The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1928, Page 8

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1928. Baily meas Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Pe Worker TION AL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING Except Sunday w York, N. Y Cable Address: York only): $2.50 three months SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Editor. . Assistant ..ROBERT MINOR ..-WM. F. DUNNE © post-office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1879 For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER - q Workers! For t Q | > 4 | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! “VOTE COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! “Happily,” Mr. Coolidge Prepares for War. “Our own loss of life, happily, tively small, but the cost in direct outlay to the national treasury ran between $30,000,000,000 and $40,000,000,000.” * This is Calvin Coolidge—the very essence of the little ident of the imperialism. Coolidge spoke to the American Legion, and the character of his audience seems to have in- spired him to put more crudely, and therefore more transparently, the real meaning of the Kellogg pact to be signed at Paris on the 27th of this month. But not that he did so intentionally! was compara- bis Coolidge spoke about the World War in the boastful spirit of the little merchant suddenly become a Croesus. The tens of thousands of lives of American conscripts that were sacri- to imperialism, that they really are not so badly off, because “the most precious rewards | of life do not lie on the side of material gain.” He hastens to prove that the poor rich fellows who stayed at home and made their millions as war profiteers are just as worthy people, for, although “those who went into the armed service offered their lives,” nevertheless: i . those who contributed to the war-time charities, to the purchase of liberty bonds and to the payment of the taxes contributed their property.” (!) And what a case is made for the billionaire profiteers! Did not their larger payments of income tax made them quite as noble as the} poor devil who though dying on the battle field, nevertheless paid no taxes? Read this: “Those who possessed very large incomes paid into the National Treasury about 80 per cent of it, which, with their state and local taxes, came very close to a taking over by the government of their Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 | ficed he can “happily” dis large sum of mone what hurts his sot ss, but the terribly t it cost—ah!—this is Still, he say , the war of the property entire property for use during the war. fact, a practical conscription for an indefinite time It was, in of those of very large incomes. While some of our people were in the service, “afforded us a place in the world which we did not have before.” Referring to what he calls tion” toward “the rule of law - “This has brought about among the nations of the world a new sympathy for each other and a new forebearance toward each other which did not before exist. It has eliminated a great deal of selfishness and produced a desire for mutual helpfulness, even at the cost of considerable sacri- fice.” Behind these oily phras: all of the smug feeling of a national bourgeoisie which before the war was in the class of debtor nations, but which, after the war has made it the creditor “new disposi- > he says: of the world, feels that “a great deal of sel-| fishness” has been eliminated. And what this about, plan?: “In their foreign relations all over the world a very distinct manifestation can be seen in the attitude of the great power of wholesome restyaint and an effort to conclude by patient negotiation what but a short time ago would have been de- termined with an iron hand.” What és he talking about there but the “peaceful” enslavement of other nations to the finance-capital of the United States? What does he mean by “patient negotiation” if this does not include such settlements as the Dawes Plan for enslavement of Central Europe? Coolidge sees a general submission of the }’ nations of the world to American capital, and a sort of imperial Roman citizenship for the American capitalist abroad: is Ss but the Dawes “A citizen of the United States holds a new posi- tion, higher than that which was ever held in any others were producing food, turning out munitions, locking after the affairs of government, and carry- | ing on the necessary activities of commerce and | transportation.” His idealization of the “private enterprise” of capitalism, becomes almost frenzied in his demands for the speeding up of trustified industry, the extermination of all protective} | measures for the workers and of the workers ‘who resist the speed-up, which he refers to under the terms “‘slackness and the slacker.” The foundation of “prosperity,” he says: “All rests on the extermination of waste and the waster, and on the elimination of slackness and the slacker. It means the co-ordination of national effort through an adequately trained citizenship, which will result in a scientific production and dis- tribution of commodities... .” | Coolidge is expounding to the best of his | capacity, the imperialist program of today for | the United States. | Coolidge’s speech was, of course, a veiled in- terpretation, but a true one, of the Kellogg pact as a war manoeuvre of the United States | imperialism. For: si . it detracts nothing from the right and obligation of ourselves or the other high contract- ing parties to maintain an adequate national de- fense against any attack... .” And the snivelling’ little Wall Street clerk made his speech between orders to U. S. marines for conducting the war in Nicaragua, and other marines for warlike acts against the} Chinese people. Coolidge demonstrated what needed no more | proving, that the United States is embarking now for the biggest and bloodiest war in his- ; A PROMISING INVESTMENT Ever since last year, marked by! |the treachery of the Kuomintang, |undreamed of ruthless white terror has been raging in China, and the | Chinese trade union movement has |been driven underground. The fol-| | lowing facts give a slight idea of | | the attitude of the Kuomintang to- | | wards the working class: (1) Arrests and executions of Pah \tive trade unionists and Commu-| | nists. (2) Closing down of trade) ‘union premises and the prohibition of trade union “meetings. (3) | Wherever the counter-revolutionar- | lies do not succeed in breaking. up| the labor movement, the revolution- | ary unions are corrupted: the old) name of the given organization is| retained, but hirelings are put into, the leading positions (as for in- stance, in Hupeh and Kwangtung). In other cases the name of the union is also changed and the unions themselves are changed into heterogeneous organizations, united | by inter-union committees, or into unions differentiated according to craft (the united union of Shanghai, the united unions in other pro- vinces, etc.). Thus is the central- ization of the forces of the work- ing class being destroyed. Thousands Murdered. | The barbarous repressions have) |taken from the ranks of the Chi- |nese working class 26,450 persons | |—shot, guillotined, tortured (eyes! | put out, scalded with boiling water, | every possible sort of brutality, the | most barbarous tortures were made j tne of). But the Chinese working | class has not been broken by this) |ruthless terror. On April 23rd, | 1927, the general strike broke out | in Canton; on June 13th, a demon- stration in memory of the Hong- | kong strike; June 23rd, a demon- Alarmed Reaction Murders By Fred Ellis The White Terror in China Thousands of Workers; Barbarous Repression, replace adult workers by women} and children); (5) against the ar- bitration organs (since the Kuo- mintang went over to the camp of | the counter-revolution special bur-| eaus have been formed, supposed to have been founded for the settle- ment of conflicts between the work- | ers and employers, but in reality being kept by the employers). After the Canton uprising the) labor movement continued to devel- op, but the counter-revolutionary elements, alarmed by the great rev- olutionary explosion in formed a united front against the Canton, | This is the united front of the Chi- nese neo-militarists. The foreign municipality in Shanghai, in its turn stretched out its hand to the Kuomintang and awarded the execu- |tors of the “Communist bandits.” This is the united front between the foreign imperialists and the Chin- ese militarists, ences between them are bound to crop up sometimes, but when mat- ters treat of the suppression of the working class and the Communists, all the counter-revolutionaries are at one. The suppression of the Canton Of course, differ-| }000 members. In Canton the red trade unions have 3 to 4 thousand| members, and there are two or three thousand members in Han-/ kow and other parts of China. The | organizations, as was only to be expected, have decreased in size, but their active workers penetrate into the yellow unions for the recruiting of workers. If order to guarantee the con- | or others. | quest of the masses in China, the} system of shop committees is now |being practiced. This movement | will undoubtedly have great results. The Chinese working class has fighting experience, which has been gained during several years; it has a firm basis, which can never be destroyed by the white terror, de- | spite the whole series of defeats of the working class, and this is chief- ly because the working class is be- working class. Instances: the Chi-| uprising was a heavy blow to the| ing helped by the Chinese Com- | nese cotton mills unite with the Japanese and English plants; the foreign shipping companies on the Yangtze unite with the Chinese companies. ese capitalists. One association of merchants of 9 provinces passed a decision to annul the labor agree- ments of the Communist epoch. The conflict between the supporters of Chiang Kai-shek and Pei Tsiang-si was very stubborn; but these two cliques suddenly made their peace. | Shanghai, where they still unite 50,- | end the working class will win out. working class, but it did not lose hope and is continuing its struggle. We had but recently in Shanghai the strike of the workers at the We see before u# the| silk mills in Ponton, the strike at| munist Party. united front of foreign and Chin-| the match factories, ete. All this | peasant is extremely eloquent. The Chinese working class is still | munist Party. The wide peasant |masses have united with the labor movement, having rallied together | with it around the Chinese Com- All over China the movement is growing stronger day by day, especially in Kwangtung, Kiangsu, Chekiang. = Sree ee Told You So i pb Se Bs is going to be a sad column today unless I happen to rus across a juicy murder case or a sizable bank forgery. Ora Slory of a reformed convict failing to do the right thing by a commander of the Salvation Army. But since we can- not always get what we want, here -|goes a Chicago dispatch, headline and all, “NO JOBS IN CHICAGO, “EX-SOLDIERS WARNED “Chicago, July 29.—3¢x-service men were warned by the American Legion today to stay away from Chicago, if they were looking for jobs. Thousands of World War vet- erans already are walking the streets here looking for employment, the legion officials said,” and we say, “’nuff said.” No, we don’t. This is too good a tale to let pass without adorning with a moral. Workers! the next time you go to war to make the world safe for | democracy, pick a fat capitalist to march in front of you and armor- plate his back so that the bullet that enters his front cannot pass. “When | the war is over, return and grab his job. If there are any holes in this advice please stop me. Pee eae pW oaeD STUART and his two | ™ kids hoofed it into Denver, Col- orado on three pair of battered dogs. |The father is suffering from a broken back and paralyzed feet, af- flictions which are not listed among |the necessary qualifications for |entry in a’cross country marathon. | Stuart broke said back in a West Virginia mine five years ago. His |feet were paralyzed at the same time. I Ses eS got a broken back and | paralyzed feet as a reward for |his years of service to the coal com- | pany. The owner of the coal com- | pany may have gotten the gout or | something worse as a result of the luxury he could afford from the pro- | ceeds of the unpaid labor of Stuart Now, a liberal would feel equally bad about.the broken back of the worker and the gouty foot of the capitalist. He would try to convince the capitalist that he should | buy lolly pops for the worker’s chil- | dren,,in order to show that he and his slaves were the same under the | skin, But a Communist would not |care if a ton of anthracite fell on the capitalist’s gouty foot. ae a 'HE reader who sent me the hatch | of clippings from which the fore- goigg paragraphs were manufac- tured must be a cheerful fellow. | Here is the title to the last “Castoff |Human Beings Harvest On City | Dump.” This particular dump is in | Lansing, Michigan, and the reporter | tells, of old men and women, young | girls and children plundering the |garbage for odds and ends of dis- | carded clothing that enables them to |cover their nakedness to the satis- | faction of a Methodist minister. * OW, read what Hoover said in his weary Palo Alto acceptance | speech while discussing the protec- itive tariff. “Other countries gain nothing if the high standards of aE being attacked by ‘the white terror.| Everywhere the peasants are seiz-| America are sunk and if we are pre- The forms of the workers’ organ-| ing the lands, driving the landlords | vented from building a civilization izations and their tactics have en- tered upon a new phase. The rev- olutionary unions exist illegally in Johnny Madeiros Is Dead By A. B. MAGIL Johnny Madeiros, six-year-old son of a Fall River textile 1 jaway, and forming their village |couneils. This is of collossal help to the city proletariat, and in the | The Chinese working class is |waging a stubborn and difficult struggle. It relies upon the help of the international proletariat, for | the struggle of the Chinese work- lers js at the same timé the strug- gle of all workers. The Chinese working class appeal to the inter- national working class with the fol- owing clogans: which sets the level of hope for the | rest of the world.” Perhaps if this \high tariff on certain imports was lowered the city dumps would not be what they are today and the “dump rats” who now manage to |conceal their bodies from lecherous eye, with the aid of the discarded |apparel of their more fortunate | brothers and sisters, would have to | find themselves caves where the car- ‘nal gaze of man could not follow | them. * ND what would the “dump rats” cht d ee eee. rvs onportunities. which are enjoyed striker, was chased by a mounted policeman into a stream «Down with the blue and,white 44 of Lansing, Michigan, think— by our countrymen are far superior to those which ever came to any other people.” He sees transformation in the internal political and economic conditions of the United States which is a fulfillment of the dreams of imperialism. Class divisions appear in the vocabulary of Coolidge as the division between the man who “might be called upon by the gov- ernment in time of need for his life,” and such as might be called upon for “his property.” a ‘tory, as well as the harshest enslavement of the working class at home. Finally, the Kellogg pact must be understood | fundamentally as a war plan against the Union| of Socialist Soviet Republics, the only great] power which is not permitted to enter into dis-| cussion of its terms. The working class must prepare to fight against imperialist war and to defend the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, the | stration commemorating the beat- |ingsup in Ahamen; in November, | the bloody fight for the premises of the Committee of Representatives of the Workers’ Unions of Kwang- tung and the obdurate fight for the re-establishment of the Seamen’s Union, the siege of Wan Ku-wey’s house, and finally, the great upris- ing in Canton, which shook the whole East. In Wuhan on August 2nd, 1927, the general strike; some- And about this Coolidge philosophizes. tries to assure those who give only their lives He countries, Socialist Fatherland of the workers of all GAMPAIGN.CORNER A non-Party worker writes “Send me a package of one hundred Communist Campaign leaflets. It is ‘understood that there is no obli- gation on my part e to dis- sribute these leaflets. Enclosed is $1.00 that may be applied to the Free Campaign Leaflet Fund. Here- toforé have not been able to take an active part in the Party not seing a member, but I can at least jistribute these leaflets.” This is the way thousands of non-Party workers will be brought closer to she Communist movement and to the ity during the election campaign, is no better time to increase she Party membership on a national seale than during an election cam- paign. Comrade B. H. Lauderdale of Texas, who is now working in Okla. noma to get the Party on the ballot, veports that sufficient acceptances have been secured to complete the state ticket. The demand for Daily Workers and National Platforms is * . jo heavy that Comrade Lauderdale | ‘s having trouble in supplying it. ty. vias Lauderdale is that com- a. st ae his collections and literature sales and sends. money to the National Office. Let his name and fame be broadcast thruout the Party. . * * Detroit sends in an order for 25,000 campaign leaflets. The com- rades are arranging picnics in De- troit, Grand Rapids, and Muskegon. The Party ticket is on the ballot in the state of Michigan, and the slaves of Ford and Genera] Motors will hear something about what’s the matter with them during the| election campaign. * + Comrade Jakira writes from Pittsburgh: ~‘Rush 150 copies of Party Platforms as soon as. this reaches you. We haven’t a copy left, and the 150 copies I ordered aj few days ago will not last long. | Enclosed find check for $10.00.”| Comrade Jakira also ordered 50| more Vote Communist stamp books. The practice of paying for litera- ture and stamps as soon as sales are made is commended to all Party organizers. * A Workers: (Communist) Party | * Swedish Auditorium, Omaha, Ne- braska, on August 19th, at 8 p, m. The work of securing signatures is now completed, and only the final steps to get the Party on the ballot remain to be taken. Sos oe Wilmington, Delaware, comrades are preparing to give Foster, Git- low and Scott Nearing a rousing welcome and insure the success of their meetings. Bee An inmate of the National Home | for Disabled Soldiers, Leavenworth county, Kansas, writes for the Plat- form of the Class Struggle and leaflets to distribute. H. E. Adams of Dresden, Ohio, writes for photos of Foster and Git- low to hang in the front window of his home. Paar) Hustle for campaign * contribu- tions. The $10,000 Communist Cam- paign Fund drive is on. Every Communist must contribute a share. Forward all contributions to the National Election Campaign Com- mittee, 43 East 125th St., New York, Alexander Trachtenberg, pays bis own way from: State Conyention pvill be held in the | treasurer, what later, the strike of the work- lers at the ammunition factory (which lasted more than 10 days); in November, the strike at the cot- ‘ton mill of Tehen Huna, the work- lers killed 7 members of the reor- ganized bureau (Kuomintangites). The railwaymen of the Peking- Hankow and Canton-Hankow lines demanded that back wages be paid |them. In Wuchan and Hankow the workers broke into the prisons, freed the political prisoners and) | trade union leaders, In Shanghai— the movement against the united front of the Chinese militarists; in August, in Lao-Chao-fan, the strike jat 6 cotton mills; in November, in | Yang Shang-pu—the strike at 5 jeotton mills; in December—the strike of the tramway employees on the territory of the International | concession; later a series of strikes in various places, which it is im- possible to give in gull here. All these actions were made under the following demands: (1) re-estab- lishment of the revolutionary trade unions; (2) re-introduction of the labor agreements that were in force during the period of the Com- munist trade unions; (3) payment jof back wages (there are workers who have not received their wages for 4 and even 10 months); (4) that wages be paid in undepreciated currency (the paper money has lost jall value, it often being impossible ‘to buy food with it); against the arbitrary dismissal of workers (the | owners gften do this, desiring to where he was drowned. | flag (of the Kuomintang), the flag | granting that they have such a habit | of white terror! We will hoist the) —should they read the following Out of the water they took him, smoothed the tangled hair, flag of the hammer and the sickle! | gem from the speech of H. Hoover Carried him home to his mo’ ther; laid him on the bed. Dark hot words and wailing hung in the frightened air: Johnny Madeiros is dead! Dead now. Quiet. | (In other words: | Kuomintang! Soviets!’’) Fellow workers! “Down with the | a Palo Alto: “Our workers with their We wilh set up the average weekly wages, can today, buy two or often-times three times .|more bread and butter than any Help the Chin-| wage earner in Europe.” H. L. ese proletariat to victory in our) Mencken called Hoover a “fat Cool- great common cause! “They have taken our terrible toil,” said one, | They have taken the years of our youth and the filthy crusts | Germany Gains of our bread; They have taken the clothes from our backs and out of our sky the sun— They have given us our dead. “But the dead shall make us stronger, our picketlines shall be! Like a great sweeping tide Masters, O bloody masters, rej Johnny Madeiros is dead!” with a little boy at the head. oice in your victory: MEMORIAL EDITION OF SACCO, VANZETTI LIFE International Publishers, 381 4th Ave., New York, have just issued a special Memorial Anniversary Edi- tion of “The Life and Death of | Sacco and Vanzetti,” by Eugene Lyons. This book, first published soon after the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, attracted wide atten- tion because of the unique and dra- matic manner in which it described the background and the life of Sacco and Vanzetti in Italy before their emigration to the United States, their struggles as poor im- migrant workers in this country, their affiliation with the labor move- ment and the price which they paid for the loyalty to the cause in which they believed. The New England. background, e labor struggles there which involved Sacco and Vanzetti, the complete story of their persecution, conviction and execu- tion is graphically described by Lyons, who wa§ associated with the case from its very beginning. International Publishers have is- sued this special edition at \$1.00, instead of its regular price of $1.50, in order to allow a wider dis- tribution of the book at the me- morial meetings on August 22, 1928, which will be held throughout the country. Orders for this book International Publishers, so that they may be filled and books may reach the different cities in time for the meetings. The’$1.00 edition wale month of August, lidge.” Let it stand. Hoover can | swallow more capitalist dirt than his namesake the vacuum cleaner. should be sent immediately to the), Fourth ‘Place in the World’s ‘Shipping During Week Sm OKeahely BERLIN, Aug. 16 (UP).—Ger-| many moved to fourth place in) | world shipping this week with the) Maunching by the North German) | Lloyd line of its. two, great sister| |ships, Europa and Bremen. |. Germany is only slightly behind Japan, which is trailing the two great maritime nations, the United States and Great Britain, Last year Germany was in sixth place, behind Italy and France. Germanys increase in tonnage in the last 12 months was 12.3 per ‘cent, compared with an increase in _world tonnage of only 2.7 per cent. Arrest 14 Counter- ‘Revolutionaries In Mexico; One Is Priest , Mexico City, Aug. 17.—(UP)— Fourteen persons, including a women and a priest, are under arrest in Torreon, charged with seditious acts and rebellion, a statement from ‘orreon police published in news- pers here today said. The arrests were made Aug. 7 mut the statement said secrecy was maintained to get evidence against prisoners. Other arrests were reported im-} _minent in Mexieo City, Guadolaiara, will be distributed only during the Sen Luis Potosi, Leon and otherjremiove the si: places. 4 Fascists in Rage at Lenin Memorial Slab GENEVA, Aug. 16.—A marble slab in memory of Lenin, placed over the building in Zurich, where” he lived for one year before the Russian revolution, and from where he left for Russia with a group of his comrades, has aroused the wrath of the fascists of Zurich. Workers placed the slab in mem- ory of their great leader, as a token of their solidarity with the workers in the Soviet Union and as » sign of their faith in the principles of the revolution. The block of flats, of which Lenin’s flat is one, is in- habited mostly by revolctionary workers. The fascists, enraged at this token of class solidarity, have writ- ten letters to the proprictor threat- ening to demolish the brilding with Uombs if the memorial slab is net removed. The proprictor has com- plained to the suthorities and asked the inhabitants of building to not been done. |