The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1929, Page 6

Page Six ~* . «Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc. Daily, except * Sunday, at 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N ¥. Telephone Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable: “DAIWORK.” SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York only): $8.00 a year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): 36.00 a year $3.50 six months $2.00 three months Adéress and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square. New York, N. ¥. 0 The Struggle for the Streets ‘a TIME OF WAR the struggle of the toiling masses for the streets, under the leadership of the Communist Party, becomes as important as it becomes difficult. It is very important, therefore, that in its first battle for the streets of New York City in the present period of the rapidly developing war against the Union of Soviet Repub- lies, the Communist Party not only held its own, but may be said to have scored a clear victory, the direct result of the militancy of its members expressed in an indomitable will to struggle. The first struggle in New York City, as in Berlin, and other European cities, arose out of the demonstration before the Chinese consulate of the Chiang Kai-shek Nanking gov- ernment, near Astor Place, not so far from the Wall Street finahcial overlords, whose puppet it is. The link between the two was clearly set forth in the placards carried by the worker-demonstrators and in the speeches made by Wein- stone, Darcy, Grecht, Engdahl, James Mu, a Chinese comrade, and Leonard Patterson, Negro member of the Young Com- munist League. | Efforts of the first contingent of police who arrived on the scene to stop the speaking and smash the demonstration were successfully resisted. It must be admitted that it was not a mass demonstra- tion in the sense that tens of thousands, nor even thousands, had been mobilized by the Party. The actual demonstrators were rather numbered in hundreds. But thousands of work- ers, out for the noon hour, choked the street from Astor Place to Broadway, before the Alexander Hamilton Building, on the sixth floor of which the Chinese consulate is located. The great throng was thoroughly sympathetic. It jeered the arrival of reserve police forces from all stations in the | neighborhood, that organized a flying wedge behind a police automobile, driving against the speakers’ platform reared in the street on the shoulders of a dozen comrades. { It was a brief success for the police. The demonstration | quickly reorganized at the Broadway end of the street, and with placards held high and with the singing of the “Inter- nafional,” the procession again moved defiantly past the | building where the Chinese agent of imperialism is housed. | The struggle continued for nearly an hour, out of which the police emerged with 13 arrests, but with the demonstra- tion, still completely organized, marching up Fourth Avenue to the headquarters of the Party, workers everywhere cheer- ing the marchers. In order to follow up and maintain this initial success, however, it becomes absolutely necessary to draw masses of workers into attual participation in such demonstrations. The toiling masses cannot be allowed to remain in the role of sympathetic bystander. They must become actual parti- cipants in the struggle, to the number of many tens of thousands. Although the tremendously successful series of mass meetings held on the streets in various sections of Greater DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, ' ry _ wears FOR DEFENSE OF THE SOVIET UNION Daily SHs Worker psec PSIELTS From Rote Fahne (Red Flag), | Berlin. Throughout the whole world the revolutionary workers are preparing to make on August first a mighty international demonstration against imperialist war. en during the World War the revolutionary work- ers demonstrated in August as a protest against the bloody slaughter on the battlefields and to make known their desire for a révolution- ary termination of the imperialist war. After the war, the August@ demonstrations of the proletariat be- came ever greater and more wide- | |spread. Their slogans also became | ever clearer in measure as pacifist illusions were destroyed by the ag- gressive war policy of the imperial- | ist states. | If this year the revolutionary | working class must make special ef- forts ¢o mobilize and arouse the working masses, to lead them in| |mighty street demonstrations, it is | due to the extreme rapidity with | which the imperialist contradictions | drive on toward new wars. Anglo-American Conflict. The development of capitalism during the past year has been char- acterized by a marked decline of stabilization. The contradiction be- tween the increased productivity labor and market possibilities is be- New York last Friday night met with no opposition from the police, it is not out of the question that the Demonstrations Against the Imperialist War on August First will be forbid- den. This will mark a new phase of struggle for the streets, the mobilization of masses for strikes and demonstrations on AuguSt First against the ban of the ruling class keenly sen- sitive to the danger that threatens it in the attack directed | against its Chinese lackeys. Where the police attack on the streets fails, the capital- ist:courts are mobilized as a second line of assault, with jail and prison terms for those arrested. But every court prosecution, as in the trial of Weinstone and the other comrades in Night Court last Saturday, be- comes a new field of battle between labor and its oppressors, | where class issues clash and the revolutionary program of the Communist Party is presented to new masses by its spokesmen; where capitalism itself in its own courts is put on trial before the working class. It is here that the role of the International Labor De- fense assumes increasing importance in the present war situ- ation. The I.L.D. must be developed as quickly as possible into .a mass organization based in the workshops not only for defense purposes, for the liberation of the Gastonia textile workers facing electrocution, and other comrades in prison; but also for the awakening large numbers of workers to a correct understanding of the class struggle in time of war, and how best to defend the interests of the-broad masses in the present crisis. a Win the masses for the conquest of the streets, for the defeat of the imperialist war! Build the Communist Party! Prepare for strikes and demonstrations on August First, International Red Day Against Imperialist War, under the banners of the Communist International! Can Daily Survive? funds vital if our press is to live Respond immediately to the abpeal of the Daily Worker for aid im its present crisis! s The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker I am sending you the enclosed amount, $ Name Address delay. coming greater, the unevenness of | development in the individual capi- talist countries leads to a strength- ening of the antagonisms between the capitalist countries, while the great technical achievements accen- tuate the imperialist contradictions and accelerate the drive toward a new division of a divided world. | In stormy: fashion has imperialist | America entered the arena, since the} tempo of development of her market no longer keeps pace with the tempo | | of development of her industrial pro- duction apparatus and of her in- creased productive capacity, She en- ~ Prepare for August First! Workers, Get Ready to Demonstrate Against Imperialist War Plans! back and gradual annihilation of the | bring about an accord with neta enemy within the Soviet Union, of can finane the capitalist elements in the city |same and village, definitely capital, this lies in the direction. The evéhts in destroys all | China, in Afghanistan and Persia, in their hopes the undermining of | Rumania and Poland show at what the proletarian dictatorship over an acute stage the war preparations one-sixth of the earth, for the over-|against the Soviet Union have al- throw of the workers’ government. | ready arrived. United Imperialist Drive, German Bourgeois Policy. The bourgeoisie and their Social-| The German imperialist bour- Fascist lackeys understand yery | geoisie completely dropped its mask well that this development in the | during the Paris negotiations. Herr Soviet Union is a powerful source |Schacht and Herr yon Kuehlmann, of strength to the revolutionary | who negotiated in Paris regarding a proletariat of the wholeeworld. Still |common campaign against tie So- they try with infamous fury, with a|viet Union, were not private indi- filthy flood of lies to deceive a por- | Viduals; they were representatives tion of the working class. They are | of the German bourgeoisie. less and less successful in this de-| The entire German working class ceit; the proletariat recognizes ever |—to the very smallest shop and to more clearly that in the country in | the most outlying country district— which the working class decides its|must be enlightened as to the fact own fate, Socialism is being built | that the German imperialist bour- up and the situation of the working | geoisie is today playing a very ac- class is- improving, while in capital-/| tive role in the war preparttions ist countries exploitation grows, the | against the Soviet Union. The Ger- isery of the proletariat increases, |man imperialist bourgeoisie expects and suppression and deprivation of | from a war against the Soviet Union political r takes on ever more la loosening or breaking of the eco- extensive forms. |nomie and political chains binding Hence ‘the capitalists of the whole its imperialist expansion. The Ger- world see in the Soviet Union an|man imperialist bourgesisie, which enemy which threatens their very |is determined on the sharpest eco- existence; hence the imperialists of|nomic and political measures against the whole world are evincing the|the working class, is vitally inter- greatest activ in order to post-|ested in the annihilation of the pone any military settlement of their strongest center of power of the rev- own imperialist antagénisms and to | olutionary proletariat, i.e., of the put up a united front against the | Soviet Union. Soviet Union. i The Reparations Fraud. The Paris reparations negotia- tions represent such an attempt to ly bridge over the acute between the imperialist States ih order to establish a com- “Socialists” Aid Imperialists. The entire capitalist press of Ger- jmany has during the past months sharpened to the utmost its tone against the Soviet Union. This fury |of attack is carried tothe extreme counters thereby the res f mon basis for the struggle against the “old” capitalist powers, espe-|the Soviet Union. The German Gov- cially the resistance of imperialist ernment did not deny, when pressed England. by the Communist faction in the All efforts of the British bour | Reichstag, that during the Paris | geoisie, as well as the. defeats —|Conference the “experts” and other | brought about through the aid of | official representatives of the vari- | limit by the Social-Fascist press, from the “Vorwaerts” down to the last little country paper. By bare- fied lying, base insinuations, and |vile generalizations they seek to force upon the working class a cari- cature of life and development in the Soviet Union. It is ¢haracter- | tivity. |pushed hither and thither like pawns, British social imperialism — of the British working class in the mighty | economic battles of recent years, have not been able to do away with the deep and difficult crisis of Brit- ish capitalism or even to partially | overcome it. Ever more stubborn becomes the resistance of British im- perialism to the pressure of Ameri- can imperialism, which in the most diverse sections of the world is driv- ing out British imperialism from its sphere of influence. Central European Crisis, This fundamental imperialist an- | tagonism is strengthened by the critical situation in. the other capi-| talist countries. Imperialist Germany drives on— under the pressure of her inner cri- sis and her outer burdens—to| stronger economic and political ac- | With her mighty economic apparatus she crowds into any space | left over for the expansion of the goods market and for exploitation. Such countries as the Balkan States, Rumania, and Poland were positively shattered by the acute crisis in their economy. They serve as agents of the great imperialist powers, and, they accelerate, precisely becausé of the instability of their whole posi- | tion, the development of new im-| perialist wars, Growth of Soviet Power, In contradistinction to this proc-| ess of decay of the capitalist world | stands the building up of Socialism | in the Soviet Union, The bourgeoi-| sie and their agents in the camp| of the working class, the Social- | Fascists, fairly tremble at the thought of the realization of the) five-year plan, of this gigantic pro- | gram of construction that has been) undertaken and will be carried out. They understand that the driving |is making great efforts, at the bid- | ding of the British bourgeoisie, to | satisfied with this ideological prep- ous imperialist powers carried on|istie of the “left” Social-Fascists negotiations with the aim of com-|that they are carrying on in the mon action against the Soviet | most infamous manner this ideolog- Union. | ical preparation for war against the If the present British premier, | Soviet Union. MacDonald, with his pacifist phrases | Social-Democrat War Policy. But the Social-Fascists are not Proud of Him, Says Gastonia Prisoner’s Mother “Tl stand by him; I'm proud of my boy,” said the mother of Jack Heffner, who is one of the fifteen Gastonia textile strikers whom the mill bosses, through their courts, are attempting to railroad to the electric chair, Mrs. Heffner is shown above, with two of Jack's brothers, " r jaration for war. Their Magdeburg | | Congress testifies to active support |of the imperialist mobilization of Germany. They have adopted an armament program which binds their | party to unlimited support of the | imperialist preparations for war; at their »party congress they have ig- |nored with a shrug of their shoul-| jders the resistance of the workers | to the armored-cruiser policy. They | have, after their party congress, | made possible the continuation of armored-cruiser building, and have bound themselfes to the building of a whole series of armored cruisers. The economic policy, which the Social Fascists, together with the German bourgeoisie is conducting, is | a war policy. The gradual liquida- | tion of social legislation, the ap- proaching restriction of unemploy- ment insurance, the increase in the cost of living, the tax policy in| favor of the capitalists <nd at the expense of the broad impoverished |masses, the mutual efforts of the capitalists and the Social-Fascist | trade union bureaucracy to keep | down the wages of the workers, to} inerease exploitation in the shops— | all this is a part of the war'prep- | arations of German imperialism. Attacks on Working Class. Since this war policy is met by an ever greater resistance on the part of the working class, since this re- sistance is strengthened by the de-| velopment in the Soviet Union, the! German bourgeoisie is passing over —with the support of the Social- Fascists and with their most active | participation—to political suppres- | sion of the revolutionary proletariat. | This is the meaning of the Fascist methods which have been employed during the past months against the revolutionary proletariat of Ger- many. Here lies the root cause for | | the bloody May battles, for the pro- |hibition of the Red Front Fighters, for the suppression of the Com- munist press, and for the prepara- tory steps toward the prohibition of the Communist Party. If the workers ofthe whole world come out on the streets on August first, then they will demonstrate not only against an imperialist war threatening to occur in the distant future, but also against very direct, imminent war measures of imperial- ism against the Soviet Union. Pre- cisely because this new imperialist war is today directly before our eyes, it is the duty of the working class to make the greatest effort in order ‘on the first of August to set up against the imperialist will to war the united revolutionary front of the proletariat. The Communist Party is‘not organizing the workers on August First for a putsch: it does not call for an armed uprising at a fixed .date without consideration of the objective situation. The Com- munist Party calls for.an extensive mass demonstration, which will and must be all the more powerful be- cause the danger of an imperialist war, and indeed of a war against the Soviet Union, is becoming great- jer, because the bourgeoisie is al- rei taking direct measures against the Soviet Union. Prepare For August First. Likewise the denunciation of this ‘ass’ demonstration as a putsch by h ial-Fascist press—especially by the “left” Social Fascists, such as:the criminal rascal Kunstler and the editor of the “Leipzig Volks- zeitung”— will not hold back the working class from leaving the shops on August First and going out on the streets, We must begin today with full energy our preparations for August First. In thousands of shops the workers must take a stand and an- nounce their determination to make the first of August a day of strug- gle against war, for the revolution- ary support of the Soviet Union, of the struggle against Fascism and against Fascist oppression, of the struggle against the capitalist of- fensive and for the emancipation of ‘the proletariat! i — By FEODOR CEMEN GLADKO Translated by A. S. Arthur and C. Ashleigh All Rights Reserved—International Publishers, N. Y. Gleb Chumalov, Red Army Commissar, returns to his town om * the Black Sea after the Civil Wars to find the great cement works, where he had formerly worked, in ruins and the life of the town disorganized. He discovers a great change in his wife, Dasha, whom he has not seen for three years. She is no longer the conventional wife, dependent on him, but has become a woman with a life of her own, a leader among the women of the town together with Polia Mekhova, secretary of the Women’s Section of the Commu- nist Party. The town is attacked by a band of counter-revolutionaries and Gleb is in command of one of the defense detachments and the attack is sepulsed. The town resumes its routine, 4 Gleb works hard, planning the reconstruction of the cement works, * are HE green sea, full of fecund life, seemed to be swallowing up the blue sky and fiery clouds. The fading buildings and mountains seemed to be streaming into the far abyss, like thick torrents of lava. And the mountains, the town and the sea were shimmering and heavy like a mirage in the opal mists, in the smoke of the burning dross of the day, This young girl at the railings, could she feel all this? . Serge felt that she did and looked at her questioningly. Where had he’seen this girl before? Nowhere. Only perhaps in his dreams, She gave hifn,a rapid but attentive glance. An anxious question welled up in her eyes. Was it so or not? Serge saw that she smiled. , Without looking at him she said, as though speaking to herself: 4 “Yes, I have been waiting for this. . . . Like all the rest. . . =» I came here and have been waiting. And now. . . . I have been through it all. How well you understand how to torture! To torture and to overwhelm one with joy—both at once. With one single blow. You Communists are frightful people. Do you come from a nightmare or have we only lived in dreams?” Serge moved just one step towards her. hand along the rail. “Why a nightmare? It’s a much simpler and deeper matter. We are people of merciless action, and our thoughts and feelings belong to that which one calls necessity: the inevitable and incontrovertible truth of history. Wee just too simple and too sincere—that’ all. And that’s. why you hate us.” e i The girl cast terrified eyes on him. i “Oh, no! Here is a horrible beast and the grandeur of creation, both in one. Why? There are so many heroes among you, but also so imany villains and cannibals.” ibd “Perhaps so; but our names will last through the centuries. We: shall be forgotten as villains, but known as creators and heroes. Suf- | fering and bloodshed are the price of immortality.” They were silent for a while. The girl was looking at the waves, Then she said quietly: i “T have suffered too much. You know it. give, even to the point of justifying.” | “We also forgive. You have experienced it yourselves. We're as merciless in our forgiveness as we are in our fighting.” i Confusion, fear and admiration struggled in the depths of her eyes. | She stretched out her hand to Serge. It was small and it trembled. | “Help me to understand you all and to love you. Would’ you allow me to write to you, it would help me?” Serge turned away from her, suddenly cold and distant. “I can’t help you at all. Only stern work can help you. One has to commit oneself to new streams of life. One must stand in a new relation to the world. You are going ashore and will perhaps be born into a new life.” ! She bent over the railing, crushed by his words, } “Ah, to be born again is as terrible as to die.” | He did not answer her, but turned away and walked towards the crowd, 1 He stretched out his I have learned to for ; 5. CAPTURE OF HIS MAJESTY’S STEAMER. RESMING with. enthusiasm, Polia was walking at the head of the crowd. Behind her, in a group, came the sailors and then the Cos- sacks and soldiers, stamping and uproarious. é : Warm steam like a sweat-bath. Stuffiness and dizziness, The deck blazed with the heat, and it seemed that ‘it could at any moment rise in fire and smoke. A wild uproar. Shidky and Gleb were being tossed high in the air by the crowd and falling back on scores of out« stretched arms. And as they flew up, a great cry arose, accome panied by a thunder below in the engine-room. “Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!” my * * 8 oes gold-laced Englishman was gabbling in front of Shibis. The pipe in his hand was dancing, and it seemed it would break at any moment. Shibis, in tan leather, stood motionless, gazing at him through the mask upon his face. Then he tore off his leather cap and waved it before the captaii But still he stood immobile, only his lips were moving. The captain shivered, cold as a corpse. The Bolsheviks were masters on His Britannic Majesty’s ship, This herd of vagabonds, eaten up by lice and hunger, had a formidable power, which in one instant could capture his ship and overpower hig will and iron discipline. He was a prisoner: a pitiable little grain of dust swept on by this mad and burning whirlwind. * er pola jumped up on a box. She tore off her red headscarf, and her hair shimmered like gold in the wind, She stretched out her arms like wings. Her face was the face of one possessed. “Long live the Proletarian World-Revolution! talist England!” “Hurrah! Hurrah!” The little boyish officer was shouting at the top of his voice and clapping his hands. The captain was shaking as in a cold wind and sucking.the air through his extinguished pipe. Shibis waved his cap and went towards the railings. “Comrades, to the gangway!” And the crowd became suddenly silent, sinking back troubled. Only the red rag with its dark bloodstains still fluttered overhead,’ The girl was looking at Serge and smiling through her tears. Gleb waved his helmet to the crowd and to the sailors and Polia ‘was waving her red headscarf. Iron thunder filled the entrails of the vessel, and it seemed that the decks were glowing with heat. ba * Down with Capi. * Chapter XV, SCUM. 1. THE DAILY ROUND. 4 At that summer there had been no rain; the sky looked bronze over the bay and the sea beyond the breakwaters was like a mirror. And in the mirror the sailing boats, the feluccas and the distant sandbanks were blazing in the whirling waves of heat, Near the shore the sem was transparent and green, with blue shadows, and with mother-of- pearl oil-stains; jelly-fish and seaweed floated in this blaze like blood- gorged flowers. Soft breezes passed through the town, smelling of sulphur or of the sea. There was no more horizon and the sea and sky were fused into one aerial ocean. The heat rose like steam above the mountains, and in the valleys the lush vegetation crowded lux- uriantly. The slopes and ribs of’ the mountain glimmered with iron and sulphur through the mauve mists and were no longer reflected in the sea. All day long, on the beach around the bay, dense crowds sprawled on the sand or bathed in the water, walked among the boul- ders on the shore, and along the cliffs. ew a TE stone and iron, and the cobbled streets in the town, blazed un- bearably. The people were suffocating under this sun and among these burning stones; and were blinded by the glitter of the pave- ments and the burning air. On the boulevards in the shade, one’s mouth was dry, and a dry warm wind burned one’s face, The acacia leaves smelt as though they were burning. The streets were deserted and shimmered glassily. It seemed that people were fleeing from this infernal furnace and that all active life had stopped; and there was only emptiness and indolence. One only saw here and there half- naked shadows carrying heavy portfolios crammed with papers; stag- gering, with turbid eyes and sweat-stained faces, they seemed to strug- gle under the load of their own weight. The shop windows made an elegant display; and from the gaping doors of the cafes, the dull hum of many voices resounded; also the clattering of dice, and the soft mysterious melody of violins and the sighs of the piano. For the first time, in the communal dining-room of the House of the Soviets, there was the smell of soup with meat in it, tomato sauce and vegetables. But the old rancid smell of beans—shrapnel, they used to call it—still lingered among the tables, the walls and the utensils, Poisoning the aroma of the meat and of the potatoes fried with onions. . : r) \ (To Be Continued), ik a “a eS SE ee I