The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1927, Page 6

‘ J a meee es ce Six fHE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER “Stop Thief!” Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4713 | SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (In Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months | 0 three months $2.00 three months | — Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. | a JAHL 1AM F, DUNNE MILLER «. J. LOUIS | nner an Bditors | ..Business Manager Entered mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- under the act of March 3, 1879. AS second-class cago, I, —) Advertising rates on application, = ae SD ee to Get Rich ou have only yourself to blame! if you are For confirma: | tion of this ga statement read the financial figures produced in the government suit against Senator James Couzens and other former stockholders of the Ford Motor Company, for collection of $34,000,000 in taxes. Senator Couzens had only $900 when Henry Ford hit him up for x touch. Ford had pieces of engraved paper, called stock which he offered eash. He sold the novelties at $100 a shot. Couzens wanted another hundred to make an even thousand so he borrowed a hundred from his Couzens held nine shares of stock and his for sister. | after making the rounds of the v | sation did not last long, {must be admitted that the wings of HANKS to the efforts of the Ger man social-democratic lackeys of Re entente, a fairy tale was printed in a great Uberal organ in Great Brit. ain some time ago. This fairy tale ous Buropean editorial offices, final | retired to a place unknown and ‘ap- parently gave up the ghost. The sen- although it this fairy tale fluttered so beautifully as to give an illusion of truth, According to an agreement be- tween the military authorities of the Soviet Union and of Germany, several German firms built three factories a \few years ago within the territory of the Soviet Union for the purpose of |producing certain necessities of our defense, so rung the story, Amongst | these things were aeroplanes, poison gas, shells, etc, | If the beautiful fairy tale had only | been supplied with these wings, then (it would certainly never have been able to fly; its attempts would only have produced laughter. Its parents were also aware of this deficiency and they therefore added the following: The war material which was, or which sister held one. This was in 1903 and without any effort on Couzens’ part his nine shares increased and multiplied to 2,180 shares in 1919 for which Couzens received $29,308,87.40. His sister’s $100 has now brought forth fruit to the value of $1,000,000. This is one of the ways money is made. Capitalist scribblers will hold out before the s of the American working class the prospect of getting rick quick, even tho for every individual who strikes it lucky thousands of disillusioned rainbow chasers go to an early grave, their hopes dashed against the rocks of reality. What « picture to hold up before the eyes of the nation’s youth? That nothing is worth while in life except the accumulation of wealth! Regardless of how it is amassed! For every thousand that was added to the treasury of Senator Couzens thru the investment of that $900, thousands of wage slaves were thrown on the scrap heap, the marrow extracted from their bones and the blood thinned im their veins, in Ford’s factory prisons. For the great majority of the people the hunt for wealth is a futile chase. The foxy type of human will always gather shekels under capitalism while the producer is lucky if he receives enough to live and pass on another consignment of wage slaves for the next generation. Only when this robber system is abolished and a social- | ist society built on its ruins will the eliminated as a goal for the individual. Then a citizen of society will be esteemed for what he contributes to the social fund and not by what he takes out of it. The Socialists and Their Allies The Tammany governor of New York state, the Tammany mayor of New York City, the president of the New York chamber and the lnbor-hating chiefs of the clothing industry all joined in putting on a harmonious concert of denunciation of the Jeft wing leaders of the needle trades unions in New York, and praise for the leader of the clothing bosses who, in an unholy alliance with the socialist right wing leaders, waged a bitter war against the striking members of the New York Joint Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union. Here is a united front from the boss down to the labor faker. In between, as servants of the boss, we have the capitalist officials of state and municipality. We have continually tween the manufacturers stressed the existence of an alliance be- and the reactionary labor leaders. The average well-informed worker is convinced of the truth of this charge, ag far as the non-soc t labor fakers are concerned. But many of them are still under the spell of the title “socialist” which the right wing leaders of the needle trades unions carry on their lapels. But the socialist of today is part and parcel of the alliance between the employers, the labor officialdom and the government ‘from the White House down to the smallest town in the United States. This alliance is directed against the interests of the masses and the fire of the allies is levelled against the left wing labor leaders who insist that} the function of unionism is to fight against the bosses for better con- ditions for the workers and not merely furnish an excuse to the labor fakers for demanding a higher price from the employers for their treason to labor. The yellow socialists are welcome to their allies. Daniel O’Con- nell, the famous Irish parliamentarian orator, once said that when- ever the British government had a good word to say about him, he went home and examined his conscience. We should suggest a similar soul-searching to the socialist leaders of the needle trades unions, accumulation of riches be | will be produced in these factories, is jonly partly to be used for the defense of the Soviet Union, the greatest part of it to be sent to. German. A short while ago no less than six ves- sels loaded with all these good things, arrived in Stettin from Leningrad. In other words, these factories are work- ing for the German forethe German black hundreds, thus driving a carriage and pair thru the cause of monarchism and nationalist reaction in Germany! down the spine with this horrible nonsense reprinted from the English paper, (to which its friends had first of all dispatched the fairy tale) the Forward pathetically asked the Com- reichswehr and | Versailles treaty and assisting the} FTER giving its readers shivers | —————— EEE SS a = a a \unist workers: {No you see now vhere the rifles and @mmunition come rom with which’ they shoot’ you town?” It turns out, as we see, that 10t Noske, the “bloodhound,” not the social-democracy, but the Soviet Un- ion, the country of the victorious so- jalist revolution, is the ally of those ctionary forces which throttle the German working class movement, We always suspected that the Ger- man social-democracy, and in parti- cular, its central organ, was on more han speaking terms with those crafts- men who produce anti-Soviet forger- es. The Forward has now proved this. We do not know whether the Forward occupies itself directly with his noble calling om whether the pu- pils and imitators ‘of Drushelovsky and his friends do*the work for it, but there is no doubt that this whole fairy story which has goné thru various edi- torial offices, is based upon forgeries. Its aim is to do the ;entente a service which is looking: for an excuse to abandon the responsibilities towards Germany which if accepted at Ver- sailles and Locarno, and to create an atmosphere of hObtility towards the ated Soviet Union. HE disgusting attitude which the slanderers hayé taken towards their own dear fatherland, which hey so zealously defended dur- ng the imperialist slaughter, does not interest us in the least in this con- nection, We are only interested in the accusation which is made against us. The accusation, that we are sup- porting German»reaction and chauvin- | ism; that we are assisting Germany |to prepare for @ war of revenge against the victors of yesterday, in other words, that we are the most | dangerous enemies of democracy and of the peace of Burope. It is not pure coincidence,: that these new “proofs” of our “red imperialism” are very much needed by the bourgeois gov- ernments at the moment, for all the neighbors of the Soviet Union are By EDITH RUDQUIST. HE Aswell bill purports to be aim- ed only at the alien population oh America, but upon closer an its provisions are found to be of vital concern to every worker, alien or na- tive; especially every worker who is a trade unionist. It was shortly after the “red scare” of 1920 that the first of the anti-alien bills was introduced in congress. It was then thot to be a rather easy vecause the bulk of America’s native vopulation actually believed every word the capitalist press printed bout the “vicious reds, bolsheviks and anarchists,” and these laws seek- ing to fingerprint, register and photo- graph the aliens were said to be “for the protection of the natives against the onslaught of this undesirable ele- ment.” These earlier bills evidently didn’t pass muster in the Committee of Immigration and Naturalization where they were sent for further con- sideration. The Aswell Billi Against the American Workers. The Aswell bill however, stands a good show of being accepted verba- tim. Its provisions outwardly appear less flagrant, its language is milder but the purpose sought for is there, i. e., discrimination, not only against alien workers but against all workers, alien and native alike. Its aims thus being properly veiled and containing sufficient technical legal phraseology to get the neces- sary loop-holes, no doubt its constitu- tionality will be upheld and the com- mittee will recommend its adoption to congress. Smoke Screening. The commissioner of immigration recently showed surprise that anyone should protest against the anti-alien but you cannot operate on a vacuum. U. S. Gifts for China Manila, Jan, 12.—The United States destroyer Edsall will depart for Shanghai as soon as it loads 3,000 hand granades brought here by the transport Meigs. It is understood here that several destroyers of the Asiatic fleet have been ordered to be prepared to leave for Shanghai on short notice. The above dispatch shows plainly that the Coolidge administra- tion is equally bent on protecting the loot of the American im- perialists in China and in Nicaragua. Eugene Chen, foreign minister of the Cantonese government charged the United States with being a party to the unequal treaties forced upon China by superior force with the aid of the traitorous military brigands that are now being gradually driven out of busi- ness by the victorious Cantonese. It is never too late for Uncle Sam to give new year gifts in the form of lethal weapons to protect the interests of Wall Street. Borah, Wheeler, Reed and Huddleston have TALKED against the Coolidge-Kellogg policies in Nicaragua and Mexico, In the meantime U. S. marines are’in Nicaragua and U. 8S. warships are ploughing the waters surrounding Mexico. Let’s have a_ little ACTION, Messrs, Borah, Reed, Wheeler and Huddleston, unless you intend to prove that our suspicions of your sincerity are proven true If Secretary of the Treasury Mellon continués to poison the potential cannon fodder with adulterated hootch he may have no customers for the product of his distilleries when the eighteenth amendment ts elther pepealed or completely \gnored, Perhaps he is bills, saying, “American citizens are frequently called upon to record themselves upon official registers, Any sound and responsible govern- ment would expect and require that resident aliens should ‘similarly’ in- dicate their willingness to become and remain a law abiding part of the population by properly submitting themselves to enrolment in official records.” This is the sort of propa- ganda broadcast by the capitalist press to blind the natives as to the (rue issues involved. Every Amert- can worker, every trade unionist must become fully aware of the fact that neither the Aswell bill, nor the other anti-alien bills are for the protection of the natives, but are vicious schemes for blacklisting all workers so as to better be able to hinder, yes, even stop all trade union and other class conscious activity of the work- ers. Attacking Trade Unionism, Section 6 of the act requires among other things that “whenever any alien is temporarily absent from the dis- trict in which he is registered ho shall report at such times and places and give such information in regard to ‘his movements as may be requir- ed.” What sort of information will be required? Political and trade un- fon activity, most essentially, What effect would this have? Suppose a atate federation of labor {s to have a convention,, Before an elected delo- gate (if an allen) can attend he must (ralning them #o that they can get happy on poisoned gas, ve his Intention to the register. as usual, ' ing officer ry district and obtain if hing to put across such legislation ; Anti-Alien Bill Is Masked his leave to go, giving “such inform- ation in regard to his movements as may be required.” What an easy mat- ter it would be with the able assist- ance of the A. F. of L, bureaucracy to prevent militant trade unionists from actively participating at import- ant conventions and meetings; of keeping the choice of the rank and file away from such deliberations; to control thru quéstioning the aliens the work and activity of every labor organization; to spy upon and keep a close watch over every radical move- ment in this country. A clever and round-about way of preventing the constitutional guarantee of free speech and assembly. All speakers and organizers would become taboo except those officially sanctioned by the bosses, i. e., the bosses’ own lack- eys and paid labor lieutenants, The bill goes -even further and would make practically impossible the attendance of trade unionists to their own meetings, Section 5 pro- vides for the dividing of the U. S. into districts “each as far as practical containing a post. office’ and that “each alien shall register in the dis- trict in which he resides,” (i. e., post An Article from The of the Soviet Union Communist Party. arming feverishly, and strenuous at- tempts are being made to,isolate and weaken the Soviet Union: A few days ago our press reported upon the arming of Rumania by Italy. Whole trains loaded with war mater- ial euphemistically labelled “Italian fruit” are going over Austrian terri- tory to the Dniestr, We know from British newspapers that these “fruit” consist of 50,000 rifles, 12 million rounds of ammunition, 3,000 machine guns, and machine parts Of those des- troyers ordered by. Rumania in Italy it a cost of 800 million lire, the credit ranted to Rumania in return for the reaty of “friendship” concluded with italy, with a view to guaranteeing at the very least the neutrality of Ru- mania in case of war between Italy and Jugo-Slavia, the companion of Rumania in the Little Entente. We know also that in agreement with Jugo-Slavia, Greece has the right to transport war materials delivered to its harbors, over Jugo-Slavia territory, to Poland. Further, the neighbors of the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries and Poland, have been solemnly per- mitted by a decision of the Interna- tional armament conference in 1925, to maintain secrecy concerning their aramaments, in contradistinction to the other powers participating in con- ference. The aim of this was to pre- vent the Soviet Union from knowing the stage of their armaments and the names of those gracious powers who supply them with their arms. TF we ‘now add the proposal made by Great Britain to the conference of ambassadors—to prohibit Germany to export boilers for sea-going vessels and lathes capable of serving for the production of shells—we have a pic- ture of definite technical preparation for war against the Soviet Union on he part of all the countries bordering upon the Soviet Union with the assist- ance of the “democratic” great powers with Great Britain at the head. We place Great Britain at the head of Attack Against Unionism office district). How many trade un- ion members live in the same post office district that their union meets? Not many and yet, if you want to go to a meeting, to be “tem- porarily absent” from your register- ed district, you must—according to the Aswell bill—report before you go and answer questions as to where you are going and why. $5,000 Fine—Two Years in Jail. To go without the registering offi- cer’s permission would mean a $5,000 fine, imprisonment for not more than two years—or both! (See Section 20.) To prevent the alien membership from actively participating in trade union work is a deadly blow to un- ionism, made with full knowledge of the fact that, up to the present, it is just this element that comprises by far the largest percent of the active fighting class conscious militants, the very element upon whom the Ameri- can capitalists ejects their most bit- ter venom and hatred; the upholders of that class conscious spirit which the capitalist class must extinguish at any cost, regardless of its being American or “imported.” Give Them the Union, Give Them the Union! MADISON SQUARE GARDEN EN TRANCE 3,04 }}go to the U. 8. 8, R.” Pravda, Official Organ this combination, because even the treaty between Italy and Rumania giv- ing the latter the possibility of arm- ing itself, was made with the know- ledge and-approval of Great Britain, which sanctioned in Livorno the proc- lamation ofjan Italian protectorate over Albania’ and consequently also the possibility of war with Jugo-Slavia and its consequences including the military and political rapprochement between Italy and Rumania. And now, as it is necessary to put up a smoke-screen to mask all this, the obliging Forward shouts “Stop thief!” in. the usual manner and ush- ers a series of forgeries, into being to prove that the enemy of peace is the Soviet Union which is allegedly manu- facturing war material with the as- sistance of German firms, which is co- operating secretly. with the official and the black German reichswehr and which has practically concluded a mil- itary alliance with the German gov- ernment. The English newspaper of which we have already spoken, also declared that a secret military conven- tion exists between the Soviet govern- ment and the'German military author- ities, and the Berliner Tageblatt which attempted to refuse all these inventions, could think of nothing bet- ter to say in defense of its govern- ment, than the lie that a few years ago the Soviet government proposed such a military alliance. Such a mil- itary alliance did not and does not exist, elthér as a proposal or as a fact, but it had to be invented in order to provide a further invention, i, e, that the military authorities in the Soviet Union and in Germany are co-operating with each other, with a more or less believable basis. On the whole, we consider that the German social-democracy has well earned its keep from the entente. It has earned the right to receive the noble peace prize, at least next year, for this year it has already been pres- ented to equally worthy recipients, Prevents Naturalization of Militants. To urge each alien unionist to be- come naturalized as soon as possible —the duty of every revolutionary worker—would not help matters much after the passing of the Aswell bill, because “its provisions are a barrier to the naturalization of militant work- ers. Section 11 provides that the rec- ord of registration shall contain “any information bearing upon the fitness of such alfen for citizenship.” « This certificate shall be surrendered to the judge of the Court of Naturalization (Section 9). With the information recorded on the certificate that he is a fighting militant; with record of his participating in strikes; of his ar- rests tors picketing, etc., he is not likely tobe “found qualified” (Section 8) for citizenship. Thus’ by ostensibly legislating against ‘the foréign born workers the bosses will be better able to force damnable conditions, open shop and a lower standard of living on all work- ers, native and foreign born. ‘This sinister*scheme for disorganizing the labor movement, for preventing the organization of the unorganized, for making ineffectual blunt weapons of the trade unions would mean the dis- ruption of every progressive labor movement, a severe blow to Ameri- ca’s working class. A United Front Against the Antl-Alien Bills. Every trade unionist should take these matters up for serious debate in their respective unions; send vig- orous protests, calling attention to these facts, to their press (trade un- ion papers, weeklies, monthlies, etc.) ; broadcast the contents and conse- quences of the anti-alien bills thru every possible channel; urge the dis- trict and state organizations to sen@ in protests and participate in the or ganization of a mass movement for protection of the foreign born, against the anti-alfen bills. Only by intensive and systematic publicity can the or- sanized labor movement be rallied, presenting @ united front which will destroy this cleverly planned offen- sive of the bosses, and forcing them to retreat! © Call Mass Meeting in Cleveland to Explain Industry in Russia CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 13. — A mass meeting of all workers in Cleve- land has been called by the Russian Technical School.for Sunday, Jan. 16, at Gaite’s Hall, 6006 St. Clair avenue, The subject will be “How can you H. Schmidt from Detroit will be the main speak- er, He is a member of the Soviet American Tractor corporation, The meoting is at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Admission fs 10 cents. Crew Is Rescued, NEWPORT, R, I, Jan, 13.—~Trap- ped all night ina terrible blow aboard tho stranded freighter Pon- ham, the crew of eighteen were res. cued today by the coast guard crew of the Brenton’s Reef station, The coast guardsmen, battling high seus and heavy winds, finally worked their the side of the vessel, which ran onto the reef off Rose Island, a mile fro. atterncoa. Newport, xentersiay one-hundred-foot boat, the Eagle, to | tion (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair.) So then Vee went up into the air, This fellow had been worming se- crets out of Bunny! And when Bunny stated firmly that he had never mentioned the matter to Dan or to any other of his radical friends, Vee cried, “Oh, my God! My God! You poor, naive, trusting soul!” She went on Hke that, tt was proof positive of the cunning of these dangerous reds, that they should be able to keep him in ignor- ance while they, used him for an ofl well, and pumped him dry! In Vee’s view of the matter, it now be- came the utmost urgency that Anna- belle and Verne should not find out that Bunny knew this raseal jour- nalist and had actually helped to support him. If they found out, it woud be all over with their friend- ship, they would be sure they had been basely betrayed or at least that Bunny was such a scatter-brain that it was unsafe to have him about. Vee wanted to be loyal and romantic and melodramatic, just like one of her “continuities.” And Bunny was bored, and told her that Dad had probably told Verne all about the matter at the time that he, Bunny, had told his father. So the young ofl prince did not ask the “natural-born aristocrat” to marry him. No, he went off and was wretchedly unhappy; because he ached for Vee whenever he was away from her and yet they seemed to be always having violent emo tional crises and having to make it up with tears, There was no way for him to avoid trouble, except to give up the radical movement; and it was a fact that intellectually nothing else appealed to him. He wanted to see Paul, and argue with him and present a score of new objections to the Workers Party! He wanted to take Rachel to meet Paul and Ruth, and hear the argu- ments that would fly fast and furi- ous, when Rachel] set forth her opin- ion of the left wing insanity. He wanted to go to the meetings of the “Ypsels,” the Young Peoples’ Socialist League, of which Rachel had recently taken on the duties of secretary—here was real educa- tion, young folks who actually want: ed to use their minds, and took ideas with the seriousness that oth- er students reserved for football and fraternity politics, v. Of all the people Bunny knew, it appeared just now that only oe was perfectly successful and com- pletely happy, and that was Bli Watkins, prophet of the Third Re- velation. For the Lord had carried out to the letter the promise re- vealed to the runners of the Bible Marathon, a great banker had se- cretly provided the money for the great new tabernacle. Now the structure was completed, and was opened amid such glory to the Lord as had never been witnessed in this part of the world. Southern California is populated for the most part~by retired farm- ers from the middle west, who have come out to die amid sunshine’ and flowers. Of course, they want to die happy, and with the assurance of sunshine and flowers beyond; so Angel City is the home of more wierd cults and doctrines—you couldn’t form any conception of it till you came to investigate, To Tun your eye over the pages of per- formances advertised in the Sun- day newspapers would cause you to ‘burst into laughter or tears, accord- ing to your temperament, Where- ever three or more were gathered together in the name of Jesus or Buddha or Zoroaster, of Truth or Light or Love, of New Thought or Spiritualism or Psychic Science— there was the beginning of new Ye- velation, with mystical, inner states of bliss and esoteric ways of salva- tion, Eli had advantages over most of these spiritual founders, In the first place, he had been a real shepherd of flocks and herds, and there are age-old traditions attaching to this profession. Also it was symbolically useful; what Eli had done to the goats he was now doing to the hu- man goats of Angel City, gathering them into the fold and guarding them from the cruel wolf, Satan. He had taken to carrying a s! herd’s crock on the platform, and with his: white robes and the star shining in his yellow hair, he would call the flocks, just as he had done upon the hills, and when he passed the collection plate, they would de the shearing off themselves, Bh (Continued tomorrow.) aa } i Committee Approves . Bill to Cut the Postal . Rates on Newspapers WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.— Kellar proposal to restore class mail rates to the 1920 basis was The Me- — approved by the senate post office committee by a vote of 10 to 2. The provides a $7,000,000 bs rates ny Bagge me 1920 rates were cent ‘two ounces, The present rete te ss