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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
The Comedy of War Guilt

The former allies have been engaged in fixing
the blame for the late war for the last seven years
They thought they had it fastened on Germany,
but somehow it did not stick. 1t was like the pro
verbal 'bomb" in the movies, each side throwing
the thing into the other fellows camp, but it never
explodes and does one any harm.
1t has been comedy pure and simple, for which,
however, the toiling masses of the world have been
compelled to pay heavy price. We are still pay
ing, and will continue to pay (the Dawes plan
makes sure that we do so long as capitalism re-
mains in the saddle
Something happened just the other day to add
hilarity to the imperialist game, and some ten
million dollars to be extracted additionally from
the workers of Germany, France England and
America A cable from Berlin, dated September
IA, says in effect: Bankers offer Germany ten
million dollars to withhold note denying war
blame"
You know what it means Germany was about
to throw the blamebomb back into the yard of the
allied imperialists. So the papers were saying
The German government has been preparing note
to that effect, apparently under pressure from the
Nationalist. We surmise that this guilt-denying
note was to be sent by the Marx Stresemann cabinet
in part payment for the Nationalists' support to
the Dawes plan in the German Rechstag
Here stepped in the bankers The bankers you
know, quite anxious about the success of their
worldenslaving scheme called the Dawes PLAN
particularly the American bankers. They have
figured the thing out, and quite correctly, that
German note denying war-guit, coming at this
time, would act as monkey wrench in the newly
set up machinery of that plan.
That would not do, of course. 1t has got to be
prevented. SO here is what the bankers did. They
told Germany in very plain language, we under
stand, that they will concede to her onehaf of one
per cent in the interest rate on the forthcoming
$2OO,OOO0OO loan, which will mean a present of
about $10,000,00O to Germany if she consents to
withhold the threatened note
We are not familiar yet with Germany's reac
ton to this offer by the bankers She may accept
it and she may not The thing, however, that we
are most concerned with is who is going to pay the
bill?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
ExpIolter, Always For War.

To The DAILY WORKER History
shows that exploiters never desired
to protect future generations from war
and suffering. They stole the black
man from his native land and used re-
ligion to justify it.
Abraham Lincoln, to prevent (un-
consciously future racial disputes, ia
vored buying the slaves and return
ing them to Africa. He was not list
ened to, and of course, the Negro was
disfranchised, but when the Russian
exploiters and aristocracy were shut
out as menace to the new Russian
government, that was all wrong.
Radicals are denounced for trying to
prevent crueties to future generations
by present and past conditions and
acts of society. They are denounced
as traitors because they are so whole
heartedly loyal to insuring humanity
rights to happiness.-G. e. Shoema-
kerr Freedom, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
A Modern Taylor System

The approval given to the ''B & O. Plan" by
speaker before the Taylor Society of efficiency en-
gineers reported yesterday in the DAILY WORK
Err, is but another warning signal to the conven-
ton of the International Association of Machinists
now in session in Detroit.
Organized labor knows from bitter experience
what the Taylor System means 1t is scientific
system of slavedrivng 1t pits the fastest workers
against the slowest, sets the standard by the
highest possible production, and them step by STEP
not only forces all the workers to speed up to that
high notch, but even drives the speeders them
selves to new frenzies of haste. The result upon
the workers is exhaustion, breakdown, and speedy
scrapping to be replaced by new machinefodder.
Robert g. Valentine, the speaker before the
Taylor Society," said that VIM Fl. Johnstone's
scheme of collaboration with the employers, gener-
ally known as the "B & o. Plan" is for the en-
plOyers an improvement on the Taylor System. In
the place of the fOremen hired by the boss to drive
the workers to continuously higher speed the "B
& o. Plan" places the union of the workers itself
in the position of slave-driver over its members
The "B. & 0. Plan" even goes so far that it makes
the union machinery for wedding out and black
listing workers who do not up to the efficiency
standard 1t destroys the very basis of unionism
sets worker against worker and concerns itself al
most entirely with increasing the profits of the
boss-without so much as the slightest guarantee
that even little percentage of the gains should
accrue to the workers.
The machinists facing crisis in their or
ganization on this question of the ''B. & O. Plan"
If they allow their designing and ambitious 'lead-
ers" to put this disguised Taylor System over on
them, then the machinists are in for black period
in the future If the union is to be saved as an or
ganization of struggle for the interests of it's mem
bers, then the "B & o. Plan" must be defeated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON
LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS

have on tap, but which they yet do
not care to bring to the scratch.
1t is safe bet that As per cent of
the petty bourgeoisie are headed to-
ward bankruptcy.
Both Classes Ignorant.
The working class are ignorant due
to the capitalist idealisms they have
absorbed, and their actions are the
hopeless, helpless grasping after
straws to bolster up their courage and
create mirages to stead them in the
crumbling capitalist society. When
they shall come out of their mirages
that have been created for them by
pulpiteers and housekeeping instruc-
tors can only be imagined, and
gagged by the economic suffering
they have undergone and of the
amount they must still undergo under
that system, whose motto is and must
be get all you can, while you can"
BY Brass Check 701, Wheatland,
Pennsylvania.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
"Poor White and Black"


To the DAILY WORKER-The
conditions of system whose motto
has always been and must necessarily
be, cit all you kin while the gittin
is good" fiourishes in this section of
that great and glorious common
wealth. the State of Pennsylvania,
Sometimes it takes the form of
cleaning up some of the bootleggers,
who are alleged to have grown fat on
the failure of the eighteenth amend
ment. Colored houses of prostitution
also receive their due from the "spir-
itually minded" who are marching up
ward to Zion, while officials of the
various towns warn Negroes to move
out of town who, it is said, will not
work. That is to say, work or git
There is but one thing to do, and that
is Ito git" because the labor market
"is easy around here"
There was time when we of the
"effete East" talked of saving the
souls of the Negroes of the south
when they hardened to the voice of
the siren, said siren being the agent
of Big Biz, and left their happy cabins
Of the south to create surplus value
in the north for certain "God-fearing"
citizens. But gone are the golden
dreams of yesterday, and today finds
them just "hangin' round"
Equality on the Labor Market.
There is one fact, however, that
stands out clear and distinct, altho
we often cover it up with prayer and
patriotism, and that is "po' whites"
and "po' blacks" are equal on the la.
Dor market, fact that certain organ
izations object to, but which cannot
be Ku Kluxed away
The great kleagle" some time ago,
at a meeting here, stated that his or.
ganization was going after the CAPT
talists who brought the Negro from
the south and then turned him loose
upon patriotic" community when
they were done with him. This
brought forth thunderous applause
from the "po' whites" who seem OBJ.
sessed with the idea that they are
something set apart from the "po'
blacks"
II is true that the working class is
ignorant, but the capitalist class is a
close second. 1t is fortunate that that
is so, otherwise they would not pur.
sue the course they are pursuing.
Every prop they put under this rick.
ETY. old structure of theirs but guar
antees its early demise. Here and
there is one who seems to sense the
rotten condition Of things but for the
most part they go heedlessly forward,
covering today's hard times and un.
employment with prophecies OF future
prosperity, and mutually congratulate
each other on the prosperity they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16

anyway, in a great social struggle, and even if
these fake "Labor" men wanted to be neutral"
they would find it impossible. But actually they
have no interest in neutrality They are interested
only in continuing the traditions of government
handed down to them by the other capitalist gov
ernments that preceded them. They are "little
brothers to the rich" anxiousy waiting to be
drafted into the ranks Of the capitalists, into the
ruling class, into the circles of fancydress court
receptions, of dividends, of imperiaist banquets.
They have but one use for the Labor" government,
and that is as means to serve their ambitions.
They are but another brand of servants of CAPT
talism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
New Jersey Labor Fails Silk Strikers

endeavor to enlist their support in a
concerted drive against the use of the
injunction. Two important mass
meetings are to be held next week
under the leaders Of the Paterson
strikers. The first is to be held in
Carpenters Hall, in the City of Pater-
son, the same hall where the New
Jersey Federation held its convention
and denounced the injunction. The
second meeting is to be held on Thurs
day night, Sept. 49,, in Webster Hall.
New York City, where H. M. Hicks
and Adolph Leasing, leaders Of the
present strike, and Robert W. Dunn,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16

the silk industry in Paterson.
Strikers Expected rundown.
The refusal of the professional la
Dor leaders of New Jersey to aid in
the fight against the injunction was
expected by the leaders of the Asso-
ciated Silk Workers. But this act on
the part of the labor takers will not
deter the strike leaders in their eff
forts to secure the support of the rank
and file Of the American Federation
of Labor. The strike leaders intend
to appeal over the heads of the lead
ers to the men and women who pay
dues to support the labor parasites and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
By T. J. O'Flaherty

the Communists, that he carried or
plots with the Georgian plotters to-
overthrow the Soviet government
these and other facts may be consid-
cred as mitigating circumstances
among the class conscious in pro-
nouncing sentence on him. They
will say: well, what the devil can
you expect of yellow socialism
THE editorial staff of the DAILY
/ WORKER and other Commun-
list editors, took the correct position
in our opinion. when they took up
collection amounting to sixty cents
which will help Mr.. Macdonald to
keep gas in his auto. in case his
Georgian friends do not get the Baku
oil fields and in case the British work
ing class may chase him to the Ork.
ney Islands. He will need lot of
gasoline so that he can "step on it,"
Besides being a token of international
sympathy for a pauperized socialist
faker, we also feel toward Macdonald
much as the Irishman did to the Brit
ish soldier who was reduced to beg
ging in the London streets after help
ing the Empire subject the Beers to
her rule The soldier was in bad con-
dition and as the Hibernian was pass
ing, he dropped penny in the beg
CARS hat. On seeing the condition
the soldier was in however, the Irish
man returned and dropped guinea in
the hat The soldier, amazed at such
generosity particularly from an Irish
man, expressed his establishment The
Irishman replied: This is the first
time l ever saw an Englishman
wounded to my satisfaction. 1t is
worth money to me-
CIXTY CENTS is not $150,OO0,
- but is Will buy a few crackers,
perhaps enuf to feed the premier's
parrot. But perhaps Mr.. Ramsay
would not keep the bird unless it was
endowed"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
AS WE SEE 1T

N S we stated In the start of this
~ charitable and nonpartisan col
umn, there is no good reason to cast
any reflections on the worthy Mr.. Mac
Donald for accepting gift given in
such good faith. Even Lloyd George
has no feeling in the matter except
one of envy. Albert B. Fall, almost
gagged when he heard the news.
"Shucks" says he, that's country fit
for heroes to live in. I had to turn
over lot of oil to get one hundred
thousand in satchel and couple of
steaks on the hoof, but in England
they get the dough for nawthin" Our
readers are warned not to deal too
harshly with poor Mac. He was
tempted and even tho he was a
Christian he fell.
MOST of you, / hope, remember
wi the story of the devil and Jesus.
This one in particularly is good The
devil took Jesus up on the pinnacle
Of the highest mountain in the world,
or at least all of the world that the
devil and God were then acquainted
with, and promised him everything his
heart desired, provided he fell for the
devils stuff But Jesus was ada
mant. GO to hell" was his reply
to the devil and the funny thing is,
the devil did as he was told. Mac
Donald unfortunately did not follow
to that extent in the footsteps of the
Lord Mac knows the bible we'll and
will swear blue streak if Com
munist suggests that the churches are
opium joints that help to keep the
workers in the tolls Of their masters,
but when it comes to the money ques-
ton he is not in Jesus caucus. On
that issue he lines up with Judas.
THE fact that Ramsay Macdonald
| is a socialist and leader of the
second international now called by
some other name, that he is against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16

Another little incident appears in the news from
Great Britain that shows what farce the socaed
Labor government of that country is proving it.
self to be, and how little it deserves the name of
Labor" j. r. Clynes, who has long been a trade
union leader and who is now Lord Privy Seal,
Member of Parliament and few other things in
the Labor" government (all of which carry sal
aries, by the way, invited by group of
building trades workers to confer with them about
the fight which was on a few weeks ago. Mr.. Clynes
declined to interest himself in the matter.
But the interesting point is not that Mr.. Clynes
would not confer with strikers, but rather the
reasons which he gave for this attitude. "An I'M
derstanding has been arrived at" said Mr.. Clynes,
''by the members of the government that its trade
union members will keep to politics only, and not
take sides in industrial disputes" The Labor"
government has, in short withdrawn itself from
the labor movement 1t is neutral in the struggles
between the workers and the employers Officially,
that isl just the same as Lloyd George and Stanley
Baldwin kept their governments neutral.
Every worker knows just what such neutrality
is worth. There is no such thing neutrality,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
Washington Reports Progress.

To the DAILY WORKER.-A we'll
attended meeting of the English
Branch was held in Washington, d. c.
Everybody who has been in the move
ment here agrees that there has been
n steady growth in the Workers
Party in the nations capital.
The following speak for themselves:
A non-party worker who is organic
ing the unorganized restaurant work.
ers in the District has solicited the
leadership Of the Workers Party Of
Washington.
Tenant farmers just across the Po-
tomac In the state of the presidents
virginia." are now reading and prais-
ing the DAILY WORKER. They are
joining uup for work in the Party
e. J. IRVINE, Washington, D. @.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
(Continued from Paga u

continued from Page IL
touch. You are credit to the British
Empire, but honestly l don't know how
long you can stand it, as / hear you
have to ride in the subway coming to
and from work. / have not been told
that you carry a dinner pail and take
your lunch to work with you in the
morning wrapped up in somebody
else's copy of the Daily Herald, but il
l were in'your place and trying to live
on four miserable salaries that is what
l would have to do. 1t is terrible, how
negligent the country is; how it ne
elects its best servants.
nNIOW take my own position dear
IN Ramsay. During the war,
purchased war bonds, produced crack
ers for the army and navy and for
feited my right to go to the front be-
cause l was of more service at the
rear. gave valuable library to
Scotland and the only thing l wish for
is wee little title, yet there isn't a
thing to my name that would disting-
uish it from that dog catcher. But
of course, that has nothing to do with
the case and what l intend doing for
you Ramsay-if l can break down
your resistance-stands on it's own
feet as a friendly act and nothing else.
Whether you speak to the king or not
in behalf of what l suggested by way
of title-other premiers have done
twill not make the slightest differ
ence to me. I'll love you just the
same.
HTHEREFORE to come to the point,
this is my suggestion. You are
not in very good health. The subway
air is bad for you. You are a thrifty
soul and the thot of not being in a
position to save pound would eat
you like cancer. l propose to give
you a handsome automobile - please
don't strike me, my intentions are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16

More groans from Oswald Garrison Willard !.
United States troops are shooting Filipino laborers
in the Hawaii islands. "This will not happen when
LaFollette is in the White House, Mr. Willard
may manage to say between groans. Perhaps not
and perhaps he may go one better by taking Ram
say MacDonads example and dropping bombs on
them. Robert was never half the pacifst that Ram.
say is--was.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16

good" We feel that at this mo
ment Alexander was in danger of los
ing his life, but he managed to CON
vince the premier that his object was
not seduction. So Macdonald with
drew the theatened blow, but debated
the question Of keeping a handsome
limousine on his miserable four sal
aries. The biscuit millionaire saw the
point and after considerable difficulty
broke down MacDonald's opposition to
keep the auto in fuel and manpower,
In other words he would pay for the
gas and the chauffeur. This looked
like bribery to Macdonald, who re-
membered what happened to Lloyd
George over the Marconi scandal, but
when his friend Alexander Grant in
formed him that it required only an
investment of $150,000 in his cracker
factory to keep the automobile in run.
ming condition, and that Alexander
himself and none other would make
the necessary investment, MacDon-
AIDS opposition broke down and he
submitted, assuring his frined that he
was one of the three men in existence
at whose hands he would allow him
self to be treated with such generos-
ity.
THIS little thing happened in March
and in the following June Brit
ishers read in the papers that His
Majesty King George of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland, Emperor of In
dia and Heir Pretender to the Throne
of Long Island, New York, knighted
the biscuit king. We do not know
whether he became a Knight of the
Bath or Knight of the Garter, but
this much we know now, that we did
not know then, and that is, that Sir
Alexander Grant, in annexing title
to himself at approximately the same
historical moment disconnected him
self from thirty thousand pound ster-
ling or in the American language,
$4,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16

Send in that new SUBJ today!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16

THE fact that Ramsay Macdonald
l is socialist and leader Of the
second international now called by
some other name. that he is against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

The Negroes were brought from
Africa,
To admire this civilizations;
They were taken from one kind OF a
Jungle,
And put into another.
There Is a stencil in the tenement
district.
How do children grow up there?
How can people live there?
What is the air they breathe?
What is their crime,
That they should be herded there.
Breathing the odor Of garbage,
Doomed to living death?
Their crime is that they are poor.
The Jewish immigrants IA
Came to the land in the West
They came with their hopes,
Which they dragged from land to
land,
And from century to century,
And these hopes and dreams
Were shattered on the dark stairs Of
the tenements.
Surely this misery will come to an
end.
Out Of the depths Of the big city
The oppressed masses will rise
Out of the houses Of torture,
Up from under the ground,
Down from perlIous heights,
Into the light they will come rum
ming,
The shout Of revolt Will be heard.
The storm-cIoud will burst,
The millions will realize their
strength;
They will conquer the big city,
They will Danish its tragedy,
And make II wholly magnificent.
On that day there will be no masters
And no slavesl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21
CzechO-Sl OUakia's Social
Democracy.

Freedom Of the press has been abolished in
Czecho-Slovakia by the Social-Democrat gov
eminent Of that young republic. Corruption
tern by the Czech bourgeosie- American
system-has been revealed and the answer Of
social-democratic lovers Of democracy has been
to compel editors to give the names of their in
formants on all public questions.
The capitalist press Of the world has been
sounding the praises of the Czecho-Slovakian
government and the president, Professor Masa-
ryk. 1t and he have been held up as models for
all young nations to follow.
The ruling class of Czecho-Slovakia has great
ambitions. It wishes to become the dominant
force in southeastern Europe; it hates Soviet
Russia and has entered into an alliance with
France for purposes of offense and defense
against the wishes of the mass of the peoples
Czecho-Slovakia is today simply an outpost of
French Imperialism, mortgaged both to France
and the House of Morgan.
It's working class is well organized and large
section of it is revolutionary, the Communist
Party of Czecho-Slovakia being one of the larg-
est in the Third international.
The social-democrats Of the second interna-
tional in Czecho-Slovakia as elsewhere are
playing the game of the imperialists and have
been entrusted by the bourgeoise with the task
of smashing the working class movement.
There is no doubt that the gag law just passed
is another step taken by the social-democrat
government to assist the capitalists of their
own country and of France and America in en-
Shaving the workers and peasants.
The social-democracy abhors Capitalization
of power for more efficient waging of the
struggle against international capitalism but it's
adherents in all countries show a remarkable
unanimity in the aid comfort and support they
give to the capitalists. In this their policy is
uniform.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21
Ping Lung Is Dead

Not even the hysteria incidental to the open
ing of the baseball season could shade the heart
thrills that the kept press drew out of the dying
breaths of Ping Lung pet poodle of a man who
really wears trousers and bears the name Ignace
Jan Paderewski.
Ping Lung is dead Of over-eating. To the last
the best chefs of the Pullman service on the
Illinois Central Railroad were trying to stuff the
dogs stomach with appetizing food.
We have only sympathy for the poor dog who
fell afoul the way of civilization" as we know
it in the year 1924, where parasite men
and women of decadent class must not only
have their poodles, but also the privilege Of
doing them to death with barbaric attentions
that no respectable dog would tolerate if he
could help it,
We wouldn't be surprised if the dog world had
already put the name of Paderewsh on its
growing black list.