The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 4, 1929, Page 4

searst ese ‘be followed by another, in which Tripoli Natives Win Pour DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1929 4 Cha FEAR POWER OF ‘AROUSED SLAVES AND THEIR PAPER Discover ‘Red Moscow’ Plot in Worker Letter (By a Wo r Correspondent) CHATANOOGA. Tenn. (By Mai —On Thursday, Jan. 24, the D: Worker carried a worker e letter, with the head ell Hole for local paper, in its issue carried an article en- Red Secret Agent attanooga Times is pub- y Adolph Ochs, the reac! publisher of the New Yo es. » tol? of the} The letter I ser rotten cor ns down here for the ited Negro workers. ‘ihe Times also prints a portion of the | Blection Platform of the. Workers | (Communist) Party. They are hor- rified to find out that it calls on the workers to fight lynching and | race discrimination and a common fight against the capitalist system | by the white and Negro workers | combined. | By printing a part of the Com-| munist Election Flatform the Times | unwittingly did a good deed for the | workers. Many oppressed Negro | workers of the south became ac: quainted with the Communist pro- gram. | Below is the scare story of the | Chattanooga Times: | “Moscow Red Secret Agent at Work Here. Propaganda Being | Circulated Among Negroes. Ef- | forts ta Arouse Race Conscious- | ness. Letter Sent Out by Com- | munist Party Envoy Terms Cha- | tanooga Hell Holes for Negroes.” | “Insidious propaganda is being circulated among Negroes of Chat- | tanooga m an effort to enroll | them in the Workers (Commu- nist) Party. Such is the informa- tion furnished the Times yester- day from a reliable source, it be- ing stated that a secret agent of Moscow is now in the city. “The identity of the secret agent is shrouded in mystery, be- ing known to those who revealed his presence here only as ‘J A. R.,’ and he is sending out reports from this city under his initials. | “The plan of the Communists is | to arouse the race consciousness of the Negroes ‘ “A copy of one~of-the first let- ters sent out from Chattanooga by the Redagent declares that Chat- tanooga is a hell-hole for Ne- groes, and that workers here are dogs to the master class. The ,agent states that this letter is to | conditions in industrial plants are to be described.” | The letter is then printed by the | Times. Why does not the Times | teJi its readers that it took the in- formation out of the Daily Worker? | Because it is afraid other workers in the south will write to the worker correspondence page and tell of the miserable conditions of the Negro and white workers in the south! ttanoog: Where Eleven Chinese Workers Died in Mississippi Storm ondent Exposes Negro Slavery — m razed their s The storm caused heavy loss of poor farmers of three states in the south, “NICE” WHITE AND COLORED FOLKS POW-WOW AWHILE remains of the building. By A. MOSS. It had to come to pass. The elite have taken upon themselves the high mission of solving the race problem within the confines of our | free” land. And thereforc—a conference spon- sored by some sixteen national or- ganizations such as the U. S. Dept. of Labor, Rosenwald, Phelps Stokes, |Mulbank, Laura Spellman, Rockefel- ler memorial funds, Russel Sage Foundation, the catholic and protest- ant churches, Urban League, N. A. A. C. P., and, yes, an individual rep- resentative of the A. F. of L.—as- sembled in conference recently in ; Washington, D. C. And through it all there ran a note of “sincerity” and good hu- mor. . . The dear ladies and gentlemen, while not as yet having found the one and positive solution to this regretful phenomenon pervading our domain, at least bravely discussed it. Amiably, politely, careful not to allow any bombastic or recrimina- tory note creeping in and disturbing this most friendly palaver—they gorged themselves with talk—and decided that, the conference having | done its work, disband, so as not to . |bring into existence another (inter- gregated in stinking “niggertowns” | racial conference) organization.. Still them Bolsheviks abuse, mal- treat, and fail to appreciate the beautiful souls, abiding within the hearts of our christian, humane and liberty loving members of the upper crust. To give honorable mention to the speakers, and their various topics: There was a Dr. Pearl who spoke of the biological superiority of the | Negro in six of nine characteristics jover the whites. A Dr. Dublin who generally discussed Negro health, palavered a bit about a “pseudo- seientifie attitude expressed by America towards the Negro,” while |still another debated current crim-|the twelve millions of Negro worl linal statistics. ASR t |the greatest problem the American | | fo much a ee gil sepa . fworking class ‘aiust ‘dlve, | WEDNESDAY e | | egro educators told o eir | ( j Vaudeville Theatres heroic efforts “towards the lifting lt ptr bere it truly represen- | Gear Zar Ivan the errible of the mountains of ignorance which | ‘tive of the Negro masses, truly | | 2 was N escape, Roof and tin their bodies. Picture shows ‘c among the Negroes and white workers and | } compelled to remain ignorant, jit! ized force, in this country that will will work on the lowest industrial} and can do so—the Workers Party. plane, it will live in poverty, it will] A conference at which the “nice”! he the plaything of mobs, and it) Jadies and gentlemen, and their lieu- will be insulted by class restrictions.| tenants, the corrupted, large and No amount of good will on the part | small fry can be exposed and shown of philanthropists, will change these | to the working class of America in facts.” | their true role, as promulgators of | Yes, yes, doctor, then what are| this hate-instilling policy, serving | your deductions? | the purpose of dividing the work- Dr. DuBois stops there. Under- ers, so as to better exploit them. standing the Negro problem, its or-| _ At this conference, a call to echo igin, and its significance as a class|throuout the country, calling for phenomena, the worthy “race lead- labor unity, whatever the color of er” is afraid to draw logical con-| its skin. clusions. | These various church people, who The “militant note” was supplied | in the name of Jesus, practice se- by John P. Frey of the A. F. of|8tegation in their very churches; L.—a militantly reactionary note! |the Negro preachers who do their He justified the exclusion of Negro | asters’ bidding, by calling upon | workers from labor unions, for the | the Negro to further bend his back practical interests of the federation, | 8nd submit to further and greater where the interests of white and | humiliation, and inhuman cruelties; Negro labor CLASHED. | the Riper este on ead Pe ..| speaking PH. os acd pote Serta warcen their pow-wows are sand thrown in| fectly fine time” and having “en-|the eves of the mass of workers joyed every bit of it, oh, ever so|2"¢ farmers. It is labor whose his- much, left in their limousines for | ‘rie mission is to fight and exter- their palatial asad | minate race hate together with the | af system that breeds it—CAPITAL- But America’s Race Problem | ISM. Remains Unsolved. | Labor led on by the Communist In horribly miserable shanties, se-| Party will do it. |—lacking the very elementary means| DOMINGO GETS DAWES RULE. of sanitation—thruout the South and | | SANTO DOMINGO, March 3.— to a great extent thruout he North, | 74.4 pominican Republic treasury de. | the mass of Negro workers and poor farmers live, not only without know- | echt See tat dina pen! where the next meal or room) Fyans Dawes will visit the country Dapetab oalprspe pies from, butts steady | soon, at the head of a committee |fear for their very lives. Lynching, | including two retired generals of |a most popular outdoor game of | 5 the various bourgeois groupings, | the U. 8. Army, one of them (Har | f: bord) head of the Radio Corpora- Hesalp siradtland Meee a tion of America, to work outa bud- degree—that must sound unbeliev-| Zt Which the U. S. will supervise | able to any one but the initiated. | for tmpertalist Rocca gel Disfranchised. Lacking organiza-| tion, rather, disorganized by their | various “race leaders” and hierarchy, movement is tre | endent movement jority —Karl Marx sto). The nelf-co! of the immense (Communist Ma: tarian i ONLY PUBLISHER WHO DRIVES MEN ‘Concessions’ on Other Papers Boss Scheme (By a Worker Correspondent) In the Feb. 15th issue of the Daily Worker appeared a worker correspondence letter from a printer which cannot go unchallenged on ac- count of misconstrued facts and theories advanced in the letter. A class conscious worker should never use the name of an individual capitalist or employer as an excep- tional figure, but as an illustration of capitalist exploitation. The afore- mentioned worker correspondent on |the contrary presents Hearst as the the parson began to pray: only publisher who entertains Rus- | | sian “princes” and devises means of jdriving his slaves. He says th-* this so-called “friend of labor,” tho che wealthiest of pub- lishers, cares the least for the men and women employed by him. Other newspapers, paying the scale, offer the men and women in their employ vacations with pay, Christmas bonuses, free insurance, policies and many other concessions. In the Hearst publications attempts have been made to put up straw bosses to act as drivers of the men.” Not the Only Slave Driver. Hearst publications are not the only publications that attempt to put up straw bosses to drive the men. As to the other newspapers offer- ing the men vacation with pay, Christmas bonuses, free insurance and many other “concessions,” it must be said that this writer is con- fused in the usage of terms of offer and concession, and unconsciously advances the theory of benevolent capitalism, and this leads to class collaboration. First of all he does not distinguish offers from “concessions.” If other newspapers are offering something to the men it does not come from the fullness of their hearts but to speed them up and sow dissension among the workers so that in case of struggle the men in their employ will hesitate to stand with their fel- low workers in consideration of the fact that this particular employer is offering them something extra, a | sop. If the other newspapers are conceding something, it means that! the workers in their employ have obtained those things after a strug- gle, therefore it is up to the em- ployers of the Hearst papers to get after him. For Broad Struggle. But such is not the case, because compositors, engravers, stereotypers, pressmen and others are supposed to be organized in unions to demand concessions from publishers collec- tively and not shops separately and this in its narrow scope is more cor- rect policy as far as the class strug- gle is concerned than a separate shop struggle which the writer inti- mates. Never the idea of a good employer and a bad employer should be entertained by a class-conscious worker. The writer, moreover, con- “HEARSTNOTTHE |The Nightmare Voyage on a WILL WORKERS ¢ _ Ship that Never Returned’ wary Quy ON (Continued. ) “The Ojium Den” (Seamen’s Mis- \sion) was nothing to brag about; a | dark sinister building from outside; it wasn’t. much better inside. “His Majesty” and a few saints were all \hanging on the walls; also the fa- jmous. Leonardo da Vinei’s “Last | Supper.” The crew was a healthy, | wholesome lot, with no “drug ad- |dicts” emong them, yet woolen |socks, mittens (free), would sound |good to any unsuspecting worker. Greeted by the insipid smile of the black-frocked “dope-peddlar” and the enticing smiles of the “ben- evolent ladies,” we warily filed in- side. | After a hot preliminary hymn |singing: “Threw Out the Life Line; and Pull, Saiior, Pull for the Shore,” | | (By @ Seaman Correspondent) “Lord, God, conduct safely and} take care of the ‘staunch’ vessel In- | ivermark, her ‘gallant Captain R—,’| the ‘noble officers’ and the good jerew of her sailormen.” | “Lord, God, see that she makes a |quick passage, that she will have | fair winds all the way to the far-off shores of Australia.” Big drops of sweat would roll jdown his shiny forehead as he| prayed and prayed. | | The seamen bent their heads and tried to hide their smiles; there was |a look of amusement in their bright, | clear eyes. Teddy’s song of “Work ‘and Pray, Live on Hay,” was ring- iag in his ears. The prayer was over and we all |sighed in relief. Wiping his wet |brow the parson seemed to be glad, very glad, that his work was over. | Ladies Begin to Flutter. | The “ladies” began mingling with \the crew. Singling out the young- est and the best looking seamen, they struck up a conversation and jmade “friends.” A couple of old dames went around with donation boxes and be- gan to collect. One gay little dam- sel of fetching smile approached | Olaf, the tall, good-looking Nor- wegian, and soon made “good friends.” Smiling coyly she spoke | jof her husband and his “business | | trips.” “Oh, I am so lonely,” and |there was a deep sigh of relief. |“He’s away again, on business, don’t |you know... you are such a nice |man; would you not like to come | j home for a cup of tea?” \head and thinking of his native vil- lage, the mountains, the fiords, the poor fisherman’s hut and his boy- hood sweetheart—Olaf shook his head in silence. “Square dinkum,” said the burly Australian on coming aboard; “they j}took away my last ‘bob’ and I ain’t no more ’baccy (tobacco) for a chew, the blocdy—” “And we didn’t get the ‘presents,’ dones the contention of the A. F. of L. reactionary bureaucrats that if some employers become “good” by | coming to realization that if they grant shorter hour workday and better conditions to labor, then they will better prosper. That is they will create more surplus value. | —ANOTHER PRINTER. jers and poor peasants, constitute representative of the white work-| PALACE Gus Van and Joe Schenck; The Duncan Sisters; Rudy Valle, and his orchestra, “The Connecticut Yankees”; Joe Laurie, Jr., and Ann Greenway; Davis and Darnell; “Sun- shine” Sammy, with BrotHers oppression and inertia have heaped upon the Negro’s shoulders.” Dr. Dubois played the radical! “A disfranchised working class,” said he, “is worse than helpless. It is a menace not simply to itself, but to every group in the community. ers and the farmers in this country, | |which organization, armed | with understanding of the basic why |and wherefore of the race problem, and the willingness to meg tently follow a course that will ulfifmately effect the solution of this problem, READ Olaf said nothing. Hanging his | ¢; In New Negro Piay | | | Arthur Hughes who plays in| |“Harlem,” a drama of Negro life now current at the Apollo Theatre. neither,” laughed “Shantey,” the lanky Swede. | The fo'e’s’le lamp with the broken globe is smoking, and its yellow, sickly flame is flickering; semi- darkness, smoke and heat. Tk2 stové is red hot again, the fuel: dusty coal,-damp wood and a} pile of “books” and loose paper (the dope) is thrown on the floor! | Teddy is sitting by the stove and | warming his bare and wet feet—| during our absence he has cleaned, washed up the place and kept the “home fire going.” “They fooled you, eh, didn’t they?” he said, grinning, and he began to speak of his experience in th: mis-| sions on the Frisco coast. | “Oh, the bastards,” said Jack, the | Austzalian, “let’s have a chew of tobacco, matey?” } In a dark corner, sitting all by | himself, was Olaf. He was think-| ing: This is my last voyage; I am | going back home to fishing, will | marry, settle down and no more of | these old roten hulks and sotten| food. | Soon we were in our bunks and | sleeping; some were already snor- | ing. Teddy, the last man up, filled | the stove with coal and throwing in | for good measure a big, fat religious | book that caught fire tamediately, | le blew out the smoky lamp. We all | slept, the last night. Tomorrow we sail. R. J. STEVENSON. (To Be Continued.) The petit-bourgeois, “gone mad” from the horrors of capttalism, is a TWO SOVKIN Keith-Albee CAME 42nd Street and Broadway NEW SPEEDUP Force Bosses to Quit Their Scheme (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (By Mail).—After attending the Na- tional Convention of the National Textile Workers. Union of Ameriea, which took place in New York City, September 22nd and 28rd I was asked to write about conditions in my mill. The conditions are terrible. The floors are oily and the windows are never opened during the summer. The place where we wash up is al- ways full of water. They tried the speed-up in this mill but all the workers walked out and the bosses had to come out after them asking them to go back to work. The workers refused to go back saying that they would not work: under the new speed-up system, and that unless they withdrew this speed-up they would go on strike. The bosses then agreed and the workers went back to work. At noom hour we had a meeting in front of the mill, asking the work- ers to vote for Beal for Mayor. fF am doing my best to get more mem- bers for our union. LIGHT MERGER FORMING. Plans are under way, it became known here, to form a huge merger of the electric light and power com- panies controlled thru ownership of stock by the Electric Bond and Share. The Electric Bond and Share Com- pany has extensive but not control- ling interests in all of the large do- mestie utility companies which it supervises. It, now holds about 25 per cent each of. the voting stocks of American Power and Light and National Power and Light, 15 per cent of Electric Power and Light vot- ing stock, less than 10 per cent of Southeastern Power and Light and about 8 per cent of American Gas and Electric. In bourgeois society, Hving Iaber is but a means te increase secamu- lated labor. In Communist soeiet aeeumulated labor is but 2 means to promote the O FILM CLASSICS MONDAY TUESDAY we |] with LEONIDOFF of MAD MONARCH ‘Theatre Guild Productions EUGENE 0’NEILL’S DAYS THAT SHOOK THE FILM EPIC OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Directed by EISENSTEIN A POWERFUL RE-CREATION OF THE Charlie and Little Joe; Blomberg’s Alaskans. It will suffer in health, it will be should be called by the one organ- HIPPODROME WUOVVVFVVIVVCV VCC “Chinese Nights,” a revue starr- ing Mr, Wu; Miss Patricola; Mexi- 60'S Motorcycle Police Cossacks; Jack Wilson; Jerome and Gray, and others. 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