The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1928, Page 6

¥ a Kraay saan erosanatns Se RET eee merase: — Page Six THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1928 : THE DAILY WORKER) °&-2-2” Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc Daily, Except Sunday 43 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address Phone, Orchard 1680 “Datwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York orly): $8.00 per year $4.50 six r..-2ths $2.50 three months. By Mail (outside of New York): $6.50 per year 23.50 six months $2.00 three months. Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y- Assistant Editor. ROBERT MINOR ..WM. F. DUNNE ~ @s aevcona-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Don’t Cast a Scab Vote! The activities of John L. Lewis in trying to break the strike in the coal mines of the Mellon interests, and his efforts to get the mine workers to vote for the presidential candidate of the big finance-capitalist party of which Andrew W. Mellon is the ‘leader, are quite consistent. Scabbing and underhanded treachery intended to destroy the organizations of the workers, and to defeat their strikes, are tricks that the miners have learned to expect of Mr. Mellon’s flunkey, Lewis. But these same workers generally fail to understand the connection between recruiting strikebreakers as Lewis did, to break the Colorado strike while Rockefeller’s troopers were murdering coal miners there, and Lewis’ advice to workers to support the political party of Rockefeller. Millions of American worker s do not see this. Yet they must begin to understand that the government of the United States and the state and local governments within his country are governments of, for and by the capitalist class. They see that the capitalists pay for the political parties which control the gov- ernment, but they do not see that the capitalist get what they | Millions do not yet understand that a member of the pay for. working class has no more business belonging to a political party of the capitalists than he has to belong to an open-shop associa- tion on any other scab agency of the bosses. Many workers still fight the boss heroically on the picket line—and then vote for the! boss’ political party at thg polls. The labor fakers and shyster politicians make this profes-| sion of blinding the workers and encouraging them to continue} suicidal process one of their chief tasks. Bill Green and John are past masters at this swindle. this Lev Hillquit and Berger, Norman Thomas and Jim Maurer, the “socialists,” are doing the same thing in a somewhat more disguised manner. They tell the workers to vote for the “socialist’”’ party, but at the same time they see to it that their so-called talist state. socialist party supports the capi- The socialist party is another capitalist party, adapted by Hillquit, Thomas & Co., to catch voters in the interest of the capitalists. Democratic labor leaders, republican labor leaders, socialist party leaders, all say to the workers that the government is, and can be, above the classes. While the federal and state governments ere shooting and jailing workers, issuing injunctions and policing the bosses’ plants against strikers, the workers are led by these charlatans to think that the government is “impartial.” The capitalist government of Reading, Pa., for instance, is composed of Jim Maurer and his fellow socialist party leaders of n that city—and the first act after being elected was to promise |!e@der of the oppressed Negroes in the capitalists to “protect” their “property rights” as never before, against the workers in any strike that might come. | Lewis advises workers to vote for the political party of the jupon now. Other labor fakers will advise the workers to seab boss Mellon. vote for the party of the traction trust, the Wall Street-Tammany Hall candidate, Smith. The socialist party fakers ask the workers to vote for capitalism by voting for the Reverend Norman Thomas who rejects the revolutionary capitalism, and for Maurer who break strikes. All of these, who advise enemies of the working class. Marxian principles and accepts promises the capitalists to help the workers to vote scab, are} The workers must be reached in this electoral campaign as never before in this country with the agitation which will teach them to vote as they strike—for their own working class cause against the capitalist class and against capitalism. Workers and exploited farmers! Leave the Wall Street parties! Leave the strikebreakers’ parties! Vote as you strike! Vote Communist! Join the Workers (Communist) Party! ’ An Alarmist Professor STANDING ROOM ONLY? By E. A. Ross, Ph. D. Century Co. Reviewed by SCOTT NEARING. ‘HIS is a book into which the author has crammed dire predictions of unchecked population increase with its consequences in hardship, poverty, famine and premature death. Malthus in his most alarmist mood was an optimist in comparison with Profes- sor Ross. Malthus predicted a geometric in- erease in population with a much less vapid increase in food supply. His positive checks on population included war, disease and famine. In his time, owever, disease and famine still con- inued to play havoc with people in #ll parts of the world. z * * * Ross points out that within the last years birth rates have been de- ased by various birth control meth- Duris; Sue came vears, however, pager 1... public health have the death rate to such a point e surplus of births over deaths | in many instances at least as great ‘ t Wi in the time of Malthus. ites competent authorities that at least several times world population could ely supported on the world’s sources of food. He cites onclusive figures to show e course of Gans em if rate of human increase pulation will éxceed the 1,890 millicn. If the present rate of population increase continues, it will be 5,389 million in 2028; 17,040 mil- lion in £128; 53,930 million in 2228, end 170,710 million in 2328, * * * PROFESSOR ROSS’S analysis is clear and very convincing. His arguments, backed by an ample array of facts, lead to but one possible con- clusion; mankind must put some ra- tional check on the birth-rate; must regulate population increase in pro- portion to the possibilities of sup- port, The cbvious next step for Profes- sor Ross, after proving the need for limitation on population, is to outline én equally elear pregram for the con- trol of birth, indicating the character of the campaign and the groups in society that car be relied upon to make the campaign effective. Social statesmanship can be content with |nothing less, and Professor Ross, as a seasoned student of social affairs, must know that “scare heads” stir people up but that only siniple slogans and clear-cut, understandable work- ing progranis accomplish — scientific jresults in the field of social organi- zation and administration. “Standing Room Only?” is a scare head without any adequate social pro- gram. In this respect it is typical of the great majority of studies turned out from American college laborator- ies and ‘ibraries of social science. The case is stated, the facts ave presented and there the professor stops. The world population is now about} | (Continued From Previous Issue.) Oppression of Negroes. Comrades, one of the planks in our |Party platform deals with the ques- jtion of the oppression of the Negro jrace. This plank I want to empha- |size here. The Workers (Communist) Party appears in the United States as the sole champion, organizer, and de- fender of the Negro race. Our fight is for full social, political, and in- dustrial rights for Negroes. In all our work we must keep this phase of our Party program squarely before our eyes. In the past we have been all too inactive in this respect, But we must make this campaign the be- ginning of fresh efforts to unite the Negroes in behalf of their race and class interests, so that the world can recognize that the Workers (Commu- nist) Party is really the defender and this country. (Applause.) | At this time I shall not deal with the whole Negro question. There is only. one angle that I want to touch Our election campaign will take us into the southern states. (Applause.) We have a plank in our platform on the Negro question that will arouse the most violent opposi- tion in every element in the South that is determined to hold the Negro race in subjection. Nevertheless, we will go into the’ ultra-reactionary South and we will speak for the Ne- gro. We will defend our platform. (Applause.) In the land of lynch law }we will denounce lynching. (Ap- plause.) In the home of Jim Crow, we will attack segregationism. (Ap- |planse.) The entry of the Workers | (Communist) Party into the South, |and the bold raising of the issue of |the emancipation of the Negroes dur- ling the coming electiory campaign, will stand out as one of the historical | events in the development of the class |struggle in the United States. (Ap- | plause.) The Political Parties. Comrades, let me give you just a |brief characterization of the various political parties. The workers have nothing to look for from the repub- |lican and democratic parties except a continuation and intensification of the hardships under which the work- ers suffer. Both are controlled by big capital. A list of the campaign fund donators to either party reads like a roster of trustified industry. Both represent the interests of big business. Their whole record is one of oppression of the workers for the benefit of the employers. In its poli- cies the democratic party is as much the party of big capital, of big bank- ers and manufacturers, as the repub- llican party itself. Smith is just as loyal a servant of capitalism as Hoover. | Between the two old parties there are no real issues, The issues that once divided them, the tariff, states’ rights, etc., money question, etc., no longer play this role. Such differ- ences as exist over farm relief, pro- hibition, religion, etc., are not differ- ences between the’ old parties but of |groups within each of them. The capitalists have made themselves masters of both big parties, with their miscellaneous following, and use them to further their own class in- terests, The reactionary trade union offi- cials who call upon the masses of workers to vote for the candidates of these two old parties are misleaders of labor. They betray the workers into the hands of their class enemies. They are the political lickspittles of the, republican and democratic poli- ticians) the agents of the exploiters of labor, | garding the two old parties is equally true for the poor farmers. All that the farmers can expect from the re- publican and democratic parties is support of the railroads, banks, meat packers, elevator combines and var- ious other capitalistic interests rob- bing the farmers. Coolidge’s recent cold-blooded, sneering, sarcastic veto of the MeNary-Haugen bill shows the contempt with which the republican party, controlled by the great finan- ciers of the country, looks upon the demands of the farmers for relief in their present crisis, The socialist party is equally a blank so far as the workers and poor farmers are concerned.’ The socialist party, which carried the revolution- ary traditions in the United States when the left wing was a section of that party, now has nothing to offer to the toiling masses but sellouts. It is an ally of the corrupt trade union bureaucracy. Its policy of betrayal expresses itself on both the political and industrial fields, On the industrial field the socialist party makes no campaign for the or- ganization of the unorganized masses, no struggle for amalgamation of the old trade unions, no fight against the widespread wage cuts and speed-up; on the contrary it accepts the craft union, class collaboration policy of Green, Woll, etc., to company union- ize the trade unions. The socialist trade union leaders, who are the mainstay of the socialist party, are part and parcel of the corrupt domi- nant union leadership. They make no fight against Green and Woll but war to the death against the left wing, against every Communist in the labor organizations, against every element trying to build the Jabor movement and make it a fighting weapon in the interest of the workers. The socialist party is hopelessly wedded to the trade union bureaucracy and its cor- rupt practices, On the political field the socialist party likewise makes no attack on capitalism. The socialist party cul- tivates amongst the workers every illusion and practice tending to strengthen capitalism. It preaches pacifism, class collaboration, parlia- mentary opportunism, capitalist effi- ciency socialism, It makes no effec- tive fight for the workers’ interests now, it does nothing to educate and organize them for the eventual revo- lution, Its impossible programs of trying to reform capitalism amounts in reality to a surrender to the pres- ent social system. Norman Thomas, the nominee of the socialist party for president, is in fact only a camou- flaged defender of capitalism, a dis- guised supporter of the present sys- tem of exploiting the workers. The socialist party program tends to break up all real militancy. amongst the workers. In a more revolutionary period it would express: itself by the most flagrant betrayal of the revo- lution. This is amply proved by ex- periences in Germany, France, in every country in Europe. Had it not been for the flagrant sellout of the workers’ cause by the social demo- cratic party, capitalism would have been destroyed in Europe in the great revolutionary struggles immediately following the world war. The proletarian party and the so- cialist labor party are but phrase- mongering sects. They play no part in the struggles of the working class. Only the Workers (Communist) Party offers a program capable of organizing the workers for their everyday struggles and to prepare them for the revolution. I ee al- rea (ven you Some broad outlines of this program. I shall not repeat what I have already said. But I must emphasize one more phase of our program. We must advocate ener- getically and clearly in the present campaign the formation of a labor party based on trade unions and other labor organizations. So long as the great masses of workers affiliate themselves to follow the line of the two capitalist parties, so long will they be poisoned by capitalist propa- ganda and so long’ will they be a | zero politically. The Workers (Communist) Party is the real fighter for the labor party. The socialist party, the ally of Green, Woll & Co., sabotages on all fronts the fight for the labor party. The Workers (Communist) Party makes a militant struggle to establish the labor party. But our Party has not illusions that the labor party will lead the masses to their emancipation. It will not. That is the task of the Com- munist Party. Inevitably a mass la- LABOR LAWS FAIL TO GET HATMAKERS PAY (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal. (By Mail). Several women hatmakers have com- plained to the. local office of the state labor commissioner that Mrs. Charity Courtright, 747 South Hill street, proprietress of a wholesale millinery establishment, failed to pay them wages. Records of complaints ere on file in the labor office at 416 South Olive street. Mrs. Mary Reed, 653 West 59th street, who claims Mrs. Courtright owes her $66, asserted that she failed to receive action through the labor office. Other claimants, who say the same thing were: Mrs. Sallie Lore, Miss Estelle Parsons, Bebe Bywater and Peggy Monton. These women, or the first four of them, also have sworn out complaints thru the city prosecutcr’s office, separ- etely charging that Mrs. Courtright violated the state labor law. “The commissioner’s office admit- ted that Mrs. Courtright had two previous offenses,” Attorney Joseph Bernstein said, “but still refused to issue a warrant for her arrest be- What is true for the workers re-jcause of his retention as attorney. - 2 “Tf claimants retain counsel with- out ever having consulted us, we cannot handle their claims,” Charles F. Lowy, attorney for the labor de- partment, declared. “This attorney came to us and demanded that we arrest the woman and collect the ac- count. If collected he would then get his fee for work we have done. Their only course of action as far as we are concerned is through civil suit,’ Mrs. Reed, answering Mr. Lowy, claims she and her co-elaimants re- tained Bernstein when they saw others fail in their attempts to get action from the labor commission. Although unable to pay those who have claims against her, Mrs. Char- ity Courtright had advertised severa! times for women workers, Mrs. Reed stated. Anyhow, the case of the defendant will be heard June 21. Whether or not the court will be as charitable with Mrs. Charity, ete., as the ‘labor’ commission, remains to be seen. The progressiveness of California labor laws, enacted during the gov- ernorship of U. S. Senator Hiram Johnson, can be measured by their teethlessness. —L. P. RINDAL. “erat HANaOWTS Foster’s Acceptance Speech bor party in the United States will be filled with reformist illusions. But in the present period, when we have to break the masses from the old par- ties, it is a step forward. On this basis the Workers (Communist) Par- ty supports the labor party. Build the Party. “Now, comrades, let me emphasize a matter of basic importance for us in the present campaign. That is the building of the Workers (Communist) Party. Tremendous tasks confront our Party. I have already cited some of the most important of these. Our Party is small. Our Party is weak. But, it must be made large and strong. Our Party must be built up vastly in order to carry on the great struggles confronting it. This Party building can be done if we but pro- ceed energetically along the proper lines. Around our Party are thou- sands, tens of thousands, yes, I can say a couple of hundreds of thousands of workers who sympathize in a gen- eral way with our struggle. From this great mass of workers, just awakening to the class struggle, we must draw new elements in large amounts to fill up and build our Par- to carry out the great tasks confront- ing it. The presidential elections campaign must be utilized definitely for the building of our Party, and its press. The campaign will be a failure if we do not succeed in doubling the mem- bership of the Workers (Communist) Party. (Applause.) And all that I have said about the necessity of building the Workers (€ommunist) Party applies with equal force to the building of the Young Workers League. (Applause.) In every strug- fein which our Party participates we find that the youth, the young workers, are playing an increasingly important role. In the industries they form a bridge between the native born workers and foreign workers. In the new unionism that is now beginning slowly to emerge the leaders will not be the old fossils and reactionary fige ures of the old trade unions, but new elements recruited from the youth of the country. We must build the Young Workers League. (Applause.) Comrades, just a word in conclu- sion. Let us go into the election campaign in the sense that I have ex- pressed our tasks. Let us not be dis- couraged by the magnitude of the problems: confronting us, by the strength and arrogance of the enemy, by the weakness of our own forces. Today our Party is small and the parties of the capitalists are large and strong, but the day will surely come when the Communist Party will be the only political party in the United States. (Applause.) On that day it will be the Party of the vic- torious proletarian revolution. (Ap- plause.) i In this period the American work- ing ¢lass is relatively apathetic. But forces are at work, forces bred of the failures and contradictions of the cap- italist system itself, forces that drive the workers into deeper oppression, that will one day, sooner perhaps jthan we realize, awaken them, radi- ealize them, revolutionize them and prepare them for a real attack against capitalism. Let us then build our Party in the daily struggles and in preparation for the revolution, Let us make our Party into a worthy brother of the Communist Parties of the Soviet Union, Germany, France, England, Czechoslovakia, China, and other countries, which under the leadership of the Communist Inter- national, are gradually mobilizing the working masses of the world for the ty. In this way it can be made strong | overthrow of world imperialism and According to the capitalist papers Chang Tso-lin has died again. This is seven times in two weeks which is the highest mortality rate for any one man in the history of medicine, Emilio Carranza, aviator who flew in from Mexico received a letter of congratulation from President Cool- idge. This makes the ist . Practically everyone now has a letter from the president, If you didn't get one you should write in immedi. ately to Washington for. yours, The embroidered kneo pads for sub- missiveness go to Dr, Henry Noble Mac Cracken, resident of Vassar col- lege who defends the meekness of his institution before big business in the following words: “My mission today is to repel the baseless charge that the colleges for women are lawless, that they teem with a subversive life, that we train’ students against law and government and that in the words of a high offi- cial we are ‘enemies of the common- wealth’, There is no place within the United States more scrupulously or- ganized for the processes of law and government.” Suggestion as to whether he is | making his appeal to the working or wealthy classes is contained in his an- | nouncement that gifts during the past | year amounted to $891,686, Tok, eae An illuminating contribution to contemporary economics is made, by the Atlanta, Ga., Chamber of Com- merce in an ad in The New York | Times inviting the bosses to estab- | lish branch plants in Atlanta: i “For production and distribu- tion from Atlanta are more prof- itable—and we can prove it. You | save because labor is recruited from efficient, willing Anglo- | Saxons. . . .” * * * Equipped with the new musical horns @ motorist may now hypnotize | a pedestrian before’ Tunning over him. * Inability of even the Island of Kauai to get away from the blight of mod- ern civilization is seen in the an- nouncement that the American Legion is very active there. Road signs bear- ing the legion emblem were construct- ed over 150 miles of roads. The ac- tual work was done by 32 undernour- ished, native school boys, about twelve years of age who were drafted by the legionaires. Members of the legion supervised the work from nearby autos, 7 * * A. B, S. writes: “The sphinx in the White House swears by the bugs of Mohammed’s whiskers that there is ‘prosperity’ in this country although five million workers are unemployed. If this is prosperity what is misery?” * * * Herbert’s history: Organized relief for Belgium; put fortune in bank. Made everybody stop eating sugar; gained 15 pounds. Built up reputation for despising politics; nominated. * * * GEMS OF LEARNING. Governor John S. Fisher of Penn- sylvania—‘Americans should be in- spired with new enthusiasm for un- selfish service and rededicate them- selves to the noble principles for which the national ensign stands.” Injunctions, anti-picketing laws and jail for strikers, i John Stewart Bryan, editor and publisher of the Richmond’ Newm Leader and retiring president of the| American Newspaper Publishers’ As- sociation — As lantern-trimmers for the conscience of man, as humble! workers in the great lighthouses that throw across the world the beams of knowledge and the radiance of truth, I know today of no vocation which) offers a greater field for dispelling déadly prejudice and enlarging life- giving liberty than that afforded by high-souled service through the press of the United States of America. Try and get a line in for the workers when there’s a strike on, Senator Ashurst—“Although of su- perb physical strength, you can take the heart even out of an elephant, the stomach out of an ostrich, and you may finally pierce the hide of a rhi- noceros if you keep at him so great a time as the long and weary months| that I have been practically on the; gridiron, trying to prevent the great injustice this bill would a upon Arizona!” Neither did the sen- ator know what he was talking about. the salutary ela “ entre i; al Socialist Republic. Be tear i (This concludes Will . Foster's! speech accepting his nomination as| presidential candidate of the Workers; (Communist Party. The apeesl of Benjamin Gitlow, accepting his nom-! ination as vice-president of will appear in the