The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1929, Page 6

§ y _ niversary Jubilee of its Jewish organ, the Freiheit. Page Six ION RAT New Yor r only): New York, N. Y Cry for War Against the Soviet Union. The American Federation of Labor has joined the Chi- cago Tribune, and its allied publications, The New York Daily News and the weekly magazine, ‘Liberty’, in the newest poison propaganda campaign of the latter urging war against the Union of Soviet Republics. This was to be expected. When “Liberty” began the publication of its serial, “The Red Napoleon,” a vicious piece of anti-Soviet propa- ganda, even picturing an actual war between the United States and the Soviet Union, with the victory of imperialist America, it was sure to receive the whole-hearted endo: ment and enthusiastic support of every enemy of the work- ing ¢ The A. F. of L. responded quickly and favorably. It proves again that it is not only one of the most vicious elements fighting against the recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States, but that it openly calls for war against the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government. The A. F. News-Liberty of L. gives its support to the Tribune-Daily atrocity in an article appearing in the propa- ganda poison issue under the name of the International Labor rvice. There are so-called “labor” papers in the anti-working class to the core in their policies, that gladly use this revolting stuff. The material in question is practically taken bodily from the advertisements inserted at an expense of tens of thou- ds of dollars in the capitalist pr of the nation by the Tribune-Daily News-Liberty combination. It declares for instance: “The Red slogan against race prejudice is the rankest sort of hypecrisy, because the Third International and its American sec- tion has been plotting for many months to bring about race wars in various parts of the world.” This statement is not made out of mere stupi It is a well-conceived charge on the part of the imperialist ts to spread the false claim that Communists are urg- Baily Sas Worker Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. interest ing race wars and not the class war. The whole activity of the Communist International, however, is a complete refuta- tion of this charge. In every field of struggle it fights for the unity of the workers of all races. Its American section, the Communist Party of the United States, is the only force today uniting the workers of all colors in this country. The A. F. of L. opposes this solidarity, that has but one purpose, unity of action of labor against the exploiters. Here is another A. F. of L. gem: “The officially declared purpose of the Communists is to wipe the white man’s civilization from the face of the earth.” Communists intend only to wipe capitalism off the face of the earth. White workers and poor farmers, who consti- tute the greater part by far of the white race, will play a major role in the defeat of capitalism, and will take an im- portant part in establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat of all races for the building of the new Communist society on a world scale. Capitalist “civilization” as it exists today is not only supported by the exploiters of the white race. There are capitalists to be found among the peoples of all races although, to be sure, the capitalists in nations of the white race are dominant today. This only demands that white workers make the greatest and most heroic efforts for the overthrow of capitalism. The A. F. of L. propaganda repeats this malicious false- hood: “Tf the Reds can carry their plans to a logical conclusion they will kill off a majority of the white men in a world revolution and appropriate the white women to breed a mongrel race.” This is taken almost directly from the Tribune-Daily | News-Liberty propaganda which declares as the object of the so-called hero of its fiction serial “The Red Napoleon”: “That the supremacy of the white race must be ended; that all races should be put in the melting pot so that only one human race she:ld emerge; and with this object in view, invades America to kill the white men and capture the white women.” The Union of Soviet Republics is today made up of a multitude of races and nationalities, each enjoying autonomy on a scale never before known in human history. There are no oppressed nationalities or subject races in the Soviet Union. It is bitter for imperialism to swallow this fact, be- cause imperialism thrives on colonial oppression, the enslave- ment of subject races and nationalities. The A. F. of L. is an ally of imperialism in this oppression. This is shown in its support of Wall Street imperialist policies in the Philip- pines, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in Latin America, especi- ally Nicaragua, just as the British Labor Party, when in power, carried out to the hilt the butcher’s program of British imperialism in India. The Red (Bolshevik) Revolution in the United States will be achieved in the United States with the white workers taking the leading part. The A. F. of L., of course, through its contemptuous propaganda, is trying to blind white labor in this country to this historic task, that they must play in common with Negro workers, and other races existing here, in order to achieve their own emancipa- | tion. The A. F. of L. then makes this declaration: | “This is the bald and unadorned truth, and the sooner that Senator William E. Borah and other congressional stuffed shirt champions of Soviet Russia realize this fact the better it will be for the world in general.” Senator Borah, who is the head of the foreign relations | committee of the United States senate, has announced that he will introduce a resolution in congress at its December session demanding recognition of the Soviet Union. Thus early the Green-Woll regime not only starts its campaign against this recognition but actually and brazenly provocates war against the Soviet Union. | The broad ranks of the American working class, in re- ply, must rally to the demand for the recognition of the Soviet Union, the socialist fatherland of all workers, and build their efforts in every sphere of activity for the defense of the First Workers’ Republic. An indication of the growing influence of the Communist Party is seen in the tremendous success of the Seventh An- The same great auditorium, the Coliseum, in the Bronx, has been seeured for New York's May. Day Demonstration, which | Valera party). |the issue. | declared on the morning of the poll: ling blacklist should attract an even greater throng. Forward to May Day! DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, Irish Opposition Polls Big Vote By JACK CARNEY. A decisive by-election has just been fought in North Dublin, due to the election of a member of the Dail (Free State Parliament) to the Seanad (Senate). The two candi- dates were Dr. O'Higgins, brother of the late minister for justice, mem- ber of the government party, who was assassinated in 1927, and Oscar Traynor, member of Fianna Fail (De The election was fought in Ireland, but the Soviet Union was the center of the campaign, with Mexico as a side- |line. Solidarity Against Goy’t. The Irish Worker League decided to make a united front with Fianna Vail and oppose the government h a solid opposition. This step was taken as a protest against the terrorist tactics of the government, the callous treatment of the unem- ployed, the numerous dismissals of railway workers and the general at- titude of the government toward the |working class. The capitalist press made Moscow The government organ “The Communist leader, who has now rallied his supporters be- hind Fianna Fail, has time and time again held up Bolshevist | Russia as the model for Ireland. “RESPECT OUR GOVERNMENT: — career rarer eee WORK FOR $8 A WEEK!” , Candidate of Communist-Fianna Fail Bloc Nearly Wins Despite Terror He is the principal performer at the mectings held in Dublin every ory of Lenin. Lenin drenched hi: country in blood, made it a crime to teach that there is no God and | prescribed and executed the Cath- olic clergy of Russia. The man who holds up this blasphemous wretch as an exemplar to Irish- men does not understand the men- tality of Irishmen or of Catholics. We believe they will give him his answer in North Dublin today.” Jail Opposition. The election was fought much bitterness. Nearly three hun- dred of the opposition supporters were jailed, thus preventing them from voting. In one case, where the Workers Union of Ireland has con- trol, the members of the staff, who had voted against the government at |the last election, found themselves |struck off the voting register. The |men who had driven the motor cars at the last election found themselves in jail the night before polling day. Yet, despite the warning that “Ire- year to commemorate the mem- | with 1 jland must not be ruled by Moscow,” |that terrorist tactics had been re- rted to, that money had flowed like water among government sup- | porters, the vote was as follows: |Q’Higgins, government ......28,426 |Traynor, Fianna . Fail-Com WAUNISY p4sie'5o 8s Sicee eer smchs 28,275 151 The Irish Workers League must |be given credit for the high vote |cast. The vote recorded doubly en- sures the election of two Commu- |nists at the next election, which may {be held shortly, in North City Dub- |lin. The working class districts | voted six to one against the govern- |ment. It was in the rich and middle- class districts that the government secured its votes, and all of these were not secured by direct voting, the government agents, in many in- stances, saving the voters the trouble of voting for them, Soldiers Discontented. The soldiers were allowed to vote. There are six hundred resident in ithe North City of Dublin. Of these Government majority..... 600, thirty-three voted for “Mos- cow.” When one understands the vigilance exercised by the army of- ficials over soldiers the vote of 33 assumes great significance. It shows | that the army is not solid behind| the government, that within are the germs of discontent. | When the result was made known | there was no loud cheering from the | government supporters. The cap- italist press was of the opinion that the government had not gained a victory, There is a_ significant silence about the result. Twenty- eight thousand, two hundred and seventy-five people were told that if they voted against the govern- ment, they were for Moscow, they were for Mexico, they were for the gunmen, they were for the killing of imperialists, they were for the destruction of “law and _ order.” They were threatened, cajoled and bullied. In many instances their sons and daughters were arrested. Their homes were invaded in the dead of night. Yet they voted against the government. The quiet work of the Irish Worker League, unaccompanied by any loud hurrahs, is bearing fruit. The election was fought on issues that not even Fianna Fail would ap- prove. The government made the fight center around Moscow, and Moscow won, Food Clerks Fight Inhuman Slavery - By EDWARD SCHWARTS. Concentration of capital in the re- tail food industry, in the form of chain stores, has taken away the | last handicap in organizing the food| — clerks, The psychological produced by the possibility of a effect |food clerk scraping together a few | hundred dollars and going into busi- ness for himself is away. The food clerks now realize that they cannot compete with the fast growing concentration of retail stores in the hands of the trusts. As a result of the trustification of the business, the underpaid and overworked clerks are forced to ac- cept reductions in wages and longer hours ‘of work. The rapidly develop- system whereby a clerk, protesting against the in- fast fading |human conditions, is made known to other employers as a kicker and union man, is taking away any illusion of independence left the food clerk, and turns him into an actual slave, The food clerk is compelled to | work 80-90 hours each week. At the end of the day he is exhausted and too tired to respond even to an or- ganization meeting. Socially he is dead. He must also work most of the day on Sunday. And all this despite the fact that their work is hard physical labor. They have to unload heavy merchandise, which is hard to handle; bags of potatoes weighing close to 100 pounds each; boxes of oranges and grapefruit; weighing close to 100 pounds each; barrels of apples weighing 150 pounds each, are among the things ! |Workers Look to Union In Struggle Against 80-90 Hour Week, Other Abuses that the clerk has to move each day. They have to wash lettuce, cel- ery, and spinach in mid-winter days in freezing water, in chilly, damp cellars. Fruit workers are subjected daily to lumbago and rheumatism. Under these conditions, the exist- ence of the Retail Grocery, Fruit, Chief Two-Guns White Calf, Imperialists Corrupt Indian Chief of the Glacier National Park re- servation, was induced by the publicity hounds for imperialist war to “bless” a giant plane before it left on a transcontinental flight, | { and Dairy Clerks Union is a light- ing tower, which the clerks begin to conceive as their only hope of es- cape from intolerable conditions, As a result of extensive propaganda among the clerks, hundreds of them | have answered the general strike call, which was issued Monday. The Union, under left wing lead- ership, has won the confidence of the food clerks; the Union is well fitted to fight the bosses to a finish; 19 months of battle with the bosses, gangsters, police, and their ally, the United Hebrew Trades, has moulded membership and leadership into a body fit to lead a strike of the thousands employed in the trade, The Union is ready to win the closed shop in the fruit and grocery trades. We are ready to go into bat- tle for the liberation of the slaves of the city’s food stores. Fruit clerks, dairy clerks, grocery clerks! Now is the time to strike at your chains! The entire labor movement is ready to back you up in your fight. We have the bosses on the run. Let us finish the job. Answer the strike call of our Union. Join our ranks as soon as you possibly can. Throw off your aprons, and walk out, so that we can return victorious to more human conditions, REVIVE CHAIN GANG SYDNEY, Australia, (By Mail).— The road chain-gang system will be revived in New South Wales, and prisoners made to undergo road labor, if a plan by the New South Wales Minister of Justice is put thru, fe | expelled from the membership ‘in the party.” | the doctrine which advocates crime, violence, force, Copyright, 1929, by International Publishers Co., Inc. Pe oy All rights rese,ved. Republica tion forbidden except by permission, BOOK | Socialists Pass a “Criminal Syndicalism” Law and Expel Haywood; Contrast of Social Democracy and Communism ~ The parts of Haywood’s Book thus far printed tell of his life of toil and peril in the Mormon settlements of Utah, and the farms and ranches and mines of the Rocky Mountain regions. He walks from his power drill deep down in a mine to a Western Federation of Miners’ Convention, and becomes the union's secretary-treasurer. After that follows a colorful and active career as strike leader, propagandist, and arrests. He is tried fer murder, he goes to international conventions as delegate, he helps organize the I. W. W. He gives his views of Gompers, De Leon, Debs, Lenin, Borah, Darrow—as he met them and worked with or against them in his daily life. In the last issue, the socialist party, of which he was a member of the executive, was just turning yellower, and passing a constitutional amend- ment against direct action, pie ts a By WILLIAM D HAYWOOD. PART 82. OMPARE the Article 2, Section 6 amendment to the Socialist Party the forerunner of the Criminal Syndicalism laws, with a typical criminal syndicalism law: The Forerunner, “Any member of the party who opposes political action or ad- vocates crime, sabotage or other methods of violence as a weapon of the working class to aid in its emancipation shall be Existing Law. “Criminal syndicalism is hereby defined to be arson, destruction of property, sabotage, or other unlawful acts or methods, or any such acts, as a means of accomplishing or effecting industrial or political ends, or as a means of effecting industrial or political revolution.” A bill, introduced in the United States Senate, declares to be unlawful any association: - “One of whose purpose or professed purpose is to bring about a governmental, social, industrial or economic change within the United States by the use, without authority of law, of physical force, violence or ph al injury to persons or property, or by threats of such in- jury, or which teaches, advocates, advises or defends the use. . .of | physical force, violence or physical injury to person or property, or threats of such injury, t» accomplish such change or for any other purpose, and which, during any war in which the United States is engaged, shall by any such means prosecute or pursue such purpose or professed purpose, or shall so teach, advocate, advise or defend. . .” ee oe tT Criminal Syndicalism laws have been upheld by the United States Supreme Court and hundreds of men and women have been sent to the penitentiaries though not one of them had committed any offense excent that of holding an opinion or being a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. It is under such a law that the Communists were tried in Michigan and C. E. Ruthenberg, Secretary of the Workers Party, convicted and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. The many who have been persecuted can thank the traitors of the Socialist Party who adopted Article 2, Section 6 against the working class. r This amendment was followed by a resolution of the National Executive Committee, of which I was then a member, directed against me, charging me with being an advocate of direct action, violence and sabotage. Twas submitted to a referendum vote and I was recalled from the National Executive Committee. I had been a member of the Socialist Party since its inception, but had paid no dues into the or- ganization since I had been recalled as a member of the National Executive Committee. At a later date Berger testified before the Federal Court in Chicago that he was the man responsible for Article 2, Section 6, the clause in the Socialist Party constitution against violence, sabotage and direct action. Berger went on record in the United States Congress on July 18, 1912, when asked, “How are you going to change the present economic basis? Give us a concrete statement of that proposition.” Berger replied: “That is easy enough. We surely could get the trust properties in the same way the trusts got them. The trusts paid for their properties almost entirely in watered stock, preferred and common. We can@#give the best security in existence today—United States bonds.” Had Berger been as well acquainted with “Imperial Washington” as was the late Senator Pettigrew he would have known that the trusts had not paid for the property that they own but that they had robbed the American people of their heritage. Congressman Berger, who was elected on a Socialist ticket, was willing to eliminate the class struggle and perpetuate the exploiting class by providing them with the world’s best security—United States bonds! These were not the tenets of the revolutionary Socialist Party in which the working class of America was becoming interested. It would seem needless for me to say that the Socialist Party began to retrograde from the date of the Indianapolis convention until now it has lost whatever influence it had. The politicians at that convention were a slippery, desperate crew, who ignored the elementary principles of Socialism. The Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels meant nothing to them. They cast aside its primary teachings which concluded with these inspiring words: “The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The workers have nothing to lose pat their chains, They have a world to gain. Workers of the world, unite! ieee, Sanne PeteEson, the silk city of America, is built near the mosquito- infested swamp lands of New Jersey. It is a miserable place of factories, dye-houses, silk mills, which are operated by from 20,000 to 25,000 workers. There is not a park in the workers’ quarter for the children to play in, no gardens or boulevards where mothers can give their babes a breath of fresh air. Into this town there had thundered weekly a silk train from the West bringing the raw material from Seattle, where it had been shipped from Japan. The mammoth Doherty mill, owned chiefly by Japanese capitalists, and the other mills, the dye-houses and the factories were all closed down by the great strike of 1913, The workers were on strike for better conditions and to prevent the companies from increasing the number of looms that they should operate. Among these workers, as in Lawrence, were many nationali- ties—Italians, Syrians, Armenians, French, Germans, Jews from all countries, and many other, Daily meetings of the strikers were held in Turn Hall and other places. We often had great mass meetings in the adjoining town of Haledon where we spoke from the veranda of a house occupied by a Socialist. While this strike was on I learned something of the methods of producing silk. After the cocoons were unwound and the silk was whippe into skeins it was dyed with the glorious colors seen in this costly fabric. All of it went through a process. called “dynamiting” where it was loaded with metals of different kinds—lead, tin and zine, From a fourth to a third of the weight of the silk was of these * adulterants, which shortened the life and durability though temporarily adding to the gloss and weight of the finished goods. The owners of silk fees could not understand how a folded or hanging gown ‘wou rust and break in the creases until this expose was made by the ‘strikers. The metropolitan press ran stories about the “dynamit- ing” process, much to the embarrassment of the silk mill owners, + # In next issue of The Daily Worker, Haywood describes the Paterson teatile pageant, after which he was arrested, as usual. All these selections we are printing are parts of Haywoods Book, and you can have the book free by sending in one new or renewal yearly subscription to The Daily Worker, SNe age = “