The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1928, Page 6

Page six Baily Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Deiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): $8 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): $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. 2 = Assistant Editor Entered as second --ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNE il at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. -. VOTE COMMUNEST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers! The Reconciliation of the Socialist’ Party With Gumshoe Pete W. E. Woodward, novelist, author of “Bunk,” of a biography of George Washing- ton and one of General Grant, has made a contribution toward clarifying the recent shift of the socialist party from the extreme Yight to the yltra-extreme right, the elimina- Sion of all reference to the class struggle érom its constitution and the general adjust- ment of that party’s formal front to its ac- tual front of warfare against the working class for the preservation of the capitalist system. Mr. Woodward has announced that he is “a socialist of the deepest dye’—then he explains why and when he got the deepest shade of the safron socialist dye upon his clothes. 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- port of the Reverend. Norman Thomas for president. Such a vote, says he, “will help to make American politics more realistic,” and will “help lay the foundation for a pow- erful party of progress and social justice.” Nothing about the working class of course. It is a sma]l,American echo of Ramsay Mac- Donald’s recent declaration that the 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- cialist 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 been on 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- lutionary workers; there was danger; there was Debs in prison, with Ruthenberg and Gitlow and hundreds of others soon to go For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW 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 eeased 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 beoks 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 capitalist “humanity can get rid of ...Wwar,” 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. THE DAILY WORKER, |ganization of’ a new union for the | speed-up and wage-cuts. jof New York City, whether in the |the silk throwing mills in the an-|eaten out of the worker in a nerve- | thracite, x SACCO AND VANZETTI ARE NOT FORGOTTEN! Told You So TReee 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 Repblic. 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. | * * «© eoee who have followed the ac- | tions of the British Labor Party ministers when MacDonald was \. | premier yill 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- | tle 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- ingclass government of the Soviet Union maintains a powerful prole- |tarian military and naval force for | the defense of the revolution. | i a | 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. | ee. @ A OPDING to a headline, Prince Charles of Belgium is the work- ing people’s pet. The prince likes to drive an engine, work in railroad By Fred Ellis By ALBERT WEISBORD | Textile workers throughout the toward the coming convention called for September 22-23 in New York City by the National Textile Mills shops and coal mines’ and tinker This should more | ° e e | with motor cars. |than compensate the Belgian work- | \ingclass for any discomforts they | may suffer from having to keep this member of a parasite brood in \ luxury. | vast massés of the one million unor- : * A | ganized textile workers it has never Uy country are looking with eager eyes LOOK Forward to Big Convention in New York attempted to reach. Jen OFbokily | The call for a new union comes | ® z Sept, 22-23 |like a beacon of hope to all those |who are suffering in the textile Committee. They see in this conven- : tion the first step toward the or- legislature are planning to wipe out | and textile indystry which will fight to From Maine to Alabama the tex-| a8 many as 60 hours a week. Not be in cotton, in silk or in wool man- ufacture, whether in the dye works |than ever. The number of machines of Paterson or in the knitting mills |to be tended is doubled, tripled and even more. Machinery is run at a carpet mills of Philadelphia or in| higher speed. The life and heart everywhere the wage |Wracking grind. slaves in all branches of this big} Wages in textile mills have al- and important industry ate seeing | ways been low. It is the lowest paid a worsening of their conditions. Hours are growing longer than ever. The Massachusetts textile average wages of about $17 a week, which is all the textile workers can € [the 48-hour week. In Rhode Island, |bosses in New England have lift the workers out of their present | Maine and other parts of New Eng-,| tuted wage cuts of 10 ber cent. | years ago and is now in charge of wretched condition of long hours, |land the hours run from 54 up. In| Whole families are finding them- {South Carolina women are slaving selves reduced to starvation. as : : fast : ree ee Lack of organization and false|such a leddership the workers feel | ile workers are sweating in’ a mis- | only are the hours longer than they | Jeadership in the past has hampered | confident that their ranks will be | r n ery which can scarcely be surpassed| Were a few years ago, but the |the efforts of the textile workers to | organized and mobilized for strug. | baltimore. ™ ere ‘ packs ed in any other industry. Whether it |quantity of production the workers | better their conditions. Only small eye MEYE jreee CUCM. Ceauare are forced to turn out is greater | and weak unions have existed, most- | ly on a craft basis. The principal | union, the UTW (United Textile | and organized textile workers every- Workers) because of its black re-| where to communicate with the Na-| Benjamin Gitlow will speak, the actionary leadership is looked upon | tional Secretary, Albert Weisbord, | biggest affair of the kind since the with hatred by all workers who |at 96 Fifth Ave., Room 811, New| war. have had any dealings with it. The York City, sending in names and tions are co-operating in the ar- UTW, in the place of militant fight | addresses of all those interested in rangements of this huge affair. All jto win better conditions for the the national convention. The con-|eyes in the Quaker City are turned of any big industry. On top of |workérs, has left a slimy trail of vention is called for Sept. 22 and| toward Schuetzen Grove, where this the |23 at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Ir-| rally will be held. The | ving Place, New York City. * sell-outs, bosses, neglect and betrayals. barons through their lobby in the | average in these times of slack work |the same leadership that conducted textile |the splendid fight made by the insti- | woolen workers unemployment, the collaboration with \hells. With a militant leadership, CAMPAIGN CORNER | _A second order for “Vote Commu- nist” stamps has been received from in Passaic two \tke spirited battle being put up in |New Bedford and Fall River, with |gle, | of, and the present order is expected The National Textile Mills Com-|to last only a few days. Prepara- mittee calls upon all unorganized tions are going forward to make the rally and picnic on Labor Day, when Scores of workers’ organiza- ete Edward McCormack of Denver | By W. J. WHITE Pennsylvania is-noted for its bru-| | tality to workers. No state in the entire United States is more callous | ‘Percentage of Accidents in Pennsylvania High mailed a letter to Comrade George Saul, the hustling Rocky Mountain organizer, with a Vote Communist Rob Injured Children of Compensation #22.i%ce" 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- | The Greater Pittsburgh steel works annually produce eleven and 5 one-half million tons of steel in- Mr. Woodward, shake hands with Mr. Courts are Harsh |gots and castings, which is about for long terms; Palmer raids on left wing socialist party members—all of this was still connected with the socialist party ten years Gumshoe Pete; you’re in the socialist party now. Japan’s Stronghold on Shantung At the same time the Japanese By M. L. : L imperialists are HE reactionary government of “le Japan has sent tens of thou- tands more soldiers to China and rsecupied the whole of the province if Shantung, taken over the railway | Pen® Yu-isiang and Yen Sishan& ihe government of Tanaka, sup- | gerous occupations where machinery |Dakota combined. Its 57 blast fur-|nual pay roll is $200,000,000. The ine Tchingtau-Tchinau and occu- ne oa : ‘ ported by all the reactionary forces | of the most massive and dangerous | naces represent 13 per cent. of the| value of the product when marketed ied the nearby mines and other in-| In his speech at the opening of of Japan, came forward with its |type is used, Thousands of these | blast furnace capacity of the United|is more than $750,000,000, and of lustrial undertakings. The army the Japanese parliament, the prime open policy of aggression. Strong | young workers are forced, through | States. All of these represent an out-|this many millions are profits pro- yperating in Manchuria is growing Minister and Foreign Minister Tan-/ forces were sent to China andthe poverty of their parents, to lie|lay of $13,000,000. Notice that the| duced by the workers for the Thaws,| inceasingly and a new expedition | ®ka declared that Japan had a) Chiang Kai-shek was bribed. The outright and falsify their age when| production sells for $70,000,000' Morgans and Mellons for nothing. + great mission” in the far east. This qdjrectorial boards of five of the| they apply at the mill or factory yas been set up along the frontier of Position Strengthened. intrigue to strengthen their position. They are ready to use any and every Chinese general for their purpose and are negotiating with “great mission” of course is noth- against an _ intervention. using every pos- temporary flourishment of trade with China were on the whole When, however, the revolution extended to the valley of the Yangtse and the national-revolutionary troops occu- pied Shanghai, the Japanese capi- talists began to cry for help. Then most important large scale banks | to the needs and miseries of its} | wealth producers. This arises from |25 per cent. of the country’s pro- | duction and 15 per cent. of the out- |the fact that Pennsylvania is one of the most productive of the states counting some of the products of and that its productivity has passed | this ‘industrial area. |into the hands of a few mighty | Record Production. oligarchs, who, in their race for the| The production of pig iron is (surplus wealth produced by the greater in the Pittsburgh area than workers, have thrown other consid-|in any country of Europe. Its pro- erations to the winds. Children in Mills and Factories. In the competition for mass pro- fifth. of the United States total. In ticles produced in the mills and fac- tories of the state, notwithstanding |1,)) of $13,500,000 annually. It has | that there is a child labor law in} girls are employed in the many dan- | put of the entire world. more than the invested capital ans Greater Pittsburgh’s steel works nually. The production of this pig! and rolling mills, annually produce metal uses up 28,500,000 tons of nine and one-half million tons of iron ore, limestone, coke, and other) finished steel rolled products and raw materials. This represents) forgings, which sell on the world’s 600,000 railroad cars of material, markets for more than 500 million | min Gitlow. He certainly has more hair on his head than Gitlow aud 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 duction of this basic product is one-| Which, if placed end to end, -would) of dollars, and not one state in the tenth of the world total and one-| Teach for a distance of 4,500 miles.) entire country can meet or excel In steel, Greater Pittsburgh out-|this record, except the state ~of | : : money yalues it represents $200,-| distances all other cities in the) Pennsylvania. duction and a cheapening of the ar- '000,000. The pig iron industry em-| country. |ploys 7,000 people and has a pay | Compare with it. Its production of this commodity within its confines and all of them (a greater pay roll than the total) is 25 per cent. of the entire coun- the state, many young boys and pay yoll of Arizona, New Mexico,|try. It gives employment to more Nevada, North Dakota and — 100,000 workers and the an- No other city can even) there is much activity among the comrades in the Empire State and much talking and writing about it. | Signatures are coming in in bi Pittsburgh has one hundred and pundies, and the eked and pe one steel works and rolling mills) farmers of the wealthiest ‘state in : the union will have an opportunit; together have a grand capacity of to mark their ballots for William F. fifteen millions of tons of steel an-| Dunne for governor, Robert Minor nually. : for United States senator, and the Steel, Coal, Railroads and Oil. | smaller (though not less worthy) In these mills and factories young! fry on the state ticket. More about and ill-paid workers toil side by| New York in another “corner.” side with their parents. In the cima a deadly heat and exhausting labor | they can be found risking their lives “Funds, funds and more funds,” to paraphrase Danton or darned for work. Where these young work- near it in the absence of the cor- Fives and tens are |amid the most massive and danger- Sorea and Manchuria. In Tientsin ; trong Japanese nilitary forces are |iné but the maintenance of Japan- ‘protecting the town” and for this | ¢S¢ hewemeny tine by the oP p have occupied the| Pression of the Chinese people, the Cater bats of it i jpae mili- destruction of the revolution and the cry planes have made. military |@nnihilation of the “Red danger.” lemonstrations over the town. One can trust the government of Tanaka to do all in its power to be That is no simple intervention, true to this “great mission.” mut open war against the Chinese © Ki i * yeople. The Kuomintang, under its sipighid ao ea oman ‘eactionary leaders, does not even| When the great revolution threat- hink of offering any serious re-|ened chiefly the positions of the stance to these Japanese imper- | British during the advance cf the alist encroachments, but has even|Canton army against the north, ubordinated itself to the imperial-| Japan did everything in its power sts. The “appeals” and “protests” |to exploit the situation in order to sf the Kuomintang have no real|take over the positions of the Brit- veight. The Kuomintang in its| ish, This was the time of the sresent composition has ceased to | diplomacy of Shidekharas, or the > a danger to the imperialists. | period of the economic penetration he Japanese interventionists know | of China. At that time Japan was his as well as anyone, The Japan-| unwilling to co-operate with Great se are sending continual reinforee-| Britain openly. The concern Mitsu- sents to Manchuria and other parts | bishi, whose political representative f North China and declare quite | was the ruling party of the day, the senly that Manchuria is a Japanese | Kanseikai (at present Minseito) had assession and that anyone who |not so much in the pool as the con- ‘nks of taking up a threatening |cern Nitsui, the backer of the pres- -sition towards the dominance of ent governmental party Seiynkai. tpan in Manchuria must be de- | Further, the smaller merchants who soved. made considerable profits out of the ‘ir * openly welcomed this “positive” | ers have been employed, under such course. Before the so-called east-| circumstances, the supreme court of 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 BANS persons, the administrative chief of _ Record of Capitalist Courts. the South Manchurian Railway, the| In 1927 there were investigated general consul in Mukden and the | by the Bureau of Women and Chil- general governor of Kwangtung. | dren’s Department of the Compen- The Tanaka government concen-| sation Board, 515 cases of accidents trated all power in the hands of the | to children ander this illegal employ- administrative chief of the South ment. This represents i2 per cont Manchurian Railway and Yama-/of the total accidents in the state. moto, an agent of the Mitsui con- Out of these, 258 were denied com- cern, was appointed to take over| pensation, which represents [0 per this post. jcent of the cases investigated by (To Be Continued.) \the bureau under a special investi- | gator. Nothing can now keep the Pull-| This means that one half of those man porters from striking! After | injured whose cases were investi- |being endorsed by several religious | gated could not get any compensa- | organizations, one or two insurance | tion when they went into the courts societies; after having their recent | and sued the employer, The supreme strike sabatoged by William Green, court of the state denied them com- president of the American Federa- | pensation. tion of Labor, the climax came er | 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’ associatios it employs can be imparted by re- , = THE REVEREND THOMAS FIZZLES IN OMAHA | who received them before they had) time to read even the first line. One Mail).—Norman Thomas and his so- lady got so peeved over this that cialist followers failed last night in|she demanded that she be given an-| their attempt to hold a big mass | other and Norman’s henchman very convention of 500 voters as is re-/ meekly got one apd handed it to her. quired by the state election laws to| He quickly got the police and place their party ticket on the bal-|chased the workers away, but they lot in Nebraska. |had already passed out about 200 of For three weeks it had been ad-| the dodgers. vertised that Thomas would speak at) Workers Leave Hall. the meeting and thousands of leaf-| Before Thomas spoke August lets had been distributed in hopes of Claessens of New York armounced inducing a few hundred workers to|that the meeting was in reality a attend the meeting. Only about|convention and that at the conclu- three hundred came to the meeting) sion of the presidential candidates’ and they were given leaflets at the| speech all who were socialists or be- door by several class-conscious work-| lieved in what Norman was about to ers exposing the socialist party as /say should remain and take part in an enemy of the working class. Nor- the convention. Almost the entire man’s followers became indignant| audience walked out when Thomas when they discovered the nature of| finished speaking. The chairman the leaflet and started grabbing] yelled frantically for them to remain them from the hands of the persons| but only about fifty did so. (By Special Correspondent) OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 16 (By 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 of those who profit from things as they are. | rect quotation. ‘now pouring in on contributtew blanks. New states are going on the ballot every week now, or the Communist 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. 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 we 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, In the meantime, make the shekels — v4 nP