The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1928, Page 6

Central Organ of the Workers or. | (Communist) Party THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, AUGUST 1928 2 A COPY IN EVERY Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Inc. Daily, Except Sunday KNAPSACK By Fred Ellis Told You So | |T2= officials of the wreck that |. was once the powerful United Ming Workers of America are beg- ging the coal operators to sign con- 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Dziwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 | eae with them under almost any - | conditions. ‘Accepting a reducti aEnoe peor | ion i SUBSCRIPTION RATES : | of wages for the miners is the least By Mail (in New York only) By Mail (outside of New York): | of those lads’ worries. Of cours: $8 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months ad Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 UL Jnion Square, New York, N. Y. Editor. Assistant Editor. -.-ROBERT . WM. F. 31 MINOR DUNNE st-office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879, For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For Vie For the Party of the Class Struggle Against the Capitalists! For the Workers! "OTE COMMUNIST! \ BENJAMIN .GITLOW ‘e- President ! 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 Tae 1 hee 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, who is active in the anthracite re. gion, sent in a program of a “Civie Testimonial” in honor of the Right Reverend Monsignor James §. Fa- gan, of Hazelton, Pa., of which Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treas- urer of the U. M. W. of A. is Gen- jetal Chairman. With Mr. Kennedy jon the committee is a coal company lawyer by the name of John H. “In Time of Peace Pacts Prepare for War.” We 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 Dis- 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’ 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 As he marches to the impending imperialist world war, each conscripted worker and farmer will be make his own brain soggy—if Mr. Kellogg’s swindling “peace” pact works as intended. equi Bigelow. le wie pi his opening remarks brother Kennedy quoted from the “holy gospel” the old gag, “He that exalt- eth himself shall be humbled and he |that humbleth himself shall be ex- jalted.” 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 jhe can go straight even on that straight road—for his failure to seo ipped with the “poison gas” to 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 Rev. Thomas S. Harten, pastor of a Negro church (one must remember Great Britain and France as steps to their |that white Christians compel Negro particular vantage-points for the coming war. | The Pact was i im- |System e epmoeee oy he Wigdeae ia 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 | 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 Christians to accept the Jim Crow of segregation), recently Communist Candidate Challenges a Negro 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 |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 the true faith, joined in his praise of the Reverend Fagan for “promot What Party Fights for Negroes? bituminous coal fields may think ; ne ‘ of the “stately ceremony and gorge- nswers Challenge. ous pomp” that marked the eleva- I aft, therefore, led to hope con-| tion of the Rev. Fagan to the rank |fidently for your support. 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| utter some healthy curses: “The | your support for the Workers Party scene at the church was most beau- |and for its candidates. | tiful. Assembled around the mag- | Your offer is quoted thus: |nificent marble altars were fully “I will pledge $200 from this | fifty priests, attired in black cas- | church for the campaign of any |sock and white surplice. The beau- colored man who is nominated, | tiful purple of the robes of Monsig- is synonymous with preparing war as a weapon of international 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 Soviet Union haunted the Soviet Republics. The complex of war maneuvers against the treaty was signed. The imperialist rivalry emancipation of the Negro masses. Richard B. Moore, candidate of the Workers (Communist) Party for| congress in the 21st congressional is not the only ghost that | district of New York, answered the Salle de l’'Horloge when the ti out that the Workers (Communist) Party is the only party that quali- challenge of the minister, pointing |_ 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. a real peace policy, the capitalist diplomats between the United States, an imperialist power almost without colonies and dut to con- fies as the champion of the Negro| “To my mind, it will not pay the Negro to lose friendship over Mr. 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 could shape the Kellogg document into “a weapon for isolating and fighting against | quer a coloni masses and that it has numerous) Negro candidates for office on its ial empire, and Great Britain, tickets in this election. Moore there-| Smith nor Mr. Hoover, but our |@bolition of the whole system of only salvation lies in selecting |*@Cial discrimination, will be com- some real men of our race» not the Soviet Union”—‘a weapon of interna- struggling to keep its weakening hold upon |pelled to wage a militant struggle |in the legislative offices and will tional counter-revolution,”—the belated so- | 2 worldful of called invitation to the Union of Socialist perialists intrigues. fore demands that the preacher make | good on his offer by contributing | the fund to the Communist campaign colonies, is a vortex for all im- The impulsion of a only in Harlem but throughout the country, and send them to con- gress, to the state legislature, and | have the support of their party. Not Question of Individuals. 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 of Socialist Soviet Republics. Whatever 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, Workers of the world! Get ready to de- Communist candidate to the Harten, recently quoted in part in| without a party.” our news columns, is as follows: and by giving the other forms of aid promised to a genuine campaign | for Negro rights. The full text of the letter of the Rev. elect them judges.” I am sure you will agree that it Yes, in respect to the republican|is not enough to have individuals |and democratic parties, it is abso-|who are sympathetically disposed lutely correct and indisputable to| toward the Negro race, or even Ne- affirm that “today the black man is | To candidates in office, if they lack But fortunately the clear understanding of the true for the oppressed Negro race, there | Situation and the spirit of militancy and I believe there are a number of other churches that will give 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 canvass .helping to register the Negro vote without any charges. I will give both my time and | money to help.” |. I invite you and your co-workers to membership in the Negro Cam- |paign Committee for the Workers |Party which is now being formed |by the militant and far-visioned | fighters of the race. This campaign is not only an op) | portunity but a challenge and a test to our race. | Should we fail to support the |Party which champions our cause, |we will write our race down as a nor Fagan and Monsignor Leach and the bright hue of the purple ‘obes of the three bishops, stood out in brilliant contrast against the black of the priests, while the gold | vestments of the officers of the | mass blended well with the array of | color.” a | WELL, here is one ex-altar boy who would swap the whole cere- mony for a loaf of bread for a hungry miner’s child. And those who wish to protest, against this | mediaeval hocus pocus, can do so in |no better way than by sending a contribution to help the National Miners Relief Committee, with head- quarters at 611 Penn Avenue, to |feed the victims of the coal oper- ators in the great strike. Alfred | Wagenknecht, Relief Director, who ae and struggle. It is also necessary— group which neither thinks nor/ 8 neither a priest nor a bishop, will recourse may yet be found by the Soviet Union in this situation, it is certain that the fend the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics Rev. Dr. Thomas S. Harten, lis a growing militant and powerful party of the oppressed Negro and | in fact, it is absolutely essential—to {cares about its freedom. | see that the money is used for food A in this Baus certain t —for imperialist “Peace” has been declared! | Pastor, Holy Trinity Baptist Church, other workers of America, the have a party back of these candi-| “This must not be: and not for incense or gold vest- imperialists intend their “invitation” itself to | The stern duty of the working class, ex- | Brooklyn, N. Y. Workers (Communist) Party : of dates which will some them to toe} Our race for its own self-protec-| ments. give them a political advantage against the ploited farmers and oppressed colonials, will America. He marian (ill Ane Racy °f| tion must now realize what its true nos Soviet Union. They offer the Soviet Union be to transform the imperialist war into_a Dear Dr. Harten: the chance to sign a pact facilitating the en- circlement of the Soviet Union and war against it; and in the event of refusal to sign, revolutionary tion. class—for liberation from wars’ and exploita- Your statement published in the | New York Amsterdam News of Au-| gust 8 with respect to the present | | political campaign and the interests | |of the Negro, is quite a challenging | war against the capitalist 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 Genev® Labor Office, gave a long interview on his return to Havana to the “Diarip 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 union movement the evolutionist so cial 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 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 for the betterment of the working class the sincere cooperation of other classes. We are convinced,” he continued, “that we could obtain help towards our betterment from many elements who today deny this help to us because they are told to be our enemies, while in fact they sympathize with the idea of better- ment of the working class.” He explained how he could see clearly 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.” Surely any man who is at all in-} terested in the emancipation of his| race and whose eyes are open to the actual situation, to the brazen and open rebuffs to the Negro by both these parties, can come to no other conclision. We are indeed glad to find that you are taking a definite and mili- tant stand in this present campaign. We bear in mind the militant strug- gle which you have waged in Brook- | lyn in many instances for the de- | | 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 Refomnism. “We do not deny,” he continued, “that the governments defend the rights of private property and the | wage system, but labor reformism is not interested in hypothetical aims.” On these principles Arevalo , announced, he is going to start a campaign “among the workers and | intellectuals of Cuba for the organ- | ization of the long expected social- ist party of Cuba, as there is a great necessity for such a party.” Arevalo is the editor of a weekly | ‘The Workers Party stands forth today as the champion of the op- pressed Negro race and of all other oppressed groups in the country. Unlike the republican and democratic parties, which segregated and ex- cluded Negroes at eir national conventions, the Workers (Commun- |ist) Party welcomed and seated 24 Negro delegates. These delegates participated on all important com- mittees, many serving as chairmen |of sessions, and helped to draft a | program of action for the complete emancipation of the oppressed masses of America. Only Party for Negroes. This platform is a historic docu- | ment. It is the first time in the po- litical history of America that a party has taken such an unequivocal, uncompromising and militant stand upon the Negro question. I ask that you give it your careful considera tion, and that you especially note the section dealing with the oppression of the Negroes. I feel confident, knowing your militant attitude, that when you have read this, and when you have become fully acquainted with the record of the Workers Party, you will conclude that this is them with its support. | A Negro who is bound hand and |foot by the corrupt and oppressive | democratic and republican machines, | will be unable to fight militantly for | the interests‘ of his race. | would be completely blocked by his | party. We know what happens to men who break the discipline of their political machine. We know | how Governor Sulzer was impeached by the democratic machine and how| Theodore Roosevelt was broken by the republican plufiderbund. These instances are conclusive. If Tam- |many Hall did not hesitate to im- peach a governor, what would it not |do to a Negro who did not obey its |mandates? If the republican party |did not hesitate to crush the most \influential single figure in American} political life, what will it not do to) ja’ 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 ihterests of his op- pressed race? All this convinces us of the necessity of supporting a But even) | if he had the desire to do so, he| interests are, who its true allies are, and must tala stand as intelligent and free-spirited militants. I look forward to receiving your support and active co-operation in the present political struggle for the enfranchisefhent and emancipation of our people. Cordially yours, RICHARD B. MOORE. Candidate for Congress, 2ist | 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 result in segregation of Negroes. Abolition of all Jim Crow laws. The law shall forbideall discrimi- 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- nation against Negroes in selling | Ly esc GARVEY would have his MW ‘followers believe that Africa can be redeemed for the black man with 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 threugh 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 jelass 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. | * * | 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 follow these theories.” He continued| in Geneva, that the “Marxist con- . vee @Y | fense of the oppressed Negro race. | the only party in America which to party which actually supports our! yent Negro children or youth ’ by describing how in this respect| ception, that governments are com-| Paper in Havana called “Accion| And we are hoping that your entry day offers any opportunity to the Saniee’ | from attending general public | they might, because they only mean mittees representing the capitalist | Socialista-Organo Defensor del Pro-|into the political campaign will be |more war. It is rumored in Wash- he was in perfect accord with the leaders of Amsterdam and the Secy ond International whom he met in Europe. Organize in Argentine. From these meetings, Arevalo re-| Makes Millions While ports, the idea was born to organ- Premier of Greece ize a central Latin American Labor! Office in Buenos Aires in connec- tion witn the “Confederacion Obrera) ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 27.— Argentina” which is affiliated with| Fifty million dollars represent the Amsterdam. Arevalo explained that wealth amassed by Stephanos Skou- ied \ capa draesfoaan’ organisation | ioudis, former premier and foreign will by no means try to oppose the| . ~ 3 : Pan-American Federation of Labor.| Minister of Greece, in his banking But he hopes that such an organiza-| operations in Constantinople which tion, with the center in Buenos| cover the period 1915-16 when he Aires, will be able to serene sad held power in Athens. ‘abor organizations which the Pan- He was forced out of his premier- class, is false because the majority of the governments represented letariado,” in which he pictures the dictator Machado as \the friend of | the proletariat. Surprising as it may seem from this exposure of his characteristics, | Arevalo met with an ungxpected ad- |venture when returning from Eur- ope. Before leaving for Cuba, he the party of the wealthy..oppres- | went to visit his parents in Coruna, | : Fy A sors who profit from the degrada- in Northern Spain. There the police | tion and exploitation of the black of Primo de Rivera promptly ar- * A |rested him as a dangerous ge: | od whe eee ig |acter. Arevalo complained bitterly! ry.. republican party is also the about this incident, that though party of big business and the party “equipped with a diplomatic pass-| or racial oppression. Only a blind port and being an official delegate| an can hope for anything from of the Cuban government,” he was these parties for the oppressed Ne- kept in jail for twelve days in spite groes. 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, —__s___. INCREASE MOSCOW, Aug. 27,—The reve- nues of the Soviet government, for the most part from government and co-operative undertakings promises to exceed the expectations of the Planning Commission, which estin- ated that the year 1927-1928 would net a revenue of 6,100,000,000 roubles for the Soviet government. Figures for the first nine months American Federation of Labor was} ‘thle to reach, “because the an- ‘s, Communists and syndical-| so,SPreading false conceptions | Tho? Purpose and aims of the} 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 of the intervention of the Cuban consul in Coruna and the Cuban ambassador in Madrid. The fact of | being the editor of such a dangerous | paper as his “Accion Socialista” was | sufficient to make him suspected, Will the beneficiaries of a system do anything to abolish that system? Will the parties of the oppressors do | anything to abolish oppression? Of course not! scious of this when you say: You seem to be con ‘vf the economic year (which is cal- 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- | dustry and 37 per cent for electrifi- cation. The excess of 100,000,000 roubles will be devoted to cultural and educational undertakings. . | ANOTHER GANG MURDER LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27 (UP) — culated from October 1, 1927) show that the revenue receipts were 76 per cent of the yearly total. The revenues thus far show an increase of 16 per cent over last year. | Chicago racketeers, working against | Los Angeles bootleggers in a liquor running war, today were blamed for | another gangland murder in connec- 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. 10. Abolition of all Jim Crow distinctions in the army, navy and civil service. 11, Immediate removal of all restrictions in all trade unions against the membership of Negro workers. 12, Equal opportunity for em- ployment, wages, hours, and work- ing conditions for Negro and white workers. Equal pay for ington that Kellogg intends to step out 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- ed by. hopes that the next con-|the will of the former premier notwithstanding the assurances ‘of| “Today the black man is with. | The budget funds this year are|tion with the death yesterday of equal work for Negro and white {ded and crashed into a truck on apa Pan-American Federa-! amount to $4.990 070 ‘ho Cuban ambassador. "| out a party. During political cam- | distributed so as to constitute an in- | Philip Rubino, -workers, Amory Hill. yan ° tle wire the ‘ the field ——