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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20
Gilbert Admits DGwes Plan Failure

Following the admission of the commercial
leaders that the condition of Germany growing
better and that the Dawes plan revised
ssion of Parker Gilbert agent general reparaos that there
viii be such cash payment the plan
debtor nations want reparations they will have them
German goods The given by Gilbert
rency will collapse if transfers in cash
The contradictions that rend capitalism here appear in the
shapest the
industrial proucts they dispose of the commodities
produced their ontation
Of Germany thru the Dawes crisis of such magnitude
Germany only market thru
which to dispose of its industrial products BY playing the game
Britain at LocarnO the German has
take drastic steps building machinery
which will shut off that market.
The collapse of the Dawes plan economic
laws brings the day when the German proetarat
overthrow its capitalist oppressos
the poearian revolution forge
whole the industries of Germany and the tremendous
of Russia under the political shield proarian die
tatorship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20
The Struggle Within the League

Premier Arsde BRAND of Austen Chamberlain
foreign minister Britain
capitalist newspaper correspondents refer rift which
been growing between the countries"
With Britain Locarno striving align Germany with
nteressand the mmnence of the German government entering the
league council France the Britain immensely
strengthened Hence France domination
the Warsaw mistakenly demand permanent
the league council that may balance Germany
country enters.
This maneuveng only confirms the Communist charge that the
league of nations merely sphere diplomatic intrigue wherein
the nations affiliated with it build up algnments.
The rreOncahe economic contradictions between the nations
within the league giving bitter conflicts
point unerrngy the time when they will burst the bounds
the machinery the league mperias
This present diplomatic conflict only that
the peace the world and all the exalted praise
"peace spirit Of Locarno" eface that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20
What Our Daily Worker Campaign Means

revolutionary to be able to convince
each and every worker. 1t is Com
munist tactics to pick out special
Communists to approach certain work
ers in order to win them for the Com
munist movement.
The variety presented by the Com
munist press makes it possible to
reach category of workers and thus
win them over to the party.
The Communist press must be re-
garded as one of the most powerful
instruments of the. party. A cam.
paign among the workers to convince
them of the necessity of reading the
Communist press is a difficult cam
paign. 1t requires; the keenness of
every party member to get subscrib-
ers; 1t is a long and difficult task
but it is task that dare not be me-
elected. A single paper reaches many
workers. II passes from hand to hand.
1t sows ideas that convince the work
ers, thru their experience of the cor
rectness of the Communist position.
How shall a campaign be carried
on? The British arCommunist Party
has employed gsplendid method
House-to-house canyasses are a regu-
lar method of the British party
Squads of members go from house to
house in the working class districts
soliciting subscriptions for the party
papers. These campaigns are politi-
cal campaigns of the first order. The
canvasser not only must solicit sub
scriptions, but must also elaborate
the Communist position on all work
ing class problems and convince the
workers OF the Communist attitude on
the class struggle.
What is the consequence OF these
campaigns? The sharpness of the
Communists is intensified. They are
obliged to formulate their position
with clarity. They are compelled to
meet the arguments Of the workers.
They gain experience that is irvalu-
able for their party work.
Each canvasser must meet the ar
guments Of the woyker that he takes
from the capitalist press regarding
Soviet Russia, tho Vaccinations and
intrigues" Of theli Communist Inter-
national. He has TO be able to an
swer the contentious Of the capital
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20
BY ISRAEL AMTER.

THE power Of the press is tremend-
4 Gus. The capitalists recognize this
power and adapt the press to their
needs. BY promoting certain ideas, by
coloring other ideas, they instill in
the workers a feeling and conviction
that the present system is correct in
its organization, even tho here and
there defects ~may be found in the
operation of the system.
The capitalists recognize that think
ing workers are a menace. Hence
they foster the idea of lulling the
workers to sleep, providing them with
such reading matter as will take their
attention away from the real prob
lens, and burying them in nonsens-
ical manifestations of the system.
Thus the dailies are filled with humor-
GUS pictures, ridiculing this and that,
yet always suggesting that these are
slight errors that must be corrected.
The workers are poisoned by this
reading and pictorial matter. They
are not allowed to examine the ques-
ton to the bottom-but on the con
trary are restrained from doing so.
This poison is spread turnout the
working class and the working class
yields to II with little resistance.
No Communist or radical worker
questions the power of the press. He
recognize that the press is a medium
for reaching the workers and opening
their eyes TO the nature of the system,
Its operation and effect on the work
ers. Every Communist realizes that
the press may reach workers who
otherwise are closed to new ideas.
The press is a weapon of the working
class that functions when the indi.
vidual or groups of workers are not
in a position to function.
> One has further to count with the
prejudices Of the workers. A back.
ward worker or even one strong in
his convictions in favor Of the pres.
ent system very reluctantly acknow.
lodges mistakes that he makes and
upholds. When alone with a paper
that he can read at his leisure, his pre-.
JUDGES fall'aside and he looks at the
question with less opposition. Fur
thermore. Il Is not the gift OF each
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20
Danger Ahead for Labor

apparent that what was declared
is NOT THE CONSUMPTION OF
WEALTH, NOT THE TAKING OF
PROPERTY, BUT THE CONTROL
OF RESOURCES BY THE Gov
EMINENT TO INSURE THEIR
MOST EFFECTIVE USE IN THE
WAR EFFORT. Hence the
term DRAFTING MATERIAL re-
sources employed in an earlier bill
WAS DROPPED and CONTROL
substituted" Emphasis miae-,
w. F. d..
n So in the next war, as in the last
one, the law of loot will not be re-
pealed and only the workers, not
wealth. will be conscripted. Imperial
ism guards its treasure we'll.
Under imperialismo not only are
- certain sections iof the labor
movement debauched and prepare
tons made for bloody wars of CON
quest but these wars are directed
against both imperialist rivals and
the workers and peasants of the colo
NAL and Observation-Disclosures.
The Reuters incident is one which
shows that the penetration ofN the So
called backward nations like China
by imperialist nations,tfo the purpose
of subjugating and robbing the work
ing class populations inevitably leads
to strained relations between the i'm
perialist rivals which is a principal
factor in the increase of ornaments
and the militarization of the working
class.
In the same issue, of the Chicago
Tribune which carries the article on
the Capper-Johnson bill Ga coincidence
not without significance) is the story
of the conflict between American and
British interests in China.
Under the head "Allege Reuters
- Twist U. S. News in Far East
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20
BY JOHN PEPPER.

THE great. election victory of the
L Communist Party of Czecho-Slo-
vakia has created a. fundamentally
changed political situation. The coali-
ton parties, which heretofore consti-
tuted the government, continue to
hold the majority, it is true, but this
majority much reduced, has become
shaky. The national opposition of the
oppressed national & mnorities Ger
mans, Slovaks, Hungarians, and
Ukrainians) and the class opposition
of the Communists have undermined
the foundations of the present-day
coalition administration in Czecho-
Slovakia. o1
The Czech social-democratic party
which for years has participated in
the bourgeois coalition government,
OF course "in the interests of the pro-
letariat" and also for "upholding the
state" feels itself especially uncom-
Portable. The bourgeois coalition still
retains the majority in the new par
lament Git has 159 representatives
out of total of 3O0) but the Czech
social-democratic gentlemen are ne
vertheless uneasy. They feel the re-
newed pressure ofsthe proletarian
masses, they are gripped by panic at
the invincible advance of the Com
munist Party and now seek to turn
the stream by crafty maneuvering.
The tractible Czech socialdemo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20
fcontinued from PAGE u.

and the last meeting this was one
of the chief demands of a group of
delegates, take out the maintenance
men," The officials who had made
it their business to be present in
order to keep the angry delegates
quiet, cautioned the assembly not to
take matters in their own hands. The
advice" of the organizer was to be-
have and follow the policy of their
leaders.
Pickets were placed at the col
lieries on Saturday in order to stop
work but no violence occurred. over
Sunday the anger Of the miners had
increased and on Monday morning
crowds of miners had gathered in
different parts of the towns.
afnt cossaeks Rush In.
AS usual, whenever workers take
matters in their own hands, go above
the heads of their spineless leaders,
every force at the command of the
bosses crush them. No sooner had
the first call gone out as to what
was happening at the two collieries
state cossacks hurried there with
guns and clubs. Their forces were
supplemented by detail of coal
and iron police. The miners are quiet
at the present time but a spark is
liable to go off at any time. The police
patrol the town.
Since the very start OF this strike
the progressive miners have demanded
the withdrawal of these maintenance
men. All these months the left wing
elements have fought for this demand,
in face of the policy OF persecution,
arrests and expulsion directed against
them by the combine. Of the coal
operators, the labor bureaucracy and
the capitalist government.
In many mass meetings progressive
speakers have charged these mainte-
nance men with doing other work
than Is classified as. maintenance"
We have charged them with timber
ing, drilling and doing exploration
work, we have charged them with
doing other work which comes under
the classification OF scabbery. The
demand to withdraw shAss ''lsints-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20

Yankees Critical of British Press
Service" copyrighted dispatch says:
Considerable stir has been caus.
ed here by an editorial in the China
Press, an American paper here,
charging Reuters, British news
service with the suppression of news
references to Americas Chinese
policy. the editorial says that
Reuters enjoys practical monopo-
Iy n-suppIying foreign news to the
Chinese press and for a consider
able period deliberately has been
suppressing news Of the views Of
the American policy in regard to
China. the paper also charges
that Reuters deliberate twisting Of
reports with regard to the British
rubber monopoly is leading people
in the far east to believe the whole
American protest is a huge joke
and not serious. It says Reuters
only sends reports to the Chinese
papers which are critical of the A.
merican policy, giving the Chinese
false impression of the American
policy with respect to china's ma
tonai aspirations"
It is evident from the above that
the contest to determine whether
British or. American imperialists shall
rob the Chinese masses, is causing
the blood is thicker than water" and
the hands across the sea" stuff to
wear thin quite rapidly.
The American and British soldiery
in China are not shooting one another
as yet but-they are butchering the
Chinese workers, peasants and stu
dents in the interests of their impe-
rialist bosses.
WITH Mexico also we are nominal
w ly at peace.
But the demands of Wall Street
upon Mexico become more and more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20

list press regarding strikes, lockouts,
ETC.. in this country. (Who does not
know that the capitalist press in
variably is on the side of the bosses
in all strikes? The workers know
it, but continue to read the capitalist
papers.)
The DAILY WORKER is the organ
Of the Workers (Communist) Party.
The Communists must make The
DAILY WORKER the organ Of the
working class. This drive of the party
to increase the circulation of The
DAILY WORKER must be regarded
by the party membership as an inn
portant political and organizational
task. "a DAILY WORKER in each
workman's home" must be our slo-
gan. Teams of comrades in the street
nuclei must scour the working class
districts and, in comradely rivaly, vie
with another in procuring subs. The
comrades in the shop nuclei must car
ry on a like campaign in the shops,
even tho their work is more difficult.
All the comrades in the unions, fra
ternal organizations, ETC., must do the
same.
Make the subscription campaign In
connection with the Lenin memorial
meetings a real memorial to our great
leader.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20

insistent. Abandoning its recent pre-
vious policy of private conferences
and agreement with Mexican officials,
Wall Street now works directly and
openly thru the state department.
A news item under a Mexico City
date line of January 9Th, says
"a dispatch from Washington
stating that the United States gov
eminent looks with dlsfavor upon
Mexieo's new laws limiting the
rights of foreign ownership, and
regulating petroleum production
mining, caused a big stir here to-
day ~. FL Arafico this afternoon
says there have been numerous ar
rests in the capital and more. are
to follow as a result Of the recent
attempt to start new revolution
Among those arrested are
members of the thirtieth congress,
in which members of the de la Huer-
ia party are exceedingly prominent,
and officials Of the city government
who are de la Huertistas. 1t was
CSbSi NC - q iSiIiCE iiu-
snce minister, who headed the last
big revolt which was crushed by
former President Oregon"
Cause and effect seldom are con
tanned more concisely in one short
news story. 1t means that American
is following its traditional
policy. in Mexico-a two-sided policy
of bringing pressure on Mexican gov
ernments from outside, by threats of
Withholding or Withdrawing recogni-
ton if Objectionable laws relating to
the disposal of natural resources are
passed, and of encouraging or actual
ly organizing reactionary revolts
against the offending government
IKTE come next to the recent activ-
W tiles of the versatile Herbert Hoo
verr-he whose charitable instincts
did not prevent his shopping into the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20
Anthracite Miners Begin Picketing

nance. men was carried to the anthra-
cite miners in every possible manner.
Today we witness the spectacle OF
group of union miners assuming the
role of pickets and attempting to cone
vince their fellow union members to
lay down his tools. We witness the
beautiful spectacle of union miners,
their ranks divided, engaged in street
battles with each other. In the mean
time the bosses sit back and watch
things without-a care in the world.
Such is but sample of the leader
ship and the policy which has been
effective since the strike commenced.
Pittsburgh District Desperate.
In the bituminous fields the union
is fighting for its existence. The
Pittsburgh district is rapidly going
to pieces. The operators are invading
hitherto organized territory while the
union officialdom sits back and signs.
Town after town is being populated
with imported non-union elements
from the south.
Searchlights grace the tipples and
all public buildings in these little
mining towns. The mines are going
back to work on the 1917 scale, which
is twenty per cent reduction in
wages less than the Jacksonville
agreement. Lewis threatened the op-
orators with a general strike. Now is
the time for that strike.
ProgressIves Co to Membership.
At all meetings Of the progressive
miners in this region, where the ques-
ton Of the maintenance men and q
general strike is discussed. the ranla
and file state such step is essen
TALLY necessary for the preservation
Of the organization. It is unanimously
agreed to that II this policy OF scab-
bling on each other is continued the
union will be soon smashed.
II the position OF these miners, who
attend the meetings of the progress
sive miners, can be taken az symbol
OF the sentiments OF the rank and
file. which certainly IL is, their de-
mands are for a national strike, a
national agreement embracing the in
dustry nationally and the Immediate
withdrawal OF the maintenance mens
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20

ers' parties, the Czech social-demo-
Gratis, the German social-democrats,
the nationaLsocialists and the Com
munist Party of Czecho- Slovakia have
no parliamentary majority hence the
artful Ysocial-democratic parliamentary
combination could only come into ex-
istence by coalescing with the Svehla
agrarian. party.
But this agrarian party of Minister
President Svehla is the party of the
Czech large landowners, it is under
the direction of the very worst ex-
ploiters of the rural proletariat and
even tho some small peasants may
have voted for this party they play
only the role of good-natured, stupid
sheep eherded by the snappish shep-
herd dog.
The Communist Party of Czecho-
SlovakiaC of course very theoretically
rejected this proposal to form a
worker and peasant government"
with the large landowners and called
upon the social-democrats to form a
real united front in the interests of
the workers, the real peasants, and
the oppressed nationss The principal
task of the Czech Communists now is
to show in the examples of the thou
sands ofasmall economic questions of
daily life, that they alone represent
the interests of the masses and that
the cunning, yes, altogether too cum
ningly maneuvering social-democrats,
are only indulging in maneuvers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20
Notes of an Internationalist
Workers and Peasants Government LARGE Land ners
-with Large Land Owners!

Gratis now try to mimic the methods
of the Communist International and
cry for united front. Of course. a
united front as they conceive it, of
social-demOcratic, hence opportunistic
and traitorous kind. The Czech social
democrats who are responsible equal
ly for the suppression of the national
minorities and for the subsection of
the proletariat, have proposed to the
Communist Party to combine with the
Czech and German social-democrats
and the agrarian party of the present
minister-president, Svehla, in forming
a new government The slick social
democrats also Immediately worked
out complete program. The eight
hour day, tax reform, tenant protec-
ton and all the other worthy and fine
things that they hitherto betrayed in
the bourgeois coalition government
but which they now want to realize
under the new coalition. In their pro-
posal they even had the effrontery to
call this new coalitiona workers and
peasants government" -
II such a government came into
existence it would truly be most pc
culiar workers and peasants govern
ment. The representatives of the
workers = the various social-demo-
cratic, national-socialist and Commun-
list Parties-would be taking part to
be sure, but the peasants would be
represented in this government by the
large landowners. The various work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20
Article II.
BY WILLIAM E. dunno.

LIVERY group of imperialists has
~ three enemies-its working class
the enslaved colonials and its imperial
list opponents in the game of grab.
So in every imperialist nation the
bribing of certain decisive sections
of the workers is accompanied by an
increase in ornaments and the extern
sion and consolidation of the war ma
chinery.
1t is true that the preparations for
war are disguised somewhat by the
insistence on peaceful intentions as
witness the suggestions for disarma-
ment which emanate from time to
time from eminent statesmen but
which invariably coincide with some
new plot against the working class
and the peace of the world.
One Capper-Johnson bill, however,
speaks louder to the ears of intel
ligent workers than all the scrapping
Of useless battleships and hypocritic-
al paens of praise to peace in the
abstract.
IF American Imperialism dreams no
dreams of conquest, and does not
intend to materialize these dreams
into a bloody nightmare of slaughter
for the working class, why is it that
with the ink scarcely dry on the Lo-
oarno, pact, hailed in the capitalist
press as opening new era of peace
by understanding" military training
camps dot the land and the war-lords
openly discuss the ACCESSIBILITY of a
military dictatorship the moment "the
next war" appears possible?
The Chicago Tribune for January
IL, quotes Secretary of War Davis
as follows on the Capper-Johnson
bill:
"calI it dictatorship If you will,
but the fact remains that it is ne
cessary to lodge vast power in the
executive to fight a war success
fully and with the minimum cost
of man-power and material resour-
ces. If this bill proposes dictator
ship then we fought the last war I'M
der a dictatorship eventually and
that was what enabled US to win.
"This bill simply proposes to
provide for the emergency IN ADJ
VANCE so that man-power and re-
sources can be modified at once
on the outbreak of wars and prices
controlled instead of losing valu-
able time by delaying until such
measures could be enacted after
war begins" Emphasis mine--W.
F. D..
III Under the guise of "conscription
- of wealth as well as man-power,"
the slogan of the middle-class ele-
ments who suffered from the exac-
tions of the big capitalists during the
recent Morgan crusade for democracy.
a complete militarization of the work
ing class is legalized at any time the
war-thermometer, manipulated by the
imperialist propagandists. rises to the
necessary level. The sponsors of the
bill claim that it was inspired by the
demand made by Senator Falls gray
haired playmate, one Warren Gamaliel
Harding, in his inaugural address, for
legislation to "conscript wealth as
well as men in time of war"
But the correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune, in a careless moment
gives the show away. In the same
story from which we quote above, the
Tribune says:
"The more the matter was stu.
died, however, the more it became
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20
Died While Waiting
SPEEDY Justice" in
Suit Against Bosses

NEW YORK-(FP)-While radlum
necrosis, newly discovered occupa-
tional disease. claims its eighth known
worker victim, doctors studying II
disclose the danger for other radium
workers. Marjorie Carlough, "a, sew
en- years watch dial painter for the
u. S. Radium Corp. OF New Jersey,
died with her $4,000 damage suit
against her employers untried. She
had been I'll for months. Her sister,
Mrs. Sarah r. Mailleger, 35, died in
the summer from the same disease
after eight years employment.
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