The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1928, Page 6

Page Six hed By Mail (in New York only): $4.50 six 1 4 $8.00 per vear THE DAILY WORKER Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'’N, Inc. Daily, Except Sunday 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.50 three months Editor a eT ee eee SR assistant Editor By Mail (outside of New York): $6.50 per year °3.50 six months $2.00 three months. Address and mail out checks to 4 THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNE as second-clase mall at the post-office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 38, 1879. These Ocean Flights Across the Atlantic flies a woman in a frail shell on wings. | Across the frozen top of the world flies another plane. The lighter-than-air ship, Italia, wanders or lies in the perpetual ice of the Arctic. An airplane flies from California to Australia. Almost within the life-time of a single man, the means of | travel has been developed from the horse-drawn wagon and the} sail ship used by the ancient Phoenecians to the degree that | makes possible a 22-hour trip by air from the Western hemis- phere to the Eastern. At the same time within human society there has begun the process of the most violent and fundamental transformation that has ever been produced by history—the transformation of human social organization by revolution from hereditary absolute mon- archy and capitalist class republicanism to the overthrow of these | old forms and the establishment of the Soviet form of state ruled by the formerly enslaved classes. This also has begun rapidly— the first stage being accomplished in a revolution from absolute czarism to proletarian dictatorship in the largest of the world’s nations within a single year. What will be the effect of these trans-oceanic flights—made at this particular period—upon the course of human history? The social revolution will, of course, ultimately claim the | entire heritage of all attainment in science, in. the knowledge and the control of nature, in the developments of mechanics and| engineering by which man becomes the master of distance, of | climate, of life. But these present scientific and engineering conquests are | being made, not in an abstract world, but in the same world in| which the whole of human society is divided into classes. These classes are in violent antagonism, the class struggle determines | ; the whole course of history—revolution and counter-revolution | flame throughout the world and take as fuel all that exists in human affairs. The flights across the oceans and over the frozen top of the world cannot be taken out of relation to these all-controlling social struggles of the classes. The highest point in the development of air travel was reached in the struggles of imperialist nations in the world-war | for the conquest of the globe by the various imperialists. Un- questionably the first large-scale use of the knowledge developed from ocean flights will be in the transport of fleets of heavy- laden bombing planes. lf the conquest of the Arctic for air travel is made in early time, there is no wild stretch of the imagination in the picture) be worthy of this great honor con- of monster fleets crossing the North-polar regions for quick | ferred upon me by our Party. military attack upon that which expresses all that is hated by | United States imperialism—the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-| publics. The conquest of the air in general will be the heritage of a human race When it is emancipated by revolution. But the con-/to.3 we have a fine delegation of quest of the air by the imperialist nations and at this time, in the period of imperialism and the proletarian revolution, means the danger of even more ghastly suppression of the masses of | all the world. Lindbergh in the abstract might be called “the flying fool” the reckless hero conquering the skies “for mankind.” the world as it is, Lindbergh is the imperialist acrobat leading | the way for the death-machines of United States imperialism;| jin France, and in Poland, the Com- those who fly the Atlantic are blazing the trail of war for the| munist Parties showed greatly in- But in attempted conquest of Asia; the adding of a thousand miles to the radius of a war-plane’ (and all planes are potentially war- | planes) means a further step toward enemy objectives in the} bloodiest of all wars which is coming. But in this world of concrete facts not all nations are capi- In the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics the talist nations. unequalled creative power turned loose by revolution bends its! inass experience. attention also to the development of air travel. machine development are spurting forward at If the degree of machine development fore known. from the old czarist Russia was : gies of the liberated proletarian’ class have a capacity undreamed | of a labor party has found us in the a speed never be- inherited of a low level, the released ener- of by the enemies of revolution. It is the great good fortune of the working masses of all| struggles, we have created sround our countries that during this period there exists the powerful prole- tarian state which also fosters the technique that will be used by it on the side of the exploited masses of the world in the all- embracing conflict that is coming. All workers in capitalist nations should understand, how- ever, that the “Lindy” and “Lady Lindy” heroes of the imper- jalist governments are developing a means of warfare against the working classes of all nations. IS HOOVER’S LEADER LABOR ENEMY WASHINGTON, June 19 (FP).— Harry Wardman, leading non-union | -iiding contractor in the national | capital, is treasurer of the Hoover- } Curtis club of the District of Colum- bia, which was organized by machine The Building Trades Defense League recently circularized the en- tire country with protests against the letting of the contract for the $500,- |000 new British embassy in Washing- {ton to Wardman. The scab builder jis English-born, and is frequently republicans as soon as the 1928 ticket |shown honor by the ambassador, Sir ‘vas announced. MORE WORKERS ARE KILLED ON JOB The number of workers killed at their occupations during May has in- creased greatly over the figures for _ April, according to the New York State Department of Labor, In April ‘46 such workers were killed. In May 191 were killed. j 4 ‘Esme Howa: Of this number 8 were electrocuted, coming in contact with live wires. Thirteen were killed in falls; twenty- three other deaths followed injuries received in falls. The workers killed during May left 101 widows, and 94 children and, 86 other a } | | | Comrades: It is a very great honor offered me, when the Workers (Com- |munist) Party asks me to he one of its standard-bearers in the national | presidential elections. In accepting | the nomination for president, I do it |} with full appreciation of this honor. | By the fact that it is deemed I can be of service to the Party in such a role, I feel that I am a thousand times repaid for such efforts as I |may have put forth in the course of my experience in the struggles of the | workers. All I can say is that it will |be my best ambition in the coming | campaign, and in the years of work | before me in the class struggle, to A Wonderful Convention. Comrades, as we live through this wonderful convention, we must re- elize the great progress oir Party {has made. What wonderful enthusi- |asm, what a splendid fighting spirit. | militants in the class struggle, from | almost all the states, from ail the im- portant industries. This shows the | grip our Party is getting amongst the very best elements in the Amer- \ican proletariat, This convention |marks a new stage in the growth of | our Party. In the recent elections in Germany, | creased strength, and I am cert: {that our Party in the coming elec- tions will also register an important increase in strength over the show- ing we made in the national elections of 1924. (Applause.) Party Plays Leading Role. Since 1924 our Party haz had :nuch We have played Scientific and/|a leading role in all the important | Rn working | | struggles of the Ameri class, in the mining, shoe, need | tile, and other industries. fort of the workers in the He, tex- Every ef- direction | forefront. We have against imperialism. led the fight During these | Party a large body of sympathizers, and in the coming election period one ef sur principal tasks must be to mobilize these workers politically in \favor of our platform, and benind ‘our candidates. It is not enough | that these workers follow us in strikes | and general wage movements. We | must also teach them to actively ac- |cept the leadership of the Workers | (Communist) Party in its broad pul- | itieal struggles. We must draw | these workers into this general pol- | itical campaign, and induce them to vote for our.candidates. We must draw them into membership in the’ Workers (Communist) Party. These ‘are among the basic tasks confront- ing us in the present election cam- paign. Our Revolutionary Purpose. We are not going into the national election campaign solely for the pur- pose of getting votes, It is of course important that we register the ex- tent of our Party’s support in the working class by mobilizing the max- imum rumber to vote for our candi- dates. It is also important, should the possibility present itself in any of the state or Iccal elections, to elect Communist candidates, so that they can utilize the legislative bodies as/|are jousness of the masses in a_ political FARM italism and the necessity of the Com- munist program. But we also have other, bigger objectives in the na- tional election campaign. Our aim must be to arouse the class consci- sense and to mobilize them for strug- gle on all fronts. Vote-getting is only one aspect of this general mob ilization of the workers. Our Party, different from the so- cialist party, creates no illusions amongst the workers that they can vote their way to emancipation, that they can capture the readymiade ma- chinery of the state and utilize it for the emancipation of the working class. On the contrary, we must uti- lize this campaign to carry on a wide- spread and energetic propaganda to teach the workers that the capitalist | class would never allow the working | class pcacefully to take control ot the state. That is their strong right arm and they will fight violently to the end to retain it. The working class must shatter the capitalist state. It must build a new state, a new gov- ernment, a workers’ ana farmers’ gov- ernment, the ent of the_United e: (Applause. o Communist, no matter how many votes he should secure in a na- tional election, could even if he would become president of the present gov- ernment. When a Communist heads a government in the United States— and that day will come just as surely as the-sun rises (Applause) — that | government will not be a capitalist government but a Soviet government, and behind this government will stanu » Red Army to enforce the dictator- ship of the proletariat. (Applause.) As to Immediate Demands. Our ccnvention has just adopted an election platform, This platform outlines a whole series of immediate | measures, advocated by us to relieve | unemployment, low wages, long hours, | discrimination against the foreign. | born, women, youth, Negroes, ete. shell not, in the brief time at my disposal, review these demands. What I wish to say about them now is these demands during the campaign. It is not enough that we simply put forward cur revolutionary slogans. We must also organize and lead the workers in their everyday struggles against the most acute evils under capitalism. Our platform demands point the way to do this. Rut on the other hand, we must not put forth our immediate demands in the sense that they of themselves wake for the emancipation of the woiking class. In all our agitation around these demands we must em- phasize the absolute necessity for the proletarian revolution. Our strategy is to utilize these immediate de- mands to eGvcate and organize the masses in preparation for the final revolutionary struggle, which will abolish capitalism altogether. Reli- ance upon immediate demands would lead us merely to reformism. Our Party is a revolutionary Party. It aims not simply to ease conditions a bit under capitalism for the work- ers but to abolish capitalism alto- gether. (Applause.) Fs Permanent improvement in the con- ditions of the workers under capital- ism is impossible. The inevitable crises born of the contradictions in the capitalist system of production and distribution, deepening and sharpening as world capitalism goes into its period cf decline, and marked by chrenic unemployment and organ- ized attacks on the workers’ living standards by the employers and the state, sweep away like chaff such re- forms as inay huve been secured by the workers during the periods of capitalism’s upward swing. The only way the workers can permanently | better their conditions is by wiping out capitalism altogether and by lay- ing the basis of a socialist system in which the eapitalist principle of the exploitation of the great masses of producers for the benefit of a rela- tively few owners of the industries shall be ugknown and where the | workers will receive the full social value of what they produce, All that we must lay great stress on this, and the whys ‘and wherefores MANCHESTER, England (FP).: By Mail—In cotton, wool, silk and jute, workers and bosses are at swordspoints, with lockouts, strikes and protests flying thick through Lancashire and Yorkshire. At Nelson| | 16,000 weavers have been locked out in every m‘ll because workers at one mill struck against the discharge of ;@ women. In Yorkshire, wool dyers are on the verge of strike to gain col-! lective piece work or higher time rates. They have been operating? without an agreement for six months. In Macclesfield, an important silk center, women workers complain that they are forced to go to work at 6.30 a.m. and must work 50 to 55 hours a week, in place of the agreed 48, ‘Tuberculosis is making heavy inroads among their children. Public medical officers blame it on the need of moth- ers taking their babies from warm beds in early morning hours to place in nurseries while they work. Women in the silk nfills, through their union, | American tfying to get 30 shilling ($7.50) a forum wherefrom to acquaint the workers with the iniquities of cap- , minimum wage. In Glasgow jute mills, operatives British Dyers Threaten Strike complain through the jute and flax workers’ union that employers are nibbling at the 48-hour week by ad- ding 15-minute periods both in the aeons and at noon to work peri- ods. A Lancashire wide lockout of 500, (00. cotton spinners to force a 1214 per cent wage cut and to increase the working hours ebove 48 was only avoided when the Federation of Mas- ter Cotton Spinners. split badly on the issue, The mill barons in the yarn section spinning coarser counts, voted 66 per cent for the lockout. In a big mill at Oldham, cardroom workers quit because a woman was fired, and other workers served strike notice, as they refuse to handle non- union carded yarn. Oldham masters are threatening a district-wide lock- out, similar to Nelson’s. Eighty thousand dyers in the Brad- ford district are on the verge of a strike for a new agreement increas- ing wages. Friction between several! of the unions involved has delayed strike action. By Fred Ellis Foster’s Xcceptance Speech of it we must tell the workers in our election campaign. Reformism Futile. The working class of the world has had a vast experience with re- formism and it all goes to show the utter futility of such refcrmism. All the conquests, all the little improve- ments in wages, hours, and working conditions that were secured by the reformist policies and organizations in Germany, England, France, etc., during the upward period of develop- ment of capitalism in these countries, in the pre-war days, were swept away with one great sweep in the break- down and decline of European eap- italism in the post-war period. About all that is left now of that period is a reactionary leadership, which after betraying the workers in the world war and defeating their revo- lutionary efforts just following the war, remains fastened upon the or- ganizations of the workers and which now stands as one of the principal obstacles in the y of the emancipa- tion of the wo¥king class. Although wwe advocate actively our immediate demands, we must always do it in this sense: that the workers should fight and struggle for these demands in tte present period but that they must educate and organize themselves to put into effect eventually the full Communist program—the abolish- ment of the capitalist system itself end the establishment of a Workers’ and Fa-mers” Government. On the other hand—if limiting our- selves simply to a program of im- mediate demands would lose us in the swamp of reformism, failure to put forward such demands would condemn us to sectarianism. It would cut us off frrom the masses. It would make it impossible for us to partic- ijpate in the actual every-day strug- gles of the workers and thus to edu- cate, organize and lead them. The Workers (Communist) Party is a Leninist, Marxist Party. It knows how to participate in the daily strug- gles of the workers, even for the smallest demands, and it knows how to utilize all these struggles to deve- lop class consciousness, organiza- tion and revolutionary leadership emong the masses and thus to be- gin their mobilization for the eventu- al overthrow of capitalism. Our Many Tasks. The Workers (Communist) Part; dees not go into this campaign simply for the pvrpose of getting votes or merely to propagate our general Communist program. We enter the election campaign«to further all our Party tasks, mobilizing the workets for struggle on every front.. And in this period of militant American im- pertaliem, of crisis in the labor, move- ment,of widespread depression in in- dustry, we have many and great ttasksy>--History does not ask us { whether-we are a big Party or a little ‘Party when it thrusts these tasks upon ws. Smal: though our Party may be at the present time it must go forward bravely and energetically to the accomplishment of these tasks, however great they may be. I shall touch briefly upon some of the more important of these problems. * * * (Comrade Foster’s speech of acceptance will be éontinued in to- morrow’s DAILY WORKER. In the next instalment he describes the Communist Party’s attitude to prob- lema facing the working class.) | ticians to completely submerge the HAnaOuTS Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, desk chief of the navy’s air forces, is apparently satisfied: with the lue- rative graft offered by militarism. He is determined that his son will not go without the advantages of swashbuckling corruption. His off- spring, George H. Moffett, graduated last week from the U. S. Naval Aca- | demy. | * * * Understanding of the complications | of modernism by the magazine Times | is indicated by the statement that the | Boulder Canyon Dam bill has not | been passed due to “the difference in | the culture of Arizona and California- | rancher v. realtor.” It might be added | that a million dollars spent by a high- lly organized power trust in corrupt- |ing senators, bribing newspapers and | spreading propaganda has some small | bearing on the matter. * * * | | Inability of the republican polle | relationship between oil and govern- | ment is seen in the fact that one of | the delegates to the G. O. P.conven- | tion is William Samuel Fitz Patrick, Kansas. Fitz Patrick is chairman of |the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, |whose previous chairman James E, | O’Neil was caught in the oil scandals and departed without leaving an ad- |dress. This indication of the wedding of oil and government that is wished compares to the invisible part as a, periscope compares to the rest of a\ submarine. ) Meee jee { A rotting carcass will draw a lot of strange birds. Among the dele- | gates at the republican convention are | Joseph Schenck, the movie producer and William H. Vanderbilt, Newport society devil. , * * * The renowned worm fisherman and hobby-horse cowboy Cal Coolidge, will have fourteen house servants at| his summer home in Brule, Wisconsin. In order that he won’t wander off the grounds and get lost or fall down and bend his nose he will be guarded | by ten detectives and sixty infantry- men from Fort Snelling. - * Ce Toiling Royalist “Oh Mama, who is the man in th white pants?’ “That’s Frederick Wilhelm, dar-~ ling.” - “Does he work at Childs’?” “No, Adolph. He’s the former crown prince of Germany.” “Well, why is he posing like that?” “He’s playing tennis.” “Is that all they can use him for?” “No. He can still draw a few dolx lars from American women when he’s exhibited at a soiree.” “He wouldn't be a very good show, I’d rather go to Forty-second Streea and see the flea circus.” * * * The Griest Bill, reducing mail rates for newspapers has been passed. A senator must co-operate with a news- paperman if he wants to get his nam@ in the paper. * . s | Desire of the republican party ta win purity at any cost is apparent im \ the fact that it has hired four preach ers to pray for it at its convention, In order that there will be no doubt about making connections with God, four different denominations have been employed. SLIDE nt Borah Seeking a Fat Reward for Treachery WASHINGTON (FP).—Sen. Bors ah, who last December announced himself spokesman of the progress sives, and that Norris was their pres< idential candidate, and who turned ux; in Kansas City as a Hoover manager, is expected to be offered the secre- taryship of state if Hoover should win. He is expected also to drop the idea of Russian recognition, i \ CAL’S SON GETS “SHEEPSKIN.” AMHERST, Mass. June 19, —~ * Among the seniors receiving graduat- ing degrees from Amherst College today was John Coolidge, son of tha president, His future plans were announced. Last year he got into th headlinés by engaging in a pout in the college “gym.” an Attorney General John G. e a member of the Coolidge cabin was awarded the honorary degree if doctor of laws by Amherst, as a rec ward for his services to Americas capitalism. 4