The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1928, Page 6

8 a c u t é é a a t 0 I c £ U U } U ‘ i 1 Page Six aily THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1928. Worker Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday = Cable Address SUBSCRIPTION RATES “Daiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 n By Mail (outside of New York): #8 per year x three months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months itress and ma ecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Sai MONT Soho ssuex eos ®....ROBERT MINOR ZY preistant Editor. ..WM. F. DUNNE off! New York, N. Y., under VOTE COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW For the Workers! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! Hoover and Smith, Siamese Twins of Finance-Capital. On the and Hoo Siamese twin! basic question of im tude her! discontente to abol entering into agreement. of internal disputes in Latin-American coun- tries unless—.” “Uniess the ag: been consented to by the senate as provided for in the constitution of the United States” are the qualifying words of Smith. But “the consent of the senate” means than an inconvenience to the may be obliged to drop the pos sort of “anti-imperi ways to be its opposite when is against “interference in the purely inter- nal affairs of Latin-American countries”— which means, of course, that. be construed as not being “purely internal” that may be required as an excuse for in- vasioh and conquest of Latin-Amercan coun- noted carefully that tries. It should be Smith speaks critically of the tary invasion and war against Nicaragua— but he abstains with equal care from any de- mand that the marines be wii Nicaragua. It is curiously interesting that Smith for his “anti-imperialist” inspiration goes to “a great republican secretary of state, Elihu Root!” Is this not a sly democratic party will carry out the repub- lican imperialist policy in Latin America? But there can be no serious contention that the conquest of Latin America States will not be undertaken Smith as by Hoover when Smith declares his readiness to act upon “such responsibilities to civilization as may be placed upon us by the Monroe Doctrine.” The Monroe Doctrine today is nothing less than the doctrine of United States imperialist domination and ultimate military rule ovér America. Nor need anyone be fooled by Smith’s at- tack upon Coolidge’s doctrine “that the per- son and property of a citizen the national domain even when abroad.” It is only an attack upon Coolidge’s stupidly frank wording of the doctrine *. them would put into effect—the sort of “razz- ing” which is considered legi rival servants of the same boss. Nowhere does Smith say that he would from Nowhere does he say anything more than, in effect, that he would be more skilful than his rival in the enforcing of the imperialist program on Latin America. He constantly refers to Wilson as the highest model, and under Wilson the one greatest giant stride of withdraw the marines American imperialism took pl militarization of the nation and entry into the world war, and the ruthless conquest of Latin-American countries. On foreign policy in general there is not even a shadow of pretense of difference. On the questions of war and armaments, all of Smith’s fine words of pacifism are only uttered in rhetorical competition with Kel- logg’s pacifist drive, and the sa war program is endorsed by Smith implies his support of the Kellogg pact. Hold Red Rally at Cudahy Co.’s Plant (By a Worker Correspondent) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (By Mail). and attend the meeting at an empty packing house workers. It is because’ —For the fist time since the 1921 trike the Packing House workers | eame out en masse to attend a| meeting and a Communist meeting | at that. Over 200 workers of the Cudahy Packing House took every spare minute of their lunch time, which lasts 30 minutes, to listen to Hugo Ochler, district organizer of District 10 of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. This is the third meeting being held by the Party in front of the Cudahy plant but this meeting un-| like the previous two meetings was) \ttended by such a gumber of work- rs in response to a leaflet issued y the Communist Party. Following he distribution of the “Packing Jouse Workers” a special leaflet) addressed to the Cudahy. workers was distributed calling upon them re perfect twins— It is important to accentuate of the president of bankruptcy of rialism Smith e might say not s. masters of bot! the progressiv the farmers. dreds of words lement reements have On the qu nothing more senators who of the Borah ich proves al- tested. Smith Raskob and du cial kings, and program that In regard to platform, Smi provision whic socialist party anything will bar upon the present mili- from one coun thdrawn from voters holding like Roosevelt machine also hint that the by the United as quickly by | gation to take of Hoover. all of Latin On the farming situation Smith shows a for other questions. He admits he is for pre- | cisely the same thing Hoover is for, and that he does not care to say what this is. He can- y publicly that the program of the | Therefore in the several hun- single concrete measure. Concrete measures, he says, will be found “after election.” See? power there appears superficially to be a difference, but the program which Smith in- dicates that he would carry out is not in the | least out of accord with the interests of the find Smith using almost the same words as some that are used in the socialist party the reuniting of families,” and both uphold- ing the American imperialist immigration It is true that Smith appealed to republican insurgents,”—but the Old Guard republican the fold and equally appeals to such elements he act of March 2, 1879. even the empty words he finds h Hoover and himself includes ve ruin and expropriation of he used, he suggested not one estions pertaining to water Pont type of industrial-finan- in practice would be the same Hoover would carry out. immigration it is amusing to WORKERS AND FARMERS! VOTE COMMUNIST! th being against “the harsh h separates families,” and the being for changes to ‘“‘permit By AMY SCHECHTER. At the first signs of revolt among their slaves in the grey stone mill prisons of Fall River, the millowners | stripped the millworkers of all the | defences won by labor in generations | of struggle, and systematically set | about throttling them into sub- | mission. working class’ right to move try to another. illusions concerning “liberals and LaFollette and their party has restored “Young Bob” to to remain with the republican party. On the tariff question no one takes seri- ously any mild contentions that there is a | strikers. Police violence was used to | difference; there is none; the democratic party has admitted that it accepts the re- publican tariff program, which is, after all, no more a fixed program than it is an obli- orders from the same masters. Wall Street can lose nothing in the election of Smith, and can lose nothing in the election If Hoover is its choice for the head of the traditional party of the trusts and biggest banks, Smith has has been the ernor of New Street has test ; him a good se are a part of which both of worker or a f. timate among ripple in the Nicaragua. Bolshevism. for the Comm lace—both the members textile strike, organized. rally the mass Vote Communi: me imperialist Smith when munist politics line! Work Siamese twins choice of the same trusts and banks as gov- York, in which position Wall ed him in four terms and found rvant-of such open-shop trust- magnates as DuPont, Raskob and Woodin. The only possible manner in which a ‘armer can.cause the slightest temper of an international banker and trust magnate by the mere cast- ing of a ballot is by voting for that night- mare of all bankers and trust magnates— A big vote piled up for Foster and Gitlow, unist ticket both national and Police, press, courts, reactionary craft union bureaucracy) were im- | mediately mobilizéd against the) | smash picket lines, the courts to out- | |law the strike and forge legal | | shackle to the activities of the strike Ten Days of Textile Struggle Police Murder Pregnant Woman; Fails to Break Picket Line police wall to picket their mill. The | wave of terror, rising higher every day. A pregnant woman striker crushed against the iron railing of | the viaduct by the police, beaten | and thrown aside for the strikers to take to the hospital after the police had gone. Johnny Medeiros, ing vicious prison sentences on or- ganizers and the leading rank and Clubbing | \ lon with new understanding. | Conditions in Fall River were | known as the worst in northern mill towns before the 10 per cent cut \last January. $15 was given as the | official average wage for Fall River | mills at the State Arbitration Board | hearing in New Bedford last week. |Pay envelopes for July taken at file strikers, and demanding heavy random from a collection of those bail to keep them jailed, the mill |}.anded to men working in the Print owners’ Judge Hannify, created a Works of the American Printing new legal strikebreaking precedent | Company show $10.89, $13.41, 312.11, | by placing these men under forfeit-| $15.85, $8.18, $12.86, $13.16, $12.05. | sble $1000 bonds to “keep the peace” | Most of them married men. In this six year old striker’s child, ridden | interpreted as refraining from all division men work 11, 12, 13, some- S a down by a trooper herding strikers ver | |the Tentile Mill Committees and dis. i, thelr houses after the daily courage the strikers by fake back-to-| break up of the picket line, running work stories; the labor bureaucrats | for refuge through a gap in the to order the men under their control fence near the river, found soon to scab in the strike. | after drowned—“while swimming” — The Fall River cotton manufac-| the police say. turers learned to fear the strength, A hundred and fifty police massed | and staying power of militantly led!on the church steps and the streets | millworkers in the course of the New| outside barricaded to hold back the | Bedford textile strike still going mill workers attempting to march strong in New Bedford after four after the coffin of the boy. | months under T. M. C. leadership.| From the break-up of the first Long before the Fall River strike TMC mass meeting in Fall River | vote was taken all their forces were| weeks before the strike, the Fall! |lined up in readiness to block the! River police have carried out the first strike move. 2 role of company gangsters as open- Monday, August the sixth, atily as the Coal and Iron in any cern es we pia oe, surite | Rockefeller coal town. Police Chief | opened wi e walkout of 3, , boasti i 1 srotors Zoom the: Aadiean PEiRiapia eae omen of bid. et sonal | strike activities. | Of course the strike is meat for |the American Legion, which has passed a resolution pledging its |members to back Chief Feeney to the limit in his operations to put Steadily increasing speed-up in down “the labor agitation.” The) mill after mill is paring down the last few days a number of prosper- | little left to the mill workers after ous-looking men with the solemnly|the 10 per cent slash, and driving | stupid look of the true legionnaire | them beyond endurance. I¢€ their | have been seen sleuthing around| stand fails, the workers know that “Liberty Lot” during the TMC! another cut will come in the early mass meetings. | Fall. 1 Strike Spreads. | The fight will be increasingly bit- And still the strike and prepara-/ter, but it must go on. Abandon- tions for spreading the strike to all ment of the fight for the right to the mills of Fall River go on./ organize, the right to hold meetings, Thursday the leaders got out on|the right to strike, the right to bail. Friday they addressed mass / picket, means condemning the mill |meetings and resumed their other workers to blacker slavery. times up to 16 hours, at the heavi- est jobs in the mills, in steaming, fume-laden rooms at high tempera- tures. Speed-Up. Told You So re department suggests that the Animal Rescue League communi- cates with Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, who is now in Paris limbering up for the signing of a treaty to outlaw war, and urge the secretary of state to insert a clause in his anti-war treaty prohibiting the use of dogs for tests of poison gases, intended for the slaughter of human beings. Since, what may be poison for a dog may be meat for a man, there is no | sense in wasting good gas on a help- less little animal, a gas that may | smell to a hero like the odor of a choice Havana cigar. t * latest evidence of the spreattof Americanism in Nicaragua is the organization: of “Vigilance Commit. tees” to aid the United Stgtes marines in the war against Sandino | and his revolutionary army. The | dispatch which carried this news states that those assassins were or- ganized by indignant Nicaraguans, but it is clear that this alleged in- |dignation was superinduced by the |cold treatment of General McCoy, | American fixer of the coming elec- tions. The Nicaraguan vigilantes no | doubt will copy the methods of the murderers of strike leaders in the United States, the thugs who hanged | Frank Little in Butte and established a reign of terror in several western states during and after the war. With a gang of good American election tellers, under the direction of General McCoy, in addition to the | vigilantes, Nicaragua would be as thoroly Americanized as Chicago, II- linois. ane eer Ts French and-British scout the idea that the pact is directed | against the United States, yet both | Powers considered the question of |how the navies of both countries | could be pooled in the event of war. The U. S. is the only country in the world that has a navy equal to Great Britain. France is increasing her navy rapidly and only recently held | the biggest military maneuvers since | the war on the Italian border. The recent pact between England and | France is not good news for Musso- lini; neither is the success of Veni- | zelos in the Greek elections -Venize- los is a tool of Great Britain and is |said to have friendly intentions to- | wards’ Jugo Slavia, with which Italy has been at loggerheads. | * 8 * Aw this shows how ridiculous it is to expect anything from the Kel- logg treaty except another war. The | great powers are simply sparring | for position. Clashes of economic in- terests between them are certain to bring war. Despite the existence of | the league of nations, the system of offensive and defensive alliances that prevailed before the war is |more in evidence today than ever. | The United States is Great Britain’s | chief vival and a war between the |two imperialist giants is only a | question of years. How long can | this inevitable war be staved off by | the ruling classes who probably are convinced from their experience in - the last one that the next will spell their doom?, Even tho they know | this they are driven irresistibly, thru | the competitive nature of the capi- talist system, to a course which signs | their death warrants. | ie | ‘HE platonic gestures towards | peace of the imperialists may lull some workers into a feeling of false security. But there is nothing under the sun more certain than another world war, hundreds of times more | terrible than the last. The poison | gases that the war department of | the United States is testing on dogs |to make sure that they are deadly | | Company, the city was practically | declared under martial law for tex- | tile workers. No breathing space. No quarter. Police swarming over | the streets “below the hill” where the millworkers of the American | Printing Company live. Solid police | tate, is the workers’ only means of register- ing the slightes is—the only means except that of utilizing the election campaign to bring thousands of into the Workers (Communist) Party, and to strengthen the working class in all of its struggles, in the mine fields, in the Make the election campaign a campaign to | | Make the workers see the connection of Com- | cordons thrown across the viaducts | st effect in this election. That Yeglingy to great. fortron “a8 tien as barricades. Men and women in the organization of the un- es to conscious class struggle. st. Join the Communist Party. and the struggle on the picket for Bolshevism against the of Wall Street! By PETER CLARK Il. The Moscow Spartakiade. to walk out during their lunch time | lot on Kansas Avenue in front of) the Cudahy plant, Stool Pigeons and Bosses Tried to Disrupt the Meeting. When Hugo Oehler mounted the chair which he used as his platform there was no worker in front of! him. The reason for it was that a few bosses stood right near him thinking that in this way the work-) ers will be scared away frém com-| ing to the meeting. But no sooner had Oehler begun to speak than workers began to come from all di- rections. Before two minutes were over the sidewalk was jammed to capacity. The meeting held has greater sig- nificance than an ordinary meeting. The Communist Party is not only active in the election campaign but is also active in carrying on an Just as the Amsterdam Olympic Meet represented the high-water mark in the capitalists’ use of sports to servgtheir class interests, so the * Moscow Spartakiade was the high- est expression of the proletariat sports movement, and of its role as a support of the workers’ revolu- tionary movement. The Spartakiade was sponsored by the Russian Workers Sports Or- ganization, the Society for the Pro- motion of Physical Culture, and was | supported by the Red Sports Inter- | national, It lasted from August 12 to 22, and was held at the Michael Tomsky Stadium, which has a seat- organization campaign among the of the desire on the part of the! packing house workers to do away with the terrible exploitation in the houses that they turned out to the meeting. The drive to organize the packing house workers is not limited to Kansas City alone but to all South Western and Western packing cen- ing capacity close to 50,000. ters, 4 x About 5,000 athletes in all took _ The packing huose paper which part in the Spartakiade and of this is issued by the Communist Party number 1,500 were from foreign is being spread in every packing countries, In spite of the ban which house. ‘ the Luzerne (socialist) Sports In- The committee in charge of pub- ternational placed on the participa- lishing the “Packing House Work- tion of any of its members in the er” states that funds are needed in| Spartakiade, large delegations of order to print many copies in order social-democratic sportsmen accom- to reach every worker in the pack- panied the Red sportsmen to Mos- ind industry. All contributions cow. Three hundred participants should be sent to 207 E. 14th St., came from Germany, two hufdred | Room 1, Kansas City, Mo. bi : Ay supervision of police operations in the strike area, openly stated in the press the third day of the strike that he believed he was having suc- cess in “breaking the back of the strike.” Over a hundred arrests were made during the first days. The organizers, Jim “Reid, Sam Weisman, Peter Hagelias and young the first case came up for trial. | strike activities. The heavy police barrage may) force new tactics on the part of. the leaders, but no retreat. The workers, previously unorganized and striking for the first time in their lives, in ten days have learned more about the nature.of the capitalist state ‘and its role in bludgeoning the | American Printing Company. Patrol | Bill Sroka were arrested and rear-|workers back into slavery, at the wagons and vans drawn up at the/rested, sometimes three times in a| employers command than in all the curb ready for mass arrests or use| day. A week after the strike began | previous years of their life. They ‘have had their baptism of fire in clubbed and | Picketing, singing strike songs, ad-|the class war, and come out of it strangled as line after line, five dressing mass me&tings, or attending | not intimidated but hardened to the times shattered and five times re-|them were all branded as criminal | struggle. Committees are stiffened |forming tried to break through the | activities. Not content with impos- |up. Organizational work is carried land and 90 from France. Smaller delegations came from over a score of smaller countries. ey ae) The Spartakiade was made the oc- casion for a widespread educational campaign carried on in the Soviet Union in favor of physical culture. August 12 was officially pronounced Physical Culture Day, and through- out “the Soviet Union there were held sports meets. In all the publie squares of Moscow sports - exhibi- tions were staged, with 0,000 worker-athletes taking part, and hundreds of thousands of’ people watching. In order to make possible the par- ticipation of foreign athletes the Soviet government provided free transportation within the borders of the Soviet Union. The visitors were also maintained at the expense of the government and were quar- tered at the Third House of the Central Committee of the U. S. S, R. He Oe There was a marked contrast in the manner in which the Spartakiade and the Olympics were run off. First, the attitude of the spectators was fundamentally different. Where- as at the Olympics the crowd was the Spartakiade the spectators were completely international and _ap- plauded athletes only on their skill. If anything, the foreign athletes were accorded the most enthusiasm. Among the athletes themselves there was no semblance of that bit- ter rivalry, of that hard individual- ism which distinguished the conduct of the Olympic stars. The bugaboo of professionalism, which was such |a_ big controversial issue at the | Olympics, did not even remotely en- ter into the Spartakiade. Nearly every athlete taking part was a worker, and those who had ‘come from foreign countries had done so at great personal sacrifices and after overcoming many diffi- culties, y At the Olympics it had been necessary to lay in a stock of flags of all competing nations—and a ter- rible uproar had been made because a Canadian ‘flag had been over- looked. But at the magnificent | Tomsky Stadium, only one kind of flag was on display—and that was the Red flag of the international proletariat. Eee ST | Whereas the real political pur- poses hehind Olympics had been ‘from Czecho-Slovakia, 80 fronf Fim | divided into nationalistic sections, at | hypoctitically covered up by the Challenge to Labor. enough for use against men, the, The denial of these rights by the | sham airplane battle over London re- | mill owners and their courts, their \cently, the French war maneuvers on violent suppression of every attempt | the Italian frontier, the appropria- of the mill workers to reach out| tion of $20,000,000 by the German and take these rights is a challenge government for the building of to labor and all who believe in| battleships, the intensive war prep- guarding the elementary rights. Outside aid is urgently needed for the Fall River strikers, ‘relief, de- fense, help in establishing the few legal rights that capitalist legality allows, in order to break through the wall of violence, the cotton mill workers, and give them a fight- ing chance for their lives. © 3 Athletic Meets---Moscow, Amsterdam, New York bourgeoisie, the organizers of the Spartakiade openly proclaimed that its primary slogan would be: De- fense of the Soviet Union. In line with this slogan, of course was em- phasized the solidarity of the proletarian sportsmen the world over against the Olympics, and the capitalist sports movement as a whole. The Spartakiade was a dem- onstration of the need for prole- tarian sports, a demonstration of the growing strength of the prole- tariat® sports movement, a demon- stration against the bourgeois Olympics. : But, most of all, it was a demon- stration of the fact that the class- conscious worker-athletes the world over are prepared to defend their Socialist Fatherland, the Soviet Union, against imperialist aggres- sion, PRINTERS WIN RAISE ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 26.—Typo- graphical Union No. 8, ofeSt. Louis, recently accepted a proposal where- by an increase to time workers ag- gregating $64,000 a year was agreed to, the contract to run for five years. j manufacturers have built around the | |arations of Italy—all are signs point- |ing to mass murder in the name of the defense of country. | + ee ae government of the Soviet | Union alone declares before the | world that all gestures towards peace are empty unless accompanied by disarmament. And all the efforts of the Soviet Union to induce the imperialist powers to adopt a dis- armament plan have been blocked. There can be no peace under capi- talism. If angels were suddenly elected to head all the capitalist gov- ernments in the world, they would be immediately transformed into mill- tarists. War is as indigenous to the capitalist system as claws to a tiger. Only the abolition of capitalism will bring about the abolition of war. Argentinian Objects to Invasion Provided in Monroe Doctrine BUENOS AYRES, Argentina, Aug. 26—The Monroe Doctrine does not imply invasion into Latin- American countries said Dr. Jose Leon Saurez, Argentine member of the League of Nations Codification of International Law Commission here. Speaking on the refusal of Ar- gentina to enter the League of Na- tions, Saurez declared that it would eventually return, providing the in- terpretation .f the Monroe Doctrine was not left entirely to the United States and that invasion on the rights of the South American re- | roe Doctrine, publics -be not considered the Mon- : ; ‘ « a