The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1928, Page 8

Page Right THE DAILY WORKER *ublished by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Ine. | 3 First Street, New Yo: Daily, Except Sunday rk, N. Y. Cable Address: “Daiwork” Phone, Orchard 1680 By Mail (in New York only): ' $4.50 six months 38.00 per year SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.50 three months. “Like European Countries” | $6.50 per year By Mail (outside of New York): $3.50 six months $2.00 three months. Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y- Assistant Editor.. tmteread as second-class mail at the post-office a the act of March 8, 1879. ...ROBERT MINOR ...WM. F. DUNNE t New York, N. ¥., under | Some Mexican politicians who are very naive and some others very much worse than naive are stumbling over their own feet to get in line with the idea that the United States bankers and their bank-runner, Coolidge, will go easy with Mexico in, the natter of “debts” of Mexico to these bankers. Thomas W. La- mont, the Morgan partner who has the United States army and navy and also the state department behind him and an Morgan partner as United States ambassador to Mexico under his } orders, is propagandizing the Mexican upper classes with the} lay”, ex subtle illusion that the international committee of bankers on Mexico will not “press” the Calles administration “to an undue xtent.”” “Like the European countries after the world war”’—is the | slogan now in circulation, and this is supposed to describe the | * manner in which Wall Street and the Wall Street government | will treat Mexico in this golden age of Morrow and Lindbergh. “As the Kaiser treated Belgium” is closer to the truth. Mexicans who are not so naive and not worse than naive should not be fooled by this monstrous trap that the Morgan-led bankers’ committee and the Coolidge government have laid. This is the period of Imperialism, and the United States is not the least but the most imperialistic state on earth. Wall Street bankers would like to quiet and also to complete the corruption of the upper layers of the Mexican ruling cl talk is intended only to gain a better footing for the open conquest | f Mexico with blood and iron. Not the few millions of interest on “debts,” but the whole | »f Mexico as its own colony, is the aim of finance-capital of the| United States. Mexico is, in the minds of the Wall Street bankers, | sses, and this soft only the first bite in the big imperialist cake of Latin America. Not only the slow corrupting process and the partial subjection} which the United States applies to weakened European debtor states, but the sharp and violent military invasion of Mexico is the Wall Street program. Mexico should today be the fighting front of a bloc of all! Latin-American republics to resist the encroachments of the Wall Street government. Every possible sacrifice should be made to} build up the resistance to the conquest of these Southern repub- lies. Otherwise all lose their independence. Certainly this is also the cause of the workers and exploited farmers of the United} States no less than that of their brothers of Mexico. The more the upper layers of the Mexican petty-bourgeoisie) become corrupted by the Lamont-Morrow machine, the more the| Mexican Communist Party must and will work to rouse the work- | ers and peasants of Mexico to make themselves the active force | of resistance to United States imperialism and to its Mexican agents. Coal Capitalism on the Constitution Those who are capable of learning from developing events— a section of the population very nearly limited to the working class—will derive considerable profit from the lesson in history which has emanated from St. Clairsville, Ohio. In order to carry out its purposes, coal capitalism of that es section has resorted to the regular and necessary methods now familiar in industrial communities. Only those who deal in ab-| stractions—and fools—would have believed that these necessary methods of capitalism would or could be modified in dealing with | > women and children when they too joined actively in the class struggle. be sure: s class the ‘ the class struggle. they were held without bail. merely lends atmosphere to the picture. All this is “unconstitutional,” of course. - So believe the honest dealers in abstractions—the fools who still insist that the constitution is something by which to gauge | The prosecutor of Belmont County has no} such illusions. He understands that these acts are perfectly con- _ stitutional, as capitalism understands its constitution. He expresses his philosophy in somewhat disguised language, yo Accordingly seventy-five women were jammed: into a vile- ~ $melling, stuffy, overcrowded pen when they persisted in march- ' ing in the picket line. No charges were made against them and That they were tricked into jail “We have had to forget what we learned in school about the - titution,” he declares with an engaging honesty that is a con- sable relief from the language of idealistic searchers after 2 speech” and constitutional guarantees. Then Paul V. Wad- 4, the “legal” representative for the state, that is, of coal capital- _m in Ohio, tells us why his acts are “constitutional’’ : “By so doing we have nipped in the bud the most menacing ‘movement in our whole year of the mine strike, the movement of the so-called ‘Save-the-Union Committee. Coal capitalism has been a valuable teacher for the American working class during the past thirteen months. ‘instructors has been more definite and valuable than Prosecutor Waddel. And, finally, his testimony as to the strength, and for None of its “menace,” of the Save-the-Union Committee, is the ot Tene soba manta ence of the _ power and approaching victory of i | | | | | | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1928 ONLY HIDING? OR TAKING NOURISHMENT? The archives of the Lenin Insti- tute contain a manuscript on war by V. I. Lenin, written, to judge by the opening sentence, in August 1915. All signs go to show that this appeal was intended for one of the leaflets of the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviki), published dur- ing the war by the “Social Demo- erat.” The document is written in legible handwriting, in black ink, on three half sheets of paper. A few } corrections have been made in the text. | —The Lenin Institute. | * * * : Workers! Comrades! 5 ate European war has already been raging for over a year. To all ap- pearances it is going to continue for a long time; for although Germany is best prepared and is at the present ltime the strongest, the LEntente (Russia, England, France, and Italy) has more men and money, and is be- sid-s able to ob‘ain unrestricted war |supplies from the richest State in the world, the United States | America. . Why is this war, which plunges hu- |manity into unt suffering, being. waged? gov- ernments and bourgeoisies of the bel- \ligerent countries are one and all ex- pending enormous sums on books and An Appeal of | and | By great Powers for the division of the colonies, for the enslavement of other nations, for the seizure of advantages and privileges in the world’s markets. This war is the most reactionary of wars, a war waged by the slave- holders of today for the maintenance and strengthening of capitalist slavery, England and France lie when they assert that they are wag- ing this war for Belgium’s freedom. In reality they have been preparing for this war for a long time, and are waging it for the purpose of robbing Germany and depriving it of its colonies; they have made an agree- ment with Italy and Russia on the dismemberment and _ division of Turkey and Austria. The Tsarist monarchy in Russia is waging a wa: jof robbery; it aims at occupying Lenin sia in 1905, that is, revolution. All the class conscious workers of Russia are on the side of the Russian Social Democratic Labor fraction in the State Duma (Petrovsky, Badayev, |Galicia, annexing Turkish territory enslaving Persia and Mongolia, e {Germany is carrying on the war fo: the .purpose of stealing the coloni lof England, Belgium, and France torious, or whether the game i drawn, in any case the war will bring: fresh oppression for humanity, free! suffering for hundreds and hundred of mintons of the population in tt \ colo} » in Persia, in Turkey, China, fresh enslavement for the tions, fresh chains for the workin; class of all countries. What are the tasks of the wor ing class in face of this war? ‘Ih lreply was already given to this ques newspapers, throwing the blame on the enemy, fanning among-their peo- ples the most violent hatred against the enemy and shrinking from no lie in the effort to lay claim to be merely “defending” themselves against an unjust attack. In reality the war is _|one between two groups of predatory By BERTRAM D. WOLFE. The socialist party has nominated the one-time pastor of the fashionable “Brick Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue” as its candidate for presi- dent. He is a fitting symbol of what the socialist party has become. “There were no sudden movements in my life,” he told a reporter. bo 8 became a socialist gradually.” He believes there are no sudden movements in society, either. If there are, he’s aga‘nst them. No Reyolution for Thomas. “Today we, cannot risk world con- vulsions,” he told the convention when nominated. “Our kids would ery for mil’s if there is a general up- heaval and we would be apt to hear their cries. Our task is to bring a better world into being without re- volutionary and catastrophic woe. It ig just as easy to reach our goal walking as in a jump.” 4 |tion by the resolution passed unani mously by the socialists of the who! world at the Basle International S$ cialist Congress in 1912. This resol tion was passed in anticipation ( precisely such a war as broke out | 1914. In this resolution we read tha. the war is reactionary, prepared in No revolutions for Norman Thomas. And if imperialist war should éome and make. “our kids cry for milk?” The good’ reverend doesn’t want to see that either, But if it should come, would he lead the masses in a revolutionary strug- gle against it? Or even follow them? Not he. If he cannot end imperialist war without a revolutionary struggle against imperialism, that’s bad news to him. “That would be the counsel of despair,” says Norman Thomas. “When the world looks black with the menace of war, and the militar- ists itch for ‘glory’ in carnage and desolation, Norman Thomas counsels the need of the working class is to arm itself for war against imperialist war and capitalism, “peace” is the counsel to labor offered by Norman Thomas. } No Class Struggle for Him. The socialist party has cut out i y {Whether Germany or Russia is vic- | peace!” writes the New Leader. When | j | Thomas, My mouth burns— the interests of “capitalist profit,” ;Muranov, that the workers “consider it a crime |banished by Tsarism to Siberia for to shoot each other,” that the war|revolutionary propaganda against the will “lead to proletarian revolution,”|war and against the government. that the example of the tactics to be|Such revolutionary propaganda as followed by the workers is the Paris |this, and such revolutionary activity, Commune of 1871 and the period be-|awakening the masses, are the sole tween October and December in Rus-|3alvation of humanity from the hor- |wave jhave been thrown into prison by the By Fred Ellis Samoilov, and Schagov), rors of the present war and of the wars threatening in the future. Noth- ing but the revolutionary overthrow of the bourgeois governments, and above all of that most reactionary, cruel, and barbaric of governments, the government of the Tsar, can clear the path to Socialism and to peace among the peoples. They—the conscious or unconscious lackeys of the bourgeoisie—lie who declare to the people that the revolu- tionary overthrow of the Tsarist monarchy would only lead to the vic- ory and strengthening of the reac- tionary German monarchy and the Germany, bourgeois. Although the ‘leaders of the German Socialists, like vmany of the best. known Socialists and of Russia, have gone over to the side of “their” bourgeoisie, and help the bourgeoisie to deceive the people ith legends of a “defensive” war, still there is among the working asses of Germany an ever rising of protest and_ indignation against the goyernment. Those Ger- man Socialists who have not gone over to the bourgeoisie have declared in the press that they regard the tac- ies of the Russian Social Democratic Labor fraction as heroic. In Germany ‘legal appeals against the war and gainst the government are being vublished. Dozens and hundreds of he best German Socialists, including ‘lara Zetkin, the well known leader £ the women workers’ movement, the recognition of the class struge'e and violence and revolution, who from its membership application. No wants peace and socialism in the class struggle, either, for Norman] world without: fighting for them, the clean, nice, gentle philistine who is The Brick Church pastor with alin no hurry and believes “it is just summer home on Shinnecock Bay on| 88 easy for us to reach our goal by Long Island, who abhors struggle| walking as in a jump,” the pacifist Money Masters, Hear! My cell is filled with emptiness; No air; no sun; no friend; no book. The hours tightly entwine their ghoulish hands With horrible deliberation | About the neck of my mind. . Hot sands of a foul stench rubbed mercilessly on it. My mind roars to the four corners of the globe A hymn of hate to you. Tombs Prison, Cell 611, April 6, 1 928. Union Scores — Brutality To — Ill Teachers! Through their union, teachers are crying halt to the medical board's tyrannical hounding of sick fellow workers, Naming names and chal- lenging the school authorities to an open hearing, the union has submit- | ted complaints from 17 teachers, nine physicians and five teachers’ rela- | tives that the medical tyrants order | sick teachers’ back into school rooms. | A wide and deep investigation of medical board abuses is demanded, with doors open to the public and a stenographer and representative of the union present. Teachers, fearing loss of jobs and prejudice against obtaining work elsewhere, will not | attend star chamber inquiries, Presi- dent Henry Linville warns. The signed protests of 17 teachers, | 5 relatives of teachers and 9 physi- cians, charging brutality on the part of Dr. Emil Altman, chief medical examiner of the Board of Education, have been forwarded by the Teachers’ Union to the special board of inquiry, composed of City Commissioner Mc-»} Kee and School Superintendent Wil. | liam J. O’Shea. A public hearing of | | the charges against Altman, before | the committee, was urged by Dr. | Henry Linville, president of the! Teachers’ Union. N. Y. Cop Said to Be A Thorough Burglar | Stephen Keiper, Staten Island pa+! trolman arrested early in the week | charged with more than 40 robberies | on the post where he was stationed, | will be arraigned in the Richmond } County Court in St. George. Monday. | He has been indicted on four counts charging him with first degree bur- glary. It. is charged that he even stole the furnace in his home, removing it in sections from a partly completed building. He is said also to have ac~ quired building material, all stored in his basement, to construct a dy- plicate of the house in which he lived, Against the War . German government for their revolu- tionary propaganda, In all the warr- ing countries, without exception, the indignation of the working masses is maturing, and the example given by the revolutionary activity of the so- cial democrats of Russia, and_ still more by every success won by the. revolution in’ Russia, advances the great cause of Socialism, of the vic- tory of the proletariat over the ex- ploiting and bloody bourgeoisie. The war is filling the pockets of the capitalists, and a stream of gold is flowing to them from the state treasuries of the great Powers. The war arouses blind hate against the enemy, and the bourgeoisie guides the hostility of the people with the ut- most skill into this channel of na- tional hate, thereby diverting the people’s attention from the chief enemy: The government and ruling classes in their own country. But the war, which brings immeasurable misery and: horror to the working masses, at the same time elarifies and steels the best elements of the work- ers. If we are to perish, then let us perish for our own cause, for the cause of the workers, for the social- ist revolution, and not for the’ in- terests of the capitalists, landowners, and Tsar—this is what every class- conscious worker feels and realizes. And however difficult revolutionary socialist action may be at the pres- ent time, still it is possible, it is be- ing carried on all over the world, and it is our sole hope of salvation, Down with the Tsarist monarchy, which has drawn Russia into this, criminal war, and which oppresses the peoples, Long live the fraternity. of the workers of the whole world and the international revolution of the proletariat! The Reverend Norman Thomas Apostolic Successor of Debs who strengthens capitalism by tell- ing the workers not to prepare for open struggle against imperialist: war, the smug hypocrite who takes up the soiled standard of Abe ‘ Morris Hillquit and Victor Bi r of class collaboration and w smashing and betrayal—is, to use own words, the “apostolic succes: of Gene Debs. A fitting symbol of the degeneration of the socialist party into a party of petty- pacifism and labor betrayal. Al Smith is the symbol of the “New — Tammany” with the high hat and re« spectability. Louis Waldman in nom« tietian Seman Thomas for presi lent, declared: “I don’t of an; man who will be better able fa‘ ach the ‘New Tammany’ with the cialism’.” For the first 1917, I am compelled tog | of Sigman, Schlesinger and | man, of Beckerman and’ eth LI | i ¥ i ie | H { i