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countries it has been possible to re,
establish valuta equilibrium. This is
Of course of the greatest importance
for capitalism.
And what do we see? Our "stabil.
ization fanatics" are beginning to say:
look, the bourgeoisie has again hard
cash in it's hands, the valuta has been
stabilized-co consequently the policy OF
the Communist International was not
correct, consequently capitalism has
been more or less reestablished. But
a real Communist will ask himself
first of all by what means the bour-
geoisie has been able to stabilize the
valuta, and at the expense of what
sections of the population has this
sterilization taken place. A true
Communist sees for instance that in
Germany and France two-thirds of the
burden of taxation have been cast en-
tirely on the shoulders of the work
ers, and that consequently the valuta
has been stabilized at the expense of
the working class.
But nevertheless Marxists must
take into account the fact of the
sterilization of valuta and the tenn
porary consolidation of the capitalist
order.
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Two Presidents to Get Raise

1t is not surprising that the greatness of two
presidents should be recognized at one and the
same time, even tho thousands of miles of land
and water separate the twain.
While the ways and means committee of the
Reichstag was passing motion to increase the an
nual salary and expense account of President
Hindenburg from $4,000 to S45OO0 the grateful
delegates to the Chicago Federation of Labor were
boosting the salary of President Fitzpatrick from
$500 week to an hundred.
Undoubtedly both men are worth the money
Both are sturdy opponents of the strenuous life
Both are stout of frame and stern of visage Both
are early risers and the sun never sets on their
laborsl
We know that 'Hindy' worked hard during the
war to bring home the bacon for the kaiser and
the German capitalists That he failed is no fault
of his. He almost lost his neck but fortune is a
tickle dame and is now smilingly ensconced in the
old war dogs arms.
President Fitzpatrick is local leader of the trade
union movement One of the duties is to see that the
ranks of the unions are increased, not decreased.
lie is at least expected to make an attempt to or
ganize the unorganized. But while Won Hindenburg
risked his neck to save the kaisers bacon and his
throne, about the only function Fitzpatrick per-
forms that is worth nickel to the labor move
ment is filling a capacious armchair in his Of
fee.
Won Hindenburg is worth every gold mark of
the 10000 he will receive for blufing the German
working class. He is on his toes for the bosses.
If the servants of the capitalists wasted their time
as the labor takers do, they would soon find tin
cans tied to their coat tails
Not only are the highly paid labor officials vast
ing their time and the funds of the unions, but
they are tacit allies of the CAPITALISTS in their re-
fusal to render any real service to the labor
ment In fact most of them are open servants of
the bosses and glory in the fact.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-20
BY ROBERT STEWART.

THE disunity In the Irish labor
l. movement made general holiday
on May Day impossible, nevertheless
the Dublin workers did not let the
day pass without demonstration.
On the evening of May Day the
workers assembled in Parnell Square
but altho invitations had been sent
to every trade union branch there
were few officially represented. The
Workers Union, the Irish Workers
League, the Grocers' Assistants, the
Workers international Relief, the un-
employed, ETC., made up the parade
which led. by the Workers Union No.
band marched thru O'Connell street
to Beresford Place where a meeting
of five thousand workers gave rous-
ing welcome to the platform party.
consisting of Mrs. Despard, Workers
Information Relief, delegates from the
Grocers' Assistants, Trade Council,
Woodworkers, Councillor Lawlor pre-
sided, and the speakers were j. Far
reilly, r. Stewart, and Jim Larkin.
The meeting lasted for three hours,
and the audience carried with ac-
clamation this resolution viz:
That this meeting OF Dublin work
ers deplores the lack OF real unity
and solidarity In the ranks OF the
irish working class and pledges itself
to work for national trade union
unity.
II welcomes the efforts put forth
to establish one trade union interna-
tional for the whole world. And sup
ports the Anglo-Russian trade union
unity committee in their actions for
such unity
This meeting further declares it's
solidarity with, and loyalty to the
workers republics y,of the Soviet
Union. ~
To all prisoners and captives OF
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Within the LGw

The ruling class of this country is strong for
law enforcement-agains the working class. The
capitalists make the laws, for others to obey For
the workers. like the soldier in battle: "Their's
not to reason why; theirs but to do and die"
Samuel NJ. Vauclain, president of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works. delivered a speech about one
year ago in which he said that he would have no
labor organizers interfere with his business If
any such organizer came around, he would have
him thrown into jail regardless of law. This open
expression Of contempt for the law did not bring
Vauclain into Jail. No, because Vauclain is the
law.
Our Vauclains do not take the law seriously. Just
now the United States government is spending mil
lions of dollars in the enforcement Of the Volsead
law. But not one capitalist in tep thousand obeys
that law. Sometime ago Vauclain bet with some
pals of his that prohibition was not hardship
on the people, as they could get along without
liquor.
Vauclain entered into an agreement one year
ago that he would forfeit $4,000 if he took drink
in the United States within one year The year is
up and the steel magnate claims that he will not
have to give up the ten thousand dollars Being
a wealthy man, the newspapers after Vauclain
for interviews The year was up. Vauclain was
going to New York to celebrate the end of the
self-enforced drought. "With twinkle in his eye
he commented on the fact that New York has good
liquor, they say Are you going to get some% he
was asked. might get it in the neck, he re
Piled"
This is one of the lords of creation talking, so
prohibition agents keep quiet. While an admiral
of the proud United States navy is chasing rum
runners off the coast the president of big cor
p6ration goes to New York where the liquor is
good Vauclain is within the law. The workers
are outside of it. And by the way, how does it
happen that Vauclain is wealthy even tho he does
not hide the fact that be likes his booze? We are
told that the workers are poor not because they
are exploited by the employers but because they
thriftless, smoke tobacco, silk shirts and
drink liquor. Vauclain is excellent proof to the.
contrary
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BY c. zINoVlEV.
Continued from last issue)
II.
Partial Sterilization of
Capitalist Economy.
What Is Needed Is a Calm, Truly
6olshevlk Objective Appre-
citation of the Situation

T EFT us now turn our attention to
1.-the world economic situation. 1t
has not materially changed during the
last eight or nine months. One meets
frequently two types Of view in Com
munist ranks and round about them:
the representative Of one of these
tendencies could be designated as it
were, as the prophets of an immedi-
ate, inevitable" catastrophe of CAPT
talism. They are always seeing signs
of an Immediate" collapse of CAPT
talism, and when they have recog-
nized their mistake, they go to the
other extreme, to talk about the err
roneousness of the whole line Of con-
duct.
The representatives Of the second
tendency are people who believe
with the certainty of fatalists in the
100 per cent sterilization of capital
ism which is supposed to have already
taken place. According to them, this
sterilization is making strides for
ward almost at express speed, to-
such degree are they blinded by
some of the outward features of the
sterilization which they find so well
come. The Communist International
has no use for either of these ex-
tremes. Neither the prophets Of inn
minent catastrophe, nor the fatalists
Of capitalist sterilization are right. 1t
is the Fifth Congress which is right,
its lines have remained mistaken.
IVES, 1t is true that the bourgeoisie
4 has been given breathing space.
We can see now that this breathing
space is proving longer than we ex-
pected, altho from the viewpoint of
history, two or three years, or five
or ten years are a mere trifie. 1t is
true that the economic position of the
bourgeoisie has improved in some
European countries and elsewhere.
In many countries the bourgeoisie has
been able to stabalize its valuta. In
Germany we do not witness now in
his respect what we witnessed in
1928, at the time of imitation. And
yet there are considerable exceptions
0 this rule. Let us take, for in
stance, France, Italy, Roumania and
Japan, where the valuta question is
still very acute. In other bourgeois
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the eyes of the military autocracy,
soldiers who try to persuade their
comrades to think for themselves and
question orthodox dogmas, are guilty
of the greatest of all crimes. AS one
brutal agent of Wall Street put it,
''The dirtiest job you've got is too
good for them" lin reference to u.s..
The car failed to save capitalism
by fighting education And America
will not succeed in keeping her SOL
dier tools and colonial slaves in ever
lasting ignorance. The dawn of truth
and economic freedom will come
despite the efforts of militarism, and
free soldier workers will unite with
their comrades of other lands and
shout:
Long live the international brother
hood of workers.
Long live the world Communist
Party
Long live the Union of Soviet So
cialist Republics!
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cHlLDRENs COLUMN.
Religion and Its Ways.
Bv sTANLEY RAIcHAIIA,

Did you ever stop to reason out
about this God religion teaches us
about. For instance, religion teaches
us that there is hell. asked a
church going kid "Why is there hell?"
His answer was that those who dis
obey God go there. Why does this SO.
called Almighty God create bad peo-
Pile? II seems that he himself does not
love his neighbors" as he would
have others do.
There is more profit in religion than
there is any other kind of business. A
new church springs up every time q
new minister or priest finishes col.
lege and he knows there are enuf
suckers around to furnish the
money for him and his church. The
poor pay their hard earned money for
the lies they are told
When you start to reason out the
God whom the church teaches about,
you will find that he is not so good at
all. II he really were good and al
mighty, then he would never have
created hell and made people bad or
given them weaknesses to commit
sins 80 that he could send them to
hell.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-20
BY PAUL CROUCH.

THE Bolsheviks were our best
4 friends"
This remark did not come from a
foreign propaganda. Itfwas the reply
of a typical American soldier to my
question about conflicts with the red
army. He was sent to Siberia to make
the world safe for Wall Street. But
when he and other soldiers came in
contact with free and thinking sol
diers they understood the. class ma
lure of the government that forced
them to murder fellow workers. The
soldier-workers who were sent to
Siberia discovered the character of
capitalist imperialism and those who
still remain in the service are
prevented from telling the truth to
their comrades only by fear of per-
secution.
With its usual stupidity, American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-20
The YeIIow Chorus

Ramsay Macdonald does not like the "Red
Flag" that anthem of revolt that has been sung by
millions of workers since it was composed by the
Irish rebel, Jim Connel 1t CRATES on the sensitive
that have wagged pleasantly to the strains of
"God Save the King" and britannia Rules the
Waves" The mouth that so willingly Osculated the
royal anatomy did not open to chant the verses of
revolt against royalty, the fading handmaiden of
modern capitalism.
Ramsay Macdonald does not like the "Red Flag"
because it is not yellow. Neither does the MiI,cau-
kee Leader In the editorial column of that sheet
which is presided over by John M. Work, that
senile dotard in article entitled "Down With
the Bunk" beabors all those who cherish the red
flag and the song inspired by it. Work does not like
the red. "Alienists say who writes letters
in red ink is likely to show signs of insanity says
Berger's hired scribbler.
Macdonald says that labor ought to have bet
ter song zone more tuneful and soul-stirring"
The Leader hastens to add, zone less calculated to
arouse the brute passion for slaughter" And
furthermore writes Work "The use of the word
revolution and revolutionary in socialist writ
ings is also foolish. Tho they mean peaceful revo-
luton, most nonsocialists do not know it, except
the few who lie about it. Why court misapprehen-
sion?"
To the yellow socialists everything that empha-
sizes the class struggle is foolish Berger long ago
dropped the word revolution from his scanty
vocabulary. Now the "Red Flag is verboten.
Why not muzzle Eugene V. Debs? He uses the
word revolution occasionally, tho we presume he
means nothing wicked by it. He also talks about
the red flag, but perhaps only in fgurative sense.
Morris Hillquit is less blunt than Berger so he will
allow the socialist partys only visible means Of
support-Debs-babb the old iargon for an
other while.
The socialists may drop ther.Red Flag"-indeed
its use is sacrege on their lips. But the workers
will drop the socialist party and carry the red
flag to victory under the leadership of the Com
munist International which is heir to the struggle
waged by the oppressed masses Of all ages.
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Side by Side with Sterilization are
Undoubted Signs of the Insta-
bilty of the Situation

WTE also witness certain revival of
w international credit. There is
a tendency to revive international
credit to establish world prices and
generally speaking, to restablish the
so-called unity of the world CAPT
talist economy. America has aban-
doned its position of financial self
isolation. In some countries there are
signs of Improvement in the indus.
trial situation. All these are I'M
doubted facts and due to no fault of
Varga.% For several years Europe has
*Comrade S. Varga studied the eco
nomic position in the capitalist coun-
tries and described in his works the
temporary sterilization of capitalism
in some of them.
not been in state of war. In some
countries capitalism has partly re-
covered. AS Comrade Varga rightly
said, in the autumn of 1924 there was,
after many years, decided and stimuli
taneous change for the better in the
conditions of the most important
states. such as Great Britain, the U.
S. A, France and Germany, whilst
in other ountries-Poland, Hungary
and others the economic crisis con-
tf.,.o1a
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AS WE SEEIT = ByT.J. O'Flaherty

sale and traffic in arms. Soviet Rus
STA refused to have anything to do
with this conference. This collection
OF capitalist robbers, are, as usual,
trying to slip things over on each 9th
er. Nothing will come out of it but
more arms. You might as we'll expect
those fellows to do something in the
interests of peace as to expect a gang
OF bootleggers to observe the Volstead
act.
|THE Chinese delegate, however,
4 threw a bombshell into the confer
ence as those peaceful Chinese are in
the habit Of doing. This is the way a
newspaper reporter condenses the
Chinaman's speech: 1.-THE Chinese
delegate after praising the United
States proposal (that producing states
publish statistics) said his country
had very long frontier with the ma
ton which the other delegates did not
wish to name. IL appeared to him
there was fear of a white bear; she
regarded it Practically. The Rouman-
ian said there had been a mistake in
the color!
THE long frontier to which the Chin
4 ese delegate referred is that OF
Soviet Russia. The Chinese people
have no reason to fear Russia and
they realize II. Their enemies are the
capitalist powers who have helped to
keep China disunited. Il was against
those robber powers that the great
liberator, DR.. Sun Vat Sen. fought un-
til the end. And II is those powers
who today are trying to undo the life
work Of DR.. Sun by causing dlssension
inside his organization and setting ri.
val military leaders against each 9TH
err The only power that favors Chin
csc national unity is Soviet Russia.
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MAY DAY IN DUBLIN

capitalism, it sends fraternal greet.
ings.
1t calls upon all the workers thru
their trade unions, cooperative and
political organizations, to unite for
their common defense against CAPT.
talist attacks and to carry the war
into the enemy's camp, by their de,
mands for reduced hours, higher
wages, decent housing conditions, and
work, or full maintenance at trade
union rates for all unemployed
workers.
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ArrQnt Nonsense

1t is arrant nonsense for the Washington cor
respondent of the Federated Press to write that
the action of the White House in sending warn
ing to the delinquent debtor nations of Europe to
pay up what they owe to the United States or al
least begin the process, was a victory for the
policy of Senator Borah 1t is true that Borah
Yields some influence at the White House. but
not much as the House of Morgan. If Wall
Street does not have its way in Washington what
was the use of eecting Calvin Coolidge president?
Borah makes the plea that European countries
which owe money to the United States are hotbeds
of militarism and that they are able to maintain
their excessive military establishments thru the
use of the money they owe the United States. In
the interest of peace this money should be paid
back. But what about the United States miltar-
ism?
Europe owes about ten billion dollars to the
United States England, France and Italy owe
the greater part of this. Other small nations like
Belgium, Greece Esthonia, Latvia, Roumania,
ChechO Solvakia and Jugo-Slavia owe lesser
amounts.
Wall Street never had any intention of letting
those European nations get away with the idea
that the debts must not be paid 1t was simply
waiting for the right time If those countries sud
denly discovered ten billion dollars in some cave
and shipped it to Wall Street, Morgan would throw
a fit and might ask the navy department to bonn
bard the vessel bearing the gold and sink her
"spurlos versenkt" Money is alright unless you
have too much of it, Like too much food, it raises
cain with the circulation.
Our rulers are gradually getting a stranglehod
on Europe. They do not need money. Europe
does. This debt is handy thing to have. 1t makes
u first class club Not to curb militarism. Oh
no. The European capitalists will be allowed
enough armed forces to keep the working class in
subsection, as much as the capitalists think is
sufficient Wall Street does not like the idea of
her debtors fighting each other. That's the kind
of "militarism" Wall Street does not like.
THE Federated Press correspondent declares
that cit is the people of the United States who are
supporting the armies of Europe" The "peope"
have no kick coming. They seem to like it. They
might as well support the predatory armies of
France in Morocco as the armies of Wall Street in
Hawaii, Porto Rico, Cuba, or the Philippines
What's the difference?
Some naive Labor correspondents see in Senator
Borah an enemy Of Wall Street. But Wall Street
is not afraid of Borah and should the tinsel so
laborously plastered on Coolidge during the past
few years, wear off before the year 1923, il is
quite possible Wall Street would be quite salts
fed TO see the famous wind-iammer from Idaho
make the race for the White House, particularly
if the workers showed any inclination to kick over
the traces.
When the policies Of Senator Borah win in
Washington they are sure to be the policies of
Wall Street
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Continued from page u
per cent hold enough 10 pay an in
come tax, the Importance of the
churches becomes even more evident"
For our own sakes, for our chill
dren's sakes, for the nations sake, let
us business men get behind the
churches and their preachers!
WNEVER mind if they are not per-
~ fectl Never mind if their the
ology is out of date. This only means
that if they were efficient they would
do very much more. The safety of
all we have is due to the churches,
even in their present inefficient and
inactive state. By all that We hold
dear, let us from this very day give
more time, money and thought to the
churches Of our city, for upon these
the value OF all we own ultimately de-
ponds"
JAMES M. LYNCH, president OF the
y international Typographical Union,
has a scheme for perpetual prosperity.
It is, that everybody should spend
everything they earn, provided II is
not spent before It is earned. Work
ers who are accustomed TO being sud
denly thrown out of employment when
the boss finds that he cannot make
any more profit out of their labor will
wonder how does Lynch get this way.
IL has been shown by no less an au-
thority than a United States govern
ment commission. that SO cents out Of
every dollar goes into the pockets Of
the employer, the workers getting the
balance. Yes, let the plute wage slave
spend his seventeen cents and keep
the wheels Of industry revolvingl
VoU are probably aware that the
L capitalist powers are holding a
conference In Geneva to regulate the
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1t is reported that Caillaux French finance min
lister, made his peace with the pope before he re-
turned to public life. The pope is an accommodate
ing fellow almost as accommodating as his Amer
lean financial agent, j. p. Morgan.
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VoU are probably aware that the
i capitalist powers are holding a
conference in Geneva to regulate the