The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 23, 1931, Page 4

& \ Page Four nS TO the Comprodatly THE COMMUNIST PARTY} Publishing "Co; Inc, de to the Daily Work: ) Hast 18th Street OF THE PHILIPINE ISLANDS | New York, Oct. 20 To the Communist Party of the Philippine Islands Dear Comrades the fight against a common foe, r ¢ e toiling masses of ippino nation which is loyal to Communist Pz the Philippine Islan the and through you to the brave and unconquered Filippino workers and peasants. The birth of the Communist Party of the Philippine Islands was a tremendous historical story of the Far East, an event of t encouragement to the whole world and ation of all peoples imper: use of the lamentable perialist press, ‘oiling masses of the Philippines themselves recognized the importance and neces hing their own Com- munist Party, and by repeated mass actions have demonstrated their devotion to its program of national liberation and class emancipation With the me anger hat of the Filipino masses, the revolution: of the U.S. A have seen the acts of persecution and terror against the heroic peasants of Tayug and the brave leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippine Islands, ordered and supervised by American imperialist tyranny and carried out by its vile servants, the Filipino bourgeoisie and landlords. Superior to all Obstacles In spite of the brutal repressions of imperialist rulers and the treachery of their native agents, in spite of the barbarous terms of imprisonment and exile given the leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippine Islands, (a czarist pro- cedure that should dispel any remaining illusion of the sort of “demagogy” insured by American rule!), in spite of the deceitful demagogy of such bourgeois tricksters as Roxas who insults the name of the great proletarian Andreas Bonifacio in forming, under the honorable name of the Kati- punan, a fascist movement against the toiling masses covered by false promises aimed at di- verting the masses from following their own leader and guide—the Communist Party; in spite of all this and many other dangers and difficulties, we are confident that the Com- munist Party of the Philippine Islands, rooting itself ever deeper in the hearts of the masses by bold and wise leadership of their daily struggles, will remain indestructible! More, we are sure that it will grow and develop as the z and guiding force that will lead the f the Philippines to the destruction of their enemies and the establishment of. their own Worker and Peasant Soviet Government. The role of the Cgmmunist Party of the Phi- lippine Islands is of especially grave importance in view of the intense rivalries of the imperialist powers over the loot and division of China, rivalries which are even now on the point of breaking out into a new and terrible world war, in view of the revolutionary rise of the Chinese ™ s under leadership of the Communist Party of China, the establishment of Soviet rule in great areas of China, and the combined efforts of all imperialisms, mutually rivals though they are, to crush the Chinese Soviets and to launch a murderous. attack aga’ the Soviet Union in the Far East (and in pe also!) in an at- tempt to destroy the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, the inspiring example to all the op- pressed and exploited! Lessons of China the The experiences of -China, especially treacherous role of the bourgeois > “nationalists, the butcheries of workers and peasants by the Kuomintang and the servility of its factions to one or the other of the imperialist bandits that has opened the way for present seizure of Manchuria and prepared the ground for com- plete dismemb nt of the nation, all have lessons of vital importance to the toiling masses of the Philippines and their leader, the Com- munist Party of the Philippine Islands. “SPIES EXPOSED The Communist Party has exposed the follow- ing spies, and warns all workers and workers’ organizations against them: JOSEPH L. LOSOIK (Louis Lasky), of Toledo, Ohio: self-confessed stool-pigeon, who has been reporting to a spy agency, first in Toledo, and later in Detroit. He is 27 years old, native born, auto trimmer by trade, and a heavy drinker. C. J. ALLEN (Jakewell), at first of Toledo, Ohio, but at present probably in Detroit, Mich.; head of the spy agency, or one of its inter- mhediary ager to whom Losoik was sending his reports. Description—about 30 years old, Amer- fean, 5 foot 7 inches in height, blond hair, blue eyes. RAY COOPER (Edward Cooper), at first of Detroit, Mich., but now probably in Cincinnati, Ohio; led the police in Detroit in the arrest of several Negro comrades. Cooper is a Negro of about 35 years of age, about 5 foot 8 inches in height, quite heavy set. He was a member also of the Ex-Servicemen’s League. The Communist Party of the U. S. A. has ex- pelled from its ranks L. Collow (Leonid Nicol- off), former Section Organizer of Toledo, Ohio, for right wing petty-bourgeois opportunism and gross violations of Party tactics, policies and discipline. The outstanding example of his un-Commu- nist and anti-proletarian actions being the well- established fact (admitted by himself in his ap- peal to the Central Control Commission) that, knowingly and deliberately, he aceepted money from a republican politician, member police vice squad, for the filing of Communist candidates, whose running the Republican machine con- sidered to their advantage against an opposing capitalist candidate of the social-demagogue type. Te 4s also characteristic of Collow, that he permitted Diana Ginsberg to remain on the Sec- tion Committee, and that he maintained friend- ly relations with her brother, the member of police vice cquad and Republican politician, from whom he got the money, through Diana Gins- berg. Of course, Diana Ginsberg has also been ex~- pelled from the Party. Such people have no place in the Cofmmunist Party, nor in any,other workers’ organization. CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION, COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U. 8. A. | | | Above all else the lessons of China should teach the Filipino masses the danger of following ip of the national bourgeoisie which “opposition to imperialism” only to the anti-imperialist struggles of the s and in bly to unite with the im- vage and and feudal latifundists in sa suppression of the workers and toiling Above 1 else the example of China sants the imperative need of their own revolu- tionary mass movement, organizationally and politically independent of and opposed to the vaccillating and compromising leadership of the national bourgeoisie, their own movement which is possible of success only when led by the pro- letariat whose guide and leader in the Com- munist Party of the Philippine Islands. The dangers that beset any other course in the Philippines are already apparent in the manoeuvers of certain Filipino bourgeois leaders to intrigue with Japanese imperialism as against American imperialism as though escape for the pino masses from imperialist oppression were possible by changing imperialist oppressors, in spite of the bloody lessons of thirty years ago when America with fire and sword massacred your fathers whom it “liberated from Spain” only to enslave to itself and subject you as colonial serfs until today! The sole guarantee against such treachery, such reptiles as A@hialdo who sold out the struggle against American im- perialism for the right to rob the peasants of their land and a fat “pension,” is today the independent revolutionary action of the wide masses led by the Filipino proletariat and its political party, the Communist Party of the Philippine Islands. In the U. S, A. On our part, the Communist Party of the U. S. A. will do everything physically within our power to aid the Filipino masses in their struggle for complete, immediate and unconditiona} in- dependence. The same world economic cris: the burden of which American imperialism tries to unload alike on the toilers of the Philippines and the toilers of the United States itself, is preparing vast upheavals of the masses within the yery heart of American imperialism; up- heayals which by the» conscious guidance of the Communist Party of the United States of Amer- ica can but weaken the power to rob and op- press the toiling masses of both the U. 8. A. and the Philippines and advance the cozamon strug- gle. With other 11,000,000 unemployed workers and their approximately 30,000,000 dependents star- ving, with the capitalists making repeated gen- eral attacks on wages, with millions of small proprietors and tenant farmers suffering un- heard of misery and real starvation, with 12,- 000,000 Negroes stirring against a barbarous national oppression within the boundaries of continental United States, the Communist Party of the United States of America faces tasks which tax it to the utmost limit of its capacity. Hardly a day passes in which the American workers and small farmers do not engage in mass physical collisions with the capitalist po- lice; hardly a day in which American “democ- reey” does not spill the blood of American toilers! The American masses are moving into battle against American imperialism, against the in- sane system of capitalist rule which dooms them to starve amid mountains of food, to go un- sheltered amid countless palaces they have built, to go ragged although they make wool, cotton and silk enough to clothe the world! In this battle the Communist Party of the United States of America faces not only the but openly repressive forces of the bourgeoisie, the. treacherous misleaders of the toile servants of the bourgeoisie in the ranks of the the leadership of the American Federation of Labor. ‘These scoundrels, together with such capitalist politicians as Congressman Hawes, who recently paraded his demagogy before the Fili- pino people, although they occasionally utter some empty words about Philippine indepen- dence, in pyactice do everything in their power to strengthen imperialism at its base in the United States, in practice aid imperialism by be- ng and repressing the fight of American toilers against it. The American Federation of Labor has just reveated its hypocritical gesture of “endorsing” Philippine independence, but it demands the exclusion of Filipino workers from immigration into the United States and encourages the brutal and bloody chauvinist outrages against Filipino workers in California which are incited in the interests of capitalists and rich plantation own- ers to divide the American-born and the Fili- pino immigrant workers and prevent united proletarian strike action against their exploiters. The Communist Party of the United States of America asserts the proletarian right of these Filipino workers to immigrate to the United States. It has found them ready and brave to unite in struggle with other workers for com- mon class interests. It has endeavored to de- fend them against chauvinist attack and to develop them as fighters for their class and the freedom of their people from American im- perialism. ‘The Communist Party of the United States of America acknowledges its weaknesses and short- comings in arousing the American masses: for concrete aid to the struggles of the Filipino masses, What we have done is not enough. ‘The greatest handicap is the lack of continuous, regular and intimate interchange of informa- tion and advice. We urge that special attention be given to sending us such material, and on our part we pledge to do all in ow power to make effective use of it. Against War! Defend the USSR. Comrades of the Philippines! War clouds hover over the Far East, over the whole world! ‘The Japanese imperialist bandits are making war on the Chinese people. The Philippines, as well as Manchuria, are a war base of imperial- ism against the Soviet Union, against Soviet China! Imperialism, torn by its Inner antagon- isms, is dying, but seeks to sustain itself by drinking the blood of countless millions of toil- ers! By starvation and slaughter of the cx- ploited in the imperialist metropolis and slavery and massacre of the colonial oppressed! By de- struction and mass murder of the victorious builders of socialism in the Soviet Union! All together against imperialism! Moro slave, Viscayan peasant and Luzon proletarian! Let us unite! Let us unite with the victorious work- ers and peasants of the Soviet Union and go forward to emancipation under the banner of Lenin, under the guidance of the Communist International! With Communist greetings, Central Committee, Communist Party of U.S.A. ould prove to the Filipino workers and pea- the | workers, the social-fascist “socialist” party and | | A | las, the “poor” ne ital Past f hL , 4URSCRIPTION RATES: pun as ai re er . By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs New Yo Y. aa of Manhatian and Bronx, New York Clty. Foreign: one year, $3; six months, $4.50. Aprymiet Porty U.S.A. Central Orge to help them is to cut wages! Commission would end up that way: Who makes money out of the railroads, anyway? The gandy-dancer who repairs the tracks, the shopmen, the men on the trains? Not on your life! The gandy-dancer is forced to live like a beast. And because the trainmen have been “educated” by mis- leaders to think that they are “better” than the gandy-dancer because they've been getting bigger wages, they are finding out that lack of unity WITH the gandy-dancer is reducing them, also, to the gandy-dancer level. No, the workers don’t make money out of railroads. But the BANKERS do. Not from RUNNING railroads, heavens, But from “promotion,” from selling stock! From “reorganizing” them! that transportation is -necessary only provides capitalists with a means to make PROFITS out of stock juggling- Where did railroads come from? Way back 60 years ago land—millions of acres—and even money, was given to a Gould, Harriman, Hill, and others, to bribe . They padded the costs by every con- ceivable scheme and watered the stock until the roads repeat- no! ancing roads! gang of thieve: them to build raliway edly went broke. Stock is watered like this: You form a company, invest Hoover did that once in If the “investment” don’t pay dividends on the stock, you do what the railroads are doing: reduce coSt, or try to gouge out higher prices—or BOTH; $35 and sell stock for $ England. 0,000,000. the railroad bankers are doing both! There are 10 big banks which control 90 per cent of rail- road finances, Kuhn Loeb, Morgan, Chase at the top- They say the railroads are “worth” $8,250,000,295. And the goy- ernment in 1929 decided to take their word for it. Railroad stocks went up like a rocket! “Protecting the Stockholders” \\ Take ik @asy bi, Baye f Know whats a4 i ae > o 6 <> <x By Harrison George railroad stockholders! The only way That was decided long ago, workers, and the Daily Worker four months back told you that all this monkey business with the Interstate Commerce Then they went down again with the crisis, although 1930 gave them 6.1 per cent profit on all that water! So they howled for help! “Rates must be raised—OR—wages cut.” The government gives them $125,000,000 where they asked for $400,000,000- So they are going to CUT WAGES! Mind you, since 1920 wages have been cut! Since 1920 no Jess than 670,000 railroad workers have been thrown on the street jobless! The so-called “brotherhoods” are officered bya bunch of company crooks who do nothing but surrender, sometimes after a FAKE “fight.” They agreed to the Wat- son-Parker Law which practically outlaws strikes! Now there is a Jot of yelping about “protecting stock- holders.” But not a word about protecting the WORKERS! Not a cent for the army of unemployed! Cut the wages and “stagger” the time of the employed! _This is railroad management under caritalism! In the Soviet Union, wages go up, hours are shortened, new rail- roads being built! Mere, the railroads are actually falling to pieces, ¢ From fin- The mere fact ---by Burck | Cut wages to Washington! They broke down under the strain of war and the gov- ernment had to run them—and pay billions to get them out of a hole. There is no technical PROGRESS, in fact between 1916 and 1925, there were 5,000 miles of track abandoned! And compare improving conditions for the workers in the Soviet railroads with lower wages, speed up, longer hours and unemployment here! The Russian workers scized power and nationalized rail- roads under their own government the only way it can be done! Nationalization under capitalism won’t help the work- ers a bit! Under capitalism—right now—the railway work- ers can do only one thing—FIGHT! Organize your own committees—independent of the crooked “union” officials, and prepare to strike to restore the 1920 scale! Fight for unemployment insurance at capitalist cost for the unemployed! the “stagger” wage cut plan! Resist mass dismissals! Fight Join the Hunger March to Rescue the Pan- Pacific Trade Union Secretary By S. U. LIN (Shanghai) 'HE secretary of the Pan-Pacific Trade Unions and his wife, who is seriously ill, have now been in prison for months, following their arrest by the police in the International Settlement in Shanghai. They were both delivered over to the Chinese military authorities and are now con- fined in one of the most terrible prisons in China, in Sutcho. Their lives are in danger! It ts not only that the Kuomintang authorities will prob- ably condemn them to ceath: there also exists the possibility that, as is usual in Chinese pris- sons, they will be tortured to death. Tens of thousands of revolutionary champions have al- ready been executed by the counter-revolutionary Kuomintang generals. The arrest and imprisonment of the Pan-Pa- cife Trade Union secretary is not only an act of provocation on the part of the Chinese au- thorities, but a conspiracy of. the international bourgeoisie against the revolutionary labor move- ment in general, The English Secret Service, the French Surete, the Japanese police and the Chinese Kuomintang provocateurs are working together in order to choke the revolutionary movement in the Far East in blood. It is there- fore no mere coincidence that at the same time in Japan all the functionaries of the Left Hio- kikel and hundreds of revolutionary workers were arrested; that in Indo-China nearly all the members of the C. C. of the Communist Party were thrown into prison and hundreds and thou- sands of revolutionary fighters arrested; that at the same time hundreds of Communists and rev- olutionary workers and peasants were arrested in Singapore, in Korea, in the Philippines. In this campaign against the revolutionary labor movement the vilest means are employed. Use is made of forgeries, provocation, torture, ete. “Documents”, alleged to have been found in the house of the secretary of the Pan-Pacific Trade Unions, are published. The only surpris- ing thing about these documents is the naivete and lack of inventive power they reveal. These “documents” consist in part of material which was printed months ago in the official organ of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, which appears in four languages. They are now pre- ' Spread “The Liberator” in the South By TOM JOHNSON Not a week passes without Southern papers reporting armed conflicts between individual Negro share croppers and their landlords. These individual combats, as well as the bloody mass struggle waged at Camp Hill, indicate the gath- ering storm of revolt which the present condi- tions of mass starvation are generating on the Southern countryside. Last year, the Southern croppers sang a little song whose refrain went: “Ile cotton and 20c meat How is the poor man going to eat.” This year cotton on the farms is selling for under 5c—less than one-third of what it cost the cropper to produce it. The result is clear— impoverishment and starvation on a mass scale, @ whole generation of children permanently stunted through the lack of proper food, the standard of living of the Negro people forced down below Chinese levels. The whole policy. of the Southern landowning sented to an astonished public as “secret docu- ments”, new “Zinoviev” letters. The press hire- lings of English, Japanese and French imperial- ism, headed by Woodhead, are conducting an atrocious campaign of incitement against the arrested trade union secretary. Woodhead, who is out for blood, is demanding the death penalty. This same Woodhead wrote a book on China, which appeared in 1926, in which he called upon the imperialist powers to exterminate two mil- lion Chinese in order to crush the national movement, as later it would cost the lives of fifteen million Chinese. This bloodthirsty agent of the British Secret Service, who has been active for 30 years in China on behalf of his paymas- ters, is now calling for the death penalty. The life of an honest, brave revolutionary fighter is in danger! This trade union secretary, who has done much towards developing the revo- lutionary trade union movement in the Far East, is in danger of death. It is the duty of the international proletariat to wrest this fighter from the clutches of international class justice, from the fangs of bloodthirsty imperialism, and to raise aloft the banner of international prole- tarian solidarity “not in cash, but in supplies. class for a solution of the agrarian crisis is based not on the alleviation of these conditions, but | even more brutal measures toward the Negro and white croppers. The policy of the Southern landowners is to force the croppers to bear the burden of the crisis. The carryover allowance has been cut as low as $4 and $5 a month, patd Every sort of trickery is resorted te cheat the cropper out of his share of the crop. A revolt against such conditions is met with the guns of the land- jords backed up by the armed forces of the state, as at Camp Hill, or by lynch mobs, This last year has driven the Negro croppers to the limit of human endurance. They are ready to fight, as the almost daily report of armed con- flict throughout the South indicate. The growing spirit of revolt indicated by these individual con- flicts must be organized, and must be trans- formed into organized struggle on a mass scale. In the organization and leadership of these com- ing struggles, the Liberator has a tremendous role to play. The Liberator must explain the futility of these individual conflicts inspired by desperation and the necessity of mass action. Exactly how such mass action must be organized and carried through, It must become the collective organizer of the Southern Negroes in their mass fight against starvation and oppression; for a revolu- tionary solution of the agrarian crisis which will throw the landlords off the backs of the crop- pers, will give land to the landless, and will put an end to the barbarous practices of semi-slavery in force today. Our revolutionary movement Is as yet com- paratively weak in the South. It faces there tremendous tasks. It fights there the most brutal and ruthless section of the American ruling class. The coming class battles in the South must have the support of every class- conscious worker. That support must be ex- pressed concretely by the utmost aid to the Liberator in its present drive for 10,000 new circulation. The Liberator firmly established on the basis of mass circulation will be a mighty weapon in the hands of the oppressed Negro masses, Spread and build the Liberator, the collect've organizer of the Negro masses! aca i a a ETT Oa | Germany Next The next big capitalist government that will go off the gold standard and into inflation, is the one that Hoover started out to “save” last June 20—GERMANY. So you might as well get used to the idea of hearing about it shortly after we predict it, though you shouldn’t take the word of Edmund Walsh, the Jesuit propagandist against Commu- nism seriously when he claims that the Com- munists “caused” the capitalist crisis, and he had “proof” of it, because the Communist In- ternationa] foreto]d it in 1928. About Germany, though. The fascist dicta- torship is pretty firmly estab]ished by the Bruening government, under the pretense of “fighting the fascists.” And the reason for the dictatorship is fear of what will happen when inflation and chaos come. Please note the way things happened recent- ly: The fascists hold a pow-wow in Brunswick, invade the workers’ district and attack the workers, The next day, General Groener, head of all armed forces comes out and “threatens the Communists”! The Communists are “violent” and must be “dealt with by an iron hand”—but not a word about the fascists. The agrecment between the fascists and Bruening is clear! ‘We give you three guesses as to what Ger- many needs “saving” from. pee Sie He’s Agin “Forners” The up-and-up 100 percenters in Boston sent a letter to the loca] Trade Union Unity League, of which we would Jike to give at Jeast the fol- lowing extracts, space forbidding more: “Now you dirty forners youse bitter get out of this cuntry as fast as youse can or the wont be a nuf of you left to get back youse cant fool the americans look at yeare black faces now we are waren youse get to your one cuntry youse black traters our flag is red and blew not red. “Mind youre one bissnes now take it from me that if that nut in Larence get up to speak agin youse will be senden her back in a box and youse trye agin to hold a meaten at the boston comens agin see who will take hold of youse and youre nigers. We wil] shoe youse whoe are americens and howe much rite youse got in this cuntry. “Youse Jern to speake the Unite states Jan- guish rite frist.” It was signed by the illustrious “K-K-K.” After which, all we “forners” who were born in Kansas, feel overwhelmed because we haven't “lerned Unite states.” el ie In Full-belly Land If you think that “America” is just ONE na- tion, and don’t realize that there are two nations here, the nation of workers, the toiling and mis- erable masses, and the nation of rich and idle capitalists, read this from the “Social Notes” for the nation of Full-Bellies: “Fall feasting will be done in high-colored table ware, arranged in mosaic patterns like a stained glass window. Gleaming silver upon fine lace cloth; candles striking colorful light; plates that contrast in color to the food served, are the specialties of the season, Amethyst glass is supposed to be the newest.” All this, comments Comtrade 8. A., in writing us:— .--Wi]l make the unemployed who ‘feast’ on coffee—and (and may find a dead cockroach or two for ‘color contrast’) feel good to know how the rich are ‘suffering’.” ‘Two nations; two classes—that is “America.” initials: Edisons that Never Incorporated We don’t think much of Carlyle, but he once said something: “That one person die ignorant who had capa- city for knowledge; that I call a tragedy, though it happen twenty times a minute, as by some computation it does.” What was Edison? The product of ascending capitalist development. And his death comes in historic connection with capitalist decay. The electric light wou]d have been invented by some- body named differently if Edison had never lived. Nor could Edison have invented it had not ancient civilizations given this age the heritage of their inventions, the alphabet, mathematics, etc. Without a Benjamin Franklin, Edison would not have been playing with electricity. Had not, ages ago, someone discovered the ful- crum and lever, or the smelting of metals, we would still be savages living in wigwams and mud huts. Capitalism incorporated Edison. Edison is listed on the Stock Exchange. Capitalism “points with pride” at this one lone blossom on its tree of life, now rotting at the roots. -Yet it never says a word about the genius it stifles, chokes and murders in thousands of men and women who would, under other cir- cumstances, be as great or greater. Capitalism puts out the light in a million brains, and “makes the artist, the poet, the man of science, its paid wage laborer,” as Marx: said. Even in Edison’s laboratory, as in nearly every factory (the General Electric, for example), the worker who really invents anything, is cheated out of it, his genius is recompensed only by his wage, his invention patented in the name of the company. More, thousands upon thousands of inventions are TOO GOOD and are suppress~! *-cause | they cannot be monopolized; or we we ‘luce | ‘TOO MUCH; or would require new inery | to be installed—so they are 'ne"-7 | vaults of the monopolist corporations, | Thus capitalism is as much AGAINST tech- , hhical progress in the stage of its historical decay), as it was in favor of such progress in the stage ’ of its historical rise out of feudalism. 4 Socialism in the Soviet Union is making use of all the heritage of capitalism that lends to technica] progress, and is developing and NOT | repressing ALL its potential Edisons, In America, potential Edisons are committing suicide every day, driven insane by a social system in which / producers of “too much food” are starving by millions! hg ‘We may remember Edison as the one who | invented the electric light. But capitalism is keeping millions of poor in the darkness of !]- | Uteracy so they cannot read by the electric light. || It speeds more millions to such weariness in the _ shops that they have no strength to study. And so, also, Edison will be remembered as the man who brought us electric light bills four times as high as they should be for the benefit of bankers who incorporated him in life and even capitalized his death,