The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 14, 1928, Page 6

Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1928 Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday Published by NATIONAL DAILY f & Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Addr “Daiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): Sider year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months ————— = E'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-office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers: International Youth Day. During the first imperialist war, when millions of the youth and young manhood of the earth were being slaughtered in behalf of the capitalist powers, the first International Youth Day was observed. Born out of the catastrophic conditions of the war and asa protest against the wholesale destruction of human life, the movement from the first in- volved a mighty struggle against imperialism, characterized by audacious demonstrations in the very strongholds of the war mongers. But at the same time it was also char- ‘acterized by certain limitations—demands for struggles against all wars, a lack of un- derstanding of revolutionary wars, cam- paigns against military training, pacifist illu- sions—limitations that were inevitable when Wwe’ consider the social democratic ground upon which the movement first struck roots. The lessons of that war and of the Bolshevik revolution in the land of the former Russian had a profound effect upon the youth Nvement. In the years that have passed imcé 1915, when International Youth Day nas first celebrated, the half measures have ren way and today, in a period of prepara- | ' for another imperialist world war, the | a ement is strongly imbued with the revo- Ricary teachings of Lenin. The -propa- ganda for boycotting military training has given way to revolutionary determination to fight to turn the weapons placed in the hands of the armed forces by the imperialist masters upon those same war mongers and their governments. of special significance to the youth of (America is this International Youth Day that is being observed throughout the United States during the next few days, occurring, as it does, at a time when the imperialist owers of the United States through its ellogg pact and other maneuvers is en- avoring to place itself in the very forefront the world reaction. One of the major sks of the revolutionary youth movement § relentlessly to expose the malignancy of the ‘peace’ offensive of American imperialism, o show that the Kellogg pact is but the cul- | zination of a whole series of aggressive acts vy the Wall Street government calculated to | displace British imperialism as the leader of | the political reaction of the world. The peace pact is only a prelude to the next world con- flagration wherein will be placed before the youth of the world, amidst the thunder and lightning of a world war, the question of dy- ing like dogs in behalf of the imperialist ban- dits, or following the revolutionary Leninist line of turning the imperialist war between nations into a civil war against capitalism. Tonight at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Blace, the working class youth will celebrate International Youth Day, and within the next week there will be a whole series of demonstrations throughout the country. Let this day be utilized further to intensify the agitation against pacifist illusions, against the miserable lackeys of imperialism in the ranks of the socialist party who preach pacifism to the masses and who are the worst enemies in the labor movement of the womk- ing class. Let it be a day for an intensifica- tion of revolutionary organizational work in the ranks of the armed forces of the im- perialists, of organizational work in the in- dustries, particularly the war industries of the country, so that when again the first blast of the trumpets of war sounds there will be countless thousands of young workers that will rush to their posts of duty and begin sparations for the revolutionary upheavals at must inevitably rise out of such a war. Pia _ Al Smith, Drunk or Sober. ‘The reptile capitalist press, particularly that section of it that supports the demo- eratic party candidates in this campaign, is in a frenzy of indignation in response to the latest crude publicity stunt pulled off by the Al Smith forces. A certain letter alleged to have contained statements that Smith was “disgustingly drunk” at a New York State fair and said to have been written by a Syva- cuse gossip to a West Virginia gossip is the cause of the frenzy. The letter, howevex, has mysteriously dis- appeared. No one %iows what happened to it. But the vague rumors regarding its one _time existence furnished the Smith publicity ee VOTE COMMUNIST! For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW forces with an opportunity for “refuting” the “lie” in a manner calculated to appeal to maudlin sentimentality. Smith’s forces induced a republican poli- tician to issue a statement to the effect that on the date Smith is accused of having been drunk he was sober. In fact the republican politician declared he did not even suspect that the democratic candidate for president had even one drink. Thus, in place of dis- cussion of political issues we have piffle, in- stead of meeting the problems that face the masses of the country we are surfeited with drivel. The question of the degree of drunkeness of Smith on the occasion mentioned or at any other time or place is not a burning issue and only the veriest dolts will consider it such. Furthermore a candidate or a Party that dared to discuss real issues would never sink to the level of replying to backstairs gossip, say nothing of inventing it as was obviously done in this case so that the public could read about the alleged trenscendent virtues of a candidate in the daily press. Such devices only emphasize the deliberate policy of both the republican and democratic parties of evading issues that press for solu- tion, such as unemployment, the danger of imperialist war, recognition of the Soviet Union, the right of workers to organize and strike, and the use of injunctions against labor. The one party that places before the work- ing class the real political situation and of- fers a solution for the ills from which the exploited workers and farmers suffer is. the Workers (Communist) Party. We discuss political issues, but we also realize that individuals personify certain definite tendencies and it is certainly laugh- able to see the defenders of Al Smith feign indignation because he was accused of hav- ing been drunk. One who was spawned in that cesspool of vice, corruption, gangster- ism, hoodlumism and prostitution known as Tammany Hall and is now annexed to the Morgan financial interests as well as being a darling of the Roman religious machine, it- self always a vicious tool of reaction, certain- ly cannot be expected to pass for what the sentimentalists call a paragon of soberness and virtue. We expose the political role of the capitalist politicians and the parties they represent in order that the workers may come to hold them in contempt and we also expose their debaucheries as symbolic of the class corruption they represent. Al Smith, drunk or sober, is a dangerous enemy of the working class. Just as Norman Thomas or Herbert Hoov- er, sober or drunk, are enemies of the work- ing class. They are lackeys of capitalism—all. Vote in your class interests! Vote Communist! The Crimes of a “Labor Boss.” Mr. Theodore N. Brandle, the “labor boss” of the Jersey City building trades unions, who utilizes his position to smash trade unions, break strikes and make money for himself as head of a structural steel build- ers’ association, “labor” bank president and real estate operator, is reported as being in trouble with the law. The trouble won’t be much. Mr. Brandle is rich. He is an enemy of the working class, and a half of his business activity is-that of destroying the labor movement; so we are sure the law of the capitalist state has no snares for him. But what is the crime said to be charged against Brandle? Registering as a democrat and voting republican! We shall not get ex- cited about the little trick played on one capitalist party for the benefit of another. What is the real crime of this peddler of the workers’ blood? Brandle is a vicious enemy of the work- ing class "not only in his mercenary opera- tions in the trade unions, but also for his foul trade of inducing workers to vote for their class enemies in either or both of the capitalist political parties. And this is a crime for which he will not be punished by any capitalist court. This is his real crime. Throw out the parasites and gwindlers of the working class within the labor move- ment! Vote for your own working class party— the Workers (Communist) Party! \ / THE OLD SHELL GAME $2 three months | » By Fred Ellis Role of Revolutionary Youth By P. FRANKFELD September 3, 1915, the first In- ternational Youth Day was cele- brated. September 3, 1915, Europe was in the throes of an imperialist war. Millions of workers and young workers from England, France, Ger- many, Russia, and other countries, were being maimed and killed on the battlefield. These workers and young workers were fighting the | war of the allied imperialist bandits | against the German imperialist rob- | bers. . | The working class of Europe was helped to this slaughter by the ac- tions of the social-democratic par- |ties, who supported, -respectively, their “own fatherlands.” The Sec- | ond International became a pliant | and willing tool in the hands of the | | imperialists. | Role of Revolutionary Youth. The revolutionary youth leagues, however, did not fall in line and support the imperialist war. The revolutionary youth leagues, which Liebknecht had helped to organize, fought atainst the policy of be- trayal of the social-democratic par- ties. The Socialist Youth Interna- tinnal, organized in Stuggart in| 1907, with the activve participation of Karl Liebknecht, was always in | the left in the parties. The rea- sons were, firstly, that the young workers were one of the most ex- | ploited sections of the working | class. This the social-democratic | leaders refused to understand. They | represented the interests of the | aristoeracy of labor workers. They | | refused at first to even consider the | |euestion df organizing a revolution- | ary youth movement. They saw in the youth a source of revolutionary energy and a source of struggle against their opportunism. , How well their expectations were fulfilled! | Fight Militarism. | tarism. Youth Day Organized 13 Years Ago to Fight Against Imperialist War lowed the ‘revolutionary leadership of Liebknecht. Liebknecht was a steady opponent of capitalist mili- Liebknecht imbued them with a spirit of struggle against |by young workers who are attracted | COMference of 1915. The Communist| capitalism and capitalist militarism. When the betrayal came in 1914, Bolsheviks fought against the Sec- ond International, it was to be ex- pected that the revolutionary youth would do the same. With the aid of Liebknecht, the Berne conference of the socialist | youth leagues was organized. There the slogans of Liebknecht of fight against the imperialist war was adopted. Although the slogans adopted were not the slogans of Lenin—of turning the imperialist war into a civil war of the classes, yet, in substance, the Berne con- ference condemned most categor- ically the actions of the Second In- ternational; called for a militant struggle against the imperialist war, and went to the length of deciding te hold open mass demonstrations of the youth as a sign of protest against the imperialist war. ‘Thirteen years later, in 1928, in| France several days ago, $00 Com- munists and Young Communists are arrested for holding an I. Y. D. demonstration. Thirteen years after 1915, in America, the masses of young workers are being prepared both ideologically and actually for the next world war. At the same time that half a billion dollars is tary training camps, when the R. O. |T. C., the National Guard, the dozens of semi-military and mili- tary institutions are being crowded je them, at the same time the rep- resentatives of the Wall Street gov- Hypocritical Pacts. The Kellogg “peace” pact bears | the same relation to the present sit- uation that the Hague Peace Tri- bunal bore to the last world war. |It is an attempt to give the masses a false sense of security. It is a smoke screen to hide the feverish |preparations that are being made for the next war. The antagonisms’ between the leading imperialist pow- jers wax stronger. The intrigues | amongst themselves and. against | each other shows the nearness of the next war, and the whole falsity of the Kellogg “peace act”. The naval accord between France and England is an indication of that, and Amer- vica’s uneasiness about the accord |shows that America is on guard | against British imperialism and watches closely its every action. These pacifist slogans and phra- |ses are the greatest enemy of the working class. The false sense of |“security” of the masses today will |make them easily pliant tomorrow | when the war comes. Pacifism must be taught that it is in the in- | working class and the working class and working youth must be made | watchful; must be put on guard; |appropriated for military purposes|mus the taught that it is in the in- |in a period of one year; at the same | terests of the working class to learn | The second reason was the fact |time that 35,000 young workers and | the use of firearms during this per- | that from the very beginning of the |socialist youth movement it fol-' students complete their education in “citizenship” \iod of active war preparation; §0 in the capitalist mili-' that when the next war comes; the in the IYD | workers will be able to turn the im- | perialist war into a war of emanci. | pation of the working class. 13 Years Experience. | The revolutionary youth move- ment of today well understands its \tasks. It has the experience of 13 years behind it. The Young Com- | munist Leagues inherited those re- | volutionary traditions of the Berne | Youth League of America, is learn- ing and has participated in the pre- jand when Liebknecht, Luxenbourg,|ernment are signing fake peace liminary work of mobolizing during |Lenin, and the rest of the Russian | pacts in Paris. this period and educating the work- ing youth to its mission. The Com- munist Youth League has carried on a real struggle against the various forms of capitalist militarism—and | that is still only the beginning. Mass Meeting, September 14. The Young Workers Communist | League of New York will celebrate the 13th anniversary of IYD by hold- ing a mass meeting in Irving Plaza. This will take place the 14th of Sep- tember, Friday night, at 8 p. m. The League will draw the lessons of its Summer work in the CMTC’s. The | League will explain its attitude to- | wards capitalist wars. The League will kelp to mobolize masses of | young workers against the growing war danger, against the possible \fight against the Soviet Union on | the part of the imperialist war pow- ers; prepare the youth to be ready to defend their socialist fatherland, |“Soviet Union”, teach the young workers their duties in the next world war, This International Youth Day will be made into a youth celebration in the fullest sense of the term. The |program, the speakers’ arrange- ments, etc., have that objective in mind. Young workers and working class students. All class conscious work- ers will be in Irving Plaza Hall, Fri- day night, Sept. 14th, to participate celebration. The Communist Campaign in California By WM. SCHNEIDERMAN. The Party is entering the election campaign in California under excep- tionally difficult conditions. | The election machinery of the} |state is so organized as to make it| |almost impossible for a working-| class party to get on the ballot. The only way that we can get Commu- |nist candidates on the ballot this | year is by running them as inde- pendents, and our campaign must) be so organized that the workers} | will understand that these candi-| dates are the respresentatives of the | only working-class party in Ameri-| ca. The Party is given the short) period of three weeks to gather 12,-| | 000 signatures to place Foster, Git-| |low, and Anita Whitney on the bal-| | lot. | California is a traditionally re- |publican state. Senator Hiram |Johnson has led the so-called “pro- gressive” wing of the party, wh" was in conflict with the mor actionary elements led by the Lus Angeles Times and the open-shop Industrial Association. The A. F. of L. leaders in the state therefore | Three Weeks to Get 12,000 Signatures; Fight : Johnson, Fake “Progressive” jailer of Mooney and Billings, was a “friend of labor.” Unmask Johnson. But recent developments have un- masked Johnson and the misleaders of labor in their real role. A polit- ieal bargain was struck, whereby Johnson agreed to support Hoover in return for the united republican support of the state for his own re- election to the senate, and peace | reigned in the happy family of the| republican party. We now witness the spectacle of Johnson, the Los | Angeles Times, and the Industrial Association receiving the political support of the California labor movement. Those labor officials who balked at supporting Hoover, are out for Tammany Hall’s Al Smith. The socialist party in California, at its recent state convention in Los Angeles, showed how politically and the vicious Criminal Syndicalist Law, in the Hands-Off-China cam- ‘paign in San Francisco, in every | workers struggle in the state, the \socialist party was either silent or |@ave direct and indirect support to the enemies of the working-class. jIn California it has even less of a working-class base than in* other \parts of the country. Fight Exploitation. __ It is left only to the Communist |Party to enter this campaign on a working class basis. The invasion of the open shop in the once- 'strongly-organized sections, the éx- _ploitation of woman and child-labor jin fruit and cotton picking, and in the packing and canning industries, the double exploitation of the Ne- groes, Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos, the war-clouds on the |Pacific Ocean, and the general izati | ing of the conditions of labor d se to support John- organizationally bankrupt it really worsen ‘ n : ihea SUL the sabubhiean getey as is. In the fight to free Mooney and in California are immediate issues long as he controlled it. Johnson, the Billings, in the campaign against) which we can link up with the Com-| nation-wide equal suffrage, . 4 ¥ ;munist program of organizing and | leading the workers’ struggle | against the capitalist system. The recent State Nominating Convention has nominated the fol- lowing candidates which we are jtry- ing to place on the ballot, in’ ad- dition to the presidential and vice- presidential candidates, Foster and Gitlow: For U. S. Senator, Anita Whitney; for Congress, Congres- sional District No. 10 (Los Angeles), Mary Ostrow; for 29th State As- sembly District, Emanuel Levin, (San Francisco); 26th Assembly District (San Francisco), James Butler; Assembly District 36 (Oak- land), J. Reed; Assembly District, 39, (Oakland), H. Davidson, a Negro worker; Assembly Dist. 40 (Berk- eley), M. Shannamon; Assembly District 45 (San Jose), Cora Wil- son; Assembly District 66 (Los An- geles Arthur Dick. Workers and Farmers! Si your Party! Moots Vote Communist! MEXICAN SUFFRAGETS MEXICO CITY, Sept. 13 (UP).— Mexican women have organized a tranch of the anti-reelectionist party with the object of promoting Told You § N° doubt about it, this is a land of opportunity. John Coolidge, son of Cal the Fisherman, walked into the office of the president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road and got a job at $30 a week. Not bad for a start. What a corking salesman this young lad must be! If he ever gets into the “right off the boat” business he will clean up a fortune unless he mistakes a prohibition agent for a customer and not merely a consumes. On top of his good luck in landing a job it is rumored that Miss Trumbull, daughter of the governor of the | state of Connecticut, will soon make the announcement that she intends to marry the young. even have to esk. we HILE on this interesting sv bject of golden opportunities, the whereabouts of Mr. Osborne Wood, son of the late Ivory Soap gover- nor of the Philippine Islands may be of interest to our readers. While in the islands with his father, young | Wood made millions of dollars on the stock exchange. He had inside dope of course and his conduct be- came so scandalous that congress | indulged in some wild language ig | it. Wood came back to New York, whoopeed himself into an asylum from there to Paris and Monte Carlo and returned almost penniless. en ae tte LOOD will tell. So young Os- borne went to work at something or other, according to his press agent. Evidently he did not make a howling success at the business T. J. O'Flaherty He doesn’t elected president or marrying the daughter of the head of the firm. A few days ago Osborne was dis- | covered by the state militia of New Mexico digging coal, so they’ took him into their ranks and made some kind of a general out of him. You | cannot keep a good man down in a | coal mine. NEWSP._PER reporter's job is not all beer and skittles as a |rule. But it is said that every rul is has its own exception and so it with a reporter’s job. George rand of Bergen county, New Je * a city hall reporter for the Sey Journal” of Jersey City, tes! dat a hearing regarding the corruption in Mayor Frank Hague’s political machine that he had been on the city payroll for seven or eight years at $5.50 a day. This means $33 a week in addition to his remuneration from the “Jersey Journal.” When asked what he did in return for this honorarium Farrand confessed that he answered the telephone whenever he happened to be around the office. hee Tea | QNE could write columns on the op- portunities that exist here for thg ambitious poor boy, who feels that he ean be president if he only tries {hard enough. Some say that acci- ‘dent has a good deal to do with progress along the road to high sta- tion. There are people who believe that Calvin Coolidge would now be defending bootleggers in Boston or still collecting bad debts on a 25 per cent commission basis in Ver- mont, had not Murray Crane, the G. O. P. boss taken an interest in him. And if the Boston policemen | had not gone on strike in 1919 he | might never have been vice-presi- |dent. And had the late Warren |Gamaliel been a little more careful about his shell fish, Cal might never have gotten into the White House. ee ie Hove es we suggest to the four million unemployed that follow in |Mr. Coolidge, Jr.’s footsteps even if they take them into the offices of | railroad presidents. It would be a great boost for the Hoover campaign \if the Coolidge job-hunting success could be repeated four million times. “A job for every willing worker” would blow the froth off Ai Smith’s alcoholic promises. *.:t as they s: in burlesque, “Well——what the ’el!?” ee |THE mystery surrounding the death of William D’Olier, one of the leading actors in the Queens Sewer- pipes drama, is deepening and the {plot is thickening. The experts are in doubt as to the manner of his jdeath. The moral forces of the sewerpipe borough, to wit, the “outs,” are of the opinion that he was murdered. The inside boys are of the opinion that he committed suicide. There is a clue, but it only adds dye to the death riddle. His clothing was torn when taken to the hospital. Was it torn before he died or afterwards? As, that is the ques- tion. The surgeon who examined the body declared: “I cannot recall see- ing any tears in the clothing when I arrived there.” We are willing to bet that there will be many tearr shed before the real story of the sewer scandal is known despite the old adage: “Murder will out.” GROCERY BOSSES MEET WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UP). —Representatives of the grocery jindustry will confer in Chicajo Oc- \tober 24 to formulate trade prac- tice rules for their industry, the Federal Trade Commission an- nounced today, since we did not hear of his peing: