The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1927, Page 8

Page Bight THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. . Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Add aw SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year | Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiw New York): 50 six month of 3. $2.50 three months, $2.00 three months. | Address. and mail out checks to ek | New York, N. Y | THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, » under | nd-class mail at the the act of Entered as se A Senate No One Wants to Organize | | 2efusal of the democratic senators to take advantage of their majority over the republicans and organize the senate with demo- | crats in control of all the committees reveals the fact that the} is no longer in any real sense an oppposition democratic par party. At the same time it is a tacit admission of the fact that the economic condition of the country is such that each of the major parties wants to be in a position to blame the other for} co ast to act. | ‘ Car failure of congress | Never was there a better opportunity for a real opposition | to shatter the administration than is afforded in the present sit-| uatién in the senate. With the corruptionists, Vare of Pennsy!- | vania and Smith of Illinois, seated the republicans would have | 48 seats in the senate—exactly one-half. The democrats have 47 | and one senator, Hendrick Shipstead of Minnesota, is classified | as a farmer-laborite. But even with. Shipstead supporting the | democrats, the republicans with their full strength could contro} by.virtue of the deciding vote of Vice President Dawes, chairman | of the senate. | With Vare and Smith kept out of the senate because of the | revelations regarding the enormous corruption of the electorate of their respective states in their behalf, the republican strength is reduced to 46. This predicament, however, can be overcome} by the simple expedient of Vare and Smith abandoning all claim | to seats in the senate and permitting the republican governors of | Pennsylvania and Illinois appointing men to fill the vacancies. | Oil and t Were the democratic party an opposition party consolidated upon basic principles it would take advantage of the situation and fight to prevent the seating of Vare and Smith, Not merely would Shipstead be forced to support them in such a stand, but aside | from the most hard-boiled reactionaries, no republican senator who has to face his constituents in an election campaign next year would dare vote to seat these two obvious political corrup- tionists. The fate of the galaxy of senators that supported New- berry is too fresh in their memories. The democratic party, however, doesn’t dare take responsi- bility for the organization of the senate ‘for the simple reason that it.is, like the republican party, in reality two parties operating | under one banner. The dominant wings of eath of the two old) parties are political defenders of the economic interests of the most flagrant sections of Wall Street imperialism. Each of the parties has middle class elements that oppose almost every major plank of the dominant wings; Brookhart, Norris, LaFollette and the “farm bloc,” with Borah now in their camp, are the stalwarts of the republican oppositie#; Reed of Missouri, Wheeler and Blease form a rather incoherent but exceedingly noisy opposition in the democratic party. attempt of either party to enforce the program of its | AC. ARTICLE IV. (Continued from Last Issue.) pee desire on the part of Standard | * Oil of New York and the Vacuum | Oil Company to purchase Soviet Oil lis explained. s to explain the contrary i 5 i . : ‘ en for a time by Standard dominant wing will immediately reveai its lack of unity; and it | oz New Jersey. Teagle, as head of is the semblance of unity that is absolutely imperative in a pre- | this concern, had to consider position s "e 7 to fac ssi {and policy of the rival company, election on of congress. Any attempt to face the pressing Royal Dutch, headed by his. ‘close issues will result in a repetition of the breaking of party lines | +,i.,q”—Sir Henri Deterding. that accompanied the world court debates and the final vote. enamine Deer niee Both parties would split on international policy, especially mors of negotiations between ‘in relation to European affairs. The out-and-out Wall Street | Standard Oil and sd Soviet vm elements in both parties, which are the majority of both, Payor eee erie ae Bae ee bat Hed? steps toward the further penetration of Europe. The democratic h party is openly pledged to adherence to the league of nations, i e majority r i we ter the league indirectly : while the majority republicans would enter t g ly eats crekeneaahan.. satepalge through the world court. | apahint. Chel Boviewinidn: Domestic problems are equally dangerous as far as the unity} Sir Henri writes Se to leading ti 5 is already a shar ivisi | British newspapers predicting the fal of the parties goes. There is already A sharp Giecon on a MRC EERE aatickemont, rousing relief and flood relief. On the question of the Boulder Dam water- | epee power project the parties will also split because Wall Street is the j ors of czarist bonds and former own- dominant factor in the electric trust that is fighting against the ers of Rusia oil lands, cesete an ini 7 . t wi 7 g|atmozephere of ,suspicion and uncer- government chaining the natural power ey will throw upon the |salitty wid therebigvessiietrassing. State serap heap hundreds of hagerncd ot dollars worth of public utility | g..4q oi and hampering its negotia- equipment now in private hands. he begins, with the aid, advice and leonsent of the British government, 2 ON GUARD FOR MUSSOLINI ‘deal with the Syndicate. (The Soviet; Underlying recent developments in, SHOULD ANY SUCH CONCLUSION | Union Oil Trust). THIS, TOO, EX-! France—-the attempt to dismiss Ra-| BE REACHED.” Invariably, under such circumstances, - the breast of the hold- * , 19ZT GRECO ano ReLroe he War Danger Ceunt Revel, appointed by Mussolini chief of the Fascist Alliance of North America, is the power behind the law in the con- spiracy to send the two anti-fascists, Greco and Carrillo, to the electric chair. Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell Write a New Chapter for Louis Fischer’s “Oil Imperialism.” British and American Imperialism Fight for the Oil Resources of the Soviet Union.— The Struggle for the Oil Markets of Central Europe—-The ‘Friendship’ Between Teagle and Deterding—The Relations of Royal Dutch and Standard Oil— | International Polities—The Decreasing American Supply—The Sharpening of the Struggle—Oil Companies and State De- partments—Oil and the Jingces—Imperialism’s Need for Oil—How the Danger Will Be Removed— Latest Developments. By William F. Dunne | | | | | | | | | -_—» ;PLAINS THE SOCONEJ’S CON- CERN 4BOUT “STOLEN OIL.” W have seen already how Teagle dealt with this problem. at sword’s points—that is to say that American and British imperialism are Nin a titanic struggle centering around the immense supplies of oil controlled by the Soviet Union. Royal Dutch Shell has its back ‘against the wall, fighting to retain, its markets. There is plex*y evidence cf this, but we will quote but one news item from the New York Her- ald-Tribune of September 14: “The war between Standard Oil . .and the Royal Dutch Shell Com- pany,: precipitated when the former took over contracts for the distribu- tion of Russian petroleum, has flood- ed Europe with cheap Soviet oil, Mason Day, vice-president of the Sin- clair Exploration Company, said yes- terday on his arrival here aboard . .the Olympic.” ” Bee more important than the com- mercial struggle are its political implications and it is evident that the part played by the oil resources of the Soviet Union in international affairs at present hardly can be over- Royal | Dutch Shell and Standard Oi) are now : | tions with the Soviet Naptha Trust. About the only fights on the senate floor will be over the elec- tion swindles and the oil scandals. The democrats have already indicated that they will raise these questions, which are obviously for campaign material and nothing else. On certain superficial questions, of major questions that will j HE Standard Oil of New Jersey emphasized. a | 4 (Soconej as distinguished from So- jcony) is—or was—espccially vulner-! hable to this kind of an attack as well [as to more direct methods. Fischer | {tells why: | ' Soconej operates in France, | ' Herr Duisberg be handled in a superficial manner, the insurgent republicans, | teal, (eeematee Roantinawialant Ore Norris, Brookhart, LaFollette and company may align themselves |ecountries which are large consumers with the democrats, but only for the purpose of forcing conces-|of petrol. HERE IT COMPETES sions from the old guard of the republican party that will Be a ged deigc et Nar £ . + . j at is offici style - useful to them in the coming campaign. | rorENTON? 18 IN "REALTY CO. It is next year’s campaign that will overshadow every act of |OPERATION, for instead of strug- 5 2 i sessi Ss opens \V j gling against one another and thus re groups in the session of congress that opens Monday | oat Ahi cratiea Vice aaeatiane rning. |the two giants of the oil world. frre It will be exceedingly interesting to observe the antics of | agree to a common market price. Des those so-called friends of labor in both houses of congress who | terding, paar Leena received the blessing of the bureaucrats of the American f edera- | rently he threatened a. price “war tion of Labor. Mr. John L. Lewis, who supported Coolidge in| with the VACUUM OIL IF IT SOLD the last presidential election, was treated with the utmost con-) SOVIET PETROLEUM IN EGYPT. i > mi |The Vacuum is ready to defy him— tempt when he tried to persuade Cal that the miners of Pennsyl- I yery. Ilkalyn bacauine “tt dows, mob/eups vania should not be so openly crushed. With the arrogance of | pose that the Shell would throw down the class he serves Coolidge as much as told Lewis that the Amer- | the gauntlet toe the pieeere ag ie i acy is mi its s i jiecti sake of the Egyptian market. ican plutocracy is mighty enough to hold its slaves in subjection, eee ot RGER HAG’ REASON: 10 even without the aid of Lewis and his kind. [WEAR THAT DETERDING WOULD All the years of “great achievements” of the “non-partisan” |GO TO SUCH LENGTHS IF HIS i f i i ms ‘ BUSINESS IN ALL IMPORTANT policy of the American Federation of Labor has resulted in the | (otypRimg OF EUROPE WAS most vicious anti-iinion campaign yet waged. This alone should typERILLED BY AN UNDER- ~ be sufficient to damn such a policy’ as treachery to the labor | STANDING BETWEEN SOCONIES movemeut and should give a tremendous impetus to the agitation | (Standard of New Jersey) AND THE for the creation of a class party of labor opposed to the capitalist DO atone a oruiele wit ek the parties. bottom of Teagle’s disinclination to | Head of the German chemical in- dustry whose agreement with Walter Teagle of Standard Oil left Sir Henri Deterding out in the cold in connec- tion with the extraction of oil from _coal by the Bergius process. _|vineed that Britain is | kovsky, the Soviet Union ambassador, ‘the hue and cry against the Soviet | Union itself, and the debt and credit ‘negotiations between France and the Soviet Union on which an agreement has been reached, is the struggle be- tween Royal Dutch Shell and Stan- | | dard Oil—backed by their respective | state departments. pee New York Times for September |* 18, quotes an editorial from the Pravda in a Moscow dispatch. It | says: “The base means resorted to by the Franco-Soviet relations.” “The British have been trying to close the French markets against So- viet Oil, but Deterding’s agents have been defeated in their attempt to bind |the French nation to the chariot of | British imperialism. . . . eres more significant is a Paris |¥ dispatch to The Times from Walter Duranty, the most reliable correspondent of The Times on Rus- sian affairs and international politics in which the Soviet Union is involved. Duranty says, after citing the polit- ical gossip of the European capitals: “One hears a tale of a new rising of the Caucasian Mensheviki who are only waiting for French permission— Soviet—to launch a revolt supported by the ‘Cavalry of St> George,’ as the French term English gold.” “Tt is all vague and conjectural, but) sometimes behind the smoke there is; fire. Anyway, one thing is certain— the rulers of Soviet Russia are con- ‘out to get them’ by any possible means and that SIR HENRI DETERDING’S ANTI- SOVIET CAMPAIGN IS AT ONCE A PART AND THE SPEARHEAD OF THE BRITISH ATTACK. They say part, BECAUSE THE ANGLO- DUTCH OIL INTERESTS ARE DIRECTLY AFFECTED... one of the important factors in the Iranco- Russian is the question of ‘guar- RUSSIAN OIL ANNUALLY SUF- FICIENT TO RENDER FRANCE— AND POSSIBLY SPAIN ALSO, FOR THERE ARE WHISPERS OF THAT AROUND PARIS.-INDEPENDENT OF EITHER AMERICAN OR BRITISH OIL.” ait “There might be, it is said, an ar- rangement made with one or the jother of the Standard corporations ; WHICH WOULD DISARM THEIR OPPOSITION AND EVEN FACILI- TATE THE FINANCING OF FRANCO-RUSSIAN CREDITS. BUT SIR HENRI DETERDING... WOULD’ OBVIOUSLY BE HURT % Vt va oil people ended by strengthening | that is a French rupture with the | N antees’ for interest and repayment of | credits to the Soviet... THESE! GUARANTEES ARE SAID TO CONSIST OF THE SUPPLY OF It is obvious that with the Standard Oil possessing an importing, a re- fining and a distributing machinery divided into separate corporations and chartered by the French government, |(these corporations were rganized i | shortly after the war) and with con- |tracts for the purchase of Soviet oil, |Standard Oil can easily risk losing |some of its French income provided |its rival, Royal Dutch Shell, is ‘squeezed out of the French market. | | URANTY continues: i “Finally, this storm appears to be having the effect of diverting French attention from the original talk about the recall of Rakovsky or a rupture with the Soviet.” So far the. world struggte between | Standard Oil and Royal Dutch ap- pears as a development which, utilized {in the masterly manner in which it has been by. the Soviet Union |diplomacy,: seems to..have thwarted jan immediate offensive against the |Soviet Union under British auspices jand therefore to have averted for | the time. being the danger of im- perialist war, To some: extent this) is doubtless true, but. only fools will see in inner-imperialist conflicts a continuous guarantee for the safety of the Soviet Union, OT only does the safety of the So- viet Union from imperialist block- ade and invasion lie in its own strength and the will and the ability of the masses in the imperialist countries to defend the fatherland of the working class, but there is also the world struggle for oil, a danger to the masses of an imperialist war be- tween Great Britain and Amerida de- veloping out of it. While the main task of the labor) movement of the world is war against imperialist war on the Soviet Union, ! it is necessary also that we keep in mind the ever-sharpening antagon- | isms between the two world imperiai- | isms—Great Britain and America— which the phases of the struggle for | | oil outlined previously bring into clear | Telief. TUDENTS of oil and international | polities, especially those who re- alize the tremendous influence of the! struggle for the oil réserves of the | |world, which recent technical dis- coveries and processes have given) new immense values, are already do- ing something more than hinting at) the possibilities of a world war con-' tained therein, | Albert D. Brokaw, oil engineer, writing in the October issue of “Foreign Affairs,” takes a serious view of the struggle for oil. One does not have to read between the lines to realize that war is in the air, ~ (To Be Continued.) | alarm |lars at | high-pr j; cow denied that there was even a de- | Litvinoff raising the devil with the | Rockefeller, Jr. jhim of some of, the worries of travel. | strangers? | Shortage of $200,U0U in the funds of j of ail kinds flourished and gangsters ‘Red Rays | HAT little revolt in Ukraine is just what we said it was—a false All the “reliable” capitalist newspapers that have millions of dol- r disposal to spend on i correspondents and cable tolls, gave minute detail about the re- volt that had the Ukraine, up in arms against the Soviet Union. Mos- cent brawl in the Ukraine, but with imperialist war mongers in Geneva something had to be done, so the capitalist correspondents pulled off a revolt in the Ukraine. * * FTER the Associated Press had spread the story of the fake re- volt over the world, it began to in- vestigate the authenticity of its re- ports. And after canvassing the situ- ation thoroly it was obliged to come to the conclusion that there was nothing to it. Even Abraham Cahan, the anti-Communist editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, admits that Moscow cables are reliable while no eredence can be given to the product of the border states’ lie factories. * | | q li e | * 8 © EADERS of The DAILY WORKER who may be worried over the prob- lem of bringing up their children properly should take a lesson from that indefatigable teacher John D. While delivering a lecture on “Character, the Founda- tion of Successful Business,” the junior oil sultan told how his three boys paid their way while the family was on a European tour last year. John D. Jr. employed them, to relieve It cost him only ten dollars a week and the boys never thot of going on strike, HOw, to travel and at the same time enjoy the peace and quiet of a well-ordered home is the worry of proletarian existence. A carpenter for instance, must carry a heavy set of tools around when joyriding from one city to another. There is no need for this discomfort. He should hire his family to see that his kit is for- warded and that the porter who lugs it from train to cab and from cab to train is properly rewarded. And when our readers go on a world tour how much more pleasant it will be for them to put the whole family on the payroll than give the money to * * * ihe seems that the trouble with the proletariat is that it does not know how to manage its finances. If John D.’s miners in Colorado knew how to get along on $5 a day (when they are employed) they would not be driven to strike for $7.50. And John would not be obliged. to cali on his state police to butcher them if they re- mained happy and contented. It is unpleasant—even for a multi-million- aire Sunday school teacher—to have his. help murdered. Thrift, religion and business efficiency would make things right for everybody. . . fs the course of my duty, I attended the opening of “Electra,” a Greek tragedy with Margaret Anglin in the leading role. 1 am not going to say anything about the Sophocles play here. But the audience was worth looking at. I believe there was at least $1,000,035 worth of clothes in the orchestra, I noticed several husky males dozing thru the perfor- mance while their woman spent their time eyeing their neighbors’ gowns. After the thing was over the evening dresses taxied off to night clubs. it is not surprising that secretary or commerce Hoover finas the country prosperous. I had to looR at my Ingersoll now and then to keep my proletarian head, while in that multi- million dollar audience, HESE is one reason why the reacs tionary labor leaders are making war on the Communists: There is a sa SSR AR NRA EH district No. 9 of the painters’ union, it appears that a good deal of the money was lost in Wall Street spect lation. Five of the officers are der arrest, While all reuctiona: le bor leaders are not personally! dite. honest, the great majority of them look on the trade union move: as a “sphere of influence” whi they have a right to exploit to uycir own advantage. The most vociferous pa- twiots during the great war wer those ‘whose arms werg deepest in the national treasury. The most vocifers ous red-baiters in the labor movement are usually the most crooked, * . * qe democratic faction in Chicago | does not agree with the republican mayor of that city that he has crime on the go. Neither do we for that matter. But in the matter of unders world connections one faction /has nothing on the other. Under the Devers regime vice, graft and crime killed and hijacked with impunity. They are simply a little looser in their methods under Thompson, Wars are always won by the side with the “heaviest artillery” and since Thomp-= son won the last election perhaps the democrats have cause to grumble, Bub they had the money to buy the gutis and their failure to stock the arsenal cannot be blamed on ‘Thompson. -'The latter learned his lesson from the lo« cal Hearst sheets whose policy calls for the biggest army and navy in the world for the United States. —T. J. O°7FLAHERT