The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 8, 1928, Page 6

we sacs ANE) Page THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the NATIQNAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'’N, Inc. Daily, Except Sunday 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: SUBSCRIPTION RATES n New York only): ar $4.50 six mnths ) three. months. By Mail Address and mail $6.50 per year i DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y- Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork” By Mail (outside of New York): $3.50 six months $2.00. three months. out checks to Editor. . Assistant «red as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., the act of Mich 3, 1879. + Defend the Chinese Revolution! attack by Japanese troops in China is objectively an list attack. This is true even though the present armed » of Japanese troops at Tsinan-fu is with the troops of ng Kai-shek, the counter-revolutionist. The attitude and actions of apanese indicate a growing aggressiveness and confide alist ment’s att bor move on in China. the aggress The late t reapi he Chinese bourgeoisie, The proposed general strike in Shanghai can have successes t Party takes the leadership of it. Otherwise it will be strangled again by such vipers as Chiang But if the Communist Party of China succeeds in tak- ively conducting the leadership of the gen- It in reviving the revolution for a new ke cannot but be against both the Jap- imperialists and against the former nationalist bourgeoisie, only if the Chinese Communis Kai-shek. ng over and aggr aral strike, this can r period; for the general anes which is no longer nationalist. Regardless of the maneuvers which Chiang Kai-shek and his 2y undertake in this situation, any conflict between the er his command and the Japanese imperialists, the re- | sult is bound to be further betrayal of the Chinese revolution. | roops The only forces able and willing and actually engaged in| gn imperialism and its agents, the Chinese e, and peasantry, led by the Communist Party. workers of the United States should note that the Wall Street government is helping this Japanese imperialist, attack. ng-Tao of an additional division of six sub- a to reinforce a division of five American y stationed in that port, indicates the determina- gainst fc revolutions struggle counter: bourgeois The The arri marines destroyers alr tion of Ame “spheres of influence’ al at T rom Amer of the We withdraw off Chir We call upon the American working class to render all pos- sible support to the workers’ and peasants’ anti-imperialist revo- Workers Must Organize To Fight Capitalism) of Amer- iea are n ever be- fore in t ensive upon the w and the workers’ organiza- tions. res of thousands of work- ers in the western Pennsylvania and Phio coal region are engaged in a struggle for life and death against the coal barons and their agents in the union, the Lew ‘appelini ma- chine; for the coal baz know that if the Lewis machine succeeds in crushing the United Mine Workers’ Union these work would have no means for ¢ en The « of the capitalist clas and thi the labor mov: ment, ) etc., upon the f this country must counter-ofiensive from the working Today class. The a npt to crush the U., M. the i Any pulsion of militant workers, figh from the trade unions, the sentence of 12 years of prison imposed upon Bonita, the shooting down of workers in the picket line i ion of the reactionary by the capitalis s to in Clouds arer now than ever be- antagonism between the powers is growing Kach imper- unting for world { the powers is an indication redness on the part ists. over 4,000,000 workers are and penniless, our govern- does not spend a cent for the f of thes orkers and at the itate to make Same time does not appropriations of billions of dollars for war prepareduess, does not hesi- tate to spend other millions of dol- lars to keep marines in China and Nicaragua to suffo in rivers of blood those brave workers who are fighting and giving up their lives for the freedom of sheér country from America’s imperialist rulers. Workers must fight against capi- talist’s wars. The mililarization of the vouth in the country igfno lon- panese imperialism in China. s shown internally in Japan by the govern- s against the Communist Party and the militant la- nt, which internal incidents were in preparation for facts merely go to prove that foreign imperialism the fruits of the betrayal of Chiang Kai-shek and n imperialism to extend and strengthen its own in the province of Shantung. States no less imperialist in its aims, and no less a cruel enemy nese masses than any other, and in the last analysis will go further in ruthless violence than any other Power. working class must not permit the American se imperialists in alliance with the Chinese bourgeoisie, to strengthen the oppression by foreign imperialism in China. demand of the American government to immediately 1 its military forees from China, and to keep its hands ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNE under The same imperi- is the Chinese working class The United | ger a thing of the past. Today| military institutions throughout the | country are training thousands. of young workers, farmers, and stu-| dents each year. The Citizen’s | Military Training Camps are again | waging a campaign to recruit young workers from mines, mills and fac- tories and students from schools, The C. M. T. C. is a military in- stitution that serves only the *rul- ing class and trains the young work- ers and students to become cannon fodder in the coming imperialist war. It trains young workers to become scabs at times when workers | strike for a better standard of living. As such the C. M. T. C. must be fought by the workers and young workers of this country. Unem- ployed young workers beware! Do not fall for the propaganda of the military recruiting officers, but or- ganize and fight side by side with us against war and militarism. Workers, defend the only workers’ and farmers’ government (the Sov- iet Union), the only country on this May Day of international solidarity. The workers of the Soviet Union will be able to wave into the open the Red Banner, the banner that repre- sents the workers’ solidarity and the emancipation of the working cl; The Red Banner is the work- ers’ flag, flag of liberty and free- dom, Workers must defend the Soviet Union from the attack of the imperialists because the Soviet Union is the fatherland of the work- ers. of the world, On this May the First let ug re- view our past activities, let us pay a tribute to the thousands of work- ers who bravely died in the workers’ barricades throughout the world. Let us send our message of soli- darity to the thousands of workers suffering in the damp and filthy capitalist prisons in every corner of the earth. Workers! Make this May the First a day for workers’ mobiliza- tion and let us fight on for a new | cialist League. “ THE company influence! “We will match the ‘New Tam many’ of Al Smith with the ‘Nev Secialism’ of Norman Thomas”— Louis Waldmen in his nominating speech at the S. P. convention \ gate, tke, They have taken the class struggle out of their application blank. They have hung out the flag of imperialism over the Rand School with the sigr “Welcome Delegates.” They have hauled down the Red Flag of interna- tional solidarity and hung up the Red, White and Blue Flag of Wal’ Street. What will their May Day be like? first. The answer has come in from many cities. Most of them report: “The socialist party held no May Day meeting here.” I was in Pittsburgh on May the first. I found a sign in the Labor Lyceum: “Yipsel May Day party Sunday night. Program: ‘Treasure Island’, by Robert Louis Stevenson!” So much for the Young Peoples’ So- And the socialist party. It ‘“cele- brated” with a banquet. After the mass meeting held by our party, per- By ELLIS PETERSON Last week there was a convention of all the Scandinavian. Workers Clubs in America. The convention convened in Chicago, a city with more than 120,000 Scandinavian ‘Workers. At this convention the Scando-Amer-; iean Labor League was founded. The) ; history: of this league follows: | There are more than 150,000} Scandinavian Workers organized in this country. But they are not or- ganized for class-struggle. Their or- ganizations are under the leadership of the Scando-American bourgeoisie. The workers were able to build up a few Scandinavian organizations, be- longing to the Socialist Labor Party or the socialist party, but because of their sectarian or reformist tactics, both failed. The SP has now no in- fluence among the Scandinavians, the operators in trying to break the big mine strike. The miners must control their own union!” I asked myself on May the} - | munist) Party had its own Scandi- “MINE GUARD” John L. Lewis, who pretends to be president of the United Mine Workers Union, in reality serves as the “The New Socialism” battle of the miners against operators | Litany parody—*Karl Marx is Einer; Zwei is Lenin-Trotsky, etc.” Marx, Lenin and Trotsky got in that company, even in parody, is beyond party. that has abolished the class| me. philistinism; that to the Communists. Red flag— vaded by the atmosphere of the grim cailroads, government and Lewis, J visited the May Day banquet of thr) struggle, A handful of old folks—mostly storekeepers—and some young chil-| dren. The children sang amid rem: nants of the feast. School songs Therefore the rank and file mine workers raise the cry: “Lewis must go! “Glory Hallelujah.” Then a Yiddish waukee the socialist party is the ad- By Fred Ellis cy ae chief reliance of the coal Rid the union of ministration. It controls the trade union apparatus. It carries silk-stock- ing districts and loses proletarian ones. But still—a Mayor, a daily or- gan, trade union apparatus—surely here we can expect a big May’ Day demonstration, such as was held in previous years. 3 How Degenerated petty-bourgeoisie Class — struggle—leave itto, Such is the S. P. in Pittsburgh Postponed Because of Rain. Then there is Milwaukee. In Mil-|~-The-socialist leaders of the Mil- -waukee labor movement meet. They discuss May Day preparations, “Amer- left. At right is Victor Berger. weekly paper. The Workers (Com- navian Federation with about 180 members, until 1925. Workers Clubs Grow. When the WCP decided to dissolve its federation there was a desire among the class-conscious workers to continue with some sort of Workers organization. This lead to the for- mation of Workers Clubs, independ- ent organizations with the class- struggle as their aim. Many of this clubs continued with a sectarian poli- cy and could not make any headway, in fact some them still are die-hard revolutionaries and hinder their own development into mass-organizations. Others understood at once the task of. growing into mass organizations and very scon we had not only. ten workers clubs, as at the beginnins: but 15 and later 20. Some of the SLP still has a few clubs with some Jail Experi By T. J. O'}FLAHERTY. LANSING, O., May 7.—This little mining town seems to be at peace with the world, and it is hard to be- lieve that hardly more than a weck ago one of the most dramatic inci- dents that ever brightened the pages of the history of the class struggle in the United States, took place here. Yet this peaceful atmosphere is only a mask that veils the dynamic tenseness that is the fruit of one of the most prolonged and bitterly con- tested struggles in the history of the American labor movement. Grim Determination. Behind the smile there is that grim determination, the determination of men and women who may die but who era, for a better system of society, a Communist system’ of — society where only workers and farmers, the producers, will enjoy liberty and freedom. On with our fight, work- ers! Organize! never surrender. You have but to mention the strike, the coal operators, the strike breakers, the sheriff and officials of Belmont County, the scabby national Guard ander Colonel Don y Caldwell 100 members alltogether and a! Led Socialists In Repudiating Class Struggle These three leaders of the socialist party of America led in the repudiation of the class struggle by the socialist party at its recent nom- inating convention. In center is Norman Thomas, presidential candidate of the socialists. His running mate, James H. Maurer, is shown at the clubs. grew very rapidly member- ships of nearly 200, Now we have > ence Has | to a scowl, The picketing the Mutton Hollow mine at Shadyside owned by Bill Barth and ‘ Bill Rainey. They were permitted to -open the mines by the Lewis officials. |The members of the Lansing local Lunion picketed the mines and ‘were arrested by the sheriff’s force aided by Governor’s Donahey’s. national guard. aie Sex Equality. The Lansing women were not idle. They went on the picket line with their men, and the deputies and guardsmen let them have the benefit of clubs: and tear gas as well as the men. Sex equality reigned supreme! The women understood that to be effective they must organize, so they secured permission from sheriff Clark Hardesty to hold a meeting in the union hall for this purpose, But no sooner was the hall opened for busi- Lansing miners have~ heen{ marched to the county jail in “protest: icanism,” the weather. Then they solemnly adopt a resolution declaring (1) that atmospheric conditions are unfavorable for picnics and street demonstrations in this region on the first of May; (2) that the rest of the American labor movement cele- brates labor day in September! Therefore they solemnly resolve that international solidarity is abol- ished by weather conditions and that class struggle labor day shall be aban- doned for class-collaboration, bosses’ labor day in September! In New York the socialist party still had to make a pretense because of the May Day tradition in the needle trades. But Pittsburgh and Milwaukee show the true socialist party of today. Preacher Thomas instead of fight- "er Debs. (Debs was unclear but al- more than 20 workers clubs and four of thei have over 100 members. ‘The total membership of all the clubs runs over 1,200. The activity of the clubs—with the Communists at the head all the time—developed more and more, and soon it was evident that a central leadership was necessary. Call Convention. After a very thorough discussion it was decided to call a convention, and this convention now decided to form. the Seando-American Labor League. Not only Workers. Clubs but even other organizations, endors- ing the program of class-struggle been utilized. against the American workers, even against their comrades in Sweden. The slogan of “America- nization” was accepted by the con- vention, meaning a closer and closer co-operation with the revolutionary American labor movement. A reso- lution was adopted endorsing the Labor Party, not a Third Party like the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party (there are more than 200,000 Scandi- navians in Minnesota), but a real! workers class party, an American Labor Party. The Chicago-convention gave the | solid foundation for a work which | must be successful under the slogan: ean be admitted to membership in| Scandinavian workers closer and this Labor League. - closer to the fighting American; The convention issued a manifesto] Labor movement! At present only to the Seando-American -workers| 1,200 workers ate united in our Labor pointing out, how they under their| League, but soon we will be able to present burgeois leadership, have|ouble that number. Already now we time and again surrendered their own|have raised the circulation of our Celebrate 100 Years of Labor Party in Penn. All workers should rally to this centennial celebration of the Penn- sylvania Labor Party, and make it a real demonstration for indepen- dent political action of the working class. In John Brophy, the leader of the militant rank-and-file miners in their struggle against the coal barons and the reactionary, corrupt, operator-controlled Lewis. machine, we have, a candidate who has real significance for Pennsylvania work- ers, Real Labor Leaders. It means that after a hundred years of the development of the Labor Party, in which the party has been dominated by the reactionary leaders of the A. F. of L., and been used as a tool of the old capitalist: political parties, the politicians of the republican and democratic par- ties, the Labor Party now will put up candidates who are real trade unionists, who run on no -other ticket but the labor ticket, and who, like Brophy and Thomas, have a fine record of struggle for the rank- and-file against the bosses and the labor bureaucracy. Maurer Allowed Sell-Out. It is interesting to note that James Maurer, the veandidate for vice-president in 1928 on the social- ist party ticket, for many years the president of the Pennsylvania Fed- eration of Labor, and an influential figure in the Pennsylvania Labor Party, has allowed the above sell- out to go on without any struggle. By Bertram D. Wolfe ways a fighter). The flag of Wall Street instead of the flag of the working class. Abolition of the class struggle. Possible bad weather as an excuse for a strikebreaker’s attitude toward the demonstration of interna- tional solidarity: on May Day. Bosses’ labor day in place of workers’ labor day. Fight the militants in place of fighting capitalism. Wreck the unions. Attack the Soviet Republic so as to make it easier for imperial- ism to m&ke war upon it. The so- cialist party has become a stinking corpse. It is time that any working class elements who have a shred of faith in it, should see its true char- acter and join the Workers Party. And it is time that the little business men that make up what is left of the socialist party join the Rotary Club. They give better banquets..and are more “American.” The Sigmans, Schlessingers, Helds, Hillmans, etc. Let them join Matthew Woll in the National Civie Federation. And Nor- man Thomas who wants peace in the world without a fight for it—without a revolutionary struggle against capi- talism. Let him join the Quakers or open a new church of his own, Louis Waldman is right- The “(New Tam- many” is matched by the “New So- cialism.” Scandinavian Workers Organize a New Labor League tivity of the Workers Clubs started had only 2,500 circulation and now has 5,000. Two years ago that paper was a 4-page weekly, now we publish it 6 pages weekly. And most im- portant of all the NY TID and the workers clubs — or more correct — Communist fractions took the in- itiative in starting’ a Scando-Ameri- can Workers Educational Associa- tion. This Association, which works in close cooperation with our Seando-) American Labor League and the clubs, has a membership of over 20,000. There is no doubt, that we have found the way to the Scando- American masses. If we work cor- rectly in the future, we will be able to take over the leadership of all of the Scandinavian workers, now under the control of the bourgeoisie, and mobilize them for — revolutionary struggles in America, shoulder to shoulder with the American workers interests to the bosses, how they have’ paper, NY TID, which before the ac- “L never saw such plump rats in my “life?’ she replied, “tho some of them were dead, perhaps from over- eating: And such cockroaches! They are @ credit to any jail.” ~ Her mother chimed in. arrested several of the men. 7 Then the women about 300 strong: “armed” with umbrellas. It was raining. Fifty-one of them. were i tricked into jail by Colonel Don L.| .“A- good jail.” This was uttered Caldwell. This part of the story has |with the momentum of a stone leav- already been told. “ting aceatapult. But what was not told was the] “There was a woman ill in the treatment accorded to those women in {jail,” “she continued, “and when we sheriff Clark Hardesty’s “model” jail. |asked for a doctor we were insulted. Would Give Up Last Bomb. But we made suth a row that they Hardesty is supposed to be friendly |had to-send us a doctor. And when to the miners. Indeed, he is ready to |he came he just laughed at us.” let them have his last tear gas bomb.| Then it appears that the women Colonel Caldwell is also friendly and jheld a council of war and decided to generous. The strikers are welcome |invite sheriff Hardesty to the bull pen to his bayonets. to play the leading role in a ‘“kan- “They tell me the Saint Clairsville |garoo court.” The sheriff wisely de- jail is a pretty good joint as far as clined the invitation. jails go,” I observed to Mrs. John} Fifty-one women were crowded into Barto, who is just as militant as her|a svace in the county jail that was husband, the leader of the Lansing |designed to accommodate only four. miners, or as her mother who was| Mrs. Mary Silenski, the mother of also a guest of the sheriff. - \|nine children, the youngest ten ‘of all nations. Not Awed the Miners in Lansing and last but not least, Lewis and his) ness than ‘the sheriff. appeared and | henchnen, and the smile gives ~way| “4 months old was among the priso: The sheriff would not allow her brought in to her. He avplied the same rule in the case of Mrs. Mary Kovalic. But he relented --* was warned by Dr. Gadish of Wheel- ing to “watch his step.” Two thirteen-year-old girls spent seventy-two hours in this overcrowded | jail. Mrs. Jeannette Guynn, out on $500 bail was not in the slightest degree awed by the display of force made by the sheriff and the national guard. ex two sons were in another wing of the Saint Clairsville jail, while she tenanted the womens’ section. If they had gotten her husband, the whole Guynn family would be locked up at the same time. And they were look- ing for him. i Mrs. Guynn insists that the wor will organize despite the sheriff’s ef- forts to prevent them from doing so. She has little respect for the sheriff's adntinistration of “justice.” pees