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

\ / Practice will have at least an equal subsequent run.” Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TH SDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1927 Deterding Seeks to Spur World: Imperialism to New War Against Soviet Union By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, $ . leg HENRI W. A. DETERDING, director general of British ii trust, is out with a new plea for open war against the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, the the Union of Soviet Republies. The Rockefeller of Great Britain’s oil industry shields his demand behind the which he c! the capitalist world a pid awakening of public lence” ims taking place throughout t the Workers This was the language of the tory cor Government. die- hards in England, well as the United States, during the of intervention financed by these two countries It has often been used since. Sir Henri makes his demand look rather ridiculous by accompanying it with the claim, voiced nowhere else through the world, that there will be “an early fall That ‘y past. s from power.” prediction also be- s lost in the hi The utterances of Sir Henri, published at great length on the York Times, Oct. 5, are import the voice, to a very great berlain conser government in England. Sir Henri says: “In no other country a fate such as that which has befallen Russia would have been possible, and the ab- sence of foreign intervention has been caused by the world war and its long drawn out economic conse- quences. Sir Henri inf that now that the world war is over, now that capitalist Europe has recovered economically | to some e. , that now is a good time to attack the | Soviet Union, especially on its Tenth Anniversary, Every argument advanced by Sir Henri, however, against t Soviet Union has been repeatedly exploded and should receive no |} g now, even among the most backward workers judiced by capitalist propa- ganda. FIRST:—The fate that overtaken Russia has been | the abolition of the oppressive rule of ezarists, indus- |! trial exploiters and landlords through. being d splaced | by the power of the workers and peasants, who count | this change the most glorious page in all Russian his- | tory. | SECOND:—Sir Henri doesn’t approve of the “con- fiscation” of the oil and other industries, especially the oil industry, He complains that the oil industry turned over to him, on paper, by the dethroned czarists, was “confiscated in June, 1918.” Sir Henri, shedding these tears, doesn’t even receive the sympathy of the Stand- ard Oil of New York, that is buying oil from the Soviet Government. THIRD:—Sir Henri praises the capitalist exploiters of the pre-war era as compared to the ability of the post-war owners of the oil industry—the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government—to conduct that industry. is a matter of opinion in which labor both inside as well > the Soviet Union will not join. As long ago , the British Trade Union Deleyation to the| Soviet Union, declared, “The existing (Soviet) economic | System has real vitality; it ean stimulate the economic recovery which peace has now made possible. Further, | that the proportion of present production to pre-war | compares very well with that of other continental coun-| tries.” | That | IMPERIALISM GROWS WINGS By Fred Ellis Did Young Roosevelt Blunder ties ought not to tread becfuse it will| lating the record of graft of the) By H. M. WICKS. 1 pee presidential campaign of 192% was launched at the state repub- lican convention at Rochester last x'ri- day when ‘theodore Koosevelt de- livered his vitriolic broadside against Al Smith, the Vammany governor of New York. So incapable are the Wall Street organs supporting the Smith candidacy of retuting the charges made by Roosevelt against Smith that they are trying to minimize it by try- ing to create tne impr on that even old-time republicans consider the speech a political blunder. Particularly ludicrous was the re-| action of the New York Times to the Rochester convention. I sat in the convention hall and listened to the speech and the demons tion. Un- questionably it v a well-staged af- iair with the heir of the Roosevelt tradition playing the stellar role. From beginning to end it was ap- parent that Roosevelt. was chosen to deliver the key-note speech because the national republican machine has imposed upon him the task of de- |feating Al Smith. It is not at all unusual for the jcapitalist press to distort the facts |regarding a convention of labor, but} what of a jolt to see the distortion of the repub- |it was som deliberate |lican convention as it appeared in the| Times and the World the next morn- It was quite evident y had been arrived at by Tammany, and the editorial scaveng- ers of the two democratic morning} that a} ‘ead to a contest in mud-slinging that would expose the real basis of city machine politics—both democrat and republican,—upon which many a na- tional political reputation rests, For instance if the Times and the World were not eminently respectable newspapers, above calling a spade by its proper name, they could smear the stick he used against Al Smith by Roosevelt heir with the same dirty stick he used against Al Smith by the simple expedient of reminding, their readers ot the fact that Roose- velt’s brother-in-law, Nicholas Long- worth, republican speaker of the house of representatives, got his start in life as the owner of a string of low dives in the red light district of Cin- cinnati, Ohio, where he was for | years known as “red light” Nick, be- |fore he married the Princess Alice. |The only cause for the republican old ;guard considering the speech in- judicious is the fact that the speaker himself inhabits a glass house that |could not resist well-directed stones of highly moral bourgeois indigna- Longworth record. The “red light” section of Roosevelt’s speech was not intended for New York consumption, but was designed to appeal to the millions of rural masses who are still swayed by such “political” argu- ments. It also comes with rather poor grace for a spokesman of the. repub- lican party to speak of graft, con- sidering the notorious record of the FOURTH:—Sir Henri declares that “the oil industry | papers of New York had received| Vale Philadelphia machine that has is too intricate and wants such attention to be success- ful, that it is the last industry that can be run by Com- munists or even by a State.” This industrial patriotism ean be forgiven Sir Henri since he is in the oil business. | It is believed, however, that there are other industries more i te. If it is more int 2, then more credit to the Soviet Power, since the oil industry in the Soviet Union has grown m rapidly than a other industry since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. FIFTH: Sir Henri complains that petroleum products exported from Russia still contain superior products. If this is true, then Henri ought to be first to want to! buy Soviet oil and extract these superior products for his own gain. SIXTH:—Sir Henri uses these arguments as a basis for combatting the extension of credits to the Soviet Union. Here is a revival of the old hope that the Work- ers’ Republic will be overthrown by a financial blockade. | But that has also failed. SEVENTH:—Then Sir Henri speaks of the cost of “millions of liv that he claims Russia has suffered due to the Soviets. Sir Henri will again fool no one. The lives lost by the Russian working class were sacri- ficed in defending the Revolution against the interven- tion armies financed by the governments of such busi- ness bandits as Henri himself. The British workers know this if Henri doesn’t. Then Sir Henri concludes with, “Theories have ruled these last ten years. Let us hope that years of sound Books of figures could be presented to show that the reconstruction on a Socialist basis of industry and agri- | eylture, in all their varying phases, has been proceeding Seat successfully in the Soviet Union. Such figures, however, convince profiteers of the breed of Sir Henri | and their governments of but one necessity, the need to destroy the Soviet Government that is so successful) since it is the success of the Soviet Government that imperils the capitalist social order throughout the rest of the world. * * * Sir Henri does not confine his anti-Soviet hatred and fear to mere propaganda, He is most active at this moment in trying to force the French government, like his British government, to break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. It is Sir Henri’s government, with his consent and use, that finances hordes of spies, incendiaries and ins to make their way over the border into the Soviet Union and carry out the plans hatched for them in Londor and other counter-revolutionary centers in Western Europe, to hamper and destroy Soviet industry, and murder Soviet officials and even workers, as for instance the explosion of a bonib in the Workers’ Club in Leningrad in June, injuring forty-two. = +* * One of the big attempts of British agents was the creation of a mew counter-revolutionary movement in the Georgian and Armenian Soviet Republics, “the home of Russian oil.” The attempt failed. Sir Henri’s at- tempt to spur world imperialism to a new war against the Soviet Union can be defeated by the united action of | international labor co-opera\ing with the workers of the Soviet Union. | tyrant. | WHAT their orders to refrain from a defense of Smith, but to assail Roosevelt as an irresponsible and impetuous youngster who, embarrassed his as- sociates. In the first place let it be said right here that Roosevelt is no blundering imbecile as the Tammany press would have us believe, but a typical spokes- man of the most viciously fascist ele- ments in this country and is fully supported by the republican party. His every act, his speech and senti- ments, fit him for the role of fascist At the same time he has learned the art of demagogy that made his sire, in spite of his blatant ignorance, the foremost political figure of the first decade of this century. By nature and training Roosevelt is fitted to serve well the imperialist banditti in their plots for} ravaging the world and crushing la- bor at home. No one who heard his key-note speech can doubt that he is scheduled for the second place on the next republican presidential ticket. The | Rochester speech was only nominally | intended for the state convention. It | was a national effort and is to be |used as the opening gun in the na- tional campaign. It is based upon the assumption that Al Smith will be |the democratic candidate for presi- dent. * * was the particular crime "Y of Roosevelt that so aroused the Tammany press of New York? The fact that the speaker proved that the tiger had not changed its stripes; that the wigwam on Fourteenth Street was still doing business at the same old stand in the same old way; that graft and corruption was rampant; that the state machine, like the New York City machine, had its roots deep in the slum proletariat, that offal of all classes of society * usually to be found aiding the black- | est reaction; that.the “red light” dis- | trict had crept up to the steps of the state house at Albany. All of the Roosevelt charges cannot be denied and that can easily be proved. It is common knowledge that Albany is a haven for the very cum of the earth and that Tammany has encouraged that condition. It has acquired political debts and must pay them by permitting organized graft and vice to run rampant. The re- spectable Times and the World hide behind that convenient defense mechanism of the thoroly rotten bour- geois society by declaring that such things should not be mentioned in polite circles, but should be concealed. | This is surely ground on which the capitalist politicians of the old par- were facts that} |now been taken into the official |family of Andrew W. Mellon, Charles | Evans Hughes, Herbert Hoover, Cal- |vin Coolidge and the rest of the bright and shining lights of that jparty. The republican ku-klux sewer {explosion in Indiana certainly is not |inferior to the rottenest of Tammany | administrations, while the oil scandals and veterans’ bureau swindles. still \rank as classic examples of modern high-power corruption. In order to aid the campaign against Smith a so-called committee | that has for its purpose the “purify- jing” of Albany has been created in | the state capitol and frenzied drives jare being waged against the pitiful denizens of the red light district who are victims of the economic system that compels them to sell themselves in order to exist. In all the annals of capitalist political demogogy there |is nothing more hypocritical than | these periodic drives against so-called vice. Roosevelt and all the others |who condemn one political machine | for encouraging organized vice are | always ready, willing and anxious to | win its support for their own camp. * * * OPHISTRY is the chief ‘stock-in- | trade of old party orators, and the ; author of the speech delivered, by | Roosevelt is an adept at its use. An ‘analysis of the effort reveals its shal- !lowness, though it certainly was | cleverly concocted for the purpose it | is to serve. The burden of the speech | was that the expenses of the state j administration under the demoeratic Tammany outfit had increased tremendously while the expenses of the national administration, under | Coolidge “economy” had decreased jover the same period of time. By |facts and figures Roosevelt proved a reduction in federal expenditures of more than 50 per cent, while the.ex- penses of the state increased by forty per cent. The speaker also cited fig- ures to prove that while national taxes were reduced state taxes increased. These. are effective arguments for use among the middle class elements and the taxpayers of the provinces. Of course, Roosevelt neglected to explain that the reduction in federal expenditures was due to the partial liquidation of the huge apparatus ‘ereated during the war and that | | there was still tremendous waste and| | graft connected with every phase of the Harding-Coolidge-Mellon adminis- \tration, of which the valiant Theo- | dore was once a bright shining orna- ment. It was indeed an amazing exhibition for Roosevelt to stand before an au- dience with a straight face while re- ‘ - tion, but they have forgotten the; |democrats when he, himself, as as- nt secretary of the navy under idwin L. Denby,‘ ordered the United | States marines to drive “squatters” | off Teapot Dome territory so Sin- | clair and Doheney could steal the oil Linde supposed to be held for naval | reserve. | Another demogogic trick was the jreference to the fact that liberty | bonds were selling below par under | the Wilson administration and now ‘they are selling at par. The eminent patriot did not deign to mention the fact that the bankers bought them be- jlow par when the masses of workers jwho had been forced to buy them | were selling them and that they were | again boosted up to par when the bankers had them in their hands. s “ * * | REING afflicted with the customary modesty of politicians, young | Roosevelt claimed credit for every- | thing under the sun. Wages, accord- |ing to the Oyster Bay oracle, are higher than in Kuropean countries because of the operation of the Mord- ney-McCumber: tariff act. “As I see it,” said Roosevelt, “the most im- portant measure tor the working man and working woman in the United States is the tariff. It is the bulwark which stands between them and cheap foreign labor. The tariff has created and maintained this aver- age wealth and these wages.” He refrained from mentioning the high tariff granted the textile in- dustry and the miserably low wages prevailing there. Like all other palpable funds in the realm of eco- nomics young Roosevelt relies upon the astonishing ignorance of the masses to avoid being laughed at. The thing that regulates wages is not the tariff, but the reserve army of labor; the army of unemployed. This army has increased at times to tremendous proportions under high protective tariff the same as during periods of low tariff and even today there are unmistakable indications of the beginning of a period of indus- trial depression in spite of the Ford- ney-McCumber tariff. This sort of clap-trap may pass muster provided there is no-deep going industrial erisis before the election, but it will have to be discarded the moment the panic arrives, just as it was dis- carded in the 1907 panic when Roose- velt, the elder, was president of the United States while a high protective tariff was in operation. * A PIECE of genuine stupidity was the reference of Roosevelt to the league of nations as “thoroly un- American.” Who would expect the league to be 100 per cent, protestant, nordic, native-born, while 100 per cent American, according to the ku- Klux ered5? +5 Big Boss Breaks News That Cal Is Canned PRESIDENT COOLUDGE is defi- nitely out of ‘the racq according to Chairman William M. Butler (above) of the National Commit- tee, manager in the President's at Albany? However, but one paragraph was devoted to the league, and that only as a sop to the anti-league past of the republican party during the days immediately followed the war when Harding was the figure-head of the industrialist combination around El-{ bert H. Gary and U. S. Steel and Standard Oil, then opposed to the league. Roosevelt conveniently forgot that Coolidge and the republican ad- ministration put through the propo- sition of American affiliation to the world court—the back door of, the league of nations—in response to the changing economic interests of the industrialists, particularly Standard Oil. Instead of remaining aloof from the league the conscious aim ‘of im- perialist policy now is to get in and dominate that instrument of interna- tional brigandage. But it would not be advisable to inform the masses, who have been led to believe that the league is a conspiracy against the in- nocent and harmless lamb, Uncle Sam, that the republican party has changed its mind because the eco- nomic interests of its masters have changed, so the league is denounced in, words while the question of its court is. passed in silence. * * . pe the two old parties there is nothing to choose as far as the working class is concerned. Both are parties of capitalism and enemies of the workers. Most of the things the republicans have said and will say about Al Smith and the democrats are true; likewise most of the charges of the democrats against Dawes, Hoover, Coolidge, Roosevelt and the republicans are true. We agree with both of them in this respect. The main task for the advanced section of the labor movement is to break the masses away from the in- fluence of these parties of the master class and wage a drive for a party of labor that is separate from and op- posed to both old parties. . As to the particular role of young Roosevelt, it is clear that he is being trained to be the republican candidate for vice-president. That means that a western man will be candidate for president. Quite possibly it will be Dawes. Certainly it would be diffi- cult to imagine a more openly fascist combination than Dawes and Roose- velt. Or it may be that Hoover of California will be the head of the ticket with Roosevelt in second place. The name of Roosevelt will be a valuable campaign asset in the middle-west, the inter-mountain re- gion and the far west and the repub- lican managers will make the most of this garrulous puppet. As to Al Smith, the republican old guard will be sadly disappointed if he does not head the democratic tic- ket. They perceive that to be the end of the democratic party as a major factor in American political life. They are anxious to unleash the wave of anti-Catholicism chat will “be char- acterised by the most rabid fanaticism this country has witnessed since head- hunters of “pro-Germans” prowled through 1917-18. Comment on the side-lines at Rochester was clearly indicative of the desire of the old line republicans to have Smith as an op- ponent. In this as in so many other things the eminent Times is wrong as it has stated editorially that the re- publicans want to prevent Smith from securing the nomination. Quite con- trary, the manipulators of the machine consider Smith the candidate who can most easily be defeated be- cause he makes such a fine target with his Tammany and Catholic con- nections. Typist Nearly Swims Channel. DOVER, Eng., Oct. 5.—Miss Mer- cedes Gleitze, The London typist, failed today in her second effort: this year to swim the English Channel. Miss Gleitze .was taken from the water near Deal after a battle of more than five and a half hours against unfavorable conditions. Soviet Government and Trade Unions Support the Workers’ Sports Movement ' , Impressions of German and Czecho-Siovakian Working Class Sportsmen. The group of German working class sportsmen, mem- bers of the German section of the Sportintern and the Czecho-Slovak workers’ sport delegation which partici- pated in the All Union Sport Festival in Moscow ana | visited subsequently 4 number of U. S. S. R. towns, © Charkov, Kiev, Odessa and others, have published a declaration which contains the following statement: “During our month’s stay in the U. S. S. R. we could see for ourselves that here the workers’ sport move- ment is supported by the Soviet government, town Soviets and trade unions to a far greater extent than in any other country. Physical culture is rapidly spread- ing among workers and peasants. The fact alone that in the U. S. S. R. there are over 3 million people in the sport movement is sufficient proof that in a country at © the head of which is the working class, physical cul- ture receives more encouragement than anywhere else. We witnessed everywhere enormous interest in physical culture, “Getting acquainted with the sport movement here | was not the only object of our delegations to the U. S. S. R. They also wanted to establish direct contact with the Russian factory workers. Owing to the cour- tesy of the Russian trade unions we visited a number of enterprises, rest homes, sanatoria and children’s in- stitutions in Moscow, the Ukraine and the Crimea. Our impression is that: “The working class in the U, S. S. R. feels itself free and lives in much better conditions than the proletariat of capitalist countries. Social and cultural conditions are steadily improving as industrialization and economic development progress. However, improvement of the position of the working class of the U. S, 8. R. greatly depends on support from the proletariat of the western countries. Both delegations who had an opportunity to i see under what conditions the U. S. S. R. proletariat lives, think that the attitude of a section of the Social Democratic press to Russia is harmful to the proletariat | as a whole. The greater progress the U. S. S. R. makes in socialist construction, the greater is the danger of a capitalist attack on it. Those who at the present june- | ture do not declare themselves openly friends of Russia _ are allies of the bourgeoisie. i “Long live the first country of proletarian dictator- | ship! “Long live unity of the international sport movement!” Danish Delegates at the Tanners’ Congress in the The Central Committee of the U. S. S. R. Tanners’ | Union has been notified by the Danish Boot-makers’ — Union that the chairman of the Danish Union, N. Larsen | and the seeretary of the Union, Comrade Charles Coch will come to the All-Union Tanners’ Congress in De= cember. Comrade Krimpel, chairman of the Esthonian delega~ tion and member of the Esthonian parliament said that during its stay in the U. S. S. R., the delegation famil- jiarized itself with the work of Soviet trade union or- | ganizations, production and conditions of labor of the proletariat. The delegation has become convinced that the work of Soviet factories and works is well organ- | ized. Industry in other parts of Europe does not give | the workers employed in them the advantages which Soviet workers have already received from the budding socialist development of industry and economy. Up till now the proletariat of west Europe can only dream of and long for such rest homes, sanatoria, creches and schools as are already the possession of the Soviet prole- tariat. The more truth about the U. S. S. R. becomes known, the stronger will be the faith of the working class of the world in the strength and justice of the coming socialist order. 2 The delegation hopes that its visit to the U. S. S. R. will bring together the proletariat of both countries, The Esthonian préletariat which has not adhered to the Amsterdam International will fight energetically to- gether with the proletariat of the U. S. S. R. for the es- tablishment'of one united International. rae EEO First Big Engineering Works in Central Asia. Big engineering works with four departments: mech- | anic, boiler-making, foundry and smithy was opened in | Tashkent on September 15th. The works will produce machinery for the cotton industry which was formerly imported from America and Great Britain. As the pro- | duction of such machinery develops a number of new cotton cleansing works will be put up. { New Giant Works. The construction of four new giant works is being | taken in hand this month: carriage building in Nizhny Tagyl (Urals), Petrovsk Metal Works producing 40,- 000,000 poods of metal per year, tool-making works near Moscow and metal works in Kertch, Crimea. Opening of a New Pit. A new pit producing 30,000,000 tons of coal per year has been opened in the Petrovsk district, Donbas. More Houses Built. That house building is proceeding at a good shown by the following fact: In 1922, 2,600 workers’ families at the hee pace is) ’ tory (Vladimir Gubernia, textile district in the centre of the RSFSR) lived in insanitary flats in private houses or in peasant huts. In 1923 the management of the fac- tory began to build houses for the workers and,‘now, in three years, only 500 families are still in private houses. In 1928, all the workers of this factory will have flats. Reduction of Cost of Production. The cost of production of necessaries of life was re- duced in Charkov, Ukraine, 2 per cent in August as compared with July. 3 U.S, S. R. Defense Saad. The sum of 256,390 roubles was paid into the Siberian fund “Our Answer to Chamberlain.” Leningrad trade unionists collected in “Defense Week” 365,000 roubles for the construction of aeroplanes, (A rouble is 50 cents.) LENINGRAD’S PREPARATIONS FOR THE OCTOBER . CELEBRATIONS. In connection with the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution there will be eight big exhibitions in Lenin- grad, reflecting all the branches of Soviet construction. People’s palaces for culture and education, which have | been built in the course of last year, will be opened in the Vyborg and Moscow-Narva districts. They can ac- comodate 7,000 visitors daily. In addition to them a number of schools and clubs will also be opened. There will be a water carnival on the Neva; all the workers’ town bands (5,000 strong) will participaté in the mu+ sical Olympiad, Are You Working Night and Day for the Big Red Bazaar? al It is also proposed to open on this day the powerful Dubrovsky sawing mill, which is almost complete. Tho Volginkinsk mill will probably also be opened on that good ’