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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19
Restoring World Trade

Tho the ink is not yet dried on the Dawes pact,
many financial experts are in race to pronounce
the acceptance of the new Preparations scheme as
step heralding the advent of a new vigorous
revival in world trade
The failure of the London conference to break
up in the fashion of several of its predecessors
WILL no doubt, serve to delay the overthrow of the
Herriot ministry in France and the Macdonald
government in England. As to its effect on the po-
litical situation in Germany, must hazard a
guess with far more caution. Then the likely
prying loose of Poland and Czecho- Slovakia from
their militarist alliance with imperiaist France
does not appear just now to be force making for
European political stability.
Without doubt the first effects of a huge Anglo
American loan to German industrialists will be
towards a revival in German industry If Germany
is to foot the bills and mortgages fixed for her by
the Dawes plan this revival will have to be strong
enough to enable her to export sufficient quantity
of her commodities which will bring about for the
Reich favorable international trade balance. In
the last resort international loans and debts are
met in the terms of a transfer of commodities.
Granted, then, that the Dawes plan works to
perfection in bringing about industrial revival
J in Germany What of the effect of such a revival
on American and British industry? What will
the revived, increased German competition
in the Latin-American and Asiatic markets mean
to American manufacturers and exporters? What
will new and steady flow of German commodities
into the European continental market mean to
British tradesmen and industrialists?
! If the German revival is real enough to enable
it to export sufficiently for it's payments to the
General Preparations Agent, then its effect on
American and British industry will be detrimental.
Since the declaration of war in 1914 American
and British capitalists have had the world markets
all to themselves, with practically insignificant
German competition. There is no use in blinking
the fact that restored powerful German industry
will compel these capitalists to cede considerable
ground to their German competitors. AT home, in
England and America this conflict for new and
old markets between the various national groups
of capitalists will mean only lessened production.
At best, therefore, the Dawes plan will tend to
produce a shifting rather than an increase in the
volume of world trade and industry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19
Shall Courts Choose Union
Officers?

When Judge Hurley opens the case of the In
dustrial Workers of the World in the county court
today the issue that will really be raised is whether
the officers of union shall be chosen by capitalist
judges.
One group in the Industrial Workers of the
World has appealed to the machinery of capitalist
democracy against another group in the Indus
trial Workers of the World and asks for an in
junction on behalf of one against the other.
If the injunction is granted, what will be the
attitude of the members of the l. W. w. who find
new officials chosen for them by Judge Hurley? A
partial answer to this question is found in reso
luton adopted by the Building Construction Work
ers Industrial Union No. $50 of the l. w. W., Chi
cago branch, which says this point:
''That all industrial unions, branches, and mem
bers refuse to recognize any and all officials APP
pointed by any all capitalist judges"
Every cass-conscious worker will applaud this
decision of the Building Construction Workers
No organization of workers that makes the
slightest pretensons to revolutionary or working
class principles, can for moment accept the in
conference of a capitalist court in its internal af
fairs. Iniunctions against workers were made to
be disobeyed. A thousand times is this true of an
injunction that attempts to name the officials OF
a union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19
IMPERIALISM IN
THE NEAR EAST
Federated Press Review.)

The Great Betrayal by Edward Hale
Bierstadt is frankly anti-Turkish
propaganda against the ratification of
the treaty concluded between the
United States and Turkey. The au-
thor presents a great deal of data re-
garding the near eastern situation,
particularly the much exploited Ar
menian questions and the, burning of
Smyrna. Everything is anti-Turkish
and one-sided.
The author is anxious to prove that
the United States naval officers and
others who have shown pro-Turkish
attitude have taken that stand to Sc
cure oil concessions. He also sug-
gests that there is a well-organized
pro-Turkish propaganda in the United
States. Both charges may well be
true. However, he forgets to men
ton the anti-Turkish propaganda car.
ried by various dubious agencies and
the churches.
The Turks are interested in de-
veloping a pan-Turanian movement to
unite the racial elements in the near
east and central Asia. Pan-Turanian
ism is as dangerous as Pan-Slavlsm,
state not for love OF the poor Arme-
nian alone but to check the Pan.Tur'
anian movement.
"The mere possibility OF Pan-Tur
ania is danger to be considered very
seriously, and guarded against with
utmost care" Bierstadt writes. by
setting up an independent Armenian
state from the Black sea to the Med
iterranean not only would justice be
done Armenia, but barrier would be
erected which would reduce this
chance TO practically nothing"
II is rather unjust for the author
to classify the people OF Asia as bar
barians because OF atrocities commit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19

ted by the Turks on Armenians. With
out pleading for the Turks, 1t should
be considered that Christian peoples
allowed and legally justified the Am
ritsar Massacre in India. the concen-
tration camps in South Africa. They
have accorded very unpleasant treat
ment to the Jews all over the world
and tolerated the activities Of the Ku
Klux Khan. They are not in a position
to class the people OF Asia as barbar-
fans.
Where the author has dealt with
economic Imperialism and it's infiu-
ences in the near east he has done
very well. Freed from his nationalist
and narrow religious conceptions, he
might have come to the conclusion
that not Turkey but imperialism and
the economic order is the cause OF
near eastern and other troubles.-T.
ID.
The Great Betrayal, by Edward Hale
6ierstadt; Robert Mcbride & Co..
New York, $3.50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19

! Court, Campbell appeared before the
magistrate for his hearing. Formal
evidence was offered by Detective
Sergeant Parker, chief of the Special
Branch (the anti-Red section) of
Scotland Yard, of having arrested
Campbell and of having seized and
carried away documents from the
Communist headquarters.
Under $1,000 Ball.
Thereupop the Prosecution request
ed an adjournment of seven days,
which was granted. Bail, in two sure
ties of one hundred pounds each, was
allowed, and, the necessary formal
ties having been complied with,
Johnnie Campbell-zas he is known to
hundreds of friends and admirers
limped briskly from the Court to the
street, where small army of press
photographers awaited him.
When l say that Johnnie has hun
dreds of friends and admirers, / am
not using an empty complimentary
phrases. Campbell is well-known, es-
pecially among the Scotch workers
He is known nationally among the
militant workers as editor of the
fighting Worker" and he is known
to the workers of his native city of
Glasgow, and to the Scotch workers
generally, as courageous and effec-
tive organizer and speaker. When
the stalwart workers of the Clyde
heard of Johnnie's arrest, fear their
comments were Of such nature as
to prevent their literal reproduction
in any public journal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19

try, is bound to suffer in the exchange
OF commodities. Besides, the tremen-
du0us advantages enjoyed by the own
ers OF the industrial means of pro-
duction and exchange thru their cen.
trallized control of the railways, the
grain elevators, the shipping facilities
put the agricultural producers at stili
greater disadvantages.
1t is obvious that not until the work
ers on the land and the workers in
the mills and mines get together to
own and operate collectively all the
means Of production. agricultural az
well as industrial, will the rural mass
es be spared from their present hard.
ships arising out of the contradiction
between the private capitalist owner.
ship of the machinery of production
and exchange and its social use.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19

well-trained, international pawn
broker Of American capitalism. Mr..
Logan has an alert ear for capitalist
politics and keen eye for capitalist
militarism. If it is true that the poll
tician is one who has an ear to the
ground and that a statesman is one
who has his eye to the future, then
this unofficial American observer at
the London Conference is the very
incarnation of the soldier-statesman
combination, the very ideal type in
whom American Imperialism must
and will pin it's faith in order to ex-
tend its sway over the worlds re-
sources.
James A. Logan talks little and does
much. To the European diplomats,
bankers and government officials Col
onel James A. Logan is no novice.
He is an old-timer at the game of
serving the Millionaire folks back
home while occupying the honorable
post in the Washington governments
foreign department.
Ten Years of "UnofficiaI Observing"
Colonel Logan has been function.
ing as an unofficial observer for our
limperialists for the last ten years.
From September, 1914, till the time
the United States officially entered
the war on the side of the Allies, Col
onel Logan was the unofficial OBJ
server of the Wilson administration,
the Chief of the American Military
Mission, with the French Army.
Upon Americas official declaration of
war against Germany, the unofficial
Colonel Logan became the official AS
sistant Chief of Staff at the head
quarters of the American Expedition
airy Forces.
After the Armistice was signed Col
onel Logan went back to his unofficial
capacity and status. This time the
Colonel developed a new speciality in
rendering service par excellence to
the Wall Street financial gourmands
Soon Logan became the principal aid
to Herbert Hoover in the so-called re.
lief affairs in Europe. Colonel Logan
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19
THE RURAL TOBOGGAN

Nowadays 1t is an event of genuine
rarenes4 to be treated to an accurate
or truthful view Of agricultural con-
ditions. The last report on the eco
nomic condition of the farming popu-
lAtion, issued by the Agricultural
Foundation of Sears-Roebuck and
Company, is notable exception to
the recent literature ON this subject.
It's contents merit the attention Of the
workers and bankrupt farmers, par
uqulaiiy in view of the countless ru-
raj remedies being peddled by politi-
Col hawksters these days.
For many years farmers with varied
forms OF title to some land, depended
for the relatively certain portion Of
their income upon the growing land
values. For instance, between 1910
and 1920 there was a huge increase
In this. direction. During the war
period land prices more than doubled.
In other words, the agricultural in.
dustry saw an increase in the price
Of its land and shared in the general
rise OF prices experienced by the man.
ufacturers Of Industrial commodities.
But for the past nine years this
source OF the farmers income, which
has been most stable and has ccun-
terbalanced the losses and stagnatien
OF his receipts from the production
OF dairy and animal products or sun
dry crops, has been on the toboggaR.
The price OF land has not been a
source of income. and has ceased be-
ing an asset to the farmers for nearly
ten years. As a matter OF fact. all
the increases that farm lands have ex-
pcrienced in price after 1916 have al.
ready been squeezed out of them.
Today the farmers must meet their
ends out of the income received by
them In the production Of crops and
ether items. In this the farmers are
at special disadvantage for agricul.
ture. being less developed than indus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19
Indictment Of Campbell Hits Labor Government

rmunist Party is concerned in secur-
ing another printer for their official
organ. They state that their present
printers, after a visit from Scotland
Yard, cancelled their contract with
the party. 1t looks like being tough
job to find another printer.
Workers Disguised With Mac.
Coming at this time, when Left.
wing dissatisfaction is growing in the
Labor Party and the trade unions,
the arrest and trial of Johnnie Camp
bell should have a tremendous effect.
The Communist Party of Great Brit
tain believes that this example Of
Labor Party Government tactics will
ALLEVIATE hundreds of militant work
ers, who will rally to the Communist
Party as being the only real express
sion in Britain Of fighting revolu-
tionary policy. Stress is laid on the
fact that, since the war ended, there
were no prosecutions of the Commun-
list leaders or press by the old CAPT
talist governments. 1t was left to the
Labor government to resume the good
old game of Red-baiting.
Next week, / hope to send to the
DAILY WORKER an account of the
trial.
NOTE:-Since this was written by
our correspondent, the news has ar
|rived-see DAILY WORKER, August
14-that Comrade John Ross Camp
bell has been freed by the Macdonald
government due to the pressure of
the left wing trade unionists of Eng
land.-Ed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19

now assumed the job of field-director-
ship of the intricate and sinister &C
tivities which, under the guise of hui
manitarism, were responsible for fan
ming the flames of counter-revolution
and spreading the plague of capitalist
reaction over the continent.
A White-Guard Savior.
Colonel Logan was the brains OF
the Hoover relief machine which or.
ganized the successful counter-revo-
luton against the Hungarian Soviet
Republic and which was responsible
for the bloody outrages perpetrated
by the Roumanian and Horthey white
guards against the workers and farm
ers of Soviet Hungary.
Our unofficial observer" is a bear
at work for the gangmen of interna
tional capitalism. While hiding his
dastardly campaign against the class
conscious workers and exploited
peasants behind the hypocritical re
lief activities of Herbert Hoover, Col
onel Logan also served as the Euro
pean representative of the United
States Grain Corporation. In this in
nocent role Colonel Logan was
charged with the all-important task
of co-oridnating the operations oil
Americas swarm of so-called techni
cal advisers to the various puppet
states and governments that arose as
a result of the infamous Versailles
Treaty.
In other words, this job, stripped OF
all its diplomatic camoufiage, had just
one purpose: Colonel Logan was the
adviser and overseer of these little
weakling governments in order tc
save the exploiting classes of the var
ious areas involved from Bolshevism
from Communism, from the rule OF
the working and farming masses thru
Soviet Republics.
Officially and on paper the Ameri
can capitalist government, thru Col
onel Logan, was rendering humani.
tartan aid to these mushroom militar
list republics. Unofficially and actu
ally, in the field, the American CAPT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19

Campbell is a bright, clean-shaven
man, of slightly under medium height.
He is 20 years old. He limps because
both his feet were blown off in the
war.
Was War Hero.
That is the irony OF it! During
the war, Johnnie performed an act of
cool gallantry which won him notice
and reward. He leaped forward to
pick up a German bomb and hurl it
back towards the enemy At the mo-
ment he got there, it exploded, and
both Johnnie's feet were gone! He
walks without cane, the stumps of
his feet-the heels are left-thrust in
to ordinary shoes; and all that shows
of his injury is a slight limp in his
quick gait
And this is not all; for Johnnie also
received bullet thru the neck while
fighting for democracy.
And this man, who is being charged
with seducing the allegiance of sol
diers, has the coveted Military Cross,
as well as string of medals gained
in action! 1t will be an interesting
trial, when it gets goingl
Lansbury Goes Bond.
The two bondsmen for Campbell
were Edgar Lansbury, son of the we'll
known George Lansbury, and Alex
ander Gossip, veteran general secre-
tary Of the National Amalgamated
Furnishing Trades Association. Ed
gar Lansbury is a member of the
Communist Party; Gossip is not
In the meantime, the British Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19

THE recent sessions Of the London
L Preparations Conference have brot
many American diplomats and bank
ers into prominence. Before Europe
and the rest of the world fully pays
the effects of the decisions arrived at
by this gathering of the saviors of
capitalist Imperialism, many more of
these Yankee lords of dollar diplom-
acy will be in the public eye.
Who is James Logan?
Just now there is one man who is
in the forefront and who is not so
well known. This man is James A.
Logan. The foreign dispatches have
time and again declared that Mr.. Lo-
gan and Ambassador Kellogg, the
unofficial American observers, have
saved the conference from going to
pieces.
Most of the American observers"
and performers need no introduction
to the workers and poor farmers of
this country. To the capitalist gov
ernments of Europe the banking and
powerful corporate connections of
nearly all of our government officials
and bosses serve as the passports.
Ordinarily the question who is John
Doe or Jack Roe in diplomacy has
no special interest to the American
working masses. But today the tale
is quite different. Here we have a
man playing so important a role in
the development of the foreign pol
icy of the strongest employers gov
eminent and yet he is one unknown
to the great masses of the city and
rural areas.
Careful investigation will shed well
come light in replying to the above
raised question.
An International Pawnbroker.
James A. Logan in every way repre-
sents that type of American diplomat
that is just now coming into his own.
Mr.. Logan is skilled, experienced,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19
An UnS6VOFV Saviour By Jay LOUstone
By Jay LoUestone

talist government, thru the same Col
onel Logan, was giving financial and
technical help and direction to these
tyrannical clfuues ruling by the grace
of the bayonets from the Quay dor
say, the gold from Wall Street and at
the expense of the blood and misery
of millions of defenseless workers and
farmers in Central and Southern Eu-
rope.
James A. Logan-Big Stick Statesman
The Colonel was also the American
representative in the financial and
communication sections of the Su.
preme Economic Council when that
imperialist body had as its supreme
function the organization and main
tenance of the Gordon sanitaire," the
CHASTITY starvation blockade against
Soviet Russia.
For two years Logan was the adj
wiser to the American Relief Admin.
istration of Herbert Hoover in Soviet
Russia. This is the organization
which the Soviet Government was
compelled to watch so carefully in
order to prevent the spread of coun-
ter-revolution at a time when the
Russian masses we're struggling
against most devastating famine.
At the close of 1919 Colonel Logan
was made assistant American unoffi.
cial delegate to the Preparations Com.
mission. When the full unofficial del.
egate, Roland w. Boyden, resigned
last year, Colonel Logan was called
on to take the latter's place. Today
he is filling it admirably-for the big
bankers.
Colonel Logan is also a graduate
from the Army War College He be-
gan to WELD big stick for the rul-
ing class in the days of Mckinley by
serving as captain of volunteer
troops on duty in the Philippines.
Colonel Logan is that type of I'M
savory savior of capitalism that the
American imperialists are now plac-
ing in every country in order to has
ten and insure their conquest of the
worlds resources and industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19
Socialists Support Small

Did Debs know that his endorsement of LaFol-
lette going to take him into the camp of Len
Small, head of the republican party ticket in the
State of Illinois? Whether he knew it not, that
is what has happened When the issue of LaIfol-
lette was brought into the Chicago Federation of
Labor at its Sunday meeting it carried with it,
it does practically everywhere-the principle of
endorsing not only LaFollette but other capitalist
candidates generally in this case Len Small in
particular.
The Communists made the fight against the
Small-LaFollette combination. The issue was a
clear that the workers can understand.
Whether the worker is clear enough in his own
mind yet to break with LaFollette and Small,
when his official leaders pulling him in the
other direction, still he understands and sym
pathizes with the Communists How pitifully diff
ferent is the position of the socialists into which
Debs has helped to lead them
Committed to LaFollette, the socialists still pre-
tend that they will not go into the republican party
with Small. But when faced with the issue in the
Chicago Federation of Labor, of joining the Com
munist fight against the betrayal, helping the
Len Small forces, they unhesitatingly spoke and
voted for the endorsement Of Small. The socialists
have joined the republican party in Illinois
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19
The Modern Way
BY HENRY GEORGE WEISS

Jesus the worker came back to earth
And he walked In the marts OF trade
His feet were sore, and the clothes he
wore
Were the kind that were ready made. -
He begged for job at the labor pen
But the masters thought him old;
His beard was long, and he wasn't strong
Enough 70 coin them gold.
Jesus the worker starved day by day
In the heart of the cities greed,
And his bowed, gaunt form, and his
clothes all worn
We're the voices that spoke his need;
But the churchmen passed him and never
saw,
And the dainty shrunk aside,
And the city can for the "son OF man.
was the only place TO bide.
roads
And pleading the rights OF mon
red"
And shipped him 10 the pen"
The guards all call him desperate guy,
A tough nut TO the core.
Two years on jute--the lousy brutel
He won't last two years morci
Send In that SUBSCRIPTION Today.
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(Continued from PAGE 1.l

headquarters, and had arrested John
r. Campbell, the editor of the work
ers' Weekly" official organ of the
Communist Party of Great Britain.
Campbell, who was editor of 1.-THE
Worker" of Glasgow, the weekly
British organ of the Red Information
al of Labor Unions, had just come
down to London to edit the Work
ers' Weekly" owing to the fact that
Paine Dutt, it's regular editor, had
been ordered into the country for a
rest, after a severe nervous break
down.
A Capitalist Charge.
The charge against Campbell is
that of "seducing members of His Ma
jesty's Forces from their allegiance. /"
The charge is based on two articles,
appearing respectively in the num-
bers of the Workers Weekly" dated
July % and August 1. These were the
special anti-war numbers. In the July
rs number there was an "Open Letter
to Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen." In
this letter. the members of the forces
were urged neither to fight in CAPT
talist wars, nor against the workers
in industrial disputes, but to fight
with the workers against the master
class. They were also expressly urg-
ed to refuse to fire upon workers. if
so ordered, in industrial disputes. The
article in the issue of August / was
of similar character.
Today, at the Bow Street Police
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19

Ramsay Macdonald believes that the London
conference made for peace. The war mind was de-
feated, he said. But while Ramsay was talking
thusly, his warships were Fastening to Egypt to
shoot peace into the revolving Egyptians. Ramsay
is for peace where the capitalists want il.