The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1928, Page 4

araee Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1928 Months of Strike Have Taught Coal Diggers That Capitalist Parties Are Their Foes MINERS TO VOTE COMMUNIST, SAY DIST. 5 LEADERS Learned “by. Strikin That Bosses Rule THOMAS MYERSCOUGH Distriet 5, National Min- ers Union. Eighteen months of strike, eeccom- panied by the bitterest kind of per- secution, has been sufficient to arouse the indignant feelings of thousands of miners in the United States, and these feelings will be registered on Tuesday, Nov. 6 Men who have termed themselves as “independents” politically are going to the polls that day to VOTE COMMUNIST, not because they are Communists or even know thet they are potentially so, but for the reason that they are tired of following the time-worn, policy of the A. F. of L.| Old Veteran Speaks Up. | This departure from the Gompers’ jdea of “Support your friends and defeat your enemies,” was expressed quite forcefully by an old veteran of the mines during a confab in one of the mining camps recently. The men were gathered at one of the usual “hangouts” and the coming election was being discussed. One man declared himself in fa- vor of that “Son of the PEEPUL Tammany Al,” but he seemed to be alone; another said that Norman| ‘Thomas had been a preacher end | was now the standard-bearer of the socialist party and he believed the workers would get “heavenly guid- ance” from him, but all were con- yineed that Hoover of the Teapot Dome party could not “pour any oil on their troubled waters” and that was that. Hear what the old vet- eran had to say: “You folks can do as you damn please, but I am voting for Foster and that garment worker from New York.” I hastened to inform him that the vice-presidential candidate for the Workers (Communist) Party was Ben Gitlow, but he followed with: “It don’t matter what their names are, because them guys has @ program and a policy. I have read it and, believe me, it don’t beat around the bush. Them guys know as well as we do what we have to put up with and we should have had men like them long ago.” Hands Out Literature. _ He then pulled out of his pocket enough Communist literature to last the whole gang for some time, and an_apparent eagerness was displayed by most of them to grab it up. The old-timer went from one to the other to show them tidbits of logic ccntained in the different pamphlets and leaflets they were reading. Someone jokingly remarked that the A. F. of L. would not consider the Workers Party candidates as “friends” when they were endorsing candidates, but to this the following reply was made by our aged fighter: -“Well they tell you to support your friends and defeat your ene- mies, so go ahead and do that thing, but is Hoover your friend? is the king of the sewer grafters, Al Smith, your friend? is the socialist party what it used to be with its business men membership that begs for con- sideration from the bosses instead of fighting them? Who are your friends, then? Who’s Your Friend? “When you have read _ those things, meaning the Communist lit- erature, you will be convinced that the men who are running on that party’s ticket are the ones who are your real friends. They are work- ers themselves and have the guts to tell the bosses where to get off at, and why shouldn’t we as work- ers support them? They are our veal friends and that part of Gom- pers’ plan I agree with, but I am the one to decide who my friends are and I don’t care how much my enemies or any of the labor skates call me ‘Red’ and ‘Bolshevik.’ “I am voting Communist because Tam voting for the things I want and even though | may die before I get them I would rather vote for what I want and never get it than to vote for something I do not want and which I now get every day whether I vote for it or not.” Dad was getting in his licks and seemed to like it, but it must be said here that his audience also liked it. They have known Dad for years ind know that he has always been good honest fighter, and after this | ig strike, during which all had| rienced the oppressive tactics of | alist police and cour there $ no sane argument they could ice had they desired to do so. Miners Learn by Fighting. i@ miners have hundreds of rea- |} for feeling as they do, and for eal 3S By Secretary, Progress in the Amal; zamated IN “THE NEW MOON”. AL SMITH IS STILL AGENT OF | BOSSES OF U. S, Boston Speech Proves) Him Loyal to Masters | BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 25.—Prov- | ing himself a loyal servant of the bosses by defending himself against the reproach of socialism which Herbert Hoover attempted to pin on the democratic party in his recent) New York speech, Alfred E, Smith, Tammany candidate for the presi- dential spoils and standard bearer of the party whose name is almost a by-word for corruption in Amer- ican politics, denounced his adver-| saries yesterday in a speech which ex- | posed the sufferings of the workers | | Gus Shy, comedy role in “The New Moon,” the Sigmund Romberg operetta at the Imperial Theatre. who plays the chief A. W. Calhoun to Vote 'Workers Party Ticket: under “prosperity”—in the interest|Raps “Socialist” Party of Al Smith and the democratic | campaign. | The National Election Campaign Committee of the Workers (Commu- ing the republican stand on | © delarscaic eat |nist) Party has received the follow- water power control and the farm- “Thyrse Days”’ Scheduled for PIONEERS IN RED RTHUR HOPKINS sent out an ‘announcement that he will present} “These Days” a play by Katharine Clugston, as his second play of the season, The production opens at the Cort Theatre on Monday evening, November 12. In the cast are Mild- red McCoy, Helen Freeman, May Buckley, George McQuarrie and Wil- liam Johnstone. Settings are by Robert Edmond Jones. The out of town opening takes place at Hart- | ford that evening. Furriers Joint Board Endorses Meet The Red campaign rally and mass | meeting of working class children |to be held Sunday afternoon at Webster Manor, 11th St. and Fourth Ave., was endorsed last night by the Joint Board Furriers’ Union. The endorsement, issued over the signature of Ben Gold, militant “The Houseboat on the Styx” is the name of Ned Jakob’s first mu- sical comedy this season. The book is by Kenneth Webb and Jack Haz- |zard based on the John Kendrick | Bangs Stories “The Houseboat on ape d tiers recta all ‘Re leader of the left wing fur workers, stressed the importance of organ- nee taney: eg oar isla working class children along fi jclass lines to counteract the capi- | Play the ledding comedy Hols |talist class pronaganda of the pub- lie schools boy and girl scout movements. ‘The endorsement, in part, reads as follows: Upton Sinclair, author of. “Sing- ing Jailbirds,” the first production of the New Playwrights Theatre November at Cort Theatre RALLY SUNDAY |GERMAN LABOR | PLEDGES AlD T0 TOM MOONEY Stutteart Nature Club Sends Letter | SEES (Red Aid Press Service) | BERLIN, (By Mail).—The Young | Nature Friends’ group in Stuttvart hes sent the following letter to Tom | Mooney: “To Tom Mooney, State Prison, ~ Qnertin, California, U. S. A, “Dear Friend: | “We are holding a memorial cere- monv in memory of Saceo and , and remember at the |time the other victims of the struggle in the United States. We think especially for vour ease has much similarity to that of | Saeco and Vanzetti. Your ease, rnd |those of Warren Billings. Sacco and |Vanzetti, the Haymerket martvrs. |Frank Little, Joe Hill, and meny Van- same class of vou, ers, Smith adverted to the New Bed-| ford textile struggle. ling ‘letter of support from Arthur |W. Calhoun, labor economist. Cal- houn who is giving a course at the| this season, has just arrived in New York from his home in Long Beach, others unknown to us. show us the “We hearti ; ; eartily endorse the mass frame up svstem carried on in vour |meeting and rally to be held by the Abraham Beckerman, York Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, who is notorious for his strong-arm methods in crushing any protest of the rank and the chair-swinging manager of the New “Mr. Hoover offered the textile workers of New England the con- solation that they earned on an| average 40 cents an hour,” the can-| didate whose police were used to} beat up the heads of needle trades) , workers in New York, told the New} munist candidates as the only ones jwho are militantly fichting for the linterests of the working class. His letter follows: “Dear Comrades: “For that rea- Workers School, is backing the (om-| jcountry have two problems of ma- | cussing the problems that seriously 4 hundreds of reasons thousands them will vote Communist. They | Seen their men murdered, shot | ambush by the cowardly assas- | hired by the master class and | labor fekers, they have seen | ir men sent to prison for defend- | themselves aga'nst attacks, | while murderers of our people are free. ‘Only recently, at Washington, Perinsylvania, Louie Carboni, an } it of Lewis and the bosses, who red George Moran, a progres- miner, was set free as a de- of -flag and country and as a hero, while from the courthouse a few weeks earlier Matty and four others were: file, has capped his career of shameless betrayal by foisting peace- work on the workers. The above drawing is by William Gropper. England workers, RALLY STEEL WORKERS TO COMMUNIST DRIVE By W. J. WHITE. The advanced workers in any} jor importance confronting them. First to organize the workers into| industrial unions. Second to organ- ize a political party which will re- flect the interests of the workers on} the political field, as the industrial | union reflects their interests upon | the industrial field. Judging the steel workers, using these two standards to judge by, the major tasks in iron and steel are yet to be carried out, for as yet there is neither a militant indus- trial union in the steel mills of the country nor is there much of a sign| that there is an awakening of the| steel workers of the country to| their needs in the political arena. Not in Politics. The history of iron and steel will show that almost without excep- tion the men who engaged in the making of iron and later of steel came from England, Wales and Scotland and that in those_coun- tries the workers had relied almost exclusively on their strength in the shops and mills to gain their ends| with the bosses. Conservative al-| most to fanaticism, they had no use for a political party to supplement | and back up their struggles on the| industrial field. | The history of labor in this coun- | try will show that they went to the | ¥ polls an@yinvariably voted the ticket | of one of the parties of the bosses, who placed their nominees up for the suffrage of the people. Not al- ways, of course, for there came into existence the Greenbackers, the Populists, and numerous offsprings of a like character, but nothing that smacked of a party which voiced or stood for the interests of the work- ing class as a whole. Labor “Non-Partisan.” | The master class of England had early learned the lesson of splitting the workers up into skilled and un- skilled and had divided them on the industrial field in this fashion for their own benefit, and that by the use of their surplus profits drawn from their colonies, had created in England the forerunner of our aris tocracy of labor, but also had or- ganized their voting system so that the poor were excluded from any political action whatsoever. This system was transplanted into this country and the political action of the workers was like their Eng- lish brothers, almost non-existant, | but up until now they have been content to vote almost without ex-| ception the ticket of their masters, | and to be content with the belief| that what was to the interest of| their masters was also to their in- terest. The American worker like given long terms in the workhouse for defending their own lives and limbs against the attack of sca’ Why They Vote Red. The miners will vote Communist because they have seen the forces of reaction break up their peaceful | |meetings to prevent them from dis- affect them. from the pi bosses were They have been driven et lines because the afraid that their scabs would be won over to the union, and always they see the same police, the same courts, the same judges and prosecutors playing the role of persecutors and issuing injunctions and attacking Communism. But the miners all know the story of the “forbidden fruit,” hence they are determined to taste of it and thus they will VOTE COMMUNIST. Miners and workers everywhere, vote Communist! Vote for the Party of the Class Struggle! Hoover, Smith and Thomas are for Wall Street. Foster and Gitlow are for the Workers! You should be for Foster and Gitlow! Vote Com- unist! |serve no interest of his cwn by en- \ence in wages has much of its ef- |and-out demand that the workers of his brother worker in England was chained to the political chariot of the boss by the illusion that he could gaging in political struggle, thru | building a party devoted to the in-| terests of his class. The common laborer was chained | to the kite-tail of‘ the bosses thru swallowing the lie that the skilled | workers as a special class were en- | | titled to a much larger wage than} he of the pick and shovel. They, did | not see, nor have they until now awakened to the fact, that differ- ficacy in the careful manipulation of the highly paid worker against the poorly paid worker by the boss in his own interests. Bosses Helped By Union Officials. In all of this mis-education of the} workers the bosses have been ably helped by the labor aristocracy. It started in England thru the employ- ment of surplus profits wrung from the colonies of the tight little island | which were flung to the labor of- ficialdom, and we see it continued here in America. No finer example can be shown in the history of the labor move- ment of the world than the exam- ple of the fat boys of the Ameri-. can Federation of Labor with their opiumizing of the working class of this country with the slogan “re- ward your friends and punish your enemies.” This instead of an out- the country enter the political arena with a political party demand- ing and insisting that the workers be represented. McDonald, Clines and Thomas in England can be well matched in this country by the Green, Woll and Lewis group in this open and flagrant betrayal of the workers to the bosses, Organize Unions, Build .a Political Party, Already we see this task being carried out on the industrial field. Already the challenge of the Greens, Wolls and Lewises has been an- swered and the gauge of battle thrown down by them and the em- ployers to our party has been taken up and we see in the newly organ- ized National Miners’ Union a be- ginning and a quite lusty one in the | coal fields of the country. In the textile mills we see a virile, | militant union springing up to chal- lenge the rule of the masters and the corruption of the misleaders of the textile workers. Strike after strike has been carried out under | the direction of our party, not only| on these.two fields, but in the shoe industry and in the clothing trades we see them being rallied and led \by our party against the bosses and the corrupt leadership. Already we see our party turning its face to the unorganized, in the mills, mines and factories, and our press is filled with the discussion of the problems which confront us| in this task. In this task of organ- izing the unorganized we see con- fronting us an almost virgin field | in iron and steel. It is safe to say that at least 85 per cent of all the steel made in this country is made in open shops where no union exists. Great Field Awaits Us, On the political field our party is also beginning to make great head- way. Already we see the party on the ballot in nearly every promi- nent industrial state in the country. Tn this we are showing our face to the workers of the country and let- ting the industrial masters of the country know that from now on they may reckon with the fact that the Communists will not remain silent but that they will challenge capi- talist rule at every step, Our Party has been mobilized for this drive to put our ticket in the field. The task yet remains for us son, they were much better off than world, “For a little over a 53 hour tile worker $21.36 a week, this small amount is not agreed to by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, which only recently | issued a statement declaring that a survey of the cotton textile indus- |try showed that for a little over a 55-hour week the worker received $17.30. “T should like to have a picture of a $17.30 a week textile worker riding out to dinner in his own au- tomobile with his silk stocking on.” Smith also attacked his political | opponents on the oil scandal. \Calhoun Course on the American Family at Workers School Arthur W. Calhoun, author of the History of the American Family, The Worker Looks At the | Government, and Workers Approach | to Physcology, who has given special courses in the Workers School in the past years on special phases of history and the American Working | Class, will give a four session course this year on Mondays from 8:3C to 9:50 p. m. in “History of the Ameri- can Family.” This course will make a study of |the changing family. institutions from Colonial times to the present | time as a reflection of changing so- cial development. The effect on the family caused by the American | Revolution, by the Frontier, by the Plantation System in the South, by the Industrial Revolution, coming up to the present time of the World War and the post war situation will be the subject matter of this course. Other courses given in American History this present term are Marx and Engels on America, with A. Landy as the instructor, Fridays from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Study of American Government to be given by Joseph Brodsky, Thursday from 7 to 8:20 p. m. and American Im- perialism today, a symposium course scheduled for Saturday from 2:30 to 4p. m. Working Women Will Have Own Float at Madison Square Rally That they will have a float por- traying the aims and aspirations of their organization in.the pageant commemorating the eleventh anni- at Madison Square Garden on Sun- day, Nov. 4, was announced yester- day by the United Council of Work- ingclass Housewives. The float will illustrate the mission of the council, namely, to remove the workingclass housewife from her present narrow outlook and mold her into a class-| conscious member of the progressive workingelass movement. The United Council of Working-| class Housewives have, by their un- tiring efforts in behalf of the work- ing class, earned a place in the pageant. The Central Body has. made all necessary eicnd ot for their float. The float will be completed by al procession of the council membership | aeaideie appropriate slogans. | press and thru our literature that we are in the fight to a finish, We will build the unions of the work- ers and we will build up a political party of the working class, We will organize the unorganized, IN MEMORIUM _ ROY DEMPSEY MILITANT FIGHTER PACIFIC COAST to go out to the workers of the country and let them know thru our y Wm. and Vera Beck. versary of the Russian Revolution] |tions, a demand for a workers’! world. I consider that to do any- ment of the Commnowealth. — It| would be worse than a vote for La-| | Follette in 1924, because that cam- paign was a sprawling, formless ex- pression éf discontent, whereas there is some chance that a liberal party in the guise of a “socialist” party may develop to check progress. On the other hand, a vote for Foster | helps to build a nucleus for a real) labor world. “Fraternally, —“Arthur W. Calhoun.” KING MICHEL NOW 7. VIENNA, Oct. 25 (U.R).—Rou- mania’s boy king was seven years |old today. Michel succeeded his grandfather, King Ferdinand, who} died in July, 1927. During the boy's! minority, the country is adminis- tered by a regency consisting of his uncle, Prince Nicholas; Monsignor Cristea, patriarch fo the church, and | George Buzdugan, former premier. Radiators of All Kinds, WELDING az California, to assist in the direction of his play, which will open about December 1. ; | “This Thing Called Love,” moved | from the Maxine Elliott to the Bijou | Theatre. “Naturally I shall vote for Fos- | | ter, as I did in 1924. There i no} The title of John Willard’s new |textile workers in other parts of the | other way of registering in the elec- | play, “Red Hate,” has been changed |to “Thou Shalt Not,” and the open- ing performance is scheduled for) |week, 40 cents an hour would make | thins to build up the socialist party | the Great Neck Playhouse on Oct. the weekly wage of a full time tex- | would amount to helping the erection | 31, Even |of another obstacle to the achieve-| and Edward Pawley are featured in Ralph Morgan, Mayo Methot | the cast. Walter Glass, who formerly played | leads in “Broadway” and “The Little Spitfire,” is now playing an im- portant role in the “Night Hostess” at the Martin Beck Theatre. “Tin Pan Alley”, which is play- ing this week at the Broad Street Theatre, Newark, will have its New York premiere at the Biltmore The- atre, Thursday evening, November 1. Claudette Colbert, recently seen in “Fast Life” and John Wray, have! the principal roles. SUIT AGAINST NOVELIST. Edna Ferber’s novel “Show Boat,” came up in the courts yesterday for the second time since its publication when Wayne Damron of Catletts- burg, Ky., charged the story had damaged his reputation to the extent of $25,000, Phone, Brandywine 0726 CENTRAL AUTO RADIATOR CO. A. ARBANAS, Prop. Repaired and Rebuilt nd BRAZING | 5TH STREET and B. & O. RAIL’ ROAD Braddock, Pa. Greetings JOHN BENDIK East Pittsburgh, Pa. Mamunes GREETINGS & Family MBRIDGE, PA. GREETINGS from MR. & MRS. EARL SADIC 7709 Frankstown Avenue | E. E, Pittsburgh, Pa. MEROP OUT sav ASSETS EXCEEDIN “ Depontts made on bi Last Quarterly Dividend paid on all amounts from $5.00 to $7,500.00, at the rate of Open gr Ranking by M. G $29,000,000 nee the 3r4@ 4% (ail day) until 7 P.M. loclety Accounts Accented velers Certifiet! Checks Young Pioneers at the Webster Manor, 11th St. and Fourth Ave., on Sunday, and urge all working class children to attend in mass. The part played by workers’ chil dren in strikes is of great import- ance in bolstering up the morale of | country. We know that all this is only one asnect of the great class struggle in the ‘richest and most progressive of countries.’ “The protest made by the German workers brought a partial amnesty |for our political prisoners. One prisoner whose release we achieved the strikers and in raising relief. Politically, as well, workers’ chil- dren must organize. All workers’ children to Webster Manor Sun- day!” was Max Hoelz, who was condemned to penal servitude for life. May the American workers accomplish the same, In 1927 they were saved from the gallows by the storm of protest raised by our Russian comrades. 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