The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1925, Page 5

STRIKE 35 SHOPS (OF FLOWER AND FEATHER BOSSES Terribly Exploited Workers Rebel NEW YORK CITY, August 19—One thousand flower and feather workers of New York City are on strike in 35 shops for the recognition of their un- fon. and for certain improvements bf conditions in th eindustry. The femands of the workers are: (1) Recognition of the union. (2). 44 hour week. (3) 25 per cent increase tn wages.. (4) Time and a half for overtime, (5) Equal division of work during slack seasons. The flower and feather trade is no- torious for the intensive exploitation bf its workers. At, present the work- ing week runs as high as 58 hours in fome shops.’ Many concerns emplgy home workers,’ including women children at starvation wages. this connection it is worthy of npte that one of the leading opponents}of the child labor amendment in this tate was the president of the mill @ry manufacturers’ association. Of the 8,000 workers in the trad! the greatest part are women working for an average wage of $18 or $20 ber week. The trade is highly sea- sonal and does.not cover more than seven or eight months a year. The hazards. of the industry are also very high owing to the danger from lead poisoning and the general unsanitary Conditions in the shops. A-number of unsuccessful attempts to unionize that industry have been made in the past. The failure of these attempts is one of the reasons for the Geplorable conditions prevailing in the Gower and feather industry. But this time the workers are determined to Secure recognition of their organiza- Won and wage a courageous fight for better conditions. The workers are Still waiting for a response from the American Federation of Labor in re- bly to their appeal for assistance against the millinery bosses. Lake County, Indiana, Workers to Celebrate at Picnic Next Sunday HAMMOND, Ind. August 18— Workers Party branches (C. C. ©.) of Lake county, Indiana, will hold a big outing and picnic, on Sunday, j August 23, 1925, at Wicker Park )prounds on Ridge road, Hammond, Speakers in English, S. Slavik, Hungarian and Roumanian. Good music and dancing. Refreshments and all sorts of amusement, Everybody. Direction:—Take any street car to ®. Hammond, Colombia‘ and Morton Ave. Walk" three blocks south to Kenwood Ave. -where'a bus will be awaiting to take you to the picnic sround. Busses leave at 11 a. m., 1 and 1 o'clock. t Denies Killing Professor: SEDALIA ,Mo., Aug. 19.—Evei Adams, 17 year old. Ohio school : pleaded not guilty to’ the murder of Professor Aden R. Clawson, of Lodi, . S.Y., and was held to the October term of district court without bond. aur Hes > 4717. Plaid suiting in tan and brown tones is here portrayed. The pollar and the vest are of tan wool srepe. This style is good also for a inches wide is width at the foot is ants ip caine te an igh In sil " stocdate. Fall and. Winter, 1928-26, k of Faahions, showing color > oe petvenien beet: tise and comprehensive article on dress. takings also ae «ee the needle en ab Valuable hinta to. the yessmaker. Unions an By B. BORISOFF, The article printed below was first presentéd jo the DAILY WORKER some time in April, 1925. -, ses ™~, The article is true to the line of the Comintern. It deals with the prob- lem of broadening the basis of the left wing movement in the trade unions, of unifying ideologically and organizationally the struggles of the advanced workers in the trade unions against their reactionary bureaucracy. This is a key to the successful appli- cation of the United Front tactics. The article proposes a method of ap- proach to the solution of the prob- lem—the preparation of focal confer- ences and finally of a national confer- ence of the left wing. This problem must be clarified. It deserves @ thoro fiscusgsion and not suppression. Today (August 14, 1925) we read in the DAILY WORKER in the Letter from the Comintern and Profintern to our‘Workers (Commun- | ist) Party on the Trade Union Work: “The party must strive to convert the League (the Trade Union Educa- tional League—B) into an extensive left block organization, lining up all the revolutionary and ‘progressive ele- ments in the labor unions against the reactionary bureaucracy.” How to do it is the question which the party must strive to solve.—Bori- soff. ts Sam. The left wing of the trade union movement has manifested rapid and considerable growth during the past six months. To prove this it is suffi- cient to recall that over 60,000 unions voted for Vosey—the Communist can- didate—tor the office of the president’ of the United Mine Workers of Ame’ ica; that the progressive slate in t! elections of the machinists’ union a parently received a majority jof t votes; that in Seattle, Chicago, ani other places, where expulsions Communists from trade unions. too! place the rank and file members of thi unions gave their most energetic sup port to the expelled, compellitig, in some instances, the trade’union bu- reaucracy to retreat. t We are faced ,therefore, with ‘a re- volt of the rank and file of,some. of the largest unions against their bu- reaucracy, and everywhere the .Com- munists furnish the ideologic leader- ship of this movement. ei? What causes this mass insurgency against the trade union bureaug; acy? It is explained by the newly organized attack of the capitalists against’ the workers: by their attempt to break the trade unions, to cut the wages and to lengthen the hours of labor‘st’ the workers.) It is explained by) the’fact that the trade union bureaucracy. hot only fails to ‘offer any resistance against this attack, but, on -the,.com rary, forms an alliance with, ithe ox loiters against the workers, formu lates plans for class collaboration, sents to the intensification of ex. ploitation, and to the lowering 6f the working conditions. This betrayal of the interests;of the workers by the trade union);hureau- OUR DAILY PATTERNS. | »--WOR SLENDER OR STOUT FIGURES SLEVELESS DRESS \ 5057. Linen, poplin, chambrey or Pongee could be,used. for the Dress, and crepe, lawn, batiste or linen for the Guimpe. . The Dress is sleveless. The sleeve of the Guimpe may be short as in the large view or in wrist Jongth as shoWn in the small guimpe view. © 6 The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12 years, To make the Dress for a 10 year size in inch material will require 2 yards. The Guimpe will require 1% yard if made with long sleves. With short sleeves 1% yard is required. The belt of contrasting material requires % yard. Pattern ‘mailed to any address on receipt; of: 12c in silver or stamps. ‘i PATYERN BI eet department are * ‘a New York firm of pattern are forwarded b; man Orders ‘orwi ‘01 4 the Baie Wi Lege ssa ue thet Fes to the . ane not keep a terns Ay gg Deliv of - tarde ordinarily will take at least 90 days from the date of ae the order. not becomes, impatient your pattern is The Growth of th dO THE DAILY WORKER ea 0 cracy {s comthitted so openly and shamelessly that only the most back- ward workers fail to perceive it. Such are the objective conditions causing {the growth of the left wing movement in the trade unions at the present time, and these conditions will be still more accentuated in the near future. The American bourgeoisie, striving to reduce the American worker to the level of the cheap labor of Europe and of the colonies, will inevitably inten- sify its attack. As the class struggle will sharpen the betrayal of the trad union ' bureaucracy will become aps parent to even a greater number ai workers. A further growth of thi left wing movement is therefore to be expected. ‘The growth of this movement, the stiengthening of Communist influence in the trade unions places before the Wearkers Party new and important prabiems. First of all in respect of organization. Up till now the left wing movement was not actually unit- ed on a national scale. It was devel- oping within the frames of separate trade, industry, city or district. But even within these comparatively nar- row frames, the organization is weak and loose. _ It does not embrace any considera- ble numbers of advanced workers, but nly the Communists and their closest ympathizers. The left wing move- ment has, however, outgrown this ‘stage; it has become a mass move- for the strengthening of the local trade and industrial organizations of the left wing and for the rallying workers, but also for the organiza- N A NATIONAL SCALE. A means of accomplishing this is the calling of a NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE LEFT WING of the American trade union movement, similar to the conferences of) the European move- ments. The Conference of the Left Wing will also be a step towards the attain- ment of the ideological unity of the left wing movement of the trade unions, without which there can be no organizational unity. The left wing movement is perme- ated as yet by avcraft ideology. The miners, the metal workers, the build- ing: trades workers, and others, while fighting separately against the betray- al of their respective trade union bureaucracy, do not understand yet the community of interests of all the advanced workers in various indus- tries in such a struggle. They do not understand yet sufficiently the role of the entire trade union bureaucracy, its role as the “labor lieutenants” of the capitalist class who help to per- petuate its domination. There is but a weak and vague understanding of the necessity to struggle for the pos- session of political power as the only means for the complete liberation of the working class. The struggle of the left wing is yet almost purely a trade-union struggle. They Never Came Out Again. When I lived in a little mining town, one day the miners went out on strike. They demanded re- pairs be made in the mines to pro- tect their lives. In this mine the workers were in constant fear that the walls would crash in and they would be killed. Every day when the men went into the mines they carried with them the thot that they might be drowned by the rushing water. Their leader delivered their message to the manager who said he would telegraph the boss who lived in New York. The boss ans- wered that the mines were alright and if the men did not like it they could go—he would get others to take their place. They went back again into the mines many feet below the ground. But not to toil long for the inevitable happened. The shaft broke, water came rushing in from both sides. Only two men from that whole mine ever came out again. The widows and orphaned chil- dren! Imagine how they felt as they stood in front of that mine and heard that their father will never come out again! And why? Just because the workers tolerate a government that lets one greedy hog endanger the lives of s0 many poor work- y}ers. Just because the, workers tol- erate a,system, that makes it pos- ¢ | sible for,ong man to get rich from the hard toil,,f others. But, Juniors, that shall not go on always. We will rise against Left Wing in thie Trade ‘Problems Within: If ment and furnishes a basis not only) around the slogans of the Workers) Party of the wide masses of advanced | While the programs of the various bricklayers. * = Saas ae ail sections of the “ifévement may con- tain political sidgans. These are but of secortiafy importance to the workers. “This is shown by the fact that while the trade union slogans and programs of the Workers Party find support of the broad masses of organized workers, the dis- tinctly political campaigns of the par- ty do not meet with such a broad support. Such a condition is natural for the present stage of political con- sciousness of the American workers, (fhe Workers Party must, however, strive to overcome it. The organizational and ideological unification of the left wing will stim- ulate the growth of political conscious- ness among the workers and will \the party in thelr ranks. The National Bee ore of the Left Wing will formulate a program of ac- tion, slogans of struggle a United Front program for the labor move- ment of America. With the organizational and ideo- logical unification .of the left wing the United Front campaign of the Workers Party will for the first time have a firm basis. The preparation of the National Conference of thé Left Wing of ‘the trade union movement signifies the intensification of our work locally, our getting in contact with broader masses of advanced workers and the perform- ance of a great work of their class education. Local conferences will have to be prepared and called. This will result in the creation of real local centers of the left wing movement, the rallying of wider masses of work. ers around them. The National Conference of the Left Wing, of the trade union movement will be a milestone in the develop- j}ment of the American labor move- ment. It will be the test of the in- fluence of the Workers Party, without making which it is difficult to advance. It will facilitate the drawing into the rty of the most revolutionary ele- ents of the labor movement. To delay the agitatron for such a conference would be an error. The ever growing offensive of the capital- ist class demams the unification of ll the live forces of the labor move- ent. Net? Pk Fe No Chance to Criticize. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Disciplin- ing of Henry H. Curran, immigration commissioner. at) Ellis island, for criti- cizing publicly the policy ofthe. de- partment of Jabor in handling jmmi- gration problems, is being considered by department officials, ft was learned today. Curran ‘will be asked if he made certain statements reflecting on labor department officials. ed Ironworkers Out with Bricklayers, NEWARK, N. J., Aug: 19.—(FP)— Ironworkers and ‘building laborers are out with uniofi bricklayers striking on the new wing‘of the Prudential build- ing, for which Thompson-Starrett is contractor. The strike is part of the jurisdictional fight between the plas- terers’ international union and the this boss rule and rid ourselves of it forever. the working class of America, will not rest until we change this gov- renment and replace it with a workers’ and farmers’ government just as the workers and Peasants have done in Soyiet Russia. ' Long live the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of U. BA. B,! Long live the Communist In- ternational! BENNIE BERMAN, John Reed Junior Group. Feared An Explosion ATHENS,—The:; Greek government was considering today the complete evacuation of the,,population of the Island of Santorini, in the Mediterra- noan, following scientists reports of threatened volcanic eruptions, I Subscriptions for Negro Champion Are Taken by Congress The national office of the American Negro Labor Congress at 19 8. Lin- coln St., Chicago, is in ipt of $1.00 from Wm, Scarville of Pittsburgh, Va., to pay for a subscription for the Negro Champion to be sent to one of the Negro prisoners in Leavenworth. They recently made an appeal for such ‘funds, and this is ‘the first response. We hope there willbe many more, Ri abate » ER ew) Persiang (Protest CONSTANTINOPEE,—The Persian government protested to the Turkish government at Angera today against Turkish occupation; of Persian terri: | | tory near the Persjau-Turkish frontier, strengthen the political leadership of |) DAILY TE We, the children of | | the! Litile Things for Big Accomplishments GET THE HABIT! This letter from a worker who knows the value of developing propagandists may give you an idea or two. Read it: Dear Comrades: The other day you ran a notice of a worker in a Ford factory who told how he got subs for the DAILY WORKER and then asked them to buy a pamphlet, This comrade has the right idea. A few thousand more Propagandists like these and Communism would be a much bigger force in this country. | have developed a habit of carrying a little book or two with me at all times. This habit made me discover that more often than not | could sell a pamphlet for a dime when the worker could not afford a sub to the DAILY WORKER, | found that the Little Red Library books are just the thing @ propagandist needs, They sell without any trouble at all and all | ask for the sake of Communiam rush some more new numbers, Only be careful that the new ones are as good as the first four. Yours for a bigger army of propagandists, JACK LINKOWSKI, We print this comrade’s letter to show what workers are doing for Communism. These are simple things—but they are the kind of things that are sure to build the Communist movement. And the most promising sight is the increasing number of let- ters (and orders for books and pamphlets) that show a growing army of real Comunist Builders. If you have also some ideas on propaganda—if you also bring the Communist message to other workers thru the medium of the DAILY WORKER and books and pamphlets—tell the WORKER about it. Write a letter to this column about the way you do it. Advance Notice! For the attention of this Builder and others who have found the Little Red Library such a great little propaganda medium we are glad to announce that within the next ten days to two weeks number five of the Little Red Library will appear. Again there will be something new in this number—something never before issued by the movement. It’ will be a collection of work- ing class poetry—real working class yerse—and real inspiration in the struggle POEMS FOR WORKERS—An Antology— edited by Manuel Gomez will be ready soon. You can order now! |to be brot off in junks—so the harbor | strike was apparently tight as a drum. ‘Empress of Russia” Passengers Tell Hard Luck Story of China| Warships to the number of 27 were lying in the Yangtze river, including American, British, Japanese, French VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 19.—In spite | and Italian, of fourteen Canadian Pacific railway | ,Qhere were only about 70 passen- police and instructions given the crew, | gers on the liner and very little cargo, a Communist visited the C. P. R. liner | principally picked up at Japanese Empress of Russia and gathered--a | ports. One influential passenger on little news. | being approached aud questioned on skeleton crew and took on a Japanese | said: “Bad, bad, bad, bad, for among crew at Kobe. They did not call at | other trials they have to do their own Shanghai wharves as usual, but laid | domestic work and take their own in the offing and waited for the mail babies out for airing.” WHY? “Because, under capitalism, there are two great classes, the working class and the capitalist class. The capitalist class takes profit from the labor of the industrial wage workers and poor farmers of over half the values such labor produces. This robbery is legalized by capitalist law, explained as natural and ‘right’ by capitalist press and preachers and enforced by strikebreaking police and soldiers under the capitalist dictatorship. “Their profits pile ever higher into the hands of a few big monopolies like the Morgan banks. It is so large it cannot all be invested, at the highest returns, in this coun- try. But if it lies idle it brings in no profit at all.. So the capitalists invest in China and other foreign lands.” The above from leaflet: “Hands Off China! Stand by Soviet Russia!” published by the national office, Workers Party. Order a supply for free distribution at once. Let us tell the American workers and poor farmers what is taking place in China, ete. Price: $2.00 per 1000. Send order for same to, Workers Party, National Office, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. elerererererereeels se eeeee eee eee eee eee |) THE WORLD TRADE UNION MOVEMENT By A. LOSOVSKY HIS book offers invaluable information to the worker. The author sums up the forces in the world of labor—the differ. ences in programs—the outlook for the future. A. Lgsoveky is secretary of the great driving force of world organized labor—the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions—and his authoritative and most in- teresting books should form the back-bone of every workers’ library, The World Trade Union Movement 50 Cents Author of: Lenin—The Great Strate- gist 15 Cents Role of the Trade Unions in the Russian Rev- uy} olution 5 Cents | International Council of Trade and... Industrial Unions + »+, 5 Cents The vessel left Hong Kong with a/|the situation of foreigners in China Hees Jed Brookhart by & fg A, Page Five ’ =— COSTA RIGA LABOR JOINS FIGHT ON IMPERIALISM Aititslcs ‘Wah ‘Anti- Imperial Body The Federation of Labor of Costa Rica and the Sugar Cane Workers Union of Costa Rica, an independent organization, have affiliated with the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, |the secretary of the league, Manuel | Gomez, announced today Both organizations will send dele- gates to the anti-imperialist conven- tion which is tentatively heduled to | meet early next year. The affiliation |of the Costa Rican organizations ,is hailed as significant of the aroused interest of the Latin-American toilers in the question of imperialism. The idea of the league is spreading thruout Latin America, according to Gomez. The action of the Calles gov- |ernment in refusing the league per- | mission to meet itt Mexico City has jonly served to further advertise the league and its purposes In addition to the two Costa Rican organizations which have joined up | with the league, Gomez announced , that the Cuban workers who recently | affiliated have now organized a regu- jlar section of the league with a dues- | paying membership. The Cuban sec- tion has been holding large mass | meetings thruout the country and has been carrying the league message to |the workers in the trade unions An | active part of the Cuban section of the |league is the student groups which j have lent their publication, Juventud, as the unofficial organ of the league. The Cuban activities are under the direction of Julio Antonio Mella, who is acting as secretary of the Cuban section. The American Council for the Lib- eration of Santo Domingo, made up of Santo Domingoans in the United | States, is also actively interested in |the work of the league, altho it is not affiliated with it yet. AMERICAN SUGAR | TRUST BACK OF | HAITI INVASION Took Two Dominican Towns by Force By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—(FP)—In big headlines across the top of its front page, the daily newspaper “La Informacion,” published at Santiago, Dominican Republic, reports that American marines. were prominent in the “Haitian” invasion of the Domini- can towns of Commendador and Carri- zal, and that American naval airplanes flew in advance of the invading col uma. No motive is given by the Domini- cans for the invasion of their territory from the Haitian side of the border. The expedition, moving from the hills, seized the two towns and a large dis- trict of cultivated country between them, without warning. Word went ont.that a border dispute had arisen. ‘\uswever, since the American seiz ure of both countries in 1915-1916, they have had a common grievance. Amer- ican military possession of the Domin- ican Republic ended some months ago. Dominicans in Washigton believe that the American sugar companies operating in their country may be back of the invasion. Time after time, when small farmers who owned valu- able lands near the big sugar planta- tions have refused to sell out at a low price, they have been driven off by “bandits,” who afterward confessed to having been employed by the sugar company managers to commit the crime, While American forces held the country, great numbers of these na- tive farmers fled from their homes, which were then burned or pulled down, and their lands sxized and planted by the compan:™. Once the actual owners had fled, under threats or attack, they were forced to become casual laborers. The marines looked upon them as “bandits.” (fhe invasion from Haiti is thot to be @ warning that the sugar compa- nfs are still able to take what they ‘iat Leave Workers Stranded. LAQUIN, Pa., Aug. 19.—(FP)—The population of Laquin are wondering where to go since the Central Penn- sylvania Lumber Co. has closed its sawmill and announced completion of its lumbering operations in this dis- trict, Railroad tracks are being ripped up by the company and the mill is being razed. Steck Makes Gains. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Register ing heavy gains in Lynn and Lee coun- ties, Daniel F. Steck, democrat, has a lead of 4,160 votes over Senator Smith W. Brookhart, in the recount of un- contested ballots in 46 Iowa counties, the senate elections committee an- nounced today. The total vote was: Steck, 188,686; | Brookhart, 184,526. In Lynn county ete ee | | | RE REE