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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21
Bosses Begin War on Cleveland
Unions

The bosses are never backward in taking adj
vantage of favorable conditions as is shown by the
new drive on the Cleveland building trades follow
ing the court decision outlawing the closed shop
on the street railway lines in that city,
An attempt is to be made to interpret the SUI
preme court decision as a mandate to destroy all
closed shops and the Cleveland bosses are lining
up their forces for the battle.
There is lesson here for the unions 1t is general
ly known that no struggle of workers is unimport-
ant to the rest of theworking class and particularly
that in a basic industry like transportation is
there no place for the hesitancy and crawfishing
that there was last year when the street carmen
had an opportunity during the republican conven-
ton to strike real blow at the bosses
The whole Cleveland labor movement will suffer
now for the major mistake of last year and must
begin by repairing it. Faith in capitalist courts,
in the fairness" of arbitration tribunals, belief
that a policy of responsibility will divert the
hostility of the bosses, is evidence Of childlike
conception of the class struggle and proof Of
weakness that the bosses see at once and count on
to aid them
The left wing in the Cleveland labor movement
now has splendid chance to put forward their
lighting program and give new hope and inspira-
ton to the trade unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21

fake shibboleths with which the mas
SEES are narcotized must not be
touched.
Workers Must Have Own Films.
Those who attack censorship as 'un-
American, un-ethical and un-every-
thing" as did Connecticut theater
owner before the legislature there.
are very careful to point out that
they do not wish to foster any radical
tendency in the movies They prefer
to "let the industry to be it's own
censor" or, as some put it, 'let the
public be the censor in the ouly effect
i've place; the box Office" What is
meant by the first remark is that with
the ever increasing justification of
motion picture production and distri-
button, it will be hard for anything
but pro-capitalist pictures to slip
thru, while the control Of press and
other avenues of advertising will pre-
vent the movie goers from finding out
about pictures that big business does
not like, hence they and their timer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21
THE WORKERS WEREN'T INVITED

A b B Y ROCKEFELLER, grand
4 \ daughter of the skinfint John ID.
ST., was married to another son of the
millionaires-but not a single worker
was present. Billions of dollars We're
represented at the wedding
that the young "heiress" will inherit
when John ID. Sr. and John I'd. Jr.,
shuttle off their mortal coils" The
"heiress to the greatest fortune in the
world" they called the young lady,
billions that she had nothing to do
with, except to pocket when her turn
comes. But the working class was not
invited-it was a quiet" affair, with
the best people" present.
The same days papers reported that
a woman took gas, because she had
no money and had a family OF chill
dren to support. She did not inherit"
any fortune, nor did she have any
prospects. But the workers were not
invited to the Rockefeller wedding.
That is quite proper. The workers
may grind out their lives in the Rock
efeller oil reflneries, steel mills and
coal mines. They may strike 10 pre-
serve whatever little organization
they have-as the miners Of West Vir-
ginia are doing. But the state sup
ports Rockefeller st., Jr, and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21

"young heiress," in destroying the
union and reducing the standard Of
living of the workers.
That is quite proper-and will re-
main proper until the workers of this
country organize to put an end to this
system whereby Abby Rockefeller can
inherit billions, whereby John d. and
Morgan G Co. can control the re-
sources of this country. 1t will remain
proper until the workers and the poor
farmers of this country realize what
kind of system they live under-and
organize plitically and economically
to take over this rotten capitalist gov
eminent of the United States and
establish a workers and farmers
government of the United States.
Then there will be no "elite" we'd
dings of the parasites, no suicides Of
men and women out of hunger. no de-
struction OF unions to favor the bos-
SEES, no use of government authority
police, militia, federal troops, gas,
machine guns, and bombs-against
the workers. AS long as the workers
OF this country still think II is proper
that the capitalists should control
everything-they will have to accept
the consequences.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21

GUS producers will be damned to
financial failure Both of these condi-
tons are facts, as has been demon
strated in actual cases, many times.
The fight over censorship resolves it.
self into the question of whether the
capitalist economic machine shall
crush out non-conformist films, or whe-
Their the political executive shall do
the trick.
The only answer of the workers is
to develop a motion picture field of
their own. They should support such
semi-friendly pictures as occasionally
slip by the economic and political
censors, but basically they must de-
velop a class film precisely as they
do class press. Such films as are
passed are weapons of enlightenment
among the workers, such as are re-
jected are weapons and bases of strug-
gle. The international Workers Aid,
10 S. Lincoln ST., Chicago is prepar-
ed to furnish excellent working class
films.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21
AngIo-American Antasonlsms.

INDEED, the cooperation between
= America and England is a definite
fact. Nevertheless. the antagonisms
between England and America are in
creasing. These antagonisms may be
divided approximately into 10 points,
and each one of these is sufficient to
convince one, that the rapprochment
between America and England, must
not be exaggerated. The ten points
are as follows:
1. The direct struggle for world
hegemony. The worlds creditor to-
day is not England. but America. The
fight between these two in this sphere
is already raging and will continue
to rage in the future.
@ Canada. 8. Australia 4. Mexico.
5. OIL 6. Markets. Z. The ques-
ton of ornaments. The open rivalry
in ornaments for the purpose Of Sc
curing the domination of the seas s.
Debts. g. The import and export of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21
A Fake Label League

We have in the city of Chicago an organization
known as the Trade Union Promotonal League,
which is Differed by collection of labor skates
who are as free from a spark of the divine fire of
revolution as so many icebergs. The ostensble OBJ
feet of this organization is to boost trade union
ism by convincing the employer that he can make
more profits by having his shop unionized than
not.
1t develops that this Trade Union Promotional
League is actually a sales organization for the
Axton-Fisher Tobacco company manufacturers of
the Clown cigarette. The local organizer of the
Trade Union Promotional League was an agent
for the Clown"
The Seattle Union Record, of May Ia, states that
a branch of the Trade Union Promotional League
is being organized in that city. And the organizer
is none other than "E. j. Helck assistant to the
president of the Axton-Fisher Tobacco company,
manufacturers of Clown cigarettes, who has
helped to organize branches of the league in
various parts Of the United States" How very
kind of him!
If the trade unionists of Chicago realized that
this fake organization on which they waste time
and money, is actually good sales agency for a
cigarette manufacturer, they might come to the
conclusion that they are bigger clowns than the
cigarette that bears that name
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21

raw materials and 10. Even on the
question of the Dawes plan, around
which the rapprochment has taken
place, there are fundamental antagon-
isms between the two states.
zach of these ten points is sufici-
- ent to demonstrate, that parallel
with the process of rapproachment,
there is the process of growth of an
tagonisms which, generally, is char
acteristic of capitalism. l will quote
only one illustration which is charac-
teristic of the relations between
America and England. I have in
mind Canada. In 1913, the amount of
capital invested in Canada by England
was double that invested by, America.
In 1928 complete change is observ-
ed: there is about an equal amount
of American capital invested in Can
ada as British, that is to say, about
two and half millards of dollars
1t should be observed also that
Americas method of investing CAPT
tai in Canada differs from the method
employed by England. America in,
vests her capital directly in Canadian
enterprises. The Americanization of
Canada is becoming fact. Culture
in Canada is completely American &C
counts in Canada are kept, not in
nsunds, but in dollars. The press, the
cinema, the theaters, the railways,
fashions in clothes are all, not English
but American. In England as we'll as
in America, people quite openly speak
of the possibility of the gradual con
version of Canada into new state of
the United States of America. At the
present moment England is trying to
find support in the two or three mil
lion French Canadians living in
Canada, for the English who live
there have long ago become American
lied. Only recently the Times spoke
openly of the possibility Of losing
Canada.
(To be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21
BY WILLIAM E .kRusE

TWO more states, Ohio and South
4 Carolina, have been added to the
list of those in which a bitter battle
over film censorship is being waged
by differing factions of the capitalist
class. One group, made up princi-
pally of motion picture interests fights
the open exposure of state dictator
ship in this field, because it would
slightly decrease their enormous pro-
fits. 5tt
In their support there are groups
of liberals anxious to preserve the
fig-leaf of democracy as in the case
of freedom of press and speech" 1t
is interesting to note that those slo-
gans of the bourgeois revolution do
not cover the motion picture film, de-
veloped after the rise to power of the
bourgeoisie. There is no such legal
fiction as the freedom Of the films, "
instead, just like the press and plat
form of the 18th century, it is de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21
War in the Air
The militarists have the floor.

The militarists have the floor
Any semiarticulate colonel general or admiral
can bust to the first page of the capitalist press
provided he yowls for more soldiers battleships,
airplanes, big guns and universal military train.
ing.
Hawaii has been found to be pitiably weak. The
pineapple plantations there are at the mercy of
any nation which covets them and Major-General
Foreman of the Illinois national guard, who has
just returned from four-months tour of the world
yelled for a huge appropriation for Hawaii the
moment he stepped off train in Chicago, where
he was welcomed with great military display
The opinions of such individuals are, of course,
worth nothing but the imperialists want the
hysteria to increase up to the time of the test
mobilization which has become an annual event
in the United States and the capitalist press takes
its cue and its subsidies from Them
The Hearst press syndicated last Sunday huge
picture of the japanese dragon swooping over our
defenseless shores-as vicious piece of war pro
paganda as we have ever encountered The military
training camp publicity is well organized and con
tinuous Public stadiums are turned over to the
army for military displays A pacifst organza-
ton like that of the women who met recently in
Washington is denounced and viliied by the cap
italist press All talk of disarmament conferences
has ceased.
The tour of the Pacific fleet will be the occasion
for another barrage of mperialst publicity and all
signs point to a summer season devoted to putting
the populace in the proper frame of mind for an
other slaughter. A war for world supremacy is in
the Offng.
Here is the basis for united front that will
bring into action millions of people who cannot
be reached on any other issue.
The activities of the militarists must be utilized
to point out to the American masses the very real
danger which confronts them.
1t is a concrete issue, but one befogged by much
misconception. The duty of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party is to explain the underlying causes
for the campaign of the imperialsts and the direct
connection of their activities with the lives of the
American workers and the world situation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21
France and Morocco

Whatever the outcome of the Riffian war II is
certain that France has taken up the fight which
Spain lost as preparation for future and larger
war.
France depends upon the Negro colonials in
West Africa as a source of supply for her con
script armies and Morocco must be hers if quick
and safe transportation is to be had for them
An article in the action Rationale of 1922 gives
the key to French policy in this matter. 1t said:
II unfortunately there breaks out another general
confagraton analogous to that of 1914 no more hest
tation then! Let US draw widely, let US draw with
out counting as we shall at home, upon the reserve
Of black men that we shall have had the foresight
to preserve andincrease The Negroes whom we have
guided into the path of progress must then repay
to US in the form Of bataIons the benefits they have
received from These sem-cviIized will con-
tribute "chose admirable" the defense of cvliza.
ton.
The French imperialists have enacted compul
sorry military service in their Negro colonies since
the war and they feel that an indepent state in
northern Africa would menace their control of
one of the principal sources of Negro conscripts
Colonial troops are being used against the Riffs
and thus at least portion of the payment "for
the benefits they have received" is being made
Meanwhile the Riffs, who are fighting for their
country against the Spanish and French invaders,
are being treated as rebels and denied even aid
from the Red Cross for their sick and wounded.
The French government is engaged in wholesale
murder OF the Rihians without the shadow of
moral justification. The whole adventure is typical
of the complete disregard of the rights of the So
called backward peoples exhibited by American
imperialism in Haiti, by British Imperialism in
India and Ireland, by Imperialism in Korea-to
cite only three of hundred bloody instances
The Riffians will find no friends among the "civl
lied" nations If there is any interference with
France it will be because Great Britain cannot
tolerate an increase of French control in the
Mediterranean, not because of any humanitarian
feeling for the murdered colonials. Cynically the
imperialist diplomats are wondering how long it
will be before the Riffan war sets Europe ahame
The colonial masses are watching the heroic
struggle of the Riffians and there is more than a
grain OF truth in the statements of the capitalist
press that Egypt, India and French and British
Africa movements for their support are develop
ing MaHs
European capitalism rests today on its colonies
and it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that
the Riffian war marks the beginning of new gil
gantic struggles for colonial liberation that will
strain the resources of France and Great Britain
to the breaking point.
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This must have been one of the hap
piest moments in the life of Tresca,
the arch-revolutionist.
There was no effort to stop me.
no effort to identify Ee, and | might
have done as | wished, but my only
thought was to THANK the president
for his Kindness to me. However,
since l was not an invited guest. I
remained silent"
There were good reasons when
President Harding released Debs. He
knew that Debs is no longer a danger
to capitalist rule in this country, for
the socialist party has gone the way
of all traitorous parties-and has lined
up with the bosses against the aspira-
lions and struggles of the workers.
When Coolidge committed the SEN
tence of Tresca, he also knew what
he was doing. Trseca has sold out to
the capitalists, and there was nothing
filter for him to do than to proceed to
Washington and kiss the hand of the
bosses president who released him
from prison.
Tresca can now be counted on 10
support the American government.
American institutions and the Amer
lean capitalist class against the revo-
lutionary movement. His spoutings
about the horried fascist of Italy will
be looked upon with a smile. Tresca
and his associates are harmless-to
the capitalists. The American work
ing class now knows clearly where he
belongs-to the class of the traitors
the class that so many of the an
archists, petty-bourgeois at heart and
in method, belong to.
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compelled us to change the whole of
our tactics. One of the characteristics
of opportunism has always been that
it sees everything in the enemy's
camp thru rose-colored spectacfes
while everything in its own camp APP
pears dark and gloomy. This deeply
Influenced the estimination of the re-
lation between England and America.
The fact that America has once
again turned it's face to Europe is, of
course, mater of world significance.
The rapprochment between these two
countries is a fact of world historical
significance in spite of its temporary
and passing character. To assert,
however, as does Comrade Trotsky,
that Europe is being converted into
a dominion Of America, means very
considerably to over-estimate things.
To say that America can place the
whole of Europe on rations, means to
overestimate the antagonism between
America and Europe and within Eu-
rope itself Antagonisms between
France and England undoubtedly ex-
list.
Recently we have witnessed con-
troversy over this question between
Pepper and Radek. In my opinion,
Pepper is right and Radek is GER
tainly not. We do not in the least
deny that the rapprochment between
America and England is fact of his
torical Importance. but at the same
time, we must not lose sight of the
fact that between imperialist Amer
lea and imperialist England, antag-
onisms exist and that they are be-
coming more acute.
A T the present time we have in both
4 a England and America, govern
ments which socially, are akin to each
other. There is social kinship be-
tween the conservative government of
England and the present government
of America. What does this fact i'm
ply, from the point of view of cor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21

mon loggers as so very, very COM
mon. This is Stevens first sustained
literary effort Earlier writings are
in the AL Bulletin, the American Lum-
herman, the American Mercury and
the Saturday Evening Post. In the
American Lumberman, the employers
trade paper, he attacked the l. w. w,
then the lone labor union in the
woods. And in the Saturday Evening
Post he pictured the common labor
er's condition as a most happy one.
Stevens was a workingman until re-
Gently, but seems always to have
looked thru the boss spectacles and
it is natural that he should carry this
viewpoint into his Paul Bunyan book.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21
iii.
The Main Points in the
Present Political
Situation.
iii !.

Al NUMBER of changes can be noted
"A in the world political situation,
those that have taken
place within the last nine months. 1t
is quite clear now that we were right.
What interests us most in the pres
ent state of affairs of course is the
world political prospects. Taking it
on world scale, the general situation
is as follows, and can be divided into
the following twelve points:
l. America-England;
2, Japan;
8. Eastern question;
4. U. S. S. r.;
s. England;
6. England-France;
Z. Germany;
8. The Balkans;
8. Poland;
10. Italy;
IL. Czecho-Slovakia;
II. Scandinavia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21
Paul Bunyan Stories Turned Against
the Boss.
BY ART SHIELDS

ZIG gO0oa
BY ART SHIELDS
Federated Press STAFF correspondent)
Paul 6unyan, by Esther Sheppard,
Mcneil Press, Seattle, $500.
Paul 5unyan, by James Stevens,
Alfred A. knopf, $3.50.
DAUL BUNYAN logged off North
4 Dakota and dug Puget Sound with
the aid of his Blue Ok Babe and
crew that worked IL hours day in
the good old days. And like most
myth tales these classics of the log
ging camps have been cleverly used
by the employing interests, old Pauls
orgies of toll are hailed as examples
to the toilers of today and have been
amply exploited in the AL Bulletin,
organ of the company union set up
in wartime.
But now Paul Bunyan stories come
into their own thru the pen of Esther
Sheppard of Seattle, who shows-in-
cidently-how yarn. spinners in the
bunkhouses use the Bunyan tales for
propaganda against the boss. Her
book, coming out shortly before a
similarly named volume from the pen
of James Stevens of Tacoma Is vastly
more entertaining than the latter and
more human, tho it has not the ad-
vantage of the fine bookmaking of
Mr.. Knopf.
All good Bunyan stories come from
the bunkhouses and those Esther
Shepherd tells are strung. together as
the tales of an old logger who had
worked with Paul. SO naturally he
knew him well. Old Angus MacDon-
aid, the story teller. liked Paul great
ly, but he had to tell the truth about
hts boss, even TO the way Paul got
his Washington timber claims thru
dummy homesteaders, some OF them
dead. And he shows us Johnny Inks
linger Paul's bookkeeper. using a
split pencil in charging up supplies
TO the loggers, so as 10 make more
money for the boss
The old timers liked to work with
Paul: there was glory in II. But
Paul's biographer let's slip the fact
that they had TO slpep in muzzle-
loading hunks after thoir 12-hour day.
And the bedbugs were so clever they
would climb the bookkeeper's fountain
pen to see where your-bunk was, and
the bugs always found you out. Them
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NE9l LlIl IA II i Syl1

were the good old days. Things amt
as they used to be no more. The agi-
tators have changed them.
There is no doubt that Paul and his
Blue Ok did things on a grand scale.
Read how North Dakota was logged
off in one season. Or read about
Paul's hotcake griddle, measuring 235
feet across; or Babes stable that had
to be raised 1000 feet to keep above
his manure pile.
1t is a series of jocund tales that
Esther Sheppard gives. James Ste
vens' book is in more studied vein.
His Paul Bunyan isn't the familiar
Old Paul of the other book, but dim
sort Of demi god that looked on com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-21
| THE VOICE or LENIN
| TO Be HEARD IN CHICAGO
SUNDAY, M AY "a

Something new and different 10
being arranged by the Russian
branch OF the Workers Party Cor
Sunday, May "a, at the Workers.
Home, 1902 w. Division ST. II will
be a LenIn. Evening, with comrade
NicoIal LenIn as the chief speaker.
This Is no joke, as the talk by Com.
rade Lenln will be heard from
photograph record, as we'll az
speeches by comrade Lunachar
sky, Trotsky and others.
comrade Alexander chramov, na-
tlonal organizer OF the Russian SEQ
ton w. p, who Is touring the Unit.
ed States, will bring the records TO
Chicago. He viii also speak on
Lenin as a leader Of the masses. A
good musical program is also being
prepared. Tell your friends about Il
$1,000. -
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Anslo-Amerlcan Cooperation

THE relations between England and
4 America, to a certain degree form
the central point of our discussion.
Probably, you remember that several
months ago the representatives of the
right wing of the International tried
to give an exaggerated Interpretation
to the rapprochement between Eng
land and America and drew conclu-
sions, which if correct, would have