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4 4 LSE ON Ae cm ee rn i a i | i } a { Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1928. Ba Worker Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Daiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only) By, Mail (outside of New York): £$8 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months §2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. 2 Editor. -ROBERT MINOR " Assistan -WM. F. DUNNE Entered as second-class at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER QA For the Workers! WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! VOTE COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! Dan Tobin and Prte Du Pont So Dan Tobin is sore! This so-called presi- dent of the International . Brotherhood of Teamsters tries to resign as treasurer of the American Federation of Labor because the Executive Council refused to endorse Al Smith. The same day the multimillionaire Pierre S. du Pont, head of the Powder Trust and a chief of General Motors, indicates that he also has a “resignation” in his pocket because he wants to give his time to the campaign of Al Smith. On the one side, Capital, in the real sense. On the other side, “Labor,” in the Pickwickian sense. But wait,a minute! This is a three-sided picture. On the self-same day the ‘Peoples’ Legislative Service,” the organization of com- mon-people-savers built upon the grave of the dead La Follette, also endorses the “sidewalk prince.” The position of Pierre du Pont is simple: | Being supremely interested in the greatest pos- sible exploitation of labor, in excluding ttade- unionism from all of the big trustified indus-| tries in |which he is concerned, and in a} thorough-going aggressive imperialist policy | ‘hroughout the world by the United States government, he thinks that of the two Wall | Street candidates Al Smith will give the best results as strikebreaker and imperialist war- maker. He is consistent and what might be) called “honest,” after the fashion of his class. | : The position of Dan Tobin is not so simple, | ut can be understood after a little reflection: | *e is called a “labor” official, but in fact he} “Peace-Time” Soldiers. Communists do not need to be reminded that ““peace”’ is not one of the blessings of capitalist society. War, which the liberals. and the pacifists seem to consider as a temporary and “unnatural” occurrence, the Communist under- stands is’ not only inevitable under capitalism, but is actually incessant. Should he be tempted to forget this fundamental lesson so frequently impressed upon him with the em- phasis of the policeman’s billy, the jail sen- tence, the gangster squad, a gentle reminder from any one or all of these will soon refresh his memory. | The Communist is a “‘peace-time” soldier on duty in battle fields in every section of the land. Yet it must be admitted, strange as it may seem, that in the case of a number of sruggles nearest to us less energy and atten- tion. has been“expended than in the more spec- tacular battles at a distance. One of these is The DAILY WORKER. We should immediately explain that the criticism is not made in reference to the re- sponse to appeals for financial support of our paper. Such responses have frequently ex- | | ceeded the expectations of everyone. The point! is made in connection with the agitation to | spread the influence and increase the readers of The DAILY WORKER. Considerable more can be accomplished here than is now even'being attempted. The DAILY WORKER in appearance and in the range of politan paper. No one more than the members of its editorial staff are conscious of its weak- nesses and its shortcomings. As rapidly as the financial and other limitations permit, these wll be fought against and overcome. But the larger problem of extending the in- fluence of our paper remains ‘still to be solved. ~ represents a cert2in social type which has al-| At the present we are beginning to work on the } \ most the same relationship to the working class that the big open-shop monarch, du Pont, has. If du Pont is a parasite on labor, so is Tobin. | Du Pont exploits tens of thousands of workers | in-his shops directly for the wealth he can ex- tract from their toil. Tobin makes a lucrative business of ploiting’” the credulity of workers, not in the shops but in the trade tnions. It is plain business with both of them, for the same object, money getting. Tobin mows as well as du Pont does that Al Smith ; an agent of the same Wall Street that made | nim governor ot New York, and that Al as/ strikebreaking and with an imperialist war dolicy. *hereby—as long as it lasts. His profession | _ of selling out the working class depends upon | i * suppressed and docile working class, and cer-| tainly it depends upon a government that will | .ct ruthlessly in attacking any real manifesta-/ tion of fighitng spirit in the unions and in de- stroying the left wing which, when it triumphs, will put Tobin out of business. And last but not Yeast, Tobin’s best connections for collect- | ing swag for his services are with the demo-| eratic politicians rather than the republican. ‘The La Folletites? These bankrupt fakers simply express their class—the petty capitalist | » stratum of society which complains bitterly of “he ruthlessness of the big trusts, but which lives only by its ambition to become themselves hig capitalists and in any test is likely to swing _ over, whining but supporting the politics of * : finance—capital. United States finance capital has its heyday 'in this election: It owns both big capitalist parties, owns the labor officialdom, through 4 it prevents the independent mass polit- activity of the working class, owns the faker-politicians who pass as “farm leaders,” | md succeeds in corrupting the leaders of the! ) petty capitalist victims of monopoly. - Dan Tobin’s fellow fakers at the head of the trade unions are of course as venal as he. But he ome of them have better bargains to make. Por instance, John L. Lewis. His business is | ‘the same as Tobin's: selling out the working ‘class. But his cutomers are in the other party|Mr. Blackmer (note that the newspapers and| of finance-capital. Is there any man who does | authorities all call the accused millionaire-per- not know that Lewis sighs for the position of |jurer “Mr.”) will doubtless take a parlor car | 1 ecretary of labor in a republican cabinet, now|to Berlin, where the German authorities can What has frightened the imper-|the Communists succeed in getting hat he sees himself on the edge of nowhere! consider’ the fine shades of legal difference be- ialists is the obvious disintegration, ucross their ‘n the Labor movement? _ So they straddle between the political parties. arty of the working class. _ The Workers (Communist) Party is the arty of the working class. | f capitalism, but are violently opposed to the | problem. No hope of its successful solution, however, is possible without the co-operation of the members and sympathizers of our Party. An earnest appeal is made here for the de- velopment of a sort of DAILY WORKER con- sciousness, and a response to the demands which will be made upon the Comrades in the course of the drive. This is one of the very important tasks of the “‘peace-time” soldiers. ° Rich Man’s Perjury, Monsieur perjury charges in order to determine whether of the treaty with our government,” says the counselor of the United States embassy at Paris. “Mr.” H. M. Blackmer is the famous “miss- ing witness” (as it is respectfully put) in the Teapot Dome case. charges, that the gentleman committed perjury in swearing out his income tax report after the big steal.- Of course Mr. Blackmer is not a common perjurer—Oh, mercy no! The American embassy is justified in con- sidering the extenuating cifcumstance that Mr. Blackmer could not report his full income with- out revealing the theft of some millions of dollars. His withholding of information from the income-tax office was due to the unfor- tunate predicament he found himself in, in PEACE? By Jacob Burck The Present Imperialist Dilemma in China news it attempts to cover has become a metro-| By EARL BROWDER. (Continued.) The Chinese revolution has pro- duced a phrase to describe those degenerate and corrupted Chinese who enter the service of the foreign oppressors, and help to enslave |death of the masses, the “leaders |fore “respectable,” corruption, The “Running Dogs Disintegration of Military Machine of Imperialism”; The| |their own people; they are called|of Chinese Nationalism” squander “running dogs of imperialism.” It is a just description, and applies in full force today to Kuomintang, which but a year ago was still the center of organization to overthrow polite cae in China. The Nanking government today is but a kennel of such “running dogs.” Mr. Sokolsky is afraid that the public association between the Nan- king government and the Peking manderins will discredit the Kuo- mintang. Quite sound! about the public surrender of the Kuomintang to imperialism? This surrender is so complete, so slavish, so extravagant, that even the im-| But what) untold millions in ostentatious lux- ury, and accumulate wealth in the foreign banks in the - Concessions. Chiang Kai-shek set the pace with his “million dollar wedding”; Nan- king, seat of government, has sim- ultaneously become the center of | Chinese night life; taxes, multiply- |ing in nationalist territory even faster than in the north, disappear |from the treasury also quicker, or never get there. my notice is the case of a returned }student from France whom I met |@ year ago as a rabid “left-winger,” joined the Nanking gang in Au- |perialists are embarrassed by it. | gust, for an appointment in the cus- “The French foreign minister is now study-|They find it necessary to rebuke |toms service, and now has « hun- cesident would serve the capitalist class with | ing the papers, giving special attention to the |their “running dogs,” and whisper | dred thousand dollars in a Shanghai And Tobin, like du Pont, will prosper|Mr. Blackmer is extraditable under the terms| It appears, according to| having some hundreds of thousands of dollars | of stolen money the source of which he could not reveal, and not to any intentional dis- honesty. This is the sort of reasoning ap- plicable to millionaires. And so the French and American authorities imperialists so deeply is have to consider the grave question of shades of difference in the legal meaning of the French word “parjure” and the American word thay initiated this, encouraged “Berjury.” That will take several weeks’ time. “When they reach a decision this embassy will advise the state department in Washing- ton if a Denver United States marshal should sharply to them, “Don’t cringe so much; you’re ruining your reputa- tion.” The clearest expression of this fact is found in the unsigned editorial in the “North China Daily News” of March 5, commenting up- on the article by Mr. Sokolsky, which gives the “dogs” an approv- ing pat while urging a slightly more erect attitude for appearances’ sake. It says: k “It is hardly surprising if the Kuomintang, genuinely anxious to rehabilitate prestige abroad, swing over too far in the other direction. They have already given proof of their wish to stand well with the powers ... they temporarily lose their grip on some of the things which are es- sential to the party.” Thus low has fallen the party which was founded by the fearless revolutionist, Sun Yat-sen, that the British imperialists publicly rebuke it as a too-servile flunkey! What Has Frightened the Imper- ialists? To find what has frightened the not far to seek. Their stomachs were not turned by the horrible atrocities of the White Terror; on the contrary, it and deliberately drove it to its ut- most excesses. The indescribable |bank and boasts of it. The whirl of graft-corruption-vice has become a storm, sweeping all before it. Outside of the accepted, and there- “The solid south is not so solid after all,” writes Joel Judson from Louisville, Kentucky. “From the point of view of placing the party ticket on the ballot,” he says, “the |prospects are decidedly favorable. I have secured all the necessary elec- tors. All that remains to be done now is to secure a thousand peti- tioners. This I believe can be done within the next ten days. The so- cial composition of the electors is |as follows: Nine workers, two shoe- jmakers, one tailor and one sign- |painter, the latter four being self- |employed. Of those only one was a | Communist, but since they joined |up as electors three of them joined |the party. Three more have prom- ised to join next week.” It looks \as if the south is thawing out a bit. | * as | Slogan: For the organization of \the unorganized! This shall be the | answer of the Workers (Communist) Party te the latest empty threat of \sufferings of the millions of work-| the executive council of the A. F, | | ers and peasants who are starving and rotting under the medieval militarism of both north and south | of L. to drive them out of the trade | union movement. That there are |any Communists left in the trade come to Paris to arrest Mr. Blackmer,” says |has not aroused a single twitch of unions is not the fault of the bu- the American embassy. tween the meaning of the German word “meineid” and the meaning of the American word “perjury.” And then doubtless |emorse in the dead souls of the imperialist butchers. One must look elsewhere for the cause of the reaucrats. The Communists simply cannot be driven out. They may ex- |pel one here and there, but there | devil of imperialism now hinting at|are always others to carry on the entering a monastery. demoralization, corruption, and physical breakdown ,of the whole lot of militarist governments, old and new, throughout China. Every _work, and in the expelling process propaganda. | Cie le | But the Communists are not con- ‘tent with fighting inside the exist- ing trade unions, important though We can cut it short by informing the flun- | military headquarters in China is a that is; They are insisting that the keys of these capitalist governments that it is all a damned farce,—that there is no such word as “perjury” in the American language—for rich men, stinking mese of graft and’ vice: every official from top to bottom has succumbed, in one form or an- other, ta the universal corruption. In the midst of starvation and 4 ‘millions of unorganized workers | must be organized into industrial unions under a militant progressive ‘leadership. So one of the main slo- jgans of the Workers (Communist) A humble example that came to | CAMPAIGN CORNER orgy of violent crime is sweeping | the country, committed not only by | the desperate masses of the people | but by the military officers and) civil bureaucrats. Almost every-| where the “anti-Communist” cam- | paign has produced a regular sys- tem, accompanying the actual slaughter of workers, of abductions | \of wealthy people on vague charges of “Communism,” from which they can extricate themselves only by two means—first, to call upon per- sonal friends holding positions equally powerful with those of the kidnapers, or purchase their fret- dom by sums running into tens of thousands of dollars. In addition to this blackmail of the wealthy or well-to-do, large numbers of the most respectable, conservative * middle-class people have been executed as “Commu- nists” to satisfy a personal enmity. of some militarist. Party in this campaign is: For the organization of the unorganized. * aoe By the way, it was rather funny to read that William Green and Company decided to organize the |airplane workers before the indus- try got so big that it would be un- touchable. Never mind, there is enough money even now in aircraft to purchase the whole executive |council. What about the automo- | bile workers, the steel workers, and | the’ millions of workers in other in- dustries that are left out in the cold? Strange that Green did not think of organizing the radio an- nouncers or the boxing referees. What a collection of false alarms! AE te J. W. Leigh, who runs the Leigh News Service in New Orleans, writes to thank us for a copy of the Na- tional Platform. Says he passes our publicity on to the press and gets oe of it published. Good stuff, Ww. * * * The latest estimate of the cost of the election campaign is $20,000;- 000. To this we add $100,000. The capitalists will spend the $20,000,- 00 to corrupt the voters and buy votes in carload lots. The Commu- nists will use the $100,000 to carry on propaganda among the workers and poor farmers and mobilize them for the struggle against the exploit- ers and corruptors. Don’t worry whether the capitalists raise their $20,000,000. It’s as good as in their pockets now. Concentrate on the job of raising the $100,000 Commu- nist Campaign Fund. Send your contribution at once to the National Election Campaign Committce, 43 Last 125th Street, New York, Al- exander Trachtenberg, treasurer. Superimpose upon this weltering chaos’ the factional struggles of the vival militarist cliques at the top of the Kuomintang and a picture is drawn which might well cause un- easiness even among the hard- boiled handful of western imperial- and forbid any more eruptions. What Are thé Practical Conclusions ot Imperialism? Perhaps the reader of these lines in faraway Europe or America may get the impression from the quota- tions above that the imperialists are preparing to moderate the White Terror against the workers. Nothing could be farther from their minds! True, they are becoming pessimistic about the ability of the Kuomintang to harness the revolu- tion. True, they have been inspired with a new idea of what to do in the situation. But it is nothing so crude as an outsider might imag- ine. No, the new idea is little short of inspiration, product of the mind of a genius. And what is this new idea? Nothing but the original words of the “North China Daily News” will serve to convey it in all its bril- liance. Here it is: “Many of our Chinese readers will remember Macaulay’s essay) (one of the finest things he ever wrote) on ‘Ranke’s History of the Popes’ and how skilfully the Church of Rome made use of the enthusiasts, who under persecu- tion would have turned into dan- gerous fanatics, assigning them special spheres of work, in which they became founders of orders, now the greatest glory and the most zealous agents of the church. Possibly, since the Russians are gone, it might not be too late to try the same way with the Com- munists, who, after all, are of the Sons of Han.” It having been shown by experi- ence that the Communists are the only ones capable of establishing order, let us, now that we have driven out the Russians who in- spired them, make use of the Chi- nese Communists by “assigning them special spheres of work,” “to try the same way with the Com- munists” which has been so success- ful with Chiang-Kai-shek and his cohorts; maybe the Communists will thus save the situation for us— such is the’ latest project for the salvation of imperialism in China. That such an idea could be writ- ten, not in the columns of “Puck” or “Judge,” but in the solemn edi- torial department of the leading British organ in China, shows how desperately they conceive the situ- ation, The crowning touch of the true imperialist is in the last words: They say, the Communists after all ere Sons of Han, of an inferior race; now the Russians are gone, we ‘surely can corrupt them as we have the militarists. They cannot even think about the Chinese people without insulting them. Thus a desperate imperialism frankly grasps at straws, while the Chinese revolution sweeps on, in- exorably grinding away and smash- ing all the obstacles in its path, 4 ‘Told You So keds fifteen hundred Communists were arrested in France last Sunday for staging aff @iiti-war under a permit given by the mayor, who is a Communist. Chiappe; the Paris chief of police organized an army of policemen and broke up the demonstration after a struggle. | This is the same Chiappe who per- | mitted the royalist Daudet, to escape | to Belgium where he is now enjoy- |ing himself writing articles in favor of the restoration of the monarchist regime in France. Daudet engaged in open battle with the Paris police, calling out his private Fascist army to defend his fortified newspaper office. Evidently the French bour. geoisie do not care who threatens to overthrow the government as long as the threateners favor the perpetuation of~the capitalist sys- tem. * * * THE new reign of terror against the Communist Party in France |is a recognition of the growing | power of the organization as well as a sign of the approach of another war. The socialists have ceased to protest against war. In fact it was a socialist who introduced the bill which was passed by the French | legislature calling for the conscrip- tion of every man and woman in the | republic for service in the next war, either on the battlefront or behind | the lines, in the factdries and on the | farms. a | * “$ts | HUMANITE, the great Communtst daily has a circulation of 250,000 | the largest circulation of any Com- munist daily in the world outside of the Soviet Union. Humanite was once the organ of the socialist party of France but the Commun- ists got control of it. Tho the French socialists pull a heavier vote in election campaigns than the Communists they have no daily pa- per. The French socialists are im- perialists and are not organized for | the purpose of overthrowing capital- ism but to secure office. Almost every political party in France from | the extreme right to the so-called left claims to be socialist of some hue, but there is only one party or- ganized with the aim of establishing a Workers Republic and that is the Communist Party. * * 6 yo will the Daily Worker have a circulation one half that of the great French daily? Or even one fourth. Comrade Ravitch the new business manager showed me figures that go to prove that the circulation |of the Daily Worker is on the up- |grade. The part it played in the |miner’s strike and the part it is |now playing in the New Bedford | strike has contributed to this up- |ward trend, “But much greater | Progress could be made if every |Communist and’ sympathiser took the task of spreading the paper an ists who sit on top of this volcano | Seriously. * * QNE of the weak spots in Com- munist activity in the United | States is the slackness in the dis- | tribution of literature. The written word is powerful and travels faster than the spoken word. One copy of |the Daily Worker may be read by |ten persons, If jit falls into the | hands of a worker who never read it | before, he is sure to be interested and to talk about it to his fellow | workers. “He may curse over its contents but at least it’ will affect him. The writer usually leaves his copy in a subway train and notices that no sooner is the paper tossed on to the seat than somebody makes |a dash for it. * * * SUE yay trainmen are in the habit of picking up papers found in the cars. Perhaps they are supposed to do this as a matter of duty. Per- haps saving a few pennies that might be. otherwise spent on a newspaper is the motive. But how- ever they can be depended on to grab a Daily Worker and take it to the barn where it will be read by others. Those who have a few ex- tra pennies to spare mornings could not use them to better advantage than by purchasing a few copies of the Daily Worker and leaving them where a proletarian eye is most likely to fall on ‘them. Se Ne r IS possible that inside of a few years our debutantes will not have to go to Europe to snare counts, barons and dukes, thanks to the Russian.emigres who still keep the lamp of hope trimmed in their hearts, hope that the Romanoffs will yet return to the throne of their ancestors. The Grand Duke Cyril, who is living in Paris, made a baron out of Charles P. Van Wrangel, of 420 West 130th Street, New York. You can imagine a well-to-do boot- legger living in that section of the metropolis but hardly a baron. * * . said that hope deferred maketh the heart sick. But as long as Russian emigre gets a wealthy American widow to marry him hope springs eternal in his breast. What of it if the jolly old Romanoffs never get back on the throne as long as the countless pi rs have their roast Long Island duck and a bottle of champagne? And while on the subject of the sparkling giggle water, we learn that the most pro- minent supporter of Grand Duke Cyril is a fellow with the title and name of Duke Dimitri, who is an agent i a bach aio et hase pagne. Most anybody in such a posi- » tion would ‘be liable to have royal notions. demonstration in a Paris suburb » atebibatneed in scripture it is”

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