The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1928, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1928 Daily Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Addres: SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): 68 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 = DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Editor... Assistant —_— — ...-ROBERT MINOR -WM. F. DUNNE 1 at the Entered as t-office at. New York, N, Y¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Q| For the Workers: Hoover Evades “All Issues The speech of Herbert Hoover at Newark Monday evening did not differ in the slightest from the consistent misrepresenta- tion of the unemployment situation in the United States that has characterized the Mellon-Coolidge administration since the be- ginning of the cri last year. Blissfully ignoring the real facts regarding unemploy- ment, Hoover declared that the unemployed army was being again absorbed in indust: He stated that when the republican adminis tration assumed direction of the government in 1921, “there were five to six million un- employed upon our streets,” and added that the intervening period has been marked by the elimination of this army of jobless workers. This is in flagrant contradiction to the known facts that place the present unem- ployed army at between four and five million. In perpetuating the Coolidge myth of pros- perity for all sections of the population, Hoover—the candidate of “rationalization” — declared that the “increased efficiency of our whole industrial machine” was Kespon- sible for it. There is no denying a great in- crease in industrial output, but to say that this was accompanied by an increase in the number of industrial workers employed is to resort to deliberate lying—an art at which Mr. Hoover is ‘especially adept. Even a cursory survey of the reports of his depart- ment of commerce will reveal the fact that he js entitled to a high rating in the Ananias club. One of the outstanding facts of American economic life is the pronounced decline in the number of workers employed in industry dur- ing the period of rapid development of the productive forces of the country. The statis- tics describing the decrease in the number of employed in the years 1919, 1925 and 1926, appeared in the “Annalist” of March 9, 1928, and are as follows: 1919 1925 1926 Big Industries. . 10,689,000 9,772,000 9,850,000 Mining. ...... 1,065,000 1,065,000 860,000 Transport (railways) 1,915,000 1,744,000 1,782,000 While this decrease of industrial workers was taking place, there was an increase of more than 25 per cent in the volume of in- dustrial commodities produced. The year 1921, the year of depression spoken of by Hoover, is deliberately ignored and only those figures given for years of prosperity. Thus, it is clearly seen that the much-vaunted in- creased efficiency, the rationalization of in- dustry, of which we hear so much from the Mellons, the Hoovers and their agents in the labor bureaucracy, (the Greens, the Lewises, the Wolls) results in a steady increase of un- employment even during the periods of greatest prosperity. Likewise the statement of Hoover that wages will rise under such conditions is con- trary to all experience. Increased efficiency means more unemployment, which in turn means keener competition for jobs, with a resultant fall in wages and a lengthening of hours for those who still remain employed. The election of Hoover, the apostle of Yationalization, or of Smith, whose advisors haven’t even the brains to devise such sophistries as are used by the republicans, means for the working class a continuation of the process that has been rapidly displac- ing workers in industry even in the years of greatest prosperity. Not only that, but in Mr. Hoover's speech at Newark we find an emphatic condemna- tion of any form of social legislation caleu- lated to relieve the unemployed. He scorn- fully refers to “doles to the idle” as a “device of desperation,’ and flatly informs the workers that they need expect nothing from the government in the form of relief for un- employment. ‘Fear of old age and for the future of the family has been lessened through increased payments to the savings banks and the insurance companies and to our labor benefit societies,” declared Hoover. Not one single word about placing upon in- dustry, the task of relieving the workers who have contributed to the “unexampled pros- perity for the capitalist class and who have been thrown upon the scrap heap of industry. Speaking in New Jersey, where unemploy- ment is rampant, where wages have been cut until the workers in desperation have 1s A | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! | | ed long, bitter, militant struggles against | highly protected textile industry, Mr. er had the audacity éo praise the Ford- | homage to their prototy; \ For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! ney-McCumber tariff bill as beneficial to labor. Like his rival old party candidate, the democratic party nominee, Al. Smith, the re- publican nominee was forced to pay a tribute to the militant fight of the left wing of the labor movement against the use of injunc- tions by declaring that “it is necessary to impose restrictions on the excessive use of injunctions.” But like Smith, he is careful not to urge the abolition of injunctions against labor. So widespread has been the defiance of injunctions against labor that the capitalist politicians have been forced to mention these attacks against the very exist- ence of the trade union movement. But both Hoover and Smith, while pretending to op- “pose what they call the abuse of the injunc- tive power, are in reality trying to save the injunction and the injunction judges from the wholesale contempt of the working class —Smith by speaking favorably of “neces- sary” injunctions and Hoover against their “excessive” use. Obviously they become necessary to Smith and his sponsors, the Raskobs of General Motors and the Qwen D. Youngs of the scab-herding, strike-break- ing General Electric, when the workers ‘are likely to defeat the capitalists. As to Hoover, it is certain such injunctions as that issued against the miners of Pennsylvania by a re- publican lackey of the Mellon interests, Judge Schoonmaker would not be viewed as ex- cessive. In his Newark speech Hoover only dealt indirectly with the international situation; citing imports and exports and referring to the world’s trade only as it was alleged to affect national economy. Boasting of the enormous exports of commodities and gold, and referring to the supreme position of the United States, Hoover was indeed the very personification of arrogant, vicious imperial- ism. Like all of his class, like all the ruling classes that have held sway in all the history of slavery, Hoover imagines the supremacy of his class will last forever. He does not appear to perceive that the continual strengthening of the position of American imperialism at the expense of the other im- perialist powers, especially England and Japan, contains the germs -of another world war. And even though he could perceive this fact he would not dare mention it in his campaign speeches for the simple reason that as long as capitalism exists there will be a continuous state of war or preparations for war—all periods of peace are but armed truces. Only*the party of the working class, the party of the proletarian revolution, the Workers (Communist) Party, has a pro- gram that will solve the problems facing the working class of the country. Only our can- didates stand on a platform that meets the issues of unemployment, the use of injunc- tions and other means of oppression against labor. Not one other party aside from the Workers (Communist) Party has a program of social legislation that takes up the ques- tion of the condition of the working men, women and children. And the one Party that faces the issue of the danger of an- other world war and offers the only con- ceivable solution—the revolutionary solution is the Workers (Communist) Party. Appropriate Commemoration of Hamilton It is eminently fitting that the republican politicians as well as the democratic patriots should pay homage to Alexander Hamilton on the opening day of “constitution week.” Last Sunday the managers of Hoover’s cam- paign placed wreaths on the tomb of Hamil- ton in Trinity churchyard. The political puppets of the most malig- nant reactionary force in the whole world— American -imperialism—tribute to the man who was the very incarnation of the counter- revolution that took place in the United States after the first war against England. The adoption of the constitution by a secret, illegal conspiracy of business men and its imposition upon the colonies by organized terrorism, with Hamilton leading the re- actionary forces against the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence, penned by the avowed Jacobin, Thomas Jefferson, signalized the definite consolidation of the forces of reaction. to Hamilton. The reactipnaries of today pay of yesterday. Both democrats and spare sing peans | ; Ps “Daiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 |ty “events” found the 43rd annual jeration of Labor important enough | |tician and leading |ing the affiliation of the New Hav- jen Central Labor Union to the New |Haven Chamber of Commerce |telry, a happy, gay, back-clapping |body of men, than whom no mer- |rier a gang was ever seen. : | A YELP TO DROWN THE “WHISPERERS” By Fred Ellis Told You So A Connecticut Red at ‘King’ Eagan’s Court By A. MOSS. NEW LONDON, Conn. (By Mail). —These printed words give the only Booze Flowed in Rivers at Labor Fakers’, account of a labor gathering held in this city. None of the capitalist sheets, giving as they do columns Convention; Workers Ignored. of space to the most trivial and pet- | the A. F. of L. and in every other way respectable. It was Mr. Eagan, by the way, convention of the Connecticut Fed- to waste two lines of type on it. “With few exceptions there is no capitalist press.” So learnedly spoke Mr. Murphy, democratic poli- light of Con- necticut labor fakerdom, to whom credit may be given for the original and beautiful contribution to the cause of class peace—-that of urg- with the police commissioners of ing.them to the effect that the min- ers’ relief committee, as also the | textile relief committee, are not \bona fide. That they are rather vies,” and that no permits for tag \days, ete, be given to representa- | tives of these committees. A warn- \ing the bona fide, labor loving po- \lice of Connecticut well heeded. Mr. Eagan, may I repeat, was re- elected unanimously—of ‘almost so. Whispering Campaigns. A progressive delegate to this |convention, Brother Hearing, pres- lident of Stamford C. L, U., well known and well liked trade union- ist. One who had dared going to |the Soviet Union as a member of |the recent trade union delegation, was defeated for vice presidency, And so that the future historian may be aware of this great historic and significant occasion, be it re- corded, that for the 4-5-6-7th days of September, 1928, there descended into the old city of New London, to be precise, into its Mohican Hotel, the town’s richest non-union hos- Rivers of Whiskey. And bootleg whiskey in rivers | thru a whispering campaign. “Don’t | vote for Hearing, he’s “Comoonis- | |ran. And real beer found a ready market, and cigars, both union and non-union made, were freely passed, and hours merrily chased, and wise- cracks cracked, and daddy, mammy | |songs lustily sung, and speeches |lengthy by fat'and pompous gentle- tic.” The machine reigneth supreme. many International vice presidents, \shyster lawyers “representing la- men, glorifying our ‘“institushuns” | Bors interests,” and ministers of the |held, and all was well and everyone | BSP. 0) lances the tteides was happy. It was Connecticut la-|™ents of labor, one era Ses bor holding its 43rd state conven-|™2de forward,” and, ‘as I look tion. | back some years . . .,” who sang "1 y . | th ‘ais of “your leaders who oatale- the. great combate thine Paes ee eu Mee | assembly witnessed (those sober | mands,” and called upon the Lord see Viens anything but an-|to “assist in this holy endeavor.” |other bottle) would prove a lack of ity indivi ; |sportmanship on the part of the | Over-fed looking individuals beamed writer of these lines. Yes, there| ith Self-satisfaction, |was such fierce and gruel combats,| There.was a report of delegates. |and prizes given to the winners. The main attraction, the gladia- | |tors, Mr. Murphy, the above men-| |tioned president of the New Haven) |C. L. U. local aldermen, well-known | democratic politician, versus Mr.)} | Moore, beloved son and’ democratic | | politician of Torrington; Mr. Dona- ters containing campaign fund con- hue, favorite son of Danbury and tributions: “Enclosed please find one oe more backer of the illustrious | gojiar as my donation to the Com- champion of the common people, “Al rf P ‘ been ‘And ‘theue Hees z three | Munist Campaign Fund. Knowing |cornered ring vying for the presi- dency of the organization, and the plums that fall with it. Such as labor selling, political graft, etc. One must admit though, methods used by the above mentioned were | the most honorable. No harsh voice was ever raised at the convention, | no ungentlemanly procedure any were guilty of. remain, Your for Communism, THOMAS TUOLO. * 8 * | “Enclosed please find two dollar that | bills, one from me and the other ifrom my friend John Chanas, for lgars, political favors promised, ru-|1 know very well that DuPont will |mors passed, some whispering, all! not help you out in your election |in good ward-heeling fashion. work, We workers have to do it Whether Mr. Moore’s bootleg was | alone, although our contribution is of a better grade, or was it that| small because we have to work for his cigars were passed more freely, very small weekly wages as I am |or a tacit understanding between sorry that we can’t do better. |candidates—as many claim—but be : ; it reported, that it is Mr. Moore + = |who shall until the next convention,| And a surprise for “Big Bill the as president, be privileged to all| Builder,” mayor of Chicago. One of pretty plums that lie in wait for up- the employes in city hall sends a and-at-it labor presidents to come |check for $5.00 to the Communist and pick ’em. Campaign Fund. No doubt if Big Big-Hearted Eagan, ‘Bill knew his name he would be fired A high moment was also that of | @icker than a police chief who did renominating Mr. John Eagan, Rt know how to shake down the | wiry, small and vicious labor faker, | bootleggers. every inch of him, for secretary. | baie HAL He was unanimously re-elected. So much for money. As you al- | For any delegate to have sug-|ready know, the Communist ticket gested a frame of mind other than|is on the ballot in Texas tho the as- unanimity on this proposition,|sistant secretary of state is kicking would spell a bloody nose, or some! and threatening to throw it off. The jother way of inviting disaster. \candidate of the Workers (Commur Eagan, though small in, stature, | nist). Party for lieutenant-governor \is big in his love for the labor |is Comrade J. L. Swan, an eighty- movement, as long as it is bona year-old veteran of the class strug- fide, within the prospective wing ot| + aoe “the doings of those dirty bulshe- | There were speeches rendered by | | Weapons were whisky bottles, ci- | carrying on the election campaign as | gle. He was active in the Populist Party activities. Good stuff! 1 The Booze Was Good. “Well, president and brother delegates, I can report that every- who had recently gotten in touch |thing in our locals is going along | battle, fine. . . . We had a little hard | Though a lot of our men are loa: ing just at present. We might ex: |pect some hard times this win-| ic Neteae “Brother president, and delegates, in New Britain*conditions are good. |We have 64 men in our local. late about 18 are out of work. We }got most of the shops organized— |that is outside of the big shops. where they work 18 hours a day—” “Making progress . . .” “Same,as last year . . The Clarion Call. | There were various resolutions | submitted. The resolutions timidly told a tale of open shoppers, of their vigorous onslaught on labor, fair” legislators, mean and un- friendly to labor, of “unjust” in- junctions, ete. And with them the clarion call to battle. How? By what means? | Information cheerfully given. “. . . That we again submit |this resolution to the Honorable |Senator Bingham, calling upon him |to reconsider . . .” | “. . . That’ we call upon the (delegates to take back with them to |their local unions, that the La France fire fighting apparatus | manufacturing company are unfair |to labor . . .” |“... That Knick-Knack |penders are made under open |conditions ... .” “. . . In view of the fact the K. O. X. Mfg. Co. manufacturing toilet specialties are unfair to or- sus- shop CAMPAIGN CORNER |missioner of Jones County on the |P. P. ticket. He was a charter mem- ber of the Socialist Party of Texas, \haying helped to organize it. Swan was a familiar figure at all the ‘their meetings there in former years. Since the Socialist Party de- serted the class struggle, Comrade Swan, like thousands.of other revo- | ‘lutionists quit that organization and joined the Workers (Communist) Party. + Vee Foster speaks in Milwaukee on September 10th at the Bahn Frei Hall. Five thousand leaflets have been issued for this meeting. Sym- pathetic organizations have been mobilized for the meeting and they will appear with banners greeting the Workers (Communist) Party. | Following the Foster meeting the | Milwaukee comrades will inaugurate a Red Week which will continue un- | til September 17. plans for a special ‘edition of the Daily Worker with ‘special reference to the Wisconsin | situation are being made. “ * * The comrades in Nebraska are giving the Red Baiters something to bark about. They got the Commu- nist ticket on the ballot in jig time and now the militarists are trying to throw it off. But this is easier | said than done despite the sympathy of the state authorities for the war mongering patriots. Governor Mc- Mullen is warning the people against the “red menace” and the papers are featuring Communist lin various cities. of the | ganized labor, therefore, be it re- solved .....” The Militants. | In strong contradiction to this en- | vironment, there sat at this conven- jtion a small group of men sober and earnestly watching the pro- ceedings, at times stating on the floor truths somewhat unpleasant, in unmistaken terms calling to real | voicing such terms as |“Class Struggle” “Capitalist rule” |all the cities in Connecticut, advis-|times, but it is gettin’ better.|qaring to proclaim that labor “has f. 0 friends within the capitalist par- ies; that labor must have a party jof its own; that one-sixth of the \globe is at present under the rule |of workers and farmers; that the |A. F. of L, to survive must initiate the unorganized.” They presented resolutions that did not have that whining, pleading |tone about them, rather, every line |of which called for united effort in | militant struggle. Discretion the Watchword. These workers were a minority at this convention. Théir speeches sneered at by la- | tions “non-concurred” or made gen- |tlemanly, the “offensive” lines re- | moved. Discretion the watchword. This would not give a complete | picture of this great gathering, | were we to omit mention of the theoretical heights it rose to; the splendid learnedness, the deep and sympathetic insight into the needs of the American labor movement it has shown. Those moments when the conven- tion’s great ideological leader, the |often above mentioned Mr. Murphy, in simple phrases, fatherly, told to | those assembled (it was in his at- tack against the resolutions for a |labor party and recognition of the Soviet Union) such glazing truths _as, “That the only people in Rus- _sia who have the right to vote are the Comoonists;” “that no family \life, the very basis of our- great |commonwealth exists there;” “that people live in daily terror for their very lives.” And oh, the worst of all! That Here are some excerpts from let-| Party in Texas and served as com- these very Bolsheviks seek to un- \dermine our great and glorious in- | stitushuns, citing, “the breaking up by these Communists of the Min- ers’ Union, the slandering campaign carried on by these same Bolsheviks |that capitalism is’ decaying and the state conventions ofythe S. P. and jon the great leaders of this union.” revolutionary proletariat arising, I contributed mueh to’ the success of “The actions of these Comoonists jin New Bedford, where this very |moment they seek to ‘disorganize’ the textile workers’ organization.” Does the American labor move- ment need a party of its own? | Harken, labor, to the words of this great leader! “This (a labor party) has never proven of practical value in this country.” “Labor, with minor exceptions, has and is receiving fair treatment at the hands of these so-called capi- talistic parties.” “Al Smith, for one, has always stood one hundred per cent with la- bor.” “We are Americans, proud of our institutions, and by-gawd, _ still stand by them.” “The American worker has reached a highey standard of living ...-houses....automobiles....never dreamt of even before, with few ex- ceptions.” “The non-partisan policy laid down by the great founder of the Gompers, value.” A Many, many such gems of thought. The “Socialists.” Oh, yes, lest we forget, there were a number of socialists present at this convention, men whose names regularly appear on the ballot, op- posite that of the hand, and torch, has proven of great . bone fide labor movement, Samuel | . of Con-|that she mig! | Mp eae is the strange story of Mr. Skaggs. Twenty years ago he |slept in a Kansas City railroad sta- tion because he did not have enough money to rent a bed in a hotel. Somehdw or other he got to the Pacific Coast and is to- day the owner of a chain of grocery stores valued at $17,- 000,000. All he needs is a publi- city man to T. J. O'Flaherty ™make him fa- F mous. Mae aie ovr readers must not assume that |“ the way to start out on the road |to wealth is to sleep in a railroad | depot. Usually it is the way to start |to the nearest police station. Per- haps Skaggs got the idea of chain stores while scratching himself on a hard seat in the depot. Lots of | bright ideas come to one in his sleep. The trouble is that they are hard to remember the morning after. But there must be a “Skagg Way” of doing this. If there isn’t, Skagg will never be anything more in history |than a big coffee and cocoa man. ae DE HERBERT HOOVER insists that there are no unemployed in the United States. This is not exactly correct. What he claims is that there is no unemployment problem. A casual reading of the society columns of capitalist press proves that there jare hundreds of thousands of para- |sites whose only problem from one end of the year to the other is to |devise new tricks to kill time. This | army of unemployec is. supporting Hoover and Smith. ier Sir {ee capitalist newspapers that are * supporting Al Smith claim that there are over 4,000,000 unemployed in the country. The Hoover press can’t see it. If Smith happened to be in Hoover’s place’ the democratic party press couldn’t see a jobless man on the Chicago slave market. Hoover is trying to create the im- pression that the prosperity of American imperialism is shared by the entire population, but he will | have a hard time trying to convince a hungry man that he is wrapped around a hot meal. 'AUCLAIN, head of the American Locomotive Company says that he Of a militant campaign to organize believes in the full dinner pail. He | believes that Hoover is the best lit- tle pail-filler running for the pres- jidency. The officials of the Amer- ‘ican Federation of Labor believe in | the full beer can. They believe that _ Al Smith will have “growlers” rush- ing as in the good old days before the great thirst. We often heard of |a man falling between two stools, but if the American workingclass heed these political confidence men here, there, and everywhere, of “un-|bor faking machine; their resolu-| and their press agents, they will be left sitting between two empty cans. tae e HE revolutionary workingclass will shed no tears of sorrow over |the passing of James Duncan, for- mer first vice-president of the A. \F. of L. and former president of the Granite Cutters’ International Union. Duncan was one of the most reactionary of the fossilized crew ‘of labor fakers that graced the | executive council of the A. F. of L. \and disgraced the American labor movement. His chief contributions |to history were his visit to Russia in 1917 as a member of the com- | mission headed by Elihu Root, with |the object of sabotaging the Rev- |olution and keeping the socialist reactionary Kerensky in power and the organization »f the Tanyard Club of Boston where the labor leaders made whoopee until they were too feeble to carry a stein to their lips. Kee . 4 ge socialists are jubilant over the vote cast for Victor Berger in the Milwaukee primaries. And well they may. Listen to the Milwaukee correspondent of the New Leader explain the “victory:” “It was furthermore pointed out by the so- cialists who undoubtedly will vote showed that many thousands of so- socialists who undoubtedly will vote the socialist ticket on election day, help out the progressive candidates. This has been often done by social- ists whenever the progressives were in a difficult contest with the stal- warts for the nominations. That is why some of the greatest victories for the socialist party in Milwaukee were achieved when the primary vote was lowest. Son OHohesty necticut, offering the voter the op- portunity of voting for “radicals”. P. S.—After close of the conven- tion, on leaving the hotel, while there still rang in my ears the closing ut- terances of the great Murphy, relat- ing to our great commonwealth, its institutions guaranteeing to all na- tive and alien justice and freedom, the right to....the right to....the right....where with few exceptions One of these “exceptions,” in the form of an aged, wizened little woman, poorly dressed, with har- rassed afraid eyes, approached me stealthy putting a circular into my hand, quickly and fearfully passec tives of the law had a tight g1 upon her, ready for any entered the republican primaries to. on. A moment later, two representa,” | |