The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1926, Page 4

— rage Four CHE Nariel WORKER Workers (Communist) Party New Leader Refuses to Admi WORKERS PARTY ENTERS CANDIDATES IN. STATE ELECTIONS THIS YEAR In a number of states nominations have been filed by petition while In others the petition campaign Is sfill In progress to place Workers (Com- munist) Party candidates officially On the ballots, Nominations officially filed: Michigan. Michigan—The following candl- dates will appear officially on the ballot In the primary elections to be held Tuesday, September 14: Governor, William Reynolds, Congress, 13th District, Willlam Mollenhauer, Congress, 1st Dist., Harry Kish- ner, Congress, 9th District, Daniel C. Holder, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania—The following were the candidates nominated: Governor, H. M. Wicks. Lleutenant-Governor, Hilis, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Max Jenkins. United States Senator, E. J. Cary. State Legislature, first district, Ernest Careathers and Anna Weis- man, Second District, Mike Blaskovitz and Celia Paransky. Seventh District, Margaret Yeager. Eighth District, Susie Kendra and Peter Skrtic. Ninth District, William P. Mikades and Sam Shore. State Senator, William Schmidt. Colorado. Governor, William Dietrich, United States Senator, James A. Ayers, Secretary of State, Nelson Dewey. State Treasurer, Leonard Forsch- ler, Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion, Helena Dietrich. State Auditor, O. McSwain, Parthenia Plans ‘of Boston Labor Politicians Get Big Set-Back BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 15. —In the Labor Day parade the Workers (Com- munist) Party succeeded in frustrat- ““¥ag tiie plans of the local labor politi- cians who sought to furn the celebra- tion into a- tribute to the republican party. The Workers Party distributed 5,000 copies of the Boston Worker, which contained a number of illumi- nating articles on the capitalist candi- dates of the two major parties, called on the workers to fight for a Labor Party, and to organize the unorgan- ized. Every worker in the line of march secured a. copy of the paper which helped to counteract the poison which was later disseminated from the band stand by Governor Fuller and his crew. ae eg Sunday, September 12, the party held its regular weekly ineeting on the Boston Common which was attended by over 500 workers. The speakers were Hubert Riley, Lewis Marks, can- didate for governor, George Siskind, Bert Miller. were discussed and the tactics of the two major parties in the present cam- Ppaign, also the real problems which confront the workers at this time. The question period was interesting, in so far as the workers displayed a very deep interest in what is going on in Soviet Russia. The question repeated- ly turned to this topic. H. M. Wicks will speak at the meet ing to be held Sunday, Sept. 19. New York Lefts to Meet at Yom Kippur Night Dance NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Revolution- ary workers and left winzcrs will meet at the concert and ball arranged by the Workers (Communist) rty of this district in conjunction with the Jewish fraction at New Star Casino, | Saturday evening (Yom Kipper Night) September 18. There will be an excellent concert preceding the dance, and one of the finest bands will play the dance music. Those who want to attend are ad- vised to get tickets in advance, Tickets are for sale at the district office—108 EB. 14 St. and at the office of the Fre- fheit, 30 Union Square, at the Work- ers’ School, 108 E. 14th St. and at Jimmie Higgins’ Book Shop, 127 Unt- versity place. Admission is 50 cents. NEW YORKERS! Your LAST CHANCE this year to hear SCOTT NEARING “THE CRISIS IN BRITISH | IMPERIALISM” at the Community Church Auditorium 34th St. and Park Ave,, New York ON TO A HALF MILLION! Distribute a half million copies of the pamphlet, “The Workers (Communist). Party—What It Stands For, Why Every Worker Should Join” by the end of this year. By C. E. RUTHENBERG, Gen. Sec'y. Workers (Communist) Party HE statement of the central com- mittee of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party containing the telegram from the head of the Agitprop Depart- ment of the Communist International declaring that the speech attributed to Joseph Stalin, general secretary of the that The New Leader would accept anything from you? Moreover, where we got our story is none of your business. We are under no obliga- tion to you to explain anything that appears in the columns of The New Leader and we do not expéct you to explain to us anything that appears in your publications. Ptease under- INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE IN CONVENTION PASSES RESOLUTION ON Fabrication of Stalin’s Speech), Sinah SyMmicabism stares solution on Freedom of Press, Speech and Assembly Under in Criminal Syndicalist Laws as Presented inthe Cases of Anita Whitney, Fiske and Ruthenberg Now Before the Supreme Court. HERE are now pending, before the Supreme Court of the United States “the cases of Anita Whitney, charged with membership in the Communist Labor Party in California in 1919, the case of Fiske, charged with member ship in the I. W. W. and that of C. EB. Ruthenberg, charged with edb ih with” the Communist Party at Bridgeman, Mich., in 1922. All these prosecutions are based Rpts ews ot ae g 44,000 copies of the pamphlet by C, E. RUTHENBERG was an out and out fabric; sent to the New Leader, the on, wai publication, The Workers (Communist) Party, What It Stands For, Why Every Worker Should Join already “Dear Sir: DISTRIBUTED! 7 | | ing note of September 9 with en- | THIS IS NOT ENOUGH! alleged 40, te an enewer tp = nye EVERY WORKER— speech attributed to Stalin on Augus' tions of its own. The following reply to this reques the editor of the New Leader: “Mr. C, E, Ruthenberg, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Illinois, story carried in The New Leader of August 14. You ask that this state- ment be published in The New Leader, “My dear Mr, Ruthenberg, | am In your shop astonished at your request and the iy . ‘petty bourgeois’ prejudice which In your neighborhood you display in your note. You want 4 us to print your statement. My dear In your trade union hero of the Michigan woods, don't In your fraternal organization POM IRON LIE ay, Caer Oe 6-8 line in The New Leader and that | you have wasted two. cents in post: age in sending your statement to us? “Let me explain. We believe in dictatorship—especially for you and your kind. Good dope, isn't it? Comes direct from the holy city of Moscow and bears the imprint of the Plenum of the Presidium ofsthe C. C. of the C. P. of the G. P. of the C. C. C. of the C. P. S. Us You sub- scribe to, it.. Fine! We. apply it to you. Nota line in The New Leader. Good Leninist. organizatory tactics, isn’t it? (See Thesis. 231 adopted by the E. Z. extraordinary session of the Plenum and unanimously endor- sed by the Presidium. of the C. C. of the C. P. of the G. P. of the Ci C. C. of the C. P. S. U,, chapter 92, section 64, verse 23, page 1,781). It is all clear in this reference so that no ‘betrayer of the working class’ or ‘counter-revolutionist” ’can per- vert it from its true meaning. “How did you happen to fall into the ‘bourgeois deviation’ of thinking CURRENT saedey By T. J. O'Flaherty. MUST GET A COPY OF THIS PAMPHLET! Tell Half a Million Workers What the Party Stands For! Orders, accompanied by cash—2/,c a copy to party organiza- tions; National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. NEW YORK PARTY MEMBERSHIP MEETING TO BE HELD AT THE MANHATTAN LYCEUM ON MONDAY A very important special membership meeting will be held on Monday, September 20, at 8 p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., to take up the past, present and future activities of the Workers (Communist) Party and their relation to the election campaign and the membership drive, Comrade Weinstone, general secretary of the district, will make a report on the past activities as for example our work in relation to the Passaic strike, the Furriers’ strike, the united front campaigns of the party, etc. He will also touch on the sociatist party. He will trace the development of our activity (Continued from page 1) in the current issue.of The Witness, Communist Party of the neff Union ew York Socialist organ with a request for The New Leader had published the 14 with some additional misrepresenta- has been received from James Oneal, Current political issues | | be: |for governor; | ers (Communist) Rarty in Boston and | and will deal at length with the election campaign. political importance of the membership drive and how to extend it. | | the Young Workers (Communist) League. | and Y. W. L. members arte urged to attend. SECTION THREE, CHICAGO, TO HOLD MEMBERSHIP MEETING IN Section Three, Chicago, Workers (Communist) Party, will hold a general | membership meeting Sunday morning, Sept. | Halsted st. | In nuclei meeting in one corner of the section while they lived in an en | tirely different part of the section. decided to remedy this situation. | party in this section attend this re-organizaion meeting. | The part Section Three must play in the coming congressional and senatorial election campalgns will also be taken up. There is much work to be done in this meeting and every member is urged to be at the meeting at | 10:30 o'clock sharp. |New York Will Hold Ratification Meeting Friday Night, Sept. 24 NEW YORK, Sept. 15. — New York jcomrades will ratify their candidates jat a mass meeting to be heid Friday. jnight Sept. 24 at the Central Opera | House, 67th St. near 3rd Ave. All are urged to be present at this ratifica- tion mass meeting as it will be the only meeting held during the cam- paign, The speakers at this meeting will BENJAMIN GITLOW, candidate WILLIAM F, DUNN candidate for United States senator; WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE, candi- date for congress in the 20th congres- sional district; BEN GOLD, manager, joint board of the Furriers Union; JACK STACHEL, chairman, Basten Membership to Meet Friday Eve. CHICAGO DAILY WORKER AGENTS MEET FRIDAY TO LAUNCH BIG DRIVE Samuel Hammersmark, city agent of The DAILY WORKER announces | @ meeting of DAILY WORKER agents to be held Friday, Sept. 17 at 19 S, Lincoln at 8 p,m, The agents will meet to rake prepara- tions for the Fall drive to build The DAILY WORKER sub list in Chi- cago and to resume the winter | season activity of — covering union meetings with the paper. Every nue! of the Work arty in Chicago is expected to take the responsibility for covering at least three union meetings a week. All nucleus agents are expected to be at this meeting. ST. LOUIS—(FP)—Worried over jumemployment and mounting _ bills, with no money to pay them, Jacob BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 15. There Greenberg sought to wrown himself in will be an {important membership |* St. Louis pond, | meeting for all members of the Work- Robert Topping, & pressman, who | swallowed poison died, leaving a » “My Insurance fs due, house rent neighboring cities, This meeting will | ote be held Friday evening, Sept, 17 at |!8 Unpaid and I am broke. Life ig not 7:30 p. m. at 249 Friend Street, near | Worth while. Mon. Eve., Sept. 20, 8:15 P.M. + Admission 750. North Station, All party members | must attend. Membership books will | Send The DAILY WORKBR ave to be shown at the door, ifor one month to your shop-maltn = ad a weekly published’ by the episcopal church. But, in substance; the writer stand this and don’t trouble us any s | more with your ‘petty bourgeois pre- judices’ about the ‘workers and peas- ants government of Russia.’ Any- body that can sell you that idea will he able to sell you stock in a flower t | garden at the North Pole. Forget it. “Hoping that you will some time recover from your Bolshevik souse, it} | am, “Very truly yours, (Signed) James Oneal.” E.need.not.comment.on.the mass of verbiage under which the edi- tor of the New Leader hidés the direct refusal to correct an out and out. lie, which is’ published. Evéry intelligent worker can draw his own conclusion as.to the calibre of the editor who writes such a letter. HE ‘fact that stands out in. this matter, 1s that Editor Oneal of the New Leader took from ‘the ‘capitalist press.a dispatch grossly, slandering the general. secretary of .the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, published this in his paper, without giving the source of the ‘dispatch and then when caught in having published a manufac- tured, speech, refuses to tell the truth to the readers of his paper. HE Socialist Party has sunk low indeed’ when it is necessary for it to publish manufactured speeches assigned to Communist: leaders in order-to-carry on the struggle-against Communism and Communist. princi- ples. The triumph of the proletatian revolution in Russia, the success of the proletarian dictatorship in building a socialist economic system, is becom- ing so clear to the workers that the socialists can no longer challénge it onthe basis of the facts. The alter- native is to usp manufactured .docu- ments such as the capitalist. govern- ments have been using against, the Communist . International. ‘It , ig to this method of carrying on the fight | against the Communists, that the New | Leader and its editor have now des- | cended. ‘ ‘ The letter of Oneal is a confession of bankruptcy in the fight against Communist. principles, which. ‘today give leadership to the revolutionary workers in the struggle. against. cap- italism. MINE WORKERS IN OHIO FEAR | BOSS ATTACK (Continued from page 1) on the so-called “criminal syndicalist” ‘aws, which are an invasion of the constitutionally: guaranteed rights of freedom of speech, press and assem- bly. These laws, punish by sentences of from 10-to, 20 years the advocacy of certain principles in relation to the struggles of labor membership in an organization advocating certain prin- ciples and the “assembling with” such organizations. Constitution Says. The First, Amendment to the Consti- tution of the United States declares sategorically: “Congrese:shall make no law... « abridging the freedom of speech, or of the pri or the right of. the people peaceably to assemble... The freedom guaranteed to the workers under-this- provision of the constitution whichis binding upon the states ‘under the ‘14th amendment, has been ‘progressively whittled down by the Supreme Conrt as requiréd by the interests of the ruling, exploiting class of this country, Passed During War. During the period of the war con- @ress passed’ the conscription and espionage laws which prohibited speech,: and writing in opposition to the war. “When these laws were ap- pealed to the Supreme Court the court declared, in ‘spite of the clear provis- ions. of the.Constitution that Con- gress had the power to prohibit and punish speech and writing when. there was a “clear, and present danger” that the speech or writing would re- sult in violation of law. In other words, the interests of the capitalist rulers of. the United. States required that opposition to the war. and con- scription be stifiled under which laws prohibiting freedom of speech and press were declared to be constitu- tional. At the close of the war the niove- ment of the workers against capitalist exploitation and oppression grew, in strength and the. capitalist rulers of the ‘United States needed new laws with which to destroy this movement. To fill this need the “criminal anarchy,” “criminal. syndicalist” and “criminal sedition”. laws , were enacted. in 37 states.. Under these laws hundreds of workers have been imprisoned for long terms for. no other ; “crime”. than speech or writing advocating the prin- ciples of the I. W. W., the-Communist Labor Party, the Communist Party and the Workers (Communist), Party. First Test, ‘ The first test of these laws came before ‘the supreme court -in:the case declare that membership in an organ- ization advocating ideas prohibited by the: “criminal syndicalist” laws is a crime, ,although the individual in- volved may never have spoken or writ- ten a'word in advocacy of those ideas. “Assembling With.” . In the case of C, H. Ruthenderg, the court is asked to uphold an interpretar tion which goes still further than the ohe made by the lower courts in the Whitney and Fiske cases and declare that the mere “assembling with” an organization advocating the prohibited ideas'is a crime punishable by a long prison sentence. This convention of the International Labor Defense declares that the con- stitutional interpretation made by the supreme court shows clearly that what is law 1s not a matter of the provision of the constitution, but what the in- terests of the ruling capitalist class re« quires at a certain time. The record df the free speech cayes show that the supreme court is prepared to come pletely nullify the constitutional pro- vision that “Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble...” as required to protect the right of the capitalists to exploit and oppress the workers and to still any opposition to this exploitation and oppression. Fight For Rights, The convention of the Internationat Labor Defense declared that the only way the right of the workers to freely speak, and write their opinions and ideas and to organize and assemble in support of these ideas and principles can be upheld, is to unite in support of the right of freedom of speech, press and assembly and to carry on an ufcompromising fight against any attempt by state legislature, congress or the supreme court to limit thesa rights. The convention of the International Labor Defense declares that it is only. thru the power of a mass movement of the workers that the provisions of the congtitution can be made effective and the workers really will secure the tights of freedom of speech, press and assembly, and it calls upon all work- efs to join in the struggle fo achieve these ‘rights. 1. Y. D. in Los Angeles, International Youth Day. will be celebrated in Los Angeles in the form of a great open-air celebration, Sun- day, Sept. 19, will be a red letter day. Eagle Rock park will be filled with the voices of the vigorous rebel youth of Los Angeles. The young workers will of Benjamin -Gitlow, charged with | have an opportunity to express them- Comrade Stachel, organization secretary of the district, will take up the states that college morality did not Admission is by membership card of the Workers (Communist) Party or All Workers (Communist) Party VILNIS HALL SUNDAY MORNING 19, at Vilnis Hall, 3116 South During the reorganization of the party many comrades were put The Section Executive Committee has It is important that every member of the Sore) co-ed. as the iceman, for self-protection from bands of ma- rauding co-eds. christian country? . What: have ‘our | | spiritual shepherds: been doing for-the last hundred years? The: saloon was bad enough, but mow every man’s - | home is his brewery and.the wife who does not carry.a flask in her sock is considered a. weak sister. What the indigent episcopalian actually . bore witness to is hardly mailable unless the man js a liar, which is quite pos- sible. At any rate,.the ‘lads who used to predict a. “nation’of father- less children” under socialism. did not have to wait so long for the millenium. . . ff EOPLE suffering from ‘the delusion that they were:radicals because of a subterranean: wart: soméwhere® in their anatomies. camé °to ‘the asi arice of Aim® . McPherson, ’ the ‘foxy. evangelist, when the authorities went to investigate’ hér ‘kidnapping yarn and ran into a’romance. ‘No dotbt the same type will yell for Gene Tan- ney when they read: that -he otdered-the “four volumes of Marx's .Das*Kapital.” For the benefit, of those who do not read the sporting. column,’ Tunney: is a pugilist of parts, who is scheduled to fight Jack Dempsey somé time in the near future. Tunney f* an ex- marine and “hero” of the world war. Dempsey claimed exemption and. es- caped shell shock and a lot*of favor- able editorial comment in the capital- ist press, Now pick your favorite, Russ Living Paper to Be Out Sat. Night at Workers’ House The next, eleventh issue of Prolet- Tribune, the living newspaper issued by the worker correspondénts of the September 18, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. It is fhe. first indoor issue after the summer season. All who undergtaud the ria Janguage are invited. hh belek eee ” oe begin to slip until the arrival of the The gin. delivery man.is now as obvious at the sorority. back door Campus. women go on drinking bouts with premeditation | and malice aforethought and the male students are considering a.curfew law wer is the world coming to if Such doings can take place in a Novy Mir, will be out next Saturday, | ission fw Only 25 coated Bogin- ninghay 8 > , i, at ee overtures: to 11,000 men to’ work at the 1917 scale of $5 a.day:: - West Virginia Object Lesson. West Virginia, just: across the ‘Ohio riyer, is a powerful object lesson: to the. miners on the dire consequences of union defeat, and they are deter- mined not to:succumb to honeyed prom- iges, of more . work at lower: pay. Nevertheless unemployment, poverty and.acute misery may, force a break in the Hocking valley if the national union does not succeed soon in lessen- ing the pressure on the Ohio miners. If non-union West Virginia and the ever-growing non-union ‘circle in west- ern Pennsylvania are allowed: to_op- erate without. effective - opposition, sheer hunger this winter may, force capitulation in the isolated . coal ;re- gions of south. central Ohio, Already the blight of non-unionism has \se- cured a firm foothold in Pomeroy Bend, in southern. Ohio across - the river from West, Virginia, while the West Virginia Panhandle, a -part of District 6, is now lost to the union, - Hope for Breaks. 7 Miners and their officials. are -hop- ing for the lucky breaks, either in a readjustment of freight rates, a dimin- ishing of, the boycott. on, “union: scoal or an uprising in West Virginia, to. open the Ohio mines, not more than/a qupar- ne meantime there is nothing for them, to do but await national. developments, Ohio, is. quite dependent on. the general coal situation. Unlike Illi- nois, she enjoys. no extensive , rate preferential into big cities such as Chicago and St, Louis, West Nivelae coal is as near Cleveland and other lake ports as is Ohio coal. Majority Out-of Work, Only 12,000 to 15,000 miners. are working five days a month or more out of a district: membership listed between. 40,000 and 50,000, ‘In the past two and one-half years nearly: $1,500,- 000 has been paid in relief and: this winter. union. funds, it -is. admitted, ing millions of tons of. Wei product, leaving a slight encourages Ohio opérators ta a {nifnes here and there in the. s teat the union scale, When the British coal lockout, is owever, Big will feel pressure acitély fective doycott has bee unton coal tn this state, by icanrcom scious ide 4d and | “criminal anarchy” because af the pub- lication: of the manifesto :of: the left wing of the Socialist Party.\Under the test. of the rule laid down by ‘the supreme .court in the free speech and Press cases which arose) during the war. the supreme court could ‘not up- hold the constitutionality of the. “crim- inal anarchy” law of New York as applied in the Gitlow case, because their was no proof in the case that anyone had read the manifesto and could be no-‘‘clear and. present dan- ger” which the court had said was necessary in order to punish speech or writing under the constitution, Dangerous! The supreme court, in order to pro- test the interests of the ruling class of this country found it necessary to go a step further in the interpretation of the constitution so as to prohibit freedom of speech and press. It found the way to do this by declaring that, certain forms of speech and writing were in themselves so dangerous (to the ruling capitalist class!) that their utterance or publication under any cir- cumstances created “a clear and pres- ent danger.” Inthe cases of Anita. Whitney and. Fiske; now before the court, the court is ‘asked ‘to go another step further and Pat:on the Badge of a Commanist! SOMETHING NEW AND- /BEAUTIFULLY UN- © USUAL, | * The Emblem of ‘The Young Workers *(Communist) League. “A striking closed fist— the tha agpbe ati etaa)i reproduction actua) in told aud allver, Limited Supply Only! All orders filled in order “received, lush Your Order to The bss J rerieas League - 4188 w. gains Blvd, Chicago, IN, sélves in sports, speeches and song. 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