The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1927, Page 4

» the discard. = kor it. 494 Lenin _ = By WILLIAM F. DUNNE "Morrow, a partner in the house of | Morgan, takes over the administra tion of Wall Street’s interests in| ‘Mexico, Morgan himself, the head of | ‘the firm, takes over the administra- tion of the United States Steel Cor-| poration. Dropping the “Office Boy” The “cfice boy” policy of conduct-| img international relations and trust} administration seems to be guing into There are good reasons| The principal one is that as- cendancy of finance capital as against Industrial capital is now more marked | than ever before in the history of the United States. Domestic and Foreign Policy. In this period foreign policy andj domestic policy are inseparable and -sinee-the increase of foreign loans by American bankers is an internationa:| phenomenon. and interest and prin-| cipal on these loans can be paid by| countries receiving them only if they ean sell their industrial products in the world markets with a minimum of | restriction, we can expect that the Morgan chairmanship of the steel) trust wil entail some surprises for the high tariff advocates—the indus-| vial capitalists. Backs Bloody Rule J. Pierpont Morgan, international banker, whose father was called “Pi- rate Morgan” and who, himself, has extended the piracies. Morgan has taken the lead in foreign investments as a prelude to official subjugation as |part of the American Empire. Said About Mo Two of the four “main phenomena of monopolistic capitalism” listed by greatest importance in connection with the new roles of Morgan and Morrow. We quote: Thirdly; monopoly is an out- growth of the banks. From modest intermediaries they have transformed into monopolies of fi- nance capital. Some three to five of the largest banks of the most developed capitalist nations have realized a “personal union” between ‘industrial and finance capital; they have concentrated in their hands the contro] of many billions, which make up the greater part of capi- tal and money incomes of the whole nation. A financial spreading a thick network of de- pendency over all the economic and political institutions of modern capitalist society without exception | —this is the most glaring conse- quence of monbpoly. Lenin, writing thus in 1915, while in exile, explains the special signifi-| |eance of such surface developments Jas the appointment of the head of ‘the most powerful banking institution } in the world to the chairmanship ot | the most powerful industrial concern | in the world. Lenin in his “Imperialism” are of the} oligarchy, | rgan, Morrow -- { assumption of the operating part of the business. IT MEANS DIREC- | TION OF FINANCE AND OF | THE LARGEST QUESTIONS OF POLICY. (Our Emphasis.) Now for the appointment of Mor- row of the house of Morgan as Mex- ican ambassador. Lenin continues: Fourthly, monopoly grew out of colonial policy. To the numerous “old” motives on which the colonial policy was based, finance capital added the struggle for the sources of raw materials, for the export of capital, for “spheres of influences,” that is, for spheres of advantage- ous transactions, concessions, mon- opolistic profits, ete. and finally for economic territory in general. (Our emphasis.) What it Means. It is clear that the new activity of the house of Morgan indicates to some extent at least a new stage in im- perialist development. It would be a bold statement to make if we were to say that the open appearance of Morgan and Morrow in the active |field of industry and diplomacy meant that American imperialism has passed its peak. Yet there are signs that the present—and_ increasing — in- dustrial depression is not a crisis of | growth, as previous ones have been, ATL\§ WORKER, NEW YORK, SATORDAY, DECEMBER 31, your Aids American Empire | Dwight W. Morrow, a partner in the House of Morgan, has taken over the administration of Wall Street’s interests in Mexico. The huge finan- cial interests no longer trust their | mediocre “office boys” to the job of | robbing “weaker nations.” , Ship of imperialist policy in two of its |most important fields—-heavy indus- - Extension of Wall Street Rul Monopolies, the financial oli- garchy, the tendency toward dom- ination instead of the tendencies toward freedom, the exploitation of an ever greater number of the smaller and weaker nations by a handful of the larger and more powerful ones—all this has pro- duced those peculiar characteristics of imperialism which cause us to characterize it as parasitic or stag- nating capitalism. The develop- ment of the “investor nation,” the usurer nation, whose bourgeoisie lives on export capital and by “clip- ping coupons,” appears more and more glaringly ms one of the ten- dencies of imperialism. It would be erroneous to think that this tend- ency toward stagnation precludes the rapid growth of capitalism, for such is not the case. Individual branches of industry, individual _ Strata of the bourgeoisie, individual nations show, in the epoch of im- perialism, more or less forcibly one or the other of these tendencies. In general, capitalism develops with incomparable greater rapidity than before, but this development be- comes generally not only ever more incongruous, but this incongruity appears also in the stagnation of the countries most powerful in capi- tal (England) (Our Emphasis.) paign, in which the house of Morga: will try to tighten its grip on the masses thm further centralization — {and control of government, without a mass party of labor—with the of- | ficial leaders of the labor movement betraying the working class to the two parties of the House of Morgan. Never Were There Bigger Tasks. Never in the history of the Unitea States, not even in the period ‘pre- ceding, during and immediately fol- lowing’ the war, have greater tasks confronted the Communists and’ the militant workers who realize the danger and the need for effective or- ganization and struggle. Conquest of Latin America, of coveted areas in the Pacifie and other parts of the world can not be ¢artied out unless the conquest of the American working class is accom- plished. The Main Point in the Program gehis is the main point in the domestic program of Wall Street, In the fight against this slave scheme, whose workings we see already.in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado, the |labor movement must first of all ex- pose and defeat the official leaders |who are a part of the imperialist. | machinery. Minimum Necessities. r | ry sti ‘ but of decay. v The “election” of Morgan to the! — cere —— —— ~ The Lungest Questions of Policy. | pa ‘ 7 ‘ i haliwnanship of the steel Teint ‘boara | Rifieance in connection with the| The New York Evening Post for Marks Greater Imperialist |try and the principal area of colonial | American “prosperity” ebbs and Mor-| en Jpbot ica seat we in @f directors and the appointment of | Wh0le policy of American imperialism.| Dec, 28 confirms Lenin’s estimate. Development. eee so eo eral ah eesti gan the financier takes over the steel ‘ond of Shree in bane industey fk "3 “shaes ; i RS . A | Raitor} A eat i “tal 7 r a further development toward what |trust while its production varies from Be, Morrow as Mexican ambassador are Two Basic Points. | Editorially it says: It is certain, however, that the : 2 pAseh ; f D : pt not only directly connected as in-| “In its economic essence,” said; Yet, after all, the chairmanship |rapid rise is sees capital, ee fae eset parasitic or stagna- eee per cent of teed re Mihabilinods there ceest ue ood i ind venin, jali : isti 2 is el rauch pressed in the appointment of two % 5 are’ engaged in lowering fur- Santonee ‘ tegral parts of the policy of finance| Lenin, “Imperialism is monopolistic! of the board is pretty tuch a PO RIAC A Eris leohnedtlete nace cost by coal | Tevolutionization of the working 7 smashing the of its leading figures to the leader- From Historian to Hysterian James Oneal’s Review of the “History of the American Working Class.” banker’s job. It does not mean the ae W. L. Camaraderie With the Young Workers | Conducted by the Young Workers’ League tapital, but they have a special sig- capitalism.’ class. These are minimum necessities yet they can not be accomplished ff the control of the labor movement re- mains in the hands of the Wolls, Greens and Lewises who have led the workers into a period when Morgan heads the steel trust while less than 3,000,000 workers are organized in unions whose policy and structure miners’ union. The Sharpening Conflicts. Morrow, the Morgan partner, takes jeontrol of imperialist policev in Latin |America and becomes the leading figure in the state department when jimperialist rivalry, especially with Great Britain, is marked by the col- lapse of the Geneva conference and Big Labor Sports Meet in Detroit ‘ DETROIT, Mich. Dec: 30.—The best worker athletes from all over the eountry will have a chance to “do their stuff” at the second annual in- door athletic and gymnastic tourna- ment of the Labor Sports Union of merica. The meet will be held here “At the Finnish Labor Temple 5969 14th Street on the 28 and 29th of January. Last year the firkt indoor meet was organized by a nimber of workers worts clubs. In connection with the aet méet™a conference was held which ushered in the Labor Sports Union. This organization was crys- tallized by the desire on the part of the Workers for clean sports and jongst the working class, “well known fact that the! ‘and sports, as they are con-| y the capitalists, are full of ion, bribery and commercial-} ‘that it is used to spread anti- ig class ideas. _ secretary of the Labor Sports is Paul Cline, a member of thers’ Union of Chicago, edi- ‘the sports news in the Chicago | ‘News and also the sports news| of the Chicago Federation | Walter Burke, exec- member of the Street Carmen’s| is president of the Detroit sec-| ‘the Labor Sports Union, where | {labor act in Britain. The four and |six hour day with pay for eight hours, | the month’s vacation each year with ful schools are but a few of the benefits which the young workers of the U. |S. S. R. have gained as a result of the glorious October Revolution. “In capitalist countries we find vo- cational training schools are few. Only a very few of the petty bour- gcois youth can attend, to be trained for overseer and strike-breakers. “The reverse exists in the Soviet Union. We ourselves have seen that young workers are developing into a race of skilled workmen who thoroly understand their work and who are able to take their place in the front ranks of the workers who are aiming at Socialism.” The report is signed by William 0. Claney (chairman) [. L. P. Guild ot Youth, Robert McAllister, Guild of Youth, R. Newlands, Y. C. L., T. Barrows, M. McArthy (secretary), M. C. Thomas, Y. C. L, D. T. Hawker, Guild of Youth, C. Ralphe, Guild of Youth, BOOTLEGGERS LOSE $7,500,000. NEWARK, N. J., Dee. 30.—A loss of $7,500,000 was suffered by boot- leggers of this state through confis- cation, according to James M. Doran, prohibition commissioner. This fig- ure is twice that of bootleggers’ losses in any other state. pay and the vocational training} as a result of their training, the | | i The comrades of the Young Work- ers League, district two, are prepared the camaraderie to be held January 14th at the Freiheit Gesangs Hall, 133 Second Avenue, N. Y. C. Plan Liebknecht Meet in Detroit The Young Workers (Communist) League of Detroit is planning to com- ;memorate the memory of Karl Lieb- | knecht and Rosa Luxemberg, who so | bravely gave up their lives in their struggles against ‘militarism, with one of the biggest Liebknecht | Memorial Meetings yet held in De- |troit. The meeting will be held Sun- |day, February 5th, 2:30 p. m. at the! New Workers Home, 1348 E. Ferry Ave. sent meet is being held. program for the meet is as fol | | | Gymnastics. | Appar.tus-Tri-Event, consist-| of horizontal bars, parallel bars, | orse. | Athletics. Jumping Tri-Event, consisting} anding high-jump, broad jump, -step-and-jump. | football place-kick. in the following 12, 118, 126, 147, 160, 175 g in the same weights as ball between the best the Detroit Labor Sports et Ball League. benics for men, with not men in a group. for women will consist es, running broad jump, jump, standing high basket ball game. il be accepted from any ie clubs, and also from trade unions. Those wish- ‘formation communicate Burke, 5238 Brush St. n Youth Get Full Pay, Short Day MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., (By Mail), The second British Young Workers 2 tion after a thoro investigation be @ conditions of the young work- issued a report which im parts” it investigations have shown us, thes ynditions of the young » dhead of those of the * capitalist countries in. verning the employ- re such that cannot capitalist country Is That Right? Dear Comrades: I want to tell you about school. I am in low second grave in “A” class. And the: “R” class in the same roam. N “BY” class keeps the “A” class So one day, I asked my teac’ she didn’t put the “B” class in a dif- ferent oom She said she woe!d hike to do it, but never did. She just put rw the back, er, why Jone boy in a lower grade, Now, is | that right? PIONEER ESTHER COHEN. Some More School Bunk Dear Comrades: One day in school Miss Ungemach was talking about the education of the people of the United States. She said that Penn sylvania would be the first in educa- tion if it were not for those farmers in the south. She said that the farm- ers are lazy, and do not want their children to go to school, after she ealled the farmers mudholes and many other names. After all [ think she is a big liar because many poor farmers in old broken hous hardly have money to buy food a clothing. When the poor farmers re- ceive such a small price for the pro- ducts he sold he cannot support his jfamily. So his children have to help | by staying away from school and get- | ting a job to get a couple of pennies | So as to live. Dear comrades, we have | to tell nearly every unorganized child about the bunk the teacher is trying to get into our heads so as to make us slaves of the bosses. Comrasely yours, ANNA VCGENIS. ORGANIZE RELIEF FOR MINERS’ CHILDREN. Every reader of the Young Com- rade Corner knows about the tens of thousands of miners who are strik- ing in the United States today, in Pennsylvania, in Colorado, in Tllinois, in Ohio, These miners are fighting bitterly for better conditions. They ontrast to the ret fighting against great, big, rich * child and youth a companies, who are helped by the po- . oe Y our history teacher whose name is} With the Young Comrades lice and the government courts. The ing miners have no money. Their wives and children are hungry them out of their houses and they | now live in tents. Many thousands of workers’ children are starving. All workers’ children are brothers | and sisters. Will you let your broth- ers and sisters in the mining regions STARVE and FREEZE? The miners are fighting the Amer- jican bosses, our enemies as well as theirs. If we help the striking min- ers we are helping them fight the! enemies of every worker and worker’s child in the country. SOLIDARTIY! All workers stick | together! All workers’ children stick together! We must help each other. dren! Organize children’s miners’ relief! Send ail you possibly can to the Young Comrade Corner, 32 First St., ew York City. Answer to Last Week’s Puzzle. The answer to last week’s puzzle No. 5 is RELIEF. We have received no answers as yet. More Answers to Puzzle No. 4. Ida_ Schneider, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Sarah Titefsky, New York City. YOUNG COMRADE suR. A fitting and most proper Christ- mas present! NOHO) os ess Address City State (Issued Every Month.) Patronize our Advertizers to handle all the overflow crowd to | | Organize relief for the miners’ chil-! One-half year 25c—One year 50c. | This article should have appeared in the New Leader as a reply to Mr. James Oneal’s review of “The His- tory of the American Working Class.”, It was sent to the New Leader on December 3 together with a letter asking them to pub- lish it not later than December 15. But instead of publishing my reply in the issue of December 17 there is another slanderous attack by James Oneal against my book. In this article Oneal informs me that the New Leader received my reply. | It seems that this article was not | published because the New Leader does not want its readers to know the truth. * 'N the November 26 issue of the New Leader, organ of the Socialist Par- ty, no less a personatge than the edit- or himself, Mr. James Oneal, “re- views” my recently published book, “History of the American Working Class.” In a four-column arraign- ment, among other things, Mr. Oneal says: “Rarely has there been com- pressed within the covers of a single volume as much ignorance, plagiar- ism, misquotation, and even appro- * * as in this volume. There is not an offense that may be charged against an author that Bimba does not com- mit.” And then: ®the book is worth- less.” In this tirade Mr. Oneal calls me every name under the sun (a “fool”, “ignoramus”, “plagiarist”, “pilferer”, “appropriator”, “thief”. etc.). He just pours upon my head his entire socialist vocabulary. Mr. Oneal himself has written two historical books—“The Workers American History,” and one on the American Communist movement. In the former he appears as a liberal and have no clothes. The bosses threw /historian, more or less confused, and offering some serious political errors, nevertheless making a contribution to the history of the American work- ing class. In the latter he plays the role of a hysterian, vituperator and slanderer of everything that even smells Communistic or revolutionary. And as an actor in this latter role, against my book as against me, Before I say anything of the “crimes” charged against me by Mr. Oneal I want to make it plain just what my book is and what it is not. First of all, in no place do I claim to Lave written an exhaustive and complete history of the American working class. Second, I do not pre- tend to be a pioneer in this field. Third, nowhere do I say that I my- source for information on all ques- tions, especially those dealing with :the earlier part of the American his- ‘tory. I rather used quite extensively the material of those who had studied valuable contributions. Among them I found Mr. Oneal himself and with- jout,any malice toward him T quoted ;him on many points, giving him as well as other authors full eredit. Fourth, many important questions jare left out or were eliminated on account of lack of space. Some points are barely touched upon for the same reason. To write an exhaustive his- tory of the American working class, to deal with and elaborate on every point and phase of this enormous subject, would take not one volume of 360 pages, but at least a dozen volumes. My aim was to give a brief concise outline of the subject, dealing only with the outstanding phases and factors, connecting them with each other and drawing lessons from them, If the title of the book is misleading to Mr. Oneal—I apologize, and sym- pathize with my innocent victim, priation of the work of other writers | in| he wrote the tirade not so much | self went directly into every original | ithe subject before me and made very | Now as to my “crimes.” of them of his own invention. In his | “review” he discusses only twu or | “sweet sixteen.” He thinks that I loudly as he can. What are the “crimes” charged | against me by our eminent hysterian, | Mr. Oneal? Let us take them one by, one. The “Crime” of Failing to Discover, Subject. Mr. Oneal says: “Except for a book of Simons mine was a pioneer work.” But why this complaint against me? Where did I ever at- tempt to rob Mr. Oneal of his con- tribution to American labor history? | I never thought that Oneal had copy- righted the entire subject of American history. The “Crime of Failing to Discover America Properly. My critic says: “Bimba has not learned that the old theory that the |discovery of America was solely the result of a search for new trade routes is no longer tenable.” He says that he committed the same “crime” seven years ago. By reading his re- | view one who does not know my friend Oneal at least as well as I do may get an impression that he is the holi- est of saints, that he would not even {dare to attempt to commit the crime of putting a word in your mouth |which you have never uttered or at- tributing to you an idea which you have never advanced. But here Mr. Oneal at the very beginning of his tirade commits this most serious crime that can be charged against any author. I open my book and read, “The discovery of America was an accidental result of the search for shorter and safer routes from Eu- rope to Asia.” Do I say “solely?” No. What I do maintain is this: The main, the fundamental motive that inspired the “adventure” of Colum- bus, as well as others, and led to the discovery of America was a material motive, a necessity of discovering \new routes for trade with Asia after lthe old routes through Constaninople, through the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf became unsafe. But Oneal tries | to make me say that there was no, other motive or source of inspiration ‘to those who discovered America. (To Be Continued.) Wealthy Woman Beats, Ensiaves Maid, Charge NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 30.— Mrs. T. S. Arico, wealthy wife of an} automobile salesman, was charged! with enslaving Anna Lameu, her aid, in her home for the past three years, beating and starving her. Anna Lameu, 20, is in the hospi- tal at present, being treated for bruises she claims she received when e was beaten with a length of hose and heavy wire, for not carrying out Mrs. Arico’s orders to the lady’s sut- isfaction. The defendant was re- leased under $5,000 bail. RR. Merger Blocked WASHINGTON, D, C., Dee. 30.— A plan to consolidate the Delaware & Hudson Railroad with the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh road was blocked by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The plan involved a 99-year lease at $990,000 a year. This is the second attempt of L. F. Loree, railroad magnate, to effect this unified control of all roads in the vicinity. Mr. Oneal the launching of a huge naval and air- finds many of them in. my boo’s-— craft program by Wall Street gov- some of them real “crimes” and some |ernment. What This Means For Workers. The American working class con- three issues of historical importance, fronts a combination of financial More than two-thirds of the “review” capitalists whose control of govern- is the hysterical ery of a ruined ment is complete wherever it turns. We enter a period of industrial de- have robbed him of something very pression with the labor movement valuable and therefore he cries as lead by individuals who are agents of imperialism. We confront a presidential cam- was pitifully inadequate for even the earlier period of competitive capital- ism. Build the left wing in the labor movement. Organize the unorgan- ized. Build a labor party. Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America—the revolutionary - section of the working class—the | party of Lenin. ° Bs Morgan and Morrow are twin sym- bols of the vital need for understand: ©. ing, organization and struggle by. the American masses. ye B. Wankel & Son 1:73 thisd ave. Devoes Paints _ Mazda Lamps . 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