The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1928, Page 2

db q ; Church. even if it splits the party. THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1928 At the jedi, “Prophet” of a Tennessee s Too poor to keep him, his jobless mother left him in the freezing tenement hallway. STARK TRAGEDY OF WORKERS’ CHILDREN CONTR Wilbur G. Vetiva, religious magnate and owner of Zion City’s ASTS Sea oS so WITH ANTICS OF OFFICIAL CLOWN - A fig-bar monopoly, sets sail to prove that the earth is flat “before the end of the world” which he asserts is at hand. Next is Pn Uy a picture hoolhouse from which the bodies of 4 workers’ children were recovered. The flimsy frame structure crashed during the recent cyclone. The third picture shows a baby abandoned in a doorway on Second Ave, Next is “Bessy” Gillis, mayor of Newburyport who is filling the local offices with his republican chums. He is on a visit to study the methods of New York’s butterfly mayor, Walker. The studies have included an extended tour of New York night clubs. On the right is Chas. McCabe, judge in the trial of Gov. Jackson of Indiana for graft. Movement Toward Secession in Farmer. Groups of Both of the Old Parties KLAN BAISES UP AGAINST SMITH IN SOUTH, WEST Cleavage Grows in the Democratic Party WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.— The air is thick with explanations running from the ausible to the ri- alous, as to why Teflin outburst ust help Smith or president rath than _ hinder ” All of the big politicians in the democrati party seem anx- ous to convince the world in general that they harbor no resentment to- mn. Hefli wards Smith’s “3 és Catholic religion See Pt ich indicaten to the smouldering Heflin and his down- South following that the “Catholic conspiracy” has made some consider- | able progress in, democratic party cireles Don't Believe Priest. fefiin supporters are far from suppressed by the drift of the upper vircles of the party towards Al Smith, Gathoiic and strong with the bank-| 2 (Continued from Page One) ressed as the most immediate and pressing of the problems which the wil! have to devise methods of coping with. The statement fs, in full, as follows: “For some time the Workers (Communist) Party of America has called to the attention of the work- of this country that there exists an immediate danger of war. “This danger arises out of the ex- istence of the Sovieb Union and its growing Strength which represents e greatest weakness to world capi- alism and therefore they are always planning to atteck the Soviet Union destroy it. This war danger arises out of the Chinese revolution which in spite of its temporary de- feat, is entering upon the new stage, namely the stage of the’ organization { Soviets. This war danger arises elso out of the growing challenge to American imperialism on the part of the European countries that are now not any longer as in 1924 in the pe- od of overcoming the war demoral- ation, but are in a period of com- petition to American capitalism. Also we find growing symptoms of resist- ance on the part of the peoples of Latin-America to American oppres- sion. plen American Imperialism. “At the same time America, in or- der to meet European competition, is not only getting into conflict with Europe and European countries, but ers. The small business man, debtor} and planter elements in the South, Southwest and West seem not to be | lieve the statement yesterday of| Prancis P. Duffey, chaplain of the; New York 165th (an Irish Catholic) Tegiment in the world w: to the} effect that if the pope. reign | prince, fought the 5 Duffey and his Catholic in arms would demand to be sent first to invade the Papal states. The Ku Klux elements in the democratic party insist that Father Duffe tests too much” to be olut cere. Duffey's speech was made bi fore the National Republican Club in| New York—where the right of Smith] to run on the democratic ticket was upheld. “Word comes in continually from the out-West and down-South prov- inces of the democratic party contra- dieting the assurance of Senator Rob- fnson and the big leaders of the party that the re! e is dead. The feeling in Kansas is so hot that Gov- ernor Ben Paulen (republican) has publically issued a statement ing the appar certain boom in Ku Klux Klan ip w follow romi 1 of Smith, or even active cam] ng for him. It is made evigent by a hundred signs, that the little business and plantation in- terests in America demand a home | grown variety of bigotry, and will pose the K. K. K. to the Catholic iss may not actually succeed in this, because the urban centers are Motably cold to religious: issues, but a small Southern, K. K. K., independ- democratic party seems quite possible at present. LINE-UP AT "HAVANA MEETIN {Continued from Page One) ruz, as has happened in the past "The motion to boycott was defeated @ united front of all other Latin i led by Ambassador Pueyrredon Argentina, who said: “A little thing should be left for the revo- nary. Let us not think of gov- ments only. Let us think of the . Revolution is many times the ion of the people.” ng the discussion Roa stated his proposal was a suggestion . debate on the right of political ylum was not finished. The United delegation recorded itself as ag opposed to recognizing it in le. The U. S. practise is to e lum to all of its agents when are defeated and flee to the d, and to refuse it to those increasing its exploitation in | Latin-America as weil. The outrages in Nicaragt only signs of what American erialism is planning to co in Central and Latin-America. “That this danger is real and ex- ts and is immedi: can be seen from the speech m: by Rear Ad- al Plunket, commander of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, who speaking at the National Republican Club, said, ‘Another war is inevitable as long as Workers Party Executive to Fight Against War Danger our commercial and industrial ex- panses continues and our foreign trade increases in volume and extent against that of competing nations. Efficiency in business, too, That much of it has perhaps brought us wealth which is exactly the reason why we are in danger of a conflict today. We hold a command position in world trade and we are going to keep it. We need a navy equal tc that of any other power. We have our choice of creating one or of sub- mitting to bullying and dragging ow heritage of honor in the mud, crawli: along on our bellies like a worm and doing our best to play safe.’ Plain War Talk. “This is very simple and direct language and will bring to the at- tention of every worker the immedi- ate danger of war and also the reali zation to greater and greater sectior: of the working class that the Com munist Party was correct in its an alysis during the last period in call ing to the attention of the worker: the immediate danger of war. “The meeting of the Central Exe- cutive Committee will not only dis- cuss the antagonisms existing be- tween the United States, England, Ja- pan, the antagonisms between the United States and the Latin-American nations that are suffering under the heel of American imperialism, but will also work out complete plans of how to fight the war danger. Plans will be laid for the organization of a broad united front movement for the struggle against war. “The discussion of the war danger will perhaps form the central point of the entire discussion at the Plen- um. “The sessions of the Central Exe- cutive Committee are open to all mem- hers of the Party in good standing. All sessions of the Plenttm will be held at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl. Zinoviev Scores (Continued from Page One) the Soviet Union regarding this as the only correct outcome of the pro- found drawn-out struggle.” Trotskyist Errors. { Concerning the Trotskyist instruc- | jtions to associates abroad Zinoviev jand Kamenev wrote: “The strength jand significance of the Union of the jSocialist Soviet Republic for the deplor- | world Jabor movement consists in the | materailization of the proletarian dic- hich will |tatorship as the driving force in the| | world revolution. Ignoring this means at best abandoning the Bolshevik viewpoint and adopting the “left” trade union viewpoint. “The characterization of the Soviet government contained in the instruc- tions maintaing that the Party and the State are under the leadership of the petty bourgeois elements, forced to hang on the working class is equally wrong. Repudiate New Party, “Obviously the authors hold that the proletarian dictatorship no longer Jexists. Essentially this constitutes a complete form of Thermidor, name- ly a historical and political untruth. The Opposition’s work in the Com- |munist Party is viewed by the Trots- |kyists as Communist work in refor- jmist trade unions. The Trotskyists openly admit that the French ‘arainst stream’ group representing the real right purely intellectual group is the only group of French Trotskyist adherents in the Commu- nist International. From our relations with Maslow and Ruth Fischer we are convinced that they personlly and party at all costs. Maslow and Ruth Fischer deserve condemnation. “The best section of workers follow- ing Maslow energetically oppose the second party idea and are seeking to reenter the Communist Internatoinal. Reviewing all of the Communist In- ternational opposition groups, the Trotskyists have managed to estab- lish unity with the right Souvarine opposed Wall Street rule in ») it group, which has long since deserted Bolshevism desired in unison with definitely favor a second German! Trotsky Errors {them to ‘correct’ the policy of the Communist Party of the Soviet to such conclusions must become a tool of petty bourgeios forces,” Will Accept Decisions, Further, Zinovieyv and Kamenev declare that in their work they will be guided by decisions of the Fif- teenth Congress. They declare:— “Such important facts as the revi- sion of the agricultural law code, the tendency to reduction of rent terms, {as members of agricultural societies jand other measures against boss peasants, the influx of a hundred thousand workers to the Party must not be underrated. These facts de- finitely show how Party manoeuvres were misunderstood by the Opposi- tion and fed it to such wrong ascer- tions as those made in ‘platform’ that the circles of leading majority, under ‘the influence of the Anglo-Russian rupture and other difficulties, decided to favor recognition of debts, the \liquidation of the foreign trade mon- ‘opoly, withdrawal from China and within the country, and right man- |oeuvres as a certain new economic |policy expansion, Such conclusions lare absolutely different from the \Teality. | Hit Stubborness. | «we repeat to every Oppositionist ‘that political manliness and sound- ness does not require stubborn pur- |suance of further separation from Communist Party of the Soviet |Union and the Communist Interna- tional. A decision must be made to ‘G0 back. We are convinced that an enormous section of the former Op- | position of the entire Leningrad |group and all workers will choose \the path of conciliation. We consider it our duty to warn Communist work- ers against this campaign, fruits of which can only be reaped by the bourgeoisie.” The Pravda editorial board ex- [pressed its satisfaction with the Byer-Kameney-Zinoviev letter as a decisive move, facilitating the return of all their followers to the Party. aye Union, Political groups having come | |the denial of rights to boss peasants | SENATOR NYE IN THREAT TO SPLIT THEREPUBLICANS Lowden and Norris May Fight for 8. Dakota A pretty definite threat to split th Republican party, the first clear cut statement by any responsible leader was made by Sen ator Gerald P. Nye, Republican from North Dako- ta, in a speech be fore the Wesches- er County Bank- ers Ass’n. meet- ing at the Com- 1odore Saturday. After pointing > the increasing poverty of the far- aers, the insulting behavior in which the Coolidge ad- ministration vetoed every semblance of farm relief proposed, inciuaing Nye’s pet measure, the McNary- Haugen bill, the senator said: “It is not- unreasonable to pro- phesy,” he said, “that unless the agri- cultural condition is properly met and remedied there will be born in these United States a new political align- ment which you people of the East seem to believe to be impossible. “Bitterness,” “With the South and the great West battling a like problem, there is being born a new understanding that will bring about the birth of a political foree which you Eastern folks are go- ing ‘to have ‘to reckon with, “It might be easily be the case that a new alignment created out of bit- terness will, if suc ful, have little regard for the in! sts of those in- stitutions which have stood opposed to them through these recent years.” Senator Nye failed to connect his threat of a new political party in the West and Southwest with the rumb- ‘lings of a split in the Democratic party in those regions. South Dakota will, in March hold primaries. which indicate whether Lowden, the old line Republican, will be able to capture that farmer state with the active assistance of Senator Norbeck, the recognized Republican boss of state politics, or whether the vote will swing to, perhaps Norris, who is being urged by the “Insurgent” faction to try for the nomination. outh Dakota is the first state to de- cide on a nominee. Sen. Norbeck Republican boss TEXTILE WORKERS (Continued from Page One) operatives had been heightened by the declaration of the Fall River Cotton Manufacturers’ Association that tHey will not guarantee steady employ- ment even though they accepted the wage cuts, * * * NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 29. The statement made by the New Bed- ford Cotton Manufacturers’ Associa- tion after their meeting last Saturday, where a wage cut was to be consid- ered, is entirely different from what was expected, due to the new devel- opments in Fall River, where a gen- eval strike seems imminent, The New Bedford employers had been carefully watching the results of the wage cut decision of the Fall River employers, and had decided to declare a wage cut if no trouble arose in Fall River, When the labor offi cialdom’s announcement that the strike vote had failed, had been made, the bosses’’meeting had been called to publicly decide a reduction. The statement they did make, how- ever, was that they had postponed the wage question temporarily. This was done when several unions belonging to Fall River Textile Council, de- clared that they will not abide by the council's decision, and will take inde- pendent strike votes. MAY CALL STRIKE (Continued from Page One) attorney Bearak, one of the leaders of the socialist party. This group of higher officials of the shoe workers organization had en- tered into negotiations with the em- ployers, by going over the heads of the local union leadership, when as- sembled the workers had overwhelm- ingly voted down their instructions chat no strike be called. Try to Smother Action, When the instructions “not to skate on thin ice,” handed down by Attorney Bearak at the meetings where the first strike vote was taken, vas completely disregarded, the yureaucrats in control of the national nachinery of the unon, immediately took steps to smother the resistance of the workers. The citizens’ committee report was poimted to by many as the immediate -ettalts of the efforts of their na- iotwal leadership. Trick to Get Striking Shoe Workers on Job is Failure Recently, the State Board of Media- tion made an obviously hostile an- nouncement from Boston, that they intended to investigate the causes of the removal from the state of several shoe factories. However, the unani- mity of the walkout which completely tied up more than 40 plants caused the employers to attempt cajolery as a method of getting the workers back to their shops. Impartial Pose. Posing as an impartial body, but composed mainly of local business in- terests, the citizens’ committee of- fered what appeared to be a conces- sion. They had recommended that the workers return to work on the 1927 agreement which the bosses had abrogated, pending a final decision of a committee of three from the em- ployers and three from the union. The workers readily saw thru this as a ruse to postpone the wage slash for a_ few weeks. (Continued from Page One) from club houses, possibly on the Tammany model, is the plan an- nounced by the Hillquit leadership in the socialist party as its program for the 1928 election campaign, ’ In an interview given out to the press yesterday by Hillquit, leading spokesman and James Oneal, editor of the New Leader, central organ of the party, the announcement was made | that no stress will any longer be made | even on their previous reformist pro- | gram of government ownership and | control of production, Instead they | will go still farther to the right by | putting forward a few minor, inof- ‘ fensive measures. A plan will be out- lined for the United States to join the league of nations or at least the in-| ternational court of justice, “with- out impossible reservations,” Hillquit announced, Some opposition to this might de- velop at the coming convention on | April 14, Hiliquit admitted, but .in- | timated that his group had the forces | well in hand, The opposition, it is | known, will base its position on a more or less timid assertion that the | league of nations is “not yet” a fit instrument for peace. Hypocritical Gesture. In view of the bitter opposition by Hillquit to any dealings or sympathy with the Soviet government as ex- pressed at the “New Leader” dinner, the proposed plank in the coming so- cialist platform for the recognition of the*Soviet Union, it is believed, is in- tended as a remnant of the old pro- gram, retained in the effort to hol |sections of the progressive movement in the United States, This plank, {while asking the recognition of the workers’ republic, will slap at the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics with the words, “regardless of ap- proval or disapproval of the Russian government,” The future function of the socialist SENATE PROBE OF COAL EVICTIONS WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29,— The Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce has finally decided to in- vestigate conditions in the soft coal fields---at some time to be decided on later. Such investigations have been notorious for their slowness in start-| ing and for the indefinity time they run before any results sr findings appear. The present investigation is ordered because of the Johnson resolution in- troduced Jan. 9, and is supposed to cover the question of whether the railroad companies and their officials are breaking wage agreements in the hope of reducing the price of coal in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir ginia, ‘whether defenseless men, women and children, without cause, S. P. in Opposition to Bolsheviks party will be a purely “educative” one, according to Hillquit. At the same time a gesture is made to any groups who will agree with the new- ly-watered program. The voters will be educated to “provide a wholesome opposition to the republican-demo- eratie coalition.” Equally significant, is the an- nouncement by Oneal, that hence- forth the socialist party will through “political action alone seek to get control of the government.” SUMMERALL GETS GENERALSHIP SOP AS GAG AND BALM Man Hitting Conditions in Army, Hushed WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—A gag and a balm for the wounded feelings of Major-General Charles P. Sum- merall, recently re- called from the Pacific coast for attacking army housing conditions so bad that even the general could not blink them, was contained in the form of a re- commendations from Coolidge that the offended mili- tarist be awarded the highest rank known in the Untied States army. General of the army, a title held only in war time, will be given Sum- merall, provided Coolidge’s recom- mendations become effective. It is understood that Coolidge has no rea- son for gagging #he commanders of departments in the Philippines, Hawaii and Panama and has refused to recommend them for lieutenant- generalships. Summerall. Gets Hush Sop Opposite Bronx Park NP arg ee _ Opposite Bronx _ Park jz ROOM APARTMENT 2 Blocks of Cooperative Houses | are being built in the Co-operative Workers’ Colony by the UNITED WORKERS’ COOP. ASS’N Come right now and select an apartment of 2-3-4 Airy, Sunny, Spacious Rooms Office: 69 Sth Avenue, corner 14th St. TEL. ALGONQUIN 6900, have been evicted from their homes” and the misuse of the injunction by judges friendly to the operators in the | coal strike, Address . Name of Newsdealer ........66.046 DAILY WORKER, New York Agency, 108 East 14th Street. Spread the Daily Worker! Does Your Newsdealer Sell The DAILY WORKER? Send in the name of your newsdealer if he does not sell The DAILY WORKER and we will see that he gets it. 4 | = RAM ee CREASE