The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1928, Page 6

Page Six ———————— THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1928 Daily a Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Jaiwork” Phone, By Mail (in New Yo $4.50 six months $8 per year SUBSCRIPTION RATES e $6.50 per year $3.50 six months Address and mail out checks to T _—_—_—_—_——_ Orchard 1680. Mail (outside of New York): $2 three months DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Editor... Assistant EB 33 -ROBERT MINOR .. WM. F. DUNNE Entered as se ma VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER | For the Workers! | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! f On With the Miners’ Struggle! The coal operators and their agents, the offi- | cials of the Lewis machine of the United Mine | Workers, have pursued a well-calculated policy of “rationalization” in the industry—ruthless, determined and yet—unsuccessful. Two main objectives appear to have motiv- ated the operators—the elimination of three hundred thousand miners which under the new conditions of internal and foreign competition havé become a “surplus,” and secondly the elimination of the less profitable mines which cannot be brought under the regime of the new mechanization in the industry, a process which, of course, is directly connected with the first aim. In order to accomplish the elimination of a quarter of a million workers it was necessary to exterminate unionism in the industry. To accomplish the rationalization it became neces- sary to consolidate and reorganize scores of mine holdings by mergers, etc. Thus far these processes have been largely limited to the bituminous fields. That the same developments are due to be attempted in the anthracite districts is clearly indicated by the sympathetic walkout of about 10,000 hard caal miners employed by the Lehigh Val- ley Coal and Navigation Company near Hazel- ton, Ba., after this company had deliberately violated its agreement with the union by whole- sale discharges in its so-called “unprofitable” mings. In the two main purposes of the operators, the fullest support of the Lewis machine offi- cials has always been at their disposal. Because of this help, the operators have made much progress toward their objectives—and yet in the long run both objectives are due to prove unsuccessful. In the first place, the confident hope of the operators that, with the destruction of the once powerful United Mine Workers organiza- tion, all unionism would disappear in the indus- try, has been proved futile. The increasing number of spontaneous strikes prevalent even in the non-union fields a point to an entirely opposite development. ; The aall by the progressive miners for a new ) union convertion next September is an event | of the greatest significance. | Also indicative of the inability of coal capi- | talism to solve its inner contradictions are the pew factors arising in connection with the me- chanization of the industry. The further this mephanization is pushed, the greater will be the struggles of the workers in the future. The level to which “rationalization” has brought the miners’ standards is in fact a starvation ol level. “ The coal industry is, par excellence, the one in which capitalism is training its own grave diggers. The further attempts by the coal operators to “rationalize” the industry at the expense of the working class will meet with such resis- tance as will make even the present record struggles in the mine districts appear tame by comparison. The response of the coal diggers must be the concentration of all their forces ey W and energies towards mobilizing for the Sep- tember convention which like the April 1 Pittsburgh conference will mark a milestone in their sgruggles toward freedom. Not “The Same As” “The Arbitrator,” an obscure, watery monthly “digest,” Reverend Norman Thoma out of its way to slander weak and in supporting the ident, goes “The Communist platform is the same as the socialist, with the added clause demanding the overthrow of the existing social order.” It is true that the Workers (Communist) Party demands the overthrow of the existing social order, as did Marx, Engels and all others having any claims on the loyalty of the work- ing class. It is also true that the Reverend Thomgs’ “socialist” party renounces Marx, does not want to overthrow the capitalist social or- der but defends it. But the blithering idiot who wrote that the Communist platform is the same as the socialist party’s platform, if he is honest, needs quick service from Bellevue. The Communist platform not only calls for ¥ - order, but also calls for militgnt struggle for) the every-day demands of the workers and ex- | ploited farmers. ' from its platform all reference to the class | struggle; the socialist party is opposed to the | ‘workers’ engaging in the class struggle be-| ‘cause that panty has lost al! working class | eharaeter and wishes to preserve the existing capitalist social order, “democratic.” which it defends as The socialist party is in reality a party of capitalism; the Communist Party is the party of the working class and consequently of the working class revolution. The two don’t mix. The Communist plat- form is not “the same as”—in any respect. “Only” $3,000,000 It is reported along the Rialto that thru some sort of telepathic arrangem: ent the dem- ocrat and republican parties have set $3,000,000 as the limit of their expenditures-in the elec- tion campaign. $3,000,000 each! “What kind of a beggarly campaign is this going to be?” ask the horde of willing “work- ers” in one voice and with bated breadth. This sum could not purchase enough votes to elect dog-catchers for the state of Rhode Island, not to speak of bringing the unpurchasable gang- sters of New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois to the polls to cast their bullets for their most generous favorites. We saw this in the papers, as Hennessy might say to Dooley. contributions would be limited to We also read that individual $20,000. This information brought tears from the eyes of Mr. William F. Kenny, New York con- tractor and Al’s favorite pal. Kenny is said to be willing to back Al to the tune of millions, and “Bill” Todd, the millionaire ship-builder, is also reported ready to throw millions of his boodle into Al’s campaign chest. But all this is to laugh with a skeptical chuckle. scornful and Back of the headlines and the text of the story we can see Al putting on a super grin and tossing his brown derby in the air and ’Erbert ’Oover developing laugh wrin- kles around his chin. In other words, this is the bunk. Anybody who would believe this is a fit candidate for the Elks. The capitalist parties will spend in this campaign than ever before. lionaires and plutocrats believe more money Many mil- there is a chance of electing Smith, and they will plunge their millions on him. The coterie of capitalist brigands that use the G. O. P. as a base of operations will defend their positions and their graft with their gold cohorts. It will be a prosperous campaign for the hangers-on and the touts of the two parties, The Workers (Communist) Party is not af- flicted with the scruples that seem to weigh so heavily on the scarred conscie Street’s two parties. mees of Wall The Workers (Commun- ist) Party wants a $100,000 campaign fund and does not care who knows it. wants the whole world and the working-class | housewives to know it. The Workers (Communist) Part for a $3,000,000 campaign fund, if In fact, it ‘ty would ask it only knew how to get it from the working class. But the workers are at the short end of the golden flood, and are lucky if théy can dollars after supplying the neces for their families. So $100,000 is munist Party asks for its election spare a few sities of life all the Com- campaign. The Workers (Communist) Party will not purchase votes; neither will it promise federal and state jobs to its active election workers. With the $100,000 it expects to campaign it will flood the countr. raise in this 'y with Com- munist literature, send out hundreds of speak- ers, and through its propaganda sands of new members into the bring thou- Party. In this election campaign of 1928, the great- est campaign to mobilize the working class ever undertaken by the Workers Party, finances elections offer a rare opportunit: (Communist) are of extreme importance. The y to get the Communist message to the workers and ex- ploited farmers and to build the Party. A strong Communist Party is the best guarantee for a strong, fighting, virile labor movement. When contributing to the $100,00 0 Communist Party Election Campaign Fund, you are strik- ing a blow in behalf of the striki ng miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tlinois, and West Virginia, jand for the textile strikers of New Bedford; you are protesting effectively against the un- istiag capitalist social holy war of Wall Street against the people of Bee gretthrow af the existing: cap x | Nicaragua; you are striking a blow at wage cuts, injunctions, and the many other evils that American imperialism. The socialist party deleted | the capitalist government visits on the workers, ‘and you are driving a nail into the coffin of Every Communist and Communist sympa- thizer is expected to do his duty i $100,000 campaign fund. r ~ ee tO aie n raising the r By JACK STACHEL. A number of politicians of the West and Mid-West have issued a call for a “Farmer-Labor” Conven- tion to nominate candidates for president and vice president, to be} held in the city of Chicago on July 10th, Among the names mentioned as possibilities for presidential candi- date, the most outstanding ones are Senator Norris of Nebraska and ex-Governor Pinchot of Pennsyl- vania. Both of these politicians have al- ready informed the two capitalist parties that they will not form a third party and that they will not be candidates on any such party. Senator Norris stated that he is of the opinion that although the plat- forms of both the republican and democratic parties are not satisfac- tory for him, nothing can be done at the present time. It is quite impossible that in this situation, this convention will not even be held, for in the very begin- ning it represents nothing more than a few politicians who are try- ing to utilize the farmer-labor sen- timent for the purpose of bargain- ing with the capitalist parties for their own benefit and for the bene- fit of the interests of well-to-do farmers and independent capital- ists that.they represent. At the same time it is impor- tant for us to bear in mind what these politicians represent and what their main objective is. Parties and Classes. The parties of any significance that will enter into the present elec- tion campaign are the two capital- ist parties, the republican and democratic parties, the socialist party and the Workers (Commu- nist) Party. As for the other par- | ties, such as the socialist labor, prohibition, etc., they are of no im- portance in this campaign. The republican and democratic parties—both are the parties of big business, both are the parties of the bankers and the large indus- trial interests, both are the enemies of the waykers and poor farmers. Our party in its platform states: “There are no: ‘real political differences between the two big political parties. Both are par- ties of capitalism; both are the enemies of the working class. The very existence of the two-party system is the most reactionary factory in American politics, It is one of the factors which are responsible for the lack of an in- dependent mass political party of the working class. Both capi- talist parties try to put up the semblance of being defenders of the farmers, vying with each other in putting forward fake ‘farm relief’ measures. The ‘strug- gle’ between the republican and democratic parvies is a staged fight, a mock struggle. There are no political issues between these two parties. On the ques- tion of tariff, prohibition, tax- ation, imperialist war, farm re- lief, League of Nations, and all other discussed political issues, there is much more division with- in each party than between the two parties.” The socialist party is a petty bourgeois party. It is a party of small business men, professionals, and retired radicals. The socialist party which was once a party of the workers, is today nothing more than the party of the petty bour- geoisie. It has demonstrated both in its platform and its activity that it is an enemy of the working class and of the poor farmers. The plat- form of our Party adopted at the last nominating convention had the following to say on the socialist party: _— “ITS ABOUT MY TURN” “The socialist party of today is for the protection of capitalist law and order, is against revolu- tion, 1s against the working class government of Soviet Russia, and supports every measure of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy for class collaboration. The socialist party has transformed its party organization from a membership organization into a ward organ- ization of voters. It has shifted its class basis from a* working class entirely and definitely to the lower middle class, The last national convention of the social- ist party in April, 1928, went so far as to drop the class struggle pledge that applicants for mem- bership bad to sign in the past.” The socialist party is today in ac- tive opposition to a labor-party. It stands for a third party, that is a petty-bourgeois party, a capitalist party, and it claims that it is the thind party of the United States. It openly boasts that its ambition is to inherit the traditions of the La Follette movement of 1924, The Workers (Communist) Party is the only party of class struggle in the United States. It is the deadly enemy of class-collaboration, because it is a deadly enemy of cap- italism. The Workers (Communist) Party is the champion of the inter- ests af ali the working class and the working farmers. It is the ad- vocate of the most exploited sec- tions of the working class, the un- skilled workers. It is the champion of the interests of the oppressed Negro race, both as a race and as a section of the working.class. It is the organizer of the ruggle against war and imperialism. It is because it fights for the interests of the workers, because it fights for the organization of the unorganized, because it fights against the bur. eaucracy, because it champions the| interests of all the oppressed, | § : | It is for this very reason that| all the forces of capitalism, of the bureaucracy of the A. F. of L., of| the leaders of the socialist party, have mobilized against the Commu- nists. The republicans, the demo- erats, the socialists, the labor bur- eaucrats have one common platform | as far as its fight. against Commu- | nism is concerned. | The group of so-called insurgents, the Borahs, the Norrises, the La Follette movement which betrayed the interests of the working class and the working farmers and help- ed to lead into peaceful channels the discontent of the masses exist- ing at that time. At the present time most of these politicians are already actively in the camps of the republican and democratic parties, championing the nominations of Hoover and Smith and the plat- forms of oppression against the masses adopted at both Kansas City and Houston. These politicians are not even ready to support a third party, a bourgeois party, not to speak of a party that champions the interests of the exploited masses. This they cannot do because their class inter- ests are different than the interests of the workers and poor farmers. Their only role is to fight against the interests of these masses, and the special role of the so-called in- surgents which makes them even more dangerous in a sense than the old guard politicians of the capital- ist parties, is that they pose as friends of the people, and in this way try to lead the discontent of the workers away from revolution- ary struggle and lead them back in- to the capitalist parties. The Chicago Convention. The Chicago conventiog can have only one object, that is to liquidate whatever genuine labor party sen- timent there still exists in the var- ious localities and lead it into the camp of the old parties. Many of those who sponsor the convention in Chicago have already expressed themselves toward the indorsement of Tammany Smith. There is no doubt that what they desire is to endorse Smith at. the Chicago con- vention and create the impression that the farmer-labor movement has been liquidated and is to be found in the Tammany camp. Not only will they not form a farmer-iabor party with a national ticket, at Chicago, but even a third party will not be formed. The la- bor bureaucrats of the A. F. of L. and the railroad brotherhoods who in 1924 supported La Follette, are today to be found in the camps of Hoover and Smith. They are not willing.even to support a third par- LU RANB OU TS-—~ Policeman John Keegan hit Na-, than Kaplan, a worker, in the mouth at the Wall Strect demonstration. | Keegan's fist collided with the work-/ er’s teeth. Keegan declared later| in court that Kaplan had bitten him. | Be reasonable! Even a poor work- er can find something better to eat than New York policemen. * * * Miss Earhart is terribly embar- rassed over the reception she is get- ting. She persists she merely made the airplane flight over the Atlantic Ocean to get to London quickly” te do some shopping. * Hho Me A good picture of the state of education in American capitalist col- leges is painted in the following words of Hayward Kendall in a let- ter to President Livingston Farrand of Cornell: “My friends speak of a heritage T have gotten from Cornell Uni- versity. The only legacy I am certain I received from that insti- tution of learning was the licker GEMS OF LEARNING. Al Smith: “I have listened to a great deal of public and very caus- tic criticism of Tammany and I asked myself the question, ‘How can anything live in this country 139 years that is not all right?’’ How about ring worm? Rey. Dr. Shailer Mathews, Dean of the Divinity School of the Uni- versity of Chicago: “You can’t make religion absolutely intellectual and make it effective. We can’t know what it all means.” Nor what it’s all about. Jacob Nosovitsky, labor spy: “For thirty-eight years I have been in- sane. I have been living in a fog but not ndw. At last I understand what you were to me. A fool there was.” No worker can object this frank appraisal. t Omaha World Herald, concerning Al Smith: “He will lead with all the fervor of Bryan, all the grim de- termination of a Jackson, into the thick of such desperate and bloody habit. It took me years to get over it. And, quite frankly, I } could have, acquired the same ! habit in two years at Harvard, while it took me four at Cornell.” ee ~ battle as they have net dreamed of since Heck was a pup.” He'll lead a fight all right. For the last ounce | of energy in the American working class. Politicians ‘Farmer-Labor’ Meet ty. The Workers (Communist) Party alone carries on a fight to unite the workers of this country through their organization into a labor par- ty. The Workers (Communist), Party has issued the slogan to the workers, “Let your union affiliate with the Labor Party and you join the Workers (Communist) Party.” This slogan sums up the position of the Workers (Communist) Par- ty. The Workers (Communist) Party stands for a labor party not because a labor party will solve the tremendous problems facing the American working class and will abolish exploitation and oppression, but because such a party will be taking the first step on the part of the American working class to break with the old capitalist par- ties. The Workers (Communist) Party supports the formation of those la- bor parties that are based on trade unions and other organizations of the working class. It is willing to participate in the formation of such labor parties because it con- siders this the first decisive step towards independent political action by the working class, the first step of the workers to break away from the parties of the bosses. At the same time, the Commu- nist Party considers it its duty to tell the workers frankly that a la- bor party has its limitations and that it will not be able to lead the workers in their final struggle for their emancipation. Only a Com- munist Party can do this. Only un- der the leadership of the Commu- nist Party can the American work- ing class emancipate itself from the yoke of capitalist exploitation and oppression. Support Workers (Communist) Party. In the present election campaign, all those who stand for a genuine labor party based on the class struggle, have only one choice, and that is to support the candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party and to support the demands put for- ward by’our Party for the struggle against cepitalism. The platform put forward by the Workers (Com- munist) Party in connection with the building of a labor party states: “The Workers (Communist) Par- ty stands for the independent poli- tical action of the working class; the formation of a labor party on a national, state, and local scale. A genuine labor party must be based on the trade unions and other labor organizations, on factory, mill, and mine committees of the unorganized workers, A genuine labor party must exclude all politicians of big| and small business. It must include as a true federated body all sec-| tions of the working class, without any discrimination, which will ac- cept the general principles of the class struggle and will be willing to fight for the interests of the work- | ers and exploited farmers.” The Chicago convention is in the interests of the capitalists, for the liquidation of any genuine labor party sentiment existing. The workers, therefore, must see clearly that the Chicago convention called by these politicians who have not yet openly announced that they are part and parcel of the two capi- talist parties in the present election campaign, is nothing more than an order to lead those elements of the workers and exploited farmers who are breaking away from the capital- ist back into the republican and democratic parties. In this case, most likely, these politicians gath- ered in Chicago will try to lead this sentiment into the Smith camp. In this connection our Party and its representatives everywhere will carry on a struggle to expose these elements as the enemies of the _ ~~ - ~o Told You So There is a revolt in the rahks of the “democracy,” as bseeP irra |leaders are in the habit of referring to the conglomeration of eoxflict- ing aberrations that struggle inside the party of Jefferson, Al Smith and Tom Heflin. The revolt may not \amount to much. It is led by the unterrified women of the South, who may be expected in the long run to. acecpt a trip around the world at the expense of Tammany Hall in return for the internment of their religious and spiritual scruples. * * Mrs. Clem Shaver, wife of the fel- low who contributed to the defeat of John W. Davis in 1924, did not See any good reason why she should not have a place in the sun, so she turned loose a blast against Al Smith and the perfidious males of Southern democracy who were lulled into a sense of spiritual security by the soft purring of the tiger at Houston. Mrs. Clem cannot be |fooled so easily. * * Mrs. Clem did not take note of the ominous silence of Al Smith and his Tammany braves when news of the lynching of a Negro at the gates of Houston shocked that part of the populace which is still capable of being shocked. Her main objec- tion to Al is that he pays homage and tribute to the. self-styled pris- oner on the Tiber and that he backs the saloon industry rather than the prohibition industry. Between the Northern tiger and the Southern dromedary the working-class have no choice. Capitalist politicians, wet or dry, have the same attitude towards the workers. They believe that they were intended by nature for exploitation. * * * * An international speculator, re- puted to be the richest man in the world, committed suicide by walk- ing out of an airplane that was crossing the English channel at a height of 4,000 feet. The result—a flurry on the stock exchanges of the world and much publicity in the press. The wheels of industry re- volved as usual: the work of the world went on just the same. This “genius,” who made most of his for- tune by speculating and selling ma- terial tc the warring nations during the great carnage, is less of a loss to the industrial world than a street car conductor. If all the multimil- lionaires in the world simultane- ously conceived and executed the idea of bumping themselves off they would not cause as much social in- convenience as a housekeeper=who would elope without warning with her favorite roomer. ta Now that Calvin Collidge chooses te fish instead of to run for Presi- dent it does not matter so much what kind of bait he uses as it did last year when he sojourned in the Black Hills of North Dakota. That Cal is running for something is cer- tain. Perhaps for a vice-presidency of one of Harry Sinclair’s oil com- panies. Or the chairmanship of the U. S. Steel Trust. Or the editorship of the Ladies’ Home Journal. Cal is fishing, and he took along a bat- tery of photographers. He is pic- tured with six trout and in another scene he is shown cutting a cake. Verily, indeed, a good provider and a handy fellow around the house. * A United Press dispatch from | Moscow advises us that the freedom of criticism enjoyed by the press in the Soviet Union has fooled many foreign capitalist correspondents in | that country into believing that the government was confronted with so many serious problems that its fall was imminent. The Soviet press hammers away at bureaucracy, in- efficiency and dishonesty wherever found with a vigor that would be regarded as lese majeste in most |European countries and in some would certainly mean indictments and jail sentences. * * * There is no country in the world where the masses enjoy more free- dom of expression. When the ene- mies of Communism rage against censorship in the Soviet Union they have in mind the restrictions that are imposed on the Nepmen, who are permitted to operate until so- cialist economy is sufficiently de- veloped to enable the workers and peasants to dump them, The So- viet press criticizes administrative weaknesses and is encouraged to do so by the Soviet government and the Communist Party. Fancy the Republican Party encouraging the capitalist press to lay down a propa- ganda barrage against Teapot Dome or Al Smith insisting that the New York Times flay Tammany Hall for its connection with the underworld, garbage and sewers. working class, as the enemies of the interests of the exploited farmers. Our Party will expose them as the agents of capitalism, as the agents of the capitalist parties, The Workers (Communist) Par- ty calls upon all those who really stand for a labor party, based on the class struggle, to support the only workers’ party in the present elections, the Workers (Communist) Party, the Party of undying ah to capitalism and capitalist rule. _— oe oe