The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1927, Page 6

| ui ee i | ‘ Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $2.50 three months ew York): ) six months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F, DUNNE { BERT MILLER. ; RST actrees! Editors -Business Manager Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on application. This Is No World for the Meek Even though Jesus of Nazareth is alleged to have said that the meek would inherit the earth, that prediction still remains unfulfilled. Only those who have used their claws have been able to take or hold anything worth while in this dog-eat-dog world of ours. When news of the extraordinarily severe sentences imposed by Judge Rosalsky on members of the International Ladies Gar- ment Workers’ union reached us, The DAILY WORKER solicited comment .from various public characters on the judge’s action. Among those received is the following from Lewis S. Gannett, associate editor of The Nation: “Judge Rosalsky has shown an utterly unjudicial eagerness to convict strikers and a partisanship of an anti-working class character. “Thuggery, however, has become a habit of both sides in the garment trades in New York and if these men were really guilty I have scant sympathy for them. “My real regret is that the officials who used thugs do not get convicted instead of the thugs.” Here we have a well-known liberal branding union members as “thugs” because they defended themselves against the pro- fessional thugs employed by the bosses. Note that Mr, Gannet does not express a fervent desire to:see the manufacturers who employed gangsters go to jail. How strange that the pacifistic sympathy of most liberals usually manages to become the hand- maiden of the enemies of the working class! If Mr. Gannett believed that the sentenced workers were guilty he would have scant sympathy for them. Then why blame Judge Rosalsky? Undoubtedly the judge believed they were guilty. What is the difference between the attitude of Rosalsky towards the militant garment workers and that of Mr. Gannett? We'll be hanged if we can see any. Would Mr. Gannett have the striking garment workers flee from the picket lines and thus make defeat certain rather than stand their ground lest they might be tempted to sully their souls by defending themselves against the employers’ gangsters? A strike is a miniature war. In war one side does not use cannon and the other side olive leaves. All other things being equal the heaviest illery won battles in the days of Napoleon. The dead- poison gases and the swiftest airplanes may win the next Many good souls were shocked when Soviet Russia used violence against the imperialist powers. “They are doing the same things the capitalists are doing,” they snickered. Quite true, but if they did not, there would no Workers’ Republic today and the bawdy Russian nobility would now be whipping heavy taxes out of the peasants and exploiting the industrial workers as they were never exploited before. We strongly disagree with Mr. Gannett in characterizing the defensive actions of the striking garment workers as “thuggery.” This characterization is unfair as it would put the meas- ures taken by the Red army to defend the revolution on a par with similar measures taken by the Czarist brigands to restore the Russian nobility to power. f Join The Workers (Communist) Party. John L. Lewis objected to a roll call on the ground that it would cost too much money. Then he turned around and accepted a raise of several thousand dollars, bringing his salary up to the neat figure of $12,000. Supporters of Lewis in the U. M. W. of A.—those who work in the mines—should take note of this. Every battalion of the French army will be equipped with flame-throwing squads. Which proves that the next war will be even more “civilizing” than the last. When we talk of a war, we don’t mean one of those puny things where a hundred thousand or so human beings are slaughtered. We mean a real he-man- sized war, where at least twenty millions will be wiped out. The right wing leaders of the British Labor Party are sup- porting the government in its preparations for war on China. J. HI. Thomas and Ramsay MacDonald endorse Chamberlain’s at- titude. Philip Snowden comes out with a blast against Soviet Russia for its support of the Chinese nationalist movement. Good. Every little bit more helps to show the British workers that the right wing socialists are imperialists in disguise. When the em- pire is in a crisis they throw off the disguise. Britain’s generosity to China reminds one of the story of the thirsty but penniless citizen who wended his way to Henessey’s bar for his morning encouragement. He had his drink and when the bartender said “a dime” the customer admitted that he had no money. The bartender shouted down the cellar to the boss: “Say, is Murphy good for a drink?” “Did he have it” asked the boss. “He had,” replied the bartender. “He is,” concluded the boss. Just as we were about to send out a search party in an effort to locate the league of nations a story appeared in The World that the league discovered that there is trouble in China. But what can the poor league do to restore peace since it admits that ninety per cent of the country is consolidated under the Koumintang and that China does not care a tinker’s damn for the league of nations? of Get Another Subscriber for Your DAILY WORKER, . By ANTON BIMBA. LL the assertions df the bloody fascisti government of Lithuania that has no intention of breaking up the non-aggression treaty signed a few months ago between Lithuania and Soviet Russia cannot and does not hid the role and aims of the Fas- cisti.. There are some very important facts which contradict their public utterances. These facts prove be- md a shadow of doubt that the i “revolution” in Lithuania was inspired and assisted by the imperial- ists tf Poland, as well as those of England and France. Let us take up a few of these facts very briefly. 1. Marshall Pilsudsky, the leader of the hangmen of Poland, protested very emphatically against the non-| aggression treaty between Lithuania and Soviet Russia, He went to the League of Nations and demanded the league to take steps against this wweaty. The statement of the Soviet government that it reaffirms the 1920 treaty between Lithuania and Russia in which Vilna province is recognized as a part of Lithuania aroused the ire of Pilsudsky and his gang. In his protest to the League of Nations, Pilsudsky stated that the non-aggres- sion treaty is against the “best inter- ests of Poland.” What did the Lithuanian clericals do at that time? Were they for or against the treaty? Of course, they were against it. In the Lithuanian parliament or Seimas they fought against the adoption of the treaty and voted against it as a bloc, They also pointed out that this treaty is “against the best interests of Lith- uania.” It was a well known fact even at that time the Lithuanian clericals, who today are the backbone of the bjoody fascisti, carried secret nego- tiations with the Polish government.| 2. Smetona and Voldemaras are to-) day the outstanding leaders of the fascisti. But they are also the lead-| ers of the Nationalist Party, which is composed of the rich and powerful landowners, ninety-nine per cent of whom: are of Polish nationality andj have always fought for the annexa-| tion of Lithuania to Poland. And now these elements are in the forefront of the bloody fascisti. Vatican Important Factor. 3. The Vatican is another very im- portant factor in the situation. The Lithuanian and Polish clericals are taking orders from the pope, He is their boss and master. He tells them to get together in the name of the catholic church and they must not disobey his orders—if they want to have paradise on earth. THE DAILY WORKER. Fascist Lithuania, Poland and Soviet Russia -Imperialist Conspiracy Against USSR. very strong pressure on the Lithu- anian catholic clergy that they must make up with Poland, The pope gave Vilna territory to Poland long ago. Therefore, the present fascisti gov- ernment of Lithuania is an expres- sion of approachment Ketween Lith- uania and Poland, on the basis of the former’s subjection to the latter, Ruling Class Shocked. 4. Then we come to the influence of world imperialism. The ruling class of England, France, Japan and America were simply shocked by the non-aggression treaty between Lith- uania and Soviet Russia. For, the last nine years they were building a wall against Soviet Russia. The unity of the Baltic states with Poland at the head of the procession was a ne- cessary link in their cabin of reac- tion around Soviet Russia. But now they were set back in their conspir- acy by the Lithuanian - Russian treaty. threat to their aims. The coalition government of the Populists and So- cial democrats turned its face from the West toward the East. The Lith- uanian masses were supporting this new orientation very enthusiastically. Hence the imperialists of England, France, Japan and America sought and found faithful lackeys to their Lithuania suddenly became aj § W YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2, 1927 ‘ } tiations will bear full fruit, a part of which will be the revision of the Dantzig situation, so long a bug- bear of Eastern and Central Europe, with possibilities of noble families again coming .into their own as joint administrators of Poland, Lithuania and other territory.” Lhe cable of January 10 from War- saw states: “In addition, Minister of Justice Meystowicz, a personal friend of Marshall Pilsudsky, was charged with showing a map of the new Poland, including Lithuania but! omitting the Corridor.” Lithuanian Emissary in Warsaw. And the news from Warsaw dated January 21, appeared in the New York Times of January 22 under such headlines: “Warsaw and Kovno seek peace accord—Economic crisis in each country forces move to resume diplo- matic relations——Talk of joint Vilna’ rule.—Lithuania suggests a feder- atéd region.” This cable goes on and that secret emissary of the fascisti government of Lithuania is already in Warsaw seeking peace with Poland and that Lithuania “had developed a plan whereby a joint Po- lish-Lithuanian Government would be blished for the Vilna region, ting a sort of federation embrac- both nations.” is exactly the plan of the ing Chis anti-soviet policy in the fascisti movement of Lithuania. Now the bloody fascisti are shooting down the revolutionary workers of Lithuania who are in favor of friendly rela- tions with Soviet Russia while the agents of Pilsudsky are free and jubilant. 6. the fascisti slogan during their coup d’etat was: “The coalition gov- ernment had sold’ Lithuania to the Bolsheviks. Down with the Bolshe- viks!” It was a hypocritical slogan but it showed the face of the fascisti. Imperialists Encouraged. 6. As soon as the fascisti overthrew the coalition government and estab- lished bloody white terror all over the’ country, the imperialists of Poland breathed more easily and openly ex- pressed ‘their satisfaction with the change in Lithuania. They saw that their friends and colleagues are in power in Kovno. The chauvinist press of Warsaw exclaimed: “Mos- cow thought that it holds Lithuania in its hands, but now its hopes are, gone!” A special cable to the New York Times from Warsaw, the capital of Poland, dated January 8, among oth- er things, says: “As the situation rests now, Mar- shall Pilsudsky remains customarily silent, but there are ominous rumors world imperialists, uania and Poland to form a federa- tion under the dominance of the They want Lith- Polish imperialists. Now this plan) is advanced by the bloody fascisti of Lithuania. It means an end to the independence of Lithuania as a na- tion. It means a united front of the Baltic states under the leadership of imperialist Polahd against the Union of the Socialist Soviet Republics. Scab Coal Company Takes Another Life. MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (FP.).—' Harry Sheldon, miner, died, and 200 coal diggers were endangered, by a’ fire that swept tunnels of a Paisley mine at Scott’s Run. The Paisley in- terests repudiated the Jacksonville wage agreement last Spring and strikes followed. Mayor, Police Chief on Trial NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—Henry Wis- sel, the Mayor of Edgewater, N. J., went on trial with his chief of police, | James A. Dinan, and seventeen other; defendants before Federal Judge Isaac N. Meekins and a jury here to- day, on an indictment charging con- spiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Arkansas River on Rampage LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Feb. 1 that the Lithuanian coup was not in| White River, swollen by continuous Get Your Union to Telegraph Congress Today! The Vatican always was for the} vain and that the new result of dic- jrain, was on its worst rampage to- imperialists of Poland. It exerted a'tatorial instead of democratic nego- day since the record flood of 1919, THE CAPITALIST PRESS MAKES MUD / Yoo-Hoo! LOOKIT THIS HE capitalist press now frankly exploits the porno graphic aspects of Peaches, not even making the former thin disguise of an investigation int osociological problem: PIES such cases as that of Browning and The daily labor newspaper cah pay little attention to these side isstes, needing most of its spacé for matters of vital concern to the working class. i . . WITHDRAW ALL U. S. WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA! NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! But the capitalist press was at liberty, and did so. From time to time you would read in the French papers items of news about Russia, made, of course, to sound as hate- ful as possible. Soon after get- ting Ruth’s letter, the papers re- ported that there had been a dis- pute among the American Com- munists as to tactics, and the two factions had carried their case to the chiefs of the Third Internation- al. There were half a dozen lead- ers of the American party now in Moscow, and one of those named was Paul Watkins, under indict- , ment at home for participation in an illegal convention. x Several interesting events came along, to keep them busy in their exile. - First, Aunt Emma fell in love; yes, by golly, when it comes to such things, you just never can tell what will happen to either la- dies or gentlemen! It was a re- spectable elderly hardware mer- chant from Nebraska, who was oc- cupying his leisure collecting cameos, Maybe Aunt Emnmia re- minded him of one; anyhow, after beauing her around for several months, he suddenly popped the question, and they had a quiet fam- ily wedding, and went off on a hon- eymoon—to Nebraska! It left Dad quite lonesome; but presently he hunted. up an adven- ture for himself, and that was stranger still—you couldn’t have guessed it in a million years. SPOOKS! It happened that Bunny went off one evening to a meeting at which the Socialists and the Communists engaged in violent warfare, as appeared. to be their custom in Paris; and when he got back, he found that Dad was not in his room. Next morning the old man told about it—hesitatingly, with not a little embarrassment. Just what did Bunny think about Spiritualism? Bunny said he didn’t think at all, he didn’t know; and Dad revealed that he had had an amazing experience—a long talk last night with grandma! Holy smoke! said Bunny; and Dad said yes, he might wéll be sur- prised, but there was just no get- ting away from it. She had told him all about his childhood, de- seribed the ranch where they had lived, and asked all about her paint- ings, what had he done with that one of the Germans drinking out of steins, and did he still have the one of the mansion with the fountain. in front and the carriage with the two horses and the lady and gentleman sitting in it? She had called him “Little Jim,” and it was all so real, it had made tears come into Dad’s eyes. Bunny wanted to know, where had this happend@, and Dad told him, there was a lady living in this hotel, Mrs. Oliver—she was a lady from Boston who had been married to a Frenchman, and her husband. had died a_year or two ago Dad had got.to talking with her, and she had told him about being a Spiritualist, and how she had a famous medium who gave seances in her rooms here in the hotel, and she had invited Dad to attend, and that was the way of it. Most amazing things had happened, there had been horns floating in the air, and voices coming out of them, and lights flickering about then the ghosts had appeared, and finally this old lady ghost, who had asked for “Little Jim,” and started right off to tell these things that had taken Dad’s breath away How could a medium possibly have known such things? Well, here was Dad with some- thing to occupy his time! Of course he went to the next seance, and the next; very soon he was learning all the patter of the Spir- itualists, taking it.as seriously asa religion, You could see-how it was —he had got along without any religion, so long as he was well and busy, but now that he was old and tired and sick, he craved something to lean on. He was shame-faced about it, afraid his son would ridi- cule him. But after all, did Bunny know any reason why the soul might not survive after death? Bunny didn’t, and thereupon Dad invited him to go to a seance. Ob- viously, this was something more important than Socialism. If it was really true that we lived for- ever, why then it would be easy to endure any temporary discomfort, it was hardly worth arguing about such things as money. This from J, Arnold Ross! Bunny, who always tried to oblige, went to a seance, and wit- Sis A NEW NOVEL By, * ‘on Ginclair Up nessed the strange phenomena. He knew that such things can be done by slight of hand, and that he had no way of telling the difference; no chance was given in this com- pany, made‘up of believers in a state of emotional exaltation. So one session was enough, and he went back to the Socialists. But let Dad be a Spiritualist if it made him happy! Not so Bertie, who found out about it, and went into a regular tantrum. What did Bunny mean by letting his father fall into such hands? It was the worst kind of swindling in the world! And that woman, Mrs. Oliver, it was perfect- ly obvious what her scheme was— she wanted to marry Dad! Here Bertie and Bunny had worked all their lives to help him accumulate a fortune and save it—and a de- signing adventuress would jump in and grab the money, and Bunny hadn’t even sense enough to know what was happening! Never had he seen his sister so mad in her whole life—she called him a fool seven times running—when he said that the Spiritualist widow might have her share, if only she could help the poor old man to find hap- piness, (To Be Continued.) A PRINCESS FOR A PAWN Princess Terhata Karam Of The Moros. This young lady, educated at the University of Illinois, cutting classes to get marcels and manicures, keep- ing dates with dapper. sheiks, went home, so the paper say, and became the fourth wife of a savage revolting Moro chief. The fact that American big business can use a Moro insur- rection as part of its plan to separate the Southern Island from the North- ern makes the sacrifice of a few Moros or even one or several edu- eated princesses a matter of small moment. Union Sausage Makers Strike NEW YORK (FP.).—One hundred sausage makers of Local 174, Amal- gamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen are waging a stiff strike for union recognition and conditions against George, Inc., an open shop firm Union rates call for $42 for 48 hours. Employers attempt to stop picketing with an injunction. F Company Pensions—For Scabs NEW YORK (FP.).—Capt. Jeree miah Minner, aged 70, would not seab in the 1920 ferry boat strike. So he lost 87 years seniority with the West Shore R. R., and retires with a very tiny pension based on six years’ sere vice only. But Minner has no re« ‘grets} says he would strike again under the same circumstances, ee aoe