The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1928 TRADE UNIONISTS, NEGRO MILITANTS, Bertram D. Wolfe Candidate from the 10th Congr sional District, Brooklyn. SOCIALIST PROFESSORS AND MILLIONAIRES By JOHN PEPPER. There is a “re: * of the socialist ty of Am We believe it, because no less an ity than Lister Coleman, socialist candidate for United States ‘senator from New York, so announces. e k the spokesmen cf t so jubilant and causes their outburst about the “renaissance” of the mori- bund s Mr. McAllis- ter Cole: zy with hi: words, and br ews: “For Frederick Vanderbilt Field, descendant of one of the world’s richest men, joined the socialist party a week ago and in the man- ner with which he is pitehing in. there is something of the old capi- talist’s and financier’s swift- paced organizing ability.’ The young millionaire, who is be. ing feted by the socialists as a great statesman, must have gathered much political knowledge and politi- eal experience, already as the friend|: Coleman tells us ty-three years old and has d four years at Harvard and had not less than one whole year of travel in Europe. There is a real “renai: the socialist party. Work ting very scarce around the head- eur s of the honorable and re- spectable followers of the Second In- ternational, but what does that mat- ? The sing'2 fact that a “descen- f one of the world’s richest joined the socialist party will up for the running away of nds of workers from the worthy fold. The socialist party is a lucky vunch. Mr. Coleman tells us, terror- tricken, of the narrow escape the “alist party had with the young ‘anderbilt Field. The young man died in Great Britain, and did not make up his mind until the last minute whether to join the demo- cratic or the socialist party. We cannot resist the urge to quote Mr. Cz! -an’s own words: “When he started back to Amer- ica, he had a first-rate economic equipment and a letter from a ‘Smith liberal’ to some one at democrati headquarters here. Luckily for the cocialists and u ‘y for them, the dem> workers whom he met did not strike him as being one whit more ‘liberal’ than their republican fel- low-workers across the way says that he went home and slept over the matter and the next morning awoke,” so he became a socialist! Who dares after all this deny the correctness of the statement that there is a genuine renaissance of the socialist party? assures us that “going in and out of headquarters, not only in “New York, but in Kansas City, *Chicago and Los Angeles, as well, are young- sters who think and act very much like young Fieid.” Mr. Coleman as- sures us—and we can well believe him, for, as he asserts in the same atticle, he “is not exactly senile’— there is a genuine prospect of the socialist party becoming a party of young millionaires. But our fairness compels us to tell the workers of the steel mills. textile towns, and coal mines that. desnite the fect that the socialist party is fast becoming a party of young n. there js still rea! democracy in the socialist party. The inimitable"Mr. Coleman relates in his narrative: “Today he carries the red card of membership in the socialist party, which he joined last week, pays his fifty cents monthly dues, and is addressed as ‘comrade’ bv vorkers, house painters and is.” y there is no other party in this country which can offer such an attraction to pricked-fingered needle workers, _paint-besmeared house painters, and greasy machin- ists as that of buying for fifty cents monthly dues the privilere of ad dressing a Vanderbilt (mind you, a genuine, living, gilt-edged Vander bilt) as “comrade. Mr. Norman Th preacher who, on the side. presidential caréitate of the social- ist party today, in one of his cam- paign leaflets calls upon the rich youngsters: “Even if it hurts your wealthy friends to be ¢fiticized by your yete, vote for the socialist party.” mas, the former Young Vanderbilt Field is the first the imperialist masters obediently! sending up tubercular victims in a result of the urgent appeal of Mr./enough. Yes, the same Mr. Russell balloon hospital were outlined by Thomas end his fellow socialist lead-| who served as a member of the in-| Prof. Oppel here yesterday. With ers for the support of the young) famous special mission which Presi |the help of two large balloons, he ee ation of millionaires. We do not know how much fi ncia) aid that support will mean to the so- cialist party, but certainly young Vanderbilt Field will not be stingy. Te knows very well that the social- s And Mr. Coleman) is the} Ben Lifshitz Candidate Brownsville. for Alderman in Nicholas Napoli | e from the 18th Sena- | torial District, Harlem. District, Bronx. WOMEN LEADERS, STAND OUT A Rebecca Grecht Richard B. Moore Rachel Ragozin Candidate from the 5th Assembly| Candidate from the 21st Congres-| Candidate from the 23rd Assem- | stonal District, Harlem, bly District, Brooklyn. ional District, Bronz. | \MONG COMMUNIST CANDIDATES Anthony Bimba Ben Gold Candidate from the 23rd Congres-| Candidate from the 13th Assembly District. PARTY, A fective weapon of capitalism against | the working class, against the Com- mun » against the or, the unorganized millions, ag: militant class struggle. It pays young Vanderbilt Field and the other rich young idlers to support the so- cialist party as the most clever de- fender of their capitalist property ,|But his money is not the only gift young Vanderbilt Field offers his new fiancee, the old prostitute, the socialist party. He brings along with him at least—Mr. Col sures us—the best troditi late William Vanderbilt “In the manner with which he is pitching in, there is something of the old capitalist’s and finan- cier’s swift-paced organizing abil- ity.” t is a spectacle for the gods— the socialist party as the heir of the _|best robber traditions of the most notorious financier and railroad magnate in the history of American capitalism! Professors, Too! There is a true renaissance of the socialist party. Not only million- aires but professors—entirely re-| spectable, law-abiding, God-fearing, regular professors—are beginning to| ¢ realize that their place is in the so- cialist party. The millionaires are attracted by the fact that there are very few workers in the socialist| organization, and there is not a very | big danger that many needle trade| workers and house painters and ma-| chinists will address them as “com-| rades.” The professors, on the other and, are attracted by the fact that the socialist party has abandoned the very last remnants of revolu- tionary Marxism, | A Chicago professor, Paul H. Douglas, has contributed an article to the October 24th issue of the New| Republic, in which he explains “Why I Am for Thomas.” The main reason | he gives is the stzipping off of | Marxism from the theory and prac- tice of the socialist party: “Many liberals have in the past been deterred from supporting it, because in so doing they were re- quired to support a dogmatic Marxism . . . The present plat- | form, however,. wisely dispenses | with all this economic theology. and bases its program solely upon realities.” Professor Douglas is a well-known liberal. He is a professor of political jeconomy; therefore, an pert ex- officio on economic theories. He has |his own economic theories of*vulgar |truisms, and there is-no reason to| | disbelieve him when he says that the| | Present socialist party has nothing jat all in common with Marxism, |which he calls with the brazen pre-| tentions of a capitalist professor “economic theology.” And Professor Douglas is not an isolated phenomenon. - In the Na-) tion’s straw vote no less than 2,542! prosperous intellectuals and small) business men expressed their en-| dorsement of Thomas as against a | | 526 for Hoover and 6,317 for Al Smith. Mr. W. E. Woodward, the well- known novelist and cheap “human- izer” of George Washington and/| General Grant, confesses that he is “a socialist of the deepest dye,” de- spite the fact that “my books are| read in the most respectable homes. Even members of the stock exchange write me nice, 2dmiring letters.” Mr. Woodward, who is not oaly a writer I-to-do ex-business reasons for sup- , characterizing him in the following way: “ *Proletari: and ‘bourgeoisie’ are words that rarely appear in his speeches. He has somehow got hold of the idea that farmers in Towa, and workers in Detroit fac- tories, tre a hit uneasy when they are addressed as ‘the masses ... He refuses them abcut their trou! manner of Marx preparing ‘Das Kapital’ in the British museum in 1867.” | This statement by Mr. W. E| Woodward appeared in the official campaign book of the socialist party Charley Russell Back Again! And if there are still “doubting Thomases” who don't believe that! the socialist party is facing a veri- table renaissance, they ought to be convinced by the fact that Charles Edward Russell has rejoined the so- ialist party. Yes, the same Edward Russell who left the socialist party during the war, because the social- ist party at that time did not serve |€ent Wilson sent to Russia in 1917 |in an attempt to keep Rus:'a in the| camp of the allie:. Russell, the Wil |sonian jingo, considers the socialist | rarty as it is today jingoistic enongh| for him to re-enter its ranks. } | socialist party are corporation law- | Rus.) *t party is teday the beet, mest ef-jsell has not changed, but the social: | PARTY UF) ist party has undergone a funda- mental transformation. From 2 working-class patty it has become a! party of small businessmen and pros- | perous intellectuals. Millionaires, professors, prosper- ous writers, notori servants of imperialism are joining the socialist | party. The socialist party is becom-| ing so very respectable that even in| the twenty-third annual convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution (that notorious organiza- tion of counter-revolutionary enemies | of every revolutionary movement) it! found defenders. Mrs. P. A. Rey-| mann said in Bluefield, West Virgi- nia: “The Communists openly state that they fight in the class strug- gle. That is un-American. It is the duty of a national defense committee to combat un-American institutions. The republican, the democrat, the socialist party may be classed as American, but not so the Communist Party.” The socialist party of today is an acknowledged institution of Ameri- Preparing for Next Imperialist War The U.S. S. Pennsylvania, one of the most modern battleships of the world, firing a broadside in practice for a new imperialist war. The U. S. S. Pennsylvania and other warships are to be used on Navy Day by the jingoists to stir up a war psychology. The largest naval and military demonstrations ever known in the United States are being staged at the present time. can capitalism, is the party of mil- lionaires, professgrs, well-to-do pro- | sional men, and “blue-blooded”’| aristocrats of counter-revolutionary organizations rather than a party of the working class. There is only, one party of the working class in| this country, and that is the Work ers (Communist) Party of America | Millionaires are our deadly enemies | Well-known professors ridicule and combat our fundamental theory of | Marxism-Leninism. The “Witches”! of the American revolution are yel-| ling for the prosecution attorney against the Communists. Commu- nist leaders are jailed everywhere. Election campaign meetings of the Communist Party are broken up everywhere, There was a past when a leader of the socialist party, Eugene V Debs, went to jail for defending the revolutionary interests of the work- | ing class. Today the leaders of the! yers, ex-preachers, and sit at the) same table with millionaires and| M: illing professors. Today the Communists, rank and file workers of our working class party, the op-| pressed Negroes who are beginning! to recognize our Party as the cham pion of the Negro m: the Com-} munist candidates and organizers} are the ones who fill the jails of al-| most every state, of almost every| city in the south and in the indus-| trial centers of this country, The socialist party may receive a large vote on election day, but that will not be an expression of the sup- port of the working class. But every vote the Communist Party receives on November 6 will be a vote for the proletarian class struggle against Negro oppression, against imperialist war, and for the over- throw of capitalism. WRITE IN VOTE ON NEBR, BALLOT How Communist Vote) Must Be Cast IA, Neb. Oct. 26.—Ne- braska workers who wish to vote for candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party should write in the names of the Communist candi- dates on the blank spaces on the blank spaces on the ballot, or they can get from the office of the Work- ers (Communist) Party strips of | gummed paper bearing the candi- dates’ names, which can be pasted ion the ballot in place of writing them. The names which should be writ- ten in are as follows: For governor, Edward L. Schlekau. For secretary of state, Dole Tal- bert. For state auditor, Chas. E. Day- ton. For congressman, second district, Roy Stephens. Election leaflets and stick being issued in large quantities. are T. B. BALLOON CURE LENINGRAD, U. S. S. R., Oct. 25.—A plan to cure consumption by would send up a sanitorium and keep patients recuperating at a high altitude. No work Lewin, Batty Inger and Hiliquit, For the Class Struggle! Against Imperialist War! For the End of Capitalism! Continued from Page Gne tribution of wealth in accordance with natural Jaws.” Reality shows that there is no other country in the world in which tsere is such an abyss between the accumulated fortunes of the few and the ac- cumulated poverty of the masses. Hoover brags about “the final triumph over poverty.” Houghton coins phrases about “the con- quest of poverty,” trying to hide the basic fact of present capitalist society, trying to cover up the fundamentals of capitalism, which are poverty, unemployment, under-nourishment, cold, ignorance of the toilers. Governor Smith and his democratic party pose as the opposition to the ruling republican party, but the democratic party does not oppose anything essential in the capitalist program of the republi- cans. It most emphatically declares that it hds the same policies on tariff, on prohibition, on immigration. It denies the existence of the “Negro question.” It takes a similar stand for the perpetuation of wage slavery. It assures big business that it will maintain under a democratic administration all its present privileges and monopolies. Mr. Hoover, in his New York Madison Square Garden speech, accused Al Smith of having state socialistic tendencies. That ac- cusation is, of course, nonsensical. Al Smith is at least as good a servant and defender of capitalism as Herbert Hoover or Calvin Coolidge themselves. And the merger of big business and govern- mental institutions manifested itself in an unprecedented degree under the republican administration as in no time in the history of this country. The American Federation of Labor bureaucracy wholeheartedly supports the capitalist candidates. The notorious class-collaboration policies of Samuel Gompers are cited by all capitalist politicians as model policies for the working class. The socialist party of America announces its own “renaissance,” because a “descendant of one of the world’s richest men,” young Frederick Vanderbilt Field, joined its ranks. Liberal professors and well-paid writers are endorsing the socialist ticket, because the socialist party has abandoned the last remnants of Marxism and has repudiated the proletarian class struggle. Republican, demo- eratic, and socialist parties alike are for the maintenance of the present capitalist system, for the perpetuation of capitalist exploita- tion and oppression, for the continuation of wage slavery and racial oppression, The danger of the next world war is looming up big. United States marines are still in Nicaragua to prevent “election frauds” at the same time that hoth capitalist parties here are trying to frame as many election frauds as possible. United States imperialism is making a new bid to conquer the vast Chinese market. The renegade Nanking government, smeared from top to bottom with the blood of Chinese workers, is appointing American financial and economic advisors. American imperialism is today advocating--of course only in phrases—the national indepeadence and unification of China at the same time that it disenfranchises the Negro masses of the “Black Belt” of their right of national self-determination, Only the Workers (Communist) Party of America fights for the interests of the working class, puts forward a program of social insurance, calls upon the workers to organize in new militant unions against wage cuts, against open shap, against all the evjls of capi- talist speed-up, for shorter hougs, higher wages. Only the Communist Party demands complete and immediate independence for all American colonies. Only the Communists struggle for the immediate withdrawal of American troops from China and Nicaragua, Only the Communists expose the imperialist machinations and war preparations of the United States government. Only the Communist Party dares to penetrate the “Solid South” with a program of full social, political, and racial equality for the Negroes, with the slogan of national self-determination of the Ne- groes, giving the Negro masses the right to establish their own state, to erect their own government in the South, if they choose to do so. Only the Communist Party is leading the strike struggles’ of the miners, the textile and needle trades workers. Workers! Comrades! Concentrate your energies in the last stage of the election struggle on the mobilization of the broad masses, The Communist Party does not conduct its election struggle for the purpose of grabbing offices. Our sole aim is the mobilization of the masses against the bosses. Parliamentary seats would serve us only as tribunes for our anti-capitalist, revolutionary propaganda. We want to utilize the institutions of American “democracy” for the pur- pose of exposing American democracy as naked capitalist dictator- ship. An unheard of terror drive is being carried out by all the organs of the government, by reactionary labor*officials, the Ku Klux Klah, and the American Legion against the Communists; because all these forces of capitalist society recognize us as the deadly enemies of capitalism. Workers! Vote Communist! .Vote against imperialist war! Vote Communist! Vote against Negro oppression and lynching!” Vote Communist! Vote aginst wage slavery, for the overthrow of capitalism! Vote Communist! Vote for international working class solidarity. Vote Communist! Defeat the capitalist terror! Vote Communist! Vote against the capitaliet dictatorship and for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Governr-n’! CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COIMT oo OR THE hag ee (COMMUNIS1) PARRY G# AMERICA, COMMUNIST PROGRAM VOICES DEMANDS OF YOUNG WORKERS [im By NAT KAPLAN. | To talk about the youth in gen-|ism between England and America which makes the outbreak of a new war an blood of the young workers will jagain be spilled in the contest be- jtween declining British capitalism jand capitalism for the domination of jto 18 years) is one who should be | the world. leral conveys no meaning whatso- Jever. The youth is also divided ‘along class Iines and it is the pres- | jent problems of the working class ,youth that we raise as a central is- ‘sue in the elections, ee young person (particularly up) |undergoing an education and train- ing for his growth into a fully de- | veloped mature individual in society. But.in capitalist society the young) | workers do not go through such a development. Just the contrary takes |place, With the introduction of ma- | |chinery an ever larger number of | young workers are enrolled into the | capitalist production process. From apprentices learning a trade, the young workers are transformed into mere appendages of a machine wherein, as far as capitalism is con- | cerned, education and training is to- | tally unrequired. It is especially in the present per- iod of rationalization that the bulk of the young workers becomes one of the main sources of unskilled la- | bor. The young worker is “...the detail-worker of today, crippled by |a life-long repetition of one and the |same trivial operation...” (Marx). These young workers are “exploit- |eded for years, without being taught a single sort of work that would af- terwards make them of use, even in the same manufactory or factory.” (Marx.) tal th are the important election issues for the American young workers, the struggle for the bettering of their present miserable lot, and the Leninist struggle against the capi- main election issues for the young workers. platform of the class struggle of the Workers League. ent shows the intensified antagon-|tion by law of child Jabor und state |maintenance for all children at pres- ent employed. We ave against the legal regulation of apprenticesh and for the regulation by the tr {unions and the appr iselves. We demand the inclusion ot the apprentices into the unions with |full rights, against the in | system, for the raising of the scale ,of wages ard the lowering of the | period of apprenticeship. We demand the establishment of | work schools in factorics for train. |ing young workers, which shall be | modeled on the work schools in the Soviet Union. These werk schools |to be regulated by the trade unions. | the young workers attending the school and the factory committees of the workers, The young work- ers shall be paid while learning, and |the hours at school shall be included jin the general work week. We de clare that “old enough to work is old enough to vote,” and demand the immediate danger. The upward-developing American Tt is not booze and religion which It is list war menace which are the These issues are raised in the (Communist) Party and e Young Workers (Communist) Our Demands For Youth. As against starvation wages the| Communists’ call. upon the young| right to vote for all youth above 18 workers to fight for a $20 minimum wage. wrecking hours of toil, we demand | towards the changing of the condi- the 6-hour working day and the 5-|tions of youth labor, for the aboli- day week for all young workers be-| tween the ages of 16 and 18. As aj step towards preventing the slaygh- ter and crippling of the youth in in- dustry we demand the abolition of underground work, night work, over- time and work in dangerous occu- pations. years. As against body and mind| These demands are the first steps tion of exploitation for the young workers, We have no illusions that American capitalism will grant even a goodly part of these demands. That is why we inscribe on our elec- tion banner the call to the workers to overthrow the bourgeois rule and to establish the dictatorship of the working clas We.demand the compulsory aboli- Interests Ignored. | | | There is practically no social leg- lislation for the young workers in |the United States. Their wages are \far below the minimum standard |set, even by the bourgeois agen-| ‘cies. The 8-hour day is non-existant | for the mass of the young workers. | | They are employed in dangerous oc- | cupations, at overtime and night work, As far as educational possibilities | | are concerned (and one must not | forget that education in this country | \is capitalist class education) these are limited for the working class | youth. Almost half of the children |in this country do not even graduate from the elementary schools. Hoodwink Youth Into War. | The bourgeoisie is not satisfied | with this miserable situation of the | working class youth. 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