The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1928, Page 6

ig ARR P 4 } t & 4 4 _ of the republican party Page THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1928 Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Inc. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 Cable Address: “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months. $6.00 per year By Mail (outside of New York): 2.00 three months. Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. HGIOF. 6.25 s0e . Assistant Editor. ROBERT MINOR ... WM, F. DUNNE Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under | the act of March 3, | 1879. New Tezpot Dome Revelations Everhart, son-in-law of Albert B. Fall, the sainted Harding’s | secretary of the interior (and secretary of oil graft for the Hard- ing-Coolidge administration), who placed the great naval oil lands at the disposal of Doheny and Sinclair, testified before a senate | committee that Sinclair turned over $269,000 in liberty bonds to | Fall following the lease of the Teapot Dome naval reserve in 1922. This amount, added to payments previously established by the in-, vestigation, makes a total of $409,000 received by one member of the Harding-Colidge-Mellon cabinet for services to Doheny and | Sinclair. A few hundred thousand dollars more or less is of little con- | sequence and of relatively slight interest in the big game of cap- italist politics in the United States. , ry forgery, corruption of all varieties, is the stock-in-trade, the offi- | cial policy of the United States government. Graft, thievery, bribery, A parasitic impe- $3.50 six months rialism enables a ruling class not merely to corrupt native and | foreign government officials wholesale, but also enables them to | maintain bribed and corrupted tools in the labor movemgnt, to buy whole religious institutions, great newspaper chains, institu- tions of so-called learning, the moving picture industry, armies of hired murderers to assail the working class and every other mer- | cenary creature that is for sale and can serve its purposes. i istri j i id secret The prolonged trials, mistrials, jury bribery, open an curs, the reams of publicity, the oceans of ink spilled about the Teapot Dome case, indicate that issues are involved that are not apparent on the surface. Tt is no accident that the chief investigator in the United States senate of the Teapot dome scandals is the democratic standard oil senator, Walsh of Montana. 1 l that a man who sat in cabinet meetings with Coolidge at the time | It is not an accident he was accepting the bribes, is outlawed and prosecuted for graft connection with independent oil concerns at just the moment that Standar: petitors. Oil is making a drive against its independent com- | Nor is it an accident that this partial prosecution of | one portion of the graft gang occurs just before the 1928 elections. No one but the most stupid dolt will believe that this prosecu- tion continues only because Fall was a bribe taker and Doheny and Sinc enforced air corrupted government officials. If such a policy were it would involve afl the officials of the government and the outstanding figures of the capitalist class. Such a task is not within t he province of the capitalist courts, themselves a part of | nism by which the ruling class plunders the rest of so- ‘ ut can only be conducted by the revolutionary tribunals of 4 {h- \,orking class in the process of exterminating capitalism itself. ke “Pope” Who’ Commands the Services of Al Smith Senator Thomas Heflin, democrat of Alabama, has for more than a week been roaring in the cave of the winds, called the sen- ate at Washington, against what he claims is the diabolical plot of the pope of Rome to place in the presidential chair the Tam- manyite Catholic governor of the state of New York, Al Smith. Undoubtedly this sort of thing is taken as profound political argu- ment in certain backward sections of the United States, and its effects may become a factor in the coming national convention of the democratic party as they were in the last convention when the Tammany forces of Smith and the ku klux forces of William G. McAdoo paralyzed the machinery of that party. The Heflin attacks upon Smith and the Roman Catholics can- not be dismissed, however, as mere outbursts of religious bigotry, as many of the liberal publications would have us believe. To claim for a moment that the Roman church does not exact adher- ence to its interests above every other interest is simply to ignore the history of that institution that has been prostitute to every powerful ruling class since the days of Constantine, emperor of Rome. Its role as an adjunct of imperialism is being revealed at the present time in its campaign of calumny and provocation against Mexico. This fact Heflin perceives. But he opposes it not on the basis of fundamental opposition to imperialism, but as a small-town Alabama protestant ku kluxer, whose religion cloaks the petty interests of the class he serves. That there are deep-going antagonisms in the ranks of the democratic party is obvious to all. Such antagonisms, outwardly expressed in conflicting religious principles, are in fact based upon conflicting economic interests. Heflin and his supporters represent the extreme wing of the petty bourgeois section of that party—that branch that in its heyday was led by William Jennings Bryan. The main branch of the Party, the eastern, Wall Street section, is openly imperialist and Al Smith is the favorite candidate of this dominant element in that party. But Heflin is wrong when, in his bombastic harangues, he charges Smith with being the servant of the pope of Rome. Smith is the servant of the pope of Wall Street. And his re- ligion, no matter what form it appears to take, is essentially the same as that of the eminent protestant and late candidate for president on the democratic ticket, John W. Davis, whom Heflin supported—the religion of capital, the one god before whom all the capitalist politicians of every stripe prostrate themselves, and to whom the pope of Rome is peddling what little influence he still has left. Miners Suffer for Lack of Coal Not an inconsiderable amount for the relief of the striking miners of Pennsylvania and Ohio must be spent for fuel. Work- ers who since childhood have slaved and risked life and limb to produce coal are unable to keep warm. Every day brings from the coal fields new reports of incredible suffering on the part of those masses of workers who are fighting to resist the destruction of their organization. Driven like wild animals from the company houses, which they have paid for many times over in rent, com- pelled to exist in improvised shacks and tents in the dead of win- ter, the miners; their wives and children are relentlessly pursued by the state police and the private armies of thugs and gunmen. Coolidge prosperity in tHe state of Andrew W. Mellon, boss « and partner with the notorious William 8S. | | | | | THE DAILY WORKER) “'"s Nor Loapepy By Fred Ellis Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, demanding $800,000,000 in the Coolidge plan for naval war equipment, says, “It’s not loaded,” but— BUILD OUR WORKERS COMMUNIST) PARTY By H. PURO. 'HE Central Executive Committee of our Workers (Communist) Party has announced the Lenin-Ruthenberg Membership and DAILY WORKER Drive to take place from the time of the Lenin Memorial to the time of the Ruthenberg Memorial, and calls upon the entire membership of our Party to increase the membership by 5,000 and to obtain 10,000snew subscribers for our DAILY : abe Our, Central Executive Committee is to be congratulated in that ‘they have selected such a fitting time for this important Drive. What could be more appropriate to start the cam- paign to build our Party than the wfemorial Day of the creator of the Russian Bolshevik Party and the Communist International? It was Lenin who taught us the real signifi- cance of the Party as the organiza- tion of the advance guard of the revo- :utionary proletariat. And Comrade Ruthenberg who was still in our midst a year ago, was, on the other hand, the father of our American Party. As Comrade Lenin devoted his entire life for the inter- national proletarian revolution, so did Comrade Ruthenberg devote his life to the struggles of the American working class. Comrade Ruthenberg was one of those who always realized that con- duct of the class struggle on the part of the working class in America makes it aksolutely necessary that the advance guard be organized into a revolutionary political Party, which an lead the struggles of the whole v ing class. Comrade Ruthenberg was a devoted and tireless worker and organizer, working years in the Socialist Party and belonging to its ionary left wing. When the time came to organize the Communist Party of America, Com- rade Ruthenberg was among the first co realize this. He was the first Na- ional Secretary of our Party and is rightly considered the father of the American Communist movement. Comrade Ruthenberg was a tireless worker and organizer of our Party until the very end of his life. His last words were: “Build the Party.” Therefore, what coiild be more ap- ® connection with our drive to build the Party? Must Be Bolshevik Campaign. But neither Comrade Lenin nor Comrade Ruthenberg ever went into membership. campaigns abstractly simply appealing to workers to join our Party. Comrade Lenin split with the Men- sheviks on the question of what membership consists of in a revolu- tionary Party. The general conception of the Second International was, and the Russian Mensheviks adhered to it, that paying dues in the Party was sufficient. Comrade Lenin could not accept this conception of membership in a revolutionary Party of the proletariat. He said that only those who are pay- ing dues and are actively participa- ting in Party work can be considered as members. Comrade Ruthenberg adhered strictly to this Leninist conception of Communist Party membership, and always urged our entire membership to actively participate in all our Party campaigns. Our Central Committee is following the path of these dead leaders of ours. In declaring the Membership and DAILY WORKER Drive, the Central Committee urges our membership to recruit new members and get new subscribers only in connection with actual work, namely in connection with the following activities: 1. Campaign for Miners’ and to save the miners’ union. 2. Fight against injunctions. 3. Fight for protection of the foreign born. 4, Fight against unemployment. 5. Struggle against war and for the defense and recognition of the So- Union. 6. For a Labor Party or at least a united labor ticket in the 1928 elec- tions. It is readily seen that the Central Committee has so formulated the plan of the membership drive, that re- eruiting can be made in connection with the actual class struggle and only those participating in the class struggle with our Party will be asked to join it. Relief propriate than the coupling of his name wih that of Comrade Lenin in Many Workers Srmpathlgic. Will it be possible for us to gain 5,0°0 new members? Vare in control of the Pennsylvania state government, applies to the labor exploiters and their vile henchmen only—certainly not to the starving and freezing workers and their families. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, itf playing the familiar game of non-partisan political policy of “rewarding friends and punishing enemies” in the parties of the employers, supported Calvin Coolidge, the strike-breaker, in his presidential campaign. upon the heads of the 150,000 The fruits of this treachery fall coal miners and their families. Lewis is never negligent in giving unstinted support to the ene- mies of the working class, but has criminally neglected to aid the striking miners, leaving them a prey-of the police, mine guards, official and unofficial armies of strike breakers and scab herders defending the property of Andrew W. Mellon and the republican governor of the state of Pennsylvania, John §S. Fischer. It is the duty of the working class to come to the aid of the heroic miners in their struggle against the combined assaults of the coal operators, the government, the labor fakers and the whole union-wrecking crew. Not only should funds be raised in every workers’ organization, but clothing and other supplies must be rushed to the embattled miners at 611 Penn Avenue, Pitts- burgh, Pa. Everyone who is familiar with our Party campaigns during the last year knows that there are tens of thou- sands of American workers who have actively participated in the various campaigns initiated by our Party in behalf of the American working class, such as anti-war campaign in connection with intervention in China, Mexico and Nicaraguan affairs; pro- tection of foreign born; relief for striking miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Colorado, in the campaign for the establishment of the Labor Party and numerous other campaigns. ‘We would have gone thru all these strenuous campaigns in vain had we not been able to create a sympathetic attitude among the great majoriy of these workers who have participated in these mass movements side by side with us and under our leadership. If we have been able to arouse keen in- terest amongst these workers to- wards our Perty, surely it must be possible to recruit a good many thou- sands of them to actual membership in our Party. Comrades, we must do this. This. is what the Central Executive Conimittee asks us to do in connection with the further cam- paigns of our Party. Don’t Neglect Party. Comrades, there has been a tehd- ency to neglect internal building and strengthening of our Party. We must learn not only to make our’ Party a living participant of every day struggles of the workers, we must in connection with these strug- gles learn to draw in the best ele- ments of these workers into our Far and so ever strengthen our ap- par: We must also realize that in order to carry on our struggles and cam- paigns we must build strong central organs. Our chief organ, The DAILY WORKER, which has been build by the strenuous efforts of our Party and its sympathizers, must be sirengthened. We must extend its in- fluence. The best way to build the DAILY WORKER and extend its in- fluence is to get thousands of new readers for it. Even as Lenin and Ruthenberg taught us the necessity of a prole- tarian mass Party, they also taught us the importance of Party papers. Lenin wrote as early as 1902 that a “newspaper is a collective organi- zer.” Everyone of us remember how repeatedly Comrade Ru-henberg urged every member and every sym- pathizer to get behind the DAILY WORKER. Let us. follow the fine example given to us by these dead leaders of ours! Let us approach our struggling brothers and sisters in connection with the campaigns of our Party and ask them to join our Party and subscribe o our fearless organ—The DAILY WORKER. DETROIT SHOWS THE WAY Starts Drive With 99 New Members NEWS has just been received from@rade Winitsky made an appeal in the Detroit that in the Lenin Mem- orial Meetings there which marked the opening of the Lenin-Ruthenberg Memorial Membership and DAILY WORKER Drive, ninety-nine workers joined the Workers (Communist) Party. This is a notable achievement that the comrades in Detroit can well be proud of and an example worthy to be followed by all other comrades thruout the country. What has been done in Detroit can be duplicated everywhere else, for as in Detroit so everywhere the masses are responding more and more to the slogans of the Workers (Communist) Party and following its leadership in the various struggles that the Work- ers Party is conducting. That ninety- nine workers joined the Party at such a celebration is ample proof of the fact that the masses are beginning to understand more and more the treacherous role played by the labor lieutenants of imperialism in the trade unions and that they under- stand that the Workers (Communist) Party and the left wing alone have the correct slogans for the mobiliza- tion of the masses and a struggle to save the unions, against. war, etc. No bt the fact that Comrade Wolfe, National Agitprop Director, made the appéal contributed a grea deal to the great number of worker that joined the Party. Comrad Wolfe has time and again shown tha he is perhaps the best in our Part; Bronx to a needle trades meeting called to endorse the Workers Party candidates and he received about 7 applica.ions. Comrade Wolfe then followed up and made another appeal, not being satisfied with the first ap- peal, and secured 38 more members— in all 45 members joined in a meet- ing of about five hundred. This only goes to’ prove that with the masses ready to follow our Party, with the masses rallying to the slo- gans of the Parvy, it is necessary at the same time that we know how to draw them into the Party, and it is worthwhile for every Party member to try to become as efficient as pos- sible in making an appeal for Party membership. One of che features in the class on organization that will form part of the National Day Training School will be a session devoted to how to make appeals for the recruiiine of Party members and Comrade Wolfe will demonstrate how this can best be done. —Organization Dept. 21 Break Jail DETROIT, Mich. Jan. 25.—Dig- ving thru a brick wall, 21 prisoners at the Elmwoods Avenue . branch county jail escaped yesterday. All of he escaped prisoners were held on federal charges of peddling narcotics, Two of the prisoners were recaptured in the evening, but the rest are said when it comes to making an appeal;to have reached Canada. Officers for joining the Workers (Communist) |hunting the escaped men have been Party. I remember once before Com-'ordered to shoot on sight. SPARKS Srom the NEWS E are indebted to Mr. Lever of South Carolina, for a contribution to the political enlightenment of the workers. Mr. Lever, the workers will recall, is the author of the notorious Lever Fuel and Food Control Act, one of the worst of anti-labor war meas- ures of the Wilson administration. It was on the basis of the Lever act that the injunction against the United Mine Workers was secured by Palmer in 1919. Mr. Lever has come out with a dec- laration for Al Smith. It is a political gem. Mr. Lever, formerly chairman of the House Committee on Agricul- ture, and now head of a Joint Stock Loan Bank in South Carolina, said of Smith: “I am for him, too. He has made the greatest governor New York has ever had and he is a man of the people. He comes from the people. “With all that, he is a conservative man, one that will appeal to the busi- ness elements of the country. He is the one man in the democratic party who has an appeal to the imagina- tions of the American people.” That’s the secret of Mr. Smith’s success. Mr. Smith is a big bourgeois fist in a small capitalist glove. That’s why the New Repuélic is for him. That’s why so many liberals are for him. And that’s why thousands of good “socialist” voters will vote for Smith and Norman Thomas. * * ° Cpros Puddler to Cabinet Officer,” runs a heading in one of the Hearst sheets in describing Secretary of La- bor James J. Davis. Hearst now stands convicted even by the United States senate of being a forgerer. The above heading is an- other forgery. The impression Mr. Hearst would give out is three-fold. One: Mr. Davis became a cabinet of- ficer because he was a puddler. Sec- ond: Ergo: the American puddler and other workers can likewise become cabinet officers. Third: From the overalls to the presidency is still a short road in America. Multi-millionaire Davis’ interview shows why Hearst gave us this salu- tation. Mr. Davis says that the American workers of today are better off than the kings of yesterday. Speaking of America, he says: “It has baths, plumbing, fine furniture and piano and phonograph and radio, the American owns a car.” We propose that Mr. Green should have the executive council of the American Federation of Labor pass a vote of thanks to Mr. Davis for in- forming us that neither baths nor plumbing nor the phonogreph nor the radio ‘and not even the automobil2 were invented in King John’s» day! Of course, Mr. Davis might have told us that nine out of even ten 100 per cent American farmers do not have bath tubs in their homes. He might also have told us that at least half the American workers do not have bath tubs in their homes. But there is no limit to what Mr. Davis might have told us or might have not told us in view of what he has said above. Such phrase-jug- gling, such ridiculous talk, such abys- mal ignorance camouflaged by out- bursts of braggadacio won’t get very far with the intelligent worker. The average intelligent working man knows that the world has moved for- ward quite a bit since King John’s days despite the fact that Mr. Davis is still a member of the United States cabinet. The standard of living of the work- ers of any one country must be judged on the basis of the historical condi- tions prevailing in a country at a particular moment: that is, in rela- tion to the previously existing condi- tions within this country. If we want to know whether the American work- ers are better off today than they were 25 years ago, we should not talk about King John, King David, Christ or Moses, but we should talk about the Telative, the proportionate share received by the workers of the wealth they produce, __ The American workers are the most intensely exploited. Industry in Amer- ica is most efficient. The American workers are most productive. In America more commodities are pro- duced than anywhere else in the world, Let Mr. Davis prove that the real income of the American workers, the share received by. the American work. ers of his total produce, in comparison with the development of industry of the United States, has gone up. Let him not call on the kings of yester- day for help. He has plenty of kinds, industrial monarchs and financial overlords on his side today. Mr. Davis is a muddler, He cannot get to first base, how i Ce uae » ever, with such —JAY LOVESTONE, Ford Airplane Fails ASHEVILLE, N. C., Jan, 25.— Harry Brooks, pilot of Henry Ford's “flivver” aeroplane was forced down near here, thus failing in an attempt to make a non-stop flight to Miami, Fla., from the Ford airdrome in De. troit. Brooks declared that the strong head winds and ice formation on the wings of his plane forced him to land. He plans another trial soon, pay }