The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1928, Page 6

Page Six } _THE DAILY W ORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1928 lorker Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PU3LISHING AS , Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 Address: “Daiwork” By Mail, (in New only) Yo: $8 per year SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (outside of New York): $4.50 six 1 0 three months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months Wddress and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. 1 Editor ...ROBERT MINOR » Assistant Editor... ...WM. F, .DUNNE at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Q|x For the Workers! For the Party of VOTE COMMUNIST! xX | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! Signs of Coming Storm The crash of the stock market for a record drop since the « ation of the World War in 1914 follow upon an almost equal drop a month ago t yubtedly points to certain signi- fieant force work both in the financial and industrial re of American capitalism. These are not yet basic, but they cut both deep and wide. Prima the present developments are con- aected with gold, movements;and with credit yperations. ‘But these in turn are directly re- ‘ated if not entirely determined by the in- reasing surplus of goods which the American market is unable to absorb and the continued lisparity betwen agricultural and industrial “ages. Under the theory that “easy money,” 8 easy credit, would by facilitating borr ‘or commercial purposes, increa isines naintain “prosperity,” the Federal Reser e the war adhered to a policy ount rat Whether or not the uling finance capitalists who operate through he Federal Reserve Bank and through it con- rol practically the world economic structure, sally believed that they could by this means dive the fundamental contradiction of capi- alism, the inability of the mas yoney economy to buy back the product which hey create, is not important. The program f encouraging business by tremendous credit that ing ani ye ates, nevertheless, met with the inevitable wall f the surplus value which the working masses © not, of course, receive and which the capi- alists cannot consume. Rising unemployment, an increasing disparity | etween agricultural and industrial prices, oreed a change in policy about the middle of wt year. A qualified restriction of credit ef- 3xeted by an increase in the rediscount rate was dopted. At the same time the Federal Re- arve Bank dumped hundreds of millions of overnment securities on the market with the aject of absorbing free funds in use for either. yeculation or exc ive business operations. he heavy export of gold used to stabilize Euro- ’an currencies, particularly that of France, has tted similarly to restrict the basis of credit yerations in this country. None of these have suffered to solve the in- ritable contradictions of capitalist economy. ne stock market not now as indicative of basic mditions as in the past, nevertheless, in its cord crash reflects the play of fundamental ‘ocesses. Referring to the sudden spurt in di money which rose to 10 per cent on the ock market on Monday July 2, Emerson irt Axe, writing in the “Annalist” of July h declared: “Under normal conditions money does not go to 10 per cent even temporarily. It is high time that the public realized that we are faced today with a eredit situation nearly as dangerous as that of 1906 or 1920.” Finance capital in the United States still be- ves there is a way out of the growing dis- rity between agricultural and industrial ices: depression in wages of labor. Ameri- a policy in recent weeks has been devised ifically to increase the value of gold with @ ultimate aim\of depressing the wage scale d thus restoring parity between the farmer d the wage slave. is an elementary proposition in Marxian nics that this device will only add to the ¥ contradictions by creating larger sur- ich the “market” cannot consume. an capitalism is not yet facing a major it will have its hands full with the youngster. S under a| Those Bolsheviks — | Seven men, given up as lost in the ice-deserts |ice-breaker, Krassin. After weeks of heart- breaking effort, of petty rivalry among various |“humanitarian” capitalist countries, it re- mained for an aviator of the Soviet. Union, ;Chukhnovsky, and a Soviet ship to effect the |rescue of the fascist Nobile party. | The policy and tactics of the Soviet Union thruout this rescue work have been in striking contrast to the behavior of the capitalist na- tions. The expedition of Gen. Umberto Nobile {into the north was hardly actuated by scien- tific motives. It was primarily an inflated | publicity stunt for the greater glory of Italian fascism and Gen. Nobile himself. Yet when it | became definitely known that the Nobile party had met with disaster and was in danger, the} Soviet Union immediately offered the resources |at its command in the rescue work. The orig- inal aims of the expedition had failed miser- jably. Only the practical task of saving 16 hu- {man beings now remained. | What co-operation did it receive from the} rescue parties of other countries? None at all. The Soviet government proposed that a central commission be formed to direct the rescue work | {in an organized fashion. The fascist Italian government and the governments of the countries that had sent out rescue parties re- fused. It would have been too great a concession for the capitalist nations for them to accept the plan of their hated enemy, the first workers’ jand peasants’ republic. | And when Lieut, Lundborg, the Swedish avi- }of the lost expedition, whom -did he rescue? | The fascist Gen. Nobile, leaving the others to shift for themselves. Now even the capitalist press is forced to |praise the Soviet ice-breaker Krassin and the | heroic aviator, Chukhnovsky, who has himself of the north, have been rescued by the Soviet | (EDITORIAL NOTE: The fol- lowing letter written to The DAILY WORKER by Charles Bright, an engineer and former builder, who has fought crooked judges, officials and politicians and “money power” their master, big business and other servants of big business for many years, is timely in connection with the arrests of our comrades for their participation in the July 4 demonstration in Wall Street.) res eee Y WORKER: From the dai Stat press and The Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER and Workers (Commun- rescue work. Seven men have been saved and | another party is reported to have been sighted. | | 15 others, including the Amundsen rescue par- ty, still lost—perhaps forever. Marine Life in Nicaragua | Capitalism has little gratitude for those who do its dirty work. Soldiers may be “heroes” when there is a shortage of cannon fodder, but after the bosses’ profits are safe the brave are but rubbigh cast aside. The life of servicemen in Nicaragua, revealed by a letter from a marine, published a few days ago in The DAILY WORKER, illustrates the gratitude of Wall Street to those who defend its investments. Visions are presented to the young workers of the delights to be enjoyed in Nicaragua. prisoner with no prospect of release, the glitter| the corner of York eddress near our president in waging an illegal and unauthorized war carried on at vasions of their sovereignty—people who refuse to acknowledge the au- thority of Diaz, a former clerk of | pronounced the sentence DAILY WORKER I gather that| °° five days in jail, he was man-/other accomplices involved. ist) Party candidate for the United] t ‘ States senate, was assaulted by the| for speaking without a permit,” and | Prosecuting attorney, a clerk of the police and dragged by the heels| “misconduct of police magistrates of | court, a police sergeant, detectives been temporarily stranded with his companions. }from an automobile when mal:ing| the city of New York in denying|and others who utilize the West | It is a bitter pill for the capitalist countries to | 27 NS Iie >. SES :. ‘. Broad and Wall Sts. New |swallow. The Krassin is proceeding with the City, against the imperialist acts of |I happen to be a qualified expert. | MORGAN, BACK-SEAT DRIVER Lawmakers as Lawbreakers and Why They Are Out of Jail, The daily- press further stated that the candidate for the U. S senate was charged at the police station with the offense of speaking | without a permit. From the same |sources I learned that when, Minor jattempted to exercise his legal of $25 fine | handled and forced into prison. * Misconduct of Police. Upon these two points, “Arrests | accused parties their legal and cot stitutional rights and fair hearing. and perhaps New York’s most suc- cessful expert judging by resul | Meanwhile the toll of this grandiose fascist |the behest of interested American|For I have won out in the end in| |expedition thus far is two known:dead, with | capitalists, schemers, and their po-|every case, either at the station) assistant Mr. Ryan. Then the Com- | | litical tools against that part of the| house, or in a dozen cases tried out| missioner of Police Warren is hard |patriotic people of a weak and al-| at the police courts, and in one case|to see on such matters. The acting most defenseless nation, Nicaragua.|of alleged criminal libel tried out| |who object to and resist such in-| before a jury for nine days in the |Court of General Sessions, all end- ling with “not guilty.” In each case I traced the false improper influences, but because 1 was interfering unwittingly with lecertain “Racketeers of Justice,” or what might be described in short as the “graft” of certain magis- | trates, police court clerks, prosecu- ting attorneys and officials and a 6 leaptains, lieutenants and aides, ana | In the Bronx I have just com- pleted gathering the necessary legal {evidence against a. magistrate, a | Farms Police Court as a base from which they work this racket. “Absent” Officials. | I am forced to go slow” because the district attorney. of the Bronx is absent on vacation, likewise his mayor objects to go into such mat- ters while the mayor is aleent and the mayor is not expected before | August. So we are now preparing |to lay it before Governor Smith these foreign capitalists, to act as|arrest or interference back to its|who has the power of removing the president of Nicaragua. i Acts of Terrorism. This man Diaz, they declare, has been unconstitutionally seated there by the money and armed forces of foreigners, and is now sustained in |power by the military forces of the| through the United States and principally by their acts of terrorism in dropping and safety in the American military planes above, anc they rush for shelter and safety should they unfortunately make any of abstract soldiering turns into the dross of movement that would indicate the reality, when the recruit finds himself forced to carry ninety-four pounds of equipment thirty miles daily thru mud knee deep, to replace} oxen in pulling supply wagons the enchantment | borne of distance and the lying tongue of a re-! cruiting officer soon fades. These marines learn to know the facts of | their actual conditions, but few realize that when they are fighting agai the freedom of Nicaragua the are Wonpting their own ren i al | The two marines who deserted the imperialist forces of intervention to join the army of San- | dino pointed out the only road to their freedom | and followed the true interests of the service- men who have been sent to Nicaragua by Wall | Street. — unist newspaper, Work- . George, Allison, who re- is released from prison in tells of prison conditions | brutal tortures. They rose at were given thir ‘nm, an English miner, went to help trade union organ- ‘To prevent his activities ndian workers, Allison was 8 months on a technical jolating passport regul- erved his sentence in prison, near Poona. i ist of “Kunji.” Alliso: litions of the “white” | lights (in the ¢ During the rest sisted of grinding RTURE USED IN INDIAN PRISONS July 12.—Writing in) prisoners are much better than those of the natives, they were subjected) to extremely harsh treatment and) and then breakfeast of ‘“Kunji.”| 4nd to work with iron bars fastened 4 o’clock, they worked in their cells.|On some occasions, as many! as 30 The work, for the most part, con-| prisoners were flogged in one day. id makin, uinine tablets. cake curing thiedt of the period rod. Among the “crimes” for which was confined, there were no such punishments are given is that ells. _ lof having a pencil. Use Salted Rod. For the slightest excuse, the prisoners were punished by flogging, | being forced to wear clothing next 6 every morning. |+, the skin mate of coarse sacking, ty minutes’ drill | of the day, until] /|to the Jegs from ankles to the waist. meal between two| The victims were tied to a triangular | At upwards, and flogged with a salted picomsiaeaiaioie |source. In the beginning I always |found the arrest was due to the agents of the crooked judges, of- ficials and lawyers wham I am ex- posing for conniving with the | Rockefeller group in courts a series of | frauds, | These criminal acts are now the | bombs from their places of vantage | subject matter of an action pending |and brought by me in the supreme certain judges, and | others for damages for their guilty participation in said frauds. Improper Influences. Of late I have found that I was interfered with and molested and | accepted at the precinct station, not | only because of the above mentioned district’ attorney for negligently failing to act after being advised of these violations of the criminal law and who likewise can act should Mayor Walker fail to compel the, putting | police commissioner to do his duty. | Since I have unwittingly inter-| |fered with and spoiled the graft of |these Racketeers of Justice, I am | suffering a new form of molestatior | as a result of a conspiracy in viola- » upon the homes ofj|court of Queens county against the| tion of Section 19 of the U. S \these patriots and their non-com- | Rockefellers, |batant women and_ children, When on arrival he finds himself actually a/%?0 their heads in the brush where) | Criminal Code to feloniously pre- | vent me, among other things, from | exercising my legal rights under the | first and fourteenth amendments or the constitution to circulate and ob- tain signatures to a petition to con- | Presence of an animal or human be-| even arrested but the charges not|gress of the Equality League, Inc. \ing to the American military avia- |tors above. | for investigation and impeachment of certain federal judges. By Fred Ellis Racketeers of Justice This new hostile spirit was mani- fested as soon as a late copy of my magazines “Vigilante” and “The Vigilant American” disclosed the fact that the sheriff of New York was involved and that some of the big “higher-ups” in Tammany had been influenced by George Gordon Battle, the “liason officer” employed by the Rockefeller group in pro- curing certain democratic magis- trates, judges, and district attor- neys and officials of justice to mis- the m da sues of my magazines that contain these charges as well as part of the incriminating documentary evidence to sustain and prove my charges. While police headquarters admit that I have the legal right to do what I am doing, and the manner in which I am proceeding, it is ob- vious that the police department heads are woefully inefficient and incompetent, or that they are not acting in good faith. At any rate, they are not able to stop the unlawful acts, illegal mo- lestations and uncalled for inter- ferences of - their patrolmen, ser- geants and officials, and with the evidence our Vigilantes have now collected, I can not resist the con- clusion that it is but the carrying out of a criminal conspiracy to in- jure, threaten, coerce and intimidate me and others associated with me in the exercise of our legal rights in violation of section 19 of the Crim- inal Code which makes such of- fenses punishable with 10 years im- prisonment and $5,000 fine. Distort Law. This law was originally passed to suppress the activities of the Ku Klux Klan, but now covers all con, spiracies against the legal rights of citizens. I note that while Police Commissioner Warren is quick to take action against assemblage anc processions of the K. K. K., he is practically inaccessable when a citi- zen wishes to end the criminal prac- tices of certain members of his force when operating in collusion with certain “Racketeers of Jus- tice.” - (Signed) CHARLES BRIGHT. The Textile Strikers and the Election By OLGA GOLD The process of “rationalizing” the textile industry has affected it to a greater extent than most other industries. Not only has the in- stallation of new machinery left thousands of experienced workers jobless, but the shifting of textile mills’ cotton to the southern, states, |silk to the coal regions, have con- tributed greatly to this process. The capitalists have discovered that the south is an extremely good place for the slave driving textile industry. In the first place, it is close to the raw material; in the second place, there is, as yet, no sign of organization among the workers. In the south, where all the evils of chattel slavery exist in practice, the workers are conse- quently more submissive. Must Sign Contract In many instances a worker can- not obtain employment in the south unless he signs a contract that his whole family will work for the same slave driver. The following table, small millstones, making envelopes| wooden frame, their arms stretched|from the “Monthly Labor Review,” \shows average wages and hours of labor in cotton goods manufacturing for 1925; since then several wage cuts have fbeen forced upon the eee workers: State Hours Wages Georgia .. . 57 $11.39 Alabama . 54.8 10.51 Maine .. 9 16.67 | Massachusetts . 48.5 18.78 North Carolina. 55.8 13.63 South Carolina. Virginia +. 55.2 10.33 The mills in the coal regions are of no less value to the bosses. There, too, they can get cheap coal, cheap rent and cheaper labor. Workers are paid as low as 15 to 20 cents an hour. They are on a different econ- omic plane from the workers in the textile centers, because there men and women find their only means of earning a living, whereas in the mining region, except for a fea mechanics, the workers are all wo- |men and children, who use their work as a side job to help out the meager earnings received by the miners. The bosses here, therefore, pay a much lower wage than even 55.1 13.42 the very low average paid in tne tex-who made $16.00 wee! New Bedford Mill Workers Rally Behind the Workers (Communist) Party tile cénters, The general outcome of this situa- tion for the workers is the unpre- cedented growth of unemployment, wage cuts, ate. Official govern- ment statistics show that in March. 1928, only 38 per cent of cotton workers were working full time. While in April, 1928, cotton goods workers only 32 per cent, silk goods workers 48 per cent, woolen and worsted workers 28 per cent worked full time. x. There are thousands of. skilled workers in the New England textile centers who have lost hope of ever securing employment. Hundreds of families who have resided in the textile area for years are compelled daily to leave the communities. In New England men depend econom- ically on the women, who, because their labor power is much cheaper, obtain work more easily than the men. A specific instance is that of a Polish woman of my acquaintance and had to support her husband and little ones. And such cases are ex- tremely common. Some Factors Some of the important factors of the present cotton workers’ strike in New Bedford are as fol- lows: First, it indicates the awak- ening of the most exploited section ef the American working class; that the sufferings of these workers have reached such a degree that they can no longer endure it. They are beginning to awaken to the need of calling strikes, protesting and de- manding their rights. They are de- termined to build a new union to include not only a few loomfixers and a few other skilled workers, but to embrace the entire mass of. textile workers. Another important factor of utmost significance is that Told You So The Workers (Communist) Party will regard the Communist vote cast in the next elections as a barometer of the revolutionary temperature of the masses, but campaigning for votes for the sake of votes is not on its agenda. A glance at The DAILY WORKER or any other Communist organ proves this. The Party concerns itself with the min- ers’ strike, with the textile work- ers’ strike, with the fight to release class war prisoners, with the or- ganization of the unorganized, and with the many other burning issues that face the American workers to- day. The Communist Party partici- pates in the elections in order to mobilize the masses for struggle, to expose capitalist democracy, and to teach them that only thru a revo- lutionary struggle can capitalism be abolished. Nevertheless, when it nominates its candidates for the various legislative bodies, it intends to strive to the utmost to have them elected, in order that these legis- lative bodies may be used as a for- um from which to advocate the overthrow of the capitalist system. ole as | The socialist “New Leader” boasts that Herr Hermann Mueller. the German socialist leader, has succeeded in organizing a cabinet, tho this cabinet includes only four socialists out of a total of elevem, What a victory! Is it not surpri® ing that the old monarchist wot shipper, Von Hindenburg, should approve this selection? me Sas ee The British labor party, headed by the ‘socialist MacDonald, has issued its platform, which declares its approval of American imperial- ism by endorsing the fake Kellogg peace treaty. It should not be for- gotten that it was during the pre- miership of MacDonald that the Dawes Plan was fastened on Ger- many with the valuable assistance of MacDonald. International so- cialism is all things to all imper- ialisms, * * ® Every dollar contributed to the Communist Election Campaign Fund will help to bring the workers a step nearer to a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government, which means the rule of the workers and farm- ers with the capitalists having the choice of going to work or quietly starving. There can be no solution of the class struggle short of this. Leaders may sell out to the enemy, but the great mass of the workers and farmers cannot be bribed by the capitalist class. There are too many of them. - In this campaign the Workers (Communist) Party will mobilize the workers in the industries and farmers: for a against the ‘apitalist system. The $100,000 Communist Party Election Campaign Fund will be used for this purpose. The trea- sure chests of the other parties will be used to put officials in office who will serve the master class and who will profit by the system they live on and defend. The raising of this Communist campaign fund is a first charge on the duty of the Party membership. Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury, is able to show a treasury surplus of $398,000,000. This is of- fered as evidence by the supporters of the republican administration that prosperity is still with us. Un. fortunately for this contention how- ever approximately 4,000,000 unem- ployed and the low wages received by those employed does not bear out the boasts of the G. O. P. boosters. which the workers are obtaining about the functioning of the cap- italist state during strikes is of far greater value than that gained through academic education. Become Disillusioned Here the workers, directly through the harsh, tyrannical measures of the police, are slowly becoming dis- illusioned about the impartiality of our governmental apparatus. It is thus shown to the workers that against the efforts of the working class to improve its standard of liv- ing, to demand a little more of the values which we, the workers, have produced, the capitalists are fight- ing with all the weapons in their possession, press, court, church, ete. During election they will chal- lenge the bosses; that they will do this is shown by the fact that they sent representative Eulalie Mendes to greet the National Nominating Convention of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, which was held in New York City May 25, 26 and 27. Im her greetings on behalf of the 26,000 workers she told us of the role of the police, of the discovery of who is their enemy and who their friend, and that they see that those leaders who are labelled as Com- munists are always in the forefront of the struggle, unafraid of the ter- rors the bosses use against them. Our Own Candidates She told us, too, that she was in- structed to ask the Workers Party to put up Albert Weisbord, national secretary of the Textile Mills Com- mittees, in opposition to Butler, who is chief adviser to Coolidge and himself a manufacturer. We are sure that the workers of the strike is taking place during an election year at the time when the capitalist class is most energetically and effectively carrying on a cam- paign to poison the minds of the workers with various injurious illu- sions about its government. The: workers are learning daily on the picket lines and at mass meetings about the nature and structure and women fight the battles of ‘the to its victory. New Bedford will not only register their vote for Jabor candidates, but the most class-conscious of them will follow in the steps of the 500 fighting miners who recently joined the Workers Party and together with the thousands of militant men this government., The knowledge * ee tes