The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1928, Page 6

~ Dawa wes. Dai Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1928 A “ ] es ’ 99, B Ellis | ALL HELL CAN’T STOP US y Fred Told You So re Ces (Whiskers) Hughes has Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASSN, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address “Deiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): $4.50 six 1nonths 50 three months ¢8 per year (outside of New York): By Mail rT $3.50 six months $2 three months 00 per year Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. 2: Editor.... Be ee ROBERT MINOR ‘ ~ Assistant Editor.... ...WM. F. DUNNE . Entered as second-class ma e post-office a New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Party of For the Workers: For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! Nothing Can Stop the Miners’ Onward March. The criminal attack of the armed thugs of John L. Lewis, and company detectives, led, protected and supported by the police of Pittsburgh, upon the Convention of the new Miners’ Union Sunday will have the effect of pushing forward the movement of the coal miners of this country to the point where the defeat of Lewis and the coal oper- ators ‘will be decisive and certain. Lewis and the scab operators thought they could frighten the coal miners of this coun- “try! Lewis and the scab operators are fools to think so. The coal miners cannot be beaten. Lewis’ thugs and the operators attacked and made a small civil war upon the great Pittsburgh convention—not lightly and idly, but because they were compelled to do so nder the conditions from their point of ‘iew. They were compelled to attack with feckless force and complete disregard for the formalities of “law’’ precisely because the coal operators and their flunkey Lewis know that this convention will effect the or- ganization of the most powerful union in the western half of the world if it goes through with its program. This knowledge forced Lewis and his bosses to cast aside all pre- tenses of “law and order’ and to try to erush the movement before it is too late. The great nation-wide advance of the mine workers had to be met by Lewis if he was to function any longer as the operators’ chief “aion-smasher. Lewis knows that it means iis ruin as a parasite upon the backs of the mine workers if the new national: Miners’ Union is formed. The operators, know that it is the end of their dream of a universal scab coal industry if the new union is formed in the hands of real men instead of Lewis and the Cappelinis, Fishwicks and Fagans. The action of the workers in going for- ward with the formation of the new union— ealled forth the more extreme act of the operators, their detectives and “labor” lead- ers. But the bosses and the scab leaders are mistaken in one thing. They do not realize that their desperate action will only result in calling forth still more courageous and de- termined actions of the mine workers. Throughout the United States the enraged coal miners will give in no uncertain terms their- answer to the new crime of Lewis. More locals of the wrecked United Mine Workers will be shaken into realizing what Lewis’ “partnership between capital and la- bor” is leading to when his henchmen march between company detectives and city police to attack the great convention of the Mine Workers. Increased support of the New Union will result. “The thing that Lawis and his bosses do not understand is that the further the fight is carried and the more the masses of coal diggers are stirred up—the more surely the tide of mass determination to organize the industry will rise and overwhelm the scab forces trying to stop it. We do not say that Lewis and the power- ful rich coal operators ‘“‘did all of their stuff” on Sunday. On the contrary, we know that, not only Lewis and a few company detec- tives and city police, but the whole power of the State of Pennsylvania, the States of Ohio, West Virginia, etc. and the whole power of the capitalist government of the United States are at the disposal of the scab coal operators. But we also know that not even these forces will be enough to keep the workers from organizing when the fight proceeds in such a way that the workers are conscious of its meaning. The coal operators and their allies, the Lewis gang and the Pittsburgh police, went further in this outrageous assault than any of them had gone before. Not even the murders that the Lewis gang committed in Illinois, Eastern Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania and elsewhere were as des- perate as the actions culminating on Sun- day. Only Friday night two delegates were shot down by a Lewis agent immediately after their election by their local union to the Convention. Campbell, Reilly and Lillis died on the streets of Pittston, Pa., shot down in broad daylight by machine-gun fire at the hands of Lewis henchmen. Countless loyal coal miners have been slugged and jailed at the hands of the Lewis gang be- fore. } But these desperate deeds and those even more extreme that may be expected will not stop the union. This little “civil war” against the coal miners shows the nature of the capitalist state. In the past few days both of the big capi- talist political parties and their candidates have gone through the form of endorsing in empty words the right of the ‘workers to organize. But this small military action against an orderly national convention shows that the capitalist spokesmen lied. Every power will be used against the workers when the workers really move to have an organization controlled by themselves in a great basic industry. In this case no polit- ical party except the workers own class party—the Workers (Communist) Party— will stand by our class. This violent action against the workers is a forecast of the fact that American capitalism will go at least as far as the government of any of the most reactionary countries of Europe at its worst. But no power can or will stop the coal miners. These are the finest quality of prole- tarians ever developed in this country. They will fight on. We are firmly convinced that they will now launch an even more successful Union than would have been seen if the foul crew of scabs had not attacked the convention. Workers of America! Workers of all countries ! Stand by the mine workers in this crisis! On to the New Union! Labels on Empty Bottles By BERT MILLER. (Continued.) 4 spite of the fact that the demo- party has long denounced the vai tariff as conducive to the re of “monopoly,” Mr. Pitt- aan, Chairman of the Democratic atform Committee at the Houston jonvention is quoted by the N. Y. Vorld of Aug. 2, 1928 (democratic rgan) as follows: “Democratic dew, says Mr. Pittman, has been ing an evolution since 1900. the growth of Southern and which were powerful. day : In the early days of the repub- running as far as‘any dominant in- lican party, it still had something to offer the agricultural interests, at The Homestead Act was the purchase price for the culmina- | 44 ese word | tion of the alliance between the grain|f4"mers of the Mississippi : Valley growers of the Northwest and the |@" quite incapable of imposing their Eastern industrial interests, But to-| Will upon the republican party. . . . the republican party openly | It in ill ‘ flouts and spurns the farming in- | 8istent illusions of American politics, terests and refuse to do anything for them as shown at the last na- tional convention, fluence in the party is concerned. Under the caption: “Why the Farm | Bloc is Impotent,” the N. Y. World jof June 12, 1928 brings this out quite clearly in these words, “The that time quite It is an illusion, one of the per- that the farmers of the Mississippi Valley are a great power in the land. We are witness-|. - - The simple truth is that the This is the third instalment of Comrade Jay Lovestone’s speech at the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International. Si ee (Continued.) Are we fighting the right danger? No one can charge the Central Com- mittee with being guilty of over- caution and conservatism in leading the Party work. The Central Com- mittee has provided for the imme- diate expulsion of any Party mem- ber who refuses to violate an in- junction. In the fight against the injunction, particularly in the coal strike, many scores of our’ members have been jailed. The same has oc- curred in the national picketing and street demonstrations in which our Party has participated vigorously and which have very often been led by our Party. Only the other day our Central Committee was compelled to repu- diate a proposal by one of the op- position leaders in America, Com- . Lovestone Dissects U.S. Emp Ire rss <se2 been unanimously elected a mem- ber of the World Court which is a * sort of scullery to the League of Nations. Thousands of one-hundred | per cent Americans hug the delusion that “we” are not in the League, but Wall Street knows better. While not officially in, Charlie will see to it that Morgan’s interests are taken care of thru the World Court. There are more ways of hoodwinking the masses than there are interpreta- tions of the bible. Pade ee —- Woes J. LYONS, president s of the Newark Building Trades Council and business agent for Newark Bricklayers’ Local No. 3, is reported to be the victim of a kidnapping stunt during which he was tortured with a hot poker and hanged by his thumbs in an ef- fort to extort $100,000 from him. Those who will doubt the credibility of the story on the grounds that it is inconceivable that a labor leader should be worth so much in dollars, might read William Z. Fos- ter’s, “Misleaders of Labor.” T. J. O'Flaherty ee ae YONS owns a restaurant in New- ark and it is rumored that a ran- som fund was collected for him, the total raised reaching the sum of $10,000. Lyons is wealthy and * | served a prison term at Trenton in « | 1923 for operating a gambling | house. The New Jersey Federation of Labor recently voted to endorse | Al Smith for president. The con- vention also distinguished itself by putting “canned music” on the un- fair list, tho William Green, presi- | dent of the A. F. of L. is upholding class-collaboration on the movie- | tone at the Roxy Theatre, in Man- hattan. Se faker to pick on a fake issue to fight against with his mouth. A Deferds Bukharin’s Thesis at Sixth Communist that Comrade Losovsky has no right whatsoever to talk of another com- rade as a “muddler of two conti- cur barking at the moon is an ex- ample of useful endeavor compared to the antics of a trade union body World Congress posed hy Foster was rejected. reads as follows: “That the policy of the New York D. E. C. in giving qualified support jto Panken the S. P. candidate for | judge) was incorrect. The Party [should have approached the S. P. | with general proposals for the estab- |lishment of a united front labor | ticket in the New York elections, based on a minimum program.” The C. E. C. of our Party has been |charged with opportunism by the opposition because of the wrong step jit took in sending an open letter to |the S. P. |_.It is clear from the minutes of | Polcom, Nov. 7, Nov. 25 and Dec. 7, | 1927, that though the Central Com- |mittee as a whole was responsible |for this mistake, yet the opposition It| |rade Swabeck, to refuse to build a| 1° : é ; new union in the textile industry | did more than its, share in having the because the reactionary United Tex- Party commit this error. ,The Party tile Workers—the blackest type of /h@8 repeatedly pointed out the anti- reactionary union we have—has is-|Proletarian and pro-capitalist poli- sued a statement that it wants to | cies of the S. P. P organize the unorganized. We have | On April 9, before we received the been fighting against the Right | last letter from the Presidium of darger in Minnesota. where snp- |the Comintern, we find the follow- porters of the opposition said that |i" motion in the Polcom: the discipline of the labor party is, Motion by Mr. Lovestone: as high as the discipline of the| “That the Party issue a statement industry ‘the theory of low ’ has been abandoned. The now stands for~ maintenance standards of wages of labor ad for duties which will allow ‘all our industries to prosper without of destruction from foreign 0 ’... Now the main purpose aie Pittman’s remarks is plain: is 4 jose is the reassurance of ny iness interests that may feel is.” The Wilson Tariff Bill nder Cleveland and the Underwood “iff under Wilson have given Nf ‘antees to these business | that they have no need for the two major ‘parties, whereby the petty bourgeois are being crushed more and more under the heel of the industrial and financial interests of the Northeast. While it is true that LaFollette for a time raised considerable ructions in the repub- lic party on the wave of agricultural discontent, and while it is true that this wave of discontent will again surge upward as the crisis in agri- culture sharpens again, yet we must agree that at present time the Norris, Borah, LaFollette, Brook- hart, and the rest of the so-called farmyblce are distinctly out of the Ps) ing therefore a process in each of | disaffected region is too weak in | population, in delegates and in elec- toral vote to dominate the repub- |lican party. ... The control of the |republican party is securely lodged in the hands of the industrial fac- tion.” (To Be Continued.) COOK TO BE FREED. FORTH WORTH, Texas, Sept. 7 (UP).—Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Arc- tie explorer, geologist, physician and oil promoter, probably will be libet- ated from his long prison term be- fore the year is over. . comrades insisted on supporting the bourreois volitician, Shipstead, for the U. S. Sepate. In the anti-imperialist work. we | fought the pacifist errors of Com- rade Gomez, an opposition delegate. In the mining campaign, we have in the anthracite by the opposition spokesman, Papcun. And in the question of the pro- gressives, it was the Central Com- mitt. +, which saw to it that where we made unity with the progres- sives we did not give them the lead- ership. Our Central Committee very prop- erly sharpened its pogition towards the socialist party. Much has been made here of the so-called oppor- |tunmist attitude of our Party towards |the socialist party. The minutes of our Political Com- roittee, December 14, 1927, show that this outrageous opportunistic erime (of sending under special cir- cumstances for special confidential purposes some very reliable com- rades into the socialist party) charged against the majority of the C. E. C. if it is at all to be consid- ered an error, was participated in wholeheartedly by our opposition leaders in an even more aggressive and aggravating manner than that proposed by the majority. | Much noise has been made by our |onnovitionists here in reference to the Panken matter as another op- portunistic crime of the Central Committee. Not only did the sup- | Porters of the opposition of the New |York District Executive Commit- tee unanimously vote for the policy in the Panken election, but in the |Polcom meeting of October 27, 1927, Comrade Foster made a motion which was typical of the’ worst of opportunistic errors our Party has committed in its relations to the so- cialist os The motion thus pro- if fought the Right errors committed | | official statement to the workers on the S. P. convention.” In the May Plenum Resolution, our Party elaborated in detail its sharpened policy against the S. P. | Comrade Bittelman has said here that he and the opposition as a whole admit and correct their er- |rors. What he should have said was that the entire opposition repeat its | errors. | “Up to the May Plenum the dif. ferences in the Party were not brought up in any sharp way. The differences that existed were chiefly between Comrade Bittelman on the |$ne hand on the trade union ques- |tion, and the majority of the Cen- tral Committee, inclusive of Foster, on the other hand. A similar rela- |tionship occurred on the proposal of | Comrade Bittelman on _ political girikes in our every-day agitation. On the very day before she last Plenum was opened, all comrades were agreed that no poiitical reso- lwtion was required for the session. Comrade Cannon and Bittelman even made’motions to this effect. These motions were unanimously agreed to. Obviously until very recently | the present opposition in our Party | did not ste any Right menace. | I want to say a few words on | Comrade Losovsky. He says we re- jected the Profintern resolution. He says we have made a united front with the Right wing of the German |Party in opposition to the Profi |tern. Comrade Losovsky’s imagin- |ation is working overtime. | What are the facts regarding the | so-called re§ection of the Profintern |resolution? First of all, Comrade | Foster presented the resolution on | trade union work at the May C. E. © Plenum which we voted for, Secondly, Johnstone presented an |ultra-factional document as the re- |povt of the Profintern Congress delegation which we rejected and which not even Comrade Losovsky would have us accept. Thirdly, we carried a motion endorsing the Profintern resolution. Fourthly, the charge made by Comrade Lo- sovsky yesterday that the cable to the Trade Union Educational League Conference, the Left Wing Confer- ence, caused discontent in the Cen- tral Committee, is unfounded. Al- though Comrade Foster put his op- position to the contents of this wire —yet we published it and long be- fore we received this advice for the organization of the unorganized -we adopted the following motion: Political Committee, November 2, 1927: “The T. U. E. L. in order to estab- lish working relations with the un- organized masses, shall build up a special connection with the workers’ clubs, shop committees and other groups in the organized plants and |cities. Into all groups and leading committees of the T. U. E. L. there shit) be included representative ele- ments from the unorganized plants ‘and in the respective industries and | localities.” | As to the ridiculous charge of Losovsky that we have made unity | with the Right Wing in the Ger- Communist Party, and where these |not addressed to the S. P., but an|man Party, Comrade Losovsky— “people who live in glass houses |should throw no stones.” Is your |criticism of the German Right Wing correct? We endorse it 100 per |cent. Why do you make these charges without quoting us as you quoted your case against the Ger- | mans? Was there no: criticism of the Profintern resolution by us? Of course there was! By whoni? Especially by Comrade Foster about whom you are sd silent—in the May Plenum Trade Union resolution. | Foster criticized it also in an 18- page letter to Comrade Losovsky. In July Comrade Foster wrote an article against the criticism made by Comrade Losovsky against us. Comrade Losovsky, without the slightest basis of fact, has been at- tacking our Party in a most shame- ful manner ard charging it with not doing any work in organizing the unorganized. Our Party has done considerable work in this’ field, de- spite the slanderous campaign of Comrade Losovsky. I myself have some disagreements with certain features of the Profin- tern resolution. In this matter I elso want to register a sharp dis- {agreement with Comrade Pepper, | who said he agrees with this resolu- tion of the Profintern 99 per cent. The comrades might ask, why is it that Comrade Losovsky is so bit- ter and prejudiced against our Party? The oenswer is the follow- ‘ing: For years we have conducted a vigorous fight against him to comvel him to yevise the program’, ef the T.°U. E. L. (the American Left Wing) which provided for a |long time the exclusion from its ranks of any worker who did not accept first of all the proletarian dictatorship, ° When we consider the effort it took from us to defeat Comradé Losovsky on this point, there comes forcefully to our attention the fact nents.” The weakness of the Profin- | bleating against new developments tern is the leadership of Comrade | in the cinema. To expegt the New Losovsky, whozhas been making a | Jersey State Federation of Labor to muddle of nearly everything he has tackle the organization of the un- touched. | organized industrial workers in that At the IX Plenum Comrade Lo-| State would be like expecting the sovsky introduced a resolution on| House of Morgan to come out for the American trade union question | the Communist ticket. The labor in which there was not a single word | Movement in New Jersey is about about the need for Communists | the most graft-ridden and spy-rid- working with the existing A. P. of |Gen in the United States oy esa L. unions. The American delegation | fi¢i@l leaders have as much in com- to the IX Plenum introduced a coun- | mon with the exploited workers as a ter-resolution in which it laid the |*% has with a chicken coop. greatest emphasis on the organiza- 2 2 8 tion of the unorganized, but at the | A same time said it is necessary to {|e regular and irregular members continue and increase the work of |* of the Daily Worker editorial the Communists in the A. F. of L.| staff are not in the habit of passing Comrade Losovsky fought against | taffy to each other, but I must hand this amendment bitterly, but was | a bouquet to my next column neigh- overwhelmingly defeated—in fact, | bor Fred Ellis for his cartoon show- Comrade Foster refused to vote for| ing Mrs, Knapp going to “jail.” It the position of Comrade Losovsky | appeared in last Friday’s issue. It on the policy to be followed by our says half a dozen columns on capi- Party in the mining campaign. Obviously, Comrade Losovsky acts | in a factional, prejudiced manner | against our C. E. C. I am of the| opinion that Comrade Losovsky “has for some time functioned as one of the primary forces instigating fac- | | tionalism. In recent months the Party has | done much work in organizing the |wnorganized. Several thousands of | our Party members have been ex-/| pelled from the trade unions. Our Party has developed a vigorous, en-/ ergetic strike leadership policy. | What we need is advice and criticism, | |end not vilification from Comrade | | Losovsky. | Comrades, I want to say that de- | spite the very sharp criticism made | | by . . . (Interruption, .the chairman | announcing: the end of Comrade Lovestone’s time. One minute granted to finish). The Congress should not misjudge the situation. Our Partv will not be thrown into a faction fight despite the vigorous efforts of our opposi- | tion to camouflage, develop poison- | ous smoke screens and to stampede | jour membership into a suicidal fac- | |tion war. Our Party has fought the | | Right danger. We have “made a proposal here for a special amend- | ment to the theses proposed by Comrade Bukharin on behalf of the Russian delegation, to instruct the American C. E. C. to continue and intensify its fight against the Right danger. The Party needs peace. We are in the midst of big campaigns—the m'ning camvaign, the election cam- naign and the campaign to organize | she unorganized in a number of in- dustries. There is a possibility of | peace hecause despite all the er- talist miscarriages of justice. * * * RS. KNAPP stole tens of thou- sands of dollars, yet she is treat- ed with the consideration given to Harry Sinclair and Edward L, Doheny who were able to get away with a couple of states. Mrs, Knapp may feel bored before her thirty )day term in her boudoir has ex- pired, unless big-hearted Ai pardons her in the meantime. But as we said before had she swiped a bottle of milk for her thirsty poodle dog, she would now be defending .herself from savage cockroaches in a filthy jail. The moral of this story is, that robbers who know their onions should join either the Democratic or Republican party before starting out to get rich quick, and then take care not to be caught at petty lar- ceny. * * 8 CARCELY had Mrs. Florence Knapp’ parked herself comfort- ably in her flowered suite in the sheriff's home, at Albany, than the candidate for attorney-general of Massachusetts addressed an open letter to Governor Smith demanding that he take steps to end the notori- ous “Albany baseball pool” which is reported to have flourished in the shadow of the capitol. The politi- cal thieves are certainly rattling each other’s skeletons. As a mat- ter of fact the pool operated in Hud- son and not in Albany and only the bling in New York’s officialdom wer® unaware ofits location. Those | who did not profit by it were too busy, getting theirs other source of graft. from some rors, all the hesitation, all the slow- ness of our opposition, they are more and more coming closer to the correct lino of the Comintern, to the nolicy followed by the C. E. C. | Therefore we insist that the opposi- tion should dissolve its bloc (Foster- Cannon). We request that the C, I. should reject the unfounded charge of Right Wing levelled against the CG. BE. C. We insist that the C. J.| Negroes, fighting against imperi should once and for all put an end |ist war on Nicaragua, organization to the factional opposition to the |of the unorganized. With the help C. FE. C. The American Party re- | of the Comintern and under the lead- ‘alizes the gravity of the situation. ership of the Comintern, we will | We are prepared to do everything move forward to a united mass in our power.to maintain the unity Communist Party in America, of our Party and to carry on the tasks such as are confronting us in developing our work amongst the oo