The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1930, Page 4

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In the whole anti-Soviet f @ictatorship in Poland is in the forefront as the most dangerous provocateur attempting at all costs to hasten the war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The possessing class can see war as the o crisis. A new march on Kiev, a repetition of Pilsudski’s war on the Soviets is a real danger. Therefore, the unheard of terror raging throughout Poland. Therefore physical extermination of Polish, Ukrainian, White Russian, Jewish, German and Lithu- anian workers and peasants. Therefore, the 7,000 political prisoners—mass shootings of the struggling workers and peasants and mur- der of the prisoners—the best revolutionary fighters. The workers of the United States must help the whole world. t the fascist solution for the | the | t of the anti-Soviet es an active part z the workers a its han in Poland. s of the United States, must international solidar- gle against the war proposed legislation kers as preventative urgeoisie in its attempts to r movement in order to enable y throw the burden of the of the workers, we must, entire international working especially sharp against the Poland, which is the in event of war against r struggle against the fascist dictatorship al part of our struggle cism and proposed foreign-born. We ap- Po Ukrainian, Polish the American gov- is attempting, h fas- Polis ian, White an, and y serve Jewish agents. American capitalism and wants from the struggle for bet- ons. er to these attempts to de- ceive you be a determined struggle against American capital and their agents, Polish fascism and its agents. Repulse all the fascist and social-f: st lackeys of Hoover and Pil- sudski. ur meetings, conferences and demonstrations, protest against the bloody fas- cist dictatorship. In order to carry on a great mass struggle aga dictatorship in Poland, there was organized a Committee for Struggle m in Poland. It was organized r , Polish, Ukrainian, White Rus- sian and Jewish workers, with the active help of Finnish, Rumanian and Lithuanian workers. We call upon you to support the activity of this committee! Let the workers’ slogan go forth! Down with the fascist dictatorship in Po- land! Defend the U. S. S. Struggle America! Everyone to the aid of the working masses of Poland! COMMITTEE FOR STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISM IN POLAND. R! against capitalist oppression in Conterence tor the Protection of Foreign-Born According to the report of the Provisional Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born, conferences are prepared already. The threatening registration, finger-printing | and deportation campaign of the American bourgeoisie, will not find the foreign and na- tive workers unprepared. The National Pro- visional Committee for the Protection of For- eign Born worked out a plan for organizing | conferences in different parts of the country to mobilize the workers, white, Negro, foreign- | born and native, for struggle against class terror of the capitalists. The workers under- stand that the bills proposed by Senator Bliss, Congressmen Cable and Aswell, providing for compulsory registration and finger-printing of the foreign-born, demanding that the foreign- born shall spy on their: fellow-workers, pro- Widing for mass deportation, are aimed not only against the foreign-born workers, but against the entire working class. Senator Heflin, the Southern fascist senator, is also prepared to propose legislation for mass de- portation to remedy Communism and unem- ployment. is connected with the growing unemployment and misery of the millions of workers and that the threat of mass deportation is to frighten a large part of the working class into submission, so that they should not struggle for the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill. All through the election campaign, the ter- Yor against the workers, taking the form of lynching of Negroes, jailing the nominees of the Communist Party, clubbing the demon- strating unemployed and threatening with de- portation Serio, Vikukel, Radekovich, etc., is intensified in order to terrorize the workers Heflin clearly exposed himself and | his bosses when he stated that his proposal | into support of the capitalist parties. The chambers of commerce, the leaders of the A. F. of L., the so-called veteran organizations, are all demanding mass deportation 0° foreign- born workers. Millions of foreign-born workers and the rest of the working class must unite for strug- gle against finger-printing, registration and deportation; against the class terror of the bourgeoisie, for the release of political pris- oners, for the right of asylum for the polit- ical refugees. Conferences Prepared. To organize this unity of the struggle for the protection of the foreign-born, a district conference in New York took place on Sept. 21 in the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. Similar conferences will be held in Pitts- burgh on Sunday, Oct. 19; in Chicago, Oct, 26; in other industrial centers district con- ferences are prepared. Later on, conferences will be organized on local scale all over the country and the whole nation-wide movement will be centralized through a national confer- ence to be held in Washington, D. C., to build a mass resistance to these terrorist measures of the ruling class and to lead the struggle against them. Every organization is entitled to two dele- gates. The central office-of the Provisional Committee is in Room 603, 32 Union Square, New York City. The bosses are trying to divide the workers by discriminating against the foreign born | and the colored workers. The Communist Party fights agains Communist! these discriminations. Vote On the Negro Question (From a Speech Delievered at the Seventh Convention of the C. P. U. S. A.) By TOM JOHNSON. The Communists support nationalist move- ments when they fulfill two conditions. First when they weaken the power. of imperialism, and certainly we must realize that the strug- gle of the Negro masses in the South against the white bourgeoisie will be a factor in weakening the power of the bourgeoisie. Sec- ondly, when in the struggles of this charac- ter we can draw in the vast sections of the oppressed nationality. It must be apparent, after Comrade Hathaway's report that around this slogan there exists the possibility of making a united front with wider populations ‘of Negro sections in this country. And for these two reasons, comrades, our answer must be, “Yes, we will support this struggle of the Negro masses. Yes, we will support this nationalist movement.” With this whole question of self-determina- tion, the question of our Election Campaign assumes the greatest importance, for here we have an opportunity to bring before the work- ers in the South in a more or less concrete form the fact that we are putting into prac- tice what we say when we fight for full B0cial and political equality and that we sup- “port the demand of the Negro workers for self-determination. In our Election Campaign, we will be able to reach the widest possible masses, provided we have the forces and are properly organized. Just one final point in regard to the ques- tion raised by Comrade Patterson that seems to agitate many comrades, that there is a contradiction in terms between the demand for self-determination and between class soli- darity of Negro workers and white workers. Comrade Lenin, in his speech on this ques- tion at the Party conference in Russia in 1917, dealth with this in his reply to the comrades who raised this question very thor- oughly, in which he said that you cannot have class solidarity until you have a free and fra- ternal feeling among the workers. It is neces- sary to remove all restrictive bonds insofar as these bonds prevent nationalities from working out their own destiny. Not on the basis of oppression can we unite the Negro workers with white workers, but only on the basis of the fight for the fullest right of the Negroes to self-determination can we draw them into one united front of solidarity with white workers, and, therefore, there is no contradiction of terms, and, there- fore, our struggle for the right of the Negro masses for self-determination is a part of our struggle to unify the ranks of the working class to draw them into one solid front of the workers against the capitalist class. BY BURGE. | their CAMPAIGN NOTES By PAUL NOVIC. Mr. James O’Neal, editor of the “socialist” New Leader, had an entertaining debate with Mr. Hamilton Fish at the Bronx “Free” Fel- lowship Forum. There, as if by arrangement, a representative of the Tammany police bomb squad asked Mr. O’Neal whether Communism was a “racket.” Mr. O’Neal promptly an- swered his friend that it was, and has elab- orated on his answer in the following way: The Communists, Mr. ’Neal said, according to the New York Times of Sept. 15, “seize upon the case of every working man who gets into trouble on one charge or another, appeal for funds for his defense, as a victim of class ‘persecution,’ and then use the money for their salaries.” So, in addition to gold from Moscow, the Communists get money through the ingenuity of appealing for work- ers “who get in tro=ble.” We shall not discuss the matter of the so-called salaries. The revolutionary workers know something about that, just as they know about the fortunes the Hillquits, the Cahans and their underlings are making, by speculating on Wall Street, by serving big corporations, by drawing salaries of $10,000, $15,000 and $20,000 a year, or graft and cor- ruption, as in the case of the “socialists” of the needle trade company unions. The thing that hurts Mr. O’Neal most is the fact that the Communists are really doing something for the workers “who get into trouble.” By this the Communists are undoing, are trying to undo, the work of O’Neal and his friends, Fish, Woll, Ewald and other luminaries. Didn't the “socialists” try hard, with the aid of Mr. Ewald, to send hundreeds of pickets of the 1927 fur strike to prison? Didn’t lawyer, the Tammanyist, Markowitz, act as prompter for that scoundrel and graf- ter who was handing out “justice” to the strikers? Wasn’t Markowitz hired by the gang now led by Mr. Kaufman of the under- world and the company union in the fur trade who is on the honorary list of Mr. Broun’s supporters? That’s what is really hurting Mr. O’Neal and his colleagues. The Communists are try- ing to save the workers framed at Mineola, the Gastonia victims, the comrades facing the death chair in Atlanta, the comrades sentenced to 48 years of prison in California, etc. Which is absolutely contrary to the morale of the Tammany bomb squad and Mr. O’Neal’s party. Notice of Central Control Commission While the Party has exercised due caution in dealing with pleas for readmission coming from those who had been expelled from the Party for alignment with and support to the renegades or continuation of unprincipled fac- tionalism after the Comintern Address, cer- tain of these readmissions have been subse- quently found unwarranted. Two such cases have recently come before the Central Control Commission for final ac- tion; namely, those of Gerry Allard, from Southern Illinois, and of James Manus, from San Francisco. Gerry Allard, who was expelled for align- ment with the Trotsky-Cannon opportunists, and later, upon his verbal and written state- ments repudiating Trotskyism, was readmit- ted, has now openly shown that his state- ments were not sincere and that he never really reorientated himself from the oppor- tunist counter-revolutionary line of Trotsky- ism to the correct Bolshevik line of the Party. He fought against independent mine commit- tees, defended the right winger Corbishly and THE HEATHEN The infidels are not all Bolsheviks, we gather from the press report that the Wis- LEGION consin and Missouri Lutheran synods have | condemned the American Legion as having “rituals that are Christless, addressed to idols and abominable to the sight of a Christian.” It seems that the Legion’s “prayer” is not kosher, though it mentions “God and coun- try” in the style best approved by all the Kaiser-lovers and Czarists. Undoubtedly it should be clarified and we suggest the fol- lowing revision: “For God and Boss, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To up- hold wage slavery and the orders of the Chamber of Commerce; to maintain capital- ist law and fascist order; to foster and per- petuate 100 per cent chauvinism; to pre- serve only such memories and incidents of our association in Morgan’s last war as help to nourish militarism for the next one; to inculcate among workers a_ boot-licking and knee-bending slave psycology toward the and knee-bending slave psychology toward the bosses are the interests of the “community and the nation;” to break strikes under the slogan that forcing the boss to pay decent wages is “autocracy;” to make exploitation and oppression appear righteous; to promote peace and good will by lynching Negroes and deporting aliens; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the priniciples of electric chair justice or agitators, freedom for scabs, and democracy for Al Capone; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by periodic conven- tions in which we all take on the same pros- titute and get gloriously stewed in mutual degeneration.” The capitalists are plotting war against the Soviet Union. This Fish Committee, Easley, Mathew Woll and other fakers of the A. F. of L. the-socialist party are slandering the So- viet Union. The Communist Party is mobil- ing all workers for the defense of the Soviet Union. Vote Communist! The socialist party, the party of petty bour- geois real estate speculators, professionals, liberals, clergymen and labor fakers, is the third capitalist party. The workers of Ger- many, England and other countries learned that they can get nothing from the socialist party. Vote against the capitalist parties Vote Communist! * The Daily Worker is the Party’s best in- strument to make contacts among the masses of workers, to build a mass Communist Party. attacked the Party line of sharp determined struggle against the Lovestonites and Trots- kyites. James Manus, one of the leaders of the faction which carried on a struggle in Cali- fornia against the Party after the Comintern Address, was re-instated upon his statement containing recognition of his errors, pledge to discontinue all factional activities and ac- ceptance of certain specific conditions. Subse- quent actions of Manus, however, have proved that his statement was a subterfuge; he con- tinued to carry on underhanded campaign among the membership, attacking the district and national leadership of the Party; in his union he ‘supported the line of the fakers; he never carried out the conditions of his readmission in any respect. Upon the recommendations of the respective District Committees, therefore, Gerry Allard and James Manus stand finally expelled from the Communist Party of the U. S. A. and branded as enemies of the Party and of the revolutionary working class struggle. CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE USA. 4 THAT CHINESE WAR. Nanking is again asserting that the war is over for the 57th time, and that Chiang Kai- shek has won, This is getting to be so usual that we have it set up in type and just run it every time the claim is made. The fact is, that the war in China is “over” just as much as British and American and Japanese imperialisms have ceased being rivals—which is not at all. Chang Hsueh-liang, the Manchurian Kid, has sent an army south in Chili (which is a province and not a kind of gravy) and neither the Nanking “government” nor that of Peking is sure which side Chang is with or whether he is just for himself—and Japan. Nanking claims that Chang will “receive decorations as Northern commander,” while the Peking government, which has taken no chances and moved off into Shansi, declares Chang is with it as one of its “most trusted” collaborators. To our mind, Chiang Kai-shek is wasting his time. He ought to be appointed by Hoover to give out opinions on the vanishing of un- employment and how the Soviet Government is having its propaganda printed on the ticker of the Chicago Board of Trade. Meantime, the only fellow in China who is not fighting is the one they have dug out of a clay bank about 1,100,000 year old. The one they call “The Peking Man.” THE MULROONEY ADVERTISING AGENCY. Every week now there is some show raided by the cops. And we are beginning to wonder how much the police get out of it. Cer- tainly they, meaning of course the “inspec- tors” and “commissioners” and not the regu- lar flatfoots who have to get theirs from the speakeasies, get a commission, or, as the Chi- nese say, “cumshaw.” First, it was some show of the Heywood Broun type up on Broadway, then last week “Frankie and Johnnie,” playing over in Brook- lyn, got the benefit of the cops arresting the actors and actresses for “indecency.” Then, Saturday, another show got advertised. We suppose that it’s the crisis again. The show business is hit hard, and the only way to fill the houe is to get raided for running an indecent performance, get an injunction from one of the judges who is not yet indicted, and rake in the shekels at the box office for weeks, It’s a great game and sure fire. Only we think that the Mulrooney Advertising Agency ought to pay income tax accordingly. The “labor” government in England is help- ing the bosses speed-up the workers. Since McDonald entered into office, in one lear, the army of unemployed in Great Britain, has doubled. In Germany, unemployment is rising. The socialists are doing the work for the bos- ses, Fight the bosses ‘and their servants. Vote Communist! Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. Name .....mevwecenecommonece mrmeonce's"s Address weowcccomccsscomances UYs.vecvewe Occupation ..seccesesscecesessses AZCreceee Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 East 125th St.. New York, N. Y. rr ‘ Our delicatessen shop has shut up for two days and if we want pork chops we have to buy ’em from a “goi.” All because the Jews got their dates mixed some centuries ago, or perhaps the Romans did, and think that it’s New Years’ Day. Bye ’um bye, the Chinese will come along with another New Year’s Day, so we'll have to do without our Egg-fou-yung with cumquats on the side. This religious business is terribly hard on a well-trained diet. ; Anyhow, somebody tells us that a girl in the business office of the Daily Worker of semitic descent or ascent, suddenly “got sick” and we suspect that she is taking the fast cure. But what we wanted to say all along when you interrupted, was that the N. Y. Times tells us that Rosh ha-Shanah services “will be marked by the ‘shofar’ or ram’s horn, which is symbolically to reawaken every Jew within himself to his loyalty to the teachings of Judaism and the principal of Brotherhood of Man and Fatherhood of God.” Excepting, of course, those heathen Arabs of Palestine, who have too much good land to be let in on the “Brotherhood” until the “Fatherhood” of British imperialism has been able to steal it and the rabbis have put the kosher sign on the deal. A SUGGESTION FOR INDIA. One of those queer fish from the Indian nationalist movement is wandering around this country in a perfect fog of ideas as to how India is to gain independence. His name is Mahendra Pratap, and after it he signs himself “Servant of mankind.” From California he sends us a little paper he got out, and the naivete it expresses is astounding. It comes to this “servant of mankind” as an absolute astonishing thing that, for example—“British officers perpe- trated the worst kind of revolting cruelties on non-resisting folk!” What in the dickens he thinks the normal business of British officers is, we don’t know, Probably to play pinochle. Anyway, he is vastly indignant about it, and makes the fol- lowing recommendation. “Some great leader is needed to arouse the people to action. They should immediately replace the British police and the British troops by the true lovers of peace and order.” That sounds good, but doesn’t mean a blessed thing. For as long as the British have the rifles, they will not be “replaced” by “lovers of peace and order” who are un- armed and non-resistant. The funny thing is that Mahendra goes on in the next item to talk about the border tribes in Northwest India without the slight- est perception that what he says about them upsets all his non-violent nonsense. He says: “They have no faith in the non-violent warfare. They have also been very suc- cessful in the very face of the British air- planes, tanks and guns.” If the “servant of mankind” would stop star-gazing long enough to see that two and two make four, he might get the idea that those Northwestern tribes who are “very successful” with guns, are worth a dozen million of ninnies like himself wandering around gabbling non-resistance when it comes to “replacing British police.” ANOTHER “SOCIALIST” CANDIDATE. We have discovered a chap that can sub- stitute for Heywood Broun in case the latter takes on too much wood alcohol some night in the midst of his campaign. The man is in Australia but then he’s no farther off than Broun anyhow, so it don’t matter. Here’s what the papers say about his eligibility as a “socialist”: “Sydney, Australia (AP)—A human chameleon, a patient in the Lewisham Hos- pital in Sydney, has aroused much inter- est among Australian doctors. Fifty phy- sicians and specialists visited the man re- cently, but could assign no reason for his peculiar disease. He changes color daily. His skin changes from its normal hue to a mottled red, to a dark blue, to black, to pink, and finally resumes its natural shade.” Now we think that such a fellow as that is right in line for Heywood Broun’s job. True, he has to change fast to keep up with Broun, though Broun hasn’t been able yet to look even a mottled red. But then that’s probably because he keeps himself preserved, or better said, in pickle. eer THE BEST PEOPLE ON EARTH. The Grand Associated Order of the Elks is one of those societies that invites only the “best people,” their B.P.O.E. initials being said to stand for the “best people on earth.” Anyhow, a fur merchant of New York named Flachman Margolis, can spend Rash ha-Shanah thanking the stars tat among burglars, the Elks select only the best. It seems that a couple of loidies blew into his shop on Sunday to purchase furs, sup- posedly, but really to let in a couple of gents with big Colts revolvers, which they poked none too gently in his porcine ribs and proceeded to make away with his choicest furs, They were going to lock him up in the vault, which, being air tight, would /have left Flachman Margolis a subject for the undertaker. But in shoving him around one of the stick-up men said: “I see you are an Elk. I am an Elk, too. So I’m not going to put you in the vault. In recognition that we are brother Elks, I'll only stick you in the closet and walk off with about $50,000 worth of your furs.” And he did. Thus it came about that the papers report that when his brother Elk got through and away, somebody heard an Elk-like moaning, and found Mar- golis “so hysterical that he was unable to tell a coherent story.” The benefits of be- longing to such fraternal orders are now clear to him. — Winter is coming. More unemployment. Bread lines, Evictions. The Communist Party alone is mobilizing the unemployed and em- ployed workers in a fight against speed-up, ployment insurance relief. Vote Communist! wage cuts and evictions, in a fight for unem- ‘