The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1928, Page 6

Page six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1928 : : By Fred Ellis ‘Told You So “BRITISH LABOR PARTY CAMOUFLAGE Daily 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: “Daiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only) 3Rper year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year* $3.50 six months $2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Assistant Editor. -ROBERT MINOR .WM. F. DUNNE Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥ under the act of March 3, 1879 For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers: New Assaults on Soviet Union The campaign of alist mongers against the Union of Socialist So- viet Republics rages with increased fury. The signers of the hypo- the imper war- initiators and original For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! VOTE COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW tivities of the various Communist Parties affiliated with the Communist International and published openly in all languages in all countries. Following the imperialist libel that the Communist International and the Soviet Union are identical, the Tribune assails those RS. FLORENCE KNAPP is thru with her nap in the Albany Jail, if such it may be called. The former state treasurer was given the ter- rible and inhu- man sentence of thirty days ina boudoir for the trifling offense of embezzling thousands of dollars of state funds. This is class justice with a venge- ance! While this poor little rich girl was eating out her heart in humili- ation, we learn that a working woman got away with only nine months for stealing a pair of socks for her husband. § hn bee KNAPP is a member of the G. O. P., one of the two parties |that is defending the country from the danger of Communism. The G. 0. P. like the democratic party | has a splendid record in this respect. Their aim is to steal everything in sight so that when the workers get \hold of the powers of government | there will be nothing left except | whatever is not worth taking. Al Smith’s predecessors in Tammany Hall took everything except the | sidewalks and the Long Island di- T. J. O'Flaherty Mr. «+ of Paris: heraldediby the reptile : Sa : 1e vision of the Pirate’s Den is now eriti pact 0 3 | Ww ho advocate recognition of the Bolshevik |cleaning up on the sewers, 1 press a document outlawing war, are | government. Raniah othe feverishly driving toward a new war on the Soviet Union. geblatt comes the re- port that a military alliance between Poland and Rumania is nearing completion that has an armed invasion of the So- From the Berliner as its objective viet Union in an attempt to sever Soviet Ukraine from the rest of the Soviet Union. Pilsudski, premier of Poland, has just re- turned from Roumania where he concluded an agreement providing that in case of suc- cess of the military venture the northern part of the Ukraine shall be annexed to Poland and the southern part made a buffer state between Roumania and the U.S. S. R. The hand of the French bandit government of Poincare and Briand is also seen in the re- cent visit of General Lenrod to the Bal- kans, where guarantees of French aid in the invasion were promised. ing:the former with means and agitational literature. It is true that the Communists in America can proudly number among their achieve- ments penetration of certain branches of the armed forces of the nation. But to claim that the Soviet Union is in any way respon- sible for that work is a piece of plain men- dacity—a deliberate provocative lie. Kel- logg, Coolidge, Hoover and all the rest of the lackeys of imperialism know it is a lie. The Communist International is composed of Communist Parties from all countries of the world. That its headquarters are in the Soviet Union is to be explained only by the fact that no other country would permit it to exist within its borders. This assault upon the Soviet Union did not come because of the Communist Congress at Moscow. It has been raging for years. Its increased intensity at this moment more than ever justifies the convening of the Con- gress and vindicates the estimate of Com- rade Bukharin who, in his report, stressed which the Tribune assails us, Some Confessions of Hillquit By H. M. WICKS. Following the leadership of the European servants of imperialism at the head of the second interna- tional, Morris Hillquit, leader of the socialist party of the United States, to take action until after four years had passed and the capitalist class ‘eader of American Socialists Aids Carver and Laski; Distort Marxism + does not consider the assassination | of workers in the category of vio- However, it is nothing new for Hillquit to distort Marxism. Never, ment by which one class maintains its domination over another class. In the Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels distinctly repudiate the contention that the Communists, the vanguard of the proletariat are only concerned about “the immediate ef- ends can only be attained by the forcible overthrow social conditions. Let the ruling of existing ATRIOTISM is a wonderful busi- ness. It pays to patriotise. This would not be a bad slogan for | Hoover or Smith or both. There is nothing that appeals to the intelli- gent petty-bourgeois minded voter |more than a business campaign. | Show the average American white collar slave the possibility of get- ting the price of a new shirt out of an election campaign and he will sneeze the Star Spangled Banner daily in frqnt of any campaign head- quarters, except the campaign head- quarters of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party. There he would gag in- | stead of sneeze. It isn’t our fault; | its nature’s. rae ste | AT that Mrs. Knapp has a kick coming. She only got away with a few score thousands of dollars. {Others who got away with millions |are laughing themselves dizzy, while |Florence is reverting to her earlier |opinion that what is sauce for the | gander is grease for the goose. Why |should A. B. Fall, Harry Sinclair | get away with the Elk Hill naval joil lands robbery? And _ Sinclair, I . : ; Cece tones the fact that the war danger is the greatest | discourses on the subject: “Marxism = 7 l § Supplementing these conspiracies for ac- : é aves SRR ES E Aon < Pit tape an hee , mek fects of their proposed measures.” | and Harry Daugherty be breathing : invasion isa violent campaign that has | Menace facing the working class of the world Essentially Evolutionary,” as his | given way to “gradualism” wherein |etarian revolution hurls the ruling ithe Manifesto states: the pure ozone and ticking their mare neian 152 uclent campes today contribution to the Current History| revolution is superceded by evolu- class of one-sixth of the inhabitable Eeciuitiots: Gee, Aas CGE GEE Ee 1 been raging in-the capitalist press of the fs , : symposium on “Marxism Today.” tion, the socialist movement has globe from power and establishes * he most aggressive and [te fot in duveses vile tee thie i world since the convening of the Sixth World Let the fascist despots dare try to invade Everything we have accused the) since, according to Hillquit, pro-| its own class rule through its own| resolute section of the Working [112 a) 69 che wag only a piker. © Congress of the Communist International. the Soviet Union. The Communist Interna- | socialist party of during the pees | ceeded peacefully and without ips, On ot state, ene BOTS New| fhicreticalis: the advantage over | She will know better next time. 1 ; siaiicl caccn tional and its nation: ions wi year openly admitted or implied|shed. It is exceedingly gratifying| York lawyer and socialist party the great mass of the proletariat Mesos } At that time the Pilsudski organ, the 1 d i ? al sections will meet the |¥°*1) | Hillquit article. His first|to Hillquit to be able to proclaim: |leader passes the judugment of of-| Of understanding the conditions | 40 a ahah + “Poisk IES : * de Buk- | Challenge in a revolutionary Leninist man- |" ; i apie Yee ; - Bhds the tule oR) | . may console herse'! Polska Zbronia,” assailed Comrade Bu Th ce confession is that himself and his) «phe political revolutions which | ficial social democracy as follows: | tarian movement. eevee sate thatthe Mba hha 1 harin’s statement in reference to the short- | Me: © propaganda and effective Commu- comrades of the second international] transformed nd" AustriacHungary | oy Buyanenemn Saclay Damecra, | Hillquit’s conception is of @\she been & working women and in 7, “ : ;. Germany a Aus ary c r ses to ace § - “ A % ” jali | 4 comings of the Communist Party of Poland | nist w He me me ahr ane of s Attack= have abandoned “the beliet in the) into repunica governed by socialists | \licrevolution ae arworking class | STadual “growing into” socialism,| stead of distributing among needy Be me . ; “3 ie ing nations will eventually turn the guns of | ultimate necessity of a violent over-| were likewise entirely peaceful. In | revolution and the Soviet Gov- | which he childishly expresses in his | potati Be Renae et ie in its fight against fascism. As an excuse z i , Af . wile Greet Sweden. Deamaric, 5 on Nae Ene nay cons , : és n 418 relatives public funds placed in her i for a eantiniation of the terror against the | the soldiers upon Pilsudski, the bloody dy- | throw ot ee erating nocul aoe Nore ay and Finland socialist par- | ment in the Marxian sense of the poses neat loubitres ae which | keeping, had been caught distribut- H lish C ists and a bid for leadership | 2@Sty of Roumania or any other ruling class pene Sone ea ae ee Prak he ateicie tte wae tas ne Sash VP TEEHEIGS Taito A ‘Sohn ing leaflets urging her sisters to Polish Communists ¢ ; that. tries to dismember ‘the workets’. and |i of the early Marxism creed.”| OP'tinir countries “without. capi- Certainly, Hillquit is correct when | Phlet published by [pe choo’ join a union or vote the Communist ‘ of an anti-Soviet bloc of border states Pil- | Bamentar Rion ee aOR Constitutional Methods, talist opposition, violent or other. | he insists that the Soviet Govern- et oeias Beletes ie me the ‘ticket, she would be given several 5 Ae ania . aine becoming capitalist | victory of socialism as a triumph at| "in parliament.” ny r a oy ith cl sensatio! ‘ pekharine statement will silbnse. 2b arte —instead of the fulfill iEionds (ae ea rine eens This is another confession of Hill-| Europe. The Soviet Government is | socialism within the capitalist state| her head from the club of a copper. i ae iil wow demanded’ the légisinéien of the instead of the fulfillment of the ambitious | the polls under an election arranged| 7h f rE ae to the davalopment at's chicken ina Strat Merde Pl ; i : ‘ The C fat (ake dream of the imperialists—Poland, Rou- according to the constitutions of the | quit! It reveals completely his con-| not under the leadership of servants is This -etapid it ‘d e must admit that it is tough on ee omnnnie sehen a Gy east | ‘ is . IAN capitalist countries. Certainly no|¢ePtion of a socialist state. of the bourgeoisie and assassins of | the egg. us Stupid poultry yard poor Mrs. Knapp. But then she ¢ enemies of their country. The most formida- | mania and the other countries will join the Marxian ever held such absurd| But it is historically inaccurate | the working class. socialism certainly has nothing to) should not permit herself to be mee.oppenent of the Communists is Pilendali,.. | Soviet Republics, views of the revolution, ‘The. in-/t0 say that these things were brought But when Hillquit calls the treach- | d0,with Marxism. In the Manifesto caught napping. } who will be able to rally all anti-Communists ; es Peach ; 4 bout without bloodshed. It is true|eries of social-democracy Marxism, | it is explicitly stated that “the firs! 3 to hi; folds.” Sere ae Ay Pred States the Workers |evitable conclusion to be drawn trom |ii0 Tae no violence, againet the|he traduces the founders of the re-| S40 in the revelation by the work /()LD DOC JOHNSON ‘uw whet } a W ; Natt (Communist) Party, a part of the Commu- | Hillquit’s position is that if, a few asitalist, class, but there was Volutionary movement in the most! ing class is the raising of the pro-|~ he was talking about when he 5 Gazetta Poranna, another Pilsudski or- | nist Ip. ternational, whose delegates helped | months after a presidential sleet Sea piety ihe tens ate SSatampelble Sianene Wy eqdeavor. | letariat to the position of the ruling said that “patriotism was the last gan (only Pilsudski papers are allowed to | forge the weapons at the Sixth World Con- |i" Which the bourgeois through the) i eee ee ee oe. Were commit. | ing to depict them as theoretical | class. Of the manner in which this |refuge of every scoundrel.” We { ees : ‘i Ds manipulation of its fraudulent eres were commit 4 i i 1d Old Johnson’ by add ; exist in Poland), said that Poland has two | press for a world-wide fight against imper- aaa machine had “won,” 9 | ted against leaders of the working | founders of a counter-revolutionary | Ca” be realized the Manifesto says: smens on Jol ae ae yy add- e ists a ‘Pal aecess " e : F ‘ chine yon,” a ge : i t. ony : ste alaae ing that it is also his main business. ¢ foes—the Communists at home and the U. | jalism and the war danger will do its part in revolutionary situation developed, it laos who. would aot: selL unt sone nel ata conceal thelr’ views aad’ aime . | Who-but'a patriot like DoHieny could ¢ §S.S. R. abroad, and that the latter is supply- | the struggle, regardless of the fury with | would be impossible for the masses | bourgevisie. erhaps Mr. Hillquit Nothing New for Hillquit. They openly declare that. their c } € Simultaneously with this barrage against the speech of Bukharin in the Polish press, the Paris “Temps” screeched that Bolshevik activity had recommenced on the interna- Across the channel, the “Daily Telegraph” in London bellowed forth the imperialist fury of John Bull at the speech of Bukharin, Fake Farm Relief have said on the subject he would not get a passing mark.” permitted the party of the working class to go on the ballot and vote them out of office. Hillquit seems to be confirmed in. the conviction that an election under such condi- | ical strength will entitle it.” | | | : » Constitutionalism In Practice. The high regard in which Hillquit lent acts. The socialists of Germany, for in- stance, came into power by murder- ing the very flower of the revolu- tionary leadership, that leadership was their achievement for socialism | that they paved the way for the) present government of—Von Hin- | denberg. at any time during his entire career has this man understood Marxism. His conception of socialism has not altered in the slightest particle since he became the leader of the and the revolt against the right wing of the socialist party became strongly anti-parliamentary and class tremble at a Communistic revolution,” According to Hillquit, the ideal form of socialist action is attained when socialists (?) are “permitted Marx on Evolution. That the judgment of the Mani- festo was not a mere verbal flour- Fall, Daugherty and the others who did not commit suicide because they missed a couple of safes. Those are the boys who secured injunctions to break strikes, organized insurrec- this wealth is guzzled down the parched gullet of a Daugherty or a Fall, used to purchase a European é pd 3 AT EMR EE : oa eats v , m ‘ 2 <calict | 8h, @ passionate appeal on the eve|count for the parasite daughter of and after the familiar provocations, repeated : In spite of this, however, the Telegram, | polds democratic forms and the} 1 Austria Mr. Hinata sane pene siteelt in anarcho-syndicalist SE Wes wae “AON sevolitiona ‘thet lair Aiceiben, seibeie. Enea, (or " the discredited yarn that the Communist In- | like all good capitalist sheets, supports one | “rights. to which its political caies have never. distathedithe anit jie y. Sica inet |SPeed through Europe in 1848, is|to buy a halo in heaven for John D. ternational is really a part of the Soviet gov- | of the candidates. strength entitle,” a political op-|ino* class, but their bands of armed| syndicalist revolt agains’ ernment and warned Poland to be on guard. At the same time this barrage was being levelled against the Soviet Union, the Amer- ican financial expert to Poland, Charles S. Dewey, held a long conference in Berlin with §, Parker Gilbert, American agent who is enforcing the Dawes plan, on the prospects of a similar financial scheme to aid Pilsud- ski’s fascist dictatorship. The anti-Soviet front was completed, rounded out to embrace all the imperialists and their agents, by the utterances of the leaders of the second international, meeting in Brussels, Belgium, who tried to conceal the aggressiveness of the war-mongers of their own countries by charging the Soviet Union with being the one power that threatened the peace of the world. : Now comes the New York Tribune, organ of the Mellon-Coolidge-Hoover administra- tion, with the hysterical announcement that the state department at Washington is in The old party candidates dare not propose real measures for farm relief, for the simple reason that agriculture is in such condition at this moment that it is not profitable to invest in it in such a manner that it will aid the farmers. No matter which party of capitalism is in power the farm question will remain. The farmers will become more and more the vic- tims of the grain trust, the railroads, the loan-mongers and mortgage brokers. But if the columnist were to investigate the program of the Workers (Communist) Party for farm relief he would discover that we know precisely what we want and how to get it. Instead of idle talk we propose a five year moratorium on farm mortgages; a bil- lion dollar farm relief fund for tenant and mortgage farmers, protection of the farmer against monopoly prices for industrial pro- ducts, the land to belong to its users and other unmistakable relief measures. | position was revealed at the Chicago {convention of the socialist party in 1919, when the left wing had a | majority of the delegates, elected by constitutional methods as prescribed in the rules and regulations of the socialist party. On that occasion | Hillquit, Berger, Oneal & Co. had | previously been overwhelmingly de- |feated by their membership and the | candidates of the left-wing elected to |take their places. Instead of count- ling the ballots the national exec- ‘utive committee of the socialist | party kept the result a secret and at \the national’ convention called the Chicago police force and the notori- ous “bomb squad” to violently evict /from the hall the duly elected dele- | gates so Hillquit & Co. could retain control of the party that had repudiated them. It was this series of acts, culminating in the coopera- tion with the police that resulted in the split in that party at that time. Does Mr. Hillquit think that the ruling class in control of the im- social-democrats slaughtered the working class in the Vienna rising jof last year. And in England, Mr. Ramsey | MacDonald, the foremost exponent | of gradualism, who was “permitted | to assume the government without capitalist opposition,” revealed his calibre as an agent of imperialism | by threatening the Indian masses with annihilation by the British mercenary army if they tried to struggle against the empire. This praise of the heroes of the| second international who are the bloodhounds of imperialism is illum- inating, inasmuch as it indicts Hill-_ quit of being opposed to violence | only when the working class uses | it against the capitalist class and) praising the murder of the working class by social democratic officials | of capitalist governments as a triumph of what he calls modern socialism. * Opposes Proletarian Revolution. Hillquit’s legalism can be under- stood when we refer to his concep- tion of the socialist movement as expounded in his book, “Socialism In Theory and Practice,” published by the Macmillan Company in 1910. Says Hillquit on page 110 of that book: “Modern socialists indulge but little in fantastic forecasts of the future order of things; they fully realize the general ‘futility of such things for the practical pur- poses of the socialist movement. ‘The socialist criticism is directed against existing evils, the social- ist program is a program of im- mediate relief, and the socialist demands are made on the present state. The soctalists are con- cerned only with the immediate effects of their proposed mea- sures on the welfare of the pres- ent population.” | This is the very essence, the alpha | and omega, of opportunism. Such | a conception has nothing whatso- | ever in common with Marxism, either “early” Marxism or “modern” | Marxism conceptions conjured up ‘by the heroes of the second inter-| |national, proved conclusively time and again in the writings of Marx and Engels. Never, at any time, were they under opportunistic illusions regarding the necessity for decisive class ac- tion by the proletariat in the strug- gle to conquer the bourgeoisie. In his famous reply to Proudhon, in 1846-7, Marx set forth his posi- tion on “evolution” and “revolution.” Lest Hillquit charge that this is part of the “earlier” works of Marx, whieh he abandoned later, I remind him that Frederich Engels, in an introduction written in 1884, after the death of Marx, fully approved that portion of his book, which is a crushing refutation of Hillquit’s contention that Marxism is “essen- tially evolutionary.” Said Marx: “It is only in an order of things in which there will no longer be classes or class antag- onism that social evolutions will cease to be political revolutions. Until then, on the eve of each general reconstruction of society the last word of social science will ever be: ‘Combat or death; It bloody struggle or extinction, is thus that t | Rockefeller’s bald head, does not make a particle of difference to | those who are robbed. They are ‘robbed at the point of production, to use a well-polished phrase. And to relieve their social nostrils from the stench that rises from capitalist so- ciety like the smell from the hold of ja cattle boat, the workers must topple this system over and build a Communist society in its place. And to mobilize the masses for this task, the Workers (Communist) Party is running an election campaign, as part of its revolutionary activities. Vote Communist on election day and strike a blow for the new society! Workingclass Voters: Register Immediately! . This is the time for every work- ing class voter to prepare to regis- ter in order to be qualified to vote the Communist ticket on election day. This is a duty that must not be neglected. Every worker should H : M aig i itali i italist | resistably ascertain the exact date of registra- i s 1 “Soviet erialist, government of the United) If the capitalist state places one| The conception that the capital ; yp rtain ‘ \abeombbelde of eae — el rmed The working and exploited farmers should St tes will have any more regard|of the leaders of the second inter-| state is a democratic piece of ma-| Charest Kerr edition, | tion in his or her city and state. A ee te chi Mi ay we sat AHIBEIMan fight shoulder to shoulder with the workers ‘for their own laws and their own|national at the head of its govern-|chinery from which can be taken | Sgr ey heavy Communist vote for Foster ‘orces in China, Nicaragua an a naval bases. A careful reading of the ar- ticle reveals the fact that the “documents” axe nothing other than reports on the ac- a j in industry in support of the one party that fights in their interest, the Workers (Com- munist) Party. SS ‘constitution than the socialist party bureaucracy has for theirs? The “early Marxian creed,” hav- ing, in the course of development, j : ' ment to become the exterminator of the working class, such an act, ac- cording to Hillquit, constitutes re- volution. But when a genuine pro- one part at a time to be utilized in| the interest of the working class is the antithesis of Marxism, which holds that the state is an instru- Concluded tomorrow with a reply to Hillquit’s attack on Bolshevism and the Soviet Union. and Gitlow and the Communist can- didates on the state tickets is an effective protest against American capitalism and world imperialism. — vas —_—_ «| tions in Mexico to save Jesus from ba % h ‘ iets socialist ty in thi try. As | to assume the governments of their . ; A i ‘ F the votes would be counted. How- , Poe Ee Dace q ieee i | Ways prove ey believe in ¢ charged that the Soviet government and the commenting on the campaigns of the demo- |e eee contain what the|letarian revolutionary movement: | identical views regarding the rela- Ba Niet ee teil bia the sanctity of the home and the { Communist International are identical and | cratic and republican presidential nominees |ruling class might do “in the hour|Karl Leibknecht, Rosa Luxemburg etd es tes gare they pop tlan subtenee: of in seria purity of American womanhood. ¢ | with the warning: is aa as cees a . A ae thi: .jand their comrades. State that he holds today. Ha ere | ” A a * ek concluded with the warning: {of final victory.” Upon this ques. pheir y " ment.” T, ‘ { i ‘ void aed ee beds He SS Oe ie AIBA loa: says Hillauit, “the modern so-|_ Hillquit’s comrades, Schiedemann, | been at that time a group of ortho- Paes cabgultater Ole ae bsces OW, for the moral to adorn the \ { “Let the governments which want to avoi issues. Especially is he dubious about farm | oii mos, |Ebert and Noske, did not wage a| ox Marxists in the United States . noes ‘ ii ‘ ) cialist movement refuses to spec A of Europe wel d Hillquit’ tailend of this column, provided ‘ anarchy and disorder be on the lookout and relief as discussed by the old parties: manta? a violent struggle against the ruling | Hillquit would have found it much seaae ee eg Aas h 1d qu mca there isi yet ‘xoom, All ther wealth i ‘ let them be firmly resolved to defend them- i hee ‘e hops class, but murdered the leaders of |More difficult to maintain his lead- | Tt? Fe tebe bel cule Lend EeaE dik GeORUined Gra eee oe | selves against the danger which threatens “If a high school senior were to be asked to. | consutitlonai‘lines an the tacit ae: [the working class in behalf of the /¢tship over the socialist party. For-| "ght. of the capitalists to rule the| that is produced in this rich coun; 1" ‘them all alike.” explain what farm relief meant and were to sumption that it will be accorded | exploiters of labor. So magnjficent | tunately for Hillquit, the opposition | Wo"King Class through terror, ieW. cE the working Claas Wath ‘ reply by quoting everything Hoover and Smith the full rights to which its polit- yy |at that time was also non-Marxian | Sinew 01 ie working Class. ether ;