The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1928, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1928 a Daily Published by DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'’N. 26-28 Union Square; New York, N. Y: NATIONAL Inc., Daily, Except Sunday Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 Cabie Address: “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $4.50 six months $2.50 three months $6.00 per year 83.50 six months $2 three months Address and mail out cheeks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, Y. Ss Seana Editor, .. sesassROBERT MINOR Assistant ..WM, F, DUNNE : Y. under the act of March 3 VOTE COMMUNIST! For President For Vice-President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER BENJAMIN GITLOW $8 per year itor Entered as second-c es mali at the p For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For the Workers! ire Close the Breach Made ‘by Lewis’ Treason! |A Soldier Imprisoned For His Class John Porter, the former soldier who became Like a jeering, hooting mob at a lynching,|& courageous young leader of the New Bed-| ford textile strikers, has been given the sav- the scab coal operators with their superinten- aga: denienoa of two-atidia Haltiveata at hard dents and chief strike-breakers are pouring through the breach in the fighting line of the} army court-martial after conviction for desert- coal miners made by the treasonable action of | ing the army. John L. Lewis and the policy committee of the| United Mine Workers’ Union last Wednesday. | The treacherous, crawling flunkey of the coal | 3 |in the imperialist army who wakes up to his operators who tries to sell himself to the oper- | duty to his own class will flash as a red meteor ators at a price based upon his continuing to| in the sky, The flash will be seen around the | be “President of the United Mine Workers,” at| world. John Porter, member of the Young last openly called upon the mine workers to| Workers (Communist) League, stuck to his} make no further protest against the flooding | | sue of militant class loyalty in the gg He} of scabs into the mines, thus ey the yall | nes tha gia “ng a prong iad poe shop; to make no further struggle for the ie Jacksonville scale, accepting any scab wages prone potyerenry ea hiamm in the military cote eat ce lety Meck pg egbee oid Nothing so terrifies the capitalist class as solidarity, and hereafter to make only an empty |", eth soldiers of the capitalist army.” If gesture toward agreements on separate district | s P! MA not on the army, on what can the fat bour-| bases, “to permit any coal company or any mine | Rats es ‘ a Enis ail the pie it may sicetoais etc., | loa depend? In this biggest and richest of | sur. 2! imperialist powers, there is not yet Bolshe-| gpa gma” SUES ee RE |vism in the army. Only a few flickers’ have | broken through the gloom, and these are prac- This craven declaration of policy was, of| | tically individual cases, not approaching mass course, addressed as much to the coal operators | character, or even group character. The U. as to the mine workers. It was a last bid to|S. army is a volunteer army, and, though the the operators to take the whole situation into | “volunteering” is often inspired by unemploy- their own hands, coupled with a slavish plea) ment and hunger, such an army is not so sus- that John L. Lewis and his bureaucracy be| ceptible to the working class ideology as are allowed to function as administrators of labor- | conscripted troops. liscipline for the operators. In other words,, And the American bourgeoisie likes to tell ‘ewis and his national bureaucracy aim | itself there will never be Bolshevism in the U. hrough conspiracies with the operators in/§, army. each district to retain a sufficient hold to ate But three years ago the American capitalist able them to continue to draw salaries under | class and its military caste was startled out of the benevolent toleration of the mine owners. its wits when two young American soldiers in |the Hawaiian Islands were found to have or- | ganized a unit of the Young Workers (Commu-| \nist) League in the U. S. army there. Later came the new, “incredible” and a fearful omen | to’ the sleek American imperialists, that two . ee .._ | United States marines had left the imperialists potey pretense of anything else was now dis- ranks to go over to fight for the freedom of ig Nicaragua in the army of Sandino. And now! To operators, it was a plea for permission to | the Porter case—where the historic meaning of be allowed to continue as their strike-breaker. | it all is dramatized by the arrest of an enlisted | Lewis’ theory of class collaboration all along | soldier for actually organizing and leading the faas been to the effect that “union officials” are’ mass picket line in a big labor struggle. \he best strike-breakers; that coal capitalists| Three times Porter was warned by the po- screw the mine workers down to a greater |lice that he was known to have deserted the ee of exploitation with a scab union headed army and that if he persisted in participating | by such as Lewis, than without one. Lewis|in the strike he would be struck down by the calls it “co-operation between capital and labor” |arm of the military. When he refused to de-| —meaning labor leaders. This was the nature of the policy commit-| tee’s invitation to the operators. the Porter case. The rare event of the awakening of a soldier In relation to the mine workers, of course, | this was merely the final admission of Lewis | and the bureaucratic shell of the United Mine Workers’ Union that they had been strike-| breaking throughout the entire struggle and} \ |tary prison, the army authorities and the big | |mill owners who were giving the orders were | /much troubled as to what to do. But the operators’ answer is a horse laugh.| The authorities were torn between two mo- What Pie cperatces duteud ty do-about tee} | | tives: the fear-inspired lust for vengeance, and = the fear of the political consequences that oy neti ee of the Ohio! \ould follow such vengeance. Paul Crouch | \had been given 40 years and Walter Trumbull _ “The Ohio he palett are a roses the | 26 years, and the consequences had been so dis- | “action reported from Indianapolis and will have no |turbing to army prestige that the sentences further dealings with the United Mine Workers of | America. Only last week the association, by et later reduced. dn the case of Porter, the dnanimous decision, reaffairmed the open-shop ey court martial compromised with its policy.” | fears by evading as far as possible the direct = Here we have the final outcome of the alli- Ce eee giving the maximum sen- ice between Lewis, the American capitalist x ¥ a class in general, and the coal capitalists as ie ot i Porter's imprisonment a h e a term of energetic and , section. Their objective is plainly, as we have | | effective agitation to stir up the working class "always said, the open-shop. The open-shop —especially the youthful cannot fodder—to an bosses can accept intermediate stages to the understanding of the growing Ameri ili -shop, but as a whole they aim straight sions sie eb coca yA open-shop, rm tarism and the class significance of this case. for the absolute scab system. Not even com- The Young Workers (Communst) League pany unionism is acceptable to the coal opera- é g tors, except as a make-shift in particular in-| stances. Lewis, blinded by the petty views of | an ingrowing bureaucracy, has offered his| brand of prostitution to the operators. r \fight. This organization has every reason to) {be proud of the attainments it has already registered in the field of anti-militarist work. | Naval officials have been much disturbed when But the coal barons can now reject even| sailors of warships openly declared ther friend- Lewis’ brand of semi-company-unionism. But|liness for the Young Workers (Communist) they are not by any means entirely through League. The pacifism of the days of “con- with using Lewis and the shell that is called the | scientious objectors” has been obliterated United Mine Workers’ Union. The mine work-| wherever the Young Communists have found ers still have some big fighting to do against | their way. John Porter, who left the army be- this gang of traitors, which is trying to claim | cause he realized its’ character as an instru- the field so as to prevent the organization of | ment against the working class, found his way e new Mine Workers’ Union. to the Young Communists and then expressed | his regret that he had not remained in the |army to win over the young soldiers to the cause of the workers. The imprisonment of John Porter, strike |leader, by the United States military arm of the capitalist class must be made to ring around the world. Working class protest can be made to get him out, and also by this protest thousands of workers and soldiers can be waked up to the meaning of imperialism, fe honest and militant coal miners must} leave an hour unused to reach the mine irkers who still remain within Lewis’ organi- ion, to convince the local unions and sub- triets and districts to discard the corpse of ws’ organization and to join in the new Min- r’s Union which is building. Miners! The breach made in your line by ' treachery must be filled by organizing Mine Workers’ Union. labor in a military prison by a United. States | This is not the end, but the beginning of | |sert his strike post and was thrown into mili-| will doubtless be in the front trench of this! ARCH-TRAITOR Not even the blue laws or the blue sky will limit the election campaign fund of the democratic party, ac- cording to an assurance given to “deserving” democrats by Herbert H. Lehman, finance director of Al Smith’s presidential campaign. Quietly killing all reports that the war chest of the Tammany sachem |and that of Hoover, the Wall Street | efficiency engineer, would be kept inside the $3,000,000, Lehman stated that Tammany would campaign in every state in the union and inferred that votes cost the democrats a lot more money in some sections of the country than they cost their oppon- ents, Big Business is into this fight with both feet, and since the most no- torious plunderers, vote-buyers and high in the councils of both parties they will not let the expenditure of Big Business Is Spending Huge Sums for the Candidates of Both Capitalist Parties a few extra million dollars stand in| the way of victory. With a possible | exception all presidential victories | in the United States have been won by the best-filled campaign chests. The finance directors of the big capitalist parties will not bother) much about going to the masses for| their contributions. They will get| them from the fellows who really. own this country. The paltry con- tributions that deluded workers and} poor farmers send them will be used | as a blind. The Workers (Communist) Party,| jamin Gitlow heading its national | ticket and hundreds of other prole- tarian candidates on the tickets in the various states, is making a drive for a fund of $100,000 to carry on} Communist propaganda and to en- |list workers and poor farmers in| the party for the struggle against capitalism. , This is a mere bagatelle compared to the enormous sums that will be| jexpended by the parties of Wall) Street. But the raising of this sum would serve notice on the imperial- ists and their’ political lackeys that | the workers and exploited farmers were making considerable strides in grafters in the United States are|with William Z. Foster and Ben-|the work of organizing themselves for the every-day struggle for bet- ter living conditions and for the in- By ITORO KABAYASHI. gies campaign against the revolu- tionary working class movement in Japan which was commenced in January of this year in connection with the elections is being continued without interruption. The mass ar- rests of candidates for the workers | and peasants list and the arrests of those who participated in the elec- toral meetings of the workers and | peasants were followed in March of |this year by the destruction of the | party organizations of the Rodono-| minto which united the best ele- ments of the working class popula- |tion in the towns and the peasants |in the villages. The same fate was | suffered by the Union of Left Wing Trade Unions, the Heghikai and the League of Proletarian Youth. Over} . ja thousand of the active members | of these organizations were arrested land flung into the prisons of Itig- |aya, Shugamo and Nakano in Tokio and in the torture chambers of the islands of Shikoko and Hokkaido. White Terror’ Everywhere. | The blows of the Japanese reac- \tionaries are directed with especial | |force against the Communists. The prime minister of Japan, Tanaka, is} alleged to have cried when he re-| ported to the Mikado the “devilish | works” of the Communists. Tanaka is the same man who ap- peared as the Nestor of the Fascist actually responsible for the atroci- ties committed by the Japanese troops of occupation against the Russian workers and peasants dur- | Thic | Leagues, and he it was who was! The White Terror Reigns Thruout the Country; | Government Prepares Mass Arrests ing the Japanese intervention in Si-| beria. The anti-Communist hunt is not only being conducted in Tokio and other industrial centres against | the workers in the factories, but the | hunt has also been extended to the academies and high schools, ete. The Japanese telegraph agency, Shim- bun Rengo, issues regular reports concerning the results of the hunt which are reminiscent of war-time communiques. Numerous examining magistrates | are at present engaged in prepar- ling the material for the indictment | in the monster process which is rot commence on the 2nd of October of| this year in Tokio against the ar- | rested 426 revolutionaries. The well- known trial of the 99 Korean Com- munists and members of the Young Communist League which was pro- ceeded by an “investigation” lasting eighteen months during which the| | prisoners were awaiting trial, shows | clearly the methods of Japanese, class-justice. Despite the fact that | the scandalous methods used by the |examining magistrates in preparing| the trial, including systematic and | refined tortures as well as plain | downright brutality which cost a number of prisoners their lives, were thoroughly exposed at the trial, the | “evidence” collected in this fashion | was used as an excuse for passing long prison sentences. jishments permitted by the excep- Urge Severe Penalties. | Now, however, when the aim of) the Japanese government is to de- stroy the revolutionary Communist | movement root and branch, the pun- tional laws for the “protection of | the state,” for the “suppression of civil war,” etc., are not sufficient for the purpose, i.e., ten years’ im- prisonment. A new law is therefore in preparation against the Commun: ists which has already won some \fame or infamy under the name of| the “Law Against Dangerous Ideas.” The penalties for the violation of| this new law are death or lifelong hard labor. Stressing the necessity of such a law the Japanese minister of jus- tice, Khara, declared at a session of the Japanese cabinet that this law was a necessary answer to the “in- creased activity of the Communists.” There is therefore a direct, connec- tion between this draft law and the coming trial on the 2nd of October in Tokio, and the lives of all those accused who have earned the especial hatred of the Japanese bour- geoisie are in danger. The zeal of the Japanese reaction aries in their struggle against the} Communists will not permit them to await even this law and the ministry of the interior with the Secretary By Fred Ellis Al Smith’s Campaign Fund evitable struggle for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern- ment in the United States. Every dollar contributed by a worker or poor farmer to the swollen treasuries of Wall Street’s parties and to the renegade socialist | party will be used to fasten the shackles of wage slavery more firm- | ly on his limbs. Workers and exploited farmers | give whatever you can spare to the | Communist Campaign Fund and helr ;to bring nearer the day when the useful producing classes will run the government as well as the factories. Send all contributions to Alexander Trachtenberg, treasurer, National Election Campaign Committee, 43 East 125th Street, New York City. The Death Dance of the Reaction in Japan for Home Affairs Susuki, the man responsible for the draft for the liquidation of parliament, at its head is taking a number of administrative measures for dealing with the Com- |munists. During the last session of the Japanese parliament 2,200,000 |yen were granted for the purpose of fighting the Communists as a result of a report of Susuki. The} ministry of the interior has founded a special department to deal with the fight against Communism. This special department has 109 perman- ent officials and a widespread net of spies all over the country. The special department has the right to carry out exceptional arrests. The department will also receive a cen- tral bureau for photographic records and a sub-department for finger- prints and a department containing nothing but files concerning the Communist movement in Japan and other countries. This special department will have branches in the Japanese colonies Corea, Formosa and in southern Manchuria. The introduction of this secret police organization into the Japanese colonies promises new ter- rors for the unfortunate population of these colonies. Even now the Japanese police methods there are of such a nature that they do not hesitate in the least to invent “con- spiracies” having allegedly as their aim the extermination of all Japan- ese in the colonies. This was proved by the mass arrests on the 27th of April in Southern Manchuria and by the various trials which have taken place in Korea. The attempt being made by crook- ed capitalist politicians in Oklahoma to keep Foster and Gitlow, the Com- munist presidential and vice-presi- dential nominees, off the state ticket was made public yesterday by the National Election Campaign Com- mittee of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party with headquarters at 43 E. 125th St., this city. The statement reads: “A brazen attempt is being made to prevent the Foster-Gitlow elec- tors from going on the ballot in Oklahoma. Altho duly and properly | filed in good faith, our electors were sent last moment notices to the ef- fect that a petition signed by a hundred voters calling for the re- moval of the Foster-Gitlow electors had been filed with the secretary of state. “The Oklahoma law is highly in- tricate and requires many formali- ties which must be met, Finding that the state requires a minimum of 5,000 signatures to be filed before June 16 for each of the ten electors —a grand total of 50,000 signatures —the a of the Workers |be Score Attempt to Keep fer of the Farmer Labor Party to run on its ticket. The names were filed properly, and were accepted by Mr. McAllister, secretary of state, who gave verbal assurance to the Communists that no opposition list had been filed and that the time for filing was up. Removal Threatened. “Several days later McAllister sent notices to the Communist can- didates informing them that they had been challenged by one hundred members of the Farmer-Labor Party and that unless they presented peti- tions within ten days, each petition signed by one thousand voters, they would go off the ballot. “In such an emergency the law permits electors so challenged the privilege of filing a bond of $250 tc prove their good faith, the bond to be returned if the candidat Oklahoma Ballot (Communist) Party accepted the of- Foster and Gitlow Off 10 per cent of the vote cast. Our comrade then sought to file bonds, but MeAllister refused, claiming that their time was up, altho there is nothing in the law as to time and in spite of the fact that they were ready to file on the 10th day but were prevented from doing so because McAllister’s office was closed on that day, July 5th. Challenge Miegal. “At the same time our comrades discovered that the hundred chal- lenges were not made by bona fide members of the Farmer-Labor Party and, therefore, that their challenge was illegal and our electors should be restored. “On being confronted with the proof, McAllister still remained adamant. He not only refused to rectify the situation but he let slip Sidelights on the Workers Party Election Campaign gates that had been filed. “MeAllister’s game is now plain In Oklahoma the total vote of the democratic and republican parties is so close that the issue is usually de- cided by the switching of a few thousand votes. McAllister’s game therefore, is to smuggle in a set of electors and state candidates on the Farmer-Labor ticket whose vote would be counted democratic. “But McAllister will not have it all his own way. The Communists are leaving no stone unturned to get their candidates on the ballot. But even before getting their candidates on the ballot they are waging a hot campaign and showing up_ thr shyster capitalist politicians of Oklahoma. . . * Talking about millions, how about a hundred thousand for the Com- munist Campaign Fund, If you want to help, send your contribu- tion to Alexander Trachtenberg, a remark that he as a. democrat Ca Ee ama iene! ‘Told You So 'HIS is by no means the most im- portant news of the day, byt it is susceptible to instructive com- ment. Gaston B. Means, one of the most successful and competent stool- pigeons in the employ of the gov- ernment during the reign of the notorious Daugherty, and one of the most prosperous grafters and black- mailers that ever ratted on human society is out of the Atlanta peni- |tentiary where he was sent nearly \four years for accepting money to bribe officials and for violation of the federal prohibition law. , a ee has been a model prisoner | it is reported and represents a natty appearance on his departure \from the federal pen. The fine of $10,000 that was imposed on him in addition to the prison sentence will be sworn off his conscience in good capitalistic manner, and Means ex- | pects to reap the reward of his sacri- fice in fat contracts from news- papers and magazines for articles in which he will expose those for whom he went to prison to save their ribs and political necks. And he will do that little thing. * * wane stool-pigeons and grafters of first class rating find it easy | to pry open the doors of prisons and |even while in confinement are able. to while’ away the monotony of prison life thru special considera- | tions allowed them by venal officials, workingelass victims of the struggle between capital and labor who fall into the hands of the law are not so lucky. The birds of prey like Means—tho he is only a baby buz- zard compared to the big fellows in Wall Street—leave jail in better physical condition than when they entered. One has only to look at the picture of Tom Mooney, that ap- peared in a recent number of the Labor Defender and compare it to the photograph taken when he en- tered to realize what difference |there is in the treatment accorded militant labor leaders and capitalist grafters who suffer because they are too clumsy in doing the logical thing for anybody to do who be- lieves society is something to prey on and not to serve. es. cers, MPORTANT discoveries of fossils of prehistoric carnivore in Mon- golia are reported. Among the more important fossils reported are a femur and canine tooth of. the eudinoceras, a premolar of the an-, drewsachus and other fossils, which indicate, according to the publicity agent of the fossil-hunting expedi- tion that “we are fast getting a good collection from the eocene age, the earliest part of the age of the mam- mals.” This is very good news. I propose that a Communist expedi- tion of dentists—if we have enough in the movement to fill a Ford— journey to the A. F. of L. head- quarters in Washington and ex- amine the teeth of the official labor fakers parked there. #) hee * HOULD the Communist dentists notice any unusual growths on the masticating apparatus of the labor leaders they could cook up a scientific formula that would prove to the satisfaction of the average layman, that tne owners of those molars were prehistoric men and should be embalmed immediately |for preservation ih a labor museum lest those dental gems might meet with untoward accident while their owners were exploring their raw oysters. It would be just like a consumer of those costly victuals to crash into a gem, thus wrecking the prehistoric tooth, conclusive evidence that a labor leader who believed in non-partisan political action belongs to the eocene age. * * | 4 Kies suggestion is well worthy of consideration and if carried out without serious hitch should prove satisfactory all ’round. In the first place the labor movement would be rid of a number of antedeluvian specimens whose brains have been petrified so long that they are bullet- proof. The most influential of the labor leaders are of advanced age and their expectancy of life is no more than ten or fifteen years at best. It would be a splended pros- pect for them to lay open to public view in a museum and be looked on in awe by generations to come. And the Communist dentists could have each prehistoric tooth discovered called after themselves. Be a ten ‘OR instance on William Green’s container—I rarely go to mu- seums and forget the name of the thing they keep mummies in—there could be inscribed something like this: Greenocerous eocene specimen discovered in Washington in 1928 by a party of daring Communist den- tists who developed the theory that the prehistoricity of a reactionary labor leader could be proven by his teeth. They were laughed at by their associates, but when the en- tire officialdom of the American Federation of Labor consented to an embalming process for the sake of the publicity the hardy adventurers were honored by the labor movement and enabled to live for the rest of their lives without having to torture their fellow beings for a living. Ton OFahesty STOKERS PRODUCTION GAINS WASHINGTON, D. C., July 20.— dune sales of mechanical stokers, as reported to the department of commerce, by the twelve leading manufacturers in the industry, were 166 3 archers horsepower, as com- pared with 130 of 38,705 horsepower ‘May, and. 183 of 59,958 hor