The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER co. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHD Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Ca Address: iv : “SUBSCRIPTION RATES one By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New pee: $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $3.50 six months $2.50 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 Daiwork” vee and mail and WORKER, 33 First Stree .. Editors | THE DAILY J. LOUIS ENGDAHL i WILLIAM F. NE } Entered as What Price American Institutions Now?--The Supreme Court Outlaws the American Labor Movement--The Soviet Union Establishes the 7-Hour Day The United Mine Workers’ Union has been outlawed in the state of West Virginia by a decision of the United States supreme | court. The decision is timed to coincide with a similar attack on the union in Pennsylvania where the UMWA has been prohibited from the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Com-| earrying on a strike ag pany. : Both decisions are based on the theory that the activities of the union in «€ ing to unionize these territories interferes | with inters A precedent is thus established for outlawing all strikes of | “tance and in effect puts the whole power of the federal government behind any employer whose commodities are shipped from state to state. The decision means that strikes in basic industries are illegal. | In portent, in the number of workers immediately affected and in! the impcrtance)of the union involved, the supreme court decision in the West Virginia case is the most sinister ever rendered so far as the American labor movement is concerned. | The supreme court, acting as the agency of Wall Street gov-| ernment, has placed the entire strength of the federal power at the disposal of the bosses for use against the labor movement in} every strike and organization campaign of any consequence. But there is one aspect of this situation which the supreme court did not consider. It fails to see that this decision outlawing | the labor movement of the United States, handed down just three | weeks before the 10th anniversary of the Soviet Unicn, when the} whole world is talking of the announcement of the 7-hour day |fJEAR Comrades, American workers: twenty-third of 1927, at eleven o’clock in the rning, we workers of the factory Red Rosa” heard of that shameful execution of two of the finest fight- {ers of the American working class, thruout industry in a country covering one-sixth of the earth’s surface, affords for the American working class the clearest basis Bs it has yet had for a comparison of the Soviet power and American | “« imperialist government. American capitalist “democracy” parison. cannot stand this com-| where the principal attack made by labor officialdom at crities of American government and where it pledged the labor movement to unquestioning support of American institutions. that outstanding “American institution”’—American imperialist government—will have a hollow sound to American workers. Thru its government machinery the capitalist class has given | tween its answer to-a labor movement whose leadership is in the camp! of the enemy. Aug THE D AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1927 “SEVEN HOURS—HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?” On the Tenth Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, the workers of the Soviet Union have increased production to a point where the seven hour day is guaranteed. ~$ NOTE.—Enclosed is a translation of a letter from a worker-corre- spondent from Moscow. The writer, Comrade Kantorovich, was once an American worker in the silk mills of Paterson, and was deported to Russia in 1920 as a victim of the Palmer red raids. Ever since then Comrade Kantorovich has been working in the factory in Moscow. ert tae) Tod on the | who had devoted “all their lives and }energies to the revolutionary labor This vicious decision also follows within four days the forty-| movement. Words fail us to express seventh annual convention of the American Federation of Labor | the horror which we felt against the was leveled | b#ns™e m of the the mutually proletariat no understandings can be and that expectations of Fighting the demand for a labor party to centralize the strug-|merey from the class enemy, can be eached, gle against the tyrannical acts of American government, denounc- | harbored only by naive peopic. ing workers who advocate amalgamation into industrial unions, | in a united front with the capitalists to slander and jail Commu-} unwilling to lead a nationwide campaign for organization of the) labor movement so far as the capitalists are concerned. ' Knowing that the official leadership belongs to them the| capitalist class believes that the whole labor movement can be} made part of the capitalist machine. Where the labor movement cannot be corrupted it is to be clubbed into submission. We Russian workers, who aid dearly for them many pants . pe pe {reply to our pleas, were shot down in millions of workers in basic industry, these officials represent the! masses on the streets of St. Peters- | burg, of the uprising in December of that same year in Moscow, and finally American _bour- | geoisie, when we heard of the execu- | tion of the two Comrades, Sacco and | Vanzetti. These declarations, by leaders of a labor movement whose} That execution will serve as a les- strikes and organization campaigns have just been outlawed by |S for the proletariat of the world as a whole, and for the American pro- letariat in particular, the lesson which | Marx and Lenin taught us—that be-| antagonistic jclasses of the bourgeoisie. and the ex- | perienced many such lessons, and who “ ? a ae times, nist workers, warring upon the Soviet Union, clinging to the! wish to remind you of our lesson of skirts of the political parties of the capitalist class, unable and) the 9th of January, 1905, in Lenin- | grad, when we Russian workers, as a | directly Letter to the American Workers on the Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti From the Working Men and Women of the Factory “Red Rosa,” Moscow. , of the experiences we went through in three revolutions, and thanks to the firm guidance which the working class of+ the Soviet Union received from the Communist Party of the Bolsheviki and its leader, Vladimir, llyitch Lenin, we gained a victory over our bourgeoisie in October 1917. You, American workers, at least the majority of you are still under the leadership of those yellow leaders who deceive you by telling you that in the bourgeois republic of the Uni- ted States, “democracy” exists, which protects the working class with laws before which all are equal. That is a lie. We remember that in your coun- try exists a dictatorship of the bour- geoisie, and you yellow leaders drag at the tail of that bourgeoisie, and like traitors, deceive you and help in- in bringing about such shameful events as the execution of our best fighters, who devoted their whole lives to the working class by the American bourgeoisie, who, at the present moment, wield the financial lash. over the whole world excepting the U. S.S. R. With that execution they intended to frighten you, but my dear brothers and sisters, working men and women and farmers of the United States, we are certain that the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti will not only not frighten you, but will serve as a les- son for you, that between capital and labor there exists a constant strug- gle and that, in order to prevent more such executions from taking place, it is necessary to establish one united revolutionary front of the American ;matiec and financial pressure, perhaps postponing armed inter- vention for the immediate present. The complete isolation, of the counter-revolutionary leaders working class with the farmers and to rise against the American bour- geoisie and seize from their hands all the factories and workshops, the land and banks, and all political power. Only then can the Americar work- ers be sure that such shamefui execu- tions will not be repeated in the Uni- ted States. And in order to do that, we working men and women of the factory “Red Rosa” propose to you the following: Change all your Men- shevist and traitorous leaders for sin- cere revolutionary proletarian lead- ers; do not -tread any longer the path which for so long was pointed out to you by Mister Gompers, and which his lackey-assistant Green is pointing out now. You must drive them from the ranks of the working class. Build your ranks around the Red International of Labor Unions— the Profintern. Throw out all your class collaborationist leaders and mobilize around your sincere friends and leaders of the American working class—the Workers (Communist) Party of America, and follow those left leaders of the trade union move- ment, who work in contact with your Communist Party. Stand like one man in those ranks, and those com- rades will lead you to final victory. Go the path which was pointed out to you by your leader, C. E. Ruthen- berg, and only then will you achieve final victory over the American bourgeoisie. That will be the best answer to the execution of the two fighters, Sacco and Vanzetti. Down with the American bour- geoisie and its hangmen! Long live the International Revo- lution, which will put an end to such executions! Long live the unity of the prole- tariat of the world! This letter was read at the general factory meeting on the 28rd of August, 1927, at five o’clock in the evening, and unanimously approved by all the workers. (2,300 workers were present). Written by the work- er Kantorovich. IMPERIALIST “PEACE AND GOOD WILL” IN SHANGHAI By SCOTT NEARING. SHANGHAI, (FP) Oct. 17.—Two (bananas slip quietly out of a basket on the wharf and into the pocket of a Chinese street urchin. This urchin is an aristocrat among the Shanghai street arabs. He has a blue cotton jacket in addition to a shirt and a pair of trousers. The urchin moves away from the wharf. But he does not get far. A Hindu detective has seen him take the bananas. The chase is soon over. The detective, armed with a long, heavy bamboo cane grabs the small boy by the shoulder, and despite his protests and cries strikes him fiercely with the cane. Many Chinese stand about but they offer no protest. They have learned that only mass protests Chinese street urchins, beaten in their own streets by Hindu detec- tives; Sikh police, parading the \streets with rifles strung over their backs; military planes hovering; soldiers marching; men-of-war in the offing—in a Chinese harbor, of a Chi- nese city, two hours journey from the sea, Foreign tokens of peace and good will! The Chinese move about, collect in little knots, look, separate, and say nothing. They are waiting. Emblem of Tenth Current Events By T. J. O'Flaherty 8 grist. that comes to this mill and when the business manager | visits the editorial rooms with a joke | stowed away in his innards—not only |do we welcome the phenomenon in an |art for art’s sake spirit but also be- {cause it helps us start a column on Monday, the toughest morning in the week in this business. Now for the story. Enter business manager look- ing in the direction of this writer as if about to announce a cut in his | Salary.’ Instead, he observes that the | price of maple sugar has mounted in | Vermont. What the devil has maple sugar to do with the world revolu- tion? “Why?” asks a naive member of the editorial staff, and before the sound of the query died on his lips, like a kick from a mule came the jreply: “Because the Sap refused to run.” This is the first time the busi- ness office scored—this kind of a vic- tory—over the editorial department. So there is raucous laughter on one side of the partition and the clicking of angry typewriters on the other. * * OMETHING must be done and done quickly about the tendency on the part of bank officials to embezzle funds entrusted to their institutions by trusting depositors. Increasing the salaries of the miscreants will not do, for the good reason that the {guilty ones do not misappropriate * 3 |money for their own personal use, but |for the benefit of their various in- terests, whether “they be oil com- nies, ¢rap games or female affin- ities. Take the case of Joseph Wilson Barlow, Jr. former assistant cashier of the National Bank of Commerce, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for example. * * i: Barlow, drew a salary of $180 a month from the bank, but he was not satisfied with that. Like the motorman who would become a patrolman, he had a higher ambition, So he drew $25,000 on the side. In his confession he said: “I never spent a dime on myself. It all went into my various interests. I was in- terested in several oil deals, a small loan company, a stop signal company that ‘eventually would have brought a million dollars in business. I also dabbled a little in the stock market.” That’s that so to speak. But if Mr. Barlow’s salary was $360 a month in- stead of $180 he, would have taken $50,000. The trouble was not that his salary was meager, but that he was a go-getter. * * * EMAL PASHA has entered the contest for the non-stop oratorical championship of te world. The gra- ting sound that disturbed the ears yesterday morning came from the direction of Washington, where there is considerable gnashing of teeth. Kemal is scheduled to speak continu- ously for seven working days, of eight hours each. This in itself gives our solons cause for worry since the eight-hour day was never popular in congress—for congressmen. Should it come to pass that voters may be- gin to demand something besides an annual clam bake for their votes, be- ing elected to congress may not stand higher in the scale of social ac- complishment than the landing of a job as announcer with a broadcasting station. * * * * poe whose acquaintance with uni- ~ versity life does not even com- prise an extern relationship and who are laboring under the burden of an inferiority complex, and the delusion that self-made men are doomed to be hewers of wood and drawers of Anniversary of lis shown both by the statements of Obregon and Calles who cor- ivectly describe the revolt as “a riot rather than a revolution” and jalso by news dispatches telling of the defeat of. counter-revolu- count. They can wait! But they look their hate at this six-foot man beat- ing the lad. water for graduates of Columbia University, Yale, Harvard and City College, should perk up their falter- We have said before that the strike of the United Mine Workers is a decisive event for the American working class. The decision of the supreme court proves it. While the leadership of the labor movement brays in behalf | of American capitalist government and tries to crush out all op-| position to its betrayals, the capitalists and their government working fast. Their latest achievement—the outlawing of all strikes that | affect interstate commerce—is a challenge to the whole labor movement. It must be understood for what it is—the most damaging | blow yet dealt to the working class and the forerunner of more deadly blows yet to come. The labor movement must be organized for resistance. In| the face of the supreme court decision any labor official who opposes the formation of a labor party for the 1928 elections and | mass violations of injunctions backed by the entire forces of the! working class, strips himself bare of any labor character and shows himself as an open enemy of the masses. The struggle for a powerful trade union movement in the United States is now a struggle directly against American impe-) rialist government. | fs {1 ic if ‘tionary detachments by armed peasants. It appears that at no time did the actual counter-revolution- ield against reaction. jary combat units number over 5,000 effectives. eld |succeed in gaining control of a single Mexican state or an impor- ltant city. | The labor unions were unquestionably on the side of the alles government and the Communist Party of Mexico.issued a \call to the workers and peasants to arm themselves and take the They did not Obregon is now the only candidate for the presidency and it is with Obregon that Dwight W. Morrow will deal when he takes over the office of American ambassador. It is known that Obregon is a less determined opponent of | American imperialism than Calles, During his previous adminis- | tration he made concessions both to the oil interests and to Amer- an finance-capital that Calles has refused to make. | deney will be to. compromise and thus weaken the nationalist | forces. 2 His ten- ‘There are only two paths that the Mexican revolution can itravel. It must base itself upon the mass organizations of the Those who do not realize this or who refuse te adopt and | workers and peasantry, improve the conditions of the workers the labor |, fight for a program based on this fact, can only le and di ribute the land to the peasants while at the same time movement further into the prison American capitali8m has pre-) strengthening the political power of the masses, or it must be- pared for it. fn What Direction Will The Mexican Government Travel? co The »me more and more the ally of American imperialism and finally s weapon for the suppression of the masses. tension of organization among the peasantry, the re- moval of all political restvictions upon the labor movement and _ Landlord and clerical reaction in Mexico has now no mass the peasant organizations and the arming of the masses are the Perhaps they might have done something, even in this case had they not been within a stone’s throw of a Sikh policeman, standing observant with his rifle in his hands. * * * The British have established their flying school in the grounds at the race track. From early morning till late at night the military planes whirl and circle. The Chinese Com- missioner of Foreign Affairs for Shanghai protests against this viola- tion of Chinese territory. The letters go into the waste basket. British officials do not even deign to make an acknowledgment. The planes go on flying over Chinese territory. Is that not answer enough? British guards, Italian guards, French guards, posted here and there with rifles and naked bayonets. Com- panies drilling and parading to mili- tary music. The Chinese stand in crowds, looking on. There is nothing else that they.can do, now. ee ® Out on the waterfront lie the battle- ships, in plain sight from the business center, They lie there, day after day, idle guns, trained on the city. The Chinese look and say nothing. Yesterday the Shanghai Times printed as a matter of News, the list of men- of-war then in the port: one Portu- USSR Now Ready A beautifully designed button com- memorating the Tenth Anniversary of the establishment of the First Workers’ Soviet Re- public will soon be distributed by the thousands by the » National office of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. : ~. On the back- ground of a bright red star is repre- sented a Russian worker challenging with a hammer in one hand and a drawn. rifle with bayonet in the other for those who would destroy the Soy- iet Union. The words “Tenth Anni- versary” is emblazoned conspicuously over the fighter for the workers’ and peasants’ order. Requests for the emblem, which is one of the most attractive and ingeni- ous yet designed are already pouring in from Workers’ Party units and also from workers’ clubs and other or- ganizations thruout the United States. The price for single emblems is ten cents, but orders in larger quantities from the National Office, ing egos as a result of the rise to fame of one John Kane, Scotchman and artist. By day Mr. Kane paints paints pietures for love in his bed- room studio. He has been doing this for over fifty years, but only when - his work was exhibited a few days ago at the International Exhibition of Paintings now showing in the Car- negie Galleries did he become fa- mous, Kane’s work has been liked to that of the great French moderni: Henri Rosseau. Karle never» a day in an art school. This couraging. HARLES DARWIN, the evolutionist, has inject into the sacred precincts of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Dr. Barnes, bishop of Birmingham hag ‘that Mets. 3 man at some period in human exist- enee was something of a monkey. And to prove that Darwin did not go far enough, canon Bullock-Webster de- manded that the bishop be cast out of “the church of god” for holding such views. And to show the world that Britons are human, the partisans of both clergymen staged a riot in the cathedral... The “wild Irish” and the “untamed Boers” are getting too darned civilized for the boys of the bull-dog breed. * f P ‘ 4 . * ‘ : Workers (Communist) Party, 43 East *.@ (¢ following—it can rally no popular support. only methods by which feudal and clerical reaction can be crushed | zuese; one Italian; one Japanese; two| 195th St., N y, 43 Eas ? , i aft Sehennas ate , ; piri , York City, are being | FOR the first time i i aiolusion from the Lath eens P z . French; three British; ten United ew yy ing ¢ first time in the history of This is the inescapable co: recent events in and conquest by American imperialism prevented States,’ The United States—almost (fled at a reduced rate. F political struggles within. the Mexico. intervention by American imperialism. This does not mean that feudal-clerical reaction is complete-| present policy of the American state department which is to try to weaken the Mexican government by sporadic reyolts and diplo- plete domination over Sues y Re ee f In addition to this, the Mexican nationalist-democratic revo- The nationalist government of Calles is established firmly Jution must strive consciously to build a solid Latin-American and can not be overthrown in the:present period without armed | bloc against imperialism and to become the leader of the struggle | against it. Failing the energetie carrying out of this program there will ty crushed but that it has suffered a decisive defeat due to its| be another rise of reaction backed by the American_state depart- ability to rally worker and peasant support, and because of the| ment acting as the instrument of all eXploiting interests which f covet the rich natural resources of Mexico and lust for com- her workers and peasants. te two-thirds of the whole number! The Pittsburgh and the Richmond lie close to the Standard Oil Compound. The others. are scattered in through the harbor. Ten United States warships in the harbor to three British! Well, what else should the ships do, anyway? And if there are ten Americans here, the British can use their ships else- a Correction The name of the author of the poem “Leckert” which appeared on page six of last Sdturday’s issue was in- correctly spelled. The. poem was written by H. Leivick and translat from the Yiddish by A. B. Magil. ranks of the Communist Party of the - Soviet Union, the capitalist corre- spondents in Riga, Helingsfors and Geneya, have failed to array Tro’ and Zinoviev armies in battle again: Stalin and Bukharin forces. What's) { the matter boys?” Click up. We need. a little recreation now and then. BUY THE DAILY WORKER _ OAT THE NBWSSTANDS: houses for money, but at night he. °