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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10

Secretary of State Hughes has again announced
that Soviet Russia cannot be recognized by the
United States This time he sets up the principal
reason the existence of the Workers Party in this
country, as Il section of the international revolu-
tionary movement, which he blames upon Soviet
Russia. Until the Workers Party ceases to prop
agate the proletarian revolution in the United
States no recognition can be given Soviet Russia.
But Hughes is not entirely frank. What the
capitalists of America afraid of is in the long
run, certainly just this international organization
of revolutionists Of which Hughes complains. But
the immediate menace that which dictates the
question of recognition at the moment, is not the
existence of the Workers Party but the fact that
the proletardt is in pOt0er in Russia and shows
not the slightest signs of weakening. Hughes lays
down the principle that so long as the working
class is in power the United States will not accept
the Russian Government as fact to be dealt with.
Hughes thus lays down a clear issue. 1t is an
ultimatum to the workers of Russia to surrender
their country back to the capitalists or to engage
in war with the United States. For this is the
only logical outcome of Hughes position. The
only alternative is for Hughes to change his mind
When we note that the capitalists of France and
Great Britain. who also held the same attitude as
Hughes for years. have finally changed and, for
mally at least granted recognition to the Soviets
it is clear that Hughes may also find it expedent
ing of the meaning Of Hughes present pronounce
ment; he tells the Russian workers to return to
capitalist exploitation or prepare for war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
The Pacifst Preachers

What classconscious workers have long been
aware of. namely that the 'pacfsm" of the preach
ers of religion is of the same brand essentially,
the 'pacifsm" of the army officers, received a
striking demonstration yesterday. gathering of
ministers Of the Presbyterian and Congregational
churches which had previously adopted resolu-
tons depIoring militarism, FASTENED to endorse
mobilization day, while reassertng its pacifism.
At the same time is printed dispatch from Ber-
lin quoting General IL. 7. Allen of the American
forces as stating that he is ''pacifist and that
is the reason he is in favor of mobilization day The
general wants a big army and big guns, with plenty
of poison gas to insure peace His pacifsm is much
the same the preachers.
This is a very inopportune time" to be anti
lniltarist. was the tenor or argument used in
favor Of mobilization day The only opportune
time for pacifsts to talk is when there are war
moves on 1t is in the very nature of pacihsm, ac-
cording TO its inner logic that mitarism cannot be
actively fought because that creates a danger of
building up militant attitude Of mind. This in
turn must be rejected because it might lead to a
real struggle against miltarism. And all the
preachers want is to have peace between them
selves and the powers that be. The time is never
"opportune, for paciists to really do anything
against war.
ne workers are quickly learning that pacifsm
is merely another form Of capitalist thought just
as deadly to their class interests Imperialism
and militarsm. because it leads to surrender to
those very forces. Nothing but the militant class
struggle of the workers against the exploiters, re
sulting finally in the struggle for power in the
civil war against imperialist war, will lead the
working class out of its present slavery. The
preachers and the pacifsts are not friends Of the
workers but of the capitalists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10

fenced: 1. Max Birke, miner, to one
years fortress Imprisonment and so
marks fine because in the previous
November he distributed seditious
Communist leaflets. 2. Emil Hagberg,
worker from Altoona, to Is months
fortress Imprisonment and so marks
fine, because he posted up G. P. G..
poster, which called for the setting
UP of the dictatorship of the proletari-
at. 3. Lechleitner, editor of the organ
Of the c. p. G. in Mannheim, to 10
months fortress Imprisonment and
so marks fine, because he published
an article in November, 1923, which
propagated the dictatorship of the
proletariat
On June 4th, 1924, there were SEN
fenced: l. Hotopp, a clerk in Berlin,
to years Imprisonment and 5000
marks fine on account of preparation
of high treason and having knowl-
edge of store of weapons; 2. w.
Schmidt, mechanic and Bannert,
Priss and Knoll, workers, each to two
years and six months Imprisonment
and 5000 marks fine on similar
charge as above.
On June 18th, 1924, Alfred Oelssner,
party secretary in Breslau, received
three years Imprisonment and 1000
marks fine on account of instigating
and preparing high treason.
On July 10th, 1924, there were SEN
fenced; Lambert, a tailor of Stuff
CART to eight years penal servitude,
Brecht, a brewery worker, Rail-, a
turner, each to six years penal servi-
tude; Haussler, turner, to three
years penal servitude and Chaser, an
iron moulder, to one year penal servi-
tude for possessing hand grenades
and preparing high treason. The ac-
cused replied to the announcement of
the bloody sentences with cheers for
the world revolutions and for Moscow.
1t should be noted that these brutal
sentences were based upon the evil
dence of paid agent provocateur
who had been instructed by the au-
thorities to enter the G. P. of Ger
many and there to arrange the "Tche-
ka" frame-up.
On June 10, 1924, there were SEN
fenced in Koenigsberg: Delvendahl,
worker to seven years penal servi-
tude and 1000 marks fine, Hatcher to
six years penal servitude and 500
marks fine, Seipold to five years
penal servitude and 500 marks fine,
Baumann to four years penal servi-
tude and 400 marks fine, Nautsch to
four and half years Imprisonment
and 300 marks fine, Marvel to two
and half years Imprisonment and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10

derfoot the only genuine revolution
airy party of the German working
class, the C. P. of Germany, in or
der to break their resistance.
A monstrous reign of terror was in
stituted against it, accompanied by an
unexampled campaign of calumny and
instigation, which did not shrink from
the stupidest as we'll as from the most
blood-thirsty accusations, and which
was participated in by all parties from
the German Nationalist to the Social
Democrats.
Of course, under these circum-
stances, German class justice could
not show itself to be behindhand.
1t let loose a flood of trials for high
treason, and glutted it's revenge
against the revolutionary workers,
who in October, 1928, had made pre-
parations for the fight to capture poll
teal power.
Altho the latter, contrary to the
Hamburg workers who actually be-
gan an armed struggle, had restricted
themselves to making preparations
for the fight, they were sentenced to
ever more brutal terms of prison and
penal servitude.
These sentences expose even to the
most undiscerning the true aims and
intentions of this undisguised class
Justice: to create and spread terror
among the broad working masses, so
that they would shrink from any fur
Their resistance against their strangu-
lation by international big capital I'M
der the terms of the Dawes plan.
And the choicest and the most char
acteristic feature of all this white ter
rorist justice is precisely the fact that
it originates from and is supported by
the famous state court of justice for
the protection of the Republic; which
was set up Immediately after the Ra-
thenau murder in order to COLA the
right radical (Fascist) murder bands.
This famous court of justice, which
includes a great number of social de-
mocrats, among others the former mi
AobCA NOAA6d AACAACB thC "a COAOOhN
of the metal workers federation
Brandes, the district chief constable
LANCE, etc., has, in those few cases
where it has been compelled to deal
with white guardist assassins, shown
very striking mildness and sym
pathy, while at the same time where
Communists have got into it's clutches
it has given unbridled vent to its class
hate
We will cite a few examples to il
lustrate the so-called administration
Of justice of this model court of jus
tice, against the decisions of which
there is no appeal:
On February Z, 1924, Albert Barthel
worker Of Schwedt on Oder, receiv,
ed one years fortress Imprisonment
and fine of so goldmarks, because
he distributed among the Reichswehr
soldiers leaflets of seditious charac
ter" which advocate a change in the
constitution by means of violence.
! On April 18th, 1924, there were sen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
Get a member for the Workers Party.
An Army Plot

The charges by counsel for Paxton Hibben that
army officers have entered into a plot to take his
officers commission away from him, will be of in
terest to the workers. 1t is well that we become
familiar with the inner workings of the army
because it is one of the chief instruments of sup
preston of the working class, and to combat it
requires more knowledge of it than is now avail
able This plot against Hibben (who by the way is
very, very far from being Communist, his 'crime"
consisting of a few liberal opinions about recog
milton of Russia), may possibly reveal corner of
the inner life Of the army
1t seems from the documents made public, that
the army intelligence organization is habitualy
used to spy and frame up on undesirable" officers
in the army. In the case of Hibben, these instru
ments were put to work but, not wishing to bring
the army directly into the case the Officers
reserve corps" was made the channel for striking
the blow.
principal charge against Hibben, the one that
reveals the animus behind the persecution is that
he helped to raise funds for the relief Of famine
victims in Russia some years ago, and that he has
and still does advocate the recognition of the Soviet
Government Such common sense attitude is
taken as prima facie evidence of unftness for
service in the U. s. army. But because Hibben
seems to be a fighter, and will not submit to the
frame.up against his without scrap, it does not
follow that the hopedfor disclosures in the army
life will really come about What is now more
likely is that the case will be hushed up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
Unemployment and the Presidential Candidates

they continue to operate as part of
their plan to mechanic them and
destroy the union. 1t is this desire to
thoroly mechanic and standardize
every operation down to the last re-
tail, so that the individual skill and
responsibility of the miner has no
basis in reality.
This is the explanation of the de-
mand by the Illinois operators, for the
abolishing of the contract system.
Only human ostrich cannot see
this inevitable economic development.
The same course of development was
followed in the steel industry, in the
metal industry and in the anthracite.
The same finance capital which has
gained control of the bituminous non
union fields, is now reducing the Hi
nois union miners to unemployment,
misery and suffering. It will by a
process of attrition destroy your
union, unless you begin to consciously
recognize that you are an integral
part Of that working class which
olIuBBlco dSdAhot tuc OdpitdiAoI CAeoo.
You must displace your present re-
publican and democratic union repre-
sentatives-who stand four square for
the capitalists and capitalism-with
militant representatives who stand
and fight, on the issue of the class
struggle against capitalism. Your or
ganization, in order to survive, must
be infused with revolutionary
spirit. It must organize the unor-
ganized in the non-union field. 1t
must fight for the specialization, thru
workers and farmers government,
OF the coal industry that is now being
nationally consolidated by capitalist
pirates. Your organization must
fight to the end: that the cost OF the
present unemployment be borne by
the industry itself and by the Govern.
ment, so that the unemployed shall
receive union wages.
Industrial Relief Thru Political
Struggle.
In face OF this crisis In your history,
your apparent purely industrial prob
lens have in reality become political
problems. No real relief for unem.
ployment can be hoped for except
thru a great political struggle. No
real naturalization OF your industry
can come about except thru a great
political struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10

methods of capitalist exploitation.
The rank and file of the United
Miners Workers Union, are beginning
to clearly understand the roots Of
their present predicament. Which is
that, modern American finance capital
is out to destroy, root and branch the
Miners Union. Finance capital--a
combination of the giant banks-tried
to destroy with a frontal attack, the
union in the great coal strike of 1921.
It's method was it's injunctions is
sued by the Government against the
striking miners. Tho this frontal at
tack did not succeed, it caused the
giant banks now behind the coal in
dustry, to develop new strategy. An
indirect smash upon the union.
Consolidation of Industry.
Finance capital has at last agreed
upon the consolidation and complete
mechanization of the bituminous coal
industry. In carrying out this plan it
has bought up and consolidated the
various competing mines, especially
III ING uOH-uulOH HCluo VI WCoI VIZ
ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama,
New Mexico and Colorado.
The consolidation Of these compel
ing mines and their mechanization, in
its turn tends to render unnecessary
the skill of the individual miner. 1t
has increased and cheapened the pro-
duction of bituminous coal to an un.
believable degree.
The coal from these highly mech
anized mines in the non-union terri
tory can undersell and compete with
rhe old time mines Of Illinois, ope-
rated as many Of them have been,
with methods not so up to date as now
being used in the modern mine. This
undertaking is especially successful
when old party politicians represent
ing the capitalist system, control the
various boards and commissions sup
posed to maintain state competition.
Smash on Illinois Miners.
The same finance capital which has
carried on this policy OF encircling
the union fields. now comes into I'LL
nols and other union fields. II Is rap
idly buying up and consolidating the
various competing mines. Great mum
bers of these mines It shuts down
completely, In order to freeze out the
union miners who have depended
upon them for their living. Others
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10

200 marks fine, Lorenz, Mecklenburg,
Lollies and Hoffman, each to is
months Imprisonment and 200 marks
fine on account Of Selling a store of
arms upon the estate of a junker in
order to defend themselves from a
threatened putsch and on account of
alleged preparation of high treason.
The president of the court, Niedner,
revealed himself in this trial as an
open Communist hater. He called the
Communist flag "a Russian rag" and
declared that every single member of
the c. P. Of Germany must from Sep
TENDER last year, reckon upon being
liable to punishment under paragraph
z of the law for the defense of the
republic.
The vindictive class justice of the
German democratic republic is not
only exhibited in the brutal sentences
pronounced by the courts, but also by
the treatment of the prisoners under
going sentences, which is becoming
harsher and more brutal Not only
are our comrades deprived of all Com
munist literature and not allowed to
write to their friends; as a further
means of punishment they are not al
lowed any change of underclothing.
many of them are put into chains
and beaten and brutally mishandled.
The situation of the prisoners has be-
come so desperate that they have
been forced to adopt their only means
of protest; the hunger strike. For
instance, in Gleiwitz in Silesia. 10 of
our comrades have entered on a hun
ger strike. The prison authorities re-
piled to this action by entirely de-
priving them of water, thereby adding
to their torture.
1t is admitted that the present adj
mihistration of justice aims at cow
ing and terrifying the masses. The
German bourgeoisie however, are
making a great mistake if they be-
lieve they will be able, by means of
such bloody sentences, to intimidate
the working masses and cause them
to shrink from ruthlessly defending
tnelr vital interests, which at the
same time are the vital interests of
the German nation. The terrorist SEN
fences pronounced by class justice
will not break the revolutionary fight
ing spirit of the working class. On
the contrary, they arouse in the heart
and brain the most powerful spiritual
and moral forces, which will one day
not only sweep away the terrorist JUS
tice and its upholders, but also the
rotten state and social order, which
provides the soil from which this ter
rorist justice must inevitably spring.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
Three LAWYER candldates.

At this moment when millions Of
workers in America are unemployed
great political struggle is being waged.
Coolidge, Davis and LaFollette are all
running for the Office of President of
the United States. Two Republican
lawyers and one Democratic lawyer.
All of them standing for, and sup
porting the capitalist system of ex-
ploitation that is responsible for your
unemployment and misery. You mill
tant miners can have no political
hopes from such candidates. You
have been equally exploited by the
big coal operator whom Coolidge and
Davis represent, and by the little coal
operator-now being crushed-whom
LaFollette represents.
The Workers Candidate.
You coal diggers have real politi-
cal representative in the present cleo.
ton campaign. He too runs for,
President of the United States-Wil-
liam q. Foster Foster is the candi-
date of the miners and of the working
class.
William u. Foster as the presiden-
tial candidate Of the Workers Party
stands upon it's platform, which con-
tains a real program for the relief OF
unemployment. This program will
compel industry and the government
to pay union wages to the unem-
ployed. IL contains a demand for:
The naturalization of all large scale
industries, such as mines, railroads,
giant power plants and means Of com.
munication and transportation, and
the organization of the workers in
these industries for participation in
the management and direction OF the
industries nationaized.
These are but few of the points in
the Workers Party platform on which
Foster stands.
The Illinois miners must tackle this
unemployment problem from a class
conscious viewpoint. You must real.
lie that II Is the inevitable product OF
capitalism. You must force your
present officers to stop their collabora.
ton with capitalist politicians and
capitalists, which simply perpetuates
the present misery.
Illinois miners vote for Foster the
Communist candidate and the aboli-
ton Of capitalism!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10

BOURGEOIS penal law in Germany
ID has never been troubled with hu-
manitarian scruples whenever it has
been a question of wreaking ven
geance for any attacks by it's class
enemies against the sacred institution
of the capitalist state. Already in the
time of the Kaiser brutal sentences,
imposed upon honest workers, have
often aroused the horror and indig-
nation of the whole civilized world.
Everything that happened under the.
Hohenzollern .regime,' however, APP
pears as mere trifle compared with
the shameful vindictive administra-
ton of justice which we are witness
ing in Germany today.
1t must be noted that this is occur
ring in so-called republican-democrat-
ic Germany, at the head of which
stands the social democrat Ebert and
in the government of which num-
Der of social democrats have for years
held high and responsible positions
The influence of the Experts Re-
port upon the administration of Ger
many's class justice is quite unmis-
taxable Never before in the Ger
man Republic, not even in the time
of the greatest revolutionary tension
of the last few years, and especially
of last autumn when the misery of the
masses in consequence of the imitation
reached the highest point, has Ger
man bourgeois justice so openly and
markedly exposed it's vengeful charac-
ter against the revolutionary work
ers as it has since the decision of the
great bourgeoisie to carry out this
pact of robbery and .enslavement on
the part of international big capital
at the cost of the broad working mass
es in Germany.
Even the special court set up after
the October armed rising in Hamburg
showed-after the first death SEN
fences intended to terrify the masses,
which by the way have been COM
muted into relatively short terms of
fortress Imprisonment by president
Ebert as a result of the pressure of
the working masses-a far-reaching
understanding for the desperate social
and political conditions which were
the lot of every honest worker at that
time. The court to some extent pass
ed milder sentences on the accused
revolutionary workers because they
had acted from absolutely honest mo-
tives.
All this however, was changed as
soon as the Dawes plan appeared on
the scene and its acceptance by the
German bourgeoisie appeared more
and more probable. 1t was clearly to
be seen beforehand that only a com
pletely physically and spiritually en-
shaved working class would put up
with the terrible political, social eco
nomic and cultural consequences of
the realization of the Experts plan
without offering the most bitter re-
sistence.
For this reason it was necessary be-
fore all to defame and to trample un.
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The workers must prepare their own "mobiliza-
ton days" on which to muster their forces for the
overthrow of capitalism.
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Get a member for the Workers Party and a new
or the DAILY WORKER.
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ON INAUGURATION

nooNER every country
- find themselves at the
trial arriving stage development
they ordinarily evolutionary process
by three distinct phases, ~
(2) federation. 10y INSTRUMENTATION z.
The Coconino sun., 1924-11-07

fencing, organization, and administra-
ton; expense of adequate fencing and
inspection; and remoteness of the field
OF operations from headquarters.
The most important of the species
of rodents which narrow the margin
of profit of the farmer and stockman
In the western states are prairie dogs
and ground squirrels, pocket gophers,
and jack rabbits. Among these, none
does greater damage to range grasses
than the prairie dog, referred to more
than 20 years ago as zone of the most
pernicious enemies to agriculture"
(Merriam, 1902, p. 263). Hollister
1916, p. ID writes: Prairie dogs are
unquestionably responsible for great
annual damage to crops and pastur-
age. In certain areas the destruction
amounts to virtually the entire forage
Crops Of grain and cultivated hay are
often entirely ruined unless drastic
preventive measures are taken" But
"in other out-of-the-way places the
animals do not interfere in the least
with the operations of man."
Almost anyone who has had oppor-
tunity for observation will have been
impressed with the destructive effect
of the prairie dog on the forage
grasses in the vicinity of it's towns .
especially during dry years. Charles
Springer, who, during the World war,
was chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the New Mexico council of
defense, writes (letter of January 6,
1919):
Regarding the extent of damage
done to the range by prairie dogs,
opinions differ, and, of course, it de-
pends upon the degree of infestation.
In the 50,000-acre unit now being in
vestigated and treated in the Moreno
valley, in Colfax county, the prairie
dogs destroyed nearly all the grarna
grass, and | believe the damage to
that range amounted to rs per cent.
Generally the damage done by prairie
dogs in the infested areas with which
/ am familiar ranges from 40 to SO
percent to 100 per cent. / have seen
in Rio Arriba and Sandoval counties,
and in some of the other counties,
large areas rendered practically
worthless for grazing purposes by
these pests. 1t is safe to estimate that