The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1928, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1928 DY 7 Daily 2- We lorker Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING AS NY, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Addr “Daiworl a Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 SUBSCRIPTION RA By Mail (in New York only): ail (outside of New York): $8 per year $4.50 s 3 $2.50 three months — $6.00 per year $3.50'six months - $2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. ..ROBERT MINOR ..WM. F. DUNNE E as office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. -YOTE COMMUN WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers! For the Party of the Class Struggle! For Vice-President BENJAMIN | | WORKERS (CONMUNIST) PARTY | IST! GITLOW Against the Capitalists! Green’s No-Strike Philosophy When social parasites and labor betrayers, as the case may be, find it necessary to con- tinue nefarious practices against the masses whose “god-appointed” leaders they claim to be, their common recourse is to invent a phil- osophy to justify their treachery. “To prevent to protect . . William Green, writing in the current issue . to stabilize production costs . . . business and labor from a recur- rence of this past year’s lost and waste . . . Green confirms this understanding. an advantage to employ miners who belong to “unionization” of its mines, it gave as its rea- sons for the change in policy: another strike, to insure constant and sufficient supply of coal at reasonable prices - in short “It is of the American Federationist, affords another | the union,” he says, “for the union could pre- such horrible example. The day when labor had to resort to the use of the strike is past, says this voluble | sounding-board of the bosses. At the moment | ~" when United Mine Workers of America, of | ¥! which he is himself a member, has been prac- tically destroyed through his own and John unions, which vent the recurrence of most strikes from which | Colorado has suffered.” It is necessary only to add that the company Green is seeking to put over, ll not sueceed any more than ‘the company | unions organized by the bosses themselves, in L. | the effort to prevent the workers from utilizing Lewis’ treachery in sabotaging the only method the only weapon which directly or indirectly is by which the organizaton could have been saved, a really vigorous prosecution of the strike and the calling out of both the anthra-| against strikes. Says he: | treason? “In the early union days the main argument | of the union was one of force—the strike. Force | was necessary to establish the fundamental right | of status. Employers would heed no other argu- | ment.” That But now, according to this flunky of the open-shop coal operators, it’s all different. Because: “Fundamental changes have taken place in industry. . . . Instead of relying wholly on refusal to work, unions must be ready to point out mis- takes in policy or method by argument and facts to convince management, and then outline a sub- stitute policy.” continuation of the public clamor and wailing | seeking to place its candidates of- on the part of the poverty-stricken Morgan ficially in nomination on the ballot and Chase National Bank interests that they | are unable to make ends meet on the lowly} The justification for the early use of the strike, we are told, was the necessity of fight- ing the legal status of the trade union. Nothing can moft clearly illustrate the nickel. utter hypocrisy and contemptible sophistry of these words than the fact that in its report to the last convention of the American Federation of Labor, the executive council was forced to} admit that organized labor has not yet attained | legal status in the United States. What is the whole pretended fight against the “yellow dog”’ contract which the labor officials have time and again declared is a threat to the. legal 3xistence of organized labor, if not a denial of the so-called legal status of the trade unon? And how will that status, if ever under capital- ist government, be attained if not by the | strike? with the B.-M. casual mention still among the The full meaning of Green’s proposals be- somes clear when we read his further sugges- tions in connection with certain developments which have recently taken place in Colorado. “Unions must be ready to point out mistakes in policy to convince management and to outline a substitute policy for the strike.” When the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, responsible for whatever gains they may se-| |cure under capitalism. ' Was there ever a more disgusting sight | cite and the unorganized fields, this union-| than this traitor Green, as he expounds to the | wrecker has the affrontery to declare himself| working class his now open philosophy of | New York Fare The silence which is hanging heavily over the developments now taking place in the! Wall Street. seven cent fare issue and in the so-called rapid | transit unification plan is‘undoubtedly part of a political party to run or to be on the generally agreed upon plan among the poli-| the ballot only in spots. For ex- ticians and traction companies to let the matter rest until after the November elections. This | on the ballot in a large number of can only mean that the traction ring which | operates within both old parties is quite sure | law of some states, a candidate for of its ground, otherwise there would now be a} The announcement by Samuel Untermeyer that he has practically reached an agreement T. group under which the’ com- pany will consent to recapture by the city, a trifling arrangement which will involve sev-/ Shall be relative to the percentage eral hundred millions of dollars, received only) state elects a given percentage of in‘ the capitalist press. The Interborough recently ordered a supply of 7c fare tokens which were manufactured by a|there shall be a senate consisting New England concern. It is known that the| surface lines are preparing to follow the ex-| ample of the Third Avenue subsidiary by mak- ing application for fare increases. But all is| servants of the public. Within a few months an issue involving the! virtual turning over of the. new city built sub- je is chosen by thé electors, ways, the estimated construction cost of which | direct object therefore of the old is a billion dollars, will be decided by Tammany | Hell and republican city and state officials who | own traction stock, represent the transit com- |panies as attorneys, and have entered into| secret agreements to put over the greatest | steal in the country, with the possible excep- which, after years of struggle against even the| tion of the power grab bankrupt A. F. of L. officials, became con- vinced, through the costly Colorado strike of ast year, that it would be more profitable to to utilize the labor fakers than its own com- gany union, and when it made arrangements to prevent real unionization by the device of con- spiring with labor fakers to put through a fake! emphasize this Here is an i ssue which is burning and im- mediate,-one on which approach may be made to hitherte untouched masses of workers. political speech in the present campaign, no propaganda which is sent out should fail to No question. Bar Garment Left-Wing BOSTON, Mass., July 15.—Two ‘ight wing emissaries from the In- ernational Ladies Garment ‘ae sibdenanpey rs Union, sent here by Sigman as) 4. sesult of this action the re- ‘supervisors” of the elections in the xctionary clique in control of the 3oston locals, presided over the International found that but four neeting of the election ¢ommittee members were willing to sigh and aere Friday and rejected all can-/ yun for the Local 46 executive board lidates for office who refused tofand that only two signed the yellow iign the right wing yellow dog con- | dog document as candidates to the was elected at membership meetings of Locals 46 and 56 declared that he would reject any one that docs sign ract, which stipulates “that the an-| Joint Board from that local. Only | lersigned is not a Communist nor @| one man could be gotten to run for Jommunist follower or sy'™-. the Joint Board from Local 56. - giant A joint meeting of the Boston Four Members Signed local executive boards with the Even one of the right wing mem- | Joint Board was held here July 10 yers of the election committee which | to hear the instructions handed them Candidates by the Sigman supervision commit- tee, Halpern and Gingold. | Several right pleaded with “Little Czar” Sigman’s ambassadors to give permission to abandon the yellow dog contract, but to no avail, They finally ap- proved the action of the Sigman clique despite express instructions to the contrary from the member- ship. At the membership meetings of. | these locals, held recently, even some | right wing followers had declared | that no organization work could be done as long as the left wing was not allowed to participate in the union leadership. wing members| ALSO IN THE STRUGGLE By JULIUS CODKIND. The United States of America is) perhaps the only countr)| in the | world where the elections are gov-| erned under a law which makes it| possible for the ruling class to sc confuse the technical qualifications |to be overcome by new or smal] parties seeking a place on the bal-| lot as from the very outset to prac- | tically prohibit all effective opposi- | tion in any election campaign to the |two “old” parties dominated by Only in America is it possible for a regular presidential candidate of jample, the Workers (Communist) | Party candidates will surely not, be the forty-eight states. Of equal in- jterest is the fact that under the president may be on the ballot in |spots in those states. A party is confronted with the problem of solving forty-eight separate and dis- tinct sets of laws. Congressional Election. To understand this, a few words of explanation are necessary. In theory, the country is supposed to be a federation of sovereign states. The Federal Constitution provides that the power of each state in the Central Government | of population as a whole. Thus each |the total number of congressmen but this is modified by a section of | the constitution which provides that of two senators from each state The constitution also provides that each state shall elect as many elec- tors as it has congressmen plus senators, and that the day of elec- tion of congressmen and senators | must be the first Tuesday after the | first Monday in November. The president is not elected by di- rect vote. Under the constitution, The The first dollar for a b oook of 80 three-color “Vote Communist” | stamps has been received by the National Election Campaign Com- |mittee at 43 E, 125th St, New | York, from P. Williams. We are on our way to a million. The prices of these in quantity | lots are: 55 books for $50; 90 books for $75; and 125 books for $100. Single books of 10 pages for $1 each, and can be resold for 10 cents per page. * George Saul, party field organizer | at Denver, reports the circulation of | petitions to put the party on the ballot in Colorado dus commenced, ‘and he is preparing go to New | Mexico to start the work there. | While in Denver, Comrade Saul incidentally helped organize the dairy clerks and led them in a suc- ‘cessful strike. During his spare time Saul helped the local comrades ‘arrange for the Colorado State ‘ratification convention, to ‘be held at Denver on Saturday, July 28. | ok * * Arthur Starr, agricultural district organizer, reports from Bismachk North Dakota, that he is preparing to go into South Dakota to help the local comrades put the party. on the ballot. * * * Election Laws in Unite Framed By Capitalists to Keep Working Class Parties Off the Ballot parties is not to gain a maximum | number of voters throughout the} country but to win a maximum num- er of the electors, and under the constitution it is possible for a can-|ecrs, known as the doubtful states.|restrictions against the nomination) didate. for the presidency who has decide the issue of the presidency.|of candidates by new or weaker] secured the greatest total of direct | votes to be defeated in the electoral college. Thus in 1916 it was at first homa, Ohio, Maryland, California and Massac trol swings f. other. These s s, where the con-| m one party to the| ates, with a few oth-| Presidential c: rule are politi states must be didates as a general | ns whose home New York, Ohio.| Told You So | JOHN J. RASKOB, chairman of the |“ finance committee of the Genera] | Motors Corporation is now the | chairman of the Democratic Nation- |al Committee by unanimous vote. There is no doubt that Al Smith is |one of the two darlings of big busi- ness. The House of Morgan is be- hind General Motors, so in case Al gets licked the House of Morgan will have Hoover. Heads, Wall | Street wins; tails, the working class | loses. Te fiction prevailed for a long time among the workers that the G. O. P. was the party of big business and that the jackass party \was the party of the working-class. Without doubt the G. O, P. was the favorite party of big business until the world war chop-sueyed lots lof things. The south was the vir- gin base of the democratic party but the exigencies of the great con- flict opened up the south to indus- try. Now the pope-hating southern * * * | democrat and the pope-hating north- % 2 d States | parties imposed by law in the doubt-| ful states is the fact that through this means the politicians of the two | dominant parties protect themselves | against the rise of minority groups capable of wielding a balance of power and thus dominating the po- litical situation within the state. New York furnishes an excellent illustration of this condition. The parties for state-wide office are most severe. From “new” parties the law requires a minimum of 12,- reported that Wilson had been de- | Massachusetts or California as the|000 signatures on petitions, includ- feated for re-election, although his| vote proved to be 600,000 greater: than that of his opponent. Later reports from California, however. | showed that Wilson had won the state by a plurality of about 3,800 which gave him the entire electoral | votes of the state and with it a) small majority in the electoral col-| lege. | 1916 Poll. A few illustrations will make this process even clearer. Taking the elections in 1916 as an example, we find that in California there were| 466,200 votes for Wilson and 462,-| 394 for Hughes. This gave Wilson | the entire 13 electoral votes of the| state. In New York the vote for Wilson was 759,426 and for Hughes | 869,115. Hughes got the entire 45/ electoral votes of the state. | In Minnesota, Hughes received | 179,544 while Wilson got 179,152.) Although Hughes had only 392 more | than Wilson, he received the entire 12 electoral votes of the state. It is also interesting to note that actu ally, Hughes received 27,910 vo less than his three leading oppon- ents combined in this state. | These are not exceptional occur-| rences. The constitution has de- li tely provided for just this. The result is that in states where)! the democratic or republican party is | preponderant there are practically no presidential election campaigns at all, both parties coffining them. | selves-largely to such states as New York, Missouri, New Jersey, Okla-| Sidelights on the Workers’ Party Ele vention to put the party on the bal-| lot will be held at Des Moines on Sunday, July 15. The Foster-Gitlow three - color “Vote Communist” campaign but. / i ¥ ; ar | issue of “Favorite Son” is often quite enough to swing enough votes to carry one of these states. It is already clear from all this) that the makers of the constitution} had in mind the objective of retain-| ing within their own ‘hands the en- tire political power and all the pa- tronage eee vith it, in their re- spective Rome states. As noted, the constitution pro- vides that each state shall elect its electors, congressmen and other-of- ficials in its*own way, with the re- sult that in every state there is a different set of laws governing the elections, Of far greater conse- quence is the fact that under the constitution each state prescribes its own conditions as to the procedure to be followed by parties or inde- pendent groups who seek to place ir candidates on the ballot or icially in nomination. 0! It is worthy of note that as a gen- eral rule the states in which the re- ublican and democratic parties con-| flict most, impose the most severe | restrictions against new or weaker| parties seeking a place on the bal. lot for their candidates while those} states which are safely republican | or democratic have little or no leg- islation on the question, and in sev- eral instances nominations are le- gally made by state conventions of any group or party. This procedure is not actually statute law. It is merely a mode legalized by custom. The obvious reason for the severe restrictions against new or weaker tons are now ready. Everybody will want one at 10 cents each. Prices in quantity are: Four cents in lots of 100; 3 cents in lots of 1,000, and 2 cents in lots of 5,000 or Militant Mine Family Blacklisted Since 1919 By VERA BUCH. | ILACKLISTED since 1919. Un- able to work in the mines for nine years because of ‘unusual militancy in the 1919 strike, And just as ac- tive now, one of the best of the best fighters among all the militant) miners. * This is the record of Thomas Ray of McDonald, Pa. But on Tom Ray’s household, on his wife’ and even children, the bosses’ discrimination has fallen very heavily. They live in one of those black, tumble-down, mean looking houses which you some- times see bordering the railroad tracks in little towns, and wonder when you see them, “Does anyone live in that?” In such a house lives or rather exists, Tom Ray’s family. You ask Mrs. Ray, “How have you managed to get along all these years?” She smiles quietly and sadly. “I don’t know. We have one The Iowa State Nominating Con- , lin New York City raising money boy sixteen years old. He gets a job in a mill, sometimes.” It seems hard for her to talk, as though she never: saw anyone, as though she had lived alone fora long time among worries and dreari- ness. Rarely does Mrs, Ray leave the house. She is ashamed to go out in her worn woolen dress, the only dress she has. These nine years have crushed Mrs, Ray, have drained her vitality. Yet she is stil! a young woman, From all the corners of that dingy home, Tom Ray’s bright active chil- dren peer at you with lively brown eyes. They are not crushed—they are eager to hear about the strike and the union. Tom Ray is bringing up seven young fighters to carry on the fight in the future. He has been thru the National Miners’ Relief Committee for the hungry strikers and he tells the eager children about | the strikes he’s heard about there, ”% ing at least 50 from each of the sixty-one counties in the state, but a new party seeking to place a can- didate for the state assembly in nomination in every assembly dis- trict in the state would require no less than 120,000 signatures or five per cent of the total vote. Pro- vided the numerous technicalities of the law are correctly complied with this number of signatures, if none are invalidated by the officials, would be sufficient to place in nom- ination a candidate for every elec- tive office within the state from presidential electors, governor and United States senator down to dog- catcher. It is obvious that the laws were framed generally with the object of excluding minority, and, of course working class parties from the elec- tions, by making it very costly and difficult for independent, new or weak parties to place candidates of- ficially in nomination, and this auto- matically entails the greatest sacri- fices on the part of working class parties seeking to enter the field It Happens very often that tremen- dous efforts, together with heavy financial sacrifices, are made by workers to place candidates in nom- ination, only to meet with failure either because they have failed to comply with some technicality or be- cause they were unable to gather sufficient signatures within the time allotted, and very often failure may be traced to the mere caprice of some petty: official. (To be continued). ction Drive over. * Roy Stephens, party field organ- izer, reports from Omaha that the comrades are commencing to cir- culate petitions to put the party on the ballot in the State of Nebraska. * * * Hugo Oehler, District No, 10 or- ganizer, is having a hard tussel with the Oklahomo State officials, who are fighting the Communist electors from going on the primary ballot of the Oklahoma farmer-labor party. * eit * * Word received from Oehler is that the Oklahoma fight is in good shape and that he is now on his way to Little Rock to see what can be done to put the party on the ballot in Arkansas. * * * Willis L. Wright reports from. Montana that there is no questior about the party going on the ballot in that State. The possibilities of securing the endorsement by the Montana farmer-labor party of the candidacies of Foster and Gitlow are good. f * * * Have you sent in your dollar for a book of 80 Vote Communist stamps? You need them to post on envelopes, letters, programs, fac- tory papers, bulletins, and all other printed matter and stationery. ern democrat can sit over the loving cup together and drink a toast to four years of looting under the aus- pices of the Tammany Tiger. ee How lightly party badges sit on the chests of capitalist leaders is proven by the election of Raskob as chairman of the Democratic Nation- al Committee. Raskob used to be a republican. Four years ago he voted for Calvin Coolidge. But he also voted for president Wilson. He is quite impartial. The workers vho vote the democratic ticket be- ause their grandfathers voted for it should take a lesson from Ras- | kob. * * * * Apparently Tammany is sure of the support of the trade union bu- reaucrats so it is using all its ener- | gies to convince big business that it will do the right thing by it. Tammany leader George W. Olvany. | said in comment on the election of | Raskob: “I think it was a very good | selection. It will show the people | throughout the country that Big Business need not be afraid of the Democratic Party when the party is | willing to leave its affairs in the hands of a man conspicuously iden- tified with one of the biggest busi- ness corporations in the world.” * * | Sates is the responsible repre- |®\ sentative of the Du Pont powder interests in General Motors. The manufacturers of munitions of war cannot be expected to visualize a state of society where the dove of peace will take the place of the war jeagle. Should war be “outlawed” |as the sappy liberals would have it, Du pont would have to scrap his war making machinery and turn to the manufacture of ginger ale. Al Smith as president, will order the battleships to Latin America to col- lect interest on Morgan’s loans and many Smith boosters will leave their bones to pulverize on South Ameri- can battlefields for the profit of the Du Pont powder interests and the | glory and profit of Tammany Hall. | WITH Raskob as its national chair- | man the democratic party should have no difficulty raising an effec- tive campaign fund. The manipu- lation of the stock market by an in- | sider should prove an easy way out | of financial difficulties. The aver- | age 100 per cent American is willing |to sell his vote for anything from a ten doliar bill to a thousand. The | price depends on what he is able to deliver. Already Tammany touts are canvassing the city for willing young men who are ready to park |their scruples in return for a prom- | ise of a job should Smith win. | THOSE of you who are weary and heavy laden with financial worries should take heart from the experience of John J. Raskob, Gen- eral Motors official. His first job » paid him $7.50 a week. See where jhe is today. He worked as a sten- lographer in public works to sup- port his mother, two sisters and a brother. Virtue is supposed to be rewarded. Raskob was blessed by clown, comes out against politi- cal conventions. One would have expected something better from a ~ professional humorist. There is / more material for the kind of non- |sense that brings home the bacon \for capitalist columnists in capital- ist conventions than even at dance marathons. Will should not kill the | goose that lays the golden eggs. . * While the two capitalist parties are insisting that they do not in- tend to buy all the votes that are necessary to elect their candidates the Workers (Communist) Party is busily engaged raising a Communist | Campaign Fund ‘of $100,000. We | are doing this quite shamelessly and — ostentatiously. $100,000 would pur- chase half a dozen capitalist ward heelers. But it will pay for the | printing of tons of Communist liter- ature and it will help to pay the expenses of hundreds of Communist speakers. Don’t forget to send in your contribution to the National Campaign Headquarters, 43 East 125th Street, New Y) City— Alexander Trachtenber i Trachtenberg is not a— nate, but your contri) blast the capitalist“ system into smithereens. |the pope last April. What more ~ | could a man ask for? * * * k ‘LL Rogers the imperialist I