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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19

Then, textile strike would in all likelihood be
waged most fercely in the presidents own state
of Massachusetts, and in his stronghold, the New
England tier of states This close financial iden
dfeation and political alliance ON the part of the
republican administration with the textile barons,
accounts for the energetic efforts now being made
by the reactionary interests to delay the revolt of
the textile workers until such time as when there
will be a greater likelihood of administering the
latter crushing blow.
We have great hopes and firm cause to believe
that the textile workers will strike at their enemy
when they themselves see fit and think best Since
1920 the New England cotton and wooden mill
workers have suffered decrease of about 25% in
their wages. This reduction has been made more
oppressive by an increase in part time employ
ment. At the same time textile magnates have
waxed fat fabulous dividends. Last year, for
instance the American Wooden Company reported
net profits of than nine million dollars or an
increase of about fifty per cent compared with the
preceding year.
The time at hand is obviously propitious for the
working man in the cotton and wooden mills of
New England and elsewhere to lock horns with
their exploiters. The present political situation
can and must be utilized by the workers for their
own advantages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19
America and the League

To date the entry of the United States into the
League of Nations has been only secondary issue
in the campaign This was expected by many OBJ
servers who were convinced that pressing domestic
issues would supercede the fundamentally formal
foreign questions.
But while Davis, Coolidge and LaFollette vie with
each other in contest of silence in reference to
the European policy of the United States, the
dynamic, ruling forces behind the scenes are work
ing overtime clearing the paths for the next step
in the open political participation by America in
European affairs. We are told that the League of
Nations Committee working on peace plan is
planning to back an american idea" That in
domitabe lackey of Yankee gold, NJ. Benes titular
head of Czecho-Slovakia, is the loudest proponent
of this move.
OF course, it was to be expected that the ac-
ceptance of the Dawes plan would be prelude to
more open American participation in the European
imbroglio. The whole trend of the Washington
governments mperialist policy in Europe has been
first, to sink the oil shafts, to lay the pipe lines
to seize the railways, to take the colieries,
to dominate the industry and then to get proper
legal sanction. The League of Nations in its
present form and structure will, under the pres
sure of the American bankers, certainly be re-
chrstened reyitalized and reorganized to suit the
needs and purposes of our financial oligarchs.
This accounts for the little noise that is being
made now by the capitalists presidential candi-
dates over the burning question" of 1920. This ac-
counts for the decision of the directors of the Ma
tional Association of Credit Men to demand that
the United States enter the Permanent Court of
international Justice.
There is pointed lesson in the development
of Americas European policy for every working
man and poor farmer. The whole trend of the
Yankee imperialst Entertainments in Europe indi-
Gates rather painfully the stranglehold that the
employing class has the lives and distinies of
the working masses. The League of Nations, I'M
der any other name, can be only League of Loot,
league of capitalist plunderers and pirates seek
ing to despoil the resources and wealth that be-
long to the great of the population of every
country.
Hence, camOufaged as the next American step
towards Europe may be, it is only step in the
direction of world catastrophy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19
Outlines of Empire

Downing Street, replacing them with
bonds of gold from Wall Street The
Dawes plan, subjugating Europe,
places the final seal upon the system
as the most gigantic world empire in
the making that was ever conceived in
the mind of man.
That this huge destiny" of Nor
gan's billions involves the certainty
of gigantic world wars is an accepted
commonplace. Only those who deliber-
ately shut their eyes are unconscious
of this fact. Defense Day" was but
one of the first, psychological" mobil-
izations Of the American millions, for
their own huge destiny" of fighting
and dying for the glory and profit Of
Morgan's world Empire.
"Staking Out" the World.
The recent around-the-world fight
of American aviators was principally
grandiloquent political gesture to the
world, an announcement of Morgans
world rule, to the other nations of the
earth. 1t was sort of preliminary
survey of the possessions, present
and prospective, of the Morgan EN-
pire. 1t was dramatization of what
the Tribune calls the huge concep-
ton of world craftsmanship" that ami
mates tho American capitalist class
today.
Imperialist wars with Japan and
with Great Britain lie heavy within
the womb of this huge conception"
The present civil war in China is but
a stirring a preliminary clashing, of
the terrific forces that are gathering
to drench the earth again with work
ing class blood. The Washington
agreement on the Pacific was but one
maneuver for position, on the part of
all the powers, in preparation for
what all consider the inevitable con-
flict." Announcements from time to
time in the papers, always immediate
ly hushed up, of discoveries of new
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19
N1fI 4 Illl AT 1 4 4 { ISAI(kSlD

geois life are moments of peace with
Cynthia, the girl who didn't have any
money During the intermission
newsboys distribute to the audience
a small newspaper which gives all the
news of the murder. This contains
boiled down, all the rot that one finds
in capitalist newspapers from coast to
coast. 1t makes very amusing read
ing.
The scene of the murder trial is
rich with humor, and to describe it
in detail would be an injustice to the
original. Our young musician is con.
demned to become successful song
writer and is put in cell in an art
factory to grind out popular songs.
Finally Cynthia and his doctor friend
come to bring him the peace Of death,
and he wakes up.
We now meet our friend, the Sat
urday Evening Post, again when the
rich young lady comes in to break of
the engagement, and Cynthia and Neil
go of the scene trailing talk about a
little. cottage and little red hen and
little dun COW.
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representatives upon the Commission.
Not Old But New Education.
Il would also point out, in this CON
nection, that no Illusions should be
cherished as to the Boxer Indemnity
sums being in any sense intended to
replace the budget of the Ministry of
Education or alleviate the budget of
that department. Anyhow, l am
strongly against it. The Boxer funds
must be used for educational purposes
unprovided for in the actual depart
mental estimates, in other words
for purposes of either enlarging the
existing educational schemes or Great
ing new ones.
Il may further be permitted to say
few words about one of the most
important scientific and educational
tasks that are facing China and one
for which part of the Boxer funds
should be used. 1t must be said that
the present social and economic con-
ditions of life in China, and, in par
ticular, the life of the peasants-the
fundamental class of people of China
and of the laborers, are not studied
at all, are, SO to speak, outside of the
scope of research of economists and
politicians.
Il recently wished to study the
agrarian problem of China, but
must confess that l could not pro-
cure any reliable or exhaustive in
formation. And yet, the Chinese
farmers constitute so per cent of the
population, they are the foundation
of the country, its fundamental class,
on whose shoulders China could live
till this day as one sole nation with
all her culture and her national Pc
culiarities. This peasant class sup
plies live material to all the spheres
of Chinese life; soldiers to the army,
workers to the mills and factories :.
/. And yet, who of you, gentlemen,
can say in truth that the conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19

of life of the peasants in China are
well known?
More Attention to Farming
Question.
"The sciences that have been ap
piled to study China have left these
basic classes out of their scope
Neither do the foreigners, who make
a very careful study of China and the
economics of this country, pay atten-
ton to the farmers, for they study
China from quite peculiar angle:
they are interested in the external
trade, the natural resources of the
country, in other words--in all they
can profit by in their own selfish ends.
1t is but natural, then, that they are
not interested in the life of the Chi
nese peasants, either in their welfare
or their sickness, or in what could
make their conditions better. It is
up to the Chinese people themselves
to do it, For my part, l believe that
part of the Boxer Indemnity should
be apportioned for the study of life
of the Chinese peasants and workers.
Some special institutions or organiza-
tions ought to be established, whose
aim should be the work of scientific
investigation of the existing social and
economic conditions in China, and, in
particular, the study and investigation
of the economic situation of Chinese
peasants and workers. l would very
much request you, gentlemen, to con-
slider this au-important scientific and
educational problem.
Il address myself to all those pres
ent"-concluded t he Ambassador
amidst loud applause-"with a request
to help me with their advice and sup
port me, for it is only if this is done
that it will be possible to find an ef-
fective use for the available Boxer In
demnity sums, and-which is para
mount-to save each cent from falling
into the wrong hands"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19

TIE American Empire, under the
l rulership of J. Pierpont Morgan,
and protected by the armed forces of
the United States government, is Just
now rounding out in form as world
embracing organization. Perhaps the
most comprehensive outline of its far
reaches, in brief as we'll as classic
expression of its spirit, is to be found
in an editorial in the Chicago Tribune
of September IA. Under the title of
White Unity on the Pacific" a pic
ture is drawn that must make the
Kaiser green with envy and King
George fear for his future.
Americas huge destiny" in the
East, in "the Pacific basin as the
critical area of human progress in the
next hundred years." is an expression
of the absolute necessity of capital
ism to conquer the last available sec
ton of the earth, rich in natural re-
sources, undeveloped in industrial
technique, vast and heavily populated,
in order to have that field for expan-
sion that is the breath of life to inn
perialism, the modern stage of CAPT
talism.
The Pacific Empire.
The Pacific basin means for Ameri-
can Imperialism above all China, Mon
golia, Siberia. But it means more
than that. 1t cuts into the heart Of
rising Japanese Imperialism, backed
by an ambitious young bourgeoisie
that holds 200,O0O,00O people at its
command, that has mastered the
modern art of war 1t does more: 1t
carries with it the beginnings of dis
solution of the British Empire, hither-
to the mistress of the seas"-until
the Washington naval agreement es-
tablished the 5-5-3 ratio and cancelled
the British alliance with Japan. The
Tribune points out, in the editorial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19
By Earl r. BrOwder

death.dealing rays and deadly gases
indicate how feverishly the chemical
laboratories of war are preparing.
Feverish races in construction Of air
planes and submarines are on in the
carefully guarded yards aud factories
of each great imperialist power
The Rising NationaIitles.
But not alone between the rival
imperialists are the seeds of war
taking root and growing nightly.
Turnout the Far East the great
masses are rising in revolt against
the imperialist exploitation of Western
capitalism In India, in China, even in
"our own" PHILIPPINES, great national
list mass movements, fundamental
and primitive protests against inn
perialism, are growing and swelling.
A part of the huge destiny" of Amer
lean imperialism will be to drown
these nationalist aspirations of the
Eastern peoples in their own blood
and the blood of the American work
ers.
There is but one power in the world
that can halt this insane march Of
Morgan over the bodies of humanity.
1t is the power Of the awakening pro-
letariat of the imperialist nations, in
alliance with the awakening nation
alist masses of the subject lands of
the East. This alliance, under the
leadership and inspiration of the Com
munist International. is the one great
remaining obstacle to the ambitious
greed of ]. Pierpont Morgan and the
class of exploiters at whose head he
stands. And by the same token the
Communist International is the one
rallying point for the worlds work
ing class, in its struggle against war,
and against the damnable system of
wage slavery and exploitation in every
land except Soviet Russia, which is
the source and inspiration of all i'm
perialist wars.
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"a compensating feature which we
must not overlook: Life must renew
itself if we are to GO forwar to higher
and better things, materially and
spiritually. Experience may teach
but it also at the same time inculcates
prejudices that fossilize and initiate
against change.
Surprising the Scheidemanns and
Kautskys lived to be three hundred
and thru all those years carried with
them the now discredited idea Of bour.
Geois democracy and the conquest OF
political power thru parliamentarism
Or, supposing that nearer to home the
Gompers, Hillquits and Spargos lived
hundreds OF years and perpetuated
their antiquated ideas, how much the
worse for society. What holds good
for individuals is even truer OF or.
ganized movements.
The hope of the German Commun.
list Movement is that only fraction
Of its youth will go thru the outworn
school of Social Democracy, and will
therefore avoid unlearning it's hour.
geois prejudices. The same is true
Of America; the revolutionary youth
Is joining the Workers Party and not
the Socialist Party which died inglor-
lously with LaFollette as the under.
taker.
Seventy years even for the Boudins
Watons and Kerachers Is quite enuf.
A new society is dawning and Il be-
longs to the coming generation, a gen.
Grafton without experience. but also
without prejudices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19
Soviet Ambassador Addresses Chinese Teachers

for the education of the Chinese
people. True, there have lately ap-
peared reports in the papers, purport-
ing to convey that some militant gen.
erals would rather see the Boxer
sums expended for other purposes. OF
course, do not know how much
truth there is in such reports, nor am
l aware whether the news is true of
some inter-departmental conferences
meeting to discuss the question of
how to use best the Russian share of
the Boxer Indemnity. However
don't attach Importance to such talk,
and so did not react to any of this
news.
ApportIoned for Education.
According to the Agreement Of
May 81, it is perfectly clear that the
Boxer funds have been apportioned
for educational purposes, so that un-
der such conditions what have the
fancies of one general or the other to
do with the matter?. Naturally, we
cannot prevent generals from finding
good ends to get possession Of the
Boxer funds. But l may assure you
that for us it has no significance:
none shall deceive us, nor do l be-
lieve anyone would be bold to raise
the question with us of modification
of the May Agreement.
Il am sorry to say"-continue Mr..
Karakhan-"thatt the Chinese govern
ment has not yet appointed delegates
to the Commission, and that two
months have already been lost which
might otherwise have been spent in
preparation for the use of the Boxer
Indemnity funds. l do hope, however,
that the Chinese government will very
shortly appoint it's delegates upon this
Commission and that these delegates
will be named in full accord with
yourselves, gentlemen, and also that
they will be prepared to cooperate in
a friendly manner with the Soviet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19
Strikes and Politics

Strike murmers audible turnout the entire
textile industry The workers are chatting under
the conditions that the textile barons have been
imposing on them. Part time employment, low
pay, and degrading working conditions have been
the lot of the great majority of the milhands and
loom workers.
The drift towards general strike in the textiH
industry has in recent weeks, become so pro
nounced that the federal administration is begin
ming TO feel very uneasy. Strikes on the eve Of
a national election are conducive to the sue
cess of the employing class tools who happen to
be incumbents in Office at the time of unrest. Be
sides there are special reasons demanding that the
Coolidge clique do everything in it's power to de.
lay widespread textile strike until after the cleo
ton contest is over.
Mr. william M. Butler, chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee, which is in the extra.
ordinary good graces of the textile manufacturers
il himself heavily interested in such operations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19
AMERICA LAUGHS AT HERSELF
BY IDA DAlLES.

At the Adelphi Theater here in Chi.
cago a curious performance goes on
before the eyes of the jewellers in the
city OF smoke and stockyards. Capt..
talist society is held UP to ridicule,
and we find an inordinate pleasure in
laughter. "The Beggar on Horse
back" was written by George Kauf.
man and Mark Conelley, with Incl.
dental music by Deems Taylor.
The writer's have taken Saturday
Evening Post story, the tale of poor
artist who loves a working girl and
finds that art and love do not mix.
He engages himself to the daughter OF
a rich manufacturer and falls asleep
in his chair. He dreams a nightmare
of his future life as the husband Of
the monied young lady. And here
we bid au revoir for a while to the
Saturday Evening Post
The mother-in-law knits, rocks and
sings hymns. The father.in-law plays
golf and talks success and giving
them what they want" The brother.
in-law is sickly, takes powders and is
a radio bug. And worst OF all, his
wife drags him around to teas, recep.
tions, cafes and dances. When he
wishes to finish his symphony she
tears the manuscript and tries to haul
him off to a new cafe. In despair he
kills the whole damned family with a
paper knife, and for a moment look
Of bliss comes over his face.
Woven in with this horror OF bour-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19
Real Communist Work

In canvassing the industries located in this city
in order to test the sentiment of the workers to-
ward the leading candidates the three capitalist
and one Communist tickets, Local Chicago of the
Workers Party has set example that other locals
thruout the country would do well to follow.
This is real Communist work.
Aside from the news value which such a cam
paign has for the DAILY WORKER the canvass
sharpens the interest of the workers in the election
struggle and brings the issues on which each can
didate stands under discussion. The Communists
stand to gain by such discussion.
The result of the straw vote taken in the plants
covered as these lines are written is very encour-
despite the desertion of the socialists and the
called progressives to the bourgeois LaFollette,
can see thru the LaFollette illusion and signify
their preference for the Communist candidate,
William n. Foster Bringing the issue of Com
munism versus Capitalism into the shops where
the exploitation Of the workers takes place in this
manner is a forward step for the Workers Party
and the enthusiasm with which the workers partici
pated in the straw ballot gave the Communist
militants a sense Of doing effective propaganda
work among the masses
To the Workers Party taking a straw vote means
something more than testing the political pulse Of
the masses. It's propaganda value is the important
feature and our comrades in the large cities should
not let Local Chicago have a monopoly this
form Of Communist campaigning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19

I mentioned, that Australia and New
Zealand not only belong, by logic Of
Morgan's billions, in the framework
of American Empire, but-more sig
nificant-that the bourgeoisie of these
British colonies are conscious of this
and already feel more closely tied to
the United States than to Great
Britain. That Canada and Ireland al
ready have their separate ministers in
Washington is pointed out quite
cynically by the Tribune as a Source
Of what must be enduring friendship"
with the British Empire. What logic
ally follows-"On pain of war to the
death between these rival imperialist
forces in the struggle for possession of
the worlds left unsaid by the
Tribune.
Empire in Latin America.
But America has also, the Tribune
reminds us, other huge destinies" be-
sides the Pacific. America has the
Caribbean and the Atlantic, the south
and the east, to tie with the Pacific
into one huge conception of world
craftsmanship That is, Central and
South America, the West Indies, and
last but not least-Europe itself
which is to bow its head to Morgan
under the yoke of the Dawes plan,
which is designed to place in Morgan's
hands the regulation of every phase
Of production, the market, and gov
eminent.
One World System.
The PHILIPPINES, the Aleutian Islands,
Hawaii Alaska, are some of the fin
gers on the hand of Morgan that
reaches into the Pacific. Eleven re-
publics in the Caribbean, either direct.
ly under the rule of American armed
forces or under the dictatorship of
armed native agents of American
capital, testify to the continued sub
jugation of the continent to the south.
Canada, to the north, is openly sever
ing the leading strings from No. 10
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19
COMPENSATION FOR LACK OF
EXPERIENCE.
BY JAY ENoEL.

In Back to Methuselah" George
Bernard Shaw deplores the fact that
man does not live long enuf to really
benefit by the experience gained in
the seventy years allotted him. Nc
doubt this Is true. There is. however
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ANNplFlhAA lFstt 10y United irehal
HARRISBURG. Pa. Jan. 80. ~
Don't lot all OF tho guilty be washed
In tho blood OF Fall"
This is tho cry OF conservation.
lsts, who, fearing the senate oil lease
prohera may rost content with get,
ting" the former secretary OF the In,
terror, demand that congress and
the administration clean up the
whole conservation meas.
Albert u. Fall. they contend /,
merely tho means finally utilized by
the oil Interests toward accomplish,
Ing a purpose unsucoesstully sought
for 10 years.
Since the days when conservation
OF the nations natural resources frs,
became an issue. they declare. there
has been relentless effort 10 break
thru tho barriers designed TO guard
these resources from loo,ing and ex
ploltatiou.
Because tho qualifications OF the
leasing OF naval reserves and count
less acres or other government land,
promises a seandal SURPRISING In i'm
portanee the famous Dallinger. Pin
ohot coal lease fight during tho Taft
administration. tho United Press To-
day sought the views OF Clifford hin
chot. crusader In that fight and now
governor OF Pennsylvania.
Plnehot Ia still ono OF tho leading
eonseryationista Of tho country and