The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1928, Page 6

Page Six aily 22'5 Worker THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1928 Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published Dail Ass’n., Inc., Daily, E by National Worker Publishing Sunday, at 26-28 Y. Telephone, Address “Daitwork”? Union Square, Ne Stuyvesant 1696: ROBERT MINOR.. WM. F. DUNNE . Editor Assistant Editor For President For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Wm. Z. Foster For the Workers! A Campaign for the Revolution The Communist election campaign, wind-. ing up the tours of Foster and Gitlow with an unprecedented working class parade in New York streets Saturday and the stirring meeting at Madison Square Garden Sun- day, was in sharp contrast to the campaigns of the other parties. The Garden meeting, to a degree, sym- bolized the entire campaign. For one thing, it was one of the biggest election meetings ever held by any party in New York. Its character was in sharp contrast to the scenes a few hours earlier when the Wall Street-Tammany candidate, Al Smith, in the same hall, indulged in his customary clown- ing while evading every issue, or the scene of a few days earlier when Herbert Hoover, the sublime flunkey of imperialism, deliv- ,ered one of his masterpieces of sophistry. In place: of an array of multi-millionaires and corporation lawyers, the platform at this enormous meeting was occupied by leaders and rank and file members of the working class; instead of evasiveness on every vital question facing the masses of exploited workers and farmers, the revolutionary challenge of Communism to capitalism re- echoed throughout the vast auditorium erowded with workers. Instead of the fu- tility of Norman Thomas and the yellow middle-class elements who mock the name of socialism, there was put forth a definite, comprehensive program of working class struggle against imperialist despotism. It was the penultimate of what is by far the greatest campaign ever waged in the United States by the revolutionary political party, a campaign that was carried to the farthest parts of the United States and that evoked the combined hatred of the ruling class. The problem of unemployment, of wage-cuts, of speed-up and terror against the working class met by the Workers (Communist) Party. Countless thousands of workers realize now that only the work- ing class party offers a solution for their VOTE COMMUNIST! For the Party of the Class Struggle! SS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York only): $2.50 three mos. $8 a year $4.50 six mos. By Mail (outside of New York)’ $6 a year $3.50 six mos. $2.00 three mos. Address and mail out checks to The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. For Y.-President For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Ben Gitlow ainst the Capitalists! Communism in the Schools Not only does the capitalist class pollute the minds of children in the public schools in the hope that they will become loyal lackeys of jmperialism, but they suppress with fury every attempt to bring the real facts of life, especially the facts about the class struggle in modern society, before the pupils. That the teachers whose job it is to misinform the pupils with capitalist ig- norance and prejudice are unable to meet the arguments of the Pioneers of the Young Workers League is evidenced by the recent expulsion from. Junior High School, the Bronx, of Harry Eismann and Bernard Kap- lan, This expulsion was the culmination of a campaign of terrorism against the Pion- eers that has been going on since the be- | ginning of the term. The principal, a self- | styled liberal, admitted that he suspended them for carrying on agitation against over- crowded schools, demanding an annex, a cafeteria and discussing working class strug gles in classes. This suspension in New York is one of a series of attacks against the Young Pioneers by the combined forces of the state—the courts, the police, the press, the schools, In Los Angeles the headquarters of the Young Workers League was raided and the leaders of the movement jailed. “m New Bedford and Fall River the police are stationed at headquarters and do not permit the children to enter their own halls. Of course, this is another means of try- ing to stifle the Communist movement in this country, by striking at the Pioneer movement. But no attempts of the school ° authorities, the courts, the police, the Amer- ican Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars or “LADIES AND GENTS, TAKE YOUR CHOICE!” By Fred Ellis e By A. G. RICHMAN, | A dozen Negro newspapers which have come to our attention give an| interesting survey of the reaction of the Negro press to the election campaign of the Workers (Commut nist) Party. The papers are from as far South as Florida and Texas, as far North as New York. They give a good picture of how the typical Negro newspaper is treat- ing the Communist campaign. Every one of the papers has the point of view of the average Negro editor— a little capitalist interested first of all in advertising and in keeping the bourgeois and petty bourgeois advertisers placated. Yet the attitude of the two big) capitalist parties toward the Negro problem has been so viciously chauv-| inistie, so reeking with intolerance} and race hatred that these petty-| Bourgeois Papers Use Communist Statements to Answer Racial Attacks sed in his southern speeches. An-|the time when they could be stam-| other story on the same page; also|peded into voting for the old parties) a release from the Crusader News| by the mere statement that any Service, the left wing Negro news| other vote would be a vote thrown service, exposes the Rockefeller| away. Dunbar Bank in Harlem. A number} “. ... As a result of the inde-| of other stories from this service| pendent attitude of a large bloc of | are run in the same issue, Negro voters, the Negro republican | A Paper In Texas. aie emecrntio yeasts are Watching | The “Texas Freeman of Houston,|W!th misgivings the intensive activ-| Texas (issue of Sept. 29) is a good |e onthe Workers Party in Negro example of the extent to which|°°™munities. Communist propaganda and agita- From Oregon. tion is reaching the Negro. The! If we take, for instance, the Port- | commerce.” |is occupied in this paper by “Invest- Elections in Negro Press must go after business—not colored business, but business. The sooner Negroes see and learn this lesson the sooner will they take their place among the leaders in the world of Relatively more space ment Facts” than by anything élse except the local society news. Increases Tempo. It may be claimed that Commu- nist agitation and propaganda in a paper like this means nothing, but it must be remembered that the Negro masses read this press in so far as they read any Negro press, there is no other press for them, The “Negro Champion” has a com- paratively narrow circle of readers and is not yet a mass paper. Slow- ly the Negroes are realizing that no political party but the Workers Party is defending their interests) (Oil and the Imperialists _ ‘in Mexico (Continued., j The alliance between the leaders || jof the C. R. O. M. and the A, F. of |L, strengthens the penetration and control of American imperialism in Mexico. The A. F. of L. is the left. arm of American capital which | serves to strangle the labor organ- izations and the revolutionary move- ment of the exploited masses. The End of the Petty Bourgeoisie. Since 1910 the petty bourgeoisie has been the director of the revolu- tionary movement in Mexico, main- taining itself in power thanks to the support of the workers and pea- sants, Today the forces of the | petty-bourgeoisie is in complete de- cay. The majority of the old rev- olutionaries have vested interests now. They have become landown- ers, proprietors and partners in in- | dustrial enterprises. Thus the lead- lers of the petty bourgeoisie have | ceased as a revolutionary factor and |their remaining power would not only be useless but prejudictal to the working class. General Calles, the outstanding leader of the middle class, has just © raised his flag before the generals and politicians of the reaction. His resolution refusing to remain in | power any longer leaves the destin- jies of Mexico to a group of reac.’ tionaries. The government of the petty bourgeoisie has been a buffer government between the right and left—between the forces of reaction and the revolutionary elements. With the termination of the power of the petty bourgeoisie, the right and left begin the struggle against each other. An armed conflict be- comes inevitable between the two camps. The most immediate danger to the revolutionary movement is a division between the worker and peasant masses. The unification of the whole la- bor movement and the unification of the whole peasant movement are ab- solutely indispensable in the present struggle. The creation of one single national labor organization is pos- sible. The unification of the most revolutionary trade unions of the C. R. 0. M. with the autonomous unions and those of the C. G. T. (the General Confederation of Workers under anarcho-syndicalist leader- ship) will lead the remaining work- ers of the C. R. O. M. to expel the yellow bureaucrats, who have be- trayed the interests of the workers cf the Mexican Federation of Labor. At the same time it is necessary for the autonomous unions and for the C, G. T. to adopt a program of action truly based on the class strug- gle with which to face the politi- cians who sometimes under the flag of “socialism” and other times un- der the flag of “anarchism” hide their alliances and compromiises with the reactionary forces, Only the revolution can prevent the establishment of a clerical-mili- / tary dictatorship supported by the ~ United States. The form in which this government is presented, or the | mask the provisional president wears matters little. For all practical pur- ‘ thief headlines, running across the/land (Oregon) “Advocate” of Sep- h the one © He ne gon vocate” of Sep. Cee eee eee ioe ine song Page read: “Workers |Party Bids| tember 21, we find'that the chief on the Communist campaign, and for Negro Support on Libergl Plat-| first page story has a full page on the other hand have been forced | form,” and, “Negroes in New York headline which reads: “Communist any other agency, can crush these Red youngsters. Rather the attacks against them will steel them in the struggle and as- ills. Our Party has come decisively for- ward as the sole champion of the working class, as the sole champion of the poor farm- ers, exposing the pretenses of all three capi- and an election year is worth any| Poses the power of the government other four ordinary years in its ac-| Will be in the hands of the reaction- celerative effects upon the tempo |4Y generals and landowners. It is | with which our message reaches the | Necessary, therefore, that the work- |Fill Places on Workers Party|Flays Both Parties.” is talist parties—republicans, democrats and socialists. Ours is the one party in the United States that fights on every sector of the class struggle, that stands unequivocally for the racial and social equality for the Negro masses, that protects the foreign- born workers, that fights for the organiza- tion of the unorganized workers and that leads the masses on the road to the revolu- tionary overthrow of the capitalist system. The great Madison Square Garden at which our candidates for president and vice president and our principal state candidates presented the plaftorm of the class strug- gle, althqugh it is the last great meeting of the election campaign, is by no means the end of the Communist drive, but only an outstanding incident. It is a landmark from which we proceed to take advantage of the wide influence we have gained among the exploited ma: in order better to be able to continue our fight to generate that accu- mulation of energy, that continuity of re- sistance and concentration of force that will deliver the final blow to the rule of the im- perialist capitalist class of the United States and establish in its place a workers’ and farmers government. You, fellow workers, you, comrades of the workshops, factories, mills, mines and farms—go to the polls Tuesday and Vote Communist! R sure the future of the Communist move- ment in this country. Behind the Pioneers stands the vanguard of the proletariat of this country, the Work- ers (Communist) Party, under whose guid- ance many youngsters in their early teens are able to expose and ridicule the shabby pretenses to learning of the teachers and professors turned out of the best schools of capitalism. *The Pioneer movement is rapid- ly growing and no studied terror can stifle it. | We Said “Possible” In the city edition of Saturday’s Daily Worker appeared an editorial, the correct text of one sentence of which, as written, was: “That the upbuilding of socialism in one country is possible, is the verdict of his- tory.” In setting the type, an error of a printer changed the word “possible” to the word “impossible.” Needless to say such a mis- take cannot be left uncorrected, even though | purely typographical. The general text of the editorial, apart from the typographical error, showed its meaning to be that the building up of a complete socialist system in one country alone, can be accomplished. By EVE DORF. Herbert Hoover has been the con-| try, public utility men all.over the coun- He has the full support of Hoover, the Valet of Wall Street the republican party comes out for an anti-lynching law, in order to by pressure of the Negro masses and by the ferment among the race- conscious intellectuals and petty- bourgeoisie, to make some answer to the attacks of the two big parties upon the Negro. They have usually not dared to do so directly in their ments of, the activities and views of the Communist candidates toward the Negro problem, have been able to express their protest to a certain extent. Typical Case. own name, but by printing state.! This a |Crusader News Service story quot- |ing Comrade Richard B. Moore’s at- ack on the indorsement of Smith y a local independent league of Negro voters. The same issue car- ries an account of the speech by G. Ticket.” Of course, “liberal” is hardly correct, but the story makes \up for this. It is similar to the on referred to in the “East Tennesse News”, but is given as from its own) New York correspondent instead of) ping poate! fi be ; ae Crusader Alexander, a member of the Young News Service. includes, how-| Workers (Communist) League and ever, the following reference tq the | the American Negro Labor Congress Communist Party which is not in| at an International Youth Day meet- the other paper: jing, and a reference to DuBois, “As a result of the aggressive) article in the October issue of the championship of the cause of the| “Crisis. . masses, The effectiveness of the Party’s| campaign among the Negroes is evi-| denced by an editorial in the Char-| lotte (N. C.) “Observer” of October 13, headed, “An Enemy of the| Negroes,” which refers to the south-| ern tours of Foster and Moore, and| says in part:.“This party (the Com- munist Party) is going largely on) a single plank designed to secure | the Negro vote by advocating ‘ab- | solute political, economical and so-| ers and peasant masses prepare themselves for the revolution. The revolution in Mexico is, aboye all things, a military problem. Unarmed wérkers and peasants cannot make a revolution. The workers of the cities and country must arm and must be- gin military training in all work- ers and peasants organizations. The immediate task of the revolu- tion is the establishment of a Work- ers and Peasant Government that will destroy the roots of the clerical and landed reaction and the control cial equality’.” It tries to incite the of foreign capita] over the economic Let us take some of the papers $ Workers | and see how the Communist election |Party of Ameriga, observers in the message has affected them. There | Harlem district and in the Negro is, for example, the “East Tennes-| Communities of Chicago, Baltimore |see News” of Knoxville, issue of @tc., have been noticing of late a| October 4. It is a conservative, growing trend toward the Workers typically small town republican Party and its candidates. the city for the senate, praising lo- cal business men because they are boosting the city as a good place for manufacturers to come to, and urging the electrocution of a Negro who killed a white policeman. Yet one of the chief stories on the |front page of this paper, in large | black headlines reads as follows: | “Communists Conducting Aggres- |sive Campaign for Big Colored | Vote.” This article describes the |campaign of the Workers (Commu- |nist) Party in Harlem, the large number of Negro candidates on the Communist ticket, the Negro sec- tion of the Party program, and Fos- ter’s views on the Negro as expres- member of the cabinet it was im- | possible for him not to know. Be- And espe-| voters who previously had adopted a policy of defeatism and pessimism | declaring that since both the re-| | publican and democratic parties had! |been proven treacherous to Negro} interests it was no use for Negroes) to bother to vote in the coming) election. | Have Some Hope Now. “The aggressive campaign of the Workers Party has been instrumen- tal in giving new courage and hope? to these Negro voters. Of course, |they realize that Foster won’t be elected, no matter what happens in| |the case of the local nominees for, the assembly and congress. But! they have learned something since |chance to climb on their bandwagon) and share in the loot. Hooyer then’ sides, it has been proved that a pronounced the Harding program! |rival oil man, Helm, protested to (note this carefully) “constructive” Hoover on the Fall oil lease. and after election he became secre-| | Hoover never uttered one word in tary of commerce in the infamous | Negro workers by the This paper, like the others men- tioned and like all bourgeois and petty-bourgeois papers, is interested first of all in its advertising, re- ligious and “society” news. The editorials are neutral ones, neither republican nor democratic, just paper, backing the white mayor of cially is this the case with Negro mildly protesting against discrimi- nation and suggesting nothing to stop it. But it is Negro-conscious, and an honest and courageous. at- tack against discrimination and | prosecution by the two big capital- ist parties can receive a hearing. Since the Communist Party is the only one that takes a stand in op- position to discrimfnation and against persecution of the Negro and for full social and political equality with the whites, it is get- ting this hearing to a rapidly in- creasing degree, Another Florida Storm. The “Tampa” (Florida) “Bul- letin” is one of the best examples which has. come to our attention nnn [Of the extent to which ‘Communist! and left wing influence has affected the Negro press. Practically the entire first page of the issue of September 22, is full of Crusaders News Service releases and Commu- nist news. This includes an account stant apologist of the electric pow-| Mellon, the utilities king. His full er industry. In 1925 he went before support can mean only one thing. | the Los Angeles convention of the| Republicans and the Negro. National Electric Light Association The Negroes are the most ex- attract the Negro vote. These are words—the republicans have never acted against lynching and gave them a clean bill of health at the very moment that they were ploited section of lation of the United States. and they never will. th ii - e working popu The republicans, representing big In ad- voting large amounts of money for propaganda in the press and the schools in favor of private owner- ship of power resources, Hoover gave them, for their propaganda use, a stgtement that they were not eazning more than 6 per cent on thetr investment—an absurd lie. He said that regulation was ade- quate when every public service commission had been compelled to eviticize it. Hoover is supported by ¥ business, believe in race discrimina- tion. At the Kansas City conven- tion of the republican party, Ne- grpes were segregated. Hoover is now definitely catering to the “lily dition to being severely exploited |as ‘workers, they are the victims of |a vile race discrimination. What is the relation of the republicans id pthe Negro? During the eight (Mees jyears of the republican administra. | Whites of the South, jtion there has been not one thing Republicans and Corruption, |done for the Negro—lynchings in| Hoover and his party are smeared the South were ignored, denial of all over with oil. Hoover was a |suffrage to the Negro was never’ member of the cabinet during the considered in congress. Now, after|sale of the oil leases. He knew 1a record of disregard for the Negro, about it—this is cértain. As a by ics af | protest from that time to this. Tea- |lon, and the rest of the Harding |cabinet, as much as it does Fall, Daugherty and Denby, Hoover must. bear responsibility for this den of | corruption, Daugherty, Holland and Hoover. In February, 1920, Hoover said he could not support the republican party of Harding, because it was a party that “sought to re-establish control of the government for profit and privilege.” Yet in No- vember of the same year, he sud- denly came out for Harding and the republican party, when their election was certain and he a | pot Dome oil envelops Hoover, Mel- | | Harding cabinet. Another expose has been made of Hoover’s connection with oil by for- jof G. Alexander’s speech against \the danger of another world war, Moore’s attack on the two big par- ties, a speech of Foster against mer Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota, who claims to have docu- ments proving Hoover’s ownership |of 1,787,000 acres of cil lands ‘in |Colombia, and larger concessions in | Mexico. Hoover is most certainly an imperialtst, supporting a corrupt \imperialist republican record. Vote for a struggle against capi- talism with its exploitation of the farmers, its oppression of the Negro | race, its subservience to the power interests, its record of service to American.imperialism., Vote for the working class by voting Communist. lynching and Jim Crowism, the story of Negro workers in the New York district, one on the opening of a Negro headquarters by the Work- ers (Communist)! Party in Harlem, the election of Wm, Boyce, a Negro miner, as vice-president of the new left wing National Miners Union, and his speech in New York, a sto: of the Negroes in the Textile Mill Committee, etc. This paper, like the others, is for business first, urging editorially that the Negro must quit advertis- ing for “Negro Patronage.” “He 4 Negroes against the propagator of “Class-hatred.” The significance of | this editorial is that it shows clear-| Communist election program (not, | of course, as the “single plank”), The entire press of the country, Negro and white, recognizes and ad- mits, so far as it is unable to keep jentirely silent about the Communist |Party, that the Communists are the only Party that has a thoro-going jelection message for the Negroes, jone that goes to the revolutionary? root of the problem. The white | Press, conservative as it is in the |main, admits by the treatment.in | our campaign of the Negro problem, |that we are the only friends of the Negro as a rage, even though it refuses to tak ip the class implica- tions of our “program, Must Continue the Work. In this election campaign the Workers (Communist) Party has done more to approach the Negro working masses and the Negro race than ever before in ‘its entire his- tory and its success has been pro- portionately greater than at any time in the past. This good work must go on after the election. The new regions penetrated must be given attention and the Party or- ganization, the left wing and the Ame or Negro Congress must be built up ther ie big- gest opportunity of years, a presi- dential election campaign in which the Negro problem is to the fore, must continue to be big for the fu- ture; for in dealing with the Negro| Ui problem, especially in the south, we ry | are dealing with a great social force, with an oppressed group in American society which, when it is made a revolutionary force, will be one of the greatest factors making for a revolutionary overthrowal of Amer- ican imperialist capit ma. life of our country. The Program of the Revolution, 1. Dissolution of all large estates |ly that it recognizes the Negro prob-| and repartition of the lands amon; |lem as one of the chief planks in the| the poor peasants. : 2. Effective nationalization ~of the petroleum industry, mining, tex- | tile, transport. | 8. Dissolution of the legislature and the organization of public ad- ministration by workers and peas- ants councils and by a national con- | gress with delegates from the above | councils. ¥ | 4, The substitution of the actual |mercenary army by armed organi- zations of workers and peasants. | 5. Suspension of payment of the |foreign debt until.the Workers and | Peasants Government has been ree- | ognized by the creditor nations and until such time as the economic situ- ation of the country permits settle- ment. : 6. laws. 7. Immediate confiscation of all properties the church and all clerical organizations; of the reac- tionary generals and of all those elements openly or secretly fighting the revolution. 8. The establishment of a Civil! Code in line with the principles of the revolution. 9. Immediate organization of campaigns against illiteracy, estab- lishment of rural schools, etc. 10. Establishment of fraternal - relations with all countries oppressed by imperialism—especially with countries of Central and South America and the Antilles, and a pact of solidarity with the Soviet nion. ny 3 _The Mexican Communist Party must fight with all available means for the unification of the working and peasant masses; to organize the unorganized workers and strengthening of the existing organi- zations; propagate and ri the program of the revolution, Immediate regulation of labor