The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1926, Page 2

Page Two ACCEPTS AS CANDIDATE ON COMMUNIST TICKET IN N. Y. (Continued from page 1) and the state of New York. Wadsworth Is a bitter foe of organized labor. He stands for the open shop. In a recent speech delivered on Labor Day at a picnic arranged by the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York, he gave vent to the follow- ing union-smashing statement: That no organization or group has a right to interefere with an individual's right to choose his own employment. GITLOW Wadsworth just voiced the sentiments of the Manufacturers’ Association, | the greatest aggregation of open shoppers in America. MITH, the advocate of compulsory arbitration which is virtually com- pulsory slavery, Coolidge, the strikebreaker, and Wadsworth, the open shopper, typify the republican and democratic parties. Both the republican and democratic parties have nothing to offer to the workers. Tihey are the parties of big business. They are the parties of the employing class in the United States. Under their rule the dominance of cap- italism is assured. Republican and democratic party rule means a strike- breaking government, it means injunctions in labor disputes against the workers. It means militia to shoot down workers on strike as in Rhode Island. It means brutal Police attacks upon the workers fighting for a living wage as in Passaic, New Jersey. It means corruption as in the primary campaigns in the state of Illinois and Pennsylvania. It means vicious, discriminatory laws against the foreign-born workers. It means full support to wage cutting. It means full protection to the piling up of billions in the hands of the capitalists and in- tensifying the exploitation of the workers, S guaranteeing wealth, luxury and idleness for the capitalists and | poverty for the exploited masses of workers and farmers in America. It means full support to the mergers and the building up of powerful capitalist combines and the smashing of the organizations of labor. It_means imperialism, the enslavement of Europe, the rape of Haiti, the r of Chinese workers, rampage in Mexico, etc. It means increased m and preparation for war in the Interest of capitalist investments and profits and the butchery of millions of workers. T me St Workers (Communist) Party is unalterably opposed to the rule of capitalism. It will fight determinedly and unceasingly against it. It will continue to be untiring in its efforts to mobilize the workers for the over throw of capitalist government and the establishment of a workers’ and farn republic, The Workers (Communist) Party in the campaign of 1926, fully aware of the tremendous tasks confronting the workers in the United States, raises the slogan of unity of the workers on the political and industrial field. GAINST the powerful ferces of capitalism on the political field we must have the united power of labor. The united power of labor on the po- litical field can be achieved thru a labor party, Labor in the United States must discontinue its support to the parties of the capitalists and must sup- port, its own party, a labor party. A labor party must be organized on the basis of the trade unions and must discontinue its support to the parties of the capitalists and must support its own party, a labor party. , + ag Workers (Communist) Party of New York, true to the interests of the workers in the election campaign of 1926, proposed that steps towards the formation of a labor party be taken by inviting the socialist party and other working class organizations to form a united labor ticket so that there would be one set of candidates and one program for the coming election cam- paign as far as the workers are concerned. The refusal of the socialist party to participate in the formation of a united labor ticket made a united labor ticket impossible. The socialist party is to be condemned for its action in this respect because while mouthing phrases about the necessity for unity is doing everything in its power to prevent working class unified political action, -JN so doing, the socialist party serves the interests of the capitalists and not 3 those of the workers. On the industrial field the Workers (Communist) Party urges that greater unity must be achieved by the workers against the powerful con- solidation of capitalist enterprises now taking place. The craft unions can- not defend the interests of the workers against the encroachments of power- ful trustified industry. HE working class. in the United States must therefore be unified, must consolidate its forces on the industria] field. This can be achieved only thru the amalgamation of the craft unions of a particular industry into one union for the industry and the organization of the millions of unorganized workers in the United States. The aim of the Workers Party is to support such movements in the trade unions like the Trade Union Educational League that works for progressive Policies and has for its main object amalgamation and organization of the i unorganized. ‘ Nystad working class in the United States needs to meet the present situa- tion: one union in the railroad industry, one union in the needle indus- try, one union in the building trades, etc. as well as the organization of the textile workers, steel workers, rubber workers, automobile workers and all other unorganized workers, The Workers (Communist) Party calls upon the workers to get into the unions to build them up. Amalgamation and a labor party will unify the workers and give them the power necessary to combat the formidable forces of capitalism. _— Workers (Communist) Party will, in the campaign, also point out to the workers that only thru united action and a militant fighting policy can the workers achieve their ends, This is especially necessary because the reactionaries who dominate the organizations of labor are pursuing a policy of conciliation and peace with the capitalist class, The strike weapon is being discarded for class collaboration proposi- tions, The B. & O, Plan, the Watson-Parker Bill, the efficiency measures in the last anthracite agreement between the United Mine Workers and the operators, Hillman’s agreements in the clothing industry are outstanding examples of this policy, Boe our reactionary labor leaders are becoming the direct agents of the capitalist government, Mr, Green praises the Citizens’ Training } Camps and thus gives his approval to the military policy of the government, i Mr, Green backs up the state department in its refusal to recognize the first workers’ and farmers’ republic in the world, the Union of Soviet Russia, The reactionary officials are meeting the demand for unity and progres- sive policies by expelling the best fighters from the unions, thus disrupting the labag movement, The Workers (Communist) Party will support every movement in the j trade unions against the treacherous policies of the reactionaries, It will do everything in its power to popularize and win the approval of the trade union masses for militant progressive measures, 4 era Workers (Communist) Party 1s the only revolutionary working class | party in the United States, It supports the revolutionary movements of the workers in all countries, It wholeheartedly supports the Soviet Union because jt is the only government that {8 run by and for the interest of the workers and farmers, In this campaign the workers will be rallied by the party to demand that the United States immediately recognize the Soviet Union, The Workers (Communist) Party warns the workers of this country against the growing militarism and war preparations of the United States government, Profiting by the billions made by the capitalists in the United States in the bloody World carnage of 1914-1918, American imperialism {s out to Pubjugate the world to its billions, American imperialism ig threatening the peace of the world, American imperialism js sowing the seeds of # future world carnage more bloody and costly than the one just experienced, Tho workers must fight imperialism, The Workers Party is imperialism’s deadly foe, It will ualte with all the peoples subjugated by American imperialism in a common struggle for its overthrow, . The Workers (Communist) Party is the party that takes up the cudgels egainst every manifestation of capitalism, It will fight for the interests of the workers in spite of ail diMculties and regardless of consequences, On to the campaign of 1926] Fraternally yours, © BENJ, GITLOW, . E Workers (Communist) Party is | + out to recruit into its ranks 1000 new members during the coming two months in the city of New York. The Workers (Communist) Party is |@n organization that thas in tts ranks the best forces of the working class. The Workers (Communist) Party does not consist of the average work- jer but of the class conscious fighters of the working class, those that in | every organization of labor are to be found in the front ranks of the strug- gle of their class. HE Workers (Communist) Party has in the past few months made tremendous strides in gaining influ- ence among the American workers. | This influence is the result of the | growing confidence of the workers in the Wor! (Communist) Party, thanks to the participation of the par- ty in almost every struggle that has taken place. The Workers (Communist) Party is gaining influence in the unions, the fraternal organizations and among the great mass of the unorganized, thru its shop activity carried on by the fac- tory groups organized by the party membership: and thru the shop bulletins published by the Communists’ Factory Groups. 'N this activity the Workers (Com- munist) Party has built around it- self many sympathizers—workers who believe in the work that the party is carrying on in their organisations and who helped energeticafly in this work. There are today in this city thousands upon thousands of workers who are ready to follow the leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party, 'T is to these workers that the Work- ers Party is addressing itself here. The party calls upon these sympathiz- ers to become members of the party so that the party can extend its work, and with its added forces gain greater influence among the. masses, and car- ry on with greater energy the task of organizing the unorganized, the building up of a powerful Labor Party in this country, so that we can hasten the revolutionization of the American masses, who led by its van- guard the Workers (Communist) Par- ty will finally abolish the capitalist or- der of society, establish a Workers’ Government and organize the Commu- nist Society. Below is a list of the different headquarters where you can apply for 108 B, 14th St., 1347 Boston Road, Bronx; 81 B. 110th St., 301 W, 29th St., 150 EH, 28th St., 85 Forsythe St., Mon., Tues., Wed.; 56 Manhattan Ave., Brook- lyn; 46 Ten Byck St., Brooklyn; 1844 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn; 350 E. Sist St. “THE DAILY. WORKER ae SE ee we TR ETN OS Why Every Class Conscious igs Should Join the Workers Party N. Y. State Platform of the Workers Party i (Continued from page 1) told sacrifices for the American work ers, This domination of the govern- ment by office holders subservient to big business; this use of the govern- ment as a strike-breaking agency, menaces the welfare of the millions of toilers of this country. It chal- lenges them to abandon the support of the capitalist political machine and reject the sham non-partisan policy which labor follows today. The unity of labor’s forces into one political, powerful party of all the producers, a labor party capable of fighting for the workers’ needs, is the immediate and vital necessity of the workers of New York state as it is of the workers thruout the land. Non-Partisan Policy a Sham, HE sham non-partisan policy im- posed upon the workers by the reactionary labor officials at the ser- vice of capitalism and its political par- ties, is a fundamental obstacle in the way of building up a Labor Party. This policy has divided labor’s forces and has chained the labor movement of New York State to the tail of Tam- many’s cart. The labor bureaucrats have become part of the local and state capitalist political machine and have sold their influence and their alleged power to deliver the vote of labor in exchange for soft jobs, graft and occasional political nominations. AND ALSO AT ALL MASS MBETINGS AND OPEN AIR MBETINGS AR- RANGED BY THE WORKERS PARTY. If you want to make out an application by mail or get more information and titerature, please fill in the blank below and address it to WORKERS PARTY—108 E. 14TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Workers Party, 108 East 14th St., New York City. Dear Comrades: Please send me Party I am interested. Address .. 50 cents initiation fee, DUNNE STRESSES (Continue from Page 1) the country of a nationwide program of militarism — military training camps, division of the country into army corps areas, the increase of the appropriations for the army, navy and air forces—show unmistakably that the American capitalist class is pre- paring for new conquests, the price of which is to be the lives of the millions of the workers and farmers of the United States, The power of American imperialism is being extended to the whole of the Western Hemisphere, and the struggle in the Pacific brings the United States into conflict with Great Britain and Japan, and brings the menace of the new world war even closer. The mil- lions of colonial peoples can testify to the brutality with which that same capitalist class which robs the work- ers here, robs them in their homes, Criminal Syndicalism laws are still on the statute books ready to be used to stifle militant workers, whenever the capitalists deem it necessary. Striking workers are met with the in- junction as in the 2, L, G, W. strike, their struggles outlawed and they If you want to join the party make a cro; ee ee more information about the Workers and enclose Oe NEED FOR UNITY out even the privilege of @ trial by Jury. More and more is the whole work- ing class faced by the might of the capitalist class, with all its agencies well organized and all fighting for its entrenchment in local, state and na- tional government, a government which {s a class government, a govern- ment of the capitalist class of the United States. Our party stands for the immediate nationalization of ic industries with workers’ control, the abolition of injunctions, the repeal of all criminal syndicalism and criminal anarchy laws, the immediate withdrawal of all armed forces from the colonial and semi-colonial countries, for compensa- tion at trade union rates to all un- employed workers, and for full rec- ognition of the Workers’ and Peas- ants’ Government of the Soviet Union by the United States, We fight for & workers’ and farmers’ government in the United States, as against a government of the industrial lords and bankers, We ask the support of all the work- ers and farmers in the state of New themselves are railroaded to jail with- York on the basis of our program, JUST OFF THE PRESS! “THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST PARTY—WHAT IT STANDS FOR AND WHY WORKERS SHOULD JOIN.” Written by C, H, Ruthenberg, General Secretary of the Workers Party. Can be obtained at any of the Party headquarters at all etreet meetings, or by writing to the Workers Party, 108 E, 14th St. Price 6c for Single copies, and 60c for 20 coples, Pc Speakers to trade unions, England and Amertca, Harry Dana Robert Dunn Arthur Calhoun M. J. Olgin Benjamin Gitlow en nSE NE AAU The Workers’ School “Training for the Class Struggle” The Workers’ Schoo! conducts the Research Department, Lecture Bureau, Lecture Courses, Evening Study Cla Fee for the course, Post-War Europe Four lectures on; Whither Russia; Germany and the Dawes Plan; Fas- cist Italy; Crisis in France, Fee for the course, If you are interested, oall at the offjce of the achool, 108 R. 44th Strect. following departments: Library, Sunday Night Forums, Popular It supplies teachers and Scott Nearing Is an Instructor in the Workers’ School, The coming year he will give the following courses: Decline of the British Empire Three lectures on; British Labor Movement; Where Is Britain Going?; Some of the other teachers are: Alexander Trachtenberg Wm. W. Weinstone Jack Stachel Bertram D. Wolfe, een eat ve The slogan of “Reward your friends and punish your enemies” has meant in practice the dividing of the work- ers and their betrayal to their ene- mies by these reactionary labor lead- ers for a price. This policy has poi- soned the mind of labor and made it an easy prey to class collaboration schemes in place of unyielding strug- gle for its own interest. The com- plete divorce of labor from the capi- talist parties and the establishment of a policy of independent political working class action thru a Labor Party is the immediate task of the workers of the state of New York. For a United Labor Ticket. HH Workers (Communist) Party has in recent years been the fore- most fighter for the formation of a Labor Party. In July of this year, it proposed to the Socialist Party of New York the establishment of a United Labor Ticket for the present campaign. The Socialist Party once again rejected this proposal. By this act it gives the lie to any declarations on its part that it favors the unity of labor and the establishment of united political action by the working class. The Socialist Party must once again bear responsibility, jointly with the reactionary labor officials, for the dividing of the forces of labor and for preventing the realization of a United Labor Ticket against the capi- talist parties in the present election campaign, HE Workers (Communist) Party has therefore been compelled to put forward its own candidates but Pledges itself to make the fight for the unity of labor’s forces politically and economically the center of its campaign. It will continue to call upon the Socialist Party and all other labor groups to join together for a united labor campaign against the capitalist class for the immediate needs of the divided and exploited workers, To this end, the Workers (Communist) Party stands ready to withdraw its candidates at any time during the campaign in favor of a United Labor Ticket if the other labor political groups will take similar ac- tion. Issues of the Campaign. HE Workers (Communist) Party while continuing its fight for a United Labor Ticket enters the cam- paign under its own banner and with its own candidates and calls upon the workers to unite under its banner in the fight for the following general de- Labor Legislation, 1, Legal enactment of the maxi- mum work day of eight hours and a five-day week on all public works. The initiation of such legislation and constitutional amendment as will make possible the eight-hour day for all workers. 2, The initiation of a full program of labor protection legislation in- cluding workmen’s compensation for all trades under state and private control, a full program of laws to pre- vent industrial accidents and occupa- tional diseases and the regular inspec- tion of factories, etc. by inspection boards having adequate representa- tion of the workers. 8. A full program of social insur- ance covering unemployment, health, old age, maternity insurance etc. 4. Special legislation for women in- cluding the eight-hour day and the five-day week, minimum wage, equal pay with men for the same work, pro- hibition of night work, mothers’ pen- sions, the establishment of public day nurseries and leave of absence with full pay for eight weeks before and after child-birth, 5. Abolition of all labor for chil- dren under the age of sixteen with a compensation of those families on which such a law would work eco- nomic hardship. Aid to all workers’ children up to the age of 16 where poverty would otherwise compel such children to leave school before that time, 6, The tight of organization and the right to strike for all state and city employes of any category includ- ing the police. 7. The prevailing union wage for all government employes and for all workers employed on any public works, 8. An adequate wage for teachers and other state and municipal em- ployes, Glant Power and Public Utilities. 1. The building up of a connected system of waterpower and other sour- ces of electrical energy with national, state and city ownership and control, with workers participation, for the generation and distribution of elec- tricity, 2. Retention of all natural resour- ces by the state. 3. “Municipal or state ownership and workers’ control thru participa- tion in the management of all public utilities such as: street car lines, sub- ways and elevated railways, works, light and power, telephone, etc. Housing. 1. The construction of dwellings by the municipalities for the workers to be rented to them without profit. Ade- quate representation shall be given to gas) the workers in the management of such houses. 2. State credits to the municipality for the above purpose, 3. The encouragement of non-profig making co-operatives for building con- struction by exemption from taxes And other fees and by loans at a low tate of interest, 4. Enforcement and extension of non-eviction, compulsory repairs, rent laws, and other measures tending tw curb the landlord’s profit greed, Schools. 1, Abolition of religious and mil+ itary training in the schools, 2. The right of the teachers to or+ ganize in labor untons. 8. No expulsion or discrimination: against teachers for holding beliefy inimical to the capitalist system. 4, Increased wage for teachers. 5. The extension of state credit to the municipalities where necessary for the building of an adequate num- ber of schools, 6. The maintenance of an adequatd teaching force to’ provide at least one teacher for every thirty pupils, Agrarian Legisiation, 1, Fostering of farmers’ co-opera= tives. Marketing organizations byt means of an adequate appropriatio for the establishment of a state tund for this purpose, the control and thet uce of the appropriation to be placed! in the hands of the farmers’ organiza< tions democratically organized and freed from the domination of the big capital- ists, their agents or organizations. 2, The establishment of state own- ed agrarian banks for the extensi of credit to individual farmers at rss rates of interest. 3. The establishment of public’ owned terminals, farm warehouses, ete. 4, Direct marketing to be under-: taken by the state from the farmer ti the consumer in such a way as to’ benefit small farmer and consumer alike, 5. Furnishing of light and power) to the farmer at cost under a state: owned power system, 6. Fixation of freight rates within) the state so as to end the exploitation of the poor farmer by the raflroads. THE WORKERS’ AND FARMERS™ GOVERNMENT AND THE OVER- THROW OF CAPITALISM. The above demands raised by the Workers (Communist) Party are only’ the expression of the most elementary needs of the workers. They are not put forward as a complete expression | of the alms of the working class which |can be freed from the oppression of |the bankers and trusts only by the | overthrow of capitallsm and the estab, |lishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ | Government. Min, aes WORKERS HAVE BEEN FOOLED TOO LONG BY CAPITALIST POLITICS; WHY NOT BUILD A LABOR PARTY? A FEW months ago, Governor Smith’s recommendations and policies set his republican legislature agog. “Paternalistic,” even “socialistic,” were the epithets hurled at his projects by indignant fossils. Erection of houses for the poor, financed by a state housing bank, workmens’ compensation and minimum wage laws, the forty-eight hour week for women—these were his paternalistic policies, They All Do It. Governor Smith admits that he is protecting the “rights of the people”; he stands for the “service of the peo- ple.” So do all the old party politi- cians. In a country where universal sufferage prevails, it is necessary for all candidates to win the support of the masses by appearing to advocate their demands. Even the blackest reactionaries, fresh from the con- claves of capitalist paymasters, mount the campaign platform to fawn upon the “people.” It works. The working class believes them; the votes roll mands of the workers of America and | in. the vital needs of the working class of New York: HE New York State Platform en- dorses the national platform is- sued by the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, These demands in- clude: a downward revision of the tariff upon necessities used by the workers and farmers; for throwing the burdens of taxation on the big corporations and multimillionaire cap- {talists; against anti-labor legislation; laws against foreign-born; against the use of injunctions against workers on strike; for the repeal of the Watson- Parker Bill and all simlar legislation; for Negro equality and for repeal of all laws discriminating. against the Negro in a word, for social equality for the Negro; for the enactment of a constitutional amendment against child labor; for freedom for class war prisoners; for relief from unemploy- ment in textile, clothing and mining industries; against militarism and im- perialism; for recognition of the Soviet Union, These are part of the demands of the National Program. For complete statement of demands see the Con- gressional Election Program issued by the Workers (Communist) Party of America, New York State Demands. 1. The abolition of the use of in- junctions and the police in labor disputes, 2, The repeal of all legislation limiting the right to strike and picket. 8, Absolute freedom of speech, press and assemblage. 4, Repeal of the criminal anarchy law, 5. Eliminaton of the use of gang: sters against the workers dn ° la 01 Al Smith, however, in addition to pre-election promises, has stood for certain measures heralded as tending to improve the conditions of the work- ing class. If a worker hears that Smith wants to tear down whole blocks of mouldy tenements and put up fresh, sanitary homes at low rents, he may very well think, “This man is for me; he is the one for me to fol- low.” Hence the policy of Smithism demands a close scrutiny. Can Smithism fulfill the needs of the workers? . Poor on Delivery. Very few of Smith’s reform meas- ures have been actually enactéd. We have some workmen's compensation acts (most of them with strings tied to them); we have compulsory edu- cation laws. But where are the forty- eight hours a week for women, the minimum wage law? These have not been enacted by the legislature. And is Smith a sincere friend of the workers? In April, 1925, and again in May, 1926, he vetoed the Ricca Bill raising teachers’ salaries, which had received such wholesale support from the voters of the state that in 1925 the legislature passed it unan- imously. During Governor Smith's encumbency we have seen a state police force given the right to inter- fere in case of riots. How Does this Happen? What does this mean? That these state troopers can be brought out in a strike to crush the workers. We have here the beginning of such an organization as the murderous Penn- sylvania state constabulary. In ‘the big cities, workers are clubbed on the picket line—by whom?—by the asters hired by the bosses? Yi Smith is governor. The garment workers and the fur- riers of New York can show witi broken heads and bruised bodies what protection Governor Smith has given them. Injunctions granted by the courts to employers against striking workers are commonplace. One can hardly pick up a newspaper without seeing this or that group of workers enjoined from striking, from collect- ing funds, from picketing. That gOv- ernor is quite a “friend” of the work- ers who shuts his eyes to such tramp- ling upon their rights. Fooled too Long. The workers have been fooled long enough by such officials. The only representatives of the workers are those elected by a mass party of the workers, by a labor party. On the economic field, whatever rights or im- provements the workers have won for themselves have been won thru the trade unions whose organized power has combatted the industrial power of the employers. So, on the political field, a labor party, composed of millions of work- ers, can send their own representa- tives to the legislatures, Only when the workers act for themselves can ay fight the mighty forces against them, Picnic Sunday Calls New York Workers to Enjoy Hunters Island NEW YORK CITY, Sept, 21.~This Sunday, September 26, a picnic and hike to Hunter’s Island, the North+ east corner of Pelham Bay/Park, will ‘be held under the auspices of The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club of New York, This picnic takes the place of the one that was drowned by the rain two ks ago. Special arranges ments with the woatheriman assure floods of sunshine instead of rain thie time, The hike will start from tho end of the Pelham Bay Subway line on Westchester Avenue, Bronx, at eleven o'clock, and covers about three miles, Those that do not care to hike cam take a bus from the eame place, We will send sample iN gem re Yn gy MS al \