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

Page Four Tupissed by (We Semprodaity Publishing ar NY teres DAIWORE York Daily, Control ok N ¥ THE SLOGAN OF SELF- DETERMINATION By R. BAKER. the United States are jected national minor ion or the extra ex es by the whit South is the politica “Jim This opp: on expresses rms of segregation, dis of the most elemental The political and ession of the Negro masses in Ame) ns used by the American bourg ain a definite end, the end of ex profits or extra-profits from the toil of the Negro masses. The exploitatior the Negro toiling masses is ‘more merciless nd brutal and mere intense and far reaching than that of the white proletariat thanks tc the social and political subjection of the Tr> fact that the political a ights. gro ma J social oppression of the Negro masses is en forced primarily by extra legal measures, such nob violence and other forms of istrates that the white ruling America has found an effective sub- direct police and military subjuga h is openly and brutally utilized in and semi-colonies. egro people of America have at no ordinary elementary “bourgeois ghts which the American bourg- eoisie was forced to grant to the white toil- ing masses after a series of sharp struggles. The bourgeois democratic rights to universal suffrage, the right to be elected to public offices, freedom of speech, assembly and pres: the right to bear arms, the right to free public education, the right to be considered innocent until found guilty by jury of equals, and so on Needless to say the white workers are being deprived of all these rights gradually anid systematically until today most of them are only formal rights on paper. These rights, known as bourgeois democratic rights, are today denied to the oppressed na- tional minorities, and the colonial peoples of the entire world. The national revolutionary movements in the colonies and of the various national minorities are aimed against the im- perialists in a revolutionary struggle to achieve these rights as well as to end the super-ex ploitation exercised by the imperialists. In this respect, the liberation movement of the Negro people is a national revolutionary move- ment. The Negro people for over 200 years have been the chattels and the property of a small class of Southern slave owners. Although the Negro slaves were freed during the Civil War as a military measure against the Southern land owners, the slave system of labor was historically doomed to perish through the to power of a new class in America, the capi- talist class, which required a system of wage labor as the basis of exploitation. The Civil War was actually the cofpletion of the bour- geois revolution in America, the final struggle between the capitalist system of exploitation and the feudal system of exploitation based on slavery. After the Civil War the Negro people were made citizens of the United States and were given formal political and social equality. The Negroes actually enjoyed these rights for a comparatively brief period, while. the North ern capitalist class used them as the social base of their dictatorship, over the Southern landlords, immediately following the Civi) War. The military dictatorship of the North. ern bourgegisie over the Southern landlords lasted but a short period of time and soor peace was established between the Southern landlords.and the Northern bourgeoisie. Th condition for their alliance of the reunion was the continuation of the reaping of super-prof- its from the Negroes, unmolested by the North- ern states. In order that the super-exploita- tion of the Negro masses could continue to the same degree as before the Civil War, that is, during slavery period, it was necessary that the Negro people be deprived of the political and social rights which were granted to them by the constitutional amendment, immediately after the Civil War. “This was accomplished as lynchi mi without any “formal” change in the legal status | of the Negro as guaranteed by the constitu- tion. By a gentlemeit's agreement that constitu- tional amcndments 13, 14, 15, granting the Negroes political and social equality were ig nored. The Negroes were to learn that all political and social rights contained in the con- stitution of the white exploiters remain so many phrases on paper unless guaranteed by the. armed forces of the state. Eventually the position of the Negro toiling masses be- came the same as before the Civil War. The official “black snake” and the six shooter, shot gun and the blood hound were replaced by the unofficial Ku Klux Klan, the Knight Riders, white terrorism and vicious forms of segregation and discrimination. The fact that during the Civil War the Negroes learned to use the rifles of the Northern Army and tasted for ever so short a period their brief victory over the Southern slave drivers only made the post war terrorism agairst them more vicious and more terrible. Today the position of the Negro farmer is not better socially, politically, or economically | than before the Civil War. Today the Negr farmer is tied to the soil of the white land- lord. He. has no rights which the landlord must observe, The vicious system of segregation and op- pression enforced by mob violence, terrorism and lynching holds the Negro toiling masses in -a vise-like grip, under the heel of the white exploiters more effectively than the military occupation in colonial countries. Although the economic roots of the political and social oppression of the Negro people is located in the “black belt” of the South where segregation, discrimination and terrorism is practiced in the most vicious forms, the Negro toilers who move into the industrial cities and migrate to the North are unable to escape from the vicious terror of the white exploit- ers’ oppression. Super-exploitation, although principally based on the Negro peasantry, is practiced on the entire Negro toiling masses, The political and social oppression, although originating in the South, follows the Negro toiling masses to every part of the American empire. The Negro people, although exploited more | shly and brutally than the white proletarigt feel their political and social oppression as their most pressing grievance against the white imperialist masters. Especially is this the case when they struggle to improve their | economie conditions and discover that all the forces of the state and the white masters’ ter- rorism are turned loose against them as the deadly reminder of their position as social and political outcasts. The Negro people feel their political and social oppression keenly and sharply ¢ day of their lives, during work and after work. The Negro people are a potential revolu- tionary dynamite in the vitals of American imperialism. This mighty and potential revo- lutionary force must be directed into channels of struggle against American imperialism. The main political demands of Negro toiling mass- es today are fully social and political equality. It means the right to all “bourgeois demo- cratic” rights for which the oppressed and ex- ploited national minorities and colonial peoples of the entire world are fighting today. The right to self-determination is the con-, tinuation and the logical expression of the right to full so-ial’and political equality. The right of self-determination means the guaran- tee of achievement and the safeguarding of social and political equality. In this respect the liberation movement of the Negro masses is essentially the same as the liberation move- ment of the Indian toiling masses, the Chinese, the Philippines and so on. While the position of the Negro toiling masses in America is es- sentially similar to the position of the op- pressed peoples of the colonies, it is different insofar as its revolutionary struggle to achieve political and social equality and the right to self-determination can only be accomplished by a close alliance with and the support of the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat against the common enemy, the American im- perialists. The Negro people alone cannot achieve either social or political equality nor the right to self-determination. In the strug- gle against the common enemy, the American imperialists, they must make an alliance with the revolutionary proletariat of America. To this end the American proletariat must recog- nize the right of the Negro masses to self- determination, recognize the Negro toiling masses as an ally in the revolutionary strug- gle against imperialism. The white proletariat actually must be the vanguard of the struggle for the liberation of the Negro toiling masses. Especially must the white proletariat enter the front ranks of struggle against American imperialism for the liberation of the Negro masses, because the white proletariat has been to a very large extent mobilized by the white imperialists in keeping the Negro masses in | their state of subjection. The white workers must struggle for the liberation of the Negro masses because the struggle against imperial- ism requires the mobilization of all revolu- tionary elements within the social structure of America. Hamburg Workers Welcome R.I. L. U. Delegates (By a Worker in the Delegation) A PLEASANT surprise awaited the Americ: delegation to the Fifth World Congress « the Red International of Labor Unions on theii arrival in Hamburg. At the headquarters of the Internationa! Seamen’s Club we found everybody busy get ting ready for a huge demon: tion on Satur- day in honor of the R.I.L.U. Congress. The demonstration’ was a real inspiration. The remarkable discipline of the comrades and the workers as a whole was something new tv us and it gave us a lesson. The enthusiasm and | the organizational ability displayed by the Hamburg transport workers are indeed splen- | did. The parade of 6,000 started at 7:30 p. m (sharp) from the International Skanes Club | and marched for two hours through the work- | ing class sections of Hamburg. Several groups of workers carried banners and flags. Several bands of music played revolutionary marches. The paraders halted at a square where Com- rade A. Walter, secretary of the International Seamen’s Club and member of the Hamburg Municipality, addressed a crowd of workers numbering about 25,000. He delivered an excel- lent speech dealing with the R. I. L. U., the present struggles of the workers and finally calling upon the Hamburg transport workers to make September 14 (election day in Ger- many) a day of reckoning with German capi- talists. “The answer of the workers in Ger- many must be a huge vote for the Communist Party of Germany on Sept. 14,” he said, and his remarks were greeted with great enthus- iasm. Comrade Markoff, in the name of the American Delegation, greeted the workers of Hamburg and pointed out the importance of international solidarity, in the midst of loud approval from the great crowd. At the conclusion of the mass meeting the workers fell in line and marched back to the Seamen’s Club. At a big mass meeting held Sunday morn- ing, Walter spoke about the work before the R. I. L. U. Congress and the task for the working class after the Congress. In addition the following from the delegations spoke: a member of the Canadian delegation, a steel worker, a Negro comrade from Panama, in Spanish; Sophia Melvin, from the National Textile Workers’ Union of U.S.A., and a dele- gate of the Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers’ Industrial Union. Hamburg, Germany, Aug. Statement On the Expulsion of Sylvia Bleecker (RGANIZER of the Millinery Workers’ Union is expelled from the Communist Party for holding Trotskyist views and as a deserter from the struggle. In a typical opportunistic manner she attempted to cover up her deser- tion from the struggle on the pretense of dis- agreement with the line of the Comintern and the Central Committee on the questions of Trotskyism. This acceptance of Trotskyism was nothing else but a cloak to cover up her desertion. The Central Control Commission therefore expels Sylvia Bleecker as a deserter from the ranks. CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION. | was as superfluous as the other. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Sy mat! everywhere: One year $6; six months $3; two mont! Ma:hattsy and Bronx, New York City, and foreign, which are: axcépting Boroughs 6f Ine yr. $8; six mons, $4.60 BY BURCK. While Green sports in capitalist golf links in a game of class collaboration, the masses of starving workers mobilize to make class unions of the Trade Union Unity League; unemployed insurance and immediate relief! By PAUL NOVICK. IR. NORMAN THOMAS has declared in a letter to the Telegram that he is not a Marxist, and Mr. James Walker has declared before certain “citizens” that his administra tion is reeking with graft. One declaratior Nobody eve suspected Mr. Thomas of being either a Marx ian or a socialist, and hardly anybody expectec the Walker Tammany administration to be any thing else but a graft machine. Mr. Thomas gives a number of excuses, that is superfluous, too. For the Ame socialist party, even in its hey-day, when it did give some lip-service to Karl Marx, it had iittle to do with Marxism, except, perhaps, for the fact that its leader, Morris Hillquit, al- ways had an intimate knowledge of capital, whether as shareholder of the Burns’ coal trust, or as gambler on Wall Street. “Conditions are different,” “Marx himself would have changed his mind,” were always the passwords among the leaders of the socialist party. But there was Debs, a revolutionary by tem- | perament, cheering for the revolution, there were some proletarian elements in that party, to whom the name of Marx and Engels were the symbols of the movement. It was only after the proletarian burden was removed and the socialist party openly became a petty- bourgeois swamp, that the “socialist” edition of Hearst, Abraham Cahan, had proclaimed: “Marxism is bunk!” That was in 1923. To repeat the same in 1930 is as original as a preacher’s sermon, Meanwhile, the capitalist press, which is doing everything to keep out of its columns anything which will remind its leaders of the Communist Election Campaign, is freely fea- turing the statement and speeches of the “socialist” reverends and corporation lawyers. As the third capitalist party, the “socialist” party is now actually on the same basis with the other two parties. The more reason for the workers to strengthen their own press and make the capitalists feel the Communist cam- pai~ ‘hrough all kinds of propaganda among the \ <ing masses. Republicans and democrats for years have engaged in “stealing” platform planks from each other. Now that the “socialist” party and | has become the third party of capital, the dem- — ocrats, as the “socialists” complain, are try- ing to incorporate into their platform the “so- cialist” unemployment insurance plank. Natur- ally, any plank that is good for Norman Thomas is good for Walker and Roosevelt. But neither of these capitalist parties can “steal” the Communist unemployment in- surance plank, just as the employer cannot “steal” from his employees their demands which they are trying to wrest from him. What the three capitalist parties want is that kind of a bluff, as the “free” “employment” agency Tammany opened as one of its election maneuv- | ers. Isn’t that what Norman Thomas had asked Jimmy Walker to do after March 6th? A free employment agency, that is the thing! Comrade Foster, at the meeting of the Tammany Board of Estimate, pointed out that Thomas was | proposing fake measures, in order to fool the workers, just as Hoover has been trying to fool them by his fake prophesies. Now we have it, Thomas’ own invention, a “free” agency—free of jobs! The democrats can “steal” any plank or measure from the “socialists”. That is why the “socialist” party is the agitation depart- ment of capital, As our candidate for lieutenant-governor of New York, Comrade Engdahl, has already pointed out, no one is mentioning the beastly anti-labor record of the racketeer Ewald. The needle trades workers remember too well the sentences Ewal! imposed upon the pickets of the fur strike in 1927 when be was racketeer- . » By ELLA REEVE BLOOR. have our South Dakota ticket filled, after strenuous preliminary work. The collect- atures helped us to discover many rs. And this week we have covered over 1,200 miles to reach these new “converts.” We sold large numbers of literature way down in the Southern farm districts. At Aberdeen ind Frederick, Comrade Oscar Luttio, candidate ‘or Lieutenant-Governor of Sout Dakota, and the campaign director, Comrade Ella Reeve Bloor, spoke to large crowds. At Menno, Com- rade Omholt, the district organizer, and Ella Reeve Bloor held the entire town, practically, for two hours. In South Dakota, Helge Fangen is candidate for Governor, Oscar Luttio, Lieutenant-Goy- ernor; Hans Larson of Menno, Secretary of State, and Eino Niva for Congress. kers Fighting Communists. In th ate, Tom Ayres, editor of a so-called Farmers’ Press, is now bitterly fighting the Communist Party. In North Dakota, the farmers here, have had their “acreage” decreased so rapidly that they are dizzy. But it was not because Legge ad- vised it. “Mother Nature” burned up so much wheat. Many farmers just cut their grain for the cattle. Now they are flocking to our meet- ings to ask us, “What shall we do to be saved?” Of course they realize that if there had been “surplus crops,” they would have still been in the same ¢ Local Issues. We are distributing leaflets on all local is- sues, for instance, on the complete bank- ruptcy of the Non-Partisan League, as a party, “for the interests of the farmers.” In Bis- marck, recently, a’ meeting was held of the re- publican party state committee. The Non- Partisan League fraction of the republican party “pretended” to have a quarrel with the rest of the gang and met in separate rooms at the same time an! place. Without a protest, without even a squirm, each faction voted Campaigning in the Dakotas unanimously for identically the same platform, i ing on the bench. In one day, on June 30, 1927, Ewald had sent 131 pickets to prison, giving some of them as much as eight months terms in jail for picketing. Not one of the candidates of the three cap- | italist parties has a single word to say about that action of his honor, the racketeer. That was all right. Ewald was doing the work for all the three parties. The Tammany gangster- lawyer of the “socialist” company unions in the fur trade, Matkoviteh, was right behind “his honor”, Ewald, telling him not to spare any “justice”. Honesty jis self-understood. Nobody can claim any special credit fot being honest. The thing is, what can the workers get from the “honest man” who gets his “honest graft” and is serving the capitalist class? Jimmy Walker is getting “honest graft”, forty thousan] dollars a year. Ramsey Mc- Donald is getting “honest graft” from the cap- italists, tens of thousands of dollars yearly. But the unemployed in New York, as well as in London, are starving, and the police is fight- ing for the bosses during strikes. Honesty—of course. officials cought stealing or taking graft are shot. But there can be no honesty in a rob; ber society. workers must rule and the capitalist system must be destroyed. “Honesty” can be an erooks. paign is more corruption, Vote Communist, but we must get our can- didates on the ballot first. There is a short time left for collecting of signatures, but in some districts the drive has not even started! Participate in the signa‘ure drive! The ham- mer and sicle must be on the ballot in your district! issue only among * In the Soviet Union | In order to have real honesty the | The result of every “honesty” cam- | Labor Day the Day of the Unemployed. Rally to the form councils of the unemployed; fight for the same candidates and the same committees. A Straight Bankers’ Republican Party. The Conimunist Party has been holding many meetings in Bismarck recently. Mother Bloor has spoken to hundreds of unemployed work- ers “passing through.” So a self-constituted official of the American Federation of Labor organized a “Union of Unemployed,” charging 2 initiation and 50 cents per month. This ac- tion has, of course, boomed our “Council of Unemployed” and the leadership of the Com- munist Party. Items of interest, like this, are included in our Bulletins. Campaign Grows, On Labor Day a campaign picnic will be held at Wildwood Park, Minot. We expect large numbers of farmers to attend this picnic. As North Dakota does not file its petition until late September we are still collecting sig- natures, without any opposition on the part of the enemy. So far, except here and there, over-zealous police interference, have dis- turbed our meetings. Comrades Mrs. Sophia Husa, the mother of Mabel Husa; Arvo Husa and Otto Mattiskainen of Belden and Nan Hook are making energetie campaigns for legislatures and state senate. The state candi- dates are: Pat Barret for Governor, Charles Hill for Lieutenant-Governor, K. P. Loesch for Secretary of State, James Pearson for Com- missioner of Agriculture and Labor and Com- rades Omholt and Knutson as Congressional candidates. They are all helping in the field. We expect the farmers of North and South Dakota to bring in a record vote: this election for the Communist Party. Another Misled Worker Leaves the Lovestone Renegades Te New York District Office of the Young Communist League has received the follow- ing statement from Jennie Farber, a needle worker: “Dear Comrades: “After attending some Lovestone group meetings, I wish to denounce the differences which I maintained with the Party and the League, and which caused my expulsion. I want to admit that my differences were a result of the factional fighting that was going on in the Party. I was misled by the fac- tional Lovestone group. “Only after the Party unified itself and went on the road to a mass Party by applying the correct line of the Comintern was I able to see that I was following blindly a counter- revolutionary group, the Lovestone group. The success of the Party (on March 6th, Katovis’ Funeral, ete.) as a result of the line given to the Party by the Comintern Address, convinced me that this line was the correct line, ‘and that the line and tactics of the Lovestoneites were counter-revolutionary. “The tactics of the Lovestone group in unit- ing with the petty-bourgeois elements on the India question, their alliance with Brandler, Thalheimer and Trotsky, their line in the trade unions exposes their real color and the road they are following—a road of counter-revolu- tion. “I, therefore, am making a complete break with the counter-revolutionary Lovestone group and ask the Party to give me another chance to prove my willingness to fight all enemies of the Party by re-admitting me into the Party and giving 1e the opportunity to do Party work. Signed: Jennie Farber.” The Young Communist League District Bureau has decided in favor. of re-admitting Comrade Farber, and the Central Control Com- mission of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. has approved the re-admission on six months probation, CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION, C. P. OF U.S. A. { By JORGE The Plot Thickens— The Lieutenant-Commander of the U. 8. Naval Reserve, Mr. Grow, who among a raft of other imperialist agents was sent to Peru to hold down the country for Leguia and the Guggenheims, is the object of heroic and so- cial solicitude of the U. S. state department. It seems that this mercenary was aiming to drop some civilized bombs on the rebel city of Arequipa, when the rebels caught him red- handed and locked him up in the local hoose- gow. While American workers can get railroaded in New York without a trial, and sent to a living death in Gastonia with a farcical one, and in Atlanta threatened with the electric chair for distributing leaflets—and all the while the U. S. government is deaf, dumb and blind, the newspapers say of the state depart- ment that— “It was made clear that if it appears that Commander Grow is not to receive a fair and impartial trial the department is prepared to make the strongest possible representation.” To show how rankly dishonest the whole thing is, one must remember that Grow “re- signed” from the U. S. naval reserve and took office as a regular officer of the Peruvian Military Air Force, Now, however, being caught, the state de- partment is covering this up, and claiming that he is an American citizen and therefore entitled to all the rights and protection the government denied to the Gastonia defendants —and many others. To prove how rotten this hypocrisy is, look on page 3 of Sunday’s N. Y. Times, There are two Washington dispatches there, and the Times editor, being a little drunk Saturday night, forgot to take care that one dispatch didn’t contradict the other. One was from a special Times writes and another from the centralized lying agency known as the Asso- ciated Press. The special writer, in one part, says: “The state department is not informed, whether Commander Grow as director of Peruvian aviation, ever took an oath of al- legiance to the Peruvian government. Tech- nically, Grow would forfeit the right to protection of the United States if he took such oath. It is thought likely that Com- mander Grow arid Mr. Sutton have con- tracts with the Peruvian government and that both are entitled to the full protec- tion of the United States.” But the Associated Press has the state de- partment having no “thought likely” or doubts, or lack of being “informed” on Grow’s status. In part it says: “Mr. Castle (assistant liar to Stimson) said that the case of Commander Grow, who was under contract with the former Peruvian government,” ete. And in any case, the state department, whet’.er Grow has forfeited American rights or not, is stated to be demanding a “fair and impartial trial” for Grow. This is merely an- other way of saying that it demands he be released, a polite “diplomatic” way of saying it. Thus Yankee imperialism tries to take care of its agents. One thing, besides this dirty hypocrisy of the, state department is worth noting. The days 2.2 passing when “e Gringo “hero” of U. S. melodrama, can go into a Latin country, save the president from a mob of unwashed rebels and be presented vith a banana planta- tion and the president’s lovely daughter who faints amorously in his arms in the fadeout. . * * . Sole leather sales, we learn, are equal to those a year ago. They should be better, con- sidering the amount worn out in looking for jobs. * oo ee M:. Young, head of the Federal Reserve Banks, has resigned, saying that while things were had he hung on, but “now that the credit situction is excellent”, he thinks it won't hurt to leave. Before the darned thing hits rough water, we opine. The Reserve, barred from inflation by bill issues, bought $601,903,000 of U. S. securities, inflating credit by that much with what it “paid” in pure “bookkeeping money”. We hate to say what will happen later, but the Reserve is doing its best to keep things afloat till after election.’ Mr. Young seems to be playing squirrel, and gathering nuts—which always means a hard winter. Pnet Waves. Heywood Broun noted, in seeming protest, that we called him a “petty-bourgeois clown’. It seems that “bourgeois” and “clown” apply, but not to the “petty”. His dad died recently, and the N. Y. Post tells us: “Mr. Broun, who had keen in the stock brokerage business for about ten years, re= tired two months ago from as general man-. it of the uptown office of Reynolds, Fish & 0. vet's see, where did we hear that name before? Is it possible that Ham Fish and the “socialist” Broun are class brothers? Someone might look it up. Anyhow, a broker's son for congress about fits the “socialist” ticket. am * * It All Depends— We were about to think that the U.S. gov- ernment was going to recognize the Soviet, from the state department announcement that it “would not withold recognition of any gov- ernment merely because it came into power by violence”, when we were struck by the added announcement that “it all depends on what, kind of a government is set up”, : So! And what was it all about, if not the Peruvian revolt. And what kind of a govern- ment does Uncle Sam expect there? Would he recognize a monarchy? Sure, he does that! Or a fascist dictatorship? He does that, too!’ Does he object to a regular capitalist dictator- ship with a few fig-leaves of “democracy”? Herdly, he’s one himself! So it appears that the added proviso, about it all depending on what kind of @ govern- ment is set up, was meant to exclude a Work- ers’ and Farmers’ Government. To Hoover’s notion the workers and peas- ants have no business butting in on govern- ment. Let the 59 rich men rule America, and should the workers an! farmers in any. paré of the world take over the government, Hoover will sick the marines on ‘em! They found that out long ago in the Soviet Union, that’s ~hy there’s a nice little Red | Army on guard. eT