The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1929, Page 2

Page Two PY NAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1929 ey PUSH PLANS FOR Enlightenment Campaign on the Comintern Address to the Communist Party USSR DENOUNCES GREETING FLIERS = 2 GERMAN SLANDER UPON ARRIVAL AGAINST SOVIET <aNy Four Boys Die in River Accident in WEALTHY FARMER 3 ‘FARM WORKER | Statement of Political Bureau on Expulsions duty to define the line of the Communist International does not rest with the Communist International but from among all the millions of Pe vietims of a river accident which oc- Pursuant to the Polbureau decisions of August 12th, the Secretar- | giana esrantats par ee iat of the Central Committee addressed individual letters to all the To Present Tractors to USSR Airmen The: Friends of the Soviet Union is proceeding with mnoupees that i s s for tendering the four So- .. yers who are making a Mos- iow to New York flight with a fremendous reception on their arri- fal here, it having been definitely staBlished that the crew of the j feof the Soviets, which was \d in a forced landing near p Siberia, will resume its tour jin a new plane, also to be mowm as the Land of the Soviets. Part of the welcoming celebration lecided upon at the Aug. 13 con- rege called by the F..S, U. and ittetided by over 600 delegates from anyeework class organizations, Bas 5 ntation of a number @f tucks and tractors to the air- fhensin token of the admiration the megiean working class feels for e ffemendous achievements of the ‘ovigs. Union in the building of Soci i Collections for these gifts should be made by workers and sympathi- gers at their shops, at meetings and among friends willing to show their Solidarity with the Soviet workers and ‘peasants, the F.S.U. says. It is advisable that organizations offi- cially undertake to raise a certain fund for a minimum of one tractor | or truck, which will entitle the or- ganization to one representative on the special tractor delegation the F. S. U. has arranged to send to the,Soviet’ Republic, , | capisized. | Party members named in this decision and demanded an answer from members of the Comintern, from among all the dozens of sections of the | | Wad dead tat Bacey Sitemen, | ‘ : them within 48 hours. These individual letters have now been answered Comintern, falls upon the sHoulders of Lovestone. With the powers of rae 15; Walter ‘Burnett, 14; Romfo Wounds Two Others in by a collective statement signed by D. Benjamin, B. Gitlow, W. Miller, M. Nemser, E. Welsh, W. White, B. Wolfe, and H. Zam. In their declaration the signatories declare that “The Address and line of the Polbureau based upon it are wrong and injurious,” and that “On the basis of the Address the Political Committee is proceeding to wreck the Party,” and further, that “we will not cease our struggle,” and, finally, that “we fight against the line of the Address and its ap- plication by the Polbureau.” The Polbureau and the E. C. C. I. demanded of these members of the Party a repudiation of their declaration of war against the Comin- tern. They answered this demand by declearing “we will not cease our struggle” and “we fight against the line of the Address and its applica- tion by the Polbureau.” The Polbureau and the E. C. C. I, demanded of these members of the Party a repudiation of their insolent counter-revolutionary cable to the E. C. C. I, They ignore this demand. The Polbureau demanded that these members of the Party repudi- ate the openly anti-Party and anti-Comintern factional documents cir- culated by the Loyestone splitters within and around the Party. They answer by declaring this unprecedented warfare against the Party “the right and duty of Party members.” The Polbureau demanded from these Party members a repudiation of Loyestone’s counter-revolutionary attack against the Party for its activities on International Red Day. They answer with silence. The Polbureau and the E, C. C. I. demanded of these Party mem- bers to live up to the conditions of membership in the Communist In- ternational as expressed in the 21 points. Point 16 declared that “ALL ‘THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONGRESSES OF THE COMMUNIST | INTERNATIONAL AS WELL AS THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE EX- ECUTIVE COMMITTEE ARE BINDING FOR ALL PARTIES.” They answer with a declaration that the decision of the E. C. C, I. on the problems of the American Party does not suit them and that, therefore, they “will not cease” their struggle against it. The statement of these Party members again reiterated the Love- stone opportunist platform in opposition to the line of the Sixth World | Congress. With petty-bourgeois arrogance it declares that the right and sole arbiter thus allocated to Lovestone, the document proceeds to con- | demn the revolutionary application and development of the line of the Sixth Congress of the Communist International by the Communist In- ternational itself and by the Tenth Plenum of its Exegutive Committee | and to proclaim Loyestone’s reformist interpretation the only permis- | sible one. The signatories to the last statement evidently feel that: Although they answered a request of the Comintern to Lovestone with a collec- tive statement signed by all, together with Lovestone, they now pro- | duce a collective document without Loyestone. By this maneuver, they m to create the appearance that they are not tied up organization- with Lovestone. But their refusal to condemn Loyestone, their as- sociation with Lovestone in the cabled reply to the E. C. C. L, their failure to repudiate the provocative attacks of Loyestone on the Party’s campaigns of August Ist, Gastonia, and others, makes them respon- | sible for every anti-Party and anti-Comintern act of Lovestone. The Party understands their maneuver very well: the members have so | decisively repudiated Lovestone and stand so firm for the Central Com- | mittee and the Comintern as to make the signatories of this document doubt whether it is advisable to appear openly in association with the slanderous attacks of Lovestone against the Party. With the declaration that they will continue their fight against the Comintérn the signers have registered their unwillingness and unfit- ness to remain members of our Party. Under lying protestations of | adherence to the decisions of the Sixth World Congress they challenge the decisions of the second World Congress concerning the 21 conditions of membership in the Communist International. In recognition of this undeniable fact and in application of the decisions of the Polbureau of August 12, the following are hereby declared expelled from the Party—D. Benjamin, B. Gitlow, W. Miller, M. Nemser, E. Welsh, W. White, B. D. Wolfe and Herbert Zam. | . | Any association with the expelled, any support given them is incom- patible with the duties of membership in the Party, | : POLITICAL BUREAU OF THE * * COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. S. A. Baseball as a Weapon Against Workers Hospitality Abuse by Graf Resented MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 23.— Rival, 14; Roland Bordeau, 13. | Another member of the party, Ar- | mand Rival 15, brother of Romeo, | swam 75 feet to shore after his | Corn Orchard ,, SOMERVILLE, N. J., Aug. 23.— Pravda, official Soviet newspaper, |Clothing had been torn off by his Craig Hoffman, wealthy farmer, was in an article titled, “Why did the |Companions as they tried to cling to | today arrested charged with killing Zeppelin Dodge Moscow?” takes*of-|him in their dying struggles. Ar-| Joseph Kolesar, 12, and seriously fense at a German correspondent aboard the dirigible who radioed to his paper that thanks to Eckener’s course north of the Soviet capital, the crew of 40 and the 20 parasite passengers “saw old, Russia un- stamped by Bolshevism.” It will be remembered that at the time of the transoviet hop the cap- italist press of the world reported the astonishment with which the per- sonnel of the Graf viewed the pros- | perity of a region many foreigners | believe to be barren and deserted. They saw busy towns and villages, extensive forests and luxurious |farms, eloquent proof of the U. S.| S. R.’s tremendous achievement in the building of socialism. The Ger- man article was an attempt to count- jeract that favorable impression by referring to the section as a relic of czarist days. It was also stated that the Graf was armed with machine guns and rifles “to meet any emergency” on the flight. “We must issue a warn- | ing that the road from Germany to Tokio runs thru Moscow,” the Pravda article concluded, referring to the projected $20,000,000 air line from Berlin to Tokio. “If we care to permit non-stop flying across | Soviet Russia we will do so, but if we do not we will insist on halts at ‘The delegation will be the guests | of the workers and peasants and is | assured of a splendid welcome and| every opportunity to become ac-| . *, ” quainted with life and conditions in| —_ ‘tial Unrest. the first workers republic. Special| This is the amazing title of an contribution lists for the tractor |article in the September number of campaign may be obtained from the |the Baseball Magazine, unofficial Friends of the Soviet Union at 175/organ of the professional baseball Fifth Ave., Room 304; all lists and |industry. Amazing in the frankness contributions should be forwarded | With which it admits a significant to that address. |tactic of the employing class in its By A. B. MAGIL. L sopASEBALL as a Cure for Indus- ‘Bosses Support Company | “Avoid Strikes,” “Promote Efficiency” | | | Union Teams to | “Since the introduction of base- ball for employees and the or- ganizing of a competent team to do battle on the field provided by the company ... there has been distinctly less friction between the - | }man for the big employers that is |}so novel. Company union baseball, las it may be called, is not a new jtactic of the American capitalist |class. Significantly, it received its |great impetus during the last im- perialist war, and still more signifi- | cruited largely from minor league | Moscow’s airport. Those who dream of a regular air line between Berlin and Tokio must not forget this.” BRITISH INCITE PALESTINE RIOT Three Killed, 50 Are which is concerned with production, it has also invaded the field of dis- | tribution. In Philadelphia, for ex- ample, department stores such as Gimbel Brothers, Snellenberg’s and | Strawbridge & Clothier’s have sup- | ported professional teams. | All these mercenary teams are re- | players and castoff major leaguers, An official stigma of corruption is no} drawback: Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jack- | son, Buck Weaver and Happy| Felsch, Chicago White Sox stars, aus ‘effort to keep the workingclass HOOVER STARTS plodding its treatdmill for long Centralizes Authority to Prepare for War WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Presi- ot Hoover is starting to mobilize the throughout the nation for the 1980 congressional campaign, political observers stated today. During the last 10 days, it is said, Hoover, has been giving close at- tention to party affairs maintain- ing close contact with the managers of the party machinery, much more than had been kept by any of his successors. He has indicated that he will have a direct voice in shap- ing campaign policies as well as in poge the key-men of the organi- ation, | Heever to carry out the orders of Vall’ St., which placed him in the| republican party machinery | hours and low wages—and grazing | meekly in the pastures of capitalism | {for the rest of the time. The article | \reveals the resourcefulness of a capitalism that is class-conscious to |the highest degree and, incidentally, jit punctures full of gaping holes the company and its large army of employees” (Emphasis mine.— A. B. M.) And further on McNulty says:! “Plant loyalty has been developed throughout baseball.” Let’s take a look at the textile |industry; here the tide of militancy | |among the American workers at |present runs highest. Were there} strikes in Passaic, New Bedford, | social reformist parakeets of CAP | half-starved, miserably paid, ruth- | talism. a, lessly driven mill slaves? That’s| William . McNulty, a professional |hecause the mill owners in these sports writer, is the author of this | places haven't been 2s smart as article. He has evidently taken the| Schuster & Hayward, owners of trouble to get a few facts in order | three woolen mills in East Douglas | to hand out a sales talk that will|/and Millbury, Mass. So the blithely legend that sports are “neutral” and have no connection with the class struggle—the “sports for sports }sake” drivel that is ladled out by ithe capitalist press, schools and |2. war industries (Remington Arms, doubtless take effect in the proper quarters. The subtitle to his ar- ticle reads: “Many Enlightened Managers of Huge Corporations Have Adopted and Promoted Base- ball as an Important Factor in Main- taing Plant Efficiency and Em- ployee Loyalty and Avoiding Vexa- tious and Costly Wage Disputes.” eee hité House, is determined to give fficient service to his masters, es-| ecially at the present time, when | fhe “world imperialists, which in-| ludes. the United States, are pre-| aring for an offensive against the | joviet Union. Only by the most | irect.centralization of power in the jands-of Hoover, will the capitalist ass be most effective in conducting ms for an attack on the So- iet Union and prepare for another orld war, Wt Troops Defeat ebels in Venezuela, ut Both for Reaction CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 23.— ebels who attacked Cumana on the jorthérn sea coast were driven from he town tonight after several days’ ighting, official reports here state. j The report said the rebels be- longed to the same group which was Woe at Cumana last week. They ad landed from a ship and after fighting established themselves in part of the town. Little air is given either the gov- ernment troops or those of the rebels by workers and peasants. They characterize the fight as a quarrel between rival reactionaries, with British oil interests backing the revolt against the Gomez-Perez ictatorship, creature of American imperialism. Fight Big Forest Sweeping Thru the Glacier Nat'l, Park KALISPELL, Mont. Aug. 23.— Every available man in this vicinity ‘was sent today to Belton, western gateway to Glacier National Park, to join in a battle along a line 200 yards from the town’s limits to stop the advance of a forest fire. All residents were rushed out of Belton on a special Great Northern train when the advancing flames ap- proached the town limits. High winds, ryshing the flames forward last night had calmed to- day and this combined with the ef- forts of hundreds of fighting men, put the situation under control tem- . hr buildings were burned, J ke the candid Mr. McNulty: “Hard-headed executives of manufacturing companies have been seeking the panacea for industrial unrest and all it means—strikes, lockouts, sabotage, violence, murder, reduced efficiency, lack of co-opera- tion and harmony, bitter animosities “In this quest there is one element that stands out in bold relief against all the fads and fancies that have been introduced in an effort to improve relations between employ- ers and employees in industry, to promote business harmony. “This element is Baseball. “The national game has accom- plished more in subduing the modern trend toward industrial unrest than any other factor.” This is pretty plain talk even though we need not accept the last statement 100 per cent. No effort is made to conceal the real purpose of the employers in promoting base- ball. There is no sanctimonious talk about “health” or the “moral value” of the game. The boss class is using baseball for strikebreaking purposes, as a “panacea for indus- trial unrest,” for “reduced effi- ciency, lack of co-operation and hai mony.” In other words, to keep the workers pliant and submissive to capitalism’s rationalization program of speedup, wage cuts, long hours, disemployment; to destroy class- consciousness among the workers, to keep them unorganized, to cause them by inoculation with the vapor- ous ideology of sports loyalty to identify their intereste with the in- terests of their exploiters, Baseball is thus an integral part of the offensive of American capi- | talism against the rising revolt of the workingclass, *.* © | tonbenlil gives a few interesting examples, “The General Electric Corpora- tion, with gigantic plants at Lynn, Mass, and Schenectady, N. Y., have tied up with baseball as a medium of improving relations with their employees. At Lynn and Schenec- tady this great corporation has in- troduced up-to-date baseball fields. Encouragement has been given em- ployees for the formation of base- ball teams among the workers in factories and offic At each lant there is an official General lectric team which plays semi-pro- “, aay |garrulous Mr. M Nulty would imply. |It was in fact, Walter E. Schuster | himself, we are told, who took the initiative, furnished a baseball field for his workers at East Douglas and organized in addition, “a snappy in. dependent baseball club to represent the Schuster & Hayward industrial organization,” Results ? “Never has there been a strike or dispute of any kind between the company and the mill workers. Never has the firm found cause to} Teproach the employees for lack of efficiency.” (pets examples: “The Eastern Manufacturing Company, opera- ting pulp and paper mills at Lincoln | and South Brewer in Maine, have | found baseball an effective means | for fostering loyalty.... Labor | disturbances are among the missing at the Eastern plants—thanks to baseball.” The American Chain Company of Bridgeport, Conn., the Remington- Union Metallic Corporation (Rem- ington Arms) at Bridgeport, the Endicott-Johnson Company, shoe manufacturers at Endicott-Johnson City, N. Y., the Penobscot Chemical Fibre Company, operating a paper mill at Old Town, Me., the St. Croix Paper Company, Woodland, Me., the Lake Torpedo Boat and Submarine Company at Stratford, Conn., all have tried this great cure—all and all attest to its magic powers. What McNulty has hera told us is not essentially new. It is the frankness of this blustering spokes- Save 6 8 ELECTRIC ‘COLLECT FUNDS 799 BROADWAY | baseball 13 GASTONIA TEXTILE WORKERS from the and 10 others from long term jail sentences AUGUST 24TH TO SEPTEMBER 2 Do Yoyr Utmost for the Gastonia Defense and Relief Joint Campaign Auspices: International Labor Defense, New York District Local New York Workers International Relief RUSH FUNDS TO Room 237 who were expelled from organized baseball after the 1919 World Series scandal, not because they were more |corrupt than the rest, but because | | they were more careless in covering |up their traces, were given lucrative | berths on factory teams. (To Be Concluded) cantly, it was in the shipyards that it gained its strongest foothold. And if we look over the list of companies that are using baseball as an opiate and disorganizer of the workingclass we find they include: 1. Basic in- dustries: power (General Electric), textiles (Schuster & Hayward); Lake Torpedo Boat and Submarine Company); 3. highly important secondary industries: shoes (Endi- cott-Johnson), paper (Penobscot Chemical Fibre, St. Croix Paper.) Another interesting fact: all the firms listed are in the middle At- lantic and New England States, in- dicating that company union base- ball is being especially exploited by that section of the American capi- talist class which is the oldest in class struggle experience, * |New Issue of Labor | Defender Filled With ‘Important Articles The latest edition of the Labor Defender, containing the latest arti-! cles dealing with the Gastonia case, | with the various class war battles | of international as well as Ameri-| can labor against capitalist oppres- | jsion, is now being shipped to all parts of the country. 1 (oe has mentioned a few! ‘Thousands of issues are being such companies. There are} sent to the South where a great| many more in various industries. | demand for the Defender has arisen | Most such teams are organized in| since the wave of strikes began this large factories and mills and are|year, Startling pictures, taken in| of two types: teams composed of |the heat of class war collisions, are actual workers in the factory, with | numerous throughout the issue. department playing department or | There is an article on Gastonia by * * factory unit playing factory unit; | Bill Dunne; by J. Louis Engdahl, and teams composed of professional! national secretary of the Interna- E players whose members |tional Labor Defense; Cyril Briggs, | either have no other connection with | and other well known working class the company or who are given nom-| writers; articles on various indus- inal jobs involving no actual work. | tries in America; explanation of the The first type is the company union | series of revolutionary events oc-| team proper, Actually it is curring in the the second type, the team com- lands, posed of sports mercenaries, that tends to dominate. It is obvious that workers who slave nine, ten or more hours a day at an exhausting! iste pace haven't much time or strength | left for athletics. They do. what most of the American workingclass does: they get their athletic diver- sion vicariously, rooting for the mercenary factory team and ab- sorbing “loyalty” bunk and boss ideology just as effectively as if they were themselves the players. In addition, these professional As far as 1 am concerned, I can't d Jution of the class politien! economists wed the economie physiology of ela: T have ndded as a new teams, which play professional teams of other factories or even minor league clubs, serve as excel- lent advertising for the companies. ee 1 badietas company union baseball has been developed chiefly by that section of the capitalist if WORKERS MOBILIZE SUPPORT Central CHAIR TAG DAY WEEK 10c. NEW YORK On The Road To Bolshevization with an introduction }; fhe press! A handbook for every ‘American Communist (1) Important excerpts Sixth C, I. Congress (2) The Open Letter to the Sixth Convention (3) The Address to the Membership WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th St. NEW YORK CITY Wounded in Clashes TELAVIV, Palestine, Aug. 23.— Three were killed and 50 wounded, mostly Jews, today when 100 Arabic villagers armed with swords flocked into Jerusalem and attacked the Jewish quarters. The race riots here jare being incited by British im- perialist officials and capitalists here, to keep the Arab and Jewish workers divided. British mandate authorities here were understood to be prepared to bring troops from Egypt if the sit- uation warranted it. Disturbances have been inter- mittent in Jerusalem for a week, starting last Friday with the latest attack by Arabs on Jewish worship- pers at the wailing wall. A Jewish boy was killed, and a feeling reached its height at his funeral, when the crowd of wailing Jews following the body to the cemetery was rushed by Arabs. Police put down the dis- turbance temporarily, A serious outbreak has been feared for days because of the mounting dissension between Jews and Arabs over possession of the wailing wall. The Arabs have been incited to attack the Jews by the imperialist officials. To keep the workers divided, Ango-Jewish capitalists em- | ploy Arab workers at starvation | rates, keep the Jewish workers un- employed, and thus inflame the Latin-American | Jewish workers by subtle, religious |propaganda against the Arabs. In other cases, where Jewish workers have been lured to Palestine on the pretense of settling in the “holy4 land,” they are hired at starvation wages, while the Arab workers are dismissed. Then the Arab: workers are in- flamed into starting race riots against the Jewish workers. DEMAND UNION WAGE CHICAGO (By Meil).—Printing pressmen of the Regensteiner Corp- oration are striking for union con- ditions and wages, and ercognition. Committes, 8, mand was the only one of the boys who could swim, SHIP BURNS AT | SEA; SAVE CREW. \Fifty-eight Year Old Freighter Sinks Another tale of a crew narrowly | escaping death at sea because of | the greed of ship owners was made | known today when it was learned | that twenty-six seamen of the 58-/} year-old freighter “Quinmistan” had | been rescued and were being brought here Saturday. The rescuing boat is the Dollar) liner, President Harding, one of a fleet whose owners are also notori-| ous for their treatment of the men who make their profits at sea, Plans are already under way to glorify the captain of the rescue lvessel, say as little as possible |about the part the crew played in| the rescue and obscure the facts of| the sinking of the Quinmistan, with] heroics about the Dollar Line cap-| tain. The Quinmistan, after fifty-eight years piling up profits for her own- ers, left Newport News, Va., a week jago and vvas due to be scrapped in Genoa if she ever made that port. She never did. afire at sea yesterday by the steam- er Yalza and abandoned. The crew was not sighted. fire are unknown. It is known, however, that the letew took to their boats after the | freighter began to burn. Our own age, the bourgeois age, inguished by this—that it More and more, society up into two great hostile camps, into two great and directly contra- posed classes: bourgeoisie and pro- letariat-—Marx. “4. the most markable and pr tiest netress the Rus- sinn boast.” —Daily Worker. SPRing $095-5090-1716 Wingdale, N. Y. BY TRAIN From 125th St. or Grand Central Station Direct to Wingdale, New York. She was sighted | Details of the/| SECOND BIG WEEK) ——————= HER WAY. of LOVE introducing a ve vice, pect ene markable Soviet Mtubsiceg cote beater screen artiste +e nT ea cny waiker: EMMA ote = ZESSARSKAYA — issi® Film Guild Cinema 52 W. Sth St. (Rat cit ant Continuous Daily—Noon to Midnite cial Prices—12 to 2 Weekdays—~350 Saturday and Sunday—12 to 2—50 cents REGISTER NOW > for iP 0 Labor Day at ey City Office: 1800 SEVENTH AVE. 3%. wounding Joseph Klementovich, 10,. and his sister Helen, 14, Tuesday night. Kolesar, was shot in the back, riddled by more than a score of buckshot, The shooting is the outgrowth of? antagonism that recently has shown itself on the part of the rich families of this section against many foreign born workers who moved here. While, the murdering of the 10-year-old boy’ was a cold-blooded act, the charge against Hoffman is homicide, which’ means that even if he is convicted, which is doubtful, he will be given a sentence of several years, instead* of being held for first degree mur- der, which carries with it a sentence 4 | of death in the electric chair. Sister Tells Story. Anna Kolesar, sister of the murs* dered boy who was present when the” shooting took place, today identified Hoffman as the man who Killed her* brother. Anna stated that the four children had gone to the Hoffman cornfield' to obtain corn for their families‘who are very poor and in a destitute’ condition. The father of the’Kolesar™ children was killed in a railway ace cident several years ago. Tuesday’s shooting was not utiex- pected, being the result of a “cami- paign against the foreign born’ work: ers of this section that has beén' go> ing on for quite a time. Evidently~ the rich farmers and business?men, who live here, hope that by killing and wounding workers’ children they~ vould terrorize the workers and ‘orce them to move. The result has been just the opposite, the foreign born workers being determined ‘to continue living here under ‘all cir- cumstances. They are also resent- ful of the minor charge that has been lodged against the murderer, which is not unexpected, as Hoff- man is a member of the class ‘that controls the police and the courts— the capitalist class. CLOTHING STRIKE PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).—A hundred and fifty clothing workers: of the Feldman Co. here are striking for union wages. A Sovkino Production ie «,.. The best of-all So-. “Must be classed with the best Soviet films ., .*' acting, staging and photography unexcelled” —Fretheit. Week-end Tel: Wingdale’51 Tel. Monument 0111 | Newly built bungalows make possible accommoda- tion for 150 additional campers. . A New Pump Just In-” stalled. Bathing, Boating, Fishing, Dancing, Singing and Ba Dramatics sf TODAY, at 1:30 P. M. Sun. and Mon. at 9 A. M. from 1800 Seventh Ave- | }