The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1928, Page 8

Page Eight fe THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER| SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD Phone, Orchard 1680 | Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc. * Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Datwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): €8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.50 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months. $2.00 three months. Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ..-ROBERT MINOR ...WM. F. DUNNE © «es second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 8, 1879. Coolidge’s General Declaration | of War Coolidge’s Gettysburg address on Memorial day might be | alled a sort of general declaration of war against a series of na-| tions, with the exact date of hostilities not fixed. | The exact date of opening of hostilities is yet to be filled in| with a special declaration of war at a later time. | Also to be filled in are the names of the specific nations | against which war is to be made, except the twenty-one nations | of Latin-America, China, and the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-| publics, which Coolidge has virtually specified already in his Me- morial Day talk. Pe | Cooldige’s speech is one of the most ominous warnings of the| policy of blood and iron of American imperialism—warnings of | impending aggressive war—that the world has ever seen. py utters a threat exceeding anything that could have been expressed | before the year 1928, or that could be uttered now by any other | nation; it is the language of the imperialism of 1928 from the im-/| perialist nation which at this time assumes the role of mastery by force over all other nations. There is a certain degree of frankness in Coolidge’s pointing out to his less understanding associates that preparedness for the coming war consists in something more than accumulating war| instruments already made. The shrewder preparation consists | in possession of the means to manufacture the latest war in-| struments at the time they are needed, rather than loading up| with instruments which would: be partly obsolete a few nfénths later when hostilities open. This is a correct reminder that the unprecedented military and naval equipment already provided for is only the material with which,to begin hostilities. But of course that is only a very limited degree of frankness, and Coolidge’s talk is covered over with a slather of thin, am- biguous words of “peace” and of outlawing war by means of the Kellogg plan. Of course the purpose of this drivel is plain; it is to supply the liberals and pacifists a sufficient basis on which to deceive agricultural and working class masses, while the war- making program proceeds to execution. : What results can Coolidye-secure with this hypocritical talk ef “peace” attached to his general declaration of war? Excellent results. An outstanding voice among “liberal’’ daily newspapers is the New York World, whose “peace” policy so ably helped Woodrow Wilson to plunge the United States into the “war for peace” in 1918. The New York World yesterday re- sponded to Coolidge’s general war declaration with the follow- ing incredibly dishonest talk: : In a later part of his address Mr. Coolidge spoke most effectively | about the obligation of American citizens abroad to respect the laws and institutions ef the country in which they reside. This is a whole- some addition to the conventional doctrine, which he has preached so often before, that foreign Governments must respect American prop- erty rights. They should respect American property rights, but American property owners should respect foreign sovereignties. The President has learned something from his experience with Mexico, for obviously the warning he issues at Gettysburg is based on what he has learned from the new phase of American relations with Mex- ico. It is a warning which was issued once by Elihu Root. It was pated, we believe, by Amb: dor Morrow in one of his first talks cfter his arrival in Mexico City. It is very good to have it repeated once more by the President of the United States. If the warning is heeded it will make our reiations with our neighbors much pleasanter. The New York World’s apostles of peace, then, are Elihu Root and Dwight W. Morrow! | | | | | Iky SCOTT NEARING. ENEZUELA is the latest oil “find.” That country has replaced Mexico as the second largest oil producer of the world, and the “oil rush” there is like that which took place in Mexico twenty years ago. Three great economic units are en- gaged in the struggle for oil: Stand- ard Oil (United States); Royal Dutch (British) and the Soviet Naptha Trust, whose interests are . confined to the Soviet Union. Outside of the Soviet Union the struggle for oil is a struggle between Standard and Royal Dutch—the business interests of the British Empire, “Oil wars” are the latest phase of the imperial struggle for natural re- | sources in this age of iron, coal, cop- per and oil. The struggle for oil is new. The struggle for mineral wealth dates back for at least six thousand years. At the dawn of written his- tory empires were struggling for natural resource supplies, of the C. P. of Italy. For more than five years there has| been prevailing in Italy the Fascist! regime, a regime the establishment} lof which was preceded by a fierce |class struggle. The agrarians and} |the industrial bourgeoisie had con-! ducted this struggle with every pos-| |sible means, with persecution, plun- derings and murder, in order to crush the organized force of the proletariat and to bring terror among the masses. For more than five years, Declaration of the Central Comittee | |sinee the seizure of power by Fas- |cism, the fight of the ruling classes lof Italy against the working class, against the toiling peasants and fin- ally against all categories of the working population has been contin- {ued in the most cruel and merciless |manner, it becomes intensified with Who is Root? As the secretary of war in the McKinley ad- ministration, Root was the man of blood and iron chosen for the post in just after the Spanish-American war which inau- gurated the period of active American imperialism. From the time he served as McKinley’s secretary of war, through his service During the age of copper and bronze the copper supply was as im- portant to imperial survival as is the iron supply today. One of the richest copper deposits in the Mediterranean basin lay in the Sinai Peninsula. This copper de- posit was a source of conflict be- tween the Chaldeans and the Egyp- tians. Finally about 4,000 B. C. the Egyptians under the Fourth Dynas- ty gained the day and took over the mining operations. The Fourth Dy- nasty, which lasted 284 years, drew its chief wealth from the Sinai cop- per mines and from the monopoly of trade routes into Mesopotamia. This copper and trade monopoly leombined gave the Egyptians of the Fourth Dynasty an income which speedily made Egypt the center of economic and political power. The Nile was thronged with ships. Trade routes were covered with caravans. Egyptian business men ventured out ‘into the Mediterranean. Egyptian attempt to organize the workers and peasants in order to put an end to this regime, and on workers who agitate for the demand: bread, and freedom. In the prisons of Italy there are six thousand political prisoners. The political prisoners are bestially tortured; they are driven to suicide or murdered because they belong to the advance-guard which has not and does not bow to fascism, which con- ducts and will continue to conduct the obstinate fight of ‘the proletariat against fascism. In this situation the Milan outrage must be regarded as an elementary expression of indignant protest and of class retribution against the regime of misery, of slavery and of terror, against a regime which the working class and the working population of Italy can no longer endure. The Milan outrage is a tragie sign and a direct consequence of the serious situation of the. acute economic and political as Roosevelt’s secretary of state, Root’s name has expressed noth- ing so much as ruthless violence and wholesale plunder and mur- der directed against Latin-America. Root is somewhat of a “fa- ther” to the despicable imperialist project of the World Court, a member of the imperialist Security League, president of the Carnegie endowment “for international peace” which is really for aggressive war, a leader of several imperialisé schemes against Latin-America, and was the head of the diplomatic mission which went to Russia during the world war to try to overthrow the revolution. Morrow, the Morgan bank partner, is the incarnation of the imperialist subjugation of Mexico, the most outstanding apostle of violence against all Latin-America. Coolidge’s Gettysburg address is a serious warning to the masses of this country, of Latin-America and of the world, that the colossus of American imperialism plans war against them all, plans war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, against China, and against its rival imperialist powers for the division of the world for exploitation. But Coolidge spoke for the American ruling class, not for his administration alone. He spoke for both the republican and the democratic parties, for both the tories and the liberals of both cap- italist parties, in his general declaration of war. In this election campaign of 1928 the largest possible masses ; of workers and exploited farmers must be roused to support the platform of the Workers (Communist) Party, which is the only party ) ainst imperialism and impending war, which stands nee bins Fak: * every turn of events, with every worsening of the economic situation of the country. For the great mass of the toiling population the Fascist regime has meant a constant and unbearable de- terioration of their subjection to a crisis arising in Italy; of the indigna- , tion to which the social contradictions |in Italy have led and which an enor- |mous apparatus of suppression and jterror is vainly endeavoring to con- ceal. It is fascism and all who sup- port it and who have brought it to tyranny and a fearful terror. The power, all who agree with it: the atrocities and enormities which the|}i5 industrialists, the bankers, the | working masses of Italy have suf-! 4 ‘ |fered since the Fascists seized power | SSt@uans, the king, the church, all dl fs : : who for the sake of their own inter- are firmly implanted in the conscious- ests have caused and promoted the ness of millions of proletarians. The | misery and enslavemefit of the Italian sufferings of these masses and the!| | ‘ - ‘ ¥ workers—it is these who are respon- | fearful situation: in which they have | sible for the outrage in Milan. been placed are a serious accusation, Lk te bel against Fascism, against all its con-|, It is believed in certain quarters federates, against all who have sup-| that the outrage ye eerorss om: On ported, promuted and upheld it. | the part of the fascists. Even if this A Under Fase |were true, it would only be a proof Misery Under Fascism. | of the difficulty of the situation which Italy today! is the country of misery ‘fascism can only master by such ac- and starvation of the workers. Pres tions. ent-day Italy is a country in which the workers groan under the most hateful tyranny. The already miser- able wages of Italian workers have sunk to nearly the half in the course of one year. Whole categories of peasants are living in misery. In Try to Crush Communists. | The bomb explosion in Milan is now \ being made use of by the fascists as ‘a pretext for accomplishing fresh ‘crimes, for rendering still worse the political situation of the working class and in order to let loose the Italy there are one million unem- ployed. For those who work in Italy there is no well-being, no freedom, no right of organization, no right to strike and no right of representatives. ‘The fascist court passes savage sen- tences on workers who raise their voice against these , who d ee) offensive of reaction. The object of this offensive was clearly indicated at the first moment. It is the Com- munist Party, the organization of the advance-guard of the working class. which fascism is again attempting to crush and to tear away from the Oil Wars--The Old Kind and New artisans working in bone, ivory, wood, stone, copper and gold turned out products that found their way into the remotest markets. This age of early Egyptian wealth and prestige lasted from about 3998 to 3714 B. C. Flinders Petrie in his “History of Egypt” describes the building enterprises of the period by saying: “the simplicity and vastness, the perfection and the beauty of the earliest works place them in a dif- ferent level to all works of art and man’s devices in later ages.” Minerals Mean Power. Minerals as a source of early Egyptian wealth are recognized by Brooks Adams in his “New Empire”: ‘“The Egyptians were god metallur- gists,” he writes, “and certainly |worked wood, copper, iron and bronze before the Fourth Dynasty. The gold and iron came originally from Nubia. According to Diodores the Nubian gold mines under Ra- meses II or in the 14th century B. !C. yielded annually bullion to the During the year 1927 and in the year 1928 the most important epis- odes of the proletarian resistance to the offensive against wages were in- spired and led by the Communist ad- vance-guard. The Communist ad- vance-guard inspired and led the eco- nomic struggles and the anti-fascist movements of the peasants. The Com- munist Party is devoting all its for- ces to renewing the trade union life of the Confederacione Generale del Lavoro (Italian Federation of Trade Unions). Everywhere in the agitation and in the movement the Com- munist champions stood at the head of the masses. The fact that fascism now considers it necessary to conduct a fresh offen- sive against the Communist Party shows that the class struggle, the or- ganizing and mobilizing of the masses are the only successful means, the only weapon by which fascism and the capitalist regime in Italy can be given a deadly blow. The fact that fascism, after seven years reign of terror, places on the order of the day the necessity to crush the Communist movement, shows that the Commun- ist Party—which has continued its ac- tivity among the masses even under the exceptional laws, which has scorned to desert the field of battle— is the only force remaining wKich fascism and the capitalist regime to- day have serious cause to fear, is the only organized force which is capable of conducting the fight which can lead to the overthrow of the present regime, _ Communists Fight On. Tn view of this new campaign the Communist Party declares its inex- orable will and its readiness to con- tinue the fight, in which it is today leading the best forces of the Italian proletariat. The Communist Party will continue the fight for wages, in the defense of all workers against the capitalist exploitation, for the lib- erty of the working class and of the entire working population of Italy. The Communist Party will not per- mit that its true character of a class party, of a party which expresses the requirements, desires and demands of the great working masses, which is bound with indissoluble bonds to these | masses, be distorted. The Communist Party is not a sect of terrorists | ca By Fred Ellis value of $650,000,000.” Seti I (1814- 1292 B. C.) wanted to endow a tem- ple. He improved the road across the desert, added to the workings in the gold mines of the mountains in the Red Sea region, and thus was able to provide for the temple’s up- keep. Egyptian imperial power lasted intermittently from 4,000 B. C. down to near the Christian Era. It groups itself in three main imperial cycles, each one of which drew its. main sources of income from the mineral HANdOuTS In the little town of Winslow, N. J., American Legionnaires on a Mem- orial Day parade discovered school. was in session. They marched double- quick to the school board and arranged | to have the principal, Mrs. Frances Galloway, and all the pupils sent home, as a demonstration of patriot- | ism. There is a rumor around Wins- low that the Legionnaires had ar- ranged to use the school room for a crap game. * . . A dispatch yesterday carried a rare example of perversity. Alarm clocks are usually used to wake men up. But a certain jewelry store boss used his alarm clock to put- himself into a deep sleep. Tying a piece of string to the clock to con- nect with a gas jet, he died, a suicide. The alarm rang at 1.15 a. m., filling the room with gas. Of course it is too bad. But it seems like a lot of trouble. It’s not so hard to dig as all that. * * * CONTENT. Unheeding how the world might fare From trough to trough he went; Whoever starved he hogged his share, And grunted his content. —Robert Whitaker. * * * Contention that you can retain your purity and still accept a few gifts on the side is made by Mrs. John D. Sherman, president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, in an- swer to the charge that the federation is a victim of commercialism. Amongst other things Mrs. Sher- man admitted that contributions had been received from the National Elec- tric Light Association, a magazine and other commercial organizations. She showed that the skirts of the or- ganization were clean by adding that the gifts were received “only after a definite understanding had been reached which made it certain that the contributing organizations were gaining no special privileges from the federation.” World Revolutionist deposits of Nubia, of Sinai, or of some area of lesser importance. Through the whole course of his- tory imperialists have struggled for ‘the control of natural resources— minerals, fertile lands, waterways, timber. Usually the key to success has been the control of a mineral or fuel supply. ‘The control and ex- ploitation of natural resources has been one of the chief sources of im- perial competition for at least six thousand years. New Fascist Terrorism Will Not Halt Communists vided from the masses; and it will never allow itself to be converted into such a sect. It preserves its activity among the masses, it fights for the masses and it will, undeterred, lead jthe masses from the present episodes of resistance and class struggle up to the armed revolt which will shatter all the supports of the regime and emancipate the Italian workers for- ever from the yoke of the fascist and capitalist regime, The new campaign against the Communist Party is intended to serve fascism as a pretext for the imposi- tion of the severe penalties provided by the exceptional laws, and in order to be able to condemn the best fight- ers of the working class to ten and twenty years’ imprisonment and even to death. As the threats, persecu- tions, deportations, prisons and tor- ture have not been able to check the movement, steps are now being taken REV. MULLINS, Baptist. The fine figure of a man shown above is none other than the Rev. EH. Y. Mullins, head of the Baptist Inter- nationale. He is president of the World Baptist Alliance, which will hold its Fourth Congress in Toronto, Canada, June 23-29. The revolution- ary program which is expected to be proposed to the congress and which is hoped to go a long ways toward light- ening the burdens of the working clase is as follows: fs 1. Perfume salts and warm water for baptism. 4 2. Prompter results from God fol- lowing prayer. 8. More one-armed deacons for take ing collections. 4. Solidarity between preachers and choir singers. 5. Defense fund for pastors jailed for murder, rape and shop-lifting. _. \ to annihilate in a “legal” manner the advance-guard of the proletariat. The Communist Party opposes this fresh infamy with all its force and calls upon all workers in Italy and abroad to protest and to fight against it. It must be demanded that the searches for those responsible for the outrage should be controlled and con- ducted in a completely open manner. It must be brought to light what is happening in the Italian prisons. A fight must be waged against the ap- plication of capital punishment for the fighters of the advance-guard of the workers. A fight must be waged for the abolition of the exceptional laws, A fight must be waged for expos- ing and thwarting the crimes of fas- cism. The Communists and revolu- tionary workers of Italy in emigration and in exile must join in this fight Even if the fight which the working class in Italy is conducting becomes ever harder, it will not be interrupted. The Italian working class, in close alliance with the proletariat in all countries, will overcome all obstacles, defend its bread and its wages, rewin its liberty,.build up its organizations again, develop a tremendously power- ful mass fight, place itself at the head of the anti-fascist forces and * * * ALAS, POOR YORICK! f Time: May 31, 1928. Scene: Get- tysburg Graveyard. First Gravedigger (busy digging): — Seems like they want a big grave. What did this guy croak from? ~~ Second Gravedigger: He listened all thru Coolidge’s memorial day speech. is ° * * 3 The development of scholarly poise among the students of Yale is clearly seen in the fact that the five who were arrested for throwing bottles workmen and hurling stones ch windows, spent their time in jail, ing bail from their rich lies 7 ing stud poker for “very high f * * * The militarists of Germany whnsa preparations for the next war were exposed to the world when a f draughts of phosgene gas escaped killed a dozen workers were : to explain that the gas was not for war purposes and was merely a household commodity. Now Captain t. Wilkins finds that he can buy flame-throwers he wants in the Ber lin stores. Wilkins wants melt passageways in the snow to be used as runways for his plane antarctic expedition. The throwers are one of the most lead them forward without hesitation | instruments of war. Th up to the overthrow of the capitalist|are quick to explain that regime and the victory of the revolu- | throwers ! in