The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1928, Page 6

and 7S 0: Merr: arnid ompt iduce ons ¢ eer sime. being thes: has THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1928, orker 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 $8 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months _— $6.00 per year (outside of New York): $3.50 six months .$2 three months | Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. - ROBERT 22 Assistant Editor. MINOR ..WM. F, DUNNE Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For the Workers! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW The International Army of Sandino Gustavo Machado, of the Hands Off Nica- ragua Committee, upon his return from San-| dino’s army made a statement in “El Machete” organ of the Mexican Communist Party, to the effect that Sandino's army was made up of fighters from all Latin American countries. The Americar’ bourgeois press has pointed to. this statement as a justification for the main- tenance of American marines in Nicaragua. Machado’s statement proves that the cause de- fended by the army under Sandino is not only liberty for Nicaragua but the liberty of all Latin America. emancipation. If the-army of an States. tion of these countries is part of our own under Sandino is of interna- tional, then let us rejoice at this splendid omen | awakening of the | masses. But it is not enough! The interna- |tional solidarity must extend to the United The workers Street also must participate. Two U. S. ma-| |rines already. have shown us a splendid ex- | ample in going over to join Sandino’s army. The army under Sandino needs men, needs money for arms—we can’t expect them to take all their weapons away from the marines— jand they need medical and other supplies. Latin-American of this land of We must lead the workers and exploited The New York Herald-Tribune writes an edi- torial to prove that if Sandino’s army is not made up of Nicaraguans only then its composi- tion is of “bandits’—such elements from all ‘ parts of Latin America who could not find | UF fight, too. means of sustenance in their own countries— | have gone to Nicaragua, enlisted in Sandino’s | army and are preventing the United States| from establishing peace there. The Tribune adds that this fact more and more justifies the presence of American marines—because they not only guarantee peace to Nicaragua but pre- | yent that “poor country” from becoming a cen- | ter of looting. | fined aspects. |farmers of the United States to fight against |the sending of more invaders to Nicaragua. The fight of the heroic Sandinista army is For Mussolini—and Al Smith. “Many of the leaders of the Fascists in this country were primarily, Italian military men who came over to this country in order to spread the gospel of Fascismo in its more re- Italians born in this country and (who) are of a military age, can and do join this Fascism. They are for the most part Italians who still retain the inborn instincts and love for their mother country but who are Such arguments may “convince” some smug bourgeois readers of the Herald-Tribune. On the other hand, however, the “invincible” mar- imes after more than a year of fighting have been unable to subdue Sandino and his troops. If his group were really made up of a few WN. Y.) glad to live (under) and entirely willing to salute the American flag.”—Fascist Herald carried the above in its Bit would have, Beén easy to wipe them | second issue. And in the same issue it carries out in less than two months. There are over | 6,000 American marines in Nicaragua now and | Page: Sandino’s forces grow stronger day by day—) because they make excellent use of the modern | war machines captured from the marines. | tion.” If it is true that the Nicaraguan people have tepudiated Sandino, how is it then that he has been able to sustain his troops for over a year? The imperialist press of the United States is unwilling to write the truth, to admit the | defeat of the enormous power of the United | country. ‘ates at the hands of a group of “bandits,” | facing 6,000 marines. On the contrary. This state of affairs | “American” in the accepted Wall Street sense, in big type across the full width of its editorial “Vote for Alfred E. Smith for President. Endorsed by the American Fascist Associa- | It would be a mistake to draw from this, after the fashion of an empty-headed Heflin or John Roach Straton, any conclusions affirm- ing “the anti-Americanism of Al Smith”—nor do we mean to prove any “anti-Americanism” jon the part of Mussolini’s boot-licks in this There is nothing more _ would be impossible unless Sandino’s army had| than Al Smith, not anything more “American” tae the aid of the Nicaraguan people. nificant to note that whatever losses Sandino all parts of Latin America. Sandino’s sol- diers know that they are not alone, that back of them are the conscious workers and peas- ants of all of Latin America. | The heroic Nicaraguan army may be de-| feated, but only by the indifference of the proletariat of the United States, fooled by their yellow leaders. However, the struggle will be repeated many times, and American imperialism, in spite of its agents like William Green and Co., in spite of its lackeys as presi- dents of the Latin American Republics, will be defeated. The fact that soldiers from all parts of Latin | America are fighting in Sandino’s ing the solidarity of workers and peasants all through Latin America against United States quest of Latin that is offered ment. army, prov-| | Smith is called a “liberal.” |that Raskob and Woodin and Pierre du Pont | know that Smith is as good a servant as they ‘could find for doing in America the equivalent It is sig-| than: Fascism. Nor is Al’s religion “un-Ameri- jcan to Wall Street. In the imperialist sense, it “sustains are at once filled by applicants from | is not so much that Smith is affiliated to Rome as that the Roman church is affiliated to the prospective Wall Street president. To be presi- dent of the Wall Street empire would be to be bigger than the pope, and it is a simple prin- | ciple of mechanics that the tail cannot wag the dog. The pope can help Wall Street in the con- America through the “moral effect” of its connection with Al. And we cer- tainly make no criticism of Italian workers who refuse to wallow in the “Americanism” them by Wall Street govern- The point made by the above two quotations from the Fascist organ in the United States of |Mussolini’s blood regime is the perfect con- sistency of Fascist support of Al Smith. Well, we tell you imperialist aggression, should inspire us with of the work that Mussolini does in Italy. That confidence in an ultimate victory—and it should convince us that our place is by the side of these fighters. Their struggle is not merely | against Moncada and the other Nicaraguan tgaitors, but against the Wall Street capital- ists who have sent the marines. We cannot be| conscientious fighters if we remain with our arms crossed in the present struggle. Their ‘struggle is a phase of the same struggle in which we are participating in all lands, Our miners, our textile workers, etc., will win noth- ing if they do not relate their struggle with the struggle of their brothers in Latin Amer- ‘ca. We must begin to understand the close velationship between the struggle for indepen- dence in the colonial and semi-colonial coun- “ries and our own emancipation. The libera- of the means destroying the labor movement (to the extent of his ability), putting over the working class a regime of blood and iron, military threats and conquest of weaker peoples for im- perialism, and the building of a huge military machine for general imperialist, war. So the miserable Fascist organization is do- jing well in annointing Smith with the Fascist holy oil from the native castor bean. But the \Italian workers in America can surely learn |something from this! Italian worker who cannot see the blood of his murdered brothers in Italy not only on the hands of Mussolini but equally upon the hands capitalist politicians Fascismo in the United States? Is there an intelligent endorsed by Italian workers, join the Workers (Com- ;munist) Party and fight Fascismo! ‘Vote Communist. Wall) |as opposed to the money power and) | trusts, who find their political ex- THE FULL DINNER PAIL { 'HE husband of Mrs, Gertrude Flood might have gotten away with it had he only admitted that he married her to obtain a home for himself. But it was heaping insult on misery when he included his dog. Now Mr. Flood may be | obliged to board and room in a ken- jnel, his infuriated wife havin; g sued him for divorce. { oes, AY SMITH has decided to halt vice in Saratoga Springs. gambling and to wage war on Things have been going pretty much as | they pleased there for several years, but Al wants to stand in well with - | the hillbillies of the south, and there | is nothing those boys hate more than gambling and booze wless it be revenue officers. * #* THE executive council of the A. F. of L. has decided that “labor” will remain neutral in the election campaign. Which means that the executive council will not declare in favor of Al Smith or Herbert | Hoover. The individual members |of the council can now line up their | international unions for their fa- vorite cendidates. This is what they label a non-partisan policy. * * THINGS are not going so -well * he Democratic By REBECCA GRECHT. | 4 The illusion that the democratic | party represents the “plain people,” With Millionaire Raskob as Smith Manager, Workers Get Wiser pression in the republican party— an illusion which still has sway over with Raskob in General Motors, part World, staunch supporter of Smith, | | the minds of millions of workers— | and parcel of the House of Morgan, | has received a heavy blow since the The Fascist Herald, which boasts of being | national conventions of the capi- the only fascist newspaper published in the |English language | talistic parties. | Alfred E. Smith, democratic can- didate for the presidency, so-called “friend of the people,” enemy of the trusts, and guardian of the “public interests,” selects as his | campaign manager and chairman of |the democratic national committee | John J. Raskob, vice president and |director of General Motors, and at the time of his appointment chair- }man of the finance committee of |General Motors, thus directly asso- |ciated with J. P. Morgan, ruler of American finance capital. Raskob is also a heavy stockholder in the United States Steel Corporation, of which Morgan is the head. In 1924, Raskob supported the republican, Coolidge; in 1928, Ras- kob becomes the campaign manager for the democrat, Smith. A mem- ber of the ultra-republican Union League Club of Philadelphia, Ras- kob bocemes also, by special elec- tion, a member of the National Democratic Club. He is now a good republican and a good democrat. In other words—a good representative of Morgan and Wall Street. Thus Smith, the “workers’ friend,” places his campaign in the hands of a capitalist who dominates one of the most powerful open-shop, anti-labor, billion-dollar corpora- tions in the United States—General Motors, subsidiary of the House of Morgan. Interchangeable Parties. in a radio debate with Ogden will back Smith. Mills, republican under secretary of | It is significant to note that one|the treasury, stated that Smith or of the first large contributors to|Hoover could run as well on one the democratic campaign fund, was| Platform as he could on the other.) | John D. Ryan, president of the open-| More | | Senator ; shop Anaconda Copper Company, a George I outspoken was | West as viciously anti-labor. |nard M. Baruch, leading New York |financier, also endorses Smith. | These are only a few of the men | . |prominent in the industrial and | financial world who have shifted| | their political support in the elec-| | tions. | the New York Times: “Now as far as the present cam- by the middles of September, platforms and parties will be for- gotten, and the campaign will re- And Interchangeable Platforms. | The prohibition issue has been. two aee.. given in the capitalist press as an| “When you come rght down to | oustanding reason for this shift of| essentials, either man without the sacrifice of prin¢iples could run on either platform. . . . Most of the burning issues that have sep- arated the parties for years have former republican leaders, This is | merely a blind. The fact that Ras- |kob, Woodin, E. I. DuPont and jother prominent republican capital- ists now support Smith, the demo-| disappeared. . . . erat, is merely an open recognition) Even the tariff, which in the past of the fact, always proclaimed by | has been raised as a fundamental the _ Communists, that the demo-| difference, and has frequently been cratic and repubilean parties are|used as a red herring across the both the servants of Wall Street, trail to divert the workers’ atten- pledged to maintain the system of | tion from real and pressing prob- | wage-slevary. | | That there are no real differences| platform adopted at the Houston between these two parties of capi-| convention of the democratic party talism is frankly admitted by lead- | declared for a tariff to protect busi- ers of both. Walter Lippman, chief| ness. In fact, when Senator Smoot editorial writer of the New York | republican, attacked the democratic “| big business of the safeness of| t 1. Moses, who directs the corporation known throughout the | Hoover campaign in the East. Here | Ber- is what he says, in an interview with} paign goes, it seems to me that | | solve itself into a discussion of | the merits and characteristes of | |lems, has ceased to be an issue. The | CAMPAIGN CORNER Raskob is not the only big busi- ness republican now turned demo- erat. William H. Woodin, president of the American Car and Foundry Company and the American Loco- motive Company, has come out for Smith. The democratic presidential nominee can now boast of the sup- port of as good a capitalist and financier as any backing Hoover. In addition to being president of the corporations mentioned above, Woodin is a director of the Ameri- can Exchange Securities Corpora- tion, Montreal Locomotive Works, the Cuba Company, Cuba Railroad Company, Compania Cubana Con- solidated Railroads of Cuba, and American Ship and Commerce Cor- poration. He is a member of the American Iron and Steel Institute, the New York Chamber of Com- merce and the Merchants’ Associa- tion. The action of Woodin was hailed by Smith forces as indicating the feeling of assurance in financial and industrial circles that Smith is also their man, and big business has nothing to fear from his election. This is further indicated by the split in the DuPont family, one of the pioneer republican big business families in America. Frank -and T. Coleman DuPont support Hoover. The more influential and powerful figures, however, Pierre and E. I. DuPont of E. I. DuPont de Nemours jand Company, leading munitions manufacturers, closely associated Utah will haye more to think! much left to spend in Chicago's soft the virtues of Mormonism. rade James Ayres is on the there, lot. distributed, and mass meetings are | held in the streets of the principal | cities. The comrades are deter- mined to lay the sores of the capi- talist system open to the workers and farmers of that state. And they do not intend to rub salt into the wounds, though there is plenty of it in Utah. Salt smarts, but it has curative qualities. + * * “Enclosed find $5 for the elec- tion campaign,” writes a Chicago comrade. “Every time I pass through the Slave Market (we know where it is, comrade—from Halstead to the Canal, eh?—Editor, Campaign Corner) I inwardly curse the lying touts of the republican party who boast about prosperity end the hypocritical fuglemen of the democratic party who claim that unemployment is caused by the in- eptitude of the republican adminis- tration. I see raw-boned, hungry men standing for hours in front of employment agencies waiting for the ‘shark’ to give them a chance to on railroad tracks. And by the time they get through paying their transportation to the job and the ‘shark’s’ fee, they will not have work for 25, 80 or 40 cents an hour | about in this election campaign than | drink parlors, | when they return to Com- |look for another job. A walk around: e job| the Slave Market is a great incen- getting the party on the bal-/tive to work harder for Commu- Communist literature is being | nism.” * * * Another Chicago comrade, who does not wish to have his name pub- lished, (he is employed on a trade paper in La Salle St.), tells of his visit to a vendor of optical goods. A young man was eating) vaisins, anda girl employe remarked, “tak- ing your daily dose of iron.” “Yes,” he replied, “but I am thinking of switching to peanuts. Hoover prac- tically lives on, them.” Our corre- spondent saw an opening, though he did not yet have the glasses he ordered. So he piped up and said: “Who are you going to vote for?” “Hoover,” was the reply. “Then,” came the punchino, “peanuts is not the food for you; your mei tal con- dition calls for nuts. I can eat any- thing from frankfurters to ice cream. I am going to vote for Fos- ter.” The raisin man swallowed a fistful of iron and almost choked. The girl retained her equanimity and started to hum Ramona. $, cRagen oun And Abraham Jakira, district or- ganizer in Pittsburgh, sends in a check for $14.10 for election assess- ment stamps and Vote Communist stampa, Bubble Bursts | party on the ground that it was op- | posed to a high tariff, Senator Pitt- |man of Nevada, chairman of the | resolutions committee at the Hous- | ton convention, hastened to issue a statement that the democratic party has abandoned its low tariff policy. In his eagerness to assure Smith and the democratic party,| Pittman goes on to say: : “Permeating the whole demo- cratic platform is the sentiment | for the protection of business, both large and small. . . . Men like Raskob and Woodin, who have | greater business interests at stake than Senator Smoot and all | with Mussclini those days. Shortly after his gas bag, the Italia, became a cropper near the North Pole, one of his submarines got |rammed by a destroyer and went to the bottom with several lives. We are waiting a few more decrees for- bidding accidents. | * ‘Most of the columnists on the | capitalist press devote one day |a week to wailing over their trials and tribulations and the mental |agony they experience when lucidity {plays truant, in inking the white | Spaces at their disposal. The hu- | morists have the toughest time of all. There is no prospect more ap- palling than the vision of a life- time trying to cudgel one’s brain for cracks to make the yokelry chuckle, It is stated on fairly good/ authority that only half a dozen hu- morists are agreeable companions | outside of working hours and it is rumored that they steal their gags from Texas Guinan, a lady who Weeds no introduction, ete. | Pied, sae |PHO highly paid the columnist slaves of the capitalist press de- serve a share of the public sympathy. | Unless they descend to buffoonery, | those with a social conscience must echo the boss’s political views or jelse remain discreetly” neutral. | Even Will Rogers, who writes about one hundred words a day fer the New York Times, does a_ right- about-face whenever he takes a shot * © the war on Nicaragua. Usually a nice to say about Cal. Rather than have a job like that we would take a chance with a couple of eye pads and a tin cup. ah oe for the Daily Worker column- é | the rest of the republican poli- ticians would not associate them- | selves with democratic party and | be supporting the election of | Governor Smith if there were the | slightest doubt of the meaning and sincerity of the democratic | party and the purposes of Gov- ernor Smith when he bocomes president.” Pittman is not alone in his pro- testations. Leading democrats | seize every opportunity to assure | big business that they have nothing | |to fear from thts representative of | the “plain people,” who would pro- |tect them and fight the working} class just as well as Hoover could, jand is as much a defender of Ameri- | |can imperialism as the republican | candidate. | Smith Flag in Wall Street. Thus the liberal mask of the | democratic party has been torn off, While in the past the two capitalist parties have expressed the separate | interests of different groups or sec- tions within thq capitalist class, to- day this no longer holds. We have ‘witnessed in American within the last 25 or 30 years a tremendous consolidation of economic power, the growth of huge industrial and financial combinations, a gigantic accumulation and concentration of eapital. Industrial and bank capi-| tal have merged. Finance capital | rules America, Finance _capital| dominates its twin political repre- sentatives—through Andrew Mellon, the republican party, and through John J. Raskob, the democratic party. It is no accident that for the first time a democratic banner floats over Wall Street. Smith is safe for business, and American amperial- ism. Wall Street has taken him to its bosom as a _ candidate—even though it may decide that Hoover is a preferable choice for election, Liberals and other “friends of the people” may weep and wail that “democracy,” as represented by the democratie party, now identifies it- self with the financial and indus- trial despotism of America. To the class conscious workers, however, this “identification” comes as no surprise. It is at last an open avowal of what has always been a fact. The workers of America, now facing onslaughts ‘against their wages and working conditions, cruelly oppressed by capitalist ra- tionalization wth its brutal speed- |the editorial staff * AS the stuff printed on its feet. There is never any danger of incurring | editorial wrath because of radical ' content. But the playful lads in sometimes ex- periment with a column, by running it seriaily, which may seem sort of mysterious to the readers not in the know. What can an absentee columnist do if his paragraphs get scrambled or if he finds the tail end of one column hanging like one leg of a pair of pajamas on a clothesline, from the top of the space where the head of the effu- sion reposed a week previously? * * * DECORATED hero of the world war’ killed himself because he |could not find a job. The trouble | with the hero was that he took the | war business too seriously. Having \helped to make this world a place |for heroes to live. in he thought he |could rest on his laurels and that |some of the millions he saved for the House of Morgan would flow in- ‘to his lap without further effort. | He should have taken a correspond- ence course in bookkeeping or | memory training. Evidently he |never read the back page of the | magazine section of the New York | Times. No man is a hero to his own employer unless he can make a pro- fit out of his labor. Sem OKahesly of them unemployed, their unions, where such exist, threatened with destruction, must turn away from the capitalist parties, and capitalist “Messiahs,” enemies of the work: class. fs Only One Anti-Capitalist Party. They must turn likewise from the socialist party, which has given up the class struggle, and now iden- forces in the American labor move- ment. s There s only one anti-cépitalist party in America—the Workers (Communist) Party, fighting on every front with the workers against the employers and corrupt union mis-leaders, against the dan- ger of new wars, against the whole capitalist system. Class-conscious workers in the coming elections will register their votes for the Communist candidates. They will mobilize their support for the party of class-struggle, the Workers’ (Communist) Party, which up and efficiency systems, millions! final victory. will organize and lead them to the at the Coolidge administration for — day or two after he has something | oN tifies itself with the reactionary . ists, their cheif worry is getting | { K i \