The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1928, Page 6

pera as THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1928 Wor t D. Wo! Ass’n., Inc., Ex S Union S N Y N Stuy C A ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNI By By M $6 a year Address and mail out 26-28 Union Squa SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Mail (in New York on $4.50 ix mos $2.50 three mos. ail (outside of New York): $3.50 si mos. $2.00 three mos. ecks to The Daily Worker, » York, N.Y. VOTE COMMUNIST! For the Workers! ‘or President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER |Q X| WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! aa Hoover’: to the working cle Boston Speech It was eminently fitting, and a warning | of the whole country, they Hoover's teeth For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! Had there been a delegation of New Bed- ford textile slaves of Butler’s mills present would have arisen *and hurled into the impudent lie that the that Herbert Hoover appeared on the plat- | tariff has in any way benefitted them. It is form at Boston Monday evening with the de- | precisely under the Fordney-McCumber feated and discredited former senator Wil- | tariff, whose greatest beneficiary is the tex- liam Morgan Butler, textile magnate of New | tile industry, that the workers involved have Bedford, and Governor Alvan T. Fuller, | been victims of a continuous campaign of murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti. Morgan, | wage-cutting. And when Hoover tried to textile mill strike-breaker and scab-herder, | convince the impoverished, mortgage-ridden introduced Fuller, the butcher of two inno- | farmers that the tariff has benefitted them cent workingmen who incurred the fury of | in the round-about-way of high wages, he the capitalist class because they endeavored | simply adds insult to injury. to organize the shoe and textile slaves of The tariff is a class measure, benefitting New England; Fuller, as chairman of the | the coupon clippers who own industrial meeting introduced Hoover, the imperialist | stocks. Its function is to secure unlimited arch-murdere food supplies Horthy of Hungary, nical government. In such a setting Hoover talked of the im- portance of controlling foreign trade. the guise of an economic discourse this man, whose chief claim to fame is that he inflicted upon whole popula- children—boasted systematic starvation tions—men, women and of the fact that, as president, deavor to make the ruling class of this coun- try supreme in the markets of the whole That this cannot be realized without a new world war for a redivision of the world was clearly implied when Hoover referred by implication to his role as “food adminis- trator” in the last war by declaring: world. “The great war brought into bold relief the upon foreign One of the major strategies of that the enemy by depriving him of foreign trade and therefore of sup- plies of material and foodstuffs which were utter dependence of nations trade. hour was to crush vital to his existence.” This utterance is not a mere tory, but reveals a part of the war prepara- tions of American imperialism. counts for the fact that just such a person as. Hoover has been chosen as the next chair- who utilized his control of in Europe to enable the monster, to establish his tyran- it no less than issues between platform of the Under themselves by even prevents and American porting goods greater scale. he would en- day. monopoly to the trusts. ducts to other countries. of capital is going on with increasing speed, That Smith favors Hoover indicates the lack of the two old parties. Only the Workers (Communist) Party deals adequately with this question: “The high tariff wall around this country forces the other countries likewise to ‘protect’ tariff walls. This hinders or the export of American pro- But accumulation big business, instead of ex- is exporting capital on an ever The next step is the ‘defense’ of the investments of American bankers in foreign countries. ond to none’ navy are necessary. War threats, war danger*and wars are the order of the The ‘protective,’ ‘defensive’ tariff is in reality the most offensive weapon in the hands A strong army and a ‘sec- of big business.” The demand all goods used The reply to recital of his- murderer, on It also ac- election. man of Wall Street’s executive committee at Washington. A considerable part of Hoover’s Boston ad- dress was devoted to the tariff. talist politicians Hoover resorted to sophistry and plain lies in order to justify the Fordney- He particularly referred to the tariff as it affects the textile industry of New England. Ex-senator W Butler, who sat upon the platform, was one McCumber tariff. of the chief beneficiaries of the thousands of workers who have just been in minions of the textile magnates through a bitter struggle jailed and in other ways ers, can hardly appre: “Néw England has many tries. United States Carolina feels the blighting quickly as Massachusetts. Nor there. in the wages.” lessened demand terrorized the work- ate the observations of the republican presidential candidate that: protected indus- There has been less hardshi and that fact due to the partial protection afforded in the tariff against inundations of foreign goods. -Touch the tariff on textiles and North The farmer finds a diminished market caused by of the Workers (Communist) Party is for complete abolition of the tariff on all necessities of the working class and on by the farmers. the war mongers and the im- pudent speeches of Hoover and his associates Butler, the strike-breaker, and Fuller, the the tariff should be an avalanche of votes for Communism in this Help Grocery Clerks’ Strike Like all capi- ing improved illiam Morgan has heretofore tariff, but the which the clubbed, the union. in the has been unorganized. influence as does it stop conditions are All workers lower Within a short period of time the Retail Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks Union of Greater New York has demonstrated that it is a militant organization capable of obtain- conditions for its members. There is no section of the working class that been more poorly organized, with the result that low wages, long hours and revolting conditions pervade the industry. The union, conducting the strike called Mon- day in New York, has forced better conditions from employers. Manhattan and the Bronx and its recent strike in Brooklyn established the base for The present struggle is for a re- newal of contracts and a five dollar a week raise and for the purpose of organizing the Its strikes of last year in The clerks’ union, however, must prepare for a drive on the big chain stores, where unbearable. in Greater New York should aid the striking clerks by refusing to patron- ize stores fighting against the union. Wall St. Puppet, Enslaves Cuba (Continued.) Two days prior to the announce- ment in “El a long article captioned by a two inch heading ap- peared in the official organ of Machado & Co., “El Excelsior.” This article stated that Moscow had al- ready dictated the death sentence of four presidents. These were to in- elude the dictators of Peru, Venezu- ela, Mexico and Cuba. It even went $0 far as to mention the names of A. Mella, Alejandro Barreio and others as being involved in the con- spiracy. The article went on to state that while Calles was at one time considered a friend of Moscow be- eause of his activities against the Roman catholic church, “his more recent position on the agrarian ques- tion and the possible arrangement of the religious controversy had again placed him on the Communist blacklist and that his death was of-) ficially decreed by the supreme coun- sil of the Soviets. The assassination Pais’ Ambrosia” which occurred in Jan. 1925 was also attributed to Moscow.| The same paper also states that Mariano Rosas Ortega and Jose Roig Villar, natives of Huelva, Spain, were sent by the Moscow govern- ment to murder Caneja, Such reports, together with the prating of Machado about the free- dom of press and speech in Cuba are given wide publicity in foreign countries. Machado Mercenaries. Mr. Thomas Allen, a representa- tive of the United Press, frequently interviews the dictator and sends out glowing stories of the great achieve- ments Machado has accomplished. Vast sums of money are diverted from the Cuban treasury to recom- pense these mercenaries on the! Machado payroll who vainly try to silence all opposition and preyent| the real truth of the murderous! | regime from becoming known to the rest of the world. Since Gerardo Machado came into ees has been increased by more than five thousand. Practically every one of this number is a paid spy dis- tributed among the sugar factories, and political circles from whence they send forth false reports result- ing in arrests, imprisonment, mys- terious disappearances and foul murders without any regard to the guilt of the victim, El Pais is authority for the state- _ Bank] ment that more than two thousand) ‘lictator to the end that foreign in-| CAUGHT! By Fred Ellis Negroes Turn to Workers Part ‘0. F of the republican party, that po- litical instrument of predatory wealth is faced with a serious re- | volt of Negro workers. For decades |the republican party has kept the Negro in line with fine promises |they had not the slightest intention jof putting into effect and by the lie that Abraham Lincoln, and not | economic conditions, had forced the | abolition of chattel slavery. In ad- dition, whenever the Negro voters got restive, the republican machine | would rush its Negro ‘“janisseries,” |quoting the statement of Fred- erick Douglas, the Negro abolition- \ist that “the republican party is | the ship, all else the sea.” This year the republican promises are as numerous as in past elec- tions. As usual, the republican presi- dential candidates say as little as possible but their lieutenants are just as voluble as lieutenants of other republican presidential candidates. In fact they are the same lieuten- ants. Year in, year out they are the same. Bourbons never learn, nor do traitors cease betraying. And these Negro janisseries and the Ne- gro republican newspaper editors who depend for existence not upon mass support but upon state print- ing and other political graft are busy working Frederick Douglass’ statement overtime. But the Negro | revolt goes on just the same. Goes on and intensifies. And intelligent Negroes are confounding the quoters of Frederick Douglass with the inex- orable logic that Frederick Doug- lass was too great a revolutionary to have condoned the long record of republican treachery against the Negro or the present lily-whitism of the party. Douglass would have | been the last one, they say, to have advocated servile attachment to a renounced them as having commit- ted irreparable harm and branding | their reports as utterly false and un-| paign. And he has been inviting the! worthy of belief. Cuba needs a few more such of- ficials to free the island of scound- rels of the type of Fors, Trujillo, Machado and his allies for only then | will the island be safe for decent|ment on political questions, of the|0f all laws which support the segre-| civilized people to live in. But in spite of periodical expo-|the present revolt is justified. He| laws; aboliition of all laws disfran- | sures of the tyranny and horror per- |meating the whole civil life of the Cuban people, night raids continue, kidnappings take place, husbands and fathers are torn from their homes, only to mysteriously vanish | from all human ken. The whole |Cuban population knows the situ- R the first time in the history! the emancipation of the Negroes | during the coming election cam- Revolt Against Capitalist Parties; New Bunk From Old Traitors | | States.” paign, will stand out as one of the historical events in the development of the class struggle in the United That bold outspoken platform of the Workers (Communist) Party is party that had lost every vestige of) publican chiefs, if the dissatisfied| the work of white and Negro com- its early revolutionary character as | Negro would vote the democratic) rades. Twenty-four Negro members the party of the rising industrialists | ticket. The late President Harding.|of the Party sat, in its National against the slave power. The indus- |as much as told the Negro to divide} Nominating Convention. Sat as trialists succeeded in making a uni-| his vote in that infamous Birming-| equals. And at the state conven- | versal substitution of wage slavery ham address that was the precursor! tions Negroes were again present for chattel slavery and their revolu- tionary role was over. New Bunk From Old Traitors, So general is the revolt and so barren of arguments in the face of the notorious facts of republican treachery, are those who would still, for self and position, lead the Negro masses into the camp of their enemy. that one of the most adroit of these misleaders, Kelly Miller, dean at Howard University, Washington, D. C., could discover only one issue in ,the present campaign. Every other issue was too hot for this ancient procurer of the republican party. Had he touched the lynching issue he would have been answered with the republican record of apathy and even open treachery on this issue. with republican opposition to the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, with the discreet silence of republican exe- cutives on the lynching evil. Had he touched segregation, *jim-crowism or any other of the many burning | questions upon the minds of the Ne- gro workers, he would have experi- {enced the same result. He would have had his hands burnt. The re publican record was there to refut and confuse him. So while other misleaders, less adroit than Miller, | talked nonsense about voting for the individual instead of the party which lnominates and controls him, Kelly | Miller created a “transcendent moral lissue.” He discovered prohibition as |THE ONE BIG ISSUE in the cam- | Negro masses to share in his grand discovery through columns of bunk |in the Negro press, | Admits Revolt Justified. | Forced by the growing enlighten- |Negro workers, Miller admits that |admits it “ignores the Fourteenth {and Fifteenth Amendments, flirts with the ‘lily white’ and crucifies the Negro participants.” He fur- ther admits that the republican party | is unwilling to treat the Negro just- ly, that it is unwilling to apply “the |one practical remedy for this rest- jlessness and dissatisfaction.” He |of the present republican lily-whit- lism. A vote for the democrats| would still be a vote for the capi-| talists and Wall Street could main. tain its equanimity. Even a vote for | Wall Street much now that the so-| |cialist party has discarded its revo-| lutionary role and is playing the! | treacherous game of class-collabora- | tion. But a vote for the Workers! |(Communist) Party else again. Because the Workers} |(Communist) Party is in earnest.| and THE CAPITALISTS KNOW telligent Negro workers are turn-| aS, | | Negroes Turn to Workers Party. | And the Negro workers are begin- |ning to realize it, too. Beginning to realize that the Workers (Com-| munist) Party is the party of the) oppressed against the oppressors; the party of the worker against the| exploiting slave-driving employer) whose policy it is to keep the work-| ers divided the better to exploit) them; the party of the enslaved) colonials against the imperialists of | |England, France, Japan and the United States, the party of the dis- | franchised, lynched and brutally op-| | pressed Negro against the lynchers,| |against the segregationists, against \disfranchisement, against jim-crow-) ism and against all who would de-| grade him and deny his manhood. | It has not escaped the Negro} worker that while the platforms of the other parties have said little of him, and that little ambiguous and uncertain, the Workers (Communist) Party in its platfom has come out openly and boldly for the rights of the Negor masses, by demanding the abolition of race discrimination, 'gation of Negroes, of all Jim Crow, |chising the Negroes, abolition of laws forbidding intermarriage; abo- lition of all Jim Crow distinctions in the army and navy. It demands full racial equality for the Negro. economic, political and social; full and equal admittance of Negroes to, all railway station waiting room: hotels, restaurants and _ theatres in large numbers as delegates, and were nominated on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket out of ll proportion to the present Negro gro workers were nominated: Rich- ard B. Moore for congress from the 21st congressional district; Lovett Fort-Whiteman for state comptroller and Edward Welsh for state assem- is something | blyman from the 21st assembly dis-| trict. Is it any wonder, then, that in- ing to the Workers (Communist) Party when that Party alone holds out any promise for their full eman- cipation, and when it is only by voting Communist that they can make a really effective protest vote against the treachery and enmity of the other parties? Down with race prejudice! Down with Jim Crowism and segregation! Down with lynch laws! Down with the oppression of the capitalist-im- perialists! Vote Communist! Louis F. Weiss, Sr., Active Communist, Dies in Worcester (Special to the Daily Worker) WORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 17.— The militant labor movement has lost one of its staunch supporters through the death of Louis F. Weiss, Sr., of this city. On Tuesday morn- ing, October 9th, Comrade Weiss got up, had breakfast and went to work, Entering the gate of the mill, he dropped dead. Death was due to a heart attack. He worked at the mill for forty-four years. His radical labor career runs back about forty years. He was first a member of the socialist labor party, then joined the socialist party and stayed with it till the split in 1919. He took a very active part in the left wing movement of the socialist party and joined the Communist |Party at its inception. That Comrade Weiss was beloved jation but is helpless through the then discovers the big moral issue equal opportunity for employment,| by all that knew him was shown by s binders ride on, their crimes |and refuses to listen to the sights|to stock up their cellars with every and tales of mortal terror inflicted) brand of booze manufactured. daily by the National City Bank} Revolt Grows and Grows. But neither Kelly Miller’s “trans- agents have been employed by the) Vestors should reap huge returns out | cendent moral issue” of whether interior department and that they of the illicit profits sweated from the | have done their work well is proven| Cuban workers. by the increasing size of the sharks| that lay out in the harbor awaiting | must be destroyed.” the victims slipped into the bay | cried to an empty audience but per- through the secret passage in La) sistence eventually won adherents | Cabana fortress and from the side|to his cause and Carthage did go} of the Maximo Gomez. However, the perfidy of these confidential spies has been discovered by Gen- eral Delgado who evidently holds no brief for the dictator of the island|crime of Cuba is a blight upon the {ts platform of full race equality: tionism. The entry of the Workers since he discharged two thousand en |down into the dust of oblivion. So must we, who know of the conditions jin Cuba, raise a new slogan and | pursue it to the end for the scarlet twentieth century—Machado must be ‘ x Felipe Fernandez Diaz y) I : Sasese superintendent of the “La ¢ffice the number of public employ-| masse, took up their credentials and destroyed. ig % itis NiPc SERRE 2! ALAR MRL NAR MEE ( booze should be continued to be sold in speakeasies, as under prohibition, Cato long cried out, “Carthage|0P Sold over the counter, nor the’ liam Z. Foster, Communist candi-/ At first he | puerile advice of the rest of the mis- Headers to “vote for men and not | for partie: is doing much to stem |the revolt of the Negro masses. | And further worrying the republican chiefs is the fact that the Negro workers in bolting the G. O. P. are showing a tendency to line up with the Workers (Communist) Party on political, economic, social. _It | It also demands _the platform of the Workers (Com-| ‘munist) Party leaves no a doubt) of the stand of that party upon the’ |Negro question. It is unequivocal. | It is bold, It is just. No Pussyfooting Here. |. And in his acceptance speech, Wi! date for president, spoke out just as clearly, just as boldly. He did |not talk as if he had forgotten the ‘existence of 12,000,000 Negroes in) ‘his acceptance speech. Said Foster: “We will defend our platform. In the land of lynch law we will de-) nounce lynching. In the home of, Jim Crow, we will attack segrega- (Communist) Party into the South wouldn’t be so bad, think the re-\and the bold raising of the issue of'lons, valued te ifling of every avenue of disclo-| of capitalist prohibition. Capitalist, Wages, hours and working conditions| the floral tribute. A truck carried sure, through fear of persecution prohibition which in order to speed for Negro and white workers; equal plantations, industrial establishments | and even. murder, and so the high-| up production and decrease the needs Pay for equal work for Negro ani un- of the workers, thus preparing the white workers. checked because the United States| way for further onslaughts on their federal law against lynching and the government at the behest of a hand-| wages, denies the workers their beer Protection of the Negro masses in. ful of financial pirates closes its eyes| at the same time it permits the rich their right of self-defense. In fact.) lowers to the grave. Comrade Weiss died at the age of sixty-six. He left his wife, five daughters and a son. The comrades of this city mourn his death and extend their hearty sympathy to his family. Profit in Cuba Sugar HAVANA, Oct. 17 (UP).—Raw ugar exports for the first six months of the current year of 4,456,- 186,604 pounds were valued at $111,- 824,365, according to figures made public today by the treasury de- partment. Of refined sugar 238,- 891,996 pounds, valued at $8,161,- 960, were exported during the same period, Exports of sugar cane molasses for manufacture into industrial al- cohol for the first six months of this | year amounted to 121,101,754 gal- at $4,305,687. Struggle In ‘i embership of the Party. In New! the socialist party would not bother/ York state alone, three militant Ne-| U.S., Britain Latin America |THE United States is invading a field in Latin America hitherto controlled almost exclusively by British interests. For a long time the United States has been success- fully competing against Great Britain in the exploitation of na- tural resources of Latin America and has replaced Britain as the dome jinant factor in trade. But the domain of public utility services, telephones, telegraphs, street cars and the railroads remained for de- jeades almost exclusively under the jcontrol of British interests. | Immense Profits. | But here also the last few years |have witnessed a notable change. | American interests are penetrating jall these fields. Most of the South | American railways are still British, | such as the transcontinental road jfrom Buenos Aires to Valparaiso and the famous Sao Paulo railroad | which transports the world’s coffee | and yields such profits that it is | known as “the road with the golden | rails.” The telephone companies in | the principal cities of Argentina and | Brazil also are still held by British companies, but the American Inter- | national Telephone and Telegraph Company, which controls almost all telephone lines in Cuba, Porto Rico, | Mexico and Montevideo, Uruguay, is |trying to acquire all the British- |owned systems in Argentina and Brazil. This company already has |plants and systems in Argentina, | Australia, England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Austria and jcontrols companies with factories in | Tokio and Peking. Recently the In- ternational Telephone and _ Tele- | graph Company offered $35,000,000 |for the telephone system of Buenos Aires, the British-owned United | River Plate Telephone Co. which is | capitalized at £5,000,000. It offered 14 to £15 a share for the 912.900 | shares outstanding of £5 each. The | negotiations are still pending. In Brazil, the American has,sought to buy out the British-owned Brazilian | Traction Light and Power Co. but he has not succeeded so far. How- lever, in a recent litigation of the Western Telegraph Company (a jsubsidiary of the British-owned Eastern Telegraph and Cable Com- pany operating in Brazil)—against |the “Brazilian” radio companies jabout rates and operating rights the government decided in favor of the “Brazilian” companies. But these so-called “Brazilian” com- panies happen to be controlled by |the International Telegraph and Telephone Company. This Ameri- ean concern .also operates the All- American Cables to South America, and the Commercial Cable, with a | total of 61,000 nautical miles of cables. The British-owned Western Telegraph owns 140,000 miles of cable. British Worried. The British financial press has sounded the alarm about this menace to British capital and trade in Latin America. Thus the British South American Journal of June 16, 1928, writes that they view “with concern the growing tendency of United States capital to push south and by lending money to governments .and |others to capture trade hitherto largely in the hands of British manufacturers. Over and above this direct method there has also de- | veloped a less obvious but more in- |sidious penctration into the British | trader’s sphere by openly or secretly {acquiring controlling interests in | British companies with the avowed | object of diverting trade into Ameri- ‘can channels.” The magazine points out that | American interests often offer such | alluring prices to the shareholders |that they cannot resist parting with | their shares; as a result any com- | panies are nominally sif\l British | but the majority of their %\ares are |in American hands. The uvval con- | is that the supplies for public utility |companies — telephones, tramway dered from American manufacturers and the trade is lost to Great Britain. Thus the American inves- tor may overpay for acquiring the public utility plants and systems, but he is amply repaid by acquiring a market for public utility supplies. About 30 per cent of all British goods exported to Argentina repre- sent supplies of British-owned trac- tion and public utility companies. U. 8. Air Control. Air communications with and | within Latin America are largely in |the hands of the United States, which is pushing this development quite energetically. Thus an air- mail service betweert Mexico and New York was inaugurated on Oc- tober first. And the first direct air | mail planes between Mexico City and Laredo, the American border @ have delivered their mail. At Lare- do American mail planes take over the mail brought from Mexico in Mexican planes and distribute it in |the United States. This reduces the |time of correspondence between the two countries from 5 to 6 days to a | maximum of two days. A daily air- jmail service between Havana and Florida has been in operation for some time and recently plans have been perfected for an air-; ser- vice between the United States and Peru, with stops in Panama, Colom- bia and Ecuador. Since there are excellent connections by airplane be- tween the United States and Cana- da, it is now possible to send letters directly by air from Mexico City, for instance, to Montreal. All these companies are American-owned or controlled. (To Be Continued.) sequence of this change of tentrol » service, etc. are from then on, or- ~ | i Aso =