The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1928, Page 6

\ the ‘elections of November 4 draw Page Six Daily Central Organ of the Workers THE DAILY WORKER, NEWV YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER tf, 1925 (Communist) Party Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. By Mail (in New York only): G8 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months Cable Address: “Dziwor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Assistant Editor. ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNE Entered as second-class mail at the post-o' at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers! AY | | workers (communist) party For the Party of the Class Struggle! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! The Birthday of the American Communist Party Our American Communist Party is nine years old today. On September 1, 1919, at Chicago, the con- ventions of the revolutionary former mem- bers of the socialist party brought into exis ence the two Communist organizations which by a process of struggle and consolidation constituted our American section of the Com- munist International. The World War had revealed the rotten- ness of the Second International, the treach- erous role of its leadership through which each national section had been made.an in- strument of “its own” capitalist government in support of the rival imperialist aims. Small indeed was the number of leaders that remained true to the revolutionary views of Marx and Engels. At the head of these few was the leader of the Bolshevik wing of the Russian social-democratic movement, Vladi- mir Ilyich Lenin. Only the Bolshevik Party of the Russian Czarist Empire had at that time the revolutionary Marxian character necessary to meet the situation. Lenin’s slo- gan, “Transform the Imperialist War into Civil War against the Capitalist Class”—his slogan which undertook to rally the working class of each capitalist country for the defeat ofits own capitalist government—had suc- cessful results at the time only in one imper- jalist land. But the founding of the first socialist republic followed. In all countries including the United States the Russian proletarian Revolution had the effect which Lenin knew it would have. The general exposure of the oppor- tunism long cultivated in all social-democratic parties by corrupted, careerist leaders to whom the revolutionary teachings of Marx and Engels had become nothing more than “indiscretions,’—this exposure together with the living example of revolutionary Marxism in action really overthrowing the capitalist state and forming the Soviet Republic—could only result in the clarification and solidifi- eation of Revolutionary Marxism throughout the world. From the first news of the treason of the Second International leaders on August 4, 1914, Lenin raised the slogan of the found- ing of the new International of the revolu- tionary proletariat, and the founding of the Communist International quickened the proc- ess of solidification pf the left wing of the social-democratic parties in all countries. At first taking advantage of conditions in small Communist parties unified. Also un- der the International’s guidance the Commu- nist Party was brought out of its state of illegal existence through the formation of the Workers Party. This important step prepared the way for the Party to take a | part in the big strike struggles of 1922, in the movement for amalgamation of the trade unions, and the fight for independent politi- cal action of the working class through the formation of a labor party. Through these struggles the Communist Party was learning the early lessons necess- ary to the formation of a Leninist party. Mass contacts began. trade unions took on a real character, and participation in the actual struggles of the workers drove the early sectarianism more and more to the wall. The Party began to learn the first lessons of work among the super-exploited Negro masses who will play such a large part in the struggle. Thus the Bolshevization of the Party was seriously carried forward. The reorganization of the Party on the basis of a shop nuclei and the abolition of language branches worked a transforma- tion so fundamental as to multiply the strength of the party far beyond the pro- portion of its membership. Participation in strikes developed into the leadership of strikes of some mass signifi- cance. To the tremendous lesson of the need t owork in the trade unions was added the great lesson of Communist leadership of unions, of strikes, and then the great lesson of the formation of new unions, the organiz- ation of the unorganized by the Communist Party. Historic conditions objectively, and the development and Bolshevization of the Com- | munist Party, brought the Workers (Com- munist Party before the working class as the sole leader of great struggles—so that for a long period there has been no single important struggle of the workers against the employers in which the Workers (Com- munist Party has not been depended upon by the workers for leadership. The supreme task of struggle against im- perialist war and for the defense of the So- cialist Fatherland of the working class of | the world—the Soviet Union, brought a deep- the United States which delayed the entry of | the Wall Street government into the War, and later with empty words of pretended friendliness to the Communist International, for the joining of which they were going to “negotiate,” the Hillquits and Bergers of the American socialist party were driven soon to open alliance with the police and the capital- ist class which is now so clearly visible. A fact often lost sight of is that the great bulk of the socialist party of this country left or was thréwn out of that party in the strug- gle of the treacherous leaders to hold their positions and to crush all revolutionary tend- encies. The American capitalist government was able by a wave of police terror to drive the newly formed Communist parties out of open existence, and thus out of mass contact since the Communists could not then master the art of mass contact despite illegality. Thus the two Communist parties were re- to small proportions after the mass of socialist party membership had quit the ‘Jportunist leaders. der the influence of the Communist ational the extreme sectarian tenden- were slowly eradicated and the two er Leninist character to the Party. Here in the most fundamental way the Communist Party shows its development toward the revolutionary character which Lenin had in- stilled. The party that is not international- ist in spirit and practice can lay no claims to the names of either Marx or Lenin. The struggle against the imperialist aggression on Nicaragua and all of Latin Amerita, the struggle for the Chinese Revolution, are testing and at the same time developing he Workers (Communist) Party as one worthy of the standards set by the great Party that Lenin forged in the fires of revolution. The Workers (Communist) Party today is engaged in these struggles. And to these are added, as an inseparable part of the entire fight on American and world imperialism, the revolutionary use of the national presi- dential election—rejecting illusions, rejecting the opportunism of parliamentary reformism and utilizing our participation in the capital- ist “democratic” elections for the rallying and training of the working masses in poli- tical consciousness, in class consciousness and class struggle. The Workers (Communist) Party can on its ninth birthday say without hesitation to the working class of America: “This is your class party; this is the party of the class struggle ; this is the party of Lenin, the party of the revolutionary Marxian movement which will again put into action the program of “transforming the imperialist war into civil war against the capitalist class, and which will remake the world into a World Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.” situation here is so terise as| _ that a presidential decree, with the approval of the | election committee, | . 81. ;crackers because of thei es ae litarity to gun-shots, which might | precautions so as to prevent any at- confuse the marines who will stand| tempt on the part of the Nicara- on guard all over Nicaragua, fully | guans to express their dissatisfac-|government, mor armed to prevent any uprising tion with the armed intervention. among the inhabitants. The election commission, headed | sale of liquor from September 17 to |concentration cam» 1, General McCoy, United States, November 4 . 4 ‘ McCoy Nervous in Nicaragua Election close sim-; army officer, has made ali possible The same decree also bans the ty THE ROAD TO PITTSBURGH Told You So NEWSPAPER headline tells us that “Kellogg Mutism Sets New Style In Diplomacy.” This has to |do with the rule of silence observed jat the signing of the alleged anti- | war treaty in Paris. delivering his short speech of wel- |come must have thot of the adage: |“In the kingdom of the blind the cockeyed man is king.” | |(HIEFS of the New York State Federation of Labor cheered mention of Al Smith’s name. There is no doubt but the labor fakers are for Al and they will succeed in convincing masses of workers that the election of the Tammany leader would mean _needle- less beer. The platform of the Workers (Com- munist) Party is opposed |to the eighteenth amendment, but |those who expect relief from the |Volstead Act thru the efection of | Al Smith, are dreaming. Further- oare they are all wet, so to speak. T. J. O'Flaherty QOaRCELY had the signatories to \¥ the Kellogg pact adjourned to the wine garden when a war broke out in Paris. A band of rich ladies | who insisted that the belligerent |status of women should be recog- |nized in the treaty demanded a Penetration of the | By Fred Brill. | Lewis has declared Walker| | (President Illinois State Federa-| |tion of Labor) ineligible as a| {candidate for International Pres- | |ident of the U. M. W. A. Quoting | |Section 1, Article 8 of the Consti- | | tution, Lewis has informed him that | | “You are not employed at our trade |and have no official connection with | the United Mine Workers of Amer- |ica as required by law.” Pretty tough for a manipulator |of Constitutions to have the Consti- |tution used against him! So | Walker is shedding tears and com- |plaining or discrimination and il- legality. Walker is being pushed for the office of President, in order to fool somes miners into thinking that the Lu. M. W. A. can be saved, that there is no need of a new union. | Lewis seems to be fighting back. Whether this is stage play or not| will be seen later. Admits U. M. W. A. Broken. | | Iinois: |W. A. in recent years. There isn’t | anything on earth that I would rather do than to rehabilitate it and | put it once again on a sound basis in good standing with its member-| ship and with the people of our! country.” | Looked on, John? What did you do to stop the disintegration? Not| ‘Weeping’ Walker Complains Gets Taste of Own Reactionary Medicine When \Lewis Declares Him Ineligible a damned thing. You were doing)is the confession of Walker that he your share to, undermine the labor|didn’t kick when unconstitutional movement of Illinois by the same acts were committed by Lewis. Why policies that Lewis put up. You|didn’t you kick, “Honest” John were fighting the progressives in| Walker? Illinois, just as Lewis expelled the) Here is what Walker writes: “I progressive elements who urged /did not even raise objections to the that the disintegration of the U. M.|employment of former President W. A. be stopped. | White of the Miners Union to repre- And now you offer yourself as a}sent the International Union in the | Messiah, as the Saviour of miners. | South West, altho he left our organi- |If the membership of the U. M.|zation to become a non-union pow- W. A. couldn’t save the union from|der manufacturer, and so far as I destruction by John L, Lewis and| know never dug any coal or worked his henchmen, what makes you/in or around the coal mines after think that you can save the union? | having started in as a non-union You don’t intend to save the union| powder manufacturer.” Why didn’t for the membership; you plan to | you kick, John? save the union for the bosses, for| He goes on: “Neither had I any Ad . en. | the rotten official machine of the objections to his employment of yington, Lewis, Murray or the rest Walker writes to a local union in| U. M. W. A. Your backers know/|Butch James of Tower Hill to re-|of them. “I have ‘looked on with| that the membership is against | present our International Union in| operators program. Your squealing | sincere. regret and profound sorrow | Lewis, that the members are com- |a legislative capacity in Washington, | won't fool the miners. Your appeal jat the disintegration of the U. M.| ing out in greater numbers for the/altho just prior to that time and| New Miners Union. And you are|for a year or more, Butch James being thrown into the race as yellow had been serving as the labor re-| herring to stop the tide toward the | presentative of the then notoriously néw union among the Illinois miners. | non-union McKinley Traction Sys- | But this won’t work; the Illinois | tem, and so far as I know, had not miners know your record. It won’t work. The New/self to serve in any international Miners Union will be built. |capacity since that time.” The interesting part of this story | s reactionary | worked in the mines to qualify him-| Why should you kick, “Honest” | hearing and when refused, stormed the president’s palace. They were | defeated in a short, but brisk en- |counter with the gendarmerie and taken prisoners. This is the first | military victory won by the Kellogg peace treaty. |John? James was only doing ‘ : . openly—what Farrington and Lewis |were doing secretly—acting as| NSTEAD of struggling for jagents for the coal opefftors. Of|~ Women’s rights over in gallant | course, you didn’t kick, John, Why |France,/ where the female of the | should you? species gets little more substantial ; «_| than compliments, Doris Stevens And finally, John protests: “I| and her Amazonie army should re- did not raise any objections even|turn to this country where women to K. C. Adams representing our|are appreciated. Listen to what International Union before the|the noble Elk, vice-presidential G. Interstate Commerce Commission at} 0, P, candidate Charlie Curtis has Washington, dealing with the freight | to say: “I want to see you women jrates (the thing which I think) in action during the campaign. If failure to deal with properly has|you join with the men we will win | brought about the disaster to our|/by an overwhelming majority.” junion that it is suffering from|Tais is an acknowledgement that |now), if in the judgement of the|the vote of the female is as-deadly | men in charge, these men were best |as the male’s. calculated to render that service, jeven altho K. C, to my knowledge, \has never been a member of our junion at all.” | The New Union. John Walker, you’re an operators }man as much as Fishwick, Far- *. 6 BY George this fellow Curtis is a | gem. A Curtis speech is as welcome to a columnist on a hot day as a thousand-word letter from in- dignant reader. Charlie spoke at Syracuse and the natives took the precaution to have his finger prints taken, Even lifelong republicans would not promise to vote for him until he left his finger tracks in the House of Correction. Now if a Syracuse bank collapses in the near future, the stockholders and de- Whether Lewis or you or some|Positors will know where to look henchman of Lewis becomes Pres |r eae, Pers pcricnursive ident of the U. M. W. U,, it is|P?" pean vines doomed, Nothing can save it. The| New Miners Union has come to stay-| AY ARLIE reminds one of a good | Your program is. an for constitutional rights and fair} play is a huge joke. You're getting | a dose of your own medicine. | ie, ae? By MOHAMMAD HATTA. | President of “Perhimpoenan Indoneesia” | Since the recent insurrection, po- | litical events in Indonesia have | taken an exciting but hopeful turn. | On the one hand, the Governor- Dutch Imperialism Enslaves Indonesia |Brutality, Deportation cf Native Workers Has. Brought Awakening of Class-Consciousness 4 deal of that good old soul War- ren Gamaliel Harding. Gamaliel’s favorite pastime was shooting craps when he was not doing the right thing by his little Nan. It ap~ |pears that Charlie is a race track | addict. The vice-presidential candi- | date on the G. O. P. ticket visited the who opposed it. “Cord is cheaper,” track at Syracuse and while there said the “Java Bode,” in other words, | delivered a speech that must have \hang the “rebels” instead of exiling | given the nags something to whinny jor puttivé hem in jail. Finally, | over for a while. “Het Nicum™ van den Dag” said that | such a method corresponded more |ment to hang without trial anyone * * @ those who are at this moment in made sail, awaiting deportation to the | Siberia of the Indonesians. General De Graeff has |change of front in favor of the Dutch colonial capitalist group, while, on the other his attitude has stimulated the Indonesian national- | ist parties to consolidate their uni- | General De Graeff spoke of the pos- ted front. sibility of there being a large num- When De Graeff took up his post ber of innocent persons among those of governor-general in the autumn | exiled. Now the colonial minister At the opening session of the Volksraad last year, the Governor- \raad—the so-called National Coun-|that “conscientious” inquiries will of 1926, he announced in the Volks- declares in the Dutch parliament | members are government function-|closely to the Dutch idea of justice aries. The Volksraad is a sham, so | for Indonesians. this “majority” is only a trick to/ Notwithstanding the |keep the Indonesians quiet. lof the penal code making it punish- | Meanwhile this conciliatory policy | able to disseminate race hatred, the |of the government towards the right |Dutch colonial press can insult In- | wing of the nationalist movement |donesians daily with impunity. The has brought cbout a certain unrest “Het Neiuws van den Dag” went jamong the Dutch colonials, who even so far as to write to the Gov- feel that they are living on a vol-/ernor-General the following: “Go Since the last uprising they away! Make room for another! You | cano. 7a | provisions of the people—that the general line. of his policy would be to restore the confidence of the people in the gov- ernment. This was an indirect re- cil, which is anything but a council | be made as to how many innocent persons have been unwittingly de- ported to Upper Digoul! This is a | cheap excuse for a government) have been dominated by the spirit of vengeance. Even the officials have been affected. During the session of the Volksraad last year, the Assistant-Resident, Meyer Ran- are an honest man with good inten- tions, but what the Dutch East In- dies want at the present moment is a stronger hand than yours.” Ac- cording to the prevalent code of Spee eight years it was my privi- lege to follow the track and it al- ways pleases me to see them trot, pace or run,” Charlie said. “TI | know you are here to see some rac- ing and not to listen to me. I hope that they will bring the horses right out and that you will all pick win- ners.” Isn’t that just like bright, big-hearted Charlie? ae ae [Soe as I think that capitalist |¥ politicians deserve all the graft |which governs the colony in the | they collect. Once upon a time I ac- pudiation of the reactionary rule of most arbitrary manner possible; his predecessor, Fock. He criticized | while the oppressed people are un- in general terms the procedure that | able to bring the government to ac- had been adonted in combatting | count. Communism because, he said, it had During the session of the Volks-| degenerated into a systematic per- yaad De Graeff, still under the in-| | secution. And with regard to the fluence of the above-mentioned up- | |nationalist movement, he said that prising, declared that the government | |he would not be a Dutch patriot if ill “exterminate Communism,” | he did not appreciate the national | while at the same time he expressed aspirations of the Indonesians. his willingness to tolerate and even | Deport Leader, ‘encourage the existence of a pure But the soft “ethical” hand of | nationalist movement, but only as| Jonkheer De Graeff came down) long as it took up a conciliatory and | more heavily than the mailed fist loyal attitude towards the govern: | of the tyrant Fock, for after the ment. And in order to win the sup- | |failure of the uprising the people | port of the moderate elements in the lof Indoesnia were delivered over to nationalist movement the govern-| the unlimited arbitrariness of the|ment proposed a law, which, con- government. Hundreds of so-called |trary to the present position, will ringleaders were dep)rted without | give the Indonesians a majority in trial to Unper Digoul,fan unhealthy, |the Volksraad—in which case the! swampy district in the barren | council will consist of 30 Indones- wilderness of New @uinea. Many | ians, 25 Dutch and 5 foreign Orien- of them have since fecome viétims|tals. In the meantime no change of marsh-fever and dged. According | has been made in the electoral sys- to the declaration the colonial tem, which always guarantees the an 1,500 per- government majority in the Volks- ¥ i saad, whatever its racial proportion * composition may be. It should be ioted that under the present elec- increased by | toral system most of the Indonesian ber we be great ' sons includine have already been djported to these vr \neft, who represents the Dutch jcolonials in that body, urged the) adoption of a strictly hostile atti- |tude towards the extremists. He proposed the creation of an “effi- cient centralized apparatus,” a kind | of department for internal war, to) “hand- | supply the police with grenades, machine-guns, etc.” Further, he said that the Dutch in Indonesia “must imagine them- selves to be in a continual state of wa’ and consequently ~ must, adopt offensive tactics.” His method of dealing with the “rebels” was: “Strike them down without mercy.” Racial Antagonism Growing. The racial antagonism between the exploiter and the ex- ploited is the cause of this spirit of vengeance shown by the Dutch col- onial civil servants. But such a spirit only serves to promote con- flicts between the government and the people. The Dutch colonial press has also been very much alarmed. Nearly all especially “Het Nieuws van den Dag,” have been carrying on a vin- dictive campaign against the In- donesians and wet oe the govern- the Dutch newspapers in Indonesia,’ “justice” in Indonesia such things are tolerated, if written for Dutch newspapers. by Dutch journalists; but should an Indanesian journalist say as much, the penal code is im- mediately inade applicable to him. Many Indonesian editors have been sentenced to several years’ impris- jonment for minor “offences,” while their European colieagues have com- mitted crimes for which they have never been prosecuted. (To Be Continued.) Freiheit Chorus Plans New Numbers at Picnic Many new musical numbers that have never before been presented by the Freiheit Gesangs Verein, will make up a big part of the program of that organization at its annual picnic, to be held Sunday, September 9, at Pleasant Bay Park. . The chorus is preparing an entire- ly new program for the entertain- ment of the thousands of workers from New York City and vicinity who are expected to attend. ; companied a candidate for the ju- diciary on an automobile trip around the baseball parks and picnic grounds of Brooklyn. I was collecting mater- ial for an unwritten novel. He paid and paid and paid, but his audience regarded him with a pitying look as if they were being badgered by ® first-class nut. He passed in and out of picnic grounds, forgetting that he had tickets, brought from the ward heeler in his pocket and paying at the turnstile both times. He stood in the middle of a baseball park dur- ing a halt in the game, and was in- sulted in forty languages by the fans. Empty pop bottles popped from all directions and the candidate adjourned quickly but not gracefully. “It was a wonderful reception” he gurgled when he reached the safety zone where the machine was parked. So when you read of a capitalist politician getting away with a few million dollars, you should not join the anvil chorus of condemnation but temper criticism with mercy. Briand, when « © |