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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-20
DGweS Sees Red

The eminently respectable and "sane' Mr.. La
Toilette was taken by Mr.. Dawes, in his Evanston
speech last night as the text for sermon against
the reds. While it is very seldom that we can
proclaim an identity of interest with LaFollette,
vet such occasions do arise at certain points,
if for opposite reasons. This is The reds must
repudiate LaFollette even emphatically than
the polite Senator can disclaim the red banner.
Dawes is merely playing demagogic trick when
he accuses Mr.. LaFOllette of being a red Mr..
LaFollette is eminently correct when he insists
that there is no fundamental difference between
himself and Mr.. Dawes.
The fact that LaFolIette has corralled the
remains of the socialist party in his encourage of
which Dawes tries to make capital is no count
against the responsibility of the Wisconsin Messiah
at all. Just the opposite! If Chester Wright, the
wriggling nonentity who once edited the socialist
New York Call, can so reform to become con-
fdental adviser of Gompers, why should not Hill
quit become chief of staff for capitalistic presi
Dental candidate the same conditions? And
as for Debs' hysterical words about keeping "the
red flag waving" Dawes should not take a sick
man so seriously; the fact that the red flag has
been definitely abandoned for the national coors
and the slogan of "Back to '76" entirely offsets
any temporary sentimentality that produces a
ritualistic reference to an emblem of past dis
responsibility.
No. Mr. Dawes, you cannot get away from the
real issue between yourself and Mr.. LaFolette.
Both of you stand for exactly the same system of
exploitation of the working class and the toiling
farmers Both of you stand for american insti-
tutions' that perpetuate the system. But the real
difference is this Dawes stands for the bold and
open proclamation of capitalist rule while LaFol-
lette would prolong its life by throwing pro
tective camoufage about it.
Sooner or later the capitalist class will be de
lighted to have the LaFOllettes to fall back upon
chlOroform for the rising working class. And
in that time Dawes will strike hands with LaFol-
lette in the common cause that, even now they
hold close to their hearts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-20
Bryan BIesses Wall Street

The Bryan Brothers, political vaudeville artists
extraordinary, have been converted to J. w. Davis,
Morgan's lawyer, the ''highest type of progress
sive democrat" William Jennings says he was
mistaken when he opposed Davis before the nom
inatiOn-that was before his brother received the
vice-presdential nomination. which could not, Of
course, have been foreseen Everything is different
now. Davis has been absolved from the sin of
being on Morgans payroll and embodying Bour-
bonism generally.
All in all the developments in the presidential
campaign are most entertaining Who could have
imagined that many of these bourgeois pOlit-
icians of would give such public display of
stupidity and venality? If the whole show, from
the reluctant disclosure of graft and the common
hushng up, down to the participation of Len Small
in the Dawes celebration and the conversion Of
Bryan to Davis, had been planned and staged by
the cunning Bolsheviks to disillusion the masses,
il could not have been better done. Faced with
the terrific exposures that these politicians are
making Of themselves must feel modest indeed
at the little mite that add to their work
As for Bryan he was always political mounte-
bank, and little else could be expected of him. He
is an ignorant, stupid reactionary demagog, of
just the type that is most useful to Wall Street
for the very reason that he makes loud outcries
against it but always carrier out its orders in the
last analysis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-20
BY TOM BELL.

DAMSAY MAC DONALD, leader of
n the British Labor party, Christian
Socialist" premier of his Britannia
majesty's government, member of the
ruling clique of the Second Socialist
International, and apologist extraor-
binary for British Imperialism, has de-
livered a confession Of faith in one of
the capitalist rags of Chicago. Under
the heading, macdonald, Premier,
Tells Socialist Aim for British EN-
pire, there is collected the most APP
palling collection of gibberage mas
querading as the program of the Brit
ish workers organized in the Labor
party. Turnout the entire article
there is no one word that would Of
fend the sensibilities of the most hard
boiled capitalist. Macdonald breathes
devotion to the cause of the bour-
geoisie against the workers and for
the preservation of the capitalist sys-
tenn as represented by the British en-
pire.
cessity of applying the principles of
Christianity to modern society. And
Macdonald poses as the modern
Christ that is trying, in the midst of
all the temptations of the devil, to
bring humanity back to the virtuous
life of the early Christians. Social
ism" says the apostle, signifies rea-
soned and resolute effort to Christian
ize government and society" How
joyful the capitalists of Britain must
be to find that Macdonald while pur-
suing the imperialistic policy of Bald
win and Curzon, takes care to camou-
fage his course of action under the
humanitarian phrases of religion. The
cynical gentlemen of the bourgeoisie
Singer to themselves as they read
this trash which is meant for con-
sumption by the workers Of the en-
pire alone. So long as Macdonald
continues to be a willing tool in the
hands of the rapacious and blood
stained rulers of the British empire
they are perfectly willing to allow him
to proclaim himself a disciple Of the
Christian martyrs.
But in spite of his caution, Mac
Donald lets the cat out of the bag
when he states: Socialists want to
conserve capital They are second to
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Disruption of Negro Congress Attempted

ders the rights of the Negro in this
country.
lmperiaIists Exposed.
At any rate it is evident that the
imperialist governments which hold
African colonies under subsection,
were responsible for the attempted
exclusion of the U. NJ l. A. from At
rican soil, and together with the
United States government coerced
the Liberian government as Garvey
charged. Coolidge, while attempting
to imprison Garvey and to destroy the
mass organization, appoints Dubois as
official spokesman for American CAPT
talism before an African government
that is being coerced.
One of the attacks upon the Uni
versal Negro Improvement Associa-
tion has been made in the past few
months by Negroes who have had
more or less connection with the or
ganization in the past, and who used
the past connection as a ground for
going into court and suing the as
ISOLATION for large sums of money
claimed as due them for services.
The courts have invariably, and with
a seeming zest and enthusiasm,
granted judgments for large sums to
everybody who has brought suit, thus
having bled the treasury or the organ
ization for more than $4,000 within
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-20
A JEST
BY LISA.

BY LISA.
old Lady Life has strange gifts
~ In her rag-bag carry all.
You can hear her cackle indecently
as she hands them around.
There is an Italian man
His name is Bartolomeo Vanzetti
He has round face. and genial dropping
mustache.
But his eyes are gaunt with love
For that Old Harridan.
Mostly he is sober, but when he smiles
around him.
He is a man who hates all moneyed
things.
Joy comes to- him through velvet
starless nights
And yellow days;
Through those, his masters first and now
his friends,
lie served In solitude
Karl Marx, and young Rousseau,
And Tolstoy, Dante, and Garibaldi
And many hundred others.
JOY comes TO him through teaching
And freedom TO those slaves.
Whose slavery tears his heart.
lie has no hate for little things
Like men and gods
But most. most bitterly he hates
Ihat ceaseless, grinding mill
That some call capital and others greed
That grinding grinding. grinding, night
and day
brushes those men he loves TO nameless
His life was crowded out OF time for love
OF women.
But children used TO crawl upon his back
To tweak his hair and. like q. bear
He'd growl and shake them off
And they would scream with laughter and
climb back.
Sometimes he was a laborer, cook.
A dish wiper behind dirty bench.
He nshcd, he was a porter kept a store
And times he roamed about from
place TO place
Just living.
a dish Of raviola and a not too good cigar
Made Plato all the sweeter
To Vanzettl.
Wouldn't you think that shameless
Old Spinater
Would be generous 20 O man like that7
She caclled indecently and paved through
her rag-bag carry-all
Then she handed out q conviction OF
Murder IN the First Degree
For q particularly bloody business.
The Old Lady has wry senso OF humor.
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Macdonald Christian Martyr and |rnperia|ist

none in their appreciation of it's worth
If they disliked it, they would let II
go on destroying itself They want
capital conserved and saved from
abuse" In common with the other
major parties of the Socialist Inter.
national, the leadership of the British
Labor party have shown themselves
to be the best defenders of the capital.
lists and their ownership of the means
of wealth production in times OF
crisis. The Macdonald gang has not
been called upon as yet to murder
thousands Of workers to preserve the
capitalist system, as their German
prototypes were in 1918 and since
then, but their record since they came
into power in Britain has shown that
they are also perfectly willing to COM
NIT this crime against the workers il
called upon. So anxious are the Brit
ish Socialists to conserve capital
that they abandoned the capital levy
plank in their program as soon as
they formed cabinet. To conserve
capital they threatened the lockers
when they were on strike with the
emergency powers act if they did not
agree to accept the compromise raise
in wages offered by the bosses. To
conserve capital these idealistic
laborites stood calmly by when Hindu
textile workers were shot down in
Bombay while on strike against a re-
duction in wages. The conservation
of capital by Macdonald and his gang
does not mean only the preservation
of the means Of wealth production
from the ravages of an unruly mob,
but the preservation Of the rule of
the capitalists over the millions of
British workers and enslaved millions
of peoples in the east who are groan-
ing under the exploitation of the Brit
ish capitalists.
Patiently, Macdonald explains that
his socialism" has nothing in common
with Communism. His socialism is
opposed to tyranny, he wishes to pre-
serve the capitalist system, but thinks
that more Christian attitude on the
part of the capitalists would enable
them to continue their system of ex-
ploitation without danger of revolts
on the part of the workers. MacDon-
aid and his clique have always stood
Gin the forefront of the socialist an
tagonism to Communism and the
Third International" as he stated re-
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the past few months. 1t appears that
no one who has taken the trouble to
drag the association into court has
been refused judgment. Sums Of
$1,000 to $4,000 have thus been OBJ
tanned by persons whose very vague
services" to the organization were
of only few days or weeks duration.
The claim of Mr.. Johnson for 1850
seems to be of similar nature to the
other claims 'for services rendered.
Members of>the association say that
Mr.. Johnson's function as supreme
potentate" consisted of wearing a
much plumed hat and spangled uni.
form while he conveyed knight
hoods" upon favored members of the
organization under system of pomp,
title and ritual which is much less in
evidence since the supreme poten.
tates departure.
1t may be necessary to explain that
under the condition iff which the Lii
berian government is subjected to the
will of the European and American
governments, which the Liberian
president describes as keeping his
mind on the obligation of Liberia DO
the Great Powers" the appointment
of Mr.. Gabriel Johnson to the consul
ship in British West Africa makes him
necessarily subject to the British
Colonial Offices will.
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Gently, for the simple reason that he
stands for the preservation of capital
ism, while the Communists and the
Third International stand for the de
struction of the capitalist system and
the rule of the working class.
Macdonald asks for time to get his
Socialism" under way. He stands for
careful, imperceptible evolution of
capitalism into socialism, but he main
tains that the Labor party is making
progress in that direction. How fast
Macdonald is proceeding toward So
cialism is demonstrated by the fact
that in his cabinet all the positions
needed by the imperialists to preserve
their line of policy were handed over
to them. The naval army, air and
Indian departments of the so-called
labor government are, headed by
avowed imperialists. The labor cab
met sponsored the building of five
new cruisers for the navy, and has
promises to create an air fleet that
will equal that of France Even the
so-called left wing of the Labor party,
the wild men from the Clyde" agree
with the increase of armament, as is
shown by the statement of William
Johnston, labor M. P. and editor of
the Glasgow-Furward 1--WE are in ia
vor Of the ornaments extension pro-
gram because we are not Tolstoyans
or Doukobors." Macdonald also
states in his recent interview that he
did not oppose the building of the ma
val base at Singapore as a whole be-
cause there is already naval base
there, and he did not think it neces-
sary to build an addition to it at the
present time. On examination it is
difficult to distinguish between the
policy of Curzon and Macdonald.
The clash of interests between the
rival capitalist cliques of France and
Britain over the hegemony of Europe,
and particularly the exploitation of
Germany, shows Macdonald as firm
supporter of the interests of British
capitalism. He does not take into
consideration the fact that the appli-
cation of the Dawes plan to Germany
will be successful only at the expense
Of the agony of the German workers
He merely sees in it fine weapon
against France since it will force the
French evacuation of the Ruhr and
lead to an alliance of British and
American capital against the imperial
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Continued from page u
such a manner that he was forced to
throw them over and to defend him
self. He has charged from the public
platform that two members Of the SUI
preme council did all in their power
to keep him in Jail.
The resuIfft of the leaders incar-
ceration and the consequent failure to
hold a convention last year was the
serious weakening of the organization,
persons not over-friendly to the as
ISOLATION claiming that it's dues-paid
membership was depleted to $4,000 in
financial standing, altho they say that
100000 or more Negroes in all parts
of the world count themselves as
members. The official claim is of
five million members.
Great Powers Interfere.
The next attack upon the Negro
working class mass-organization
which it's opponents call the "back-to-
Africa" movement, had peculiar inter
national complications. The Negro
republic of Liberia on the West Coast
Of Africa was chosen as a point OF
approach in an ambitious plan to col.
onize some American Negroes in AT
RIGA, to attempt to strengthen the ex-
listing Negro states in that continent
and to spread from there an intensive
Negro nationalist propaganda for the
redemption of Africa from French,
British, Belgian, Italian and Spanish
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istic aims of the French capitalists.
Macdonald the pacifst and Christian
gentleman, to persuade. Herriot ia
agree to the demands of the Morgan
bankers regarding the loan to Ger
many invited him to witness a great
demonstration of the naval strength
of Britain.
France has the strongest army In
Europe, while Britain possesses the
strongest navy. Herriot, the so-called
radical socialist, rules for the capital.
lists of France and relies upon the
army to gain concessions, while Mac.
Donald, the pacifist Christian socialist.
rules for the imperialists of Britain
and uses the navy as a threat to
France to secure the consent Of
France to the desires of British capi.
tai. The advent of Macdonald to the
premiership of Britain has changed
nothing in the imperialistic policy ex.
cept that he uses Christian" phrases
which the Curzons and Churchills OF
Britain are too blunt to use. A con.
tinuation of imperialistic policy for
the rulers of the empire, and Chris.
tian" phrases to fool the workers and
petty bourgeoisie, is the essence OF
the policy of Macdonald.
The so-called labor government Of
Macdonald is farce. It is a liberal
government pursuing the same aims
as the imperialists of Britain have all
ways stood for. MacDonaldism is the
same cancer as ate out the vitals OF
the Second International and led them
to support the war in 1914 and be-
come the oppressors of the working
class on behalf of capital when the
workers menace the rule of the CAPT.
talists. MacDonaldism stands for the
undisturbed rule of the capitalists, for
the crushing of strikes, for the shoot
ing of Hindu workers and the arrest
of Indian Communists for daring to
organize workers, political party, for
using stool pigeons against the Brit
ish Communists; in a word, for the
subsection of the British workers and
colonial slaves to the rule of British
capital. In this work he relies upon
the navy to intimidate rival imperial
list cliques, on the police and emer-
gency powers act (martial law for
the subsection of the workers and In
dian peoples, while in American cap.
italist rags he poses as a Christian
martyr.
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Loyal Gompers Men

Gompers has no supporters today more serviIe
than the leaders of the Chicago Federation of
Labor. When they started back to Gompers little
over year ago. the leftwingers predicted that they
would go all the way and more, a prediction that
was protested by some of our optimistic friends.
But when the Chicago Federation is afraid even
to endorse LaFolette until the word has come from
Gompers, although central bodies and local unions
all over the country were at least Independent
enough not to wait for Gompers to tell them to sur
render to the middleclass but did it on their own
hook-when the Chicago Federation cannot even go
to LaFollette without Gompers' Professionalism
indeed the retreat Of Fitzpatrick Co. 60 little
further.
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imperialist rule thru independent self
government of the black inhabitants
now under colonial rule.
The Universal Negro Improvement
Association last winter applied to the
Liberian government for permission
to colonize 5000 American Negroes on
Liberian soil. This application was
finally refused by the Liberian gov
eminent in February, this year, the
Liberian president giving as one of
his reasons for the refusal, that he is
keeping his mind on the obligation
of Liberia to the Great Powers"
Garvey openly charges that the rebuff
was not an act of an independent Ne.
gro government, but was put thru
under orders of the colonial offices of
France and England and the minister
of the United States, all of which
powers are keenly anxious to pre-
vent any Negro nationalist movement
spreading in Africa and thus endan-
gering colonial rule.
Accuses Dubois.
Garvey declares that DR.. w. e. B.
Dubois, famous Negro author and
editor of the official organ of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, became an
instrument for inducing the Liberian
government to declare that no vises
would be granted the members of
Garvey's organization. Garvey also
charges that Dubois made himself
useful to those imperialist powers who
wish to hold Liberia under intimida-
ton. Garfvey says the little Negro
republic is heavily in debt to French
and British bankers, and that these
bankers and their governments, to-
gether with the American government
which is now trying to edge into the
colonial opportunities of Africa, keep
the Liberian government in constant
terror and under absolute dictation of
its policies.
Dubois Represented Cal.
DR.. Dubois went to Africa about
the beginning of this year. President
Calvin Coolidge gave Dubois, thru
Secretary of States Hughes, creden-
tials to represent the United States
government as Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary." In
this capacity Dubois attended the in
auguration of the Liberian president,
on which occasion he spoke as trans
hitting "the personal word of Calvin
Coolidge, President OF the United
States Of America, by the hand OF
Charles e. Hughes, Secretary OF
State" DIR. Dubois told the ceremon.
ial gathering that it was a special
mark OF the Presidents favor" He
has since written Of IL editorially as
"a gesture of courtesy; little thing,
merely a gesture, but one so fine and
one so unusual that it was epochal.'
Mr. Carney considers that the event
was neither fine nor unusual, but only
very coarse and ordinary act OF i'm
perialist governments in the policy O.
fattering, cajoling and terrorizing tn,
leaders of people they wish to hol,
in subsection. DR.. Dubois retortl
that Garvey is "either a lunatic or
traitor" in his appeals to southern
white elements TO support the African
colonization scheme. and that Garvey
In order to win such support, surren
.s-.za<-s-..s<a1H6SN
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Order Your Bundle of
First Campaign Issue

IN this year of political confusion the Workers Party of
America faced with the task of bringing the message
of Communism to the workers and exploited farmers who
being led into promised land by the Wisconsin Moses
Robert Marion LaFoette. The Workers Party alone pre-
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labor aker and socialist eutenants Only the overthrow of
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and the Workers Party tells the why.
Saturday August 30, the DAILY WORKER will publish
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Is it merely a coincidence that Grand Duke
Nicholas of Russia was dug out of his cellar in
Paris and given almost half page in the Chicago
Tribune Immediately after the Dawes report was
accepted?
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Now that the American bankers have written
new treaty of Versailles it is about time for our
patriots to take down Washingtons Farewell Ad.
dress and shed a tear over it.
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