The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1928, Page 6

ee Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. THE DAILY WORKER| THE STRIKEBREAKER Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Inc Daily, Except Sunday $3 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address . SUBSCRIPTION RATES ‘ By Mail (in New York only By Mail (outside of New Yor $8.00 per year $4.50 six hs $6.50. per year °%.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months. Phone, Orchard 1680 “Datwork” Address and mail out checks to ...-ROBERT MINOR ....WM. F. DUNNE <v as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Assistant Editor. . Traditional Party of Slavery Meets at Houston The collapse of the anti-Smith forces at the opening of the democratic national convention is the collapse of a lame and blind petty-capitalist opposition to the Wall Street masters of that party. In its historical origin chiefly a party of the owners of chattel slaves, the democratic party was split at the time of the Civil War and became the outright and unqualified party of Slavery. Defeated in the bloody struggles of 1861-65, it became the party of the bankrupted Southern land-owners. From this position, curiously enough, it swung to a short career as the party of petty-capitalist debtors with room in its ranks for some agrarian discontent. The transition from Bryan to Wilson was the transition of the democratic party into the direct control of the biggest banks and trusts. American capitalism is traditionally “republican,” but it was under the leadership of Wilson that American capital- **he-final flower of capitalism. Since Wilson the democratic party has been one of the two parties whose apparatus is controlled directly by the highest masters of Wall Street. The Wall Street leaders can afford to permit still a little “liberal” demagogy on the part of democratic politicians, and this “liberal” stuff is still blindly associated with something vaguely supposed to be beneficial to labor and to farmers. But the Smith- led democratic party is only serving Wall Street the better if it succeeds in this swindling demagogy. The*democratic party, traditional party of Slavery, is com- pletely in the hands of the most reactionary forces of Wall Street, and is as much a party of wage-slavery and the open shop as is the republican party. republican or the democratic camps. The press of the democratic party is filled with benevolent smiles for Hoover, while the press of the republican party gently praises the Smith. 3 It will be a “gentlemen’s campaign” as between Smith and Ht over. r Neither the election of Hoover nor the- election of Smith will ~ be & defeat for Wall Street. If the socialist party should receive a large vote, the upper The “liberal” capitalist newspapers would even speak with favor of this little flunkey-party to the big bourgeoisie. The only possible defeat for the financial masters of the anything whatsoever in this campaign, is that chance which arises from the plans for a vigorous, nation-wide campaign to poll a big ers (Communist) Party, and a large increase in membership of the same party in connection with the campaign, This would correctly be viewed with alarm by all capitalist organs alike as “the rise of Bolshevism” in the United States. This is the only thing the masters of Hoover and Smith have to fear in this campaign. . It is likewise the only thing the working class and the ex- ploited farmers have to hope for in this campaign. Vote Communist. The Socialist Party Sandwich The current issue of the “New Leader” will provide the future historian of changing class forces in America some valu- after by the socialists in the election campaign with the crumbs dropped from the republican larder as one layer, the leavings of neo-socialism in between to hold them together. Thus the whole purpose of the “socialist” campaign is merely tion of the republican machine. program; no attempt to support the various struggles waged by force of proletarian consciousness. * Bidding for the disconcerted little shop-keepers who are fapidly being squeezed together “between the upper millstone of ; tified industry whose competition they are increasingly un- able to meet and the nether millstone of rising overhead costs, ‘ondly to those elements, progressives so-called, liberals, a small handful of intellectuals not connected with the life of the workers, a few ministers and other tender-hearted souls who find the h of imperialism a bit too hard going, the socialist party s to remain afloat holding on frantically to stray pieces of | wreckage. The Reverend Norman Thomas in his weekly humorous col- drives his strongest thunder at the wicked ways of the Tammany. He condemns Heavy Herb Hoover for his con- i with the power trust. these forces where the struggle counts, the position of socialists can best be judged from the fact that the Jewish Forward quite openly supports Al Smith; the New Leader ost free cf news of the trade union field; nothing of the struggle, little of the textile workers’ fight and that basically ; to the workers; nothing of the recent strike of the oil workers; only contempt for the efforts of the n in the campaign to organize the. traction workers, words where deeds are necessary. All of the socialist ds are of the kind they resort to in the needle trades— sada DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y- | —— ism made its sharpest and furthest development into imperialism, | | lentering is part of the war the ex- | ploited masses are waging against |those who exploit them. United States in this election, will be a large vote for Communism. | The only chance that any capitalist paper can “view with alarm” |28° declared that he was gratified at 'W YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1928 By Fred Ellis In an attempt to weaken the New Bedford textile workers’ strike, the U. S. Army authorities have seized John Porter, strike leader, whom they have thrown into an army prison as a deserter from the army. Gitlow’s Actéptance Speech So far there is no “viewing with alarm” from either the| (This is the first installment of the speech made by Comrade Gitlow in accepting his nomination as Workers’ Party candidate as vice-president in “great and good” Al/the coming elections.) * * * | COMRADES: It is a great honor to be one of the standard bearers of the only party of |the exploited masses in the United tates. This convention throws out a chal- |lenge to the whole bloody capitalist sivata of the American ruling class would only smile indulgently. |ruling class of the United States, The campaign which we are now President Coolidge a couple of days the action of the United States con- |gress when it passed the tax bill giv- jing a fat present to the capitalists of vote for Foster and Gitlow as the standard-bearers of the Work- | the United States in the form of tax reductions amounting to over $200,- 000,000. The particular reason for Coolidge’s gratification was the fact that congress eliminated from the tax bill the provision for publicity on in- come tax returns. The bankers, the industrialists, the large stockholders in the United States do not want the workers and poor farmers of this country to know how much they steal |and extract from the sweat and toil of | the workers and farmers of the coun- try. The Workers (Communist) Party on’ entering this campaign declares to the strikebreaker Coolidge, to the Ohio Gang that put Harding in power and made Teapot Dome famous, declares to the powers of Wall Street, declares to the pirates of Tammany Hall, and the working class; no pretense even of speaking for the rising | But as for the actual struggle | the plunderbund of the G. O. P. that able data. A sort of middle class ham sandwich is being sought |in spite of the fact that the republi- jeans and democrats combined in the last congress to keep out of the press are now behind prison bars in capi- talist dungeons in America valiant fighters of the working ¢lass. Mooney and Billings are still in prison. Remember Sacco and Vanzetti. We must not forget that in spite of |the opposition of the workers of all countries, American capitalism sent Sacco and Vanzetti, two innocent workers, to the electrie chair. We must not forget that while we are living in a country of tremendous wealth, in a country which boasts it is the richest in the world, that though billions in wealth are piled up} there are millions of men and women who are walking the streets looking for an opportunity to work, looking for a chance to eat, for a chance to live. We must not forget that in this coun- try which boasts of liberty, which boasts of democracy, workers are not allowed to organize, workers are not allowed to strike, the injunction is used with effectiveness against the workers, Oppression of Negroes. We must not forget that in this country which claims that all peoples, all races are equal, millions of toilers because their skin is of a different color, because they are Negroes, are denied the franchise in the South, are persecuted, are treated worse than dogs and are lynched under conditions that are indescribable. We must not forget that while on the one hand we have plenty, a tremendous display of arrogant wealth, on the other, millions of chil- dren toil in the mills, in the mines, and in the factories to pile up the fortunes for the capitalist ryling class of this country. In this campaign we must declare |that this capitalism, and the ruling {class that maintains it, and the gov- : the record of capitalist robbery in the |¢tnment that supports it and defends the democratic party as the other layer, and a thin smear of | United States, the Communists will | it With all its might, all this must_go! to capitalize the graft,of Tammany Hall and the degree of reac-/tible and hypocritical record of the |— No suggestion of any positive | capitalist ruling class of the United | States. Record of Brutal Oppression. ; workers who was murdered together HONEST EL The record of the capitalist ruling | jelass in the United States is indeed a \record of brutality against the work- ling class. We have present at this ‘eonvention the wife of one of the} jest membership meeting be called so ido everything to write down in burn-!The toilers, the workers and poor {ing letters that will be understood, farmers must come into power. |the whole blapdy, crooked, contemp- This convention will be reported by the capitalist press as a red conven- tion. We are not ashamed of the term red. is convention is a red con- vention. It is made up of men and women with red fighting blood in their | veins. At the present time we can point out that in one country in the world the reds are in power, the red flag flies as the flag of the country. That is the only country in which the work- ers and farmers have the power. In Russia exploiters have beeu overcome. There a system of society is now being built that will give to the toilérs all the advantages that their labor and ability can provide. Recognition of Soviet Government. The United States Government, the government of Wall Street., the gov- ernment of barxers, trusts, mergers, robbers, pirates, grafters, the govern- ent of the oil gang, etc., declared in the name of humanity that it cannot recognize a government where the working class is in power. This cam- paign is only an incident in the strug- gles between the workers, the farmers and the exploited masses with the ex- ploiters who are in power. This strug- gle will have many phases, election campaign, strikes, demonstrations, parades, mass meetings, ete. One of the most important phases of this campaign will be the demand for the recognition of the Soviet Union. If the United States will persist in its refusal of the recognition of our government, the Soviet government, we know that the time will come when the workers government in the United States—a Soviet government—will recognize Soviet Russia. (applause) U. S. Imperialism. American imperialism, drunk with the enormous profits that it won as a result of the world war is engaged in a very aggressive imperialist cam- paign. In South America, in Mexico, in Nicaragua, in Haiti and in the Philippines, the masses of toilers there are experiencing the bloody rule of American imperialism. In Asia the ECTIONS, IS DYERS’ DEMAND Raising the demand that an- hon- |with others because he championed! that the choice of the union's leader- |working class. We received only a few days ago the news that a loyal ifighter of the working class died in Moscow. Wm. D. Haywood was a | memorable figure in the class war. |perseeuted, imprisoned and driven ‘out of the country. Chas. E. Ruthen- jand a determined fighter against’ im- |perialism and imperialist war, was thrown and kept in prison for many long years by the capitalist ruling class. Z We can recall at this time the many memorable struggles that took place in the United States, struggles in which workers were shot down like dogs. Struggles in which workers were hounded into bull pens, struggles in which workers were torn from their families and deported. These events cover pages in the history of the American class struggle. At this time when we enter the presidential cam- paign we must not forget that there increased rate of taxation and rising cost of living; catering sec-|the cause of the oppressed and the | ship be left for the members and not |for psuedo-union men packed into a j staged meeting, and appealing to all | workers in the cleaners’ and dyers ‘union to come to union meetings to . fight the gangster officiais of the or- For organizing the workers and fight-| ranization, the Progressive Group in |ing to improve their conditions he was/the union yesterday distributed a | statement to the workers in the shops, | which says in part: berg, one of the founders of our Party | “The same corrupt officials who are teriorizing the membership by removing all those who refuse to be a tool of the corrupt machine from 'their jobs, are disregarding the de- mands of the membersh’p for a new and legal nomination. “The bosses assist. the corrupt offi- cials by removing good standing union members: from their jobs who do not approve of the officials’ policy. “The same gangster oficials’ who nominated themselves at an iHegal meeting are going to elect themselves to represent you for the coming year. “No objection and election commit- tees were elected at the nomination meeting. Over 50 Joyal union mem- bers were not admitted to the meet- ing, because these gangsters fear the membership will recall a few of their betrayals. They know that we, the membership, still remember that we lost two weeks’ pay in order to or- ganize the bosses’ association. We, the membership, still remember what the Effrat clique did to our regular elec- ted Executive Board members. “Sisters end Brothers: It is time that we show the gangster officials that the union is not their private property, that we, the membership of the union, will have our say in all the affairs of the union, with an honest rank and file leadership who will rep- resent the will of the workers, ‘not .of the bosses’ association, We want a leadership that will use our money to strengthen the union, not to hire gangsters to beat up our brothers with blackjacks and knives. “The nomination was illegal, there- fore, we, the members of the union, demand a new and legal nomination where all union members will be ad- mitted to the nomination meeting and an honest election.” Chinese workers and peasants, who are engaged in a bitter struggle against the exploiters, feel the bloody hand of American imperialism. All over the world the imperialists jof the United States are fighting against the competition of imperialists of other countries. The policy of American imperialism is to drive the other imperialist powers out of the markets of the world. The result is a sharpening of the antagonisms be- tween the imperialist powers. This aggressive imperialist policy of the United States is leading into a new | world war. The next world war will be on al more gigantic, on a more costly, and on a more deadly scale than the war we have just experienced. Linked up with the question of the breaking out of a new imperialist war is the forma- tion of a block of imperialist nations against the Soviet Union. We enter this campaign fully aware of the great danger of war fagfng the working class of this, and every other country. Our party is ah international party, our party fight imperialist wars, our party joins hands with the workers and toilers of all countries in defense of the exploited and toiling masses everywhere and we declare that in the event of a war we will utilize the way | to mobilize the workers, to mobilize the farmers, to mobilize the masses to make the war the burial ground for capitalism not only in this country but in every country in the world. (applause) War vs. Soviet Union. In connection with the subject of war against the Soviet Union, it is interesting to note that relative to the Kellogg proposal the French govern- ment declares with the British gov- ernment that the proposals against wars must be considered as proposals not including the Soviet Union, What does this mean? It means that the imperialists have in mind a war against the Soviet Union. This war has actually started. Encouraged by the hostile attitude of the imperial- ists against the Soviet Union paid for by the imperialists, the counter-revo- lution has attempted to raise its head inside the Soviet Union. Imperialist Conspiracy. The affair of the Donetz basin is only one initial step on the part of the imperialists to undermine the econ- omic machine of the Soviet Union, so that the Soviet Union will not ke able to supply its workers and farmers with the materials of war in order to withstand the attacks of the imperial- ists. Already it is to the credit of our government of the Soviet Union that it nipped this conspiracy in the bud, that the counter-revolution is crushed. We, members of the international pro- letariat, members of the exploited masses of the world, of the Communist Party ‘and the Communist Interna- tional, declare in the event of an at- at of a Med Bailie the Soviet ion, we will defend country, the Sexiet Union. (applante) We va do everything in our power to rout the imperialist enemies and bring about We of the Workers (Communist) Party declare, to the enemies of the working class and to the capitalist government, that the objective of the revolutionary party of the working class is the overthrow of the capitalist | system of society. (To Be ELECTION SIDELIGHTS By T. J. O}FLAHERTY As these lines are written, the Tap | many Tiger is getting ready to boggiv up the Democratic donkey. I do not |know in what light a food faddist | would regard a jackass as an article jor diet but it is obvious that Tam- {many is prépared to take the beast |into its seasoned tummy with every | prospect of survival without having recourse to America’s national medi- cine, advertised on the nation’s bill- | boards. peer ei Radio announcers are informing an interested populace that the Smith managers are willing to give native sons and favorite sons a chance to break into the headlines before the | striped beast of New York’s political jungles decides lunch time cannot be postponed any longer. And if the favorite sons have any ideas to in- corporate in the jackass platform they can wiggle their ears and bray. They may get in unless the great }god who runs both capitalist parties |decrees otherwise. | * 8 * Did anybody hear of McAdoo, Wil- son’s Crown Prince, since the bally- hoo for the Houston convention got going? William Gibbs who had his name written on every treasury note during. the war — good political ad- vertising one should judge — is all wrapped up in his night shirt and pillow case and no Kluxor is mean enough to do him the honor of men- tioning his name. Jim Reed of Mis- souri is playing the role of the last |of the Democratie Monicans to sound the tocsin of war against that capi- talist by-product, corruption, but the odor from Teapot Dome and the New | York Sewer Scandals has evidently | plugged the olfactory organs of the | fellows who fill the columns of tho |employers’ press for the edification | of the voting populace. | * * * The New York World no longer | bleats about the traditional corrup- | tion of Tammany Hall. Tammany |used to be crude in its methods bus | it has seen the light and learned frozt jits betters. An Alfred has come to | judgment. Smith may be blocked on jhis way to the White House by the | boys from the prairies who hate in- |eorporated breweries and the self- styled prisoner on the Tiber, but since J. P. Morgan is the financial agent in the United States for the papa the catholic church, as the most pow- erful bulwark of capitalism, will lose less hy having a believer go down in defeat than by losing a nomination. Better to have run and lost than not have run at all. * * * The “average person” is deeply in- terested in the farce that is about to be staged at Houston. His way of arriving at conclusions is interesting. One would be justified in thinking that workers would have learned with- \in the last ten years that American | capitalism functions through both pet | parties and that it will not turn down ja chance at making profit, no mat- |ter which set of confidence men win. - | | Yet one hears workers talking of | Al, the boy who rose from the bot- |tom. And others with a. less emo- |tional make-up sing the praises of Hoover, the efficiency man who will |make two dollars out of one after he lis elected. * The Socialist Party, through its spokesman, the Reverend Dr. Nor- man Thomas, wails like an alley cat because of the corruption of both par- ties and suggests that his party alone would give a fumigated administra- tion to the country. There is no doubt of the willingness of the S.P. to serve the capitalist system as loy- ‘ally as their contemporaries in Ger- many are doing it today and Ram- sey MacDonald did it in England, starting with the putting across of the Dawes Plan on Germany and end- ing when the British rulers did not need the renegades any more to fool the workers. But Thomas hasn't gob a chance. Wall Street does not yeb need a Ramsey MacDonald. C2 e le The Workers Communist Party alone goes to the masses in this cam- paign with a program which places the responsibility of organizing for the overthrow of the robber system of capitalism squarely on the shoul- ders of the workers themselves under the leadership of the Communist Par- ty. The Communists do not claim that the elimination of graft from sewers and oil wells would put more food on the worker’s plate or better clothes on his back. Though the worker is fleeced in every possible way that a bourgeois parasite can think of, his problem is to get con~ trol of industry and run it for the — benefit of the producing classes. To’ accomplish this purpose he must be. organized politically and indus! . Trying to clip the claws of cay ism is a futile policy. The workers who work and vote for the ticket headed by Foster and Gitlow this year will be putting their time to good ad- vantage. They will be doing c- tive work for the future when revolutionary workers will be 4 ciently organized to take the govern- mental apparatus out of the hands of the exploiters and organize a ernment in its place that will repr /sent the interests of labor on farm and ee