The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1927, Page 6

& Paatens! 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. ; | EB Advertising rates on application. | ——————————————————————— | | duction from a hen-coop; but Bunny | - of introducing “American efficiency” into industry—speeding up working class for uncompromising struggle against British im-| ' prevent war on the Soviet Union, force withdrawal of British Chuang Fang’s troops had been completely defeated south of Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $8.50 six months $2.00 three months By mail (in New York only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM } ‘DUNNE BERT MILi | Ec aa Entered as second-class suit at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879, The Responsibility for British Imperialist Plots The Soviet Union press, acting on information so authentic | that the British home and foreign offices have not dared to dispute it, has lifted the lid from the rotten mess which has been mixed by the tories of government, church and business and ezarist refugees. But it is not with the stench arising from this combination of reactionary forces that we are concerned, bad as it is. What is important in this latest conspiracy is the role played| by these czarist refugees in the general strike and the coal strike and the fact that following the defeat of the British work-| _ ers in these two actions, a new war on the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet Union is being planned. | Withdrawal of recognition of the Soviet Union undoubtedly | is the first step in this scheme. Some of these czarist lackeys would then be recognized as representatives of a mythical re-| actionary government of Russia, or some section of it, Georgia | probably, as a preliminary step toward war. There is a steady sequence of betrayals of the British work-| ing class leading up to this latest development—in itself a part | of the general campaign of British imperialism against the Soviet Union, the workers and the colonial peoples partly or wholly | tinder British rule. First came the “Zinoviev letter’—the forgery which gave a basis for a deal between Ramsay MacDonald and the imperialists. In the most cowardly manner, the right wing labor party leader allowed the enemies of lebor to capitalize this coarse fraud. Second, came the refusal of the right wing leaders to accept | financial aid for strikers from the Russian trade unions. Third, was the desertion of the coal miners and the betrayal of the general strike—called off before it had gathered its maxi- mum strength and ending in a shameful surrender. Fourth, was the refusal of the right wing leaders to establish | an embargo on scab coal and the failure to adequately support the miners financially. Fifth, there has been the steady attack by the right wing) on the Communists and the most conscious section of the trade} unidns organized in the National Minority movement. | Sixth, there has been the hobnobbing of right wing labor | leaders with leaders of the British ruling class for the purpose the workers. | Seventh, there has been the recent denunciation by Mac- Donald of the exposure of monstrous conditions in Polish prisons| as a “Communist plot.” (Poland is Britain’s chief instrument in| the offensive against the Soviet Union). | Bighth, there has been the blessing given to troops depart-| ing for Ohina by J. H. Thomas, leader of the trade union right wing. | Not ezarist refugees but labor agents of British imperialism have made possible the critical situation for the masses of the Soviet Union, Western Europe, China, Great Britain—and the rest of the world’s workers. | The fingers of Independent Labor Party leaders, British la-| bor officials and reactionary trade union officials have helped to| mix the mess now smelling to high heaven. Had these leaders cared or dared to rally. the whole British) | | perialism during the general strike they might not have smashed it entirely but the labor movement would now be in a position to stop much core easily the bloody conspiracies of which there ‘is clear evidence. The main task of the British workers now, organized around the Communist party and the National Minority movement, is to forces from China, expose the agents of British imperialism and replace them with courageous and honest leaders who recognize and base their policy on the fact that their duty is not to save British imperialism but to destroy it. American workers will learn much of value to them in their struggles by watching closely and drawing the lessons from the process by which the British working class is freeing itself from the influence of British imperialism. “Proof of the Conciliatory Policy.” For the present the most important aspect of the Chen-O’Malley agree- ment is the fact that it is further proof of the conciliatory policy of Great Britain announced last December. ‘ Editorial in New York Times, Feb, 22. This proof of a conciliatory policy was given after Sun Shanghai. Britain then was willing to turn over the foreign con- ‘cession in Hankow to Chinese control. In the Shanghai area Britain is not so conciliatory but when another smashing defeat is administered to Sun Chuang Fang and British intervention unites the Chinese masges still more solidly behind the people’s government, Britain will again “give further proof of the conciliatory policy.” We suppose that when the last British soldier has been driven from Chinese soil that The Times will announce that this is simply “further proof” of Britain’s peaceful policy. This is the interpretation given to a mass movement which is shaking imperialism to its foundations by the leading organ of American imperialism. Get Another Subscriber for Your DAILY WORKER. 4 ANEW NOVEL phon Giaclair Iv Bunny had yielded to the im- portunities of his sister; wouldn't he have the decency to help out the estate in at least one way—look into those reports which Vernon Roscoe had rendered concerning the Prospect Hill field? Verne asserted that more than half the wells were off production, and Bertie suspected one more trick to rob them. Bertie wouldn’t know an oil well of pro- would know, and couldn’t he go down there, and snoop around a bit, | and find out what other oil men thought about the fields and its prospects? Bunny took Rachel with him—she went everywhere with her new husband, of course. They had got one of the oldest of the Ypsels to run the magazine office, and Kachel was just manager and editor, very high and mighty. Bunny was a one-arm driver again, and the automobile was lopsided, and Rachel was nervous when he drove fast, because the gods are jealous of such rapture as hers. Rachel had never seen an oil field at close range. So Bunny took her to the “discovery well,” and told how Mr. Culver had had his ear- drums destroyed, trying to stop the flow with his head. He showed her the first well that Dad had drilled, and on which Bunny had helped to keep the mud flowing. That had been the beginning of Dad’s big | wealth; he and perhaps a score of others had. got rich, and to balance it, there were in Beach City many homes plastered with mortgages, representing losses from the buying of “units.” That was the way most of the money had been made in Prospect Hill-—selling paper instead of oil. It was a fact, as Paul had cited, that more money had been put into the: ground than had been taken out of it. Here had been a treasure of oil that, wisely drilled, would have lasted thirty years; but now the whole field was “on the pump,” and hundreds of wells pro- ducing so littl that it no longer paid to pump them. One sixth of the oil had been saved, and five- sixths had been wasted! : That was your blessed “competi- tion,” which they taught you to love and honor in the economics classes! Another aspect of it was those frightful statistics, that of all the thousands of men who had worked here, seventy-three out of every hundred had been killed or seriously injured during the few years of the field’s life! It was. literally true that capitalist industry was a world war going on all the time, unheeded by the newspapers. Bunny did his checking up of the Ross wells; he couldn’t do any “snooping,” because some of the old hands knew him, and came up to greet him. He talked with a number of men, and found their re- ports about the same as Verne’s. Then, towards evenings, as he and Rachel were getting ready to leave, they came to a bungalow, dingy and forlorn, black with oil stains and grey with dust, with a storage-tank in the back yard, and a derrick within ten feet on the next lot, and on the other side a shed which had housed the engine of another der- rick. Bunny stopped, and read the number on the front of the bunga- low, 5746 Los Robles Blvd. “Here’s where Mrs. Groarty lives! Paul’s eunt—it was in that house we had the meeting about the lease, and I first heard Paul’s voice through the window there!” He told the story of that night, describing the characters and how they had behaved. Paul said it was a little oil fight, and the world war had been a big oil fight, and they were txactly the same. While they were talking, the door opened, and there emerged a stout, red-faced woman in a dirty wrapper, and Bunny exclaimed, “There’s Mrs. Groarty!” How many years it had been since she had seen him; he had to tell her who he was, that little boy grown up, and with a wife —well, well, would you believe it, how time does fly! And so Mr. Ross was dead—Mrs. Groarty’s hus- band had read the sad news out of the paper. She knew that he had got to be very rich, so she was thrilled by this visit, and invited them in, but all in a flutter because her house wasn’t in order. They went in, because Bunny wanted Rachel to see that stair- case, and to have a laugh on her afterwards, because she wouldn’t notice anything, but would think the staircase led to a second story —in a one-story bungalow! There was the room—not a thing chang- ed, except that it seemed to have shrunk in size, and the shine was all gone. There was the window where Bunny had stood while he listened to Paul’s whispered voice, And by golly, there was “The Ladies’ Guide, a Practical Hand- book of Gentility,” still on the cen- tre table, faded and fly-specked gold and blue! Along side was a stack of what appeared to be legal papers, a pile at least eight inches high, and fastened with ribbons and a seal. Mrs. Groarty caught his glance atyit; or perhaps it was just that she was longing for some- one to tell her troubles to. “That's the papers about our lot,” she said, . @ fea “Should Be Hanged by ! Neck and Left Hanging” far-off places patriots uphold | iI with sturdy arms the starry ban-| |ner of the republic. They stand ready to denounce with tongue and pen| | those who seek to undermine the foun- | dations of the government of Wash- | |ington and Jefferson by advocating {such foul measures as a labor party.| | Even in the little city of Mountain | View, California, there is at least one | |guardian of the sacred portal of) American capitalist democracy — the editor of the local weekly. He arose one morning recently to find that the blighting hand of Com-) munigm had placed its imprint upon| his peaceful bailiwick by cajoling the United States postoffice, thru the! simple but deadly method of paying | postage, to transmit literature ad-| |vocating a united front of workers) |and farmers for the organization of a} labor party in 1928 as a first step| toward the formation of a workers’ | and farmers’ government. ID this local hero hesitate? Not} many holdups and robberies and other crimes of low degree. In every hobo camp, or “jungles,” after a raid on them, quantities of this vile anarchistic “literature” is \always found. The miserable, degenerate, subnormal hobo is not so much to blame as the criminal of more in- telligence who writes this stuff. The Ruthenbergs and all of their ilk, should be hanged by the neck, and left hanging! And the United States’ postoffice should be sacred from the pollution of this “literature.” Why isn’t it? UT vigilant as he is the Mountain View molder of opinion, perhaps} because of stress of emotion, failed to | carry out the best California tradi-| tion. We suspect that he is not a! native son. He forgot to laud the Californian | climate and to brand the labor party leaflet as part of a Japanese plot. But he did his best to live up to the heritage of the days of ’49 when all for a moment. In the next issue| troublesome problems were solved by of his sheet, February 18, he sounded | hanging those thought to be respon- the alarm. Space is lacking to reprint sible for them. | in full the stern rebuke admimistered| Sheer vicious reaction is not con- | to apostles of discontent so, we give | fined to the metropolitan press, direct- | here only the restrained and construc-| ly owned or ‘under the influence of | tive portions of his creed: HAVE enough confidence in the common sense of the good, clean, industrious “workers” of this coun- try, so that I am not losing any sleep worrying about their attitude in this matter. I also know that the majority of the farmers in this land are not going to'give heed to this propaganda; but there is an element composed of bums and under any circumstances if there is a possible way of living without work; the shiftless, drifting ele- ment, floating from one part of the places where there is work they could do; thieves, drug addicts, per- verts and degenerates, who gloat over “literature” of this sort, and who become inflamed by reading it and incited to further depradations upon decent society; hence the loafers, fellows who will not work | thousands of people who had their | Country to another to avoid those | |industrial and financial lords. In the countryside the railway, light and power, |leeches maintain such sheets as that | from which we quote. these sheets and their backers a} ‘To | party of workers and farmers, | smashing up the local looting agencies {and challenging their divine right to} rule the community, appears as the end of all things. It is only natural that hanging is jconsidered as the most democratic method of dealing with the Commun- ists who are the most consistent and |active advocates of a labor party: | The language used by the Mountain View editor in characterizing those }who favor the idea of a labor party is an accurate measure of the hatred) the idea arouses in the breasts of the crumb-gatherers grouped around the board of their capitalist masters. —B. D. The puppets of imperialism in China have resorted to beheading the strikers in a futile effort to stem the tide of revolutionary nationalism which is rapidly engulfing the new- the setting Sun’s defense commis- sioner 4m Shanghai, has execution squads parade thru the streets. These cut-throats are armed with heavy swords which relievé pickets of their heads, and are later displayed in wicker baskets suspended on long bamboo poles, This is like attempt- ing to extinguish a prairie fire by pouring oil over it. The results are the same. Instead of diminishing the strike in Shanghai it now embraces close to a quarter of a mili:cn work- ers. But the beheaded victims are not lost heads. Theirs is part of the price every revolution -incurs. The real lost heads are those topping the shoulders of British diplomats. How far lost they are in the blind alley of their imperialist game is shown by their repeated blunders in seeking an exit, ‘ The situation in China is this: At this writing the Cantonese have planted the seeds of nationalism in Hangechow and are now massing hai, where already the general trade unions are preparing to greet them. The remnant of Sun Chuan Fang’s army is slated to make a final stand against the Southerners at Nanking, 30 miles south of Shanghai. How powerless they are is strikingly shown by “The New York Telegram,” which, when it still calls Sun the defender of Shanghai, politely puts Guotation marks around “defender ot Shanghai.” This grammatical audi- tion was inserted only after the Can- born China. “General Li Pao-Cheng, | their troops for the march to Shang-!| As Sun’s Ses Sets in the Land of the Rising Sun tonese knocked the power out of the once powerful Sun, give the armies of the Kuomintang any worry. Nor anything else. Within the week the People’s Army will approach the Wampoo River, | Where the balk of the foreign fleet jlies at anchor, What will the Brit- ish do when the Cantonese arrive | within hailing distance? Will she {allow the passage? | prestige as a world power |a further tumble. | workers of Shanghai, tho unarmed, | are certain to rebel. With a disci- | slined army at her front and rebel- |lious city at her rear British diplo- | macy is apt to fecl worried. | Adding to Britain’s uncomfortable | position is the ‘report that Wu Peu- jfu’s troops are disarming those of Chang So Lin as the latter’s step into Honan Province. Wu was the jhorse England backed in the days when Wu was a power. And Japan |openly supported the Manchurian | bandit. Now both rivals are settling ‘their differences to the discomfor- ture of England. Another distress- |ing feature to Churchill is the fact | that Tang Pin-shan, the Chinese com- munist leader, recently returned from |Moscow with 48 Chinese students | schooled in the Communist way of | fighting imperialism. | To solve this enigma the lost heads ‘of British diplomacy are meeting in Downing Street, while on other streets British workers are demon- strating their support to their Chi- nese brothers. It is problematical how long it will take before the Eng- lish workers follow the lead of China and substitute a workers’ govern- ment for one of lust heads. “I just took them away from the lawyer, he takes our money and he don’t do nothing.” So then she was started, and Rachel continued her education in oil history. The Groarty’s had en- tered a community agreement, and then withdrawn from it and enter- ed a smaller one: then they had leased to Sliper and Wilkins, and been sold by those “lease hounds” to a syndicate; and this syndicate had been plundered and thrown into bankruptcy; after which the lease had been bought by a man whom Mrs, Groarty described as the worst skunk of them all, and he had and got a lot of claims and liens against the property, and ac- tually, people were trying to take some money away from the Groar- tys now, though they had never got one cent out of the, well—and look at the way they had had to live all these years! ; . Here was the record of these transactions, community agree- ments and leases. and quit claim deeds and notices of release and notices of cancellation of lease, and mortgages, and sales of “percents,” and mechanic's liens and tax re- ceipts and notices of expiration of agreement—not less than four hun- dred pages of typewritten material something like a million and a half of words, mostly legal iargon— “the undersigned hereby agrees” and “in consideration of the prem- ises herein set forth,” and “in view of the failure of the party of the first part to carry out the said operations by the aforesaid date,” and so on—it made you dizzy just to turn the pages. And all this to settle the ownership of what was expected to be ten thousand barrels of oil, and had turned out to be less than one thousand! Here you saw where the money had gone—pale typists shut up in offices all day transcribing copies of this verbi- age, and pale clerks checking and rechecking them, or looking them up, or recording them—there were men up in Angel City who had be- come mighty magnates by employ- ing thousands of men and women slaves, to transcribe and check and recheck and look up and record lit- bibvat millions of documents like ese (To Be Continued). McCormick Works Rush Order of 1150 Tractors Built for Soviet. Union CHICAGO, (FP).—The Interna-. tional Harvester Co.'s McCormick works are rushing through an order of 1150 tractors for the Soviet ban ory The Harvester Worker re- ports. BUY THE DAILY WORK AT THE NEWSTANDS mortgage banks and _ local} This will not} is due for | between people. If on the other| with whom-we had never bef hi a i |hand she attacks the Cantonese, the/ the basis of the wentbae: What if as seem a We Seen ot etic ‘use of going to heartless person, this editor. TWO TALES FIT FOR FORD. Here are two stories that would do honor to the Dearborn Independent, which is hereby authorized to re- print without credit. Both of them are alleged to be true by friends who were good enough to communicate them. And both of them have the same high moral. They teach that in every human heart, however depraved, there is a spark of kindness or decency. He was a prospering middle-class lawyer, with an unfortunate touch of temperament, who became dis- satisfied ‘with life, its shams, etc, Anyhow for reasons he knows best ‘hhimself he threw up his practice, took to drink and generally headed downward. He found the going easy. But having reached bottom he met a girl, and that’s where the story comes in, She was only a prostitute, and quite aside from her trade she was a bad one. But he fell in love with her. Love is blind, ete——any amateur story-writer can fill in the details. He wanted to save her, and for her sake to save himself. He decided to ascend once more to his respectable level, and to take the girl along with him. So he proposed honorable marriage, escape from her black past, ‘forgetfulness and bliss. To his surprise she hesitated. She loved him dearly, she admitted, and his picture of a virtuous home was al- luriag enough: It was, indeed, awfully good of him. Yet she felt that she must think it over. She did and next night she announced her decision. She could not pos- sibly marry him. She might be a prostitute and a liar and a thief, but this thing she could not do. She could not marry a Jew. I. In every newspaper there is on file a collection of obituary notices, ready to be printed as soon as the people involved die. Only important persons, of course, are included among these ad- vance “obits.” It is in the nature of a compliment to have your death notice ready in a newspaper morgue. In one of the largest newspaper offices in New York it is the custom to pass copies of | such obituaries as they are written to the whole desk staff. The idea is that they might catch mistakes or make suggestions. The editor gathers up the corrected copies and uses them to perfect the obit. Well, the obituary of Sigmund Freud was put through this : |process. One of the men on the desk, to show that he was well- informed, added the sentence: “Prof. Freud was a Jew.” When the editor had garnered the corrected copies, he came to this man’s notation. He was supposed to be a rather hard-boiled and But the aforementioned spark was there all the same. “Say, George, why the knock,” he said, de- precatingly, and crossed out the insult. The only thing that can be said for the freak weather we’ve been having Southerners unmolested | js that it stimul: 4, . < If abs Ghee, her Waning is at it stimulates gonversation. A ferocious sleetstorm right on the heels Spring and hedgehogs does wonders to break down the barriers of reserve Three neighbors, two elevator boys and a fellow-reporter basi: What if the storm did kill a dozen or so; our statistician estimates that it brought about 437,008 new friendships, thawed the frost of 94,721 dinner parties and brought a gleam of human contact into 988,654 lonely hearts. Amen! Aimee McPherson, who is in New York to gather in souls and shekels, visited the wicked night clubs where sin breeds. That’s the proper spirit. Other lieutenants of the Almighty may be content to preach on the basis of second-hand information. They are satisfied with pious generalizations and abstract knowl- edge. Not so Aimee. She is a realist. She tastes sin so that she may know whereof she speaks. She practices what she preaches against. Nothing goody-goody or finicky or fastidious about her. Strong in her faith she burrows deep in the troughs of the sinners. She rummages in the garbage piles. And she carries into her.exhortdtions the very savor and aroma of these daring missionary explorations. Understand that, and at once the girl’s whole career becomes clear, a mystery only to Hearst and the tabloids. Her “kidnapping” affair becomes an act of worship, a sacrifice for the cause, rather than a scandal. Her views on lying, adultery, mountebankry, etc., are no mere abst¥ac- tions. They are founded on courageous personal experiments. If only the lesser fry among the soul savers take her lead in this, they might find a few compensations for their arduous and under- paid work. Add to Your Collection of Scrambled Headlines.—The “New Yorker Volkszeitung” on the front page of its edition for February 21st headlines thus, 4 CAUSES GREAT HAVOC; Not Intimidated by Sig- man’s Tactics. , American Opera.—You’d never guess it was American, K. D. points out, if not for the ballyhoo. Of course, Taylor and Millay are kota but as to the opera itself, he writes; “The Taylor-Millay opera is received with patriotic enthusiasm. But it must be noted that the librettist in search of a theme for an ‘American opera’ resorts to a conventional love story of an English feudal king in the tenth iby Miss Millay wins special praise for her revival of an archaic on language. Thus at the very moment when the nationalist spirit created by the war expresses itself in the concentration upon the ‘American language’ in the critical studies of Mencken and in the vernacular writings of Ring Lardner and John Weaver, the librettist of the ‘great American opera’ returns to England for her language, even to the archaic ' feudal England, and the composer turns from jazz and Negro music to the manner of old English folk-songs and the traditions of Wagner. The published accounts of the new ‘American’ opera do not reveal that it gives any expression to modern social forces, American or European, nor that there is anything ‘American’ about it except the names of its authors,” In order that ap Pst may not be accused of lacking sex ap} we present the following condensed novel, from life in the altogether: Nein yon. HUSBANDS WHO PLAY. “But dearest,” he pleaded with his indignant wife, tell you it is nothing, absolutely nothing. This girl a anything to me. Wi merely playing eo": ng me, e were m P strip The New York Times prides itself on pleteness. It covers For instance, Arthur Garfield Hays gave a pion Lae his impressions: of Russia, which the Times summarizes in one sentence, thus:, “He said he had found that the government was encroaching severely on the trade of private beg and that all gens dd the joney was preven’ Communist “” So what's lectures when you can read them next day in the Times? the el ri ‘