The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1928, Page 6

Page Six —_— THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, sui uv, ivizo d by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASSN, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N.Y. Cable Address: “Daiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 | ~ SUBSCRIPTI only): 2.50 three months | ON 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. . eval ..-ROBERT MINOR -WM. F. DUNNE 1 2 as second-cl at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For the Workers! VOTE COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Final Betrayal of the Miners John L. Lewis and his henchmen of the United Mine Workers’ Union have long ago been exposed stark naked as traitors to the coal miners of the United States. During the past months there has not been a rag left to tear off of these scound which could fur- ther expose them as outright agents and prac- tically employees of the Mellon and other scab coal barons. Now the only remaining thing that could happen has happened—Lewis and his “policy committee” have openly admitted in a pub lic statement that the policy they are try-| ing to force upon the bituminous miners is the | abandonment of the Jacksonvillescale and the surrender of the.workers of the entire coal in-| dustry, district by district in separate agree- | “ments, to complete scab conditions. This| ghastly act of Lewis might be called a stab oot the back of every coal miner of the United | States if it had any of the character of a sur- prise. But The DAILY WORKER, the Work-| ers (Communist) Party and the militant move- | ment among the miners has long ago exposed every detail of the aims and tactics of the} Lewis bureaucracy. Therefore Lewis’ state- ment issued Wednesday at Indianapolis can ! only be called a confession to all the crimes | this corrupt strike-breaking gang was ac~| cused of. | What did we accuse Lewis of? We said he, as| participate in the great national convention called for September 9, when the new union will | be founded. | The advance guard has long ago started. | . This confession of Lewis must be made to open | the eyes of new scores of thousands of coal miners who: have been slow to see and believe. On to the September convention! The mine workers will not consent: to be) slaves forever. On with the great new union of coal miners! | Sailors and Sanity Last year one sky-pilot organization which | preys upon seafaring mgn distributed to sailors | in New York waters, according to its boast, | nearly 1,000,000 copies of religious periodicals and 50,000 bibles. “Captain Benn,” the most persistent of the dope distributors, claims that this mystic literature is a necessity to prevent insanity among sailors who must go on long,| monotonous journeys. In other words, when} cooped up on a wind-jammer for thirty days at | sea with nothing else to read, the sodden mys-' ticism of religious -tracts produces a sort of | semi-idiocy which it is claimed will prevent the | more violent forms of insanity. It seems to} be an application of the theory by which a man is vaccinated with smallpox germs as a pre- ventative against the virulent form of small- pox. This ought to be considered a challenge to _ the coal operators through himself. We said| standing its glorious historic role. an agent of the capitalist ciass in general, and|the Workers (Communist) Party to stiffen up of the scab operators in particular, was aiming | its work of getting into the hands of seafaring straight for the smashing up of all of the union | men the intelligent literature which will edu- that had any militancy, so as to reduce what | cate them as class conscious members of their remained to a virtual company union ruled by | own class, grasping its perspective ee ae othing that Lewis, while pretending to fight for the | could be more conducive to real mental health Jacksonville scale (a pitiful enough aim), was|than this. It is not necessary for sailors to really manoeuvering to force the miners back | choose between the semi-idiocy of the missions into open-shop pits at wages below the Jack- | and outright insanity. ; : sonville scale. We said further that Lewis was| Reach the seafaring men with Communist going straight toward the goal of a general |literature! They belong with us, not with the surrender of the principle and practice of | lying sky-pilots. national agreements; that his real plan from} the inning was to destroy the national front . . sy a: of apa by jockeying the miners in each | Soviet Ship-Building district into signing separate agreements of| At the time when world attention is centered | abject surrender. | upon the magnificent attainment of the Soviet In the momentous statement at Indianapolis, | ship, the Krassin, in rescuing the victims and Lewis cold-bloodedly confesses to every-sordid | righting the blunders of the fascist Arctic ex- ¢rime of which he is accused. Miners, accept | pedition, it is interesting to note that the anything you can get below the Jacksonville| Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is forging seale!—says Lewis. Give up to the bosses in|ahead among nations in ship-building. Great every district separately! Don’t even stand Britain and Ireland, which used to build half the together while surrendering, so as to get the| tonnage of the world, are now declining. With best terms that a defeated army can get, but | the ship-yards"of the world constructing nearly divide up into separate districts and flee before | half a million tons less at the end of June than the-enemy as a disorganized rabble! This is| at the beginning of the year, only five nations the counsel of treason offered by John L. Lewis |are increasing the amount of tonnage under the United Mine Workers’ Union to the/ construction, and the Union of Socialist Soviet coal miners! | Republics is among those increasing construc-| » ~ But The DAILY WORKER has something | tion. entirely different to say to the coal miners.; This year the Workers’ Republic has moved Lewis’ open confession must be made a final up from seventh place to sixth place among signal of warning to the coal miners of the|ship-building nations. It now has under con- entire country that any further delay or hesi-| struction ships of 115,298 tons, being ahead of tation in rallying to the construction of the new | Japan and only about 10,000 tons below France | ie Workers’ Union can only result in the! in present ship-building. entire destruction\of unionism in the American, This is a part of socialist construction in the | coal industry. *® Miners! Long ago you have been warned that the United Mine Workers’ Union has been @estroyed as a labor organization by the Systematic treason of the Lewis bureaucracy. Lewis and the shell of an organization to which he clings with the help of police;*tompany gun- men and bosses, can lead you nowhere but to destruction. ) Prior to this latest confession, the more mili- tant sections of the old union have been on ,the march toward the building of the new Mine forkers’ Union. District after district has led the company agents who were acting Socialist Soviet Republics are the attainments | Union makes the working class of the world | stronger in the struggle against capitalism. | cialist Soviet Republics to destroy the world- center of revolution. The workers of the world must defend their Socialist Fatherland at all costs against the officers of the union and have taken steps to imperialists of “our own” capitalist countries. AMPAIGN CORNER [E entire party is beginning to|ing the signatures necessary to place | Rock, Arkansas, that’ this year our activity in a manner that in-/ 4 ers has been sent to help out in| by next year he will have a good that the 1928 presidential Salt Lake City, where a good speaker functioning party organization in will be long remembered ‘and organizer is needed to set the Arkansas that will be able to go on } party organization is gradually, Utah party election machinery in itself to the big aeee motion. | and before long can be ex-| he same time Comrade Saul A to function smoothly and ef-/ lags ack sub-district organizer | that we will be on the ballot. tly on the job of placing our is on his way to New Mexico to help, * ee before the masses of workers the local comrades there to put their farmers as the political party) state on the ballot. working class and their in the class Struggle. | * A great campaign picnic is being arranged for Labor Day by the |Ben Gitlow, Workers Party\ candi- “Comrade Hugo Oehler, Kansas dis. |date for vice-president, will be the trict organizer, reports from Little | chief speaker, 4 1 th busily engaged gather: at a “WE NEED DISCIPLINED LABOR” By Fred Ellis 2 Concert a Great Demonstration ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG. | The DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit are sorely in need of funds to help them tide over the bad sum- mer months. They have arranged the Theremin concert at the Coney Island Stadium next Saturday night to help meet the present emergency. The DAILY WORKER only recent- ly was in a serious financial crisis. | The various financial drives con- ducted for the relief of the striking miners, textile workers, etc., taxed the capacity of the workers, whose earnings during recent times have the overflow Saturday, provided no | been none too good. Out of their) last resources they contributed to! sighting Communist organs deserve | the Daily when it called for help be-| the demonstration of loyalty and cause they could not see the only| support which will surely be given daily herald of the class struggle in| them Saturday at the Stadium. the English language go under for} lack of sustenance. too, has suffered greatly in its in- come because of the financial strain another good reason why Saturday’s which the Jewish comrades have|affair should be made a landmark | been under on account of the gar- The Freiheit, PROF. LEON THEREMIN. Theremin, Famous Soviet Inventor, Feature at Daily Worker Affair ment workers’ joint defense drives, ; |the maintenance of the left wing | | fight against the corrupt machines | |in the needle trade unions as well as the drives for the miners and other appeals. The Daily and the Freiheit need |the income which they hope to get| from the Theremin concert. This | alone is a good reason why the Con-| ley Island Stadium should be full to rain inter- The two counter-revolutionary |feres with our plans. | Amazing Invention. I submit, however, that there is and 25,000 Communists, revolution- ary workers, left ware. and all and sundry hell-raisers _gainst cap- italism should be on ams. | -vhen Pro-| fessor Theremin begins to draw his music out of the air. Comparatively a very young man and a professor in a Soviet ‘ engineering school, Theremin has already a great many valuable discoveries and inventions in the various ar@1:hes of physics to his credit. Thc~ v.ao vvill be at the Stadium will t+ . mazed at the invention which he wi demonstrate there, just as the writer of these lines was amazed when he heard him at his first appearance in New York. The masses who will be at | the Stadium will be moved to ap- | state. plaud, and I am sure they will at the same time think of Soviet Rus- sia which has given this -talented young engineer the opportunities for research which led him to make this important discovery. Soviet Russia, our Socialist Fath- erland, has not only won brilliant victories on the political, military, and economic fronts. It is winning| victories on the cultural front as well. We should applaud these 'vic- tories as we do those in other fields because they show the capacity of a workers’ state to build a new life, to raise the cultural level of the masses, to contribute to the ad- vancement of science and art. Larg- er masses of workers and peasants | know how to read and write than before, they know more about per- sonal hygiene, more newspapers are being read, more books and pamph- lets are being published, more chil- dren go to schools, more discover- ies are being made at the benches in the factories and in the labora- tories—all for the greater glory and benefit of the people of the Soviet Culture Not Neglected. Even at the hardest times when there wasn’t money to buy enough anaesthetics from abroad for their | hospitals and hunger stalked thru| the land, funds were not denied for | needed instruments and materials for the laboratories and experimen- | tal stations so that the Pavlovs| might go on with their researches, perimental schools were not given up, Marx-Engels institutes and rev- olutionary museums were estab- lished, libraries and reading cor- ners were spread to the remotest|t0 bullets. villages, theatres were maintained | orchestras were |° fate. and symphony formed. The world stands today in won- derment before the achievements of the Russian geographers, meteorlo- gists, navigators, and red aviators and sailors on the Krassin which is snatching from the jaws of death in| the frozen Arctic the members of the militaristically conceived and scientifically bungled fascist expe- dition, Working masses everywhere applaud the Russian scientists, the Red Navy, and the Workers’ Soviet State which is responsible for this glorious achievement. They are proud of the achievements of their Socialist Fatherland. Proud of Artistry. When we saw the great Russian cinema products, “Potemkin” and “The Fall of St. Petersburg,” we felt proud of the artistry and craft- manship exhibited by the Soviet cinema producers. In Professor Theremin, who has made an impor- tant contribution to science under the auspices of the Soviet Educa- tional System, we also meet a pro- duct of Soviet Russia. He deserves a warm reception from all workers and friends of Soviet Russia. Comrades and fellow-sympathiz- | ers of Soviet Russia: Come in great | masses to the Theremin concert not only to aid the fighting labor dailies, The DAILY WORKER and the Frei- heit, which are the champions of Soviet Russia in America, but also to turn the concert into a mass dem- During the same time geographic By L. SIS: ‘WT is really encouraging to see how The DAILY WORKER has rooted Socialist Fatherland of the working class of itself among the steel workers. The y rt + steel slayes in the region of Penn- the world. The attainments of the Union of | syivania and West Vigginta’ actually lrecognize that The DAILY WORK- of all of our class, in whatever land they may | ER is the only workers’ paper. Many! be. Every rivet that is hammered in, every |are afraid to subscribe to the Daily i i i ‘ because of the spy system that pre- piece of machinery constructed in the Soviet | vaile;tn tha suitle and 4s ta felon generally. Nevertheless this has not stopped many workers from sub- That is why the capitalist class of the world |seribing to The DAILY WORKER is determined to make war on the Union of So-|and giving their support to the | Daily in spite of their starvation wage. Town Controlled by Company. Here are a few examples which will show the devotion of the work- ers to The DAILY WORKER. For instance, Ambridge, Pennsylvania. is a town controlled by the American | | Bridge Company. The workers are | earning 40 cents an hour; everything is controlled by the company; the spy system is terrible; our party is illegal. But in spite of all these dif- | |ficulties a successful meeting yh +, ‘i .|our party on the ballot, the Denver | party will have to go on the ballot! arranged in Ambridge where a loan arith the Communist Cam | cciieaden report that Comrade Tom | as independent. He promises that! of $100 was raised and 25 workers) pledged $1 monthly to pay out the loan. In addition to that a young Pioneer has had ten customers for the ballot as a regular party. Al- The DAILY WORKER and these though on his first organizational|ten’ customers have now become tour of the state, Oehler is confident | regular subscribers to the Daily. \The Pioneer is now looking for new! ones. In New Kensington, a small town of steel dnd glass workers earning Philadelphia organization, at which | 35 cents an hour, the mills are work- ing only two to three days a week The workers had a picnic and $20 also many was collected there; ‘Some High-Lights on Pennsl, workers subscribed to The DAILY WORKER. Worker Gets 3 Subs. In McKeesport, many new sub- scriptions were also obtained, and |the workers responded cheerfully to the aid of The DAILY WORKER One, by the name of Kessler, an old socialist who repudiates the yellow socialists for their cowardness and papers! of the workers, donated |$10 and gave three addresses of |miners asking that for this money these three miners should have sub- scriptions for The DAILY WORK- ‘ER. Kessler is not a member of th ; | party. P: In Pittsburgh a conference was held by DAILY WORKER readers and a DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club was organized. One unit, num- ber 2, pledged $150, of which $140 has already been raised. The other units are also doing their share. Prison Town Active. y Even in the prison town of the steel trust, Duquesne, where every worker is surrotinded by a squad of spies and detectives, the workers have subscribed to The DAILY WORKER secretly and asked that the paper be sent to different ad- ‘dresses. For example, one worker ‘donated $5 to The DAILY WORK- ER but asked that his name should not be mentioned. “I would surely want to get The DAILY WORKER,” ‘he said, “but as soon as I get it it will be reported by the post office of the company and I will be fired the Mouthpiece of Steel Workers a Campaign Tour of Wvania ee from my job and driven, out from |my home.” He is not the only one But in spite of all these difficulties |the workers in the steel region un- |der the iron heel of the steel trust are determined to be in line in hel ing to build a strong revolutionary organ. New connections were established in Glassport, Pennsylvania, where a new DAILY WORKER agent was elected and subscriptions obtained In McKees Rocks, a new. DAILY WORKER agent was also elected. Subscriptions were obtained in Fairport, Ohio, Painesville, Ohio and Ashtabula. In Ashtabula a new DAILY WORKER agent was elect- ed, and in spite of the terrible spy system and other difficulties he promised to be on the job. In Conneaut, the Finnish comrades had a picnic where they did not for- get The DAILY WORKER. Games were put up and the income went to The DAILY WORKER. The in- come paid for three subscriptions to unemployed workers. Negro Workers Help. In Warren, Ohio, new subscriptions were obtained and The DAILY WORKER agent, who is a Negro worker, does everything in his power to spread The DAILY WORKER understands that this is the only | weapon that fights for his oppressed race, The material conditions of the among the Negro workers for he} workers in this region are very bad. | well onstration for the Soviet Republic. Many of them who would like to have The DAILY WORKER cannot afford it. One of the methods used by the ,colored comrade is this: he puts a bundle of DAILY WORKERS near |the mill, crosses the street, and the workers coming out from the gate pick up the Daily. Or he picks up @ paper, he comes over to the work- ers, asks their opinion about it, and discusses the paper with them, Mill Slaves Enthusiastic. I have also established some | Workers’ Correspondence in New Kensington, Pa., Warren, Ohio, and other industrial places. The work- ers will report on the conditions of the mill and if these articles will appear in the Daily it will be of special interest to the workers slav- ing in these mills. In Youngstown, the comrades have put up a special fund to en- able those who are unemployed to subscribe to The DAILY WORKER. In this way it was possible to obtain 24 new reek aa At present while I am in Youngstown, we ex- pect to do more work. The special campaign committee exists in one unit is ready to be on the job and will be the initiative force for The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club to be organized. From all these facts is to be seen that the workers—especially the op- pressed workers under the bloody rule of the steel trust—are begin- ning to realize the importance of The DAILY WORKER and the time is not far when The DAILY WORK- ER will be the actual mouthpiece of | Told You So | 4 ee assassination of Alvaro Obre- gon, president-elect of Mexico, proves that the bacon and eggs and liberal credits policy of Mr. Morrow |of the House of Morgan, ambassa- >. dor to the southern republic, has not materially softened the bitter social | struggle that has raged in that |ecountry for several years, between | the big landowners, the Catholic Church and American investors on |one side and the rising bourgeoisie jon the other, supported by the wore | ee * AS these lines are. written, there is no evidence other than strongly letecotioten tials that the assassina- |tion was directed by the same or- | ganizations that have waged war on |the Mexican republican government |since the elimination of Diaz. But | cireumstantia) evidence is st ‘ong and the most convincing I have seen are }a guarded news report from Rome |which states that the vatican vu | considerably “Smipressed” by the as- | Sassination and another by a former |president of the Mexican congress which almost blamed Obregon for his own death. * * * | prover Obregon with Calles was |4 one of the two outstanding lead- ers in the struggle of the big agra- vians. who included Catholic bish- Jops, ho was a wealthy landowner. | Recent reports indicated that while jhe held the same position as hith- jerto on the clerical issue he intended jto draft new labor laws which might |mean anything. However, his talk about the interests of capital and labor would go to show. that they | Loded no good for the Mexican work- ing class. | * ie the millions of Wall St, ‘i successfully intervene to save |the interest on its loans, Mexico is |in for another long period of inter- |necine conflict. Senor Morones, tha |labor leader and one of Obregon’s | most bitter enemies, is a dyed-in-the- | wool reactionary and just as. willing * * | expeditions were not abandoned, ex-|t® be Wall Street’s tool as either | Obregon or Calles. The truth will | shortly come cut when the tele- | grams of regret sent by leaders of | various social groups will give way In the meantime Mr, orrow may meditate on the quirks * * * | |THE rescue of several aviators in- |“ volved in the Polar fiasco ‘of the fascist, General Nobile, by the So- viet government after other govern- ments had failed to show much suc- cess or efficiency is not only a great tribute to the daring and ability of the Soviet airmen and seamen, but it has done at least as much to popu- larize the U. S. S. R. among the masses of the world as anything that the resourceful Workers’ Re- public has accomplished in years. It was just the opposite for the black-hand government of. Musso- lini. * 'ENERAL NOBILE practically parked himself on the front Pages of the capitalist press for the past two years. In truth, he was no great shakes as an explorer, hav- ing always discovered a place that was almost as well known as Pic- eadilly Circus, London. But Mus- solini needed prestige and a big bal- loon sailing back and forth over the top of the world, dropping fascist flags and perhaps Mussolini’s pho- tographs in accessible places, would not hurt Benito any when applying for a loan. Now, the fascist bubble of courage and efficiency has been properly punctured. The brave gen- eral fled in the first airship that hove in sight, leaving a comrade to perish on the ice. * * * * * ( Now: the world knows better than ever that the “bloodthirsty” Com- munists of Russia, who were repre- sented in the capitalist press and in the books of venal literary hacks, are not what they were pictured. Even though the members of the Nobile expedition were out to en- hance the prestige of the fascist government, whose policies are as far apart as the poles from those of the Soviet government, the lat- ter did not hesitate for a moment to dispatch a mighty expedition on a humanitarian mission, * RETAINERS and leading lights of the capitalist parties, caught with their hands in some public treasure chest, are beginning to charge their predicament to the wiles of their opponents, Perhaps there is something to it. Why can- not the officials-of the two parties * * derstanding regarding the division of the spoils. Then, those unseemly trials like Teapot Dome and the Queens County sewers would never take place. Bet there is as little reason to ex- pect that capitalist parties will cease their efforts to beat their op- ponents in the game of getting their paws on as much coin as possible than there is of tlle imperialist pow- ers pulling off tricks on each other in the struggle for markets, conces- sions and new lands to exploit. But then who ever heard of gangs of gunmen pulling together very long after they succeeded in robbing a bank, not already plundered+ by its officers” * * these oppressed steel workers, as as all other workers, ! get together and arrive at an un- © j