The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1928, Page 6

©BKE Ox Baily Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party i Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Addres: SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE DAJLY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, 2 -ROBERT MINOR .WM. F. DUNNE Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., “Deiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-3 21 Assistant Editor. under the act of March 3, 1879. VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW For the Party of the Class Struggle! For the Workers: Against the Capitalists! Referring tactfully to Briand as “the cre- ator of Locarno, the initiator of the (Kel- logg-Briand) pact against war,” the Temps continues: Also the Workers of the Whole World Have Reason to Be Proud of the Red Army, Mr. Briand! The Daily Worker has received from Gen- eva a wireless telegram of the International Press Correspondence which reads as fol- lows: | “The speech of Aristide Briand to the League of Nations Assembly contain some passages that are extremely inter- esting and which show the possibilities of the League of Nations as a rallying point for the united imperialist front for war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. “Briand denied that armaments have increased since the inception of the League of Nations, and continued: “There is one country which is no member of the League of Nations and where arma- ments with regard to both men and material are increasing, and which is proud of this fact. “This country is prepared to make theatri- eal gestures for disarmament, and demands disarmament complete and absolute. This country has signed the Paris pact. It re- nounces war. What war? Past war which has spotted with blood all the pages of human history? Or war which led one people pursu- ing national aspirations to attack other peo- ple? This war is damned, but there is another sort of war which doesn’t seem to be damned. This other form of war seems to be holy for this people and leads it to misuse its power everywhere. The effects of such war are not less bloody for peoples. If the delegates here failed to realise this truth they would not be doing their duty. I speak not to create hin- drances but in order to show that certain fears are justified.’” Other dispatches published in the capital- ist newspapers here fully bear out the in- terpretation of the French foreign minis- ter’s speech as one directed toward consoli- dating the imperialist forces of the world for concerted military action against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, and using the League of Nations as the base for counter- revolutionary war against the peoples of France, Germany, England and other coun- tries in the expected revolutionary working i Ss upheavals accompanying the outbreak of imperialist war. This is the correct con- ception of the League of Nations. Briand is | merely trying to develop a more frank ex- | pression of the essential character of the League of Imperialists which has been half- concealed under Wilsonian hypocrisy. The half-concealment of this imperialist charac- ter has been necessary in the past to enable »the social-democratic flunkeys of the imper- iglists to dupe the working class into sup- ‘port of the League of Imperialists. But in the complex maneuvres of European govern- ments against one another, the Poincare gov- ernment felt that the sentimental hog-wash was being used against the particular inter- ests of French capitalist imperialism. This ig. interestingly brought out by the Temps | “The German campaign for early evacuation of the Rhineland without any recompense in return, for immediate and general disarma- ment and for anschluss with Austria has created misunderstanding which it is vital to dissipate. No one can do this with more pur- pose, authority and clarity than M. Briand, the creator of Locarno, the initiator of the pact against war, the man who has worked | with the greatest ardor for the rapproche- ment of peoples and the peace of Europe. “His discourse has brought great comfort to all true friends of peace. It can only have deceived those who are content with the equivocal and who have abandoned for a mir- age certain absolute formulas which they wish to exploit for certain particular causes or revolutionary theories.” The crafty brain of Briand, the ex-“so- cialist,” in carrying through the imperialist purposes of the French finance-capitalists, foresees the need of his capitalist masters to prepare the way for’the imperialists to at- tack the Soviet Union and any working- class revolution which may be found to in- tervene in the imperialist war to which his policies lead. The masses must be psycholo- gized to believe that the menace of war comes from the efforts of the exploited masses. Revolutionary war against im- perialism and against imperialist war (“the transformation of imperialist war into civil war against the capitalist class’) are the only means by which peace can be brought to the world. The crafty imperialist war makets would reverse the picture and make the less conscious masses think that revolu- tionary war is the source of war danger. Especially the fact that the socialist Union of Socialist Soviet Republics must be de fended by the proletariat of every capitalist country, is transformed by this dirty political “apache” Briand into a claim that menace of war comes from the only great power on earth that stands as a bulwark against im- perialist war and as a concrete realization of the only social system that can and will put an end to all war. , Black is white, up is down, water is dry and fire is wet, says Mr. Briand; so the So- viet Union which is the only power to pro- pose complete and absolute disarmament is the one which initiates war. This is another warning to the working class of the world. The world war is coming without doubt. “It is uncertain only as to the time at which it will break out with unpre- cedented suddenness and ferocity. The work- ing class must be prepared ideologically to play its part as the most courageous de- fenders of the Socialist Fatherland of the world’s working class—the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The imperialists will start the war which the working class of all coun- tries must transform into revolutionary war against the imperialists. The speech of Briand shows the criminal idiocy of pacifist illusions. It shows that not only the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (the semi-official organ of the French gov- _ is justified in being froud” of its Red Army ernment), which says: of free workers ¢.1d peasants, but also the NG i workers, farmers and colonial peoples of the “The Minister of Foreign Affairs has said * a all that should be said at this moment when whole world must be proud of the Red Army there is being carried on a certain campaign which belongs to all of us and will be the ac- which tends to give a completely false note tive champion of the oppressed of all coun- to the current peace efforts.” tries in their struggles for liberation. CAMPAIGN CORNER Money is coming in for the Com-| Jewish comrade who could read his Powhaton Point will send us $25.00 THE D # munist Campaign Fund in all lan- & guages. The Campaign Corner Edi- tor is a one hundred per cent Ameri- san, in the sense that he knows only _me language and a half and those ndifferently. But he can read the sollar sign in any language. It ‘yeats Esperanto. Kate Schatz, of Bronx, also of the Camp of the Followers of Nature, sends the sum ‘of $32.50 with the best wishes of the contributors. If those sympathizers rely on a thick coat of tan for pro- tection from the elements in winter as well as in summer we may have another contribution before the votes begin to fly in November. * * On receipt of this communication the editor of Campaign Corner | gseooted around the office for some- _ body to “aaled read the letter that accom- the donation. Finally a own language was located. The others could read almost everything else. But fancy my embarrassment when the comrade who essayed the | task of translating it into South; Boston Americanese stumbled at the dollar sign and could not hurdle his way over the figures until I had tc give him a life. Verily indeed this {s a topsy turvy world. es et Here is another letter containing a check for $50.00. The campaign manager notes, “play up big” on the margin. The language is either Lettish, Lithuanian or Croatian. It doesn’t matter. Fifty dollars is a lot of money. The money comes from Powhatan Point, Ohic, and I gather that it is the proceeds of a picnic held on August 26. I have reason to expect that when all the returns are in that the comrades of more. Am I right or wrong? * * The picnic period is almost over and that source of revenue for the 7100,000 Communist Campaign Fund kas bumped into a closed season The Campaign Corner editor has been informed that a favorite indoor sport between now and election day will be raising funds for the Com- munist election campaign by means of house parties. Comrades will gather informally at somebody's home, listen to a tune over the radio, have tea and cake, and then simultaneously decide to contribute something to the campaign fund. No expenses, everything will be velvet, Besides having an enjoyable even- ing the comrades participating in this kind of indoor sport will have the additional satisfaction of doing a worthy deed. An easy conscience is conducive to sound sleep, LY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 1928 On United States Imperialism ument called “Right Wing Danger | in the American Farty,” but from the 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 State: tue (Continued.) I consider it my duty to cite one outstanding example of the fight. of the American Party against Right dange I think it is not without significance that the document which accuses the C,. E. C. of the Ameri- can Party of constituting a Right- that this document does not in one single word about the important, the fundamental er- ror the American Party ever com- mitted. The Right-wing error I am ferring to is contained in the elec- tion platform of 1924. The same comrades who accuse the American Party of being a Right-wing party had the leadership of the Central Executive Committee of the Ameri- can Party in 1924. These comrades are therefore fully responsible for * the policies of the election platform of 1924. s election platform reads as follows: “The Workers Party declares it- AND MR. BATTY SNEAKS BEHIND Comrade Pepper Analyzes Position of Labor Movement in United States self in favor of the immediate na- tionalization of all large-scale in- dustries such as railroads, mines, super power plants, and means of communications and transportation, and for the organization of the workers in thesesindustries for par- ticipation in the management and direction of these industries indus- trialized, thus developing industrial democracy, until industry comes un- der the control of those who produce the wealth of the nation.” Repeat Mistake. Comrades, this statement was written, introduced and propagan- dized by those comrades who are accusing the present Central Ex- ecutive Committee of being a Right- wing leadership. It wants to de- velop “industrial democracy” today in the middle of capitalist society and fosters the illusion that indus- trial democracy can develop before the working class seizes power and takes over the control of state power and industries. I have to state that |the same mistake was repeated two years later, in 1926, in the election platform of the Party, though in not such a bad form. Two election platforms of the |Party contained a policy towards the nationalization and workers’ con- jtrol which was here characterized |by Comrade Bukharin as a step to- | wards a social-democratic line. And |yet, such a deviation, such a grave, error, was never mentioned, never criticized, never noticed, never cor- rected by those ‘comrades who signed the lengthy document called the “Right danger in the American Party” and who claim to have the monopoly of Leninist policy in the American Party. Party Corrects Errors. | The mistakes of the election plat- forms of 1924 and 1926 were cor- rected in the last election platform |adopted by our Party in May, 1928. The initiative to correct these grave errors did not come from |those comrades who signed the doc- By Fred Ellis Central _ Executive Committee | which they accuse of being a Right | wing. | The American Party does not want | to eover up its mistakes. Read the resolution -of the May Plenum of ovr C. E. C. on the Trade Union} question. There is a ruthless criti- cism in it of all mistakes we have made. | No one can question that the prés- | ent Central Committee was the one to notice the major error contained in the previous platforms of the Party regarding immediate nation- alization, control of production and industrial democracy. The present program of action of the Party does not contain such grave deviations to the Right. We hope the whole Congress will reject the charge that the present Central Executive Committee of the Party is a Right ‘wing or has the Right wing policies. Especially is it unjustified to put forward such a} grave accusation based on a funda-, mentally wrong analysis and estirs- tion of American imperialisva as it is given in the document of these comrades. | By MARTIN ABERN International Youth Day comes at an appropriate time this year. The day set aside by the handful of revolutionary youth during the bit- ter and black days of 1916-1917, as |a day of demonstration against im-| perialist war, occurs this year amid |smoke-sereens of false and mislead- in) ce” pacts and the militarist pr ations that forebode a new imperialist war. While these war preparations are proceeding apace, and new betrayals are being planned by the socialists and labor misleaders, it is necessary |days that gave birth to Interna- tional Youth Day and to point out the significance of the occasion. of the world war of 1914-1918 e the corrupt #bodies of the entire socialist movement to The that had festered ea were burst open by the astrophe. ‘The labor and movement of Europe in particular was exposed as a body poisoned by the agents of im- perialism within its ranks. It was slow poison, administered for years before the war, and. nurtured by the small bribes and special privileges granted the aristocracy |of labor by their imperialist mas- ters. The outbr terrific ¢: revolutio: ja | Collapse of Reformists. Only a small section of the revo- lutionary movement rose to the sit- uation properly. The only elements that opposed the imperialist war were the Russian Bolsheviks, the Italian socialist leadership (Maxi- mili , the Rumanian and Bul- garian left wingers, and varied groups in the Scandinavian and other countries; and, significantly, the young socialist movement added its voice to the militant denunciation of the “socialist” traitors who were acting as agents for the kaisers, czars, bankers and business mag- nates in recruiting cannon fodder to tell and retell the story of the} International Youth D; Masks From Between Two Imperialist World Wars ay Must Serve to Tear War-Mongers ‘among the working class and pea- santry. The revolutionary youth were among the first to reestablish inter- national working class connections. The miserable collapse of the second international only served to brighten by comparison the splendid work of the revolutionary youth center which was established in Switzerland. The youth bureau in Berne, with its periodical, “The Youth Interna- tional,” received the closest and warmest collaboration of the exiled Russian Bolsheviks. Some of the most noteworthy contributions on imperialism, war, socialist-jingoism and the like, by such men as Lenin, Bucharin, Zinoviev, Trotsky, Kol- lontai and other Russian revolu- tionaries of the time could be found in the pages of the “Youth Interna- tional.” And this collaboration was a fruitful o1.e in more than one respect, for the articles of Lenin in particular helped to burn away the last remnants-of pacifist and petty- bourgeois illusions that still hovered over the revolutionary youth ele- ments who were so anxiously and bravely striving to struggle against imperialism, the war, and the social patriots. Set Aside Youth Week It was while the trenches were flowing with working class blood, to the chants of praise sung by the “socialist” renegades, that the youth bureau in Berne issued a call to the revolutionary young workers and peasants throughout Europe to set aside the first week in September 1915 for broad, militant demonstra- tions against the imperialist war and the treason of the social demo- crats. Thé voice of the revolution- ary youth was the first on a Europe-wide scale to be raised in harmony with the Russian Bolshe- viks, the German Spartacists led by Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, and the reds in other lands. This great tradition, sprouting from the seeds of struggle, and forc- ing its way through the weeds of treason, has been properly carried down to this day. It is an occasion when the working and peasant youth of all countries demonstrate their hatred and opposition towards the imperialist wars of their master class. It is a snecial opportunity for the rallying of all of the toiling youth to the banner of struggle against imperialist war by enlisting on the side of the proletariat in the war of the class that continues every day. It comes during the election campaign of the .Wotkers (Com- munist) Party which gives an added opportunity to the young militants. It is the warning of the militant youth to the imperialists that they will continue a revolutionary war against tke reaction, even if an im- \perialist slaughter should be going on at the time. * - What more fitting occasion for International Youth Day demonstra- tions could be desired than the pres- ent? Military, naval, aerial, and |industrial war preparations are go- ing on throughout the capitalist world with unprecedented feverish- ness. The United States is plan- ning a colossal navy and industries are being organized for two-minute transformation into war factories, There is a growing increase in points of friction between England and the United States, between the United States and Japan, between France and Italy, between the imperialist powers and the colonial peoples, and between world imperialism and the | workers’ fatherland, the Soviet | Union. The struggle for world | markets, for colonies, for “places in} the sun,” for world ‘supremacy, has | never been sharper than at this time, and the storm clouds of war have rarely been heavier. . New War In Making. Precisely at such a time are the ‘imperialist rogues attempting to \hoodwink the masses in preparing {them for “service.” Innumerable \“seraps of paper” are being signed with great solemnity by the “wise” diplomats. “Peace” has been pro- claimed time and again at Ver- sailles, at Genoa, at Laussane, at Loéarno, at Thoiry, and now at Paris with American imperialism taking the lead. The more ‘peace pacts” signed the nearer approaches the day of war. International Youth Day must serve to tear the masks from these hypocrites and war mongers. They | must be exposed as the mass murderers of the working class and peasant vouth. Especially must the socialists be placed in their proper | niche as at times oven or con-| cealed agents of the imperialist war lords. These renegades are con- tinuing the tradition of the socialists of 1914. .Norman Thomas supports \the anti-Soviet Kellogg pact. Bon- cour helns to militarize working class France. Herman Mueller sup- |ports the navalism program of Ger- man imperialism. MacDonald bombs Chinese workers for his British masters. The Russian Men- vsheviks join the imperialist’ clamor for intervention against the Soviet Union. | Two Traditions. Theirs is a tradition of despicable betrayal and they follow it consis- tently. Ours is a tradition of tevo- lutionary anti-imperialist and anti- militarist struggle which received | its baptism in war and revolution. | It is a tradition which the youth best demonstrates on International | Youth Day. f | Told You So GANGSTERISM is on the run again in Chicago, according to a committee of prominent jurists, who have collected over $150,000 to clean up the town. I dare say crime will travel fast as long as the chasers get their pay regu< larly. There is a lot of spend~ ing in $150,000, The rule of “Big Bill The Builder” is said to be tumbling down and gun- men are req ported: moving their arsenals to De« troit, Philadelphia and other virgin cities. per doubts spring eternal in the duman breast and this depart- ment is skeptical, thanks to the newspapers. We read, for instance, that Scarface Al Capone, who manu- factures beer and politicians in the Windy City, lost one of his best men in a gang shooting a few days ago. Al is a pious man, as befits one who admits that he loves his wife and children, so he knelt by the bier of the dead beerlegger and asked Jehovah to do the right thing by him. Then Al returned to his fortress, protected by a battalion of his Cicero Guards. * T. J. O'Flaherty 2) ew * * §° rampant has crime become in “ Chicago that even the deity has gone highway. We are indebted for this information to a-reader who sent in a clipping from the Sunday sermon page of a newspaper, with the startling headline: “God Way- lays Sinner.” Like a footpad who leaps out of a dark alley on a pedes- trian suspected of carrying home his pay envelope to a waiting and an- xious wife, Jehovah, not content with taking his toll from the rest of the world, has the poor taste to invade Chicago, thus throwing a monkey wrench into the machinery of the crime commission and rob- bing Al Capone of a chance of get- ting what rightfully belongs to him by virtue of his daring and his ar- tillery. ‘THE American marines in Nicara- gua are still doing their duty Apparently the Nicaraguans vote as they shoot, so, despite the best laid plans of the Coolidge administration, they insisted on voting against American imperialism. The Ame can marines painfully and regret- fully unlimbered their rifles and shooed them away from the poles. If the marines manage to finis their bulleting in Nicaragua by No- vember they. may be able to help out, making change when the bal- lots are being exchanged in the United States on election day. ene ee ae AN amnesia victim, whose first name is David—if his memory can be trusted—was found wander- ing in Greenwich Village recently. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, \ where he will soon come to the con- | clusion that his name is Jonah. A) psychoanalyst or a _ floor-walker would lose his memory in that joint. Should a guest be suspected of men- tal deficiency ‘his test is a Chinese newspaper, provided he is not a Chinaman. Should an Occidental shake his head and admit that the language is Greek to him he will be lodged in the mental defective ward, but, should he ask for his laundry, he is placed in a padded cell. David would have been more fortunate had he run into King Benjamin of Ben- ton Harbor. + ie le \LD-FASHIONED drinking will soon be a thing of the past if those whose slogan is “Down With Liquor” hearken to the advice of G. E. Marchand, the wonderman who made his fortune before ’37. This philanthropist is bringing his message of good cheer to an in- solvent world through a big adver- tising campaign and public lectures, “How would you like to have $1,040 EXTRA every year for LIFE?” he asks. The vote is unanimous. .Now what is the secret? yee ae “YE DRINKING,” says Mr. Mar- chand, “is the new scientific principle through which you can get the money-making secrets 22 times faster than the old-fashioned method. The path from the eye to the brain is 22 times as broad as the path from the ear. It is through eye drinking that Mr. Marchand can give you coaching that you can use at once—to advance at once. It is through eye drinking that thousands have been énabled to break away from the dull routine jobs and at- tain unexpected heights of success. It is through eye drinking .. .” Well, that’s enough. The eye-ball has supplanted the high-ball. “Drink to me only with thine eyes” is no longer a dry phrase. It has a kick to it. If it isn’t one thing it is another in the life of the poor bootlegger. Son OHahesty | Int'IProgressiveCenter Opens This Saturday With Dinner, Dance The International Progressive Center, at 101 W. 28th Street an- nounces that it has been completed and will be opened on Saturday even- ing, September 15, with an excellent dinner, music and dancing, b: |