The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1927, Page 4

Page Four ¥ SDAY, JULY 14, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TH B DALY WORKER) DANGER AHEAD! Daily, Except Sunday j Rane c ; : toile i. , y T. LOAF. League of Nations Council out of | watchful attention of the working 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 By T. LOAF ; the n ick Baer Teper aacate. : HINGS are moving fast nowadays. | date. : cf ae preae et ane Seon Seren eRe EE |4 Since the time we began writing) |New important centers of the fig! SATE RAS Pe Sess10n OF Ue: Le: j = BUBSCHIP TION BATES " ; these articles significant events have | of the imperialist powers for vantage | Gounell cuded than new nL aeted ‘ By mail (in New York gah ane ae Le oe sania tthe positions, are set up in quick suc-/0f imperialist powers began in the; 8.00 per year $4.50 six months x er year 4 been crowding themselves in a man- $2.50 three months $2.00 three months “Datwork” ner which makes the most recent| cession and are functioning simul-| Same city of Geneva, the so-called ed facts connected with the session of | taneously, necessitating constant and|@rmament conference, the true mean- | jing of which is the preparation for} a millionaire poker player answi Address ali mail and make out enecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, Ne Y. | a clerk who has ventured into {Great Britain and the United States | the eoming bloody struggle between | G “Speakeasy” Coming | Here Early in August Eric Blore, last seen here in “The host Train,” has been engaged by ja game for high stakes——by shov ing in a huge stack of symbols J, LOUIS ENGDAL, } Editors opponent cannot hope‘to match. olongagetiel eld business Manager een the catchword at the Geneva conference— - a 1) | See ees British De ambitions versus American imperial ambitions. 1 > . : Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y. unde! The heated discussions over the types and tonnage of cruisers the act of March 2, 1879. Advertising rates on applicaciot | especially the type of war vessel by’ which colonial and semi- ‘colonial people oy re . os . | barded and “protection” given to the swarm of greedy adventurers The Civil Liberties Union Has Mad a Serious Blunder. — siich precedes and follows the flag of empire. ss : Tht ses : ; i ‘Mefense of trade routes” is the phrase by which the The Civil Liberties Union, if it is to continue to carry out the| . ee ena i 5 tasks imposed upon-it by the role it has chosen for itself, that of |i" cruiser building is ago pa exat pone chien champion of the civil and constitutional privileges accorded theo-/ less — at one end of them at least, a colonia! nation trom 3 F RE PREC ES F er ee which tribute is wrung. retically to minority opinion in the United States, will have to} W aaa f bey : t r ; make some important changes in its very hurried pronouncement 2 ager ession — the ee undeveloped nations by upon and the methods used to reach a conclusion in regard to the| W es EE, is a eres See a unfortunate occurrences at therecent Union Square demonstration] | “mough has deen said Sheed ammics: } for Sacco and Vanzetti | written interchanges between the British and American repre- Contrasted with the punctilious manner Mm which the Civil sentatives “=. Ge a the Sie RD ae eid ge Liberties Union acts in investigating the ordinary run of free |of the imperialists have been furnished materia iy : 4 ; ih oi |navy which American imperialism intends to build. speech cases involving the question of civil rights, the method em- | re 5 ican nae ith jloyed in its “investigation” of the Union Square affair smacks} In Great Britain also the evidences of growing friction wi z cir Bi cnaicn proceedings Ameriean imperialism will be used to good advantage by the im- : It is ae s to Eee evén casually familiar with the facts | Perialists to still the complaint against increasingly heavy taxa- : rae Nicaea Ee a meaner tion accompanied by diminishing income. that the only in which civil rights became involved in the | : < i : Union Square occurrences was by the action of the police in break-| It should be noted also that in many of the debates the neces ing up the demonstration sity has been stressed by the American representatives of it Strangely enough the investigation committee of the Civil perialist needs in the Pacific. As Chana of fact, the struggle Liberties Tnion takes no mention of this unescapable fact. | for the control of China and the Pacific area, where the raat Likewise the committee fails, in its public statement, to men. | all three angie ae Poin fyeprigan. ane tion another almost equally important fact, that the police action; ere ae Shs ee Re re ths areas was procured by the right wing socialist party elements who were m ees ae eee the ase veasnerdig aie that both nominally in charge of the meeting which was composed largely|_ , *% #8 quite plain trom bie peg ee ey A of deft wing workers and sympathizers. | British and American governments have been somew at a arme Furthermore, by allowing Norman Thomas, a leader of the| by the Joe Sn pteaeons lap paige and have tried socialist party, to function as chairman of the committee of three | t° counteract the effect among the masses. on which there was no Communist or left wing representative, and} ae : : i Fi by calling no spokesman of these two political tendencies to give! ith one another but there can be-no question that at the Geneva 0 ea Se ae wy Te . Taton in this | conference there has been disclosed clearly the two great enemies oe i nn Cape srgedeecd is hier | of the imperialist world, the two enemies who are already prepar- A oe ery wae working |g the machinery for war which, unless prevented by the united sitio ese Oe uae oe ee Orne Hon of the British and American working class, will drown both In other words the Civil Liberties Union abandoned in deeds in their own blood. the very principle which gives it its excuse for existence—the theory that there is more than one side to every question involv-| Economics Blast Coolidge’s Political Hopes ing civil liberties and that all sides have at least the right to be} heard. Despite the assurances to President Coolidge that he had little The greatest mistake that the Civil Liberties Union made in| to fear from discontented farmers because the wheat crop was this instance was to denounce a section of the working class under | going to be a big one this year, the stock market in Chicago does the guise of rendering an impartial report. In this respect it| not support that view. The railroad magnates who travelled from adopted a method of procedure which is usually outlawed even in| New York to the Black Hills by daylight in order that they might >. Ss Ice capitalist courts-—--that of bringing in alleged acts of the accused| report on the condition of the farmers, saw but one side of -the} which have nothing to do with the particular matter under inves-|story—the rich fields of waving grain. But they ignored the tigation as evidence of guilt. We refer to the last paragraph of | other side—the fact that world production of wheat is to be much the Civil Liberties statement in which the irrelevant charge is/ higher this year than for some years past. made that the Workers Party has been responsible for breaking Government reports available on the stock exchange suggested up four other open air meetings—a bald statement in support of|a much larger supply for the 1927-28 trade than anticipated, so which no evidence is advanced and which is quite obviously tacked | prices on Tuesday took a sudden drop of from three and a half to on to the general statement in order to justify a decision reached | four and one-eighth cents per bushel over Monday’s closing prices. without investigation. | The only chance the farmers now have of obtaining a higher price We would like to ask the Civil Liberties Union a few ques-| for their wheat is the possibility of black rust destroying a large tions: |part of the growing crop. No matter what happens there is no (1) Did its committee establish the fact that thousands of| prospect of prosperity for the farmers. Most of them will not workers in the meeting called upon Ben Gold to speak? |even realize sufficient income to cover the actual cost of produc- (2) Did the committee éstablish the fact that Gold was un-| tion and ever more agricultural land will fall under the control of able to escape from the crowd, that he was picked up and carried | the mortgage bankers. towards the speakers’ platforms in a manner which he could not| In face of the economic conditions confronting them it is cer- !alone is enough to, corroborate this statement for cruisers are; are intimidated, their ports blockaded and bom-) Finally then, cruisers are instruments | The two great imperialist powers are not yet ready for war} for the supremacy on the sea in gen- {eral and the control of the Pacific in | particular. . Wits this “going on in Geneva, al | good deal of the ‘“unfinished| business,, of the League Council, that is the question of “peace” and stabili- | zation” in Europe and implicitly also | the question of the planned imperial-| | ist attack upon the Soviet Union, are} in a somewhat different form trans-| ferred to the city*of New York, to the} rooms of the Federal Reserve Build- ings, where the heads of the central banks of Great Britain, Franée and Germany are confering with the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New | York and some officials of the U. S. | Federal Reserve Board as to the | pressing financial difficulties and jurgent. monetary problems of the | main European powers. | All of them are, to be sure, tied to the strings of the American treasury {and the ensuing negotiations and | squabbles, coupled with corresponding | financial manipulations, aim at grab- | bing the biggest portion of the gold ! accumulation for the capitalist needs | of each of these contesting countries. | Leet at this moment France has | succeeded in out-maneuyvering the {other two countries, particularly Great Britain, by drawing to herself |a goodly portion of the English gold | reserve. But the settlement of this ‘ question is closely bound up with the | future of the Dawes plan, that is with | the fight as to whom should get the | biggest portion of the tribute squeezed |from the German proletariat by the| | workings of the renowned Dawes | plan. | Any change in the provisions of the | Dawes plan would primarily affect} | France and would once more arouse | the question of the Rhineland occupa-| | tion as one of the ways to insure the| payment of the tribute. This in its | turn brings in Great Britain’s part in} | the game, in trying to negotiate an} | agreement granting some comfort to4 ; Germany in exchange for Germany’s concessions. | RUT the “price” of these conces- | sions is ‘well known: it is Ger- }many’s consent to the financial and | | diplomatic isolation of the Soviet) | Union as a prelude to a coming armed attack upon the Soviet terri- tery. As the requisite of such attack, the main difficulties between the powers must—temporarily—be either | “solved” or set aside. And this lends | particular importance to the present | negotiations of the above mentioned | financial leaders. | THUS this time the question of the being directly put to the men respon- sible for the financial and conse- quently also the diplomatic course of the United States.. The government of the United States will jointly with |the American financiers be deciding now the question of a definite line- up for an anti-Soviet ‘coalition and | will no less than others be responsible {for feeding all the counter-revolu- tionary plots and a military expedi- | | Grew’s new farce will open at the jon her part she submitted to one of attack upon the Soviet Union is} Joseph Santley for one of the leading roles in “Just Fancy,” in which Sant- ley is to make his debut as an actor- manager late in.September. Other players for prominent parts are Frances Nevins, Charles Barron and Bernice Ackerman. / “The Mating Season,” Wm. A.| Selwyn theatre next Monday night.+ The play is showing this week in Stamford and New London. | An open air performance of “The! Cireus Princess,” will be given at the Woodmere Orphan Asylum, Wood- mere, Long Island, on Sunday July 31st. . | “Speakeasy,” a: new play by Ed- ward Knobblock and George Rosener, will be presented by William B. Friedlander carly in Aufust. The cast includes: Jose Ruben, Dorothy Hall, Valerie Valaire, Arthur Vinton, Paul Guilfoyle, Kate Roemer and Beatrice Lee. | Due to the death of John Drew, her uncle, Ethel Barrymore will not give her usual’ performance of “The Constant Wife,” today in order to at- tend the funeral services to be held in Philadelphia. stabilization of the franc, of a French loan and new German borrowings and last but not least to the problems of the Dawes plan, these actually would tend to settle the question of the new ascension of Germany as an impor- tant imperialist power. This brings back the question of Germany’s, relation to the Soviet Union and renews again the whole game between Great Britain, France and Germany that had been so sud- denly broken up at Geneva—but this time with the direct participation of the United States. T must be noted that since the break-up of the session of the League Council Germany was granted the “privilege” of a seat in the League’s Mandates Commission and the main demands of Poincare (and General Foch) with regard to the in- Spection of her eastern fortifications —this despite the vociferous protests of the German Nationalists against | the new humiliation of the fatherland. However, the seat of the Mandates | Commission doeseby far not satisfy | the coloniak and other imperialist am- bitions of Germany and consequently would be considered too small a re- | ward for Germany’s line-up against | the Soviet Union. On the other hand, in view of Ger- many’s new strength, particularly as a result of the Anglo-Russian break, Poincare and his supporters are clearly holding on to the idea of one of his demands, but will try to “sanctions” and will seemingly not be satisfied with Germany’s assent to one of his demands, but will try to the claimed “pound of flesh.” ACerS and again it becomes clear |44 that it is Germany that holds the prevent? (8) Did the committee try to ascertain what the result would have been had the right wing socialist chairman allowed Gold to speak instead of kicking this popular young leader in full view | of thousands of workers? (4) Does the committee take the position that Ben Gold, one of the most active supporters of Sacco and Vanzetti, should not have stayed away from the meeting? (5) Did the committee establish the fact that the huge Union Square meeting was largely the result of agitation and or- ganization work on the part of the left wing in the New York la- bor movement? (6) Does the committee know that had it not been for the decisive stand taken by left wing organizations and the workers (Communist) Party that in all bility there would have been no national and international movement in their behalf? (7) What is the i committee ci the practice of ghairmen of workers’ demonstrations caiiing upen the police to settle a dispute, real or fancied, between two sections of the labor movement ? , (8) ment of police by right y onstration and similar tar struggle in the needle trac (9) Since when has it been the practice of the Civil Liberties Union to select as chairman of an impartial investigating commit- tee a leader of one of the two political parties involved ina dispute? The Civil Liberties Union must give clear and unequivocal answers to these questions, repudiate the findings of the biased committee appointed and conduct a genuine investigation if it is really desirous of being regarded as an impartial agency devoted to obtaining the free exercise of civil liberties by all working class and liberal groups. socialists in the Union Square dem- a ” The game of-bluff and braggadocio played at Geneva seems to be nearing an end. Nothing has happened to change the main line which the misnamed disarmament conference followed from the start—that of showing the widening breach between Great Britain and the United States. Because of her bad financial and industrial condition and the existence of a powerful labor party which the left wing every so often prods into action, Great Britain has been at a disadvantage from the start. The United States, with immense financial re- sources, a still stable industry and a politically backward working class, has been able to answer all argument and threats much as ” i ine 8am asca ta iY Does the committee see any connection with the enlist-| employed by the right wing in the! 'tain that the farmers will not fall for the palaver of the Coolidge | | boosters. But there is grave danger of their again being fooled into following the equally vicious and subservient politicians of |the Lowden or Dawes calibre who are utilizing the misery of the | farmers as a spring-board to political eminence. | | So long as the bankers, railroads and the grain and elevator |trusts are free to gouge the farmer to the limit there will be no!| ‘lasting prosperity for him and the downward trend must continue | | because of inexorable economic conditions that are an integral! | part of capitalist production. | Without a party embodying the class demands of the workers |and farmers both these basic productive groups will sink lower) under the despotism of capitalism. The Coolidge administration, the republican party, and the democratic party are political de- fenders of the exploitation by the big capitalists of the workers and farmers and only political imbeciles can expect benefits from | such a source. | Federal Judge Defends Vare Election Steal. | In spite of the aggressiveness of Senator James A. Reed’s | committee to investigate the election steals in connection with the campaigns of last year, the administration is sufficiently resource- 'ful to defend the notoriously corrupt republican political machines }in Pennsylvania. The ballot boxes containing evidence of the wholesale frauds practiced by the political crook and grafter, Wil- jliam S. Vare, boss of the Philadelphia hooligans, and the equally | low practices of the Mellon machine of Pittsburgh, were ordered | placed at the disposal of the investigating committee. Upon re- |fusal of the election commissioners to comply a court order was | sought. | But a judge of the United States district court decides that | the senate committee has no right to obtain possession through /a federal court order of evidence proving that frauds were com- |mitted by a political swindler who wants to sit in that “august |body.” The man who came to the rescue of the Pennsylvania poli- ticians, by refusing to grant a court order for the ballots, was a \faithful republican who was appointed to the federal bench by President Taft in 1912, e learned judge insists that the senate alone in full session has the right to order the ballots produced. Incidentally the senate is not in session and before it reconyenes the legal time for holding the ballots will have expired and they will then be destroyed. All this trickery ought to increase respect for the practices of democracy as exemplified by the real leaders of the Coolidge | tion against the Soviet Union. lerecy of these administration, the Mellon political machine and their playmates in the eminent Mr. Vare’s machine. | key to the whole European situation HE Government of the United 2%4 to the question of the attack upon States will have to play now| She, Soviet cn eee ‘ openly its cards in the anti-Soviet abet rought in this manner to| game; then, despite the utmost se-|0U" original question. What was the conversations and attitude of imperialist Germany at negotiatigns, their meaning and the the session of the League Council? role of the United States in the whole | The full understanding of the German affair will rather sooner than later |/™Perialist diplomacy at that session become altogether clear. necessitates the explanation of the x new role of Germany in the so-called Not that the United States has not| “concert of powers,” that is of the by various indirect acts and tokens! present position of Germany in the ts ene its sepa Lar tes imperialist world. This will throw ¢ anti-Soviet plot. e shall try|also the necessary light upon the shortly to expose this hidden double-| question why aint Wenorable session faced game that is absolutely reminis- | of “the League Council broke up in cent and worthy of the glorious, ex-| disorder. 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While Britain’s con-| stant work against the Soviet Union| is shown recently in the reported hos- | tile machinations of Chang-Tso-lin | with regard to the Chinese Eastern | Railway, in renewed pressure in Af-! ghanistan to neutralize the influence | ef the Soviet Union in the countries | of the Near East, in sending the English light fleet into the Bultic waters, in instigating Finland’s im- pudent notes in the feverish military - preparations of Poland, and in many | more secret moves and machinations ~-there are new signs of tension be-| These three booklets a splendid offer—each teresting propaganda mate. tween Italy and France which, com- IN RUSSIA bined with the internal situation in ; Italy lend to the recent friction an ugly aspect. Furthermore, the ap- RUSSIAN WORKERS parent failure of the Geneva “dis- IN 1926 | armament conference” adds a new phase to the whole international sit- BATT—Wed. 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