The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1928, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPT. 22, 1928 S Hoover Has Proved His Fitness a Cemfal Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N,"Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 6-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Dziwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in €8 per year $4.50 six in ew York only): 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. a gry 21 fiditor. Sa = Assistant Edit .-ROBERT MINOR .-WM. F. DUNNE Entered as second-class mail at the post-off. F. New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 . VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers: For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW To Organize the Textile Workers The convention of textile mill committees. mill and union delegates now being held in New York City for the purpose of launch- ing a new national textile workers’ organ tion will unquestionably go down in history as a land-mark in the development of the militant labor movement in America. Its historical timeliness is justification for its existence. Only at this moment, after the experience of the past few years. could such a convention prove su ful. It was essential that the workers in many of the biggest centers become steeled in the fight against the employers, the government and the agents of the bosses at the head of the United Textile Workers Union. Without the experience of the struggles in Paterson, Passaic and New Bedford this conference would never have been possible. It is indeed a tribute to the tremendous sweep of the movement for a new national textile organization that will set as its task the organization of the hundreds of thou- sands of mill slaves of the United States that this first convention has representation from more than 60 cities, while the last convention of the United Textile Workers, the corrupt American Federation of Labor organization, had delegates representing but 42 cities, some of them having on fictitious organizations. Even though launched under favorable aus- pices no one should imagine for a moment that the task before the new organization is an easy one. In an organizational drive every “inch of ground will have to be won against tremendous odds—against the com- bined resistance of the mill owners and their political agents in control of local and state governments, as well as the officials of the reactionary organization. It is the duty of every militant worker to support to the utmost the new national or- ganizations in various industries that are be- ing created in the United States as a reflex of the increasing determination of the work- ing class to resist the assaults of the em- ployers upon the workers’ standards of liv- ing. to Borah William E. Borah, republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, en- thusiastically endorses the candidacy of Her- bert Hoover for president of the United States. This is as it shouldbe. It is emi- nently fitting that Borah, who started his public career in an attempt to become the executioner of militant leaders of the work- ing class, Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, should support Hoover, one of the vilest mur- derers of the working class the world has ever seen. Mr. Borah asserts that Mr. Hoover has proved his fitness. If Mr. Borah means that Hoover has suc- ceeded where he failed he is right. Where Borah only attempted, through acting as prosecutor in a frame-up, to murder three American labor leaders, Herbert Hoover has succeeded in leaving his bloody imprint upon the working class of many nations and many climes. The novice abjectly bows before the master. Hoover, while pretending to furnish food supplies to the victims of the world war, used his position to aid the bloody monster Horthy overthrow the Bolshevik government of Hungary and begin that systematic ex- termination of the working class that rages to this very day. Hoover had a hand in help- ing to establish those other twin hells tor the working class—Poland and Roumania— where piles of corpses are monuments to his “fitness” to serve as an imperialist butcher. Truly a mighty example of “fitness” and one calculated to incite the admiration of Borah, who tried to hang three workers and failed. Thus we see again that so-called liberals line up with the most vicious elements of op- pression when a crisis approaches. Hoover symbolizes better than any public person to- day the malignant character of big capital, while Borah personifies the class corruption and vacillation of the labor-hating small in- dustrialists who hope to get their share of plunder out of the war program of the United States government. Hoover’s conception of government is avowedly imperialist. Government does not ist for the benefit of the people who in- habit a country, but for the purpose of en- slaving the workers and farmers to a few who own and control the banks and the in- dustries. Hoover's latest exploit before his nomination for the presidency was to capi- talize the calamity that befell the poor south- ern cotton growers in the Mississippi flood area in behalf of the mortgage bankers of New Orleans, who are part of the Wall Street combine. Under pretext of relieving the suffering of the population this man Hoover, whom Borah proclaims as eminently fit to be president, took advantage of the pitiful plight of the victims and bound them to the bankers, the loan mongers» and mortgage brokers. The selection of such a man as candidate of the political party that will most certainly carry the election is a warning signal to the working class. It means that for the next four years there will head the government of Wall Street one who is an unscrupulous adept at wreaking misery and devastation upon whole populations for the aggrandize- ment of imperialism. Just such a man is re- quired to carry out the present policies of the United States ruling class. His nomina- tion is part of the war preparations of the Wall Street bandits. Let no one imagine, however, that the re- publican party candidates alone are assas- sins of the working class. The same indict- ment may be drawn against the democratic party, the party of the imperialist war- monger, Woodrow Wilson, who hurled the workers of this country into the last war in order to protect the investments in Europe of the House of Morgan. Likewise the so- cialist party is a potential murderer of the working class. The only reason Berger, Hill- quit and Thomas have not committed the crimes of their European comrades, Scheide- mann, Ebert, Noske, Mueller, Henderson and MacDonald (especially the latter’s stand on India) is because they have not had the op- portunity. When the Hoovers and Borahs are no longer able to function the socialists hope to get their chance. Against the assassins of the working class there stands but one party in this campaign, defending always the elementary interests of the working class and the farmers; the Party that realizes that the principal ques- tion before the workers of the whole world is the danger of another imperialist war. Only the Workers (Communist) Party has a revolutionary program against imperialism. Communism alone can defeat the Hoovers, the Borahs and the class they represent. Vote Communist! Defender of “Racial Integrity” Governor Harry F. Byrd of Virginia has denied a pardon to Mary. Hall, a white wom- an convicted of violating a law for “racial integrity” when she married a Negro, Mott Wood. The woman was convicted for ‘violat- ing the law which prohibits the intermar- riage of races and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. In denying the pardon, Governor Byrd said: “The necessity for racial integrity is so im- portant that after mature consideration I find myself unable to act favorably on this appli- cation, notwithstanding the fact that it is en- dorsed by the trial officials and other per- sons. Were the case not so tragic an example of white chauvinism, it would be exceedingly comical coming from the south, where the favorit stime of the male white aristocra- cy is Qeyauching the young @aughters of the Negro “workers and farmers. And where many of the elegant ladies, wives of the eminences of old Virginia, have their favor- ites among the male Negroes of their neigh- borhoods with whom they have clandestine meetings. The poor, exploited and terrorized Negroes dare not refuse advances from such women, yet they know full well that if by chance they are caught in compromising cir- cumstances they are charged with assaulting the woman and usually lynched by the up- holders of racial integrity as a measure for the preservation of the “purity” of bourgeois womanhood among the “best people’ of the south. It is high time that the Negroes of the south as well as those who have been herded into the industrial north abandon the old parties of capitalism—the democratic ang republican parties—and rally to the suppgft of the one party that stands for full ¢ tial equality of races, the Workers (Comngfinist) Party. A Taste of U. S. ‘Democracy’ By FRANK HENDERSON The public schools have opened in Belmont County—the county in Ohio where constitutional rights have been scrapped and free speech pro- hibited by “law.” Not only in Belmont County have the schools opened, but the entire {educational system of our “free land” has been set in motion. After |nine months of patriotic and mili-| tarist propaganda most of the stu- dents will be thoroughly saturated with the 100 per cent bunkum, the boss-controlled schools will make |them obedient, patriotic slaves, will- | ing to do the bidding of the bosses jat any sacrifice. | | In Belmont County, George Waddell, the prosecuting attorney, stated publicly that constitutional jrights are things learned in school | |and shculd be forgotten later. What happened in Belmont County | THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA. Police Back Lewis’ Thugs; Governor Donahey’s “Good Will” Messengers treachery and police brutality. All sections have gotten extreme “jus- tice’ from the courts. Belmont County has had more than its share of this capitalist justice, Lewis treachery and police brutality. In other sections men received such “treatment,”: but in Belmont County women and children were as mer- cilessly handled as the men. The iling of the fifty-one women of | ansing is typical of the treatment | received by the miners’ wives and | children. | Hypocritical Good Will. | A few days: before the treatment | of the Lansing women the capital- | of bayonets into the St. Clairsville jail, with the aid of Sheriff Har- desty—renowned for his strike- breaking activities. Among the fifty-one arrested were women near- | | saith lies, an organization of the bosses, | sent resolutions to the police com- | ing motherhood, others nursing ba- bies and several young girls. They were all packed into dirty, crowded cells and forced to sleep on hard, steel floors. Democracy, in the form of coal operators’ dictatorship, existed in Belmont County. During vacation the miners’ children got a lesson in democracy and American freedom. Break Up Meetings. Meetings of progressive miners By Fred Ellis Just recently in Martins Ferry, |where free speech is prohibited by |the “law” of the Steel Trust, six | men were arrested for an attempt (to hold a Sacco-Vanzetti memorial | | meeting. These men are charged |with “unlawful”, assemblage. This breaking up of the meeting is a re- sult of pressure on the authorities by the U. S. Steel Corporation which |has mills in Martins Ferry. The W. C. T, U. and the Junior Mechan- mending them on their fine work in breaking up the meetings of the “reds.” This attack was also against “constitutional rights.” rights learned in school? | Workers to Demand Final Freedom. Truly, Prosecutor Waddell of Bel- | {mont County spoke the truth. Con- | stitutional rights are merely things \taught in schools. |the county may have to answer some | | during “vacation” which prompted | jst, press publicly announced that all over the county were broken up |Very awkward questions when the \this frank declaration by the prose- cutor? American Democracy. During the miners’ strike the coal | |diggers, especially in Belmont | |County, often tasted the bitterness of American democracy. Time and| again the miners have felt the sting | of capitalist justice. | The struggles of the rank and} |file miners have been marked by} |murders and sluggings by the! treacherous Lewis machine, coupled | |with severe sentences and penulties by the ccal-capitalists’ courts, Many sections of the strike area have wit: | nessed and suffered from Lewis Negro Workers Should Join Workers Party By GEORGE PADMORE. | Le Workers (Communist) Party) of America is a section of a great international working class move- ment, which embraces in its ranks| the oppressed and exploited work- }ers of all nations, countries and | races—whites, Negroes, Chinese, In- dians, etc. Communism knows no color line. It is the bitter foe of race preju- dice, which is fostered by the capi-| Governor Donahey was sending his | “messengers of good will” to East- | jern Ohio to feed the starving ba- | ties. Instead, the miners saw na-| tional guardsmen, armed with guns, | ammunition and gas bombs. The “messengers” were not long in Bel- ment County before the miners’ | wives and children got the first | by the police, acting on instructions from the sub-district officials—co- horts of John L. Lewis. Militant leaders were waylaid and beaten by Lewis gangsters. Authorities worked hand in hand with the Lewis ma- chine against the rank and file coal diggers. Courts—places of justice —excused Lewis men, but passed taste of the governor’s good will. Women and children, peacefully | progressive miners. *“Freedom” of picketing the Mutton Hollow mine, |assemblage and “freedom” of speech were gased by the bombs of the|was prohibited by threats of vio-| guardsmen and several were bru-|lence from patriotic organizations | tally beaten. This was not all. A end police orders. This happened to few days later fifty-one women and|the fathers of miners’ children, in children were herded at the point spite of the things taught in schools. severe sentences and penalties on) miners’ children ask ahout rights of citizens to assemble and speak. Per- haps the children of the miners will |be able to teach the teachers some- and democracy. Tradition’s chains cannot hold forever. The young miners will not only learn this and make economic demands, but» will demand political change in govern- ment. A government to direct the affairs of the workers and farmers of this country, not for the profit Where are | The teachers of | thing about this iand of freedom | of a few, but for the welfare of all. | Told You So JOBN SPARGO, the ex-parson who was once a dim light in the so- cialist party is now a “voluntary” publicity man for the power trust. John himself admits that he does that everybody with any ought to change his mind frequently to keep his head in trim. Before the war John believed that capitalism was a wicked institution and should be substituted by a social order, in which the preacher would receive the full social value of his hocus pocus. But now John believes that the preacher should get paid. * * | easels it developed that the power interests were supplying public schools with books in which Insull and other power grabbers were repre- sented as public be nefactors. Somebody __re- minded Spargo that his name was lost in the list of literary men who laid their talents at the feet of the power trust. John denied the polite insinua- tion, but, as if the sufficiently got insulated as well as insulted he began to write letters to the capitalist press, who stood up for private ownership of water | power, praising them for their pa- | triotic services, T. J. O'Flaherty a4, OT CONTENT with doing the right thing by the power mag- nates, John thot it was time to say a good word for America’s docile labor leaders. The New York Times had an editorial praising the British labor fakers for accepting the Mond scheme of class collabora- tion. Somehow or other it never occurred to the editorial writer to say, “Of course our own labor lead- ers have set an example in the virtue of class peace and co-opera- tion between employers and em- ployes, which is now being accepted by the labor movement of the rest of the world excepting Soviet Rus- | sia where the Bolshevik dictatorship, etc.” John pounced on the chance to break into print again. From his ;home in Old Bennington, Vermont, * |a socialist woman, who presented him with the domicile in order that he might be able to serve the cause without having to worry about pay- ing rent, the renegade praised the character” of the American labor leadership for their policy of transforming the trade unions from instruments of struggle against the employing classes into unofficial company unions. This fellow’s record outsmells the Queens sewer scandal. | “constructive | Sete Mie NYBODY who knows the situation | in Wisconsin will immediately | see the joke in this boast. It is un- |necessary to comment on the char- acter of an alleged disciple of Marx who would vote for a capitalist | party, but the fact is that the La- Follette machine has been the chief |competitor of the House of Berger for many years and in order to not get a nickel for it. John says ; sense — which he owes to the generosity of, ‘Communists Fight for Full Social, Political and Economic Rights of All Races and Peoples cipate themselves from the yoke of wage slavery. Labor Misleaders. In this ‘dirty game of “divide and. tule,” the bosses are ably assisted document by a political party in this country in the interests of the Ne-) gro workers. The Negro delegates were active participants in the con- vention, and were nominated to of- |talist class in order to keep the|by such lackeys as William Green, | fice on various state tickets. white and Negro workers apart, so! Matt Woll, John Lewis, Frank Mor-) Lovett Fort-Whitman was named as to be able to exploit both groups|rison, who, by their narrow craft) for comptroller of the state of New alike. Communists therefore advo-| policy and Negro-hating attitude, York; Richard B. Moore “for con-| cate the doctrine of racial equality, keep Negro workers out of the gress from the 21st congressional) and fight militantly for the full so-) unions, thus leaving them to be district in Harlem; Edward Welsh \eial, political and economic rights of used as scabs against their white| for assemblyman in the same dis- all races and peoples, irrespective of | | the colors of their skins. | | Wherever capitalism exists, race) prejudice is the order of the day.| |In America, the ruling class—the Rockefellers, Morgans, Fords, Mel-} | lons, Coolidges, Hoovers, and the Al |Smiths—give their sanction to this| |disgraceful practice and permit it) to exist because it enables them to} | play one group against the other— | thereby distracting the minds of the workers from their horrible condi-| | tions. | | The same method of “divide and | |rule” is adopted by the British im-| | perialists in India and other colonial | possessions. In the east the British |overlords play the India workers jagainst the Mohammedans and | thereby keep them divided and weak. In the West Indies and Africa the imperialists create a mulatto caste |and use this as a buffer class tc |keep the large masses fighting among themselves, while the mas- |ters rob them of their lands and |exploit their labor power. There is lonly one way of abolishing race | prejudice and that is by abolishing | capitalism, which creates and fos- ‘ters this social disease. Both the | white and colored workers must get wise to these tricks of the master Aclass and unite to defeat their op- ‘pressors. The sooner workers re- alize that their common interest lies ‘in uniting into a powerful labor movement, under the revolutionary |ranks of ‘organized brothers. The Communists, on the other | shameful practice, and demand ad- mission of Negro workers into the| labor on an equal basis with the whites. A Negro miner named William, Boyce was elected vice-president of the newly organized mine union at in America that a Negro has been) elected to such an office, which has jurisdiction over hundreds of thou- sands of both white and Negro min-| ers. This is an indication of a new) trend in the left wing labor move-| ment. | Champions of Freedom. I The Communist Party is the only, political organization in the United) States which champions the cause} of the 12 million Negroes, the most) exploited section of the American) working class. Unlike all other par- | ties, republicans, democrats and socialists, the Communists actually engage in a genuine struggle to emancipate the Negro workers from their present condition of, destitution and degradation. The Party Platform. The Workers (Communist) Party at its National Nominating Conven- tion, not only had the largest dele- gation of Negro workers assembled on such an o¢casion in the history of America, but drew up and adopted trict. Other Negroes are represent- ing the Party on its working class |hand, fight vigilantly against this| program in other states. The true test of the honesty and sincerity of a political party is what it does, not merely what it pro- fesses, and in this respect the Work- ers (Communist) Party openly lives up to its program as being the vanguard of the entire working | Pittsburgh. This is the first time in| class, irrespective of race, color, or |the history of the labor movement creed. The following are some of the de- mands, embodied in the program of the party: The abolition of race discrimina- tion, segregation of Negroes, Jim Crow laws, laws which disfranchise Negroes, which forbid intermar- riage, which prevent Negro chil- dren from attending public schools. They demand a federal law against lynching, equal opportunity for Ne- groes and equal pay, abolition of all restrictions in trade unions against | Negro membership, and abolition of the convict lease system and the chain gang, and of discriminatory practices in courts. Fight Against Imperialism. The Cc&mmunists are the only ones who oppose and struggle against perialism, which means the en- slavement of the colonial peoples in China, India, Africa, Latin Amer- ica, and other parts of the world. They openly adopt methods to pre vent capitalists of their own coun- tries from carrying out their op- pressive schemes to rob the so- leadership of the Communist Party, the sooner will they be able to eman- a plank on the Negro question which is the most far-reaching and historic ( called “backward” peoples of their } 4 justify his political existence Berger had to pose as a socialist and make wry faces at the capitalist system, while slamming the revolutionists. Now Berger is losing out. There is no longer any fundamental differ- ence between the program of the | socialist party and the LaFollette- | Al Smith platitudes on the “rights | of the people” so they are deserting the House of Berger for the older freedom. It was the Communists of France, led by Doriot, who con- ducted a heroic struggle against the | French imperialist war on the Rif- | fian tribes in Morocco. Doriot and) and more respectable House of La- |hundreds of French workers were! Follette. More Jater on about Wis- arrested and imprisoned. The same) consin, LaFoll- nd the mythical thing recently happened here in| LaFollette vote that the socialist America. On July 3, 1928, a group party claimed for itself in 1924 of Communists demonstrated in ar) which Frank P. Walsh promises to anti-imperialist demonstration injlead into the Al Smith camp in Wall St., the center of the banking | interests of America. The demon-| |strators carried banners carrying | Marines From Nicaragua and) China,” “Liberty for the Phillipines, Porto Rico and Cuba.” These ban-| ners were torn down by the Tam- many Hall police and the workers were arrested and carried before a capitalist judge who did the bidding} of his political masters by sen-| tencing them to jail. | | | “Daily” Leads Fight. Among the leaders was the editor) of the Daily Worker. This paper, unlike the capitalist sheets, is al- ways on the side of the Negroes, for it realizes that the capitalist oppres- sors are always out to slander the Negro race in order to keep them on a servile and degraded position. This is how the Communists show their real leadership by actively par- ticipating in the every-day strug- gles of the workers and the op- pressed colonial masses, while the republicans, democrats and _social- ists oppose them and do all in their power to rob and exploit the work- ing class. ‘ . Negro workers must wake up and realize that their place is with the Communists—the friends and cham- pions of their race, and not with the republicans and democrats, who op- press the workers, black as well as white in America. Every honest Negro who is devoted to the uplift of his race and‘class, and desires the freedom of his people at home and abroad, should join the Workers (Communist) Party which unites the workers and poor farmers of all races and colors to fight against the capitalists-imperialist: | 1928. ij / such slogans as “Freedom for Black | en O Haiti and Liberia,” “Withdraw the, Left Wing Leaders in Conference to Aid in Communist Party Drive Leading officers of the left wing trads unions in New York and heads of all-the left wing oppositions in the right wing union yesterday met in conference at the Workers Cen- ter, 26 Union Square, and mapped out plans for carrying through an intense campaign for the Workers (Communist) Party ticket in the fall elections. A similar meeting was held re- cently to prepare preliminary plans, and the meeting last might pre- pared to carry into effect its pre- vious discussions and the ones made yesterday. Beginning Tuesday, the commit- tee announces through its secre- tary, A. Stenzer, who is also chair- man of. the Joint Board of the left wing Cloak Makers Union, open- air metings will begin in all the res- idential and industrial sections where workers in the city’s garment industries can be reached. Plan Workers’ Children Hundreds of workers’ children are expected to attend the Children’s Mass Meeting, to be held today at bee ee ee 16-28 Union Square, under the | Ithe ‘Young Pioneers of yt ‘e Mass Meet Today at 1