The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1928, Page 8

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING AS: ey Daily, Except Sunday ~ 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. 7 a! Cable Address: ; 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 year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months. $2.00 three months. THE REPTILE S°N, Ine. | Phone, Orchard 1680 “Datwork” ¥ ~~ Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y¥. 2. Rditor. ROBERT MINOR Assistant Editor. WM. F. DUNNE Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Fake Investigation of Hearst Forgeries The decision of the three republicans and two democrats, who constituted the United States senate committee probing the charges against four other senators, which was published in con- | nection with the Hearst series of forgeries against Mexico was precisely what we knew from the first it would be—a dirty at- tempt to white-wash Hearst. When the committee was selected we stigmatized each of its members as one selected for the particular job he has now accomplished. David Reed of Pennsylvania, chairman of the | committee, is a henchman of Andrew W. Mellon and a part of | the notorious Mellon-Vare machine in Pennsylvania, hence one | of the stalwarts of the Coolidge administration. Obviously, he ‘would not encourage a real investigation because of fear that it | would implicate Secretary of State Kellogg, whose propaganda | against Mexico was based upon precisely the same arguments | used in the spurious Hearst documents. Another republican mem- ber, Hiram Johnson of California, at the time he was placed on the committee was a hired lawyer for Hearst, and during the | proceedings continued in that capacity. Senator Jones of Wash- | ington, a nonentity who can always be depended upon to take | orders from the administration, was the third republican mem- | ber. One of the democrats was Senator Robinson of Arkansas, al fugleman of the administration and a supporter of the republican- | democrat Wall Street coalition. The other democrat was Bruce The defiant mass power of the workers must be hurled against the injunction. By Fred Ellis Wholesale violations of such court orders must be the order of the day in order to break the poisonous and deadly grip of this agency of the employers. Of Maryland, whose son is married into the family of Andrew W. Mellon, boss of the republican party. This committee expresses its implicit faith in Hearst and declares that it is convinced Hearst was fooled by the astute forgers; whose names remain unknown as far as the report is We Have Done Well -- We Must Do Better concerned. For obvious reasons no mention is made of the proof fur- nighed each senator by The DAILY WORKER that Hearst’s own hirelings in the New York American faked right here in New ‘York City documents which purported to have come from Mexico City. After all it is the duty of United States senators as well as members of all other branches of the government to defend the imperialists as a class and it is too much to expect them to take action against even such a palpable faker as William Randolph Hearst. ~ Whe actual perpetrator or perpetrators of the forgeries ‘re is of slight importance. Their handiwork was so crude as o: indicate a very low degree of intelligence. What is important ts that the forgeries were given wide circulation in a campaign ysigned for no other purpose that to incite war against Mexico ‘behalf of the yankee oil, mineral and land thieves. Hearst can- 5t evade responsibility for the forgeries; it was he who paid for dvem and if he did not know they were forgeries he belongs in a matic asylum. But not even the excuse of lunacy will suffice, r the record of the Hearst publications is one of persistent Kkery. Time and again The DAILY WORKER has exposed the Hearst staff of professional liars who even had the audacity to forge the names of Joseph Stalin, N. Bukharin and other leaders of the world revolutionary movement to articles concocted out of the putrid brains of journalistic prostitutes. Let no one, however, imagine that the Hearst papers are alone in their perfidy. Studied lies, faked documents, forgeries and malignant propaganda against all enemies of capitalism are part of the every day tasks of the brass check press. Labor can only find facts regarding its struggles and the struggles of the oppressed of all lands in the columns of the Com- munist press and the complete discrediting of one of the most powerful chains of newspapers in the United.States at a time the advanced section of the labor movement in celebrating the Fourth Anniversary of The DAILY WORKER should impel our support- ers to strive to circulate our paper widely among their fellow workers. Gently Panning Cal Coolidge Considerable irritation is felt in financial circles over the reaction of the stock exchange to Coolidge’s recent optimistic statement regarding the invincibility of brokers’ loans. The steadily declining stock market suddenly reacted to this statement of the president and stocks rose rapidly for a day. But Tuesday brought such a precipitate decline that many of the so-called sta- ble stocks hit new low levels before the market closed in confusion, bordering on panic. This performance was too much for the financial experts who contribute to the Wall Street publications and now they are vent- ing their indignation by gently panning Coolidge. Especially amusing was the comment yesterday morning of the Journal of Commerce, which said: ' “Jt is hard to find a clue to the mental processes of those who buy and sell on the stock market. The other day a Presidential -- obiter dictum concerning the brokers’ loan situation caused a pleas- ant wave of optimism to invade speculative quarters. There was Bttle logical basis fur any such reaction to an ill-advised statement coming from a source which, though exalted, could not in this in- stance be regarded as authoritative or in any way coercive.” Na _ No objections are heard from financial quarters when the suppet Wall Street president at Washington and his cabinet mem- ers, especially the secretaries of the treasury, lawor and com- merce, distort statistics to perpetuate the illusion of “Coolidge prosperity.” But when deliberate perversion of economic facts for political poses cause an “unhealthy” wave of speculative buying on the k market that must inevitably be followed by a pronounced reaction, it becomes necessary for the official and scmi-official rgans of Wall Street to reprimand their office boy in the White use when his prosperity twaddle affects the news so as to in- ence the speculative buying on the stock market. It is all right or Cal to fool the masses, but he must learn that it is not one of e tasks of a lackey to yaaa upon the private affairs of his X By JACK*STACHEL. the resolution of every Party mem- ber to redouble and treble his efforts agent merely organizes the work and arising out of the financial difficul- it is up to every Party member to|ties make it hard to carry out many in behalf of The DAILY WORKER in the coming year. Our Party leading committees must pay more attention to The DAILY WORKER. . When district DAILY WORKER agents or city DAILY WORKER agents are appointed, they must. be looked upon as functionaries of the first importance, and not be treated in.a secondary manner. They must be given every possible assis- tance, The DAILY WORKER agents in the nuclei must receive the full co- operation, of every leading committee and of every Party member. Too long have we had the opinion that The HERE cannot be a_ well functioning Party without a first-rate Bolshevik central or- gan. We cannot boast of our ef- ficiency and effectiveness if we cannot maintain and secure a central organ. The DAILY WORKER is the barometer of our influence, our strength, our shortcomings and our weaknesses. : We rejoice in the fact that our cen- The DAILY WORKER, in raising finances for The DAILY WORKHR and carrying on all other activity for The DAILY WORKER, Our comrades who read the lan- guage papers must also realize that also falls upon them, They must bring The DAILY WORKER into their homes, among their friends, and of course secure readers from their shop-mates and from members of other organizations. Combination sub- scriptions are a good means to be used by your foreign langage com- rades, to increase the circulation of | the burden of The DAILY WORKER | cooperate in securing subs, in selling | necessary improvements. Comrades, let-us now on the Fourth Anniversary of The DAILY WORK- ER resolve that we will do everything possible to improve The DAILY WORKER, to make it secure finan- cially, to spread it among the masses by securing subs and by selling it to our shop-mates, friends and to all workers that we come in contact with. Let us begin a campaign for 10,000 new readers, lasting from the Lenin Memorial to the Ruthenberg Mem- orial. Let every member consider it as a principal Party task in the next two months to secure a reader for The DAILY WORKER. If we will jyear. tral organ is beginning its fourth a crowning achievement to the van- enemies of our Party were determined to destroy our movement, when The DAILY WORKER editorial staff was faced with many indictments, when its very mailing list was threatened, that our Daily has survived. For it is no mean job to print and maintain a Communist paper in the English language in the United States at the present moment. Nevertheless, it must be said that the Party membership in general has not yet risen to the occasion; that there has not yet sunk into the con- sciousness of our Party membership the real significance and importance of their central organ. What would our campaign for a struggle against the injunctions, what would our fight against unemploy- ment be, without a daily paper that brings the slogans of our Party to the masses and mobilizes them for struggie? How could we organize to meet and to struggle against the dan- ger of another World War, of a war against the Soviet Union, give sup- port to the struggle of our Chinese brothers and the oppressed masses of Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, ete.? These and many other activi- ties of our Party could not be car- ried out without a central organ of our Party in the English language. And yet many are the days when The DAILY WORKER is actually faced with suspension, Every mem- ber of our Party if he was given the alternative of seeing his paper sus- pended or give a full week’s wages would not hesitate no matter at what sacrifice to give a week’s wages and help The DAILY WORKER live. And yet many of these members when asked to do much less, to sacrifice much !ess, fail to respond. They fail to respond because they have not yet realized the importance of The DAILY WORKER, because they do not understand as yet the role that The DAILY WORKER plays in the life of our Party and its significance to the struggle of the masses. Every member must therefore visualize be- fore himself what would happen to the various campaigns of the Party if The DAILY WORKER went out of existence. Every member must vis- ualize how this would strengthen the reactionary forces, how this would make glad the heart of our enemies and he will realize his duty to his Party and to its central organ. This fourth anniversary to us therefore must not be merely an oc- casion for rejoicing—altho indeed there is sufficient to rejoice in the fact that«in spite of all obstacles we have been able to maintai Daily—but must be an With all its shortcomings it is; guard of the American working class ; that in the last period when all the | Labor Party be, what would our! DAILY WORKER agent must. him- self carry out the work of securing isubs, of distributing The DAILY WORKER, ete. This must be coun- ter-acted and every member must be jtold that {The DAILY WORKER The DAILY WORKER. * The DAILY WORKER editorially and typographically has been im- proved in the last few months. There is still a great deal of room for im- \provement, but technical difficulties do these things we will be able to record a greater influence of the Par- ty in the next anniversary of The DAILY WORKER that will be re- flected in the security and influence of our central organ. Editor, DAILY WORKER: The most outstanding and hopeful feature of the American invasion of Nicaragua is the silent protest that is going on in the minds of most of the people in New York regarding it. I have witnessed war pictures a- plenty, and just as soon as the Amer- ican trgops and the flag would ap- pear it would be a signal for applause. But never in my life have I sat in one of New York’s 7 oh theatres and seen the marines, the greatest killers because they do it on land or sea, (with the American flag, mind you) and not even hear the slightest sug- gestion of applause. A protest similar to this started a few years ago in Detroit, when American troops were being sent to Siberia to fight the Russian work- ers. This protest ought to be more crystallized, so that the domination of small nations like Nicaragua by imperialists will be exposed. By the way, what has happened to the old-fashioned slogans, “Fighting for Democracy and for the Protection of Small Nations”? Fraternally yours, --GEORGE WIPF. New York City. * * * Editor, DAILY WORKER: Please permit me a little space in our paper to make a few suggestions te the arrangament committee of the “Lenin Memorial Committee. As usual our comrades do their ut- most on such oecasians to make it as colorful and’ attractive as possible. With this view in mind, they believe that the more speakers there are, the jhetter. I know from experience that this has the reverse effect. The audi- nee does not like to have too many speakers; they become monotonous, and many of the workers who attend leave their seats before the affair is cover, I therefore suggest to the commit- tee that they stress the other fea- tures of the celebration, and in order to make the event as impressivee as euch a great occasion deserves. I also would suggest that there be a max- inum of four speakers. Fraternally, —I. NOSTOWSKY., New York City. AUDIENCES PROTEST IMPERIALISM War Films Get Little Applause in Theatres, Reader Declares Editor, The DAILY WORKER: say that this will be a year of pros- perity. Does this mean more wages and better working conditions for the workers? No, I think there will be wage cuts and more speed-ups and longer hours. The only way for the workers to stop this increase in mil- lionaires is to organize and demand a living wage and better working con- ditions, America is now the landyof million- aires, with 228 persons in the really |wealthy class, as shown by income | tax statistics made public. This is an increase of 150 since 1924. What made this increase possible? ll this was made possible by wage cuts, speed-ups and labor saving methods. | 1928 will add still more to the mil- |lionaire class, and capitalist papers Coal Miner By ADOLF WOLFF. He digs and drills, he crouches, crawls, In grimy, sweat-soaked overalls, To tear from earth its heart of coal, Deep down in gloomy, gas-filled hole. He toils, a million fires to feed To get the things his dear ones need. It sure ain’t much, some grub, a shack, Some rags t oput upon the back. “ A movie show for kids and wife (You’ve got to have some fun in life) To put aside a little dough (You can’t just say how things will go) Hard times, the doctor and the like And now and then a hard fought strike, Or sometime, what is even worse A grave, a coffin and a hearse. What of the Miners? While warmth suffuses us in comfort here In our well-heated homes, with those most dear Beside us, what of those who mined the fuel That keeps us warm? Behold the winter cruel In which they suffer now from cold and want. Behold their children, ragged, pale and gaunt And huddled close to kéep the frost away. Behold the men on picket lines all day, Shot down, or hynted like wild beasts by night? Courageous in the long, one-sided fight.’ “What can we do?” you ask. The answer is to give All that you can that those who fight might live! HENRY REICH, JR. ; A. N. é rs In Australia By J. RYAN MILBOURNE, Australia, (By Mail) —A few months ago, Judge Beeby of the Federal Arbitration Court refused to hear the case for a new award of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, because the Federation had not aliered its rules to conteem with the Court’s requirements; which means to conform with the bosses’ de~ sires. As it was two years since the Waterside Horkers had first filed the claims, they were, naturally, very in- dignant at the Judge’s action. They thereupon decided that Waterside workers would refuse to do any over- time until the Judge consented to hear. |the case. They also decided that | they would only attend one “pick-up” a day instead of 2 as formerly. As this is the busiest period of the year, the waterside workers’ tacties caused much inconvenience to the ship- owners. Threaten Lockout. After about 3 weeks of the “no- overtime” strike, the employers issued an ultimatum threatening to lock-out all waterside workers if they per- sisted in refusing to work overtime. The Waterside workers were not bluffed, however,-and told the ship- owners to do their worst. The ship- owners, who were evidently deter- mined to smash the Waterside Work- ers’ Federation, then locked-out the whole of the waterside workers of Australia. With the exception of the Commonwealth Line and one smell company outside of the Combine, the shipowners, both interstate and inter- national, were united to defeat the workers. The newly-formed Australian Coun- cil of Trade Unions took the dispute over and interceded with the court, urging that the waterside workers’ case be gone into immediately. After some haggling, the judge agreed to do this, no doubt wishing to protect the rest of the employing class of Australia from the industrial turmoil that the shipowners were anxious to precipitate. This dispute has clearly shown the need for closer organization in the transport industry and the N. S. W. Labor Council, striking while the iron is hot, has requested the Ausiralian Council of Trade Unions to call a conference of all transport unions in Australia for the purpose of bringing about closer unity. Unemployment is very serious in Australia at the present time. Not- withstanding the misery that unem- ployment is causing among the work- ers, the governments of the Common- wealth are still importing thousands of surplus slaves from overseas; their policy being to cause such an over- supply of labor that the workers will agree to a reduction in their es, and a lengthening: of their worl hours. * ~ According to reliable reports, the approximate number of unemployed in the various states is as follows:— New South Wales, 16,000; Victoriay. 10,000; South Australia, 8,000; Queensland, 5,000; Western Australia, 1,000; Tasmania, 600. In three states a good agitation is being carried on by unemployed workers. In Sydney, particularly, ef- fective demonstrations have taken place. These demonstrations have taken the form of sireet slave auctions, interruption of Parlia- mentary proceedings from the gallery, booking meals up to the Premier, and storming the Premier’s office. The unemployed in Sydney have a unton of their own, which is affiliated to the Labor Council. In Melbourne the unemployed hava, demonstrated fairly well, but accord- ing to reports they do not receive the co-operation that they expect from the Trade Union Movement. This is unfortunate, because the unemployed workers and those in work should create a united front to meet the at- tacks of the employers. Rations Increased. In South Australia demonstrations have taken place, with the result that rations have been increased, and the Premier has refrained from carrying out the intended wholesale dismissals in the railroad service. New South Wales ,Government— Since the defeat of’the Labor Govern- ment and the reiurn of the National- ist Party to office in N. S. W., the .workers have been viciously attacked, not only by the government itself, but by the employers who have been en- couraged to attack the workers owing to their indifference and apathy in allowing a Nationalist Government to oceupy the Treasury benches. Within six weeks the government has reduced the rations doled out to the unemployed, has closed down gov- ernment relief works—thereby throw- ing more workers out of employment; has sacked all of the factory inspec- tors appointed by the Labor Govern- ment; and has publicly annownced chat it will return the sentority Mghts to the scabs or 191). In the first session of parliament the Nationalist Government has forced through a bill to take adminis trative functions of the City Counci} of Sydney from the Labor Aldermen who control it, and place it under a dictatorship of three commissioners. They have passed a bill to discon- tinue the payment by employers of the €hild Endowment Tax, and an- other bill to amend the constitution of the Industrial Commission. It is pro- posed to alter the present tribunal of one to a tribunal of three commis- ‘ioners, who will exercise ‘the Jjuris- diction that now belongs to the In- dustrial Commission, Eis It is also intended to debar the ae, of Conciliatign Committees ‘rom ing a vote, and to abrogate preference to unioniste, - _—