The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 2, 1930, Page 4

oe Four A FEW HOU RS WITH aHE RED ARMY By MOSCOW (by mail)—July 10 in; the evening when a few of us fin- shed with our greet and answer ing of questions at meeting, number of Red Army men came over to the platfrom and asked that we come to their barracks tomorro’ morning. July 11 at 9 rived at the barrack: regiment of Azerbaighan Territorial Section of the Red Army. Upon entering the club fi a ub we find about’ two hundred Red Army me ernment in war prey Slavian comrade exposed th role of his government. I co show the role played } Imperialism in Far tion and in general w tions. Great cheering and en asm takes place at the end of our greetings. Now questions begin. “What sort .of army is in America?” “What is the r tween officers and privat capitalist army?” etc., At the end of quest from d ferent parts. of the hall one Red Army soldier after another rise to answer our greetings. They assure us that not only the ready to defend the against every kind of tack but at any moment call of international pro! at it is to ome to-help them in their strug gle against ‘their own im pe These come of the pe proletariat who during czarism were illiterate not-only politically but also ; in reading and writing. These same fF men now know and unde nd the jj. international situation in which the there ete, Red Arn Ur erialist at- tk Soviet.Wnion.finds itself and being But truly-an-army-of the international g proletariat give their prom to a fight against imperialism whenever called upon to do so in the interests of proletarian revolution. Aftér half a dozen rank and file soldie¥sSompleted thcir anzwers to us, the political commander of the regiment says. a few words. His words are sharp and clear. This t powerful individual who has been in * the ranks of the Bolshe many | © years prior to the October Revolu- © tion. Phis-man.who has been in mili-| F proletarian state since October, 1917. ¢ He puts before his comrades the v question they are in the Red Ar not only forymilitary purposes also here in the Red Army we must prepare the best workers for the col- c c A CHE given to these one begins to those who spoke must get t and down by dozens of Red / m begin to tary Servicé for the interests of the aca’ We enter a | in the proce: One ner, sets ap clean, the tion ar Red Army is to be thrown up into the « First comes he Jugo-S de. Then the glishma seconds there hesitat ned. this hesitation }¢ 3 nd I find myself flying in the air nd being picked up and thrown up a man. Now a group alongside of sing real fig! Red Army so! en. some ze We are pulled in with he A large clean dining ‘oom, plenty of bread, large plates} f soup, meat and potatoes and a lass of milk, a splenéid mcal. When that’s over we find ourselves in in the yard answering ques- ions. One cannot find words with which to 2xpress the feeling that} one lives through and one asks the question, how can the armies of the with this new power. Here | ™*"" lective, farms, the best technic! knowledge and as one of | workers*fér industry. The Red Arm) Agmy boys puts it himself: be and is in the forefront ranks of: “We are the class army of the Socialist ‘*construction of Soviet} world proletari lution.” Now Union... We will do all in our power, more than ever before, the revolu- to help “fulfill the Five-Year-Plan | tionary proletariat under leadership in four years. Cheers, singing, ends jof our Communist Pa: must clearly the meeting. Here one sees not sol-| show to the American working class diers butJinternationai fighters for|the danger of war before us, which ™ the proletarian revolution. s become a reality and under th- The meeting is closed. We are ner of our party rally the Amer- taken around the barracks to be /ican proletariat for the defense of shown the way the Red Army men /the Soviet Union, against American live. . Clean barracks, large, airy |imperialism and for a Soviet United} rooms, barber: shops, work rooms, | States of America!” Soccer Tourney This Sunday } The New Jersey Workers’ Soc- | \ cer League has finished its second successful season and will play its \ fing}.games as a special tourna- Ment o& Sunday at Ironbound Field, 1g The league cham-| Newark, N. J. spionship was won by the Muros) ontanes S. C. without losing aj ‘}single point. The second place was | J won by the Magallanes F. C. and) the third place by the Brazilian F. C. On Sunday the Magallanes F. C. will play its rival, the Bra- zilian F.C. The kick-off will be at 1p. m. and the game will be refereed by E. Otero, chairman of.the Work- | ers’ League. The second and main game wil be the league champions azainst the Workers’ A. C. of Perth Amboy, N. J. The Muros Montanes 8. C. however, must put up their be team against the Workers’ A. C., who are the winners of the Hunga- tian Workers’ Federation annual cup of New Jersey, if they want to keep paced clean. The second 3 ” game will start at 3 p. m. and Joe | Brownfield, chairman of the Work- Tekst Soccer Association, will be the | referee. At the last meeting of the | Jersey Workers’ League they de-| ided to send E. Austin, secretary and A. German, Jr., financia] secre- tary, to Cleveland, Ohio, as a dele gation for the National Convention of the Labor Sports Union of Amer- This tournament is arranged for the benefit of the delegation to ica. Cleveland. sual | am con- } “We” Fomeht for Billions (By Labor Research Association.) | Right now when readiness for war on the grandest scale ever known is being pushed throughout the capital- ist world, effective work in spiking the imperialist guns with the can be done facts contained in C. Hart- “Why We Fought.” “Cameron’s Chemical hed by International Pamphlets, it is a good book for workers to read in training for the class struggle Grattan summarizes and brings down to date the excellent job of debunking the gruesome conflict of 1914. America was heels over head in war activity before the for- ation on April 6, 1917; hat mal de 1 Sims was sent to ar- aval co-operation with hile America was still t peace with Germany; re-election campaign vf over with the kept us out of war,” tly they were working day e country into roposal route, are e points brought out. ng, however, are the | the economic con- | n slowly dragged} erica into the fiery furnace, onomics provide the dynamics ry,” says Grattan. “The on all fours with every d war is war in having an economic | chapters nections fi ation. Every reputable h | torian who has dealt with it regards | the dipiom: the propaganda, the | alleged aims and objects for fight- ing, as mere secondary structures based on the foundation of wmoney | a trade.” t I America would eventually | enter the war on the side of the allies, if they needed such assistance, was predetermined by one fact: The big bankers were pro-British by business and social connections, and | |had been so for years. T. W. La-| mont, of J. P. Morgan & Co., said: “Our firm had never for one mo- ment been neutral. From the very | Start we did everything that we could to contribute to the cause of the allies.” H. P. Davison, also of the house jof Morgan, declared: “Some of us America realized that this was our war from the very start.” Otto | Kahn stated that from August, 1914, \he took his “stand unequivocally with the allied cause.” | Charles Schwab made the Bethle- hem Steel Co. trol inside of five years. Diamond Match Co. was head of a central allied purchasing organiza- tion spending $10,000,000 a day— much of it in the United States. Since the British fleet controlled the seas, little to Germany. counts grew their sympathies. |German U-boat campaign, the sink- |ing of the Lusitania and the cooked- up yarns about Belgian atrocities, only provided “moral” excuses for plunging into bloodshed to safeguard these accounts. In the coming war the capitalists of America will send the workers to fight, not for old accounts, but for future trade and raw materials to exploit. Grattan, Vanguard Press, $2.50.) —SOLON DELEON. MINOT, N. D., Aug. | funds to unemployment at farmers’ picnics in this vicinity, on August 1, 2 and 3, place in Williston, N, D., on Augus' 2 Worker and Communist leaflets an: pamphlets are being distributed. On With the Struggle for Unemployment Insurance! Hardly had the war begun when | “one of the strongest | industrial allies of the British gov- ernment” by guaranteeing to Lord Kitchener that he would not sell con- Early the | next year E. R. Stettinieus of the| American manufacturers and business men could sell very Hence their to- ; tal accounts with the allies grew into the billions, and with their ac- The (“Why We Fought,” by C. Hartley DAKOTA FARMERS MEET TO PROTEST WAR PLANS 1.—Ella Reeves (“Mother”) Bloor is speak- ing against imperialist war and for J, | the transfer of all government war insurance An open air demonstration takes Hundreds of copies of the Daily DAILY WORKER, NEW Y ORK, § Se uEeY AUGUST 2, 1930 This is Ww hat the Negro Misicatloes Suonort Tabi Novel 1. in CZARIST SPIES ARE | PREPARING WAE | Negro and White Vfo kers! Fight ene Terror-of Bosses! poe ee LIKE KINGS JESTERS “By CYRIL BRIG CYRIL LIKE king’s jesters clowning it be- fore their imperialist masters, the Negro petty bourgeois “leaders” | i jare today indulging in the most fan- | |tastic antics in their frantic efforts to stem the rising tide of revolt} jamong the Negro masses and to de- |tract them from the Communist |Party and the revolutionary strug- gle it wages against lynching, jim- jcrowism and all forms of racial and economic oppression, against unem- ployment and imperialist war. Not only do these misleaders serve the bosses by deliberately at- tempting to cover up the economic nature of Negro oppression and by minimizing the lynching terror of | | t inflicted upon the working-class and particularly the Negro worker, but they go far astray tc set up fake issues with which to divert the |Negro masses from the struggle against imperialist oppression. Of these king’s jesters the one who no doubt receives the largest hand from his bosses for his strug- gle-diverting antics is Kelly Miller, {dean of liers and ancient prostitute intellectual and procurer for the bunch, of exploiters in control of the republican party. His latest stunt is a dramatic “open letter” in the Negro bourgeois press addressed to the national baptist convention which convenes this month in Chicago. With a mighty flourish of rhetoric and an asthmatic indig- nation he calls upon that body for “a ringing declaration,” a rousing resolution “that would reverberate round the world” and even, no doubt, into interplanetary space. And a ringing resolution against what? hy, against indifference to pro- hibition enforcement, if you please! Not a word of protest against the savage lynching terror and the ap- palling exploitation inflicted upon the Negro masses in the South! Not a word in defense of the hundreds of thousands of Negro workers and farm laborers thrown on the streets to starve and constituting of the eight million unemployed the sec- tion most bitten by hunger forced as they .re to exist on the verge of starvation even when employed! ot a wheeze in protest against the shameful humiliation inflicted by the imperialist United States Gov- 5 PO BOXING AAMMY MANDELL, of Rockford, Il, who ruled the lightweight division of the pro-cauliflower market, was speedily knocked off his throne by the aggressive young- ster, Al Singer of Bronx, N. Y. The show took place last week on Thursday, in the Yankee Stadium— the arena of fixed baseball games, and phony boxing matches. Singer’s first act was to set up the color line as additional security for his new laurels. With Singer wearing the light-' weight crown, the boxing racket will no doubt take on new life and bring in more money for the pro- moters. The workers, who usually are in the great majority at these professional bouts, will continue to look for work and curse this dam- nable capitalist system. But this is not enough. We must organize into councils of unemployed and organize our struggles for Work or Wages. t id * * Carnera, the over grown clown of the heavyweight boxing division, | is going to be deported. Not for his radical activities, no, but be- cause his permit to remain in this country has expired, and the cap- italist class, due to many of his phony fights, has decided that there and for the sake of the “game,” he should pe deported. States, takes good care to protect its interests and to keep up the illusions in the eyes of the work- | ers. Therefore Carnera is getting | his ticket to depart and leave the ernment on the Negro Gold Star Mothers! And, fo course, not a word parations for war and the scheme of the bosses to again send Negro workers to the slaughter for protec- tion of Wall Street profits and the defense of the very system under which they are oppressed. League causing anotker diversion and making a bitter mockery of the plight of the unemployed workers. This lustily crows at its success” in “solving” the unemploy- ment situation! i : hievement, its “unpre- the bosses, ignoring the tremendous | Tand oe . ah mass unemployment and suffering eet success? We give its own words: of two workers out of hundreds of thousands of Negro unemployed is sufficient excuse for the spreading of illusions of solutior. of the unem- ployment situation, of stabilization of the tottering capitalist system. end agricultural laborers who ral- lied on August First to the demon- strations lead by the Communist Party against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union gave crushing repudiation to this leadership of clowns and king’s jest- ers. its program for the Negro masses, of full complete political ity, ern Negro masses to have their own government in those sections where they form a majority, and by mobi- lizing the white masses in full sup- port of the struggles of the Negroes, the Communist Party can completely crush their treacherous, reformi leadership and win masses for the revolutionary strug- gle against capitalism. BRIGGS ~ in exposure of the imperialist pre- In the Negro bourgeois press for the same week, we find the Urban organization “unprecedented boss-controlled And what is its “In spite of the fact that no other workers have been hired, the Allis-Chalmers Tractor Company, true to its promise, gave employ- ment to two boys with the promise that they should learn the machin- ist trade...” For the Urban League, the hiring The thousands of Negro workers By constantly putting forward equal- of the right of the south- the Negro Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Kay- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. Ret fees a as Sharkey, Stribling, ete. in this division. Baseball. The Philadelphia Athletics look as if they are first place to stay. Not that the other teams are not good, but only because the Mack- men are a bit better. With players such as Simmons, Cochrane and Foxx and another trio consisting of Grove, Walberg and Earnshaw, the Mackmen are quite certain to remain in their position. In the National League the Brooklyn Robins, at this writing, are hanging on to the first position by a slim margin of two points. Will they hold it? Well the writer will not make any predictions since the Chicagoans and the Giants are too darn close behind them. In the position that they stand now it only taes one good game to change it. For all the writer nows this posi- tion may be changed when this comes out in print. If you shave anp money to bet, don’t bet, but donate it to the L.S.U. You're sure to get your money’s worth this way, since in bourgeois sports, the teams are liable to throw the game any time the graft is big ra L.S.U. Notes, * Well! Well! We're out to build the T.U.U.L. and get a member- has geen enough fakery from him), ship of 50,000 members in the, very near future. The L.S.U. also has a membership drive The capitalist class of the United! based upon the worers in the i trade unions and factories. What is needed now is closer co-opera- tion between the T.U.U.L, and the L.S.U. and we can be certain ‘ that we can reach our goal. game. to such experts in the art of ‘ u Do the young workers now out- New Edition PELLE THE CONQUEROR—By Martin Anderson Nexo (four vol- umes in one, $3.50); published by Peter Smith. By HELENE WOOLF. Few workers have time to read fiction but, when they do, they usu- ally find themselves sickened by saccharine super-fairy tales that never touch their lives. And so we cherish the few fiction classics of the class struggle that the past has given us. “Pelle the Conqueror,” with all its faults, remains an important book and one that the militant worker can read without disgust. It has faults. Who has time to read a 1,200-page novel? There are mo- ments of sentimentality. The issues | are not clear, because it is an epic of the trade union movement, with trade unionism as the panacea for all social ills, and politically and theoretically it is cockeyed. Pelle is introduced to the reader as a child laborer on a Danish farm. He becomes an apprentice shoe- maker, a shoemaker, a militant unionist, and goes to jail on a frame-up charge because of his union activities. But it is not Pelle who is the hero of this book. It is not the Danish worker, the labor movement, that dominates this more than 1,200 pages of novel (and we repeat, that it is a hell of a lot of novel). Poverty, unrelenting, in- evitable as the winters it makes hideous, stalks through the world mirrored by “Pelle the Conqueror” and claims all its inhabitants. Here is old age fighting starva- tion by feasting on the garbage heaps; childhood despoiled and pros- tituted long before it reaches adolescence. True, there are hints of a better future for the working class, but they are usually put in the mouths of madmen and cranks. It is not to this book that we must look for a clear-cut»analysis of cap- italist society. Do not think, however, that the novel is depressing. It is lively at times and always absorbingly writ- ten. It is realistic and does not, as do the works of the romantic Eu- gene Sue, heap horror upon horror until the agonies of the victims lose their reality and become funny, Well worth reading—if you have the time. side of the T.U.U.L. play bail, run, swim and box? Will they be brought nearer to the T.U.U.L., if the T.U.U.L., through the L.S.U., promotes these activities in its unions and also among the work- ers in the factories? Sure thing. Then lets roll up our sleeves and get to work. Beginnings are being made by the Food and Needle trade workers unions. The other unions should fall into line. Boys, the boxing and soccer sea- son will soon be here. Get in trim now and when it gets a little cooler enter one of the L.S.U. tournaments and show them what you can do. In regard to soccer, the best thing to do is to form a soccer team in your union or shop and join one of the L.S.U. soccer leagues. Fine comrades and competition there. ee Ss And how about long distance runs? Well for your information the L.S.U. is arranging a six-mile run around the Central Park to take place on Labor Day. This run will be_known as the Annual T.U.U.L. run. Get in your entry now and be the first one to have your name printed in this column next week. Ce ers | Workers sports must not only serve the workers to improve their health and general physical development but also to prepare the workers to be better able to fight in the front ranks of the working class. * * The New Jersey Workers’ Soccer League has just finished the sum- mer competition, with the Muros Montanes, F. C., coming in on the top of the standing. Out of 10 games played not a single point was lost by them. The second is the Magallanes with 14 points, and the Brazillian, F, C. on the third place .with 9 points. Al the three teams will get a silver loving cup. This was the’second season successfully finished by the Workers League in New Jersey. Before the league closes its season officially a final “rapid tournament” will be played at Newark, with all the teams par- ticipating in it. The final busi- ness meeting will be held at 88 Bruen St., at chairman E. Otero’s house, on Wednesday, July 30. The new season will be opened on the first Sunday in September. The beginning of the season will be marked with a very interesting com- petition, when the picked team of the Workers League will play the Soviet Union soccer team, which will visit the United States in the fall. The picked team of the work- ers league lately gained a very im- portant victory over the Metropoli- tan Workers Soccer League “All Star Team,” at Perth Amhoy, N. J. This was the first time, that the Metropolitan Workers have suf- fered a defeat in its existence. The league is a part of the Workers Soccer Association of the U. S. A. Final standing of the New Jersey | Workers Soccer League, * ‘ Chie 3 la | a e.e8 'M. Montanes F.C, 10 10 0 0 20 | | Magallanes F.C. 10 7 3 © 14) | Brazilian F.C. BO se Been dy, Workers A.C. 10 258 7 Gremio L.R. F.C. 10 38 6 2 6 German A.C. 280 4 10 % | visitor to the Fish committee hear- By VERN SMITH Is this Djamgaroff’s spy system? Is the “Union of the Sovereign’s People” that wide-spread royalist espionage service that George Djamgaroff boasted to the reporter Spivak that he controls? Djamgaroff is a type. He says | he is director of the A. B. C. News } service (a non-existent organiza- | tion). Immaculately and xpen- sively dressed, in fact, attired in as many colors as the lillies of the | field, sporting a gold-headed cane, Djamgaroff makes his income in ways that are concealed to the pub- lic. But it is known that he is subsidized by Mrs. Loomis, sister- in-law of secretary of state Stim- son, that he apparently has a repu- tation as an “expert on: Commv- | nism” among the big business ene- mies of the Soviet Government. He presents copies of weird’ charts, purporting to show the relations of various Soviet and Communist or- ganizations, photostated and of ex- pensive size, to the Fish committee. Probably he gets paid for this. Any way he advertises his stuff well, talks of “my 13 years investi- gating the Reds,” ete. Right in the Center. Furthermore, he is an honored ings. He sits in their secret ses- sions; he took part in the emer- gency secret session called hurriedly at noon on the last day of the com- | mittee’s meetings in New York at which the tactic of springing Djamgaroff himself and a fake) cheka member to identify Amtorg | officials as secret for Wagner has testified that he was the printer of the Whalen forgeries, and that | line of attack on the U.S.S.R. had collapsed. We Have the By-Laws. But Djamgaroff’s spy stem ? About the time he became active here, there appeared a secret or- ganization. It tried not to appear openly. But there is in existence, in good Communist hands, a little | book of its by-laws. | The name of the organization, | says the little book, shall be “The | Union of the Sovereign’s People.” It is sponsored by “Her Majesty, Grand Duchess Kyrra Cyrilovna.’ (Evidently a female relative of the pretender to the throne of Russia, the “Czar” Cyril. Propaganda. The’ aims, as given in this book of by-laws of the organization are: “To unite the Russian people who obey the will of Czar Cyril not sparing strength, property or life itself. To carry into Russian | masses in Russia and abroad the idea of obediance to his supreme loftiness and the ideas enunciated by the former Czar Nicholas. Section 10 of the by-laws says: “All of the actual members and members collaborators of the union must be registered into the corps of the I. A. and F. and also regis- tered in the Imperial civil service.” Now the initials “I. A. and F.” stand for “Imperial Army and Fleet.” And there is an imperial army and fleet. There is in all countries, financed or at least given aid and comfort by the capitalist government of those countries, a military white guard organization ready to be used as the vanguard: of the proposed war on the Soviet Union. Most of them are in the Balkans, where Mrs, Loomis is a frequent visitor, travelling as an emissary of charitable organizations which look after the Russian white guard refugees’ subsistence, The “whites” are fed and clothed, and kept in fighting trim. Mrs. Loomis, you remember, was found by John Spivak financing Djamgaroff, and doing it with the knowledge of secretary of state Stimson. Boast of 175,000. Just before May Day of this year, General Eugenie Karlovitch Miller, from his headquarters in Paris, boasted publicly that he had 175,000 in this army and fleet or- | ganization. In U. S. the eastern | from Maine, and a collaborator | adorned with photographs of 1 Russian meaniy cratic “Naked Tail”) and the western « name vision is commanded by Maj General V. A. Brendel. Brendel h the office of “Plenipotentiary His Imperial Majesty,” and Kolo hvostoff is a member of “Cza Cyril’s “Imperial Council.” Golokhvostoff was in frienc correspondence with senator Goi of Maine, Nelson, representati| Gould, is on the Fish committee. Draw Pay From N. Y. One battalion of the New Yc National Guard, Ninth Regime is made up of Russian white gus officers, and its barracks Czars of Russia, including Cy and decorated with the Russj royalist flags. Golokhvostoff called his whl guard killers to come out and hi the World War Veterans in th] anti-Communist and _ anti-la demonstration on May Day. TH were supposed to attack the wo! ers’ parade, and those white work in the Sikorsky airplane f tory had made double edged kni for service on May Day, but t! lost their nerve when they saw size of the workers’ parade. But the “Union” does not conf itself to military activity. It i propaganda and espionage fo: primarily, Section 16 of its by-l: says: “It is the duty of the emper people to pledge complete assista’ to the Czar’s advisors and the chi man of the union. They must cq municate to the chairman of union, ox to the person indicated him, all information they can se that is worthy of notice. “They must as well as poss help in the work of the unio: Russia by sending over in lett and by other means legitimist erature.” Furthermore, according to Sec! 18: “Organization and the entire tivities of the union may be expo to outsiders only in so far as is ¢ sidered necessary by the presic of the union, for the benefit of cause of the Czar and depending local conditions. “The Emperor’s people wn | know how to carry on their without undue publicity.” It is pretty clear what his “un is. It is the undercover stool pig and propagandist wing of the } sian white guard army mainta on the soil of capitalist states the capitalists and their gov ments, as chief gunmen when workers of U.S.S.R. or the wor| of the capitalist states are to br tacked. It is naturally a for mill, for the Zinoviev letter, the loff, and Whalen forgeries show, gery and slander to be one o: chief weapons. Djamgaroff probably refers to] “anion” when he boasts of his ~ ist spy service. Djamgaroff, b; own admission to Spivak, and p! of other evidence, is working in glove with Whalen, Ralph Ei of the National Civie Feder: Matthew Woll (its acting pres’ and vice-president of the Ame! Federation of Labor) and wil host of U. S. officials from} Stimson family down to various} ators and representatives, nat also with the police. And Djamgaroff gets at some of his money from Mrs, L is, sister-in-law of the secreta state. 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