The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 1928, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW Y ORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1928 | Worker of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by National Daily W ’n., Inc., D: Ex S Union Squar ew York, N. Y Stuy 1696: Cable Ad ROBERT MINOR . Editor WM. F. DUNNI Assistant E SUBSCRIPTION RAT York only): $2.50 three mos. ¢ of New York) $2.00 three mo: B: mail out Yr 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. For President For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER BE) 4 | WORKERS Wm. Z. Foster For the Workers! VOTE COMMUNIST! For the Party of th —B For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW (COMMUNIST) PARTY Ben Gitlow e Class Struggle! Hoover Crowns Himself World- Emperor Herbert Hoover’s speech Monday night at Madison Square Garden, New York, was cam- paign bunk of the most dishonest sort. But it would be a mistake to pass it off as noth- ing more than that. For it is evident that Hoover and his managers look upon that speech as a sort of pri m of empire for a whole decade. Hoover, direct heir of the Cool- idge dynasty with the assurance of an emperor already secure in his throne— for is not Wall Street already betting odds on his election as against Wall Street’s alterna- tive candidgte, Al Smith, and is not even the little “socialist” preacher Norman Thomas spending half his time shouting that Hoover is already as good as elected? At any rate Hoover speaks with the air of a monarch; and the meaning of his speech is the pro- clamation of an empire. This is not precisely politics. During the past or eight years the American bourgeoisie has been convinc- ing itself that the building of a world-empire permanently holdi the entire world in bondage is its mission. Writers in financial papers long ago began to write of the United States as the “modern Roman Empire” and to speak openly of ibute” to be paid in endless golden streams from “all nations of the earth” to the cosmic sovereign—the capi- talist class of the United States There is something of this dilirium in Hoever’s speech. He has gathered all of the wild dreams of Wall Street “idealists” into | his engineer’s notebook. has built with it an imperialist Utopia and has crowned himself king of this Utopia, emperor of the world. * * * spea in American new But even the Wall Street “Roman Empire” fanciers cannot but know that theré is such a thing as a working class, such a thing as the depressions and crises in industry which are generated by the very same “prosperity” itself, such a thing as unemployment, such a thing as wars for redivision of the world be- tween rival imperialists and—such a thing as Revolution. But those who spin the web of fancy of permanent capitalism tell them- selves they have an answer to this, too. And in the recent years of the “New Roman Em- pire” theory there has been an accompany- ing flood of “discoveries” by bourgeois pro- fessors and economists to prove that “America has solved the class struggle,” that “the workers are all becoming capitalists,” that there “will be no proletariat in the United States pretty soon.” Hoover makes himself the political voice of all this medley of halucination. And none other than Herbert Hoover him- self has come forth as the man whose “en- gineer’s head” has solved the problem of econ- omic crisis. First the Federal Reserve Bank had brought the elements of crisis under control; and then, when this proved not to be true, Hoover becomes the New Messiah whose wizard hand alone could guard the “delicate web” of capitalist social organization for the safe sucking of the blood of the world. But there is a working class, and there is sharp, unendurable poverty growing side by side with the most colossal accumulation of and concentration of wealth ever known in all history. This dark cloud must also be “dispelled so that the fat American bourgeois can peacefully sleep to dream of his “Roman Empire.” Hoover, again, is the one who volunteers to dispel the cloud. ,Hoover announces his messianic mission —‘“to abolish poverty.” * * * Never before has so much pure “cheek” been combined as in this creed of the fat engineer messiah of capitalism. Hoover will “abolish poverty” under the capitalist system which presupposes and cannot exist without poverty on the part of millions who must be driven by that poverty to submit to exploita- tion. Of course the republican candidate reaches the point of insane gibberish at this point. But this servant of finance-capital is no fool and is not insane; there is method in his madness. He is teaching the doctrine of imperialism to the unconscious American proletariat and petty-bourgeoisie. *It is not an accident that he quotes the slavish formu- las of Samuel Gompers. Hoover is fat, but no fool. Hoover has beer, in the territory of the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics—a ‘fact which he tries now to use by making a false and hypo- | critical slur at the economic conditions of the Soviet Union, counting on the misinformed masses’ ignorance of the phenomenal accom- plishments of socialist industry there. Hoover participated—and successfully—in the bloody overthrow of the workers’ government of Soviet Hungary; he knows that the forces of proletarian revolution are real. Through Hoover's speech glimmers the understanding of one elemental thing—that there exist two poles of social forces in the world: the capi- talist imperialism of the United States con- stitutes one pole, and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics constitutes the opposite pole. For V.-President , Against the Capitalists! . THE THREE-HEADED PARTY OF CAPIT Hoover shows that he regards the coming | administration (to head which he assumes he will be elected) as one in which the presi- dency of the United States will be the office of leadership of a world struggle between in- ternational capitalism, organized, coerced and led by the gigantic Wall Street autocracy, and the working class and “inferior” nationalities of the entire world. His talk of “abolishing poverty,” his machaevelian lies about the supposed possibilities of “happiness” and per- manent “prosperity” to the American work- ing class—are merely efforts to bribe the aristocracy of labor as a permanent ac- complice of the bloody world imperialism he hopes to lead. He dreams of easy mobilization for war against the rival empire, Britain, and the seizure of the right to re-enslave its colonial slaves; he schemes for “labor-imperialist” allies for war for the conquest of Asia. * * * Hoover has been in China, too. He un- derstands the colossal natural resources of that immense country, and the super-profits that can be had by enslaving 400,000,000 people at wages ranging from 10 cents for a fourteen-hour day of the labor of an eight- year-old child, to 40 or 50 cents for the six- teen-hour day of an adult. Hoover knows that the heroic Chinese workers and peasants are the natural allies of the proletariat in the world-struggle that is coming; he hopes ‘vith a few crumbs of super-profits of colonial ex- ploitation to buy the support of the venal “Jabor leaders” with direct personal reward and the upper strata of labor aristocracy with the radio-and-automobile standard of living. Why does Hoover attack his fellow Wall Street candidate as putting forward a program of “state socialism.” Of course this is only the small-change of demagogy. The three points at issue under the head of “state socialism” are: Agriculture, in which Smith’s program is precisely the same as that of Hoover and specifically endorsed by Hoover's running-mate, Curtis; Hydro-electric power, in which Smith’s program even in words differs from Hoover’s not in any essential point and not to the displeasure of the finance-capitalists kings, and in which again Curtis, the republican candidate, has en- dorsed Smith’s proposal; and prohibition, in which Smith’s proposal of the right of in- dividual states to handle the question subject to certain limitations is no more “state so- cialistic” than prohibition itself. None of the hideous projects of capitalist state control of a section of industry for the better enslave- ment and defeat of the working class, of course, has anything to do with socialism. But Hoover’s voice when he expresses the consciousness of the American bourgeoisie, replete as it is with lies, boasts and inanities, is nevertheless to be taken as a serious ex- pression, Is the blood-thirsty project of American world-empire an idle fancy? Is the ghastly plan of world-war a halucination? Absolutely no! The nightmare capitalist Utopia of blood and iron and world-slavery is not a halucination at all—except insofar as the revo\utionary forces of the working class, the exploited farmers and the ex- ploited and suppressed colonial peoples make it so by fighting against this capitalist night- mare with all the strength of their hundreds of millions. Only to the extent that the workers rally to their own cause as a still more active force than the bourgeoisie itself, more steadfast and aggressive in the struggle—can the world-slavery of which Hoover prattles (or the complete destruction of the civilization itself) be defeated. Hoover throws his program into the elec- tion campaign. We throw our program into the election campaign as the only alternative, Vote Communist, ALISM y Fred Ellis Smith Connected withthe Power Trust By EVE DORF. | (Continued.) Tammany’s partnership with trac- tion was evident in its attitude in the recent subway wrecks with their toll of life and serious injuries. The Wreck; Kenny. Tammany and Traction; Guilt in the Subway , Al’s “Friend” | responsibility for these wrecks lies directly with the companies. The failure of the company to give de- Murphy's rule was comparatively mild. He did not openly affront the moral sense of the citizens. But cent working conditions to motor- men and other employes who do such nerve wracking work, the failure of the company to provide adequate service and to install necessary and adequate safety devices, the com- pany’s policy of deliberately allow- ing service to constantly deteriorate in order to force a fare increase— these are the primary factors which are responsible for the terrible| Times Square wreck and the several | other wrecks which followed imme-| diately after it. Nothing has been) done by Tammany to remedy the transit situation or to penalize the officials of the I. R. T. who are! basically responsible. As a matter of fact, Mayor Walker even con-| doned the accident by stating that! were it not for the splendid subway construction, more lives would have been lost. nothing of this should make us for- get that he was the exemplar and beneficiary of a’ system which, with- out cfficial responsibility, degrades our official life, and which condemns New York City to suffer from mal- administration and lowers moral standards in public office.” Democratic leaders of the govern- or’s own party have labeled the or- ganization of whick he is Chief Sachem as a menace to the nation. Former United States Senator Rob- ert L. Owen of Oklahoma, democrat, in‘a letter published on August 20, 1928, calls public attention to the unanimity of informed newspapers in declaring emphatically that Tam- many has not reformed and that graft and corruption today are as|endangered the lives of the school | bad or worse than ever. (From re- publican state committee leaflet on| “Smith vs. Smith.”) Street Cleaning Graft. The pay-roll padding scandal in the -street cleaning department is zlso a matter of public record. Many officials were placed on trial for grand larceny and forgery. The milk scandal disclosed a general con- dition of corruption in the milk in- |spection department. Graft in the | milk scandal was estimated by Com- | missioner Harris at $34,000,000 an- |nually. Graft in the gas-cut-cff de- |vices in case of fire scandal | amounted to $28,000,000. An inves- \tigation of the.activity of city mar- |shals disclosed a striking abuse of |power and brutality. The faultv |construction of school buildings cost |the city many millions of dollars and I esata tten he tans COMMUNISTS CONDEMN for the wreck on an employe. Noth- ing has been done to compel the companies to pay adequate compen-| sation to the families of the victims| or to place the officials of the com-| pany on trial; or to increase the safety equipment and better the service of the subways. | Williant F. Kenny, the traction) millionaire, gave $70,000 to the Smith campaign. Gerald Dahl, of the B.-M. T., is a Smith supporter. T. F. Ryan’s traction interests are well known. All these facts point inevitably to the conclusion that} Smith and the democratie party are} working and will work in the in-| terests of the traction companies, | and not in the interest of the masses | of workers. Tammany Corruption. children. In Rockaway, private com- panies were using and selling city water illegally, ete. Governor Smith does not even care to mention this'record of Tam- many rule in his speaking for “hon- est government” as a democratic platform. A Wel! Paid Lot. Democratic leaders are holding | Youth’s Tasks ” In the National Miners’ Union / rons sun By DAVE MATES. In the recent struggle of the miners, which lasted over 17 months, |the young miners played a most | |prominent part. Not only did the | | | young miners show their militancy! &) |by heading “picket lines, ete., but were in the front ranks in the fight |against the reactionary Lewis | machine, which eventually betrayed the interests of the miners by ac- |cepting the proposals of the coal | | operators for a wage cut, as the first | |step towards the complete destruc- tion of trade unionism in the coal mining industry. Though at the outbreak of the strike there was practically no League organization in the mining regions, the Young Workers (Com- munist) League set before it as its main task the mobilization of the young miners for the struggle, and building up the Léague, by active | participation in the strike. As a re- |sult of the League’s activity the | young miners became the most mili- |tant section of the battling coal | diggers. | Tasks of League. { Through the energetic effort and |/f | work of the Young Workers (Com- |?)¥ {munist) League, a young miners’ |conference was held in Pittsburgh on March 18 which mapped out plans for drawing the young miners into a more intense fight against the coal operators, who were trying to smash the United Mine Workers of America, and lower the standard of living of the miners and their families, and against the agents of the coal operators within their own ranks, the Lewis administration. In this the League met with great suc- |cess for in the period that followed, |with the progressive movement con- stantly growing, the young miners were not only the staunchest sup- porters of the Save-the-Union move- ment, but. also supplied to a large lextent a fighting leadership for this | movement. | At the National Conference held |the delegates were young miners, |coming from all parts of the coun- try, and elected because of their fighting spirit. In all the District Conferences that followed upon the close of the April 1 Conference, the youth continued to play its active role as a fighting section for a pro- in Pittsburgh on April 1, many “| | jobs and drawing | gressive union under rank and file city and county salaries for doing | control. political work ,for their party.) Young Workers Aid Unien. (James Foley, $22,500 as surrogate;| After the betrayal of Lewis, re- Donahue, treasurer of Tammany | sulting in the complete destruction all, $12,000 as Commissioner of | of the union, the young miners were Supply; James Egan, Public | not slow in realizing the necessity of Administrator, $10,000; D. Ryan, pbuilding a new miners’ union, which | Transportation Commissioner, $15,-|would really fight for the interests 900; John Voorhis, Grand Sachem | of the coal diggers, and organize the \of Tammany; Thomas Crain,, Gurry, |large masses of unorganized miners Fin, Holly, all have jobs and are|and also give: the young miners an |drawing city or county salaries. |opportunity of voicing their de- |The ward workers’ “personal ser-}mands and needs. The Young vice” bill paid by the city amounts| Workers (Communist) League |to $242,252,059, according to the | pointed out that there were no hopes |budget for this year. This is “hon-|for building up the wrecked U. M. est rule”? by Tammany! Tammany |W. A., and that the only hope for |Hall and the republican party of|the miners, young and old, was the Teapot Dome fame both serve the | building of a new miners’ union, un- capitalist class of this country |der the direct control of, and fight- which in its wild quest for more and jing for, the rank and file of the more profits uses all means for the|miners. The National Convention ‘attainment of its ends—force, prop-| held in Pittsburgh on Sept. 9 showed agande, corruption, ete. |very clearly that the young miners | Smith as “Liberal.” | were against in the fight. Of the 120 | Siatthts:liberslierstaa gnyth Hte| arrestee or we ey es city and county tion, a large number were young STATE AMENDMENTS The following is a statement of the Workers (Communist) Party of District 5 on the proposed pootbg ments of the constitution of hives sylvania: | A number of amendments to the | constitution of the state ennsyl-| vania have been submititd for a} vote on November 6. These amend- ments are not aimed at the improve- ment of the conditions of the work- ers. The workers in this state will} continue to be suppressed and ex- | ploited whether or not the state | getically preparing. Likewise the measure against | “insurrections” is an open challenge | te the workers. The bosses know that the time is bound to come when the workers of this state will find) themselves in such a miserable con- | Gition that they will be compelled | to rise against their exploiters and | oppressors. They are’ therefore pre- paring for this occasion. The gov- | crnmental agents of big business are in addition in a position to declare | any strike an insurrection and will) | vate interests reap the profits. government is authorized to secure | ¥S¢ their power to crush the resist- | { |ance of the workers. Even now they rinpney for various appropriations, |is a Tammany machine man, leader jof the New Tammany, party of the big bourgeoisie, tied up with the largest and most powerful corpora- tions in the United States. Smith stands for more power to the finan- cial interests through stronger, more autocratic, more militarist govern- ment, far removed from the pres- sure of the masses and more effi- cient in eppressing labor. Smith stands for fake ownership of cer- | tain public utilities whereby the state spends the money and the pri- He stands for the reduction of taxes on miners, mainly from Pennsylvania and Ohio. Those who were fortunate enough to be at the Convention showed that they were determined, despite all difficulties, to build this new miner’s union. Many Join League. The League in Western Pennsyl- yania has won many of the best mili- tant young miners into its ranks. |The youth in the coal mining indus- try needed no further proof that the Y. W. C. L. was the only youth or- ganization that helped them in their long period of struggle. In many ~~ mining camps League units were es- i big business; for the vicious system |cf compulsory arbitration against | tablished and the League made The “honest government” slogan} is adopted or not. the workers, for militarism, for fake | concessions to the labor bureaucarcy jgreat progress in the organization of the young miners into the Y. W. of the democratic party is a joke. The corruption of Tammany is so} well known as to be undisputed. The | new Tammany’s record of corrup-) tion is different from the black rec-| jord of the old Tammany only in that it is on a bigger “scale, less| crude dealing with large scale real estate and business interests, specu-| lation. on the stock market, shady deals with big business of real mag- nitude. The New York Times, be- fore it pledged itself to support [pe ivhether the Metropolitan Plan |@re using injunctions, jails and i sie |clubs against the strikers whenever | they see fit. The workers in New York and ei : Chicago, for example, are not en- New War Plans. joying any better conditions than| The bosses want more power, the workers of Pittsburgh or the | more state cossacks to club, trample smaller towns at present. The work-|and shoot down the workers any ers have nothing to say in govern- | time they find it necessary. Proposal ynent affairs in this or in any other | No. 9 is at the same time also part state in this country and have no |of the general mobilization of the way of controlling the various ap- | ruling class for new bloody wars, propriations and expenditures. which the workers must oppose by Some of the amendments are di-j|all means at their disposal. Any rectly anti-labor, strike-breaking, workers voting for those amend- ments votes for’ another bloody war \and the iron heel against the work- | ©. L. lers in their struggles. Smith is an \agent of the finance capitalists who control the democratic party. The New Tammany is an instrument of Wall Street, Both Parties for Capitalism. The republican and democratic parties are the parties of the cap- litalist class. Big business fears neither party. Owen D. Young, in |the New York Times, says that both activity in the present election cam: paign. At all election meetings the League was represented with its own speakers. The League speakers also addressed the young workers at. factory gates meetings, as in the case of Westinghouse plants, Jones jand Laughlin Steel Works, etc. The lunits arranged wide distribution of |eaflets and other election matter printed by the Party. This activity The Y. W. C. L. has shown sea fortunes of this great city. militerist proposals, such as pro- Smith, correctly estimated the rec-| posed amendment No. 4 to issue ord of Tammany in New York. In|honds to the amount of five million its issue of April 26, 1924, it says|dollars for the purpose of erecting editorially, “Tammany Hall has a|atmories and equipping the state long record. It professes to cher-| national guard; the proposed amend- ish the people, but at heart it al-/mént No. 9 to authorize a loan of | ways intends to exploit and debauch|0ne million dollars “to suppress in- them, Richard Croker with his surrections, to defend the state |brazen cynicism said that as leader ®sainst war,” etc. ete. Also pro- ‘of Tammany Hall he was working | P0sed amendment No. |for his own pocket*all the time. Melia nerenss the Appointive power of success: less indi \the governor. karate were less indiscreet, not) Party, FightasAnti-Labar Laws, lefiant, but the motive of| the organization has not changed.|. It has greatly refined its methods. |‘ absolnvely. opposed. to all these There ave no longer crude Tweed | (#ngerous anti-labor* amendments tealings. But by auiblek ibaa. and calls upon the workers of Penn- nsusily within the forny of ye: law,| TVR Rre aun anes Ane Pipes dap i le ‘QW, their enactment into law. The state Sle lie pie iat one national guard is an instrument of York State, it is ps ah acl the bosses to break strikes and to ge much a disgrace drive the workers into submission as it was fifty years ago that it!at the point of the bayonet when- | \is so often ruled by this secret and ever they dare to fight for their, |Self-appointed oligarchy which does jnterests. The national guard broke not publish its accounts, does not|the steel strike in 1919, the coal dare to submit its chief members strike in 1922, it broke the strike directly to the test of the popular|of the Westinghouse workers. At | vote and yet presumes to direct the the same time, the national guard | public administration and’ political is kept up for the purposes of war, Mr. «| for which the imperialists are ener- 1-A aiming to | The Workers (Communist) Party | |and for approval of the strike- breaking role of the government. | The workers must organize and fight against wage cuts, for shorter | | work hours, for better sanitary con- | ditions. adequate compensation in | case of injury, for their rights of assembly, against injunctions, for ccmplete emancipation from capital- ist exploitation. Support Workers Candidates. The workers must oppose any at- tempt to give more power to the co2l operators, steel magnates, | bankers and theif government agencies, We call upon the workers of this state to vote for the candi- dates and platform of the Workers (Communist) Party, as the only party that fights ageinst the ex- ploiters and for the workers. | We also call upon the workers to vt the Labor Party candidates \ have severed their connections with tbe old boss parties and who stand for the principle of the class | struggle. WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY District 5, A. Jakira, District Organizer. | candidates, Hoover and Smith, are fine American specimens; that whether republicans or democrats win we will have prosperity, tariff, ete.; that America is safe with both parties, but he prefers the more “liberal” individual, Smith. Ameri- can capitalism is safe with both par- ties; and the working class will suf- fer from both parties. What the Workers Must Do. The workers have nothing to hope for from either capitalist party. The workers must support the only party in the United States that rep- resents the interests of the work- ers and fights in their daily strug- gles; that is fighting to abolish the system which’ breeds poverty, un- employnient and war for the work- ing class and to establish a work- crs’ society. Vote Communist. Join the Party of the class struggle—the Workers (Communist) Party of America, © Needle worker! Has your shop the Workers (Communist) Collect fundst Get a col at the headquarters of Trades Campaign Committee, Yintem Square. doom 20: Party? ction list e Needle 28 shows that the new League mem- bership understands the necessity of participating in the every day strug- gles of the workers, and has utilized the election campaign ‘to mobilize the young workers for_struggle. Pioneer Groups. During this period the Pioneers |were also built up and at present \there are over a dozen Pioneer ‘groups in the mining camps of Western Pennsylvania. The miners ~ children were for the first time drawn into the struggle against the! coal operators and in support of their fathers by the leadership given, to them by the Young Pioneers of America. The Pioneers also managed to send their young comrades to schools and thus provide for a better” district leadership for the Commu- nist childrens’ movement in the dis- trict. The main task of the League ir the present period is to get the |young miners into the ranks of the _ National Miners’ Union, help in the _contriluted to the election fund of creation of a youth section of the umn and prepare the mining youth \for the coming struggles which face all the coal miners of this count” 5