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

e Many trade unions, the miners, the printers, the building ' ganizationally bound together in some. of their. biggest trade ! B: e Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1927 DAILY WORKER E Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday BS First Street, Now York, N. Y. Cable Addre=s SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mat! (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 $2.50 three months $2.00 three months | “Datwork” } Address all mail and make out checks to | THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE fvctctcccsssceetee Editors BEPT MILLER.........s-s0000+- business Manager Shee EOE Entered as second-class mai! at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. >. Mr. Coolidge Doesn't “Desire” Another Term. For a long time it has been difficult for the imperialist news Papers to maintain the Coolidge illusion—the idea that he was a thoughtful, silent, profound individual. The accident of Hard- ing’s death placed Coolidge in the White House. The myth- makers got on the job and began a campaign to convince the voters that the Down East pee-wee was a superman. The idea that presidents must, of necessity, be great men, contributes to| the prevailing myth that the government at Washington is the real government and not merely the cutive committee of the imperialists. Th il government is not the president and his cabinet, or congre and the senate—the real government is on Wall Street and directs the bure: atic machine at Washington | composed of governmental functionaries who carry on their work regardless of who comes and goes through the portals of the ex-| ecutive mansion. An imperialist ruling clique, a class that must exert its en-| ergy to stem the tide of human progress, that exists as a parasitic | growth upon society, does not and cannot develop heroic figures. | That quality is reserved exclusively for those whom history | places in the forefront of great social upheavals, or who appear in periods of reconstruction after social crises. Imperialism de-| mands not leaders, but mere glorified puppets. When they can} emo longer serve its purposes they are cast aside. That is what) happened to Coolidge. | On every political question Coolidge has failed. His “Timita- | tion of naval arms conference” at Geneva turns out to be the) signal for mad competition in such armaments. His grotesque antics in South Dakota proved to be no substitute for the deep- going farm crisis. The cynical contempt with which he treated the victims of the flood makes His name despised in the South. He and his secretary of state, Kellogg, have carried the policy of baiting the Soviet Union so far that they cannot be used to re- verse that policy at a time when the great oil combines have been convinced of the impossibility of the old policy of waiting for the fall of the revolution and have realized that in order effectively | to compete with their great British rival, the Royal Dutch Shell, | they must endeavor to get in on the ground floor on Russian oil. | Coolidge’s announcement that he will not again run for office! has far deeper significance than appears on the surface. It in-| ' @Beetes that the dominant forces in the republican party are pre- ‘paring for a change in policy. One of the dominant forces is Standard Oil, which is already carrying on a thriving trade with the Soviet oil concern. New policies will be carried out with new tools. The Coolidge illusion is exhausted; the game is up. New actors must appear on the stage. Therefore the republican party _will have to obtain another marionette who can be adorned with the trappings of a strong man for Wall Street’s puppet show at Washington. Just as the “liberal” Wilson fotlowed the conserva- tive Taft, so the republican candidate of 1928 will have to be one who pretends to speak in behalf of the impoverished farm- ers of the middle-west and who in words at least has some con- sideration for the cotton growers of the devasted flood regions and who also follows a more “liberal” policy in foreign affairs. But in the final analysis the successor of Coolidge, whoever i he may be, will do just as Coolidge has done—jump whenever| there is under way a concerted movement to replace the strikers understanding of an agreement with Wall Street pulls the strings. Baldwin’s Trip to Canada. Stanley Baldwin, head of the British tory government of as- Sassination, provocation and forgery, is “mid-summering”’ in Can- ada. Not for his health, but in the hope of reviving the waning ‘influence of the “mother country.” His speech Monday before 800 of the leading business men was an almost pathetic plea to Canadian industrialists and business men generally to abandor | Wall Street and return to Lombard street. He faces a task that American Imperialism Finds Coolidge Incompetent By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. ‘AL, the one time cautious one, has quit. Forgetting that his only hope was to continue the role of the “strong and silent man,” Cal essayed to play the cowboy clown before the aston- ished gaze of the whole world in or- der to appeal to farmers, wipe out the memory of his veto of farm re- | lief and convince the agricultural population that he was one of them, A SPECTACLE which has exposed Who Am I? I am the guy that wore the finest specimen of chin shrub- bery that ever provided cover for political bugs. EI almost got elected presi- dent. I am so dignified that I have my pajamas creased nightly. While secretary of state, | | \“Dracula” and Musical | Version of “Firebraod” | on Liveright List Horace Liveright has assigned Os- | car Hammerstein, 2nd; and Isabel Leighton to write the book and lyrics | | of the musical version of Edwin. Jus- | tus Mayer’s “ The Firebrand,” and ; Sigmund Romberg to compose the | | musical score for the opus which will | | be titled “The Dagger and The Rose.” | | Besides “The Dagger and The)! | Rose,” which will be a late fall pro- | duction Mr. Liveright will send the | the small soul of a Coolidge and given concrete proof of his belief that farmers are persons of microscopic mentality, cannot be called pitiful since it has made one anti-Coolidge vote grow where only one grew be-) fore, -but it is certainly no compli- ment to millions of Americans, many work that Coolidge has been able to get by as long as he has. But the glamor wore thin when it encountered the cold facts of im- perialist politics—foreign and domes- tic. fe the field of international politics the collapse of the Geneva confer- ence has dealt a severe blow to Gool- idge prestige. The failure of the con- ference to reach an agreement with Great Britain (agreement with Japan was of secondary importance) is not j of itself the most damaging aspect of this maneuver. The blow to Coolidge prestige is in the fact that American diplomacy at the conference was not able definitely to place the blame on Great Britain for the inability to agree, MERICAN imperialism appeared in the role of aggressor at Geneva and this has served to disillusion thousands of persons who hitherto had fallen for the bunk relative to the “peaceful intentions of Americ: The hostile reception which the f: farmer relief bill, made public by ex Governor McKelvie of Nebraska in the name of the Coolidge administra- and farmers among them,| Gompers and I had a lot of fun making war on the Soviet Union, but when Sam died physically and I passed out po- litically I took a job as paid adviser of the Standard Oil company and the first advice I gave for my salary was to buy all the Soviet oil in sight even tho the workers and peasants of Russia recovered it from the imperialists. | nature that even administration logg are able to. The crash of shells nchmen could no longer “keep cool exploding. among the huts of colonial with Coolidge.” | peoples must be made to sound more ilike a hymn. America must, be al- h ways doing good. Coolidge methods recent developments the ines-: aye too harsh, they lack the fire and |capable fact that American imperial- yomance which impels the youth of ism, now contending openly for world: the land to deeds of darring-do in be- domination, and quite likely in the half of empire. |mext five years to be engaged in a! f world war, dares not trust the public TILL further, and connected direct- leadership of its government in the, ly with the orgy of militarism, | hands of a mediocrity who appeals so; especially in naval armament prepara- | little to the imagination of the Amer-’ tion, which ‘will follow Geneva and can masses. ;give expression to the struggle for | ee, ae , world power, is the reluctance shown | Coolidge may have been cautious py Coolidge to sacrifice his economy | but he has also been clumsy. The | campaign, designed to appeal to the imperialistic adventures of the Cool-' farmers, middle class and lower sec- |idge administration have been pre-) tions of the capitalist class, in the ented to the American people in too interests of an “adequate navy.” |vaw a manner. There must be more’ Coolidge is provincial in that he jidealism intertwined with the bom-| sees American imperialism princi- |bardment of Chinese and the bomb- ar is in addition to these two /pally in its relation to the Western New York company of the “American | Tragedy” to Chicago, opening there in September. In September he will| also present here the “Dracula,” | which is an adaptation for the stage | of the Bram Stoker thriller published | a decade ago. Hamilton Deane was responsible for the writing of the London version of the book, which is ing a run at the Little theatre “Dracula” has been Ameri-| canized by John Balderston, au- thor of “Berkley Square.” Bernard Jukes will come here from London to. play his original role of Renfield. Among the other arodueonel planned for this season will be “Cover Charge,” a play by Samuel Shipman based on the novel by Cornell Wool- | rich, who recently won the prize of | $10,000 for a book of* humor; “Hearts | and Flowers,” the Ben Hecht-Roger | Wolfe Kahn musical revue; :in asso- | ciation with Al Woods, there will be} the production of the “Fanatics,” a London success; a new play by Edwin; Justus Mayer, and another new play by Patrick Kearney, adapter of Dreiser’s “An American Tragedy.” “Half A Widow,” the musical play toliewing its try-out in New Haven August 8th, will go to Boston for thaws weeks and then try its luck on Broadway. “The Kite Man,” a comedy by Bar- bara Ring and Sheldon Mackaye, has been placed in rehearsal by Ben A. Boyer for presentation at New Lon- tion, met with in the agricultural dis- | ing of Nicaraguans. triets, and which Coolidge was forced | tax F MERICA, like Great Britain in the to repudiate publicly, has been an-! i height of its other blow from which the Coolidge imperial glories, | boom was too feeble to recover. | must have a mission. “The cross, the | These two major defeats in two|cannon and the cash register” must! important phases of government! be combined more skillfully than the policy have been of such a disastrous | cold Coolidge and the quivering Kel-' parties of capitalism can effectively fight on the basis of the class H W struggle against the growing power and arrogance of American imperialism. The foremost section of the British workers have already shown that they are capable of drawing the necessary ; implications from the situation created by the decline of British | imperialism. We must develop the organized power to fight) against the rising imperialism of this country. The Strikebreaking Plans of the Coal Barous Must Be Met and Defeated By a United Labor Movement The interference of government agencies in the coal strike, up to the present time of a concealed character, is becoming open with the increase of sharp struggles in the coal fields—struggle which rank and file of the strikers are initiating in spite of the do-nothing attitude-of the union leadership. Altho there has not been much publicity relative to the ac- tivities of the coal operators, scattered news stories indicate that with scabs and open up a number of mines in defiance of the union. These attempts of the operators have been answered by the miners with picketing and the gunmen hired by the operators have attacked these pickets as in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Governor Donahey of the latter state proposes a conference of governors, operators and union officials of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. His proposal follows the sharpening of the strike strug- gle in the Hocking Valley district. There is talk of the militia being called out and there is little doubt but that the conferénce, if held, will deliver some sort of an ultimatum to the union. is Herculean. His platitudes about the integrity of the empire sound hollow and unconvincing in the face of economic facts. Of total investments in Canadian heavy industry but ten per cent is theld by British capital, while Wall Street holds outright more than 31 per cent. Canadians hold 58 per cent, but more than two ithirds of the Canadian investors obtain their short-time capital and most of their long-time loans from Wall Street, which makes Canada economically an American and not a British dominion. Z Baldwin talked the other day about the “invisible boundary” that needs no armaments, etc., but he must have known that there \is only the imaginary geographical boundary line, and that. the invisible financial chains that bind Canada to the United States imperialist chariot are too powerful to be broken by mere rhetoric, no matter how exalted are the sentiments in which it is couched. Faced with the decline of the British émpire before the | ascendency of the colossus of American imperialism, Baldwin | must endeavor to stem the tide, but his gestures will be futile— as futile as his attempt to outlaw the revolution in England by anti-strike legislation. The grim, inexorable economic movement that alienates Canada, and incidentally Australia, also paves the way for increasing discontent in the home country and eventually the triumphant revolt of the workers. As for the working class he United States, the spectacle of a British prime minister vainl¥ trying to arrest the inroads of ' American imperialism should injpress upon us the tremendous _ task that is before us in fighting our own insatiable master class. | More than ever must the realization of the power of Wall Street » impel us toward a determined fight against yankee imperialism. Fi of r trades, the railroad organizations, are international and embrace Canadian workers as well as workers of the United States. Or- unions the workers of the United States and Canada, by repudi- ating their reactionary leadership which plays the imperialist game of Wall Street, strengthening their organizations through drives to enlist masses of workers in the labor movement and away from the y Lage of the reactionary political welts ———— The Ohio operators nevertheless, thru the spokesman of their association, have refused to enter into any’ conference with the representatives of the union—an indication that the coal barons feel that as long as President Lewis and his official family do not declare a national strike, place the organization of the non- union fields first on the order of business and outline a militant strike ‘policy, they, the coal barons, have little to worry about. It is certain that the striking miners will not stand on one foot and twiddle their thumbs while the coal barons bring in scabs to take their places. They will fight back and sooner or later, as the actions of Governor Donahey indicate, there will be martial law in important sections of the coal-fields. Now more than ever is there needed a clear policy for the conduct of the strike. The striking coal miners will respond practically to a man to a fighting program. Their previous record of struggle and the recent sharp conflicts with the oper- ators show this conclusively. To leave such a splendid body of working class fighters to fritter away their energy in sporadic-lotal struggles when these struggles should be linked up into a national drive for the union- ization of the decisive non-union districts is a crime against the whole labor movement. The progressive elements in the United Mine Workers have issued a Strike Bulletin which should be circulated in large num- bers in every coal camp and which contains a program which if applied will win the strike. 3 Meetings should be called by eveyy local union and ‘a demand! made upon the officials that the whole union be placed on a fighting ‘basis imniediately. Playing at conducting a strike as the officials of the United Mine Workers have been doing since April 1 is simply playing into the hands of the coal barons as recent developments prove beyond a doubt. The United Mine Workers, the backbone of the American labor movement, can be saved from destruction only by open struggle against the coal barons, struggle which must be backed by the entire strength of the labor movement with financial re- Jief and pressure upon at state and the national government. { Hemisphere. In Latin America he grasps quite readily the fact that Wall Street has the sacged duty of rescuing the ‘populace from them- selves, but he has but scant ability to visualize and popularize the wider world interests of American finance capitalism. HO will be the choice of Wall Street to give official governmen- tal sanction to its domestic and foreign policies in this period of wars and revolutions? Borah? Hoover? Both have qualifications which im- perialism can ‘use in a president. One ‘has appeared as an opponent of im- | Derialist tactics—but not of policies— and even this oposition has never crystallized into serious action. The other is advertised as'a man of mar- vellous brain, tender heart and trem- (endous practicality. o® will the choice fall upon Lowden or Dawes? One is a farmer-banker and the other is a banker-farmer. | Whatever choice is made by the oligarchs and their under-cover men, | we can be certain of two things: first, | that the candidate will be selected for |his real or imagined ability to pacify {agrarian unrest, and second for his ‘the imperialist program of the gen- jeral staff of the American ruling class and ability to present it in sugar-coated form to the American | Masses. |THE next five years probably will witness the construction of the Nicaraguan canal—the waterway which will double the mobility of the American war fleet. The struggle for control of the Pacific area will become more intense, the hostility of world capitalism toward the Soviet | Union may well break into an open armed offensive at any time, the liberation movements of the colonial peoples will grow in power and the Filipinos, under the influence of the Chinese revolution and the pressure of American imperialism may launch a real struggle for freedom, the hos- tility of Latin America to the en- croachments of the “colossus of the jmorth” will express itself in more determined action,, ‘competition be- tween American and European in- |dustry will grow into unconcealed antagonism—the class struggle in America will be acknowledged by ever | wider masses of working class, the agrarian crisis. will become more acute. * ae such tremendous problems, up- on partial and temporary solutions of which the life of imperialism de- pends, a Coolidge is obviously incom- {petent even when surrounded by skilled advisers. In the expressive popular language of the United States, “he cannot put it across.” American imperialism, for the standard bearer of its principal po- |litical party, needs some one who can |render better service. {NOR will this fact be altered if the Coolidge machine is able to arouse a “popular” clamor for its chief in | the ranks of the republican pavty and pick enough delegates to tender him ; the nomination in spite of his declina- tion—a nomination which could be in- terpreted as an irresistible “call to service.” | Wall Street will choose then be- tween an Al Smith,’the second entry in the Imperialist stakes, and a Cool- idge which it is unable to rid itself of cue to the restrictions placed up: | on its “ree choice by law, custom and procedium, don with Stamford and New York to follow. The cast includes James Spottiswood, Grace Valentine, Arthur Aylesworth, Clara Blandick, Nelan Jaap, Nadea Hall and A, J. Edwards. 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