The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1928, Page 6

( Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 19zs. Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Inc., Daily, Except Sunday Cable Address: “Dziwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATE nly): 0 three months Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 By Mail (in New York $4.50 six months $2. 'y Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months Bt $8 per year Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. --ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNE Assistant Editor. mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. VOTE COMMUNIST! For President For Vice-President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER BENJAMIN GITLOW For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For the Workers! The “Happy Warrior” Smells Powder The first big blast touched off in tne elec- tion campaign exploded last Tuesday, when the announcement was made at Smith cam- paign headquarters that the big powder and politics magnate, Pierre Du Pont, cached $50,- 000 in Al’s treasure chest. The news rocked Wall Street. Indeed not since the Du Pont powder wagon exploded in front of Morgan’s headquarters in 1921 was there so much ex- citement in the lair of the financial pirates of the United States. Fears were expressed that the “Happy War- rior,” hitherto a stranger to the smells of the battlefield would not stand up under his first whiff of powder. But according to reports from the war correspondents stationed in the! bomb-proof dug-outs of the General Motors ‘Building, Al came up smiling after the smoke cleared away. His brown derby was a little . too far down over his left ear, it is true, but his cigar was smoking as usual. It is just like a dynamite king to blast a pioneer path thru the slush fund wilderness, | where other feared to tread since boodle in politics became anathema to the reformers who did not get their share of the swag. Du Pont hurled his bomb at those anti-corruption- | ists with the sang froid of a white-collar slave spending a dime for a bus ride for his sweet-| heart. Fifty thousand dollars! It’s a lot of money. But we are informed that a profit of several millions of dollars is collected yearly by the Du Ponts from their powder and poison gas factories. Several thou- sand workers toil daily at risk of life and limb to produce those profits for the Du Ponts, . 48 i x some of whom are replenishing the election | “Some reform in their methods of conquest. arsenal of the G. 0. P. and others that of the|Pehaps the marines should brush their teeth democratic party. | and chew less tobacco while murdering Nicara- Fifty thousand dollars may look like a high | mit cate perhaps be less ettueeadl women premium to pay for an imperialist insurance and children, or perhaps the professor means policy, but a couple of colonial wats would they should not drop their guns when the San- + +,» |dinistas chase them. bring that sum back and more besides. War Pee ‘ ae Reoure and imperialism are like Siamese twins. The the criticism of their bloody work there is justi- ; fied, of course the real political content of the * ” | - Du Ponts are not manufacturing powder only | professor’s remark is that they ought : | “liberal” for Fourth of July demonstrations. They are s not giving their money away to Al Smith be-| tang there and conquer Nicaragua for Wall cause he is a conscientious objector against! Z war. They are giving it away because it will insure a dry spot for Du Pont powder, NO} p, tter which of the two imperialist candi- tes wins in the elections. The detonation from the Du Pont blast was heard in Nicaragua, and served notice on Gen- eral Sandino that the election of Al Smith, the whom criminal actions had been brought in democrat, whose platform platonically mur- the United States, said: murs against the occupation of Nicaragua, “The gods on Olympus must laugh every Means a continuance of the republican admin- | time they think about how our state depart- istration’s policy in his country. The Du Pont) ment is defending those men whom the de- donation is a symbol of imperialism. | partment of justice moved heaven and earth e |to put behind prison bars.” The class-conscious workers of the United Same thing again! Same trick professorial States have plenty of food for thought in the speech! This dear man appears to be attack- powder magnate’s contribution to the demo- ing the action of the state department in mak- cratic campaign fund. What are they going to|ing war on Mexico, but the thing he really do about it? This is what they should do: slips over is the idea that “the department of They should become increasingly active in| justice moved heaven and earth to put” (the their support of the Workers (Communist) | Teapot Dome and other oil criminals) “behind Party ticket. They\should rally around the| prison bars.” Did it, now, really? Is there Communist program in this election campaign,|any such fool as does not know that the de- the only program that purposes to organize | partment of justice in the most methodical and the workers for the struggle against Wall| efficient way assured the escape of the oil crim- Street, against the imperialist war mongers|inals? The professor is giving Harding’s and who batten on the oppressed masses at home| Coolidges accomplices in the Teapot Dome steal ‘and on the colonial and semi-colonial peoples. | little clean bill of health while chiding them | They should contribute to the $100,000 Com-| harmlessly about some other assistance they munist Campaign Fund, which is being raised| gave to the same thieves. with the object of carrying the message of the Such are professors! at ee MPAIGN CORNER ‘The Ohio comrades have already collected 12,000 of the 20,000 signa- formers thruout the United States—the men who will be called on to hurl the Du Pont ex- plosives at the workers and farmers of other countries, in the next imperialist war, and who will be the targets for the high explosives of the Du Ponts of other imperialist governments. The workers and poor farmers of the United States should work and vote for the Commun- ist ticket, join the Workers (Communist) Party, and mobilize for the fight that will end imperialism, war, unemployment, and poverty forever. This must be the answer of the American working masses to Pierre Du Pont’s $50,000 contribution to the election slush fund of Al Smith. Two Professors on Imperialism. “The most significant point with regard to Nicaragua,” said Professor J. I. Cox of North- western University, “has been the furor of criticism, some well-justified and some not, which has been aroused.” (Our emphasis.) This is an example of the method by which a “liberal” professor can help United States im- nothing beside these three words: “and some not.” The dear professor appears to be criti- cizing the invasion of Nicaragua, some of the criticism of which is “well-justified,” thus es- tablishing himself as an opponent of im- perialism, only to get in the idea that some of of “enemies” that imperialism thrives upon. in Nicaragua are not all justified, then the marines ought to remain there and conquer Nicaragua for Wall Street, of course with we Oa ee Another professor at work with his jaw. rofessor David Y. Thomas, head of the de- partment of history and political science of the University of Arkansas, in explaining that |the United States has threatened war against Mexico in the interest of oil speculators against * * and report back how many names | speakers are being arranged in that they collected. He is confident that city. The main difficulty, Comrade |class struggle to the workers and exploited the criticism is not justified. This is the kind | required to place the Party on the official ballot. The manager for Ohio writes balance of the signatures. Au- st 26th has been set as a tenta- } date for a Tag Day in Cleve- being arranged to celebrate ing of the Party ticket on de Charles Mitchell, or- ir for District 15, reports that ty units are arranging “Sig- Sundays,” when all the mem- + a report to headquarters _a big drive is now on to collect | the Party ticket, national and local, will be on the ballot this year, a Whim Comrade Sorenson wires from | Seattle, Washington, for five hun- dred Natoinal Platforms. This 64- page booklet, which sells for ten in the anthracite region of Penn- | seventeen dollars was the answer and on September 2nd a ban- cents, is a best seller among Party | sylvania. Open-air meetings will be| of ste obiat4 en San aay, morning. publications, | To ee | From Baltimore, where’ | Mencken flays the babooserie and | the babbitry, hurls his contempt at 'the working class, and jabs the) bourgeoisie playfully in the ribs, | « , | Berger reports, is to find a suitable|swer in unmsitakable terms. Two | hall to hold the crowds that are ex-| hundred and seventeen dollars was pected to attend the Foster and) Nearing meetings, . * The campaign is gathering speed organized next month, ad the com- rades are arranging a picnic with " Herr | Benjamin Gitlow as the principal| of Nitgedaiget. In fact, only the speaker, $i Maye VOTE COMMUNIST | Nitgedaiget: A Cooperative Rest Home By HARRY BENDER | Scene 1: Wall Street, 12.30 p. m., | July 3, 1928. A crowd of workers —mostly white-collar slaves—fills | the street. A man rises on top of | an automobile. “Comrades and fel- | low-workers,” he begins. But be- fore he can say much more, he is pulled down by a squad of police, kicked, manhandled and hustled off | |to jail. Some of the clerks in the} | And in the background, all over the | |broad United States, 110,000,000 | | people prepare to celebrate the birth | |of liberty in these same broad | states. The man who had tried to| make a speech in Wall Street also | \celebrates the birth of liberty—in jail. Scene 2: | Nitgedaiget, Beacon, N. Y., The casino of Camp 10.45 | casino is filled with workers of var-| |ious trades. A man enters thru the | doorway. Everyone rises spontan- | eously. Out of several hundred throats bursts in vigorous rhythm | the song of freedom, the rallying | ery of the workers of the world— | | the International. The man mounts | | the stage to loud cheers. “Com- |rades and fellow-workers,” he be- |gins. It is the same man who only | tried to make a speech in Wall | Street. But the speech he is mak- | ing now is different, and his audi- ence, tho part of the same class, is | different too. | * * . | The speech which Robert Minor, | |editor of the Daily Worker and | Workers (Communist) Party candi- | date for United States senator, imade at Camp Nitgedaiget last | | Sunday was fully as serious and! |important as the speech which he| |had unsuccessfully tried to nake in| | Wall Street. Above the entrance of the Nitgedaiget dining-hall hung a} ‘huge sign: WELCOME ROBERT) | MINOR. Here in the casino the} | workers shouted welcome. | | Minor had not come here for trib- | utes and cheers and_ graceful! ' phrases. He had come with a mes- | sage for the workers at this work- | ers’ camp, a message that was al ‘call to duty to one’s class. | Minor told an old and ever-new| story, the story of the financial | | struggles of the Daily Worker. It| |was a story which most of those | present had probably heard before. | Why bring this melancholy tale to people who are trying to forget) their cares for a couple of weeks? | | This is Camp Nitgedaiget and Nit-| | gedaiget means Don’t You Worry. | | But the existence of the Daily | | Worker is not the concern of <} single individual, but of an entire | class. And this concern cannot be | | postponed .for more convenient | times. Bills are unpaid, the members | of the staff have received no wages | or only a small part of their wages | for weeks in succession—the Daily Worker is fighting for its life. | Workers, these are your bills that | are unpaid, your comrades that are | suffering because they have no | money to buy the bare necessities, ‘and it is your Daily Worker that | is fighting for its life! What will be your answer? | And the workers gave their an- immediately raised in response to |the appeals of Minor and A. Ra- | vitch, business manager of the | Daily Worker. Two hundred and But this was not all of the answer beginning. Minor’s appeal for | funds inaugurated Daily Worker | izations: the Hudson; the | White Collar Slaves in Wall St.; Pup Tents on “Daily” in Need class paper alive. There are 50 em- ployes at the camp, all of them unionized, all of them working an eight-hour day and a six-day week. The Workers (Communist) Party perialism. All the rest of the sentence means | ‘ToWd jeer and hiss the speaker.| members among them have voted to contribute an entire week’s" wages to the Daily Worker. And the non- Party employes will certainly not lag behind. The Nitgedaiget Unit of the Workers (Communist) Party has taken charge of Daily Worker Week and has outlined a program of activity. Various games have been arranged and other play de- If the attacks on United States imperialism |®- ™» Sunday, Aug. 12, 1928. The vices are being used to raise funds. Tomorrow will be Prohibi- tion Day: certain activities and luxuries will be prohibited to the! campers, and all those indulging will have to pay a tax to the Daily | Worker. Judges have been elected from whose decisions there can be| no appeal. Saturday will be literature day at the camp and a literature bazaar will be held under the direc- tion of M. Bailin, agitprop director But since not “all” of|@ little over a mouth before had/of the Nitgedaiget Unit. And the Nitgedaiget dining-room is resplendent with signs. “This is Daily Worker Week, Camp Nitge- daiget Must Go Over the Top.” “Show Your Loyalty to the Soviet Union, Support the Daily Worker.” |lines, in trade unions, in the political |to spend their week-ends, Nitgedai- These and other slogans are keep- ing the vacationers from forgetting | that this is Daily Worker Week and | that they have a duty to perform. { * * * | Thus Camp Nitgedaiget plays its | part in the struggles of the Amer- | ican workers. It is only on rare | occasions such as the present that | public collections are made. But | thru other devices funds are con-| stantly being raised for working | | commercial take care of 790 campers, with ac- commodations for the winter, too. The camp is constantly being im- |proved and this year 73 modern | bungalows supplemented the 300 tents, with bungalows scheduled to replace all the tents next year. And a camp that is run by and for work- ers necessarily does away with the profiteering and dishonesty of the camps. Fresh ‘food, lodging and a camp life that in- cludes a variety of activities are provided for $17 a week—about half the rate of the “socialist” Camp Tamiment. And there are activities such as m never be found at the commer- jal camps, activities in which the ca’ ci HERBERT HOOVER has accepted the G. O. P. nomination for the | presidency and the country cay breathe easier. It would be a ter |rible situation if he had turned ic down and put the public thru the ordeal of enduring another repub- lican convention. Herbert trotted out the old dinner pail which exhaled a delightful odor of garlic and | onions in addition to the pork and |beans of former G. 0. P, presi- dential campaigns, It is true that | Hoover scorned the “full dinner | pail” slogan as inadequate. So he | threw in the flavoring by sugges- tion. 1 Aooves talked money and no doubt he expects that money will talk back in the elections. Billions | for public works are dangled before the eyes of the workingclass voters. | The old delusion that a victory for | the republican party meant more corn on the workingman’s cob and | more fat on his ribs is expected to |ring the bell again for the G. 0. a And when the worker learned from: hungry experience that this was the hokum he decided to switch his vote | to the democrats only to find that he was only jumping from a cess- {peat into a sewer. Cae ae * * * OOVER’S acceptance speech places him definitely with the | most consciously reactionary wing of the republican party. He has digested Harding, Jess Smith, A. B. Fall, Harry Daugherty, Gaston B. ;Means and William Burns, the “prophesying stool-pigeon.” Hoover boasts of the successess of the G. 0. P, administration since it took over the task of running this country for the capitalists from the monumental hypocrite Woodrow Wilson. The administration reduced taxes. For whom? What else did the adminis- | tration accomplish? “ ee a a | PEHES the brain of, the en-", gineering genius was so busily |engaged planning big things that | Hoover did not have time to follow \the thack of Teapot Dome. Let us |refresh the good militarist quaker’s |memory. The Harding administra- | tion turned the department of jus- | tice into a cut-rate drug store where the best bootleggers were always welcome and where federal protec- tion could be purchased wholesale at a considerable discount. Business was so brisk that Attorney General Daugherty who was up to his neck class causes. And during the pres- | collectivist mass spirit predomin-| in strikebreaking activities could not ent summer the camp has contribu-| ates. Great emphasis is laid onthe handle all the graft problems that ted hundreds of dollars to miners’ relief and the Joint Defense. | Which is as it should be. There is| no forgetting here where the work- ers rule, where we can sense that power that some day shall be ours. No exploiters, no bosses, no police doing the dirty work of their mas- ters. In this workers’ republic, where the camp manager, B. Cohen, is chief commissar, the strength of our class is everywhere palpable, giving strength to the great struggle that goes on around it on picket field. ~ * Founded five years ago with a| few pup-tents where workers came get has grown swiftly and can now | AID FO of the Red International R CHINESE WORKERS URGED MOSCOW (By Mail).—The agi- | ete. tation and propaganda department | the campaign of the most varied 4 of Labor | strata of the toilers, thi i Unions sent out today to all sections | be an the meee But | and adherents of the organization successful it will be. the following letter: | | Dear Comrades:— | In accordance with the. decision |°f science, literature, art, ete. of the Congress of the Hilu, an in- ternational fortnight of help for the Chinese labor movement is to be held. Fight Terror. This fortnight of help is to be a worthy reply of the international | proletariat to the unrestrained white terror which continues to | rage over the territory of China, to | the interventionist carousals of all the imperialist powers and espe- cially of Japan; to the unintermit- tent bloody repressions against the militant labor movement and the Chinese revolution in general. The Rilu and all its affiliated organiza- tions must respond to the appeal for help made by our Chinese brothers by organizing a broad mass campaign of help for the Chi- nese proletariat. This campaign should consist of acquainting the wide masses of the toilers with the Chinese events, of organizing moral and material help for the Chinese workers, especially by money col- lections, for the labor movoment in China. In its telegram of June 13 last, the executive bureau of the Rilu called upon all its affiliated organ- izations to comence energetic prep- arations for this campaign immedi- ately. How are these preparations | to be carried out? Plan Campaign. In the first place a commission for the preparation and the execu- tion of the fortnight should be im- mediately organized, to which should be attracted for joint work repre- sentatives of. the following organ- The Party, the I. C. W. Walter Paananen, West Concord, Week at the camp during which ||P. A., International Workers’ Aid, New Hampshire, sends in $7, for every worker, both vacationists and) {he Youth League. the Anti-Imper- form of the Class Struggle.” | peasant organizations, ete. The wider the participation in| the response to it and the more It is also necessary to draw into the campaign the most prominent representatives Of what should the preparations for the carrying out of this cam- paign, both along the trade union line and the line of other organ- izations with which the work is to be jointly carried out, consist? They should approximately consist of the following: . (a) Issue of appeals and their publication in the press. (b) Issue of special editions of considerable space to be devoted in the organs of the workers’ press to | questions of the position of the Chinese revolution and labor move- ment, the policy of the imperialists, the Japanese intervention, white ter- ror, the strike movement, activities of the trade unions, position of the (c) Assigning, special sums in aid of the Chinese labor movement. (d) Organizing mass money col- lections in aid of the Chinese labor movement amongst the wide strata of the working class and toilers in general, and also in ‘aid of impris- oned Chinese revolutionaries and the families of the victims of white terror. (e) The organization of exhibi- tions dedicated to the struggle and position of the Chinese workers. (f) Conducting a mass campaign of protest against the white terror, executions and arrests of active par- ticipants in the labor movement of China. (g) Organizing mass meetings and talks dedicated to the labor movement and the white terror in China, (h) By showing appropriate films illustrating the revolutionary | comes the news that mass meetings one hundred copies of the “Plat-| camp employes, are expected to do ialist League, the “Hands off China” struggle of the toilers of China and oa Foster and Nearing as the | ‘ their et towards keeping their' Society, the peasant organizations, the situation in China. cultural expression of the working- class spirit. Every Saturday night a working-class play, written, per- formed and staged by the campers themselves, is produced under the direction of Jacob Mestel, director of the Freheit Dramatic Studio and an actor of many years’ experience. Plays such as these are unique in this country and their counterpart ean he found only in the Soviet Union. During the present season themes such as the coal strike, the elections }and colonization in Soviet Russia \have been dealt with in dramatic |form. Last Saturday a satirical sketch, telling the story of the con- version of a camper who insists on worrying at the Don’t You Worry camp, was produced. This was written by B. Fenster, who is also the editor of the Camp Yat, the humorous weekly paper that is read every Friday night at the camp-fire. . And for those campers who can sing, or think they can, there is the chorus, coached by the musical di- rector, L. Malamut, who numbers among his other accomplishments the ability to make an accordion sound almost like a symphony orchestra. Athletics finds Yossel Rashkovich, the agile and spirited athletic direc- tor, keeping everyone, even the el- derly and portly, on the move. * * And Nitgedaiget has its own daily paper, edited and written almost en- tirely by Paul Novick, a member of the staff of the Freiheit, for sev- eral weeks and now by L. Talmy. the “Potcht,” as it is called, makes no pretence at competing with other Communist newspapers, but con- fines itself rigidly to life at Camp Nitgedaiget. It is a four-page, typewritten wall paper and every * | morning the campers may be found gathered in groups before the vari- ous places where it is hung up, reading and discussing the latest news. “The Potcht” is a complete newspaper, containing editorials, news stories, special articles and cartoons, with the light touch pre- dominating. The editor gave evi- dence of his excellent news and po- litical sense last Sunday when he devoted his leading editorial to the coming of Robert Minor to the camp. Lectures are another important part of the cultural activities, and among those who have spoken at the camp this summer are Bert Miller, J. O. Bentall, Ray Ragozin and A. Markoff. a ae} All these are class activities, part of the class struggle of the Ameri- can workers. Nitgedaiget offers no escape from that struggle. The Daily Worker and Freheit, which together with the platform of the Workers (Communist) Party are sold during meals, as well as at the camp store, will not let the camp- ers forget the battles of their class. The camp activities, made of the very stuff of these battles, will not Jet them forget. And Daily Worker | Week will not let them forget. For Nitgedaiget is determined to go over the tap ~ | came to him for solution. So he in- | stalled an assistant in the depart- ment of justice as head of the | Bureau of Graft, Concessions and | Protection. | * a) FORTUNATELY Smith, was not seasoned enough for the job» tho he had many years experience as a free lance swindler and the poor fellow blew his brains out when she felt that the country was being sold out to the highest. bidders~and that this was going to fear. Jess would not object to peddling the navy or the oil reserves, but when it was rumored that Daugherty, was | about to ask for bids on the white | house and treasury building, Smith got scared and bumped himself of. At least the papers had it that he |did, but there are others who claim |that the dirty work was taken off | his hands. Ea |DRESIDENT Harding died after * eating a mess of crabs and Cal- vin Coolidge, the strikebreaker from Vermont, took his seat. Warren G. | was a good old skate, shot craps, played poker and frequently wrapped |himself around a potent beverage— in other words he was human. His cronies, Harry Daugherty, A. B. Fall, Denby and the rest of them, also shot craps, played poker and imbibed spiritual cheer. What of it if they got away with a few state-» fulls of gasoline or shook the boot- leggers down for a couple of million? The “patriots” got the gasolene and the bootleggers were violating the law anyhow. A pox on them! * * ie s Here eae DOME squirted all over the white house. Things looked so ominous that optimistic radicals smelled a revolution thru the stench. Calvin Coolidge shulked in the recesses of the white house and his lips were as tight as the fists of |a dead miser. ~The looters of the \naval oil reserves and other graft mongers were forced out of the cabinet, but to- this date only one seapegoat—a fellow to sold the crutches that were intended - for crippled war-veterans—was sent to the penitentiary. The others went scott free with their graft. And neither Hoover nor Coolidge nor any other member of the cabinet raised a voice against the thieves. _ * ® (ESE are accomplishments that Hoover conveniently ignores when paying his tribute to the most corrupt administration in the his- tory of American politics. He hails Coolidge as a “great president,”—a canny small-bore politician, who might qualify for a position as as- sistant editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal but outside the United States, there is no other country in the world—not even Albania—where he could rise to position in public life equal in prestige to that of vil- + lage pope in Bulgaria. Sar } \