The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1928, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YURK, 1UKSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1928. Daily Worker Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party ~ Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING A SS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday Weis Union Square, New York, N.Y. Cable Phone, Stuyvesant 1696- Address: ea By Mail (in New York only): Sper year $4.50 six inonths $2.50 three months t SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months S silieal f Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. i eames Bditor... ROBERT MINOR <a Assistant Editor. ..WM. F. DUNNE ams red as second-class mail at the post-office a t New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers! Blood of Chinese Workers The arr of 15 Chinese and other workers in New York Sunday for making a collection for the trade union of China can be taken as another “little” indication of the official American attitude toward the world-shaking events in that great country. The United States government is in the process of “recog- nizing China,” with the support of “liberals” /and “sociali here by extending its support to the mercenary gang of adventurers headed | by Chiang Kai-shek, calling itself the “gov- | ernment of China,” or the “Nanking govern- ment.” And even down to the thickest headed | Tammany policeman, this becomes the key to the policy officially applied throughout the country. The Sunday tag-day arrests were ap- parently incited by the Kuomintang organiza- tion in New York, which in its own puny way follows the lead of the cut-throats of Nanking. The incident of the arrests must not be al- lowed to pass without being used to rouse American workers to the real situation in China and the meaning of Coolidge’s “help” to “China,” which is in fact nothing more than | the bribery of a bureaucratic organization and a parasitic layer of Chinese society for the privilege of throttling a nation. The enormity of the crimes being committed m China today are almost entirely beyond the present, sluggish imagination of the bulk of , American workers. Out of a population of ap- proximately 400,000,000, it is estimated that # more than 300,000 have already been slaugh- tered by the white terror. The bloody work | of the mercenary tools of foreign imperialism, of whom the traitor Chiang Kai-shek has be- tome the chief, is only vaguely suggested by the perfunctory dispatches that tell of occa- sional wholesale executions. The All-China Federation of Labor has is- sued a list of slogans for use in the struggle, which will give some idea of the torture that our Chinese brother workers are enduring, and} at the same time the sublime courage that) they are putting into the fight for freedom. | Here are the slogans sent to us: “White terror in China has already killed 318,000 workers and peasants.” “ ‘We are not afraid of defeats. We have the support of the world proletariat and the Soviet Union! the Chinese workers and peasants say.” “‘The Kuomintang is grabbing the people? | The three principles are killing the people. Down with the Kuomintang and its three prin- ciples!’ the Chinese peasants say.” “Down with the Kuomintang flag of white terror! Up with the red flag of hammer and} sickle !’—tell the Chinese workers.” “ ‘Oh! How can we kill all the Communists? The workers and peasants nearly all are Com- | munists!’"—cry the reactionaries in despera- tion.” “Rather kill a thousand innocent than to let one escape!’—the militarists say.” “ Tt’s the Communists who are demanding | back pay. It’s the Communists who are strik- ing. They should be killed!—the Chinese tapitalists say.” “The Kuomintang besides shooting workers | and peasants leaders and Communists applies such primitive barbarous punishments as: extracting eyeballs, cutting out hearts, peeling off skin, cutting off breasts, pulling out finger nails, using bayonets to pierce the sexual or- gans of women already shot, pouring boiling water on chests, beheading, cutting people in two at the waist, etc.” “What is it to kill a few hundred workers? It’s easier to find a few hundred workers than to find as many dogs!’—say the imperialist zapitalists in Shanghai.” QQ | > 4 | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! VOTE COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! Surely there is a ghastly touch of reality in this that ought to stir American workers to action. The workers of this country must be made to realize the tremendous role the Chin- ese revolution is playing in history today. Be- trayed, and apparently “killed” by the treach- erous and corrupt Chiang Kai-shek, the Revo- lution only shows itself to be more alive than ever. Red Armies have been flung together out of chaos and have already won several im- portant victories. The labor movement in Asia! Could any- thing at the present time be more important? The imperialists know it and are trying to exterminate the labor movement there. The | American workers must know it, and must! help with all their might. Big Bill Dwyer Comes Out. Bill Dwyer was the Whisky King, up ’till two years ago. He headed the gang that brought 50,000,000 | gallons into the United States and, to accom-| plish it, built up a bootleg marine of eighteen |deep-sea vessels and uncounted high-power motor boats. Millions in profits came in to this truly royal figure in an American business—a business which we can be sure is no small factor in politics and commerce. Many of the millions went to bribe the pro- hibition officers of the Coolidge-Mellon-Hoover administration. Don’t forget that. And don’t forget what millions in bribes can do to an administration—especially a Coolidge adminis- tration. Remember Albert B. Fall and Harry Daugherty, “clean as a hound‘s tooth,” and Jess | Smith, sitting in Daugherty’s office in the de-| partment of justice to receive the bribes arising from the bootleg and pardon department, and | later dying by a pistol-shot in Daugherty’s and his joint residence just at a critical moment when exposure seemed inescapable. At an- other critical moment when exposure seemed ‘inescapable, the chief of the gang, Warren G. Harding, died in an unexplained way, by which | death Coolidge became president. When again the ghosts of Teapot Dome and the Continental Trading Company bribe-money began to walk and even to edge into the cabinet at the elbow | of Mellon, Coolidge was able to pass the presi- dential nomination on to Herbert B. Hoover, also a member of the Harding-Coolidge- Daugherty-Jess Smith gang. Hoover, who went mum through the Hard- ing-Coolidge administrations of eight years of | graft and perjury and suicide as a cabinet member, is now in a hard-fought campaign. In this campaign Booze is an issue, and the atti- | tude of each candidate toward Booze will play a part in the winning or losing of two states} which may be decisive in the election: New York and Massachusetts. Smith has the edge |on Hoover on the Booze question in these two “free-liquor” states. Hoover must be for pro- |hibition to carry other states, but must make a showing somewhat favorable to the thirst of a large social element in New York. ‘ Why does the Coolidge-Hoover administra- tion find it best now in the election campaign to release the Whisky King? Can the Whisky King do something for Hoover in New York? Of course the bootleg business has a stake in prohibition. Prohibition and the bootleg business are twins in a capitalist society. When Big Bill Dwyer went to the pen the millions of bootleg profits and bootleg bribe money did not go with him. And Big Bill Dwyer is out. “Ill health” is the vague reason given, but the “ill health” is not explained. Perhaps it was home-sickness, (CAMPAIGN CORNER ' National Platforms are selling in thousands. Orders are pouring into ZJampaign Headquarters. One let- ter may contain a lowly dime for me copy, while another may con- ‘ain a check for $100 worth. Pat Devine reports that 100 copies were told at an anti-war mass ee recently in Minneapolis an i u aa many Mors weuld have been re Geissd ee Smith gold had not the supply given out. hae . * * stamps. . The Tribune of * | 1924, 9 voted for “Please send me at once 200/1aFollette. of ‘The Platform of the/}to Smith from the Struggle.’ Enclosed is ajand its offshoot, to cover same,” writes Anita ef Oakland, California, \ » Comrade Whitney recently bought , $100 worth of Vote Communist |of Kansas City, Kansas, contributed Cordoba, the hero of Ayacucho, the conducting a straw vote campaign. | mate, |In a recent issue the result of a vote | their respects to this pair when taken at an auto tourist camp gave \they speak in Kansas. Of the 31 votes cast | Sraith 11 voted for Coolidge in is lit, merely jumped from the fry- it: pan into the fire. And the Ladies’ Educational Club |$5 to the Communist Election Cam- ign. Kansas is the home of Selt Lake City i1/Charles Curtis, Hoover's running Foster and Gitleow will pay 81, Foster 3 and} + * * At a recent meeting of the Davis and 5 for|Lithuanian chorus, “Aidas,” it was The 16 that switched | decided to help the Workers (Com- republican party | munist) Party election campaign. A the LaFollette check for $10 was forwarded to the ational Election Campaign Com- mittee, 43 East 125th St. ‘y | HOOVER ACCEPTS THE WALL STREET NOMINATION The Working Youth Conference By PHILIP FRANKFELD. [TEE General Working Youth Con-| ference comes at an opportune |time. We are living in a period of a sharp depression in the country. | This sharp depression follows the | period of prosperity which to some extent succeeded in lulling the mas-) ses of workers to sleep. At the present time, with indus- tries like mining and textile under- going deep-going crises; with the workers in both industries involved in great struggles; with the bos- ses trying hard to solve the crisis at the expense of the workers; with the workers in many instances show- ing increased willingness capacity to resist the onslaughts of the bosses, It is doubly important to draw the young workers into the struggle. Rationalization Process. The process of rationalization which on one hand calls for greater efficiency, the introduction of new jand more advanced machinery, greater speedup of the workers, mass production, ete. at the same time means a concerted drive on the part of the employers to cut wages, to lengthen hours and to smash the organizations of the workers, The workers are in no mood to accept this attempt to reduce their stand- ard of living; the workers show more signs of restlessness and dis- content than in many years past since 1919-21, and most important |to us as Communists—a growing | militancy and capacity for struggle. | We can point to many instances jof this, but instead will limit our- | selves right to New York in order |to find corroboration. and) Rationalization; Needle Trades; Clerks; the | Unorganized; the Young Worker Left Wing Takes Offensive. | In the needle trades the left-wing) dental mechanics and the paper- | has again taken the offensive and} box makers are mostly youth. In the | has started an organization cam-| mens clothing strike, in Wasserman paign to re-establish the Union| Clothing Co. for example, fully 50 which the Sigman gang succeeded) per cent of those whe went out on in destroying—but without Sigman. | strike were young workers. These In Local 43, the young millinery) young workers were not unionized, | workers have so far successfully| but nevertheless joined the adult | stopped the destructive tactics of| Workers when they went out on the Zaritsky machine and have re-| strike. | tained their militant leadership and! Young’ Workers Will Fight. | In the} And just last week the strike of | their strong local union. furriers, the left-wing has been con-| solidating its position-while | right wingers have had splits with-| Most of them were young workers. |in their own camp. | They were militant, they were full Btcupele of Clerk jot fight. The strike was spontaneous | i : |In this one case one gets a clear |The Fruit and Grocery Clerks have picture of what the immediate fu- jengaged in several struggles in de- ture holds in store for the general | fense of their Union and union con-| labor movement. The young work- ditions; the Dental Mechanics are) eys were never overpaid; they wera still out on strike for recognition! never bribed by the aaaen The | of their Union; the Waiters and! young workrs are not organized- | Waitresses in both Brooklyn and and now with the intensification of New York; the mens clothing work-| exploitation of the workers, with ers (who were later on sold out by} the speedup, wage cuts, and so \the Amalgamated officials) and) forth, the young workers will ‘also | even the workers on the ferry-boats! 5; | fight back-and fight back strong. on the Battery, who pulled the} ears este ’ ‘holy Ge avd te Only in this light can we consider hi thi rth day, the barbers in upper Paclnal coe ponies eee re Bboy went out on strike for recognition of the Union. ~ Communists Must Do Organizing. Youth Aid Adult Strike. It is the duty of the left-wing Tt is quite evident from even this| and the Communists to organize the | partial list that many young work-| unorganized workers. The bureau- Lers were involved in these strikes. cracy is going more and more to the |The grocery and fruit clerks, the the| the shirt-makers in Perth Amboy.} |right. They cannot and will not | organize the unorganized. ‘The so- |called progressives are too fearful, |are too hesitant, are too much afraid of antagonizing the “official” | labor movement. The Communists and the left- wingers must without hesitation as- sume leadership over the struggles of the unskilled, semi-suilled, and unorganized workers. Especially since our main emphasis at this time is to work among the un- organized workers and for the crea- tion of new independent unions. Problem of Unorganized. The question of the young workers is an integral part of the general question of the unorganized since the youth constitute so large a per- centage of it. the direction of helping to organize the unorganized. Every Communist, every left-winger worker, every militant worker in the trade-unions, in large shops and in small shops every place where there are young workers employed-must give their organize the unorganized young workers. Left wing and Communist workers must fight in their local to the General Working Youth Con- ference in September, for the en- dorsement of the resolution, for the election of delegates in organized shops include young workers—one for every ten—and in unorganized shops. We have had too much of talk, we must now take steps to actually organize the youth. A Hero of His Time: General Sandino | By MAX GRILLO } | (Translated by Sol Auerbach.) | (This article appeared in French | lin Henri Barbuse’s weekly paper, | |“Le Monde.) A young Hispano-American, doc- | tor of law of the University of |Paris, told me of the interview which he had with Augusto San- \dino in his own camp. From Hon- \duras he had to scale high and al- most impassable mountains before jhe reached the encampment of San- | dino, " Augusto Sandino personifies the conscience of the Spanish-Ameri- |ean, from the day when his chief |Moncada decided to fold his flag |before imperialist diplomacy. San- | dino and his three hundred com- |panions swore to repel the invaders lor to die on the barricades. Like ltrave Nicaraguan was able to say \that if it was impossible to con- quer it was not impossible to die. Loved By His Men. | With three hundred guns , and seven thousand cartridges he under- Hao to realize this noble action. | Admirably acquainted with the ter+ ritory, raised in the school of dan- ger, he decided to carry on a guerilla warfare of rapid marches land hazardous attacks. | He has captured thirty cannon of [the latest model, with which he sev- eral tines repulsed the inexpert in- A Portrait of a Great Fighter; Challenges the American Empire; “A Bandit” fantry of the Saxon-American United States marines. His three hundred companions are now eight hundred heroes, the most glorious legion which Amerca has _ seen, Among them are Salvadorans, Mex icans, Guatemalians, Argentinians, some Germans, some Colombians, some Peruvians. This young and gay hero is ex- traordinarily loved by his men, They obey him and admire him. In the Roman manner one of his com- panions is always at his side ready to put Sandino to death rather than to see him taken captive. Jn the depth of a ravine, in the most hid- den spot of the encampment he has his staff headquarters. On the wall, a portrait, that of Bolivar, “I am the son of Bolivar,” Sandino said to his visitor, and he added: Marine Terror. “Tf I commanded two thousand men like those who surround me now I would throw an army of ten thou- sand marines out of Nicaragua. They do not know how to fight. They run away, They have no in- itiative. In my camp no one drinks alcohol; my men drink only pure water, but only from certain springs and certain sources, because I have been obliged to make the greatest |part of the water sources unusable, as a just reprisal to the use of poi- ‘son gas by the North Americans. I accept the war until the time when \the invaders shall leave my roun- \try. They are very strong and pow- erful. . . . I myself am a weak sol- dier. God will say the last word. | “I know that at Washington I am called a bandit; but never does Sandino and his men violate women, never mutilate the corpses of their enemy. Look at these photographs. Return to your country and tell what you have seen; go to Europe and tell Paris that the bandit San- dino does not dishonor his small victories. E have some prisoners, among others an officer of high rank, for whom I have been offered a ransom of five thousand dollars. I have also been offered fifty thou- sand dollars to sign for peace. As if those who stoically accept death can think of the gold of the ene- mics of his country. Evidently they think me no more important than Diaz.” “And what are the limits of your republic of Nouvelle Segovie?” my friend asked. Fights Imperialism. “My country, the one for which I am fighting, has the frontiers of Latin America. When I began my campaign I though only of Nicara- gua; but then, in the middle of dan- ger and when I realized that the blood of the invaders had been ab- sorbed by the soil of my country, my ambition grew. I have thought of all of the Central American Re- publics, of whieh one of my com- panions drew a map. Look, an ex- tended arm which supports five mountains and on the highest point a ’guetzal.’ Know that the guetzal is the bird of liberty, because he dies twenty-four hours after he has been captured.” Sandino continued: “I have or- ganized a government in the coun- try dominated by my forces. With the telephone material that I have taken on my assault on the Yankee marines. I have established a net of communication between various points. With gold from the mines in the region I have manufactured money. Say to Latin America that, as long as Sandino breathes, the in- dependence of Latin America will have a defender. Never will I be- tray my cause. For that reason T have called myself the son of Bol- ivar.” The General Work-| ing Youth Conference is a step in| utmost support to this campaign to) unions for the sending of delegates) Told You So SeNe TOR Jim Reed has lost his Political grip on Missouri. He supported a wet for the senator- ship but a dry won. The Missour- ians, however, to show that they | have no fundamental objection to a schooner of beer gave the guberna- torial democratic. nomination to a man who would grow two beers where there is now only one. And the successful dry wired Al Smith that he would do his utmost to put Missouri in the Smith column and help keep the beer pumps working in the cellars of New York. Biome Nae L. MENCKEN says that Al * Smith is an exhilarating cock- tail while Herbert Hoover is a dose of aspirin. Queer that such a re- sourceful fellow as Mencken did not think of running a bromo selzer with Al. * 'HE Public Committee on Power is gnashing its teeth because the plan to consolidate the proposal to merge the Consolidated Gas Com- pany and the Brooklyn Edison Com- pany was approved by the Public | Service Commission. The commis- sion refused the Public Committee on Power a hearing tho Governor | Smith, for reasons of political ex- pediency, suggested that they be given a chance to take a crack at the merger. Fighting consolida- tions is a Quixotic business. Bet- ter consolidate the employes of the gas trust into a powerful, militant | industrial union and organize for | the purpose of taking over the gas companies and other public utilities for the benefit of the workers, un- der a Workers’ and Farmers’ Gov- ernment. TN ai the Nicaraguan peo- ple who are defending their coun- try against the American imperial- ists are termed “rebels” and some- times “bandits.” The New York Times will have them bandits, come what may. Strange how this man Sandino succeeds in leading the war | of liberation despite the frequency | with which he is bombed, killed and |eaptured. He even surrenders oc- casionally. Reminds us of General De Wet of Boer war fame. De Wet |was always getting surrounded, and just when London was about to go on a victory spree and sing, “We don’t want to fight but by jingo if we do, we have the men, we have the guns and we have the |money do” the foxy Boer ~ would show up in the rear of his pursuers |and pepper their posteriors with lead. * * E Wasi, ePai | * )L ozo ASQUITH’S war diary | which is running in the Hearst | papers makes interesting reading. | What a lot of dumbbells those Bri- | tish strategists were! Rarely were | the generals and high politicians on speaking terms with each other. |Scores of thousands of men were | sacrificed because of the. incompe- |tency of Genera! French who kept a well-stocked harem at tho rear of the front. But for the tremen- dous resources of the British Em- |pire and the aid of the American | ruling class at the most crucial mo- ment in the war, the “tight little isle’ would now be either a Work- ers’ Republic or a hunting ground for the Kaiser. § * Hee is going to wage a hell- ish campaign. All his pep songs carry the smell of brimstone and sulphur. His national anthem is, “Hail, Hail, the gang’s all here; What the hell do we care; What the hell do we care,” and for an encore he has: “Besides a hell of an engineer, he’s a hell of a regular guy.” This is getting too hot. What will the bushbaptists: of the alfalfa regions think of this kind of propa- ganda? * * * * * Ceerae has finally succeeded in demoralizing Greek political life. Our latest information from Athens is that several prominent Greek politicians were kidnapped on the eve of election and are held for ram som. In fact the Greek oppositiow went farther than their contempo- raries in Chicago. The worst the Chicagoans did was to hold the ene- my until after his ward was made safe for the kidnapers’ candidate. They might take him for a “ride” or bump him off if he proved ob- streperous but it is not recorded that they ever held him up for any more than he carried in his jeaps. It is always thus, the convert is ‘al- most certain to outdo the teacher in zeal. * * * ‘HE Sultans and their millions of wives may cause an earthquake if they decide to roll over in their graves at the news that the Turkish crown jewels are to be sold to es- tablish a state bank. There is some dispute over whether the Turkish collection is more valuable than the ezarist collection now under Soviet lock and key. It is possible that the Sultans had the largest collec- tion. It is the custom in the Occi- dent even as in the Orient for a bridegroom to bestow a bauble of some kind on his atavistic bride and since the Sultans were rather well disposed towards the fair sex and at times generous, it is a rea- sonable assumption that they col- lected more jewels than the czars, who after all, lived in a colder cli- mate, Lon OHohaly * +