The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1927, Page 4

Page Four ae j vo ‘ id THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1927 ‘THE DAILY WORKER Published by (ke DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, i Daily, Except Sunday 6S Firet Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 Cable Addrezs: “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 96.50 six months $2.60 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE BEPT MILLER...... . Editors Business Manager —— Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. —<$—$<—< Advertising rates om applicatioly Internal Tammany Fight Reveals Graft. In the drive of the Tammany Hall administration against its dissenting hang-overs from the Hylan administration the public is being treated to as rare an expose of graft as we have had for many a day. The report of Mayor Walker’s “investigator” of the health department, former Supreme Court Justice Charles H. Kelby, re- veals the frightful manner in which Tammany Hall gambles with the very lives of millions of inhabitants of the city. The report is, of course, plainly partisan to the Walker administration, but its findings apply alike to all Tammany Hall administrations. It declares, in part, that: “The evidence of a general condition of corruption in the food inspection service of the health department prior to the present ad- ministration is overwhelming.” The most common form of graft in this department was the bribery of “inspectors” who granted permission to dealers to sell dangerous and adulterated food to the public. Some inspectors were known as “package men.” This class, instead of taking cash money, took packages of food. But by far the larger number took plain graft in the form of money in return for permission to sell poisonous food. Another form of graft was practiced by inspec- tors, who entered stores and continually found fault ‘with trivial irregularities until, in despair, graft was paid to get rid of them. The ramifications of the grafters extended in all directions. If certain dealers wanted to destroy a competitor, they simply paid the inspectors to close his place. Two instances of this sort are pointed out in the report t able sum, of two retail poultry dealers on the eve of a Jewish holiday. The other Jewish dealers got the benefit of this graft. Milk dealers who had had their: permits revoked after re- peated violations were again given permits on payment of from 50 to $500. ruption in this department of the administration alone. Unsophisticated persons may read these exposures and im- agine them to be the exception, but all who live in New York and observe the workings of any recent city administration, or even the state administration for that matter, know that the vast edifice known as Tammany Hall is built upon graft and graft alone. Everything from a license to operate a motor vehicle to a Jicense to erect a skyscraper has its set price in the form of graft Tat must be paid. Tammany maintains its influence over its adgerents and demands loyalty only on the promise of opportu- nitigs for graft. The present exposures are due to the fact that the Walker administration is intent upon cleaning out all the hang-overs of the Hylan administration, Any other department of the city could be subjected to the same sort of expose with the identical results. The revelations of the health department are particularly horrible, inasmuch as they affect the very lives of millions of workers, because most of the low, dirty bourgeois swine who pay graft to Tammany’s inspectors maintain their stores in working class sections. If such a state of affairs existed in the establish- ments selling food to the plutocracy we would hear a howl that would send the grafters scurrying for cover. As usual, the work- ing class is the chief sufferer from this sort of thing. Mayor Walker left last night for a trip to Europe, where he intends to meet King George, President Hindenburg and Musso- lini. He could give the king and Hindenburg pointers on how to raise graft to aid in raising their budgets, without increasing taxes. As for Mussolini, he might be convinced by Tammany’s “Broadway butterfly mayor” that there are other ways to raise funds besides plain pillage. ; ‘This report of the rotten conditions in the health department ‘should arouse the workers of the city to a realization of the fact that Tammany Hall is one of the greatest-menaces to human life and impel them to support labor candidates at the coming elec- tions, who will fight against food pollution and ‘all the other forms of graft that make Tammany a murderous, malignant power. Lowden to Try to Salvage Ku Klux Indiana for Dawes. That the candidacy for the republican presidential nomination of Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois, is nothing more nor less than a campaign for Vice President Charles G. Dawes, is clearly indicated by the announcement that Lowden is to enter the Indiana primaries and seek the approval of the republican voters of that notorious Ku Klux state. ; Indiana is a cesspool of graft and corruption reminiscent of the condition of affairs in the neighboring state of Ohio when the Daugherty machine was at the height of its glory in 1920, _when its ‘favorite son,’ Warren G. Harding, was nominated for president. The difference between Ohio in 1920 and Indiana today is that the Ohio graft did not become public until after the election, while the graft revelations of the ex-political boss of Indiana republicanism, Daniel C. Stephenson, now serving a prison term for the sadistic murder of a young woman, are public property. Dawes, who is a candidate backed by a very powerful element of the republican party, would not risk the odium of endorsement by the Indiana republican machine, but still he needs the support of the Indiana delegates at the 1928 convention, so the game is to have Lowden, his stalking horse, run in the Indiana primaries, obtain the delegation and, at the proper moment during the na- tional republican convention, turn them over to Dawes. By util- izing such political trickery Dawes will be shielded from the odium of Ku Kluxism, which is decidedly in bad odor outside a few benighted middle-west localities, where the night-gown and hood is the emblem of the petty béurgeois political aspirations. Thus one of the favorite Wall Street candidates gets the ad- vantage of the support of the putrid middle class elements in the Ku Klux belt without becoming identified with them. q ‘ STORET. at involved the closing, for a consider- | Thousands of cases could be cited to prove the wholesale cor- { \ |TO ALL D.O’s., EDITORS, AND ALL| 11. All District Conventions PARTY UNITS | should take place not later than Aug- bie NG just 2ist. Dear Comrades: 12. In the New York District there The Central Executive Committee | shall be no sub-district convention. of the Workers (Communist) Party, 18. The Young Workers League ‘with the approval of the Executi National Executive Committee and Committee of the Communist Interna-| other existing ‘sub-divisions (com- tional, herewith issues the call for|mittees) of the Young Workers the Fifth Regulat Convention of our| League parallel to the Party sub- Party, to convene on Wednesday,| divisions (committees) shall elect August 31st, 3 |three representatives to the respec- In accordance with the decision of| tive conventions on the basis of two the Communist International, all de-| delegates for the majority and one tails for the technical arrangements,| delegate for the minority—where basis of representation, etc., have|there exists a majority and minority. been prepared by the Committee for| The delegates of the Young Workers | the Preparations of the Party Con-| League shall not be entitled to vote, | vention. All units should take iiote | however, when their votes are decisive jof the following information: | | in the respective conventions. * | I.—Basis of Representation” 14. Comrades more than six 1. The establishment of quotas of} Months in arrears after August 8rd delegates from nuclei to the con-| Shall not be allowed to vote in the ventions shall be based upon the) élections even though they are pre- average amount of dues paid duving| pared to pay up their dues before the months of February, March, April| the elections take place. ; and May of 1927, Ji.—Proportional Representation. 2. Representation from District) The" system of proportional repre- Conventions to the National Conven-| sentation to be applied by the Party tion shall be based upon the averaged | is a8 follows: | number of dues paid in the respective|_ | in accordance with Article 2, districts during the months of {Section 1, of the Party Constitution: | | Februar March and April of 1927. “No election of delegates to any con- For every 200 members in good stand- | ference or convention shy] be valid un- ing during this period, there shall be| less 55 per cent of the good standing elected one delegate, {members in the Party unit partici- | 8. Upon this basis the respective | pated’ in the Party elections.” | distri are entitled to the following| 16. Voting of the nuclei for the presentation: | slates of the Majority of the Poleom and th> Opposition shall take place | Headquarter Number of | on the of voting for the Reso- District City Delegates lution of the Poleom Maj y and ap Boston 3 | the. Kesolation of the Opposition. 1.2 New York 15 | 4%, Where a nucleus is entitled | 8 Philadelphia 3 jto one deiegate that slate which se- | 4 Buffalo 1 cures the maior’+- >> gets the dele- is $30 Pittsburgh 3 | gate with oné full vote. | 6 Cleveland 2 | 18. For nuclei entitled to two dele- sec Detroit 2 4 gates the attached table of votes shall | 8 Chicago 5 apply: this table herewith worked out | 9 Minneapolis 4 aims to cover all possible combina- | 10 Kansas City 1 | tions of votes in the nuclei entitled 12 Seattle : 2 |to two delegates. | 13 San Francisco 2 | é | 15 New Haven 1 TABLE OF VOTES AND DELE- | Agricultural District 1 |GATES FOR NUCLEI ENTITLED | Young Workers League 3 TO TWO DELEGATES | ] (12 Present and Voting) | 4. From the nuclei to section, city | Total No. Voting Voting Power {and sub-district. conventions there | { Delegates should be elected one delegate for)... 3 ; 4 ; ; | every five members or haw fravtion | Maj. -Min. Maj. ‘Min. Maj. Min. | thereof in good standing during the} 12 0 2 0 0 | period of February, March, April and) 11 1 2 1 % | May of 1927. bi gate ee 1 % | 5. From section. conventions to! 9. 38 ° 2 a kd | city conventions there should be elec-; 8 4 2 1 % | ted one delegate for each ten mem-! 7 5 1 1 % |bers or major fraction thereof in| 6 6 1 1 good standing during _the period of; (11 Present ‘and tend A March, April and May of| 4; 9. 9 ue 9 | 6. From city conventions and sub-| 2. : ; = % | district conventions to district con-| 8 3 2 1 % | ventions there should be elected one| = D san p 1 % 7 % | delegate for each 25 members or ma-| 6 5 1 fi 3% jor fraction thereof in good standing : 4 during the period of February,| (10-Present: and March, April and May of 1927. fr dO Ere rae 0 7. Nuclei shall send delegates to) 9 1 2 1 section, city or sub-district conven-| 8 ae, 1 tions where these are held in their} 7 3 2 1 | respective territories. Isolated nuc-| 6 4 1 1 ais llei or such nuclei in those cases where} 5 5 1 1 1 only dstrict conventions are held, may | (9 Present and Voting) | Send delegates directly to the District! 4 0 2 0 2 0 Convention on the basis of one dele-| 8 1 2 1 4-24 gate for each 25 members or major; > foge fraction. thereof. ‘ 2 1 1 1% i .8. Where there exist a number 6 3 1 1 Ls % |of cities without city central com-| ® 4 1 A de mittees close together, there must be (8 Present and Voting) held sub-district conventions excépt | 8 0 2 0 2 0 where nuclei elect delegates directly} 7 1 1 ¥ 1-% % to the District Conventions. 6 2 1 1 1-%e % 9. Except in cases of legitimately} 5 3 + . 1-% % disolved Party units, members within! 4 4 1 1 1 2 a city organization whose transfers! * from one unit to another were issued! (7 Present and (Young) after July Ist, should vote in their) 7 9 2 Qe 0 previous units. 6 5 ee 3 1 1-% % 10. All elections in nuclei andj) 5 2. 1 1. 1-%) % conventions of all other Party sub-| 4 38 1 1 1% % divisions must be completed not later} 19@ For all nuclei entitled to three than August 20th. or more delegates the following sys- Sentimental Talk About Iniice and Liberty, Most nauseating has been the banal twaddle emanating from liberals and socialists about the death of those metaphysical en- tities “justice” and “liberty” in connection ‘with the Sacco and Vanzetti agitation. We are solemnly assured that “justice dies with Sacco and Vanzetti,” that “liberty will be dead when they die.” Such talk is imbecile and positively harmful. These same people will, when next the capitalist mad-dogs are on the trail of other workers, mouth the old meaningless phrases about justice and liberty and affirm that when the next atrocity ‘against labor is perpetrated that these twin illusions of capitalist society will then be dead. fs How sane people can talk of justice in this country where Tom Mooney has been rotting in prison for more than eleven years on framed-up evidence is beyond our comprehension. Have we not had a thousand examples during and since the world war that prove that there is only class justice in this country? Was it justice that tortured Sacco and Vanzetti for seven ghastly years before August 10th? Such insane talk only tends to per- petuate capitalist class illusions and is a positively detriment to the working class. As for liberty it is nothing but a mockery. That pile of junk on Bedloe’s Island symbolizes nothing but tyranny. Liberty in this country is a hag of ten thousand debauches. The torch in the hand of the statue symbolizes the instrument of destruc- tion, the electric chair, that is used to burn the lives out of work- men to dare strive to realize some of that liberty they were as- sured exists in the United States. Instead of lulling the workers into a false sense of security by perpetuating illusions about liberty and justice the revolution- ist must expose these frauds and prepare the workers for the time when capitalist class justice is abolished, along with the capitalist system, and working class justice substituted therefore under the revolutionary dictatorship of ghe proletariat, i Y Details of Workers (Communist Party Convention 'tem shall be used: “fake the num- ber of votes cast for the slate re- ceiving the majority; multiply this the nucleus is entitled to and divide this result by the total number of votes cast for both slates; adjust the result you thus get to the nearest Third. the majority. Th minority (takes the remainder of the voting . power and delegates of the nucleus. Example: The number of delegates to which Number of majority an | Multiply 8 Fock ere eee RS PL Bea 24 Divide the 24 by the total vot cast for both sides which is 14. Th lgives a result of 1 14-24 which, when \adjusted to the nearest Third amounts to 1 2-3 votes and delegates for the majority. The minority takes the |balance of the three delegates and |votes which in this case amounts to 1 1-3. 20. From section, city, sub-di Jand district conventions to the higher conventions, the same system of pro- portional representation shali be ap- plied as herewith outiined for nuclei entitled to three delegates. 21. received by Only when a slate in the nuc- has no full delegate shall it send to any convention a delegate to cast %4 of a vote. When a slate in a nucleus or any other Party sub-division has more than one delegate, the vote shall be added to those delegates’ vot- ing power of. the same slate. Where lates have % of a vote they may end a delegate therefor or add it to the voting power of their delegation | —economy being borne in mind in} every such instance. IIt.—General. 22. In every district there shall be | elected a District Convention Ar-| rangements Committee in which the | majority of the District Executive Committee shall have a majority and the minority of the District Commit- tee shall have an adequately repre- sentative minority, the Personnel of the minority representation shall be selected by the minority itself. 23. In these District Convention Arrangements Committees appeals may be made from: decision arrived at. Whether these appeals shall be |laid down: before the Committee for | the Preparation of the Party Conven- tion or whether any of the disputed arrangements in» the various districts shall be held in abeyance, will depend upon the endorsement of the appeal | in question by any one of the two |deputy chairmen. : 24. There shall be no voting by mail but only in person: 25. The nucleus secretary shall write in the word “voted” over the assessment stamp in ink, of every member after the voting has taken place. , Fe 26. That all District Organizers be instructed to make freely acces- sible to every member of the District \Convention Arrangements Committee for use in the office, the complete lists of the membership and units. 27. All CEC members and _candi- dates are entitled to be present and participate in the convention whether they are delegates or not. 28. CEC representative, for the majority of the Polcom and the Op- position shall be present at all Dis- trict Conventions. 29. The city in which the National Convention will be held will be an- nounced shortly. Fraternally yours, Committee for the Preparation of ithe Party Convention. : Jay Lovestone, Wm, Z. Foster. Deputy Chairmen. Anti-ltalian Bias Of Judge Grant Hit By Author's Letter The Saeco-Vanzetti Emergency | Committee made public at a late hour | yesterday the following telegram to| Governor Fuller from Alexander | Kadison, author, residing at 5 West 75th St.: “The first signature to the report| ef your advisory committee is that | of Robert Grant, formerly judge of | she Probate Court and Court of In-| solvency of Suffolk County, Massa- | chusetts, | “Now, what were the views held} by Mr, Grant which should have dis- | qualified him from membérship on} your advisory committee? I refer you to a book entitled “The Convic- jtions of a Grandfather” which was published in New York City in 1912, | by Scribner's, “Beginning on page 267, Mr. Grant) expresses a very marked prejudice! against Italians. His “misfortunes,” he wrote, “would seem to be funda-! mentally traceable to Italian miscon-| ception of the meaning of the broth-|* erhood of man.” Surely a man of seventy-five who at the age of sixty revealed so strong a bias against Italians must have found it hard to be fair to Sacco and Vanzetti- the nucleus is entitled............3] Total votes cast in the elections.14 votes leus or any other Party sub-division | Caesar Dunn’s_ Farce Opens at Ritz Next Week | “Speakeasy,” the new melodrama |by Edward Knoblock and George number by the number of delegates | Rosener, will be the opening attrac-| | tion at Werba’s Brooklyn theatre next Monday night. ° | Edgar MacGregor, who has con- This establishes the number | fined his activities to stage direction, | of delegates: and voting power for| will this season enter the ranks of | | the producing managers, with a musi- | cal comedy called “Belle Jean.” The book is by MacGregor and Neil | Twomey. | Alexis |Kosloff, of the Metropolitan | Opera House, who will give his open | air danee and ballet extravaganza, to- | -8| morrow, Friday night, at the Star-| e- | light Stadium, will have the following | |in the ensemble: Alexander Gavrilov, s | Madame Strelskia, Xenia Makletzova, Rite Dé Leporte, Ruth Hazelton, and | Valentia Kaschouba. | Robert V. Newman has a new |musical comedy titled, “Morning | Glo’ ies,” which he will produce shortly. The book vis the work of Ralph _ Murphy |the lyries by Morrie Ryskind and Mr. Murphy. | “Good News,” the Schwab and Man- |dek musical comedy opened ‘at the | Chestnut Opera House Monday night in Philadelphia. It is scheduled to run there for four weeks, and then come to the Ambassador theatre here. with the score by! ict | Harold Lewis and Charles Rosoff and | eA ae ‘The LADDER ee Yih | VIOLET HEMING | | . Js playing with her own company in “The Snob,” at the Palace Theatre | this week. _ AMUSEMENTS, All seats are reduced for the summer. Best Seats $2.20. | Cort Theatre, 48 St. BE. of | B'way. Matinee Wednesday, -ittle Theatre GRAND 44th St., W. of B’way. MATINEES TUES. FOLLIES !AND THURSDAY, 2:30 || What the Daily Worker || Means to the Workers E. Nilson, Long Cove, Maine....1.00 B. Gullberg, Long Cove, Maine. ..1.00 V. 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Moore, Toledo, Ohio -1.00| the most important undertakings of M. Miller, Toledo, Ohio B. Stroller, Toledo, Ohio. Proletariat, Toledo, Ohio -1.00 | the Joint Defense and Relief Commit- -1.00 | tee. An army of thousands must be -1.00 | built up to carry on the fight against H. Melnik, Toledo, Ohio -1.00|the right wing bureaucracy in the D. Madecki, Toledo,. Ohio. . -1.00 | Needle trades, and the betrayers of W. A. Walker, Centerville, Ia...1.00|labor. This army will be able to Y. W. L. School, Winlock, Mass.26.00 | furnish the necessary expenses which M. S. Martin, Boston, Mass....10.00| are needed to carry the struggle to J. Pehrkon, Bloomville, Wis....1,00| victory. Only through a_ strong A. Bell, Hancock, Mich 5.00 | Workers Defense organization will S. Globerman, Los Angeles, Cal..1.50| we be able to successfully carry on K. Haroldson, Long Cove, Maine.1.00 the fight. “Every worker and sym- J. Sanders, Long Cove, Maine... .1.00 M. Martinsen, Long Cove.. .1,00 | Self Defense,” must become the slogan A. Johnson, Long Cove, Maine. ...1,00 | °f all. A. Johnson, Long Cove, Maine. 1.00 C. Stanquist, Long Cove, Maine. .1.00| $8 Sick Benefit is Turned Over to O. Anauson, Long Cove, Maine: . .1.00 The Defense Committee J. Olson, Long Cove, Maine.....1.00/ ‘Phe Joint Defense and Relief Com- J. Oberg, Long Cove, Maine 1.00| mittee has received from D. Alter, W. Magvuseen, Long Cove. 1.00 | Secretary of Branch 611, W. C. @ F. W. Nelson, Long Cove, Maine. .1.00 | check for $8 with a letter stating that G. Nelson, Long Cove, Maine....1.00| Brother Jonas Strickoff, a member of T. O. Smankas, Long Cove, Maine.1.00| that branch refused to accept his sick G. Pearson, Long Cove, Maine. ..1.00| benefit, requesting it be turned over A. Johnson, Long Cove, Maine...1.00!as a donation to the Defense Com- C. Olson, Long Cove, Maine......1.00| mittee. No explanations are neces- S. 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