The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, The United States Paid For Propaganda Intended To Crush the Soviet Union By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, HARLES EVANS state, declared that “the spreading of prop. in the United States was the most serious offense of the Soviet Government.” ah | recognition of the Soviet Union by this country. It is . In an editorial, September 17, the Pittsburgh Telegraph, a Hearst publication, replies | to this attack as follo “We complain bitte HUGHES, when of their (the Soviet Union) propaganda. But they not talk, write and legislate in favor of their Communism any more earnestly th: we talk, write and legislate in favor of our capitalism It is worth while, however, to again point out that “The American Government,” in the words of Uni Service (Hea 3, 1924, carried on propa- yeaa in Ru r to that which Secretary of State Hughes now charges the Russian Soviet govern- ment with conducting in the United States.” The Soviet Government has not sent its Red Army | to invade t. erritory of the United States. The United States has invaded the territory of the Soviet Union with its army. The Soviet Government has not financed military invasions of this country. The government at Wash- ington has helped finance, munition and feed every counter-revolutionary effort launched against the So- viet Power. was repeatedly advanced as an argument against | By SAM GARRISON. ® 1E sound and re: if y young ound eardrums worker and student | oletartan ideol- | own. This ery, shouted high school student, ainst 20 Negro 1 for admission to rson High School, Gary, In- nent of itself, and the which the statement | a strike against the ad-| on of the colored youths—are not | it of themsely They have | important significance | a manifestation of race clearly prick the bubble hat of the myth of American “demo-| cratic” education, as also the “acces- sibility-of-education-to-all” fairy tale. | * * * 'y, as is well known, is a great town where the vast majority f the population is of the working Of the exploited steel workers | Negroes form a great section. few 1 workers can their o high school. Hence, the chocl attendance is mainly of t ss and petty | tradesman type. id in their ob- servation of cl rences, all in the process of becoming 100 per cent kluxers. Their education, needless to send |Say, does all it can, directly and in- | dir crudely and subt' to in-| ten: the feeling of class differ-| jence, with its consequent breeding of race hatreds. | | Hence it is no surprise that the| |it is most difficult to attain a high Gary’s Young Kluxers for being so bold as to apply for coupon-clippers, attends. | And thus our youthful fascist. helps | the Communists in their task of rip-| ping the veil from this hypocrisy of al “democracy.” | * * * “But what’s to be done?” asks the | young workers. Education cannot be laid at the dis- | posal of the working class in the) ad- | “y JE’RE not going back to our classes | mission to the same high school that | unti amerson is white!” should} he, descendant of a royal line of| { |Trade Unions In U. S. 8. R Intensify Preparations To Defend Workers’ State’ 1] | 5 DEFENSE WEEK AND THE TRADE UNIONS. Comrade Tomsky in speaking about the tasks of the | unions in connection with Defense Week said that | tr BBOOKSS | | GOD RAISES HELL WITH REACTION. HEAVENLY DISCOURSE, by Charles Erskine Scott Wood. Press. $.50. The author of this interesting collection of conversations, which take place in a special heaven invented by. the ingenious Wood has succeeded in giving us a new angle on god, the devil and other celestial and infernal personages that peopled our youthful imagination with awe and terror. We had been accustomed to reading imaginary discourses between important in- Vanguard capitalist order of society. That has) it is their task to intensify their work in training the | dividuals who had passed beyond the dark ocean but no author before Woci become increasingly evident in the | last few years. The working classes | are not getting, relatively, as much| today in an educational way as they did 15 years ago, and in some cases! are even getting less absolutely. (We| are figuring on the basis of what the | worker produces today as compared | to his productive capacity 15 years | 0.) For the working class child | school education and practically im- possible to go to college—with the | exception of the children of some of the skilled workers. | * * * But much can be done even today to open the doors of education to the children of the working ciass. But every plan brought forward must acknowledge that the political parties | in the fields today are the parties| of the bourgeoisie, who are unwilling | to work for freer education (with | the addition of state maintainence), | and must call for a party of the| working classes and poor farmers, a} Labor Party. Young workers and young students The Soviet Government has carried on no propaganda | young kluxers of Gary wage war/must fight under the slogans of in the United States. It has no so-called paid “propa- ganda agents” in this country, as charged. Its rep- resentatives here are engaged in spending tens of millions of dollars in making purchases of machinery, | cotton, tractors, choice breeding stock of horses, sheep, hogs and other farm animals. But it has been shown, in documents published by the government itself, that the United States has been active in carrying on pro- paganda on a huge scale against the Union of Soviet Republics. * * * It is worth recalling this to the attention of the government at Washington, on the Tenth Anniversary of Soviet Rule, when one of the best forms of pro- | Soviet agitation in this country is the mere recounting | of the achievements of Workers’ Rule during the past decade. This the capitalist power in America, no mat- | ter what its strength, cannot hide. | Frank B. Kellogg, secretary of state, is a corporation | lawyer and on this Tenth Anniversary he should be | interested in the Senate Judiciary Committee's report in 1923. The inquiry of this committee unearthed a memorandum prepared by the then Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, R. C. Leffingwell, for the secretary of the treasury on December 10, 1917, little more than one month after the Bolsheviks deposed the Kerensky regime, which contained this recommendation: “I think the present situation calls for large ex- penditures for propaganda, and for relief, and that foed and military supplies should be sent to Russia, that so far as money is in hand, here available for the purpose, it should be used and that so far as it is wanting, the president’s discretionary fund should be used. “It is also important that the United States should decide promptly whether it will give aid to Kalendin and the southern Russians (fighting against Soviet rule.” | * * * The big point to be thoroughly remembered, that ought to choke every dollar statesman in Washington whenever uttering an anti-Soviet lie, is that the relief, food and military supplies referred to by Leffingwell ali went to factions outside the territory then controlled by the Soviet Power and opposing the Workers and Peasants’ Government. The United States subsequently joined the allies in extending virtual recognition to the white terrorist, Admiral Kolchak, and in giving mate- rial aid to his terror regime operating in Siberia in the war on Soviet Rule. | * * * The judiciary committee’s investigation disclosed that Leffingwell’s idea regarding propaganda likewise was carried out. The committee found: “According to a partial report by President Wil- son of the expenditures made by him under the $150,000,000 appropriation given him for the pur- pose of prosecuting the war, it appears that he spent $15,815,523.67 for investigation, PROPA- GANDA, relief work,” ete., etc., “in Russia in 1917 and 1918. . . The report includes . . $25,000 for a publicity campaign in Russia.” Washington cannot deny that this “propaganda” was conducted after Soviet Rule had come into power and while the United States and the Paris allies were at- tempting to crush the Workers’ Government and put Kolchak and Wrangel in control and continuing to per- mit Bakhmetieff, the ambassador without a country, to administer affairs on behalf of the counter-revolu- tion in this country. | * * It would seem, therefore, that the United States gov- ernment is trying to saddle some of its crimes on the Soviet Power when it charges that the Workers’ Gov- ernment is carrying on “propaganda” in the United States. The Wall Street tyranny that rules in Wash- ington, as revealed by its own records, not only carried on propaganda against Soviet Rule, but it fed, armed | and financed monarchist forces in their efforts to | restore czarism. Thus the United States government became responsible for the slaughter of Russian work- ers and farmers, men, women and children, tens of thousands of these noncombatants being massacred by the-terrorist armies. | x * * * * Tt is not because it is anxious to shake hands with the bloody fist of the Wall Street czardom, that the Soviet Government seeks recognition of and the opening | trade relations with the United States. The only | ambition of Soviet Rule is to lift as rapidly as possible the standard of living of the 150,000,000 of workers and peasants within its borders. It can do this with | the aid of American industry producing machinery and | | “true faith” and fail to avail them- |his whiskey and soda in the morning Jagainst the Negroes of that town.| |"These young bloods who have the| |leisure to attend high school, to be- comes athletes and social lions, are | prung from families that have been |living on the backs of the workers jot Gary for year: They have ex- |ploited the foreign-born and Negro workers of Gary (as well as the| American’ born) and have always | held them in contempt. Foreign-born | |and Negro have become for the chil-| dren of the leisure class only the symbols of a subjected class, an “in- ferior” class. The idea that Negroes might also want an education in the| same institution that the white man’s son gets his, seems preposterous to our juvenile hundred-percenters. And thus he wages war against the Negro “Open Wide the Doors of Education!” “Maintenance For Working Class School Children!” “No Race Dis- crimination!” | Young workers and students will take note that these demands were formulated by the Young Workers} Communist League of America a long time ago. The Y. W. C. L. urges | the working youth and those students | who have accepted the proletarian) ideology for their own to join our | ranks and fight for these demands of | the working class youth. Sea By a real Labor Party, by a youth fighting under the banner of the’ Young Workers League of America| —thus, and thus only, can the educa-| tional needs of the American youth | be met, if only partially. | (Continued from Page 1). torial letter from the entire Irish hierarchy which was read in every catholic church in Ireland last Sun- day. “He who swears an oath should stand in the truth in judgement and in justice, for to call god to witness a lie or false promise is a terrible outrage on the god of truth. In all relations of life let us as christains | and as free men have nothing to do} with telling lies, which is the vice of slaves, and especially let us remem- ber the sanctity of the oaths we take when we invoke the name of almighty god, judge of the living and the dead.” Ri Ow T is rather amusing to see catholic | bishops rushing to the defense of a protestant king against catholic sub- jects who wish to get free from his} clutches. According to catholic teach- ing non-catholics who have an op- portunity to get acquainted with the selves of it will roast for all eternity in the fires of hell. King George of | England certainly had this oppor- tunity and seems intent on spending his after-life in the infernal regions, | where he will not have the service of | a subservient flunkey to bring him or a breaker of champagne to quench his thirst. | * * * | ee church in Ireland as elsewhere is living up to its traditionary role as bulwark of the social order under which it lives and which permits it to suck its sustenance out of the ex- | ploited masses. It supporting the protestant British government against the catholic republicans in re- | turn for favors in Ireland, England and other parts of the world over! which the British flag flies. It is not| yet generally known that the British | government under the wily Pitt, founded Maynooth College, in Ireland, | a seminary which turns out priests for service in Ireland and abroad. Treland has been used by the Vatican} as a tool in winning concessions from | Great Britian and in the still more} ambitious aim of winning Great Brit- ain back to the catholic fold, * * * HOULD De Valera repeat that he} considers the oath an “empty for- | mula” he will draw down on his head the condemnation of the Irish heir- archy. If he is more of a nationalist revolutionist than a holie he will promptly tell the bishops to go straight to their devil and he will have the support of the Irish masses as Parnell had when the Roman wolves were snarling at his heels. It |to Wells is a federal merger of those | but if governments are convinced that writers. Of course the majority of them agree that such an eventuality is unthinkable, despite the fact that two bloody wars have already been fought between the United States and the “mother” country, when the ties of language and blood were purer and thicker than they are today. Com-|T mander Kenworthy, member of the British house of commons, has written a book on war and paints a most un- pleasant picture of the horrors that will inevitably follow in its wake. * * T= commander asked H. G. Wells to write something about the book and that prolific literary spider ac- ceeded to the request, tho taking ad- vantage of the opportunity to insert a few poisoned arrows into the anat- omy of his friend Kenworthy who had previously remarked that Mr. Welis was in his dotage because of comment made by that celebrity on some cur- rent event that did not meet with the commander’s approval. Ken- worthy does the best he can to horrify the human race by picturing the next was as an extremely hazardous un- dertaking, not only to the heroes but to noncombatants. He winds up by suggesting that the United States, England, Holland and Switzerland get together and refuse money, oil and stop watches to naughty nations that insist on going to war. * * * * R. WELLS, who is quite capable of transforming himself into a political donkey at a moment’s notice wielded a malicious pen on his friend Kenworthy. How could those nations be gotten together in order to make their ban against war effective? The toothless old league of nations is a dying example of the futility of a de- bating society as a ‘war-preventing machine. The only sdlution according countries, and the pooling of their in- dependent sovereignty in foreign af- fairs. But are they ready for this? Why Mr. Wells points out, not even the worthy commander would be prepared to submit this so- lution to his constituents who would trounce him at the polls for propos- ing to put the empire under a stronger league than the league of nations. * * * R. WELLS is a great novelist and in this case has the best of Mr. Kenworthy, but his anti-war polfey | is just as futile as the commander's. | Now is the time for an active paci-| fist campaign against war, he says. | Pacifism is ineffective and has an un- pleasant flavor after war is declared, | is a test for De Valera which he can- goods needed in Russia. Everything purchased so far has been paid for immediately, on a cash ba: Much | more could be purchased, and reconstruction in Rus: quickened through the granting of loans and extension of credits, such as have been given into the billions of | dollars by the United States government and Wall! 3treet’s international bankers to practically every cap- | italist country, Investigating the facts, the American working class | ean come to no other conclusion than that every effort must be made to force the government of this country to recognize the Government of the Workers and Peas- ants in the Soviet Union. not well evade. The Irish workers and peasants have never hesitated to break lance with the clergy on ques-) tions affecting political policies. The} hierarchy has always opposed the national aspirations of the people. Until thety power is broken there! will be little chance for progress in| Ireland. | * * * | 'AR between the United States and Great Britian is a popular theme ‘or many British and American} there will be defections the war makers may halt in their nefarious work, Nonsense. Wars are not brought about by bad men thirsting for human blood. They are the re- sult of economic conflicts between na- onal groups. War is inevitable as long as capitalism exists. When the workers seize power and reorganize society on a production-for-use in- |grain were purchased from July 1st, 1926, to July 1st, Red Army and the working masses. The workers must work in their industry but at the same time must not neglect to keep their rifles oiled. COLLECTION OF FUNDS FOR THE SQUADRON “OUR REPLY TO CHAMBERLAIN.” The Ukrainian Miners’ Committee donated 20,000 rou- | bles for the air fleet. The miners of North Caucasia | have ordered their own aeroplane. The peat workers of Yaroslav decided to build two aeroplanes. THE FIRST RUSSIAN POWERFUL DIESEL. | The first powerful Diesel of 2,400 horse power, has | been completed by the “Russky Diesel” foundry. Hither- to such motors were produced enly in England or Ger- many. The Russiar®make is in no way inferior to those made abroad. The plant will soon start the production of Diesel motors on a large scale. SPLENDID WORK OF THE YUGOSTAHL FOUNDRIES. The Yugostahl Trust invested about 18 million roubles in capital alterations in the third quarter of this year. It produedd during the first three quarters 1,487,000 tons of cast iron, 1,362,000 tons of steel, 1,093,000 tons of rolled iron and 34,000 tons of other metallurgical products. The production of cast iron exceeded by 4% the original estimate; the output of steel exceeded 38%, rolled iron 5% and other metallurgical commodities 4%. In the aggregate the original estimates have been car- ried out 108%. The production amounted to the value of 284.4 million pre-war roubles. The output for the year will surpass approximately 8-10% the original es- timate. The Yugostahl reduced its administrative expenditure during the first half year by 26%% which is even more than the instructions called for. The administrative ex- penditure increased by 2% in the South machine foun- dries which is due primarily to the wage increases. The plants of the “Knimugol” fulfilled the instructions only y 7.8%. The Collegium of the Workers’ and Peasants’ spection instructed these enterprises to take measures without delay to put the original instructions into effect. THE TOTAL GRAIN PURCHASE IN 1926-27. According to preliminary figures 6,832,015 poods of 1927. The total amount of grain purchased during the previous year was 5,843,506 poods and the purchase in 1924-25 amounted to 3,136,008 poods. 94.2% of the original estimates were carried out. Overhead expenses this year were 21% less than last year. In June 16,241.7 thousand poods of grain were pur- chased which is somewhat less than the purchases in June, 1926. HARVEST PROSPECTS. Agriculture has made further advances both qualita- tively and quantitatively in the U. S. S. R. This year we see, side by side with the growth in the grain crops an increase in the areas growing special raw material products for industry. The raising of cotton, sugar beet, cultivated grass, etce., has increased. he rate of this increase is considerably greater than that of 1926, This year also marks the further development of cat- tle breeding. The rate of development will probably not be below that of 1926. On the whole, this year’s harvest is estimated as aver- age or somewhat above the average. As far as the com- mercial crops are concerned the output will be about 15-20% above that of last year. The gross output as well as the marketable produce will be greater than that of last year. ADMINISTRATION ON TRIAL FOR ATTEMPTING TO DECLARE A LOCKOUT. The administration of the Tziansk peat workers (Minsk gubernia) arbitrarily reduced the wage rates stipulated by the collective agreement. When some workers refused to come to work, the administration tried to declare a lockout. The administration has been put on trial for violation of the collective agreement. CROP PROSPECTS IN U. S. S. R. According to data of the Central Statistical Board, the total sown area has increased 1% as compared with last year. The area under wheat in all the U. S. S. R. is larger by 4%. In various places, as for in- stance in North Caucasus and Ukraine the area under wheat increased 18-20%, The area under oats in the European part of the Union is 9% larger, All the tech- nical cultures show an increase of sown area of from 15 to 20%. The crop prospects are above middle. According to data by July ist, the harvest is very good in the middle “black earth” belt, and above average in Ukraine. In North Caucasus the winter crops are middle, the spring crops somewhat below middle. In Transcaucasia both winter and spring crops are above middle. In Central Asia they are below middle, and in Siberia—somewhat above middle. On the whole, winter crops are superior to the spring crops. Although in different regions the crop is chequered, the general harvest is expected to be near middle. INCREASED PRODUCTION OF TRACTORS. The employment of tractors in agriculture is becom- ing ever more extensive. Three years ago, the Krasny Putilovets in Leningrad produced its first tractors. In 1925-26 it already produced 422 Fordsons and since June its output is 100-125 tractors per month. : STORED IN AUGUST. In regard to corn storage operations in August, the Ukraine takes first place—549,593 tons, next comes North Caucasus—136,449 tons, the Volga district—64,489 tons and the Urals—16,196 tons, ete. DEPARTURE OF MOSCOW CYCLISTS FOR LATVIA. A team of Moscow cyclists has left for Latvia. It in- cludes the All-Union woman champion Galkina and the RSFSR champion Mironoy, ANTI-NEGRO SCHOOL STRIKE IN GARY By WM. PICKENS. Of course, it is the white parents who are using their children in the Gary school “strike” in order to force the few colored pupils out of the high school. They are doing dirty work thru their offspring. Just as in the South, those who want to oppress the Negro, use the women. When they want to down the Negro in Mississippi, they dodge behind the skirts. But in Gary, Indiana, they are hiding under the diapers. This is’ bad training for the young Americans of stead of a production-for-profit basis, the economic cause of wars will have automatically died. Then an era of peace and prosperity for socially- productive humanity will be at hand: e Gary. It will help neither their respect for law nor their inclination toward fair play. The students could not support a strike without their parents, The young people are ignorant and the parents are foolish. ) ' H had the temerity to harness god and his associates to his radical propaganda chariot. Indeed Wood has done more to place god in good standing with us than all the papal exhortations ever called to our attention by our neighbor- hood pastor. . * * In my youth I lived in constant dread lest I commit some misdemeanor that would be so heinous in the eyes of the deity that no penance no matter how exacting would restore me in his favor. I cannot say that I ever loved him. Did he not create hell, where mortal sinners were roasted for all time? And purgatory where second-class offenders sizzled for a few million years before they were cleansed of the last stolen banana? And limbo for un- baptized children? Surely this was no big-hearted fellow on whose broad bosom one could lay, his weary head when the cares of existence bore down with unusual weight on him. However, the fear of being carted to hell placed me officially on the side of god and in opposition to the devil, Old Nick never had much of a chance to put his position forward since god had all the functionaries on his side and he controlled all the avenues of propaganda. His business was flourishing and those who stood by him loyally and became part of the gov- erning machine had an assurance of a reliable meal ticket which few cared to risk for the precarious thrill to be gotten out of supporting the devil’s lost cause. Later on in life some of god’s representatives did violence to my sense of justice and I became rather sympathetic to the devil. But this did not last long. When a catholic quits his own god he seldom feels at home with another. So I came to the conclusion that there was neither god nor devil, hell nor heaven, purgatory nor limbo. Now I realize my error and am con- vinced that a useful myth is as real as a pleasant dream—as long as it lasts. * * * In Heavenly Discourse we are introduced to Jehovah, Jesus, Peter, Voltaire, Carrie Nation, Billy Sunday, Teddy Roosevelt, Ingersoll, -Mark Twain, the Blessed Virgin and other household characters.. The war is the chief topic of discussion and the majority of the heavenly inhabitants are anti-war at the beginning. But god is finally terrorized by the messages coming from the earth and Jesus has a devilish job trying to keep heaven neutral. Steady streams of war prayers come from the earth in the form of noxious gases. Battered souls of pacifists are carried in on stretchers and evil smelling evangelists give god many an uncomfortable half hour. Indeed some of the latter are so obnoxious that god deports them back to earth. Among those deported are Charles Evans Hughes and Billy Sunday. Bishop William Montgomery Brown arrives and is given a reception worthy of the organizing ability of our own Grover Whelan, but since he is still with us I have come to the conclusion that god inserted a new soul in the young rebel and returned him to continue his drive against capitalism and superstition. Heavenly Discourse is sound anti-capitalist propaganda presented so entertainingly that the tired worker will unconsciously absorb it, amid chuckles and grins. The author is a veteran of the civil war. The jacket of the book is adorned with his picture which is liable to be mistaken for that of god by those who do not know Charles Erskine Scott Wood in the flesh. The book is highly recommended as entertainment and radical propaganda, —T. J. O’FLAHERTY. MAGAZINE COMMENT. The current issue of “The American Mercury” contains a tolerant satir- ical sketch of the noted friend of labor, Charlie Schwab of the Bethlehem Steel Company. The article entitled “A Man of Heart,” is by Arthur Strawn, a newspaperman, The high priest himself reviews “The Rise of American Civilization,” by Charles and Mary Beard. The only other interesting feature in the issue is the Americana department. * * * H. V. Kaltenborn, managing editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, con- tributes an extremely stupid article, “Propaganda Land” to the current issue of Century Magazine. The article professes to be “a study of mass psychol- ogy” in the Soviet Union. * * “Plain Talk,” the new magazine edited by G. D. Eaton, a vociferous disciple of H. L. Mencken, contains an interesting article on prohi on, “Name Your Own Poison,” by Clarence Darrow. “Journalism as a Big Busi- ness,” by Silas Bent is a discussion of contemporary newspaper mergers. The book reviews by the editor under the pompous title, “The Court of Books” is consistently iconoclastic and therefore monotonous. The title of the new magazine is unfortunate, to say the least. * The October issue of “Asia” contains an illuminating ar- ticle entitled “Some People From Canton,” by Vincent Sheean. Some bio- graphical detail about Michael Borodin is especially valuable. * * * The second installment of “Money Writes,” part of a forthcoming book by Upton Sinclair, appears in the current issue of the Haldeman-Julius Quarterly. The book is described as “a study of the economic control of literature.” * * * . Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of “The Nation” writes on “Official Lawlessness” in the October issue of “Harpers.” The vicious third degree as practiced by the American police in all its brutal variations is described. * * * “The Communist,” the theoretical organ of the Workers (Communist) Party will be out about October 10. —S. G. BRIEF REVIEWS. GALLIONS REACH, by H. M. Tomlinson. Harper Brothers. $2.50, The author of this book is 58 years of age and this is his first, novel. As Frank Swinnerton says: “This book is packed with quality. There are descriptions—notably the description of a storm and a shipwreck—which enly Tomlinson could have written... .” If you like Conrad you will like this book. It is a good story. * * * THE A. B, C. OF EVOLUTION, by Vance Randolph. Vanguard Press. $.50. This volume summarizes the theory that man descended directly from some ape-like form, a theory now universally accepted by thinking people, An excellent little book for the student of evolution. * * * THE A. B. C. OF BIOLOGY, by Vance Randolph. Vanguard Press. $.50. This book deals concisely but scientifically with life in the animal and vegetable kingdoms from their embryonic state to their fullest development, The volume is written in a popular style and does justice to the subject. BOOKS RECEIVED; TO BE REVIEWED LATER Henry Ward Beecher: A biography, by Paxton Hibben. Doran. Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord, by Heywood Broun and Margaret Leech. Albert and Charles Boni. John Paul Jones: Man of Action, by Phillips Russell. Brentano, i What Every Boy and Girl Should Know, by Margaret Sanger. Bren- tano. -—_-_———___——