The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1928, Page 6

Page Six aia asec DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1928 aily S25 Worker Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party hing ay, at 26-28 Telephone. “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New-York only): $4.50 six mos, $2.50 three mos. By Mail (outside of New York): $3.50 six mos. $2.00 three mos. all checks to The Daily Worker, $8 a year $6 a year ROBERT MINOR Editor Address and le ular << THE MAKER OF WARS By Fred Ellis |Misleaders in the American Labor 1 Unions By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Meanwhile Murphy, for whom even the. high salaries and rich graft in the unions were insufficient, had continued to ply his trade of large scale crime on the outside. At the time of the Landis Award affair, he had been also convicted of partici- WM. F. DUNNE.......... . Assistant Editor 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. pation in the $338,000 Dearborn St. station mail robbery of April 6, 1921. For this he was given six years in 4 mn | job it was to disarm the masses so they could Leavenworth penitentiary and a fine A Qos + Job s aisa. ass 'y cou M it any A Goat for be herded by the thousands into foul dun- Heder ay ae In the homely philoso geons, tortured ar d murdered. The social- iSenlae sheng alia htewipapers, he west of the United States ying democracy now,’instead of occupying itself had to go to jail. For once his po- “You can smother a pole cat with roses, but as formerly with preaching to the workers litical “pull” failed him. ; Z it remains a skunk just the same.” This a poisonous doctrine of non-resistance, be- “Big Tim” rules his unions with fascist tactics. While he was in jail observation applies with par ic force to comes one of the open executioners of the op- pee uthe Enoch debate the acting Tammany Hall’s latest scandal growing out | pr ssed workers and peasants. It has. “ar- SRariieib laf ene local Hrd te hrealk of the attempt to conceal the real facts re- _ rived.” True to the practices of the adherents Tinie» cantcol of) the Gan) Workers’ of the second international throughout the world it tells the workers not to use force their oppressors, but the nent it is permitted a share in the ad- ministration of a capitalist government it garding the murder of the’millionaire dope peddlar, gambler i ey pay-off man for luminary of *, pand to overthrow and police and amMmMée Al S h c for Wall | union policies that had been in ef- bosom hand nd’ ec n of Raskob of launches vicious campaigns of extermination | fect during his imprisonment, he Pencral Motors npaign | § nst those who dare to fight against capi- gee ee xeneral Motors, Balen Palick tp er eee s is union has been run on a Reiriainetrade side- talist tyranny. The social-democrats all over Shitay nchboRbastace uae thepssive the world abhor violence by the workers walks of New Yo : or against the capitalists, but they never miss of a “new Tar myth rized, fur Union. Murphy fixed him for this. Arriving at the union meeting, Tim unceremoniously kicked t the usurper and seized control of his old $100 per week job. Sneering at the |out stogies and punch the bag and don’t accomplish anything. gated, perfumed vith hair | 2" opportunity to aid the capitalist hangmen man iat con Re eat “ oil and spats th on whatso- | *8ainst the workers. eves in the laboe Hidvemant hey ever with the old Tammany. We presume Mr. Morris Hillquit, intel- | use Smith and Wessons.” It is tr t 1e Queens lectual leader of the American socialist The Chicago Tribune thus de- Sewers in the m lcam- | party, who hailed the “victory” of the | seribed Murphy's return from paign, filled tl sminis- | Murderers of Liebknecht and Luxemburg in prison: 1 cent of the palmiest days of the im, but | Germany, the regime of MacDonald in Eng- | cane a enny yas neleaie ) Tammany Bor President Connolly was | land, and the “socialist” assassins of the a aR oe irate ENS SNe Dat oS olen Lae NI a Z coivedl Wich suet ache AE Ue Op loyal to the “organization,” and became the ng class in Austria, will also hail this | Hall, where he went to call, fol- goat. “achievement” of his comrades of the second lowed by a troop of admirers. Mur- international in the land of the gory hag, Queen Marie. The Roumanian socialists have agreed to support a coalition at the coming elections to keep the Maniu government in power, a gov- ernment that is pledged to uphold the re- gency, and that still keeps in jail the class war prisoners who fought against the mur- derous Bratianu regime and that is preparing to continue the persecution and destruction of the trade unions in Bucharest. Only the Communists,’ true to their tradi- tions throughout the world, are defending the interests of the workers and peasants of Roumania and Bessarabia and leading a fight against the reactionary united front that extends from Queen Marie to the social- democrats. n politicians, the the head of the vice Philadelphia and Bill go red-light fame, are on the warpath try lp the Tammany chieftains in the next city election, they have seized upon the Rothstein murder case as a | means of revealing T nany the old familiar pole cat of s of Tweed and Crocker and Charlie Murphy. The administration of the Broadway but- terfly, Jimmy Walker, is the target for the attack of the republicans. Since a city elec- tion approaches Tammany must defend its rule of the city. It must stand by Walker in spite of the fact that none of his pre- election promises such as completion of sub- ways have been kept. In some way it must Now that the republ companions of Bill Vz and dope ring Thompson of Ch of yr to s as Depict Life, Works of Marx and Engels By EDMONDO PELUSO, Moscow.| A “MARX and Engels Exhibition”) Engels Institute. display of objects t books, pictures, etc.). The special] feature of the exhibition is that it It is not a mere has been opened at the Marx- Moscow Institute Illustrates Development of | (documents,| Thought of Two Great Communist Teachers sa has given life to all its exhibits, of his evangelical environment of|serves his year. of military service that the documents (letters, manu-} | tor a whole era of fights, | ideological and political struggles. The task which the Marx-Engels| ltnstitute had set itself was directed| er, sanctimonious and bigoted, com-| gration to France (1843). A breach| Marx analyses the causes of the de-| towards illustrating in methodical | fashion the development of the) thought and work of the two great-| est men of the nineteenth century.| his family and his tutor in the exer- cripts, etc.) bring before the visi-| cise of his imagination, writes pir-; Neo-Hegelians etc. While Marx is closely asso-! ciated with his father, Engels’ fath- pels his son to interrupt his studies and follow a commercial calling. Engels starts as apprentice in aj instance, with Ruge, against whom| basis for the First International. In| Marx,| Marx carried on polemics in the| Spite of his difficult pecuniary posi-| business house in Bremen. in Berlin and visits a circle of the of| ate stories, draws exotic landscapes, meeting Marx. Thereupon follows a fresh stage in the life of Marx: his first emi- | then ensues with the petty bour- geois German intellectuals, as, for without, however, | man original edition, which was | printed in London in 1848. One fol- lows step by step the development of the revolution from February to | June, up to the defeat of the prole- | tariat, one then observes the fur- | ther activjty of Marx and Engels in | the years 1848-1849 in France, Ger- |many, Austria, and the changin; | fortunes of the “Communist League.’ | There follows the period of exile |and prosecution. This forms the | subject of the exhibits 41 Room VII. |feat, explains and renews the revo- | lutionary movement and creates the tion, he concentrates upon studies } phy is a kind of hero to thousands.” | While in jail for the Dearborn St. | station mail, robbery Murphy was re-elected president of his unio’ During his absence his energetic wife attended to the actual organi- zation affairs. Upon his recent re- | lease he triumphantly resumed his | place as a leader of Chicago labor. | His most recent exploit was the op- eration of a gorgeous gambling house, located on Chicago’s “Gold Coast.” It was, until raided and broken up by the police, the most luxurious joint ever known in Chi- cago, Losses of “suckers” ran as high as $50,000 per night. “Big Tim” is, of course, quite ‘innocent of any theoretical knowl- edge of the class struggle. To him, as to most of the building trades leaders, the labor movement is mere- — The chronological order thereby ob-| having begun his university studies | Paris “Vorvaerts.” From Paris the ly an easy way to get rich quick. pretend that the Tammany administration and prepares his great work, “Capi-, has contributed to the “uplift” of the city. Also there are considerations involving the | Tammany governor-elect, Franklin D. Roose- velt, who is being trained for the job as Al. | Smith’s successor at the head of the demo- | erat party. Certainly something must be done about the Rothstein scandal. A goat must be found to shield Jimmy Walkey,, Al. Smith and Roosevelt. The goat chosen by the chiefs of the Wigwam is Jimmy Walker’s old friend and law partner,’ Joseph E. Warren, whom he appointed to the job of police com- missioner, a job that offers such splendid opportunities for enterprising ‘graft. Warren is said to aspire to a “promotion” as a judge of the supreme court, where the graft is more “dignified.” Tammany hesi- tates to make the appointment at once and may postpone action until it ascertains whether the commissioner will protect the administration in a proper goatlike manner by taking the full blame for the Rothstein dope ring affair. The propable successor of Warren as police commissioner is the elegant Mr. Grover Whalen, a Tammany politician who was active in various capacities in the Hylan administrat’on and who now holds a $100,000 a year job as an executive of the Wanamaker stor Whalen’s avocation is It Makes a Difference A certain, Dr. William Pepperell-Montague, professor of philosophy at Barnard College returns from the U. S. S. R. and says, “The Moscow, underdogs are more miserable than I saw in any other country,” and that is quoted widely in the press as an attack on Bolshevism. But the good Ph. D. someway failed to remind the press that in the work- ers’ republic, these underdogs are not work- ers, but capitalists, and brothers of just the same capitalist exploiters who in America pay Pepperell Montague his salary. In the U.S. S. R. they are becoming mighty scarce because they now have to earn their own living. Which makes ’em miserable, no doubt, but not any more miserable than an American worker trying to live through “Prosperity.” “The family farm is bankrupt because it has be- come an inefficient production unit . . What has happened during the last five years? An increase in mortgage debts and number of farms | mortgaged; a decrease in the number of well-to-do cash tenants; an increase in poor tenants; a decrease in managed farms, but not in the proportion of improved land operated by managers. Taking the | farmers’ total debts—mortgage, personal and trade, we have the startling estimate of 15 billitn, which at | 6 per cent means an annual tribute of nine hundred million dollars to capitalism. The attorney general’s office reports a steady increase in the number of cases of farm bankruptcies: 22,462; 1923—34,286; 1924—41,524; 44,236. “While farm bankruptcies increased, commercial “chairman of Mayor Walker’s committee on receptions to distinguished guests’”—channel swimmers, male.and female aviators, mara- thon runners, prize fighters, assorted diplo- mats, etc. The successors of Rothstein will have to present calling cards when they call on the new commissioner and conduct them- | selves in the manner approved by the social | register. | Workers of New York City who have | failures decreased. . .Thig is the quicksand basis faced the terror of the uniformed strike- of family farming today. Stripped of its old § b= breaking thugs on the picket lines, and at pidiea 17 pas. begun to ) denvandsaiew. subst iat from congr for example the equalization mass demonstrations shoul@ not be fooled by | fee in the McNary-Haugen bill which would really mean a subsidy to keep them going. Without or- ganization, due to its isolation, and surrounded by the keenest commercial and financial competition, 2e3 of Tammany. They ze that graft and cor- the tawdry performar must be made to Tuption is an indespensable part of the | the over-capitalized, under-sized production unit (the modern city political machine. It is essential | family farm) must take its place with the hand to pay the political debts of the horde of | loom, the horse car and the tallow candle, in the museum. . .Revolutionary changes in agricultural production are imminent and challenge the Workers Party to action.” From an article by “Harrow,” in the forthcoming December issue of “The Communist.” Subscribe, per year, $1.25 for 6 months. Every Party mem- should be a reader of the thcoretical organ of the Workers Party, Workers Library Publishers, precinct captains, ward-heelers and others who constitute the “workers” in such a machine, whether it is dominated by repub- | licans or democrats. In the coming campaign, paigns, there will be one party that serves the interests of the working class and that | alone can effectively fight against Tammany and that is the Workers (Communist) Party. s in past cam- “The traditional small family farm unit is giving | way. American agriculture must soon be organ- ized and capitalized as other industries have been developed; in short the factory farm must very rapidly replace the family farm as the typical unit of American agriculture. . . The farm ques- tion constitutes one of American imperialism’s weak spots; that it is ineseapably bound up with the entire financial and industrial structure, and that he ever accelerating plunge of the small farm to- s bankruptey creates signal opportunities and emands of leadership upon the Workers Party.” Excerpt from an article by “Harrow” in the De- cember issue of “The Communist.” Subscribe today. $2 per year, $1.25 for 6 months. Workers Library Publishers, 35 East 125th St. N. Y. C. Roumanian Social-Democracy | “Arrives” The social-democracy in Roumania has won a great victory through concessions granted it by the Maniu regime that replaced the bloody Bratianu government. It has been permitted to join a coalition so that if; may become one of the official assassins of the working class, instead of a mere vassal whose 4 : i ; at Bonn, goes to Berlin. This is| world receives the first indications eee ee See ee te aan ibe moment at which the Hegelian| of Marx recognition of historical in which Marx and| ttadition reaches its highest, point.| materialism and of the structure of |The young Hegelians become the! capitalist economy. Room V illus- | directly. | champions of the movement of the trates this most fruitful period in | In order to illustrate the con-| German intellectuals. Marx enters| the life of Marx. |tinuity in the development of their| these circles and quickly wins for) From this time on, Marx becomes | thoughts and actions, the exhibition himself a dominant position there.) q revolutionary political fighter. | goes back to the first “utopianism” The political, literary and philoso-| From now on he is no longer a | of modern times, to the Communism) Phie world of the first decades of| theorist and disputant but an or- of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, the 19th century is here illustrated ganizer. In the year 1845 he founds to Thomas Moore with his “Utopia”! by means of collections of docu-| in Brussels the first group of the jand Campanella with his “Sun|™ents, books, photographs and pn aoe Educational Association,” | State” In Room 1 are exhibited | Original caricatures (including one}, wnit of the European system |the richest collections of original) dawn by Engels himself) such as/jater destined to become the basis editions which the world possesses| to be found nowhere else in the/ of the First. International. lof the whole philosc~hie ideology of| W°Td- | In Room VI we find ourselves in |the forerunners of Marx, i. e. of} The lives of the two great men the period of the Communist Mani- | the great bourgeois thinkers: Mach-|continue to run parallel. Marx festo and of the revolution of 1848. liavelli and Vico, Descartes and/ takes his degree as doctor of phil- The two great masters enter upon | Spinoza, Diderot and Voltaire, Hel-| osophy, marries Jenny von West- the prime of their theoretic and | vetius and J. J. Rousseau. Side by|falen and works for a short time practical ketivity. Here one finds | side with the philosophical world of| on the editorial staff of the “Rhein- the most original documents of the thought and the theories of the) ischen Zeitung”; Engels interrupts 1848 revolution in all countries of great economists and of the great his “‘dog’s life,” as he designates his Europe, all editions of the Commu- Jacobins, we also see the first signs) existence as a commercial assistant, nist Manifesto succeeding the Ger- of insurrection against social in-| | justice: the Peasants’ War in Ger- |many, the big insurrection in Eng- =raueaist PEASANT STRUGGLE . IN KWANTUNG, CHINA The industrial revolution, which took place in the brief period of a : By WANG-JO. {way out of their troubles but to T was, April 15, 1927, when Li Chi-| fight to the last. | past century u | Engels participated directly or in- few decades, created the industrial | proletariat, which groans under the} ished at the same time. Room) es eae poate modern Utopians,”| 8en rebelled in Canton, With un-| The oppression of the peasant | displays in a few show-cases all, known speed of action, he killed the, movement is not an accident, it has + + Orhan =| ;: March 20, 1920, and the reorganiza- hension of the Saint-Simonian reli- closed the revolutionary organiza-| ™ y tesa gion, of Fourier’s theory of society tion of workers and peasants, cap-|tion of party affairs in May, 1926, with his phalansteries, Owen with| tured the responsible members of|the Kwangtung peasants were dis- | ete. | Communists who fought, are fight- | crnment and ulready had the slogan Misery and physical and mental ing, and will fight for the interests | pown with the new militarists. | suffering everywhere drive the of workers and peasants. | These two incidents gave the bur- yoke of capitalism. Utopianism} that is necessary for the compre-| leaders of workers and peasants,| its history. Since the incident of |his New Lanark, his model factory,| the above-mentioned organs and the | S@tisfied with the Kwangtung gov- | proletarian masses to action and to |eaucrats, compradores, gentries and the search for their own salvation.) In Room III we are witnesses of the first risings of the proletariat |in Lyons and Peterloo (England), | the Frankfort coup d’Etat, ete.; the) | July revolution nad the insurrection | \of Warsaw take place again before | our eyes. Socialist thought begins to flourish, even though still con-) |fused and uncertain. Blanqui is, [here the first organizer of the| working class with a distinct thought and a definite aim: the) | seizure of power by the proletariat. In Room IV, we now come to the | real object of the exhibition. It is) the room devoted to the youthful’ ‘years of Marx and Engels. The) visitor is at once introduced into) the family life of the two great) men. Trier and Barmen (the birth- | places of Marx and Engels respse-| | tively) are contrasted, as also the) |two families: the Jewish, liberal | and intellectual family of Marx, the protestant, pious, big-industrialist family of Engels. But though the origins of these two men are so dif-| |ferent, from quite early years, and) | without knowing one another, they |follow the -path which later brings) them together to march shoulder to shoulder and never to part com- pany. Eveh in his school work young, Marx displays the deliberation of a mature man. Engels, on the other hand, seeks eseape from the tedium The central organ of the Kwang- tung peasants’ unions, which was the fruit of the continuous struggle of the peasants, was also closed; more than ten of its responsible members were imprisoned and all materials concerning the peasant movement. documents, materials for propa. ganda, pictures of the peasants’ life and their struggles—burned. Terror in Kwangt:> >. The white terror did not only exist in. Canton, but also prevailed in whole Kwantung province. The heads and the functionaries of the six branch offices of tMe provincial peasants’ union—Huan Chow, Thow mei, Hai li-feng, Nan Lu, Chin Yi, Hsi, Chiang, Pei Chiang, ete.,—were put into prison or killed by the re- actionary troops in cooperation. with the district magistrate gentries, ‘and landlords of that particular place. The different peasants’ unions were dissolved and the peasant defense corps disarmed. During one week, the peasant or- ganization of 95 districts of Kwang- tung province shared the same fate and were the victims of the white terror of the joint feudal forces. The peasants of the districts along the seashore, who are ‘afraid of being captured and fled to Canton, Macao, the South Sea Islands and Singapore, were seized and extradited, with the punishment, of execution. The peas- ants of the whole province have no |landlords the official support to re- | strict the activities of the Commu- |nists and the militant members in| the peasants’ unions. They again represent the attempts of Kuomin- tang to turn the peasants’ unions as a mass organization into official or- | gans under the direction of the gov- ernment. The peasants’ union could not be | organized without the permission of the peoples’ defense corps, which is an organ of feudal forces to oppress jthe peasants. The new peasants’ unions had to be registered in the official administration, which had | the power to rule over them, even in | matters such as their dissolution and |the appointment of their executive members. It is indeed one aspect of the dictatorship of the Kuomintang, that is the bureaucrats controlling part, which in turn organized and supervised the peasants’ unions, Down With Kuomintang! The northern expedition came, The | situation did not change at all. Re- stricting the defensive struggles of the peasants against the oppression of landlords and gentries on one hand and imposing heavy and cruel taxes upon the peasants, especially the poor peasants on the other, Chiang Kai-shek published the “provisions of protecting the rear” and issued |the Northern Expedition Bonds, the , allotment of which was compulsory. To Be Continued tal.” As a means of livelihood he contributes to the “New York Tri- bune.” In the meanwhile Engels | returns to Manchester and to his commercial activity and does what he can to assist his friend Marx. The next room is devoted to “Capital” and the I. International. |The whole history of the I. Inter- national unfolds before our eyes (1864-72). We see the minutes of the meetings, the membership cards, membership stamps, ete. We gain an insight into the discussions out | into the proceedings of the con- |gresses, into the beginnings of | Marxist literature. A special show case is devoted to Bakunin. Each of the various countries has its own | cabinet, containing portraits of the |leading champions of the I. Inter- national, as well as specimens of the most important literature of this epoch. The right side of the room is de- voted to “Capital.” One can ob- |serve minutely Marxs working | methods, see his diagrams, his hier-| | oglyphics, which rendered so diffi- ‘cult the deciphering of the papers |he left when he died. When one | notes, how, for instance, one and the same paragraph is altered seven times, one can gain an idea of the care which Marx devoted to the final form of his thought, Here are also arrayed the editions of “Capital” in the various languages. A place of honor is set aside for the first translations as also for the translators. Finally, a corner is also found for the personal life of Karl Marx, for his everyday cares and the simplicity of his ex- istence. In Room XI, the last, are illus- trated the effect of the Marxist ideas and of their spread in Eur- | ope, as also the formation of the social-democratie parties. One can see here these fighters of the Sec- ond International who worked under the immediate influence of Engels. We get a cursory glance at the for- mation of the Second International, the resolution of the May Day cele- brations, the Zurich Congress of 1893, in which Engels still partici- pated in company with Clara Zetkin. All this—up to the death of Engels (1895)—is the object 8f the last room. This exhibition is the first of its kind. It could only be set up by such an institute as the Moscow Marx-Engels Institute. The plan of this original and living exhibition is based upon Riasanov’s “Marx and Engels,” which has been translated into every language. The staff of the institute, who have worked un- excellent selection out of the rich treasures of the institute. The ex- hibition is, therefore, not only a biography of Marx and Engels; {t has also become a veritable history tarian State could haye done justice on this magnificent: scale to the lives and work of our great cham- pions, The task has been accom- Plished in an exemplary manner. of which the I. International arose, | der his supervision, have made an} of the labor movement in Europe.! No other state but the first Prole- |The unions are primarily a means to fatten the bureaucracy; the work- ers get only enough out of them to |induce them to hold the organiza- | tions together. Murphy is connected | with many business ventures. His | home is in an aristocratic section of | Chicago and he is reputed to be | rich. In his usual picturesque, slangy way he thus sums up his role in the labor movement: “Y'm still pretty much of a kid, but I made a million, and spent a million, and I figure I’ll make an- other million before they plant me.” Greek Police Attack Demonstration Asking for Earthquake Relief | ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 13.—Kight | people were injured today when po- ‘lice attacked a demonstration at | Corinth which demanded that the sums collected for the relief of earthquake sufferers be distributed immediately. The government announced that the sums would be used not for Yelief but to reconstruct the main public buildings in Corinth, thus leaving the workiyg class populace to get along as best they can from what they can pick yp in the streets and in whatever Jodging they can find. Cal Coolidge * * * Won't be there * * * Nor Mayor Walker * * * Nor the Rev. Norman Thomas * * 6 Nor W. R. Hearst * * * Nor Abe Cahan * * * Nor Benjamin Schlesinger * * * Nor Col. Herbert Lehman * * * Nor Matthew Woll * * . But every real, honest-to- . . s Goodness ‘proletarian’s ° s ° Gonna be at the e . . Daily Worker-Freihett Ball | . e . In Madison Square Garden . e s Tomorrow night! P. S—Have a heart; don't commit murder because you \fatled to get tickets and find ithe doors closed. Get them