The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, } NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1927 THE DAILY WORKER | NC OW PLL TELL YOU WHICH WAY TO GO” Published by the DAILY W ORKER PU BLISHING co. Daily, Except Sunday 2 Adare: 83 First Street, New York, Phone, Orchard 1680 Daiwork' SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): | $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years $3.50 six months | $2.50 three S $2.00 three months J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERT MILLER Entered as The Panken Credo and Our Answer. No more complete exposure of the anti-workingclass char- acter of the campaign conducted by Judge Panken could be made than that furnished by himself to the press in a statement issued Oct. 11 and published in the New York Times for Oct. 12. | From this report it appears that the tone of the Panken reply to the Workers (Communist) Party offer of a united front against | Tammany Hall reaction was decided upon, not by the socialist | party but by the non-partisan campaign committee dominated by | republicans to which the socialist party has entrusted the for- tunes of its leading candidate. Panken, therefore, and the other socialist party leaders, have} reached the point where they reject a united front against reac- tion with a working class political party but enter into a united | front with members of capitalist parties. More than this, they have allowed their campaign for Panken to be liquidated by a temporary organization of capitalist party politicians. Panken does not mention in his published statement the vital| issue of a labor party—a major proposal made in the letter of the | Workers (Communist) Party. | United front with middle class and capitalist elements, rejec- | tion of the united front with workers—this is the policy of Pan-| ken and the socialist bureaucracy. Panken goes further. He shows himself as an enemy of the American working class and an agent of the bosses by announcing his allegiance to “the principles and practices of social democracy,” in the following categorical statement: | “T believe that whatever social changes are to be made in the} United States must be the result of education and procured by the| political instrumentalities at our disposal: By the intelligent use | of the ballot.”” Coolidge will say amen to this credo. | The theory voiced here by Panken has brought misery to| | i i | millions of European workers who followed the social democrats 6 and is the greatest delusion prevailing in the ranks of the labor movement, one that is responsible in a large measure for the ex- treme political backwardness of the working class. Panken de- liberately fosters this delusion and because he does he receives the support of elements which are essentially anti-working class in character. It is still possible for office-seekers to ride into office on the basis of subserviency to capitalist “democracy” and Panken and the socialist party leaders are making the most of it. Panken makes another statement which will be of great value to any workers who nurse the thought that Panken did not ap- prove of the united front with the bosses, the police, the courts and the reactionary officialdom of the American Federation of Labor, entered into in the labor movement, and especially in the needle trades, by the socialist party leadership. It is not necessary to review here the whole list of union- smashing activities and atrocities perpetrated upon thousands of workers by this combination. These facts are too well-known to require detailing and explanation. It is sufficient to point out here that Panken in his published statement joins the hue and cry of reaction against the Commu- nist workers in the needle trades and by implication gives his per- sonal approval to a pogrom carried on for months against the rank and file of the furriers and cloakmakers’ unions. Panken says: “T cannot accept an endorsement from them (the Commu- nists) in the face of what they have done to the labor movement that is so dear to me.” Would Panken reject an endorsement from Judge Rosalsky? According to Panken it was the Communists and the workers who supported the left wing program, that made the united front with reaction and launched a terroristic campaign in the needle trades. The fact that hundreds of Communists and left wing workers were the victims of the pogromists means nothing to Panken. And, altho the labor movement is so dear to him, his campaign is in the control of a band of lawyers whose connection with. the labor movement congists of addresses of union offices to which they send bills. Panken is rejecting “an endorsement” which he did not get. The Workers (Communist) Party has made it clear, and will con- tinue to make it clear, that it does not endorse Panken, his pro- gram, his record or his integrity. It offers to the socialist party in the case of Panken a united front against capitalist reaction but it will and does at the same time, explain to the working class that Panken does not represent the workers but middle class elements who act as a cover for reaction. The Workers (Communist) Party, unlike the socialist party | Jeaders, views the present campaign from the working class stand- point and not from the standpoint expressed by Panken—that of maintaining and strengthening the vicious fiction that funda-| mental social changes can be achieved by the use of the ballot. Letters From Our Readers DAILY WORKER STARTED. Editor, The DAILY WORKER: I am a Communist and one of the SINCE IT Working Women Contribute. Editor, The DAILY WORKER: | Our Working Women’s Club had a} picnic, So we have decided to send Read victims of the rotten capitalist sys- Pond tara: 0g sesh at ieee tem. I have been going to sea for! | $223.24. We decided to divide it as | the last ten years as a wireless aes | eatlowa: | tor on merchant vessels. Now I have) dens become disgusted, walking the streets | 2 me Rete AM a raat Wenig of Los Angeles looking for a job, for | or the Daily Worker * K 15.00 | it is almost impossible to buy éven a |For Radnick. 500 menial job out: here; |For C. P. of F. W. 25.00 The only contentment and_satis-| Mo Delavaic .... 5.00 faction I get out of life is The DAILY} Wor U Gavoratore. s..ecsenc aks 5.00 Total » $155.00 WORKER. I have been reading it) Thus we ‘had left $68.24 for the since it was first published, It con-| page than the capitalists can put into, future work of our club. !beat me a whole Jot more after I} 5 I don’t remember, though. When} |have been sick ever since, y or ed Ellis | The “Coal and Iron” Terror in Pennsylvania (Continued From Last Issue.) } Here is the story of Mrs. Elizabeth! Vilk, of Harmarville: “I went to the meeting with my three children. I thought it was safe, | because we had one just like it there! on August 12, and nobody bothered us, and it was very peaceful. When the attack started, I saw a policeman run after a woman who had a little, child, I couldn’t tell whether it was) a boy or a girl. He hit. the woman} with a club, and she yelled: ‘For god’s | sake, have mercy!” He said: ‘Yes, T’ll have mercy,’ and hit her again. I} ran down to where my car was, to| get my three little children ‘and try, to get them out of that place. When; I got near the old barn, I saw a} trooper about to throw something. I! didn’t know what it was until he| threw it toward me. It was a gas bomb and, when it exploded, it made} me sick and nearly crazy. 1 fell over on the fender of my car, but got up again and went after my children. I got them over the fence and then I remembered my man’ was ‘back in the crowd, so I told the oldest girl to take the other two up to the house of a friend near by and I went back, A trooper raised his club.to hit me, but I ran under his arm and got away. Then I looked back toward the lane where I had sent my children, and a trooper was riding his horse down it at a gallop, yelling and shooting. There was a hedge along the lane and I couldn’t see my children, I thought he had killed them. They had got scared and run in different directions. I didn’t find them until ‘they let me go. in the hospital until September 6, and then they took me to the county jail in Pittsburgh. They kept me there five days and six nights, and then In the hospital and JOHN BARNABEIL. Drawn from life by Don Brown. in the jail I never did know where I was, and my wife and children didn’t know about me either.” No charges were ever filed against Gaspari. . * ® OHN BERNABEI, a former miner who now has a small business in Cheswick as a notary and real estate late that evening. They had been taken in by some people who lived near there.” Cane ANS “When the policemen threw the! bombs and began to hit people with} SnDS I started to run,” said Emidio Gaspari, miner, of Harwick, liceman hit me on the head, Tt sound- ed so loud and then I didn’t know anything more. My friends say they} fell, I woke up, I was in‘the hospital. I was hurt in many places all over, and lmy left ear-drum was broken and I lean’t hear any more on that side. I} Tm not the same any more. They kept me EMIDO GASPARI. “A. po-| man, has continued his interest in the jloeal union. He has earned the dis- H ile of the mine officials. At ten o'clock in the evening of the day on {which the meeting had taken place, \he was arrested in his home under | the following circumstances: “When the police pushed the door of our home open, my wife, who has a weak heart, fainted. I tried to get a glass of water for her. I was afraid she would die. They wouldn’t let me. I asked them to telephone a doctor, or let me telephone, but they wouldn’t. |] grabbed the receiver, but they ‘snatched it away from me and hit me. |l was afraid my wife would die. They grabbed me, and when my little girl ran up and caught hold of me and said, ‘Don’t leave me, Daddy,’ they grabbed her and threw her half way across the room. My sister-in-law came in and said: ‘You are not state police, you are dogs!’. They cursed her and they cursed me, and went around the house, tearing up every- thing. They kept saying, ‘You dirty ‘wop sons-of-bitches!’ They tore up things in the house and pulled out drawers and dumped things on the floor, but didn’t take anything. They made me go to jail. When they threw my baby on the floor, it breaked my heart.” Bernabei is held under a bail of $5,000. ‘ * tains more instructive news on one | their slimy press in a month.—Joseph| The Working Women’s Club, Swoyers- Cremona, Los Angeles, ville, Pa. Drawn frow life by Don Brown, ‘|to the land of liberty.” ERE is the liberty?” Pete Moretti, a miner of Harwick, asked me. “I leave Italy because I no like the Fascisti. I say I will come My brother here, Ercola, fight for this country in the War, and I thought maybe they like me here. for that... There: is. no’ w } liberty here. I have done nothing and now I’m in trouble. It would not be so bad if I had done anything. All I did was get beat up and now I am under bail for the trial. If they put me in jail, who will care for my wife and babies? We have no money left. She just come over, and she can’t speak English yet.” Steve Kurepa, secretary of the lo- cal union of the United Mine Work- jers of America at Harwick, was an- |other man who has been marked by |the bosses. Here is his story: “I was at the meeting in the or- chard. The police waited to one side. They had horses, but stood beside them—not mounted yet—while the jlast of the crowd was forming in the orchard. Then a sergeant and a lieu- tenant came up to the speakers’ stand. I was in the crowd first, but when they went up to the stand, I went up there'too. They ordered the meeting to stop. The chairman turned to the crowd and said that whether the meeting would be held was up to them as citizens of the United States. The crowd called out that they wanted to have a meeting. A man yelled: ‘I was in the army in the War. I fought for liberty. We have a right to liberty and free speech!’ Then one of the officers on the platform fired his pistol three times and yelled, ‘Get on horseback!’ A lot of them jumped on their horses and charged while the others threw Ven Be aylondtiA , 1 bombs at the crowd. They exploded and the gas got all around us. It got in our eyes and we couldn’t hardly see. The crowd began to run south, while the poligemen clubbed them and threw more bombs and rode them down with their horses. Many peo- ple, including women and children, were knocked unconscious. They picked them up and threw them into some trucks. I don’t know where they hauled them to. “For half an hour they rode up and down the public-highway near by, clubbing and beating up people. They also smashed the windshields of some automobiles which were passing. “J escaped from the meeting. “About eleven or twelve o’clock that night, I went to the union hall in me. I went up to the door, where it someone grabbed me and asked if I |was Steve Kurepa. I said, ‘I’m not.’ I said this because I had some of the |union’s money with me and I was afraid it was a thug who knew I had it. Then he jerked me out in the light, and I saw it was a state trooper. I told him. who I was, and tried to explain why I had denied it. But two other troopers appeared, and the three of them beat me up. They called me a ‘Dirty, Hunky son-of-a- bitch and agitator’; and beat me un- til the blood ran all over the front of my best suit. (To Be Continued.) TWO OF THE 21 MINERS FACING TRIAL FOR PARTICIPAT- ING IN THE CHESWICK MEETING. 177 PETE AND ERCOLA MORETTI, MINERS, HARWICK, PENNSYLVANIA. Ercola Moretti, miner, fought in Frat brother, Pete, came to America after war. Both were beaten up and arrested at the Cheswick m because police officers say h¢ war it buptitie Bing como having fought in the with the American army. His under extra ‘heavy bail|_ Harwick. Joe Ptasienski went with) was very dark. From the shadow, | ‘Current 1 Eionk By T. J. J. OF laherty yANIZED labor thruout the rid now has a total membership 000,000 according to statistics | published by the international labor |bureau at Geneva. Of this number only 13,000,000 are affiliated with the. Interns tional Federation of Trade The figures for Germany are 4,53: 6 and for England 4,365,619. The American labor paper from which | those figures are taken does not give the membership of the Soviet trade j unions, but we can supply that def- iciency. There are over 9,000,000 jmembers in the Soviet trade unions, ‘or as many as the total mem- bership of the German and British unions. * * * OHN (Dime) ROCKEFELLER’S slaves in Colorado ate not very enthusiastic over their multimillion- | aire taxmaster’s contributions to in- ternational charity. The coal diggers of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com- pany, a Rockefeller concern, are not paid for timbering, yardage in nar- row work and for deficient work, as called for in union contract mines. John would rather give millions for a royal hospital in England or Rou- mania than return the money to the workers from whom he stole it. Rockefeller’s philanthropy is at the expense of the workers who toil to |make his millions breed. * * * 'HE allied propaganda machine made a big fuss about the execu- | tion of the British spy, Edith Cavell, during the war. While posing as a nurse, this woman was actively en- ; gaged seeking information of Ger- |man army movements in Belgium for | the British. We hold no brief for the ! German militarist murderers but we have considerably less sympathy for this imperialist stoolpigeon than we have for the thousands of men and women that were slaughtered by the British in India, Egypt, South Africa, Ireland and every other place where the. pirate empire was engaged in crushing the masses. * Pe French executed women spies, or suspected spies during the war. So did the British. So did the rest of the imperialist murderers. The French turned the machine guns on trench- fulls of soldiers suspected of dissatis- faction. It was war and human lives mean little when the interests of capitalist powers are at stake. Why all the noise about Edith Cavell? Be- cause the British posing as the savi- ors of civilization used this incident as a means of arousing popular in- dignation while the British imperial- ists were robbing, killing and plunder- ing the peoples of the Near East. * * * HETHER the United States ever has a war or not we need a large navy, says Secretary Wilbur, if for no other reason than to contribute to the muscle and soul development | of sailors and marines. We remember | the pre-war days when gobs would ‘not be allowed into theatres with the exception of burlesque houses. The wat changed all this. American im- perialism was catapulted into opera- tions on a scale undreamt off before 1914, More battleships and more sailors will be needed to “contribute to the material and moral uplift” of Nicaraguans, Filipinos anc Chinese. The men who were only persona grata in bawdy houses before the war are now on a social level with stock gamblers and loan sharks, * * * ONGRESSMAN LA GUARDIA is a — bright young man with bright ideas. He is a progressive as you are probably aware. He is against Amer- | ican imperialism so that you would notice it. He did not like the way American marines butchered the Nic- araguans in order to make it possi- ble for the puppet Diaz to hold his presidential seat. The idea of mili- tary supervision of elections in Nic- aragua by the United States govern- ment was repugnant to his democrat- ie soul. So he suggests that Wall Street exercise civilian supervj over the elections. Now, the conmmander on duty % Ni, can order suits of civies To: and presto chango, demgcracy is satisfied. Indeed, we are gfad to note * * thot. Let our liberal editors rejoice! The Nicaraguans will be choked wit? butter instead of killed Hy bullets i they only conduct themsven ae oe APMIRAL LATIMER, the gentle-| man who supervised the conquest of Nicaragua has been honored by a grateful government for his services. How much money’ his bayonets saved for the lumber barons and banana kings may not be computed for many years, but it must be considerable. The English have a custom of reward- ing their chief naval thugs financi- ally on their return from a successful buceaneering expedition. No doubt after J. P. Morgan, Dupont or La- mont becomes president, the govern-— ment will not only pin medals on the gonquerors’ chests but endow them with estates confiscated from the vanquished, and money to live in the style compatible with their newly- acquired social stat ANTED — Bo one