The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1928, Page 6

= Mm Sit Le en ‘THE DAILY WORKER, N EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1928 | oe ’ Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Addres: SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $4.50 six months $2.50 three months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months THE DAILY WORKER, N.Y; Dziwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 88 per year Address and mail out chec to 26-28 Union Square, New York, ROBERT MINOR .. WM. F. DUNNE . Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 8, 1879. VOTE COMMUNIST! For President For Vice-President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER BENJAMIN GITLOW . KY | A | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY, For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For the Workers: gan a campaign of terror and extermination in that region. A ground patrol under one Captain George F. Stokes of San Diego, Cali- fornia, attacked unarmed natives and, after killing a number, drove them out of the town in which they lived. The next day the unfortunate natives who were wandering in a group through the country were murdered by bombs from Yankee planes and fire from machine guns. The Strike Wave in Europe In a period of forty-eight hours hundreds of thousands of workers have launched a strike wave in the principal countries of Central Europe. Sixty thousand shipyard workers, forty-five thousand textile workers and twenty-five thousand miners are on strike in Germany; ten thousand miners are striking in Czecho-Slovakia; the textile workers have paralyzed the Lille region in France; demon- strations against the betrayals of the social democratic leaders sweep Vienna. Many places seethe wfth unrest. Thus the ravaging of Nicaragua, one of the most monstrous crimes of this age of im- perialist butchery, continues day and night. Certainly there faces the class conscious workers, the revolutionaries of the United States and of Latin America the task of arousing the whole of Latin America against | the Wall Street government at Washington | by a complete exposure of its murderous, pil- laging, hypocritical campaign against the people of Nicaragua, in order that it may have a free hand in the building of another canal to forward its world imperialist in- terests. Thus again the growing militancy of the working class bursts forth into mass strug- gies in Europe. Capitalist revivals in Europe with the aid of Wall Street gold cannot suc- cessfully place the burden upon the backs of the working class. Imperialism can control servile government officials and the whole bourgeoisie. It can turn the social-democratic leaders into bloodhounds against the work- ing class. The swindlers of secret diplomacy can concoct new war preparations under the guise of “peace pacts.” Imperialism can have its own way as far as these things are concerned. But there is one force that is potentially mightier than all the combined imperialist agents—that is the working class. If the working class is to put up an effectite fight against the greatest menace of the day, the war danger, no stone must be left unturned to defeat and drive the gunmen of American imperialism out of Latin- America. To fight against a future world war we must strive to bring about the rout of the United States government in the pre- datory wars it is waging today against de- fenseless people. There is one power that overshadows every conspiracy, every new act of duplicity. That power is REVOLUTION. A strike wave such as is now launched in Europe has tremendous implications. As Marx said: every class struggle is a polit- ical struggle. Today the strikers, at the very moment the struggle is launched, stand face to face with state powef. Down with the imperialist butchers! The Workers (Communist) Party, the revolutionary party of the working class de- mands: Marines in Nicaragua should refuse to fight, should defy their officers and go over In the struggle the masses learn that only | to the side of the revolutionists! revolution can put a stop to the tryanny of capitalism. The gigantic accumulation of capitalist contradictions and their reflex in the ranks of the working class produced-the great British general strike in May, 1926, the insurrection in Vienna in July of last year, the strikes in Germany, the swing of the masses to the support of Communism in the French and German elections. Now comes the new wave; a new defiance to im- perialism; a new warning to the war mongers; another milestone in the revolu- tionizing of the working class. Immediate withdrawal of all froops from Nicaragua! Complete independence of Nicaragua and all other colonies and semi-colonies! Socialist Party Electors Consistent indeed, as revealing its de- generate state, is the list of New York State presidential electors running on the socialist party ticket. The social composition of the electors reflects accuratel¥ the calibre of the socialist party membership at this time. Of the forty-five candidates on the ticket, four are preachers, four are authors, four are newspaper men, five are lawyers, six are teachers and one is listed as a public official. The other twelve are listed as trade unionists, but that term is used in this case only to de- scribe reactionary officials who aid the em- ployers in the drives to crush the working class. In the whole aggregation there is not one honest trade unionist. If there still remain in the socialist party any proletarian elements this array of middle class elements combined with an aggrega- tion of labor fakers ought to be sufficient to drive them away. Preparing Nicaragua “Elections” In response to rumors that many Nicara- guans who urge support of the national lib- eration movement led by Sandino have been registering in the department of Neuva Segivia, the armed forces of American im- perialism, the United States marines, have launched another murder campaign. It seems that there is strong sentiment among the masses in this district to register so they may be able to write the name of Sandino across the ballot, in spite of the fact that Sandino is barred from being a candi- date because the Mellon-Coolidge-Hoover bandit government brands him an outlaw. These reports so infuriated the representa- tives of Kellogg’s state department and the Marine commanders that they instantly be- There is but one party of the working class in the United States today and that is the Workers (Communist) Party, to which all honest, class-conscious workers should adhere. Every Communist Should Register tration, but unless those obliged to take the test can show a certifica- tion on election day the'r right to The election laws of the various states of the union were deliberate- jand build on che wreckage of the capitalist social order a socialist so- ciety in which the prodttcer will not ly framed to make it as difficult as possible for the worker who is com- pelled %y forced economic circum- stances to shift his residence fre- quently, to cast his ballot in elec- tions. To add to the difficulty, the var- ious states have different laws gov- earning the elections. In all states the voters must register in ordér tS qualify for the right to cast their ballots. Kegistration dates vary. Refore the Cth of November the vot- ers in every state in the union must register in ove form or another. In New York State those voting for the vote will be null and void. No Communist should think that voting 3s € | of no political significance. the contrary, the Communist who refuses to take the time to use his| ballot on election day be-euse he bet lieves it is futile thru negligence is waste of time or an act be saddled with the weight of an ex-| ploiting class. No Communist should fail to take the necessary voter in this election campaign. Do not neglect to register. Coast Guard Officers 200,000 EUROPEAN | WORKERS STRIKE The Scourge of Unemployment By T. J. O°)FLAHERTY. NEMPLOYM T is one of the |“ greatest scourges from which the working class suffers under capital- |ism—a scourge that cannot be elim- inated until the robber system of Vertaion is abolished and a socigl- |ist society built up under which the j workers and farmers will own as | well as .operate the machinery of | production and distribution, now in the hands of¢the capitalists. It is estimated that there are at the present time over 4,000,000 un- employed workers in the United States, the richest country in the | world with a national wealth of over | four hundred billion dollars. 4 |. The existence of an army of 4,- 600,000 workers who cannot get | jobs in this fabulously rich coun- |try is a most deadly indictment of the capitalist system. Those work- ers are not unemployed because they }are unwilling to work. Daily they visit factories and employment agencies asking for jobs, only to be told that there is no work for them. Luxury vs. Starvation. The employing class rolls up tre- | mendous profits that enable it and its parasitical dependents to live in luxury while millions of workless [ese live on the borderland of | starvation. | The speed-up system, the rapid development of automatic Tabor-sav-| ing machinery, rendering the use of | |skilled workers unnecessary and bringing women and children into} industry to take the place of the skilled workers, mass production of commodities with its murderous competition which is ruining the lower middle classes and driving its former members into industry, mon- lopoly capitalism which ruining the farmers—all these factors tend to swell the army of the unemployed | which is no longer a periodical phe- nomenon but a normal state of af- fairs in this “glorious” capitalist so- | ciety. | Unemployment Permanent. Under present capitalist conditions it is inevitable that there should be \® constant industrial reserve army of jobless. Even in the best periods of prosperity the number of unem- | ployed is estimated at over one mil- {lion and a half. While the factories ‘Cannot Be Eliminated Under Capitalist System; Workers Party Program are producing more than, forme: the number of employed is decreas ing. In 1927 the factories produced 26 per cent more than in 1919 but during this same period the number of wage earners employed in manu- facturing decreased 980,000. In other words each worker produced 42 per cent more. This is typical of rail- roading and of mining as well as manufacturing. A steady stream of ruined farmers is flowing into the cities. farmers become industrial workers, a fact which caused even Secretary of Labor Davis to raise the ques- tion: “Ts automatic machinery driven by relentless power going to leave on our hands a state of chronic and increasing unemployment? Is the machinery that turns out our wealth also to create poverty? Is it giving us a permanent jobless class?” Yes, a Arm The answer to Mr. Davi§’s ques- tion is: Yes, until the workers and farmers take into their own hands this machinery which was created by them, but which instead of lighten- ing the burden of toil and enabling them to enjoy a fuller life, throws them in ever increasing numbers into unemployment which tends to lower the standards of liv- ing of the employed workers be- Jobless These | in turn) gause of the increasing competition| for jobs. nf There is no cure for unemploy- ment under capitalism. A shorter cure unemployment or permanently improve the conditions of the Work- 's. While the Workers (Commun- ist) Party urges the workers to fight for shorter hours and higher wages it warns the producing class that *only thru the abolition of capi- talism can they permanently im- prove their lot. Palliatives like pro- fit-sharing, employe stock-purcha: ing plans, elimination of waste, i schemes advocated by “experts” as panaceas for the evils that are in- herent in the capitalist system, only | serve the employing classes, because they are designed to substitute for the class struggle a policy of co-op- eration with the bosses in the opera- tion of industry. Unemployment, World Wide. Unemployment is not confined-to one country. It is world wide. Mil- liens are out of work in Great Brit- ain, once known as the “workshop of the world,” in Germany, France, Italy and every otner capitalist country. The Workers (Communist) Party is the only political party in this election campaign that puts before the unemployed and the working class in general a program that points the way out of the unemploy- ment morass. This social disease which reveals the rotten heart of capitalism can only be cured by per- forming a major operation on the capitalist system. The Workers (Communist) Party thru its na- tional standard bearers, William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, candi- dates for the presidency and vice- presidency respectively, : and by means of millions of leaflets and Communist newspapers and maga- zines, is mobilizing the masses for the struggle against capitalism and for the ultimate organization of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government to take the place of the capitalist | government that is run in the inter- |work-day and higher wages, cannot) creased *mass production and other, ests of Wall Street, of American imperialism. Communists Call to Struggle. To rally the unemployed and the American working class as a whole for the struggle against unemploy- ment, the Workers. (Communist) Party in this election campaign makes the following demands: 1.—Unemployment insurance. A federal system of unemployment in- urance should be established. A federal law must be enacted im- ; mediately by congress providing for unemployment insurance for all wage-earners without any excep- tions or qualifications. The amount of compensation should be full wages for the period of unemploy- ment, up to $30 per week. An un- employment insurance fund should | be created, fifty per cent to be con- tributed by the employers and fifty per cent by the state. The amount levied by the state should be raised by special taxes levied against in- heritance, high incomes and cor- ‘poration profits. The administra- tion of unemployment insurance should be carried out by unemploy- ment insurance commissions, com- posed of representatives of trade unions, organizations of the unem- ployed and factory committees. Shorter Hours. 2.—Immediate enactment. of fed- eral law providing for a general 40- hour, 5-day week working time and forbidding all overtime. 3.—A federal law should be en- acted providing for immediate emer- gency help for all workers who have been unemployed two months or more, consisting of eight weeks’ wages for each worker. The aver- age wage received during the last four weeks of employment should serve as the basis. 4.—Establishment of public kit- chens by municipalities to provide free meals for all unemployed work- ers and their families. Free Medical Care. 5.—Municipal provision for sup- plying free megical treatment, medi- cine and hospital care to all unem- ployed. 6.—Public works. The federal stafe and city governments should devise schemes for improving the |roads and bridges of the country, |improving the rivers, canals, docks and harbors, setting up electric |power stations, reforestation, land \drainage and land reclamation, ex- |tension and electrification of rail- ways. On all public works trade union wages and conditions must be guaranteed by law. 7.—Immediate abolition of “all vagrancy laws. Protection of the unemployed workers from arrest on ‘charges of vagrancy. . Recent Conversation With Maxim Gorki By HENRI BARBUSSE. |(Translated from, the French by | Sol Auerbach) firs We IT was the seen him. time that I had worked together |from a distance, but we only knew) - each other personally, if I may say | so, by letters. ° We met each other and we shook hands and embraced, on the out-| | skirts of the city, among the white columns and in the beautiful light! of the evenitg and of the azure! reflection of the large park. +e ® | in For time he had lived ome Quite prelininary steps to qualify as a|this ex-palace transformed into a |rest-home, some forty kilometres, |from Moscow. There Gorki stopped for breath after the reception given him by the Soviet people, from whom he had been separated a num-| |ber of years, and it is difficult to Two Great Revolut. New Creative Age again on the banners which are stretched across the main avenues. We, a number of mutual friends. had come together to see him. Khal- atov, director of the State Publish-' ing House (the vastest publishing house in the world: this year it has issued 80 million volumes); Khal- atov has directed the reorganization of the railroads of the U. S. S. R.,| sian.” ant duties on their hands, that one cannot take the risk to enumerate them.) Damian Biedny, monumenta! personage with fine, eyes; publicist and popular poet (very popular), a man with celebrated wit. “If you would understand what he says,” a comrade said to me jokingly, “you would regret still more that you have not taken pains to learn Rus- and had done other things besides; moving, walking about incessantly he has a magnificent biblical figure with mauve complexion and a beard as black as his Armenian eyes, as his astrakan cap and the copper- colored vest, with which I have al- either lacking in responsibility to) Attacked Men, Charge imagine the unified magmtude and ways seen him. Stiepanov-Skvort- the movement o1 in Communist un- derstanding. Every Communist vote in an elec- tion campaign is . notice served on the capitalist class that there is growing up in this country a power CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 2. (U.P). —Bernard Rieke of Cleveland: ap- pealed to federal authorities late to- \enthusiasm of this series of fetes.| | Moscow is still trembling from the | | ovations accorded the greatest Rus- |sian writer-who had just returned to his cradle. His portrait is ex+ sov, the director of the Izvestia, a straight and strict man, with the figure of a grenadier, and military poise; shaved head, blue eyes, a fine large moustache and a fine deep and day, charging coast guards men at-/ hibited in the windows, painted in|ardent voice. Ganietsky, one of the tacked him and a companion and |ivel;: blue; gigantic images, car-| pillars of the Tseka (Central Exe- |were responsible for the sinking of | ried aloft like the decorations of the cutive Committee). (The men there first time must pass a mild literacy |that aims to wrest political and his speed boat, the Barney Google, | theatre, float in the wind with words are formidable workers, who each best, in addition to the formal regis-|economic power from the capital sis!in Lake Erie last night. Ry e Re . | Pad of saluate d recurring again and’ have so great a number of import- jor gesticulating; speakers, emo- ‘tional and joyous, like all the people | here. * aah: Gorki who is s...:ed facing me made this first impression upon me which I express naively by saying: He is not very much like himself. The physiognomy of Alexis Maxim- ovitch, his actual physiognomy, is deformed by the sketchers and not- ably misrepresented by the photog- raphers, who abound about him. He recalls only vaguely his innumerable portraits. He is much more refined e , And many others, forever| than his images that are widely distributed. His is a long lanky aary Writers Discuss the body which spreads itself out wher in an arm-chair and which carries \its two sharp-angled shoulders high ‘and has a> small head with blond hair, yet hardly grey. His bushy | moustache, blonde and drooping is ‘indeed the one that so man} of his | portraits have made famous. His complexion is clear and no words ‘could describe the pxtradordinary ‘luminosity of his blue eyes. | CIE iad | Then he answered questions, What is he doing here? It is an inter- mission of several days; he is rest- ing; he is assembling his notes. He is going to travel into the’ Ukraine, \then to the Caucasus, then to Nijni | Novogorod, his native village. Is he | writing? Yes, but for the moment, not books: impressions, articles, Will he return to Sorrento? Yes. Will he then return definitely to the | Union? Perhaps. | His state -f mind, his first im- gression? had been whelmed. (To Be Continued.) fe over- By Fred Ellis Told You So HE Republican Party of York has nominated a “Victory | Ticket” and the only thing they have to do now is to go out and get the | votes. They did not spend much time discussing the issues of the cam- | . Both big capitalist parties never have much, trouble on that score. Every four years they pull out a few hoary slogans like the protective tariff, the full dinner pail and prosperity for a few of the peo- |ple at the expense of most of the people and then count their ‘slush funds. The capitalist politicians are practical folks. They believe every incorruptible voter has a price and so instead of using up a lot of val- ‘uable time discussing the ups and downs “of American imperialism, they go out and bring in the dough, New yas ee T is to the credit of both big \* parties, state and national, that |they have not nominated some of their leading members for high office, wio are now either in jail or can- didates for the penitentiary. Mrs. Florence Knapp, our for- mer state treas- urer, now in jail for embezzle- ment, was not honored by a nomination. The democrats, we are informed, | will not name Mr. Maurice Connolly of Queens, for the post of secretary of sewers. But Maurice doesn’t give a darn, he has the sewers | pumped dry already. | | T. J. O'Flaherty j | eee a Ee republicans made a wise choice in selecting Albert Ottinger for governor. Albert is a good fellow, they say, is certain to do the right |thing by Wall Street and Main | Street and furthermore will cause | rejoicing in the synagogue belt. Let Tammany sing the praises of Mrs. | Moskowitz; the G.O.P. has its Ot- tinger. Now, if the socialist party could get hold of a good, reliable jrabbi, the three parties of big and | little capital would be starting from | Scratch, so to speak. * * J* | APPLAUSE does not always count decisively in politics. At the G.O.P. convention Senator | Fearon was a candidate for sen- | torial honors against Alansaon B. Houghton, former ambassador to the Court of St. James. Which means that if he does not habitually shake a nifty set of knee breeches, he was unqualified for the job. Walking on the knees is hard on trousers. were counted at the G.O.P. conven- tion Senator Fearon got 119 votes and a great big hand, while Mr. Houghton received 911 votes with the silence only broken by the voice of the teller. sels Pe republican party is dodging the prohibition question and drinking the issue. The Anti- Saloon League does not care how wet the country is as long as the bootleggers don’t go broke. The G. O. P. desn’t care how many fatal- ities result from poisoned hootch as long as enough voters remain on their feet to carry the republican candidates to victory. The demo- jerats are compelled to be more honest. They know that they can- not win the anti-saloon vote and the | bootleg vote, so they are out for jopen speakeasies, which can be ar- rived at without the seeker for spiritual solace having to join the j Elks, so that he may be able to perform the high signs necessary for admission into the blushing bar- rooms of today. io ee L. SMITH, the “Happy Warrior” donned his apron, slicked his hair, lit a fresh cigar and went to bat with the G.O.P. on the prohibi- tion issue, Al thinks the alcohol that is injected into the near-beer nowadays is getting people drunk | under false pretences. So he would reform it. The doctors are against it he says. Sure, it takes a doctor to know a good drink when he smells it. So Al suggests an amendment to the 18th Amendment. This is what I call having a perspective. If poor Al takes the pledge and keeps it until he gets his amendment thru, he had better propose a substitute or assign some chemist to the task of getting alcohol out of the air—in the immediate vicinity of Albany. aici AY goes further. He proposes @ referendum to get the expression of the will of' the people on the sub~ ject. This is needless. In the early days of the Russian revolution there was talk of taking a referendum among the soldiers to get their stand on peace. Some of his colleagues expressed surprise when Lenin de- clared that the soldiers had already voted on the question. How? When? “They have voted with their feet” he chuckled. “They are on their way home.” The grest American demo- cracy has already voted on prohibi- tion with their individual stills, and their malt and hops supplies. The English used to boast that every Briton’s home was his castle. The American can boast that every Yan- kee’s home is his brewer~ Lom OFehesty * However when the votes _ ne