The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1928, Page 6

& ~ ,.Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Inc. | Daily, Except Sunday 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address; SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.50 per year 22.50 three months. $2.00 three months. “Daiwork” Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. POTS Scie cs Sa estas Sie sale eee ROBERT MINOR Assi: ... WM. F. DUNNE Entere, as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., the act of March 3, 1879. I The Senator-Strikebreakers The senate committee asked: “Isn’t it important that the miners receive a living wage?” “Certainly,” replied the representative of the New York Cen- tral Railroad, “I think every industry is entitled to a profit.” * * * his is senate “investigation” in its most magnificent style. Yes, the capitalists’ profits Are the workers’ wages important? are important. And: “T think the form of that injunction was a mistake.” “By form you mean substance?” “Possibly so.” This is the way a “liberal” senator puts himself on record against the substance of an American tsarist injunction, while it is agreed with the corporation representative that this does not mean the substance—the reality of the injunction—but only the | In the future! form of words in which the injunction is written. we shall have the lawyers write the injunction in different form —and Senator Wheeler has made an anti-injunction record for | himself and for the Green bureaucracy for use in the coming} election! - 8 -» The senate investigation’s net results to date are: A little polite quarrelling between Lewis and the operators. A concerted drive of coal operators, the Lewis bureaucracy | of the Union, the coal and iron police and individuals and groups | of senators—the drive being concentrated on these objectives: To stop mass picketing which can win the strike. To destroy the Pennsylvania Ohio Miners’ Relief which en- ables thousands of miners to live while they fight. To demoralize the ranks of the mine workers, undermine their confidence in themselves, to make them think the vaude- ville stunts of the senators are the things that will do them some good, and therefore to draw their attention from mass picketing which is their real hope. To discourage violation of injunctions which strangle the strike. To lay the psychological basis for mass arrests of mine workers who are doing the heroic work of mass picketing, and particularly for the arrest of such militant leaders as spring from the ranks to make the picketing effective. For this purpose a coal operator, Frank Malott of Belaire, is put on the stand to testify that “Union officials have been working hand in hand with citizens (meaning hand in hand with the coal operators) to keep the radical element down” (meaning to keep the mass picketing down). To exploit the mining situation for the purposes of the re- publican party (headed by Mellon, the scab coal operator who is “criticized” in the investigation, and Butler, the open-shop tsar of Massachusetts, among others), while the democratic sena- tors try to exploit the same situation for their own open shoppers in politics,—and the whole shebang working to weaken the min- ers in their struggle. To help John L. Lewis to beat the mine workers in the inter- nal fight in the union, as the best way to kill the fighting power of the union. This is the senate investigation. ce Bee This is why The DAILY WORKER has repeatedly warned the mine workers in this great struggle not to have any confidence in the senate investigation. Coa] miners—rely upon your own strength! More mass picketing! Violate the injunction! Win the strike! s Save the United Mine Workers’ Union by winning the strike, by ousting the agent of the operators, John L. Lewis, and by taking the United Mine, Workers’ Union into the hands of the mine workers themselves! Mine workers, tell the senate committee to go to hell, and fight on! Get your delegates to the big miners’ conference at Pitts- burgh April 1! if Rainy Season The order for United States marines to intensify their offen- sive against the Nicaraguan people and against the troops led by Sandino comes at the saffié moment as the war-like declaration of U.S. officials that since the Nicaraguan congress refused to legalize their supervision, they will interfere by force to take charge of the Nicaraguan elections in October. Meanwhile the conservative congress which has been serving as Wall Street’s governing tool in Nicaragua, refuses to pass the law for the establishment of native mercenary constabulary under United States officers. The real situation—a U. S. war of conquest in Nicaragua, is thrown into sharp relief. The pretense of Coolidge that he is suppressing the Nica- raguan people at their own request is blown into mist. Those petiy-bourgeois reformers in the United States who have been working overtime to cover up Coolidge’s naked war-making with for the “peaceful” surrender of Nicaragua to Wall Street, li have to scramble for new illusions. The silk glove is torn off and the iron fist of Wall Street’s ' pailitary imperialism is exposed. The United States bankers cannot rule permanently—nor even for a short time—-over any portion of Latin-America by any other means than machine-guns and warships. The Nicaraguan people cannot be freed of the foreign tyrant except by means of military resistance. With the rainy season coming on the prospect of Sandino’s troops to hold out grows stronger. Meanwhile all of Latin-Amer- ica should rally to the support of ‘Nicaragua against Coolidge and his owners in Wall Street. The campaign to bring the Amer- ican workers to the support of Nicaragua must be intensified. icaragua’s enemies are the American workers’ enemies. Phone, Orchard 1680 $3.50 six months EE under “SEPTEMBER MORN” By A. H. HARFIELD. The Queens sewer scandal has again brought to the fore the prob- lem of the corrupt capitalist parties that prey on the resources of the na- tion and the income of the great masses of proletarians and semi-pro- letarians. ‘In order to struggle and conquer them it is necessary to under- stand the nature and role these par- ties have played and the social forces that have prevented the development of an effective working class politi- cal party. Grafting or the wholesale stealing and misappropriation of public wealth, property and funds is prim- arily an American institution. Two main factors made this possible. A vast and unlimited public domain, rich in natural resources, originally titled to the federal and state governments, and secondly, the rise of a powerful capitalism with the rapid growth and expansion of cities and industries. Wholesale Bribery. We find that all the great Amer- ican railroads were built on land fraudulently obtained from the fed- eral and state governments by legis- lative grants. These public grants were frequently given away to cor- porate bodies, banking cliques and in- dividuals thru the wholesale bribing of the various legislatures, congress, | and the courts, or the giving of large sums to the republican and demo- cratic parties for their silence or con- | sent. For example, a majority of the members of congress and the supreme court under the administration of President Andrew Jackson were bribed by the Union Pacific Railroad. In spite of a federal law prohibited the giving away of mineral land (gold, silver, copper, lead, coal, etc.) the Great Northern Railroad, or what is now the Great Northern, se- Bermal promised the people “I will make Queens blossom like a rose.” After election he decided to buy a park for the county. A group of real estate dealers got together, appointed a friend of Bermal as agent, and sold the county eighty-seven acres of swamp land. President Bermal made a very large cash deposit to his per- sonal account in the bank immediately after the transaction was closed. Lawrence Gresser took Bermal’s place in 1908. By 1910 Gresser was indicted for allowing false claims of a contractor against the city. Al- though the charges were never proved in court, Governor Dix was compelled to remove him shortly before elec- tions in 1911. Maurice Connelly fol- lowed into the office which he has held to the present date. On investigation one finds that the | | | ANTS | Al Smith, Sanctioned Graft Mr, Andrew W. Mellon stands naked in a sea of oil. democratic party has had the same leadership during this entire period. John M. Phillips, the head of: the sewer ring, has been a part of this leadership during this period and a short review of his career is in order. As under-sheriff in Prestdent Gres- ser’s administration, during 1909 he was indicted for grand larceny in con- nection with a borough contract, for bribery and for bookmaking. In 1913 he is again in the limelight as in- spector of supplies for state hospi- tals, appointed by Governor Sulzer. (Sulzer was removed from office by the order of Chief Crocker of Tam- many Hall. Sulzer refused to con- firm the appointment of two Tam- manyites to the state board of high- ways). The state hospital board re- moved him on ten charges of forcing supplies of underweight or spoiled meat on hospitals for the feeding of the sick. For ,some unknown and mysterious reasons the indictments against him were never pressed and finally dropped. For the same un- known and mysterious reasons the borough administration changed the pipe specifications in the sewer con- tracts to the patented lock-joint sewer pipe. Phillips had become the sole agent for that kind of pipe. This change in the specifications elimin- ated the competitive bidding that the law! required. Phillips and his con- tractor associates were the only bid- ders and their bids went. Had Tammany Support. Tammany Hall and the state and city leaders, Smith and Walker, have publicly stated that Connolly is a Hylan man and therefore the demo- cratic party is not responsible for his conduct. The facts are: Connolly ran in the jast election as a Hylan fol- lower with the support of the Tam- tho everywhere people thru “their” government. Lit- cured the Butte Copper Mines now! many machine ais sant Masadiee's ate’: YOUTH Active in’ Aiding the great stretches of agricultural | and forest land now in private hands | but formerly owned by the American | tle money or nothing at all was paid for these, In many instances, the gov- ernment, national, state and local, paid out money to help develop priv~ ate enterprises, built on public Prop- | erty. ‘ Queers Crook-Ridden. Long Island City, or Queenq coun- ty, has been blessed by a typical ma- chine that is as honest or dishonest as the rest of them. Here is a short resume of the four borough presidents Queens has had for the last twenty- five years. Joseph Cassedy became borough president in 1908 at a salary of $5,000. He left office with a for- tune of $500,000. He was indicted and sent to Sing Sing Prison for ap- pointing William Willet to the county supreme court bench for which he re- | ceived $10,000. His brother Thomas “Doc” Cassedy has cleaned up three million by being a part of the present “sewer pipe ring.” Joseph Bermal defeated Cassedy in 1905, When under investigation by. the grand jury he left for Europe and never returned. Bermal’s election slo- gan was “He is fearless, able, firm and upright, a man of sterling worth and the father of seven children.” 4 | the Pioneers, in the struggle of the Pennsylvania and Ohio coal miners, is clearly proved by the attack of the senate investigating committee on these militant youth organiza- tions, according to the statement o the national. ezecutive committee of the Young Workers (Communist) League he" tatannt follows: | e senate committee went into the coal fields to bolster up the tot- union and to prevent the miners |from winning their strike against | Serfdom in the mine fields. The re- {port or the committee is a further ‘step in their endeavors to carry out this policy, Children Picketing. “Since the defeat of the miners must be repeated by the smashing helps the miners in their struggle, the senate committee attacks..those very organizations that have been at the forefront in the fight against the operators. and their allies, the Lewis machine. The young miners au the children of the striking ers have played a very important }part in the’ strike. The young strik- of every organization that really’ of|have formed tering Lewis machine in the miners’ | i | The active role played by the Young ing miners have been the most active Workers (Communist) League and|0n the picket line and in the fight against the operators and the ma- chine, The children of the strikers fought and are fighting side by side with their parents. They have organ- ized school stri dgainst the au- thorittés"and” the scab children, They strikers’ ‘children’s clubs as a means to help win the strike. They have taken their places on the picket line. They have fought Lag real soldiers in the class strug- gle. Y. % L. and Pioneers Lead. m ‘oung Wofkt?§"Communist League and the Young Pioneers have been the leaders of the young miners and the miners’ children in their ef- forts to bring the fight of the miners against the operators and the Lewis machine/ to a successful conclusion. ‘The young miners and the miners’ children look to the Young Workers League and the Pioneers for leader- ship in their struggle for better con- ditions for the maintenance of the union and for the right of the work- ers. “The report of the senate commit- tee is an effort to destroy every or- ganization of the young striking miners and the miners’ children and to eliminate them from the struggle. By Fred Ellis Where is Coolidge? Are You Supporting the ‘Daily? ARE YOU A “DAILY WORKER” WORKER, DAILY? Do you work for The WORKER every day? Do you think of The DAILY WORKER every day? Have you accomplished something for The DAILY WORKER today? * * * The reaction works against The DAILY WORKER every day. ; The enemies think against the Worker every day. The “100 per centers” accomplished theirs already yesterday. DAILY { * * * It’s the capitalist class against the: working class, It’s a life and death struggle for militant trade unionism. It’s “Save The DAILY WORKER™ or “Save Wall Street.” _ * @ You must work for The DAILY WORKER TODAY. You must “come across” for In- ternational Solidarity TODAY. You must save The DAILY WORKER for EVERY DAY. ARE YOU A DAILY WORKER! WORKER, DAILY? —HARRY BLAKE. fe aot a eR UNEMPLOYED DEMAND JOBS. LONDON, March 15.—Sandwich men, many of whom are former offi- cers and enlisted men in the World War, part of this city’s 1,000,000 un- employed, are bearing sandwich boards outlining their qualifications for work. _ The signs read: “Reqitired: A Job of Any Description.” else. the Tammany machine fought and eliminated the Hylan followers. In Queens, Connolly was nominated and elected as an independent demo- crat- and was only opposed by the regular republican nominee. ‘ Techni- cally no regular democrat was placed on the ballot. The regular democratic machine has as yet failed to make any move to wrest control of the demo- eratic party in Queens from the lead- ership of Connolly, Phillips and their followers. In the appointments to the 1924 democratic national convention from the 2nd congressional district (most of Queens county) Connolly and Smedley were elected. On February 20th Mason O. Smedley, chairman of the executive committee of the coun- ty committee, a close personal friend of Connolly’s and his political lieu- Walker, Kept Mum Coal Miners The senate committee in attacking the Young Workers League and the Pioneers is only openly acknowledg- ing the good work that we have done on behalf of the miners. Queens A Record of Wholesale Bribery tenant for the last fifteen years, and Bernard M. Patten, another friend of Connolly’s were elected to the 1923 demgcratic national convention and were instructed to vote for Governor Smith as the presidential nominee of the democratic party. It has been the usual procedure of the N. Y. democratic party to remove and break anyone who dared to op- pose the leadership of the Tammany Society. The most classical example is that of Gov. Sulzer who was ousted in 1913 on the grounds of financial irregularities and incompetence for his pains of trying to break with the Tammany Society. In this case, Major Berry, comptroller of the City of New York, a Sachen of Tammany Society has allowed the taxes and assessments levied in Queens, and has furthermore paid out millions of the city funds on the sewer, paving and other tainted contracts. He failed to find or raise any objections or ques- tions, (which is his legal and moral right to do) until the stench from the Queens sewers had become so strong as to begin to blemish the “pure and virgin” record of Governor Smith, of the “New Tammany” in his campaign for the presidential nom- ination. Republicans In It Too. The responsibility for this situation does not rest ‘solely with the demo- crats, for the republicans are also in it above their ears. A few years ago some local republican fakers raised a hue and cry about the democratic corruption in Queens. John M. Phil- lips contributed $50,000 to the re- publican county campaign to keep Dennis O’Leary off the republican ticket as district attorney candidate and to defeat him when he ran as an independent republican. When the $50,000 was: received the republicans became tongue-tied and forgot about the democratic corruption. Furthermore the federal income tax department (republican control) has to the present day failed to take any action about the income tax returns of John M. Phillips, who is sald to have accumulated a fortune of $15,- 000,000 in the last seven years. Peter Campbell of the federal income tax department has been called before Judge Scudder and is again being r Must Defend Y. W. L. called before Commissioner Stearns If the miners, the young miners|to explain his relationship with Pres. and the miners’ children permit the| Connolly and some other matters. senate committee to destroy’ the| Phillips proved to the Meyer. investi- League and the Pioneers, their own| gation committee in 1921 (twvestigat- organizations, the children’s clubs,| ing corruption in Queens) that he was the labor party youth clubs, the min-| “broke.” Phillip’s son, Francis, ac- ers’ union will meet the same fate. | cording to press reports, has spending The fight is between the workers and their organizations, on one side, and the operators and their agents, the Lewis machine and the senate committee, on the other side. ‘Miners! Young miners! Miners’ children! Fight for your interests. Defend. your organization. On with the strike. Defeat the operators and the Lewis machine. Build and istrengthen your organizations, the labor party youth clubs and the chil- dren’s clubs. Join and support the organizations that lead you in your fight against the operators and the Lewis machine—the Young Workers Communist) League and the Young joneers, “League of Am “National Executive Committee of the Young orkers (Communist) money of over $100,000 a year. Labor Party Solution. The Workers (Communist) Party fully realizes the present investiga- it is only a means to cover up and protect the guilty. We know that graft and corruption cannot be elim- inated as long as capitalism exists because it is an inherent part of that system. i It is to the best interests of the workers, wage earners and consumers to organize their forces inte a labor party, to establish labor tickets for the coming elections, to utilize these as a weapon of struggle against the os Segadansd and the ——— state protects the grafters and. criminals, tion is no solution to the problem, as - \ \