The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1928, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1928 Baily Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’ 'N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail $8 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months _—‘$6.00 per year Cable Address: “Dziwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 (outside of New York): $3.50 six months $2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. - ROBERT WM, F. MINOR DUNNE Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. VOTE COMMUN For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Party of the Class Struggle! For the Workers! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW AQ | A | WoRKERs (commuNist) PARTY IST! Against the Capitalists! Take Your Whelps, Mussolini! As the facts come out, one by one, the almost unbelievable cowardliness and general vileness of the crew that Mussolini sent to drop a fas- cist flag and the pope’s cross at the North Pole astonishes even those who thought they knew the foulness of fascism. It is established that the commander of the expedition whiningly deserted his crew to save himself. Then that two of his subordinate of- ficers deserted the scientist Malmgren to die, leaving him alive inside of a grave they had} dug for him in the ice, after taking all of his| share of food and even taking off his pants so} as to give added warmth to the fascists’ legs. Startling as is this picture, it is nevertheless not in the least out of keeping with general facts weil known to men and women of the labor movement who have experienced in less Gramatic setting the habitual ways of those reactionary social elements typified by the three fascist officers, Nobile, Zappi and Mariano. The difference is in the setting. Numberless ic explorers, b ing capitalism Take your Flunkeys The “socialis army and navy But wait a omitting the m the Nobiles, Zappis and Marianos, not as Arc- ut as the fascist thugs defend- in the suppression and exploita tion of the working class. whelps, Mussolini. Pose as Peace Angels t”” government of Germany has decided that the annual maneuvers of the of the German bourgeoisie shall be omitted this year. minute. The German social- democratic party has not suddenly begun to disarm the capitalist state. The purpose of aneuvers is—to save money for the capitalist state this year, so that there will | be more money with which to strengthen the) armed forces later. man working class along with pacifist illusions | while the party of social treason puts on the guise of the “peace maker.” The workers must not forget that on every | witnessed the coming and going of occasion in which the workers have come into conflict with the capitalist state the social- And also to kid the Ger- workers who have gone through the class| democratic party has defeated the working Struggle, not only in such severe form as the class by throwing against it the full armed Civil war in the old czarist empire, but even in power of the state and by mobilizing all extra- the plainest strike in an American coal field, | Jegal fascist organizations of murder against | are fully aware that the beastly cruelty, greed|the workers. and cowardice of a Zappi stealing the food and| many is the enemy of the German workers’; The Muste youth conferences, | clothes off the body of a dying comrade is the| splendid organization, the “Red Front Fight-|those arranged by Brookwood, did | The party of Noske, Scheidemann and | Mueller does everything in its power to keep norma! spirit of the class of Zappi whenever | ers,” put to the test. The “socialist” party of Ger- MUSSOLINI’S BREED | By PHILIP FRANKFELD. In the past six months, we have two These musty youth conferences. conferences did not even Workin | ing the Told You So p view of the Tammany candi+ date’s association with the Knights of Columbus and his high standing with the vatican it would | be quite inconsiderate of Calles ta proceed with the cleaning up pro« cess during an election year. Mil- lions of normally democratic voters would not have much interest in aid. Catholic church in its assassination policy in Mexico. It | is feared, however, that Calles is so tied to the money strings of Wal] Street that he will do as Ambassaa dor Morrow tells him. Since the House of Morgan is the financi: agent for the vatican in the Unit States and since Morrow is a mema | ber of the House of Morgan, Mora |row is not only the Amerjgan reps resentative in Mexico, but the agent of the vatican as well. * * * HOY. many of our readers noticed the item in at least one of last week’s New York papers that Cal« vin Coolidge appointed William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, to some com« mission or other? Of course, Coole idge sometimes appoints democrats on important commissions, but since this election campaign in many a. The Talkfest at Brookwood and Plans in Action by Young Workers League cause a ripple on the surface of the| the left wing and progressives. were the young workers. labor movement; not to say on the masses of exploited unorganized young workers, Like postum — there’s a reason. The Musty Mr. Muste. nothing more than discuss and re- | workers, All talk and no action But the situation of men in a world-heralded | the working class disarmed and the capitalist | was bound to end in failure as re- Solar expedition—fixed in universal view “at| class armed to the teeth, and the omission of | gards the efforts of Brookwood to the top of the world”—would usually put men,|army and navy maneuvers this year fits in take 4 part in the organization of Towever mean, into at least the pretense of | with that policy. jocial behavior and comradeship. However, the tematic culture seems to have motivated | thing, but If the tere cxnaille even when the spot-light of the | working class is sufficiently vigilant, it never werid attention was upon them. .t Mussolini defend his breed. Let us agree will. | the unorganized youth. The Brookwooders exposed their J0 2 8 In the United States the Reverend Norman | complete bankruptcy to do anything | Girty fascist arrogance which has become a) Thomas’ socialist party stands for the same | along the lines of organization. Mr. | hasn’t had its chance yet. | Muste and his friends showed them- | selves in their true role at this con- |ference—that of being more inter- ested in the “friendship” of the The working class party in all countries is representative of the A. F. of L. than | with Mussolini that Nobile, Zappi and Mariano the Communist Party, whose program wil] i" the practical proposals made by are well within the rules of fascist “honor’| make the working class the ruling class. The in stealing the food and clothing of a dying! Communist Party is busy everywhere strength-| comrade. Didn’t they do him the kindness of ening the fighting power of the workers and digging a grave for him in the ice? Take your whelps, Mussolni, as they crawl | talist state. back to you. You may be proud of them. But you and your kind are now better known | You should vote Communist this year. And join the Workers (Communist) Party, | tion. The first youth conference in \the delegates from the Young | Workers (Communist) League, who incidentally were not seated. Youth conferences are no longer opposing everything that strengthens the capi-|a novelty in tWe labor movement. The first working class youth con- ferences were organized, and pushed | by the Communist youth organiza- | to the millions of the working class of the world! American section of the Communist Interna. |New York took place 2 years ago that must settle accounts once and for all with | tional. Coast Furrier “LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 24.— A special meeting of the recently Organized Furriers’ Union here, ld July 18, unanimously endorsed the resolution proposed by the Bos- ton Local 30 of the International Workers’ Union, This resolu- demands that the general exec- “ative board of the International to ‘eall a conference of all locals for ‘the purpose of halting the internal “inion figh: in New York. The membership here — decided ‘without a dissenting vote to notify , which initiated the move-| wt for a conference, that they ‘agree that all the other locals, ive been destroyed or are being red by the bosses as long as | struggle against the New York Board continues. Even tho are not chartered by the In- Pitgrnational, the local joins in the “movement. In the letter drafted for Boston the Los Angeles unionists tell of | their own experiences with the G. E. B. and of their struggle to build an organization in this open shop city. They describe them as fol- lows: “We have tried our utmost since November 26th, 1926, to organize) a union in this city. There are about three hundred fur workers, that can and want to be organized; | but this brings us to the main question in this organization and that is the charter from the Inter- national. “On July 1, 1927, we sought the| help of the Needle Trades Council and sent $25.00 to the International | Fur Workers’ Union as the initial payment on the charter, Several months have passed without word, then we requested the Needle Trades Council to intercede for us. After s Demand Conference | a few more months of waiting they technical error in filing the appli- cation and asked us through the Needle Trades Council to make a correction of these mistakes. After | complying with this request we waited some more. The delay was getting rather lengthy, then after 12 months of agitating them, they finally returned the money to the Trades and Labor Council giving no satisfactory explanation, so far as we know, even going so far as to wanting to deal with us. It was finally replied that there was some! ignore these fur workers and not| only because we threatened to ex-, |June. That conference was a real |step forward insofar as quite a number of large factories were ac- | tually represented by young work- ‘ers, and insofar as the message of | unionization was actually brought to hundreds of young workers. The League profited from this campaign in the sense that the Young Work- ers Communist League was popu- and the League was able to recruit many new members into its ranks. | Lacked Publicity. The shortcoming of that attempt to do organiation work was that it was not brought to the attention of the entire labor movement, that discuss the question of the young| larized among the masses of youth, . | not sufficiently drawn into the work of the conference. Since that time the work amongst the young workers has not ceased. |The League has made several at- tempts to organize the young work- ers was organized. The League continued to issue leaflets and bul- in New York. But the one big shortcoming was that there was no central campaign, no intensified drive, no mobilization of the left wing forces, for a general drive to | help organize the young workers, Juné Conference. | On June 22nd, in the Labor Tem- |ple, a group of 11 organizations |gwathered to hold a provisional con- ference. Eight of these were local | unions, two were working youth or- | ganizations, and one a shop com- | mittee of young workers. This pro- | visional conference was ‘not a hot air fest. It was a business meeting of a group of serious minded organiza- tions interested in organizing the unorganized young workers. It com- prised organizations that knew what they wanted, and came togeth- er for the purpose of mapping out concrete plans of how to do it. The president of the Plumbers’ Helpers’ Union gave the main re- port, He spoke on the purposes of | the provisional conference. He out- lined briefly the conditions of the [young workers; he spoke briefly on |the role of the youth in industry today; he pointed out and illus- trated (his own union’s case as an example) on the necessity of soli- darity between the young and adult workers. He gave simple, direct, reasons for the need of organizing ers, and in some instances, like the | | International Handkerchief Co., a| shop committee of 40 young work- | letins in Sunshine Biscuit, in Auto-| Strop, in Eagle Pencil, in Park &| Tilford, and in many more factories | RS | Plan General Conference. the point. There were no phrases | bandied around at this conference. |The speeches were short and in- | structive. At the conclusion of this point on the agenda, the question of preparations for the General Working Youth Conference was dis- cussed. Briefly the following was decided upon: 1, That a General Working Youth | Conference be held sometime in | September. | 2. That there would be three delegates from every local union; 1 delegate from each working youth club; 1 delegate for every 10 organ- ized workers and 1 delegate for every 5 unorganized young workers in the shop committee. 8. That a resolution be drawn up and sent to every labor union in New York on the question of the unorganized young workers. 4. That a leaflet addressed to all unorganized youth be printed. 5. That a speakers’ bureau be elected to visit local unions and working youth clubs asking for en- dorsements of the General Work- | ing Youth Conference. 6. That an Executive Committee be electéd consisting of one repre- sentative from each organization. Work Proceeds. + first meeting, a and will now be sent out. Twenty-five thousand have been printed and are now be- ing distributed to young workers in candy factories, shoe factories, knitgoods, depart- ment stores, biscuit-making, radio, pencil factories, needle - trades building trades, and many other factories and trades. Money has already been donated The Executive Committee held its | resolution was} drawn up, discussed and corrected, | leaflets | unorganized | outh Conference | for the work of the working youth conference. The following unions and youth organizations were represented at. jthe Provisional Conferenée: _ the Plumbers’ Helpers’ Union; the Bak- ers’ Union Local 164, of the Amal- gamated Food Workers; the Browns- | Independent Shoe Workers of Great |er New York; the Knitgoods Wor! ers’ Union, Local 55, United Tex- | tile Workers of America; Local 41, | Hemstitchers and Tuckers; Local 43, | Millinery Workers’ Union; the Of- | fice Workers’ Union; the Phillip- Jones Shop Committee; the United Umbrella and Handle Makers’ Union; and the Young Workers (Communist) League. This group of local unions and youth organiza- tions has succeeded in establishing a base of operations among the un- organized young workers. It is easily discernible that most of the unions on the Provisional Conference are from trades and in- dustries which include a large num- ber of young workers in them. Good Beginning Made. The General Working Youth Con- ference has received a very good start. It is entirely free from those elements who persist in talking about their good intentions but in whose good graces they are depend- ent for the continued existence of | their institution. It is free from | those elements who hesitate and de- lay before they get down to the | actual work of o-ganizing. hy | The Working Youth Conference | has the perspective of being able to lead the young workers into strug- gle for the betterment of their con- ditions and for unionization. The Working Youth Conference has no illusions about being able to organ- | ize all of the unorganized young | workers in the city. But some start | will be made; many contacts will | be developed; the message of mili- | tant unionism will be brought to the | attention of tens of thousands of \ young workers. Foreign Investments and Foreign Policy ERE is certainly nothing novel in the statement that the flow |pose them that the Trades and La-|of American capital to foreign coun- and it was then a question of either | returning the money or granting and aggressive war against Mexico | stat, the charter,” ig the many features that tribute co make the Miners Fai: uniyue among pic- be the athletic contests “members oi the proletarian Spor’s Club, among which wrestling, high jump, short and longer runs. ‘Ihe keen) between 3 : | huge platform is under Process | nstruction, which will furnish | rom fo: dancers to the syn-| tunes of a first-rate jazz | ume by a mass of choristern, ts be more keen than that | between the makers of “schaschlik,” the favorite American diet, and those of spaghetti, a long favorite with Italians. Jt is rumored that some Chinese workers will enter the arena, armed witi chop suey and various brands 6f chow mien. Tickets may be obtained at the contesting teams} National Miners Relief Committee, | taken, add much to the enjoyment of|Room 237, 799 Broadway. Thé| strike film. any Features at Big Mine Affair , price per ticket is 35 cents, but |they may be bought by organiza- tions at 20 cents each, if purchased in blocks of 100 or more. Workers’ clubs are busily pre- paring the various signs and slo- gans théy will use in the Solidarity Parade, of which movies will be after the showing of the Labor M. P.’s Think, Kellogg Sincere Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, for lawing war, Labor M. P. Commander Ken- worthy informed the Commons that the United States was in fact “re- bor Council, through the Needle|tries has run parallel with the) Trades Council, was forced to act STowth of the United States as a) world imperialist power. Although this country ever since its unjust had manifested strong annexationist tendencies it has been only during \the period of the export of capital |both to the relatively backward |countries of Latin America and, | more recently, to European ‘coun- |tries that it has assumed the role of the woxld’s dominant financial | empire. Development of U. S. Imperialism. The Spanish-American War made America “acecpt the burden thrust upon us unsought’—to use the words of President MeKinley—of protecting Cuba and creating de- pendencies out of Porto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. A ‘vigorous prasident “took” Panama from Co- lombia, after, as he put it, making “every effort to persuade Colombia to allow herself to be benefited” by the act. Since then this country has established what even the hii har ‘Besides the populas dancing] LONDON, July 24.—The labor | “using” its ytd and that Sir Joyn- | tory text books describe as virtual are will be speig) SSS Of De members in the House of Commons 8°7-Hicks did not know what he protectorates over Haiti, Liberia, dances on “ne programm, done| today sharply criticized Sir William| was talking about. Nicaragua and Santo Domingo, and Premier Baldwin, while not cen-|has brought several other formerly ‘words in expressing his opinion.” none of the varicus contests | declaring in a speech that the United suring the Home Secretary for the |independent and sovereign, states J events on the program of the | States was enlarging its navy while contents of his remarks said that he under its control. It has intervened e will the rivalry between | urging other nations to join in out- might have used “a better choice of |by force at least thirty times in the ‘internal affairs of nine sovereign of Many Countries | Latin American countries, |. What has driven the United es into this relationship toward these countries? Is it, to use the | words of the late President Hard- ling, “the lure of the waters, or the march of empire, or the call of com- merce, or inscrutable destiny?” Perhaps a little of each, if you will. But I should be inclined to lay much the greater emphasis on such tang- ible factors on the investments of American bankers and industrialists in the securities and properties of these countries. Military and dip- lomatic reasons have always had their roots firmly gripping economic soil although this fact has not al- ways been too apparent to the av- erage citizen, + * HE owning class in the United y States has amassed surplus wealth that it has greatly profited it to invest abroad. Whether our bankers have been ‘able to secure a veturn on their money greater than their forerunners—the British fi- nance capitalists who are undoubt- edly past masters in the art of for- eign investment—is of no great con- cern to the common man. The fact is that they have ben able to make investments overseas that yield |Somewhat higher than those made in comparable enterprises at home. |Therefore the money has gone |abroad and will continue to ‘do so. And the search for extra-territorial business} opportunities is bound to continue not only in the form of in- vestments in government and cor- porate securities but also in enter- prises that are a part of the Ameri- can quest for certain raw materials. No Loan for U. S. 8. R. It should be noted, incidentally, where they can discern a prospect of profit no matter what type of native government may be involved, so long as the borrowing country is essentia'ly capitalistic in its econ- omic system. To be sure the So- viet Union, which operated a sys- tem abhorrent to the rulers of the United States will not be the recipi- ent of long-term loans until she consents to mend her ways to com- ply with the standards of Mr. Kel- logg. Hut all other countries will be able to secure capital from Wall Street no matter what their political forms. Our bankers, with the aid of the state department, and the state de- partment, assisted by the bankers— the relationship is generally reci- that American dollars will go any- | » | procal—will, continue to lend dol- ‘Wall Street Dollars Bring Slavery to Natives’ lars to such dictatorships as those now prevailing in Italy, Hun- _gary, Haiti, Chile, Venezuela and |Peru. Indeed it is now to the ad- vantage of the American investors to see that these dictatorships are |maintained; otherwise American jloans and investments might be placed in jeopardy, United States (foreign policy will continue to be \shaped not by any reference to the ‘essential democracy or lack of dem- ocracy of the borrowing state but | purely by the ability of the native | government and the native industry to function along normal capitalistic lines. © Cert * Capital and Foreign Policy pow. does this export of capital, this financiai penetration, effect American foreign policy? In vari- ous ways, depending upon the strength of the borrowing country, the form in which the capital is in- vested, the influence of the capital exporter and a number of other fac- tors. But basically the policy of the United States is, to use the words of President Coolidge, that “the per- son and property of a citizen are a part of the general domain of a nation, even when abroad.” Its lwolicy is to use whatever force is ‘necessary to protect that person and that property. This policy has al- ‘ready led your government into wars, interventions, the extortion of | treaties; the occupation of territory, reality cover up the labor fakirs on | respects is a factional Sight with- jin the ranks of the capitalists and | since during factional fights both sides fight for every point of vant- | age, it is not outside the bounds of possibility that Green, the former democrat, has decided to throw in his lot in the elections with Herbert Hoover. And if I remember cor- rectly there are only two on the commission, it is also possible that there is a salary attached. Wi oe At the rate the industrial magnates are taking the management of election campaigns out of the hands | of the old politicians, it is possible that the good old days when a president of a fictitious organiza- tion could get away with a bluff and a bunch of money in return for the promise to “throw” his organization |to a candidate are gone forever. | The same fellow may in the near | future have to don overalls,and go |from house to house distributing | photographs. | + es | THE powers will sign the Kellogg | “anti-war” treatry in August, ac- jcording to a news dispatch. The The discussion was very much to ville Working Youth Center; the! Soviet Union was not invited, which |.we dare say causes little worry in the Kremlin. In the meantime, Kellogg ontinues Wall Street’s war | against Nicaragua. Should the pow- ers sign Kellogg’s treaty it will only mean that the danger of war is | more imminent than ever. ‘ok 8 'HE New York World deftly warns President Calles of Mexico that | @ resumption of the struggle against | the feudal Catholic church in that | country as a result of the assassina- |tion of President-elect Obregon would be looked at askance by the | American people. Calles declared | that the clerical reactionaries were back of the deed. There is no doubt about that. For every American who takes the viewpoint of Al Smith’s official organ, there are ten thousand who will wish the Mexican government luck provided it goes ahead with the task of cleaning out the reactionary clerical elements. The task of organizing the ex- ploited workers and farmers for, the final struggle is reserved’ by) |history for the Workers (Commu. nist) Party nnder-the lendershi of the Communist International, There iS"Ho Solution or the Social evils that grow in capitalist soil, for the slavery and misery of the workers short of the complete over. throw of the capitalist system and the establishment of a Workers” and Farmers*=~-Government,” viet, Government "that would set about to reconstruct society on a socialist basis, the producers only reaping the fruits of the products of the industrial machines and the farms. a ee In this election campaign the Workers (Communist) Party will be the only one that will indicate the correct road the workers must follow in order to fight for the best possible living conditions now and for their ultimate emancipa- tion. The socialist party candi- dates will chiefly confine themselves to attacking capitalist functionaries for non-attention to duty and be- cause of their predeliction for graft. They will hang around the manholes and wail about the odors. | While anything that will help to | show up the political agents of the }enemy is our meat, we are mostly | concerned with the capitalist poli- |ticians as strikebreakers and po- |licemen used to crush the workers |under the slogan of “Law and Or. der.” Sm OKahesty the declaration of “neutral zones,” embargoes on arms, violation of the rights of foreign peoples, seizures of customs houses, the support of revolutions in one country, or at one period, and their suppression in an« other country or at another period in the same country, depending solely upon the extent to which American economic interests were advanced by the action, This policy is bound to lead to similar participation in the “white man’s burden” in the future. More than that, the American concession- aire abroad has been able to use your state department to assist him in securing his original concession or economic claim in the backward country. At other times he has used it to prevent the cancellation of ‘his concession through a change in the native government. (To Be Continued.) | xl