The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1928, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, 928: Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Dziwork” SUBSCRIPT. By Mail (in New York only) ION RATES By Mail (outside of New York): Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 $8 per year. $4.50 months 2.50 three months $6.00 per year 3.50 six months $2 three months Address and mail t chee to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. ROBERT MINOR -WM. F. DUNNE ass mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Por President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers! For the Party of the Class Struggle! VOTE COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! A Trade in Blood. In the treaty States imperi called Nanking government, the American im- Perialists seek to strengthen the bloody arms of the counter-révolution in China, and in re- turn the Chinese butchers undertake to pay their Wall Street protectors in the. blood-of China. 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 ho 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 Kuomintaag 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, stfuggling against each other, are unwilling to grant tariff auto- nomy. 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 The Nanking war lords will not fight | point of the bayonet! $2,000,000 for Clouting Pugs! 5 the By the treaty the American eagle not merely representative of the cauliflower ear business, extends its protecting wings over the bloody| has retired from the squared circle with ap- Nanking reactionaries who have slaughtered! proximately $2,000,000 in his kick, which was tens of thousands of workers and peasants, but! injected into it by the section of the American gains substantial advantages over its rivals| populace which likes to see others mauling each in the struggle for Chinese markets. The eagle | other, just as some patriots enjoy a nice gory Eugene Joseph Tunney, | war at a safe distance. | | week. a few clouts in exchange. The | their lives performing useful To abolish a system of society | flow from capitalism. Money this campaign. | | Campaign. Fight against the imperialist war danger! ; usin Fight for the Chinese Revolution! Help the just signed between the United | Chinese workers and peasants drive the Ameri- alist government with the s0-| can and other imperialists out of China at the The readers of this paper do not go in for prize-fighting. The hundreds of thousands who jread the Communist press never collectively | spent enough money on the so-called manly art |to keep Tex Rickard in dollar cigars for one | 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 nothing but less than a decent living in return. | Thousands of them die annually of hunger. |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- mediate struggles, against wage cuts, unem- ployment, imperialist wars, and other evils that | 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 We call on the workers and ex-| intellectual workers spend labor and get which showers is needed for | THE DIPLOMA (Continued) By JAY LOVESTONE rE election platform adopted by the National Nominating Con- vention of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party is the most complete presentation of Communist analysis 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. Amet- greater in scale than the one which started | ploited farmers to contribute as generously as| August ’4, 1914 and which shook the capitalist system to its foundations. The workers and peasants of China, who are | issue between the exploited masses and the ex- It is only a training exercise during | Kuomintang war lords and the imperialists, are| which ‘the revolutionary vanguard of the| struggling for the liberation of China. In this| working class are mobilizing their forces for | struggle they have appealed for aid to the| the struggle and for the final battle in which) | the bosses: will hit the historical canvas never | now conducting a bitter struggle against the workers of all countries. The battle against imperialism is not merely the battle of the Chinese workers. It is the battle of the entire working class. Aid the Chinese working class in its strug- mintang murderers! | possible to this fund. ican imperialism is presented in its true light. The striking gap be- tween the wealth of the bourgeoisie and the poverty of large sections of the working class and exploited This election campaign will not decide the farmers is brought into clear con- | ploiters. to rise again. | A hundred thousand dollars for a preliminary |- | bout with capitalism. A hundred thousand dollars fo organize the gle against imperialist oppression and the Kuo- | masses for the final struggle that will send the | imperialist system to the mat forever. YOUTH TO DEFEND U. S. SR ETS SE RRR. By I. AMDUR MONG the methods of preparing the youth of the Soviet Union for the defense of their country the system of meneuvers—sham battles —is the most widespread and popu- | prise attack. lar, Each Sunday the Y. C. Lers| Both’ ‘parties of one or another of the six dis- into battalions, tricts, of which Moscow is composed, | squads. Special countryside to|and patrols were Equipped with Journeys into ‘the stage a sham battle. $-inch magazines, blank bullets, _-wooden “maxim-guns,” which, when | formed. ~ swung round and. round make,a by 15 nurses rattling noise not unlike the real thing, the young “red soldiers” show keen interest and spirit in these military games. Komsomol Uniforms Last Sunday some 400 of the youth from the Khamovnitchesky | _ district took train to the suburbs of "Moscow. Hach of them had a rifle and a belt of blank bullets, Al- “we most all of them wore the new kharki Komsomol uniform /some- > what similar to that worn by the German Yunge Rote-Front fight- ers). About 35 per cent of the youth were girls. ‘ "Some 17 versts out haif of the up left the train and struck in- . The “second half traveled e 15 versts (verst is three-| u of a mile) farther. Both ips were accompanied by Red) a officers who explained the plies. were ideal. mire. patrols. Ye had left e of the game. narching on Moscow; the first “roup had been hurriedly dispatched from Moscow, to the neighborhood | ever, where the “enemy” was supposed durin; im communication company. (to main- tain contact betwen the companies) Each party was attended each of whom was fully equipped with medical Nevertheless, indeed. They were cheered ox where they were expected | spirit of the group as bein; |to appear, with orders to put them |soldier-like, indeed, and most dis- to rout at any cost. both groups was, by using every | | possible means, to catch the other) unaware and gain victory by a sur- | The aim of | ciplined. the “enemy” had vancing stealthily about a verst| away. A feeling of intense excite- ment seized the “defending army,” had been. divided companies ‘and maxim-gun squads organized, and a all tiredness fell sup-| otonous whistling : then the “enemy” The weather condition, from the | Stealthily they came, looking war- point of view of the youth, could | ily about them, but never for a mo- not have been worse, although from | ment supposing of the lurking dan- the standpoint of roughing it they | ger that awaited them immediately It had been raining for |in front. ; the ‘last couple. of days and the| nearer, then softly was heard the ground was one vast spongy quag-| command, “Load”—‘Aint”’ The air was startled with a deaf- heart and song on lips the gallant |ening sound as dummy bullets and “defending army” strode boldly on,|maxim-gun rattles blazed upon the | bourgeoisie still finds itself firmly over turf highways, through woods, | opposing force. “Charge,” rang a villages, fields, halting periodically | command, and down upon the enemy to await word from the advance|swept the “defending army” |triumphant shouts of victory. It was a complete and successful | The “enemy” had fallen, as | o'clock in the morning; it waS | it were, upon the very point of their now close on 1 p. m. and still no| opponents’ bayoncts, and, after a| sign of the opposing force. going was hard. Through swampy threw down their arms in token of and marshy fields and reads, ankle- | surrender. The second |deep in mud with water squelching | were ‘an invading “enemy” | from the boots at every step, they | | presented a sorry-looking “army” | up, how-| results of the “game” were ana- by the Red Army officers who, | lyzed. The officers pointed out the | g the halts, would praise the | mistakes of both sides and particu- | g very|larly those\of the opposing forces with light | * * | the station at 9| rout: The half-hearted but a meeting was And then, breathlessly, the pa- | trol rushed up with the news that | For about 10 minutes there was a dead silence except for the mon- | Nearer they came, amd . FTER the excitement had cooled been sighted ad- away and, wary of the rain, and came into view. “Fire.” with ineffective rally, held in which the trast. The unemployment crisis is analyzed from a Marxist viewpoint and a program for immediate ac- tion is proposed. The parties of the big and small business interests -—republican, democratic and social- ist—are put before the masses in their true light. Program Outlined. A program to meet the offensive \of the capitalists is outiined in de- \tail. Speejal attention is paid to |the heroic struggle of the miners. | Particular emphasis is laid on the |need for mobilizing the masses to paralyze the aggressive imperialist maneuvers of Wall .Street against the Central and South American countries, China and the Soviet Union. The party pledged itself to do everything in its power to turn the next imperialist war into a civil war and raises the slogan: “Not a man, not a gun, not a cent for the imperialist army and navy.” The party called upon the American ma- rines to go over to the side of the revolution in Nicaragua and China. The party demands complete and immediate independence for all American colonies and semi-eqlo- nies. We demand immediate recog- and alert, they swiftly sprang to|nition of the. Soviet Union and |cover, taking advantage of every bit of undergrowth and tree. establishment of direct connections ‘Communist, Program Outlined; Veil Stripped) From Capitalist Parties between the American and Russian working class. * Pa | | Veil Stripped. HE veil is stripped from the| hypocritical capitalist democracy | serving as the most cunning, pow- | erful, ruthless strikebreaking agency | in the world—the strikebreaking United States government. The party makes clear its position as an 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 assume power by elect- ing more and more members to con- gress or executive officials.” Our party demands a labor party: “.. . Because it considers this the first decisive step towards in- dependent political action by the working class, the first step of the workers to break away from the parties of the bosses. At the same time the Communist Party considers it its duty to tell the workers frankly that a labor party has its limitations and that it will not be able to lead the workers in their final struggle for their emancipation. Only a Communist Party can do that.” Positioh 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 the abolition 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-, groes on line of color. Abolition of By OLGA GOLD. ‘HE constantly increasing 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 country ‘where the 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 19238, 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- perialism in Nicaragua is an ex- all laws forbidding intermarriage between persons of different races. Abolition of all Jim Crow laws. Immediate removal of all restric- tions in all trade unions against the 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 program to meet these conditions are outlined in the platform. Prohibition. In_ discussing the prohibition question, the platform brands alco- holism as “one cf the most terrible 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 corrupt, hypocritical prohibition en- forcement.” 4 The platform then declares: “1. The Workers (Communist) Party favors the repeal of the Volstead Act and the 18th Amend- ment. iu : “2. Dissolution of the federal and state prohibition enforcement’ apparatus. “3. Energetic propaganda againsf alcoholism as one of the most malignant social diseases under capitalism.” The Capitalist Nations Are Planning Attack On Soviet Union ample of American intervention which clears the road for the in- creasing oppression of Mexico and South America. “We can foresee the approaching war striking over the horizon all over the globe. f One of the factors of the acute danger of an imperialist world war 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 ‘and air forces to fight against the Chinese workers. The Chinese workers are the world’s most exploited. The weekly earnings of the most skilled workers, such, as building trades workers, painters, etc., is hardly above three dollars and fifty cents. The common laborer gets from one dollar to one dollar and fifty 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 four times over in the last twenty years. The United States has in- jthe party By Jacob Burck Our Party’s-Election Campaign Our summing up slogan is “For- ward to a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government.”| We emphasize that a workers’ and farmers’ government in the United States will “,.. free all American colonies immediately, grant the right of full self-determination to all Latin American peoples, will realize so- cial equality for Negroes, wiil dis- 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 hand them over to the mortgaged and tenant farmers and agricul- tural workers, wili nationalize all banks and commercial interests.” Class Struggle, Slogan. The whole spirit and purpose of election campaign is summed up in the conclusion of the platform which calls upon the work- ing masses “to go forward by means of relentless class struggle” and 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 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 electivn campaign. The outlook is, that because of the energetic activities of our party in the big struggles 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. i 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 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 vestments in China amounting to all nations and peoples are watching $70,000,000, Japan’s Told You So | 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 calluses on the Chinese back and less rice in his bowl. ew gee 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- land when even the infallibility of a prayerbook is questioned. * * TLLIAM 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 White retreated with drums beating | but leaving the flag of prostitution lying bedraggled on the field. * ee hon T APPEARS that this fellow White makes a specialty of placing his pen at the disposal of whoever has the dough. When he launched his attack on Al Smith, the Smithson- ians went to their files and dug up the evidence to show that in 1912 White was saying nasty things about the vice-president candidate on the G, O. P. ticket, Mr. Charles Curtis. White said Curtis’s condust was iniquitous. But now he is puri- fied by the heat waves that flow from the political anatomy ,of H. Hoover. Still, William Allen White is only a scribbler making his hay while the sun shines. uae es IT’S tit for tat between Hoover and Smith as far as labor is con- cerned. The members of the execu- tive council of the A. F. of L., now 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 ovt that Henry J. Allen, author of the Kansas in- dustrial Act, is head of Hoover's publicity department. Of course the fat A. F. of L. boys are only spoof- ing. They wculd not give a hang if both campaij ns were managed by two strikebre.king detective agen- cies as long as they got theirs. et TH assassin who pulled the fatal tri; on Obregon made a con- fession*in which he absolves Mo- ronés, 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 have motives far from altruistic and deserving patriots are ready to step into the comfortable berths formerly oceupied by Morones and his hench- men. Son OHobesty ‘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 efpionage and the fomenting of plots of war, but it will be a united front of a) of the invading im- perialist powers who will join fagainst the champion of the work- ing-class movement. investments with eagerness all of the events in (To Be Continued.) ri- tb- ai-