The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1928, Page 6

Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1928 “PEP” Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By $4.50 six months $2.50 three months ) per y $8 per year ail (outside of New York): $ six months $2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 U nion Square, New York, N. Y. a ..ROBERT MINOR ESS Assistant Editor. ..WM. F. DUNNE zi Entered as second- the act of March 8, 1879. lass mail at t post-office at New York, N. Y., und For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER VOTE For the Workers! Mr. Kellogg Explains That “Peace” Means War all nations of the next war. ber of governments have signed the Kellogg Pact than signed the League of Nations cove- nant is only another expression of such a sit- There is no doubt that the central There is something genuinely appropriate in the fact that the repository for the official documents of the imperialist Kellogg Pact is in the capital of the country where half the world’s gold supply is—the United States. And many bourgeois newspapers in Euro- pean countries are already interpreting the Kellogg maneuver as one which takes the wind out of the sails of the League of Na- tions, tending to transfer from Great Britain to the United States the leading role in the imperialist struggle for world domination. Kellogg’s trip to Ireland on a United States warship immediately after signing the Pact is explained by his longing to play on the “beautiful golf grounds” of the American legation at Dublin and his wife’s desire to visit a lady friend there, but diplomacy is not such a game as can be explained with such : Gopher Prairie motives. The formalities of ' visits on warships by heads of departments of state to heads of foreign states are in- variably taken seriously in capitalist diplo- macy. When the U. S. warship Detroit takes Kellogg to Ireland without touching at an English port, we do not suddenly lose our memory for the fact that the antagonism of English and American imperialism is the | pivot around which all the contradictions within the capitalist world revolve at the present time. The lead is forced out of the hands of England and into the hands of the Wall Street clerk in the white house. Not that England is paid nothing in the deal. She is given what will be called, in the coming world uation. point of the central point the Pact just petuate the nations. perhaps more signatories. says: tion whether OMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! | pointed out that it is absolutely certain that whole world is the policy of the imperialist nations of encircling the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. lishing alliances for hostile action against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, is the | quo” in international relations. mind when thinking of Kellogg’s assurances to France and England that there is no “in- consistency” between the Kellogg Pact and previously existing treaties. a preamble declaring its purpose to per- | Then take a look at Kellogg’s letter to the 48 nations (running from Albania to Vene- | zuela but excluding the Soviet Union) con- veying the invitation to sign the already fixed terms of the Pact. reason why the fifteen governments ex- clusively were picked as privileged to form the terms of the Pact and to be the original The choice of the same nations that signed the imperialist treaty of Locarno is explained in part by Kellogg’s letter which . it also settled satisfactorily the ques- | tween the new treaty and the treaty of | Locarno, thus meeting the observations of the the world will be involved in The fact that a larger num- international relations of the A series of treaties estab- of what is called the “status Bear this in Remember that signed at Paris is qualified by between “existing” relations By Fred Ellis Kellogg explains, clearly than he intended, the By TOM O’FLAHERTY They will do it every time. When the cat is away the mice dance as | |they darned well please and some- | times dig into the cheese. There is | rhyme as well as reason in this. | While Reverend Doctor Norman | Thomas or the Christian General was | | out in the west, boosting the League | of Nations and the Kellogg mutilat- | eral treaties to the open and empty | spaces, Tammany Hall pulled off | an offensive in his rear and cap-| tured the left wing of the liberal | movement, among the prisoners be- ing General Oswald Garrison Vil- | |lard, editor of the Nation and a bit | |of a millionaire to boot. | The Christian General. The Christian General (not to be confused with Feng of Peking) | thought he had the liberal movement | stowed away safely back of his pul- | pit, so, accompanied by his aide de | camp, McAllister Coleman, and Lit- | | the Corporal Claessens, he. made a} drive into the fastnesses of the west | until his munitions ran out and his | there was any inconsistency be- ‘ = a ss i French government as to the necessity of ex- ; War, a legal sanction for military action to tending the number of original signatories.” « carry through her imperialist program as 1 against the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- Unless one is so naive as to think the Lo- t publics and in a certain field of colonial de- carno treaty was not a part of the imperialist t predations. So is France given concessions | “war maneuvers of the recent past, Kelloge’s . as represented by the French reservations. | own words written just before sailing on the ; But the hegemony is taken into the hands of | warship to visit his lady friends in Dublin } Wall Street government. are convincing. The “peace” pact is a step € The Kellogg Pact altogether marks a sharp in the preparations for imperialist war. push forward in the development _of the The necessity of defense of the Union of world situation of alignment and intrigue for | Socialist Soviet Republics by the working 1 pm oe 18 the only sense in which it is | class and exploited farmers of all countries ae Or war toy ). becomes by these events a living reality t Several capitalist correspondents have greater than ever before. e ec : . ° ere ‘Canton stee rike significant s a ‘ 4 By IL AMTER. steel workers who have d For some time the local press of | through many unsuccessful strikes| will do so. p Canton completely suppressed infor-|—1919, 1921, 1924—men working! ii mation about the Canton strike. Five | for an industry that is backed by hundred chippers and grinders—it billions of dollars capital—one of might seem a strike of no signifi- the basic industries—then it is the cance. A strike of 500 men in an| More remarkable. When one further industry of 400,000—what does it|considers that there practically is amount to? no organization in the industry, and But the strike of the 500 chippers | that the Communists have done little and grinders is of great significance, in the industry in the way of or- first of all because these workers are | ganization, then it is still more re- chippers and grinders and secondly | markable. because they are working for the entra! Alloy Steel Corporation. there is a small union in the industry Significant Strike. which is bound to scab on the men Before, however, analyzing the im-|—the Amalgamated Association of mediate significance of the strike, Iron, Steel and Tin Workers—a let us look into the industry as a, com union, which refuses to or- whole. The steel industry is opera-| ganize the steel workers and only ting, at the present time, at be-| takes in the highly skilled—and has tween 75-80 per cent capacity,| not all of them—then one realizes There has not been the usua! sum-| that when men walk out, they must mer lull, probably due to the fact be hard pressed. that the automobile industry is working a little more briskly than usual, and the building industry has| The immediate issues that forced jsept up pretty well. Rail orders|the walk-out were the usual ones. have not been plentiful, and al-|Cut in the wage scale — usual though for several months, with | promises, which were not kept, fol- intermission, the unfilled orders of | lowed by the disgust of the men and U. S. Steel have dropped, still the| finally a nearly 100 per cent walk- production, as a whole, has been at out (six men remained on the job). a higher level than last year. The men had no leaders, no policy Nevertheless, the fact that there/—they only knew one thing and that are 4,000,000 unemployed in the| was that they’ would not work for country, that miners have been the scale they were getting—and striking and therefore could take the| they wanted to be organized. They “work of laborers in the steel mills,| walked out and formed what they makes a walkout at this time sig- later called the Central Alloy Mill nificant. Committee. Union ‘Misleaders.’ Why is the strike remarkable? It is true that the concern for| Because the men realized their which the 500 men work is not one{strategle position. Chippers and Nof the largest. It is a merger of| grinders occupy a strategic position Sentral Steel of Canton and Alloy in the industry, Without their work, STF, 00] of Massillon, The two plants | no products can be turned out. Work cupy about 4,000 men. This is| might continue, but it could not be durat, nothing compared to the tens of | for stock. The metal bars have to iti eos working for the larger|be chipped and ground off, before ¢ rporations. But when one | further work can be done, ot that steel workers strike,' Finally when one considers that tae oP. 2 Wage Slash. axootes quco tasccs gone|stop the entire mill—and eventually | plained bitterly of their treatment Bieter the strike threatened to! rear became exposed. Of course, | |we are speaking politically. The Three Musketeers found the | natives rather frigid to the liberal doctrine, masking under the cog- | nomen of socialism, so tho cham- pions of tne meek and lowly returned | sadder but wiser men. They com-} « at the hands of the Pullman Com- The strike occurring at Central pany, which behaved towards them Alloy Steel made it all the more #8 if they were Communists, but important. Why it might be asked, they might have recovered from | did a representative of the govern- their pique if they had not invested ment Conciliation Board at Wash-, 45 cents in the Nation. | ington go to Canton. Certainly the Dignified Oswald. | strike of 500 men does not interest; It was then they learned that the the government to that extent, 500/ Situation had changed at G. H. @, men have gone out many a time, and that Brother Villard had gone | and have remained out on strike for Over to the enemy in their absence. months, without the government in- It is a rule of war that swapping terfering. The member of the Con-| horses while crossing a stream is ciliation Board not only went to dangerous business, but that is not | Canton, but asked the strike com- | What actually happened. Villard got | mittee to see him—which they re-| ff the anemic socialist jennet and | fused to do mounted the laughing jackass, per- | The day th ‘ sonified by Al Smith. Again we e day that the information ap- wish to point out that all this is | peared in one of the Canton papers, metanhor. The dignified Oswald | it was apparent why the strike is| would not bestride an electric ele- significant—and why the Concilia- phant, not to speak of a hirsute tion representative was in.Canton. donkey, but in politics when a po- One has but to quote the article that litical leader quits his. affiliation | appeared alongside the report that and joins another, any kind of lan- the “strike was still on.” guage is justified. “The Central Alloy Steel Corp., Only a few weks ago, Aide de which manufactures the bulk of | Camp Coleman had a life-size pic- crankshaft material for automobiles tute of yi) epaien eneral in ne and airpla: + _, Nation, which star at the cradle PEGE ee Dretac| aull alenay ol oredy Hien: tte tee ting at capacity.... The Allo: Wh ate furnishes the steel that goes into Political cle easiasedtans a crankshafts, ; same organ flaye cover and) mearty Connecting rods, emith adroitly and ended with the | small forgings of every kind, and the rolled strip steel for automobile frames, Besides this it produces crankshafts and small forged parts for 95 per cent of the airplane mo- tors made in this country.” consoling thought that upright citi- | zens, fortunately for the good name | of the United States, were not obliged to scratch their votes into pulp, because of the programs and affiliations of the Efficiency Engi- neer and the Happy Warrior; there was Norman Thomas. “Nation Out The last sentence contains the | For Thomas,” was the unwritten secret of the importance of the Cen- j headline on every copy-reader’s tral Alloy plants: they are turning | tongue, But alas, poor Thomas, out material for the airplane fhe Be ats Repent bade dustry—a war industry, If Central) “ar, SMITH SPEAKS OUT.” Alloy Steel 1s held up by a strike) On August 29, a full-page edi- the production of airplanes will like-| torial in Villard’s famous weekly _eomes out boldly and gayly for John J. Raskob's good man Al, There is nothing like a few quotations to| Government Interested. wise suffer, (To Be Continued.) Tammany Hall Pulls Off an Offensive in the “Socialists’” Rear; Captures Nation Editor convince our readers that this is|supporters have their photos taken not a fairy tale. Here goes: with a foaming schooner of beer in “Al Smith has spoken out. His | one hand and a flask on the hip. All acceptance speech is worthy of the| Al wants a supporter to do is .to man and of the office which he) vote for him and get his poor rela- secks. It is one of the finest state | tions to do likewise. Mr. Villard is documents which has grown out of | against booze in any form, the American political scene since | he has to choose he will choose Can- set a blight upon our hopes for po- | St. Scotch. litical progress. : est, straightforward ring to his| The Perfect eneiee words that was lacking in the com-| When we read Al’s acceptance placent generalities of his rival for |SPeech, our common sense told us office. Against Hoover's smug as- | ‘hat it was clever demogoguery and surance that ‘No one can rightly |4 liberal is constantly going ‘around deny the fundamental correctness of | With his gullet exposed looking for our economic system’ set Al Smith’s |® Political confidence man who will assertion that he will not ‘accept the be good enough to drop some honey old order of things as the best un- | into it. The liberal is the perfect less and until I become convinced |Sucker—when he is honest. that it cannot be made better.’ We he is not he is the perfect rogue. do not see how any progressive, | And the perfect liberal sucker is as reading the two speeches, can fail | tare as a gangster who is not good to feel that Smith would make the | t0 his mother. better president.” | Villard fairly chortles over the This is a dirty crack at Thomas , tongue-thrashing delivered by Al to who is not even hinted at, let alone {he water-power burglars and the mentioned. And Thomas, who boasts dishonegt “and be heated ropa’ heehee in a progressive end cnke ganda” of the utility corporations, evolutionist, must now defend his | ‘hereby hurting certain of bis position against this indirect chal-|/7enS- e s fri de t Tenge from Villard. Thomas. de- 'Tactor and sewer-pipe friends must chuckle a e sight o! ittle See te age Struggle and spurned | Riding Hood Villard walking into words as ‘‘proleteriat” and “bour- |*M¢ Tammany Tiger's den. geoisie,” but he built his house on| BI the quicksands of liberalism and is now like a voice crying in the wil- derness. “The birds of the air have nests and the foxes have holes, but the socialist party has not a roof | over its political head.” Heok, Derby and Bottle. Of course, Mr. Villard does not swallow Al, hook, derby and bottle, but Al does not demand that all his There is an hon-| terance,” concludes Mr. Villard, “he five million voters who supported LaFollette in 1924. He will not dem- onstrate that his party has reformed since the landslide of 1920 or that the equality of opportunity he preaches is possible under the pres- ent profit system, but he will prove ‘that political ambition does’ not al- City Groping Through Fog By A. B. MAGIL City groping through fog, your face hangs over The long slate river swollen and blind. Your ships are like sleepwalkers. Black smoke strangles in the throats of your factories. Day stands still. Say it again, city groping through fog, Say it again—what you said yesterday, The day before: The same old words falling like whips on our backs, The same old grinding of wheels, machine-speech, cords of sound, Binding our bodies and brains. And today as yesterday, As the day before, Your tired millions grope through fog , To clear bitter toil. i 3 When | out with that frank clarity of ut-| will win the support of most of the! Villard Deserts Rev. Thomas ways turn able administrators into simian jumping jacks.” This is the unkindest swat of all. |The political objective of the social- ist party election campaign was the five million votes that were wasted |on LaFollette in 1924. The socialist |party at that time actually claimed |that they were socialist votes. But \it appears that those socialist votes having once tasted the sweets of |bourgeois booths are reluctant to |return to the socialist confessional. but if| Tt is to cry out loud. As a political ‘opportunist Thomas has proven that jour entrance into the World War |adian Club in preference to Hester | he is a first class publicity man. He |is too good for this political world. |Hard-boiled Al in one fell speech stole the stool from under him. ; When the socialist party decided | that it would become the party of all |the “good” people, regardless of |what social groove they moved in, \it spelled its own doom. It could not beat the republican party to Wall Street. And it could not nose out the democratic party in making | promises, spinning empty phrases | to win thea muddle-headed liberal and labor-faker-guided vote. The | rousing language of Eugene V. Debs, |whose mantle looks out of place on | Thomas’ shoulders, rallied the rebel workers to voice a protest against |capitalism in elections, but why should a rebel worker vote for a socialist program that simply com- petes with the democratic party for votes? The answer can be read in tabulated record of the socialist vote next November. | The Workers Party. The policy and tactics of the Workers (Communist) Party, which have been labeled “unpopular” and “un-American” by the socialists, are based on the interests of exploited ry workers masses of this country, \in industry and the poor farmers on |the land. The candidates of the | Workers (Communist) Party are not chasing will-o'-the-wisp liberals or little business men. If they ac- cept the program of the class strug- gle and work for it, they are wel- come to join the ranks. But they |must cast off their liberalism. The Communists are waging a campaign in this election in order to rally the workers around their revolutionary program, to strengthen the Party in order that it will be in- creasingly able to play its historical role as the leader of the masses in the struggle against capitalism, the every-day struggle for better condi- tions under the robber system and the final struggle to get rid of cap- italism and start the task of con- structing a socialist society on the ruins of the present social order, under the auspices of a Workers and Farmers government. Vote Communist! In this election class-conscious workers will vote for “William Z. Foster for president and Benjamin Gitlow for vice-president and for the Communist candidates on the state tickets throughout the country. They will not vote for “good” men, but ‘for the revolutionary program of Communism. They have no other alternative, since the Workers (Com- munist) Party is the only political \party in the field that bases itself on the workers and exploited farm- ers. It is the only real party of |the Nation and will be read in the} Organization of Workers in Offices By J. L. PERILLA. The organization of the office workers becomes a major task when we consider the fact that close to | one half million are employed in | the city of New York and the ma- | jority of them are young workers, An organization campaign to or- | ganize the unorganized young work~- jess in the city of New York must of | necessity take into consideration the | office workers. This preponderance | of office workers is clear when we jconsider the fact that New York is | the largest trading center in the world and the center of Finance Capital. As a class the office work- Jers are the most difficult to deal with due to their petty-bourgeois il- | lusions as to the possibilities of ri ing out of their class. Rationaliza- tion has had even its radicalization effects on office workers. Machine | production, simplification of account- ing and office methods and the gen- eral growth of industry which en- tails an increase in the size of staffs | has convinced large sections of of- | fice workers that their problems are not separate and apart from the | problems of the general working class. Piece-work is a new practice | that has been introduced into office | work. In many of the large offices land department stores, employees | are paid so much per posting and | penalized. greater amount for every error made. Many’ Unorganized. The official labor movement has done nothing to crystalize this growing possibility for organiza- |tion. The Bookkeepers, Steno- |graphers and Accountants Union has been a stumbling block in the | way of organization. They have satisfied themselves with organizing | a few union offices where the con- | ditions on the whole are far better | than in capitalist offices, Even on the question of organiza- tion of union offices they have failed miserably—the great majority still remain unorganized. No attempt has been made by this decrepit and fossilized organization that labels itself as a trade union to involve the New York Labor Movement in a campaign for organization. They | make no pretenses at organization | —their purpose is to hinder organi- zation. Every militant that ever at- | tempted to criticize the policies of “Les Majesty” has found himself or herself outside of the organization, In considering steps towards organi- zation of these thousands of office workers—the B. S. & A. U. must be rejected as a negative factor. The Office Workers’ Union, an or- ganization that has the will and de- termination to organize the office workers, will be the organization on whose shoulders wll rest the task of organizing the unorganized office workers. Although only a few months old it has already surpassed in size the B. S. and A. U.. The at- tendance at meeting is at least twice as big as the latter organization. The program and the constitution of the Office Workers’ Union shows that they are aware of the tasks and problems before them. The office Workers’ Union demands and should get the entire support of the left wing and progressive labor. move- ment of the city of New York. On September 25 and 26 the New York Working Youth Conference will be held at Labor Temple, New York City. The purpose of this |conference is to find ways nad means | and take actual step to organize the | young workers in the City of New York. The Office Workers Union, [one of the original signators of this conference, will do everything pos- sible to make this conference a suc- cess. The Office Workers Union calls on all office workers to organ- ize themselves into office commit- tees and send delegates to the Work- ing Youth Conference. The improve- ment of the conditions of the office workers can only be gotten by strug- gle. They are no longer a privileged class that have to be bribed. Williamsburg to Meet Tonight for Signature Mobilization Campaign The Members of Section 6, Wil- liamsburg, will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at 46 Ten Eyck St., Brook- lyn, to form a regiment of signa- ture solicitors. According to A. Bimba, section organizer, the members of the Wil- liamsburg section will be given ter- ritories to cover in the thirteenth and fourteenth assembly districts, in an intensive drive to put the Communist candidates in those as- sembly districts on the ballot. All members of the Williamsburg section are urged by Bimba to re- port at the headquarters, 46 Ten Eyck St., promptly, as the order of business will be short and within a few minutes after registration is taken, the members will be sent out for signatures. A special check-up will be made of those who fail to report, BURY MILITARIST, PARIS, Aug. 29 (UP),—Frane will bury tomorrow Marshal 4 —