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Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, M G HIS IRE Baily 3&5 Worker | Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U.S. A. ee’ (CEMENT Bore? | GLADKOV Translated by A. S. Arthur and C. Ashleigh All Rights Reserved—International Publishers, N. Y. ROUS. Published Sunds y, except k City, N DAIWORK.” | | | Gleb Chumalov, Communist and Red Army commander, returns home after 8 years at the front, to find the village half in ruins and By Mail Gin New Y onth months $8.00 a year $4.50 six m | : oe : i B utside of New York): | | | the great cement works in a similar condition. His wife, Dasha, has $6.00 a year ; ntha $ months become a self-reliant Party worker. His friends, Savchuk and Motia, Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, Bererec. | like most of the other workers, are cating at each other's vitals in New York, N. Y. a> { >:. i hopeless bitterness. He visits the works and finds them full of cobwebs, with everything movable gone, except the engine room, where his old friend, Brynza, has kept the Diesels ready for work. At tha factory committee, time spend in endless and purposeless quar Gleb speaks there on start ing the works again, against the derision of the workers. i * . * H ) had cried this word in tones too| She no longer feared passing the loud for the place in ~vhich they | dark corners of the deserted factory. were cooped; he had shouted with all! The little tongue of flame in the his strength 2s he used to do when} lamp burnt, dim and strange, in a in the army. The workmen stopped | uib dirtied by finger-marks; and the and drew together, immobile. | rosette-shaped lampshade, attached “Brothers, it’s true then: the belly | to a cord of tarnished flex, hung like }must be filled. I’ve been fighting) a frozen flower. jover there and I’m going to fight) Goh was lying More Slaps for the Farmers. The special session of congress ostensibly called to pro- vide farm relief, now proceeds to give agriculture a few more mighty wallops in the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill introduced in ' the house of representatives. Introduction of the bill indicates that robber tariff making has been transferred from the New England of Coolidge and Butler to the home state of Andy Mellon, secretary of the treasury, to Pennsylvania of big industry and great finance. on the bed, } 8 4 : Li cae the victory of the hairman Willis C. , who put shingles The lumber trust spoke through C Hawley (R., Oregon), co-author of the bil and several varieties of lumber especially those used by farmers on the dutiable lists, as well as brick, cement, alum- inum and plate glass. The gigantic financial interests of the Mellons are especially concerned with the last two items while cement is chiefly produced in Pennsylvania. One of the jokers in the proposed bill is the increase in the duty on corn from 15 to 25 cents per bushel. The imports of corn however, have been only about five one-hundredths of one per cent of the total production of the country. Similarly with cotton, which stays on the free list, while there are advances in the duties on incoming cotton goods, particularly those of finer grades. This is sufficient of an analysis to show that finance capital continues to manipulate the tariff on an increasing scale for its own advantage “protecting” the home market for its own products and profits. The cost of living of the city and land worker is increased under these tariff proposals. One statistician says the tariff legislation proposed will cost the farmers $400,000,000. This means, of course, the poor farmer and agricultural worker, the most oppressed section of the agrarian masses. The Green-Woll regime in the American Federation of Labor, which favors a high tariff, will argue hypocritically that the workers will be benefitted, sharing in the loot. This lie has*been thoroughly and repeatedly exposed in the wages, hours and conditions suffered by the textile workers in one of the most highly protected industries. The Hoover repub- lican administration does not even advance the pretension that anything contained in the 400 typed pages of the pro- posed bill has anything to do with the farmers, except that it raises the rates on everything that enters into the making of homes, whether in city or countryside. The rapacity of American great business is again re- vealed in the proposed tariff legislation of the Hoover “eff- ciency” administration. Hoover says that the proposed tar- iff legislation carries out the republican party’s election cam- paign pledges. It certainly does! The pledges made to great business that dictated the writing of the republican party platform at Kansas City. Tries to Explain His Militarism John P. Frey, secretary-treasurer of the Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, who gave his blessing to Yankee navalism at the recent launching of the cruiser, Pensacola, shows signs of fearing that his open pro-imperialist stand will open the eyes of some workers in the metal industry. So he tries to put on the old familiar mask of angelic pacifism again in an effort to hide his ugly militarist features. Addressing the government club at the aristocratic Hotel Astor, he said: “The American trade union movement does not believe that force ever has settled any question on its merits. It opposes the use of force in international relations and believes in arbitration but opposes a policy of ‘peace at any price’.” Frey declares that the A. F. of L. has always supported the government in matters of “national defense.” His posi- tion is quite clear. When the workers try to develop their own class power, when they demand defense of the Soviet Union and expose the imperialist war danger, and when the workers are ready to go on strike in support of their wage demands, then Frey inveighs against the use of “force.” But in defense of the capitalist social order, Frey is willing to go to the limit, even to demanding that the workers go out and fight “in defense of Wall Street,” against the Soviet Union, against the resistance of colonial and semi-colonial peoples. At such a time, Frey hopes to get one of those lucrative “Dollar a Year” jobs, among the swivel chair mil- itarists in Washington, far from the stinking trenches, where he can be used effectively as a strike-breaker should trouble occur in industry at home as it inevitably will. Frey and all his kind will learn that the working class on the eve of the next world war has a temper different from that displayed by labor before and even during American participation in the last war. Labor today is more determined to fight in its own interests. It is learning to refuse to give peace to capitalism at any price short of complete surrender. That is what Frey like all the other capitalist-minded of- ficials of the American Federation of Labor fear and dread. The National Child Health Day proclaimed by President Hoover for May First was utterly forgotten.in the Commu- nist celebration of International Labor Day. It is where the whole working class celebrates May First that health is mak- ing its greatest conquests against disease. This is in the Union of Soviet Republes. Tuberculosis, for instance, one of the most widespread of industrial diseases in the United States, is showing a downward trend everywhere in Russian cities. Thus in Leningrad the annual death rate dropped from 38.2 per ten thousand in 1904-8 to 21.1 in 1927. In Moscow the decrease was from 34.5 in 1901 to 15.9 in 192 more than half. That is the difference between the czarist and the Soviet regimes. The health of the whole working class will only be materially improved in America as well viet Power in this land. + teenie de ial entanant inieemeeere aera ee News Item: Bosses call on police to break up demonstration in Yonkers, Minneapolis and many other cities following distribution of shop papers, Betraya By J. W. FORD. | (Member of the Executive Council of the Red International of Labor Unions.) The Negro intellectuals of Amer- ica never come out supporting whole-heartedly, unwaveringly, fully and completely, the interests of the Negro workers and the working class as such. In: the struggles of the Negro masses against the abuses of capitalism, where racial interests temporarily throw together all strata of the Negro masses, lawyers, doctors, business men, workers, etc., we sometimes find the Negro in- tellectuals supporting and fighting | for general racial demands which are of tremendous importance to the Negro workers. But this is only for a short time; as class differentiations become} sharper, and as the class struggle intensifies, they betray the work-, ers, they go over to the side of tl oppressors. This tendency and si; ation is becoming more marke the struggle of the. Negro masses in America. Du Bois Turns Coat. } Decades ago we find the Negro intellectuals some of the staunchest supporters of some of the racial| interests of the Negro workers. Out- | standing among these was Dr. W E. B. DuBois, leader of the Na tional Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, editor of the sis” and leader in the Pan- African Congress Since he has some influence among the Negroes jof America and is a sort of intel- lectual leader of the Negro race in general it is necessary to expose his present anti-working class ten- dencies and his complete capitula- | tion, from his early position, on some of the vital questions of the / Negro masses; a tendency that is not only evident with him but is the trend of all the Negro intellectuals. Two decades ago we found Du | Bois one of the bitterest opponents of the Booker T. Washington lead- lership, and advocating full social, economic and political equality for Negroes. But today he kneels at the tomb and shrine of. Booker .! Washington and denies that Ne-| | groes demand full social, economic | |and political equality in America. \In a recent debate in Chicago with | Lothrop Stoddord,* Du Bois becomes a vacillating capitulator and com- | promiser, The very wording of the subject of this debate, “Shall the Negro Be Encouraged to Seek Cultural Equal- ity,” is a complete compromise of Du Bois"on this question of social, conomic and political equality. A) |few years ago Du Bois would not jhave entered such a debate unless | the subject contained “social, eco+ nomic and political equality” for Negroes, In discussing the subject Du Bois wandered along for 30 minutes talk- \ing about the amount of “culture” | there is in the world, finally mak- ing a plea that Negroes should be ‘granted a little, which, because of | the nature of things, the white peo-| ple would not miss: for as he says | “culture is not a quantitative sort) | of thing.” | This is a miserable plea, even from | the point of view of the interest of the Negro “elite,” to say nothing of | its betrayal of the toiling masses of | Negroes. However, this is the gen- eral plea which is made by Negro intellectuals for their place in the capitalist scheme of things, for a | share in the Golden Calf.* In re- | turn for sharing in capitalist profits | Du Bois and the rest expect to lead | the Negro masses into blind alleys and further into the clutches of capi- | talist’ exploitation, This is of tre- here. We're goi.g to fight to get ls of Will Aid Race in Minor Ways Until Crucial Moment; Then Go Over to Oppressors mendous importance to the Negro) white workers, towards bitter strug- toiling masses. gle against American capitalism. “Social Equality Not What Negroes Want.” The real crux of Du Bois’s speech was in his reply to Stoddard’s dec- laration that “what the Negroes wanted was social equality.” This, American imperialism is at pres- | ent in a series of little wars, crush- ing the Nicaraguans and suppre ing the Haitians with its marines; interfering in the affairs of Mexico with..an eye towards domination, if Stoddard, of course, is bitterly op-| not annexation. On the whole world posed to. Du Bois emphatically _de-| arena, in spite of Kellogg’s peace nied this by saying that “the first) proposals, America is fast heading thing for white people to do is to|for another world war. In this gen- get thi$ idea out of their heads.” _| eral situation it is time for the wav- In denying it, Du Bois is not only retreating from his former position| the type of Du Bois, to desert the yout a ee up one of the basic | struggles of the Negro masses. struggles of the Negroes in Amer- n A 5 ica, especially the working masses. ce CRIES ss mR poleeenae i e Negro masses, “Let us close Negroes and Class Struggle. ranks,” “let us put aside our quar- The situation in American is that! rel about the lynchings and abuses the class struggle is getting sharper| of American capital and support the and sharper; the Negro toilers are| capitalist government in the war.” more and more being crushed under| For this he was given a captain’s the heel of American capitalism and) rank in the army and later sent on imperialism. This oppression and/a mission as “High Potentate” to exploitation is pushing the Negro| Liberia by President Harding. So toilers, along with the mass of! as the new war approaches, we see “Glorious America!” By SAMUEL SATIN. In American dominions Where the citizen’s opinions Aren’t worth the breath and time they throw away, The election to positions Help to lower bad conditions Every time they have a thief in public pay. Here’s Hoover’s white washed home, Just another name for throne, Where degrading laws and bills are signed and read. O’er his desk his back is bent, There he sits, the President— Just another name for figurehead. And the congressmen elected Want America “protected” From ravaging and thieving foreign lands; But, with purpose, overlook The office-holding crook Who receive enormous bribes into their hands. Now our lovely Mayor Walker Is a highly polished talker, And listens to what others have to say}; For his mind, now it is known, Is not his very own, But held in hand by those who hold his pay. The “guardian of the law” Is a glorious model for Americans, some men hold strict belief; With a clearly visioned mind I can truly only find A replica of the arrested thief. I like to have some wine When I think the proper time, And I just don’t like to hear those bigots say: “Stop drinking that this minute, For we’ve put some poison in it; It’s the only thing to make you keep away!” When rich men want a war They say they’re fighting for “Democracy,” unashamed to say the lie; With patriotic raving And cheers and much flag-waving They march a million beings out to di Of course this country’s just! It’s honest and I must Admit, to speak and write is always free! Maybe it is my mind, Or perhaps I’m slightly blind, But will some kind person show all this to me? Negro Intellectuals jering elements, the intellectuals of | .| ism and prejudice among the white :|tained struggle against capitalism, | the factory started. I shall peg out, or explode or go mad, but will get this factory going. I may get burnt alive, but the smoke-stacks will be smoking and the machinery will be| turning. I’ll bet my head on it!” The workmen stood shuffling their feet and blinking in confusion | and surprise. “Get it going, Gleb! I say. Go to it, boy! hump on it! Fine!” Gromada, burning as with fever, ran laughing round the table. | Gleb shuddered, a spasmodic choking in his throat. Through the window he saw, passing along the concrete path, leaning heavily upon a stick, a stoop-shouldered old man | with the appearance of a gentleman. But no, this is no old man, it is a tall man with a silver beard, It is the | engineer, Kleist. Again he stood in Gleb’s path, as he had done before. | as ee CHAPTER II. THE RED KERCHIEF I That’s what Here’s my 2 ‘ The Cold Hearth the reformists, the intellectuals and| Y ; all their kind seeking cover. LEB did not take his rest at home. Besides, class differentiations| — This deserted dwelling, with its among the Negroes are growing | custy window (even the flies no lapace. There is an ever-increasing |!onger buzzed against the panes), un- number of petty-bourgeoisie and oe | snes floor and heap of ragged tellectuals that seek crumbs from|8@tments, had become strange, un- the table of the capitali: _|inhabitable and stifling. The walls erically small but significant Ne- seemed to press in on him and there gro bourgeoisie, rich Negro capital-| WS not room to move. Two steps ists, who seek to draw the Negro| to the right—and there was the ntellectuals into their clutches and | Wall; two steps to the left—again the |in turn in general support of Amer-| Wall. As night drew on, the walls ican capitali: came closer and the air was so thick It is significant to recall that that one could grasp it. Worst of | after Du Bois’ trip to Russia a year | 2!l were the mice and the mildew. | i. | And no wife, no Dasha. |ago after which he flung out a few | 7 7 oe ddical phrases, that one leading Ne-|,_ “leb rested in the deserted works, jin the quarries overgrown with | gro bourgeois of Chicago immedi- | ately engaged him to make a lecture | bushes and grass. He roamed about, !on Negro banking, supporting the | 58t down, reflected. . . . lrising Negro bourgeoisie. At night-time he came home and found no Dasha. She was not wait- ing for him on the threshold as she | used to three years ago, when he re- turned home from the workshop. In In the present and coming strug-| those days it was cosy and cheerful gles which the Negro workers of|in the room. Muslin curtains hung | America face, one of the main wea-| before the windows, and on the win- | pons of struggle is trade union or-| dow-sill the flowers signalled wel- ganization. Negro workers must join | Come to him like little flames. The ithe unions of the white workers for | Painted floor glittered like a mirror | joint struggle against capitalism.|Under the electric light, and the | But the capitalists have long since| White bed and silvery table-cloth | thrown up racial barriers which have | SParkled like frost. And a samovar. caused white workers to bar Negro|+++ The chinking jingle of the | workers from their unions and have|China.... Here Dasha lived in hampered the struggles of the work- |eVery corner: she sang, sighed, | Bitter Struggle Ahead for Negro Masses. lers (white nd black) against Amer-|laughed, spoke of to-morrow and ican capitalism. played with her living doll, their But this joint struggle must come |ittle fel ade tad ute rhea wy about; it is absolutely necessary be-| Seat ete: ete SOW . A peeve fore there can be .a victory over|WOUG knits through her ‘ove, her stubborn character would sometimes jcapitalism. ‘This is one of the main) © 1 tt oe | reasons why the 6th World Congress | ™Ve#! itself, |of the Communist International | 2 aes placed as one of the main tasks of |'THAT was a long time ago. It was the Communist Party of America| ~ the past had become a dream, \the fight for complete and real | dreamed recently. | equality of Negroes, for the aboli-| And this gave pain, because it was tion of all kinds of racial, social,|the past. And one felt nauseated economie and political inequalities, with this abandoned and mildewed | to struggle against white chauvin-| "ome. can be no rest. Where the cozy fire has died now swarm the stinking vermin. Dasha came home after midnight. | workers, to organize active resist- ance against lynchings, to fight for | the acceptance of Negro workers into all organizations of the white workers, It is on the basis of his compro- mise on the demand and struggle for social, economic and _ political equality of the Negro masses that Negroes must see the recent be- trayal of Du Bois; it is the capitula- tion and compromise of an intellec- tual in the face of the bitterest struggles of Negro workers. It is time for the Negro workers and toiling masses to close their ranks to these betrayers; it is time for Negro workers to organize their economic forces for joint struggle with the white workers for a sus- (A Providence In this fair city of our: Why this marshal tre In the early morning | against the brutal oppression and brutal attacks of American imperial- ism, to struggle against the impend- ing world war, to join and support the struggles of the international proletariat, to struggle against any imperialist attack on the Soviet Union, the fatherland and home of the proletariat and oppressed peo- ples. *Stoddard fs one of the outstanding white pseudo-scientists on “Nordic” and anti-Negro subjects in America; he is author of many books and writ- ings on these subjects, the most pop- ular of which is “Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy.” Both DuBois and Stoddard are gradu- ates from Harvard University and hold the degree of doctor of philo- sophy, *#It 1s Interesting to note that a year ago, in a debate with this same Stoddard, another prominent Negro intellect,’ Allan Locke, made the fol- lowing declaration: “£ would much rather seo the black masses going gradually forward under the leader- ship of a recognized and representa- tive and responsible elite, than to see a frustrate group of mnlcontents ‘ later throw this mass at society in doubtful but desperate strife, » Has some foreign foe And drive slavery. out Where the mice have fouled there You men of those southern hills, ay Defend your homes as your sires did, | Through his drooping eyelashes he was drowsily regarding Dasha. No, this was not Dasha, not the former Dasha, That Dasha was dead. This was another woman, with a sunburnt, weathered face and stubborn, opinionated chin, Her face seemed larger under the fiery red kerchief with which her head was bound. mips as eae SHE was undressing at the table. Her hair was bobbed, She was chewing a crust of her rationed bread and did not look at him. He watched her face, tired but tense and | stern as though she were clenching her teeth. Did he embarrass her? | Or was she trying not to disturb his repose? Or did she not sense the change that had come into her life with his arrival? His Dasha was strange and remote. He decided to test her. “Explain this question to me, | Dasha: Firstly, I was in the army. | Secondly, I’ve been fighting, and | haven’t had a home of my own, nor Jan hour to myself. Now I’ve come home, in my own house, and you are not part of it. I’ve been hanging round waiting for you here like a de- |serted mongrel, and I haven’t slept tat nights. After all, you know we haven’t seen each other for three years.” | She was not frightened at his | voice: remained just as she was | when she came in. She spoke with- out looking at him. “Yes, three years, Gleb.” “That’s so, and you don’t scem very happy about it. What does that mean? Do you remember the night when we parted? I was all bruised and beaten’ and hadn’t properly .come to myself yet. Do you recollect how you nursed me up- stairs in the attic, as though I was a little child? How you cried when we parted! Why are you so cold now?” “It’s true, Gleb, that I’m different now. I don’t stay around the house so much. I’m not the person I used to be.” “Just so. ing.” “That home of ours, I’ve forgotten about it. I don’t regret it. I was a little fool then.” “Well, well! And where shall we have a home then? In this rat- hole?” Dasha gazed attentively at him from under her lowered brows. She twisted the red kerehief in her fingers. Then she leant forward, her fists upon the table (there was ne longer a tablecloth upon it and it was black and greasy with dirt). | “Do you want flowers on the win- | dow-sill, Gleb, and a bed overloaded | with feather pillows? No, Gleb; 1 spent the winter in an unheated room (there’s a fuel crisis, you know), and |I eat dinner in the communal res- |taurant. You see, I’m a free Soviet | citizen.” She no longer looked at him as of old, when she was his sweetheart. | Now she was vigorous, unsubduable, | knowing her own mind. (To be Continued) That’s what I was say- The Invasion By PEACE DALE. R. I, Weaver) Why all those glistening bayonets ad, and call to arms hours? invaded us, If so, why not do all you can? Shoulder your pike, pick or bayonet! Defend your home like a man! Why are your hands in your pockets, Head bowed as in fear or in guilt? What has become of your courage? Take your old sword by the hilt! of your 3

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