The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1929, Page 1

ima he THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week OF CENTRA Daily Entered an » COMMUNIST PARTY AT ond-claes matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 8, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Company. . 26-28 0 ym» Square. Vol. VI., No. 174 Cublishe@ daily except Sundsy by The Comprodaily Publis! New York City. N. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, 88.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents The Tenth Anniversary of the’ Communist Party Ten years have passed since the Communist movement in the United States took definite organizational form. Ten years ago this month there was launched upon the stormy seas of the class struggle those organizations that were precursors of the present Communist Party of the United States. The world war, correctly designated by Lenin as the greatest test of international socialism, initiated the period of the decline of capitalism and of the proletarian revolution. The world war made plain to millions of workers the unbridgeable chasm that existed between reformism and Marxism, between social chauvinism and revolution. The war and the Bolshevik revelution, initiating the first stage of the world revolution, created the moment when all hesitation, all vacillation, all compromise between these ir- reconcilable forces had to cease. Everyone had to show his colors. The war and the revolution made a deep impress upon the socialist forces in the United States. So terrific was the momentum of the revolution that its reflex in this country not only swept into the world movement the revolutionary proletarian forces that, in one way or another, had for years combatted opportunism within the socialist party, but many of the right wing leaders were forced, in the early stages, to pay lip service to its world-shaking achievement. The overwhelming majority of the membership of the socialist party rallied to the left wing standard. When, in March, 1919, the Communist International was launched, the left wing acclaimed it as the leader of the forces of world revolution and pledged its allegiance thereto. In the general socialist party elections for members of the national executive that year the left wing carried every district in the country and elected an overwhelming majority of the national committee. When the old line reformist bureaucracy of the socialist party, Berger, Germer, Oneal, Hillquit, Goebel & Co., counted the ballots and learned of their overwhelming repudiation by the membership they refused to publish the results and admit their defeat. Instead they began a systematic campaign of wholesale expulsions and suspensions of the membership that had voted them out of office. In the September con- vention of the socialist party these same repudiated officials called in the Chicago police to bar from the convention hall duly elected left wing delegates. Two parties, both adhering to what they regarded as the correct principles of Bolshevism, were created at Chicago. Both suffered from identical defects, a result of lack of theoretical clarity, which in turn was a product of specific conditions affecting the development of the working class movement in the United States. Reformism had taken 2 specific form in the United States, but in the main it followed the parliamentary illusions of the leading party of the Second International, the German social democracy. The opportunist leadership of the American socialist party proclaimed that participation in elections was the only form of political action. The left wing, instead of adopting the revolutionary Leninist position on parliamentarism, swung to the position of completely rejecting parliamentary action. The socialist party policy of acting as a mere adjunct to the American Federation of Labor bureaucracy. impelled the left forces, as yet theoretically un- developed, to swing to syndicalism and endorse the Industrial Workers of the World as the only labor union organization in which it was permissible for Communists to work. The movement suffered from a mechanical, undialectical theory of separation of political action from economic action. In the very first months of its existence the Communist movement “in the United States faced the savage attacks of the government, cul- minating in the infamous red raids of Wilson’s attorney general, A. Mitchell Palmer, on New Year’s Day of 1920. Tens of thousands of Party members and practically all Party leaders were thrown into prison. To say that the movement was unprepared for such an attack is to put the situation mildly. It was not even anticipated. The attack by the government initiated the period of illegality, of underground existence. This period was entered without even the semblance of a struggle for legality. Among its many other theoretical {and hence organizational) weaknesses, we did not then understand the Leninist method of combining the struggle when we are outlawed by the government with the fight to maintain every possible legal method of work. During the underground existence the Communists, suffering severely from what Lenin characterized as “the infantile sickness of leftism,” was isolated from the masses. Most of the time and energy of the membership was consumed in groping toward a consolidated party that would unite the various elements that had come into the movement or were in process of coming in. But it was precisely this period that showed the revolutionary courage and developed that revo- lationary quality essential to a continuation of the struggle against the most ferocious attacks of the capitalist class. During the years when forced to an underground existence (as all Communist Parties must expect to be, not once, but often) our Communist Party welded together its first stable corps of leadership headed by C. E. Ruthenberg. Only after a difficult internal conflict were successful attempts made at legality, The year 1922 was a landmark in the history of the Party incsmuch as it brought about the final liquidation of the sectarian at- tempts to continue the underground existence in a period where legality was possible, From 1923 there was a pronounced departure from the past; a con- scious effort, though many times hesitating and unclear, on the part of the Party to emerge from its sectarian condition into a revolutionary Party engaging in mass activity. The farmer-labor campaign of 1923 created a Party crisis which, fed from other sources of differences, was accompanied by and intensified by an outburst of ffactionalism that continued, with varying degrees of intensity, over a period of six years, and is only now in the final process of liquidation. With the aid of the Communist International the Party has, during the past ten years, been steadily welded into more and more of a true Bolshevik Party. In spite of all difficulties the Party has of late been the leader in every class battle that has taken place in this country. Passaic, New Bedford, Paterson, the needle trade struggles, the bitter class battle of the miners, durggg the period just past, indicate the high lights of the struggle. Toc%$ the fierce conflict in Gastonia dramatizes the whole class struggle of this period in the United States. In this, the third period of the post-war crisis of capitalism, the United States presents all the features that are bringing about a sharpening of the class struggle in every country in the world; an intensification of its inner contradictions—an intense rationalization with ever greater bur- dens being placed upon the working class, the merging of the trusts with the government, every strike from its very inception taking on a political character involving a struggle against the forces of the capi- talist state. The fierce drive of the employers against labor, the in- creasing use of the most brutal forms of state power, the increasing fascization of the labor bureaucracy, makes clearer the class issues. This drive for greater capitalist rationalization is generating increas- ing resistance on the part of the working class. Born in war and revolution, as we enter the second decade of our |; existence, the danger of another world war is the central question of the day. Attacks are already being made against the Soviet Union, the Socialist Fatherland of the working class. At such a period the class lines are drawn even closer. Social reformism becomes an openly active agency ‘in preparing new wars; the American Federation of Labor bureaucracy is a part of the capitalist machine for suppressing the working class and aiding the imperialists to place industry in such a position it can quickly be changed from a peace-time to a war-time base. In such a period of tremendous accentuation of all inner and outer contradictions of capitalism, of sharpening class struggles, the revolu- tionary integrity of every. Communist is put to the test. It is pre- cisely at such historical moments that weaknesses expose themselves. It is by no means an accident. that in this period such unprincipled factionalists as Cannon finding no further place for their “careers” in the Party should go over, under the counter-revolutionary banner of Trotskyism, into the camp. of the enemy. Nor is it diffficult to see that such a period brings to the surface the treachery of the petty bourgeois politiciandom and adventurism of Pepper and Lovestone and their associated renegades, causing them to unfurl their own counter- revolutionary banner against the Communist International. It is im- perative that the Party be purged of all such opportunist and degen- erated elements in order that we may achieve ideological and organiza- tinal consolidation of our proletarian ranks for the mighty tasks that ! PARTY TONIGHT Weinstone to Speak | at Communist Meet Challenge to. “Rights” |Rally at Central Opera, House | William Z. Foster, member of the| Secretariat, of the Communist Par- lty of the U. S. A. and secretary of | the Trade Union Unity League; |Max Bedacht, member of the Party | |Secretariat, and William W. Wein ‘>. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1929 CELEBRATE 10TH 50,000 New Members by YARN OF SUICIDE ANNIVERSARY OF January I Is Goal of Big FOR COAL, IRON Drive Launched by I.L.D. lester, Bedacht and Campaign to Close with National Conference; Deny Barkoski Murder Gastonia Gives Impetus; Jakira in Charge To Embrace All Nationalities; Special Efforts to Be Made to Recruit Negro Workers A drive to increase the member-jagrees with the aims and constitu- ship of the International Labor De-|tion of the ILD. campaign of persecution against|their political affiliation, whether workers throughout the country has they are members of the American been started. |Federation of Labor, of the new Fifty thousand new members by|unions, of the Industrial Workers Jan. 1, 1980, is the slogan that has|of the World, of any other inde- been raised. The drive will close| pendent union, or whether they are vith the National Conference of the | unorganized. nternational Labor Defense Jan. 1.) All Nationalities. The purpose of this campaign is| The drive will embrace all strata That means that| fense by 50,000 in order to meet the members may join no matter what |stone, district organizer of the New| se nk York District of the Party and the |" hey Ue nae Sel ae [Communist candidate for mayor in| gividual and collective. [the forthcoming municipal elections,|" 9. To strengthen the organiza- | will be the principle speakers at the | tion tankhinoty of the TLD. | Tenth Anniversary celebration of | Situation Ripe. |the founding of the Communist! The events in Gastonia, the pow- |Party, tonight at Central Opera erful drive nationally and interna- Hovse, 67th St. and Third Ave. The meeting will sound a ringing|fense has instituted on behalf of challenge to the capitalist class and|the Gastonia strikers, A. Jakira, its social reformist agents, as the! who is in charge of the drive, yes- Communist Party enters the second 'terday pointed out, have paved the decade of its activity in a period of way for a mass I. L. D. Millions sharpening class struggle and war! of workers from one end of America | danger. to the other have now become ac- The history of the 10 years’ quainted with the aims of the ILD growth of the Communist Party |and its work. i from a sect to a leader of intense, The ILD is a non-partisan organ- in- development of a militant aggres-|in as members any person who is sive labor movement in America| willing to help in defense work and following the policies of class strug- Soviet Flyers, gle, gaining a revolutionary vision | land preparing to organize for the | | ffinal struggle for the overthrow of | | the em of capitalist wage- | Slav Fight the War Danger! Fight | capitalist. rationalization, with. its speed-up, wage-cuts, union-smashing. campaigns! Build the Trade Union Unity League, revolutionary center for militant industrial unionism! |Fight for the 7-hour, 5-day week, for a full system of social insur- ance! Fight the fascist terror, the | the terrific gale, which nearly ended social reformist agents of the cote disaster their triumphant Moscow jtalist class! Support the Gastonia |to New York flight, the four avia- | workers and build Workers Defense |tors of the Soviet plane, Land of DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, Sept. 26.—Undaunted by ; Committees! Join and build the | the Soviets, after refueling their Communist Party, leader of the | ship here, today prepared to hop for |working class! These will be the Seward, Alaska. ‘slogans raised at the rally, around! | which the workers of New York, in |the needle industry, the shoe fac- | tories, the metal shops, on the docks, Jin the food industry, will be mob- Though severely battered by the winds and waves, which nearly \wrecked it against the rocks as it arrived here Tuesday from Attu, the |most western of the Aleutian Is- jilized for struggle against the /lands, the plane proved to be un- [bosses and the boss-controlled gov- damaged. The flight from Attu, a | ornment. jdistance of 752 miles, proved to be one of the most difficult parts of the journey. The flight to Seward, about 700 miles from here, will bring the air- A program of revolutionary songs has been prepared, in which there will participate the Freiheit Sing- | |ing Society, the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra, and a proletarian brass|men to the American mainland. band. 'They expect to reach Seattle Sat-| INDUSTRIALIZATION. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 26.—The month of August showed a further increase of industrial production over July of 10.5 per cent. The first eleven months of the economic year of 1928-29 showed 23.1 | per cent increase of the total industrial production of the Soviet Union. Paper * i (Wireless By Inprecorr) | | | | NANKING DEFEATED. | SHANGHAI, Sept. 26.—Serious defeat of Nanking’s troops is re- | ported whereby Chang Fa-kwei captured 5,000 prisoners and two sleamers wwith much munitions, arms and provisions. Feng Yu- hsiang is reported edging troops southward, Garvey Conference in Jamaica Has New Line |Huiswood, Negro Organizer, Reports on Latest Trickery; Debates Garvey on Class Struggle “A flow of cheap oratory, that|the Daily Worker, he gave a de- lasted for 31 days, and to whick/ scription of the latest activities of thousands, assembled in the Gervey|the Universal Negro Improvement convention in Jamaica during the| Association, usually called the “Gar- month of August, had to listen, | vey Movement.” " ‘was one of the chief impressions Funds and the “President.” | tionally the International Labor De- | jand nationalities in the working lclass. “No mass meetings, no af- | fair arranged by labor. organiza- \tions, no International Labor De- |fense campaign locally, should be allowed to pass without an effort being made to recruit new mem- bers,” Jakira declared. “Special attention must be given recruiting new members from «2 Negro workers,” District and city committees and jlanguage secretaric: of the I.L.D jere compiling lists of labor unions and fraternal jorganizations which are to be ap- |proached for affiliation to the I.L.D. on a collective basis. Representa- jtives of the I.L.D. will be sent to to class battles, is the history of the ization, it was pointed out, and takes|these organizations at the earliest) tand, contradicting himself con- |possible moment to enlist them in \the organization. Undaunted by Gale, Hop for U.S. Mainland. Fly to Seward, Alaska; to.Hold Conference in Hamtramck, Mich.; N. Y Meeting Sunday Unalaska, urday or Sunday where a new motor|in denying the beating, or that he Imay be installed and the pontoons | | | | Dmitry Fufaev will be changed to wheels. After about four days in Seattle, the Land (Continued on Page Three) HALL TO REPORT ON NEGRO TASKS: IT. U. U. L. Conference | Here Oct 1. Otto Hall, Negro organizer, report on the tasks of the Union Unity League in the light of | the Cleveland Trade Union Unity Conference at the Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity Center | Irving Place and 15th St., Tuesday, Oct. 1, it was announced yesterday. William Z. Foster, general secre- tary of the T. U. U. L., will give a detailed report on the Cleveland \conference, while Henry Zaser will report on the applications of the ing to the trade union work of New York and New Jersey, Rose Wortis will report on the tasks of the women workers and | Harry Yaris will take the problems of the young workers. and other workers’ | | somewhat bored. | Lycester’s cross examinatino will be j resumed. meet to be held at Irving Plaza,| achievements of the Cleveland meet- | POLICE’ DEFENSE Described by Many Eye Witnesses Many Contradictions Miner’s Widow Makes} Charges in Court PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 26.— With coal nad iron policeman Lyces- cracking under the cross ex- amination, but still persisting in |his denial of the evidence told by |eye witnesses, today’s session of the ‘trial of three Mellon private police |for the murder of Jon Barkoski, | Pittsburgh Coal Co. miner, came to !a close. All three coal and iron policemen took the stand today to build their ter GASTONIA DEFENDANT, IN LETTER 10 COMMUNISTS OF FRANCE, EXPOSES PLOT Workers Fighting for Organization Against Bitter Exploitation; State Aids Bosses Successful Winston Salem Meeting; Another Mill Hireling Identified as Ella May Murderer CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 26—From the Mecklinburg County Jail, where, with 15 other tional Textile Workers’ Union members and organizers, he is held awaiting trial Sept. 30 on murder charges because the Gastonia strikers dared to defend their Workers International Relief tent colony last June 7 against a murderous attack by city police and mill gunmen, Clarence Miller has written to the Communist Party of France, which is leading the French workers’ protest against the legal murder contemplated in the SANDHOGS URGED |defense around the yarn spun by Attorney Pritchard to the jury early | this morning. Believing that it] would force the conclusion that Bar- | koski committed suicide to avoid jail | after stabbing Watts, a coal and| jiron thug, all three completely de-| jnied beating and torturnig the coal | di in their barracks, although admitting that Watts struck Bar-| koski in Imperial earlier in the day. | Contradicts Self. Watts, defiant and scared on the | tinuously on minor points, was sll rattled, causing the other two coal jand iron police to sweat, squirm and swear under their breath. When Pritchard bombastically told the jury that the “welfare of the employees of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. depends upon the order | that coal and iron policemen can jmaintain on its property,” Mrs. | Barkoski cried out, “But why did they kill my John?” and everybody in the court room jumped. Lycester |looked uncomfortable, but persisted |saw or heard any beating, saying that the only time he touched the |miner was when he carried him to ‘a chair for the doctor. He later | admitted twisting his ears a little ‘to “rouse him from his daze.” The jammed court room gasped at the brazen lies of the defense, while the well-dressed jury looked Court will be re- sumed tomorrow at 11 a. m., when PITTSBURGH, * | Pa., Sept. 25.— |The Commonwealth’s case against J. \w Lyster, Harold Watts and Fra Shapikis, the three Mellon thugs who with incredible brutality murdered Jon Barkoski, miner, on {Feb. 10, in the barracks of the | Pittsburgh Coal Co., at Imperal, Pa., is about completed. The two most important witnesses —Dr. Patterton, company physician (Continued on Page Two) LIONISTS ATTACK BRONX MEETING About 300 Jewish fascists last |night attacked members of the | Communist Party at an open-air meeting at Washington Ave. and Claremont Parkway, the Bronx, and beat up three workers. Although for a time the Zionists and social- ists had the upper hand, the com- mittee in, charge of the meeting re- organized their forces and continued the meeting. | NECKWEAR WORKERS | All neckwear workers are asked | to come to the office of the Daily TO ADOPT MORE MILITANT ACTION Urge Shaft Committee Be Organized An appeal to the striking sand- hogs was issued last night by the Building and Construction Section of the Trade Union Unity League, 26-28 Union Square, calling for mass picketing organization of shaft committees, an enlarged strike com- mittee and the formation of work- ers’ defense committees to defend the strikers. “As a result of the miserable con- hours and low wages forced upon the underground workers,” the state- ment points out, “over 1,000 of these workers have been on strike since Monday.” “The splendid response of these workers to the strike call shows their readiness for militant strug- gle. While the members of the compressed air workers’ union, working in these shafts are out on strike, two other unions, the plas- terers and the engineers, still keep their members on the job, betraying the workers on strike. This is only another instance of the strikebreak- ing policy of the American Federa- tion of Labor. Helped By Police. “The fact that the McGovern con- cern is being helped openly by Tam- many police, who protect the scabs and company gunmen in its brazen violation of its $44,000,000 contract the city officials are working hand in hand with McGovern against the strikers. This is a reward for the generous contributions of McGovern to the campaign funds of the bosses’ parties. “In view of this, the wrong pol- icy of some of the union officials and leaders in going around the back door of the Tammany and re- publican politicians is a policy which leads to a betrayal and to making the strike a political football be- tween the politicians of the bosses’ parties. “This policy can lead only to be- trayal of the strike and mislead the workers into the false belief that the bosses’ parties are in any way interested in helping them. Organize Shaft Committees. “Only by organization of shaft ditions, speed-up, fake bonus, long... with the city, is ample proof that | Gastonia case. Miller explains to the French workers the rea- sons for the mill bosses’ at- tempt to kill him and his fellow- workers. His letter, in part, is as follows Hand of the Government. “We have read in th. press of the action of your congress in express- jing a pri for our imprisonment and for the attempt to electrocute jus through the employment of cap- italist justice.’ We have also read of the action of the United States government official in refusing to accept the protest resolution pre- sented by your delegation headed by Comrade Marcel Cachin. The offi- cial refused to accept the protest on the basis of a technicality that it is the government of North Caro- }lina and not the federal govern- ment that is prosecuting us. The same kind of a legal technicality. only or rger scale, is being used us to the electric chair. government official failed to |say, though, that the federal gov- ernment, through its departments of labor and justice, is also part of ithe united front against us in Gas- tonia. “One of their officials, by the jname of Wood, played a prominent part in the early days of the strike in Gastonia by helping the basses to formulate their methods of strug- gle against us. The post office de- partment refused to carry letters that called on the workers to stop the attempt of the mill bosses to legally murder 13 of us and to save 10 more workers from long terms of imprisonment. Such is the ‘impar- tiality’ of the federal government. “In the last week the bosses have again resorted to terroristic meth- lods like those on June 7, when we were forced to shoot to defend our- ' selves. What They Fight For. “The latest attacks against the workers show the gains that our union has made amongst the tex- tile wor th southern sec- tion of United ates, Ration- ers of the alization of industry, speed-up sys- tem, 11 and 12 hours a day work, low wages from $6 to $10 per week, 1 le homes that owned by the capitalist mill owners and that are congregated into mill villages, are some of the hardships that the workers have to endure. The workers are revolting and fighting back, with the result that the union and the Communist Party and the Youth League are making stride sforward. The southern workers, who till recently in most eases had not even heard about a junion are now taking their place as a section of the militant American | workers. Worker-Freiheit Bazaar Committee, 28 Union Sq., Room 603, at 6 p. m. tonight. committees including all trades | working in and around the shafts | Big Mase Meetings. ean the tunnel workers win their| Despite the frantic efforts of the demands and improve their condi-\mill owners and county authorities tions. The Building and Construc- to prevent it, an enthusiastic meet- tion Workers Section of the Trade ling of 300 workers was held last Union Unity League, in contrast to/night at Winston Salem. © George the policy of the American Federa-| Saul, representing the International tion of Labor which is expressed by Labor Defense, was the principal the present leadership of the strike | speaker, and the workers assembled is the policy of the Trade Union passed a resolution unanimously de- Unity League which urges the /nouncing the attacks of the bosses’ strikers tq fight for the following black hundreds and the attempt of (Continued on Page Two) |the Manville-Jenckes prosecution to electrocute the Gastonia defendants. made there,” states Otto Huiswood, divector of Negro Organization in| the Communist Party of America. Huiswood is just back from Ja- maica, where he attended the con- ventions In an interview yesterday with history has imposed upon us. Only by cleansing our ranks of such “It was quite evident,” said Huis- One of the important questions wood, “that like other such conven>}on the agenda will be Ratengdte tions the only practical and tangible ate formation of workers’ defense thing would be the collection of committees to protect workers’ dem- 7 atl IE Sa ae neta: onstrations and institutions from point provisional president o! - the police, fascist: ‘ight wing- (Continued on Page Three) lee Piremee te aa OS, MERE | ‘Coney Island Mass Plenty of Eats at Daily and Freiheit Bazaar Oct. 3 to 6 Workers Prepare Varied Wares for Affair; elements will our fighting capacity be raised so that we can fulfill our role as the vanguard of the working class. It is a guage of our maturity that tonight, when we celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of our Party at the Central Opera House meeting in New York, the Party stands stronger than ever, more consolidated in its unity than ever before in its history and unqualifiedly in line with our Communist International. As we enter the second decade of the history of our Party it is not an exaggeration to say that in years soon to come the revolutionary wave that is now rising will engulf vast sections of the ruling class Meeting Tonight for the Gastonia Defense A mass meeting to rally support for the defense of the 16 Gastonia | workers, who again go on trial for} murder next Monday morning in Charlotte, N. C., will be held tonight food is like a wogon without wheels, the Japanese and Chinese workers, in addition to erecting booths stock- ed with Oriental wares such| as | carved ivory pieces, cigarette hold- |crs, hand painted kimonas and fans, have decided to put up an Oriental Honor Role, Sale of Tickets Stressed Knowing that a bazaar without|known but fully as palatable East- frankly & ern dishes will be prepared, while for those workers who prefer to gorge themselves on Italian cooking, there will be a booth piled high with spaghetti. The members of the various workers organizations which have | of the world and that the Communi: victories as well. the order of the day. ’ not only be able to record many revolutionary battles but revolutionary The building up of our Par.y as a mass Communist Party is on ist Party of the United States will at the Workers Center, 2901 Mer- jmaid Ave, Coney Island. The} |meeting has been arranged by the recently organized conference of al. restaurant for the four-day Daily pledged themselvse to take booths Worker and Freiheit Bazaar, which | at the bazaar are working feverish- opens in Madison’ Square Garden | ly in their spare time, turning out Oct. 3. wo | the vast store of goods to be offer- organizations of Coney Is-"_ Chop suey, show main and lepser| si (Continued on Page wo) win. tonight At the last minute the county of- ficails revoked the permit to hold \the meeting in the court house, and gave as their reason that it was a meeting plotting to overthrow the government. The meeting was held on the court-house steps, and, al- though it rained all day, the re- |sponse of the workers was splendid, |Many American Federation of La- |bor members were there, and these pressed their disgust with \the strikebreaking tactics of the | United Textile Workers. | Must Limit Challenges. There are rumors from the camp (Continued on Page Three) | JEWELRY WORKERS, Jewelry workers are asked te report at the office of the Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar Committee, 28 Union Sq., Room 603, at 6 p, m