The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1929, Page 6

___Page Six oye _ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1929 | “YES, YOUR MAN’S DEAD; N Daily $25 Worker Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U.S. A. OW TAKE W HAT WEGIVE You!” By Fred Ellis B I [ [ cme celica, I Publishers Co., Inc. HAYWOOD’S All rights rese,ved. Republica- tion forbidden except by permissicn, | Published by the Nationa y Worker Publishing Association, Inc. Daily, . 2 8 Te $8.00 a year 50 three months ns $2.00 three months $6.00 a year Address and mail all checks to the I ails eSrieaty 26-28 Union Saat | — How the Strikers Made a Scab Hop to His k Propaganda for the Next War | Work; Fighting for Race Equality in | the South; the Lumber Union The Chicago Tribune, with its subsidiary publications, the New York Daily News, a tabloid, and the weekly mag- In installments so far printed of Rill Haywood’s Book, Haywood azine, “Liberty,” are among the most outspoken capitalist has told of his early life in the labor camps, on the ranches and in war propaganda sheets in the nation, the definite objective the mines of the West; his early reaction against race prejudice, his abe Ey awaimnt dhe Soviek Uni early organization work, the big strikes of the Western Federation of being the war against the Soviet Union. tek Miners, of which he became secretary. He told of the organizing of War between the United States and Great Britain is not the I. W. W., of fighting labor fakers in the I. W. W. and the W. F. held impossible. In fact, the April 6th e of “Liberty” M., of the splitting off of the W. F. M. by Moyer, and of the attempt carries a very outspoken editorial entitled, “Is War with Eng- Ue Eee ee for maiate, Ie oe last \ Pe caeer saa t ‘aus ae err RSE Fangs ssue am t to America from the Interna- land ‘Unthinkable’?” It answers this question by citing many tional Socialist and Syndicalist conventions in Europe. Now why war might come, centering especially about the read on. struggle for markets. It is shown that the United States * * * and Engiand have already fought two wars, and that these By WILLIAM D HAYWOOD. two countries, now facing each other as antagonists, nearly PART 76. { came to blows at the time of the Alabama claims after the MEETING had been arranged by the I. W. W. in New York, fo: Civil War, and again over the Venezuela boundary dispute my homecoming. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was the chairman and i in 1895. ; her opening remarks She said the meeting was to welcome me back The plea of the powerful Patterson-McCormick interests oe I oe the audience that, while I fully appreciated the splendid back of these publications is that the United States and te ane pitas Ea eee Gee eee neeanaay from home Great Britain get together as irresistible allies. It is de- in different countries. I told them of the labor move- clared: ee Sie England, the Scandinavian countries yi ae and Italy. lid not neglect to mention the effect of “We don’t love Great Britain, and Great Britain needn't love long-time contracts on the t ay ypographical workers of us. But we can and should respect each other, and we can see Denmivis naneal A . < the advantages of working together and not quarreling. fhe Wndlbalat Merce Eat ee “It is plain common sense that we should work with Great untonismn’in America, Britain and that Great Britain should work with us. With the In its early years the I.W.W. had shared the his- two greatest navies we can, if we are united in polic: ‘run the tory of the Western Federation of Miners; it was high politics of the world. In conflict with each other we could, now writing history of its own. The free speech and most likely would, destroy white civilization.” fight in the West had excited the imagination of the The target, of course, of this Anglo-American combine, ee oa ea een the pour ; The organization was growing would be the Soviet Union. The sequel to the editorial is to lumber and agricultural workers Ta the Wore pat ete be found in the frenzied war propaganda contained in the | the I. W. W. Small groups of workers who had become imbued wit, eed . Fn wal sree sey, Be oe spies | see Chee eee were Saeed on the east side in entitle e Re apoleon,” which predicts the utter defea | ie vyho had been overlooked in other organizations ae m et ate | found thi i i fon of the Union of Soviet Republics at the hands of the United | Ta roe eee ee bases ; * * et © 5 ‘ # lon, in which he was The purpose of this poison has already been analyzed in | 9 ably assisted by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Many shoe workers had bzen the appeal in yesterday’s Daily Worker demanding a quick | ) i | I ( l S al } 1 ad I ee I eae bentar oe ae United age bie gd of the A. F, of I i ‘ Jae ss re S| Ns ‘s erent shops. iis: reply by all workers and poor farmers to this open provoca- | | signed a contract with the manufacturers, sad wae oe tion to war against the Soviet Union. It is especially dastard- wages than the I.W.W. or the individual workers. To sravodt thats ; ly in its effort to shroud the struggle of workers, poor farm- In view of the British general | | _ Personally I hope I shall live pay being reduced to this level, the I.W.W. called a strike. 5 ers and colonials against imperialism, with an appeal to race rece hs h are 2 et pla | to see the day when either there of eS RORY bea ie ue strike, A former member Sea in May of this year the followin . 3 ° 5 ae avili vi i “W.-W. had been severely injured i st © accident : prejudice. se | article describing some of the aco AS A “Liberal” He Fought Strike With Troops; | aie eet as CN meee | a lost his leg. ‘The T.W.W. had paid his Hoenital Ge peaeae had | American capitalism is held up as the savior of “white | tivities of a typical British fas- | Mani C . d th f fri ought him an artificial leg. During the strike h ti o " a y us y i eA 1 ed the present pretense of friendly . _ ing ike he continued to ; inate np cintbt xefarrin: to the. brand! of barbarian | | cise, Winkton Churehill, ‘political | an pulated Raid On Worker Republic velations.” | One day a group of strikers came into the office, one of them carrying | ion, : st : B ailventurer, military charlaten and Th band hi aes an artificial leg over his shoulder. Some one called out, “W Z that exists today under imperialist oppression. By “white | 2+'ui times nome ot eeyeneremer lagcee ne Mevalice eee sri you got there?” 4 gee ey Treat bave aoa oss ake e Te % a s y iz 4 E came r. e “civilized” government he! pa * civilization” is meant private ownership and the right of | class, is especially tin ly. | Plain-clothes men and uniformed | British troops to Murmansk and the is still preparing for as war. We've got that leg we bought for Dan Ritter. If he wants to human exploitation through wage slavery. That will surely | It is one of a s in which | Police carried them out to the letter | Caucasus. : Churchill, however, is a man of| 5¢#P he can hope to it, but he can’t do it on our leg!” have to go, with the triumph of the workers of all races, | the Sunday woke, Bri sh ae and the 300 wore see, ayamaeeally In rae me hp told Kolehak’s | changing mind. Even on Lenin and * ” * in —ontentbed-and-invincibl ‘der the banner: he xe revolu- | Munist weekly, is exposing the en, Stripped and tortured. Over envoy, General Golovin, when prom~/the Bolsheviks he has altered his| J WAS called from New York is ti i ane : Rancivie ander the banners of the world ravolu- | Fors cai -gtce cen poli- one hundred were summoned for ob-| ising to strengthen the front with! opinion. In 1920 Lenin was “a mon.| . cw York about this time to Chicago during the | t That will not b: c ar, but a class r, the war pini 0 Leni ‘a mon-| “ strike of the clothing workers. The I.W.W. had or: ; Pench hn Feet eee war, Dut a class war, the war | ticians who are bidding for the |struction, but the police dared not! 10,000 men, “I am myself carrying | ster on’ a pyramid of skulls” (“Eve-| eighteen thousand clothing worke dike fo ee through which the world is now passing. In such a war, the | yotes of the British workers, call evidence, lest their savage at-| out Admiral Kolchak’s orders.” Yet/ning News,” 14-6-20). In the| But before the demands were ee aaa See cee workers and poor farmers of America will ultimately be on * a * tack be exposed, and the prosecution | in March of the same year this man | “Times” of February 18, 1929, he| Schaffner and Marx, the jeading tite, eran here in ae ; i the side of the proletarian revolution. That is the fear of | By RALPH FOX. a ares Robert Cecil,/of no faith had declared that all/ writes of Lenin: “His mind’ wns a| even’more than the strikers hed demanded, and the cence oh that a the capitalist rulers who frantically flood the land with their | yx w: : a 2 ecnging Churchill, said of this| British troops should be withdrawn| remarkable instrument. When its| firm was immediately settled. For a short time it had looked 1 é riba. rs : N Winston Churchill, chancellor of | incident: “It is the duty of the po- |from Archangel and Murmansk @S/light shone it revealed the whole| the clothing workers would become a part of thi LW 7 epics oe 2 propaganda floods of lies and prejudices. Labor has nothing |! the exchequer in the present gov- |lice to arrest, not to beat the citi-|soon as weather permitted, world, its history, its sorrows, its| organized as the Amalgamated Clothing Wockers witty ee to lose but its chains through the full realization of that ernment, we have a real bandit of | zens of this country,” Exposed by V. C. stupidities, its shams, and, above| of the clothing workers ieee united. eae capitalist fear. That victory will usher in a real civilization power, the profes 1 politician of ee In September he was exposed by all, its wrongs. . .The intellect was | I had planned another tour of the country, and was at Allentown, } for the first time in human history. inne ers its highest} This “Ziberal,” on his “conver- aus of his own class, Colonel Sher-|capacious and in some phases su-| Pennsylvania, when I got a telegram telling me that my mother was sero ae Nae. tite (5i0n” to the faith, declared at Glas- | yon Kelly, V.C., who was sent home| perb, . .A good husband, a gentle dying. I cancelled all dates and hurried westward as fast as possible, } | urchill began his political life | oow in 1906, “War is fatal to Lib-|f0F refusing to command men any| guest.” hoping to arrive at her bedside before she died. But I was too late. | ee " aaa co ervative, In 1901 eaking eralism.” It proved to be almost the | /onger_in a wicked, civil war. Col- : ARE Bee she had passed away the night before I got there. I felt very deeply Enter the Municipal Elections jat ae _ necting in Oxford, we | one true remark of his life. Yet,| nel Kelly revealed that Churchill] His foul hatred of the Russian| the loss of my mother, Her death took with it n love I would never ; ; ee find him describing the Is im jn 1914, he was the leader in the | 84 General Ironside, G.0.C. at Mur-| workers is only a phase of his gen-| know again. She had always been a great pal with me; as a boy I The Communist Party will enter many municipal elec- a sxaquetated Bhyle of thi cabinet, as Lord Morley’s reminis-| marsh, were even then planning Op-| eral contempt and hatred for all| had often taken her to the theatre or the lake or on other outings, tions in various sections of the nation this year. The most a Meubeico caeee? © | cences revealed, of the “War at shy] eens ss eae rah sel toiling men and women. The man| in preference to girl companions. As I grew older, she sympathized conspicuous of these will be the New York electoral cam- | ‘phe Radical Par ded a Me, Te {hit tohaswitbieaeen “nevertheless: (he 1site wee wee li ie ae 8 ee ease bless oe bets ; an ; Radi arty ned a ap ees ee p 9 was preparing to do the er vani sin of paign. But greatest interest should be attached to results |world that shc horri-| ee oa syase best a bold partly because they were refusing | same again in Hole TAS cetigtes ctl nine Baa he Hida Faah Gis ares Gee Te a nee = ai = yoaday si the ee, peae es- |fied at th aoe a dead | Soudan catapaign ana ances Maele: oan ig Buea snug ariers vary war he anne a “Secret and Urgent”| I was anxious to make a study of a steel plant, and asked my cousin pecially where the great basic industries are to be found. he public kand Expedition, a war correspond- | caus army circular to commanding offi- i if he could arrange for me to go through the plant. He said, “Why, ; . 3 : 2 E | workers that the war must stop and | cers in t Britair zl. cortainiy 2” : ; There is cause for special satisfaction in the fact that | when it stands fort pede shalt ee Be wy the Boers | Soviet Russia be recognized. \ the ae Aard pena . | nine in Vande it) eat een, teen a ba Tom Foley, the Communist candidate for mayor of Duluth, | ness th: ‘ roke fs parole as a pris-) But this was not his only plot} «wy; ie. i | ot tits, aad had oo oes bgaihdh Lente alae epee ead ys 3 filthy 0 war. In the “Great War, tagainail Wuveara’: Bassi tThe eanicy Will troops in your area as- id to swim the river to escape from the mob led by Minnesota, has just received 2,321 votes at the head of the Great Lakes, where the steel trust has located one of its Hed iioard ee ee ee largest plants. Here the raw ore from the Minnesota iron |g) icct was the government, its limbs ranges, or grain from the prairie country, is put aboard the | all sound, and the tories were de tremendous whale backs in the Duluth Harbor and sent down They remained sixteen “ 4 : id his high-water mark of| Sonn tps Koi the lakes either to the Chicago district, or on to Detroit, Laer woe yin eng. 5 OWN active service under fire. ass ee ses ae a ne «ular, he explained, “was intended | It was the only strike of the lower paid workers that has ever been Cleveland or Buffalo, sometimes for trans-occanic shipment. career at heart, not with them-} “But as an arm-chair stratepist he A 4 4 P a for use against the threatened won against the steel trust. A striker was killed by the Pennsylvania B - ‘ He joined the object, and Be-| 13. more deadly. Antwerp and Gal- | 2?@ndoned. Sang railway strike.” Mounted Police, whom the strikers called the Black Cossacks. After In the general elections last November, as Communist | came home s y in the Liberal lipoli cost many thousand precious | Miners will bo interested to re-| this murder, the strikers notified the police that for every striker candidate for congress, Foley received only 500 votes. Thus | £°vernment. call that on August 22, 1926, he de-| killed they would get three Cossacks, When I was there some of the sist in strikebreaking? Will they county officials. But my coming to Vandergrift had been unannoun parade for drafts to overseas, es- | and no one knew of my presence there except my cousin. pecially to Russia? Is there any ‘ id 4 growth of trade unionism among | FRoM Vandergrift I went to McKees Rocks, where the I.W.W. was them? The effect outside trade conducting a strike against the Pressed Steel Car Company. This unions have on them?” This cir- strike was handled so well that the steel trust was compelled to give in. I-fledged colonel of yeo-|~ : > i | aida he’ wens year found him plotting with the} as owittly. “returned | X-terrorist _Savinkoy to set up al anks” by ‘the soldiers on:éte) Gere oF, maependent! states, a) he battle of Sydnee Stree; South-East’ Russia and the Cauca- ne battle of Sydney Street) sus, These republics were referred | ed, nry, sf France, but with t pot. r Churchill was forced to abandon |lives of British workers, Murmansk, the Party vote since last November has increased approxi- igen eee Mes Biogen OG Ei accounted | eased is hateed neciiuaias In 1920, Lab ead ah ach Sale kame pe members eee ee * Were in jail, among them Ben Williams, editor mately 1,800, His: record. as a 1 ' for thousands more in 1918-20. | during the Polish War, he wrote in|, n° Sovernment thought a better) of the Solidarity, the official organ of the I.W.W., at that time a eS |was an extraordin One of the significant features of the election was the | vember, 1910, he fact that a renegade, Bloomberg, who repudiated his Com- | V#lleys of Rhond@ and Aberdare “ with polinedwho wiclokent the Russian workers and peasants| This has ever since been his policy, munist Party membership and came out openly on the side Pade apes Hie ‘sta ree Eine an{ it November, 1917, gave their pro-| and he was one of those who must 3 of the reaction expecting to be successful at the polls, polled |when the miners prsieell: aint ih fessional politcians “notice to quit”| bear responsibility for the Arcos only 1,250 votes, or half as many as the Communist, Foley. | troops, w’» fired on the workers at | S°¥¢ him his greatest chance. His) act of banditry and the breaking off) seas and 200,000 unemployed min-| convention at Alexandria, Louisiana. living could be got for the mining weekly. I went to see them, and contributed the proceeds of the meet- community on a basis of seven and| ing at New. Castle to their defense. a-half or eight hours than under the On this trip I went through Tennessee, Kentucky, the southern | ¢ } old seven-hour act.” Evidently the| parts of Ohio and Indiana, to Chicago. In Chicago I made arrange- E 1 t sips |the “Evening News,” “Peace with Perhaps the revolution by which | Russia is only another kind of war.” government still thinks so, in spite] ments to go down South into Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas to confer of semi-starvation in the mining| With the lumber workers. The Timber Workers’ Union was having a by : f bese ie ot age hatred of the workers and_ their | of relations in 1927. Ik i fi pe Foreign-born workers constitute the backbone of the | Tonypandy. 7 ne ee uin& Year Me’ aspirations found full vent, His was| At the Alexandra Palace in June, | °"** The General Strike. Shikey Wee HA MEET afore nge pho ay econ fi Communist Party in the Duluth district, especially Finnish tallway atria) and calle the chief responsibility for sending)! 1926, he declared:— i In the General Strike, “rushing| tion hall in Alexandria, I was very much surprised to find no Negroes 2 and Scandinavian workers. But the participation of the |dockers of Liverpool. H about like a madman,” as H G,| in the session. When I inquired as to the reason, I was told that it f : * <8. ry ; BI Party in the election campaign and its splendid results indi- | with the guards in Sydney Street, | Wells describes him, he filled the| Was against the law in Louisiana for white and black men to meet to- r i cate conclusively that big steps are being taken in reaching When three anarchists defied the streets of London with soldiers,| gether. The black men were meeting in some other hall, % native workers. Watch the Part ate intl He whole London g: | tanks and armored cars, command- I said, “You work in the same mills together. Sometimes a black ; ‘ sige y and its influence grow ai made him the laughing stock of the eered the “Morning Post,” and pro-| man and a white man chqp down the same tree together. You are ' ; the head of the Great Lakes. world: duced from it by blackleg labor “The| meeting in convention now to discuss the conditions under which you The Tory government is at pres: Federal Judge Francis Winslow, of New York, is ent claiming virture for granting charged with petty bankruptcy and grafting and retires in | the franchise to women of 21, The “gi » . +, |mothers of these girls will remem-| so-called “disgrace.” If he had robbed the nation of its ber. Winton! record in the British Gazette,” which contained| labor. This can’t be done intelligently by passing resolutions here and F the most filthy stream of lies and} then sending them out to another room for the black men to act upon. We abuse ever uttered against the Brit-| Why not be sensible about this and call the Negroes into this conven- ir ish workers by their tear-ridden| tion? If it is against the law, this is one time when the law show! x rulers. be broken.” e natural resources, stolen a few oil districts, for instance, he suffrage agitation before the war. When in 1928 the executive of the The Negroes were called into the session without a murmur of dpy fie“ would still be “one of our best citizens” whom President In 1907, at Manchester, he declared | Sh hee mb Union of Building aay from coed lie ane ‘gr aeeeee carries on if ork in ay Pier Hoover referred to in one of his rece clamations. he would never vote for a bill to en-| le Workers accepted this man| orderly way, and when it came to the election of delegates to the nex! ev have to be a robber on a wholesale sic Pager" r es : ia franchise women on the same terms | as a member, such a storm arose| I.W.W. convention, black men as well as white were elected. » wv e in or le ; oO stand in as men, Next»year he was in favor | that the executive hastily met and There was to be a mass meeting at the Opera House in Alexandria, “4 well and get full protection from the imperialist gang at |of the franchise. By 1910 he was| | informed hir1 that he could not join} at which I was to speak. I said that in this meeting as in the con- Washington. once more against it and voted| the union. vention, we would have to make it known that the Negroes would come i ‘against the Conciliation bill, hav- Gh al on ble ee terms as the white men, ee part and sit where they ‘ nN * ; i é Bets i peviously ledmed: bithecif to. Winston Churchill, political .| Pleased. There was to be no segregation of the Negroes in the top ‘ ‘Leninism is the Marxism of the epoch of imperialism beeteya hits vee, eee! tiken, caititang clave cat, ger gallery, as the law-provided. This was the first time that such a meet- ' and of the proletarian revolution. To be more precise: Lenin- se * the working class, His Majesty’s| im& had ever been suggested in Alexandria, The members did not ism is the theory and tactic of the proletarian revolution in But every woman remembers him general, and the theory and the tactic of the dictatorship most for the atrocity of Black Fri- of the proletariat in particular.’—Definition of Leninism by | day, November 18, 1910, when 300 Joseph Stalin, secretary of the Communist Party of the (Women in groups of twelve tried te Soviet Union, in his book, entitled “Leninism”. pp hips Senna bch eadaiy “9 + know what might happen, but they were determined that the meetin; te is sae ae pete i! should be held as we had planned. The Opera House was crowd \ vulsion against the Baldwin govern-| fom pit to roof. While many Negroes went up to the gallery, prob- ms ment, already considering whether or| 2bly from habit, many others sat downstairs among the white workers, : not he should join the Labor Party.| There was no interference by the management or the police, and the |were sympathetic plain-clothes men For power is everything, opposition| Meeting had a tremendous effect on the workers, who discovered that | mingled with them and acted as political death. With his former col-| they could mingle in meetings as they mingled at work. fi f ! 5 t _ The twelfth anniversary of the American entry into the | provocateurs, assaulting the wont Having completed his ‘services to American imperialism, former isaac: ae George, he ible ae (Way Pi RN i tell ‘ ' world war, this Saturday, April 6, is a good time to launch pie ci hone ng ee poet Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg is now on his way to Europe for |?°,1" ® Labor cabinet, or a Labor-| ithe nect chapter, Haywood tells of. tne precy Spun eae F t 3 : j + -% i is Nahi anet é rae , re Liberal Coalition. He is not a man| speech fight. You wilt want to read Haywood's life in book form. B new offensive against American militarism, the ugly off- | were, “No arrests, but break up the} @ vacation. Photo shows him in the center with a group of admiring iZ accept political defeat, only ex-| Geta volume free by sending in one new or renewal subscription to. | ing of Wall Street inverialism, , demonstration” —_ \ swells, sailing on the Isle de Frances tinction. the Daily Worker, * } = re Re mg T rf eS = ae a ieee ween Pag NID - » + - = 6 .