The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1927, Page 6

Page Six French Communist Party Has Powerful Daily to Reach Oppressed Masses J. LOUIS ENGDAHL By All native Paris ners. The elde nd where the Rue de la P: Opera, thought it quite natural eyes keen d The Chicago Tribune. I als sked for a cop many cop zled w dently had not y woman, ther se the Paris editions of The New But she v of Hu WHO AM I? I am a farmer who specializes | in manicured hogs. | I married the daughter of a . | man whose name is surrounded j by oaths when travellers are try- | ing to get in or out of an upper berth. < | I am a candidate for the G. O. | P. nomination for president. | I am ready to promise the workers and farmers anything in return for their votes. | (If you are stuck write for * | the answer to the Who Am I edi- tor of The DAILY WORKER.) ned to r Algy and Norman in Their Lighter Moods - §. P. Leaders Fight War (By Our War Correspondent.) | | The Reverend Doctor Norman Thomas, and his cohort, | “Professor” Algernon Lee, set out the other night “to/ help the young kids along.” It happened that the Young | Peoples Socialist League (in case you don’t recall what the letters Y. P. S. L. stand for) was holding an anti-war meeting at 10th St. and 2nd Ave. Algy and Norman were among the speakers. The | meeting was scheduled for 8 o’clock, so, according to this | By D. MARETCKY. ¥. (Conclusion.) From the foregoing it will be seen | what attitude international Bolshe- vism takes in regard to war. The international Bolshevists are in duty bound: 1. to oppose an imperialistic war with their might, to permit “no war between the great slave-owners for the maintenance and consolidation of slavery” (Lenin); 2. to guard care- fully against the possibility of an attack on the part of the allied im- rialistic slave-owners on the Soviet quite Against the War Danger The Future War and the Working Class Now Preparing Next War. The question, whether the imper- ialists will succeed during the next historic period in bringing about and carrying on a great war will be de- cided, as are all great questions in public life, by the course of the class struggle in the world and by the re- \lation of strength and activity of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The imperialists are preparing the war openly. The question, the decisive, main question, is whether it will be possible to get millions of men to go to war, for an imperialist drifted | of the neh Commur Party to An the French capital. T had secured pa: |writer’s information, the Rand school twins around at ten after. 4 Norman was dressed characteristically. war carried on according to “all the rules of the art” can only be a war of the masses. | Union; 8. to carry on the most deter- PESO {mined fight against the “punitive” Wearing dark | campaign already begun by the’ im- eee CLARIFYING POLITICAL ISSUES IN THE MINNESOTA ge upon the York. But it fast boat to leave would not sail for th get acquainted with th the French Commur of course, as if | manite, at 142 rbourg for da It was on commune made when the Commu and defied the ¢ were dislodged by the gov and the batterie Communards pc Lachaise. It is pi this di * * Rue Montmartre is 2e days in which to st bid for power on March 18, 1871, seized 250 cannons on La Butte} ine hiers. nment troops on May 24th Tabor Alderman the of Montmartre were then turned on the} ajso the don La Butte, Chaumont and Pere | ders of the trade union movement. ted out that some of the streets in| rict are very narrow, making it easy to close | the elections of 1925 the Labor mem-| them with hastily erected barricades. narrow and winding. The neigh-/ that yea | is clearly a printing house section,|/roads already made by the Mayor| tion of the workers and work for the LABOR MOVEMENT ciple to. the Farmer-Labor Party and who constitute the backbone of the Leach machine in the trade unions. | 2. Part of the right wing trade} union leadership and some center| elements who are opposed to the; affiliation of the trade union move-} ment to the Farmer-Labor Associa- | s and to study tracted first, of the |’Hu- MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 15.—; the June on the Farme: r movement locally and throughout the state, | it is neces: to review bri what | polit was just prior to the elections, the attitude of the in office and position taken by the lea- both The revolutionists tion, but who support the Farmer-| Labor Party as individuals. Their at-| titude on the question of working class political action renders first-class sup- | port to the right wing. | We must call to mind that before | bers of the Council numbered four-| 3. A small group of trade union | teen—a majority of the seats. In| leaders who accept the Farmer-Labor| r, due principally to the in-| Association as the political organiza- | suit, carefully creased trousers, shirt open at the neck, his hair’combed back, in the opinion of one member of the audience, he was either going to speak on “industrial | democracy” or some patent medicine. Immediately his young friends paid their homage. Dis- tantly, he greeted the young men with a “How de do.” The gals, however, got a pleasant smile and a handshake. | Gallantry, you know, is alive even in a democracy. ever, the smile became less prominent, and the Tencstake | more absent when Norman saw he was becoming an} object of interest. | + ' * * Immediately the reporters of the capitalist press clus- copy’ by the capitalist press, because he’s ‘“‘so naive”! | Algy, with a bundle of papers under his arm for effect, | horned in on the group. Even though he didn’t look} very socialistic with a brand new palm beach suit and a panama hat on, he evidently thought he might “yes” | | ses of all countries to support in the pea active manner the revolutionary | lic in case the imperialists should ever borhood of “N: r | like Williams Street in New York City, or Federal Street} Leach machine in the trade union} affiliation of all local unions, but in Chicago. L’Humanite is only one of many publica-| movement (85 per cent of the Busi-| who have been terrorized by the tions housed in the same building. business offices occupy two entire floors. So we have a rather dif he finds anot | offers a basis of communication. Marcel Cachin, the edi-| and without a candidate for Mayor) tor, is in the chamber of deputies, of which he is a mem- | because a treachery of the right wing ber and the leader of the Communist faction. Jacques|of the trade union leadership, who, | Doriot has just returned from China and is now before | due to their “loyalty” to the so-called | a committee of the French chamber of deputies repiying-| “good” candidate and “friend” of La-|the extreme right wing of the trade | to charges that he made seditious speeches at Canton, | bor, Mayor Leach, refused to allow} tending to disturb the tranquility of French colonial rule/ the filing of a Labor Party candidate in Indo-China. Henri Barbusse, author of several books | for the office of mayor, on the world war, who is literary editor, is out of town} In the last elections, the situation on his vacation. | was subtantially the same, except I decide that on the morrow, I shall go to. the Chamber | that the Labor Councilmen numbered of Deputies. So today I spend my time with Gabriel | only eight, who were, with the ex-| Peri, the foreign editor of l’Humanite, who speaks very | ception of Alderman Scott, opposed good English, reminding me of Comrade Icok, foreign | to the filing of a candidate for editor of the Pravda, in Moscow. Peri is a constant con- | Mayor, and with Alderman Hanscom tributor to the Internatiogal Press Correspondence. | taking the lead in the fight within * * * the Farmer-Labor Assqgiation to Founded by Jean Jaures. head off the endorsement of a full L’Humanite was founded by Jean Jaures, in 1904, and| ticket. The Henrepin County Centval | remained the central organ of the French Socialist Party | Committee, just prior to the primar-| for many years. During the war Jean Longuet founded | ies on May 9th, sponsored the calling} another socialist daily, Le Populaire. When the split| of a delegated Conference of all work- came in France between the socialists and the Commu-| !?& class organizations, with em-| nists, the Communists took the l’Humanite with them and|Phasis on the Trade Unions, to air| ¢ kept it as the central organ of the Communist Par- and fully discuss the question of a) ty. Jaures was assassinated by a French jingo on the| full ticket. At this meeting which eve of the outbreak of the world war in 1914. Huge| Was well attended, with representa- demonstrations are held annually by the Communists on| tives from trade unions, working-| the anniversary of Jaures martyrdom, and l’Humanite carries on its first page, upper left hand. corner, “Fon- eateur, Jean Jaures.” Jean Longuet, who was used for years by the Second (Socialist) International as the butt of its attack on the Communist International, is now foreign editor of Le Papulaire, the socialist organ, of which the extreme right : stner, Leon Blum, is now the chief editor. | Conference, defeated the left wing} A be 7 hae rev ented the endorsement of a i Wumauite 4s) \8bly Stated: jeandidate for mayor. It is very evident that I’Humanite has an able staff.) It is also necessary, in order to Comrade Peri tells me that 20 comrades are actively en-| Understand fully the confusion with-| gaged on the paper. This reminds me of our own bare/|!" the movement, to show the forces half dozen on The DAILY WORKER. involved and the reasons for the pe- Cachin is the chief editor. Vaillant Couturier, also a|CUliar line-up on the member of the chamber of deputies, is an editorial writer, | Westion of a full ticket: ’ Peri is foreign editor. Barbusse is literary editor which| ,.1-_ The right wing trade union of- also includes supervision of book rveiews, theater and kino criticisms, and whatever concerns the radio that| goes into the paper. Barbusse also selects available fic- tion. This does not mean that Barbusse does all this alone. He has at least five assistants collaborating with | him. Peri also has four assistants. There are five in| the trade union news department. Andre Delahy is the political writer. Considerable attention is given to sports, | in fact, during my visit a long distance bicycle rider, | who had attracted considerable attention, ended his race against time before large throngs that acclaimed him} on his arrival in front of our Communist daily. * * * Quarter Million Subscription List. . The subscription list of 1’Humanite now totals a quar- ter of a million readers. But it is the only Communist daily in France. The individual circulation of the Ger- man Communist dailies are much smaller, but fhere are 36 of these German dailies. But today l’Humanite issuing a special edition against the new military law that is being foisted on the French working class with the aid of the socialists. In fact, the new mobilization law is sponsored by the socialist, Paul Boncourt. It provides for forcing all men, women and even children into the war machine immediately the war is declared. The Communists alone fight this law, that will wipe out all workers’ organizations simultaneously with the new war’s inception. The proposal by the so- cialist, Boncourt, has been accepted by the government as its own, glorying in the prospect of “the mobilization of every citizen without distinction of age or sex, in case of war.” * * " liberal organizations, the right wing} |labor leaders of the Leach machine} |and the Labor Councilmen who had | opposed the full ticket idea within the Farmer-Labor Association, came to- gether on common ground in the | | important | ULDINE UTLEY, REV. Os _— . News Service Well Organized. Our French daily has a well organized news service, It gets the telegraph news of “Tass” (Russian Telegraph Agency) and of Havas, the official French telegraph service, In/addition l’Humanite has special correspondents in every city of any importance in France. There are 10| of these paid correspondents, whild about 40 are unpaid. There are also paid foreign correspondents in London, Berlin, Brussels and Rome, while the closest touch is kept with the news sources in the Soviet Union, * * * Worker Correspondents in Paris. L’Humanite has worker corresp)ndents in every great | factory in Paris. About 200 of thse are organized into | 20 Worker Correspondents’ Group A campaign has now been st: movement to all parts of the nati trade union department of the pa of the country for this purpose. | Thus the Communist Party of Frare,bilds its ddily organ, bringing it into closer and closer contact with the masses of the French workers and farmers. Pravda, in Moscow; Der Rote Fahne,-in Berlin, and VHumanite, in Paris, are the three leading Communist dailies in the world, that the Communists in the United States and other countries may well study in building more Such mass organs of the working class. d to broaden this, Members of the | will make a tour) ficialdom who are opposed in prin-| eftiom. The editorial and! ness Agents and other trade union of-' drive of the A. F. of L. officialdom| ficials were in this machine) six La-|on the Communists and left wing in| The comrade who receives visitors speaks only French.| bor aldermen were defeated after a| the labor movement, and who lack the | cult time of it; but only until} campaign in which the left wing of | necessary confidence in the rank andj er comrade who speaks German, which} the movement fought almost alone) file to unite with the left wing andj oppose openly the destructive policy of the right wing. 4, Qutside of the trade unions, but working in complete harmony with union leadership is the Van Lear machine. Van Lear, once Socialist mayor, controls the ‘Daily Star,” the paper stolen from the workers and now used to support Mayor Leach and} to attack in the most vicious manner to the Labor Alderman and the Far- |mer-Labor Association. 5. The Labor Councilmen, who with the above-mentioned exception, opposed the endorsement of a labor candidate for Mayor, because of a gentlemen’s political agreement to support Alderman Turner, Republi- can Alderman from the 7th (Han- scom’s ward) Ward, for Mayor; and, as Alderman Hanscom, their spokes- man, expressed it—‘“not to be ham- pered in-the campaign with a Labor candidate fpr Mayor who would act as a drag and would defeat the La- bor Councilmen for re-election.” 6. The left wing and the Commu- | men’s clubs, women’s auxiliaries and|-pists, whose program can be briefly stated as follows: (a) Affiliation to the Farmer-La- bor Association of all working class organizations with particular atten- tion to the local unions. (b) Building, at the present time, the Ward Clubs of the Farmer-Labor Association. (c) Filing in all elections of full tickets. (d) Regular meeting of the Hen- nepin County Central Committee. (e) Placing of responsibility for the conduct of election campaigns in the hands of the regularly constituted organs of the Farmer-Labor Asso- (Continued tomorrow) STRATON’S NEMESIS This Fresno, Calif. girl intended to go on the stage, but Aimee Semple McPherson, before her notorious *kidnapping” episode persuaded her there was more profit in religion. She preaches with considerable appearance of|from its readers stating their views on the issues con- emotionalism, so much so that her sermons in the church of the reactionary | fronting the labor movement. fundamentalist, John Roach Straton, helped to convince part of his flock that| velop a “Letter Box” department that will be of wide|Democratic Press do this constantly he was leaning towards Holy Rollerism, It has also been charged several | interest to all members of The DAILY WORKER family. | they hereby prove that they are direct times that she becomes nervously unbalanced while in the pulpit, But the|Send in your letter today to “The Letter Box,” The|ullies of Imperialism in its fight moron’s fall for her in her tent by the Yankee Stadium, x Norman with some effect. Although this writer couldn’t join the group, since Algy and Norman would rather be quoted in the capitalist press than the working class press, everything Gallagher and Sheehan from 15th St. said furnished him with good copy. Too bad one can’t keep reporters for The DAILY WORKER a mile away from socialist meetings. They’re bound to find out the truth about the decay of the so- cialist party. * mm « “What are you going to speak about, Mr. Thomas?” the reporters respectfully inquired. | “Wal-l,” Thomas was heard to answer, with amazing frankness, “You know I don’t know a single new thing to say on this subject.” | “There isn’t anything new to say,” pitched in Algy, {his yes-man. | “Don’t you think the disarmament conference is really a conference on armament?” a reporter suggested. “Oh yes,” Thomas replied, in a relieved tone. Then he echoed the statement. Algy nodded approval. The re- porters scribbled a hasty note: ‘Thinks disarmament con- ference a conference on armament.’ The heat became a subject for comment. Norman called the chariman, and asked if he had time to go to 11th St. to get a glass of beer. The chairman registered embarrassment. Norman looked at the reporters, and thought better of it. The conference was resumed. * * * Talk drifted around to The DAILY WORKER. Thomas first admitted he read it. Maybe Algy gave him a dirty look, but anyhow, he hastily explained that he used to read it, “but it got under my skin, so I cut it out.” “Can’t you get valuable information from it?” he was asked, Algy got a word in. “One can learn something, if one reads it backwards,” he said with a silly smile, expecting to hear uproarious laughter greet his wise-crack. He only got a question, “You’re well known for your ability at interpretation, so you shouldn’t have any trouble.” A black look. Algy didn’t like that dirty dig. Only a handful of people had turned out for the meet- ing. Norman apologized to the agreeable reporters. “It’s hard to get people to turn out in weather like this,” he said. “Al and I only came over to help the young kids along.” Algy smiled, benevolently. ‘4 * * * A cloakmaker came over. “Here,” said Thomas, as though he were showing exhibit A, “Here is a chap that was beaten up last week in the furrier’s strike.” The cloakmaker liked the publicity. “Yeh!” he said illuminatingly. “The left wing is attacking our people—” Thomas be- gan, but he was interrupted by the cloakmaker who in- terjected, “It wasn’t the left wing. I got in the way of @ cop.” Norman swallowed hard. Here was a situation that would never meet the approval of Abraham Shiplacoff and Jimmy Oneal. Algy saved the day. He brought up Coolidge. “God must be on the side of Coolidge,” Norman said, as profoundly as ever he spoke in a presbyterian pulpit. “He’s always making mistakes, and being saved mirac- ulously.” * * * Then the talk, for want of tonics apparently, drifted around to the Rand School. Algy’s face lighted up. He had found something funny to say. “You know, James Fuchs is a funny old cuss. Apparently he’s joined the Volkszeitung group. Whenever he writes an article for them, he always makes a slurring remark about the Rand School, and my connection with it. You know, that’s just because he’s sore because I didn’t let him have a lecture- ship at the school this season.” Norman laughed, Algy had thought up a good one. After all, by sprinkling plenty of C-N around, he might be able to cover up the decay of the Rand School for another year. Then they spoke. Neither of them had anything to say, but how they said it. Algy grimaced, gesticulated, and rolled his pseudo-Oxford accent like a veteran Indian medicine doctor, Norman ranted and snorted, did every- thing but whinney. The reporters walked to telephones, but apparently their papers weren’t interested in the story they hashed up, because nothing was printed, * * * How is it that the capitalist press considered a so- cialis anti-war open-air meeting worth covering? Well, it wasn’t because Algy and Norman were scheduled to speak before the handful of Yipsels who had gathered. It was because they had sent out a press-agent story, written perhaps by Jimmy Oneal, lover of truth—as he sees it. It said: “Ten thousand people are expected....” and went on, concluding with “it is expected that mem- bers of the Young Workers League wil! attempt to break up the meeting, but we will defend our constitutional rights.” The Y. W. L. members, naturally, didn’t show up. They aren’t, Yipsels to the contrary nothwithstand- ing, ghouls. SEND IN YOUR LETTERS The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters It is our hope to de- DAILY WORKER, 33 First street, New York City. | nerialists against revolutionary China; 4, to mobilise the broad mas- military defence of the Soviet Repub- attack the Soviet Union; 5. in case} the great imperialistic war, to strive | persistently to transform this war into a civil war. Must Expose War Threats. this purpose, however, | | For it is| |tered around him. Norman, you see, is considered good | necessary that there should be a sys-| tematic, persevering, obstinate cam- | paign of exposure and _ prevention} against the war. | The whole of the political work of | the Communist Party must be linked ) up with the fight. against the danger | of war. The fight against Facism } |and the growing pan-European Re-} action must also be carried on stub- | | bornly as a fight against the danger | of war; the adventurous foreign | policy of theFascist States must be! continually pilloried, the spread of | Fascism in the army must be count- | ered, and the real meaning of the Fascist coup d‘Etat in the countries | bordering on the Soviet Union, as | |also Chamberlain’s policy to create | |a Fascist cordon along the Soviet frontier, must be exposed. Show Up Pacifism. It is necessary to disclose in Lenin- ist fashion the whole senselessness of | pacifism, of bourgeois as well as pet- ty-bourgeois pacifism, its absolute emptiness and its complete political impotence. Never Forget 1914-1918. | The open political fight against in- | ternational Democracy is of special urgency. In this matter, tiie sections of the Communist Internstional are in a very favorable position. For considerations as intelligible as they are base, the Social Democrats do not like to -be reminded of their inglori- ous conduct during the world war. For this reason the Communists must propagate with all the more persist- ence the lessons of the years 1914 to 1918 and recall them to the minds of the masses. Will Again Betray Labor. { The present leaders of the Socialist | parties will again prove treacherous, | they will again be the purveyors of | eannon-fodder again daily in the ante-| |chambers of ministries and general! staffs (they are already sitting there: Paul Boncour & Co.), they will again invent “sacred aims” of the war and drag out from the arsenal of history |the slogans of the “defence of home and country”, of the best of native countries, of the native country of finance-capital. Social Democracy, and even its! ‘left” wing, carries on no real fight against the danger of war, nor can) it do so. The Social-Democratic leaders merely give themselves out | to be. opponents of war. It is not| possible for one to fight against way, so long as one countenances the maintenance and promotion of im- perialism and white-washes its vil- lanies. Kautsky’s “Scoundrels.” Karl Kautsky admitted on May 1st in a sudden fit of candour that the battle-cry of the present international policy is: “Scoundrels of all countries, unite!” The fortunate patriarch of International Socialism “forgot”, however, to add that the ‘scoundrels | of all countries” run the League cf Nations, that Mussolini plays the role | of the beautiful Benjamin in the, League of Nations, though in reality | he is only Chamberlain’s right hand, | that Chamberlain directs the whole | Furopean policy under the slogan! {Beat the Soviets,” that Social Demo-| eracy with its agitation against the | Soviet Union constantly backs up! Chamberlain, that the first violin in) this agitation is played by German) Social Democracy, the party of Karl | ‘Kautsky himself. It seems to us that, not only do the “scoundrels of all countries” unite, they also draw Social Democracy into their league. Special mention must surely be made | of the Social Democratic legend of the so-called Imperialism of the Sovi- et. Union or of “Red Imperialism”. Social Democracy would much rather spread this legend than tell the mas- ses the truth about real Imperialism | and its armaments. A Low Accusation. | To accuse the Soviet Union ot “imperialist” aims is just as vil-| Jainons as to place on the same level the atmies of the imperialistic coun- tries and the army of the Socialist revolution, the Red Army. How is it possible to’compare predatory capi- talist militarism with the promotion of the proletarian dictatorehip’s abil- ity to defend itself? i And as the hacks of the Social- against the Socialist state. Socialists Prepare Treachery. This is a question of power, a ques- tion of concrete historic fight. On the one hand, the whole armored might of Imperialism, its complete apparatus of lies, hypocrisies, sug- gestion and’ compulsion, will be How-| it-should prove imposible to prevent | thrown into the scale of war and peace. In the same way, Interna- ional Social Democracy will work in the same direction’ for winning the “power of the masses” for war. If the new slaughter of the people really comes about, it will in a huge measure be the work of Social De- mocracy. It is even possible that a portion of the Communist Press will display “shameless conduct,” for which Lenin has already prepared the Bolshevists. We should not be Marxists, if we did not consider in a sober fashion our chances, i.e., the possibilities of preventing a big war or of trans- forming it into a civil war. Last War Hunts World. 1. The whole of humanity, pnd es- pecially the working class, still re- members the year 1914,-still thinks of relatives and friends who were dragged into the international slaugh- ter: tens of thousands of cripples and invalids are still living. 2. To deceive the masses 2 second time with the “humane” purposes of | the war will be more difficult than it was the first time, even the virtuosi of Social-Democratic lies will not succeed in this case. It is not out of the question that, if a portion of the Communist. Press collapses consider- able strata of Social-Democratie and even independent workers will. re- frain from following Social-Democ- racy. 3. In place of Tsarist Russia with its “outspoken Reaction” (Lenin) we have the proletarian Soviet Union, | which pursues a distinct policy of peace, which in face of the blood- thirsty policy of the imperialists is the only safe refuge of international peace. 4, There is now a powerful Com- munist International, which did not exist in 1914, 5. The East of 1927 js not the same as that of the year 1914. At {that time the Orient still slumbered. Today even the backward bourgeoisie papers speak of the “awakening” of China. 6. If the world conflagration breaks out and its front is the frontiers of the proletarian and of the Capitalist States, there will be good chances in favor of the proletarian State in the fight against the Imperialists, even if the latter are superior in war technics. The incitement to civil war in our country, the experience of the famous Churchill “attack of the 18 States,” have shown the Imperial- ists how difficult it is to makewar upon a country, in which there is no ruling class of land-owners and capi- ists. The “strength of the masses” is a prime factor in the fight of the army of the proletariat. An even if the mechanism of the Imperialistic war on two fronts converted the im- perialist war into a, civil war (rise of the first Soviet State and founding of the Comintern), the fact gf an im- perialist war on a single front, i.e., the fight of class against class with- in an international war—will trans- form such a war the more quickly into a civil war, behind the front, in th earmies of Reaction. In:the com- ing big war of the “white” and “red” roses, Imperialism is in danger of finding its grave. tome cd J Merle Davis, above, is the general secretary of the Insti- tute of Pacific Relations, holding its at Honolulu, Ha- waii July 15-29, to discuss deli- cate problems of the Pacific countries, such as and the relations of