The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1925, Page 2

Page Two —_—_—_—_————————— = GREEK SECTION PLEDGES C.E.C. FULL SUPPORT Resolution for Party Is Passed Unanimously The Fourth National Conference of the Greek section of the Workers (Communist) Party of America has just closed its last session. The conference over many of the problems confront- ing the party. There were present nineteen dele- gates, representing branches from De- troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Canton and Yorkville, Ohio, Brockton, Boston, Mass., Blair Station and Amrbridge, Pa., Milwaukee, Wis., Cleveland, O., Newark, N. J., Toledo, O., and New York. Disouss Shop Nuclei. The bulk of the time spent by the conference was given over to a dis- cussion on party reorganization and trade union work. Special consideration was given to developing the official organ of the Greek section, The Empros, from a weekly to a semi-weekly. The circulation of the Empros is already about four thousand, and is far out of proportion to the member- ship of the Greek section. In this respect the Greek section of our party exceeds every other section; that is, the circulation of its official organ is greater per member in this section than in any other language group in the party. The representatives of the Central Executiye Comimttee to this conven- tion was Comrade Jay Jovestone. Comrade Lovestone brot greetings from the C. E. C. of the party and re- viewed its work in the last year. The Central Executive Committee repre- sentative went at length into a con- sideration of the party’s main prob- lems which he outlined to be as fol- | lows: Main Party Problems. 1. The intensification of our trade union work. 2. The labor party campaign. 8. The reorganization of our party on the basis of shop nuclei, and the} development of a unified, centralized party. 4. The problem of Bolshevization and the struggle against opportunist tendencies in our ranks. 5. Agricultural work. 6. The building up of a powerful press and a Communist literature in America. 7. Defense work. C. E. C. Resolution Unanimous. Comrade Lovestone’s resolution, which follows, was unanimously adopted by all the comrades present, regardless of their former adherence in the last party controversy. The resolution follows: 1, The resolutions of the parity committee, unanimously adopted by the national convention, lay down a correct line of Communist policy for cur party. These resolutions pravide the basis for work of the party mem- bers among the masses, thru which alone our party can grow into a mass lasted for several | « days and had successful deliberations | |SEAMEN’S STRIKE SPREADING TO GULF PORTS; SCAB CREW WRECKS FREIGHTER; I. S. U. MEN JOINING (Continued from page 1) hibited in the case of the S, S. Ed- ward L. Doheny 8rd, in port in Brook- lyn. All the crew except the cook left. The engineer asked the men why they were leaving and when told jit was on account of the strike, sald that that was the only way to bet- ter conditions. He said he despised a scab and they could look for him ashore too. In the case of this boat, the I. S. U. delegate came aboard and told the men there was no strike on. A fellow worker handed him a strike demand and the crew promptly forc- d the I, S, U. delegate off the ship. Crew of the S. S. Vindeggend has lcome off 100 per cent The captain |and mates took her out in the stream and she is still anchored there. The S. 8. Clyde, a British tanker, arrived yesterday and half of the crew that had been shanghaied in England walked ashore today as soon as was possible. In Port Newark. The picket reports that the situa- tion at Port Newark is very tense. The following Trans-Marine boats are laying there: Subermco, Surailco, Suscallco, Sucherico, and the Susca- resco, Aboard the Suscallco, is a crew of coolies whom the United States laws do not allow to land here. The crew of the Suscaresco have all quit. Yes- terday the crew of the 8. S. Sucherico promised to quit. Today they all came off and are now engaged in active duty on the picket line. News From Galveston, Reports from other ports of the country are arriving at headquarters here by mail. From Galveston, comes word that strike action is just get- ting under headway. A mass meet- ing for white and colored longshore- men has been called and it is expect- ed that they will walk out. The S. S. Cripple Creek was left there with- out any men aboard. Many ships are expected here ‘by the 18th, most of them left this port with 75 per cent wobbly crews, Trouble was reported from Galveston also with reactionary I. 8, U. officials. {Communist party. We declare our |wholehearted support to the resolu- ‘tion on the immediate tasks of the ‘party, on trade union work, the labor party campaign, imperialism, work jamong women, agricultural work, and other major campaigns of the party. 2. We welcome the action taken by lthe convention for the liuidation of Loreism in our party. Our party has reached the point of development where opportunistic deviations by leading members of the party can no longer be tolerated. In the expulsion of Lore from the party and the re- moval of Comrade Askeli from the editorial board of the Tyomies, the convention indicated that the fight jagainst opportunism will be intensi- fied in our party in the future. We pledge our support in this campaign. Pledge Loyalty to C. I. Decision. 3. The resolution on the Bolshev- ization of our party marks a new step forward for the American Communist party. The reorganization of the party on the basis of shop nuclei and \international branches and a central- ized apparatus with the language {fractions marks a necessary step to centralization of our party, and lays ithe basis for its carrying on real THE LITTLE class poetry. In these poems Poems for Workers Edited by MANUEL GOMEZ Number * Including the choice of working spiration for the struggle. FOR RECITATION AT WORKING CLASS AFFAIRS— TO GIVE TO OTHER WORKERS—FOR YOUR LIBRARY JUST OFF THE PRESS! 10c TWELVE COPIES FOR ONE DOLLAR, RED LIBRARY. you will find in- A strike communication to the I. 8, U, was withheld from the member- ship meeting, but was read to the members in their hall by one of our fellow workers and there was unan}- mous agreement not to scab. Scabs Run Ship Aground. New York papers report that the U. S. Shipping Board freighter, the Argosy, is aground at Sable Island, Canada, and a Canadian life saving crew is standing by. The Argosy sail- ed from New York on Friday, Sept. 11, manned by a scab crew. The S, S. Malabar, has no sailors and the stewards walked off Tues- day. The S. S. Durango, previously announced as 50 per cent out is now out 90 per cent with the stewards walking off. The crews of the John Tracy and the Barabet came off 100 per cent. Many ships reported as off 50 per cent are being brot up toward 100 per cent. A number of ships have crews that are waiting to be paid before striking. Their names are not announced as that would aid the ship owners to sign up scabs. Marine Machinists Show Solidarity. A machinist from Morse’s drydock reports that when the Cuyamapa pull- ed away from the dock Sunday, man- ned by scabs, she burned up two crank pins so badly that, by the time she reached the Statue of Liberty, machinists had to be sent aboard to put in new crank pin brasses. This machinist reports that all machinists from Morse’s refused to work on the THE DAHkY WORKER ames WHITSETT MINE MORES FG ON TWO FRONTS Bosses and Union Offi- cials Oppose Them (Special to The Dally Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 17—No measures are too mean for the Pitts burgh Coal company to use in advanc- ing Ite campaign of union destruction. It has already opened two of its mines the Whitsett Mine and the Banning No. 2 under the 1917 scale and it Is busy herding scabs to get coal pro- duced. Eviction notices have ben served on miners residing on company prop- erty who refu to scab upon their union. The si police have been mobilized and are showing up In force This Liwyer Helped to Create Great Trusts As He Fought Communism 'ODAY, Max Pam, Chicago era he professed to combat. on horseback at the gates of the com- pany property every day to protect the scabs. Women and Children oh Picket Line. The coal miners *at Whitsett, who have been out of work for more than 20 months consistently refusing to accept any lower scale of wages with their wives and children are going on the picket line every morning. Cur- jously enuf, union officials who have established their headquarters about 10 miles from the mine meet upon the seab ship, and other men had to be sent from Murdock’s. The Belgian ship Marcy is left at the dock with no crew at all. The dredge Marcel has the crew out 100 per cent. The towboat Moran is still tied up. The American steamer Mon- ticello docked at Pier 5, in North River, and the whole crew walked down the gang plan. Crimps are trying to get seamen to desert the Scandinavian-American line ships, and then to reship on the ships tied up in Brooklyn. But the sailors are too wise for that old trick, They desert no ships—but they strike them all! ninenecetsanntcsseienttiencnitaesshaianAi nnn tities stitiaidaaiaiaiasitaaty Communist work. We pledge our- selves energetically to take up the campaign for the reorganization and to give every aid possible in effecting this organization at the earliest pos- |sible date. 4. .The cable of the Communist In- ternational to its representative, de- clarfing that “it has. finally become clear that the Ruthenberg group is more loyal to the decisions of the Communist International and stands closer to its views” lays the basis for the future development of the leader- ship of our party and the unification of if8 leadership. We declare oursac- ceptance of the decision of the Com- munist International and that we will loyally support the Central Executive Committee elected on the basis of that decision, in carrying on the work of the party. - Sound Basis for Unity. This conference declares that in its opinion any attempt to discredit or to question the character of this Comintern decision or in any way at all to interfere with its complete exe- cution would be a blow struck against the Comintern and its American sec- tion, the Workers (Communist) Party of America. The conference of the Greek section of the Workers (Com- munist) Party of América welcomes the decision of the former majority in the national convention to accept the last resolution of the Communist International on the situation in the American party. We hope that the followers of the former majority Fos- ter group in our party will in true Communist fashion loyally execute this deeision which in our opinion af- fords a sound Communist basis for the unification and the healthy de- velopment of our party. 5. The conference of the Greek section of the Workers (Communist) Party of America hereby declares its fullest indorsement of the Central Executive Committee and calls upon all members of the Greek section of our party in particular, and all other members of our party in general, to forget their past factional differences to drop all factional strife and man- euvers, and to rally as one solid pha- lanx, as one unified party, for the new, constructive Communist activi- ties, to develop our party under the leadership of the Central Executive Committee chosen by the last national Convention of‘our Party. The last order of business was the election of a National Propaganda Bureau, The C. BE. C. representative Proposed that all previous factional hard feelings and bitterness be dis- carded and forgotten as soon as pos- sible. Comrade Lovestone stressed the need for complete unity in ‘the ranks of the party and appealed to the Greek comrades to close their ranks behind the leadership of the Central Executive Committee. After this appeal by the represen- tatives of the Central Executive Com- mittee the following 15 comrades were unanimously elected as the bureau: E. Chryssus, ©. Christie, N. Bobus, Chas. Karavas, A. Stamatis, W. Mika- dis, Geo. Chalteas, N. Strattis, Geo, Kalfides, 8. Chikouris, A. Dritsas, C, Chriss, J, Manus, G. Kocalis, N, Kos- tis. The following comrades were chos- en as alternates: §, Economu, W. Kalafites, J, Situkis, H. Margeris, picket line to the bewilderment of the rank and file miners who never before have seen them so active. But it is now becoming clear to them why the officials appear on the picket line. Scabs were recruited by Pitts- burgh employment agencies. At first many men returfed when they found the actual conditions but little by lit- tle a full crew was established. The coal miners by their usnally active method of picketing could easily have prevented the company from recruit- ing a full scab crew-if they had been permitted to go ahead in the aggres- sive manner they had. intended to pursue but the officials were there to soft pedal. They asked the rank and file members to remain quiet whilo the scabs passed by to go into the mines. These tactics naturally play directly into the hands of the op- erators and the mine. is now working almost with a complete crew. Officials’ “Activity” Becomes Clear. One of thé picketing coal miners from Jacobs Creek expressed his un- derstanding by saying, “that this is a very effective method for the Pitts- burgh Coal company to gradually open the mines one, by one; wipe out the union and make District Five a non- union territory.” ‘ He continued, “the Pittsburgh Coal company is the same! everywhere, no matter what mine is ;operated. It will not do to soft pedal in one place and try to fight it in another. As soon as the company tries! to operate with scabs in one place it should be fought definitely in every instance. How- ever, while the operators are flag- rantly disregarding the agreement our officials have tried to «interpret the agreement to mean no fight whatever, Such methods won't do .for only the operators are to gain,” ; Open On 1917 Scale, It is rumored that Banning No, 1 and Banning No. 3 will soon follow suit and open up on the basis of the 1917 scale. The company is even trying to organize a union of its own, a union of scabs, mounted state police will always be available. More eviction notices will be made while the officials continue to soft pedal and to advocate nonresistance. What to Do, Now is the time for the Whitsett miners together with the soft coal miners of America to declare their solidarity with the striking anthra- cite miners. John L, Lewis has said “There will be no backward step,” now is the time for to prove it. The coal operators fighting the union men in Whit just as they are fighting the union thruout the en- tire country. : A general strike of the coal industry is the method by which the present attack can be met successfully. ‘The miners must dem: that their lead- ers call a national strike to save the union, wages and working conditions, LOUIS ALLEN, RECENTLY RELEASED FROM PRISON, ENDORSES THE |. L. D, By TOM FLEMING (Special to The Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 17, —Louis Allen, a member of the first group trial under the criminal syn- diealism law in California, who was arrested and convicted in 1921 in Los Angeles was released recently from Foleom prison after serving 3 years and 9 months. : Fellow Worker Allen was one of the first subscribers to the DAILY WORKER when imprisoned in Fol- som, Allen declarés that he is a firm believer in thé organization of the international Labor Defense and he Intends doing his utmost to help In the buildin, this great work of relieving class war prisoners. ~ ~ ii ~~ By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. corporation lawyer, who died earlier. in the week in New York City, is buried. Bank- ers, industrialists, merchants, judges, editors, publishers, sur- viving lawyers, making an imposing array of capitalists and defenders of capitalism, attend his funeral. Thus passes one whom the kept press eulogizes as an “unrelenting foe of Marxism.” Pam, altho a Jew, contributed liberally to the Roman Catho- lic church because he believed it an instrument in opposing the spread of the doctrines of socialism. It is pointed out that Max But.Max Pam was, nevertheless, an unwitting instru- ment, caught up in the flood of social forces, helping to cen- tralize the agencies of capitalism, thus aiding in its develop- ment toward the social revolution that is ushering in the new Pam passes away as the nation witnesses an accelerating growth of greater trusts, en- couraged for instance by the recent ruling of the department of agriculture that the colossal merger of the Armour and Morris packing interests is not in violation of any anti-trust decree. ploiting corporation will But the oot masses of workers under one ex- learn quicker their common identity of interest, will more readily develop their mass organization, will enter more effectively into the developing class struggle, as their ruthless plunderer stands more clearly revealed be- fore them. ° * Max Pam was an aid in the building of these greater trusts. He was a legal agent in building trusts. _ As a clever bape geese lawyer Max Pam helped wipe aside the cobwebs o' legal obstacles set up by an era that is gone, that sought to perpetuate competition in industry in its attempt to safeguard and protect little business. ° * * * Pam was the ally of Judge E. H. Gary, head of the United States Steel Corporation, sitting fearful upon the seething volcano of labor unrest in this industry. He helped create this | head and growing consolidation. ‘am was associated with the late E. H. Harriman, plo- neer financier in the merging of great railroad enterprises, and bitter enemy of organized labor. W. Gates, spectacular He worked with John all Street operator in the creation of the American Steel and Wire Co., when budding trusts were just beginning to lift their heads on the industrial horizon, Pam helped organize, along with Vice-President Dawes and others, the powerful Central Trust Company of Illinois, that wields a mighty influence over industry in the middle west. He was among those officiating at the birth of the International Harvester Co. and the National Packing Co. In politics he belonged to the republican party of the great capitalists, being close to Harding, Coolidge and Taft. * * * * This was the foe of Marxism, who tried to stem the world-wide tide of political evolution with pett: contribu- tions to the anti-Communist Catholic Church, while in reality he meekly lived from day to day, in obedience to the inexor- able international social forces so clearly analyzed and ex- plained by the philosopher of the proletarian struggle for power, Karl Marx, whose theories find their application to present world conditions in the Len im forged in the white heat of the Russian workers’ and peasants’ triumph. * * = . The great trusts that Max Pam helped create coin profits undreamt of by the business bandits of a score of years ago. This surplus, stolen fram labor, struggles for in- vestment at home and abroad, with all the resulting com- lications, not as Max Pam would have wished for the en- ancement of capitalism and its perpetual continuance in ower, but according to the theories of Marxism and Lenin- ism that point to the passing of the capitalist era and the coming of its successor—the next stage of civilization— Communism. Foes of Marxism and Leninism, like Max Pam, are myriad. They come and they pass. But Marxiam and Lenin- ism continue inspiring and directing greater and ever greater masses of oppressed to growing victories until the whole world has been won for labor. SOCIALISTS IN [ENGLAND HEDGES UNITED FRONT | AS TURKS MASS AGAINST SOVIET; ON MOSUL LINE Join with Hindenburg League Decision May for Anti-Workers Pact (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, Sept. 17.—The socialist press has come out definitely for the acceptance of the French and English invitation to the Hindenburg government to send representatives to the proposed “security pact” confer- ence which as Rote Fahne, the Com- munist organ points out, is an anti- Soviet war pact. The socialists are thus forming a united front with the nationalists and monarchists of the Hindenburg gov- ernment to combine with the allies against the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, MORGAN BANKER AND PAL OF GAL IS MADE AIR PROBE CHAIRMAN WASHINGTON, Sept, 17—The aircraft investigating board organ- ized today with Dwight W. Morrow, New York banker and partner of J, P, Morgan, a class mate of the president, as chairman, to probe Col, Mitchell's inefficiency. Be Postponed (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, England, Sept. 17.— While forty thousand Turkish troops were reported massed on the bound- ary of Mosul, the territory claim. ed by the British, the | tions council, whose decision on the dispute over the rich oil fields Is due, is about to pass the buck to the in- ternational court. British airmen are stationed in the vicinity of the Turk- ish troops watching their movements, the report states. The council will ask the court to make the decision, it is strongly rumored. ‘The league of nations council has come to the wierd decision that altho Turkey is “legally entitled to the ter- ritory, it should be given to Iraq on condition of the extended British man- date,” another report states, It is well known that the league would make no decision against Great Britain, However, because of the re- volt in Syria and Morocco against France, England fears to become too deeply entangled with the Turkish government, and the decision may thus be postponed. The DAILY WORKER sub. scription list is a Communist honor roll, Is yqut name on it? -” Wii. (3 fr o So, SIGMAN FAILS TO MAKE G00D PEACE PROMISE Reinstatements La g, Cops Still Present | NEW YORK GITY, Sept. 17—While not prepared to say who is respon- sible for the delay, the Joint Com- mittee of Action states that the prom- ised reinstatement of wor which was agreéd upon by both sides asa necessary preliminary to any disous- ; sion of peace in the International | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, was proceeding far too slowly to sult the members of Locals 2, 9 and 22. “We are convinced that ‘this busi- ness of reinstatement is not being carried thru in good faith,” said Louis Hyman, chairman of the committee, “If the Joint Board was sincere fh’ its desire for peace, and actually if- ~ tended to carry out its promise to put” back on thefr jobs all workers who were discharged as a result of the August 20 stoppage, and for support- ing the Joint Committee of Action, ‘ they could have completed the work ; by this time, Sigman Fails to Deliver, “It is a week since the committee & ofshop chairmen was appointed and they have been busy every day try- ing to carry out their task as media- tors between the two sides. On the very first day they began to. work, it was agreed that these reinst ments should be made immediately, yet they have scarcely been begun. “With the machinery at the Joint... Hoard’s commarfa, there is no ex- planation for this delay except that there is no real desire to straighten. out the difficulties in our union and. ~ bring peace on the terms that the rank and file of the workers want.” Pickets Return. Following the Joint Board's fafl- ure to carry out its agreement to re- move all detectives and police from in front of the shops on strike, the Joint Committee of Action sent its members back to the picket line Wed- nesday morning. There had been no picketing on Tuesday while the Joint Comniittee waited to see whether the Joint Board would carry out its prom- ises. There were seven arrests Wednes- ° day morning on the picket lines in” front of the shops which have been called on strike by the Joint Commit- > tee of ‘Action. mot Ul At Match & Ebert at 164 West 26th | street, David Friedman, Louig Rosen- } thal and Gussie Rubin were arrésted t and taken to Jefferson Market Court. Friedman and Rosenthal were charg- + ed with disorderly conduct and fined - $10 each. Gussie Rubin was charg- de with the simple assault and is » held for special session on $600 bai). At B. Zimmerman Co. 31 West 26th street, Morris Sunshine, Dora Itzkowitz, Dora Craig and Morris Rosen were arrested on a disorderly conduct charge and in Jefferson Mar- ket Court were fined $5 a piece. Magi- strate Jean H. Morris sat in both these cases, niece re * ATTENTION, NEW YORKI Mass meetings of the striking seamen ar Id every night at 7:30 Pp. m., at the corner of South street and Coentles Slip. All militant unionists of New York and vicinity and all revolutionary workers should not only attend these meet- ings but should financially and in person to make the strike called and conducted by the Marine Trane. port Workers of the |. W. W. as ef- fective as possible. = ———— Wee. Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, Sept. 17.~Great Brit ain, pound sterling, demand 4.86%; cable 4.85%. France, franc, demand 4.714; cable 4.72, Belgium, franc, de- mand 4,31% cable 4,32. Italy, lira, de- mand 4.08%; cable 4.08%. Sweden, krone, demand 26,79; cable 26.82. Nar- way, krone, demand 21.08; cable 21.05, Denmark, Kone, demand 24.38; 24.40. Germany, mark not que Shanghai, taels 79%, = t Cal Fears French-British Plot WASHINGTON, D. ©., Sept, 17. Members. of the debt commission © which will confer with the French ’’ delegation on the latter country’s war ”* debt to the United States, charge that France and Great Britain are coming’. ty America’s influence on European af! °* ; ' ie to an understanding to ‘dimini, fairs, Build the DAILY WORKER} mney with subs. a | N.Y. DAILY WORKER - BUILDERS’ CLUB MEETS |. \ MONDAY, SEPT. 21ST | - NEW YORK CITY Sept. 17—-The. . DAILY WORKER Buliders’ Club of) New York will hold its first meeting © this Monday, Sept. 21st, at Manhat-) © tan Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street, to’ ¥ elect a board of directors and decide © on plans for the future, Every” DAILY WORKER Builder who qua- lified for membership in the club fs ° expected to be present. L, E. Katter- be feld will report on the work of thé” past year and J. O Bentall welt