The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1924, Page 3

Wednesday, October 15, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER ——— COLORED WAR VICTIMS ARE MISTREATED Investigation Shows Discrimination NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—In- vestigation by James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the Na- tlonal Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, of charges made by colored war veterans in the government hospitals at Oteen, N. C., has resulted in summary dismissal of Dr, A. McAllister (white), as- sociate medical officer of the hospital, the National Associa- tion announces, Mr. Johnson's investigation for the association disclosed that K. K. K. agitation had re- sulted in a threat against one colored veteran and a petition for the removal of 29 to Tus- kegee hospital; that 26 colored patients were segregated in a badly overcrowded ward; that Dr. McAllis- ‘ter’s attitude toward colored patients was intolerable and that he let it be known he wanted to be rid of colored Patients; that Dr. McAllister had (forced patients to pay for signing in- surance blanks contrary to govern- ment regulations and had accepted ‘pay from colored patients in the gov- ernment hospital, threatening them to keep them silent; that Dr. McAllis- ter charged a patient for signing sick blanks and threatened the patient for reporting the matter. The N, A. A. C. P. report and affi- davits were sent to General Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans’ Bu- Yreau in Washington. a Workers Imprisoned In Germany “ Tealy : “ Spain “ Belgium “ Lithuania “ Latvia “ Finland “ Poland “ Hungary _* India “ Roumania They are in for Their wives are blacklisted. They can get no work. Their children need help. Winter is coming. The class war knows no geographical boun- the workers of omorrow we may need GIVE in the spirit of Self Help and International Class Solidarity “and get others to daries. Toda’ OUR help. help. International Workers’ Aid, 19 So. Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ill. Here is my contribution to help the pridon- OPS OLsvssssssisrsseernereerid their families, Spolansky By C. Es RUTHENBERG. Executive Secretary, Workers Party. OVERNMENT pickings for “red investigators” evidently are not.. what they used to be, Someone in Washington woke up to the fact that the “Red Plot” stories were forms of romancing for the puropse of milking the treasury. 8 But, if with the going of the chief “Red Plot” fabricator, Burns, the soft jobs of the “Red Plot” investi- gators have grown fewer and the pickings scantler, there still re- maing a fertile field of expolitation for the “Red Plot” romancers, The newspapers are still gullib:,} —or if they do not themselves swallow this stuff—they think that the average American reader will swallow “Red Plot” stories, bait, hook and sinker. S80 we have Jacob Spolansky, whose government job of “Red Plot” romancing has petered out, now appearing as the romancer for the capitalist press. Spolansky told the jury in the St. Joseph trial under cross-examina- tion of Frank P. Walsh that he had once been a member of the social- ist party. But he found “red ro- mancing” for the government a more profitable occupation than such jobs as working in a lumber camp ©r being a cook in a restau- rant. Spolansky also testified at St. Joseph that he was born in Russia and came to the United States in 1909. One might infer further that the character of his testimony and his present writings that he consid- ers himself the chief defender of glorious American institutions. From his articles there can be no other inference than he, Spolansky, the Russian, has saved the United States from the “Red Plotters” in Moscow. se ee FACTS AND ROMANCE. It will be interesting to throw the oo ccSesSsssssss: about “ Us who are out urope need THEIR N Freee SS SSS SESS SSS eee eee SSeS See eee eee eee ee eee eee ESS See See ee SSS SSeS SSeS ee ee eee eres s Spook Stories Begin searchlight of fact upon Spolansky’s romances as they appear: ‘We begin with him in November, 1918, and at the beginning we find an example of the character of his romancing, He writes about a meeting held on Armistice Day, 1918, at which the Communist plot ts suposed to have begun, but the date of Armistice Day is set as the 7th of November, 1918, Of course! How could it be otherwise than that such a plot should be initiated on any other day than the anniversary of the Soviet revolution, even if his- tory has to be wrenched about a bit and Armistice Day happens to be November 11, 1918, it is being cele- brated on November 7, 1918, accord- ing to the “Red Romancer”! In a romance, a plot must begin with a gathering of the consptira- tors. A romance, too, must have a villain. So we have the gathering of the conspirators on November 7, Armistice Day of 1918, with William Bross Lloyd cast in the role of the villain, William Bross Lloyd, we are told, was chiefly responsible for the founding of the Comunfst movement in the United States. Just think how dangerous his desperate “Red Plot” is. since the founder and or- iginator of the plot has long ego given up his task in carrying out all thenefarious plans with which Spol- ansky charges the “Red Plotters,” and has retired to his estate at Win- netka to live the life of a country gentleman. Or take the case of another of the “Red Plotters,” who Mr. Spolansky saw when he crept to the door of a room in the socialist party national headquarters back there in 1918, to spy on the desperate men who were to overthrow the American government as per orders from Mos- cow, Dennis E. Batt. Dennis E. Batt appears as one of Spolansky’s chief conspirators and his most re- cent role has been, we understand, to carry on a campaign in support of no less a person than President Calvin Coolidge. Maybe that’s evi- dence of the coreetness of Spolan- sky’s spook stories showing how far reaching are-the arms of the “Red Plotters” when one of the or- igfnators of the “plot” goes so far in carrying out his Machiavellian de- signs as to support the standard bearer of all that stands for the great American system of looting, which Spolansky is defending from the “Red Plotters.” ee * ORIGIN OF COMMUNISM. Let us turn from romance to real- ity, from “Red Plot” to social science Did the Cammunist move- ment in the United States have its origin in a conspiratorial assembly held upon orders from Moscow, as described by our romancer Spolan- sky? . This conception of the origin of Communism is so utterly ridicu- lous that it is hard to conceive that there are still people gullible enuf to swallow it. The ideas upon which the Communist movement has been built had their origin just 70 years before the date of the event speci- fied by romancer Spolansky. They were first stated by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in the Communist Manifesto of 1848. In that document appeared these words: “The history of all hither- to existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupt- ed, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of so- ciety at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes,” _ If the acceptance of the Commun- ist principle, that the struggle be- tween contending classes is a strug- gle which is now going on in the United States between capitalists and wage workers and that in each historical period of the past this struggle has resulted in a revolu- tionary reconstitution of society and that this revolutionary reconstitu- tion must come in the United States, constitutes a “Red Plot” then there has been a “Red Plot” in the United» States for the past 50 years, for during all that time there have been groups of organized men and wom- en who accepted this Communist principle. * Sometimes the clarity of the statement of this principle was ob- scured, It became almost entirely obscured in the socialist party, but even that organization thruout the entire period of its existence there was a struggle between the two groups, one of which aimed to com- pletely eliminate from the policies of that party acceptance of the pri ciples of the revolutionary dass struggle against the capitalist class, and the group which said socialism could never come except as a re- sult of a revolutionary struggle which wi place the government- al powers in the hands of the work- n revolution which es- tablished the dictatorship of the proletariat in that counry was an example of this principle expressing itself in actual life. The Commun- ist movement in the United States was a rents, to the Russian rev- —: 4 x 4, A - ‘ olution, but not in the sense wHich romancers like Spolansky would try to make us believe. The Commun- ist movement in the United States received @ new impetus, a clarifi- cation of its ideas, and went for- ward with enthusiasm after the Rus- sian revolution of November 7, 1917, because the principles of Com- munism were clarified in that, their first great victory, Men and women in the United | States who had been in the social- | ist movement saw the principles laid down by Karl Marx in action in the Russian revolution and this experience ‘pointed, the road for them which they must travel. Not “plotters” in Moscow, not “agents of Moscow,” not “Moscow gold” made the Cmmunist movement in the United States. A great historic event, a victorious social revolution, the working out of Communist prin- ciples in. practice—these brought the new knowledge, the new under- standing, the courage and inspira- tion out of which came the Com- munist Party of America. The Spolansky and the higher-up Spolanskys cannot grasp this. They do not want to grasp this because it would leave them helpless. Plots and conspiracy can be dealth with thru government spies and other in- struments of oppression. A move- ment rising out of developing social forces, a moyement which springs out of the conditions which the cap- italist system itself creates, before such. a movement, the Spolanskys of capitalism stand aghast. It is such @ moyement which is manifesting itself in the Communist movement in this country in the Communist organization. Not a “con- spiracy,” not a “plot,” but a great dynamic force growing out of the life and experiences of the workers which will grow in strength and power until the day of the American proletarian revolution, The Czecho-Slovak Workers in New York City Are Waking Up) By JACK PROKOP. Organizer, Eastern Section Czecho- Slovak Federation. If there is any substantial proof needed of a forward movement, of a growing political consciousness of the | workers in this section of the country, the Czecho-Slovak branch of the Workers Party of America is just de- livering such a proof.’ When. the call gig issued. by, the executive committee of the party to mobilize for an all-embracing election campaign, the Czecho-Slovak mem- bers decided not only to cover the whole 14th assembly district with a full-sized propaganda for our national candidates for president and vice-pres- ident, William Z. Foster and Ben Git- low, but decided to storm this age-old stronghold of the republican political machine with our local standards. The local standard bearer is an old, tried members of the Czecho-Slovak branch of the W. P., Comrade Eman- uel Kreisinger, for whose candidacy (for the assembly of N. Y.) the mem- bership collected over 1400 signatures, approximately the same amount as they collected for the national candi- dates Foster and Gitlow, altho only around 900 signatures were needed for the local ticket. The comrades are simply elated over their discovery—that an appar- ently conservative, immobile working | class is not immobile when handled in the right way, but responds to the “call to arms” most willingly. And what is more, this campaign work was the first practical €ommunist field work of the Czecho-Slovak branch, the success of which will be followed by an intensive educational campaign in conjunction with the United Czecho-Slovak Trades Council. These workers are waking up. No oil presidents, no Coolidge fo: them! No Ku Kluxers for Charles Dawes! No Morgan's lawyers for them like Davis! And LaFollette, who wrecks the farmer-labor parties? LaFollette who wants a nice, well- behaved capitalism, but capitalism at any price and farmer-labor parties at no price, will have little chance here. They signed for Foster, Gitlow and Kreisinger. ‘ them like Vote Communist This Time! Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. MURDERER, PLEADING - DISORDERED BRAIN, TO VOTE FOR COOLIDGE VA, Hl, Oct. 14—_While a nist was on the witness stand, denouncing him as a “cold- blooded murderer who used his un- usual intellectual attainments to act the part of an imbecile,” Warren J. 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