The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1928, Page 6

Page Six ———_———— 29, 1928 . THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPT. Daily | Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party | : ; ; { SOLITAIRE_HE CAN'T LOSE Fred Ellis | Tol \ : / Worker oe 1o0 ee | (OLONEL T. E. LAWRENCE, the ; English soldier who won military ~» = —_——— ~ | |fame as a servant of British imper- i Published by NATIONAL DAILY | ialism in Ara- Hl 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Daiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-3 | bia during the f H war, is now 2 SUBSCRIPTION RATES | playing his fa- \ | | By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York) miliar role of > $4.50 six months $2.50 three months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months 2 three months stool-pigeon in €8 per year ———— Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. zs fe eer ..ROBERT MINOR As ..WM. F. DUNNE Entered as second-class mail at the post-offic ° at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers: 2% | Workers commuwst) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! VOTE COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! The Greatest Danger to the Working Class So terrific is the momentum generated in the drive of the imperialist powers toward another world war that many class con- scious workers, even a considerable number of revolutionists, fail to perceive its immi- nent danger. In such a situation the gravest menace to the whole working class is the danger of yielding to pacifist illusions—suc- cumbing to the poison propaganda of the liberals, pacifists and social democratie agents of imperialism who indulge in dirty sermonizing to the effect that we are living in an era of peace and democracy. Closely akin to pacifism, and a symptom of its wide- spread permeation of the working cle is the tendency to underestimate the speed with which the world is being driven toward the next war. That danger manifests itself in an underestimation of the events of the past few weeks, particularly since the signing of the Kellogg “peace” pact at Paris. Every lackey of imperialism, from the ayowed spokesmen of the type of Briand, Kellogg, Chamberlain (or his substitute Cushendun), Tanaka to the miserable apos- tates in the camp of social democracy, the Otto Bauers, the Kautskys, the MacDonalds, the Hillquits the Thomases, is engaged in open or covert assaults on the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics. Ever since the con- vening of the Sixth Congress of the Commu- nist International, when the representatives of the vanguard of the proletariat through- out the world—the general staff of the whole revolution—met and decided the chief task of the proletariat of the warld is to combat the war danger, the reptile press of Europe, particularly of those vassal nations of im- perialism bordering the Soviet Union, has been foaming at the mouth like bloodhounds and violently traducing the Soviet Union. In this assault they were abetted by the con- gress of the second international, where some of the leaders of that organization of traitors to and assassins of the working class declared that the existence of the Sov- jet Union was the greatest menace to the peace of the world. At the identical time the imperialist powers are trying to outdo one another in villifying the workers’ and peas- ants’ government, they are using every trick known to diplomatic duplicity to strengthen their individual positions at the expense of their imperialist rivals. "Since the signing of the Kellogg pact, which was conceived in an effort on the part qf American imperialism to weaken the in- fluence of the League of Nations and pre- vent it, under the domination of England, from building .a bloc of European nations against the United States, events have moved with amazing rapidity. Simultaneous- ly with the signing of the pact came the an- nouncement of a secret naval agreement be- tween England and France. This was deeply resented at Washington as a move against the United States. Then came the assembly of the League at Geneva and the action of the German representative, Count von Berns- dorff, in refusing to approve the decisions of the commission dealing with the question of a preparatory disarmament conference. The revival of Germany, with the support of Wall Street capital, enables the capitalist class of that country to play what appears to be an independent role, and without doubt the German bourgeoisie, like all other na- tional ruling classes, have definite interests for which they fight on the field of interna- tional politics—the desire for colonies, etc. But let no one for a moment fail to perceive that the action of Bernsdorff at Geneva is the symptom of an alliance between the Ger- | man and United States governments against Britain and France. Count von Bernsdorff, in his actions at Geneva, spoke more for American imperialism than for his own gov- ernment. At the same time certain political opponents of Briand, the French foreign minister, who maneuvered the naval pact with Britain, are mobilizing their forces against him and may likely gain sufficient support to cause the fall of the Poincaire cab- inet. These forces favor an alliance with the United States as against Britain. The final moves on the world diplomatic stage will soon be concluded. Britain and the United States are playing for nations to sup- port their respective interests. The same double-dealing that characterizes the Eur- opean situation also exists in the Far East, where the United States, utterly contemp- tuous of Japan and Britain, officially recog- nizes the Nanking murder regime of Chiang Kai-shek in order to strengthen its position there. Just as the Pilsudski government of Poland became more violent in its provoca- tions against, the Soviet Union, after the advance agent and watch-dog of the Wall Street finance capitalists, had been on the job a sufficient length of time, so the gov- ernment of Chiang Kai-shek at Nanking will launch a barrage of calumny against the workers’ and peasants’ government from its vantage point. : To underestimate the war danger is ob- jectively to aid the war-mongers who try to lull the masses into a false sense of security while their war preparations are going ahead full blast. It may be temporarily comforting to those who wish to avoid the realities of life to feel that war is far distant. But, as Lenin well said, “he who comforts a slave, instead of in- citing him to rebel against slavery, thereby lends a helping hand to the slave-owners.” The Communist International has sounded the alarm and every Communist Party throughout the world faces the task of mob- ilizing mass sentiment against the im- perialist conspirators. In this country the Workers (Communist) Party, the United States section of the Communist Interna- tional, is the one Party that is following the inernational policy in the struggle against war. All those who would fight effectively against the war-lords of this country must support the Workers (Communist) Party in this election—and in the struggles that will inevitably come after the election. Tell Us Something New Another professor has made a great dis- covery. This time it is Professor E. M. Bor- chard, of Yale University, who informs us that practically every war that has ever been fought would have been legal under the terms of the Kellogg-Briand multilateral peace pact signed in Paris by representatives of the various powers. By JAY LOVESTONE N_ the Party election platform of our we characterized the so- cialist party of America as follows: “The socialist party of Amer- ica, which still claims to be a working class party, is in fact a party of the lower middle class. | Its leadership has become part of the bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor. Its whole ambition is to inherit the tradi- ; s | tions of the LaFollette third party American fiscal agent, Charles S. Dewey, the} movement. The militant spirit of Fugene Debs has been completely wiped out from the socialist party. “The presidential candidate of the socialist party, Norman Thomas, is the worst kind of pacifist, a typical preacher, who performs the greatest service for American imperialism by creat- ing illusions about the League of Nations, about the possibility of | preventing war means. ... “The socialist party of today is for the protection of capitalist law and order, is against revolution, is against the working class gov- ernment of Soviet Russia, and supports every measure of the American Federation of Labor bu- reaucracy for class collaboration. It has shifted its class basis from the working class entirely and definitely to the lower middle class.” Facts Confirm Analysis. by peaceful tion has proved to be true. An ex- amination of the developments and events of the election campaign to | can Legion and the Veterans of For-/of the General Motors Company, | relations with the working. class | date affords the best proof of this. Tet us pose some questions and re- count some facts to understand some of the evidence at hand. The campaign waged by the so- cialist party to date has dropped all semblance of a working class char- acter. The slogan of the Reverend Dr. Norman Thomas, the trail- blazer for the socialists today, is “Fellowship and Conciliation.” This’ was his keynote in Colorado, the | scene of the recent murder of strik- ing miners at Columbine, at the hands of the liberal democratic Gov- ,ernor Adams, a supporter of Al Smith. If we examine the friends |and enemies that the socialist party has, to date, made in this election campaign, we will find the correct- ness of our estimate of its program and role borne out with terrific weight. Here are some facts. 1.—Capitalist Press Boosts Socialist Party. The metropolitan bourgeois press | is keeping silent about the Workers (Communist) Party and its cam- paign. At the same time, the so- cialist party is getting very effec- tive, widespread publicity. Judging : a “Thru Fellowship, Conciliation” jAt the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International, the Amer- Socialist Party for Protection of the Capitalist |ican communist Party participated | System protection given by the capitalist government to the socialists in their | elattion efforts. There’s a reason. And it’s to be found in the basic | class difference, the difference in completely discarding the Debs tra- dition, the tradition of the conscious anti-capitalist support which Debs once drew for the organization. Reverend Thomas does not speak of class interests, for which the Com-|the class struggle in the terms or |munists and the socialists speak. |Throughout the country, the agen- cies of republican and democratic government welcome socialist speak- jers. Throughout the country, the lagencies of capitalist government are doing everything in their power, utilizing all conceivable methods to \interfere with and disrupt the Com- imunist election activities. 3.—Fake Demecracy and Its Blessings. State authorities, "American Le- are working feverishly te keep the Communists off the ballot in those seif, at first makes a gesture to- | pirit of Debs. The slogan of Thomas is “Fellowship and Concilia- tion.” That is why it is hard to draw even a faint line of distinction between Smith and Thomas, between ‘the socialist party and the demo- ‘eratie party in the election cam- | paign. |sin, a LaFollette republican, is for Senator Blaine of Wiscon- Smith. Senator Brookhart of Iowa, a LaFollette republican, is for Hoover. Senato rWheeler, of Mon- tana, a LaFollette democrat, is for Smith. Senators Nye and Frazier, by the Reverend Dr. Thomas him- which Mr, Hillquit was one of the|Lawrence for that matter. actively in the formulation of poli- cies aiming to mobilize more effec- tively the workers for the destruc- tion of imperialism, for the wiping ou tof capitalism, for the victory of the working class, for the establish- ment of Communism. Simultan- eousuly the socialist party, thru Mr. Hillquit, participated in the Brussels Congress of the Second In- ternational. This dead congress, in leading spirits, made frantic ef- India, accord- ing to veports in the press, Lawrence wrote a book on how he induced the Arabs to make war on the Turks and though this t book was ob- viously the report of an agent of the | British government it met with high |favor and enjoyed a sale that would | bring tears of envy from the eyes |of Messrs. Simon and Schuster. T. J. O'Flaherty ee ae | |GALLONS of neurotic tears were | Shed over the treatment accorded |to this fink by the British govern- ment. Lawrence refused to accept a title, we were told. He was in- dignant because the British govern- ment failed to. keep its promises to | the Arabs made under the stress jof necessity. Hokum! Lawrance |cared no more what happened to the Arabs after he had succeeded in in- veigling them to risk their lives fighting against the Turks to save the empire’s neck in the near east than Morgan cares tor the fate of the suckers who risked their lives fighting for his investments and the interests of American imperialism on the battlefields of Europe. aCe AWRENCHE, who was supposed to have enlisted in the British air service because he wanted to be away from the haunts of society in London, now pops up in India as a spy on the activities of the Hindoo revolutionary leaders who are aim- ing to free the country from the British yoke. Ali the bunk put out in the press about Lawrence was ‘designed to put the British workers |off the track of his movements. ,He has been discovered. Let us hope |that he will not succeed as well in India as he did in Arabia. ae ee [Was on the subject of stool- pigeons a word about Patrick | Connolly, head of the Interborough company union, recently elevated to |the directorship of the big traction |eompany. Mr. Connolly is no or- jdinary dick. Neither is Colonel They have abilities of a kind that justify |forts to secure the affiliation and| their employers in treating them |support of the Kuomintang party | generously. | of Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yu Hsien, | stool-pigeons. and other militarist hangmen of the Chinese workers and farmers. It is interesting to note that while the Kuomintang gave the slightest im- pression of having revolutionary ob- \ jectives and was conducting its northern campaign against the Chin- gion organizations, representatives | non-partisan LaFoilette reptibiicans, ¢S¢ militarists, led by Chang Teo-lin, | of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, |are for Hoover. The Nation, edited |@%d the imperialist protectors, the) socialist party of the United States and the Second International, of But they are glorified They bear the same |relation to a fink that the Morris |Plan bears to a pawn shop. PAR eee, CONNOLLY was used by the I. R. T. to call a fake strike in 1919 for a fare increase. In return for his services he was recognized as |the president of a union that was |in the pocket of the I. R. T. Now jhe has been officially taken into the |family. The. only difference be- states where, despite almost inst-| wards the socialist party. One day which it is a member, was hostile tween Connolly and the so-called perable legal technicalities, set up| it leaves some doubts in the minds |to it. But no sooner than this Kuo-|honafide officials of the American |by the capitalists to disfranchise the |of many of the muddled liberals as mintang and its militarist clique be- |Federation of Labor is that while |workers, our Party has succeeded to whether they should vote for | trayed the workers, became the bar-| Connolly is openly a company agent in getting on the ballot. The case lof Nebraska is typical. Here the Party complied with ali the legal ‘regulations. Here our |this achieved than the government authorities, inspired by the Ameri- Thomas or Smith. The next day baric butchers of the working and| mith receives the endorsement of | peasant masses, the Second Inter-| [the Nation, edited by Thomas. comrades | worked well and overcame sundry | Every word of this characteriza- | technical obstacles. No sooner was | ¥ \hard to distin; Supported by Union Wreckers. It is not an accident that it is national of Mr. Hillquit and the! American socialist party welcomed | them. No sooner had these Kuomin-| tang forces sold out boot and bag- guish between Smith, | gage to American, British and Jap- with the title of labor leader, his competitors are doing the job under cover. HE keen rivalry between England and the United States is shown managed by the anti-union Raskob/ anese imperialism and broken its, PY the turmoil caused in diplomatic ‘eign Wars, took our Party off the|and Thomas, managed by the sup-| ballot. In Montana, technical pre- |tences of a ridiculous character are |invoked against the Communists in order to hide-the implacable hostil- lity of the capitalists, of the copper barons and the bankers to our |Party. In Montana, we complied ex- ‘actly as the socialist party did with the election requirements, yet we .|are taken off and the socialist party |is put on the ballot. How is it that the socialist party cannot point to a single state where the government is trying to keep it off the ballot? How is it that the | socialist party has no difficulty in getting on the ballot, while our | party has to fight every inch of the | way in order to secure even the | slightest opportunity to appear be- tore the workers in the coming ele \tion campaign?» Here we again have a class question. The socialist party no longer has anything to do with the defense of the Interests of the working class. The capitalists are past masters in the art of wel-|The significance of this dispatch is| will vote as they strike. They will) coming new friends and new sup-| brought home when it goes on to| vote for the Workers (Communist) porters. And that is why the path say further: “Whether this left-| Party of America. lof the socialist party in the election|handed support will be given to} |porters of Sigman, |Green, and other |union ‘smashers and lieutenants of | Wall Street in the labor movement. | An Associated Press dispatch of September 28rd, dealing with a statement issued by the socialist party in reference to the election |eampaign, takes the prize. In this release, issued by the socialist par- ty, it is claimed that the socialist -party will elect the next president jof th eUnited States. Of course, _the socialist party is careful to point out that the candidate they will elect {will not be Norman Thomas. This |dispatch declares that the socialist | party considers that “it holds the |balance of power, that it can take enough votes away from one of the major party candidates to assure victory to the other.” | | Whether this is the strategy of. “fellowship and conciliation” or in- sanity, we will let the reader decide. government of the Soviet Union| Lewis, Woll, | than the American “socialists,” notorious trade/ hand in glove with their brethren | overseas, joined in vigorous ap- plause of the Kuomintang’s mur-| derous campaign against the work-| ers and peasants of China. 6. Vote As You Strike. No class conscious worker can or will vote for Hoover or Smith. That is why no class conscious worker can or should vote for the socialist party today. The “new so- cialist party” has passed even from its previous shame-faced defense of capitalism to playing the role of an active, open defender of capitalism in its ugliest manifestations; from “industrial democracy” to “fellow- ship and conciliation.” This is the path the socialist party has been traveling. This is the path which no honest class conscious worker | can or should take. The class con-| scious workers of the United States | circles by the publication of the secret understanding regarding the disposition of naval and military forces by England and France. The United States regards this entente as a threat against herself. It is that. But it is also a threat against the Soviet Union. * 8 * HE republican and democratic viee-presidential candidates are a bit under the weather these days. Robinson is fishing ano Curtis is down with a pain in the neck. This is retribution, one of the first laws of nature. Charlie’s speeches have done that to lots of peopie. * 8 * ives the Internationa) Progressive Center, 101 West 28th St., you will find not only food and drink to tickle the palate but a subdued at- mosphere which only Greeks, Turks and Bulgarians can furnish. The waiters seem to divine your require- ments. There is no attempt to force raw carrots on an unwilling guest. In fact, you are allowed the most liberal degree of self-determination. There is only one warning that you must heed. Don’t cast any reflec- The Sandwich Man W alks the Streets they give him by the columns of 8, P. publicity, |campaign is so smooth, That is why | Hoover or Smith, socialist officials | tions on the roast lamb. Greece has cne would think that the socialist |“@, Communists face so many diffi- have declined to state in so many! ‘been famous for philosophers and mutton, and the International Pro- gressive Center, while fighting cap- italism in Greece and elsewhere tooth and fork, will not stand for eny pleasantries at the expense of this proletarian dish, It’s about time to eat, I guess, ten OFeahety ANOTHER CHICAGO BOMBING CHICAGO, Sept. 28 (UP).—Chi- cago’s 5th bombing of the year and! the fourth within 12 hours occurred today when a bomb was thrown through the window of a south side store. Walter Robinson and _ his two children, Walter, Jr, 15, and Agnes, 11, who resided above, the store, were thrown from their beds g ‘ ji SHIRLEY ETLIN. walking until People read his sign. Maybe they ‘ | = es i | > DE is e and his body stoops. He| seventy-five cents. jeat at Cafe Rich and taste foods. party or some of its “angels” ae PRR Ee OES Te ee eae Reed H ders aimlessly through the He walks until he reaches the| Mouths open and shut, eating food, eavy owners of New York Times) 4—Who Are the “Socialists? ir seceli re a that eke 2 swanders ¢ New York. His corner, then he stops to wait for the There must be so much food to eat. | Stock. The radio is open to the 80- | The. Workers (Communist) Party |t@vorite on the ground that wha‘ | _) business streets ri f tiem eitad.| cars to pass . .. at the next corner Will they never finish eating all the Cialist reverend. For the Commu- is carrying its election fight to the they see of Smith’s playing for the 4 eyes stare vacantly ha era tivn he stops again until the cars pass.|food in the kitchen of Cafe Rich?/ nists the radio is closed. factories, to the Negro masses, to |liberal vote is a trespass on so- * From his shoulders ane ante It is hot the sun, searching for Oh well, he will also eat food to-.. Why is it that the capitalist press |the masses in the mills and mines, cialist domain and should be com- I Which reads :“Eat at ete ae htful Baie ue dig its tendrils, scorches his Night. He will have seventy-five! i8 giving the socialist party full|to the striking textile workers, to batted.” Here me the point. Here) » best meals in town... is peng body. The sweat pours from his Cents and a glass of beer. If it is blast publicity? To pose the ques- |the battling miners, to the poverty-|is the confession! Smith must be h music and Table D’Hote Service. ok Paleo scrawny neck and/ still hot when night comes he will tion is to answer jt. stricken farmers. But the socialist | stopped from trespassing on the so- ‘} People hurry through the streets hrough his tired body. His clothes | Sleep on a bench in the park. He 2—Government Attacks Commu. | party is simultaneously merged with cialist domain. The preserves of ... skyscrappers touch the soft ‘i ean an ugly ee Who do the| will save twenty-five cents. Some nists—Protects Socialists. the reactionary trade union bureau- | Smith is the home of Thomas. Smith white ihe oa vi gt et pend push him so, how can they|™ore food. Suppose the policeman cracy which is responsible for the |is close to Thomas and Thomas is! man walks up and down the cro’ | | State troopers and private steel, c i i i i f some of the basic or- |close to Smith. The pressure of i ne walks through the park and tells coal and iron police, in a number of destruction oO ¢ t De ioe on rae hte ir ip ita eat g tn asides Legged BR “move away’’... “move | ganizations of the American work-|the democratic party on the so- hat pushes against him, he le: | | localities; are working overtime to » ine break up the Communist election|ing class, like the United Mine |cialist party must be eased a bit. egal k t rt + FMEGd: the lamppost. for support. People must be. ie Bright nt iad raed oh shing campaign. In the state of Ohio, in| Workers. The socialist party is) Frank P. Walsh and Norman Thom- 0 i A i Be vs cigs on his Me then hel cath people, intermingle and dash|hot room where he rents his bed egret phos Phe a example of capitalist democracy at Oka its best, when it deals with class-|of the LaFollete tradition. It is an- the LaFollette votes. fi ts. Seventy- around in streaks and circles, bump-| for the night there will be only the conscious workers. No election nouncing from the housetops that i 1M. 4 ie Be ec tor ths lake ling into each other. Only he must| smells from sweating bodies and|™ectings of the Communists are|the LaFollette vote, largely petty- 5. An aco fue | Some scientists expressed the at of beer and something to|walk slowly, he must evade the tet thee atthe stifling | Permited there. In West Virginia, bourgeois, especially in certain sec-| Internationally, as well as na- view that the energy required, for : i Men in Wheeling, the situation is no dif- He won't have to stand in the | streaks and circles blinding his eyes, PL SATS RE er Ce NS hate in , -p in the park to: Brazilian Scientist i Discovers Fuel Water LONDON, Sept. 28 (UP).—Scien- tists were sceptical today of the claims, of Walter Hohenau, Brazil- jan, that he had discovered a method of using water for fuel. Hohenay told the world fuel con- ference yesterday that, using in- tense electrical vibrations, he could convert water into hydrogen gas which could be used for power. The merit of the discovery lies in the claim that, after the ordinary pro- cess of splitting water in hydrogen and oxygen, the oxygen is further converted into hydrogen. The po- tential energy of water thus is made \highly available as a gas. on tions of the country, will go to the tionally, there is little to distin- the conversion of the water would socialist party. iguish the “New Socialist Party” cost more than the energy obtained ferent. “Contrast this persecution of of beans. He will keep ~ bruises. ‘ : ine for endless hours to re-| these atoms that erush his body and night, the Communists with the energetic 4 he ‘The socialist party is deliberately. (from the “New Tammany Hall.” , would be worth. by the blast. ©