The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1929, Page 6

Page Six Daily 345 Worker Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. Published by the poneoneny, Union Sunday, at 26-28 Telephone Stu 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York only): $8.00 © year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months 28 Union Squar $6.00 a year Address and mail all Court Orders All to Fight for Wall Street. © ea ones must guard themselves against any illusions that may grow out of the fact that the United States supreme court has denied American citizenship to Rosika Schwimmer, the Hungarian pacifist, because of her state- ment that she “would not take up arms personally” for the United States or any other government. The court decision would leave the impression that the Schwimmer brand of pacifism, that supported the fake Ford “Peace Ship” adventure during the last war, constitutes a force against imperialist war, when the direct opposite is the case. Pacifism is a mask cleverly used by imperialism to hide its militarist program. In this respect we find different forms of pacifism offered in the various disarmament con- ferences, the Kellogg Pact, “Good Will” flights, and even the protestations of the American Federation of Labor and the socialist party. Pa m functions as a paralyzing force in the ranks of the warkers, seeking to render ineffective labor’s historic struggle for all power. @The Wall Street government, of course, wilh not accept the declaration from any of its citizens that they will not fight for it. The opinion of the court, written on the basis of the Schwimmer case, was handed down by Associate Justice Pierce Butler, formerly a western railroad corporation law- yer;’and it insists that under the constitution it is the duty Of Citizens “by force of arms to defend our government when- ver necessary.” The court thus seizes upon the Schwimmer Case to lay down a general rule for all citizens, which will, im. turn, be the basis for equally drastic decisions for non- vitizens. ‘ The pacifis: Civil Liberties Union feels outraged that the “liberties” supposedly guaranteed by the federal consti- ttition are thus thrown in the discard and plans to take an- Other case, this time of ‘“‘a 100 per cent religious objector” to the capitalist courts. Religious objections had not been offtred in the Schwimmer case. The fact that the bourgeois pacifist stand of Rosika Schwimmer should bar her from American citizenship, only helps reveal the extreme caution of the Wall Street govern- ment in its war preparations. It uses even this weapon to promote the strength of its militarist program. Here is at least an inkling of what the strengthened “law enforcement” of the imperialist government means for the revolutionary section of the working class that carries on the only effective struggle against the Wall Street war program. The flexible nature of the federal constitution, which was “written to be interpreted in full support of the capitalist government in the present imperialist era, although it was } written nearly a century and a half ago, shows how well it was originally framed for all the purposes of bourgeois power. The supreme court now definitely declares that every’citizen must defend the Wall Street government against all its enemies, although the same document declares that it is the right of the people to overthrow the government if they see fit. The intensified imperialist era ushered in by the election and inauguration of Hoover as president will interpret the federal and state constitutions and the whole accumulation of laws on the statute books for its own purposes, which are the purposes of greater imperialist aggressions that rapidly lead to the new world war. In this struggle bourgeois paci- | fism is the enemy of the working class, the ally of capitalism. The Civil Liberties’ Union still blindly clings to the illusion that the capitalists’ supreme court doesn’t mean what it says; that there still are constitutional “liberties” that the capi- talists will grant against their own interests. This is merely an effort to neutralize the militancy of labor in the class struggle. Masses of workers will be forced into the armies of Wall Street greed. Thus they will be armed for the crucial struggle. The most militant among them will struggle to convert those armies to the civil war against imperialism, for the seizure of power, the abolition of capitalist oppression and the inauguration of the Soviet rule of the workers and poor farmers. This effort must prepare itself for every attack from the present ruling class, especially guarding against tho paralyzing power of petty bourgeois pacifism, the lackey of i imperialism, although, it seeks to parade itself in an anti- imperialist role. Greetings to the Soviet Airmen! RICAN labor, in industry and on the land, will unhesi- ‘tatingly extent its enthusiastic fraternal greeting to the f nm aviators who are planning to fly from Moscow to ‘New. York by way of Alaska in August. It is not to be ex- Qe that the American bourgeoisie and its press will be so happy. It gives its welcome to the representatives of the “ fasetist dictatorships of Europe, not to the bearers of tidings j “the Soviet power of the workers and peasants. There can be no doubt that this flight more than half y around the world will be successful. The Soviet flyers already shown their mettle. This was especially true e heroic rescue of the survivors “of the ill-fated fascist gible, Italia, in which Soviet aviators co-operated with culous efficiency with the crew of the Soviet icebreaker, & ‘The Union of Soviet Republics, covering as it does one- of the earth’s land surface, finds aviation in great de- id. The Soviet airways are being rapidly developed and proved. Soviet aviators have already made long and ained flights. Last summer, Pilot Shestakov, who will e a member of the crew of “The Land of Soviets” that is coming to New York, made a flight from, Moscow to Tokio, dJapan’s capital, and back again. Shestakov is therefore well acquainted with most of the route over which he will again travel. : He will fly with his comrades from Moscow, in the land of Soviets, to New York City, the hub of the imperialist world, the two opposite poles in the clash of the new and the old social orders. _ The Soviet air expedition will be a living reply of the social order to much of the false and malicious propa- spread against it by the old social order which it is y supplanting. Ce one AR bi ai DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1929 THE BLOODY HAND OF FULLER By Fred Ellis THREE GATHERINGS Three mighty gatherings will take , place in August 1929: the Jamboree | (world review) of the boy scout for- ces in England, the social democratic Youth Day in Vienna and the All-| Scouts, Social Democrats and Pioneers Union gathering of the pioneers in} Moscow. That these three powerful organizations are simultaneously | measuring their forces on a world | scale, is not entirely due to chance, are setting up illegal organizations. | also be sight-seeing in Vienna and Baden-Powell can twist and turn as/|two exhibitions, of his will do away with the fact that the scouts are pursuing purely | militarist and imperialist aims, that the Jamboree is a means for the preparation of the new imperialist war. |it is rather due to the ever growing |struggle for the children, for the growing young generation, The Boy Scout Invasion. | “Next summer England will be flooded by thousands of boy scouts, | 15,000 from all parts of the British | Empire, and 15,000 from 42 foreign | states where boy scout organiza- 0 |tions exists’—thus the Boy Scout’s | International Youth Day in Vienna, |newspapers talk of the com-| August 1929, One of the main slo- |ing of the Boy Scout invasion in|gans of the Youth Day is directed |Bngland. There is no doubt what-| against war. The Second Interna- ever that the 30,000 Boy*Scouts will | tional, which is leading the YSI, meet in England because all the |drove in 1914-18 into the shambles financial means of the Boy Scout | of the imperialist war. It has pur- movement which is lavishly subsi-|sued this ever since and has proved |dized by the capitalist class and its ja thousand times that it is nothing governments are being mobilized al-| but a branch of the capitalist and | ready to ensure the success of this | imperialist apparatus of state power. | mighty demonstration. REG social, democratic youth organi- One must admit that the Boy | zations were a party to this policy | Scout leaders are past masters in| Without reservations. They kept |the art of gauging the psychology | Silent even during the armoured jof the children and the youth. Camps,|¢Tuiser scandal in Germany. They gymnastics, bridge bujlding and | Supported the war nrenorations of cabin building games, cinema per-|the German imperialists, in Poland |formances, exhibitions, sword danc- | they are taking up a chauvinist atti- jing, tableaux vivants, such is their|tude quite openly, in Austria they |program. The Jeaders of the Boy | 40 everything to keep away the | Scout movement are much too crafty | working youth from‘ the struggle {and ‘cautious to organize military | against the more and more impudent | drill openly. The army and navy attacks of the fascists. It is a col- officers who are at the head of the movement prove every day that they are carrying on systematic militarist propaganda and educa- tional activity without ‘saying so cpenly, The intended visit of the heir to the ,British throne, the Prince of Wales, to the Jamboree, is eloquent testimony of its monarchist | The Social Democratic Fraud. The Social Democratic Youth In- ternational has issued a call to the democratic youth which has become in all the capitalist countries an im- portant link in the technical and perialist war among the working youth, when it svants to demonstrate against war. The social democrats want to ossal fraud on the part of the social} ideological preparation for an im-| character. Religious ceremonies will be a special feature and the highest | gather in Vienna 30,000 to 35,000} young people, including 8,000 to 10,-| much as he likes, but no fine words} Most of the participants in the Youth Day will be Austrians, but Pah th Czecho-Slovakia and Den- fark will also he well represented. There will be fewer representatives of other countries. A@ to social democratic organizations outside Europe, that of Palestine is hitherto a delegation to Vienna. to social democratic children’s or- | ganizations, participation will be limited to Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Germany, However, we must not under-esti- mate the international importance of the demonstration ‘of the Red Fal- cons and the social democratic chil- dren’s friends in Vienna. Mass or- |&anizations of social democratic chil~ dren €gjst as yet only in a few coun- | tries, but our opponents are working | systematically for the development }an_ intern@ional scale and the | gathering in Vienna gives them an \excellent opportunity for strengthen- tional scale. The Red Falcons who Have written in their periodical about.the great labor leader, Lenin, and the progress |of the Soviet Union, will demonstrate |in Vienna with red banners an partly with our revolutionary fight- |ing songs. But in reality they are |nothing but bourgeois scouts in a “Left” guise. They are very lavish with revolutionary phraseology, but their practice is thorough bourgeois. They use every means at their dis- posal te dampen the revolutionary | spirit of the workers’ children. They keep away the children from the practical class struggle by their the only one mentioned as sending | In regard | {ing their movement on an interna- | _ the Soviet Union, that the Boy,’ ' dignitary of the church of England, 000 social democratic children’s the Archbishop of Canterbury, will friends and Red Falcons, As they even officiate at the opening of the | have in Austria their strongest sec- camp. |tion, which has at its disposal the What then is the real object of | biggest technical staff owing to co- this big Jamboree? We are not/operation with the social democratic | going to be misled by hypocritical Municipal. Council of Vienna, and phrases about internationalism and|which also gets financial support fraternity among men. Facts’ show from the Social Democratic Party, jthat the main’ object of the Jam-|the Defence League, the trade unions boree is—to prepare the Boy Scout | and co-operatives, they are found to movement for the coming war. have a good muster of forces. The | BadertPowell, the general of the|program of the Youth Day consists | Boy Scouts, is particularly proud of lof the usual addresses of welcome, |the fact that Boy Scout organiza- tions are developing also in the British colonies, above all in India. The British bourgeoisie is fully aware that in the person of the non-acceptance of the class struggle in the school, and carry on a purely cultural activity strongly tinged with the romanticism of the path- finders, We ask you, Messrs. Jalkotsky and Kanitz; who are the spiritual lead- ers of the Red Falcons, why don’t you cooperate openly with Baden- Powell? We know that you would like to send delegations to England if it were not that you are afraid of showing your hand too openly. The mass of the members would not torchlight processions and a big follow you if you were not deceiving scouts it has an excellent means of disguising imperialism and mislead- ing the young generation, Just now, when the British bourgeoisie is faced with a recrudescence of colonial revolts, the help of the Boy Scouts, especially in colonial coun- tries, is all the more valuable. It is a fact that the leaders of the Boy Scouts who mobilized their or- ganization in the last war, are once | more preparing the organization for |the next war. Moreover, Baden- | Powell himself had to admit that the | Scouts did openly strike breaking | work during the general strike~in |England. There have also been hun- | dreds of cases in America when the | scouts fought the strikers side by| - side with the police and employers and even participated in the murder, of strikers during the-coal strike in Colorado, It is perfectly true that |Baden-Powell could not face the leader of the British youth move- |ment when the latter charged him publicly with the fact that the Boy Scouts are connected with the politi- cal Intelligence Service of Britain in Curtis a dali _, Photo shows Senator Hale, secretary of the Naval Affairs Com- mittee, awarding @ cup to Lieutenant Tomlinson of ‘the Wall Street Navy air force, as winner of the Curtis Marine Trophy, awarded in @ stunt air race to boost both the Airplane Corp., which exploit Wall Street air service and the ts - ; them with your radical phraseology. Jalkotsky and Kanitz must not be indignant at our comparison. It \is quite true that the scout move- ment is an openly anti-working class | organization, whereas the Red Fal-| Scouts have their spies there who political demonstration. There will | cons call themselves socialists, which is only a cloak for anti-working class activity. Only the social demo- crats are more clever and refined in their methods while the line they} |follow is in reality identical with | |that of the scouts. It is on these |lines that we must draw the com- parison between the Jamborees in Vienna and Liverpool. The Red Gathering. While the open and disguised or- | ganizations of the bourgeois society )are preparing for demonstrations | which are directed against the revo- | lutionary working class, the biggest | children’s organization of the world jis preparing for a magnificent gathering, the All-Union gathering |of the Young Pioneers in Red Mos- | cow, in August. Tens of thousands |of youngsters from all corners of the | vast territory of the Soviet Union | will meet. | By its character the All-Union of their children’s orgaftizations on|Pioneer gathering will be utterly| different from the Liverpool and | Vienna gatherings. Here the new generation of the first Workers’ and Peasants’ state, the children of the |victorious Russian revolution will {meet. They participate in the so- \cialist construction and they will | give in Moscow a vivid proof that \they are a useful, courageous and in- vincible link of the proletarian dic- tatorship. The mighty gathering in Moscow will be a»joy-feast for the |Russian working class and its chil-| |dren who can be proud of their jachievements and progress. | «The pioneer gathering in Moscow will be at the same time an incentive |to new work. jat the cultural front. |accelerate the industrialization of \the country and to carry the coopera- | tive idea into the remotest villages, |the pioneer organization will have }an arduous task to fulfill. It is a question of extending the influence of the Pioneer organizations to all |the children in town and country and into the organization. at the same time that it is closely connected with the exploited and en- slaved children of the capitalist coun- tries. A solid international fighting alliance exists between the Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union and the Pioneer organizations of the countries where the bourgeoisie is still ruling. Comrades from America, China and from nearly all the Euro- pean countries will participate in the All-Union Pioneer gathering. They cannot come in their thousands in special trains and steamers as this will be the case for the Jamboree of the Boy Scouts. They have no eapi- talists and bankers to finance them, but the delegations which will come from abroad to Moscow, will give to the All-Union gathering a genuine international character, such as none of the other gatherings can have. In Liverpool with its contrast be- tween wealth and poverty, its work- ers’ tenements, its unemployment and dire poverty, it will not be pos- Sible to conceal the horrors of capi- talism and the hollowness of the class collaboration phraseology from the mass of the boys and girls. In Vienna, Where the social demo- crats are giving way to the fascists without. a fight, no international fighting spirit can prevail. In Moscow, however, the All Union gathering will be dominated by the great international slogan: Con- struction of Socialism, Defence of b the proletarian dictatorship. ("" There is still much} |work to do for the young pioneers | In order to} of drawing new millions of children | The children’s organization of the) victorious Russian proletariat feels CEMENT tiiprov) | Translated by A. S. Arthur and C. Ashleigh } All Rights Reserved—International Publishers, N. Y- Gleb Chumalov, Red Army Commander, has returned to his town and has set about trying to get the great cement factory work- ing, getting the single track over the mountain working to transport | wood ®efore the winter sets in, and trying, in between, to understand his wife, Dasha, who as an active Communist, had changed her ideas about home-life. Engineer Kleist, the chief engineer of the cement works wher it was under capitalist control, has kept himself secluded until Gleb broke into his den. Kleist had sentenced Chumaloy to death during the civil war. We break into the story where Gleb meets Kleist on a platform high up in the mountain near the track which must be repaired. Gleb recalls his escape from death. * * * “Yes, this is he... . And those—. Yes, yes; those are the very ones.” . “Have you anything more to say, Mr. Kleist?” “What may happen further is outside my powers, gentlemen. It is a matter for your discretion.” Then they were thrown into an empty shed and beaten and beaten until late in the night. In moments of consciousness Gleb could feel the blows—some slight and remote, seeming not to hurt him; some smashing and terrible, almost crushing him to pulp. But even these blows seemed strangely useless and painless as if he were nailed up inside a cask which someone was aimlessly and impertinently kicking. ae) * WEEN he came to himself it was pitch dark and silent. He began to crawl round the shed, terrified and half-dead. He jostled against the bodies of his comrades, cold, rigid and slimy with blood. ‘Crawling along by the walls he found a large hole through which he erept. Hidden by night and the thick shrubbery he struggled home, and since then no one had seen him, Never, for all eternity, could he forget this, Gleb had remembered this during the day when he was in Kleist’s room. He thought of it now while he was watching the engineer wan- dering like a lost shadow in the wide space beneath. “Good evening, Comrade Technologist, a fine old ruin, isn’t it? oer are many such all over the Republic but none that can beat this.” *), Ser Ue ENGINEER KLEIST stopped as though turned into stone, then recov- ered quickly and looked attentively, not at Gleb, but at the black gaps of the smashed windows in the machine shop. This man was everywhere! He did not pursue Kleist, but was planted in his way, terrifying him like a spectre. The iron web of his world was torn and it was impossible to weave a new one. He could not evade the red-starred helmet and thé strength of this man. Since when had he acquired this dreadful power over him? In former days this workman was lost in the mass of blue oily blouses, without a face or voice of his oy Like all the others, indistinguishable, he fulfilled the tasks assigned to him. An insignificant unit in the mighty and complicated process*of production. Why could Engineer Kleist, once so strong and dominating, no longer resist the crude, barbaric power of this man? From what point sprang this new development? Was it from the moment when he gave him up to destruction or from that hour today when he saw him in his office, risen from the past. It was as simple as a blow. That which he had been awaiting and with which his whole day had been filled had arrived. It opened before him like a narrow bottomless abyss. “Come up here, Comrade Technologist. grave is deeper. You've been rambling? what’s the sense of it? Technologist.” Seen from up here the So have I, every day. But Be kind enough to step up here, Comrade * * * Ee logic of events knows only merciless endings and implacable beginnings. There are no accidents: accidents are an illusion. With a nauseating pain in his heart, swooning with terror, Engineer Kleist slowly ascended the creaking, vibrating stairway—time was whirling in suffocating darkness—and yet in the hour of his fate he preserved his accustomed dignity and silent calm. “Take care, Comrade Technologist; I say there’s a deep hole here, damn it. If you stumble into it there’ll only be small pieces of you left. Some shaft this is, that you’ve built. This is part of your work.” Engineer Kleist answered coldly and sternly, “We built it to last for ever: solidly and with thought. But you have turned it all into chaos and ruin.” “Well, but you made a mistake somewhere, Comrade Technologist. You built it up, pile on pile, and all for yourselves. An impregnable fortress, eh? But it did not hold; it fell. But all your care was not worth much, Where now is your work which was to last for centuries?” Gleb, puffing his pipe, loomed like an enormous iron statue in the twilight. And because he was so calm and simple and spoke with such deep and primitive significance, Engineer Kleist felt that he could not escape this man, and that the outcome of the next few moments was contained within his hands. The engineer stood as if paralyzed, leaning | against the parapet, his head shook in little palsied jerks. j “Just look at the factory, Comrade Technologist: what a giant and what a beauty! Ah, to make this graveyard live again! To fire the furnaces once more, and make all these cables and power lines live sits i idte aie si sles i again! It is a miracle of construction!” he * * + ca FREC® and soldierly, his chest thrown out, Gleb grasped the iron wl railing and for a long time looked down upon the black blocks of no the factory. He felt crushed by their massive grandeur and by the op profound silence. Where his ribs actually cracking under his tunic or wa was it the grinding of his teeth? Engineer Kleist heard a deep, moan- Ca ing sigh, ’ “A graveyard ... a common graveyard... curse it all!” us’ Why did the engineer stand here, gaunt and stooping?, Why was dei he so silent and like a condemned man? wh Something in common with the factory, something vexed and op- the pressing was in Gleb. Ah, the past! The remembrance of the suffer- an ing and death of his comrades, that was his torture. The unforgetable! mo Should he fling him downwards into the deep gulf? Two tightly- stretched cables plunged from the roof down to the dynamos. One would say that they were serpent’s tongues and that the shaft was a hungry maw claiming its prey. Gleb gave Kleist a side-glance; but he felt no desire for revenge. “So, Comrade Technologist! You've been a good one at building memorials. When you die, here is a grave already prepared for you. Do you see this hole? We shall let you down there in a truck and bury you under the highest smoke-stack.” : ~P ™ ALMost losing consciousness, Engineer Kleist started erect, wrench- ing himself away from the railing. His whole body ached acutely 5: and seemed to be about to dissolve into misty space. A wild cry stayed nav in his throat, changing into a hoarse choked moan. He clenched his ets, jaws convulsively with such force that his head ached with the tension. out “You. ... Chumalov! For God’s sake do quickly what you have | Dec to do!” i vive Gleb stepped nearer to the engineer; he was feverish, tense. i pub “Comrade Technologist, we've acted the fool long enough. We ~ wap need heads... and hands. We've got to start things going! Coal and } a pi oil! Warmth and bread for the workmen. The industrial revival of the j stre republic. . .. Over the mountains are great stacks of felled wood. We | T can bring it not by horse-power but by the mechanical power of the Hl feas works. Thousands and millions of logs, .. . Loaded trucks ... voluntary futu Sunday work, Thousands of muscular hands and backs!” war: * * HE seized Kleist by the shoulders and shook him in joyful excitement; in his hands the engineer shook nervously like a scarecrow. His hat fell from his head and swooped like a night-bird into the darkness be-. low. \ “Enough, Comrade Technologist! We're going to put you in! 4 harness. We have proved our strength. Your brains and hands are worth gold to us. A technologist like you—why, you're one of the greatest in the republic!” * And in this, his last exhausting struggle for life, Engineer Kleist { Th realized in the depths of his being that these dreadful hands ingrained One with death had sternly and firmly attached him to life. Stupefied, he is oF could not grasp the meaning of this shattering event; he stood there, raise emptied of all thought, bare-headed, with galloping heart. 7 camp Gleb struck the balustrade with his fist and the iron lattice-work _ the | resounded, s Th “Well, Comrade Technologist, get your brains in hand and we'll | the L get to work. We'll huild bigger things even than these. A new world, | ers’ ( Comrade Technologist!” j Stoke Engineer Kleist, stooping, shuffling his feet, groped with tremb- | ing « ling hands in the space between him and Gleb. And then collapsed. the c Gleb descended the stairway, his heavy boots resounding on the | Ww. I. iren steps, |. * f i estab