The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Entered ax ’sxecend-class mat rat the Post Office at New York, N ander the act of March 3, 1879. Vol VI., No. 193 y except Sundsy by The Comprodaily Pab! 26-28 Union Square, bel N. ¥.<Sg>21 New York City, _NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 19, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall. $6.00 ver year. FINAL CITY EDITION CONTINUE AND SPREAD THE OIL TRUCK DRIVER STRIKE Case F Points Out Manville- Jenckes : Murderous: Plot on Strikers Defense in Gastonia Our Party United for the | Comintern The Plenum Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States, just ‘concluded, liquidated in the Party orientation all programmatical formulations of political misconceptions and errors held prior to the Address of the Executive Committee of the Communist Intenational to the American party. ulated the line of the Party in accordance with the line of the Commu- nist International as emboied in the thesis of the Sixth World Congress and of the Tenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Commu- nist International: it set the Party into motion on the road toward-a Communist mass Party of action. The years of factional struggle within our Party led to organiza- tional and ideological corruption. Unprincipled factionalism is in itself the outgrowth of petty bourgeois menshevist and anarchist conceptions, and cannot but breed further anti-Bolshevism. The sharpening of the crisis of capitalism in this period increases the pressure of bourgeois ideology upon the working class. The stronger the hard facts of capitalist economy run up against the insoluble con- tradictions created by them, and the greater the conflict between the profit interests of the duling class and the needs and interests of the proletarian masses, the greater becomes the ideological pressure of capi- talism as a counteracting measure. By this means the capitalist class is attempting to prevent the class struggle from taking clearcut class forms in the shape of a revolutionary struggle for power. This pres- sure of bourgeois ideology found a lever in the internal situation of our Party. It manifested itself in the attempt to reshape the line of the Party from the Bolshevist line of the Communist International to the menshevis t and social democratic line of the international right wing. :he Sixth World Congress foresaw and clearly analyzed very clearly this development in our Party and in the Communist Interna- tional. It directed the attention of the International and of our Party to this danger with the insistent warning that the “main danger is the right danger” and must be fought. In our Party this right danger has developed into its highest form. ‘st of all, it found exponents in the highest cadres of the leadership, setondly it found a party torn by factional strife and bur- dened by a low ideology, and, thirdly, it made use of illusionary con- ceptions prevalent in the American vw ing class as a result of the peculiar conditions of development of American capitalism. Because f all of these onditions, the right danger had found its expression in’our Party in-miisconceptions and in errors ristributed -thoughtout the Party and accepted and committed by all sections and groups within the Party. But because of the deeprooted factionalism, the insistent warning of our international leadership in resolutions and letters to our Party were disregaded or factionally exploited. This resulted in a sharpening of the factional struggle. Mut the need of the hour was uniting the Party in an effort of bolshevist self cleansing and of revolutionary preparation for the tasks of the third period of the post wa crisis of world capitalism. The only answer given by our Party to these warnings of the Communist International was, on the one hand( a definite attempt to introduce the theory of exceptionalism into the concepts of our Party and, on the other hand, the attempt to use the right danger as a justification for factionalism. The Plenum of the Central Committee was confronted with the task of finally and definitely likuidating the analytizal and theoretical base of all of these manifestations of netty bourgeois ideology within the Party. This task was considerably facilitated by the preceeding inner Party campaign based on the Communist International Addre: In spite of many serious shortcomings of this campaign, it was cor- rectly directed against those bourgeois conceptions and theories which had penetrated the conceptions and theories of our Party. The Plenum could .therefore without great difficulties reshape and readapt the Party line in conformity with the line of our International Party, the Comintern. The major assault of the right winy of our Party against the line of the Comintern was based on the coni¢htion that the international crisis of capitalism does not teuch American capital and that there- fore the conclusions of the Sixth World Congress of the Comnitern con- erning the perspective of strugles does not and cannot apply to the United States. The analysis of the Plenum of the Central Committee takes up this contention as a manifestation of the pernicious theory of excep- tionalism. It shows that #he very analysis of the crisis of world capi- talism given by the Sixth World Congress describes the crisis of Amer- ican capitalism and all of its characteristics when it describes the crisis of world capital. This risis is haraterized by a tremendous expansion of the productive forces. This expansion is brought about by methods of ever-intensifying exploitation, thus sharpening the class struggle. It also takes place simultaneously with the same process in the whole capitalist world thereby increasing and sharpening the friction created in the mutual quest for markets. Aside from this, the markets cannot and do not expand in the same ratio as the productive forces and capa- cities of present-day capitalism do. The result is an insoluble con- tradiction manifesting itself in rapidly sharpening class antagonisms, in intensification of the class struggle, in feverish preparations for war. All these signs of the third period of the crisis of world capital- ism are present in the most intense form in the present situation of American capitalism. sharpened by the world-dominant economic prosition of American capi- tal and by its emperialist expansion. Aside from this evident inclusion of American capitalism in the crisis of world capitalism and in the specific form of this crisis in the third period, the anaylsis of the Central Committee also finds clear evidences of the extreme shakiness of the present “hockonjunkture” business boom) of American capital. It points to the phenomenon recognized by the capitalist analysts, of the disproportion not only of the productive capacities and the markets but of the actual produc- tivity (output) and the needs of the markets. This clear sign of over-production foreshadows the coming of a cylical crisis and leads (the Central Committee) to the conclusion that the present period is an immediate pre-crisis period for American capitalism—aside from the general crisis of world capital which includes Amreia. The very pre-crisis character of the present economic situation of American capitalism intensifies the onslaught of Amerian capital against the wage and living standards of the workers, thus intensifying the ef- forts of rationalization upon the workers. The immediate perspetive, therefore, is: rapid acceleration of the process of radicalization, in- «tensification of the resistance o the workers against rationalization, expansion and development of the offensive actions of the workers, against rationalization and against capitalism itself. The clearest expression of this inherent contradiction of capital- ism which is the essence of its present general crisis is presented by the nidustrial development of the South. All of the positive advances of capitalism on the road toward a complete industrialization of the South are more than negated by the proletarianization of large masses of Negroes and whites in the South, by the rapid radicalization of | these masses, by the ouslaught which this proletarianization and radi- calization produces against the old ad deep-rooted racial and religious yrejcdices in the South, ete. The Plenum therefore came to the con- c.usion that the industrializa ion of the South does not only not rep- This intensity is not only not weakened but is | The Plenum reform- | | Workers! Take Conia of the Oil Strike! Immediate spreading of the strike of the oil truck drivers to other lines of transportation, to the longshoremen, to other truck drivers, pump men, garage men and the men at the ffilling stations—into the garages so that scab oil shall not be used there, and into the refineries at Bayonne and other points—this is the way to victory, the only way to win the eight-hour day and time and a half pay for overtime for the men now out. The present strike is hitting the Standard Oil and its allies such a painful blow, is so symptomatic of the rising revolt of the workers against exploitation, that every force: scabs, thugs, city thrown against it Whalen’s Tammany police and the police commanded by the re- publican administration in the Fourteenth District of Brooklyn, are cooperating with hired gunmen of the companies. The officialdom in 18 locals of the teamsters’ union (to which the strikers belong) are preventing the workers from .joining the striking truckmen. The of- ficials of the International Longshoremen’s Union order back to work the longshoremen who struck spontaneously on “our docks yesterday against handling scab oil. And a vicious, lying campaign has been con- ducted on the front pages of all papers, to try and convince the strikers their fight is lost, anc that their ranks are breaking. The “socialist” party gangsters and thugs, used throughout the needle trades fight, are placed at the disposal of the companies for strikebreaking puvposes. Now is the critical time. The workers have shown they know how to fight and want to fight. To them we say, go on and fight! Break through the barriers of union officialdom, spread the strike! Win the demands, including recognition of the union. But to do this, the strikers must take over the strike. They must form united rank and file strike committees, including representatives of all the men in the garages, on the docks, also other truck drivers, that are needed for victory. They must join the strike over the heads of the union officials who are betraying them. Follow the lead of the Trade Union Unity League, which is holding mass meetings in the strike zone. Show that you realize the role of the capitalist political parties by voting the Communist ticket on elec- tion day. A Communist on Witness Stand In the courtroom at Charlotte, and ringing beyond its walls to the ears of the entire working class, the spokesmen for the moment of American capitalism voice a howl of feccist reaction, appealing to all that is backward and base, to justify if possifle with a veneer of tradi- tion, capitalist class tradition of “patriotism” and “religion,” the simple and clear fact that the mill barons and the government, more than ever blended as one force in their fear of the rising proletariat of the South, ery out for a verdict of capitalist class vengeance against seven representatives of the working class which is challenging its power. But the working class and its vanguard fighters, the Communists, do not flinch at the conflict. No, they glory in the opportunity to use the sounding board of the courtroom to convey a real Communist, a real proletarian challenge to the fascist reaction, knowing that only by so doing can the proletariat receive the enlightenment that equips them for struggle to victory. Such was the clear-sighted attitude of Comrade Edith Saunders Miller when the inquisitors of capitalism raved against Communist prin- ciples when they had this working woman on thé witness stand. When questioned about the use of force and violence, in revolutions, she stated that, in the future as in the past, such historical change will be neces- sarily accompanied by force of class against cla: While the capi- talist lawyer tried to bring out Communist principles in order to prejudice the jury against her defendant husband in the dock, she had no hesitance in asserting and emphasizing the fact that she was con- yinced that the government, including that court, is a creature of capi- talism and serves only the capitalist interests. Nor did she hesitate to declare her disbelief in the superstition of religion in the center of “fundamentalist” ignorance, upholding the scientifie view held by all Communists that mankind is master of its own destiny with no room for god, angels and devils and that no threats of hell or hopes of heaven, but a social ethic, was the only consideration shaping her testimony. The capitalist lawyers sought to arouse the minds darkened by its superstitious teachings against the defendants. This Communist work- ing woman sought to tear off the blindfolds of religion and capitalist ideas from the masses. In so doing she did her Communist duty as will be proven by the spread of Communist influence among the prole- tariat of the South. She did not accept the opportunist conception of trimming principles for some supposed illusory advantage, but accepted the basic fact that the struggle in the courtroom is a struggle of class against class and upheld the principles of all Communists, the van- guard of the working class. resent a “new industrial revolution” but rather creates a new and formidable base for the proletarian revolution in the United States. With this perspective before it, the Party must mobilize all avail- able forces. The bolshevization process must be hastened by making the whole Party conscious of its overwhelming importance. The mob- ilization and development of revolutionary prletarian consciousness is the mos tformidable weapon against the right danger. This danger lurks behind petty bourgeois lack of confidence in the proletarian masses; it manifests itself in the Party in the form of defeatismism; it appears in the form of white nationalism; in resists the rooting out in the Party of the last remnants of federationalism and tries to elude Party discipline; it clnigs to factional conceptions, suspicions and practices; in short, it tries to inject its paralyzing poison of op- portunism into the Party in connection with all political and organiza- tional problems. The Plenum of the Central Committee made it clear to the Party that though the programmatical crystallization of right opportunism in the form of Lovestoneism was defeated, yet the right danger remains and must be fought with revolutionary determination. The Plenum uncovered the purely bourgeois character of the theory of primacy of the outer over the inner contradictions. By denying the simultaneous sharpening of class relations on the one hand be- tween capitalists and workers and on the other between the different national groups of imperialists, and by maintaining that the sharpen- ing of relations between these imperialist groups as caused by ration- alization and mechanicalisation of the processes of production pro- ceeds without at the same time causing a sharpening of the class | struggle, the opponents of the line of the Comintern deny the funda- mental crisis of capitalism. With this denial they want to prevent a mobilization of the Party for struggles and support a reformism and opportunist program for the Party. The struggle against the right danger {s an integral part of the struggle against war, The rirht danger is not an abstraction and x police, press | and socialist and trade union labor lieutenants of capitalism are being | | Jimison pleaded for the defense No Right o' of Seif Defense Should Have Allowed Massacre |State Argues 'Dean of Carolina Bar Makes Appeal to Lowest | Racial, Sectional, Religious Prejudices CHARLOTTE, C., Oct. 18.—The trial is rapidly near- ing its close. With es final pleas of Flowers for the defense jand Carpenter for the prosecution this afternoon there remains | only the court’s charge to jury. Then twelve men will retire to “weigh the evidence” and jreturn a verdict. If convicted, the seven defendants face jail | for terms which may be as long as thirty years for daring to challenge the power of the North Carolina mill owners. Yesterday Clyde Hoey and Jack Newell demanded the jury | | send the defendants to the penitentiary for second degree mur- \ der. Johnson McCall and ed the two da oratory for the Thaddeus Adams appealed to prosecution with a last demand that ree aey 4 ree aien: | Manville-Jenckes be avenged. e | In these ffinal arguments to the | E. T. Cansler delivered the jury the prosecution and the defense | Speech for the state and Tom each had six hours time divided be- tween four speakers each. Cansler is “dean of the North Carolina bar.” Whatever large fee | (Continued on Page Three) this morning. This afternoon Flow-| ers gave the final argument for the defense and Solicitor Carpenter end-| START FRAME-UP ON WINDOW MEN While the strike of 2,000 window cleaners spread further throughout the city yesterday, Tammany Police, 100 of whom have been specially re- tained by Chief Whalen to break the strike in accordance with the wishes of the employers’ association yester- day, commenced frame-up proceed- ings against two active strikers ar- rested a sthey were leavinug a meet- 66 E. YOUTH MEET FOR MILL STRIKERS The trial at Charlotte is a revel- ation to workers of the South and for the first as tools in the hands of the time the role of the being shown to them, de- ional elared J. Secretary of the International Labor } Louis Engdahl, Nz Defense yesterda; ing at the youth evening. Speak- mass meeting for | ing at Manhattan Lyceum, Gastonia defense and relief, at Man- {sone St. hattan Lyceum, Engdahl, who has | Members ~! t he Window Cleaners’ | just returned from North Carolina, | |Protective Union which is leading the walk-out, the two are Peter Darck, former secretary, and busi- ness agent Peter Lahowit. \ | The charge against both is felon- | ious assault. Bail was not set as this edition of the Daily Worker went to press. Attempted described he methods used to keep the Southern workers enslaved to the mill barons. Oher speakers were Binny Green, who told of tie condition children of the textile workers and ho wthcy have to leave school to go to work in tie mills, Ben Wells, Southern organi.2r, who Was sev frame-ups have been tried before against Lahow One ly beaten by a mill bosses’ mob; had collapsed when he rested G™ ert Green, District Organizer of in the window washers’ ke two |the Your.; Communist League, and nders Miller, chao Ss or- years ago. Edith Se While the Manhattan y ganizer in Gastonia. Harry Yaris, @--aers Em: ‘zyers’ Pr ary of tre New York Youth sociation is freely .sing thugs Conference for Gastonia pe eal ‘and Relief, was Chairman. | (Continued on Page Tw) TUUL Must Lead Workers of South Against AFL Reaction “The extent to which the Ameri-|stone’s statement emphasizes. can Federation of Labor will be able| The text follows: jto fool and betray the workers in| In the New Orleans and Tennessee | the South depends to a large extent | strike w' 1 the militia, police and (upon the activities of the Trade |Union Unity League,” Jack John- the strikers \ <2 the workers tried stonee, nationa lorganizer of the to defend themselves against these League, declared in a statement yes- | attacks, Green issued an official |terday on the much-publicized “or- statement condemning the worker: of the | company thugs were used against | Mill Bosses’ Presectitors RANK AND 1D FILE | ITSELF Tell Jury Strikers Have. MUST CAPTURE CONTROL; DISREGARDING OFFICIALS Because Officers Were “Doing Sacred Duty” iTrade Union Unity i tee eague Secretary Finds Men Ready to Fight; Thugs 7 Throw Him Out Garage Workers, Aid; BU Longshoremen, Reactionary Officials Order Them Back Eager to TIN. That the rank and file has lost its last vestige of confidence in the A. F. L. officialdom is again proven by the attendance at the “general membership meeting of the Garage Workers’ and Polishers’ Union, held last night in Royal Hall. out of a reputed membership of 15,000. * * | “Form rank and file com | your own hands at once!” {of the gasoline truckmen, over ‘the sabotaging “leaders” lof the Teamste s’ NEGRO WORKERS)’ HAIL PARTY FIGHT | { Against Segregation; Mass Meet in Bronx Thousands of New York workers |gathered at two mass meetings |night to hear the program of the Communist Party i nthe municipal election expounded by leading Party candidates. “Full racial, economy for the jslogan greeted by fro w orkers who 1 and political Negro!” was the hundreds of Ne- pated en- at St. Luke’s soc 30th 1s denunciation of the bitter exp':itation of the Harlem] Negro workers, the death-traps they | are forced to live in by blood-suck- ing landlords, and the vicious sys- te mof race discriminat:on which {chains them to the degrading work of miserable wages, Cc unist can- (Conti Two) LAMONT IS FOR ‘NORMAN THOMAS Oe Tanga son of Thomas Lamont, partner of J. P. Morgan, oe Rey. Henry Emerson Fosdick of the Union Theological Seminary and pastor of the Riverside church, are the most recent supporters of Norm an ‘Thomas. These represen- sof ‘inance, capital and the yesterday endorsed the So- candidate for mayor. The addition of Lamont and Fos- |dick brings the number of the “Nor- man Thomas non-par' n commit- tee” to 661, all capita S, preachers and intelectuals. The committee |does not include a single worker. | Among those coming to the sup- St Ly rae drive into the South by | blaming them {-r the violence, ab- Port of Thomas are members of the the A, F. |solving the | Yet, with no million dollar fund from all blame. and “nowhere to raise such a sum,” | organize te southe:n workers by | the T. U. U. L. is determined to or-| the A. F. |ganize the southern workers, John- fepinted on Page Three) cowardly eannot be combatted abstractly. The correct solution of the problems of organizing the unorganized, of building and bolshevizing the Party, of winning the confidence and leadership of the masses ni the daily | struggles, of making the Party the rallying center of and the leader in all anti-capitalist activities of the proletarian masses, in unhesitat- ing and merciless political self-criticism, lies the solution of the problem of struggle against the right danger. The correct application. of the decisions of the Sixth World Congress, of the Tenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International and of the last Plenum of the Central Committee, therefore preposses o detailed analy- sis by the District committees of the Party and the working out of a definite plan of action. In this plan of action the proletarianization of the Party, its setting roots in the working masses by a speedy multiplication and activization of shop nuclei, must take the form of immediate Party building and recruiting campaigns. This plan of action must give immediate programmatical substance to the political problems which confront the workers in the different parts of the country as a result of their growing offensive against rationalization. The Plenum of the Central Committee endeavors successfully to make the third period of the post-war crisis of the capitalist world a living conception for our Party and to have this conception reflected in tightening the lines of the Party organization as well as in the in- | creasing extent and purposefulness of its activities, A bureaucrats | The ¢: ampalen to | 1. was determined by | Continued on Page Three) ARREST WORKERS HERE BY HUNDRED | Today, practically one decade after the Palmer Red raids, the United States authorities are cele- brating the occasion with a wave of $ sweeping the land. ion charges fly thick and fast from the lips of the profit-pa- triots who fear the growing work- jers’ protest against unemployment, | (Continued on Page Three) BUILDING TRADES FRACTION A special meeting of aff Party members of the Building and Con- | struction industry will today, Saturday, Oct. 26-28 Union Square. | building of ‘he Trade Union Unity take place 19, 1 p. m. at | Plans for the! Nine workers were present, * “Continue and spread the strike!” mittees—take the situation in “Pumpmen, filling station workers, garage workers, truck drivers and longshoremen must immediately join the struggle the heads of the A. F. of L. lattice who, are betraying all of you!” These were the militant slogans raised at Royal Hall where of Gas and Fuel Drivers’ Local 553 International had called a belated strike ®meeting yesterday afternoon, These were the rallying calls hurled in the faces of labor fakers mouthing defeat and advising ffighting workers to make the best of a vicious betrayal. Strikers Militant. ~—Copies of the Daily Worker and T. U. U. L, leaflets, spurring the men on to unite all forces for victory, were distributed broadcast through the hall. Militants, speaking on the floor, after the official meeting end- ed demanded the formation of rank [and file committees to go down to the Pratt Plant of the Standard Oil and pull out the small number of strikers who, having lost all confi- ‘dence in the official misleadership of their struggle, and stampeded by boss propaganda in the capitalist press into believing that their cause has been lost, have gone back to work. Fakers Attack TUUL, Daily. The officials answered with a blatherskite attack on the Daily and the new fighting trade union center, which with the Communist Party have been consistently exposing the corrupt tactics of the A. F. L. mis- leaders, urging the strikers to break through tbe »arriers of union of- ficialdopr d spread the strike. Knoy* .at the drivers were in a moo vake the lead of the mili- tants, ne officials, to crush the re- bellion, called up gangsters and threw out of the hall Secretary Pow- ers of the Metropolitan Area organ- ization of the T.U.U.L. Continuing to sabotage rank and effforts to spread the strike, A L. dictators on the Transporta- tion Trades Council, representing 27,000 waterfront workers and team- sters, ruled out the demand of the membership for a ban on all scab- driven trucks and all trucks pow- ered with scab gasoline at a meet- fil ing Thursday. Action was “de- ferred” until Monday. “We are waiting to see what happen be- fore taking any drastic action,” M. Lacey, president of the union, told capitalist reporters yesterday. More Betrayals. “Herman Cohen, president of the Garage Workers’ Union, with a membership of 15,000, who was forced earlier in the week to an- nounce that if the fuel drivers’ strike was not settled by today, the union would call a sympathetic walk-out, drew the promise late Thursday by saying: “This does not look like the opportune time for action.” Bess Double Crosses. The Ace Petroleum Co., an inde- pendent distributnig agency, which signed up with the Teamsters Union officials during the strike some days ago, yesterday repudiated its agree- (Continued on Page Two) ILLINGIS MINERS JAM CONFERENCE (Special to the Daily Worker.) WEST FRANKFORT, IIL, Oct. 18.—The coming hearing on the in- |League and other very important | junction obtained by the Fishwick ‘questions will be discussed (Continued on Page Three) .