The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1928, Page 6

Page Six WHE DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1928 ROBERT MINOR E WM. F. DUNNE 4 By Mail (in New York only) $4.50 six mos. $2.50 thre By Mail ( New mo: York) utside of VOTE COMMUNIST! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers! Q) SK | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! ES For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! Paterson Strikers—Eliminate the Bunglers! Thus far the response of the silk workers of Paterson to the strike call has been good. It is a tradition of Paterson that the work- ers will not remain in the shops when a picket line is established. But in order to make the strike completely effective it is essential that incompetants, cowards and bunglers have no voice in the organization and conduct of the struggle. These observations are prompted by the report that one Herman Clevens, a member of that rapidly dwindling and futile sect, the socialist labor party, is hampering the work of spreading the strike by idiotic mechanical rules. A so-called strike leader who quibbles with workers in a mood to join the union and the strike over whether they pay $1.50 or $1.00 initiation fee acts in a manner that ob- jectively aids the mill owners, no matter what his intentions may be. It is not inten- tions, but results, that count in the first de- cisive days of a labor struggle. But then anyone who expects a socialist labor partyite to approach a situation from a realistic angle reveals a pitiful lack of un- derstanding of the needs of the struggle. The whole philosophy of the S. L. P. is one of de- featism for the workers in their every-day struggle. They openly proclaim from their election platforms that it is a waste of time to try to improve the condition of labor by resisting the encroachments of the capitalist class and-by putting forward immediate ele- mentary demands. They believe in waiting until the workers spontaneously, under pres- sure of capitalism and by education, organize the groundwork of the industrial republic (?) ; then the S. L. P. will appear and consent to become their leaders. A more non-Marxian, anti-revolutionary outfit would be hard to find. Yet from the platform of labor struggles they have the audacity to warn the masses against “mob hy ’ etc., in the patron- izing manner of some insipid minister of the gospel of abject surrender of the working class to the capitalist class. If the officials of the Associated Silk Workers do not remove this bungler the strikers should take the matter into their own hands and see that no one be permitted to stand in the way of all workers in the broadsilk industry joining the struggle. Only traditional Paterson militancy will avail against the forces bent upon exploiting the mill slaves to the limit. Let there be no pussyfooting, no class collaboration, no half-measures, but a strike on the old lines— mass picketing and a defiant struggle that will lead to victory. His Lordship Among Friends So completely of one mind as agents of British imperialism are the right-wing leaders of the English labor unions and the heads of the banks and big industrial estab- lishments that Lord Melchett, formerly Sir Alfred Mond of London, chairman of the Im- perial Chemicals, Ltd., can appear in the United States and speak in the name of British labor. i To be sure this apostle of “cooperation be- tween. capital and labor,” which means co- operation of the industrialists with the trai- tors of the British general council of trade unions against labor, does not represent the sentiments of the industrial workers who are victims of Mondism. But as far as J. H. Thomas, Ben Tillet, A. A. Purcell and the balance of the general council are concerned, his lordship may speak for them even more effectively than they can speak for them- selves. Mond, in an address before the national civic federation luncheon, repeated the old wheeze that British labor desires no revolt, that it is opposed to Communism and that the general strike was the result of a deplorable misunderstanding. His sentiments were greeted with, loud huzzahs from John WV Davis, lawyer for the House of Morgan, for- merly democratic candidate for president and now « valiant supporter of Al Smith; | Haley Fiske, president of the labor-hating | Metropolitan Lia Insurance Company, and that aaiseat strike-breaker and scab herder, Matthew Woll, whose vocation is that of act- ina president of. the “Civie Federation and whose avocation is that of president of the Photo Engravers Union and a vice-president of the American Federation of Labor. While the labor fakers and their capitalist masters of England and the United States unite in a verbal assault upon labor at a civic federation luncheon, the class conscious workers of both England and the United States are united by unbreakable bonds in their respective Communist Parties under the leadership of the general staff of the world revolution, the Communist Interna- tional. Under the crimson emblem of the proletarian revolution we will in action answer their slanders that the working class has suc- cumbed to their treachery. American Intrigue in France The incident of the expulsion from France of the representative of the Hearst chain of papers, Harold J. T. Horan, by the Poincare- Briand government, while trivial in itself, emphasises a gigantic clash of imperialist in- terests on French soil, and, at the same time, exposes another phase of the notorious dou- ble-dealing of the state department of the United States government at Washington. Horan was expelled from France because he obtained, through bribery of employees of the foreign office under Briand, the copy of the secret memorandum containing the text of the Anglo-French naval accord. That covenant between the tory government of England and the renegade, Briand of France, was so obviously a move against Yankee im- perialism that its contents were intended to remain a secret. Briefly it was a pact where- by England and France agreed to support, in future conferences on naval armaments, the proposition that battle cruisers be limited to 8,000 tons, whereas the United States gov- ernment insists upon cruisers of not less than 10,000 tons. It is essential to American imperialism to have cruisers of a higher ton- nage than Britain because of the great dis- tance between American bases of naval sup- plies. If the light cruisers of the United States were limited to 8,000 tons it would be impossible for them to travel around the world, for the simple reason that they could not carry sufficient fuel and auxiliaries to enable them to travel between bases. If the United States were not an imper- ialist power, holding in subjection far-flung possessions, a power with an aggressive pol- icy looking toward a new war for a new re- division of the world so it can acquire still more colonies, it would not need to demand larger cruisers. The very fact that it does demand larger cruisers proves that Coolidge’s and Hoover’s talk about “defensive arma- ments” is merely so much deceptive twaddle. Cruisers that range the seven seas are not required for defensive purposes only. But the United States also demands eight- inch guns, instead of the six-inch guns pro- posed by Britain and France for 8,000 ton light cruisers. This would enable the light American cruisers to attain greater firing range and thus place the smaller cruisers at a disadvantage in warfare. The fact, however, that Hearst’s pen valet, Horan, was able to secure the document from the French state department has tremendous political implications. It is no ordinary case of bribery. It emphasizes the well-known fact that there are very influential politicians in France who are playing the game of American imperialism to the extent of try- ing to discredit and defeat the present Poin- care-Briand government that favors a close alliance with British imperialism and replace it with a government that favors an alliance with the Wall Street imperialists. Hence the world-wide struggle between the United States imperialists and the British imperial- ists has its reflex in bitter internal political struggles in France. They who revealed the secret naval accord memorandum to Hearst’s Paris correspondent wére agents of Ameri- can imperialism in the French foreign of- fice. The expulsion of Horan by no means closes the incident. That it will play-an im- portant role in French political life is indi- cated by the comment of the French press. The Liberte, in particular, urges the French government to find the real culprit and adds: “For some time a rumor has been going the rounds in political circles that this famous document which has caused such deep emotion in diplomatic quarters was communicated by a functionary of the Foreign Office to em- 2 BOO! By Fred Ellis Putting Ohio Ticket on Ballot By I. AMTER It was no mean task to get 19,000 signatures to put the Party on the allot in Ohio. Fourteen thcusand signatures were required, but the District Executive Committee of the Party decided that it would not rely upon the t number, but would procure a surplus. This became necessary, since the secretary of state informed us that it would be judicious to have the surplus. 4 At first. the ignatures came in lowly. It is true some of the com- | rades went on the job without fur- ther ade, but, in the main, the mem- bers had not got into the swing. More energy was necessary—an| alarm call went out, and, by August | natures were sent via American Ex- | who informed him that he had is- | 15, 11,000 signatures were in. Two| the Party to fail to get on the| ballot for a few thousand signa- | District Executive Committee im-'on the ballot. tures, or would the membership dig | in and put it across? The member- ship dug in, and, August 29, 19,- 000 signatures were ready for filing. Cleveland, Youngstown, Toledo, Can- ton; East Liverpool and the coal- fields especially excelled. 19,000 Signatures. The next step—filing. This was} done by the campaign manager, C. N. Shaffer, going to the state cap- tal, Columbus. He received a re- ceipt for the 19,000 signatures, specifying the number of petiticns for the state and national ticket, the number for the three U. S. congres- | sional districts. Everything looked rosy; the membership was pleased -—the job had been completed. What had not been done in 1924 had more than been accomplished in 1928, and we could go into the electora! cam- paign with full vim. The atmosphere was clear, until} September 10, when the secretary of ‘state informed the district of- fice that in all probability the em- blem could not be put on the ticket; a technicality. Negotiations were entered into, and he promised to do | everything possible to favor us, giv. |ing us the same consideration as the | |other minority parties, the S. P. and | \the S. L. P. Upon his request, we sent him |the emblem-——and one more step |forward was taxen—the Party, the Strange Disappearance of 12,000 Signatures; Officials’ Tricks to Bar Party so smoothly. On September 18, twelve days after the final date for filing, word came from the secre- tary of state that the Party had filed only 7,000 signatures lot. pear on the Ballot.” What happened to 12,000 signatures? Very strangely, these 12,000 sig- had press Company to Cleveland for these were lost on the way. mediately became active, went to their lawyers, who got into touch with Columbus, and established that |everybody was looking for the sig. once more strangely, five | were found in Cleveland. Shaffer immediately got into touch. with the secretary of state, sued a statement to the Associated s more to go—a second alarm; | verification, and, very strangely, | Press aud the Columbus papers to | er : The the effect that the Communists were Natures: 24,000 signatures! We looked in vain | ‘uite a compliment to the Party | membership and their efforts in be- | GERMAN REFORMISTS BELIEVE IN PRISON (Red Aid Press Service) judge denied the political convic- for the dispatch in the Cleveland papers, we bought Columbus papers; nothing was to be found. Finally from Columbus stating that the | Party had “not quite enough signa- | tures.” |rot yet on the ballot, it was picking jup. This, however, would not put and | natures in Columbus and Cleveland. | us on the ballot. \therefore would not go on the bal-| And, re| Once more a letter and wires, and Dawes Plan to pay the reparations + The newspapers carried a big | minutes after the lawyer communi- then appeared in the papers an an- headline: “Communists Not to Ap-/|cated with Columbus, the signatures | pouncement that “at the last {moment the Communists filed 17,- (000 signatures” and the Communists would go on’ the ballot. * A Little Trick. half of the Party—but too much of |a compliment! The trick of the sec- \retary of state was so obvious, so transparent. A child could see state was guilty of it. It is true trick on his own initiative. capitalists of the state, who did not BERLIN, (By Mail)—In April of ; tions of the accused, and designated \ant the Communists on the ballot. this year a Stahlhelm celebration and a Red Front Fighters’ recruit- ing demonstration took place on the same day. A member of the Red Fighters was attacked by a band of | fascists and received severe knife wounds in the head. His comrades we got in touch with the editor of | a local paper who discovered that | in the morning there was a dispatch | Although the Party was| Seventeen thousand plus 7,000 sig- | through it, and yet the secretary of that he did not perform this little The sec- retary of state represented the big \them as rowdieg, This unheard of | por 19,000 terror sentence raised loud cries of | : signatures represented 19,000 pctential Communists. The | protest from the public in the court. a ee “Danger” to State. A common method of chicane against political prisoners is to re- \capitalists of this state remember the Red Socialists of the time of | thé leadership of Charles E. Ruth- jenberg. They remember the large |number of socialist mayors—at a sought to avert further bloodshed. | fuse to let them have the literature time when the socialist party of The police arrived, but arrested a number of workers at random, in- jcluding the injured Maiwald, letting the fascists go free. The arrestants were kept in prison for months awaiting trial. Six of them have now been brought up for trial. Members of the Stahlhelm organiza- tion were called as witnesses. These | entangled themselves in endless con- tradictions, but the court thought fit to believe their assertions, and passed unheard of sentences on four of the accused—terms of hard labor and prison ranging from two years to four months. Maiwald was acquitted, but had to pay a fine for carrying a weapon they desire. The governor of the Wolfenbuttel (Brunswick) prison has even found a pretext for refus- ing Bellamy’s “Looking Backward” to the political prisoner Ernst. | Haberland. In reply to a complaint, the governor states that prisoners in the second division are only per- mitted to obtain books for them- selves when these serve the exclusive purpose of vocational education. | * eens | 100 Marks Granted. } The district council of the Schwelm district has granted 100 merks for Councillor Sachs. The sole vote amnestied prisoners, | on the motion of the Communist | name and the emblem would appear |on the ballot. | without permission. |cused only was completely acquitted. But everything was not to move'In pronouncing the One of the ac-| against the motion was that given by the social democratic leader Oct~ tinghaus. : verdict, the barrass the action of the responsible minister and the government of France itself. We have a right to know if these reports are well founded.” } It is no accident that a representative of Hearst was chosen for this work. It is quite | evident that the state department of the United States government, under Kellogg, has a deliberate policy of using the thorough- ly venal, lying, hypocritical and utterly un- scrupulous organs of William Randolph Hearst and his mendacious crew of forgers and bribers to carry out some of its policies, This Paris incident recalls the notorious Mex- ican forgeries of last year, wherein the state department assaults upon the Calles govern- ment and the Soviet Union were reinforced | by the publication in the Hearst papers of a ! series of forged documents purporting to re- | veal conspiracies against the United States. At that time the Daily Worker proved by un- impeachable documentary evidence that some | of the Hearst “exposures” were forged right here in New York City in the office of the New York American. Later on, all documents were proved to have been forged. Such are | some of the weapons in the arsenal of Amer- ican imperialist diplomacy, of Coolidge- Hoover honesty. It is precisely this sort of foreign policy, a policy leading directly to another imperial- ist war, that the voters of this country are asked to endorse by supporting Hoover at the November elections. To support Smith is equally stupid, for Smith and the demo- cratic party are pledged to carry out the same identical imperialist policies, which, to be historically accurate, received their great- est impetus under the, administration of J. P. Morgan’s war-lord president of the United States, the late Woodrow Wilson. As to the Rev. Dr. Norman Thomas and the socialist party, aspiring to become a third capitalist party, he serves the war-mongers not less than Smith and Hoover by fostering pacifist illusions among the masses, so they will be helpless and at the mercy of the as- sassins on the eve of the imperialist war now in preparation. The one party relentlessly fighting against imperialist intrigue, against the government of bribery, forgery and every variety of cor- ruption and murder, is the revolutionary par- ty of the working class, the Workers (Com- munist) Party. To cast your vote against the war-mongers you must vote Communist! |Ohio. was a fighting party. Now |come the Communists. Well, the Communists were safely on the ballot—and a letter on the following Monday confirmed it. Then remained the emblem; would it be printed on the ballot? No, it will not. The secretary of state has discovered .that minority parties | fay place their emblems on the ballot only at the discretion of the jsupervisor of elections; but, if he does not choose to put it on, he can- not be compelled to do so, He does not choose—and, therefore, the em- of the county, state and national can- didates will appear; the Workers tent, but all the more determined to \is under way. ‘Women’s Federation of ‘Detroit Will Hold an Election Rally Oct. 21 | DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 12—At the last meeting of the Detroit Federa- |tion of Working Class Women the | working women of Detroit unani- ‘mously passed a motion to endorse the candidates of the Workers (Com- |munist) Party. | In addition to the Executive Com- mittee, a campaign committee was ‘elected to work out plans how the |Federatign can best raise funds to ihelp the political campaign. The \first effort will be a big political campaign rally Sunday afternoon, (Oct, 21, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, can- didate for attorney general in the state of New York on the Workers jee ticket, will be the main speak- er, A Red Banquet is being prepared |for Benjamin Gitlow, Communist ‘vice presidential candidate, on Sun- day evening, Oct. 28. Details of the | banquet will be announced later. blem will not appear-on the ballot. | a The name of the Party, the names | Told You So ING ZOGU THE FIRST of Al- : bania, and we hope also the Last, is reported to have embraced the Catholic faith as a preliminary to marrying the daughter of some king whose throne is not about to be offered to the pawnbroker. Zogu was a Mohammedan, which was an obstacle in the way of his marriage toa christian princess, The king in true royal fashion put the inter- | ests of his kingdom above that of his spooky deity, so he shed his re- ligious shirt and had a change, which may he as good for the shirt as for | Zogu’s skin, * * «€ | pRior to his change of religious raiment. Zogu celebrated his con- | version to the Catholic belief by slaughtering a number of workers |and peasants who wanted a republic instead of a monarchy. This deed |should get him in good with the Catholic god right at the start. Je- hovah who used to advise the chil- dren of Israel to slaughter all the |men folk and the old women of the j beaten foe, but to save the virgins, was a kindly god compared to the | christian deity, who sanctions the i dropping of bombs on non-combatant » |areas in time of war and blesses | the efforts of his imperialist pro- | jteges to put whole peoples to the | Sword who insist on defending their |countries against the capitalist | brigands. | Hip PE Hees is a chance for some big- |" hearted multi-millionaire to come | to the assistance of a suffering scion of the Hohenzollern family, Ernst | August, former Duke of Brunswick, by name. August is not exactly down but he is out of money. Being a gentleman, he refuses to glut the |labor market with his presence so | he has decided to sell his art treas- jure to America for $10,000,000. The |duke was darned lucky his mother did not drop him in Czarist Russia instead of in the former kaiser’s Germany. His art treasure would now be adorning a Soviet museum jand the duke would be massaging nags in a stable for a living or otherwise trying to make ends meet. STi eee yee social-democrats of Germany |“ were rather nice to the Hohen- | zollerns, Unlike the Russian Bol- sheviks they did not strip the fallen They stripped the | working class. instead. This was |magnanimity indeed. They earned the econiums of the capitalist world who saw in their action a precedent | which might save their own hides |later on. But the German workers |who are now slaving under the | monarchists. | saddled on Germany by the victori- |ous nations, have learned a lesson | and the next time the tocsin of revo- \lution is sounded in Teutonia the | capitalists will not be left ith art | treasures to peddle. They will be jlucky if they get away with their necks. True, | * * * uote J. RASKOB, the general util- ity man of the democratic cam- paign committee has decided to set- tle the Queens scandal. This is a |hurculean task but not beyond the |power of the demon financier of | General Motors. There are five war- jring factions in the democratic or- ganization of Queens. Open sewers are as conducive to factionalism as to typhoid. Raskob’s job is to de- vise some way of dividing the spoils so that each political sewer digger may enjoy his share in peace. If the christian democrats are well ad- vised they will cover up the cata- combs, otherwise the pagan repub- licans may throw them to the lions. ot Sr me | NOW that the supreme court of the \*" United States has rendered a de- \cision sustaining the right of Can- jadians to cross over to the United | States for daily employment there is no reason why United States citi- zens should not have the right to cross over into Canada for their daily enjoyment. It is said . that Canada is very hospitable to our visiting firemen who migrate to) quench a thirst, but U. S. customs officials are not so considerate to the returning “smoke-eaters” who would bring back some of the ex- | \tinguisher for the benefit of smold- ering thirsts on this side of the border. so HE Rev. Dr. George Reed An- | * drews, secretary of the Church and Drama Association, is of the |(Communist) Party goes into the! opinion that if all the clergymen in campaign handicapped to this eX-| the city opened fired simultaneously on a given Sunday against immoral ~|put across a good campaign, which | plays and vile language, offensive drama and profanity would be driven into the speakeasies. This would merely make matters worse. It would exalt the bootlegging industry to a place in society from which not even the most affluent booze mag- nate would care to elevate it. * * * EF my memory serves me right, which it usually doesn’t, there are about half a million words in the English vocabulary, in addition to new, if rather incomprehensible ones that are turned out daily in our com- posing room. What a field for the (’ enterprising wordlegger! Hideaways where words with a profanity con- tent of more than one half of one per cent would be peddled for a quarter a shot, would spring up like histories of Tammany Hall since Al Smith’s nomination and our poor po- licemen, already hard put to main- tain law and order since Gene Tun- fcy took to Shakespeare and the Andy Carnegie library family, would he at their witless end to enforce the profanity provisions of the con- stitution without running the risk ‘of being sued for false arrest. Sot CHcheshy