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a THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1928 orker tiinasti Party ROBERT MINOR..... AL Editor WM. F. DUNNE... A For President ce, ; For- President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Wm. Z. Foster For the Workers! gees Navy Day—Imperialist War Day American imperialism selected October 27 as “Navy Day.” This means War Day. It means a day on which the masses of toiling population are psychologized in preparation for the coming imperialist wars of conquest for the benefit of the owners and rulers of this country— the oligarchy of finance-capital. The United States already maintains the largest military and naval forces it has ever had during any time of peace. The Coolidge administration has sp t more than 11% billion dollars on the navy. The total amount spent for armaments by the United States in 1927 is the biggest spent by any country—nearly six hundred million dollars. From 1913 to 1927 the United States increased its military budget by 124 per cent; England by 65 per cent; Italy by 15 per cent and France by 2 per cent. In his address on Soldiers and Sailors Me- morial Day, May 30, 1928, Coolidge said: “Our investments and trade relations are such that it is almost impossible to conceive of any conflict anywhere on earth whith would not affect us injuriously. Whether so intended or not, any nations engaging in war would thereby necessarily be engaged in a course prejudicial to us.” American war plans show themselves in Europe, in Asia (the recent maneuvers with the Nanking government), in Latin Amer- ica (crushing of Nicaragua), the vigorous hostility to the Soviet Union (refusal to rec- ognize), sharpening of Anglo-American reia- tions (the struggle over the size of the navy, the war debt problem, the struggle over oil and rubber). Captain Luke McNamee, one of the leading American naval strategists, recently said: “History shows that war is but an ultimate form of economic competition. If we are to compete on equal terms we must have a navy able to protect our trade. ‘He who controls = the sea controls the world’—that is Mahan’s * dictum. We do not wish to control the sea but if protection means anything we are will- ing to fight for the freedom of that sea from the control of anyone. . . I wish to say a word about false propaganda against the army and navy. I am repeating no idle rumor when I tell you that much of this propaganda has a sinister for- eign source, its object—the overthrow of our government and the ultimate dictatorship of the proletariat.” The American workers must be roused, especially at those times when the imperial- ist butchers are engaged in such drives as that of Navy Day. Especially in connécticn with our election campaign, we, the Commu- nists, point to the war danger as the center of importance among issues. The Communist election campaign is a campaign of class struggle. Therefore we call to the workers to mobilize on Navy Day —against the imperialist war plans! The Workers (Communist) Part; elec- tion platform presents proposals in the fight against the imperialist war danger. It fol- lows: (1) Not a man, not a gun, not a cent for the imperialist army and navy. (2) Down with the imperialist war against aragua; defeat Wall Street’s war in Nica- Tagua; marines sent to Nicaragua must re- fuse to fight against the national liberation army. American marines in Nicaragua and China, go over to the side of the Nicaraguan and Chinese revolutions! (3) Immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Latin America and from the col- onies in the Pacific. Immediate withdrawal of United States warships and marines from China. (4) Complete and immediate independence for all American colonies and semi-colonies. (5) Hands off Mexico, (6) Abolition of the regime of the United States customs control, or “supervision” of fi- nances in Latin America. Withdrawal of sup- port from the puppet governments supervised by United States imperialism such as those of { ' r VOTE COMMUNIST! | Qi 9% | woRcers: conmuwst) parry For the Party of the Class Struggle! SUBSCRIPTION RAT By Mail (in New York only): year $4.50 six mos. $2.50 three mos. By Mail (outside of New York): $3.50 six mos, $2.00 three mos. s and mail out checks to The Daily Worker, 26-28-Union Square, New York, N. Y. $6 a year Ad For V.-President For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Ben Gitlow Against the Capitalists! Gomez of Venezuela, Legufa of Peru, and Ibanez of Chile. (7) Abolition of all extra-territoriality privi- leges of the United States in South and Cen- tral America, (8) Abolition of thé present mercenary army and navy and state militia, and struggle for a toilers’ militia; selection of officers by the soldiers and sailors. Full right to vote and hold office for the members of the military forces. (9) Fight for the abolition of the whele system of infamous imperialist “peace treaties.” own with the Dawes Plan! Down with the Kellogg Treaties! Cancellation of all debts of the last imperialist world war. Immediate withdra¥al from the World Court and refusal to enter into the League of Nations, Hoover, Expleiter of Coolies, Serfs and Slaves , John Sullivan, President of the New York State Federation of Labor, has issued a state- ment sponsoring rave Herbert Hoover. charges against He piles up a whole series of facts to prove that Hoover got his millions out of the most ruthless exploitation of Chinese coolies, In- dian slaves, and Russian half-serfs. In India, Hoover, as chairman of the Burma Corporation, Ltd., employed 20,000 men, whomppfficial British documents called “‘com- pulsory free labor.” In China, mines operated by Hoover forced 40,000 coolies “with the bayonets and soldiers of your partner, the Empress of China, under conditions of semi-slavery.” ist Russia, Hoover was engaged in the operation of railroads, copper and sulphur mines, and ,“jamong the number of employed some 30,000 of them were serfs and convicts with cossacks using the whip and rifle to force compulsory employment in the financial interest of you and your partners, the Romanoff royal family.” These charges put forward by Mr. Sulli- van are very serious, and throw a powerful searchlight on the activities of the presi- dential candidate of finance capital. But Mr. Sullivan, as an experienced and notorious labor. faker, does not tell the whole truth. He keeps quiet about the following fundamental facts: 1. That not only Hoover as an individual but the whole American master class is en- gaged in the same kind of ruthless exploita- tion of coolies in China, peasants in Latin America, and half-slaves in the various colonies. That Hoover and the whole capitalist class of this country is exploiting not only Chinese coolies and Burmese slaves and Mex- ican peasants, but are with all their force and strength for the perpetuation of wage slavery in the United States and for the maintenance in virtual slavery of the Ne- groes of the South. 3. That Al Smith, Mr. Sullivan’s favorite candidate, is by no means better than Hoover; that he, just as Hoover, stands for the exploitation and oppression of the toilers here in America. 4, That Mr. Sj 2 ivan and his labor-faker colleagues, the ole American Federation of Labor, are not putting up any resistance to defend the colonial peoples or the workers of this country against exploitation and up- pression. 5. That there is only one political force, the Workers (Communist) Party of Amor- ica, which fights for the liberation of the colonial peoples, for the overthrow of cap- italism, for the abolition of wage slavery, for the emancipation of the Negroes. Workers, Vote Communist! Send your contribution of at least one dollar today di- rect to the National Election Campaign Com- mittee, Workers (Communist) Party, 43 East 125th St., Now York City. woman 7+ ‘ By Fred Ellis ‘Communists Fight for the ‘Negro Worker By OTTO HUISWOUD. Terrorism! This is the answer of the capitalist class to the campaign for the mobilization of the workers for struggle against capitalism by the Workers (Communist) Party. In all sections of the country, the workers are being attacked, meet- ings broken up, speakers arrested, The American legion, ku klux klan and other terrorist organizations have united their forces in an at- tempt to prevent the Communists bringing the message of labor soli- darity to the masses, black and white. The forces of reaction are aroused and are leaving no stone un- turned to stop the party from reach- ing the Negro workers with its slogan—“Full economic, political and social equality for the Negro race.” Reaching Negro Masses, The vicious and brutal attacks launched against our party, partieu- larly in the south and southwest, are indicative of the effectiveness of our campaign in those sections of the country. That the Party is penetrat- ing the “solid south” and is doing effective work among the Negro masses is attested by the fact that every issue of the southern Negro press is filled with news-matter con- cerning the stand taken by Commun- ists on the race issue. Not only this, but Negro workers are responding and attending the meetings at which the presidential candidates and other speakers of the Party appear. In Houston, Texas, where Negro visitors to the democratic conven- tion were cooped up in a wire cage and where Robert Powell was lynched a few days before that con- Puttin on the The Party is still wag-| nt in the states of } klahoma where all | regulations have been met but wh the State authorities, in coo with such reactionary org. as the American Legion. War Veterans, ete.,, are trying to sep us off the ballot. In 1924, the names of our lential candidates appea on thy ballot in only 14 states. This yea¥. Comrades Foster and Gitlow wi head the Communist ticket in all the states in which the Party was on the ballot in 1924 and in 20 ad- ditional states besides. A glance at the two maps, published in adjoining columns, will disclose that while/ in 1924 the Communtst candidates were on the ballot only in a few eastern, middle western and north western states, on November 6th the workers will have an opportun- \ity to vote for the Communist tick- et in every important section of the | country. In 1924, due to our activity in the farmer-labor movement, the Party was able, on comparatively short | notice, to swing several northwest-| ern states in addition to the eastern | and middle western states in which the Party is the strongest. This| year, not only is every important | industrial and agricultural section) in the-Communist column, but for | the first time, the south has been penetrated with our emblem, pro- gram and candidates. The Workers | ‘|(Communist) Party, appearing on, the ballot in 19 industrial, 6 agri-| cultural and 9 southern and border | | states, can rightfully claim that in| |the present presidential elections it | is functioning as a national party. The extension of the Communist | election campaign to more than) three-fourths of the states can be| ascribed to the following: (1) The objective conditions which placed the | | Workers (Communist) Party in the forefront as the only revolutionary political party of the American | working class; (2) the growing in- | fluence of the Party among the | masses as a result of its participa- | tion in all the struggiéS of the work- ers during the past four years; (3) |the enthusiasm and intensity with which the Party membership has thrown itself into the election cam- paign carrying along with it sym-/| pathetic elements that helped a great deal with the work; (4) the fact that the Central Executive | Committee began the organization- |al work with regard to the election campaign as early as last spring; and (5) the impetus which the elec- | tion campaign received from the |National Nominating Convention |held in May, Democracy Exposed. American democracy makes it dif- | ficult for a party of the working | class to appear officially on the bal- | lot. Numerous regulations are set up making it obligatory on a minor party to either secure a certain per- centage of the total vote cast in preceding elections, or to gather and present to the state authorities a requisite number of petitions signed |by duly qualified and registered voters. In a country which boasts of the right of any person or group of per- sons to appear before the electorate with a program and candidates of their own choosing, a workers’ par- |ty must undergo exceptional diffi g Communi st Party on U. S. Map oO ignature gathering vention, a meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party at which its vice-presidential candidate, Benjamin | Gitlow, was to speak, was raided by the potice. The reason given for this jvaid was the invitation extended to 'Negroes to attend the meeting and icipated in the strug-|the fact that they would be,seated ts (needle trades, /in the same hall with the white work- es, ete.), that Negro|ers, A successful meeting was held, ‘ally responded | however, in another hall with white at the contacts | and Negro workers present, The distribution of thousands of In » file 23.5 tures to place the and some local as it was to secure many thousand in other states, because of their size, the weakness of our Party in those states, and the limited time in which these signatures had to be secured. A Special Obstacle. A particularly “democratic” pro- vision in some states is one requir- ing that the total number of neces- sary signatures be gathered by counties, wards, assembly districts, | still fighting in Nebraska and Okla-|the country. ete, and not merely at any one point in the state, which precludes the possibility of gathering na- tures among working class citizens in shops or at meetings in the large industrial centers of the state where our Party could easily secure the total number of signatures required for the whole state. Over 100,000 signatures were required to place the party on the ballot in the 34 states. Realizing the enormous difficulty with which the Party was faced if it wanted to be on the ballot in at least 30 states, the C. E. C. declared the gathering of signatures a major political task of the Party. This was also necessary lest some com- rades might think that the gather- ing of signatures was purely a cler- ical job. Before the Party was well st in every state the Party 1 ight to get on the ballot ur and the building of the {new miners’ union, the comrad |had to overcome great difficult’ before the Party was placed on the ballot in those states, | All along the line, reactionary | ganizations, such as the Ku Klux | Klan, the American Legion, employ ers’ organizations and labor fakers. combined with the state authorities in the attempt to keep our candi. |dates off the ballot. The Party is homa to stay on the ballot. Gain Political Experience. |to place our Party on the ballot, not |only helped us to expose American |democracy and the nature of the capitalist state but has “also given |us a great many additional exper- |iences of a political character which | justified the position of the C. E. \c. that the placing of the Party on |the ballot was a major political | task. The fact that the Party has |Yeached new aréas heretofore un | tredden, that it enlisted in this cam- paign not only the Party member- ship but large numbers of sympa- thetic workers who gathered signa- tures for the Party, that the signa- |ture campaign was particularly successful in those sections where i oben | t-| Workers and exploited farmers, in The signature-gathering campaign | led to the enrollment of individual | rembers and the establishment of | s and experiences of the com- nd the Party as a whole have | rot only proven of inestimable value lready but will count considerably |in the development of our parlia- |mentary work and the extension of he Party on a national scale. @ an election campaign is y one of the campaigns of a Communist Party, our Party has jmade the most°of the present elec- | tion to the best of its abilities in |veaching the masses with the Com- munist message, in making our class struggle platform known among the | Spreading the influence of the Par- ty, in establishing our Party as a class party of the workers, the on- \ly political party which has the |right to claim the support and al- \legiance of the working masses of Fascists Sentence “Communist Editor ROME, Oct. 26.—Francesco Le- one, a worker of San Paulo, Brazil, was today sentenced to seven years |and seven months’ imprisonment by the fascist court on charges of “dis- sembling anti-Italian propaganda” as editor of a Communist newspaper | published in Italian in France. Leone was arrested in Italy, Fear is fett for Leone’s life, due to the fact that many Communists have mysteriously disappeared fol- lowing their imprisonment by the ‘fascist gover t. Here’s How Communist Election Fight Has Grown Since 1924 1928 4 FEBS STATES ON THE BALLOT. DOUBTFUL STATES. (J STATES NOT FILED. There are 34 states on the ballo« in 1928. There were 14 in 1924. The twenty more states were won after a furious fight to overcome obstacles. Observe how the solid south has been penctrated, cuities and cxpend, large sums of (GW STATES On THE BALLor, Co states nor Fileo, , To 7 Yrs. In Prison| leaflets condemning lynching in the south is a nightmare that disturbs OTTO HUISWOUD. the peace of mind of the southern bourbons. Arrests at Wilmington. Z., Foster, Workers (Communist) Party candidate for president and four other workers were arrested and their meeting broken up by the police when they exposed the ex- ploitation and subjection of the Ne- gro workers under the rule of the capitalist parties. The reasons given for stopping the meeting was that the Workers Party distributed a leaf- Tet entitled “Abolish Lynching,” which was forbidden by the police, Suppression, violence and persecu- tion are not unknown to the Negro. At the polls he is brutally beaten when he makes a determined at- tempt to vote. On the plantation he is driven under the lash so that he may give his last drop of blood for the enrichment of the master class, Killed for “Talking Back.” On the slightest pretext—“talking back to white folks,” for instance, he is lynched and burned at the stake. To hold him in abject slavery, to make him a “hewer of wood and a drawer of water,” to keep him in a condition of poverty and servitude, to make him a docile slave, this is the program of the ruling class, sup- ported by the republican and demo- cratic parties, In spite of all these acts of ter- rorism and violence, resorted to by |the lackeys of the ruling class, the Negro workers ae more and more lending a willing ear to the Commun- ist program, Meetings of the Work- ers (Communist) Party throughout the country are drawing ever larger numbers of Negro workers. In Kan- sas City, 400 Negro workers at- tended a mass meeting held by the Party. Everywhere Negro workers ,|are drawn into the ranks of the only Party that fights against segrega- tion, disfranchisement, lynching and for the organization of the Negro and white workers on a basis of equality. . Join Us In the Fight! Negro workers! Your place is within the ranks of the Party that fights your battles, Join in t struggle for the emancipation of the working class. Only through unity of the black and: white workers in common struggle can you hope to break the chains of slavery. Rally to the Workers (Commun- ist) Party! Vote the Comnfunist . ticket! Join the Workers (Commun ‘ ist) Party of America! ay In Wilmington, Delaware, William - i) if — —_