The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 2, 1928, Page 6

lorker Published by NATIONAL DA Y WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday Ad 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable “Deiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (outside of New York): 0 per year $3.50 six months By Mail (in N 50 six mo months $8 per year Address 2 out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, Editor..... me 91 SSS Assistant Editor. New York, N. 26-28 Union Square, ROBERT MINOR -WM. F. DUNNE id mail e at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. s mail at $2 three months < VOTE COMMUNIST! For President For Vice-President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER BENJAMIN GITLOW For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For the Workers! The Latest Frame-up. was unaware exactly of what he was d In the attempt by the New York traction gang to frame up Stanley Zellig, the elevated motorman whose train was involved in the Sunday night wreck, is witnessed a fitting culmination to the series of piratical adven- tures which have marked the history of this and for a quarter of a century. indicate such conduct to have been natural. It would ‘be fruitless, however, to con this sort of refutation of the methods o: This incorporated plunderbund with the aid of its subservient henchmen of both old polit- cal parties operates in the most lucrative metropolitan domain on earth. Nothing has been too enormous for it to undertake. Nothing so trivial but that it has fought unceasingly for its attainment if it but served its ends. From the buying up of a whole state legisla- ture, a New York mayor, a city administration, a Public Service Commission, a City Board of Estimate and Apportionment in 1912, with ex- penditures which involved millions, to the dollar-a-day payment of its little “Beakies” to spy upon and ferret out the thoughts of its workers, all is included in the purview of this octopus of exploitation. Yet hardly any episode in its quarter of a century of brigandage can equal the callousness with which it has contrived in the past few days to divert attention from its own murder- ws guilt and to fasten the blame on the inno- “nt driver of the wooden death-traps passed pif 8S “the safest railroad on earth.” ofthis is, of course, a time-honored device of ‘{pitalism, one in which the dispensers of com- wdity-justice are well trained. The district tterney’s office and little Pecora, subbing for the chief Tammany henchmen at the head of the organization, did only their “duty” by their masters. For this they are paid and this is gheir function. But what should cause a udder among even the hardened apologists capitalism is the obvious stage craft visible he court when the motorman was brought st the “goat” for the Interborough. ‘ould anything be more grotesque than the picture of the Interborough lawyer, appearing in the defense of the worker behind whom the corporation’s guilt is~being shielded? And | after the farce had run its course, could any-| thing be more significant than the humane legal department of this magnanimous concern in the act of completely washing its hands of ‘he employe whom it at first pretended to tfend ? ’ The dramatic climax in this travesty came vith the report of the Transit Commission like- accidents, we need only, recall the famous bonne tunnel wreck in which a hundred were lost. breaking. The thugs and underworld ch: ters who manned the lines at the time known to be unfit and a menace. | through previous wrecks. responsibility for the crime, the gang was through its manipulation of its traction. trolled justice and the transfer of the tri: favorable judges to escape completely. safety device on the motorman’s control, washer for the gang. A real investig. porations, notwithstanding his tigation might disclose some interesting is said to have put aside during the last ye borough, it is necessary only to refer to mous remark of James L. Quackenbush, oing, actually did run off. His appearance in court Tuesday with his head swathed in bandages and still under the influence of the shock would quite tinue f the traction gang and its latest resort to frame-up. | It is nvuch more valuable to say a word about the real character of these bandits who are now posing in the role of defenders of the law. There is hardly a crime on. the calendar which this traction gang and the political henchmen which do its bidding have not re- sorted to. Passing from the well known bribing | of public officials and the plunder of the city | treasury of hundreds of millions to the more | closely related question of responsibility for Mal- lives The disaster took place during one of the periodic adventures of the gang in strike- arac- were The danger of wooden cars had already been dramatized Yet when it came to final establishment of able ~con- al to The Transit Commission which during the | 1926 I. R. T. strike winked at scores of viola- tions endangering the lives of the riders, in- cluding that most menacing of all, the tying down of the so-called “dead man’s button,” a now | appears again in its true role of “legal” white-| ation | would disclose that Commissioner Charles C. Lockwood, the writer of the report on Zellig, a trustee in banks and a director of other cor- pretended friendship for the workingmen—a real inves- | facts | as to the sources from which he “earned” the several hundred thousands of dollars which he ar. As for the “legal” department of the Inter- a fa- head counsel of. the Interborough, who has been the! |author of practically every crime committed | NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST ¥, 192. AMBOY A”—TEXTILE STRIKERS’ SON Our Party’s Election Campaign (Continued) By JAY LOVESTONE IN ORDER to mobilize more effec- tively the Party and greater non- Party masses, as well as in some instances to meet certain technical ‘State and National Nominating Conventions of the Workers (Communist) Party rise the most obvious criminality officials. F This pack is seeking to make capital of the fact that Zellig, the motorman, immediately after the accident appears to have run from the scene. This may or may not have occurred. It would not be surprising if the _ porarily overcome by shock, or seeking to fasten the guilt on the worker. ‘is body which is sworn to protect the “public aterest”’ and which repeatedly in the past has m forced to condemn the use of wooden cars ‘nits preliminary report completely covers over of the traction about its particular brand of corruption so that nothing further need be added here. The working class should fight for the re-|such southern states as Virginia and lease of Stanley Zellig just as it will fight to Georgia have held state nominating the end for the release of every framed-up conventions. worker and class war victim from the clutches | of the capitalist plunderbund. motorman, tem- dazed so that he by that company, when during the 196 strike of the traction workers he declared “ the law that is required in this case will be found at the end of a policeman’s billy.” And as for the character of the Tammany | judges and courts, enough has been exposed | legal requirements, in order to dramatize before the American workers the plan of the Party tc participate effectively in the presi- dential election campaign, there were organized a number of state conventions and a national conven- tion for the purpose of adopting.‘the Communist election platform and selecting standard bearers. Already) more than 20 states, among these! bout all The National Nominating Con\en- | Significance of Convention. tion was called for the purpose of| ‘The National Nominating Conven- adopting an election platform, nomi-| tion was significant in five main nating presidential candidates and| respects: electing a national campaign com-| : rs r First, there were a large number ree Te cere eemy was mobil-| of delegates who are native Ameri- cans. The American bourgeoisie Wide Representation. ; x By Jacob Bureck | \fact that our Party is an interna- tional party, a section of the Com- munist International. The greetings from the Communist International evoked tremendous enthusiasm. The \election victories of the Communist |parties of Germany, France and |Poland were of striking and basic importance for us in securing the effective mobilization of our party members and sympathetic non-party masses for the\etection campaign The convention denounced the crimi- nal Shakhfin conspirators against Delegates from factories, mines. mills, from organizations of the have been pounding away for some- | the Soviet Unicon now on trial in | time on the fact that our Party has Moscow. Pledges of revolutionary \to date largely attracted foreign proletarian solidarity were made td oe — In District 2, which comprises the eae aris of New York and New Jersey, Campaign Manager Rebecca Greeht reports that the tremendous job of securing the necessary num- ber of signatures is being done sys- tematically and there is no doubt but the Communist ticket will be on the ballot in both states. Two ' comrades in an automobile are tour- ing séctions of New York collecting signatures. An army of volunteers will soon be turned loose to do this work in New York City. eel . "Th other states of the Union the comrades are feverishly working ‘collecting signatures and funds for the campaign. ee "While the National Election Cam- | Committee is lining up work- ers and exploited farmers, the two capitalist parties are lining up mil- lionaires. The automobile industry is divided in its allegiance between the capitalist parties, General Mo- | tors of the House of Morgan having | taken over the democratic campaign | economic interests between the dom- inating groups in both parties. This would indicate that in the no far distant future a realignment of po- litical forces is due in the United States. The democratic party is no longer based on the solid south, which ise long longer “solid” but considerably divided, tho it must be expected that by force of habit and thru the control of the election ap- paratus by the official democrats the southern states will vote for anything running on the democratic ticket. The democratic party\is now as definitely dominated by Wall Street as is the republican party. . The only issues the socialist party can think of raising is the dancing and singing predelictions of Mayor Walker of New York and a tirade against the political immorality of the capitalist parties. The class struggle is never mentioned. The role of the government as a strike- breaker is mever referred to. Noth- ing matters to the socialists except ganizer with headquarters at Pitts- burgh. One thousand signattres are already. collected. Open-air meetings will be started early in August and the district is planning | to appoint a full-time election cam- paign manager. | The ‘so-called Progressive Party convention held in Omaha, Nebras- ka, recently, was a complete fizzle, | Roy Stephens, Workers (Commun- | ist) Party campaign organizer re- | ports. Only one delegate showed up, an old civil war veteran from’ Iowa. | The necessary number of signatures for getting the Communist ticket on | the ballot in Nebraska are almost secured, Open-air meetings are very successful, being attended by) large numbers of workers. | August llth and 12th are the|to join the Party. That is killing | dates set for the state eonvention of the Workers (Communist) Party in California, Accofding to the| The National Nominating Conven- tion took place at the end of Ma; In the call issued by the Centr {Committee for the holding of these! AMPAIGN CORNER conventions, we find the following keynote struck: “In the presidential campaign of this year, the class conscious workers must mobilize the work- ing masses and unify all the struggles against’ the exploiters. The Workers (Communist) Party is the only Party of working class struggle in the United States. Our Party a party of revolutionary class struggle. We are not only vigordus participants but ener- getic leaders in all the struggles of our working class. The Cen- tral Executive Committee — is calling this National Nominating Convention in order to mobilize more effectively our Party's? re- sources for participation the coming presidential elections with a view towards utilizing this elec- tion campaign for arousing and organizing more effective resis- tance by the working class to the capitalist offensive.” worker who signified his intention two birds with one shot, alright. * Sica The Communist Campaign is now Negro masses, from societies of the oppressed colonial and semi-colonial masses of Latin America, from working class women’s organiza- tions, striking miners, textile workers and needle trades workers, were to be found in large numbers in all the state nominating conven- tions and particularly in the Nation. al Nominating Convention. The number of delegates partici- pating in the convention exceeded all expectations. There were 296 dme- gates from 39 states and the Dis- trict of Columbia. There were about 150 fraternal delegates mostly non-party workers from _ trade unions, cooperatives, youth and working women’s organizations, un- employment councils, Negro organi-/ers battling against the mine owners. | societies, | the exploited farming masses, the} zations, anti-imperialist farmers organizations and Councils for the Protection of the Foreign Born Workers. The fraternal del- egates especially, were elected at mass meetings of workers. Amongst the regular delegates there were at ‘least 25 Negro workers. Amongst |the fraternal delegates there were representatives from Nicaragua. | Chile, Mexico, Haiti and Canadas | Proletarian Spirit. | Never before was there so much ‘enthusiasm manifested at a gather- |ing of Communists in the United States at the National Nominating Convention.. The bourgeois press was compelled to admit that it was the biggest and most enthusiastic gathering of this kind that they ihave yet seen. Delegates came all |born workers. The latter are the | workers found primarily in the basic, | heavy industries. Second, in this convention, there were delegates who had won the con- | fidence of the masses through years of struggle in the early Anar- chist movement, Syndicalist move- ment, and the old Socialist move- | movement. This convention presen- |ted our Party as the inheriter of the best and revolutionary tradi- | tions of all these movements. | ‘Third, the Convention ‘established the fact that our Party | was the sole champion of the Ne- groes, the colonial masses, the Work- | working class women and youth. The large number of Negro delegates) | participating in the work and leader- \shiv of the Convention was sym- bolic of the determination of the | Party to break through and enter | the “Solid South”.and very clearly distinguished our Party from the | parties of the big and small bour- 'geoisié — the Republican, Democra- (tie and Socialist parties—in which |the Negroes were either segregated or given a back seat. | Fourth, the Nominating Conven- | tion brought into bold relief the fact ‘that our Party is now national in “scope. Our Party has been called | by the reactionary trade union bu- reaucracy and other capitalist or- gans, an “eastern” party. At the amended political code of May 1927, | beginning to get into its stride. The \the way from the Pacific Coast to| Convention, there were represented it will be possible to place electors | neéd for sufficient finances, how- and Henry Ford, its rival, putting | snaring the votes of the small shop- his millions behind Hoover. |keepers and liberals who formerly As this campaign develops, it is | supported on the ballot as “Independent” |ever, is a great drawback. Thou- under the same provisions of the| sands of dollars must come imto| law for state-wide candidates. This | campaign headquarters immediate- clear that a great shifting of forces is taking place in the political arena. Former republicans are turning to clearly demonstrated 1 rpoletane CaNnMan ghe” earns amie LaFollette. * * * The gathering of signatures to put the Workers (Communist) that sylvania is proceeding satisfactorily hand. Fal na jonger pax conilies of according to A. Jakira, district or- Connecticut, senate corr requires 12,000 signatures. Ponies Sas Selling Vote Communist Cam- | Smith and former democrats are | Party candidates for president and paign Stamps and securing new re- paign Committee, laring for Hoover. It was never vice-president on the ballot in Penn. cruits for the Party go hand in/should be sent in at once to Alex- A comrade in Bridgeport,| ander Trachtenberg, treasurer, 43 sold a book to a fellow H, 125th St., New York Gitw, ly, in order to help finance the tre- mendous printing program mapped out by the National Election Cam- Contributions |New York by “hopping freights” | “viding the rods,” because of the high railroad fare. Some came by -autobuses, others “hiked”, still others organized special tours by automobile, piling in a number of workers into one old second-hand cheap car, secured at an insignifi- cant price, sufficient for making one trip and return, in order to avoid the bamxw cost of railxoad fara, delegates from Main to California and from Texas to Vermont. Every section of the country was repre- |sented. Delegations of striking miners and textile workers from New England and from the Penn- sylvania-Ohio and West Virginia coal fields played a conspicuous role in the Convention. Finally, the Convention empha- sized to the American workers the ment as well as in the trade, union clearly | the Communist Parties of Great | Britain, Germany, Soviet Union, | France, Poland, etc. The convention selected Comrades | Foster and Gitlow as the presiden- | tial standard bearers in the elec- | tion campaign and adopted the Party election platform. (To be Continued) Record U. 8S. Exports WASHINGTON, August 1 (UP). ing the first six months of 1928 were larger in volume than for the corresponding of any other year, a | commerce department survey showed today. Exports of gold during the fiscal \year ending June 30 totalled $627,- 102,000, which was the largest out- | ward movement of gold on record \Imports of Gold during the 12 months totalled $129, 139,000. Merchandize exports for the fiscal ed merchandise was valued at $4,- 146,000,000, ° Cotton exports were about 30 per cent smaller in volume than in 1926- 27, because of the decrease in the American crop, but higher average prices for cotton caused the tota! value in cotton exports to decrease by only 5.4 per cent. CITED FOR “BRAVERY”. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, August 1.—Three American marines were cited here for bravery in their ac- tion against the Sandino Army of Independence by the United Stater commander of the Nicaraguan Na- tional Guard, Their brave action consisted in throwing bombs and _ turning for 6-Month Period Told You So WHEN the imperialist ambassadors meet in Paris on August 27, to sign Kellogg’s fake pact for the outlawing of war, they will be frisked for guns, razors, stilletos’ and other lethal weapons by the touchiest members of the Paris police force, according to reports. The French government does not want to risk the possibility of get- ting its famous Clock Room in the Foreign Office littered with bodies gushing blood all over the place, Moreover it would be a criminal waste of manpower to permit the mutual destruction of so many ex~ pert signers of peace treaties. They will be needed in the future. eet ies 1 ae eUSe of Italy and Baron Tanaka of Japan are too busy to make the journey to Paris, so they will assign the task of putting the John Hancock on the treaty to lesser lights. The Baron is too busy try- ing to carve a slice out of the an- atomy of China and the Duce is too busy getting photographed. Kellogg | has lots of help so he can leave the war against Nicaragua to secretary of the navy Wilbur while he is on the warpath in Europe for peace. re aie A black shirt industry is now almost as prosperous in Italy as the white shirt business was in the United States during the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan. We would not be surprised to learn one of these days that the Duce himself owns a couple of shirt factories. Patriotism being the last refuge of the scoun- drel, where can a greater patriot be found than Benito Mussolini? Its about time the castor oil industry experienced a bull market. Perhaps Mussolini himself became an addict and did not choose to run! That may account for his recent indis- position. e ae ENE TUNNEY knocked Heeney down but not out. The next time Tunney goes into a fight his man- agers should supply him with a sledge. Heeney was handicapped from the start. He was built for comfort but not for speed and the big syllable and dipthong man could run rings around him. One of the pictures shows Heeney on the floor wriggling as if he sat in a tub of fish glue.* Heeney took $100,000 worth of a beating. Oddsbodkns, that happens to, be the amount the National Election Campaign Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party is trying to raise for the cam- paign. Heeney raised it in one night by sitting on the ring. * * Ap aie is having a lot of fun | with its police force. One of the | most popular police stations in the Windy City is liable to be padlocked as a public nuisance. Prohibition agents raided the station and con- fiscated a considerable supply of hootch which was being retailed to the prisoners. Now, in retaliation, the police threaten to raid prohibi- tion headquarters. RNa, fe NEWSPAPER headline tells us that ex-senator Owen of Okla- homa courted the Tammany tiger in 1924 and asked Al Smith for his aid in swinging the Tammany delegation |to his side, when the deadlock be- tween. Al and William Gibbs Mac- Adoo, Wilson’s Crown Prince went beyond the breaking point. now says, in other words, that he cannot think of Tammany without feeling the necessity of standing over the rail and feeding the fishes. | As a matter of fact, Tammany is much more respectable now than it was in 1924. Our liberal friends ad- mit this. It has moved its head- | quarters to Park Avenue, and has a multi-millionaire to direct Al’s cam- paign. What’s the matter Owen? I am sure if you went the right way about it Tammany would be as gen- erous as Hoover. * * Owen * * . Weece George L. Berry of Ten- nessee, president of the pressmen’s union and other remunerative indus- tries, has been appointed Al Smith’s | organizer of the “labor vote.” Berry will play the role of trained ram, whose function it will be to induce trade union voters to mark their bal- lots for Tammany. Berry is the —U. S. exports of merchandise dur-, most notorious of the semi-profes- sional strikebreakers, He has turned | the pressmens’ union into a company auxiliary. If he is not a millionaire |as a result of his business activities |in the union and outside, then John | D. Rockefeller is now soliciting alms on the corner of 42nd and 6th Ave. * Hceliba won his majorship.during the war. The only powder he ever sniffled was on the cheeks of * * year totalled $4,877,000,000. import-/ the pleasant ladies who haunted the Paris cabarets during the war and still haunt them, according to tourist third class travelers. But it is not because of his valor on the field of Mars in Paris that Berry is so highly prized by the American capitalist class. Bravery is a drug on the market and a bottle of champagne would make a hero out of a drug store cowboy. It is because of his strike-breaking ability that the major is appreciated. .It’s up to Hoover now to match Smith. What about drafting John L. Lewis? He hasn’t much to do now since he fin- ished the job of smashing the United Mine Workers of America, machine guns upon a small group of 1} Sandino’s followers. Lay OSeshaty i}