The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1929, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1929 Baily 35 Worker Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party IPTION RATES: 1 (Gin New York only): r $4.50 six months 50 three mon ail (outside New York) 0 six months ., Daily, 28 Uni 7 on S N Telephone 1696- Cable: SPs: ROBERT MI WM. F. 8. “DAIWO DUNNE . Ass, Editor Addres: The D Editor Ramsay MacDonald’s Poison Gas Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is being featured in the capi- talist press as an authority on “Anglo-American friendstip.” The British capitalist class which recently prayed for the recovery of their weak-witted king, surely can afford to pray twice as hard to their imperialistic Jehovah to preserve the health and lung-power of this “socialist” leader in the empire and world-chief of the Yellow International. For there is in the whole British empire no other flunkey who can do as much as this MacDonald to blind the workers’ eyes and paralyze their brains so as to lead them into the next imperialist world war as helpless cannon-fodder. Dripping at the nose with religious bunk, MacDonaid, in an article in the New York magazine, the Nation, tries with a quite unusual cunning to fix in the minds of the working class the illusion that the capitalist system does not neces- sarily lead to war, that the working class should do nothing whatever to fight the war danger, but should leave the whole matter to the two imperialist governments which should . » « appoint five or six of their most outstanding men repre- sentative of the whole nation to meet and drag from the obscure corners of sulky suspicion the things which make difficulties be- tween Us.” MacDonald’s article is from beginning to end an attack against the materialist interpretation of history; it jeers at the idea that capitalist competition results in war. “Against this superstition and misreading of history, (to the effect that capitalism leads to war) every backboned sentiment of morality and common sense must be up in arms,” says Mac- Donald, and “war is no more inevitable than small pox.” To bring peace into a world dominated by capitatism is a “divine task of this generation.” Not even the faintest sug- gestion of opposition to capitalism does he express. But the old “socialist” faker is attempting something more than general propaganda. An undercurrent of his thought is that the one and only working class state, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (which he does not name) is at least as much given to imperialist war as the capitalist nations, for, he says, “every nation is rent between two op- posing moods.” On the other hand he is anxious to preserve what he calls “the moral authority which every great state (he means the great imperiasist war-making powers) must possess if we are to secure the conditions of a world’s peace: . . .” And then Mr. MacDonald—Mr. Hillquit’s ‘Comrade” MacDonald—shows his colors in the form of propaganda against the Wall Street governments proposed new cruisers (God save the King!) but that the British capitalist nation has on the other hand only the angelic motives shown by what he calls its declining to countenance the Anglo-French agreement. He does snot want to involve the imperialist United States in European entanglements, saying “It ought to praise its creator night and day that that necessity is not imposed upon it, as it is, alas! upon us.” What does he mean by excuse excusing the European “entanglements” of the British gov- ernment, which he says “alas!” are “imposed upon” the British? He can only mean the intrigue by which the British government is leading toward the war to crush the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Mr. MacDonald is doing his bit of prostitution for British capitalism. But what of the power which, from patriotic motives, he is arguing against—the United States of Wall Street? Is it any less guilty of imperialist war aims and preparations than the British state which MacDonald defends? Not being social-democrats, we must say plainly that the United States government is now bending its whole strength toward the making of imperialist war, just as well as the British government, and to a greater extent because the Wall Street power has immensely greater resources. There is no crime too foul to be committed by the United States govern- ment in its present race toward the attempted seizure in military action, of the colonial possessions now being he!d Izy the British. ue United States also has its MacDonalds, and their names. are Hillquit, Berger, Oneal & Co. They are no less flunkeys of American imperialism, They are tooting the patriotic horn of Wall Street in the attempt equally to be- fuddle the minds of working class cannon-fodder on this side of the line. But the class-conscious workers of both countries will perialist prostitutes. The class conscious workers of this try will bend every effort, not to “excuse” their capi- masters for the present criminal preparations for war the British imperialists, not to excuse the murderous by destroying capitalism. The worst enemies of the ng class are those who preach the lie that “peace” is under capitalist rule =~ « with disgust from both these gangs of capitalist im- : “THOSE OF US WHO ARE DEVOTING OUR LIVES TO PEACE” By Fred Ellis | By JULIO A. MELLA. |“MOLLAR DIPLOMACY” is a well- | known -term in Cuba. Before the so-called “Independence,” Amer- ‘ica had invested fifty million dol- lars in Cuba. Now, in the period of |“Independence” the amount has | been raised to one and one half bil- lion dollars. This is the work of Dollar Diplomacy. The United States made Cuba “in- |dependent” by the famous “Joint | Resolution.” But the Platt Amend- jment establishes that “in order to | guarantee this independence” Dollar Diplomacy attributes to itself “the \right of intervention to protect prop- jerty.” A few million dollars were | then distributed among “Liberators” | to avoid such a rebellion as occurred jin the Philippines after the American joccupation. Loans fell upor the | country from the Morgans, in order | to complete economic penetration. | Recently the special Envoy of Dollar Diplomacy, Mr. Crowder, con- cocted the Election Law, through which only political parties favor- able to the interests of American ‘imperialism can exist. | Machado a Tool. Now Dollar Terror has stepped in, | in earnest. The conquest of Cuba by American imperialism did not come without the protests of rebel- lious workers. Cubas politics had consisted of a fight between those elements, like Menocal, who were \frankly at the service of foreign gold, and those. on the other hand | who disguised this service with a} certain nationalist tendency, such as | Miguel Gomez and Mendieta. —But | there arose the ghost of the “work- ers’ problem.” The government has found it necessary to introduce a “The Dollar Terror |the Dollar Terror during the last in Told by Julio Mella, Its Latest Victim, Assas- | sinated by U. S. Agents strict dictatorship to put down the workers’ protests. Machado, who was a general during the inde- pendence, and who is a stockholder of the General Electric Company, seemed to be the ideal man for American interests. Machado de- . . clared in a speech in the university cap el ities ae when he was presented with an hon- |tichermen found a human arm in orary law degree, “Mussolini has the belly of a shark caught. near LS amare i es | Havana. The wife of Bruzon, the siavted tc put ante iieeeies ih Cabin militant labor leader, recognized the Mussolini's example. That was an announcement of the institution of Dollar Terror. 3 Here are the concrete results of victims opposed the intense exploita- tion to which they were subjected by American imperialism and the Cu- ban politicians who are in the ser- vice of the Dollar Terror. Another new proceeding consists cloth of the sleeve and the cuff links stil! attached on the arm. The daily newspapers, “Diario de la Ma- rina,” organ of the Spanish colony and of the Catholics, published the photo of the gruesome discovery and \a judge started proceedings. But President Machado limited himself to issuing a decree forbidding the fishing of sharks without special permission. More than two hundred workers \have been assassinated. Many trade |unions have been dissolved. All the | opposition press has been suspended | and the editors of these daily papers Many Murdered. jshot publicly. Others have been ex- In order to introduce terror among | iled from Cuba. Strikers have mys- the field workers, many were se-|teriously “disappeared.” The Uni- cretly murdered. Bodies of these | versity of Havana, and this perhaps illiterate workers are often found |is the only case of its kind in the hanging from trees with notes in| whole world, conducts its classes in their pockets announcing various |the atmosphere of terror imposed by reasons for their “suicide.” The|a detachment of soldiers, who re- plantation workers know that the | main on duty in the corridors of the reason for the murders is that the ! university with bayonets ready. The four years of Machado’s govern- ment: The death penalty was revived and is being applied with the an- cient colonial instrument known as the “garotte.” It is a chair where, without the necessity of modern electricity, a screw is introduced into the back of the neck of the guilty one, who for a long hour has to stand the agonizing pain. A Park of By R. 8. (Translated from J’'Humanite by Valentine V. Konin.) ‘HE park of culture and rest has |* been created by the proletarian | government. Its vast plain stretch- ing on the outskirts of Moscow pro- |duces an unforgettable impression upon a foreigner visiting the Red | City. The park has been conceived ac- cording to a plan which will require many years for its final realiza- tion; but even in its present stage of development it offers an aston- ishing result. That which only five years ago |was an immense plot of land used for garbage dumping has now be- |come, through the efforts of the workers’ government, a city of amusement, where everybody can find a healthy way to pass his leisure hours. Sports Accommodations. It has been: arranged in such a way as to offer the greatest oppor- tunity for all forms of games, swimming, and rowing. There are numerous lawns for tennis and football; tracks for running, walk- ing and bicycle riding; many gym- nastic accommodations such as wooden horses, swings, ladders, etc., scattered in different parts. At the first glance at this im- mense plain, one gets an impression that this is the recreation hour in| jarm as that of her husband’s by the | Cuba” | students listen to the worn out stale tunes of their professors. under the eyes of these soldiers, and the pro- |fessors take advantage of all op- portunities to flatter the dictator- ship, : ‘Thousands. Starving. At present the rickety industrial Cuban bourgeoisie, allied to Amer- ican imperialism, which carry on the Dollar Terror, together, thinks itself safe in power because of its agree- ment with Wall Street capital. How- ever, there are thousands of starv- ing workers, there are producers of sugar cane ruined by the American sugar mills, and there are many in- tellectual workers. All these find. American imperialism their daily and deadly enersy, and understand that their only salvation is in de- \stroying its grip. This task of destroying American imperialism’s hold on Cuba has been undertaken by the Cuban-revolution- ists, and in order for them to suc- jceed the American workers must co- Joperate. Only a close alliance’ be- tween the revolutionary forces of Cuba with the workers of the United States will be able to combat the latest phase of Dollar Terror, in Cuba, which is strictly aimed against |the working class. Some time ago the port workers of New York pro- claimed a boycott against Cuban sugar if the persecutions against the Cuban workers were continued. This alarmed the Cuban dictator. The inultiplications of measures such as this would prove of great benefit to the working class movement of Cuba and of all Latin America. » 8 « (Reprinted from February “Labor Defender”) Culture and Rest--for Workers a school garden, where the games| played; particularly before a little are organized according to the wish | labyrinth in which the children find or fancy of each individual. Spon-| joy in losing themselves and at the taneity and liberty reign in full.| same time serving as a subject of The adults don’t want to distinguish| great amusement to those who themselves from the children; and| watch them. a‘ the children find. themselves, suffi-| There is a platform, where the ciently grown up to enjoy full free-| clowns and the acrobats run about dom. They play, they laugh, they| for the enjoyment of the crowd. breathe freely with all their power. Huge Building in Center. : The crowds linger before the booths,!_ In the middle of the park rises a where various attractions are dis-| huge building formed by three two- oo Secalink erecta oe Imperialism Pictured by Julio Mella story pavilions giving a marvelous adorning effect. There, as in. the smaller buildings, nothing is impro- vised or left to chance.’ One finds everywhere: ingenuity in color and form, which shows the enormous progress of Russian . architecture since the revolution, Clubs, res- taurants and libraries are situated in this building. For the word “cul- ture” is taken here in. its widest ‘etymological sense. . “ i Besides" the usual indoor ‘sports found in this pavilion, such as chess, loto, radio, etc.; there are vast read- ing » rooms. .where ‘many scientific and literary books and publications can be found to suit the taste of each visitor. Armchairs and couches breathe of cleanliness and order. rest Se Copyright, 1929, by International Publishers Co., Inc. BILL HAYWOOD'S BOOK More of Colorade’s Governor; Haywood as a Union Official; How They Ran the Union; Setting Wages All rights reserved. Republica- tion forbidden except by permission. By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD. In previous chapters Haywood told of his boyhood among the Mormons at Salt Lake City; a boy worker in mine and city; mining in Nevada; Haywood a cowboy; hardships and poverty with wife and baby; hopes that vanished; Coxey’s Army; Debs and the A. R. U. strike; life at Tuscarora; off to Silver City, Idaho; he hears of the Molly Maguires; Ed Boyce of the W. F. of M. comes to organize Silver City miners; stories of the strikes at Coeur d’Alenes and Cripple Creek; Governor Waite of Colorado. Now go on reading. . * * PART XIX. By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD. GOVERNOR WAITE had been elected by the workers of the state. The mine owners knew that they couldn’t fool with him, because upon his taking office he had ordered out the militia and had trained their cannon on the city hall in Denver, when the previous office-holders representing the mine owners and their business in- terests had refused to give up office. Boyce reminded us that Governor Waite had the distinction of being the only governor in the United States who had ever called out the soldiers to protect the workers, He told us about the conviction of Ed Lyons and Mike Tully, who had been charged with blowing up the Strong mine. Later they were released from the penitentiary and the stockholders of the mine sued Sam Strong, one of the owners, for the dam- ages resulting from the explosion. At these meetings Boyce initiated several hundred charter mem- bers of the Silver City Miners’ Union Number 66 of the Western Fed- eration of Miners. “That is a good strong pledge,” said I to Tom Fry, who was stand- ing at my shoulder. The court room where the meetings were held was crowded. There were miners and mill workers from the Black Jack mine, the Florida mill, the Trade Dollar, the Blaine, the Poor Man, and the smaller mines of the camp. Every seat and every bit of stand- ing’ room was filled. The charter was held open for some time to allow as many as possible to become charter members. Cae ae, I was elected a member of the finance committee, and at various times filled the different offices of the union. While I was in Silver City I never missed a meeting of the Miners’ Union except when I was working on the night shift, and I always took an active part in the work of the organization. Two others and myself went as a committee to visit the Black Jack mine ‘and invite one John Taylor: who was working there either to become a member of the union, or leave the camp. Taylor became in- dignant and said that the superintendent told him that he did not need to join the union. We told him that the superintendent was not running the union; “the union is being run by the men of this camp.” We had no further discussion with him, but when the shift came out of the mine at noon all of the men around the bunk-house, including the night shift, resolved themselves into a committee of the whole, and told Taylor to roll his blankets and hit the trail. He did this without any loss of time. I met Taylor years later, under strange circumstances. Stewart, the master mechanic at the Trade Dollar mill, was an- other man to whom we had to extend a special invitation to join the union. We explained to him that we could make no distinctions as to men in the camp; that we wanted to make it a thoroughly organized camp; that he would get as much benefit as any other member, sick and death benefits as well as hospital service—for the union very soon owned its own hospital. Stewart joined under protest and in after years attempted to repay me with interest. But that is another story. Les There were nearly a thousand men employed in Silver City. There was a continual coming and going, but these two were the only men with. whom we had any trouble. The membership included all those working in the riines, skilled and unskilled alike, and also those in and around the mills. There was ‘only a slight difference in pay between the skilled and the unskilled men. As the Western Federa- tion of Miners developed, all of its struggles were for the men under- neath, for the lower paid men, as we came to learn that when the unskilled worker got a wage upon which he could live decently there ‘was no danger of the skilled men falling below this leve!. All the men in and around the mines worked every day of the week, including Sundays, and the mills were never closed down even for holidays. In 1896, in his annual report to the Western Federation of Miners, Ed Boyce said that he hoped that, before the time of the next con- vention, the martial tread of twenty-five thousand armed miners would be heard throughout the West; that the time had come when the min- ers would have to protect themselves from thugs such as were used in the Coeur d’Alenes, in Cripple Creek and in Leadville; that he trusted every miner would get a modern rifle and a supply of am- munition. At one time I was on a committee appointed to see Joseph Hutchin- son, the manager of the Trade Dollar Mining Company, about the pay of the men who were sinking. There was at that time a winze being sunk on the Trade Dollar Mine for which the men were being paid only three dollars and a half a day, which was fifty cents less than the union wage for sinking. Hutchinson said: “Well, that complies with your constitution,” taking a copy of the constitution of the union from his desk; “there is no provision here for sinking a winze.” Taking a copy of the constitution from my pocket, I said: “Ifyou will read this you will see that we have corrected that error. Most men would rather work in a shaft than in a winze. At Teast, there is no reason why the wages should not be the same.” “T agree to that,” he told us, “but I wish that when you change your constitution you would be good enough to keep. us supplied with the latest issue.” It was not always because of skill or ability that men became superintendents or managers. One night there was a fire in the Chinese laundry in the back street. Some one suggested that the place ought to be blown up to keep the fire from spreading. Joe Hutchinson remarked that a box of powder would do the work. told him: “You dont want to put fifty pounds of powder under that shack! You'd break every window in town. Four or five pounds will lift it out. by: the roots.” They got the fire under control without the use of powder. The superintendent had probably never used a pound of powder in his life; he was superintendent through the success of his father. ; o 8 «@ In the next instalment isa graphic description of the western mining camp, Silver City, Idaho; McCann, a dope fiend and “high grader” (one who either as a miner or in touch with miners, pockets the richest. pieces of ore for themselves); how McCann was some- thing of hero in spite of being a dope fiend. apn The above drawing by Mella was made by him not long before he was assassinated, Wide porches, where one’ can. in full peace, open up into, the gar- den. Amid the scattered plants, little tables and: armchairs under the willows, one gets the impres- sion that this is a ‘fashionable Oriental resort, where only the rich people can permit. themselves the luxury of such comfort. But in the U.S. S. RB. it’s the people of fac- tories and fields. who get the-bene- fit of these resting places. % f . Children’s City. The center of the interest, how- ever, is perhaps in the children’s city, which is really the most cur- ind adapted to its needs. ‘From the crib to the theatre— everything is organized so as to give the child the greatest comfort and pleasure. A mother who comes to the park with one or more chil- dren can leave them in the morn- ing and come for them at night. She can leave them at their liberty with absolute assurance that the greatest care will be given to her cee no matter what their age is. Cradles and white beds in all rooms;. governesses and nurses for each group of children; toys of all ious spot in the whole place. All that is seen in the big park for the amusement of the adults is found here reduced to a. 's size sorts; centers education and amusements; and outdoor games to the sound of music from two or- chestras. Besides the symphony orchestra, which occupies a special platform in one of the park’s theatres, there are ten to fifteen small orchestras seattered in different parts, Such is the general view of the park of culture and rest, which in the days of popular holidays is the center of attraction for the whole city. Not an “attraction” like some bourgeois “Luna Park,” but a place of wholesome joy, free in its games like the proletarian education, its music, theatres, lectures, One. of the most touching emo- tions that one experiences here is to see 150,000 people, proletarians of Moscow, men, women, and chil- dren, living and exercising in their park, which is truly theirs! °