Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Friday, November 7, 1924 INC DJULT WORKER. In Minneapolis According to unofficial returns Emil Youngdahl, Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING OG Significance of the 1924 British Elections Washington Blvd., Chicago. DL Communist pandidate for the state legislature on lopment 1113 W. as the only means of develop- Treaty Is based upon the acceptance try must fail. I say real wages hies (Phone: Monroe 4713) the farmer-labor ticket, is elected despite the op- By J. T. MURPHY. ing the labor party. of the Dawes' plan by the British Im- cause it Is possible that nominal the campaign is election But why the haste? Here I think perialists. To carry out the Dawes’ reckoned in money will rise. THey’ position of fake progressives and labor leaders. upon Camp- SUBSCRIPTION RATES WHILEconcentrating the we come to the crux of the new situ- plan and secure reparations it is ob- tend to rise, in fact, at the present By mail: While the so-called progressives found nothing bell prosecution and the Russian ation. The crisis came not on the vious that they are anxious to be moment.” per months 32.00..„3 months Treaty and developing Into a frenzied 16.00 year J3.50....6 contradictory in supporting republicans and dem- Campbell case. Had the labor gov- able to compete effectively and at the The industrial correspondent of the By mail (In Chicago only): fight against Communism, there can- months the case may they achieved a notable ernment not made an ass of Itself on same time to be safeguarded against “Morning Post” writing on September 18.00 per year 34.80....3 months 32.50....3 ocrats as be, not be the slightest doubt that the part this question the crisis would still the competition. The latter of 22, of the iron and steel position, says, unanimity in their opposition to the Communists fury of the onslaught means more Address all mail and make out checks to have been upon them. This crisis de- the scheme won’t stand a great deal "A reduction in production: costs would everywhere. than the Imminence of the revolu- pended Anglo-Russlan of examination but question appear THE DAILY WORKER on the Treaty. the of to be the only way In which But for the Communists of Minnesota, the tion In Britain. Yet to still narrower limits competition and the relation of the to get the industry 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, llllnela As must we back onto a sound the a matter of fact that latter is draw it. This hung upon the question Russian Treaty thereto is all import- basis, and prevent the blowing farmer-labor party would be as dead as shin- so near or so far, that we need waste out of ENGDAHL I of a guaranteed loan and debt recog- ant for different reasons to those put further furnaces in the J. LOUIS "Editor* bone of Saint Anne by this time. The vacillating any time discussing It at this juncture near futura.” WILLIAM F. DUNNB ( nition. forward by Baldwin. Manager policy William Mahoney of St. Paul and the and concern ourselves with the other Demand Wage Cut. MORITZ J. LOEB —Business of For example, should require to reasons governing the Raised Great Howl. we weather cock gyrations of Robly D. Cramer, the anti-bolshevik be credulous to thing that British The "Financial Times” of the umt Sept. 21, 1923, at the Poet. campaign. On the lines of approach to the Bol- Entered as second-class mail alleged “red” of Minneapolis would long since have capitalists are prepared to hand over date declares in reviewing the coal Chicago, 111., under the act of March 3,187V. When the conservative party lead- shevik delegates, MacDonald received Office at any market to a competitor. situation created by German compe- made the party a cog in the republican machine. ers decided on a general election the plaudits of every capitalist paper Even in Baldwin’s Limited not generous tition, “There is only one way left to Advertising rates on application But there was nothing red*about Cramer except 1923, tvfo outstanding problems faced in the country. But when It came to are so if their recent completion £ combat German competition and that iimi rnwgeaßß—l question there of a 70,000 aiM.um.it.' ■l..U—ki.< them. First, to secure unanimity in the loan especially, was get his hair. order from Russia is anything to go is to the costs of production in this the acceptance of the Dawes’ plan an almost universal howl. But for The had a lot of fun charging by. The argument that the geographi- country down to the German level. “progressives” then in process of completion and sec- this feature, It is probable that there Rule cal and linguistic factor is against Under the seven-hour working day and Under Soviet the Communists with being visionaries while the ond, the consolidation of the would have been an accommodation forces Britain Is too funny for words. If the the new wage agreement that may be Since the workers of Russia, under former were “practical” politicians. But in that of capitalism against the rising class with the liberals. This gave the con- and peasants Russian market is to be handed to regarded as a sheer impossibility, for feeling amongst servatives their chance to develop the Communist Party, overthrew kind of a game, the older political prostitutes can the workers due to Germany because they are neighbors, the miners will sacrifice neither ihe leadership of the prolonged unemployed their campaign against the treaty as one give pupils cards and spades. The Com- crisis. The why not China to the Japs nor the other of these feudal-capitalist dictatorship of the czarist their capitalist leaders knew quite well a whole and with the help of and South conditions.” the America to the United States. As for Sir George Hunter, a prominent ship- munists stuck to their principles, and while they that If they came forward with the Lloyd George, the liberal party was irgime and established that of the proletariat, the language, is Chinese easier for the builder, declared also “Improvement in not win many victories in the parliamentary Dawes’ report the basis for a “Eu- swung into line. did as poor Britisher to learn than Russian? the shipbuilding industry would American press has been lilled with furious de- ropean settlement” Why complete change not sense, they gained a greater victory in winning that the labor this In the come unless the shipbuilders could party leaders would pounce upon attitude of the liberals who previous- The Russian Market. nunciations of the alleged persecutions and_ ter- the respect and confidence of the masses which It induce the leaders of trade unions to and make the political capital ly were in favor of developing re- the utmost the I think 6 must go a little deeper help them reduce their costs and to rorism carried out against their opponents by was lost by men like Mahoney and Cramer, who from its proposals of lations between Soviet w as a means ad- Britain and than these specious reasons. When all co-operate with them.” These quota- workers’ government. In this orgy of abuse the so- supported republican politicians against the Com- vancing the labor party. Russia? None of the liberal leaders allowance is made for the hatred of tions could be multiplied ad lib, but Labor Party Got Job. have given coherent for the cialists took a leading part. munists running on the farmer-labor ticket. reasons the Bolsheviks there Is not the least there is here sufficient to reveal the They knew that the only party that change but have simply eehoed the Soviet Russia was not a democracy, they wailed, But the immediate success which these spurious shadow of a doubt that when the Brit- fact most clearly that the defeat of could get this plan accepted tirades capitalists in cruelty progressives hankered for did not and in Britain of the conservative party ish capitalists see their competitors the Russian Treaty at this juncture the Communists outdid the materialize, was the labor party. Without against helping the Bolsheviks. The rushing the into the Russian market, they is part of the general economic of- to their political opponents! Even Eugene V. Debs they are now left without either virtue of the re- Dawes’ report they also knew things echo is so complete that we are driven will not be far behind. A comparison fensive against the working class of of their treachery. They have were going from bad they to the conclusion that beat the air with protests against the incarceration ward allowed La- to worse for the conserva- of the trade they have already made Britain bound up with the operation had no plan apart Looking tives hold the key of counter-revolutionary brigands who sought to Follette to inflict a dangerous wound on the from it. to the riddle. with Russia and the trade made by of the Dawes’ report. The coincidence back over the last twelve I months, , Turning to the conservatives for an their competitors with Russia since of the two features accounts overthrow the government which Debs so often ex- farmer-labor party of Minnesota. The Workers think we for the are driven to the conclusion explanation, we find the following in- the revolution will prove that. But the fetocity of the pressed his willingness to die for. Party kept the banner of independent working that all other explanations anti-Bolshevik cam- for the sur- teresting theory propounded by fact of the matter is, both British and paign far more than the growing im- given many action render of overwhelming party But the Soviet government has class political flying, and is the only party an ma- Baldwin on the eve of the election. foreign capitalists do not want to aid portance of Communism in jority in the parliament have Britain. proofs that it is not carrying on a war of revenge, in the United States today that is a farmer-labor to take “Russia never has been, and I do not the Bolsheviks of Russia at all and While the fact that the labor party place even most It has on party in the sense. second to .this determination to believe ever will be, one of our prin- will only develop In that direction ac- is bound to the Russian Treaty more against its bitter opponents. real secure the acceptance of the Dawes’ cipal markets. Geographically and cordingly to the pressure of circum- positively and wholeheartedly than to many occasions pardoned active counter-revolu- plan, the they nature of which alone linguistically, conditions are against stances. A further factor must be the Dawes’ plan made it imperative tionists, sentenced to death. Recently it commuted knew at that time. By the time it, just Mac- as those conditions are against taken into account and that is, the that the labor government, should be Savinkov, of MacDonald Steps Oat Donald was safely installed the plan our the death sentence on Boris agent us in trade on the lower waters British capitalists have got first of- immediately displaced altho the con- was practically ready for him to op- of the Danube. Our fers Kornilov, Poincare, Lloyd George and Winston Ramsay MacDonald moved his furniture from natural markets and hold a favorable position in servative party tactics had not com* erate. are the Dominions, America, relation to their to full Churchill, in causing death and destruction to the 10 Downing street. Stanley Baldwin moved his South competitors for the fruition. The manner In which the conserva- and the East. There we have a bet- Russian market. workers and peasants of his own country. in. The business empire usual. tive leaders carried out their strategic , Served The Purpose. of the goes on as ter chance of competing with the But these ofTers are not altogether And again on the seventh anniversary of the retreat is worthy of study. Choosing world. calling into being The exploitation of the workers continues. Noth- timely when placed In relation to the The of the laboi the most imperialist of programs government establishment of the Soviet government, the Com- aris- Baldwin’s View*. competitive factors was therefore, determined ing from the imperial operating In the ing has really changed except that millions of Brit- conference—tar- world mgrket primarily by the need to secure the munist leaders of the Russian masses make another iff war “Whether we like It or not, the na- especially with the ish workers are no longer under the illusion that against foreign competition, acceptance of the report by exploiter Dawes’ plan holding premier position Dawes’ splendid gesture of peace and forgiveness in grant- empire development, colonial prefer- tural of Russian trade is the working class they are running the empire. Germany. They have always in the capitalist plan of campaign. movement The ing amnesty to thousands who had fought against ence, etc., Baldwin cut free from the done the end of the labor government The MacDonald government was never a labor largest trade because, geo- They .know as well as we that the was caus- country and in behalf of limitations and commitments of his In Russia ed by the the workers of their own graphically, they are placing of orders to the tune of thirty historic association of the government except in name. Even its name was predecessor, Bonar Law, and at the most favor- British working class the capitalists of the world. ably situated and they study million pounds would have a decided movement with badly diluted. Several Lords and Sirs occupied once took a bold stride forward to- the Rus- the Workers’ Republic language effect upon unemployment and upon of Russia ant Needless to state, the capitalist press will not wards the solution of the out- sian and understand Rus- important position. With few' exceptions even the second the workers generally. They know these associations cutting clean across play up this act any more than it does the fact standing problem—the sian methods of business. In my view the consolidation thing thal Immediately there is the slightest fulfillment of the plans of the untitled members made no secret of their devotion of the forces of capitalism against the the for world trade, of which we that in every capitalist country in the world sign of revival of trade it is imperialists in spite of the willingness the capitalist rising tide of working should get our share, would be the de- the sig- are away in vile to system. class discontent. nal for of the labor leaders to serve. The thousands of workers rotting he velopment of Russian trade by us and the workers to make demands Stanley Baldwin succeeded Lloyd George. Mac- Immediately succeeded in bring- for a recovery treaty of negotiations were conducted capitalist dungeons and that even under'the so- ing back into when it becomes possible by Germany of their losses, for Donald succeeded Baldwin. It is Baldwin’s the fold of the conserva- wage on approved bourgeois lines. turn tive that she should turn into that market, improvements, etc. To get such The called labor party government in Britain the party leadership those who had compromises forced upon the again. This is democracy, according to the gospel which some day, not yet, demands at the time when all the other Russian stupendous number of 253,000 were im- been cold shouldered because of their but will be a workers bourgeois Hindoos, the great market conditions of the market arising were compromises. of Second International. Under it capitalism coalition leadqfshlp viz: Birkenhead, —that she should turn In- But objective prisoned in India because of their struggle for in- to that from the application of the Dawes’ the situation ruled that change its servants when it pleases. Chamberlain and Co. He drove country the surplus of exports operation .can the report are insisting upon the of the treaty Interfered iependence from Great Britain. < liberal sections together which Is to provide for*the payment of reductions The MacDonald government wms not a labor on the basis of wages and the lengthening with the major plans of Imperialism The lying capitalist and socialist press has done of free trade, and once having done reparations and incidentally of some of the government but it was forced to do a few things working day and week would be Involving the intensification of imper its Soviet Russia in a bad light. But that used the results of the election as of our interest to America—that she fatal iallst worst to put to their policy of the conquest competition thruout the world that the ruling class did not like, therefore it gave an opportunity to modify the party po- should do that rather than the bulk of the the very fact that the Russia of today can afford 1 world market. and the deeper enslavement of the it the The sition the question of of that surplus should be turned boot. Soviet loan guarantee and the on tariff war as either workers. Hence the defeat lo be magnanimous to its enemies is the best pos- a into this country, or into our own spe- Behind of the Campbell case left a bad taste in the mouths of the means of easing the relations be- The Screen. labor government. Hence ible evidence of its growing strength and stability. tween the cial markets which I have described.” the new British bourgeoisie. The idea that extra-parlia- conservatives and the li- The opposition to the Russian coalition of conservatives and liberals. berals ready for the next step when In addition therefore, to the hatred Treaty is therefore, more than an an- But the plans not complete mentary action should cause a British government the united forces of the two parties of the Bolshevik government of Rus- are and ti-Bolshevik campaign and is based the sequel is destined to prove Now It Can Begin to act w'as repugnant, unless of course it was would be required to dispense with sia there is also a very definite fear as in- upon a planned offensive against the teresting and important as extra-legal action on the part of the ruling class. the services of the labor party. of the increased competition that the the Inci- With the decisive election of Coolidge, the big- workers of Britain to bring their con- dent of the labor government. The r Between Two Parties. rehabilitation of Germany is to Baldwin w ill take his orders all the time from the bound ditions down to competitive levels es- defeat of the Russian Treaty Is gest employers are preparing to lose no time in In this task he was aided by the at- bring. As a matter of fact, in the bound British Federation tablished in Germany. Until that has to make it the first plank of of Industries. titude of Churchill who, standing first same speech Baldwin states: “It all labor launching their national open shop offensive is been accomplished there will be no agitation dealing with in between the two parties as the perfectly true that the increased unemployment trade means enabling the placing of large and igainst the working masses. rallying force against the labor party, that will come from the whether MacDonald gnd his rehabilitation orders from Russia. friends It or The Fat Boys Cheerful developing the cry which both Bald- of Germany, that is to say the increas- like not, draw the work The near future will very likely witness a repe- This conclusion is forced upon us ing class of Britain closer to the work- win and Asquith echoed at the proper ed world trade, must be coupled at the by the general tition of the “grand offensive” of 1922. All evi- The New York stock market reacted splendidly preparation going on ers and peasants of Russia. • moment for a united front against the same time with an increased compe- The fall thruout industry for this offensive. ure of the capitalist plan split dence tends to indicate that the textile workers to the unexpected news that Foster had not w on labor party. It was easy for him to titive power in Germany, and you have to the r Hichens, a chairman of Cammell labor party before driving again be marked first for slaughter by the do (his as a free lance and to take to weigh the balance of advantage. It out ot will the election. The reports ran as follows: Lairds, stated frankly to the I. L. P. office is destined deepen the right step on to the conservative The probability In my view to the work- capitalists. New England, the home of the re- is that summer school that “The main cause ing class development, “An enthusiastic and vigorous forward move- platform at the proper moment. the balance on the is to within It; to chosen as the first whole our ad- of the present trade depression lay strengthen the elected president, has been ment in the principal railroad stocks was the stock The moment of the election in 1924 vantage, too, subject class conscious forces to one or two in conditions outside the control and give a ground of battle by the bosses. The textile workers completes the process. The conserva- observations I shall of leftward impetus to the market’s response today to the results of the presi- have to make.” Britain—in European unrest, in the whole of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Is- tive party was never more united. The These observations I have already movement. The speeding up dential election. New York Central and Atchison poverty of other nations due to the of the forces competitive barons whole of the conservative press is una- quoted. of struggle land have been ordered by the mill to accept r war, in foreign rivalries and competi- of imperialism has thus w ere leaders in this movement. In the first two nimous in the application of the unit- On Dawes’ Plan. destroyed the . . wage from 10 20 per cent. tion. , As a temporary labor government, cuts to hours the twenty railroad stocks in the Interna- ed front policy against labor while the measure but how deeply the The position therefore, becomes to meet this situation, I believe It is country is being ploughed This drive against the textile workers bears all pact for the elimination of three for Bolshev tional News Service compilation gained 2.12 points. cor- clear. The opposition to the Russian inevitable that real wages the ear-marks of being only a prelude to a general nered contests where these deem- In this coun- ism! “Industrial leaders were taken in hand later and are onslaught on the workers of all industry. For ed to endanger either liberal or con- boosted to the highest prices of the year and in servative seats is a consumation which some time the well-kept presß has been ranting some cases to the highest point in their history. it would have been risky to prophesy about the need for the the readjustment deflation, American Smelting hung up a new high record. to happen nine months after the 1923 of course—of wages. In —always downward, American Sugar made a good response. Oil Btocks election. But these developments do not launching the wage-slashing campaign against the were not weak and Mexican Seaboard advanced. con- stitute the limits of the strategy. Be- By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. scribes the swan that swims on the a greatest textile workers, the bosses made it their business % work by Smetana’s music Call money advanced cent.” sides committing the labor party to Jacques Grdon, concertmaster of the river surrounding to be better prepared than they were two years Tuonela. The use al compatriot, the twenty seven var- If the workers will take this news and ponder the Dawes’ plan and involving it In Chicago Symphony orchestra, was English solo- of the horn produces just the iations for orchestra by Dvorak. If ago. every phase of imperial responsibility at over it, remembering that if anything helps the ist with the organization the reg- effect the subject needs. And if there some twenty of these were textile have been unem- the aim thruout has been to split the given excised For months the workers bosses as a class, it hurts the workers in propor- ular concert in Orchestra Hall is anything connected with the play- from the score, one might labor party. This the Friday Saturday. listen to ployed or allowed to work only part time. Their conservative last and Gordon ing of the Instrument that Mr. Nap the composition tion, they will see what they voted for. Also, they party In particular has had In a better frame of resources have been deliberately depleted by the in view played, for the first time in America, olillt does no£ know, It Is not worth mind. will, if they follow that line of reasoning far all the time, taunting MacDonald and Gregorian the cqncerto for violin and knowing. The rhapsody "Finlandia” also exploiters. Nearly two-thirds of the members of his right wing colleagues on their bj enough, understand why the Workers Party’s orchestra, by Ottorino Respighi. Res- The Less the Better. Sibelius, closed the the Textile Workers have been association with Communism program. This Is United excused struggle is just beginning and why it is the first and pighi has busied himself greatly in the To open the concert Mr. Stock the composer’s best those who sympathise with it. How known effort. It< from dues payment in the last few months because last few years studying medieval Ital- chose that bit of musical laughter the starts gloomy political party in America which is organizing by could all their be accepted out with a cold, section, of wide the some time denials so ian music and this concerto is one of to “The Bartered Bride” by spread unemployment. At long they not overtyre and winds up fast and furiously %lth basing its lowest and most powerful units on the as did prove their words the fruits of his labor. Smetana. the textile barons have been consolidating their by dissociating He followed this up with an infectious dance rhythm. job, in the shops and factories. themselves from these Thruout the three movements there gigantic mergers. The textile people. forces thru operat- The more the labor party is a sombre, mysterious atmosphere, leadership developed along the ors have been solidifying their ranks for a fight to lines refnlnlscent of the old illuminated It is reported that James J. Davis is taking a of liberalism imperialism, TOO the finish. and in their manuscript music that is still sung in LATE! trip to South America and that John L. Lewis is efforts to gather elements from the li- workers can be Italian cathedrals. The work must be The textile counted upon to re- the beral party and to capture to get job of secretary of labor. It is also liberal ferociously difficult to play, and Gor- sist heroically these dastardly efforts of their ex- votes at the coming election, the more whispered that Lewis is out to trim old Gompers. don did It perfectly. To us there ploiters. This, however, is not enough. they were urged to cut the painter. Behind Even foxy Ham fell for the LaFollette illusion, but seems a great Improvement in the the textile barons stands the united power of thn But the time was too short altho Mac- fconcertmaster's it would not surprise us to hear that he is now Donald led the way with the work. The tension in strongest interests of the attack his style, so annoying heretofore, employing country. Be- suffering from a headache. first upon the Communists in spite was of entirely gone. hind the textile workers must stand the united the incidents of the Campbell prose- of the working class from coast to coast. cution and the signing of the Russian Liquid What? Senator Henry Cabot Lodge suffered a severe Contrasting The struggle of the textile workers is a struggle Treaty. with modern composi- shock on November 4. That was the day the Cool- tion, Gordon played the eight concerto the entire working class. The employers feel Conservative Strategy. of idge landslide took place. When Silent Cal was In this part of the capitalist strategy by Spohr. This concerto is a work of that now they can begin their much-heralded and handed the nomination for the presidency, Henry the conservative and liberal leaders simple, almost Ingenuous liquid mel- somewhat delayed open drive. They have not ody thruout, tho there pas- iMilirri ahop are be- thought he was handed a lemon. But it was Henry been successful altho Mac- are ginning to garner the fruits of their election vic- Donald was willing. In faot, the haste sages of virtuosity which is not music who got squeezed. Now watch Cal talk to the dispense government that is the fault B j tory. The time to halt these anti-labor maneuvers te with the labor of the concerto form. workers! over-reached Itself, for Instead of Following this was an English horn is at hand. splitting the labor party end weaken- solo with orchestra. The symphonic ing development Norman Hapgood says that bunk killed the La- the of eleee war poli- poem "The Swan of Tuouela” by Jean tics within It, the pushing of the la- Sibelius. Tuonela Is the Hades of Fin- 22 Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER Follette candidacy. We can claim that the Work- bor party Into the position of opposi- nish mythology, and In this weird and The foreign diplomat* for Workers ers didn’t get the Chinese-Eastern railroad. The And a member the l’arty. l’arty helped to debunk him. tion psrty will strengthen this devo- gripping movement the composer de- Soviet* have It new. I I