The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1928, Page 6

ti b ¢ y d e t t t TUE Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party National Daily Work Da Except Si Union Sc é N.Y Stuyve: 169€ \ ROBERT MINOR E WM. F. DUNNE Assist E SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only) $8 a ye x mos. three mos By of New York) $3.50 six mos $2.00 three mos, 1 out checks to The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER DQ) SK | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW lt. For the Party of the Class Struggle! For the Workers! EBs Against the Capitalists! Hoover—Fool or Crook Just as the sponsors of Al Smith are trying to whitewash that product of Tammany graft.and corruption by talking about a “new Tammany,” so the sponsors of Herbert Hoover are working overtime trying to per- suade the voters of the country that the re- publican presidential candidate is innocent of complicity in the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil land swindles. Herbert Hoover, as secretary of commerce in the cabinet of the late Harding since 1921, and one of the outstanding leaders of the Coolidge administration, sat in cabinet meet- ings when the naval oil lands were trans- ferred from the navy department under the grafter, Edwin L. Denby, to the department of the interior under the swindler, Albert B. Fall. So flagrant and open was this prepara- tion for the lease of the oil lands to the oil magnates, Sinclair and Doheny, that one must needs have been the variest dolt to have failed to perceive what was going on. If Herbert Hoover, as a member of the Tea- pot Dome cabinet did not know what was transpiring he is nothing other than a plain fool. Such stupidity amounts almost to idiocy. If he is not a fool and he did not know what was going on then he is just as much of a crook as any other member of that cabinet. These observations applied to Hoover extend also to Andrew W. Mellon, the real boss of the republican administration at Washing- ton. Yet, it is known that Mellon is no fool. But then no one should be surprised at the propagandists for the old parties trying to manufacture giants out of such palpable pup- pets as Smith or Hoover. When the stupid- ities of Coolidge, his total incapacity to think politically, his inability to talk coherently and his general dumbness are utilized to con- vey the impression that his silence is evi- dence that pondrous, world-shaking thoughts are maturing in his mighty brain, then we may expect any absurdity in the way of pub- licity to enhance Wall Street’s candidates in the eyes of the masses. To expect a system of government repre- senting a class that acts as a fetter upon further development of society, a govern- ment dripping with blood and corruption, based upon trickery, violence and every form of Machiavellian deception, to produce any- thing other than political agents steeped in corruption is purely utopian—an absurdity. A system of government based upon a fraudulent democracy must practice system- atic deception of the masses. As revolutionists, the Workers (Commu- nist) Party exposes such creatures as Hoover, Smith, Coolidge, Mellon and the rest of the lackeys of imperialism, not because we ex- pect them to be replaced by ‘good men,” but only in order that the workers and farmers may come to loathe them and hold the gov- ernment they administer in utter contempt. Career Men in Foreign Service Official Washington is involved in specu- lation regarding the fate after March 4th, of some score or more “career men” occupy- ing posts in the foreign service. It has been customary in the past for members of the foreign service to tender their resignations so that an incoming president could pay some of his political debts by appointing his friends to ambassadorial and ministerial posts. Re- tired “merchant princes,’ jaded leaders of the packing house trust, tired bankers, “lame-duck” politicians, whose understand- ing of world politics and economics was nil | and whose knowledge of geography extended only to a study of railroad time-tables, were selected to foreign posts. This practice, hoary with age, was never challenged in the days before the war. It’ was the accepted thing. On rare occasions when international com- plications arose, the secretary of state at- tended to the interests of the ruling power, never dreaming of relying upon those hold- ing honorary office in the foreign service. Such men were usually old and always wealthy and at the end of their terms they retired with enough titles to last them the rest of their lives. They had collected the political debts from the politicians they had helped or, as the late Theodore Roosevelt said, “they had their cake and they ate it.” | The rise of American imperialism forced a change in the old policy of appointing troglodytes to such positions. To be sure, the change is not yet complete; a number of ambassadors and ministers are i: their dotage and their meddlesome activities con- stantly interfere with the efficient working of the bureaucratic apparatus under their | control. With the heavy investments of Wall Street capital involving this country more and more in all the contradictions of the world it became necessary to place in strategic positions men whose training had fitted them for diplomatic careers—hence the present problem of “career men.” Coolidge is non-committal on the question, merely restating the old policy and passing the buck to the next administration. There are very many heavy contrib- NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCFOBER 12 1923 | | | friend. SIMON LEGREE RECOGNIZES A FRIEND announced his support of Al Smith. i against the mine workers to compel them to accept lower wages fhah the Jacksonville scale, George J. Anderson, president of the notorious Consolidation Coal Co., and John D. Rockefeller’s slave driver of West Virginia, has Anderson is famous for yellow-dog contracts, evictions, and for conducting a long reign of terror This scab ‘Miners Lead in Fight of Labor Party in Penna. By FRANK HENDERSON The Labor Party is on the ballot in Belmont County. In this “solid” democratic county of Eastern Ohio, in which constitutional rights have been scrapped and where republican judges pass severe sentences on workers who dare to oppose the dic- tatorship of the coal barons and steel kings—in this atmosphere the workers have planted the seeds of a strong Labor Party. The candi- cates of the Labor Party from the | mines and factories are carrying on a campaign to bring before the | workers the platform of the Party. Against the strikebreaking candi- |dates of the republican and demo- |eratie parties backed by the: coal barons and the steel trust, the La- bor Party has elected workers from |the pits of the mines and the “hot | mills” and the factories to represent | the workers in the coming election jcampaign. Against the almighty | dollar, by which the other two par- ties buy votes und place candidates |in office, the Labor Party offers | the workers and farmers of Belmont | County their program which repre- | sents the interests and demands of working people rather than the in- terests of a few dollar-grabbing, pocket-squeezing parasites, | “Full Dinner Pail” Bluff, |. Against the “full dinner pail” | bluff of the ‘Yepublicans and the “foamy beer glass promise” of the | democrats, the Labor Party puts \forward the demands for the right |to organize, unemployment insur- ance, old age insurance, against |court injunctions, maximum 8-hour day, 6-hour day for young workers, no night work for women, protec- tion of the foreign-born, equal ights for Negroes, abolition of the criminal syndicalist law, release of ‘_jall victims of the labor struggle, free hospitals and free clinics, fac- |tory inspection and mining boards, better roads, lower taxation, with- herder knows Al Smith is his ® Who’s Who of Socialist Electors 2222: By PAUL NOVICK. The New York Times which pub-| jlishes “all "the news fit to print” (fit for the capitalists, of course), is giving’ space liberally to the so- cialist campaign. On October 1st the’ Times devoted nearly a full column in printing the list of so- cialist presidential electors for New York State. | The gentlemen on that list no |doubt deserve that space—judging by their financial standing and by One Millionaire, 3 Preachers, One Republican and Many High-Salaried Officials | \is the “brains” of the infamous Sig- |man union wrecking crew. The | united front with the bosses, the hir- ing of gangsters, the securing of injunctions against left wing locals, all this was done on the legal advice |of Mr. Hillquit. The role he has \the respect they command in their! jjaveq in the Sigman campaign utors to campaign funds who would like to be | various communities. disappointed. The imperialist government < For among against the needle unions is alone honored, as were their prototypes of the past, | the socialist electors there me, at’ enough to brand Hillquit for what with foreign posts, but most of them will be | least one known millionaire, three he is, But something new was dis- | preachers, one republican city offi-) | Serves the interests of the big capitalists as a whole and not infrequently is compelled to offend an individual member of that class whose ambition is all out of proportion to his ability. Younger men, trained in the duplicity of cial and a good number of corpora-| tion lawyers and officials whose |salaries are from fifteen thousand |per annum up. | There is hardly one worker among the forty-five electors! | Just the people “fit for print.” A “Socialist” Owner of a Chain of capitalist diplomacy, have been placed in | covered about ten days ago. In June, 1925, Sigman’s first grand attack against the member- ship of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Unior took place. |The three largest locals of the union, 2, 9 and 22, were expelled and the seventy-seven officers of these locals were put on trial, The accusation against them was that cocted the charges against the 77 | officers for arranging the May Day festival at the Metropolitan Opera House? 4 | Mr. Hiilquit, of Course! | Mr. Hillquit! One of his former disciples who took a most active part in the fight against the three locals in 1925, a |certain Mr. Meyer Perlstein, testi- | fied.to that effect in a letter printed |in the Jewish Day on Sept. 18. The |Freiheit on Sept, 20 in an article on its front page asked Mr. Hillquit {youth in schools, for state and na- Another $15,000 Man. tional Labor Party, and for a Labor Another $15,000 “socialist” elée-| 2overnment in the United States. tor is Mr. B. C. Vladeck, manager) __ Miners Not to Be Fooled. of the same Forward. Then there} The beautiful promises of the can- is another advertising agent of this | didates of the republican and demo- same paper by the name of Joseph | ¢ratic parties will have little appeal Weinberg. There is also that good| te the miners who have been starved friend of the Amalgamated mem-| for months and forced to live mn bar- bers, Mr. Abraham Beckerman,|"@cks because of the “justice” and known for his muscular methods, for | “S¥pport” they received from both the “standard of production” and | Parties of finance capital and: big piece work system he has estab-| business. The votes. of the miners [lished in the men’s clothing shops| Will not be Iured into the ballot against the overwhelming vote of |HOxes of the big posses becauge the the workers in the industry. | picture of republican “prosperity” is S i # .| before them and democratic “democ- R Then: we beve pines reverends:| acy” still rings in their ears. For ev. A. L. Byron Curtis of Atwell; | "eo. th “ke fr Belmane Revi’ Walter N. MeNinch of Cin-|Sonnin bevy Piincsd there seeakt Sage |County- have followed the bosses’ and Rev. John Haynes Holmes of New York. Direct Link Between Socialists and parties to the ballot boxes, but now they are determined to build a La- Lor Party of their own and put for- whether Perlstein’s statement was) 4 true (altho nobody doubted it). ay Republicans, quit made no answer. | Last but not least is Frank C. And this is the record, in part, of Perkins of Buffalo. another socialist elector. | Of all the picturesque luminaries ward the workers’ candidates to fill the offices of the county. Instead of strikebreaking sheriffs, the work- jers of Belmont County are deter- mined to have county officials who strategic posts where they have become an important part of the bureaucratic apparatus of the government—an apparatus that exists regardless of what particular puppet is in the White House at Washington. : Wall Street has evidently passed the word along to these trusted lackeys that they should not present their resignations to take effect March 4th, but should stick to their posts, no matter who is president, just the same as the vast bureaucratic apparatus at Washington remains through changing ad- ministrations. The imperialist government of the United States is too deeply involved in preparing for the next war for a redivision of the world between the imperialist powers to afford any disturbance of its organized instrument of oppression and terror—the state—in any part of the world. This question, like all other controversial matters that seem trivial and mechanical to the superficial observer, is in reality a fundamental question of imperialist war preparations. It is essential that the work- ing class, and particularly its vanguard, the Communists, understand fully the sinister implications of the disputed questions within the ranks of the capitalist politicians, in order effectively to expose and discredit them and convince the exploited masses, the potential cannon fodder for the next imperialist war, that only the revolutionary party of the working class, the Workers (Communist) Party, has a program that can meet and de- feat the intrigues of the war-mongers and all their agents. W ill Distribute 200,000 Red Leaflets .f ti % Nearly: One: Hundred SUxets ies had’ uel May Das Pree Preachers and High Salaried Officials, |among the socialist electors, Mr.| will look after the interests of the | First on the list we find a gen-| |tleman by the name of Morris Ber- man, Pleasantville, N. Y. The “American Labor Who's Who,” issued by the Hanford Press in 1925, gives the following infor- mation about this country gentle- man: “Board of Directors in the International Union Bank; partner lin company owning eighty-three chain stores selling wearing apparel in seven states.” The city address lof the owner of the Pleasantville | Estate is 900 Grand Concourse. | The International Union Bank is |not a union bank any more. It is There is Abe Cahan on the list| |Perkins shines most brilliantly. Mr. Perkins was elected last No-| |in the Metropolitan Opera House on |May lst, 1925, with Comrade Olgin as one of the speakers. A Shocking , Demonstration, This festival was truly a shock- ing affair. The New York Times |of May 2, 1925, had a big story on | the front page proclaiming the ter- |rible news that the “Diamond Horse- shoe” of the Metropolitan Opera | House had been occupied by mere | workers who, in addition, cheered for Soviet Russia and sang the Interna- | tional and other “Red songs.” |_ The “Four Hundred” of New |of electors. This “socialist” editor | of the “socialist” Forward draws his ‘measly $17,500 a year and “ex- penses.” Mr. Cahan has recently acquired some fame in Boston where | the Sigmanites had their ‘“conven- tion” under the protection of the Boston police. (Mr. Thomas was there, too, giving his blessings.) | There Mr. Cahan openly stated that! |the “manifesto” issued by Sigman in December, 1926, again expelling |the above named three locals was | written in his, Cahan’s office, and) dictated to his, Cahan’s stanophaph= {now a private institution run for | York were terrified. Something had|er (we can guess by whom). | profit. One of the capitalists own- ‘ing this bank is Mr, Morris Berman. | to be done. And when in June,-1925, | the workers who had dared arrange |The first elector on the socialist| this festival were put on trial by |ticket is not alone burdened with a/ Sigman & Co., great relief was felt large number of stores selling wear-|@mong the “Four Hundred.” The Here is direct proof that the “‘so- cialist” party was the instigator of the fight in the I. L. G. W. U. The cloak and dressmakers will no doubt appreciate the activities of the S7P. The workingclass sections of this)house distribution all morning. city will be flooded Sunday with the Thousands of workers thruout the 200,000 “Vote Communist” leaflets city will be reached by the Commu- ordered by various sections of the| nist campaigners with the attractive ution of the Communist leaflets will report back at their headquarters to attend a special membership meet- ing of their section. At this meet- ing apparel in seven states (rumor |has it that Mr. Berman is also the ‘owner of a number of factories that | are supplying these stores; the same rumor affirms that the number of stores have increased since 1925), but he is also, as has been indi- cated, a private banker. Something New About Mr. Hillquit. Then, of course, there is Morris Hillquit. Mr. Hillquit is a well-established corporation lawyer. Among the cor- porations he has served is the Con- solidated Rabbit Dressers’ Manufac- turers’ Association of Newark, N. \J. His most conspicuous services for that organization of employers | was rendered during the controversy it had with Local Union 25 of the Fur Workers’ Internatiofal, during ‘the whole of which the “socialist” ‘leader represented the employers’ association. Mr, Hillquit recently covered him- self with glory at Brussels where he voted against the manifesto which the Second “International” has is- sued. Even the Second Internation- al is too radical for this rich cor- poration lawyer! Mr. Hillquit has been recently at- N. Y. Times of June 16, 1925, car-| on election day and in particular the ried a big story on its front page activity of the socialist elector, Abe giving all the details of the charges Cahan. “ against the 77 officers and quoting) Then there is Benjamin Schles- jeverything the Sigmanites had said inger on the list of electors, The about “Moscow,” the “Comintern,” same gentleman who is now trying the “Reds,” ete. The New York) to “save” the cloak and dressmak- Times was triumphant. At last the| ers while he is getting his advertis- | Four Hundred were avenged. |ing commissions from the Forward Whose were the “brains” that con- amounting to $15,000 up per annum. What Kellogg “Peace” | | Plan Means to Workers (By a Worker Correspondence) , will afford a parade and inspection | The boss press and its agents are of the cadet corns, a football game | trying with might and main to tell between the Army and Providence | the workers of this country that the College and a round trip to West | Kellogg peace plan is a new step! Point, together with a box lunch! towards world peace. Of course, we noon and night. The number is all know that when the diplomats limited to 2,500.” |say peace, it means in plain lan-| This clearly shows that the mili- |guage war. Now, more than ever tary authorities are using all before, do we find the: United States methods to militarize the youth in’ |thing for which even the party of| vember as chairman of the City Council of Buffalo, an office which! corresponds to that of mayor (there! is no mayor in Buffalo, the city be- ing run by the council). He re-| ceived 65,000 votes on the republi- can ticket, 6,000 votes on the so- cialist ticket and 3,000 votes on the independent ticket. Mr. Perkins managed to run on all three, as it were! The socialists weren’t altogether |cheered last November by the elec- tion of Perkins as the head of the (city administration of Buffalo. Buf- falo is a republican city with a| strong party machine. The fact that the Coolidgeites had given their full Support to Mr. Perkins and had rolled up for him a vote of 65,000, against the 57,000 votes received by the democrat, Sweeney, was proof enough where Mr, Perkins stood with the republicans. The fact that) the Buffalo socialists had also ac- cepted Mr. Perkins as their candi-| date and did not mind. his running } on the republican ticket was some- Mr. Hillquit could not be very com-| pletely enthusiastic. Now we find| the same Perkins among the electors | on the socialist state ticket, A “Fit” Party—and How! | Here is a direct link between the| socialists and-the republican party,| the party of big business. Small wonder that the news about the socialist campaign is “fit to print.” "More so, the list of socialist electors. They are all honorable men! But that millionajres, reverends, corporation lawyers, and republican politicians should pretend to repre- sent workers and also lay claim to their votes, is one of the freakish! phénomena of American politics, or the Bronx, forkers (Communist) Party. In Brownsville, Harlem, ‘Yilliamsburg and downtown Man- yattan, hundreds of Communist cam- ‘aigners will engage in the most omprehensive distribution of litera- ure ever undertaken in an election ampaign. Members will report to their sec headquarters at 10 a. m, Sun- een a a * leaflet, which cites and denounces the anti-labor character of the other political parties, and urges all work- ers to vole Communist and enroll in the class struggle. Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Work- ers (Communist) Party are making special arrangements for the Red Nights. At 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, all ad in the house hte praee engaged in the distrib- tacking the Soviet Union and has |termed the Bolshevist Revolution as the greatest catastrophe for the working class. But something else was recently iscovered about Mr. Hillquit which ‘ *, ‘ 4,|/i8 worth while publishing, It is bution, extensive preparations Wille carne, with the right wing at- be made for the house to house can-| tacks on the needle unions. vasses which will begin on Monday, Mr. Hillquit has distinguished Oct. 15. ing very important work will be outlined by a district representative, who will be present at each meet- ing. Besides.a discussion from the floor in which members will tell of| 4, their experiences during the distri- di ‘himself in this field. He was and} government engaged in military | propaganda. Altho the Citizens’ Military Train- \ing Camps are now closed, their ac- tivity is still going on. Lieutenant Colonel Howard L. Campion, of the Eighteenth Infantry division of the United States army, has sent out letters to all C. M. T. C. recruits urging them to come to the sixth annual outing of the C. M. T. C. Second Corps Area, which will be held at West Point, N. Y., on Oct. 13. The letter states: “The outing preparation for the coming war, Tather one of the schemes of the | Some young men may be attracted | capitalist class to fool the workers. iby these novelties. It should be our! The workers will not be fooled. ‘duty to expose these outings and The workers will vote for a workers’ strip them naked of their false at- party and workers’ candidates and traction by showing their true not for candidates who are mater- purpose. —L. A, | ially and ideologically part and par- Sttaet A cel of the bourgeoisie; nor will they!’ ENGLAND'S UNEMPLOYED, vote for the socialist party which LONDON, Oct. 11.—A recent sur-| ‘8 the Tepresentative of the capital- vey of the number of unemployed ists within the ranks of the work- in Great Britain, revealed the fact tS: The workers have their own that there are at present 1,300,000 Party, the Workers (Communist) out of work—an increase of 250,000 Party of America and will vote for since this time last year, the candidates of that Party, | workers. Workers Will Not Forget. The workers of Belmont County will not forget the strikebreaking activ of Sheriff Clyde Hardesty, nor will the miners’ wives, nor, in fact, any women in the county for- get the mistreatment the daughters and wives of the striking miners re- ceived when, with the aid of Gov- ernor Donahey’s “nursemaids” (Na- tional Guardsmen), he herded fifty- one women and children into the dirty, crowded county jail at St. Clairsville. And, when the ‘citizens of Belmont County go to the ballot boxes they will remember the break- ing up of the meetings of workers throughout the county. The recent arrests in Martins Ferry in connec- tion with the Sacco-Vanzetti meet- | ings will be remembered as a sample | of the dictatorship of the steel trust. The entire county has for months, especially during the strike, been stinking from the smell of capitalist “justice” and sham democracy. This offensive smell the Labor Party has pledged itself to eliminate and to create a more pleasant atmosphere for those who toil in the mines and factories and produce the wealth of the land, Miners Lead Fight. With the same determination that exposed the corruption and mislead- ership of the United Mine Workers Union and built a New Miners Union, the coal diggers of Belmont County, with the help of other workers, will expose the role of the existing political parties and build a Labor Party. The ‘Labor Party is not backed by the almighty dollar, but by a platform that represents the inter- ests and demands not only of the workers of Belmont County, but of thé workers and farmers of the en- tire country. The workers of Bel- mont Ccunty believe that they have (aken the first step for a strong Labor Party and hope that the seeds planted in their county will grow into a large movement. Rie ater Ca¥ lh REGISTER TODAY. Four days of registration have passed, Two more remain. Regs ister today in order to vote fo? the candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party. Registration places are open from 5 to 10:30 p. m. today and from 7 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. tomorrow, the day for registration. final =— Se <a