The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1928, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1928 Daily —————— Worker Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Daiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): $8 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $38.50 six months $2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. a: BOOT Sow osensciae -ROBERT MINOR SSS Auvintant Editor. “WM. F. DUNNE a Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers! For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Long Live New Miners’ Union From a once powerful organization, the hopeless wreck beyond resurrection—this is the | hopeless wreck beyond resurrection—ths is the | history of the United Mine Workers’ Union | during the period in which John L. Lewis held | the reins of power. The destruction of the union, is the result | of a policy so treasonable in character as hardly | to have been matched in the records of the | “labor lieutenants of American capitalism. The last blow of Lewis is a death thrust! aimed at the whole organized section of the American working class. Events of the past show plainly that the de-| cision disclosed last Wednesday by the high | Salaried bureaucracy to abandon the Jackson-| ville scale and forever to give up all pretenses | of a national agreement was a last deliberate | _ act in a cold-blooded, treasonable conspiracy “with the union smashing operators. Even *hese operators, in their own journal, “The Coal Age,” say so. In the March issue we find the following bold admission of that fact. Speak- ing of the views of “certain ef the best in- formed operators,” it says: | | . . In the event of the failure of the Sena- torial investigation to benefit the union’s position it is expected that the miners’ officials will permit the next move to come from the rank and file of the Illinois membership. . . .” “It is considered the only way out for the "union leaders. If the miners demand employment ' a conference of the policy committee of the Mine ) .2-Workers’ Union can be called and informed that the miners of Illinois wish a reduction. Such a move would eliminate the stigma of the ‘no back- ward step’ of the union officials, it is declared.” _ While this language is sufficiently adroit to fool the “public,” to make them believe that | the rank and file and not the officals want a| Wage cut, the meaning of this statement is} “nevertheless unmistakable. et deeds speak louder than words. It is mecessary to recite the whole history of the betrayal. The prof is conclusive in his e-breaking during the last fifteen months. pn April 1, last year, the operators, follow- closely the policy of American capitalism, Yeady to administer the death blow to the hited Mine Workers. The strike began. The that their flunkeys, the Lewis machine d-to play took form simultaneously. On the of March, the eve of the strike, the policy mittee authorized the officers of the vari- e district agreements. To a union func- in an industry of such national scope | he coal industry the separate agreement means inevitable destruction. It was striking-breaking act. e operators had picked Pennsylvania and as the first battling ground. There they their coal and iron police, their grip on “Jocal and state governmental apparatus ke treacherous work, that the Pennsylvania and | Ohio strike is now definitely lost, the union is destroyed. They call upon all the local unions to stop maintaining the Lewis parasites with any further dues payments and to join in with the new Miners’ Union. Undoubtedly this sityation will be a test of courage to the coal miners of Pennsylvania and Ohio, who have struggled so valiantly for fif- teen months. They are now compelled by Lewis’ treason to return to work under “open- shop” conditions and terms arbitrarily dictated. Yet we are confident these -heroic workers will continue the struggle in its changed form. The New Miners’ Union holds out for men of courage, a splendid hope. Throwing their whole energy, courage and resourcefulness into building the new union, the mine workers will have no cause for despondency. To this all coal miners must now bend their efforts. This is of equal importance to the miners in the an- thracite and bituminous fields. It deserves and must receive the support of the whole Ameri- can working class. What the coal miner# are experiencng is— the class struggle. This latest experience of the breaking of a strike and the destruction of a great trade union by the capitalists acting through the “union” officials, is a bitter lesson in the methods of the oppressors in ruling over the oppressed. Ths struggle will continue, with a new and more powerful union, with a real proletarian leadership and with a militant policy. The rank and file coal miners face battles ahead, but look to the future with con- fidence. “Their Negroes” “The Asheville conference, while not large in numbers, is bulging with important personalities in the Methodist and Baptist organizations and with Dry workers. Its consequences may be seri- ous. But no more serious consequence—in the Southern point of view—could come than enfran- chising the Negroes, for in many Southern States they hold the balance of power. Mississippi, Ala- bama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Texas and Virginia—ten great states— would: face a condition far more momentous than prohibition if the Dry split skould bring their Negroes to the polls. “For this reason anti-democratic movements in the South have always failed, and this is the chief bar to the effectiveness of the conference en- gineered by Bishop Cannon and the Rey. Dr. Bar- ton. How close to the surface the menace lies is shown by the fact that the conference was just gathering at Asheville when the Negro question in- stantly arose.” The above golden words from our esteemed contemporary, the New York Times, throw a peculiarly interesting light on the attitude of the capitalist class of the United States to- ward the enslaved Negro masses in the South jand toward all questions of “democracy” and | “constitutional rights” when it comes to any portion of the exploited masses that slave to make the capitalists rich. We say the attitudegof the capitalist class, us firm. Hell again broke loose in Pennsyl- while Lewis performed his dastardly sell- id left the union to be crushed section by on. But this also gave new life to the great itant movement finally to do away with the @ abandonment of the Jacksonville scale sot create more employment for the coal It holds nothing in store but a con- eduction of wages, a slashing of to the very bone, a continuous growth and privation. While separate agree- it United Mine Workers’ of America ill at best be company union agreements all the ugly features of the speed-up of exploitation and the abandonment of ts of the miners. the militant traditions of the past still } among the coal miners. While the Lewis aucracy tries to cover up its crimes the ional Miners’ Convention Arrangements nittee, makes the truth ring throughout . The rank and file leaders show that may be signed in the name of the now) North and South. For the fact is that the ruling class located in the Northern states is as much responsible for the disenfranchisement of the Negro workers and farmers of the South as is the Southern ruling class. It is by the action of the capitalist class as a whole, | through the capitalist federal government, sen- jate, house of representatives, president and judiciary—trepublican and democratic parties alike—that the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution are nullified so as to rob the Negro of the South of all civil rights. | The Asheville conference of holy men, op- |posed to anti-prohibition candidate of the | classic “Southérn” political party, are mortally |fearful of the prospect of any controversy of Enslaved Negro laborers and tenant farmers on whose labor these holy men and their par- ishioners grow fat. These parasites would not only give up 39 articles of faith, but would swallow the saloon, liquid contents, bar-room pictures and _ all, rather than give one inch of freedom. Civil rights for the Negro of the North and South, full political and social equality, will |come to the Negro masses only through the ; that might result in civil rights for the masses | “A CLOAK FOR ARMIES” FTER the VIII Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, at which, the question of war was dealt with| thoroughly and which must there-} fore be looked upon as one of the most important staggs of the anti-) have been part of the new meee law suffered a complete fiasco be- anti-militarist demonstration. year the French government has/| dropped the reservist maneuvers | under the pretext of “bad weather”) which may be looked upon as a direct | result of the reservists’ demonstra-| tions. It must be admitted, however, | of sufficiently. | Work of American Party. The American Party also succeed- ed in developing demonstrations in connection with the transport of | American troops to Nicaragua and |China. Although these demonstra- | tions were not particularly big with | respect to the number of participants |and while they did not lead to any immediate results (e. g., prevention lof the transports) they are never- |theless a sign of the increased ac-| tivity of the American Party. | The Swedish Party had initiated a} large-scale ‘naval campaign” al- ready prior to the VIII Plenum and, this was carried further after the Plenum. The impetus to this cam- paign, which became very success- Attack on Communists Lead Against War ‘Workers Must Fight to End the Threatenea U.S. S. R. ful and which contributed consider. ably to the big growth of the popu- larity of the Party, was given by the war work of the Comintern, several! intensified war preparations of the, successful campaigns were conduct-| Swedish bourgeoisie ‘as expressed in|the great masses of workers and ed against war and militarism. The}a new naval program. According) peasants there still prevails much spontaneous movement of the re-|to this program, in the formulation|unclearness and illusion. Thus, for servists in France’ in the summer|of which representatives of the example, in Germany, a question- | of 1927 was successful. The slogan| Swedish Social Democratic Party|naire circulated in a number af of the Party, “Transformation of|took an active part, the Swedish | large factories showed that a large the imperialist reservist maneuvers fleet was to be strengthened con-| part of the workers, even into the into anti-militarist reservist maneuv-| siderahly in agreement with Great ranks of the Communists, -are in ers” was turned into reality. The Britain. On the part of the Com- favor of a refusal of military ser- reserve maneuvers which were to|munist Party of Sweden, this pro-|vice in case of war, as advocated gram was branded as a preparatior for war against the Soviet Union review “Armored Cruiser ‘Per Al- bin’,” named after the former war minister of the Social-Democratic government, Per Albin Hanson, who had specially distinguished himself by his active collaboration in the anti-war campaign. In the Baltic countries, the Com- munist Party energetically “cham- posals of the Soviet Union for a convincing manner the Finnish Par- ty exposed the role of the Social- Democratic government which was overthrown in December of last at the end of January 1927 and beginning of 1928, when Pilsudski prepared to occupy Lithuania, reso- lutely called upon the masses for. struggle against Rolish imperialism dictatorship in Lithuania. Although in addition to the above- mentioned successes and good ex- amples, some others might be listed, we must take good care not to ex- aggerate their importance. Among jby the Social-Democratic “conscien- |tious objectors.” © Another section cause they transformed themselves|and in this connection the role of does not believe there can be a war into a mighty anti-imperialist and‘ the Swedish Social-Democracy was|and is entirely unconcerned. The This | especially emphasized. A dramati¢)/ number of those who realize the| | necessity of a revolutionary combat- ting of war is relatively small. | Underestimate of War Danger. ise greatest deficiency in our anti- " war work in many cases is an lahetract and altogether schematic that the campaign was very weakly|war preparations of the Swedish| attitude towards the question of|mined step in the enrollment of prepared organizationally by the) bourgeoisie, proved a peculiar and war. This shortcoming is expressed French Party and not taken hold| especially successful means in this| primarily in the incapability of cor- rec{ly appraising practical phenom- |enat and concrete forms of war pre- |parations, and of taking a stand |pioned the acceptance of the pro-|on concrete questions of war ana |military policy: They are quick to | guarantee pact. In a thorough and| make general charges regarding the war preparations of capitalist coun- tries against the Soviet Union, with- |out proving these charges on the | basis of concrete facts; this does not |year, as the henchman of British|carry conviction with the masses |” |imperialism. The Lithuanian Party! who feel it to be exaggeration, ner-| vousness, and false alarm, thus de- stroying the credibility of our anti- | war propaganda. Again, consistent measures in pre- paration of war are not recognized | and for the overthrow of the fascist | in time, or ‘overlooked entirely and| bull of Connecticut—attempted to given no attention, sometimes there is no reaction whatever (or it comes By Fred Ellis | altogether belatedly) to the “anti- militarist” swindles of the Social- Democrats which very pften find vigorous response among the masses. Sometimes concrete military-politi- cal. problems involving practical | questions are evaded with genera] | doctrinaire phrases, decision on prac- tical questions is replaced by! a repe- tition of abstract propaganda slo- gans. There were many examples of in- | sufficiently concrete and consequent- ly unconvincing “exposure” of war preparations. It can by no means be maintained, however, that the bwar danger is being exaggerated; on the contrary, the unproven charges which often give the im- pression of “shouting for to con- vince ourselves” go hand in hand with the under-estimation of the war danger, with the failure to recognize concrete facts and forms of war | preparations. | The French comrades have admit- |ted that they did not immediately | appraise correctly the fact of the recall of Rakovsky, but only realized |later that this represented a deter- France in the general anfi-Soviet front with Great Britain, and conse- | quently a stage in the war prepara- |tions against the Soviet Union. | Likewise, in the theses of a C. C | Plenum of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, it was admitted that the war danger “was not even kept in mind sufficiently when it was di- rectly sharpened” (i. e., during the Italian-Yuogslavie conflict.). (To Be Continued.) TWO AIRMEN HURT. CROTON, Conn., July 22 (UP).— Two aviators were injured today | when three airplanes—one of them | piloted by Governor John H. Trum- {land together at Trumbull Field | during national guard manoeuvers. | By I. AMTER. Nicaragua is in another quan- dary. The conservative party is having difficulty in selecting its presidential candidate. It was so |easy the last time—American bank- ers “assisted” them. This time, the | feat cannot be repeated in the same | form—and it is not necessary. It is known to eygrybody that not only American marines and war- | ships are in Nicaragua, but there is also an American commission to | supervise and control the elections. The head of the American com- mission has been asked to break the | deadlock in the conservative party, |which means that this American major will select the future presi- dent of Nicaragua. You can be sure he will not be opposed to American interests. On the contrary, he will be selected on the basis of his be- ing favorable and subservient to the interests of American bankers. Simple—very simple. Why go to the trouble of putting in a ques- tionable man. Select the proper man, who knows what he is there for, and then there will be peace, American marines are in Nicaragua at the “request of the Nicaraguan government”—to be sure. And American marines will remain in Nicaragua “at the request of the new president” selected by an Am- erican major. Just like in the United States: Mellon. looked over the field; he kept the fellows guessing a little while, and then he decided that Hoover is to be the next president of the United States. Of course, the “peo- ”’ will have the privilege and s and his henchmen have completed their | program of the Workers (Communist) Party.' right of voting for him—just as|pushed to the limit; “Peaceful” Manifestations of American Imperialism Bomb in Hand, Wall Street Government Taiks Piously of “Ending War” they do in Nicaragua. But both of |us — American and Nicaraguan) American | workers and farmers—will get the| movies by means of innumerable | presidents that American finance| war films, etc.; with war propa- gives us. i More “Peaceful” Feats, And some more “peaceful” feats of American imperialism. The Boli- vian and Peruvian governments have decided officially to celebrate the Fourth of July. How nice of them—what perfect faith they have. “Our” Fourth of July is “their” Fourth of July. The only trouble is that the Fourth of July, 1776, is being used to crush the Peruvian and Bolivian people, and makes them the tools of American im- perialism. And even further abroad: The Hungarian government has also de- cided to celebrate the Fourth of July. Strange—and yet not strange. The Hungarian government has borrowed and wighes to borrow many hundreds of millions of dol- lars from American bankers. This Fourth of July was the bloody Fourth of American imper- ialisms, with marines in all parts of the world, with the largest budget that the country has ever known— more than $800,000,000; with 15,000 commercial airplanes being built which can be converted into bomb- ing planes in 24 to 48 hours; with! CMTCs and ROTCs and military training in the schools and colleges with unlimited | Preparation of the minds of the workers through | ganda in all forms. | And at the same time, Kellogg’s “treaty of peace’—with its endless | reservations—the Monroe Doctrine |for the U. S.; a Monroe Doctrine | for England (protection of the Suez | Canal, right to exploit Egypt, In- dia, Palestine, etc., a Monroe Doc- |trine for France (right to crush | Indo-China, Morrocco, ete.); a Mon- roe Doctrine for Italy (right to rob |and grind down Tripoli); a Monroe Doctrine for Japan (right to ex- ploit Korea, Manchuria, etc.). Peace With Bombs. Peace—and endless preparations |for war, While Kellogg, Briand, | Stresemann, Mussolini, Baldwin talk peace, President Doumergue of France blurts out the truth: “Our only ambition is to maintain peace. (How familiar this sounds. They all say it, I- A.) Construc- tion of this fleet was indispensable to our national dignity and safety. (Sounds like the American war fiends, I. A.) We will continue methodically to construct ships.” So will they all. They are all “peaceful”—but the other fellow is the most treacherous and ferocious. Central and South America belong to “us”; Egypt, India and perhaps China to England; the other imper- | ialists claim theirs. But the unruly the | natives and peoples of these col- onies don’t like the whole lot of them, And finally who is ‘to have China? Who gave the U. S. the sole right to exploit Central and South Amer- ica? Who said so? American guns said and will say so, Yes, we want peace, but “our dignity and safety” demand a big navy and air fleet. “Peaceful” they call it. It is the sheerest hypocrisy, and is intended to blind and disarm the workérs. The conference for adopting the non-war pact will be held in De- cember—and then the whole world will see what intelligent men see and know today, viz., that we are steering fast into a world war with the most devastating consequences. “Our” puppets will rule in South and Central American states, so that “we” will be free to fight Great Bri- tain or Japan—or all of us fight the Soviet Union, Workers Call the Bluff. Don’t be so sure, Uncle Sam, The workers and peasants of South and Central America are not your sub- servient tools. All the American workers will not obey your will. The Communist Party and the Commu- nist International are here—and you will have to face also the revolu- tionary workers. But at any rate, stop your twad- dle about peace, “Your” candidate in Nicaragua, the joint celebrations in Peru and Bolivia mean nothing: Doumergue talked too much, your military budget speaks too loud, your 15,000 commercial airplanes fool nobody, “You are out for war—not peace Told You So AY SMITH is no respector of the language that is supposed to be used in the vicinity of the Tammany headquarters on Park Ave, When asked to pose in the act of laying a brick the other day by a group of photographers, he refuséd and ut- tered that vulgar expression “bolo- ney.” It’s a toss-up whether Al will get more votes out of ”boloney” than |he would by posing as a bricklayer. Now that Tammany has adopted General Motors, or vice versa, per- haps the head of the ticket does not want to insist so much on his early association with fish peddlers and bricklayers. 5 ite ng RECESENGE was made recently in this column to the division in the ranks of the British Labor Party, which under MacDonald has completely lost its proletarian char- acter and is but the servile tool of British imperialism. Papers like the Forward of Glasgow, once, and not so long ago, looked upon as the ex- | pression of the radical wing of the Scottish I. L. P., is strongly op- posed to Maxton, chairman of the |I. L. P.; to Arthur Cook, secretary of the British Miners Federation, |and to John Wheatley, minister of |health in the MacDonald govern- | ment, who favor a conference of all left wing elements, including the Communists, to fight the right wing leadership of the Labor Party. * so EORGE LANSBURG, until re- cently regarded a radical by |those that did not understand that jhe was simply a Christian preacher in the wrong pulpit, is lined up with |MacDonald, That things are mov- ing leftward in Great Britain is proven by the vote cast at the an- nual conference of the South Wales Miners Federation in favor of the | affiliation of the Communist Party | with the Labor Party. * ee | WHILE this is taking place in Eng- | land the leaders of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor prattle the jold gag about non-partisan political jaction. The socialists continue to beef about capitalist corruption and |hardly anything else, as if they re- garded their function in society as |political scavengers, a party or- | dained by the capitalist god to fumi- | gate the capitalist stables. It makes no attempt to organize the workers, either for their immediate tasks or their future emancipation. It’s out to get a big vote for Doctor Thomas. * ore TS Workers (Communist) Party, with Foster and Gitlow, two pro- letarian revolutionary leaders at the head of its ticket, participates in the |textile strike in New Bedford as |well as in the coal strike in Penn- sylvania and Ohio, in anti-imperial- ist demonsfrations against the occu- pation of Nicaragua and in every other aspect of the class struggle. Tt is the duty of every worker to support the Communist Party in this campaign and to contribute to |the Communist Campaign Fund, of which Alexander Trachtenberg is treasurer, with headquarters at 48 E. 125th St., New York City. ae Beare FESEERT HOOVER has been’ do- ing a lot of thinking over his election campaign and the strain is | showing its effect. Calvin Coolidge who is recuperating at a summer re- sort after several years of service to American imperialism warns Her- bert to take care of himself; that he is too useful a-fellow to kill him- self thinking in this hot weather. Hoover, apologetically blamed the hot weather and the stress of trans- acting immediate tasks for his ap- pearance. This perspiring colimn- ist would think that if he had a |special train and an electric fan, enough cold borscht and sour cream and traveling over the Rocky Moun- tains, he would snap his fingers at | Old Sol. i} Spice more nations answer Kel- logg” a headline reads. This means that the cabinets of so many powers have accepted the fake anti- war treaty submitted to the world by secretary of state, Kellogg. Workers wh6 understand the rival- ries between imperialist powers and who realize the inevitablity of war as long as this economic system exists will laugh this off, There are other gullible workers however who will take it seriously. But it’s a fake, designed td fool the imperialist rivals of the United States, partic- ularly Great Britain, and to lull the workingclass of al] countries into a sense of false security from the dangers of imperialist war. Son OHohesty Mass Production Cheats Children WASHINGTON, July 22 (FP.)— When huge industrial plants are built, for the sake of modern mass- production, children as well as adults are cheated of easy access to play- ground, says a report on county and municipal park systems which ap- pears in the July issue of the Month- ly Labor Review of the U. S. Bur- eau of Labor Statistics. Too many people have been drawn into small areas, in order that they may work in the big plants. Cities and coun- ties, assisted in some cases by em- ployers, have in general recognized the danger in this crowding, and have bought large tracts for park purposes. Rut they have not caught up with the need. Children are vic- tims of the mass-production factory. —and all your conferences are sham, even when they never enter its gates, \ Wi? i \