The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1928, Page 6

Page Six Baily 2 Worker THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 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: “Dziwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): f8 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $8.50 six months Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 $2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. .-ROBERT MINOR --WM. ¥F. DUNNE lat the post-office at New York, N. Y¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER |Q|X For the Workers: WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! VOTE COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! Po Not Fail to Register in Order to Vote Communist! Today in New York City registration begins for the presiden- tial election to be held in November. Unless you are registered you cannot vote in the election. Every class conscious worker should realize the importance at this time of rolling up a big vote for the Communist eandidates. To underestimate the im- portance of participation in parliamentary elections is to fail to comprehend the most elementary principles of working class ac- tion. From Marx and Engels to Lenin, every outstanding revolu- tionary leader has urged that workers take full advantage of the opportunities afforded to register the degree of development of class-consciousness among the masses. In another column there are published full details regarding registration in New York City. The same regulations apply to state registration in New York beginning Wednesday. In other states the registration occurs within the next few days or weeks. It is the imperative duty of every Communist and every Com- munist sympathizer to make special efforts to register and to go to the polls in November and VOTE COMMUNIST. The First Red Election Sunday The coming October 14 should be a red letter day in the history of the Workers (Communist) Party. On that day, next Sunday, the entire Party membership will be mobilized to conduct the most systematic and intensive organizing and propaganda cam- paign ever undertaken by the Party. During this week, every Party unit thru- out the country will hold a special meeting, which must be attended by every member, to take up the question of preparing for the tasks assigned them by the Central Exec- utive Committee on the first of four Red Sundays, which will be devoted to the Com- munist election campaign between now and November 6. In the last month of the election contest mass interest in the issues of the campaign is reaching fever heat. Now is the time for every member of the Party and every Com- munist sympathizer to put every ounce of energy behind the Communist election cam- paign, behind the only political party that stands for and fights for the interests of the working class, the exploited farmers and the persecuted Negro masses. Prepare for Red Election Sunday October 14. Help to rally the masses around the pro- gram of the class struggle and organize them for the fight against the capitalist system and for the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. on Paterson Strike Wednesday The silk workers of Paterson, the scene of many a hard fought and spectacular in- dustrial struggle, have voted to go on strike Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock. Four years have passed since the last strike of Paterson sik workers—a strike, that although only partially won, succeeded in firmly establish- ing a union, the Associated Silk Workers. It was the first time in history of Paterson strikes that the union that waged the strug- gle survived over a period of years and pre- pared to lead a second strike. That alone is an achievement. The silk mill owners are among the most vicious slave drivers to be found anywhere in the country. Women and child labor is the accepted thing in Paterson. The speed- up, the unsanitary surroundings and the horribly long hours, results in a terrible toll of victims of the white plague. Wages are low and living conditions abominable. The city administration is the pliant tool of the silk bosses; the chief of police, one Tracey, is nothing other than a uniformed gunman for the labor hating employers. The Pater- son News, edited by a pen prostitute who lives in New York, is the organ of the strike- breakers and scab herders. are bought and paid for by the mill owners. In fact, in Paterson, the masses of silk | | The churches | of the population. Their strength lies in their solidarity and the support of the working class outside Paterson. The silk workers union is purely local— confined to Paterson. It is to be congrat- ulated on the fact that a few weeks ago its rank and file, against the wishes of certain wavering officials, voted down a proposition to affiliate with the United Textile Workers’ Union, the reactionary American Federation of Labor machine, that exists only for the purpose of betraying the textile workers to the employers. Had the silk workers af- filiated with the United, instead of being per- mitted to strike on Wednesday, they would have been at the mercy of the reactionary officials of the United Textile Workers’ Union. It is noteworthy that in this attempt to | place the silk workers union on the execu- tioner’s block, one of the luminaries of the so-called Brookwood labor college played a prominent role. When his reactionary and treacherous policy was defeated he retired to the pleasant hills of Weschester County and began assailing the rank and file in an al- leged labor publication for having the intelli- gence to refuse to be delivered into the hands of the agents of the textile barons at the head of a fraudulent union. The mass pressure of the membership saved the union from betrayal and destruc- tion. It is now able to enter the fight against the bosses without fear of being stabbed in the back by a set of reactionary officials (8 whose whole history is one of union-wreck- ing. In this fight the silk workers of Pater- son will have the unstinted support of the whole left wing of the labor movement. The Paterson silk workers should, how- ever, understand that today there is in exist- ence a national organization of textile workers—the National Textile Workers’ Union—that arose in response to the elemen- tary demands of the textile workers through- out the whole country. With that organiza- tion they should affiliate in order that they may have behind them in their struggle the united power of the organized textile workers in various centers. Let the silk workers of Paterson resent with all their power any attempt of any leader to present the arguments that were presented to the strike committee in 1924 by certain re- actionary leaders that Paterson is separate and apart from the general struggle of the working class and that the Paterson silk strike is of concern to the workers of Pater- son only. The struggles in Paterson are the concern of the whole working class and must be fought as such. The intelligent workers know that if Paterson does not win, it will have a depressing effect upon the whole labor movement, hence every effort will be made to see that the strike to be called Wednesday is decisively won. Let the militant workers of Paterson, tested time and again in the struggle, fight, as they have fought before, and victory will slaves face the united opposition of the rest | be theirs. “NOW, REPEAT AF TER ME.” By Fred Ellis Told You So Growth of Shop Papers Is Rapid pee the sections of the Com- munist International were reor- ganized on the basis of factory groups there were no factory papers. I do not know if before the reor- ganization of the Party the local or- iganizations issued leaflets for in- dividual factories or occasionally for important events. Now, however, the factory papers form an indis- pensable part of group work and play a large part in the life of Party organizations. This is borne out by | the figures (incomplete) given be- low concerning factory papers in the large C. I sections, Factory Papers. Prior to the reorganization there |were no factory newspapers any- where. I have not heard of any cases in which the Party organiza- |tions issued circulars addressed to |the workers in individual factories, jeven on important events, prior to | the reorganization. At present the | factory newspapers are an insep-| arable part of the work of the/| | groups and play an enormous role in | |the life of the Party local organiza- ‘tions. America. There are 40 factory newspapers issued regularly in America. Of these 38 have a circulation of 1,090 jto 2,000. | There is one factory paper in De- troit with a circulation of 10,000) | | trict, Forty in the U. S.; “Ford Worker” Reaches Circulation of 22,000; Plays Important Role copies; and the “Ford Worker,” is- | sued by t:.e group of the Ford auto: mobile factory, has reached a cir culation of 20,000 to 22,000 copies. | These papers are sold. | Great Britain (Incomplete Figures). There are 24 factory papers regu- larly issued in London with a circu- lation of about 8,000 copies; 12 of | these papers with a circulation of about 3,300 copies are issued by the railway shop groups. There are three factory papers in Liverpocl with a circulation of 3,300 copies. In South Wales 16 pit papers are issued in the mines. Germany. There are 170 factory newspapers | issued regularly throughout the country. Of these 101 are issued by | the Berlin-Bradenburg organization, | i by the Erzgebirge-Vogtland dis- 16 in the Hessen-Frankfurt district, and from one to eight papers in each of the remaining districts. The factory paper for the Sie- mens’ works, the “Loudspeaker,” has an edition of 7,500 copies. The paper is sold. ‘3 | ties France. There are 300 factory papers with a circulation of from 100 tu 1,000 copies throughout the country. Comrade Crozet published “Ca- hiers du Bolchevisme,” of 2% the following figures concerning the number of different factory papers issued in the Paris District: - 30 » 52 January ... February March . April May . June July . August September . October .. Czechoslovakia (Incomplete Figures) There are 120 factory papers pub- lished in eight out of the 24 dis- triets of Czecho-Slovakia. Toward the end of 1 we received statis- concerning the Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia indicating that there are 116 factory news- papers. All combined have ed £06 numbers with a circulation of £8,312 copies. This makes an av- erage of seven issues per factory, with a circulation of 103. In most cases, the factory papers are printed and contain good cari-| catures. In many countries they | are issued illegally, but here and} there they are legal and even print | advertisements which gives them an | income enabling them to continue publication. It may be pointed out that working men and women, in- cluding the members of the social- democratic parties, National Social- ists and Catholics are eager to get hold of the factory papers. Powerful Instrument. These papers are already a mighty instrument in the struggle for in- fluence on the working class. But this’ influence could be considerably multiplied if the paper were prop- erly utilized, which unfortunately is not everywhere the case. As has been said above, the daily press of the Party is small, and does not reach the broad working masses; the factory papers, however, do reach the masses. In spite of the defects connected with the factory papers, they are an important chievement which was made pos- ble as soon as the sections of the C. I. penetrated into the factories by means of factory groups. (From “The Organiz World Party,” by O. Piatnitsky, head of the Organization Depart- ment of the Communist Interna- tional.) Recent Conversat By HENRI BARBUSSE. \(Translated from the | Sol Auerbach) (Continued.) |was informed of all that was hap- ing—he did not recognize the land) when he came here. He had opened gaze in all directions, he had ques-| | tioned incessantly; he had spoken to| |everybody and before everybody. | The Soviet juntiring curiosity which was at-| | tached to all details, to all events and fragments of events; to all com- ments and to all opinions. “He looked into everybody's eyes,” wrote | | Boris Voline in a picturesque and) | meticulous article devoted to the re- | jturn of this traveller to his coun-| try. 2 fa AW For him the characteristic of the! actual Russia was a great change enormous and profound. It was s¢| to the point that the very customs, | | great immoveable things, seemed to [him other than they had been. I) |preised to him the charming ma- | jesty of the villages that are passed on the way to Moscow: the variety of color of the wide steppes, dotted | here and there with a village— | clusters of small squat huts dazzling | white and blue in the sunlight, from ‘time to time a church, for the most | part painted, and their golden domes, reflecting the beams of the sun. . .| He said softly, “I no longer rec-| jognize the fields and the birds,| | which I have known so well.” | which he knew above all so well. No doubt the silhouette of the capi. In Italy, where he had made his) - home for some years, he had e- the grandiose and unified beauty of| literary affairs with a new mer- plan and then enthusiasm. Neither ceived heavy mail from the Soviet|/a machine, like the Central Tele-| chandise, Union. He read the newspapers, he graph Building, the house of the| cause, the vast impetus, the orienta- the fire of the spirit of sacrifice, ion With Ma French bv ‘Two Great Revolutionary Writers Discuss the New Creative Age he has unearthed the xim_ Gorki One is in the presence of two faces of life, and not of two diametrically opposed principles of life. It is uto- pian to pretend that they are ex- elusive of each other. Impetus is _\ necessary. Order is also necessary: | ‘logic first, sensibility after; the good intentions, nor sentiments, nor | ion of a O8v4 GARRISON VILLARD is on the endorsing rampage. Be- fore the election campaign is over, the editor of the Nation is expected to have en- dorsed every name that is fit to print. The liberal weekly started out by turning over the keys of its cellar to the Rev. Norman Thomas, social- ist aspirant for the White House, but Os- wald did not think Thomas * was “it” so he decided to take in Al and turn Nor- man out into the cold and silent night. There was weeping and gnashing of teeth among the re- spectable socialists and considerable snuffling from socialist members of the Nation editorial staff. In fact a few of them decided to browse in | other pastures, ae ee | ME: VILLARD is nothing if not {? impartial. It is possible that he | is not following Wall Street’s lead |in the matter of contributing funds to the campaign chests of both par- ties, but he is liberal as well as im- T. J. O'Flaherty | partial with his endorsements. The latest beneficiary of Villard’s gen- erosity is Alanson B. Houghton, former Knee-Breeches-Wearer at the Court of St. James. Al Smith is in the eyes of the Nation a pro- duct of the “New Tammany” and probably Mr. Houghton is a product of the new G. O. P., a side kick to Mr. Morrow, Wall Street’s ambassa- dor to Mexico. Mr. Villard likes his pirates mild-mannered and clean shaven. lo ee ME. HOUGHTON is running for United States senator from New York. He is as reactionary as they make them, but we suppose that he is in favor of rubbing vaseline on the bayonets carried by the soldiers of American imperialism so that when the lethal weapons are in- serted into the anatomies of Nica- raguans or whatever people refuse to empty their pockets into the cof- fers of the House of Morgan, the pain will be reduced to a minimum. Scratch a liberal and you will find a reactionary. | SON ew | THERE is a baseball series on and | “ even tho the election campaign is | robbing the contest of its due share | of publicity, the gate receipts are | setting new records. A few years | back there was another series in | the baseball business—a series of |scandals. Players were charged | with “throwing” games and the sit- | uation was so serious that Judge | Landis was called in to interpret the |rules governing graft in the na- tional American sport. It was pre- dicted at the time that baseball | would never be the same again. But | well lots of people said that there would never be another war as a | result of the carnage in the last world debacle, but not even the sap- | piest pacifist would take a chance jon saying it now in front of an | adult audience. | Ws Ne we | THEY won't let the dead rest. A | * headline confronts me that reads as follows: “Graft of $900,000 on four sewer jobs is laid to Phillips.” A profit of $10,000,000 is said to | have been made in ten years on $29,- | 500,000 awards. It is not surprising that patriots should aspire for po- litical office. Where is there a bet- ter business? Old Capt. Kidd must curse the mother that bore him so many decades ahead of the Graft | Age, provided he is not already re- | incarcerated into a candidate on the G. O. P. or democratic ticket. Ct eee 7 LJOBN J. RASKOB, big chief of the |“ finance committee of General Mo- | tors, the notorious open-shop cor- | poration and campaign director for trusts, that of the co-operative Mos-| tion, the whole. The rest disappears il) suffice to construct a new so-| Al Smith, established a million-dol- geometric buildings. But that is not what he meant have refound Moscow, even thru) these new facades, but it is the at- mosphere, the people, the life which/ he has not found again. The change) press had registered this anpeaved to him under the form of | was, a rejuvination. That was the word! that he repeated without stop, the | leitmotiv of the sensations of the| returned traveler. He said: | fi k ithout k |selprom, the Lenin Institute, the| before that. He saw well the faults pening. But he knew without know-| 1, ostia and some other cubistic and) and the shortcomings, he who sees everything, but his look is that of a great man on a little thing, and he his eyes wide, he had turned his) When he spoke of change. He would | concludes: “The Soviet masses in movement —that is the most important and most beautiful event in the world.” He spoke of the old man that he and some of which still re- mained, and also of the new man that “new man” that one of the most brilliant and lucid minds and one of the best workers in the pres- ciety.. In order to construct, no matter what it is technique and work are necessary. But enthusiasm which is nothing but a uselessly expended force if it is not organized by a ‘doctrine, is useful and perhaps even indispensable in order to carry out a task. ‘ Few have been able, without mis- takes, to bring a rigid theory and supple realism to the revolutionary work of construction, which begins with destruction and war, and which “I arrived in Russia more fa-|ent Russia, Lunatcharski, had under. Continues thru constructive effort tigued and older than I am now. All that I have seen has rejuvinated | me.” | He spoke of the “young and frank |" faces” of the “independent and’ as-| sured look” of the new creators | ‘(that is also an expression which | he employed often). He explained’ that he had been surrounded “with | an atmosphere of energy, of intelli- gent and healthy creation.” This youth had reacted upon him “Their energy is contagious.” In) him it had become enthusiasm and} emotion. Sometimes this emotion cut! his words. He would rather write] than to say all this, because he) could not employ the words which) he needed—his hand is a more faith-| ful translator and a better inventor than his mouth. This reaction of a mind and of a) spirit who knew the Russians and force. It is nourished by reflection | (To Be Continued.) | Russia so well—and who returns and by enthusiasm—both at the | He had not recognized Moscow,| not from the depth of the ages but|same time, because it is a living| |from an absence of a few years—is/ force and life is one and not divided important and moving to receive. It taken to define and clarify. The new man, said Gorki, is the an who is “rejuvenated from with: in.” At other times one spoke, with reason, of the “mute body” of Russia, and this proverbial expres- sion was applied to the nonchalance, to the deep-rooted resignation of the domestic Russian race. Today that type has disappeared. The new man is a fighter: “He accumulates intel- lectual forces,” he is open to knowl- edge and, what is more, to clear and well-defined general ideas. He has acquired a social consciousness and the notion of his role in the en- semble. It is his head which works, but also his heart, in this accom- plishment of the revolution. The revolution is a logical force, but it is also an harmonious and moral into two parts between the head and tal has been really modified, and moves one deeply. Contrary: to the | the heart. | besides all which has been rebuilt) | during the last few years, there are} now a large number of immense buildings with geometric fronts, of} custom of the annotators of the pic-| turesque who come to Soviet Russia | in order to enlarge some details into books, and to enhance their petty | No Conflict. In reality it is not necessary that there be a struggle between the two. é Fri, ,and struggle. Lenin was one of |these. It can be said that he has |given to theory and to practise a single body, and made the abstract enter into the concrete. ,Gorki was, at one time, somewhat overwhelmed by the enormity of Lenin. Since the first blow he has not yet found At heart he was at one with the revolution, but he had not ‘understood it integrally. A rebel more thar a revolutionary, having partaken genially of ‘sickness and .of the wounds of misery and ex- | ploitation, he had uttered a cry of janger, and he had considered that \the capture of power by the slaves of capitalism was a just vengeance. That was not the manner in which those who led the revolution of | October expressed themselves. ‘his voice. POSTPONE RADIO ORDER. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UP)— The Federal Radio Commission or- der limiting duplicated operation on cleared channels to stations more than 300 miles apart has been post- poned to January 31, 192? |lar foundation in memory of’ his son, to aid needy children, If Mr. | Raskob paid the slaves who toil for him in his automobile plants a de- cent wage, he could not afford to be so charitable. If there were no big- hearted Raskobs there would be no | needy children. Those ready to hail | Raskob’s gift as an act of gener- | osity would do well to think this | over, and then vote the Communist | ticket. _ * ® HAT colorful character “Bossy” | * Gillis, mayor of Newburyport, Mass., is in trouble again. Mr. Gillis | is holding down a cell in jail and his | tag is 48866. He was sentenced to | serve thirty days in jail and fined a goodly sum of money for conducting © a gasoline station without a license. Perhaps his honor was suffering from delusions of grandeur and be- lieved that he was operating a speakeasy. * 8 8 F what Colonel Herbert H. Leh- man, director of finance for the democratic national committee, says is true, Al Smith might as well stop running now and settle down to a quiet life on Third Avenue. The colonel deposes and says that the G. O. P. campaign committee has _|three bucks for every iron man contributed to Al’s campaign fund. You can buy three times as many frankfurters with three dollars as you can buy with one and three times as many votes,