The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1927, Page 4

Jage Four $$$ THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. | 1118 W. WashingtonBlvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712) —$<$ ___ sina SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mali (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months ——, | Address all] mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, tl, a a J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \o Baitors WILLIAM F, DUNN BERT MILLER .... Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application, | Liberal Faith Is Unbounded Beoanse the new ruler of Japan donned a pair of pants when mounting the throne, the Nation hails the innovation as a further step in bringing the throne into harmony with the spirit of modern civilization. But perhaps the king’s legs would not make a hit with the noble ladies who observed the ceremony! Certainly the chamge im the royal haberdashery will not put more rice in the Japanese worker’s bowl or better tea in his cup, tho the Nation observes sage- ly that “it is difficult to worship a god who plays golf and talks to the common people.” 2 The British royal family have survived for quite a number of generations even tho they have made a specialty of wearing the latest style in pants and drinking rum, wine and beer, yet even Oswald Garrison Villard thought it an honor to be entertained in huckingham Palace by the present royal sot who occupies the throne. Villard’s paper notes in the same issue that the pope “has once more earned the gratitude of anti-fascists wherever they may be,” simply because the pope would have his own boy scouts under his own control rather than under \ussolini’s control. Which is no choice between two evils for the 1.alian people. Again we are assured that the election of the wealthy aristocrat, Oswald Moseley, as a labor M. P. “is another triumph for that sort of fairness which we think of as being peculiarly British.” What is British fairness? The kind practiced on the Egyptians, on the Chinese, on the Hindus and on the British miners! Moseley was elected because he ran on the labor party ticket in opposition to the conservative and liberal parties and because Smethwick is pre- ponderatingly working class. There was little fairness in the elec- tion campaign. The tories hurled squalls of verbal mud at Moseley and called his wife everything short of a dissolute woman. The fairness to Moseley came from the working masses who were in- censed against the government for its open sponsorship of the cause of the coal owners against the coal diggers. This is plenty for the time being. What almost amazes us— if anything can—is the tendency on the part of people addicted to the reading of newspapers to consider liberal organs “reliable” whereas they regard the “intemperate” contents of radical organs with suspicion. The explanation of the phenomenon is that liberals are satis- fied with the present social system as a system, but they would like to cover up the nether parts of their kings, knock “hell” out of their S20 | popes and induce the conflicting social classes to lie im one social | bed. | Introducing Mr. Evarts When Henry Ford declared that history is bunk he did not know what he was talking about. Whoever discovered William M. Evarts did a good day’s work for the American imperialists who are now riding roughshod over Nicaragua and threatening to invade Mexico. Evarts was secretary of state in 1878 and then as now our ruling class burglars had their eyes on what they could grab from Mexico. It appears that the government of that day had nothing to learn in the way of tricks from the government of today. Now we have fairy tales of atrocities inflicted on American citizens in Mexico, yarns of gun-running into Nicaragua (which is entirely within Mexico’s sovereign rights), then we had stories of cattle rustlers from Mexico crossing the American border. The secretary of state declared that the first duty of govern- ment was the protection of life and property and said that the United States “is not solicitous, it never has been, about the methods or ways in which that protection shall be accomplished, whether by formal treaty stipulation or by formal convention, whether by the action of judicial tribunals or by that of military force. Protection in fact to American lives and property is the sole point upon which the United States is tenacious.” The Chicaga Tribune, commenting on the exhumation of the Evarts note, chortled with pride over the redbloodedness of our diplomacy in those days and significantly remarked that the pub- Heation of the Evarts note by Coolidge was intended for Mexico, also that “the subsequent administration of Diaz gave Mexico and the United States their only long period of orderly relations.” What does this imply? It implies that the Washington ad- ministration is planning to plant a Mexican Diaz in Chapultepec Palace, the residence of the Mexican president, as it has planted an- other Diaz in the official residence of the president of Nicaragua. There are no Mexican cattle rustlers whirling thru the plains of Texas ‘today. The lives of American citizens are much safer in Mexico City, Tampico, or Vera Oruz than the lives of either Ameri- can or Mexican citizens in New York, Chicago or Detroit. What Coolidge dug up the Evarts note for is to provide an excuse, no mat- ter how flimsy for the conspiracy now about to be consummated against the Mexican people: to overthrow the present government and substitute for it another Diaz regime in alliance with the catholic church which would be the puppet of American imperial- ism and under which Mexico would be a milch cow for the Wall Street money barons. Workers Weekly, British Communist Paper, Greets Daily on Birthday HE WORKERS WEEKLY, the organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain, which has established such a splendid record in defense of the workers’ interests in the recent bitterly fought miners’ strike and the great general strike last May, has sent its heartiest greetings to The DAILY WORKER on the occasion of the third birth- day of our paper. It expresses the hope of being able soon to follow the example of The DAILY WORKER and establish a workers’ dally in Great Britain. The cable follows: “Workers Weekly staff sends heartiest birthday greetings. We hope soon to follow your splendid example, establish workers’ daily here-—-WORKERS WEEKLY, London.” SIENNA RIA 10 alana ———— fHE DAILY WORKER oe ee The Daily Worker and the ‘Alarm THURBER LEWIS. DAY took place the of a new phase In the So iggle. Hitherto the revo- lutionary movement has been re- stricted to the better situated and the more Intelligent German, Bo- hemlan and Danish workingmen. + + Since yesterday, this Is no longer the case, Yesterday the typically American working-class carried the red flag thru the streets and there- by proclalmed Its solidarity with the International proletariat.” This paragraph appeated in the issue of the Chicago Arbeiter-Zet tung following Thanksgiving Day, 1884, when Albert R. Parsons, the Chicago martyr, led 5,000 unemployed workers thru the streets of Chicago. In the two years that followed, un- til the ghastly Haymarket frame-up | of '86 that spelled their death, Par-| sons, Fischer, Engel and Spies or} ganized and led a movement of the working-class in Chicago and what was then the west, that caused the early industrial barons to shudder with fear. |THE organ of this group of revolu- | 4 tiontsts was The Alarm. This revolutionary weekly rallied ;workers of Chicago behind the great Shour strike of 1886 im such great numbers that the bosses saw red. With The Alarm as their central or gan, @ little group of revolutionaries that started out with five members early in 1884 counted 2,000 members in Chicago alone in 1886. It required the rope and prison to put an end to their activity. After the death of the leaders, the movement dissolved and The Alarm perished. The files of this extraordinary pa- per will remain forever dear to the working-class movement of America. It participated directly in the strug- gles of the workers and helped to lay movement that was to come, HE Communist movement of today has inherited much of the spirit and tradition of the Chicago martyrs. Keeping pace with the rapid develop- ment of capitalism that Parsons could new conditions of struggle created by the epoch of imperialism, the Commu- nist movement of today, so far as its program and outlook are concerned, has little in ¢ommon with the “Black | Internationalists” of the eighties. But | | the Communist movement maintains | the battle on the same front and | seeks to keep alive the devotion to | the revolution. and the working-class | and the indomitable fighting qualities the | the groundwork for the revolutionary not foresee and adapting itself to the | the same wm ing vigilance in the struggle against capitalism that wes the oustanding trait-of the Ohi- cago martyrs, so does The DAILY WORKER aspire to maintain the alert and unwavering devotion to the working-class and the militant defl- anoe of its enemies that marked the two years of The Alam. HE leadership that The Alarm gave to the embittered unemployed in 1884 and 1885 and to the strike of the worlers of the McOormick Har displayed by ithe Chicago pioneers, And in the ‘very measure that the Communist movement carries on with ? “4 % vester Company thet fused fmto the 8-hour struggle of 1886 is a model of working<lass journalism that The DAILY WORKER emulates, The big struggles of the workers in this pres- ent decade are yet to come, But dur ing the three years existence of The DAILY WORKER it has never failed to champion the cause of embattled workers everywhere. The strikes in the textile, mining, and needle trades industries of recent years have been the occasions for redoubled effort on CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from page 1) were arrested and charged with the jmurder of a paymaster at Bridge- | Water, Massachusetts. Witnesses |were purchased outright by the prose- jcution and the department of justice entered into a conspiracy with local Officials to railroad Sacco and Ven- | zetti to the gallows. Their lives were saved—until now—by the splendid | wave of labor solidarity that arose | thruout the work. It should be} stated howeyer that the backbone of the fight to save those men was the radical of the labor movement. Outside of passing a few inocuous resolutions, the reactionaries did nothing and they are doing nothing now. eee ASSACHUSETTS was once a cita- del of organized labor. But there, | as elsewhere, the soul has been burn- | ed out of it by the corrupt harpies of capitalism in the role of labor lead- ers, men who have sold their heritage for a mess of pottage, men who have been raised on the shoulders of the working-class to power and position | only ‘to kick the workers in the face | for their pains. The labor official- dom of Massachusetts could force the lords of that state to release Sacco and Vanzetti within 24 hours, but they do not stir a finger. ve the lest congressional elections fm Massachusetts the reactionary labor leaders were supporting on one side the mill magnate Butler, open \shopper and hirer of stool-pigeons to ‘spy on his employes, and on the other {hand another gang of labor fakers lined wp behind the tool of the fascist catholic church, David I, Walsh, the man who obeyed the dictates of Car- dinal O'Connell on the question of child labor. What did a little thing like that mean to the corrupt labor officials who expected to be rewarded by a victorious candidate. Those are the men who are really responsible for the fact that Sacco and Vanzetti are behind prison bars. e 2/9 T has been stated and never suc- cessfully denied that a demonstra- tion of workers in front of the Amer- | ican embassy in Petrograd (now Len: | ingrad) first focussed public atten- tion on the conspiracy to hang Tom Mooney. Those Russian workers |looked on Tom Mooney as their brother in arms even tho they were separated by thousands of miles of \land and water, Then the American workers took action, but did not ex- ert one-tenth of their strength be- cause they were blocked by the offlo By T. J. O'FLAHERTY laldom of the A. F. of L., who con- fined their aid to Mooney, to passing dignified resolutions and giving a few thousand dollars ocoasionally to the defense fund, eee yay same policy has been followed im the Sacco and Vanzetti case. It is rather peculiar that a few petty bourgeois Mberals who have fastened themselves on the Sacco and Vanzetti case should block every effort to or- ganize the entire American working- class into a gigantic drive to free the doomed men. Yet this is the case. They seem to prefer to follow in the footsteps of the capitalist politicians and the gum shoers of A. F. of L. offictaldom than do the most practical thingy do what has always made the American politicians sit up and take notice: arouse the masses. The at- tempt of those people, -who sail under the canvas of anarchism, to prevent a united front to save the lives of Sac- co and Vanzetti és nothing less than criminal and should be condemned by every worker regardiess of political belief. This is no question to split theoretical hairs over, Everything to Save those two lives must be done, se EH International Labor Defense has covered itself with credit in the fight to save S and Vanzetti. Throwing organizational pride to the four winds it stepped tm and deliver- ed its blows whenever it could, rais- ing funds which it turtied over tothe small committee of libérals in Boston and working actively for a great mass conference that ilize Amer- ican labor and all sym) izers be hind Sacco and Van: The social- ists, anarchists and labor. fakers who are blocking this ent are tak- ing a serious responsibility on their shoulders, They are playing with the lives of two workers.)\In their mad desire to retain theirjhold on their jobs they are willing that two inno- cent victims of capitalism should run the risk of execution, o 2..% N \its third anniversary The DAILY WORKER calls on its readers to use all their influence with all those they come in contact with to redouble their efforts from now on in this cru- sade, so that when our next anni- versary comes around we will be able to send a message to our brothers, Sacco and Vanzetti in their homes, with their families and friends, rather than behind the gray walls of prison cells waiting for the invitation to walk to the lethal chair, Unity In the struggle to save Sacco and Vanzettl! Damn those who hinder’ the work! the part of The DAILY WORKER to | take its place in the front battle nes and to fulfill ita mission as a militant fighter for the interests of the work- ens. of inspiration to the fighting pro- letariat of the eighties as The Chi- cago DAQLY WORKER is a source of inspiration to ‘the fighting proletariat of an epoch destined to complete the work so nobly furthered by the Hay- market victims, THE THIRD BIRTHDAY WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ~ COMMUNISM? A WORKER doesn’t have to look over the fleid very long to come to the conclusion that there is only one movement in the United States that embodies the revolutionary spirit of the American prole- tariat, and that's the Communist movement. The Workers (Communist) Party Is not a very big party as parties go In the United States—but what other party In this country speaks for the militant and s-conscious worker? Whatever the size of the party at this time, Its Influence and prestige are much bigger because it Is the only revolutionary party and is a Part of the international Communist movement. There Is no worker whose consciousness of the class struggle and realization of the historic role of the proletariat as the destroyer of capitalist exploitation who can afford not to know about Communism. To Chicago workers an opportunity presents itself to learn about the movement at first hand. THE CHICAGO WORKERS’ SCHOOL which opens its classes next month for all workers who wish to enroll, contains @ course en- titled “The Elements of Political Education.” It will be conducted by a competent student of the Communist movement, William Simons, and involves a study of the fundamentals of the revolutionary work- ing cl: movement whose founders where Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, and whose theory and practice was brought to successful realization by the Communist Party of Russia under the leadership of the great revolutionary, Nicolai Lenin, The school makes a special appeal to interested workers who are not members of the Workers Party, altho party members are urged to avail themselves of the opportunity to become better grounded in the principles and functions of their movement. ther courses that will be given by the schoo! covering various phases of the labor movement will be reviewed later. Enrollments for the class in the “Elements of Communism” will be recelved at the Workers’ School headquarters, 19 So. Lincoln Street. A mags assembly of students and instructors in The hall will be announced later. Jan. 31, Begin Preparations for courses will be held on Tenth Soviet Anniversary; Amnesty Committee Chosen (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW—(Tass.)—Preparations Soviet revolution have already been begun. for the tenth anniversary ofy the According to the Pravda the Bp Chicago Alarm was a source | Special commission In charge of this work has met under the chairman- ship of M. Kalinin, the president of the Central Executive Committee, it was decided to organize and set up several sub-commissions to take care of various special matters. Among these sub-commissions there is one on general amnesty under the chairmanship of Enukldze, secretary of the Cen- tral Executive Committee. Kursky, people’s commissar for Justice, has also been invited to be a member of this sub-committee. es N. Y. Conference Dinner F riday (Special to The Dally Worker) NPW YORK.—All the most pro- gressive elements of the New York labor movement are expected to at tend The DAILY WORKER Confer- ence Dinner at Yorkville Casino this Friday, January 14th at 7 p, m, where the final plans for the launching of The DAILY WORKER in New York will be mado, Among the sposkers will be Scott 4 Nearing, Rose Wortis, Ben Gold, Ben Gitlow, Joseph Brodsky will act as chairman and toastmaster. , Thore will also be a good musical program by the “Lyra” Mandolin Sex- tet and some classic selections by the world’s foremost accordionist Frosini, Those*planning to attend should no- tify The DAILY WORKHR Bastern Agency, 108 Hast 14th street by Thuraday aight, (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair.) Iv The newspapers announced a so- cial event of the first importance, the engagement of Miss Alberta Ross, only daughter of Mr, J, Ar nold Ross, to Mr, Eldon Burdick, a scion of one of the oldest families of the’ city, and recently chosen president of the California Defense League, A few days later came the announcement that Mr. Burdick had been appointed a secretary to the American embassy at Panis; and so the wedding fas a state oc- casion, with more flowers than were ever seen in a church before, and Bunny all dolled up for a grooms- man, and Dad looking as handsome as the ringmaster of a circus, and Aunt Emma, who considered that she had made this match, assuming the mental position of the bride’s mother, with the proper uncertain expression, half elation and half tears, “Mrs. Emma Ross, aunt of the bride, wore pink satin embroid- ered in pastel colored beads and carried pink lilies”’—thus the news papers, which set forth the impor- tance of the Burdick family, and all about the Ross millions, and never mentioned that the father of the bride had once been a mule- driver, nor even that he had kept & general store at Queen Center, California! “4 And when the excitement was all over*and* bride and groom had set out for their post of duty, then a funny thing happened; Aunt Pm- ma, uplifted by her success as match-maker, turned her arts upon Bunny! The occasion was the world premier of “The Princess of Patchouli,” a sort of family event. Had not they been present at the inception of this sumptuous work of art?, Had not Dad been king? By golly, he had, and he had told Aunt Emma about it at least a> dozen times—and so, what more natural than that he should escort her upon. his arm, following imme- diately behind the star of the ot casion’ and her Bunny-rabbit? And what more natural than that Aunt Emma should meet Vee Tracy, and fallin love with her at first; sight, |, and tell her darling nephew about her feelings? In short, Bunny became aware that he was being manipulated by the proverbial tact of womdn to think that Vee Tracy made a per- a natural-born aristocrat in both ap- pearance and manner. It is part-, of the proverbial intuitive powers of woman, that she will be able to say exactly how an aristocrat will look and act, even though she has never been outside the state of California, and never laid eyes upon a single aristocrat in all her fifty years. Bunny said, yes, Vee was all tight; she’ was a good-looker. With the proverbial unresponsiveness of: the selfish male, he did not warm up to his aunt’s hints and tell about his love affair. In fact, he was rather shocked, because he thought she was too old to know about any- thing improper. So Aunt Emma, had to come right out with ity “Why don’t you marry her, Bunny?” “Well, but Aunt Emma, I don’t. know that she'd have me.” * “Have you ever asked her?” “Well, I've sort of hinted around,” “Well, you stop hinting and ask her plain, She’s a lovely girl, and you're getting old enough to be seri- ous now, and I think it would make a very distinguished marriage, and L-know it would please your father —I believe he'll propose to her him, self if you don’t.” Aunt Emma was, quite charmed with this naughti-. ness, giving the younger generation to understand that they needn’t be laying the old folks away on the shelf quite yet! . Bunny always liked to oblige; so he went off and thought it over and half made up his mind to talk it over with Vee. But alas, the next time they met they got into one of those disputes that were making it so hard for them to be happy. Vee had just come from Annabelle Ames and reported that Annabelle was in distress, because some ras- cal journalist was writing letters from Washington, accusing Verne of having bought the presidency of the United States, denouncing the Sunnyside, lease as the greatest steal of the century and demanding that Verne be prosecuted for brib- ery, Some thoughtful friend had cut out a copy of this printed ar- ticle and marked it all with red pencil and mailed it to Annabélle’s home, marked “Personal,” The article was most abusive and the name of the writer sounded familiar Webster Irving, where had she heard of Daniel Web- ster Arving? Of course Bunny had to tell her at once—because she’d be bound to find it out, and would think he was hiding it from her:* “Dan Irving was his former teacher at the university and head of the labor college that had failed, (Continued tomorrow.) to Vee—Daniel “The pen te mightier than thé sword,” provided you know how to use it, worker correspondent’s classes, Come down and learn how in the