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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
Hail Owen the First!

Within few days the leading lights Of Americas
imperialist aristocracy will gather to tender a
royal welcome to one of Germany's most recent
monarchs King Owen the First! We have in mind
the gorgeous banquet that has been arranged for
Owen d. Young the first American receiver for
Germany under the Dawes plan.
American imperialism has good reason to hail
Owen D. Young. Despite the fact that the repara-
ton scheme is generally called the Dawes plan,
those most acquainted with the actual prelim-
inaries and mechanism of recent European nego-
tiatons are aware of the fact that it was Owen D.
Young who was the real author Of the whole plan.
This conclave in the Waldorf Astoria will be an
expression of joy and satisfaction by our biggest
exploiters and their allies over the contribution
made by Mr.. Young towards their extending
financial domination. 1t is an indisputable fact
that the Yankee banker Young and his present
shoe-warmer, Mr.. Gilbert, are endowed with more
power over the lives and fortunes of the German
masses than the Kaiser ever dreamt Of attaining
1t is especially interesting to note the character
of the personnel that has been chosen to dine and
wine this oigarch of American imperialist prowess
Every section, every layer of the imperalst group
is to be at hand to participate in the rejoicing.
Big business is to be represented Ebert H. Gary,
Herbert Hoover, Charles Schwab and John d.
Rockefeller, Jr. Ivy L. Lee, the notorious open
shop advocate, will be one Of the leading enter
tainers Seated right next to him will be the spokes-
man of the aristocracy of labor, an integral part
Of the imperialist machine, Matthew VOL and
Peter j. Brady. The latter will pose as the repre-
sentatives of the working class in effort to mis-
represent the opinion of the toiing masses of this
country regarding the vicious Dawes scheme.
No worker or poor farmer will be permitted to
participate in the celebration. This is proper.
For the workers and poor farmers Of the country
the Young banquet is occasion not for .celebra-
ton butfor preparation for vigorous battle against
the exploiters and despoilers Of the country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
BY SAMUEL skLARoFF.

DUBLIC schools are popularity sup
l posed to occupy neutral ground
in the disputes between labor and
capital. Maintained as they are, so
goes the legend, by taxation levied on
all classes of the population, they rep
resent no particular class interest.
Their function, so we are told, is to
offer equal opportunities for educa-
ton to rich and poor alike.
Democracy Is Delusion.
The trouble with our so-called demo
cratic education, however, is that
like all capitalist democracy it is, as
far as the working class is concerned,
only a delusion and a snare. Not
withstanding all professions of impair
TALLY. the virus of capitalist propa-
ganda is subtly and insidiously in
jected into the minds Of the children
of the working class.
II is common knowledge that no
teacher suspected of radical ideas"
if only of pale pink hue, can hold
his or her position very long. The
schools are honeycombed with spies
and stoolpigeons whose business it is
to ferret out and report the Instructor
whose highest crime may be an ex-
preston of sympathy for the strug
giles of organized labor. On the other
hand, the teacher who fawns anf
cringes before men of great wealth
and holds them up as shining ex
amples Of success for the worship and
emulation Of his class, is assured not
only of a permanent position but OF
favor and advancement as well.
"AmerloanizInov the Immigrant.
Within recent years this capitalist
propaganda has taken a bold and new
departure. Looking upon the tide OF
immigration flowing into this coun.
try, II has occurred to some "educa-
tors" to utilize the need OF the alien
for the study of the new language for
the purposes OF "Americanization. !"
Startling and incredible as It may
seem to American trade unionists,
there is. nevertheless, abundant evi.
dence, some of which shall be pres
emily submitted, that thousands of
aliens in hundreds of public schools
are being taught that the union shor
is un-American and that the open shor
represents the American idea Of
freedom"
How Propaganda Is Put Over.
This training for prospective strike.
breaking is carried out not only by
word of mouth, but also by printed
page, in primers and readers for for.
eigners. AT the foot of each reading
lesson there are word-exercises in.
tended to drive home in the form Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
Gompers Gets a Government

Samuel Gompers and the executive council of
the American Federation of Labor have at last
got tame government that they can play around
with and hold up as an example of what a labor
government should be-the Gales government of
Mexico
Like the social-democratc government of Ger
many which accepts and enforces the Dawes plan
of allied Imperialism, like the late Macdonald gov
eminent of England which put over the Dawes
plan when the tories felt the task too hard for
them, like the "liberal" Herriot government of
France, the tax collecting agency for the House
of Morgan, the Gales government is the Mexican
apparatus of American imperialism.
This alone explains the fondness of Gompers
for it. The Gales government marks the end of
the present revolutionary period in Mexico and
the alliance of the bureaucraces Of the American
and Mexican declarations of labor is for the pur-
pose of preventing a real social revolution toward
which the Communist Party Of Mexico leads the
workers and peasants. This is made plain by the
open unity Of Gompers and Trevino-the Morones
spokesman against the Communists, the force
that both American Imperialism and its Mexican
allies fear.
The new union is blessed by Rockefeller and
Morgan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
"MOrGI Consciousness"

An interesting angle is being given the various
employers associations to the drive they have
launched against the proposed insufficient child
labor amendment before the country. e1 u.s.
This coloring is of a twofold nature. First
of ALL the profteers are bowling that to give con-
gress power children up to the age of eighteen
is repugnant to the moral consciousness of
the country. We can understand this wall
To the employers "moral consciousness" and an
unbroken flow of fabulous dividends huge profits
are synonymous. l4saess Is S
The second phase of this opposition is based on
the promise that the United States government was
organized on the principle of decentralization, on
the principle of diffusion of its powers among the
various states. The New York chamber of com
merce for instance is yelling about giving over too
much power to congress- Here we are afforded an
excellent treat, splendid lesson, in the morality
of the class struggle. 1t is always proper for the
government to centralize its power when such cen
traizatOn will enable it to function effective
ly as strikebreaking agency. 1t is always inn
proper for the government to tend to assume more
centralized power when such power is not directly
and Immediately beneficial to the enhancement of
profits for the exploiters.
How many workers have ever heard of any en-
ployers' association protesting against the extern
sion of governmental powers when the militia
when the army, when the courts, when the depart
ment of justice are modified to break strikes,
to Jail workers. to issue injunctions and to shoot
down striking laborers? The answer is obvious
Not single worker has ever heard of such pro
test by the bosses because no such protest is ever
issued. However, scratch the skin of a profteer
and you will be flooded by stream of ''moral
consciousness" rebelling against the tyranny" of
their own open shop governmental clique operating
in Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
Greeting from Our Comrades in Jail.

COMMITTING be thankful fer something which than
- comrade In Jail supplied
Gift Of comrade Llnday Of Evanston,
$500 In to pea to "end the DAILY WORKER %
Here is reply In appreciation, from eOmads jail
Thanksgiving tak turkey" any His letter
necessity unsigned follows:
COMRADES: Your letter Informing the generous
Gift Of comrade Linday which supplemented BY your
office to the cost Of six month "sub" DAILY
WORKER, WORKERS MONTHLY and COMMUNIST INTER
NATIONAL to credit, duly received.
Needless to very policy
It did much to strengthen faith supply
for better pOlemlcs against my bourgeois
InstlnetIvey revOIutIonst way
Of theoretical Naturally gift COM
pnG the Of the revolutionary thought high
hopes In ambition to be like fellows
mentally starved to such extent hitherto
ment from had little trouble dIsseIvlng my
Illusions. ..s.g~
a have activity your party has under
taken clarity and the scheme Of
Ing humanity You have heartfelt wishes life
support In pushing this fight contamination. Ny
acknowledgement to ccmrade Lnday been
rades sharing this gift join In greetings to all.
"Fraternaliys -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03

Secretary Weeks is an apt pupil of his predeces-
sors
When has a session of congress ever opened with
out the official spokesman Of the army and navy
announcing that the nation is in grave danger
This is the usual prelude to demand for generous
appropriations for the flock of gold-braided para
sites which is the inevitable accompaniment of a
regime Of plumber.
The nation that is in danger is not the United
States, but the countries where the House of Nor
gan and its brood of financial chickens have made
their nests. Little nations like Mexico, Cuba,
Santo Domingo and Costa Rica, Chill Peru and
other republics Of South America that have rich
natural resources which marines and battleships
can capture for the covetous rulers of the United
States, big nations like Germany and France where
the whole working class can be enslaved probably
Great Britain whose imperialist ambitions run
counter to those of the American plunderbund in
all quarters of the globe, Japan who must be
eliminated so that the Pacific can become Morgan
lake. China with its teemng Millions its fertile soil
and it's enormously valuable deposits of coal, cop
per and ron these are the nations that are in dan
ger and it is for oense against them that the alarm
is raised
There is no limit to the ambitions of the Amer
lean ruling class and the servlity Of the ocialdom
of the American labor movement allows these am
billions to run riot When the officers of the metal
trades section of the American Federation Of Labor
ask for more batteships, and the whole convention
endorses military training camps, as they did in
Ell Paso it is not surprising that real miltarists
feel that the sky is the limit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
THE LETARIAN STATE AND THE
COMMUNIST PARTY

Editors Note.-Every day until
publication has been completed, the
DAILY WORKER will publish
new chapter from the book, Len
in: The Great Strategist of the
Glass War" by A. Losovsky, secre-
tary of the Red International of
Labor Unions. The fifteenth chap
ter is entitled, THE Proletarian
State and the Communist Party"
I ENIN had perfect conception Of
- the nature Of democracy and Of
the state. He restated, the MARKHAM
position regarding. the nature Of the
state and its role in the class strug-
gle. AS against the bourgeois demo-
cratic state, he placed the Soviet state
as the concrete form OF the proletarian
dictatorship. And he also defined
the position of the Soviet state in the
development of the social revolution.
Every state. including the Soviet state,
is the weapon Of definite class. The
state as such Is an organ Of oppression
of one class by the other. In this
definition IL contained the idea Of the
transitory nature of the state from a
historic point OF view. BY the aboli-
ton of classes and the class struggle,
the state will disappear, but as a re-
suit of many years Of historical de-
velopment and not as result Of one
single act. as in the conception OF
the anarchists. To bring about the
situation where there are no classes in
society, is possible only by means Of
firm Dictatorship of the working
class, because It is only by means Of
such dictatorship that we can break
the resistance OF the classes that are
opposed to the proletariat Lenin also
knew that the establishment of the
proletarlan power is impossible with
out violent revolution, and that the
maintenance of this proletar.an power
would be impossible without a merci-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03

less suppression of the exploiting
classes.
But the state is not an abstract cate
CORY. The proletariat creates the state
in form which is most advantageous
to itself. Such a form is the Soviet
system of state, for it best unites the
workers for management of the eco
nomic and political affairs of the coun-
try. Consequently the Soviet system
is the best form of the proletarian die
tatorship and the Soviets are the best
adapted fighting organs of the work.
ing class.
How does the working class realize
it's dictatorship? Naturally, thru the
Soviets. And how do the Soviets real
ize their dictatorship? Thru special
organs created by themselves. The
opponents Of Communism criticized
Lenin for the fact that he placed the
sign of equation between the dictator
ship of the class and the Dictatorship.
of the party They said: "The dict&
torshlp Of the class is one thing. whilo
NtA~ NfNNoNcA SAAAH Va tiC party Is al EN-
tirely different proposition" To thin
Lenin replied: "The working claas
must realize its Dictatorship thru ifs
vanguard, and since the Communist
Party OF Russia is the vanguard Of the
working class It is quite natural that
this party exercises the power OF the
proletarian rule" This theory Lenin
had put into effect. And 1t is not an
abstract theory, but living reality. In
the gigantic workshop called Soviet
Russia were forged the new historic
forms of working .class power and
new methods Of struggle for its liberia
tion Lenin always went ahead, clear
ing the path casting aside all preiu.
dices and throwing a mighty search.
light Of Marxism upon the complex
problems of the social and economic
struggles.
Tomorrow--"Power Of conesutrs.
tion.v
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
RURR OCCUPIED
BY WALL STREET
DOLLAR BRIGADE
Labor Takers Are Now
Morgan's Collectors

PARIS, Dec. L. The Ruhr is no
longer occupied by French army;
it is now operated by the dollar army
Of Wall Street. The Dawes plan has
taken the place Of the French occupa-
ton.
The Belgian. and French profits
from the Ruhr occupation during that
critical and stormy period was only
$150, 100000. The Dawes plan removed
the irritations caused by the Poin.
care method of making Germany pay,
and substituted system whereby the
German workers are made to pay the
reparations to the allies, with the
sanction of the socialists, the petty
bourgeoisie and the big capitalists in
the best American fashion. The labor
leaders are now the Simon Legrees
of the American bankers.
The Ruhr railways, considered the
most perfect railway system in the
world, were not turned over to their
German owners with other industries.
Instead they were turned over to the
company organized under the provi-
sions Of the Dawes plan for their
operation. The profit from their
operation will go to the PREPARATIONS
fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
'Americanization' and the Open Shop

word study the vicious anti-labor con-
tents Of the preceding lession.
Probably the most widely used
reader of this kind is published by
Charles Scribners' Sons and bears
the following caption Second Book
in English for Coming Citizens
By Henry H. Goldberger, principal of
public school IS, New York City, in
structor in methods of teaching Eng
fish to foreigners, Columbia Univers-
ity.
This book deals in simple language
with the supposed experiences Of
foreigner, Anton Bodnar, in this coun.
try. In the course of his struggles
Anton gets a job in cigar factory
Here, we learn, conditions are ideal
for the workers. To quote from chap
ter xiii entitled Trouble in the Fac
tory" it is admitted that they had
not much to complain Of; that the
rates of pay were as high as anywhere
in the country; that the working con.
ditions in the factory were excellent"
But union agitators penetrate this
ideal workshop, the men organize and
then go out on strike apparently for
no reason whatever.
Here's Where Juniors viii Get Busy
The two succeeding chapters are
entitled THE Test" and "The
Strike" and give typically employ
ars' point of labor trouble"
In chapter xxxiii, Anton's reactions
at his first union meeting while listen
ing to the various speakers are de-
scribed as follows "He felt, however,
that there was something wrong with
the proposition that workingmen
should dictate to the employer: should
tell him whom he may hire and whom
he may not hire. He wondered l. the
union worked on the American prin-
ciple of freedom. Does the union al
low the employer the same freedom
OF action that the worker asks for
himself? These were difficult Ques.
tons for him, and as yet he had thot
Httic dDOuL lntm.
At the bottom Of this lesson some
OF the questions are: What is a
closed shop? An open shop7 Why did
Anton join the union? Do you think
he was right?" Should some Devil.
dered Anton in one OF these rAmeri.
canization" classes, beset with doubts,
request the help OF the teacher In
answering these difficult questions
the teacher will supply the proper"
answer, or lose his job.
The next chapter describes the fan.
tastic generosity Of the management
Of the Bravura Cigar company.
Why Does A. r. Of L. Tolerate Thls7
| The first two sentences In chapter
XIV, "The Strike" are as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
Gold for the SoUiets

There is considerable stir in certain London and
New York financial circles over the ultimate
destination of recent shipment of two million
dollars gold to England from the United States.
The first belief that Germany was to be the re-
cipient of this sum has vanished.
What agitates the fnanciers at this moment is
the belief that the gold has found its way to Soviet
Russia. The British and American financial
wizards seem to feel that they we're outmaneuvered
by some mysterious Bolshevik banker. To them it
is horror to think of good American capitalist gold
finding its way into the realms of the Soviet Union.
Whether this suspicion is warranted by fact or
not does not matter. Before long the imperialist
governments viii be compelled to extend huge
gold credits to the Union of Socialist Soviet Re
publics The capitalist groups of the various
countries will be driven to do so by a multitude
of reasons amongst which will be their love of
profits and their desire to secure what they call
political stability on the continent" In the light
of such transactions the probable roundabout
shipment of the paltry of two million dollars
assumes insignifcance.
1t is not our task to deye into morals. 1t is not
our aim to examine the so-called abstract ethics
and morality of capitalist banking which is based
on a thorogoing antisocial foundation. But all
this horror of a few million dollars gold finding
its destination in Soviet Russia thru commercial
deal causes one to do little recolIecting. What
about the huge sum Of gold, running into several
hundreds of millions Of dollars, that the allied i'm
perialists forced Germany to disgorge when they
full well knew that it was the property of the
Soviet government?
1t is an act Of consummate humanitarian dplom-
acy for the allies to steal outright hundreds of
millions of dollars Of gold belonging to the Soviet
Republic, gold which il was temporarily compelled
to give to Germany after the BrestLitovsk treaty.
However, CONSERVATION arises when perchance the
Soviet Republic thru commercial deal manages
to receive in exchange a small quantity of gold
from the American imperialist clique which has
boarded more than half the monetary gold of the
world. The lesson in class morality is too simple
to need emphasis. 8s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
Bankers Meet with Coolidge.

William E. Knox, president of the
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. a.
American Bankers Assn. announces
that the winter meeting of the admin
istrative committee of the bankers will
take place in the national capital Dec.
IL and IL, and that arrangements are
being made" for the committee to call
on President Coolidge, Secretary Mel
lon, the comptroller of the currency,
the governor of the federal reserve
board and the chairman of the banking
and currency committees in the house
and senate.
I'm some cases" he confesses, "con-
ferences will be held to discuss par
ticular subjects in which the bankers
are especially interested"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
MAKE new DISCOVERIES
ABOUT DIPTHERIA AND
DIABETES REMEDIES

Medical circles here today were
discussing the discovery of Or. Ar
thur Locke, 26 year old chemist Of
St. Luke's hospital by which he
claims to have isolated the active
elements in insulin, diabetes rem
edy and the diphtheria anti-toxin
permitting their laboratory synthe-
sis.
The discovery, physicians de-
cIared, would permit the inexpens-
i've manufacture Of the drugs and do
away with the present necessity Of
obtaining them by Iaborious pro-
eesses from animals. Or. Locke's
announcement states he had eff
feeted the isolation by eiectro-dl-
aIysis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03

selves against the race In this coun.
try, Ku Klux spirit and program
without the hoods yet no less dan.
gerous and outrageous.
ANY institution bearing the name
Of Christ, calling itself christian,
should be above such hypocrisy, and
when revealed, no terms are too
strong for their denunciation."
The issue of discrimination against
the young colored woman was first
taken up by the national association
for the advancement of colored peo-
pie. The Y. w. c. A. stands pat on its
Jim crow policy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
COMMERCE IN
HUMAN FLESH
IN HEBRIDES
Outrages Are Committed
by Planters

SYDNEY. New South Wales, Dec 2.
Black slavery as well as the buying
and selling Of women for sex pur-
poses, and abuses Of the worst kind
still take place IN the New Hebrides
islands (South Pacific ocean) in spite
Of the publicity given to the matter
Decisions from the courts are
never enforced and outrages continue
despite official condemnation. The
French planters seem able to do
just what they liked with their slaves
A recent case, typical Of many, is
that Of French planter who killed
native. He was merely put to the in
convenience Of going down to the
courthouse, stating that he had hit
the native and that he died. He was
acquitted by the court.
Charges are made, that slavery is
rampant in certain parts Of the
islands. The position of the native
women is, they said, intolerable
They are recruited in unspeakable
ways, married and divorced at the
win Of the planters, and used simply
to induce the native males to stay on
the plantations. In word, prostitu-
ton is enforced at the will Of the
planter. Regarding the male slaves
is is stated that at least 40 out of
every 100 die during the three years
they are indentured to the plantation
owners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
RAID ON WINE PARTY
AT WEDDING FEAST
IS NOT SACRILEGIOUS

NEW YORK, Dec. 2-Jesus Christ
raIded at his wine party at the
Cana Of GaliIee wedding feast; raid
ed by William Jennings Bryan,
Andrew J.volstead and William H.
Anderson, with Volstead's hand
clapped arrestingIy on cihrlsts
shoulder. This audacious picture,
hung in the WaIdorf-Astoria at the
society for independent artists ex-
hIbition, reused the wrath Of right
ecus policeman and led TO a 500
fine Of Abraham S. 5aylinson, Sec
rotary Of the artists society. The
higher courts have now returned
the fIne.