The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1928, Page 3

1; on ae ~ Page Three THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1928 Rosario. Strike Sp CITY EMPLOYES — JOIN. WALK-OUT DESPITE THREAT Companies Failing to Resume Service ROSARIO, Argentina, Sept. 16. — As the strikers here still refuse to go back to work after months of re- sistance that tied up the second largest port in Argentina, the strike threatens to assume general propor- tions by spreading to Buenos Ayres, the capital and largest port in Ar- gentina. In spite of the orders of the mu- nicipal authorities that the compa- nies resume telephone and street- ear operation, the firms have thus fer failed in maintaining service by the use of strikebreakers, due to the effective resistance of the pickets. The city workers are also thréat- ening to join the strike on a demand for higher wages, in spite of the an- nouncement of the minicipal govern- ment that they will be immediately fired and replaced by strikebreakers if they continue in their demands. The port of Rosario is still tied up and’ thousands of tons of grain await shipment. The street car strike was originally called when the company refused to re-hire Com- munist and anarchist workers whom | it had discharged. reading to Bueno = Second ‘Byrd Ship Sails on Imperialist Antarctic Voyag: Photo shows the second ship of the Byrd im perialist expedition to the South Pole, the Eleanor Bolling, which sailed from New ¥ Navy. York Saturday. T he expedition is a PUPPET QUEZON BACKS STIMSON -—_ IN PHILIPPINES | Defends Imperialism of U. S. Government MANILA, Philippines, Sept. 16. “Outside capital is necessary, and must receive proper inducement”, declared Senator Manuel Quezon, } [president of the Philippine senate, publicity stunt for the U. C. Continued from Page One | ing Al Smith and other democratic | candidates is nothing less than jumping from the frying pan into the fire. It means political insanity and suicide for the Negro worker, as for the white worker as well. In rushing madly into the ranks of the democratic party in their dis- gust at the open treachery of the republicans, Negroes are forgetting that the democratic party is the traditional enemy of the Negro race. Bishop Ransom, Marcus Gar- vey, and-now the Reverend Car- ruthers are leading their brother Negroes in this mad rush to de-| RICHARD MOORE HITS _ SMITH LICKSPITTLE wopyeps panty interests are diametrically opposed to those of the big corporations without whose support neither Smith nor Hoover could hope to win. The Workers (Communist) Party |demands abolition of race discrim- ination, segregation of Negroes, Jim| Crow laws, laws which disfranchise | Negroes, which forbid intermar-| | riage, which prevent Negro children from attending public schools. We} demand a federal law against, lynch- | ing, equal opportunity for Negroes, | and equal pay, abolition of all re-) strictions in trade unions against | Negro membership, and pholliecn | of the convict lease system and the NEGROES TURN TO in a speech before the congress yes- ‘terday in which he defended Gover- nor-General Stimson’s plan for an |economic policy that would benefit the American landowners at the ex-) pense of the native peasants. Attempting to win the native landowners to the side of the Amer- ican program, Quezon predicted that the plantations and industries devel- oped by the American capitalists would eventually become the prop- Straw Vote Favors the Communists lly _be erty of the Philippines, Continued from Page One | In an effort to ward off the were rather aloof at first, the Ne- | Storm of criticism aroused by Stim- gro comrades report. The attitude | S0n’s policies in the Philippines, the was that the Workers (Communist) |Senator praised the governor-gen- Party was “just another white peo-|eral very highly, stating that “he} ple’s organization,” and the Negroes |accepted the position inspired by a are rather skeptical of white people | high sentiment of duty and moved and their organizations. They have|by the noble ambition of honoring cause to be. But it was soon driven |his own nation through serving the home to them that the Workers |interests of our people.” (Communist) Party was not awhite| While advocating complete serv- people’s party, but a party of all |iency to the American regime and NOTED USSR SCHOLAR S Ayres as Workers Fight for Their Demands SPANISH LABOR UNION SUPPORTS | SANDINO FIGHT Federation Commends Independence Army PARIS, Sept. 16—The brave | struggle of General Sandino and his Jarmy of independents for a free Nicaragua was approved in a reso- lution unanimously adopted by the h00 delegates at the convention of the Spanish Federation of Labor, which took place in Madrid last | week, in spite of the arrests of some of the delegates in the police drag- net which preceded the fifth anni- ieee: Children Protest Transfer In School Strike : oe Sheehy In P850 E ‘ versdry of the dictatorship of De Rivera. * The resolution commended the revolutionary army for its war “upon the oppressors of their coun- try.” This is the first meeting of the Federation of Labor during the five years that De Rivera was in power. It is a known fact that delegates to this convention were arrested, ac- cording to facts received here, al- though the dictator, in a statement issued last week, declared that the {number and the nature of the ar- rests were not fully known. Striking children at Public School 50 in Brooklyn, whose mothers have been picketing the school in protest against the transfer of the children to a building in a section of the city where they would have to walk long distances thru traffic. ing with placards. Above, the children picket- Unemployment in Germany Increasing TO LECTURE HERE your colleagues advance to justify | Practices in courts. your support of the party of slav-- What is your answer to that? ery, peonage, disfranchisement, and) You have none because you are a lynching are so weak and witless lick-spittle politician in the service that I wonder that you dare to of a reactionary party. make them public. Sincerely, You explain that “Negro appli- (Signed) RICHARD B. MOORE, cants for jobs in Washington nave Director of Negro Dept., Workers been high-hatted” and that the Ku (Communist) Party Candidate For Klux Klan is doing everything in| Congress, 21st Congressional Dis- its power to elect republicans. You! trict, New York. are very well aware that democrats have consistently barred Negroes from political positions—this is the FOSTER TALKS TO BUTTE WORKERS Militant Miners Hail Communist Message Continued from Page One from a trestle until he was dead. \truth about nist) Party, and told them how | twenty-four Negro workers had sat |in the National Nominating Conven- \tion of the Party, participating in jall important committees, acting as chairman of some of these commit- \ tees, and helping to draft a program lof action for the oppressed masses of America, white and colored. And | they learned that many Negro work- ers have been nominated on the Party ticket, and that a Negro, Lov- ett Fort-Whiteman, was nominated the Workers (Commt- | struction. The arguments you and|chain gang, and of discriminatory the workers, black and white. Speak- | to its policy towards the island, |ers of their own color told them the | Quezon, at the same time, held out hope of “independence” and prom- \ised that in some future date, after United States capital had firmly embedded itself, independence would come. JINGO ATTACKS YOUTH LEAGUE Professor Waldemar G. Bogoras- Tan, head of the department of ethnography of the University of Leningrad, has arrived in the United States to participate in the Congress of Americanists to be held in New York City September 17-22. Pro- fessor Bogoras-Tan, of the world’s leading authorities in the field of anthropology of the jnhabi- tants of the polar regions, was for- merly connected with the Museum one expended $1,500,000 for educational ond scientific work among the north- ern nationalities. During recent years 65 schools have been opened and 50 highly qualified graduates of Prof. Bogoras-Tan’s courses at the University of Leningrad are devot- ing their energies to raising the cul- tural and economic level of these primitive people. Prof. Bogoras-Tan will remain in the United States for several months after the close of the congress for the purpose of giving a series of BERLIN, Sept. 16.—Inquiries rade by the German national center elicited that at the end of July, 1928, in respect of the 9,427 branches sending in reports, and representing 4,031,021 members, the number of unemployed was 252,850, as com- pared with 228,124 in June. Short- time workers were 247,460, instead ef 221,951. THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL During the days when the revolu- tionary spirit was high, Butte was unbreakable law in the south, and it is very seldom that it is broken in the north. LOS ANGELES TO for comptroller in New York state. | That Negro workers have been nom- | Navy Officer Demands of Natural History in New York and lectures. has for the past 30 years been in MAGAZINE How many Negroes have been appointed to office by Al Smith? The merciless dictum of Carlyle, “the Negro is useful only as a servant,” is the rule of! democrats and republicans alike. | Surely you cannot be ignorant of | Shop Drive the open determination of such) |Negro-hating democrats as Carter} 1,0 ANGELES (By Mail).—The Glass, Heflin, Hoke Smith, et al,/ workers of Los Angeles will be to keep the Negro in his place as| given a chance to hear the message |hewers of wood and drawers of|of one of the leading opponents of | Water. |the “open shoppers” on September Moreover the Ku Klux Klan di-/ 23, when William Z. Foster, the | vides its support between the major | Workers (Communist) Party candi- |parties which are alike dominated |date for president, will speak here. an armed camp. Pacifism had no} place among the red-blooded work-| ers of the copper mines. | In those days the editors of the Butte Bulletin sat at their type writers with their guns within reach. There were many casualties in this bitter class conflict and all the casualties were not on the side of the battling miners. It was no uncommon thing to read in the Butte Bulletin that another company gun- man was found dead in such and such a place. Bill Dunne was ar-| rested many times and in constant danger of assassination by the tools of the copper trust. The militant spirit is not dead in Butte. The workers who attended the Foster meeting made that quite clear. They applauded the uncom- prising note of class struggle in his speech, and showed that the spirit) that defied all the power of the mighty Anaconda was ready to be harnessed into a disciplined battle against the copper kings, the Re publican and Democratic parties an the whole capitalist system. Speed-Up System. The Butte miners are in the grip HEAR FOSTER Bosses Starting Open |the Negro and white workers whose | Vote for the Workers (Communist) [class interests are identical. It| Patty, and a beginning of the real |should be perfectly plain to every |fight against the open shop. thinking Negro that only by defeat- The largest industry in Los An- and the interests of his white broth- | industry. or-worker be protected. |cnly one where any appreciable or- ‘telligent vote in the | @amization has been effected. The present election is a vote for the|™0vie worker may be considered the only party that stands upon a clear- | Pest Paid of all the workers in this . ysattorm of full economic poli-|‘it¥.. Significantly enough, the tical and social rights for the op-|"0rkers In the movie industry, pressed Negro race, the only party | Stage hands, carpenters, electricians. |by the oppressors and exploiters of |A huge turnout for Foster, a large| ing both of the corrupt old parties | geles, in point of view of production | of finance-capital can his interests |and payroll, is the motion picture | This industry also is the | of a speed-up contract system that is almost unbearable. The work- ers have no protection against the which carries on a militant fight} for the abolition of the whole cor- ete., are better organized than all other industries in this city. ~ This fact seems to have been the |inated by the Party even in the | southern states. | Platform Impresses Them. | In addition, they have been greatly impressed by the Party platform jand its bold, vigorous denunciation of lynching and other crimes against | Negroes. Its utter fearlessness in voicing their demands for full equal- ity: economic, political, social; for | abolition of all Jim Crow distinc- tions in the army, navy and civil |service; for equal opportunities for | ;employment; equal pay for equal | work, etc., have convinced them that |the Workers (Communist) Party is a genuine friend and fearless cham- | pion. | Further informed that militant fighters of their own race, like Rich- ard Moore, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Edward Welsh, etc., are high in the jcouncils of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, that the Negro has rep- resentation on the highest bodies of |the Party, they were made to re- \alize that the Workers (Communist) |Party was their Party, in a genu- ine sense, and in the same way that and exploited workers of America. The result is that many of them not only decided to vote for the Party but became members as well. Hun- |dreds of copies of the Party Plat- | “Investigation” | Continued from Page One against any further anti-militarist lactivities that the League might try to carry on among the armed forces on the Pacific Coast. The| first steps following this order were | taken when plainclothes men vis-| ited the headquarters of the Work- ers (Communist) Party at 1212) Market St., in an attempt to dis-| cover the identity of the leaders of | |the distributions. | Expect Repression Soon. { | According to a statement of the| {San Francisco branch of the Work- | jers (Communist) Party, all these| lactivities on the part of the police | |undoubtedly mean that repressive | measures will soon be taken against |the leaders and members of the ‘Young Workers League. | Undaunted, however, by the po- lice activities, the League has con- |tinued its anti-militarist activities. | When the fleet continued on its (Communist) | | the | it is the Party of all the oppressed journey and stopped in the San) |Padro Harbor, the sailors were again met by members of the Young Workers (Communist) League distributing anti-militarist | close contact with American anthro- pologists engaged in studying the peoples of the Arctic circle both in North America and in Asia. Professor Bogoras-Tan devoted many years of his life to the revo- lutionary movement in Czarist Rus- sia, being at one time an active member of the Narodnoe Voli (Peo- ple’s Will). For these activities he was exiled by the imperialist Rus- sian government to the extreme northeastern section of Siberia, near the polar wastes. During his ten years of exile he raade extensive re- searches among the natives of these regions. Since the 1917 revolution he has been occupying important ed- ucational posts under the Soviet government. Works With Minorities. For the past few years he has been engaged principally in organ- izing the work of elevating the cul- tural and economic status of the northern tribes in Russia. The Northern Institute in Leningrad, which was founded four years ago hy the Northern Branch of the All- Russian Central Executive Commit- tee and of which he is the director, HONOR TOLSTOI MOSCOW, Sept. 14.—The hun- dredth anniversary of the birth of Leo Tolstoy was observed in his home village of Yasnaya Polyana yesterday by the dedication of a modern school and hospital, in the presence of his relatives, peasants of the yicinity, and Tolstoy scholars and admirers from over the whole world. Lunacharsky, Commissar of Edu-/ cation of the Soviet Union, at the unveiling of a statue of the great writer, explained the significance of his life and work, paying tribute to him as a far-seeing realistic ar- \tist, and a rebel always sincerely | seeking for truth, but also pointed out that his policy of resistance and pacifism could not apply to the ex- ploited masses. Special Enlarged Numbers ON SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE GC, i 10. CENTS THE SECURE YOUR COPY FROM Workers Library Publishers 35 EAST 125TH STREET NEW YORK CITY COMPLETE $375. LONDON COPENHAGEN TOUR HELSINGFoRS is doing notable educational work LENIN among the “lesser” northern tribes we Moscow Ww who in Czarist times were consid- VISIT" fe 5 A ‘. rupt system of class and race ex-/ terrible grind. Anaconda is getting, 7. " |cause of a concerted campaign now out more ore than it formerly pro-| ploitation—the Workers (Commu- ee! ee ‘on in Los Angeles to bréak th - duced with double the present force. |"/St) Party. ob eels to: Pera Be. or | ganization. The Los Angeles Times, The I. W. W., once powerful in this} Whether the democrats or the|the eedae and ieathalece ‘ofthe region, is dead. ’ republicans win, the Negroes and | Jabor-hating “American Plan,” open- Foster’s audience listened atten-|every other oppressed group loses shop bosses, is leading this fight. tively while the speakers told of the|—the working class loses, for its'tp a vicious editorial in the Sep- organization of the National Miners | tember 9 Sunday edition the Times Union, to take the place of the fine characterizes the whole attack. Fol- rupt and bankrupt United Mine lowing are some of the statements Workers of America betrayed and) bers of the audience who were not! from the Times: wrecked by John L. Lewis and his| already members to join the Work-| « reactionary machine. He told of ers (Communist) Party and join in|;,, re Jroeress made by the Amer- rel nae se aa Lae by| the struggle to organize the workers) unionization of the great Los A. the textile workers to organize into and poor farmers in the United ‘ g n- and the workers must give both the cold shoulder. He asked the mem-| geles motion-victure industry is one \forms have been sold so far in Ne- |gro Harlem, and it may be safely | predicted that the sale of the plat- form in this section will run into |the thousands before the campaign is over. % | Negro in Revolt. In the meantime, the revolt of the | Negro workers against the treach- |erous republican machine threatens to throw into a panic the group of | petty-bourgeois Negro leaders whose |power to maintain its luxurious mode of living depends upon its |ability to lead the Negro masses in- | literature. | | The leaflet distributed in San Francisco reads in part: “Sailors! | | Workers In Uniform! Fight | Against Capitalist Wars! You left |the factories, mines, and farms, or |the unemployment market to ‘Join | the Navy and See the World.’ You are workers, and yet the Wall Street | |government is using you against) |the workers and peasants of China |and Nicaragua, who are fighting to free themselves from the rule of the |big capitalist powers. Tomorrow | they will use you to fight the work- one big industrial union under mili-| States for the fight against the tant and progressive leadership, a union that will fight the bosses for better conditions instead of begging for favors from them. Foster Explains Program. “The program of the Workers (Communist) Party,” Foster de- clared, “calls for the complete over- throw of the capitalist system, and the establishment of a Workers and Farmers Government to supplant the} present Wall Street state appara- tus that is used to crush the work- ers and keep their noses at the capi- talist grindstone. In the Soviet Union, the workers and peasants, in the fact of a hostile capitalist world are building up a socialist society and doing it with success. The American workers and poor farmers must do the same thing. There can be no permanent improvement in the conditions of the exploited pro- ducing classes until they have polit- | capitalist system. | Imperialist War Danger. Foster called attention to the} | grave danger of another imperialist, ;war that confronts the workers of | all countries. The capitalist powers, while quarreling among themselves | look on the Soviet Union as their! enemy. This is the heart of the war danger, he said. He declared that the Soviet Union was the fatherland of the workers} and peasants of all countries and the| workers must be prepared to defend the Soviet Union. Foster attacked the republican and democratic parties and their candi- dates, “declaring that both were equally anti-labor. Both were backed by Wall Street and had as | their campaign managers and ad- visor the leading open shoppers in the United States. Raps “Socialists.” | merely the control of the film-ma! ical power in their own hands, dis-| The Socialist Party, he declared, possess the parasitic masters of|/had repudiated the class struggle Jand and industry and operate the and is now just another party of machinery of production and distri-| capitalism, supporting the imperial- bution in the interests of the work- ist League of Nations, the world ers. This is what they are doing in| court, the Kellogg anti-peace fraud the Soviet Union. This is what the in the guise of an anti-war treaty workers and subject peoples of alljand other imperialist institutions the world must do. The workers | »~° and peasants of the U. S. S. R.| Norman Thomas, the socialist) have blazed the way.” |presidenvial candidate who spoke Stormy applause greeted Foster! recently had a very poor meeting, when he denounced Senators Walsh| the apathy of the audience being in and Wheeler, one a well known|striking contrast to the enthusiasm agent of the Anaconda Mining Com-| displayed by those who came to hear pany and the other an alleged pro-|the Communist candidate. gressive now campaigning for Al] Foster left Butte for Tacoma, Aner yer, | Smith, the Tammany reactionary. There is no difference between Wheeler and Walsh he pointed cut Washington, his next stop on his nation-wide tour in behalf of the election campaign, to give great concern to supporters of the open shop and to all who ap- | preciate its vital importance to the welfare of free American industry, not only here but everywhere. “Much more is at stake than ing business,” and here the Ameri- can plan bosses let the cat out of the bag. They are afraid that the unionization process will spread to other industries, to their shops. There can be only one answer by the workers to this provocation from the Times and that is a determined counter-attack. shop slogan of the Times and the Chamber of Commerce of Los An- geles, workers must fight for union- ization of all the industries of Los Angeles and of southern California. These must not be vacillating, com- promising, craft unions; but fight- ing, uncompromising, class-conscious erganizations. That is one of the most effective answers to the chal- lenge of Harry Chandler, the Los principle.” SWEDE PAPER WORKERS WIN STOCKKOLM, Sept. tv Victory after two months of strike has come to workers in Sweden’s paper industry. used by strikers from the start are given credit for the success. STRIP MINER KILLED MURPHYSBORO, Sept. 16.—Da- vid Craig, 60-year-old miner of Hal- lidayboro, was instantly killed at his work as a trackman for the Truax- Traer Coal Company strip mine. Against the open- | Angeles Times and the “open-shop | Aggressive tactics | jto the political camps of their ene-| i oo eee a fades |mies. These masses are refusing to | 38 P |follow the old leadership blindly as |S4'Y: to do strike-breaking duty lin the past, but are beginning to | #gainst our fellow-workers in Amer- | |challenge their ability and disinter-| ia Do not be'a tool of the bosses, estedness, but use your training to defend the In their desperate effort to stem working class. Join us in the fight) men of these bankrupt parties are | attempting to divert the Negro| guments that the campaign is based | jupon the individual rather than on the party. This in itself is a con- | fession that the records of these} itself is an additional and forceful | tructive fury. | argumert why the Negro workers| Grave anxiety prevailed for lives | should vote for the Party of the and property. | the revolt from the old parties of #&ainst imperialist war!” the rani and file, the Negro hench- | eG APR aes | masses from scrutiny of the record | STORM IN PORTO of these parties, with the false ar-| parties do not warrant the Narr | Uontinued from Page One workers voting for them. This in| night in all its sky darkening, des- working class, the Workers (Com-| Terrific winds, sweeping rains and munist) Party. | seas of awe inspiring height brought {fear to the thousands who dwell in, A |towns and cities which dot the shore | Cooperative Bakery line—in winter time the playground | in Los Angeles of eastern America. ng Grows Richard W. Gray, meteorologist of | LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16.—The the United States Weather Bureau | “Co-op” Bakery at 2708 Brooklyn|at Miami, warned that the disturb- | Awe., long a center of the revolu-|ance far exceeded in intensity the| tionary workers movement in Los disastrous hurricane of September, | | Angeles, has decided upon a further| 1926, which swept Miami and the} expansion. interior of Florida with appalling | The Cooperative Consumers) loss of life and property damage in | | League has arranged to purchase the millions. | the corner lot next to its own build-| From Daytona Beach, 250 miles | ling for the price of $15,300, With- southward to Miami, the gravest) in the immediate future a large danger apparently existed, with the | modern Co-operative Cafeteria will| hurricane center placed by the be built there to add another link/ weather bureau near west Palm ered only as objects of exploitation insofar as they were given any no- tice at all. Many of the tribes were almost completely exterminated. The new school is attended by 300 stu- dents of 42 nationalities, who are given a four-year course, during which they are supported by the government. Some of the students come from a distance of 7,000 miles to attend the school and spend many months in traveling on foot, rein- deer, dog-sled and other conveyances before reaching the railroad. Many have never eaten bread nor seen a horse. The training at the school BERLIN PARIS 35 DAYS of Interesting Travel SOVIET RUSSIA (Last Tour This Year) SS. MAURETANIA October 17 WORLD TOURISTS Incorporated. 69 FIFTH AVE. New York Algonquin 6000 equips them for work as instructors of their tribes, to which they return upon the expiration of the course. 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