The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1927, Page 6

Page Six * THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1927 ‘a Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO i Daily, Except Sunday ij | 88 First Street, Now York, N. ¥ Phone, Orchard 1680 i ate Ba tira ap New Yeas: By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. | property. ne By mail (in New York only): Pie Abs nals Coden ae : HE Washington birthday speech | i) nasi Lor : $2.00 three months" __|in nasal New Englandese to the great $y e Addr rai! and make out ¢ American god of business to whom, | 28S THE DAILY WORKi according w Coolidge, George Wesh- - ington was the first national figtwre y the homage due s) puissant 4 “J. LOUIS ENGDAHL f WILLIAM F UNNE { BERT MILLER.. t could appeal more to the | army of real estate boosters, sales- | men, | ks, building contrac- tors, you-go” furniture deal- n, | &TS, hh ed road promoters, ;/implement manufacturers and deal- etc, who preach the gospel of “service” to victims whose suscepti- bility to the creed has been calculated | with mathematical accuracy, than the | o x testimonial to the revere *.Business Manager ! Entered as second ffice at New York, N. Y., under ers, The British Note to the Soviet Union is a War Threat Great Britain’s note to the Soviet Union is deliberately pro- Vocative. Sven though Britain’s endeavors to set up a united front This practical business ability against the Soviet Union from Roumania to Finland were not) and interest ie broad ae Fee | well-known, the guage and general tenor of the note is in padibcid eka ier tare . oi | violation of ali estabiished rules of diplomatic procedure. This of Asaatlealt stapiee Tayi Geaaelouk | course nion does not mind as it shows a hostility! beyond the Alleghenies in the ter- | which corroborates the statements made by Chicherin and other) ritory of the Ohio and Mississippi. | leaders of the Soviet Unien. (THE thrifty father of his country A reading of the note discloses the rather surprising fact | displayed no particular i in| that the British foreign office is unable to cite any of the many] believing that America would ex-| ¥ a. ; ¥ + oq | pand toward the west. If one wished | ® overt acis ich it claims to have knowledge. It confines f to be nasty about it one could say! itself to is against statements made by Bukharin and} | @n excuse for a note to America threatening to break off rela- had tob: potsbean tivanted: But this of ¢ » applies only to the conventional diplo- | population was bound to enhance the | purchase of land warrants at ridicul- additional proof every day. “Actually,” said Coolidge, “no} cabinet has for acceptance of its immediate policy and second,| American flag, fitted to become the npiars that the Atlantic Ocean on the cast | others, statements which the whole world knows express the made spendin in any other eae icy of the CG unis ati ws would be just as good | tion impossille especially in a period | policy of the Communist International. It wow! j gi lSyhsn he aitine can ann eobearica | tions if anti-British. speeches of prominent democrat and re-| Jy the absence of a marine or publican party were treated in the same way. amphibious civilization increase in matic relations between capitalist nations. The British foreign | RRL Wakeben Lane bs | office does not need such evidence as propaganda leaflets to con- | vince it that the existence of the Soviet Union is a danger to} ously low prices from needy investors | British imperialism. It needs to look only at China to have | and by other questionable methods. Why was the note sent at this particular time? de pane oat Sree or ge | First, because the powerful die-hard tory group in the British | ,,4er the British and then under the | 1 | because of the demoralization created in the ranks of labor by home of millions of American far- the desertion of the coal miners followed by their defeat Jeads — the British rulers to believe that this moment should be utilized to strike another blow at the Soviet Union. Third, because the} eee tua heed Ge thane opportunity to show that the present tory policy, and the tone dhs feontier' te cases harion £08 their | of the note itself, differs but little from the policy and the tone families out of the virgin forests, is| of the note sent by MacDonald when he was premier during the a matter of record. ‘ By these aa i i i " lone he automatically. becomes the brief reign of the Labor Party. a a € |patron saint of the modern real The punch has been taken out of the note by the recent de- | Rrtate spsculatoe andl wll bthers of the feat of Sun Chuan Fang upon whom the tories had built great | leech tribe preying upon the workers hopes but nevertheless the open expression of hostility at this | and farmers of America. neans that Tory Britain, with its agents in the ranks of| Another quotation: ~ the labor movement remains,an implacable enemy of the worker, Washington has come to personify HAT Washington held his shad- ily acquired titles against genuine M a te : 78 the American Republic. He pre- and peasants’ government of the Soviet Union. ; ! sidéd |-ovet: ‘the Weunvention « that The British labor movement has now a splendid opportunity,! frameq our Constitution. The which will not be neglected if it follows the lead of the Com-| weight of his great name was the | deciding factor in securing its munists and the left wing. ' ir The imperialists answer the cry for freedom coming from | adoption by ns — : the throats of hundreds of millions of workers and peasants with | pigs ae eaatagin Sits pin the threat of new imperialist wars. Britain’s working class | city agreed: that ene Toccata should take the lead in dealing another smashing blow to world | Convention was nothing more or less imperialism by cracking this new offensive of reaction into a) than a secret and conspiratorial gath- million pieces ering at which no single representa- xi, | tive of other than the landholding, |merchant and shipping groups was | present, An examination of the so- * ° * Another Right Wing Failure | cial background of the delegates to second best in the Cooper Union meeting Wednesday afternoon | terested enough to consult recognized which was supposed to show a substantial rank and file following} sources will substantiate this state- a i * = * tion had no authority Not even ali the right wing gangsters from the Amalgamated HE conven i ¢ and Internationa! Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Unions which were T trom the people for any action lof Confederation. Congress, on Feb- being a genuine trade union gathering. oe ee ein ruary 21, 1787 had stated that the ice patrolled streets around the hall but the le re ee ee | tion was for “the sole and express’ A s, i i aT When some three hundred left wingers arose in a body and left | Purpose of revising the Articles of | ; the hall the meeting, so far as having a mass content, was over.) ~ ‘The purpose of Washington and his fellow-conspirators was to insure} to divert the energies of theymembership from the main task of | fay és > Y¥, ie . ang perpetuate the rule of the prop-| organizing the needle trades in New York City. The left wing | ried dacdo' Sacnas Mates Oho organization work in the shops, build the unions and leave the | was not published until fifty years right ‘wing to either continue to aid the bosses or acknowledge | afterwards, stated during’ the de-| S $ . eH | In fut time, qa great majority allowed to work their will on the rank and file; it is by no means| |, eka peach parr Aha cal ‘be with will be sadly disillusioned. @ q : It does mean, however, that the right wing will not be per-| needle trades workers down with it to defeat. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Another nie 5 Two Slugged, Three Kidnape-; 61 Arrested, 16| retary Kellogg, according to authen- Guns - ak trol Bes . tic information received by your cor- So runs one of the New York World’s heads over the story of | Diptomutic testes ware cere: om the Chicago primary elections. | the report that agents of Moscow are ¥ ‘public problems at the polls, never resort io violence as do the | wa: ert 3 a fp ernoer lt more backward peoples south of the Rio Grande. coee ‘ that’. the army’s gumshoe experts talent the capitalist press can purchase, that disorder and blood-| watch ail wearers of red neckties and shed accompany elections, eee Lt cue “ tio . it to be responsible for anti- in order to teach the natives to emulate our peaceful parliamen- Shough Pi tary methods. The Nicaraguans are expected to vote to give the | “ Other bulletins given out by the nothing but peaceful elections are to be held under the cannon of pot Ses er ag B94 American battleships with American marines looking on over | CotTesh brought on by prolonged laughter. Chicago politicians and gunmen are only amateurs after all.‘ President Coolidge spent the day The right wing in the needle trade unions again came off | this convention made by anyone in- for the reac s in the Furriers’ Union. ment, js ‘ | other than a revision of the Articles 1: rushed into ihe hall could give the meeting the appearance of | ° | only reason it authorized the conven- wing forces held demonstrations in spite of the . interference. Confederation.” | Me These offensives of the right wing serve only one purpose—} p their property against the populace} has taken the correct position when deciding to concentrate on kept a record of the proceedings that defeat. This does not mean that the right wing gangsters are to be | bates: a policy of pacifism and any right winger who so interprets it | out lang but any other kind of | mitted to stop the organization of the industry and drag the ree] ; " fk America’s Orderly Election Procedure. Peg i ge | respondent today. Americans, far more accustomed to the peaceful solution of | responsible for tle New York sub- ‘ m é , ..| Governors Island with the request It is only in Latin America, according « the best editorial all subscribers to The DAILY Wall Street-Coolidge government has just occupied Nicaragua CMTC propaganda. ‘whole country to Wall Street as soon as they understand that) state department today made such an Reed Hospital with fractured ribs the sights of machine-guns. 5 Cousins Tall THE DAILY WORKER “Washington Has Come to Personify | the American Republic”-Pres. Coolidge These will combine, un- der the influence of their common situation, in which case the rights of public property and the public liberty will not be safe in their hands. purpose of the convention over which Washington presided was as stated above—to entrench the colonial capitalists and landlords 50 | strongly that they could not be dis- | lodged by popular protest and revolt. | The purpose of the convention was | no more sinister than the methods used to put over its decision as ,the | law of the land. | The great majority of the popula-| tion was disfranchised. Property qualifications were required for| oters and the requisite qualifications | vere possessed only by the small} minority represented by the delegates to the constitutional convention, | M cMASTER, in his book “With | the Fathers,” says: Of the mass of unskilled labor- | ers, men who dug ditches, carried | loads, or in harvest time helped the farmer gather in his hay and grain, it is safe to say that very few, if any, in the course of their lives cast a vote. The late Woodrow Wilson, in his “History of the American People” states that: There were probably not more than 120,000 men who had the right to vote out of all the 4,000,000 in- habitants enumerated in the first census. (Taken in 1790) i A will be seen that approximately one person in thirty-three was al- lowed to vote on the Constitution. The men, says Fisher in “Men, Wo- | What Price | Aliens? By EDITH RUDQUIST. N O one knows as yet just how the | | Aswell bill is to be enforced. The | only’ enforcement-provisions therein | are contained in Sec. 16, where ball | Seeretary of labor is authorized to make regulations, and Sec. 17, which | expressly gives him power to employ | | assistance for enforcement. Under | this latter clause it is intended that | |he employ an army of officials to| engage in man-hunting crusades, These officials will have unlimited | qpportunities to extort money; to bribe; and to blackmail and wreak boundless oppression and wrongs upon inoffensive, innocent aliens and alleged aliens. These inspectors will be practically free from control and | so be able to do very much as they please, as were those employed un- der the prévisions of the Chinese Ec- clusion Act. The opportunities and temptations which the Aswell bill affords, practically unchecked, indi- cates an immjnent danger to aliens and natives alike, who happen to in- cur the personal dislike of the in-| spector, | Free Play for .Grafters. | By means of this law any individ- | aul or organization which happens to be prejudiced or economically jealous of analien resident can have him ar- rested with possible deportation as the outcome. What group of government offi- cials have yet proved to be free from bribery and graft? No more so will these prospective ones be. With a bribe the records of the registered aliens can be “fixed” in any way that is wanted. Convenience for the Klansmen, What a wonderful chance it will give all the 100%-ers, Ku Kluxers, men and Manners in Colonial Times,” averaged one vote to every four or five persons and: a This disfranchised majority, which included from three-fourths to four-fifths of the able-bodied men of the colony, had no more part or lot in the government than the women and children, Washington was one of the prin- cipal beneficiaries of this condition. OT “the weight of his great name,” as Coolidge says, but the disfranchisement of all but the colon- ial aristocracy and their hangers-on together with the wholesale use of fraud, bribery and corruption before and during the voting on the consti- tution were the deciding factors “in securing its adoption by the states,” “Washington has come to personify the American Republic,” says Coolidge and, in view of the circumstances, we see no reason why he is not entitled to this dubious honor. ARE in Pennsylvania, with his $3,000,000 corruption fund, Smith in Illinois with his campaign financed by a public utility magnate ‘who heads the open shop movement in that state, Coolidge who fights the farmers whose early prototypes were plundered by Washington, Tammany Hall with its servile smile for the transit interests ang police clubs for striking motormen and needle trades workers, Chicago with its elections held in a welter of blood and bribery —this is the republic of American capitalism whose course was charted by Washington. QOLIDGE makes Washington the god of practical business and practical business is robbing the | workers and farmers. For this rea- son the Coolidge speech will meet the approval of all elements who are sharing directly, or indirectly in the distribution of the loot. Our business as intelligent workers is to show to our class the implica- tions of the Cool'dge spcech and or- ganize it for the ,purpore of putting an end to robbery which Washington, as a leader in the formation of the state machinery of American capital- | ism, believed in, justified and extend- ed while the ragged and starving vet- erans of the American revolution were deprived of all vcice in deter- mining what the future form and purpose of the American government were to be. playing solitaire with the official spokesman, No fights between senators and congressmen took place today and Will Rogers appeared greatly de- pressed due to the resultant lack of copy. or ig ate A Chinese Communist plot is seen in the attempt upon the life of an official high in British circles. This official, whose name is withheld by the Department of Justice, sent his indry to a Washington Chinese undryman who has been in com- munication with the Cantonese Gov- ernment, The edges of the returned collars are offered by Department of Justice laundry experts as proof of the sinister attempt upon the life of the British diplomatic, The laun- dry man is under surveillance and several British warships‘are on thelr | way to China, according to my infor- American Legionnaires, K. of C.’s, etc., to “get” their men. The records (according to Mr. Aswell’s proposal) are to be kept in duplicate; this dup- licate “shall be fiJed in a central of- fice.” Convenient access to the rec- ords of each alien is thereby given| so that within a few hours any alien can be apprehended and arrested for all sorts of alieged crimes. The rec- ord shall also contain a complete list of arrests and convictions with a record’ of final disposition of the case. If a record is not in suitable condition for the sinister purpose of the 100%-ers they will no. doubt find | some “honest” government official | who is willing to “help them out.” | Undercover Blacklisting. The use of the blacklist has met | with legal objections in some states. | The Aswell bill ‘does away with the} need of every private blacklist. A complete, efficient and centralized | record of every alien worker's actiy-| ity will be kept by the registering cf | ficials for the use and benefit of the | employing class. All this without having to keep on their payrolls— as is now the case—stool-pigeons and provocateurs. Mr. Aswell very lib- erally provides that “the Secretary of Labor may request the co-opera- tion of all federal, state, territorial or local courts and police and peace officers in making such reports.” These records will be a splendid aid in obtaining convictions. In labor trouble cases where the charge is picketing, rioting, loitering, etce., these records will have more weight in evidence than any policeman’s or civilian’s testimony. They will be) government records and as such the | inference is that they are true and! accurate. This also eliminates the | bosses’ own sheriffs and deputies as witnesses. Then they have caly to report to the registering officer and when his report is offered in evi- dence it will be neither cross-ques- tioned or challenged. Bearing Witness Against Oneself Even the certificate of identifica- tion, which every alien is always to earry on his person, is also to con- tain information in regard to his status, so that any inspector or any- one who so wishes (peace officer) “Virgin Man” Case to be Tried. Producers and the cast of “The Vir- gin Man”, one of the three 7 to plays, lost their fight yesterday for trial by a jury, Washington Hears More About “Red Plots” mation. President Coolidge continued his game of solitaire with the official spokesman without any comment. Newspapermen who were disap- pointed at the failure of senators and congressmen to stage one of their usual exhibitions turned their atten- tion to the Dempsey-Tunney movies. * * ’ Another Red plot is seen in the heavy snowstorm of recent date. De- partment of Justice men were rushed to New York to investigate the ac- tivities of well-known Communists riod arranged by an employe Federal Weather Bureau, who ported to be subscriber to DAILY WORKER, Secretary Kellogg spent a restless night, President Coolidge played soli-' taire with the official spokesman and | your correspondent investigated a WITHDRAW ALL U. S. WARSHIPS FROM NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! What was the meaning of this | raid? According to the news- papers, it was the patriotic indig- nation of sailors from the fleet. There had been an explosion on one of the battleships, and several men had been killed, and the newspapers had printed a story that one of the wobblies had been heard to laugh with satisfaction. It is an ancient device of the master press. In old Russia the “Black Hundreds” were incited by tales of “ritual murders” committed by’ the Jews, Christian babies killed for sacrifice. In Bri- tain now the government was forg- ing letters attributed to the Soviet leaders, and using them to carry an election. In America the deporta- tion delirium had been sanctified by a@ great collection of forged docu- ments, officially endorsed. _ It was a spontaneous mob, said these law and order newspapers. But this fact was noted; on all other occasions there’ had been po- licemen at these wobbly meetings, to take note of criminal utterances; but this night there had been no policemen on hand. Nor were there any afterwards; Bunny and the other “reds” might besiege the po- lice department and the city gov- ernment, and offer the names of | the principal mob leaders, but there would be no step taken to punish anyone for this murderous raid! Bunny didn’t expect to find Paul, but there he lay, flat on his back, with several people bending over him. . His left eye was a mass of blood, and seemed as if destroyed by a blow; he lay, limp and motion- less, and when Bunny called his name he did not answer. But he was alive, gasping with a kind of snoring sound. A doctor! A doctor! There were several in the neighborhood, and_ people rushed’ away to look for them. From the days of Bunny’s | residence in Beach City he knew the name of a surgeon, and hur- tied to a phone, and ‘was so for- | tunate as to find the surgeon at home... Bunny told what had hap- pened, and the other said he would come at once; in the case of injury to skull or other bones, X-ray pic- tures ‘would be needed, so he gave | the name of doctors: who did such work, and Bunny did more tele- phoning, and arranged for one of these to be at his laboratory and await developments. Also he or- dered an ambulance from a hospi- tal. Then back to the hall, where Paul lay in the same condition. Rachel had laid a clean handker- chief over the battered eye, and put a pillow under his head. The other, victims had been carried away, and the door of the wrecked hall shut against the curious crowd. The surgeon came, and said it was concussion of the brain. There was evidence of a heavy blow at the base of the skull—either Paul had been struck in the eye, and had hit the back of his head im | falling, or else he had been knocked | down by a blow from behind, and later struck or trampled over the eye. The first thing was a pic- ture; so the unconscious body was taken to the X-ray laboratory, and pictures’ were -made, and the sur- geon showed Bunny and Rachel the line of a fracture at the base of the \skull, running to the front above the oral cavity. There was nothing to be done, it was impos- sible to operate in such a place. It was a question of how the brain report that friends of the Soviet gov- ernment are using the red street lights to carry on communication with other agents of Moscow. , * . . Diplomatic circles were stirred by a sinister attempt on the lives of sev- eral Department of Justice agents early today. Shortly after dining at a Chinese restaurant they were stricken with acute stomach pains. All are resting comfortably now. The proprietor, who is a subscriber to The DAILY WORKER, is. being watched and it is expected that addi- tional forces will be sent to protect and property in President Coolidge played solitaire with the official spokesman, Secre- tary Kellogg was stricken ill with a nervous headache, and your corre- spondent spent a restful afternoon reading “Have Faith In Massachu- NICARAGUA ! HANDS OFF CHINA! | mask of fright. A NEW NOVEL Gloa Saclair had been affected, and as to that only. time could tell. They must keep the patient quiet. There was a private hospital in the town; so before long Paul was lying on a bed, with a bandage over his eye, and his head in a sling to avoid pressure on the in- jured place; and Bunny and Rachel were sitting by the bedside, gazing mournfully. Womanlike, Rachel was reading his thoughts. “Dear heart, are you going to blame your- self all your life because you didnt rush in’ and get your skull broken, too?” No, he couldn’t have prevented the harm, he knew it; but oh, why did it have to be Paul’s brain—the. best brain that Bunny had ever known! He sat with a horrified, brooding stare. But there was another ordeal to be faced. Rachel reminded him, “We've got to tell Ruth.” She of- fered to attend to it, to spare his feelings. She got her brother Ja- cob on the phone—he had just got home from a committee meeting, and now he must call a taxi, and drive to Ruth’s home and bring her to the harbor. Two hours later Ruth came run- ning up the stairs, her face like a “How is he? How is he?” When she entered the room, and saw Paul, she stopped. “Oh, what is it?” And when they told her—“Is he going to live?” She drew nearer, never taking her eyes off his face. Her hands would stretch out to him, and then draw back, because she might ‘not touch him; they would go out again, as if they had a will of their own. Suddenly her knees gave way, and she sank to the floor, and covered lier face with her hands, sobbing, sobbing. They tried to comfort her, but she hardly knew they were there. She was alone, in the dreadful cor- riders of grief. Bunny, watching her, felt hot tears stealing down his cheeks, a girl to feel that way about a brother, Vee had said; but Bunny knew how it was—Ruth was back in those childhood days on the lone- ly hills of Paradise, when Paul had been her only friend, a refuge from a family of fanatics, with a father who beat her to make her think like him. Back there she had known that Paul was a great man, and had followed him all these years; she had watched his mind unfolding, and learned everything she knew from it—and now, to see it destroyed by a brute with a piece of iron pipe! (To Be Continued). Powers Hapgood Tells Of Lewis Gangsterism In March “New Masses” The gangsterism of the Lewis ma- chine is exposed by Powers Hap- good in an article in the March is- sue of the New Masses which will appear on the newsstands tomor- tow. Hapgood, Harvard graduate and miner, knows whercof he speaks having been beaten up twice by Lewis’s thugs. “Three days before the attack, when I first arrived in town,” says Hapgood describing the tactics of the Lewis machine at the recent ininers’ convention, “I had been in- vited to a cheap hotel room, hired for the purpose by three adminis- tration officials. one of whom had used the name of a friend of mine over the telephone inviting me to the room. “When I got inside, the three of- fieials, one of whom had a loaded automatic, attempted to beat me up so that I would have te go to the hospital instead of the convention. They were a little drunk, however, and they bungled their game. After a twenty-minute fight, finally brok- eu up by the police who entered the room, their intended victim escaped with only a few cuts and bruises.” A series of brilliant sketches by Michael Gold, poems by Lola Ridge, a story by Joseph Freeman, an ar- tiele on “Revolution and Sex,” by Upton Sinclair and drawings by Diego Rivera, Hugo Gellert, William Gropper, Louis Lozowick and Wh- Ham Siegel are other features of the magazine. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSTANDS It wasn’t natural for . a | ed