The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1924, Page 5

se SILLINSKY IN BIG LEAD IN TAILORS’ POLL Sweeney, Making Poor Showing in Election By ANDREW OVERGAARD (Special tq The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 9.— The results of the election in a number of Locals of the Jour- neyman Tailors’ Union clearly shows that the membership of the union is looking for a change, and if the same inter- est on the part of the members is shown by other Locals there is no doubt that Max J. Sillin- sky, candidate for election as secretary-treasurer, will carry the election by an overwhelm- Ing majority. The present incumbent, Sweeney, has been using the columns of “The Tailor’ to make personal attacks against Sillinsky, and utilizes his staff of organizers to make his cam- paign. But Sweeney's frantic efforts seem to be helping Sillinsky. We can judge by the result of the voting in four Lo- cals which is as follows: Max Sillinsky Sweeney Cleveland 166 14 Pittsburgh 106 25 Houston 22 4 New York 24 5 This shows clearly that the senti- ment is for Max Sillinsky and progress and the letter from Arthur Keep, pub- lished in a recent issue of the DAILY WORKER, and a letter which follows from a prominent member of the Lo- cal Union in Los Angeles, indicates also that the Locals that supported Soderburg in the last vote have thrown their support to Sillinsky. The letter speaks for itself and we publish |) it in full: Stands First For Union. Los Angeles, August 18, 1924. Mr. Max J. Sillinsky, 2536 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Sir and Brother: I received your letter of the ninth inst., and al- tho you did not ask me to tell you where I stood in regard to the com- ing election, I feel it my duty to in- form you anyway. I STAND FIRST AND LAST FOR THE WELFARE OF THE J. T. U. of A., and will do everything within my power te help lift our union out of the deadly mor- rass into whieh it has drifted thru the utter incompetenct of its present General-Secretary. There was a time when the Jour- neymen Tailors’ Union was a power in the Labor Movement, today it is weak and helpless, and this condi- tion is not due to accident, but is Page Five Communists Oppose Revision of Trade Union Tactics (Herewith is the. the second install- ment of the speech by Gregory Zin- oviev, chairman of the Communist International, on the trade union question, which was delivered at the 29th session of the recent Fifth Cngress. “If there is a question on which the Cémintern might lose its head,” said Zinoviev, “it is just the trade union question.” He proceeds to annihilate the theories of those Communists who want to revise the trade union tactics, a tendency highest developed as “Schumacher- ism” in Germany). *: *._* © “Schuhmacherism” In the German party there has been much talk of a “new trade union policy”. What does this policy con- sist of? In “Schuhmacherism”. It is only a pity that in our German party there are not whole Schuhma- chers but also half Schuhmachers, who defend the same wrong policy less consequently. It is better when we have a whole Schuhmacher before us and can discuss the whole ques- tion. Schuhmacher represents the view that a whole philosophy separates us from the soeial democrats; therefore he thinks we cannot remain in the same unions with them. Of course a whole philosophy separates us from the social democrats! They are the lackeys of the bourgeoisie, and we are Communists. Who does not under- stand that? It did not need a Schuh- macher to discover that.-Or it is said: These dogs, these social democratic leaders are provoking us, in order to throw us out of the unions. We must therefore leave the unions. But just for this reason they are dogs, just for this reason they are lackeys of the bourgeoisie, to provoke us and split the unions. We are not therefore sentimental dreamers, but straightfor- ward proletarian revolutionaries, and can say: Dog remains dog, lackeys of the bourgeoisie reman lackeys of the caused by the ignorance and stupid- ity of one man, and should he by some misfortune be re-elected, I shall have grave fears for the future of our Organization. If only more of our members were acquainted with the man, there would be no’ doubt of the result—he would be overwhelmingly defeated. I have often noticed that when the mem- bers of a Local have a chance to see and hear him, they usually cast a ‘strong vote against him at the dif- ferent elections; which probably ex- plains why he never accepts an in- vitation to visit a Local if he can find some excuse to get out of it. As he is on every possible occas- sion Claiming the credit for bringing abont the Weekly, System, I am go- ing to give you a few facts.. In Feb- ruary, 1918, he stated in a letter to me that “the last convention (1917) cost more than eight thousand dol- lars, and the money might as well have been thrown into Lake Michi- gan, as not a single thing of any im- portance was accomplished.” And OUR DAILY PATTERNS A PRETTY APRON. = A POPULAR SUIT FOR SMALL BOYS. 4566, Woot Jersey, serge, velveteen or corduroy could be use@ for this model. It is also suitable for wash materials. The Pattern is cut in three Sizes: 2, 4, and 6 years. A 4 year size re- quires 2% yards of 36 inch material, Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL AND WIN- 4864. Chintz or cretonne would be) THR 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. nice for this model, "The free sotor,| wa may be bound in a contrasting color, or finished with stitching or rick rack braid. The Pattern is cut in four Sizes: | man Small, Medium, Large and Wxtra Large. A Medium size requires 2% ‘yards of 86 inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipts of 12c in silver or stamps. epg PN ied rt yh our UP-TO-DATE FALL AND TBR 1924-1925 BOOK OF F. wi Sy, The ea ORK 1118 ae : eens a be for “You “Your Daily,” ‘Ithe + DAILY” WORKER. bourgeoisie. We must hold out in spite of all, in order to win at any price, the majority of our class comrades in the unions, i. e. in the organizations whieh are still under the-leadership of these accursed lackeys of the bourgeoisie (but which will not always remain so). The time is coming in which we shall win the majority of the workers in the unions. However much it may cost, we will not give up the wining of this organization of the working class, The Mensheviki in Russia were just such lackeys of the bourgeoisie, they wanted just the same to push us out of the unions. We fought the same fight. We said: The greater the provocation, the more we must hold on to remain in the unions, and in spite of all, to win the majority of the workers. In the Comintern there were always ele- ments who wanted to lead us another way. Already in the ist and 2nd world congresses there were voices, they were partly comrades from Eng- land and America, who said: “We do not wish to remain any longer in these unions,” Lenin fought against them like a lion. Now these comrades say: “We are all Leninists, but we want to go out of the reformist trade unions, we want to create a new form of the labor movement, a whole philosophy sep- arates us from the old unions.” The policy of the Comintern is this: Work in the unions as they are. Lenin un- derstood how to send the first workers of our party, the first founders of our party into the reactionary unions, which had been founded by tsarist gendarmes, he even sent them into the unions which General Subatov had founded, only to draw the workers in- to our circle of influence. I must ad- mit that the Dissmanns and the Grass- manns, the D’Arragonas, and the Gom- perses are just such gendarmes, they are reactionaries. We know the gang: objectively they are not better than General Subatov. But as we went into these unions to win the majority of the workers, we must also remain in these Subatov-Grassmann and Suba- tov-D’Arragona unions. If we do not do this, it means that we only want to win the majority of the workers with words. Or perhaps you really|they hear even the names of Grass: finish. want it, only you do not know how.}mann & Co,, and that hungry work: | huhmacher appeals to a whole} You cannot win the majority if you jers buy milk for their chfidren rather | series of resolutions from the transi do not stay in the unions. only pour your water on to the mills | of these gendarmes. Schuhmacher | may. consider ‘himself on the left, in| réality he is playing into the hands | of Grassmann and Dissmann. No Compromise in the Trade Union Question We can allow no compromise on the question. The Comintern must speak out clearly: We must remain in the trade unions. All Schuhmacherish ar- guments rebound against Leninism and prove the truth of our policy. Why | do the social democratic leaders ex- pell us? Because they are afraid we might win the majority of the work- ers. If there is a question on which the Comintern might lose its head, it is just. the trade union question. If there is any question which can wreck our German party, it is the trade union question. (Loud applause.) Today a comrade said to me: By some communal election or other, we had suffered a defeat. Naturally every defeat, however small, is unpleasant to us. But we do not belong to those comrades always and at any price, a| victory; we know that there must also | promise, and we must be absolutely | who say: But as Communists we | clear on this question. also, know that in spite of defeats we | But if| Cc. the Leninist stand-point does not’find| foundation of a right L be defeats. must continue the struggle. firm footing in the German party, if the Leninist work does not appear clearly in the trade union work— that will bring such a defeat as we shall not be able to stand. I must explain that the opposition in this question is not an “academic” one. Some Communist “academicals try their very best to deepen ever: by good workers, and that is danger- ous. It is humanly comprehensible, that the workers clench their Then you|than pay membership fees which go/tion period of th into the hands of social traitors. 1 jean feel with them. But as a mem | ber of our class, as a member of the world party, as a class comrade, such | |a worker is not right. |nize that it is n fee, to win this organ ble to every worker, that it is n sary to remain in it, and that we can only win it from within. If we do not do that, our whole program remains only on paper. Comrades, what made us most anxious at the time of the German discussion of this question? We understand that after the Octo-| ber defeat. ter the Saxon comedy a crisis was inevitable. That is not so dreadful that we cannot make it good. | But when the party as such, and very good workers who form the basis of | our party, have no clear line of action on the trade union question, makes us extremely anxious. the party And There must be no lack of clearness here. |not a question of words but of com- The Frankfort resolution of the G. P. is theoretically right, it is the ninist policy in the trade union question, but as every book has its own particular fate, so every resolution can have its fate it may remain a paper resolution. We} have spoken about it a good deal with our German comrades, with the best | proletarians of Europe. They have} to some extent in this, that they when | t He must recog: | that | annot follow a Communist | \line, if it has not a clear line in this | question of all questions. revolutionaries who require of their} nany strong sides, but their weak side | question. They are still considering whether it is not opportunism to re main in the trade unions. Comra ies, | his inward battle must be fought to G. C. P., from the time of the vacillations, when the at | titude to the trade union question was being taken up. That there were vacillations is not so dreadful. It was the time of moulting. But when these tions last for ye it becomes y. Schuh- nothing. ortune for the p acher’s arguments pro’ We hope they are theo come in Frankfort. It o to evercome them in pr: I was talking to a Berlin comrade. one of those prolet ; who form the foundations of the party. I got the impressfon that he was to some extent ashamed before the m | because we remain in the social d jeratic unions. In the undertaking in which he is working there are 30,000 | workmen employed Only a few | thousands are organized in trade un jions. Now he is med to stand be: fore them and s: You must go jinto the social democratic unions These 30,000 he considers very good | workmen. comrades, we know the masses well, we have had to do It is| with thousands, yes, millions of work | masses | ers. We already know those “You don't get me into the | trade union, it has no sense to go into that show.” They sometimes make |} very radical gestures, but they often do not go into the party, and remai far removed from the revolutionary struggle. Then comes the moment when they ‘Where was the party |when we went wrong? It is there to set our mistakes right!” Of course we cannot carry out the revolution without these 30,000, but we must convince them that it is necessary to remain in the unions. If we do not false step which we make, but the | have not yet fought out in the depths|do that, then we cannot destroy the danger in the deviations in the trade | of their soul the trade union question. | bourgeois order. union question is, that it is also made! They have not yet conquered this | (To be continued.) mind you, that was the convention where the WEEKLY SYSTEM WAS ADOPTED. Later, when I was pre- paring to line up the Pacific Coast for Weekly Work—and succeeding— he wrote me that he did not think our members wanted it. After nu- merous Locals wrote to him for ad- vice regarding that section in our | Constitution, he passed the buck to the Executive Board, evidently hop- ing that they would postpone en- forcement indefinitely and save him labor and worry. And now he claims the credit! ! ! You say that Sweeny has no policy? You are mistaken. As a delegate to the A. F. of L. conven- tion in Montreal, 1920, I stopped over in Chicago to talk things over with him to see if we could adopt some genéral policy for the benefit of our Organization and also on the important issues which were known to be brought up. As he did not seem to have any interest in the whole affair I asked him what was his policy, and heré is the gist of his reply. Brother Trummer, the major- ity of our members are ignorant and they have no policy on anything, and that’s my policy. I ventured to sug- gest that perhaps our members ex- pected “Headquarters,” thru its knowledge and experience to take the initiative in such matters, to which he replied that he would be foolish to take any trouble or work outside of the regular office routine “which was all the Constitution re- quired of him anyway.” I then wanted to know what in the devil we were going to do, and here is his reply, which is typical of the man: “Well, we are going to the convention hall, find a good seat, light our pipe or cigar and smoke; at noon we will take a walk and lunch then go back to the hall and light up again and smoke until they adjourn, and if they have any pleasure trips ar- ranged we'll go along, Ha-Ha-Ha.” I could not help exclaiming: “So that’s what our members are sup- posed to spend their hard-earned money on!” Anyway, both Boland- er and myself took part in the dis- cussion on several measures—and by the way, my argument on the Plumb Plan was printed in full in the official proceedings, and I don't think any of our members know this, as it was not mentioned in my report to the Tailor. I suppose you know that my first choice Was Soderberg, but I sin- cerely hope that our members will wake up to the fact that we cannot afford to longer ‘endanger the very existence of our Union by keeping a man in office who lacks all the quali- ties any man should have, and at oe sdme time seems to be proud of. it. I feel sure that you will strive con- scientiously to further the interests of our membership, and in so doing strengthen the standing and reputa- tion of the JOURNEYMEN TAIL- ORS' UNION OF AMERICA. Sincerely and Fraternally yours, M, A, TRUMMER. LEAGUE FOR MUTUAL AID TO EXTEND ACTIVITY NATIONALLY; IS HELP TO LUCKLESS RADICALS (Special to The Daily Worxery NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—The League for Mutual Aid, 70 Fifth | Avenue, is planning to extend its activities to a national basis. The first step is to be the immediate establishment of a branch office in Boston. The idea of a League for Mutual Aid came to Roger Baldwin when he was serving his involuntary prison sentence during the war. had ‘his plans ready and gath- ered around him other kindred souls—Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Charles W. Ervin, and others. This was in Jan. 1920, when many of our best men were serving war sen- tences in Leavenworth and elsewhere for the expression of their ideals. In four years the membership spread to 600 souls scattered over the country. Their first office was nothing but a| passage-way alongside the old office of the American Civil Liberties union. No door, but a faded green rep cur- tain, hid the busy secretary—himself a conscientious objector — from the | many visitors that crowded the rooms of the American Civil Liberties union on West 13th street. Has Aided Many. Many a tired “red” found solace | and comfort behind that old green curtain, and altho the office is more pretentious today—on Fifth avenue— the aid and assistance is just as keen. If a radical happens to need a loan to pull him thru, or a job, he is likely to come away satisfied. In fact, in any way, personal or otherwise, the league is at the service of its mem- bers. One well-known New York doc- tor, Allen Carpenter, has helped in- numerable times those who have not been able to afford medical atten- tion. Tragedy and comedy jostle one an- other every day. One day it is the case of an old anarchist fighter who has fallen on bitter days thru incur- able illness and is sent peacefully and beautifully on the last lap with all the comfort that it is possible for him to have. Loaned $6,000 To Date. A farmer, out in faraway Oklaho- ma, who had been jailed during the war for obstructing the draft, needed When he was released, he+ $100 to pay off a mortgage and save his crops from disaster and his fam- ily from destitution. The league was told of his case and sent $100. Up to date, the league has made loans ag- gregating $6,000 and has_ secured many jobs for its members. The membership is very interest- ing. find himself having a good time at one of the jolly winter socials with a talented hod-carrier who is studying art. Another good-looking gentleman |from Boston, who is looking for,a wife who will not recite poetry aloud be-| fore breakfast, thinks he may find one in the league. All sorts of people be- long—poets, playwrights, bricklayers, artists, organizers, ministers nitors | and jovial school teaches. And they represent all types of thinking; an- archists, Communists, I. W. W.’s, mild | and wild liberals, and yet all is per- fect harmony at any of the gather- ings held in winter. The league leased 15 acres of camping ground at Mohegan colony near Peekskill, New York, where there is a lake for bathing and boat- ing and members may pitch their tents for the warm holidays. Confiscate |. W. W. Supplies. SACREMENTO, Cal., Sept. 9.—R. V. Doyle, I. W. W. organizer, arrested in Sacremento, was released on condition that he ‘allow all his suplies to be con- fiseated by the police. The defense committee applied for a court. order to secure the supplies, which was re- fused by Judge Busick, author of the anti-I, W. W. injunction. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS take some rabkit Inddies A noble professor of ethics will | FATTY ARBUCKLE, | TNT REPORT. ROCK CONVENTION Cal Gets Slapped (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) SOUTH BEND, Indiana, Sept. | The Indiana Federation of Labor, in session here, endorsed Robert M. La Follette, Burton K. Wheeler, and Fat- ty Arbuckle, The resolution endorsing the re-en- |trance of Fatty into the motion pic- Party Not a Party. The endorsement of LaFollette Wheeler came after a, stormy debate jon the report of President T. N. Tay- jlor, advocating that the * convention give its official approval to the en- | dorsement of these candidates b; 2 Gompers’ executive council. T. } | report proved a bomb in the conven tion camp. It brought up the question jof whether or not a labor federation | |could discuss politics. Delegate Per- |kins ‘said that the Indiana organiza- tion was practically destroyed in 1894 because it entered politics. dicted the same result if the federa- tion goes into politics this year. He 1901 by the American Federation of Labor, forbidding the organization to tell its members to which political party they should belong. The fact that LaFollette’s party is not a party, helped in getting over that objection. Cal Stepped On. Thirty sensitive delegates left the hall when Calvin Coolidge's name was mentioned disrespectfully. They re- turned when the blasphemy was over, The convention also went on record favoring recognition of Soviet Russia, after having tied a string to the re- solution by amending it*to read that any government established by its own people should be recognized. owe which Klansmen cas When | printing bureau. I ture world passed unanimously. The delegates weren't so sure about Bob | and Burt as stars on the political | screen. He pre- | read a portion of the rule adopted in| FASCISTI NOW CAUGHT WITH TREASURY LOOT |Say Mussolini’s Friends Got Billions (Special to The Daily Worker) TURIN, Italy, Sept. 9.—That | Fascist officials have, during the |past three years, put into their }own pockets billions of dollars thru subtle operations in the printing bureau of the treasury department located here, has been discovered following the ,;announcement of the Banca mo: | d'Italia that there are in circula- tion $300,000,000 in bonds and | $700,000,000 in paper bills not accounted for in the records of the treasury. That the surplus is not due to counterfeiti has been ascer- ained by careful examination jof the money in circulation in the country. Facts Are Suppressed. Government employes working in the printing bureau have been taken into the pay of Fascist officials, and been induced not to record a cer- nur the bonds and bills at were turned out, it is reported. Publication of these facts in La- tampa, libe ~democratic paper pub- shed by litti, former premier of Italy, has led to its immediate sup- er of pression. Mussolini has sent orders to the prefect of every district to sup- press any paper which makes mention of the printing bureau scandal. As a result, Unita, daily organ of the Communist party; Avanti, organ of the lists, and Corriere della Ma Serra, : a t liberal organ, have | been temporé ly suuppressed, Charges Hit Army Officials, 1 that the same officials who Be last year gathered in millions from the Banco Disconto, which in a few months made millionaires of a’ |handful of penniless army officials, jand which was closed only when the |scandat could no longer be kept under er, are responsible for the opera- have ben going on in the Over $3,000,000,000 is reported to have been presented to the Banco di Roma, in which all of the financial in- terests of the Vatican are tied up, in order to buy for the government the favor of the Pope, and the millions of Catholics whose votes the Church controls. | Your Union Meeting Second Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1924, Name of Local and 0. Place of Meeting. 181 8901 Escanaba Ave. 2 s Assn., 64 W. Randolph . mM. 1 Boiler Makers, Monroe and Peoria. 520 Boot and Shoe Workers, 1939 Mil- waukee Ave. Carmeé’s Dist. Council, 5445 S$. Ashland 4 Jewelry W St. 104 Garment W 328 W. 0 126 Ashland Bivd. 524 N. Cicero Ave. 375 26 W. 63d St. 7 hington St. A d Blvd. Western. Ashland Ave. 814 _W. Harrison Se. 1633 _N. Halsted St. 1638 N. HALSTED ‘arpenters, Carpenters, by ed Act H FEHLING, Rec, Sec'y., e St. Irving 7597. iers, 1352 W. Division St. Sheet Met 5324 ©. Halsted St. Railroad Trainmen, 426 W. 63rd St., 7:30 p.m. Roofers, 777 W. Adams St. Teamsters, 220 $. Ashland Blvd. Teamsters’ (Meat), 220 S. Ashland Biva. Tuckppinters and Frt. Cleaners, 810 W. Harrison St. Tunnel and Subway Workers, 914 W. Harrison St. Carpenters. 6414 §. Halsted St. Painters, Sherman and Main Sts., Evanston, Itt. Plasterers, 910° W. Monroe S*. Sheet Metal, 714 W. Harrison S¥. otherwise stated all s 73 (Note—Unlegs meetings are at 8 p, m.) Res, 1632 S. 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