The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1928, Page 6

Page Six 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” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months By Mail (in New York only) 68 per year $4.50 sixamonths $2.50 three months Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-3 $2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Miler. 5 ROBERT MINOR SS devistant Editor... ..WM. F. DUNNE Entered as second-class mail at the post New York, N, ¥. VOTE COMMUNIST! For President For Vice-President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER BENJAMIN GITLOW ¢ ffic under the act of Mareh 8, 1879. For the Party of the Class Struggle! Against the Capitalists! For the Workers: Every Working Man and Woman Should Register and Vote! i Every effort is being made by the old parties of capitalism to poll a record vote for their two candidates—Hoover and Smith. As far as the much-vaunted American democracy is concerned those who vote for either Hoover, the republican, or Smith, the democrat, will only be exercising the privilege of helping decide which one of two agents of imperialism will head the imperialist government that serves the interests of Wall Street. No worker had any voice in determining whether these two lackeys of capi- talism should run. They were chosen by the big capitalists who manipulate the old party conventions. The socialist party candidate, Mr. Rev. Norman Thomas, was \ chosen by an aggregation of middle class politicians, with a ‘sprinkling of labor fakers. To vote for such a party. is to aid the most unprincipled enemies of the working class; a party , whose leaders are among the most vicious strike-breakers and scab- 4 herders in the whole country. This charge is made advisedly, tak- i ing into consideration even the uniformed cossacks called the i state constabulary in the coal and iron regions of Pennsylvania. t Between Sigman gangsters in New York who support the social- on ist party and any other collection of enemies of the working class an there is nothing to choose. In fact the yellow socialist outfit is ; worse because they pretend to be-a part of the working class, , While most of the other gangsters openly appear in their true Bs | colors as bought and paid for mercenaries of the capitalist ciass. In order that those class conscicus working men and women of the United States who are permitted to vote may be able to go to the polls in November and cast their vote for the one party of the working class, the Workers (Communist) Party, it is neces- sary to register. Already thousands upon thousands of workers have signified their desire to see the Communist candidates, Wm. Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, (the only candidates nominated by working class votes) on the ballot in their states by signing petitions to that effect. But in order to vote in November, even though one is a legal voter now and was properly registered before, it is nec- essary to register again. Watch your local papers, no matter where you may live, re- garding this important phase of political work and be sure to get all eligible members of your family and all your shopmates who are entitled to vote to register NOW so there can be a big Com- munist vote in November. : By this vote we will be able to guage the development of the sentiment among the working class for the party of the working class—the party of the proletarian revolution—under whose lead- ership alone the working class can achieve its emancipation from the tyranny of imperialism. division of the world between the great powers, but he appreciates good and faithful servants of imperialism wherever he finds them. Far from fearing the “socialism” of Ramsay MacDonald, the chairman of the General Electric welcomes him as a comrade in arms. Likewise he welcomes the “so- cialist” Herriot. - Owen D. Young—“Liberal” The chairman of the General Electric and co-author of the Dawes plan, Mr. Owen D. ~ Young, announces that he is for Tammany yAl and the democratic party because he isa niberal. The liberalism of this notorious stigent of the House of Morgan, who with “ice-President Dawes carried out the plans a othe banking capitalists to impose the brand essiAmerican imperialism upon Germany, con- vill spe, in advocacy of greater imperialist ag- heir elisiveness for Wall Street under the guise 5 fosaternationalism. a, Nos the Sunday edition of the New York Richmoes his position is stated as follows: | Mesrte oar position in the world will be alded by | Sie e election of a liberal party now. Since the | 0, i ar international progress has been largely if, Tycade by liberal parties. No advance could have Toustoren made had the Nationalists been in power Fort WGermany. Little would have been made had \7, Oklé Herriot broken Poincare’s determined and “6, Tulsservative resistance. A Labor Government fansas;cngland was most helpful at a critical time.’ only is Mr. Young an internationalist, extent that it is necessary for Ameri- \perialism to follow a political line that ‘otect its great foreign investments and | the way for a struggle for further | Pe Mr. Young says, in fact, that the most useful servants of imperialism, under certain conditions, are the heroes of the second in- ternational, the comrades of the Rev. Nor- man Thomas and the millionaire lawyer, Morris Hillquit, the titular leader and the real leader of the socialist party of America. To call the candidate of the Wall Street dominated democratic party—himself the product of and now the chief of a political machine whose very name is a synonym for corrupt politics and every form of graft, ex- tortion, vice and gangsterism,—a liberal is the prerogative of such as Owen D, Young. It is his privilege to call other lackeys of capitalism anything he desires. Likewise it is the privilege of intelligent workers to laugh to scorn such crude propaganda de- vices. We are thankful Cuesdas at inode nes to Owen D., inas- By EVE DORF. That Al Smith is a “liberal,” a “good man,” interested in the wel-| | fare of the masses, is a myth. This} | myth is easily exposed in the rec- ord, program, and connections of Smith and the democratic party. |Smith is and has always been a |machine man, a good Tammany man, and clever Tammany politi- cian. Smith was brought up in or- | ganized district and ward politics in New York City. He got his start in Tammany ward politics at la very early age. He has never once swerved from Tammany pol- jicy and platform. He has never once criticized or repudiated Tam- many. He has only the highest praise for Tammany and is proud to be associated with it. In a speech made on the fourth of July, 1926, Al Smith called Tammany “the greatest welfare and’ humanitarian organization in the world.” Smith has had the closest rela- tions with the leaders of Tammany, personal and political. Murphy was an intimate personal and political | “pal” of his. In the state assembly, | Smith, as speaker, was Murphy’s | main lieutenant in the impeachment jand ousting of Governor Sulzer, | when the latter had, for reasons of | personal ambition, fallen out with | Tammany. Machine Man. In 1915, the Citizens’ Union of New York, summarizing the activ- ities of Smith as governor, said that “he was an experienced and resourceful leader who seldom ex- |erted his influence in behalf of de- sirable legislation and could always be relied upon as a machine man.” | When it is remembered that the Ci- | tizens’ Union is dominated by Judge | Proskaure, who together with Mrs. ;Henry Moskowitz, are Smith’s main |advisers, his “kitchen cabinet” to- |day, the quotation becomes more | significant. Al and his pals have always been proud of his being a machine man—they boast of it openly. Smith is the real leader of Tam- many today. He is the “man be- hind” Olvany and the rest. What he says goes, and nothing is ever done without his opinion. Smith is responsible for Tammany as its lead- er; everything Tammany -has done, everything Tammany stands for, is also Smith’s record and program. Tammany is trying to tell the workers of this country that it is no longer the old, corrupt Tammany—| that it is a new Tammany, a clean| Tammany led by new leaders of the} |type of Smith. It is true that we ‘have a new Tammany, but the change in Tammany is of an entire- ly different character than the Tam- many propagandists say, What is this new Tammany? The new Tammany is a direct) champion of Wall Street, frankly and openly,’ The monopoly of fi-| nance capital in industry and gov-| jernment, the centralization of pow- | er during the imperialist period in| the hands of a small group of fi-| nance capitalists and the increasing | *|phase of economics, suppression of the petty bourgeoisie by big business, has given rise to the new, Tammany. “Liberal” Myth; Al Is Member of a Corrupt Machine; Financiers’ Ideal Candidate many represented the petty bour-| geoisie to a great extent, and when the petty bourgeoisie fought the power of the trust in industry and government at times, the democratic Party usually stood with the petty bourgeoisie. But today the petty bourgeois Tammany with its anti- tariff, anti-trust program is dead. | The new Tammany defends Wall) Street directly and openly. This fact is recognized by the democrats themselves. The New York Tim in its issue July 15,) 1928, says That the democratic par- ty has changed. “A party which! since 1894 has chosen the radical the bureau- cratic phase of-law and regulations, and the paternalistic view of nation- al morals, had its mind changed in| two days. The head of the largest) corporations in the world, one of the| richest men in America, and a mem-| ber of Citadel Clubs of the republi-| can party, was put in as national chairman; the party is considering | Owen D. Young for governor of New York. Big business steps in| and runs the affairs of government itself.” | Wall Street Backs New Tammany.| Smith has played a leading role in this change. He is the leader of the new Tammany. The advisers of Smith and the new Tammany are the Wall Street interests, particu- larly the power interests, the tran- sit trust, and other union smash- ing big employers. Important capi- talist interests are supporting the democratic party. They are no lon-| ger even a little afraid that the| democratic party may not do the bidding of big business. For the democratic party has completely sold itself to Wall Street. The national chairman of the| democratic party, running the “lib- | eral” Al Smith for president is J.) Raskob, head of the most notorious | open shop, anti-labor corporation in| the country. This is big business] with a vengeance; the General Mo- tors is the largest corporation in the world and one of the richest,| nected with the Morgan bank in-| terests, which are connected with the powerful Dupont interests and the Aluminum Trust (the Mellon in-| terests). Another powerful Wall St. leader of the Smith campaign is Owen D./ Young, of the General Electric Co., which controls the most powerful power company in New York State, the Frontier Power Co. Owen D.) Young is the real author of the| Dawes plan which has enslaved the| German workers. One could make| a very long list of the Wall Strect| financial interests who are backing’ Smith. I will mention just a very few. There is Dupont, famous am- munition and power king; William Kenny, big traction millionaire; portant members of the Power Trust together with Owen Young, and heavy contributors to thg Smith campaign. There is Herbert Leh- man, chairman of the Finance Com- mittee of the democratic party and candidate for lieutenant-governor of New York State, a member of Leh- man Bros., bankers, who have very large interests in traction and gas companies, controls the American Light and Traction Co., Consoli- dated Gas Co. of New Jersey, Em- pire Gas and Fuel Co., Power and Mining Machinery Co., Southern Light and Traction Co. and count- less others. Harkness of the Stand- ard Oil; S. Rea, former president of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Wil- liam Woodin, of the American Steel Car and Foundry Co.; and Bernard Baruch, the famous Wall Street broker, have all come out openly for Smith. Smith and Wall Street. Furthermore, the personal inter- ests of Smith lie with the capitalist system, and workers can expect him to be a faithful servant of Wall Street, in the White House, just as he has been a faithful servant of Wall Street, as governor of New York. He is director of the Elec- trie Transport Co., which is tied up through interlocking directorates with the I. R. T., the New York Central, Vanderbilt and the House of Morgan. Smith is* also chief | stockholder in the U. S. Trucking Corporation. He is something of a big capitalist himself, and his inter- ests are directly tied up with big financial interests. Smith, who poses as a people’s candidate, is directly tied up with power and trac- tion interests which have been fleec- ing the population: of New York for many years. Wall Street and big business have nothing to fear from the democratic party, led by Alfred Smith—on the contrary, they have an able and will- ing tool in the democratic party. Wall Street is well aware of this fact. Olvany, after the appoint- ment of Raskob, said in the press | also one of the most anti-labor. Gen-| that big business has nothing to leral Motors and Raskob are con-|fear from the democratic party, Al Smith stands for “legitimate busi- ness as promoting the public wel- fare.” Hoover stands for “sound business.” There is absdlutely no difference. Smith “does not ‘advo- cate any sudden or drastic change in our economic system. Stands squarely for the maintenance of legitimate business.” Note how Wall Street views the present elec- tion campaign. MF Magazine of Wall Street, July 14, 1928: “The plain fact is that our two great parties are both conservative in general tendency and present con- trol. Business need fear neither as a party and may consider them merely as necessary parts of the me- chanics of election, representative government and the profession of The old Tam-| Nicholas Brady and T. F. Ryan, im-| politics.” in France. yt much as he aided us expose such traitors to and assassins of the working class as the labor party swindlers in Great Britain and the radical socialist servants of imperialism All such utterances help us convince the masses that between the two old parties and the Communists there is no middle ground— + really a very i of the masses Party. that the socialist parties of the second inter- national, in countries where they are influ- ential, are trusted agents of imperialism and that in this country the socialist party is nsignificant though poisonous third party of capitalism; that the one Party is the Workers (Communist) By Fred Ellis Al Smith and New Tammany | Bulletin of National City Bank of New York: “There is no issue be- tween the candidates that is likely to make a disturbance in business circles. Almost as much may be |said of the platforms.” | Smith Ideal Wall St. Candidate. Al Smith is an ideal candidate for finance capital in the United States. He stands for the new Tammany Hall ideal of subservience to Wall Street interests, and yet he can cov- ‘er this with a pretense at interest in the masses and appeals to labor vote by demagogy and some re- formist gestures. Under a “liberal” jguise, Smith put over for Wall Street the complete centralization of New York State government in their hands. Moreover, and very impor- tant, is the fact that Smith has built up a machine in the trade unions in alliance with the right wing labor fakers which is an ex- ceedingly valuable aid to finance capital’s program. The religious lobjections to Smith are overruled by these very essential assets and by the fact that the Catholic Church itself performs a valuable service |for éapitalist imperialism by con- trolling the workers’ minds, and |making them tools for capitalism. All the “liberal” terminology o! the Tammany machine, and of Smith, is wool to cover the eyes of the workers. All the reforms for which they claim credit are sops thrown to labor when labor pra3- sure is great. The aim is to cap- ture labor votes and petty bour- geois votes away from the dominant republican party and to build up “progressive” reputation for Smith to permit the democrat party to | enter the White House and thus cap- {ture the juicy jobs in Washington. | The weaker party in the two par- |ty system mu8st become “reform- | ist” in words. The party out of powér must create more or less | liberal issues in words, in order to appeal to the masses to change the ruling machine. But it never for- gets to make guarantees to the capi- talist class. All “welfare” legisla- tion that Smith talks about, besides the fact that they have been forced | by the struggle of the workers, also is such that they help along the smooth running of the capitalist machine and try to allay too active discontent among the masses. Big business can never suffer from Smithism. Smith and the new Tammany represent Wall Street. No matter which of the two major poli- tical parties come into power, the republican or democratic, American capitalism wins. There is only one way out for the workers of this country if they are to improve their conditions and abolish this system of poverty, unemployment, wage slavery and imperialist wars—and that is the path of the class strug- gle. All workers should support the party of the working class, the par- ty that fights against the bosses, | the party of the class struggle—the | Workers (Communist) Party of America. Vote Communist. Vote for Wil- liam Z. Foster for president and Benjamin Gitlow for vice president. Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America, WIRE-TAPPING “LEGAL.” WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UP).— The famous wire-tapping case, in which the United States supreme court decided last spring that wire- tapping by federal~ prohibition agents was legal, was ended today with a ruling by the court refusing to grant a rehearing. Told You So H ployment problem in the United States. According to Hoover there is so much prosperity around that one might be led to believe there is no reason why anybody should be out ,of work unless he is so lazy that he would not sum up the necessary energy to lift a hot coal off his foot. Unfortunately for Mr. Hoover, the unemployed will not stay under- ground. Every time they see a help- wanted ad in the papers they insist on getting up at 6 o’clock in |the morning and cluttering up the sidewalks in front of employment |agencies, thus interfering with the progress of those who are fartunate jenough to have jobs. | eae Sean FEW days ago a person by name of Testin inserted an advertfse- |ment in the papers calling for car- |penters, plasterers, bricklayers and | plumbers. According to Arthur Brisbane, those categories of labor |usually travel to work in limousines and those that live at a distance from their places of employment reach their offices in airplanes. Yet strange to say 400 building trades ; workers answered Mr. Testin’s call only to find that he did not need |mechanics, but sub-contractors. ie ae HEN Mr. Testin attempted to ex- plain to the unemployed workers |that he did not need mechanics and \fthat his English was far from per- fect they could not see the joke and proceeded to cause a tickling sen- jsation on his hide with their fists. A policeman who watched the pro- ceedings proceeded to come to Mr. | Testin’s assistance and rushed him to cover. The 400 unemployed ex- plained to the policemen who tried to. disperse them that they were pounding the pavements since six o’clock in the morning looking for jjobs. Yes, Sir ’Erbert ’Oover, we have no unemployment today. Cm ceee WEN D. YOUNG, the big juice and jack man of the General Electric Company, tells why he is a democrat in the New York Times of last Sunday. After reading his ar- ticle the only two of his several rea- |sons that stand up under critical | punishment is that he is against the Volstead law and that his ancestors were democrats, perhaps, as far back as the Baboon Age. Hoover and Smith are both fine fellows, he said, and it would be a pity to make bums out of them during the elec- tion campaign, since one of the two is bound to be the next president of the United States. Why ‘ blame Hoover if he spent most of his life working directly for British im- perialism? And why hold against Al the fact that he tosses off a cock- tail once in a while? This is the gist of Mr. Young’s observations on | Wall Street’s candidates. + 8 8 ME. Young makes it quite clear that there is no fundamental difference between the democratic and republican parties. They both stand for prosperity and for a pro- tective tariff. Note that we have not been hearing much about this old joker during the past few years. Another proof that the democratic party of the evangelist, bush-whack- \ing craw-thumping Bryan is not the |varty of Tammany Al. Mr. Young says, however, that, tho the. “con- | servative” or republican party was best for the country in the years fol- lowing the war, the democratic, or “liberal,” party is best for the coun- try in the halcyon days of peace | (pacts) in which we are now so- journing. Don’t forget that it was the democratic president, Woodrow Wilson, who sent the manhood of America to fight for Wall Street’s millions in 1917. Al Smith will be just as ready to do the same thing when Wall Street decides that it is time to have another little world war. | * * * gees socialist party is no piker |“ when it comes to handing out | campaign promises. ‘Peace, plenty jand prosperity” i8 its main slogan. Unfortunately for the S. P. the class-conscious workers know that they can have neither this side of the social revolution, and the alleged | Progressives, that Norman Thomas has been trying to seduce with his |ministeriar supplications, have | turned to either Al Smith or Hoover | for their political pipe dreams, | ae N unknown but nevertheless wel- come reader forwarded an edi- torial note sent out by the League for Industrial Democracy, which is | controlled by the socialist party thru | Norman Thomas, explaining why the news service of the L. I. D. leans to- ward Mr. Thomas’s candidacy. The thing is funny and so is the title given it by our unnamed friend. It ‘s “The Harmaphoditiec L. I. D.” The note reads: “This is, of course, the L. I. D. News Service of the L. I. D. which ‘s not organically identified with the Socialist Party. For detailed com- ment only the author of the service, Mr. Thomas, is responsible and his position as Socialist candidate makes give to the news service during the campaign somewhat more of a par- tisan tone than it ordinarily It is only fair, however, that the posi- tion of the Socialist Party should get an authoritative hearing. Sub- stantially the L. I. D. would endorse the general aim; namely, a social order based on production for use rather than profit, for which Mr, Thomas is campaigning. it psychologically impossible not to ° | |