The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1928, Page 6

‘ Page sin DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1928 . Worker 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: “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only) 88 per year $4.50 six inonths $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): 36.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE 6. DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. 3 GSS Acsistant Editor. ..-ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNE Entered as second t the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers! For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Z “In Time of Peace Pacts Prepare for War.” ‘ve cannot know what resources may. be left to the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics at the present moment of its struggle against the coming imperialist war in con- nection with the so-called Kellogg Pact. But this much is certain—the brazenly dishonest device of “inviting” the Soviet Union to sign the Pact after the negotiations as to the na- ture of the pact had been closed is only further proof of what Comrade Chicherin said in a statement to the press some weeks prior to the signing of the Pact: “The exclusion of the “Soviet government from these negotiations leads us in the first place to the assumption that, among the real objects of the initiators of this pact there ob- viously was and is the endeavor to make of this pact a weapon for isolating and’ fighting against the Soviet Union. The negotiations regarding the conclusion of the Kellogg pact are obviously an integral part of the policy of encircling the Soviet Union which at this moment occupies the central point of the inter- national relations of the whole world. I would remind you that our delegate Comrade Lit- vinoy, on his return from the December meet- ing of the Preparatory Commission on Di armament, gave in his report a short analy: of the Kellogg proposals regarding the conclu- sions of a pact and ably showed that the ‘out- lawing of war as a weapon of national policy’ is synonymous with preparing war as a weapon of ernational counter-revolution.” After the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics is excluded from all negotiations as to the terms and conditions of the pact, so that, without interference by any nation pursuing a real peace policy, the capitalist diplomats could shape the Kellogg document into “a weapon for isolating and fighting against the Soviet Union’—‘a weapon of interna- tional counter-revolution,”—the belated so- called invitation to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics can be nothing more than a further maneuver against the Soviet Union. It is one more proof that the imperialist powers feel the active need of a mobilization- slogan for a coming war against the Union the imperialists will cry: “See! The Bolshe- viks alone refuse peace!” Having once turned pale before the Soviet diplomats’ proposal for complete and im- mediate disarmament at their “disarmament” conference, the imperialists dared not give the Soviet diplomats a chance to propose really to outlaw war at a conference for the “outlawry of war.” For thus the Soviet diplomats would have demonstrated to the world that the outlawry of war is an im- possibility to capitalist imperialist govern- ments. . The workers of the entire world should know that the signing of the Kellogg-Briand pact yesterday brings the imperialist world war closer by a seven-league stride. The hypocritical farce at. Paris is a warning to the working class to prepare for the coming war. The Pact was signed in an atmosphere of war, with reservations intended by both Great Britain and France as steps to their particular vantage-points for the coming war. The Pact was proposed by the biggest im- perialist power, the United States, which is preparing feverishly an enormous. war machine with which to enforce its position as the dominant imperialism of the whole world. And the whole process developed to a farther stage the grouping of war forces in positions hostile to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The complex of war maneuvers against the Soviet Union is not the only ghost that haunted the Salle de I’Horloge when the treaty was signed. The imperialist rivalry between the United States, an imperialist power almost without colonies and out to con- quer a colonial empire, and Great Britain, struggling to keep its weakening hold upon a worldful of colonies, is a vortex for all im- perialists intrigues. The impulsion of a series of imperialist nations toward the ex- tinction of the Chinese revolution and the conquest of China is more powerful than the “new parchment from the skin of milk-fed lamb” that Kellogg took to Paris. Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-3 | A COPY IN EVERY KNAPSACK By Fred Ellis & Told You So | ee officials of the wreck that was once the powerful United Mine Workers of America are beg- ging the coal operators to sign con- tracts with them under almost any conditions. Accepting a reduction of wages for the miners is the least of those lads’ worries. Of ‘course there is going to be no reduction in the salaries of the union officials, John L. Lewis will still draw his $12,000 a year with an equal amount for expenses. ee ge * bee officials of the international union and the district officials are not devoting all their time to chasing hard-boiled coal operators with pleas for a conference and a contract. Comrade B. K. Gebert, whg is active in the anthracite re- gion, sent in a program of a “Civie Testimonial” in honor of the Right Reverend Monsignor James S. Fa- gan, of Hazelton, Pa. of which Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treas- urer of the U. M. W. of A. is Gen- eral Chairman. With Mr. Kennedy |on the committee is a coal company lawyer by the name of John H. Bigelow. ey ee ae BE his opening remarks brother Kennedy quoted from the “holy | gospel” the old gag, “He that exalt- As he marches to the impending imperialist world war, each conscripted worker and farmer will be equipped with the “poison gas” to make his own brain soggy—if Mr. Kellogg’s swindling “peace” pact works as intended. Rev. Thomas S, Harten, pastor of |a Negro church ‘one must remember that white Christians compel Negro |Christians to accept the Jim Crow system of segregation), recently published a statement to the effect | that both the democratic and the re-| publican parties are enemies of the | Negro people and offering a dona- | tion of $200 to the campaign fund of | any Negro candidate nominated for public office—presumably meaning one truly representing the cause of emancipation of the Negro masses. Richard B. Moore, candidate of, the Workers (Communist) Party for congress in the 2ist congressional district of New York, answered the | challenge of the minister,’ pointing out that the Workers (Communist) Party is the only party that quali-| fies as the champion of the Negro masses and that it has numerous} Negro candidates for office on its tickets in this election. Moore there- fore demands that the preacher make | good on his offer by contributing the fund to the Communist campaign and by giving the other forms of |aid promised to a genuine campaign | for Negro rights. What Party Fights for Negroes? Answers Challenge. am, therefore, led to hope con- eth himself shall be humbled and he that humbleth himself shall be ex- alted.” Perhaps the striking coal diggers had exalted themselves overmuch in fighting for the preser- vation of the Jacksonville scale and now being properly humbled ac- cording to scripture by a reduction in wages. Mr. John L. Lewis, who according to the catholic catechism | should go straight to hell—provided he can go straight even on that straight road—for his failure to see the true faith, joined in his praise, of the Reverend Fagan for “promot- | ing harmony between employer and employe.” And so on. My My ee | WHat the starving miners of the | bituminous coal fields may think of the “stately ceremony and gorge- ous pomp” that marked the eleva- | tion of the Rev. Fagan to the rank . * I Communist Candidate Challenges a Negro ‘icentiy for your support. Minister to Make Good His Promise paigns, the candidate comes, de- livers flattering speeches and makes great promises, wHich only last until election day. In fact, the present republican administra- tion stood by and held the coats of the southern democrats while they stoned us; 'in other words, they have held their peace while the democrats violated the Four- teenth and Fifteenth Amendments, while sending up a mighty howl about the Eighteenth. “To my mind, it will not pay the Negro to lose friendship over Mr. Smith nor Mr. Hoover, but our only salvation lies in selecting some real men of our race: not only in Harlem but throughout the country, and send them to con- gress, to the state legislature, and elect them judges.” Yes, in respect to the republican Whatever our news columns, is as follows: | |Negro masses and is therefore the only party which deserves their sup port, The Workers Party, in accordance with its stand for the complete |emancipation of the Negro race, |nominated three Negro candidates on its state ticket—Lovett Fort- Whiteman for State Comptroller; Richard B. Moore for Congress from | the 21st Congressional District, and | Edward Welsh for Assembly from the 21st Assembly District. These candidates, standing as they do up- on a platform which demands the abolition of the whole system of} racial discrimination, will be com- pelled to wage a militant struggle in the legislative offices and will have the support of their party. Not Question of Individuals. I am sure you will agree that it is not enough to have individuals| |and democratic parties, it is abso- Who are sympathetically disposed The full text of the letter of the|tutely correct and indisputable to toward the Negro race, or even Ne Communist candidate to the Rev.| affirm that “today the black man is &T0 candidates in office, if they lack Harten, recently quoted in part in| without a party.” But fortunately the clear understanding of the true I feel of papal chamberlain we cannot say- that this Party and its candidates|for certain but we can imagine that have the only real claim upon the are now being properly humbled ac- offer of support which you so gen-|count of the ceremony) they will jerously make. I therefore claim your support for the Workers Party and for its candidates. Your offer is quoted thus: “I will pledge $200 from this church for the campaign of any | colored man who is nominated, and I believe there are a number of other churches that will give \utter some healthy cursess “The scene at the church was most beau- tiful. Assembled around the mag- nificent marble altars were fully | fifty priests, attired in black cas- sock and white surplice. The beau- tiful purple of the robes of Monsig- \mor Fagan and Monsignor Leach |and the bright hue of the purple ‘8 to our race. as much or more. Then I will take over from Brooklyn a num- ber of intelligent men and women who will make a house-to-house | robes of the three bishops, stood out in brilliant contrast against the | black of the priests, while the gold |vestments of the officers of the canvass helping to register the | mass blended well with the array of Negro vote without any charges. | color.” I will give both my time and | BH ela! money to help.” r Lh, here is one ex-altar boy I invite you and your co-workers| '» Who would swap the whole cere- to membership in the Negro Cam-|mony for a loaf of bread for a paign Committee for the Workers| hungry miner’s child. And those Party which is now being formed| Who wish to protest against this by the militant and far-visioned| mediaeval hocus pocus, can do so in fighters of the race. |no better way than by sending a | This campaign is not only an op-| contribution to help the National |Portunity but a challenge and a test| Miners Relief Committee, with head- | | | | Should we fail to support the feed the victims of the coal oper- Party which champions our cause, ators in the great strike. Alfred quarters at 611 Penn Avenue, to~ of Socialist Soviet Republics. recourse may yet be found by the Soviet Union in this situation, it is certain that the imperialists intend their “invitation” itself to give them a political advantage against the Soviet Union. They offer the Soviet Union the chance to sign a pact facilitating the en- “¢irclement, of the Soviet Union and war Workers of the world! Get ready to de- fend the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics —for imperialist “Peace” has been declared! The stern duty of the working class, ex- ploited farmers and oppressed colonials, will be to transform the imperialist war into a revolutionary war against the capitalist Rev. Dr. Thomas S. Harten, Pastor, Holy Trinity Baptist Church, | Brooklyn, N. Y. Dear Dr. Harten: Your statement published in the} New York Amsterdam News of Au- for the oppressed Negro race, there | Situation and the spirit of militancy is a growing militant and powerful 2nd struggle. It is also necessary— party of the oppressed Negro and. i" fact, it is absolutely essential—to |we will write our race down as a group which neither thinks nor |cares about its freedom. | This must not be. Wagenknecht, Relief Director, who is neither a priest nor a bishop, will | see that the money is used for food |and not for incense or gold vest- other workers of America, the| have a party back of these candi- Workers (Communist) Party of dates which will compel them to. toe esetiea: the mark and will stand back of The Workers Party stands forth today as the champion of the op- pressed Negro race and of all other them with its support. A: Negro who is bound hand and foot by the corrupt and oppressive democratic and republican machines, Our race for its own self-protec-| ments. | tion must now realize what its true| | interests-are, who its true allies are, | and must take a stand as intelligent)! |and free-spirited militants. Hee See” |ARCUS GARVEY would have his followers believe that Africa can | be redeemed for the black man with against it; and in the event of r efusal to sign, | tion. class—for liberation from wars and exploita- political campaign and the interests of the Negro, is quite a challenging Machado Tool Spread Reformist Talk (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Aug. 27—Juan Are- valo, Machado’s tool in the Cuban labor organizations, who was “elect- ed” to represent Cuban labor at the recent conference of the Geneva Labor Office, gave a long interview on his return to Havana to the “Diario de la Marina,” the largest newspaper of this city. He began by pointing out how he was chosen to represent the Cuban workers because he represents “within the universal labor trade ‘anion movement the evolutionist so- fal theories as opposed to the Red ‘Trade Union International Moscow and all its revolutionary extravag- ances whose results are perfectly disastrous for those workers who follow these theories.” He continued by describing how in this respect he was in perfect accord with the leaders of Amsterdam and the Sec- | ond International whom he met in Europe. Organize in Argentine. From these meetings, Arevalo re-| ports, the idea was born to organ- ize a central Latin American Labor! Office in Buenos Aires in connec-| tion with the “Confederacion Obrera Argentina” which is affiliated with Amsterdam. Arevalo explained that his Latin American organization ll by no means try to oppose the. American Federation of Labor. ut he hopes that such an organiza- ith the center in Buenos tion of Labor, which will take place in Havana in May, 1929, “will clar- ify many erroneous ideas which/| were traditional in the labor move-| ment, such as the ‘class struggle.’ | We must find new orientations to-| wards ‘class cooperation,’ because} the aspirations of the working class! being just and humane, we need one. You are quite right when you | say: “Today it seems that the great principles of human rights are forgotten by the Grand Old Party> while a few of our Negro leaders play to the howling mob without making the proper demand for our citizenship rights. On the other hand the democratic party . . .is just as much opposed today to the Negro receiving his citizen- ship rights as it was sixty years ago.” there voted and worked for the con- ventions favorable to the workers and thus we have an enormous amount of data and proofs to dem- onstrate the opposite of Marx’s theories.” The “Glory” of Reformism. gust 8 with respect to the present) oppressed groups in the country. Unlike the republican and democratic parties, which segregated and ex- jf he had tHe desire to do so, he peluded Negroes at their national | would be completely blocked by his |conventions, the Workers (Commun- party. We know what happens to ist) Party welcomed and seated 24) men who break the discipline of | a. 2 We know) participated on all important com- | how Governor Sulzer was impeached | |Negro delegates. These delegates their political machine. mittees, many serving as chairmen’ by the democratic machine and how lof sessions, and helped to draft a Theodore Roosevelt was broken by program of action for the complete the republican plunderbund. These emancipation of the oppressed | instances are conclusive. If Tam- masses of America. many Haéll did not hesitate to im- Only Party for Negroes. peach a povernury what would it not This platform is a historic docu- {0 te © Neste who did not obey its - Pal peli mandates? If the republican party ment. It is the firat time in.the po-| 4iq not hesitate to crésh the most | will be unable to fight militantly. for su) the interests of his race. But even ¢, I look forward to receiving your ipport and active co-operation in e present political struggle for the enfranchisement and emancipation of our peoplé. ¥ Cordially yours, RICHARD B. MOORE. Candidate for Congress, 21st Congressional District, on . the Workers Party ticket. THE WORKERS ‘(COMMUN- IST) PARTY DEMANDS: 1. Abolition of the whole sys- tem of race discrimination. Full racial, political, and social equal- ity for the Negro race. 2. Abolition of all laws which “We do not deny,” he continued, Surely any man who is at all in- litical history of America that for the betterment of the working) “that the governments defend the class the sincere cooperation of | Tights of private property and the other classes. We are convinced,” | Wage system, but labor reformism he continued, “that we could obtain|!§ not interested in hypothetical help towards our betterment from | #ims.” On these principles Arevalo many elements who today deny this| #Mnounced, he is going to start a} help to us because they are told to] @mpaign “among the workers and be our enemies, while in fact they | intellectuals of Cuba for the organ- sympathize with the idea of better-| {zation of the long expected social- ment of the working class.” He|ist party of Cuba, as there is a| explained how he could see clearly @teat necessity for such a party.” in Geneva, that the ‘Marxist con-| Arevalo is the editor of a weekly) ception, that governments are com-|Paper in Havana called “Accion mittees representing the capitalist | Socialista-Organo Defensor del Pro- class, is false because the majority letariado,” in which he pictures the of the governments represented dictator Machado as the friend of! the proletari: Surprising as it may seem from | this exposure of his characteristics, Arevalo met with an unexpected ad- venture when returning from Eur- ope. Before leaving for Cuba, he Makes Millions While Premier of Greece terested in the emancipation of his | party has taken such an unequivocal, race and whose eyes are open to the| uncompromising and militant stand actual situation, to the brazen and|upon the Negro question. I ask that open rebuffs to the Negro by botl|you give it your careful considera these parties, can come to no other|tion, and that you especially note the conclusion. ~ section dealing with the oppression We are indeed glad to find that of the Negroes. I feel confident: you are taking a definite and mili-/ knowing your militant attitude, that tant stand in this present campaign. | when you have read this, and when We bear in mind the militant strug-| you have become fully acquainted |gle which you have waged in Brook- with the record of the Workers lyn in many instances for the de-| Party, you will conclude that this is fense of the oppressed Negro race. | the only party in America which to And we are hoping that your entry.|qay offers any opportunity to the into the political campaign will be| influential single figure in American political life, what will it not do to a Negro? Both republican and democratic parties have given evi- | dence in this connection. If the re- publican party will indict and jail its most faithful Negro henchmen, such as Perry Howard and Warner, what would it not do to a militant Negro who broke its discipline fight- ing for the interests of his’ op- pressed race? All this convinces us of the necessity of supporting a ‘party which actually supports our cause. characterized by the same uncom- promising and militant spirit. We are at one with you in your opposition to Governor Smith and to the democratic party, because we know that the democratic party is not only the party of the Solid South, but also the party of big business, _ INCREASE ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 27— Fifty million dollars represent the wealth amassed by Stephanos Skou- went to visit his parents in Coruna, in Northern Spain. There the police of Primo de Rivera promptly ar- the party of the wealthy oppres- sors who profit from the degrada- tion and exploitation of the black and white workers of this country. MOSCOW, Aug. 27.—The reve- nues of the Soviet government, for the most part from government and U.S. S.R. REVENUES 16 PER CENT jerease of 29 per cent for agricul- ture, 79 per cent for poor peasants’ collective farms, 30 per cent.for in- loudis, former premier and foreign minister of Greece, in his banking operations in Constantinople which cover the period 1915-16 when he rested him as a dangerous char- “ 2 acter. Arevalo complained bitterly ‘Black Man Without a Party? The republican party is also the co-operative undertakings promises dustry and 37 per cent for electrifi- to exceed the expectations of the cation. The excess of 100,000,000 Planning Commission; which estim- roubles will be devoted to cultural | result in segregation of Negroes. Abolition of all Jim Crow laws. nation against Negroes in selling or renting houses. 3. Abolition of all laws which disfranchise the Negroes. 4. Abolition of laws forbidding | intermarriage of persons of dif- | ferent races. | 5, Abolition of all laws and public administration measures which prohibit or in practice pre- | vent Negro children or youth | from attending general public schools or universities. ~ 6. Full.and equal admittance of Negroes to all railway station waiting rooms, restaurants, hotels | and theatres. | 7. A federal law against lynch- ing and the protection of the Ne- gro masses in their right of self- defense. | 8. Abolition of discriminatory practices in courts against Ne- groes. No discrimination in jury service. 9. Abolition of the convict lease system and of the chain gang. The law shall forbid all discrimi: | about this incident, that though) “equipped with a diplomatic pass- | port and being an official delegate party of big business and the party of racial oppression. Only a blind of the Cuban government,” he was |man can hope for anything from ated that the year 1927-1928 would net a revenue of 6,100,000,000 roubles for the Soviet government. and educational undertakings. ‘ ill be able to approach many organizations which the Pan- rican Federation of Labor was to reach, “because the an-| , Communists and syndical- s are spreading false conceptions the purpose and aims of the ” I hopes that the next con- of the Pan-American Federa- held power in Athens. He was forced out of his premier- ship by the allied powers because he prevented Greece from joining them on account of his huge interests in Turkey. The death duties alone on the will of the former premier th rties for the oppressed Ne- kept in jail for twelve days in spite} ev baaa a i Re of the intervention of the Cuban,” will the beneficiaries of a system consul in Coruna and the Cuban do anything to abolish that system? ambassador in Madrid. The fact of | Will the parties of the oppressors do being the editor of such a dangerous anything to abolish oppression? Of paper as his “Accion Socialista” was course not! You seem to be con sufficient to make him suspected, | scious of this when you say: Figures for the first nine months ANOTHER GANG MURDER | of the economic year (which is cal-| LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27 (UP).— culated from October 1, 1927) show Chicago racketeers, that the revenue receipts were 76 ent of the yearly total. The iA i Pesta thus We sist an increase "U"ning war, today were blamed for of 16 per cent over last year. another gangland murder in connec- notwithstanding the assurances of) “Today the black man is with- amount to $6,000,000, the Cuban ambassador. out a party. During political cam- The budget funds this year are |tion with the death yesterday of distributed so as to constitute an in- | Pnitip Rubino, Los Angeles bootleggers in a liquor) 10, Abolition of all Jim Crow distinctions in the army, Aavy and civil service. 11. Immediate removal of all restrictions in all trade unions ‘against the membership of Negro working against workers. 12, Equal opportunity for em- ployment, wages, hours, and work- ing conditions for Negro and white workers. Equal pay for equal work for Negro and white workers, the aid of Al Smith. Marcus knows | better, but like all leaders who in | the past as well as in the present have utilized the sufferings of an oppressed people to rise to power | and affluence, he is deliberately de- | ceiving the exploited and persecuted Negroes who have not yet seen through his fraudulent pretensions. No intelligent Negro worker will ex- pect any help from the leader of the lynching Democratic Party any more than from the Republican Party which permits the lynching of Ne- groes without a protest. “A plague on both Wall Street parties who |serve the exploiters of white and black!” will be the answer of the class conscious Negroes who have ‘learned that only through the pro- gram of the Workers (Communist) Party will the Negro masses be able to emancipate themselves in a com- mon cause with their white brothers and sisters. ae | AN Associated Press staff writer says that state department folk look at the “outlaw-war” planks in | the Democratic and Republican plat- forms with wry faces. And well they might, because they only mean | more war. It is rumored in Wash- ington that Kellogg intends to step oyt of his present berth as soon as he puts his fake anti-war treaty over in Paris. Whether he does or not will make no difference to the colonial peoples and particularly to the Nicaraguans. Another Kellogg will send the marines just as wil- lingly to shoot down any people that refuse to be slaves to Wall Street. 3 Hurt in Bus Crash NORWALK, Conn, Aug. 27 (UP).—Three persons were injured, one seriously, early today when a New York-Boston bus of the Berk- shire Transportation Company skid- ded and crashed into a truck on Amory Hill. ; —- :