The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 28, 1928, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1928 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 Address: “Daiwor Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): RS per year $4.50 six wonths $2.50 three months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months a Address’ and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26:28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. : 7» Editor "ROBERT MINOR of SE Assistant Editor. .WM. F. DUNNE 8 Entered as second-class mail at, the post-office a‘. New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Be" VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers: KD | PA | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! Something for Hoover to Answer Herbert Hoover, in his campaign speeches, constantly reiterates his full approval of the Coolidge administration and promises, if elected to the presidency, a continuation of those policies. It would be inter ing for Hoover to try to reconcile the pacifist pre- tenses of the Kellogg-Briand pact with the announcement from Washington that “the bill now pending before the senate for con- usi¥.Stion of fifteen cruisers and one airplane carrier will be taken up and passed this win- ter if President Coolidge has his way.” The Kellogg pact decreed the outlawing of war as a national policy. Naturally any nation, even the most aggressively im- perialist, could sign such a document-for the simple reason that no government proclaims “ak a national policy. Each group of im- ia war-mongers indulges in the build- ing of armaments and preparations for new wars under cover of national defense, security, peace, and the other shibboleths now familiar to all who observe the duplicity of the statesmen of capitalist nations. It is not often that the capitalist press is so frank as was the Wall Street Journal, on Wednesday, September 26, when it said edi- torially: “Mr. Kellogg's treaty was readily signed be- because it really bound nobody to anything specific. It was a profession of altruism to which any civilized nation might subscribe. It had none of the sanctions of the league of na- tions and it is quite conceivable that its value, other than as a shock absorber, was not much more than that of a series of peace treaties negotiated by Bryan which the whole world for- got in a few months in the horrors of the Great War.” Such a statement is important not only be- cause of its open ridicule of the peace ges- tures of Kellogg, but because of the cynicism with which it suggests the approach of an- other world war. The fact that Kellogg’s treaty of today is placed in the same category as the series of Bryan treaties before the out- break of the world war is no mere flair of speech. It reveals the deliberate political estimates of the spokesmen of Wall Street, regarding the approach of another war. At this moment the war-mongers and their government at Washington are incensed be- cause Britain, dominating the ninth annual assembly of the league of nations, has) suc- ceeded in making the pact ridiculous before it is one month old, by proposing enforce- ment clauses. British imperialfsm is, of course, the last power that would seriousl} consider such clauses. Diplomats have per- fected to a high degree the use of language to conceal thought. The proposals at the league assembly were brought forth only in order to hold the Kellogg pact up to the con- tempt of the whole world. It would have been impolite to laugh at the antics of “Nerv- ous Nelly” Kellogg, the butcher of Nicara- guans in behalf of the imperialists of the United States, while he was soberly defend- ing such a farce as the pact. If Britain or the United States or any of the other signatories of the pact really in- tended to outlaw war the proposals of the Soviet Union to instantly and completely dis- arm would have been accepted by them long ago. The Soviet government was perfectly right when it declared that the pact, without even such an elementary guarantee as limita- tion of increasingly growing armaments will remain a dead letter. In spite of the pact, and as if to mock the thing, the race for armaments goes madly forward. The war clouds grow ever darker. Instead of approving the stand of the one power in the world that advocates real peace and has a program capable of realizing peace, the imperialist nations of the earth are daily plotting new conspiracies against the gov- ernment of workers and peasants that now “thrives in the domain of the former Russian - Czars. The workers of the whole world must be alert, to prevent the imperialist conspirators, the Coolidges, the Kelloggs, the Hoovers, the Briands, the Chamberlains, from attacking the Soviet Union. Hoover, the personification of interna- tional banditry, must be rebuked in the United States by the workers and farmers piling up a large vote in support of the one party that fights against war and that repre- sents the international solidarity of the work- ing class, the Workers (Communist) Party. Let the butchers of the working class know that there is a veritable army of workers and farmers in the United States that will fight with every weapon at hand against the war conspiracies. The. Recognition of Nanking - The dejure recognition of the bloody re- gime of Chiang Kai-shek in China by the United States government is a direct slap in the face of Japan and England. It is one more step in the ever-increasing determina- tion of American imperialism to take the lead in world reaction. At the moment wHen Japan was fighting against the nationalist regime at Nanking a few months ago the United States aroused the fury of the Tokio government of Tana- ka by concluding a tariff treaty with Nank- ing. At that time Secretary of State Kellogg publicly stated that the conclusion of the treaty constituted de facto recognition “at least.” After a study of International law and American precedents it is now an- nounced that the treaty constituted de facto or actual recognition of Nanking as the government. The recognition of Nanking is also another affront to England, inasmuch as the policy of the Baldwin tory government in China has been directed toward joint action of .the im- perialist péwers having interests in China. Thus, while antagonisms are sharpening in Europe as emphasized by the British- French naval treaty on the eve of the sign- ing of the Kellogg pact, the open assault by the German representative, Count von Berns- dorff, on the policies of England and France at the annual assembly of the league of nations, and the constant provocations of all imperialist powers against the Soviet Union, the insatiable Wall Street gang intensifies its drive in the Far East, bringing nearer the war that is now in preparation by every pre- datory nation on the face of the earth. Not a moment is to be lost by the class conscious workers in energetically working with all speed to perfect machinery that will be able to withstand the impact of the next world war and prepare forces that will be able, in the course of the conflict, to change the imperialist war into a civil war against capitalism. . Tammany Favorite Wants Fare Boost Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric Company, speaking in Cleveland hefore the American Electric Rail- way Association, urged abolition of the five cent fare in New York. Young is high in the councils of the Tammany branch of the democratic party and is one of those favored by Al Smith as candidate for governor. The open declaration bears out our conten- tion that the Tammany city administration under Al. Smith’s night-club, song-writing mayor, Jimmy Walker, in spite of his declara- tions to the contrary, is aiding the traction trust in its attempt to boost fares in New York for workers who are compelled to risk their lives on the subways and elevated rgil- ways. CAMPAIGN CORNER Funds for the Communist Elec- | tion Campaign are coming in to the | national /headquarters in increasing volume. But it takes a lot of ten | dollar bills to make $100,000. The jist parties will spend at least lion dollars. corrupt the workers in this | pai that the democratic party will use up $1,000,000 in an effort to de- bauch the farmers. speeches will cost over half a mil-| In face of this gi-| _gantic capitalist slush fund the dum | ,000, between them to hood- asked by the National Election Cam- Committee of the Workers | East 125th Street, New York City, indeed. But Communist campaign funds will be used to educate the masses and not to hoodwink them. It means millions of leaflets and hundreds of speakers. Send your contributions at once to. National Bao 1 Campaign Committee, 43 Al Smith’s radio Trachtenberg, treasurer. Another LANSFORD, Pa. (By Mail).— The convention of District 7, United Mine Workers of America, ad- |journed after a five day session, at |which two cliques ‘of reactionaries charged each other with corruption |in the district elections, extrava- |gance, and that one of the cliques |was supported by the republican | party while the other by the demo-| cratic party. r The convention selected for dis- trict president Mike Hartneady, who was declared “elected” after the | votes of 5 local unions were thrown out, in this way defeating Bert Willjams, a candidate in the opposi- | | tion, selected by the Lewis machine. | Williams surrendered himself to |the Lewis machine, rumor reports, | and he has been promised that*they | will take care of him. It is inter- jesting to note that the Lewis ma- chine candidate “received” only 3714 votes, out of 12,000 members| (Hartneady was one of those who ‘of District 7. Williams, after the votes of 5 local unions were thrown out, was credited with 2,657 votes, | while Mattey, the present president, received 2,070 votes. ' Progressive Delegates Unseated. | At the first day of the eonvention, by the decision of Thomas Kennedy, \the International secretary-treasur- er, 7 delegates, representing over! 800 members of the Local 1376 of | Hazleton, were unseated, because |they had failed to pay assessments and, according to Kennedy, they had) sent delegates to the National Min-| |ers’ Convention at Pittsburgh. This | {local union contributed money for) |the striking soft coal miners direct | |to the rank and file thru the Na»| |tional Miners’ Relief Committee. | |The votes of this local were also| thrown out, by the Lewis machine. | During the speech of John J.) Casey, who is running for congress- | |man on the democratic ticket from’) |Luzorne County, delegates Joe Mc-| {Coy and John Podesva interrupted | jhis speech declaring that they do} ;not want to listen to the capitalist) politician, and that the union should | support only candidates on the labor | party ticket. They, also brought out | |the point that the railroads are_ |hawling scab coal and that the min- | Jers and railroad worker’ should/ | stick together. They were ruled out| lof order by. the’ chaitman of the| |convention, but many delegates ex-| | pressed their approval. | Attack Progressives. | | During the entire convention, | leaders of the Lewis machine at-| tacked and slandered the” former | Save the Union movement. Andrew | Mattey, ex-president, opening the | convention made the following state- | ment: By H. C. WILLIAMS. | | | | | | | There is a marked radical change | taking place among the Negro mas- ises of North America, despite the \fact that there are so many obsta-! cles in their way. With the open be- ‘trayal of the race by the republican ‘and democratic parties, we are ob- | serving an ideological révolt on the | part of the entire race, This revolt lis being symbolized and developed) | under the hegemony of a black lead- jership. The Negro masses have been , predominantly under the in- fluence of the republican party for over sixty years. The republican party has been able to symbolize Abraham Lincoln as the martyr, the man who freed the Negro race from chattel-slavery. It is with this myth the capigalist class of America has ae “AMERICAN POLICY HAS NOT BEEN CHANGED” ig Bankrupt Co District 7 Meeting Exposes Corrupt Lewis Cliques; “New Union Only Solution” * “During the past two years our The Lewis machine at this con- By Fred Ellis nvention up either. In Panther Creek sec- tion, Collieries 4, 5 and 6 have been closed down many weeks by the Le- high Coal and Navigation Co., as unprofitable mines. Four thousand five hundred men are idle and many of them are on the point of starva- |tion. Sometime ago the miners of union has been harased from with- | vention passed a resolution forbid-| this company went out on a general in and without, by the activities of ding members of the local unions to/| strike with the view of forcing the certain radical elements masquerad- listen to the new union organizers, ing under the title of “Save the Union Committee.” John J, Casey and Thomas Ken- nedy attacked the Save-the-Union movement in a similar way. Mike | Hartneady, former sheriff of Carbon County, in his speech admitted that chine in discussing the problems) the Save-the-Union movement hadjconfronting the made inroads into District 7 and was making progress. he met at this convention delegates Miners’ Convention at Pittsburgh. led the gangster attack on the dele- or permit them to speak at local union meetings. Nothing About Miners’ Conditions. During the time of the convention, | which lasted five days, not five min- utes was spent by the Lewis. ma- and the They did miners working class in general. The miners in these col- lieries are fighting against indirect There is not enough money coming | wage cuts, worsening working con- company to operate all the mines equally. The strike wes broken by the Lewis-Kennedy-Mattey machine. The idle men appealed to the con- vention for help, and the convention junder the control of the Lewis gang |“promised to make an appeal for re- lief.” | Money For Officials. Thru expulsions of local unions He said that not even pay attention to the strike | and general neglect of the organiza- | which has been in progress for some | who were delegates to the National time. tion, the membership in District 7 has, dropped down considerably. |to the district to pay its officials. \ditions and for seniority rights in|So the Lewis machine passed al gatés at the hall of the National the Sandy Run colliery. The prob-| resolution demanding the annexa-| Miners’ Convention in Pittsburgh.) !lem of unemployment was not taken | tion of 20,000 members of the 4th CARVER-LASKI-HILLQUIT * This trio recently wrote articles in Current History on the general subject of MARXISM TODAY Thomas Nixon Carver, for twenty-six years professor of political economy at. Harvard, is one of the leading apologists for imperialism and tfies to rationalize all its ramifications, including defense of labor-fakers and labor-bahking. Harold J. Laski, Oxford graduate, a typical liberal with fabian socialist leanings, is a consistent villifyer of Communism. Morris Hillquit has been for years the theoretical leader of the socialist party of America and is high in the councils of the second international. He tries to emasculate Marxism into the dirty sermonizing of a pacifist. These -three personify the class elements aligned against the proletarian revolution. Under different forms they all assail Marxism-Leninism, the theory and practice of the proletarian H. M. WICKS will reply to this combination in a series of articles + beginning in the Baily As Worker Monday, October Ist Do not miss a copy. Buy it at the newsstands if in New York revolution. City. . If elsewhere SUBSCRIBE MISS A SINGLE ISSUE. America ‘hand and foot to the band- wagon of republicanism. s! Recently in Chicago at the Elks national convention, the slogan was for the nomination of a black presi- dent. The National Inter-Racial Inde- pendent political party announced in Washington that a meeting of Neg- roes had been called at Philadelphia September 3, to make known their purpose to bolt the republican ticket, and give their reasons for doing so. Other conferences are to be held in Chicago and New York. The notice of the meeting says: “Negroes to bolt the republican party and vote for Dr. S. P. W. Drew, vice-presi- dential running mate of Gen. Jacob S. Coxey of Ohio, inter-racial party.” The Independent Order of Elks, with a membership of almost half a million Negro. men and women, were on the verge of bolting the repub- fan } a H AT ONCE SO YOU WILL NOT treacherous petty béurgeois Roscoe Simmons, and Robert B. Church, who had not guts enough to stand with their persecuted comrade Perry Howard, the last ‘Negro republican national committee man from the state of Mississippi. He has been indicted by the United States grand jury in Mississippi on charges of sel- ling federal offices. The argument was made that now is the time for a “protest vote.” These are signs of a new era in the life of the Negro people of America, which will take on great momentum against the ruling class of America, Many Negroes are still laboring under the illusion that in order to spite the republican ticket they should vote for the democratic party, notwithstanding that the democratic party is just as ruthless as the re- publican. Did not this same party fishies Y ‘Inspection District of District 1. By ‘adding that number, they are figur- ing on getting enough revenue for their fat salaries and expenses. New Union Necessary. | “If there was any question as to |the point that a new union had to |be built, it was proven by the Lans- ford convention, and this must be done by the militant rank and file.” |This is a statement by one of the | delegates to the Lansford conven- tion. Although the convention was |controlled by the Lewis gang by packing it with officials, the pres- sure of the rank and file was felt at the convention. It was under the pressure of the rank and file that Bert Williams and his . supporters threw the convention into an uproar by submitting several hundred affi- davits signed by members that they had not visited the union polls on lelection day. The fraud, stealing of |fake votes, was exposed at the con- | vention and proved beyond doubt that the Lewis gang controlled Dis- | trict 7 only by this method, and by terror and expulsions. | The militant element in District |7 will use this to prove to the rest |of the membership that the union | ; * |here is controlled by an unscrupu- lous gang of officials and that the jnew National Miners’ Union must |be built, which will take up the \figh t for the interest of the rank and file. The militant element in | District 7 are progtessing in organ- izing their forces and will wage a vigorous fight to win the rank and |file for the new union, Militancy Grows Among Negro Workers |been able to tie the Negro race of|lican party, but was betrayed by the openly kick the Negro in the face when not a single Negro delegate was seated in the democratic con- vention, and a Jim-Crow cage was provided for Negro visitors. The Workers (Communist) Party realizing its historical role in the class struggle was the only political party that had 24 Negro delegates that actively participated in all its sessions at their nationa¥ nominating convention which took place last May. : Read the program and see for yourselves. It was the Communist Party which demonstrated to protest against Wall street bankers on be- half of little Haiti, China, Nica gua, Philippines, etc; no other party could have demonstrated such soli- darity but a truly revolutionary party, against their own white op- pressors, the capitalist class of America. 2 6 Told You So wre ewns Fourth Deputy Police { Commissioner Nelson Rutten- | berg of New York City? By his {meal ticket you shali know them. womens) °° these lines are being writ- ten, Wednesday, September 26, the taxicab in- dustry of Goth- am is spending thousands of fares on a luncheon ten- dered to Mr. Ruttenberg at the Hotel As- tor. Twenty in- dustrial organ- izations con- | nected with the |taxicab business are of the opinion that the fourth deputy police com- missioner is their man. No doubt other business interests have a | “piece of him,” as they say in sport- |ing circles, but it appears that the taxi magnates own the lion’s share. | * * * MecRicE CONNOLLY, democratic |" boss of the Borough of Queens and successor of the late John M. | Phillips, king of the sewers, is car- |rying his chin saucily, judging by |the pictures that catch the big pipe |and garbage man as he wends his |way to the court house, where he is heing triéd for conspiring with Phil- |lips to do the taxpayers out of a lot of money. Even if Mr. Connolly is found guilty one year in jail is jabout all they can give him, Catch jhim get it. He is no petty larceny | artist. T. J. O'Flaherty | Seat ee ee black books are as incrim- |™ inating as little black satchels. It | Was a little black satchel that caused a general suspicion at one time that A. B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, had profited to the tune of $100,000 from the leasing of the | Elk Hill naval reserve oil lands to Edward L. Doheny, the oil magnate. | Albert said they were all wrong and evidently he was right, for is he not jat large and very much so? Indeed Albert was recently offered $800,000 | for the ranch purchased by him with |Doheny’s oil dough. The reward of | honesty! A little black book is figuring in the misfortunes of the» Philadelphia | police force which is being charged |with an alliance with the bootleg- |ging industry to the great comfort of the bluecoats and the mirth of the mellowed population. Why the police should be indicted for serving such a great and flourishing indus- try is not very clear. It is not fai The police are the servants of busi- ness. for. Why discriminate against the malefactors of bad booze when the other malefactors of great wealth are treated decently? * * et ae * JERHAPS the Hoover campaign managers got their idea of wide- spread prosperity from reading the income tax reports of the Chicago bootleggers, The Internal Revenue’ | Collector in Chicago has tax liens ranging from $1,000,000 to $1,500,- 000 against Terry Druggan, Frankie Lake and John J. Nolan. Great pow- ers that they are, it is reported that Lake and Druggan are treating with government plenipotentiaries for a compromise. sie ne) a [AYOR WALKER has suddenly ." come to the conclusion that some churches are political institutions. | He would therefore tax church for- |ums. The only thing the matter | with this discovery is that it is not |a discovery. With hardly an ex- | ception, churches are supporters of | the present social order and religion lis one of the strongest bulwarks of jcapitalism. Walker’s decision results |from the hippodrome conducted by the mountebank Straton in his Cal- |vary Baptist Church. Had Straton jconfined his political raving to at- | tacking Communism instead of Al | Smith, the mayor would not grudge | the churches the money they save in | taxes at the expense of citizens who | would not give a hoot if all the |preachers in the metropolis were | fighting fleas in Bowery flop houses. | re ea A cousin of Calvin Coolidge, who by the way is president of the United States, won the cow-calling contest in Wisconsin. What a politi- cian the fellow would make if he was as adept at throwing the bull as lat calling the cow. | | re ae Because as a proven success in his own business : affairs and handling affairs of others business will be safe with Herbert Hoover in the white house is the reason given by Joe Mitchell Chapple for the de- cision of the Chapple family—eleven of them—to vote for the G. 0. P.. candidate. Jesse James was a suc- cess in his own business and he handled the affairs of others with no little dexterity, yet he was never nominated for the presidency, Of course the world has moved forward since then and Wall Street is no longer in the bad odor it was several years ago. * * IOOVER is not saying much in this campaign but it must be admit- ted that he is not as dumb as he was during the Teapot Dome scandal when he sat in the Harding cabinet while the Elk Hill and Teapot Dome leases were being peddled to the highest bidder. That’s what they get paid . } ] ) | 3