The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1932, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1932 War on Militants Is Program of Chilean- Wall Street Dictators Strikes Prohibited, Communist Jailed and Workers’ Halls Closed Anti-Imperialist League Calls for Unity of Labor to Aid Oppressed Masses Labor Sports By SI GERSON /YOUN ‘Two campaigns are going on today | among athletes in the United States: | | one is the campaign conducted by the |American Olympics Committee, the | other is the campaign led by the Na- | |tional Counter Olympic Committee. |The honoroary chairman of the Am-| |erican Olympics Committee is Her-| | bert Hoover, starvation president of |the United States; the honorary| chairman of the National Counter| Olympic Committee is the imprisoned |worker, Tom Mooney. | | | | | G DEFE The s class ¢ control is describ economy ed as “ obser The Spirit of Youth ar-old worker in the LW.W. in ich the ition of r the productica of educa- tional films, cries its heart out at the State of the world. After seeing the film, this review gathered that it must have had some ‘istic in the Cry of t World was for “peace.” Not being cer- tain he went up to the offices of the International im Foundation to in- quire, and learned from the secretary that the film to fina on geography, that the o political bia: and is not even paci- fistic. Its sole aim in producing the Cry of the World was to attract enough money to ma’ educa- tional Yo correspond 2} learned also that the president of the Organization is the reactionary Dr. Atwood, president of C! sity. In its confused description of the State of the world, this picture in- cludes some interesting shots which have not bzen seen before in tfle reg- ular newreel release; British polic2 cruelly beaten native Indian demon- strators, American police dispersing a Communist demonstration with clubs, and horses’ hoofs, horrible shots of the bombardment and conflagration of Chapei and natives in flight from .| are y etc.,| no | jointl ss somehow the checked, civil ensure.” They he growing influ- Communist Party poverished Chilean ers and ruined peasants and call et government to interests of which, they ned with whole- priation if ical elements gain , as they now threaten League of the nt out the st organiza- revohitionary and dopt the follow- id forward it to the ington, D. an consulates, Copies of ained from Broadway The resolution Stop the Terror in Chile! reas, the Davila government of rying on a campaign of he revolutionary the Commu- more than 500 ts, prohibiting the strikes, ng meetings and demonstra- those workers’ organizations d to Yankee and British im and to the fascist Davila nt; and is attempting, un- ra state of martial law, to sup- ress completely the anti-imperialist id he Davila Government lf openly as y given up its dem- ses to support its military e atacks on the workers and imed to assure im- ‘ol of the Chilean ni- and copper for use in the Far the campaign of terror toiling masses of Chile to the program of the Hoo- war and hunger administration in the United States, where workers faced by increasing unemploy- and starvation, by Hoover's -cutting campaign, by the Dies ion Bill, by war preparations xent against the Chinese people and the| t Union; and whereas, the mass- | Si es of Chile and we in the United nization had made this| States have to fight the same enemy, | Wall Street; ‘efore be it resolved That we will carry on this struggle with the oppressed masses in n the Philippines, in Porto d the other colonies and semi- of American imperialism, pledging our full support to their themselves from the y f Yankee and British imper- ialism. We protest most energetically against the campaign of terror waged against the revolutionary elements. We demand the immediate reopening of all workers’ clubs and halls closed down by the government. We de- mand the right of workers and peas- ants class struggle organizations to exist and function without interfer- ence from the government. We de- mand the immediate freedom of all political prisoners from Chilean jails. Chile, We demand that the Hoover admin-: 1 working-! > ganizers of powers, | Japanese bullets and bombs. But istration keep American warships and 5. except for these occasional bits of marines out of Chile; and be it fur- Bood movie reporting the Cry of the/ ther Resolved: That we send copies World is as misleading as it is poorly | of this resolution to the Chilean con- executed. It begins with the fantas-|<yiate, 17 Battery Place, New York; tic title: “A movement for permanent | to the Chilean Embassy, Washington, Peace is sweeping the world” and fea~ |p ©.; and to Secretary of State Stim- tures of the late lamented Peace con-| son, Washington, D. C.; to the labor | Mference at Geneva where Hugh Gib-| press; Son assured the delegates that the} League, 799 Broadway, Room, 536, world is in no danger of disturbing | New york City, N. ¥. the peace. His speech ironicially fol- | +" lowed (quite without the intention of | Events for Int'l Workers’ Sports the makers, of course) by war scenes | }{/in China and scenes of the oppres-| M eet, Chicago To be held in Stagg Field July \+-sion by British police in India, The] ¢} film ends with a title declaring that » , all depressions are followed by periods | ‘of prosperity and that we must not| ri laa a 28, 29 and 30: _ mar the coming boom period with the SENIORS (18 AND OVER) 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, 400 meter dash, 800 meter run, 1,500 meter’ run, 3,000 meter run, _ danger of war, L, T. HURWITZ. 5,000 meter run, 5,000 meter walk, _.*SOVIET STUDIOS TO PRODUCE 1¢) meter low hurdles, running high emp, -running broad jump, hop, FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS Soviet Russia is going after world wide film distribution and will pro- duce foreign language films on a ‘ *"‘targe scale. The first effort along| ™tep and jump, pole vault, discus “these lines, according to advice from | throw, javelin throw, 16-pound shot put, hammer throw, Pentathlon, broad jump, discus throw, 100 meter dash, 1,500 meter run, high jump, 4x10 meter club relay, interna- ¢ WOMEN 60 meter dash, 100 meter dash, running high jump, running broad jump, light javelin, 8-pound shot put, 4x100 meter relay, SWIMMING 50 yard crawl, 50 yard side stroke, 100 yard free style, club relay, “> "Moscow, will be a film now being || hproduced in Soviet Russia in Jewish | -and Russian, titled “The Return of ) | “Nathan Becker.” -(. “The Dark Horse” with Warren | tional medley relay, modified mara- +, ‘Williams and Betty Davis will be the | thon (app. 10 miles). ) «chief screen attraction at the Jeffer- JUNIORS (UNDER 18) /Json and Franklin Theatres beginning | 60 meter dash, 100 meter dash, ’* Saturday. Each theatre will also pre- | running high jump, running broad ‘sent “Dangers of the Arctic”, a story | jump, 8-pound shot put, 4x100 » of Eskimo life, as an added feature. | meter relay. The Acme Theatre, 14th St and : Fourth Ave., which has been showing ' Soviet films and workers news reels | ** for several months, announced yes- \ ‘terday that its managent a contract ‘) with Amkino, American distributors . 5 of Soviet films, for a series of first- 4 Fn showin>* ae and to the Anti-Imperialist' This alone | Ishould’ ke sufficient to show to all! jclass-conscious workers what the | character of the two campaigns are.| | The Boss Olympics | | ‘The Olympics games in this year of | crisis can be seen as a boss class | Olympics by even the most skeptical. | |The Olympics Committee in makeup | is composed of out-and-out reaction- | ‘ary elements: General Douglas Mc-| Arthur, head of the War Policies | |Commissimon and Chief of Staff of the United States Army is one of| the leaders of the American Olympics ; Committee. (General McArthur, it | may be said in passing, only recently | completed a tour of inspection of the| ortifications and the military forces| of the Baltic States bordering the! Soviet Union). Colonels Ely and Roosevelt are among the army of- ficers in the leadership of the Olym-| pics Committee, Avery Brundage, rich | Chicago building contractor and| president of the Amateur Athletic) | Union, is another guiding spirit, as is |the wealthy New York lawyer, Gus- s T. Kirby. In short, the oi the Olympics are drawn} jfrom the top ranks of the capitalist | | class. The work of the Olympics Com- mittee reflects faithfully the policies | of the American capitalist class. First; |—the Olympics Committee is carrying | ;out a boycott of the Soviet Union. The Olympics does not “recognize” {the existence of -one-sixth of tl | World’s surface which is in the hands} of the working-class. The tremen-| dous growth of physical culture is the | Soviet Union, one of the fruits of the} | revolution, remains “unnoticed by the | | Olympics Committee. | Olympics Jim-Crow Policy ! The implacable hostility of the |Olympics Committee towards the! | Soviet Union, which they “failed” to| |invite to the Olympic Games, can| only be approached to their hatred of ‘the Negro masses. Negro athletes are | not given a chance to compete in the! South with white sportsmen. .A spe-| cial meet is held for Negro athletes | ‘in the South, at Tuskegee, held with | ; the groveling aid of the Negro middle | j¢lass reformists. In the North ath-| jletes are discriminated against |somewhat more subtle fashion. This| is what Leroy Atkinson, a sport writer | ‘of the Boston Transcript wrote on| April 6th of this year concerning the | boxing tryouts for the Olympics held lin Boston under the auispices of the | Amateur Athletic Union. “If the Amateur Athletic Union cannot see its way clear to giving Negro boxers the championships | they win, then the A. A. U. ought | to go out of the boxing business, or | | else bar these colored boys.” ! | International Workers Athletic Meet| | The American worker sportsmen | have organized a Counter Olympic) campaign, initiated by the Labor Sports Union. In October of last year Tem Mooney issued a call for a boy-| cott of the Los Angeles Olympic} | Games as a protest against his con- tinued imprisonment. The Labor Sports Union immediately wired him, endorsing his appeal for boycott and, going further, suggested that he ac- cept the honorary chairmanship of the National Counter Olympic Com-' |mittee that was then being built. | Mooney wired his acceptance of this} and the entire movement was spurred | on by his endorsement. A number of | Tom Mooney Street runs were held in New York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, | | Chicago, Youngstown, Milwaukee, San | Francisco, Paterson and a number of | smaller cities in the country. In all these runs the athletes run through the major streets of the city with |Mooney,”, “Free the Scotssboro Boys,” “Boycott the Olympics,” etc. number of cities united front con- ference were held where the athletes from various boss-controlled and in- dependent organizations were brought into the movement. Competition was organized in basket-ball, soccer, and swimming, track and field. The en- tire campaign is to wind up in the International Workers Athletic Meet, at Stagg Field, Chicago, July 28, 29 and 30, Athletes from the Soviet Union have been invited to attend this meet. The High Council of Physical Cul- ture of the U. S. S. R. accepted the ‘invitation and has promised to send five athletes. Canadian worker ath- letes are expected. The Labor Sports Union, which |initiated the entire campaign in the | United States, will have its National Convention in Chicago August 2, 3, 4. ‘This National Convention, with the base of the movement broadened out as a result of the Counter Olympic Campaign, will officially open the drive for the World Spartakiade in Moscow, August 1933, at the conclu- sion of the Five Year Plan. Worker athletes who are now busily engaged in working for the success of the Counter Olympic Campaign are al- ready looking forward to the World Spartakiade campaign and the send- ing of a mass delegation of Negro and white athletes to the World Sparta- kiade. Workers interested in ‘the Counter Olympic Campaign may write to the rangements Committee, Room 711, 120 N. La Salle, Chicago, I, Madiera, Hill & Co. ... + $141,544 Locust Mountain Coal Co. 28,953 Sonman Run Coal Co, 25,000 | Westmoreland Coal Co. 8,660 slogans on their backs “Free Tom| In al The care, health and devel- opment of the children of the Soviet Union is the best bar- ometer of the great progress being made in the Workers’ and Farmers’ Republic. Top photo shows children at play in the forest, uncer the guid- aitte of nurses and teachers; center photo shows a group of Pioneers, r2presenting va- rious national minorities of the U.S. S. R.; bottom photo shows a typical class - room scene. NDERS OF THE U.S.S.R.|Theo. Dreiser Te REFUNDS TO RICH; HUNGER FOR MASS When it was announced that over $63,100,000 plus $14,400,06 of interest | had been refunded to individuels and corporations in 1931 from previous) income tax paymenis, the New Ycrk} Times published an incomplete list of | those receiving funds, declares the| Labor Research Association. Coal} companies and coal magnates among them included the following: Brownsville Coal & Coke Co. 6,744 Illinois Central R. R. Co. ... 1,158,676! (close to Peabody Coal Co). Middle West Utilities Co. ... 364,592 Knox Consoliated Coal Co. . 31,330 Clinchfield Coal'Corp. ...... 41,009} United Pocahontas Coal Co. 72,330 | Mellon coal interests in he list in- | cluded: New Pittsburgh Co. (as suc- Mining Coal Co.) . Harbison-Walker Re frac- tories Co. Andrew W. Melon himself . $129,134 53,273 86,939 Richard B. Mellon ‘ 14,729 E. M. Love, a director of Pit- burgh Coal Co. . 13,385 N.Y. Athletes Set for Meet July 16 NEW YORK. — Going into the last lap of their preparations for the In- ternational Workers Athletic Meet, at the end of the month at Stagg Field, Chicago, New York worker- athletes are awaiting the big New York district eliminations at Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, July 16. The win- ners at this meet will comprise the team that goes to Chicago to repre- sent New York. | A totally new feature will be the Tom Mooney Mile Relay. A travel- ling cup will be given the winner, and the relay will be continued as an annual event, There will be 28 track and field events, including six for women and six for juniors. A sports dance will be held in the evening in the pavil- lion, where prizes will be awarded. Entries will be received until Friday morning at Room 229, 80 E. 11th St. These tax refunds are being handed ‘out by the Hoover-Wall street gov- ernment at the very time when un- employment insurance is being denied to the starving jobless on the excuse that there are no fnna- BOOK REVIEWS A CONVERSATION WITH LENIN (On the revolutionary working class and Marx’s “Capital”) The old Bolshevik, Comrade Shap- ovalov writes in his book “On the Road to Marxism.’ “On the trip to Siberia, a conver- sation between Lenin and the out- standing French Marxist, Paul La- fargue, was reported to me. I repeat it here exactly as Comrade Martov described it: “When Lenin told Lafargue that there were as yet no Parties in Rus- sia in the West-European sense, he asked: “Then what do you do in your worker's circles?’ “We conduct popular lectures for the workers, and then later the more capable ones among them study Karl Marx.’ “‘The workers read Karl Marx?’ ‘* Yes? “But surely you are mistaken,’ the Frenchman remarked. ‘Surely the workers don’t understand a single word, Our Socialist m ovement. is 20 years old, but no one here under- stands Marx.......’ “Right at the very start of the movement we Russian workers went straight to the source, that is, to “Capital,” and that is certainly one of the reasons for the exceptional progress of Marxism among us. Lenin considered it correct for the workers to study Marx independently and supported these efforts in every way.” The offensive of the American Party on the theoretical front has made it necessary to make available for every worker the orinigal mater- jals of Marxist teachings. Our pro- Jetarian publishing houses have be- gun to publish a new series of pop- ular editions of Marx and Engels and have made a good start with the new edition of “Capital,” vol. 1, and the Eighteenth Brumaire, both in new authoritative translations; Eng- el’s “The Peasant War in Germany,” never before published in English, and the “Communist Manifesto,” the new edition of the English transla- tion authorized by Engels. Very soon we expect also the first authentic English translation of Marx's “Wage Labor and Capital.” The old Kerr edition, which is the only one which has been available for some time, had some serious mis- translations and distortions, This translation has been made by Com- munists, on the basis of the original documents. Engels’ “Anti-Duehring” is under preparation. I has never appeared in English, but it is not yet possible to tell just when it will be available. Comrades—don’t underestimate the capacity of the workers to study. Get them to obtain these classices of Communism. Tell them about the | Marxist Study courses, which will | help them in their studies of the orig- jinal works of Marx and Engels. A SHORT AND SHARP EXPOSURE OF LYNCHING How the white ruling class uses lynching as a means of enforcing the vicious exploitation and oppression of the Negro people is shown clearly ;and fully by Harry Haywood and Milton Howard in Lynching, a 5-cent pamphlet just published by Interna- tional Pamphlets, The real cause and purpose of lynching, an exposure of the “rape” lie, who organizes lynchings, the role of the state and federal governments as “protectors,” the laws against lynching and the National Assotia- tion for the Advancement of Colored People, the struggle against lynching carried on by both revolutionary white workers and Negro workers— all these are discussed in this pam- phlet, which supplies excellent ma- terial to further explain the plat- form of the Communist Party in the election campaign. THE END OF THE HENRY FORD MYTH The Henry Ford myth of high ‘wages, good conditions and the “pa- ternalism” of father Henry Ford was washed away in blood when four workers were massacred by police_in troit. Robert L. Cruden, a former Ford worker whose brother was one of the 22 wounded in the massacre, shows the backgrotind. of this massacre’ in the form of tremendous speed-up and murderous conditions in the Ford plant in a new 5-cent pamphlet, The End of the Ford Myth, just pub- | lished by International Pamphlets. He tells of the speed-up, wage- cuts, lay-offs, Ford stool-pigeons or service men, as they are more po- litely called, child labor in the Ford plants, the revolt of the workers. He describes the events of Bloody Mon- day and the tremendous answer of the workers at the mass funeral and by organization of the auto workers. Like the other International pam- phlets it can be obtained at the workers’ book shops or from Workers Library Publishers, Box 148, Station =e Why He Will Support Communist Nominees Leading American Novelist Gives His Reasons in Analysis of Present Stuaton Three Boss Parties Camouflaged ‘to Carry Thru. Capitalist Program, He Declares | front of the Dearborn plant at De-|: By THEODORE DREISER I HAVE been asked why I support * the Communist ticket as opposed to that of the-democratic or repub- lican or any other party now func- tioning in this country. In the first place, the political programs of the republicans, demo- crats and socialists, no matter how skillfully camouflaged, reflect only minor differences as to how to carry through the American capitalist program. In other words, how give to the few the wealth and privilege in’ unlimited degree, and af the same time persuade the masses to accept ignorance, hunger, and ter- ror. GREED, BRUTALITY Capitalism, inthe. face of the greatest opportunities ever offered it by any land or nation, has failed to use the’ enormous’ wealth and power accumulated by it in any hu- mane or socially constructive way. Ithas failed-as a system of gov- ernment. In a land overflowing with natural resources which could have’ been developed and organized for the mental and physical wel- fare of the nation, it has contented itself with greedily and brutally re- serving for the few the opportun- ities and privileges which mere de- cency would have suggested be ex- tended to all. Twelve million workers ready and anxious to work and capable of pro- ducing food, clothing and other goods so urgently needed by the people, are now suffering from forced idleness, and, in many cases, hunger. Eighty-five per cent of the employed are working only a few days a week, and only fifteen per cent of the employed have full-time jobs, One out of every five farms in America has been foreclosed. (My authority is Gov. Dan Turner of Towa.) Taxes so high that not even state and national, let alone private mortgages due can be met. Yet the corporation-pickeq delegates, con- vention leaders, and spokesmen of. the the Democratic and Republican Parties now concentrating on the issue as to whether a robbed and generally deprived citizenry is to be allowed to have liquor. , THEIR GOVERNMENT But never a word, if you will note, as to lower charges by the greedy and really thieving and buccaneer railroads and their associates, the Steel trust, the oil trust, the beef trust, and those now still larger combinations that deal in milk, bread, and food generally. Taxes for the private individual on tele- phone, telegraph, and radio mes- sages, as well as on electric and gas light meter bills. But not one word as to a reduction of charges by these same monopolies which accumulate for themselves the major portion of the savings of the land. Rather, for these combinations, greater and more-safe and sure re- turns. For it is they who run the government, select its nominees for office; its’ president, congressmen, governors, judges, officials, and’so- called representatives. generally. Republican and Democratic Parties alike, organized anq controlled as they, are by these super-capitalist powers, have in this period of se- vere crisis, exposed their complete bankruptey. In fact, our American corporations and these, their poli- tical henchmen of both parties, re- main in’this hour coldly unconcern- ed about the suffering of the mil- lions whom they have exploited. At this very moment, they are think- ing only of protecting the profits taken in the past and insuring their return in the future. Their way out of the crisis is to bring poverty and misery to the workers and farmers and petty clerks the land over, as well as twelve million Ne- groes already greatly discriminated against, | jim-crowed, and often lynched, the while the few rich of our banks and corporations sit above’,in aristocratic. comfort and control, richer’ and still more power- ful.’ In short, their way out of the crisis—the. capitalist “way, out— means ‘direct, “help “snd ‘protection not to the poor but to the rich.. ‘AID BANKS, RAILROADS "If you doubt this, consider the last session of our American Congress; the democrats controlling the House and Mr. Hoover, approving, as Pres- ident, appropriating billions of dol- Jars for direct aid to the rich. Mr. Hoover's, Reconstruction Finance Corporation alone making two bil- lions available for the big bankers, their railroads, and other troubled corporations, But not a single word @s to any national’ five-hour day or five-day week, which would at once and.most beneficially give the twelve million unemployed’ of today something to do. | hs On the contrary, under the guise of economy for themselves, categori- ance at the expense of ihe state and its protected monopolies, refus- ing to appropriate money for a far- Teaching public work program or to pay the bonus to the éx-servicemen D, New York, from whom it should be ordered in large quantities for sale especially among the auto workers. cally refusing unemployraent insur- ' of the last war, most of whom are now unemployed or. working only Part time, In short, they refused, and still do; to appropriate money for the immediate relief. of the starving worke}s' everywhere. THE “BLOCK-AID” SYSTEM On the other hand, what they really offered, and that, via an enormous advertising campaigg which must, have cost them mil- lions, was the .abominable block- aid system, the.family help family game, and community heip cgm- munity slogans;...And in this way, and by means of.forced collections in the’ factories:and from the al- ready poverty stricken neighbor hoods and homes. of the country, they proposed to escape, and have so escaped, any direct tax on theme selves. In fact, they have succeeded in placing the burdens of charity! not on, those who might so well have arranged to obviate the neces- sity of charity for’ anyone, in so rich a land, our -united and uni- formly buccaneer corporations and their incomes:“and surplusses, but upon the toiling. and underpaid masses who.can-‘so ill afford to give anything out of their meager stores. At the same''time, warehouses bursting with” tinused food) and clothing, which ‘no competent au- thority in eifhér’ our national or any of our state governments will order distributed ‘among those who need them. Hundreds of thousands of houses empty and yet the fields, the alleys, ttié’ basements of the country crowed with those who have no other place'to go. Idle factories, capable of producing all of the goods the people nééd, yet idle. And idle, because if they Cannot be run prof= itably for the féw who control them, they shall not tun at all. They shall decay first’'and be lost to the present economic wealth of the country entirely.* QUESTIONS , SUPERFLUOUS And yet I am asked why I favor the program of the-Communist Par- ty, and advocate the election of Wm. Z. Foster and James W. Ford. Do I really nee@ to answer that? For is it not’ the’ Communists who say that “Unless ‘you honestly work and contribute "t6 the welfare and the development of the land whose benefits you desire to share, you Shall not share them. But if you share, you shall share equally and generously with all your fellows.” If that makes’one a Communist, then most certainly I am a Com- munist. And I shall vate the Com- munist ticket.” George E, .Ppwers, Communist candidate for chfef judge of the Court of Appeals of New York state. Active in the revolutionary labor movement since''1918. Has worked at various trades.,.Aé. organizer of the the 1929 strike, reduction of hours of work from 48 to 44 a week. Has been active as or- ganizer of steel workers, agrarian workerg and is row secr=tary of the Building and Construction Workers Industrial League, On Bugle Funerals ““at Boulder Dam °-U\Las Vegas, Nev. Editor, Daily Worker: When you read of the Boulder Dam dead, you must/not imagine ordinary dead—whole corpses. Many are blowt " to bits, and they: sometimes can only find a hank of hair, a few teeth, a bit of skull. The funeral expenses in such cases are very small. If you are .a'fLegionnaire, the Boulder Dam City’ Post will blow a bugle refrain over‘'Your grave as you are lowered, and-a rifle squad will shoot a fusilade of blanks as they start shoveling ity“the dirt. But even these marvelous advan- tages are insufficient to lure many ex-servicemen into the Legion. When- ever we unemployed hear the shots we know that, amother Legionnaire has been laid bo as a@ sacrifice to the gods of ‘Capitalism. One-half hour ago I ane bugle and shots again, —A Workes, +d 2 ein