The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1925, Page 2

i “ Page Two NEEDLE TRADES SHOULD LIVE UP TO TRADITIONS) Rvelutionsis Past Not to Be Forgotten By BERT MILLER. (Nim NTY-FIVE years ago thousands of workers from Russia, Austria and the southeastern sections of Eu- rope swarmed to this country in search of better conditions. They fled from the cruel persecutions of czar-} ism and the crowded tyrants of Bu-} rope, They brot with them the high- est revolutionary ideals and aspira- tions. Many of them came to } York City and entered the garment trades. Instead of the promised land, the paradise which they had hoped for, they were met here by the sweat shop and the garment boss. Long hours and low wages and unsanitary condi- tions was their lot but they deter- mined to get rid of these intolerable «onditions, They determined to estab- lish decent conditions in the garment trades. They resolved to organize. The needle workers established their unions to fight against the.swea shop owners. They waged a brave, victorious fight against the biggest odds ard established far-reaching re- forms in the industry. They estab- lished the eight hour day and the forty-hour week. They did away with the unsanitary” sweat shop and estab- lished union control over the indus- try. Fines and discrimination by the bosses was abolished. Even in these early years when the labor movement of the United States was politically far more backward than jt is today the needle trade work- ers established their union on the ba- sis of the class struggle and demanded the abolition of the capitalist system and the establishment of a socialist commonwealth. IODAY the needle workers face a critical situation again. The reac- tionary officials have adopted a policy of class collaboration which is result- ing in defeat after defeat for the workers. Slowly but surely the gar- ment manufacturers are increasing their strength. They are making steady inroads upon the garment workers’ unions and the rights which have been won by the workers after years of organization and struggle. All these rights are in danger today. The reactionary officials are disgrac- ing the revolutionary traditions of the garment unions by adopting a pol- fey of class collaboration on the po- litical field. They are entering; tnto open partnership with the agents of the capitalist class in the republican and democratic parties, In this critical hour the needle e workers, must show once more the revolutionary spirit for which they have won enviable place in the American labor movement. They have already repudiated their false leadership. They are establishing al leadership which really expresses the| wishes of the rank and file. They must | follow the same course on the po- litical field. They must abandon com-! pletely the socialist party, the party of class collaborationists, which has. betrayed them and must support the| only party which is working in the interests of labor in the present elec- | tion campaign—the only party which} advocates the unity of labor’s forces} on the political field—a united labor| ticket and a labor party. The} needle workers must support the Workers Party in the present elec- tion campaign, | The intertietoral Tailoring HE intertiational ‘Tailoring Co, has distributed scab printed circular, thruout the city of New York offering $10.00 reward for the arrest and con viction of workers guilty of com- mitting vfolent and illegal acts against the scabs worki for the International Tailoring Co. Not one dollar of the $10.00 has been paid out The circular was isued on August 7th, | 1925. On August 12th Justice Thomas W. Churchill, of the New York supreme court ‘issued one of the most sweeping injunctions against the strikers of the International Tailoring Co. and their organization, the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers of Amer. ica. The injunction issued and the motion, which was signed by Justice Churchill making it permanent, con- tains the following declaration by this eminent capitalist judge, “I dis to interfere by injunction in an industrial dispute, but where violence is proved all other considerations must be subordinated to its suppres- sion.” Wealthiest Company in Clothing Industry. Nags International Tailoring Co. is one of the welthiest men’s cloth- ng manufacturing concerns in the United States. It does mfllions of lollars worth of business a year. It has gigantic factories in New York and Chicago. It has decided to take up the fight against the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, It is aided in its fight by the other manu- facturers in the industry, and by the United Garment Workers of America, the scabbing organization of the Am- erican Federation of Labor, which has signed an agreement with the concern to supply it with strikebreak- ers during the strike, The International Tailoring Co, in its war against the Amalgamated has recruited the worst elements of the underworld to terrorize the workers into submission. The fight of the International Tailoring Co. is a fight to lower wages, increase hours, speed- up production and to lower the stand- ards of living of the workers, It can only do that effectively by smashing the strike and thus giving an impetus to the move of the capitalists thruout the United States to smash the organ- izations of the workers. The strike against the International Tailoring Co, is a life and death struggle for the Amalgamated. The injunction was issued for the express purpose, not to prevent violence because the International Tailoring Co. can make a display of violence without fear of court interference, but for the pur- pose of: making it impossible for the workerg to conduct their strike effectively so that the strike shall be lost and the opportunity given to the manufacturers together with the scab United Garment Workers Union to smash the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Friend of Labor. EN Churchill ran for election he was endorsed as a friend of labor by the Central Trades and Labor Council. Churchill true to the capitalist class he represents and | serves, now comes to the asistance of the International Tailoring Co. and | stabs the striking clothing workers in the back with the injuction which he says he dislikes so much to issue but nevertheless issues. The Interna- tional Tailoring Co. injunction is an expression of government by injunc- tion against the working class. The International Tailoring Co. in- junction, because it was issued by a so-called friend of labor, is also proof of the bankruptey and treacherotis effect of the policy of the reaction- es in the unions to support as ends of labor capitalist politicians ~? the republican and democratic narties, It is a warning to all work- rs that the workers as a class must unify their power on the _ political field against the capitalist politicians thru the organization of a labor party. Only by the workers carrying on an independent political fight for power against the capitalist parties can the workers hope to end government by injunction, Defy Injunction. 10 recognize such an injunction as that ed to the International Tailoring is to give up without a struggle those conditions which the workers have made valiant struggles to obtain. The workers must picket the International Tailor- ing Co. en masse. They must de- monstrate to the whole capitalist class that they will not tolerate gov- ernment by injunction and that they will defy every injunction issued to defeat the workers in their struggle for more human conditions. If the officials in the Amalgamated are not prepared to make such a militant fight of the rank and file against the injunction then the left wing in the Amalgamated must make such a fight. In a militant deflance by the strikers of the Churchiil injunc- ion, the workers will get ful support und assistance of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, because the Workers (Communist) Party is the party of workers and fully realizes the me- nace of Judge Churchill's . order against the workers. Preserve Union! The strike of the Amalgamated against the International Tailoring Co. is a strike to preserve the union. This strike must receive the full support of all workers. The Com- munists and the left wing in the labor movement do not look upon this strike as a thing separate from the struggle of all the workers in the United States against the open shop; The Gqmmunists and the left wing will do everything in their power to Help! Help! The Communists Are Coming! . By SAM LIPTZIN. HE ‘workers who want to measur¢é thesmight and influence that the Workers Party has developed in the working masses can measure it: in terms,9f the abuse hurled at the Communists by the government, the leaders! bf the American Federation of Labor, yellow socialists, etc. These three forces, united in their battle agaiagt Communism, know very well that, politically America is still safe fromthe rebels. The corrupt ma- ching! will, not let. Comrades Foster and Giflow into the White House so easily bethtse of-a mere matter of votes. | Their whole fright is caused by the economic situation. It is this that-miakes them realize that their end is coming. The Workers Party, consisting of workets,hds' felt the need and suffer- ing of the working masses and plant- ing ‘itself'in the hearts of the toflers in shop; and mine is finding a solu- tion for their problems. This is why the government and its lackeys are getting)sq panicky that they have started attacks against the Commun- ists. AKE for instance the A, F, of L. convention. When it came to the important workers’ problems such as unemployment, injunctions, child la- bor, reduction of wages, etc,, these were forgotten or treated in fake resolutions. But when the Commun- THE DAILY meek ee O. help the strike to , (Co con- clusten, The defeat of © 4 Tafloring Co. strikers ‘is: the victory for the open shoppers, the ecab United Garment Workers and all the enemies of the workers who are seek- ing to further impoverish and enslave the American workers—and a defeat for the entire working class. Hillman Class Collaboration. © wish to point out that the present situation confronting the men’s clothing. workers in the Inter- national Tailoring Co. strike brings policies that have been persued by the Hillman administration in the, Amalgamated. The policy of class collaboration consinstently followed by the Hillman administration has weakened the organization and strengthened the manufacturers, The Amalgamated has in the last few years failed to maintain conditions for the workers because it has abandoned completely the idea of mili- tant rank and file struggles against the manufactures for better working conditions, - The Hillman machine of the Amalgamated is conducting a war against the rank and file represented by the left wing. A Militant Left Wing. In the face‘ of the offensive by thc manufacturers the Hillman adminis tration’ persists in carrying on this war With the result that the organiza- tion is being disrupted. The left wing cannot give up its struggle to get the Rmalgamated to adopt a fighting policy, to unify its ranks and to get tid of the leadership that stands in the way of the workers controlling the organization in their own interests. Had the present leadership carried out a militant rank and file policy, had the present leadership of the Amal- gamated vigorously attempted to or- ganize all the workers in the industry, had the present general faith in, the effectivenes sand willingnegs to lead mass general strikes of the workers for better conditions, then there would be no International strike’ “now and the chaos, demoralization aiid intoler- International ist question came up, everybody woke up. The mere resolution; was not enuf. This was the most important issue of the convention, I; is on this question, the fat-bellied lackeys con- centrated their “mjnds..and hearts.” “The damnable Communists are inter- fering in their graft’ and crookedness, fighting their corrupt leadership and leading the workers towards militant struggles for their interests. Help! Help! What shall we do with the terrible Communists?” Or, again, let ug take; the Amalga- mated. It doesn’t belong te the A. F. of L. For a while they, tried, their damnedest to win-the favor of the Communists but as soon as the Com- munists let them know ;that in the Amalgamated there is alse something rotten, then the Hillmans and the Schlossbergs joined the, jazz band that makes the noise against Com- munism. Then they said, “You can talk about Communism, but don’t try to touch the union for it,is our own private property.” Or, let us take the International Ladies’ Garment oWrkers’ Union where the yellows and the, blacks com- bined together in a common crusade to tear the roots of Communism out of the hearts of the working masses. If the yellow gang had spent the thousands of dollars in a fight against the bosses that they spent on the fight on Communism, how many hundreds of shops would have been organized aaah Strike $10,000 REWARD FOR ANYONE Churchill by his famous injunction; TEN THOUSAND tional Tailoring Co, GUILTY OF PICKETING Below we reproduce the offer of the International Tailoring Co. to give $10,000 to any scab who informs against those picketing within ten blocks of the International Tailoring Co., which act was made a crime by Judge INTERNATIONAL TAILORING CO., 107 Fourth Ave., August 7, 1925, HAS ‘DEPOSITED WITH Irving Bank-Columbia Trust Co., Broadway and 8th Street, New York City, New York City, DOLLARS $10,000 To pay REWARDS for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those guilty of the following illegal acts against employes of the Interna- ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,000) For information leading to the arrest and conviction of each person hiring gangsters or others to feloniously assault any employe of the International Tailoring Company. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS ($250) For evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of each person guilty of feloniously assaulting any employe of the International Tailoring Company. TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($25) For evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of each person guilty of; a simple assault against any employes of the International Tailoring Com- pany. This offer will remain open until published notice of withdrawal, able conditions which the workers now suffer would not exist, HE International strike demon- strates that the building up of a powerful organization that can ef- fectively fight against the encroach- ments of the bosses and for the bet- terment of the conditions of the work- ers can only come when the rank and file adopts and supports the policies and program of the left wing. The eft wing has the only policy by which to effectively fight injunctions and that is by mass violation, picketing the shops in defiance of the injunc- tion, The left. wing has the only effective policy of fighting the so-called “friends and how many workers would have bettered their conditions. But it is easier to fight Communist influence than to fight the bosses, R, take the socialist party. They lost their few teeth long ago, but -they are still barking even tho they cannot bite, and they are barking not at capitalism but at the Workers (Communist) Party, Day in and day out, the yellow Forward prints sensa- tional documents proving that the ter- ribe Communists have organized a shop nucleus, that the terrible Com- munists have organized a meeting, that the terribe Communists ha} spoken to workers, that they are ‘ terfering” in the unions; just as if we were hiding from them and as if we were ashamed of our activities on be- half of the workers. This work. is our pride. If we could not help the workers in the shops, mines and un- ions, we would be as superfluous as the yellow socialists are to this earth, The united trinity of socialists, A. F. of L. bureaucracy and the capi- talist government are struggling against the Communists because they have opened the eyes of the workers- politically and” économically,- The result of Communist work is seen in the re-building of the needle trades unions and the new fighting spirt de- veloping within them, This is a good example of what can be done and the work has only started, If there are any who still do not understand trades. of labor” and the capitalist political parties and that is by . building a mighty labor party consisting of work- ers’ organizations. The left wing has the only policy of how to effectively fight to improve the workers’ conditions and that is by rank an dfile mass struggles, by general strikes of amalgamated indus- trial unions against the bosses, The Communists support the efforts of the left wing in the needle trades and all other unions. The Workers Party supports the fight of the left wing particularly in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, to make it a real militant fighting organization of the rank and file. Pe meaning of this struggle, they eed only look at the united attack of the “holy trinity” against it and the victory of the lefts in the needle The left wing is the leader of ‘union struggle and the Workers Party is the vanguard of the working Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop toihorrow. e If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Comniunism—study it. ALL THESE By Ben Gitlow Br Ben Gio INSOLENT ACTION STIRS WRATH OF N. Y, WORKERS By ELIAS MARLES (Special to. The Daily Worker) ‘The dismay. of the first moment over the barring of Benjamin Gitlow from the ballot has given way to wide- spread indignation among the work- ers of New York City. The insolent action of the election board in barring the candidacy of Gitlow, Workers Party candidate for mayor in the coming municipal elections when the requisite number of signatures had been secured on the petitions, and ali the formalities had been complied with; knows no parallél anywhere. It has happened before that Communist candidates who have been elected have been unseated, bat the barring of a candidate from the ballot ts practically unheard of. It is an in- sult to the’ workers of the great me- tropolis, it is proof once more thar the workers have no rights, that thefr socalled rights are trampled upon at will by the capitalists and the capital- ist government. The reason given for this action is that Gitlow is a felon, because he has been in jail. This is the way they are trying to cover up their actton. One who has given a life-time to fight- ing in the cause of the working élass is classed with any common criminal and treated as one. The real reason for this measure is that Gitlow is hated because he carries the message of Commuhism, because there {s dan- ger that he may enlighten the work- ers and snateh thein out of the hands of wily capitalist, politicians and labor fakerg who are now leading them. Many Protest Meetings Meeting after meeting of protest is being held following the startling news, The socialist party which pre- tends to fight for the constitution and the rights of workers is silent as it is always silent when oppressive mea- sures are taken by the capitalist gov- ernment against the workers. But the workers themselves are not silent, and many who up to now have follow- ed the socialist party are disgusted with the betrayers and are pledging their ‘support to the Workers Party. Calles’ Followers in Mexican Chamber After Six-Year Term MEXICO CITY, Oct. 18.—Extension of Mexico's presidential term of office from four to six years is favored by the Calles followers in the chamber of deputies. SPEAKERS. | Will be thrown into a single section of New York City for the Red campaign protest nights to arouse the workers of that section to rotest the exclusion of Gitlow from the ballot. The Red nights are: Brownsville, Friday, Oct. 23; Upper Bronx, Saturday, Oct. 24; Wiil- _ lamsburg, Friday, Oct. 30; and _ October 31. The speakers are: Downtown, New York, Saturday, Ben Gitlow, Wm. W. Weinstone, Charles Krumbein, A. Trachten- berg, Joseph Manley, Edward Lindgren, Leo Hofbauer, Morris Rosen, Belle Robbins, Abe Epstein, Rose P. Stokes, Noah London, Margaret Undjus, Rebecca Grecht, M. J. Olgin, Carl Brodsky, Julius Codkind, Elias Marks, Charles Zimmerman, San Darcy, J. Boruchowitz, Aaron Gross, Samuel Nesin, Bertram D. Wolfe, John D. Masso, Boris Lipshitz, Juliet §, Poyntz, Harry M. Wicks, J. o. Bentall, Ben Gold, P. Cos- grove F. Warshofsky, Jack Stachel, Otto Huiswood, A, Markoff, Jack Jampolsky, Joseph Brahdy, Kate Gitlow, Louis Baum, Simon Fi in, Irving Potash, George Primoff, George Siskind, E. Elstone, Joseph P. Padgug, Edward Mitnick, Edward Royce, M. Scherer, G. Schulenbe: 5 N. Wilkes, D. Benjamin, M. Gordon, R. Fishbein, S. A. Pollack, Mary Har tman, I. Landy, Ben Levy, J. McDonald, R. Nevins, A. Chorover, NG. E. Powers, H. Schlachter, E. Shafran, S. Freeman, L. Chernenko, |. Hur witz, Carrie Katz, M. Garvitt, |. Plason, C. Raiss. Vote for the Workers (Communist) BENJAMIN GITLOW FOR MAYOR FOR MANHATTAN: EDWARD M. MARTIN. ...ccsssesseses ARTHUR S. LEEDS... FRANK J. VAN PRAET ROSE PASTOR STOKE ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG..... REBECCA GRECHT..............5 ise MOISSAYE J. OLGIN. CARL BRODSKY. JULIUS CODKIND. a 8th Assembly ..17th Assembly 8th Aldermanic 17th Aldermanic Register s-Borough President _ WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE BELLE ROBBINS ABE EPSTEIN... NOAH LONDON .., JOSEPH MANLEY ELIAS MARKS... District District District District SAM DARCY .. AARON GROSS... FOUR MORE RED NIGHTS Ben Gitiow Abe Epstein Mary Hartman Wm. W. Weinstone Rose P. Stokes § BP E A K E R Ss. L. Landy Chas. Krumbein Noah London Cc Mitchell A. Trachtenberg Margaret Undjua Chas, Zimmerman John D. Masso P, Cosgrove yn Joseph Brahdy George Siskind | G. Schulenberg Ben Levy Joseph Manley Rebecca Grecht Sam Darcy Boris Lipshitz F, Warshofsky 9 Kate Gitlow E. Elstone N. Wilkes J, McDonald Edward Lindgren M. J, Olgin J. Boruchowitz Juliet S. Poyntz Jack Stachel et Louls Baum Joseph J. Padgug y Benjamin R. Nevins Leo Hofbauer Carl Brodsky Aaron Gross Marry Me Wicks Otto Huiswood bre Simon Edward Mitnick A. Chorover Morris Rosen Jullus Codkind Samuel Nesin Je all A. Markoff on teving Potash Edward Royce ~ G. E. Powers Belle Robbins Elias Marks Bertram D. Wolfe Jack Jampolsky George Primoff M. Scherer © S. A. Pollack H, Schlachter For a Labor Party Against Injunctions Fa Lower Rents and Living Costs For Municipal Ownership and Workers’ Control of All tiliti Recognition of Sov aa 7m \ \ "i LEO HOFBAUER .....ssessees CHARLES ZIMMERMAN. JOSEPH BORUCHOWITZ. FOR COMPTROLLER FOR THE BRONX: 4 .25th .29th 5th Assembly District -7th Assembly District -District Attorne pet Cler . Register Borough President th Assembly District Aldermanic District Aldermanic District FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23rd— BROWNSVILLE, Stone Ave., cor. Pitkin Avenue. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24th— UPPER BRONX, Longwood Ave., corner Prospect SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31st— DOWN TOWN, Tenth Street, corner Second Avenue, Avenue. F dr a United La inst Child Labor for Worker it Schools bor Ticket fengcke lt Party! CHARLES KRUMBEIN FOR PRESIDENT BOARD OF ALDERMEN | FOR BROOKLYN: MORRIS ROSEN uesssssssessseessoes MARGARET UNDJUS pone pivoosiousies EDWARD LINDGREN .... SAMUEL NESIN.. BERTRAM D. WOLFE. . JOHN D. MASSO, BORIS LIPHSHITZ . oo neennneneaenanengennenarssienssenersesses » Sherifi Borough President 14th Assembly District 23rd Assembly District 35th Aldermanic District 50th Aldermanic District FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30th— bs WILLIAMSBURG, Grand Street Extension. On each of these nights we will hold from twelve to fifteen meetings in the resp. section, all adjourning at 10:30 pe m., to the Grand Wind-Up Meetings noted above, —————_—_—_________ E. Shafran » Freeman L. Chernenko 1. Hurwitz Carrie Katz M. Garvitt 1, Glass M., Plason C. Raiss For World Trade Union Unity... For a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government For Communism