The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1928, Page 6

A ee Batt ho to — onugsae ~ eee oA He OO OO 2 ener ~eoal production will remain idle. | age Six THE DATL* is = ea i aes, NEW YORE, Wrvar, smbinnscaed ic, 1928 2, Pls j Pipes Daily Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party See Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Dciwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): €8 per year $4.50 six inonths $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Editor. Assistan: iar --ROBERT MINOR .-WM. F. DUNNE we Lf Entered as second-class mail at the post-office New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. VOTE CO For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers: Mellon-Hoover-Coolidge Prosperity Upon the return of Coolidge to the White House from his vacation he and Hoover had a conference with the real boss of the repub- lican party, Andrew W. Mellon, regarding the campaign. The calibre and tone of the discussion was revealed the next day when Mr. Mellon issued another of his optimistic statements to the Washington correspondents of the capitalist press on the “business situation of the country,” which, as an example of studied lying, is a gem among capitalist party cam- paign material. For a long time the various branches of the government, particularly the treasury department presided over by Mellon, as well as Hoover’s department of commerce, have perverted figures regarding the economic condition of the country in an effort to per- petuate the myth of prosperity. Mr. Mellon reports that “business conditions are satis- factory and preparing to go forward on a sound economic basis,” although he is com- pelled to refer to the pronounced crisis in coal and textiles as ‘‘a few weak spots.” These, however, according to Mellon, are in process of being solved. He is rather vague on pre- cisely how the textile problem is to be solved, but predicts that the coal crisis will be solved by the voluntary shutting down of a consid- erable number of mines and a subsequent curtailment of production. This is only an- other way of uttering the identical senti- ments expressed by his union-wrecking lack- ey, John L. Lewis, who also urges a curtail- ment of production and states that hundreds of thousands of miners formerly engaged in It is a method of serving notice on the coal diggers that the burden of rationalization of the coal industry will be placed upon their backs. So, while Mellon anticipates prosperity for the big coal operators he holds out no hope of prosperity for the men who delve in the ground to pile up profits for the parasitic owners of the industry. It is fitting that Mellon and Coolidge and Hoover should remain noncommittal regard- ing the solution of the ills of the textile in- dustry in view of the fact that the Fordney- McCumber tariff was hailed by the republi- cans and some democrats as a guarantee of high wages and sublime conditions for the workers in that industry. In the textile in- dustry it is also the workers who bear the burden. In both industries the workers have fought and are fighting against the attempts to place the burdens of reorganization upon them. On the trade union field they have heroically fought against all the henchmen of the mine and mill owners. In many local instances the majority of the workers in- volved in these struggles have come to rec- ognize the fact that the city and state gov- ernments are in the hands of their enemies. They must, in this campaign, as a result of their experiences, come to perceive that the government at Washington and the politi- cians of both old parties, whether republi- can or democrat, are their class enemies. In his latest “prosperity” statement Mel- | Jon declares that as far as agriculture is concerned “there is nothing unfavorable in prospect for the farmers.” On the identical day the statement was issued, the financial pages reported a downward plunge of cotton prices from 35 to 47 points; the condition of the world market, particularly as it affects American, Egyptian and Indian cotton, in- dicates a further marked decline. These facts completely refute the declarations of capitalist class economists that cotton prices will be high because of a small crop in the | United States. It means the poor southern cotton growers will get even lower prices than usual in spite of their small crops. ‘World wheat production is such that prices of that product will-be exceptionally low as far as the price to the farmer is con- cerned, so in spite. of the huge American crop that is predicted, the average wheat grower will be no better off than before. Prosperity exists only for the big capital- ists and their hangers-on, but certainly not for the masses of the population of the coun- try. The only solution for the economic ills of society is that presented by the Commu- nists; and those members of the exploited population of the United States who are able to understand their own interests will support not the democrats or republicans or the socialists in this election, but the Work- ses (Communist) Party and its handidates. AD | PA | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! MMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! The Reply to Gangsterism Pat Toohey, secretary of the new National Miners Union, speaking at the funeral of George Moran, militant miner of Bentley- ville, Pa., murdered by a gunman in the ser- vice of John L. Lewis and the operators, sounded the right note when he emphasized the necessity of the miners building up the new union into a powerful organization and continuing the fight in which Moran and so many others have lost their lives. Such must be the reply of militants toward every gangster attack upon the labor move- ment. Backed by the operators, the police, the private armies of thugs and gunmen that infest the mine regions, the professional murderers feel they can ply their trade with impunity. And so they can as far as the capitalist police and courts are concerned. But there is one force that can annihilate them. That is the embattled, bleeding and betrayed miners, organized into a determined fighting union. The one effective answer to gangsterism is the mass fury of the workers that will scourge from the mine regions every one of the Lewis gunmen. | Morrison’s Brand of Progressivism The annual convention of the International | | Typographical Union now being held at Charleston, South Carolina, completely dom- inated by the so-called progressive forces un- der the leadership of the machine built up by Frank Morrison, secretary of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, and Charles P. Howard, president of the international union is one of the most viciously reactionary in the history of that organization. Taking a more reactionary stand than most of the previous conventions of the Typographical Union and one that is in com- plete harmony with the interests of the pub- lishers, the convention voted down by a staggering majority the proposals of the New York City (Bix Six) delegation for the forty-hour week. It also defeated a proposal to permit local unions to strike without the consent of the Executive Council of the In- ternational Union, thereby continuing the re- actionary policy of placing the interests of the membership at the mercy of the Morri- son-Howard friends of the newspaper pub- lishers. A form of compulsory arbitration was also established, inasmuch as the local unions dare not strike before all efforts to arbitrate disputes have been exhausted. The refusal to endorse the forty-hour week is a decided step backwards for the I. T. U. It is a reversal of the former policy that the one effective way to solve the problem of increased production throwing thousands of men out of work is to shorten hours. That is the only way to solve the problem and the refusal of the Morrison-Howard machine to reaffirm the former decisions of the union | is a slap in the face of the whole membership of the union. Now that the “progs” are in complete con- trol they have proved to be equally as re- actionary, if not more so, that the infamous Wahneta machine that paralyzed the activity of the union for so many years. They are completely exposed as enemies of the workers. The next step in the Typographical Union is the creation of a new political party that will expose and defeat the new re- actionary machine. The fight against the publishers cannot be effectively waged with- out at the same time fighting their agents now in control of the printers’ union. A Cathedral Designer Is for Smith One Ralph Adams Cram, whose claim to fame is that he is the designer of the Cathe- he will support the Tammanyite servant of the House of Morgan, Al Smith, for presi- dent of the United States, as a protest against “ignorance and superstition now rampant.” The particular brand of supersti- tion that Cram abhors is the protestant at- tack on the Roman Catholic religion of Smith. It is evidently possible for Cram to accept the superstition of the catholicism of Smith, which like protestantism has its roots | in ignorance. Politicians and others who try to befog the minds of the masses with quarrels over religion instead of facing the political issues of this campaign would be in a sorry plight indeed if it were not for rampant ignorance. Certainly Mr. Cram would have to find an- other occupation than that of cathedral de- signer were is sot for that fact. | | | | | In December, 1927, the Indian | National Congress declared the at- |tainment of complete national in- | dependence to be its ultimate goal. | |It further decided to boycott the | | British Royal Commission appointed | |to examine the possibility of fur-j| ther constitutional progress for In- |dia. In view of the fact that during |the forty-two years of its existence | the National Congress had never demanded national independence, | last year’s resolution was hailed, in-| side and outside India, as the be- tionalist movement. It should be remembered that even in the stormy | days of 1920-22, when the country | | Congress persistently refused to de- | mand national independence and de-| |clared its object to be self-govern- |ment within the British Empire. So last year’s resolution naturally raised high hopes, and it was be- |lieved that the nationalist bour-| | geoisie would still play a revolution-| lary role in the anti-imperialist | TO CONFOUND THE MASSES Indian Sell-Out Constitution By M. N. ROY. — posal pine. By Fred Ellis condemned mass So any real opposition to | leaders strations. The Swaraji Hold Out Olive Branch to the the Simon commission can now only Supporters of Imperialism and Finance stitution demands: 1. abolition of|resolution. The petty bourgeois na-| |come from the workers and peasant | masses; and in case of a big move- }ment the urban petty bourgeoisie will join in. Ignore Radical Demands. The possibility of a class differ- the ministry for India in the Brit-|tionalist revolutionaries will grum-| entiation in the nationalist move- ish government; 2. a sovereign par- ble, but will hardle be able to change ment, the petty bourgeois rank and | Soe Ae liament composed of the king (Bri ish), a senate (200 members in- directly elected through the pro- incial legislatures) and a house of ed directly by universal adult suff- rage); and 3. a council of ministers (nationality of the ministers liament. The British governor general will remain as the head of the govern- ment. “Emoluments, allowances and pensions” for the British officials of the public services are guar- anteed. Olive Branch. The most remarkable and interes- |geois leadership. | British Sympathetic. |. How the demands will be received ie say precisely. The sympathetic tone adopted by the correspondent He makes such commentaries: | “The tone of the document is | admirable. The possibility of a political existence outside the em+ | pire is not considered, but it pos- tulates the disappearance of the | Indian empire in a British em- pire.” Considering that the messages of struggle. Those with a better un-| ting point in the document is the fol- | the “Times” correspondent are often \derstanding of the situation and of | |the class composition of the Con-| gress leadership, were, however, | |sceptical. In this resolution they | |saw only a maneuvre of the bour-| |geois leaders to retain their con-| |trol over the radical (politically) | | petty bourgeoisie and to harness the | popular discontent in order to strike a favorable bargain with sia ism. In the beginning of the year rep-| resentatives of all the nationalist | parties met in a conference to devise | | the ways and means of enforcing the | lowing: “We cannot see why men who have put great sums of money in- to India should be at all nervous . .. If there are any special in- terests of European commerce which require special treatment | in the future, is is only fair that | the Europeans should formulate proposals. We do not doubt that | they will receive proper consider- ation from those anxious for a peaceful solution of the political problem.” officially inspired and always re-| | flect the views of the British circles | |in India, these commentaries can be |taken as the straw showing which way the wind blows. The comments of the Calcutta Statesman (organ of British com- | merce) also indicate that the docu- |ment may be expected to receive 'a| |favorable consideration as a basis} | for negotiation. The paper writes: “It is a great advance to have the|~ Indian demand stated with a preci- |sion it hitherto lacked, and in reas- This is an olive branch to those Onable language.” boycott of the Simon Commission.| who, fearing that political self- |The conference set up a committee | government might encroach too dral of St. John the Divine, announces that | |to draw up a constitution. One might reasonably expect that the projected constitution should have for its fundamental principle the independence resolution of the na- tional congress. Disappointment was in store for those who enter- tained such expectation. Sell-Out to Britain. After several months of deliber- ation, which was carried on behind closed doors, the committee has pre- sented to the people the result of its labors. It has declared in favor of a self-governing India as a part of the British empire! And this not as a stepping stone to a further goal, but as the “genuine responsible government.” The committee which drafted this constitution had Moti Lal Nehru, leader of the Swaraj Party, as its chairman. Apart from Nehru, | among the nine authors of the con- | stitution, there are four more Swa- jrajist leaders including Subhas | Chandra Bose who is considered to |represent the radical wing of the | party. Bose was the trusted lieute- nant of the late C. R. Das (the founder of the Swaraj Party), and was arrested in the beginning of 1925 on the suspicion of having con- nection with and sympathy for sec- |ret revolutionary organizations. | After two years’ detention in prison he was released at the beginning ‘of this year. The remaining mem- | bers of the committee are two titled ‘ex-high officials representing the Hindu and Moslem bourgeoisie re- spectively and an ex-army officer representing the landed aristocracy. If Bose is considered to be the | spokesman of the urban petty bour- | geoisie, then this draft constitution | should be accepted as embodying the |demands of all but the proletarian /and peasant masses. In addition to the fundamental | clause defining the relation with the my £3 overlord. the draft con- 7 much upon the privileges of imper- ialist trade and finance, would op- pose the compromise constitution. This passage also contains the hint that in course of negotiation the In- dian bourgeoisie would agree to im- perial preference, thus admitting | British monopoly over the foreign ‘trade of India. A few days before ‘the draft constitution was published |the Associated Chamber of Com- [merce of India (British and Euro- pean traders) issued its memoran- dum for the Simon commission in ‘which it is energetically demanded that any new reform of the Indian | government must provide so that no discrimination against foreign com- |mercial interests shall be possible. The nationalist bourgeoisie, “anxi- ous for a peaceful solution of the political problem,” concedes this de- mand. | The draft constitution is not a sur- Give Up Simon Boycott. The boycott of the Simon commis- sion, as far as the nationalist bour- geoisie is concerned, has practically | broken down. Several provincial |legislatures have passed the govern- |ment motion appointing committees |of elected members to co-operate |with the Simon commission. In Bengal, the stronghold of the Swa- raj Party, the government won with |a majority of 72 to 50. It is almost a foregone conclusion that in its |autumn session the central legisla- |ture will also agree to set up its {committee to co-operate with the royal commission which will return to India in October. Then will begin | the negotiations to strike the bar- gain, the imperialists conceding as little as possible, the nationalist bourgeoisie accepting as much as obtainable peacefully. The appearance of boycott may | still be kept up to save political |faces and to create a smoke screen ‘prise. As a matter of’ fact, much | for the cooperation behind the scene. |more is demanded therein than will But it is certain the nationalist eventually be accepted. It is not | bourgeoisie is not going to encour- yet known how the nationalist move- a&¢ mass demonstrations as took ment as a whole has received the Place during the first visit of the document. But it is sure to be ac- Simon commission at the beginning cepted officially by the national con- of the year. Already then, towards gress, notwithstanding last year's.the end, the bourgeois nationalist Fascisti Aviators Will | Begin Propaganda Flight HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. al (UP).—The big blue and yellow | Bellanca sesqui-plane Roma will fly! from Brainard field to Old Orchard Beach, Me., today with its complete crew. It will take off on the long road to Rome as soon as the weath- er will permit, Roger Q. Williams, pilot, told the United Press. Williams, who with Peter Bon- elli, navigator and radio operator, came here yesterday to supervise final tests, declined to discuss re- ports that he has displaced Count Cesare Sabelli as flight commander. Mechanics at the Pratt and Whitney hangar where the plane’s Hornet motor was overhauled Wednesday, say Williams is in charge. |the course of politics under bour-| file breaking away from bourgeois | lleadership, owing to the treachery |of the latter, is still remote. The republican party formed by some of ginning of a new stage in the na-/representatives (500 members elect- by the British is also still difficult the left wing elements inside the \congress when the independence |resolution was adopted never func- \ not /of the “Times” in transmitting the| tioned. Under the influence of the was on the verge of a revolution, mentioned) responsible for every support of the document is, how-| Communists, petty bourgeois rad- under the leadership of Gandhi the| branch of administration to the par-|ever, indicative. “ ical leaders moved in the joint con- ference of all the nationalist parties that the projected constitution should be framed on the basis of the congress resolution. Some of the left motions were even accepted by the conference; but in actually framing the constitution all radical principles about a “Declaration of with the congress resolution. Only the anxiety of the nationalist bour- the political problem” prevailed. The grant of the draft constitu- | tion will be an improvement on pres- |ent conditions; but obviously it con- tains the maximum demands of the |nationalist bourgeoisie providing sufficient margin to climb down in jcourse of the negotiations. It is \altogether out of the question that \imperialiem will grant the maxi- |mum demands of the Indian bour- |geoisie just for the asking. More |than a parliamentary fight must |take place before even self-govern- |ment within the empire is conceded. The mass demonstrations during the first visit of the Simon commission showed that the country was pre- pared for such fight; but the na- tionalist bourgeoisie, while vituper- ating against the insolent challenge of imperialism, were reluctant to take up this challenge with courage. Imperialism knows the weakness of the Indian bourgeoisie, and will con- cede very little. Ultimately the na- tionalist bourgeoisie will accept re- sponsible government in the pro- vinces and some superficial reforms \in general. Bourgeoisie Unmasked. | The fight for real national free- |dom thus finally devolves upon the | workers and peasant masses under independent class leadership. Al- though the petty bourgeoisie still remains largely under the control and influence of the treacherous re- formist bourgeois leaders, the pro- letarian masses have broken away from them. The great strikes and tinct from previous mass movements in‘that they have clearly a class ‘character. The development of in- dependent political action by the working class is splitting the petty bourgeois radical nationalists into two ever diverging tendencies. One advances towards revolutionary alli- ance with the working class in the Workers’ and Peasants’ Party; and the other moves rapidly towards fas- eism. The radical leader Bose, who collaborated with traditionally re- formist bourgeois leaders in fram- ing the new constitution, represents the fascist wing of the petty bour- geoisie. This re-grouping of class forces is a pre-condition for a re- volutionary anti-imperialist fight for national freedom. The unmask- ing of the bourgeois leaders and their petty bourgeois allies by the new constitution will hasten this process, demon- Rights” were brushed aside together | geoisie for “a peaceful solution of | lock-outs of this year are very dis- | Told You So How unemployed workers are |"* swindled by employment agen- cies was told at a hearing of the State Industrial Survey Com- mission by John Mullen, of this city. He did not tell one-half of it. Mullen de- clared that when ¢| those robbed of their money by the sharks re- turn to seek re- lief they ,are sometimes beat- en and thrown down the stairs. | The witness | said that ten or more men are sent |to places where there is only one | job, that sometimes several men are sent to places where there are no jobs and that the collusion between | employment managers and agencies jis known to have existed. | poe T. J. O'Flaherty | Bee | HIS is a well-known fact. Em- ployment agents grow fat on the fees stolen from men and women seeking work, but the law enforce- |ment apparatus which is so effec- ively used to break strikes, by |means of injunctions and police clubs, is strangely ineffective when it comes to protecting the workers gainst the swindling operations of nmemployment sharks and other buzzards who fatten on the misery \of the workers, even though there |ure laws on the statute books gov- jerning the operation of such agen- cies, Se RECENTLY an employment shark |“* was found dead in his office on Sixth Ave. His death still remains a mystery, but the general opinion |around the “slave market” was that ke came to his death by the hand of |Some worker whom he had swindled | out of his mcney, by sending him to |a job that did not exist and refused |to make restitution. There is no |more vicious form of robbery than this. Of course the government will do nothing about it, but it should ke stressed in connection with the unemployment problem at mass meetings and through written prop- aganda. It is a burning issue among | the unemployed. | ALVIN COOLIDGE has promised | ¥ that he will do his best to get a |four-year lease on the White House | for Herbert Hoover. It appears, | however, that Cal's contribution will | Be silence. At a conference between | Hoover, Mellon and Kellogg, the | anti-war pact was dismissed as |campaign material lest the demo- |crats might be incensed for not been given their due share of credit for \it and thus incited to jump on it | when the question of ratification comes up in the senate, | Ne ae | | KELLOGG is said to be nervous, or more nervous than usual, over the fate of his pact. As a matter of fact, the darned thing is already dead. About the only purpose it |conspiracies rampant in the chan- \celleries of Europe and give the | United States some prestige as a |peace-maker, in order to cover up | its imperialistic adventures. There |are rumors that the British are |about to ditch the naval and mili- tary treaty with France and because ‘of the bellicose attitude of the | peace-loving Briand towards Ger- | many, the socialist cabinet in Berlin, |which was in hot soup already with the working class on account of its \eruiser program, is liable to get | thrown out on its ear. ek USSOLINI- has been. snorting /** around the Mediterranean lit- ‘oral since the news of the secret ‘ranco-British pact leaked out. The \fascist chief was seeing red and he ‘umed with rage over the treachery of England in jilting him for Briand. |But Wall Street stepped in. Now |the British cabinet is almost unani- mously sick and all that is left of the Kellogg peace pact is ready for |the undertaker. | + ee a ea only goes to prove that the |* capitalist powers are incapable jot keeping the peace even among |themselves. War is inherent in the |capitalist system. The struggle for omarkets, spheres of influence, stra- tegic positions on the map—those |struggles are the forerunners of war. Jt is just as silly to expect hat any one of the imperialist pow- ‘ers would disarm and place itself at the mercy of the rest as it wquld be to expect that Al Capone, of | Cicero, Illinois, would disband his army while Klondyke O’Donnel re- mained heeled. * * Y tee Kellogg anti-war pact, which fooled the liberals, who are quite willing to be fooled, is simply an American imperialist maneuver, de- 'signed to fool the masses and Wall Street’s rivals. Thanks to the ex- posure of this fake peace move by the Communist Parties of the world and by the Soviet government, the masses have been wised up to the trick. There is little danger of fool- ing the capitalist governments. Thieves never trust each other. Capitalist governments are aggrega- tions of glorified thieves. * served was to revive the plots and .