The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1928, Page 6

UBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER P eSesmemiln 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Add: “Daiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 169! By Mail (in New York « $4.50 six months 50 three months » $8 per year SUBSCRIPTION RATE By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. ROBERT MINOR ..-WM. F. DUNNE THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1928 6-7-8 $2 three months x. For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Sa For the Workers! AQ | PA | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! under For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! the act of March 3, 1879. New Ways of Old Politicians The conviction of a few minor Tammany of- ficials in the last chapter of the graft serial | which the wigwam itself has been running for the edification of its gullible readers would be | highly amusing were it not for the fact that| thousands of workers will undoubtedly be de-| ceived into believing that the tiger is attempt- ing a real house cleaning. waft his delicate fragrance to the national pol-} itical winds without the least suspigion on the| part of his innocent Ku Klux Klan countrymen , of what oderous stuff the perfume has been} * compounded. Have not Al Smith and the “New Tammany” | themselves taken the initiative in eliminating | «, the aged-in-the-wood aroma of Tweed, Croker | and Murphy! _ This is the meaning of the mighty and cour- ageous graft hunting now going on under the direction of the tiger. No doubt the tiger is 3 ious for its prey. A few clews would set| be on the trail of new victims. He might even properly directed catch up with the real} @rafters, those “higher-up.” Let us see. There sits at the head of Mayor Jimmie | Walker’s Department of Transportation a gen-| leman by the name of John H. Delaney. De-| faney has one of the most responsible jobs ever j held by a public official in the city of New| '* York. Through his hands pass contracts for | subway building amounting to a billion dollars. | This is the same John H. Delaney who for| Many years was the go-between Thomas F| Ryan, I. R. T. traction magnate, and Boss | Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall. | John H. Delaney’s fingers have felt the touch of Ryan’s dollars—some of which he turned | ‘Over to “the Chief.” For this Delaney has al- Yeady once been exposed. But there he stands. | The head of the street cleaning department, | Alfred A. Taylor, has been accused of being | the chief culprit by no less an authority than | Controller Charles W. Craig, chief watchdog for Al Smith in New York City. Here is an opportunity for some real head hunting. But why consider the lesser culprits. There is Jimmie Walker himself, chief Tammany cake-eater, man about town and patron of the fine arts in New York night clubs, Jimmie Walker was able on a salary of $25,000 to re- port an income to the government last year of $287,000. Looking at the genial Jimmie you might suppose he hardly knew enough to go into his regular Greenwich Village speakessy | from the rain. Not.so, however. E i after his election, he began buying Interbor-| ough stock at about 26. Now it stands at} about 45. And watch it after election. ... Who really expects that Tammany Hall will tlean house? Who believes that Al Smith will expose his connections with the Brooklyn- Manhattan Transit Corporation, their tempor- _ ary differences and their present reconcilia- ) tion? Who supposes that Jimmie Walker will expose the scheme by which he and former ' Controller Craig with the sanction of Al Smith i and the republican state legislature planned to | sell to the city for a paltry seven millions three systems of junk called the Eighth Avenue Rail- toad, the Ninth Avenue Railroad and the Fourth and Madison Avenue Line. It was not| . their fault that the scheme did not go through. | Investigations have their purpos There } was the recent mine “investigation,” as an ample. It helped do the trick expected of John ™'L: Lewis by the Mellon coal companys. The \ i present Tammany graft hunt also has its pur- |) pose, that of helping put over Al Smith. i Graft is\an integral part of the capitalist system, just as exploitation of the workers | is its main characteristic. To eliminate graft “p Just as to eliminate exploitation only one rem- H ady is adequate: the overthrow of capitalism. There is a way to prepare the ground for that task: Vote Communist! For the Workers Against the Bosses! Join the Workers Com-| munist Party! | ] ex- 4 4 ; Negro Worker and the Elections “The “Negro World,” organ of Marcus Garvey, | Fits issue of July 7, carries a lengthy editor- ial commenting on the presidential candidates of the democratic and republican parties and on the relation of the Negro to both parties. “The United States of America,” says the Negro World, “it is pretty well agrevd, will be as safe with Smith as it will be with Hoover, but this does not touch the con- eration that of necessity is uppermost our minds. It will be beyond a doubt for. the white citizenry, but what of Pi that considerable band of fifteen million black men and women who, also accounted citizens, owing allegiance to the stars and stripes, yet are buffeted and hamstrung by an unsympathetic majority of their fel- low citizens against all law and justice? These, we submit, should not be as satis- fied with either choice as the rest of the citizenry.” The “Negro World” states quite correctly Al Smith, that pure and sweet flower that} that the United States will be as safe with has bloomed forth from out of the dunghill of | Smith as with Hoover. This means that both Tammany corruption, may now venture to} men are eque'ly willing to serve the capitalist system. What the “Negro World” ignores completely is the relation of the Negro as a worker as well as a member of an oppressed race to the cap- italist system which is represented by both the democratic and republican parties. The republican party which in the inte: rests of the then revolutionary capitalism conducted in the interests of the new counter-revolu } a war against chattel slavery is today working tion- ary capitalism for the perpetuation of wage slavery. The republican party of today’ is nothing but a party of trusts, of finance capital of the biggest business interests of the cou ntry. The democratic party was in the early stages of its history the party of slavery, against Northern capitalism and in the interests of the Southern plantation owners. Today though sometimes masked with phrases of liberalism it stands for the perpetuation of the peonage of Negroes in the South and for the maintainance of wage slavery throughout the country. The election platform of the Workers ( munist) Party of America states: “There are no real political differences between the two big political parties. Both are parties of capitalism; both are ene- mies of the working class. The very ex- istence of the two-party system is the most reactionary factor in American pol- itics, is one of the factors which are re- sponsible for the lack of an independent mass political party of the working class. ... There are no political issues between these two parties. On the ques- tion of tariff, prohibition, taxation, im- perialist war, farm relief, League of Na- tiens and all other discussed political issues there is much more division within each party than between the two parties.” The “Negro World” is misleading the Com- op- pressed millions of Negro workers when ‘it holds out a hope to them that Smith and Hoo- ver or whoever of the two is elected, ca much for the harrassed Negro. There is no record of Hoover ever ha n do} ving opened his mouth in protest against the lynch- ing of Negroes and against the thousands of indignities that have been heaped on the groes in the south and also in the north. Ne- A Negro was lynched at the gates of Hous- ton on the eve of the democratic convention | and Al Smith did not protest. The only solution for the many evils that | confront the Negro working class population is unity with the white exploited worker ina struggle against capitalism: Negroe leaders who urge the colored masses to isolate them- selves from their white brothers and sisters are paying the game They must fight for political and s equality for the Negro race. of the master class. ‘ocial They must fight for the abolition of all Jim Crow distinctions. eral law against lynching and the prote of the Negro masses in their right of defense. They must fight for the abolition of the vict lease system and of the chain gang for equal pay for equal work for Negro white workers. They must fight for a fed- ction self- con- and and The Negroes must wage this struggle in conjunction with their exploited comrades re- gardless of color. The parties of Al Smith and Herbert Hoover may he willing to confer fa- vors on renegade Negro leaders who are ready to sell out their people for a mess of pottage. masses but chains. The Workers (Communist) Party is the | But those parties have nothing for the Negro only party that has a program which calls for the abolition of the capitalist system, a program | that will free black and white alike and which ; go, THE JACK-IN-THE-BOX By JULIUS CODKIND. To be successful, an evening open air meeting should be opened at eight o’clock sharp, and in no case should it last above two and one- half hours. Usually two hours is sufficient to hold a meeting. Within this time the speaking, literature sale, and collection should be made and questions answered. Excep- tions to the two-hour rule are ad- visable only when there is great in- terest or great excitement or en- thusiasm. It is always bad to have a crowd melt away while the meeting is still in progress. It is much better to discontinue a meeting at the two- hour limit with the dinoiteenient of when the next meeting will be held on the same spot. As a rula. the crowd will come back for the next meeting, if your meeting was successful in gaining their interest or attention. Advertising the Meeting. Open-air meetings can be built up very easily with a little organiza- tion. If the meeting is to open at 8 p. m., the platform should be on the corner with a sign at least an hour earlier, announcing the time when the meeting will be opened. Try this a couple of times, and you will soon discover that the function of the chairman is to make a plea- sant five-minute introduction of the meeting rather than to act as loud- speaker extraordinary. Where there is a newspaper, the meetings should be announced in the press. small towns the local bourgeois pa- per will often carry a notice of even Communist meetings. A little three Pittsburg By W. J. WHITE No war can be carried on today without steel, chemicals and motgr cars. Steel goes into the manufac- ture of guns, munitions, motor cars and trucks. Not a battleship, either submarine or destroyer, dreadnaught or fast cruiser but must be built out of steel these days. Ewen the super-dreadnaught must be built of steel and be covered with a belt of steel above the water line from 24 to 36 inches thick in order to with- stand the most powerful of projee- tiles and torpedoes. Steel tanks played a ghastly agd dreadful part in the Jast war, and in the wars of the future the “dry land dread- naught” will play “an even more ghastly and dreadful part. steel “air cruiser” will sail over our cities inthe next war and drop tons af poison gas into the streets. Great fleets of tanks will be part of the equipment of the thoroughly manned army in the next war. No battle will be fought without these death-dealing “dry land ships” bhe- ing in the action and part of the main line of either defense or ad- vance, Amored cars, made out of steel, will rush through our cities in the next war and nothing except shecially made, neavy calibered ma- chine guns can stop their advance. 100 Mile Range Projectiles carrying tons of nerve- stroying explosives will be sent calls for the building of a new society where out on their errands of death from the prejudices and hatreds fostered by the ex- belching mouths of steel. ploiting classes for centuries will be swept Berthas with ranges that may be away and where all will be truly equal u a social order where the rendering of service inder | as far as 100 miles. Steel airplanes with cruising ranges of from.three to four thousand miles, carrying the and not the acquisition of wealth will be the modern chemical poison gas bomb badge of honor. Negro Workers! Vote Communist! Join the Workers (Communist) Party! by tons into the interior of the enemy country, will be common in the next war. The super undersea dreadnaught, carrying guns of from In| The | Big! or four-line notice helpful. Building the Meetings. is often very can be built up by choosing a par- given corner and having a meeting on the corner on the same evening every week. The crowd will soon learn to come to that corner every Monday or Wednesday or Friday, as the case may be. Maintaining Order. Maintain perfect order. An open- air meeting is a favorite spot for certain types of comrades to gather for sociability. They will stand {around in groups, generally below the platform, and carry on all sorts of discussions. They beerome very noisy, become highly offended when approached to maintain order, and quickly succeed in demoralizing the meeting. Many good speeches are interrupted and nunierous splendid meetings are destroyed by this nui- sance. A strong committee, trained to deal gently but firmly with this evil, will quickly rid a corner of it. Disturbers. A worse evil even than the one above described is the disturber who knows more than the speaker. With a few telling remarks, he quickly destroys the faith of an audience in any speaker. This type of a crank Jean never be enticed to go up on the platform to show what he can do. | Very often he will not express his |opinion openly. He simply decides that the speaker is not making a good job, so he finds a victim and sets out to convert him to Commu- nism in his own w Our crank In large cities open-air meetings* ticular evening of the week for aj is goon in the midst of a most en- ticing, know-nothing political dis cussion. The crowd, always attract- ved by a novelty, will quickly com- |mence to gather around the debat- a third will enter into the dis- sion, then a forth. The debaters | split off into two teams each with | its circle of admirers. This process |eontinues until the speaker finds | himself talking to several circles of backs, and the meeting quickly comes to an end. The best method of dealing with this disease is to have a member of the committee break up the discus- sion by calling the debaters quietly {aside and appealing to the debater who is friendly to discontinue. If he refuses, he can be invited to go to another corner and hold his own |meeting. Sometimes a show of force is necessary. Sometimes a very popular speaker can appeal to the audience to expel the disturber. | This nuisance is an ever-present | danger, with which it is most dif- | ficult to deal. The, trouble lies in the fact that |these disturbers secretly ~ believe that they are superior to the speak- jer. As a general rule, this is not true. A speaker can be successful only thru special study of his sub- ject, and is, therefore, the one best qualified as a propagandist. Be- sides this the speaker always has the advantage of being on. a plat- | form, which helps him to carry. a | mass appeal and to gain results far beyond anything that can be hoped for from the best of cranks. “Packing” the Audience. | Interest is contagious. A crowd | standing around with plenty of By Fred Ellis Hints dri\Open Air Meetings room to move around in will never have as good results as an audience that is closely packed. A well-or- ganized committee can quickly pack a crowd by going to the outskirts and gently pushing forw: This is a very delicate maneuver. The cvowding¥forward must be so car- ried out as to seem entirely unin- tentional and the result of great in- terest in what the speaker is say- ing. If clumsily done, trouble is very likely to result. Patrolling the Meeting. The best and most experienced comrades should be posted on the outskirts of the crowd to safeguard the meetings from disturbances of all kinds, to be ready to deal with cranks and nuisances, and to attend to the process of packing the crowd. Order of Business. A well-conducted meeting will open at 8 p. m. sharp with a five- minute speech by the chairman, not for the purpose of getting a crowd but to make a few important re- marks and announcements. Chair- manship of this sort is first-class training for beginners. About 75 minutes should be given to speaking, to be followed by a collection, then the sale of litera- ture, and then Questions. . Special announcements can be made after the sale of literature. Good speak- ers do not lose the crowd by mak- ing a collection. If the crowd can- not be held thru a collection, it is best not to attempt the collection. While the collection is being tak- en and literature sold, the speaker must frequently refer to the fact that the meeting is about to be opened for questions. h and Steel in.the Next War limiged sailing ranges, will ravish the shipping of the enemy and de. stroy his ships of commerce in any of the seven seas. Chemicals. deal- ing their deaths to the thousands of non-combatants, will be dropped from the clouds in steel capsules and |bombs. Bacteria will be sent out on its journey to impregnate and in- noculate the man power and woman power of the enemy—and what mat- ter if it come into contact with the ‘child in its innocence. In all of this steel will play its part ard be in at the death. We can today say of steel what Shakespeare said of gold in one of “Much of this doth make Greatest Steel Mills All of this comes to me today as | I look out on the hills of Pittsburgh, | where the greatest combination of | steel producing units in all the world are gatherad, Here, in the indus- | trial heart of the United States, the | greatest of steel mills stand ready to turn out the steel for all of.the }above. Here we are ready to make |the steel which will go into the pro- {tion of the insurgents of India. The | Chinese have already felt the “bless- ling of ow’ steel” on Sggony hill, The plains of Manchuria will run ved with the blood of the Chinese soldier—thanks to the -guns and munitions of War coming from the mills of Pittsburgh and vivinity. The Yangste river has reverberated with the roar of “our guns” on “our battleships,”. the steel for which came from the vicinity of Pitts- burgh and from the mills of the cor- porations of this district. In Nicara- gua today the steel products of Pittsburgh are wiping out whole vil- i that the “blessings” zing rule” of “Wall Street” may come down on the heads six to eight inches calibre, with un- \jectiles and bombs for the subjuga-| | dino’s noble army and show them | the errors of their way. On the Amazon in South America “our steel | barges” and steamhoats” are plow- \ing their way for the Armours and , Wilsons, who are seeking new worlds | to conquer. These barges and boats |will turn to vipers and hissing: ad- |ders when the time comes to. pay | the debts owed to Wall Street. Then j will the South American hear the jroar of “our gans” as did the Chi- |nese in their efforts to shake from |their back the imperialists of Amer- jica_and the world. Haiti and the Philippines have had their workers annihilated by the steel guns and the munitions of war manufactured jin this industrial bee hive of im- | perialism, | Terrific Strain | Here the world’s labor market |has been raped for the workers who could staid up under the strain of | the seven-day week and the 12-hour. day. Here has been gathered the workers who have spoken the lan- guages of the Indias and the lands of every clime under the sun, in or- der that steel might be produced and the few grow rich, Here the idealist has seen his visions and (dreams turned into guns and muni- tions of war. Here he has seen the child of his fancy turned into the carnage and the blood bath of bat- tle. Here has been gathered the private army of private wealth in order that the long, toilsome road of organized labor might be wiped out in an hour of bloody battle. All of this in order that the slaves of steel might not stand in the way of the predatory parasites and their money \ags in an organized body against the next war. The workers in the steel mills of Pittsburgh, in the next war, or even to make the guns and munitions of war which wiJl be aimed not only at the crushing ott of organized re- those countries which are now tied to the wheels of the war chariots jalism, but also to destroy Soviet Russia, * “ In this drive there is only one or- the workers to this organized cam- paign against war and that is the Workers (Communist) Party. This organization, and it alone, can do this much-needed work. Let our | party not lose an hour or a day, for there is not a day or an hour to be lost in this work. Let us do it-with a will to win. Kansas Young Worker League shoots “Meet ar Baptist Patriots KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 11. — The international convention of the Young People’s Baptist Union closed here yesterday. Delegates were present from most of the western states and some from Canada. Dur- ing the discussions the forum leader spoke of the war danger and was followed in the regular “church” manner by speakers speaking of the horrors of war and pious wishes for its cessation. Furthermore all del- egates pledged allegiance to the flags and spgke of the glory of giv- ing one’s life for his country. That was an indication of the “peaceful” spirit. oF On the closing day the Young Workers League of Kansas City dis- tributed one thousand leaflets call~ ing upon the workers and students before the next war, must be organ- ized and educated, in order that they of the ‘bandits” in the ranks of San- may lay down their tools and refuse , to fight the citizen’s military train- ing camps and the capitalist war. The leaflets were well received, sistance of all the workers in all | of the American and world ‘mper- | ganization that has the will to win,| It is our task. | Told You So While the managers of the two big capitalist parties are modestly asserting that they will not expend a penny more than $3,000,000 each in the presidential elections, the Workers (Communist). Party is go- ing boldly ahead with fs plan’ to raise ,$100,000. _In fact, the Com- munists would have no objection to |a campaign treasury of $5,000,000, Instead of printing and distributing leaflets we would have a few more daily papers strategically located thruout the country. Pati * Members e Workers (Com- munist) Pai re \working like beavers © col 4 ie necessary number of signatures to place the Communist ticket on the ballot. Two | comrades..are,.touri) arts of New York state in ‘an TOeetTe called the “Red Essex.” Not only are they collecting signatures but they are organizing party units. Collecting signatures, funds, and organizing workers into the Party fit in nicely into the general campaign plan. ies) ase The Fourth of July has come and gone, Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of firecrackers were exploded, which is a tribute to the ability of the great American busi- ness man to mix business with pa- triotism. The ‘Happy Warrior,” Al Smith, waxed lyrical over the vir- tues of Tammany Hall, and declared that. only a sound and _ politically moral organization. could exist and flourish in this country for 139 years, Al may not know any better, since he admits that he only read two books in his life: The Life of John L. Sullivan and the Holy Bible. We suggest that Mrs. Moskovitz | present him with a copy of “Boss” Tweed by Denis T. Lynch. eC oe The estimable Tweed, while grand sachem of Tammany, took unto | himself the tidy sum of $30,000,000 jin less than three years, and it is jestimated that the total “take” of the Tammany ring was in excess of | $40,000,000. Even the Teapot Dome | boys had nothing on Tammany. All . . |the way down to “Glucose” Charlie | Murphy, the abstaining saloon keep- é er, the leaders of Tammany headed a gang of plunderers that were without peer in the annals of Am- erican history. * * * Tammany is now waging a fake fight against the sewer pipe bur- glars in the Borough of Queens headed by Connolly and Patten. The truth is that Connolly and Patten |are on the Tammany blacklist be- cause they supported the Hylan ring and perhaps do not care to share their graft with the citizens of the Manhattan wigwam. How the teeth of the 14th Street (now Park Avenue) sachems must water at the prospect of getting their hands on this booty. -One can im- agine Tammany elders prospecting all over the sidewalks of New York and muttering “Thars gold in them thar sewers.” +e Herbert Hoover is reported to te having trouble with his’ campaign managers. Some of the outstand- ing leaders of the G. O. P. are sul-” ing in their tents. We suggest that Herbert commissions the. Westing- house people to build him a dozen mechanical men who will move in the best modern engineering fash- jon with the pressing of a button. This might give the capitalists hope that when Hoover is elected, if he should be, he will provide them with enough robots to. man their fac- tories, so that they could dispense with thé pesky working class. Still there are drawbacks. Mechanical men | would not consume the commodities, which are produced by the workers {not primarily for their. own con- | sumption but for the greater glory jand profit of the capitalists, and |fuythermore there would not be much of a thrill for Du Pont in manufacturing bullets that would |glance off the rqbots like pebbles off the side of a ship. Too many contradictions in this system, I suppose they will have to bear with \the workers as long as the workers | will bear with them. ar The democratic platform mildly | i protests against the occupation of ¢) Nicaragua, and yet when the All- America Anti-Imperialist League demonstrated against this crime in Wall Street, the protestants were arrested and beaten by policemen under the direction of a democratic ‘police commissioner: The southern ‘democrats have no scruples against \the lynching of Negroes, but they | have little to gain by an imperialist venture in Latin America. Morgan has tho. And Al Smith is the white- | haired boy in the vicinity of Broad | Street. Democrats, socialists, and repub- licans' are, concerned only with catching votes in this election cam- paign. The two big parties are amassing their millions for the great political fair next November. The poor decrepit socialist party is collecting shekels from lawyers, pawnbrokers, and the handful of la- bor fakers that still pay lip loyalty to socialism. It is appealing to the liberal “conscience” and the “sad young men” of the colleges to get behind the reverend Thomas. The class struggle is completely ignored. — The vote’s the only thing, » July 11.—A 7,000 exploded and injured two workmen here. The tank was ty, accumulated c ioded while the workman’ working close by.