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plan to establish its world hegemony. The Wash
ington government considerably allows Britain to
elevate her guns alegedly in violation of the com
pact Perhaps these guns may be shooting shells
at Japan one of these days After that if England
gets too impudent the United States can then
elevate her guns and make more new ones than
England can.
The United States is flirting with the British
colonies. Australia and New Zealand have "Jap
anese problem" The bonds between those colonies
and England are made of sand These colonies are
a very important factor in pushing the "Mother
Country" into an anti-Japanese alliance with the
United States. If Britain does not adopt an anti
Japanese policy, what is to prevent the colonies
discovering that the United States was once
colony of Great Britain?
The United States is preparing for the next war
This time it will not be a laggard, coming in at
the heel of the hunt 1t will be the first in the ring
There is no longer any attempt to hide the purpose
of Wall Streets war preparations. Japan is the
next victim of this capitalist Moloch. And the UNI
thinking masses will respond even more readily
to the slogan of "Down with the yellow peril"
than they did to 'Down with German militarism,"
in 1917, when the mountebank Wilson pulled off
his mask
While the capitalists of the United States are
getting their battle weapons and their alliances in
good order for the fray, Japan is not idle and the
human race will see another international slaugh-
ter feast with the workers of the world the pawns
in the game of capitalism.
Against this orgy of murder the cries Of pacif-
its will rise in vain. There is only one power on
earth that can stop it and that is the power of
labor, consciously organized to abolish capitalism
and establish the rule Of the workers in it's stead
The only organized world movement willing and
capable to lead the working class to victory against
capitalism, its wars and its attendant horrors is
the Communist International
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-20
Britain and Japan

The British government had an alliance with the
Mikado up until the time of the Washington con-
ference, when the so-caled four power naval pact
was agreed to but not carried out One of the
gains made by the United States government thru
that conference was the dissolution of the Anglo
japanese alliance.
That disharmony is taking the place of the for
mer friendly relations between Japan and Britain
Is growing clearer every day. This was manifested
during the active stages of the recent Chinese civil
war; it was evident at the opium conference in
Geneva last week. Even the traditional Oriental
suaveness was not strong enough to camoufage the
bitterness existing between the japanese and Brit
ish delegates.
The United States and Britain are trying to
reach an accord on an antiJapanese policy 1t is
not clear how Britain can feel too happy over this
development, except insofar as beggars cannot
be choosers. The defeat of Japan in the Pacific by
the United States will leave the latter in position
Of domination. Britain knows that but the old
mistress Of the seas is caught in the grip of fate
The Washington conference was one of the most
important steps taken by the United States in its
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-20
Capitalist Honesty

A master in chancery handed down q decision
that Governor Len Small owes the state of Illinois
one million dollars. While that versatile gentle
man treasurer Of the state, he lent money to
the meat packers at s per cent and pocketed the
difference between that rate and the per cent
paid by the banks to the state for the use of its
funds.
That Small is a crook there is no doubt what
soever. But what is capitalism anyhow but a
crooked system? While the capitalists rob those
marked out for robbery, i. e. the workers. their
acts are quite ethical. Only when they rob one an
other or plumber state institution of capital
ism outside the regular way is there big cry
raised. Robbery then becomes menace to the
system, and the law of self-preservation compels
the bulwarks of capitalist society to seek punish
ment for the miscreant who rocks the boat
This is the milk in the cocoanut of the Small
case. His enemies just as corrupt as he is, but
they are more disciplined and rob according to
law. At least if they stray beyond the preserves
they take care not to get caught
Charles Gates Dawes vcepresident elect of the
United States was implicated with the notorious
Lorimer in the operation of crooked banking
business Even the supreme court found him guilty
Yet he was elected He helped to rob the poor
people who placed their savings in Lorimer's bank
Albert B. Fall and his criminal associates who
are being prosecuted, after a fashion, for selling
the naval oil reserves made the mistake of tamper
ing with capitalist institution. They will not
be punished but had they stolen property from the
Indians or robbed a savings bank nothing would
have happened to them. They would not be even
Inconvenience to the extent of having warrant
served on them.
Former Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana.
got away with millions from the bankers of that
state and he is now serving five years in Atlanta,
prison. He should have known better than TO
make too free with his fellow capitalists That is
how it goes. 1t is well, that the capitalists give
such, excellent examples of their deprayity II.
We are not interested in cleaning up capitalist
corruption. We leave that Sisyphus task to the
socialists and the reformers. We are out to clean
up capitalism. Small can plumber the capitalist
treasury until he is as rich as a boss sbootlegger
for all we care. sr ss..sr,
The workers have nothing to gain from clean
capitalist governments. They can only gain. from
having clean workers governments. And their Job
is to get that by first getting rid of capitalism.
Soviet Russia has blazoned the way.
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tons for an armed insurrection. Ac-
cording to their conception the center
OF gravity would lie in the sphere of
propaganda, Of arming the minds OF
the workers. To this Lenin's reply
was: He who refuses technically to
prepare for the Instruction ultimate
ly rejects the Instruction itself. and
transforms the program of the revo-
luton into an empty phrase"
Attic Lenin knew quite well that
revolutions are not made to order. that
the success OF a revolution demands
certain deep-going historical changes.
nevertheless he insisted that the prob
lem of the revolution is not only polit.
lcal but also the technical erganiza,
ton or the revolutionary class. Al
party which does not prepare for the
revolution must be considered a dis
cussion club rather than the leader of
q revolutionary class No matter how
difficult this problem is, yet all the
progressive forces Of the working
class must be organized in order to
solve this problem. Thus we see that
FOR Lenin the revolution was always I
concrete problem OF the day which
~ times comes close to us and again,
moves back into the distanc,. de-
pending upon the situation and the
correlation Of forces, but always re-
Mains the acute problem OF the labor
movement.
rF
Tomorrow = "Proletarlsn States
manshIp."
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Books at Pre-war Cost.

Especial to the Daily worker)
MOSCOW, Nov. 10. = The cost of
book production by the government
publishing house is hardly more than
in pre-war times and discounts are
made to workers, peasants and teach
ers. The result of lower book prices.
with the improved economic condition
Of the country, has been a tremendous
increase in the book trade In place
of 300 book trading organizations
year ago, there are now LOO, of
which $50 operate in country districts.
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announces that his first efforts will be
to relieve the "plight Of the farmers.")
In the months of September and
October, a change took place in the
farming situation. There has been a
partial failure of crops in other coun-
tries: Argentina, Canada, Australia,
Roumania, Germany and Soviet Russia
cannot supply the world market as
before. There was a shortage of grain
on the market and the American farm.
ers who reaped big crops this year
are beneftting by it. Their buying
capacity has increased, according to
report, by one billion dollars. This
has been heralded as the beginning of
new era of prosperity, if not Of
BOOM
Now Business Is Booming.
Steel production has risen and has
now reached the figure of SIS pei. cent
Of capacity. Textile mills, especially
in New England, which have been idle
for months, have opened again. The
railways have reached record loadings,
due chiefly to the movement Of grain.
Exports in October attained the high
total of $527, 100000, the highest since
1921, leaving a balance of $217 900 900
over imports. This is the highest
trade balance since 1919, the year Of
prosperity" in which the workers and
farmers of the country launched the
farmer-labor party.
These are the economic factors that
act despite elections and because of
their nature this year inclined the
voting population to convervatism-to
letting well enough alone" as Mark
Hanna said. These factors led to the
defeat of Davis and LaFollette-aside
from the threats of discharge made to
the workers in case they supported
the "socialistic schemes" of the pro-
gressive movement. The workers and
farmers, acting under the good influ-
ence of the monetary situation, voted
to preserve the status quo.
Boom Only Temporary.
The big capitalists Of the country
were not bothered about the outcome
of the elections. They knew the eco
nomic condition of the country, and
the threat of LaFolletteism did not
worry them. In spite of Temporary
relief in the farming situation and
slow, slight expansion in industry.
they did not predict the dawn of re-
newed prosperity. On Nov. 8, Just
before the elections, the New York
published reports from diff |
ferent parts Of the country. Detroit:
Local automobile companies as a |
whole are buying less steel than they |
were a year ago." Duluth: Il believe |
industry in general is sitting tight at
this time" Kansas City: There is
some hesitancy about booking ahead |
very far on dry goods lines, and coun- |
try merchants continue their policy of
buying as they need" Detroit: The
industrial barometer of local condi- |
tons says election week will open
with 1000 less men employed than |
was the case the first week in October.
and the majority of industries are not
hiring men," Against these state
ments were others indicating in
creased buying power of the farmers,
the opening of the New England tex
tile mills and an increase in the
operations of the steel mills. Coal
operators, on the other hand, reported |
lower diggings.
Trade Slows Up Again.
Did the elections alter matters?
This is part of question number
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-20

and the substance of question num-
Der 3. The Annalist of Nov points
out that altho elections have some
effect on capitalist investment, insofar
as the administration inspires conf
dence" or not, nonetheless, the vital
element is the economic situation. The
department of labor published report
on wages and employment in Septem-
Der, 1924, compared with September,
1923. In 6,400 establishment, 2,219, 900
persons were employed in 1928, com
pared with 1881 900 persons in 1924,
reduction of IS per cent. Similarly
there was reduction in the amount
Of payroll Of somewhere over IA per
cent. The Commercial and Financial
Chronicle of Nov. 1 states that "There
Is no denying the fact that trade, after
the sharp partial recovery of the late
summer, has latterly been slowing up
again. No business boom is in
prospect"
Conditions Not Better, Says Annalist.
On Nov. 10, after the elections, the
Annalist writes: THE two outstanding
features Of the post-election situation
are: First, that the confidence follow
ing the election is not based on posi-
tive economic changes in the business
prospect, but on the failure of an
apprehended political change for the
worse actually to take place; second,
that what are loosely called the fun.
damental conditions of business have
undergone no change whatever in
consequence Of the election and have
not changed materially from what
they were even two or three weeks
BEFORE" The farmers are not buvino
much. They are paying the interest
on their mortgages and putting the
rest by. Those who are buying motor
cars, are purchasing used cars. "The
fact remains, that the increased farm
purchasing power from which SO much
has been expected has so far failed
to show itself decisiveIy in increased
demand for goods, and there is no
other definite area of buying power
to which business can turn with clear
prospects Of greater markets. says
the Annalist.
Exports, which are adding con.
siderably to the country's "pros.
perity," depend upon the outcome of
the Dawes plan. Should Germany
succeed in obtaining a slice of the
worlds market, the leading exporting
nations, including the United States.
VIII suffer. Should walls be erected
to Germany's penetrating the interna-
tional market, the European markets.
which are counting upon their re-
Mobilization thru the restoration Of
Germany, will collapse. The export
trade of the United States, which does
chiefly to Europe, will suffer fearful
blow. (These are only the economic
effects of the Dawes pIan.) These are
the external factors initiating against
economic prosperity in the United
States.
Unwary FIeeced.
Disregarding the conservative atti-
tude Of the Annalist, wild speculation
on the exchange ensued on Nov. 3.
and industrial stocks rose
with a boom. Millions of shares
hands every day. On Nov. 13.
100000 shares received new owners.
Fifty stocks were at new highs. This
was boom" such as had not been
witnessed since 1901. One occurred
in 1920, after the election of Harding.
Spectators taking advantage of the
vote of confidence" cast in favor of
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Do the Elections Promise Prosperity?

candidate proceed to boost the mar.
ket, and fleece the unwary. For as the
Annalist has pointed out "the funda-
mental conditions Of business have
undergone no change whatever
consequence of the elections and have
not changed materially from what
they were even two or three weeks
before" There are serious dangers
Of this inhationary exchange boom
being followed by collapse, such as
took place in 1920.
The boom" seemed to be justified
by the fact that the railways were
placing orders for rails, locomotives
and cars, which were held in abey-
ance pending the outcome Of the cleo
ton. Building plans were held I'm
on the same grounds. Even tho the
railways might have feared adverse
legislation in case radicals were
elected to congress, nevertheless such
holding up of orders is also an cleo.
ton maneuver. 1t is a repetition ~
the Mark Hanna method Of terrorizing
the workers into voting the "right'
ticket and scratching the wrong,
one, in fear Of losing their Jobs. The
Annalist comes to the conclusion thar
in the main, the problems and the
prospects of business are preeIseiv
what they were before Nov. A."
Dawes Plan to Cut Our Wages.
In prospect, however, OF the Dawes
plan and the general offensive of the
capitalists against the workers. n,ann.
facturers all over the country reiterafa
the demand for the cutting of wages
with the assurance of the assistance
OF the reactionary government Of
Coolidge and Dawes, not only the
workers but also the office personnel
VIII have to face the issue of foreign
competition. Longer hours and lower
wages, and for the office forces IN
addition a cutting of personnel. The
farmers will have to compete with the
expectation of more than 100000
tons OF Russian grain. Consequently.
they are holding tight to their money.
thereby removing the only definite
area of buying power to which bust
ness can turn with clear prospects Of
greater markets"
Workers should not be fooled by the
boom" which has set in on the stock
market. They should not be misled
by change of capitalist administra-
ton. The example of Germany even
in the hands Of the social-democrats
OF England in the hands of the labor
party, OF France in the hands of the
radicals, should convince them that
capitalism does not depend primarily
on confidence" in their capitalist gov
ernments (Which even these social
democratic, labor and pseudo-radical
governments are), but on sterner
economic factors.
And these economic factors today.
with slight ups and downs, are leading
to the permanent doom of capitalism
This will force the workers into
struggle against greater exploitation
1t will lead them to conflicts with the
capitalist government, which will use
every form of force to crush them.
This will lead the unpoliticaIly and
less politically minded workers to an
understanding of class political action.
This is the prospect not Of a remote
day but of the immediate future.
This is the prospect not Of the Ger
man workers alone, but of the Ameri-
can as we'll Morgan, Rockefeller and
their fellow capitalists will see to that.
Coolidge and Dawes will supply the
force.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-20
BY ISRAEL AMTER.

~ IIGHLY SATISFACTORY" "Wall
J Street Elated," Prosperity
Ahead" etc. These are some Of the
expressions appearing in the capitalist
daiIies indicating the satisfaction Of
big capital with the results of the
elections.
Some workers are inclined to accept
the election results as an Indication
that, if Davis or LaFollette had been
elected, a more favorable period for.
them would have dawned. Other
workers labor under the illusion that
the elections as such have a tremen-
dous influence on the economic. state
of the country. And still others, i'm
pressed by the big stock boom that
followed Immediately after the an
nouncement of the election of Cool
idge and Dawes, decided that Amer
lea has embarked upon a new period
of prosperity.
Coolidge Bosses Man.
The contention Of the first group of
workers reveals that they do not
understand the power behind the
throne" The controlling group re-
garded Coolidge as their man; Davis
represented the "Solid South" and a
different set Of capitalists, but the
power Of Wall Street is so complete
over the country that it would have
controlled Davis as well as Coolidge
and could block any progressive
legislation on the part of democratic
congress. In any case, Wall Street
did not fear Davis and therefore dis
regarded him during the election cam
paign. Nor did it fear LaFollette or
his threat to throw the election into
the house, for when the DOGGY of "con-
fscation" or Socialism is raised.
Wall Street knows that congress is
still too sane" to yield to the temp
tation of radical" measures. (See the
hasco Of the Macdonald government
when in Office in England.)
The second group of workers also
have the illusion that the elections
as such are a powerful factor in de-
termining the future economic condi-
ton Of the country. During the Wilson
regime, a vast unemployment wave
swept the country and was inherited
by Harding. Harding did not solve
the situation; it was solved by the big
building plans inaugurated, the in
crease in exports, the conquest of
markets in South America, Canada
and the East This stabilized the
market and led to a period Of pros
perity. The decline of 1924. fol 1
lowed by a slight rise in the past
summer, and the present renewed de- |
cline, owing to the Sitting tight" of |
capital, are not due to the mismanage-
ment Of Coolidge. Economic factors |
are stronger than Coolidge, for he can
only open the channels of government |
which enable the capitalists
to profit more by the economic situa
ton.
Unemployment in 1924.
In the early part Of 1924, there was
positive drop in employment, the
country seeming upon the verge of an
immediate crisis. The condition of
the farmers was acute, hundreds of
thousands went bankrupt, hundreds of
thousands of farm houses were aban-
doned (and still are), millions of the
farming population went to the city.
land even today-Nov. 15-cooIidqe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-20

Calvin Coolidge is liable to have as much trouble
with the next congress he had with the last
Cal does not trust anybody who is not a million
aire, so he made lit known that William Morgan
Butler, his campaign manager would, also be his
mouthpiece in the senate. The other G. o. r. baby
elephants don't like it bit seeing that William is
newcomer on the scene.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-20
REVOLUTION AND ACTUALLY

Editors Note.-Every day until
publication has been completed, the
DAILY WORKER will publish a
new chapter from the book, Len
in: The Great Strategist of the
Class War" by A. Losovsky, secre-
tary of the Red International of
Labor Unions. The seventh chapter
is entitled, Revolution and Actual
ity."
| ENIN conceived of the revolution
- as of something that was moving
right upon us, and not as something
lying in the far-off distance. Because
Of this he never tired of insisting that
we must prepare ourselves daily for
the revolution, even politically and
technically. The political prepare
tons consisted in training the masses
for action thru everyday struggle.
Lenin used to say: "The most i'm.
portant thing Is to bring the masses
in motion, thereby enabling them TO
accumulate experiences within a short
period OF time" The revolution con.
fronts us directly with the problem Of
armed instruction. And to speak OF
this without proper technical prepare.
tons, is merely to mouth empty
phrases. He who wants the revolution
must systematically prepare for II the
broad messes. who will, in the process
of preparation, create the necessary
organs Of the struggle.
The Mensheviks were fond OF ridi.
culing the idea of technical prepare.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-20

Chief of Police Collins is running true to form
these days He announced that in his opinion the
murder of Dean O'Bannion was solved or would
be solved within twentyfour hours. That means
that he is again normal. ,rr m
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-20

John l.. Lewis is reported as having said that
ne is not going to El Paso with the intention Of
running against Gompers for the presidency Of
The American Federation Of Labor Perhaps the
pickings are even better in Cooldge's cabinet
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Russ Harvest Permits Exports.

nuss HdFNest Permits Exports.
MOSCOW, Nov. 49, = The Russian
export of agricultural products, in
spite of the bad crop failure affecting
the southeast, will not be less in value
but greater than last year. The grain
crop is nine per cent less than last
year, tho the acres sown were seven
per cent more. The total harvest is
estimated at 2,7OO.OOO,OOO pools Zone
pood, S6 lbs.) or 100000, 900 less than
last year. But the harvest in other
crops has notably increased, especially
the crops producing vegetable oil, max
and hemp, cotton, milk, meat and
leather. Despite these exports the
famine areas will be cared for.
Next Sunday Night and Every sun
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-20

The daily struggle for life Of the
poorest Negro farmer and his little
family on an isolated worked-out plan
tation is exquisitely and sympatheti.
cally told in the stories OF Julia Peter.
kin's little volume, Green Thursday.
killdee's battle with the soil and
superstition and ignorance is tragic
epic-cousin to Knut Hamsen's great
Growth OF the Soil in which nature re-
spends more kindly to the pioneering
Isak.
Attic the theme, method and setting
are entirely different from Walter +.
Whites recent powerful novel Of the
new southern negro, The Fire in the
Flint, Mrs. Peterkin's book shows
keen and kindly understanding of the
older Negro Of the more remote plan
tation districts. Her work gives power
and endurance to Killdee and Rose
and Maum Hannah and Missile.
Green Thursday, by Julia Peterkin;
Alfred A. knopf, New York; $3.50.