The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1928, Page 6

Page Six o Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: Phone, Stuyvesant 1696. “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By "Mail (outside of New York): 00 per year $4.50 six mucnths $6.50 per year $2.50 three months. $2.00 three months. Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNE ost-office at New York, N. Y., rch 3, 187%. Assistant Editor. Entered as second-class mail under the at the act of VOTE COMMUNIST! y For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Ma For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW QA | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! The Socialist Leadership of the New York Times An amusing editorial—and in a certain sense an instructive one—appeared in the New York Times last Tuesday. While this authoritative newspaper of the New York bankers is not precisely @ socialist party organ, nevertheless it descended just for one moment to fill the function of “Comrade” Oneal’s New Leader. The editorial starts off: “Among the working classes of Europe the standard of living 4s higher than before the war, according to a survey conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.” The Times then quotes “Comrade” Sidney Webb for a tes- timonial in testimony for the magnificent helpfulness and gen- erosity of capitalism to the working class. And then a scold- ing of “other British labor unionists and Socialists,” who, For the Workers! “though in a minority, find it hard to concede that the capitalist devil is not quite so black as they believe Karl Marx painted him.” The Times is merely stepping into that necessary backyard | of capitalist political activity which is called the “socialist”? move- ment, to apply a little discipline. The Times says plainly that it wants its socialist servants to hearten up their fight for opportun- ist revisionism, their fight against their masters’ enemies, the Communists. The Times continues: “For it is now more than thirty years since the German Revi- sionist Socialists broke with the Marxian creed of the increasing poverty of the masses under capitalism. Today it is only the fanatics of the Cook type and the preachers of Communism who cling to the dogma of a working class sinking deeper and deeper into destitution and servitude. Responsible and intelligent Socialists have not left it for ‘capitalist’ investigators like the Carnegie Endowment to pro- claim that life has been growing easier and fuller for the workers. Higher wages, shorter working hours, ihe security of social insur- ance, larger opportunities for recreation—these are undeniable facts which have convinced Socialists in every country that the Marxian ‘truths’ of 1864 stand in need of serious revision. Instead of pov- erty and enslavement they now stress justice and democratic con- trol of industry, So the New York Times was a “socialist” organ Tuesday. On Wednesday it came back to the Republican-Demogratic fold after the little excursion into its “servants’ hall.” . * Is there a single honest worker left in the “socialist” party that cannot learn from this that the cause of Revisionism—which is to say, the cause of Hillquit, Berger, Oneal, Thomas and Maurer —is the cause of capitalism, as advccated within and on the fringes of the working class? In other words, the so-called so- cialist party has precisely nothing in common with Socialism, | nothing in common with Marx, nothing in common with the cause of the working class. The Times defends the “responsible and in. telligent socialists” who, it says, take the position “that the Marxian ‘truths’ of 1864 stand in need of serious revision.” And the Thomases and Maurers, in turn, defend the “democracy” by which bankers rule. * * * * The cause of socialism is represented solely by the party which struggles to make the working class the ruling class; it is only after the establishment of the rule of the working class that it becomes possible to begin the building of socialist society. The only party that fights to establish the rule of the working class is admittedly the Communist Party; while the socialist party fights for the continuation of the present governmental system of capitalist “democracy”—so eminently satisfactory to the New York Times and finance-capitalism. When the socialist party’s candidate for the presidency, “Comrade” Reverend Norman Thomas, openly writes in the organ of the socialist party that he is not an “orthodox” Marxian, of course it cannot be disputed that his reverence means that he and his party are the Revisionists of whom the Times speaks with such approval. Workers who hold to the views of Marx and Engels and want to fight for Socialism have precisely one way in which to realize their hopes. They must join the party of Marx and Lenin, the Workers (Communist) Party. Let this red election campaign result in drawing many thou- sands of new members into the Workers (Communist) Party, the American section of the world party which fought for and estab- lished the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. $3.50 six months THE DAILY WORKER WOOING SOUTH. ... Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Ine. By HUGO OEHLER. The miners of the southwest. coal fields in District 14, 21, 24 and 25 have endured al years of the worst labor betmayal and treachery that an organization as militant as the miners could live through. In Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas where the miners were well organized they enjoyed conditions better than workers of other organizations. The organized miners of these states proved what a body of men in an industry can do if organized and fighting as a unit against the operators. Result of Treachery. But for the last several years, the Lewis administration of the United Mine Workers has shown what a re- actionary grafting set of ‘labor leaders’ can do to a powerful organiza- tion. From an organization that chal- lenged the operators at every turn, the union has changed to one which day by day relinquished points won through bitter years of hardship and struggle. A once militant organiza- tion has been transformed into a Semi- Company Union because of a leader- ship which has grafted itseif upon the organization. Today, the miners of the southwest *tand on the crossroads leading either to complete destruction if the path of Lewis is continued or to the rebuild- ing of the organization if the path of the left wing, the road of class struggle is followed. JULY 5, 1928 By Fred Ellis Southwest Miners Fight Fakers | were lost to the union when the miners |the union officials in the Keith and | was the combined attack of the indus- |of Oklahoma struck and were betrayed |Perry Building in Kansas where con-| trial court law and the Lewis betrayal jby the Lewis Machine. The same | policy cf leaving one district work | while the other district was on strike jlost Arka Oklahoma and Texas jat the beginning of the struggle. 'While the Oklahoma miners were fighting the operators Lewis was cut- ting down their forces. The meetings of the operators with —_—S$$ $$ {later perfected by district officials un- Some years ago Districts 21 and 24 HUGO OEHLER tracts were signed were usually trans- formed into booze parties. In Kansas City Lewis perpetrated his betrayal of the evstern miners by signing up separate agreements. This policy was til now they have it down to a science witn individual mines signing up in such a way that the forces of the miners are still further weakened. In District 13, Iowa, within the last year and a half the policy of Lewis’ henchman has lest the major part of the district. The separate agreement within the district was followed in 1927 with Appanoose County striking while the miners of the north were allowed to work. In a short time the forees were Cemoralized and a Com- pany Union sprung up in Appanoose County, which signed on the 1917 scale. This was followed by similar steps by the Officials of District 25, Missouri. The former President Heems of District 25, could see far enough ahead to know the final result so this Lewis’ Official started a company union at Lexington and signed up under the 1917 scale. In Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas the miners were forced back to work as non-union miners with the 1917 scale prevailing. Lewis and his henchman| forced these miners of the southwest | to take this stand to keep from star- ving to death. The most severe blow delivered by the Lewis machine and the operators against the miners of the southwest of the Howat-Dorchy, Kansas miners’ strike. After the defeat of this strike and the coming of Van Bittner the back of the miners of the southwest was broken and it was only a matter of time before the miners’ organiza- tions of the nearby states, mainly Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa and Mis- souri would be strangled. And such did follow until now the bulk of these miners are non-union; others are in company unions while the United Mine Workers of America is no more than a semi-company union in the entire southwest. The first blow against the miners by the operators and the Lewis ma- chine was delivered in District 14 and today after years of betrayal, treach- ery, graft and corruption on the part of the officials we find that the first battle of the rank and file in line with the struggle of their comrades in the east is taking place. Repeat Struggle. Seven years ago the miners of Dis- trict 14 put up a heroic battle against the operators and Lewis machine and today these same miners are repeat- ing this struggle. Yesterday it was at the head of the attack by the operators. Today the miners are attacking the oper- ators by calling a rank and file con- vention to oust the reactionary offi- cials of District 14 and to lay the basis for the new miners’ union of the southwest in line with the na- tional miners’ conference. By I. AMDUR. The October Revolution has un- doubtedly done much for the Russian workers and peasants. (nly under its own dictatorship could the working class, together with the wide masses of peasants, have reached the comparatively high level of cul- tural development and economic emancipation that they now enjoy. However, one must turn to a survey of the existing conditions among the numerous national minorities—scat- tered throughout the four corners of this vast expanse, with one foot em- porary achievements of western civil- ization, and the other just as firmly entrenched in the ancient mysticism of the Kast—that the far-reaching ef- fects of the October clash for the rights of self-determination may be properly judged. More than a hundred national min- orities live on the territory of the So- Or are you a “socialist” of the kind approved by the New York Times, organ of Wall Street? CHILD LABOR IN D.C WASHINGTON (FP), July 1. — Employers of children in the District of Columbia are being personally no- tified of the provisions of the law) taking effect July 1, passed recently) by Congress. As a result, there is| registered a sharp increase in the | number of applications for working) papers. Enforcement is directed by, the department of school attendance} and work permits. H Boys under 16 and girls under 18 are forbidden to work between 7! yp. m. and 7 a. m., and boys under 18 cigar stores, places of amusement. or as messengers for telegraph com- panies or parcels delivery. No minor under 18 will be allowed to operate any passenger or freight elevator, or work in any quarry or tunnel, or in any place where tobaceo is prepared for manufacture, or in any cigar fac- tory. Employment of a minor in his pa- rents’ store, whether paid or unpaid, is subject to the provisions of the |tailed enormous money grants, and, | law. No boy under 16 is allowed to | sell newspapers or magazines, in any | viet Union. Until 1917, these num- erous peoples and tribes (in some of which are no more than two or three hundred people) existed under condi- tions that had undergone no change for hundreds of years; without schools, without literature, with no public institutions, no modern culture, many of them even without an alpha- bet. They were indeed little removed | from the early Tartar and Mongol hordes that swept through the eastern portions of Russia centuries ago. Darkness Under Tsarism. Tsarism made no attempt to civilize these semi-barbarous tribes. It was not the policy of the Tsarist regime to introduce reforms among | them; such a policy would have en- besides, it was a dangerous business to have the light of knowledge brought eannot work after 10 p.m. Girls un-| street or public place, after 7 p. m.|to the minorities as this light could der 18 cannot be employed in hotels,| The six-day work week is established. \quite easily set the spark to their con- 4 F 3 4 bedded deeply in the modern, contem- | sciousness of their conditions, and the resultany awakening would not at all have been for the good, or profit, of, the Romanovs and the preceding! dynasties. The only time when the powers {that were turned their attention to |these peoples was when the latter, having experienced a_ particularly poor harvest, were unable to pay the taxes in kind which were de- manded. Then bands of cossacks were despatched to these regions, and |a bloody lesson taught to these “re- \fractory” tribes. The problem of the cultural develop- |ment of the national minorities was, | ‘and is, one of the principal and most difficult tasks of the Soviet Govern- ment. New Life Under U.S.S.R. A Commissariat of Nationalities | (since reorganized as the Council of | National Minorities) was set up im- mediately after the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks. Expeditions of ethnographers were sent out to study and gain the confidence of the tribes. |The Commissariat issued an appeal for social workers, and hundreds of men and women teachers and instruc- tors volunteered to.go out and work among them. Schools were opened, and this great mass of oppressed illiterates, representing almost 33 per- cent of the entire population (46,000,000) entered into a new life. Special commissions of scientists and men of letters were set up to create alphabets for those of the minorities who were devoid of them. Literature was unknown among many of the tribes, and some of them had never before seen a printed book. A publishing house catering solely to the national minorities was founded and many schools opened. This pub- lishing house is, despite its untold difficulties, successfully grappling with a work that no institution of a similar character has ever before at- tempted. At the present moment, it is publishing literature in 42 lan- guages. During 1927, almost 40,000 elementary readers in these languages were printed. Along with educational develop- ment, these backward peoples find a A Typical Mongolian Communis aRaies ’ ee oaeken anes MALI New Life for National Minorities Under U. S. S. R. gradual upliftment of their culture. Libraries and schools have been opened in nearly all autonomous states. Travelling cinemas and theatres have finally roused the once semi- barbarian tribes to a desire for their own native fcik-lore and culture, and today theatres with native performers, staging their own plays, can be found in every decent-sized town. Authors and poets have appeared from among them, and with each year the number of native publications is increasing. The right of self-determination of peoples is being enjoyed by the national minorities, and the able brotherly aid that is extended by the Soviet Government has awakened feel- ings of the utmost confidence for the centre] government and co-jointly with it, share in the great task of socialist construction. Freiheit-Daily Worker Ball in Coney Island) Workers organizations in New York City have been asked not to arrange any affair for the evening of August 4. The Freiheit Sports Club, in co-operation with The DAILY WORKER, has arranged a copeert, sport exhibition and ball for "that evening, to be held at the Pythian Temple, 2864 West 21st St., Coney Island. KILLED IN STORM CAMDEN, N. J., July 4 (UP).—A freak electrical storm left one dead and three hurt in South Jersey to- day. Aldo Bruno, 14, Philadelphia, was killed by a bolt while riding a horse at the farm of Umberto Bat- chino near Vineland, N. J. The horse was uninjured, but. Batchino was stunned and his feet blistered, HANdOuTS The fourth of July did not turn out to be so hot, after all. The spirit of revelry abeut which the capitalist press delivers its annual ballyhoo on the day before the Fourth, was no- ticeably absent yesterday. From the editor’s window, on the fourth floor of the Workers’ Center, a few strag- gling figures could be seen wending their listless way across Union Square. The dredges that are being us.d in remodelling the little “park” in the center of the square were si- lent, and lended to the general ap- peararce of somnolence, * * * The ear-shattering reports of fire~ crackers failed to materialize. A few taxis bleeted with their soprano musi- eal horns. A few American flags waved tiredly in the sky. . t Finally, at six o’clock, the skies be- gan to weep—for the wrongs perpe- trated by the imperialist America of 1928 ir. the name of the Revolutionary America of 1776. * In Church Too! * * * There are a lot of thinks going on ti church besides the manufacture and distribution of religion. The preach- ers are usually impartial to labor and capital until a struggle breaks when they decide it is more pious and prof- itable to line up with the bosses. In the church shown above the pastor's wife and a handsome choir singer busied themselves teaching the work- ers the tactics of christianity; that is if the boss slaps you on one cheek, instead of biting him on the knee, give him the other .check to disfigure. These two however did find time to hold hands once in a while under. neath the hymn book. They used 4o spend a hard day giving out morcl- ity and then, when they had nonz left, they would meet clandestinely it is said. Things then transpired only distantly related to the theory and practise of Christianity. The pa: tor is now suing for diverce ch: ing infidelity. The reason the wife wanted a little new company is sown below. He is the Rev. John R. Reeves of tho Reformed Church of Haw. thorne, N. J. The wife’s namo ig Margaret and the choir singer is Charles D. Petrie. The members of the congregation are pretending to be extremely shocked. They haven't been found out yet. * * * Kindness of Rich You can look in any capitalist paper and find proof that the work- ers are getting a lot more than they deserve. If you couldn’t what would be the good of a capitalist paper? In the above picture which appeared in the capitalist press we see the orphans desporting themselves at Luna Park. Some people might think that orphans are forced to live in cheerless and unsanitary institu. tions. But this picture is proof that they are being well provided for by getting a ride on an elephant’s head once every solitary year. Perhaps you think the unemployed are left starving and forgotten. They may starve a little, but they are remema bered in some of the most sympathetio resolutions ever passed in the history of buncombe. The poor are lucky too under capitalism. Every Christmas they get a basket of groceries that the rich don’t get. The baskets are filled right up to the top too to provide for a family of five until the next Christ. mas, After such kindness anyona who criticizes the capitalist system can be proved ungrateful by any capitalist reporter. Marathon Dancers Get Less Than $1 an Hour Each of the eighteen dancers who established a world’s record of 481 hours at Madison Square Garden re- ceived $477 last night from the pro- moter, Milton D, Crandall,