The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1928, Page 6

Page Six i Baily ‘THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1928 Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING A: Ine., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Dziwork” Phone, Stuyeesant 1696-7-8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): $8 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. —%- <> ...-ROBERT MINOR .WM. F. DUNNE — Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers! Loans to the Soviet Union The loan mongers of the world are evincing extraordinary interest in the possibility of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics being able to absorb huge amounts of investment capital. The reason for this sudden interest in prospects for future Soviet loans is the demonstrated ability of the Bolshevik gov- ernment to meet German demands for loan payments months before they fall due. The financial world was astonished to learn that during the first business week of Sep- tember 21,000,000 marks worth of gold was sent into Germany from Soviet sources. This transaction had been preceeded by a large number of smaller shipments of gold from the Soviet Union into Germany. For a time the financial world was unable to ascertain the motive for such a gold movement and so their experts on statistical analysis began to delve into the problem. What was the motive of the Soviet Union in shipping such amounts of gold? The answer was soon forthcoming. The gold shipments that culminated in the 21,000 000 marks movement were for the purpose of placing sufficient gold in German banks to cover the first payment of German gov- vernment guaranteed credits, amounting to 80,000,000 marks ($20,000,000). It has been ascertained that the total amount that will fall due between October and January 1929, is already in the hands of the German bankers. This fact is a staggering refutation of the professional -traducers of the Soviet Union who have carried on a persistent propaganda to the effect that the Bolsheviks could not meet the payments on these loans. The lie factories of Paris and Riga, as well as Kel- logg’s propaganda mill at Washington, and Matthew Woll’s Civic Federation liars, will have to invent new slanders against the U. 8. S. R. American financial writers are now specu- lating upon the volume of future loans that »*will flow to the Soviet Union. With gold again moving from London to New York the question of disposing of the enormous gold supply in the United States becomes more complicated. Since the Soviet Union is able to absorb a tremendous volume of credits, this question inevitably forces it- self to the very forefront in financial circles. Tt is a certainty that credits will be granted, with or without recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States government. Let no one imagine, however, that because credits will be extended the loan mon- gers are any more friendly to the revolution than before. They will remain, as before, the relentless enemies of the workers’ and pea- For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW That is the road over which the Soviet Union is travelling toward the construction of socialism. The loan mongers of the world know this and will try to market the products of their home industries and prevent the de- velopment of Soviet industries. But the Soviet Union that has faced the bullets of the imperialists and defeated their mercenary legions on its own soil, that has known how to deal with the spies and sabota- geurs of the enemy, will also meet and defeat the intrigues of those who try to utilize credits to the detriment of the revolution. They will, of course, not refuse short-time. credits, but never will the Soviet Union per- mit itself to be placed in a position where it is dependent for industrial commodities upon the imperialist bandits who, at,the very mo- ment they grant credits, will conspire against the workers’ and peasants’ government. The progress of the Soviet Union on the road to socialism is a guarantee against the im- | perialist plotters. Furthermore, the class conscious workers of the capitalist countries who are the only real defenders outside the Soviet Union of , their socialist fatherland will continue their fight against the imperialists whether they grant long or short-term loans, knowing full well that conspiracies, in one form or an- other, against the Soviet Union will cease only when capitalism falls before the world proletarian revolution. . Kellogg Pact The swindle of the Kellogg pact as an al- leged preventive of wars is emphasized by the aircraft maneuvers at Paris, less than a fortnight after the signing of the document by various nations. The maneuvers at Paris were, like all similar exhibitions, intensive propaganda for ever greater armaments. British and French army staffs viewed the performance and made observations “with a view towards perfecting the offen- sive and defensive ability of the French air force.” It is particularly significant that a mock airplane attack on Paris was managed in such a way that had it been real it would have completely destroyed most of the city | and the general staff itself. The inevitable | conclusion to be drawn from the Paris per- | formance is the necessity for doubling and trebling the air forces as well as the anti- aircraft forces. Let no one think for a mo- ment that such maneuvers before staffs of officers from other powers reveal to them the real condition of the military forces, even though they may have a joint entente $2 three months Paris — Two Weeks After the “THIS IS TERRIBLE. LET US HAVE PEACE” By RICHARD B. MOORE. (Candidate for Congress, 21st Con- gressional District, Workers (Com- munist) Party. One of the most vital problems which the Negro masses face is the problem of housing. How very vi- tal, in fact, how actually menacing |this problem now is will be realized when it is known that the record of the death rate in cities shows that Negro children are dying from two to eight times faster than the chil- dren of other races. This fright- ful mortality, this slaughter of the innocents, is due directly to the ter- rible housing conditions imposed |upon the Negro masses under the present oppressive capitalist system |which is based upon rent, interest | and profit. | Rent profiteering, overcrowding, |unsanitary and beastly conditions | are at their worst in the segregated districts where Negroes are com- | pelled to live. Unable to move out | of these miserable ghettos, the Ne- |gro masses are forced to pay the most exhorbitant and outrageous rents for houses in every state of dilapidation and lack of sanitation. They are the prey of the greedy landlords and grasping capitalists who literally suck the life-blood out of them. Negroes Jim Crowed. Exploited at the point of produc- tion where they are paid the lowest wages for the most taxing and men- ial labor, Negro workers are set upon at the point of consumption by rent hogs and landlord sharks who take advantage of their segregated condition to gouge and bleed them to death. Terrible indeed is the plight of these workers caught in the meshes of this vicious and lethal gouging. Impoverishment, degrada- tion, disease, and death—this is the Housing Vital Problem of Negr o Workers health and welfare of the people, it would pass this bill forthwith. The |Exploited by Sharks; Face Exorbitant Rents; ‘readful conditions among the Slum Conditions; Segregation are the tragic results. When mea- |sures are introduced for the protec- tion of tenants or for the improve- ment of housing conditions, such as |the extension of the Emergency Rent Laws, and the Dwellings Law Bill which were brought before the New York legislature this year, it is seen that black and white land- lords unite in the fight to defeat them. They line up together on the basis of their class interests as capi- | talists to kill laws which would help |to abolish fire-traps and disease- | breeding slums, laws which would |improve in some slight measure the \standards of safety and health in |the homes of the masses. They |ought as one to wipe from the sta- |tute books any laws which afford |tenants and workers the slightest legal basis for a fight against “un- _just, unreasonable and oppressive rents.” The Negro landlords and | agents, like the others, protect their |elass interests, their profits, they fight against the interests of the |oppressed Negro masses who are} | being crushed into the dust. Workers Fight the Slum System. It is the workers’ and tenants’ or- ganizations that are found fighting for the protection of the workers, black and white. The American Negro Labor Con- | gress sent telegrams to the gover- nor and legislature of New York State, demanding the passage of |these laws. The Harlem Tenants League sent resolutions and dele- gates along with the representatives | of other tenants’ leagues and labor system of profit-making and rent-|podies to fight for the protection | land the welfare and lives of the |masses of the people. owned and controlled by all the workers under the system of Com- munism, which alone can solve the problem of housing, of labor, etc., and guarantee a decent life for all the masses. In the present election campaign the duty of the oppressed Negro and white workers and tenants is clear. It is to support whole- jheartedly the only party which \fights for a program of housing and labor in the interests of the masses, the Workers (Communist) Party. | The program of the Workers | | (Communist) Party on housing de- | mands: | 1, Abolition of all laws which re- | sult in segregation of Negroes. | Abolition of all Jim Crow laws, The | law shall forbid all discrimination | against Negroes in selling or rent-| | ing houses, | | 2. Municipal fixing of low rents | for workers. Rent for wage earn-| ers should not amount to more than | |10 per cent of their wages. 3. Municipally built houses should be rented to the workers without | profit. | 4, Immediate enactment of state laws providing for abolition of the jright of eviction by landlords against wage earner tenants. 5. Compulsory repair by the land- | lords of all working class homes in) |bad condition. | 6. Immediate establishment by | municipalities of homes to shelter the unemployed. 7. Municipal aid to building cooperatives. workers’ (Editor’s note): This article by the candidate of \of confiscation. masses will be realized from the «| pathetic fact that we have mothers appearing in court with children whose fingers and cheeks have been eaten by rats because rapacious landlords refuse to make repairs. Told You So \A turned Harry Sinclair who has been kicked around like the “Ole hound dawg” for several years is now on the inside of the boot. You all heard of the scandalous way in which this patriot was treated for his patriotic action in becoming a party of the sec- ond part to an oil deal, which relieved the navy depart- ment of a state full of oil. Big hearted Harry agreed to shoulder the burden. T. J. O'Flaherty * * 28 | WEL: Harry lost several pounds of excess avoirdupois and per- haps a million dollars in legal fees before he was finally absolved of sin. But a true patriot will never rest until he has given his country convincing proof that his heart onl? palpitates for two worthy purposes, namely love and patriotism. When the time came for the oil Ameer to file his income tax report he lopped off a couple of millions from his taxable income, which he claimed was lost to him thru bad luck with the horses, a few bad debts and sun- dry items amounting to half a mil- lion. [AD Sinclair succeeded in convine- ing the internal revenue depart- ment of the truth of his tale he would have saved $250,060—almost enough to buy the next administra- tion. And he might have succeeded but for the cupidity of two internal revenue agents who tried to hold him up for $35,000. Rocking with in- dignation, Sinclair got in touch with the competent authorities, who had the agents arrested with the dough. Harry brolte into the press and is now eligible for a cabinet position. Evidently he learned something from the Teapot Dome scandal. * 8 8 HE arirval of Aimee McPherson in town, on her way to England, cannot help. attracting the attention The issue which this legislature is|of prospective business men to the now called upon to decide, the issue | now squarely before it, is whether the richest state of the richest coun- try in the world cannot find enough resources, cannot provide a housing code which will provide sufficient light and air and which will compel standards for the protection of the health and lives of its citizens, “The landlords have raised the cry It must be an- swered that millions of dollars of slave property were confiscated in order to abolish chattel slavery. But the issue is not now confiscation. We have not yet come to that again. There is not a single confiscatory provision in this Dwellings Law Bill which requires only the barest minimum standards for health and safety. As a matter of fact, this bill does not begin to require what is really necessary for the protec- tion of the masses. Against this false cry of confiscation, we raise the true ery of murder, for the |lethal conditions under which the |masses of people are now compelled jto live amount to murder. To the gentleman who quoted from the de- calogue, “Thou shalt not steal,” we reply, that there is another com- mandment which is still more bind- jing, “Thou shalt not kill.” “T ask this legislature not to be |landlords* who _have packed this hearing. The millions of the peo- ple demand the passage of this law. They are the fewer here for the rea- son that even now at this hour they are toiling and sweating and grind- overawed by this display of the) field of religion as a fertile source of income. Aimee has found it that way. In one respect it resembles the insurance business. One can start without much capital. The customer bears all the expénse and unless he dies too soon he is cer- tain to be all velvet. There is an- other resemblance. Insurance, though encouraging thrift, thrives on the thriftless, who are more in- clined to spend their savings than to bank them for a dying day. Re- ligion, while warring on sin, would go to bed supperless only for the jolly old sinner. Cee ee ee is going to England to save the Anglo-Saxons from beer and sin. The English are between the devil and the deep sea, alright. They must choose between Aimee and Pussyfoot Johnson. Wise people always pick the lesser of two evils. Pussyfoot, in addition to being a chronic snooper, is a confidence man. He passes off a glass eyeball for the real article. Since Aimee faced a jury in her kidnaping trial and learned from experience that short skirts are more effective in softening the male heart than the most eloquent address from learned counsel, she has compromised with Satan by giving her calves the air, But by meeting the sinners half- way she brings in the customers. Pussyfoot is too old-fashioned. He persists in looking at sin straight with his eye. + * * ake Workers (Communist) Party is now on the ballot in twenty- one states, with several other states terrible toll which Negro workers | are forced to pay under this vicious | system which yields ill-gotten gain) ing to produce the profits and rents which these oppressors squeeze out of them. But these workers are sants’ government. In fact, they will en- our Party for congress in the 21st deavor to utilize their loans for counter-revo- jg | Congressional district exposes the Lessons, The lesson of this situation against other imperialist powers. lutionary purposes. The Berlin corre- spondent of the New York Evening Post, speaking of credits to the Soviet Union says: “Many persons think the Soviets ought to buy finished articles for consumption, which can be bought on short term credits, instead of machinery, which requires long-term credits. . . It is understood from very re- liable sources that it is possible, if the Rus- sians are willing to accept large short-term credits, Americans are ready to participate with the Germans in placing considerable sums at their disposal.” + While appearing as merely a technical question of finances, the distinction between short-term credits for articles calculated for immediate consumption and long-term credits for machinery is of the greatest polit- jeal significance. Short-term credits mean that the banking capitalists will place at the disposal of the Soviet Union only those credits that will enable the Bolshevik gov- ernment to purchase the finished products of the industrial capitalist countries—hoping the Soviet Union will become a mere “market for the absorption of such com- modities and will be dependent for its needs upon the capitalist world. Long-term credits mean placing at the disposal of the Soviet Union money that will enable the government to continue its policy of socialist construction by establishing its own indus- tries—its own machinery of production. The greatest need of the Soviet Union is not merely the machinery of light industry that will enable it to produce textile and other commodities for immediate sale and con- sumption. Its greatest need is the establish- ment of ‘heavy industries; industries that luce the machinery of production for the A The presence of the British did, however, also emphasize the new Anglo-French en- tente that first took the form of a naval agreement between the Baldwin-Chamber- lain tory government and the Poincare- Briand imperialist government. While the sham air fight was going on in Paris the puppet president at Washington, Cal Coolidge, and his antedulivian secretary of state, ‘Nervous Nelly” Kellogg, were still trying to conceal their fury at the Anglo- French naval agreement which was consum- mated in defiance of the naval arms policy of the United States. Within a short time we may expect sim- ilar sham battles off the coasts of the United States which will “reveal” the fact that all the sea coast cities may easily be destroyed, as an excuse for our own jingoes to demand armaments that will surpass those of any other nation. This frenzied preparation for another im- perialist war, the logical inevitable result of the contradictions generated on a ‘world scale, is the outstanding political problem of the day, yet as far as the campaigns of the democrats, republicans and socialists are con- cerned, this fact is utterly ignored. It is only the Communists that face the reality of the situation and wage a deter- mined sfruggle against the war-mongers. All those workers and farmers of the United States, who will be the victims of the next world slaughter, should rally to the support of the candidates of. the Workers (Commu- nist) Party and help wage a fight against imperialism and all its agents—the Herbert Hoovers, the Al Smiths and the Norman | Thomases and blood money to a few capitalist parasites. Negro Landlords Just as Oppressive It is a fact worthy of special note agents are ready participants in and active supporters of this vicious system which pauperizes, degrades, and crushes the masses of the Ne- gro race. It is an undeniable and weighty fact that Negro landlords and agents are no more considerate of the purse, safety, health, and lives of Negro tenants than any other landlords. Indeed, it is to be observed that Negro real estate agents have been a very active class in ‘increasing rent, They are exceedingly active and skillful in the business of per- tenants at doubled rentals. What does it matter to them what these tenants do, or how they live in order to pay these oppressive rents? What does it matter to these Negro agents and landlords whether black babies live or die? Only one thing matters with them as with all land- lords and capitalists of whatever race, and that is profit. Profit For Landlords—Slums For Workers. The higher the rent, the greater the commission, the larger the gain. And again, the less coal burned, the fewer repairs made, the greater the profit. So rents are raised, steam heat and hot water are bard- ly to be obtained, and repairs and sanitation are neglected by black as well as by white landlords and agents. With results for the masses of these workers that are terrible suading landlords to put in Negro} |plain and pointed. It is clear be- |fore our eyes. The fight to reduce | higher rents and to clean up the vile | conditions which menace the health and full of great significance that|and survival of the Negro workers) Negro landlords and real estate) will have to be waged against the |: | bitter opposition of both black and | white landlords who fatten upon |these vicious and murderous condi- tions. The Negro tenants and workers of other races, will have to carry on this necessary struggle for |the salvation of the black and white | workers. The Only Solution—Communism. They must build strong tenants’ |leagues and powerful labor unions as their essential and effective in- struments for this vital struggle. | They must organize politically to de- feat the parties of the capitalists jand the landlords, the republican jand democratic parties. They must |defeat likewise the socialist party, the treacherous party of the small business men and yellow liberals who have forsaken the class strug- gle and who fail to fight for the in- terests of the workers. They must build and support the Party of the class struggle, the Party of the workers, farmers, and tenants which fights militantly against the sys- \tem of rent-profiteering and capi- talist exploitation—the (Communist) ‘Party. Under the banner of this militant proletarian party the black and white tenants and workers must fight for the abolition of the capi- \talist system of rent, interest and profit which is responsible for their oppression and degradation. They must fight for the establishment of a workers’ government under which Workers | \terrible housing conditions existing |in the Jim Crow quarters where Ne- gro workers are forced to live by) |the vicious racial caste system) which capitalist society maintains. | Similar conditions are to be found |in all working class districts. In “prosperous” America the | workers, black and white, are forced watching to see whether this legis- |lature will sacrifice the health and lives of its citizens to the greed of oppressive profiteers. They will judge and act accordingly.” The capitalist politicians of both the republican and democratic par- ties killed this bill. The workers _and tenants should learn from this to live in slums and hovels, but in! that they must support the party of | Soviet Russia, where the workers rule, the best houses are occupied by workers and “the building of homes for workers is an essential part of the whole constructive pro- gram of the Soviet government |which spends millions’ yearly to erect houses for wage earners.” | their own class which alone can be depended upon to fight for their vital interests. This party is the Workers (Communist) Party, Vote Communist! Join the Workers (Communist) Party! The oppressive nature of the cap-|*] abhor’ Laws Are in litalist government of America is clearly to be seen in the callous dis- regard of the lives of the masses of the people by the capitalist politi- cians who killed the Dwellings Law Bill, and other such measures. The fight against this capitalist ex- ploitation and degradation of the workers is and must be carried on against the bitter opposition of both republican and democratic parties. This was brought into bold view in the struggle over the Dwellings Law Bill. One of the most militant fight- ers for the protection of the tenants and workers in that struggle was the candidate of our Party, Richard /at all the hearings at Albany. We |B. Moore, who as president of the Harlem Tenants’ League, appeared |quote in part from one of his |speeches exposing before the legis- lature the oppressive housing condi- tions, “If the legislature were conver- sant with the terrible housing con- to contemplate. Destitution, degen-|the means of life—land, houses, |ditions now existing, and if it were eration, disease, and death, these/factories, mills, mines, etc.—will be|moved by considerations for the il ut Interest of Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) Labor laws are supposed to be in the interests of the workers. So say the state and federal authori- ties. Well, man, they are on paper, of course. In the construction of new build- ings hoists are used for carrying up materials. No people are allowed to ride on them. Recently I saw men riding on them because they wanted to save time. In one place the boss also saw this but as usual didn’t give a damn. Workers, see that the safety laws are enforced. If we do not protect our lives, who will? It is up to us. CASSELL. Japan has more than 850,000 women factory workers, almost ready for filing. This is a splendid accomplishment for a young party with only one election cam- paign behind it. In the heyday of the socialist party it was only on the ballot in 41 states. But for the “traditional” socialist voters, who have gone to sleep since the war, the socialist party would not get enough votes in this election came paign to fill a high hat. Al Smith has stolen Norman Thomas’s cam- paign thunder and a considerable chunk of the LaFollette vote of 1924, which the socialists then claimed for themselves, will divide between the democratic and repub- lican parties. * * * ane the Workers (Communist) Party was incurring the wrath of the capitalists and the labor fakers by participating in the strug- gles of the workers for wages and working conditions, and leading the left wing struggle in the trade unions, the socialist party was busy slandering the Communists and as- sisting the reactionary labor lead- ers in ousting the militants. They expected ‘that this treacherous pol- iey would win them the support of the trade union bureaucracy. But this is not Europe, where the social democrats are either running the government for the capitalists ore are in a respectable opposition. The labor bureaucrats, being “practical” neveans, do not see any sense in sticking their economic necks into the Kev. Norman Thomas's hato. They prefer the more juicy honors of the capitalist parties,