The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1926, Page 3

CONVENTION OF A.C. W. OPENS IN MONTREAL Convention Cheers the British Strike By JACK JOHNSTON, (Special to The Daily Worker) MONTREAL, May 10.—Two thow- Sand delegates and visitors attended the opening session of the convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers’ Union. President Sidney Hillman and the members of the general ex- ecutive board made their entrance while the band played the “Marselil- laise,” “God Save the King,” the “Star Spandied Banner” and the “Interna- tional.” Hillman said in his opéning speech that the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers’ Union had extended its field of influence and become stronger numer feally in spite of attacks from without end from within. He advnaced the theory that only weak organizations were drawn into strikes and advised @lass collaboration under the slogan of “industrial democracy.” Eulogizes Nash. He eulogized “Golden Rule’ Nash asa man who practiced what he preached and said that the Nash agree- ment contained every Clause included im other agreements between manu- facturers and the A. C. W. “Those employers who drag American work- ing conditions to the level of the Chinese do not realize that both the employers and. the workers would be im the same ditch,” Hillman said. He told the story of the Internation- al Tailoring company strike in Chica- 0. The union won a nineteen weeks’ strike without a single desertion. “We @ried to avoid the strike, but because the employers received aid from the United Garment Workers’ Union we were forced into it.” The whole speech was obviously a thinly veiled attack upon the left wing. He closed with a bitter attack upon the opposition, terming them a small, unscrupulous group who would Stop at nothing to gain their end. He mentioned no names. He justified the expulsion of those who are in oppo- sition. Gave Russia One-Fourth Million, He said that the Amalgamated had Biven a quarter of a million dollars $0 Russia during the famine, that it had helped to establish the Russian Clothing Industry, that. it gave aid to the German, Austrian and Polish workers and had assisted the strike in Passaic and the furriers’ strike in New York, irrespective of their pol- fcies. He then inferred that the left wing should not interfere with the edministration policy. He said his Slogan was “Unity, loyalty and soli- darity with the ranks.” Speaking in support of the British Strikers, Hillman urged moral and Ginancial aid to their cause. The dele- Gates rose to their feet and gave three @heers for the British strikers, Schlossberg Speaks, Joseph Shubert, labor party alder- gn of Montreal, and Joseph Schioss- , Secretary of the union spoke after Hillman. Without openly stat- ing so and while he advocated “unity, foyalty and honest criticism of the ad- ministration,” Schlossberg followed Hillman’s lead in the question of ex- pulsions. The convention adjourned for the day to allow the delegates to make a sight-seeing tour. The sessions will probably conclude on the 15th of May. That worker next door to may not have anything to do to night. Hand him this DAILY WORKER. ier bid Photos above show Buckingham Palace, King George and|royal heads left in any great nation and the strike raises the Queen Mary, Princess Mary below, The working class of England has and with high hats, the king, the Prince of Wales and Prince Henry. These rulers are the last MORE STRIKE BULLETINS Troops Called to England. BELFAST, Ireland, May 10.—The Northumberland fusillers, recently re- turned from duty In the Rhineland, have left their camp, near Belfast. They are under orders to proceed to England. Dublin Stops Food Shipments. DUBLIN, Ireland, May 10—On instructions from British labor and the trish trade unions no shipments of foodstuffs or agricultural produce were made from Dublin today, a Socialists Say Big Membership Report Was All a Mistake (Contihued from Page 1) ization in 1925 was illuminating and is now servicable as history, well known to all of us. A half.dozen men fn the field for months, at immense expense, with faithful and laborious effort, pro- duced new members—about a thou- sand of them—at a cost of approxi- mately $7.00 each. The cost and the results at first seemed alarming. How- ever, it is to be remembered that this extraordinary effort had the very for- tunate result of holding up our weakened membership, morale and or- ganization, thus, in a great measure, justifying the expense.” But the 1,000 members brought in merely filled the places of other who rapi@ly dropped out. The socialists now have little hope or plan to plug up the leaks promised for the coming year. The membership report for the first three months of this year indicates that the bulk of the socialist party membership is located in California, You|Mlinois, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. These are the only states having more than 500 members. New York leads struggle. $1.75 Clothbound Whither England? A brilliant analysis of the forces that have brou: What Is Happening In England? Why? READ press on this unusual book: = & 2" - WITH A SPECIAL PREFACE FOR AMERICA. DAILY WORKER Cheng rh PUBLISHING COM MiB W. WASHINGTON BLVD.” C By Leon Trotsky ght about the present great A book that has attracted world-wide attention. Here is part of the comment of the capitalist with Wisconsin second, and Massachu- setts third. Some of the delegates came to the convention from states with practical- ly no membership. Indiana had two delegates for its 72 members. This is Debs’ home state. Kansas had a dele- gate for 37 members. Kentucky showed no dues stamps bought this year but it had a delegate just the same, Maryland had one delegate with 37 members. Michigan sent two delegates for 162 members; Missouri one delegate for 137 members; Mon- tana one delegate for 27 members; Virginia, two delegates for 46 mem- bers; with similar slender representa- tions for other states, It is significant that J. Mahlon Barnes, acting business manager of the American Appeal, the socialists’ official organ, and George R. Kirkpat- rick, acting national secretary, both want to resign their posts. Income Drops $5,000, The total income of the socialist party is shown to have been $5,045.75 less for 1925 than for the previous year. It faced this year with a bal- ance of $237.48. The records show only four surviv- ing foreign-language _ federations. These include the Finnish, 2,403 mem- bers; Italian, 476 members; Jewish, 587 members; Jugo-Slav, 811 members, and Lithuanian, 111 members; taking Sos ers oe question of their abolition. for long not been over-fond of their majesties, ‘ the average for the first three months of this year. The whole faith. of the socialist party has now been placed in its week- ly organ, the. American Appeal. Sec- retary Kirkpatrick expressed this faith when he declared: “The American Appeal is by far the best, if not the only available—or practicable—resource for the upbuild- ing of the party, at this time, and is the one big thing for organization work as regafded from the national Office point of, view.” Cahan Buys Control. The finanofal report, however, shows that the Amdrican Appeal has already, after a fewjweeks, eaten up nearly all the taken in. on subscrip- tions. A subs ffy of $1,000 per month is promised by*‘Abraham Cahan’s New York Daily'’Forward. Cahan was also the big financial backer of the New York ”!Daily Call for a long time. But wiien he contributed finan- cial support,“he was always on the job insisting on dictating editorial policies, +0 Attack the War Debs. There was)a big element in the so- W.| cialist convention that believed the cancellation of the war debts was a war preventative. The proposition finally adopted read: “We denounce the present method adopted by the United States govern- ment of settling war debts upon an arbitrary basis and its brazen discrim- ination in favor of reactionary govern- ments. Thus it granted extraordinary generous terms to the murderous fascisti regime in Italy while imposing much harsher terms upon the com- paratively liberal government of France. Its settlement with Italy amounts to a gift of $2,000,000,000 in interest to the Mussolini dictatorship upon a plea of poverty; yet at once upon this settlement the Mussolini government agreed to pay no less than seven per cent interest to Wall Street bankers for @ loan of $100,000,000 for imperialistic purposes. It is hypocrisy for nations spending upon war and war-like prepatations more money than before the world war, to plead poverty. The socialist «party favors complete cancellation by the United States of all governmental war debts, including sums due from Germany, but only up- on condition of international disarma- ment and cancellation of all inter- allied war debts and all reparation claims.” © ‘This is pra¢tically the position of the republican senator, William E. Borah, of Idaho, No mention is made of European workers repudiating the debts to Walk Street's international bankers, Berger Is Almost Forgotten, In considerihg the question of lynch- ing it was proposed that the conven- tion favor the Dyer-McKinley anti- lynching bill, McKinley is the reac- tionary senator from Illinois, The resolution was on*its way to passage when someone remembered that the socialist congressman, Berger, had an antilynching bill before congress. This was then approved. “Vic” Berger was remembered again as the convention drew near to ad- journment. “I make a motion that Berger sing us a song,” yelled one enthusiastic delegate, as the motion to adjounn came up. But the motion was not considered. Berger was not given the opportunity to sing. If he had, it would probably bave been a dirge. You do the job twice as well— when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY, WORKER with your story im it, I ELEVATED LINE TOILERS DEMAND WAGE INCREASE Threaten to Strike to Enforce Demands “Workers on the Chicago elevated lines have followed the lead of the street carmen in demanding an In-| crease of five cents an hour for all classes of workers in the Chicago Rapid Transit Lines. | Besides demanding the 5 cent an hour wage increase, which would bring their wages to the point they were be- fore the wage slash of 1922 which was caused by the actions of Frank L. Smith republican nominee for the United States senate and who is back- ed by a number of Chicago labor lieu- tenants of the open shop republican party, they insist on $1,000 death bene- fits and $20 weekly sick benefits at the expense of the company. At present the death benefit and the sick benefit are maintained on contributions of the union and the traction bosses. The workers now ingist on having the com- pany bear the burden. The present contract expires on May 31, The 4,500 workers on the elevated lines are determined to strike if the company does not meet their demands. At present motormen receive a max- imum of 77 cents on hour. They insist on getting 82 cents a hour. Williamson to Report on Y. C. I. Plenum at Vilnis Hall, Friday John Williamson, just returned from Moscow, where he was a delegate to the enlarged plenum to the Young Communist International, will make a report to the members of the Chicago League on the proceedings of the con- gress, at Vilnis Hall, 3116 South Halsted St., Friday evening, May 14, at 7:30 o'clock sharp. This is the first time Chicago mem- bers will hear Williamson since his return, He will report on the decision and resolutions on the American League. Members of the party are also invited to attend. Proletarian Writers and Artists to Hold Dinner on Wednesday NEW YORK, May 10. — The Prole- tarian Writers and Artists League will hold a dinner and open meeting at the Co-operative Cafeteria, 54 Irving Place near 17th St.) on Wednesday evening, May 12 at 7 o'clock, Bertram Wolfe, Michael Gold and John Howard Law- son will be the speakers. Robert Wolf will act as chairman, Following the speeches there will be an open discus- sion. 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