The daily worker., 1926-12-14

own press, in this case the New
York (Communist) Freiheit, and or
ganizing their own struggle, not for
| the abolition OF Jewish industrial
and finance capital as apart from
Irish, or German .or native-born
American industrial and finance
capital, but for the ending of the
whole capitalist system, which in
cludes Ford.
1t is not strange that Ford should
denounce both Communist Russia"
and Capitalist England" in the
same breath. Before the war Eng
land was the stronghold Of finance
capital. Today it must struggle for
place in the sun with the new
stronghold Of finance capital--Wall
Street. 1t is against finance capital
with its imperialist program that
Communist Russia wages it's attack.
Ford, the industrial capitalist, who
tries to finance his own enterprises,
is caught in the mo Mans Land"
between these opposing forces.
1t is inevitable that, in time, Ford
will be crushed between these two
opposing forces unless he surrend-
ers to either side. He will not sur
| render to the workers. He may
surrender to Wall Street-to finance
capital, becoming its ally. the ally
even of the Jewish international
bankers whom he now denounces,
as we'll as the ally Of international
bankers of every other race and ma
tionality. He will either surrender
to finance capital or be crushed by
it. That is the meaning, for in
stance, of the struggle between the
Ford Motor company and the Gen.
eral Motors corporation, the latter
organized by the House Of Morgan.
Thus finance capital consolidates or
crushes.
Similarly the social revolution,
with the Soviet Union as its strong
hold, consolidates the revolutionary
forces of the workers OF the world
in its support. Surely the Jewish
workers make up some of the
strongest legions in that revolu-
tionary army. But it includes work
ers of every nationality, of every
race upon the face Of the earth.
It is Andrew Furuseth, the head
of the International Seamen's I'm
ion, who shrieks as loudly about
the yellow peril as Ford does of
the Jewish peril" Furuseth, dur
ing his many years in the American
labor movement, has always stood
up and proclaimed against the ris-
ing army of the Orient that will
wage war against white civilization.
To be sure, the struggle is on in
! the Orient. But 1t is now a "red
peril instead of a yellow peril"
The Chinese masses are fighting the
brown imperialism of Japan, as well
as the white imperialisms of Great
| Britain, France and the United
States. Furuseth doesn't see that,
or pretends not to see It. He makes
no move to draw the American
trade union movement into the Pan
Pacific Trade Union Conference, to
be held at Canton, China, starting
May First.
Furuseth turns his back upon the
Marxist slogan, Workers of the
| World Unite" Instead, as a faith
full lackey of American imperialism,
he calls on Americans to unite
against everybody else, even against
Chinese seamen hired to slave at
low wages on American ships, offer
ing this as his solution of the labor
problem.
The Jewish peril" the yellow
peril" "the Mohammedan peril" the
"Asiatic peril" and even the Jap
anese peril" that is exploited so
much by American greed, all give
way to the "red peril" which mere
ly signifies that the class struggle
between the forces OF Communism
and capitalism is on the order of
the day thruout the world. Ford
waiting against the Jewish bank
ers" is merely goth century echo
OF the great tumult created by
Shakespeare's Venetians crying out
\ against the exactions of Shylock,
the 18th century money lender, the
counterpart 700 years ago of the
| Oscar Strauss OF today