The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. | Daily, Except Sunday | 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phons, Orchard 1680 | ‘ Cable Address SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in New York only); By mail (outside of New York): » $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 98.50 six months “$2.60 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and meke out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLER.......... abcd ee business Manager “Daiwork” Entered as second-class mai! at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under | the act of March 8, 1879. Loar eeROCTgaE : z>., Advertising rates on application. | ee | | Britain Revives Locarno Dispute on_Troop. Movements Against Russia. Austin Chamberlain, British foreign minister, has revived at the meeting of the council of the League of Nations at Geneva the question of Article 16 of the league covenant which Germany refused to accept at the Locarno “security” conference in 1 This is the article which stipulates that any league membe s the right to move troops through a neutral country in of an attack by a third nation. At Locarno, Stresemann, German for- eign minister, was plainly told by the Soviet foreign minister, Tchicherin, that the acceptance of Article 16 would be consi a hostile move against the Soviet Union. Although not specific excluded from the Locarno pact, notes were exchanged be the various ministers after the signing of the treaty to the effect that. the disputed article would not be operative in the Locarno pact. | Now Great Britain, foiled in its attempt to induce the other powers to join in an identic threatening note to Russia, makes the ridiculous suggestion that Stresemann agree to permit British troops to pass through Germany “in case of a Russian attack against Poland.” Although Chamberlain, minister of the tory government of forgery, murder, provocation and rapine does*not mention Locarno, his demand is nothing more nor less than an attempt to revise that pact, which originally was conceived as an attempt to unite capitalist Europe against revolutionary Russia. But, like other propositions of the frenzied tories, trying to) salvage their battered empire from the outside and avoid the fury | of the opposition at home, there are too many complications in-| volved in this maneuver. Aside from the fact that a war against Russia under a spurious slogan to “rescue Poland from the Soviets,” would meet determined opposition from the militant workers of Britain, whom the tory government has been trying to reduce to a condition of abject slavery, as well as from the indus- | trialists behind Lloyd George, the attempt to move British troops | through Germany would meet with insurmountable obstacles. a Jerman government that would permit such a thing could possibly last in face of the fury it would arouse. And if Britain attempts to transport troops through Germany they will meet with such | fierce resistance from the class conscious workers, under the lead- ership of the Communist Party and the Red Front Fighters, that | they will be hurled back into France or into the Baltic, (depend- | ing upon their route). | But, even if we concede the impossible, and grant that the) tories could overcome the opposition at home and sneak in through | the so-called free city of Danzig, there is still the Polish proletariat to consider. Recent elections have shown pronounced Communist gains, despite the illegal existence of the Party and the mighty batallions of the Red Army of the Soviet Union thundering over | the borders toward Warsaw would unleash the pent-up ‘hatred on| the part of the Polish masses for the foul, blood-streaked fascist government of Pilsudski, and blast it to its everlasting daom. In spite of the elaborate plans of the league of ineffable in- famy to create Poland as a perpetual buffer state between Red Russia and the revolutionary working class of Germany the mad/| scheme of the maniacial government of Britain to invade that) territory would be the signal for the next wave of the world revo-| lution, which would involve both Poland and Germany at onee, | and give such impetus to the revolutionary forces in France, Italy, | Hungary and the Balkans that European capitalism would sink in| the red flood, never to arise again. Let the mad-dog of Europe continue its course of violence| against the revolution and try by might to tarn the course of history. The workers of Europe will extract its venom and break | its,fangs before it continues much farther on its rampage. Might as Well Try to Teach History to Henry Ford. * A very well-meaning, but infantile historian of Maryland} hopes to teach Calvin Coolidge some facts regarding the history | of former. presidents. Mr. Edward S. de la Plaine states that | Coolidge, in a recent speech, showed a lack of American history | when he said that John Adams nominated George Washington for|Gompers and government stool-pigeon during the war, still later | vendor of an oil stock that even the prosperous fakers of the president. According to De la Plaine, it was not Adams, but a| former governor of Maryland, named Thomas Johnson. The) Maryland historian furnishes unimpeachable documentary evi-| dence to prove that Cal is a dumb regarding facts of history as he | is about most things that other people of average intelligence re- | gard as essential. But why waste time on Coolidge’s ignorance of history. As the low vegg in “Revelry” observed of Cal’s predecessor: ‘He’s the president, ain’s he?” That is sufficient for modern purposes. Some people who have a sort of respect for exalted office, no mat-| ter who happens to occupy it, imagine that the very fact of occupy- ing the presidential chair endows one with at least ordinary in- telligence. Others wonder why modern presidents have been so devoid of elementary knowledge of the history of their own coun- try; why pigmies of today replace the giants of the past. The answer cannot be found in the illusion of the great man theory, but has deep class roots. In the early days of this country the capitalist class was a revolutionary force and its spokesmen, whom | « ueveloped were men of courage, intelligence and initiative— leaders of the conflict fighting to establish their undisputed rule, agents of progress. Today, however, that class has reached the point where its very existence imposes fetters upon further development of so- ciety. It is now a reactionary class and its statesmen are mere puppets, without vision, without brains, repeating dead formulas of the past to justify their reactionary present. The president of the United States is not a leader but a symbol of a class dictator- ship. Behind the political puppets that parade through the White House today stand the bureaucratic machinery of Washington, vomposed of innumerable heads of departments, clerks, automat- ons of high and low degree who are permanent fixtures until they CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) jownright strikebreaking is not one of them. i . he T= path of the teetotaller is strewn with popped corks. He would evade the blandishments of the demon rum nowadays, had better ‘hire him- self a nice little cloud several thou- sand feet in the air. Lindbergh, our perfect hero and the young man without stain on his character whose abhorrence of liquor induced millions of cowboys and flappers to dash their hip flasks against the nearest immovable object, is not as dry as he thot he was. The chief who to spend an extra million bringing the blessings of American imperial- ism to backward peoples via guns, bombs and bayonets. It is all the private soldier's expense. If a soldier’s coat-tail can be curtailed without undue exposure of the soldier’s posterior, off it goes—the| * coat-tail. 1 bd | F the maker of breeches wore opera glasses when cutting his cloth, and there are not enough Arbuckles to fill the vacancies, the garments are reefed in thus saving the space be- tween the soldier and the inner frontier of the breeches. Likewise, if a soldier of extravagant tendency feels inclined to throw away a hat Those Who Killed Voikoff . By WM. GROPPER Means to the Workers By BERT MILLER. Te meeting of the Central Trades and Labor Council last night ex- pressed a rising revolt against a plague which is eating the very SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 17.| heart out of the American Labor —The Workers Party forum comes| movement. Delegate after delegate to assistance of The DAILY|denounced the tactics of Matthew WORKER. Woll, McGrady & Co. The keynote That The DAILY WORKER is dear of the session, expressing the general to the hearts of the militant workers| Sentiment of the assembled dele- had a novel verification at the Sun-|24tes and the New York Labor Move- day evening forum conducted by the|™ent as a whole, was struck by ex- Woikers Corcmnniat Party on "sane Senator Martin Lacey, of the Team- More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund. when it gets to look like an inverted garbage pail, the quartermaster gen- eral takes the headgear and has it blocked. The quartermaster has done well. But. why the lack of originality? A soldier has a stomach, which it costs Uncle Sam thirty cents a day to appease. Why not cut out the darned thing and save a few hundrea millions that could be more profit- ably used manufacturing bombs for use against the next saucy Latin American country that thumbs its nose at us? supervised the banquet given in his honor in the Savoy Hotel, London, is grief-stricken because he used many fine wines and liquors in preparing the viands not knowing that “Lindy” was a tee-totaller. Perhaps the chef is sore because the hero did not ap- preciate his booze. A WAVE of economy 1s cutting thru the army like a shears thru a shirt. The quartermaster general re- ports that by cutting off a little here and there Uncle Sam can afford ranks of the capitalist class. To try to teach a modern president history is as pointless a task as to waste time on Henry Ford whose most famous observa- tion is “History Is Bunk!” The Felon-Setter. In Ireland during the days.of the Fenian revolutionary agita- tion against British rule there existed a type of degenerate that, in return for a small sum of money set the hounds of the govern- ment on the track of the national revolutionaries. Since the gov- ernment branded all those who opposed its tyrannical rule as Telons, the informers became known as felon-setters. Those perverts were a hissing and a bye word in the mouths of all decent people and even the officials of the government that hired them turned from them in loathing and turned them away with a kick when they had reached the limit of their usefulness. The felon-setter has now made his appearance in America, not meekly and humbly but brazenly and blatantl® He does not work for a pittance and he does not receive it from a nauseated master at the end of a pole. He is held in high esteem and more often than not he is an official or paid flunkey of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor. The particular felon-setter that we are now referring to is no other than Chester M. Wright former socialist and once editor of the deceased “New York Call,” later on the paid lackey of Sam higher reaches of the A. F. of L. officialdom would not exchange their money for, and back again at his old haunts purveying lies about the Soviet Union, Communism and the left wing of the iabor movement, to a clientele chiefly composed of weekly “labor” sheets whose editors could not intelligently ask for a yearly sub- seription in writing. Wright is reduced to the extremity of being obliged to do anything no matter how contemptible for a meal ticket. It is true that his descent into the depths of iniquity was rapid and comparatively painless for him. Having exhausted his rancid brain for falsehoods about the left wing in the trade union movement and as a relief from assisting the department of jus- tice to prosecute the radicals he now essays the task of forcing the United States government to follow th example of the British government and drive thte personnel of the Soviet trading cor- poration known as Amtorg, out of the country. This low fellow has even lost his head to the extent of ex- pressing his displeasure at the American business men whose desire for profitable trading with the Soviet Union is responsible for the presence of Amtorg here. Wright must be pretty darned mad when he dares slap business on the wrist. What angers this lackey particularly is that all his loud howls have not induced the government to pay any more attention to him than it would to the wailing of an amorous tomcat in a back alley. . Because the government is the servant of business, all other things being equal, or in the absence of important political con- siderations, as long as American business men can make an honest dollar out of trade with the Soviet Union, Amtorg will stay and Wright will rave for his price. The last time Wright left a sinecure on the A. F. of L. pay- dead. This is the real government that does the bidding of Wall Street. Changes in the presidency and the cabinet only reg- ister the increasing or declining power of certain groups in the roll he took to selling fake oil stocks. The next time he quits for the purpose of bettering himself he will probably organize an up-to-date detective agency. j 12th. | During the discussion period follow- ing the speech of Edgar Owens on American Policy im China, comrade J. Bacchus stated that the only au- thentic source of information on the Chinese situation was The DAILY WORKER and that since The DAILY WORKER was facing great financial difficulties at this time, something should be done about it and that he had Five Dollars that he wished to send in. The response from the crowd was immediate and the spon- taneous collection amounted to $30.30. | This followed the regular forum col- lection. . * Co-operative Coal Co., NRK = ond basis E. W., Denver, Colo. R. Diner, Boston, Mass. . Sonia Apatow, Hartford, Conn...25.00 Joseph Greisler, Philadelphia, Rp es eg ae ea OR ES John Exarchier, Cleveland, Ohio 12.00 Harry A. Battle, Orange, Mass...1.00 H. Seele, B’klyn, N. Y. .,:..... 13.50 Factory N 4, B’klyn, N. Y. ....8.50 H. Sunshine, Dallas, Texas ....3.00 Hannah Kuebbeler, Toledo, O. ..5.00 J. Bartz, Detroit, Mich. ........ 3.00 A. Danksa, (ALDLD) Grand Rapids, Mich. ... Helen Fox, B’klyn, N, Y. ......2. J. D. Murphy, Parkersburg, W. WE day sa Gay slar eon ue 1.00 Morris Norkin, Sea Gate, C. I. ..2.00 JJohn, Zuparko, Oillside, N. J. ..2.00 Mike Slovich, Chicago, Ill. ......1.00 Jos. Lapidus, B’klyn, N. Y. ....2, Paul Reuter, Denver, Colo. ....5.00 {Shop N 1, Gary, Ind. .......... 3.25 |G. S. Shklar, Dist 1, Ukrainian Fraction, Boston, Mass. ..10.00 J. A. Williams, Homewood, Ill. 2.00 W P St. N 1, Great Neck, N. Y. 13.85 Finnish Co-op Trading Ass’n., Biklyn, N. Y. ... Cassandra, N. Y. C. . K. Tamkus, Cleveland, (Ooteeted yp bck ei ogc 9.001 Ida Peterson, Detroit, Mich. ....7.00 H. Deverney, Kansas City, Mo. 1.00 J. Skaffer, San Antonion, Texas, (collected) ....... tee ceeeee J. G. Fox, Blythe, Calif, . . Nils Gustafson, B’klyn, N. Y, 3.00 F. Reichardt, B’klyn, N. Y. ....1.00 Geo Kuezevich, Detroit, Mich. 10.00 Sam Fargotstein, Galveston, 5.00 OME Se hich.s pv tinh bhi 10.00 A. Drummer, Galveston, Tex. ..2.00 P. Sklar, Detroit, Mich. ........ 2.00 J. Rebane, Boston, Mass. .. J. Kadlanskas, Hartford, Co Abr. Soderlund, Los Angel nL. Re Tee ay F, Vrotaric, Twoverville, Pa. ..20, Jay. Fox, Lakebay, Wash. ....2.00 Jack Pintorich, Akron, O. ......5.00 J. Maximovich, Detroit, Mich.. .2.00 4.25 5.00 + 6,00 20.00 R. S. Upright & J. G. Stahl, Spokane, Wash. ........... 2.00 H. Cficee, West Allis, Wise...... 1.00 Julius Melogin, Elizabeth Port, Heimer ious onsy domed Oe HOE 9 6.75 Chas. Moschel, Cincinnati, 0....5.00 Clinton C. Green, Barrington, - Tole Esk ieee ees +0 6.00 I. Harrison, N. Y. C. ... 1.50 Dr. J. Wirzy Chicago, Il S. Martinez, Tampa, Fla. Harry Sortnoy, B’klyn, N. oe Joseph Yerman, Barberton, 0, 5.00 Qeollected yi i540 cacales Andrew Laine, Hanna, Wyo.’ 7 (collected) *.,....05.05 4.12.85 Frank Palm, Br. 1, Astoria, Ore. ? I. L. D., Galveston, Texas ...... 4,00] phlet, sters’ Union, who said, “do we want McGrady or Woll to wreck our labor movement?” It has long been evident that the policy of Matthew Woll, who has completely disassociated himself practically and ideologically from the fundamental aims and purposes of the labor movement, can only bring rain to the trade union move- ment. Woll has lost the will to fight for even the most elementary de- mands of the workers. He is thoroughly soaked through with the spirit of the National Civic Federa- tion and the employers, whom he represents in the labor movement. If this were not true, it is incon- ceivable how he could have the down- right brazenness to demand that members of the American Federation of Labor, should trample under foot its time honored traditions, by calling upon the police to attack peaceful strikers, as he did in his circular letter to the local unions. * * * Tus suicidal policy aroused the re- sentment of even the most mild conservative elements in. the central body. The Woll letter- and policy was repudiated by Joseph Ryan, the president of the body, who and Wat the Daly Woter|| Woll and Wollism Must Go also claimed that John’ Sullivan, President of the State Federation of Labor was not in accord with it either. As delegates Prechtl, of the Brewery Workers’ Union, Donnelly of Pressmen’s Union No. 51, and Lefkowitz of the Teachers’ Union well pointed out, the infamous Woll letter practically ‘calls upon the police to use their clubs more viciously against the workers. The eyes of the honest elements in the trade union move- ment have been opened to the full significance of the situation by the statement quoted from Police Com- missioner Warren, who asked how A. F. of L. strikers could be dis- tinguished from others. * * * Por the cloak of fighting the Comniunists, Woll demands that the police be called upon to smash the heads of striking workers. Un- der the cloak of fighting the Reds, he takes the lead in establishing a precedent whereby the police may with impunity beat up and assault workers on the picket lines. He has thus clearly and indisputably placed himself in opposition to the aims and principles of the American Fed- eration of Labor, which has consis- tently stood for the right to strike and picket. There is room in the American Federation of Labor for differences of opinion on many ques- tions. But there is no room in. that organization for a scoundrel, who uses his official position, to stab the labor movement in the back. Let us hope that the last meeting of the New York Central Trades and Labor Council will mark the beginning of a determined fight on the part of the progressive forces in that body against the menace of Woll and Wollism. Artemis Stavrianudanis, Helper, Mba ie cio ce cacdee ns odebeas 5.00 E. Glembot, Los Angeles, Calif. 5.00 Chechoslovak Workers House, Nu Y, Co cceseiceesecemeesie 6.00 Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss o€ Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its foremost leader and the American working class its staunchest fighter. This loss can only be overcome by many militant work. ers joining the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and mail it. Become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. Name Union Affiliation...........s60000+ Mail this application to the Work- ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if.in other city to Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Bly., Chicago, Ill, Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- “The Workers’ (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. Every Party Nucleus must collect 50 cents from every member and will receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- ber to sell or distribute. Nuclei in the New York District Ane n ee ee eneneeees trict office—108 East 14th St. r PSEA CONE C Young Workers Gladly Hail Comrade Crouch, Released From Prison’ By FRED HARRIS, SAN FRANCISCO, June 16,—A rousing welcome was given on Fri- day night by the Young Workers League and the local branch of the International Labor Defense to Paul Crouch, recently released from the |U. §. Disciplinary Barracks at Al- catraz Island, San Francisco Bay. A spontaneous crowd of some three hundred comrades and friends, in- formally assembled, greeted Comrade Crouch with thundering applause as * he took the speakers stand to relate his experiences in Honolulu as a sol- dier in the American arniy. He dealt with the causes for his arrest, the court martial trial and subsequent conviction to serve a prison sentence of 35 years, which sentence was la‘ at the tremendous demand, of American working class, red two years, His imprisonment at Alca land was briefly described b: at the end of which he mad ing appeal to all class consciv ers to rally behind the Interr. Labor ‘Defense and to enlist tive fighters in the battle ag capitalism, Comrade Crouch appears to b a good healthy condition both n tally and physically, is full of « pectantcy and anticipation, and loo) forward to the victory of the wor! ing class when production for prof, will have ceased and with the work-, ers in the control of the m: of production, the factories and shops will be run for the use of the toilers and when parasitic capitalists will .0.00| will get their pamphlets from the Dis-|be in prison instead of the workers, Paul Crouch, together with Walter 4.00] Nuclei outside of the New York| Trumbull, both privates in the U. S, } r District write to The DAILY WORK-| Army, “stationed at Honolulu were’ » ++++++4,00] ER publishing Co, 83 East First | arrested in 1925, Street, New York City, or to the National Office, Workers Party, 1113 .70| W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, _/ literature among their fellow sol for being mem! of the Young Workers League = for having disseminated Comm ic ,