The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1928, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1928. Grily Worker ZN may " fa Pu hed by NATIONAL DAI Y WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday i} 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address iwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 | | SUBSCRIPTION RAT | { (outside of New York): | Mail ar 00 p $3. months $2 three months cl THE DAILY WORKER, 28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. WM. F. DUNNE V For President LLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers! For the Party of the Class Struggle! New \ N. ¥., under OTE COMMUNIST! | For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! A Trade in Blood. ween the United Fight against the imperialist war danger! Fight for the Chinese Revolution! Help the Chinese workers and peasants drive the Ameri- can and other imperialists out of China at the called N vernment, the Am point of the bayonet! perial to strengthen the bloody arms of the evolution in China, and in re- turn the Chin their Wall China. By the treaty the American eagle not merely extends its protecting wings over the bloody Nanking reactionaries who have slaughtered tens of thousands of workers and peasants, but gains substantial advantages .ovey its rivals in the struggle for Chinese markets. The eagle extorts a heavy price for its protection. In return for hypocritical phrases about tariff autonomy, the United States secures the abolition of the likin, or internal tax, which Chinese provincial war lords hitherto levied against foreign goods crossing the provincial borders within China. The United States—in spite of the eulogies in the capitalist press— makes no tangible concession whatever. The only concession is “recognition” by .the strongest imperialist bully among those who are maneuvering for the best, chances to make a subject colony of China. The treaty provides against a discriminatory tariff and as long as any other power maintains its present treaty no tariff raise is possible. While the hypocritical American capitalist press tries to cloak the treaty as an act of generosity on the part of the United States, the Kuomintang reactionaries in a vain effort to delude the Chinese masses point to the treaty as evidence of the success of the Nank- ing regime in securing tariff “autonomy.” The new treaty means nothing of the kind. The imperialist powers, struggling against each other, are unwilling to grant tariff auto- nomy. The Nanking war lords will not fight for concessions from their imperialist masters. The tariff treaty between the United States and the Nanking: regime is certain to sharpen the differences between the imperialist powers in their scramble for spoils in China. It intensi- fies the danger of an imperialist war far greater in scale than the one which started e butchers undertake to pay Street protectors in the blood of $2,000,000 for Clouting Pugs! Eugene Joseph Tunney, the intellectual representative of the cauliflower ear business, has retired from the squared circle with ap- proximately $2,000,000 in his kick, which was | injected into it by the section of the American populace which likes to see others mauling each other, just as some patriots enjoy a nice gory war at a safe distance. The readers of this paper do not go in for prize-fighting. The hundreds of thousands who read the Communist press never: collectively spent enough money on the so-called manly art to keep Tex Rickard in dollar cigars for one week. Whatever money they have to spare after feeding, clothing and sheltering themselves and their dependents is contributed to the revo- lutionary movement, which aims to knock out | capitalism and give the social championship of | the world to the workers and poor farmers. Gene Tunney collected $2,000,000 in a few | years of clouting pugs around a ring and taking | a few clouts in exchange. The workers spend | their lives performing useful labor and get nothing but less than a decent living in return. Thousands of them die annually of hunger. To abolish a system of society which showers gold on the pug, the bruiser? and the parasite | and starves the producer, the Workers (Com- munist) Party is organized. In this election| campaign it is rallying the masses for the im- T mediate struggles, against wage cuts, unem- | ployment, imperialist wars, and other evils that flow from capitalism. Money is needed for| this campaign. The National Election Campaign Commit-! tee of the Workers (Communist) Party, 43 East 125th Street, New York City, has launched a drive to raise $100,000 for the Communist! Campaign. We call on the workers and ex-| ploited farmers to contribute as generously as| Our Party’s Election Campaign (Continued) By JAY LOVESTONE E election platform adopted by | the National Nominating Con-| vention of the Workers (Commu: | nist) Party is the most complete | presentation of Communist analysis pWOFking clas, and indictment of capitalism as well as statement of the position of the party towards the basic questions confronting the working class that | we have gotten out to date. Amer- ican imperialism is presented in its true light. The striking gap be- tween the wealth of the bourgeoisie August 4, 1914 and which shook the capitalist system to its foundations. | The workers and peasants of China, who are now conducting a bitter striéggle against the Kuomintang war lords and the imperialists, are struggling for the liberation of China. In this struggle they have appealed for aid to the workers of all countries. The battle against imperialism is not merely possible to this ploiters. to rise again. fund. This election campaign will not decide the | farmers is brought into clear con- issue betweey the exploited masses and the ex- ‘t@st- The unemployment crisis is It is only a training exercise during which tle revolutionary working class are mobilizing their forces for | the big and small business interests the struggle and for the final battle in which |-—republican, democratic and social- | the bosses will hit the historical canvas never |!8t—are put before the masses in vanguard of the the battle of the Chinese workers. It is the battle of the entire working class. Aid the Chinese working class in its strug- A hundred thousand dollars for a preliminary | bout with capitalism. | A hundred thousand dollars to organize the | gle against imperialist oppression and the Kuo- | masses for the final struggle that will send the | |and the poverty of large sections of \the working class and exploited |analyzed from a Marxist viewpoint | |and a program for immediate ac- | tion is proposed. The parties of | their true light. Program Outlined. | A program to meet the offensive | of the capitalists is outiined in de- tail. Special attention is paid to the heroic struggle of the miners. | Particular emphasis is aid on the| | Pine Sabato te .Communist Program Outlined; Veil Stripped From Capitalist Parties between the American and Russian * Veil Stripped. hypocritical capitalist democracy serving as the most cunning, pow- erful, ruthless strikebreaking agency in the world—the strikebreaking United States government. The advocate of the building of a na- tional mass labor party, but at the same time emphasizes that it is “a dangerous illusion to think that the workers can assu’ power by elect- ing more and m members to con- gress or ex e officials.” Our party démands a labor party: the first decisive step towards in- dependent political action by the working class, the first step of the workers to bréakewway from the parties of the bosses. At the same time the Communist Party considers it its duty to tell the party makes clear its position as an) “. . , Because it considers this | all laws forbidding intermarriage |between persons of different’ races. | Abolition of all Jim Crow laws. |Immediate removal of all restric- membership of Negro workers. | Equal opportunity for employment, |. | wages, hours, working conditions for |Negro and white workers.” Solidarity. The platform further draws the attention of the workers to the need for solidarity of all workingmen, native as well as foreign-born, in order to resist the attacks on the |foreign-born workers, which attacks |are only part of the general offen- ‘sive against the whole working | class. The status of working women and |working youth and an immediate are outlined in the platform. Prohibition. In discussing the prohibition question, the platform brands alco- holism as “one of the most terrible | THREE cheers-and a fifty dollar coffin for the remains of, Maggie Fleming, former maid in the employ of Mrs. Oliver Harriman, who left |her life savings of $6,000 to the | millionaire lady. The meek and | lowly are surely turning the tables | on their betters. Instead of being at | the receiving end of legacies they are now biting the biter by putting |the ruling classes in a humiliating | position. Mrs. Harriman is now | traveling in Europe and Maggie’s \legacy may enable her to make a | deposit on a new wrist watch. | GECRETARY of state Kellogg is ready to recognize the Nanking regime in China, now that the Kou- mintang party has deserted the revo- | lutionary policy of Sun Yat Sen and | is an open and avowed foe of Soviet | Russia. But there is a cockroach in the Kellogg chop suey. Almost coin- | cident with the announcement that | the United States would recognize | the Nanking regime comes the report | from Geneva that the League of Na- | tions is planning to saddle a “Dawes Plan” on China. This means more ek ee less rice in his bowl. Pe eee Te revolt in the Anglican church |* in Great Britain brought on the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England. The skypilots are quarreling over the revised prayerbook. It is too radical for some of the boys. I do not know whether the rival factions | have donned the armor of battle | over the virginity of the “Blessed Virgin,” the immaculate conception or the existence of three gods, amal- gamated into one, but still maintain- ing their autonomy. The prayer- book was referred to parliament and parliament gulped a flagon of ale and threw the prayerbook out the | window. It was too far to the left |for most of the members. Things | are coming to a pretty pass in Eng- | Prayerbook is questioned. | se SEES ILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, of Em- poria, Kansas, who is now on the Hoover publicity staff, is doing some | heroic sniping at Al Smith. Picking |up the red light flag where Teddy | Roosevelt dropped it, White tried to make a glorified pimp out of the | “Happy Warrior.” But Al is more or [less sacred in New York editorial sanctums. A candidate with Gen- | eral Motors as a manager is not to be sneezed at with impunity. So, | whatever the reason is, the gallant Haye White retreated with drums beating | Our summfhg up , gan is For- | but leaving the flag of prostitution ward to a Workers’ and Farmers’ \lying bedraggled on the field. Government.” We emphasize that | \a workers’ and farmers’ government | jin the United States will |]T APPEARS that this fellow White __“\.+. free all American colonies |4 makes a specialty of placing his | immediately, grant the right of | pen at the disposal of whoever has | full self-determination to all Latin |the dough. When he launched his | American peoples, will realize so- | attack on Al Smith, the Smithson- ee eae: cial equality for Negrges, wiil dis- E veil is stripped from the | tions in all trade unions against the | arm the master class and will arm the working masses, wil! expro- priate all large scale industries, | railroads, power plants, meat- packing plants . . . will national- ize all large land estates and will jians went to their files and dug up the evidence to show that in 1912 White was saying nasty things about the vice-president candidate jon the G. O. P. ticket, My. Charles | Curtis. White said Curtis’s condust was iniquitous. But now he is puri- hand them over to the mortgaged fied by the heat waves that flow and tenant farmers and agricul- |from the political anatomy of H. tural workers, wili nationalize all. Hoover. Still, William Allen »White banks and commercial interests.” |is only a scribbler making his hay Class Struggle, Slogan. while the sun shines. |. The whole spirit and purpose of | * the party election campaign is | i |summed up in the conclusion of the | IT’S tit for tat between Hoover and platform which calls upon the work- | Smith as far as labor is con- ing masses “to go forward by means cerned. The members of the execu- of relentless class struggle” and | tive*council of the A. F. of L., now ne program to meet these conditions| mintang murderers! imperialist system to the mat forever. |need for mobilizing the masses to | paralyze the -aggressive imperialist maneuvers of , WallStreet against the Central ad South American count Chin&* and the Soviet | workers frankly that a labor party emphasizes that: “The Workers (Communist) Party is the party of the class struggle. It is the deadly enemy of capitalist society. It fights for the complete unity of the working class, for the united struggle of sojourning in Atlantic City, appear to be peeved over the appointment of John J. Raskob, multimillion- |aire open-shopper as national chair- man of the democratic party. But Smith’s friends point out that Henry J. Allen, author of the Kansas in- has its limitations and that it will not be able to lead the workers in their final struggle for their emancipation. ' Only a Communist social diseases of capitalist society.” It declares further that “only the overthrow of capitalism will sweep away the despisable bootlegging in- dustry and the equally despicable dustrial Act, is head of Hoover's YOUTH TO DEFEND U.S.S.R. By I. AMDUR MONG the methods of preparing the youth of the Soviet Union for the defense of their country the system of maneuve m battles —is the most widespread and p: lar. Each Sunday the Y. C. L of one or another of the six di tricts, of which Moscow is composed, journeys i wooden “ swung round and rattling noise not thing, the young “red so! %een interest and spirit military games. Komsomol Uniforms Last Sunday some 400 of the youth from the Khamovnitchesky district took train to the suburbs of Moscow. Each of them had a rifle and a belt of blank bullets. Al- most all of them wore the n ‘kharki Komsomol orm _( show in these 1 comm ,| tain contact betwen the companies) to appear, with orders to put them to rout at any cost. The aim of both groups was, by using every possible means, to catch the other unaware and gain victory by a sur- prise attack. Both parties had been divided into battalions, companies and Special maxim-gun squads ls were organized, and a ation company (to main- T formed. Each party was attended 15 nurses. each of whom was equipped with medical sup- plies. The weather condition, from the point of view of the youth, could not have been worse, although from the standpoint of roughing it they were ideal. Jt had been raining for | the last couple of days and the! ground was one vast spongy quag- mire. Nevertheless, with light heart and song on lips the gallant | “defending army” strode boldly on, what similar to that worn by the over turf highways, through woods, German Yunge Rote-Front fight- villages, fie halting periodically ers). About per cent of the to await word from the advance | youth were girls. patrols. Some 17 versts out haif of the of - 4 group left the train and struck in- HEY had left the station at 9 traveled o'clock in the morning; it was now close on 1 p. m. and still no) sign of the opposing force. The) going was hard, Through swampy and marshy fields and roads, ankle- deep in mud with water squelching from the boots at every step, they presented a sorry-looking “army’’| indeed. They were cheered up, how- | ever, by the Red Army officers ah during the halts, would praise the land. The second half some 15 versts (verst is three- fourths of a mile) farther: Both groups were accompanied by Red Army officers who explained the essence of the game. The second group were an invading “enemy” marching on Moscow; the first group had been hurriedly dispatched Trom Moscow, to the neighborhood where the “enemy” was supposed to be, or where they were expected, soldier-like, indeed, and most dis- ciplined. And then, breathlessly, the pa- trol rushed up with the news that the “enemy” had been sighted ad- vancing stealthily about a verst away. A feeling of intense excite ment seized the “defending army,” all tiredness fell away and, wary and alert, they swiftly sprang to cover, taking advantage of every bit of undergrowth and tree. For about 10 minutes there was a dead silence except for the mon- otonous whistling of, the rain, and then the “enemy” came into view. Stealthily they came, looking war- ily about them, but never for a mo- ment supposing of the lurking dan- ger that awaited them immediately in front. Nearer they came, and nearer, then softly was heard the| command, “Load”—Aim”—“Fire.” The air was startled with a deaf- | ening sound as dummy bullets and |maxim-gun rattles blazed upon the “Charge,” rang a) opposing force. command, and down upon the enemy swept the “defending army” with \triumphant shouts of victory. It was a complete and successful rout. The “enemy” had fallen, as it were, upon the very point of their opponents’ bayonets, and, after a half-hearted but ineffective rally, threw down their arms in token of surrender. al See FTER the excitement had cooled a meeting was held in which the results of the “game” were ana- lyzed. The officers pointed out the mistakes of both sides and particu- spirit of the group as being very|larly those of the opposing force, EE | Union. “The party pledged itself to |do everything in its power to turn the next imperialist war into a civil |war and raises the jgan: “Not a man)\ngt a gun,’ ‘a cent for the |imperMlist army “and navy.” The | party called upon the American ma- jrines to go over to the side of the jrevolution in Nicaragua and China. |The party demands complete and | |immediate independence for all | American colonies and semi-colo- inies. We demand immediate recog nition of the Soviet Union and Party can do that.” Position Clear. | The Communist position towards | tariff and taxation is made clear in | the platform. The plight of the ex- ploited masses is brought home very effectively. Particular stress is laid on the oppression of the Ne- groes. The party demands abélition of race discrimination and stands for full racial, social and/ political equality. The platform de- mands, in part: “Abolition of all laws which disenfranchise the Ne- corrupt, hypocritical prohibition en- forcement.” The platform then declares: “1. The Workers (Communist) Party favors the repeal of the Volstead Act and the 18th Amend- ment. . “2. Dissolution of the federal and state prohibition enforcement apparatus. “3. Energetic propaganda against alcoholism as one of the most malignant social diseases establishment of direct connections groes on line of color. Abolition of! under capitalism.” | By OLGA GOLD. F |THE constantly imereasing war | danger is becoming more and more acute. In the coming im- perialist war, the United States, the most powerful capitalist. country in the world, the coutitry. where the bourgeoisie still finds itself firmly | seated in the saddle, will play a lead- ing role. The increase in. the need of American imperialism for export of its surplus capital is tremendous. While in 1923, the United States ex- ported a total of $495,662,100.00, in 1917 the total export of capital from the United States was $1,575,- 960,575.00, an increase of almost 300 per cent. (This is taken from Jay Lovestone’s America Today.) This indicates clearly the active role the United States will play in the coming imperialist war. The intervention of American im- The Capitalist Nations Are Planning Attac On Soviet: Union ; ; ample of American intervention$Chinese workers. which clears the road for the in-| The Chinese workers are the creasing oppression of Mexico and | world’s most exploited. The weekly native born, foreign born and Ne- gro workers against the common enemy—trustified capital.” We have gotten a good start in our election campaign. The coming months will see our activities inten- ‘sified. The entire party is being drawn into the election campaign. |The outlook is, that because of the | energetic activities of our party in the big strugglés of the workers, |like the miners and textile strikers and the needle trades, our American section of the Communist Interna- tional will receive this year many times greater support in the election campaign than ever before. (The End.) Danger of Imperialist World War Increases: amounting to over a billion and Great Britain an investment of one billion dollars. Last year, when the Chinese peo- ple bravely revolted against this im- perialist mockery of the existence of a people, tens of thousands of pro- letarian men, women, and children were murdered. Because they wish to free themselves from the double publicity department. Of course the fat A. F. of L. boys are only spoof- ing. They would not give a hang if both campaigns were managed by two strikebreaking detective agen- cies as long as they got theirs. * * * 4 Hess assassin who pulled the fatal trigger on Obregon made a con- fession in which he absolves Mo- rones, chief of the CROM of all com- plicity in the murder. The killer was a Catholic fanatic and while he tries to shield the church there is no doubt but Calles knew what he was |talking about when he blamed the clergy for the inspiration of the deed. Reactionary elements in the Obregon Party used the murder of a popular hero to make war on labor. Tho Morones is a reactionary and a monument of corruption, his enemies ave motives far from altruistic and deserving patriots are ready to step into the comfortable berths formerly occupied by Morones and his hench- men. Son OHahesty South America. We can foresee the approaching war striking over the horizon all over the globe. One of the factors of the acute is the increasing hostility between Great Britain and the United States. These antagonisms and conflicts be- tween the imperialist nations are over the control of world markets, raw, materials, etc. Still another factor of the increasing approach of war is the struggle in the Pacific over China by the powers of im- perialism, the sending of warships perialism in Nicaragua is an ex- and air forces to fight against the earnings of the most skilled workers, |such as building trades workers, dollars and fifty cents. The common danger of an imperialist wortd war laborer gets from one dollar to one dollar and fiéty cents per week. The labor day is twelve hours and some- times much more. Great Britain, Japan and Ameri- ca each have a special interest in suppressing these workers. Ameri- can trade in China has increased years. The United States has in- ‘vestments in China amounting to $70,000,000, Japan’s painters, etc., is hardly above three: ‘four times over in the last twenty | investments with eagerness all of the events im the Soviet Union, and that the So- viet Union is a tremendous block against their attempts of conquest and war. They therefore plan armed attack on all fronts against the first Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic. Great Britain is leading the way, having spent two million pounds for espionage and the fomenting of plots of war, but it will be a united front of all of the invading im- perialist powers who will join against the champion of the work- | ing-class movement, (To Be Continued.) yoke of exploitation, by the Chinese militarists from within—by the foreign capitalists from without, their heads are cut off and hung on high as a vain attempt to kill the movement for freedom, to strike terror and dread into the hearts of the workers. The imperialists realize \that the Soviet Union acts as a spur and an inspiration to the development of the revolutionary movement the world over, that the oppressed of all nations and peoples are watching | calluses on the Chinese back and | land when even the infallibility of a - ¥