The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1929, Page 6

Page Six Baily Sas Worke Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co. Inc... Daily Sunday, at Union Sq New York City, Telephone "DAIWOR! except Te New York only): x months $2.50 three months $3.00 a year acts (outside of New nes 2.0 0 three months aily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, Ss $6.00 a year Adéress and mail all checks to the New Yor A New Stage in Party Development. ae publication of the Manifesto of the Central Committee of the Party on the Address of the Communist Inter- national, and the article by Max Bedacht, “Mobilize for a Better Party!” marks a new stage in the development of our Party. This is the stage of growing Bolshevization. The unanimous decision of the Political Committee in adopting the Manifesto, for the unconditional acceptance and carrying out of the Address of the Communist International, signalizes the beginning of the campaign to Bolshevize the Party along the line of the Sixth World Comintern Congre: It marks the launching of a vigorous fight against all those who are in opposition to the decisions of the Sixth Congress, and to the Open Letter to our Sixth Party Congress and the Address to the Party Membership. The Bedacht article typifies the new kind of Party dis- cussion, self-criticism and the admission of errors free from the leash of group loyalty, that will help the whole Party throw off completely the incubus of factionalism, view all problems and tasks from the standpoint of quickly overcoming the Party’s difficulties, and transforming it in the shortest possible time from a propaganda organization into a mass Communist Party, in every respect an integral and function- ing part of the Communist International. The Manifesto is significant in that it differs funda- mentally from all previous acceptances by the Party of Com- intern decisions. Previous decisions, especially as they re- lated to the liquidation of factionalism, have been accepted but not carried out. This will not be denied. The Party now accepts and also begins to carry out the demand for an ending of all factionalism. It will succeed in this major task. SS. yp eMusr Go! The Party discussion itself will be one of the best weapons of struggle, not only against those who may openly oppose the decisions of the comintern, but also against any concealed opposition, which must also be analyzed, exposed and destroyed wherever it appears. Every comrade, by carefully studying the material that has been published and that will appear from day to day dur- ing the period of the discussion, and by actually participating . in the discussion, will fully realize that the Party is entering upon a new stage of development, marching forward to be- coming a unified Bolshevik mass party of the American working class. Spying on the Foreign-Born ‘HE Lower House of Congress has ordered that the director of the 1930 census “cause to be registered | | Problems and Struggles of the Negro Workers By RICHARD B. MOORE. The Problem Stated. ONE of the most challenging social problems of America is the prob- lem of the oppressed Negro race. The 12 million descendants of the Africans who were brought to America as slaves are still victims of a rigid and brutal system of social caste oppression which holds them as an inferior servile class at the bottom of capitalist society, ex- ploited, degraded, and persecuted by the white imperialist master class and by prejudiced whites of all classes. The general emancipation from chattel slavery which resulted! from the Civil War and which was | accomplished by the Thirteenth) Amendment to the constitution in 1865, just 63 years ago, freed the Negroes only from the thralldom of being bought and sold as personal property. The counter-revolution the names and addresses of all aliens,” with the additional provision that every alien so registered be required to declare whether he or she was in the United States in violation of law. Thus the census machinery, set up once every ten years, is to be used to register all foreign-born under the eyes of tens of thousands of census takers, ‘in reality federal spies for this purpose. During the years that congress has been on the verge of passing legislation providing for the registration, finger- |of the slave-holders was successful in establishing new forms of slavery jand social subjection consonant with |the capitalist system of wage- (slavery. Black codes, vagrancy laws, | peonage, systems of debt and con- vict slavery, disfranchisement, legal discrimination and oppression, segre- |gation, social ostracism, lynching and mob violence—these are the) brutal means by which the Negro masses are mercilessly exploited, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1929 sy) es bas By Fred Ellis. | trumpeted forth as a triumph of of Utrecht, England extorted from a statecraft that at the Peace | | the Negro-trade until then only the commercial hunting of black skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the capitalist era of production.”| (Capital, Vol I, p 775) “The colonial system ripened, like a hot-house, trade and navigation. The colonies secured a market for the budding manufactures, and through the mon- opoly of the market, an increased ac- ing, enslavement, and murder, floated back to the mother country Negro Workers and Soldiers t Imperial War Fight Agains By GEORGE PADMORE. Amidst all the empty babbling about peace and peace plans, the im- perialist countries of the world are arming today as they never did be- fore in preparation for the next | world war, which will be a slaughter that will make the last one pale into |carried on between Africa ‘and the ]and were there turned into capital.” | English West Indies, between Africa | (Ibid, p 778) |and Spanish America as well. Eng- “With the development of capital-|land thereby acquired the right of list production during the manufac-|supplying Spanish» America until |turing period, the publie opinion of |1743 with 4800 Negroes yearly. Europe had lost the last remnant of Liverpool “respectability” is the Pin- shame and conscience. The nations|dar of the slave-trade, whieh “has jbragged cynically of every infamy | coincided with that spirit of bold) |that served them as a means to capi-| adventure which has characterized | cumulation, The treasures captured | talist acccumulation. Read, e.g. the|the trade of Liverpool and rapidly | outside Europe by undisguised loot-|/naive Annals of Commerce of the|carried it to its present state of} worthy A. Anderson. Here it is| prosperity; has occasioned vast em- (To Be Continued) ployment for shipping and sailors, and greatly augmented the demand for the manufactures of this coun- try.” “Whilst the cotton industry intro- duced child-slavery in England, it | gave in the United States a stimulus |the Spaniards by the Asiento treaty | | the privilege of being allowed to ply | American workers, white and Negroes, must protest against this pany. Negro Workers Beware! In the last war about a quarter of ja million of black men were mobil- ized and carried to France to fight for the American bankers and bosses, brazen betrayal of Green and Com-| | | | ithe system of capitalist wage slavery to the transformation of the earlier, more or less patriarchal slavery, into a system of commercial exploitation. In fact, the veiled slavery of the for its pedestal, slavery pure and simple in the new world.” (Ibid, p 784-5) When the futher development of | demanded the abolition of chattel slavery, this was accomplished ruth- | CEMENT cvsnxoy GLADKOY, Translated by A. S. Arthur and C. Ashleigh All Rights Reserved—International Publishers, N. Y. Gleb Chumaloy, Red Army Commander, returns to his town on | the Black Sea to find the great cement works in ruins and the general | life of the town disorganized. He wins over the workers to the great | task of reconstruction and now goes after the Executive Committee 4 of the Economic Council. 1 Serge, an intellectual who has joined the Revolution, goes to see ; his parents on the receipt of a note saying that his mother was dying, | In the garden he meets his father, an old scholar. af 3 To garden shimmered in the sun as though drunken by the sweet exhalations of the spring soil and the bursting buds, and by the dancing almond-blooms. There was the window of that attic where he had spent his childhood and school years. * * * At the end of the path, which was covered with last year’s leaves, under the snowy foam of the almond-tree—which from afar appeared rainbow-tinted—stood a tall, one-armed man with shaven skull. He wore a white blouse which revealed his bare dark chest, and Cossack breeches. His bony eye-sockets were cut deep into his facé; a long nose protruded like a beak over his short upper lip. “Father, I feel that meeting Dimitri will not bring us any good, Once we parted as friends and now we may meet as foes.” The one-armed man looked at them from afar with a sharp, bird- like glance, and his long thin face grinned like a skull. He beckoned with his right hand—the only one—and shouted in a strong, singing voice in the manner of a cavalry soldier: “With all my heart and soul, welcome to the knight of the Red Star under the peaceful paternal roof! Ha, ha, my little Serge! Hullo, dear friend!” A joyful laugh resounded under the flowering almonds, but there was something strained and insincere about his words. He did not come to meet Serge but stood there, in his yellow leggings, firmly rooted to the earth, * * * Gece waved his free hand in response and with a nervous tremor and clouded eyes went up.the steps of the porch, As in the old days, his mother’s little room was darkened by lowered blinds and encumbered with clothes and chests-of-drawers and trunks. As always, there was the same warm stuffy smell of long years of intimate snugness. And every time that Serge thought of his mother, he could sense this odor so strongly that he had the hallucina- tion of its actual presence. This smell was an inseparable part of the tranquility which slum- bered within these old-fashioned walls which were saturated with the history of his days. Furniture and household objects were piled up in the corners owing to the recent billeting of other people in the dwelling. From the downy white pillows a parchment skull, with black plaits pressed down upon the hollow cheeks, was gazing at Serge. He ap- proached the bed on tip-toe. In the twilight of death he gazed long into the strange face of his mother; strange as if he had never seen her before. He took her hand and felt a strong vibration pass from her body to his. This hand, trembling with love, and this skull framed in plaits, were alien to him, and yet near and dear even unto tears. Serge inhaled the immortal odor of his old home, and did not know what to do amidst these piled-up effects; he did not know what to do with this fading hand. His mother looked dumbly and fixedly at him from the clouded depths of her dying eyes. * * 'ERGE himself was silent and with an inward shudder awaited his mother’s whisper. He was not expecting a voice or a shriek but a whisper. But there were only eyes behind the eyelashes which wera stuck together. And Dimitri was standing close to Serge. A jeering, amused light was in his eyes. He was full of life, with such great bones that his skin appeared too tight; there was something of the bird of prey in the curve of his brow and the line of his gristly beak. The vibrating cord snapped and the mother’s hand dropped on to the bed, The father was smiling, his clear gaze unshadowed. “How strange that you are my children. How strange that you two are both strangers—to each other and to me.” Ironie and distant, Dimitri’s eyes flashed jeeringly. Zz abused and repressed. From this insignificance, \lessly by the capitalists against the “As you see, Serge, father jests as formerly, like old Diogenes in printing and photographing of the foreign-born, one of the big obstacles to its final adoption was the fact that no ma- chinery existed for carrying it into effect. Now the huge census taking machine, that goes into operation next year, is ready to hand. Representative Bankhead, Alabama democrat, author of the proposal that found instant favor, claims there are be- tween 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 aliens unlawfully in this coun- try. Whether there are or not doesn’t much matter. Foreign- born workers who are loyal slaves, in factory, mill and mine, and who show indications of getting their citizenship papers and becoming ardent supporters of the capitalist parties cer- repression and the struggle of these| The American capitalist govern- masses against it, there arises a pre-|™ent is now spending billions of judiced antagonism and hostility be-| dollars on armaments. Bigger and tween the races which premeates the | bigger battleships are being built, whole social life of America and air fleets increased, and military for- which flares forth at its worst in |ces strengthened. Yet we hear much terrible and bloody race conflicts. | talk about the Kellogg “Peace” Pact In every phase of life, in industry, and “Disarmament” Conferences. in politics, in school, press and} A few weeks ago the nations of church, even in the labor movement | the world met at Geneva to discuss itself, this prejudice appears in a| ways and mean to absolish war. The \very open and definite way. | representatives of the Soviet Union | This menacing situation of ex- proposed the abolition of all armies | ploitation, {and navies as the best guarantee of prejudice and _ conflic who stayed at home and while these colored troops were fighting, made millions upon millions of dollars of profits. The colored workers were fooled in 1917. They were told that they |were fighting for Liberty, Dem- ocracy and Equality, but when the war was over and they returned to |America, the government, which is controlled by the capitalists did noth- |ing to stop lynching, Jim-Crowism, \segregation and race prejudice. In- |stead of things becoming better, they lare getting worse and worse every | | | | jclaimed “liberty and equality” for opposition of the slave-holders. While the capitalist exploiters pro- the black slaves, they carefully and deliberately maintained the system of racial caste oppression under new forms as a necessary part of their system for the exploitation of the | labor-power of the black masses and | for the division of the white workers | against the Negro workers in order | to secure the exploitation and de-| gradation of the entire working| class, and the supremacy of their| his tub. He nourishes himself only on flies and his own words. He is as free from sin as a sparrow and I love him very much.” Serge felt the weight of his brother’s gaze and asked him brusquely: “Where have you been until now? you for years?” “I shan’t tell you. Otherwise I should only lie or tell you the wrong thing. I was a colonel on the German front and then invalided home. Now I’m a citizen without definite occupation.” Dimitri suddenly raised the hand of his mother and kissed it, the kiss shaking the sick woman like a blow. She looked at him with dumb terror and could not turn her eyes from his face. Dimitri’s eyes glinted still and he squeezed Serge’s shoulder. “It’s a long time since I saw you, Serge. ... Since the years of our youth. ... Let us embrace.” We haven’t heard a thing of tainly will not be molested. They are safe. The government exists throu |peace. The capitalist nations, like|day for the Ni d th king | WR tyrannous class rule. s = t ill t m ; $ | bone, the. world ‘where | i a ee ee : e But Serge turned from him with a vague anxiety and moved census takers will take their word for it that they have come [ever capitalist imperialism dom- Bea ts Bere Sppen and/class, r ieee ae den elope acne i towards his father. into the country “legally.” Jinates. It is at its worst in the|*7@nce vetused, y? Because) America is not only robbing the Be, ‘. : ‘ It, is against the foreign-born workers, however, who are under suspicion of belonging to militant organizations, | Southern states of the United States jand in the Union of South Africa. In the colonies, in Africa and in the these countries depend upon the armies and navies to keep the work- ers in subjection and to rob the small Negro at home, but has even gone and taken away the last two Inde- pendent Republics controlled by perialism, the race problem becomes still more acute, Africa is par- titioned among the European im- [kee burst out laughing, made a military half-turn to the right and walked out, the blue-shaven back of his head glistening. Two deep wrinkles blackly lined thé broad brow of the father. With % ¥ R i * + . ee and weak colonial peoples. They|N es: Haiti in the West Indies,|perialist powers and the African ts _ . bs whether the pps Party, left wing industrial trade eee fo a also need anried ftresie-to (GAiey ian (arnt Dinca a welea: peoples are subjugated and exploited.| trembling hand he pulled at his beard which he wanted to put into : union, or even fraternal organizations, that this registration | -otted “home countries” of Europe| Wat among themselves, so as’ to win Don’t be Fooled They are ruthlessly expropriated | his mouth, but always it escaped him. : Pa } will operate. it exists though not to the same de-|"¢W markets for the bankers and} Now in view of these things |£tom the land especially from those : eat bra abata e eyes and an anguished smile, he leaned with his back t . In this respect the census takers will act as stool pigeons | gree as in the colonies. It is almost| Millionaires, and to make war on| Negro’ workers must not permit | "eas which the European regard as . “What's the matter with father?” and spies for the great employers i industrial t absent’ in France where the declin-|the Soviet Union, the first country themselves’ to-be made fools again suitable for themselves and are en- i 's the matter wi you, father? f ‘ é ae Bhan Suse Yeuy, AN OURIEIB) COMTeE, ing man-power of this imperialist!in the history of the world to be/Not a thousand times no! They |S!@Ved under compulsory labor sys- Be stoically hard and don’t give way to temptations, Serge., But I gathering material that can be used against militants seeking power dictates a policy of better |Tuled by workers and peasants, Sit wake wo-chd learn legac russ tems, hut taxes, pass laws and the| there ste aes aie hae ae is i save of his feelings. Learn how % to organize the unorganized, and to develop an energetic cam- | treatment for the Negro. There is| The latest maneuver on the part|the past. They must fight agatnst |1ike. They are mercilessly driven to} 10. sitdy People from behind your shield, Serge . . . from behind your P paign for class struggle trade unionism. oy oe paaee in the cd to- | of Hie carta a te gullitacy the plans of the capitalists to draw ial caer pha ao me The mother, in a mad effort of pain, raised herself on her elbow A . aa ai ingois\ ‘= i » u ‘ A F : lity. ei Legal entry into the country, even citizenship itself, can | 49% ™! at ia rey tenet Aen Sioey of the (oeictata o GReeAGAE peek ee ree a peed ts cotton farms of the states. The are| and again subsided on to the pillows. In her eyes were humility, silence “ be easily set aside again as in 1919 under these conditions. The census takers will be the henchmen of the republican and democratic party organizations, ideal fascist elements ‘for developing “suspicion” and invoking a terror against revolu- tionary workers, a terror legalized by the new measures con- gress proposes. The action of the lower house has not yet become the eae 4 . $i i i i i A the West Indies, South and Central ‘ ision of con; 1: A * |eiety is being consciously con-|Academy, and there publicly declared |and that is the Communist Party and t v' ‘ * 2 a 3 gress itself, The lage aggressive action pos- |i, 5 ‘hat the A: WeoteL. will wepport tual she: gacce: Commeaint Teseee America, ; ee lowes eee and ee Be teeth, But his eyes did not ; si must be organized against this effort to place new, Wall Street bankers in the forth-| Communism is the movement of| ‘The condition of the Negro masses| “V8” ‘heir sharp glance was stabbing Serge, 6 tyrannical powers in the hands of the federal government. Labor must be aroused to the real nature of this enormous danger that threatens the foreign-born today, but that will be used against the whole working class in the near future, if this start can be made. All workers must fight against being catalogued, photo- graphed and finger-printed for the “rogue’s gallery” of the word, where he is weleomed as com- jrade and an honored brother—that jis in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics where the system of capi- talist imperialism has been abolished, where the workers and farmers have established their. own class govern- ment and where a Communist so- II. Historical Develop- | ‘ment and Social Basis 4 hee same social forces which created the labor problem, pre- cipitated the race problem. The de- velopment of the commercial and in- dustrial capitalist profit-system, not can Federation of Labor who through its representative William Green, openly came out endorsing the war preparation measures of the imperialists. This traitor of the American labor movement, accom- panied by his» henchmen, visited West Point, the U. S. Military coming war. So pleased were the militarists with the chauvinist speech of this misleader of the workers, that they feted him and his lackeys, and to further show their apprecia- tion, remitted’ all punishments and confinements of the cadets, for their own freedom. They must organize sida by side with the mili- tant white workers who have enough sense to fight against race prejudice and for the full social, political, and economic equality of all races. There is only one party in the United States that is doing this, the working class and the oppressed colonial peoples, in. China, India, Latin, America and Africa, Negroes join the Party today, and help us defeat the bosses in the next war and establish:a government of the workers—black as well as white. compelled to do the most taxing and disagreeable manual labor and are prevented in certain sections from doing any skilled work whatsoever. They are segregated, abused, ostra- cized and massacred. The im- perialist powers tighten their grip upon the Negro peoples of Haiti, in America grows steadily worse as the racial caste system spreads more and more into the North and West, becoming daily more deeply i trenched in the life of the nation: Large sections of the white workers of Europe, America and Africa are bribed with a share of the im- perialist spoils drawn out of the toil and terror. Serge, shaken, slowly left the room, descended the porch steps and, hastening now, walked down the avenue to the gate. On the street near the fence, he collided with Dimitri. His brother, his hand in the pocket of his wide Cossack breeches, looked at him sharply, screwing up his eyes. “My best wishes, Serge! We shall see each other again, In other surroundings, Serge? leisure. Best wishes!” won't we? ) And then we can talk together at our. (To be Continued) } Determination By LEONARD SPIER aie Keep cracking the whips, vile, hidden whips; Bind tight necessity’s chain;— employing class government. only expropriated the European ‘ and de i . * ts gradation of the Negro But think hide fro ld tee ee de tea io brought Labor F. ‘aker: ‘S May Ally with Him masses, and are filled with white ‘Their dice dav ateipes stp stars of Fg 4 int eing a class o: jorers pos- imperialist prejudice against these You cannot hide—for profit or pride— Py oa Since the workers are being arrested for walking on the grass, with their families, in Central Park on Sundays, and since they are arrested for walking the sidewalks as strike pickets, weekdays, threatened at night with death from leaky gas mains in foul tenement homes plastered with exorbitant rents; it may well be said that the working class has not a single place worth while comfortably to vest its head. Labor is on the battle line in the ‘strikes of the food, shoe, and iron workers, the grocery clerks, chauffeurs:and many other minor struggles, in New York City alone, with new battles ,§8 growing. Labor is really showing its fist with knuckles Gaje sessing only their labor-power and | exploited by the owners of capital. It caused also the expansion of European capitalists and freebooters into Africa, Asia and America and the plunder, enslavement and pro- scription of the aboriginal races of these continents. As Marx graphic- ally puts it; “The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpa- tion, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal popula- tion, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, orl workers. The social development of the system of racial caste oppres- sion clearly proves tl itvis rooted in the economic exploitation of the capitalist imperialist class system. Race oppression is a form of cap’ talist imperialist class oppressio: The.Negro problem is basically a labor problem, The labor problem is organically bound up with the Negro problem. The Negro problem cannot be solved save through the solution of the labor problem. The labor problem cannot be solved unless th lyec You must beat and slay and be slain! Keep cracking the whips, O foremen of fate, The assignment is simple and clear; For mangling souls, for shattering goals Is the purpose for which you are here; For dwarfing minds and the crunching of hearts, For murder, corruption, and smear, 2 Keep cracking the whip, keep binding the chains; Keep sucking the blood and the sweat; Keep proving the verities ages have sung; And piling the sum of their debt.— But rate each gain as a curse and a p Ef