The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1925, Page 4

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The convening of this con- gress is significant in the history, of the labor movement, It is the first time that_an effort has been made to bring together representa- tives of Negro workers from all parts of the country. Like every other advance in the labor movemen his congress convenes after a hard struggle against great odds..When. it became known that work toward such a congress was under way every agency of reaction began to assail it. The ku kluxers naturally viewed) it as a diabolical attempt against white, protestant, nordic, native-born, 100 per cent, ete., etc. Those faithful scullions of the capitalist class, the officialdom of the American Federatiton of La- bor, denounced it as a Bolshevik conspiracy. in order to terrorize the organizers and supporters of the congress. But the workers who did the organization work were made of sterner stuff than estimated by their craven ‘enemies, and as a result the congress is here. Great tasks lie before those colored workers striving to bring their race into the American labor movement. They not only have] the same class problems of other workers, but they have a special struggle to resist the efforts of the capitalist enemies within as well as without their own ranks seeking to arouse antagonism between them and the white wage slaves. The congress was made possible by the untiring efforts of its or- gdnizers and by, the fact that during and since the war the industrial - capitalists have encouraged a mass movement of Negro workers from the southern agricultural regions into the industrial centers. As Comunists we hail this congress as the beginning of a mov /ment with far-reaching implications. e \means of starting to mobilize the Negro workers for a struggl Not merely can it be t ‘against the degrading restrictions imposed upon them as a’ race, but as American workers, speaking the common language of the country, they can become a power in the labor movement. Furthermore, by being brought into the struggle against imperialism in-the United States, they will receive training that will enable them to play an effective part in the world mobilization of the oppressed colonial peoples against capitalism. —$j—____ _ Tuesday Is Navy Day Tomorrow is set aside in the calendar of the jingoes as navy day. It is supposed to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the United States navy. Navy day this year recalls the grim and ghastly events of the past few months, The twenty-five corpses still held in the iron clutches of the submarine 8-51, off Naragansett Bay; the crash of the dirigible Shenandoah; other disasters, one following close upon an- other, expose the growth of a militarism that menace the peace of the world. of American imperialism. possibility of disarmament. No one except thé imperialists in control of the naval .policy of the government know the extent of war preparations, but we do know they must be enormous. The general public never hears of them until a catastrophe occurs. Then they only learn the details of the one boat or plane affected, never anything of the others. These disasters alone prove conclusively that tremendous ac- tivity-is taking place in the navy department in order that the armed forces on the sea may be able to defend the world-wide ramifications Navy day is an occasion for the war lords, the gunmen of im- perialism, to glorify their cowardly business. They depict the glory of murdering defenseless people for the sake of “civilization.” We revolutionists refuse to be deluded by the patriots. To us it means glorification of the murderers in the streets of Panama City, the gunboat creeping up the Yangtze in China, a squadron sailing the length of the Mediterranean Sea to Alexandria to aid the French in their heroic task of turning Damascus into a slaughter house. Seeing this we denounce navy day and call upon the workers to boycott the thing ‘and expose the United States navy as a specialized instru- ment of murder in the hands of the imperialists. The Disarmament Hoax Mr, Coolidge, in his reaction to the Locarno compromise, joined in the disarmament cry. All this clamor about disarmament is especially ludicrous just at this time. of capitalism, can maintain itself only thru arméd force. As the eap- ~ italism of the imperialist nations penetrates into every part-of the world, and meets the challenge of the nationalist movements of, the colonials it must develop every branch of its military power to the highest degree. To understand this facs is to understand the im- Imperialism, the final stage Disarmament means for Britain to abandon its far flung em- pire, for France and Italy to renounce their possessions and the United States. theirs. At a time.when France and Spain are crushing the Moroccans by force of arms, when Somaliland is rising against Italy, when the Druses and Arabians are throttled by combined French afid Amer- iean forces, when China,is a seething mass of anti-imperialist na- tionalism, to talk of disarmament is particularly imbecile. If Europe were to disarm the imperialist structure would totter and into the ruins would go the billions of Wall Street investments. And cer- tainly Mr. Coolidge does not want that. His masters may desire a conference, and it may even be called under the guise of contemplating disarmament. . But it will in reality be only a maneuver to gain an advantage over other nations. Disarmament can only come when the working class tire of The campaign raged oi hej role of the) migratory prole- tariat in the revolutionary labor movement has often “been discussed by everyone from college professors to migratories themselves. Often one is unable to tell the conclusions of one from the other. The professors look upon the migratory as upon a laboratory specimen, as a symptom of social maladjustment, or as an object of humanitarian solicitude, The mig- ratory has either not thought at all, or has too frequently exalted himself when the tang of power was singing in his veins and he and a few fellow migratories had won a battle with some sheriff, shack or skinflint far- mer, into a scornful superiority over all those who were not “stiffs”. It is the duty of the Communists not only to analyze the migratory working class, but to set it in motion, to point out as workers to workers, the path,,rough though it be, of revo- tutionary struggle. The resolution of the Workers (Communist)- Party passed ‘by the recent convention says: “We must assist and co-operate with the I, W. W. and other work- ing class organizations in the or- ganization and strengthening of unions of agricultural workers, “The Workers Party shall strive to develop united front action with the I. W.. W. and other labor or- ganizations. Being real proletar- ians these rural workers form. the party’s finest base in the ranks of | the farming masses.” A few of the points for which the! party pledged to struggle are—the right of the unions to maintain em- ployment bureaus without interfer- ence in agricultural centers, the re- peal of state vagrancy laws, pro- hibition of child labor of school age the right of franchise and citizen- for migratory workers. But the following letter the Red International Affiliation Com- mittee to the convention of the Ag-| ricultural Workers’ industrial Union 110of the I. .W. W., now in conven- tion at Minneapolis, gives a clear view of-the composition of the mig- ratory working class, the theory upon which. it, must strive to organize it- self, its practical application and the revolutionary goal that is the aspira- tion. both of the I. W. W. and the of Red, International of Labor Unions: . eee IELLOW Workers: The Red Inter- national Affiliation Committee, credentialed by the Executive Bureau of the Réd International of Labor Unions as its representative in rela- tions tothe Industrial Workers of the World, does not share the opinion of some fellow workers of the I. W. W. that the A. W. I. U. 110 is “hope- less”—that ‘there is no use trying to organige in the agricultural industry because, according to this idea, the “hobo element” insists on running the union and. shutting out all but mig- ratory..workers with no social aspira- tions above.a,;cheap flop and a “coffee- and” existence. We. believe.this idea is a slander against, the, A, W.«I, U. and the mig- ratory element front which it draws me DAILY WORKE The Migratory’s its strength, an Sspuat which has furnished the I, Wi" W. and other evolutionary organizations some of the best’ leaders. , But granted that the I. W. W. draws its strength from the migratory element,it must be ad- mitted that it has drawn its weak- ness also from the samé element. While it is wrong to condema whole for the fault of the part, nd the A, W. I, U. has been for vigilant stock-taking of the theories which Sway it, we are convinced that if traditional theories are examined ob- jJectively, and if the A. W, I. U. resol- utely combats poli¢iés which ignore or are hostile to rev¥olutionry indus- trial unionism, the condemnation now directed against the A.W. I. U. will vanish, ‘AT are these faults and where are their sources? Unquéstion- ably, they do come fromcertain types of the weak side of the migratory working class. There are all kinds of migratories, and while\\the weaker element may not understand the stronger and healthier elements, the best type of migratory should recogn- ize and analyze.the types around him. He should make sure that—although all elements should amd must remain within the union—the ideology of the slum proletarian and :the jungle buz- zard, however disguised and made in- o theories and programs by able demagogues who play to sentiment and prejudice of this backward ele- ment, will be fought persistently and conquered as a controlling force in the union. If real analysis is made, it will be found that some of the theories which sway the union are easily traced back from the finespun and beautifully perfect utopias of the noisy but false leaders, to their source in the men- tality of the most backward and un- healthy elements drawn into the un- ion. These elements lack! everything but words. They lack afly desire to advance the collective imtérests of the union membership as a “whole. They are unwilling to sacrifi jor a move- ment. They are selfish;"and they ral- ly to support any glib mfisleader who can make their selfishnés$"look like a A. W. I. U. contains a leadership drawn from migratories that can or- ganize and keep organized an im- portant percentage of the millions of agricultural workers of the United States. The migratory looks upon the ome guard as inferior; and this is true so far as the home guard in the industry is typified by the “hired man” of the middle west, the ranch hands and the swarming masses of cotton and tobacco hands, the truck garden workers, the beet field slaves, the dairy hands, etc. ° But it is precisely because thé mig- ratory is superior in mental outlook, in comprehension of class relations, of society as a whole—in short it is be- cause the migratory is more politically advanced, it is he that can organize the home guard’ masses now terribly exploited and awaiting such relief, Who else but the revolutionary mig- ratory, understanding the home guard better than he understands himself, can deal with these backward work- ers, persuade them and win them’ in large masses for organization? RUE, this will require a patience more than the A. W. I. U. has yet demonstrated. It requires policy which is different than the present, a policy which looks at the proletarian revolution realistically—and rejecting the idea that we can somehow ignore these backward masses and make the revolution without them—can plan for decades of the most patient and prac- tical work. It requires a consecutive leadership, making a sincere and per- sistent struggle to unite the most backward workers in struggle for their immediate needs, their simpliest aspirations, and by winning their con- fidence in this work, awaken other as- pirations—a desire for emancipation of their class and a readiness to throw their weight into the struggle for the overthrowal of capitalism. The R. I. A. C. believes the A. W. I. U. contains members who haye this patience and who believe in this Policy, but they must first have the patience and the policy to win the A. W. I. U. definitely to such a program. We wish to make a few suggestions for your consideration: , ; A thoro discussion shall be open- philosophy. ¢ This element is inheretitly individu- alistic, and when individualism, which is a social philosophy of the petty bourgeoisie, is painted over with revo- lutionary phrases, we have the sort of anarchism which is “afflicting the I. W. W. The union Which accepts this disguised individualism, is accept- ing a theory diametricall¥ opposed to revolutionary industrial unionism, and which permeates ‘an “‘otganization, however composed strii of wage workers, with the paralyzing theory and disrsuptive action ofthe bourge- osie. . xg «has fellow worker among us who recognize these theories for what they are, yet who accepts'them as his own, or has not the courage to stand up and fight against them, ‘is no friend of the I. W. W. and is dofiig a service to the capitalist class. “ With this brief outline‘of the char: acter of forces within thé A. W. I. U. and their potential qualities, we re- peat that we are conviriéed that the i. SEGREGATION OF NEGRO WORKERS AN ISSUE IN MANY CITIES; RACE TERRORISM GROWING IN NORTH NEW YORK, Oct, 25.—Whether N. egroes have the right to defend their homes against white mob violence is involved in the case of Dr. O, H. Sweet and ten other Detroit Negroes whom Clarence Darrow has been engaged to defend by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Arthur Garfield Hays, American Civil Liberties a white Detroit attorney and a colore the beginning constitute the full de- fense staff. The Negroes are charged with murder in connection with de- fending Dr, Sweet's home from white mob violence. A Big Issue. Negro segregation cases are in the courts in 17 cities of the United States at present, the N. A.C. P. announces. “The Detroit case in- volves the third and most dangerous phase ,of segregation,” says James Weldon Johnson, N. A. A. C. P. sec retary.. “The N. A. A. C. P. has fought and.won a victory in the United States supreme court, in the matter of segregation by ordinance or law. “We shall very soon argue in the supreme court the question of segre- gation by private agreement among white property owners, We are now facing in Detroit, segregation by mob violence, If in the Detroit case the Negro is not upheld in the right to defend his home against eviction by a riotous mob, no decent Negro homes anywhere in the United States will be secure.” In Denver, Colo., ment associations” three “improve- are circulating counsel from New York, d lawyer who handled the case from ——$—$—___. petitions to have all property owners sign that they will not sell Property to Negroes. Separate schools for Negroes and legal Segregation are also proposed. On Staten Island, N. Y., Samuel Browne, a colored letter carrier, has been repeatedly threat- ened with death if he does not sell his house. Backed bythe N. A. A. C. P. Browne is suing @ white neigh- bor who has been indicted for partici- pation in disorders at Browne's house. Browne's wife is a ublic school teacher. ae Race Terrorism Grows. Segregation by property owners’ agreement is due before the U. S. su- Preme court from a Washington, D. C., case carried up by the N. A. A. C. P. New Orleans Negroes are fighting a local segregation ordin- ance passed contrary ‘to sunpreme court decision, Norfolk, Va. has a similar ordinance. In Roanoke, Va., a colored man’s home Was bombed and the man sued for not completing the purchase of a home his white neigh- bors would not have permfitted him to live in. St, Louis, Baltimore, Pitts. burgh, Los Angeles, Oakland, Calit,, Next Saturday * ed apon the tasks of the A, W, I, U. with reference to building a large and permanent organization of resid- ential and semi-residential’- agricul- tural and agrarian workers, The R. I. A. C. believes that if the annual fishing expedition for initia- tions and dues on the freight trains during the wheat harvest is to remain as the biggest part of the A. W. I, U. actively, the A. W. I. U. is certain to be discredited in the labor move- ment, and deservedly so. 4 There must be conscious and '* relentless struggle against anar- chist theories. This is to include de- termingd strugggle against a) opposi- tion to leadership as a principle; b) decentralization; c) lack of discipline; a) sectarianism; ¢) anti-politics. The R. I. A. C. wants_to say a few words on each of these. a) The habit of belittling and decry- ing all leadership is worse than hay- ing to accept occasional bad leader- ship—it is suicide for any organiza- tion. Those who cry “No leadership!” St. Paul, Falls Church, Va., Kansas City, Mo., Cleveland and Brooklyn, N. ¥., all have Negro segregation cases. Such cases are increasing, especial- ly in northern cities where there has been a steady heavy influx of Negro workers. Living conditions of these Negro workers are often frightful in every way because of the extreme crowding. Attempts to carry segrega- tion into the school system accom- pany residential segregation, as in Philadelphia, where segregation in both respects is a fact, tho not legal- ized, ‘ Anglo-Turk Mosul Controversy Comes Before Hague Court (Special to The Daily Worker) . THE HAGUE, Oct. 25—The inter- national court judges have decided to alter their original plans of héat- ing the Mosul case and to allow the two powers involved to state the pre- Uminary case before the court, Mon- day, A statement will be made for the British by Sir Douglas Hogg. Ac- commodations are being, provided for the Turkish representative. Great doubt exists as to whether Turkey will send a representative since she has declared she will refuse to abide by any decision of the international court of the league of nations which will favor England and harm the \in- terests of the Angora government of Turkey in her struggle to regain the oil flelds of Mosul, which were handed to England by the league of nations in &@ mandate for Iraq. , . This issue will not only Cartoons and_photo- are always bad leaders trying to’ whit- tel down better ones. Individual leaders may come and go, but leading groups with constructive policies are the brains of organization, But all must win leadership—not by intrigue and demagogy—but by standing open- ‘ly for programs and being efficient in carrying them out. To try to organize masses of backward workers, and at the same time to undermine their sim- ple f4ith in the union by constant in- vective against every sincere and cap- able member who gives his service to the organization is utterly insane, and only anarchists. can aecept such theory. b) Decentralization is a dispersion of the forces of labor in the face of united attacks by the capitalist class. If any army were so “organized”: it would be promptly. massacred.’ The American workers are: still fighting the class war and require perfect’ co- ordination and central direction. Local autonomy with no power and no funds for the center is an anarchist ideal. But its logical end is no union. Against such we propose democratic centralization, based upon job com- mittees or sectional branches, each higher body elected by a lower body and subject to its recall, but the sub- ordinate: body to’ carry out orders without question so long as orders are issued by those whom it elects. This covers also the matter of discipline, which must be organizational, not ideological, as a union must admit workers of all opinions, c) The A. W. I, U. has no monopoly on sectarianism, the whole I. W. W. being permeated with it. With the A. W. 1. U. it takes the form of a utopian concept that we are so much better rebels than the scissor bills and home guards that we not only scorn their ideas, but we will not try to organize them for fear they would pollute the union with their numbers. If we do away with the crazy opposition to leadership, and keep an expersienced and worthy group, this so-called danger of dilution would not exist. Be- sides, what kind of a union is it that does not pretend to be based on skill, yet refuses to. base its power on num- bers? If you confine an organization to thosé of Certain opinions, you are a political party, not a union. nisin ig the sectarian phase of the I. W. W. as a whole, particularly the ‘small industrial unions”, which are persisted in by mistaken fellow workers who think they can break up existing mass organizations by ab- stract educational propaganda about the. future society, failing to recogn- ize that the revolutionist must never destroy a mass organization, but en- ter it é¢nd remain in it to teach the backward workers by example and by practical leadership that after they win immediate demands they must go on to revolution. This sectarian theory has led the I. W.''W. to isolation from the other revolutionary elements in the trade unions and jn the labor movement of the world. Nationally, the members of the I, W.*W. in other unions, shoul@ co-operate with the left wing gathered around the Trade Union Educational League. Internationally, the I. W. W. should send a delegation representative of the large industrial LIARS AND FOOLS ON CHICAGO BENCH, SAY TWO OF THEM Chicago courts are models of de- corum. Yesterday a venerable at- torney for exclusive bootleggers, who occasionally bump off a com- ,petitor with their trusty Colts, Lugers and Mausers, was caught donating booze to the court at- taches. The other attorneys for bootleggers and the prosecutors are shocked that after all these years he should be so careless as to be caught. An extenuating circum- Stance is that age sometimes dulls the wits, : This followed by two of the most famed and learned jurists, Chief Justice Harry-Olson and Mu- nicipal Judge John H. Lyle, ex- changing professional amenities. | Judge Lyle accused Judge Olson of being crazy. Judge Olsen’s rejoin- der was “You're a fool!” Lyle ob: | served that Olsen ought to be in the psychopathic hospital, and 4 boasted that he (Lyle) had 3,000,- 000 people back of him, ook out they don’t all kick you at once,” was the warning of Judge Olsen, ob- serving that Lyle was not the first fool t at on the bench, We believe they are both emi- nent and truthful gentlemen. We accept true all that Lyle said about Olsen and all that Olsen said about Lyle, ® Build the DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER, unions at least, to Soviet Russia dir: ing the next congress of the R. I. L, U, and upon their report decide future international relations. We believe such action will prove to the I. W. W. that only by affiliation to the R. I. L. U. can the I. W. W. take the import: ant place it deserves in the world la- bor movement, : d) The theory of anti-politics is a bourgeois theory to corrupt labor ofganizations. The class struggle is a fight to control society and every class struggle is a political struggle, as Marx says, because jt is a strug: gle for power. Renounce politics and you renounce the goal of, the class struggle, But in fact one cannot 1 pnounce, Ohe can only choose which class’ to ‘fight with. And to fail to fight for‘one is to fight tor the other. We See an example in the “non-par- tisan”’ policy of the A."F, of L. ¥ PUT some anarehists in the Tf. W! Ww. consciously misrepresent “pol- itics” as meaning only a timid and servile: narliamentarism, a_ reliance upon+the ballot-box and trusting par- ticipation ih capitalist . parliaments. Such was and is the old socialist par- ty. But when such an interpretation is put upon the “politics” of the Com- munist movement—which, has done more than anything else to/wipe y low parliamentarism from the earth- and has succeeded in Soviet Russia—. such anarchist confusionists, are either too ignorant to deserve atten- tion’or toosmendacious to be trusted. The Communist parties which make up the Communist International use parliamentary methods, but they sub- ordinate them to and. make them only an auxiliary to the class war outside the parliaments. There is no excuse for lack of knowledge of this policy now, since it has turned European parliaments into Communist propagan- da meetings, set whole nations agog with interest in the Communists and been the despair of capitalist rulers. Such Communist “politicians” have paid with their lives for such actions, and literally hundreds have been im- prisonéd and many are there now for such invasions of capitalist parlia- ments with the language and action of class war. No Communist pretends that by the ballot-box the workers can overthrow capitalism and attain Com- munism, the classless society of the future where all means of: produc- tion will be owned in common and all difference between mental and manual labor wil be wiped out, (THE 8. 1 A. C. believes that the a. W. I. U. will enter.upon a new era of growth if it takes the steps. we Suggest as a basis for the future, We have gone fully into some major ques- tions as there seemg.to be some doubt in the minds of many fellow” workers as to whether the A, W. I, U. deserves to live at all, The Red Internatfonal of Labor Unions says that, if it shapes a program which will really give revolutionary unionism to the agricultural workers of this coun- try, the A. W. I. U. will not only de- serve to live, but willbe supported by every section of the world proletariat. Yours for Unity and Revolution, RED INTERNATIONAL AFFILIA- TION COMMITTEE, Harrison George, Chairman. Czech Workers’ Mission in Soviet Russia to Force Recognition of Russia MOSCOW, Oct. 25—The chairman of the Czecho-Slovakian workers’ delegation to Soviet Russia, Gottlieb Kment, declared in an interview that the journey to the Soviet Union was undertaken with a view to bringing pressure to bear upon the Czech gov- ernment to recognize the Soviet gov- ernment de jure. A further object of the delegation is to establish a united front of all workers internationally. After describing the unsuccessful attempts of the social democracy, to prevent the journey of the delegation to the Soviet Union, Kment expressed his conyjction that the return of the delegation to _Czech-Slovakia would strengthen those in favor of de jure Fecognitign, of the Soviet Union, “Table. Petition to - \ NEW ORLEANS, Oét! 25.—Bishops of the general convention of , protestant episco) church ret to ‘consider a petition signed by persons in 22 dioceses asking tha conventioh take, action agai 5 spreading of radicalism in the ch ‘The petition called for 3) against the league for indi democracy, formerly the intercollegi i. ate socialist league, the American civil liberties union, the fellowship of reconciliation and the fellowship of youth for peace, * “1113 W. Washington Blivd., ‘evolutionary Role/ i ummarize the results of ‘ Sia Chicago, Ml, laying the game of their masters and wipe from the earth the sum graphs will add to the in- ... capitalist system that today ean thrive oply thru armed force and OCTOBER 31 at P ipo gt Labor Con- » Edcaut ok this teal “ piney og et lechateke Be meee of i terror. ‘ wy ~ Ss ve 1 rl ess of that week— rah " a ‘ \ 5 * the N ; e N But’ will also include’ — ° 3% CENTS A CoPY Name . ; or The Negroes in convention in Chicago do not dd the American EGRO 4 BOR 3 ms tepeti isin MN Negro Racial Congress, but Labor Congress.’ They recognize that 1 Ww! f . ee, ? ; they bélong first and foremost to the working class. ‘The white work- CON GRESS ORDER NO SAB ec snteichs sssooune 1 ~ a ers would do well to recognize the same ’ bc AEA TF 8 A RU Vs RPA VAN We LN LAAN TL OT,