The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1927, Page 3

1 TNE NS RE <P THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1927 Page Three | |Infamtile Paralysis In Martins Ferry; Health ) Commissioner Politician COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 3.—There are 24 cases diagnosed positively more than two score of suspected cases | as infantile paralysis, and in three Ohio communities. | has already occurred. have been isolated, and - signers who are not physicians. POEMS 7d a de Sa Aa Patronize Our Advertisers. -—--|Professor Alexandrov ‘at his head-| infamy dare gi THE WORLD STRUGGLE FOR Onul And Soviet Russia : ° The Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey refuses to deal with Soviet Russia. i a | The Royal Dutch Shell | | British interests will not | deal with Soviet Russia. Representatives of both interests issue at- tacks against the world’s first workers’ ment. govern- COOLIDGE SAYS: j “The supremacy of nations may be determined by the possession of available petroleum”... 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CO. 83 First Street New York According to reports in the state health department, twenty cases, | / hy 9 diagnosed positively as the dreaded } childhood ‘scourge, have been found | | in Martin’s Ferry, O., and one death | In Uhrichs- | ville, and Dennison, O., four cases | twenty other suspected cases are under ob- | servation. Both Martin's Ferry and Uhrichsville employ health commis- ‘Soviet Industrial (Continued from Page One) ‘Development Rapid UNANIMOUS for the Kaiser and | the war credits! { The workers , were stunned! It seemed incredible! Perhaps the so- cialists e arrested; perhaps they were barred from the reichstag; per-! haps it was a ruse of the imperial Says Expert Here Professor I, Alexandrov, the originator of the Dnieper River pow- | general staff, a forgery. But soon er project, which will be the largest the damning facts became known. The ro-electrie development in Europe, voted as a unit for the war cre¢ That day, August 4, delibly bur into the mind of revolutionist as marking the great- est betrayal in all the history of the world. ‘The socialist leaders of the greatest party of the international had gone over to the side of the k x and his warmongers and had justified in the most loathsome manner the imperialist slaughter of peoples: { x * x arrived in this country from the ;Soviet Union to study large scale hydro-electric power plants and equip- ment factories. Professor Alexandrov | will negotiate purchases of structural | machinery, equipment, including ex-!| cavating machinery, and will examine 50,000 horsepower generators, of which seven will be installed in the | Dnieper plant in its early stages. Pro- ~ © |fessor Alexandrov intends to remain |here about three months. | | “Preliminary work on the big pro- ject is. now well under way,” said 1914, was in- evy HAT excuse could these renegades who had covered themselves with | ive for their betrayal? quarters at the Amtorg Trading Cor-| A few days brought the speech of | | poration, 165 Broadway, “and a force’ Scheidemann, vice-president of the! of 2,500 workers is operating. Ex-| socialist delegation in the reichstag, | cavation work for the lock system has | Wherein he proclaimed that the so-} already begun and work on the dam | Cialists were supporting the German | will start in August. A temporary|£0vernment because it was waging power house of 6,000 kw. capacity | “a defensive war against the black} @ has been erected for the work, along |7eaction of Russian czarism,” and @ with two portable ‘power plants and | @Tgued that socialists everywhere @ otter necessary buildings. Branch | ™ust defend their country against |lines from the main trunk line of the | *ttack by foreigh powers. The ofti-| railroad haye been built on either side ial organ of the party, the “Vor- i of the river. “German construction equipment waertz,” and many other party pa-} | pers declared that the war was being 2 ‘ | Waged against “the blood-ezar, has arrived and * escmerne ag pane against Russian barbarism.” Their | are ake Me “hid a vill | most learned theoreticians cited Karl shipmente' made Se nat 7 | Marx, who in 1848 had urged a war | bree sapete aapeirel eae pom |of Europe against Russia. In the| AUGUST 4, pens. That manifesto in full is as toilo “The fields of the Balkans are not yet dry from the blood of those who have been massacred by thou- sands; the ruins of the devastated town are still smoking; unemployed hungry men, widowed women and orphaned children still rove about the country. Yet once more the war-fury, unchained by Austrian imperialism, is setting out to bring death and destruction over the whole of Kurope. “Though we also condemn the be- havior of the Great Servia national- ists, the frivolous war-provocation of the Austro-Hungarian govern- ment calls for the sharpest protest. -For the demands of that govern- ment are more brutal than have ever been put to an independent state in the world’s history, and can only be intended deliberately to provoke war. “In the name of humanity and civilization the class-conscious pro- letariat of Germany raises a fla- | ming protest against this criminal behavior of the war provokers. It imperiously demands of the Ger- man government that it use its in- fluence with the Austrian govern- ment for the preservation of peace, | and, if the shameful war cannot be prevented, to abstain from any | Not one drop } armed interference, of a German soldier's blood shall be sacrificed to the lust of power of the Austrian rulers and to the | imperialist profit-interests. “Comrades, we appeal to you to express at mass meetings without delay the German proletariat’s firm determination to maintain 1914 ; that was ever to come from their} well to raly to the blood-drenched standards of their own governme |4Of the Frnch and Begian social we will speak tomorrow and _ pillor them along with Scheidemann & Co. ” * * | | NO departure from an accepted his- torical line, however great, oceurs without certain indications that herald its approach. Within the in- ternational socialist movement there: ~ were small groups in every country | that were sceptical of the calibre of the leadership of the much-vaunted German social democracy. There had | been straws to indicate the direction the gathering storm would hurl the international and most of these | straws blew from the camp of the German social democracy which exer- ised theoretical hegemony over the | Second international. As early as 1900 August Bebel, | the parliamentary leader of the Ger- : man social democracy, in a debate | defending the socialists against hos- tility to Germany, had said in con- | templation of a war with Russia: “You will find that in case of a war with Russia, the Social Demo- cratic element, which you designate as unpatriotic and hostile to the Fatherland, will perform its full duty. Indeed, if we were attacked by Russia, whom we regard as an arch-enemy to all Europe and to Germany especially, since it is upon Russia that the German reaction | rests, I myself, old as I am, would be only too willing to shoulder a gun against her.” This speech aroused a furore in the Current Events (Continued from Page One) to the consternation of his audience shortly af: his arrival in Canada on an impe drumming mission. Bald- win and two whole princes are out to} sell the empire to the Canucks. There is no attempt to k the mission in a grandilo g of the fancy n diplomats usually | putting over a bu | Phis is least som So far the t fallen off a horse. Per- g on the wagon, tho look it, | * * __feceeneebl AY ticket agencies that have n making fortunes milk- ing the visitors from Yonkers and Hoboken have promised to be good| in the future. :‘lhere will be no more scalping and the theatre managers not insist on a bonus from the Neither will the thirty- -week ticket office boys ac- cept two, thr and five hundred dollars a we rendering favors | | to the scalper Human nature is go- | jing to ¢ suddenly—auntil the | tumult and the shouting dies down| and the newspapers, prosecutors and | those who did not get theirs are satis- fied, either with publicity or with something more substantial. * * * CHRISTIAN scientist looks almost | as dignified as a Unitarjan but he | | a follower of Uldine|} Utle, nfluence of dog-bite. | | Mrs. Augusta £ tetson, who claims | to be a follower of Mother Eddy an-| nounced that Mrs dy would soon| | ® @ ® ® ® @ ® ® ® ® @ @ S ® @ ® @ @ & @ @ ® sulting engineer, has a staff of five American engineers on the job. “A good beginning has been made, and there is every reason to believe that we can keep within the estimat- ed expenditure of $70,000,000 and will finish the work in five years, “Soviet industry has now entered on a new phase with a rapid factory development in progress to take ad- vantage of the notable achievements in electrical power expansion. I an- ticipate that American machinery will play a large part in the newly con- structed industrial plants.’ Die-Hards Try to Balk Move to Probe most shameless manner they perver-| Peace, | international and as late as the Essen|Teappear in the flesh and tarther-} | congress of the German social demo-|™more that Mrs tetson would live | eracy in 1907, Bebel defended it de-| forever. The metropolitan dailies | claving that he spoke only in case of | featured this mental offal on the \'ted the opinions of Marx. They ig-| |nored the historical conditions under! which Marx urged war against Rus-| sia. They did not explain that at) that time Russia was the seat of | feudal militaristic reaction and that! | it ‘had helped crush the revolution-| |ary risings that swept Central Eur- | ope. They overlooked the fact that | | the statement of Marx applied’ only | to that specific and historically | limited situation, to a condition that | had long since passed and that it is a) complete and shameless distortion of | Marxism to try to apply toa struggle | between nations in the era of im-.| perialism the slogans of the middle | A solemn hour has come, more serious than any during the jJast few decades. Danger is ap- proaching! The world-war is threatening! The ruling classes who in time of peace gag you, de- | spise- yo uand exploit you, would misuse you as food for cannon. Everywhere must sound in the ears of those in power: ‘We will have no war! Down with war! Long live the international brotherhood of peoples.’ ” . . * EN days after these lines were written the great betrayal took place. The identical war they con- ja defensive war. When asked by | Kautsky—himself one of the most | loathsome renegades and who during | the world war covered his infamy with most vile perversions of Marx- | ism—how he could determine whether a war was defensive or not Bebel re- plied: “Well, it would be sad if today, when larger and larger circles of people are interested in politics from day to day, we could not judge in each particular case whether it was an aggressive war or not. A deception in such a mat- ter might have been possible in the seventies, but it is no longer pos- front page with a picture of Mrs.| Stetson that would stop a blind mule. On the next day large advertisements appeared in the same paper featuring | a Mrs. Stetson with a face that | would make Peggy Joyce look to her pea pack. Money makes the woman |as well as the man in these days, x * * | | MES: Stetson is at loggerheads with | the Christian Science Church and | instead of invoking the spirit of Mrs. | Eddy,-—-who is absent tho not dead,— ; to settle the matter the scientists are | | having recourse to a court. Just like | the pope who is quite nifty at curing! | the ‘sick by prayer, but relies on a of the past century. | demned and declared was not worth When, at socialist congresses the | the shedding of a single drop of pro- | Socialists had discussed the’ impend- | letarian blood was defended by every ing European war—the war that had | Socialist member of the German par- threatened for years and that every-|liament, bound by party discipline to one knew must inevitably be launched | the decision of the majority members. |—there was never” any attempt to| Whatever we may thing of the the- ‘apply the observations of Marx on) °vetical insufficiency of the procla- sible today.” | physician to wrestle successfully with Thus August Bebel, the battle-| his rheumatism. What Mrs. Stetson! scarred veteran of the second inter-| 2nd her fellow-frauds are quarreling | national turned his back on his own| about is not the embalmed spiritual past, when, in the Franco-Prussian | £izzard of Mrs. Eddy but the dough} | war of 1870-71, he and Wilhelm Lieb-| that the suckers enabled the Christian | necht, abstained from voting the war| Science church to accumulate. | credits. and went to prison for the! Yee eS |: | = er ad 3s = (7 -) | Russia in 1848 to the war threat: of 1910-14. This was only a shabb; ation of the executive its inability roperly to estimate the magnitude working class. The low political trickster and | AND it has come to_ pass that the | dove of peace has descended on ©9900 009 9SO9E SOO99HOHSEOBHOSEDESOSSSOG6SESSCSOHSOOOOOO €9890000088 | | a { { WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—Orders to | seize and impound the ballots cast in the Pennsylvania senatorial election last year were issued today by Sena- tor Watson of Indiana, acting chair- man of the senate privileges and elec- tions committee, to David S. Barry, sergeant-at-arms of the senate. There is considerable doubt about the outcome of this latest develop- | ment of the now celebrated case of Senator-elect William S. Vare, whose election is contested by his demo-)| cratic opponent, William B. Wilson, | secretary of labor in the Wilson ad-| ministration. | The doubt hinges upon the question | of funds to carry out Watson’s in-| structions, issued after all but two! members of the committee had ap proved the procedure in order to pre- | vent the ballots from being destroyed | on September 20, as provided under | Pennsylvania law. 2 | The committee has no fund of its! own and Charles F. Pace, disbursing | officer of the senate, is undecided as | to his authority to honor vouchers to | defray the expense of impounding the | ballots. Pace has taken up the matter with Senator Keyes, chairman of the | contingent expenses committee, who | is now at his home in New Hampshire. Barry is marking time pending Keyes’ decision. Try to Balk Probe. | The decision of Keyes will be inter- esting in view of the fact that he re- fused to countersign vouchers for the Reed slush fund committee last spring. That committee had several thousand dollars at its disposal, but a resolu- tion ~definitely extending the life of the committee having been defeated by a filibuster, Keyes ruled the com- mittee was dead and could not spend the money.. i | After the most eminent constitu- | tional authorities in the senate, in- eluding Senators Borah, Goff, Norris | enc Walsh, had held that the slush fund committee was a “continuing body.” Senator Reed of Missouri, the chairman, put up $1,000 out of his own pocket to cover the expense of impounding the ballots. Barry de-) clined to use the private funds and Reed appointed Jerry South, an at- torney, to act for the committee. Try Court Action. When South went to impound the ballots he was met with court action. The court finally decided that the senate itself must pass on the ques- tion of whether the committee is a “continuing body.” And there the matter stood until Waston initiated the new move. In the present situation, however, it was pointed out that there is no question about the elections commit- tee being a “continuing body,” and it was suggested that funds might be available under a general resolution allowing the committee to sit during recesses and send for witnesses. device by apostates to .conceal their | of the great imperialist forces then BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS , 1 ) perfidy and their utter depravity as low, grovelling flunkeys of imperial- ism. * * . ONTEMPLATING precisely the war that burst forth in 1914, the international socialist congress at Basle on November 24-25, 1912, had drawn the correct reyolitionary les- sons from the Balkan crisis. They reeognized it as a powder magazine whose slightest spark threatened to inflame all Europe and the whole world and their manifesto issued on that occasion declared: “If war threatens to ‘break out the working class and its parlia- | mentary representatives in all the countries affected bind themselves with the assistance of the Inter- national Socialist. Bureau, whose activity should promote unity—to | do all they can to prevent the out- break of war, by the use of such means as they find most effective; these means, naturally, will differ | in accordance with the acuteness of the class struggle and of the gen- eral political situation. “Should war nevertheless break out, it is the duty of Socialists to intervene with the object of putting a speedy end to it; it iS their duty | to make use of the economic and political crisis in the fullest possible measure to rouse the common peo- ple and thus accelerate the down- fall of capitalism.” Continuing, the manifesto declares that events in Europe then imposed upon the proletariat “more than ever the duty to pursue its aetivity—direc- ted according to a general plan— with a maximum of force and energy.” It proclaimed that the workers of the capitalist countries, particularly Franee and Germany cannot recognize the existence of any obligation whatsoever to join in the Balkan conflict, and that “the prole- tarians wegard as a crime shooting at one another for the sake of increasing the profits of the capitalists, satis- fying the ambitions of dynasties, or doing it for the glory of the secret treaties of diplomacy.” Two months before the Basle con- gress the German social democracy itself at its Chenmitz conference had adopted a resolution stigmatizing as criminal the imperialist conspiracies of the German government. That resolution affirmed that: “All bourgeois parties have en- tered upon the path of imperialism; they agreed unanimously to satisfy all demands of the army and navy. Social Democracy struggles most persistently against all imperial- ist and jingoistic aspirations where- ever they make their appearance and, on the other hand, unflinch- ingly creates the international soli- darity of the proletariat which no- where cherishes hostile feelings for other nations.” Even as late as July. 25, 1914, the executive committee of the German Social Democracy met to diseuss the war menace and on that~ date they iawaad the 14st anti-war proclamation moving toward war—there can be no question that even at that late date | there was no thought of a “defensive | War against ezarism.” That was the | cloak with which the traitors who {through their policy of August 4th, | Went over completely into the camp |of the imperialists. The final anti- war proclamation shows one thing at least—that whatever may have been the nationalist jingoistic ten- dencies of certain leaders, they did Page dare face the scorn of the pro- letariat of Germany until the war | was at hand and they had the aid of | the Kaiser’s censorship to aid them | against the membership they had so | monstrously betrayed into the im- | perialist slaughter-house. August |4th marked the definite break with | the past, the going over into the camp | of the enemy, not only of the leading social democrats of Germany, but the signal for those socialist leaders of the other belligerent countries as Haitian Workers Jailed by Order OF US. Invaders, WASHINGTON, (FP) August 3.— | Their president and many of: their | leaders in jail, the Haitian Federation of Labor has smuggled a letter out of Haiti to the Pan American Federa- tion of Labor, explaining the plight of their delegates who were to have attended the recent Pan-American Ja- bor congress in Washington, “Our delegates to your congress have been arrested and put in prison :by order of President Borno at the time they were ready to leave,” writes A. Paul, acting president, those thrown into prison. “By cable of the 16th we sent you a message to let you know what oc- eurred. But the All America Cables, after four days, gave back to us our message ‘with a note telling us that the government had established a censorship. We beg you to protest with us against the confiscation of the liberty of our comrades.” Want Congress to Act. The cablegram which was refused transmission reads: “Haitian association delegates to congress, ready to leave have Been arres with seven editors under pretext of offense to president of Haiti in dailies. Workers’ daily salary 30 cents. Freedom of press and courts destroyed virtually by projec- ted modification of constitution. Beg congress to raise protest against dic- tatorship in Haiti under which jour- nalists are kept in jail for months without ever being tried, and all that under American flag. Help Haitian workers by helping freedom of the press.” President Perceval Thoby is among! mountebank, ‘Phillip Schneidemann, and his associate, Suedekum, Richard | Fischer and their companions in in- effable infamy had indicated on other occasions the fact that they placed | the “Fatherland” above the interests of the proletariat. | * * | “new wars are being waged by the | imperialist victors of the last war! and more gigantic wars threatened | there are still valuable lessons that| we must Jearn from August 4th. In fatt we can never exhaust the lessons to be derived therefrom, No one expects the impossible and no one today embraces the illusion | that a revolutionary situation is likely to develop simultaneously with the outbreak of war, any more than it | existed in Germany or other countries at the outbreak of the last war. But that is no reason why the fight against war must be abandoned and the shabby fiction of national defense embraced. The imperialism of enemy | countries is not overcome by the workers supporting their own im- perialist governments, but by the| | workers of each country waging the | revolutionary struggle against their | own master class, The socialists of | Germany, had they followed the path of the revolution, instead of becoming renegades and servants of his majes- ty, Kaiser Wilhelm, would have voted against and denounced the war cred- its. That act alone would have given tremendous impetus to the develop- ment of a revolutionary situation. The enormity of the betrayal of August 4th is all the more evident when we recall that every advanced European country was faced with an objective revolutionary situation -be- fore the war was two years old. * * * 11 ion the pitiful and lying pre- text that governments are strong- est at the time they enter a war the workers were betrayed by the heroes of the second International. This fic- | tion must be exploded because as other wars approach we will hear the same treacherous arguments. The facts are that at the outbreak of war the government is weak. The slightest defection endangers it. It must have absolute unity of action on the part of the upper classes and subservience of the exploited classes. Governments at the outbreak of war only appear stronger, because im their desperation they strive to crush all semblance of opposition. This is not a sign of strength, but of weakness and he who does not per- ceive that fact is no Marxist and has no place at such a time in the leader- ship of the proletarian movement. To argue otherwise, to proclaim the strength of the nation on the eve of war is not only false, but it paves the way for the most vicjous war- 7 Topay, thirteen years after, wihien| | time opportunism and treachery against the workers. * * «@ TOMMORROW—“The Belgian and French Socialists Join Their Im- perialist Masters.” ¢ \ Angeles Temple and Aimee and Min- | nie, the religious gold dust twins ap- peared to the multitudes gathered to/ praise the lord, arm in arm. And Minnie and Aimee,embraced and os-| culated cach other. And the multi-| tudes murmured im player and said “praise god” and “bless the,lord.” And Minnie being full of the holy spirit of forgiveness said naught of the little | cottage by the sea or the radio opera- | tor’s romance. For she had found| solace in the lord and in her share of | the million dollar business that she| and Aimee had build up. And lo the/ suckers rose up and gave thanks that} the devil was ousted from the tem-| ple. And they gave offering to the} lord which was collected by Aimee. | | For it is said that there is one born! every minute everywhere and a goodly twelve in Los Angeles, | * * * 1 'HICAGO gets the Dempsey-Tanney fight and Rickard will pay $400,- | 000 for the use of Soldier's Field for| one night. Which is almost as much as it cost to build it. Tunney will collect in the vicinity of one million dollars in return for supplying Demp- sey with a movable hitting object. We shall look forward with pleasant an- + ticipation to the outcome because it is | good for the health to be like ordinary | mortals once in a while. And here} we shed a tear for the Gold Star} mother who protested against per- mitting Soldier's Field to be desecra- | ted by the unconscientious objector | Jack Dempsey who worked in the shipyards while her son was pa- triotically dying for his country. But! it is a glycerine tear. We cannot pep | our lachrimal conduits into activity | over the sorrows of those who do not | yet realize what their sons died for. They should blame Morgan. _ British Record Flight Fails. LONDON, August 3.— The air min- | istry announced today that a secret | British attempt to break the distance | flight record of Clarence Chamber- | lain has failed. | The announcement came after the | receipt of dispatches from Vienna} stating that a British bombing plane! had fallen in the Danube near Som- merberg, owing to defective engine operation. GET ONE NOW 14-Karat Gold Emblem (Actual Size and Design) SCREW-CAP TYPE $1.25 Sent by Insured Mail for $1.50 On Receipt: of Money by In Lots of 5 or more $1.25 each. No Charge for Postage. Machine Gun Nests Open air meetings are veritable machine gun nests of propaganda in our campaign against the capitalist enemy. aa gg From these proletarian strongholds, the machine guns of propaganda must pour forth a continuous rain of the deadly bullets of working class logie and argument, __ to batter down the walls of the present tem of exploitation. GSEeEBE From these redoubtable fortresses erected at the most strategic points on the fighting front of the class war, before factory gates, in proletarian residential sections, - in squares and ~ joublic centers; the Five Thousand New Readers for the Daily Worker will be recruited. 9a It will be the steady fire of the machine gunners which will break the enemy’s lines and bring daily conquests for our army. —* 3a @g Forward to the attack. Zag Forwaid to the goal of Five Thousand New Readers. > xi ch eae