The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1928, Page 6

RP THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1928 Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING A‘ N, Ine., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address Daiwork Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 : SUBSCRIPTION RATES a By Mail (i ew York only): By Mail (outside of New York): oe BS per year $4.50 six inonths $2.50 three months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months Tg Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. egies: BOOP. cc ree as i ROBERT MINOR oo. Asatstant Editor... ...WM. F, DUNNE Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers: WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! VOTE COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Democracy in Nebraska Nebraska, the stamping ground of middle ism as expounded by the surviv- cratic party and Senator Norris class liber: als of Bryanism in the demc exemplified by United States of the republican party, is the scene of the latest attempt to prever farmers voting for candid ers (Communist) Party. In raska the Workers (Communist) Party is officially on the ballot, having com- plied with all the legal technicalities required in that state. The campaign was being ag- gressively conducted in a number of places and preparations were on foot to cover the entire state, when that aggregation of strike- breakers, emulators of fascism, the American Legion, began a coun- ter-campaign. Since the Party was already on the ballot it was necessary to devise some new procedure in order to prev ent,the names of the Communist candidates appearing on the official ballot in the November election. So the secretary of state came to the rescue of the assailants the Communists. At this moment he is conducting hearings at which Legion lawyers, politicians and pro- fessional red-baiters are trying to lay the basis for the exclusion of the Party in the elections. Thus we see to what extent the defenders of the fraud that is known as American democracy respect their own laws. Election laws are primarily devised to pre- vent parties opposed to the powers-that-be going on the ballot. All sorts of provisions are made so that it requires a great deal of labor to get on the ballot. Then, after all these provisions are complied with we see the upholders of “law and order” hypocriti- cally throwing off their mask of democracy and coming forth openly as tools of the capi- talist class dictatorship. Nebraska is only the latest of a series of such agsaults. Under different forms and through different agencies the same sort of despotism exists in a number of places—par- ticularly Wheeling, West Virginia, and Mar- tins Ferry, Ohio, two towns in the domain of coal and steel. Thus far not a single public official of Ne- braska has taken a stand against the Legion and the action of the secretary of state. George W. Norris, one of the leaders of the so-called liberals in the United States senate, has time to indulge in lavish praise of the Wall Street-Tammany clown, Governor Al Smith, but he has uttered no word of con- demnation against his own political pals who are endeavoring to deprive the thoughtful voters of Nebraska of an opportunity to vote for the Workers (Communist) Party. Norris, by his attitude toward this case, only emphasizes the fact that the so-called liberals are among the very worst tools of reaction. The Nebraska case is of national signifi- cance. In the most decisive manner the workers and farmers of the state should register their protest against such high- handed methods. In no uncertain terms they should show the miserable political shyster who functions as secretary of state that he and the legion cannot get away with their conspiracy. Such actions are justification for the Com- munist position that the ruling class will never surrender power by peaceful, legal means.. The capitalist laws are observed only so long as they serve as weapohs against the working class and the oppressed and ex- ploited farmers. If Nebraska takes such ac- tion in this campaign, what can be expected from the ruling class and its fraudulent democracy when hundreds of thousands ,and millions enlist under the banner of Commu- nism? Their acts today are only an indica- tion of their policy tomorrow. ~ But we know how to meet such opposition. We are under no illusions regarding capital- ist government and capitalist democracy. As Leninists we use any weapons at hand against our class enemies. Today when we have ballots in our hands we use them in the interest of our class. Tomorrow when the imperialist war-mongers have hurled us into another war and placed other weapons’ in our hands we will use them also—in the in- st of our class in order to scourge from earth every vestige of capitalist despo- the worker: s of the Work- scab-herders and Why Soviet Workers Win Contests | For once in their lives the lie factories of | Riga have at least told a partial truth—but only a partial one, for they even use facts to try to discredit upon the Soviet system. yndicated story we are told that at the recent Spartakiad (working cl: international athletic contests) the Soviet representatives won most of the events. That part of the story is true. But it doesn’t end there. The Riga “correspondents” darkly hint that the games must have been “fixed.” Some of the hack writers who are bought and paid for by the imperialist and -royalist intriguers against the Soviets graduated from American newspapers. All American newspaper men know that every alleged ath- letic event that is staged in the United States is “fixed” before hand, whether it be a ball game or a heavyweight cham- pion prize-fight. Some of them are incapa- ble of conceiving of an honest contest even though the participants are workers instead of professionals. There is a vast difference, however, be- tween the professional athletic contests in America, where the outcome is determined by the amount of gambling money involved in the betting, and the working class con- tests that took place in Moscow this sum- mer. Nor can anyone who cares to investigate the facts feign surprise that the Soviet workers won many of the major events. That was to be expected and, although the Riga traducers of the Soviets may not be able to understand it, the workers of other countries understand it very well. The reason the Soviet workers won is be- cause they are healthier and happier and more secure than the workers of any other country. That is the answer. An Evangelist Sees Paris Aimee Semple McPherson, California evan- gelist, heroine of the kidnapping hoax and lately involved in a real estate swindle, is on a European tour for publicity purposes cal- culated to boost her declining stock in Amer- ica. She stopped at Paris and visited the Montmartre, where she is reported to have been shocked at what she saw. Describing what she imagines is Paris, she said: “T stood on the brink of hell tonight and leoked down inside. Gay Paris is polished on the outside but it is the rottenest city in the world at the core.” This observation is typical of the exagger- ation of the evangelistic mind, if one can in- dulge in such flattery over the vaporings of Aimee. Obviously Aimee is no judge of the comparative wickedness of the cities of the world because she has never seen them all. Nor has she seen Paris in spite of the fact that she spent a night on the Montmartre. What the American evangelist saw was one small section of a Paris boulevard that is supported almost exclusively by the money of yankee tourists, the big and little business men, the “best people” of the United States who at home are the principal contributors to the evangelistic three-ring circuses. And the Montmartre denizens are not one whit different than those of their profession who inhabit the cities and towns of the United States. The difference is that Paris is less hypocritical than Los Angeles. Debauchery is called by. its right name there—not de- scribed as “kidnapping.” The real Paris, the revolutionary Paris, the Paris of the working class, is a closed book to such as Aimee and the other tourists who spend their nights on the Montmartre. But then, what can be expected of such a fraud as the California evangelist whose putrid mind befouls everything it comes in contact with? Depraved as some of the denizens of the Montmartre are, they are preferable to male and female evangelists of the Aimee and Billy Sunday calibre. At least it is possible for them to abandon their methods of obtaining a livelihood when economic conditions are such that they can be assured an existence otherwise, but one who falls for maniacal ravings of the evangelistie crowd finds the road to sanity difficult indeed. The Mont- martre and the Angelus Temple at Los Angeles are products of the same decadent system and will disappear when the mighty sweep of the working class revolution des- troys the ground upon which they thrive. t es a ee THIS CANNOT LAST FOREVER upon their torturers. 6 | | : | The socialist party has sunk deep linto the swamps of middle class | reformism. The break with socialism and the jelass struggle is complete. The election campaign of Thomas and Maurer nationally and the so- cialist candidates locaily is carried on completely in the spirit of a cap- litalist opposition party. The social- jist leaders make no secret of the jeourse they have ‘adopted. The spokesman for the American social- jist party, Mr. Hillquit, on the con- |trary, heralds the fact that the so- jcialist party is following in the footsteps of the late Senator La- Follette and have accepted the jideology of “progressiveism.” Writ- ing in the New Leader of Septem- | | Ler 22, Hillquit states that “The so- | \cialist party is the most logical heir ;to the progressive vote and sup- | port” because “it comes nearer than |any other party to the ideals, prin- iciples, aspirations and concrete pro- |posals which animated the LaFol- |lette campaign.” | This is the hanner under which j the socialist party is conducting its |campaign— “LaFollettism,” “pro- | gressivism’—the -progressivism of |LaFollette that represented a wing of the republican party. | Take the Waldman campaign: in New York state. Mr. Waldman {calls for an investigation of Walk- er’s administration by Governor The “Successors of LaFollette’; a Complete italist system and to prevent the Break With the The fleod disaster increases the burden of the oppressed masses, but eventually the victims, consczocs ot thar power, will turn Socialists’ in Reformist Swamp Class Struggle use of the police to break strikes, of the campaign of terrorism, of |the industrial squad in the needle | trades, of the assaulting of, traction workers and thousands of other |strikers by the New York police. Or the other hand, Waldman shows the greatest alarm about the “crime wave” and the inadequate police ad- | have been the initiators of the sys- tem of frame-up against militant strikers and the attempt to railroad William Schiffrin for defending him- self against the gangsters of the labor bureaucrats and the sgcialist |labor officials is the climax in this campaign of terrorism and of this |unholy alliance of the socialist labor | izing the workers for struggle and By Fred Ellis is th campaign of an organization | whose role is to maintain the cap- | worl from going along the road of militant class struggle. The Workers (Communist) Party, on the contrary, conducts its elec- tion campaign in the it of a Party of the class struggle; its campaign is a challenge to the whole | capitalist system and to all its de-| tenders. Exposing the rotten frame- work of the capitalist system and its state machine of suppression to turn its eyes to the task of mobil- |not smile on Chang. | scattered. Told You So HE standard of living of the American labor fakers is rising. Mr. Morin, of St. Louis, re-elected president of the Internatio nal Association of Bridge, Struc- tural and Orna- mental Lron Workers, h a d his salary in- creased from $7,500 to $15,- 000 a year. This makes a bum out of John L, Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, whose salary is only $12,00 a year. It is true that Mr. Lewis’s union is now somewhat of a wreck and its solvency is open to question, nut the gentleman maintains two estab- lishments, one in Springfield and one in Indianapolis, and you will readily agree that it takes money to keep two good homes in the style to which they have been accus- tomed. M*. BOWEN, president of the Bricklayers Union for decades, has finally succeeded in having his resignation accepted. Mr. Bowen has grown old and weary in the service of the bricklayers; he has also waxed wealthy. Mr. Bowen is a supporter of capitalism and a bit- ter opponent of ‘Communism. It’s no wonder. A healthy, solvent la- hor faker has nothing much to kick about. Mr. Bowen was treated well by the capitalists and by the brick- layers. He now retires on a pen- sion of $10,000 a year and with the title of president-emeritus, ee re Wwe fortune has been smiling on the American labor lieuten- ants of capitalism, things have not been going so well with some of the Chinese war lords. Take the sad case of General Chang Tsung- chang, Dictator of Shantung prov- ince, for instance. Ten days ago Chang started for . the battiefield after blowing twenty-eight kisses to his connubial army. But fortune did He was de- feated and his military forces were Returning for consola- T. J. O'Flaherty Sa, ee ininistration in New York City at | bureaucrats with the thugs and po- a fight against the impending im- the same time that he gives praise | to former Police Commissioner Me- Laughlin, who, he declares, was re- moved because he sought to end gambling and-Tammany clubhouses. This “progressive,” this reaction- ary opportunist, outdoes even the traditional “progressives” of Amer- ica in weeping over “the degrada- | tion of the practices and policies of | our (sic) courts of justice through the appointment of judges to the bench by Mr. Walker on the basis of political connections.” It is understandable why Wald- man and the New York socialists do not refer to the police terror, to the breaking of strikes, to the protec- tion of thugs by the industrial squad because the socialist party has been part of the whole campaign of ter- lice force of New York. In this so-called indictment there | ing situation, of a hundred other vital class needs of the workers of New York, but there is plenty of dribble about the “five-cent fare as a symbol of popular government” and of the violation of the so-called democratic practices of popular gov- ernment. The eyes of the'socialist party in daily work, are turned away from the struggle of the masses. Of | small businessmen, the profession- | als, the ministers and other “re-| spectable” elements who are apolo- | S ith and recounts eleven points’ against Mayor Walker and Tam- many Hall. Among them there is jnot a single word against Walker’s The socialist party perialist war, to infuse the masses |} with the idea of class unity and | |is no mention of the miserable hous- | class solidarity, with the conception that freedom can come only through the overthrow of the capitalist sys- tem, only through revolution, The election campaign is a part of the work of the Communists, day in and day out, to organize the un- organized, to of Negro masses; to turn thé work- ing class into a powerful revolution- |course, seeking votes, they shed ajary army capable of defending its |tear now and then about the fate |daily interests against the open- lof the workers (the workers, too, | shoppers, against the attempt to re- |have votes), but they look to the | duce the living standards and to oners. make them into a force that will end the capitalist system and estab- lish the rule of the poor, of the op- rorism and have worked in collu-| gists of the capitalist system for | pressed, of the workers and farm- sion with these terrorist squads their main support in the campaign. crs in the United States. against the militant rank and file | workers of the city. The socialists reeks with bourgecis liberalism. The work- Lewis Brings His Treachery Into Open | By FRANK HENDERSON pee capitalist controlled govern- | * ment supported ‘by labor betray |ers such as Lewis, Woll and Green land existing upon democratic. lies |ably preached in our “efficient” \educational institutions, unveiled \itself at the miners’ convention as a dictator with an iron fist smash- |ing the miners—backbone of organ-; | ized labor in America. Not only was| took their protection with them | gangsters—their | the true position of the state against| (badges of red, white and blue) and us” Hand in Hand Sent His Thugs to New Union Convention; With the Police mission. The gangsters of Lewis made good use of “patriotism.” They |gates and the convention _ hall lagainst the attack of the Lewis “all hell can’t stop spirit will make the new union | the workers brought to light but the, Under this emblem and in the name a successful fighting organization |much doubted strategy of Lewis| | against the miners was visibly un- | earthed. |the nth degree, has abandoned its) | former policy of secret periodic sell- | jouts and betrayals engineered and|of Lewis bark out death to all who new union, of patriotism, slugged and beat the rank and file miners and attempted | to destroy the beginning of a real/ The Lewis officialdom, corrupt to fighting organization of American} labor. . | with a rank and file control. Lewis Is Impotent. The coal barons may say that the days of organized miners are past. | Lewis may smile contentedly about the young miners will bravely shoulder the burden and with the determination of youth establish the first real miners’ union in America. A union controlled and operated by and for the rank and file. For every progressive miner framed-up and | shot down Lewis will find hundreds |from his own ranks to take their |place. Lewis is losing his parasitic position and losing control. The very fact that he has taken the of- \fensive—meaning he is defending his usurped position and clutching like a man drowning to anything | that promises help shows that Lewis | will go. The miners of Pennsylvania and Ohio have answered by putting Although the guns in the hands his “successful” attack upon the| the Workers (Communist) Party on Patriots may breath |planned. behind locked doors inf) dare to oppose him, yet unmindful | easier and shout that the “red men- | of danger, the much abused coal) ace” has been checked. Yet the grim| lot but they are determined to put diggers rally to the support of the/faces of the coal diggers and their an end to the two existing parties new union. It takes more than a) “all hell can’t stop us” spirit says | of the ruling robber class and their special conferences and now comes jout openly against the miners by a | brazen attack upon the rank and | file miners’ convention at Pitts-| |burgh. Instead of secret betrayal | by communicating with his district) |cohorts instructing them to sell-out} |to the coal operators, Lewis openly jsends his “ten dollar, assassins” to | Pittsburgh, launching a bloody open ‘attack upon the militant progressive | delegates at the cofvention. The) | outstanding thing, however, about |this attack is not the fact that it! | was engineered by Lewis but the | thing to be remembered by the min- ers and all other workers is the fact that Lewis received the aid and sup- port of the police. Not only this— the entire machinery of the capital- ist state was brought into play to persecute the militant miners who |defended the convention hall from \the attack of the Lewis gangsters. So in Pennsylvania, State of Broth- erly Love, “law” how prohibits the organization of labor. Murder Under “Old Glory.” The flexibility of the flag was also well illustrated. The red, white and blue, one day symbolic of world de- mocracy, the next day stands for open-shop conditions, dictatorship and scabbery. The colors only re- cently defended by the militant min- ers during the war for “democracy” now faced them in plain reality as a blind to the workers so that the rul-| ing robber class may lead the work-) ers whither they wish. To death) and misery, to starvation and sub- , shower of bullets to quench the) to all workers that a new union has) “colt” fighting spirit of the miners. Especi- ally the young miners who so gal-| fighters will nurse and guide the ers’ | been, born. The old experienced | the ballot in both states. Not only have they put the Party on the bal- party—the socialist party \and establish a Workers’ and Farm- government *in the United lantly defended the women dele-'new union to a walking staye and! States. CAMPAIGN CORNER F. G. Manus, acting D. O. in Dis- trict 13, with headquarters in San Francisco writes that the Publicity Committee is going to keep us posted on what is doing in the Gold- en State. Lest we should get an at- tack of irritability waiting for Pub- licity Committee to da, its stuff, Comrade »Manus decides to say the the following for publication: “California is in full swing col- lecting signatures to put our candi- dates on the ballot. Wetneed 12,000 signatures. The petition committees in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles want help from sympa- thizers and all class conscious work- ers who are willing to participate ip a Communist Election Campaign to give the Jackass, the Elephant and the socialist preacher a run for their money. Those willing to par- ticipate in the campaign should re- _Francisco; 2123 Telegraph Avenue, | Oakland, campaign director; and at 2708 Brooklyn Avenue, Los Angeles, “In San Francisco, the Party is holding open air meetings every Fri- day night at Filmore and O’Farrell Streets—20th and Mission Streets jand during the months of September |and October, every Sunday night, political rallies will be held at our headquarter8, 1212 Market Street, with our state candidates as speak- ers. In Oakland, open-air meetings at 19th and Broadway and political rallies at the Party headquarters, 7th and Feralta Streets, Fraternity Hall. | Sunday afternoon at St. James Park, at 2 p. m. with our candidates as speakers. Foster speaks in San Francisco and Workers Delegations from shons and factories and the \farming districts are organizing to Frank Spector, campaign manager. | Meetings will be held every | presidential candidate of the Work- (ers (Communist) Party of America. | “ * |. Another comrade sends a $2 con- | tribution to the $100,000 Communist Campaign Fund from St. Paul, Min- nesota. He has been unemployed for six months. “I send this as a | duty,” he writes, “as a class-con- | scious worker in the food industry. | Millions of workers should be found under this speed-up system and ef- ficiency schemes to contribute to the Communist Campaign Fund, and the Party that is fighting the capitalist ‘system and the trade union bureau- cracy, the ally of capitalism. U. 8. OFFICE BOY LEAVES. | LIMA, Peru, Sept. 25 (UR).— American Ambassador Alexander P. |Moore has engaged passage for |New York Friday, it was learned port at 1212 Market Street, San! come with their banners to hear the tonight. ” f defend the , Soviet | it | Union against the attacks’ of the | cut of pure goodness of heart. After imperialists, to struggle for racial | |the election campaign, as in their | cquality for the oppressed millions | tion to his twenty-eight wives. he |found they had fled in all direc- jtions. He finally succeeded in lo- jeating five of them, but the poor | fellow feels as womanless as a bach- ;elor in a monastery. UES Si | tease) DE RIVERA, the Spanish dictator, made a big jail delivery |the other day in honor of the fifth janniversary of the dictatorsh’n. rimo did not open the jail gates jall there is a limit to the eapacity even of Spanish penitentiaties, and even the best-regulated country can- not celebrate successfully unless some of the people are at lage. | Needless to say, Senor De Rivera did not release any class war pris- + *# 8 JT is a dull week that does not thrill to a new decree by Benito | Mussolini. Having solved the birth- |rate by decreeing that married campaign jers have a duty to themselves and | couples should bring up larger fam- It ito their class to vote Communist! jilies, and the style in dress by de- ereeing that women should wear dresses two inches below the knee, the fascist dictator decided that it was time to fix things co that the style in shirts would remain static. ei ee iT? accomplish this aim Mussolini | dug into the papal archives and learned that the papacy has a sys- tem that worked out beautifully, | ever rince the days when rival popes jused ¥» fight over which had the |right to represent the Christian |God. “fh> pope elects the cardinals and the College of Cardinals elects | the pope’s successor. This helps | God considerably to keep the right man on the throne of St. Peter. | Mussolini does not claim to be God’s |vight-hand fan, but he represents the big industrialists of Italy, so, as a good servant, he wants to take the necessary precautions so that there will be no slip up after he |croaks. He appoints the members of the grand council of the fascist |party, which, in turn, will appoint Mussolini’s successor after that happy event becomes necessary. But Mount Vesuvius is not the only voleano in Italy. There is also a social voleano in Italy which is |liable to erupt at any moment. etre a bak solid south'is being broken up, also a lot of perfectly good eggs. \It is becoming the fashion nowa- | days below the Mason-Dixon line at meetings cf the democratic fran tions to hurl yokes at yokels who attempt to explain either the vir- tues or vices of Al Smith. This in- | dicates a progressive development. |of political consciousness’ in the south. Anybody who ever heard a southerner attempting apolitical explanation knows that any old hen would do it much better. * * * MES: MABEL WILLEBRANDT Hoover an awful lot of good, but she is getting a lot of publicity. Mabel is one of those girls who can stay happy without resorting to strange liquids. A bit of a sadist, she finds joy in the sorrows of oth- ers. She is as dry as a bartender between drinks. So is Hoover for that matter, but the difference is that while Herbert would not turn ‘vather be dry than be president. down a good wet vote, Mabel would . ED ax] f= ==> may not be doing Herbert ~