The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1925, Page 3

4 1 | | i { / j | | / & i | BROOKLYN SHOE WORKERS FIGHT COMPANY TRICK On Strike Over Plot to Wreck Union By SAMUEL W. LEVICH (Workers Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY, May 29.—The B. W. S. Shoe factory, 235 Powel St., Brooklyn, N, Y., Is at a stand still. All of the forty-six workers, who were coining profits for the four bosses, who own the factory are out on strike. The history of the strike runs as follows: On April 80, 1925, as a re- sult of an argument, one of the four bosses threatened the shop chairman with a hammer. On the same day all the workers walked out in protest. The bosses asked for a settlement, the shop crew held trial and forced the bosses to pay two hundred dollars for the two days lost time. A Nice Little Conspiracy In the meantime, the bosses framed UD a neat little conspiracy, which ex- Dloded on May 10. On this day the four bosses called twelve workers whom they hoped they could seduce and use as scabs to smash the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union in their shop. The sneaky bosses presented to the workers a neat little plan offering them partnership in the business on condition that they (1) invest one thousand dollars each in the busi- ness; (2) They accept a reduction in ‘wages in order to put the business on @ more sound basis; (3) Increase the hours of work for the sake of ex- Dediency and (4) they should abstain from participation in any strike. Should any one of them join in a strike called by the union, he auto- matically loses his one thousand dol- Jars investment in the business, The same day the workers discover- ed this conspiracy, thanks to the ef- ficient and live shop crew. On May 11 the workers met, the whole con- spiracy for breaking the Shoe Work- ers’ Protective Union in this shop and the trap set by the bosses for the twelve workers in order to be able to use them as scabs against the in- terest of the union and particualrly against the interests of the workers in their own factory, were discussed by the workers. On May 14 a strike was declared which became immediately effective one hundred per cent. The main de- mand of the workers is for a new agreement, since the bosses violated the old agreement by a conspiracy against the workers. This new agree- ment demands protection and security against a repetition of such a conspi- racy on the part of exploiters. The writer asked the shop chairman why he has not presented a demand in his new agreement for reinstate- ment of all. workers. The shop chair- man only smiled saying that such points are unnecessary since the bos- ses know very well that if even one worker were fired, the workers as & whole would not return to work un- der any consideration. The writer further inquired from the shop com- mittee as to what assistance they got from the press. He was told by the strike commit- tee that the only paper giving them support in their struggle in the Frei- heit of New York. They said that they sent a committee to the Forward ask- ing that an article on the str!’ he Placed in their paper, but the yeiiov socialist Forward of New York true to its role as a traitor to the workers and a lackey of the bourgeoisie re- fused to support them on the flimsy ground that Comrade Cosgrove, a member of the Workers Party is their organizer, The strike committee told the writer that so far as they are con- cerned the yellow Forward can go to hell with its yellow sheet together. Stand By These Fighting Workers The workers of the B. W. 8. Shoe factory appeal to all shoe workers of Greater New York for support in their struggle against the conspiracy of the bosses to smash their union. The Shop Nuclei By A Student, Ur Chicago Young Workers’ League is taking the reorganiza- tion on shop nuclei basis seriously. ‘We know that only under the shop nucleus basis will we become a mass organization, Knowing this, we are doing as a good general always does; we have gone in for training. On Monday evening, May 25, 26 stu- dents appeared in class for a course of 6 weeks in shop nuclei work, This school is unlike any other World Farmers’ Co (Continued from page 1) ternational, greetings were given by delegates from several countries, in- cluding America and speeches deliver- ed by Orloff and Dumbal, respectively president and secretaty of the Inter- national. The general idea expressed, by all emphasized strongly the neces- sity of organizing the farmers against the capitalists in all countries and that the farmers cannot hope to win in their battle against the bourgeoisie without making an alliance with the workers. Communism Peasants’ Friend. Kalinin, the farmer president of the U. 8. 8. R., is a very busy man, but nevertheless he found time to address the conference. His speech was roundly applauded. Comrade Kalinin stressed the thought that it was neces- sary to educate the farmer to realize that he is being robbed by the capi- talist system, that.the farmers of all countries are exploited by the bour geoisie, and that Communism is the farmers’ best friend. The presidium of the Enlarged Bx- ecutive submitted some principles and programs for the conduct of the work in the various countries, which were unanimously adopted by the ple- num and a brief outline of which is given below, Effects of War. 1. The imperialist world war con- stituted the beginning of the break- down of world capitalism. The capi- talists have now emerged from the war stronger in monopolistic organ- ization, and are making desperate ef- forts to shift the burden of the war up- on the working class. This means re- duced wages, longer hours, worse con- ditions of labor for the workers and increased taxation, bad terms of credit and ruinous fluctuation of prices for the farmers. 2. The farmers of the world were the greatest sufferers in the war: In loss of life, requisition of farm prod- ucts for war purposes, low prices, bankruptcy and destruction of agri- cultural areas. 8. The post-war crises have led to a shrinkage of agriculture in Europe and to its expansion outside of Hu- rope, with over-production in agricul- ture and a diminished demand for ag- ricultural products, which, outside of Europe, lead to the collapse of farm- ing, to the bankruptcy of millions of farmers who in great numbers move to the already over-crowded industrial centers. Rapid Economic Changes. 4. The crises in agricultural produc- tion and consumption, the rupture of the world’s economic relations, the military occupation of certain dis- tricts, the Dawes plan, create a sit- uation of rapid economic ~ changes, from revival to severe crises and clearly show the instability of capi- talism. 5. The poor farmers have gained little or nothing from the increase in prices of agricultural products, owing to their heavy indebtedness to the banks and burdensome taxation, and the instability of the present period is not conducive to a continuation of high prices, Competition Keener. 6. Competition among the..>evid’s capitalist powers is keener than ever and the imperialists seek. a solution of the crises in the exploitation and oppression of the colonial peoples, Capitalism also endeavors to attain stabilization by subjecting the work- ers to reduced wages and longer hours of labor and the farmers to increased taxation and low prices. 7. The war has led to a colossal swelling of the foreign debts and in- creases of the state budgets and the interest on these depts are shifted by the capitalists to the shoulders of the workers and farmers. Revolutionary Sentiment Among Farmers, 8. The impoverishment of the poor farmers is causing revolutionary sen- timent amongst them and drives them to active political work. The example furnished by the U. 8. §, R. is a great source of inspiration to them in the conquest for political power. 9. The war and post-war crises have concentrated and centralized capital which rules ruthlessly over the unor- ganized farmers, producing reduced prices of agricultural products, worse credits and the increase of prices of Training School this school every student has the re- sponsibility of organizing a nucleus in a factory, whether or not we have our comrades working there. The first lesson has tatight each and every student how to ofganize a nucleus only, but we will know how to conduct a well-functioning one, This is thé beginning of practical and systematic training of young Communist leaders and organizers, This marks a great step forward for the bolshevization-ot the Chicago school conducted by the league. Inj league, 10. In order to quiet ths discontent ngress Maps Action industrial products, among the poor farmers the éapital- ists promised them reforms, but these reforms were, for the most part, car- ried out in the interest of the well-to- do farmers, big banks. landowners and Farmers Cannot Rule Alora, 11, The farmers, owing to their lack of organization and inexperience in the struggle, cannot by themselves maintain the power of the state, This is shown by the agrarian party now in power in Czecho-Slovakia which rules in the interest of the bourgeoisie and the landowners and in Bulgaria, where the farmers did rule but lost their power to the fascisti. For this reason the farmers need an ally and this ally must be the workers, BILLY'S MISSING FROM $.P. REVIVAL Thousands Invited to Hit Sawdust Trail (Continued from page 1) sion of the 60th anniversary of the services and sacrifices of “this unique lover of the common people,” Eugene V: Debs, bring about the resurrec- tion of the socialist party, now so peacefully at rest, with flowers on its chest and everything? The corpse 12, The tenant and mortgaged farm-} !00ks mighty yellow, but then, it’s ers and farm workers pis) achiting understood that this is its natural to become convinced that they have nothing in common with the big land- organizations of their own. The ad- herents of the International Farmers’ Council should enter into these organ- izations and work in them, but with- out causing splits. If no organization complexion, Is the socialist party dead? In Cleveland, where Debs will speak shortly, that old vote-catching war- horse, John Willert, chants its dirge every chance he gets. At the metal trades counell, at his union meeting, he constantly harks back to the good old days when he was elected a so- cialist councilman. He was thrown exists thru which the ideas of the y°Ut of the council upon order of the I. F. C. can be propagated then new organizations must be created for this purpose. These organizations should be both political and economic, based upon a program of concrete demands, affecting the mass of farmers, Should Start Farm Organizations. 13. In many countries, as for in- stance, Poland, U. S., Canada and Mexico, farmers’ organizations are be- ing started, striving for the unity of interests with the city workers, Ad- herents of the I. F. C. should accelar- ate this process. 14, The active committees, embra ing the whole population of farmers in the various localities, should be or- ganized to fight for such demands as the land for the users, against heavy taxes and for cheap, long term credits. Farmers’ Councils. 15. When confronted with the ques- tion of the direct fight for power, the farmers, in alliance with the work- ers, should create farmers’ and work- ers’ councils to take charge of the owners and the banks and the bour- geoisie, an’ they are therefore now organizing themselves into unions and work, in solidarity with the city work- them up with the consumers co-opera- tives of the workers, 17. Work among the farm women is very necessary, organizing them separately, but joining them to the general farmers’ organizations, _ 18. The young men and young wom- en on the farms should be be organ- ized and linked up with the farmers’ organizations, influencing the young on the farms away from the leader- ship of the half-hearted progressives. Close Ties with Workers, 19. Farmers must establish the clos- est ties with the organizations of the city workers and the city workers should participate in farmers’ organ- izations. 20, The program of action for the farmers must be suited to the actual situation in each country and such a program should include: (1) land for the users; (2) against high taxes; (3) better credits; (4) campaign against the banks and trusts; (5) against rep- aration in the vanquished countries; (6) against militarism and imperial- ist war; (7) defense of the U. 8. 8. R.; (8) for self-determination of all na- tions, including the colonial peoples; (9) close alliance of exploited farm- ers with the city workers, Pamphlets and Newspapers. 21. Joint meetings and conferences of farmers and workers for the pur- pose of fighting the capitalists are very desirable. Pamphlets and news- papers, dealing with the problems of the tenant and mortgaged farmers and farm workers must be published, 22. It is necessary, when the occa- sion demands it, to point out the re- actionary role of the clergy, but this should be done without offending the religious feelings of the farmers. 28. The aim should be to get as many farm organizations as possible, both political and economic to affili- ate to or brought into contact with the LRG. Ruthenberg Speaks at Workers’ House ~ Picnic Saturday C, E. Ruthenberg, national secret- ary of the Workers (Communist) Party will speak at the Workers’ House picnics on Saturday May 30, (Decoration Day) at the National Grove Park, Rivers! Il. The ple- nic starts at ten in the morning with games of all kinds. In the afternoon there will be speeches and Russian and American dancing, The Wor! House is composed of the Russian Workers Co-operative society, White Russian People’s society, the Russian branch of the Workers Party and the society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia. This picnic is the first Russian out- ing of the season and every comrade is invited to come and spend a day out in the open fields with us. Tickets can be secured now at the Workers’ House for 35 cents and will be sold at 50 cents at the door, ers. the meeting. There 16. Energetic work should be done | that 1s conducting t the farmers co-operatives, linking] !8 ® local Debs meeting committee. It chamber of commerce. But this is not considered an honor by him. This was an awful mistake. Willert still holds that eventually he will sneak up on the chamber of commerce, grab a seat in the elty council unbeknownst to it, and make the revolution. That the sneaking-up policy is be- ing tried out is proven concretely. In recent elections in Cleveland the so- clalist party candidates were, the same as all other capitalist candi- dates, just a picture and a name to the workers of this industrial center. Nothing appeared upon any election literature which would give any one to understand that the socialist party was operating for either reform or re- volt. Its name did not appear. The Party is Hidden. And now comes this revival, or rather’ an attempt at it. There are cards in the windows. There are sheets upon the billboards. The name of Debs is flashed in big red letters. But the name of the party he wants to bring back to life is not mention- ed. Then look at the literature, the letters of the Debs meeting commit- tee. Mind, it is not the socialist party has sent out hundreds of letters, ask- ing all and sundry to come and see and hear “the. best loved man in America.” In these letters there is much talk of the tremendous heart, of weary souls, of social wrong, of oppressed» humanity, of -liberty and justice loving people—but not a word about the class struggle, or the work- ing class and the capitalist class, and not a word about the socialist party. Its mame does not appear. This gumshoe method of trying to rope in votes and members will not prove successful. Workers who are for the revolution know that there is an enemy, that there is a struggle ahead, and this attempt to obliterate class lines and to soften and human- ize the conflict will not win any ad- herents that are worth a whoop. Nice gentlemen and ladies will go to the meetings and take a look and feel, for a moment, real sympathetic with the aged spiritual leader of this decrepid party, but there will be noth- ing more to the party, no more red blood in it after the meeting than before. . The socialist party all over the world, has accépted the job of hand- maiden to the capitalist class. In Finland it helped to defeat the revo- lutionary masses in an attempt to es- tablish the Soviet. In Germany Lieb- knecht and Luxemburg, the leaders of the revolutionary workers, were murdered under a socialist regime and that arch monarchist Hindenburg is president there today because the German social democracy believed in stabilizing the bourgeois order rath- er than in establishing the proletari- an dictatorship. In Hungary they helped to overthrow the Soviet gov- ernment and then, to save their own skin, entered into an agreement with that murder Horthy, promising to be good little boys under the Horthy re- gime, if Horthy only would allow them to play a bit in their usual yellow way. Hillquit For the Bosses, While the spiritual leader holds forth in Cleveland, Hillquit, the theo- retical leader, writes a memorandum in New York. As counsel for the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to the New York governor's ad- visory commission, investigating the garment industry, he speaks as fol- lows: “The union emphatically denies that charge that it persues a policy of antagonism towards the employers, On the contrary, the whole record of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in this city is a con- tinuous effort to co-operate with the employers on the basis of justice and fairness,” This is what we would dubb the trade union policy of the socialist party. Class collaboration in the unions. No class distinction in poli- ties. We are all one human race looking for freedom and Uberty. This is the reactionity, counter-revolution- ary program ofthat handful of yellow evangelists who’ have begun a cam- paign to resurrect a corpse, now rest- ing so with flo on its daost and srecpiing. LABOR HAS OWN ‘MEMORIAL’ DAY CELEBRATIONS Workers Ignore Bosses Military Propaganda The militant workers of America will celebrate the successful assaults of their class on the loosening grip of the exploiters, and will pause to commemorate the memory of those workers slain by the cruelty and greed of the employers on this Memorlal day. The advanced guard of the workers will not take part jn the sickening glorification of pre-digested past cap- italist wars which is being served up by the Coolidge officials and bloated bankers to “educate” the laboring population. Militarists Out In Force. In Chicago the odor of the carna- tions which are profusely to be spread about will not be strong enough to hide the stench of the utterances of the majors and colonels sent to preach war to the publie school children dur- ing the next few days by Lieutenant P. J. Rundle, of the Cook county grand army of the republic, The workers will celebrate their own victories in their own way. On May 80, the annual Trade Union Edu- cational League picnic will be held at Altenheim Grove, at the end of the Forest Park “L” line. The motif of the occassion will be recreation, How- ever, William Z. Foster will speak on his recent experiences in Russia and William FB. Dunne will have a con- spicuous part in the program. Working Women March, In New York, the women’s commit- tee of the Workers (Communist) Party district 2, in co-operation with the United Council of Workingclass Women and other women’s organiza- tions will gather at 12 noon, on Sun- day May 31, at 108 EB. 14th Street, to march with banners to the graves of victims of the Triangle Waist factory fire, where 146 working girls were burned to death in March 1911. The working women will remind the workers of New York how the greedy chase for profits of the.cloth- ing bosses. cost the.lives of these girls, who were burned like rats in the ancient firetrap. Novy Mir Steamer Ride A more joyous aspect of the ob- servance of “Decoration” day by the New York workers will be the round trip excursion of the Russian Com- munist newspaper Novy Mir. The steamer Ida will leave New York May 29 at 8 P. M., and innumerable ways of enjoyment on the week, end trip have been provided. There will be dancing, fishing, and concerts. A camp 2,000 miles above sea level near Saugertise, 100 miles from New York, will provide a delight- ful place to celebrate. The fare will be $4.25 a round trip, and tickets may be secured at the Novy Mir office, 30 Union Square, The bosses’ organizations on the other hand will flood the country with military propaganda for preparing the workers to get killed in the next war. West Side Branches in New York Start New Party Center NEW YORK, May 29.—The new gar- ment capital in New York city, in the Thirtieth street and around Seventh Ave., has grown in the last seven years at the rate of one building every month, each building averaging 15 floors, and giving employment to al- most 100,000 workers. It is of great importance that our party have a center and meeting place in that section. We opened a headquarters there, located at 375 Seventh avenue (near 31st street); and we offer our headquarters to shop nuclei, shop committees, ete., for their meetings.—The West Side Branches of the Workers Party, English, Greek, Jugo-Slav, Italian and Shop Nuclei. Seattle Celebration Raises $110 for Labor Defense Council Aid SEATTLE, Wash., May 29—The tab- ulation made on the Paris Commune Day celebration in Seattle shows a profit of $110.45. This sum has been forwarded to the Labor Defense Coun- cil national headquarters for defense of class war prisoners, Participating in the affair were all branches of the Workers Party in Seattle including a Caucasian branch, the Lithuanian Literatry Society, the Lettish Workers Club, the Russian Dramatic Club, the Seattle Labor College and the local branches of the Workmen's Circle, GET A 8UB ANDO GIVS ONEL Patronize our advertisers, STATEMENT OF THE C. E. C. ON REPORT OF DELEGATES TO THE ENLARGED MEETING OF E. C. C. 1. The statement of the Workers (Communist) Party Central Ex- ecutive Committee on the report of the delegates to the meeting of the Enlarged Executive Committee of the Communist international is as follows: > 8 ae AVING heard the report of the party delegates to the Enlarged Executive of the Communist International, the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party of America fully approves the werk and decisions of the Enlarged Executive and pledges wholehearted support in carrying these decisions into life, HE Central Executive Committee is in complete agreement with Somrade Zinoviev and with the Enlarged Executive that the period In the development of the world revolution demands pecially that Communist parties Intensify and extend thelr work In Bolshevia- ing the parties ideologically, politically and organizationally. HE Central Executive Committee supports wholeheartedly the de- termined struggle of the Communist International to defeat and liquidate the right wing In the Communist International as expressed by Bubnik in Chechoslovakia, the Brandler group In Germany, Lore ism In Amrelea and Trotzkyism in the Communist International gen erally. HE Central Executive Committee endorses the stress and en phasis placed by the Enlarged Executive upon the agrarian quee tion. It sees In It a timely reminder to the parties of the Communiet International that the Communists must energetically engage In work among the peasantry (farmres) In accord with the principles of Lent HE Central Executive Committee also subscribes fully to the poel tlon formulated in the Bolshevization thesis on shop nucle! and trade union work and al! other provisions for the Bolshevization ef the parties. HE Central Executive Committee feels that this meeting of the Enlarged Executive marks a historic epoch in the life of the Com+ munist International and enables the Communist movement to proceed more effectively along the road of struggle that leads to the conquest of power by the working class and the establishment of a World * Soviet Republlo, A Call to Action! MOBILIZE FOR A RED WEEK OF PARTY BUILDING JUNE 15 TO 21 To ail party units and all party members. Dear Comrades: In the resolution of the Enlarged Executive Committee of the Com munist International on the American Question, our party Is told thet? “UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD IT UNDERESTIMATE IN ANY WAY THE IMPORTANCE OF SUCH “MINOR’ TASKS AS THE CIRCULATION OF THE DAILY WORKER.” Our party members have been underestimating the importance of the | task of increasnig the circulation of the DAILY WORKER. The clroula- tion of the DAILY WORKER is not as large as the membership of the party. Every member of the party should be a subscriber to the DAILY, WORKER and each member should secure at least one additional eu scriber. If that were true we should have 50,000 readers. WE MUST MAKE IT TRUE. The first mobilization of the party to reach this goal, which the Cem- munist International has emphasized, will be from June 15th to 2tet. The Central Executive Committee of the party has called for A RED WEEK OF PARTY BUILDING TO SECURE FIVE THOUSAND 8UB- SCRIBERS FOR THE DAILY WORKER. Special subscription cards at $1.00 for two months subscription are being issued for this “RED WEEK,” which will make is subscriptions. sy to seoure WHAT EACH BRANCH MUST DO: Every party branch, upon receipt of this letter, shall set a quote of subscriptions for itself and send In the enclosed blank to the DAILY WORKER, This quota should be at least at large as the membership of the branch. if you want sample copies for free distribution during the “RED WEEK” fill out the order on the blank. scription cards, THE NEXT STEP is to organize the branch to secure the subserip- tions it assesses itself. charge of the campaign. A COMMITTEE should be appointed to take Every member should be igned some special place to solicit subscriptions during the “RED WEEK,” in his shop, In his union, to attend public meetings, to canvai avenues of securing subscriptions must be covered. Our party must learn to work as a unit. able to carry thru organized effort of this character. Comrades! a list of friende—all the We must be We must be able to mobilize our party for such a “minor” task as adding FIVE THOU. SAND READERS TO THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST OF THE DAILY. WORKER. WE ask you to make “RED WEEK,” June 15th to 21st, the first example of such mobilization. Five thousand new subscribers should be a minor task for our party, but five thousand new subscribers will be @ big boost for the DAILY WORKER both In circulation and financially. Send in your branch quota so we can publish It In the DAILY. WORKER and Inspire other branches to action. Organize your braneh for the work of the “RED WEEK OF PARTY BUILDING.” Fraternally yours, WM. 2. FOSTER, Chairman, Cc, E, RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary, MORITZ J. LOEB, Business Ma DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, III. jer. subscribers for the DAILY WORKER during the RED WEEK OF PARTY BUILDING, BOND UB sccrsesssssereesemnnnes Send us... Name of Branch Name of Secretary... 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