The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 6, 1928, Page 3

3 e ‘ eer | WIR RESEARCH BUREAU Seek Aid From Workers of All Countries le: THE DAIL Y WORREE: NEW YORK, TUE! SDAY, NOVEMBER 6,1 928 Page Three FOR EIGN NEWS AND FEAT URES - - BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRE CLASS AGAINST CLASS Election Day Call: of Workers (Communist) Party of America tne earth is the most shining, most promising fact on the horizon for the future of the toilers of the whole world. ONLY ONE PARTY FIGHTS CAPITALISM. Only the Communist Party is raising the issue of the next imperialist world war. It denounces all imperialist preparations. It demands the immediate independence of all American colonies, the withdrawal of United States troops from China and Nicaragua. The Communist Party is fighting imperialist war, and ‘will do everything to help defeat the United States government in its next war, will do its utmost to transform the silagte ene war into a civil ees against the United States capitalists. Only the Communist Party challenges wage slavery. The ry munist Party fights for the abolition of wage slavery. It has as its aim the overthrow of capitalism, the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government, the establishment of a Communist so- ciety in which the means of production will not be the private prop- erty of the few, a society which will not be based on profit but on labor, which will not be founded on class divisions, which will eradi- cate both imperialist wars and class wars, which will be able to eliminate poverty. The Communist Party raises the issue of Negro oppress... in all fts length and breadth. We fight for the abolition of the whole infamous system of race discrimination—for the full racial and social equality of the Negro masses, and for the right of the Negroes in the South to self-determination. The Negro race must understand that capitalism means racial oppression, and Communism means social and racial equality. The Communist Party exposes bourgeois democracy, which is in truth the dictatorship of the trusts. Government by injunction, raids and deportations, penitentaries for political prisoners, troops crushing strikes, frame-ups and lynchings, disfranchisement of mil- lions of Negroes and foreign-born workers—these are the realities of American “democracy.” The Communist Party pledges itself to defend Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the fatherland of the workingclass of the world. Soviet Russia is building socialism now, has the most complete system of labor protection and social insurance, is the only power which has reduced its military forces and is working for peace. THE CURE FOR WAR. Workers! Comrades! Don’t believe the lies of the parties of big and small business. The Kellogg pact cannot prevent war. The League of Nations is an instrument of imperialism preparing for war. All pacifist phrases of the socialists are good only to distract your attention from the looming war danger. War, under imperialism, is inevitable. Only the revolutionary class struggle of the working class can prevent it. Don’t believe the brazen lies about exterminating poverty under the rule of capitalism. Poverty cannot be exterminated in a class society in which the means of production are the private property of the few, in which the huge masses of people are forced to sell their only property, their labor power. Only Commanism will be able to eliminate poverty as well as class domination. Don’t believe in fake promises about gradually improving capi- talist democracy. Capitalist democracy means 102 years in prison for New Bedford strikers, means the execution of Sacco and Van- zetti, means ruling the Communist Party off the ballot in a whole series of states, means government by injunction, means company towns, means boss terrorism to force workers to vote for the capi- talist parties. Real democracy for the toiling masses can be es- tablished only by the revolutionary overthrow of the present gov- ernment. The working class cannot reform or “take over” the pres- ent apparatus of government. The proletarian revolution will destroy this huge machine, and will build its own government based on the factories as units of production. The state form of the rule of the working class will be councils of workers. The Soviet form of government constitutes the only real democracy for the over- whelming majority-of the people, for the toiling masses, WHAT A COMMUNIST VOTE MEANS. Comrades! Mobilize all your forces on Election Workers! Day! A big Communist vote will be the most effective protest against imperialist war. A big Communist vote will be a Vote against capitalist society, against wage slavery, for the overthrow of capitalism. A big Communist vote will be a vote against lynching, against racial discrimination, for full social and political equality of the Negroes. A big Communist vote will be an expression of solidarity with the only working class government, with the Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. A big Communist vote will be the expression of the fighting will of the masses against wage-cuts, against speed-up, against un- employment, for the organization of the unorganized millions, for the formation of new militant trade unions, A big Communist vote will be a protest against fake capitalist “farm relief” and for giving the land to its users. A big Communist vote will be the index of proletarian protest against capitalist terror, against the sinister forces of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Legion. A big Communist vote will be a powerful mass demonstration against class collaboration with the bosses, for revolutionary class struggle. A huge Communist vote will be the expression of the fighting “ will of the working class of America to overthrow capitalism and to erect its own rule, a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. Workers! Vote Communist! Join the Communist Party, the only party of the proletarian class struggle. Build your own party. Help to forge the instrument to emaicipate the working class. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. Announcing the creating of the International Social Welfare Re-|catidn, leaflets, pamphlets, search Department of the workers | papers, documents, etc., etc. “Send us information, your publi- news- International Relief, the Central) Committee of the W. I. R. has sent) the following aboeal to all prole- | tarian organizations: “The International Social Welfare Research Department seeks your help. “Called into life by the Workers | International Relief, we now need | the aid of proletarian solidarity to| finish the foundation of the Re-| search Department. “The Research Department con-| cerns itself with problems of social | welfare of all countries, especially | with the protection of children, the | youth and women caught in the foils of the capitalist system. | “From you we want mater@l. NewHampshireOfficial Embezzled State Funds CONCORD, N. H., Nov. 5.—Sec- retary of State Hobart Pillsbury was arraigned in police court today en a charge of embezzling state funds. He was arrested at his home in Manchester this morning on a warrant charging he had diverted these state funds to his own private use. He was freed later on $3,000 bail, and immediately after being re- leased sent in a letter to Governor Spaulding asking that his outraged innocence be given pernegon to re- aN ae his post, » “We will send you our regular in- formation bulletins, for which we want material from all parts of the _world, and we will supply you with | our regular news service. “A series of organizations are now \allied with us. Through the develop- ment of our connections our Re- search Department will reach broad \fields in the service of the interna- tional working class movement. “Send material, Enter into regu- lar correspondegtte with us. With proletarian tings, “Internatiofal Social Welfare Re- search Department of the W. I. R. Address: Berlin W 8, Wilhelm- strasse 48, III. Volcano That Killed _ 20,000 Active Again BATAVIA, Java., Nov. 5.—One hundred and twelve explosions were yesterday recorded on the island vol- cano of Krakatao. The eruptions were beneath the surface of the sea, and caused the water to be hurled into the air. The most disastrous eruption of the Kewakatao volcano occurred in 1883, when two-thirds of the island was blown away, causing the forma- tion of a huge wave that drowned 20,000 people on the neighborhood shores. and Mr. Woll Loci in effi Labor Fakers Get It In the Neck in unu in the revolutionary pageant. Workers who attended the huge demonstration at Madison Square Garden Sunday, had an opportunity of seeing several distingyished labor “leaders” sual poses. Above are Mr. Green Continued from Page One ment of the United States sec- tion of the All-America Anti- Imperialist League as a timely and useful contribution to the anti-imperialist struggles of the American masses in the national election campaign. The statement of the Anti-Im- perialist League draws the atten- tion of the masses once more to the policies of imperialist robbery and oppression pursued by the ruling class of the United States in all parts of the world. It urges the need of organized struggle against the danger of new imper- ialist wars. The further armed subjugation of Nicaragua by American imper- ialism, assisted by the mock pres- idential elections just carried through by American marines to the presidency, lends vital urgen- cy to the need of militant strug- gle against American imperial- ism. The heroic resistance of the toilers of Nicaragua, led by San- dino, as well as the awakening militancy of the workers organ- ized in the Nicaraguan Federa- tion of Labor which advocated a boycott of the mock Wall Street elections, must be supported and encouraged by the toiling masses of the United States. Fight U. S. Imperialism. We endorse the progyam of the Anti-Imperialist League. We re- iterate our standin favor of the complete and unconditional inde- pendence of all colonies and semi- perialism (Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, ete.). We reiterate our pledge to continue all armed forces and all supervis- ing agents of American imperial- ism from Nicaragua, China and other foreign countries. We call upon the toiling masses to wage a greater importance to the masses in the present election campaign than the one of combatting Amer- ican imperialism and the war preparations. Condition of Slavery. American imperialism spells the crushing of the national in- dependence of the people of Latin America and the Caribbean Islands. It spells a condition of slavery and semi-slavery for the workers and peasants of these countries, American imperialism means further penetration into China with the aim of crushing the Chinese revolution and extending the rule of American capitalism. It means sharpening rivalry with the imperialists of Great Britain and Japan, leading inevitably to war. It means a bigger navy, army and air fleet, more militar- ization of the government and re- pression of the masses. It means hostility and armed attack upon the Soviet Union. American imperialism means capitalist rationalization of indus- try. It means wage cuts, speed- up, unemployment, “open shop,” spy systems, and intensified at- tack upon the standard of living and organizations of the Ameri- can workers. It means more ruin for the mass of the American farmers. It means more brutal persecution and discrimination of the American Negro masses. Hoover and Smith, Imperialists. Where does Hoover and the re- publican party stand on these issues? He and his party stand with the big capitalists and the imperialists. He is frankly and brutally imperialistic. He boasts of his intention to continue the policies of Coolidge—the war up- on Nicaragua, the subjugation of Liberia, the bombardment of Nanking, the Kellogg Pact—a war instrument of American im- perialism, etc. Where do Smith and the demo- cratic party stand on these is- sues? Smith and his party stand with Wall Street. He is the same as Hoover ay Coolidge except ¥ place a puppet of Wall Street into | colonies held by United States im- | the fight for the withdrawal of | relentless struggle against all manifestations of American im- perialism. There is no issue that is of | words. He promises to revive the traditions of Woodrow Wilson— thé war of 1917 “to save the world for democracy,” the inva- sion of Mexico, the armed inter- vention in Soviet Ri the im- perialist League of Nations, etc. Rev. Thomas For Imperialism. Where does Norman Thomas, the socialist, stand on these is- sues? He and his party stand for | middle-class pacifism and liberal- ism. This means shouting empty words only against some of the evils of imperialism without a struggle against the system which produces imperial- ism. Thomas and the socialist party want to “civilize” imperial- ism, give it a nicer dressing, but not to abolish it altogether. Nor- man Thomas wages war against working class revolution, which is the only way of ridding the world | of imperialism and imperialist war. Norman Thomas, the social- | ist, the same as the reactionary trade union bureaucracy, is only helping Hoover and Smith to de- ceive the masses, to lull them to sleep, and to keep them back . from the real struggle against American imperialism and the war danger. He and his party stand for the imperialist League of Nations, for the Kellogg War Pact, for the independence of the Philippines provided the Ameri- can imperialists agree to it, ete. The Workers (Communist) Par- | ty, American section of the Com- munist International, stands on the platform of the working class revolution to erthrow the entire capitalist system which gives rise to imperialism and imperialist wars, for the dictatorship of the | proletariat, for a workers’ and farmers’ government. The Workers (Communist) Par- | ty aims in this election campaign | to organize and mobilize the toil- | ing masses of America for a mili- | | that he uses sweet and liberal | | tant struggle against American | imperialism in all its forms. Demonstrate and organize | against imperialism and imperial- ist war! Vote for and support the Work- ers (Communist) Party! WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY. Central Executive Committee. DENY RUMORS OF USSR GRAIN BUY Year’s Crop. Exceeds That of 1927 Reports that the Soviet Union was ready tro purchase wheat in Canada, because of the alleged fail- ure of the wheat crop, were entirely contradicted today in a statement issued by.S. G, Bren, chairman of | the board of directors of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, doing business in this country for the Soviet gov- ernment. The statement follows: “With reference to the stateménts appearing in the press to the effect that Soviet Russia is making in- quiries preparatory to consummat- 4was ready to purchase wheat in I wish to state that no such in- quiries have been.made and that no purchases for the Soviet Union of Canadian or other wheat or any other grains are contemplated. “The grain crop this year in the U. S. S. R. is satisfactory and ex- ing purchases of Canadian wheat, duction of wheat, in particular, is ceeds that of last year. The’ pro- duction in 1927. Grain purchases from peasants by state and co- operative agencies are increasing rapidly. In September and the first half of October grain procure- ments were considerably above last year’s.” Workers! ‘ote for and Car, the Workers (Commu: ist) Pa The Workers (Communist) Party is hour, 7 week. capitalist | MARINES PUT MONCADA RENEWED SPIRIT OVER IN NICARAGUA IN SILK STRIKE Workers AgainSupport Militants Continued from Page One member of the strike committee. In her report Gertrude Meuller sharply criticized the compromising tacties of the officialdom which is danger- jously jeopardizing the chances of a ‘ike victory by making fake set- ments, and refusing to put up a ‘real fight against the bosses. She | proposed assistance to the National Textile Worke Union in organiz. | ing the dye workers, affiliation with that organization, mass picketing and guaranteed settlements on union jconditions and recognition of the union. Proof of Right Policy. Lena Chernenko, in her ta ed to the mornings mass picketing and the overcrowded meeting as signs of the beneficial effects of the decision made at Saturday’s meeting. |She called on the workers to put into motion immediate plans for the | carrying out their meeting’s deci- sions. She therr described the scene at Madison Square Garden in New | York, where the Workers (Commu- |nist)’ Party was holding an election |rally and Russian Revolution cele- | bration, when the 250 Paterson silk | strikers walked into the Ing arena and were greeted with thunderous cheers by the twenty thousand work- |ers there. When she told of how the huge meeting in New York had unanimously passed a resolution to support the Paterson strilie, the as- sembled strikers cheered. The reso- lution carried by the meeting of 20,- 000 also called on the Paterson strik- ers to fight the bosses militantly and to affiliate with the new Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union. Over one hundred children of strik- ing workers responded to the call for a mass meeting last Saturday. After election of an executive com- mittee to formulate plans as to how the children can help their parents win the strike, a decision was passed point- ing Toga ok se ce in Turner Hall. MINE ORGANIZER FLAYS FINN CLUB Exposes ; Reactionary. Wyoming Group (Special to the Daily Worker ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (By) Mail).—In a statement issued here, the Wyoming Organization Commit- tee of the National Miners’ Union at- | tacks the local Finnish Club for its | anti-labor activities. The statement, signed by Freeman Thompson, of the miners’ organization committee, follows: “At Rock Springs, Wyoming, considered radical, always celebrates radical events and otherwise seeks to give the impression it is for the working class. “When the coal miners of Wyom- ing rose in revolt against the Lewis machine the organizers of the Na- tional Miners’ Union considered the time opportune to begin the organi- zation of the National Miners Union in Wyoming. “Thereupon they requested the hall committee of the organization, headed by Hiibacka and Paavola, to rent the hall. These two supposed ‘friends’ or ‘radicals’ refused the use of the hall, saying that the National Miners’ Union is wrong in its work and is ruining the coal miners. No amount of persuasion could change them. They even argued that it was wrong to have had two relief com- mittees in the Pennsylvania strike, that the Lewis committee was suffi- cient. “Since the Finnish Club here is considered radical by many workers we request that this statement be printed in all the labor press in or- der to expose the reactionary work of this organization. s that the elected committee bring in| a report to another children’s meet-| there exists a Finnish Club which is | SPONDENTS At Madison Sauare Garden lly 604 QMBIA TRADE UNIONS TO JOIN MILITANT GROUP To Send Delegates to | Montivedo Congress BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 5.—The central trade union body of Colom- bia has decided to participate in the Latin-American Trade Union Con- gress to be held next May in Monti- vedo, to which all labor unions in Central and South America have been invited. The Colombia body has sent let- ters to all trade unions asking them to elect delegates and to prepare for the congress. The purpose of the congress is reported to be to further the soli- of the Latin-American work- inst United States imperial-| and against the traitors at ism home. One of its slogans is “Against the Yankee bourgeoisie, but with the North American working: class!” Toral Tries to Cloak’ Clergy Responsibility in Killing of Obregon MEXICO CITY, Nov. 5.—Jose De Leon Toral, as his trial for assas- sination moved. on, continued to as- sert that he was alone to blame for killing President-elect Obregon, ex- onerating Mother Superior Concep- cion—who is on trial accused with being the intellectual author of the crime—and all others held as accom- plices. He said he considered him- self “as well as dead.” At Sunday’s hearing in the little court room of San Angel, Toral made an impassioned plea in de- fense of the nun. Under questioning by the nun’s attorney, Fernando Ortega, Toral told the same story as h@re all the others arrested in con- nection with the crime, namely, that the nun’s home merely was a cen- tral gathering place for the malcon- tents and that she had no idea of what they planned. At the end of the session, Toral received permission to read the newspapers, to make certain he had not been misquoted, and also was given permission to make additional “statements. Our Candidates WILLIAM Z. FOSTER William Z. Foster was born at| Taunton, Massachusetts, February 1881. Father, Irish, Mother, English. Foster went to work at 10 years of age, after only three years of schooling. Has been successively a seulptor’s apprentice, type founder. factory worker, steam engineer, steam ‘ fitter, railroad brakeman, railroad fireman, logger, salesman, street car motorman, longshoreman, farmer, laborer, deep water sailor, and many other occupations. Prin- pal trade at present is railroad car inspector. Is a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America, affiliated to the American Federation of Labor. Foster jointd the socialist move- ment in 1900. In 1909 he was ex- pelled with the left wing of the. so- cialist party by the reactionary na- tional socialist bureaucracy in the state of Washington. Refused to join that organization again. In- stead, he joined the Industrial Work- ers of the World, and took an active part in the Spokane free speech fight, being arrested in connection therewith. In 1910, went to Europe, spending 13 months there studying) the labor movement in France, Ger-| many, Austria and other countries. Was a delegate from the I. W. W. to the Budapest meeting, 1910 of the International Trade Union Sec- retariat, and contested the seat of the A. F. of L. delegate to that body, but unsuccessfully. On his return, Foster took part in the formation of the Syndicalist League of North America in 1911, an organization to organize the militant minority in the trade unions. This organization carried on considerable activity, but died in 1914. also to organize the International | Trade Union Educational League in| 1916. During the war period, Foster was |, active in the trade unions, being sec- retary of the committee that or-| ganized 200,000 packing house work- ers in 1917. After this, in 1918, he was secretary of the committee that organized 250,000 steel workers and conducted the great 1919 steel strike cf 400,000 steel/ workers. In the spring of 1921, Foster made a trip to Russia, attending the con-| jgresses of the Communist Interna-| | tional and the Red International hed | Labor Unions. Upon his return, h af |declared himself a Communist and) has since been active in the Com-| munist movement. He is head of the} Trade Union Educatignal League, | which was organized in the fall of | | 1920, before he went to Russia and| \the official organ of which, Labor} Unity, is the leading magazine di-| |recting the work of the Communists | | and left wing generally in the unions | |and thruout industry. | Foster has written a number of| pamphlets and books, having ac-| | quired an education by self-effort,| including the principal European languages. Among his works are; “Syndicalism,” “Trade Unionism, the Road to Freedom,” “The Great Steel | Strike,” “The Russian Revolution,”| “The Revolutionary Crisis of 1918- | 1921 in Germany, England, Italy and |France,” “The Railroaders’ Next} Step,” “Amalgamation,” “The Bank- ruptcy of the American Labor Move- ment,” “Misleaders of Labor,” and “Wrecking the Labor Banks.” Foster has been a member of the ‘entral Executive Committee of the orkers (Communist) Party since 921. ‘ TO SIGN KELLOGG PACT WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UP),— Afghanistan has informed the state department of its intention to adhere to the anti-war treaty, Sec- reary of State Kellogg announced today. He said the bill providing for ad- herence by Colombia had passed the first reading in the Colombian senate. “A worker or a so-called friend of the workers who acts as a reaction- ary and speaks like a radical is a greater foe of the workers than John L. Lewis. These two do the bidding of the bosses in the worst way. We appeal to, the members of the Finnish club to consider their position and join hands with all the miners in building the National BENJAMIN GITLOW Benjamin Gitlow, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, is American-born and now 52 years old. He has been an active} member of the trade union move- ment since 1913, first in the Retail Clerks’ Union of New since 1918 in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Gitlow was presi- dent of the clerks’ union for two years and in 1914 was one of the most vigorous participants in the big unemployment demonstrations in New York, which were chiefly under| I. W. W. leadership. He organized the first of these demonstrations. which were composed soley of work- ing class women. In 1910 Gitlow joined the socialist party. In 1917, on an anti-war plat- form and in opposition to conscrip- tion he was elected as a socialist to the New York state legislature for one year. In 1918 he associated him- self as the only parliamentary rep- resentative with the left wing of the socialist party. He was elected to the Executive Committee of the left wing at its first conference in New | York City and later served on the Executive Council of the national left wing. Gitlow conducted an _ energetic fight in the left against the wrong tactics of the Russian Federation Group led by Nicholas Hourwich. The English-speaking clements in the| organization supported Gitlow. John Reed, who died in Moscow, became associated with Gitlow at this time and they were in the group that or- ganized the Communist Labor Party. In 1918-19 Gitlow became con- nected with the “Revolutionary Age,” official organ of the left wing edited then by John Reed. On November 8, 1919, Gitlow was York and) 2 PROVINCES IN REVOLT AGAINST CHINA WAR LORD 30,000,000 Peasants Oppose Feng PEKING, Nov. 5.—In spite of of- ficial secrecy it is known here that latest dispatches from Kansu and Sinkiang provinces report that 30,- 000,000 peasants in these Moham- medan western provinces are now in rebellion against the Nanking war lord, Feng Cu-hsiang. The situation has become so crit- ical for the marshal that during the last month he has been moving thousands of his troops from the Peking area to the menaced prov- inces. He has placed these troops under the command of his right- hand man, Sun Liang-chen, who has been promised the governorship of Shantung province. It is reported that many of the war lord’s troops have already been | defeated and that a general state of rebellion ex! If Feng should {be defeated in the western prov- inces the strongest army allied with the Nanking regime would be re- | moved, HERBIE ENDS CAMPAIGN. PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 5 (UP). —Herbert Hoover, republican presi= dential nominee, and members of party from Washington, arrived [ | here at 2.10 p. m., today aboard a 5 special train. PERUVIAN WAR-BOATS. LIMA, Peru, Nov. 5 (UP) These Peruvian submarines, R-3 and R-4, > arrived at 10 a. m. Monday. An} elaborate official reception was hi for officers and crew of the boats. — one of the first Communists ato) rested and was the first An the United States to be placed on trial» for beigg a Communist. He was sens? tenced to ten years, of which he. served three in prison. He is under indictment in New York state on a similar charge and is under indict- ment in Michigan. During his life in the revolution- ary movement of America, Gitlowy has been connected with both phases” —¢he economic and the political. He has served on the Central Executive of the Communist Labor Party; been a member of the Central Executive of the Communist Party and of the Workers (Communist) Party when the Communist Party combined with the Workers (Communist) Party. In May 1923, for one year, Gitlow took-overthe editing of the Jewish Daily Freiheit, when the Central Executive-of'the Party assumed con- trol of the paper to save it from destruction and to prevent a serious split in the Jewish Federation. The paper was saved and the split avoided. na The Jewish Daily Freiheit exceeds in circulation by many thousands the ' circulation of any other paper of the | Helped|#nd with the “Voice of Labor,”| Party. Under Gitlow’s editorship for |the Central Executive Committee, the circulation increased 7,000. SE LE ee pC RATS Ca Pricer resiiet fine 2 JANUARY 5, 1929 WILL BE FIVE YEARS OF THE COMING OUT OF THE DAILY WORKER- CITIES ARE URGED TO BEGIN MAKING ARRANGE- MENTS FOR CELEBRATIONS NOW. ee alee linn lie | AMERICA —United States vs. —The Significance | Miners’ Union, PREPARES THE NEXT WAR by JAY LOVESTONE THE UNITED STATES IS PREPARING FOR ANOTHER WAR. WHY? —The role of American Imperialism Great Britain of Peace Pacts —The Role of Reformism —The Role of the Communist Party This pamphlet should be in the hands of every worker ipterested in a clear analysis of America today and the attitude of the Workers (Com- munist) Party toward the coming war. 10 cents WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 East 125th Street ,. New York City i —¥