Page Eight THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER “LOVE AND AFFECTION FOR THE GOVERNOR” By Fred Ellis Plan Combine Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc. Daily, Except Sunday Os Electrical ft First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 A Cable Address: "Dalwork" SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bosses in U. S.i •By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): |$.OC per year $4.50 six months $6.50 per year $3.50 six months The greatest electric power and ga»| three months. $2.00 throe months. combine the world has ever known is L announced by through the #52.50 Address and mall out checks to Wall Street National City Bank. The Consolidated THE DAILY 33 First Street, New N. Y. WORKER. Yorfr, Gas Company and the Brooklyn Edi- i Editor • ROBERT MINOR son Company wjll form a new trust, jrl&pr Assistant Editor WM. F. DUNNE with $800,000,000 in assets. Commit- tees of both groups have been nego- terea as second-class mall at the post-office at New York, N. Y.. under tiating for and representatives “ this the act March 3. 1579. of of the two corporations met jointly yes-’ terday afternoon for final action, j This combination of the electric and| gas companies of New York City, i Long Island and Westchester means) a billion dollar water-tight trust able! to fleece the workingclass even more j than they have in the past. The gi-1 HONOR gantic trust will be second in size I only to the American Telephone andj Telegraph Company, controlled by the THE MEMORY OF Morgan interests. The utility magnates like Mellon,, Brady, Ryan are experts in the field | HAYWOOD of organizations as are all the repre-1 sentatives of capitalist exploitation, (

' They first invest heavily in a dozen) William D. Haywood is dead. # f different corporations which they S’:. \ control. The financial threads cross and .-••A great proletarian revolutionist and leader of his- y * recross in a vast complicated network, & the United and Europe.; passed out of across States toric struggles of the American workers has o oTw Vv”Jr #Sii These threads are being pulled in, existence. He died in Moscow after a severe illness last- drawn together into immense trusts jy grip and because he which sweep into the of these ing several years. Because of his illness g corporations millions of workers. resided in the Soviet Union, due to a pending twenty-year g Huge Profits. jailsentence in America, Comrade Haywood has been out I The American Telephone and Tele-j struggle in the States for a period of § graph Company reported a net income j of the actual United of $33,474,000 for the quarter ending! over six years. His name during the last six years of his g March 31, 1928. Consolidated Gas symbol and a tradition in the American B Company reported in 1927, the life has become a latest figures, $42,273,77*, paid out of the Labor movement. Haywood, the militant adherent in dividends. The utility corporation) h class struggle and leader of the old Western Federation of is heading for one giant pool, to draw j from Niagara Falls, the Born of a its power Miners, was a true proletarian revolutionist. St. Lawrence River and other sources, j (¦ working class family, the son of a miner, he consistently The gas and electric combine will j A pioneer of industrial and then supply western New England.) stood by the working class. New York, New Jersey, Delaware and militant unionism and founder of the Industrial Workers the eastern part of Pennsylvania. This 1 will include the Public Ser- of the World, a fearless and devoted leader of the masses hook-up vice Company of New Jersey, that in struggle against capitalist exploitation, Haywood was United Gas Improvement Company of r ; uncompromising enemy of Socialist Party reformism Philadelphia, the Coppers Company of an: Pittsburgh and some of the upstate Hillquit, Berger, etc. He and opportunism represented by utilities. The United Gas Improve- was an uncompromising fighter against the reaction in B ments recently combined with the Company which Green, Lewis, etc. He Philadelphia Electric the trade unions represented'by fs dominated by the Mellon interests. accepted enthusiastically the proletarian r-vc-lution in Russia and eventually joined the ranks of the Communist International.

from revolutionary Syn- Youth Haywood the Nominating For transition The Convention and dicalism to Communism was natural and inevitable. Like iward as the champion of the interests S2O for young workers. The young Labor Conference, held at New York minors only legalizes and encourages* of the young workers. Particularly is workers at the present time have to May 5-6 and unanimously adopted by the miserable conditions of the young, many another American militant and revolutionary I. W. By HERBERT ZAM. this important during electoral cam- work very long hours. The Commu- the delegates representing 50 trade workers and child laborers. W. member, Haywood developed into a revolutionary syn- The yaar 1928 promises to be the paigns when the young workers are nist movement fights for the 6 hour unions. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:; which large masses of young coun- day Legislation for the Youth. aj dicalist as a protest against the reactionary trade union- year in thinking about the events in the and 5 day week for young work- That we go on record in favor of workers in this country will he in- try. The Communist movement must ers. The young workers are being WHEREAS: The continuous in- vigorous campaign initiated by thw< ism of Gompers, Lewis, Green and Woll, and against the troduced to politics. It depends on have an answer to every question that militarized and prepared for an im- troduction of labor-saving devices, so- trade urflons in cooperation with the efficiency middle class politics and opportunism of the Bergers, the the advanced section of the working the young workers raise regarding perialist war. The Communist move- called methods of the em- labor movement for the passage of! class, organized and supporting the their conditions. The Communist ment must fight against militariza- ployers, and the drive of the bosses laws by the federal and state govern- - Maurers, Haywood did not Hillquits and the etc. But stop Workers (Communist) Party, wheth- movement must offer to fight for the tion of the youth. The National Nom- to reduce the standard of living of ments for the protection of the life: halfway. Enlightened by the working-class politics which er these young workers will take their economic and political demands of the inating Convention of the Workers the workers and smash the trade and health of the young workers, and! first steps in politics on the side of toiling youth. In supporting and (Communist) Party will have to union movement, results in the be it further led to the victorious revolutionary struggle of the Russian the workers on the side of the fighting for the progress for social adopt in its program, steadily increasing influx of young or election planks RESOLVED, that we favor the fol- capitalists. legislation for the young workers dealing with workers and child laborers in the workers .under the leadership of the Communist Party and the needs of the toiling lowing laws, to be sponsored by the The capitalists have already begun which the Young Workers (Commu- youth, and mobilize them, mines, mills and factories. 1 policy around the labor movement: the correct trade union of the Communist Interna- a campaign to get the young workers nist) League has issued, the Party youth demands of the Party and the WHEREAS: The bosses with the Every person 18 years of tional. Haywood embraced Communism and the Commu- to support their parties. They are will actually become the champion of League. In that way, the Party will co-operation of the government take young making a drive to enlist the services the needs of the young workers and indicate that it fights advantage of the age of the young age and over be given a right to vote. International as the vehicle of true and complete for the en- nist of the youth in their election cam- rouse them to struggle. franchisement of the young workers laborers and their not being organized Complete abolition of child labor. working--class theory and practice. paign. They will offer the toiling The masses of the young workers, in deed and not merely in words. The and make them work even longer State maintenance of all children youth phrases about “democracy,” young farmers and students are dis- Young Workers must also be shown hours and under worse conditions employed at present. “glorious country,” etc., but natural- franchised. The Communist move- in their election the the adult workers do. S2O minimum wage. Comrade Bill Haywood come as a struggle need for than The death of will ly will very carefully avoid saying ment must fight for their political en- a revolutionary fight against capital- WHEREAS: The bosses and the Abolition of night work, under- shock to the tens of thousands of American workers who anything about the low wages, the franchisement. The demand for a ism and for the proletarian dictator- government completely and criminally ground work, and work in dangerous long hours, the miserable conditions vote for the youth 18 and over must ship. disregard the conditions that industries. ' will mourn the passing of one of the most splendid rep- special that the young workers face in in- peneti-ate the entire working class. The following resolution was pre- the young laborers need for their An effective system of compensa- resentatives of a militant generation of American pro- dustry. The young workers receive miserably sented by the Young Workers (Com- physical and mental development. tion in the regulation of which young The young workers will be won if low wages. The Communist move- munist) League to the are letarians. But they will take part in the growth of the Labor Youth WHEREAS: The existing legisla- workers to participate. the Communist movement comes for- ment fights for a minimum wage of Conference called by the Brookwood tion for the so-called protection of Four weeks’ vacation with pay. : working class revolutionary movement which Haywood served boldly and courageously. They willbe strengthened by the faith in the ideal of working class liberation to Slogans Play Important Role Struggle which Haywood gave his life. They will find consolation in the Class compensation in actively joining the paign, he asks, “What are the essen- the means whereby the various politi- It is evident that the underlying ticular peculiarities of a given poli- and Communist move- a good By BERT MILLER. tials of slogan?” and replies, cal parties make their approach to the motive behind the bourgeois political ] ! tical situation.” And further, “The and continuing on Hay- “In the first ment forward the road which Bill “To secure the public good and pri- place it should sound masses, it is correct to consider the slogan is diametrically different from ! ! people must before all and most of wood travelled. vate rights against the danger of such well and mean nothing definite.... attitude displayed in formulating such that behind the Bolshevik slogan. jall, learn the truth, must know in The slogan should contain some in- slogans, a faction (meaning the majority of as revealing the attitude of W'hile bourgeois politicians seek tq whose hands the power of the statu the population. B. M.) and at the definite term that means all things to such political parties toward the confuse the masses with certain catch- reaUy lies. One must tell the people Bill Haywood is dead. Like John Reed and Charles person same time preserve the spirit ancj the all men and that each can in- masses. The contrast between bour- words concealing behind ambiguous the entire truth.” E. Ruthenberg his mortal remains will rest in the house form of popular government is then terpret for himself. Such terms as geois democracy and proletarian dem- phrases their real sinister purpose, Professor Cutten actually deserves of the First Workers’ Republic and the center of the world the groat object to which our inquiries ‘Democracy,’ ‘Freedom,’ ‘Liberty,’ ocracy is sharply exposed when we Lenin utilizes the revolutionary slo- a unanimous vote of thanks for giv- are directed.” —James Madison. ‘Equality,’ ‘Oppression,’ ‘Fraternity,’ compare the character of bourgeois gan as a powerful stimulator of the ing us additional corroboration of proletarian revolution. By this token, the ties between principle laid and other general terms that no one political slogans with those formu- masses, as a means of giving clear Lenin’s significant analysis of bour- This fundamental can define, but of which every one by Lenin. working class of America and the Union of Socialist by the foremost theoretician of lated guidance and direction to the masses geois versus proletarian democracy, the down thinks he knows the meaning, are thousand-and-one tricks the period during which the Ameri- The Revolutionary Slogan. for the accomplishment of certain “By a the Soviet Republics willbecome stronger and their collabora- most valuable.... Take for example specific particu- capitalists, in a bourgeois democracy can government was established, is tasks demanded by a one of the best slogans ever coined, Let us what Lenin has to these tricks are the more tion in struggle more secure. still the basis of our present-day dem- see say lar stage of the struggle against the —and skill- Mr. Wilson’s, ‘Making the World Safe on*the subject. In his article basis of ful and the more the ocracy. This is revealed with start- entitled, exploiting class. Since the effective, fur- >• for Democracy.’ It sounds well and “Dispute Regarding Tactics, But bourgeois slogan ling clearness in an article entitled Give the lies in the parti- ther ‘pure’ democracy has developed name means nothing .It us Slogans,” “The of Let us commemorate the and tradition of Bili Slogan to Win an Elec- definite... leads Clear Lenin declares, cular class interests at a giver, mo- —keep the masses out the admin- “Wanted: A into where ag- party of the struggling class the istration and frustrate the freedom Haywood by concentrating on struggle in the New York Times of war we can become must ment, it cannot therefore be at the which domi- tion” last gressive under philanthropic motive, keep its eyes the of right of Sunday, by Professor George B. Cut- a before necessity same time other than a slogan direct- of the press, the meeting, nated his life—the fight against the capitalist system and if people do not want to be made giving its political stand with the against of prole- Proletarian democracy is a and ten, president of Colgate University. ut- ed the interests the etc.... safe for democracy we can kill them most clearness on all concrete ques- tariat. The party of the revolution- million times more democratic than for working-class rule under the leadership of the Hollow Slogan. Com- with a clear conscience, for it shows tions in a manner which permits of ary proletariat must seek elsewhere any bourgeois democracy, and the munist Party of America and the Communist Interna- Commenting on the fact that the that they do not know what is good no two-fold interpretation. Yes or the basis of its slogans. “Every sin- Soviet regime is a million times more E tional. democratic party is seeking a good for themselves.” no: shall we now, in this given sit- gle slogan,” says Lenin, “must be democratic than the most democratic slogan for the coming election cam- In view of the fact that slogans are uation, do this or that, or not?” drawn from the totality of the par- l1 regime in a bourgeois republic.” ¦ Struggle against the Lewis, Green and Woll domina- I I tion in the labor movement and for the triumph of the I Uniting Magnates I militant and left wing unionism in the United States! I the World-Zinc Meet to Protect Their Monopoly ¦ Carry further the fight against the middle-class and Poland third with 124,094 tons. production is being steadily concen- agreement: (1) users of zinc who The basis for world economy is be- socialist | BySCOTT NEARING These three countries, with less than trated. In 1913 the United States must buy from abroad, across tariff ing laid by the capitalist: I party politicians in the labor movement and for the victory § Zinc producer's from all parts of a tenth of the world’s population, produced 32 per cent, of the world’s walls and other restrictions; (2) the (1) Through a world wide scien- meeting produce I of independent working-class political action! Extend § the world are in Brussels to more than two-thirds of the zinc; in 1926 the United States pro- monopolists who are fearful lest tific method of tool production. organize the zinc industry. Even the world’s zinc. duced 54 per cent, —one nation with someone should creep into their (2) Through world wide marketing. ¦ and strengthen the tie that binds the American workers 1 United States is represented. The Four other countries: France, Ger- more than half the world’s total zinc markets. (3) Through the organization of I with the workers of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- U meeting is significant. It is one event many, Canada and Tasmania produce output. The recent experience with price huge monopolies that operate on a in a long that leads from local 244,775 tons of zinc,—about a fifth of The in zinc cartels national world scale. the recognition chain international comer beyond (imperial) I lies and for and defense of the Soviet | economy to world economy. the total world production. Hence is paralleled by the zinc comer in boundaries has not been encouraging. Thus far the capitalists can go, but I Union. Zinc is one of the minor metals. It there are seven countries, with a very side the United States. “Mineral In- Imperial ruling classes in the various the next step they cannot take. They is, non • the less, a very important small fraction of the world’s total dustries” reports 30 .'•melters in 1926 imperial states have many causes for cannot organize an effective world CENTRAL EXECUTIVE factor in the mineral industry. population, that produce almost the under the control of twenty separate conflict; they lack any practicable economy because of the sectional I COMMITTEE World production of zinc totals entire annual output of zinc. companies. As several of these com- means of enforcing agreements. Still limited character of capitalism and about 1,200,000 tons each year. As Zinc users, in all parts of the world, panies were closely connected, the they dare not go on without some the capitalist state. It remains for I WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA jj in the case of so many other im- must turn to one of a half dozen United States zinc industry's in the agreement. Even the zinc producers the workers to lay the basis for an I K~ portant mineral industries, the United countries for their supplies. hands of a very few powerful con- of the United States, with more than effective world economy by taking * States leads with 555,110 tons a year; Not only is there a corner—but cerns. half of the industry, are willing to over the socially productive tools and I a i i liiiimir—mrniTK—Tins Belgium is second wiUrTjO.2l6 tons, there is narrowing comer. Zinc Two elements demand a world >zi^c talk world agreement at Brussels. linking them under a unit plan. | • \ m