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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20
Ghondi, the Pacifst!

No more humiliating figure crouches on the
world stage at the present moment than
Mahatma Ghandi, once revered leader of mil
lions of Hindoos and honored chieftain of the
pacifst cult Yesterday his name stood high
on that list of champions of human freedom
who throw themselves in front of the merciless
juggernaut of oppression. Today he hides
away in seclusion in mortal dread of the move
ment he helped to create
Mahatma Ghandi is the foremost prophet of
non-violent resistance. He was able to arouse
the Hindoo millions against the British govern
ment, but the time arrived when that govern
ment feared that the great tide of opposition
would burst the dykes built by Ghandi, so it
threw the prophet of peace into prison. When
Ramsay Macdonald went into Office he re-
leased Ghandi and for very sound imperialist
reasons.
Since Ghandi went to jail new leaders have
arisen in India. They do not like policy that
allows the British government to kill their
before the altar of pacifism. Today the Hin
docs view the crouching prophet of pacifism
with pity and perhaps contempt
But it appears that Ghandi is not an UNI
diluted pacifist. He is surely 100 per cent
pacifst in the struggle between the Hindoos
and the British government, but listen to the
Mahatma talking: eff Russia attacks us (mean-
ing the British occupation-Ed.) we expect
the militaristic nations of Europe to come to
our aid to prevent Russia from becoming too
strong, and we should welcome the aid" So
it appears that Ghandi is willing to shed blood
in defense of the capitalist system, even well
coming the aid of the militarists of Europe
against the introduction of the Soviet system
into India.
Ramsay Macdonald was serving British i'm
perialism well when he freed the Hindoo fakir
Ghandi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20
The Daily Revolution

The self-styled worlds greatest news
paper" sometimes called the Chicago Tribune,
seems to have been seized by peculiar sort of
revolutionary fits. Hardly day passes when
this sheet is not filled with the blessings of
some revolution sweeping Soviet Russia some
where in some way. How? When? Where?
By whom? These are only Incidental questions
which the revolutionary stories seldom deal
with. When these questions are the order of
business for the revolving scribe, imagination
is the arbiter and the informant.
It might appear strange to some that a news
paper which has such high regards for itself
and its reputation should peddle in such thrash
at this late date. How is this practice of the
Tribune to be accounted for in view of the al
most daily increase in the number of countries
giving Soviet Russia full recognition?
Many explanations have been offered to ac-
count for the overworked imagination and the
ordinary, plain lying of this daily. 1t seems as
If the Tribune is attempting to cajole the So
Wet Government into allowing one of its cor
respondents to remain in Russia. The Soviet
authorities have expelled the Chicago Tribune
correspondent because of his deliberate lies
and rather questionable activities.
Then again it is said in prominent business
circles of Chicago that the manager of the
Tribunes European main office, the Paris head
quarters, is in the employ of the French gov
eminent. The French capitalists are anxious
to estrange everybody from Soviet Russia so
that they have as little competition as possible
in their dealings with the Soviet Republic
These French interests are particularly inter-
ested in keeping the United States away from
policy of normal peaceful relations with the
Soviet Government. The Tribune correspon-
dents are thus reported to be getting paid on
both ends of the news lines for their revolu-
tionary activities in Soviet Russia
~ IL
the Tribune's vicious lies, we don't know, yet
But these explanations look mighty plausible
and are well suited to the general policy of
this daily mouthpiece of the owning class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20
A Real Test

The Macdonald government in Great Britain
is soon to be faced with real test OF strength:
The country is on the eve OF great strlke Oh
700, 900 miners.
The coal diggers are in no mood to COM
promise They have suffered SO long from
the exorbitant cost of living that they are bent
on fighting it out despite the insistence OF
many of their leaders to put the brakes on ana
be cautious
For some time the miners looked for rellet
in the award of the Sankey commission. True
to mis- colors, Lloyd George sabotaged these
recommendations and made them dead let
ter. The situation has grown more critical
since the advent of the Labor government ana
the recent rise in the cost OF living.
More than that The miners are in an ugly
mood at the do-nothing policy of the govern
ment. Three miners lose their lives daily IN
the mining industry of England. One miner
is injured every three minutes. Only decisive
action by the government can meet these
wretched conditions even halfway.
1t is this determination of the miners for
showdown that is forcing the Macdonald gov
eminent to consider the critical state OF affairs
amongst the coal diggers. The government is
soon to introduce miners minimum wage bill
guaranteeing the workers 70 per cent more IN
wages than they received in 1914. This, 1t IS
hoped, will help the miners bear the heavy
burdens of the increased cost of living.
For the English capitalists this is very dan
gerous legislation. Once this policy of the
government fixing wages on the eve OF strike
is adopted in the case of the miners, what is
there then to stop its application in the case
of the railway workers, the lockers, and other
worlingmen? Such policy is Numerically
opposed to most fundamental prerogative of
the ruling class-the right to dominate the dis
tribution Of the products of industry. On this
point all shades of capitalist opinion will unite
We may, therefore look forward to de-
cisive test of strength. The Labor cabinet
members cannot delay the issue as far as the
miners are concerned. They dare not antagon-
ize the miners powerful organization, for they
can as much get along at the helm without the
support of the coal workers as they can without
a majority vote in Parliament.
The issue is thus narrowing down to funda-
mental issue of class power, with the miners
as the spokesman of the whole working class
and the majority of the government as the
open representatives Of the whole capitalist
class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20
The Negro Tenants League

The foresight of the Negro workers in
the resolution at the Sanhedrin
All-Race Conference, demanding that all
landlords be compelled to rent their houses to
the first conner, at prices listed and unchange-
able, has now borne fruit in the newly formed
Negro Tenants League True, the influence of
the real estate sharks killed this resolution at
the conference, which was controlled by con-
sentative business men.
But the rejected resolutions declaring against
discrimination against the Negroes, both as
tenants and in industry, put squarely before
the Race the fact that so-called welfare work
ers and property-owning business men do not
represent the workers interests. At the San
hedrin a Workers Party delegate strongly
championed this resolution for the abolition of
the restriction Of the Negroes right of resi-
dence.
The DAILY WORKER therefore, welcomes
the news of the formation of the Chicago Me-
gro Tenants League, which demands in no
uncertain terms that landlords cease their dis
elimination. If the recent Sanhedrin, con-
trolled by conservative business interests,
countenances profteering on the Race, it
seems the Chicago Negroes are determined to
have a workers organization Of their own
which will put an aggressive anti-profiteering
and anti-discrimination program thru the 1925
Ssnhedrin Conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20
Trotzky's Letter to Russian Communists

furnished by a profound conviction
and. an entire independence of char
acter.
We must rid the Party of the pas
sive obedience which leads to doing
everything with eyes mechanically
fixed on the superiors; we must rid
the Party Of all spineless, servile
and career-hunting elements. The
Bolshevik is not only disciplined
man: no, he is a man who goes
deeply into the matter and who, in
every case, forms weIl-founded
opinion and courageously defends it
in the struggle, not only against the
enemies, but also within his own
Party.
Perhaps today he is in the minor
ity in his organization. He subor-
dinates himself, since it is his Party.
But that does not, of course, always
mean that he is wrong. 1t is per-
haps only that he has perceived and
understood earlier than others, the
new task on the necessity Of a
change of policy. He will pertina-
ciously raise the question a second,
a third and, if necessary, a tenth
time. By so doing he will render a
service to his Party, as he will help
it to prepare itself for the new task,
or to accomplish the necessary
change without organic tremors and
without fractionary commissions.
Yes, our Party could not fulfill its
historical mission if it became de-
composed into fraction groupings.
This must not and will not be done.
The Party as whole, as an auton-
omous COLLECTIVELY, will prevent this.
No Fraction Formations
But the Party will successfully
combat the dangers of the forma-
ton of fractions only when develop
ing, confirming and strengthening
the new policy towards workers
democracy. 1t is precisely the bu-
reaucratism Of the apparatus, which
is one of the principal sources of
INSTRUMENTATION.
1t suppresses criticism and en-
ables discomfort to penetrate the or
ganization. It is inclined to label
any individual or collective, critical
or warning, voice as fractionism.
Mechanical centralism is unavoidably
complemented by fractionism, a carl
cature of democracy and a formid-
able political danger.
With clear understanding Of the
entire situation, the Party will ac-
compllsh the necessary change with
all the firmnesS ana resoiureness
which the Importance of the tasks
confronting US require. It is pre-
cisely by this means, that the Party
will raise its revolutionary unity to
higher level as a guarantee for
the successful accomplishment Of
the immensely important tasks, both
in the political and economic sphere
and on national as well as on an
international scale.
ITO Be Concluded Friday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20
Pooling the Farmer

The four leading panaceas offered the farm
ers by the capitalists to relieve the acute eco
nomic distress of the rural regions are: tariff,
cooperation, diversifcation, and government
credit
All of these remedies have been tried at
some time or other jointly or separately, and
they have failed disastrously. An examination
OF these measures shows that there is no way
out for the mass of farmers under capitalism.
Wool, wheat, flour, corn live poultry, eggs,
cattle, swine, and fruits were taken off the
free list of 1919 and given the high protection
of the Fordney-McCu Tariff Act by the
government. Yet, it is these very products
which show the heaviest decline in the last
five years of protective" tariff blessings, ac-
cording to the last report of Secretary of Agri-
culture Wallace
Cooperation as practiced today along CAPT
talist lines stands no chance in competition
with the highly developed, strongly organized
capitalist combinations. So long as the grain
elevators, the railroads, the shipping, market
ing and distributing facilities are controlled by
the employing class the fnanciers and manu-
facturers of Wall Street, farmers cooperative
attempts will meet with failure for the eco
nomic reason of being unable to compete with
and overcome the insuperable obstacles of the
capitalist clique and its stranglehold on agri-
culture.
Diversifcation translates itself into diversi-
fed hardships. What relief is it to the farmer
to be at the mercy of the beef trust or the
dairy magnates instead of the grain gamblers?
Attempts at diversifcation simply spell in
creased difficulties in the process Of diversity
ing which is not matter of the moment but
a process over years.
The farmers have had too much experience
with government credit to take any stock in its
efficacy. AS long as we have capitalist control
of the government, credit in practice means big
interest for the bankers, more stringent control
of the farmers fate by these bankers, and lots
of graft and corruption for the bosses lackeys.
The story of War Finance Corporation and its
exploits presents the best proof of the useless
ness Of this quack remedy of capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20

give the children better school
rooms, capitalism would not be I'M
dermined one whit. The fact Of
the matter is, the schools would be-
come more efficient under those cir
cumstances in turning out citizens
with a vengeance.
To show up the class nature Of
capitalist education Is not only
necessary but imperative IL the
revolutionary workers are to gain
the leadership Of the masses Of
young workers, as well as adult
workers. But to attribute the
class nature Of education to repres-
sion, to graft, and to lack Of schol-
astic freedom Is to indicate that
these things can be reformed under
capitalism and to show oil that is
necessary is completely to change
the surface conditions complained
Of.
Bogdanoff, the great russian eco
nomist In his book, "A Short Course
In Economic Science" shows why
the method used by Sinclair utterly
fails. Bogdanof says IL Is a COM
parattysly easy matter where the
data v available 70 show that o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20

the juridical interpretations Of Party
democracy and it's limitations pre-
scribed by the statute. No matter
how important these questions are,
they are but secondary questions.
We shall examine them in the
light of the experience at our dis
posal and shall modify that which
can be modified. But, before all,
it is the spirit prevailing in our
organizations which must be modi-
fled.
Acquire Collective Initiative.
The Party, thru its nuclei and
unions, must again acquire collective
initiative, the right for a free and
comrade-like criticism without anx-
iety and fear, the right Of organiza-
tory self-government. The Party
apparatus must be absolutely re-
generated and renewed by means of
compelling il to understand that il
is the executive mechanism of the
great collective body.
In the Party press, a great num-
Der of examples have recently been
adduced characterizing the far-de-
veloped bureaucratic degeneration of
Party practices and conditions. In
response to critical voices, one met
with the retort: "What is the date
of your membership book?" Before
the resolution Of the Communist
Central regarding the new policy
had been published, the bureaucratic
lied representatives of the appara-
tus had considered all mention of
the necessity of the modifying the
inner Party policy as heresy. as for
nation Of fractions and undermining
the discipline.
And now they are in the same way
formally prepared to "take note" of
the new policy, i. e., in practice to
stow it away in pigeon-hole. The
renewal of the Party apparatus-of
course, strictly within the frame of
the statute-must have as its aim
the substitution of the fossilized bu-
reaucrats by fresh elements who are
closely connected with the life of
the whole Party or who are able to
guarantee a suitable leadership.
And before all there must be
SA1iilAildOOu 1AOIn Juc lSdullS IdTLy
posts those elements who, at the
first sign of criticism, of protesta-
ton or of objection, seek to silence
it by demanding production of. the
membership book. The new policy
must have as it's first result, that all
members Of the apparatus from the
bottom right up to the top, realize
that nobody is allowed to terrorize
the Party.
Action Not Lip-Service.
It is by no means sufficient for
our youth merely to repeat our for
mulas. 1t must make the revolu-
tionary formulas their own by fight,
ill them with life; it must form its
proper opinion, its proper features
and become capable of fighting for
| its views with the courage which is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20


Note.--Today the DAILY WORK
Err continues publication Of letter
written by Leon Trotsky, Minister of
War in the Soviet government and
member of the Central Executive
Committee of the Russian Commun-
list Party. Our readers will see
from reading the letter on what a
fimsy structure the capitalist press
liars hang a revolt in the Commun-
list ranks. We will publish Trotsky's
letter in three installments. Next
will come speeches by Stain, Rykov
and other leaders Of the Russian
revolution. Members of the Work
ers Party in particular should read
this debate very carefully. Trotsky
wrote to the enlarged session of the
Central Committee Of the Russian
Communist Party as follows:
a DEGENERATION Of the "old
"A guard" is to be observed sew
eral times in the development of
history. Let US take the most recent
and most striking historical ex-
ample: The leaders and the parties
of the Second international.
We know perfectly well that Will
helm Liebknecht, Bebel, Singer, Vic
tor Adler, Kautsky, Bernstein, La
fargue, Guesde and others have
been direct and immediate disciples
of Marx and Engels.
We know, however. that all these
leaders-some partially, other total
ly-have in the atmosphere of par
hamentary reform and Of the strong
growth of the Party and trade union
apparatus, degenerated towards OPP
portunism.
Eve of Imperialist War.
On the eve of the imperialist war,
we saw with remarkable distinct
ness, how the formidable social
democratic apparatus, protected by
the authority of the old generation,
became the most powerful hindrance
to the revolutionary development.
And we must say-we, "the old
ones'--that our generation which, of
course, plays the leading role in the
Party, does not by itself conclude
any guarantee sufficient in itself
against a gradual and imperceptible
weakening of the proletarian and
revolutionary spirit, if the Party toll
crates the further development of
the bureaucratic methods of the APP
paratus, which transform the young
generation into a passive object of
education, and unavoidably confirm
the alienation between the apparatus
and the mass, between the old and
the young Against this undoubted
danger, there is no other means
than 4 serious, profound and funda-
mental new orientation towards
Party democracy with a continually
increasing attraction of the prole-
tarians from the workshops to the
Party.
/ shall not go into full details on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20

chamber Of deputies. France. the
cradle of capitalist democracy. ia
dropping its last pretenses.
Thus the United States govern
ment is aiding the French imperial
lists to stamp out revolution az the
mass of workers and farmers in En-
rope, under the cloak IF interferinc
politically. 1t IS the lenicncy of the
Federal government towards the
French debtors that has enabled the
Poincare clique to expend millions
Tor the maintenance of armies with
which the workers and farmers of
Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and Ron.
mania could be crushed. It is the
support given by the Washington
government to the Morgan interests
that is now helping the French
capitalists to save themselves from
the wrath of the working masses Of
France.
MOrgan's Fear.
Mr.. Morgan as the agent pleni-
potentiary of the United States gov
eminent sees only one encmy-ethe
social revolution Of the international
proletariat against the capitalist
imperialists. The Morgan Ian is a
cruel reminder to The American
working class that our capitalists
have become the hangmen of the
workers of the world. How long
shall we tolerate this condition f.
which we, the workers and farmers
OF this country, will, sooner rather
Il! later, have to pay with our
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20
By JAY LovEsTONE.

a N ELEVENTH hour. attempt is
A being made by the king of inter.
national finance, Mr.. Morgan, to
save the lettering franc. a loan of
$1O0,000,000 has been granted to
the French government in order to
help it avert the financial and po-
litical crash that a continued ,depie-
citation of the franc would entail for
it. The money will be used to stabi-
lie the franc and "for such other
purposes as the French government
may determine"
Since the Armistice the European
governments have foated loans close
to billion and half dollars in the
United States. During this period
the Latin American governments
have received about half a billion
dollars of credit from our fnanciers.
Thus the American capitalists are
Tightening their grip on the worlds
productive system.
Government Loans.
1t is no accident that Morgan, who
symbolizes more than any other
banker the agCressivencss and the
determination Of our capitalist class
to become the rulers Of the capi-
talist world, should be called in at
the last moment to pull the chest
nuts out of the fire for the French
imperialists. But at this time it is
interesting to note that the arrange
ments Of this loan call for repay
ment within a year. We had been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20

thing occurs in society SO MANY
times. Sinclair in the "Goose-step'
and "Goslings" shows us conclusive
iy that graft and repression occur
many thousands of times. But, con-
tinues Bogdanoff, this is all mean
ingless if we do not explain the un-
DERIVING basis for the phenomena
that comes before us.
Every new system OF production
and distribution evolves its theology
which becomes the basis for its
schools and institutions of learning.
True, this theology under capitalism
in the United States is adulterated,
cheapened--in the interest Of capt.
talism; but it also can be purified,
systematized and revivffied-in the
interest Of capitalism.
p The "Goslings" makes interesting
reading but is hopeless rs con-
tribution to an ANALYSIS of capitalist
teaching in the United States.
Would a school system that had a
passion for abstract truth and JUS
tice, that had no graftcrs THAT
even had Upton Sinclair as its chief
supervisory have prevented the
wholesale capitalist war psychology
Of 1917? Certainly not. Upon
Sinclair himself, with all his free
dom from "bias," with all his lean
ing toward the underdog, could not
Withstand the capitalist war slo-
gan, and became hearty upholder
Of the "war for democracy" and
fight against the "huns" The
workers children could not have
resisted, even with Sinclair's learn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20
Mr.. Morgan Takes a Hand

led to believe that the reason for
the French governments failure to
pay the billions Of dollars it owes TO
the American government, the bill
lions of dollars gathered from the
masses during the war in tie yari-
Gus Liberty and Victory loans, was
poverty. How does it come that the
French government is able to pay
the money it owes to private capt.
talists but is unable to pay to the
government? Why is it that the
same bankers who are insistent
about the Federal governments
calling off the French debt are TAX
ing care to get back whatever
money they themselves lend to the
same French ruling clique? Why is
it that the United States govern
ment guarantees the Morgan firm
all the strength at its disposal to
collect private debts but keeps ST.
lent about the French debt long
overdue the country as a whole?
Martial Law In Paris?
And what are "such other pur-
poses" that the French government
is planning to use the Morgan mil
lions for? Already the French
bankers and iron and steel Kings are
prepared to issue orders for a pro-
clamation of martial law in PARIS !?
The Comite des FORCES is on the
job. The first step towards the es-
tablishment of an open, brutal capt.
talist Fascist dictatorship has been
taken. The cabinet has heen en-
powered to legislate without the