The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1928, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW 1x k. FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1928. 4) ye Daily Ze Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Worker Party a Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday Se-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Dziwor! SUBSCRIPTION RATES “” By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8 per year $4.50 six inonths $2.50 three months $6.00 per year 0 six months $2 three months | Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union “Square, New York, N. Y. cxm,21 Editor... ROBERT MINOR 4 aE Assistant WM. F. DUNNE — Entered as s VOTE COMMUN WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For the Workers! Al Smith’s “Roosevelt” Alibi. “And just as Theodore Roosevelt had to sue an obscure editor in Michigan for libel in order Yorks ) to destroy the slander that he wasa drunkard, | | * . so Alfred E. Smith has had to challenge Dr. | No one is fool Straton in order to deal with the charge that |who has spent he is the champion of all the vices.” |Tammany Hall, —N. Y. World. leader, Excellent! Al Smith’s challenge to the Reverend John, Roach Straton is precisely an imitation of Theo- dore Roosevelt's famous “6-cent libel suit” against the editor of a Michigan small-town paper—and it is precisely the same kind of monumental fraud. | these two facts One of the jokes of future historians will be | It the famous incident when Theodore Roosevelt preacher, “6 aes i i % Y | ‘proved” in the Michigan court that he was! John Roach Sti “not a drinking man,” that, in fact, he “never took a drink” except—if we remember right, under the sternest orders of a doctor. | Why is this sort of buncombe worth men- “tioning? Only because such incidents show in| a lightly dramatic way how utterly and com- pletely, even ridiculously, the organs of law and he press are used to put over any sort of idiotic lie that may necessary at any par-| ticular moment be for the collective benefit of the ruling class. The ideological superstruc- ture of the capitalist society is built upon and conforms to the economic structure; the cap-| ) italist class owns the machinery of production, | the machinery of law, the machinery of the press and the machinery of the pulpit, and the schools—and the prevailing “public opinion” | is shaped according to the needs of the ruling -~ class. When Roosevelt put over the farce of get- ting a verdict from court to the effect that he was not a drunkard, every newspaper editor and every other informed person knew that the whole affair was a screaming theatrical | comedy upheld by the blandest and nerviest | sort of “gentlemen’s perjury.” | \ And now it is evident that Al Smith’s ad- visors are pulling, as the World indicates, the same sort of stunt. There is no one in his sewers of New church, to spea! tist church—a of Rome and t the intellectual protestantism. They will lie farce. product of the crookedest political organization ever known in American history. Tammany Hall is an institution the life’s blood of which |Peddler of M is drawn from its successful organization of Smith, the sly _ the trade of prostitution, the organization of «“rake-off” on the wages of miserable street- | ers, the systematization of police-graft in| : sums of millions of dollars from gambling | Working class. houses, the police-licensing of crime in general, | men, the high development of election frauds, | min of capitalism, of whatever sort. the million-dollar swindles of city contracts; Vote Commu For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW LST! given to Tammany contractors, and last but not by any means least, by the selling. of public | privileges to the giant corporations of New enough to think that Al Smith, his entire life “working up” in| and who is now its graduate ignorant or innocent of this filthy in-| stitution of crime. But now Al Smith’s managers have found | the way to manufacture a “public: opinion” to | the contrary. It is an ingenious method. Al, ike most of the Tammany politicians, is a Ro- | man Catholic. Vaguely in the minds of millions of Babbits, there is an association between | : Tammany and Rome. raton, becomes the spokesman for the view that Smith is “the deadliest foe in| America today of the forces of moral progress and true wisdom.” curate expression of the reaction of hundreds of thousands of small-town petty bourgeois to the fact that Smith is a product of the political | imperialist pickets in Wall ‘Street. Straton’s words are an ac- York. k from the pulpit, to deny the Baptist preacher's accusation. Madison Square Garden would not do. No, sir. Only a church. A protestant church. | communicado for two days. And from the pulpit. And it must be a Bap- fundamentalist Baptist church. he nice and “Beautiful” thing, decay ‘that is called American The capitalist newspapers will do the rest. like hell. In fact both the re- publican and democratic papers alike would) consider it “bad form” not to uphold the idiotic The working class should be made to under- | senses that does not know that Al Smith is a|Stand these theatricals. plays put on the stage for the purpose of de- luding the masses. They are shams— Straton, the miserable iddle-Age superstitution, and adventurer who uses equally | his connection with Tammany gutter of crime and the Roman church (also a political insti-|and the Young Workers’ (Com-| tution)—these two are equally enemies of the’ including the gentle art of professional gun- | own revolutionary culture, and fight the ver-| nist. -(Communist) Party on the ballot ip Kentucky are now in circulation. Six more new members have been | signed up for the Party by our or-| i izer, Comrade Judson. Not one > of the six is a colonel. It used to be | difficult to pick your way thru the ', tall grasses of Kentucky without stepping on a military title, and colonel was the big favorite. Per- haps the Kentuckians are running out of tall hats and mustaches. Without these scenic effects no re- | spectable colonel can flourish. ‘ * | moving, comrades, The printers are | ready for another edition. aoe Our $100,000 Communist Cam- paign Fund is not being neglected. Dollars keep coming from all over the country. A poor farmer from Rose Lake, Idaho, sends his mite. Two dollars can send twenty Na- tional PYatforms out on the road do- ing a lot of mischief for capitalism. * * * Pat Devine reports progress in the securing of signatures to place the presidential and state candi- dates of the Workers (Communist) Party on the ballot. Two thousand signatumes are required for presi- dential electors, senatorial and gub- ernatorial candidates. Congression- |al candidates need 500 each. Oc- tober 6th is the deadline for filing petitions. “We will have our quota long before then,” writes Pat. It | would be just like Pat to collect a few extra names and save them for an emergency. He is of Scotch des- cent, you know. * "Comrade Judson intends to hop Tennessee after getting the kk. of circulating petitions going Fs . Tennessee! Seems we ue heard the name before. It | does not take a graduate of a mem- os y saining school to remember the sus monkey trial at Dayton a few years ago. Tennessee is famous -gomething else. It is the home ' and business address of “Major” , L. Berry, | chief strike- My breaker of the printing pressmen’s | union and now head of Al Smith’s 3 ! labor bureau. With the Hugo Oehler has Stanley Clark’s Communist candidates on the ballot | speaking tour’mapped out, and the ) Tennessee the workers and poor only thing Clark has to do is to in farmers who neither believe in capi. | * * will have an opportunity to say 80|ing comes as easy to Clark as col- with a cross. \lecting money to a deacon. * * | hope Stanley does a little collecting, Orders for National Platforms too. There is nothing that brings/an are coming in thick and fast. The |audience closer to a speaker and Nutmeg States (Connecticut) is do- | his cause than a generous. contribu- ing well. Here are two letters, one |tion, Clark will cover the states of from Norwalk and another) from | Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, New Haven. James V. Doyle sends | Oklahoma, - Texas, New Mexico, Cw capy, and Anton Kratofil Colorado, Wyoming, Wisconsin and ——- : draw a long breath, step into his | talism nor the rib-theory of creation flivver and step on the gas. Speak- | Let's | BAMPAIGN CORNER The petitions to put the Workers) sends for ten. Keep the programs | Utah. He will speak in the mining| | fields in the industrial sections, and |in the agricultural regions. | * ne Comrade B. H. Lauderdale re-| |ports that the Hod Carriers’ Union jin Cisco, Texas, contributed $18 to |the Communist Campaign Fund. “The socialist party put H. M. Me Conlies of Cisco on the ballot with- out his consent,” he writes. “Mc- Conlies is out of sympathy with the socialist policy, and bought a copy of the National Platform and sub. scribed to the United Farmer which supports the Communist policy. The democratic executive committee sent out instructions to all boards to bar Negro voters in the |July 28 primary election. The courts upheld this ruling. Negro | voters presenting themselves at the \polls have been universally barred. \I visited an influential Negro in | Cisco (who with several others was |turned away from the yoting | booths) and presented our program and he was impressed. I made | some good contacts with presidents and members of the Cisco Market- ing Association and am invited to their Saturday meeting.” That’s | the stuff! * * ‘As a parting shot, comrades, | don’t forget that the raising of the $100,000 Communist Campaign Fund is the first point on our agenda. Solicit contributions. Checks and money orders should be made payable to Alexander Trach- tenberg, treasurer, National tion Campaign Committee, 43 East 126th St., New York City. \ | | | | Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 | election | Elee- | “WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A BUNCH LIKE THAT?” is mot accidental that the clownish'| fundamentalist Baptist preacher, 16¢ By MOISSAYE J. OLGIN July 8, Police attack on the anti-| Placards torn. Robert Minor) elie : dragged down fi ile. | Therefore it is a stroke of genius that led | Fight Ae Hive eee Al’s advisors to shove him into a protestant | tence. July 9. Police attack on an open| air Communist meeting in Detroit. Three young workers arrested. Beat- en up at the police station. Kept in- July 14. Police attack on an anti- | fascist demonstration in front of the |Italian consul in New York. Plac- The psychological effect of it upon the soft! ards torn. Demonstrators shoved! Place outside human will; on the minds of the millions of Babbits will be to | about. bridge the mystic gulf that exists in their) minds between the strange and terrible thing | July 16. Samuel Herman, young Communist of Waukegan, Ill, in- |formed that he will be tried by |federal authorities for “inciting to riot,” his crime having been parti- cipation in the textile strike in Kenosha. July 19, Police attack New Bed- ford pickets. Strikers sentenced to turbing the peace” and “obstructing | \the police.” Pinto, picket leader, |sentenced to five months in jail. July 19. Police attack a cam- paign meeting of Workers’ (Com- munist) Party in Philadelphia. Five of the speakers arrested. Charged | with disorderly conduct. July 20. Kenosha, Wis. Police at- tack and break up open air meeting of the workers’ (Communist) Party munist) League. Two comrades ar- rested. July 23. A large force of police Join your own class movement, build your| makes a violent onslaught on a picket in New Bedford, smashing \the lines, arresting six, and brutally | beating up Emmanuel Mario ‘for | protecting a woman striker. July 24.° Four strikers of the | Fruit and Dairy Clerks Union beat- /en up and arrested in New York. July 25. Guerrilla and police at- tack on left wing fur workers’ in the streets of New York. July 25. Four members of the Young Workers’ (Communist) League arrested at Camp Devens, Mass., for distributing copies of the “Young Worker” to the members of the Citizens’ Military. Training _ Camp. | July 26, 27, 28 ete., Aug’ 1, 2, 8, 4, |ete——New outrages in New Bed- |ford... from one to five months for “dis-| The Bosses’ gunmen are having a hard time strikebreaking, these days. By Fred Ellis Told You So E anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti is ap- proaching and hundreds of raemo- rial demonstrations and mass meete ings will be held all over the United States under the auspices of Inter- national Labor Defense. The mur- der of those two labor ieaders was as ghastly a crime as the American tuling class ever dared commit. Had the American trade movement not been headed by a gang of cor- rupt capitalistically-minded bureau- crats, the Massachusetts governor would have never signalled the ex- ecutioner to turn on the switch. As it was, only the radicals made any serious effort to save them from death. * UT for the radicals Tom Mooney would have been burned up in the_electric chair twelve years ago. Yet you hear so much balderdash about “bonafide” labor leaders. Their bonafides consist of doing the bidding of the capitalists, except on the rare occasions when the cap- italists are so bull-headed that they don’t know what’s good for them. * ae | | * * George N. Peek, chairman of the Cornbelt Committee intends to have something else besides corn under his belt after the election campaign is over. He made the amazing dis- covery that Al Smith is strong for the farmers. Yes, for the farmers” “We Have Full Right to Unlimited Freedom; Our Exploiters Have No Rights.” | | capital state trust on earth? | The theory is correct. But sMarx-| jare no purely mechanical processes:| “Historic events do not take | contrary, they occur threugh the will of human beings, through I the class struggle, if we deal with a class society. The will of a class is always determined by concrete circumstances; in this respect it is by no means ‘free’. The will it- self, however, is a factor determ- ining historic processes. If we do away with human deeds, with the struggle of classes, etc., we do away with the historic pro- cess as a whole.” (N. Bucharin, “World Economy and Imperial. | ism.” p. 127).* The number of cases is legion. |. Every day workers’ gatherings are | being illegally broken up by the |police, workers illegally arrested, sentences imposed on trumped up| | charges like “disorderly conduct” or) “inciting to riot.” Every day some- }one of our comrades is arrested somewhere. .'These attacks have) become our daily bread. * * | | | | | * | It seems to me that we do not | police and court crimes. It seems to me we are not even sufficiently | aroused by all these brutal. assaults. We are too theoretical, too ab- stract. We almost consider it natural that the!hand of imperialist Wall Street should interfere with | everyone of our steps. We see so |clearly the power of Wall Street |behind those “law and order” in- | dignities, that we, perhaps uncons- lotherwise. For are we not con- Wall Street is the consolidated power of the most centralized and | protest sentiments, | sive, | vanguard of the working class. | cohesion. | gram, protest ‘vigorously enough against} \ciously, assume that it could not be| a ie i % |son why we should not come in| fronted by the strongest imperialist|from the one manifested in nature. |throngs to the City Hall, demand-| state power in the world? Are we | When classes “must,” it is-a mat- ing that police terror be stopped. | not fighting the strongest finance| ter of will, and wills can be in-|] see no reason why we should not march through the streets with) : pebetesy Wall Street, of course, must at-| placards reading, “Down with Police | |ism teaches us that historic events) tack the left wing of the labor move-/ Brutalities!”, “Down with. the Ar) ut Wall Street is not an|rests of Strikers and Pickets!” 1) If we were|see no reason why we should not | fluenced by human actions. ment, bi inanimate apparatus. more alive, more animated with, more aggres-| more agile in face of the; enemy, there would be barriers to) the will of Wall Street. | Wall Street is stronger than we are. We are not yet a large party.| | Strength in public life, however, is) not measured by numbers alone. We) are strong in our position as the| We) are strong in our unity, discipline, | We have a definite pro- and definite revolutionary) |tactics, which are in themselves a) power. We must throw all the| power that we can muster on the! Street outright: “We shall fight| against the continuation of these) crimes.” To put it bluntly, we must be- ing that it is criminal to attack us. |We must not think that it is “natural” when imperialist agents trample under foot our most elemen- tary civic rights. We must also feel personally outraged, everyone of us, whenever such an assault occurs. We must imbue the masses that are under our influence with the same burning indignation. | member that it is altogether un- natural that imperialism rules our land. We must not be abstract. All these very concrete and very specific encroachments upon us must meet |with an instant readiness to return | blow for blow. And we must move more quickly. \It is not only a question of our own ‘party. It is a question that touches concentrated capital. Wall Street is a class organization that must fight | the broadest masses of the working |class. We deal here with elementary scales of the struggle, telling Wall) e must re-| |the Communists, but we can unite |large numbers of workers who hate | police “law,” and loath judicial “order.” We can arouse thousands upon thousands. To take an example I see no rea- picket the residence of “our” smil to demand punishment for police and judges committing crimes against the workers. of course, we must not repeat socialist imbecilities: we must not beg; we must refer less to “the glorious American tradition” and more to our proletarian class interests. One thing, however, we must remember under all circum- stances: this is our own land; everything in it must be ours; we have full right to the most unlimited freedom, whereas our exploiters they are exploiters. Let us become permeated by this conviction; let it become part of our mental makeup—and the enemy will \feel it, and this alone will be an important social factor. We are entering an electién cam- paign. It is to be a means of en- lightening and organizing the mas- ses. We will not spread parliamen- tary illusions.. What we will do is to spread among the masses funda- mental knowledge as the nature of the state as an instrument of class domination. What we will do is to lorganize the workers for struggle. It would be a lesson to the masses Communist campaign, if we were to start a broadside against police at- tacks and court knavery. the cities for our class struggle! We must become genuinely con- |vinced that the streets are ours. We must make this a political mass fight. 5 * Quoted from the Russian or- its historic foe, the working class.| problems that can be understood by |iginal. A translation will shortly be This “must,” however, is different! everyone. We can mobilize not only issued by nternational Publishers. Daa Sik Sa Yel By ROSE BARON \Geeretary, N. Y. Section, Interna- tional Labor Defense ) August 22! This memorable day in 1928 marks the first anniversary of the murder of Nicola Sacco and Bar- tolomeo Vanzetti. Yes, it is twelve | months since a wave of proletarian anger and horror electrified the masses throughout the world. - It is one year since New York policemen mounted on armoured motorcycles tore through the singing and weep- ling masses on Union Square out- side the Freiheit Building as the bulletins announced the deaths of our comrades. It is a year since the state of Massachusetts. acting for the capitalist class in America flung ,the liféless bodies of Sacco a Vanzetti into the ‘waiting arms of the working class, as a warning that henceforth fighters for the workers must expect a like fate. Mass Murders. The year passed quickly. In that year the workers of America have yealized the bitter truth of a grim anti-labor, wage-cutting, black re- & “Twelve Months Since Wave of Proletarian | Anger Electrified the Masses.” actionary campaign instituted by the lives of the rebel shoemaker and fish peddler. The death of Sacco and Vanzetti was but a prelude to a hellish symphony of mass murder and oppression in Colorado, Pennsyl- vania, Ohio and now in New Bed- ford. During the fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the claws of the Massachusetts mill-barons, the In- ternational Labor Defense was charged with carrying on too in- tense and vigorous a fight to save the two workers in Charlestown prison. Liberals and socialists in- sisted that mass demonstrations would “anger” those in whose hands the fate of Sacco and Vanzetti rested. Only soft words would sdve them, they said. We who were old in the class struggle knew the full significance of the master class open shoppers who clamored for the | strategy in Boston. It was nothing new to us. It tallied with the tactics during the murder of the Haymarket victims, it was the same method used prior to every judicial class murder. The same cloak of “im- partiality’ —the same effort at “anglo-saxon fair play”—the same series of complicated legal moves all calculated to lull the workers into a false sense of security and drowsi- ness. But history has vindicated us. Sacco and Vanzetti were martyred on the altar of the capitalist gods. Thé black reaction did set in. The open-shoppers did go on a rampage of lockouts and wage cuts. Anglo- saxon fair play and “decency” re- warded our right-wing friends and liberals with the charred bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti. One year has passed. A year of bitter class struggle in which it was Anniversary of Sacco-Vanzetti Murder éasy to forget the past in the heat of the battle. In a few days August 22, that memorable date, will be ‘upon us. e On this day the New York Sec- tion of the International Labor fense, has made arrangements for a {monster mass memorial meeting which will be held in Union Square, (Red Square) at 5 p. m. Invitations have been sent to many unions ask- ing that they participate in this ex- pression of sorrow for the death of our comrades Sacco and Vanzetti and anger and hatred against the infamous frame-up system which it workers to be murdered. It is the duty of every militant worker to be on Union Square at 5 p. m. on August 22nd. It is Wednesday, a work day, on your way home from your offices and ishops and factories make your pres- ence swell the ranks of New York’s militant labor. Make a resolution now that you will be there and that your comrades and fellow workers will come along also. It is not in a spirit of sickly sen- ‘{the democratic nominee. Conquer the City Streets!” ling Smith and other dignataries | have no right to anything because | and the proper accentuation of our We must conquer the streets of made possible for these two valiant vote. Al agreed “in principle” with the equalization fee feature of the |McNary-Haugen farm relief bill |while talking things over with Mr. |Peek, But no sooner had Peek | bought his ticket for home, than Al | repudiated the equalization fee. | Whieh should not disturb Peek, who | evidently talked cold turkey for the Peek family while conversing with This is good capitalist politics. The House Campaign Investi- gating Committee is reported to be spurring itself into activity and keeping a watchful éye on campaign expenditures. We would like to give those innocent fellows a friendly warning and dangle before their eyes the fate of senator James A. Reed of Missouri who built his cam- paign for the democratic nomjnation on his slush fund quiz. The culprits he exposed were never more pros- | perous and they won hands down at the polls but poor Jim was laughed out of Houston and was not even nominated for the job of White House janitor. There is no crime greater than poverty. * ae When New York policemen are not successfully shooting innocent bystanders they are hanging up new records in marksmanship by drill- ing holes in their own anatomies. This is certainly a shot in the right direction. If there is any wild shooting to be done there is no rea- | Son why the shots should not find | lodgement in the cushioned softness \of a policeman’s person. Patrolman Patrick Abberton, was chasing eight men in an automobile who were | guiltless of wrong doing, and as if | providence wished to put the cop \wise, Patrick leaded his leg, to the great relief of the pursued. ge ee A CHICAGO” judge is held for | murder and nineteen other trif- | ling breaches of the peace from kid- naping to stuffing ballot boxes. He is a member of mayor Thompson’s |\“America First” organization. The judge and his father controlled a ; $ i f My |ward which they held by divine . come permeated with the live feel-| paign. It is to be a militant cam. right supported by an army of gun- |men. But finally the opposition ‘raised more money than the Crowe- | Thompson machine and now it ap- | pears that what is true in presiden- | tial election is going to be proven true in municipal’ politics. The biggest money bag will win. + * THE political game in Chicago is going thru the process of ration- alization. Tammany Hall showed the way. In the days of Boss Tweed and down to recently Tam- many was a hissing and a byeword jn the mouths of the respectable plutocrats. Mayflower multimillion- aires and liberal reformers scowled or shuddered at a mention of the name. But an Al came to judgment and by the time he got thru with his fumigating Tammany was pure enough to become a candidate for the White House and the Tammany today waves in the breezes of Wall and Broad Streets. Grafting in Chicago politics continued to remain on a deplorable low level. Big Busi- ness apparently has awakened to a sense of civic responsibility. Econo- my in government and more ef- ficiency in’ the exploitation of the workers! This is the new watch- word in Chicago. timentality that we will gather to honor the memory of Sacco and Van- zetti on August 22, but rather to open the fight to release the pris- oners of the class struggle who are still in America’s prisons. Mooney * dreds of miners are in jail as i re- sult of their heroic fight against the coal barons in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Only the other day 225 tex- tile workers were sent to jail in New Bedford. Now that Fall River has come to the aid of New Bedford in this tremendous struggle, we may expect new victims. Workers, let us make the demon- stration on August 22 an historic event. Let this demonstration equal the colossal, surging meetings which New York saw last August. — smash the trame-up system! and Billings are still in jail. Hun- Remember Sacco and Vanzetti and - j ee