The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1928, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1928. \ Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 3-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Dziwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ’ By Mail (in New York o Mail (outside of New York): Bper year $4.50 six months e months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months — = Address’ and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Editor. ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNE 2 =is's SE Assistant E deci Entered as second ce at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers! he Reconciliation of the Socialist Party With Gumshoe Pete W. E. Woodward, novelist, author of Bunk,” of a biography of George Washing- son and one of General Grant, has made a sontribution toward clarifying the recent shift of the socialist party from the extreme sight to the ultra-extreme right the elimina- sion of all reference to tHe c struggle trom its constitution and the general adjust- ment of that par tual front of warfare aga lass for the preservation of the capitalist system. Mr. Woodward has announced that he is ‘a socialist of the deepest dye’—then he 2xplains why and when he got the deepest shade of the safron socialist dye upon his slothes. The explanation comes in the text of a letter written by him to a select num- ber of artists and writers to ask their sup- yort of the Reverend Norfnan Thomas for gresident. Such a vote; says he, “will help to make American politics more realistic,” and will “help lay the foundation for a pow- arful party of progr and social justice.” Nothing about the working class of course. [t is a small American echo of Ramsay Mac- Donald’s recent declaration that 'thé British social-democrats constitute, not a class par- ty, but a party of intellectuals. That sufficiently explains why Mr. Wood- ward joins himself to the socialist party. But the greatest significance is to be found in his explanation on the point of the time of his joining. For Mr. Woodward makes plain that he would not have joined the so- sialist party in any previous period, but only now because of the changes that time has wrought. Let Woodward speak for himself: “Ten years ago it might have been embar- rassing for me to have urged anyone to serve on a committee for socialist candidates. Names of those affiliated would have bee the blacklists and Gumshoe Pete from Wash- ington would have had his accusing eye on one’s window.” In other words, ten years ago the Ruthen- bergs and Gitlows and John Reeds were in the socialist party; there was class struggle still expressed in a portion of the conglom- erate group that was then the socialist par- ty; there was still a connection with revo- futionary workers; there was danger; there was Debs in prison, with Ruthenberg and Gitlow and hundreds of others soon to go for long terms; Palmer raids on left wing socialist party members—all of this w till connected with the socialist party ten years IQ | K | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! VOTE COMMUNIST! Fer Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! ago, and it would not do at all for a respec- table gentleman like Mr. Woodward (or the Reverend Thomas, then preaching the gos- pel of Jesus to the fashionable Brick Pres- byterian church) to have anything to do with that. Since then the flames of struggle have separated the revolutionary elements of the socialist party of that day from the yellow dross which is the socialist party today. The socialist party has sunk to the level of con- tempt for the working class, and the gum- shoe men of Washington smile upon it since it has ceased to be of the working class and has begun its role of open strikebreaking and belligerent support of the capitalist sys- tem. In 1918 Mr. Woodward could not possibly have been a member of the same party with Ruthenberg, and with the Debs who declared himself a “Bolshevik” and took ten years’ sentence to Atlanta prison. | | “But all that has long ago been laughed to death,” continues Mr. Woodward. “I am not only a supporter in this campaign of Thomas and Maurer, but I am a socialist of the deepest dye. I am one of those optimists who believe that humanity is capable of get- ting rid of wolfish greed and dirt and poverty and war. Yet my books are read in the most respectable homes. Even members of the stock exchange write me nice admiring letters.” And “Comrade” Woodward now will find pleasant diversion in preaching down at the working class that “humanity” (capitalist society) “is capable of getting rid of wolfish greed and dirt and poverty”; and by preach- ing that @pitalist “humanity can get rid of -.- war,” he will be very useful and “respec- table” to the same imperialists who are pre- paring feverishly for the coming world war, and who need the Kelloggs and also the Rev- erend Thomases and the Woodwards to flim- flam the working class. with illusions that there is to be no war. Mr. Woodward adds his voice to the chorus of Hillquits, Bergers and Boncours who chant in unison that it is not necessary to overthrow the capitalist system. “Gumshoe Pete from Washington” will not bother you, Mr. Woodward; he will be ready at all times to cooperate with you while revolutionary workers struggle and starve, go to jail, and fight to transform the next “War to End War” into a revolutionary struggle for the establishment of the rule of’ the only class that can and will abolish capitalist greed and poverty and war. Mr. Woodward, shake hands with Mr. Gumshoe Pete; you're in the socialist party now. lapan’s Stronghold on Shantung Position Strengthened. with China were on the whole a By M. L. . imperialists ‘HE reactionary govefnment of | =e position. Japan has sent tens of thou- ands more soldiers to China and seupied the whole of the province € Shantung, taken over the railway ne Tchingtau-Tchinau and oc fied the nearby mines and other in- ustrial undertakings. The ‘army perating in Manchuria is growing neeasingly and a new expedition as been set up along the frontier of orea and Manchuria. In Tientsin trong Japanese military forces are protecting the town” and for this sason they have occupied the reater part of it. Japanese m wy planes have made military emonstrations over the t That is no simple ut open war against the Chin eople. The Kuomintang, under its eactionary leaders, does not even aink of offering any serious re- istance to these Japanese imper- alist encroachments, but has even Wbordinated itself to the imperial- its. f the Kuomintang have no real _ teight. The Kuomintang in its resent composition has ceased to e a danger to the imperialists. intervention, e the Japanese interventionists know | his as well as anyone. The Japan- se are sending continual reinforce- yents to Manchuria and other parts | bishi, ° f North China and declare quite | was the ruling party of the day, penly that Manchuria is a Japanese ossession and that anyone who inks of taking up a threatening osition towards the dominance of apan & Manchuria must be de~\ The “appeals” and “protests” | At the same time the Japanese are using every pos- sible intrigue {o strengthen their They are ready to use any and every Chinese general for their purpose and are negotiating with Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Si-shang with this aim in view. In his speech at the opening of the Japanese parliament, the prime minister and Foreign Minister Tan- ska declared that Japan had a “great mission” in the far east. This “great mission” of course is noth- g but tho maintenance of Japan- hegemony in China by the op- pression of the Chinese people, the destruction of the revolution and the annihilation of the “Red danger.” One can trust the government of Tanaka to dg all in its power to be true to this “great mission.” Its Fight With Britain. When the great revolution threat- ened chiefly the positions of the British during the advance cf the Canton army against the north, Japan did everything in its power to exploit the situation in order to| take over the positions of the Brit-| ish. This was the time of the diplomacy of Shidekharas, or the | period of the economic penetration | of China. At that time Japan was unwilling to co-operate with Great Britain openly. The concern Mitsu- whose political representative the Kanseikai (at present Minseito) had | not so much in the pool as the con- | cern Nitsui, the backer of the pres-| tion of Labor, the climax came yes-| ent governmental party Seiynkai. | Further, the smaller merchants who | made considerable profits out of the! 4 \ against an intervention. When, temporary flourishment of trade | O AND ny SACC VANZETTI ARE NOT FORGOT TEN! ed By ALBERT WEISBORD ] Textile workers throughout the country are looking with eager eyes: toward the coming convention called for September 22-23 in New York City by the National Textile Mills Committee. They see in this conven- tion the first step toward the or- ganization of a new union for the | textile industry which will fight to lift the workers out of their present wretched condition of long hours, speed-up and wage-cuts. “From Maine to Alabama the tex- tile workers are sweating in a mis-| everywhere the wage! slaves in all branches of* this big| and important industry are seeing a worsening of their conditions. Hours are growing longer than ever. The Massachusetts textile | Mill Workers Must \ . Sept. Look Forward to Big Convention in New York attempted to reach. 22-23 barons through their lobby in the legislature are planning to wipe out. the 48-hour week. In Rhode Island, | Maine and other parts of New Eng- land the hours run from 54 up. In as many as 60 hours a week. Not only are the hours longer than they wracking grind. Wages in textile mills have al- ways been low. It is the lowest paid jof any big industry. On top of average wages of about $17 a week, which is all the textile workers can average in these times of slack work and unemployment, the textile bosses in New England have insti- tuted wage cuts of 10 per cent.) | Whole families are finding them- |South Carolina women are slaving | selves reduced to starvation. | Lack of organization and false leadership in the past has hampered ery which can scarcely be surpassed| Were a few years ago, but the the efforts of the textile workers to in any other industry. Whether it|quantity of production the workers | better their conditions. Only small |gle. be in cotton, in silk or in wool man-|are forced Bat turn A Seep |and weak unions have existed, most- ufacture, whether in the dye works | than ever. e number of machinés |]y on a craft basis. The principal | pj ji of Paterson or in the knitting mills |to be tended is doubled, tripled and|union, the UTW (oaltad Texilé oes ee eee of New York City, whether in the even more. Machinery is run at a) Workers) because of its black re-| where re eéuuanniente: With the NK jearpet mills of Philadelphia or in| higher speed. The life cand heart | actionary leadership is looked upon | tional Secretary, Albert Weisbord, {wpe silk throwing mills in the an- {eaten out of the worker in a nerve-| with hatred by all workers who |at 96 Fifth ‘Age caRonishi te New Tacite, : . UTW, in the plaee of militant fight | |to win better conditions for the | workers, has left a slimy trail of sell-outs, collaboration with the bosses, neglect and betrayals. The | [bewe had any dealings with it. The | Build such a leadership the workers feel confident that their ranks will be Union vast masses of the one million unor- ganized textile workers it has never | The call for a new union comes | like a beacon of hope to all those | who are suffering in the textile | hells. With a militant leadership, | the same leadership that conducted | the splendid fight made by the} woolen workers in Passaic two years ago and is now in charge of | tke spirited battle being put up in New Bedford and Fall River, with organized and mobilized for strug- The National Textile Mills Com- York City; sending in names and} addresses of all those interested in the national convention. The con- vention is called for Sept. 22 and 23 at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Ir- ving Place, New York City. By W. J. WHITE Pennsylvania is noted for its bru- |tality to workers. Né state in the entire United States is more callous to the needs and miseries of its wealth producers. This arises from of the most productive of the states and that its productivity has passed into the hands of a few mighty | oligarchs, who, in their race for the {surplus wealth produced by the workers, have thrown other consid- |erations to the winds. Children in Mills and Factories. | In the competition for mass pro- duction and a cheapening of the ar- the fact that Pennsylvania is one} Percentage of Accidents in Pennsylvania High Courts are Harsh Rob Injured Children of Compensation | o| 3) | counting some of the products of |this industrial area. | Record Production. | The production of pig iron is | greater in the Pittsburgh area than in any country of Europe. Its pro- | duction of this basic product is one- tenth of the world total and one- | fifth of the United States total. In |money values it represents $200,- 000,000. The pig iron industry em- however, the revolution extended to | ticles produced in the mills and fac-| nioys 7,000 people and hi a ihe oulley of the Yangtse and the |torles of the state, notwithstanding | >’, ¢1.500000 annaally. It has \national-revolutionary troops occu-| that there is a child labor law in|, greater pay roll than the total pied Shanghai, the Japanese capi- the state, many young boys and pay roll of Arizona, New Mexico, talists began to ery for help. Then | girls are employed in the many dan- | Nevada, North Dakota and South the government of Tanaka, sup-|gerous occupations where machinery | Dakota combined. Its 57 blast fur- ported by all the reactionary forces of the most massive and dangerous |naces represent 13 per cent. of the of Japan, came forward with its|type is used. Strong | young workers are forced, through | gtates. All of these represent an out- open policy of aggression. Thousands of these blast furnace capacity of the United forces were sent. to China and|the poverty of their parents, to lie/jay of $13,000,000, Notice that the Chiang Kai-shek was bribed. The | ou joutright and falsify their age when directorial boards of five of the|they apply at the mill or factory most important large scale banks | for work. Where these young work- | “positive” |ers have been employed, under such course. Before the so-called east-| circumstances, the supreme court of | openly welcomed this ern conference, which was initiated | the state has placed itself on record by the government of Tanaka, the | against the children and in favor executive power in Southern Man- of the employers. churia was divided amongst three | persons, the administrative chief of | the South Manchurian Railway, the | general-consul in Mukden and the | general governor of Kwangtung. The Tanaka government concen- Record of Capitalist Courts. In 1927 there were investigated by the Bureau of Women and Chil- |dren’s Department of the Compen- | sation Board, 515 cases of accidents trated all power in the hands of the | to children under this illegal employ- administrative chief of the South) ment. Railway and Yama- of the total accidents in the state. Manchurian moto, an agent of the Mitsui con- cern, was appointed to take over this post. (To Be Continued.) Nothing can now keep the Pull- man porters from striking! After being endorsed by several religious organizations, one or two insurance societies; after having their recent strike sabatoged by William G president of the American Federa- reen, | Cou This represents i2 per cent |Out of these, 258 were denied com- | pensation, which represents 0 per leent of the cases investigated by \the bureau under a special investi- gator. This means that one half of those injured whose cases were investi- gated could not get any compensa- tion when they went into the courts and sued the employer. The supreme rt of the state denied them com- pensation. ' Some idea of the productive capa- terday when the organization re-|city of Greater, Pittsburgh and the ceived an endorsement from a Negro | number of men, women and children employers’ association. \it employs can be imparted by re- |'production sells for $70,000,000 ,more than the invested capital an-| |nually. The production of this pig |metal uses up 28,500,000 tons of; liron ore, limestone, coke, and other | raw materials. This represents, 600,000 railroad cars of material, which, if placed end to end, would reach for a distance of 4,500 miles. In steel, Greater Pittsburgh out- distances all other cities in the country. No other city can even compare with it. Its production of this commodity is 25 per cent. of the entire coun-| try. It gives employment to more) than 100,000 workers and the an- nual pay roll is $200,000,000. The value of the product when marketed is more than $750,000,000, and of this many millions are profits pro- | duced by the workers for the Thaws, 'Morgans and Mellons for nothing. (By Special Correspondent) OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 16 (By Mail)—Norman Thomas and his so- cialist followers failed last night in their attempt to hold a big mass convention of 500 voters as is re- quired by the state clection laws to place their party ticket on the bal- lot in Nebraska. 3 For three weeks it had been ad- vertised that Thomas would speak at the meeting and thousands of leaf- lets had been distributed in hopes of inducing a few hundred workers to attend the meeting. Only about three hundred came to the meeting and they were given leaflets at the door by several class-conscious work- ers exposing the socialist party as an enemy of the working class. Nor- man’s followers became indignant when they discovered the nature of the leaflet and started grabbing thém from the hands of the persons THE REVEREND THOMAS FIZZLES IN OMAHA who received them before they had time to read even the first line. One lady got so peeved over this that she demanded that she be given an- other and Norman’s henchman very meekly got one and handed it to her. He quickly got the police and chased the workers away, but they had already passed out about 200 of the dodgers. Workers Leave Hall. Before Thomas spoke August Claessens of New. York. announced that the meeting was in reality a convention and that at the conclu- sion of the presidential candidates’ speech all who were socialists or be- lieved in what Norman was about to say should remain and take part in the convention, Almost the entire audience walked out when Thomas finished speaking. The chairman The Greater Pittsburgh steel works annually produce eleven and! one-half million tons of steel in- gots and castings, which is about! 25 ppr cent. of the country’s pro- ductibn and’15 per cent. of the out- put of the entire world. Greater Pittsburgh’s steel works} and rolling mills, annually produce} nine and one-half million tons of finished steel rolled products and forgings, which sell on the world’s markets for more than 500 million of dollars, and not one state in the entire country can meet or excel this record, except the state of Pennsylvania. | Pittsburgh has one hundred and) one steel works and rolling mills) within its ‘confines and all of them together have a grand capacity of fifteen millions of tons of steel an- nually. Steel, Coal, Railroads and Oil. In these mills and factories young and ill-paid workers toil side by side with their parents. In the deadly heat and exhausting labor they can be found risking their lives, amid the most massive and danger-| ous machinery. Not a day passes but a toll of injury and death is ex-) acted from the young and inexperi-| enced in life and limb. Yet when they go into court for compensa- tion they are met with the barbar- ous maxim of the common law of England, “That they do not come into court with clean hands”—that is, that by under-stating their age become partners to an illegal con- tract and can not recover. Coal and Railroads Take Their Toll. In coal and on the railroads the percentage of accidents is even higher. In the coal mines, especi- ally now that they are, in many cases, filled with inexperienced strikebreakers and scabs, the death toll is very high. The risk of the average railroader is the highest, or among the highest, in all industry and in these the young workers pay they debt to “rationalization” and the speed-up of greed. , Yet when it comes to getting pay for their in- juries, here also the mandate of the owned and paid-for courts stand as a bulwark to defend the interests yelled frantically for them to remain but only about fifty did so. of those who profit from things as they are. ‘Told You So coe is a rather healthy rebel- lion in the ranks of the social- democratic party of Germany over | the action of the socialist ministers of the Imperial Republic in approv- ing the outlay of $20,000,000 for cruisers. Prior to the elections, the socialists promised to “outlaw” war and devote the money that their capitalist political opponents would spend on war preparations on wel- fare work and unemployment. The fact is that the social-democratic | party of Germany stands for im- |perialism as firmly as the most ex- \treme fascist group. | 0 ane | THOSE who have followed the ac- |“ tions of the British Labor Party | ministers when MacDonald was premier will not be surprised that the German socialists favor build- ing a big navy to protect the inter- ests of German imperialism. Mac- Donald -sanctioned the building of |five new cruisers and there was lit- tale more than a peep of protest from |the liberals and pacifists in Eng- land and other countries, the very | people who howl because the work- ingelass government of the Soviet Union maintains a powerful prole- tarian military and naval force for the defense of the revolution. Creoles | ADVICES from Berlin indicate that |“" the masses of the social-demo- cratic party have been aroused to action by this fresh act of treachery | of their leaders. Several meetings | of socialist workers were held at which motions demanding the resig- nation of the socialist ministry were |passed. This is a good sign. There |is ‘no hope for a successful strug- | gle against capitalism in@any Euro- | pean country until the masses break | away from the socialists and join |the Communist Party. | ces yee | ACCORDING to a headline, Prince Charles of Belgium is the work- ing people’s pet. The prince likes to drive an engine, work in railroad shops and coal mines and tinker | with motor cars. This should more han compensate the Belgian work- ingclass for any discomforts they may suffer from having to keep this member of a parasite brood in | luxury. CAMPAIGN CORNER A second order for “Vote Commu- nist” stamps has been received from Baltimore. The first ten books or- dered have been quickly disposed of, and the present order is expected to last only a few days. Prepara- tions are going forward to make the rally and picnic on Labor Day, when Benjamin Gitlow will speak, the biggest affair of the kind since the war. Scores of workers’ organiza- tions are co-operating in the ar- rangements of this huge affair. All eyes in the Quaker City are turned toward Schuetzen Grove, where this rally will be held. “ie * Edward McCormack of Denver mailed a letter to Comrade George Saul, the hustling Rocky Mountain organizer, with a Vote Communist stamp pasted where the stamp of Morgan’s uncle is supposed to be. It was returned marked “unmail- able.” Uncle is particular. He prob- ably thinks that Benjamin Franklin is a better looking man than Benja- min Gitlow. He certainly has more hair on his head than Gitlow and Foster combined. * * There is enough news of New York activities to fill several cam- paign corners. Rebecca Grecht, the campaign manager, and Lawrence Ross, the district publicity man, are nifty with tongue and typewriter, so there is much activity among the comrades in the Empire State and much talking aud writing about it. Signatures are coming in in big bundles, and the workers and poor farmers of the wealthiest state in the union will have an opportuni to mark their ballots for William F. Dunne for governor, Robert Minor for United States senator, and the smaller (though not less worthy) fry on the state ticket. More about New York in another “corner.” * * * “Funds, funds and more funds,” to paraphrase Danton or darned near it’ in the absence of the cor- rect quotation. Fives and tens are now pouring in on contribution blanks. New states are going on the ballot every week now, or the Communjst ticket is going on the ballot in new states every week. It’s all the same either way. Action brings more action and money. The campaign is now beginning to hit its stride. The dog days are rapidly going to the dogs, and with the ap- proach of bearable weather the morale of the comrades is due. for a rise. Never mind if the Gulf Stream switched its course and changed the climate. We’ll restore the status quo after the revolution. In the meantime, make the shekels fly this way. Remember what Hearst wired his correspondent in Cuba before the Spanish War: “You give us the news, and we will give you the war.” Comrades and sym- pathizers: “You give us the money, and will give you the campaign” —and a peppy one at. that. Forward your contributions at once to the National Election Campaign Com- mittee, 43 E. 125th St., New York ° City. Alexander Trachtenberg, treasurer. - 4