The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1930, Page 4

> a Aylisy) o by tWe Compre Page Four Ae hem hy wk Cit Yel THE COMMUNISTS, THE CO: '! checks except Sunday, 8 8 Cable New Sauare at 26-28 Union DALWORIS York NY Daily,. OPERATIVES AND: HALON EN By MAX BEDACHT L Es rr f workers’ cooperatives in the class struggle lated by Lenin as fol lows . 1. Proletarian co-oferatives improve the po sition the we I they r he measure commerce f exploits ial middleme: ing conditic the the es; they im salesmet orting politica e working cla must inces struggle cooperatives. They working ther ot with the (Commu- y trade uni imunists in ainst the Com- ht against ) and with his is the ns. the co-operativ muntsts ir the this program munists operatives is a The fight against the Com- only one objec to main- ives as mere commercial in- proletarian instruments as commercial les can not result enefit ewe They can n result in bene- on mer er for its mem only for th he co-ope: tives and for the cap ns from wh they buy their goods. Class Struggle. The masses of the workers and poor farm- ers that have organ the co-operatives have done so because they clearly recognize the need of these in the class struggle, d the co-operatives to unite farmers, also as con- ainst the capital- ean be of value only of a class struggle Otherwise the boly of 1 poor struggle But this unity ist clas suppl organized for stores, called co i othing but unity merely customer: in reality business ies an and pure Thev The el A Class Line. s place across line of int ith one side and the ex the other. It must be the ,endeavo: class-conscious worker to organ ment the alliance b: the poor farmers on t this ng line. unity keep this « It must und 2 only if it is effe please Must Follow ss struegle tak ad the ex- loited on of every e workers ween the work- he working class dine ploiters on the and to ce ers ionary of ny the workirg class side > of the class S are ms or maintejn pni‘v across the dividing line, com- romises mnst be made which can only benefit the conitalist enemy. Vote ‘aaa Workers! D. AMIS. MMEDIATELY after the Civil War gro toilers were given bour; rights by the 13th, 14th and to the United States constitution. This enact- ment gave the former slaves full suffrage and the right to hold parliamentary office. For the zeois democ atic h amendments the first time, the ‘Negro workers gwere given equal rights; they lecame the all of the Northern industrial capitalists. But this freelom did not last long. The Northern industrial bourgeoisie, purposes to crush the Southern so they could proceed, unhampered, to gain state power for the free development of capi- talism and to establish the rule of the indus trial bourgeoisi ,on deserted the Negro wo: ers. Friendly relations were established tween the Northern and the Southern geoisie and the property intent in their lave-holders, be- bour- Negro toilers who had been granted equal rights ha! them taken away and were forced to return to their former who reduced them to the state of semi-slaver This was accomplished in the name of the “great republican party,” “the party of Lincoln,” the “Emancipator.” slave masters Organizations Crush Negro oilers. Obviously there arose in the South various organizations which attempted to perpetuate the traditional conditions of the master and slave. Such were the Ku Klux Klan and the democratic party under the leadership of the dastardly reactionary politicians. With an unwritten agreement, the two major political parties, simultaneously pursued parallel courses leading to the same goal, the development of industrial eapital through the super-exploitation of the Negro toilers and white workers, To assure success of the free development of industrial pital and the rule of the bourgeoisie and to attenpt to perpetuate the exploitation of the entire working clas: it was evident that all attempts at organiza- tion among the Negro workers and white workers must be prevented, must be rendered difficult. Consequently a wily ani careful plan of poisonous propaganda was put in motion. This propaganda was to spread hatred in its most bitter forms among the Negro and white workers. The two major political parties are not con- cerned about the conditions of the workers, but about making greater profits for their bosses. The politicians of the republican and democratic parties are the true lackeys of erard’s 64 parasites.” They must legislate to protect their bosses who are interested only in making more and more profits. These lackeys have betrayed the Negro work- ers time and time again, They have endorsed lynchings, segregation, disfranchisement, mob- terrorism and all forms of persecution against the Negro toilers. Whenever the Negro work- ers became dissatisfied and began to talk of belling, these “pot-licking” agents appeasee their irritated feelings by selecting the despicable lackey among the Negro bourgeoisie and placing him in some official position. The demands and grievances, in so far ax the workers are concern most petty- semi- , have only been grante | the early history of led to its collapse in aralyze the revolution- s in their strug- at least for These compromises ir the Second Inter August, 1914. They ary section of the some time, Halonen, orkir mperialist ¢ war, Ronn ete., Split Class Line. recently manifested it- in t ‘western co-operative move- grows out of attempts to pull the co-oper- camp of the bour- hich ment atives entirely over into the geoisie. While the revolutionary co-operatives n the past clearly recognized the dividing line in the class struggle, the leaders in the fight against revolutionary poli P co-ope tive,—Halonren, Ronn and ¢ endeavor- ing to pull the co-operatives over into the camp of the bot ie. They try to put them entirely di 1e control of the bour- geois Warbass and I-fascist Allane. When Halonen and Ronn speak of unity they do so in the t their talk of unity spe that blind the co-operatives to the dividing line of the class struggle. That is why Communists must emphasiz inst Halonen’s cry for nity, the importance of the dividing line of 1 truggle. Halonen an] Ronn, in spite of their ery for unity, are splitters, They want to split the proletarian co-operative away from the work- ing class and want to link it up with the bour- geoisie! They want to break the influence of the revolutionary workers in the co-operatives and establish in its place the rule of the bour- geois Warbasse and the social-fascist ANane. The Communists, on the other hand, in em- phasizing the dividing line of the class struggle endeavor to maintain the operatives on the side of the working clas The Communists want to maintain proletarian unity. Halonen and Ronn, together with Allane and Warbasse, are crying unity to win the co-operative mem- bers for the policy of split. The Communists on the other hand, declare there can be no unity with the bourgeoisie and with bourgeois leaders of the co-operative movement. Thereby they seek to maintain the proletarian unity of the co-operative with the rest of the revolu- tionary labor movement. Workers’ Co-operatives Are Partisan. Halonen stresses his love for unity with the assertion that the co-operative must be non- partisan. To be non-pa in means to care d with the work- or with the capitalist ¢ The and poor farmers in the co-oneratives ot be ani are not non-partisan, They are an for the exploited. They portisan against the exploiters. Thev are isan for the olutionary ty of the working cla nothing whether you ar ing class pe for the Commun hey are n against the agents of capitalism, against Warbasse and Allane. When Halonen and Ronn preach non-ps they do so in order and poor shin, e the wo rative Beliere to ma farmers in the co- r allianee with W se and Allane is not a betrayal of the interests of the co- operatives. But it Allane and Warbasse nd for the interests of the bourgeoisie. The interests of the bourgeoisie are diametrically oppose! to the interests of the workers and poor farmers. (Contrmued) to the extent of quieting the rising spirit of revolt in the masses and endeavoring to cause them to forget their miserable plight and ex- ploitation. In this manner, the Negro workers have been the football of bourgeois politic Socialist Party. The socialist party, a worthy contemporary of the other two bourgeois democratic organ- izations, cloaked in deceptive progressive | has not a platform for the Negro Its leadership endo! the brutal crushing of spirit and beatings of workers who fight for workers’ demands. The leadership of the socialist party consists of those right- wing elements that support finance capital. The left-wing, the more radical group, split | away over ten years ago and formed what is now the Communist Party of America. Communist Party and Negro Workers. The Communist Party election platform poses the misleaders of labor in the American Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party and other In fact, it pulls the cover off the entire capitalist’ system, showing that a new war is in the making and that the im- | perialist powers @ attempting to attack the Soviet Union. The platform demands imme- diate and adequate unemployment relief and introduces an unemployment insurance bill for the workers, the funds for which are to be supplied from the surplus profits of the bosses. It advocates the building of revolutionary trade unions an| wages a fight for the repeal of all criminal syndicalist, anarchist and sedi- tion laws The platform states that “anti- | Negro laws are the most vicious anti-labor | laws” and “to stop lynching, the rule of the white bourg ie must be ended.” ° The Communist Party demands the right of self-determination for the Negro masses wh the Negroes are the majority. The struggle against race diserimination, against lynching and against persecution of every description must be the concern of the entire working class of the United States. As long as the be succeed in pitting white workers against black workers, it will be im- possible to pit the wholé working class against the capitalist class, Support of any form of race prejudice, therefore, is anti-labor anJ is support of capitalism itself. The Party ses Communist is the best political fighter for the Negro workers. It demands and fights for complete social and_ political equality for the Negro toilers. The Negro workers and farmers must support the Party of their They must support the candi- dates of the Communist Party. Negro work- ers and farmers! In the South and North, vote Communist! The Daily Worker is the Party's best in- strumeot to make contacts among the masses of workers. to build a mass Communist Party. Strike against wage demand social insurance! many grafters iro fres—‘he Unenrloyed tien is in priscn--Voe Communi, KITCHE Recipe: editorial room. § rve with democratic sauce. u, Worker’ Some photos of dead people anywhere, mix with som e captions about e<EDYyriet Porty U.S.A. By mail every Mai hattar SUBSCRIPTION RATES: er ron, and New York City. and foreign my One year $6; six months $3; two months $1; excepting Boroughs of which are: One yr. $8; six mons. $4.50 “Cheka executions, BY BURCK. ‘wm ‘RanporPn Mee ” flavor with lies and bake in w hot So They ‘Study’? Unemploy- ment and War Danger By I. AMTER. Prisoner No, 52330. (Communist Candidaje, 23rd Congressional District, Bronx.) HE “Socialist” Party is not to be outdone by either the republicane or democrati party in finding methods to fool the wor! Hoover, the republican, has called a conf ence to “study” the unemployment situation; Wagner, the democratic senator from N. Y wants his bill passed for taking a census ¢ the unemployed, The “socialist” party sends its patter columnist and Correspondence Un- employment Bureau agent, Haywood Broun, on the line to look the unemploye! over, or a Broun s > the unemployment sit- uation, vort that “a beau- tiful blonde with fine hair was in the line. We wonder if that was the attraction.) They Are Just La g at the Unemployed While the whole ious unemployment States and esp: ple want to “study world knows about the ser- situation in the United in New York, these peo- Roosevelt, who also pro- poses a “Study” of the whole situation, at la: is foreed to admit the seriousness of the uation, but refused to advocate state unemplo: ment insurance, He proposes industrial insui ance like that adopted by the General Electric Co., which is a wage-cutting, spee{-up whip in the hands of the bosses. Wgldman wants Roosevelt to pretend he is doing something the unemployed by calling an emergenc ion of the legislature, but Waldman knows that no money can be appropriated, so the un- employed will continue to starve. He and Roosevelt want to make a gesture to seve the face of the capitalist government. Two fakers laughing in the face of the unemployed—and big clown Broun joins the show. The Workers Want Insurance Now! The Commupist Part@ demands unemploy- ment insurance of $25 for each worker plu $5 for each dependent through a fund of five billion dollars to be furnished by the govern- ment (net a cent for war purposes, all funds for the unemployed!), and in addition a levy on capiiel and a tax on all incomes above $5,000, the fund to be administered by a na- tional committee of workers elected at a na- tional conference of unemployed and employed workers. This puts the responsibility for un- employment where it belongs—on the shoul- ders of the government ang bosses. The workers must rally behind the Commu- nist Party ani Trade Union Unity League in the fight for the Workers’ Social Insurance ill and support the Communist candidates in the elections. Haywood Broun, the two-months-old “so- cialist,” recently spoke on the City Hall steps —and the police didn’t club the “demonstra~ tion” arranged bye the respectable “Women Peace Society.” Broun was in good compan: Mayor Walker sent his representative, Mont- rose Strasburger. Dudley Field Malone was there and others. Against War—In Words Onlye outright be Introduce! as “a , thoroughgcing, pa Broun declared war cannot Strike Strategy PONE. Ve By JACK JOHNS Article No, all strikes mass picketing and the organ- ing of defense corps are of major impor- tance, the very success of the strike depending upon the ability of the strike committee of organize mass picket lines and defense corps to meet the atta of the gangsters, the fas- cis! the employers. mass picketing must be pressed forward as part of strike preparation and a mass picket line organized on the very first day of the strike. Every striker should be drawn in for picket duty, organized under leading pickets who should be carefully chosen as a leading cadre, organized in such a manner so that exper- ienced comrades will work together with in- experienced, previously unorganized workers, the youth should be utilized to the full in this work of leading the pickets, developing them into strike leaders. The women work- ers play an important leading role on picket duty; especially must the wives of the striker: be drawn into strike activity on the picket line. Picketing should by decree of the strikers be obligatory. Ups and Downs. There are high points and low ebbs in all strikes, even before as well as after the strike has reached its peak. The strike committee an! the picket leaders are responsible for the continuous activity of mass picketing. There is nothing, mysterious about a Monday, but experience shows that Monday is a day that vented if the nations continued for war. He and the the Kellogg peace pact anniversary signing which being brated) Ramsay MacDonald supports it, too, as he does the naval “reduction” treaty. Yet the MacDonald social-imperialist. government is making war on the Indian workers and peasants, is pre- paring to ot down the revolutiona work ers ind peasants of China, who are being led by the Chinese Soviets. The executive com- mittee of the “Socialist” Labor International, which has just met, approve! the action of its leading member, the British Labor Par and Morvis Hillquit, member’ of the executive, gave his approval for the American “socialist” party. Broun is “against ” in words, so MecDonald—but they make war in deeds. (the lone ho s. gC navy says “the only -who want war e who get chevrons.” Then why is the ernment spending $1,500,000,000 on alone? Why the government plans for general conscription in case is the Industrial War Board ‘job? Why are American gunboats ines in China, and Nicaragua? Only the war-mongers lphind it? No, the ‘social- i mouth “words of peace” but they ones the has This Preparedness? burger advocated a “campaign of peace education.” Then, why are the citizens’ military training camps larger than ever be- fore? Why Boy and Girl Scouts? free hand to the superpatriotie American Le- gion and Veterans of Foreign Ware? Yes, “words of peace,” but deeds of war Broun is in excellent company—v aH Hoover, Roosevelt, Wagner, Waldman, Malone, S.ras- burger and the Women's Peace Society! The worke Ss may starve—but wars will be made, won't starve—they will fight. . Under the leadership of the Communist Ps:.- and the revolutionary unions they will fight for unemployment insurance now against the bosses and the government an! their tools, the “socialist” party and the A. F. of L. lead- ers and against thw imperial war that is being prepared especially against the Soviet Union, which these imperialis’s hate and fear, (Written at I Telorel S Why a The propaganda for ¢ Ks must be taken care of. The rule has been generally that Sunday is a holiday even from strike; this is a mistake and has paved the way for many defeats. No day should be al- lowed to pass without some form of strike activity. Sunda while mass picketing may not be necessary, should be utilized for the preparation$ of mass picketing on Monday morning, and at least picket lookouts on Sun- day duty to see that no attempt is being made to bring in strikebreakers. Watch Monday. A good example of this weakness was the Detroit Murray Body strike where the strike was defeated on a Monday despite the fact that on the previous Friday the picket line 1500 strong smashed through a heavy police cordon and picketed the plants. Of course there were many errors made, all of which were repeated in the Fisher Body, Flint strike, but the other errors could have been, ani were in the process of being corrected, when the fatal Monday ‘put an end to the strike. The picket line was poorly organized, the comrades sat back on their laurels of having led the pickets to a successful drive through the police cordon, Saturday’s picket line was poor in comparison to Friday’ Sunday was taken as a holiday; Monday saw a corporal guard on picket duty, there was a long line of unemployed at the gate, and when the picket line was too weak to influence them the strikers became demoralized, accepted the proposals of the company, although the T. U. U. L. and A. W. U. fought for the rejection of the proposals, and the strike was defeated. Special Demonstrations. The organizing of special demonstrations of wives and children, against the fas- yers, against #trikebreakers, against the police terror are very effective weapons in strike struggles, bringing the entire family into strike activity, raising the morale of the strikers and drawing other workers into sup- port of the strike. Defense corps are an essential part of strike preparations and strike struggle. The slug- ging and murdering of comrades. by the gang- sters anl fascist leaders are increasing every day, and the propaganda slogan, “Workers, Defend Yourselves,” must be crystalized into organization and practice. Defense Corps. Into these defense corps must be drawn the most active groups of workers, from the revo- lutionary unions and leagues, from the strike: from the labor sport organizations, workers’ clubs, proletarian women’s organ These corps must be trained in the fighting. Leaflets and propaganda nothing in meeting the attacks of the gang- sters and the A. F, of L. and S. P. fasci who are protected by the police and white- washe! .by the capitalist courts. They must be combatted physically and in an organized manner. The organizing of mass. picketing and de- fense corps and their proper functions is the means duty of the strike committee and is just as | important as the strike commiitee. However, it is also very necessary that the proper les- sons are drawn by the strikers from the strike, from the struggles between the pickets and the city or state authorities, showing the class political character of all strike struggles, and that the ending of a strike, whether it be victorious or lost, is but one battle in the clas that is continued in some form every day and wil! continue un are powerful enough the workers to smash capitalism. Demand the and Rayme employme: Amter for fighting for un- Write as you correspondent, fight! Tevome a worker Post last Friday took a lot of ce in editorial column to pointing out terrible misery inflieted by the economic y you ne (By the r see capitalist papers using that word “el The sor- ful tale , of cour: “tell about the perate unger of the workers, since to vitalist papers rkers are not people. The people are those who buy cars, play golf and mountains for vacation, just like th , in which all real people wear evening dress and have no visible means of support. Anyhow, the Post gives us the follow: ing touching instance of poverty: business man train to Atlantic y remarked toa friend that he had planned to go to Europe this year, but had decided to stay at home because the stock market slump had left him $700,000 poorer than he was twelve months ago.” We are overwhelmed with pity. To think that while the jobless workers have only to do hout eating, while the poor millionaire are actually deprived of a,trip to Europe. But the Post tells us there is yet hope, It ap- proves at length of Hoover’s idea of reducing the income tax so the poverty-stricken capi- talists can hope for better days. I tell you, if it weren't for Hoover, the down-trodden multi-millionaires would be per- ishing right at the wheel of the Rolls-Royce or wasting away at the golf course. * * A Restful Trip The following is a testimonial received of the amazing good one receives from a nice, quiet vacation in the Adirondack mountains of Northern New York State. It is not copy- righted in any language, not even the Scan- dinavian: “I received a job as camp artist at Indian Head Camp, through an acquaintance who went under the title of Camp Manager, but who in reality was hired to get the camp 1,000 reservations. When he failed to do just that, he was fired without receiving a * penny of his salary, which was to have been $500. I put in 12 hours of back-breaking work daily doing both jobs that were called for and uncalled for in my contract. The staff ate food that without exception caused boils and indigestion. After two months of I was notified by the management that due to bad business they were unable to p: me. Lack of funds kept me from beginning any legal proceedure to get my wages, as they were well aware would so prevent me, I was forced to hiteh-hike back with only enough money in my pocket to raise an ap- petite. In conclusion, I was given a lift from Hudson to New York on a booze de- livery truck. We were chased from Pough- keepsie to Peekskill by a gang of hi-jackers, with plenty of bullets flying all the way. In all this time not one state trooper showed up on the road. This marked finis to what the advertisements ‘call a quiet, healthy trip through the Adirondacks.—PHIL BARD.” We only wish to add for the contributor's information, that the state troopers were all busy that day helping the American Legion and Ku Klux Klan escort the Fish Committee around Nitgelaiget, nailing a U. flag ona Fiery Cross, listening for Communist kids who might say: “Damn it, pass-the bread,” and teaching each other to sing, “The land of the free and the home of the brave. ar * News Values A capitalist paper's idea of what news should be featured: A hungry war veteran, jobless and penni- less, tries to commit suicide by jumping from a building. Broke his legs to splinters and has internal injuries. Taken to a hospital. He gets ten lines on an inside page. Morgan’s yacht, which cost $3,000,000, goes aground off the Maine coast, and after twelve hours is taken off by tugs without serious damage. This gets 40 lines on the front page with a double column headline. Well, the rest of the hungry war veterans can rejoice that Morgan’s yacht was saved. It would have broken their hearts to hear that it was lost, according to the estimation of the capitalist press. * * * How’s thi: The republicans say that the democrats have been “slandering Hoover.” We can’t imagine what the democrats or anyone might say that could possibly be a slander agai such a person as Hoover. * * * Let’s It wasn’t so long ago that Hoover that “Russia is ‘an economic vacuum. be he meant a vacuum cleaner. cage en Stable Governments Oh, yes!’ Argentina and Brazil not so long ago declared that they wouldn't recognize the Soviet Government because it wasn’t “a stable government.” Armies over w has no control map for two h the government of Brazil! ve been marching around its y the Argentine Minister of War ord ilors from three warships ashore for the army, supposed to be attacking Buenos Aires, only. to be told to march them ba 1 by the Minister of the Interior, the army really was marching on DB ires it was merely to the p 's barricaded in his since enos lent kill ho it seems that the Kremlin might be able enough to send some red marines and establish a little proletarian order in the “stable” countries of capitalism. r * * * “Solocted Immigration” The continent of Europe is inhabited by Europeans. This sounds rather unnecessary, but we mention it merely to accent the point that it is not inhabited by Americans. Which accounts for the fact that they kicked W. Randolph Hearst out, and let “Legs” Diamond in, A mere gangster who has a blood-stained automobile is a decent and law-abiding eitizen compared to Hearst the forger. And the moving picture world might tell a tale that would make a blood-stained yacht seem just as incriminating as an auto. We’re for deporting Hearst from the United States, But he has friends: Heywood Broun, the “socialist.” sheds a few tears over Wil- liam Randolph. Depravity finds its own level.