dents. The unrestrained terror of the im- perialists and their supporters has been provoked by an enormous revo- lutionary movement in China, which is growing stronger every day. HIS terror will merease in accord- ance with every advance of the popular armies, with each victory in the direction of the emancipation of China from slavery, Workers and peasants of the whole world! a The eyes of the |now directed to the |the impending execu’ revolutionaries is |awaited. But at the | eyes are directed their brother labort: hope of their suppo! id assistance. The best elements amongst the peo- ples of Burope, and erica cannot and must not disappoint these expecta- tions. Nobody shouldj,remain a pas- sive onlooker of this fi ding crime! By the extradition the 27, the world reaction make: exposure of |its real nature of pI lerer, able to tread under foot the it entary Splits. ches of An- ‘Aimee Semple People are len jail where of 27 Chinese anxiously Aimee Chui LOS ANGELBS. gelus temple, wher McPherson preache: “four-square gospel” in between’ wnings and elopements, are be; ing to revolt against the “mother temple branch has dy revolted, and definitely severed its connection with Aimee and her} mother. Mrs. Alice Franck is the} evangelist in charge of the rebelliogs organization, “God called on me do this,” she urch.” Venice lead? He's go- to get to the Year'a Eve, sure will be See that guy in the Ing to be the first o1 T. U. E. L. Ball on Priday night, and bo: worth running to, eietemeenentnl é BU rem petty bourgeois movements against the trusts. The rise of imperialism, the unlimited power of the trusts, the favorable state of affairs, which has lasted for years, have made it pos- sible for the republican party to de- clare itself openly, without any mask, in favor of the policy of finance cap- ital, The second political factor which makes this change in the policy of American financial capital possible is the new attitude of the masses of farmers to the question of high pro- tective tariffs. The establishment of the system of industrial high protec- tive tariffs in 1922 only succeeded be- cause the masses of farmers at the same time stood up for the introduc- tion of high agricultural protective tariffs against European and South American competition. The great ag- ricultural crisis which followed shook the faith of the farmers in the ef- ficacy of agricultural protective tariffs High protective tariffs keep up the prices of industrial articles in Amer- ica, whereas, at the same time, in spite of the protective tariffs, the prices of agricultural products are low and are still falling. American finance capital is now, in increasing measure, finding the discontented farmers a powerful ally in this campaign against the high protective tariffs. Stay the Hand of the -Mukden Murderers! Demand Freedom for the 27 Victims of British Treachery! rights of citizenship and inviolability as regards the Chinese fighters for the national emancipation. The struggle to save the lives of the 27 means for the Chinese laboring masses recognition of their right to exist and putting an end to the reign of violence and debauchery, perpetra- ted in this enslaved colony of world capitalism. By your general protest you must stay the arm of the executioners over the heads of the 27.—The Executive Committee, International Red Aid. ial Capital HERE is, however, a third factor in political life which affects. this question and which makes it possible for financial capital to carry out its new policy. America is becoming more and more a country of small investors. Thanks to the cunning “democratic” distribution of the in- vestments in capital, millions are in- terested in the export of capital. The more this imperialist development progresses the larger becomes this section of small investors which bears a certain resemblance to the “classic” institution of “rentiers” in pre-war France. These small investors want their interest, they are therefore in favor of “co-operation with Europe” and of breaking down the protective tariffs which prevent the influx of this interest ito America, | The economic and political factors | described above are working together | to produce the new turn in the policy |of American finance capital. The finance capital of the “eastern” banks, under Morgan’s lead, is,the pioneer for breaking down the wall of high protective tariffs. Some sections of finance capital, however, are still in favor of high protective tariffs, espe- cially the. elements whose interests are not in Europe, but in Central and South America, Two poles are con- stantly becoming more sharply crys- tallized; on the one side New York, on the other side Chicago; New York as the center of “eastern” financial capital being against high protective tariffs and wanting to introduce a “European...policy,”. while Chicago stands up for: the protection of the “American standard of living” and propagates a “Pan-American policy.” HE American Federation of Labor, as the organization of the aristoc- Tacy of labor, is declaring its soli- darity with the industrial bourgeoisie and is in favor of maintaining the high industrial protective tariffs, as it is well aware that with the abolition of the protective tariffs for industrial products, the prohibition of immigra- tion, 1. e., the protective tariff against the importation of labor power must also fall, Without this analysis of the changes in the social structure of America it is impossible to understand the most recent manifesto of the bankers. The policy of the manifesto is the policy of Morgan, is the policy of American finance capital. “Away with the high protective tariffs in America”—so that American ¢apital can better extort its tribute from Europe; “away with the customs barriers within. Europe’—so that the industrial countries, where American capital is invested, can bet- ter crush the agrarian countries. “Away with the monopoly of foreign trade in the Soviet Union”—so that a ‘clear path to the Soviet Republic may be opened for capitalism; these are the latest slogans of American Rance capital. The international alliance of the working class of Europe, of the proletarian state of the Soviet Union and of thé proletariat of America must fight against these slogans, See End of Frisco Strike. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29.—The end of the carpenter strike in San Francisco seems near, The union of- ficials.and the Industrial Association have got together in an informal par- ley and will appoint a committee to consider terms for ending the walk- out, which has existed since April 1. Each side will select seven men and the fourteen will choose a neutral chairman, 4 Another Bank Failure, ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 29. — The Bartlett Trust company, one of St. Joseph's largest banking institutions, closed its doors today. A sign in the window of the bank this afternoon stated its affairs had been turned over to the state banking commissioner, Classical Play Producers in Russia Get Jolt When Revolutionary Stages Gogol’s “Revisor” with Class Angle MOSCOW, Dec. 29.—Stanislawski's famous art theater has been challeng- ed in its own territory by Meyerhold, whose revolutionary slant is in strong contrast to Stanislawski’s classicism. Meyerhold produced Gogol’s celebrat- ed “Revisor’—‘“District Inspector”’— which formerly was a feature of the art theater's repertory. Enormous in- terest had been aroused here in Mey- erhold’s production, which had been in preparation for upward of a yea because it was known that it was in- tended to “modernize” Gogol to a startling degree. The first-night audience included every one in Moscow with a claim to literary or artistic appreciation, and tickets had been at a premium for weeks. It got the anticipated sensa- tion—and shock, Highbrows Attacked. “It's like jazzing ‘Hamle' said. “I don’t deny there is artis- tie merit and pungent ingenuity in Meyerhold’s production, but in the case of ‘Revisor’ it almost seems blas- phemy. Gogol is the greatest master of expressién of the body and soul of the Russian people. No one has the right to, distort his play, changing words ahd scenes and interpolating and omitting in this wholesale fash: fon. The excesses of movie adapta tions ar pale comnarad with thie nar. formancd,” . f , } The Soviet poet-laureate on Demy- an Ryedni publishes a sarcastic qua- train in Isvestia wherein he blames Meyerhold for using his outstanding talent to mutilate and pervert Gogol’s masterpiece. But it is significant that last night’s proletarian public in the cheaper seats of the theater enthusi- astically applauded the slapstick buf- foonery which Meyerhold substituted for Stanislawski’s dignified—one might almost say stilted—production of this old-fashioned comedy. The popular taste cared nothing for tradition, but keenly appreciated the topical aptness of Gogol’s pict, where- in a dissolute student is mistaken by a set of grafting officials in a small country town for a government in- spector and entertains with wine, women and song until the final disas- ter, when the real inspector arrives. A similar incident was reported in the pr a few days ago from a town near Odessa, where an individ- ual who was believed to be the ag- ent of. the. grain commission, “bor- rowed’ 500 roubles from the uneasy local representatives of different pur- chasing departments, The crowd, too, at the theater did not in the least object to tho increas od coarseness of the satire on the morals of czurist officials, Even tho harshest, critics admitted the high ness the acting amd the lively it (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair.) And then—-that Ruth Watkins!: Of course Bunny wouldn’t be in love with an ignorant country girl, with: out any education; but all the same; She was setting her snares for him, and Vee had seen enough of men to know that a woman can always get what she wants, if she keeps after it, Bunny kept going to that lodg- ing-house room, and. Plotting and schoming with Paul to worry his father, and make trouble with Verne. - and Annabelle, so that pretty soon they wouldn't welcome Bunny any more at the Monastery, which was Practically Vee’s country club, and where you met the most important, People, It wasn’t just the social life, it was the business connections that meant everything in the career of an actress. In the screen world pno- motion goes by favor, and Vee sim- ply couldn't afford to give up her intimacy with Verne and Annabelle. She tried to convey this tactfully to Bunny, but when he failed to heed it, she had to keep insisting, until it began to sound like nagging. Bunny remembered her playful remark to her Applesauce, “It’s as bad as if We were married!” vi. Dad and Verne had a jot of nhego~, tiating to do with Pete O'Reilly concerning the new leases they. were butting thru, and Dad was invited-to spend a week-end at this famous man’s country place. Bunny was included in the invitation, and Dad said he ought to come; Dad was always nourishing the hope that: Something is this “great” world that so impressed him would impress his fastidious son. Beside, he added with a grin, the O’Reillys had a mar- riageable daughter, Bunny had already met “Young Pete” at the university, in connec tion with athletic events. Bunny had been singled out for attention because he also was a scion of oil; some day he and “Young Pete’ would be running the government of the United States, as their two fathers were running it now. “Young Pete” was-a perfectly colorless busi- ness man, of the nationally adver- tised brand; but the father was the real thing—an old Irishman who had wandered over the deserts leading.a burro loaded with a pick, a blamw ket, a sack of bacon and beans, and a skin full of water. This had con- tinued up to middle age—he de- lighted to tell how, when he had come to Angel City to print a pros pectus about his find, the printshop would not trust him for a thirteen dollar job. Now, nobody could Suess his millions; but he was plain as an old shoe, a likeable old fel low who’ wanted to sit in his shirt in hot weather, but was not al lowed to, The boss of the family was Mrs, Pete, who had risen from a section foreman’s daughter to this high sta- tion in Southern California society. She was large and decisive; when she went into a department store She did not fool with the clerks, but strode at once to the floor walker and announced: “I am Mrs, Peter O'Reilly, and I wish to be waited on promptly.” ‘The functionary would hit the floor with his forehead, and tear three clerks loose from thett duties and set them rushing about at the great lady's behest, Mrs, Peter it was who had sum moned the architects and ordered the royal palace in a parq, and set the high bronze fence all about, and the bronze gates; she it was who had caused the name of the owner ot the estate to be graven on the gates. She had negotiated for the yacht of a fallen European monarch, and then torn it all out inside and made it over to be fit for an Irish- American oi] prospector—finished in Circassian walnut and blue satin, and with the owner's name in plain sight. Also there was a private car finished in Circassian walnut and blue satin, and with the owners name on a big brass plate! Now Mrs, Peter had Dad and Bunny to practice “society” upon; to shade hands high up in the air, and remark the early cold weather and the snow upon the mountains, And then to introduce Patricia, and to watch while Patricia did the stunts which her director had taught her, and which gave Bunny an impulse to say “Caméra!” Miss Patricia O'Reilly was tall like her mother, and had a tendency to grow stout too early, so she was taking reducing medicine, which wag in- juring her heart and making her pale and aristocratic. She had learned every motion and every for- mula so carefully that she was as interesting as a large French doll, and her mother beamed upon the young couple—a possible union be- tween two great dynasties, and there would be a wedding In Holy — Name Church, and fifty thousand People outside, and pictures on the front pages of all the newspapers. Bunny's thoughts went even farther the “y s” would interview Vee ‘Tracy, and she would be cold and haughty, and in secret she would catch a glinpse of the mirror, and the come, “Hold itt” Pes Be Continued.) oY