The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1928, Page 3

“ing “Communist propaganra” _ even THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1928. Page Three Colombian Keactionanies Pass “Anti-Communist” Law; Aims to Suppress Workers SEE ELEMENTARY RIGHTS ‘CRUSHED BY NEW MEASURE Labor Betiant Over | Passage | BOGOTA, Colombia, August 3—| Following a lengthy debate, pro- tracted by the “liberal elements which fear repressive measures on} the part of the government may be| against labor, the measure restrict-| directed against them as well as was passed by the chamber of deputies here yesterday. The final vote stood| 42 to 26 in favor of the restrictive measure. While aimed ostensibly “egainnt| “Communist propaganda,” opposing elements in the chamber declared during the debate that supression of the elementary rights of seech, press and assembly is intend- \ ed by the government. Alarmed by the growing militancy of the Colombian workers, the au- thorities are attempting to check it by the passage of the present law. Defiance of the new measure was the keynote in the attitude of the workers in this clty when announce- ment that the law had been passed ‘was made public. Denunciation of the measure and of the government which passed it was frequent and there is a wide- sphead belief that American oil interests are involved in its passage. BANKS MOVE TO PREVENT CRISIS Carrying out the policy of the Federal Reserve Banking system which for several months has been seeking to check speculation on the stock market lest the practice speed up the downward trend of business, the organized banks of New York) City working through the Clearing House Association yesterday launched a campaign to restrict, the | more than $1,800,000,000 now used by. brokers for speculative purposes. | Wecrs Wortior: koctulikt Interest on 30-day deposits have been increased from 2% per cent to 3% per cent to begin next Monday, | it was announced, in the hope that this would have the desired effect. * Leader of Imperialist Flight Which Failed; Backer Richard Tr. Courtney, whose Dornier-Napier flying. boat fell into the Atlantic recently on a trans- ocean hop is shown in the picture as he looked at the outset of the ill-fated air voyage. Courtney is at the left. vei flight. In the smaller picture is shown Elwood B. Homer, Canadian millionaire who backed “NEW METHODS” AGAINST LABOR Peasants Starve While Communists are Jailed CONSTANTINOPLE, (By Mail). —The “modern European” regime |of Kemal Pasha has hemmed in the }Turkish people with -all the dark sides of civilization. The industrial The only three Cuban political parties left legal met recently in the chamber of the house of representatives to nominate General Gerardo Machado, the president of Cuba, as sole candidate to succeed The Communist Party will not be permitted to “campaign,” himself in. office. participate in the coming PASHA A p p LI F S \Sole em oer and Geis snd recess Envoy PASSPORT LAWS ENSLAVE SOUTH AFRICAWORKERS. Permit Necessary to Seek Work CAPE TOWN, South Africa, (By Mail).—The natives- of South Africa are tied hand and foot bi severe passport regulations. Every. adult man’ must have a passpoft. The picture-shows Machado, avid: pinsbGvt Idee Klugh decbacidl BEGIN FIGHT ON STRESS NEED OF FIGHT 40 ct fucieuee! Rouses Commuters | Westchester commuters yesterday were preparing for a bitter court fight against the 40 per cent rate increase of the New Haven Railroad, which was upheld Wednesday by the same Public Service Commission which recently denied consumers in New York City the opportunity of protesting against the proposed $1,- 000,000,000 merger of the Consoli- dated Gas Company of New York and the Brooklyn Edison Company. The counsel for the people in the communities affected by the increase declared that the commission’s rul- |ing has removed the final barrier |against taking the fight into the courts. Among the members of the Phblic Service Commission under whose jurisdiction the rate increase was given credence, were the same poli- ticians involved in the handing over of the New York Gas Companies to the Mellon interests; George R. Van Namee, Tammany man who managed |Smith’s pre-convention campaign, | Prendergast, comptroller of New | York in 1911, who sold out to the | traction interests with Mayor Gay- |nor and the entire Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and George R. A. DAILY WORKER ocorre- | Spondent is the real spokesman | and leader of the workers in his (Daily Worker Talks No. 2). “We'll Win Yet! Giddap, Phoney Pony!” They all ride to win, of course, and ahead of them is the rainbow! They are the confident young ‘men. None smarter. “We'll beat this game yet,” is the brilliant thought in their heads. See the cunning smile of assurance which lights up their countenances! “Ho! for the pot of gold at the rainbow’s end! Success !’”” | They are the young men who believe they can beat the game—alone. “There’s always room at the top,” they tell you. “I will get ahead.” * * * * * a The men at the top (in the rainbow) ride the best steeds. They already have a long start and know’ the way . . .sbut our bright young men. . WHO WILL TELL THEM THE TRUTH ABOUT THEIR MOUNTS? Bey: How about The DAILY WORKER!! You are riding a mechanical horse, you poor boob, a phoney pony! Take another look at the road: See, there is only room for one rider at the head. How will you pass him when every day he increases his'lead? And he has the power.... * * * * * Do you know a worker who rides madly the mechan- ical horse given him by his boss— Do you meet the rider of a phoney pony— PASS HIM YOUR COPY OF THE DAILY WORKER. Continued from Page One , rivalries between other nations and whole groups of nations lay the bas- is for the line-up for the coming War. The struggle between France |and Germany, that between Italy and France, and a multitude of smaller conflicts, each have the smouldering fire of war Within them, and the events which will fan the sparks to a blaze are ahead. The shifting of the scene of the greatest struggle for markets and re-division of colonial fields of exploitation to the Pacific ocean brings forward the antagonisms between Japanese and American imperialisms. These anta- gonisms leading towards a bloody "| clash for control of the Pacific can- not be reconciled, even though the Wall Street oligarchy finds it possi- ble’ temporarily to make financial ventures in China through Japan- ese hands, while manoeuvering against Japan and signing a treaty with the Nanking butchers which it utilizes against Japan. War Against Soviet Union But of all the rivalries of imperi- alist powers, anyone of which may under certain circumstances precipi- tate the next war, the deepest is the antagonism of all the capitalist states against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The mere existence of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics is a permanent obstacle to the stabilization of world capitalism. The diplomacy of all Imperialist powers is basically directed toward | precipitating a bloody war for ‘the ers Republic as the means of catas- trophic defeat of the world labor movement. It is lear that the honeyed words of. “democracy;?..and “peace” that, were used to entice the masses of workers and farmers into the bloody slaughter of the past War were no- thing but monstrous, criminal lies. The “War to End War” was only a preliminary to bigger and bloodier wars. Tales of “common culture,” “Democracy,” “International jus- tice, “saving civilization,” etc., were just so much lying to cover up the greed of the various’ national oli- garchies of capitalists. An important part of the prepara- tion for the coming war, as in the last one, is the doping of the minds | of the working class and rarmers, which is being carried on at a larg- er scale today than ever before. Just as there was an epidemic of “peace conferences” preceding the last World War, so now the imperialist war-makers are holding “disarma+ ment conferences,” with their loud talk to cover up the feverish in- crease of armaments. With each new hundred millions spent for instruments of imperialist murder, the imperialist murderers call a “disarmament conference.” But each “disarmament conference” turns out to be for the purpose of strengthening the armies and navies of those powers which call the con- ference as against those whom they are preparing to fight. Each is a huge propaganda scheme to drug the minds of the masses with dreams ‘of. “peace,” so that these masses will not rebel when war is made. While actually engaged in war) against Nicaragua and in military occupation of Haiti and Porto Rico, the United States government called the Havana Conference of “good will,” to promote its intended con- quest of Latin-America. With its armed forces actively intervening in China, the Imperialist Wall Street government proposes the .ellogg treaty to “outlaw war.” At the Geneva Conference “for | disarmament” the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics proposed immeai- ate, general and complete disarma- ment., When this was rejected, the Soviet delegation offered a modified proposal calling for limitation of ar- maments, but this too was rejected. The furious anger of the imperialist diplomats at the Soviet proposals was due to the fact that they were forced to admit that they had no intention to disarm. The existence of Capitalism is it- self the decisive obstacle to disarma- ment. The hypocritical pretenses that capitalist nations are moving toward “disarmament” — is only a murderous lie. Disarmament can be realized only by the overthrow of | ‘| capitalism, the establishment of the dictatorship of the working class. “Socialist” and “Pacifist Agents of Imperialist War Those who engage in spreading the illusion that there can be peace in a capitalist society are concesl- ing and abetting the crime of im- perialist wars, The worst criminals {Manday: The Headless Wonder). in spreading this {Illusion to blind the leyes of the workin gclass for the | intended extermination of the work- | lbe isolated by the ruling class as\ TRAE RN Oe eee benefit of the war-makers, are | clearly those who seek to gain the confidence of the workers in the la- bor movement itself. In each capitalist country the “so- cialist” parties are today taking, on the question of “disarmament,” pre- cisely that position which will fur- ther the imperialist aims of “their own” capitalist governments. Thus, | Norman Thomas, candidate of the} Socialist Party for president, calls the Kellogg scheme “if sincerely meant, and fo:lowed up, an impres- sive psychological weight in world opinion on the side of peace.” Ram- | say MacDonald, head of the Social- | Democrats of England, also gave his endorsement of this war manoeuver | of the imperialist Kellogg. The So- cialist Party of the United States, like the so-called socialist parties of all Europe, endorse the League of Nations, which is the capitalist in- ternational, fighting and slandering the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- | publics, psychologically preparing such yvorkers as may be under its influence to support the imperialist United States government in its coming war to destroy the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. A Different World from that of 1914 The coming war, however, will break upon a world vastly different | from the world of 1914, a world | much more favorably situated for the transformation of imperialist | war into revolutionary war for the | liberation of the masses. Today the | | revolutionary struggle will begin with one-sixth part of the earth al- ready in the possession of the re- volutionary working class, The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is the great stronghold of the work- ing class of the world and of dil peoples oppressed by; imperialism. Bolshevism Against Imperialists In the midst of the World War of 1914, one revolutionary section of the working class, led by the Bol- shevik (Communist) Party of Rus- sia raised the slogan, “Transform the imperialist war between nations into a revolutionar, civil war be- tween classes.” The Communists carried this slogan into action, and the greatest victory in the history of the working class resulted. « This time when the imperialists precipitate the masses into bloody slaughter, worker against worker, peasant against peasant, each bat- tling for the sordid interests of his own oppressors — again the slogan | will ring through the world: “Work- ers and farmers, defeat your ‘own’)| capitalist government; transform the | | imperialist war between nations in- to a civil war between the classes— | a war for freedom.” In 1914 the treacherous action of | the Social-Democratic leaders de- stroyed the Second International and plunged the working class of all| leading capitalist nations into a) bloody war for the benefit of the | capitalists. Since then the Social- | Democratic parties have been the decisive factor in defeating the work- | ing class in every case where the workers revolted against capitalism. The Socialist leaders support the “black international” of capitalism, the league of nations. Communist International. conditions in which the true revolu- tionary workers’ movement is crys- tallized in all countries by the Com- munist International, steeled in the fires of revolution and trained in the struggle by its leading section, the Bolshevik Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The working class of | the various countries can never again it was in the past war. And the| workers in the next war will, in all countries, Have before their eyes the great example of the successful pro- letarian revolution of 1917 to give them confidence, and the living So- cialist Fatherland for which to fight against their imperialist oppressors. The Workers (Communist) Party, | the American section of the Co munist International is the only) party in this country that really) fights imperialist war. Not a Pacifist Party. | The Workers (Communist) Party is not a pacifist party. It is not against all wars. The Cotnmunists everywhere struggle for the aboli- tion of the capitalist system which breeds war. The only, way to get rid of war is to overthrow the capi- | talist system of exploitation and tyranny, and to establish a new) system, free of exploitation and of | man by man, a system without classes and class:rule. The Com- munists supports all wars of libera-| tion, The Communists support the | heroie army of Nicaraguans now fighting under General Sandino | industry jed the question whether he was , which has grown especially serious lately, has shaken the young of Turkey. As with so many European governments the Turkish regime has also attempted to suppress the dissatisfaction and need of the masses by white terror methods. Every attempt to form a workers’ organization is immediate- ly stifled. In the press there are daily re- ports of the extraordinary rise in prices. Government commissions carry -on investigations into the standard of living, of course, with- out any vestlts. .Bankruptcies in the towns increase and the number of suicides is exceedingly great. In certain sections actual starvation is so great that the peasants, as in the province of Konia, flee to the woods and feed on grass. In earlier times in such situa- |tions Armenian pogroms were view- ed as a means of temporarily re- lieving the situation, but now the government is more modern and carries on’ Communist processes. In Constantinople towards the end of June a process against seven workers took place, who were charged with distributing Commun- ist proclamations on May 1. The | defendant Hussanedine, is known as a communist. To the question of the judge, what Communism was, he answered in a long speech which was not reproduced in the news-| papers. He declared himself inno- cent since he did not try to hide the manifestoes that were found on him. | The judge, in full objectivity called | the defendant “spy” and “traitor.” The defendant Mustapha answer- “a believer in Communism” as follows: “T am a worker and as .such I desire the improvement of my con- dition and am doing all I can to bring that about.” The 21-year-old Ismael Hakki de- | |clared that he read Communist lit- erature because he was interested in it and wanted to prepare himself | for the class struggle. After a long hearing the process was postponed until July 10. It is impossible to get further informa- tion on the course of the process | or to learn what the sentence was since the Turkish government is | very interested in not allowing such reports to be made public. the second from the right, and net him, his official Wall Street im- perialist backer, Ambassador Judah. COLORADO COMMUNIST CONVENTION IS HELD Continued from Page One our speakers from now until No- Young Workers (Communist) | yember. League and the Young Pioneers. | The convention nominated the fol- t lowing candidates: over the prospect in the ejection For United States Senator, Wil-/campaign. The coal miners are em- liam Dietrich; for governor, George bittered over the murderous policy J. Saul; for lieutenant-governor,|0f the state authorities in the re- James A. Ayres; for state treasurer, |cent strike. They have no confi- James Allender: for sthte auditor, | dence in the highly paid organizers Louis Zeitlin; for secretary of state, |of the United Mine Workers of Helen Dietrich; for superintendent | America, who are trying to organ- of public instruction, Haydee U. | 17¢ them into a company union. Zeitlin; for state senators, Anna | Gaims, Anna Berkowitz and Aubrey “The comrades are enthusiastic “The socialist party is completely bankrupt and no longer participates The following were nominated for ;in the class struggle. The Workers state‘ representatives: Malvina| (Communist) Party alone has the program and the militant member- ip that will organize the workers for the struggle against their ex- | ploiters, for the eventual overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ govern- ment.” Lowy, Barney Lowy, Jennie Berko- | witz) J. I. Whidden, Jewel Whidden. |Dave Feingold, Roland Barta, Max | | Rabinoff, Lee Lang, Jack Reinhardt, Rose Gart and William Hutton. Saul’s Report. In his report on the convention thet in addition to the principal ; identification passport, the native must have a special passport to travel from one town to another; registering at the passport office in his native section in order to receive a seven-day permit to look for work. And when he is working, he must carry with him the special passport if he wishes to go from one part of the c to another or even be able to visit a friend in a nearby street. It is inevitable that such a pass- port law is often broken. Frequent- ly, the police make raids in a cer- tain section and there are mass ar- rests of the natives whose passports are not ‘in order.” Recently, in Pretoria, the police made wholesale raids and arrested more than seven hundred. (Esper- anto-Servo). JUDGE WHO SED TENCED DEBS DIES CLEVELAND, August 3.—Judge DC. Westenhaver of the federal court, who sentenced Eugene V. Debs to 10 years in prison during the war, is dead in Cleveland. Debs’ offense was a speech at Canton O. explaining why the capitalists brought on the world war. to the National Election Campaign Committee, 43 East 125th St., New York City, George J. Saul write: “The convention resulted in in- ereased interest in Communist ac- tivities. on the: part of both com- |rades and visitors. Banners calling ‘attention to the danger of war, the plight of the poor farmers, de- nouncing the murderers of Sacco and Vanzetti, were made especially | for the convention and will be used | throughout the campaign. Great Enthusiasm. & “Streamers urging the workers and poor farmers to vote Commu- nist in the elections, to help the coal | miners organize a new union, to read the Daily Worker, and to join) the Workers (Communist) Party | |were made by comrades and sym- | | pathizers, and will be utilized by | | -TREASURY BALANCE. | WASHINGTON (UP).—The 'trea-| ea net balance for July 30 was! $127,240,751.05. Customs receipts for || Spend An Enjoyable Dunn and Tugwell Leninism—By Stalin Organization of a World Price: against the invading United States marines. The Communists support | the victims of United States im- perialist against that imperialism in| the Philippines, in Haiti, Porto Rico and wherever throughout Latin- America and China, The heroic Red | Army of ‘China is supported by the) Communist parties of the whole world in its war against the Ameri- can, British, Japanese and other im- | perialists, and against the Chinese tools of foreign imperialism, Chiang Kai-shek and other militarists. Fight Against Imperialist War! The Workers (Communist) Party calls upon the working class and the | exploited farmers to struggle against | the forthcoming imperialist war. In the next war class-conscious| and thoughtful members of the work- ing class will not waste saab with futile individual action as| “conscientious objectors,” but will! utilize the arms that are put into) their hands to turn the war between | nations into a war between classes | ‘July to the 30th were $45,520,017.38. | | jexample has been at by the two} I United States marines who ent over || |to the army of Sandino in Nicara-| gua.) Workers and exploited Pliage Do yon wish to put an end to war? | 39 E. 125th St., Take Along a Book! Soviet Russia in the Second Decade—Edited by Chase, (Formerly Incorrectly > The Diary of a Communist Schocthoy=—By Ognyov Price: 2.50 The Communist Nucleus—By M. Jenks Price: 15 cents Fifteenth Congress of the CPSU. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS BOOKS and Useful Vacation a tele : 4.00 rtined at pecs Be QO. Piatnitsky 15 cents --+++++Pree: 50 cents ff! 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But where workers and farmers, conscripted for war, find tnemselves face-toface with an army Red Army of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, or an army of an oppressed colonial or semi-colonial peonle such as that of China or Nicaragua—they can fulfill their! duty to their own cause only by | | going, over bodily to the army of | liberation. (Already a_ splended’ + Printed over a background Sickle with the photographs worked in. bulletins, etc. pe pag e of eight stamps. Q ooks for $75; 125 for $100. The VOTE COMMUNIST Stamp To be posted on envelopes, letters, programs, shop papers, PRICE: ‘Rook of eighty stamps, $1.00. Can be resold at 10¢ * WORKERS( COMMUNIST) PARTY COST OF THE ENTIRE TOUR $375 $25 First Payment, balance payable in installments. | rialist war-makers. | Vote Communist in the election. |]} Demonstrate today against impe- |]! rialist war. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. | Workers (Communist) Party | ee MS Oh ANC oo America. 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