The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1928, Page 6

Page Sia ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNI Y. $8 a year cs By M 2 $6 a year $ i Address and ma dssistan 26-28 Uni SUBSCRIPTION RATE! $4.50 six mos. ail (in New York only): $2.50 three mos. ail (outside of New York): 3.50 six mos. $2.00 three m il out checks to The Daily Worker, ion Square, New York, N. Y. VOTE COMMUNIST! | j QQ) Rnd For the Party of th For the Workers! For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For Vice- > 4 WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY <S Smith’s Appeal Carefully evading discussion of the funda- mental issues facing the worker: ers of the country the candidates of the old parties and their supporters enter upon the last three weeks of the presidential campaign ication of their appeals to ignorance, prejudice, superstition and fear. with an intens: spokesmen still talk stent prosperity for ele Smith still iffiliations. to Prejudice continues eaterwauling about “prejudice” and “‘intol- erance” against him because of his religious If his record as a tool of Tam- B. Du Bois in and farm- | ernor, refused any of the ca learnedly of a the working his amusing _ the candidate selves. many is attacked Smith replies that his re- ligion is being e tions the wide di Meanwhile his campaign managers under ip of the open-shop industrial and financial magnate, Rascob of General the leaders Motors, a Morgan concern, way to mobilize the adherents of the roman catholic superstition into a solid bloc for Smith talks of protestant prejudice in an effort to accomplish a two-fold result: to catholic prejudice. To endeavor to win support from other ele- plea that he is a victim of Smith. (1)—To appeal ments on the prejudice. Particularly ridiculous is concern of po talism, including the anyone politically alive today of all denominations have not been wallowing ks in the filthy sewers of capi- Priests and preachers are all bellowing admonitions to their followers to And anyone who that the catholic up to their nec talist politics. participate in the election. imagines for a second clergy has not received orders boost Tammany Al must be But, of course, the Pope hims: to the highest bidder, and W bid higher than any others. But Smith’s only part of his campaign. the Negroes, just as does his ponent, Herbert Hoover. Smith’s personal ces for which they are fit. iled. When someone men- erence between his pre- campaign declarations on prohibition and the official stand of the democratic party he de- nounces “whispering campaigns.” iticians of all camps of capi- socialist partyites, about the church mixing in politics. has never been a time within the memory of appeal to catholic prejudice is He also appeals to the southern bourbon prejudice against prejudice against hatred for the Negroes is well known. carefully evades appointing Negroes to offi- Mr. Walter World, in a ra Smith for pres ve in every (2)— gan’s Wilson: BENJAMIN GITLOW e Class Struggle! President ae Against the Capitalists! A case in point was dealt with by W. E. the “Nation” of October 17th, who exposed the fact that Smith, as gov- to appoint a Negro at the head of the 15th regiment of the National Guard, composed of Negro privates. The exploited workers and farmers will seek in vain for one act in all the careers of pitalist party candidates that was not in the interest of the ruling class. Only by voting Communist, by supporting under the Hammer and Sickle, can the workers and farmers vote for them- An Imperialist Liberal Lippmann, formerly secretary to George R. Lunn, when that renegade was socialist mayor of Schenectady, and now leading editorial writer for the New York dio speech declares he favors ident because he approyes the foreign policies of the democratic party, as enunciated and put into effect by the late Woodrow Wilson. Mr. Lippmann, like all liberals who are time-servers of imperialism, speaks in glow- ing terms of the predatory policy of Mor- “From those who believe, as did Woodrow Wilson, in the idealistic program of interna- tional cooperation for this country, the for- eign policy of the professed elected . There investments of that churches gan’s billions.” from Rome to stupid indeed. elf is for sale all Street can As far as p concerned the the United States would be in infinitely safer hands if Governor Smith were Wilson, in order to defend the European the House of Morgan and the Wall Street bankers, hurled this country into the imperialist ‘war. concocted the infamous lie: “Make the world safe for democracy,” in order to conceal his real motive to “make the world safe for Mor- Himself a liberal, he He sent armed mercenaries into Haiti to destroy by blood and terror the duly constituted government of that country and put in its place a puppet government that would serve Wall Street. redatory imperialist policy is actions of the Coolidge-Kel- logg-Hoover government in ravaging Nicara- The principa’ republican op- gua were identical with the policy of the high idealist in Haiti. 1 service the liberals render the imperialist butchers is to cloak their depra- dations in superlative terms. However, the victims of Morgan’s war and the people of and He | United States ciate the beneficient the Latin American countries laid waste by marines are unable to appre- intentions of such | “idealistic programs.” Wall Street Enslaves Cuban Worker By JOHN SMITH The people of Cuba have vlways been exploited by one or another group of masters, but their plight has never been so pitiful nor their suffering so intense as at the pres- ent time. The institution of the nt resolution foster 1 by the Mc- Kinley administration actually has inies o placed the de people under the Cuban ping, greedy hands of Wall Street agents in Washington. In vain has been the attempt to hide the real purpose of the United States government in wringing con- trol of Cuba from the Spa crown. The separation from t mother country was of far more in- terest to certain Ameri n int ts than to the pgople of Cuba. The suffering under Spanish rule was torturous, but it was spectacular and the whole world knew of xt. The suffering under the hand of Ma- hado and his predecessors is subtle and scarcely a thing is known about t by the world at large. Machado Rides. Practically every avenue of pub- i is closed through the influ- of Wall Stree The Cuban is stifled. Cuban speech Cuban liberty is com- Machado liter press silenced. pletely crushed. rides upon the backs of the m and only another Uncle Tom’s Cabin ould adequately portray the misery is ssi under his brutal misrule. do Machado is the modern ttila of Cuba and he is personally ponsible for the night raids and dnavings by armed fascisti bands, fectory workers, s for one dol sti puntless fog tweiv hou ar a cay are ths laad owners of | ’ vesterday. The sugar factory mas- te ‘e Yankee despots who mer- cilessly exploit the workers with fear and actual whippings. This, together with the unfit rice ard cof- fee diet is driving the Cuban work- ers into tuberculosis, insane asylums and early ignonomous graves. The conditions in Cuba during the past three years beggar description ard they are daily growing worse. Some day something will crack and a blir rdition will be let loose sweep all before it, visit- ngeance upon innocent and niike, In the meantime Ma- chado tramples under foot all the »ble principles enunciated by Marti d fans all the consuming fire of destruction with sordid, selfish am- bition. Specifie instances read like tales from the inquisition. Machado has equipped himself with the basest types of men to commit his wanton Santiago Trujillo, chief of s in Habana, is the origina- tor of the night raids and kidnap- ngs. Alfonso L. Fors, chief of the dicial police, works hand in hand with Trujillo. Fake Red Plots. Together these two assassin chiefs have manufactured a red conspiracy purporting to have originated in Moscow in spite of its having been conceived and born in the city of Habana. “El Pas” in its issue of July 12th sets forth the promise of a new persecution about to be in- urated throughout the whole is- nd. The campaign will be directed y Fors and Trujillo with local po- lice and plain clothes men attually hat wi ar mistic labor fakir,~ professing still & By Fred Ellis A Workers Defense Corps By PAUL CROUCH. The disappearance of Gitlow and the fascist terror against the Work- ers (Communist) Party the increasing use of violence by the reactionary forces in America, and show the necessity of the organiza- tion of workers’ defense corps in the United States a protection ainst capitalist thugs who are trying to crush the labor movement ly force and intimidation. Fascist methods are making their appearance more and more in Amer- ica. The American Legion, the Ku Klux Klan, Minute Men and similar organizations are breaking up meet- igs and demonstrations of the rkers. The Minute Men, organ- d according to a plan prepared by ice-President Dawes, announced that they “would meet Foster when he comes to Cincinnati.” The cap- italist government gives indirect aid and looks on the creation of such groups with pleasure, and the reply must be defense corps of the work- to defend strikes, meetings, etc., the growing fascism in as ii and the! | workers in Arizona are examples of The American Legion has re- vealed itself as the budding fascisti of the United States, ready to re- sort to any method in order to pre- vent the workers from organizing against capitalism. In Arizona, where Gitlow has disappeared and iabor meetings broken up. the last convention of the American Legion gave its endorsement to violence against tke Communists, and the re- actionary press has openly glorified the mob actions of the capitalists und called for action to prevent the Workers (Communist) Party from participating in the election cam- paign. In West Virginia, the Workers (Communist) Party has been for- bidden to hold campaign meetings, and Scott Nearing and others ar- rested. In Pittsburgh, armed thugs broke up meetings of the National Convention called to organize a new miners’ union. In New York, the American Legion and the “Veterans of Foreign Wars” have been active in trying to break up campaign ineetings of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party. These are-only a few ef the many examples of fascist methods of violence against the workers in the United States. The working class must be pre-! {pared to defend itself against the | | organized thugs of capitalism. We | of the German masses and prepare to defend themselves against the must follow the example of the Ger-|thugs of the American Legion, the | ‘Amalgamated — Misleaders in New Betrayal | | By DOMENICK FLAIANI fe | PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).—f ¢ | The treacherous leaders of tl | Amalgamated Clothing Workers ar. | here to disrupt what little is left of the organization of clothing work- | ers in this city, an organization built — | through the struggles and sacrifices | of the workers. | At the last meeting of Local 139, held here Oct. 3, the present mis- leaders of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers were unmasked before the eyes of the membership of the union. ‘The local membership meet- ing overwheimingly supported the left wing group in the local in their fight against the corrupted high- paid officials of the A. C. W. Treachery of Officials. I will give here a few high lights of the latest developments. The so- called “organization campaign” con- | ducted here by the officialdom of the A, C. W., under the dictatorshin of Blumberg, has been a complet! failure, due to the betrayals anj | | treachery by the misleaders of th’ | A. C. W., Hillman, Blumberg, Wein- stein, Morriconi and the rest of the During the period of the “organ- ization campaign” the officialdom prevented the meeting of the union locals, joint board, board of direc- tors, ete. Knowing that a strong op- position to the machine was grow- ing among the members of the union, the above method was used | to prevent the members of the union | from exposing their fake campaign. | Mr. Licastro, an “organizer” of |the A. C. W., who came here at the beginning of the campaign, has gone away for an “operation.” Blumberg was forced to send away \this semi-fascist Licastro, for he {knew the members would no longer stand for him. Licastro, among other things, proposed to have: thy | reactionary fascist Judge Alessar | Groni to preside at a mass meetin | of the union. 2 | | corrupted machine. | Hillman then shipped the reaction- man workers, who have checked the | Ku Klux Klan, Minute Men and sim- | ary, yellow socialist, Sala, here as growth of fascism by the organiza-|ilar organizations. Such a defense jan organizer, with a mandate to tion of the Red Front Fighters. The |corps would play an important role | break up any pert of the organiza- presence of this uniformed, militant |in strikes, when the most brutal | tion where the left wing have con- Gefense corps of the workers is a| methods are often used against the | trol, constant protection against the vio- lence and terror that would other- | wise exist in Germany. | The Red Front Fighters of Ger- many is a united front semi-military and uniformed defense corps. Hun- dreds of thousands of members of this organization offer a guarantee against efforts of the fascisti to murder leaders of the workers, break |up meetings and crush strikes by | force. The Red Front Fighters is supported by all left wing labor or- | ganizations and by the Communist |Party of Germany, though its mem- bership is by no means restricted to | the Communists. Many workers have thought that there is no need for such ‘an organ- ization in the United States. This shows that they have not understood the role of American imperialism, and that more and more violent methods will be used against the | workers when the labor movement becomes a real challenge to capital- | workers. For protection against the “legal” persecution of American workers the International Labor Defense was crganized. But defense funds and such protection as can be given by attorneys mean nothing to the Ku Klux Klan and the American Legion. Against this “unofficial” terror, we must be prepared to answer force with force. It is significant that the first re- action of the workers of Denver to the disappearance of Gitlow was the orgarization of a “Red Front Squad- ren.” This is the only effective an- swer to the growing wave of fas- cism in America and is a significant event in the history of the working class of America. The terror against Gitlow, the Worke (Communist) Party and the workers of Arizona bring to the attention of the masses the imme ate importance of building a work- | ing class defense corps in this coun- ism unless they follow the example‘ try. Recent Conversation j one time it was a habit as I call it, (Continued.) Debate with Anatole France. Among other things I remember a debate with the old Anatole France. His tremendous artistic intuition had disengaged the tremendous con- tours of the Russian revolution. But he did not have enough force to give | form to his astonished admiration. He was too paralyzed by old habits and by the prison of the superficial liberal catechism which he had re- in the subterfuge that Cuban work-| peated for a half century, in order ers have any rights to organize, will) to retain his sensibility and his clear | v their can pay dearly for Machado’s position stupidity. only be secured through the maintenance of| this stage. His robustness, his more | ion and to look ahead. Gorki, however, had broken thru to separate the powers: those who realized and those who appreciated. Gorki admitted that they were or- ganically bound. But he did not admit the aggressive character | which sometimes the estimation of theoretical and practical work take on in the Soviet Union, nor the vio- lence of the personal attacks which result from erecting oneself as a judge. Already, in his asylum of Sorrento, he was surprised by the echoes of these sharp disputes. Since then his opinion had not changed, and while recognizing that it was _always necessary to combat certain dangerous tendencies, as bureau- fascist bands who in order to hold ample artistic spirit, more imperi-|°T@¢Y and the tendencies inherited their jobs are forced to create sensa-‘ ous, keener, had saved him, As to| {Tm the old world, he added: tional situations. A little while ago Trujillo announced the “discovery” of a plot to cverthrow the govern- ment and assassinate Machado, sup- vorting the ridiculous disclosure by the statement that Domingo Germ- inal, an anarchist, had announced thru Moscow his plan to put Mach- ado out of the way. (To Be Continued.) “The Man in Uniform,” By Paul Crouch, to Be Published in “Daily” The promises of the recruiting of- ficers are exposed in “The Man in Uniform,” a book by Paul Crouch, telling the story of actual life in the army, which will soon be pub- lished serially in the Daily Worker. | In addition to description of life in the American capitalist army, and conditions in the workers’ Red army, the book deals with the purposes of capitalist. militarism, and the de- mands for servicemen by the Young Workers (Communist) League. the rest, he had always been very close to the revolution. Now he saw in the life of Russia above all the spirit of Lenin. “Tf the Russian masses have ,ac- complished their need of remaking themselves, and persisted at it, it is because they have followed the spirit lof Lenin. Lenin lives again in the collective. Those who have known him personally recognize it.” Role of Personality. other and to fight. Our Mistakes. “Tt is not necessary that we be intimidated by our mistakes and our faults. This persistent self- examination is a part of work, but it is not a reason to cry against. each The virulence of language freezes you and leads you backwards.” Above all, he is inclined to think that the Russian people under-esti- mate themselves—in any case, that Maxim Gorki insists on the role they do not take account of the full of personality in the new order of things: Communism, far from sub- merging it, exalts it: “Enemies of Communism pretend that socialism will make automatons face to face with this realization, | out of people, somber ‘individuals.’ No, here everybody is excitedly alive methods and its rythme, forms an. What strikes me is | unfavorable impression. that in the Soviet state the people | receive an intense individuality. We | which will ore present at the growth of per-| monthly review called “Our Realiza- sonality. At other times, oppressed tions.” and shining. amplitude of the socialist realiza- tion, that the sharp interior dis- cussions adds in reality to a certain disintegration, and that a stranger, its |wlo is savagely ignorant of Maxim Gorki has a great plan, shortly take life: a This periodical will be and exploited, people cringed; now purely documentary and will have opinion of Gorki on that “autocracy’ jof w much in Russia. Gorki made some reservations on 1] is kere’ the habit that the militant and) The tasks of forming a workers’ | a: octing Soviets have of criticising |create an organ which will reflect defense corps, and the attitude of | their own work, ‘These reservations like a mirror all the manifestations the working class to militarism, are | did not pertain to the content but|of our work: indispensible, because | just beginning will be accompanied | they all speak in very loud voices.”|as its purpose to clear up ignorant It was interesting to know the and hostile public opinion, but also, jand above all, to give to all the Rus- ch one actually speaks so sian workers a consciousness of © * themselves: } Gorki’s Plan. “It seems indispensible to me to With Maxim Gorki with sufficient clearness all that we have done in the U. S. S. R., and in this Moscow where every man walks today in an altogether different way than he did ten years ago.” We touched on another subject: the new art, proletarian literature. That is an important question which | has to do with art and social life in |an altogether new way. I explained | to Gorki that one of the aims of |“Monde” (Barbusse’s magazine) is | | to disengage this new form of ex- |pression of the new man, to which jhe replied: “Even tho it makes a small start it is working at a great thing.” The art which eminates from earth itself and from the very | multitudes, on the soil of the fields, an on the streets of the city, re- newed by its enormous health, by the impetus and by the force of its own movement, the crtistie life of hu- manity. In the midst of this grand life that is beginning to breathe, | before this mass-rooted seed that is beginning to germinate, what will become of our refined, decadent and | inconsistent literature, the form of | expression of our rich society? Only remnants. the education, the intellectual enrich- ment, the documentation of the new soldiers of the ideas. For this battle, as for all others, it is necessary. to be well armed. He asked me what I thought of the abundant biograph- ieal and retrospective literature which flourishes now in France. I gave him my point of view: “The abundance of these works in our country is a sign of poverty. Bourgeois literature is a literature of decline. It has nothing to say |because it is’ ot directed by any ideas nor by any ideals. It can only repeat in a fashion more or less per- fected what has already been said, it can only search for new faucets to let loose its sentimental egoism which it has so often exhausted and explored, and to renew the plots which it has already used so many times. It cannot turn towards the future which holds forth no promise for it; it turns towards the past and fishes into the retrospective. It marks time and moves in a circle.” Workers’ Writers. “That is true,” said Gorki, “but these works are useful from the When I, at the point of view of documents, and it is head ef the population of Moscow,| necessary to keep in touch with at the station received Bela Kun, es- | them. -eaped from the Hungarian grasp, I saluted him in the name of the In- ternational Bureau of Proletarian | Writers, because during the time |that he was in power, he gave a large place to the new proletarian art, and he made war against the | bad bourgeois literature, which ~as in vogue then as it is today, and | which represented all the luxury and vices of the decadence. It is this | struggle between all that expresses the old order of things and that which expresses the new vision of humanity that we are now engaged Approves of Program. | Gorki* highly approved this pro- gram, in which he will collaborate yak joy. But it is highly necessary tha this vast campaign which is doing the dirty work, Many an opti-' discussed in “The Man in Uniform.”' to the form of this criticism, At!it seems to me that we do not see|by a determined effort to uncover loing th . seus But, without doubt, the new people ought to create its writers, and it will create them.” He perceived in the days to come |a literature of combat. “Literature ought to be more revolutionary than ever. It ought to search for the essential traits of the new man and to initiate an artistic critique of actuality. Our petty bour- geois scribblers, the most detestable of types (I get angry when I think of them), ought to be scrapped without pity. They are criminal and dangerous, they penetrate into all the little keles, these new bourgeois mendicants. They are now more organized than before, more de- testable, than at the time of my youth.” h (To Be, G8utinued.) | The mandate that Sala was given |by the bureaucratic reactionary | Hillman, who dared openly to state |at a mass meeting of the clothing | workers here that “To strike against |the boss for better conditions is an | uncivilized method,” is to be put into “effect.” | At the last Local 139 meeting De Martinis, who permitted himself to believe a little in the honesty of the | Present officialdom of the A. C. W., | stated to the members that at a | meeting of the organizer’s staff that all that was taken up was “How to |keep out of the local administration | the Communists and those who a: against the machine; how to exp) from ihe organization Domenic? Flaiani, now secretary of the local; kow to kick out Noe Maggetti, now president of the executive board; how to expel Iacono, an active mem- | ber of our local, and others.” | Members Aroused. When the members of the local {learned of these plans made by the ; machine all at once began to call |the organizers present at the local jmeeting “traitors, job-holders, fas- \cists,” and other appropriate names fer these misleaders of our organiza- tion. The members openly stated at ithe meeting that they would never permit these reactionaries to expel Flaiani, Maggetti or any other mem- bers of our organization. Motions were made that the whole adminis- tration of the organization, begin- ning from the manager, organizers end business agents, be removed from their post, and other motions were presented to condemn the treacherous policy of the official- jdom, Sala, the yellow socialist, in cider to prevent the passing of thes: motions, which would have be | passed with a unanimous vote at tl | meeting, started a riot and broke u® | the meeting. Left Wing Must Lead. | Clothing workers of Philadelphia: | if we are to better our conditions, \if we are to be able to bring bread ‘and butter to our children, if we are |to organize the Philadelphia cloth- ing workers, we must organize ours |selves under the leadership of the Trade Union Educational League, under the leadership of the left 'wing group in the locals, and wage |a struggle against the present reac- ‘tionary agents of the bosses, Blum- |berg, Weinstein, Morriconi, London und the rest of the corrupted ma- ‘chine, | Organize shop committees in your shop, whether it is a union place or a non-union shop, and get in con- nection with the Trade Union Edu- cational League. A real campaign to organize the Philadelphia pal ers can only be successful Wo these misleaders are gone and . the rank and file, take control of our union and use it as a weapon of the workers against the bosses. Philadelphia clothing workers or-. ganize and fight against the cloth- ing manufacturers and against the corrupted leaders of the Amalga- mated. a , Needle worker! Has your shop con= tributed to the election fw Workers (Communist) Party? lect funds! Get a collection list the headquarters of the Need ‘Trades mpaizn Committee, 28 Union Square, Room 202,