The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1924, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER HOOPER THREATS ABOUT CONTEMPT ACTION CONTINUE Union Chiefs Decline to Put in an Appearance Steps to institute contempt proceed- ings thru the Federal Court will be taken by the United States Labor Board against the officers of the Lo- comotive Firemen and Engineers for their failure to appear at a recent hearing of the board to testify in their wage controversy. This state- ment was made to the DAILY WORKER by Ben W. Hooper, chair- man of the Labor Board. About ten weeks ago the brother- hoods of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers of No. 45 comprising all the big railways of the West and Southwest put in a demand for a wage increase similar to that recefved by the: men employed on the Hastern roads. Instead of the ratlroad com- pany taking the matter up with the men it was referred to a labor board appointed by the United States gov- ernment much to the dissatisfaction of the union. To date nothing defi- nite has come out of the contro- versy. A few days ago the board resumed hearings in the controversy and called upon a committee of the repre- sentative of the Brotherhood of which Warren S. Stone, president of the International Brotherhood of * Firemen was one of the members to "1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. 4 ‘ (4 appear to testify. Only the represent&tives of the Tailroads were present the side repre- senting the union declining to appear. Dever Stumped On, Traction. As a result of the financial snag struck today in the Dever plan for construction of a municipal rapid transit system independent of exist- ing facilities, the Mayor and Alder- man U. 8. Schwartz, today admitted that the traction problem is about to be tossed into the city council. Dever has gabbed about the proposition for months and he is still where he start- vd. Stop MacFadden’s Plan. A temporary injunction, halting the sale of stock in the “McFadden News- paper Publishing Co,” in Illinois, was granted in the Circuit Court here to- day. The company is headed by Bernard McFadden, of New York, edftor and owner of “True Stories” ind other purveyors of hokum. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER, “To Win the Masses is the Great Task,” Says Zinoviev (In the third installment of the . speech of Gregory Zinoviev on the trade union question, delivered at the Fifth Congress of the Commu- nist International, he takes up the question of international unity of the trade union movement. “All the problems and tactical difficulties of the Comintern in the last five years,” he says, “are due‘to the fact that the development went on much more slowly than we had thot.” That is the factor in the situation which is ignored by those impatient ones, rebuked by Zinoviev, who want a new tactic for the trade un- fon question). . The German party must be abso- lutely clear on this question. Wecan forgive many mistakes, but this ques- tion can become a mill-stone about our necks; then where we should swim, this stone will drag us to the bottom, we may perish, if we have no clear understanding on this question. ‘If the representative of the Schuh- macher tendency maintains that he speaks in the name of 20,000 com- rades, that makes a sort of local pa- triotism, and we know these local iso- lated unions from the time of Legien, at. that time the same number was mentioned. We hope that of these 20,000, 19,000 will go with the Communist ‘Interna- tional when it has chosen a fixed line. ‘With the rest we must part fora time, we can make no concessions. Schuh- macher is also a soldier of the revo- lution; the party has decided that he must carry this decision thru, not only in form but in practice. I do not think that the German party will put up with Schuhmacherism for long. Schuhmacher and his followers say: We also do not preach leaving the are only revolutionary talkers, then wo will never destroy the bourgeois or. der, then we will never seriously gain the majority of the workers. Here is not the place to joke, we do not believe in the truth of the words of therepresentative of the Schuhmacher policy, who says: “We do not adyo- cate leaving the trade unions.” What Schuhmacher proposes is noth- ing else than a policy of secession, and objectively his meaning is: Out of the labor movement as it now is, with all its weaknesses, and that means: Out of thé working class as it is. We do not wish to make our- selves any illusions: We cannot form our own great ttade unions in Ger- many. Even if we could form them, we could not carry on a successful economic campaign with them; and if we wanted to do so, we should lose it, The result would be that the workers who are fleeing from the unions would stream back to the so- cial democrats. Cherish no illusions! The workers’ councils represent a new form, but the trade unions remain even after the revolution, as we have seen from the Russian example. The soviets are a new revolutionary form ofthe labor movement, but you cannot , create them every day; they can only be formed when revolution stands at the door. The real form of the present labor movement, which Marx ~and Lenin valued as such, is the trade union movement with all its faults and weaknesses, and with all the ad- vantages which it offers to social de- moeracy. Absolute clarity must be reached on this question. If Schuhmacher does not give way, then he can no longer, be- long to the Comintern. If he unites 20,000 workers to lead them out of the unions, to take them away from the united front tactics, he robs us trades unions, we also do not say “Come out of the trades unions.” We only (!) advocate the formation of in- dependent unions, and the watch-word of the “Industrial Unions.” We be- Meve that the party must support this watch-word."—Is that so? Does Schuhmacher think us so simple that he believes we do not know what it is about, if he says it in different words? He wants to bring us before such facts as will disturb the line of the partyin the trade union question. Back to the Trade Unions! ‘We must collect those workers who have left the unions with the one watchword: “Back to the trade un- lons! Yes! Back to the reactionary, anti-revolutionary menshevist trade unions, back to the unions which are still under the leadership of social democrats! Back to these unions to create in them a rallying center for our power. If we do not make this demand and carry it thru, then we IN ALL INDUSTRY of 20,000 class fighters, instead of throwing them into the scale against the social democrats. At best he neutralizes, splits them off, and makes them into an enemy force over against us, There Can Be No Question of “Mar- riage” with the Amsterdamers. Now the second question, what is to be our attitude to the Amsterdam international Federation of Trade Unions? In my opinion, this ques- tion is of secondary significance. Comrade Bordiga maintains here, that the plan of certain negotiations with the Amsterdamers would give the whole movement an “extreme right” character. In comparison with the so- called ultra-left wing we have often been reproached with a “right” po- sition. At the Third world congress Lenin said: “I am speaking as a right- winger against the offensive theory.” Good, you may call us right-wingers, we are not afraid. The real left Len- inist wing is always there, where the workers are. To win the great masses of the workers from the social democrats, that is the real revolu- tionary .orientation of Leninism. The “Memorandum” of the German delegation, which we saw today for the first time, has been mentioned here. We do not know exactly when it was written, We beg the congress not to judge our views on the basis of this memorandum. In this memo- randum the point of view of the Rus- sian party is not expressed. If you wish to know our point of view, we are ready to set it forth, but the memorandum is false. It says that we are striving for a “marriage” with the Amsterdamers. I am afraid that was written by those comrades who have prepared such a “marriage” in the Saxon “Labor Government.” The question is put in the following way: One of two things: either union with the Amsterdamers, or out of the trade unions, But think, there is another way of putting the question, Ask,the Rus- sian mensheviki. With them we had really no “marriage,” but we also did not retire from the unions when they oppressed us. We won the unions not in 20 months but in 20 years. If you wish for such directions as will guar- antee you victory in 20 months, we cannot give you such; whoever under- takes such a thing can only be achar- latan, But we know that, in spite of all, we shall win the majority of the workers. If we do not manage ‘that, then there will be no proletarian revolution. Of a “marriage” with the Amster damers there can be no question. We saw such a “marriage” last year with the social democrats,in Saxony. But not in the Russian revolution, there we shall never see it. One more reason which must move the German party to think this ques- tion thru consequently, if it at pres- ent still has objections to certain ne- gotiations with the Amsterdamers, I believe that is not out of interna- tional, but out of purely inner party reasons—it is because our party in Germany is not fighting out the ques- tion of unity in thé trade unions. I was talking ie a few comrades, and it seems to me that some of them are thinking: Let the Russian unions join up with Amsterdam, we have nothing against it; but do not jet them force us in Germany to work in the social democratic unions. Can such @ point of view be regarded as an internaitonal point of view? Not in the very least. ‘If the Russian un- fons were to go over to the Amster- damers without the R. I. L. U. that would be a real capitulation of the Comintern and of the R. I. L. U. and that we will never do. Our Russian trade unions are Leninist unions, and they do not act as Russian unions but) as a part of the Red International of Labor Unions, and carry out what the international decides. The Ger- man comrades must consider this question, not from the purely German | but from the international point of| view. The Winning of the Trade Unions Is Progressing Too Slowly, At the congress we see three groups | of delegates: Delegates from coun tries where the Communists already have the majority in the unions, as for example, France. In this case it is fairly easy to make a resolution for union ,with the reformists; the re formist minority can give way to the majority. To the second group belong coun. tries in which we have no important |} influence in the trade unions. Here the’ comrades are more or less indif- ferent to the question at issue. To the third group belongs Germany and to some extent Czecho Slovakia, where we have no certain majority behind us, but where we are nearing it, and where a sharp struggle is tak- ing place between the Communists | and the social democrats. Here the question is most difficult. We see that. But these difficulties cannot be decisive in the matter. The proposal from the Russian dele- gation is both from the international as from the national point of view, perfectly right. Comrade Bordiga says and it is re- peated in the memorandum, it would be our moral death if we should make the suggested proposal to the Amster- | damers and they should refuse it. That is a curious standpoint. We make our class enemy a proposal and he re- fuses it—does that mean that we are morally defeated? How is that? Let us take an example from civil life. The Russian Soviet Government pro- posed disarmament to the interna- |dation of the R. I. L. U. | but if it is founded, it must keep the| 5 tional bourgeoisie, the international bourgeoisie refused it. Was that a moral defeat? Suppose we should de- clare to the social democrats that we are in favor of unity in the trade un ion movement and they should be against it, would that bé our moral death? No, not at all. Read once, how the yellow “VorWarts” in Berlin} rages against that unity in the un- fons in its international dimensions. Why? Because these gentlemen are afraid it may be a blow against them. That may become anything only not a blow against us. How Did the R. I. L. U. Originate? Further it says in the memorandum, the German delegation and the whole | German party spoke against the foun- | at the time, | old forms. That is not right. You know the history of your own party very badly. Not the German party, | but Paul Levi, was against the foun- dation of the R. I. L, U. That is a very different thing. The German} | party was with us for the foundation, | and the R. I. L. U. was founded at a time when it seemed as if we should break thru the enemy front in| a direct attack, and soon win the un- ions. I can very well remember the foundation session of the R. I. L. U. The session was participated in by] D’Arragona in the name of the Italian delegation and by Robert Williams in the name of the English delegation; some delegates introduced amend-| ments to the resolutions. We can even mention the fact that at that time a Spanish professor came to us| in Moscow, and said: I am a reform ist, but the Spanish workers are Communists, and they demand that 1} join the Third International.” We answered him: “As long as you are| not a Communist you cannot be taken | into the Communist international.’ Such times we had then. It was at a time when we thot that we should in the very shortest time win the ma- jority of the workers. You know, comrades, that the movement calmed down later. All the problems, all the tactical difficulties of the Comintern during these five years, are due to} this, that the development went on much more slowly than we had thot. The social democrats have become to some extent stronger even in the un- ions. Now we must fight them in a much slower much more difficult way. That is the new thing that you do not wish to grasp. (To be continued.) | NEW YORK’S JOBS GROWING SCARCER OUR DAILY PATTERNS A GOOD MODEL FOR MATURE FIGURES 4486. The combination of plain and striped material here portrayed is very appropriate for this style. The Jong lines and “V"” shaped vest, are especially becomming to woman of |‘? fhature figure. Ratine and linen or gingham and chambrey could be hed for this model. The Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes: a not 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 inches bust measure. A 38 inch size requires 6% yards of one material 36 inches . 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Clark ' fe Clark 66 W. ren batt wed : Special zi My Risch. Boston’ Fine Soups an a 1612 Fulton ce ae re left employed in the brass and copper keg |ening. None of the big political fires 2549 just “(Special to The Daily Worker) ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 10.—Factory unemployment continued downward during August, according to the report of industrial commissioner Bernard L, Shientag of the state department of labor. The manufacturing of build- ing materials was seriously curtailed and threw brick makers, workers in cement mills, cut stone yards, paint, lumber and house trim plants out of work. There was a slight increase in employment in the wood-working it dustries, furniture and piano-making Contrary to manufacturers’ . state- ments that the New York silk mills had been profitting by the Paterson strike, the commissioner reports that 1000 silk workers were laid off. Eight percent more of the knitting mills workers were thrown out of work. The working forces in the cotton mills of the state were little more than half of the number working last year dur- ing the summer months. No Jobs Avai The shirt and collar factories in the Troy district cut teir working staffs further during the month. There were no gains in other lines of work in this area to offset the unemployment figures of the commissioner and the workers themselves find that they can do litle more than marktime un- til their employers see fit to reopen the factories. No other jobs are ee able. In New York City the clothing in- dustry has been slow in reviving and many workers are still out of work. The fur workers are finding great dif- ficulty in getting jobs, Shipyards let out 700 men, Fewer workers were mills and in the auto parts manufac- turing plants. The packing plants and stockyards cut their working | staff. More biscuit makers were laid off. Shoe workers around Binghampton, most of them employed by the Endi- cott-Johnson concern and totally un- organized, lost work also during the month, Shoe workers of Rochester managed to hold their own, But on the whole the situation for the work- ers all over the state is not yet bright- have fooled the workers into seeing a dawn yet, but the campaigns are alte aes I. W. W. CHALLENGE doubtedly will be the Centralia case. ex-service man in Centralia‘ on Ar- mistice Day, 1919. It is known that numerous mem- bers of the Legion are smarting over nation-wide publicity now being given to the Centralia affair. Many of them feel that their “organization ought to make an exhaustive inquire into this case and place the blame for the five killings exactly where it belongs. Last February the Spokane Daily Chronicle announced that Dr. Robert Farley of that city, district com- mander of the Legion, would call for immediate investigation of serious charges, including an allegaton that the American Legion had participated in creating an atmosphere of terror at the trial of the Centralia case which caused the jury to convict eight I. W. W. members whom they knew w innocent of murdering Lieut. Warren Grimm. But apparent- ly no such investigation was ever made, or if it was made no publicity was given to the official findings. Refused Speech Permit. Elmer Smith recently sought a permit to speak on the streets here concerning the Centralia case. Police Chief Frederick Roecker refused to grant his request. Smith spoke, how- ever, in a hall on two nights. His audiences necessarily were smaller there, rival attractions being staged in town on both evenings. He served notice that he would come back later LEGION ON CENTRALIA CASES) (By Defense News Service) WALLA WALLA, Wash., Sept. 10.—When the American Legion opens its state convention here tomorrow, one outstanding topic of discussion un- Attorney Elmer Smith of Centralia has written a letter to the chairman of the convention challenging the Legion to let him present all the facts in connection with the killing of four legion- aires and the lynching of an I. W. W.+ AMERICAN and fight out the issue of free speech. While here, Smith spent an hour talking with the eight Centralia defendants in prison. He reports that they are hopeful, and that their one message to their fellow-workers out- side is: “Organize!” Postal Clerks Lose Jobs. TORONTO, Ont, — Dismissals of postal workers who participated in the strike of last July still continue. Thirty men in Toronto have received their notice of dismissal, to take ef- fect on Oct: 1. A majority of these are understood to have been out on strike, tho some are men who are being retired because of old age. Child Labor Amendment Favored. SAN FRANCISCO.— A poll of all candidates for the legislature, made by the California League of Women Voters, indicates that the child la- bor amendment will certainly be rati- fled at the next session. 70 per cent of the candidates responded, and those answering were 100 per cent for the amendment, To Reopen Bootleg Investigation. WASHINGTON, Sept 10—The sen- ate investigation of the bureau of in- ternal revenue, including the enforce- ment of the prohibition law, will be reopened on September 17, it was an- nounced today, ia ad WIGGILY’S TRICKS Your Union Meeting Second Thursday, Sept. 11, 1924. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. 5 Brick and Clay, A. O. U. W. Hall, Dolton, Il. rpenters, 113 S. Ashland Blvd. , 6416 S. Halsted St. Carpenters, Carpenters, 1440 Emma St. South Chicago, 11037 Michigan Ave. ‘arpenters, Ogden and Kedzie. ni} 110'N. Robey Firemen and Enginemen, Spring- field and North Aves. Hod Carriers, Harrison and Green 18 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St 3 Marble Polishers, 810 W. Harrison 17320 Nurses, 771 Gilpin, Ave. Painters’ District Council, 1446 W. Adams St. 371 Painters, Dutt's Hall, Chicago eight: 26 Paper Nanaia 59 E. Van Buren St., P. Park Employes, 810 W. Harrison Railway Clerks, stone. Railway Clerks, 3124 S. Halsted St. Railway Clerks, Harrison and Green Sts. Railway Trainmen, 64th & Univer- sity, 8:15 p. m. Signalmen, 180 W. Washington St. Teamsters, 9206 Houston Ave. (Note—Unless otherwose all meetings are at § -) (Note—Unless uae stated all meetings are at 8 p. m.) SICK & DEATH BENF, SOGIETY MEETING TONIGHT. German-Hungarian—634 Willow St. John Freifogel, Sec'y, 3741 Semi- mary Ave. ED. 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