The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1928, Page 6

Page Six ee a ln ce ater Da Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party THE UNION CAN’T Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. x. Cable Address: “Daiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 By Mail (in New York only): $2.50 three months 68 per year $4.50 six months SUBSCRIPTION RATES $6.00 per year Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. By Mail (outside of New York) $3.50 six months $2 three months ae <—Ss Assistant Editor. ..-ROBERT sooWM, FF. MINOR DUNNE Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at. New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 8, 1879. VOTE COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW ‘. For the Workers: Only a Fighting Union Can Live in the Coal Industry t Sheriff Brown of Allegheny »in the name of the law ordered the national ’ Union to dis- convention of the New Miners perse. cedure.” as a naked dictatorship. } and the steel workers have seen this often before. But the case this tim clear. x By learning the nature of : learning that the state power a merely the organized power of one class for , the purpose of suppression of another class by every instrument including persuasion, trickery and force and violence, the mine workers will begin to understand better how | they can conduct their struggles more effec- tively. Is there already some evidence that the coal miners are learning this the fact that the putting of the Workers (Communist) Party on the ballot in Pennsyl- vania and Ohio was largely the work of the coal diggers of those states, is evidence that the coal miners have learned much from the exposures of capitalist government as unlim- ited violence of the employers against the’ workers. tion. trade unions. tense of organization of the would they adopt a policy of ployers’ control, to act as a Pe ee ere ee For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER The voice of the Dictatorship of the Capi- talist Class was heard through the mouth of This “democratic” government, basically an iron dictatorship of the capitalist class, appears as a “democratic” government as long as it is not necessary in the interests of the capitalist class to show the iron fist. But when the vital interests of the ruling class demand it, the capitalist government appears ) in the role of an unlimited power, 4 dent of “laws,” “guarantees” and The government for two days, | 3 and within one city, suddenly showed itself The coal miners There is still more to be learned from the action of the Pennsylvania authorities in at- tempting to suppress the Miners’ Conven- Not all workers have been clear in the past what the policy of the capitalist class and its government would be in regard to Would the biggest capitalist employers in the basic and decisive indus- tries adopt consciously a unified policy of complete and frank outlawing of all pre- sham of workers’ organization under the em- For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! show that the & Co. County, who have turing even a indepen- legal pro- detectives in | e is especially | But the off is forced to a government— is in all cases operators. lesson? Yes, their purpose. unionism and These facts workers? Or maintaining a preventive of Recent events in the coal mining industry accept the scab “unionism” of John L. Lewis Accepting Lewis tween capital and labor” until it had helped them to destroy the union, they then an- nounced that they were “through with the U. M. W. of A.” and would ‘outlaw all forms of organization. long ago unionism was no longer useful in controlling labor, and that the danger of workers’ cap- not to play with such things. The coal operators will make use of Lewis and the officials machinery of the U. M. W. of A. in many more cases. were still active with the police and company Miners’ Convention. still use this shell of organization as long as | they can make it useful as a strikebreaking machine against the mine workers. | machine that it The effectiveness of the Lewis strike- breaking machine in still deceiving some con- siderable numbers of mine workers, is the measure of its continued usefulness to the But one thing is sure: The dominant forces of American capitalist industry are aiming consciously for the complete elimination of unionism—in the great basic industries, The mine owners, and the finance-capitalist overlords most vitally interested, are deter- mined to stamp out all semb in the coal fields. Their guns and their cossac experience in which the United Mine Workers crashed to its ruin under the to make it serve the capital and at the same time keep the confidence of the mine workers, go to show that already in the coal industry at the present time no weak union can live. compels the workers to fig bearable suffering. They fight. mine operators eyen refuse to “co-operation be- Other corporation heads declared that company- company union made it best Lewis’ gangsters the bloody attack upon the The coal operators ‘will al shell of the U. M. W. of A. so openly as a strikebreaking compelled to expose itself. The following speech was de- livered by Comrade John Pepper | at the Sixth World Congress of | the Communist International. It | analyzes the position of American | capitalism and the nature of the sharpening class struggle in the United States. A vigorous campaign of the New s * * | Union that was formed at Pittsburgh can | solve this question. | The coal operators will use what tools they find handy. They will use Lewis and Sheriff Brown, separately and in combination, or any- thing else which may at the moment serve Comrades: the American com- rades who spoke here took a some- what critical attitude towards the thesis of Comrade Bukharin, I have to state that these comrades spoke} only in their own name. In the name of the American delegation I am authorized to state that the Amer- ican delegation fully agrees with the thesis of Comrade Bukharin.| Small wonder that these comrades jeriticized the thesis, of Comrade} | Bukharin—they had a very good reason to do that. They have an es- timation of the present world posi- tion of American imperialism which differs fundamentally from the es- timation given by Comrade Buk- harin. It is necessary to mention here| that or the same day the thesis of Bukharin was distributed another document was distributed in the Anglo-American Secretariat of the| Comintern called “The Right Dan- ger in the American Party,” signed by Comrades Bittelman, Foster, Can- non, ete. This document is not with- out significance for the discussion of the VIth World Congress on the in- ternational situation because it con-| tains a basically different analysis | of American imperialism and its| role in the general world situation every form of substitute for lance of unionism sheriffs say so. S say so. taken in conjunction with the Their efforts of Lewis ist mine owners The crisis in the industry t or accept un- The union real organization by the workers them- | that keeps their loyalty will have to fight for | from that expressed by Comrade| selves? them. Bukharin in his speech and thesis. John L. Lewis and the bureaucracy of the The great events in the mining industry, Outstanding Features. | c A. F. of L. in their entire plan of action, and above all the splendid national conven- | h beats i adopt the latter of the two theories—the tion at Pittsburgh which founded the new | thesis are the Tollowsitig: =, ® theory that the employers will consent to Union, show that the only Union that can live ae ae aes ae et 1 Maintain permanently some sort of “union” | im the coal industry is a militant fighting | 2. The shifting of the economic, ‘ organization to act as a subtle and powerful | Union. jcentre of gravity from Europe to| 1 police force against the mine workers, to Such a union has been founded. It is up | America. ; ; d \ prevent strikes, break up all wage move- | to the mine workers themselves to build the scgatne Haan Ee 4 ments and to detect and expel any coal mine magnificent structure which its broad base ele the growing disproportion be- worker who may show signs of rebellion | demands: One million coal miners must be |tween the economic growth and ‘against conditions. reached! Build the new Union! power of American imperialism and j its lack of colonies and its “insuf- t | ficient” military preparedness. 3 ‘By: | 4. The export of American capi- t tal was and is the basis for Eur- hy By GEORGE HALONEN is a tendency in the co- operative movements of the capi- falist countries to “reform” this ment to make it an adjunct in body of. the capitalist system; ‘this attempt is being done al- the cooperative movement is lly a proletarian movement. | economic interest of the ex- has created this movement, “this interest still demands it to movement to fight the battles working class. “Although the cooperative move- in America is relatively weak, question of the character of the vement is of utmost im- ince for its ;future growth. a step to undermine the work- class character of the American ent is not to be ignored, but on the contrary should put all pro- ‘gressive cooperators not only on rd but also to enthuse them for struggle for a genuine pro- evoperative movement. Middle Class Elements. is very significant that the Cooperative Services of Work and the Franklin Co- Creamery of Minneapolis + American Cooperative Movement — are the cooperatives who have in- stigated a referendum on “Neu- trality” among the affiliated so- cieties of the Cooperative League of U. S. A. The social composition of the membership of these two co- operatives is not a proletarian one. The Consumers Cooperative Ser- vices has a chain of cafeterias mostly in non-proletarian districts of New York City. The Franklin Coopera- tive Creamery, although a coopera- tive organized as a direct result of a strike, has been losing its original working class fighting spirit by ex- panding with the help of middle class elements and private shop keepers. These two cooperatives have sub- mitted the following resolution to a referendum: “Resolved that in the interest of harmony and unity, the Cooperative League hereby directs, by action of its constituent societies, the exclu- | sion from discussion at its con- |gresses of these two fields divisive, controversial cpinion: | 1. Communist, socialist, and | other political or economic theories. | 2. The attitude cooperators and of i the cooperative movement should’ opean stabilization of capitalism. 5. The very technical progress and increase of forces of production serve to increase the inner contra- dictions and outer conflicts of Amer- ican imperialism, to sharpen the) class struggle and the resistance of the working class. This is the line of Bukharin’s thesis regarding the world role of American imperialism. take toward such other political or economic programs and movements, And Be It Further Resolved that the Board of Directors be authorized and instructed to apply this resolu- tion and to define what constitutes such divisive or controversial dis- cussion. American comrades is a basically different line from that expressed in the thesis of Comrade Bukharin. I cite first the follwoing sentence: “An analysis of the degree of rightness of these contradictions will show that American capitalism | is about to reach the apex of growth.” | The document says that it is an) erroneous conception for American Party is erroneous because it is) based on the growth of American imperialism instead of emphasizing | the diminishing reserve powers of) We are living in a class society in which the production relations de- termine the division of the people into different classes in accordance with their specific economic in- | terests. Altho all are consumers, only a part of them owns and con- trols the means of production and | by virtue of this ownership this part, the capitalist class, exploits the working class. Natufally the economic interests of these classes are different and this constitutes the | basis of the struggle between these classes, the same: The cooperative movement, being) “This follows from a correct a broad movement of those whose analysis of the diminishing reserve! economic interest demands a change | powers of American capitalism.” | in the present system of society, can-| The document asserts that the not ignore these class alignments. American Party has “a different | To pretend to be “neutral” would in| conception of the position and pres- reality mean the supporting of the| ent phase of Amovican capitalism,”| capitalist class, and it defines this conception as (Te Be Continued) wllowa: d te - pon oath BE STOPPED On United States Imperialism Comrade Pepper Analyzes Position of Labor Movement in United States “The main emphasis upon the tendencies making for the growth and power of American capitalism.” The document says that it is an erroneous conception for the Amer-| these partial crises is the very tech- nical progress and particularly the) shifting of the centre of gravity of these industries to the south where cheaper water power and cheaper ican Party to lay the main emphasis| labor power can be obtained. upon the tendencies making for the| growth of American capitalism and, dubs the estimation of the American Party “a dangerously opportunist conception.” These quotations prove sufficient-| ly that there is a deep-going dif-) ference between the estimation of i 4, ” with irresistable power. Consolida-| some: Americon comrades "Ganirase| tions of railways, big: combines and|écessary the building up of an ex. Stalin just a few days ago in Lenin-| mergers in all industries are the, tensive navy and army which means | grad contrasted the ascending star Order of the day. The special feature stowing instability, increasing taxa- of American imperialism to the set-| of the present situation is that not tion, growing discontent of various ting star of British imperialism, and only individual corporations merge | Strata of the population and growing characterized America as the coun-|into trusts but trusts are already resistance of the masses against im- Imperialist Resources. American imperialism still has gi- | gantic resources and possibilities to | grow. Facts show that the present | economic depression is characterized | by the following tendencies: 1. Trustification is asserting itself try of the gigantic growth of capi-| merging into veritable super-trusts. talism. It is unquestionably one of) 2. A process of centralization sim- the thesis and the “document” of ilar to that in production is going Comrade Bukharin’s thesis that the| on in the field of distribution. We whole world situation as regards im-| perialist powers revolves around the| failed so far to give a thorough analysis of this entirely new process world hegemony! of American im-' of trustification of distribution. For perialism. The world hegemony of American capitalism is today the} axis of all capitalist relations in the| world. An oversight of that amounts to political blindness. Not to empha-| size that implies a basically differ-} ent line. Important Antagonisms. | the first time in the history of the | capitalist world are we facing the | phenomenon of trustification of dis- tribution which creates a powerful material basis for socialism in future | America. How is it possible for these Amer- ican comrades to have such a wrong Those comrades who maintain! conception of the estimation of ready in its general decline, are) realities, if we state that there are) still possibilities of growth of) that American imperialism is al-| American imperialism? 1. These comrades confuse the The outstanding features of the afraid that if we analyze facts 48) present depression which is a tem- |they are and estimate realities as| porary phenomenon with the basic and general decline of American im- | perialism. They overlook the fact By Fred Ellis | | it still has huge reserve powers. At the same time we have to emphasize | that American imperialism has its | | limitations, that it is necessary to | analyze these factors which make up| for the eventual downfall of Ameri-| can imperialism. What are these | limitations? 1, The aggressive imperialist poli*| cies of the United States are creat- |ing many complications in world Told You So T= London Daily Herald learns that the British government has decided to drop the secret Anglo- French naval pact because of the op- position of the United States. If this is true, “Nervous Nel- lie” Kellogg did not waste the time he spent playing golf in the Irish Free State. Austen Chamberlain is recovering from the effects of the secret pact, on an ocean liner bound for the southern part of the western hemis-« phere. Lord Cushendon, is recover- ing from the strain of silence im- posed on him at the ceremonies at- tendant on the signing of the “anti- war” treaty in Paris and Lord Birk- enhead, alias “Galloping Smith” is holding down the British Foreign Office in the absence of those two nervous gentlemen. If Smith ever has an attack of nerves it will not be due to enforced silence. He is as noisy as a whelp in a barrel, T. J. O'Flaherty Ga additional proof that the Kel- logg treaty is an instrument of peace, we offer free of charge to the socialist party, the Carnegie Peace Foundation, Nicholas Murray But- | ler, the Sulgrave Institute, and the recent German maneuvers in East Prussia. Fifty thousand troops par- ticipated, with representatives of all the leading military powers in at- tendance with the exception-of Eng- land and France. EP WARD S. HARKNESS, a Stan- dard Oil Republican, dropped $10,000 into the Al Smith campaign fund treasury the other day and got his picture into the Morning World. If this picture does him justice the writer would not care to meet him on pay day. Harkness would certain- ly never make good as a taxi driver, for the good reason that no solvent traveler would give him instructions to drive to any destination except a police station. Yet it is possible that Mr. Harkness is a Rotarian, reads the American Mercury and has a good word to say for his mother. P. S. Harkness is a Republican by birth and force of habit. . . * QOMETHING terrible is in the air in placid Philadelphia. It is nothing less than the suspicion that the police department is in cahoots | politics and it is inevitable that these| With the bootleggers. The head of | complications will reflect themselves | the city detectives has already been in the internal situation as well. The | Suspended and nothing can save him very aggressiveness of American im-| from a lot of embarrassment except | Perialism calls for a growing resis-| Perhaps a drive against radicals on tance on the part of the other im-| the ground that they are undermin- perialist powers and of the Latin-} ing the integrity and diluting the | American countries against U. §,| patriotism of the workingclass popu- |imperialism. The imperialist ag-| lation of Pennsylvania. - | ac Na ciene gressiveness of the U. S. makes | ILLIAM V. (Big Bill) DWYER, the ex-bootleg mahatma, who was recently paroled from Atlanta because of ill-health is again active in social life. You cannot keep a fellow like “Big Bill” out of busi- ness. A grateful friend is said to have handed the big boy a check for | $500,000 an his return from the | hoosegow. With this trifle Dwyer is | reported to have organized a Hockey club and got himself elected treas- | urer. AMBLING KINGS, bootlegging | barons, oil sultans, confidence | wizards and bank presidents do not | seem to have much difficulty in get- | ting out of jail. In fact they have perialist aggressiveness. 2. The very technical progress of | industries calls for partial crisis | which stir up broad strata of work- jers. The industrialization of the south spells unemployment, wage | cuts, insecurity of living for hw | dreds and thousands of workers in New England. The crisis in the min- ing industry serves as the basis for |a fomentation among the huge mas- |ses of coalminers. The technical progress in agriculture, the very fact that in 1925 there were 200,000 and in 1927 already 700,000 tractors | in use makes hundreds of thousands of farmers “superfluous” and cre- ates a critical situation for large sections of the farming population of America. ! 3. The centralization and bureau- cratization of the U. S. government a much harder time getting in, But let a militant labor leader find him- self on the wrong side of a peni- tentiary key hole and only a minia- ture revolution can get him out. Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings in California and the Centralia boys in Washington have been locked up now from eight to twelve years and the state authorities seem to be just American capitalism—then we deny ” possibilities of increased outer and| ‘"2t the very rapid growth of Amer: inner conflicts for American im- i°2" imperialism is responsible for perialism. This conception is grave-| the Seow antagonism between ly erroneous. Quite the contrary is America and other imperialist coun- the correct position. The very fact| ‘ties. They do not understand one that American imperialism is grow-|°f the most important thoughts of ing, that its economic power is in- | the thesis of Comrade Bukharin, ac- creasing with such unheard of speed cording to which the main feature of is the basis of most important an-| the present situation is the growing tagonisms within the capitalist| inner and outer conflicts of imperial- world. Not the “diminishing reserve ism based on the technical recon- powers,” but the economic world | struction and growth of capitalism. hegemony of American imperialism This is the special feature of the is the basis of its conflicts | present situation in contra-distinc- with British imperialism. The dis-| tion to the post-war crisis. Ameri- is making headway all the time. The a8 determined as ever to keep them government is in a growing degree | imprisoned. becoming merged with the apparatus | of the trusts. i f th haben ith Seah th 7% ty | vo e relationship between the 4. The inter-dependence between police and the petty bourgeoisie re- American capitalism and world cap-| italism manifests itself in a grow. | cently ‘after he was gyppet! out ‘of ing degree. The decay of European four dollars by a cashier in a Third capitalism must affect the fate of Avenue restaurant, which shall be A ‘i on named “Hell Gate” instead of the American imperialism also. real name. When this customer in- 5. America does not enjoy the/dicated that the cashier was in same monopolistic situation as Great danger of getting a crack on the but- Britain did for decades. America ton, he was challenged to call,a has to face other powerful imperial-|cop. This he did not do, fearing yee HE writer was reminded forcibly The line of the document of the) proportion between the growing eco-| ean nomic power of American imperial- ism on the one hand and the lack of colonial possessions, the lack as compared with the colonial empire of Great Britain and with the pow- erful 7 French Army is the real source of present-day imperialist conflicts. The statement that the reserve powers of American imperialism are \already diminishing is not borne out by the facts. How can one say that the reserves of American capitalism are already exhausted knowing the fact that just recently a large sec- tion of the American continent, the so-called solid South is being indus- trialized? America still has huge agrarian territories which in the first time in her history are becom- ing centres of highly centralized modern industry. The agricultural crisis is one of the sore spots in American capitalist economy. The source of the agricultural crisis is the growth of industry, trustifica- tion, the speedy progress of tech-| nique. Another sore spot in Ameri-, can capitalism is the crisis in the coal and textile industries. But again facts prove tha: ~he hasis for British navy or the huge, | | capitalism never needed any stabilization because it never suf- fered from a post-war crisis in the same sense as European capitalism. 3. The third source of the errone- ous conception is the mistaking of a special acute decline of American imperialism for those elements of | decline which are present in the im- | perialist development of all capital- ist countries, such as the export of capital, the growth of parasitic ele- ments, a rentier class, etc. The pres- ence of these elements in not equi- valent. to an absolute decline of American imperialism, but it means the growth of contradictions in America capitalism. 4. Another source of the misunder- standing is the erroneous interpreta- tion of Lenin’s definition according to which imperialism is generally the period of decline of capitalism. But Lenin never said that the period of imperialism excludes the growth of capitalism or the rapid growth of capitalism in individual countries. Imperialist Limitations. Summing up: American capitalism still has possibilities to grow, it did pot reach the apex of ist countries to compete with and therefore we can foresee that Amer- ican imperialism will not be in the | position to bribe large sections of the American working class for many more years. 6. Other limitations of American | imperialism are: the existence of the! U. S. S. R., the growing revolt of the colonies, and the growth of the revolutionary proletarian movements | in Europe. | (To Be Continued.) | Hassell Expedition Reported Stranded COPENHAGEN, Sept. 10 (UP). —The Greenland administration de- partment announced today that a radio message from South Green- land reported the motorboat carry- ing Bert Hassell and Parker Cram- er, rescued Rockford, Ill., fliers, and their companion, Professor Hobbs of ‘the University of Michi‘ gan expedition, to Greenland, had struck a rock and sank four miles that the first officer of the law he ran into, might be fondling a sealed envelope. Jem OK hel G. O. P.’s, Democrats Fear Communists in Poughkeepsie Debate The Communist Party section at Poughkeepsie held its meeting with- out the participation of the repub- licans and democrats, who had been invited to debate with the Commun- ists. No reason was given for their failure to attend, but it is generally supposed that they were indisposed. Young students tried to break up the meeting of the 400 workers but failed after a miserable showing. The speakers were Si Gerson, Milton Weich, Rose Smith and others. A collection towards the election fund of the Communist Party was taken up and some applications for mem- bership in the Party were obtained. The next meeting will take place