The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1926, Page 2

5 | Page Two THE DAILY WORKER WILLIAM GREEN AIDS PASSAIC TEXTILE BARONS Refuses to Organize Striking Workers WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1— Willlam Green, president of the Ame- rican Federation of Labor, has again displayed his role in the American labor movement as a tool of big busi- ness by his unwarranted attack on the Passaic United Front Committee of Textile Workers. The United Front Committee of Textile Workers is leading a strike of 16,000 textile workers demanding higher wages, shorter hours and bet- ter working conditions. This United Front Committee seeing that there} were a number of unions trying to organize the textile workers in Ame- rica sent a letter to the American Federation of Labor asking them to take the lead in calling a conference of all of the textile workers’ organ- izations. This conference was to lay plams for resisting the vicious attacks of the open shop interests, It was to lay Plans for the unionization of the en- tire industry into a powerful union— a part of the American Federation of Labor. The strikers made this proposal see- ing the necessity of a strong orgun- ization to combat the present trend of the textile barons to slash wages. They saw that the workers of one section needed the solid support of the workers in other sections in or- der to properly maintain working con- ditions, The vast mass of workers are unorganized in the textile indus- | try. With a conference of the type} proposed by the strikers they saw/ the building of a stronger and power: | ful union. | Green, who spends his days ad-| dressing college gatherings and bodies | of labor bureaucrats and chambers of commerce on class collaboration schemes, flatly refuses to aid the Pas-| saic strikers organize the workers in- | to a union. Green, who spends his! time greeting “labor” delegations | financed by the most rabid open shop, interests of Great Britain and known in the British Isles among the union- ists as the “mission of treason,” vi- clously attacks workers when they ask him to start an organization drive among the textile workers. Green in his letter scholastically Points out that the United Textile Workers takes care of the textile workers as far as the. American Fed- eration of Labor is concerned. He declares he “knows nothing of the Unite@ Front Committee of Textile Workers” and as this organization is not a part of the American Federation of Labor that the American Federa- tion of Labor will not have anything to do with it. In ending his letter to workers, who are on strike to improve their conditions, he declares that the let- ter of the strikers and the communi- cation that he is sending to the strik- ers will be sent to President McMahon of the United Textile Workers for “his information.” Little more can be expected from Green. Green in his official organ, the American Federationist, carries an ad- vertisement of the Botany Worsted | Mills, where most of the merciless at- tacks on the workers were perpe- trated ,and of the United Piece Dye Works of Lodi, which is also on strike, Green has taken the money of the bosses. He is advertising their wares. That is why he is averse to} organizing these textile workers.| With Green business is business, He is well-paid for the “ads.” Why risk the loss of these “ads” to organize the textile workers? Tho Green has viciously attacked the textile workers, the textile work- ers should continue to strike and de- mand better conditions. They should organize into strong unions. They should insist on a hearing before the American Federation of Labor. Just as they sent delegations to Washing: ton demanding an investigation just so must they send delegations to Green demanding that he organize the unorganized workers. Whether Green, the tool of the boss- es wants the workers organized or not, the textile workers must organ-| ize, Local unions thruout the nation| are backing the strike. They want} the American Federation of Labor to| organize the unorganized. Whether) Green likes it or not unorganized workers will be organized and these local unions will see to it that union demands are fought for and won, CONCERT & BALL arranged by a group of friends for the benefit of a sick member of the Russian colony, SUNDAY, APRIL 4 at Division Hall, 2441 Division St. Chicago, III, Russian and American Dances Music by Kissin Union Orchestra. Tickets in advance 60¢, at the door 760 { { Batreo at 4 P.M, y" 4 | ANALYSIS OF MEXICAN LAND LAW REGULATIONS DISCLOSES CALLES BACKED DOWN TO UNITED STATES By MANUEL GOMEZ, Sec’y All-Amer- Thus, altho constitution and land lea Anti-Imperialist League, law declare that foreigners may not Receipt of the full text of the regu-|OW land in the restricted area, the lations for application of Mexico's} President's regulations say that they much-discussed alien land laws makes |™ay—‘to the extent that they are it possible to see how successfully the | Strictly needed” for their business— United States government has pro-| Whatever that may mean! Purport- tected Wall Street's tnterests to the|i0s to be regulations for the applica- detriment of the Mexican people,|tion of the land law, these sentences Secretary Kellogg’s threats have had| Constitute rather an open violation of their effect, President Calles hag re-|!t Right to “Acquire.” treated so far that the struggle for the effective establishment of article 27 of the Mexican constitution still re- mains to be taken up in earnest, Whereas article 27, as well as the land law itself, provide expressly that foreign corporations may not own land within 100 kilometers of the na- tional frontiers or within 50 klilo- meters of the coastlines, the special regulations issued by Calles make the provision practically a dead letter. Mexico's oil lands are nearly all within this “prohibited zone.” New Regulations, Section 8 of the new regulations reads as follows: “In conformity with Fraction 4, Ar ticle 27 of the constitution, Mexican firms which are referred to as consti- tuted to exploit any elasses of indus- tries, factories, mines, oil or any other businesses that are not agriculture, even when the former are in part or whole controlled by foreigners, may acquire, possess or administrate lands within or outside of the’ prohibited zone, but only to the extent that they are strictly needed for the service of the objects indicated, and always with the permission that is expressed in Section 2.” (Section 2 provides that foreign exploiters must agree to consider themselves as Mexicans be- fore the law, in regard to their Mex- ican holdings), Steel Workers Must Organize to Fight the Tool of the Bosses (Continued from Page 1) tempt to penetrate the United States Steel will mean eyefy kind of con- flict. In the Amalgamated there is a pro- gressive group, made up of militants of every shade. As yet there is no harmony within the progressive groups, for they have adopted no de- finite program, It is the duty of the Communists to furnish this program and to weld together the dissenting progressive groups. Mike Tighe is detérmined to rule the coming convention, and will use every technicality, ‘subterfuge and ether method in order to crush the opposition. Some of ‘the delegates present at the convention will pos- sibly be contested,:' They may be charged with not being in good stand- ing. Why they are not, is one of the matters to be brot up before the con- vention. Mike Tighe, however, will probably not let matters get that far. They will be unseated’ and the case be closed. There is a tendency on the part of some delegates to refuse to sit in the convention if such decision is made. There is a tendency to with- draw and hold a rump convention. Withdrawal and a rump convention means a split. Fight Against Split! Withdrawal is threatened not mere- ly on the technicality mentioned. It is- the result of the false reasoning of some of the progressives. They see the vast field of the steel work- ers practically untouched, and noth- ing being done to organize them. The reactionary machine has no inten- tion of organizing the steel work- ers, and the progressives, no~matter however else onemay criticize them, do wish to do some organization work. They are trying to build up the exist- ent lodges and to make them active organizations. The Amalgamated As- sociation is at a standstill and noth- ing is being done to build it us. Mike Tighe wits at the top, supremely sat- isfled as long as he is given no trouble. It is the same fight between the Progressives and the reactionaries that rages thruout the American Fed- eration of Labor. Hence the progres- sives foolishly are allowing them- selves to be provoked into a split— in this way believing that they are laying the basis for a militant or- ganization that will carry on effective organizational work among the steel workers. This is an ilusion-—-and may lead to the complete break-down of the union, The progressives cannot cap- ture the bulk of the membership of the Amalgamated Association by split- ting away. If they are so confident of themselves, then they must have patience to remain in the organiza- tion, to build it up and fight for con- trol. There is another significant thing that the text of the regulations re veals. Apologists for American im- perialism have been loudly maintain- ing that they were not objecting to Mexico’s right to legislate for the future. They were fighting against only the retroactive features of the land law, they insisted. But the con- cessions that are now seen to have been fotced from President Calles as embodied in Section 8 of his regula- tions include the right to “acquire,” as well as to “possess or adminis- trate.” Calles’ Alternative, Wall Street will not give up its de- termination to monopolize greater and greater portions of Mexico's national wealth. The conflict with the na- tional aspirations of the Mexican people is thereby not settled but in- tensified. President Calles will have to oppose a firm front to the demands of American imperialism if he does not wish to lose support among his own people, He may have to retreat momentarily in the face of superior forces but if the Mexican people think he has retreated too far they will be bound to identify him with im- berialism itself. Workers are already confronting him with his past record, which is none too reassuring. The Mexican people are almost a unit behind Article 27, BIMBA WILL SPEAK ON ‘IS THERE A GOD?" AT CLEVELAND SATURDAY CLEVELAND, Aprii'1 — Anthony Bimba, one of the editors of the Lithuanian Communist daily Laisve, will speak at the Carpenters’ Hall, 2226 East 58th St. Saturday even- ing, April 3 at 8 o'clock. His sub- Ject will be: “Is there a God?” Other speakers will be 1. Amter, and J, Brahtin. The meeting is held under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party. EE Progressives to keep the progressive delegates from leaving the convention The progressives must build up their groups, in every lodge. They must invigorate the lodges and start cam- paigns to get the workers into the union. Organizations are not builit in a day—and control of organizations is not won in a day. Impatience is the worst quality for a trade union- ist; they still have not the organiza- tion under their influence. They must continue the fight. They must make the fight om the floor of the con- vention. If they are unseated, they must go back to their lodges and take up the fight once more. Let the progressives take as an ex- ample the fight of the left wing in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. -They too were on the verge of splitting from the union —at least their tactics at the con- vention might have led to that. But they stopped in the nick of time, and today the left wing enjoys prestige in the organization that nothing can blast. The fight in the Amalgamated Association will be longer than in any other union, The steel compa- nies prefer the leadership of men like Tighe, who have no intention of or- ganizing the industry, and they will aid this leadership in every way. A small group of workers, just enough to pay the expenses of the national office and to make it possible to raise assessments for organization work and for strikes that never occur, is all that Tighe $vants. i Fighting Program. Perhaps the convention itself—but if not’ the aftermath of the conven- tion—will teach the progressives the necessity of issuing a program to crys- talize the progressive sentiment in the organization. The fight for it must be made in every lodge of the organization—not to capture the offic- es, but to inflame the membership with a new, militant spirit, which then in due time will sweep Mike Tighe and his lot not only out of the Amal- gamated Association but out of the entire American labor movement, Chicago Groans Under Blanket of Spring Snow Surface car ‘service through Chi- cago's snowbanks was maintained only FRENCH CONFER ON PEACE TERMS WITH RIFFIANS|Daily Worker Builders Tribesmen Meanwhile Keep Up Attacks (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, April 1.— Premier Briand, High Commissioner {Steeg, military governor of Moroce ar Minister Painleve and General Petain conferred today over the peace posals from Abd-el-Krim. They were kept In wire- less communication with a conference at Rabat, French Morpcco, where em- issaries of Abd-el-Krim, France, and Spain were In session, It is known that .Krim demands autonomy for the R: The Spanish, it is reported, insist tRat/he recognize the spiritual suzerainty of the sultan of Morocco, The Riffian leader fears that such recognition would merely lead to further misunderstandings as the sultan has no real power, The Rif_lans meanwhile have been worrying both the French and Spanish with intermittent attacks, seeking out, evidently, the weak’ spot in their lines. Even the important base camp of Ain Aicha on the Ourgha river has been the object of such feints. Tribesmen Wavering. The Riffans are conducting a con- tinuous propaganda campaign among the other native tribes, This has af- fected to a dangerous extent the Suss tribes, which occupy the foothill coun- try of the Grand Atlas mountains in the southern French zone of Morocco. These tribes are of the same racial origin as the Riffians, both coming of white Berber stock. Spanish Use Poison Gas. The Riffian battery at Adjir inter- mittently bombards the, Spanish fort- ress at Tlhucemas Bay, Tho the Span- ish are employing poison gas both in shells and in bombs dropped by air. planes, they are unable to dislodge the hardy gunners. .The use of poison gas is prohibited by the internationa: code of war, but the Spanish are tak Splitting the union means that the|with the greatest difficulty. More than Strength of the two sections will be|2,000 men, 165 snow, plows and 100 wasted in fighting each other. There|sweepers were kept busy clearing the will be no development—the steel|tracks yesterday. A total of 6,700 companies will sit back in glee in|men were employed by the street de- the knowledge that the few workers partment to clear thorofares, but this who had learned the necessity of or-|huge force was sufficient only to keep ganizing in order to improve their con-|traffic lanes open in the loop district. dition, disagreed and broke up the] geyeral roofs collapsed under the little unity that they had effected. heavy burden of snow. In one in- And the unorganized workers seeing|stanco—at a garage—two men were this disunity, will hes{tate about joln-|injured and there was a property loss ing the union, of $50,000, A decided stand must be taken by SEND INA the wide-awake workers among the ing advantage of the fact that the Riffians were not signatory to the agreement, F ee @ Morgan's Agent in Morocco. TANGIER, Morocco, , April 1—My- ron T. Herrick, United States ambas- sador to France, hag-arrived for a three-week tour of Moroeco and Alge- ria, Altho it was announced before he left France that he gas not to visit the war zone, Col. Bentley Mott, American military attache, accom- panied him. ; Great preparations have been made by the French commanders to show the American agent of Morgan just how a small nation struggling for its independence can be déstroyed by an imperialist power. R. I. L. U. Sessions Consider Problems of Unity and Orient (Continued from page 1). amongst the leaders of, the revolution. ary trade unions and expressed the hope that the successes which had al- ready been achieved in the struggle for the revolutionization of the masses would be overtopped in the future. Amsterdam Weak, General Secretary Losovsky pointed in his closing speech to the necessity of approaching the question of unity correctly. For us unity is a means for strengthening the fighting capacity of the working class. It was also neces- sary to treat the opposition inside Am- sterdam correctly. We must support and push forward this!opposition, but never adapt ourselves to it. The Amsterdam international is much weaker than many comrades think, It is breaking up in conse- quence of its internal’ contradictions, Its weakest point is im the lower se tions, in the working masses, and it ii here that our fundamental work must be concentrated. The session ad- jor and reconvenéd today. f Greetings to England. - On the motion of Logovsky the ses- ion decided to send}a telegram of greetings to the congress of action of the minority movement, which will take place in London on March 21. Heller then reported upon the Pacific Ocean conference. He stressed the growing significance of the countries bordering on the Pacifie for world poli- ties and world economics, described the colonial policy of Gr#at Britain, the United States and Holtand and pointed to the attempts of the western Buro- pean and American imperialists to subject the working-class movement of the Orient to their influence thru the mediation of the reformist work- ers’ organizations, * In this connection he then dealt with the proposal for a pan-Pacific confer- ence, which was originally Intended ber who Is without fall, Success Must Crown the Efforts of the Chicago By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ne Chicago Daily Worker Builders’ Club has been organ- ized. It is ready for big things. +1, (GUARD CAPITAL ‘|relations of the It came to life on Wednesday night, March 31, in a work- ing class hall in Chicago's Irving Park section, as winter's worst blizzard raged without. This fact is cited to show that the hardy builders came together to launch their prole- tarian enterprise in spite of the bitter storm. well for the future. 3 That augurs On another page there is reproduced the picture of the Daily Worker Builders’ Banquet in New York City, in Feb- ruary. It shows hundreds of Daily Worker Builders gathered together under the direction of the New York Daily Worker Agent, L. E. Katterfeld, rejoicing over past conquests and planning bigger triumphs for the future. Hundreds of Daily Worker Builders’ Clubs must spring into action in all the great industrial centers of the nation. Their membership constitutes the army that must be led into action by DAILY WORKER a: nts everywhere. Leaders cannot fight without armies in back of them. The Daily Worker Builders’ Clubs constitute the regiments, on every far-flung class struggle front, that make it possible to carry on a broad effort to The DAILY WORKER. reach the toiling masses with The tasks of The Daily Worker Builders, for the most part, are not spectacular. They are usually everyday, routine tasks. Members of The Builders’ Club in New York City, that has set the precedents for other clubs, gives credit for even the simple tasks that are performed in accomplishing the regular office duties, folding circulars and other literature, stuffing letters, addressing and mailing them. are also intricate tasks like Yet there keeping restless mailing lists up to date. In New York City the post office department sees that the bundles of The DAILY WORKER reach the news- stands, but the collections must be made and the returns taken care of. New territory must be broken in. This is the task of the Builders. The Builder hardly ever breaks into print except when he adds the task of Worker Correspondent to that of Build- er. The two go readily hand in hand. The Worker Corre- spondent who sends in an interesting story about the condi- tions in his shop, and then mana: of The DAILY s to distribute a bundle ORKER containing that story, paves the way to a successful drive for subscriptions among his fellow workers, . * The activities of the Daily Worker Builders’ Club, with its growing membership, has resulted in all being accomplished in New York City. Los Angeles, Calif., thus takin; coast. Chicago enters the lists of these things The idea. spread to firm root on the;-opposite with ambitions for the premier position now held by the metropolis. Chicago’s Daily Work- er Agent, Sam Hammersmark, promises big things. comrades associated with him echo his pled: success, as we await similar action ever’ The . We wish them rom The DAILY WORKER'S hosts in other cities, to be a workers’ conference but which is now to consist of pacifist and in- tellectual elements, The workers’ con- ference which is to be called in Syd- ney upon the initiative of the trades council there during the course of the present year, will be of great impor- tance for the international working- class movement. / This conference will consider meas- ures to fight against the danger of war, to unite the revolutionary working- class movement, to legalize the trade unions in the east, to regulate emigra- tion and immigration and the mutual white and colored workers. Li-Chang (China) pointed to the pe- culiarities of the half-colonial country, China, and to the actual nature and form of the working-class movement there. He stressed the fact that the coming congress of the Chinese trade unions would without doubt represent another step to the revolutionization and unification of the trade union movement in the east and a guarantee for the unity of the world proletariat. re Delegation to China, The representative of the labor unions of the soviet union, Comrade Figatner, took the floor and expressed the admiration of the Russian prole- tariat for the revolutionary struggle of the Chinese proletariat, The speaker moved that the executive bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions send a delegation to the coming con- gress of the Chinese trade unions, The motion was adopted unani- mously and a delegation consisting of Losovsky and Lepse as the represen- tatives of the Red International of Labor Unions and the general council of the All-Russian Unions; Tom Mann as the representative of the minority movement in Bngland; the secretary of the French C, G, T, U., Rocomond, and a representative of the revolu- tionary workers of the United Sta! Z will form the delegation, If you want to thorou; m- derstand Communism—study it. Send for a catalogue of all Com- munist literature. PHILADELPHIA FORUM PLANS GOOD PROGRAM Stachel Will Speak on Sunday Evening. PHILADELPHIA, April 1. — The Philadelphia Open Forum, conducted by the Workers (Communist) Party, is holding lectures every Sunday eve- ning at the Grand Fraternity Hall, 1626 Arch street, and is proving to be an extremely valuable center for proletarian education, For three months now the forum has been running regularly and the large attendance proves the interest which the Philadelphia workers have in the subjects dealt with. Last Sunday a record attendance Was -present to hear William’ Wein- stone lecture on the “Red, Yellow and Black Internationals.” The committee in charge has an exceptionally good list of speakers and subjects for this month, The fol- lowing speakers and subjects are for the forum the coming four weeks. April 4—Jack Stachel, secretary of the organization department of the Workers (Communist) Party of New York, will speak on “Lenin and the American Labor Movement.” April 11—Norman H. Tallentire, dis- trict organizer of the Workers (Com- munist) Party of Philadelphia, will speak on “World Imperialism and the Revolutionary Movement in the Hast.” April 11 — William Weinstone of few York, on the subject, '“The League of Nations, the Soviet Union and World Peace.” April 25—Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the Workers’ School of New York, “1276 Thru Communist Eyes.” It is particularly appropriate that in view of the Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial NEW YORK NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS MUST ATTEND MEETING AT THE MANHATTAN LYCEUM ON SUNDAY NEW YORK,| April 1—An Important meeting of all the party members in the needle trades will be held Sunday morning, April 4, at 10 o'clock at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. Every party mem- mployed in the needle trades must attend this meeting Thie meeting is very important. celebrating the “revolution” of 1776 that we examine a few facts connect- ed with this revolution from a prole- tarian standpoint, Women of Section 4—Attention! There is to be a meeting of all Wo- men’s Work directors in Section No. 4, at the district office, 19 8. Lincoln St., Friday, April 2, tonight, at 8 p,m. At rt the work of this de- partment of party work rolling, All women party member of section 4 are invited and should be present, OF ROUMANIA IN FEAR OF REVOLT (Continued from Page 1) of dividing the big estates among the peasants tended to destroy the eco- nomic base for the political power of the landlord class. Bratianos Build Maenines. The new conditions, however, hav@ not produced equivalent changes 1m. the groups ruling the country, Bra- tiano systematically set to work to establish his domination upon an en- during basis by building up a power- ful bureaucracy which insinuated itself into all branches of industry and commerce. Thus his followers were placed in key positions in the Roumanian State Bank and the larger financial institutions. Their control of credits and general financial pol- icy gave them the advantage of di- recting the development of the entire economic life of the nation, The Bratiano group dominates the king, as is evident in his selection of Averescu as premier to succeed Bratiano. The abdication of former crown prince, Carol, removes the only possibility of opposition from the royal house. Policies Fail. Ex-Premier Bratiano tried to strengthen his position in Roumania by excluding foreign interests. His policy in this. regard on the oil re- sources failed, and he was finally compelled to allow the participation of British, French, and. American fi- nanciers in the exploitation of the enormously rich oil fields. Now he has reached the point where not only his governmental pol- icies have been completely repudiated by the people at a popular election but the continuous fall of the national currency, the lei, with a pre-war value of 19% cents, to less than one-fiftieth of that value, has changed the attt- tude, outside of his own henchmen, of the bankers, industrialists, and merchants as a group to one of oppo sition. Still In Control. Despite this condition of affairs Bratiano, thru Averescu, will be com- pletely in control of the officials who will supervise the new election and by the terms of the new legislation itself will exclude from the franchise the mass of the peasants and the workers. C. P. of Roumania. 2 The Communist Party of Roumania is an illegal organization. Despite the fact that all its activities must be carried on underground its infinence is marked among the Roumanian workers and is spreading among the peasants. The terror by which the Bratianos crushed the peasant revolt several years ago in Bessarabia has resulted in arraying the peasants of that province unitedly against him. Textile Mill Barons Have Plan to Close Halls of the Strikers (Continued from page 1) manner hamper the progress of the strike. More Arrests. Arrests still continue with from six to a dozen or more arrested every day and held in jail until bonds are fur- nished. One of those arrested yester- day was Felix Penarisi, who has been a thorn in the flesh of the Passaic cossacks because of his activity on the picket line. He was arrested im front of a hall where a meeting was in progress on the charge of calling an officer “unprintable names.” Pen- arisi says he cannot conceive of any- one being able to insult a Passaic cop and states that his arrest was unpro- voked as he would not waste his time talking to such degraded creatures as the brass-buttoned cossacks who are so cowardly they assault defenseless womer and children. All those arrested yesterday were held under $100 bail with the excep- tion of Antoinette Raginsky who is held under $300 bail on the charge of assaulting an officer. A policeman who was busy with his club beating the strikers testified that the girl punched him with her fist, knocked off his cap and then trampled it in the mud, After hearing this tale of woe the judge decided that helpless policemen must be protected from striking girls and so raised her bond to three times that of the others who were arrested with her, Edwards Makes “Survey,” Senator Edwards, the Tammanyite who was former governor of New Jersey and is notoriously a despiser of organized labor and who admits. that he at one time owned stocks in Forstmann-Huffman's open shop con- cern and who probably to this day holds shares in the union-smashing mills, is here making a “survey” of the strike with the ann pose of reporting his find! the senate committee on mai which is supposed to discuss the Passaic situation Saturday, Bofore arriving Edwards announced from Washington that he would have nothing to do with Weisbord or the present leadership of the workers but would try to talk to the strikers per- sonally, as well as with the mayor, the chief of police, the manufacturers, the chamber of commerce and other strikebreaking and scab-herding gangs. Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop ‘ _