The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1929, Page 6

y WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1929 ni = ly 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 Gity, N.'Y. Telephone Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable: “DAIWORK.” SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York only): $8.00 a year 44.50 six months $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): 36.00 a year $3.50 six months $2.00 three months Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square. New York, N. ¥. “Inoculation” Against Red Propaganda. N the “war game” between the defending forces of “blues’ representing the United States army and the “reds, or invading forces, the jingoists tried an experiment in what the reptile press describes as “inoculation” aganst red propa- ganda. The theory being that if the soldiers are administered small doses of the “virus” they will be able to throw off the real thing, just as one who is vaccinated is supposed to be immune from smallpox. While the “red” invaders were devastating Trenton, preparatory to a move on Philadelphia and then a swift de- scent upon New York, a propaganda “sheet” called The Daily Ananias, using certain forms of expression familiar to readers of The Daily Worker, were showered upon the heads of the defending blue forces. It was explained to the militia- men, by their commander Brigadier-General Cornelius Van- «derbilt, that such propaganda was a part of warfare calcu- ylated to break the morale of patriotic armies. Some of the ‘headlines were interesting, and read: “Blues Poison More Wells; “Prisoners Surrender to Reds Voluntarily,” “Blues Fear Red Bayonets,” “Mutinous Blue Soldiers Hang Colonel.” The eminent Mr. Vanderbilt is an authority on patriotism, as were his ancestors, especially Cornelius Vanderbilt, the first, founder of the Vanderbilt fortune. That worthy was active during the civil war stealing money from the govern- ment: while Lincoln and the northern forces were fighting against the Southern seceeders. He sold rotten ships to the government and swindled it on mail subsidies, thus placing his family definitely on the road to opulence. Now the pro- geny of old Cornelius are busy commanding troops in antici- pation of imperialist war in order further to multiply the for- tunes of Vanderbilt and his class, and trying to “inoculate” soldiers against “red” agitation. That the armed forces of the United States are being trained for a war against the Soviet Union is perfectly ob- vious, not only because of the term “red’’ used to designate the attacking power, but also because of the “inoculation” campaign against revolutionary propaganda. But the army quacks who try to emulate the medical quacks will discover that their virus is impotent. Conscript imperialist armies, * three rei Commission of the League were de- signed to create the impr \there is no power or force in the world able to prevent the production | of poison gases and explosives ‘now | being turned out by the ton by what is at the moment “ fighting for a predatory ruling class, have to be kept in ignor- ance, have to be continually under illusions, the moment they realize that soldiers are so much cannon fodder in the hands of the agents of the bankers and industrialists, they: are susceptible to revolutionary propaganda. Such propaganda will merely voice the thoughts of thou- sands and eventually millions of soldiers in the imperialist forces and it will not all come from the “enemy,” but will find fruitful soil in the ranks of the armed forces of the im- perialist powers. There was no “enemy” power that utilized revolutionary propaganda in the ranks of the czarist army of old Russia, but the jarmy nevertheless, at the given moment, went over to the side of the revolution. When ob- jective conditions for revolution are at hand, that is when the ruling class is no longer able to rule in the old way and the working class can no longer endure its lot, there exists an objectively revolutionary situation. Given an experienced, well-disciplined Communist Party, steeled in the struggle, to galvanize the discontented forces into one insurrectionary mass the revolution becomes inevitable. No inoculation can arrest the course of history. But what is of pressing interest.today is the motive be- hind the propaganda aspect of the “war game.’ The im- perialists, the Vanderbilts and their ilk, talk about invading “red” forces, not because they fear invasion by the Red Army, but because they themselves are engaged in inciting invasions of mercenaries into Soviet territory and because they hope soon to invade the Soviet Union with American soldiers, un- der pretext of a war of defense. That the jingoes recognize the potency of The Daily Worker is evidenced by their caricature “The Daily Ananias,” a sort of backhanded compliment, which shows that the Daily’s influence is felt in the camp of the class enemy. : Let the reply to the “war game” of the imperialists be strikes and demonstrations on August Ist, International Red Day. Against Imperialist War and in Defense of the Soviet Union. In New York Ctiy the workers will down tools at four o'clock. in the afternoon of August 1st and march to Union Square where the great mass demonstration aganist the jingoes will take place. . In every big center in the country similar demonstra- tions will take place. The workers of America must show their internatonal solidarity with the workers of other coun- tries who will strike and demonstrate against imperialist war on that day, the fifteenth anniversary of the outbreak of the world war. Norman Thomas Joins the Prosecutors of Gastonia Prisoners. : Rev. Dr. Norman Thomas, standard bearer of the socialist party in the last presidential election and now candidate for mayor of the city of New York, in a speech Sunday at Framingham, Mass., denounced the activities of Communists in the Southern textile strikes and pleaded for the building up of the American Federation of Labor in that section. It is not accidental that Thomas assails the Communist _ leadership of the Southern textile strkers on the day before _ the trials open at Gastonia. Such procedure is in keeping with the present role of the socialist party and the entire second international as debased lackeys of the capitalist class and murderers of the working class. At a time when a score or more of strikers and real leaders of the worknig class are on trial for their lives in the lynching atmosphere of the southern textile barons this preacher, this ex-pulpit pounder, sermonizes them for not following the tactics of the A. F. of L., which means selling out to the employers, In Gastonia, as elsewhere, the fight against the capitalist class can be effectively waged by recognizing that the fight : inst social democracy and its leading adherents is an in- ble part of the class struggle. It is just as well to have the Thomases as open enemies, than as professed frjends, because they never even ke PICKING THE JURY lorker | By Fred Ellis | ay oy heen (CEMENT cuioxov Translated by A. 8. Arthur and C.. Ashleigh . All Rights Reserved—International Publishers, N. ¥. ls | Gleb Chumalv, Red Army Commissar, returns to his home on 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, Under the direction of Gleb, the reconstruction of the factory is started ite the opposition of Shramm, the bureaucratic chairman of the Economic Council. Gleb is sent on a mission to the Bureau of Industry, One night Badin, chairman of the District Executive of the Soviet, a man of dominating personality, forces his way into the room of Si Polia DS “gt . | ANEL fas Lap} Mekhova and violates her. Serge, a Bolshevik intellectual, who | occupies the next room, consoles her. ' * * . } H®® teeth would not stop chattering. And her heart and her throat burned and hurt. . . . boo) ERM 9) SESAME She writhed on the bed; then crawled on to the floor and suddenly | lay dumb and still with deadly fright. Again the dense blackness en- veloped her. The darkness crawled upon her, pressing upon her like a rock, driving its claws into her, St -| Fl 1. Hypocritical and Frank The admission we have already mentioned made by ! cialists of the League of Nations, | stic of the policy being adhered to b in regard to chem |is most characte al warfare, the aim being to mold “public” opin- ieal production. for yoursélve te, you can see stronger than us ‘on law of life, and} jthere is no help for it, |democratic rag of the German in- \dustrialists, the “Frankfurter Zei- traight out, there can be no “condemning” the chemical in- dustry. As it say ing for powerful unfortunate thing (!) inventions of Science can be used in war as well.” More cynical representatives of |imperialism face the issue y {Marshal .Foch one wrote: plans and future preparations w “Science is work- | The American Captain Ode adds to that with a busi like manner that is tru The chemical method of waging war was discovered by keep it for ourselv call, too, the fact th the secession of ho} zon advised the British —when war is finished do not reject the experi- “ences it has to offer. ilities Lord Cur- |Chassaigne, tries to determine the warfare and r the following wonderful discovery: “It would be displaying too much faith if we were to. allow any con- | vention whatever the chance of pre- venting a nation from using such a convenient weapon for the achieve- ment of its aims as the chemical | weapon, a weapon whose manufac- jture in peace time is not subject means and instruments for chemical attack and bacteriological warfare belonging to the different armies, iin reserve and in production, to be destroyed within three months. (2) All industrial plants turning out the means of chemical attack and bac- Lucien Chassaigne is not mistaken, | teriological warfare to cease pro- All he does is to|duetion within the same period. (3) 2. Away Back in 1868, | we may add. lof the tasks the pacifist conference | ke. Almost losing her senses, barefooted, in chemise, she ran out into | the corridor. She clutched the handle of Serge’s door and pressed against this door, blinded with terror, without being able to take her eyes away from the open door of her own room. | “Serge! Serge! Quick! Please! Serge!” Ske scratched on the door, pressing close to it; and, as though in | a dream, she felt that the door breathed under her body, but could | not open. And when the door did open, Polia flung herself on Serge’s breast, Tr breathless with'sobbing, a little helpless creature with the shape of a child. a . | GERGE'S hands trembled and his heart beat fast. He led her to the MM 13¢ bed and covered her with a blanket. He poured out a glass of f ~ water for her; her teeth chattered against the glass, and little rills of N TREETETIORS a 5 205 ave <n water ran out along her chin, i: e e “Oh, it was horrible, Serge—. It was disgusting! I don’t know T what happened, but it was something that can never be remedied, gen Ca artare e €mical WINGS | i." fo ) | He drew a chair near to her and sat down, With soft shy move- gus ° ° e ments, he arranged her pillows and stroked her hand, hair and cheeks. the “Now, don’t—. Be calm, Polia. I know. . . + If you had called and an Clr OCla = e] ] 1Ocra 1C. OO S out, I should have forced open the door and strangled him.” hav | “You don’t know, Serge. . . . You don’t know!’ It’s impossible Pi: By the Chemical Workers International Propaganda Committee of the Red International of Labor Unions. | to struggle against him. It’s impossible to save oneself from him. wor “Don’t let’s talk, Polia. Drink a drop more water and go to sleep. the jadmit more oppenly and to confirm) For the purpose of restricting the|intended to shoulder. All the con-| I shall sit by you here and you will sleep. You absolutely must try WM arr s proven by all history, espe-| possibilities of violating the proto- | ference had to do was to mold “pub-| 8Nd sleep. It’s the north-east wind. For a long time we have had no Hy cially by the dirty work of bour-|col, a permanent control to be or-| lic” opinion into believing that hu-| orth-east wind. Tomorrow it will be cool and fresh. r diplomacy in the question | ganized oyer industries which may) manity is helpless to prevent the “Serge, dear little Serge, you're so good to me, so near to me, cal |of chemical warfare. |be used for the manufacture of| production of the means of chemical| 1 knew that this would happen, Serge. . . . And I couldn't... . I clas a fairly lengthy one. |the means of chemical and bacter-| warfare, that there is no other way| don’t know what will happen now, Serge.” 1 ® pec Be eames pact sone ates iological warfare; said control to be| of getting out of the blind alley * * * der cal warfare goes back to the year | organized by the factory committee mankind is in save “to appeal to the * ‘ ‘ 1868 when the Petersburg Deciara-| and other trade union bodies fune-|good intentions of the public at| J[™St near her, trembling with uncontrollable emotion, He had been Jf 0 jtion was signed. The Hague Con-/tioning in the plants concerned. large” (the speaker is Delesi), “to h ar wai bia hag Np heard Lamp? gece aut i fo he on jference in 1890 was so good as to| All are aware of the fate that met |destroy war by the strength of hu-| nad felt the floor shake under hims and with the first roar of the Hi or: chemical warfare “out of|these proposals which were submit-|man will” (!), ete. The representa-| T0Tth-east wind everything seemed to turn and whirl about him, im] »” as it Were, and was against|ted by a, country constituting the | tives of Polish militant fascism (Dr. “I knew, Serge dear, that something would happen. Haven't you the use of any “poison weapons.” jonly genuine factor making for Tilicka and a certain Polish general) | Se? those faces, heard those voices? ‘Have pity, Brothers. . . . Help, The “great and just” Versailles | peace today. The U. S. S. R.’s ef-|assured the conference of the “peace-| : + + Famine. . . . Hunger!’ And the dice rattling and the violins, I Peace which arranged a fresh re-|forts to abolish chemical warfare |ful” policy of the Polish Fascist| im the cafes . . . and the shop windows. - . . The revolution has ant distribution of markets between the | were brusquely rejected, as were also | Dictatorship, while the Cxecho-Slo-| turned to greed. . . , And this—. It all belongs together, Serge.” the @ time” chem. | imperialists, embodied two clauses |the three principles advanced by the|vakian delegate, Mr. Sassek, moved “Yes, it all belongs together, Polia. We must pass through this, (ay 2” “against” chemical warfare, these|U. S. S. R. regarding a marked | that. the United States president be| dreadful stage. We must go through it, maust go on... . Must go pa clauses being Sections 171 and 172] reduction in armaments, that such| appealed to to convene a “really”| through with it, at whatever cost.” gir of the Versailles Peace. reductions be effected on the pro-| authoritative conference to discuss She fell asleep with her hand in his; and, till the dawn, he sat by ba \imperialism have to say at that mo-| portional principle, and that a sim-| chemical disarmament, her without moving, looking at her attentively with mournful affection. ment as it signed the peace treaty |ultaneeus ratio be established for! Nor did the speakers at the con- DA gt te psi standing on the bones of 9,000,000 |the reduction of armaments. |ference forget to mention the U. be killed, suffocated and poisoned vic-|4. The Smoke Screen of Pacifism.|S. S. R. The conference organiz- SABOTAGE, tims of the war? It was forbidden| In the question 6f chemical war-| ers signed a public statement pro-| ; * to use, produce and import military-|fare the pacifist world is develop-| testing against the campaign of fil-| AFTER Gleb’s departure, the work of renovating the factory became po chemical products — this ban ap-|ing quite a lot cf activity. In this, thy slanders that was being carried feverish. The broken panes in the windows and sky-lights had not Ce plying to, whom do you think, Ger-|respect one particularly notes the on against the U.S. S, R. Yet these| Yet been replaced; there were still gaping holes in the concrete walls, to The conquering group |clear division of labor between the|same people trotted out the old tale| {tinged with the torn ends of broken cables, In the dim interior, ga of imperialists stood on the neck | various sections spreading imperi-|that everybody else had forgotten| Undgr the light of the electric lamps, echoes resounded from hammers 7 of the conquered opponent. alist propaganda, The role of paci- about some connections that were| #4 drills and the clanging of metal. gr y. is how the immortal Woodrow Wil-|fism, as a bourgeois ideology, con-| supposed to exist between the So-| Two hundred men were working there—the full force now obtain- sh of the American jsists in creating the impression that viet Government and-a well known }8ble. The rotary furnaces needed special attention, The steel shells er mocracy” understood chemical “dis-/ humanity is able to put a stop to | firm of Hamburg, a story that made| had to be re-riveted and the fireclay linings re-laid. They had to make th chemical warfare by convincing peo-|a lot of noise in 1928, when tanks| 2¢¥ small castings for the crushing machines, the hoist and for the su The Fate of Litvinov’s Three ple that it is wrong, by appealing containing poison gases exploded in| O™Plicated shafting. The mixers were badly damaged and new me- |to their sense of decency, to their| that city. The pacifists assure the chanical stirrers had to be made. They had to replace the whole pipe pe Subsequent to the Versailles Peace | moral outlook, and so on. people they are appealing to that) SYStem. Enormous cylindrical sieves had to be replaced as well as a m : we find the same cynical “prohibi-| In the spring of 1929 there was |the Hamburg firm in question had| ‘@Wantity of auxiliary plant, The least need for repair was in the gen- th tion” of chemical warfare in a num-|held, and quite a lot of noise made|come to an arrangement with the| ¢tators and the Diesel engines which Brynza tended. Brynza lived be ber of imperialist pacts and decla-| about the matter, the first Con-|Soviet Government regarding the| there and the engines also lived. } rations.{ Such in essence was the|ference of Pacifists to deal with| construction in the U. S. S. Ri of Men, blue with dust, were bustling about, climbing on the furnaces, nz ' 1922 Washington Pact, the Geneva|questions of chemical warfare, the plants to produce asphyxiating gas.| T22ming on the stairways, the scaffolding, the gangways, like spiders. al Agreement on chemical warfare of |delegates meeting in Frankfurt-on-| From behind the smiling mask| Like rats they were gnawing away at the solidified mud én ditches and ta It need hardly |the-Main. The pacifists promised|of pacifism there leers forth the| les: They were riveting, cutting, sawing iron and copper, entangled that all this dirty sham-|to give replies to such by no means dirty face of the bitterest enemy So-| i, Network of cables, shouting, swearing, spitting mud and choking like a bubble at the first |unimportant questions as: the role|viet Russia has got, the loyal, be-| With dust, a prey to this sudden storm of work, e aken by the Red diplomacy |of the chemical industry in the com-|cause he is paid; propagandist of On the second truck-way the work was going on more peacefully, D of the U.S. S. R. in regard to chem-|ing war, the n&ture of gas war-| imperialism, determined to prevent) Pe Tails had been re-laid in various places; the viaducts weré repaired ical warfare. At the recent ses-|fare, measures for preventing war,|the Soviet’s work of Socialist con-| 74 Stones and rubbish were being cleared away. ; z sion of the Preliminary Commission | ete. Yet to all these questions the | struction. Nothing was to be ex- fs’ betas; the peop Airtel Mood: tay cua ea desolation, But held in Geneva the Soviet Delega-|fussy pacifist conference in Frank- pected from a pacifist conference exermeinere, poeisnuld feel its breathing and the early vibration of its P tion submitted three brief and un-|fort gave no answer at all. Doz-| which was opened by the Social- masinery ae the engine-room, the Diesels were already panting qi ambiguous proposals: ens of speakers, well known pro-| Democratic burgomaster of the city, “#Y 8nd might. q fessors, doctors and engineers had|of Frankfort on the Main, “Com- ‘, fs * i td “ assembled there, yet they said not rade” Gref, a conference which was aaa ony oa ner eae a all are eres made a tour of the a word regarding the actual state also graced by the presence of Sev- apreabed ainite li ° aa rt Y aq The ond for the first time a of chemical armaments today {n/erin himself, the organizer respon- son rte Meted fn tte: oh is grr old technicians and fore~ their respective “fatherlands” nor | sible for the suppression of scores ave them sie di sagen: sid tre la aah Wie ee did they point to a single practical | of strikes and working class action, bbe waunal eat baat hg Hy Satis is words. With the workmen, measure to combat chemical war-|the close friend and comrade of susint thaatacene nd se as of old, passing them by without seeing fare. Such things were not part|that “dog of blood,” “Genosse” Nos- | Gleb had goa ing ta - week, but did not return for the 3} , of a whole month. Already in the second week of his absence the ork An =p “Justice” By LISTON OAK e $ ° prove and pares pes! supply 1 inane In the Economie Council Gastonia and Press of Caroling ne a eae aee ‘ | }gard for “due processes of la | They will have to create the illusion | | They will attempt | The mill owners grew more) to. give the appearance of legality, worried, about the increasing dis- | fairness, Justice, to their court ac- content of their hitherto “cheap, do- tion to railroad the members of the cile, unorganized, 100% American” Union to the electric chair and the mill slaves, ‘The signs of increasing | Penitentiary. vevolt alarmed the bosses. ponse to the organizational campaign 1 the N.’I. W. U., the building up | of the Charlotte News and the Char- of the union, have created a mass | lotte Observer and the other papers had a great have taken a line about as follows: The leaders of the N. T. W. U. are Communists, and a menace to all a bit, or rather to change their tone. |that-we hold most sacred. They be- The southern bourgeoisie realized | lieve that they could not lynch the pris- | They want to destroy our institu- oners, they could not ride roughshod | tions, our traditions, They are un- over all legality, without an adverse |dermining all morality, all religion. reaction. The mill owners and their | But nevertheless they must be given editors have evidently decided that a fair trial, although everyone they will have to try to kill the! knows that they ought to be shot union organizers with proper re- at sunrise. |of a fai> trial. New Camouflage, And so editorials in recent issues The editorials began to tone down in violence, arson, murder, eral” editors, are more discrimingt- In other words, after _ OO profess to defend the elementary interests of the working class except for the purpose of trying to worm themselves ' into positions of leadership so they will be in a better position to betray the cause of the workers, We are sure that this action of Thomas will be repudiated by any working class elements that might have in the recent past supported the socialist party, % owner a few weeks ago. Now they|and assuming a conciliatory tone|U, T. W. as a means of alleviating |company union, i realize the significance of the Bli- rth | serv : panties aes file industrial union based squarely | instance, this from the Charlotte|Workers Union to lead them in a|Cleveland, this situation deserves upon the class struggle led by mili-| News for July 18: fight against the opemshop ex- tant revolutionists, and the U. T. W.| “The purpose of *he A. F. L, is to .ploitation, the stretch-out’ system |is our opportunity to carry out in which is based upon class collob-| unionize the cotton mill employees!and wage-cuts, Both workers and | action, ‘the Address wat i was frequently interrupted, and in the end it stopped altogether. The factory management ceased carrying out the plans which had been ap- 3 : (To be Continued) creating an atmosphere in which a,reactionary bureaucrats who have if % “fair trial” is impossible, after pre-|a history of treachery. The mill] == Judicing every possible juror against | owners begin to see how useful a|Ceptable or unacceptable according ‘acter of the American Federation of them, the editors call for “justice | company union can be in a situation | to the motive behind the movement | Labor. and thereby think they have saved |like this, to placate the workers in|and the personel engaged in it.| The situation here in the South their faces, preserved the illusions | revolt against the stretch-out sys-|There can be no legitimate objection | affords the T. U. E, L. one of the of democratic justice for all, equal | tem. to the organization of workers any | greatest opportunities in its history. protection before the law, ete: Following the lead of the New|more than there can be to the or-|'The National Textile Workers Union Another important and significant | York Times, which ran an editorial| ganization of employers. But if|has prospects for rapid growth here change — at first all unions were|on July 16th, “Labor in the South,” |Communistically guided, such a|that are found in no other part of roundly condemned as_pervicious. | the southern press is becoming more | Movement can not escape being sin-|the United States to quite such The very idea of the workers organi-| discriminating in its denunciation, | ister and vicious.” tremendous extent. The mill ing for protection from the ruthless |The Times points out to the south-| Here is another editorial from the | Workers are awakening to the full greed of the bosses was abhorrent | ern mill owners, southern politicians | Charlotte Observer\for July 18: meaning of the class struggle; to the bourgeoisie, Any union, any|and the southern press that the| “If southern labor is to be or-|masses of highly exploited, un- strike, was regarded as the work/A. F. of L. is “moderate.” That | ganized, it is to be infinitely pre-| skilled and semi-skilled underpaid of the devil. But they have learned MacMahon, McGrady, Hoffman, |ferred that this organization should | wage-slay. Teady to revolt—wait- a lesson from the northern boure|Woll, Green and Co. “are not Bol- be accomplished by the acknowl-|ing for leadership! geoisie. Now the more “enlight-|sheviks.” “Not Militant.” ‘That|edged long-time enemy of Com-| Carolifia justice is capitalist jus- ened” of the mill owners, the “lib-| they. are “reasonable.” “Law-abid-|munism, which is the A. F. of L.”|'tice. The southern press the e ing.” The Times warns southern A Traitor Union. capitalist press. This first lesson in ing. Thef have learned the differ-| mill owners against running such! This is eloquent testimony to the|the class strvggle the workers of ence between the ited Textile | reasonable, non-Bolshevik, moderate |company union character of the|Gastonia and of a large section of Workers Union and the National |labor fakers out of town. So many|U. T, W. A few more betrayals|the south have learned, They are Textile Workers Union. One sounded | southern papers have fallen in line,| such as Blizabethon, and the south-|rapidly learing that the U. T. W. as bad as the other to the mill|They are now attacking the N.T. W.|ern mill owners will turn to the|like other A, F. of L, unions, is a | cates lana teen tata toward the U. T. W. “If we must | discontent, of preventing the not the workers, zabethon sell-out. They know the|have a union, let it be one whose|of a fighting union, and the wo: capitalist class, ean ed vast difference between a rank-and-|leaders can be bought off.” For|will turn to the National Textile]. In the 7, U, E, L, Convention in first place upon the agenda, Here oration, industrial p @, at the a fi ie ‘ a is , mn / | ¥ PUTT . ic 5 Re ‘