The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 11, 1928, Page 6

families will never get enough to eat. Page S “THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1928 THE 0) AILY WORKER (| THIS OUGHT TO PUT AL OVER! Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Ine. Daily, Except Sunday | 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: SUBSCRIPTION RATES : Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): ° per year $4.50 six rucaths $6.50 per year $3.50 six months $?.10 three months. $2.00 three months. | Phone, Orchard 1680 | “Dalwork” Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. -ROBERT MINOR -WM. F. DUNNE | Assistant Editor. . — entereag as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under) the att of March 3, 1879. “Honest Business” Seven years ago $3,080,000 was stolen in a typical swindling game under the cover of a fake “Continental Trading” company. The beneficiaries of the steal included Albert B. Fall, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, the late “Jess” Smith, Herbert Hoover, | H. M. Daugherty, Harry Sinclair, H. M. Blackmer, Col. Robert W. | Stewart, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, and others. So deeply involved was the whole administration of Harding and Coolidge, that the “white house history” of the past seven years reads like the “murders in the rue Morgue.” The first | threat of exposure was immediately followed by a trip to Alaska by the president of the United States and the same president’s unexplained death from poisoning immediately upon his return | and landing at San Francisco where he received a personal account of what was going on in Washington. After that have come the | resignations of cabinet member after cabinet member under the | shadow of graft, and the suicide (if it may be so called), of one of | the Harding-Coolidge cash-bribe-takers, “Jess” Smith, in the apartment of a cabinet member. A long record of public lying and perjury extends from the first day of the seven-year period up to the present. During the high point of the scandal five years ago the whole power of the white house was exerted to conceal the crimes of the graft ring, and the intimates of Coolidge who were daily working and perjuring themselves to suppress the exposure referred to Coolidge as “the principal.” A recent wave of half-suppressed exposure caused the present president of the United States to de- clare that he “does not choose to run” for re-election, and the last wave caused him to say that he really would not run. The more recent record shows a senate “investigation” turned | into a public stage for a theatrical appearance of the bible-pound- ing chief of all oil multimillionaires, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who is palmed off on the masses as the embodiment of “honesty in business” although his fortune is founded upon the most piratical career of plunder in the whole history of the United States. This American “prince of Wales” sat on.a throne before the senate cemmittee and lied for publication while the “prosecutors” grov- | sd before him, helped him to get away with the most monu- | ental fairy tale intended to close the investigation. Sinclair was acquitted, just as Tom Mooney and Billings, and ueco and Vanzetti were convicted—by the wiil of the ruimg ciass | and the end of the scandal was decreed. | But the end is not so easy to reach. Col Stewart, Rockefeller vrafter-leader in Indiana-made the mistake of admitting that he | took $759,500 of the three-million-dollar graft fund after having sworn at an earlier date that he had not received a dollar of it. Since Stewart has been caught lying about ‘the graft money, Mr. Rockefeller demands his resignation. That has been the pro- cedure all along during the entire seven years of swindling, per- jury and suicide that has constituted the administrations of Harding and Coolidge. Those who are guilty are protected by those in power, who are also guilty. When the exposure cannot longer be suppressed, the ones who are hopelessly caught are “repudiated”—and acquitted. | Did Stewart lie? Of course he did. But so did Rockefeller. So did the whole Coolidge administration participate in the mon- strous perjury which is passed off as the facts of the oil scandal. | But they will get away with it. Rockefeller’s flunkey, Thomas J. Walsh, head of the so-called investigation is licking Rockefeller’s boots again today. Walsh says “the business world is waking up to the enormity of the of- fenses,” and Nye calls it “a clean-up-of the oil world” when their young master, Rockefeller asks the resignation of his chief In- diana grafter after he has been caught.” But the working class must learn that the whole graft career of the entire outfit is not abnormal, but the normal character of capitalist government. The graft itself is only the characteristic zecompaniment of the rule of the capitalist class, the present | dictatorship of finance-capital, based upon the plundering of the) masses through what these sanctimonious Rockefellers call “hon- | est” exploitation of the working class and farmers. | Only the overthrow of the ruling, capitalist class will put an | end to the illegal plunder which is only secondary to the legal plunder which is the purpose of capitalist government. NE CHILDREN FIND MINE (| NEW USES FOR SONGS, MOLLENAUER, Pa., May 10.—Children’s strike clubs, or junior unions | as the young sons and daughters of striking miners of Western Pennsylvania proudly call them, are spreading to the remote mining camps hidden away d hi d sloaongahel: eee: ¥ Sd ee pra: ‘3 ae rea)| “The kids looked so disappointed, J i ri % Idn’t send them away,” Mrs, Daley hing to these children who haven’ Me ented My y a A % . “Mrs. Toohey gave me the opti S. sauare: toyed ton, mine Lag ones of ‘Hold the Fort’ and ‘Casey year. i | Jones, the Scab’ to teach our Johnny. Company Towns. |I didn’t know the music for ‘Hold the ‘n these commun‘ties where there Fort’, but I wrote the words on the » mine, one company store, On€ door to the dining room, and we just anion hall, one schoolhouse on one! said them at first. Afterwards the de, rows and rows of drab company-' k'ds suggested that we sing it to ‘It vned houses. surrounded by cordons! Ain’t Gonna Rain No More’, and it ef coal and iron police, and on the! went swell.” By Fred Ellis Tammany Hall has cleared up—maybe not the streets, but the dough. Al Smith is Tammany’s candidate for president. ‘Wall Street Has ‘Made Slaves of ithe Haitians | HE Haitian people are convinced that the American government de- liberately sent the marines to Haiti to take the life of every Haitian, as was stated by Jolibois Fils, the editor of “Courier Haitien,” one of the daily newspapers of Port-Au-Prince. Not | only, their lives are taken but all that | they have, because they are Negroes, The United States took $50,000 in | gold from the National Bank of Haiti in 1915. In 1926 the United States took'in the Haitian Republic’s name $30,000,000 from Wall Street, which was divided between Wall Street and the so-called President of Haiti, Mr. Louis Eorno. They put a white superintendent in every office and department of the republic. They have 85 per cent of the office employes, white Americans, | with 85 per cent more salary than the few Haitians that they left in the | offices, not willingly, but because | their work cannot be done by any one who has not a French education, as |most of the Haitians. That is also |the reason why Mr. Russell, the so- called “High American Commission- er” in Haiti is trying to get the Hai- tian peasants out of their homes by force, because they have refused to | Sell their lands to the Wall Stret rep- 'resentatives in Haiti who want to have lands for a new plantation of rubber. CLAIMS CANCER CURE. PARIS, May 10.—Treatment of cancer by electro-magnetism has proved a success in several cases, ac- cording to a report to the Academy of Sciences by Dr. Georges Lakhowk- sky, of the Salpetriere Hospital. By SCOTT NEARING. American peace society delegates, assembled at Cleveland, Ohio, tod celebrate one hundred years of the k, have made a bad be- g. One Sunday they had preach- jers* all over the country praying for peace. The next day they welcomed ithe German, French and English am- rs to the United States. Back in 1917. There are about 140,000 preachers in the United States. How many of them offered prayers for peace on May 6 of this year, we do not know. bassa¢ | But we are quite certain that, with a few honorable exceptions, these preachers were praying for victory, | recruiting and blessing machine guns The National Conference of the) Italian section of the Workers (Com-| munist) Party held in New York, April 21 and 22, marked a tremen-| dous step forward. in the direction! cof organizing the Italian members of the Party, and laid the basis for the coordination and centralization of the Italian section. The Italian section, at.one time a very strong section of the Party, suffered a setback during the reor- ganization of the Party, with the result that many of the fractions found themselves loose, detached from the centre, (National Bureau.) It was therefore the task of the comrades at the conference to bring together the various fractions, orga- nize them into one solid body, and in 1917 and 191s. It is bad business climbing a high wall on a broken ladder. We saw the ladder break in 1917. \Is there any reason for trusting our weight on it in‘ 1928? “But,” insist the preacher advocates,, \“the ladder has been repaired? Many preachers have seen the error of their ways and are now preaching peace.” That is true. , Also, they were preaching peace hefore the last war and will doubtless preach peace after the next war. But during that war they will undoubtedly pray for victory, recruit and bless machine guns, Not all, of course. Some will go to jail, as they did in 1917 and others will face the lyn-! j will be organized in the next ching parties and firing squads that ar period. There is nothing wrong with the bulk of preachers. They are earnest, devoted, well intentioned folks who do the best they know how. They suf- fer, however, under two handicaps: (1) a lack of knowledge about the world they live in; (2) incomes drawn from business-for-profit. The world they live in is a worid that | spends billions each year in active war prevarations.. Business for pro- fit uses war as one of its chief assets in conquering “undeveloped” territory and smashing dangerous rivals. Preaching Not the Way to Peace, Peace will come, some day, but not as a result of preaching. Peace wil! come when the economic life of the representative of the entire Section. | York: Candela, Napoli, Leoni, Serio, This the conference accomplished|G., Serio, O., Ribarich, Di Fazio, successfully. Zucca, Magliacano and Pippan. Leadership Chosen The present Bureau consists of twenty-three members, representing the most important industrial sec- tions of the country: coal mines, an- thracite, textile, shoe industry, build- ing, etc. These twenty-three mem- bers constitute the large bureau. An Executive Committee was also elected to carry on the daily functions of the Bureau. | The following members are elected | on the new bureau: Gagliasso, Cal-| ifornia; Boccalon, Detroit; Bant Chicago; Paolucci, Cleveland; Geno. vese, Rochester; Gallia, Anthracite; | | Eusepi, Philadelphia; Silvestro, Con- | necticut; Zamarchi, Massachusetts; | | Modotti, California; Mainelli, New create a new buréau which would b. By ALBERT GLOTZER. The answer of the Save-the-Union Committee to the corrupt officialdom in District 12 has been a call for a state convention to take the neces- ‘y steps to oust these misleaders. onvention will be held in Belle- ville on May 19th. Depicting the condition of the union, the unity of the officialdom and the operators to destroy the union, the necessity of winning the Pennsylvania-Ohio strike and the struggle for a national agreement, for the organization of the non-union fields, the call closes showing how necessary it is for the miners to rally around the convention in order to save the union for the rank and file. The convention call is in answer to the officials who have been signing separate district and local agreements having Illinois scab on the eastern fields. other, strikers barracks, everybody! has to work in the mines to earn a living. And the bosses are lords. They hire and pay the police; the local judges or “squires” do just as they say. Unless there is a union strong enough to force the operators to pay decent wages, the workers and their A rumor that a children’s strike ub leader was coming to Mollenauer t nineteen excited children i Ae Talat eH , i ‘tae ‘The Children’s Relief Committee in New York City sent a check for $1,000 a few days ago. The Youth Conference of Philadelphia and Bos- ton are also doing their share. But it isn’t enough. Youth relief commit- tees must be organized in every city in America. We cannot allow these brave fighters to lose their battle be- cause they lack ammunition, Rust your dollar bullets to the National ruc Relief Committee, 611 Penn Avd, Pittchyr-h Pa. C+ Maes Membership Rallies to Saye Union. The unity of the officialdom ex- .presses itself in these agreements which are made to check the prog- ress of the Save-the-Union Commit- tee. Without a specification of time in the agreements it leaves the way open for the operators to break them whenever they wish and is conclusive proof of their attempt to destroy the organization. The convention of the Save-the-Union Comoe is the ' Jersey; and the following from New | force that will carry on the struggle | against this traitorous policy and carry the union out of the swamp | that it isin at the present time. All arrangements have been made to in- sure the convention’s success, | The first reports from local unions | where the calls have been presented ; ‘ndicate that the convention will rally | the membership behind it. In O’Fal- | lon, Local 705 elected seven delegates and Local 912 of the same town elect- ed four delegates. The convention that will be held is also an answer to the expulsion policy that is now being carried out by the The Executive Council is made up as follows: Eusepi, Candela, Napoli, Leoni, Serio, G., Di Fazio, Zucca, Maglanano, Mainelli, Pippan. Secretary, Candela; Editor of the Tl Lavoratore, Napoli; Manager of the Il Lavoratore, Pippan. A woman comrade, Olympia Serio, was elected to the Bureau, and will be in charge of work among Italian women, The conference charged: the Bureau with woulting att definite lans for the development of work mong women. Jnanimously Support Central Com- mittee. Many important phases of our movement were discussed at the con- erence. Particular attention was Illinois Miners Call State Convention fakers that the rank and file does not recognize their expulsions and that it is the fakers themselves who must go. Machine Expels Militants. During the last week, the most mili- tant fighters of the Save-the-Union Committee in Illinois have received letters from the district office of the union requesting them to appear for trial. At these trials the question of their membership in the union will be taken up and will-give the machine the chance to expel them. The ma- chine in its zeal to expel these fight- ers have even forgotten the lega! machine. In essence it is telling the — means by which to bring these men George Voyzey, John Watt, and Joe “i shown above dirceting mass picketing at the Old West Mine, Belleville, I Mass Picketing in Illinois Mines Led By Save-the-Union Forces world is organized under the direction of workers and farmers who have more to gain from peace than from war, As for the German, French and British ambassadors,--it is a bad joke! i Who made the last war? The German, French, British and three or four other empires. Who is getting ready for the next war? The same empires. Whom do the German, French and British ambassadors to Washington represent? Ruling classes that inelude the world’s biggest exploiters; piunder- ers, -militarists. give to the following: Youth move- ment, Education, Anti-Fascisti, and work in the. Trade Unions. Comrades J. Stachel and A. Mar- koff, speaking for the Central Ex- ecutive Committee, pointed out the shortcomings in the application of the United Front policies, in connec- tion with the Anti-Fascisti work, also the Trade Union work. After a long discussion in which almost every .delegate participated, recommendations of the Central Ex- ecutive Committee were unanimously adopted. Il Lavoratore, Italian language or- gan of the Workers (Communist) Party, received careful consideration at the conference. The delegates ex- pressed their determination to. mobi- lize their respective fractions for the |purpose of giving immediate financial aid to the paper. The thesis on I! to trial. The constitution statés that the local unions must first take the matter uv and thep the cases go to the district office. This the officials have failed to do. The attitude of the hundreds who haye received these letters from Sec- retary Nesbit, is to ignore them, They do not recognize these expulsion no- tices. The tone of the replies are that, the convention will oust these officials and that their notices are notconsidered. i The stage of the struggle in the miners’ union becomes more evident daily that the Save-the-Union move- ment is becoming more entrenched in et x Angelo, progressive leaders ‘of the Save-The-Union Committee, are The Best Preaching Won't Bring Peace Will these professional war-makers take to peace? Just as a fish takes to the dry land! : We are for peace, delegates to the American Peace Society Centenary! We inclide millions of workers and farmers who hate war as they hate imperialism, capitalism, and _ the whole social system that is built on business-for-profit. But long ago we gave up any idea that war ends war, or that war-makers can be relied on to establish peace. We are relying on our own propaganda for peace and struggles for peace. We are going to have peace,—when. the workers and farmers of the world unite to end the economic system that makes war. Italian Section of Workers Party Makes Strides Lavoratore presented by Napoli ex- pressed the necessity for the paper to reflect the American labor move- ment and to respond to Party cam- paigns more promptly tkan hereto- fore. The Italian section of the -Party emerged from the _ conference strengthened and unified. The central committee expects every comrade to give full support to the new bureau, to enable it to carry on its work suc- cessfully. We must strive to make the Italian section the strongest section in the Party. Let us remember the final message of our departed leader, C. E. Ruthenberg: “Tell the comrades to close their ranks, to build the Party. The Amer- ican workers under the leadership of our Party and the Comintern will win, Let’s fight on!” to Oust Fishwick, Lewis the union. The call for the convention is a step taken to oust the machine and take control of the union, These steps taken all over the country give evidence of the rise of the rank and file who have become dissatisfied with the corruption in their ranks and are taking the means to overcome it. Shipping Interests in | Fight for More Loot WASHINGTON, May 10. — The White shipping bill recently adopted by the House is a scheme for scrap- ping the government’s merchant fleet ‘by means of bargain sales, and then loaning 250,000,000 at very low in- terest rates to shipbuilding companies \for construction of new vessels. It is \the pet scheme of the private ship- ‘ping crowd which has been fighting ithe trade unions. The Senate bill, iknown as the Jones bill, provides for ‘a permanent government-owned and ‘government - operated merchant marine. It is now reported in the ‘capitol that Sen. Jones of Washing- ton, sponsor of the public-ownership plan, welcomes the chance to accept the House measure in conference, and hopes the-Senate will adopt it with- “out discussi LAAT NR