The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1929, Page 6

Page Six Published by National Daily Worker Publishing As’n., Inc., Daily, Except S Union Square, New York, N. Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable Address “Daitork” ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNE A “Conservative Business Man in| the Labor Movement” Hoover is considering the personnel of his cabinet. There has to be among these representa- tives of the big capitalist employers, one called the “secretary of labor.” tomary for the American capi ship to name for this post the most shameless enemy of the that can be found in the whole From this point of view Coolidge made an “excellent” choice in appointing the present secretary of labor, the banker some remote period of the past joined a trade union, but who then and ever enemy of the workers. Now Hoover is probably co W. N. Doak—probably even a ‘ (from the open shop point of view) than the banker Davis. Doak is a rank, ary enemy of the working class and of organ- He is an agent of the railroad ized labor. 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Y. the office of vice-president of ood of Railway Trainmen, in e “does business” on a profit- oak’s pride is in being publicly known, among the railroad capitalists to whom he sells out the railroad workers, as a business man in the labor Will not the consideration of this scab for this strikebreaking office open the eyes of ; one but an enemy of the work- a part of the strikebreaking capitalist government. | The awakening class-consciousness of the | workers leads toward the time of the de- molition of the machinery with the overthrow of the capi- talist ruling class and setting up in its place a government of an entirely different sort— whole strikebreaking nment in this country, the only kind in which a real representative of the workers will take part. is Mr. Hoover’s kind of a strikebreaker. The Struggle Against Imperialist War and the Tasks of the Communists BILL HAYWOOD’S BOOK {Note—This is the eleventh in- stalment of the theses on the war danger, adopted by the 6th World Congress of the Communist Inter- national, entitled “The Struggle Against Imperialist War and the Tasks of the Communist Interna- tional.” —Editor.) * * Y. Defects in the Work of the Communist Parties, and Their Tasks. 65. The VIII Plenum of the E. C. C. I. called attention to a number of errors committed by the Com- munist Parties and to the defects in| their work, and laid down a num- ber of special and concrete tasks to be fulfilled by all the sections of fhe. Comintern in the fight against war. * The opinion expressed by the VIII Plenum of the E. C. ©. I. still holds good. Since the VIII Plenum we have gained more experience, and from this the VI Congress draws certain conclusions in relation to the future activities of the Commu- nist Parties. Underestimation of War Danger. 66. The principal defect from| which all the sections of the Com-| munist International still suffer, is their underestimation of the dan-| ger and inevitability of war. This is clearly seen from the fact that | none of the sections display suffi- cient energy in carrying out the de- cisions of the VIII Plenum. The two greatest events in recent times | —the British note to Egypt and} Japan’s war in China, passed un- observed, as if they were minor, al- together unimportant incidents. In view of the rapid swing to the Left of the masses, which indicates that the masses sense the danger of war—the Communists stand in danger of trailing behind the work- ing class instead of leading it in the fight against war. Many sec- tions of the Comintern are influ-| enced by the bourgeois and social democratic propaganda for “peace,” | “disarmament,” and “international | arbitration”; they are not concerned | with the imminence of the war dan-| ger and speak about war as some- thing very remote. The under-estimation of the dan- ger of war, particularly of war) against the Soviet Union, manifests itself in the failure to understand concrete facts and events which are symptomatic of the preparations now being made for war. When Comrade Rakovsky was recalled the French comrades failed for a long time to understand the significance of this incident as a decided step on the part of France on the road of diplomatic preparation for war 2 the Soviet Union. ‘The Party in Yugoslavia admits that it did not understand how im- minent the danger of war was in t! talo-Yugoslav conflict. Several of the Communist Parties in the tic countries did not immediate- “understand the real significance ' the concrete measures that are taken for the formation of anti-Soviet bloc of the Baltic 4 } (for example the negotiations _g customs union between Es- and Latvia). All these mis- , which were subsequently ad- ted and rectified by the respec- ‘ies, prove how extremely i¢ it is to ignore the mea- § being taken for the prepara- war. The Parties must constant vigilance and concrete forms which the is assuming. ce of Basic Work. of the principal defects Parties’ work against war is ‘ively abstract, schema- shallow attitude to the | LATVIA FAKE AMNESTY Proletarian Politicals to Stay in Jail of the sections confine their acti Our Parties have not yet learned to combine the parliamentary struggle | against war with work outside of parliament for the purpose of popu- larizing our demands (the work of the Czechoslovak Communists in connection with the St. Gothard af- fair and the despatch of arms to China consisted of mild protests in parliament and in the columns of the press). International problems must not be separated from war problems, for both are a part of the general class struggle and must be linked up with class conflicts at home, par- ticularly with conflicts in enter- prises engaged solely in the produc- tion of war material. Abstract Attitude. The mechanization of the armed forces and the militarization of in- dustry are directly connected with war and call for strenuous activity in these branches of industry as well as in the trade unions and other labor organizations connected with them. So far, there is little to show that the Communist Parties have commenced to take up these ele- mentary tasks seriously. 68. The abstract manner in which | the war problem is regarded is shown by the failure of the Par- ities to speeches in par-;try to evade the concrete problems | liament and at public meetings, in | of war politics by employing general j which speeches the question of' war! phrases and repeating abstract pro- | is usually left in the background. | paganda slogans, instead of -taking | |up practical tasks. Partial Demands and Reforms. This applies particularly to army |served to evade the question of | mands and reforms which would ac- |tually weaken militarism (such as, jreduction of period of military serv- ‘ice, the question of the composition of volunteer armies, etc.). The | fight for reforms is left entirely to ithe social democrats, against whom {no genuine proletarian political pro- gram on the army question—a pro- |gram for weakening militarism and of practical proposals for the arm- ling of the workers—is put forward. | Only a few sections have taken |the necessary organizational mea- sures for conducting systematic anti-militarist work. The work questions, In this a tendency is ob- | fighting for concrete partial de-| HUNGER ALSO WORKS FOR FO- D | tional Publishers Co., Inc. |. rights reserved, Republication for- bidden except by permission. By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD PART IV. In previous parts Haywood wrote ‘of his pioneer parents; Haywood’s “Destroying Angels”; to work in a first strike; his horror at the lynch- ing of a Negro. Now go on read- jing —EDITOR. | * | A messenger boy has the oppor- * * mine at nine years; bound out; his/| SYNOPSIS ai. * Copyright, 1929, by Interna- | All | ES i} |birth at Salt Lake City in 1869; his| ability in them came, I am_ sure, |his heart that was rotten with hate. |father's death; the family moves to/from the earlier teaching I had re-| the rough mining camp at Ophir,! ceived from old Professor Foster. In|I was a bellboy in the Continental | Utah; his first school; the return to; mathematics I went to the class be-|Hotel-and the Walker House. One |Salt Lake; boyhood among the Mor-/jow; in other studies I held with evening a tall, dignified man, sitting mons; their polygamy; the church’s | the regular class. among soldiers and seamen in coun- | ‘Unity to see things and know peo-| tries which are very important from | Ple intimately, and working as a the point of view of war danger is |™essenger boy I had this chance. It) very unsatisfactory. The mass char- | Put me in touch with all the leading | acter of this work, its use as a| Citizens of Salt Lake City. People means for carrying on agitation and | Were not guarded in what they said |propaganda among the soldiers, are | before a young boy, and I heard |not understood. | their business plans, their scandals In some countries, anti-militarist "4 their political schemes. In this| activity among the youth is conduct-| W@Y 1 came to know of the plans | jed on too restricted a basis, while|that were emg matured against |no attempt is made to establish an | the Mormcw. wnich finmily resulted 'TODAY: Haywood a Messenger Boy; Scandals | and Plots; His Last School; a Bell-Boy; Famous People; Off to Nevada tory and geography I went up to|other people feel as I did. It seemed | the highest class in the school, My j|to me that I could look right into | liking for these studies and my the breast of old Tillman and see) I met other public characters when | with his feet against a railing in , |front of the hotel, asked me as I The term at St. Mark’s was the| passed: “My boy, do you know who last of my school days. About this \I am?” “No, who are you?” said time I made up my mind to change |T, He answered: “I am the world- my name from William Richard renowned Beerbohm Tree, the great Haywood, Richard being the name|English actor!” I looked at him; I of the uncle who had bound me out |didn’t know what he was driving at. to the farmer and whom I therefore| y met more interesting people, | did not likey to my father’s name, whom I could better understand. | By Fred Ellis Reactionaries Kill Watanabe Japan Militant By K. YAMAMOTO As a result of the raging reaction in Japan, the trade union movement has been deprived of a great number. of leaders and fighters, and it has now lost one of its most prominent leaders. In the beginning of October, Comrade Masanosuke Watanabe (Asano), was killed by the police at Kilung, Formosa. Leader of Left Wing. Comrade Watanabe was the cre- ator of the Tokyo Codo Kodo Ku- miai (General Workers’ Union) of | the Hyogikai, he was also the leader Jof the Hyogikai (Trade Union Council of Japan), and, conse- quently, the leader of the entire left wing trade union movement in Japan. Comrade Watanabe’s activities in the trade union movement were re- | markable and splendid. He was |born at Ichikawa, a small village near Tokyo, in 1899, As the son of a poor handicraftsman, he was a worker from his boyhood. He waz \one of the pioneers in the post-war jtrade union movement in 1917-18. Such famous trade unions as the |New Celluloid Workers Union, the |Kokushoku Rodo Kumiai, the Nan- |katsu Rodo Kai, etc., were founded \either under his direct leadership or |with his closest callaboration. His ‘\activity was mainly confined to the |Kanto District (Eastern Japan), until after the Kameido Case, when, jxoeing. with hatred of the ruling | class which had murdered his seven comrades, he advanced to the lead- |ership of the national left wing |trade union movement, Split Reactionaries. The most epoch-making event in the history of the trade union move- ment in Japan, was the split of the Sodomei (Trade Union Federation) and the formation of the Hyogikai (Trade Union Council). In the de- velopment of a militant rank and file struggle against the compromis- ing policies of the Sodomei leader- ship, Suzuki, Matsuoka & Co., Com- vade Watanabe represented most \clearly the left#wing ideas and pro- gram. 3 In this struggle his genius for or- ‘ganization showed itself; when in March, 1924, his union sent him into the Sedomei as its representa- tive, he had only a hundred mem- |bers behind him, but when in Sep- \tcmber of the same year the reac- \tionary officials expelled him, he jalready had the solid support of |more than two-thirds of the mem- |bership of the Kanto Sodomei: BILL HAYWOOD | Extended Unity Movement. *e After the formation of the Hyo- father owned a foundry and boiler | pikai on a national scale, in May, shop. My mother spoke to the old/j995, Comrade Watanabe’s activity man about me becoming an appren-| o.tended greatly, The labor move- tice; but when they talked about| ont at that time was greatly split | up. Uniiy was only possible through drawing up the necessary papers I William Dudley Haywood. My mother concluded that this could be| done if I was confirmed in church. She was an Episcopalian. This was the last time that I attended a church service. I heard Ben Tillman, senator from South Carolina, lecture in Salt Lake City, and it was from him that I got my first outlook on the rights of the Negroes. In the course of ties to take up a definite position | adequate organizational base among on the question of war policy.|the masses of the soldiers. The fact Sometimes the Parties either fail|that work among sailors is not car-| altogether to react, or react too late, | ried on with sufficient energy in im- to the anti-militarist tricks of the | perialist countries shows that the | social democrats, which frequently | role of the navy in a future war is| find support among the masses (for | underestimated. In no country has | example the campaign conducted by | systematic use been made of family | | the social democrats in Germany in | influence upon the men serving in | which they posed as being “op-|the army or the navy, and upon re- ;ponents of war on_ principle”). |cruits. | Sometimes the Communist Parties | (To be continued) | BERLIN, (By Mail).—The Lat-;political prisoners were included, vian parliament passed an amnesty bill on Dec. 19. The character of the amnesty becomes clear with the fact that the workers and peasants faction, the independents and the left workers’ representatives fought the measure. There have been amnesty laws passed in various countries, but such ashameful amnesty decree has not yet been passed. In the Latvian so- called amnesty not a single political prisoner is to be released. While in the amnesty proposal itself a few parliament in its third sitting had even wipped them off, and. only press offenders are affected. Those in prison because of violating the law against resistance to the state Power, open uprising, etc., are to remain prisoners. The deuty Laizen, of the Workers and Peasants “Block, declared. that he had voted against this amnesty and that the workers of Latvia would carry on a fight for general and complete amnesty for all prole- tarian political prisoners, Score Latin TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, J 7.—At an opportune moment to il- lustrate the emptiness of the so- called “conciliation and arbitration” pacts, signed last week at Washing- ton by Latin-America and Yankee diplomats, so far as any “peace” re- sulting from it either between American nations or between rival imperialist powers, the Honduran government has issued the following protest to the governments of Nicaragua and Colombia: “I wish to express the surprise of my government at seeing included in an agreement between foreign coun- |tries the islands of Quita Sueno and Roncador, whose possession and dominion Honduras claims and sus- tains with undeniable and proper titles, “My government is disposed to sustain its right to these islands in “Peace’’ Pact whatever way you might wish to consider the subject, its respectful but firm protest remaining opposed to the action which directly injures the territorial integrity of Hon- duras.” i From the above it is understood that Honduras is offended by learn- ing that the governments of Colom- bia and Nicaragua, have made an agreement disposing of two islands which Honduras claims as its terri- tory. NEW GOLD FIND. SYDNEY, N. W. Australia, (By Mail).—A gold nugget weighing 210 ounces has been found by a miner in New Guinea. It is believed that the New Guinea reefs will develop in the passage of the Edmunds Act, which forbade polygamy. In opposi- tion to this plan, a scheme was framed up by the Mormons, who em- ployed a woman and brought her to the city, established her in a |house which was supplied with con- venient peep-holes, and invitations were sent out to prominent Gentiles to visit the lady, who had with her some interesting young friends. Through a mistake, some invitations were also sent to. Mormons, and:the affair created a scandal in the city, on both sides, many would-be dig- nified and: prominent men being in- volved. I went one term to St. Mark’s School.’ As I look back ‘at ‘it, it seems to me I must have been a queer pupil. In some of my studies | I received excellent marks, in others I could make no headway, For his- Lenin Memorial Buttons Ave Ready! The Lenin memorial button is here! With the approach’ of the ‘Lenin memorial meeting Saturday éve- ning, Jan. 19, in Madison Square Garden, thousands upon thousands of workers in Greater New York will soon be wearing the little token in tribute to the revolutionary lead- er of the ‘world’s proletariat* and. as an expression against the grow- ing war danger.: The buton, which bears a profile of Vladimir Hyitch Lenin with a sil- houette in red, gives the dates of his birth and death and carries two slogans on a black border. One inscription reads, “Fight Imperial- ist War,” and the other “Defend the Soviet Union.” » These buttons will be circulated among workers in factories ‘and offices throughout the city and‘in the various trade unions. They may be obtained for distribution’ at: the), Workers: (Com- munist) Party headquarters, 26-28| Union Square. Remember: Lenin’s Words. Speaking of the last war,. Lenin said: * f “The war is filling the pockets of the capitalists, and a stream of Id is flowing to them from. the state treasuries of the great Pow- into the most important gold fields in the southern hemisphere, ers. The war arouses blind hate against the enemy, and the bour- 4 There was a Lightning Calculator, who stopped at the hotel; my lack of ability in arithmetic caused me to think he ‘was one of the world’s wonders, Then there was John L. | Sullivan, who came through with a boxing: combination; with him was | Slade, a big Maori who came over to fight him, but Sullivan could lick a corral full like him. Sullivan I liked better than any of the rest. \rebelled. I did not want to be bound lout again as I had been to John | Holden, where I could not quit until | a ceftain term was served. My step-| father was then superintendent of |the Ohio Mine and Milling Company lin Humboldt County, Nevada. He jdecided that he could use me there. |I bought an outfit in Salt Lake City, | ‘consisting of overalls, jumper, blue} |shirt, mining boots, two pairs of | blankets, a set of chessmen, and a building a strong left wing, per- meating all the unions. It was Comrade Watanabe who realized this necessity first, and his tireless efforts, in Tokyo. in Osaka, in Kyu- shu, ete., brought everywhere the ieft wing groups into existence that laid the foundation for the unity movement in Japan. Exposed Reformists’ Treason. His activity in the proletarian the lecture he showed his bitter anti-| His show was the Walker Opera pathy toward the Negro as a man|House, in which I had a good seat. jand as a race. A Negro sitting be-|I saw him box with Herbert Slade, jside me asked him a question; his|and knock out a man who tried to reply was a ferocious and insulting | Win the thousand dollars that he was jattack, with reflections on the col-|giving to any one who would stand ored man’s mother. He referred to Up against him during four rounds. jhis questioner as a “saddle-colored| Dr. Zuckertort, the great chess json of Satan,” and went on to tell |player, stopped at the Walker House, him what his mother must have beenjand while there played simultaneous- for the Negro to have been the color | ly seventeen games blindfolded, which he was; this because the Negro ob-|I thought a most remarkable feat. viously was of. mixed blood. I looked |It so inspired me that I ‘started then pair of boxing gloves. My mother | fixed up a big lunch, mostly of plum pudding. She said: “You will be back in a few weeks.” Bidding my little sweetheart and my family good- by, I left for Nevada. I was then fifteen years. old. | * | party organizing campaign in 1925 was also remarkable in the history jof the Japanese working class. He |carried on a relentless struggle jagainst Nishio and other right wing leaders on a series of political ques- |tions. The first issue was between | Nishio’s proposal for a reformist To Follow Part IV. | parliamentary “labor party,” against In the hext instalment, Hay- | wehioh Watanabe proposed ‘a party wood ‘writes of life asa young Fe jas * cad front between miner in’ Nevada in 1884-85. ‘The |*he proletariat and the peasantry. at the Negro, ‘and his pained ex- pression caused me forever after to feel that he and his kind were the same as myself and other people. I saw him suffering the same resent- and.there té learn chess, While I was working at the Con- \tinental I was suddenly taken sick |with typoid pneumonia. I ‘did not its back to my job at the Contin- | néarest town ‘sixty miles: away. Haywood’s: stepfather. Charley Sing the Chinese cook. The future labor leader .,.becomes, acquainted He put forth the program of |“eonfiseation of land by the pea- {sea against Nishio’s proposed |“land nationalization” by the bour- |geois state; he advocated “complete ‘emancipation of the colonies,” ment and anger that I should have |ental, and ‘after my recovery” my suffered in his place; I saw him|mother and I decided’ that. I should helpless to express this resentment |learn a,trade. In the house next to there ins a remote mining camp ‘ 4 . |against Nishio’s “autonomy of the with Darwin, Voltaire, Byron, \colonies”; and against Nishio’s slo- and anger. I feel that Ben -Till- ! us was a family named Pierpoint. man’s, lectures must have made many (‘The man was.a boiler maker, whose geosie guides the hostility of the people ith the utmost skill , into /the’channel of national hate, there- by diverting the people’s attention Points into the Waiters’ Union 44 Owes to Yossel care paternal, ' Firm not to permit its floor To Communists, and such infernal from the chief enemy, the gov- ernment and ruling classes in their own country. “But the war which brings im- —_ Portrait By ROBERT WOLF ‘ Brother Yossel’s elk-tooth fob world its glory. Yossel’s own official job Summarizes history. < Villains, whose invidious hate Labors to destroy the bona : “ Nice deduction therefrom flows: Fide and official plate .. Yossel draws his pie-plate on. A Communists ‘are spies and traitors; ; On which premise Yossel grows Prosperous, if not the waiters, ‘|years of incarceration, he went into | |“First of all, don't. be carried away Burns and other great authors. His four-footed’ friend, “Tim.” | i N meaturable. misery and horror. to the working masses, at the same time clarifies and steels ihe best elements of the workers. If we sre to perish, then let us ‘perish by our own cause, for the cause of the workers, for the socialist revolution, and not for the inter- ests of the capitalists, landowners and Czar.” Lenin, the founder of the Com- munist International and of « the {Bolshevik Party, and the chairman of the First Cgpncil « of People’s Commissars, was, an indefatigable worker for the Russian proletarian revolution. Twice he was sentenced by the Gzar to Siberia and after exile in Switzerland, in London, in Cracow. and in Finland, and from all these points) helped to direct revolutionary: activities of his ‘com- rades in Russia, Attend Memorial Meet! Lenin was a stern, keen, practi- cal, unrelenting. strategist. In the turbulent days of the 1907 sttuggle, “admonished his fellow-leaders: by victory and don’t be proud; sec- ondly, clinch. the victory; thirdly, despatch the enemy for he is mere-| /gan of “disaimement” he put forth the demand for “arming of the workers and peasants.” The sharp divisions on these questions were made the occasion by the right wing for seceding from the campaign, thereby exposing thoroughly the anti-working class character of the right wing leaders. | Of course the opportunists called him a “destroyer of organization” on this account, because his militant program and organizational abilities shook the right wing control of the masses. He published a pamphlet on the British Minority Movement, which contributed much to the left movement in Japan. He also or- ganized the first factory committee movement. By the autumn of 1926 these efforts had been srystallized in the Toitsu Domei (Unity League) which embraced one-third of all or- ganized workers in Japan, largely as the result of his years of tireless ideological and organizational ac- tivities. Was A Fighting Marxist. In 1927, Comrade Watanabe’s visited Moscow and also spent much time in visiting and conferring with comrades in revolutionary China, He doubtlessly learned much, arming himself with the revolutionary theo- ries of Leninism. He declared deci- sive war on the liquidatory tendency of the “senile Communists” Yama- kawa, Inomata, and others; explained the necessity of a bourgeois-demo-, cratic revolution in Japan and the Perspective of its growing over into a proletarian revolution, and at- ly vanquished, but far from being dead” Iceni atenie is hte tacked thoroughly the social-demo- cratic views, ‘iia Broareere