The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1928, Page 6

ity DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928 Se ASAT LR SSE | STOP HIM! Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday Addre: “Da Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable SUBSCRIPT By Mail (in New York only) $4.50 six months 50 three months $8 per year ION RATES By Mail (outside of New York): $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. GE! Assistant Editor. -ROBERT MINOR ...WM. F. DUNNE Entered lass mail as second-c he post-office a t New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER [2 | For the Workers! SX | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! Dwight Morrow Loaded the Gun “I killed Obregon because I wanted Christ, the king, to reign completely, Again the not partially.” —Statement of Obregon’s murderer, who assumes the name “Escapulario,” a word applied to a certain “holy cloth” used in religious ceremonies. assassin’s revolver speaks for re- action, for the cause of clerical counter-revolu- tion. individual This time in Mexico. terror, The weapon of of political assassination, appears once more in a long series of incidents as a characteristic weapon of reaction. But if the darkest forces in Mexico, based on landlordism and clerical privilege, have mur- dered General Obregon, it does not necessarily follow that Obregon at the time of his death represented Mexican masses. the forces of progress for the Stupidity, blind inability to estimate social phenomena and the trend of history is characteristic of the type of reaction represented by the attempted counter-revolu- tion in Mexico leading to the assassination of Obregon. When the counter-revolution, encouraged and financed by Wall Street interests, was or- ganized and and landlords, launched by the Mexican church immediately directed to the overthrow of the Mexican government headed by Calles, it was the duty of the workers and peasants of Mexico to rise against the counter- revolution. They did this with magnificent courage, and the military power of the counter- revoluton was destroyed. But when the workers and peasants kept Calles and Obregon from being overturned by military counter-revolution, that was no guar- antee that Calles and Obregon would be faith- ful to the workers and peasants. imperialism, United States seeing that the impracticability of the attempt to overthrow the Mexican govern- ment at that particular time through military force, resorted to the more subtle tactics of direct pressure of the big New York banks com- bined with diplomatic pressure of the United States government. Dwight Morrow, the Morgan ambassador from Washington, was the intermedia: exercised the stronges upon Obregon. gon directly 'y who corrupting influence Morrow interceded with Obre- for “peace” with the clerical re- action; Morrow wanted Obregon to base him- self upon clerical landlordism and no longer to be dependent upon the vigilant and ever more militant and “unreliable” working class and peasantry. As long as Obregon had to depend upon militant workers and peasants against the priests and landlords, Wall Street would be inconvenienced in trying to use Obregon as a policeman of imperialism to suppress the Mexi- can workers and peasants for exploitation by United States capital. Ambassador Morrow in approaching Obregon held in one hand the threat of military aggres- sion and in the other hand the bribe of loans and the corrupting favors which petty-capital- resist. that he had reaction. had already ist politicians such as Obregon find it hard to Before the assassin’s bullet laid out Obregon as an enemy of the clerical-landlord reaction, Obregon had already shown many indications himself gone over to the cause of There is every reason to believe that Morrow succeeded. Vague intimations and half-denied rumors of reconciliation between Obregon and the Catholic hierarchy were ac- companied by sharper repre ing class by the Mexican government. The dis- gusting imperialist orgy in connection with the ions of the work- flight of Lindbergh to Latin-America, the fail- ure of Mexico to fulfill its historical role as leader of the anti-imperialist struggle of Latin- America as evidenced in the slavish capitula- tion at the Havana conference, followed by the surrender-flight of the Mexican aviator Car- ranza—all go to show that Obregon had capitu- lated to the coalition »f Mexican reaction and United States imperialism prior to his murder by the dark forces of clerical reaction. * * * United States capitalist newspapers are now speculating on what will happen next in Mex- ico. To the Wall Street capitalists this means nothing more than the problem of how they can control Mexico through other instruments now that Obregon, whom they had practically signed up as their agent, is no more. j But tothe workers and peasants of Mexico there is no uncertainty as to what will happen next, in the main outline. d fiercer, more direct struggle States financiers and government to enslave. the Mexican masses with new instruments. ‘or the Mexican workers and peyote it will It will be a bigger of the United be necessary to mobilize every resource of all} Latin-America, not corrupted to United States | imperialism, to fight that imperialism. | With the situation as tense as it already was, the assassination of Obregon is bound to mark a new stage in the struggle, and all active) elements must and will move to strengthen | their positions. | One thing there cannot be: Peace between United States imperialism and the Latin-| American masses whom it regards as its slaves. The naturé of imperialism is such that it is| impossible for a nation in the stage of eco-| nomical development of Mexico to exist in the |shadow of the big Wall Street imperialism without struggling for its very life. In the | earlier stages of United States imperialism, the bloody tyrant Diaz for more than thirty years bartered his country to the Wall Street pirates. | By W. D. After Diaz was overthrown in 1911, Mexico | JN the history of legal injustice the) Frame-up of Max Hoelz, German Communist was kept in bloody turmoil by the deliberate in-| case of Max Hoelz must occapy al trigues of United States, British and other im-| special place. On the 22nd of June,| Leader by Class Courts perialists. Its location on the border of the | 1921, an “exceptional court” sen-/ After the war had come to an United States, together with its natural re- |tenced Max Hoelz to hard labor for) end Hoelz became a member of an sources, were the inescapable object of this |life and to a permanent loss of al]/unemployed workers’ committee in interference. Es rights. The public soy Piast ele OR Haba War and epidemics of assassination will be | had demanded the death sentence. | «ork F i : is ; A ‘ ers was terrible. A demonstra- visited upon Mexico by its Wall Street exploit- | With the exception of that little | |tion of these workers placed Max % bi f ri hi ers until the day when Mexico successfully ful- | ait te ph CReuy coiee ait Acie | Hoelz at their head and demanded fills its historic role as the leader of and | stances all legal iniquities imposed | food hase clothing. The aa See mobilizer of Latin-America to throw off the |upon supporters of the left-wing| ie pumecosic was answered by yoke of United States imperialism. If a cleri- thea ie a Nig hie AES men he had collected around him by cal fanatic fired the shot that killed Obregon, ue The ene eeharged |£0TC°- The authorities and the fac- it was Dwight W. Morrow, Morgan’s man, that | max Hoelz with murder, the court | to°¥ workers had to give way and loaded the gun. |found him guilty of killing. Even| 0 What Hoelz required of them lif the bona fides of the court are| His Beery and his are SPDT ead |granted, nevertheless there was ae piresaacema iy aad | frivolous zealousness in preparing sbahitled ak his ‘idan Tee. Golda the indictment. By the fact that the cer Geri sta) Sexe hanks He reek ta the mresent age th ized against him. Hoelz made his leaue ef ita Sloela-becewiek eG col-|e8cape against tremendous odds crime. e preliminary to the trial | procedure of the jal an je ob-| “4 nilie stinate prevention of any retrial, all| patel sey ASguiteiraad iano capitalist statesman can lull the working class | these POInGS abe abe cane On Me acide Republic (Kapp Putch). a ; ier : | Hoel: th it of the ordin- F of his own nation to sleep in illusions of peace | ary, re Reet ae |The government fled from Berlin i eae land all over Germany the workers “Peace” While every nation in the world is preparing for the coming world war, Kellogg, secretary of state, of the most piratical of the imperialist powers, is peddling among his fellow capitalist statesmen in Europe his “plan for outlawing war.” Kellogg’s “antiwar” plan is recom-| mended as an excellent dope with which any while the same capitalist statesmen speed up| the furious pace toward war. Social-Democratic politicians are especially good buyers for this useful commodity. Abraham Lincoln, once requested by a soap | manufacturer to write a recommendation of his soap, wrote: “This is a satisfactory soap for | people who are satisfied with this kind of soap.” Kellogg’s plan is a perfectly peaceful plan for all peoples who would be peaceful anyway. For | capitalist imperialist nations in this epoch of world-wars to go through mock ceremonies of acceptance of this plan, is simply to play a murderous joke on the masses they are pre- paring to send to war. What the text of Kellogg’s agreement is does not matter in the slightest—there would be and will be war made by the imperialist nations absolutely regardless | of any words that may be written on any piece |of paper. But even the text gives the sardonic farce away. The essential text is: ARTICLE I. The high contracting parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of inter- national controversies and renounce it as an instru- ment of national policy in their relations with one another. ARTICLE Il. The high contracting parties agree that the set- tlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts, of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them shall never be sought except by pacific means. Meantime the Sixth Congress of the Com- munist International has opened its sessions in Moscow and will deal in real earnest with the questions of the coming world war. No camou- flage will cover its utterances and plans. Im- perialist world war is coming rapidly and with , absolute certainty, and the workers of the world will be told so in plain, truthful analysis. They will also be told what it is necessary to do in order that the imperialist war between nations shall be transformed into the war be- tween classes and the overthrow of capitalism, without which there can be no end of war. Kellogg's lies are competing with the drastic and effective work of the Communist parties of | all countries in mobilizing the working class against the coming imperialist war. Kellogg will lose in the competition. The workers in the United States must | strengthen as rapidly as possible their revolu- tionary party, the Workers (Communist) |Party, the American section of the Commu- nist International which carries on the struggle against imperialist war. | Vote Communist, and join the Workers (Communist) Party, Story of His Life. Max Hoelz was the son of a peas- | ant. He was brought up religiously. | went to work as a farm hand and | very early showed more than usual intelligence. An engineer sent him to England to work as a sort of ap- prentice in a technical bureau. Re- turning to Germany later on Hoelz | failed to find work as an engineer | and was compelled to go as a rhan- servant. In his spare time he pre- | pared himself and saved up enough money to permit him to attend a | technical high school. But then the | war broke out and prevented him | Caught up in the wave of mad pa- \triotism which swept over Germany jin 1914 as over all other countries plunging into the mass-murder. Hoelz volunteered and joined a Saxon cavalry regiment. During the \war he distinguished himself as a despatch rider. His experiences dur- ing the war opened his eyes to the terrible crime of capitalist society. crushed his petty-bourgeois ideas and made a rebel out of him. Ac- cording to his own statements, how- ever, he only became a Marxist and la Communist as a result of study |in prison after his sentence. “My | activity as a rebel group leader, as a putchist was wrong,” admits | Hoelz, but his acts were great never- theless, and the proletariat needs men of such courage, resource and passionate enthusiasm for the cause jas Max Hoelz. 1 declared a general strike. In the Ruhr district and in Vogtland armed struggles -took place between the Kapp troops and the workers. The news of the fighting in his own} home in Vogtland brought Max Hoelz back to his own people where he was welcomed with tremendous enthusiasm. The mass will made him their military leader. Under the leadership of Hoelz the workers became the masters of Vogtland New terrors were in store for the bourgeoisie, Hoelz forced them to pay the costs of the struggle. The mobilization and concentration of 50,000 Reichswehr was necessary to defeat Hoelz and his poorly armed troops of workers. Hoelz and a number of other proletarian fight- ers escaped into Czechoslovakia. An official request of the German gov- ernment for the extradition of Hoelz was rejected by the Czechoslovakia government on the ground that the offenses committed by Hoelz and his supporters were committed from purely political motives. if March Insurrection. Then came the March insurrection in central Germany in 1921, a spon- taneous rising of the workers op- pressed and provoked to an intoler- able pitch. Hoelz hurried from his exile to the scene of the struggle ignoring the blood money the Ger- man government had. placed upon his head. Once again he became the indisputed leader of the struggle |Hoelz himself was always at the | hottest part of the fighting. He al- | ways strived to avoid unnecessary |brutalities and to maintain a pro- |letarian military discipline. A mass | mobilization of military and armed |police and volunteers crushed the | rising. The vengeance of the police |students and volunteer bourgeois | was bloody. Blood lust and brutality were allowed free rein amongst the unarmed workers, Murder and vio- |lence took place everywhere. The investigation committee instituted |by the Prussian Diet has masses of proofs for this reign of terror. murder and violence. The arm of |the law makes no attempt to reach the -brutal murderers who brought unspeakable suffering to thousands of working class families. But as |long as Max Hoelz was still at lib- | erty the blood lust of the bourgeoisie |was not stilled. The bourgeois press howled for the head of Max Hoelz. And an army of police and spies finally delivered him up to “Justice.” But there was not enough evidence to please them. The Berlin police presidium then publicly of- fered a reward of 50,000 marks for |information which would lead to the jeonviction of Max Hoelz! Such a thing was unparalleled in the his tory of even bourgeois “fustice. But what did that matter? The main thing is that it served its pur- pose. Frame-up Victim. During the fighting, a well-known monarchist and rich landowner named Hess had been shot dead by the troops of Max Hoelz. A witness |came forward, attracted by the 50,’ 000 marks and declared that Max Hoelz personally had fired the shot which killed Hess. The widow of Hess supported the testimony, but only in the second examination after she had been properly prepared and influenced by the criminal police. In her first examination Frau Hess de- clared that she had seen no one actu- ally shoot, she had only seen a man from behind who was carrying a rifle. That was no use to the repre- sentatives of “justice,” so the po- lice took care of Frau Hess and she was suddenly able to declare at the second examination that Hoelz was the man she had seen and that he had not carried a rifle but a re- volver! At the instructions of Hoelz a number of shots were fired, she declared. Since then, however, it has been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Frau Hess was in the house at the time and could not.pos- sibly have seen the killing Rich took place in the courtyard. It har The Story of a Legal Crime also been proved that the other wit- ness, the man thirsty for the 50,000 marks, named Uebe could not pos- sibly have seen the killing of Hess from the place where he (Uebe) was admittedly standing at the time Added to this, the exceptional court declared that the killing had been carried out by a number of people and not by Max Hoelz alone. The defending lawyer of Max Hoelz de- manded that a uniform trial take place, as this would undoubtedly have proved the innocence of Hoelz in connection with the killing of Hess. The exceptional court refused this, however, and in another trial before another court a second work- er was tried and sentenced to 7% years hard labor for the killing of Hess. This worker was sentenced upon the evidence of Frau Hess and \died afterwards in prison. Both he and Max Hoelz both acknowledged \all their political activity proudly | but both denied energetically hav- ing fired at Hess. All the other of- |fenses have long since been am- |nestied. On the fragile basis of paid ‘evidence the sentence mentioned was passed on Max Hoelz and he has been excluded from all the am- nesties which have taken place since. “Evidence” Withdrawn. The injustice of the sentence on Hoelz for the killing of Hess is ade still more clear by the follow- ing facts: About a year ago the | miner Freihe, a follower of Max Hoel in 1921, came forward and de- clared that he had killed Hess, des- cribing the killing in convincing de- tail. He-had confessed to the kill- ing also shortly afterwards in prison in the presence of a number of other people including the man Uebe, who afterwards became the star witness for the prosecution against Hoelz. These others had ad- vised him, Friehe, to keep quiet to save himself as Hoelz would in any case get a life sentence, Friehe then held his tongue and Uebe gave evi- dence against Hoelz. In October the widow of the killed man, Hess, with- drew her evidence against Hoelz anc Friehe gave himself up to the police for the killing of Hess. All to no purpose. Max Hoelz remained in prison, the examination of Friehe was deliberately dragged out inter- minably. The Reichstag interfered No use. And then in November 1927. the court announced like a bombshell that the examination of Friehe had revealed no cause for a retrial of the Hoelz case! This was the decision of the reactionary court although everyone who has had anything to do with the matter, poli- ticians, jurists, professors of jursi- prudence, lawyers, etc., are con- vineed of the innocence of Max Hoelz. | (Continued.) | Political Rule in the Town. The whole town is ruled by aj triumvirate: the priest, the boot- \legger and the foremen of the mill | All are Ku Klux Klan and are on |the payroll of the steel magnates The mayor himself is a stockholder in the company, a Klu Kluxer and a bootlegger. Likewise all the other | officials down to the lowest. post. | There is no independent social in- stitution in town; everything is under the control of the company, there is no meeting place or print- ‘ing place that is not under the con- trol of the Klan; every child must | belong to the Boy or Girl Scouts. | There is also a women’s organiza- |tion, The president of all these ch dren’s and women’s organization is a woman, a Mrs. Worton, who is the wife of one of the board | of directors of the company. The foremen, the policemen, the spy, and saloon keepers rule the men in the t Men Work Under Guards Like Prisoners; Poverty and Misery Prevail mill. The priest, the Ku Klux Klan rule the women and children. Thus the rule of the steel trust dominates the slaves completely. The only bank in town belongs to the company. As soon as the work- ers begin to save some money the mill is immediately shut off or works only part time. The object of this is to keep the workers al- ways on the level of dependence. Company Detectives. In every narrow street, in every saloon, there can always be found a whole squad of company detec- tives. Every new face coming into town is immediately hunted out and watched. The post office is directly con- nected with the mill magnates. any worker receives mail which bears the slightest indication of a workers’ organization immediately this is reported to the company. I have visited workers’ homes, spoken with various workers and find they would be glad to read The DAILY WORKER, but “How could I take The DAILY WORKER,” said one “Just as soon a“ receive it the post office will notify the company and I will lose my job and will be driven out of my home. What shall Ido? Here is my donation of $5.00, It is hard for me to give this but with my' donation I desire to ex- press my hearty feeling for the only workers’ paper, but at the same time I do not want my name men- tioned.” Our Party is “illegal” there but our comrades are doing good work. ’ The Steel Trust. Enslaves Its Workers |No hall can be rented for any en- tertainment which bears a workers’ name. No permit for a hall can be obtained unless vouched for by a priest. At all times a gentlemen’s agreement seems to exist between the steel company’s policemen. and the A. F. of L. bureaucrats. The fol- lowing fact will serve as an ex- ample. For Relief. An affair of a certain Croatian Church society was held. Due to some progressive members in this society they decided to have miners appear at their affair and appeal for funds. As soon as these two miners in their mine clothes ap- peared in the town the company po- lice stopped them and asked them if they endorsed the Reds or the A. F. of L. When one miner said he was against the John Lewis ma- chine these two miners were arrest- ed, shipped out of town and were not permitted to enter the hall and Introduction of American religious procedure into Tibet is indicated in the following lines from the report of Professor Nicholas Roerich now in Tibet to the Buddhist Center of New York: “Here are high Lamas, who, on their sacred beads, are calculating their commercial accounts, occupied completely with thoughts of profit . «Lamas, ‘teachers of the peo- ple,’ tell your fortune for compen- sation according to the haunches of mutton or dice or on sacriligious ob- jects...) .” These Lamas surrounded with mutton and money understand the real value of religion. + Sie Fears Females 4 The noble features shown above belong to A. B. See. He’s a Brook~ lyn elevator manufacturer not an alphabet. He has just made him. self ludicrous by the publication of a book entitled “Schools” in which he expresses such 17th century | thoughts as the following: “Women have an inherent desire to be ruled, and the man who does not rule his wife does her an injustice.” When @ wife chases a hen-pecked hus- band into his study these are the kind of thoughts he consoles hime self with. * * * Gems of Learning W. Lawrence Saunders, 2nd, Na- ‘tional Aeronautic Association:—“It seems to be the opinion of many that these test flights are made for the sole purpose of establishing new vecords. This is not so. These alti- tude flights are made to test the fighting ability of seaplanes carry: ing a war load, which is equivalent to a load of bombs and machine guns. In time of war all fighting | between planes is done at high alti- tudes and the piane that can attain the greatest altitude, of course, has the advantage over all others.” Frank about it, isn’t he? M. Stephen Lauzanne, in the Paris Matin:—“In one word, M. Hoover is the first business man in a coun- try of the biggest business men in |the world. Perhaps he may never |move crowds with his eloquence nor |the world with his declarations in | fourteen points. But it is certain |that, with him as President, Amer- |ica will never suffer cold, nor hun- | ger, nor privation.” American cap- \italists will not. ie es Normington, Insurance Man- lager of London Auto Insurance ‘irm:—‘“With regard to the Jews, |the subject is very difficult, but it lis better to put the matter frankly. |In a great number of cases when |Jews hire a car they pack it with |families and children and drive off for a joyous day’s outing in an ir- | responsible way, not caring a straw jabout the car, because it is insured. | They hire a car for the day and get |the absolute maximum out of it.” Those naughty Jewish pipple. Samuel M. Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works: “The paramount issue of the presi- dential campaign is business and the protective tariff to protect the people of the eastern part of the United States, where 42 per cent of the population lives.” And 2 per teri benefited by the protective tar- ift appeal for funds. Duquesne is not the only hell and prison place for the steel slaves. About every town in Pennsylvania and West Virginia where the steel trust has spread its rule, has the same conditions. In Woodlawn, Pennsylvania, also a town of the steel trust, we had a trial against Pete Mesaline and two other comrades who were sen- tenced to five years in prison only because Communist literature and a bust of Lenin was found in their houses. The stool pigeon who in- formed against them was a priest and the Tzvetkov gang, “the Slav- ish Yellow Society.” Their case is pending in the supreme court. The International Labor Defense is fighting their case. Workers who helped to raise their bail were fired from their jobs and driven out of Woodlawn. This is a sample of our “Amer- ican democracy.” The steel trust stands only as an example of the capitalist ruling power in the pres- ent system. Everything is built upon blood and might, blood and steel, blood and iron and. blood and coal. The restless spirit that exists among the steel slaves shows that the day is not far when they will take up the fight and strike the real blow. r