The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1928, Page 6

I i t a THE Baily Saki Worker Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party L Published by National Daily Worker Publishing Ass’n., Inc., Daily, Except Sunday, at 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Telephone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable Address ‘‘Daiwork” ROBERT WM. F. DUNNE .. A 4 MINOR. . Editor istant Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATE: By Mail (in New York ) $8 a year $4.50 six mos. 0 three 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. Wall Street Speculates on Impending War The soaring of stocks in basic industries to dizzy heights as soon as the election of Hoo- ver was assured is no mere stampede. It is merely cold-blooded speculation upon the im- pending imperialist war. Since the election of Hoover the administration at Washington and its agents in the most remote parts of the earth have become more aggressive than ever in publicity proclaiming their war de- signs. The speech of Cooldge on Armistice Day, reeking with defiance to the other im- peria! powers of the world, was explicit in every point. After dwelling upon the question of the placing of the armed forces of the nation upon a war basis, Coolidge rounded out his propositions with the declaration that: “The present size of our army is entirely adequate, but it should continue to be sup- plemented by a national guard and reserves, and especially with the equipment and organ- ization in all industries for furnishing sup- plies.” This announcement that the government would aid industries in placing their pro- ductive capacity on a basis that would meet the requirements of war, also caused General Motors, United States Steel, DuPont powder and chemical, Standard Oil and’ other “lead- ers” to soar. The fact that :here was at hand the Octo- ber report indicating a fall in steel produc- tion and that orders were below last year did not affect the rise of the market. Two days after the Coolidge address an announcement was made that plans were under way for the organization of a gigantic “association” in the lead industry embracing United States, Mexican. Canadian and South American con- cerns. That this association not only em- braces lead companies, but chemical pro- ducers as well is indicated by the following obsorvation of one of the financial writers of the New York-Herald Tribune: mbership in the Lead Industries Asso- » will comprise corporations interested he mining, smelting or manufacturing of ‘ond in the United States, Mexico, Canada and Semth America. Some of the companies to ‘represented in the organization are \houma¢a Lead Company, American Smelting and Refining Company, Bingham Mines Com- pony, Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentratine Company, Cerro de Pasco Cop- per Cornoration, Chief Consolidated Mining Co y, Consolidated } ng and Smelting Company of Canada, Ltd., Eagle-Picher Lead Company, El Potosi Mining Company (Howe Sound Company). Evans-Wallower Lead Com- peny, Fedetal Mining and Smelting Com- pany. Federated Metals Corporation, Fleck Rrothers Company, W. P. Fuller & Co., Gen- eral Cable Company. Glidden Company, Hecla Miring Company, Metals Refining Company, National Lead Company, Northwest Lead Company, Park-Utah Consolidation Mining Cam Remington Arms Company, Sher- ms Company, Silver King Coalition t Corporation, United States Smeltine, Re- and Mining Company.” ™ Company, St. Joseph Lead Company, Tv Standard Mining Company, Utah Apex Mivine Company, Utah Copper Company, United Metals Selling Company, USL Bat- This was instantly followed by most of the concerns mentioned joining the ranks of the Wall Street speculative favorites. Thus it is plain that the upward swine of the stock market does not in any way reflect the actual industrial condition of the country at present, but is based upon the expectation of increased activity in all branches of in- dustry in order that the nation may be placed as speedily as possible upon a war basis. Unquestionably there will develop within the next few months a vastly greater dis- parity between productive capacity and ac- tual production than already exists. This apparent contradiction leads to much confu- sion of thought among bourgeois economists who fail to perceive the fact that the increase in productive capacity is predicted upon the preparation of a new war for a redivision of the world between the imperialist powers. It is plain that the increase in productive capacity is imperative if the war-mongers are to be in position to realize Coolidge’s pro- gram for the “equipment and organization in all industries for furnishing supplies,” for the armed forces of the country. This talk of “furnishing supplies” has an ominous tone. There is a striking similarity between this phrase of Coolidge and the name of the fascist organization of Britain that arose on the eve of the great general strike —the “Order for Maintenance of Supplies.’ The parallel will go much farther here. With the placing of the country upon a war basis, the semi-official bands of terrorists of the type of the ku klux klan and American legion will get into action in order to supplement the apparatus of the state in suppressing workers’ organizations in preparation for in- dustrial conscription. Such organizations, secretly approved and sponsored by the government, serve also to conceal from the masses the real class char- acter of the state thereby perpetuating the illusion of capitalist class democracy. While the capitalist butchers are prepar- ing for the systematic slaughter of countless millions of workers, it is imperative that the working class also prepare to combat the war- mongers in a revolutionary way. Under the leadership of the vanguard of the working class, the Communists, the masses of un- organized workers in the great basic in- dustries of the country—the war industries —must be organized; the predatory and murderous role of the imperialist ruling class must be relentlessly exposed; determined revolutionary propaganda must be carried on amongst the armed forces of the country. Only the working class can make futile the ambitious war program of Yankee im- perialism, recently formulated in the most brazen and in the sharpest manner by the spokesmen of the ruling class. Mass Arrests in Washington The arrests and sentencing at Washington, D. C., of a group of picketers demanding the release of John Porter, New Bedford strike leader who was railroaded to jail by the United States military authorities on the charge of being an army deserte7 was a piece of plain class vengeance. The paltry muni- cipal judge who heard the cases of the men, women and youth representing the Workers (Communist) Party, the Young Workers’ League, the Anti-Imperialist League and the International Labor Defense, sentenced them to pay fines varying from $50 or 30 days in jail to $100 or 60 days in jail, on the charge of parading without a permit from the police department. It is, of course, ridiculous for a worker to imagine for a moment that the capitalist class has any regard for the enfoptement of its own laws if such enforcement might in- | convenience them. Picketing is one thing and a parade another. But when the ruling class wants to jail members of the working class they can invoke any law they want, or simply jail dissenters on general principles without any so-called sanction of law. The victims of this mass jailing in Wash- ington are serving the best interests of the working class by defiantly exposing the whole class character of the proceedings and denouncing the judge as an agent of the war- mongers at Washington who gave orders to stop the anti-war demonstration and as an answer to the demand for the release of Porter, whose crime was that he fought for the strikers instead of becoming a scab- herder of a scab. A particularly good example for all our class was the defiant conduct of one of the picketers, Carl Jones, a Negro, who exposed the fact that the police even tried to “Jim- Crow” him in the jail. Only an uproar by his white comrades compelled the contemptible white bureaucrats to restore Jones to the side of his fellow prisoners. The reply to the Washington jailings is a repetition of the picketing of the department of state, the war and navy buildings in order further to expose the plots of the imperialist government at Washington. Appearances of militant workers in court should always be the occasion for an attack upon the class- character of such courts in order that the workers may come to hold them in contempt. Many New Courses to Begin at the Workers School During Week) Two important classes for func-|stage; the problem of the revolu-|from 8:30 to 9:50 p. m.; “Funda- | tionaries of the Workers (Commu- | tion, the dictatorship of the prole- |mentals of Communism,” with Re- | \tariat and its relation to the build-| becca Grecht, instructor, Friday, at | ing up of socialism and to the world \" p. m.; “European History Since | “ | revolution, the colonial question to- Problems” will open this Thursday day, the role of the social-democ- | Juliet at 8:30 p. m,, with Bert Miller as racy, the role of the Communist |The course in Marxian Economics I, | the instructor, and “Program of the Farties, and the tactics in the classithat takes place on Thursday at| ; 8:80 p. m., will have Ray Ragozin as nist) Party are scheduled to begin this week. “Party Organization Communist International” will start | struggle, on Friday at 8:30 p. m., with Wil-| liam W. Weinstone as the instruc- | tor. the Communist International” will analyze the program issued by the | ing class. Sixth Congress of the Communist | International recently, will give its | analysis of capitalism and its de- are scheduled to begin this week: The agreement velopment; contradictions of capi- | “Historical Materialism,” Bertram | compulsory social insurance and the m, especially in its imperialist D, Wolfe, instructor, on Thursday | extension of paid holidays. The course in Party Organization | will deal with the concrete organ- | . 3 \izational problems arising out of | The course in the “Program of|the political problems facing the | Communist movement and the work- | 1789,” Stuart Poyntz, the instructor. . BELGIAN WORKERS WiN BRUSSELS (By workers of the | Arms factory, located at Horstal In addition to these the following | have won their strike of 11 weeks. includes veached on Friday, at 8:30 p. m., with | instructor. | Mail). — The Belgian National DAILY WO “BUSINESS PRK FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1928 USUAL” ~ By Fred Ellis Women Must PHYLLIS NEAL. IN face of the growing thr imperialist the grea danger for women li the feeling w strong | By war, h i them that a repetit ror of 1914-18 is im so terrible. more gh any but a be, that no government would dare to 2 plunge into or would the elves to be driv § a perilous |must at all costs be dis into it. which pelled by the |Communist _ parties. hose who |prepared the last war (with their ententes and alliances, their secret treaties, their piling up of arma- |ments, their carefully fostered mis- |trust between the proletariats) were precisely among those who best un- derstood the col: 1 wreckage and devastation that such a war would |bring. And they proceeded deliber- jately. Why? Because war was the only hope of solution under capital- lism for their antagonisms, the only means of gratifying their mutual rapacious desires for new markets, new sources of raw materials and cheap labor, new spheres of invest- ment. The Facts. These antagonisms have not been |resolved. New and more powerful groupings have arisen. The secur- ing by the victors of new spheres of exploitation at the expense of their vanquished rivals, and of the defenseless colored peoples, has on- jly intensified the en between |them. And above al mergence | |of the first wor! s state, the U. S. S. R., constitutes such a chal- lenge to the criminal rule of the whole crowd of imperialist robbers, that they cannot afford to tolerate its existence. Does any working woman think this is merely an alarmist view? What are the facts? The powers are spending more upon armaments present than in 1913. Reorganization of armies and navies in the direction of greater efficiency, and the building of air fleets, are proceeding rapidly. Chem- ical warfare (introduced as an ele- ment of surprise during the last |war) is being systematically studied with a view to wholesale use in the next. The development is being en- |couraged, and even |by the capitalist 2 {such industries as readily con- vertible to the production of lethal chemicals (e. dyes, commercia’ g. | chemical products, EY mm , i confiscated banners are Karl Reew Anti-Imperialist League, Ben Thomas, wel ¢ crs (Communist Party, «xd Helen Colodny, 16-year-old Pioneer leader, Activity in Factory Organizations Necessary Fight W , Street and in Mass artificial silk etc.). The way is eing prepared for the militariza- tion of industry, by strict regimen- tation of the workers, and attempts "to prevent, destroy or corrupt trade union organization, All tultural re- sources (press, radio, cinema, schools and churches, etc.) are being util- ized to prepare the “war mind”. Is all this for nothing? In War Industries. Working women least of all should be blind to its meaning; for in the first place they have been drawn in great numbers of recent years into the very industries which will first and foremost be mobilized for war purposes; and in the second place the deadly operations of the newer methods of warfare will be carried out not merely upon the sea and the battlefield, but upon their homes and children, and the factories where they work. But what then is the meaning of the League of Nations, the Prepar- atory Disarmament Commission, the Kellogg Pact, and all the declarations by imperialist statesmen in favor of world peace? In one aspect they are the hypocritical mask behind which the war plans go forward; in another they are actually part of rigues by which the various and groups are endeavoring to ure the most advantageous position in the coming war. How far they are from endeavors for peace is proved by the rejection of the proposals of the Soviet govern- |ment for complete disarmament; the sharp objection of the governments of the U. S. and Italy to the Anglo- French naval agreement; and by the |last Assembly of the League of Na- \tions, which left the long-talked-of | |disarmament conference farther away than ever. Beware of Reformists! | But surely they will not attack \the very state which has renounced all imperialist ambitions? The janswer is that the U. S. S. R. is ‘a beacon and an ally to all who suf- fer under imperialist rules. Why has the British government broken | with Russia, although this involves the loss of millions of pounds worth of trade to British manufacturers? Why is it using all its diplomatic influence to isolate her? Why have the border s a {extend and improve their war equip- ment so enormously: Why have they been forbidden to conclude pacts of neutrality with their Soviet neigh- bor? What is the meaning of air- bases in north-western India? But at least the socialist and la- bor leaders will marshall the work- ers to prevent this crime? Let any working woman examine the past and present action of these leaders: let her carefully read the manifesto of the recent congress of the II. International, and say whether they are not the most val- uable assistants of the war-makers, either by indentifying themselves | with the designs of their imperialist | masters, or by the preaching of paci- fism, which unfits the workers to resist. é Women Prepare! If we have permitted the capital- } | tions, militarizing industry, shack- ist class to complete its prepara-| ar Plans ling the trade unions, perfecting its |machinery of terror, preparing the |appropriate psychology in the mas- ses, will not the attempt to organize |Passive resistance be doomed to failure? And even if we were to succeed by this method in forcing |a pause for the moment, matters could not rest there. The war will |have become a historical necessity |for the capitalists: there will be no |third alternative to"the prosecution \of the imperialist war or the grasp- jing of power by the working class. | Let every working woman face |these facts, (especially, since their (rulers are leading the war-plans, the women of Great Britain) and |take up actively now the fight | against the war-makers: rousing the |Women around her, in the factory, |the street, and the mass organiza- tions; opening the eyes of her men folk; promoting solidarity between the working women of her own |land and those of Russia (one means to which is the coming conference of the Friends of Soviet Russia), the | colonies, and the rival imperialist | nations; and above all by enrolling jin the Communist Party ,the revo- lutionary vanguard of the world’s | workers. USSR EXPLORERS IN | PAMIR MAKE FINDS | MOSCOW (By Mail).—Chief of \the Pamir Expedition, Gorbunov, re- |turned to Moscow, reporting that as a result of four months of constant work the expedition very carefully explored and studied the so-called “white spot” of Pamir—unexplored region extending over 2,500 square miles. The expedition discovered over thirty new big glaciers with a gen- eral area of over 500 kilometers. |The greatest glacier ‘in the world, | Fedchenko, which so far was ex- |plored only for 15 mites, was now thoroughly studied. It proved to be more than 75 kilometers long, thus |surpassing the very well-known Karakorum glacier, which until now was considered as the greatest gla- cier on the earth. The expedition discovered also |ubout 50 mountain pikes whicii were quite unknown until now, although | they Were from 5,000 to 7,000 meters above the sea level. The majority of them are even higher than .El- states been assisted tobrooz and all of them without ex- e, editor fi 29 Workers Jailed in Washington Demonstration Twenty-nine militant workers, representing seven national orgunisutions, were jailed last Saturday in Washington for a demonstration for the release of John Porter and against the imperialist war prepara- tions. Photo shows the workers being marched to jail after the arrest. Following the policeman carrying of Labor Defender, Paul Crouch, secretary of the All-America ll-known Briladelphia militant and representative of the Work- (Photo, Washington Daily News.) ception higher than Mont Blanc. The expedition explored mountain- ous passages from Pamir to Dar- vaz, discovering five new passages, including Tanymass and Kamal-Ali, which were known only by legends. Besides that the expedition col- lected abundant materials for mak- ing geologic maps of those regions and made several meteorological ob- servations of the sun radiation which reaches its maximum near the Lake Kara-Kul; observations were also made of the quantity of dust in the air. The expedition found new salt- petre-bearing fields, which is of no great scientific value. In one place there was discovered some unknown | combinations of yellow color contain- ing probably uranium and radium. Gorbunov highly praised the work and endurance of German scien- tists participating in the expedition. The fact that alpinists Vin, Alvein and Schneider, under very difficult conditions, climbed the Lenin Pike, reaching its top at the height of 7,000 meters, shows that they had an excellent training. Snake Venom Called Cure for Epilepsy CAPETOWN, South Africa, Nov. 15 (UP).—F. W. Firzimons, direc- tor of the Port Elizabeth Sriake Park, claimed today to have dis- ‘jcovered a cure for epilepsy by in- noculation of vaccine prepared from snake venoms. One case in Port Elizabeth and several in the Trans- vaal have been.successfully treated. 4 The cure was discovered when an epileptic backwoodsman in Canada was cured after being bitten by a rattlesnake, Firzimons said. Labor Bureau Aids Coal Bosses’ Scheme WASHINGTON, (By Mail),—The United States Bureau of bor Statisti as given its official en- dorsement to the new scheme of the Colorado coal operators to blind the miners to the class struggle by es- tablishing a “department of health, sanitation and medicine.” i 4 Misleaders in the Americar Labor Unions (From “Misleaders of Labor,” by William Z. Foster.) {MITCHELL a real Gompersite, de- fended capitalism in general and protected the interests of the mine owners in particular. Many acts of betrayal stand to his diseredit. In 1902, he prevented the bicuminens miners from striking with the an- thracite miners, to the great harm of both groups and of the union as a whole. In 1903, during the bitter Colorado strike, when victory was in isight, he forced the miners in the north back to work, leaving those ‘in the south to be starved into sub- | mission, a betrayal from which the \district did not fecover for many |years. In 1904, in spite of a solid vote of the union against wage cuts and for a strike;-he conspired secret- ly with the employers and finally accepted for the union the wage re- | duction the employers wanted. In all these maneuvers the priest-like lookirg Mitchell had the support of - |the U. M. W. A. secretary, W. B. | Wilson, who has since become a big democratic politician. | Mitchell was fawned upon and flat- tered by the capitalists. Says Lin- coln Steffens of him, (‘World’s Work,” August, 1902.): “When Mitchell came to New York in 1900, to see J. P. Morgan, the financial head of the coal business, he was not received. Thi year an associate of Mr. Morgan’s ~happened to meet him socially, and when he reported what man- ner of labor leader ‘Mitchell was, Mr. Morgan received him at his downtown office.” Then followed banquets and close social relations with great capitalists and politicians, Carnegie, Hanna, Belmont, Robbins, etc. At a famous Pittsburgh supper with coal opera- tors Mitchell was presented with a “diamond badge” as a tuken of their esteem. He became a Jeading figure in the National Civic Federation and |a warm friend of President Roose- | velt. These things aroused the then powerful socialists in opposition. They forced Mitchell firet to quit the Civic Federation and eventually to get out of his union office. After holding important political posts during the war, Mitchell died in 1919, a capitalist and an officer of the government. His wealth, ex- clusive of extensive personal prop- erty in the name of his family, to- tailed a quarter of a million dollar?, as follows: Stocks Bonds 1, Notes . 2,266 Bank Dep: 14,129 $244,295 Among his assets were bonds of Armour and Co., and the B, & O., N.Y. C,, and C. R. I. & P. ratlroads, all union crushing concerns. He was a “labor Neutenant” of capital well rewarded for his betrayals of the workers. His memory is revered bv the A. F. of L. bureaucracy. and the employers. Other Traitors. Tom L. Lewis, who succeeded Mit- chell as president, was guilty of various acts of: treachery to the miners. He was a typical “labor lieutenant” and “red” fight r. He was driven out in 1914, and imme- diately became secretary of the New River Coal Operators’ Association in West Virginia. This organization is one of the bitterest enemies of the union in the West Virginia district, where the attempt to maintain a union has been made under almost civil war conditions. Working in this treachery with Lewis is E. G. Mc- Cullough, formerly vice-president of the U. M. W. A. John P. White, successor of T. L. Lewis, was a typical reactionary. He lined up with the Kansas operators to crush Howat and committed many corrupt acts. He retired to a por litical position during the war. Then he became interested in the Haynes Powder Co. For a time he worked for the operators in the Kansas and Arkansas districts. Now he is an “agreed-upon” representative of the workers and bosses in District 19, one of the worst “open shop” terri- tories. M. D. Ratchford, president before Mitchell, when defeated was made a commissioner for the coal opera- tors in Illinois. From Socialists to Republican. Francis Feehan, a one-time radi- cal, was candidate for governor of Pennsylvania on the Socialist Labor Party ticket in 1902. He defeated the notorious labor crook, Pat Dolan; president of the vital Pittsburgh dis- trict in the union elections, but soon became a friend .of the operators and was thoroughly corrupted. Fi- nally he degenerated into s republi- can politician, and supported Hughes for the presidency in 1916, He was forced out of the union and is now a well-paig official in the Bureau of Mines. ish ee | Dean Haggerty, in collusion with the mine operators, ordered Cabin Creek, W. Va., miners back to work during the heat of a bitter struggle, and when they refused he cut off their strike relief, Haggerty later became a coal operator in this bloody battleground of labor. He was for- merely a prominent U. M. W. A. of- ficial. 5 NEW MODEL SPEED BOAT. BUFFALO, Nov. 15 (U.P).—Revo. lutionary in design’ and promisit to create a sensation in the world motorboating, the “flying fish” ty; of hydroplane motorboats made debut here yesterday. The boat be given tests for the next