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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28

bourgeoisie. How can you say that?
How dare you say thing like this?
We know Martov for the last 20 years."
And to this we replied: YES. We know
Martov just as well as you do, and yet
we insist that the Russian working
class will accept our point Of view,
wall fight against the war, and that
Martov is merely defending the point
of view of the bourgeoisie"
But all these episodes are not the
main thing. / relate them merely to
show the state of affairs in the
Second International at the outbreak
of the world war Nobody was ready
to fight. Everybody was accustomed
to continue in the old ways of legality
and parliamentarism All the old lead
ers believed in legality as in fetish.
1t required tremendous effort to estab-
lish our point of view, even among
the participants of the zimmerwald
Conference.
Even now can see wildly the
scene of the meetings between Lenin
and Ledebour at zimmerwald. Lede-
bour said: "Of course you who live
abroad, not in-your own country, can
speak very easily about the war. I'd
like to see you carrying it out when
you get back to Russia"
I'm sure that when Ledebour thinks
of these words now he feels ashamed
of himself, And Lenin answered very
quietly: when Marx wrote the Com
munist Manifesto he, too, was living
abroad. And only his bourgeois op-
ponents could see fit to reproach him
with this fact. l find myself now
abroad because the Russian workers
have sent me here. When the. hour
comes it will find us at our posts"
Lenin fia1flled his word.
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BIZ eREeoRY zINovIEv

I ONG before the outbreak of the
- world war, Vladimir Ilyitch had
lost all confidence in the European
socialists. He knew that something
was wrong in Denmark" He had been
saying for long while about the Off
cial socialists, that they are nothing
else but smugglers of opportunism.
At the outbreak of the war we lived
in small village in the Galician
mountains. l reoollect arguing against
Lenin in the following fashion. said:
you'll see. These gentlemen Of the
German social-democracy will never
dare to speak against the war. They
will simply keep quiet" And Lenin
answered.: mo. After all, they are
not as corrupt as that. OF course
they will not fight against the war,
they will, as a matter of habit, merely
vote against it, in order not to arouse
against themselves the working mass
es" We could see later that Lenin
was mistaken, just as l was. We had
failed to penetrate into the real
nature of these Knights of the ina
tional Defense" European socialism
was completely destroyed. They had
voted for military credits.
When we received the latest issue
of the vorwaerts, official organ of the
German social-democracy, we imme-
diately brought to Lenin the news
I'll ! &c,
voted in favor of military credits. At
first Lenip wouldn't believe it. He
said: ut is impossible. This must
be a falsified issue of the Vorwaerts,
published by the German bourgeoisie
in order to deceive us and thus COM
pei us to betray the international"
And yet the news was true. 1t was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
Lenin and the Outbreak of the World War

mitted by Lenin. Lenin used to, tell
us how he and Bebel were discussing
the formulation of the proposal. Theo
retically Bebel was in agreement with
the fundamental principles of Lenin's
proposal But he demanded great
care in the use of language. I'm order
not to brighten away the geese"
Then came the imperialist war.
Lenin reminded the leaders of the
Second International of the existence
of the Stuttgart resolution. But these
leaders turned away their heads and
continued to give service to their re-
spective capitalist governments in the
prosecution of the war.
/ recollect now the first manifesto
of our Party against war. 1t is self
understood that most of that was
written by Lenin himself, just as he
has written all the other important
documents of our Party. When we
translated this document into Eur
opean languages and presented 1t to
such people as the leaders of the
Swiss Socialist Party, Grimm, the
Roumanian revolutionist, Rakoysky
(wbo finds himself now in our ranks)
their attitude toward us was one of
contempt. They were simply terror
lied upon reading that sit is our duty
to transform the imperialist war into
a civil war;"
At present we all understand it. It
looks to us as matter of course. But
at that time the mere idea was some
thing unheard of. Our opponents used
to tell us that only anarchists can
conduct such propaganda. Even at
the conference at Zimmerwald, we
had to meet the opposition of the
moderates because we took the posi-
tion that Martov was an agent of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28

German workers as a last hope to
save the capitalist class of Germany
from collapse and revolution. There
is United Front from ]. P. Morgan
and Secretary Hughes, through Ebert,
Severing and Stresseman and you,
Bob LaFollette, to Hillquit and Debs.
Is is aimed at the heart of the pro-
letariat. Dare you to break that United
Front, Mr.. LaFollette?
And if you do-whom can you call
upon to fight the international bank
ers? What power could you conjure
forth to defy Morgan and SHINES and
the Comite des FORCES? You, at least,
are not so simple as to think that the
millionaire bankers, Vanderlip,
Spreckles, Rawleigh and the rest of
your financial supporters will serious.
ly oppose their brother bankers in the
interest of the proletariat which they
together exploit and oppressI Dare
you, then, call upon the proletariat OF
Germany for resistance? Dare you
then, call upon American workers fol
resistance to these international bank
ers and fake socialists?
1t is not necessary, Mr.. LaFollettel
The Communist International is al
ready mobilizing these forces-rea
forces. The Communist Internationa
has a programs complete, defnit,
and realistic program to solve tn,
capitalist problem of who shall plum
der the German workers! 1t is tn
program of the proletarian revolution
and proletarian dictatorship in Ger
many, Mr.. LaFollette-and you ca
neither use 1t nor abuse 1t as 20
have used and abused the awakenin
workers movement of America!
And in this campaign, Mr.. LaFo
lette, while you are silent or evasiv,
the Communists of the Workers Part
will advocate the real solution, wi
explain the menace of the Dawes plaI
and will point out that you are nc
concerned and have no remedy fC
this curse of capitalism which is ham
ing over the lives of the internations
working class. The Communists wi
say-Down with the Dawes plar
Down with capitalism! Down with
the Eberts, MacDonalds, Herriots an
-LaFollettes! Forward to proletaris
revolution!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28

How much will you give me-? But
when he buys what does he say? He
says: How much will you take?'"
Worms, Worms
In describing the spectators in the
wheat pit, he says: at makes one
think of body Of worms-worms at
the roots of the wheat"
The exploitation of the farmers sur
plus production is we'll brought out
in the following passage:
Tell me why less brings more than
plenty. Why do seven bushels profit
the farmer more than ten? -. And
why will the farmer grow ten instead
OF seven? The surplus, what is called
the surplus-the rope that hangs him
1T is in the last three bushels"
The analogy between the farmer
and the Industrial worker is shown in
the following:
"The Spectator who sells your
wheat before II is grown--do you
know what he sells? He sells your
labor Do you know how he sells It?
He. sells It at auction. A few hundred
spectators sell the labor OF three mil
lion farmers--at suetionI
Farmer w. Elements
but the farmer who feeds this
world has no artificial environment.
He stands alone facing the elemental
rhythms. They are uncomfortable,
unpredictable. He may know plant
biology, he may know the chemistries
OF soil and vegetation. he may be as
scientific as the Department OF Agri.
culture could wish him To be. and yet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28

later substantiated that the socialists
of the national defense" had voted
military credits. When Lenin was
finally convinced of the truth these
were his first words: 1.-THE Second
International has ceased to exist
These words had the effect Of the ex-
plosion of a bomb-shell
Now we all see it. Yes, the Second
International has ceased to exist. 1t is
as simple to us now as the alphabet.
But just think Of it, what the Second
International meant to US prior to the
war. 1t had in it's ranks, at least on
paper, some few millions of followers.
1t was led by such authorities as Kaut-
sky, Vandervelde, Valiant, Guesde,
and Plechanoff. And against all these
people stands up an unknown Russian
Marxist and declares: That "the Inter
national has collapsed and it is we'll
that this happened"
There was no end to the attacks
and charges against the shameless
ness of the Bolsheviks on the part of
the recognized leaders of the Second
International.
Lenin was one of the main movers
of that paragraph of the famous anti
war resolution which was adopted at
the International Socialist Congress
held in Stuttgart in 1907. Jointly with
Rosa Luxembourg, Lenin proposed to
the Congress to accept the following
proposition: That at the outbreak of
an imperialist war it must be our duty
to provoke a social revolution. In
other words to transform the imperial
list war into a civil war. After long
debates the Congress accepted the
proposal. AS finally adopted the
language Of the resolution differed
somewhat from the one originally sub
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28

You know what that means, La
Toilette. You know that application
of the Dawes plan or any other plan
of enslaving German labor will mean
terrible and prolonged unemployment
for American workers, that the 2,000,-
600 workers now out of work will be
increased by millions more, that all
the misery of wrecked sshopes and
broken homes hangs over the heads
of millions of American workers and
their families. Is this, then, no issue
for you, Mr.. LaFollette?
What Have You to Say?
Apparently, the issue of the misery
of millions of American workers are
nothing to you, Mr.. LaFollette. You
have issued a statement that you will
make your campaign upon domestic
issues only. You are silent upon the
Dawes plan, which is the most i'm
portant issue in the political world,
which is not foreign" but so vitality
important to American bankers and
diplomats that they are laying the
threatening basis of new and more
terrible wars at the London Confer
ence. Just as in the recent war,
American workers will be called upon
to rescue the loans of Morgan. Do
not the jobless millions who will
tramp the streets of American cities
as a result of German reparations
constitute an American issue? Does
the fact that the dragons teeth of
world slaughter are being sown broad
cast over the earth by Wall Street
bankers, Secretary Hughes and your
sort Of fake radicals now controlling
European governments, constitute no
threat to American workers, no Amer
lean issue, Mr.. LaFollette?
How Do You Differ From 5risadler-
General Dawes?
You may say you "avoid or evade"
no issue. Very well; will you repu-
date the Dawes plan at once, and
categorically? Why do you hide be
hind domestic issues only? How do
you differ from Coolidge, the Repub-
lican, whose program endorses the
Dawes plan? How do you differ from
Dawes, himself? How do you differ
from the other capitalist party, the
party Of Morgan's servant, Davis, who
also endorses the Dawes plan? Are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
SATAN'S BUSHEL
BY Gsret Garrett
nufoo 90 m

(E. P. button & Company, New York;
In "Satan's Bushel," Garet Garrett
paints a graphic picture Of the wheat
farmers life and problems, showing
how he is exploited on every hand by
the banks, the farm implement trust,
and the grain gambler.
Dreadwind, young Spectator in
the Chicago wheat pit, after achieving
phenomenal success in number OF
daring operations, awakes to the fact
that "a man may buy and sell millions
of bushels Of wheat with NOT the re-
hottest interest in the wheat itself as
a food, as vital commodity, as a sign
of civilization" Inspired with sud-
den desire to know more about wheat,
he leaves Chicago for the wheat fields
Of Kansas, where his eyes are opened
to the economic struggle of the farmer
for existence.
Strikes Grain Gambler
Garrett strikes at the evils Of grain
gambling and the exploitation of the
farmer in a number of telling pas
sages:
"The farmer sells and the farmer
buys. What does he~ sell? A primal
substance, the food that sustains the
world. What does he buy? Machin-
cry, wagons, building materials, hard
ware, cloth, sugar, sometimes piano
or a phonograph--such things. When
he sells the primal substance what
does he say to the buyerf He says:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
Law Enforcement at the Ritz

Millionaires at the Ritz Carlton hosiery in New
York City we're caught violating the Volstead pro-
hibition- act.
Walters who participated in breaking the law
by serving the liquor at the order of their en-
ployers were arrested along with the millionaires.
The rich men were ordered to pay fine of $3.50
each, which meant less that to have assessed a
fine of one Clown cigarette each against the wait
ers.
But the walters who carried out their orders
from the millionaire gentlemen are to go to the
penitentary for term of years.
It seems such waste of space to comment upon
this bit Of news Write your swn editorial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
Death Day

On September the twelfth, the Sixth Anniversary
of the Battle of ST. Mihiel, will be National De-
Tense Test Day. On this day the United States
government will stage an imposing dress rehearsal
of its organized and potential military prowess
Actual and symbolic springing to arms will be
in order. kilograms will 20 out from the Corps
Area Headquarters at Washington sounding the
alarm. There will be makebelieve cry that the
country is in danger. The word will be passed
on from corps commander to division commander,
to brigade commander, thence to colonels to ma.
jors, to captains, and so on down the line.
The army, the national guard, the organised re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
PLAY BALI

Jaw, come on. play ball!" The ia
were impatient with all this militia
hokum OF the 1O4th field artillery
the N. Y. national guard interrupt
their perfectly good baseball game j.
because Babe Ruth coined up" I
other day. II there were a real
imminent, this same bunch of AM
lean fang would be shouting: "A
come on, get in the fight" The I
boys yelling for the other fellows
do 1t.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28

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Evening star., 1924-06-08
Move to Simplify Calendar
Now Is Seriously Considered

Plans for an international con-
oress to consider simplification of
the calendar, with the United States
issuing the call, are now being serl-
ously considered after two years OF
preliminary discussion of the need
for such a change.
Prof. c. F. Marvin, chief of the
weather bureau, United States De-
partment of Agriculture, is one OF
the leaders in this movement and
advocates some very interesting in
noyations in the calendar. The form
of simplification which he supports
would result in a year oaseo on
present seven-day week as unit
The year would consist of thirteen
months of twenty-eight days, or ex-
actly four weeks each, and an extra
day. The suggestion favored by Dr.
Marvin is that the 365th, or extra
day, be given a special name, such
as New Year eve" or other equiya-
lent designation. made a worldwide
holiday and placed between Decem-
ber'2S and January ].
The extra month, for which new
name must also be invented, would
be least likely to upset our present
way of calculating, if introduced in
midsummer, between June and July.
Leap Year day." by whatever name
IL may be known, would be accepe1-
BILE as a midsummer holiday every
Evening star., 1924-06-08

for a stay of an unknown time.
Everything that their complement of
wriggling bluejackets might need or
think they might need must be pro-
vided for them. along with meat
-four, canned cookies and other Ia BILE
needs. Arrangement had to be made
by which the men of the little fleet
might get their money on pay day,
of the country.
vid Potter. Supply Corps. paymas aster
to think anything unusual had been
done. a good supply officer is expect
ed to pull miracle out of the air
when it is needed. He isn't expected
to make a fuss about il, either.
Much Expected Of "Pay."
When the fleet wakes up in a for
eign port and rubS the sleep out of
its eyes and goes to breakfast it con-
fidently anticipates that Pay" has
been ashore hours before and robbed
the countryside of its choicest edible
treasures. And if Pay has failed to
do SO the feertells him about it.
Rear Admiral Potter is one of the
extraordinary characters of the Navy
He will not thank me for saying so,
for he does not believe in personal
publicity. But he is, for all that. A
Princeton grad of 1895 admitted to
the New Jersey bar in 1897. he be-
Evening star., 1924-06-08
of War Abound
In East Europe Issues

Continued from First Page.)
tries as far removed as Japan. the
United States and Brazil were in
yolved.
Same System Exists.
In the Europe of 1924, as in that of
1914, the same system of interde-
pendent agreements subsists. The
nations have changed partners, or
more precisely, their interests would
lead them along different lines in
many cases, but the old system of al
liances holds just as good today as
decade ago. Russia at the moment is
playing a lone hand: she has quar-
relied with ali the western powers and
most recently with Germany: Yet
mania, are directly or indirectly Ger
many's foes. Poland directly and Ru-
mania indirectly, because Hungary
and Germany would inevitably make
a common cause and Ruman1a Is the
deadly foe of the MagyarS-
Now, looking at this situation from
the broader point of view. how can
the league of nations operate to pre-
serve peace? Russia is not a memper,
nor is Germany, therefore the league
has no control whatever over either
and Russia. at least, is not amenable
to the thing which is called world
sentiment. If Russia attacks Ru-
mania the league can denounce the
attack, it can demand that it stop, IT
can appeal to the other nations to
take up arms or to boycott Russia.
but that is the sum and substance
of it's powers.
For myself l do not believe that the
Russians mean to tack just now
they are more interested in getting
Evening star., 1924-06-08
Gold Will Remain Basis
OF World Currency Systems

tions are not serious. Just at pres
ent, for instance, it is not extremely
profitable to mine gold. Gold is not
worth what it was before the war.
If l remember correctly, the value
of gold measured in terms of com
m modities is now only 10 per cent OF
what it was. This means that the
mine-owner in South Africa has to
pay over twice as much in labor,
machinery and costs of refining his
gold than he did before the war.
Naturally, the mining of gold has de-
creased, and the production this past
year was $50.0o0,o0o less than the
average for the past ten years. But
gradually as gold becomes more
crease.
"The United States, however" con- =
;luded DR.. Seligman, .'is by no means
leaving it's monetary system to be
governed by blind chance. More and.
more we are recognizing the fact
that it is the function of the central
banks-that is, the federal reserve
to protect the country's business
from severe peaks of imitation. We
cannot follow the same plan as the
English in this. for we do not have
their system of 'acceptances.' But
as ] have already explained. the
Federal Reserve Board has, to cer-
tain extent, adopted managed
system, by refusing, to increase the
country's currency in proportion to
its gold stocks
Evening star., 1924-06-08
Legislation by Propaganda
Seen as Congress Is Swamped

That this is becoming a country of
legislation by propaganda" was de-
clared by Representative l. ]. Dick
inson of iowa, when Frank w. Col
lier. postmaster of the National House
of Representatives. in testifying be-
fore the appropriations committee,
stated that in the last four years the
volume of mail in the House post
office has nearly doubled, and that
this is due to propaganda
Postmaster Collier explained to the
committee that this refers to incom-
ing mail. which brings the petitions
or protests instigated by interested
organizations or groups addressed
practically every member of Con-
gress. But at the same time the out
going mail is correspondingly in
creased. due to the fact that the
members Of Congress who received
these letters feel compelled to answer
them.
Postmaster Collier said that the in
poming mail amounts to about $4,000
letters per day-and 5000 newspapers,
Evening star., 1924-06-08

recognition and loans than IN engag-
ing in hostilitieS at this moment. nuf
the very earneStness and emnhaslS
with which they press their Bessara-
bian claims suggests that they are
keeping the future open. Moreover
if Russia ever does resume the march
upon Constantinople, her pathway
lies across Rumania and Bessara bia
is the first province she will invade.
Claims Constantinopie.
Russia, too, clings to her claim
upon Constantinople. 1t was prom
ised to her as reward for her par
ticipation in the war. Even the Brit
;sh. through Sir Edward Grey, as
sented tc Russian possession OF the
agelong objective of the czars. Did
the Russian title. thus witnessed and
s1,proved. lapse because Russia. after
gigantic efforts and colossal Sacri-
fees. finally collapsed into revolution
and the ignominious treaty OF brest
Litovsko The Russians, at least
Ceny this.
But as long as Germany on tn"
north is determined TO regain her lost
royinces-provinceS which she store
in her own time from their rlghtfui
racial and national owners-with the
Magvars in the center looking with
the Banat. with Bulgaria set upon re-
covering the Dobrudja, Macedonia
and even Thrace: with Russia in the
east looking both to the Baltic ana
TO the Black Sea to recover lost lands
which she also took from their right
full owners in past time. and. finally
with the present possessors of al
these lands determined to defend both
their legal and their moral rights
how can there be stable conditions III
Furope?