The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1927, Page 4

4 ' Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEWYORK, W#TWESDAY, JULY 13, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by tae DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday 85 Firet Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Addrezs Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 98.50 six months $2.60 three months $2.60 three morths —_—_——— Address all mail and make out enecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Sor LIME UNE i. -iateeecete Editors BERT MILLER.........-.. wiareeinces business Manager ee Entered as second-class mai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under : the act of March 8, 1879. 21 Advertising rates on application aeeenearanemA aan The Farmers and Coolidge The offensive against Coolidge’s vacation seems to be get- ting under way. Delegates from 14 states to the Northwestern Agricultural Conference held in St. Paul 49 farm organizations are represented at the conference and judging from dispatches the discussion centers entirely around the failure of the Coolidge administration to do anything but sneer at the farmers’ demands for relief. There is also creeping into the news from Rapid City which is at?variance with the first lyrical description of the welcome accorded Coolidge. The New York Times correspondent, for in- stance, goes so far as to say: coming here that the West is fairly evenly divided on the merits of the M TIVE AND APPARENTLY IN THE MAJORITY.” phasis.) The expressed opinion that the western visit of Coolidge would shove the question of farmers’ relief into the background seems to have received a damaging blow as reports come in from the firing line. There is considerable significance in the fact that, altho the delegates to the St. Paul conference are largely adherents of the tw> capitalist parties, they are meeting in the capital city of a state where the Farmer-Labor Party is the second largest poli- tical organization and is made up for the most part of farmers who were formerly supporters of the republican party. The con- ft teace certcinly chose an anti-Coolidge center for its sessions. Eut in spite of the tremendous opposition to Coolidge in j states there is not much evidence outside of Minne- tes as yet any strong tendency to break with the an party. Unless this break takes place and develops into & powe..‘ul stream flowing in the same channel as that already marked out in Minnesota, the farmers are doomed to be foole 2@ain by some sort of fake farm relief bill designed to allay the ciseon-ent. That this is the tack the Coolidge administration intends to take is shown by the following dispatch of July 11 in the New Yerk Times: “Nevertheless, he (Coolidge) is disposed to recommend to Jon,gess the consideration of a farm bill which some of the farm ©s-ictions and the committee working with the government “ayor. This compromise bill, which will appear in the next Con- gzess sponsored by the farm associations, is likely to receive Presi- Ceat-Coolidge’s support, it is said.” <= We can be sure that the “farm associations” which will spon- sor this “compromise” bill will be far less “radical” than even the advocates of the McNary-Haugen bill, itself a totally inade- quate piece of legislation. We have commented before on the utterly cynical attitude of the two capitalist* parties towards the question of farm relief. (Our em- : Nor will this attitude change as long as the leaders of the} two capitalist parties can convince the great majority of farmers | that their class interests can and will be taken care of by poli- tical parties whose purpose is the protection of the class interests of bankers and industrial capitalists. If the farmers will make-a clean break with those who rob, rule and fool them, join with the workers in the creation of a powerful mass party organized in the interests of both, they will find that a great change will have taken place in the attitude of the capitalist spokesmen. Instead of contemptuous expres- sions the farmer leaders will be slandered and vilified by the capitalist press—always a good sign that a fear has taken the place of contempt, a fear inspired by the knowledge that a sup- pressed class has begun to take stock of its potential power and Nis preparing to bring it into use for the purpose of securing im- mediate class demands. How About: Other Labor Banks? The revelations regarding the disastrous labor banking ad- _venture of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, whose banks were the most powerful institutions of that kind in the world, have evoked much comment from the ranks of both labor and capital. Many financial writers and other spokesmen of big capi- tal frankly express their disappointment at the collapse of the Musion of labor banking. devised to fool the workers into believing that they could graduate into the ranks of the capitalists. It caused them to abandon the fight for better conditions through an open struggle with the employers and try to achieve by “boring from within” capitalism what they had abandoned hope of obtaining: otherwise. Even James P. Eagan of the, editorial staff of the publica- tions of the American Federation of Labor declares that labor officials generally arc pleased that the outside activity in the realm of labor banking have been curtailed and predicts a “les- sening enthusiasm for business ventures.” The collapse of the Brotherhood banking schemes, the father of all labor banks, ought to provoke some serious thinking on the part of those labor leaders who have. hoodwinked their unions into such ventures. The rank and file of labor ought to demand investigations of other “labor banks,” How about Peter J. Brady’s “federation bank” or the “Amal- gamated Banks” and other ventures in “labor-capitalism” ? One thing is certain to be revealed on investigation: Labor banks cannot by any stretch of the imagination benefit labor and they have thus far been used as instruments for incalculable harm to the movement, not merely because of the financial losses suffered by workers (after all they are trivial, because of small amounts involved) but principally because of the illusions they engender about labor growing into the status of capitalism. } Nary-Haugen bill, with its advocates MORE ASSER-} | situation among the central powers | Soviet government should or should! hich is the necessity for facing The Passing of General Max Hoffmann By H. M. WICKS. ¢ HE death of General Max Hoff- mann revived for a few days the events of the early months follow- | ing the Bolshevik revolution in Rus- | sia when Germany forced upon the | Soviet government the treaty of | Brest-Litovsk. It was General Hoff- | mann who, in the most insulting and threatening manner, hammered with |his fist upon the conference table and threatened that, unless his draft | was accepted, ceding to the Germa | imperial government the vast and rich territory of the Ukraine, would order the instant invasion of | Russia by the German legions. Infuriated at the impudent de- | meanor and arrogant demands of the German war lord that the Soviet government release to the kaiser’s government almost a quarter of the |erable land of Russia, rich deposits }of coal and iron and one-third of the population, the Boliskevist dele- | gates, particularly Leon Trotsky and | Karl Radek, refused to yield and de- |clared the only reply to Hoffmann }was war to the end. |. The threatened break of the con- |ference and the threat of war was duly reported to the Council of | People’s Commissars, with Lenin as chairman. This master of revo- | lution took careful inventory of the | whole situation — the resources of 5 3 oe . | the enemy, their ability to continue | Russia suffered a humiliating defeat “According to reports President Coolidge has found since) tye war on the western front and at|— | the same time throw an army into Rus- | sian territory; the internal political which involved the estimate of the | possibilities of the development assistance against the imperial gov- |ernment; and most important of all, | the possibilities of the Russian work- }ers and soldiers who had suffered |thru the war and revolution having he} § of | whether ; without men and face certain defeat NIN perceived that the masses@strength of the revolution; he was of Russia were exhausted by the | accused even of abandoning the revo- war, he knew that they had risen and | lution by leading members of his own overthrew the tzar, then successfully | Party. He realizes that such charg- waged struggles against the various}¢S were mere effusions of romanti- governments that tried to continue|cism, always a substitute for political the war and finally smashed the Ker-| maturity and with scathing, ‘frony | ensky government in response to the| seored his critics within the Bolshe- slogans of peace, bread and freedom.} Vist ranks, But the correctness of The Brest-Litovsk delegates were| the policy ‘of Lenin was evident to called back to Russia and Lenin de-| ll within a few short months, when manded that they sign the treaty in| batallions of the German army join- spite of its humiliating terms. When ed in the revolutionary upheavals in| drotsky asked him how he knew the the north of Germany, that sent the| 3 would no longer fight, he kaiser to exile from whence he has} replied simply that they had shown| ever returned. | with their feet when they ran away| ‘To have followed the path of revo-| from the front that they would no lutionary romanticism and sacrificed longer face the enemy in the treches.| the resolution would have been spec- He also knew that the signing of tacular—a dramatic gesture—but ut- such an obviously imperialist docu- terly imbecile. The policy of Lenin ment would reveal to thousands upon| saved the revolution and at the same thousands of German workers that it| time did more to smash German im-| was not a defensive but an aggres- perialism than all the batallions of | sive war of conquest that Germany the allies. was waging and that the imperialist agents in the ranks of the social-de- mocracy would no longer be able to deceive the masses as to the real character of the war. * * * HE treaty was signed, General * * * | | (ke death of Hoffmann. and_ the | revival of the Brest-Litovsk treaty again serves to remind the workers of the world of the genius of Lenin} as a political and revolutionary lead- ter, one who could avoid the pitfalls Hoffmann returned in triumph to/|of romanticism as well as the danger | report to his kaiser, the Ukraine was! of sinking into the slough of pess ceded to Germany. According to|mism and yielding to despair. the ethics of bourgeois diplomacy His deeisive action at Brest-Li- tovsk, while revealing his mastery nd indeed it was a defeat, but un-| o¢ diplomacy in face of tremendous avoidable. odds, contains many valuable lessons | The question was not whether the | for revolutionists, not the least of| not yield territory to Germany, but! facts as they are, not as one would the Boshevik government }ike them to be. | should try to) defend that territory| “cine the death of Lenin there| Sin have been many occasions when a | considerable portion of the revoluti- jonists of the world have tried to of the revolution throughout all Rus- sia, or hold the heart of Russia for the revolution and await a more fav-| |a_ dramatization of Mrs. Wharton’s| |“The Old Maid.” it was one of the best schemes ever| orable opportunity. Lenin faced the| accusations of pessimism about the 1 | sufficient vitality to wage a war | against the German forces. | Headstones for Unknown Victims of Morgan’s War } } Headstones to the number of 20,000 for America’s unknown war dead in France have been ordered by the war department. They are all to be installed before the annual debauch known as | the American Legion convention which is to take place in Paris, | France, in September. There will be 10,750. graves of victims of | | Morgan’s war that will have no headstones. | Each of the headstones will bear the inscription: Here Rests in Honored Glory a An American Soldier | Known But to God. | That means the victims are unknown to anything or anybody. They are utterly wiped out and not one of them knows that he ever lived. They sacrificed their all in order that Morgan’s in- vestments on the side of Britain, France and Czarist Russia might be made safe. Some day the lying, deceptive headstones erected by the navy department will be torn down and the revolutionary workers of France will erect a monument signifying that these victims were sacrificed, not to make the world safe for democracy, but in a predatory imperialist war, in a fight in the interest of the ruling class of the United States that was not worth the shed- ding of a single drop of working class blood. The time is fast approaching when the workers of the world must realize that the only fight worth while is the fight on the part of the working class against the capitalist class. io. John Drew, Court Jester The death of Mr. John Drew, the famous light comedian, removes from the American stage one of its foremost actors. He was a darling of the bourgeoisie, their best court jester. His favorite role was that of the suave, well-bred man-of-the-world, the unattainable ideal of every petty penny-grabbing shop-keeper with an ambition to climb the social scale and mingle with the swine of the exclusive sets. Polite comedy was the proper set- | ting for his performances. | An ornament of the stage for more than fifty years this old codger was a social symbol. He was the embodiment of that code of capitalist ethics that has developed with the ascendency of the big capitalists; a code that viewed the daughters of the working ciass as legitimate prey for the gentlemen of the upper crust. As the polished seducer of other men’s wives, as the full-dress Don Juan the late Mr. Drew was captivating (on the other side of the footlights) even in his toothless and tottering dotage. He is mourned by many of those whose debaucheries he glori- fied as he strutted through a vast array of polite parts, written by sychophants whose greatest aim in life is to please the master class, to “crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, where thrift raay follow fawning.” Russian Industry Still Advances. Yesterday’s DAILY WORKER carried a report from the Soviet Union of the beginning of work on the great Dneiper river hydro-electric plant, which will be by far the largest of its kind in all Europe. The consulting engineer of this project is the Amer- ican builder of Muscle Shoals, Col. Hugh L. Cooper. Much of the machinery used for the purposes of excavating is purchased from the United States and many orders that had previously been placed with British producers of industrial machinery have been with- drawn since the Arcos raid and the breaking of trade and diplo- matic relations by the Baldwin tory government of forgery. If the United States government was on diplomatic terms with the Soviet Union there is no question that most of the orders for such machinery as well as for other products of heavy indus- try would come to this country. Aside from all other considerations there are indications now that at the next session of congress the administration is going to face a much more determined demand for recognition of the Soviet Union than ever before, precisely because of the fact that in Russia alone, of all countries of the old world, is industry ad- vancing and economic conditions constantly improving. Aside also from the class demands of the advanced workers for recognition of Russia, the most backward American worker cannot fail to perceive that orders for millions of dollars worth of machinery of production placed in this coun‘ey will assure more workers steady employment. eyade facing facts when to admit |realities meant to admit temporary defeats. Such was the case, for in- j stance in the great general strike in Britain when some of our own com- irades in the Workers (Communist) | | Party tried to shut their eyes to the| | fact that the strike had been betrayed | | by the general council and even In- | sisted upon trying to distort the \facts so as to make it appear that) | the defeat was in reality a victory. Again this defect, this romantic optimism, is apparent even today among many workers sympathetic to | the Chinese revolution who had placed all their hopes in the Hankow gov- ernment and are exceedingly reluct- }ant to admit that that government) j has abandoned the path of the revo- lution and that new forms of struggle ;must arise in order to carry out the | {next stage of that rapidly developing [national liberation movement. From Lenin, as from Marx and Engels, we must learn the folly of trying to create enthusiasm among the masses by perpetuating illusions regarding the outcome of class strug- gles. Revolutionary enthusiasm must be based upon realities and if the objective conditions are at hand for revolutionary success that is suffici- ent, because the modern working class, unlike other classes in history struggling for supremacy, has no need of illusions. Byrd and Chamberlin To Sail on Leviathan SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 12.—The S. S. Leviathan sailed for New York Today, carrying a notable company of aviation aces. Clarence Chamberlin, who piloted | the Columbia from New York to Ger- many, was a passenger together with his wife and mother. Fraulein Thea Rasche, the daring German aviatrix and Baron Von Krudener, aviation mechanical ex- pert, were also passengers. At Cherbourg Commander Byrd and his heroic comrades of the America| flight will board the vessel. Other passengers included senator Walsh, of Montana, William Crocker, Henry Russell and Baron Adolph De- ott of Czecho-Slovakia which is on a special mission to Washington. CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) exerting pressure on the administra- tion in behalf of its nominees for the many juicy plums at the disposal of the prohibition enforcement depart- ment of the treasury. We don’t care a tinker’s damn who licks the anti- saloon league but this column refuses to be incited into a fever of moral indignation over the alleged moral! turpitude of the conduct attributed | to Wayne Wheeler and company. j Wall Street tells the president what | to do in the matters that count most. | We refuse to strain at a gnat and! gobble a camel. |Bea Gold and Zimmerman Will Speak in Boston at a Mass Meeting, Thursday BOSTON, July 12.—Ben Gold, manager of the New York Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union and C. Zimmerman, manager of the New York Dressmakers’ Union will speak in Boston, Thursday, July 14, at 6 p. m., right after work at 12 Berkeley St. They will urge the Ee ORE necessity of workers standing by their labor uniong and defeating the attempts of the reactionaries to destroy them. Meeting is under auspices of the Boston Joint Cloak- makers’ and Furriers’ Defense and Relief Committee. | Dr. Konikow, Boston, Mass. . | Fred Lagelbauer, St.-Paul, Minn. 2.00 | E. Antkiw, Plainfield, N. J. ....6.75 CANIN Eva Le Gallienne to? Send “Cradle Song” | On Tour The Civie Repertory Theatre will organize a special company under the personal direction of Eva Le Gallienne to present last season’s success, Gre- goria and Martinez Sierra’s “Cradle Song” on tour beginning September| 1st. } The Lakewood Players of Skow- hegan, Maine will be associated with George C. 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