The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1927, Page 6

| ; “Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $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, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ) _ WILLIAM F. DUNNE { BERT MILL PEE cn ee MET oe Editors Business Manager mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under | the act of March 3, 1879 <->, ; Advertising rates on application. | a Tying the Can to Cal. Dr, Nicholas Murray Butler, better known as a wet repub-| lican than as a brilliant educator, appointed himself a committee | of one to tie the old rattle to President Coolidge’s political tail. The president of Columbia University, America’s foremost educational foundry, is said to have both eyes on the G: O. P. presidential nomination. Nicholas is a reactionary, but more vocal than Cal. In addition to a greater facility for making head | noises Professor Butler has a heavier cargo of gray matter stored | away between his ears than our president. As a general rule} Wall Street does not care how much or how little its presidents know provided they keep their thots in the garret. Coolidge does | this because he cannot help it. Butler can be depended on to do Wall Street’s bidding because he is a disciplined machine repub- | lican and has no more of the artist’s urge for self-expression in his system than a pampered hog. | Butler may not win the presidential nomination. But he is | | the present upheaval, we cannot |demanded that | combatted; however, the government, The Fascist Upheaval in Lithuania By W. MICKTEWICZ-KAPSUKAS | | During the last few months, and| | more especially during the last few! weeks, the Lithuanian Fascists, led| | by the so-called christian democrats, | have been preparing quite openly for! |an upheaval. jentire Lithuanian press, This is avowed by the The Com-! munist Party of Lithuania and the! left-wing workers had untiringly pointed to the threatening danger and it be energetically} which was composed’ of popular} socialists and’ social democrats, could! not make up his mind to any decided! action, | If we inquire into the nature of but} recognize that it is a fascist-capital- ist movement, directed in tha first line against the working class and the poor peasantry. Under the petty-| bourgeois regime of the Narodniki| (popular ‘socialists) and social demo-| crats, who came into power after the| Lithuanian Seym elections in May 1926, the working class and the work-| ing peasantry had succeeded in mak-| ing considerable progress in regard to! the freedom of coalition, assembly, and the press, besides attaining al practically complete amnesty for poli-| tical prisoners and the removal of the} Ochrana butchers and of certain of cials of particular notoriety as eni bezzlers of public property, and at the me time concluding a guarantee agreement with the Soviet union. The working class of Lithuania could! breathe more freely and commenced} | the formation of trade unions, while! ready to pitch his hat into the ring. His main plank will be malt, | there was a series of strikes thronahi:| hops, fermented grape and Sunny Jim. He will promise more} cut the country. The poor peasantry fertilizer to the farmers and more pork sausage to the workers. | demanded that at least the most out- He does not like the Coolidge foreign policy. He thinks it is too | Fageens pies of the land reform ef-| crude, too brainless. He will promise better service to Wall street | reevaiiiie siicte be Bien ee than that rendered by ‘Cal’ and ‘Kell,’ without doubt the two) yision, and that the embezzlers of champion dumbbells of international diplomacy. ‘They are not | public property be called to account. even capable of subtly translating into deeds imperialist policies! The government of the Narodniki thot out by Wall Street experts, without getting entangled in their | @"4 oy social democrats failed to own diplomatic robes and destroying the crockery in the political | the pen. ake es ae curiosity shop. |cal bourgeoisie, which was louder and An animated doll would serve our imperialists as president’ louder in its allegations that the gov-| better than a scholar provided the voters could be induced to vote |¢™ment was likely to plunge the| z ne : i country into Bolshevism, the latter for the mechanical contrivance. But even Wall Street cannot/+egan to meline mora towards the | *“ deaf ear ‘to the siren calls of the capitalist parties, ignore facts so it must present the voters with a choice of two) evils each election day. The workers can vote either for the re-| publican highwayman or for the democratic confidence man. It may be Butler, Longworth or Lowden on the republican ticket and Smith, Ritchie or Reed on the democratic ticket. "McAdoo has as much chance of getting elected as the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Coolidge looks as good a prospect for four more years in the White House as Harry M. Daugherty: But no matter who wins on either ticket the workers will lose. Both parties are tools of imperialism. Whether they pose| as pacifists like the late William Jennings Bryan or sabre-rat- tling, swashbucklers like the late Theodore Roosevelt, they do what Wall Street demands, as witness the rape of Haiti under the| regime of Bryan. The workers and farmers of the United States must turn a They must organize a party of their own, a labor party, under whose banner the producing classes in the industries and on the land will press forward on the road to a Workers’ and Farmers’ government, un- der which the interests of the usefully employed workers with hand and brain will determine the policies of the country. Friendship With Guns, The imperialist powers continue to profess the most friendly intentions towards China while rushing warships, troops and| munitions to pulverize the people they pretend to love, Great Britain sympathizes with the aspirations of the Chi- nese people but has an army of 20,000 men and a flotilla of battle- ships on the high seas and on Chinese soil in order to prevent the Chinese from realizing their aspirations. The United Sgates government posing as a traditional friend of the Chinese people has a fleet of fifty battleships in Chinese waters and is withdrawing marines from occupied territory in Latin-America to block the Chinese nationalists in their struggle for national unity and freedom from foreign imperialism. The cutthroat government of Italy, the same Italy that ped- dled herself like an ancient prostitute to the highest bidder in the early days of the late world war has again surrendered herself to Great Britain for a price. The political pimp. Mussolini is proud of the sale and pimp-like barks at the door of his palace for more customers. The fascist government is also glad to see an awak- | ening in China but mourns the necessity of butchering those who | are succeeding in opening the eyelids of the long-slumbering | | nation. , | With honeyed words on their lips and poisoned daggers hid- | den in their cloaks, the imperialist foodpads prepare to stab the | New China in the back. They may succeed in fooling a large sec- | tion of the working classes in their own countries, The working classes may think it is none of their business how many Chinese workers and peasants are slaughtered to make a roman holiday for world imperialism and to put more money in their pockets. It is. A victory for the capitalists in China would be a prelude to an intensive campaign against the Soviet Union and the fur- ther enslavement of labor the world over. Therefore the war against China strikes at the very root of the interests of the workers of all countries. The workers must stop the shipment of munitions of war and armed forces to slaughter the Chinese people. Against the honeyed words and poisoned gases of the imperialists the workers must pit their col- lective power thru the organization of “Hands Off China” com- mittees. When the liberal forces in Nicaragua clear a piece of ter- ritory of conservatives, Admiral Latimer steps in’and declares the territory “neutral,” The state department had so much suc- cess so far that it is probable that in the near future all Nicaragua will be a neutral zone. right. Steps were taken to dissolve the trade unions which were under the influence of the left, certain Com-. munists were arrested, and so forth. The Communist Party failed to at- tain any legal status, while the Fascists were allowed to carry on their work and found their organi- zation quite openly. During the last few weeks, it is true, the government responded to the growing danger and to the pressure of the peasantry and working class and affected a certain) movement towards the left, placing! the Fascist leader Glovatzkis unaer| arrest and prohibiting the publication of his paper. These measures, how- ever, proved insufficient. At the head of the Fascist move- ment in Lithuania are the christian| democratic party (Chadeki) and the! party of the Lithuanian nationalists.| The former comprises three organi- zations, the actual christian democra- tic party, the union of big peasants and the Yellow Federation of Labor. It is the party of the reactionary, Lithuanian bourgeoisie, the bankers, | the big peasants and landed proprie- tors, under the lead of the catholic clergy, the banker Vailokaitis, Krupa- vitchius, the others. Up to the last Seym elections, this party was in power; by unscrupulous, corrupt, and} brutal practices, by a misuse of pub-| lie property, by the pressure it exer-| cised on the peasants and workers, by openly favoring with government commissions and contracts a small! number of profiteers (such as the parson-banker Vailokaitis), by allot- ing the “centres” of the dismembered estates to its own proteges, by serious infringements of the law, by giving free play to the jesuits, by the “elec- trification” of political prisoners, and by similar misdeeds, the christian democrats aroused so much discontent in the country as to entail’ their severe defeat at the last elections. Immediately after these elections, which turned out so badly for them, the christian democrats set to work to institute a Fascist dictatorship by means of a general upheaval, Plecna- vitchius being designated for the post of dictator. The elections, however, had so far weakened the party, and the general dissatisfaction with their rule had grown so great, that they found themselves under the necessity of deferring the coup d’etat and of | waiting until the new liberal govern- |ment should in its turn have suffi- |ciently compromised itself, in the meantime preparing for the coming’ struggle. The clerical reactionaries of Lithuania devoted their attention in the first place to the formation of, | Fascist fighting organizations out of | the reserve of officers, former volun- teers of the Lithuanian army, stu- |dents, sharp-shooters (wealthy ‘far- | mers’ sons) and the like, in which di- |reetion they had pronounced success, | Their main slogans were “Down with| | the socialist freemason government}”,) |“Down with the dictatorship of the trade unions!”, “Down with the Com- munists!”, . and “Down with the | agents of Moscow!”. The class-char- acter of such slogans is quite obvious. During the last Seym elections, the nationalists, headed by ex-President! | Get Your Union to Telegraph Congress Today! | against Fascism, clearly recognizing i Smetona and Voldemaras, were in the opposition against the then ruling) christian democratic party;'from the! point ‘of view of class-physiognomy,| however, this small party of mon-| archist landed proprietors and peas-| © ants is closely’ allied to the christian! cemocrats. It is, therefore, no won- der that, after some vascillation, they) came to form one party with the lat- ter in the Seym, and of late began| to turn. most pronouncedly against) the rule of the Narodniki and social! democrats, | These two reactionary parties, which, to the delight of Great Britain, | aimed at bringing about a rapproche-) ment between Lithuania and Poland and an.estrangement from the Soviet union, initiated the Kavno upheaval, in which connection the christian] democrats required the aid of the nationalists so as at least slightiy to) mask their tactics from the working| masses who hate the very sight of them, r The leader of the entire movement,, Major Plechavitchius, a former czar-| ist officer belonging to the class ‘of} Polish landed proprietors in Lithu- ania, had already distinguished him- self in 1919 in his bestial execution of the Bolsheviks of the Shmudj region) (in Lithuania), thereby gaining credit| the eyes of the christian demo-| erats; Colonel Glovatzkis, likewise a} former czarist officer and one of the) landed proprietor class, made a name! in the summer of 1919 by causing a} number of Communists to be shot in the Kupishski and Rakishski districts. Both are in favor of an alliance with Poland. The leaders of the Narodniki and social democrats proved incapable of forming a bloc with the working class and the village poor against the big) farmers, landed proprietors, and capi- talists, and of putting up a resolute fight against the Fascists. They merely kept declaiming on the threat- ening danger and had a lot to say about democracy and the will of the) people; meanwhile the Fascists or- ganized their ranks and then proceed- ed at an opportune moment, and with- out meeting with any resistance, to! arrest the entire government, occupy the government buildings and place the commanders of such regiments/ under arrest as had remained loyal to the old regime, Here, as in Bul- garia, the failure of the petty-bour- geois parties became patent. Even before the upheaval, the Com- munist party of Lithuania constantly and emphatically advocated a strug-| gle against Fascism, if necessary with) the use of arms. Without actually) supporting the government of the} Narodniki and social democrats, which! was after all a bourgeois body, the Communist party urged it to fight all the advantages of this govern-) ment. as compared ‘with the Fascist) and christian democrats policy of the, big peasants: and big bourgeoisie} class (acording to Lithuanian stand-) ards). After their coup d’etat, the) Fascist proceeded to arrest numerous) Communists, left wing and even social democratic workers. There can na- turally be no doubt whatever that the overwhelming majority of the Work- ers and working peasantry of Lithu- ania are radically opposed to the whole movement and to the dictator- ship of the christian Fascist bankers and land owners and, if for the time being they do not take any vpaoadsl| steps, there is no question that -in a} very short time they will take up the fight against this form of dictator- ship along the whole front. The lead in such a struggle cannot but fall to the share of the Communist party. The late President Grinius, whose interment has meanwhile been repeal- ed, has dissolved the Sliashevitchus| cabinet and entrusted the nationalist) Voldemaras with the formation of a; new government. The Fascist up- heaval and the new Fascist govern- ment of Lithuania have, therefore, already been placed on a “legal” foot- ing. Besides the pronounced reac- tionary and Fascist elements, the christian democrats and nationalists, the government comprises a repre- sentative of the farmers’ party and an independent, all its members being extreme Right champions of the Lithuanian bankers, capitalists, big farmers, and big landed proprietors. The attitude observed towards the Soviet union and the guarantee agree- ment concluded with the Soviet union! by the late government, is openly| hostile in the case of the christian democrats and in that of the national-) ists superficially, i. e., allegedly, friendly, while the attitude assumed with regard to Poland is friendly to the extent of servility in the former, and professedly hostile in the latter case, (fhe christian democrats were not averse to using the aid of Pilsud- ski in the subversion of the Narodniki and social democratic governnient. ‘Lhe fact meanwhile that im spite of the fight they had until recently waged against the christian democrats, the nationalists agreed at the crucial moment to»form a bloc with the lat- ter, shows how superficial the differ- ences between the two parties really were, i The developments ensuing in the little Republic of Lithuania have, in-/ deed, come to acquire great inter- national importance, ‘VII Paul was going to speak at a meeting of Communists the next evening, and Bunny must go to that meeting, of course. But what was he to do with Vee? She would not be interested in hearing Paul tell about Russia; she had learned all about it from her friend, Prince Marescu, Bunny bethought him of Dad and the seances, and by tact- ful manipulation he caused the old gentleman to call up Vee and tell her about an especially interesting seance they were going to have that evening. Vee promised to come, and Bunny thought he was free, But then about lunch-time Bertie called him on the phone. “So your old Paul is in Paris!” Bunny was startled; having thought he was keeping a secret. Then he laughed. “So your old secret service has been at work!” Said his sister, “I just thought you might be interested to know— your old Paul is not going to speak tonight. The police have arrested him.” “Wo told you that?” “They've just notified the em- bassy. _He’s to be expelled—in fact he’s on his way now.” “My God, Bertie, are you sure?” “Of course I’m sure. Did you think they’d let him make Bolshevik speeches in France?” “T® mean—are you sure they’re going to expel him?” Bunny had learned so much about the treat- ment accorded to the reds—all Europe had. adopted the sweet ¢us- tom of the American police, to beat their prisoners with rubber hose, which leaves no marks upon the skin. So there began a wrangle over the phoney Bunny in a panic, insisting upon knowing what offi- cial had given the information to Eldon; and Bertie insisting that Bunny should not make another of his stinks in Paris, and maybe get himself deported, and his brother- in-law ruined in the eyes of all Europe. In the end Bunny hung up, and called the office of the Communist newspaper. Did they know about the arrest of Comrade Puull Votkan -so it was necessary to say it. No, they knew nothing about it, they would endeavor to find out. And Bunny jumped into a taxi-cab and hastened to the offi@e of the Prefet de Police, where he was received with a lack of that courtesy which police officials usually display to young gentlemen properly tailored. They had no information to give about the American, Paul Votkan, but they would like to receive in- formation about an’ American named Zhay Arnoll R-r-oss feess, and how long he expected to abuse the hospitality of the French gov- ernment by giving sums of money to enemies of public safety. Meantime Bertie, in her despera- tion, was appealing to ‘Vee Tracy, begging her to make one more ef- fort to get Bunny out of this hid- eous entanglement. Vee answered that she would make one more, and only one. She turned from the tele- phone and ordered her maid to pack her belongigs, and when Bunny came, back from his visit to the police, he found a note in his mail- box: ; “Dear Bunny: I have just learned why I was to be put off with a spiritualist seance tonight, instead of going to the opera with you! The time has come when you have to choose between your red friends and me, and I have moved to an- other hotel until you make up your mind. Please do not try to see me, because I will not speak to you again until this matter has been settled. If it is to be all over be- tween us, a quick clean cut is the way ‘I choose. I will no longer en- dure the humiliation of being as- sociated with dangerous criminals; and unless you can say that you love me enough to change your as- sociates, I mean that you are never to see me again. Take time to think it over, but not too much time. ¥ours, Vee.” As a matter of fact, Bunny did not need any time. Even ‘while he was reading the letter, a voice was telling him that he had known it was coming. After the first shock of pain had passed, he sat himself down and wrote: “ ‘Dear Vee: We have had great happiness together. I have suf- fered for a long time, because I knew it had to end. I won’t waste your time arguing in defense of my ideas; I have some, and cannot give them up, any more than you can yours. I wish you every happiness that can come to you in life, and hope you will not cherish bitterness in your heart, because it is some- thing I truly cannot change. If ever the time comes that I can aid you, I will be yours to command. With just the same affection, Bun- ny-rabbit.” . . (To Be Continued.) WITHDRAW ALL U. $. WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA! NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! HANDS OFF CHINA! FOOTNOTES = By EUGENE LYONS = TO-THE NEWS * A Presidential Boom.—In the early days of the reign of Calvin Coolidge we got a lot of fun out of watching the Boston terror at work. By this time, of course, the joke has gone stale. But when it was still fresh, a favorite diversion was to try to find somebody who would be more ridiculous in the presidential role than Coolidge. It was not easy. He set a standard of imbecility in office to which the ambitious could only aspire vainly. Now comes the Newark Star-Eagle with a promising suggestion, It attempts to nominate the most Rey. Dr. John Roach Straton for presi- dent of the United States oni a fundamentalist ticket. The idea is on the face of it so plausible that the boom may be expected to gather momentum quickly.. Bryan’s boy-friend himself is not so sure he wants to run, but there is no doubt that he would forego modesty for once if enough popular pressure could be generated. His platform, the Star-Eagle says, would call for: “Strict enforcement of the Sabbath laws, strict enforcement ‘of ‘prohibition with life terms for third offenders, prohibition of tobacco in all forms, abolition of dance halls, strict censorship of movies, books, plays and newspapers, punishment of all atheists, blasphemers, scoffers and evolutionists, and of women dressing in- decently.” It is a program to make one’s mouth water. In one swoop all of life would be transformed. At present only drinking gives that delicious sense of outlawry, of swashbuckling bravado, of being somehow among the elite who snap their fingers at the law. But under the Rev. Dr.’s regime the most prosaic aet or thought will give one similar sensations, Just think of it, such everyday things as dancing a waltz or smoking a cigaret or reading the, tabloids will become thrilling. Working on the Sabbath will become a pleasure. Life will be driven underground. The bootlegger will be no longer a specialist dealing only in liquor, but a department store dealing in nearly everything: The national pulse will beat faster, drabness will be banished, living will at last be full of zest for the least of us. We second the Star-Eagle’s nomination. Me SEE PORTRAIT OF A CHRISTIAN MARTYR, AFTER A LIFE- TIME OF SELF-DENIAL (Bishop Pascual Diaz, recently kicked out of Mewico.) Hah EXTRA! Another Scandal EXTRA! Things are getting worse and worse. Now the govern- ment has been accused of putting liquor in its poison! The charge is brought by retainers of the Anti-Saloon League. Officials, of course, make indignant denial and cite recent mor- tality statistics to confound their accusers. * * Marvels of Science.—To the great blessings conferred upon human- ity by the onward sweep of science and invention may now be added another. The inhabitants of Europe are the beneficiaries this time. At last they will be able to share in a delight until now reserved to Americans, The press has been informed by the National Broadcasting Company that “President Coolidge’s voice may be heard as clearly in Europe as in America when he speaks before a joint session of congress on February 22.” LETTER TO A LUNATIC. Dear Lester: It sure is awful you being put in that asylum and their not allowing you to read the papers any more. Just when you begun to improve your mind by reading all the news from A to Z toot I believe in you, Lester dear, whatever they say! You're as sane as any of them, and I’m sure it wasn’t reading the papers that made you that way. I mean the way they say you are. But anyway I'll try to give you most of the important news anyhow in this letter, so maybe you won't be too lonesome. I don’t understand it so well myself, but I am sure you will be able to read between the lines, darling. "7 So here goes. First and foremost, you will be pleased to learn that it was all a lie about the crime wave. The courts have just decided that everybody, at least all the best people, are innocent. For instance, Fall and Doheny, who put one over on the govern- ment, didn’t do it. And Harry Daugherty too, and Mrs. Hall and her family, and the Rey. Norris down in Texas and Mrs. Aimee McPherson. Isn’t it wonderful, Lester dear, to have the courts watch over us? Imagine how many criminals we might have if the courts didn’t give them a good character! Also, everybody says that China is awakening. The way they’ve been behaving down there I never guessed that they were asleep. I mean the way they’ye been chasing missionaries and tearing up treaties and so on. But maybe Chinese don’t sleep so quiet and when they get fully awake they'll act more sensible. There's also lots happening in a place called Nicaragua. I looked allt through the map of Asia and can’t find it, so I don’t know what it’s about. Nearest I can make out the rebels keep capturing towns for othe American marines to neutralize and as soon as all the towns are neutralized the question will be arbitrated. So you see that we are neutral. x The other news is not so important but having nothing to do I will tell you about it. So here goes, darling. Young Cornelius Vanderbilt who got a lot of debts for publishing some newspapers is living in a lovely garret on Fifth avenue and will pay back every -cent. It's something like $3,000,000 and he says he will pay back every cent by writing. You'd never think it, dear, if you read some of the things he writes, but it all goes to show. Also there was a convention of miners in Indianapolis and they gave the chairman. and the board of directors raises in salary because the union is in such a bad way that they will have to work harder than usual to put it back on its feet. Also they will no longer make illegal expulsions of Bolsheviks, because they amended the constitution to make it legal. i That’s all for now, 'y, but I'll try to send lots more next time. And always remem! at I don’t believe what they say about you. Also I know that you will get cured real soon, so don’t forget your own MYRTLE, For the present this column will appear Wednesdays and Satur- days. As soon as contributions are plentiful—and unless we are fired before then—it will appear more frequently. Contributions are earnestly solicited. To assure publication make your piece untlignified, blasphemous, vigorous. English only. Criticism is also welcome, and we promise not to print a word-of it.