The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1928, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1928 ; THE DAILY WORKER Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Ine : Daily, Except Sunday &3 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: SUBSCRIPTION RATES i By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New Yors: $8.00 per vear $4.50 six 1. 7ths $6.50 per year °3.50 six month: , $2.50 three months. $2.00 three months. Phone, Orchard 1680 “Dalwork” Address and mati out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y- 1" ..-ROBERT MINOR Assttant Editor... ...WM, F. DUNNE New York, N. ¥.. under . = eecona-ciaus mail at the post-office at the act of March 3, 1879. Norris Is Also Necessary to Capitalism Senator Norris of Nebraska is a member of the party of fi- nance-capital. The republican party exists only to facilitate the business of government, the suppression of the masses, the exploitation and enslavement of the working class, the exploitation and expropria- tion of the farmers for the benefit of the bankers, and the fur- therance of American imperialism by fire and sword (and diplo- macy backed by the sword) throughout the world. Norris is a member of the republican party. The republican party has consistently nominated for. presi- dent the candidate who most nearly represents “these ideals,” as Mellon would say. Yet. Mr. Norris reacts to the Hoover nomination with these rude words: “The rank and file of the great republican party will be dis- gusted and humiliated, but the power trust, as well as the Hoovers, the Daughertys, the Sinclairs, the Dohenys, the Falls, the Smoots, the Hayses, the Lenroots, the Fesses, the Moseses and the machine politicians everywhere, will be happy and delighted. “If this program is endorsed at the polls, it will be the duty of the senate when it reconvenes in December to apologize to Power Trust Insull and his man from Illinois, for whose election he contributed more than $100,000 to seat Boss Vare, the repre- sentative of the Philadelphia political machine; to reinstate Daugh- erty; to apologize to Sinclair and Doheny and to pass a law re- turning to them the property which the Supreme Court of the United States said they had fraudulently obtained; to give a cer- tificate of character to ex-Secretary Fall; to ask for the pardon of Miller, who has been sentenced to the penitentiary; to destroy the incriminating evidence which the investigation brought forth of the fraudulent profits of O'Neil and Stewart; to invite Black- mer to return from his hiding place in Europe and to receive him in good society with open arms; to condemn the Supreme Court of the United States for declaring that the Fall-Sinclair-Doheny deals were disgraceful and fraudulent; to call upon the Federal Trade Commission to cease its investigation wherein it is disclosing the sinister attacks upon our government by the power trust, and to ask forgiveness for all its activities in disclosing fraud and dishonesty in high official places.” Senator Norris is absolutely correct in branding Hoover with the mark of Teapot oil. But he makes some mistakes. “The rank and file of the great republican party” will not be “dis- yusied and humiliated.” ~ Jt will go to the polls and vote for Hoover. Norris is also wrong in saying that the senate when it con- venes after the election, will have to apologize to the Power Trust, to Boss Vare, Daugherty, Sinclair, Doheny, Fall Miller, O’Neil, Blackmer, Stewart, etc., etc. The senate will not have to apologize to any of the crooks of Teapot Dome, for these gentlemen know perfectly well that the senate has done them no harm, but has protected them. . None of them is in jail. The fire-works in the senate were unavoidable, If Mr, Vare was not seated in the senate, nevertheless he remains one of those who dictates the course of government and chooses the president. But it is outrageous for Senator Norris to say that the sen- ate will have to ‘“‘call upon the federal trade commission to cease its investigation” of the Power Trust. This investigation is as necessary to the Power Trust as are the turbines of its power plants. The Teapot Dome investigation ended with a slavish eulogy of the highest chief of oil-company corruption in the United States—John D. Rockefeller, Jr. It is immediately followed by the triumph of the same Coolidge-Hoover-Mellon gang in national politics as the representatives of “‘ideals. Such lusions of t ate investigations are ‘necessary to preserve the il- he masses in the government of finance-capital. Also Senator Norris is necessary. Senator Norris, member of the same republican party, is a supporter of capitalism, which means the exploitation of labor, the ruin of the farmers, the sup- pression and demoralization of the masses. Norris criticizes capitalism while supporting capitalism. By raving against “sin- ister attacks upon our government by the Power Trust,” Mr. Norris, no | than Mr. Berger of the socialist party, helps to -obscure the fact that the Power Trust is “our government.” The merger of the government bureaucracy with the biggest banking interests together with the industrial trusts, including the Power Trust. is the United States government. SS Norris is useful to finance-capital somewhat as canary birds are useful in mine-disasters. Canary birds, being very sensitive to gas, quickly give signs of the slightest danger. The screeching of such men as Norris to the effect that capi- talism can be made to reform itself so as to be beneficial to the farmers, keeps many thousands of farmers blindly trusting the capitalism which is strangling them. And Norris is a member of the chief party of finance-capi- tal. Workers and farmers can make themselves effective in the fight against capitalism only by supporting the party that is op- posed to capitalism. te There is only one party opposed to capitalism. It is the Workers (Communist) Party. Vote Communist. © But voting will not destroy capitalism. Join the Workers (Communist) Party and fight capitalism not only during the period of elections, but at all times and on all fronts until it is overthrown. © ¢ ene WALL STREET OWN By JAY LOVESTONE Editorial Note—-We print here- with the closing speech delivered by Comrade Lovestone at the conclu- sion of the National Nominating Convention .of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. It is a summary and estimate of the Convention’s de- liberations and actions. It was de- livered on May 27. * * * Let me try to sum up the last two eventful days to you delegates and workers, who have had the very good fortune to attend and participate in the deliberations of the greatest Communist convention ever held in the United States. I have attended many conventions, Republican and Democratic, as a re- porter for The DAILY WORKER, and Communist Party and Socialist Party conventions as a delegate. I have never yet witnessed so genuine, so stirring, so inspiring a scene as the one in which you comrades demonstrated your loyalty to the cause of the working class, demon- strated when the standard bearers of Communism in America were chosen by you today. Achievements of the Convention. Before the delegates depart, they should have a clear understanding of some of the achievements of this con- vention and of some of the questions} t convention has answered, not only for the state and fraternal delega- tions, not only for our Party as a whole, but for the workers and the exploited farming masses of) this country. First of all, we have a good Com- munist platform—the best Commu- nist platform that our Party has had, a Communist platform on which we can appear with pride, with confi- dence, with great determination to go forward towards victory. Second, this convention serves as a splendid basis, a splendid center, to linspire, to mobilize our Party and the workers in the coming election cam- paign months. | Third, we have chosen sterling, | model revolutionists, sterling, mode! | standard-bearers. What more can we ask from a gathering of our | Party? ; Some Questions Answered This convention has been a tremen-, dous Communist suecess from every | viewpoint. This convention hag! cleared up~ certain questions, I be- vention has answered four main ques- | tions. Can Communism grow in America? We do not have to answer that ques- tion for you comrades and delegates here, I think that the way this con- vention was conducted, the way you delegates participated—the enth:- siasm, the spirit, the militancy, the vigor, the determination—this is the proof that Communism can grow anc, will grow in the United States. (Ap- plause). Our Party represents the interests of the whole working class. “Our Party has to date attracted to its pan- ner, primarily the most exploited sec- tion of the working class. This hap- pens to be largely the foreign-born workers. We are not ashamed of the foreign-born workers, we are proud of them, for it is they who have helped to build the railroads, build the ships, build the factories, which we will take back for the whole working class. (Applause). This convention disproves one of the lies. one of the slanders. of the S BOTH bourgeoisie, who say that we are no‘ able to attract native American work- ers. The native American workers gathered here in our Party conven- tion are as native as there are in the whole country. We are all workers regardless of whether we were born by accident in America or came here by choice. Our Party is not a Party East of Chicago. Our Party is a National Party from Maine to Texas, from California to Massachusetts. (Ap- plause). Constructive Force. Communism is shown by this con- vention as the most constructive force in the working class, despite the calumnies of the Socialist Party and trade union bureaucracy and other enemies of the working class. Any movement which starts as a move- ment of social progress, goes forward | when it works hand in hand with the Communists, But when it deserts and | attacks the Communists, and rejects the Communist leadership, it goes down. Look at the ex-nationalist move- ment in China. Fifteen months ago the Chinese national movement swept terror into the hearts of the Ameri- can, British, Japanese and other im- perialists. Remember when our Chi- nese Party was the brains and heart of the leadership of the then advanc- ing Nationalist forces. Eighteen months ago, the British imperial lion was shuddering and we did not know whether the tail was wagging the lion or vice-versa. Today the imperialists are able to insult, bully, cajole and smash at will the front of the betrayer Chiang Kai-shek. The Chinese Na- tional movement is down and out be- cause it has deserted the Communist leadership and has become the horhe of the agents of the counter-revolu: tion. Keep in mind the different treatment accorded to the Chinese masses when the Hankow concession was redeemed from the British plun- derers and the recent massacre by the Japanese imperialists at Tsinan-Fu. Socialist “Victory.”+ All the reward that the German workers. got from the social-demo- eratic leadership was the Dawes plan —the Dawes chain. This is the bitter fruit of the Socialist victory in Ger- many. In. Italy, where the Communists were defeated, we have bloody Fascism. In the Soviet Union, where. the lieve, for all of us. I believe this con- ‘Communists won, and where they kept the leadership and power, we have the only workers’ and farmers’ gov | ernment in the world. (Applause). We say to the capitalists of this country that this convention proves very definitely that we in this coun- try have made a good start towards a national election campaign, towards pushing forward working class victory in America. The lessens and ex- perionces learned and lived througt by the workers of China, Germany Italy, the Soviet Union, are bound to hold true for the workers of the United States. It is not an accident that we have with us here delegations of miners from Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. Where were the miners’ delegations at the Socialist Party convention? The only miner at the Republican convention will be John L Lewis. The only miner at the Demo- By M. Pass National Nominating Convention as the Republican Convention is con- cerned? The paltry few that may be around this Wall Street gathering are, misleaders of the Negro masse: and even these are segregated because of their color. In the Democratic convention, the only welcome the Negro might get is the welcome of a lynching party. Thg Socialist Party? It had only one, and at that a misled. Negro delegate. »/ The character of our Negro delega- tion ig a tribute to the fact that the Communist Party is the only one that is ready to fight for the Negroes as well as for the other exploited and op- pressed. (Applause). The most sig- nificant step in the history of our Party since its inception is the deter- mination to go South, and to begin the difficut and dangerous task of smash- ing the solid South. Our Party aims not~only to stop lynching, but to punish effectively the lynchers and to destroy the whole lynch system. Our Party hails and welcomes the Ne- groes. We are of them and for them. (Applause.) ' The farmers: We have here dirt farmers. Senator Capper, a multi- millionaire newspaper owner among farmers, is the best farmer the Re- publican Party convention will have. There probably will be a little less wealthy farmers at the Democratic convention. The agricultural work- ers, together with the exploited farm- ing masses, will yet be aroused to a mass struggle against the enemies of the workers in the cities, who are their enemies also. Nor is it an accident that the Haitians, the Chileans, the Peruvians, —the_ colonial and semi-colonial masses—have sent delegates to this convention. We are their Party. Working Class Traditions. And it is not an accident that our Party is the inheritor of .the best traditions of the American working class. Our working class has some splendid’ traditions—the traditions of Haymarket, the traditions of heroic strike struggles, the best of the tradi- tions of every struggle and movement for the enhancement of social pro- gress. We have inherited the best that was in anarchism, the best that was in syndicalism, the best that there was in the whole Socialist Party. The spirit of Ruthenberg and Debs and Haywood, the spirit of the Haymarket martyrs, the spirit of our dead leaders, and the spirit of vigorous youth coming forward, are ours to- . Here is the best, proof that our Party has inherited all that has been and that is most worth while in the! American working class. East but not least, this convention has answered the question whether our Party will participate success- fully in the election campaign. -We, in splitting from the old Socialist Party, spurned and spat upon, reacted bitter- ly .against the - old parliamentary fakery and eretinism of the Hillquits and Bergers. In this wholesome re- action, we developed certain danger- ously wrong syndicalist ideas and at- titudes. This convention deals a mor- tal blow to these mis-conceptions. You delegates are going back to act as Leninists in this election campaign without socialist illusions and with- out syndicalist fears—in the most brutal, the most powerful, capitalist country. (Applause.) ~ ‘ On to Work and Fight! ‘cratie Convention will be William Green. T Iners who are worth | while are ing our way. (Ap- i peta look at the Negro masses. Where are the Negro masses insofar You miist go back to work. Work, work and fight! We must get on the ballot. To our Party the campaign for getting on the ballot must « CAMP FOR CHILDREN OF Rowing, swimming and fishing are but a few of the vacation pastimes available to the children who will attend the Workers’ International..Relief Camp,at Wingdale, New York. .A sports director will supervise athletic sports and contests on.a spacious@= athletic field. Evening camp-fire meets, presided by camp counselors, | and discussions will be enlivened by songs, games, | | | | Hikes and field-trips will be the laboratories for nature study and wood-craft. The children will accum- ulate natural objects of interests in a special muse um corner, and con-; tribute to a wall bulletin especially | devoted to science and invention, The reputation of the New York police, known over the country for their brutality to strikers, especially women, will not* be tarnished by the pews that a Bronx detective shot a fifteen year old boy. ‘ * 7 * Any child can judge from the) fol- | | lowing paragraph in the Herald-Tri- | |bune whether it is the working man prorwnela wil Pe yep guna Fait Ce ares against American to write stories, plays and arcticles | nketests: suekine reed Stang and for their edition of the camp maga-/| drainage contracts in Greece may zine. Under trained instructors, they | force the. United States Senate to will also read and discuss juvenile defer ratification of the proposed set- literature depicting the life of the Uement of the Greek indebtedness to working class, or of historical inter- | this country. ~ € * * * i b Gch thant et atten, Ch altamavsed Y | Real affection for condensed milk themselves, will be presented. American history vand barhaag te ‘it in a teeltng to ise dawn of the workers, their paren! S, unc er | deputy sheriff. the capitalist system, will have im- | x o ; portant place in the educational pro- | gram. Unemployed workers should get a great-deal of comfort from the A. F. {of L. program submitted to the re- The low rate of $8 a week per | publican convention and which con- child, barely covering the cost of the \tains this battlecry in their behalf: food, stamps this project as a real| “Labor has repeatedly recom: working-class camp. Yet the excep- |ménded that Congress and the gov- . nid : ‘ ; jernment deal with the probiem of tional facilities and its location in | unemployment/in a practical and con- Each group, coming to camp for or the businessman who gets results| |grows with the announcement that | \five escaping prisoners used ¢@can of | t must serve White Rock mountains on a lake-site, offer vacation opportunities equalling and even surpassing those of high! as a means of acquainting with Com- munism, of inspiring, of educating new thousands of working and farm- ing masses. To Communists, getting on the ballot is an entirely different proposition from what we knew it to be and what it still is in the Socialist Party. The fight to get on the ballot should enable us to spread our ideas more widely, to distribute our litera- ture more effectively, and to win new masses to our ranks, We must do the small, the little things, the dirty insignificant, menia! j work from the very bottom. Nothing is unimportant. Even the most: minute matters—this detail here and another detail there must be properly and promptly handled. You must become leaders in the Party work, in the com- ing campaign. Destroy Lewis. » Our election campaign is not a separate campaign fromt our mining campaign. If we want to help save the miners, we must destroy Lewis If we want to, destroy~the corrupt Lewis machine, we must work over- time to help the miners. The same principles must guide us in the needle} trades and textile campaigns. The election campaign is tied up with the fight against unemployment, against! the speed-up system, against company | urtionism, against the labor fakers, the | Socialist Party bureaucracy, the im- perialist war in Nicaragua, the fight for recognition of the Soviet Union. The election campaign is a unifying! campaign. We count on you to carry it out in that way. We expect you to} go back to your territory and to bring back enthusiasm. Nothing is more} contagious than revolutionary enthu-| biasm. Spread the contagion of revo-| lutionary enthusiasm, and our Party! will move forward with gigantic strides. The work of the convention speaks for itself. The election campaign af- fords us a fine opportunity to build the Party. Keep this in mind above all. Our Party is the only Party, the only organization of thé working class which is growing today. You have a) very “fine start. We want you to keep up the good pace. This convention will help usher in a new and better) ‘day for our Party. This convention | is a symbol of the fact that our Party is not. only a propaganda organiza- tion, not only a Party of revolutionary agitation, but is the Party of revo- lutionary’ organization of the Ameri-| ‘can working class. Today our Party is the dynamic force in the American working class. I will close with these remarks You have something to be proud of. You have participated in one of the greatest conventions of this Party of ‘tours. To be a Communist is the highest honor, the greatest and noblest mark of distinction, that a worker can win-—involving the most difficult task, the tt arduous work. You are the front line fighters, the most advanced battalions of the\ workers Communists must be worthy of this highest honor. We want you to be proud of our Party. We want you to fight for your Party, to love your Party, to build a bigger and better Communist Party, ‘e know that you can, that you do it, that you will work, that you will fight, and that we will take many a step to bring us nearer to victory for the cause of the Communist International in the Unitec States—for the cause of the whole American working class and its allies et decisi lutionary. battle| the Wall Street imperialists. | vision. structive way.” * * * Biographical Note The above honest looking chap is William Lorimer, “Blond Boss” of Illinois. Among the things he has done for his country is heading the Governor Len Small-Bill Thompson factions and depositing the results in the bank. He is noted for being one of the few expelled from the senate merely because he happened to. have bought an election. That was in 1912. Today he is in Wash- ington and claims he is working in the interests of a southern commit- tee for the prevention of floods. It is said he will be able to pay his grocery bills during the present summer without difficulty. * * * A new analysis of the farm crisis is contained in the words of Professor Franklm H. Giddings of Columbia University, who says that the reason the young farm boys are leaving the rural districts fer the cities is due to the lack of rural doctors. It is much more liable to be due to the presence of them. * * * Workers wha look to the church for anything except entertainment should Know that Department of Re- search of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ has just issued a bulletin in which it approves the plan of John -D. Rockefeller, Jr,, in closing many of its mines and throwing thou- sands of workers out of jobs. * * » A lot of feet are going to think their owners lack good judgment with the annoucement that many of the entrants in the long distance dancing classic have just finished walking from Los Angeles in the bunion derby. | * * * Wanted for: the Workers’” Museum of Rare and Valuable Curiosities: One Dollar Bill paid in New York City ‘taxes that didn’t go for graft, 250 in Southern Silk Mill Go Out on Strike Two hundred fifty workers in the Schwartenbach, Huber Company sill mill at Covington, Va., have struck against a wage cut and importation of northern labor, according to re- ports from Covington, . Child Welfare Western Australia has a child-wel- farejdepartment whose functions in- clude the supervision of children placed in orp ents, or on probation from dren’s courts; cont ment of children for adoption, the payment of mothers’ aid, and to u1 married mothers, and inve: of complaints with regard to_ treatment of child: institutions are required to school up to the age of 14, and a then trained for domestic or fai and placed in positions ges or industrial © schools, boarded out ie par- 1 of the place-— ron Childeen th WORKERS OPENS SOON wr