The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1928 Page Three CANDIDATES OF WORKERS [COMMUNIST] PA Joseph Boruchowitz Candidate from the ®2nd Sena- | torial Distriet, Bronx. | Samuel Liptzin Candidate from the 22nd. As- sembly District, Brooklyn. George Primoff |: Candidate from the 6th Assembly | District, Brooklyn. RTY FOR VARIOUS Samuel Nessin Charles Zimmerman Candidate from the 6th Assembly| Candidate from the 4 District, the Bronx. District, Bronx. th Assembly| OFFICES FROM MET A. H. Chalupski George Powers Candidate from the 9th Assembly] Candidate for borough president, District, Brooklyn. Queens. COMMUNIST DRIVE CENTERS ON, WAR DANGER, CLASS STRUGGLE By WM. Z. FOSTER. The Workers (Communist) Party entered the election campaign cf 1928 with the object of arousing ‘re class consciousness of the masses politically and to mobilize them for the struggle against capitalism on all fronts under the leadership of the Communist Party in support of the program adopted at the great Nom- inating Convention of the Party neid| in New York City in the latter part of May. That convention was a landuark| in the history of the Party, com;csed of militant delegations from all) parts of the country fired with re. volutionary enthusiasm and deter-| mined to take the fullest advantage of the election campaign period to strengthen the grip of the Pa:ty%on the masses. and to open up new spheres of Communist activity in| th: United States. | Collected 100,000 Signatures, \| It was this convention that laid || the basis for the campaign that has resulted in having the Workers (Communist) Party ticket on the ballot in thirty-three states of the union, a trémendous achievement when it is taken into conside:ation that over one hundred thousand cer- tified signatures of qualified voters had to be collected in crder to ac- complish this . The success of the Party in col- lecting this la:ge number of ‘_:na- tures on the basis of a direct ap- peal to the class consciousness of the workers show that there is a fer- tile, soil for Communist propaganda and that the masses are rapidly rip- ening for organization into the Party and for great mass struggles against the capitalist class on the industrial and, pol:-ciakficlig, x ‘ # Mc... Responsive. -After speaking in over forty of tke principal industrial and agri- cultural centers in the United States, from the west coast to the east and from the north to the south, I can say from experience that the masses are growingly responsive to the message of the class struggle! and increasingly ready to lend a willing ear to an explanation of the | most vital issues that confront the| workers naticz=ally and interns’ -n-| ally today. First and foremost of these is-| sues is the danger of a new im- perialist war, a thousand times more| destructive to human life than the, last in which several millions of the pick of the world’s proletarian manhood were sacrificed on the bat- tlefields of Europe in the struggle over the spoils of world imperial- ism. Real Danger of War. Ten years after the last volley was fired on the western front, ten years after the victors met to im- pose terms on the conquered and divide the former territories of their enemies among them, the imperial- ists are again preparing to drench the working class of the world in another blood bath. War prepara- le are going on with feverish in.) ‘tensity. The great rival imperialist pow- ers, England and the United States, are lining up their forces for the st cggle for wot!d hogemony, while maintaining a state of armed truce towards the Soviet Union, the first VTorkers’ ic in history athat was set up by the victorious’ Work- | ers and peasants of Russia on the ruins of the czarist regime. | aepus Bedford is another instance of how |the bureaucracy has gone over bag! be wrenched loose from their posi- and baggage to the employers, Workers Turn to New Leaders, In the coal and textile strikes how- ever, the rank and file were not without leaders, For one year and a ualf the miacrs fought gallantly against overwhelming odds, and when Lewis finally called off tre strike which he had doomed to ce- feat, to wun. --d n-« give up hope but erganized the National Miners’ | Union, which is rebuilding on the ruins of the U. M. W. of A. a new instrument of struggle, the rigt.- ful heir to the militant traditions of t': mine workers of America. The werkers in the textile indus- try, convinced that the rea:’” 2ary bureaucrats of the A. F.c° '. and indepeng-nt un‘ + and will not organize the workers for the struggle aga... =:tile barons, launched the National Textile Work- ers’ Union under militant and pro- gossive leadership. The unorganized workers in every industry in the United States must be organized and the fossilized re- actionary agents of the employers who are now wrapped around the Revolutionary Party of Mongolia Meeting. in Congress at Urga) (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 25.—The annual congress of the Mongolian Revolu- tionary Peoples Party opened at the wierly called Urga), with a delega- tion from the Communist Interna- tional in attendance. Comrade Dschadamba gave the re- port of the Centgal Committee, and stated that the right danger would Le liquidated by the,.congress, The Mongolian Revolutionary Peo- ples Party is fraternally affiliated with the Communist International. It is the ruling party ef Mongolia since the overthrowal of the bloody regime of Russian white guards. Cuba Fertile Field for U. S. Capitalists In a report issued by the state department of Cuba, it is shown that in the last twenty-five years Cuba has purchased in the United States merchandise amounting to $2,000,- 000,000. The fact that in the same period of time, been spent in all other countries combined, indicates what a fertile Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator (for- | 3,000,000,000 has | | necks of the organized workers must | | tions and replaced by leaders who | will lead the fight against the bosses | |and not play the role of betrayers, Full Equality for Negroes. One of the main planks of the Workers (Communist) Party plat-| form is the question of the oppres- sion of the Negro race. The Cem- munist Party is the sole champion. organizer and defender of the Ne- |gro race. Our platform favors full | social, political and industriai rights | for the Negroes. This election cam- |paign has been utilized to lay the ‘ Imperialist Invasion of Ni basis for fresh efforts to unite the| Negroes in behalf of their racial) and class interests. | The Party program calling for a jfight against lynching, segregation |and the other evils from which the| | Negro | masses suffer has been | brought into the heart of the south and this is one of the great his-| torical developments in the class struggle in the United States, | The parties of big capital, the |democratic and republican parties and the party of small business, the socialist party, have no solution for the Negro problem any more than| for the problems that confront the) rest of the exploited masses thru-| out the United States. Other Parties Class Enemies. The. role of the republican and democratic parties is that of police- men and jailers of the vuppressed masses, black and white. The re- publican and democratic parties are ;now vieing with each other as to | which can best prove their hatred |of the Negro. The parties of lynch- jing and segregation of Negroes, of strikebreaking, injunctions. and the shooting, clubbing afd jailing of workers, the parties of Wall Street, of imperialist aggression abroad and exploitation at home, are the ene- mies of the working class. The socialist party, having de- serted the class struggle and repudi-| ated the workers as a base for its| political existence, is now trying to! establish itself definitely in the po-/ litical arena as the third party of capitalism. Workers, Vote Communist! The workers and poor farmers of| the United States and the doubly! exploited Negroes must fight those parties and support the platform) and candidates of the Workers) (Communist) Party of America, the party of the class struggle and of |uncompromising struggle against/| | American imperialism until the capi- |talist system is overthrown and the| ‘task of building up a proletarian| | social order is begun under the di- | rection of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. | Every worker, poor farmer and} Negro should support the Workers} American marines, sent to Nicaragua to enslave the workers and peasants and defend the interests of Wall Street, are shown landing at Corinto, Nicaragua, Tiese young workers, forced into the ser by unemployment or deceived by fake promises of recruiting office are often forced to march thi jungles with a heavy pack, and to take the place of oxen in pulling artillery. The lives of many marines are sacrificed by Wall Street in the effort to crush the brave army of General Sandino, which is rs, rty miles daily in the mud and thru | disgust with the corrupt bureaucracy By BEN GITLOW The response of/ the workers in the cities where I have spoken on my nation-wide tour for the Work- ers (Communist) Party has been | spontaneously enthusiastic and en- The great issue of the campaign Suse Tie brea di asrseB ACt sine war danger. Our forces are American Wouteta sce poowing: in’ |being mobilized to fight the im- creasing signs of readiness and) pevialism of the finance-capitalists eagerness for nab leadership, and | o¢ Wall Street in China, Nicaragua, large) numbers: will not only | vote |r otin-America ‘and~ wherever they Communist, but follow Communist jare reaching their greedy hands to leadership on the industrial field in es as strangle colonial peoples. The mas- nore militant struggles against the |ses of workers must be awakened be sses. |to the threat to the Soviet Union A lack of faith in the empty prom-|and to the imminence of war be- ises of the three bourgeois parties, |tween the rival leading imperialist an awakening tc their reactionary | po the United States and Great anti-labor character, and complete | Britai We must be ready to defend the Soviet Union, and to turn the im- perialist war into civil war to sweep away the whole iniquitous capital- portant issues and immediate mends and its scientific lary pregram for the clas against capitalism. de- -struggle War Danger Great Issue. -collabcrationist Ameri- can Federation of Labor, was appa- rent everywhere I went. ROPOLITAN | volution- | fighting for freedo » against imperialist exploitation. Lights and Shadows of the Election Fight By JAY LOVESTONE. | “This election will be more like | @ corporation meeting than any Really, than these corporations there are no worse open shop organi- zations in the world. Perhaps that Most American workers are no | longer afraid of the bolshevik bogey, no longer easily affected by ani red drives of the capitalists and mi leaders of labor. On the contrary, | they are looking to the Communists | more and more for trustworthy lead- ership in their class struggles. . Getting Hard to Fool. It will be increasingly hard for the democrats, republicans and so- cialists to hoodwink the masses in| the future. Workers are no longer ist system with its murder for pro- fit and its expluitation of workers and oppression of colonial peoples This is the chief task of the Work- ers (Cofimunist) Party. & Peace Pact A War Move. Even in the capitalist press thru- out the country, the Kellogg pact is ridiculed. It is not an instrument The Soviet Union, when signing the pact, exposed its nature as a maneu- of peace, but of imperialist war. | AREA Paul Crouch ] Candidate fromthe 2nd Congres- sional District, Queens. |WORKINGCLASS RESPONDING TO COMMUNISTS; READY TO: FIGHT The Anglo-French.agreement, fol- lowing close‘on the heels of the Kel- logg Pact, was a/Strategic move on the part of Great Britain to streng- then her position; Intérnational rela- tions are strained, afd the seeds of war have already beeh sown in many areas where the rival powers con- ists; Yo preach fism in such a situation is cri This campaign -hes brought out more clearly than-ever the pacifist, reformist, bourgeois character of the socialist pa: Notconly does Tho- mas and his panty ignore the most important of, all. jissues, the war danger, but their, whole appeal is directed to the former followers of LaFollette, and middle-class lib They have -even. forgotten th former socialist. phraseology, and talk like the “liberal” democratic and “progressive” republicans. It is apparent to.all that.in the coming intense struggles ef the workers i imperialism, exploitation and ion, the American sts ill play the role as their brothers the soi demoerats in Germany, France and England, be- tray the workers,and support the imperialists, The Forces. of kkevolution. The rebellious *6ppressed peoples of Asia and Latin-America, together |with the militant workers within the of its forty-four predecessors. | Outside of land ownership, the | United States is now controlled by corporations.” is the best reason why Mr. Green of |interested in their fake issues, not the American Federation of Labor, fooled by Hoover's prattle of pros- | is supporting Mr. Smith. perity, by Al Smith’s hypocritical | When Smith speaks of the “side-| liberalism or Norman Thomas's | ver to camouflage. military prepara-| imperialist powers, are the forces tions, to delude the workers into be- jthat under Communist leadership lieving that the capitalist powers are preparing to disarm while they are| preparing madly for an attack on | This is what the “Magazine of Walks of New York” he moans the Wall Street” said the other day. Of “Sidewalks of Wall Street.” That is jeourse this is not telling the wiole| Why the democratic campaiga boast truth. No land can be exempt long ‘hat: [from the clutches of the corpora-| “This most liberal governor has tions. But the significant feature’ nevertheless the confidence of big jof this-remark is its frankness,| conservative business men—a con- |brazenness and accuracy in so far| fidence such as they seldom give to anybody except their own as- pacifist reformism. | The Communist platform is win- |ning their interest and admiration \for its straightforward, clear-cut working class posifion on the im- | the first workers’ and farmers’ gov- jernment—the Soviet Union—and for the inevitable clash which competi- tion for foreign markets, inherent in capitalism, brings nearer daily. will eventually'be able to crush the imperialist dictatérship and set up the dictatorship of ‘the victorious proletariat to rebuild the world on a socialist foundation. | Long live the Soviet Union! a in tions. Mr.|The trade unions have never been |monious. Hoover is blood of the|The socialist party has ‘ecome blood, bone of the bone of the en-|party of the smaller capita! jemies of the working class. In his/its appeal, content and aspi |book “Principles of Mining,” jing the chairman of its executive committee in Washington. [i is equally true that the big bankers and manufacturers have always poured millions into the election ef- forts of their lackeys in the big ca>i- talist parties. Yet, never did so executives” in finance and industry participate so much in the open, or as actively in the general work of many of the very biggest “business | jas the general outstanding char-| acteristics of the present election, sociates and political servants.” campaign go. It is true that the capitalist class ha* always been on the job in select- Hoover thus gives us his “labor gos- | hy one of | pel” as follows: the glibbest of America’s Jeffer-| “Given a union, with leaders who sonian liberals, Claude G. Bowers,’ can control the members and who jin his speech as temporary chairman |are disposed to approach the differ- of the National Democratic Conven-| ences in a business spirit, there are tion, truthfully declared: |few sounder positions for the em- “Woodrow Wilson was not |ployers. ... The sooner the fact ‘s enemy of business. i |tecognized, the better for the em- “In the eight years of his ad- | ployers.” ministration: we gave more intelli- | Yes, the sooner the workers also gent legislative service to honest | recognize this fact the better for| business than had been given in @ | their position. Hoover is the presi-| generation before. | dent of capitalist rationalization and| “We defy them to name a demo- And here is the reason w an as devitalized. America is marching headlong towards a new world war to insure its position as the dom- {nant imperialist world power Communists Enter Struggle. On, the other hand, the Commu- nists are increasingly vigorously and spreading their influence can overestimate the signifi ce of th, Wofkers (Communist) Party be- ing on the ballot in 32 states as against fourteen.in 1924, despite the organized campaign to deny the Communists this right. There is the election campaigns. Never before was the apparatus | 2 of both parties of big capital so; In the light of these facts, con- fused with the machinery of the |fessions and boasts, no worker biggest business interests. Vast con-|should be fooled. The foreign born | tributions to the candidates’ cam-|workers who are at all conscious paign chest were never so openly |of their class interests will now ac- cratic president who was an enemy of business.” all that it spells for the worker— lowered wages, lengthened hours, life-sapping speed-up, disemployed workers by the millions, denial of | the right to organize, government by jinjunetion, no free speech of press, |imperialist war and a nose to the grindstone turning out fabulous | growing discontent amongst great masses of workers and exploited farmers. Millions are unemployed in pros- perous capitalist America. The vast majority of the working eless re- ceive a pittance of a wage—much field Cuba is for American capital- (Communist) Party ticket in this ists. election campaign. Communist Campaign Calls nl To All Needle Trades Workers! (CLOAKMAKERS, DRFSSMARERS, FURRIERS, MEN'S CLOTHING WORKERS, CaP Mh he eat few wate The workers of the United States in cooperation with the workers of | all lands must fight the war dan-| &2i, must Comcad we with’! :awal| of American troops from Nicaragua, must fight against the whole pro-| gram of Ameritan imperialism in Latin America, China and all over the world, and when the next we-iv war breaks out they must be pre- pared to follow the example of the | workers and peasants in the ° of the czars by turning their mi power against their own imperial-| ists, destroy the capitalist social or- | der and begin the building of a pro- letarian society. | movement, the complete betrayal of the workers by the trade union) bureaucracy, the increasing pressure | brought to bear on the workers by | the «.. ..lists, the growing repres { sive’ activities of the strikebreaking | capitalist governments, national, state and municipal, call for a fresh determination on the part of labor | to fight the capitalists and their agents inside the labor movement. | The growing crisis in the labor | ERRV cnt: Sept. Ist The Workers’ Day { JULY 4u PICNI! AND MILLINERY WORKERS 1 we eed apo to aah eur eter the commas prt - Issues of the 1 ! | { | I | cisowares ‘ and the lib@rals about the menace of big campaign funds and “tainted democracy!” The whole situation is strikingly illustrated in the fact that the demo- cratic party, vhich has since the Civil War represented in a large measure the interests of the smaller capitalists, has now a whole heaver full of “angels” among the leaders numerous as today. And this after cept the piffle of Smith being their| profits and all the froth and noise of the senate | friend, because the democratic party | the ruling class. |machine in the eastern: industrial | ‘centers is more foreign born in jcharacter than the republican | machine in these localities. The foreign language editors who ask the foreign-born workers to vote swollen dividends for| ew the lowest limit set even by bint | Hoover administrations. The farm- | The socialist party presents a = a ~~“ |ers are being robbed of their lan very sorry figure in the campaign.| an} being driven off the fields int [t has gone over lock, stone and|the factories. barrel to the worst enemies of the The Negro masses are subject to working class. Today its tune pide! a Pees x chimes in perfectly with the “Side- the most barbarous oppression— |the Harding-Coolidge-Fall-Sinclair- | | Forward to the: Proleta Revo- ‘tution! action. But oné Party, the Work- ers (Communist) Party, is fighting for the defense of the right to or- ganize, to strike, freedom of speech, press and assembly, shorter hours, higher pay, better, working condi- tions for the foreign-born as wel] as the native workers. But one Party, the Workers (Communist) Party, is sounding the alarm and fighting against the worst danger of the day—the impending imperialist world war. But.one Party, the Workers (Communist), Party, is fighting against Jim-Crowism, race prejudice, segregation and fighting for complete social and_ political equality for the Negro masses. But one Party, the Workers (Commu- n't) Party, is fighting for the com- plete independence of all American colonies. But one Party, the Work- ers (Communist) Party, is fighting for a workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment to take the place of the hank ers’ and business men’s government. Make Your Vote Useful. The Communists ask the workers to vote for their own standard ‘itigarers, Foster and Gitlow, in order Ute demonstrate the growing soli- darity of the working class a home and abroad with the victorious work- ers of Soviet Russia and with the |for Smith or Hoover are only well- j walks of New York”—the magnates paid agents and enemies of the work- DALE. P ie Aye of lower Broadway. It is fighciag ing masses of all nationaliti jfor a place under the “Brown Hoover—the Speed-up President. | Derby.” It is even fighting in the jlynch democracy—most ruthless ex- oppressed colonia’ masses, with the ploitation. In the colonies there is/ fighting wopkers , ir every curner growing resistance to American im- of the world—with the exploited perialist aggrandizement. At home farmers, with. the oppressed Ne- jerals, \date has ever had. ‘poration, which is the largest pro: of the most gigantic capitalist > groups in the country. Never before duction to the Holiest of Holiest, of was the ownership of the demo-| Wall Street’s best sons. Hoover is eratic party by the mightiest busi-|the symbol of the speed-up, of in- ness interests so tightly sewed up. (ense exploitation, open shop, mass Brushing aside all loose talk of | production, and all that makes for Smith about “the people,” “sacred|the prosperity and power of the Jeffersonianism” and “American|American imperialists. Says the liberalism,” one finds that all lib-| magazine of Wal! Street:* Progressives, LaFolletteites, | “Tf one likes the attitude of gov- confused and bankrupt Farmer- ernment towa:d: business since Laborites, and pseudo-socialists, are Harding was inaugurated, then ne really taking their orders from must like Hoover's attitude toward Raskob, one of the most noto, sus | buginess.... The election of labor-hating plutocrats America has| Hoover would taake it certain that) produced. ‘there would be no business | oat- Smith has more big capitalists rocking at Washirgton. . : for him than any democratic candi-| “He believes in deliberately using These har |-| the vast bows ake Hoggan | headed exploiters of the workers and|crnment to help business | i farmers ae not accustomed to/self.... A business engineer at throwing their money away. It is | the head of | a business | nan in not for nothing that they are now | keen world-wide competition a qpores | pouring millions into the democratic | would be as president, prawn y ay party coffers. | building and improving at calla Let’s gall the first three names on abroad. No one is in doubt a ert the roll of recent converts to the the general tendency of government | democratic party. Rascob 9¢ Gen- | wnder Hoover. | eral Motors, a violently anti-lbor| Some Shadows of the Campaign. Morgan corporation; Geo. J. Ander-| That is why John L. Lewis, be-_ soh, president of the Consolidation trayer and destroyer of the United | Coal Company—a Rockefeller cor- | Mine Workers of America has come ov! for Hoover. And that is just) the reason for W. N. Doak, editor) ducer of soft coal in the world—a} mo WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA Ae Sg oreseae ‘perpetrator of the blackest outrages of the “Railroad 'I'rainman” being dictat Hoover, of course, needs no intro- |«sowers of Queens” (where jat home, in New York City), for the |La Follette vote. | A perusal of the New Leader, the socialist party organ, and all so- cialist party literature, shows that |the party of Berger, Hillquit, | Thomas and Company has gone mad in its chase to snatch some liberal small capitalist votes from the net jof the New Tammany Saviour, Al Smith. This is the corpse of what was once the socialist party. .# Debs were to come out of his grave |he would burn with shame and hate at this horrible monstrosity calling itself the socialist party. Changing America. Big changes are taking place in the country. The solid south is cracking wide open. Its industriali- zation is proceeding with astounding speed. The old South of the plan- tation is giving way to the new A}; Workers are beginning to lay the groes, Smith and his party feel so r uch|>@Sis for powerful militant labor| one way to utilize this election for anions in the mining, textile, 2 ' needle trades. Throughout the world there is a growing hatred of Ameri- can imperialist aggression. To vote Communist is the th oppressed against the oppres- sors, for the exploited against the exploiters. A vote for the: Communists is a Vote As You Strike. - | vote for thé working class. A work- But one Party, the Workers |¢t’s vote for any other party is not | (Communist) Party is fighting back only a vote thrown away but. a the onslaught of Wall Street re-|dangerous and eostly blow at th al 4 South of the company town. The difference between the republicans and democrats are fast disappear- ing. The capitalist party lines are being wiped out. The two-party system is Gisintegrating and work- ing more and more openly as the! open-party system, the out-and out | ship of the biggest capitalist by a | | $1,000,000 contract. has been award- interests of the working class. Help .mobilize for the revolu- tionary overthrow, and destruction of the citadel of ntefnational capi- talist reaction— American im- perialism—the fraudulent, strike- breaking and lynch democracy of. Wall Street and its lackeys, Hoover. Smith and Thomas. Class against tlass! Vote as you strike! Vote, work and fight for the Com. | munist Party, its’ program and its candidates! Chili Will Spend Millions for Planes BUFFALO, Oct. 25 (UP).—A ed by the Chilean government to the Curtiss Aero andj Motor Company ; ¢ jagainst the workers in the mine so eloquent in his plea for the re- |interests, ; gral “.) | strikes; Pierre S. DuPont, igge’t| publican candidate. The admiration) That is why life-long republican, 44 of of Buffalo for the construction of The betrayal of the “bituminous! No... i , — Help Raise the : ‘munition manufacturer of the coun ‘and attractions are mutual. The capitalists are today for Smith. | pursuit and observation planes, of. } se by wea weet va SW 7% “My & By a Morgan corporation which reason for it is because the clase in- Rock-bound Southern democrats, ficials announced today. fe the history of American labor | _— 8 has a sort of martial law against crests of the reactionary labor | now owners of buge cotton tills, of It Was said to be the largest for ‘ strikebreaking policy of the re- | ee fh WORKERS COMMUNIST Parry — the slightest attempts at organiza- lesders and the woret exploiters» 1) the most gicapttc steel plants are | Jay Lovesionue ‘eign contract awarded since the war. Sy a Tet, re eee ee, tion by the workers. oppressors of the workers are har-jstamping and stumping for [oover. trade union leaders in New ® oma He RNA ESE AE UNRATE lb SHAR APM